Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1891 — Page 6

democrat DECATUR, IND. N. BLACKBURN, ... Publish! '3. IT’S ABSOLUTE FOLLY, FOR YOU TO LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR LATE NEWS. A Bad Wreck—A Noted Horse Thief in tine Toils—Huston’s Resignation Accepted— Fourteen Persons Poisoned. «■ -■ ■’■ * UNCIVILIZED. Tbe Most Barbarous Practices Resorted to at Iquique. , Panama special: A correspondent writes from Iquique: “What is occurring in this unfortunate port is something unheard of, and it leads one to believe that no civilized beings now live there. Passengers state that the vagabonds arc robbing, plundering, murdering,violating women, and committing all classes of atrocities, while incendiaries also, are engagedin their nefarious and villainous operations of destruction and pillage.” On March 6, the Pima Diario says, “the Government of Chili is determined to establish an army of 20,000 strong at Tarapaca, and in; it the corps will, be massed, which are now scattered, and which consist of 300 men at Antofogasta, 5,000 at Atacama and 3,500 at Coquimbo. The determination to mass this army was reached subsequent to tho fall of Iquique.” The distress along the south coast,due to the revolution, is appalling, as will bo observed from the different reports. The steamship, Perou, brought to limit, March 12,4Q0 refugees of the different nationaliti'es.- They had no place to lodge, they had been allowed to remain in the wharves of the Muelle Darsena Company. A reporter who visited the French steamer Perou says: “The bombardment of Iquique by a revolutionary squadron on February 19 led to the destruction by fire of seven of the principal blocks. The Perou landed 400 refugee* in Callao, a greater number escaped from Iquique with only the clothes they, had on wh'fin the bombardment commenced. Gen. Urrutia, who commands the Iquique had been selling flour at 22 cents per pound.” Strong Language. A letter written by Anna E. Dickinson on March 25, while she was in the asylum at Danville, Pa., is furnished to the press. The letter is addressed to her brothers Rev. John Dickinson, at Los Angeles.. She says: ‘‘This thing has not > been done in a day. She (her sister Susan) must have had helpers. One and all, I want them found. If they are dupes, I want the full measure of justice given them that will teach them the rights of other people, through somewhat of an equivalent of the sufferings they have entailed. If knaves, I want hell’s floor—in the world—wiped with i them.” The. Indian Department. The President has had a long conference with the Civil Service Commission.ers. They declined to state the; object of the conference, but it is believed that the. President is considering the idea of making an important extension of the classified service and that he consulted the Commissioners as to the best mode bi accomplishing this purpose. It is stated as an absolute certainty that the Indian department will scon be placed under Civil Service regulations. A Noted Horse Thiet in the Tolls. For twenty-live ve ars Silas'G. Slaughter, now GO years cfyjl, has been a noted horse thief in West Virginia. He applied for a pension last week in Calhoun County, and by this means he was identified and captured. He stole a horse valued at SSOO four years ago, deserted his wife and moved to the neighborhood of .Parkersburg, changing his name to Walker, married a wealthy widow and was living at ease until his arrest. 'Bail Trai n Wreck. Pittsburgh special: Tho west-bound passenger train ran into a landslide at Vanport, Pa., twenty-five miles west of here, derailing the locomotive, baggage, and mail cars. Four trainmen and a number of passengers were injured. George Liebtage, the engineer, and W. E. Brown, fireman, are said to have been so badly scalded that they will die. o The others are believed to have been only slightly hurt. The Work of Ked Skins. Great excitement was caused at Black Foot, Idaho, by the discovery that the Indians killed two unknown white emigrants, who camped at a water tank a mile below that place. There were no witnesses. An uprising is feared. Business is suspended apd the citizens are up in arms. Not an Indian could be ferrind in the city an hour after the affair. The Governor has been telegraphed to. Death of l ather Gordon. The body of Rev. Father Gordon, a Catholic priest, of Newport, - Ky., was found in an excavation near a sink hole in Cincinnati. a lt is supposed that the priest fell into the hole while walking in the darkness and Ris death was the result of suffocation. Huston’H Resignation Accepted. The President has accepted the resig- _ nation of Mr. J. N. Huston, as Treasurer of the United States. Enos 11. Nebecker, of Indiana, has been appointed his successor. A Big Card and Paper ''Company; The Western Card and\ Paper Company, with a capital stock o\ $10)00,000 is being started at Chicago. J Iv will be the first of the kind west of .Albany. Perished tn the Flames. The residence of S. O. Cooper at Hastings, Neb., was burned, and his sister. Miss Tuck, perished in the flames. General Splnola Dead, Gerf. Spinola, congressman from New York, died at his residence in Washington. Contract Alien Labor. Special Agent Lester is in Chicago and engaged in preparing a report for Secretary Foster. He has just returned from Omaha, where he; has been making investigations. He says the contract alien labor law has been grossly violated there and promises a sensation in a few days. Fourteen Persons Poisoned. Fourteen persons were poisoned in Chattanooga, Tenn., by eating cream puffs bought of a confectioner. None of the cases are likely to prove fatal. Arsenic Is believed to in some way have become mixed with the Ingredients. Disloyal Dissenter. London special: At a dinner given by the Devon Congregational Union at Tayistock, Devonshire, a sensation was caused by tho presiding minister. Rev. R. Davis, who said that he could not propose the toast of “The quoeu” and that ho would • therefore call upon Rev. Johnson to pcrfrom this task. Davis added that Johnson might also toast tlie Prince of Wales, and all the gamblers if he chose to do so. Johnson consequently proposed the toast of “The Qpeen” saying thafner majesty had no more loyal subjects than the dissenters. Thereupon tho assemblage.

