Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — Page 3

FREE WOOL IN ENGLAND

HOW FREE WOOL HAS MADE ENCLAND GREAT. England’s 'Wool Duty Removed In 1838— increased Production and Higher Prices for the Farmer—Free Wool Has Given England the World's Wool Clip—Who Pays Hie Kail Tax. Slade England Great. Wo are told that a removal of the duty on wcoi would roiiilt in destroying our sheep-growing industry, but the experience of Eng and with the wool tax does not bear cut this claim. In 1800 England had a wotl duty of 12 cents a pound, and in that year produced 02,544,000 poundi of wool. Tliis tariff was continued till 1828, when t<ha product amounted to 111,<523,72 > pounds, e gaht of only 19,pounds in twenty-eight years. Then came free woo!, and air.ad yin 1850 the production of woo! in England had risen to 2,"5,t;00,0C0 pounds, or a gain of 103,370,271 pounds in only twen-ty-two year*. S neo that year this production of wco I;a> declined, but it is still greater l>y t 0,030,000 pounds than in 1828. But the rapid increase did not cause a decline in prices. In 1828, under protection, the pr.ee of one of the standard grades of domestic wool, that known to the Eng ish trade as “Lincoln ha'f hog,” was 2.‘ cents a'pound, and the average pr.ee from that year to 1850 was 24 cents. During the twenty sears, 1857 to 1370, the saute wool brought the English farmer an average of 40 <ents. The price last year leturned once more to 22 cents. So the British t armors ar ■ no worse off, in the matter of price, for free wool; and they had 'more to sell, too; but they had an enormous gain in the cheapening of woolen clothing But England raises sheep f.r mutton rather than for wo Four-fifths of all lambs are sla, ghtcrcd for market; and for twenty years the number of sheep has kept pretty closely to 30,010,000, sometimes a few millions above or below. Wool is little more there than an incidental product of the mutton-grower. Free woo Las made England the great wool market of the world. In 1850 that country imported on y 77,000,000 pounds of woo’, but importations had risen in 1889 to 721,000,000 pounds, of which abeut half was. exported and resold in other countries, thus making an enormous trade for English sfiipsand English merchants. In the meantime England s consumption of foreign wool has increased enormously. In 1814 it was 1,942,G00 pounds; in 1839 it was 363,435,000. It is our tariff, and it alone, that keeps us from rivaling England as a great wco-trading and woo-manufac-turing nation. England could never have reached her present position in the control of the world’s wool supply if she had adhere 1 to the policy of protecting a few country squires who wanted to breed sheep at public expense; and if she had persisted in her attempt to shut out foreign wool our own manufacturers would never have needed to besiege Congress so ong and so invariably with their ta e of ruinous competition from English competition. As it is, the bulk of flie world’s supply of wool goes to London, and English manufacturers, as a general thing, get the pick of the clip from ail lands. Free wool would give tho American manufacturer an equal chance: it would not necessarily huit tho American wool-grower.

DIVIDING OUT TARIFF SPOILS.

Steel Ball Manufacturer* Meet to Make “Allotments.” The Steel Rail Association, otherwise known as the steel rail trust, has recently held a meeting and appointed a committee of two, representing Eastern and Western mills, to report on a n6w “allotment” of percentages. A large new rail mill has been started near Baltimore, and it is necessary for the trust to give it an “allotment” in order to avoid “ruinous competition.” Under the present arrangement all orders for rails are divided up among the trust's mills upon the following basis:. The Pennsylvania Company, 9 per cent.: the Lackawanna, 18; the Bethlehem and the Columbia, 8 each; Andrew Carnegie's Company and the Illinois Steel company, 57 per cent jointly. This little coterie of rail manufacturers can safely make their “allotments” anal l divide up among them the spoils which the tariff puts into their coffers. The duty is .$13.44 a ton, which is e;ual to 65 per cent, of the price of rails in England to day. At the beginning of this year the rail trust mot and put up prices, and these have been tirmly adhered to ever since. The price at Chicago is $31.50 a ton in large lots, or $32.50 in sma’l quantities. The price now quoted at Middlesboro, England, is £4 ss, equal to $20.64 per ton. This is a big tariff difference. But oh, says the high-tariff wiseacre, don’t you know the foreigner pays the steelrail tax? Let us see: We imported during the year ended June 32, 1891. just 134 tons of steel rails, valued at $6479, the duty on which, at $13.44 a ton, would amount to .11,600.96. On the other hand, ou- rail mills turned out during the calendar year 1890 about 2, 00,000 tons of ralis. This quantity at the present Chicago price would cost $69,30.',000; at the English price $45,518,000, a difference of $23,762,000. Do the English manufacture s pay our steel-rail tax, or do our railroads pay it?

