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              ftewino M$k. t. ffU 5 tif 1*3. I i«I i860 | PITTSTON, PA.V WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10,1886. ji WO CliNT8 Tea 'J«Ciln Par Weak EX-SENATOR CHAFFEE DEAD. WHICH SHALL KILE? PRESIBJJNjAND SENATE t'riend and ally, the president of tdie United States, who, with • THE POLITICAL POT REPUBLfCAN CAUCUS. OOCRAQ* CERTAINLY UNIQUE, Passes Away at th# Horn* of U. 8. Grant. Jr. TO BE MADE #, TEST BE« TWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR. New Turk Republicans Komlnate a Can* illdate for Fabllo Instruct Ion. MR. EDMUNDS GIVES REASONS WHY THE 8ENATE CALLS FOR PAPERS. Iiad interjected his supplementary report to the report of the minority committee before tlji: senate had even considered it Was It possible to carry on the government in that way? Mr. Edmunds thought not BEGINS TO BOIL OVER AND REVEAL New York, March 10.—Ex-United State* Senator Jerome B. Chaffee, of Colorado, died at Salem Center, Westchester county, yesterday. He was stopping with his son-in-law, U. S. Grant, Jr., on Mrs. Grant's farm at Salem Center, near Purdy's Station, on the New York and Harlem railroad. For years Senator Chaffee had been Seriously troubled with a kidney complaint, but about a month ago he felt so mflch better that ho left New York, where he had been recently spending most of his time, and went to Colorado to look after some mining interests. He soon became worse, and returned here ten days ago and went immediately to the farm. This farm he purchased four years ago as a present for his son-in-law, and since the collapse of Grant & Ward he had resided there a good deal with his daughter. On Sunday night he got out of bed and walked across the floor in his bare feet A severe cold and an affection of the throat was tho consequence, developing into acute meningitis. He had been attended by Dr. Counselman, of Salem Center, but no fears were entertainod of his disease terminating fatally. Ai.bant, March 10.—The joint Republican caucus whs called to order in the assembly chamber by Assemblyman Man villa There were only two absentees. Assemblyman C. D. Baker was selected aa chairman. Mr. Ainsworth acted as secretary. PARTY SECRETS. Why Mr. Conkllng Will Not Ko-entor the Several Tlionnanu Men Laid Oft* on Ao- A Cool Presentation of Ono Side of the Question In Dispute Between the Administration and the Kepubllcan Sena- After reading letters from ex-Senator Thurman asking for reasons, he said, Alas for the Democracy of these days! Think, President, of 11D» infinite idiocy, the unpatriotism, the is*,fDation of that number of fivo senators of the United States of the Democratic jjarty assailing a Republican attorney general and a Republican president with the insulting and impertinent inquiry as to papers and information touching a suspended officer, whoee successor was nominated to accomplish bis removal. And yet those men were, in their day—in tliose times—among the headlights of the Democratic locomotive. There'was Tliurmah —his light is put out—the greatest Democrat in the United States, and the best one and the noblest one, and the bravest one for he bad the courage not long ago in your state, sir, to denounce the Democratic frauds at the ballot. There was Thurman and there was "Joe" McDonald—a name familiar in the west as in the east, as the embodiment of upright Democratic pluck and constitutional law, and there was Garland, whom we all knew here, the leader on the Democratic side of the senate, full and running over with constitutional and and statute and reported law—knowing his rights as a senator and as a member of the Committee, and knowing his duties, and Lamar—and then all the rest of us on this side joining in what the present president of the United States calls an impertinent innovation of his rights in asking for papers. Mr. President, if I were goin» to be rhetorical, I should say just there, "Oh, shame, where is thy blush." Fleld for the Senate—An Incnbator at count of the Strike—A Prospect for a Work at Albany—What Will the I'ro- I.onjj and Bitter Fight to Be Made All II. I). Cunningham, correspondent of The New York Post, was nominated by Assemblyman Curtis for superintendent of public instruction. ton—Congress Makes the Laws. duet be ? Along the Line. Washington, March 10.—Mr. Edmunds Hid it would be seen that in spite of misleading discussions in the public press; in spite of certain inaccurate things stated In a message of the president of the Urflted States to this body and In spite of aundry inaccurate views of the minority of the committee on judiciary as to what this case is that we now have to consider, that as well by the law as it has been placed on the statute books, by the action of all administrations that existed after the laws were passed, and by the action of the president of the United States in obedience to it, be hftf invited the senate to agree with him in removing Mr. Duskin from office by the appointment and commissioning of a successor. That being so, the question was whether official papers in the department of justice, bearing on the administration of the officer whom the senate were asked to remove, should be sent to the senate. New York, March 10.