Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1893 — Page 2

®he democrat DEC ATUK, I NOMAOKBURX, ... Pn»i.rawm. NUM DECEMBER. NUM Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa '• • a • ® 7 2‘ 3456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 • • • ® ® ® EVENTS OF INTEREST THAT OCCURRED DURING THE PAST WEEK. An taternal Machine Kent to Chancellor ▼on CaprlVt-A Double Tragedy nt Ridgeville, Ohio—A ClrcviH Train Wracked —Lohlgb Valley Striker* Growing Violent. TO BLOW UP CAPRIVI. A Frenchman Slupe an Internal Machine to the German Shi tea man. Berlin special: Chancellor Von Caprivi received a small wooden box from Orleans, Erance. It was handed to the Chancellor's aide-de-camp, Maj. Ebmcyer, who, becoming suspicious, examined the box and found it an infernal machine. The box was six Miches long, two wide, and two deep. A letter accompanying it informed the Chancellor that the box contained a ■ample of a remarkable kind of turnip Tho letter accompanying it was in French. It was written apparently by an illiterate person, as the penmanship was bad and several words were spelled iacoi rectly. The sender evidently was aware that the Chahcellor’s hobby was gardening. If Colonel Ebmeyer had not seen the powder leakingout, the box would have exploded when forced open, as the mechanism was perfectly arranged. The President of the Police, who was called at once to tho Chancellor, wanted to keep the matter quiet lest other enemies of the Chancellor might be encouraged to make attempts on his life. Caprivi, however, refused to let him do so. The Chancellor said he wished the country to know the facts. No clue to the identity of the sender of the box had been obtained. Strikers Growing Violent. Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special: Violence is reported all along the line of the Lehigh Valley road. At Sugar Notch a mob attacked the station and drove the non-union men from tho premises. The men have abandoned work. Burgess Shields of Sugar Notch, has notified Sheriff Waters that he is not in a position to preserve the peace. The Sheriff will send deputies to the town. The telegraphers between this eity and White Haven have received threatening letters. Sheriff Waters swore in fifty* deputies and stationed them in the Coxton yards. At Pittston a non-union brakeman was struck in the head with a stone and knocked from the train. The company and authorities have sent a number of telegrams to Governor Pattison urging &at troops be called out. Frightful Wreck. Freight train No. 65, east-bound, on the Baltimore and Ohio road, was detailed by arfaftle breaking on a car on a bridge near Hyndman, Pa. The bridge was completely torn down and fifteen cars were precipitated to the creek below. Seven tramps were seen o> the train just before the accident •ocurred, but have not been seen since, and are supposed to be under the wrecked cars in the creek. The ears were all loaded with coal. A Terrible Double Tragedy. A tragedy occurred in Ridgeville, Ohio, the other night. Herman Barrows, a respected farmer, aged 68; shot his wife, aged 30, in the breast and head. He then placed the revolver to his head and sent a bullet through his brain, dying instantly. Barrows is a Justiceof the Peace, and has been a Sromincnt man in the county for years. ir. Barrows may recover. A petty quarrel between the couple prompted the terrible deed. Children Burned to Death. Mrs. Georgo Buckingham of Hanover, Ohio, left her three children alone in a closed room to call upon neighbors. Returning, she found Bertha, aged 5, burned to death, and the Other two lying semi-conscious on the floor on account of the smoke. Tho children had played with the grate fire.

Circus Train Wrecked.' By the breaking of an axle, one of the cars in the circus train of Sells & Rentfrow jumped the track near Amelia, Toxas, on the Southern Pacific. The car contained wagons and tent sluff in which a number men wjare Bleeping. Five persons were seriously injured Resignation. T. V. Powderly’s resignation as Grand Master Workma.-of the Knights of Labor has been accepted, J. 11. Sovereign of lowa, was elected to succeed him and an entirely new executive board was chosen. Spain's Consul. The State Department has recognized temporarily Don Luiz Munzi as Acting Consul of Spain at Baltimore in place of Don Carlos Diaz, who recently committed suicide. Aged Ohio Man Killed by CarnWilliam Griffith, a wealthy farmer, aged about (>B, was killed by the cars While walking from Shrove, Onio, to his home, a short distance from that village. His body was found beside the track. Beyond ControL The gfas well drilled on the farm of Charles Gibbs, five miles northeast of Greenfield, Ind., got beyond control and tore up everything in sight. A Singular Accident. A singular and what might have proved a fatal accident occurred to Mrs. George Grimm, five miles north of Wabash, Ind. Aboutdusk she, with her sister, wont to the barn to milk and becamq separated. Mrs. Grimm doing the milking near a large pile of straw. While thus onSiged a huge m iss of straw slid off e pile and completely buried her She was missed by tier sister, wi.o bet gan an unsuccess ul search, and at last summoned Mr. Grimm, who found his wife unconscio s and nearly dead under the straw. Her body was bent nearly double, her throat upon the

