Cora Lee Scores A Point

[...] providing rewards for Esquimaux natives who have taken care of ship-wrecked seamen. A resolution was adopted requiring of the publiq printer information as to furloughs or discharges from his office at a time when the work there was largely in arrears, and also whether preference was given to a veteran soldiers in employment. A bill authorizing a bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis was passed. Breckearidge of Arkansas introduced a bill authorizing the president to discontinue customs districts where the receipts are less than the expenses. A bill was passed granting right of way to the Duluth, Rainy Lake, River & Southeastern railway through certain Indian lauds. In offering resolutions for the printing of 5,000 copies of the report of the West Point board of visitors, Wheeler of Alabama euologized Geo. W. Childs, president of the board, and the house adjourned.

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BUSINESS NOTES.

The Eagle iron works at Wilkesbarre, Pa., have failed, with extensive liabilities.

The San Francisco Bridge company has failed. Liabilities, $300,000; assets, $200,000. 

The Novelty Machine works at Evansville, Ind., one of the most extensive establishments of that kind in the state, made an assignment Wednesday. Liabilities, $60,000; assets unknown.

M. Slocum, dealer in agricultural implements at Elgrin, Ills., has assigned, with liabilities of about $3,000. His principal creditor is the firm of Althouse & Wheeler, Waupun, Wis. 

An assignment was made Monday by M. & E. Solomon, tobacco dealers at New York. They gave preferences for $61,392. 

One hundred clerks, operators, train and section men between St. Louis and Toledo have been discharged, and two passenger trains dropped by the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad company, to reduce operating expenses. 

The proprietors of the great traveling circuses and menageries of this country declare that under the provisions of the new interstate commerce law it will be impossible for them to transport their exhibitions from place to place without loss, and that, therefore, they will abandon business in America and go to Europe.

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THE HENDRICKS MONUMENT.

The Contract Awarded to W. H. Parks—To Cost $15,000

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 23.—The Hendricks monument committee met Saturday and awarded the contract for erecting a memorial statueto the late Vice President Hendricks to W. H. Parks, the designer and builder of the Juneau statue at Milwaukee. The highest of the monument is thirty-one feed, the base being eighteen feet and the statue thirteen. The base is of granite, and consists of three steps leading up to a die, on which is a wreath of laurel and oak enclosing the word "Hendricks" in raised polished letters. The statue is bronze, and represents the vice president as in the act of addressing an audience, his right hand resting in the lapel of his coat and his left hanging by his side and holding a parchment. The entire work will cost around $15,000, and the statue will be cast in Italy.

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TEN MEN BURNED TO DEATH. 

Frightful Holocaust at the Burning of a Boarding House. 

TOWER, Minn., Jan. 23.—Fire broke out in the Barnaby boarding house and saloon, on the main street of the town at an early hour Saturday morning, and before the inmates could be awakened the structure was a sheet of flames. Fiive men were certainly roasted alive and their charred bodies taken from the ruins, and it is variously estimated that from two to nine others were also caught in the flames. The bodies of the following, burned to a crisp, were recovered: Robert Whitford, W. H. Barnes, Dan O'Connell, Alexander Brandt and Mike Trump. 

Everybody was asleep when the fire broke out, and there was a terrible struggle among those who were saved to reach the street. Men fought with each other in the narrow passageways like wild beasts in their endeavor to reach an exit first, the consequence being that most of those engaged in the struggle perished. One escaped, and tells the story of the panic.

A friend and room-mate of one of the boarders, who was laid up with rheumatism, tried to get his partner out. He got him as far as the front door, and find that locked, kicked it open. Turning around he could not face the flames, and was compelled to let his companion perish, and barely escaped with his own life. 

A young lady who was sick in the doomed building was rescued with difficulty. 

There were over thirty people in the building. 

LATER.—Search for the bodies of those burned was continued and five more were taken out of the ruins, making a total of ten. All are too badly disfigured to be recognized. It is thought some bodies may have been entirely consumed. One of the bodies is believed to be that of Jack Collins, of Superior, Wis. 

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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. 

Louise Michel Seriously Wounded While Addressing Anarchists.

PARIS, Jan. 23. — An attempt was made to kill Louise Michel at Havre Sunday evening. She was making an address at a meeting of Anarchists, when a man in the audience named Lucas suddenly arose, and, pointing a revolver at the speaker, fired two shots at her. She received a serious wound in the head and the lobe of one of her ears was torn away. Lucas had a narrow escape from lynching at the hands of the infuriated Anarchists, and it was only the timely arrival of the gendarmes that saved him. He was locked up. 