—The Sun's Albany corresppndent says: Roscoe Conkling's friends deny that he is to deliver the address at the Albany bi-centeimiol in the summer. Thoy say that he declares himself altogether too busy. These friends also unite in absolutely denying the truth of the statement that he is to re-ent.-r politics and the Republican party. To one after another he has given as his reason for refusing the invitation of his friends in the party to become a candidate for tho •United States senate that he is making a great deal of money for, the first time in his life, and that he enjoys the sensation too much to permit anything to interfere with it His decision has brought a feeling of relief to those of his friends who are responsible for the effort to bring him back to tho fold. Tb?y confess that they did not appreciate the bitterness of the opposition he would have had to encounter had he decided to undertake to gain the management of the body. The Sun's acount of their plan to win him back with the offer of the counselship to the Broadway investigating committee stirred up those who feJTout with Mr. Conk ling during his administration of the party, and thoy did not hesitate to express their opposition to him in language needlessly forcible. St. Louis, March 10.—The managers of the Gould system have discharged all employes that have not struck. This includes aver 1,000 general officers, agci'f - it" ! clerks. No freight of any kind is aliD ■D. :u pass over the tracks of the Missouri J'aciflc railway, ■uid consequently the cars loaded with merchandise to be shipped from the 2ity can find no exit The grain elevators ire the worst sufferers thus far from the blockade. The number of cars locked is lbout 100, and there are enough more scattered along the tracks within a few miles of the elevators to swell the total to 200 cars. In other lines of business the effects of the strike are also felt to a greater or less extent, the wool and cotton trades being the greatest sufferers. Mr. Jappan, of Onandago, seconded Mr. Cunningham. Andrew S. Draper was nominated by Smith O'Brien and seconded by Senator Smith. Charles E. Hawkins, of Jefferson, was named by Senator Sloan, Mr. Erwiu seconding. The following names were also brought forward: John J. Gilbert, of Franklin, by Mr. Hadley; TV. J. Milne, of Livingston, by Senator Walker. After speeches for the various nominees voting was had with the following result: Draper, 41; Hawkins. 82; Milne, 20; Cunningham, 11; Gilbert, 4; total vote, 98. The names of Mr. Hawkins and Mr. CunninghamVere withdrawn. The Knights of Labor say they have no ;ause to call a conference of the officers of the railroads at this point, as they are striking now simply in support of tho action taken by their brethren inDTexas, and that that ipatter must be settled with the receiver of the Texas and Pacific, and then and not until then can any of the striking Knights return to work. The fourth ballot resulted: Draper, 61; Milne, 38; Gilbert, 2; total vote, 96. On Monday, however, his symptoms became alarming, and Dr. Frederick A. Castle, of this city, the family physician, was sent for. The family consisted of Senator Chaffee, U. S. Grant, Jr., Mrs. U. S. Grant and their three children. Mr. and Mrs. Grant faithfully attended the dying man until on Monday evening they were so worn out with worry and sleeplessness that Jesse Grant was telegraphed to get a male nurse. Jesse left (he city with the nurse as soon as be could be procured. All efforts were unavailing. On motion of Mr. Pitts the nomination of Mr. Draper was made unanimous. The caucus then adjourned. to thia question, Mr. Edmunds thought Discussing the quertion of the relevancy of the papers called for, Mr. Edmunds said this was a matter to be decided by the senate and nobody else. He doubted whether the warmest administration man would maintain that it was any part of the duty of the president or head of a department to determine whether official information in the departments, required by either house of congress, was to be furnished or withheld, according to that officer's opinion as to whether it would or would not be "useful" to them in their deliberation.THERE WAS BUT ONE ANSWER who kiuled molloy r A Mysterious Murder of a New York The most important and serious development of the strike at this point, and that which will result most disastrously to passenger traffic, is its extension to the yard and switchmen of the bridge and tunnel company. This move includes all the employes of the company except the engineers and firemen. The superintendent of transfer and three yardma ,tors will attempt to make the transfer, as usual. The significance of this departure can be better understood when it is known that 325 men are employed in the handling of the traffic which passes over the bridge, and that it is not possible for four men at each end of the bridge to "throw" the switches and to perform the other duties incidental to the business. Only passenger trains are allowed to pass over the bridge and they are all delayed. . Squads of Knights of Labor patrol the yards guarding the property of the company. New York, March 10.