Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1894 — Page 6

©he gJemotrctf if l ' l J DKOATUR, IND. 11. ■laokbubn, . . . Pmrnn t "'■ . . ■ . ■ —. l i HE DID NOT FALTER. VAILLANT GOES BRAVELY TO THE GUILLOTINE. Terrible Tragedy at Chattanooga—Pro«pecta for a Lynching- at Lebanon, Ind.— HoilneM Portion of Savannah, Ga., Wiped Out—Oar Paper Currency. HEAD CUT OFF. • Execution of Auguate Vatftarat. p ■'* special: Auguste Vaißant.the . 1 tj ‘ who, on December 9, last, anarch isv, , b into the Chliwter o f threw a bon... « C uted at about 7:30 Deputies, was ex. -, ln „ O’clock Monday Vthe gaiilotine When \ aillant neare. gfeaaaing ' --award at th. * up _ he glance i .. r -»n the , ' knife suspended betwv -mis rights, the blade shining . “a and distinct owing to the rays au many lanterns around the seatlold,. then he shouted: “Vive i’anarchie.” A moment later, as he was ascending the steps leadin r to the plat orm of the guillotine, the desperate anarchist sho.ited: “A mort les bourgeois” (death to the bourgeois.) As he uttered this cry Valliant reached the foot of the sliding plank i which leads the body of the criminal, • when strapped onto it, beneath the knife after one quick push, he said: “Death to society ” Vaillant had hardly uttered these words when he was seized by M. Dieblers, and assistants, and thrown upon the sliding plank, or basculo, to which he was strapped with remarkable rapidity and in less time than it takes to write it his body wasthrust through • the lunette, or hold in the end of the scaffold upon which a half circle or locking piece falls after thq head is thTouga. 4 spring waq touched and the shining knife above the anarchist s head sped downward with a swift and noiseless movement. There was a terrible spurt of blood and the head of Vaillant, separated from its trunk, tell into the basket of saw dust and all was over. With the greatest rapidity the head and body of the anarchist were gathered up.placed ■ in separate baskets and were escorted away from the scene of the execution at a gallop. . DREADFUL LB AG EDY. Chattanooga the 8 <mfl fit a Sensational Shooting. G. H. Henson, President of the Citizens’ Bank and Trust Company, and also of the Rockwood and Tullahoma Bank, shot and killed J. H. Wert, a prominent insurance man aged 50 years, married and the father of six children, in an elevator of the Richardson? block the largest office building in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Some six months ago Mr. Benson filed a divorce suit against his wife, charging her with adultery, and naming Mr. Wert as co-re-spondent. The sensation was aired at length in the newspapers, and both men publishing cards, calling eaca other liars, calumniators, etc. The case did not go to trial, Mr. Henson withdrawing the suit on account of his two children. Mr. Wert, however, was tried by a church council, and by a vote of 5 to 2 pronounced guilty and pablicly expelled. The other day they met in the elevator face to face, and when between the first and ground floor Henson shot Wert through the lungs, inflicting injuries which resulted in death soon afterward. A second shot struck a young lawyer, Lavin Thomas, producing a flesh wound. The news spread quickly and in a short time crowds numbering thousands blocked the streets surrounding the building. The whole town is excited, and the only topic being discussed on the streets is the terrible tragedy involving two of Chattanooga’s best known citizens. ——— May Be Lynched. The prospects for a lynching bee at Lebanon, Ind., are very bright. (Frank Hall, a negro, assaulted Mrs. Ake re, a widew, who lives alone with her children on a farm four miles east of Lebanon. He was tracked through the light snow home, about a mile distant, where he was arrested. The news that a mob was organized induced the Sheriff to hustle the prisoner away to Indianapolis. Next morning Hall, was returned for a hearing. A mob at once surrounded the jail and an attack is expected at any time. Mrs. Akers identified Hall, ana this fact has made the mob more determined. A Blr Fire. At Savannah, Ga., the Savannah Grocery Company and M. Fersts s Sons & Co., wholesale grocers, and the Wilcox & Gibbs Guano Company, manufactures of fertilizers, occupying nearly an entire block of five-story buildings on Bay street, in the heart of the wholesale section of the city, were burned out, and other property suffered heavy damages.' {Loss over $400,000.

