Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Page 2

®l)t JJcmocrdicSentiitf I RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W. McEWEN, - - PUBLTSITffK

CANADA SHAKEN UP.

EARTHQUAKE CAUSES A MILD PANIC. New Tariff Rattles the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street—Final Figures of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Great Exposition. On Mother Earth’s Bosom. One of the worst shocks of earthquake ever experienced in Quebec occurred shortly before noon Monday, and created tremendous excitement. The shock was sudden and sharp, lasting several seconds. In factories the first thought of work people was that the boiler had burst, and a rush was made for the street by every means—fire escapes, windows and stairs. In the public schools children were panic-stricken and stampeded to the street along with the teachers and masters. The crockery in stores and restaurants got badly rattled and made fatal movements to the floor. In some cases windows were broken. In the City Hall, employes rushed out of their offices into the corridors with consternation on their countenances, massive walls shook, big iron safes rocked, and everything in the building took upon itself more or less the appearance of a ship at sea. Various part 3 of the province felt the shock, but no serious damage was done anywhere. finances of the fair. Auditor Ackerman’s Final Report on tlie Cost of the Exposition. Auditor Ackerman has submitted his final report on the finances of the World’s Fair, which shows that the total receipts of the Exposition wero $28,238,828.25, and the total expenditnres $25,540,537.85. 'i hero are outstanding obligations of $748,14 leaving the total net assets over liabilities $1,862,483,08. Following are tbe condensed figures on-receipts and expenditures: Construction expenditures $18,322,621 56 General and operating expenses... 7,127,240 32 Preliminary organization 00,674 J 7 Assets $2,098,291 01 Liabilities 87,GG0 11 Net assets 2,610.630 90 * Total $28,151,168 75 Gate receipts IS Concession receipts mSMvX IS Miscellaneous receipts ts(’, .0 i i Interest 6C . JSI 82 Souvenir edins and premium on same 2,448.032 28 Capital stock 5,604,171 97 City of Chicago 6,000,0*. 0 00 Total *28,151,168 75 The $748,147 of outstanding obligations must be deducted from the net assets. The gate receipts by months wero as follows: May $ 583.031 June 1,266, i50 July 1,325,370 August 1,194,318 September 2.263,038 October 3,196,670 The following table will show the expense pf operating tbe Exposition for the six months: Months. Receipts. Expenses. Not. May 1617,140 $693,757 $22,383 June 1,647,644 630.605 1,017,049 July 1.967,194 698,319 1,368,874 AugUßt 2,337,654) 669,798 1,768,038 September.. 3,109,‘.ran 637,566 2,632.372 October 4,402,467 610,000 3,792,407 T0ta1.... $14,141,242 $3,540,037 $10,601,205 Classified details of the expenditures In all departments of the Exposition are given in Auditor Ackerman's report The Fair still, owes $163,665 for construction and SIOO,OOO is still due from concessioners, the Ferris wheel owing $75,000 of this amount

