Show BY TELEGRAPH V ESS mes cmor chon MM izes A M N 35 gyo 1 I 1 A N democratic caucus enneus washington I 1 at a caucus of democratic representatives in the house last night representative house Houpe of tennessee declining reelection representative rosecrans of Call cali california fomia fumia was unanimously elected permanent chairman of the democratic caucus for the forty seventh congress the object of the caucus was announced to be the appointment of a democratic congressional campaign committee it was decided that the committee should be composed of one member from each state delegation in congress in which there are democrats that the committee should be empowered to appoint an executive committee on the part of the heuse house and seven members to net act with a similar committee from the senate the joint committee to have charge of the democratic campaign the chairman was also authorized to appoint a committee of three on pairs patis indicted the grand jury indicted S G cattrell john N minx and charles H DIc dickson kEon for conspiracy to defraud the government by means of fraudulent bids for post routes in north carolina south carolina georgia ohio indiana kentucky tennessee florada Flor fior lda alabama and Bussis mississippi sippi masona trial A member of the court martial marta al trying sergeant mason baid eaid today to day that the court will finish the trial tomorrow to morrow he said all there is of the case is that a guard fired at a prisoner ho was guarding that guilt is clear and admitted but be he could not bay eay what punishment would be inflicted indicted con Oon bling in executive session of the theSe senaie nale the nomination of conkling to be associate justice was reported from the judiciary committee with recommendations that it be confirmed d it was placed upon the calendar in in accordance with the rue rule which requires all report reported td nominations to lie over till the next succeeding executive session no request was made for lor unanimous consent to suspend p end this rule nothing was said in to the nomination De decrease create of debt the public debt statement shows a decrease of the public debt during february of cash in the treasury gold certificates certificates of deposit refunding certificates legal tenders fractional currency cash balance available nasar NEW YORK I 1 A petition to the senate and house of representatives requesting that action be taken looking to the abrogation of the haw altan reciprocity treaty was forwarded to washington by the secretary of the board of trade and transportation yesterday it is asserted in the petition that the treaty has been taken ad vantage of by a syndicate of capitalists to develop enormously the production of sugar in the sand Is island lands lande which is admitted free of duty in the united states thus discriminating against other bugar sugar producing nations and injuring domestic interests the petition N i signed by several hundred firms including all the sugar importing and refining trade together with a large representation ot manufacturers and merchants doing b business siness with sugar producing countries J crimea crimes iden ides per IER L 1 tho be fur the following Morr morris isNoel noel who came from indianapolis two years ngo ago and who has since heen been employed as a bookkeeper for gid ding fc about from hils his employers twelve hundred dollars ot tho the money wag was paid for a house and lot and a largo large portion is still supposed to be in possession of noel who it is thought Is at present in india indianapolis na polls lie he is said skid to have wealthy rela reia relative tivee tives and was was given until yesterday to return the money but the house and lot which were transferred to the orm arm for 1400 ia is all that has been paid longmont at Long mont last night willis pullam fullam was shut shot and dangerously wounded by a man named berry cause a quarrel at card cards A ilig ble breeze G GALVESTON alve 1 the nees news valley mills special says asemore A severe bevere cyclone struck that place last night almost completely destroying the town only one ona business house bouse is standing brinkman brinkmans s hotel a two hao FAO atory ry building was carried some distance and smas smashed blied to pieces ten persons were in tho the building at tho the ilme lime of the nt ko no lives lost the lonal hanke hanks washington 2 some rome democratic congressmen aro cro very much opposed to giving anything like party support to vests bill for wiping out oui ut the Nati national onil bank circulation ta lono they say thia this is a dangerous question and the democratic party will suffer buffer if it t supports it there will be an effort probably to smother it in committee one democrat says it may way be a very good measure for missouri where pi 0 vails vaile but that it Is a dangerous one for th the e party to endorse and that he is determined to appo oppose se it the senate confirmed roscoe conkling associate justice justlee of the united states supreme court and aarona aaron A sargent as minister to Ger germany germila mily wm win F posten united states attorney of the western district of tennessee Ten the vote on conkling conah s confirmation is understood to have been 39 yeas against 12 naya nays eight democrats and four