A Farmer Suicides. „ George Spdnsellor, a weft-to-do and highly respected farmer, residing three miles west of Convoy. Ohio, com- ( mitted suicide by hanging himself , with a halter strap which he took oil ( one of his horses. He went to his granary, committed the rash deed and I was found by his wife when she went ‘ to call him for dinner. No cause is , assigned for his act. The New Bonds. Secretary Carlisle’s new issue of bonds will not be ready for delivery before the middle of the present months Our Taper Currency. The paper currency outstanding January 31, was $1,167,040,331, less $1,000,000 estimated to have been destroyed by fire. This shows an increase of #6,884,166 during the month. Discredited. No confirmation of the reported trouble among the Apache Indians in Arizona, has been received at the Indian Office, and it is generally discredited. Gladstone to RoMgn. ; V London special: The Pall Mall Gazette says under a special head and in leaded lines: “We have reason to know from an authority that we are unable to disclo-e, but in which wc% have every confidence, that Mr. Gladstone has decided to resign almost immediately. We understand that a letter announcing his resignation will be sent to the Queen byMr. Gladstone before the reopening of Parliament. Mr. Gladstone's decision is due to a sense of his advanced age, and to the great strain to which he was subjected to during the late arduous session of Parliament. He

tfs also deeply disappointed because of the rejection of the home ruth bill, and the opposition to the parish council’s bill by the House of Lords. Domestic pressure also had considerable imluence in determining his mind at k last. Who will succeed him and what ; will be the result?” Gama is sons, lie Don’t Like It That Benham Humiliated Hm. ) Rio de Janeiro special: The action of Admiral Benham in protecting American ships in landing at tho wharves, has had a salutary effect. . English and American ships and the ships of other nationalities are now coming up to their wharves without molestation. The exchange of shots between the insurgents and tho government practically ceased during the past twenty-four hours. It was tho first time tor four months that tho day has passed without more or less firing. i The commanders of the foreign licet . had a conference to discuss tho action of Benham and resolutions wore adopted > fully endorsing the course he pursued. Gama feels aggrieved at Admiral i Benham. Ho sent a letter to Benham protesting against the os entatious manner in whi.h the American hu- ’ miliated him. He says he will yield for a time to superior force but as ho is compel ed to allow American ships to come to the wharves he officially ♦tiled the representatives of all other ik they may do the eame. nation. th* insurgents have held He declai. Ave months, and says the harbor . batteries fire on him now if the shore k '*Viy for fear of he will be unable to i. ’ will also be hurting neutral ships am. also unable to protect his men. v 'sking : sent letters to foreign officers ._ 'm- : that he might be permitted to bo ’ bard the city without notice. No answer was sent him, but Benham said ■ ’ he would grant permission, but would require forty-eight hours’ notice. ■ . I ROBBERY AND MURDER. ts nrderern of One o£ Kalamazoo’s Most Prominent Men Found at Last. • KalamazCO (Mich.) special: On Tues- , day afternoon, Marcn 21, 1893, at 1 o’clock, Louis Schilling, aged 60, one of Kalamazoo’s best-known citizens, was found dead in hisoflice on Portage street. His skull was crushed in and his throat horribly gashed and cut from ear to ear, The dead man’s pocket-book was gone, and he was known to carry a great deal of money about his person. Robbery was the evident motive for the crime. The other day Sheriff Vosburg arrested Wm. Alguire, Horace Mansfield and Mrs. Anna Wood Alguire. Alguire has turne’d State's evidence and charges Mansfield as principal in the murder, and the woman as accessory V- pre the fact. Alguire says he heard Anna Wpo 1 and young Mansfield planning the murder in her room. On the uay of the murder Mansfield, who is a colored man, Came to Mrs.' Wood’s room with bloolv knife under hi§ coat. The . WCrnian I washed the knife and then ' threw it , into a basket of dirty Alguire i was married to Anna Wood some time ; last May. MansHld retuses to talk beyond denying all knowledge of the crime. Mrs. Wood likewise disclaims connection with the murder. DIABOLICAL. Stone Adds Another Chapter to the XVratten Murder. Washington (Ind.' special: Recently the venerable father, the wife and children of James F. Stone, the condemned Wratten family murderer, visited him at the Prison South, to bid him a last farewell. While there the murderer told his father a most shocking story. Little 12-year-old Ethel, whose head had been crushed ia, but who was yet alive on the morning after the murder, was removed to a neighbor’s ho.se to be oared for. Stone had not yet been suspected. He called to see the little sufferer and render assistance. He called one day when dinner ; was announced and was invited to the dining-room, but he excused himself sayiug that he preferred to sit at Ethel’s bedside. While the family i were at dinner he deliberately smothered her, fearing she would live to recognize him. Stone also told his father that at the proper time he would divulge the names of the , wretches who assisted in the massacre. GERMANY FOLLOWS. The Prussian Commander Threatens to ( Sink an Insurgent Warship. i Tho New York Herald’s Mexican ■ cable from Rio. Janeiro says: A launch 3 loaded witn coal and flying the Ger- > man flag was fired on by the Guana- . bara in the harbor. Capt. Pofmeyer. i of the German man-of-war. Arcoma, at 1 once went aboard the rebel warship t and told the Commander that lie was , now receiving his last warning, and 3 that If ho fired again upon anything flying tne German flag, the German warships would sink his vessel. The rebel commander replied 1 ■ that he could only be sunk once, and 3 that he would light the thing out. Ca; tain Hoffmeyer then cabled to Ber- ' lin, stating that he would co-operate with the American Admiral in aefend--3 ing commerce from rebel molestation “ It is expected that the English naval 3 commander here will soon receive instructions to the same effect. r