tnilk pall. fT*» minute, mor© in that position and «Ao would have been dead, and it required considerable time and labor to resuscitate her. • A FIERCE FIRE. Betel* and Theater* at Colnmbua, Ohio, Burn. Fire broke Out in the new Henrietta Theater, corner Spring and Front streets, Columbus, Ohio, and in loss than au hour and a half this elegant play house, tho Chittenden Hotel and Auditorium and Park theaters were in ruins. Felix Morris in tho ‘‘Paper Chase,” was at tho Henrietta Theater and tho orchestra had just finished tho overture when the manager, Albert Ovens, appeared on the stage and informed the audience that there was a small blaze in the roar of the theater and suggested that they leave tho theater. As no flames were to be seen and the audience was small, they did so in order. The members of tne company were dressed for their jiarte, and as they were assured the theater was lire proof, made no effort to remove their wardrobes. In a few momenta the flames, which first appeared in the largo auditorium adjoining the theater, and which was unfinished, broke out in the roar of the stage. Almost instantly tho whole proscenium was ablaze. The members of tho company fled in their stage clothes. A high wind was blowing from the west and fanned the flames so that when the fire department arrived thetheater was doomed and the [Chittenden Hotel, adjoining on the east, was burning. A man who was recognized as Andrew Armstrong, a stage hand, and who worked.about the scenery, appeared at a fourth storv window of the theater and cried for help. He was told not to jump ana he would be saved. He disappeared from the window and was not seen again. The fire destroyed the whole square bounded by High, Spring, and Front streets and the first alley north of Spring street. It is not known how the fire originated, but it was probably from a defective flue in the theater. The total loss will lx? over $1,000,000.

LIKE SHEEP The Mexican Soldier* Were Slaughtered by the Rebels. Deming (N. M.) special: Two Mexican refugees from the scene of the revolution say that a battle occurred in Poca Grande County the other day. The Mexican troops,numbering several hundred, were surrounded by the rebels in ambush and great slaughter resulted. the troops being utterly routed, and fled for their lives. The refugees state that the troops were marching from Cension when attacked by the rebels, who suddenly rushed upon them from all sides. The fighting continued all day. The rebels claim the victory. This report cannot be confirmed by other sources, as the scene is 200 miles from any telegraphic communication. Later reports are to the effect that when the attac£ was made upon the troops the officers were shot down, causing a panic among the soldiers, who were killed like sheep. The battle resulted in a decisive victory for the rebels. The Yaqui Indians have joined the revolutionists. There is every reason to believe the correctness of the report.

BANGING AWAY. The Insurgent* are Confident of Sucre** In BraxiL A London Times dispatch from Rio De Janeiro, November 18, via Montevido, says: Heavy artillery fire continues daily. Forts Villegaignon and Lage are greatly battered. The heavy gun at Fort San Joao was struck by rebel shot and dismounted. During the bombardme* shell burst at Fort Lage, killing an officer and seventeen men. Parte of the city are perilous and owing to fusila.de of rifles and machine guns, many casualties occur id the streets. Foreign diplomats consider it impossible to take further steps for the protection of life and property, and naval commanders concur m the general opinion, which favors letting both sides proceed without further interference. The insurgents are confident of success. They have captured Bage, in Rio Grande De Sul, and are making northward. President Peixotto is preparing for a stubborn defense oi Rio De Janeiro and states that, he intends fighting to the last and when the ships arrive he expects victory. ' • Fooled by a Freight. Northern Indiana w/* the scene of another attempt to hold up a Itake Shore train. Ten men, armed with Winchester rifles, stopped a freight train at Elkhart, Ind., and robbed the crew. The freight was running on passenger train time, which was sixty minutes late, and this deceived the robbers who vented their anger on the he pless crew. The passenger train was only saved from the desperadors by being late. The news of the daring job spread rapidly and the neighborhood was aroused. The robbers <re undoubtedly the parties who held up the Lake Shore train at Kessler last summer.

Fire (?aus<iK Great TuOSH. Fire at Springfield, Mass., destroyed eight blocks, resulting in an estimated i damage of $1.5(X);OIM). The burned I aistrict on Worthington street extends nearly 450 feet, east from the rear of the Gl< ndower House, and is nearly 150 feet deep. The seven bio ’ks destroyed wore as fellows: live-story brick block, owned by J. Weber, grocer; two brick blocks, five stories high, owned by J. K. Dexter & Co., rag dealers; live-story block, owned by John Doolan, also rag dealer; five-story block, owned by A. N. Mayo & Co., stock dealers; Gendower Hotel and Abtiey Block and part of the Wright Block. They Are Guilty. Chicago sptria.l- The in the case against the officers of the Guarantee Investment Company, charged with usiag the mails for fraudulent purposes and conducting a lottery, returned a verdict of eniilty against G? M. McDonald, President; William 11. Stevenson, Treasurer and Vice-President, and Francis M. Swaeringer, Secretary. The case against J. B. Johnson, a director, was nolle pressed owing to a technical error in the indictment. Pending the hearing of a motion for a now trial the men were released pn bail of $5,009 for McDonald and SI,OOO each for the others. Izike Steamer Abandoned, Grand Haven (Mich.) special: Capt> J. Waltham and crew, of the schooner Wander of Chicago, have arrived here, haying abandoned their vessel on the beach about three miles south of this harbor. She went' on during a gale and after several hours of exposure and extreme, suffering the crew managed to make the shoreon portions' of the wreck ana through the assistance of the lifesaving crew. The Wunder was loaded with staves and bound for Milwaukee. Lhcky Brakeman. The Laporte County, Indiana, grand jury adjurned without returning an indictment against Bert Thompson. I This action was contrary to the recommendation of the Coroner. Thompson

