Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1895 — Page 6

fjifflT mi.™. Austrian Minister Lodges a Protest Against the Sugar Schedule. DISCUSSED BY THE CABINET. Bsbats ob ths Currency Bill Still Ob Ib the Hobm— Hnwalißß Resolution Ib Senate— Another Substitute For the Currency Bill—Coll For Democratic f Caucus—Civil Service Rule* Extended. Washington, Jan. 5. —The tariff war between United States and Europe reached an acute phase yesterday. As foreshadowed last week, the very first official act of Mr. Henglemuller, the new Austrian minister, was the lodgment of a protest against that paragraph of the sugar schedule act which imposes an additional duty of 1-10 of 1 cent on mi gar coming to the United States from oountries which pay an export bounty on it. This action was taken yesterday and the ground taken by the minister was similar to that which formed the basis of the protest of Germany—that, the additional duty paid discriminates against Austria and is consequently a violation of the treaty of commerce with that nation. So far no threat of retaliation accompanied the protest, but in this Mr. Henglemuller is but following the example set by the German minister, _— and the next step will undoubtedly be in the same direction, namely: The imposition of some restriction upon Ameri•an product that is imported in quantities into Austria. The four great sources of our sugar supply, outside of the small proportion •ontributed by Louisiana, are Cuba, Germany, France and Austria. With three of these countries we are already at odds over the sugar duty, and in the ease of France there are already indications of the adoption of a retaliatory policy in the imposition of restrictions, ■pon our meat trade and the imports^ 3 Mon of American wheat and flour. This whole subject was under discussion by the cabinet yesterday, aud.as far as can be gathered the outcome was that if •ongaess fails to come to the relief of the executive by the removal of the duty which is supposed to cause the trouble, then resort must be had to retaliation, which will either open European coun - tries to our exports or close our own ports to all European products. IN CONGRESS. ■Currency Debate Continued —Debate In Senate Over Hawaiian Resolution. Washington, Jan. s.—The general debate on the currency bill, which con- : snmed the time of the house again yes- j tei'day, will continue until the caucus is j held. Then if the present plans of the ; advocate are endorsed, the debate will go on under the 5-minute rule until Thursday of next week, when the final , vote will be taken. The feature of the day’s debate was the speech made in opposition to the measure by Representative Hendrix, a New York banker. He declared that the bill would be inade- ' quate as a measure of relief for the treasury and besides would provide an unsound currency. He suggested as the j only measure of relief the passage of a bill to fund the greenbacks. The other speakers were Messrs. Hepburn of lowa, Dingly of Maine and Gresham of Texas. The Hawaiian question was again brought before the public in the senate by the discussion of the resolution introduced by Mr. Lodge (Mass.) calling on the secretary of the navy for information as to why the United States battleships had been withdrawn from Hawaiian waters. The debate was interesting throughout, and at its close the resolution took its place on the calendar and now can be taken up only by unanimous consent. The debate was listened to attentively by senators and the visitors in the galleries. Mr. Morgan concluded his speech on the Nicaraguan canal bill, after which the bill making appropriations for support of the military ..academy for the fiscal year 1895 was passed. It carries an appropriation of $120,000, a reduction of $41,000 as passed by the house. The senate then, after a brief executive session, adjourned until Monday. CURRENCY BULE SUBSTITUTE. Representative Sperry Introduces a New Proposition. Washington, Jan. s.—Representative Sperry of Connecticut, a Democratic colleague of Mr. Springer on the banking and currency committee, has proposed another substitute to the Carlisle currency bill. It strikes out all after the enacting clause, and provides for an - issue of bonds sufficient to retire outstanding greenbacks and treasury notes under the Sherman act. The bonds are to bear 3 per cent interest, are to be redeemed in gold and to be of denominations from $lO to SIO,OOO. They are to run for t3O years, with the right to redeem them after TO years. The secretary of the treasury is empowered to keep the gold reserve up to a minimum of $100,000,000 by selling these bonds. Provision is made for the steady retirement of the greenbacks both from the proceeds of the bonds and from the surplus in the treasury. Mr. Sperry’s substitute is understood to have executive in case tne Carlisle bill cannot pass. _ Democratic Caucus Called. Washington, Jan. 5.. —Representative W. 8. Holman, chairman of the Democratic caucus committee of the house, has issued a call for a Democratic caucus to be held at 8 p. m. on Monday next, Jan. 7. The call states that important measures will be considered. It was issued after a. conference yesterday between Mr. Holman, Mr./Springer and Speaker Crisp. It was at first desired to hold the meeting on Saturday J; pight, but so many Democrats are a> < -

sent that it was finally deemed beet to wait until Monday. The principal subject to be considered is the currency bill. The question of a bond issue will also be considered.