—— with the exception of Mr. Davis and his Wife, rose to their feet and sang the national antheih, “God Save the Queen.” BETWEEN EAKTH AND SKY. Willl»a Bate., the Murderer, Suspended From a Shade Tree. Kenton (Ohio) special: William Bates, who murdered Policeman Harper, was taken from the jail by a mob of about fifty strong and hanged to a maple tree dear by. The mob gained entrance to the jail by breaking down the door, which awakened the sheriff, who rushed down stairs with a revolver. A dozen men met him at the foot of the stairs and thrust four revolvers in ■his face demanding the jail keys, saying they wanted to get" Bates to hang him. The sheriff refused to get tho keys, not having them with They found the keys in an adjoining room and opened the jail doors, got Bates aud gave him only time to put on his pants and a pair of slippers. They took him out and hanged him to a maple tree on Wayne street, near North street, about fifty yards from the jail. The mob was well organized; all wore black masks except one, which was white, apparently the leader. No noise was made. All spoke in whispers. The work was quickly and systematically done. Not more than twenty minutes elapsed from the time the door was broken open until Bates was dangling between earth and sky. Not Guilty. Washingtqn special: Charles E. Kincaid, the newspaper correspondent indicted for shooting ex-Representatiye Taulbee, of Kentucky, in February, 1890, whose case has been on trial in the District Criminal Court for the past few weeks, was acquitted. When the jury came into the court room a large number of Kincaid’s friends were present. Judge Bradley reminded the, spectators that he did not know the nature of the verdigt and cautioned them against making any demonstration in the court room. When the foreman of the jury announced the verdict, many of the defendant’s friends rose from their seats, but the judge again cautioneel them and the verdict was received quietly. Kincaid then walked up to the jury box and heartily shook the hand of each juror, thanking them for the verdict. Kincaid then left the court room and was soon surrounded by many friends, who warmly congratulated him on the happy termination of the trial. His sister and a number of other ladies, who were constantly in attendance during the trial, also expressed to Kincaid their sympathy and joy at the result. Gibson’s Crime. Chicago special: The federal grand jury lias practically finished the labors in the case of ex-Mayor Gibson, of the whisky trust. Monday’s decision was of the most important and interesting one yet held; A few fag ends of testimony were drawn to complete the chain of circumstantial evidence and then Thomas Dewar, the government gauger, was called to tell the story of the plot to burn up the Shufeldt brewery. Then Johnßonfield was called and the bottle of phosphorus and infernal machine were produced and placed before him. As an expert on tbe subject Bonfield explained to the jury the combustible nature of the innocent looking liquid. A drop or two was placed on a sheet of paper and at once burst into flames. Then Mr. Bonfield explained the construction of the infernal machine and how it would demolish the building in a moment. This was the end of the testimony, besides an exhibit of the correspondence between Gibson and Dewar. It is thought a true bill will doubtless be returned on the arrival of Judge Bunn from Milwaukee to act as District Judge in Judge Blodgett's /absence. After Election Judges. Chicago special: A warrant;has been issued for the arrest of Dennis Sheehan, Democratic judge of election in the Twentieth pretinct of the Nineteenth Ward. He is charged with breaking open a ballot box after the polls closed election day. Janies W. Nye, of the Republican Committee, said that forty or fifty more warrants will be issued as soon as they have gathered their evidence. The Post says that Carter Harrison reconsidered his determination to leave Chicago and quit politics forever, and that he publicly proclaims he will spend SIO,OOO to ferret out the alleged election frauds. # Victory for the Liberals. I A special from Halifax, N. S., says: The liberals won a sweeping victory in Prince Edward's Island.) Four members resigned their seats in tKe Legislature to become candidates for 'the Dominion Ilotise of Commons, viz: The lion. Donald Ferguson, Provincial Secretary; the Hon. Patrick Blake, Speaker of tho House; John McLean and John Yeo, leaders of the opposition. The first three were supporters of the government. The elections to fill the vacancies resulted in the return of four opposition candidates. This defeats the government, and compels it either to resign or dissolve parliament and make a general appeal to the country. Carried Away By a Bear. The other afternoon little 5-year-old Eddie Lipps, one of the children of a farmer living four miles from Hart, Miclu»went with the two older brothers into thefeugar hush, half a mile east of the house, where the boys were gathering, sap. Eddie strayed away and was lost for two hours before it became known, when tho two elder boys reached the house. A general alarm was given, and fully 300 men, forming a lino eight feet apart, swept the woods for several miles about the place where the boy was last seen. No trace of the child was found, but bear tracks were seen a little way from the camp, and it is believed the bear took the child. Buried Under a Wall. By the fall of a wall along the west side of Race street, at the northwest corner of Fifth and Race streets, Cincinnati, O-, where fifteen masons were laying the foundation of a great building, the lives of all were endangered. By good -fortune thirteen of them extricated themselves without injury of a Serious nature, but Paul Gleen, the 18-ycar-old son of the contractor, was taken out a corpse; William Gibson, stonemason, aged 