Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1891 — Page 2

DEC''vßU’R,'l' ND. M. BLACKBURN, - - . Pubiasheb, NEWS LN A NUTSHELL. TWO LAPORTE. IND., CITIZENS KIDNAPED AND ROBBED. Setratcr Blair Accepts the Chinese Mission — Buried Treasure—Crushed to Death—A I’arricide—Dastardly Deed ot Colanders, BOLD'IiOBBERY. Two Laporte. Ind., Citizens Kidnaped and Bobbed or Valuables. Chicago special: John Wilson and Henry Matthews, two pronfineht citizens of Laporte, Ind., were seized by three burly ruffians, while they were waking to their homes, a few miles outside that city, and thrown into an empty cattle car which was on its way to Chicago, attached to the regular cattle train. The train had stopped, but started as soon as the daring deed was committed. The ruffians threw the mon to tl)<; floor of the car and robbed them of their valuables, which they only succeeded in taking after a desperate struggle. The robbers sprang upon their victims, and over and over they rolled, each man lighting for supremacy. The noise of the rapidly moving train and theories of the huddled up cattle drowned tle shouts of the men for help. The men who wore big and .strong, fought desperately for their lives, but the three robbers were too much ... for them. After a battle of nearly half an hour the nearly exhausted men were hurled from the rapidly moving train and left lying bruised, bleeding, and unconscious by the roadside. Two hours afterward they were found and conveyed to a neighboring house, where they were revived. As soon as their story was learned the Chicago police were notified, but sc far no arrests have been made. The wounded men were taken to their homes. They are both seriously injured, but not necessarily fatal. Asphyxiation. Des Moines, (Ta.) special: Reuben S. Hatton, a bookkeeper in the-Vmploy of the Central Loan am! Trust Association, and an unknown woman, supposed to be from Kansas City, were found in a room in the Oriole block, which was occupied by Mr. Hatton as a sleeping room. Death was caused by asphyxiation. Hatton ay disrobed upon the bed and the womiri was clad in her usual wearing appqref. Empty liquor bottles were scattered, profusely about roam, indicating that the dead persons became stuptfied by liquor before the gas, which had beer partially turned off, was extinguished. The affair has - caused a great sensation, chiefly, because of the high church and business connection of the dead man's relatives. An I'd it or Killed. Ernest. Hardenstein, editor of Biisincxx, , a weekly paper, and John Cashman, editor of the evening Bost, met in mortal combat ou the streets of Vicksburg. Miss., with the result of Hardenstein being killed. The difficulty was caused by a discussion of the action of the citizens of New Orleans in the killing of the Hennesy assas-ips. Cashman sure rendered and wa- locked up. He said ho had been advised by warm friends • that Hardenstein would attack him and he was prepared for the worst when attacked by Hardenstein. No pistol was found on Uardenstein’s body and he is believed to have been unarmed at the time of the encounter. . Buried Treasure. « An old citizen of Creston, lowa, has received a lettler from a priest in Lisbon, Spain, epprising him of the fact" that a Spanish exile who was formerly his associate -as an employe of the Burlington roundhouse here had just died leaving hint $5,600 upon the following conditions: The citizen is to give the priest a born! in the sum of $40,000 gugfrunteeing that he will unearth and restore’ to the Span iard's only, heir, a daughter, jewels tc the value of 840,000 buried in Creston. A chart giving the exact location of.the treasure is to be sent the citizen on receipt of the bond. Betg-iuNu vh. I rance. The Belgium Governriient threatens to renounce the copyright convention with France, which expires next February, if France persists in her protective policy. This will be a hard blow to the French printing and publishing trades. Ih Chili. Official advices from Chili state that the Government troops have retired to Salama. They have abundant materials and provisions. Chinese Beheaded. A detective from British Columbia states that during his stay in Victoria, he saw enough to convince him that the Chinese in the Province were administering punishments according to their own civil criminal code. He says he got on the track of two eases in w hich criminals had been.tried under their code and secretly beheaded. He is of the opinion that many Chinamen arc thus dealt with on the Pacific coast, of whose eases the local police never hear. Dastardly Deed of Polunderw. John Troutman and Edward Jones, while on their way home, at Shoemakers Patch, Pa-were attacked at a lonely , spot on the road by three men. While one held Jones at bay with a- revolver thrust, into his face, the otheis attacked Troutman, stabbing him repeatedly. The wounds} are believed to be fatal. Three Poianders have been arrested on suspicion of committing the crime, of which no one knows the cause. 4 CriiHlicl to Dentil. While William" Wessemann was assisting at the machine used at the Bass Foundry and Machine Works, Fort Wayne, for crushing ear wheels, one of them fell on him, crushing him to death. He leaves a wife and^hreechildren. “ A Parricide. A Iliilsboro, Ohio, dispatch says that William Moore, a wealthy farmer and stock breeder, living in the northern part of Highland County, near New Vienna, was shot and killed by his son, Oscar, who claims that he acted in self-defense. The son has been arrested. Senator Blair Aceepta. Ex-Senator Blair J.has accepted the Chinese mission, and has arranged to sail from San Francisco to the flowcry kingdom on the Ist of May. He has already received his instructions from the Secretary of State. Harrison's Threat. A New York Mail and ErpreM Washington special says: President Harrison has. determined upon summary measures to relieve American pork, which is the. subject of so much German opposition. Minister Phelps has been notified to® demand of , the German authorities that, the embargo be at once removed, else the President will proceed to exercise the authority given him by the last Congress, and by proclamation close our ports against German imports. The announcement amounts to nothing loss than a threat, and the result will be interesting, The State Department offi-

