Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — Page 2

gljc JleniocratuScntiiiel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Pctbusheb.

KILLS WIFE AND CHILD

DBED OF A MILWAUKEE MAN. fiThe Northwest Locked in Fetters of Frost —Big Haul at a Little Bank—Three Men J Killed by a Powder Explosion. > A Family Wiped Out. William R. Binder, living at Milwaukee, •hot his wife and little girl. 5 years of age, And then shot himself Monday morning. AH three are dead. Binder was the head Bookkeeper of B. Leldersdorf & Co. Mr. ■Heidersdorf was his uncle and Binder had Tor years been his manager and right-hand man. The real cause for the tragedy will tiever be known, unless It is given in let■ters written by Binder to relatives living da Michigan and Virginia. It is supposed ito be due to overwork and disappointment 3n business matters. Mrs. Binder and the little girl, Evelyn, were shot while asieep. ‘The mother lived an hour and the child until noon. Binder died almost instantly.

AN ENTIRE FAMILY POISONED. Arsenic Placed in a Barrel of Flour in an Ohio HouseholdSix weeks ago William Crawley, whc lives near College Corner, Ohio, and hit ■wife and child were taken suddenly s'c c under peculiar circumstances. The symptoms pointed strongly to poison, and Dr. Kell, of Liberty, discovered, to the great surprise of the family; that the drinking water which they had using contained oxide of arsenic. A few days ago the family was stricken .down and the symptoms for a second time resembled poison. The sufferings of the father and son were terrible. The little boy died. Among those who attended the funeral were Monroe Blas, wife and two children and Mrs. Joseph Baker and her two grown-up daughters. all of College Corner. They all remained at the Crawley residence for dinner and partook freely of the meal. By 6 o’clock, when the party arrived home. Mr. Blas and his two daughters were very sick, remaining so until the next morning, when they recovered. It is believed that poison got into the Crawley flour barrel, and an investigation will result. Mr. Crawley died. TRIED TO BURN THE BOSS. Fearful Revenge Planned by Hungarian Railroad Laborers in Ohio. A party of Hungarians, who were working on the Panhandle extension above New Cumberland, Ohio, on Saturday locked their boss up in a large tool-box, because of some Imaginary grievance, and deliberately kindled a Are around It They were awaiting hts cremation when the teamsters employed on the work came along, drove them •way, and released the partially suffocated man. After being rescued from such a horrible death It Is reported that the boss repaired to his boarding-house and armed himself, returned to where the Huns were gathered together, opened fire on them, and scattered the gang, slightly wounding two. The Huns who took a prominent part in the affair have left for parts unknoan.

DYNAMITE SHAKES A TOWN. Unknown Person Explodes a Bomb at Searcy, Ark. The citizens of Searcy. Ark., were awakened at 2 o'clock Monday morning by a terrific dynamite explosion, which wrecked many buildings. Unknown parties exploded a dynamite bomb in front of the Jewelry store of A A Bullard. The store and contents were completely wrecked; loss. $25,090. Buildings for blocks around were more or less damaged. The perpetrators of the deed are unknown. Their motive is a mystery. Crespo’s New Treaty. The new cabinet of the Venezuelan republic has just made public its action as to a reciprocity treaty with this country. Crespo and his council are in sympathy with the North American policy of reciprocity. and when Dr. Francisco Bustamonte, the new Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to this country, arrives here next month he will bring a copy of the treaty between the United States of North America and the United States of Venezuela Carnegie Men Rejected. There was considerable excitement about the offices of the Carnegie mills at Beaver Fells when the old men presented themeelves for work. All expected to go to work with the exception of the six members of the advisory board. About fifty of the old men wore refused, which was quite a surprise to them. The action has caused no little talk and considerable feeling among the men.

Eight Below in Minnesota. •< The Northwest has got its first cold spell of the season. In Manitoba and the northern portion of Minnesota the .temperature was 8 degrees below zero Monday. In Bt. Paul it was 0 below at 7 o'clock, while in bath the Dakotas it was below zero but grew warmer. The cold wave progreased southeastward and over the lake region. Jewelry Store Blown Up with Dynamite, i At Searcy, Ark., the jewelry store of A A. Ballard was blown up by dynamite, causing a loss of $25,009. The Court Bouse also suffered several thousand dollars* damage, and window classes for a distance of four blocks were broken. The dwelling of K. J. Crow was destroyed by fire at the same time. Cholera Breaks Out Again

j Cholera is again showing Itself in Belgium. There have been two deaths from the disease In Brussels, and several cases are reported in Bruges and Mona Fatally Cat His Throat with an Ax. John Johnson died at Ashland, Wls. H« cut his throat at Mason with an ax. H« was an oid logger. Drunkenness is the only cause assigned. Powder Explodes in a Mine. A powder explosion occurred short!? after noon Monday at the Blanch coal mine, located at the west end of Colliers, W. Va. Twenty-five kojs of powder exploded, causing the Instant death of three niners.uyd the wounding of eight others, three will probably die. Ashland, 111., Bank Robbed. Between 11 o'clock Sunday night and C o'clock Monday morning the banking-house Skiles, Bearick A Co.. Ashland, 111., was entered by burglars and robbed of nearly *3,000 in currency. fe’-S i ~ Stole All the Cows In Town. O. B. Renter, a Waco. Texas, young man Offcrmer high social standing, stole all the cows belonging to the people of the town o! Mart, twenty miles from Waco, and drove them to market He was prosecuted on one of the six indictmentsand got five years iu the penitentiary. Fatal Freight Wreck. A freight wreck occurred at Allegrippus, Pa. Three men are probably fatally . nenman hey for die