50, was entirely buriedj Ho was dead when his body was found. The cellar is one of the; deepest in the city and the street wall was not properly supported. Don’t Like to Be Called a Monkey. Advices from Italy represents the Rudinl Cabinet as deeply hurt by American comment on tho Italian difficulty, and that there is a revulsion of feeling in favor of aggressive measures. It is said that King Humbert has received from the editor of an Italian newspaper in America a package of American newspapers containing pictures ridiculing his majesty and belittling tho dignity of Italy. One picture in particular, representing the King as a monkey,’ gave great offense. Italian blood is again boiling, and something startling is anticipated within a few days. A Bold Leap. Lebanon (Mo.) special: Wm. Skaggs, a United States prisoner en route to the prison at Columbus, Ohio, jumped through a car window on the “Cannon Ball” train and escaped. The train was running at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. Skaggs was shackled to other prisoners, but managed to remove his foot from his boot, and then pulled the shackle over the boot leg. This freed

him from the pt her prisoners, and throwing his boot out of the window, he followed- after it and apparently landed unhurt. , Typhus Fever in New York. Typhus fever, about the most contagious and deadly of diseases, has made its appearance in New York. An autopsy made upon the body of James Taylor, who recently came from Australia, showed that he had died of spotted typus fever, the most malignant type of the dread disease. He was not known to be suffering from the disease until after his death. As he was sick for days before in his boarding house and Bellevue hospital, there is ground for grave apprehension that the disease may spread. ’ I Church Parsonages. Attorney General Smith, in response to a request from the Indiana Tax Commissioners, rendered an opinion concerning the taxation of church parsonages. He holds that church parsonages must be attached to the church property itself in the sense of contiguous, in order to be exempt from taxation within the jneaning of the statute. The decision, it is thought, will affect nine-tenths of the church corporations in the State and will put a million dollars worth of property on the tax list. The G. A. R. The annual encampment of the Indiana Department of Grand Army of the. Republic, in session at Indianapolis, has voted to hold the next encampment at Fort Wayne. The election of officers resulted as follows: Department Commander, I. N. Walker; Senior Vice Commander, M. D. Tackett, Grednsburg; 8 Junior Vice Commander, John W. Elam, Valparaiso; Medical Director, Dr. P. D. Tillson, Centerville; Chaplain, Rev. Daniel Ryan, Irvington. Senator Hoar on Senator Edmunds. The resignation of Mr. Edmunds will be received with greatest regret by his colleagues of all parties. His determination to resign is the result of the condition of his health and that of his family. It was communicated to one or two persons during the winter, but the public were not informed of it until it could be done in a time and manner which would be just towards all persons interested in the succession. Mr. Edmunds has been an extremely vigilant, able, and faithful Senator. Reservoir Breaks, A break is reported in one of the embankments of the Mercer County, Ohio, reservoir situated just above Celina, and the people in Hie immediate neighborhood have abahdpned their homes in alarm, The reservoir contains 8,000 acres of water, and is located at a considerable elevation above the surrounding country. The heavy rains have brought the surface of the water to the top of the embankment and a serious inundation is threatened. Women as Police Judges. Kansas towns ejected women police judges at the last election. Mrs. Mary L. Burton, formerly editor of the Kaiisan and avpresent postmistress, was elected, police judge of Jamestown, Cloud County, and Mrs. Jessie McCormick, of Burr Oak, Jewell County. Both are strong prohibitionists. Mrs. Burton is the widow of a prominent politician, who died from the effects of strong drink. She is especially bitter against the traffic of liquors. Wreck on the Rail. A passenger train on the Big Four ran into an open switch about a half mile west of the depot, at Sandusky, Ohio. The engine was turned over into the culvert about ten feet below the track, and Engineer Jos. Scheufler was quite badly injured. The fireman escaped unhurt. The train was moving slowly and none of the passengers were hurt. The baggage car was derailed but none of the coaches left the track. The train with a new engine left about three hours late. Mangled in an Elevator. A accident-occurred in the elevator shaft of the People’s Bank building in Denyer, Col., whereby Frank Bowen, a bright boy and son of Thomas Bowen, a railroad engineer, lost his life. Young Bowen had been learning to run the elevator ana was starting, as was supposed, down, but it went up instead, and catching him between the door and the elevator frame, mdngled him in a frightful manner. When taken out he was dead. Barely Escape Cremation. Miller Bro.’s stable and undertaking establishment in the. village of Cheviot, six miles firom Cincinnati, was totally destroyed by fire. Two dwelling houses adjoining the stable, occupied by the Miller and Gaines families were also burned. Loss, SIO,OOO, partily covered by insurance. Two men, who slept in the coffin room on the second floor of the stable, barely escaped cremation by jumping from the window to the ground. Socialists In Italy. Rome special: In an interview with an Italian journalist, Liebknech, the leader of the German socialists, referring to the May Day demonstrations, he said: “No more barricades; we shall not play the game of Bourgeoise.” The socialists throughout Italy are organizing a demonstration for May 1. A manifesto,printed on red paper, is being secretly distributed among workingmen. Ctounse Gets the Plum. The President lias appointed the Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, of Nebrasba, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. THE MARKETS, CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3.25 @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.00 @ 5.50 Sheep i 3.