cials' refused to discuss the matter. There is no doubt that the communication has been sent to Minister Phelps, for the President so informed a Senator who called upon him. KIDNAPED A MILLIONAIRE. A Wealthy Detroit Citizen Captured and Bela tor Ransom by Bold Bandits. Detroit special: Joseph Perrien, proprietor of one of the largest flouring mills in Detroit, and a half millionaire, was called to his door by a stranger the other night with a message purporting to come from an intimate friend who was reported as ill and desiring Mr. Perrien's attendance. Mr. Perrien left his home with the stranger about 10 o’clock, entered a coupe with him and went away. At 1 o’clock In the morning the Perrien home door-bell was rung and an envelope thrust in by a young man who immediately disappeared. The envelope contained a check for 515,000 on the Peninsular bank, of which Mr. Perrien is Vice President and a large stockholder, a promissory note for 815,000 payable in live days, and a letter to Mr. Perrien’s nephew”, Mr. Hesselbach er, advising him to cash the check, negotiate the note, or failingeitlier, to raise $15,000. on his own property to be paid as a ransom for Mr. Perrien, who was being held by some parties whom the letter did not disclose. The letter appointed a rendezvous at which the money might be paid. Both note and check bore Mr. Perrien’s genuine signature. Later—Joseph Perrien, the wealthy miller who was kidnaped, has returned home safe and well. He iays he attempted to jump out of the coupe, but two masked men with revolvers prevented. They’ gagged and blindfolded him. When he was released he was forced to write and sign a check, note, and letters. His captors finally told him their game was up. and then blindfolded him and dumped him in the outskirts of the city and drove away. ANOTHER LIFE s. Added to the Terrible New Orleans Tragedy. 9 New Orleans special: Capt; Arthur Dunn, a prominent politician and a well Known attorney of this city became involved.in a quarrel with Frank Waters, an ex-journalist and well-known character about town and a shooting scrape resulted, terminating in the killing of V» aters, and the serious wounding of Dunn, Capt. Dunn was one of the attorneys employed by the State iu the recent trial of the Italians charged withthe - assassination of Chief of Police Hennessey. The trouble began in the early part of the evening. Waters had been drinking in a saloon, and during the course of his remarks stigmatized the killing of theItalians at the parish prison as an outrage on the community, and expressed himself as satisfied that all men conin the matter would come to an untimely end. Shortly'" after a dispute took place, during which Dunn referred to Waters as a murderer, he having killed Joseph Baker here in ISS7; The dispute grew warmer and Dunn pulled his revolver and shot Waters in the cheek and in the mouth. The last bullet ranged upward and penetrated the brain. Waters returned the lire of his antagonist and wounded Dunn twice in the left, log and again in the right side of his chest, near the nipple. Waters died almost instantly. Dunn was taken to the hospital where he lies in a precarious condition.

BRUTAL WORK OF STRIKERS. A Reign of Terror at Braddock, Pa. A special from Braddock, Pa., says: The west end of Braddock, is under a reign of terror. August Coulson, a Swede, came here from the East to go to work at the Carey blast furnaces. He was met at Cppcland station by his brother-in-law, '.John Martin, and in making their way toward Rankin Station with two valises thrown over their shoulders were thought to be men coming Jo go to work in the wire mill where a strike is in progress. They were set upon by a crowd and unmercifully beaten with stones and clubs. Martin is under a doctor's care. Coulson, being a stranger, got lost in his flight and has not yet turned up. Martin thinks that Coulson has been dangerously hurt. John Penny was attacked by a crowd while returning from work at the wire mill. lie drew a revolver and warned the crowd to stand aside. He was afterward arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and held for trial. Andrew Hanson, another Swede, was stripped of his clothing and is confined to his bed as a result of injuries sustained from rough treatment by a crowd of strikers. The police are now keeping the West End under surveillance. An outbreak is expected at any moment. A Prospective Duel. Berlin special: '1 he Kaiser and Chancellor Caprivi are very much stirred up over the unpleasant position in which the young wife of old Prince Reuss, the German Embassador at Vienna-, has got her husband by insulting the son of the Roumanian Minister. It is difficult to . see how Prince Reuss can avoid fighting a duel now that the Roumanian Minister has resigned in order to obtain satisfaction for the insult to his son. The Prince is a'general in the Prusian army and could not refuse the challenge without incurring the charge of cowardice. On the other haird he is not a man of fighting disposition, and prefers a quiet, easy life, from which the lively temper of his wife is continually dragging him. It is even said that there is a story similar to that of Joseph Potipihar’s wife behind the animosity of the Princess toward the young Roumanian. A Bad Wreck. While the local on the Nickel Plate was doing their work at South Whitley, Ind., a west bound freight crashed into the tail end, telescoping, the caboose and five box cars. Just before the crash, three passengers entered the caboose and they were more or less hurt. Simon Cohn, traveling man for A. P. Mitchell, Rochester, was hurt about the head; James of Kinzie, Ind., shoulder dislocated; A. Y. Nasser, of Three Rivers, Mieh.. traveling for L. C. Luce & Go., of Kalamazoo,was hurt seriously if not fatally, his right hip mashed and a largo splinter passing through the fleshy part of the thigh. Ills leg below the knee is bare of the flesh. He* was .taken to Hotel Foster where his wounds were dressed. An Arcttiei*! Flood. A large tank of the National Cotton Seed Oil Company burst while being tested with water at West New York, N. J., sending a huge volume of water down a steep hill. The water struck a tank containing 300 barrels of oil, which burst and swelled the torrent. The house of Michael Taft was in the path of the torrent and the cataract damaged it considerably. Mrs. Taft was caught in the flood and was badly injured. Michael Taft, her son, was also badly injured, so was also a man named Barthol. There were several persons more or less injured but their names could not be ascertained. The damage to the oil company is estimated at $15,000. A Wonderful Hypnotist. San Francfsco special: Senator Fair’s daughter, Jessie, married Herman O. Beach, of New York, and he has two sons, James, jr., and Charles. Recently James, jr., was discharged from a hospital where he had been seriously ill, due to drinking. When he was discharged, Dr, Brown, the hypnotist, put him under