THREE DEAD, SIXTEEN HURT. Awful Accident at a Democratic Jollification—Two Kegs of Powder Explode. The Democrats of' Mountain View, Ark., held a Presidential election celebration in the district school-hoc’'n at that place the other night, and a terrible disaster ended the proceedings prematurely. Anvil firing r.nd a discharge ot fireworks were feature* of the jollification. A portion of these had been stored in the school-house. During the speechmaking and while the building was packed with men, women, and children two kegs of powder exploded. The results were frightful. The school house was totally wrecked and most of Its occupants buried in the ruins. Those who could extricate themselves set about at once to rescue others. Shrieks and moans came from the mass of wrecked timbers, and it was evident that the calamity was a terrible one. The dobris took fire in several places and it required hard work to prevent the cremation of the Imprisoned victims. The flames were subdued, however, and only one person suffered from the fire. A son and daughter of Silas Graham were taken out dead, and Berry Sherod, one of the most prominent residents of Washington County, was so badly injured that he has since died. Another man. whose name has not been learned, was also fatally hurt Fifteen others were seriously Injured, but their names have not been ascertained. Berry Sherod suffered horrible agonies, mentally as well as physically, before he was go: out of the ruins. He was pinne 1 down by the timbers, and was burned beyond recognition. He lived several hours after being rescued.

IN SECRET SESSION. Questions of Vital Importance to Be Considered in Conference. In the marble palace of Archbishop Corrigan. on Madison avenue. New York, there is progressing a conference which may have results of a far-reaching character. Catholic archbishops are conferring upon subjects of grave Importance, not alone to their own followers but to tne people at large. It goes without saying that the conclave is hedged abjut with privacy, and the avenues of public information are few. Cardinal Gibbons Is said lobe presiding, and the occasion gainsunusual interest from the presence of Archbishop Satolli. the Pope's delegate to this country. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, is present, and It is thought that he will meet all inquiries from any source relative to his views on the American school question. The educational question. It is believed, is being thoroughly considered by the conference Among other matters it Is understood that the convention will be asked by Archbishop Katzner. of Milwaukee, accurately to define the term “secret society.” This request is in deference to the wishes of the German Catholics of the West, and is said to have in view the Knights of Pythias, the United Workmen, and other societies without spiritual direction, which have profited by the liberality of the church, while in consequence of this liberality the benevolent societies which have placed themselves under the direction of the church have not prospered to a corresponding degree

KNIGHTS OF LABOR MEET. Finances of the Great Organization on a Prosperous Basis. The report of General Secretary and Treasurer Hayes of the Knights of Labir, in session at St Louis, begins with a statement of the condition of the benefit Insurance feature of the order's work, which, owing to lack of support by the members, nas not been very successful. He urges the delegates to adopt measures to arouse the interest of the membership in this part of the work of the order. His financial statement shows that, including the balance on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year July 1, 1891. the total receipts of the order have been $60,614.19, and the total expenditures 559.748.82, leaving a balance on hand on July 1. 1892, of $865.37. The membership of the order has increased slightly during the past year, and has now over 260.000 members in good standing. Except slight balances duo some of the general officer! on salary, the order is entirely clear of debt; all its property, including the general headquarters In Philadelphia, some coal mining property in Indiana, and other property in Missouri and elsewhere, is fully paid for. and foots up a total value of in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO.

AGRICULTURISTS MEET. Reports from the Various Committees Show Improvement In AU Branches. The convention of the Association ot Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations, st New Orleans, was called to order by President Brown. Reports of the chairmen ot sections were submitted, showing the progress made In the colleges In the Increased attendance of pupils, in the improvements ot buildings, apparatus, laboratories, and additions to the curriculum The section of agriculture reported through 0. L. Ingersoll, of Nebraska, the section of botany reporting through E. M. Tracey, of Mississippi The section of chemistry reported through M. A. Scoville, of Kentucky. The section of entomology reported through Lawrence Brumer, of Nebraska. The section of college work reported through E ,M. Turner, of West Virginia. President Brown lead bls annual address. He expatiated upon the many and important advantages to result from the Morrill bill as regards increasing the revenues and educational facilities of the colleges in the national educational system. YELLOW FEVER IN MEXICO. One Thousand Persons Have Died from the Disease In Cordoba. A letter received by James Gallagher of New York from a friend In Cordoba, Mexico, gives a most distressing account of the state of affairs there. Yellow fever has raged with awful violence and carried away almost 1,000 ot the people ot the town. Most ot the inhabitants have fled to the mountains to escape the plague. On the day when the letter was written the writer said the only living beings that could be seen in the streets were a few convicts who had been pressed into service for carrying the dead. Trade has been utterly paralyzed. Cordoba is a pretty little town In the heart of the Orizaba Mountains. Mexico. It has about 4,000 inhabitants.

