Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1892 — Page 6

©he DECATUR, IND. yB. BLACEBUBN. - - - PußLrwmn*. 1892 MA Y 7V9? 8u Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Pt 2 3 4 5 6 7 I 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 t 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ,30 31 • o "® • • • • • • • ( • I ONLY HALF A GLANCE WILL SHOW YOU THAT THE NEWS IS ALL HERE. Inaugural of Governor Foster of Louisiana —Cyclone at Circleville, Ohio—Murder and Suicide—Large Fire at Brooklyn, N. V.—it Made Him Big Money—A Fatal Leap. GREAT REJOICING By the Anti-Lottery League of the Pelican State. ' Baton Rouge (La.) special: An immense crowd gatheied at the State capi- • tol to witness the inauguration of Gov. Foster. Special trains and steamboats poured their thousands of passengers into thojcity. The Anti-Lottery League of New Orleans came in 800 strong. The ladies of the Anti-Lottery League of New Orleans also numbered several hundred. The ceremonies were the most impressive as well as the most elaborate ever witnessed in the State. Chief Justice Bermuddy being ill. Justice Fenner administered the oath of office to Gov. Foster and Lieut. Gov. Parlange. Gov. Foster in his inaugural address congratulated the State on the defeat of the lottery, paid high compliment to Gov. Nicholls and his administration of affairs and pledged himself to carry on the government economically. The inaugural ball eclipsed anything of°the kind ever attempted here. The beauty and chivalry of the Pelican * State were represented and nothing marred the occasion, unless it was the fear that the crevasse would prevent some from reaching their home for a few hours. Fiery flames. Warner’s institute, at Broadway and Willoughby avenue, Brooklyn, N. ¥., was wholly destroyed by fire. The building has been recently fitted up bjt the Zooelner Manna choir, a German singing society, which own the premises. The loss Will reach 8150,000. Besides the singing society there were located in the building several stores and a branch of the postoffice. The mail matter was nearly all destroyed. Two young men named Carl Nedszu and John Kutzky, employed in the institute building are missing, and it is believed they were burned to death. The origin of the fire is unknown. A Cyclone at Circleville. A cyclone struck Circleville, Ohio, unroofing the American Straw Board Works and Heffner Bros. & Ca’s meal mill. The sonth end of the tile works was blown in and a big section of the Scioto Machine Works’ roof was torn off and carried across the canal, where It struck a brick smokestack belonging to Weldon & Ca’s elevators, completely demolishing it Several churches were badly damaged. The electric wires throughout the city were badly damaged and the streets were strewn with scattered and uprooted trees to such an extent as to impede travel. She Wouldn’t Have Him. : — Frank Crance, a window dresser in Ormstead and Windthroul’s dry goods house, Cincinnati, shot and fatally wounded Miss Hattie Hagedorn, a fellow clerk, then blew out his own brains. He claims in letters left that the girl .. attempted to black mail him. The girl says he committed the crime because she refused to accept bis attentions. The girl cannot possibly recover. Work There for Anarcnuts. A telegram from Lodz, in Russian Poland, states that the authorities there have forbidden the manufacturers of the districts to grant their workmen any increase of wages. A number of the men arrested during the recent riots have been sent to the citadel at Warsaw, and those still continuing on the strike will be dealt with by the authorities without trial. _ it Made Him Big Money. John N. Lock of Richmond, Ind., bought a lot in a Chicago suburb twenty years ago for 850. He neglected to record the deed and afterward lost it. John Richfey found and kept the deed, but when he died recently his son discovered and forwarded the paper to Mr. Lock. The latter has since received 830,eoo for the lot A Fatal Leap. John Welch, aged twenty-one years, son of John Welch, of South Niles, Ohio, was fatally injured bv jumping from a fast running freight on the P., Y. & A. » Knocked Out in IFonr Round*. The fight before the Coney Island Club, New York, between George God- • frey and Joe Lannon, resulted in a victory for the former in four rounds. _ Germany Accepts. / _ • It is stated that Germany has accepted L' *’ the invfcation to the international silver E conference. Escaped Electrocution. Gov. Flower of New York, has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of Henry C. Ganning, who was to IS have been electrocuted at Sing Sing prison during this week. Fatal -Fall In a Mine. ?• At Marshal Basin, Col., Anthony Berry made a misstep and plunged to the bottom of the shaft in the Union mine. He E was terribly crushed, having struck on ; his head, and lived but a short time. i Killed by an Electric Car. fc Robert Scutter, only child of C B. Scutter, of the firm of T. M. Sinclair & Ca, pork packers of Cedar Rapids, lowa, while riding horseback was struck by an electric car and instantly killed. The Launching or the Ship. The new gunboat Castine was SC, faunched from the ship yards of the Bath Iron Works at Bath, Me. Miss M. Hischborn, a daughter of naval constructor Phillip Hischborn. broke the proverbial K ’ bottle and christened the craft The fe- launch was witnessed bv the biggest |L crowd that ever visited Bath. The launch was a treat success, and L the Washington delegation were well | taken care of. The Castine was known on the stocks as gunboat No 6. Bhe is almost a duplicate of the Machias, which was launched five months ago. Bhewlll eost 8318,500. The Cast lee is built entirely of domestic steel. Her R *