WALL STREET IN A FUROR. Stocks Are Tremendously Affected by tlio New Tariff. The new tariff bill, as reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, was made public Monday. At New York sugar and whisky got mixed up In unequal proportions on the Stock Exchange. Stock values went tumbling up and down with llghtnlng-llke rapidity. The excitement following the announcementof the changes In the tariff on sugar reached tho proportions of a cyclone at times, and the stock of the trust was jostled about like a toy balloon In a blizzard. Over In another part of the room, In tho crowd trading In Distilling and Cattle Feeding stock, another equally severe storm was In progress. The latter was due to the Intimation that no Increase In the tax on whisky was considered likely. Both stocks have been alternately buoyant and weak for weeks on alleged straight Information from Washington given out by the manipulators of those stocks that the Ways and Means Committee would or would not bring In a bill favorable to the two properties. When the bald truth was definitely known sugar stock broke 3% points In the first ten minutes. Distillery slock, which has been very strong on reports that tho government would be compelled to raise the tax on whisky for revenue purposes, broke 4 points at the same time. BLOCK COAL CORNERED. Entire Product of Indiana Is Secured by a Chicago Concern. Negotiations which have just been completed place the control of all the block coal produced In Indiana for the next year In the hands of the Indiana Block Coal Company, of Chicago, says a Chicago dispatch. The president of the company Is Leslie Thomas, and Eugene M. Comas is secretary and treasurer. The production of block coal in Indiana Is about 1,000,000,000 tons a year, and there are a number of concerns engaged In mining it What it has cost the company to secure control of the output of these companies Is conjectural, but men well posted in the trade estimate It at 81,500,000. Indiana block coal is used exclusively for steam purposes, and Is superior to any other coal that can be obtained for that Object. Its price In Chicago is 83.26 a ton delivered, but with the entire control vested in one concern this price is likely to soon advance. Two More Desperadoes Wiped Out. Dispatches froln Durant, I. T., state that Tandy Folsom engaged In a duel with Will Durant and killed him imshort order. Bud Durant, a brother of Will, then drew his revolver and killed Folsom. The trouble was due to an old feud between the families. Some weeks ago Folsom shot and killed Key Durant In a fight at Caddo ■' » . . French Cabinet Resigns. After a vote of no confidence ihe entire French Cabinet tendered Its resignation Saturday, and It was promptly accepted by President Carnot M. Dupuy will probably reconstruct the cabinet Ended Three Lives. The most horrible crime ever committed in Kankakee, lIL, occurred at noon Friday, when Jess D. O. Smith murdered his divorced wife, Ellen Smith, and Mra Caroline Grayblll. The crime was a most coldblooded one. Smith and his wife had been living apart for almost a year. Made a Game Fight George Heib.of Clartagton, 0., while on hi* way to Woods field, capital of Monroe County, to p4y hi* taxes of S3OO. was attacked by robber*, who broke one of his legs and both of hi* arm* before they overpowered hint and obtained his money, j* ,« Inn im Aafiinal • CWWiuoB w erww

LOSS TWO HIIUOKS, Springfield, Mass., Visited by a Disastrous Conflagration. The fire at Springfield, Mass, proves to have been the most destructive fire the city ha 3 known for years It started shortly after midnight in the block owned by J. K. Dexter and Henry ?. Dickinson, at 93 Worthington street, and was not checked until 6 o’clock In tlie morning, when it was estimated that :he total loss would reach $2,000,000. The (lames when discovered had gained considerable headway, from the fact that the fire seems to have started In the center of the budding some time before it appeared ou the outside of the block. Tlie flames soon spread beyond the control of the firemen. John Doolan’s building, next to tbe Dickinson Block, went next and then the Mayo Block. The Abbe Block was then attacked and tbe Hotel Glendower was soon completely surrounded by fire an 1 speedily caught. The hotel burned ra- id y and at 4a m. its walls fell. The guests long before bad packed their bag age and loft tbo building. The attention of the department w'as then turned to saving the Fuller Block, where the fito was finally checked about 0 o'clock. While the fire was at Its height the fronts of tho Abbe and Worthy Blocks fell and the flames seemed to leap across tlicstreet, but fortunately the blocks opposite were low and exposed less surface. With tremendous energy the vast blaze was driven out tho front windows of tho three upper stories of the Glendower. The cloud of hunting cinders sweeping to tho west caught a house on Bridge street, pecessitating the diverting ot a lino of hose from tho main conflagration. Many thought that tho Van Norman studio was In for another experience such as that which It had a short time ago, for the low, flat roof was smoking an 1 steaming. The waves of the flame from the Glendower spread to the Wight Block, on Worthington street, and in a short time it was In ruins. Tho Glendower meanwhile had been destroyed and when Hie wall fell Chief Leshuro was si ruck on tho bead by a falling missile, but was not injured seriously enough to tako away his courage. No one else was found to have been hurt Steamer 5 from Hartford arrived at 4:30 a. m. and was put to work at the corner of Main and Lyman streets. Two companies arrived from Worcester at 6:30 o’clock.