Must Pay Full Fare. The consideration of rates to the World's Fair occupied nearly a whole day’s session at New York of the presidents of the trunk lines The result will be a disappointment to those who looked for a great reduction from present transportation charges. On all trains scheduled at thirty-five hours or less between Chicago and New York the Presidents decided that the rates now charged shall be maintained. During the Exposition on all trains scheduled at more than thirtyfive hours a reduction of 20 per cent, each way from present rates may be made Victims of the Gllcher. A message from Fox Island reports that Charles Bow has found two bodies on the beach with the steamer Gllcher's life pretervers qn them. From papers found on the remains it is believed that one is the body of the steward, named Charles E. Williams. The other is the fireman, named Green. The mizzenmast of the Gllcher was found on the beach at Fox Island. ' Missing Messenger. George W. Bagley, United States express messenger between Chicago and Council Bluffs, on the Rock Island, disappeared after arriving in Davenport lowa at 3 o'clock Friday morning, and the entire police force of the city and private detectives were on a hunt for him. It is understood that with him there disappears a considerable amount of money, although

officials are reticent as to the actual amount Bagley lives in Davenport, was a driver for the company before he went on the road forthem, and has always borne a good reputation. The Chicago officials of the United States Express Company are reticent regarding Messenger Bagley’s disappearance. Vice President Carter Immediately notified the Kansas City agent by wire and instructed him to put half a dozen detectives on the case at once. The Davenport agent of the company was also notified by telegraph to make all possible efforts to run Bagley down. One of the employes said he had heard from an official source that Bagley got away with between $12,000 and $15,000. “It was no uncommon thing for Bagley to bring $100,009 to the city,” said one of the company’s employes, “and it may be that he had a much larger sum with him when he got away than the report gives out. 'i ben again the amount may have been smaller than $12,000, but I think it was fully that”

DEVASTATED BY A TORNADO. Great Destruction Reported at English, . Ind., and Vicinity. An English, Ind., special says: A tornado has continued in this section almost uninterruptedly during the last eighteen hours and Increased to a regular hurricane. The location of English, in a low valley saved it from serious damage, but almost every window and chimney - top in town is wrecked. The fronts of the business houses of Joseph Finch, Luther Griss. and William Temple were blown In. Though the brakes were set to the utmost on cars on the railroad track,every car was driven to the west end, where the foremost of them broke through the bumpert John Jones and Cassie Forbes, while passing over the Blue River bridge, were blown off the bridge a distance of fifteen feet, but before they struck the bottom of the river they were driven eastward a great distance and managed to save themselves. The principal loss will be timber in the surrounding country. On the farm 200 large forest trees were uprooted. Hundreds of acres of unharvested corn is blown from the stalks. The meager reports from the surrounding country indicate that great damage was wrought END OF THE AMAZONS. King Behanzin’s Female Troops Are Practically Exterminated. Dispatches from Col Dodds, commander of the French expedition to overthrow King Behanzin and his Amazonian army, in Dahomey, reports that the French troops reached Cana, ten miles from Amboy, the capital of the kingdom. The natives resisted Ills advance desperately, but were routed in every fight, and King Behanzin’s forces, including the remnant of his Amazonian body guard, were reduced to about 1,590, and could not cope with the French troops in ppen battle. The Dahomeyan kingdom was founded in the seventeenth century. The natives are pure negroes and livein fetish worship and extreme barbarism. The Amazons mutilate captives so horribly that Col. Eodds ordered that no quarter should be given and all prisoners be shot. It has been a campaign of extermination. The Amazons, who numbered 6,000 when the French invasion began, have mostly been killed.

Kansas City’s Big Revival. Kansas City was given over to religion Friday. Evangelist B. Fay Mills has been conducting a revival there for two weeks, and Friday was set apart as a midweek Sabbath for business men and their employes. Many business houses closed their doors, and the evangelist addressed great crowds at the Third Regiment Armory. A feature of the day was the neighborhood prayer meetings throughout the residence portions of the city. Three thousand converts to Christian ity have been made during the two weeks of the revival. Vengeance Followed Swiftly. Thursday evening at a place just over the North Carolina line an officer was killed while trying to arrest a desperate character. The slayer was captured by a posse and was being taken to Cheraw, in South Carolina, for safe keeping. The train was stopped and boarded by a mob with blackened faces. They took the prisoner from his guards and hanged him within sight of the railroad track. Neither the name of the officer nor that of the man who was lynched has been obtained. Trouble with Indians Expected. There is fear of an Indian outbreak on the part of the Navajoi in Arizona. Gen. McCook telegraphed the War Department expressing fear of an uprising. Black Horse, a discontented Indian chief, is held responsible for the trouble. There are 15,000 male Indians in the Navajo country. Most of ihe Indians have worked away from the limits of their reservation. The intention, it practicable. Is to .give them the land they are now occupying Instead of the reservation they have deserted.

