Show GENERAL NEWS by W to Sl rith of the NEW feb 24 the taw this morning pub lisha returns from every county in the state and gives the strength of the candidate ii in tomorrows to morrows republican ghate convention as follow grant blaine scattering 12 unknown 20 for CHICAGO feb 24 liter oceans washington the on appropriations have instructed a subcommittee to prepare at once bill providing for the deficiency for the postal star service caused by the prodigality of assistant postmaster general brady there deenis to b no doubt that it will pass and that the generals order auttig down the service on star routes to one trip per week will be withdrawn the committee subcommittee sub on appropriations which has been investigating the star route business held a meeting last evening to decide upon the terms of the deficiency bill which they will report to the full committee tomorrow to morrow and the latter will try to fiet it at once before the house aft k dy it CHICAGO feb 24 the inter oceans washington says represent of the two or three american drug firms who have grown fat under the operation of the heavy protective duty on quinine which was re movel last spring are here asking congress to provide lora duty on that drug tho committee on ways and means will give them a hearing to th of ahti home ST JOSEPH feb 23 james W brown and wife from beardwood Be carno to attend the funeral of ed ward W welch father of mrs brown mr brown in the evening went to the business office of james M hal real state agent ordered him to arm himself and fired four shots at him the cause is alleged familiarities with his wife on recent visit brown is out on bail but declares he will kill hall incipient theatre alre ST louis feb 23 in the performance of my partner at the grand opera house alie scenery caught fire from a gas jet and blazed up in full bew et the audience who indulged in a wild panic which was however soon quelled by the staga manager fab 24 jacob lin coln a cousin of the martyred marty red president was murdered mur derod in his mill at lays springs by two men who struck him with a stone on his head the deceased was wealthy and respected the jail is strongly stion gly guarded feb 24 ibur oceans washington A member of the house banking and currency committee said today to day that kis committee was doing nothing because they felt that there was no hope of the bouse sustaining them if they should propose any important legislation the baine thing is true ef the senate A member of the finance committee in that branch remarked today that there was no chance of important legislation upon that at the present session hie bayard resolution might come up again as senator allison was un dor stood to desire makina a speech aul if it should ever reach a vote it would bo defeated by a large ma arity yo other important financial measure was likely to get before the senate speaker handall still adheres to the opinion that it will be entirely practicable for congress to adjourn between the ast 1st and of may although other democrats of ion service in both home and senate my they will be couite satisfied if an adjournment can be cured thirty days later in aba last twenty years no oy session congress has terminated be fore the middle of june and the rule has been fan extension of session for some time after the period A leading member f tb house committee on appropriations informed your correspondent today to day that ha thought the of the of new rules woula dis plied f by the hoial in two or three day and bis committee would then bring in th tion bill at onca and proceed with them until they alt thirlow wi NEW fb 24 the thurlow weed the third and believes grinta nomina tion anler an arigos evoke a poi ular movement yo heyy york delegation to the convention should go instructed w a delegation del gation in aa appointed in accordance with the cf the Congre ional districts and left free to abet upon the latest and beet ren of the popular opinion aranta would be aidi bated by hl if however botker and objectionable method ob tain the buc of our ticket would bal hazarded fob Z dispatched Dis from botn cial sources in san francasco were litre lal evening betting rth that elrre lemed great danger of an outbreak in that city against the chincie Chin cae la ax ef ort on alie of th friends of the chinese in san franciaco 10 president iiames to order regular troops to in these citizens of citing if their help i needed upon DA theory that the edthe united states is bound it treaty to afford such jt w by choie urging course that on a occasion tho could order the military commander in san Frano itco to to protect the froidl gemeril violence it tary and without waiting for any request from the state authorities autho ritie SAS feb 24 at th aana leader of the unemployed intimated that they would finith their rounds iong the mp lyen of the chinese athla after which there would L lee nobee roi abut betings me tings bouti be ecret and dangerous those who had t with their deca anda F A bee vice consul of china SM out in a card addressed to health officer mearld the gist of which is that if such a slate of exists in chinatown a recently reported it ia the fault of the health