Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1893 — Page 6

©he -Democrat * DECATUB, IND. ». BLACKBURN, - - - PviiT.unra. 1893 JUNE. 1893 Sii Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa •••• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 • • •••«#• FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD THIS FRESH NEWS WAS GLEANED. The AnarchUta, Fieldon, Ncebo, end Schwab Pardoned—Collapse of the Tremont House at Fort Scott, Kas—Many People Killed Train Robbers Foiled. DEATH IN THE RUINS. Collapse of the Tremont’ House at Fort Scott. Fort Scott, )Kan.) special: The Tremont House collapsed without a moment's warning. Seventy-five people were buried in the ruins. The unfortunate victims of the catastrophv were caught like rats in a trap. There were no indications of structural weakness in the hotel, which was one of the best buildings in the city. It was a solid-looking, four-story brick on one of the main thoroughfares. Beneath it were some of the principal retail stores. There was no hint of the impending danger. Most of the guests of the hotel were out through the city. Only the help of various kinds and a few of the boarders tvere within. The stores, however, were filled with people—mostly women and children. Many of these were from the surrounding country. Suddenly the walls of the building began to waver and totter and then they fell. The walls seemed to first spread apart so that the floor joists were drawn out of the brick walls. The three upper floors fell upon top of one another, carrying their contents down with them. For a moment the shaking walls stood tottering and then they, too, plunged in and down, burying the ruined floors beneath an enormous mass of brick and mortar and shattered frame work. At the first cracking noise of the parting timbers the people in the hotel and in the stores sought safety by flight. Those nearest the entrances, doors, and windows made good their escape, some of them missing but by an inch being caught by the tumbling masonry. For those who were in the middle parts of the stores and for the servants at work in the rooms of the hotel escape was impossible. They went down with it and were crushed beneath the ruins. The horror of the thing seemed to daze and paralyze the people for a moment. Then the work of rescuing the living and recovering the bodies of the dead was begun. Under the command of the Mayor and the Chief of Police the citizens went to work. The fire and police departments did all in their power to hasten the work. It was feared at one time that the ruins would take fire, and those entombed, but still alive, would perish in the flames, but the fire department soon extinguished the slight flanies that curled up where the hotel kitchen had been. Loss of Life will reach between thirty-five and forty. ANARCHISTS PARDONED. Fielden, Neebe, and Schwab are Restored ! to Their Families. Springfield (Ill.) special: Gov. Altgeld has pardoned Fielden, Schwab, and Nee be,' Banker Dreyer was here the other <iay and it is supposed his influence was decisive. It was not even known that the case was being considered, by the Governor. Altgeld’s action has created great surprise here, and it will doubtless cause a profound sensation in Chicago. The Governor has prepared a long statement in which he criticizes. Gary and Bonfield severely. Chicago special: The anarchists arrived in this city on the Santa Fe road. Quite a crowd had gathered at the Dearborn station to witness the arrival. The three men and Mr. Dreyer left the train at Twenty-third street to avoid a demonstration and went quietly to their homes. On the way from Joliet the three men promised Mr. Dreyer to eschew anarchy forever. Schwab expressed the sentiment that next to freedom the most desirable thing was security, and the other men agreed with him. At their homes they were greeted by a few of their friends, who congratulated them on their return. The men were overjoyed at regaining their freedom. The meeting of the men with their families was touching. Cholera Prospects. Dr. Metcalf, Secretary of the Indiana Board of Health, is keeping a very close eye upon the ravages of cholera in Europe. A circular issued by the government is received every week, showing just where the disease is prevailing on the continent. “The prospect of escaping the plague,” said the Secretary of the board “is now very good. But Ido not like the way that small-pox has crept into the State. If this disease can get into our ports so easily, it will not be hard for cholera to get a foothold. Perhaps the disinfection is not so thorough from ports not known to have cholera, but whether cholera breaks out or not in this country, Indiana is pretty well able to take care of itself. Our board believes wo have plans that will, with the money on hand, be effective in keeping the plague out of the State. Failed for Many Millions. Goldsborough, Mort & .Co., bankers and merchants in Melbourne, have suspended payment. Their liabilities are £2,500,000. They are expected to resume business shortly. Train Robbers Foiled. A plot to rob a Missouri Pacific train just west of Oniana was foiled by one of the men informing the police. Two arrests followed. — A Terrible Crime. At Akron, Ohio, Jacob Hajaneki, a German, about 45 years of age, mortally wounded his wife and them stabbed, himself. Mrs. Hajaneki had commenced divorce proceedings against her husband and he had frequently threatened to take her life. He entered her home armed with a heavy revolver. She fled to a neighbor's house and he followed, firing as he ran. It was between the houses sbe foil. He thinking she was dead, put tho muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Throe times the hammer fell on an empty chamber. With an oath he threw the revolver from him and pro-

