Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1885-02-03

              4 - V 3 Hit ESTABLISHED 1811. ' iTT NO. 29. COLUMBUS. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1885. . -. .... ..it Hi r . r l how they Must suffer- Impositions upon congressmen ; V)m Pjr Their Salariee Oat for Poster Behalf t Their Constituents Senator Bowea Talk A Boom for Aaner-. iea The laaaBoratioa. Special to the Ohio Bute Journal Washington, Feb! 2. "You have no idea of the extent to which the average 'constituent' is willing to impose on the good nature oi a member of Congress," aid an employe of the House postoffice - today. "I allude to the matter of postage, just now. Here I hare charged up nearly three dollars in 'postage due' to members this morning. The average is about $3 per day. Most of these letters, on which an insufficient amount of postage has been paid, are strictly personal. One will be an application for a place with accompanying papers. Another wants a pension, and sends all his documents to his member to back up his claim, but pays - only two cents where fourteen is needed." " "How do yon keep the ran of these - small amounts?" "It is a troublesome job;. but we take : - one of the small roll-calls and charge up . to each member the amount due on his letters. During the long session there were several members against whom-we . had bills amounting to eight or ten dol-tatt r ' -- -;- ., . i t "Do yon have much trouble in collecting theae amounts?" ' ' Yes, a great deal. r We do not like to send a bill to a member for 10 or 20 cents, and generally we have collected only from those whose bills were large or who chose to come in and pay without asking. Daring the last month, however, we have adopted a new method. One of the clerks has taken the list and has succeeded in collecting on the floor of the House $4 or $5 a day. ; By this plan the postmaster will save several hundred dollars before the close of the session." "On whom does the loss fornon-payment come?" "The House postmaster is an officer of the House of Representatives and not of the Postoffice Department. He purchases the stamps required to supply the congressional demand, and pays for them from his own funds.' Every time a 'due stamp' is used he must pay for it and if he got no return from members it would cost him an average of $3 a day during the sessions." , -:- . . . ' - Looking for Bribery. ': The announcement that the Legislature of Colorado has unanimously adopted a resolution to investigate the charges of bribery in tbe recent senatorial contest in that state, calls forth a great deal of comment among members and senators here. "Tom" Bdwen, the Colorado senator who holds over, was seen by the Stats Jovknax correspondent today, and asked what he knew of the alleged legislative corruption in the centennial state. His reply was characteristic of the border statesman: "I don't know a blanked blank thing about it," said the honorable senator, "and what's more, I don't care a blankety blank. I can say this much, however.that bribery and corruption in the attempt to secure office is not indiginous to the soil of Colorado, by a blank blank sight. The politics of Colorado areas pure as those of any state in the Union, and I want yon to impress, that fact on your memory. All this talk of wild Western ways is absolute rot. May be money was used; it would be nothing wonderful if it was." A Boom for America "It is to be hoped that the American people will not allow their usual enterprise to wane next year," said an attache of the British legation to yotjr correspondent. "The exposition of American farming, manufacturing and mining products should be such as to astonish the world. I myself have seen what can be done in this country and am desirous that my eonntrymen ahonid have an equal oppor- do. The English people expect to see a great exhibition and they should not be disappointed. The advantages which will accrue to the exhibitors are simply incalculable. London is the most cosmopolitan city of the world, and an exhibition there is equivalent to a world-wide ' dissemination of knowledge of America. The gentlemen on the other side who have the enterprise in charge are strain- - ing every nerve to make it memorable, and I think they will do it." Important to Visitors. Visitors to Washington daring the ceremonies attendant upon the dedication of - -the monument 'and those who come to at-'. tend the inauguration will find many attractive features obout the city, aside from the ceremonies themselves, and will no doubt not be slow to improve the opportunities for sight-seeing. Among the - most attractive places of resort for visitors to the Capital is the National museum, ' an adjunct of the Smithsonian institution. The museum building is situated in the immense park surrounding the Smithsonian institution building, and is in close proximity to the Agricultural department, the bureau of engraving and printing and the Washington monument. There is no other feature of the National Capital so well calculated to instruct as well as to please the visitor as the collections here on exhibition. Within the past two years these collections have been arranged and labeled so as to be easily accessible and understood, and attending visitors should by all means put the museum 'down for a visit. Alleged Dannie-Dealing- of Speaker Car-llBle.There were a lot of mad members in the House today. This was the last day of this session on which bills could be put upon their pasnage under a suspension of .the rules, and over one hundred members had secured pledges to be recognised by the Speaker for the purpose of calling up bills they were especially interested in. Among the many bills were several providing public buildings in numerous cities. Before 11 o'clock this morning members began calling at the Speaker's room at the Capitol to ascertain the order in which they were to be recognized. What was their amaxement to find not Speaker Carlisle there, but Joe Blackburn, with the information that he had been designated to act as Speaker pro tempore, and tbe further information that the "Speaker was suffering with a bad cold," and their amaxement was aggravated by being informed by Blackburn that he knew nothing about the promises to recognize members, and should act in that matter only as the exigencies of the occasion dictated. Then three were complaints loud and deep. Some disappointed members went so far as to sav that Speaker Carlisle was not ill and was only hiding from them knowing be had promised to recognise ten times as many members as it was possible for him to recognize. X Western Associated Press Dispatches. . Interesting to Pensioners. , Washington, Feb. 2. Assistant Secre-; tary Joslyn of the Interior department 1 rendered a decision in the case of the ap-l plication for a pension of Martha Lawson, ' li minor child of a deceased private "Xv npldier. The question presented was -S. , whether a soldier at the date of his death . Was in the line of dutv, and the decision ? broadens sensibly the construction here- toforej placed upon the pension laws. In his decision the assistant secretary says: la this case it appears : the soldier was granted permission by his .. superior officer to go to his home for the . nefoee of seeing his wife who was very -4t. After his arrival home, his wife died it-' immediately after her death, and be- ire her bnnal, the soldier started back pr" (Company and while on his way back jjt jiurvu uy uio oiieuiy sum tsaeu iu Xrx90BviUe prison, where he died in pbsjr. ie Purify the Kleetlon. WisHisfiTox, Feb. 2. The bill introduced by Mr. Holnaan today to protect the pirity of the ballot, provides that it shall Is unlawful for any person to give my his property, real or personal, to be ose directly or indirectly in securing a, votr appointment for any office under tb government. The violation of ' thitnibe punished by a fine not exceed- ins and imprisonment not exceeding one you- The bifi further pro vides,"Every nerson hereafter elected or appointed to fill any office in the United States shall tag, anl subscribe to the following oath: I f do solemnly swear (or affirm) I have not directly or indirectly given, promised, advanced or paid any money, or given qg conveyed any other article of value to any person or persons to assist, aid or piocure my selection or appointment.'': FobUe Debt Statement. Washington, Feb. 2. Following is the public debt statement for January; Four-and-a-halfs. Fours Three. 1250.000,000 737,705,350 194 190.500 253,000 14,000,0 0 Reiundlng certificate.. navy tension tuna Total inte-est bearing debt.. Matured debt. $l,196,148,-50 5,955,945 &I6,739,)81 30,180,000 . 275,476,231 6,969,008 Legal tenders.. Certificate of depoit. ......... Gold and silver certificates... Fractional currency Total without interest.. .$639, 314,420 ,410,215 0 0,913 ,341,803 128,3 b ,4211,046 921,910 966,923 955,945 253,469 476,231 130,000 559.233 Total debt.. -1,861, - 8, - 460, -1,409, - 9, . 40, - J, . 5, Total interest . Cash in treasury - Debt less cash in treasury Decrease during Jauuary .... Decrease since June 30, 1884 Current liabilities-Interest due and unpaid....... Debt on which interest has ceased.. Interest thereon.i-r- .-... Gold arid silver certificates... United States notes held lor redemp tion oi certificates on deposit...... ...... Cash balance available. Total.. $160,311,803 Available assets- Cash in treasury........ Bonds issued to the Pacific railroad companies, interest payable by the United States, principal outstanding. Interest accrued not yet paid.. Interest paid by United States .. Interest repaid bv companies by-transportation service . By cash payment of S per cent, ot net earnings................ ......... 460,541,803 64,623,512 324,111 65,t38,209 19,039,699 655,195 Balance of Interest paid by United States. .,-45,343,111 BetweenUs and the Enemy. L Washington, Feb. 2. The secretary of war transmitted to Congress a statement showing the number of militiamen, organized and unorganized, in different states of the Union. The total number of commissioned officers in the organized militia service is 7311;non-commissioned officers, privates, etc., number 83,979; total number of unorganized ' militiamen (or men available for military duty) is 6,580,506. New York ranks first in number of organized militia men, with 11,686 men; Pennsylvania second, 8380; Florida third, 7283, and Ohio fonrth, with 5843. In Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas Tennessee and Oregon there is no organized militia service. Still Posing- a a Superior Person. Washington, Feb. 2. The proprietor of the Arlington hotel, this city, received a letter today from Private Secretary La-mont, definitely engaging rooms at that hotel for the President-elect, his three sisters and brother, and for Colonel La-mont and family. The time of their arrival here is designated as March 2, but it is thought they may come a day or two sooner. Governor Cleveland will go to the Arlington like any other guest, and pay his own bills. . Helping the Hasbandmen. '- Washington, Feb. 2. The bill to extend the benefits of the signal service to the farmers of the United States provides for an appropriation of $100,000 for telegraphing by tbe chief signal officer of changes in the temperature from the signal offices designated by him, this intelligence to be sent to the various offices, over which flag signals announcing the changes are to be placed. Krea the Court Can't Do Without 'Em. Washington, Feb. 2. Mrs. Laura De-Force Gordon of California was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme court upon the motion of Mr. A. G. Riddle this afternoon. Mrs. Gordon is the second woman allowed to practice before this court, the first being Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who has had only one case here since her admission to the bar in March, 1879. A Boom for Alaska. Washington, Feb. 2. The secretary of the treasury today sent a communication to the House recommending an appropriation of $20,000 for fitting up a building in Alaska for the use of the civil gov ernment, f ' - Washington, Feb. 2. Confirmations Postmaster: Christopher C. Sheldon, Athens, O. ; Andrew S. Draper, judge of the Court of Alabama Claims. . UNION PACIFIC DECISION. The United State Must Pay the Same as Anybody Else for Transportation Text of a Court of Claims Decision. Washington, Feb. 2. The decision cf the Court of Claims in the Union Pacific railroad is understood to be quite favorable to the road. The Court of Claims today decided the long pending cases of the Union Pacific Railroad Company v. The United States. Chief Justice Richardson delivered the opinion of the court. The following is a synopsis of the points decided : The amount allowed by the Treasury department for carrying mails being the same rates allowed by law to all other lailroad companies is fair and reasonable compensation, and not in excess of that paid by private parties for the same kind of service, and the United States are bound to pay for the transportation of their passengers, troops, etc., from Council Bluffs to Omaha over the bridge and between Council Blufls and Ogden, the same rate paid by private parties, those rates being fair and reasonable, and tbe United States are not entitled to the reduction accorded passengers who purchase through tickets between New "iork and San Francisco, and other distant places, unless their passengers purchase tickets in like manner. The company is required to pay into the treasury of the United States each year 5 per cent, of its net earnings under" the act of 1862, and under the Thurman act since its passage, and in addition thereto so much of $850,000 as with said 5 per cent, and the whole compensation for the government transportation will equal 25 per cent, of its net earnings. In determining what the net earnings are, the expenses bonafide paid out of the earnings, and Hot charged to the construction or capital, are to be deducted from the gross earnings, although they are partly in the nature of a permanent improvement. In stating the account to December 31, 1882, the court finds approximately that the United States owe the company $2,975,700, and the company owe the United States $5,734,392. Deducting one from the other, the United States are entitled to judgment on their counterclaim against the company ef $2,758,692. The accounting officers of both parties are to make accurate computations in accordance with the principles and formula laid down in the findings of fact, and this opinion and judgment is postponed until their calculations are made and handed to the court for examination and final action. Another Gas Bzplosion. Pittsbckg. Feb. 2. An explosion of artificial gas in the cellar of Walker & Sons' paper box manufactory on Third avenue this morning shattered every window in the building, and set fire to the woodwork, but the flames were extinguished without much damage. The concussion shook the buildings in the vicinity, and created intense excitement, as it was reported some employes were terribly burned, but this was untrue. The damage to the building will not exceed $300. Send tor the Losdss Police. Nbw Yoex, Feb. 2. William Butler, James Daly, Joseph Lamb and Charles Henry, the men arrested charged with having caused the explosion in the store of Garry Bros, on Grand street, early yesterday, were an signed in court today. Several respectable witnesses testified to their good character. The police could present no evidence connecting them with the explosion and the court discharged them. - TVUl It End In Smoke? Detroit, Feb. 2. The cigarmakers who were notified recently of a reduction in wages of $1 per 1000, went out on a strike this morning. There are 200 strikers, and they are well supplied with money from the union. The men confidently expect victory. The manufacturers have already made slight concessions in stating that they will retain a few nnion men whose wages will not be reduced. AU That Glitters 1 Mot Gold. Cincinnati. Feb. 2. John A. Await. doing business as Await Sc Co., jewelers, m vine street, assigned to Unaries i Mussey.jr. Liabilities estimated at $15,- 000, assets $8000. Preferences aggregat ing sdouu were in lavor ot Adam Await. C. C- Wolf, William Bourne and Emma K.. A wait. AN AVENGING NEMESIS. A Shot that Will be Heard 'Round the World. ' O'DONOVAN ROSSA ASSASSINATED By a Woman Named Gsenlt Dudley, With a Strong English Accent and aFive-Barreled Revolver Intense Excite-- ment in New York Part icular of the Murderous Affray. New YotK, h'eb. 2. ,5:12tnis afternoon Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, the "Irish dynamiter," so called, was shot by a woman on Chambers street, near Broadway. At that hour the streets were full of people homeward bound, making their way toward the Brooklyn bridge and np town. The excitement over the shooting, although the man was recognized by very few, was intense. The first shot fired took effect in O'Dono-van's body and he fell to the sidewalk. The woman continaed to shoot until she emptied her five-chambered revolver. Only the first shoot took effect. City Marshal James McAuley was present at tbe time, and breaking through the crowd that had collected before the shooting was over, seized the woman, who still had tbe smoking pistol in ber hand, and told her she was under arrest. The woman offered no remonstrance, but allowed herself to be taken through the mass of citizens and to the City Hall station-house. - George W. Barlow, a merchant, of 146 Reade street, and Peter Y. Everett, formerly a reporter, who witnessed the shooting, accompanied the captor and captive to the station, saying they would be witnesses. When the woman had ceased firing O'Donovan arose to his feet and made an effort to find his way back to his office on Chambers street, which he had just left. He said, "I am Bhot," trying to place his hand oh his back under his shoulder-blade. After a few steps somebody in the crowd suggested he should go to The Chambers street hospital. A couple of men lent their arms and O'Donovan did as suggested and directed his steps toward the hospital. He walked all the way there, the distance being nearly a quarter of a mile. He bled considerably on the way. Once in hospital he was undressed and examined by Dr. Dennison. It was found the bullet had entered the back directly below the left , shoulder-blade. The doctor pronounced the wound not of a dangerous character and began to probe for' the ball. A great crowd of people had followed the wounded man down Chambers street and blocked the roadway in front of the hospital alter the door was locked behind O'Donovan and his escort. Meanwhile the woman had been taken to the station-house with another crowd following her. She was placed before Sergeant Kass's desk. She was a ood looking woman, dressed neatly in plain dark clothing, and wore eye-glasses. She appeared like a school teacher with an intellectual face. Her manner was entirely composed and she answered some of the questions put to her promptly and -itaoiit embarrassment. To others she simply shook her bead and said: "I shall only answer questions I know you have the right to ask.'' s AfcAulev banded the pistol, of a small car-', n-n , gcnnt antr zsuvt ai nau ami uie prisoner shoot a man on Chambers atreet. Volunteer witnesses