A Problem for the Rain-Maker.

If Uncle Jerry Rusk's “heaven-bust-ers” do succeed in making it rain whenever it is needed, what is ever to become of our great and flourishing irrigating industry on the far Western plains? Here are people who evidently need “protection. " They are. American citizens, good and true, have invested American capital and employ American labor at living wages. What if* ti e whole heavens are to be turned loose upon the irrigators with copious showers of pauper rain’ Will it not ruin an American industry, wipe out American capital, and deprive many a faithful American ditch-digger of his employment? This “curse of cheapness” is leading us to sacrifice the interests of the poor hark-working ditch-digger in a most unpatriotic, most ’un American way. And all to save labor for the farmer and make his wheat and corn grow! The protectionists in their public utterances profess to hoi I that the policy of “buying in the cheapest market” is all a free-trade delusion: but the cheap, untaxed sugar, that they are row making

so merry over, Is cheap for the simple reason that it was bought in the cheapest market in the world, in Cuba, Germany, and the Sandwich Islands. “Buying in the cheapest market,” and paying no tariff tax works beautifully -with sugar,‘as every protectionist is now claiming.

HIGH-TARIFF ABSURDITIES.

A Muddle-Headed Protection Editor Whom a Low Tariff Will Hurt. It is impossible for the high-tariffites to escape the absurdities of their position. 4 llovv often, for example, have they assured us that protection cheapens commodities? Only put on a high protective tariff, they say, and we sha 1 very soou be buying the very same article of better qua ity and at a lower price; and the higher the tariff, some even claim, tho lower you will make prices A very pretty fable, only tho hightariffites are net ab e to be ieve it themselves. If they do, why these pictures of The ruin and desolation that will follow if tho tariff is removed or even reduced to 40 per cent? Here, for example, is tho Boston Commercial Bulletin, which is reputed to bo one cf the ablest of high tariff organs. This journal, in trying to break the force of tho argument flhat since sugar has been so greatly cheapened by the removal of tie duty a similar result would follow in the case of ported from Great Britain, Gorina y and other European countries, says: “Their manufacturers have the advantage of cheaper labor, and <an undersell us on that account. To throw dowrP the protective barriers, which alone keep out theso competitive goods, would simp'y result in depriving our people of occupation or compel them to labor for reduced compensation. ” Vet tho blessed tariff, as all orthodox protection organs assure us, cheapens tho things made by our manufacturers and does not guarantee them artificial profits. But this specimen protection organ commits another specimen absurdity. After painting the universal misery which would follow a reduction or abolition of the tariff, it assures tho consumer that he would get little or no advantage. “A small reduction at first hands would in many cases mean nothing but additional profit sci the reta ler, and where a concession was vouchsafed the consumer it would be too insignificant to figure in the total expense of a family’s support. ” Confusion worse confounded! The consumer will not get lower prices, and yot he will go off and buy foreign goods and ruin the domestic manufacturers! How could the home market for homo goods be ruined unlo s consumer himself could buy foreign goods cheaDer? A market for goods Is not made by accident or caprice; it depends upon the intelligent choice of the consumer in seeking for the best goods at the lowest price Unless lie can get this in Europe our American manufacturers have nothing to fear from the freest competition: and if he <an got it, then our-wan-ufacturers aio now enjoying tho benefit of an artificial price made possible by tho restrictive tariff. But our manufacturers are afraid, very much afraid, of such competition; and this fart is conclusive proof that they are squeezing tariff prices out of the domestic consumer!