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2Red 1.05 @1.06 Cobn—No. 2 1...;.. .67 @ .68 Oats—No. 2 53 @ .54 Rye—No. 2......... .86 @ .87 Buttbb—Choice Creamery 23 @ .26 Cheese—Full Cream, f1at5...... .1214 Eggs—Fresh 14*£@ ..15)6 Potatoes—Western, per bn 1.15 @1.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—No. 1 White 69 @ .71 Oats—No. 2 White 57 @ .58 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 Hogs 4.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 1.05 @ 1.06 Corn—No. 2 4 ..« .67V>@ .68U Oats—No. 2, Barley—Minnesota 76 «ji .78 CINCINNATI. Cattle... 3.00 @ 5.50 H0g5....... 3.00 @5.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @1.07 Corn— No. 2 .73 @ .74 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 57%@ .6816 DETROIT. Cattle ..,- 3.00 @5.00 Hogs 3.00 is. 4.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red i..s_ 1.07 @1.03 Corn—No. 2 Yellow ; .72 @ .73 Oats—No. 2 White 56 @ .57 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.09 @ 1,11 Corn—Cash 71 @ .73 Oats—No. 2 White ..." 54 @ .56 Clover Seed 4.30 @ 4.40 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 @6.00 Hogs—Light 3.25 @ 5.75 Sheep—Medium 4.00 @ 6.00 Lambb. 5.00 '@ 7.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.04 A 1.05 Corm-No. 3 68 @ .69 Oats—No. 2 White. 55 @ .57 Rye—No. 1 .88 @ .89 Barley—No. 2...,., 73 @ .74 Pobk—Mees 12.50 @13.01 NEW YORK. Cattle...... 4.00 @ 6.25 Hogs 3.25 @ 5.50 Sheep 5.00 ,@ 7.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.20 @1.22 Corn—No. 2 78 @ .80 Oats—Mixed Western 57 @ .62 Buttke—Creamery 21 @ .27 Eggs—Western .15 @ .16 Poek-Mew Mees 13.50 @lO5 -

on Wool. WHY WOOL SHOULD BE FREE. Ex-Consul Sehoenhof on the Wool Duties —An Expert Opinion of McKinleyism— How Wools Differ —What Free Wool Would Do. When President Harrison came into office, our Consul at Tunstall, England, was Mr. Jacob Schoenhof, of New York. This gentleman was formerly a manufacturer, and he had devoted much time and study to ascertaining the labor cost of producing goods in this country and in Europe. Having special knowledge on this' subject he was appointed by Mr. Cleveland to the consulship at Tunstall, and was specially charged by Secretary Bayard to make an extensive investigation of the labor cost of production of manufactured articles in England and on the continent. Before Mr. Cleveland’s term expired several reports of great value by Mr. Schoenhof had been published by the State Department. His work, however, was not yet complete when President Harrison removed him from office. He ‘has recently begun to publish a series of letters which will serve as a sort of continuation of his reports to the Government. He will go into the cost of production of all the leading lines ; of goods in this country and Europe, and this series of letters is sure to prove an important contribution to the tariff question. In one of these letters Mr. Schoenhof gives considerable attention to the wool tariff. Os all the manufacturers, he says, the woolen manufacturers would have benefited by the Mills bill. It freed raw wool and gave a protection of 40 per cent Now, it is will known that the entire labor cost in a pound of manu-fe factored woolens, such as are made ih this country, does in very few instances reach as high as 40 per cent, on the cost of a foreign-made article, with which iq has to compete. The foreign article not) alone covers the cost of the wool, of labor, and of the incidental expenses of manufacture, but also the interest of capital and the profits of the manufacturers and dealers handling the goods. The duty of 40 per cent., therefore, .covers not alone the cost of capital and management, but of the freed wool itself consumed in the manufacturing process. Free wool would have vitalized the range of wool manufacture, now in a state of permanent infancy, in constant need of syrups and props. The only ones benefited by the wool and war tariff, the shoddy manufacturers, quite naturally have been standing in the breach in defense of the palladium of protection against the enemies of the holy faith. It is not to be wondered at that they put their hands deep into their pockets for the creation of a fund which was to buy an election and a tariff to their liking. But, strange to say, many of those were contributors who could only be benefited by tariff reform, as taken up by the Democratic party, downwardly, and injured only by reforming upwardly, as represented by the Republican party. The present tariff, the McKinley act, is the outcome of their, well-considered, deliberate demands. They insisted on obtaining, and they have obtained, a .measure which proceeds in a diametrically opposite direction from what their interests actually command. They certainly ought to have known that the industries of this country are based on an entirely different foundation from that of any other country. If so, the certainly ought to have asked for something quite different than that which they claimed with so much insistence. But if they lost sight of this in the scramble for higher tariff rates it need not be surprising that the legislators who are responsible for the measure did not care to examine deeply hito the rates demanded or inquire into the relative industrial positions of the United States and the countries of Europe, against which the late tariff act is chiefly intended to operate, the only customers of our farmers worth speaking of. The legislators