A STORM SOL TH. The Congregational Church at Birmingham Razed. A wind and rain storm which passed over Birmingham, Ala., the other night, blew down the Congregational Church at Gate City, six miles from Birmingham. The Christian Endeavor Society, composed of thirty women and children, were holding a meeting at the time. The roof crashed in, burying them in the debris. Nearly every person in the building was more or less hurt. The serious casualties are Mrs. R. H. Britchell, Jog broken and internally injure 1, will die; Mrs. James Niles, internally! injured, will die; Charlee Olsen, thigh broken, probably fatal. The others are not seriously hurt. The building was a small frame structure, or many would have been killed. Drowned. Miss Cora Cravens and Mr. Lee Fray of Spottsville, a small place on Green River, eighteen miles Jabove Evansville, attended church across the river from Spottsville. They started for home, crossing the river in a skill, and landed i lonside the wall of the Government lock. They started to walk on the wall to the opposite bank, when, in the darkness, they made a misstep and fell into the pool. Fray is a good swimmer and managed to get out, but Miss Cravens drowned. Fray claims that he did not i know the young lady hud fallen from *■ the wall until after he got out and found her missing. Her body was recovered. Riot hi Santiago, Valparaiso special: A mob of thirty men, supposed to be Bahnacedists, attacked the artillery barracks in Santiago, but were repelled by the guard alter a brief hanu-to hand encounter. The attacking mob used daggers and revolvers. Five of

>f the assailants were kllid I, and one wounded. Squads of soldiers i- and police were immediately placed in s- the vicinity and guarded all streets to o prevent the escape of the i articipants, t many of whom are hiding in the neight borhood. There was greatexcitement during tho attack. Many of the shops and business houses were closed for a Jew hours. I Fight In Camp. Omaha special: There was a livnly i i fight at Fort Omaha between the f whites and ndian soldiers and us a re- , su t half a dozen of the red eklnx are now in tho hospital. Baa blooa Uiu} J existed for some time between the , white and rod troopers and the oth6r t evening a number of white so diers 3 attacked several of ths Indians . and gave them a good whio- > ping. The Indians went to thgir ) t yurt er su nd aroused the r comrades, j r I Nearly every red soldier in the ba<*-| racks grabbed the first thing • and sailed out. They rushed f rear door of Ketchmark's salofijLjHl ; [ I out side tho post, and waived iatadH i clubs, pokers, and brooms 1 i tunately only a few persons , the place and they beat a h.istv jHfi j i j Only one white soldier, so far aIJN known, was hurt in the melee. The guards were called out and the Indians driven back to their quarters. Striker. A Treated. Mansfield (Pa. 1 special: Twenty deputies under Chief Lowry made a raid on the Anarchist settlement at Bower ; Hill and arrested ten Slavs and Ital- ! ians. They are regarded aa desperate ; men and are now in jail. These were tho men who wanted to hold a meot- ! ing, raise the red flag and de- ; clare for blood. Their meeting--1 house was searched for dynamite 1 and arms, but only two guns ve found. Another raid under w. Haws and ten assistants was Dopu thirty’toreigners, suspected made ai. Essen tipple, were capos burning _ woro aJJ armed an(J tured ’ i lotted a> pßt ' but ™ ono was severa resisted a. Fole Lnd Italians Met prevails through out the region, but the Wiflcs we still , under grnird. No Boycott Goes. ■j taw - * * In the case of isewton ja r no..— against Howard Stanfield, from South Bend, the Indiana Supreme Court decided aga nst boycotts. The plaintiff is a lumber dealer on a smaller scale than the detendant, who is ametnberof the Indiana Retail Lumber Dealer’s Association. The former claimed that his business was injured by the latter, in conjunction with the dissociation, which instituted a virtual ?boycott on tho business of the nature of his. case was remanded to the pflurt, with instructions to re^ T judgment on a special o f £ss damage* and gn Pining the defendants from 'ntimMating or interfering with th q plaintiffs business. Slate by Robbers. | Mr. and Mrs. William Buslq, respect- ! able people living about, five miles from Luverne, Ala-, were murdered in ' their home. The neighbors saw I the windows of their house open and found Mr. and Mrs. Bush in bed weltering in blood, their bodies riddled with bullets. The crime was committed but a few hours before, as the wounds were fresh. Who the assassins are is not known. Thecause is thought to be robbery, as the. Bushes were known to have considerable money and none of it can be found. All means are being resorted to to cap ure the murderers, and if caught Judge Lynch will hold court. Site Didn't Cana « At Tuscumbia, Ala., Mollie Morris, while standing before an open grate, clad only in her night garments, was warned by her companions. She replied: “I have been disappointed in love, and don’t care if I do burn up.” Just then her clothing took fire, and before the flames could be extinguished she was burned to death. Baby’s Terrible Death. The 2-year-old babe of Mrs. Jack Crutchfield, living at Nealton, Ky., in the absence of the mother, crawled to the fireplace, where it fell into a bed of burning coals. When found by the mother a few minutes afterward the body was a charred and blackened _ mass. ’ - l Hung: to a Rafter. Samuel Hessong, a wealthy farmer living near Maxenkucks, Ind., was found hanging from a rafter in his barn. No cause can be assigned for tho act, but it is supposed that he hung himself while in a state of insanity. He leaves a wife and four children, Horrible Death. * At Aschcroft, CoL, Leroy H. Spack, an employe of the Big Four Mining Company, was killed by the explosion of a missed shot. The entire top of his head was blown off and an iron bar driven through his body. Chattanooga Gets a Prison. Advices received from Washington indicate that Chattanooga will secure one of the two $1,000,000 prisons to be located in the South by the National Government. Billiard Tournament. In the billiard tournament at Cincinnati. Frank Ives won the championship by defeating both Schaffer and Slosson. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... <3 bo <?! t TO Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 MB IS Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 25 3 TO Wheat—No. 2 Red 59 v 9 CO Coax—No. 2 35 <a 3<> Oats-No. 2 30 @ 31 Rye—No. 2 <3 <<V 45 BUTTES—Choice Creamery 2425’4 Eggs—Fresh j.. 17 (Z? 18 Potatoes—Per bn 60 & co INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 00 @ 5 as Hoas—Choice Light 3 <x> & 5 75 I Sheep—Common to Prime 2 00 ig 3 75 | Wheat—No. 2 Red r>6 & 67 I Cobn—No. 2 White 34 1# 1 Oats-No. 2 White U & 81H ST. LOUIS. 1 Cattle 3 00 <9 s so I Hogs 3 00 4® 6 75 I Wheat—No. 2 Red .’6 ig 56’4 I Cobn—No. 2 33 <# U I Oats—No. 2 30 <9 81 I Pobk—Mess 13 75 014 TO CINCINNATI. Cattle s 00 9 s 00 I Hoas 300 0 6 75 SHEEP 2 00 0 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68q0 I C08N—N0.2....! 81 0 88 ■ oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 0 32 ; Rye-No. a ti 0 w ! DETROIT. I Cattle '. 300 & 4 is ' I Hogs 300 0 e 00 ■ Sheep 200 0 3 75.. 1 Wheat—No. 2 Red w 0 co 1 Cobs—No. 2 Yellow 87 0 38 Oats—No. 2 White 32 0 33 TOLEDO. . Wheat—No. 2 Red .' 69 0 CO Corn—No. 2 Yellow 36 0 36!4 ■ Oats -No. 2 White 28J40 29’4 > Rye—No. a ; 49 0 51 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. • Hard 71 0 72 ' Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40'40 41*4 Oats—No. 2 White 33)40 34)4 Live Hous—Good to Choice.;, 500 0 600 I MILWAUKEE. I > Wheat—No. 2 Spring eo 0 605$ Corn—No. 3 34 0 as Oats-No. 2 White 28)40 29)4 Rye—No. 1 45 0 46 Harley—No. 2 48 0 so I‘onK-Mees. 13 00 013 W ’ NEW YORK. . Cattle....-,.- 300 06 50 Hogs 3 75 0 6 5* 5heep......................... 200 0400 1 j Wheat—No.2Red....! cc 0 67 Corn—No. 2. 44 0 45 • I Oats—White Western., 36 0 40 ' ' Butter—choice 24)40 20’4 f I I'obk- Mesa. U W Bit 26

11 — ! WILSON ON HIS BILL. i ■■■ " .3'. ■- ENDS THE TARIFF DEBATE FOR . tME DEMOCRAT& — Brilliant Oratorical Effort and Forceful Argumente of the Father of the Tariff Measure Borne rom tho House on the Shoßldert of Bl< Admirer*. Plead* for Reform. Mr. Wilson, Chairman of tho Ways and Means Commit too end father of the tarif measuie which bears his name, closed the great debate on the remociatk side, He spoke enthusiastically in defense of tho bill and at the cloeo ( t hie speech was gives an ova* J lion that has seldom been equaled In halls of Congress. Toe demonst ai ■jm went so far that ho was lifted u on of Mr. Bryan of Nob asIHP and Mr. Tucker of Virginia and Morno but in triumph to the cioakroom, Wilson fol'owed Mr. Reel, wno lel< sed for the Republicans. Ho spoke Im follows: We might well rest the (Hwnvdoti where it w*e left by the geotlemi n frvm Georgia in hie strong speech. It does net seem to me, Mr Speaker, that snything more Is needed at this time. After three weary weeks the gentlemen on the other side have lashed around the oldtime arguments and prophecies. But history has not proved the force of their argument', and their prophecies have never been realised. But ft is incumbent upon me to reply to some of the compliment* which have been paid me in some of the arguments which have been addressed to me In the course of this debate. I mnst not apologize to my friends on'the other side for my references to them, for from none of them, even in the he t of debate, have I received a word of discourtesy. But for this I

I -'■ ■ ■ . ' ... 1 • Il I fei SjP ugi M Wm i CARRYING WILSON FROM THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.

enowld delight to take up for a few moments that beautiful argument which my mend from Michigan (Mr. Burrows) brings into the House at every Congress luce a cluster of wax flowefs under a rtlass case i would like to reply also in the s une spirit of friendship and good-nature to the gentleman from. lowa (Mr. Do diver) in reminding the House that at one point in his life he had nar'rowly escaped being a friend -of mine in a great school of learning. It was a narrow escape, but judging from his degeneration it was *a miss that was is good as a mile. I want to say he was not a pupil of mine. Tt is said of (Dr. Johnson that he declared that you could make a good deal even of a Scotchmap if you caught him young. And I might have been able to make something of a Democratic economist of my brilliant young friend from lowa (Mr. Dolliver) if he had come under my teaching in his early life. - The gentleman from Maine [Mr. Reed] appeared in a role to-day far different from that which he usually occupies when he makes his appearance in the House. He laid aside his usual way of debating great public questions and gave us a set oration. But, after all, his main argument was that which is heard in every schoolhouse in rhe country; that because we have had protection in the United States for the last thirty years we have drawn all of our prosperity from a law of Congress arid pot from tne gifts of Ahnighty God. But the gentleman from Maine will not go farther than I will in singing the praises of our common country. I wish to remind the gentleman from Maine that we have grown great and have prospered and have increased in numbers, have increased in wealth, not because of protection, but because no law of Congress can stand in the wav of history's progress., You may frame McKinley laws, ani in the progress of humanity they will be trampled under foot. You cannot muzzle science, or banish art. Yon may place tariff burdens on every industry of the country, and jtill enterprise will persevere fend prevail over them. Men will seek in all Possible ways to better tiieir condition and to advance tneir own j>ersonal welfare, and in that effort all men will