The “American System.”

When Henry Clay, in 1828, wanted to make his high tariff policy populaij he cast about for a name that would appeal to the people; he, therefore, called his high tariff bill the “American system,” saying that it was “to lay the foundation of a genuine American policy.” The cheap folly of th's clap-trap was at once pointed out by Daniel Webster. “Since the speaker denominated the policy he recommends,” said Webster, “a now policy in the country, one is a little curious to know why this imitation of other nations is denominated an ‘American policy,’ while, on the contrary, a preference for our own established system is called a ‘foreign policy.’ Sir, that is the truest American policyßvhlch shall most usefully emp oy American capital and American labor, and best sustain the whole population. He seems to me to argue the question as if all domestic industry were confined to the production of manufactured articles, as if the employment of our own < apital and our own labor in the occupation of commerce ano navigation were not as emphatically domestic industry as any other occupation. “One man Lakes a yard of cloth at home; anothir man raises agricultural products and buys a yard of imported cloth. Both these are equally the earnings of American industry. There is no foundation for the distinction which attributes to certain emp’oyme its the appellation of ‘American industry.’ ”

Beating Pauper Labor.

Our high tariff cranks are quite sure that the American labor cannot compete with the “| anper labor” of the old world. The “el ahs of Egypt” and the “ryots of India” are to their minds the most formidable competitors in the whole world because the most poorly paid. But our farmers t’o compete with the fellahs and the ryots and beat them in a free market. In 1896 our to ton.growers sold England 4,480,203 bales of co ton, weighing 400 pounds each, against only 1,086,376 sold there from Egypt and India together. This was done last year, and the present year will make a still better showing; and all this in the face of what Uncle Jerry Rusk calls “a well nigh ruinous competition with the labor of * * * the miserable fellah of Egypt and of the unfortunate, half-starved Indian ryot, working for pauoer wages, nog e tint all the amehities of life In order that women and children as well as men may work in the fields.” 1 efc it is a~ainst this labor that our Southern cotton-growers compete successfully without any help and with harm alone from our glorious system of “protection for Amer can labor.” If they do it, why cannot some other people? “Legitimate Fruit.” The American wool clip this year is 5,000,000 pounds less than it was last year. The New York Tribnne Das made the impudent claim that the enormous crops of wheat and corn rSised by our farmers this year are in part to be credited to the McKin ey tariff law, sin e “the principal object of the new tariff was to afford better protection to agriculture. ” The large crops appear to this blind eader of blind protectionists as “the legitimate fruit of a tariff intended for that purpose;” for the farmers, thus encouraged, increased their production in every direction. Will the Tribnne toll us whether that 5,0C0.00i) pounds shortage in the Wool clip is another “legitimate fruit of a tariff intended for that purpose?”

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST

OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING; Important Happenings of Hie Wrote— Crimes and Casualties Suicides— Deaths—Weddings, 1- tc. —Little son of John McKinzie, Madison, was drowned. —Chas. Odell, 9, fell from a raft at Michigan City, and was drowned. —Patton & Roberson’s commissary at Petrona was blown up by dynamite. Loss $4,000, —David Hays had a horse and buggy stolen from a public hitchingrack in Muncie. —Glass wage dispute has been settled at Muncie and the blowers have returned to work. —W. H. liotstetter, near Jamestown, has a coat worn by Maj. Byrd during the revolution. —Beginning Oct. 1, there will be a tri-daily mail delivery between Jeffersonville and New Albany. —James Kelley, a Pan Handle brakemau at Richmond, fell from a car and was fatally crushed. —Henry Ticinan, Columbus, was kicked by a horse. His breast was caved in and he cannot get well. —The Fifth Indiana Cavalry Association will hold its ninth annual seunion at Franklin, Oct 14 and 15. —Miss Jane Hertman, a maiden lady 53 years old, was found dead in her bed from heart disease at Seymour.

