Show WASHISGTON SEWS It ii Quite a HUT Time Jmt > ovr in the alionsl Capital A CATHOLIC PRIEST THREATENED THREAT-ENED at WHITE CAPS Counsel for the Probation llakes home Slrou KcmarVs In the Cronin Trial SENSATIONAL AFFAIR AT LEAD VILLC COLORADO i 31 r Hailstone ou the Irish Jncs tlon IllcodsIicJ In Crete etc 1 By Tdezraph to the h ETTS 1 tSIUHTOX SEWS rlon lnll Trnnllrlul In tit Anllons Cnl > llnl I WASHINGTON Dec IThe Scn ale committee on rrivileges and ckclions hud under consideration todiy the rt oltition introduced j < a trnlay by iloar providing cliiI l Icatiou of Senators from the new States It met nith unanimous approval and will be reported to Uie S > nntu umlmlilv tomnrniu The comptroller of currency Jus authorized Uiu First atloual Bank of Southern Orvgou at Gnuts Tat Oregon to Ugin business Capital 50000 The Galena and Kcarsage left New York this mormiis for llayli ThcOo53 < ui will join them A meeting oz me npuuiKnn sen atoritl caucus thin afternoon on ix orgnnlzatlon 6f committfes dccidol to continue the caucus committee of the last teflon Tilt SECBETAKVOK THE TltfJlSUKI todaj denied the lllrrenl report that the HL naal cruiMrsarc cxtnvn gant coal consumers and cx j nMJ n desire to have the facts luMKhnl The reprcfentallon that these eiMl3nroheav3 cousuuursof coil Is baed upon their utmost consumption con-sumption tthllu undif forced draught and war slilpg arc Eildom under furcvd draught cxctpt on trial trips when it Is u ol to test their utmost capacitj for frpewl They are IKvcr njpia likely to be plated under forced draught except l > ssiblj in event of pursuit of or light from the encni I ont ip ItOH > thaI in the entire life of a war Fhipdie Mill be ntn under forced draught more thanhilfadozcnlmiv As i matter of fact the average consumi tlon of new cnii > cr8 in making their ordinary spectl of from eight to ten knots an hour Is from twentyfix 10 thirty tons per day of tuentyfuur hours As nn Illustration tho Jlottoti on her hot onlse steamed 200 miles per dny for tweutjCve dijs ami consumed only entjfie tons of coal each da This howsthe average cou uniption of thf e excels undtr ordinary or-dinary coiidltioiis ntul it i tliu only firoixrtot of Ilifjr coal con uiitj > > tiou JtEtE8 ASD VM j MIITCKIS The clerks of the committees on appropriations of the Sernt and llouso nnvc prerarpd comparative tlalement of iMinnlw of appropriations appropria-tions nUll eajcudituns for the maintenance of the government for the flcal jtirs 1SUJ tnd IS8I from which It apjusin that the Increase In-crease of estimates for 1S91 over thro for the current ltr is 90 I S jltiS and that the increase of intimates for next 3 ear over the approbation ap-probation for this earisS3S09A j 112 The t01al estimates for regulir nnd permanent annual ajipropria tions for the nest fiscal year art l05t > n3I5 while Uio total revenues rev-enues are estimated at SJjOjOHjSTT thoulng nn excess in estimates of revenues over the estimated appro Iriallons ror nextnrof ill The net surplus for the pre < Lnt year is placed it SotBSoIl < or JJOuljlSJ more limn the estimated surplus for the nest flcal 3 car Tins prospective decnase in tur 1Ius is stated to be without reference refer-ence to the po iulht of the cuaet me lit or a rIer and htrbor bill for in the estimates submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury there is n notable onitoon of the orJInary provision for river and harbor Im pnncrnent For the preservation of exiting works the sum ofS237000 isatkeJ while the reiwrt of the chiefol engineers sajs 15533 > 50 tin IKS profitablj ex > endcd next Jltr in these Improvements The l1temeuf aboie quoted differs dif-fers materially from that prepared bj UieTreaury department and exhibited ex-hibited in the book of cttlmatvjuit It ued for the reason that the posLil rcexipts and rc enues are dillerent ly treatwl by tho Trcisurj and the appropriation committees THE MTU STATES Astifttnt Attorney General Shields of the Interior Department has given the fceeretary of the Interior In-terior an opinion as to the fleet of tho seventeenth section of die net admitting the new States which refers to the nt of 1S12 the original irecmption act aud repeats the I sallie as to the new States lie holds that in taking of whole Mxtioiis to KtUicr the