tiie influence, and for several hoars exercised his influence on Fair’s palate and told him to go and drink no more. Fair could not drink, aud even the smell of liquor was abhorent. The brother, Charles, went to Brown and the operation was treated in his case with alike result. Brown has gone East to make a visit prior to a trip to Europe. Unnatural Fathers Fred Arbergast, a farmer residing cast of Frankfort, Ind., was, in August last, compelled to marry a girl who was distasteful to him, and following a few months a child was born. The young man is said to hav# hated the infant from its birth, and the neighborhood stories of his shocking cruelty inflicted upon it are terrible. He is accused of stealing the nursing bottle and refusing the mother the privilege of giving it nourishment for*hours at a jiime. He is ®4so charged with pinching its tender flesh till it bled, and inflicting other cruelties. The other day the child died, and charges were preferred, resulting in the arrest and jailing of the father. Chopped His Wile s Head Off. Wheeling (W. Va.) special: News of one of the most atrocious murders ever committed iu this vicinity has just reached here. Peter Richmond ordered his wife to pick up a pair of scissors which were on the floor, and, because she did not immediately obey, he seized an ax and struck his wife on the head, felling her to the floor. He then struck her several blows with the edge of the weapon, leaving her head hanging by but. a shred. He then attacked his mother, who ran from the house screaming for help. Richmond was overpowered by the neighbors and bound to the floor. He is supposed to be insane. California's New Senator. Charles N. Felton has been elected LT. S. Senator from California to succeed the late Senator Hearst. - Senator-elect Felton was born in New York fifty-eight years ago, and went to California when ho was 17 years of age. He engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits aud entered politics as a Democrat. He afterwards became a Republican and was elected to the Assembly for four years. He declined renomination six years ago, and was sent to Congress from the Fifth District. He has also held the position of United States Sub-Treasurer of San Francisco. Three Children Drowned. Isaac Burford, a farmer, attempted to .cross Valley Creek near Birmingham, Ala., in a wagon in width were his wife and three children, lhe creek was much swollen, and the wagon and team were washed down stream. The three children were drowned, the youngest being washed from its mother’s arms while she was clinging to a iimbto keep her head above water. Burford succeeded in -rescuing his wif<‘ after she had released her hold of the limb in a vain effort to save the baby.

An Important Decision. The first suit under the eight-hour law in Indiana was brought in Indianapolis, by John Grisset against the Noel Brothers Flour and Feed Company. He contracted for $2.25 per day. and he showed that between May 27, 1890, and March 12, 1891, he averaged eleven hours daily, and he sued lor pay for the extra three hours over legal time. The defense claimed that plaintiff had becii employed by the week, but the court held this was immaterial, and gave judgment for $93. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court, Sneezing to Death. A peculiar case of supposed la grippe oceurh’d—'at South Charleston, O. A young lady named May Cristrum, employed as a domestic, was taken with violent sneezing, much to the amusement of those around, but it continued, and became more serious during the day, upt-il the disease assumed a very dangerous stage, the girl being neither able to eat nor sleep, but sneezing continually. She is in a very critical condition at present and gradually growing worse. All efforts to stop her sneezing have proved of no avail. An Ktlitor’s troubles. Edmund 11. Swetman, editor of tho Cleveland Tribune, was arrested at Akron, Ohio, for selling his paper on the streets. Newsboys had been warned by tho authorities, aud when they declined to receive the Tribune Swetman took tho papers himself and began selling them, lie was grrested at once on the grounds that he offered for sale a paper devoted to immortal purposes. Swetman gave bond for his appearance in court. Died of a Broken Heart, John W, lloughtaling, aged 66, tho conductor of the train which was wrecked on the Lake Shore road at East Hamburg, last April, in which several lives were lost, and who was indicted for manslaughter in connection therewith, but was acquitted, died at ..JijLs^home in Buffalo, N- Y. The terriblii affair, and his subsequent indictment proyed’ ou him to such an extent that his friends say he died of a broken heart.