—Grain elevator at Idaville fell. More than 5,000 bushels of wheat was scattered on the ground. Loss, $5,000. —lsaac Stout, who was injured at the Jeffersonville car works, had his eyeball removed. A nail had pierced it to the core. —Sarah Ilobinctt, daughter of L. Robinctt, of New Washington, was burned to death by her clothes taking fire at a stove. —Rev. A. N. Somers, of Black River Falls, Wis., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian Church of LaPorte. —Mrs. Arney, of Goshen, was struck by a Lake Shore limited and knocked some distance. Her only injury was a broken arm. —John Benin was found dead on the track of the I. &T. S. near Sullivan. He had been run over and mangled by a passing train. —Alonzo Francisco, aged 20, the station agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wirt, near Madison, committed suicide with a revolver. —A Peru woman has an alleged mad-stone, and Luther Lawrence, a 13-year-old boy of Warren, Ind., has been taken to her for treatment. —W. R. Asher, who went from Martinsville to Oklahoma last winter, has been appointed Probate Judge of the Territory by Gov. Steele, formerly of Marion.

—G. A. Collins, of Jeffersonville, has in his possession a copy of the Declaration of Independence dated July 4, 1776. It is written on parchment and well preserved. —Thomas Brown has brought suit at Washington against the O. &M. railroad. Says he was riding a velocipede on the tracks by permission and was run into by a freight train. Wants $5,000. —William Dougan, a farmer near Princeton, got on his horse to chase three men who had been tiring at his dog. The horse returned riderless and the farmer was found unconscious by the roadside with an ugly wound in his head. He can not recover. —Walter Buckworth, near Franklin, will never be killed. He had typhoid fever, pneumonia, mumps and measles right after each other. Then he was kicked by a horse, had a few ribs broken and his cheek cut open. He got over all these and the other day was run over by a threshing machine. The wheels passed over his shoulders and head and his jaw was broken. He will recover.

—John A. Lysles, employed in John A. Ilatz & Son’s sawmill, Evansville, met with an accident from which he cannot recover. He was working in front of the double saws, when they became choked up, and taking a ragged piece of timber he attempted to clear the saws. One struck the piece of timber, driving it back with such force that it was driven into the lower part of his abdomen, passing clear through his body. His physicians say he cannot recover. He has a wife and two small children.

—John Walters’ 6-year-old son was burned to death in his father’s barn situated in the north end of Wabash County. The child presumably set fire to the hay while playing. Mr. Walters was away from home when the lire broke out, and when he returned three men were required to prevent him from rushing into the burning embers to find his boy’s remains. Later the bones were recovered and buried at Gilead, Miami County. The loss on the building which contained Mr. Waiters’ crop of wheat, is $3,000, with no Insurance. It is feared that Walters may be driven insane with grief. —Thomas Blakely, a railroad brakeman, in jail at Evansville on a charge of stealing a coat from a brother employe in the E. & T. H. yards at that place, committed suicide by hanging himself to his cell-door with a strip of blanket. —The question of permitting colored children to attend the public schools at Charleston has beem amicably settled. ’ A teacher has been provided for the colored children, and and an apartment has been divided off for them. •