duced adlrk, plunging it four time* into his stomach. Three shots took effect in his wife’s body. Neither win live. MAD FLAMES. Leipsic, Ohio, Almnat Swept from Existence. Leipsic (Ohio) special: A most destructive fire broke out in the rear of Gerdeman’s saloon, on Main street. The flames quickly reached tho tailor shop of Stecnschultes, and shoe store of Shweitzer & Parlette, and, extending upward, compelled Mrs. Foultz, living up-stairs, to remove her household goods. The fire reached Caso’s flitir and feed store and Edwards Bros.’ hardware establishment. Here a quanty of gunpowder was stored. The fire raged with rapidity, and fears wore entertained for the brick buildings on the opposite side of the street. An explosion startled tho bystanders, telling them that the flames had reached tho room where the powder was stored. Crash went window after window, and the sound of the glass reechoed through the street, the efforts of the men at tho dilapidated hand engine were useless. The Mayor of Deshler was wired for assistance. The work of destruction Continued, and the drug store and privoto reside nee of Dr. Limmennann next fell before the devouring element. A response sewn came from Deshler, and in a short time the whistle of an engine was heard carrying the department with their steamer, hose carriages and ladder truck on board flat cars. The Deshler bovs soon had the fire under control. The loss is estimated at about $75,000, partially covered by insurance. The efforts of the Deshler Fire Department are fully’ appreciated by the citizens, and but for the tardiness of a railroad employe, the boys would have reached hero quicker. ■ MINE DISASTER. An Explosion Occurs in a Pennsylvania Shaft. » Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special: While eight men were at work at' Manticoke in No. 6 gangway, of No. 9 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company, about three-fourths miles from the bottom of the shaft, a terrific explosion of gas took place which hurled the victims off their feet and scattered them in all directions, killing four men and a boy instantly, and seriously but not fatally injuring three more. The dead are: • Abram Walker, miner, married; leaves five children. Frank Beanick. 14 years old, door boy: died after reaching home. ' John Smith, miner, married; leaves three children. William Shortz, laborer, burned to a crisp. Polander, whose name could not be learned, nor could his body be recognized. The injured are: John Gwent, horribly burned about the head and arms, in serious condition: two Polanders. names unknown, badly burned op hands and face. SEND IN YOUR NAME If You Want Quarters Reserved at the O. A. R. Encampment. Indianapolis special: Estimates sent by assistant adjutant generals of different departments to the executive directors of the twenty-seventh National Encampment of the Grand Army, to be held in Indianapolis, in September, indicate the attendance will be 40 per cent, larger than ever before. This is ' largely due to the fact that the en campment is to be held at the center of the Grand Army membership and will also bring them close to the ' World’s Fair. The work of providing accommodations is specially under the supervision of the executive director to whom applications for quarters in hotels and boarding houses as well as in barracks should be directed. In a general circular made public, all who desire to secure quarters are urged to send in applications immediately, and ' it is stated those who fail to do so very ■ soon will have difficulty in making ar- ' rangements on account of the great 1 rush. WRECK AT PROSPECT, OHIO. One Person Killed and Six Injured, A freight wreck occurred at Prospect, Ohio s on the Hocking Valley. North-bound freight 63, heavily loaded, broke into three parts and came together, wrecking fourteen cars loaded with coke and coal. Several tramps were buried beneath the wreckage. John Bretts, a laboring man, living at Fort Wayne, Ind., was killed, being mashed to a jelly. The names of others injured are: Daniel Sullivan, Columbus, Ohio: Andrew Bloss, Fort Wayne; William Barnes, Columbia City, Ind.; William Francis, Somerset, Ky., right arm broken: Charles King, Columhjis, Ohio, chest crushed, injured vital organs, will die; Henry Grassaway, Van Wert, Ohio; laborer,49 years of age, veteran and member of Thirty-second regiment, O. V. 1., back sprained .and internally injured, will probably die. Disastrous Cyclone. St. Joseph (Mo.) special: News has just reached this city of a disastrous cyclane at