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yERY FINE

IS THE JEWELRY STORE

—OF—

MAT KLINE,

People on the lookout for Wedding

and Christmas Presents can always

find something here to suit their TASTE

and POCKETBOOKS.

Main Street. Opp. Court House.

That's what we claim to be.

Nobody can beat us for Quality and Price

In the Grocery Business.

A. [. McMullen & Son

South Washington St.

The New Bouquet

5 CENT CIGAR

Is the Best—The Very BestInsist on Having It.

FOR SALE EVERYWHERE.

HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO SHAVE WITH."

IS THE PROPER THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANING.

POSITIVE

Second

i"Wc can with the trouble cope—

With Santa Claus, that wond'rous soap.''

All:

"Santa Clans, wm Ofthesoapof v^. rhi-vv^iic uii.uc."

—SANTA CLAWS SOAP-

—MADIC ONLY BY—

N. K. FAIRBANK & CO-' Chicago.

A. H. HERNLEY,

Special Collector.

All kinds of notes and accounts promptly looked after. SettlemcuU made and all busl* DQ|# tUtruetod to lils OH re promptly done. OfIW» with J. J. Mills, lOOtf S. Washington St.

-Try It.

race CO

(^rawfordsville Transfer Line

C. O. McFARLAND, Prop.

X'naseegers and Baggage transferred to Hotels, Depots, or any purl

of the Cit v. Omnibueee, Cabs and Hacks. Leave orders nt

the Stables on Market Street. Telephone No. 47.

Washday Witches!j

Tff:o''mttb' j-'. Buljblo, bubble, boiler babble, W: hi-:g day brings lots of trouble I"

Little Witch:

Third

I.ltilo Witch: 7

Yes, when clothes are black as night, It will wash them pure and white."

T. S. PATTON,

20i JUatn St.

FIRE INSURANCE.

Represents the following Old Reliable Companies: Orient Insurance Co, of Hartford, Conn., Qlens Falls Insurance

Co., of New York, Firemen's Fund Insurance Co., of California.

VOL. VII—NO. 364 0RAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1893.

THE WILSON BILL.

Principal Points In the Now Tariff Measure.

HOW ITS FRAMERS INTERPRET IT.

Many Articles Are Added to I he Free Lint, Atuonf Them Coal, Iron, Wool mud Lumber Sugar

Bounty Reduced.

EXPLAINED BY WILSON.

WASHINGTON, NOV. 28.—After weeks of preparation, involving* an exhaustive study of the subject from a democratic point of view, the tariff bill is at last completed and has been pfiven to the public.

Mr. Wilson, the chairman of the committee, has prepared the following statement, which was given out with the bill:

The democratic members of the committee on ways and means have felt as none others could feel the momentous responsibility resting upon them and the surpassing magnitude, difficulty and delicacy of the duty assigned them of framing a tariff bill for a nation of 70,000,000 people. The bill they were called on to reform is a vast and labyrinthian system of class taxation the culmination of eighty years' controUof the taxing power by a fow gfeat interests, gatherlug on to their train a host of petty tollgatherers. It was carefully framed to prevent as long as possiblo what its author called "any monkeying with the tariff," by which he meant any successful effort of the oeople to undo or to lessen the bounties which its benetlciarles were permitted to write therein in their own words and their own ligures. It transferred to the free list proper and fruitful revenue articles, where most of the taxes paid by the people were received by their government, and greatly increased the rates of those articles where all or most of the taxes paid by the people went into private' coffers. And it was burthened about by many defenses, chief among which are a swept and garnished treasury and a swollen and colossal scale of permanent expenditure.

Such are the conditions that confronted us at the threshold of the worlc. The committee has welcomed information and counsel from every trustworthy source, and while it docs not expect its bill to escape just criticism In all of its details its does present it to the country as the result of months of patient, anxious toil and of an honest desire to discharge its duty, purged (ft all taint of local and personal favoritism or prejudice.

