Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1892 — Page 2

®he democrat DECATUR, INJD. X. BLACKBURN, - - - PCTMWtM SOME SING 01'THE LILY, BUT THESE COLUMNS SING OF THE NEWS. Mar Imminent with Chilli—Fnaoelul Ito. milts Highly Improbable—Jutlge Botkin Cliaripid with Murder— Eight I’creous Killed. BLAINE SAYS Peace tn I Kesnlts Are Highly Improbable. Secretary Blaine, In the course of conversation, conducted with a friend, left it to be inferred that thtr ptoffiibility of an amicable settlement of the difficulty with Chill is highly improbable, in fact ho broadly hinted as much when asked how the latest phase of the quarrel, the gross insult to Commander Evans, of the Yorktown, have affected the situation. The seeming puerile action of the Chilian Minister of Foreign Affairs in : connection with the refugees on board the Yorktown and the spirited reply of Commander Evans of that vessel was the subject of much comment among members of Congress, and many remarks were matte tn the sanctity of the cloakroom or committee-room which might bo considered significant by the Chilian Government as falling from the lips of American representatives in Congress. While it cannot be said with absolute truth’ that there is a radical war spirit prevailing among congressmen, it is certain that many of them (and this includes a number of members usually considered conservative in their views and their actions) will not hesitate to vote for war if the situation does not improve. There is a unanimous feeling in favor of doing what is best to maintain the dignity of the United States, but members differ as to how that result should be accomplished. some being in favor of war at once, while ethers think patience and arbitration the better policy. From interviews with prominent congressmen, it is obvious that no partisanship will enter into the controversy if the matter is brought forward in the House. “Patriotism, not Politics,” will be the motto of nearly every man on the floor whether he is ip favor of war or against. Secretary Tracy has cabled to Commander Evans, commanding the Yorktown at Valparaiso, to proceed at his own discretion to Calico, Peru, and there land the Chilian refugees who are now under his protection. JUDGE BOTKIN Charged With Complicity in Murder. Topeka (Kas.) special: Mrs. & N. Wood has written a letter to Governor Bumphrev in which she denies that she and her friends are plotting to take ♦ Judge Botkin's life. She further says that she has ample proof of the fact that Botkir. was one of the chief instigators of the murder of her husband. Col. Sam Wood, and that the evidence can be produced in court when th<> witnesses can go there and tell what they know without fear of assassination. * W. F. Rishunier. Secretary of the National Citizens Alliance* has written a letter to the Topeka Advocate in .which he declares that Jndge Botkin told John R. Garrison in his room in a Topeka hotel “If I can ever get Wood to Hugoton he will never get out alive, as all arrangements are made to kill him there.” Mr. Rightmier then declares on his word as an attorney he believes that he has in his possession sufficient evidence -Mronvict Botkin M complicity in the ~ \Vood.' Found Dead in a Ditch. While two residents of South Milford, Ind., were passing a ditch, their hunting dog sprang into it and almost instantly leaped out with a startled howl. This drew the attention of the men to a dark object half buried in the snow, which proved to be tlje lifeless body of Eugene Nichols, who was subject to epileptic fits, and probably foil into the pit in a fit and either broke his neck or froze to death. Walter A. Wood, the Inventor of Barvesting; Machin Dead. Walter A. Wood, the well-known inventor and manufacturer of harvesting machines, died at his hpmc in Hoosic Falls, N. Y. He was one of the few Americans who, for great service rendered to humanity as an inventor, had received title and honor from the crowned heads of Europe. He was a representative in Congress for two terms. Natural Gas Explosion. An explosion of natural gas in the house of JudgeTJohn S. Rrazee at Lancaster, Ohio, completely demolished the buildting. Judge Brazee was thrown sixty feet across the street and probably fatally injured about, the head. The other five members of the family were in bed, and, strange, to say, were taken out not seriously injured. The building, a twostory brick, was leveled to the ground. The Garza Revolution Is Over. A special from Laredo. Texas, says that itSis believed there the Garza Revolution is at an end, and that armed men reported to -be moving through the country arc. supposed to be Garza’s men on their way to their homes. Garza himself is thought to be in the neighborhood of Laredo, and it is the opinion of some that he may surrender at Corpus Christi. —- Carried from the Prlz.o Ring. The glove contest at Dubuque, lowa, between Con Doyle of Chicago, and Dan Henry of Dubuque, lastc’d for six rounds. Henry was to knock out Doyle in twelve rounds, but notwithstanding his superior weight, he was beaten from the start, and at the end of the sixth round was carried from the ring in a semi-uncon-scious condition. The F.'inrers Lose. The collapse of tbe printers’ strike at Berlin is absolute. This was partly due to the influx of a thousand foreign compositors. The . loss to the strikers ■I amounts to 750,000 marks, while the total to men and masters is over 3,000,000 marks. ■ Eight Persons KiUed. The Kellogg lumber mills boiler exploded at Ceredo, W. Va. So far as is known eight persons are dead. The excitement is so intense that particulars, cannot be had. Resting on Their Oars. A special from Washington says: Secretary Tracey and Assistant Secretary of State Aidee-say I Iks. reported flight of .MinisterJSgau from Santiago is untrue. Nothing has been received from Chill for several days and the published reports of messages from Egan and Montt are pure inventions. Tim ne- ' gotiations are at a stand-still and have been for several days. The President i -.and Secretary Blaine are now resting on their oars, and expecting that the Chilian Government, when its investigation is completed, will make a suitable • apology. If they do not, the President says he will act promptlyTnd effectively. I