Conception. Mo., sixty miles nortaof this city. The wind blew at the fate of eighty miles an hour. The housCW John Doyle was blown down and Doyle and his wife and an old man killed, ' the latter being decapitated. The wall of the abbej' of New Engleburg, being erected by Benedictine l monks,, was blown down and 10,000 feet of a brick wall tumbled inside of the structure. Torrents of rain completed the destruction of the edifice. Twenty houses and barns were blown down and a number of people hurt. The Omaha 1 and St. Louis Railroad depot was unroofed. Seven Fire-Works Men Mangled. An explosion in Pain’s fire-works amphitheater at Manhattan Beach, New York, injured seven men. Joseph Purbell of Brooklyn, had his face partly blown off and his arms and legs badly bruised and burned. He will probably die. James Egan, Henry Henderson, Joseph Lawler. Frank, Ben, and Sydney Hamm, all of Sheepshead Village, were bruised and burned about the face and body, Purcell, Hefiderson, and Lawler were loading an iron bomb with an explosive paste, when the bomb exploded, blowing Purcell into the street, nearly a rod away. Henderson and Lawler were blown some distance. The Lafayette Conspiracy Cases at Length Completed. , The riot cases at Lafayette, Ind., have been virtually closed. Prosecutor Wood entered a nolle prosequi on sixteen riot indictments, too for disturbing a public meeting, three for con- ! spiracy to commit felony, and three i for assituh and battery with intent to 4 commit a murdeg. This disposes Os all the pending cases save one plea of guilty for riot and six pleas of guilty of disturbing a meeting. Judge Langdon will pass on these latter cases soon. Will Not Boycott. —Through its offlcial representatives the Methodist Episcopal church has' decided that the exigencies of the situ- [ ation do not demand a boycott or total , abandonment of the World's Fair. The 1 Methodist exhibit will remain a part ’

• of the fair, but it will be closed on . Sunday. This action was taken by the commfefiidn of clergymen and laytnen, Bishop Merrill of Chicago, chairman, appointed by the last general conference, to determine the position o! the church toward the fair. A Lightning Bolt. During tho progress of a severe storm, lightning struck the farm house of William Sargison, living six miles north of Pinckney, Mich. The building was l»dly wrecked and all of tho seven inmates were seriouly shocked and injured. One boy aged 14 years had one of his feet completely shattered and another lost one of his eyes and is otherwise so seriously injured that ho will *e. There were seven persons in thrtwouse at the time the bolt struck it.ffift. Student Drowned. Ada (Ohio) special: O. E. Taylor, a pharmacy student attending the Ohio Normal University, was drowned in a stone quarry near here while bathing. The water Is very deep in the quarries, and his companions were unable to get him out, and sent to town forassistance. Several hundred students and citizens went out. and. after several hours’hard work, succeeded in rescuing tho body. The sod nows was telegraphed to his parents, who reside at New Hampshire, Ohio. Republican. Elect Mayor In Milwaukee. Milwaukee (Wis.) special: The special election for Mayor.. resulted in a victory for John C. Koch, the Republican candidate, who was elected by 3,500 majority. The vote was light, being less than 20,000 out of a registry list of nearly 50.000. There was nothing involved in the election, the result depending entirely on the. personal popularity of the two candidates. This is the first Republican victory in the City for several years. Lightning Demolished a Circus Tent. At River Falls. Wis., the large circus tent of Ringling Bros, was struck by lightning, while crowded with people, instantly killing eight, and injuring more than twenty. The killed are Clarke Mapes, Eugene Reinolds, J. A. Glendenning and eon. O. A, Deans, O. P. Wigin's 14-year-old son. Curt Aldridge's 12-year-old son. and an unknown boy. ’ The names of the injured cannot be'obtained as they were tfiken away by friends. FhysiciHU Badly Hurt. Dr. Lewis Beery of Canal Winchester, met with a serious accident, which will likely result fatally. In an effort to hold his frightened horse by the bridle, he was thrown with much force across a fence and trampled upon by the horse. He was picked up in a bruised and comatose condition and carried to his home, where he was given medical attention by Dr. Short, who pronounced the case a serious one. Leg Blown Off. At Lima,- Ohio, while Edward Christer, Jr., was charging a soda fountain, it exploded and tore his left leg almost off below the knee. The leg was amputated, but it is feared that he is injured internally. The accident happened at Christen's bottling works, nearly all the windows being blown out of the building. Fatally Gored. Miss Maud Warder, a 'young lady re- ' siding a few miles north of Peebles, J Ohio, while milking was attacked by a : vicious cow and before assistance could ' be reached she was terribly gored - about the breast and back. Miss War- i der's clothing was torn off and her in- 1 juries will in all probability prove fatal. Only a Toy Pistol. A boy playing with