Main Features of the Mo N Its main features are two. First, ihe adop Hon whenever it seemed practicable of ad valorem instead of specific duties secondly, the freeing from taxes of those great materials of industry that lie at the basis of production.

Specific rales of duty are objectionable for these reasons: They frequently conceal a rate of taxation too euormous to be submitted to if expressed in ad valorem terms, as the duty of 8 cents on 10U pounds on salt in bulk, which amounts to over 80 per cent, on a common necessary of life. They always bear hcavilr on the common article used by tho masse* and lightly on the expensive article consumed by the rich, as a tax of ?30 on all houses would be little or nothing on the great matisiou and very high on tho humble home.

Contrary to commou belief specific duties lead to greater frauds in administration, for couuting and weighing at the custom-house arc* done by the cheapest and most easily corrupted labor, while ad valorem rate* are assessed by the best paid and most responsible appraisers. The ad valorem system has worked well in practice, is essentially the fair system becauso it is a tax upon the actual value of the article, and was declared by Mr. Clay himself to bo in theory and according to every sound principle of justice entitled to the preference, ami vindicated by long trial.

Largo Free I.lst.

The boldest Innovation of the bill is its large free list of raw materials Taxes upon production are double wrongs. They gather and accumulate on the cousumer of the finished product. They hurt labor by narrowing the market for what It produces Coal and iron arc the foundations of modern industry. Material progress is measured by the amount of their consumption. No other country can supply them as abundantly or cheaply as we can. No possible competition can interfere with our own producers a few miles in the interior of the country. Remoteness from the sources of supply is in itself enough disadvantage to any section of the country, without further burdens in tariff taxes. Untaxed ores, coal, lumber, wool and other fibers must immensely stimulate production in oertaln parts of our country. The thin edge of American manufactures has entered every country. With release from taxes upon their materials there is no limit to the growth of our foreign trade. ThlB will more than compensate the home producers of raw material, who, tariff or no tariff, control all the Interior of the country, for any apprehendod loss of markets anywhere along the seaboard. Its incalculable advantage to labor is apparent. In every great line of manufactures we can produce in six months to nine months enough for our home market We can get rid of our surplus only by foreign trade. As long as we have taxes on the materials of Industry we cannot build up that trade Hence, the other alternative of trusts to keep down production to tho home market The worklngman can see whether his Interest is with a system that represses production and robs him of employment or with a system that gives natural and healthy play to production and emancipates him from trusts and like oom blnations of capital.

Important Changes.

As to the details of the bill, I will briefly re* capitulate the salient changes of the several schedules. In the chemical, schedule we have transferred to the free list quite a number of articles used iu manufactures, tho most important of wbloh is sulphuric acid, one of the corner-stones of all chemical industry. The duty on castor oil is reduced from 85 cents to 35 cents per gallon, and the duty on Unseed oil, which was secretly raised to 32 con to by the conferenoe committee ou the McKinley bill after each house had openly voted for a lower duty, we put at 15 cents a gallon. Pig lead being reduced from 2 to 1 cent a pound lead paints are corres)ondingly reduced

Tho MeKinley bill increased the duty on opium prepared for smoking to $12 a pound in tho vain hope of lessening its importation. The custom house officers on the Pacific ooast declare that this increase of duty has simply placed in the hands of smugglers the bringing in of opium to the demoralization of tho customs sorvlco and the loss of over half a million revenue The duty proposed Is believed to be collectable and will put tho traffic under government control and supervision.

In the pottery schedule substantial reductions are mado. Plain white ware Is dropped from the tigh BChedulo in which it mysteriously crowded itself. Deoorated ware is reduced from 60 to 46 por cent. uudccorated from 65 to 40.