—Thomas J. Molloy, a saloon keeper, was mysteriously murdered yesterday morning. He was cleaning up his place, and the only occupant beside himself were two men who appeared to be busily reading the papers. A shot was heard, and Molloy staggered out of the door with a whisky glass in his hand. He cried: "I am murdered,'' and fell forward. He was lifted up by two young men, who asked him who had shot him. The wounded man tried to speak, gasped once and died. He had been shot through the heart. Harry Dell, who helped Molloy about the saloon and who went to breakfast shortly before the shooting, insists (hat there was no one in the saloon when he went out. No rtne was seen to leave, and the police are thoroughly mystified. Molloy was not known to have any enemies, and astiothirg was stolen the motive could not have been robbery. On the bar was a whisky bottle and a pi \ss. He had evidently been shot pou-!n r out a drink. The powder from tlie j) s,C 1 had singed his clothing. Saloon Keeper. The fact that the struggle for Warner Miller's seat began with the election of the present senators, several of whom are more deeply Interested in that contest than any legislation they have to consider. It is understood, for instance, that Senator McMillan is the entering wedge for Candidate James D. Warren. Senator Hendricks represents the hopes and projects of Congressman Hiscock. Senator Sloan is the ally of Warner Miller, who does not mean to be ousted if he can help it, and Piatt's seven senators are awaiting that chieftain's disposition of their votes, which he may decide to have cast for himself or Levi P. Morton. Senators Oris wold and Worth, of Brooklyn, are at present considered as Warner Miller men; Mr. Miller's hold on them has been vastly strengthened by his having favored the confirmation of Collector Hedden, of New York. There are many Brooklyn Republicans in the custom bouse who will appeal to Miller, through Worth and Griswold, for their retention, and thus these ties will be strengthened. Senator Connelly, of Kingston, is considered a Miller man. His friend and financial backer is Thomas Cornell, an intimate friend of Miller's. Senator Hoysradt, who lives at Hudson, and has iron works there, was paymaster general under Alonao B. Cornell, and has on that account been called Cornell's representative, for it is true that Cornell would like to be sanator. But Mr. Hoysradt is another Miller man, and says so frankly. Senator Comstock, of Troy, the Presbyterian thorn in the side of the wicked Gibbs committee is also for Miller. Senator Kellogg is for Miller. The woodpulp senator's friends secured his election. Senator Knapp will be for Leslie W. Russell at the beginning of the fight, and for Miller at the end. Senator Smith, of Madison, is for Miller, also, on account of long and ardent friendship. He was sent to the senate to vote .'or Miller. fSdmund L Pitt, president pro tempore of the senate, has been Miller's dummy at several state conventions, notably at Saratoga in 1882 and at Utica in 1884 Senator Walker is uncommitted. HEAVY BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT. Affections, Like Wine, IncreaM In Frio* THE BREMNER-PUTNAM TRIAL. With Age. The Evidence All In and the Case Glvtfn Nyack, N. Y., March 10.—A gentleman of high standing here remarked that he thought Commodore Voorhis would endeavor to settle the breach of promise suit against him before it oomes to trial "I certainly do not believe," said he, "that Mrs. Ournee can expect to recover $100,000 which Bhe sues for, and I believe the commodore will try to compromise the matter. I have no particular reason for saying this, but it is my honest opinion." Mrs. Lizzie Ournee, who brings the suit against the commodore, is about 45 years of ag» -«nd good looking. Her name before she was married was Elizabeth Burns, and she was born in Clarkstown, Rookland coufty. She is of light complexion and of a fine physique. She and the commodore have been acquainted for several years, and it was reported last summer that they were to be married. Passing on, to discuss the official or private character of the papers, Mr. Edmunds said that the papers called for in this case were papers filed in the attorney general's office, and the statutes made the to the Jury. Worcester, Mass., March 10.—The evidence in the Bremner-Putnam trial was concluded with the testimony, in rebuttal, of Judge Putnam, his wife and Dr. Taft, who made a general denial of plaintiff's statements, and especially of such as asserted that Mrs. Putnam had ever told anybody that she did not love her husband. ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND NOT THE PRESIDENT, the custodian of these papers. The people who made the statutes had perhaps been laboring under the delusion—but Mr. Edmunds thought not—that papers in a public department must of necessity be public papers—official papers; and certainly that would be true with respect to papers ''filed;" and, he added, the papers called for In this case are there; they are "filed." Col. Hopkins then delivered his plea for the defendant. He urged that Putnam had never accused Bremner of adultery. Mrs. Putnam had listened to the charmer, and had let a part of her affections go away from her husband. At one time defendant had been in an agony of doubt concerning his wife, but his love for her had counseled him to believe her innocent. Beth parties to the suit now proclaim her innocence. Counsel contrasted the !Dearing of defendant throughout with that of plaintiff, who hid himself behind a petticoat, and whoso plea is Mrs. Putnam seduced him. At the conclusion of the plea F. P. Moulding opened for the defense. He hoped the jury would not be misled by an appeal which, however powerful, was stripped of every semblance of argument, and that it would look on the facts and not be moved by eloquence. He defended the character of the plaintiff at length. Tht case was then given to the jury.  Dispatches from Galveston say the Texas and Pacific is refusing all freight for the Gould system. The idea is to give the strikers the impression that the Texas Paeiflo is divorced from the Gould roads. A committee of Knights 'at Waco captured an engine on a freight train and ran it into the round house. Two arrests were made. Mr. Edmunds then inquired: What is an official pa pert and asked the presiding officer —Mr. Sherman—whether he would consider a letter addressed to him as president pro tempore relating to a measure pending before the senate an "official" communication. Mr. Edmunds doubted whether in such an instance Mr. Sherman would think it within ithe fitness of things to carry such a letter to Jrisfhouse or put it in his pocket The police are hunting for the men »en in the seloon just before Molloy was murdered, but the clews are very faint. An ir.quest will be held. The commodore is one of Rockland county's wealthiest citizens. He is a licensed preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church and has many times occupied pulpits in this oounty. He has also been quite active in religious revivals in the past At the beginning of the late war he was poor, but through contracts he amassed a fortune. He is 67 years of age. In November last he was married to a literary woman who wrote over the signature of "Dora Darmoore," and they have since lived in apparent happiness in their new mansion The present Mrs. Voorhis is his third wife, and is robust and healthy. At Little Rock, Ark., the Iron Mountain railroad managers discharged twenty-five truckers, all the freight Tslerks and notified the transfer company to clear the depot of all the freight. Masked men boarded a south bound freight train, disabled the engine and sidetracked the cars. Off for Texas. New York, March 10.—Jim Holland, who killed Davis, has started for Texas. Hollaed said that the manager of a dime museum had offered htm (500 a week to pose as the man who shot Davis. Holland's trial is said to have cost him $8,000. He intends to go into the stock business in Texas. Skdalia, Mo., March 10.—The railway situation is virtually unchanged. Only passenger trains are running. Railway officials have suspended many agents, operators, clerks, and other employes, and a largo number of night telegraph offices have been closed. The strikers say this action on the part of the officials is a game of bluff. OB PUT IT IN YOUR FIREPLACE •«■*! destroy it The president and the minority of the judiciary committee said the luspenskm of an officer was an act solely ■within the discretion of the president. The majority agreed with them in this, but more than this; the suspension of an officer was an "official" act The statutes said ft was. The president said it was, and, of course, it was an official act Every paper, therefore, addressed to ttie officer exercising that official fuction must be an official paper, no matter hdw vila or false it may be. it did not belong to the man, whether president or attorney general, but to the officer; in his character as an officer. The attorney general gave no hint that any part of the papers called for were private or unofficial, or even confidential Public papers {official papers) were called for and such .papers only were spoken of in the response. DiCi those papers relate to the motives of the [president in suspending Duskin? Did any! body suppose that the president or any of his ; friends had filed a statement of his motives? jjy no means. That would be absurd. Gloucester, Mass., March 10.—Mayor Parsons paid $400 last year out of his private purse for evidence to convict keepers of houses of ill-fame. The city council refuses to reimburse him and many ladies have raised the sum by contribution. The mayor continues his prosecutions almost daily. Reimbursing the Mayor. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS. Houston, Tex., March 10.—At all points in Texas the shopmen and Knights have gone out. It is estimated that 1,600 men have answered the order of the Knights. Mr. Katon's Successor Not Yff Agreed Upon. A CONDEMNED CRIMINAL Washington, March 10.