is the Wabash freight brakeman who. September 22, caused the wreck at Kingsbury, in whioh twelve lives.wero lost. Thompson fled and was discovered living in Edgerton, Ohio. All the evidence threw the blame of ths disaster on Thompso i. Shocked to Death, Zephaniah Tibbetts, 20 years old, was killed in his father's saloon on Canal street. Grand Kauids, Mich., by an electric mirrent. A large arc light did not burn properly and Young Tibbetts attempted to adjust it. He grasped a gas fixture near the lamp with his right hand and touched the metal part of the electric lamp with the loft, causing the full current to pass through his body. Death was instanoous. RuMda’ii Persecution* St Petersburg special: Tho rumor of tho arrest and banishment of Poles from the western provinces of Russia have been confirmed. Elevon priests have been suspended from theifl duties and placed in prison and scores of citizens are detained in the citadel at Warsaw. Fifteen persons, including some ladies and young girls, are already on their way to Siberia, although their friends have no knowledge of the nature of their offence. Frightful Wreck. A frightful train wreck occurred on the Evansville ana Terre Haute Railroad at Vincennes, Ind. Freight train No. 56 was in the yards and Conductor Guthrey sent a flagman back to flag the passenger train, No. 8. For some reason the flagman got into the caboose and let the passenger train run into the freight , demolishing the cars and doing great damage. The flagman was seriously hurt, and will die. Tho engine, caboose, baggage car, mail car and mail matter were burped. Trains were delayed several horn’s before the track was cleared. More Cronin Murderers. Chicago special: State’s Attorney Kern says that he has recently unearthed startling evidence that be thinks will enable him to secure the conviction of two men besides Daniel Coughlin now on trial, charged with complicity concerning the Dr. Cronin murder. The other two men's names have not heretofore been mentioned in connection with tho crime and their arrest. Mr. Kern says, will be one of the most sensaponal incidents of the case. The names referred to have not been divulged. Triple Lynching Avoided. Charleston (W. Va.) special: Charles Bays, Wash Adkins, and William Burwell, arrested in Fayette County for the murder of Radford at Loup Creek, on the 9th inst.. were brought here and lodged in jail. They had a preliminary trial at Fayetteville and confessed to the murder. Tho officers receiving information that a mob would lynch the murderers, they were brought here for safety. To Settle Pamirs Difficulty*

Berlin special: It is learned from St. Petersburg that the Russian Government is satisfied with the outcome of the British mission to Afghanistan under Sir Mortimer Durand, and hopes thereby to effect an understanding with England and China with reference to the delimitation of the Pamirs. They Are Found. Missoula (Mont.) special: A story comes from Kendrick, Idaho, to the effect that the Carlin party' has beer found more dead than alive, minus Colgate, the cook, whose pitiful abandonment was necessitated in order that the remainder might be saved. Lady's Skull Crushed. Mrs. Sylvanus Stull, wife of a prominent farmer, residing four miles south of Alliance, Ohio, was driving to town, when her horse became unmanageable and upset the carriage. Mrs. Stull was thrown on her head, crushing in the skull. She cannot recover. Foot BalL Yale once more demonstrated her supremacy in foot ball by defeating the Harvard eleven at Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass. It was a mighty contest and won by the smallest possible margin, only one touch down being madd. ______ Powderly Re*lgns. General Master Workman Powderly has tendered his resignation to the General Assembly Knights of Labor, in session at Philadelphia. Killed] the Mine Bo**. Charles Bullock, bank boss at Jumbo Mine, Brazil, Ind., who was so badly mashed by a heavy fall of slate several days ago, has since died. Bagged a Burglar. At Fairfield, 111., J. W. Newman Heard a noise in Ms poultry yard and fired at two intruders. The dead body of Charles Hooper, a neighbor, was found on his doorstep. Big Billiards. Ex-champion Jacob Schaefer, defeated Champion Frank Ives in the greet billiard match at Chicago, the score, standing 4,000 for Schaefer to 3,945 for Ives. z .-