responsible for the ’act did what they were expected to do. They simnly delivered the goods for value received in 1888, with a tentative hint to future campaign contributions. • Our own wools show conclusively that almost every State in the Union produces a different grade of wool. For instance: The wools raised in the far West in the new Territories and States are considered very inferior to the wools raised in tho States east of the Mississippi. The pasturage ebnsists of wild grasses, which during the dry season become parched, leaving the dry, sandy soil underneath as a fine dust or sand, which permeUtes the fleece, adding much to its shrinkage, and changing not only its appearance but the strength of staple, more especially where the soil is alkaline. Such wools lack in lustre and spring, and goods made from them show a dead, cottony appearance. They could not possibly bo used as an offset in the manufacture of fabrics, which we import, amounting in 1890 to $50,000,000, and adding duties, $35,000,000, represents $85.%00,000 American value laid down at the ports, exclusive of freight charges. For the replacing of this vast amount our own wool supply would be entirely insufficient. We raise the corresponding wools in very limited quantities (and, what is more to the point, in receding quantities) in the older States only. Texas and California wools have good felting properties. For combing purposes they are unserviceable. Os combing wools only a limited amount is raised in the States lying east of the Mississippi. But most of the goods used for outer wear are now made of combed and not of carded wool. Tbe same differences we find in English wools. The Southdown wool is different from tho north country wool; the Scotch wool different from the English wools; the Welsby wool different from the English and Scotch. Even in Scotland certain wools are grown in certain parts, so that ttveeds ean only be made from certain Scotch wools. Irish wool is different again. Welsh, Irish, and Scotch wools shrink but very little when manufactured into flannels, knit goods, etc., in the washing, German and American wools very much more so. Australian, Capo, and Plate wools differ again. But those differences can be made very valuable by adapting the varying qualities to the respective fabrics to which they give their special character. Want a Foreign Market. A committee representing tho Boston Boot and Shoe Club and the New England Shoe and Leather Association waited on the President and Secretary Blaine recently, and presented a series of resolutions by their associations indorsing the administration’s reciprocity policy, and urging its extension to their own industry. The boot and shoe manufacturers aro evidently finding out that the homo market is not big enough after all. Our tanning and leather industries have had free raw material for nearly twenty years, and their development has been constant ever since. Our oxports of leather and manufactures thereof have increased very rapidly, reaching $12,275,000 In "t year. If tno leather industries have profited so greatly with free raw materials, why could' not the woolen industry?' Miraculous Medicine. Tho American Economlttt is not satisfied with Bismarck’s recent MJk on protection aud on our McKmivfism- It

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says: “While Bismarck announced himself a protectionist, he does not seem to comprehend one of' the fundamental principles of protection, at least as far as tills country is concerned: that while it protects labor, it at, the same time cheapens products, and' thus also benefits consumers, especially the farmers. ” Os course! Then McKinley puts higher duties on manufactures to make them cheaper, and thus benefit the farmers; and to make the thing “fair and equitable,” he raised the duty on nearly all farm products to a very high point in order to make them much 1 cheaper, and thus to benefit the manfacturers! Protection is a most remarkable thing; give Jones a dose and it cures Smith! EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. A Damaging Admission—Exports Fay for Imports — Balance of Trade and the Farmers* Market. The American Economist, the mouthpiece of the American Protective Tariff League, makes a fatal admission when it says: “Probably no economic law is more j rigid than that a nation's imports must, ~in the long run, be paid for by its exports.” i Very true; but the Economist has for I months been wrestling in agony to prove , just the contrary. It has taken up the principle held by all opponents of protection, that we carino? sell abroad unless we will buy there—in other words, that exports, pay for imports; and it has tried by various examples to prove that this is false. It could show that we sell to England about $200,000,009 a year more than we buy there. But it is well known that our excess of exports to England pay for our excess of imports from South America and other parts of tlie world. At present our total exports and imports are not far from being equal, some years our’expOrt’i being larger and other years imports being in excess. Most of the years since the war. however, we j have sent out more than we brought in (from abroad—a fact which gives tlie exceeding great joy. Wlien exports aro greater than imports, the balance, they say, comes back to us in sold and silver. Thus this Ecqnomist said some time ago: “Since 1875 the balance of trade ! has been in our favor for every year except 1888 and 1889, and we have received back in fourteen years $1,581,926,871 of what we lost under free trade.” But I the Economist could very easily verify j this statement. The Treasury Departi ment publishes the figures of and imports of gold and silver. If we have been receiving back gold and silver i frorft Europe, the Treasury reports ! ought to show the fact, i What