Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1894 — Page 6

Democratic Press. decati r. ini’Democratic Press < <>.. - Publishers. BLUFIELD TROUBLE. WAR SHIPS OF TWO NATIONS ORDERED THERE. Ihe Indiana Supreme Court Declares the Fee and Salary Law Unconstitutional— Explosion of Fireworks at St. Louis— fios Cholera in Central Illinois —To Mark Washington's Birthplace* LOOKS BLUE, Bluefields Does \o Seem to Belie Its Name, but It Is Appropriate. Panama special: Managua a .vices ind ate a grave situation in the Mosquito reservation. The British Minister, Mr. Gosling, has notified Nicaragua that Great Britain refuses to rccogni e the Nicaraguan Government at Bluefields. Gosling telegraphed to Port I.inion for a British warship to come at once to Blu< fields. It is reported that the Nicaraguan canal project is at the bottom of the matter, and serious trouble is feared. Washington special: Asa result of a conference between the President and Secretary <.resham, the cruiser Columbia. which has been for several weeks at Kingston. Jamaica, was cabled preemtory orders to proceed at once to Bluefields for the protection of American interests. All the officials acquainted with the affair refuse to divulge the reason of the hurried orders to the Columbia or to confirm statements from Panama in regard to a refusal of Great Britian to recognize the Nicaragua government Several other vessels have been ordered to prepare for sea. There seems to tie. in fact, almost a war scare pervading the navy, brought alxmt by diplomatic rumors to the effect that Great Britain, which several months ago expressed u willingness to recognize the full jurisdictional rights of Nicaragua over the Mosquito coast, had shown a disposition to resent what appears to be the practical annexation of that territory and its complete incorporation as a portion of Nicaragua. Hog Cholera Hog cholera is causing consternation among all the farmers of Central Illinois. Thousands of dollars' worth of stock has been lost by this disease. The long drought, together with impure food and scarcity of same is given as the cause and nothing seems to be at hand that Will stop the epidemic. Not a county in the central portion of the state has escaped from the disease. The new method of Inoculation has been successfully tried in La-alle and one or two other counties. Nearly every hog so inoculated has escaped death, and was not much sick with the disease. 1 rofessional experts are experimenting with the disease and are now trying inoculation with seeming far results. Firewooka Explode* An explosion took place at the works Os the bt. Louis Fireworks Company, not far from Mascoutah. 111., which was felt in all partsof the county. Five shanties were demolished. The night watchman. Charles Simons, was seriously injured. The explosion was felt at Mascoutah, where it .was mistaken for an earthquake. Had it occ rred during the day nothing would have s ved the lives of the fifty men and boys who work in the packing rooms. Unconstitutional. Judge Hackney, of the Indiana Supreme Court, has decided that the fee and salary law, as applying to county treasurers, is unconstitutional. He hel<l that the act of 1891 was void lecause of an omission of Shelby County fn its provisions, kept it from being general. The act of 1'93, providing lor Sheiby County, was also void and could not amend an invalid statute. To Mark Washington's Birthplace. Secretary Gresham has decided upon the erection of a monument of American granite as the most suitable method of marking the birthplace of Washington at Wakefield, Va.. about seventy miles below Washington on the Potomac River. The amount available for its construction is *II,OOO. Mill Oppose statehood. In anticipation of an attempt by the approaching Congress, to break up tribal relations In Indian Territory, the (iherokee Legislature has passed a bill providing for astrong delegation to go to Washington to oppose any Statehood measures that may come up. Must Sail I nder Their Own Name. Commissioner Miller, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, with the approval of Secretary Carlisle, has issued a circular which, in effect, prohibits distillers from placing upon their barrels the name of any person or firm, other than the a tual bona fide distiller. A Big Jump. Harry Miner, a young Englishman, jumped from the highest point on the Brooklyn bridge intothe river without injury by the aid of a parachute. The affair was under the auspices of a sporting paper. Jumped to Fl is Death. George Fritz of Wanatah, Ind , in jumping off a moving passenger train at (South Wanatah, received injuries which resulted in death. Cholera in Brazil. Consul General Townes, at Rio Janeiro, cables that cholera prevails in the States of Rio and Sao Paulo. Eight deaths. Strikers Accept a Reduction The striking nut and bolt workers of the Int.iana iron works at Muncie have resumed work at a reduction of 15 per cent., out with the promise that the old wages would be restored as soon as the market became normal. Peace in Sight. The condon Times’ correspondent in Yokohama, says that Japan has consented to receive China’s proposals of peace through the American ministers to Tokio and Pekin.