advance. Out of those constant troubles every individual will endeavor to gather what comfort he can, and to rse in the scale of civilization. And this glorious progress no law of Congress can impede; and no McKinley act or other act can seriously prevent. But I will tell you what your tariff laws are doing and what your tariff laws have done. You cannot permit the accumulation of wealth In this country, but you can take that wealth from the men who made it and bestow it upon home men who did not make it. You cannot deal out pr sperity to all the people, but you can deal out wealth to part of them ana p< verty to sll the rest. Daniel Webster said, in a speech in UteO.that flve-sixthsof the prosperity of the North belonged to the workingmen of the North. Can any of the rep esentatives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts make such a glorious boast to-day? The gentleman from Maine (Mr. Heed),in his report, and oesiq in his speech to-day, has praised the operation of the protective system because it gives quite an extensive distribution of the benefits which 11 No w/there is a lesson in the last census of the United States which calls upon every citizen to pause and ponder as to whether this is a time of growing prosperity or a time of decadence. It appears, by t e last census of all the men occupying farms in the country today, that one-third are tenants, living on farms owned by others; and that of all the people occupying homes (other than farms) two-thirds live in rented houses. If that is the kind of general prosper.ty. if that, is a proof of diffused welfare, then the protective system is entitled to the credit, because I believe It is, in a large measure, due to that sysW ?i'ntended to answer a few other points made by the gentleman from Maine, but time will not permit. Let me-say, however, in ..passlag, that with his usual skill anddexterl- ■ ty he added to his armor the weapons-ot sarcasm’ and ridicule against this Csafff reform movement. Mt. Speaker.: .if. reform- could be blocked and hindered hyrTitficule, 1 if great causes could be laughed down, we _would be to-day the Waves of Bdgland instead of being a self-governing American people. The plain Virginia huntsmen, who in my own county met iw strong and marched in their hunting shirts from the Potomac to the relief of Boston under old Daniel Morgan, were clowns in appearance and out but a sorry figure before the splendid troops which they met in that city. Men are not to be judged by the clumsiness of their movements, but are ennobled by that for which they fight, continentals of Washington and ‘he Virginia huntsmen of Daniel Morgan, while they may have been rudely dreoseaand may have been clumsy in their movements, bore upon their standard the freedom which we now enjoy. This is a very old world,Mr. before human history began to be written the fatal secret was disclosed that there is no easier, no quicker, no more abundant way or getting wealth and getting power than by exercising the power of taxation over the masses of the people. That secret, when disclosed, was eagerly seized upon before the very dawnfa?of human hirto^andi# to-day the dominant force in all the world. Goal to Be Sought After. It was but 200 years ago that I“en were (willing to fight for the idea that governments were made to serve the governed mrt f or the benefit of those who govern. Not yet, in all the world, have men’ advanced te that point where the government is operated exclusively and entirely in the interests of all the governed. That is the goal of P» wt freedom. That is the achievement of A}«rieotlaw. And that is the goal to which the Democratic

— . m'sssranss asS’SHSUi that party md whenever the members of It arc able to out loose from local and si Ittsli interests and to keep the general welfare alone In . their eye, we shall reach that goal of perfect < freedom and will by n«to the people of thia reentry that prosperity which no other people In the world has ever enjoyed. 11 emember reading some tine ago, tn a ape oil of Ir Robert I‘eora. when be was beginning hlasvatemof tariff reform in En land. I of a leiter which he had nodved from a “canny Scotohnun”-* fisherman—in which the num ‘ protested 1 gainst lowering the duty on her- , l ing, for tear, he said, that the Norwegian fisherman would undersell him; but he arßur*d bir Robert, in closing the letter, that in every Other re-pect except herring he was a thor-ough-going free-trader. Now, ray fellow Democrats. I do not w«nt any nmn to say th\t >ou are acting in the cause of hoi ring, not in the , cause of the people. Ido not want herring to aland between you and the enthuslas io iier--1 romance of your du'y to your party and your duty to the Am< ri.an people. if time permitted I would like to take up someof the irgnmei ts against the bill among rnyßcwocratie friend). The first hrgumeat is tbewoH bill will create a deficit and therenot to be passed. In the name of common sense how could you ever p»<» a tariff reform b II if you did not reduce the taxes under tho existing laws that you seek to r>torm? Have gentlemen forgotten that there may lie a system of tariff taxation under which thogovernment receives little, and the 1 rot octi d inau 4ries receive muc'i, and that there may be a lower system of tariff taxation un or which the government receives a vreatut laud the protected industries receive . but little? The McKinley law is constructed on the first line and the pendin ■ bill is constructed on the line or revenue. If vou take up the history it , the free trad movement in England you will find that nothing so surprised the tariff rerormers as to ree that the more they ont down tixes and the nearer 'ley approiched free trade tho more the revenue grew in spite of them. At the beaming of that movement there were 12 u aitlc er ta'rd, and at the com 1 of|it only seven; and t> e revenue was as great on the seven as it bail been on the l.ikai. I have here the report of Robert J. Walmr aa Secretary of the Treasury. showing that in tho flist i y.arot the op-rat ion or the Walkrr low tariff in 1846 the revenue went up from 623,100,000 to , 681 ~'OO,l IM. But 1 cannot dwell on that matter. The next 1 argument which my friouds on this aide are 1 using among themeelves against the bill, or to , hesitate, at least, in Noting for the bill, ia that 1 the income tax has been added to it. I ne d 1 not say to my brethren un this s|d« that 1 did |

