Show BY TELEGRAPH rrb pra wm UMON tram imam A an fn nayna AME A M washington 4 the house passed the pendleton bill without amendment arnen dment yeas nays 47 the ways and means committee agreed to recommend a rate of 15 per cent ad valores valorem va lorain onwood on wood pulp senator miller has hag secured a meeting of the senate committe on public lic ilc buildings and grounds for next monday ho he will appear before the tho committe and urge the passage of the bill for tho the construction of a post at ban san francisco he today to day presented to the senate the memorial of the merchants of ban san francisco praying for the construction of a public building representative Rosec Bose ranil crana has laid before the committee on public buildings buil bull dinga a number of petitions from prominent business men of san ban francisco for favorable consid der de atlon ration of the bill for the erection of a postoffice post poat office building mr rosecrans confidently expects to have the bill reported f favorably avor ably to the house very shortly the coinage conage of the mints mint s the past year was nearly of which wi was gold and silver the remainder minor 1 coins BOSTON 4 no inauguration in recent years has been BO so popularly attended as butlers But lees leeb hours beform before the time for him to appear the halls and passages ages were crowded and the throng overflowed down the broad steps and extended over to the common butler read his address in that sty style la which has become familiar in his public speeches frequent touches of humor enlivened it and applause was interspersed as profusely as ever in his stump speeches and offhand onn off hand lations were made speaking of abolition of poll tax BS as a qualification for suffrage he interjected the worda words and such men as harvard students his argument for woman suffrage was most liberally applauded when urging reforms in the various departments lie he said bald that formerly the military was under control of the commander in chiet chief a threat of grim humor which caused much laughter his ills earnest recommendation of the death penalty for persons attempting to wreck or actually wrecking railroad trains was applauded and there was another outburst of laughter when he said of the expenses for laries salaries ea of the charitable chari charl tabe and the pauper officials compared with the cost for sup port of the poor and insane that the ij was larger than the house he bald said the legislature was one of the tho worst benches for the ascertainment of facts fact but he won sympathetic applause from the womans comans gallery when he asked for a better bettor chance for convicts to reform and they laughed when he said that when all the bright children were educated it would be time to establish a school for idiotic and feeble minded youth it was waa nearly when butler finished his two and a half hour address new york 4 the star john kellys organ has a bitter leader on judge ban san mateo decision it says cyrus cynus Ws fields mail and express the tho editorials in which sung out praises of the field family with the maddening monotony of a hand organ looks upon judge fields eleida decision as about tho the biggest thing in the line of jurisprudence binco sinco moses brought down the co commandments in mand ments from sinai sinal it intimates that judge field may as well resign all aspirations for political preferment chicago 4 Gov Schuyler crosby of montana formerly ta U S consul to florence italy who has haa been spending a week or two in this city was given a reception last evening in the parlors of the leland iceland hotel by emery A storrs governor crosby Is on his way from his foreign mission to assume his duties as governor of montana 1 CHICAGO 4 the general managers and general passenger agents of the southwestern railroads settled all points today for the maintenance of rates and offered the position of secretary to jas tas barker the vla vis wisconsin central agent an agreement was niso also entered into to ro re store and maintain rates on lumber to missouri biver river points for one year from jan montreal I 1 4 sir sin jno rose bose telegraphs that the canadian pacific railway hallway gets geta all the capital required from london A syndicate is formed there to buy the shares city of mexico 4 mayor frnncis francis degraca De gracs vice president of the mex I 1 icon crall oriental railroad hall Bail road company is dead buffalo 4 A now suspension lail lall railroad road bridge for the michigan central canadian southern rail road company will be constructed below the ealis palls NEW york 4 the public punie says bays for the month of december and for the year business has not been encouraging cou raging returns for the year show a much less favorable condition of business during the latter half of the year when very large crops were being marketed than during the first half when high prices and much embarrassment were attributed to the short abort crops of 1881 the following cities have gained as compared with december 1881 1851 han ran francisco 23 23 pitts Pitta pittsburg Pit burg kansas city providence hartford 19 ig 19 memphis 25 peoria 54 54 columbus glo gio springfield Worcester 40 40 lowell loz the following have lost rew new york 7 st louis 91 9 baltimore 2 boston 