—Civil Service Commissioner Eaton's term of service has expired under the terms of his peremptory letter of resignation, to take effect March 9. It is positively stated at the executive mansion that the president has not determined upon Mr. Eaton's successor, but will take the matter under consideration as promptly as possible. A number of names have been suggested in this connection. The law requires that a Republican shall be selected. Mr. Lyman, the chief examiner, and Mr. Coon, ex-assistant secretary of the treasury, have been prominently mentioned. Commissioner Trenholm, it is said, has been very favorably considered in connection with the comptrollership of the currency, and his appointment, causing a second vacancy in the civil service commission, is probable. Draws the Line at Hanging and Tries to Northampton, Mass., March 10.—Allan Adams, the Amherst murderer, under sentence to be hanged at Northampton on Friday, made a desperate attempt to kill himself, and so nearly succeeded that it is impossible to tell at this writing whether or not he will live. After breakfast Adams consented to have his photograph taken, and Turnkey Thorrington left the room to get him a clean shirt. Henry Coy, a simple-minded old man, who had been sent up for drunkenness, was in the corridor doing duty as hall man. The instant Thorrington's back was turned Adams asked Coy to lend him a knife with which to clean his nails. Coy passed him his jackknife. Adams seized it and slashed It across his face, and then cut a terrible gash in the calf of each leg, from which the blood poured in torrents. The physician was hastily summoned, and found Adams unconscious from hemorrhage. The cut in the left leg was four inches long and nearly two Inches deep. Scores of small veins had been severed, but no large artery. The wound in the right leg was nearly as large. Adams lays in a profound sleep. The doctor believes he will recover unless he succeeds in tearing off the bandages. He will be watched every moment, night and day. Kill Himself. ONLY $200,000,000 MORE Philadelphia, March 10.—Master Workman Powdorly repudiates the statement of an Illinois Knight of Labor that the Knights have formed a political party. He says that any assembly attempting to give itself a political character would have its charter revoked. Mo Knighta of Labor Party. Required to Complete the Panama Canal—Will France Give It? New York, March 10.—M. Jacquet, one of the commissioners sent by France to report the condition of the Panama canal, and who has just passed through this city on his retutu, says that about one-tenth of the work of the canal has been completed, at a cost of $120,000,000. He thinks it would be illogical, liowever, to argue from this that it vfill take thirty years and $1,200,000,000 to complete the work. There are enormous expenses incidental to the starting of such a gigantic enterprise which ought to be taken, into the. calculation. M. Jacquet says that Be Lesseps does not expect to finish the work before the winter of 1890. He thinks $200,000,000 more is ail that need bo spent. The commissioners declined to say whether their report would be favorable or not, but the general impression here is that it will be a whitewashing affair, well adapted to aid in floating the additional loan which the company is to offer in France. Thus it will be seen that some hard work preliminary to the great contest has already been done. Miller has a good show in the senate, but the assembly that is to vote on the senatorship has not yet been elected, and it may go Democratic. But the point that men like Governor Cornell, who dislike Mr. Conkling, make by reviewing the situation of the present time is that there is no room for the ex-senator in the field. They have been getting very angry about Mr. Conkling's attitude, but it turns out that he has had the right to laugh at them, for he never thought of re-entering politics. He has found something more to his taste and advantage in the law. Heavy Gold Shipments. New York, March 10.—The shipments of gold from this country continue to be veiy heavy, and thus far this year more has been shipped than in any year for twenty years past. The steamship Labrador, which sailed to-day, -carried (1,455,000 in gold bars. THE PAPERS, THEREFORE, STATED FACTS— i on the statement of the attorney general that ithey related exclusively to the suspension— itatod facts or alleged facts as to the conduct of the officer suspended. Since the senate was called upon to assist the president in displacing this man permanently, every paper existing there relating to him, on the admisDicn of the attorney general, related to the conduct of the office while in possession of Duskin. But th» papers, said Mr. Edmunds, were refused because they would not only give the 1 .ets, but would enable us to underitand the reasons of the president for exercising Ms official act. Therefore, the proposition was that the senate, being called on in the exercise of its jurisdiction to judge of official conduct of Duskin, the president having already been called on within his jurisdiction to pronounce a judgmeht on a similar question about the same man, the senate could not have the papers, because if it did they would disclose the grounds on which the president acted. Prohibition In Massachusetts. WHO 18 GUILTY! Boston, March 10.