THE MARKETS. / ... . CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... p J ,o fit fl oo lIOGH-Shlppiug Grades.....i. < u> (2 5 75 SHKKP—FaJr to Choice.,.-'... 2 25 /al f co Wheat—No. 2 Bprlng<;< ti!4 Cobh—No. 2.... >r s. Oats-No. 2..-..' 2H ail co Rye—No. 2. 4< ea 45 BUTTBo Choice Creamery 24)20 25J4 Egos-Freeh 2H-..0 22 >» Potatoes—Per bn SO <5 70 x ' INDIANAPOI.IN. .Cattle—Shipping;..: 300 <-d 5 iso Uoos—Choice Lijjht t 00 0 fl 75 Shkbv— Common to Prime.,... 200 ($3 10 Wheat-No. 2 Red w 0 47 Cobh—Nd. 2 White 36 36)s Oats—No. 2 Whit- st 0 31)4 a? st. louih CATTLE Bco © 6 SO Hogs .__ „ „.. .4 ca 4*. s_6u Wmkat-No. 2 Red 66 & 66 Cobh—No. 2 31&0 32H Oats- No. 2 26 0 27 Rte—No. 2 a & AS CINCINNATI. Cattle 300 0 5 00 Hogs;...-:,... 3 co 0 6 50 5HEEP........... 200 ««WSO Wheat—No. 2Red.. s*H@ 69)4 Corn—No. 2 33 0 aofl O.its-No. 2 Mixed 0)40 31)4 Rye -No. 2 61 0 62 DETROIT. CATOI 3 00 0 4 75 Hogs 300 0 6 00 Miser 2 00 0 4 00 11 HEAT—No. 1 Red 61 0 62 Cobn—No. 2 Yel ow 38 (n) 80 Oats-No. 2 White 32 0 S 3 „ TOLEDO. 11 heat—No. 2 Red 60 0 61 Cor.x -No. 2 Yellow 87 0 88 O.ns—No. 2 White. 29 0 30 Rib-No. 2..... as & 6J „ BUFFALO. Bees Cattle—Good Io Prime 300 <3 «00 Book—Fair kH&oice 4 00 0 s 75 WUEA7— So. 1 llafe CT 0 68 No. 2 Bed 63 0 63)4 MILWAUKEE. iImUT-N0.2 Spring 66H0 67)4 <o::x-No. a 86 <•» 87 G ■ Ts-No. 2 White 30 0 30)4 it' 11 46 0 48 BAKI,-,T—No. 2 49 0 61 I’ullX-Now Mtei.s .... 14 00 014 50 „ LEW YORK. — 0 ATI lb 8 0 0 5 26 J lO0 *- 8 75 0 6 25 •> 2 25 0 3 75 V lIE/T—N .. 2 Red..*”. 66 0 67 Corn-No 2 45 0 46 OiTh-Miaad Wroie-.o 36 0 86 Rutteb—Chow as 0 M PoBK-New Mors "j”"". 16 to 017 60 •

CASH OF THE NATION. ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER MORGAN. Revised Figures Presented to Becretarj CarUsle Giving the Condition of the National Treasury—Secretary Morton’* Department— Internal Revenue Bureau Iteport. t «Su' — Total Stock of Money. United States-Treasurer D. N. MorRan has submitted to Secretary Carsic his annual report on the operations and condition of the treasury. It shows that the net ordinary revenues for the fiscal year 1893 wore $385,819,628, an increase of $30,881,844 over those of the year before. The net ordinary expenditures wore $383,447,554, an increase of $38,454,623. There was, therefore, a deerease of $7,772,779 in tho surplus revenue, reducing them to $2,341,674. Including the public debt the total receipts were $732,871,214 and the total expenditures $773,007,998. Tho public funds amounted on Juno 30,1892, to $786,351,895, and on Juno 30, 1893, to $746,538,655. After sorting apart tho-e sums of gold, silver-and the United States notes which were held for the redemption of certificates of deposit and treasury notes there was loft a reserve, or general fund, of $187,012,740 in 1892 and $168,167,391 in 1893. These amounts, however, included certain sums of certificates of deposit, bands and coupons which were unavailable for any other purpose than tho settlement of the treasurer s account, and which, if canceled, would have left an actual available working Italanco of $165,945,886 and $156,295,169 on the two dates, respectively. By Sept. 30 this balance had been diminished to $149,250,268, owing to a deficiency in the revenue. In seven months, beginning with last December, upward of $81,009,000 was drawn out of the Treasury in redemption of notes, and the gold reserve was reduced during the same period by $29,60,1,000. During the next three months, with light redemptions and a deficiency of $19,000,000 in the revenue, the Treasury lost $15,090,000 of gold, but the reserve fell off only $2,000,000. The amount of gold during the fiscal j car was the largest over taken out of the country or brought into it in a like period, being upward of SIOB,600,000, and that $102,000f000 of it was drawn out of the treasury by the presentation of legal-tender notes. Most of the gold exported in former years was supplied by the treasury in exchange for gold certificates, and the report says that it is the first time that any considerable sums of notes have been presented for the metaL With the exception of an increase of $45,500,(XX) in the amount of treasury notes, issued in the purchase of silver bullion, and a decrease of $80,000,000 m the combined volume of gold certificates and currency certificates, there has been, the report says, no important change in the public debt. According to the revised estimate the total stock of money of all kinds in the country on June 30 was $2,323,547,977, or nearly $51,000,000 loss than at the same time last year. This contraction took place notwithstanding the addition of $45,530,000 to the stock of silver and an increase of S6,OOO,QU* in the outstanding bank notes, and was caused by the export of gold. In July, however, there began a heavy return movement of the metal, supported by a rapid expansion of bank-note circulation. By the end of September the stock of gold was restored to what it was when the exports began. The total increase of the effective stock of money in the three months was no lower than $95,000,000, bringing it up to a figure much above the highest ever reached before. The treasurer remarks that this sudden contraction and expansion within the snace of eleven months affords a striking illustration of the degree of flexibility possessed by the currency. The revised figures for the amount of money in circulation, that is outside the treasury on June 30, place it at $1,596,846,829, or about $6,00 ),090 less than it was a year before. During the four months ended with October there was an increase of $125,000,000, a record altogether without parallel in the history of the country. The redemption of United States paper currency has been unusually heavy, amounting to $377,000.090 in ’the fifteen months ended with October. During the last two fiscal years there was recoined nearly one-fifth of the whole estimated stock of silver, an improvement, the report says, that is expected to increase the popularity and usefulness of this part of the currency. Contrary to expectations, the Columbian souvenir coins have not proved popular. Some of them were never taken out of the Treasury and others have been returned for redemption; An arrangement has been in contemplation under which the half-dollars in the Treasury will bo lecoined at the expense of tne management of the Exposition. It has not yet been decided what disposition is to be mado of the quarter dollars of this coinage not disposed of.