a toy pistol in a barn in Gibson, opposite Fredericktown, N. 8., started a fire that burnqd eighty dwellings, two churches, the Canadian Pacific Railway station, six general stores, and two public halls. One hundred and twenty-five families are homeless. Iron Mills Shut Down. The Lake Erie Iron Works and the Union Rolling Mill Company of Cleveland. have shut down for repairs and to await the outcome of the conference with the Amalgamated Association. Six thousand men are thrown out of employment. Deserter Shot. Joseph A. Lucky, a recruit at the United States barracks at Cojumbus, Ohio, awaiting trial for attempted desertion. tried to escape again, and was shot and seriously wounded in the hip by one of thq guards. Struck by Lightning. The 10-year-old son of Ernest Meissner of Caledona, Wis., was instantly killed by lightning in the doorway of the barn. The father and hired man who stood near by were made senseless, but will recover. Drove Under a Tree. George Craig, a young man employed on the Bell farm, four miles north of Parkersburg, W. Va., while plowing in a field was killed by lightning. _ A Switchman Killed. Herbert Leach, aged 28, a switchman employed in the C.. H. & D. yards at Wellston, Ohio, fell under a moving train and instantly killed. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. CATTLE—Common to Prime.... $3 25 & 5 75 Hoaa -Shipping Grades 3 00 @ 6 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice . 400 @5 03 Wheat—No. 2 Spring M 0 65 Corn—No. 2 41 & 42 Oath—No. 2 4 30 @ 31 Rye—No. » 47 0 49 Butteb—Choice Creamery IV @ 20 Eggs—Fresh 12'4@ 13)4 Potatoes—Old, per bu 65 @ 75 INDIANAPOLIS. -Cattle—Shipping 325 @ 5 35 Hoos—Choice Light 3 60 @ 6 So Sheep—Common to Prime 3 oo @ 4 60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Corn —No. 2 White 40 @ 41 Oats— No. 2 White , 34 @ 35 ST. LOF 18. Cattle .......... a oo @ 5 25 Hogs 3 00 @6 25 Wheat—Nq. 1 Red 61 0 62 COBK—No. ■? 38 S 38 Oats—No. 2 29 @ 29)4 Rye—No. 2 49 <S 61 CINCINNATI. &.ITTLE 300 @625 OGS 3 00 @ 6 60 Sheep 300 ® 5 < o Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 @ .63 Cobn—No. 2 40 0 44 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 33 @ S 4 Bye—No. 2....... 65 9 67 DETROIT. Cattle... a 00 0 6 00 Hogs . 300 @ 700 Sheep 300 0 4 2S Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 @ ft Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 42)40 43)4 Oats—No. 2 White 86 & 37 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 ....... 65 @ 6« Cobn—No. 2 Ye110w....7 OATB—No. 2 White 30 @ 31 Bye 62 0 64 BUFFALO. i Cattle—Common to Prime... 350 @ 650 _ j Hogs—Best Grades.;'... . 4 00 @ 6 76 1 WHEAT—No. 1 Northern 67 (S 6» No. 2 Bed 69)40 70’i MILWAUKEE. "Wheat—No. 2 Spring 63 @ M CoBN—Ne. 8 37 @ 38 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 36 Bye—No. 1 » Barley- Nd. 2 67 @v>69 POBK—Mess 20 00 @2O 60 CATTLB 8 50 @ 6 60 Hogs 3 00 @7'6o , Sheep 300 @ 4 75 i Wheat—No. 2 Bed 72 @ 73 Coax-No. 2 60 @ 51 Oa-ip-v Ixed Western 38 @ 39 i Butter—Creamery 16 @ 21 | I’OBK-Naw Meat 719 76 020 31

SIGHTS IN A BIG TOWN. SOMB PLACES OF INTEREST IN CHICAGO. Ths Great Meat Fnoking Industry and How It Is Carried O» at the Stock Yards —Lumbar Yards Along the River—City Prison, Rte. Garden City Gossip. Chicago correspondence: Southwest of the business center of Chicago lies a vast district given over mainly to industrial interests and to the homes of the humble artisan. There are no imposing mansions, few stretches of greenness, and the picturesque is not present, but the visitor determined to ‘‘do" the city thoroughly and well will be surprised at the amount of information to bo gleaned and practical benefit derived from a glimpse of this section, which has a groat bearing upon the social and commercial growth of the World’s Fair metropolis. The South branch of the Chicago River winds its way through the district in question, and influences its character to a largo extent. It is not impossible for an energetic talker to prevail upon some of the owners or captains of the numerous tugboats which ply the stream to allow a free trip from the mouth of tho river as far

itiiiiiiiffri in ii hi THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS,

south as they run. A great panoramic view would be the result. Docks, slips, quarries, tanneries, brick yards, the extensive wood ana coal wharves, the old banal inlet, the starting point of the mammoth drainage ditch, which is to cost millions of dollars before it is completed, and mix the waters of Lake Michigan with those of the Gulf of Mexico would in turn greet the beholder. The immensity of Chicago's commerce will not be wondered at after such a voyage is made, and the variety of water craft to be seen, from the mud scow to the new whaleback grain steamer, pretty thoroughly display the best talent ana ingenuity of the modern ship-builder. A like profitable trip may be made on the Blue Island avenue street cars. These pass the West Division water works at 22d street, immease shops devoted to the manufacture of agricultural implements, boilers, machinery and malleable-iron castings, and the celebrated lumber district of the city as well. Here the visitor will