To Be Heard on an Arbitration Bill. Washington, Jan. s.—An opportunity will be given by the house committee on labor to parties interested in the new arbitration bill revised by Commissioner of Labor Wright, to present their views on the plan. Invitations have been sent by Chairman McGann of the committee to all the principal railroad managers of the country and to the leaders of railroad corporations and labor organizations in general to appear before the committee next week. None have yet signified an intention to accept the invitation, but it is expected several well known men will speak. Important Civil Service Order. Washington, Jan. s.—On the recommendation of Postmaster General Bissel, the president- yesterday issued an order extending the civil service regulations to all superintendents of stations in the postoflices of the United States. The order a es effect immediately on its promulgation. There are 126 of these offices in the United States and the appointment of the superintendents is delegated to postmasters. Their salaries range from SI,OOO to $2,500 per annum. Estimates For Appropriations. Washington, Jan. s.—Several estimates for appropriations were submitted to congress yesterday, one for $50,000 for continuing the work of locating and marking the lines of the Gettysburg battlefields; another for $65,000 for improving the Yellowstone park, and one for $14,000 to continue the work of the Puyallup Indian commission. GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND. Husband Who Saves His Wife but Loses His Own Life. Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 5. — Jacob Fisher, a resident of Ringtown, and his wife, while on their way home started over one of the high trestles that span the narrow valleys over which the railroad passes. They had taken but a few steps when they were horrified to see an engine in the rear approaching. The husband, with great presence of mind, grasped his wife and threw her on the cowcatcher of the engine and saved her. Unfortunately for Fisher, however, his foot slipped and in a twinkling he was thrown beneath the engine and had his head completely severed from his body. Both of Mrs. Fisher’s legs were fractured and it is feared that she may be internally injured. GREATER NEW YORK. Steps to Be Taken Looking to the Consolidation of the Two Cities. New York, Jan. 5. —Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn, after a long conference with Assembly man Wray, announced yesterday tnat a bill would be presented at Albany at once which would embody the ideas of Mayor Strong of New York and his own plans for the formation of the greater New York. The new bill proposed by Mayor Schieren will provide for a commission to include the two mayors and three members from each of the two cities, and three others to be chosen from the rural districts. This commission will have the power to frame the new charter for the consolidated city. BOLD BANK ROBBERY. Two Men Club the Cashier, Lock Him In the Vault and Take 85,000. Ontario, Cal., Jan. 5, —Tho Ontario . State bank was robbed yesterday by two men. Cashier Fred Stamm was alone. A revolver was put under his nose by one of the men, while the other man jumped behind the counter clubbed Stamm With a revolver butt, forced him into the vault and locked him in. S. P. Sibley of the Ontario cannery came into bank and was ordered to hold up his hands. He was then clubbed until he was insensible. About $5,000 was taken. They were arrested some hours later, but had little-of the money on their persons. Ohio Institution Damaged. Columbus, Jan. s.—The south wing of the main building at the state asylum for imbeciles caught fire last evening and was totally destroyed. The inmates and children were all at supper at the time in another portion of the structure and none were injured. Tho city fire department responded, but as they had a distance of 13 miles to go the wing of the building -was nearly consumed by the time of their arrival. The department,-- however, prevented the fire spreading to other sections of the building. Immediate steps will be taken to rebuild. > Arrested For Killing a Policeman. Chicago, Jan. s.—The police late yesterday afternoon arrested Jack Carey, Jack McGee and Billy Roach, who are accused of being the murderers of Officer Edward Duddles, who was killed Thursday night when attempting to arrest two burglars. They all deny that they had anything to do with the murder. Two women who gave the information which led to the arrest of the meh were taken into custody, and will be held, as witnesses. Reception to Burrow.. Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 5. — Congressman Burrows was given a triumphal reception by his townsmen on his arrival home last evening, in honor of his selection as United States senator. A procession with a band of music escorted him to the leading hotel, where he was tendered an informal, enthusiastic and. entirely nonpartisan reception. Wholesale Discharges Causes Strike. ’ Dubois, Pa., Jan. 5.—A1l miners at this place and Reynoldsville struck yesterday on account of wholesale discharges this week. Several weeks ago their wages were reduced and this week about 400 were discharged. The companies claim that the mines are overcrowded, while the men aver that it is a blow at their organization, Three thousand men are idle. s Killed In a Snowslide. Boise, Ida., Jan. s.—Robert Nichols and John Mullaney were killfill in * snowslide at Silver City.