SECRETARY MORTON'S REPORT. Tli« Head <ft the Agricultural Department Shows What Ho Has Done. The Secretary of Agriculture, in his report subm tted to the President, regrets the vague character of the department organization, which he says, "offers opulent opportunities for the exercise of the most pronounced paternalism,” but he adds that there are many proper ways in which the Federal Government may legitimately serve the cause of agriculture. He devotee considerable space to a review of what he regards as an anomalous partnership between the Government of the United States and the governments of the respective States for the conduct and encouragement of State agricultural colleges and experiment stations. "Referring to the sum appropriated for the use of State experiment stations, he says: "Tliis appropriation is unlike any other pub ic moneys legislated out of the treasury of the United States became there is no officer of the United States authorized to direct, limit, control or audit its itemized expenditures.” He suggests that the sla’-ions should bo entirely divorced from the dej artment and the sum appropriated charged dire, tly to them, or that the Secretary should have's me power to direct and restrain their disbursements so as to insure a legitimate expenditure of the same. He adds that in view of the rumors that have obtained credence in some of the States and Territories to the effect that moneys appropriated to the stations have been diverted from t> eir legitimafo purposes, a thorough, investigation should be made to demonstrate either the truth or falsity of such reports. In reference to expenditures the Secretary states that his strenuous endeavor, in view of a depleted public trea ury and of the imperative demands of taxpayers for economy in the administration of the Government, has been to "rationally reduce expenditures by the elimination from the pay rolls of all persons not needed for an efficient Conduct of the affairs of the depart- • ‘ *’ ' * ® *9-ft . ■: -t Q ' „\l-f’•: Am-A.

men 4." Tho distribution of seeds a» the public expense Is reviewed at length and its growth traced from the year 1831), when (kimmiwdonor of Patents Ellsworth obtained an appropriation of SI,OOO for tho purpose of collecting and distributing rare varieties of seed and for other purposes. He shows a considerable saving to have been effected in the purchase and the distribution of the seed this year. The work of the Bureau of Animal Industry is reviewed in detail. Tho result of tho Texas fever regulations is pronounced to bo highly satisfactory, but to increase their efficiency it is suggested that a penalty should attach for violation of the department regulations by railroad companies transporting infected cattle. A further reduction has been effected by vessel inspection iu tho percentage of cattle lost at ica, tho ratio being for the last year less than one-half of 1 per cent. The law at present docs not provide for tho inspection of horses imported into the country and un amendment in this respect is suggested. As regards meat inspection the microscopical inspection has been greatlv reduced, tho intention being to confine it rigidly to products intended for direct export to countries exacting the same. Promiscuous free distribution of publications is condemned, and the suggestion made that, after supplying certain copies free to libraries and educational institutions, a moderate price should bo charged for tho remaining copies. Os tho weather bureau it 1h stated that the work ha< been carried on with improved efficiency and economy, a reduction in cost of maintenance of nearly. 10 per cent, being effected, and estimates for tho fiscal year responding reduced. • % INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT. Receipt* for the Current Fiwcal Year Will Ih' Ix*ka than the Estimate*. Joseph Miller, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has submitted to Secretary Car.isle his report of the operations of the bureau fcr the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 189.3, and also certain additional information re'ating to the collections mado and work performed during tho first three months of the current fiscal year. It is a long dreument of over 200 printed pages and includes a number of tables containing much statistical information on the operation of the bureau, some of which date back for thirty years. Thfe'report shows that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue have increased frem $116,902,869 for the fiscal year 1886 to $161,604,989 in 1893. Tho estimates of the last commissioner of internal revenue were that the receipts of 1893 would reach $165,000,609, but owing to the general business depression Mr. Miller says this amount was not realized. He estimates that the receipts for the fiscal year will be $150,1)00,000. The receipts for the fiscal year 1892 were $153,857,544. The receipts for 1893 were made up as follows: Spirits, $94,720,260, an increase of $3,410,276 over the previous year; tobacco, $31,889,771, an increase of $889,218; fermented liquors, $.32,548,983, an increase of $2,511,530; oleomargarine, $1,670,643, an increase of $404,317; and miscellaneous, $175,390, a decrease of $67,898. The receipts from internal revenue for he first three months of the fiscal year 1894 have been $39,874,402, a decrease of $5,519,143 as compared with the first three months of the fiscal year 1893. Os this decrease $3,830,858 has been in the taxes on spirits and. $1,828,882 on tobacco. The cost of collecting the revenue during 1893 was $4,219,769. The expenses for the previous fiscal year were $4,315,946. being 2.80 per cent of the collections. The estimated expenses for 1895 are $4,498,580.