length on the load water line is 190 feet. Her extreme beam is thirty two feet and greateat draught twelve feet. BANK-TAX SUITS DISMISSED. Defendants Discharged from CustodyJudge Elllktt'* Suggestion. Indianapolis special: As a result of the decision by the Indiana Supremo Court the Bank-tax Commissioners suits in the United States and criminal courts were dismissed by agreement of all the attorneys employed In the cases who wore in the city. Judge Baker, of the Federal Court, discharged V, T. Malott from custody. There will probably bo no further steps taken to have bankers exhibit tho accounts of their depositors until tho next Legislature meets. Tho remedy pointed out by Judge Elliott, in his supplementary opinion, wifi doubtless lu tho end bo utilize!. Attorney General Smith does not think that the Supremo Court decision will seriously cripple tho proceedings of the Tax Commissioners. Ho says they still have the power to enforce the presence of witnesses and the production of books and papers, and these powers, in connection with aid which may bo secured from courts, will enable the Commission to gain about all the information it needs. The ruling that tho Commission is not at court, he savs, knocks out the position taken by the Pennsylvania railroad that the Board of Tax Commissioners is a Judicial body, and that the Governor, belonging to the executive department, cannot at tho same time belong to the judicial department HELD UP. Daring Highway Robbery of a Paymaster In Central New York. Syracuse (N. Y.) special: One of the most daring robberies ever committed in Central New York and which bids fair to rival the exploits of Oliver Curtis Perry, occurred near this city. Paymaster Royal E. Fox of the Sblvay Process Company, left the office with a week’s wages for (the men, §2,000. He went in a two-wheeled cart and was accompanied by James Houser as driver. The money was in a small wooden box under the wagon seat Neither of the men were armed. Fox and Houser bad nearly reached the end of the -journey to the quarries, where the men were to be paid off and were about to enter a private road made by the company, when two masked men jumped from behind a stone wall. Each of them had in his hands two revolvers which they pointed at the occupants of the cart and ordered them to get out and give up the money. While one of the highwaymen kept the men covered with his revolvers the other tied them hand and foot The robbers then drove toward the quarry, leaving Fox and Houser behind. They went into the woods near by, taking the box with them. SAVED BY RAIN. Horrible Railroad Calamity Prevented by Met Weather. Tiffin (O.) special: A desperate attempt, was made to wreck the westbound limited passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio railway near the village of Blootndalle. Twenty-five ties were piled on the track and were struck by the pilate when the train was making fifty-five miles an hour, but owing to the track and ties being slippery on account of the rain the obstructions did not throw the train from the track, though the pilot was damaged and the passengers shaken up by the shock. The obstruction was removed and the train proceeded cm its way. An hour later another train struck a large pile of ties on the track, but without damage. It is stated that some cattle belonging to a farmer residing in the vicinity were recently killed by the cars and that a satisfactory settlement has not been made with the owner. It is further said that two sons of the farmer attended a dance near where the obstructions were placed on the. track, and that they left the ballroom a short ■ time before the attempt was made to wreck the first train. Arrests will doubtless be made. ROSE FOR UNION PRINTERS. Dedication Ceremonies a* Colorado Springs. Col. The dedication of the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers took plate at Colorado Springs, Col. The ceremonies were of a most interesting character and were witnessed, by a large concourse of people. Mayor Sprague made an addressof welcome to the distinguished visitors, and the programme included speeches by Gov. Routt, Senator J. H. Gailinger, of New Hampshire, and Gea W. Childs. The event of the day was preceded by a parade in two divisions, which formed on Pike’s Peak avenue, with CoL L. C. Dana as chief marshal. In the first divisiob were the typographical unions of Denver, Pueblo, Creede, Leadville, and Colorado Springs, headed by the cowboy band of Pueblo, and the carpenters, stonecutters, plumbers, painters, and other trades unions. In the second division the Chaffee Light Artillery acted as escort to Mr. and Mrs. Childs and party, and the State and county officials, with tips visiting members of the National Editorial Association and the women members of the Typograhical Union