assented to the stated facts of the shooting. - She was here asked: "Do you know the man you shot?"" "Yes," replied the prisoner. "Certainly," with an English accent, "I shot O'Donovan Rossa." , , . Further questioning by the sergeant elicit ed that the prisoner's name was Gsenlt Dudley, age 25; that she was a nurse and married, and that she lived at 60 Clinton Place. She was asked the question why she shot O'Donovan Rossa, how long she had been in America and others, to which she made no answer. " After her pedigree had been taken, she was escorted to the rear room and the crowd slowly dispersed. As there are no accommodations for prisoners in the City Hall station, Mrs. Dudley was removed to Oak street station at 7:15 p. m., and there placed in a cell. Her entire -demeanor was that of a rational person, and cool-headed at that. Rossa had been placed on a cot in the same ward with Captain Phelan, who was stabbed by Richard Short in O' Donovan's office, over three weeks ago. O'Donovan was within eight beds of Phelan. An examination of the wound by Dr. Kirby showed the bullet had penetrated the back about half an inch above the left shoulder-blade. The ball ranged upward and inward toward the spinal column, but did not touch the vertebrae. The bullet is evidently lodged in the mnscles of the back and beyond a slight shock Rossa has suffered little. It was at one time feared the bullet had penetrated the lung, but as the wounded man has expectorated no blood, this was afterward pronounced impossible. Had the spinal column been injured, there would have been signs of paralysis, but none appeared. The doctors probed unsuccessfully for the bullet. They concluded . no large blood vessel had been injured, and as O'Donovan is a fleshy, muscular man of robust constitution, there was no Banger to be apprehended. The doctor will probe again for the bnllet tomorrow morning. Sometime after bis admission to the hospital, Rossa was moved to another ward. Here he said he thought his condition was serious enough to warrant 'his making an ante-mortem statement, and the coroner was sent for. When the official arrived O'Donovan made he following statement: "Saturday, January 31, about 3 p. m., I received a letter at my office in Chambers street. The message was in writing and delivered by a messenger boy. The note stated that a lad y wished to see me ; that she was interested in the Irish cause and desired to assist it. She did not care to go to my office and remain waiting there until I came. She only would ask .-me for ten minutes' time. The boy told me the lady was at the telegraph office in the Stewart building, on Broadway and Chambers street. I went with him and I met her. I told her it would be well to go to some hotel, as the telegraph -office - was no place to talk in. We came out and went to Sweeney's hotel. We went into the ladies' parlor and she said she would be able to give me considerable money if anything good was done. She then said she would call Monday, February 2, at 4 o'clock. Today she sent another message to my office and I went to the same telegrapn office ana ttiere l met the lady. She showed me a paper which I was to sign. She then suggested we go some place. We walked down Chambers street toward .Broadway, and we got a short distance toward Broadway when, the woman stepped back and fired two or three shots at me. One of the balls entered my back. Jeremiah o Konovan Kossa." Soon after making this statement O'Dono van rested easier, and stated that he was hopeful of pulling through all right. Captain Fhelan, who is still guarded by a policeman, when informed of the particulars of the shooting, smiled grimly, but, refused to say anything on the subject. The office of Chambers street hospital was visited by a large number of Rossa's friends tonight, ail oi tnem aeterminea-looKing chaps, and they gathered in groups of twos and threes and discussed in whispers the at tempted assassination oi tne arcn-aynam iter." - To a reporter, Rossa said: "It was a pre- meuitaiea anatr, ana mis woman was simply tne engine oy wnicn tne dastardly work was accomplished. She had no private revenge to gratify. No relative of hers had been in jured in tbe English explosions. It is the work of the English government, whose policy always has been to assassinate men they could not otherwise reach, She is an agent of the British minister or somebody else. This woman came to me and said that she was Irish, but that her husband did not sympathize with she cause ot ireianu. one was raDid in her views on dynamite. She said the Lou don explosions were no good and wanted a horrible sacniice ot me to strike terror to the heart of Ireland's enemies. I told her I was not engaged in that business, and I re ceived no money for such purposes, but only to help the Irish cause. She reiterated that thousands of lives should be sacrificed in London. I had been to ee my printer at 4 o'clock, when I started out to meet her. She wanted me to sign a receipt for money. The receipt contained the word "dynamite," and I declined to sign it. I nut the naner in mv nocket and walked out with her. She is nothing more nor less snfi sV v -K S3V W: 1 sinJki than the agent of the British government employed to assassinate me." Patrick Joyce, a trusted lieutenant of Rossa, same te his chief shortly after Rossa was wounded. Rossa turned over to him all his papers, and among them were letters from Mrs, Dudley. Joyce was loud in his denunciation of the cowardly attempt to slaughter the great dynamiter, and charged it was "England's work" at once, of course.-It was the outcome of a conspiracy on the part of England to rid the world of Rossa, whom she dreads and fears. There is no question but what the friends of England in New York knew all about the plot, and tbe woman was the tool selected to carry it into execution. They selected a woman for the deed because they had no man among them brave enough to attack him. He had received scores of threatening letters, but paid no more attention to them than be would to a flea. lie is not dead, and England will find it out to her sorrow soon enough. Joyce went to the Oak Street station to see if he could identify Mrs. Dudley as the English woman who had been befriended by Rossa about a year ago. He was refused admission to her, but when he heard the description of the prisoner he concluded it did not tally with that of the ether woman. Rossa's admirers were greatly relieved when they found his recovery was regarded quite certain. . Walker J. Elliott and Patrick Joyce went to Brooklyn and broke tbe tiding of Rossa's attempted assassination to his wife. She received the tiding9 calmly. She immediately started for Now York and reached the hospital at 10 o'clock, when she was admitted at once to her husband's bedside. Their meeting was quite affecting, About 9 o'clock tonight Mrs. Dudley asked about the condition of Rossa and seemed sorry when she heard he was still alive. A number of persons called to see her but rjie .positively refused to be interviewed by any one. She discarded her steel-bowed spectacles, which, according to Joyce, were used as a disguise. - Mrs. Dudley's career in New York is thus given: Thursday, January 22, Mrs. Dudley called at Mrs. Leggett's home for unemployed women, No. 60 Clinton Place. She was met by Mrs. Brown, the matron. "Can you accommodate me here?" asked Mrs. Dudley. "Have you references?" asked Mrs. BrOwn. "My reference is Dr. Thomas, whom everybody knows," was the reply, and than she added: "I am a professional nurse and widow, and desire to stay here until I secure an engagement." In telling the story of her acquaintance with Mrs. Dudley, Mrs. Brown tonight said: "She impressed me very favorably, and I told her she might remain in the bouse if she would room with two other young ladies. This e consented to do. Her only luggage was a valise which she never unpacked because, as she one day remarked, she might be called suddenly to attend some patient." "Did she refer at any time while here to her past domestic relations?" - "She told me she had been married and had two children, but that her husband and children had died abroad. Her father, she once remarked, had been engaged in the British cavalry service. She had acted as a trained nurse in the hospitals in London and Paris, and she said she had diplomas from institutions of that kind, but I never examined them, thongh she showed them to some of the young ladies in tbe house. She was a thoroughly accomplished woman and her manners and speech betokened a thoroughbred English woman of keen mind, and bright perceptions She was an intensely patriotic little lady and sarcastic and cutting at times when speaking of those who seemed to be making war on her people. She was extremely nearsighted. In telling me of her work abroad she one day said to me she much more enjoyed hospital work abroad than nursing." "What is the history of the movements of Mrs. Dudley while with you?" was asked Mrs. Brown. . "As I said before, she came here one week ago Tuesday last. Tuesday is our weekly pay-day, and she paid her board up to last Tuesday. Tuesday she came to me hurriedly and said she hai" a case, and was going. She would take her latch-key with her, for she might desire to return. She went, taking her valise, and by the way, I neves knew her to have a pistol. Last Thursday she returned, coming in in the pieasantest mood possible. She said her patient had died. Then she paid me her board up to Tuesday (tomorrow). But about 3 o'clock this afternoon she came to me and said she was going away again. She said she might not return, and if she did net she would send for her valise. J. returned her ber money for one day' bord and she went away between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon, and seemed not unduly excited. This evening I was shocked to bear she bad shot t hi - MSt-4,,.