In common window glass, where close com blnations have kept up tho prices to consumers under tho shelter of duties averaging 100 per cent, a reduotlon of moro than one-half has been made In all tho larger sizes. Thore is no doubt that those rates will permit a very healthy growth of tho industry here. Xn plate glass reductions are made, the largest sizes from 50 cents to 80 cents per square foot Of silvered from 00 to 35 cents. iron and Steel.

In the iron and steel schedule wo begin with free ore. The discovery of immense deposits of Bessemer ores in the lake region and of foundry ores In Alabama has rapidly swept us to tho leadership of the world in the production of iron and steel, and brought near at hand our undisputed supremacy in the great field of manufacture* The use of steam shovels reduces the cost of mining to a point where the wages paid "natural labor*' are irrel

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evant Pig iron we reduce from 6.72 per ton, which from 50 to 90 per cent, to a uniform duty of 224 por cent., a rat*, somewhat higher in proportion than tho rent of the schedule because of cheap freight rates on foreign nig, It being a favorite freight on westward voyages. Steel rails we reduce from 13.44 per ton. now 73 per cent, to 25 per cent. As the pool which has kept up prices so many years in this country seems now disorganized, the other producers will soon need protection more against Mr. Caruegle at Pittsburgh and Mr. Stirling at Chicago than against foreign producers.

Tho residue of the schedules vary from 2i to 30 per cent, wood screws being put at th« latter figure. Beams and girders are 35 por cent, because of the waste in cutting beams and tho variety of lengths and sizes, audof the frequent necessity of changing the rolls in making beams and girders because of the irregular quantities and lengths and aize.s of orders.

Tin Pluto*.

Tin plates are reduced 10 per c#»nt, a little more than one-half of the McKltilcy rate. This is a revenue duty and at the same time enough t« permit any existing mills to live and flourish. Cheaper grades of pocket cutlery are 85 per cnt. Higher grades 45. Table cutlery is put at per cent These arc very substantial reductions from present rates, which, being specific, reach in some grades of pocket cutlery as high as 90 per cent, but with release of taxes ou raw materials, especially on pearl and ivory for handles, seems ample. Both copper ores and pig copper are made free, we being large exporters of the latter and ihe duty serving only to enable tho producers to sell higher to our people than to foreigners Nickel is free. Lead ore has a small duty of 15 per cent Pig lead 1 cent a pound. Stiver lead ores are restored to the free list Unmanufactured lumber is tree. Manufactured is put at 26 per cent, with the proviso that if any export duties are charged ou foreigu lumber it shall be admitted only at he rates now existing. hugar.

Sugar has been a difficult subject to deal with. Raw sugar was transferred to the free list by the McKinlcy bill because nearly all the taxes paid on it went to the public treasury. A strong desire among some members of the committee was to put an ad valorem duty of 20 to 25 per cent on it and abolish the bounty at once. After much consideration it was decided te reduce by one-half the duty on refined sugar and to repeal the bounty one-eighth each year, leaving raw sugar un taxed as at present

The Tobacco Schedule.

In the tobacco schedule those rates were sought which would bring most revenue. The present tuxes of 2 and *2.75 a pound on wrapDing leaf have blotted out any small establishments and actually impaired revenue. We make the rates *1 and $1.25 per pound on wrapper leaf and 35 ceuts and 50 ceuts per pound o:i filler tobacco, uustemmed and stemmed in each. Manufactures of tobacco are put at 40 ceuts. Cigars are reduced from N.oO per pound und 25 per cent, ud valorem to $3 per pound und 25 per cent., which is believed to be the most productive revenue rate and is higher than the law of l«83

Live animals are put at 20 por cent Barley Js reduced from 30 cents a bushel to 20 per rent., which is about

cents.

Broadstufis, of which we are Immense exporters. are made free except when imported from countries putting duties on our like products, in which case the duty is 20 per cent*

Fresh vegetable*,' fruits, eggs and like food products are untaxed for the benefit of our own consumers, largely the working people of the cities. Salt iu bulk is free: inpacaayes the salt is free, but the covering dutiable at rates prescribed for like articles.