■ ART TEI.LS THE STORY. Letatlsof the Butchery of the Good children. Whatever mystery remained in conaeetion with the murder 01 little Elsie and Ashby Good near Paulding three weeks ago,and for which crime Charles Hart and Cla- enee Brindle are now in custody, was cleared up the other day when Hart made a complete confession to the Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney of Paulding County. Hart, it is said, has given every detail of the atrocious crime and he alone v. ill probab y have to answer for the killing of the unfortunate chil..rem In his confession he tells how he murdered Elsie and Ashby Good in the woods near the spot where he attempted to cremate their mutilated bodies. The confession in detail has. of course, not been made public and perhaps never will 1 e until the case comes to trial. To what extent Clarence Brindle, the other prisoner, is implicated, is uncertain. He. it is said. 1 urned the clothing worn I y Hart and secreted for i.im the instrument that did the cutting. Hart made his confession in the presence of Detective- Brown and Klein, of Cleveland. and Sheriff Staley, an it was sworn to with his hand on the bible. Sheriff Staley, after the confess! n was made, went to the scene of the tragedy ami dug up fr< m the groum; what is supposed to be the knife with which the children were butchered. After that Hart persistently talked of the affair. BUSINESS GAINS. The Showing Is Not Much but It Is Distinct* R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: There are some changes for the better. The gain is slow, and in so.ne directions not very distinct, but the signs of it are a little more definite than last week. The most important of them is larger employment of labor, answering a better demand on the whole for manufactured products. Much of this is due to the unnatural delay of orders for the winter which resulted from long prolonged uncertainty, but it means actual increase in earnings and purchasing power of the millions, and so gives promise of demand iu the future. Prices of farm products in the aggregate do not improve, but the ; revailing hopefulness is felt in somewhat larger transactions. The failures for two weeks of November have been moderately large in amount, reported liabilities being *ti.502.3U3, of which $1,713,406 were of manufacturing and *3,831,2*9 of trading concerns. For the same weeks last year liabilities were over *7,200,00i). The failures this week have been 322 in the United States, against .’>Bs last year, and 31 in Canada against 34 last year. HORRIBLE. A Babe Almost Devoured by a Wild Hop. At Sacred Heart, a hamlet a few miles from Guthrie. O. T., Mrs. Galobie’s 14-months-old babe was almost eaten up by a wild hog. The woman had laid the child on a blanket near where she was washing. While her back was turned, she heard piteous cries. An immense wil* hog was ravenously eating the tiesh of the babe, having already terribly lacerated the face. Made ferocious by the taste of blood, the hog refused to give up its prey and gave battle, when Mrs. Galobie endeavored to rescue the child. The hog finally becoming master of the situation, grabbed the bleeding babe in his mouth and started for the woods. He gained several yards before he resented the attacks of the distracted mother. In her wild endeavors to secure her babe. Mrs. Galobie was herself terribly injured, the flesh being torn from the body in several places. 1 inally, however, she succeeded in grabbing the child and escaping. The baby is dead and Mrs. Galobie is severely iniured. Surprised Moonshiners. The largest illicit still ever captured was destroyed recently in the Consayga Mo ntains. in Folk County, eighteen miles from the Southern Railway, at Cleveland. Tenn. A posse of five United States officers, led by Internal Revenue toile .tor Thaxtone came upon the wildcatters, five in number, who were working about a< amp fire.all armed with rifles and long pavy revolvers. The still is situated on the summit of a high mountain, approached by an almost impenetrable gulch and reached by climbing a steep cliff. Removing their sh es. t eofficers picked theit- wav to within fifty yards of th. place before the mountaineers were gi .en the alarm. A fierce battle of bullets was waged for several minutes, the r. oonshiners retreating meanwhile. x tie still contained .'AU gallons of beer and a small quantity of whisky. Prehistoric Wall, A great stone wall,situated in Greenleaf Township. Sanilac County, Michigan. tour miles east and one mile south of ( ass City, is exciting no little curiosity in the State. The upper part of this mysterious structure was laid bare by the recent forest fires, and resembles at a distance, a huge white serpent lying in a swamp, through which it passes. The wall is about eight feet wide at the top but wider at the base. At one place along the line of the wall a ditch had been made to drain the swamp. The wall was cut through in several place-, but the bottom was never reached in any case. How, when, or by Whom thia mysterious piece of architecture was constructed is a poser for antiquarians. Bad Dynamite Blow-Up. Several men in the employ of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company were terribly injured by an explosion of dynamite near Elyria, Ohio. They placed a charge in a hole intended for a pole, but the fuse was short and the explosion occurred when the men were standing about tne hi it. Emmit McGukin of Newark, was fatally injured, his faced being mashed nto a pulp and his brain protruded from a scalp wound. H igh Wilson of Wheeling. W. Va , was struck in the face and will lose both eyes. Three other men were injured.' The accident was caused by carelessness. After Big Bugg. Austin Tex. special: The McKennon County grand jury has created a sensation by returning indictments against all the officials of the Standard Oil Company from John D. Rockafeiler down. The charge is violation of the anti-trust law of Texas. T he allega-

tions on which indictments were asked were originally mane by the Populist campaign c<,mmittee.9f the State. Gov. Hogg has agreed to issue the requisitions for the arrest of the indicted persons. The chiet witness before the grand jury in relation tothe operations of the trust were brought here from Marietta, Ohio. After John K. fellows. Upon complaint of the committee of seventy. Gov Flower has notified John R Fe lows to show cause why he should not be removed fiom the office of District Attorney of New York County for neglect of duty. The complaint was made by Prebel Tucker. Fulton McMahon. Charles Tabor, R. W. G. Welling, and Clare nee Goad by of New York. The committee was closeted with Governor Flower in the executive chamber at Albany for a long time. The doors were closed, and it was thought that the question of a Deputy Attorney General to assist tne New York District Attorney was being discussed. The members brought with them Mr. Fellows’ consent to have such action taken. Fellows is given eight days within which to answer the charges of the committee of seventy. The Scaffold Broke. A terrible accident occurred at Nindeville, a small hamlet near Antwerp. Ohio. The following persons received injuries: George H. Brooks, injured internally, mav die. lidward H. Deahl, right hip lacerated and head cut. W. 8. Bidwell, injury to head. Charles Hawkins, bones of wrist dislocate L Forty feet above the ground Messrs. Brooks, Deahl. Hawkins, and another man. whose name could not be learned, were engaged in putting top rafters on a mammoth barn, when the scaffold, which they had erected a few minutes before, broke and the three persons named were precipitated to the ground within the barn, the fourth being fortunate enough to stay above. Trolley Cars Collide. Pittsburgh special: An electric car of the Center avenue branch of the Central Traction Company, became unmanageable on a heavy Wilie avenue grade, and dashed into a WUie avenue able ear just ahead, with terrific force. Three lady passengers were injured, one seriously. The motorman of the electric car, who stood at his post, was also seriously injured. The injured were; Mrs H. C. Jones, resided at No. 208 Webster avenue, jaws broken and face burned by falling heavily against the stove removed to hospital unconscious. Miss Rosa Brown, lives on Roberts street, arm gashed and bruised. Young lady, no name given, cut on head. Harvey Ray. gripman on cable car, in ured arms and back. The electric car was a complete wreck. The People's Strong Box. The Treasurer of the United States, Hon. H. D. Morgan, has submitted to Secretary Carlisle h’s annual report on the operations and conditions of the Treasury. The net