Death Blow to the Strike. Ihe Homestead strike received Its death blow Friday. The men who came out on sympathy have not during the strike worn such happy faces as they did that day. During the day over 1,009 had their names registered in the company’s books as applicants for positions. The mechanics and laborers had a meeting in the morning and almost unanimously decided to disregard the mandate of the Amalgamated and apply for work, and accept the terms they could obtain from the company. Red Bud, HL, Storm-Swept. Two people were killed, twelve seriously hurt, many more injured, and eighty-four buildings demolished by a cyclone at Red Bud, Randolph County, HL, Thursday morning.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... f 3.25 © 6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 @ 6.00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 ©6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 172 @ .73 Corn—No. 2 41 © .42 Oats—No. 231 © .32 Rye—No. 249 © .60 Butter—Choice Creameryß9 @ .31 Eggs—Fresh 22'*@ .23W Potatoes—New, per bu7o *© .80 IN DIAN APOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 6.00 Hogs- -Choice Light 3.60 © 6.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 © 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.• 67 @ .6714 Corn—No. 2 White4o © .41 Oats —No. 2 White us @ .361 a ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hous 4.00 @6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 6714@ .csj* Corn—No. 2.40 © .41 Oats—No. 2 31 © ,31'i Rye—No. 2 46 @ .48 CINCINNATI. Cattle , 3.00 @ 4.76 nogs 3.00 © 6.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 @ .71*$' CORN—No 2. .4414© .4614 Oats—No. 2 Mixed3s © .3514 RYE—No. 253 © .55 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.50 Sheep 3.00 © 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 7214@ .73)4 COBN—No. 2 Yellow 44 © .43 Oats—No. 2 White .37 © .38 TOLEDO, Wheat—No. 2 73 @ .7* Corn—No. 2 White 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 White3s @ .33)4 Rye 63 @ .55 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.00 ©5.25 Hogs—Best Grades., 4.00 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hardß2 © .83 COBN—No. 2 48 @ .43,>4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 67 © .6714 COBN—No. 341 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 White .34 © .35 Rye-No. 149 © .51 Barley—No. 2. ss @ .67 POBK—Mess 13.75 @14.26 NEW YORK. Cattle. 3.50 @ 6.00 Hoes 8.00 @6.26 Sheep... . 3.90 © 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red7B @ .80 CORN—No. 2 61 & .62 Oats—Mixed Western .36 @ .88 Butter—Creamery .23 @ .82 Pobk—New Mess i*.oo ©l4 to

FOR A NEW STANDARD.

OBJECT OF. THE MONETARY CONFERENCE. To Discuss Ways and Means of Securing an Enlarged Use of Silver Movement Initiated by the United States—AU Leading Nations Co-operating. SUver the I sane. The International Monetary Conference, which has begun at Brussels, Belgium, will doubtless be the most important gathering of recent years so far as its effects upon the fiscal policies of the world are concerned. It will be of especial consequence to the interests of the United States, for this is the chief silver-producing nation of the world, and upon the results of the conference will depend in a large measure the material prosperity of several States of the Union, whose chief wealth consists in their mines of argentiferous ores. The conference was first proposed by the Congress of the United States, and after consultation with representatives of the leading foreign powers its details were formulated and delegates appointed. These consist, on the part of the United States, of ex-Comptroller of the Currency Henry W. Cannon, Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa; Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada; President E. Benjamin Andrews, of Brown University; Congressman McCreary of Kentucky; and Edward O. Leech, Director of the Mint These delegates represent fairly all the views of Americans on the subject of silver coinage. Senator Allison takes a middle view on the question. Senator Jones is confessedly a radical free-coln-age man. Dr. Andrews has written an interesting voluue cn “The Gold Dollar," and his views are almost radically against free silver. Director Leech believes that there is too much silver in the market, and Congressman McCreary is inclined to side with Senator Jones, although by no means as radical on the subject. Duties of the Members. The duties of the delegates have been clearly defined by the act authorizing the conference and also by the Secretary of the Treasury. They have authority simply to discuss and propose,