find the great central lumber distributing point of the Northwest, guarded by fire a EXTRAS<BIO THE STOCK YARDS. boats, covering miles and miles of river frontage, and giving employment to many thousands of laborers; Just beyond the terminus of the car line lies one of the model workhouses of the country—the city bridewell —the correctionary prison for the punishment of light crimes and misdemeanors. In system, cleanliness and interest this institution fairly riyals the noted State penitentiary at Joliet. Its cell houses are built on the very latest plans for perfect ventilation and general utility, and its workshops give occupation to a motley throng well worth studying as truly representative members of the unfortunate classes of society. The Stock Yard*. Another interesting point of importance is the Chicago Stock Yards. Thousands, almost millions, have come from all over the world to visit this center of the cattle industry, probably the largest and finest in its line in existence. They are accessible byway of the South Halsted street and the State street cable cars. Meat packing is the basis of Chicago's prosperity, for it is the oldest of all the city’s industries, the first lot of cattle ever packed in the

'■ \» \ /ml"' ' i\ iv?" '/Mi aeW IN THE MOtfTH OF THE RIVER.

county being slaughtered in 1832, They nnml>ered on that occasion some 250 head, and cost $2.75 per hundred weight; about 35(1 hogs, costing $3 per hundred weight, being slaughtered and packed at the same time. Forty-eifrht years later, the city received in twelve months no fewer than 7,059,355 live hogs, 1,382,477 cattle, and 335,810 sheep, since which time the proportions of the hog product of, the country handled by Chicago have kept on increasing. In 1891 the estimated value of all cattle handled was over $239,000,000, tjhile 278,044 barrels of pork, 362,109,199 pounds of lard and 57,189,677 pounds of wool were shipped away. An inspection bf these yards, which

front on South Halstad street just be-, yond Thirty-ninth street, and which have so Interested tho gaze of the world-wide tourists, will strike the average beholder with wonder. They comprise a city in their area and envlrnument. the enormous business done centering in some four hundred acres of ground. The yards are divided off into sections so as to include 3,300 pens, 1.800 of which are covered, provision tn us being made to handle 25,000 head of cattle. 14,000 sheep, and 150,000 hogs at one time. They contain twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water troughs, fifty miles of feed troughs, and seventy-five miles of water and drainage pipes. Five artesian wells, having an average depth of 1,230 feet, afford an ample supply of water. There are also eighty-seven miles of railroad tracks, all the grott roads having access to this vast market. The entire cost of grounds and improvements was over four millions of dollars. The meat packing industry is carried on in immediate proximity to the Stock Yards. The extent of this interest may be Imagined from the fact that a single business controlled by one of the great packing firms of the city occupies seventy acres of floor space and employs 3,500 mon. The Stock Yards are open to visitors at all times, but a person wishing to view the workings of the packing houses, ean, on application, be furnished with a guide,

usually a workman, in the establishment visited. The traveller in remote and unsettled districts who purchases a wholesome and convenient can of prepared meat, the villager who receives daily a consignment of pork, beef, or mutton, fresh and refrigerated, have the great packing industry to thank for it au. It is possible to follow a cow or a hog from the pen into which it is driven at morning to the shapely loins of meat it forms a few hours later, by keeping it company and passing from section to section of the systematic it receives. The cattle are driven from the pens at the Stock Yards to the slaughtering houses. Here one swift blow dispatches the animal, and moving hooks catch it up, with scores of other carcasses following. It is cleaned, given a bath in a steam vat to remove bristles, quartered, its various portions sent to particular apartments, and .then placed in the cooling houses. Equal care is taken in the shipment of the meat, clean refrigerator cars being used, which deposit Chicago beef, pork, or mutton in New York City within forty-eight hours after the cattle are received at the Chicago stock yards. Currencies Condensed. Nineteen persons were prostrated by heat in New York Tuesday. Two BLOCKS of frame buildings burned at Findlay, Ohio, causing a loss of $20,000. The Citizens’ Exchange Bank, of Grant. Neb., has closed its doors, the State Banking Board taking charge. Rates of ssl first class and $33 second class, St. Paul to San Francisco, were announced by the Great Northern. About 180 miners in the Gem and Frisco mines in Idaho have gone on a strike. The miners demand equal wages for skilled and Unskilled labor. The Lane County Bank of Eugene, Ore., assigned. Tne officers say depositors will bo paid in full. No statement of the liabilities has yet been made. The death is announced