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Cora Lee Scores a Point. 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan. 24— The state closed its side in the Cora Lee case at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Leon Maurice, the first witness Monday morning, recognized in a photograph of Mrs. Graham, a woman that George Graham and Cora Lee had with them the night of the murder. The sworn statement of the defendant, made as ground for a continuance and filed May 25, 1886, in which it was admitted that a gray pony such as was hers had been driven from the direction her home on the night of the murder by a closely veiled woman answering her description, was offered as evidence by the state. It was asked time to get witnesses to prove that Cora Lee was not in the wagon the pony was drawing, and that it was not her pony, but the defense has not been able to produce witnesses on that point, and consequently these statements would weight heavily against her. After careful considerations Judge Bland ruled that affidavit out because it had been sworn to on information and belief, and not as an absolute fact. This keeps from the jury the state's strongest testimony. 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan 25. — Twenty-four witnesses for the defense testified Tuesday in the Cora Lee murder trial, their testimony being chiefly in refutation of evidence submitted by the state as to the alleged immoral relations between Cora Lee and Graham before their bigamous marriage, and the circumstantial evidence regarding the murder of Sarah Graham and discovery of her body on Mrs. Molloy's place. Everything sworn to by the prosecuting witnesses, in short, was positively denied by the witnesses for the defense, and testimony was also offered to show that Cora Lee was not in the celebrated wagon drawn by the gray pony the night of Mrs. Graham's murder.

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Real Arctic Weather.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 23.—The temperature at Chippewa Falls, this state, on Saturday morning, was 68 below zero; at Janesville 32; Hudson, 55; Princeton, 52; Dartford, 52; Sparta, 50, and so on down the scale. At no point was the record above 30. At Ripon at 7 a.m. thermometers registered 45 below zero. At Green Lake it was 52 below, and all neighboring towns report from 42 to 52. 

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A Bank Robbed of $5,000.

TISKILWA, Ills., Jan. 19.—The Bank of Tiskilwa was entered Tuesday night and $5,100 was stolen. The work was undoubtedly done by professional burglars. Dynamite was used to explode the lock of the vault. The robbery was not discovered until morning and there is no clew [sic] to the burglars. It is believed to be the work of Chicago cracksmen.

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THE RECORD OF CRIME.

At Cincinnati Friday, Otto Sander fatally shot his wife, to whom he had been married but three months. They had been living apart.

The bodies of a boy and girl about 12 and 13 years of age, supposed to be brother and sister, were found floating in the river near Huntington, Miss. It is though they were murdered.

It is hardly worth mentioning, but Cashier Charles O'Brien and Bookkeeper E. E. Morse, of the Auburn, N.Y. , First National bank, can not be found. Neither can $10,000 of the bank's money, and there is a suspicion that the embezzlement will reach a much higher figure. 

Dan Driscoll, a murderer and criminal desperado, was hanged in New York Monday. 

William Murdock, an old resident of Pittsburg, was victimized by a bunko man out of $10,000. He was met by a man who had just drawn $20,000 in a lottery and got a certificate cashed. 

A gang of tramps being refused permission to stay all night at the house of Thomas Morris, near Carmi, Ills., bound Morris and set his house on fire. Morris got out in time to save his life, but his house was destroyed. 

J.S. Brown, a colored preacher of Helena, Ark., has been given a three years' sentence for stealing a Bible from one of his flock.

Nathan Smith has been arrested at Peoria, Ill., for the murder of Allie Bemrose, who was found dead in that place Monday. The arrest is on suspicion. 

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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,

When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,

When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,

When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.

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Symptoms of Catarrh.

Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal passages, discharges falling from the head into the throat, sometimes profuse, water, and acrid, at others, thick tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes are weak, watery and inflamed; there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking and coughing to clear the throat,  expectoration of offensive matter, together with scabs from ulcers; the voice is changed and has nasal twang; the breath is offensive, smell and taste are impaired; there is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a hacking cough and general debility. If you have all or any considerable number of these symptoms, you are suffering from nasal catarrh. The more complicated your disease has become the greater the number and diversity of symptoms. Thousands of cases annually, without manifesting half of the above symptoms, result in consumption and end in the grave. No disease is so common, more deceptive and dangerous, or less understood, or more unsuccessfully treated by physicians. Five hundred dollars reward is offered by the manufacturers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy for the case of catarrh they cannot cure. Remedy sold by druggists, at only 50 cents. 

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The oldest manuscript known is part of the Iliad found in Upper Egypt.

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Worth Knowing.

Mr. W. H. Morgan, merchant. Lake City, Fla. was taken with a severe cold, attended with a distressing Cough and running into Consumption in its first stages. He tried many so-called popular cough remedies and steadily grew worse. Was reduced in flesh, had difficulty in breathing and was unable to sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption and found immediate relief, and after using about half a dozen bottles found himself well and has had no return of the disease. No other remedy can show so grand a record of cures as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Guaranteed to do just what is claimed for it.—Trial bottle free at Eberbach & Son's Drug Store

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The art of ingraving originated in some experiments of Maso Finiguerra, a Florentine, in the first half of the fifteenth century.

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Renews Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Choslev, Peterson, Clay Co. Iowa, tells the following remarkable story, the truth of which is vouched for by the residents of the town; "I am 73 years old. Have been troubled with kidney complaint and lameness for many years; could not dress myself without help. Now I am free from all pain and soreness, and am able to do all my own housework. I owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for having renewed my youth, and removed completely all disease and pain." Try a bottle, 50c. and $1 at Eberbach & Son's Drug Store.