ISo ler Explosion. The boiler at Benjamin Binager's saw mill at Albany, Ind., exploded, completely wrecking the mill aud badly injuring one man. The engineer had allowed tho water to get low and was trying to raise enough steam to run the water-pumps when the explosion occurred. Eli Smith, a hotel man, was in the mill and received a broken arm, dislocated shoulder aud was badly hurt internally. Rnginei-r Killed. Train No. 1, southbound, on the Louisville and Nashville road jumped tho track ou the connection between Brook and Floyd streets, Louisville. The engine was going nt a good rate of speed, and for fifty feet it plowed tho ground. The engineer, George Burgess, was instantly killed, and his body was badly mangled. Fireman Erskine was fatally injured. None of the passengers were injured. Two Passenger Loaches Burned. A metallic oil lamp exploded in one of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan passenger coaches at Anderson, Ind., setting it on lire. Tho flames spread to an adjoining coach and both were reduced to ashes. These coaches were among the finest on the road. The prompt arrival of the fire department prevented the destruction of the enginehouse, coal bins, and train sheds. No Americans Killed. A dispatch from Rome says there is no' truth in the rumor that two Americans had been murdered at Nazaret, near Naples. The rumor ■seems to have originated in the fifet that two tourists, not Americans, were recently assaulted and robbed yi that vicinity. The various authorities, in town and country, have been given the strictest orders to prevent any display of violence toward foreigners on account of the existing excitement. Senator Hearst’s Wilt. The late Senator Hearst’s will was filed for probate at San Francisco. Mrs. Phoebe M. Hearst, his widow, is made sole executrix. It is stated in tho will that Senator Hearst was cognizant of the fact that his wife is by law entitled to one-half ot his entire estate, it all being community property.. The remaining 3 half is also bequeathed to thejgddow. Poisoned with Grocery Meat.

After partaking of prepared meat purchased at a corner grocery, James M. Nolen and wife, well-to-do residents of

Pittsburgh, Pa., were seized with symp- ’ toms of arsenical poisoning. Nolen gradually grow worse and died in great agony. Mrs. Nolen is improving and will probably recover. The case is being investigated. Five Hunared Lost. Gibraltar special: The revised official count of the lost and saved passengers and crew of the ill-fated Utopia shows that there were 880 souls on' board the steamer when she ran on the Anson. Os this number the saved are 200 steerage passengers, two saloon passengers, three Italian interpreters, and twenty-three of the crew, all the latter being Englishmen or mqn who had shipped at English ports. Badly Burned. Ashland (Pa.) special: An accident occurred at the Centralia colliery by which John Roberts, James McCann, Harry Williams, and Morgan Evans were badly burned. The men were engaged in driving a tunnel, and a spark from one of their lamps fell in,a keg of pow&er which exploded, throwing them in all directions. McCann’s injuries are likely to prove fatal. Making Am mn nit ion. From some unknown reason remarkable activity is shown aLthe government cartridge factory at Quebec, Can. The factory is running full time and orders have been received from Ottawa for an immediate establishment of a factory to manufacture large Martini-Henry ammunition. These rush orders for war-like material, without known cause, excite comment in military circles. Lovers Drowned. Andrew Moore, aged 21, and Miss Ollie Cox. aged 16, were drowned in therTuxapallia River, at Kennedy, Ala. The young people were out boat riding, and through some cause unknown, the boat capsized. Mr. Monroe tried to rescue’ Miss Cox. but on account of the swift, current was unable to do so. The young couple were to have beer, married soon. Sbo Wants a Tension. Mary E. Dewey, alias Charles Dewey, of Goshen, Ind., has applied for a pension. The grounds of her claim is that she served through the war in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and whilein the service received a gun shot wound in the left leg, which left her disabled. A Wreck. a An east-bound freight train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway was derailed near Ada, fourteen miles east of Lima, Ohio. The train was loaded with cattle, soiiie twenty carloads being killed and maimed, involving a heavy loss. The ours wore badly wrecked. No Truth in the Story. There is absolutely no truth in the story that J. B. McLean has secured a controlling interest in the Cincinnati , Ci/inntereial-Ciizt’t!e. It could not be sold j and as the stock is ndw located no one could secure a controlling interest inside a yea?. Ex-AlileniianElliott Deail. EN-Aldermafi G. W. Elliott, aged 43, one of the most prominent citizens of Rochester, N. ¥., died of Bright’s disease. Ho was the head of 11. 11. Warner's safe remedy advertising department and represented that house for many years in Condon. Will Recognize Prince Victor.