do they show? I That we, have “received back” $205,I 000.000 since 1875, all told, and that in i tbe same time we have sent abroad 5277,I all in gold and silver, jiuring ; the very time when the Economist fani cies that we have been receiving back ■ gold and silver in payment for goods, we 1 have sent away $72,000,009 mor6 than we brought in. The explanation of this 's simple enough. The $1,581,000,000 merchandise and $72,000,000 in gold and silver, a total of $1,653,000,000, which we have sent abroad since 1875 ov’-r and above : what came in, was sent in payment of : interest on foreign investments in the I United States, in taking up Government, I State, and railroad bonds, in premiums 1 on insurance policies, and in paying i freights to foreign vessels. But the I Economist makes anotliez adm : ssion. It says that “our import’? of 800 or 900 I millions annually are now largely paid I for by agricultural exports.” From 1 which it naturally follows that the more ! we import the gfeatfer will be the de--1 mind for our farm products to pay for those imports. Our .farmers, therefore, j have the highest posable interest in ini creasing our importations of foreign ■ goods. Even if they should not need i many of those imported goods themi selves, the importation of them enlarges I the foreign demand for wheat, flour, I corn, beef, po?k and other commodities ' produced by our farmers. M*xico*s McKinley : s>«. While wo .are the h’ghest tariff nation among the first-class nations-of the , world, Mexico's tariff is much higher 1 even than our new McKinley tariff. On . dutiable imports Mexico collects an : average tax of nearly 85 per cent.; that is, a taj of $22,477,000 upon imports amounting to $26,518,000. 1 The values of the leading imports last ! year, with the duties collqcjed, were as follows: Values. Duties. Cottons $7,534,088 $7,447,394 Woolens '. 1,613,186 1,05G,020 : Silk mixtures. 394,889 410,411 Glass and china 607,727 686,884 i Linens aud hemp......... 674,029 1571.590 ; Silks.... 394,691 3,78,614 Food products 4.893,706 3,789.270 i Iron aud steel..., 1,510,129 1,259,480 1 Small wares. ; 658.853 505,497 ! Wood and manufactures.. 473,684 368,523 ! Skins and leather goods.. 414,109 290,211 I Paper and manufacturing 1,352,143 1,161,250 Medicine and drugs 1,697,830 997,449 Miscellaneous 2,193,969 1,675,382 | Mexico’s average duties on articles bought in this country was 40 per cent, i but hereafter this average’will doubt- ; less be higher, as last year that country i made a considerable increase of duty on some of our farm products in retaliation : for our tariff madness. ; ■ American Farm Implements In Australia, i The protection organs furiously deny I that our manufacturers of .farm iinplej ments and machinery sell more cheaply to foreigners than to our own farmers. ; What do these organs say to the followI ing statement, which is quoted in the New York Enpinterinf/ and Mining Jour--1 nal: J “Mr. Walter Alden has returned to St. ' Louis, Mo., after spending six years in i Australia, and is reported to ha«e stated ; the following: ‘lt is no use for an American to go out to Australia to do anything • in a commercial way unless he represents ! some large corporation, such as some ; great agricultural implement manufact- ■ uring company, mining machinery, or the like. All American agricultural imi plements are away ahead of tho English ' articles in Australia. They are so d, j however, for U less price than here in ' America, especially in the free trade I colony oRNew South Wales, and they ' cost less in Victoria, a protective colony, than they do where manufactured or sold in this country.’ ” What do our farmers think of protection to manufacturers who are able to mH abroad at lower prices than at home? Mexico at the Fair. Mexico has accepted President Hariri son’s invitation to take part in the ' World’s Fair at Chicago. That will be ' an odd^pectacle— two countries exhibitj ing the wares which they would like to | sell to each other, if it were not for their I high tariff walls. Mexico collects an ! average duty of 40 per cent, on what we J sell to her people. The principal thing j in Mexico that we want is silver and 1 lead ore, but we shut it out by a duty ' equivalent to 64 per cent Mexican mustangs worth $lO are prohibited with a duty of S3O a head. What a merry fair we shall have! The St. Louis Grocer, a high-tariff trade journal, remarks; “Contracts for futures in canned salmon, tomatoes, peas, and corn are now made at as low prices as a year ago. The claim of a big rise in prices on account of the new tariff law vanishes into thin air. ” In reply to which the New York Merchants' Review ■ays; “When that was made it

wasn’t supposed that the cannera were going to #ouge the farmers out of enough to pay for the increased tin-plate duty when purchasing vegetables. As regard; salmon futures, opening prices ought to be lower than a year ago, considering the low price of spot goods. * OUR TRADE WITH ARGENTINE. Europe Gets the Lion’s Share—Reciprocity and Beta iatlon—Hides and " 001. The insignificance of our trade with the Argentine Republic is brought out by that country’s trade reports for last year. These reports show that European countries get the lion’s share of the trade of Argentine. Argentine imports of all sorts were 149 millions, of which over 61 millions were from the United Kingdom, 20 millions from France, 12 millions from Germany, 11 millions from Belgium, and $9,307,315 from the United Stat s, this country standing fifth in rank as respects imports. But the exports from the Argentine Republic were in the aggregate over 105 millions, of which nearly 27 millions were to France, 21 millions to Great Britain, 12 millions to Belgium, over 11 millions to Germany, 10 millions to Brazil, 7 millions to Uruguay, and $6,066,063 to the United States, this’eountry ranking