Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1895 — Page 2

MHBASMB Review of the Year That Is Past. AT HOME AND ABROAD Epitome of the General News of the World. Chronological Recital of All the Important Events in Legislative, Judicial and Commercial Circles—Startling Deeds of Crime Stirring Incidents in Military Matters—Record of Disasters on Land and Sea—Devastation by Fire and Pestilence—The Tear of *94 Made History Rapidly. Below will be found a concise recital of all the events at home and abroad which go to make up the history of 1894. In America, as in Europe, there has been experienced a period of severe financial depression. The year was marked by the most stupendous disturbance of labor circles in the history of the country, necessitating the employment of government forces for its suppression. Political contests have been nearly as stirring as a national election. The world has been thrilled by tales of horror from devastating forest fires, and death has claimed many illustrious men. The year will be long remembered as one of the most notable of the century. Abroad, the theater of news has been principally in the Orient. There is at present raging the war between Japan and China, and to the uston ishment of all civilized nations the island kingdom has worsted its mighty foe in every contest of note. Fort after fort has fallen before Japans forces, and three separate armies are marching upon the capital of the Flowery Kingdom. The Chinese empire, if not fallen, is humbled, and has already taken initiatory steps to aue for peace. Continental Europe bn« 1 been at peace, and Russia mourns the death of her Czar. JANUARY. 1— Opening of Manchester. Eng..ship canal. • ...Globe Theater, Boston, burns $1,000,000. 2— Six killed in Rock Island wreck at Linwood. Kan.... Riot at Dayton. la.; one killed, tr i ps summoned. 8-4L300.000 fire at Toledo; $250,000 at Detroit. ... Frankiin Grove, 111., Bank robbed Os s2'\ooo. 8—51,200,000 fire at World’s Fair grounds. ....Gov. McKinley Inaugurated at Columbus, Ohio. o—Two Senates claim existence In New Jersey... .John L. Sullivan’s wife slugs him with an Indian club. 11— Jackson Inaugurated Governor at «es Moines, la. .. .Sherman Wagoner, wife murderer, lynched near Mitchell, Ind. 12— Nine killed by collapsed bridge at Brooklyn... .Six drowned in Baltimore harbor. 13— Three men lynched at Russell, Kan., for murder. .. .Schaefer beats Ives at billiards by one poTht. 14 — Six sailors from Dutch steamer Amsterdam perish In vain attempt to rescue crew of wrecked fishing schooner Maggie E. Wells, In the Atlantic Ocean. 15— Nine killed on the Lackawanna near Hoboken, rear end colli ion. .. .Gear nomi* Bated for Senator in 10wa... .Hornblower’s nomination for Supreme bench rejected by the Senate. 17—John Buchner, colorc 1, lynched at Valley Park, Mo., for assault. 15— K. C., St. J. & C. B. train held up at Roy's Branch, Mo.; big booty secured,... Sc rotary Carlisle calls for bids at 177 22 for $50,000,000 5 per cent, bonds. It*—Ernest Locore hanged at Joliet, Ill.; Baumberger hanged at Cando, N. D. 23— Severe cold and storms in northwest ....Banker Koetting convicted at Milwaukee... Boone County, la., insane asylum burns, eight perish. 24— Severest cold of the season general. 25— Corbett defeats Mitchell in the prize ring at Jacksonville. Fla., in three rounds. 26— George 11. Painter hanged at Chicago for murder of Alice Martin; rope broke, double hanging necessary... .Public reconciliation of Kaiser and Bismarck; Germans wild with joy. 27 -San Francisco Mid-winter Fair opened. 2*J—Rosina Yokes, actress, dies in England. 30— Admiral Benham cows the rebels at Bio. 31— Rioting Pittsburg miners forced t* eat dogs. FEBRUARY. 3— Geo. W. Childs dies at Philadelphia. .. . Big fire at Omaha. 4— Vaillant, the Anarchist, is guillotined at Paris. 5— Attempted lynching at Lebanon, Ind. .7—Senate repeals Federal elections law. 8— Wreck of old corvette Kearsarge on Boncador reef; crew rescued. 9— Blizzard over whole northwest. 11— Terrible blizzard in southwest; many die in < )klahoma. 12— Chicago literally snow-bound by fiercest storm ever known; wind reaches 84 miles per hour; storm wide-spread... .Lincoln s birthday. .. .Another bomb thrown in a Paris case. 13— Von Bulow, the pianist, dies at Cairo. 14— Death Mrs. Myra Bradwell at Chicago. 