3 philadelphia 7 chicago 2 cincinnati 6 0 now new orleans 6 5 milwaukee louisville vl vi 71 cleveland 96 95 96 95 indianapolis new now haven syracuse 2 the steady do crease during every month bince since april in exchange outside of new york in comparison with those of the corresponding month the previous year and the fact that all the larger distributing cities are ranged on the side of shrinkage in business warns us that a broader cause must be bought that the exceptional dealings of comber december Da for decline indicate that a decided and general depression in bu sineas is in progress and there is no evidence as yet that it is 19 drawing to toan an end san francisco formerly owed a large part of its exchanges to speculation in mining stocks but that business has been BO so dead of late that we suspect the exchanges at t hat that point represent a real increase I 1 in n legitimate business bus inest considerably la larger than the apparent gain boston 2 the herald says the leading rubber interests of the country are considering the question of consolidation if they unite their capital stock will wil I 1 be 20 or 30 millions one manufacturer said eaid we want to have a combination of capit capital alot alof of such euch great strength that we can go into the brazilian market and buy nii oil kha tha lubber wo we want at as low rates as any syndicate of capitalists can do pittsburg 2 river biver coal operators of athla district have decided against the four cent rate for digging and will win insist upon three and a half cents per bushel the reduction affects miners it la Is not thought the miners will make any strong opposition bakersfield bare BAKE ESFIELD cal 4 this morning when the nothern bound train was nearing Cal cai caliente lente G gli L smith who is under sentence ben een tenee tence for life for the atrocious murder of his little ison ibon a few weeks ago while claiming to be under the inspiration i of god escaped his keepers and und leaped from the train he fell in such a way that the car wheels passed over him cutting off one leg smith was on the way to the penitentiary tent iary lary at the time his hib recovery is very doubtful quebec 4 ason A son of gen eav of lucknow la is arrested for robbery denver 4 this morning 0 van vliet vilet from morrison van vilet vilot co extensive tent and awning manufacturers of this city was was arrested charged with embezzling 9 10 0 0 1 of the firms money van vlee vliet t 1 kept the books it is claimed he covered up his speculations by falsifying the books lynchburg va 4 armisted barksdale during a feast iu in bedford county cut the throat of scott clayton then killed himself both colored montreal 4 in 1877 clark dark trotter in lit tho the employ of jR roddell evans absconded taking be longing to the firm he fie went to the cape of good hope and there entered a firm as bookkeeper in a few years he became junior partner and remitted the amount of his de to a lawyer to pay over to his former employers the money was lodged in court pending litiza tion between the dissolved partners and Is now claimed by trotter trotters Trot tera s firm ho he having been convicted of forgery and sentenced Benten ced to seven years imprisonment he robbed his lart part ners nora and the bank of new york 4 geo rice kice former treasurer of the utica ithaca geneva JR it is indicted for forgery mount vernon vemon 0 4 mrs afra batill well has made a still further con bession that she murdered her mother at ottumwa la in after bhe eho had been injured in a railroad accident she saya says she ia Is guilty of other crimes she ehe will not divulge when asked of what her father died she bhe sald eaid cut throat her father mysteriously disappeared physicians pronounce her of sound mind new haven 4 RT homp ascii was arrested for an abortion on mary canovan dec ath he was attending physician on ida ids B S perkins who died from flom abortion on christmas day mrs ellen filen clements boarding house keeper and mrs emma van epps dressmaker of hartford are also arrested eine pine bluff ark 2 this morning a nire fire originating jn a two story brick block occupied by rosenbaum boben Kosen baum ties furniture dealers and sol rosenburg plantation supplies destroyed over twenty business houses loss believed incendiary through ill III feeling existing in the fire nire department abo the engine was wag permitted to get out of order and was of no use I 1 henderson tex tox 3 A shooting ann aff affray ray rny occurred at 6 clayton ayton between capt rose bose geo Carri carriher hors horl and one mcdonald the two latter were seriously and rose eose fatally wounded san ban francisco 4 E J baldwin well known capitalist was shot by a bomon in a corridor of the Baldwin hotel this morning and wounded in the arm the womans comans name Is fanny baldwin and bhe ehe claims to be a cousin of Bald baid baldwin wins she has been teaching school on his ranch in los angeles county and claims that while there baldwin boldwin committed a criminal assault upon her baldwin says bays that she was teaching there but that he had her discharged for misconduct since which she has been trying to get money from him the woman was arrested with bame same difficulty threatening the officers she seemed under excessive agitation of mind to the verge of dementia N Y 5 athe