-i..-. .ii.ji jbeggett's home a bevy of young ladies talked o Mrs. Dudley's deed. " y : "She was almost crazy with excitement one week ago, when she read of the explosions in London," said one of the group. "She said America should give up Kossa to England. Then, on Sunday last, when she beard of the explosions in 6 rand street she was again very mucn exciiea. sue had a number of copies of Rossa's paper, and Sunday she said she had had an interview with Rossa the day before, and she said she had Rossa's word for it he could get a ton of dynamite in New York, that she heard him say he knew and was in league with those who made it, and he did not care if they stopped its exportation or its importation. Then she added 'somebody would get even witn uuonovan nossa yet.' l never knew she had a pistol, but I offered to lend her mine." . t The black-eyed young woman conducted by saying she believed Mrs. Dudley was tem porarily insane on tne suoject oi dynamite as used against her country. The matron of Mrs. Leggett s home uia not know who or where Dr. Thomas or Thompson was whom Mrs. Dudley had referred to, but investigation provea sne naa reierrea to nr. r. tiaylora inomas, wno lives at rjs fifth ave nue. At his omce it was learned that about four months ago Mrs. Dudley had come from England in company with Miss Chalmers, who is living at 47 Plane street, Newark, N. J. They had brought diplomas from foreign hospitals and Dr. Thomas had sent them both to Dr. P. F. Chambers at Thomas's private sanitarium, 598 and 600 Lexington avenue. Dr. Cham bers was found at this address, aud in the absence of Dr. Dubois, who has charge of the. institution for Dr. Thomas, stated that Mrs. Dudley and Miss Chalmers eame to him, not from Dr. Thomas direct, but from Roosevelt hospital, where they bad been employed. They were taken on trial November 21, and showed diploma from London hospitals. Dr. Chambers was very favorably impressed with Mrs. Dudley, but she did not work harmoniously with thosejjin tbe sanitarium, and at the end of the month left without being discharged. Dr. Chambers would have been pleased to have kept Miss Chalmers, but she went because Mrs. Dudley was' goinz. The latter was extremely patriotic, though not disparaging America. They left about December 21. The young nurse at the sanitarium talked reluctantly. She had seen Mrs.. Dudley's certificate from Charing Cross hospital, London. She did not regard- Mrs. Dudley as right in her head. She boasted almost constantly of her ability as a nurse. She had-once said her youngest child had been dead two years, ene never reierrea to her father or mother. 1:30 a.m. A physician's bulletin issued at 1 this morning slated that O'Donovan Rossa was sleeping quietly and suffering no pain. His condition was generally favor able. His wife left the hospital for home at 11:30. Washington, Feb. 2. Representative Finerty said tonight when he herd of the shooting of O'Donovan Rossa: "I am sorry. Kossa is a true man and patriot. " When asked what would be the result of the at tempted assassination, he said what would be likely to follow would depend upon what was tne motive oi tne snooting, it it should. turn out, he said, the woman who shoot O'Donovan Rossa is a lunatic, nothing could be done, although all true Irishmen would regret such an attempt upon the life of a brother patriot, but if on the other hand, it should be found that she was a hireling assassin, then this would prove to be but the beginning of the vendetta. If the .ne;iisnmen. tie said, tnoncnt tn tnhtn tbe Irish in the United States by assassinating tneir leaning men, they would find Irishmen feared the lead of the assassin no more than they feared England's rope, and that they would meet them at their own game. Minneapolis, Feb. 2. O'Donovan Rossa's son, John Rossa, engaged in business here as solicitor ier tne loung Men's Endowment association, called at the Tribune editorial rooms this evening at 8 o'clock, and the first he heard fit his father's assassination was when City Editor Williams read the bulletin to him. He remained perfectly cool but asked at once for full particulars. Being informed that nothing further had been heard he departed, refusing to answer at present any questions, except to deny any knowledge of the woman Dudley, who is said to nave aone tne snooting, me news was a complete surprise to him and he left nurrieniy to sena a message to JSew York, inquiring as go his father's condition. O'Donovan Rossa is a native of the county Cork, Ireland. He was born in 1832, and is growing gray. His father died in March, 1S47, and the widow and children were a short time after evicted from their home bv an alien landlord From that time forward, say his biographers, O'Donovan Rossa was at heart a rebel against British rule. His first experiment in business was as a store keeper in Ireland. In 1858 he was ar rested for connection with the Phoeni society, the organization from which was developed tbe more powerful brotherhood of Fenianism. He was in trouble with the authorities a second time in 1SC5, and was put into prison, where be remained until 1870. In this year ho came to New York, and opened a hotel. After.having been Boniface for a few years he began his career as journalist, conducting the United Irishman, a paper devoted to the theery of advocating any and every means to injure Kngland. Even more than usual notoriety is given bis name just bow because of the recent attempt in the office of that newspaper to kill Captain Phelan, an Irish patriot of Kansas City, by another patriot with whom Phelan seems to have had a little misunderstanding, i. " Strong views are entertained of O'Don-avan Kossa by -both friends and foes. Those read his ferocious articles with admiration and entrust him with subscriptions to be appropriated in the destruction of English ships, buildings, etc. ; these regard him in- exactly the opposite way, going so far as not only to discredit his professions of patriotism, pure and disinterested, but to accuse him, with greater or less distinctness, of treacherous connivance with the British authorities. He has a comfortable home in Brooklyn, over which his wife presides. - Wlnt the nelish Press Says. . T London, Feb. 3. Tha first, intelligence -of the shooting of O'Donovan Rossa was posted on the newspaper bulletins from the New York Associated Press office and sent en "tiskers" to clubs at midnight, which shows quick work, considering the five hours difference of time between New York and Lodon. The news spread with wonderful rapidity throughout the city and caused the wildest excitement. ,- Crowds of people surrounded the bulletin boards and at almost every street corner was a gang of men jubilantly discussing the event. Passing pedestrians who Stuped to hear what-the excitement was about, were told, "O'Donovan Rossa has been; shot." The response was invariably ' a . cheer or some other expression of delight. Many men became almost frantic in the exuberance of their feelings. StraDgers embraced esch other effnsively and shook hands with the ferver of life-long friends. Then they would link arms and rush in squads to the bars of the nearest hotels shouting as they went, "Rossa is shot." Many thousands of toasts were drunk to the health and happiness of Mrs. Dudley, who was lauded as a heroine. The Daily Telegraph, commenting on the shooting of Rossa, says: "It would be idle to pretend there is the smallest sympathy for Rossa in England. He is not a bold patriot, willing to die in behalf of his country, but has always been ready to cheer othera into danger which to himself avoided. From the beginning of his career there never has been a speck o nobility, courage or patriotism in his conduct." The Telegraph congratulates Ireland upon the fact that some of her sons have denounced dynamite outrages and calls upon Parnell also to Bpeak. The News says: "Though there is little sympathy with "Rossa, reasonable men will deplore the cause of shooting him as the possible beginning of a series of personal reprisals, which will not be easily ended. It is almost ievitablo that Madame Hugues will have imitators. ' .. The New York. Press. New Yobk, Feb. 2.