DOLE STILL IN POWER. Lllluokalani lias Not Been Restored to the Hawaiian Throne. The steamship Alameda arrived from Honolulu Thursday bringing news that no change had been made In the government no to the time of sailing. Tbe United Press correspondent at Honolulu says: As yet Minister Willis has mado no intimation to this government of jiny special communication with which he may be chargol, nor Is it known that ho has any. Tho city is dally alive with strange rumors of the Minister's Intentions, all of which are traced to royalist s urces. Threo days ago tho ex-Queen mado a- brief call upon the American Minister merely to pay her respocts, as Mr. Willis subsequently stated. Up to this time Mr. Willis has not returned her visit. On tbo same day a committee of the American League tendered a reception to Minister Willis, at which he delivered an address In diplomatic but agroeable and encouraging terms. Mlniter Willis said: “I have my instructors which I cannot divulge. But this tfruch I can say: Tho policy ot the United States Is already formulated regurdlng those Islands and nothing which can bo said or done, either here or there, can avail anything now.” LEHIGH STRIKERS LOSING. Through Freight Trains Moving In Both Directions hi the Eastern Division. Jersey City special: The backbone of tho Lehigh Valley strlko In this division Is apparently shattered. Freight tralus. on which all tbe fight on both sldos has been concentrated, woro moved In both directions, and with crews complete. At noon twelve through freight trains, averaging twengy loaded cars In each train, were ready to pull out ot tho Lehigh yards at C'ommttnipaw, having been made up during the nighi by a crowd of fifty freight-handlers. All the drill engines were fully manned and made up tho trains without Interference from tho strikers. On every engine wore two State officers. The passenger trains are running more regulurly than usual. The company claims that there has been as much progress at other points along the line as In the yards here, but press dispatches do not bear out their claims, although the men admit that there are more engineers from the West* applying for work than tlioy expected. A force of 150 police was detailed to guard the yards and prevent the strikers Interfering with the running of trains.

FIGHTING AT MELILLA. Spanish Convicts Keeping Up Operations *! Against Rlffians. A dispatch from Mellila says that a hurricane had prevailed there for two days. The weather was so severe that It compelled a cessation of work at the forts being constructed by tbo Spaniards. 1 he tents occupied by the troops and workmen were blown down and tho camps were inundated by the floods that poured down from the mountains Iho mall steamer from Malaga was forced to put hack to Mellila and romain for forty-eight hours Notwithstanding the severity of the storm skirmishing proceeded between the Spanish forces and the Rlffians. During the fighting two Spaniards wore wounded by bullets falling Into the camp. The band of thirty convicts under command of Captain Arlga, who have heretofore done excellent work in fighting the Rlffians, continue to make trouble for the enemy. CRUSHED AND BURNED. Several Men Meet Their Death In the Big lire In Detroit, One of the worst fires that Detroit has had for many years completely destroyed the five-story building at Jefferson "TlYOnue and Bates street, occupied by Messrs. Edson, Moore & Ca, wholesale dry goods, and damaged several adjacent buildings, causing a total loss of $700,000. Three men employed by the dry goods firm lost their lives In the flames, and five others who are missing are also supposed to have perished. Spokane at the Mercy of a Mob. At Spokane, Wash., extra police were sworn In Wednesday night to be ready to be called to duty at any moment. A large crowd of laboring men paraded the streets and angry threats were heard on every corner, The crowd threatened to blow up several large buildings. Including the Morning Review Building. The leaders claimed that several prominent citizens would be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on rails, and the lives of quite a number wero threatened. The cause of the disturbance Is the Issuing of an Injunction forbidding the city officials from letting the contract to build the upriver waterworks. At a mass meeting A. M. Cannon, the President, and Simon Oppenheimer were denounced as traitors and murderers, aud it was insisted that tho fifty people who control the 20,000 population must be gotten rfd of at once to keep tbe rest from starving. Robbers Hold Up a Street Car. On Wednesday night, three masked men. with drawn revolvers, held up a Covington electric car Ky., and took two gold watches and 840 in money from the motorman aud conductor. There were no passengers. Colombo* Is Scorched. Fire broke out in the new Henrietta Theater. corner Spring and Front streets. Columbus, Ohio, at 8:16 Friday night, and In &