not concur iu the policy of attaching the income measure to the pending bill. 1 had some doubts as to the expediency of adding the income tax measure to the pending bill. But when the committee decided otherwise I threw in my fortune, loyally and earnestly, with that amendment, b. ciuse I never have been hostile to the idea of an income tax. John Shermad has been quoted as saying , that an income tax is class taxation. It is nothing of the kind. It is simply, as the gen- . tieman from Georgia (Mr. Crisp) declared, an effort—an honest effort—to balance the weight of taxation in this country. During the fifty years of its existence in England it has been the strongest force there in wiping out class distinctions. It was a doctrine taught by Sumner. Walker and other New England , economists that an income tax was the most simple form of taxation. New England taught that doctrine to the South and West, and sbe has no right to come up to-day and . complain because her own teachings has been i' used against her. In all my conferences on - the subject of this bill 1 have heard ho man i protest that we have been actuated by an uni worthy motive,', or that this great scheme of taxation was undertaken in any class or sectional spirit. \ Doubts Republican Sincerity. Gentlemen (addressing the Republican side of the House)—l doubt not your sincerity. I ■ donbt not the love or your fellow-man which I impels you to-champion your side of the ques--1 tlon any more than r doubt that which impels - my associates on this side. I agree with the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Reed) that the question of general welfare and'the question of wages of the workingmen are after all the vital questions in this cohtroversy. We aie trying an experiment whether, in God's name, we can establish a country where every man bom into it will be born with the possibility that he can raise himself to a degree of ease and comfort m i not be compelled to live a life of d- 1 - gra ing toil for the mere ne essities of exist1 ence. That is the feeling which animates all 1 who through danger and defeat have steadily 1 labored for tariff reform. We wish to make this a country where no man shall be taxed for 1 the private benefit of another; but where all 1 the blessings of' free government, of education. of the Influences of the church and of the 1 school sha 1 be the commop, untaxed heritage of all the people, adding to the comfort ot all, 1 adding to the culture of all, and adding to the happiness of all. 1 And now one word more. We are about to 1 vte on this question. If I knew that when i the roll is called every Democratic name would ' respond in the spirit of that larger patriotism ' which 1 have tried toeugpd-t I would be proud and llght-hi arted to-day. I want to say to my 1 brethren who are doubting as to what they , shall do that this roll call will not Only be en- , tered on the journal of the House, but it Will be entered on the history of this country, and ; 'it will be entered in the annals of freedom. This is not a battle expressly on this tax! or on that tax; it is a battle for human 1 freedom. As Mr. Burke truly said, “The great battles of ' human freedom have been'waged around ihe 1 question ot taxation.'' You may think to-day , that some "herring" ot your own will excuse ' you In opposing this great movement; you maythink to-day that some reason of locality, some desire to oblige a great Interest behind : you. may excuse if, when-'the roll is called, your name shad be registered among the op- ’ ponents of this measure; 4»u6"no such, excuse will cover you. [ The men who had thoroppbrtnnlty to sign i the Declaration of Independi nee and refused i or neglected because tin re was something in It > which they did not llkp-I thank God there were no such men—but if there were, what . would be their standing in history to day? If, on the battlefields of bcxlngton and Bunteep, i Hill there had been men who became dresatis- , fled, wanted this thing and that thing Mid i threw away their weapons, what do yofiisuto- - pose won d have been their feelings in all tne . years of their lives when the liberty bells rant t on every coming knnlvei eary of American freeu i dom? And in the name of honor and in- the ; name of freedom, I summon every demowatlc , member of the House. 1 A Unique Use for Murderers. ' A member of the Ohio Legislature, j at the instance of several prominent ■ physicians, has introduced into that ; body a bill embracing a unique idea. It ! abolishes hanging as a means of capitalpunishment, and provides for the ‘ “taking off” of murders: sby the use of [ anaesthetics administered- under the r supervision of a board of physicians ■ and scientists. The condemned man ' haying been wafted into a painless > sleep, the scientists are permitted to [ take off the tqnof his skull and watch J the action of his brain, or lay bare his , heart and other vitals and; study life ' for the benefit of science and humanity in general. « Twelve miles from a lemon. —Syd- ’ ney Smith, in a letter to a friend con- { cerning the living in Yorkshire to t which Smith was appointed. Willful ignorance is an incurable j ailment. 11 i '