16- Murderer Stone, slayer of Wrattan family at Washington. Ind., hanged at Jeffersonville. ... Bandits wreck and rob a Southern Pacific train at Roscoa, Cal.; two men killed, and large booty secured from the Wells-Fargo Express Co. ...Senate rejects Peckham's nomination to Supreme bench ... .Explosion on German warship Brandenberg at Kiel; kills 39. 19— Senator White, of Louisiana, appointed and confirmed Associate Justice.... Norton Bros’, can factory, Chicago, burns; loss $250,000 .... Death of Jos. Keppler, Puck caricaturist. ... Boss McKane sentenced to six years in Sing Sing... .Gov. Rich, of Michigan. removes salary grabbers. .. Bandits Evans and Worrel captured in California. 22— Washington's birthday... .Guatemala ■nsppnds pnymont 23— Four Michigan State officials indicted by grand Jury £ui fraudulent salary grub blng. 2E—Steel Mackaye, dramatist, dies on a Santa Fe train. .. .Terrific snow storm in the South. 2€—lnterstate law decided veld ... .Fierce storms in the East. 27— Double lynching at Mountain Home. Ark. .Boy lyailied f r murder of a sheriff upon his mother's orders at Sherman, Ala. 28— News of drowning of IS Cape Ann. Mass, fishermen, Jan. 12.... Murder and burglary in Exeter Township, Monroe County. Mien... .Miners’ riot at Eagle, W. Ya.; troops summoned MARCH. 1— Bland’s bill to coin the seigniorage passed. 2— Gladstone recommends Roseberry for Premier. .. .General Jubal A. Early dies at Lynchburg. 3— Gladstone formally retires from the British Premiership. 4— Death of Ed Williamson, the famous base-bail player. 6— Sugar fluctuates 18 points on New York Exchange; Senators charged with speculation in the stocks. 7— Serious illness of Gladstone announced. 8— Dani°l Coughlin acquitted at Chicago of Dr. Cronin’s murder. 12— DaGama. Brazilian rebel commander, a refugee on a Portuguese vessel. 13— Brazilian Insurgents surrender .... House of Commons votes to abolish Lords. 15— Denver in possession of troops because of quarrel between Gov. Waite and police board. 16— Mulct and local option bills defeated in lowa. .. .Exceeding mild weather. 20— Death of Louis Kossuth, Hungarian patriot. 23— Judge Cbetlain, of Chicago, stays execution of Prendergast pending trial for insanity; his act excites widest criticism and consternation. ... “Buff” Higgins hanged at Chicago. . 24— Temperature in Central Northern States drops to near zero. 25— Extreme cold kills fruit in Northern

States; mercury marked zero. .. .Coxey’« “army ’ marches from Massillon, 0., toward Washington, 70 strong... .Death of Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. 27—Dea til of Major Nevans. famous handmaster, at Chicago... .Furious snow storm in Northwest. 29— Gov. Northen appoints Speaker Crisp tn succeed Senator Colquitt of Georgia.... Cleveland vetoes Bland seigniorage coinage bill. 30— Four killed, many hurt. In liquor liw riot at Darlington. S. C.... Speaker Crisp declines a Senatorship. .. .Peoria. 111., water tower bursts; one killed, many hurt.... Big fires at Barry. 111., and Traer, la. 31— Four killed, many hurt, by natural gas explosion at Alexandria, Ind... .Borden. Ina., swept by fire. APRIL. 2— Connellsville, Pa., coke workers strike and riot. 3— Catholic and A. P. A. riot at Kansas City election; four killed. 4— Prendergast gets another stay of execution to July 2. .. .9 killed in riots in coke region. .. .Seigniorage bill defeated. 7— Eleven killed by fireworks explosion at Petersburg, Ya. .. .Four killed by V>iler explosion near Bourbon, Ind. 9— Nine firemen killed at Davidson Theater fire. Milwaukee. .. .Six sailors lost off Massachusetts coast.... Seven men killed on logging train at New Era, Mich. 11— Thirty inches snow at Buffalo; fearful blizzard throughout the east; many lives lost and vessels wrecked on the coast. 12— fire in Buffalo; 13 perish. 13— David Dudley Field dies at New’ York. 14— Gen. H. W. Slocum dies at Brooklyn ....Senator Vance, of North Carolinn. dies at Washington. ... Miss Pollard wins her suit against Congressman Breckinridge of Kentucky. 17— Hehrv S. Ives. “Napoleon of Finance,’’ ■ dies at Asheville, N. C. 20— Riots at Omaha over Kelley’s army. 21— Big coal miners’ strike inaugurated. .. . Earthquakes in Greece kill 160. 23— Five negroes lynched for murder In Mississippi. .. .Death of Jesse Seligman. 1 New York banker. 25— Contingents of Coxev’s “Common- , weal Army" are marching ail over the conn- I try, especially ir the West; trains captured , and cities closely guarded... .Federal troops recapture a train from Hogan's army in 1 Montana; one man killed... .Great loss of life on Ireland’s coast. 26— Striking miners march on Toluca, 111. 