ordinary revenues fi r the fiscal year ending June 10, cents omitted, were f 2 J 7.722.019, a decrease of *88,097,601 as compared with the year before. The net ordinary expenditures were $367,525,279, a decrease of *1.7,952,674. Including the public debt, the total receipts on all accounts were *724,006,538 and the expenditures $698,908,522. Bid for Boids. The opening of the bids for subscriptions to the new 5 per cent, bonds was finished Saturday and the allotment will be made soon. It will be observed that the New York syndicate of banks, through the United States Trust Company, made a flat bid of 117.077 for the entire $50,000,000. and the chances are this syndicate will, according to a prearranged program, absorb the entire lot. They -will then be forced up for sale to the less favored. Big Fire. A conflagration wiped out a large part of the business center of Savannah. Mo., fourteen miles northea.-t of St. Joseph. The tire started in a restaurant. Every building in the north side of the square, all sa'ie one constructed of wood, went up in smoke, together with the contents of a number of them. Several persons narrowly escaped from their sleeping apartments. The loss will be 86u,000, with little insurance. The Deadly Chiravari. As a result of chiravari at Wellington, Kas., John McCook is dead and Claude Walton is seriously, if not fatally wounded, Richard Webster was married, and a crowd of boys and young men went to his residence to chiravari him and his bride, when Webster fi. ed into the crowd with a revolver with the above result. Webster is a member of the Salvation Army and is half wild. A Big Theft. -amuel C. Seeley, bookkeeper in the National Shoe and Leather Bank. New York, disappeared a few days ago. A National Bank Examiner has just finished an investigation. « hich discloses a defalcation of $354,000. The bank has a capital of $1,000,1 00 and a surplus of about $200,000 leaving an impairment of capital Os a I out -150,000, which will at once be madegood by the stockholders. Midenuß D -corery. A hideous discovery has just been made near Chvrintzio, State of Michoacan, Mexico. The find consists of thirty human bodies in advanced decomposition. pitted upon one another in a cave. Cleofo- Gomez was robbed and murdered for his money recently. Pascul. a brother, while searching for him. made the discovery which explains many mysterious disappearances. Will Organize a Town. Dundee, a small village four miles east of Elwoo I, Ind., and nated for its tough citizens and for being the home of the notorious Dick Goodman gang, will at once incorporate as a town. Its leading citizens will endeavor to officer the new town and bring about a higher state of civilization than now exists.by compelling subservience on the part of its citizens to law and order. Gen. Gibson Dead. Gen. W. H. Gibson died at his residence in Tiffin. Ohio. His illness, which has been of about three months’ duration, was a complication of diseases. the foundation of which was chronic diarrhoea. The General was

73 years old. and was conscious up t* the hour of his death. Only the insme date members of the family and tne physician were present at the death. f orest Fires. Moberly Mb. special: Forest fires are causing alarm to the people living west and north of this city. Much damage has already been reported by property owners. A strong force of men is at work fighting the flames, but if the wind should continue for the next twenty-four hours it is fesred much valuable property in the outskirts of the city will be destroyed. With the Usual Result. While drying out dynamite sticks at the new reservoir for waterworks, just outside the city hi ..its, of Charleston, W. Va., an explosion occurred, instantly killing Joseph Hoskins, fatally injuring Frank Ridley, and badly injuring Ben Franklin, All are colored and unmarried. Others near by were severely shocxed. but not seriously injured. A Miser’s Wife Starved to Drath. At Vancouver, B. C., Mrs. Marcus Cox, wife of a miser, recently died and it is charged her death was due to starvation and neg! ct. A visitor found her lying on the bare boards in one room, while her'h stand was counting gold in an adjoining apartment. Cox will be prosecuted for causing her death through neglect and cruelty. Over a Mile a Miaute. A special train over the Pennsylvania road covered