.» He has completed his message to Congress so far as dictating a resume of the entire correspondence is concerned, but ho has not yet prepared any portion of the recommendation which will accompany the communication about this matter. ,I L * HRECK AND FIKK. A Special Train Ooot Over an Km bankmeat. Brainard (Mlnu.) special: A horrible accident occurred on the Northern Pacific railroad at Jonesville, the first station east of here, by which two women mot death in a horrible form,being burned to death, while twenty others wore injured. The train was a special, consisting of sleeping car Petrel and a baggage car, and was running as the second section of Na 9, the regular train from Superior. The special left South Superior, having on board the Andrews Opera Company, going from Duluth to Grand Forks. The train was running at the usual rate of speed when it struck a broken rail. The steeper left the track and went down an embankment, landing bottom side up. The flames broke out from all sides of the car immediately, and burned so rapily that the crew j"ould do nothing but extricate the passengers from the wreck. When it was thought all had been rescued, a search revealed the fact that Mrs. Ed. Andrews, wife of the proprietor of the troupe,'and her nurse, Mrs. Lilly Waliace, were missing. By this time the flames were burning so fiercely that it was impossible to get near the car. When the flames were finally subdued the remains were, discovered, but so badly burned that it was impossible to identify one from another. Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Wallace had occupied an upper berth at the forward end of the car and were wrapped In the bed clothes. There was no outcrv from this berth while the work of rescuing the injured was progressing, and it is supposed that both occupants were killed instantly. It is not known whether the car caught fire from the lamp or stove, but it is supposed from the rapidity with which the flames spread that they caught from the lamps. Twenty passengers, more or less seriously injured, were taken from the wreck. Physicians were taken trom Brainard on a special train. The injured were brought back to this city and taken to the Northern Pacific Hospital as soon as possible, where they were given the best of care and medical attention. Conductor Ball, who was in charge of the train, says the sight was the most appalling of any he ever witnessed. The shrieks and moans of the women could be heard half a mile away. Miss Douglass, when she was brought from the car, was literally enveloped in flames, her hair being on fire. Many of the women were nude, but were wrapped up as they were taken out Mr. Andrews rescued his little baby and supposed his wife was safe. He is wild with grief. CHILI MUST APOLOGIZE. President Harrison’s Ultimatum Said to Have Been Forwarded. Washington special: The Chilian crisis is at hand. President Harrison’s administration has called “time” on Chili. Within a very short time Minister Egan will lay tbe ultimatum of the United States before Foreign Minister Pereira, and through him Presi" ent Montt’s Cabinet There is no longer auy room for nonsense. It is stated positively that Minister Egan has been cabled to make two demands on the Chilian Government. The cablegrams arc signed “Blaine,” and say “the President directs,” which is the diplomatic form of notifying foreign countries when the United States means business. The instructions cover two points—apology for tbe offensive October letter of Minister Matta and reparation for the Baltimore outrage. Minister Egan is directed to make a demand tor the immediate withdrawal of the insulting Matta note, which was issued in reply to the message of President Harrison instructing the Minister to seek redress for the attack on the Baltimore’s sailors. It will be a disagreeable surprise to know that this note has never been formally disavowed. Minister Montt’s assurances that it would be have not been borne out, and the Santiago dispatches wnich stated that-he had been instructed to do so were also in fault GHOST DANCE. The Osage and Pawnee -Indians On the War Path. Guthrie (O. T.) special: A courier coming in from the Cherokee Strip reports that there wiil surely be serious trouble on tbe Osage and Pawnee reservations in the western part or the strip. The Osage Indians have been very insolent for a year past, and when a month ago their agent advised them not to treat with the Government Com-, ndssioners for the sale of their lands, tffllt they owned it and should keep it, they at once became imbued with the idea of running things to suit themselves. Within the last week the blanket Indians of. this tribe have been holding a ghost dance, which grows larger aud more vigorous each day. The participants have now