27— Celebration at Chicago and Galena of Grant’s birthday. 28— St. Charles lintel. New Orleans, burns; four lives lost. ... Missouri Valley. la., marshal killed by burglars. 29— Coxey's arrny reaches Washington; no demonstration. 30— Death of Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, at Chicago, and Editor Frank Hatton at Washington... .Murderer of Missouri Valley s marshal lynched near Council Bluffs. MAY. I— Riot at Cleveland, 0....C0xcy and Browne arrested while attempting to speak from the capital Steps at Washington. .Great Northern strike ends in favor of employes. 4—Fatal riots on Mesaba Range and in Pennsylvania coke regions. 8— Coxey, Browne and Jones are found guilty at Washington of disorderly conduct. .. .Coel strike raises price of soft coal 100 per cent. 9— Cloudburst at Stillwater, Minn... Health officials declare Chicago sweatshops full of small-pox. ll— Meeks family four people, murdered at Milan, Mo. 13— Talmage’s Tabernacle nt Brooklyn burns for the third time; loss $2,000,000. .. . Thirty people burned badly at Bradford, P.«.. by exploding tank ear. 15— Half million loss, ISO dwellings burned and 3.000 people homeless by fire In Boston . G. A. R. encampment at Rockford. 111. ... .Tremendous storms and cloudbursts in Northwest. 16— Hottest day in May, in Chicago, since 1874. 17— Five killed by cyclone at Kunkle, O. Temperature drops frorn 85 to 35 degrees within five hours at Chicago. 18 — Snow in Chicago... .Schooner Cummings and crew of nine lost at Milwaukee; nine schooners and eleven lives lost at Chicago: schooner Shupe and six lives lost at Port Huron. .. .Storm most furious known in years. . .Heavy snow in Northern Michigan. 19— Seven killed in a tunnel collision near Princeton, Ky.... Frost damages crops in several States. 20— Great flood# on Susquehanna River. .. . Half million fire loss at Philadelphia... .Six Inches of snow at Carlisle. Ky. 24 — Riots and bloodshed at Pennsylvania and Illinois coal mines. 25— Militia sent to several Illinois mining points. 30— Six killed in a wreck at Manvine, Wls. ....General observance of Decoration Day exorcises. 31— Tremendous floods in Pueblo, Col., and Canadian Northwest. JUNE. 3— $225,000 fire at Ottumwa. la. 4— Four rioting miners killed by Indiana troops, troubles continue in Indiana, lowa and Illirals... .Pullman strikers sorely in need of aid. .. .One million dollar failure in St. Joseph, Mo. 5— Anarchy and riot at McKeesport. Pa. 6— Fatal riots and arson near Peoria. 111. ... .Rosebery’s colt Ladas wins the English Derby and £5.000. 7— Twenty Coxeyites drowned near Brighton, Col. .. .Death of Prof. Whitney of Yale. ....Activity of troops of Illinois, Colorado and 0hi0... .Battle nt Cripple Creek, Col. 8— Apparently authentic report of the death of Outlaw Bill Dalton. 9— Illinois troops called to Pana. .. .$475,000 fire loss at Dubuque, la. 10— Four strikers shut by deputies at Lemont, Pa. 11— Columbus conference ends the coal strike. .. .News of death of Muley Hassan. Sultan of Morocco, and succession of his son. 14— Death of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge at London. 15— miners killed In Austrian Silesia. ... .Erastus Wiman found guilty of forgery at New York and recommended to the mercy of the court. 16— Death of William Walter Phelps, di- , plomat, at Englewood, N. J. is—Troops quell riots at Mount Olive, III.; 1(H) arrests made. .. .Hottest June day ever known in New York; many people prostrated and nine suicides because of the heat; mercury 91 degrees. 19— Great damage by wind at Chadron, Neb. ... Destructive floods in Penn Valley. Pa.. Prussia and Austria... .Forty-five excursionists drowned in Samara. ...Erastus Wiman sentenced to years imprisonment. 20— Gold reserve touches $64,703,047. lowest point in its history... .Severe windstorms ’.n Northwest. 23— Rey el Santa Anita wins American Derby at Chicago. 24— President Carnot, of France, assassinated by an Italian. .. .Thirty-one men drown ona capsized tug off New York harbor. 25— Tremendous excitement and anger at Italians ‘n France: cases and shops looted. 26— A. R. U. boycott on Pullman cars ties up Illinois Central. 27— Minnesota and South Dakota stormswept. .. .Railroad strike spreads rapidly. JULY. 1— Funeral of Carnot at Paris Troops called to quell strikers in Illinois and Colorado. 