were also in line. VHlllyßig tho Jews; Chicago special: “Diamond Ed”' Huntley, an alleged professional villifier of the Jews, has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury tor maliciously ridiculing people more worthy than himself. Huntley has a clothing store at 184 Madison street. For some reason he cherishes a spiteful grudge against several respectable Jewish merchants of Chicago, and has busied his brain to invent some means to torment them and hold them up to ridicule. His latest scheme, and the one which has cause his entanglement in the meshes of federal law, is to send a postal card to the victim of his spite through the mails, bearing a ridiculous caricature of the person addressed with an insulting allusion to a personal characteristic or misfortune. * A itace War, Norfolk (Va.) special: A conflict between a band of citizens and a mob of colored men ended in the death of two persons, in the wounding of more, and in the possibility of additional bloodshed. The conflict occurred at Simmons Creek coal mines between a white man named Justis and a colored fflan named Wells, in which Justis struck Weils. Instantly he was pursued by a black mob. Justis took refuge in a house, but entrance was quickly gained and the mob poured in on the victim and shot his brains out. About fifty armed white men chased the blacks,, Catching Wells, with whom Justis had the difficulty, they shot him to pieces and wounded one or two more. He Found a Bomb. London special: A loaded bomb shell was discovered near the high gate archway by a policeman, The officer saw a curious, colored metal lying on the ground as he was on his beat and stopped to examine it, when he discovered that a fuse was projecting from it. He was much frightened and ran hastily to the upper hallway police office where Be got a dozen comrades to return with him. i They picked the bomb up and carried it to Scotland yard where it was ex-

amined. It was found to be loaded with gun cotton, but there Is no evidence that the fuse had been lighted. Naw Mexico’s Capitol Destroyed. Santa Fee (N. M.) special: Smoke was seen Issuing frojn tho roof of an attic near tho base of the south deme of New Mexico’s magnificent capital building. Citizens at ,once appeared on the scene, but It was evident that the building was doomed. All hands at once stripped the building ot furniture, carpets, law library, and every movable article on the two lower floors. The vaults are uninjured. Owing to aquar-' rel In tho late Legislature, no money was appropriated to pay for Insurance, and tho policies were all allowed to expire. The building was valued at 8250,000 and is a total loss. A Band of Garza Revolutionists Peleated. Dr. Plutarrio Orntaz, Mexican Consul in San Antonio, Texas, has received tho following telegram from Gen. Lorenzo Gacia, commanding the Mexican troops at Mier, at the Stato of Tamaulipas: Lieut. Indalcia Sada met and had an engagement with a party of Garza revolutionists at a place called Lameca, in this State. The battle resulted in ten revolutionists being killed, among them being Julian Flores and Abiardo Dominquez, alias “Cuartevon.” Ou tho Government side one soldier and three horses were killed. The troops are in close pursuit of the remnants of the band. A Sudden Call. At the St Charles Hotel, St Joseph, Mo., in room No. 13. W. M. Lemon, proprietor of the Troy, Ohio, nursery, was found sitting at a table, a penholder in his hand and' a half-finished Iptter addressed to his wife before him. The hotel clerk placed his hand on Mr. Lemon's shoulder and gave him a slight shake, whereupon he tumbled to tho floor. He had been dead several hours, supposedly from heart disease. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and his body was taken in charge by that order and will bo sent to his wife at Troy. Indian, on tho Warpath. Gatherie (O. T.,) special: Gov. Seay has received dispatches from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation stating that about 400 Indians were off their aliottments, and had driven a number of people out of county “F." Those Indians claim that they never signed the treaty for the sale of thefr lands, and that the whites must get out of the country inside of ten days or be driven out A large number of Indians refuse to come to the agency, and unless they are controlled at once serious trouble will surely ensue. Rivaling Klug Solomon, John Anderson, probably the greatest bigainist in tbe United States, was sentenced at Cleveland to seven years at hard labor in the Penitentiary for grand larceny. The exact number of his wives sever will be known. Over 120 women have sent inquiries concerning him, asserting that they had been deserted bv a man answering his description. It is believed that be has made a systematic business of marrying women, taking their property and deserting them. The liering Sea Tribunal. It is authoritatively announced at the State Department that the Presiderit has selected Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court, and Senator Morgan of Alabama, to represent the United State on the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration. These gentlemen, with ex-Minlster Phelps as counsel, will complete the representation allotted to this Government