seventh as respects the exports. Our principal imports from Argentine are hides and wool. According to the so called reciprocity feature of the McKinley law, the President will have to impose a duty of one and one-half cents per pound on hides from all countries which do not give us reciprocity. By this method of taking,vengeance on the Argentine Republic, by taxing our own people, our imports of hides from that country will be largely reduced, unless Mr. Blaine succeeds in securing a reciprocity treaty with that country. This, however, is extremely improbable, since the treasury of that unfortunate land is very much crippled by bad financial measures of the past four years, and the demand for revenue will hardly permit of a reduction of duties in our favor. If the President has the courage to ooey the “reciprocity” clause of the McKinjey law, impose a duty oiFArgentinc hides, and stir up our leather and boot and shoe manufacturers, who made such a stern protest when McKinley proposed a year ago to tax hides, our imports to Buenos Ayres will ba still further reduced. Another factor to reduce that trade is the senseless duty on carpet wools, of which we import about one and one half million dollars’ worth a year. Our effort to keep out Argentine imports by taxation is entirely foolish, since the importation of goods from that country must increase the demand there for our goods. We do not import hides and carpet wool from Argentine with tlie benevolent intention of benefiting that country; it is to benefit ourselves. It would he as ridiculous, therefore, for us to try to punish that country by refusing to buy from it as it was for certain “patriotic” French women to try to wreak vengeance on the Germans by resolving that they would never dance with them again. A Misogynous Car Conductor. A passenger on a Broadway car who had been overlooked by the conductor called the conductor back and proffered his fare. As the conductor went out on the rear platform, he remarked to a a passenger who had noticed the occurrence: “You never sec a woman do that.” When questioned further he said, jingling his pocketful of silvfer: j " “No, sir-ee; they are the ones who hang on to their nickels. This would be a heap sight easier business if it weren’t for the women. They are up to all sorts of dodges, and sonic of them will scheme and scheme to win a fare. ”, “What are the favorite methods?” the conductor was, asked. “Oh, the commonest is the bluff act If we don't ask for their fares as soon as they get seated, there are lots of women who will vow that they have paid. Sometimes they beat us, but oftenest they pay under protest. “Another regulation scheme is worked in a crowded car. Tnree or four women, entering together and belonging to the same party, will scatter all over the car. Each one refers to the other for the fare, and, while the perplexed conductor is chasing from one to the other, like as not several more will enter or some one will want to get off, and then the conductor will be lucky if he doesn't miss both lots. “Yes, they're a bad crowd, ” he continued, under liis breath, as he suspiciously sized up two demure-looking maidens who were leaving the car.— New York Times. * Eggs for Wagers. River men have already begun to make predictions regarding the opening of navigation, and many have backed.their prophesies with something of a tangible form, says the Albany Express. Strange as it may seem, in nearly all the bets made by river men on the time of breaking up of tho ice, or the opening of navigation, eggs are the stakes. Whether the reason is that the wagers are paid about Easter time is not known, but certain it is that wljen all bets are settled, some river men have eggs by the barrel, enough in some cases to last their families for months. Most of the Hudson Rivgr “sea dogs” think that navigation will be open about the last of March, but Captain Corey, of tho bridge tug Julia Brainard, laid a wager of 109 eggs that there would hot be a passenger boat running on the river until after March 20. The captain said tha£ the betting of eggs among river men was nothing new, but had been a practice for years. It is said by a California paper that the prunec crop of that State this year /will reach 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 pounds. Eleven cents a pound is considered tho average of these.prunes in New York, the California crop worth $2,7a0,000. The McKinley duty on prunes is 2 cents a pound, making the protection guaranteed the California prufrb growers $500,000 for this year. A fat sum on so insignificant a product. Belgium is the most compact little beehive of industry jn Europe. Without any of what we call “protection to home industries,” her commerce has increased tenfold in a half-century. It is said that Belgium will probably make still lower the duties which interfere with the cheap manufacture of articles for export to the United States and South America. , ‘ A committee appointed by the Omaha Board of Trade has reported that tin in paying quantities does not exist in the Black Hills. And it was especially to protect these Black Hills tin mines that McKinley placed a duty of 4 cents a pound on tin coming into this country after July, 1893, for the use of our new tariff tin-plate mines. The Calumet and Hecla copper mine in Michigan has paid the stockholders $500,600, since the Ist of January, on a capital of $2,500,000, of which only sl,200,000 is paid up capital. It has paid a total of $35,350,000 in dividends, And yet we go on “protecting" copper. A woman’s nose has been rebuilt with the ribs of a cat. If it gives her courage in the presence of a mouse the operation will be a pronounced sno* ceaa. ■