2— Tremendous activity shown by strikers; no bloodshed yet. 3— Tariff bill passes the Senate. ... Every road in Chicago helpless from the strike. .. . Prendergast, assassin, declared sane.... Bloody riot at Ironwood, Mich. 4 $1,000,000 fire loss «t Hudson, Mass. 5— Seven buildings at World's Fair grounds burn. ... Riots in railroad yards at Chicago Mayor Hopkins issues a proclama t ion ....Gov. Altgeld protests against Federal troops in Illinois. ... Yacht Valkyrie sunk in collision in a race. 6— Three rioters and two deputy sheriffs killed at Chicago; over 1,000 freight cars burned; five regiments of State troops reenforce the regulars... .Strikers completely rule the Pacific coast. 7— Bloody riots at Chicago... . Miners’ mobs loot stores at Spring Valley and Ladd. 111. 8— Riots continue at Chicago; three killed, 25 hurt by troops and deputies. 9— Two women and one man killed by wild firing of militia at Grape Creek, 111... .Strike extends to Toledo. 10— Debs indicted for conspiracy. 11— Thousands join the sympathetic strike . .. .Four soldiers killed in a wreck in California. 12— Reports of over a hundred killed in earthquake in Turkey.... President Cleveland decides to appoint arbitrators for strikes. 13— Big strike declared off; A. R. U. defeated ... Prendergast hanged at Chicago ... .Murderous riots at Sacramento, Cal. 16— Four soldiers killed, many people hurt, by exploding caisson at Chicago. .. .Race war in Alabama results in killing 7 negroes 17— Eight miners killed by dynamite at Stockton, Pa. .. .Debs and his associates sent 1 10 Jail for contempt 19—Fires: $500,000 at Minneapolis; $250,000 at El Paso, 111... .Tariff conference committees disagree. 23—Three killed on the Big Four and 7 on the Texas Pacific by w recks. 23— Car barns stw ashington burn; $500,000 loss, three firemen killed. 26—War declared between China and Jap-

an... .Day of tremendous heat all over the West; immense damage to crops. 27— Many towns in Northern Wisconsin de•troyed by forest fires. .. .Continuance of tremendous heat in Northwest. 28 — Phillips Wis.. burned: $1,850,000 loss, 13 people perish. .. .SSOO,(MiO fire at Belle Plaine, and $160,000 at Brooklyn, 1a.... Drouth In Illinois and lowa broken. 30— Half million fire loss in Minneapolis. 31— Japanese sink China’s finest warship, capture two cruisers, and kills 2.000 men. .. . Continuation of fearful heat and drouth Ln in Northwest. AUGUST. 1— fire in Chicago lumber district; three lives 105 t... .Death of Judge Holt, famous jurist and Buchanan’s Secretary of War. at Washington. 2— Two fires in Chicago do s3s7,ooodamage. 3— Japs defeat Chinese with 2.000 slaughtered... .Carnot'# assassin sentenced to death at Pari* 5— Ex-Gov. Blair, of Michigan, dies. .. .Railroad strike declared off in Chicago. 7—Panic on Chicago Board of Trade caused by drought; corn reaches 60 cents, overselling wheat. .. .Centennial of Wayne's victory celebrated at Defiance. O. 9— Fourteen lives lost in wreck on Rock Island near Lincoln, Neb... .Vaccinalion riot at Milwaukee... .Corn crop outlook growing darker. 13—House adopts Senate's tariff schedule ....Corn still shows remarkable firmness io market; crop prospects growing worse. 15—Santo executed at Lyons. France. 18— battle from the Orient; Chinese defeated. 2,000 slain... .Crop prospects improved by rain. 21—4400,000 fire in Cincinnati. .. .Sixty-six houses burned in Beeville, Tex.... Eight men drowned in a yacht race at St. Johns, N. 8....G0v. Altgeld asks public aid for starving Pulhnanltes. 24— Thirty-seven miners killed near Franklin, Wash.; two at Ashland, Pa.; four at Creede. Colo. 25— Chase and capture.of Gordon and Lake, Chicago train robbers and murderers. . .1.000 people perish in cyclone on east shore of Sea of Azov. 26— John Newell, president L. S. A M. S. Ry., dies at Youngstown, O.t. .Lake navigation greatly hindered by smoke frum Michigan forest fires. 27— Now tariff becomes a law without President Cleveland's signature. ... Many lake vessels stranded because of smoke from Michigan forest fires. 28— Congress adjourns; universal rejoicing ....Enormous customs receipts throughout the country, because of lower tariffs. 31—A thousand Chinamen perish In a fire at Hong Kong. ...Many people killed at Uvalde, Texas, by cloudburst and earthquake. SEPTEMBER. 1— Over 700 people perish, six towns destroyed, In Northern Minnesota, by forest fires; property loss several millions. ... Six negroes lynched in Tennessee for barnburning. 3— Rains check forest fires... .Tremendous rain fail lu Chicago... .Labor day generally observed. 4— Fires renewed in northern pine woods ....St. Paul raises SIO,OOO. Duluth $9,500 and other cities various smaller amounts for forest fire sufferers; Actor Irving, of England, cables SSOO for same purpose. 