ACT OF A DRUNKEN FIEND. Jordan Kills His Wife, Her Sister, and , Parents, and Himself. As the result of a terrible tragedy growing out of a family feud five persons are dead in their country home, several miles east of Seymour, Ind., says a dispatch. Four years ago Clinton Jordan, then 21 years old, married a daughter Os Joshua Foster, with whom he never lived happily. Last week they separated, and she returned to the home of her father. The other night Jordan met his father-in-law and accompanied him home in spite of his as ho feared trouble. Jorifan promised to behave, but soon affor his arrival at Foster’s home he began a quarrel. When Foster then ordered him out of the house Jordan fired at the old man. The ball missed him and strunk Cora Foster, aged 17, in the head, killing her instantly. A second shot hit Foster in the head and knocked him down. The old man picked himself up and ran about half a mile to the home of another of his sons-in-laws, William Powell. He fell unconscious and lingered until late in the afternoon, when he died. Jordan then turned his revolver on Mrs. Foster, his mother-in-law, shooting her in the neck, the ball ranging downward and causing a wound from which she died. Jordan’s wife attempted to defend her mother, and he stabbed her repeatedly in the breast, hands and and ended by shooting her through the head, Jordan then opered his vest, placid the revolver against his breast, ar.d sent a ball through his heart. He dropped dead, falling across the dead body of bis wife. The revolver was now and had evidently boon bought with premeditated purpose of killing his victims. The knife with which the murderer’s wife was so cruelly gashed was al o new a;d long and had been fleshly sharpened. Jordan had an unsavory reputation and in frequent spells of intoxication was ugly and quarrel ome. All the other victims were peaceful and orderly citizens. Jordan, the assassin and suicide, was illiterate and stupid, but had always been considered harmless. BIG BLAZE AT HANNIBAL Property Worth «565,000 Wiped OatHelp from Qulnoy. The total loss by Saturday night's fire at Hannibal, Mo., foots up to IwSOfi,000, on which there is insurance aggregating 8155,000. The fire broke, out about 0 o’clock and resulted from the explosion of a lamp in the establishment of the Williams-Voorhis Dry-Goods company, the largest store in the city, occupying a three-.t >ry block on the corner of Main and Church streets. In ten minutes the building wae a mass of flames, and the gale which prevailed carried the fire through the block and across the street. The Hannibal fire department was helpless, and two steamers from Quincy, 111., were fighting the flamei within an houraf:er the lamp exphibi >n. The cmb'ned forces were Only able to confine tho flames t the blocks first visited. The telegraph and lelephone lines were inoperative, and the storm of ieo and rleet which followed further crippled tho wires in all directions. • r •— - A VERDICT was rendered in Brooklyn for $17,000 against 8. V. White & Co., the br >kers, in favor of Eugene Palmer, who charges that he 1 st that amount in a transaction with White’s Chicago house. ’ • 'Z'' >