WILSON BILL PASSED/ GOES THROUGH THE HOUSE BY A VOTE OF 804 TO 140. lUed Makes Flm for Protoetlon. While Crisp and Wilson Defend the Proposed Measure— Wilsdn’* Admirers Carry llliu About on Their Shoulders. Unparalleled Seonee. At tho conclu lon of one of the grandest, moet impoßi g, and most Imprcs j «lve Boono* evqr witnessed in the j American Capitol, the Wilson ta-iff 1 bill parsed the Houso of Ri prus niatlvoa by a voto of 201 tJ 140. Tae events load ng up to It wore almost unparalleled in the anr.alsof this country. Such a va-st concourse of } eoplj as assembled to hear tho last arguments I.pin the groat economic 1: suo about to bo submitted for fl nal arbitrament to the representatives of tho American people had novorbefore boonseen within the p. effects cf tho nation s legislative capital. Three hours i.f deba o preceded tho veto on tho Lili. The pa ticipants wore ex-Speaker Reed, S;eak>.r Crisp and Chairman Wilson, of tho Ways and 1 Me m Committee. Tho galleries wore filled to < verflowing with cage ■ an 1 expectart lis e era. The corridors : were pecked and leng 1 nes of appli- ■ pnt< for adm ssion st od at each gal* ' loiydoor. Al preparations had been made for a picturesque ending to tae long debate uiid iia 0.10 wt s disap pointed by tho entertain cent. Whin the result of the ba lot had bo n an nouncel Mr. Wilscn was carried about the ehamb.r on the shou ders of hie admirers. Strictly 1k 1 tig. It was hot the Wil son bill that was pasted, but re-1 Tnainod o(tbe measui ea 1 turf fl tilling tho gantlet of the commi.tSe bf tho whole in atn roe weeks’ debate During this dlsctißsi n some of t>e main features of the measure p opabed by toe Ways and Means Committee were eliminated and important previsions ud od, but the bi twill continue to be known a) tho Wilson bill. Before the final vote wai taken Housfe latfiel all tho changes that hal boon ordered by the committee of the who’e, so that the meagre as it now stands provides lor raw materials, including, coal, iron ore lumber, hide 1 , salt and wool, free sugar, an income tax, no sugar bounty, and no reciprocity features. The vote in detail was m follows: YBAB. Abbott, Dunn, McKeighan, AUDBRSON, DUNPHY, McLAUBUk; ALEXANDER, DUBBOROW, McMtLLIN, Allen, Edmund*, McNaont, Arnold, Ellis (Ky.), Mcßab, Bailey. English, Mbbsdith, Baker (Kan), Enlob, Money, Baldwix, Epes. Montgombby, Bankhead, Ebdman, Morgan, Barnes, Evebbtt, Moses, Barwig, Fielder, MUICBLEB, Bell (Colo.), Fithian, Neill, Bell Cl’exM). fobman, . Oatbb. Bbltzjiooveb.FyaN, O’Nbil (Mms), Bebry. g’iss’nhain’b.Outhwajtb, Black (Ga.), Goldzibk. PASCpAt, Black (ill.), Goodnight, Paitbbson, Blanchard, Gorman, Paynter, Bland, Gbady, Pearson, Boatnbb, Graham, Pence, Boen, GRESHAM, Bow Bit (N. C.), HXLL (Minn.), P'otTN (W.Vrt Branch, Hall (Mo.), Pigott, Brawley, Hammond, Haynbr, Breckinridge Harb, Reilly, -(Art), Harris- RicbarOS (0.). Bbbckinridge Master R’ch‘dß‘n(Mlc.) (Ky.), Hatch, Ric’ifeoNd'en.) Bretz. Hayes, Hitchib, Bbickner, Heard, Robbins, Bbookbhihb, H'nd*i.B'N(N.C.)Rush, Brown, Hines, Hussbll (Ga). Brian, Holman. Ryan, Bunn, Hooker(Mlbs.),Bayebs, Bubnes, Houk (Ohio), Shell, Bynum, Hudson, Simpson, (ABANISS, -HUNTBB, SNODGRASS. Caminetti, Hutcheson, Somebs. Cannon (Cal.) Ikibt Spbingeb, Capshabt, Johnson (O.), Stallings, Cabuth. Jones, Stockdale, Catchings, Aem. Stone (Ky.), Causey, Kilgore, Strait. Clancy, Kbibbb, Swanson. Clabk (Mo.), Kyle, Talbbbt 18.0.), Clark (Ala), Lane, Talbot (Ma), Cobb (Ala), Lapham, Tabnbney, Cobb (Mo.), Latimer, Tate. Cockban, Lawson, Taylob (Ind.), Gockbell, Layton, Terry, 'Coffeen, lesteb, Tracey, Compton, Lisle, Tuckkb, Conn, Livingston, Tubneb, Coombs, Lockwood. Tubpin, Coopeb (Fla), Lynch, Tyleb. Cooper (Ind.), Maddox, Wabneb, Coopeb (Tex.). Magner, Washington, Cornish, Maguibe, WeaiJock, Cox, Malloby, Wells, Cbain, Marshall, Wheeleb (Ala) Cbawfobd, Mabtin (Ind.), Whiting, Culberson, McAleeb, Williams (HL) Davis (Kan.), McCBBARY(Ky)WILL’MB (Mika) Dbabmond, McCulloch, Wilson(W.Vs), De Forest, McDannold, Wise, Denson. McDeabmon, Wolverton, Dinsmobe, ' McEttbick, Woodabd, Dockery, McGann, cbisp—2M. Donovan, MoKuio. NAYS. Adams, (Ky.), Grout, Phillipa Aitken. . Hager, Pickier, Aldrich, Hainer (Neb.), Post, Apeley, Haines, Powers, Avery, Harmer. Price. Babcock, Hartman, Randall, Baker (N. H.). Hangen, .Ray, Bartholdi, Hemer (Pa). '■ Reed, Babtlett, Hendersimjlll.) Reybnrn, Belden, Henderson (la) RoBEBTBONfLe Bingham, Hendrix, Robinson (Pa), Blair. Hepbnm, Russell (Conn.), Bontelle, Herrmknn, Sch'rmkrbobx Bowers. (Cal.) Hicks; Scranton, Broderick, Hiibom, Settle, Brosins, Hitt, Shaw. Burrows, Hooker (N. Y.), Sheimaa, Cadmus, Hopkins (III.), Sibley, Caldwell. Hu ick, Sickles, Campbell. Hull. Smith, Cannon (Ill.), Johnson (Ind ), Sperry, Cbickering, Johnson (N.D.),Stephenson, Childs, Jdy, Stone, C. W. Cogswell. Kelfer, Stone. W. A. Cooper (Wis.). Lacey, Storer. Cousins, Lefevre, Strong. Covebt, Linton, Tawney, Cummings, Loud, Taylor (Tenn.), Curtis, (Kan.) Londenslager. Thoma*. Cnrti*. (N. Y.) Lucas, JJpdergraff. Dalzell, Mahon, Van Voorhls (K Daniels. Marsh, , Y.). Davey (La.p, Marvin (N. Y.), Van Voorhls Dingley. McCall, (Ohio). Doiliver, McCleary (Mton) Wadsworth, Doolittle, McDowell, Walker, Draper, Melklejohn, Wanger. Ellis (Ora), Mercer, Waugh, Fletcher, Meyer, Wever, Fnnk, Moon, Wheeler (HI.), Funston, Morse, White, Gardner, Murray, Wilson (Ohio), Gear, Heiclands, Wilson (Wash.), Geary, Northway, Woomer, Oillet <N.Y.), Page, Wright (Maw,), Gillett (Maas.), Payne, Wright (Pa). Grosvenor, Perkins, —l4O. Democrats arelnd Dated by rm all caps. Bepublicans by roman, and 'Populists by italics. 1 . National Capital Notes. The deficit in the revenue for the month of January approximates 810,000,000. Congressman Gorman fell on the sleety sidewalk, injuring his shoulder very badly. The Republicans in the Senate have decided to make no opposition to the admission of Utah as a State. The District of Columbia appropriar tlon bill was reported to the House. The amount recommended is #4,027,194.97. Last year it was #6,413,283.91. The Secretary of the Treasury appointed a committee of scientific and mechanical experts to report on the best method of safe and vault construction. with a view ci renewing or improving the vault facilities of the United States Treasury. They recommended vaults instead of safes. They, testad a number of safes, making experiments with burglars’ appliances, and in only one instance failed in effecting an orening sufficient to permit the robbery of the safe of its contents. They reported the vaults ani safes of the great banking and safe deposit companies of New York and elsewhere muon better protected than those oi the Treasury Department. dfc;- —■ ' . .Ski.,' . - •