6— Robert J. paces a mile at Indianapolis in three heals average 2:03 2-3; both rec ord breakers. 10— Maine gives 37,000 Republican majority. 11— G. A. R. encampment at Pittsburg. 15— Owens defeats Breckinridge in Ashland. Ky.. district. 17—News of Japan’s success in decisive battle at Ping Yang. Corea... .Destructive cyclone in Oklahoma. ’lß—Abortive attempt to rob Santa Fe train at Gorin, Mo.; one robber fatally hurt, one captured. .. .New York Republicans nominate Morton. ...Chinese and Japs sink three ships each. 19— Alix trots In 2:03% at Galesburg. 21— Over 80 lives lost In a cyclone in lowa and Minnesota. ... Madame Fursch-Mahdl, renowmed singer, dies at Warrenville, N. J. 23— $1,500,000 fire in Portland, O’C. 26— Steamer Ohio and schooner Ironton collide off Presque Isle, Mich., and sink: five lives 105 t.... Five sailors drown by sinking of schooner Wm. Home off Manistique.... New York Democrats nominate David B. Hill. OCTOBER. 2— Little Rock wrecked by a cyclone.... Special meeting of British Cabinet called. 3 — Death of Prof. David Swing cf Chicago ... .Flurry of snow in Chicago. 5— Six men killed in a fire at Detroit. 7— Death of Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Massachusetts, and Ex-Gov. A. G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania. 10—Terrific storm on the Atlantic roast; over 250 lives lost. .. .Nine killed by falling building in New York. 12— Train robbers in California and Virginia get SIOO,OOO. 17—Two killed, ten wounded by militia repelling attempt at lynching at Washington Courthouse, Ohio. 20— Death of Historian James Anthony Fronde at London. 24 — Four Nebraska counties swept by fire; many lives lost and thousands of cattie perish. AD CHRON 27 Sixteen perish in a boarding-house fire at Seattle, Wash. 28 $500,000 loss In frpight-honßo fire at East St. Louis... .Three killed by dynamite In a boarding-house at Laurel Run, Pa.... Three killed at Lima, 0., and three at Corydon, Pa., in wrecks. .. .Steamer Walrapa and 112 Ilves lost off New Zealand. 30—Seven perish by fire at New York. NOVEMBER. 1— Czar of Russia dies. 2— Earthquake destroys New Hebrides towns. 6— Something dropped in political circles. 7— Six killed in a B. & O. wreck. 8— Death of Mike Kelly, famous bar player. 10— Tremendous storms on lakes and ir Eastern States. 11— Death of Rufus Ramsey, Treasurer ol Ilinols. 12— $500,000 fire at New Orleans.... Lynching of the son of Bob Younger, the outlaw, and another alleged murderer, at Floyd. La. 13 — Issue of $50,000,000 U. S. bonds ordered... Gen. Cassius M. Clay, aged 84, marries his ward, Dora Richardson, aged 15, at Lexington, Ky....De&th of Charle# E. Strcng. general manager Chicago Newspaper Union. 14— News of slaughter of 10,000 Armenians by Turks. 16 — Death of Dr. Jas. McCosh, ex-Presldent of Princeton College... .Robt. C. Winthrop dies in Boston. 17— Ives defeats Schaefer at billiards.... Turks slaughter 2,000 more Armenian# in their religious war,... Earthquake in Italy kills scores. 20—Seven killed by explosion in a West Virginia mine. .. .Death of Rubenstein, the composer, at London... .$1,000,000 bank failure at Portland. Ore. 22— China makes overtures of peace to Japan; Port Arthur falls... .Gen. Booth.of S Ovation Arr y, received by 4,000 people at Chicago. .. .New York banks take all of the $56,000,000 bond issue. 24—Discovery of robbery of Shoe and T.Pfither Bank. New York: amount. $350,00<! ....Yale wins at football from Harvard, Ann Arbor from Cornell, 27— Czar Nicholas and Princess Alix mar ried at St. Petersburg Syndicate pays 117.077 for entire issue of bonds. 28— $500,000 fire at Toledo, O. .. .? 100.00 C loss by burninc of coal shaft at Spring Vai ley. 111... .Tremendous sensation in China caused by petition to impeach Li Huns Chang. 29— Ann Arbor win# at football from Chicago University. DECEMBER. 3— Congress re-assembles... .Kolb has himself sworn iu as Governor of Alabama; no disturbance. 4— $275,U00 fire in New York, $175,000 in Omaha. 6— Bandits secure SIOO,OOO in a Texas Pacific hold-up. 7— Horrible murder of Alfred D. Barnes In Chicago... .Death of De Lesseps at Paris ....Elopement of Rev. Haney and MrsBrandt, of Chicago. 8— Death of Robt. Louis Stevenson in Samoa. 10—Capture in Chicago of Seeley, the New York bank embezzler... .Two killed, 20 hurt In a Chicago street railway tunnel wreck. ... Henry Spragg. a farmer near Hamilton, Mo., kills his wife, three children and himself while Insane. 