The Press., 1897-03-04


 It Is said that the ways and means con- mIttoe have nearly finished their work on | the tArin bill, and t will be ready to pre- sent to the next congress. If the plans of the leaders arc perfected the bill will | he ready for the presidents signature by Juno 1.
 The senate last Tuesday passed Con- | gressman Sperry's bill providing for de- | livery of letters in towns and villages | whore no free delivery exists. Unless the presldent dlsapproves 1t, 1t will become law this week. It authorizes post master on the petition of twenty or more pdtsons, to appoint carriers to be paid by tho persons receiving mall so much per month, etc.. or one cent letter, this to be without expense to the post office de- pertinent. MT. Sperry believes this act will be especially popular in a thickly settled state like Connecticut.
 The following Is a complete list of the members of the Mckinley cabinet, with the portfolios as they have probably been Assigned-
 State John sherman of Ohio.
 Treasury Lyman J. Gage of Illinois.
 WAr-RusseIl A. Alger of Michigan.
 NAvy-John D. Long of Massachusetts.
 Interior-C Cornelius ". Bllss of New York.
 Postmaster r-General-James A. Gary of Maryland. '.'
 Attorney General Joseph McKenna of California.
 Agriculture-James Wilson of Iowa.
 
 The Oregon legislature has failed to elect a senator, and the republicans in the senate are deprived of a much needed vote. The senate Itself has established the rule of precedent that where leRls- lAture fails to elect, as in the Oregon case, the senatorial seat shsll remain va cant. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has meantime announced that he will appoint A republican to succeed Blackburn from that state; and Gov. Bushnell will ap- point Hanna to succeed Sherman from Ohio. The senate to assemble In extra session thIs month will consequently be divided as followss -
 straight republicans, -k< 43
 sllveF or independent republicans, >
 Gold democrats,
 Populists and independents, B
 Vacancies,
 Total, %
 Thus the straight republicans fall short of clear majority by two, votes, but on tho particular question of the tariff bill they can obtain the vote of McEnery of LOuiSiAna, democrat, by AIlowing little . uAoro tarin on sugar, and they are already mssnred of the vote of Kyle of South Da- kota, populist. They can doubtless also obtain two or three votes from the silver republicans and other populists, If neces- Sary, but they will not be necessary.
 Deputy Sheriff Hall of Manchester had an exciting day's work with two desper-, ate criminals last Saturday. He had been notified in the morning to look out for two horse thieves that were reported to have gone towards Bolton. Thursday night Chaunoey Abbe's barn of Enfield was broken into and his team was stolen. The next night Mir. Abbe's team was ex- changed with one they found hltched in the street in Rockville, belonging to Dr. K. P. Flint. Deputy Sheriff Hall sus- pected that the thieves might have gone to the house of Tom Daley, south of Bol- ton Center. a resort for horsemen, and declded to go there He asked Louis ChArtieT to go with him and to take his horse. The Daley place Is quite dis tanoe from the road, and some distance from any other house. As they ap- preached the house, which had been stASed to them to have been uhoccupied all winter, they saw a man close the barn door, and they found the man in the barn and placed handcuffs on him. They found Dr. Flint's team in the barn, but failed to find the other man In either the house or barn. Leaving the prisoner in charge of Mir. Chartler In front of the barn, Sheriff Hall went Into the barn and began har- messing the horse, but had been gone but a few minutes when a man appeared around the corner with double barreled shot gun, which he pointed at Mir. Char tier. and demanded the release of the prisoner, and Mir. Chartler being un- armed. quickly complied with the request The sherln, hearing the commotion, hur- ried out of the barn In time to see the two mon going away and started after them. Tho two then suddenly turned and ad- vanced toward Hall and ChartIer, the one with the handcuns on having revolver and the other with his gun covered them, ana ordered them to throw up their hands and hand over their watches and money. Tho sherif and Chartier hastily got into their carriage to drive away, when tho man with the gun demanded that the handouns be taken of from his compan- ion, and when tn sheriff refused to do so, he stepped to the horse's head and fired at the horse, hitting the animal in the nose, making an ugly wound. The man firrd again, without effect, and then made of. The horse was bleeding badly, and Mir. Chartier drove as quickly as possible to Manchester. Sheriff Hall hitched up Dr. Fllnt's horse and followed, and or- ganized an armed posse to go back after the thieves. They reached Bolton, and heard of place where they had enquIred for Ale, which they used to remove the handcuKs. The two men were finally To- cated in a hunters hut, and one of them wgs captured, but the other escaped, but VIA wounded by one of the shots fired at him.. The captured man was the same one that had been handcuffed. He was brought before the Rockville court Mon- day. and bound over under 5000 bonds and taken to Holland jail He gave his name as James Riley, but Is thought to | be William A. Thompson, who has served a number of terms In states prison. The man who escaped Is said to be DImelow