Tariff oil Spirit*.

The tariff on spirits is put at double the internal revenue rates ou like spirits and some slight reduction is made on still wines, malt liquors, ginger ale and like beverages in the interest of increased revenue. The duty on sparkling wines is likewise slightly reduced for the same reasons, that on champagne being,put at 17 per dozen quarts as against *8 iu the McKinley bill and iu the law of 18&1.

In cotton manufactures substantial reductions are made, especially on cheap cloths and prints. and the existing system ot tuxiug by count of threads in the square inch is retained.

Hemji and fiax are made free dressed line of hemp and flax, 1 cent and I!* cent respectively. Burlaps and cotton and grain bagging are put at 15 per cent, but when imported for covering of articles to be exported are duty free.

Wool la Free.

Wool is made free. This takes the stills from under woolen manufacturers and begets the hope that they may recover from ihe languishing condition which they have beou for a quarter of a century and that we may get woolen goods at reasonable rates Instead or at duties that on the common grades frequently reach 100 per cent, and in cases two or three times that merciless figure, Cloths and dress goods are put at 40 per cent, clothing at 45 per cent., rates higher than the committee desired, but deemed temporarily necessary because our manfactures have so long been excluded from twothirds of the wools of the world that they will have to learn the art of manufacturing at free wool A sliding scale is therefore added by which the rates in the woolen schedule are to come down five points with the lapse of five years. iii'venues Reduced 0(50,000,000.

The above is a rapid summary of the chtcf changes made by the proposed hill, and will give a satisfactory idea, I believe, of its gen eral structure. It is estimated that it will reduce revenue on the basis of importations of 1892 about 150,000,000, with an immensely larger decrease of tax binding to the American people The administration law Is rc|orled with a ffcw amendments, suggested by experience of Its operation. That law was chiefly prepared by Mr. Hewitt when he was in congress and the changes proposed in our bill are to make it more effective, while at the same time softening some of the features added by the McKinley bill that would treat the business of importing as an outlawry, not entitled to4.be protection of government

The Free List.

On and after the 1st of March, 1894, the following articles are to be added to the free list: Bacon and hams, beef, mutton and pork and meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in this act

Baryta. All binding twine manufactured in whole or in part from thistle or tfcmpico fiber, manilla, Hisal grass or sunn, of single ply and measuring not exceeding 600 feet to the pound.

Birds, stuffed, not suitable tor millinery ornaments, and bird Bkins, prepared for preservation, but not further advanced in manufacture.

Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper. Bone char, suitable for use in decorating sugars.

Coal, bituminous and shale, and coal slack or cut: coke coal tar, crude, and all preparations aud products of coal tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for in this act

Oxide of cobalt Copper Imported In the form of ores: old copper, fit only for manufacture: clipping from new coppor, and all composition metal of which oopper is a component material of chief value not specially provided for in this act: regulus of copper and black or coarse copper, and coppor cement, copper in plates, bars. Ingots, or pigs, and other forms, not manufacv tured. not specially provided for in this act

Copperas, or sulphate of iron. Cotton-tios of Iron or steel cut to lengths, punched or not punohed, with or without buckles, for belting cotton.

Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to be used in the manufacturo of watches or clocks. Yolks of eggs of birds, fish and insects.

Lown» of all kinds, crude, not specify provided for in this act. ..." Fresh fish.

Furs, undressed. Iodine. Resublimated iron ore also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur and pyrites or sulphuret of iron in Its natural state

Lard. Lemon juice: lime juice and sour orange Juice.

Mica, and metallic mineral substances in a crude state and metals unwrought not specially provided for in this act

Ochre and ocbery earths: sienna and sienna earths: umber and umber earths, not specially provided for in this act

rotors, and statuary, not otherwise provided for in this act. Plows, tools and disc harrows. harvesters, reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, threshing machines and cotton gins.