officer who is clothed willi full powers to remedy the evil the board of supervisors the chief of police and ft number of prominent citizen held a private consultation yesterday which i believed to have reference to the threat ladeby kearney on sunday to erect a gal howg on the and lot this week among the business classes there are expressions heard in favor of reviving the committee of safely if tru feb 24 the times washington has the following on the ending of the democratic committee meeting the celebration at willards tonight to night was a very dai graceful exhibition of the influence f rum in the democratic council bands of music assembled in front of the main entrance and the musia called together s handful of negroes and loafers the ohio headquarters were directly above the main entrance of the hotel and the catcalls cat calls of bootblacks induced some of those n the room to send senator on out upon the balcony to make a speech his remarks were brief and formal and at their close he declared that the cincinnati nominee would be honorably legally and fairly elected and would be inaugurated the scene even at the beginning of the performance was a ludicrous one for pendleton wa talking in the air the persons before him could not be called an audience after he had returned to the room a few of the most sober visitors from ohio were pushed through a window andea up before the rabble to be greeted with hoots and wails that were by no means complimentary congressman hill of tho sixth district insisted upon expressing his sentiments although his utterances were far from clear democrats he cried will nominate their cand idalo in cincinnati and we will him whether hes elected or not after he had made this statement bis friends pulled him back into alie room and J F mckinney chairman of the democratic stale central corn cittee of ohio took his place tuis speaker promised that the democrats would carry ohio for the cincinnati nominee and would furnish an army of able bodied mert to inaugurato aug him armstrong of the cleveland plain dealer with utterances and wild gestures amused hie boys below who ridiculed him unmercifully this treatment made him angry and caused kiiru to indulge in profanity whereupon his friends quickly withdrew him to to ion of alie ohio head aora after me or two men who were under alio influence of strong stimulants had boken in an incoherent way alio performance camo to an end and he bands were invited in to drink KANSAS CITY feb 21 L affied ayoung german cashier of the bouse ofaf ml dia appeared four days age it is now discovered that he took dol lars by raising checks and false entries lie hundred dollars debts with various parties speculation in bucket shops is tho came of the young mans crime ita has also transpired that while confidential clerk of a large german tea horse t hong kong embezzled lots of oil frilled frill ld fob 23 thia afternoon the bottom fell out of a still containing 2000 barrels of crude oil at the standard oil works no on broadway tho oil caught tiro and communicated tho blames to another sti ani the burning oil flowed down kingsbury run threatening destruction to the standard works five hundred men were put at work auie a dam was constructed across abo run confining alio fire in narrow limit and baring the prop erty the loss is estimated at 30 on machinery and on oil more I pl and downs CHICAGO feb diss intimate that tilden is laid on the selection of cincinnati as tho for holding the democratic aal that bandilla friends are in ghigli feature hoping that hildena Til dena mantle will fall on hi the tsiun on the contrary says that cincinnati is til dan chance waa giyen to hotel last evening at cioch ei were made by benator rendition and beveral other prominent gentlemen native hill ohio caused a good deal of amona hie political friends and con among his republican hearers iio declared thou emo brats will inaugurate a candidate to be made at cincinnati whether they him or not gannaros WAn Naros feb billi of ohio yesterday introduced a bill do signed to atop the grain blicka dp by authorizing a special to inquire into its cassea and to ro port whether any legislation can be lad to break up the allag d fill speculation therein by keane aad bi syndicate the bill was referred to tb on corn mere feb 24 A colored man named brown and hi wife been at on suspicion of having robbed alie galesburg bak of several thousand dol lars part of which wat found in alier house some excited tok their sop to the of ali town and by threats of hanging got from him a full alio guilt also on bill stamp of knoxville lew and ed adle of faniion Mani ion nil of have been arrested arrea ted madr in ain mi nl feb at penn aged SO wa killed by an old man named kinan al noon today on tunnel arcet bear ath avenue the two men walking together and the murder was the result of hot words between them although the street WM crowded the only witnesses are two chool boy the murderer hit not been arrott ed yet lu YORE fab 21 edward cowley abe convicted manager ot shepherds fold was sn court again today to day this time on a writ of habeas judge daniel dia the writ and cowley was re banded to tho custody of the sheri ir i wv y ai |