AMERICA AT THE CONFERENCE

but no power to take final action. The deliberariona will in all likelihood be conducted in the English language. The American delegates will argue for bimetallism, and it is likely that our most bitter opponents will be the English delegation, who believe that we are making a grievous error in purchasing 4,500,000 ounces of silver a month. They think that to stop coining this great mass of silver dollars monthly would drive more bullion abroad, and in that way favorably affect the silver market. No proposition looking to an indorsement of free coinage of sliver will probably be submitted by any of the American representatives. Importance of the Conference. The conference will have the co-ope-ration of all the leading nations. It is likely to be far more important than any monetary conference of recent years. The conference held at Paris during the Exposition of 1888 was not vested with any authority and was productive of no results. A conference was held at Washington last year of the Pan-American countries, but it related merely to devising methods for securing a common coin, and its work was fruitless, because the scheme was impracticable. The present conference will represent every shade of national views. There will be England and Germany, which are upon a gold basis, and Aus ria, which is passing through the conditions necessary to bring it to the same basis, silver having been demonetized. France and the other countries of the Latin Union, which maintain a parity between the two metals while limiting the silver coinage, will be fully represented. India, which is suffering financial convulsions because of its silver basis, wdl have its own representatives, although Great Britain will dictate its policy. Mexico, which is on a purely silver basis and has a large direct trade with Europe, may help in solving the problem. Many suggestions have been made for the guidance of the conference. The one which has been most discussed among financial authorities -is the proposition of Dr. Seytbooer, the eminent Austrian publicist He has suggested an agreement by which the countries taking part in the conference should limit silver coinage to certain small coins, none to exceed in value the twenty franc piece. It is stated that while silver could not thus be placed on a parity with gold, it m ght be maintained at a ratio of about twenty to ond. The actual commercial ratio is now about twen y-four to one. The coinage ratio in the United States is sixteen to one, in the Latin Union and most European countries fifteen and a half to one, and in India fifteen to one. Dr. Seytbooer’s plan is declared by those who have studied it to be too intricate to meet with general adoption. The whole aim of the Brussels conference will be directed toward practical measures, without seeking to revolutionize the existing relations of gold and silver, which could only be done by universal remonetizat on. The Foreign Delegates. The delegates from other countries as far as announced are as follows: Great Britain—Sir William Houldsworth, M. P., for NorthwesVManchester; Bertram Curne, partner in the bank of Messrs. Glynn, Mills, Curne & Co.; Sir Charles Freemantle, K. C. 8., Deputy Governor of the Mint. Government of India—General Richard Strachey, G. P. S., formerly member of the Indian Council; Sir Guilford L. Molesworth, K. C. I. E. France—M. Tirard, formerly Minister of Finance and President of Council; M. L. de Liron, high official in the Department of Finance; M. de Faville, high official in the Department of Finance. Switzerland—Messrs. Cramer, Frey and Lardy, Minister at Paris.

RICH FOR ONE DAY ONLY. Messenger Bagley Takes SIOO.OOO from the United States Express Company. George J. Bagley, a messenger for the United States Express Company, appropriated a package containing #IOO,000 in paper currency, which had been placed in his care in Omaha Thursday night to be deliveied in Chicago Friday morning. Just twenty-four hours after the money had been missed the thieving messenger was arrested in Chicago by

Detectives Weaver and Plunkett, of the Central Station, ty a brilliant coup. And within forty-eight hours after the disappearance of the cash $99,990 of it was locked up in the safe of the United States Express Company in Chicago. Bagley obta ned the money by a brilliantly laid scheme, but once in his possess'on the weight of the currency was too much for his discretion and he completely lost his head. In fact, he was r ‘scared to death,* to use his own words. And his actions subsequently do hot belie them. Bagley began work for the United States Express Company over twelve years ago as a station agent at Davenport, lowa. By years ot service there he became a trusted man, and a year ago last January he was promoted to the position of express messenger and given a run irom Chicago to Omaha on the last train that runs over the Chicago and Bock Island road from Chicago to Denver. This is one of the most important runs in the service, and up to the present time nothing has ever taken place to shake the company’s confidence in Bagley.'

UNCLE JERRY’S REPORT. Work of the Agricultural Department Reviewed by Rusk. The report of the Secretary of Agriculture has been submitted to the President. The report begins with a com-

SECRETARY RUSK.

States the creditor of the world for a sum exceeding $200,000,030 —the excess of our exports over imports—but relieving our home markets from a surplus product which would otherwise have reduced prices to a point below the cost ot production. For a large share in bringing about the conditions which have made these gratifying results possible the Secretary claims credit for his department. In regard to imports he finds encouragement for the farmers in the fact that in spite of an aggregate increase there is a reduction in the proportion of imports consisting of products which compete with our American agriculture, for, while in the fiscal year ended in 1883 54 per cent, ot the imports were competing, only 44 per cent, of our imports for the last fiscal year did so compete. He nevertheless regards imports competing with the products of our own soil as still far too great. He instances $40,000,000 worth of animal products, $67,000,000 worth of fibers, $47,0(10,000 worth of hides, $30,000,000 worth of fruits and wines, as articles of this kinds, and cites the imports of raw silk, amounting to $25,000,000 yearly, as an instance of products imported which could with proper encouragement be produced in bur own country. He declares these figures to indicate the main ultimate object of the work of the department, which he defines, in brief, as “the closest study of all markets abroad which may be reached by our own agricultural products, accompanied by persistent and intelligent efforts to extend them and the substitution in our markets of home-grown for foreign-grown products.”