Intent xria not to rrpral tho preemption law but to make tlLtd toor a grant of lands in i lieu of the eighth section of the act of 1S11 generally known as the internal improvement grant and to repeal that section a < to the new fcUitc that the act of 1S41 was carried into the Kevi ed Statutes and repealed in ISCo that if Congress had intended in-tended to repeal the preemrtion laws it could have done so by repealing re-pealing the sections of the licvlscel fclatutcs appertaining thereto or by applying the words so dcclaringnnd not by repeal of the old uct of IS41 and that the preemption laws so contained in the Itei ed Statutes except as to the internal improvement improve-ment grants are still in force in the new States A > OLD TKOLJ1LE I5E JVED Secretary Windom todaj appointed appoint-ed Special I Agents Spaulding I Montgomery Mont-gomery andCJhance a commi ion to investigate the charges made by lioston merchants against Dr oF wanl Sherer the chemist of the sugar su-gar laboratory at the New York cus turn House The charges against fcherer aflect his integrity andnlo his competency SeDI WASHU > OTOS Dec 2A message from tliw House was presented announcing an-nouncing Uie organizatiin of that boll Edmunds on the part of the joint committee to wait on the President reported it had performed its duty and had bten Informed by thePreai dent he would communicate with the two houses by message immediately imme-diately vhereuiuii the message from the President was presented and the Secretary or the Senate proceeded pro-ceeded to read it The reading of the misage was concluded at half past one nnd was htcned to with apparently close attention bj the Senators on loth sides of the chamber Asoneoftbe pangraphu touching taxation was rld n reimbllcan senator remarked in auliltjer it souudcJ veri like Cleveland I On motion of Sherman fil oIlOfh t BJ it waa laid on the tablu and ordered printed Adjourned till tomorrow Home WASHINGTON Dec 3 IThe committee I com-mittee appointed to wait on the President Pre-sident i to Inform him the House was organized and ready to proceed to business appeared through its chairman chair-man Jlr AlcKInley and Informed the House It had performed its duty aud the President l would communicate communi-cate with the Homo In writin forthwith One of the Presldenf seeretarie thin delivered the message mes-sage widen was immediately read Little i attention was paid to the reading of the message It was or dered printed and referred to com mlttee of the whole Under the authority given bj the Uitsuudo civil appropriation bill the Speaker appointed lilalne Mitt Carter Catherson of Texos and Cummings a committee on thu cen tennial celebration Adjourned until Thursday TheCronln Inquiry Cllicvoo Dec IJutlge Wing concluded his address to the Cronin jury this morning devoting most of his attention to argument that it was not shown that the wounds on ironins head were necessarily fatal aud that it waa impossible to decide whether the speelmeus of blood aud hair examined by experts were of n man or not He was followed uylnguamou behalf of theiiroe cutioii 3Ir Ingham spoke at length of the killing of Crouiii dNposalof l the iwlvand defined and illustrated the application of the law of conspiracy The circunuLances from the time of the meeting in Camp 20 to till finding find-ing of the clotbes of Cronin In these the-se er show cd an Intelligent human design It had its origin in hate its foundation in thecharguthat Cronln W ns a panu itsena JU tile Wtcherr in the Carsou cottage and burn in the sewer He proceeded to analyze the evi I dence and getting down to the Carl IOU cottage said Why did Burke rent the cotLogc and hold JiostevIon of it uninterrupted uninter-rupted Z He was B day laborer Where wcro the brothers and sick sWerwho I were to oectipj the cottage cot-tage with him Wh did they not appear and le > tIC in Ills behalf jour or five people were to live in this cottage 3 et it did not contain a Miiglo article of kitchen furniture It w as to ntteud one of OSullivan men that the doctor was called The cottage was clo e to OSullirans home llnrku told OSullivan about Itt coon as he rented It Subsequently Subse-quently OSullivau vouehcd for himThe The speaker dwelt at langthon tho suspieious character of the ice laans