Interviews with the Bonaparticst leaders which were, published in Paris, show that they have decided to disregard the will of the late Prince Napoleon, and tc recognize in the person of Prince Victor, the legitimate heir to the throne of France. Lawrence Barrett Dead. Lawrence Barrett, the great tragedian, died at the Windsor Hotel, New York. The demise wasjiuo to heart failure, and the end was quite sudden, the great actor being unconscious only a short time before he died. It Was a Bud Failure. The failure of Theodore Schwarz & Co., bankers, of Louisville, Ky., turns out more serious t-haif first supposed. The liabilities will reach nearly $750,000. and it is probable that not more than It cents on the dollar will ever be paid. Went Down at Sea. The Swedish ship Senator Weber, which sailed from Cardiff March 9, sot Rio Janeiro and was caught off the coast by the recent heavy gale which swept over England, foundered, carrying down with her fourteen of her crew. Indiana Triplets. Mrs. W. H. Wooden, living neai Martinsville, Ind., gave, birth to triplets—two boys and a girl. Their combined weight was twenty pounds. These were her first offspring. Oxford Wins. The great boat rabe between the university crews of Oxford and Cambridge, which took place on the Thames River, was won by the former crew. Burned to Death. Mrs. William Watterson, aged 75. was burned to death in a smoke-house neat Easton, Ohio. Her clothing caught lire and she was literally cremated. Accepted I’arnell’w Challenge. Sir. Maurice Healy has accepted Mr. Parnell's challenge to resign and recontest his election as a representative from Cork. i Ohio Appropriates SIOO.OOO. The. Ohio Legislature has passed the World's Fair bill appropriating SIOO,OOO, and it is now a law. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to PrimeS3.2s @ 15.23 Hogs—Shipping Grades.., 3.60 @4.35 Sherc S oo @ goo Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @ l.oa Corn No. 264 @ 65 Oats No.<-2 ~s a & -S3 RybNo.2 ; k 5 @ .87 Butter -Choice Creamery 26 @ Cheese-Full Cream, f1at5...,.. .106j@ .11* Egob—Freeh ... .21 .22* Potatoes—-Western, tier bn. .... 1.0) @ 1.10 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 $5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 3 Red 1.00 $ 1.01 Corn—No. 1 White.6l $ .62 Oats—No, 3 Whites 4 @ .55 ST. LOUIS. Cattle . .... 4.00 @5.50 Hous.. 3.00 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red J.Ol @1.02 Coax—No. 259. @ .no Oat*—No. 2 51 @ .52 Barucy—Minnesota,. .74 @ .76 I CINCINNATI. CVTTJ.K 3.00 @5.00 Hous. 3.00 @ 4.25 Hseep 3.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red >.02 @1.0214 Corn—No. 2 65 @ .66 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 53 *@ ’54 >4 DETROIT. Cattle 300 @ 4.75 800s —. 3.00 @4.00 ShEKP• 3.00 @5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.03 @ 1.04 Corn—No. 2 Yellow .65, @ .66 Oats—No. 2 White .55 @ .56 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.03 @ 1.04 Cohn—Cash63 @ .65 Oats—No. 2 Whites 3 @ .51 Clover seed 4.30 @ 4.40 „ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 4.00 @5.75 Hoos—Light 3.25 @ 4.50 Sheep- Medium to Good 4.00 @ 8.25 Lambs .". 5.09 @ 6.75 „ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 95}j@ .96* Corn—No. 3 63 @ .64 Oats—No. 2 Whites 2 @ .53 Rye—No. 1 85 @ .87 Barley—No. 267 @ .69 Fork—Men.-. 11.50 @12.00 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.00 @ 6.50 &HTLKr ; 5.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No, 2 Red 1.14 @1.16 Corn—No. 2 74 00 ,76 Oats—Mixed Western....s6 @ .60 Butter—Creamery .21 @ .32 Eggs—Western23 @ .24 Pobk—New Mee* 12.00 @I2 ; SQ

OUR FARMERS’ RIVAL. WHEAT AND CORN IN THE AR- „ GENTINE REPUBLIC. Great Increase of Production—Reciprocity ■witli Brazil Will Not Help Our FarmersArgentine Will Take Brazi’s MarketReciprocity with Europe W anted. While Mr. Blaine has been doing something to open South American markets to our farm products, a rival of our farmers is springing up in South America Itself. Consul Baker, of Buenos Ayres, who has represented our Government tn that city for sixteen years, has recently sent a report to the State Department in which he says that “it is only a question of time and immigration for the Argentine Republic to become one of the great grain producing regions of the world. ” When Mr. Baker went to that country, cargoes of flour from New York, Baltimore and Richmond were of frequent occurrence, but our treasury reports for last year do not report a dollar's worth of flour sent there. -Sixteen years ago ho found that the opinion was held that the Argentine pampas were unsuitable for cultivation and would always be devoted to pasturage. This opinion was based upon the scientific utterances of Dr. Burmeister, the great