become worked upto such a pitch that it is unsafe for a white man to venture near. Across the river from the Osage Reservation the Pawnees are having a dance, and a few days ago a large party of the some straggling Pawnees, tied tjiem to a tree and held amOck scalp danee about them all day. Should any number of these two tribes come in contact while they are excited from dancing an open and bloody war will surely follow. — — L Boiler Explosion. Ironwood (Mich), special: A terrific boiler explosion occurred at the North Pabst mine near Ironwood, Mich., which shook the entire eastern portion of the city. ..The hoisting plant, engine house and mine office were wrecked. John Hughes, a dump-man. was blown fifty feet, death being instantaneous. John Carney, a pump-man. was Being lowered into the shaft when the explosion occurred. The shock broKe the cage, , Carney falling to the bottom of the shaft into several feet of water. He sustained severe injuries about tbe head, and was ; unconscious when brought up. Supcrini dent Biddle was bruised in the ruins, and dangerously hurt, his escape from death being miraculous. An Ally or Garza. Lincoln. (Neb.) special: An officer of ; the Mexican .Government has been in this city all week. It was learned he is , watching ' Co!. Robert McDonald of the Governor’s staff, who. it is claimed, is in sympathy with the 1 Garza movement, ahil planning to furnish the revolutionists wjth arms, ammunition, and money. McDonald recently re- ’ turned from --Moaicsi. where bo had -acbiiferenee with Garza. Some time ago ’ lie ostensibly .started a colonization 1 scheme and proposed to establish a republic in South Africa, and ordered a ' lot pf guns and cannon, which, it, is now ’ claimed, 'were for Garza. Interesting ’ developments arc expected. I ' He Was in Earnest. 1 Cairo (Ill.) special: A local paper i printed a letter written by Janies C. 5 Lighner to his wife in St Louis, in which 1 he threatened to drown himself. The ■ substance-of the lower was telegraphed

-1 to tho St. Louis papers. She laughingly I b said that writing such letters was one of t Llghnnr’s favorite amusements, and she f did not believe lie meant It. He did, - though, aud It was learned from an offis cer of 'the Now South Steamer that Lighner after writing tholetter referred to and sending it ashore, had jumped overboard aud was drowned as tho boat was going to Memphis. Tho tacts were wot ascertained until It returned, j Money Mad. i A special dispatch from Alliance, Ohio, t says: Several weeks ago Mrs, Rosa i Northrop, accompanied by her 7-yoar-old I daughter loft SandiagaCal., to visit rola- ■ tives near hero. Mrs. Northrop took considerable money with her. This so preyed ’ upon her mind that when the train stopped at away station In lowa, she took- her child and started across the prairie. After wandering around for a day and a night they wore found nearly dead from exposure. An aunt In Nebraska i took charge of them, bringing them to ' this city. Mrs. Northrop is now at tho homo of her mother, Mrs. Baldwin, a i raving maniac. Brower.’ Battle. , Chicago special: Tho big English brewery syndicates of Chicago and Milwaukee, known as tho Chicago Malting and Brewing Company, and tho Chicago and Milwaukee Brewing , Company have begun a war of extormi- , nation on the smaller concerns that have sprung up since the formation of the two great trusts, and as a result beer is now selling at SI a barrel or just onehalf its former price. The war will be a bitter one as both sides are willing to , lose money now in the hope of reaping a , rich harvest during tho World's Fair. The stock of both the syndicates has fallen nearly 50 per cent, sincothey were organized. Another Horror. Another street crossing horror occurred at Chicago. A Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago limited passonger train crashed into a Forty-seventh street horse car, at Stewart avenue. In an instant all was confusion, the car was smashed into kindling wood and a number ot persons were undoubtedly seriously if not fatally injured. Amid the mass of wreckage were half a dozen bleeding and senseless human forms. These were tenderly raised and carried to a saloon, while their fellow passengers, less seriously injured, were helped to the same place, where the doctors waited on tuem. _ Robbed Mall Bags. Batavia (N. Y.) special: A bold and successful robbery of United States mail occurred at the Erie depot The mall for tho west-bound train, consisting of two pouches, was on a baggage truck on the platform awaiting the train’s arrival. The employe having them in charge stepped into the depot for a moment and on his ♦eturn the bags were missing. They were found later undcr*omc planks near the freight bouse. Tuey had been cut open and the contents abstracted. A tramp who had been lounging about the depot is suspected of tho robbery. Harben Hanged. M. V. Harben was hanged at Poplar Bluff, Mo. When placed on the scaffold Harben was smoking a cigar. He was asked if he desired to say anything, and replied: “No, gentlemen, I can only say lam innocent.” Tne crime for which Harben suffered death penalty was tlito murder of an old man named Smith, on July 4, 1888. Smith sold a farm to Harben and held his note as part payment. It was proved that Harben murdered him to secure possession of the notes. Dynamiters Arrested. London special: Deonganavioff, the notorious anarchist, who has long been wanted by the police of several capitals of Europe, was arrested tn Soho, a quarter of this city, upon