contract for Cronlnsoenict lIlJ hlrltij of Hie white bon < > vJoughlIu8 suspicious actions ctc He went over the ground of the ride to the cottage the murder subsequent sub-sequent lKtowal of the body in the catch basin aud Kurkes light All this conneeting diain of evi denee he said was undisputed He touched upon the tlibi tetiinon > and sho ed It was all b > fdeuds of the I aceiiHil while the iueulpatlng ilk F videnco was I > 3 iniiurtial I wlt iii scs Ingham then proceeiled to truu Ibu couucetlon lietvteeii Coiighlln Kuua > ami OSullivan He reviewed the fight between Crouin and the triangle as Uie leading cause of the murder and cloed with an appeal for conviction convic-tion adlolle Toll Ixsi0 > Dec 3 IAt the Manchester Man-chester meeting todaj Gladstone inspired J JnDt enthusiasm 113 his delinlte exposition of the liberal whe3 He mid Ireland h the leading question of the day and lint the lories would have been converted con-verted to the liberal vieu of the uMect by this time but lor the per sonal ambitions of tome of the tones unl their allies who deMreJ more to form 1 national lady than to do political justice He severe arraigned ar-raigned the umonit leaders on this point and said the plan of campaign was a necessary consequence of the governments refusal to grant proper relief to Ireland There was he said le s crime in Ireland than in England He was of tho opinion the country liad clearly etpressed i lrr desirv I there shoul J lm a change in the administration of Ireland and liberals might look to the future with confidence Gladstone said the onlv reason far the existence of a dissenting party is the antiIrish feeling It was Die course of their destliy that they were chained to a wheel They must revolve or stop it and could not determine things for themselves them-selves Ell behoves them to con sdcrwell their position in the light of knowledge that with the settlement settle-ment of the Irish question will come their dlstlnetion asa party Tlirralrnnl liT Whir lnpi Dv CTSMLLE la DecInighl rtev HIshopHennessy in dedicating dedicat-ing a large Catholic church today here m the presence of one hundred j nests and WWO people read Irom the altar n letter which he had received re-ceived Finned White Caps threatening his life if he appeared h g el at the ceremonies The Bishop I denounced de-nounced the authors of the letter There arc factions in the church one of winch Is bitterly opjored to the priest appointed by the Bishop and wish to select their favoritn Out of thin trouble Ills tupjofcd Die White Cnii incident grew Iiinurnzit In Itn ili > ST PITEKSI uw Dec IThere are IS UJQ persons sufierlng from influenza in-fluenza in tills cit The inaHJj aUecta people i more or Ie < s in all the lownsjof Ilussla Trouble In trrle IxMxN Dec 3 Advices from Crete state that skirmishes have taken place between the Turkish troops and the people Three police aud five soldiers were killed 1 Ixnililllr Traceiljr DENVER Dec 3A Ixidville Colorado special gives an account of ajragcdy which occurred them I rfili Jo l = cnrljT this morning resulting in I one mans death and another will pcpb ably die before morning Hailcy Voungson who has figured in several sev-eral shooting scrapes and is charged with killing 3art Dugan over a 3 ear ago had some trouble with Prank Cole and the men were looking for each other all j eterda3 armed for deadly battle Earl this morning as loung on was walking down Harrison Avenue accompanied by Bart Dunley he met Cole and Clar ence Wolverton Cole and Young son pulled their revolversand began firing at each other The other two men also drew guns and took part ks tteaWsg In the battle Some tn enty snots were fired Dunley was shot through the breast and Cole motlllly wounded Voungson and Wolver ton were arrested The excitement over the atFalr is intense Murder Sioux CITY Dec I7J3J Shannon Shan-non nnd Elmer JZImpIe were Jailed this I morning for the murder of Jas Doggan near Sloan this county Bail blood had existed Iwtwetn them and last evening while Dog gin nUll wife were driving along the hlgbwn Shannon and Zimplt tniergeil fruni the road side and Shannon ht and killed IX gau 7lmple nfl at Jfr Doggln bat lIIi iinl her Alarm Ibont Smallpox CHICAGO Dec Considerable excitement was caused this afternoon after-noon