the 126 miles be* tween Morrisville and Harrisburg, Pa., in 104 minutes. General Manager Prevost and a number of officials were on the train. The Pennsylvania s building a number of engines which it is claimed wilt haul an ordinary train 100 miles an hour. Elkins Will be Senator. A special from Wheeling, W. Va., says The canvass of the Republicans elected to the Legislature removes all doubt of the election of S. B. Elkins to the United States Senate. Every member from the Second and Fourth districts has declared for him, with over one-half of those in the Third and First. Found a Gold Mine. Frank Payson and George Brill, two American prospectors, have discover ed an old Spanish gold mine sixty miles north of Sierra Mokada. Mexico, and, from samples of the ore. it is believed that the mine is one of fabulous richness worked a century ago. Choice of Alabama Democrats. Senator Morgan was nominated for re-election as Senator by a joint caucus of the Democratic members of the Legis.ature. After the nomination ths Senator made a speech in which he reiterated his views as to the .free coinage of silver. A Lady Deputy At Muncie, Ind., the newly elected Recorder. Reuben Thompson, took charge of the office, and he at once ap pointed Miss Isabella Lockwood as his deputy. Her right to fill the office will be passed upon by the courts. She Was Insane. At Petaluma. Cal,.Mrs. W. P. Evans, a dairyman's wife, saturated her clothing with coal oil and then set her garments on fire. She was burned tc death. She had been previously insane, but had been released from the asylum. A Fatal Fall. At Hopkinsville. Ky., while riding on a wagon loaded with grain, Joe Bras': ea: s. a hoy 10 yea sold, fell upon a pile of rocks and crushed in his rit s, broke his shoulder, and received fatal internal injuries. Mangled by Dynamite. Klause Severine and Antone Gustav son were terribly torn and mangled by a dynamite explosion at Ashland, Wis.. while digging a well. They struck a rock ana attempted to use dynamite tc remove it. Fired Into a Caboose. On the Big Four as a south-bound freight train was passing Dunlap, (nd. two pistol shots were tired at tne ca b ose, shattering the windows aa-i list grazing the head of Luther Crouch, t brakeman. Deer Hunter Shot. While hunting deer in Michigai Uriah Garringer of Farmland. Ind. saw bushes shaking and fired at wha' he thought was a deer. It proved t< be his companion. The wound was fatal. A Ruiiauaj Siieel Car. A runaway motor car, jumping tht track at a crooked street intersection. Omaha, fatally injured the motorman and two of the passengers, and seriously injured lour others. THJE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, [email protected]: hogs, shipping grades. SFg." sheep, fair to choice. s"f<£3.7s; wheat. No. 2 red, 55@56c; corn. No. 2. 50®51c; oats. No. 2, 28ftt-29e: rye. No. 2. 50@51c; buttgr, choice creamery. 21’^ru‘251 3 c eggs, fresh, 20i./qtiinH-; potatoes, car lots, per bushel. 60@70e. Indianapolis — Cattle, shipping. S3Q 5.75; hogs, choice light. s4@s; sheep common to prime. $2(<f3.25: wheat. No 2 red, 50@5044c; corn. No. 2. white, 51® 52c; cats. No. 2, white. 32(fi33e. St Louis—Cattle. $306: hogs. $305; wheat. No. 2 red. 52053 c: corn. No. 2 45@46c; oats, No. 2, 30@31c; rye, No 2. 520’54e; Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.5000.50; hogs s4@s; sheep. $203.25: wheat. No. 2 mi corn, No. 3. mixed, 440,45 c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32033 c; rye, No. 2 52054 c. De r.-.t —Cattle. $2.50'iz5.50: hogs. s4{u 4/75; ;> $2ftf2.75; wheat. No. 1. white. 57igtW, ■ jra. No. 2. yellow. 48'il48i;,c; outs. No. 2, white. 33@34c: rve. No 2 49@51e. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2. red. 55’-yl;sC>y,c; corn, No. 2, yellow. 49@50c; oats. No.’2, white, 32032 L-.; rye. No. 2. 4!Kqsi Boffalo—Cattle, ."..25: hogs, $413 5; sheep. 52.5irg3.25; wheat. No. 1. white, Gl@6l%c; corn, No. 2. yellow, 58fc59c; oats. No. 2, white. 37<<i:t7’ 2 c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2, spring. 58ig 581jc; corn, No. 3, 45tg4i>e; oats. No. 2’, white, 32@33c; barley, No. 2, 53@>5e: rye. No. 1, 50@51c; pork, mess. $12.25® 12.75. New Y.rk—■ attle, s3'l6: 1. 5.25; sheep. s2@3: wheat. No. 2, red. Gia 62c; corn. No. 2, 59<g«0c; oats, white. M estern, 37<®41c: butter, creamery. l<Kd 26c; eggs, Western, 23fi24e.