-Sun Editorial: "O'Donovan Rossa was shot by a crack-brained woman yesterday, but owing either to the inadequacy of the weapon or to the toughness of the patriot's skin, he escaped with a simple and trifling perforation. Assassination in any "form it may take, is a i bad thing ; and the assassination of ; even Rossa would be in same- respects; but it must be considered that this eminent man has left nothing undone to prepare the public to face his taking off with something akin to resigna-tion." The Herald: "Is . is not desirable we should be treed of a nuisance by crime, and it is a pity the English woman could not reason cooly, as her countrymen generally do, that Rossa is really of little account in the difficulties that agitate her country. But she seems to have followed London editors in becomieing;cxted over a wretched creature Whose howling districts the attention of justice away from more dangerous men. While we must all regret the commission of any crime, we must aisc reKognize that so long as law tolerates euch doings as those of Rossa, there is no reason to be surprised if they provoke violence." FOREIGN NEWS. Tohosto, Feb. 2,-Bev D;J. MaoDon- nell. during eervio at St. Andrew s church yesterday miming, create! a sen- huea wells, and relating an incident ot tbe charge of the Guardsmen to get water for the fighting men ot the square, wno were dvine of thirst. f Tbank God," said the reverend gentleman, "that such men lived i who would die for their Queen and-country and for their fellow-men," and as the eloquent minister, with flashing eye, called on the God of battles to protect the British soldiers who were fighting for the cause of the righteous, the 'organ pealed out "God save the Queen," and the congrega-gation, who were greatly moved, almost to cheering, joined in singing the old hymn. Uefore singing the second verse Mr. MacDonnell asked the congregation to use the words "devilish" tricks instead of "knavish" tricks, to express their con tempt for the misguided men who were sacrificing lives ana property Dy ayna-mite. CENTRAL AMERICA. Panama. Feb. 2. The Star and Herald says reports printed abroad, the French republic was endeavoring to obtain predominance on the isthmus, and in pursu ance of this idea the canal workmen had been divided into divisions in such manner that a corps d'armee, 25,000 strong, can be massed at any moment: "The untruth fulness of this statement is apparent to every resident, although the origin may not be equally so. The truth simply is that in order to facilitate work the line of the canal has been cut up into engineering divisions, which has been again subdivided into sections." ' THE REDUCTION. The Way the Address of the miners' Union is Received In the Valley. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Logan, Feb. 2. The address iseued by the Miners' union and published in the State Journal this morning, has created some commotion down the valley. There will probably be more "cussin' " to the square inch in this region in the next twenty-four hours than any district of the same size was ever afflicted with. Your correspondent met parties from Straitsville. Murray City and other points in the valley this afternoon, and the gen eral expression is, "Why Gidn t they say so long ago ?" One man said he would have been $400 better off; another f S00, and so on. The miners held a meeting at Sand Run Saturday, Sunday, and are again in ses sion today. It is said that several other points were represented in large numbers. My informant, who is well posted in the affairs of the valley, says there is a struggle among the better and rougher elements as to which class shall rule. It is thought the threatened break in prices of mining will influence many who have remained neutral during the trouble to come out now one way or the other. It was reported here this morning that a party of old miners had gone to work at JNeisonviue toaay. a gentleman irom there could not authenticate that report, but knew of ten men that had gone in. One man, talking today, says: It is mighty strange that no person knew times were hard six months ago. There has been no material change in general business since that time. It looks now like the union is insisting on operators in other districts having what it was not willing to allow the operators in the Hocking valley. The Ohio State Journal has been "denounced here by same for asserting that the strike was broken. and yet the miners' address sustains the claim made a month ago, by admitting that if a reduction was not made at other places the syndicate would capture all the contracts and dictate teims not only to the miners of the state, but operators also. A visit to the railroad yards today shows that there is not an available coal car there, and the agent stated that it was impossible to fill the demand. Something over four hundred cars are being sent out of the vallay per day, and more would go if the cars could be had. The evidence of this increased output is alone sufficient to sustain the claim that the strike is broken. The Stable Is Locked, hut Where Is the Horse ? Pittsuukg, Feb. 2. A meeting of the managers of the Penn Fuel Gas Company was held this morning, and after discussing Saturday's explosion, decided to lay the entire new line with low-pressure mains covering all trunk lines of their system of pipes. In this way all danger of explosions will be averted. The high-pressure mains will be laid alocg the banks of the river, thus removing them far from the thickly-populated districts of the city. NEWARK SEWS. Exciting Fire Salt far Damages Democratic Candidates for Spring Kleetlon Insurance Adjustment Personal and General Notes. Special to the Ohio Stale Journal. Newark, Feb. 2. Charley "Wilson, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, discovered fire in the ceiling of - the office between 2 and 3 o'clock this afternoon, and principally by his own efforts, extinguished it before the department got around, although they were very prompt. The fire commenced in the hall of the Workingmen's Cleveland and Hendricks club room above the office, and was supposed to have been occasioned by a defective flue. Several holes were burned through the floor, and great excitement was occasioned as the building is in the business part of tbe city. Herbert N. Lamb, first lieutenant of the Xewark Guards, has commenced suit against Perry Rank and Waldo Taylor for false imprisonment. Mr. Rank keeps a livery stable, and Mr. Taylor is mayor. Last summer Mr. Lamb hired a horse and buggy at Rank's stable, and had a collision on the road which injured the buggy. He was imprisoned on the charge of cruelty to animals. Sooner than acquaint his friends with bis trouble he remained in the jail for several days, aud was acquitted. . The candidates for nomination for the Democratic primary election have come out today in the Advocate. Street commissioner, Thomas - S. Kean ; township treasurer, Rees H. Jones ; township trustee, Charles D. Nutter ; city solicitor, Thomas G. Thornton (Tom Phillipps is also a candidate for this office, but has not printed his notice yet) ; marshal, Curtis W. Hendershot; board of education, John Tucker and J. R. McCulloch; councilman, Warren S. Weiant ; constable, W. D. Nutter. The nominations will be made February 14. The Licking club will discuss the question tomorrow evening whether Cleveland should fill all appointive offices with Democrats or not? The club is very exclusive, and though the constitution forbids the attendance of any one but members, others under the surveillance of a member can get in without trouble. The Newark Machine Company has commenced suit against the Kentucky Insurance Company to recover on a policy of 12500. The company has a large amount of litigation on hand which is occasioned by this : In all insurance policies is a . clause requiring the applicant to state, if true, whether he holds the property in fee simple, and if this clause" is mistaked the policy is void. By overlooking this provision, either a negligence on the part ot their counsel or themselves, the' policies were filled as if they had owned the land in fee simple, which was not so, as it would have belonged, for many years, to the city. It is a fine question in law whether an honest inadvertance of this kind voids the policy, which is often decided in favor of the insured. Mrs. Edgar Wright, wife of the postmaster at Granville, died at her home in that place at midnight last night. Harry Cherry sent word that he had taken Frank Ripple, whom he had secured here, in safety to Toledo ; that his mistress, who had betrayed him, had also arrived there to testify against him, and that he had been bound over to court in the sum of 1000, for the want of which he lingers in the county jail in Toledo. His lady friend waits in an adjoining! apartment until he shall appear for a final hearing. Mr. Peter Song, one of the oldest citizens of Newark, died at his home in South Newark this morning of inflammation of the bowels. He baa long been ill, and is 71 years of age; his funeral took place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. He leaves a wife and six adult children. Thomas H. Mint horn has comsaenced uit for divorce from his wife Rebeccn. He-charges her withxruelty.- - The little three-yar-old son of W. A. Knoebel of South Fourth street died last nitrht. of blood noisonine. The funeral p. m. . ' . -V- Miss Ollie English has become quite an artist in brass, an art which is called repotiee work. v . Miss Lizzie Crow of Zanesville is the guest of the family of Al. Stone in the East End. v - Mies Hettie Piersou took the prize as the most graceful lady skater at Granville Saturday. The "Free and Easy," near the Fair grounds, kept by one Suter, was pulled last night, and Suter arrested on complaint of the parents of two little boys, to whom he is said to have given liquor and became very drunk. They were found away from his house, but were with difficulty resuscitated from a deadly stupor. Suter will be tried before the mayor tomorrow. O'DOXIf ELL'S GUNS. The Case in Court Statement of the Express Company as to What Became of Them. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Newark, O., Feb. 2. On last Friday suit was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas of this county by James O'Donnell against the Baltimore and Ohio Erpress Company, to recover damages, which he alleges he received by rea son of the failure of the express company to deliver to him five cases of guns, shipped to him from Pittsburg about the first of January, and which he claims he never received. . Notice was served upon the express company on last Saturday, that depositions would be taken today, in the office of Gibson Atherton, one of the attorneys for the plaintiff. After the attorneys on both sides had met, the attorney for the plaintiff made the statement that the object of taking the depositions was to find out where the guns were. The attorneys for the defend ant then stated that they had no objection to furnishing any and all information in their possession with - reference to the guns without the formality of swearing witnesses, and thereupon the attorneys for the defendant furnished the following statement : - After the O'Donnell guns came into the possession of the Baltimore and Ohio Express, the company received information that the guns did not. in fact, belons to O'Donnell, but to an organization in the Hocking valley, which had procured them for unlawful purposes, and were about to use them in disturbing the peace in Perry and Hocking counties. The officers of the express company believing it was their duty as citizens to aid in preserving . the peace, and in -preventing riot and bloodshed, and after consulting with officers of the law, who are engaged in endeavors to suppress lawlessness in the Hocking valley, and in pursuance of the advice and directions of such officers, the guns were shipped to Baltimore, Md. Further than this, no officer of the company at Newark has any knowledge. ' - SPKINGFIELD SEWS. A Xew Enterprise Adjudged Insane The District Telegraph Scheme. Byiecial to the Ohio State Journal. Spkixgfield, O., Feb. 2. Yesterday at the residence of the bride's parents Rev. E. R. Willard married Mr. S. G. Nissley and Miss S. Ella Trimmer. Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at the Grand, Minnie Maddern appears in Caprice.It is almost a settled thing now that the manufacturing concera from Fulton, N. Y., engaged in the business of making cutting machinery of all kinds, will locate here. Negotiations have been pending between Mr. R033, the representative of the new enterprise and the proprietors Of the East street shops, for the leasing of the five-story brick building fronting on Champion avenue, imi everything is fixed excepting the necessary legal steps. Last evening Mr. Harry Raoitts and Deputy A. J. Baker took Lyman Olds to the asylum at Dayton. For some time past the friends of Mr. Olds have noticed that his mind was rapidly failing, and within the past few days had taken a rather violent turn. He went quietly to the train, and nobody not knowing him would have known he was insane. The District Telegraph Company is an assured success in this city. They have now over 100 subscribers, and that number is constantly increasing. Mr. C. C. Farnham is canvassing the city for tho proprietors, Messrs. Fritch and Reeder, and says that he calculates to put in about 500 boxes before the end of tho month. SOME VERY SOUR PORTER TO BE DRANK STANDING, IN SILENCE. Piteous Appeal to the President from Fits John Porter for Justice The People at Large Think He Has Had It Already. ' . " Washington , Feb. 2. In response to the House resolution offered by Representative Slocum, the President today transmitted to Congress the recent appeal of Fit 2 John Porter to hint in his own behalf. It is as follows: Morbistown, N. J., Oct 14, 1884. To the President, Washington; D. C. : Deab Sib I most respectfully and urgently renew to you my oft-repeated appeal to government for justice. On the second day of August last you vetoed a bill passed for my relief. I understood from your message that your action was based upon Attorney General Brewster's opinion concerning the constitutional and legal points in the ease. I beg your attention to the inclosed paper furnished by Mr. John B. Bullett from the generous promptings of his love of justice, without my previous knowledge and certainly not at my request. It has been concurred in by Mr. Joseph H. Choate and Mr. Anson Maltby, also familiar with the facta andlaw. It conclusively shows I think that the attorney general has fallen into error. I respectfully ask you to take up the questions discussed by Mr. Bullett and - if you concur in his views to adopt such action in my behalf as you may deem proper under the circumstances. There are some constitutional and lefral questions connected with the court-martial which are not touched by Mr. Bullett. They are fully treated in re vie ws by Hon. Keverdy Johnson and Charles O'Conor and Mr. Choate, and are of record in the proceedings of the advisory board. But for case of reference I append the document. Note. I have been unable to secure the documents except as found in volume I of the proceedings of the advisory board as Fublished by the Senate, without cutting, forward it and also Mr. Choate'sargument In consideration of the arguments contained in this paper, and of my apprehension that the views of Mr. Johnson and Mr. O'Conor and Mr. Choate may not have been brought especially to your notice, I venture to beg your further attention to the subject. Your veto message says: "I bave already, in the exercise of the pardoning power with which the President is vested, remitted the containing penalty that it made it impossible for Fitz John Porter to hold an office of trust or profit under the goverament of the United States. But I am unwilling to give my sanction te any legislation which shall practically annul and set at naught the solemn and deliberate conclusions of the tribunal by which he was convicted and of the President by whom its proceedings were examined and approved.'r Permit me to inform you that in August, 1863, Mr. Edward Everett, Mr. Robert C. Winthrop and other gentlemen signed an appeal to President Lincoln for a reopening of my case. This was after Mr. Everett had studied the record and conferred with the President for that purpose. Again, in 18C4, President Lincoln expressed his willingness to reopen the case and his belief that I was the victim of circumstances. This will be seen in Governor Kewell's letter of 1870 to Governor Randolph and again in 1878 in his testimony before the advisory board. I appreciated your action in annulling that part of the court-martial sentence which made it impossible for me to bold office under the government, and I bave taken tbe liberty of quoting from your message only for the purpose of explanation. I know the effect of the conclusions of the tribunal by which I was convicted can not be set at naught. The past is irrevocable. No human power can remove or mitigate the suffering unjustly imposed upon me and which I have endured for more than twenty years. I ask you to deal with the present, not with the past. Tbe effect of the sentence of the court-martial is a present and continued one. It continues as long as I am kept out of the profession in which I was bred and from which as has been fully shown by facts that have come to light since my trial, I was wrongfully ejected. Acting upon your own sense of duty and justice, you have temoved that par of the eon-tinuing sentence which disqualified me for restoration to the army. It U in yourwer to terminate the further force of that eontia- Minm sentence. h- gjg g "H?? me to me oen&ie lor i'rsujranou w uie army to which I am made eligible by the action you have already voluntarily taken.- The law provides for lust aueh cases as mine, and there are many precedents with which I j need not trouble you in this oriei appeal, j' The act of July 20. 1868. provides: "No officer of the army of the United States who has been or shall hereafter be cashiered or dismissed from tbe service by sentence of a general conrt-martial, formerly approved by the proper authority, shall ever be restored to the military service, except by reappointment confirmed by the Senate ef the United States." You had objections to the special course of action prescribed in the vetoed bill. If you continue to adhere to the views expressed in your message, may I not indulge the hope tbat under the general act of 1806 just cited you will in - the exercise of your constitutional 7 power, reappoint and nominate me to a suitable vacancy which may exist or may occur in tbe army? If, however, yon believe that course not within your power, I respectfully ask you by special message to refer my case to Congress with the suggestion that the recommendation of the advisory board be carried out by such action as in their wisdom shall seem expedient and wise. This appeal to you is prompted by a deep sense of the wrong and injustice done me, and of my right to receive the utmost measure of vindication that can be accorded to me. I have made my appeal for redress continuously from time to time in every form that seemed open to me, and I now adopt this as the only one in which I can present it at the present time. Conscious of my innocence and of the justice and righteousness of my cause, I would respecfully but earnestly appeal to you to take such action as can now be had for the purpose of restoring me to the position ef which I was fo unj ustly and cruelly deprived. Very respectfully yours, Fitz Jobs Postsb. SOCIALIST ItlOT. Exciting Times at a Meeting Last Night The Hob Qnelled by the Police. . New Yobk, Feb. 2. Two thousand persons gathered at the Socialist meeting tonight in Concordia hall, avenue A, German quarters. It was rumored previous to the meeting that trouble would be caused by Justus Schwab and Herr Most, aided by a number of their adheients, who intended to capture and control the proceedings. A less radical element of the party, headed by Editor Schevilsch of the Yolks Zeitung, were determined to hold the extremists in check. A voluminous circular, printed in English and German, denunciating violence and Irish dynamite outrages had been widely circulated by Schevilsch, but it excited the Schwab-Most crowd, who in return issued a flaming incendiary appeal applauding ths dynamiters and threatening woe to En-land. Police Captain McCullough, of the Seventeenth precinct, attended the meeting with a posse