12—Death of Sir John Thompson, Canadian Pr’me Minister. .. .Death of John Worthy, Chicago capitalist. 14—E. V. Debs, A. R. U. strike leader, convicted of contempt of court at Chicago; six months’ Imprisonment... .Van Leuven, pension swindler, convicted at Dubuque... .Alleged lynchers acquitted at Memphis. 16—Council Bluffs bank clerk wound# tw< detectives and kills himself. 18— Bell Telephone Co. defeated by Gov ernmeut ...Five killed in boiler explo«lox at Psy City, Mich. 20— Jones County. la., calf case settled after 16 years of litigation. 21— Capt. Scmittbergor, of the New Yorl police make* full confession before Lexow committee, implicating many high hn author , *v-

BOUNTY TO FARMERS. ' _______ I 1 < SCHEME FOR CORRECTING PROTECTIONS INEQUALITIES. All Persons Can’t Grow Richer b, Taxing Each Other-Senators Should Be Forced on Record Tremendous Expenditures in Patriotism’s Name. Jnetic.? Is Demanded. Mr. D. Lubin, of Sacramento, Cal., appeared before the Maryland State Grange at its meeting in Baltimore, and explained a plan he has evolved by which he hopes the inequalities now existing between the prices of manufactured goods and farm staples may be corrected. This plan. Mr. Lubin says, was laid before the National Grange at its recent meeting in Cincinnati and received the indorsement of that organization, ami he is now visiting the State granges all over the country, explaining his theory and seeking their in- , dorsement of it. The Maryland Grange received him warmly and heard his address, but took no action on his plan, although it was regarded favorably by a number of the members. Mr. Lubin contends that the inequality between agricultural and manufactured products can only be secured by protect- I Ing each alike. He proposes that the duty collected on imported products shall be made sufficiently large to pay a bounty | to farmers for exporting agricultural products. This, he says, will prevent Liverpool from fixing the price of Ameri- | can wheat and other products sent i abroad. Mr. Lubin and Mr. A. J. Wedderburn, of Virginia, will appear before the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives to urge it to report to Congress a law embodying his project. Supposing that Mr. Lubin’s scheme, if made law, would correct inequalities and protect farmers as well as manufacturers, what then? Would it be Just to all ? Would it be the easiest, simplest and best way to correct the inequalities of protection, which taxes farmers, laborers and all consumers to enrich a few, mainly manufacturers and mine owners? Where would the millions of common laborers and professional men, not employed in protected mills or on protected farms, come in? There are others to be considered besides the farmers who, under the Lubin scheme, arc to get back in bounties what they pay out in taxes to the protected millowners. Why not extend the bounty system to all who are taxed by the tar--lIT system? If it is impracticable to protect the common laborer by an export premium on products exported, then let the government, which taxes him 40 per cent, on woolen goods, refund this by paying about 30 per cent, of the cost of woolen goods when the laborer makes such purchases. But supposing all tariff duties could lx? returned by bounties to those who now pay them, and that all were then protected alike, what would be the benefits of such a system? Can all persons grow- richer by taxing each other? If each of 1.000 persons put $1 in a pool and each draws out sl, is any one or are all richer? Os course manufacturers are glad to see farmers and laborers contribute to the present protection pool, because the whole contents are emptied into the laps of the manufacturers. It is these pools which have drained the farmers and have produced 5,000 millionaires and multi-million-aires during the past thirty years. Now that the farmers are discovering that they get nothing out of the protection pool they should take the simplest method of equalizing protection taxes —abolish the pool and put manufacturers on an equal footing with all other producers. This will do justice to all and save the trouble and expense of cumbersome machinery with which to run the pool. Manufactures of Wool. In reviewing the dry goods market for the week, the Wool and Cotton Reporter says: “Some agents for mills making men's wear report that they have received re-orders on spring stuff from the clothing trade during the past week, although of