—Jonesboro is having a big boom. Large rubber works just started up. —Bloomfield is on a boom. More than SB,OOO worth of new streets will be built. —Dr. J. S. Thomas’ barn and horses were burned at Winn mac. Loss SI,OOO. —Thieves got SSOO diamond ring and jewelry from Chas. Kumlers’ residence at Peru. —An apple tree near Corydon is three feet in diameter and the apples weigh a pound. —New Albany is contemplating the erection of a soldiers’ monument in the market place. —Joseph Swope, a farmer, was badly hurt in a runaway while returning homo from Lebanon. —There is project on luot to establish a Dunkard college at Ladoga, Montgomery County. —The wife of O. B. Brooks, Kokomo, has disappeared. Left a note saying she would never return. —The women of North Grove, Miami County, are making war on the only saloon in the place. —Rebecca Mclvee. an old colored wonfim at Muncie, fell under a train and received fatal injuries. —Mrs. Mary Watt, aged 81, and a resident of Delaware County for sixty years past, died at Albany. —The Jackson County Bank has been changed to the Seymour National Bank with a capital of $50,000. —Geo. Vebhage, farmer near Seymour, was badly hurt by being thrown from a backboard (luring a runaway. —Elisha Hubbard, 78, a farmer near Martinsville, tried to go lieneeward by cutting his throat. Can’tget well. —The United States Cement Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, will erect a large plant at Sellersburg. —Mrs. Annie Hamler, of Kokomo, has sued Elmer Nuding, of Elwood, for $5,000 damages, for breach of promise. —B. F. Adams, of • Bartholomew County, committed suicide because his wife went to Barnum’s show against his wish. —Perry Anderson, a new brakeman on the Panhandle, had his hand mashed at'Columbus, within an hour after going to work. —The Emerson Manufacturing Company, of Sunman, struck a vein of water at thirty feet that shot up live feet above the surface. —lt is estimated that Rev. John E. Newhouse, near Greencastle, will gather 8,000 bushels of apples from an elcvfen-acre orchard this fall. —Theodore Crawford, of Vincennes, who was stealing his way from Terre Haute, fell beneath the wheels and was ground to death. —Joseph J. Jauls, a tramp, was fatally shot by another of his fraternity, during a fight in a graveyard at Mount Vernon, where the men were drinking j a keg of beer. —William Kelly broke away from Officer Bass at the jail door, in Anderson, and made a break for liberty. He climbed a fence, but was brought to a halt by a shot that pierced both his thighs. ■ —Wm. Hewitt, Vincennes, has sued the prohibition people of Monroe City for $5,000 damages. At a town election to deside the “wet or dry” question the Prohi’s won-and celebrated with a cannon. It exploded and Hewitt had liis leg broken. —The boiler in the shingle and bolt factory of James Wilhite, at Darlington exploded. Wesley Philips, the engineer, was standing in front of the boiler and he was blown fifty feet away. He is badly injured and can hardly live. Several others were slightly injured, while the building is a total wreck.

—The 5-year-old daughter of Mr. William Knore, a farmer residing ten miles from Evansville, was fatally wounded recently. During Mr: lvnore’s absence from the house his little nephew, Charley Gumpleberg, proenred a pistol and playfully jxunted it at the little girl. It was discharged in some manner, the ball entering the child’s face and passing downward, causing her death. —Matthew Brady, the 0-year-old son of Mr. J. P. Brady, of Evansville, while attempting to cross the street railway track in front of an approaching car, stumbled and fell against the mules. The animals kicked him causing him to fall lengthwise across the rail, and before the car could be stopped the wheels passed over onq of his legs and across his body, cutting him almost in two. He was picked up and carried into a store near by, where he died in five minutes.

—A strange coincidence was noted at Marshall in the death of Mrs. Mary Arbuckle. She died on Sunday and was buried on Tuesday afternoon. Four years ago her husband died on Sunday and was buried Tuesday afternoon. The same minister officiated at both funerals, the same pall-bear-ers were used and the same persons sang. The husband died on his wife's sixty-sixth birthday. Five years before the oldest son of the family died on Mrs. Arbuckle’s sixty-first birthday. Mr. Arbuckle was a resident of Marshall for fifty-five years. —W. T. Justice, of Kokomo, was run over by the cars, getting his right leg so mangled that amputation was necessary. His recovery is doubtful. —Gas is not giving out in Indiana. Every new well drilled shows a strong pressure which goes to show that gas is as plentiful now as when first struck. —The Leitzman Sorghum Manufacturing Company has put in the largest plant in the world at Mooresville. It has a daily capacity of o thousand gallons of molasses.