Plush, black, for making men's hats Quicksilver. Salt Silk, partially manufactured from cocoons or from waste silk, and not farther advanced or manufactured than carded or combed silk.

Soap, all not otherwise specially provided for in this act Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or nitre cake: sulphuric acid.

Tallow aud oil grease, including that known commercially as De Gras, or brown wool grease.

Straw. Burr stone, bound up into millstones free stone, granite, sand stonft, limestone and other building or monumental, except marble, manufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this act.

Wearing Apparel Free.

All wearing apparel aud other personal of* feots shall be admitted froc of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established under such rules ana regulations a the secretary of ihe treasury may prescribe.

Timber, hewna nd sawed, and timber used for spars and iu building wharves: timber squared or sided: sawed boards, plonk, deals and other lumoer laths, pickets and palings: shingles: staves of wood of all kinds: wood unmanufactured: provided, that if any export duty is laid upon the above mentioned articles, or either of them, all said articles imported from said country shall be subjoct to duty as now provided by law.

Chair caue, or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds. Wooas, namely, cedar, lignumvitua. lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satin wood and all forms of cabinet woods, in the log, rough or hewn.

Bamboo and rattan unmanufactured. Briar root or briar wood aud similar wood unmanufactured.

Reeds and sticks of partridge, hair wooa, pimento, orange, myrtle a^d other woods in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrefias, parasols, sun-shades, whips or walking canes.

All wool of the sheep, hair of the camel, goat alpaca and other like animals, and all wool and hair on the skin. Nails, yarns, waste, card waste, burr waste, rags and flax, Including all waste or rags, composed wholly or in part o! wool.

M'KINLEY'S VIEW.

Ohio', (ictlrrilor Talks CnnceruliiK the Wilson TurlfT Bill. CLEVRI.A.NII, O., NOV. 28.—Gov. Me-

Kinley arrived in Cleveland Monday evening, lie was asked his opinion of the Wilson tariff bill, lie said he had not read the abstract of the measure, aud had only glanced through Mr. Wilson's review of it. He said the bill proposed very sweeping reductions in the existing tariffs. It was such a measure as he had expected, yet a little more sweeping than he had anticipated.

The objectionable feature of the bill, Mr. McKinle.v said, was the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties. That alone ought to defeat the entire measure. The ad valorem system, he said, rests upon the foreign valuation, which is hard to determine, and it puts a premium upon undervaluation frauds. All the leading nations of the world, he declared, had abandoned the ad valorem system of levying tariff duties, for the reason that the valuation is made thousands of miles from any port of entry aud can never be depended upon.

TWO HUNDRED MEN KILLED.

Hrazillan Snldlfri* Sliilii bjr the Artillery of tlio Insurgents.

Losnox, Nov. 28.—The Times publishes the following from Kio de Janeiro, under date of November 2a. "Desultory Bring continues dally and nightly. Ou Monday a small party o[ lustlrgeiu soldier* and sailors landed near Arraaco. Tboy were opposed by a party of soldiers, and iu the engagement which took placo ihe soldlerB losi two ofllicra and thirty meu killed, while only five sailors were wounded. During the last week over -"00 troops have been lcllleQ on the Sfletheroy side by the artillery Are of the insurgents. The lutter are uiuliiug progress. Gen haralva with 0.000 men is In the vicinity of Curitiba, the capital of Parala. The government has sent 1,000 reinforcements to Santos. Tho transports are expected at Ilea terro next week with troops.

An lEx-llaoltrr SmteiKTtl.

HI.OOMINGTON. 111., Nov. 28.- William H. S.'hurciiiun, the ex-banker of Normal who was ind'eled in twenty-nine casts for reecivir money from depositors when his bank was insolvent, pleaded guilty on all the counts of tht indictment and threw himself on th( mercy of the court. Judge Tipton sentenced him to one year in the penitentiary at Joliet and to pay a fine of $45,000, twice the amount of the deposits embezzled.