republicans namely hoar daws morrill and hawley sargents Sar gents nomination was confirmed without division train barned earned W val va vay 1 2 the west bound passenger train on the road last night ran upon a stone at the toll gate throwing all tile the cars except tho iho er from the track tho engine ran into the store stere of geo IV james all tile the train except the sleeper burned john gregly and john bremer cremer engineer and firemen were instantly killed the mali mall and express matter was mostly saved zemas texas storm T 2 the arem anew F 7 NR nada kaza zota special says A storm monday night did material damage in this neighborhood uprooting trees blowing down fences and some sume houses two large gin houses near town were demolished A tree fell on th the e house of a freedman named bomby williams near anderson killing a child and crippling an old woman matricide bakers CoRN corser CORNER nir elz mich mleh 2 mrs thomas gillen waa shot and killed by her son bon today to day bhe she had been for sometime an invalid and fretful fc a degree that amounted to insanity I 1 loday oday lo o day sitting up in bed she edgag ed ina inn in a heated dispute with her son ban when lie he went to a closet procured a revolver and deliberately shot her through tho throat death ensuing within fifteen minutes the young man Is thought to be demented as he manifests no nd feeling concerning the affair calmy expressed himself willing to take thee consequences of his act he sent fent to a harness shop for a messenger to carry the news to friends of the family business review NEW york 2 the clearing house exchanges for the week as compared with tho the corresponding week of iest lest year show the following comparisons in bushue za transactions new york has lost 27 7 10 per cent boston IT 2 10 Philli philadelphia delphin 11 lisio ils lis sio 10 st louis 3 ilo iio 1 10 baltimore 2010 20 8 10 new orleans 38 8 10 louisville 3 30 gio glo 10 indianapolis 10 10 worcester 57 10 memphis 28 6 10 other cities have gained as fol lows lio iio cincinnati 9 S sio 1 10 0 san francieco Franc heco leco seo beo 9 97 7 10 pittsburg pitts burg 15 8 10 milwaukee io 10 providence ence 11 8 10 kansas city 37 17 1 10 C cleveland eveland 13 Hartford Hart fordI gd 1510 15 1 5 10 9 new I 1 lavent laven caven 25 6 10 columbus 23 2 10 Springfield 2 2410 syracuse 26 2 10 lowell 8 7 10 tho publio public says of these figures there is nothing encouraging in tho thi return of tile the exchanges for the last week in february the week embraced a holiday in bott years observed in tho the same game cities and to tho the same esme extent it was the last geelt of the month mouth but was one of great activity in speculation at chicago and milwaukee aggregate exchange would have been much smaller but lor the in increase crease trease at these cities nevertheless neve arthe the return is the leah leam t favorable that has been made for a ing linw tirre there is a deer decrease caso case in the aggregate of exchanges ec hangea outside of new york a decrease here in exchanges not arising from stock operations and a peculiar weakness in the business at several veral ef 1 of the more important cities ten cities report a smaller exchange than in the corresponding week last year a state states of things which has baa not been witnessed before for a long time indications of declining business at some of ot the grent great bentres centres of whole wholesale sale trade which we then observed as likely to be followed by a shrinkage of trade elsewhere have not proved deceptive prices are higher than a year ago and transfers Fj of like quantities of products would result in ili jarair exchanges but the decline ofa of 5 jo percent per cent outside of new york indicates IndIc ateF ates a de brease of at least 12 10 per cent hl iff quantities of products transferred instructive destructive floods hlll A ark 2 reports from tho the flooded districts say many are starving while others are feeding on the putrid carcases caresses of drowned cattle and such game aa an 4 be procured while families are subsisting on half a peck of meal per week peo lo 10 0 o are cows at 25 cents per bend head aa as the poor beasts are dying from starvation the distress all along the river below Is unparallel led news has reached the city this afternoon that the water in st francis river bottom or sunk lands is rising an inch per hour vicksburg 2 the river is rising slowly weather clear and warm very serious breaks at concordia con cord la clay wade bagg baggotts otts and clarks levees are rep report reporter td which will put the southern part of washington and buckland Isa quera quern and shar key counties tinder under water anum A number of I 1 eople were drowned at riverton and there is considerable buffering suffering and loss joss of ine lne life ire at other points new york 2 the beav heavy v rain storm which sel eel in early on wednesday morning continued with brier breaks through the day the v vail vall all ail of a new build building ingin in street was blown over upon the residence of win wro james and his daughter daugh ter fatally jr injured J ared the Theli storm torm was severe niong tho the hudson and the fee ic was set in motion bt st jaquess jaques quebec 2 there has been heavy rains e bince since bt st jaquess