LABOR LOSES ITS FIGHT. The Great Strike at Carnegie's Homestead Mills Declared Of. The great strike at Carnegie’s Homestead steel works has been declared off. After a five months’ struggle, which for bitterness has probably never been equaled in this country, the ■ army of strikers finally decided to give up the fight. This action was taken at a meeting of the lodges of the Amalgamated Association at Homestead, the vote standing 101 in favor of declaring the strike off and 91 against it. Among those present at the meeting were Vice President Carney, Secretary hilgallon, Treasurer Madden, and David Lynch of the Advisory Board. The officials addressed the members, and in plain words told them the strike was lost, and advised them to take steps to better their condition. The remarks met with considerable opposition, but when the vote was taken it showed a majority of ten in favpr of declaring the strike off. Those who were In favor of calling the strike off were jubilant, while those who were agains; it were badly put out. The Homestead strike has proved one of the most disastrous in the history of the country. It originated from a reduction in wages in the department where members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers were employed. The hitch was on what is known as the sliding scale. It is a scale which regulates the men’s wages by the market price of steel billets. Nearly every mill in this vicinity signed the scale, including other mills of the Carnegie Company. At the refusal of the firm to sign the scale for the Homestead mill, a lockout was declared by the Amalgamated Association, aud they were joined by the mechanics and laborers, who struck out of sympathy only, their wages not being reduced. The strikers were determine 1 to keep nonunion men out of the mi l and adopted military discipline. The story of the arrival and bloody fight with the Pinkertons July 6, the subsequent riotous proceedings, and the calling out of the National Guard, and its departure afier three months’ duty, is too well known to repeit. For six weeks the mill has been running almost as well as before the strike, but until within the last week the strikers have steadfastly refused to admit defeat.

Punch and Judy.

It would surprise a good many persons, probably, to hear that “Punch and Judy” is a Chinese institution, but there seems to be good ground for the supposition, according to a correspondent of a London paper, who says: “A few years ago I witnessed at a garden party given by the general then commanding the troops in Hong Kong the exhibition of a Chinese ’ Punch and Judy,’ which had been brought down from Canton. The general arrangements were precisely the same as those of an English • Punch and Judy,’ the only difference being that instead of the dog Toby there was a wooden figure with clapping jaws, supposed to represent a dragon. The costumes were Chinese, and the piece varied in some respects from that which we see in England, but all the characteristic features were the same. The lesser mandarins were duly knocked over by the big mandarin, with just the same satisfactory whack as that with which Punch disposes of Judy and Jaek Ketch, and all the accessories of vdices, pipes, and scenery corresponded’ to those of the English performance.” The correspondent asks Professor Max Muller and the Congress of Orientalists to decide the nice question whether the Chinese or Europeans are the plagiarists. The cat of the postmaster of Danville, Ind., rings the bell when she wants to enter the house.

DEED OF A DEMONIAC.

A CHICAGO LUNATIC’S MURDEROUS WORK. Herman Sclgler Kills Hto Wife’s Parents, Wounds Her as Weil as a Policeman and Is Checked Only' Sy a Bullet from an Officer’s Revolver. Victims ot u Madman. Herman Siegler, a'cabinet maker, living at No.' 723 North Paulina street, Chicago, got up early the other morning. went to his brother’s house and borrowed a shotgun on the pretext that he wanted to go hunting, returned home, shot and killed his father and mother-in-.aw, seriously wounded his wife, and filled a policeman’s nose full of buckshot, he in return getting a bullet in his abdomen from another officer’s revolver. His work of death was done mainly In the house in which he lived, but after policemen were summoned the battle waged between him from the house and the officers from the street. He emptied a double-barreled shotgun at them . a dozen times and bullets from their revolvers flew in his direction as rapidly as fingers could pull the triggers. Thousands of people attracted by the fusillade swarmed around the house, and when Officer Dan McCarthy finally grappled with and overcame the murderer, they fa'rly howled for his blood. Some one started the cry, “lynch him!” and it was taken up by excited men and women. Although four patrol-wagon loads ot officers were on the ground* they had a herculean task to prevent the infuriated people from making short shrift of the then c wering murderer. Men fought with each other to get at Siegler, each howling “Kill him!" “Lynch the brute!” Step by step, the

parison of the export trade of the last fiscal year with that of former years, and emphasizes the fact that <ff the more than $1,000,000,000, represent ng the exports of our domestic products for the last year, nearly 80 per cent, consisted of agricultural products, this not only making the United