German naturalist, who occupies a position of high authority in Argentine. Not satisfied with this judgment of the scientist, the Presidentof the republic laid out land intu farms and established farming colonies. Large estates heretofore devoted to pasturage have ' boon divided up into smaller tracts j suitable for farming, and everything ‘ points to a very great development of ; wheat and corn growing at an early i day. In 1875 there were only 271.000 j acres in wheat, in 1889 there were 1.035.- ) o'o acres. Corn occupied only 219,000; acres in 1875; in 1889 there were 850,000 : acres. Enpor.ts of wheat and Hour in i 18S9 reached 8?, 100,000. exports of corn' 812,977,000. But the crop of 1889 was a failure, owing to a protracted drought, and exports of wheat were only one- j tenth as great as in the two previous i years. This will be seen from the fol- j lowing figures of Argentine exports i taken from the “Handbook of the Amer- I ican Republics'” which Is issued by Mr. 1 Blaine's Pan-American bureau in Washington: Bushels. 1 18801 42,829 j 1881.. J. .* 5,772 1882 62,659 ' 1883 1...2.292,352 ’ ISS-t 3,988,&3 | 188.52,884,138 1885 .1,288,262 i 18878.73 >,981 18888.721,7’.1 1 185J,......’s 834,232 After the small exports of ISS9, the first, three months of IS; 0 showed an | enormous increase. Wheat and flour exported rose to §20,200,<1)0, and the i exports of corn for the three months wore $9,897,000. An important fact to note is that Bra- j zil was a large buyer of these bread- i stuFs, one-seventh of the wheat export- ! ed; one-fourth of the corn, and one-iifth of the flour exported in 1889 went to>! Brazil. As the Argentine Republic is so much nearer to Brazil than w.e are, it can hardly be hoped that our farmers ! will long be abl.e to sell their breadstuifs ; in Brazil in competition with it From! Buenos Ayres to Rio Janeiro, the capital of Brazi), is about 1,609 miles, a voyage ! .of only three to live days, while from I ! New York to Rio Janeiro is 4,800 miles j and takes from twenty to twenty-live : [days. , ■■ j [ This fact is all the more important 1 when it is remembered that Brazil has i no duty at all on wheat, and the duty i on flour, which is to be removed fbr us. [ is only 10 per cent. It is thus seen that I our farmers have a powerful rival on i almost an equal footing, and fifteen to i twenty days nearer the Brazilian market; than we are. It seems at best to be only a question of time when it will be | impossible for us to ship breadstuff's to ! Brazil. The capacity for the development of' wheat raising in Argentine may be seen ! from Consul Baker's estimate, that at pres-nt there are only .about 5,800,000 acres in wheat,-while there are 723,500,000 acres suitable for wheat-growing. It is therefore almost true to say that for [ every acre in wheat now there are 100 ■ acres that may be put in wheat. That the wheat acreage of Argentine will soon be enormously increased is certain. A year ago a firm of agricultural implement makers here in thevUnited States had an order from that country for 25,000 plows to be used in turning over the rich i prairie land of Buenos Ayres. At the same time it was reported that the activity ! in ship building on the Clyde was duo to ! the demand for steamers in the trade be- ; tween England and the Argentine 6 Re- ' public. While Mr. Blaine is chasing the will- I o'-the-wisp of a market for breadstuifs in [ South America, it would be a good thing i for him to devise ways and means for i preventing Europe her-eli from going to ; South America for her supply of bread- ‘ stuffs. So long as Einrop -an countries 1 are repelled by McKinley tariffs from selling their goods to us, just so long will ’ they be forced to seek other markets. If they sell in South America they are bound to buy grain there divexehange [ for their goods if they can find it. The I more freely wo admit European gdods > the more do we increase the demand in Europe for our agricultural products. i

Two Republican Views. Two leading Republicans have just expressed certain views about the tariff question which are significant. Senator Hale, of Maine, has given iiis views as to the part the tariff will play in the next national campaign. “It will be impossible.” ho said, “to keep the tariff from being one of the leading issues of the campaign, because If no general tariff law is reported in the House and up tight is made to remodel the entire law. some changes will be suggested and probably The people will expect this, and the tariff questions will be constantly under discussion by the masses. ” The other Republican is the now defunct Ingalls, who has b’eti visiting Boston, and has stated to a Republican paper there the attitude of Western Republicans on the tariff questioft. He shows that a great change has come over the dream of Republican pros|xscts in the West. The cx-Senator said: “The views of Western Republicans, or those who have hitherto lx-en identified with the Republican party, have undergone an essential change on the tariff question, and among such there is now a demand for tariff revision and reduction. They regard the present system as inequitable and as favoring the manufacturer and the merchant more than the producer and the consumer. In their estimation the tariff question follows the silver issue in consequence and importance. “Reciprocity is regarded in the West with favor, but there is no enthusiasm over it. It is regarded very largely as a device of politicians intended to distract people from the real issues in which they are interested. It has no great political significance at present ” Full Thi-IIT Fricey. For some months the prices of imported dry goods in the, New York market have been gradually mating upward toward yie new tariff standard. The large importations last summer and fall, made at that time in order to escape the now McKinley duties, over-

ocked the market, and for some nths it was not possible for the imters to realize the full prices which —- McKinley law would eventually make necessary. It seems, however, that the time has come when full new tariff prices are demanded and, with much hesitancy and objection, are paid. The New York Commercial Bulletin has just said, in reviewing the foreign dry goods market, that prices “are firm, and as strong in promise of continued stability as in actual condition. Importers feel perfectly sure of their position, and express no lack of confidence in their ability to maintain full new tariff prices throughout the season. Buyers have abandoned hope of breaking the market by a holding off of the demand. Nevertheless, current prices do not suit them." It must not be supposed that these foreign goods are entirely such as only the rich can buy. Many of them are the goods of the poor man. Nearly every yard of linen goods worn in this country comes from Europe. Most of the cheaper stockings have been imported, and the same is true of corduroys, cotton plushes, etc. The imports of all kinds of cheap foreign dry goods would be vastly greater if it were not for the McKinley tariff wall. The tariff is a thing to prevent the people from getting what they want.