—The house overwhelmingly defeated the resolve for a constitutional prohibition amendment, backed by 100,000 Massachusetts women, only four members voting for it. A Senator-Elect Said to Have Shocked His Friends. New York, March 10.—A Washington special says: The city is greatly exercised over«, senatorial scandal. It appears that a newly-elected senator invited a few friends to dinner in a fashionable up town cafe the other night. The party indulged in wine until they wore intoxicated, and then ensued a wild and hilarious debauch. Among those present was a member of the stato legislature which chose the senator-elect. This gent C0 man was greatly shocked and he is reported to have declared his intention to return home and petition the governor to call an extra session of the legislature. He then propose? to relate this night's doings and demand that the credentials issued to the offending senator be revoked and another man chosen in hit FATHERS AGAINST SONS. A Church All Spilt Vp on the Hatter off Aces. A Late Report. Baltimore, March 10.—There is trouble In the Trinity Methodist church, South, corner of Madison and Preston streets, and it is due to the existence of what is known in that church as the old men's party and the yoimg men's party. The total membership of the church is 475. For the past two years the church has been governed by the young men's party, much to the dissatisfaction of the elder gentlemen of the congregation. The trouble has culminated in about 100 of the young men applying for cards of withdrawal and transfer to other congregations. The affair has caused quite a flutter among the Methodists of Baltimore. Ottawa, March 10.—The medical commission of inquiry into Riel's mental condition have reported to parliament that Ri-.l was sane, and responsible for his acts. Portland, Me., March 10.—The schooner Robert Byron, from Portland Dec. 29 for Cape de Verde, is given up as lost Her crew numbered seven men, all but two of whom were natives of Cape de Verde. A Schooner Overdue. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Weather Indications. Report off the Quarantine Commissioners Washington, March 10.—For Thursday, warmer weather is indicated for the middle Atlantic states. Albany, March 10.—The speaker presented the annual report of the quarantine commissioners. During the year there were sent to the hospital on Swinburn island twentytwo patients, fourteen of whom were suffering from yellow fever. Six died, and the remainder were discharged cured. The buildings are in fair. condition, but additional repairs are necessary to the docks, etc. Submitted. A Braktmm'i Fatal Jump. Boston, March 10.—John Bums, a brako man on tho Old Colony railroad, jumped from a moving freight train at Woollaston Heights, struck a signal post and was instantly killed. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. If that is not a proposition which would STAGOER THE CREDULITY A Dull Day Among the Bulls and Bears. and amaze the understanding of any intelligent man in a government of law or a government of reason, I am quite unable to com- I prebend what would be. place. New York, March 9 — Honey 2 per cant. Exchange quiet. Governments Arm. Currency 6s, Vi&)4 bid; 4s, coup., izili bid; coup., 112H bid. SELECTING A JURY. A SADLY AFFLICTED FAMILY. Boston, March 10.—Claflin, Allison & Co., one of the oldest wholesale tea and coffee firms in Boston, have failed. Liabilities, $75,000; assets, $50,000. A Boston Failure, John W. Lauer Claims to Ilare Shot His Wife by Mistake. The s.oc* market opened fractionally lower, and continued weak until the first call, when, on moderate buying, prices fully recovered. At 11 o'clock, however, a drive was mrule at Beading and Lackawanna, causing prices to break In he hour to noon H to 1H per ceut. The market closed dull and weak. All the operations of the government were i executive; and had it come to this, that be, cauto the president was the cheaf executive of the government, congress could know nothing as to the facts and circumstances relating to the execution of the laws! Because, i If they did, they might be able to comprehend the reasons ef the president in carrying lout the laws? Why, such a statement was shocking. Yet that was the logic of this whole thing. The attorney general had said that, the "public interest" would not be subserved by sending the papers to the senate. According to this, the public interest would •ot be subserved by telling the senate—which was asked to help remove an officer—What the truth was, lest the truth should disclose to the senate, and poesibly to the public, what the president's reasons were in exorcising an C5ffiC*ial act Omaha, March 10.