at New York of Mareschal Jose Simeao de Oliveria, of Brazil, President of (he Brazilian Commission to the Workrs Columbian Exposition. Justice Beach, of New York, granted Frederick Blanc a decree of absolute divorce from Elizabeth Blanc, the “IJaroness.” She is enjoined from the use of his name. A steady improvement in the condition of labor is shown by the report of a sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Finance on prices and wages for fifty years. It has been learned that Ralph E. Gaylord, who left Omaha, Neb., sixty days ago, and who was thought to have been Insane, is in financial distress, i He has probably fled to escape his . debts. David Bryant, a street-car driver, ’ was savagely kicked and beaten by i Francis McCarton, a sergeant of police, i at New York. McCajton was intoxii cated and in citizen’s clothes. He got i into a quarrel on a street car with the i driver and caused his arrest. A policeur" > 11 *" 11

man of the court squad finally Jumped in between Serjgt. McCarton and nis victiip and the latter’s life was saved. The man’s screams were agonizing and penetrated to the court-room, causing excifement there. "AT Flat Prairie, Texas, the negroes hold a big Emancipation Day celebration and a row started between two factions, one led by George Laplin and the other by Adam Watson. Knives and pistols held full sway for half an hour, both sides fighting fiercely. Many on both sides were badly wounded. Watson was riddled with bullets and knife wounds, while Sandy Lapjin and three others on that side were killed

TRADE WITH CANADA II Ixll v AIN 211> RECIPROCITY would be an ENTBRINQ WEDGE. Thare'i No Way of Argolng that Reciprocity I» Not Free Trade Within Certain Limit.—l’roteellon'e Black Record —Governor McKinley'. Challenge. Want Freer Communication. An “international reciprocity convention” has been held at St. Paul, Minn., made up of delegates from tho United States and the Dominion of Canada, the object of which is to promote freer commercial intercourse between the two countries. The substance of its proceedings was the adoption of resolutions in favor of a now reciprocity treaty and the appointment of a joint committee “to bring the matter before the Dominion Parliament and the Canadian authorities and before the Congress of the United States and the American authorities and before the people of the two countries.” Tho matter has been before the legislative bodies, the authorities, and the people of the two countries off and on these many years, but the agitation is likely to be perennial until some result has been acnieved. Freedom of commercial intercourse between the United States and Canada would be so obviously to tho advantage of both that efforts to secure it are not likely to cease until the barriers are overcome. The strongest argument in favor of it is to bo found in the constant object lesson of the unquestioned advantage of free trade between the States of this Union. Nobody disputes the advantage to all the States, and to the country as a whole, of unrestricted commerce between tho different sections of the Union, and nobody can show wherein freedom of trade between Now York and Ontario would be less beneficial than between New York and Ohio, or why unrestricted intercourse between Minnesota and Manitoba would be less advantageous than between Minnesota and Illinois. While the logic of the situation is wholly in favor of reciprocity—the fuller and more complete the better—it is the ultimate consequences of that logic that present the greatest obstacle to the acceptance of a sound policy, since it militates against what each country has for years been pleased to regard as its “national policy.” In short, tho logic of the case pressed to its conclusions‘would leave the doctrine of protection without a leg to stand upon. What the resolutions of the St. Paul convention favor is “the free interchange of those classes of products, both natural and industrial, of each one that are most generally in demand or usually find the readiest sale in the markets of the other.” Obviously that is the kind of interchange that is most advantageous, but it is also the kind that would naturally take place if there were no restrictions in the way. If it would be mutually benefloial in the case of certain “classes of products,” it would be so in the case of any or all commodities to the extent that the specified condition/ existed, of a demand or ready sale in one country or the other. If it would . be mutually beneficial in the case of Canada ana the United States, it would be so in the case of any other countries to the extent that the products of one were in demand or had a ready sale in another. In fact, the logic is simply the logic of free trade, between the States, which would have precisely the same force with reference to trade between any nations. But it is this very interchange of the products of one country that are the “most generally in demand or usually find the readiest sale in the markets" of another against which the policy of protection is directed. The natural and moet profitable and advantageous course of trade is just what it aims to prevent. Reciprocity is