suspicion of having been concerned in the manufacture of tombs and the spread of literature seized bv the police when the socialistic club house at Walsall was recently raided, At Walsall the police made another arrest of a dynamiter subject. This time it js a man named William Ditciitield. Editor Mitchell Cowhided. A recent number of the Weekly Jour--. nal-Press, published at St Cloud, Minn., contained an article reflecting unfavorably upon the wife of John Carson, a saloon keeper. Mrs. Carson, armed with a stiff rawhide, entered Editor Mitchell’s office and administered a severe whipping. She then went to police headquarters and deposited $25 for her anpearanee to answer an expected charge to be made against her. •lay Gould and the Bomb. - Tt is rumored that a crank with a bomb made an attempt on the life of Jay Gould at his palatial home. No verification of the story nor details are obtainable. “Silver” Flint In Dead. The base bail player, Frank F. Flint, better known as "Silver” and “Old Hoss,” died at the home of his divorced wife, Chicago, after a lingering illness ot consumption. ) Oldest Woman In Nebraska. Bridget Sculien, aged 119 years, tho oldest woman in Nebraska, died at Omaha of the grip. The Cushing Ordered Out. Cbifiihander Winslow of the torpedo boat Cushing, has received orders to proceed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. THE MAKKETB. ■ CHICAGO. Cattle - Common to Prime $3.50 @O.OO Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.t0 @ 4.50 ShkeC—Fair to Choice 3.C0 & 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 lied 80 & .87 Cobn—No. 2....". 38 @ .33 Oats—No. 2 28’ 2 @ .29)4 Ryk—No. 2 .83 @ .84 Butteb—Choice Creamery 28 @ .33 Chke.se—Full Cream, flats 12 @ .13 Eggs—Fresh 23" @ .24 Potatoes—Car-loads, per bu.... .30 @ .40 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping. 3.25 @ 5.2> , Hoos—Choice Light 3.50 @ 4.25 Sheet Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Red , . ,to'4@ .914$ Conti—No. 1 White 40 @ .41 Oats-No. 2 White 32 @ .33 ST. LOUIS. Ca/iTLf. 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.50, & 4.25 Wheat— No. 2 Bed 87 @ .8.1 Coen-No. 2 36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 '.. SO & .31 I RYB—No. 2 82 @ .83 CINCINNATI. Cattle , 3.50 @ 5.00 Hons 3.00 @4.50 BHEEI’ 3.00 @ 5.00 „ Wheat—No. 2 Red. ». 96 & .«7 Cohn—No. 2 .42)i@ .48)4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .35 DETROIT. , Cattle 3.00 @ 4,75 Hogs.... 3.00 @4.25 SHEET" 3.00 @5.00 ; Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Cobn—No. 2Yellow .41 @ .42 1 Oats-No. 2 White 34 @ .34)4 TOLEDO, WbE’T—New 90 @ .91 Cokn—No. 2 Yellow . . 41 i«( .43 ' OATS—No. 2 white .......j .32 @ .34 I Rye.. '. .88 @ .89 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle..e,.. ... —4.00 @ 5.75— LIVB Hogs 3.75 @4.75 i Wheat—Nori Hard..., 1.01 @1.02 . Cohn—No. 2, ) 55 @ .57 1 MILWAUKEE. • Wheat—No. 2 Spring .$4 @ .SB i Colsn-No. 5 37 @ .39 , Oats-No. 2 White .32 @ .33 Rye-No. 1. -«3 @ .85 t Babley—No. 2...:.»....,...k... .57 iff .58 Pobk— Mess. 11.50 @12.00 ’ NEW YORK. Cattle 8.60 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.50 f Sheep a.:..-.,,., 3.50 @ 8.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 102 @ 1.01 , Cobn—No.2. .5> @ .54 1 Oats—Mixed Western 8« @ .38 5 Bor IBB—Creamery -21 @ .32 1 Pobe—New Me 55....... 0.75 4"10.75

■■■ smiMtosmi— THE DPTY|ON LEAD ORE HOW IT INJURES THE LEAD INDUSTRY. Building Up Mexico at the Expense of tho United State*—Reduce the Duties on Cordage and Hope Why They Oppose Free Wool. Ono Year ortho Lead Oro Duty. , McKinley granted tho demand* of tho load miners ot Colorado, and imposed a duty of 1J oenta por pound on tho* load content of imported oro«. Previous to the pasHiigo of the McKinley tariff such oros had boon free of duty. Tho mass of our imports of these ores come fyom Mexico, being shipped thenoeto Kansas, Missouri, and other States having largo smelting works, where they arc smelted with the silver-lead ores of the United States. The mixture of these orcs in tho smelters reduces the cost of production considerably. Tho load ore miners of Colorado believed that were a duty put on Mexican ores tho price of their load would bo advanced. They cared little for tho injury which such a coarse would bring to tho smelters and miners of sil-ver-leftd ores. The duty has been in force a year, and its effects cun therefore be shown. Tho production of lead in the leading States, the miners of whioh secured the duty of 1J cents per pound on lead orc, in 1890 and 1891 has been as follows: ,—lToduotlon—, 1890. 1891. Tons. Tons. Arizona and California I.DCC 1,000 Coprado 60,aw €4,fOJ Idaho and Montana 24,000 25,010 Nevada 2,500 2,500 Utah 24.000 25,0u0 Total, 111.500 117,103 The production of lead in these States increased during the year only 8,000 tons. The producers and smelters of lead in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Wisconsin, who use the imported orcs as a flux in the smelting of our own more refractory silver-lead ores, opposed tho duty ana declared that it would greatly injure their business. The production of lead in these) States in 1891 as compared with 1890 was as follows: 1890. 