INSANE HOSPITAL FIRE. Oat of Six Hundred Inmates One Supposed to Be Lost. INMATES TRY TO ESCAPE Southern Illinois Hospital Far th. Incan. Partially Destroyed—Neither Attendant. or Patient. Have Time to Save Any Clothing—Cairo Fire Department Respond to a Call For Aid. Anna, Ills.’, Jan. s.—The center building and south wing of the southern Illinois Hospital for the Insane has been destroyed by fire. The building contained nearly 600 patients, all of whom, it is thought, got out safely, with one exception—a woman, who is supposed to have perished in the flames. She was observed on the fourth floor of the center building, dressed only in her night clothes. None of the attendants or patients had time to secure their clothing, and the snoiv worked further hardship in transferring the patients to other quarters. In is now thought none of those confined in the asylum are at large, though desperate attempts at escape were made during the progress of the fire, and it was with great difficulty that the poor creatures were confined to their quarters. They were crowded into a new building, already nearly full. The patients will be taken care of in the best possible manner under the circumstances. The loss will exceed SBOO,OOO. The center buildings and the south wing are completely destroyed Confusion Among Inmate.. Terrible confusion prevailed during the fire, and it is miraculous that many lives were not lost. The flames were first discovered near the roof of the main building, and cannot be accounted for. The asvlum has its own waterworks, but for some reason the system was ineffective in fighting the fire. The plugs seemed to have frozen. The fire department from Cairo was sent for and assisted in subduing the flames. WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT. Negro Shoots His Wife and Children and Then Shoots Himself. Savannah, Jan. s.—ln a fit of jealous j rage yesterday George Jordan, a negro who has borne an excellent reputation, ! shot and killed his 10-year-old son, shot ' his wife in the forehead and through the ; neck, shot his 3-year-old daughter in the chin and back of the head, and then shot himself twice in the breast. On ' the way to the hospitaThe begged for ■ poison that he might be relieved of his pain. His wounds are fatal, and it is believed that his wife will die. The lit-4 tie girl has a chance to recover, but it is probable the entire family of four will be wiped out as a result of the day’s work on the part of the father. He was sober. ““ Dropped a Lighted- Match. i Haverhill, Mass., Jan. s.—Alighted match was accidentally dropped iuoneof the show windows of George O. Wiley & Co.’s dry goods store yesterday. Ina few minutes the two adjoining windows were a mass of flames and a loud explosion, which carried some of the goods across the street followed. Tfie 30 clerks in the store escaped with difficulty. The flames gutted the dry goods store and also the jewelry store of G. H. Hussey on the floor above. The total loss is estimated at $55,000. Aid For Nebraska. Quincy, Ills., Jan. s.—The sufferings of the residents of Nebraska was considered at a meeting presided over by Mayor Mikesell. Some generous cash contributions for relief were made, and an executive committee of prominent citizens was appointed to take charge of the matter, sending cash, clothing and provisions to the unfortunate people, and the indications are that very substantial aid in the cause will be given by Quincy and Adams county. Fire at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Jan. s.—Fire last night destroyed the upper stories of the Iron. block and all of the building adjoining occupied by Delorme & Quentin, both , owned by the Martin estate. The Iron block was occupied by lawyers, real estate men and others. The loss on the' latter is $150,000 and that of Delorme & Quentin is $65,000 on steel:. The Martin estate loss is $40,01)0. Pantke, hat dealer, and the Hanson Fur company lose about $5,000 each. ; —- An Easy Robbery. Kansas City, Jan. s.—Two men entered Munger’s laundry at 10 o’clock last night and while one of them went to the rear of the store with Bookkeeper Oscar B. Shaw to hunt for a supposed package, the other man robbed the safe of SIOO. When .Shaw and the first man returned to the front of the store the two robbers immediately left. Shaw soon discovered the loss but the robbers had made good their escape. ~ Low Price For Steel Rails. Philadelphia, Jan. s.—lt has been learned that the price to be paid for 80,000 tons of steel rails which the Pennsylvania railroad company contracted to buy from the Pennsylvania Steel company, the Scranton Steel-company, the Cambria Irqn company and the Edgar Thomson Steel Works; is to be $22 per ton, the lowest ever paid. Last year the * company paid $24 per ton. Struck a Motor Car. TOLEDO, Jan. 5.—A Clover Leaf freight train running into the city crashed into • motor car on the Toledo electric street railway at South street crossing last night. Mrs. Agnes O’Hara was probably fatally hurt The only other occupant of the car escaped uninjured. St. Louts Firm Fails.’ K ans as Qty, Jan. s.—lrwin & Eaton, ! queenswaro dealers and one of the old- , Mt firms In tho dty, have assigned. UibUities, $40,000; assets, $58,000. * 2 ’-m -y "-' < ■ • ' 1