course the inquiry is not very pronounced as yet Most of the mills find that they have got all that they can attend to for some time to come in getting forward their goods which were sold on initial orders. There is the same complaint over the delay in getting goods and the same hurrying and nerve-straining exertion on the part of manufacturers’ agents to make good their contracts. It is remarkable, at first thought, that there have not been more cancellations. Many manufacturers have been positively unable to live up to their contracts. They cannot make the goods and deliver them when wanted, for the reason that they cannot do six months’ work in three. The buyer, who is grumbling because he cannot get his goods, knows that he is himself to blame in not ordering earlier, and he realizes that if he caneels his orders, he stands no better show of having them filled elsewhere more expeditiously. He has to wait Cancellations, therefore, have been very few and are likely t continue so.” Reports didn’t read ’.ike this one during the dark days of McKinleyism. Will any Republican dare advocate taxed wool in 1897? Only those who now think that hides and raw silk should be taxed. Try Again. The Democrats of the Senate who are in favor of repealing the odious sugar tax should not be discouraged toy their failure to bring the bill up. They should persist until they get every Senator on record. The Democrats, having a majority, are responsible for the action of the Senate. But this does not relieve the Republicans of their accountability to the people. After having denounced the Democrats throughout the late campaign for yielding to the sugar ring they voted solidly, so far as they

were willing to go on record, against) ■ even taking up the bill to repeal thia tax. They seek to excuse their action on the ground that they are "opposed to reopening the tariff debate." But the genera! tariff question is not involved in a motion to strike out the sugar duty that was forced Into the bill bv a corrupt and scandalous combination of legislative strikers and trust stock jobbers representing both parties. It is a question of national honor -of the Senate’s good name. In refusI in- to help wipe out this stain the Republican Senators leave themselves open to the charge of nypocrlsy tn regard to tlie sugar tax. and of really desiring to save to the trust some portion of the enormous bonus which the McKinley law gave to it If the Republicans can afford to take this attitude the Democrats certainly | cannot afford to stand with tbem.New York World. The Great Pension Burden. At the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1864, the number of persons upon the pension roils of the United States was almost 1,000,000. The precise figures | are 969,544. This makes a pensioner of .nearly one of every seventy inhabitant* j of the United States. The number of pensioners added to the roll during this year was 39.085. the number | dropped 37,951, showing that almost I thirty years after the close of the war the industry of pensions making, notI withstanding all the casualties that ' have occurred in that long period, is so great that the number of pensioners created is greater that the number that in the ordinary course of events disappears. No country on the face of the globe ever saw or suffered such tremendous expenditures iu the name of patriotism. The estimate for the fiscal year ending in 1596 on disbursement of pensions is $140,000,000. When expenditures for pensions had reached $35,000,000, some twenty years ago, It was thought that the very utmost that could be attaiued in this regard had been reached and that thereafter the amount would be a diminishing one. Every deserver was then upon the roll, for abundant time had elapsed in which to place him there, but the roll is now crowded with undeservers. Day after day there is added to that roll the names of soldiers' widows who were born long after the surrender at Appomattox, and who knew necessarily nothing by experience of the civil war. The situation has become such that practically a service pension is given, a marvelous departure from the original understanding, which was that pensions should be extended only because of the death in battle of a soldier, or of disabling wounds sustained by him in the line of duty. There may or may not bo an end of pension legislation, but if the roll is to be further Increased it is difficult to see where the means of payment are to come front.—Chicago Times.