Sult Against a Secret Society. At Chicago John Geiger has sued Court Valley Forge, Na 109, of L O. U F., for 825,000 damages, claiming that while being initiated, the officers of the lodge compelled him to jump into a supposed lake of fire to show his courage. He says that instead of getting a plunge in the lake, he was landed on the floor and broke his leg la three places. A Laborer’s Big Luck. Harry Paul, an intelligent young German miner of Plymouth, Pa., who is working at 81 per day. has received intelligence of the death of his father in Posen, Germany, by which the young man falls heir to 850,000. He ran away from home six years ago and came to this country. He will return to Germany at once. Rapist and Victim are Dead. Maggie Doxey, the 5-year-old white girl who was outraged by the colored man, Henry James, who was hanged by a mob on the corner of Fifth and Main streets, Little Rock.-Ark., died from the effects of the injuries received, an hour after the hanging occurred. Over Sixty Times Married. James Taylor of Taylorsville, Col;, the man with sixty odd wives, retracted his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty before Judge Boed in the Superior Court at Boston. He was sentenced to three years in state prison. Met a Horrible Death. The dwelling house of Walter Fitch was burned down at Shades, Ind., and Mrs. Leah Fitch and Mrs. Knapp, the housekeeper, while trying to save property, were burned to death. Eight Men Loss at Rea. A fishing smack was run down by a trans-Atlantic steamer off bkibbereen, England, and the crew of eight men lost. THE MAHKETK CHICAGO. 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BRAZIL IS BENEFITED, — BUT THE AMERICAN FARMER IS NOT. Th. New York TH bun. Forg.ts Its Own Country While Landing th. Reciprocity Bunco Guns- Four Tear, of Education— Continuation or MoKlnl.y*. Account. Brasil and Reciprocity. The New York Tribune of April 28 •aye: “That Brazil has no reason to oomplain of thq operation ot the reel-, procity treaty Is shown by the official statistics of its ttwdo with the United States. The convention went into effect on April 1,1891. During the five mouths ending Sept. 1,1891, the exports from Brazil to the United States amounted to $39,703,752. This was a gain of $14,861,315 over the exports for the corresponding period of the previous year. In view of this enormous increase In the importation of coffee, sugar, hides and other Brazilian products, the advantages derived from the reciprocity convention are incontestable. When disgruntled politicians in Rio de Janeiro and Blalne-hatipg journalists in the United States assert that Brazil was cheated in that treaty they do not venture to face the statistics of international trade underreelproeity conditions. “This is not all. Brazil in negotiating the reciprocity treaty secured a free market for three ot its staple products. A year after the convention went into effect, duties were reimposed upon tho coffee, sugar and hides of Venezuela, Colombia and Hayti. This involves a discrimination of ehormous value in favor o( Brazil. In 1890 the importation of coffee from the three countries •Into the United States amounted to 70,696,700 pounds, or about 15 per cent, of the supply. With a duty of 3 cents this Involves a discrimination of $2,282,901 against those countries on coffee alone. Brazil is profiting so heavily from the reciprocity policy that no sane statesman in that country will seriously propose the abrogation of the treaty.” This is unusually good logic to be found in this paper, but it brings up the question as to whether the Tribune belongs to North or South America. The two parties to the reciprocity treaty of April 1, 1891, were Brazil and the United States. Brazil has undoubtedly the bulge on Venezuela, Colombia and Hayti and is to be congratulated on having thus obtained a free market for its coffee and hides, while its South American competitors, because it does not suit their convenience to bow to reciprocity, are deprived of such a market. But why should the Tribune extend congratulation? Is it controlled by some Cobden Club in Brazil? What, about the other party to that treaty? The idea has been promulgated in the United States, where the present reciprocity boom originated, that reciprocity was not so much to benefit Brazil or some other foreign country as to provide good markets for our products — especially for farm products. Is it doing this? Senator Vest, In his speech of Feb. 25, 1892, shows that of the $1,169,592 increase, from April 1 to Sept. 1, 1891, in our exports to Brazil, $8'.'0,148 came from steam engines, machinery, etc., which are admitted free of duty into Brazil, not only from the United States but from any part of the world. The total increase is, however, only normal for the last two or three years, and, as it is made up mainly of articles already on the free list, is in no way due to reciprocity. As to farm products, Senator Vest shows that there has been a falling off during this period in our exports ot flour, bacon, lard, and naval stores to BrsaJL— ThS total decrease in our exports of farm products for the first nine months of this trealy was $525,455. according to Congressman Herbert. This same authority finds that the increase of