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WHAT THE CHINESE EAT. Their Breadstuff’s Seem Sad, Solemn, Sodden and Bilious. A member of the English parliament, Florence O’Driscoll, has a lively paper in The Century describing life and street scenes in Canton. Mr. O’Driscoll says: The food purveyors made a most striking display; the fruiterers exposed on flat trays bananas, pineapples, melons, figs, pears (the latter beautiful-to the sight, but hard and tasteless), together with many Chinese fruits, whose shapes and tastes were familiar to me, but whose names I knew not. Some of these fruits were most artistically peeled, pineapple peeling being quite an art A great variety of vegetables vms offered for sale. Among them were the white shoots of the bamboo, which seemed to be a favorite article of diet. But to what nse indeed may not this wonderful grass ■ be put? From it Chinamen make almost I everything conceivable —hats, cloaks, sheets, carpets, roofs, buildings, baskets, | chairs, carrying poles, fishing tools; the I list might be prolonged jd infinitum. And then they eat it as well. Preserving ginger in many forms was a noticeable trade. The roots were washed and left in water, as an English cook treats potatoes before boiling them. A number of men and women holding a two pronged fork in each hand sat around a table with the tubs of peeled ginger beside them. They picked ginger roots out of the water, and laying them on the table pierced them all over very rapidly with both forks until quite soft. The pierced roots were then put into another tub, where they were boiled in sirup. The gingey went through various other minor processes until eventually it was packed in the earthenware jars in whldh it is sold in European shops. The whole process was certainly a clean one, and the smell of the aromatic root in preparation was both grateful and pleasant In the bakers’ shops I saw nothing corresponding to our European loaf. Solid looking little yellow patties, slabs of flabby brown cakes, emblematic of concentrated dyspepsia; scones or an equivalent, apparently Os fried batter, and great flakes of milk white, slippery looking paste not above an eighth of an inch thick—to be rolled up and deftly sliced with a cleaver shaped tool into long strings like macaroni. These foods were to be seen everywhere in the city, but nothing light and open. To my eyes the breadstuffs seemed sad, solemn, sodden and bilious. THE WORK OF HER ENEMY. And It Was Such an Awfully Mean TJiing to Do Too. “It was Miss Miggs; I know it was!” she exclaimed angrily. “She is the only girl in the city who is mean enough to do such a th’ug. ” “Such a thing as what?” asked her dearest frier d. \ “As that!” she cried, holding up a letter and glaring at it. “It is an insult —a disgraceful insult —-but I know that he could not be.intentionally guilty of such an affront. She must have put him up to it. ” “ Who is he?” ’ asked the dearest friend, anxiously working to get at the story. “Why, Roger McGurhan, of course,” she returned in the same quick, excited manner. “ Who elee should it be. Hasn’t he been calling here for the last three months? Hasn’t he been almost on the point of proposing twice? Didn’t I have everything arranged to catch him next time? And now comes this!” “What is it, dear? What is it?" “Read!” replied the haughty young beauty as she tossed the letter to her friend. It was as follows: “Mr. Roger McGurhan presents his compliments to Miss Daisybelle and tfould consider it an.honor to have her - • J a; -

company at Gie polls on registration day. He will take pleasure in calling for her at such time as will suit her convenience.” “I’m sure that’s very courteous of him,” said the dearest friend. “Why should you”— “Courteous! Courteous!” pried the beautiful-girl. “And I only 18years old, as I once told him! Oh, Some enemy has done this!”—Chicago J?ost. A_ Egyptian Geometry. The Ahmes papyrus doubtless represents the most advanced attainments of the Egyptians in arithmetic and geometry. It is-remarkable that they should have reached so greet proficiency in mathematics at so remote a period of antiquity, But strange indeed is the fact that during the next 2,000 years they should have made no progress ' whatsoever in it. ; All the knowledge of geometry which , they possessed when Greek scholars visi ited them, six centuries B. C., was i doubtless known to them 2,000 years earlier, when they built those stupendous and gigantic structures, the pyramids. An exnlanation for this stagnation of .learning has been sought in the fact that their early discoveries in mathematics and medicine had the misfortune of being entered upon their sacred books, and. that in aftor ages it W’as considered heretical to augment or modify anything therein. Thus the books themselves closed the gates to progress. ’—“History of Mathematics,” Cajori. Pas- Way of Putting It. Caller—Your master’s not at home, eh, Pat? Pat—No, sir! He do be in the onld country these free wakes, sor. Caller—Excuse me, Pat, but how is it