_ ——— G. W. CHUDS IS DEAD. f . THE EMINENT PHILANTHROPIST PASSES FROM EARTH, — fitroka of ForolykU Lead* to th* Bnd at the Career of the Great Philadelphia Publizher-Honor* that Have Cro*rn*4 Uta Worka Beloved by the People. George W. Childs, proprietor of the- . Philadelphia Public Ledger, died at *• his reddened from the effects of stroke of paralysi*, sustained by him two weeks previous. For tome time previous to the day he was stricken Mr. Childs was overrun with work. The torvico at the Dre> el Institute in memory of the lute A. J. Drexel was to be hold and Mr. Childs was pa uoi> ' ' iarly anxious that tho occasli n thould be in every way wo. thy of his lifelong friend and companion. He busied himself arranging tho details of the sei*vice and ai tho day approached he became nervous and worried. The torvice was to be held Saturday, andThursday afternoon Mr. Childs was sitting In hie office at the Ledger talking with William T. Steele, his private peeretanr. and I. F. Shepard, night editor of t ie paper. Suddenly Mr. Ch Ils began to slip forward in bi< chair and would have fallen to tho floor if the two gentlemen had not spiung forward and raised him up. Mr. Shepard and Mr. Steele and Mr. Ch Ids himself believe/ OBORGU W. CHILDS. I that the attack was nothing more than vertigo. Mr. Childs lay down, ani Dr. J. M. DaCosta, his family physician, was sent for. When Dr. Da Ccsta arrived ho found that Mr. Childs had had a slight stroke of para'ysis, due, as the physicians have since learned, to the breaking of a imall blood sei in the head and the formation on the brain of a ema 1 clot of blood. Another physician was called im The doctors at the time did not appro* prenend any fatal reiultSj as the paralysis was slight and did not gr&air ly anect his limbi, and they had' a good basis to woik Upon in Mr. Childs’ splendid constitution and orderly life. FOr more thah a week Mr. Childs* condition did not grow any worse, but on the contrary showed s.lght signa o! improvement. Tho clot of blood on the brain, however, was not absorbed, as often happons In similar cases, and after a week the paialysis legan to j tigress slowly. Shortly before 10 o'cl ck on the night of his death Mr. Childs’ respiration became embarrassed and his pulss began to flag. His physicians recognized the signs of approaching dissolution, and although everyth'ng that medical science and skill could do to prolong life was done Mr. Childs sank rapidly, and at 3:01 o’clock the generous neart that beat so kindly for his fellow-men was stilled in death. Except his wife, Mr. Childs had no immediate family. Univernally Liked. Few men have filled so wide a niche in modern American history as George W. Childs. He was not great in the rente that statesmen have neon great; he was a follower of successful soldiers Hither than their leader in the formation of public opinion. He was not a publicist in tho sense that Horace Greeley was a publicist. He did not rank or pretend to rank with men like Garrison, Phillips, Everett, Lovejoy and th" old phalanx of abolitirnists: and the politician’s trade was wholly foreign to his nature. Mr. Childs rarely sought to lead public sentiment, and never in his career did he so dictate the policy of the Philadelphia Ledger as to make it an aggressive factor in public affairs. To profit "by tho accretion already gained; to build up in conservative ways and to hold on to every element of progress and never lose a point was the chief secret df Mr. Childs’ power for good. That t he did a world of good nobody will ‘ deny. He acquired tho means to do it, and he used it In a style of generosity peculiarly his own. In the death of Mr. Childs Philadelphia loses one of the citizens of which the city was most proud and the country at large one of its best-known private citizens. From his early boyhood Mr. Childs’ life was such that It can | stand as a model and example to all men for what a noble manhood and an honest, upright, conscientious life should be. From a poor and friendless boy, beginning life as an errand boy at $2 per week, he roso thr.iugh o instant struggles to the position of one of the great publishers of the world and tho onored and sought-for friend of eminent men in all walks of life. FREDA WARD’S SLAYER. How Alice Mitchell Is Spending Her Day* In an Asylum. The second’anniversary of the death of Freda Ward at the hands of her girl lover.'Alice Mitchell, has passed away. Just.two years ago Miss Mitchell killed Freda near the Custom House in Memphis, Tenn., and fdr this crime she was tried, but ‘upon her insanity being established she was sentenced to the West Tennesseb'Hospital for the Insane located near‘Bolivar. Here the life of the prisoner has -passed uneventfully. She rises at 6:30 o’clock every morning and puts her own room-in order, | though not obliged to do it. - She has breakfast—and she usually eats a Learty meal—at 7:3o,'Aids the attend- <4 ants in cleaning un< if she feels die- r posed, reads a little, and talks and plays games with those of the patients 1 who are sane enough to join in such diversions. Dinner is served at 12:30, and in the afternoon, if the weather Is fine, the patients are taken for a walk over the grounds. After-the walk and on rainy afternoons Alice devotes her- - self almost exclusively to the practice of music. She is organist in the chapel, takes great interest in the hospital Sunday-school, and is considered the best scholar in the Bible class. Dr. Douglass, the superintendent, says that, mentally, Alice is m»ch Improved since she entered the asylum, but he refuses to give au opiniofa as to whether she is sane enough to be released. In point of fact, it Is doubtful if the girl ever leaves tho asylum, even though she may never evince another symptom of insanity. She has proved herself possessed of a homicidal mania, ‘ and public opftiion will demand that -she be kept where a possible recur- •! Srence of it cannot work ham to others. 1 .