—The district court adjourned after eleven jurors had been selected, ,n the case of John W. Lauer, superintendent of the nail works, this city, for the murder of his wife, in November last. The defense is that the fatal shot was fired by the defendant, on being startled from his sleep at niglit Ijy his wife, who had risen to care for her canary bird, and whom he mistook for a burglar. The prosecution will try to upeet the defense on the ground that the room where the killing occurred was so light from a baseburner that a woman in night garments could not have been mistaken for a burglir. The trial will probably last ten days, and is the greatest criminal case in the history of Omaha, all parties being high in social circles. Mrs. Cope's Husband and Sou Dead from the Aocldent—Her Child Dead. Newark, N. J., March 10.—Fire broke out in Seton Hall college and destroyed the college building and one other small building. Pronipt assistance was sent from Orange and Newark and the fire was confined to these two structures. The buildings belonging to tho Seton Hall group are so far apart that a serious conflagration is very unlikely. The college owns 600 acres of land in one parcel. The loss is estimated at $50,000; Insured. New Jersey College Burned. Connellsville, Pa., March,, 10.—Jacob Cope, Jr., another of the victims of the explosion in the Uniondale mine, is dead. father was instantly killed by the explosion. While Mrs. Cope was looking after her dead husband, and attending to the wants of her injured son, her infant child died suddenly, [t had been left in charge of a neighbor. Thomas Owens, pit boss; John Sterling and Cal Martin are in a critical condition. There is too much gas in the mine yet to admit of an investigation. CONDENSED NEWS. Willie Sells, a young son of J. W. Sells, near Osage Mission, Kan.,, is arrested for the unnatural crime of killing his father, mother, sister and brother, all of whom had been butchered and mutilated with a hatchet. W. U. Telegraph- 69** DeL ft Hudson.... Adams Express 143 DeL, Lack, ft W.. U. 8. Express 118 Denver  C., C., C. ft I..... S3H  New York Centra'... 10594 Kansas ft Texa*.. New Jersey Central.. MH Lake Shore  Illinois Central Luke Erie ft West Ohio Central. IK llorrla ft Essex... Michigan Central— Northwest  Northern Pad tic Do. pref.  Prices closed as follows: 10 -« 16 United States marshals are still making arrests of parties charged with driving off Chinese and stealing their property in Oregon. 'l09J* .139* Do. pref  Cen ral Pacific. Union Pacific... Ontario ft West.... ;2?i Ohio ft Mississippi 49H PaclfloE'aU.  Loctcport, N. Y., March 10.—President Dopew and Superintendent Touoey, of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, after visiting Suspension Bridge, decided upon the immediate building of a new dipot and passenger station at that place, close to the site of the one destroyed by fire about two years ago. New Depot at Suspension Bridge. At Oakland City, Ind., a horse was tied to a railroad track, which caused the derailment of a freight train, and the fireman, John Bellville, and William Steele, brakeman, were seriously hurt. A HEAVY WEIGHT DEAD. Missouri  Texas Pacific  Metropolitan L.., Alton ft T. H  Canada Southern. Canada Pacific.., Chicago ft Alton.. Che*. ft Ohio  .1U8H Reading  . liM Rock Island  .160 St. Paul.  . - Wabash  . 43tf Bur. ft Quiaoy... . 6196 Oregon ft Nevada .142 Oregon Trans  . 10H West bhore  The Cofttu Too Large for tho Hearse. Death at the Grave, New Jersey Soldiers. Mt. Carmel, Pa., March 10.—Jacob Berty, supposed to be the heaviest man in Pennsylvania, has just been buried. His weight was 474 pounds. Twelve men acted as pallbearers and the coffin was too large for the hearse. During the time the graveyard insurance companies were in existence policies amounting to almost (100,000 were taken on Iiia life. At the time of his death he was also lieavily insured. While preparations were being made for the funeral Mrs. Kate Hodge, a relative of tHe deceased, fell on the coffin and died from heart disease, John George, aged 23 years, who lives in New York, tried to steal a gold watch and the pocketbook from his dead father. He was arrested and sent up for six months at the request of his mother. REASONS MUST BE TREMENDOUSLY SACRED. If {acts were never to be revealed lest the reasons also might be revealed. If official rep Drtn on file at the department might show that the suspended man had been guilty of grot* violation of trusts, packing juries, etc., yet it might interfere with the sacredness of the president's "reasons" if these papers were Khown to the senate. Taking a wider view of this question Mr. TMrnmA maintained that the jurisdiction of congress was broader than tbat of the president Congress made the law tuul the president had New York, March 10.—The agitation in the Ninth regiment, stationed at Hoboken, which has been kept up tor months, came to an end with the issue of general orders from the office of the adjutant general disbanding he regiment. These orders, issued at the instance of the conunan Jer in chief, state that the lieutenant colonel, major and commissioned staff officers are placed upon the retired list, and that the non-commissioned staff officers are honorably discharged. Companies are to remain detached until further orders, commanders reporting direct to the brigade commijnder. The quartermaster general is ordered at once to take possession of the regimental property. A Billiard Mateh. Nbw York, March a—FLOUR—Steady at about j stcrday's prices; Minnesota extra, $3,350.150j city mill extra, $4.9505 for West Indies, ilouthern flour dull; common to choice extra, $3.4505. to. General Markets. Nicw York, March 10.