PROTECTING RAISINS. Tariff Co-t to ■ th» Country—California Raisin Business Already Prosperous. Perhaps no single item shows so woll the sting of the tariff as raisins. The Census Bureau has just made public the statistics of grape and raisin production for 1880. By comparing these statistics and those of raisin imports for 1890 very striking results are obtained. According to the census returns, 41,166 tons of grapes were used for making raisins last year, producing 1,372,195 boxes of raisins, weighing 27,440,000 pounds. Besides these raisins tit for table use, 23,252 tuns of grapes were dried for other purposes, like cooking. It would be safe to estimate the dried, grape product at 14.000,000 pounds. Nearly all of tho above were produced in California. The -New York Mcr -hunts' Review estimates the price of California raisins at 10 cents a pound, and of the dried grapes at 7 cents. On this basis the raisin product of the country last year was worth $2,744,000, and the dried grapes $980,000, a total < f $3,724.< O’). Now the Treasury Department reports that during the yegr ending Dec. 31, .1890, we imported 41,795,030 pounds of raisins, valued at $.’,315,c00, or a trifle above 5 cents a pound. The old duty on raisins was 2 cents a pound: the McKinley duty is 2’.j cents. The McKinley duty on last year's importations would have been $1,119,9 0. This is the sum which the taxpayers are now compelled to pay to insure big profits to tiieCalifornia raisin producers. The raisin business is already so profitable in that State that men have been rushing into it headlong. A California paper has recently stated tliatj. the vineyards of that State already in bearing, and those planted but not yet in hearing, will have a capa itv of 7,750,603 boxes of raisins, or 15.'>,300.000 pounds. The annual protection, then, guaranteed by tho tariff law will be equal to $3,875,060. 'But there is another side to this matter. The California raisins are of very excellent quality and readily bring 10 cents a pound wholesale, while most of the foreign raisins are not up to the California standard of quality, an* are bought mostly by poorer people. This may bo seen from the fact that 1-Vj imported raisins come in at about ’cents a pound. The California find their way mostly to the tables .1 men who are able to buy the best quality of food. Why should the cheap raisins of the poor be iaxed one-half of their value in order that the prosperous vineyard owners of California may get a higher price for raisins sold to the rich? Are not the poor paying too much for the whistle for these California raisin men?

Protection in Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania paper has been commenting upon the census returns for that State. It finds that "it is a melancholy fact, in contrast with the excessive increase of mining population, that the farming population of the State is steadily declining. Where any agricultural counties .>}how . growth the increase is in the towns at the expense of tiie country. ” Pennsylvania is usually considered the State which gets the lion’s share of protection, and it is there that protection to American labor should produce good results, if it can be done anywhere. But here is what the Pennsylvania paper says on the subject: “Skilled miners, who once earned good wages, have been supplanted by Bohemian and Russian peasants, who never saw tho mouth of a mine until brought to this country. With the frequent stoppages of labor, in order that the corporations might maintain prices of coal against consumers, two miners do not earn much more in a yeai''now than one earned in a former, period. Industrial production, though increased, has uot kept pace with the unhealthy growth of population: and as a consequence there is a great deal of distress among the working people of the mining regions. Pennsylvania has, therefore, no reason for self-congratulation upon this portion of the State's increase of inhabitants.” Protection is asked for in behalf of “American labor:” but in Pennsylvania it supplants American with “European pauper labor. ” Reciprocity at the Other End. Mr. Blaine's reciprocity with Brazil does not seem to be viewed in that country in exactly the same hopeful light in which the American protectionists see it Tho reduction of Brazil’s duties on manufactured articles, it is hoped here, will give our manufacturers a decided advantage in that country over their English -rivals, but this opinion do*‘st seem to prevail in Brazil. The Rio A’cmx, a paper friendly to reciprocity- with this country, has recently been discussing the Blaine treaty, and it shows tliat our manufacturers are not going to get entire control of Brazalian markets, by any means. It says: "In regard to cotton aud hardware, our English friends may rest content—the treaty will work no great changes in this respect. The 25 j>er cent, reduc--tion will barely equalize the cost of the goods to tiie importer, while the unwillingness of Americans to establish commercial houses in the. country, and to give the ’ customary credits, will more than offset any slight advantage tho treaty can give. Treaties and legislation may injure commerce, but after all no sound and prosperous trade is ever built up without individual effort and initiative. Mr. Blaine will have to conjure up something besides a reduction of 25 per cent, on duties before he can turn tho tide of importation in South America, from England to the United States ” In showing that American lack of enterprise prevents us from having a monopoly of Brazil's market, the Rio paper is simply saying what our own trade panels and business men have said repeatedly in the past in explanation of our limited sales of goods in South America Tho trouble has been that our manufacturers have boon taught to rely ou ; the Government tixhold the home mar- j ket for them against all comers: thus '