SWEPT AWAY BY FLAMI? CHICAGO PROPERTY WORTH A MILLION BURNED.Many Buildings Consumed—Every Struo* . tore for SOO Feet in Ru£ns—Tbe Dim* Museum Wrecked—Two Persons Aro Fatally Injured and Six Others Hurt. Once more has Chicago received acostly visit from the fire king. Not since the little Chicago fire which swept everything from Twelfth and Clark streets north to Van Buren in 1874 hasthis latest call ever been eclipsed in its damaging work. The other afternoon fire started under the stage in Kohl <fc Middleton's West Side Dime Museum o» Madison street, and before it wa£ taken in control by the fire department it had the immense furniture establishment of John M. Smyth, Kohl & Middleton’s Museum, and five other five-story business blocks, and damaged several of the adjacent structures. A low estimate to place on the loss ie Sl,250,000. • • **,Aside from its terrible effects, says a Chicago dispatch, tne fire was a grand sight to behold. Fierce and furious were the flames, eating all before them. The sky, at first blackened by the huge volumes of smoke that poured forth from the seething flames, soon took on a rose- - ate hue as the tongues of fire darted through the black mass;. Great firebrands sailed through the air, and falling started blazes which threatened with destruction the surrounding edifices. It appeared as though the western part of the city was doomed. The high wind carried the firebrands here, there, and everywhere. J’eople ran about demoralized. Thousands of persons were in peril of their lives. Kohl & Middleton’.s museum was jammed with amusement seekers, who in an instant had their pleasure turned into greatest terror. So fast did the fire burn that it was hardly a moment from the time it broke out until the entire dace was in

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flames. A stampede followed. In the fierce fight for life eight women were knocked down and ? trampled under foot. Several men Jumped from windows, and one of these, Alexander Grant, a painter employed on the place, leaped from the third story and struck a sign in his descent He fell to the ground senseless, his skull fractured, and one ’ leg broken. When all those who were %ble to get out had left the building Officers Wei baskey and Pat Sheedy entered the burning building and went as far as the flames would- permit They pulled out several women who had fainted from fright or been crushed in the stampede. Across the street in the Haymarket Theater a similar panic was averted only by the coolness of George Fair, the treasurer. When it became apparent that the theater was in danger Mr. Fair called the ushers into his private office, and instructing them to stand at the and to by no means permit crowding, he quietly went around from one gallery to another and told the spectators that there was a fire across the street, but that there was no immediate danger. They were then led to the fire-escapes and made their way' easily. As in the case of the great fire, this last conflagration was startccFby a lamp explosion. While the audience in the museum theater was watching wffih interest a juggler balancing a lighted lamp on a wand, at the same time walking a tight-rope, the juggler slipped, the •lamp fell, there was an explosion, and a flame darted up the scenery of the stage. The stage curtains took fire, and before the panic-stricken men and women could make their exit the entire stage was a mass of flames. John M. Smyth is the heaviest loser. The Kohl & Middleton edifice, as well as the building occupied by himself, was his property. His less on buildings is $400,000, and on stock SGhOrOO'K He carried an insurance of §175,000 on the buildings. Kohl & Middleton lose their entire equipment, valued at §20,000. The five-story buildings 147-149 West Madison street were owned by James Casey and were destroyed. "They were valued at §210,000. Alfred Peats occupied the entire building with a largo stock of w all paper. His loss is $55,000. The next building, occupied by Louis Laberge, was six stories, entirely destroyed, and owned by Col. Thompson. Losson building $40,000, stock and fixtures §15,000. Joseph Stein’s shoe store was at 153 Madison street. His loss on stock Is $20,000. Other losers are: Adam Gerhardt, barber shop at 155 West Madison street, §3,000; Baer Bro.’s hat store and Eureka laundry at 157* $13,000; M. J. Irrmin, cigars, $6,000; Neely Bros., boots and shoes, $20,000; L. Kaempfer, jewelry, loss unknown; Lawyer Payne Fittz, $5,000. Two persons were fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. Historical. The colony of Hong Kong tf’aS first ceded to Great Britain in Iftll, and the cession was confirmed by the treaty of Nanking in 1842. The first Colonial Congress met Oct. 7, 1765, at New York. Timothy Ruggles, of Massachusetts was Chairman and John Cotton Clerk of thqconvention. The peculiar reach toward Lake Erie in the State Line of Pennsylvania, known as the Triangle (from its being originally the State of New York extension) was a special purchase, Sept. 4, 1788, from thd Government, of a slice of the Northwest Territory, containing 202,187 acres, ata State cost of $157,640. - G.< ves were, in 1416, often set with precious stones, and sufficiently valuable to be-le t as legacies. The jeweled glox < s of S'. Martial were said to ba\e rebuk d an act of sacrilege. The gloves of Bishop Gravesend, worked with gold and enamel, were priced at £5. a great sum in 131st But the sturdier Bishop Button wore thick yellow gloves at lod a pair. In 1658 the fashion of wearing large stirrup-hose or stockings, two yards wide at the top, with points through several eyelet holes, by which they were made fast to the petticoat’s breeches, was brought into England from France, according to Randle Holme. “Long and short kersey stockings are reckoned among the exports in the Book of Rates.' 12th Charles IL, and in it there are entries of stockings of leather, of silk, of woolen, and of worsted for men and children.- ... ‘ - 'r'i ■■■lflilir *-