—Schaefev and Vignaux began a second match game at balk lino billiards at 3,000 points, under the same rules as governed their recent match. Schaefer made 000 "jjs twenty-third inning, and lift the balls m 'good shape to start in again to-night, Vignaux's total w*a 508. Schaefer's average, 30 3-38; Vigna-'.x's, 23 ft-10. Mrs. Clark, who was accused of complicity in the murder of Mrs. Mitchell at Lebanon, Ills., has confessed to a knowledge after the fact of the murder. Mitchell killed his wife to marry Mrs. Clark. WHEAT—Options were only 11ml ted W dealt la. Prices were irregular and cloeed about steady at a trifle decline. Spot lots closed dull and unchanged. Spot sal s of No. 1 red state at 96c.; No. S da at M&, and Nix l white »»tate at 95c.; No. 2 red wintttr, March, at D4H®9Wc.; io., April, at tla. May, at 96096 9-liJc. Lieut. Greelylias made enough money out of his book to buy a home in Woshington. He will be retired from active service, owing to injuries resulting from his Arctic exposure, on the pay of a colonel To Search for a Vessel, CORN—Optica* were moderately active ou slight fluctuations. Prices closed JCc. lower and weak Spot lots do »d weak, aud H&Hc. lower for all except No, 8, which was stead/. Spot sales of Ha. 8 mixed at 47?{c.; steamer mixed at 47J4&; steamer yel'ow at and No. 2 mixed at 49jKa; Now 2 rfxed, April, 49c.; do. May, 48M048)4c.; No. 2 mixed, //fine, at 48Vi0«3^c. OKLY 1' XKCUTIVK POWER, New York, March 10.—The colored men of the state have organized an extensive movement, which is being managed from this city, looking to petitions from |;be members of that race to the United States penate urging the confirmation of the nomination of James C. Matthews tgr reoorder of deeds. The petition will be sent to Senator Ingalls, chairman of the committee to which the nomination was referral Petitions to Go to tha Senate. Washington, March 10.—The secretary of the treasury has ordered the revenue cutter Grant, stationed at New York, to search for the whaling schooner Aurora, of New Bedford, Mass, The Aurora was abandoned March 8 about 200 miles off Cape May, N. J., and her owners think she was in good condition and is still afloat. afCl eithsr house of congress had a right to know everything that was in the departments of the government If the senate had sent precisely this resolution, and applied it to all tlie districts in the United States—if the attorney general and tho president are right now, they would be right in saying ttatn: "No; we can give you no information, because if we dp you may be able to know the reasons why so ewiy of these marshals and district attorneys have been suspended, and that is purely within the provinoe of the president of the United States." Employes in the chair shop of Helwey, at Indianapolis, asked that eight hours be a day's work and were notified that they should work twelve horn's. They had been working ten. A strike is in progress. A Wanted, a More Specific Law. OATS—Options \:*re firm but quiet, closing vithout nvUerial change. Spot lots closed steady and unchanged. 8pot sales if No. 1 white state at U&, and No. 2 do. Nc 2 mixed, April, 88ai da., March, 38o. ♦ New York, March 10.—The federal grand jury handed to Judge Bepedict a present ment, declaring that the present law relating to arrest of counterfeiters is inadequate, and recommend that the attorney general prepare and submit to congress a bill authorising any United States judge or commissioner to issue search warrants to search premises occupied by any person believed to be engaged in counterfeiting money, or upon which premises counterfeit mosey is believed to be concealed. Mrs. Benjamin Harris Brewster, wife/Oi Ex-Attorney General Brewster, is dead. II The striking carpenters of New YorlyVav* been granted the scale of wages askedy viz., {3.50 per day of nine hours. / John Walsh was severely beaten by fiv« men on the Bowery, in New York. A policeman, while trying to arrest one of the part* was stabbed in the breast and shot John Dunning, proBably fatally. RYE—Quiet; western. state, 680670. BARLEY—Dull and nominal.. PORK—Dull; mess, $10010.50. A New Jersey Sehoouer Sunk. Tha Grant Monument. Boston, Maroh 10,— The 879 ton three masted schooner Hannah E. Schubert, ot Bridgeton, N. J., from Perth Am boy, with coal for Boston, struck on Beaked Hill bar* during a dark snow squall and will nrobably be a total loss. The crew werfe save*. LARD—Closed firm at $&97H cash; $6.3206.86 Aprtli $6.3606. S7 May. SUGAR— Dull; fair to good refining, 5 1-1408 8-lie. BUTTER—Weak; state, 16033c-; western. 15030s. CHEESE—Dull; state, 701uMe., western flat, $0 9«c. $CJGS—Dull; state. I4c.i western, j£J{c. Nmw Yojuc, March 10.—The Grant Monument association has re-elected ex-Preeideot Arthur as permanent chairman. Receipts te date have been |Ui,WL . . That was the logic of our good friends, ft* of tte committee, and