NINE MILLION SHORT. LARGE DEFICIENCY IN THE POSTAL REVENUES. Report of Mr- Bissell-How He Would Decrease Expense and Increase Receipts Readjustment of Regulations and other Reforms Urged. Shew* a Hig Shortage. Postmaster General Bissell has submitted to the President his annual report for the year ended June 3. 1594. He briefly outlines the policy of the parrment. In general I would recommend that the first and most imjertant thing to be done is to revise the law as to the sec-ond-class matter so as to place the 1 ostoffice Department immediately upon a self-sustaining basis. 2. Avoid expensive experiments like the postal telegraph, rural free delivery, etc. 3. Develop the postal service on existing lines of administration, viz.: Extend free delivery in cities that now enjoy it. Accord it to towns already entitled it under the law. Quicken railroad transportation. 4 Revise and reclassify organisation of the railway mail service, and reclassify clerks irt postoffiees. 5. Provide for district supervision of all postal affairs by appointment of expert postal officials from classified service, as recommended in my last annual ro* port. -- a-. The revenue for the year was $7a.080,479; expenditures. $**4,324,414, leaving a deficiency of $9,243,935. The estimates for the current year ending June 30, IS*A», are: Revenue. 5M.427.745; expenditures, $90,399,485; deficiency. $5,971,737. The estimates submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury for the next fiscal year are: Revenue, $86,907,407; expenditures, $91,059.283; deficiency. $4,151,876. This annual deficiency, the Postmaster General says, could be overcome by the lucrease in i- 'stal rates, but he does not believe this is advisable. Economy has been practiced, but nevertheless great care has been taken that it should not affect the efficiency of the service. Mr. Bissell recommends that the experimental free-delivery project* should be discontinued, and thinks that free delivery in rural districts is not needed or desired by the people. Too Much Second-Class Matter. One of the m st important and interesting features f Mr. Bissell’s report is its discussion of class matter. In his last report he referred to the great disproportion of growth of second-class mail matter. He gives figures for the last six years, showing that in ISbS the weight of second-class mall matter carried was 143,000.000 pounds, and in 1893 it was 256,000,000. During the year 1894 there was carried 451.000.000 pounds of all mail matter, of which 299,0)0,000 pounds was second-class matter, the total cost being $36,207,572, an average of 8 cents a pound. Returns from postmasters show that the amount upon which postage at the rate of 1 (‘ent per pound was paid was 254,000,000 pounds, the remaining 45,000,000 pounds being matter carried free in the county of publication. The cost of carrying the second-class matter was $20.321>.(XXi. while, at the rate of 1 cent a pound, the collections were $2,547,000. and sßihj.(m«» special local rates in carrier cities, leaving a net loss to the Government of $16,973,000. The Postmaster General continues: I do not advocate a change of rates now upon legitimate newspapers and periodical magazines. My purpose is to urge the withdrawal of low postage rates from the large cities and the pretended periodicals that are now improperly enjoying them. Books and Bojjns Trade Papers. The most conspicuous class of these pretended periodicals is what is now generally known as serial paper-covered books. They are in no sense serial, however, except in name, being usually given some general designation, as the ’‘Fireside Series, ’ ‘‘The Detective Library,” or some other title *of like character. Another class is what has got to be known as the “house organ.” being simply a pamphlet devotc*d mainly to the advertising of some mercantile establishment, but purporting to be devoted to trade. Ihe bogus trade devoted mainly to the advertising of some any particular house, is another illustration. After commenting on the great increase in the mailing of fraternal insurance publications as second-class