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Show COXORRM THIS WEEK. Xo Positive asUla4Un Esprrlea Barlnar the Uelldaya. W.tsui.sOTOX, Dec St. It Is unlikely un-likely thai any positive JegislatloD will be achieved byCongresa this week and tho failure, to take the usual holiday recess is net expected to result In any measurable advancement advance-ment of public business. In the Senate the elections bill will probably prob-ably consitme the first three days of tho week. The poslbilities of an interruption hang altogether upon the result of the negotiations now In progress among the republican senators sen-ators upon the subject of the caucus financial bill. If a harmonious understanding to support this measure meas-ure Is reached.the elecUous bill may be laid aaids in Its favor and discus sion in the Senate turn on financial matters until the day before Christmas, Christ-mas, whea It is expcr-led a recess will be taken until Monday. It is probable that a successive adjournment (or two of three days at a. time will mark the coarse of the House durlug the Christmas holiday season, .No business of importance im-portance is expected to be done, as to many rnemtftra have left Washington Wash-ington for home that a quorum can hardly be secured. Monday is District Dis-trict of Columbia day ta'i the Houae vill probably, pass upon kcal legislation until aoaoe 'measure ia proposed upon which a rote Is demanded de-manded and the absence of a quo-nj quo-nj m (hereby disclosed, tfuch other days in the wceaa the House ta In esslon will probably be devoted to comparatively unimportant measures. meas-ures. - i A Befratea CnnaHl. Wants .. rreea aTewsstaaer. UTiCA,IT.-Y4 Dec; 21. Myron VlmAnAOaaelcaa candidate for district attorney in Oneida County la IS89, and who waa beaten by m iarga rasjority, baa brought ritagairtheCrkvOeeerrT, alleging al-leging that each of twenty-two editorials edi-torials damaged hiss $1000, auklDg $000lBalTnaecBtoi'ta wll-tofiak.. wll-tofiak.. HeaIsoateusastaat.be la dasaaged $10,000 addtUABal by ale nttoiMudcaUBsiiia.80a taaVles. makincaloUlof 9S2.0M aM-HtJary to htanwfstalMtal wautoUoa. BaU.Seranr aBfan'a Hma-A J race. Nnw Yobk-, Dec St. A shock-lag shock-lag discovery was made in a hallway hall-way at No. 191 Nevina Street this morning. The house is occupied t?SH'.GriebMc! "d family nnd Mr. Nolan, who Uxta on the top floor. A servant girl came down sUirs for some firewood about 0:30 o'clock and aaw the bodycf a man lying iu the hallway. She rushed up.iuaaUte of alarm nnd George Hubert, a brother of Mrs. Oriebsick, came down. He told the man to get up, thinking he was drunk, but on looking closer be saw blood Mut toe bead, and he went lor a policeman. police-man. Detective Kawley of the Third Preclnct'camo to the house, and the ghastly discovery was made that the body had been mutilated by rats. The ferocious animals bad confined themselves to the faceand left hand. The uoee was compietiiv eaten away, as waa also the right cheek. Over the left ear a large bole had been made, penetrating almost lo the skull, while a portion of (he ear Mself was gone. A part of the third finger of the left hand bad bren nbo eaten. The wounds had bled somewhat some-what after being made, which would tend to show that the unfortnnatc man had been alive when attached by the animals. Itlchard Stokes, aged tW years, an employee in the demijohn factory at No. 263 Grand Avenue, was founJ dead in the cellar of the factory fac-tory this nnrning. His face and Itpi had been eaten aw iy by ratr. A Coiitelraee-Mtrirken Individual. ruiLAOELi'inA, Dec-SI. Colonel Richard Muckle, tii-innj inauagri of the Jub!u: IjuJgzr, called upon Register O.I'. Wills Qratz today, and hanlied over to him two letters which had been forwarded to Mr. George W. Child. Bath letter were peculiarly constructed, tht manuscript being made up entirely of letters of the alphabet cut from newspapers and put together to form a word, without regard to tho size or character of tho typo used. The first nnnuscricl Mi J: "On tioiiug our estate there w as and is now a doubt about the amount being due the State for collateral inheritance tax, S1U59, but to be euro I wish to pay It. Will you give this prompt atteution? Acknowledcu receipt in personal notice in J'uofa JUtfycr Sooner or later cousclenco will waken. Fleaso address answer to B Just." On Tuewlay afternoon a second letter waa received, reading: "I am anxious to hear whether you received re-ceived the money, $1059, delivered by messenger Friday with no( requesting re-questing you to jay tho money to tbe proper oSlcer," and signed "B. Just." The register waa mirpriscd at the revelation, and after accepting the money from the uu,k,navu conscience, con-science, stricken individual, gave Colonel Muckle a receipt for I he same, crediting the amount to the conscience fund, through GeorgeW. Child, on account of tho collateral Inheritance tax. |