of men. Schevilsch called the assembly to order, in such a way that a tumult ensued, in which chairs, clubs and revolvers figured. Captain McCullough commanded silence, a-id forced his way to the platform, followed by his men. Schwab saw him. and shouted, "It's police ; kill the . The infuriated mob turned upon the officers, and Captain McCullough was struck on the head with a chair and knocked down. lie retrained his feet. and at the point of revolvers the police kept the mob at bay. The Socialists then wanted to assume deliberations and supplemented their demands by drawing clubs, knives and pistols. Captain Mc- Cullazh was reinforced in a little while by thirty policemen. This enraged the crowd still further and they again attacked the police, who responded with their clubs, and the rioters were badlv punished. Many heads were cracked. With the exception of Officer Rolt, who was slightly cut in the face and a few bruises suflered .by Captain McCullagh, none of the nohcemen were injured. Peter Brown, one of the rioters, had his leg broken and had to be sent to the hospital. Justus Schwab; was the only man arrested. He skulked away before the riot was over, but Captain McCullagh found him in his saloon on First street. He submitted ouietlv to arrest. His trial was refused. and be was locked up. After the fight, a pistol, a dynamite bomb and several short black clubs were found in the hall. W. S. Rosenberg, secretary of the Internaiional Workers' association, said Scwsb had asked O'Donovan Rossa to send a gang of his dvnamiters to break up the meeting' Sunday morning at Vimcennes, Ind., AdOlph GrafTenstein shot Henry Bussman, and supposing him to be dead robbed his body of a considerable amount of money. Bussman afterward partially recovered. His would-be murderer has not been captured. XLVIIIth Oongr Scaeion. - WaeHiHOTOK, Feb. 2,1885. MATE. ' The TJhair laid before the Senate the credentials of Messrs. Spooner of Arkansas and Vest of Missouri, also a communication from tbe secretary of the treasury transmitting further correspondence relating to the postponement of the collection of the whisky tax. After the transaction of routine business the Senate took up the Pacific railroad bilL On motion of Mr. Hoar certain amendments in detail reported by bim from tbe judiciary committee were made to the bill. The amendments as explained specify by same the Sioux City road as included in the bill and subject to its provisions, and make clear what otherwise might seem .doubtful, that the - interest on the whole debt must be paid each half year, and substitute 40 per cent, instead of 35 per cent, of the net earnings as the sum to be paid to the government by such roads as may elect to operate under the provisions of the Thurman act. Mr. Beck preferred tbe House bill to tbe Senate bill. ' Mr. McPherson opposed giving the roads any such privileges as the bill proposed. He was not in favor of the Pacific railroad companies any longer running the United States government, as well as the roads. The matter then went over until Wednesday, and the Senate took up tbe Dill to repeal the pre-emption and timber culture laws, but after a short discussion it was displaced by the inter-state commerce bill, the consideration of which was resumed. Mr. Cullom said he hoped the bill would be completed today. If not, he would ask the Senate to remain in session tomorrow until it was dispoeed ef, and would interpret the declination of the Senate so to rfmaia in sessien tomorrow as an evidence of their intention not to do anything at all on tbe subject. Mr. Harrison then addressed the Senate on tVebilL The debate continued at tome length. A vote was then taken on Beck's amend ment to strike out from tbe House bill the provision relating to equal facilities and ac commodations for passengers, and the 8enate by a vote of 23 to 23 declined to strike out the clause. The bill provides that a railroad shall not charge more for a shorter than for a longer haul that includes a shorter. Mr. Beck moved to amend this so as to prohibit merely charging more for trans Dortation "any distance less than the whole length of the line than it charged for similst service over the whole length oi the line " Mr. Hoar moved to amend Mr. Beck's amendment by making it read that the charge bould not be greater for "any distance less than the whole length of the line in proportion than is charged for a similar service over the whole length of the line." Mr. Hear't amendment was voted down yeaa 5, nays 41. Mr. Plumb moved to amend Mr. Beck's amendment so as to make it apply only to eases involving similsr circumstances. Without action on Mr. Plumb's amendment the Senate went into executive session and soon adjourned. HOUSE. Under the call of states the following bills, etc., were introduced and referred: Mr. Budd A resolution directing the secretary of the treasury to report to the House, what, if any, regulations or instructions relating; te . the rights of the Chinese to enter the United States have been issued by the Treasury department since July t, 1884, under what law for the regulation or prohibition of tbe entry of Chinese into this country such regulations have been issued that the United States con sular officer may issue a certificate required by the act of 1884 to be issued by a foreign government. Mr. Hoi man (by request) To maintain the purity of the ballot-box and prevent bribery and corruption in elections. Mr. Dockery A resolution directing the secretary of tbe treasury to inform the House what has been the total amouat of expenses incurred under the law providing for the appointment of deputy marshals and chief supervisors of elections, and in what states the money had been expended, rhowinr tbe separate amounts expended in each state, and also the accounts for such services which remain unadjusted. Mr. Belmont A resolution requesting the secretary of state to inform the House whether or not any representations have been either formally or informally mate to this government by the British covrnment. trowing out of the nwmnt dvnamite in Jn-1 ctaa; and if wcb representations j$rri made in writing then to transmit comvete I Spl- "of 4hm"c.tnTth betweon the two government on ..ths-i tiont bave been verbal then a Itatemeat cf , their tenor and purport: alto a resolution re questing the President to cause the ertginals np tiTiim nf 11 Mmmnfiirjtinnl whirji w been received res Decline the Gomrn acr ence, and especially copies ot connnict- lions or powers sent oj tne government to each of the three American plenipoteutaries or agents to be immediately transmitted to the House. Mr. Cassidy Granting all United States brads in Nevada, except mineral lands, to the Stat .of Nevada for irrigating purposes. Mr. McAdoo A resolution requesting the secretary ef ths treasury to transmit te the House a list of the names of persons borne on the rolls of the department on November 1, 1884, and February 2, 1885. Mr. Uox (N. x.v ADousmng tne census bureau. Mr. Cabell To extend the benefits of the signal service to the farmers of the United Btetes. The unfinished business coming over from last individual suspension day was a motion made by Mr. Bayne to suspend the rules and pass the bill increasing to $1,600,000 tbe isait 01 appropriation lor a Duuaing at Pittsburg. Agreed to yeai 163 nays li. Mr. Kandall called up the resolution pro viding that during the remainder of tbe session thirty minutes of every morning shall be devoted to the consideration of the measures called up by individual mem be. if there are not fire objections made thereto; provided, while this order is in force the Speaker shall not entertain a request for unanimous consent af any other time. Mr. Townshend moved to recommit tbe resolution with instructions to the commit tee on rules to report back the amendment makim it in order any day after the reading of the journal to move to go into committee of the whole for the purpose of considering House bills with senate amendments, wnicn under the rules must be considered in committee. This is Intended to facilitate the passage of tbe Mexican pension bill. fr. Cox (N. Y.) offered as a substitute to this motion a motion to recommit with instructions to the committee to report back an amendment, providing that during the thirty minutes members shall be recognized as their names are drawn out of a box. This was agreed to yeas 136, nays 123, but tbe motion of Mr. Townshend, as thus amended, was lost-el to 14$. The previous question was then ordered on Mr. itanaau s resoiuuoo yeas i, nays 68. Mr. Keifer mo red to amend by extending to one hour the time to be devoted to tbe consideration of measures called up by individual members. Agreed to. At this soint, and beiore nnai action was taken on the resolution, Mr. Collins moved the House take a recess unttl 11 o ciock tomorrow. This was done for the purpose ef continuing the legislative day of Monday in order that opportnnity may be had to move tne passage 01 ine Dansrupi um uuun wo suspension of the rules. Mr. Thompson interposed a motion to aa- joarn. Lost Yeas 10S, nsys 157. Mr. Moulton then made some tilibtr-ing motfon on which the roll was celled. T . . 