by a reported case of smallpox at the Cook County Poor Hou The health officers said tonight they were unable to determine 3et whether It was chickenpox ario Icid or smallpox but pending its development tile GOO inmates have been vaccinated The insane asy lum which is crowded with patients pa-tients is located but a short distance from the poor houseMother house-Mother null Cblltl BWXJMINOTOV Dec MrsJohn Siawbaugh of Stanford while temporarily tem-porarily deranged Jumped into a well taking I her 13 carold child with her Both were drowned Mraracnfs AUmlilon 3 > lAJ > ACUA icnragua Xov 12 FresidentSacasa signed a trcat3 admitting Nicaragua into the Union of reiiublics of Nicaragua Costa Rica 1 Honduras San Salvador and Guatemala under the name of the United States of Central America I but it h believed that the Nicaragua congress will reject the measure The plan of the Union prov Iiles that fur the first ten rears it will simnl bean odensive and defensive alll anceaud the Presidentof the Union Ift bavo charge J only of tho diplomatic j diplo-matic and foreign relations of the five republics At the expiration of that period Uie Union will be cemented ce-mented tiv the adoption of n constitution t 11 tl r tution which will embrace all political po-litical commercial and other relations rela-tions between the five republic and foreign lowers A common monetary mone-tary btanianl and common tarlll laws will be adopted but there vt III b free trade between the different republic HondurnsGuatemalaaud San Salvador have already signet the treaty and i Is understood that Costa Hicn will do thu Fame An rieialor lompanj Falls ClIATTANOCKJA D 3 The Central Klavator Compaqof UiLs city J X Cheek president have assigned Liabilities 16929 S and assets about the same Il reported toniKhtthe warehouse rcceijtsarc duplkated in several instances and Uieru is some excitement in consequence conse-quence I lAnd tntcarfn nail Pnnirll DETROIT Dec 3 RcvDrlleIIl3 and Colonel Atkinson who left Detroit Octolier 1 Ith arrived home from England Ibis morning Dr r IUI113 bears messages from Pre Ident ParHell of the Irish lAague to President Fitzgerald of the Amerl1 can League which w ill probably be given to tholpress in a few dav Colonel Atkinson disentitled the nnuora that Parnell In missing nn S t3 der peculiar circumstance anil I S33s lie MW letters from ParneJI written Nov 22nd from a small town nt hicli he was resting II I 81000000 DNpiilc sclllrl YoONCSTOWTf Ohio D3Th famous mlnliiRsuit of Kimberly v 8 Arms involving over Ole million dollars and which bos been decided by the United b tales buprenie Court i In favor of the pbintiir was sUtled todn3 Arnis acrordlnK to tin aKreement transfriM 10 KimU rljr Interest in the mining stock and ihares In the mines which have been In litigation and also gave his checkforHHOiM In consideration I that the suits brought agan < l Arm t > 3 Kimbcrly are to be di mi eel 01 Ihr PlIILADFLI HI Dec 3There i were important devi lopmcnU today i In the suriiriIng failure o Ixnish CoxtCo The hhrriiTlev led upon I the residence and other personal propcrt3 of Cox at the Instance of m Ojr II William Ojrof l rly whose onl3 Intent III IlDbusim iH vns tlintnfn large creditor He went into court and securcii a sta3 restraining the sale of the goods in the store vvhleh were attached 3cMerda3 bv I other creditors SIngerly dtelared his i claim exceeded all of Coxs other I debts combined On July ilhISS9 blngerly purchased from Cox the I business of the store at 13JI Chestnut Chest-nut streel together with llie entire slnt tle stock and trade in consideration o the sum of about 147000 which sum has teen paid in full He tin n took exclusive possession of the tore the name of Cox on the sign I It Ing retained for the advantage of business The affidavit asserts that Lawyer Lcdyard is aud for many 3 tf past has been the regularcouil M1 of Cox and that his judgment not in favor of George Victor was drawnInhisofiictbingcrl3 belli ves the proceedings we re instigated by Cox himself in combination wlthi I Victor for the purjiose of celling control of the goods I Iehl LEAVENVV OKTH Kas Dec 3 Dr Taylor son of the late Major Taylor U S A ant sonIn Law nt cxU S Senator Cal wcl committed commit-ted suicide tonight Despoudenc3 over Illness |