that when your mistress is on this side of the water your master’s on the other, and vice versa? Is there any trouble between them? Pat —None at all, sir. Only they have sgrade bechune ’em that they can live togither better whin they’re apart— Richmond Dispatch. Japan Ahead of China. Japan, in spite of her mistakes, stands for light and civilization. Her institutions are enlightened. Her laws, drawn by European jurists, are equal to the best we know, and they are justly administered. Her punishments are humane. Her scientific and sociological ideas are our own. China stands for darkness and savagery. Her science is ludicrous superstition; her law is barbarous; her punishments are awful; her politics arb corruption; her ideals are isolation and stagnation. In thousands of Yamens throughout China ffien~are tortured every day, hung np by the thumbs, forced to kneel upon chains, beaten with heavy bamboos, their ankles cracked, their limbs broken. Every week men are publicly crucified and hacked to death by the “thousand cuts.” How is anybody to desire the extension of. the sway of the latter rather than that of the former without avowing himself a partisan of savagely?—" Contemporary Review. Napoleon'S Mother. Napoleon’s mother was a Roman matron both in appearance and by 'the loftiness of her character. Prosperity had no more dazzled her than bad fortune had cast her down. Her parsimony had been jested about, but her children always found her ready to help them with her private fortune. When the emperor was at St. Helena, his mother sent him a full account of her fortune and begged him to dispose of whatever belonged to her, fun offer which Napoleon did not accept When somebody pointed out to her,, at the time when she thus offered.hen property to±er son. that she wasaeducF 1 2..A,. C 2...

ing herself to indigence in this way, ; . “What does it matter?** she answered., j “When I shall have nothing more, I will j take my stick, and I will go about beg-] ging alms for Napoleon’s mother.”—i Meneval’s “Memoirs of Napoleon.” , ■ Dante, in his maudlin lovß of Beatrice, says: “So powerful was the spell of her presence that I had to avoid he*. From thinking of this most gracioua creature I became so weak and lean that it was irksome for my friends to look at me.” - Women and Banka. Said a bank cashier of this city: “Some few days ago a woman came in with a check for SSOO made payable te her. I didn’t know her and refused te cash it without the identification of the maker signifying that the indorsement, was O. K. She didn’t understand what I meant, but seemed to think I was re- j fusing for pure cussedness. “ ‘But, madam, it is against the bank I rules to give any money to people we don’t know, ’ I explained. ‘I don’t know you. Any one might find a check on the street and bring it in here to be cashed. ’ | “She regarded this as a reflection on i her honesty. ‘What’s that'you say, I young man?’ shaking her parasol at me. 1 And for once I blessed my cage, whichj protected me from her indignation. ‘lj might have found the check on th« street, you young whipper snapper you a What do you take me for? I’d have you® know that I’m an honest woman and! not going aronnd picking up checks. ’ 1 “ ‘I believe it, madam,’ I said, try« ing to appease her; but, all the same, I| can’t give you the money without thel maker identifying your indorsement.” W “In great dudgeon she went out andl returned in half an hour with the prop-| er indorsement. Viciously thrusting the] check in the window, she said, ‘Now, ] young man, refuse to give me that mon-1 ey if you dare!’ x “As I handed her out SSOO in bills| she remarked sotto voce: ‘Picked it upl in the street, did I? Umphl’ ” —Phila-1 delphia Press. J A Disagreeable Test. It has been asserted that when a railroad express train stops very suddenly > the passengers suffer in the same degree as though they had fallen from a third story window. The Pittsburg Dispatch is authority for this statement. As the majority of persons who have fallen from third story windows have been killed, it is impossible to secure their testimony on the subject and quickly stopped train passengers refuse to make the test—Exchange. - ■ Poetic Licensee Mrs. Gore of Louisville was reading “The Ancient Mariner” to her husband, and had reached the li noWater, water everywhere, not 1 any drop to drink! . ; s's Here the colonel interrupted her with the remark: “What reckless poetic license 1 Why should they want to drink water?”— Pittsburg Chronicle. Medical authorities have in some cases had reason to regret too active and energetic surgery in' diseases of the nose and throat. It has in a number df instances uppWrea tb.'ifpaffiaTofeh-“ tire deafness has followed operations, and complete loss of the sense Os smell is not uncommon. Conservatism is gaining ground among the best surgeons, and palliative treatment is recommended whenever there seems to be a chance that it might have the desired effect/ The best doctors know that the knife is a good servant, but an exceedingly bad master, and only those whose skill and judgment are likely to be faulty are, willing to cut and slash on the alight-j