free trade Within certain limits, and there is no way of arguing for it that will not tell in favor of extending the limits until nothing is excluded. —New York Times. Protection*« Black Record. Wherever protection has been tried for any length of time it has shown its true fruits m low wages, pauperisnxand national degredation. China, with its immobile masses, stagnant, deadj Russia, prohibiting the importation of grain, and suffering famine in the south in spite of her rich agricultural resources in the north; the Ottoman Empire with its enslaved population, protecting itself by letting nothing go out of the country, a somewhat less dangerous policy than that of letting nothing come in; Spain, with her absurd tariff laws, “a whale stranded upon the coast of Europe;’’ England, groaning in 1840, and for very agony snapping her tariff chains, arising in 1846 renewed and stronger than ever in her pro-tar-iff days. On the other band what of little Holland, in her freedom and free trade? Let another speak; “Though she produced not a bushel of wheat, nor a single plank, nor one bar of iron, she ate the whitest bread, made the cheapest and noblest ships, with the finest iron plating and strongest canvas of all European nations because her trade was the freest. ” Yet the United States has protection, and is more prosperous than England, which has a Kind of free trade, not yet wholly freed. True, but with only part of the factors any case may be made out. Anything may be proven if all the evidence for the other side is excluded. America is more prosperous because she has more free trade than any European nation. England is an island in the sea, scarcely larger than New York; America is a contnent. Continents can stand more protection, and stand it longer, just as large ships can carry cargoes that would sink your light-weight clippers. It is because we have so large an area of free trade that we can stand so large a measure of protection, and to make the case ,of America analagous to that of tariffridden Europe, every one.of our States should have a tariff against every other. Then, and then only, if we Were prosperous still, would it be fair to attribute such prosperity to the tariff.—Joseph Dana Miller, in the Courier. The Usual Way. It is an interesting coincidence that the addition of 25 cents per ton to the price of anthracite coal," made by the agents on Wednesday, waa immediately followed by a reduction of wages at the mines. There has been but one reduction of the price of coal since the combination began to be affected by the reverse which culminated in the collapse of the Reading Company, and this advance offsets half of the reduction then made. In spite of the decisions in New Jersey and the condition of the Reading Company, the combination seems to have some vitality remaining.. It will not be so easy now, however, to maintain the fixed prices and to prevent underselling as it was six months ago. —N. Y. Times. --—-—*—* - I ■ ■■ A Break in BlCyale Prices. At last there is aspromise of bicycles at reasonable prices. One of the groat English makers has deserted the American trust, and has reduced prices from $l5O to SBS and to $65 for an 1892 mar chine. As the average cost of a $l5O wheel is only S3O it is not surprising that a few manufacturers have become

BUGuODIy woaltny and tnnt within a started in Now England. By next year fl when tho present 45 per cent, duty is H cut Into or entirely aVolishod, we may HE expect to purchase g<xxl machines for SSO or S6O. ■ Sugar and Wheat. The sugar planters of Louisiana may M think they are not directly Interested M in tho condition of the grain market, M but it is true, nevertheless, thdt the M prevalence of low prices for wheat is a H matter which they oannot afford to ig- M noro in tho preparation of their argu- M monts against a rei>eal of tho law that M gives them a bounty on tho products atJH their plantations. Wheat of tho&B standard grade was sold in Chicagoan ■ Friday for 66 cents a bushel, the lowest H| price recorded in tho last thirty years, ■ and wo have heretofore pointed out the H conditions which seem to preclude any H considerable advance for some time to H come. * If the sugar planter in IxmlslaiuLH ought to l>o assisted by a bounty of cents on every pound of sugar ho pro- H duces, why should not the wheat grow- H er be aided in the same way? If H money procured by taxing the people H of tho United States ought to b« H given to the owner of a sugar plants- H tion to increase his profits or to prevent II him from producing sugar at a loss, H why is not tho owner of a wheat farm, II *ho can make no profit, or very little, II at prevailing prices, entitled to a II bounty from tho same general fund? II And why should he contribute out of II his earnings to the bounty that insures II or increases the profit of the sugar II planter, if no part of the sugar plant- II er’s taxes is used in paying to him a II bounty on every bushel of his wheat? jfl Tho sugar planters may be sure that II these are the questions that the wheat U growers are asking in these days when- H ever the protests of the planters II against a repeal of the bounty law are II brought to their attention. And they M are reasonable questions. We do not H think the arguments of the recipients II of the bounty ought to or ean prevail II against the answers which justice re- H quires to be made.