Strong Case Agalnnt Do Fry

KAI.AMA/.OO,

Mich., Nov. 28.- ex

amination of Stonewall J. l)e .• ce for forgery was continued Monday before Recorder l'eck. De France waipositively identified as the man to whom was paid by Cashier Kowby ol the First national bank of this city the sum of to.000 on a forged draft for tl2,000 on the Pontiac national bank. Di France's bail, now H0,000. will probably be raised.

Bank Ulreoturs Indicted.

NEW YOKK, NOV. 28.— The grand jurj has found an indictment for forgery oi. two counts against Joseph 1". Rlaut. president of the defunct Madison Square bank, and indictment!against Blaut and Directors McDonald. Soulard, Kalischer, Selover, lvur.sheedt and Oltenberg for misdemeanor in receiving deposits after they knew the bank was insolvent.

Killed by Touching a l.lve Wire. ST. Lotus. Nov. 28.—Uenjamin La1

Coitou seed oil, paintings In oil or water

vigne, eoal dealer, and a mule he waidriving, were instantly lei I led by a shock from an electric wire at Third street and Washington avenue. One oi the "guy" wires dropped up.m the mule. It fell dead, pitching Lavigni off the wagon. He touched the wire a he fell, causing iustant death.

An Engineer lilllcd.

PERTH Annoy, N. J., Nov. 28.—Th. Pennsylvania market freight from Jersey City, bound south on the Central railroad, collided with a Lehigh coal train at the Washington street crossing in this city and Engineer Mallory, of the Lehigh, who had taken the place of a striker and who was making his first trip, was killed.

Dontli of Kx-Congresinian Kldrldge. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 28.—A special

from Adrian, Mich., says ex-Congress-man Nathaniel I3uel Kldridge died Monday. He served through the war in tlie Thirteenth Michigan as lieutenant colonel. In 1884 lie was elected to congress and reelected in 1880.

WELL SHAKEN.

Montreal aud Vicinity Vlaitod by a Violent Earthquake.

BUILDINGS ROCKED AND TREMBLED.

The Terrified Populace Itushea Into th« Mr««it« Praying and Crying-—Felt v.".. Iu New York and Now

Euglanri Towns.

SCARED BY AN KARTHQUAKB. MONTREAL, Cau,, Nov. 2a—At 11:47 o'clock Monday morning this eity and the surrounding country felt the most severe shock of earthquake that has visited this part of the continent for several years. Buildings rocked and trembled as if about to be thrown down by the percussion of some heavy explosion. At first came a heaving sensation like that of a ship over a heavy dead swell, the buildings creaked as if every joint and fastening was being tested by some awful and invisible force, then followed a dull, muffled, deep-toned sound like that of a subterranean explosiou. The shock was felt from foundation to turret of tl»e most substantially built edifies iu the city, and then came the setting back, und for an instant it felt as if everything was going down, as if the bottom had fallen out of thlugs generally and they were collapsiug. There was a moment of suspense and the earthquake had passed.

Th* Population Tarrltled.

The entire population fled into the streets. Women and children stood terror stricken and praying. At the same moment a fire alarm and ambulance call sounded and the clanging of bells and the wagons rushipg through the streets added to the general consternation.

Along St. Francis Xavier, St Paul, St. Sacrament, Hospital and St John streets the offices, stores and factories poured out their hundreds and thousands in one wild rush to the streets. Young women in the offices and factories rushed out hatless and without wraps, and many with blanched faces were observed silently murmuring a prayer as they reached the streets and looked heavenward.

It was in the French portion of the city that the most thrilling scenes occurred. The simple French Canadians thought that the end of the world had come and the street* were soon black with screaming people, some on their knees praying, others telling their beads, while some were dumb and almost insensible from fright Priests and nuus were among the terror-stricken populace, but nothing could allay their fears. They swarmed around the churches imploring the aid of the holy fathers. Women were prostrated in the crowd and trampled upon.