"Not Stuck on a High Tariff.’* The Republican congressional campaign committee had a meeting, wherein it appeared that Chairman Babcock was not the only member of it to declare a return to McKnleyistn unwise and impossible. The general sentiment of the Western members was elegantly expressed by the gentleman from Oklahoma, who said that “the West is not stuck on a high tariff.” This roused Congressman Boutelle, who “insisted” that the great victory of 1894 meant endorsement of Republican tariff legislation. Senator Powers asked the vociferous man from Maine what he knew about the West, and was informed that Boutelle had ventured as far into the interior as Ohio. This provoked ribald laughter, and a Missouri Congressman remarked that what was going to kill off McKinley as a candidate was his extreme views on the tariff. Senator Carey of Wyoming advised moderation, and so did Mr. Wilson of Washington. The latter gentleman took the true view, and made everybody happy when he said that as soon as the Republican party was fully in power it would “solve this problem” with the same supernal wisdom with which it had solved all other problems in the past.—New York Post. Monuments to Free Wool. Free wool is building an immense storage house for wools in New York city with a stock exchange on one floor. New York merchants hope to make New 3 ork a wool center second only to London. This prospect is not viewed with equanimity by Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, three of our present great wool markets. Bostonians are coming to the conclusion that their State law which forbids the building of structures (except church spires) to a ■ greater height than IX feet nor more 1 than two and one-half times the width of the adjoining street, is driving capltai and business into other States. Philadelphia has not yet been able to explain her lack of enterprise in erecting a business monument to free wool, and Chicago has about concluded that it must have a wool warehouse. Other cities have not yet been heard from but are probably as jealous of New York. Rivalry and competition are the life of trade. r^ E K° lo^? f leave 3 is affected by light, but this does not h id true of flowers, l ast winter a blue hva inth found it-e.f under a flat stone six inches beneath the surface. As it could n *t reach th-, light, it developed leaves and flow r, under the stone, the T" y ere , r ' aached a ' white as the-ta.k o, celery b:t the flowers on the natural deep blue . -aid the same result, atiend when the hyacinth b ooms in a dark cellar. . If conver-ation be an art like naint tag, sculpture, and literature, most powerful charm to Nature* and the least shad ■ of formality trlr’

A NOBLE FIGHT. AN EMINENT SOUTHERN LAW. YER S LONG CONFLICT WITH DISEASE. Twenty-five Tear® of Prosperity. Adversity and Suffering The Great Victory Won by Science Over a Stubborn Disease. (JVom (Ar Atlanta, Ga., Constitution.) Foremost among the best known lawyers »nd fanusrs of North Carolina stands Col. Isaac A. Sagg, of Greensiile. Mr. Sugg I as resided in Greenville 22 years. While nearly everyone in Pitt Co. knows Mr. s's history, perhaps all do not know of t .return to business again after an illness of 16 years. No man has gone through more than he. and lived. It was a case of the entire breaking down of the nervous system, attended by excruciating, agonizing, unendurable pain. Opiates and stimulants only nieted temporarily, am! all treatments failed him. Only his love of family and friends prevented suicide. He told a reporter the follow ing interesting storv: “I kept at my work as long as I could, but nature gave way at last and I snecuml’ea to the inevitable. My entire nervous system had been shattered by the stimulants and opiates 1 had taken, my blood had actually turned to water, my weight had dropped from 173 pounds to 123, and it seemed to everybody that the end was in sight. Why I could not bear the gentle hand of my wife to bathe my limbs with tepid water. I was simply living from hour to hour. I had Blade my will, settled my business and ' waited for the last strand of life to snap. “Itwasat this time that a 'iim w hat similar case as my own was brought to my I notice. This man had suffered very much as 1 had. his life had Ixx n despaired of as mine had, and vet he bad been cured. ’l'hinkwhat that little word meant to me- | CURED. The report stated that the work I had been accomplished by a medioino known as Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I investigated the report thoniughIv and found that it was true in detail. Then I procured some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and began taking them and liesran oget better. I liegan to sleep Ilkea healthful child, sound, calm, and peaceful. My tppetite came back, and my nerves were .ootlied and restored to their normal cendiion and 1 felt like a new man. But the jreatest blessing was the mental improvenent. 1 liegan to read and digest, to k>nnuate new plans, to take interest in my law irm tiee, wliicli liegan to come back to tue t,- soon as my clients realized that I was sgatn myself. After a lapse of ten years I r>d>-horseback every duv without fatigue. ■ That Dr. Williams’ f’ink Pills saved my life is beyond doubt, and 1 am spreading their praise far and wide.” inquiry about the town of Greenville substantiated the above facts of Col. -Sugg’s case, and that many others are being lieiiclited by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Company, Schenectadv. N. Y., for 60c. per box, or six boxes for S2XO. Cold Weather and Wires. At. this season of the year accidents to electric wires must be anticipated, as they oce r more frequently than at any other time The explanation is very simple. The cold causes the «• res to contract and many wea. wires break: hence, just after the first cold snap, the linemen have as much as they can attend to. The I token wires fall upon and across other wires and are frequently the cause of considerable damage. But the weak wires go irst. and after the first cold snap they ire re: aired and generally cause no note trouble during the winter. The I’itcn Lake of Trinidad. One of the mo.-t remarkable lakes ot» the earth’s surface is situated at Tar i oint on the Island of Trinidad, and bears the suggestive name of Pitch Lake. At first view the surface of this "lake which is not a lake.” gives one the impression that it is a large body of water, but a closer examination proves it to be a vast plain covered with hard and hardening pitch. Winter, or rather in the winter months, the surface of this lake is perleetly smooth and of a consistency sufficient to bear any weight.—Philadelphia Press. Health Is Economy. A well nun can do as u.uch work an two men who are -under the weather,” and (Io it better. A box ot Ripans Tubules iu the office will save clerk-hire. Os methods of inducing sleep may bo mentioned a well ventilated bed room, ‘ a p.ate of porridge and milk about 9.30,’’ wet compresses round the body,, and so on.

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