1 .. i . f OA A yea ana uay vote w ubitu v ,.v on motion of Mr. Blount to adjourn. .'Before it was taken Mr. Hiscock asked Mr. Collins, '-What can we accomplish? You know it is not possioie to accouipusu any thing." , , . Mr. Collins retorted : "All things are possible in a sensible Assembly." Thus passed another hour ana tneuair. Sprineer rose and said that early in the day . r . S i . ! I .... Kill nf local importance, and he now hoped unanimous consent would be given to have it passed. Mr. White (Ky.) objected. ' Roll-call ifollowed roll-call in monotonous succession until 9:20, the friends of the bankruptcy bill, being ia a majority ranging from 3 to 6, and voting down every motion to adjourn. The attendance of members, which at the beginning of the struggle was large, aggregating about SAO, gradually dwindled away, until there was but half of that number present. At midnight the House was still in session, with no prospect of an adjournment. Tbe time was mostly occupieu wnu run vans, uw dilatory proceedings being diversified with banter, fun, humorous remarks, etc. Representative Collins, who has charge of the bankruptcy bill, has just said to sn Associated Press reporter that he will endeavor to carry on the fight in the House a few hours longer, until in the interest ollm-inanity he will have to succumb. "The bankruptcy bill," he said, "is not dead but will be passed during tbe last six days of the session." lumcATiOHS Fbr Temeue and tht Ohi vol-lay, warmer, fair weather, itmth to vest uiwb. As a means of producing an artificial sea atmosphere in houses, the uso has been suggested of a solution of peroxide of hydrogen containing 1 ptr cent, of ounic either, iodine to saturation, and 2.50 per cent, of sea salt The solution, placed in a steam or hand spray diiuser, can be distributed in the inest spray in a room at the rate of two fluid ounces id a quarter ef an hoar. CUNNINGHAM'S COLD DAY. THE CHANCES ARE THAT HE 18 LEFT. Borne Damnglng Testimony Expected te be Bronght Out Against Him Aa Amerl - ean Trunk and Its Suspicions Move, merits The Prisoner Held. London, Feb. 2. The examination of James G. Cunningham, charged with complicity in causing the recent explosion at the Tower of London, began in Bow Street police court this morning, Poland, the solicitor, in opening the case for the crown, said the government intended to prove that Uie prisoner was an active-agent in the conspiracy which calmnated , in the horrible outrage at the tower. The ' solicitor then related the facta in regard ' to the prisoner's movemonta at Liverpool ' and London, from the time of hit arrival in Liverpool from America ur to the date of his arrest at the town, a few- minutes after the explosion occurred, his traveling under assumed names Gilbert sod Dal-ton and many suspicious circumstances ' connected with his stay at both tbe above cities. Poland dwelt particularly on ths mysterious disappearance of a peculiar box from the prisoner's lodgings in Scar- , boro street immediately after Cunning--ham's arrest. Poland laid stress upon these facta in order to show jthat Cunning- . ham was in league with others who. lunae have been instructed in the tifiwui action to be taken in case ot arrest.' Poland further said witnesses would be produced to prove tbat Cunningham had for several days previous to the explosion been seen loitering in and around the Tower of London. lie then produced a plan of ths tower and pointed out the spot where the explosion took place, at the same time going into the details of the damages dons the building and Injuries sustained by persons wounded by the explosion; also produced a small detonar found in the prisoner's baggage, and said it was similar to those used in previous dynamite outrages, indicating that the prisoner might have been connected with those crimes. In conclusion Poland asked tbat Cunningham be arraigned under tbe explosive act, on the charge of conspiracy, and said he might possibly at a later day request that the charge be changed ti high treason, so that the penalty of the latter crime could be meted out to him, as the dynamite outrages could be construed as acts of war of a rebellious people. - Poland's notification . to the court that the government reserved the privilege of -changing the charge against Cunningham to high treason, so that the result of a conviction might be execution, instead of imprisonment, caused a commotion auiong the spectators. The declaration was construed into an admission that ths crown bad ascertained that in Cunningham they had the most important prisoner yet arrested for dynamite crimes. This impression is confirmed by the extraordinary precautions taken to prevent Cunningham s escape orreseae. He was conveyed from hie cell in Clerkenwell prison to Bow Street court in a strong van. Cunningham was the only prisoner, but locked in with him were several armed constables. On each side of the driver was an armed policeman, and officers with exposed revolvers stood guard upon the steps leading to tbe van's barred door. Continuing his openiog address, the solicitor for the treasury said Cunningham was 22 years of age, by occupation he was a dock laborer, but not alone in the work of causing the explosion at the tower, but was in league with others who the government hoped soon to have in custody. Tbe prisoner lived in the United States several years, arrived in England last November, aud took quarters at Liverpool in a small "hotel. When he left that place he came direct to London. The solicitor slated tbat it could be proven that tho prisoner umwglf' ipat ino p tmber. j-'rl"1 nsrl laet was n8 rim auou ii..j a targe crown " TWe Irun, wis of American ttuak PTifi. jaiaciBrav be;. Ths ut.it iv e 4tUed and took away, la Uie meantime ns toox joagings-in While Chapel.' ! Thither ths prisoner baa bis brown trunk and bag removed. v Vhile the prisoner was residing there the brown trunk mysteriously disappeared. Sometime after its disappear-acce Cunningham changed his lodgings and took rooms in Scarboro street. It would be shown that the prisoner began loitering about the tower after his removal from White Chapel, and that he passed in and visited tbe tower buildings a fow days before the explosions at least once. ' A few persons were admitted to Bow Street police court during the examination, before the commencement of the regular proceedings, and a number of witnesses assembled in the court for the purpose of identifying the ptisoner as the man reporil to the police as having been engaged in eunpicious "movements just before the explosions. Cunningham was placed in a small crowd, but three of ths witnesses, one of whom was a woman, ths other two being constables, had no difficulty in singling him out as the man of whom they had given information. The cabman who bad given the police information about the transfer of the brown trunk of American manufacture from the Broad Street station to the lodgings at No. 30 Prescott street, Whits Chapel, and who was present as a witness for the crown, was unable to identify Cunningham as the person who engsged the cab and occupied it during the transfer of the baggage from tho station to the boarding-house. At tbe request of the prosecution Cunningham was remsnded for a week. . v During the examination Cunningham stated that when he resided in the United States he lived in New York City, and worked as a laborer on the Morgan steamship docks and as a freight handler in ths Pennsylvania railroad depot. TELfcliHAPHIC SUMMARY. George C. Tatman, a Jeweler of New York City, has assigned. Preferences $80U0. The Davis Sewing Machine Company, employing 300 men, resumed work Monday, after a two months' shut down. Dr. Hole's medical sanitarium at Eaton, Mich., burned Monday, destroying the building with all iu contents. Loss $25,000. The schedu'e of John J. Cisco A Son shows ltbts and liabilities of $2 9i7.0ti0, nominal assets $3,2!M,000, and actual assets $2, Tl, rtnfiklfi Commercial Advertiser of Monday aunounced a reduction of from $10 to- $6 p"er year, and from 5 to J cents per S'ipy. The Stanton mines, near Wilicsbarre, Pe-, B'e again inunduted to tlf depth ot 8 feet, gcvt-ral days wilt be required to pump the water out. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. CongrtiAH. l EBBVABY 2. Srnife-The credentials of Messrs. Spooner of Wisconsin and est of Missouri were presented Tbe inter-state commerce bill was then taken up and Mr. j : O.i,irov..l the Senate. Severs! amendments were dlp"svd of, and after the Senate had gone into executive sion the doors were opened and the Senate sd- Ji7 M-Tbe following bills were in troduced and referred: To maint tin the purity of the ballot-box: granting certa,n nds State of Nevada: abolish.... the roau Kesolutions onered: Asking the secretarv of the treasury i to certain information 'relative to orders issued from bts department in regard to riWaS callinc upim tbe win offic al tor statis-tfos as to the employment of Vmwd St'te? marshals; calling upon the. secretary of Mate for information relativs ?o U.e inquiries of Great Britain, if snya retard to the use of dynamite; also, upon tl.s President for certain 7Pnde" concerning the Congo ",lnn"l(5'1.1 pawd: Increasing the PPP", ".-JLU public building at Pittsburg from $.30,000 to .l,f00,WM Adjourned. ilenrrnl " Ki.ai KY 2-S''.t Bills introduced: Amending the act of l-t winter so as ; provide for paving claims in the order .allowed bv the military commission; authoring tbe n"r m;.;,.,,, rountvto refund money auuuvii ui - , mmnininc in ihe ditch luna. Z"e-BilU introdneed: Requiring ma-ioritv of property owners in interest to sign etitloiis to county commissioners for ini-Movements; a-.tuoriting Clarke county pom miss oners to iW j........-. Rnr J ield; authoring town councils to pro i.le for inspection of boilers; preventing LTr. rowdin,; of street cars; preventing sals - concealment, of property held in trust. S passed: For relief of John W.Hser. ..t iiarri.nn township, and J. Humphrey, treasurer of Napoleo" township. lietirv county A resolution was ottered asking Confess to pass Taylor bill preventing removal of I'nlon soldiers from office. HI ! 'Oi I'- ' i" , i