matter. Mr. Bissell suggests the remedy in the following: If it be the policy of Congress to continue the privileges of second-class rates to benevolent or fraternal societies, then the remedy I would suggest would be an amendment of the law limiting this rate to them and to legitimate newspapers and legitimate periodical magazines. The Postmaster General does not favor the postal telegraph, a system advocated by his predecessor. The conditions in this country, he says, are such as would enormously increase the large deficit He takes as example the system in Great Britain, which is a comparatively small territory, and shows that the postal telegraph entails a total annual loss of about He points out that in a country where the territory is so larire the cost of a postal telegraph would far exceed any possible receipts or benefits Mr. Bissell gives the following dailv average busines of the department, which shows the vastness of the postal serviceNumber of miles of post route run 1 ion non °/ rianufa.-iunJi 8W Wn Number of envelopr-s manuiii . i 1 turJr. “ f , POSta ‘ Number of pieces niill'ed’.'.'.’j lI'TOn’JJS Number of letters mailed... !•<*» of Pieces of mail mkttw ‘' 4UU ’ OW distributed and redistributed bv railway postal clerks.... * •»- r offie P e leCeS haDd,ed D bu l L t S““ CtiOnß *“ “™A’'order 24 ’° 00 Daily expenses. $1,100,000 The Postmaster General believes eernee m the Postoffice Department He tae 8 ‘XS the lower grad” of p.^m±’ ara J‘ tage than one generation rha aJ €rs .’ tor niore have been trained to f. eo P ie inseparable from the vafvFnr/f J sto ™ ce as two great parties ’‘and i Un< ‘ 8 of ,he stances, even, as : 0 s*™ o lnvielssltudes <,f y following the This fallaeV isXVd 3 Wrty gem-e of our peoplU has T," 1 ’ Tbe inte «L notion that anv one ou ’« ro wn the m Th° e P< ! ! ’’’ dml “>stratlve a tafeM r e “ j ° yS “ than to f„ r .. P anv , m,l Drit r rule Is what happens and ' tw ind' i '" t t!iis long as the post offices remain i' Sf ppen Rs mind, and hence in tho n Public ernmpnt P r *? e Practice of the gov-

of the political Held altogether and surrounded with the same conditions which conduce to the heaiih ot a private bualncsa or be divided for administrative ports•ses. into two sections—the one political and the other nonnolitical. each under a separate head, so that the executive authority of the non-po-lltical side shall not be required to give any of bis thought tv the Improvement of the postai system. MATTER OF PENSION APPEALS. Work of the Board Reviewed in a Report Made to Secretary Smith. The work of the Board of Pension appeals during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, is fully reviewed in a report made by the assistant secretary of the interior, John M. Reynolds, to Secretary Smith. In summarizing the administration of the office, Reynolds says: “Upon taking charge of the office of assistant secretary in April, ISH3. I found I 4.965 appeals pending on the docket with the work of the board of appeals more than two years behind. In eighteen and one-half months, with 5 S4* additional appeals entered during that time, current appeals are being decided, anil tardy justice no longer follows the appeal to the department by any deserving soldier, widow or orphan. Thus 10,18X1 cases were consider,si on appeal and finally ruled upon, a greater number of them was never be- ! re disposed of in the same length of time, and more than double the number considered in any period under my piedeeessor.” The small balance of arrears is said to consist almost entirely of claims undergoing further investigation in the pension bureau and others which, for final decision, await the determination of legal questions that will be decisive of all. The sub-committee of the House on pensions met Saturday, and after listening for an hour to Commissioner Loehren’s explanation of the requirements of his office, virtually decided to report a bill providing for the appropriations recommended by the commissioner in his estimate, except in one item of fees for examining surgeons The original estimate was that $1,000,000 