the exports’ of other products, as compared with agricultural products to reciprocating countries, is over 5 to 1 against the farmer. This is what might have been expected. It was a “wild goose chase” to go hunting for markets for farmers in these highly agricultural countries, whose markets for agricultural products have always been comparatively insignificant. Our total exports of foreign products to South America in 1891 amounted to $12,085,598; to the West Indies, $16,966,856; to Central America, $6,450,775; to Mexico, $4,085,819; to British Honduras, $240,817. Total to countries south of us, $35,506,226. Our exports of agricultural products to Great Britain in 1891 were $375,629,926; and to all of Europe, $580,154,914. It is overcrowded, manufacturing Western Europe that wants our farm products and not the backwoods, half-civilized. South American countries. It is strange that this fact did not occur to the early advocates of reciprocity, so that we would not now be wasting our time trying to play reciprocity with the wrong countries. Another important fact is Often lost sight of, namely, that the only effect upon the farmer of this jug-handled reciprocity is to increase his already unjustly heavy tax burden, by placing a duty of 1 i cents on sugar, 3 cents on coffee, 10 cents on tea, and 1| cents per pound on hides. The total of all these duties, if enforced, would amount to about $10,000,000. The Tribune finds that the duty of 3 cents on coffee would discriminate against Venezuela, Colombia and Hayti to the extent of $2,282,901, This means that so far as these countries are concerned, Biazil would have a monopoly of our coffee market and that her coffee growers could, as they undoubtedly would, charge tlie American consumer about 5 cents more for coffee. Reciprocity is oply a bunco game that is being worked on the American farmer sipee the old one of • protection" has begun to lose its attractiveness. What next will tho manufacturers try to hold their monopoly of our markets, when the farmer gets his eyes open to the real meaping of reciprocity? Four Years ot Education. Four years ago, when President Cleveland sent his message to Congress recommending a reduction of duties to a strict tariff for revenue basis as the best means of checking the then large and constantly growing surplus, and of relieving the burdensome taxes on tho farmer and laborer, only the most vague ideas prevailed among the masses of the people in regard to the tariff. Not one voter in ten knew how the General Government got its revenues, and not one in fifty could distinguish between a “revenue" and a “protective” , tariff. The ordinary newspaper printed but little on the subject of taxation, because most readers were unwilling to pay for such “dry” matter. The books on this subject were mainly by professors, who were largely theoretical and philosophical, and were read by but few except economic students. The discussions, begun in 1888, started thought on economic questions amon£ thinking people.' Discussions extended into ail the large papers, to the lodge, to the school-house, and even to the church and horn®;....the demand for economic literature' grew; the people wanted to read and hear both sides; protectionists and tariff reformers were called upon to give facts; press bureaus were established to supply tariff matter weekly to country papers in all parts of the United States; speakers were sent out by both parties, not merely during campaigns to assist tho Are works and brass bands in entertaining the voters,

1 — but during > the whole year at schoolhouses, town halls and county fairs. What a Wonderful change was wrought! Most Intelligent mon now know that our government is supported mainly by duties on imports; they have gotten many ideas and have collected a few hayd facts; nearly every farmers' and every laborers* organization contains men able and ready to debate the tariff question: and politicians have had to post themselves or make room for those who have studied the needs of the people in this direction. It is safe to say that the tariff discussion could not now be stopped by any political trick or turned aside by any other issue. It has come to stay.’ The people demand a settlement, and one that shall be final, on this most vital of questions. The Cordage Trust Again. Since Nov. 2,1891, the National Cordage Company, otherwise known as the Cordage Trust, has been paying John Good, the millionaire twine manufacturer, at the rate of $260,000 a year to keep his mills closed down. Previous to that he had received $150,000 to keep his cordage mills Idle. In connection with the contract to shut down his mills the trust had an option for a purchase. Mr. Good, on the fourth- day of April, returned the trust's check, with the notice that if the trust did not avail itself of the option to purchase before April 26 he would resume business. The National Cordage Company was organized under the laws of New Jersey in 1887. Its capital is $15,000,000. It contains a majority of the large cordage companies of tho United States and nearly evdry one in Canada. Notwithstanding the express desire of the company to furnish cheap rope to the public,