they have come to look upon this horns ! market too much as their only field of • operations. With nigh tariff prices guaranteed to them at home, they havs | been slow to push out into foreign mar- ! kets, where they will have to face a frowning world of competitors. ; Mte time for American manufacturers to put ' out to sea and learn to swim in jieep I water. Free Wool for Mixing. I The tariff reformers have frequently asserted that one of the best reasons ; why foreign wools should be admitted ! free of duty was that these wools were | necessary for mixing witlvour taativo wools, in order to get the best results la I. manufacturing cloth. This assertion b j made by wool manufacturers them- | selves. I A recent number of a Boston trade I paper confirms this statement in an inci- ; dental way. This paper says: | “Important changes have been made ; ifrThe manufacture of dress goods at th* i Arlington mills. They have adopted the | method of the Providence (It I.) worsted ’ mills in preparing their raw material Instead of U'ing foreign woo! only, as in [ past years, they have begun the new season by using a combination of Aus- >* tralian, domestic fleece and Territory wools. The Fletcher mills at. Providence have made a great su cess in making dress goods and worsteds under this plan, and the Arlington will no doubt do the same. As a consequence I the latter mill has been a jbeavy buyer I of fleece and Territory wobjs since the | beginning of the year, and has been the chief factor in reducing the stock of i territories in this market. This com--7 bination of three kinds of wool gives a [ top finish that makes a good selling I grade for lhe present demand." The fact here quoted is printed by the I Boston paper as a mere matter of trade i news; the tariff on wool is not in the ! writer’s mind at all. This confirmation oi the free-wool argument is therefore all tiie mure striking and convincing. Wi«e Words from Simpson. Congressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, has been talking in Washington to a newspaper correspondent about, the lite . from wh.qh the farmers are suffering, I and the remedies which he proposes. Hw i shows that he is “right side up” ou the tariff question. i Comp aining that parallel lines of railroad running East have combined in order to put up freight rates, ho was I asked whether he did not expect any ! benefit from Southern routes in competiI tion with'Eastern. To this question ho replied: "Weil, we did take a sood deal of in- [ terest in a proposal to improve Gatyes- * ton harbor, as it promised To give us a more easily accessib'e outlet through i the Gulf. But. dear me! with our presI ent protective tariff, what's the use? No i sooner is an opening found anywhere ■ for getting American products out of the country than the* Government : stops it lip again at a custom house, s» 1 that nothing can get into the lountry I from outside* without paying a:i extor- , tionato toll. The trouble with gaynI merce, as with any other form of ex- ’ change, is that it takes two purtias to ; conduct ti: and we Americans can t exi pect other peoples to buy bur goods if we refuse to accept theirs in return.” Socks, or no socks, .that is sound doctrine, and the coming forward t>f stalwart, eommon-sense farmers like SimpI son to teach it to the people and enforea it in Congress bodes no good for McKinleyism. It means that this monstrosity is tottering to its fall.

Watch the Little Things. There is a barn upon the Allegheny Mountains so built that the rain which falls upon it separates in such a manner that that which falls on one side of the roof runs into a little stream which flows into the Susquehanna, and thence into the Chesapeake Bay a ul on to the Atlantic Ocean. That whi«h falls on the other side is carried into she Alleghany River, thence into the Ohio, and onward to the Gulf of Mexico. The point whe ,; e the water divides is very small. But how diffeieat the course of these waters! So it happens with person’. A very little thing changes the ehaflnel of their lives. Much depends upon the kind of tempers we have. If we a e ,'Oiir and ill-tempered no one will love us. If we are kind and cheerful we shall have friends wherever we go. Much depends upon the way in which we improve our school days. Much depends upon the kind of comrades we have; much upon the kind we form. If we would have the bright kind of a life we must watch theprKtle things. We must see how one little thing affects another thing, how one little act takes in many others. — Golden Days. Some time last fall a trust of type foundries was formed to get the full benefit of the 25 per cent, protection. Recently the lowa State He.iwier, the leading Republican paper of lowa, wanted to buy new type and found that the price was one-third higher. This paper has a habit of discovering the deep schemes of the Co! den Club, and then shouting itself hoarse against “British free trade;” but here FTSvliat it said when it knew that the “e >mbine” had put up the price of type: “Compptition is a necessary and indis pen- able factor among American manufacturers, and all combines must be marie to understand thau when they form trusts to decrease discounts or to advance prices, the duty on goods manufactured by the combines must be removed.” As ninetenths of domestic industries are controlled by cojnbines, the Reglstn’s remedy would be nractially “British free tratte ” When our forefathers made the first tariff in 1789. they selected articles of luxury on which to lay the highest duties. In this way carriages were taxed at the highest rate found in the first tariff law. But our fathershad a different idea of what a high tariff is from that which prevails now. The highest duty in their tariff was only 15 per eent. We have many McKinley duties ten times as high, and some even higher. The Nebraska State Lumbermen's Association has accepted the proposition of the I’nited Lumbermen to 'consolidate the two organizations. A convention is to be held in Chicago in May to complete the consolidation, and then the trust will include practically all Western dealers. It. is already announced that the few independent dealers will be boycotted. The duty of $1.50 per thousand will, in a large measure, prevent competition from Canada. a— The prices of domestic-made pocket knives have been advanced since the MoKinley bill increased the duties on cutlery- A pearl-handled knife, with a variety of useful blades and fixings, which sold at retail in New York lat faN for $1.50, is now sold for $2. The high McKinley duty made this increase necessary on the German knife, and then the domestic makers put up prices to the same point. . . . The little State of Rhode Island holds its election for State officers in April. The Democracy of “Little Rhody” is very wide awake, and declares that “it believes in a freer trade with all countries, exchange and barter being the fife of 4 business” Dr. Brown used to style his ooßeoioQ of extracted teeth “gum drops.*