JOSEPH BALES’ CRIME.

Ho Foully Stubs a Fellow-Laborer to Uu Heart. A desporate murder which was perpetrated at the docks of the Western Transit Company, Chicago, was followed by a succession of ovonts rivaling in sensational features tho most lawloss sections of the far Wost A young Irish dock laborer namod Cornelius Sullivan was stabbed and instantly Killed by a colored youth namod Jo ph ltales, and this deed was followed by two determined efforts at lynching, which, through a mero chance of circumstances, wore in both i uses unsuccessful. A crowd of ’longshoremen and laborers had gathered to receive their wages which are paid daily. Ot.hors were also on tho spot looking for work. Ono of thoso named Sandy Smith was about to enter the tiltico to cash his time check when ho was accosted by a white dock laborer turned Richard Taylor. A dispute ensued and Joseph llalcs stepped forward to interfere in the quarrel a i also did Cornelius Sullivan Tho latter ask d Halos why ho wanted to interfere and Halos dr. w a knife and in an instant drove it into Sullivan’s chest, piercing tho heart and causing instant death. To make sure of his victim Hales withdrew tho knife and again buried tho blade in | the fallen man’s neck. Aitor stabbing 1 Sullivan Halos retreated a few paces and waved tho knife with the air of | a desperado. The dead man’s friends i had gatherod around tho body, and | finding life was extinct a shout of mingled rage and revenge was raised. ! It was taken up by the ovor-increas- , ing crowd ol strong dock-men, and a ’ unanimous cry of “Lynch him,” “llaug | him," warned Ba'os of ills insecurity, i Ho started off at a rapid run, which served only to increase tho fury of the crowd, and Immediate pursuit was bogun. One of tho foremost pursuers, William McUuinnoss, drew a revolver and trlod to bring down tho colored youth. Ono bullet took effect and Halos was soon t > stagger and grasp his arm where tho bul.othad lodged. Anothor shot wont wide and struck James Donovan, who had joined tho crowd. Justus tho crowd closed in on Hales a citizen namod Geo go Valentino, who I occupied a buggy, observed tho condition of affairs. Calling upon T. C. Kano, and also to tho man .McUuinnoss, ho sci cd Halos and lifted him into tho vehicle. With his pistol at Hales' head McUuinnoss guarded tho murderer, while \ alontino drove speodlly to tho Chicago Avenue Station. The fact of Halos' escaping from Its wrath saorned to excite the crowd still further. A cry was raised that Kandy Smith, who originated tho trouble, was an onlooker, and before tho luckless man could utter a word of remonstrance ho was sot upon by a dozen men. A cry of ‘String him up” was raised and reechoed by many throats, and In a second a rope was procured. Trembling with the sudden fear of death, with his clothes torn to shreds, and blood trickling down his face, .th ■ wretched man ploadod piteously for mercy. The blood of tho mob wus at fever heat, however, and a noose was quickly made and passed with no gcntlo hands over Ills head. Ho was hurried onder a beam, and the crowd closed In for the death. In an instant ho would have swung aloft had not tho crowd been rough y parted, and a police officer, eoatless and hatloss. stood beside the terr.fied man. It was Ofticor I’. Reynolds, who lives In an adjacent house, lie had been awakened from a sound sleep aft'r a long night of duty, l eaping out of bed, ha slipped on a pair of trousers, and, snatching up a brace of revolvers, rushed to the scene of tho Intended hanging. Reaching Smith, he cried: “Stop; f arrest this man,” and with a revolver in each hand ho Interposed himself between the crowd and Smith. The crowd was so taken by surprise that for several seconds not a move was made. After tho mob was deprived of its second victim it returned to tho Western Transit Company’s premises, and here a crowd of sullen, vengeful men stood in groups ali day.