the buildings of ward stanton co boat bout builders damaged by fire to the amount of insurance cohoes 5 the fire originated in a wheel pit of ortho the tho rolling mill work was susi suspended last friday for repairs and was to be resumed this morning during the severe cold coid of jast last ni night ht the wheel was frozen in the thep pit lt the tha engineer began thawing it out by the usual process when by some accident the oil caught aie are and the flames spread with wonderful rapidity the firemen did splendid work and successfully diverted the firo fire from the central portion of the city which includes the great knitting manufactories manu factories A more rapid fire never was been seen inside of one hour from the time the oil took fire in the wheel pit the entire works had been consumed and nothing left but the furnaces and their chimneys the total loss on the rolling mill stock is estimated at half a million dollar insurance about the flames were driven to the pilot mills which were soon enveloped the sight was grand the fire ran riot through the oily and combustible material and communicated from 0 one ne story to another with great rapidity within five minutes this immense brick structure was totally anvel aped in flames the firemen were utterly helpless to stay its progress soon the gasoline explode exploded a rending and leveling the tho walls loss on the gugerty mill insurance sowers OB mill occupied a portion of the pilot mills buildings and was involved in the general ruin los partially insured the fire is now under controls control the morrison colwell and page rolling mill obrien se rowers powers knitting mills and the patrick gugerty pilot mills are totally destroyed the loss will exceed insured two thirds NEW yo YORK 5 the failures of the past seven days reported to B R G dan co number 22 1 divided as follows eastern states 24 western 72 middle 38 southern 15 new york city 17 canada 16 compared with last week this shows an ril increase of 31 but the number la is doubtless swollen by the numerous small assignments made at the close of tho the year years though the parties had virtually failed long before the heralds was Wae washington hington special says the attorney general has given his opinion that the pro prohibition hibl hibi against chinese entering our ports applies only to laborers and others intending to remain in the united states and that the law doos docs not prohibit chinese of any condition landing inor inon tra velling through the country whose purpose la Is to go elsewhere it would have been odd had he construed the law differently for in that case the united states would have been as to the chinese much more exclusive than any country in the world has been since commodore perry wrenched open japan jaran by the way suppose the japanese had bad met perrys demand for open ports by the production of a law pro hi biting all americans from entry residence or travel in japan except students and ministers duly accredited probably the excellent commodore would have denounced them as silly and barbarous the commercial bulletin demands the recall of minister logan and a resolution of inquiry by congress as to the authority under which he has offered montero ten millions and other terms of peace it remarks we cannot escape the disagreeable gree able apprehension that logan and his proposed purchase of peace ia Is the result of my mediator for ten million dollars to cover the numerous claims such as they were I 1 which a powerful french syndicate kindly proposed to take off their hands a year or so ago when hurlburt was playing the role which logan with similar instinct has taken up CHICAGO 5 the weather is cold and threatening more snow be re ports from all parts of northern illinois and iowa indicate that the snow fall last night was about six to eight inches trains were considerably delayed but none abandoned yet in the far north the mercury was very low but the weather is moderating new now york 5 the snow is about three inches deep and the storm continues in the northern part of the state the mercury is 8 to 10 degrees below zero at quebec 19 below the press club last night elected as president W E curtis of the inder inter ocean four masked men captured bound and gagged four inmates of J E arnolds farm house twenty miles from chicago c near downers grove on wednesday baday evening and securing 1200 in cash rode away on four of almolda horses none noncy were captured but a an u old farm hand is suspected bend ind especial says saye A fra bra on the west bace eca last night deb dea destroyed troyed several factories fact oriee loss lose SO insurance petersburg burg barg va 5 the large freight depot building of the norfolk western road boad at zuni station was burned incendiary A milwaukee special says dr T kallbacka Kalm KaIm backa prominent merchant of Green greenbay bays bayl was arrested on the charge of sprague Spra gue guo warner co of chicago that ho he bad embezzled 1000 of funds in trusted to him on coin coln commission mission business herr efforts here have not been successful most of the formel formal socialists being now property owners A pittsburg special says saya the wife and two children of thomas thomss johnson Joh job neon living in westmoreland 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