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the price of that article has advanced from five and a quarter cents to nine cents per pound since agreement was reached with John Good. Mr. Good says: “My chief reason for terminating the contract is that I find a very large number of customers are anxious for me to resume operations on my own account, and as I am in a position to make a profit at prices which would not pay the cost of production to the National Cordage Company. I can make as much money as they were paying me, if not more.” The works of John Good embrace the ,big plant at Ravenswood, Long Island, where the rope output amounts to 10,000 pounds daily, and the works in Brooklyn, where Mr. Good manufactures all kinds of machinery for making rope and twine. He employs 300 men. As left by the McKinley bill, the duties on cordage and twine are from 6to 35 per cent. With Good’s patent machinery for twisting rope and twine, cordage is made more cheaply in the United States than anywhere else. In fact we exported over $1,000,000 worth of cordage last year to almost every country and Island on the globe. The cordage trust is an old offender, and its depredations were well known to the ‘makers of the McKinley bill, and yet these duties were left on cordage - that this trust might raise prices until it could afford to pay one manufacturer $200,000 a year to remain idle. Os course the cost of keeping Good's and other mills idle has come out of the pockets of consumers. McKinley’s Account Continued. Our expert accountant, who is charged with crediting the McKinley bill with all of the wage increases and defunct trusts reported each week, and of debiting It with all of the wage reductions and new trusts reported, as usual has great troublethls week in balancing his accounts. This “trust-killing,” wage-advancing tariff may be getting in its work straight enough, but for some reason—perhaps the modesty of the Republican press—the credit side of the account is not much mentioned, except in aUheoretlcol and general way. From the long list of the debit side we extract the follow ing: April 24 —To the report that nearly all of the big Iron companies iu the South are forming a combination with a capital of about $50,000,000 and that the companies that are got joining the combine will be tributary to it and sell their products through the new organization. April 25—To a ibcomotlve tire trust formed by the five manufacturers in this country—the Nashua Iron Company;\the Standard and Steel Company of Lewiston, Pennsylvania; the Latrobe Steel Company of Latrobe, Pennsylvania; the Midvale Steel Company of Philadelphia; and the Chicago Tire and Steel Spring Works of Chicago. Prices have been advanced and stockholders are jubilant over the prospects. April 25—To the report that 600 men have been thrown out of work in the Lehigh Valley coal region by the combine of the Reading with several other railroads. The price of coal to western consumers has been advanced, and the production of coal has been diminished so that the colliers are working only half time, and the miners for half-pay. Wages in railroad shops, and of train men have also been reduced. April 26 —To report that the Sligo Rolling-Mills of Pittsburg is closed down and 300 men are thrown out of work. April 27—To the report In a journal of the Knights of Labor that the rubber Industry is to be cornered. A company with a capital of $50,000,000 has been chartered in New Jersey, which Is really a combine of all the existing concerns. They propose to manufacture, not only rubber goods, but litharge, whiting, buckles, and everything used in the manufacture of rubber goods. April 27—To the report that the officers of the'Readlng Railroad propose to establish a uniform rate of wages of the three railroads now in this combine. The men understand what such a “readjustment” means, and are preparing for a strike. April 80—To a report that the manufacturers of gas fixtures have formed a trust. While this Is denied by some of those said to be in it, yet it is certain . ,/7 'i- . .‘X ’.Ju,•. -‘MLiKaJ..I-

r =lll - that prices of gas fixtures have bean materially advanced of late. April 30—To report that the groat arts manufacturing houses of Herring, Hall and Marvin havs formed a trust, with a capital of $3,300,000, and that the combined earnings ot the three in 1891 were $316,790. A burden of annual taxation of $460,000,000 on a population ot 65,000,000 (a a little over $7 per capita, or $36.37 on every famliy; but the ultimate burden ot a system of indirect taxation on imported commodities on the final consumer of such commodities is certainly considerably greater. Recent investigations in this matter, instituted in the English colony of New Zealand, where the revenue of the state, received mainly from customs taxes on Imports collected from a sparse population, afford unusual facilities for investigation, indicate that the bunion of such taxation is increased to the final consumers of tho taxed article to the extent of at least 33 per cent. In the United States the increment is probably much greater. The average bunion of Federal taxation for tho next fiscal year will, therefore, certainly be at least S4O on every family, and promises in the immediate future to be greater rather than less. To the man . with an income of S2O per day, or $6,000 per annuqi, this Is not much, but the farmer who is raising and selling corn for 15 cents a bushel, and to the operatives in the greatleading mechanical industries of the country, whose annual incomes average less £han S4OO, it means privation. —From David A. Wells' ‘Taxes Are Extra Days' Work." I want to say to you that every time you taisp protection off from any favored