1891. Tons. Tons. Lead produced J 5.000 40.UC0 A falling off of 15,000 tons, making tho net demand in the production of lead in the States enumerated in 1891 9,000 tons. How this was brought about is shown by Mr. Bothwell, of the engineering mid Mining Journal, in his annual review of the lead industry. Says Mr. Bothwell: “For a short time indeed, toward the end of 1890, the price of lead was ad- . vanced by the McKinley bill, and the smelting charges on dry silver orcs were also increased quite heavily, owing to a temporary scarcity of lead fluxing ores, but a more liberal interpretation of the bill of the Treasury Department-again allowed the Mexican ore to enter. The price of lead thenceforward declined (though smelting charges did not), and as a final outcome It must be apparent to every one, from a study of these statistics, that the McKinley bill has been an injury rather than a benefit to the lead, and especially to the silver miners of the West. “This result must set some of the intelligent miners to thinking who profited when they were injured, or at least not 1 benefited, by the legislation which they were told would prove so greatly to their advantage. But had Mexican lead : ores continued to como in free, what 1 would have been the result? Undoubtedly the smelting of the Mexican ores ' would have been done in this country, to the obvious advantage of our metallurgical industry, instead of in works ( built with American capital in Mexico. “Lead might have ruled lower in price ) had a very large amount of orc Come in > from abroad, but this would have great- : ly stimulated consumption, and would ) hav£ kept down smelting charges on dry ores, the mining of which gives occupation to more men than does the mining of lead ores." Turning from the injurious effects of the duty on the production and smelting ! of silver - lead ores in the United ' States to the effect on the production of lead in Mexico, Mr. Bothwell says: “Previous to 1890, only a few unimportant smelting works existed in Mexico, the product of which was very small, but when the American market was closed to the Mexican miners, who couldnot afford' to pay thertieavy freight charges to Europe on the low grade ores, nothing was left for them to do but to establish a smelting industry of their own. The opportunity was promptly seized, not only by them but also by some of tho larger American smelters, who found themselves deprived of a portion of their supplies; they, too, went over to Mexico and started up smelting works, which are now partly in operation, and will be entirely so early this year. “At present tho production of lead bullion in Mexico goes on at the rate of about 1,200 tons per month, but very shortly this will be increased to about 2,500 tons, and may by the end of this year amount to 3,000 tons. If this latter figure is peached it will mean that Mexico will thus produce about onesixth as much as tho United States, and there can be no doubt that most of this bullion would have been produced here had not the law been altered in a most deplorably narrow-minded spirit. ” Since the duty on imported ores benefits no one in the United States, but has caused great injury to the silver-lead ore producers and smelters, why should it not be repealed? Truth Will Out. At the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee, of which Major McKinley was Chairman, and which drafted and passed the tariff bill bearing his name, the woolen manufacturers who testified claimed that there were used in the making of a pound of cloth at least four pounds of greasy wool. These men induced the Ways and Means Committee to adopt the above as the basis of the ’ specific duties on goods to compensate tfie manufacturers for the duty of 11 cents per pound on wool. They did so, and during the debate declared over and over again that the 44 cents per pound duty on woolen cloth afforded no protection to the manufacturer but merely offset the wool duty. Truth cannot lopg be concealed. Now that the present Ways and Means Committee are considering the introduction of a bill putting wool on the free list, and at the same time., taking off the pound duty ctf 44 cents on cloth and reducing the ad valorem rate to 40 per cent., certain manufacturers are opposing this on tho ground that such a hill would deprive them of a great deal of protection. Says a writer in The Manufacturer, the organ of the high tariff manufacturers’ ■ club of " Philadelphia, f xyho signs his article “One who sees only’ danger to manufacturers in l free wool:’: “Manufacturers under the McKinley bill- pay 11 edits -per jiouiid -duty-op-wool. By importing the light-shrinkage Australian wools, which are the kinds mostly imported, a manufacturer eani get out of two pounds of skirted wool one pound of scoured wood, which is nearly the equivalent of pound of cloth. ; ; It is claimed that It takes nearly foiir pounds of unwashed wool to make a pound of cloth. This maybe true 9T the faulty 75-per-cent. shrink wools used in Europe, but novel Imported; but its. is not* true of the. light, open, shafty, skirted Australian wools that are 11,n-