—New York Times. H Common fl A story which might bring some com- H fort to badgered witnesses is told in H connection with Colonel Fowler, one ol M General Shaler’s staff. He was a clpv- 19 er lawyer as well as a good soldier, and H ho once fell into the hands of a fellow- H lawyer, whose chief ability lay in the 19 direction of abusing plaintiff’s attorney, M and confusing their witnesses. 9 On the occasion in question Colonel 19 Fowler was on tho stand to establish 19 his signature to a document, and swore 19 without hesitation that it was a gen* 19 uine autograph. ' "Now, sir,” said the lawyer, with a 19 threatening and impressive shake of 19 his forefinger, “on your oath—on your ■ oath, remember—how do you know that ■ is your signature?” 9 “Well, sir,” replied Colonel Fowler, fl unmoved by the man who was apt to fl make timid witnesses confused find II even hysterical in some cases, “on my M loath I don’t know how I know that is I my signature, but I know it.” ■ The lawyer was a little taken aback I by this calm reply, and before he could H rally from his surprise the judge spoke B up- i 9 “That will do, counsellor,” said he. I “The witness is right. No man can I know how he knows a thing of that 1 sort, and the witness’ answer has ex- ■ hausted the subject. The human mind I is incapable of analyzing its own action I by which it attains this mysterious I knowledge. * 1 And so that cross-examination failed I through the common-sense answer of 1 Cdlonel Fowler to a question which ■ hundreds of witnesses have tried to ■ answer, with the sole result of leaving fl the jury under the impression that they a were lacking in one of two qualities— a truthfulness or intellect.—Youth’s Com- ■ panion. a Protection via Lower Duties. • a The Iron Age believes in protection . 9 even while it is advocating lower duties. 9 It says: “It cannot be denied that the I greatest good of the greatest number I calls for a reduction in some of our iron a duties. But among the advocates of 1 reduction there are some manufacturers who are thereby pushing other in- I terests than those of the greatest I number. Our manufacturers of agri- ■ cultural implements have gone through fl the process of evolution that a pro- I tective tariff usually tends to determ- I ine. They prospered under the 35 per fl cent, duty until they became numerous I and had to sacrifice profits. Failures I followed, and prepared the way for com- I bination, which duly ensued. Now the fl capacity of our big manufacturers of | agricultural implements has outgrown I the consuming caliber of the country, I and to keep on growing it requires new I markets. This gives a motive to the I manufacturers in question for seeking reduction on bar iron, etc., that they may cheapen production and thus become eligible to compete for an export trade against the producers of other t countries. In other words, while they retain internal protection in the form of high duties, they want external protection by lower duties. ” Sugar Bounty Must Go. Now Orleans dispatch; It looks very much as if Louisiana’s delegation at Washington now despair of retaining the bounty on sugar when Congress meets in the fall. Senator. White has avoided committing himself on the subject so far, but his colleague, Mr. Canary, who has just returned from the capital, says: “Yes, I have talked a great deal in Washington with public men about the sugar question. I have drawn them into discussions of tho subject There can be no doubt whatever that the bounty is doomed. Whenever the people get a craze against a thing that thing must go. The craze now is in opposition to the sugar bounty, and its repeal is certain. ” Mr. Blanchard, from the Fourth District, has expressed himself to similar purport, and it is understood that this fall the delegation will make little or fight against the repeal of the bounty, accepting the inevitable, and will concentrate all their efforts to obtain a protective duty of li or 2 cents. McKinley's Challenge. Buckeyes are to be envied. They can again listen to debates on the tariff question. The Republicans have thrown ; down the protection gauntlet; in fact, # they have resuscitated and thrown the only original McKinley into the ring, ana there is no doubt that the Demo- z crats will accept the challenge by nominating some radical Democrat like Johnson, Hurd, Harter, or Neal for Governor. Then the fun will begin and slugging matches and bull fights will have lost their charm. The bourbon element of the Republican party is on top, and why should not the Democrats put their radical element to the front— the same element that surprised even themselves last November by making their districts so strongly Democratic on the tariff question that Ohio lost its protection balance? Whenever the Democrats have aimed their heaviest guns .at protection they have been victorious. The editor is often compelled to cut old acquaintances in the joke writer's “copy.”—-Buffalo Courier.