Stampede In Court.

In the court of queen's bench, where Thomas Green was being tried for robbery, Judge Wurtelle, the jury, policemen and spectators fled in terror, Judge Dugas beiug seriously injured in the mad stampede. The prisoner escaped unmolested, but was subsequently arrested.

Many Buildings Injured.

The water in the reservoirs rose in great waves and several waterworks employes were buried In a IB-foot pipetrench, but were rescued alive. Hardly a building in the city escaped uninjured and reports of damage done in all parts of the province where the earthquake was felt are still coming in

In tho Country District.

In the country district the same state of affairs prevailed. A number of the tKmsy structures in which the inhabitants lived were blown down by the wind,-which in many cases accompanied the earthquake, and the affrighted inhabitants rushed aimlessly about, often receiving injury. The earthquake was most felt along the section of the St Lawrence river between Montreal and Quebec cities. A number of casualties have occurred in the country districts, but full reports from there have not been received. It will be found, however, that great loss will have been entailed on farmers. 1'revlous Shock..

Sir William Dawson, late principal of McUill university, gives it as his opinion that the earthquake is the result of a settlement or giving away in the rocks along the junction of the Laurentian and Silurian formations. From what he can judge the present earthquake come from a great depth and nearly vertically. Previous earthquakes have occurred in Canada in 1063, 1877, 1870, 1880 and 1800.

In New York.

NEW YOKK, NOV. 28.—The earthquake shock was felt in Williamsburg. N. Y., at 12:15 p. m. Monday. The shock was also felt in buildings near the East river, aud it was supposed to be caused by the concussion of a distant powder or dynamite explosion. The shock was felt in the easteru district of Brooklyn, especially along Bed ford avenue.

In England.

BOSTON, Nov. 28.—A severe earthquake shock wasfeltihroughout north ern Vermont and New Hampshire at 11:45 Monday morning. At St .Johnsbury, Vt, the shock was especially severe. 11 was also felt at Greenfield, Miu.

Ws print sale hills on abort notice. THK JODRNAL CO., PRCTKIW.

PRICE 2 CENTS

Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report

ABSOI1/TE1Y PURE

i'QWDERLTS PLACE.

Knitrta Acoept the Grand Master Workman's Resignation.

SOVEREIGN,OF IOWA, CHOSEN LEADER

Mr. 1'owderly Declares He Will Iteiualu with and Work for the Order—Horn*tlilog About the New Master

Workman's Career.

POWDERI.Y STEPS DOWN.

PHll.ADEt.PHlA, Nov. 2S.—At Monday afternoon's meeting of the Knights of Labor delegates Grand Master Workman Powderly's resignation was accepted by a practically uuanimous vote after he had stated to the convention that he had tendered it in good faith and that his action was final. J. K. Sovereign, of Iowa, was then elected to succeed Mr. Powderly, the vote being: Sovereign, 28: James Campbell, ut Pittsburgh, 8 T. B. McGuire, 1 "Powderly, 2. The vacancies on the general executive board were tilled by the election of C. A. French, of Boston, 11. li. Martin, of Minneapolis, and J. I. Kcnuey, of Omaha, all anti-l'owderly men.

W1U Keuialn Iu the Ordor.

Mr. Powderly being approached, remarked: "The king is dead long live the king." He said that Sovereign was a good man and ho was glad to sco him his successor. Asked if lie would remain in the order, he said: "Certainly, and I'll do all I can for it"

The New Hastar Workman. DES MOISES, la., Nov. 28.—Iowa's la

bor commissioner, J. H. Sovereign, who has been chosen as successor to Master Workman Powderly of the Knights of Labor, was seen in regard to the matter. He said he would accept the position and would endeavor to have the headquarters removed from Philadelphia to the west, probably Des Moines. Further than that he would not outline his policy.