ported. Tho Waste on the Utter averages but slightly above 50 percent. (A food deal is imported which shrinks only 8 percent.) This class of wool is so well skirted on the ranch as to require little or no further sorting in the mills. “The clear shafty wool is all that is Imported by American manufacturers. Ono pound of scoured, clear-sorted wool, free from inferior bits and pieces, as already stated, is almost tho equivalent of one pound of cloth. The manufacturer Imports two pounds of euch wool in tho grease, paying 11 cents per pound, or 22 cents on tho one pound scoured. As the McKinley bill gives a specific duty of 44 cents por pound—which is in no way assailed by undervaluations, as may be the case with an ad valorem duty—manufacturers have a clear margin of nearly 22 cents per pound protection on every pound of cloth mode of these light, fifty per cent, shrunk, skirted, Australian fleeces. “Assuming that fifty per cent, ad valorem duties wholly cover tho difference in wages between tho foreign and American mill lalior for which purpose this fifty pet cent, was imposed, we find that the only margin of real protection against undervaluation is tho specific duty on cloth which the free wool advocates now propose to remove. “The only real margin of surplus protection which American manufacturers now have under tho McKinley bill is the margin (be it 22 cents por pound more or less) which they now get os a compensatory duty for tho duty upon wool. “The duty on cloth was fixed under tho assumption that tho manufacturer paid 44 cents per pound duty on the scoured wool needed to construct one finished pound of cloth. In point of fact ho pays but little (if any) Over 22 cents per pound on that wool, leaving him a margin of about 22 cents per pound. With free wool he loses this. Will ho favor free wool and also favor being brought into closer competition with foreign manufacturers, with only an ad valorem rate on goods that can so easily bo avoided by undervaluations and false invoices?” No wonder that certain woolen manufacturers who, during the last Presidential campaign, paid so much to get the permission of Congress, by a tariff law, to charge a clear bounty of 22 cents per pound on cloth over and above tho bounty given them by tho duty of 50 per cent, object to being deprived of it so soon. The manufacturer who turns out in hie factories legitimate woolen goods and the wool growers, who have the prosperity of the wool and woolen industry at heart, know that free' wool will benefit both. It is such wool growers who hope to get political prestige from their labors, and such manufacturers as believe in a tariff for bounty, included with whom are the users of shoddy and other bogus materials, who believe in the McKinley tariff on wool and woolen manufactures. Reduce tho Duties on Cordaffe and Rope. The gentlemen who have introduced in Congress bills to put binding twine on the free list, and certain journals which continue to demand that a bindingtwine bill shall be the cornerstone of the Democratic policy, can obtain some very useful information from current commercial reports and the statute known as the McKinley tariff act. The commercial reports which might enlighten them are those relating to the price of cordage. Several advances have recently been made by the powerful combination or chartered trust which controls the supply. The Iron Ago of the 7th inst. published the following: “The associated manufacturers (the National Cordage Company) have within a few days made two advances in price, which they are enanled to announce and maintain in view of tho fact that they are almost in undisputed control of tho market, the outside competition being relatively unimportant. The first ot the two advances occurred Dec. 28, when the following prices were announced: * * * The above Sdvanced prices were followed Dec. So by the announcement of another advance of if of a cent per pound on manila and 1 cent per pound on sisal and New Zealand. The trade was hardly pepared for such radical advances as the above, especially as the price of the raw material is about the same as for some time.” The Iron Age announced an advance on Oct. 22, and at that time published the new price-list. We give below the prices for rope announced at the three dates mentioned: COBDAGB FBICES. Oct. 22. Dec. £B. Dec. 30. Manila, rope 9)4 11)4 Sisal rope 9J4 New Zealand rope 5)4 79* 8% It should not be forgotten that the first of these lists sots forth an advance of of a cent per pound, and that the complete lists include- hay rope, hide rope, bale rope, lath yarn, and many other kinds of cordage. In the middie of October the.price of manila rope was only 84 cents, and sisal was selling at 54. The advance in less than three months has been 44 per cent, for manila rope, 68 per cent, for sisal, and 59 per cent, for New Zealand. The power of the tariff.to increase the price of binding twine is now limited to 7-10 of a cent a pound at the outside. The astute Manufacturer, the organ of Mr. Dolan’s high-tariff association, recently spoke of “the increased duty upon binding twine, which has tumbled the price of that article within a single year from l 2 cents a pound to 8 cents.” Tlie truth is, that not only was tho duty on binding twine almost entirely cut off, but also the raw materials out of which ouch twine is made were removed from the dutiable to the free list. The cost of production was thereby largely reduced, and at the same time the power of the ring’to raise prices by tho aid of a duty on the finished product was almost entirely taken away. This is one of the few good features of the McKinley tariff. • If our friends will stop talking about binding twinc tand will take up tho other kinds of cordage, which are still “protected” by considerable duties, they will show that they have not wholly overlooked the McKinley tariff aet and the changes it has made. In the exactions of the chartered trust which so boldly makes these great advances in the other kinds of cordage — advances ranging from 44 to 68 per cent.—there is something which may well engage the attention of the Ways and Means Committee at Washington. A.i demand for free cordage would mean something. In the ease of binding twine there is scarcely anything left to talk about.