industry you place the man interested in that Industry in the ranks of those who are fighting against protection. I want to say to you that this is the way. protection was built up. As one man got protection on his article, the man that had to consume his article saw that the only way th balance himself and to even himself up with the other fellow was to have protection put on the product of his labor; and thus we went to logrolling, and put a tariff on different things, until we got all into the ring.—Jerry Simpson. A Smoker’s Delight. N. C. Barney, a retired New York banker, has an interetlng collection of pipes. One of them represents the trunk of an old tree, around which are grouped a party of sporting gentlemen with their guns and dogs, enjoying a hunter’s meal. One of the members of the party Is Cleverly shown to be cutting with his jackknife the name N. C. Barney on the trunk of the tree —to commemorate, no doubt, the occasion. Each figure is a correct likeness of an Individual member of the party. The owner’s name is also carved on each of the game-bags, and the delicate network around the game-bags is true to nature. In this collection are also a few pipes iueai " L 2 Alaska. They were made of walrus tusks by the Esquimaux. Another remarkable piece is a cigarholder on which is carved a Gordon setter, a favorite dog belonging to the owner. It is a perfect image of the dog, and from smoking the meershaum has acquired a brownish-red color, which is exactly the color of the dog. — Telephone on the Battle Field. Particulars of the behavior of the field telephone system in the Fren h autumn manuevers have now been published. Magneto telephones were used, as no delicate microphone or battery is required with them. The transmitter was held in the hand and the receiver was affixed to the “kepi.” Combined receivers and transmitters were also employed. A bare bimetallic wire 0.6 millimeters in diameter was unrolled from a drum and laid out of harm’s way on hedges, branches, walls, and in trenches. A line twenty-three kilometers long was thus laid, with the addition of ten posts, in five hours; speech was good, and the whole was taken up again in an hour. During a sham fight a cavalry divis'on passed over a long Hue without Interrupting the communication. A bayonet stuck in the ground made a good earth; so did the body of a cavalry horse If the wire was attached to the bridle. The census returns just published show that in 1889, with the exception of the 7,000 fishing craft, the business men of the country owned 25,540 steamers, sailing vessels and unrigged craft, whose gross tonnage was 7.633,676 and whose estimated commercial value was $215,000,000. During the year these vessels carried 172,110,423 tons of freight of all kinds. The total amount paid ih wages on these vessels was $37,000,000. Steam vessels are rapidly displacing sailing craft; 6,067 of ail these vessels are run by steam, and their value is three-fourths of the value of all the craft enumerated. The thfosophists. who know no more about the than the dreamers who have fixed three or four dates for the end of the world during the next ten years,, tell us that “the present age,” whatever that may be, will continue ,427,000 years. British oculisU have decided that electric light is not injurious to the eyesight’ Wind puffs up empty bladders; opin-

THEY SPfo TO DEATH! FRIGHTFUL. WRECK IN OHIO OM THE BIG FOUR. T 1 S tn a Driving Storm Two Train# Crash To-gsthor-A Change in tho Sohodulo Na» lloodod—Eight Liras Pay tho Fonalty. A Tale of Horror., In tho. midst of a terrifle storm of Wind and rain two Big Four trains ? crashed Into each other at Cleves, Ohio, Sunday morning, with awful effect. Not a person on either train escaped injury. Many of the rounded have been removed, and their number A is not definitely known. As fares learned tho dead are: Engineer Win. Higgs of Indianapolis, Fireman Hiram Bruce of Indianapolis, Philip Gibbon, David Harwood, Engineer Berry Edwards. Those removed from the wreck and found to be fatally injured are: Fireman Holton Tyrrell, Conductor John Schroeder, George W. Hudler. Five to eight passengers are said to be missing, who are supposed to be in the smoker, which is buried in tho wreck. Nothing is known as to who they are. No one is able to conceive how any of them could have escaped death under that mass of wreckage. The summer schedule went into effect Sunday morning, and orders had been issued accordingly. Freight No. 43, a through train north-bound, had orders to stop at North Bend to allow express No. 80, a cannon-ball special, to pass. Under the old schedule tho trains passed at another point some miles further on. Instead of stopping the freight engineer. Higgs, pulled ahead and approached Cleves running at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Why he did not stop at North Bend