officers, with drawn revolvers, forced their way through the crowd, and evpn when the prisoner was placed in the East Chicago patrol-wagon the danger was not over, for the horses were thrown back on their haunches, while men tried to climb.over the wheels and steps to get at the object of their wrath. He was finally removed in safety to the East Chicago Avenue Police Station and subsequently to the County Hospital. The result of the morning’s bloody work was: Dead. Henry Siles, 66 years old, No. 723 North Paulina street; shot in face, arms, aud body. Mrs. Caroline Siles, 70 years old, No. 723 North Paulinasireet; shot in breast. Wounded. Bertha Guthman, 8 years old, No. 245 West North avenue; shot in left hand by scattering shot. Jeremiah O’Fonoghue, police officer; shot in face and neck; not seriously. Herman Siegler, 37 years old. No. 723 North Paulina street; shot in abdomen: may recover. Mrs. Herman Siegler, 30 years old, No. 723 North Paulina street; shot in face and neck; will recover. Siegler’h Statement. Siegler made the following statement: "About 8:30 o’clock this morning I went to my brother William Siegler’s house, 893 North Hoyne avenue, to get a gun, as I was told by our Lord God up above to go and get a gun. I was born to realize this country. The Lord said to me, ti-day is the day of Judgment, and you have got to be there. I brought the gun home and put it in the Clothes elcset, and after awhile T took it out. Then my mother-in-law came down stairs. She is a witch. She said to me: ‘You have got to die, and I will not go where you want to send me,’ and I shot her in the hall. The old man came down-stairs and I was contused, and I fired at the old man and shot him. I then came out cn the steps and the patrol wagons came. Then I was dumfounded. I have been sick and been feeling bad for some time.” It is strongly believed that Siegler Is insane. Notes of Current Events. The St. Louis Drug Trust has collapsed, owing to cuts in prices. The late James E. Hodge, of New Fork, has left SI,OOO to Hope College, Michigan. Five attempts have been made by ineendiaries to burn the village of Newcastle, Pa. United States Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, who has been seriously ill, is better. Habby Laman, a jockey, was crushed by his horse falling on him at Columbia, S. C., and will die. Secretary Foster estimates that $250,000,000 will annually be required for pensions in a few yeais. A portion of the wall ot the Planters’ Press was blown down at Vicksburg, Miss., by a wind storm. Over 1,500 persons were converted at the revival meetings at Kansas City, conducted by the Rev. B. F. Mills. Attorney General Miller will practice law at Waslrngton after retiring from President Harrison’s Cabinet A new Republican morning daily paper is to be established in Cincinnati with $200,000 capital. It will be known as the Tribune. The death of Wili am Cleveland, second cousin of President-elect Cleveland, occurred at Jeffersonville, Ind. He was 40 years old. Capt. Irving has been relieved of the command of the Teutonic. The steamship company disapproves of his “record breaking” speed. A prairie fire in the Missouri bottoms swept over a tract three miles wide ana twenty miles lone. Six hundred stacks of hay burned. Loss, $70,000. The contest of the will of John Twohig, a banker of San Antonio, Texas, has been settled, the Catholic Church, to which he left his entire fortune of SBOO,OOO, accepting s>oo,ooo. Opposition among St. Louis priests to the appointment of Vicar General Brady to the position of coadjutor to Archbishop Kenrick has brought forth a petition to Rome protesting against his appointment. Forti-three indictments were found at .Tackscu, Miss , in the Federal Court against as many members of the coffin trust, recently formed in that State. The indictments are based on a Federal statute. A fast express on the Atlantic & Pacific road flew the track and rolled down a steep embankment at Tucson Canon, N. M. W. G. Walker, of Mi-souri, was killed and several others were injured, though not seriously.

HOLDING THE OFFICERS AT BAY.

PRESIDENTIAL LANDSLIDES, t Electoral and Popular: Vote from Jackson, to Cleveland, Inclusive. . The following table exhibits thenames, parties, electoral votes and popular votes of Presidential candidates from 1828 to 1892. While it will be seen that political landslides are not infrequent occurrences in this country|the landslide of' 1892 takes in the undisputed vote of the entire country, and is the greatest political surprise since the Scott and Pierce* campaign of 1852: Electoral Popular Year. Candidate. vote. vote. 1828—Jackson, Dem 17b 660,0281828—Adams, Fed. 83 612,168 1832—Jackson, Dem 219 687,602: 1832—Clay, Whig....; 19 660,189 1832—Floyd, Whig...;. u 1832—Wirt, Whig.. 7 1836—Van Buren, Dem;... 170 771.978 1636—Harrison, Whig, 731 1836—White, Whig 26 1836—Webster, Whig..... U f 769,353 1836 —Mangum, Whig u j 1840 —Van Buren, Dem 60 1.128.303 234 1,274,203 1840—Bl mey, Liberty i soo De®l73 1,329,013 1844—Clay, Whig 105 1,231,643 1844—Birney, Liberty 66,304 1848—Taylor, Whig 163 1,362 242 1848—Cass, Dem'. 107 1,223,785 1848—Van Buren, F. 8 291,378 1852 —Pierce, Dem 254 1,685,571 1862—Scott. Whig 42 1,383,537 1852—Hale, F. 8 167,296 1856—Buchanan, Dem 174 1,834,337 IB6o—Fremont, Rep 114 1,341,812 IB6o—Fillmore, Amer 8 873,055 1860—Douglas, Dem 12 1,876,157 1860 —Breckinridge, Dem. 72 845,763 IB6o—Lincoln, Rep 180 1,866,352 1860—Bell, Union 39 689,681 1864—McClellan, Dem 21 1,808,725 1864—Lincoln, Rep...; 216 2,216,067 1868—Seymour, Dem 80 2,703,600 1868—Grant, Rep 214 3.013,188 1872—Greeley, Dem »66 2,834,079 1872—O’Conor, Ind. Dem 29,468 1872—Grant, Rep.... 292 8.597.370 1872—Black, Temp 6 608 1876—Tilden, Dem 184 4,284,885 1876—Hayes, Rep 185 4,063,950' 1876—Cooper, Gk 81,740 1876 —Smith, Pro 9,522 1880—Hancock, Demlßs 4,442,035 JBBo—Garfield, Rep. 214 4,449,053 1880—Weaver, Gk 307,306 1880 —Dow, Pro 10 487. 1884—Cleveland, Dem 219 4,874,980 1884—Blaine, Rep 182 4,861,981 1884—Butler. Gk 1W.3701884 —St. John, Pro 150 399 1888—Cleveland, Dem 168 5,538,660' 1888—Harrison, Rep 233 5,441,902: 1888—Streeter, Labor 147.621 1888 —Fisk, Pro 249,937 1892 —Cleveland, Dem..+276 1892—Harrison, Rep+l43 1892 —Weaver, Gk+ 23 1892—Bidwell, Prot .. 4 . •Mr. Greeley having died before the electoral college voted, 42 of his votes were cast for Thomas A. Hendricks, 18 for B. Gratz Brown, 3 for Mr. Greeley, 2 for Charles J. Jenkins, and 1 for David Davis. tEstlmated for 1892.