TABIFF REFORM BHL PROVISIONS OF THE WILSON MEASURE MADE PUBLIC. Free I.l*l Eitended tn WooL Coal, I -water, Salt, and Iron Ore-Its Enactment Would End Reciprocity and Require llrililon of Treaties Extensive Free I Ast. The now Democratic tariff bill has been given to the public, and, according to a Washington dispatch, its provisions fulfill every expectation that it might be a radical measure of reform. In many respects it is a surprise even to the Donxx'.ratic member* of Congress, us it is unprecedented in many of its provisions. Tho tree list is of that liberal scope s.itt’clent to tatisfy the most radical advocates of reform »nd dho repudiation of the principle < f reciprccity which has bjen tho pride of tne Republicans is decisive and emphatic. It will necessitate a readjustment of treaties with thi bi South Amer Joan countries whioh enjoy practical or theoretical reciprocity with the United States. The bounty on sugar is to be i epealod by easy gradations and will uot reach Its conclusive effect until alter the end of the present century. On and after the Ist of March, 1894. tho tides are to bo added to the IlacorMKl.liiun*. beef, Hintton and pork, and inrdAif all kind*, prepared or preserved, not Hlieeially provided for In this act. All'lindinr twine manufactured in whole or In part from thistle or tampion Über, manila, sisal prase or aunn. of single ply and measuring n< t exceeding 010 feet to the pound Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments, and bird skins, prepared for preservation, but not further advanced in manufacture. Blue vitriol, or sulpbate of copper. Bone char, suitable for use in decorating sugars. OoaL bituminous, and shale, and coal slack or out; coke: o<>al tar. crude, and all preparations and products of coal tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for in this aot Oxide of cobalt Oopper imported In the form of ores; old copper, fit only for manufacture; dipping from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief valne not specially provided for in this act; regulns of copper and black or comae copper, and coppier cement, cdpper in plates, bars. Ingote. or pigs, and other forms, not manufactured, uot special y provided for in this act Copperas, or sulphate of iron. Cotton-ties of Iron'or steel out to Irnrths, punched or not punched, with or without bnckles. for belting cotton. Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels tn be used In the manufacture of watches or elocks. Yelks of eggs of birds, fish and Insects. Downs of all kinds, crude, not specially pro vlded for in this act. Fresh fish. Furs, undressed. lodine. Resublinrated iron ore; also the dross er residuum from bn, lit. pyrite* and snlphur and pyrites or sulphuret of iron in its natural state. Lemon juice; lime juioe, and sour orange juice. Mica, and metallo mineral substances in a crude state and metals unwrought, not specially provide i for in this aot. Ochre and ocherv earths: sienna and sienna earths; umber and umber earths, not specially provided for in this tu t Cotton seed oil, paintings, in oil or water oolors, and statuary, not otherwise provided for in this act. Plows, tools, and dlso-harrows, harvesters, reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, threshing machines and cotton gins. Plush, black, for making men's hats. Quicksilver. Bftlte Bilk, partially manufactured from cocoons or from waste silk, and not farther advanced or manufactured than carded or oomhed silk. Soap, all not otherwise specially provided for in this ack , Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or nitre sake; sulphuric acid. Tallow and oil grease, including that known commercially as De Gras, or brown wool grease. Burr stone, bound up ihto millstones; free stone, granite. and othsr building or marble, unmanufactured or not specially provided for in this act. All wearing apparel and other personal effects shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established under such rules snd regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre*<?lmber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber squared or sided; sawed boards, planks, deals and other lumber; laths; pickets and palings: shingles; staves of wood of all kinds; wood unmanufactured: provided, that If any export duty is laid upon the above-mentioned articles, or either of them, all said articles imported from said country shall be subject to duty as now provided by law. Chair ocne, or reeds, wrought or manufaotureo from rattans or reeds. Weeds namely, cedar, Itenum vltse. lancewood, elony, box, gransdllla mahogany, rosewood. satinwood, and a'l forms of cabinet woods, in the log. rough or hewn Bamb o and rattan, unmanuiactored. Briar root or briar wood and similar weed unmanufactured. Beeus and sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle and other woods in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sun shaues, whips or walkIng canes. All wool of the sheep, hair of the camel, coat alpaca, and other tike animals, and all wool and hair On the skin. Na is. yam waste, card waste, bur waste, rags and flax including all waste, or rags, composed wholly or in part of wooL Average Cut of 3S Per Cent. The avet a?e cut in duties, says ths Washington correspondent, is be'.ween 35 and tl) per cent, w.th no duty going beyond 50 per .©ent. ad valorem anJ very few coming up to that mark. Tne unitorm substitution of ad valorem for specific duties makes it quite difficult in many instances to accurately estimate the oxtent of the cut until actual experience in importations gives som i guide by wh'ci to go. The actual loss from additions to the free list can be computed on the basis of importations, for tho fi - cal year 1892, but, not, for the yea: 9J, because complete statistics are uoi at hand.» Whc n the two years are averaged it will prob.bly appear that the additions to the free li t will be to cut down revenue! by $.0,000,00) to $?2,000,600; <f this $8,000,00.) may br placed to the account of frep wool; o a) will cause SI,OX',O)O deficiency ; iron ore, $151,0)0: lumbei, $600,000; salt, $400,000; silver lead ore, $850,000; flax straw, hemp, etc., $250,000. The duties <n other articles which will go on the free list have ranged from $5,00J to $250,000. The t tai on the chemicjl schedule will baa large one. y Tinplate is not mado free. The old rate of 1 cent a pjund is fiied, and it is es.inated that fell.ooo,oJO inay be secured, or $2,500,0C<) more than can be counted on unier the present law. There has been g. eat contention over woolens, but witu few exceptions the rates run from 25 to 35 per cent ad va lorom, rarely rising to 40 per cent Antiquity of the Bagpipe. A representation of the bagpine was found in the ruins of Tarsus. The instrument was in use 2,000 years be! re the Christian era, and its origin is un known. ' About Ships and Shipping. Os 10,090 British seamen, 66 are lost every year. The heaviest anchors weigh about 7,700 poundk .4 Italy has 50 ships of war, 171 guns and 19,221 men. Prtgates in the modern style were first b iilt in i 649. The use of steel for ship building was begun in 1879. The Alb ,rian navy has 129 ships, 411 gurs and 8.740 m >n. . A . The modern French navy dates from the reign f Napoleon 111. The screw propeller was introduced into the Bl ittah navy In 184 ft . • • - ■ ; ’ ■