jaques quebec 2 there has been heavy rains e bince since bace face early morning the river is BO high people are moving cattle away and come are forsaking their homes alto aito gether it is the highest flood ever seen here bellows falls 2 the connecticut river is ii rising rapidly if the weather holds warm disastrous results are feared warmouth tb ont oat 2 heavy rains caused a flood in mill river and considerable sid erable damage to property milford 2 the de delaware laware river is biger higier higher than for ten years hnot himself cincinnati 2 ed C turner brother of the president of the chamber of commerce commeree was waa found dead in ha hia hla room with a pistol ball in the right temple he had bad recently been robbe dand it is thought the shot was waa fired accidentally while under the influence of chloroform and imagining 0 robbers were present shot by a schoolmate WALNUT WAI wal NUT hili HILT 14 ohio 2 jeme richardson chardson Bi colored boy was waa acci acel dentally shot and killed by a schoolmate L I 1 lot in pennsylvania PITTSBURG 3 A riot is reported now in program rees reba reea at the bessmer steel works homes strikers and police the queenia bae bue lueen lareu lae eu enemy neny NEW YORK YORT 3 ait at is kald said that B maclean ili iii ce I 1 lt ab nb has hns as been teen pronounced bano eano i by the doctor who examined him in the cell the weapon used was u six chambered colts colta revolver of american make maclean said he would not have done what whal he did had he not been hueg hungry ry it appears however th that st he took a hearty meal at a coffee house shortly J y before the attempt the darry dotty news says anys there is reason to believe that there is more in the mat ter berthan than at present appears on the arace and und that the attempt is the outcome of some plot bagnel Bal neL tho the condition of trade in new york the decline in the volume of business the devastating floods in the south youth southeast east and several important failures have combined to cause considerable apprehension as to the healthfulness of trade generally largo large losses arising from hazardous speculation a euid and resulting in a decline in values horo hove contributed to the feeling eling ft of u uncertainty and the week has not been avery a very COM comforting forting dorting oneto one to the trading community generally nevertheless there are areno no indications that the legitimate trade of the country is less safe than before or that the ability to absorb consume and pay for all goods pur purchased chased need be questioned reports as to crops iu in the west and northwest tre ire unanimously good and spring demand for fur merchandise la Is opening up very hatle Patie satisfactory factory the pedestrians concerning rowells rowella withdrawal hughes Hughea said eaid 1 I hava bava carried my poin point t and have broken brohen him up and so he had indeed accomplished his e end nd and had bad forced the retirement me t of the little englishman who for tho the first time bad to stiffer suffer the humiliation of being beaten and by a man who had sacrificed his chance bf df winning forth tor for the e of pushing the champion so harj barj in the first part of the race that he could not go through until the end nature could stand no more hughea hughes had pushed rowell bowell the first day and compelled him tolover to cover miles in a little over 22 hours and bad had kept the strain up tip on succeeding days until rowell could not possibly go much further 12 hazel sullivan hughes fitzgerald hart 3 rpm pm hazael sullivan hughes fitzgerald hart vire rire 3 E shortly before 3 this morning a fire brike bribe out at hartley bros tannery in the east end and before the flames could be subdued the entire ture together with a large amount of tanbark I 1 was waa consumed the loss will r reach each on which there is 60 per cent insurance destructive southern flood NEW ORLEANS 3 news reaches hereof here of terrible der deA destruction ruction of property by the breaking of ahn levee at carson landing after the heavy ra rain in i and wind storm of tuesday A gap of 75 feet was first made by the rushing rubbing waters and then a hundred yards of the levee was soon swept away fleeing from the floods MEMPHIS 3 refugees from all parts of the bouth south and west are flocking to memphis by hundreds several families from over the river came this morning others will come como tomorrow to morrow the first installment of government rations will arrivo arrive tonight to night this afternoon col hemingway sent supplies by steamer to sufferers at Ni blitz riverton Ki verton and Concord orla oria also to co via vicksburg Vick eburg the commissioners will appoint agents at eligible points within the immediate districts the avalanche helena ark special says the river rose rom an lath and the work on the levee levoe is going ahead fast I 1 think it will be able to withstand the coming rise reports from upper white river biver show great loss and suffering steamboats now flow run through the streets at indian bay aik ark z and several houses have been knocked out of place and business generally suspended an arkansas hurricane PINE BLUFF ark 2 A desolate de log hurricane passed sed over ap a portion of jenn Jeff jefferson erEon county late on tuesday y night |