would bo required to pay these fees, but Ixx'hren told the committee he thought $.800,090 would be sufficient, and that figure was decided upon. Pension appropriations as decided upon by the sub-committee will, therefore, be: For pensions. $140,000,000; for surgeons’ fees. $800,000; for clerk hire at pension agencies, $450,000; miscellaneous, $131,570. BOUND TO HAVE THE BOUNTY. Sugar Growers of the Country File Suits Against the United States. The controversy between the sugar growers of the country and the United States Government growing out of the repeal of the sugar bounty clause in the McKinley bill by the new tariff act and the subsequent refusal of the TreasuryDepartment to pay bounties upon sugar grown in the present year, reached the first stage iu its progress to a definite legal settlement Saturday. J Fairchild Murray, an attorney of New York, has filed in the court of claims three suits, identical in character, and all seeking to recover from the Government sums of money alleged to be legally due complainants as a bounty upon sugar raised by them in the year 1894. The Chino Valley Beet Sugar Company of New Jersey, sues for $48,121, the Norfolk Beet Sugar Company, of New Jersey, for $3,993, and the Oxford Beet Sugar Company, for $11,782. The complaints are based upon the allegation that the United States by an act of Congress granting a bounty of one-half cent per pound upon all sugar grown in the United States and the Territories, entered into a legal contract with complainants, ns well as other sugar growers, and led them by its terms to undertake the cultivation of beets and other plants from which sugar is obtained, but which could not have been profitably pursued without the benefits of such contract. The claim is further made that the cropi of complainants growing and the sugar resulting from them in process of manufacture long before the passage by Congress of the measure repealing the provisions of the act granting a bounty, and the Government has no right to withhold the payment of bounties alleged to be due. The cases will p -bably be pushed to an early hearing in the court of claims and will then be taken to the United States Court for final settlement. It is understood the suits are brought as test cases, and will tie vigorously eont. -te.!, as au amount rea.-Ling ■ $11,000,000 is at stake iu the controversy. Fparks from the Wires. Almost rhe entire business portion of Marion, N. C.. is burned. The loss is estimated at $125,000. 1 rofi ssor Jean 1 ictor Duruy, th© 1 re,.ch hist---.an Jan ex-minister of public instruction, is dead. 1 i.roo o'tizf-ns of Bro >kside, Ala., were probably fatally shot by moonshiners, who took them for officers. Officers tried to arrest Claude Moss at a ' hurch near Carrollton, Miss., and killed him when he resisted arrest. Two men euter.-l t ie Erie station at Bloomfield, N. J., and after binding the agent robbed the cash drawer. Seven business houses and one dwellingwere destroyed at Swayzee, Ind. It is feared a woman lost her life, R" bprt H y. the n -ted forger, who escaped fr-.m jail at Bel Air Md was captured in Lansing. Mich. A railway construction gang attempted to lay tracks on a Delaware, Ohio street, but repented on being placed in jail. Fire caused by a defective flue debi‘" k " f dwelli “K* in Kan»a» Gity. jhe loss will reach SIOO,OOO. fapan -so 1.... i ti the a-sault on Port Arthur v.-ns I : t 250 jn killeJ and woundei -vany vauable stores were captured. According to Superintendent Stump, of he Immigration Bureau, more foreigners are leawng the country than are coming Trading on the Chicago Stock Exchange last week was the largest in its history, nearly GO,OOO shares changing Isaac Taylor »nd wife and Miss KidM Ln’tTR roa and kill ‘ ?d on a bridge toctare h Bra “ Ch ’ M<1 ’ While - the Chicago Rnssian-Americans in rnassXle n fr^1 i,iOn r 1 Cz: ‘ r t 0 bis the to-ht r l .'""" 11 and "’bgicu and tne right of assemblage. timeTn ' ’"''v " ont Et s,WGt ‘he same impression th» S ; ,lle ' ° hi °’ and ,ed ‘o ‘he beit - rn, I a system atic attempt was °eing made to destroy the town