AROUND A 810 STATB. V f CRIKF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. (That Onr Nelghlmr* Are Doing--of Gsnoral and Loral Intarest—Mwrrtagss and Drath* -Acchtants snd Crlmss—Feoi sonal Pointer* About Indliuilan*. Brlot State Item*. The town of Crandall is to bo Incorporated. Mrs. Eli Gough died of lockjaw, near Muncie, caused by vaccination. Ed. Fei.lek, who escaped from the Bodford jail recently, has been recaptured. Crawfordsville has organized a relief association to care for the poor of that city. Chas. Wellman, a farm hand near Thorntown, hail his hand torn off in a corn busker. The Seymour Democrat says that hunters are having unusually hard luck. Game is scarce. Elder W. B. F. Treat, who was Injured in a runaway accident at North Madison, is Jn a precarious condition. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the wealthy murderess, has been granted a change of venue from Logansport to Kokomo. The Darnell puddling mills, Muncie, have boon rented by a company who will operate tho works making muck bar.RuDOLPh Shultz was lined slooand sent to jail for four months at LaPorte for fishing with a seine in Kankakee River To vaccinate or not to vaccinate to the question now being agitated at Terre Haute among tho public school patrons. George Burden of Marion, a colored bov, 8 years old. waa accidentally shot and dangerously injured by his brother Levi, aged 14. Mrs. Perry Laymen, who lives ia tho oil field eight miles north of Portland, was fatally’ burned while kindling a fire with coal oil. A SOUTHERN Indiana paper missed publication one day lately because the editor's wife, who did the typesetting, had gone away on a visit. Herman Uphaus of Richmond, isdn a dangerous condition from a drinlro! embalming fluid, which he took from a supposed wine cask in his cellar. Peru city officials are beginning war on the Wabash strawboard works for emptying refuse into the river from which the city ’s water supply is taken. Elmer Lee of Edinburg, has brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Edinburg Starch Works Company for injuries received while in their employ. -. There are now five factories and over fifty buildings at Ingalls erected since last May. Ten brick residences wore started this week, and ©very man in the town is at work. Miss Daisy Myers of Madison, to trying to locate her brother, from whom she was separated while a mere babe. It is thought that he lives in Wabash County and was adopted several years ago by a family named Lamb. George Hendrickson, who was injured a few days ago by a premature shot in Schufferman's mine, south of Brazil, is dead. Mr. Hendrickson was one of the wealthiest and oldest minere in the county. He leaves a wife and familv. o The remains of John C. Lutz, which were buried at Richmond nearly a century ago, were exhumed recently to be placed in another grave. Upon examination the body ana clothes were found to be in a remarkaqle state of preservation. While in the act of lifting a door lock from a shelf in the hardware store of Charles Davis, in Wabash, John Cochran was stricken with heart disease and fell to the floor dead. He was 64 years old, and moved from Peru to Wabash in 1849. The Elwood Land Company has been changed from a mere association to an incorporated body, with a capital stock of $250,000. It controls over one thousand acres of the adjacent territory and holds gas leases upon 100,000 acres of contiguous territory to that city. Clifford Ellis, sen of the Dublin postmaster, while out hunting lost an arm by the accidental discharge of his shotgun. He was squeezing through a wire fence when the gun wont off, the contents passing through his arm, necessitating amputation half way between the hand and elbow, The other morning fire was discovered in the store room of tho Patton Manufacturing Company at tho State Prison South, and for a time it looked as if the entire building was doomed. In one end of the building is also located the offices of the company. The prompt action taken by the officials and men saved the building. The loss will not exceed S7OO. It is supposed that the fire was the work of some of the convicts. One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in Lawrence County occurred tho other night ashort distance from Enon Valley. The victim of tis robbery was Mrs. Mary Williams the aged wife of John Williams, a farmer. Williams was away from home. At 11 o’clock there was a rap at the door, and when Mrs. Williams opened it she was confronted by three revolvers in the hands of masked men. Tne old laay screamed once, when all three of the men sprang upon her, and in a minute shp, was helpless; bound and gagged. After torturing her for more than an hour the old lady finally disclosed the hiding place of the money, and the robbers secured S2OO in gold, after which they fled. Mrs. Williams was found next morning still bound and gaged. Her condition Is serious, and it is probable that she will not survive the shock and the injuries she received. Robert Pogue, aged 92, died at hto home on North Union street, Union City. Mr. Pogue is one of the oldest pioneers in that section of the country, having settled there when Dayton was the nearest trading point. He built the first house on the ground now occupied by Union City. Walter Wunderlich, a reporter on the Evansville Journal, has brought suit against the Standard and Germania, papers of that city, tor SIO,OOO damages for libel. He claims that thev asserted that ho broke Into the cash drawer in the County C erk’s office in search of a suppressed item. While Elder W. B. F. Treat, a Christian ministar of Muncie, was on his way to take part in a four-day religions'debate withEev. Johu Hughes, a Universalist minister, at Saluda, 'Jeffersop County, the team ran away, throwing Elder Treat qut on his head. He remained unconscious for more than two hours, and was comnelled to witurn to his home at The debate has been declared off. Hto condition is serious. Redfield Nelson, a farmer living eight miles (rom Petersburg,was killed by a tree falling on him. The Infant daughter of Joseph Clouse, living four miles from Mitchell, choked to death on a hlokorynut shell* " <;r- .. V \-X. .. . j".