THEIR ALL AT STAKE.

Farmer* Unable to Ntuck Their Grain or Secure Thratlient. If the Immense wheat crop of North Dakota Is to b < saved, men and thrashing machines must bo hustled In there wnhin the next few days. Tho St. Paul Jobbers’ Un'on has aroused to tho necessity of helping out the farmers, and a special coinmittco, which made thorough (our of tho State, has made public tho following report: Successive part'al crop failures for tho past two or three years, coupled with the absolute immensity of their present crop, find tho farmers In that young and newly settled district who ly unprepared t> perform the increased labor thrown upon them Instead of the regular Increase In population by immigration, such as had occurred for many previous years, there has no doubt been a decrease, so that, although harvest hands have been in active demand at high wages, few could bo secured, lor tho simple reason that they aro not thoro. Doth tho Northern Pacific and tho Great Northern Railways have been sending men up there for two months past at nominal rates of fare, but the demand is far from being satisfied. This scarcity of men lias prevented the stacking of grain, as is done in ail the older sections of the North we t, and to-day at least 80 per cent of the wheat stands in shocks In the fields where it grew. In this condition it is unprotected from damage by ra'n, and should a long period of wet weather set In there is no te ling what damage may te done or how much of the magnificent crop maybe ultimately lost. In order to keep all the thrashing machines in tho neighborhood at work, the farmers arc helping each other and thrashing from tho shock. It takes about twenty-five men to keep a machine running in this way, including the number hauling from tho scattered shocks. Thus, while one man’s grain is being thrashed that of ail his neighbors, who are helping him, lies at the risk of damage and loss in their fie ds In many localities whore crops have been poor, or have failed before, there are no thrashing machines to be had, and even this “help-your-neighbor” class of work is not befng done Competent authority says that 100 additional machines can find three months’ steady work in North Dakota at better prices than are usually paid. It is certain that all who can be induced to go then* can do «o. About forty-fivo day 9 mor* remain for plowing before the ground will freeze, when it cannot be done. Ix Portugal peers and Deputies receive $335 a year.

VAST SEA OF FLAME.

FRICHTFUL DEVASTATION IN THE NORTHWEST. MiUiocs of Feet of Standing Timber Burned In Minnesota—Duluth In Semt-Darknesx and the Fog Horn Necessary to Guide Vessels. Finlay son’s Night of Terror. , Away from the scene of devastation 9y fire in the Northwest the situation has been but little understood. Ninetyfour in the shade, 113 in tho sun, was the torrid tale told by Twin City thermometers. The public schools were closed for a woek. It v has been hard work to check the fires In forosts and fields, and they are still burning, in many places furiously. The greatest damage so far reported is at Bradleys, Dak., tho business portion of the little town reduced to ashes. The total loss Is figured at $60,000, almost wholly uninsured. Not a single business house remains. The buildings burned were ono church, one hotel, soveral general stores with all their stock, and two or three dwellings. The country adjacent to Bradley is said to have beon almost entirely devastated ovor an area twelve miles wide by twen-ty-five long, tho destruction being almost entire to crops and farm property. The fires in North Dakota are pretty well under control, except around Oakes, where several miles of wheat fields are reported burned over.' Otto Fredericks, engaged In plowing a fire break, was overtaken and burned to doatb, together with his team.

Flnlayson, Minn., had a night of terror. Tho village wan thrown into the wildost state of excitement by the report that a windstorm was driving a forest fire directly toward tho town, and complete destruction was threatened. The news had scarcely reachod the citizens before tho smoke and smell of burning pine trees came on the wings of tho wind. Telograms were at once despatched to th i officials of the St Paul and Duluth Road to stop the limited train golug east at Flnlayson and hold It until tho women and children of tho town could bo sent away. This was done and the train was held until the weaker ones of all the families wore placed aboard and sent down the road.