Mr. Sovereign is serving his second term as labor commissioner under Gov. Boies. He has been for several years state master workman of the Iowa Knights of Labor. He is a stonecutter by trade, but has been in political and newspaper work JUI several years in the greenback and populist parties. He is popular among Iowa workingmen aud has considerable influence in politics. He gathered the corn statistics from which Gov. Boies made his famous New York speech claiming that corn was raised in Iowa at a loss of sixty-seven cents an acre. Mr.

Sov

ereign is the third man to hold tin: office of general master workman in the order since its organization in

1SI5U,

Mr. Stephens and Mr. Powderly being the other two.

A SENSATION.

Jnr'»rs In the Couglillu I.'UMI Accused of Crooked Work. CHICAGO, NOV. 28.—Judge Tuthill

will be asked by State's Attorney Kern to-day to discharge S. L. Gates and George C. Wilson from the jury sworn in to try Duuiel Coughlin for the murder of Dr. P. H. Cronin. Gates aud Wilson, it is charged, have been put on the jury through the influence of Coughlin's friendn. Affidavits on which this accusation is based were prepared aud will be submitted to-day at the sitting of the court Broadly stated, it will be sought to be proved by the state that the two jurors were willing parties to being put on the jury for a purpose, and that purpose nothing more nor less than to fight against the conviction of Coughlin.

No Rod Hat for balolll.

ROME,' NOV. 28.—The Vatican lias formally denied the report that Mgr. Satolli is to be made a cardinal, and that his successor as the papal delegate to the United States has been named.

Waul •aon.otio.

CHIUAUO. NOV. 28.—The South park commissioners will ask 1500,000 to take the buildings and absolve the company from all claims.

THE MARKETS.

tiraln, Provision*, Ktc. CHICAGO, Nov. 27

FLOcn—In Hglit request and easy. Winter —Patents, !&S5&3.b:> straights, t2.80$2.0U clears, £MC&2.00 seconds, tI.S031.tf) low grades, 12.8091.701 Spring—Patents, CI0U4H 3.M straights. $1.d0£}2.80 Bakers', ?1.?5@!L10 low grades, t1.404}1.50 Hed Dog, tl.40£l.50: Rye, J2.50©i80.

WHEAT—Moderately actlvc and hicher. No 2 cash, 61!%i2}62?4o December, 6I^^6^V^ May,

CoitN—Moderately active and Hteadicr. No. 2. No. Yellow, 35V,(®35fcc No. 3, No. 3 Yellow, 35^c December, 35*4

January, 85!4C3otc May,'39^QU!ic

and July 40S& OATS—Moderately active and steady. No. 2 cash, 28c Doeember, 2r^©sr77fc: May, 31e. Samples in fair demand and Urmer. No. a No. 3 White, No. U,

Sq 2

White, 30$31o.

ATE—Quiet and firm. No. 2 cash, 45^0. Samples 4flfe47c for No. 2, and 4l24 te for No 3 May delivery. 52\c.

BARLEY—Tr« de rather unimportant. Low grade, 3n3&*c fair to good, 40®4 }c bettor grade, 441146 choice to fancy, 48&53o.

MESS POHK—Trading moderate and prices easy. Quotations ranged at #l2.50®t2.7.b for cash P-suUr, and'il2.45^U.6 for January.

LAHli—Market rather quiet and pricts •toady. Quotations ranged at (8 50^.55 for cash »7.W$7.85 for January, and 7.653-7.70 for May.

LIVB POULTRY—Per pound: Chickens, 5-fc 6Hc: Turkeys, 7&8e Ducks. 7®Mo Gei-sc, H.0J 2fe5 bU per uozen.

BUTTER—Creamery, &0&2&!TC: Dairy. Packing Stock, lO^10v*c. QlLa— Wisconsin Prime White. 7'-jc Water