HELD FOR A BRUTAL MURDER. Farmer Swarthout’s Sons Arrested on S usplclon of Killing Their Father. According to a dispatch John Henry Swarthout and Ernest Albert Swarthout. are locked up in the county jaifrat Morrison, 111,, charged with the murder of their father, Albert Marion Swarthout, a prosperous farmer living near Morrison. Albert Swarthout was shot while in. h»% barn, not fifty steps from the house; his body was then thrown into a cart, hauled within a stone's throw of the side windows of the farm-house, and dumped into a strawstack, which was set on fire. All of this was done within easy reach of the house, in and around which, according to the statements of the family, there were at the time the two sons, the daughter and her husband, and the wife of the younger son. The boys were arrested on an affidavit sworn to by five of the best-known citizens of the county charging them with guilty knowledge of the crime. It is claimed that the boys were opposed to their father’s approaching marriage with a. young school-teacher in a neighboring town, by which vhey thought the estate of $25,000 would le lost to them. Ti e theory of robbery is also advanced, as a gold watch and SIOO known to have been in tho possession of the murdered man have not been found. The entire evidence, however,‘is purely circumstantial. The two sons are good-looking young fellows. John, the eldest, is 20 years of age, and a graduate of this year's class at Bennett Medical College, Chicago. Ernest is 24 years old. He has always lived on the farm with his father, and wai married two months ago. Both the young men are willing to talk of their father’s death, and deny most emphatioally any knowledge of the crime.

VICTIMS FOR THE HEADSMAN. Clerkship* and Similar Positions Which. Will Be Spoils for the Victors. A scrutiny of the official blue book in. regard to the appointments in . the. executive departments at Washington discloses a little over t),500 clerkships and similar positions, ranging in salaries from SI,OOO to $1,600, included in theclassified lists of the civil-service law, the occupants ot which can only be removed for cause, and over 1,500, positions of the higher grades, the occupants of which are subject to change at the will of the heads of the departments. The salaries of these positions range from $3,000 down. Echoes of the Election. Arkansas gives Cleveland 20,000 majority. Congressman Wise is re-elected in Virginia. Republicans made a clean sweep in Montana. Weaveb electors carried Nevada by 1,500 majority. Harbison’s plurality in Oregon Is estimated at 6,000. Cleveland will have 40,000 majority in South Carolina. Govebnob Russell’s plurality in Massachusetts is 1,937. Govebnob Floweb is talked of to succeed Senator Hiscock. Govebnob Hogg is re-elected in Texas by 50,C00 majority. New Mexico has elected a Democratic delegate to Congress. 1 Flynn, Republican delegate to Congress, is elected in Oklahoma. Incomplete California returns give Harrison electors 3.C93 plurality. Ex-Senator Blair has been defeated for Congress in New Hampshire. Cleveland’s official plurality in Delaware is 504 in a total vote of 37,224. South Carolina elected four Alliance and three Democratic Congressmen.' Mbs. Ann Scally has been elected justice of the peace in <) ohnson County, Wyoming. MORBis (Dem.), for Governor of Connecticut, has a majority of 107 in a total vote of 164,662. Mbs. Ella Knowles, Populist candidate for Attorney General, leads by 300 votes in Montana. The Republican plurality in lowa is figured at 22,000. Republican Congressmen are elected in all but the Second District. West Vibginia has given 6,000 majority for the Democratic Electors and Governor and re-elected all four Democratic ( ongressmen. Republicans elect all but one Congressman in Minnesota and retain a majority in Ihe Legislature, insuring the re-election of Senator Davis. Rich, Republican, has from 8,010 t) 10,000 ma ority in Michigan. Demo- . crate secure six out.ef . fourteen electors and five Congressmen out ot twelve.