The flames had reached tho outskirts of the vilago, and tho male mombors of the families commenced tho work of saving tho buildings. All night long thoy.battled with tho flames, and, aided by tho cessation of the wind, were finally successful. Tho fires around Pino City have been quenched. At Hinckley, Minn., ulso, the fire company and citizens did battle with tho fierce tiros. Scorched by the l aines and suffocatod In the blinding smoke, they have fought an entire day for their homos. The wind subsided and the fires diod down, but again a stiff breeze, which soon blew into a ga'o, sprung up in tho southeast and fanned the smo dering fire into fierce life. Tho initiates of tho Lamvers lumber camp escaped by got ting In the river and stuyln r there all night. A party of six men startod from ono of tho Brennan Lumber Company camps to go to anothor about two miles away. I .’an Sullivan, Ids brother, of Mora, and Tom Johnson, of Kau Claire, were of this party After going a short ways they got in front of tho fire and Dan Sullivan, missing his brother, went back with Johnson to look for him. That was the last seen of them till their remains wore found by John Brodio and their campmatos. Tho bodies were lying about twenty-four foot apart Sullivan was buint to a crisp, but Johnson’s body was only badly scorched. Fino ashes and burnod leaves fell in a shower over Duluth, whllo the sky was so colored and tho sun so obscured that the Government fog whistle at tho harbor mouth was forced to'blow to guide In vessels. East, toward Ashland, fires are doing immense damage to settlers and crops, besides wip ng out vast quantities *of standing pine. Tho intensely hot weather has mado the wooded regions like tinder. Thu range of the Arles is toward Ashland, and their progress is aidod by tho fact that a week ago a heavy wind blow down much\imbor, the foliage of which has now dried out sufficiently to aid tho flames. Passongois arriving in Duluth from the south’say that all along the line of the St. Paul and Duluth Road fires are raging and great damage has been done the towns of iiarnum, Mahtowa, Sturgeon Lake and Kettle River. In t(io standing timber near tho railway on the ilnp of tho Eastern Mlnnosota ; north of Hinckley, considerable valuable timber has been ruinoJ and fires are still raging. On the Northern Pacific, east toward Ashland, fires are doing Immense damage to settlers and crops, besides wiping out vast quantities of standing pine. Near Iron River, thirty miles east of Duluth, where there are many settlers, they are losing valuable property while working hard to save their houses. The fire destroyed several hundred acres of grain near Nicholson, N. D The heavies losers are W. Crams and John Swoetman. A man and boy whose names are unknown were fatally burned while plowing a fire-break. The four horses they were using were also burned. The fire caught from a*.“Soo" freight train. * A large area of South Dakota, after days of sweltering heat and fire fighting, was visited by a soaking rain which brought relief to people almost in the last stages of exhaustion.

SEVEN HUNDRED DEATHS.

Terrible Result* of an Kpldemto of Dysentery In Oita. A landslide near Togiro buried twenty workmen, of whom four perished. At Vancouver, B. C, the steamship Empress of China arrived from Hongkong and brings the following advices: In the Oita Prefecture of Japan 3,000 cases of dysentery are reported, with 700 deaths. During the ce’ebration of the feast of lanterns at Jokotecbo, Akita Prefecture, a bridge fell, owing to 'the pressure of the throng, and more than 100 persons were precipitated into the water. Over twenty were injured and several lives were lost J. A. Leonard, United States Consul General at Shanghai, telegraphed Admiral Belknap, saying: “A Shanghai morning paper has a telegram received last night saying there was a riot at Ichang. The mission and all foreign property was burned. No lives were lost” Admiral Bolknap sent immediately the Alliance and Palos to Yangtse. 1 A special telegram to the Japan Mai) says:' “A riot occurred at Ichang. All foreigners' property at the was burned, but no lives were lost The foreign residents are under arms. *