will never be known, as he is dead, but it is thought that in* his anxiety over this storm, which might have washed out bridges, he forgot the new schedule and hurried on. As tho train approached Cleves Chas. Smith, the telegraph operator, was astounded, for he knew that it ehouki have side-tracked at North Bend, and that tho express, a few minutes overdue then, was but a short distanceawny, running forty-five miles an hour to make up lost time. Smith rushed to the signal wires and dashed off the dauger signal. Either it was not seen in the blinding rain or the engineer could not control his engine, for it sped on by without lessening speed. At that very moment the express came into sight with the speed of the wind. If any effort was made on either engine to slacken speed it was not appreciable, and the iron monsters sprang at and crashed into each other with a roar that rolled above the storm like a clap of thunder. Both engines were battered into shapeless masses and rolled off the track. The cars behind were mashed into kindling and the track for 100 feet wa» torp up. Telegraph poles ware thrown down, and It was two or three hours after tho wreck before word reached Cleves, and a special train was sent to the scene from Cincinnati. Long before, however, the people from the little village and from the surgiunding. country had gathered, and in the frightful storm were doing all they could for the victims. With the arrival of the special train the work of getting out the dead began. Os the five bodies recovered four were shockingly mangled and mashed out of oil human shape. Under the freight engine, broken, crushed and scalded, were found Engineer William Higgs and his fireman, Hiram Bruce, both of Indianapolis. Under a mashed freight ear farther back Philip Gibbon and David Harwood were found. Nearly every bone in their bodies was broken and their faces were horribly disfigured. The fifth body taken out was that of Barry Edwards, engineer of the passenger train. His fireman, Holton Tyrrell, had jumped before the crash, bub had been caught under a mass of wreckage. His chest was crushed In and his head cut. He was taken to Lawrenceburg, but cannot survive. John Schroeder, conductor of the passenger train, was injured in almost the same manner, and can live but a few hours at the most. George W. Hudler, a commercial traveler from Miamisburg, was crushed between two seats, being bent almost double. He was taken to ihe Cincinnati hospital and canribt survive. Conductor Schroeder was only able to speak once after being extricated., Then it was that he gave the information that when the train left Valley Junction there were from five to eight men in the smoker. Valley Junction is less than two miles from the scene of tho wreck. This is the basis for the. fear that these people are buried in, death under the wreck. "Honey” Keefe, a freight brakeman,, had just "reached the top of a car when, the collision occurred. The crash was so terrible that he was thrown ovdr a tele’graph wire forty fobt into a stFbam of, water, which saved his life. He tinhks ot least three tramps met dflath under the wreck of the freight train. The property loss will be SIOO,OOO. Both engines are complete wrecks, and, tho dj the express train ore ruined. If is said much valuable mail • and express matter Is lost. A dozen' freight cars loaded with costly goods are. a total loss. A train on the Norfolk Western road was wrecked eleven miles from Hagerstown, Md., at 1 o'clock Sunday morning., It was in charge of Conductor William Hays, and was made up of a sleeper, two coaches, a smoker, and a baggage car. Just as the engine reached the switch it jumped the track and dashed into freight* cars on a siding. Conductor Hays was on the platform of a car and was hurled headlong thirty feet against the rocks and instantly killed. John Hauke, a passenger hailing from Lewiston, Pa., was dug out of the wreck with a broken leg and suffering nternal injuries. He will die. His Ather was also badly hurt. Another ' •ssenger, supposed to be a drummer, jo taken out in a dying condition. A, jard found in his pocket bore tho name Fohn Boyle, Brooklyn, N. Y. C. N., Wenner, traveling passenger agent, and William Elslinger of West Fairview, Penn., were also severely hurt. Estimating Horse Power. The horse-power unit was established byJames Watt about a century ago, and the figures were settled in a curious way. Watt, in his usual careful manner, proceeded to find out the average work which the horses of his, district could perform, and he foundi that the raising of 22,000 pounds one foot per minute was about an actual! horse-power. As a method of encouraging business, Watt offered to sell engines reckoning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse-power, or one-third more than the actual. ' Bo Frank and Candid. A bureau of press clippings In London has received the royal “command” l to furnish twenty distinct sets of newspaper clippings from every periodical in the world, so far as obtainable, referring to the death of Prince Albert Victor. The sets are to be pasted each in a separate album. The section devoted to American clippings should make a very edifying collection, if the bureau is faithful in obering the command. '.■v. ” -a