—New York Times. - Tilere is a bright chap sending news trojii Los Angeles to -the papers. He sent an account of a horrible 1 suicide in which, {he miserable wretch was described as having “first mutilated himself in a horrible way, then cut his head with an ax, took laudanum, stabbed himself over the heart with a big jackknife, and shot him- - Tielf in -ttre-rtreath-”- Thirnractr-lacer-ated individual lived for several hours because, as the correspondent says, “the knife fortunately glanced on the breastbone and thus saved him instant death.” That was fortunate indeed, not so much for the suicide, who escaped instant death to linger in agony for hours, but for the world of newspaper readies, who but for this incident might have never discovered how droll a rural correspondent can be when he doesn't want to. • *

: ALBERT VICTOR DEAD, c "" 1 - ' HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONB 1 PASSES AWAY. 1 ” Great Excitement Shown by All Clataei—- [ Sympathy Doing ICxtoiiUeU from AU Boiirooa—tteone* at Hundrioghuin—Cardinal Miuinlng Alto I* No Mere. Death of a Duke. Hie Royal Highness, Albert Victor, I Duke of Clarence, and hole to tho Britb ieh throne, is dead. His death was . caused by congestion of the lungs, . brought about by a severe cold contracted while hunting. The Duke of Clarence , waa a member of a party which was . shooting over somo covers situated ■ a long distance from Sandringham Hall. At luncheon he complained of not fooling as well as usual, was seen to bhiver, and said that ho felt that he was , taking cold, but after tho meal ho continued shooting. At tho conclusion of the sport he walked homo Instead of driving with the rest of tho party. That evening ho dined with tho assembled

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company, but was obliged to retire early. On the following day efforts were made to dissuade him from joining the shooting party, but he insisted on doing so, saying that he felt equal to the exercise. After luncheon, however, he said that he felt compelled to return home and left tho party, going on foot. The next morning he was unable to leave his bed, and continued growing rapidly worse until the seventh day, when death came to him. London and all England is wild with excitement, and business is entirely suspended. It is characteristic of the deep affection felt by the entire British people for the Princess of Wales that the most sincere and heartfelt expressions of sorrow are heard on every hand and a deep feeling of sympathy pervades every class of society from the highest to the lowest and every shade of political opinion from the Tory to the Radical. In the vicinity of Sandringham, where the Duke’B death occurred, the excitement cannot be described. CARDINAL MANNING. The Noted Catholic Divine Passes to the Beyond. Cardinal Manning, who, as was announced from London, was suffering from a severe cold, had the last sacrament of the church administered to him and soon after expired. It is now fourteen years since the distinguished churchman was invested with the cardinal’s hat, and forty years since he left tlie Established church, in which he had won high honors, for the Roman communion. He has in an eminent degree earned the love of tho working people of England by tho interest he has al-

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ways taken in .their welfare, and in the last .few years he has been instrumental in adjusting a number of serious differences between the industrial classes and "their employers. He has also been active in temperance and other reform works. __ As a clergyman of the English Church, Dr. Manning officiated as one of the select preachers of the University of Oxford as long ago as 1834, and in 1840 was made Archdeacon of Chichester. After transferring his ecclesiastical allegiance to Borne, Dr. Manning founded a religous order at Bayswater, entitled the Obiatcs of St. Charles Borromeo. He succeeded Cardinal Wiseman -as Archbishop of Westminster in 18(55, About Men and Women. The Earl of Dudley has 86,000,000 life insurance. New York has 5,000 union female hotel hands. Only one American in 264 is over 0 feet in height. The real giant is the man who can overcome himself. A man’s declining years begin at 50, a woman’s from-15 to 18. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. If a woman’s face is her fortune, a man's check is frequently his. .Bishop Butler, of England, belfeived in the immortality of animals. The girl who has the strongest will is the girl who says the strongest won’t It is mentioned as a peculiarity of the grass widow that she is selddrn green. bell-boys in New York hotels make, through tips, about 8200 a month. Conscience is that within us which tells us when our neighbors are doing wrong. A mother-in-law’s sermon seldom take well with an audience of daughters-in-law. 1 A woman of Parkersburg, W. Va., has her eighth husband. She is 50 and i he is 61. - Queen Victoria has engaged twa.ho»_ • tcls at Nice for herself and suite in j March next , One reason why a man's stockings j cost less than his wife's is because they . do not come so high. j Bishop Brooks is a very rapid talker and a terror to stenographers. He speaks p over 300 words a minute. 1 Earth has no other joy like unto that . of the woman who has made eighteen, calls and found everybody out. , Dr. Nelson, the newly elected Bishop of Georgiadis fond of wood carving, at * which he has become an expert.

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLCfWING: Important Happ.nlnga of lha WeikCrim.a aud OMualtta* — bul.ldea— Doutba— W odd Inga, I’-tc. Waa 11. Innocent? Thomas Callahan died at Valparlso, protesting his innocence of tho crime of murder, of which ho was adjudged guilty and sentenced to tho I’eniteirtlary for life in 1863. He served but twelve years of tho imprisonment when pardoned by tho late Gov. Hendricks. Callahan was a native of Ireland, and became a subject of the United States at tho time of the late war. A draft had been made for mon to complete a regiment, and at a meeting, ono night, to till the quota a dispute arose, and, in tbe moloo, a man was stabbed io death. Callahan was arrested for the murder, found guilty and sentenced to Michigan City for Hfo. Ho protested his Innocence and on this plea, supplemented by tho efforts of influential citizens, he was pardoned, and returned to Valparaiso. This was in 1875, and uiitll his death Callahan lived tho life of a hermit. Ho selected for his habitation a tumble-down cot--tage, and though possessed of ample means, preferred to live in complete seclusion. Ho never cut his hair, and at the time of his death hung in long tresses down bls back. For seventeen years he has protested his innocence, frequently in his dollriuiq calling aloud for mercy, and pleading with God to spare him tho curses of the people who believed him guilty, Among'-Cullahan's personal effects were found several messagos to the people, in which ho disclaimed any knowledge of the crime. Callahan is believed to have been worth in tho neighborhood of 850,000. T»»¥ arw having a squatshto over a now city hall at Tell City, A new bank will soon be openlM at Greenstown to bo known as the Citizens’National Bank. The bituminous coal-mincrs at Clinton have resumed work and.trouble in that district is at an end. J. R. Logan had a foot crushed off while attempting to board a train at Cass Junction, near Peru. Harrison W. Harrington r has been arrested at Frankfort charged with stealing clover seed. Everybody is hunting rabbits. They were never niore plintiful in Indiana than they are this winter. William Stair of Columbus, was given three years In the Penitentiary for cattle stealing in Brown County. Typhoid pneumonia carried off the entire family of Janies L. Vancleave of Livonia, Washington County, within four days. Myrtle Brown of Goshen, who was terribly burned in a kerosene explosion, has died, and her ,mother’s life hangs by a thread. Work on the foundation of the DePauw Plate Glass Works, at Alexandria, • is progressing rapidly, notwithstanding the cold weather. At Valparaiso tho grand jury reports condemnation of persons concerned in the management of the County Asylum. It is charged that tho inmates are nearly starved. — “Mack” Denton of Orleans, was sentenced to two years in tho Penitentiary for assaulting tho 12-ycar-old daughter of ex-Representatlve Voiney Trimble and tho IL-year-old daughter es Houver Atkinson. In the Muscatituck River, Thursday, near Seymour, a young man named Busch, from .near Salem, was drowned together with his team, while trying to cross the swollen stream. The body was not recovered. Mullen and McGuire, two timbermen of Farmland, felled a tree that measured seventy-live feet high Ttnd twenty feet in circumference, measuring out 3.500 feet of lumber. The tree was on Harrison Collins’ farm, two and a half miles northwest of that city. Mrs. Mary Wright of Anderson, who became the wife of a bigamist, has died and bequeathed $5,000 to her husband. The latter only recently finished his term in tho Penitentiary and ran away, fearing further prosecution. He cannot be found and the money is unclaimed. The young wife of James Vaughn, living near Rush Creek, eight miles northwest of Salem, foil in an open fireplace at her home aiid was burned to death. No one was in the room, but it is supposed she fell while in a spasm. She struggled to her feet and tore ail her clothes off without irfaking an outcry . sufficient to bring her husband, who was in an adjoining room. The “boom” which has been steadily gaining ground at Yorktown for several months past, has now taken a new lease of life, as Eastern capitalists’ have now taken charge of the affairs, and a permanent secretary of the Land Improvement Company now makes that town his homo. K con tract to have the large eighty-room hotel completed by May 1 has been signed, and a building for banking purposes will also bo erected. Eastern men have been in town recently, and fifty new houses, with several new factories, are exected to appear soon. Amos Rich, a resident of Yorktown, left home the other morning to hunt game, and, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon* two other hunters were directed to his lifeless body by the barking of his dog. Ho was found lying on his face with his overcoat under his head and a shotgun wound in hlsabdomen, but death could not have been instantaneous, as . the, overcoat, no doubt, had been taken off after the accident and placed under the head. Tho gun and game-sack were close by. No house being near, no one could' bo summoned to his aid, so after much suffering ho met death bravely alone. The remains were taken to Yorktown, where the Coroner held an invesigation, and found his taking off to oe the result of accident. DaN Taylor, a Washington colored man, was put off a train on the Evansville and Richmond road, the conductor claiming his ticket was worthless. Taylor claims the ticket was all right, and now ho wants $5,000 damages from thecompany. Some time since Mr. Daniel Hatch called on Mrs. Vioia Wagner at Gpshen. when she chasca him from the house with a broom. He grabbed her, pushed her into tho smoke-house, and locked her in. She says that she sustained severe Internal injuries from which she will never recover, and now -sues him for $5,000 damagesAs Harvey Duncan of Summitville, was crossing the L.. E. & W. track at Eaton hts wagon was struck liy a freight 'train and (Tfsnibllshed. Mr.'Duncan was thrown upon the plipiof the engine, with tho-wagon scat Under him and the robes wrapped about him ir. the same position as hd was in the wagon. He was not hurt, save a few scratches and a general shaking up. He climbed over on the 1 foot-board of the engine to the cab, where no found the engineer and fireman badly frightened. The train was stopped and Mr. Dnncan was taken to shop, where his wounds woro dressed, after which he procured another wagon and returned, nut ranch tho worse tram ' als adventure. - . - ; . - ':»• I. :-?./-; • • . . ■