leas than an hour and a half this elegant playhouse, the Chittenden Hotel and Auditorium and Park Theater were in ruins. Andrew Thompson, a state band, was burned to death. The “Paper Chase” and the Gray and Stephens companies lose all their properties, and the furnishings of tbe hotel were destroyed. Tbe guests saved much of their personal property. The theater audiences left in an orderly manner. The total loss exceeds $1,000,000. GIOLITTI STEFS DOWN. Italian Cabinet Tenders Its Resignation to the King. A meetlug of the Italian Cabinet was hold Friday morning. The situation arising from the reading Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies of the report of the committee appointed to investigate tho bank scandals was most thoroughly discussed and the ministers decided that their usefulness v,as at an end. In accordance with this dbcteibti Ihb cabinet tendered Its resignation as a whole to King Humbert. Among the many things contained in the report of the committee on the bank scandals is a statement that the charges mado by certain lie spapers that Prime Minister Glolitti used money of the Banco Romano to advance tho Interests of his party at the last elections are not proved by the evidence, but the committee declined to say thsy wero disproved. President ftauardolli, at tlie meeting of the Chamber of Deputies, declared the Chamber prorogued. This action was taken only after it was shown that personal violence would be offered to Sig. Glolitti. PASSENGERS' NARROW ESCAPE. Miscreants Place an Obstruction on a New Hampshire Road. An attempt was made to derail tho acconimodatioa train on tlie York Harbor and Beach Railroad. As the train approached Oakland Farms, a small flag station about midway between New York Harbor aud Kitterey Point, N. H. Engineer Emery discovered an obstruction on the track. He whistled “down brakes” and also applied the air brakes, and the train’s speed had been greatly reduced when tlie obstruction was encountered. Three sleepers and. a signpost bad been laid across the rails a short distance apart The placo where the obstruction was placed Is one of tho worst on tho road. Some think that the attempt was the work of tramps, while others think it was done by some one residing in the locality. A collision occurred on Keating Summit Hill between a push engine and a work train on tho Western New York and Pennsylvania road, resulting iti a smashup Theodoro Crane, the fireman, was killed, and three others injured.

MANY PERSONS HURT. West Michigan Passenger Train Runs Into an Open Switch. The Chicago and West Michigan eastbound passenger train, leaving Chicago at 4:55 p. m., struck a misplaced switch half a mllo north of Zeeland, Michigan, Thursday night. The baggage car, smoker, and day coach wont olf the track, and for a hundred yards plowed along the right of way, taking down a telegraph pole and stopping all communication. The smokor contained twenty passengers and the day coach was woll filled. Tho passengers wore piled up in heaps. Among thoso most seriously Injured are: Campbell, Francis, Grand Rapids, back hurt; F. H. Devendorff, Milwaukee, - badly bruised; G. G. Flynn, Macon, Ga., skull fractured: W. S. Gunn, Grand Rapids, internally injured; M. IClrby, Polo, badly bruised: Vovue Van Otte. baggage master, scalp wound; A. IL Wilson, Detroit, bruised about tlie body; Frank Worth, mall agent, leg fractured; Joseph Neftol, Cleveland, badly bruised. Cold Snap at St. Paul, Minn. The thermometers In various parts ot fit. Paul, Minn., Friday morning ranged from 5 degrees to 25 degrees below zero, and like roports aro received from all over tho State, North Dakota and Manitoba. There was little wind and the sky was free from clouds, the cold being tho quiet, emphatic sort. Sank Rapids, Mint}., roports 24 degrees below, and at Fargo, N. I)., 25 degrees below Is reported. Menage Escapes Into Honduras. Gautemala dispatch: The ' man calling himself Miller, but who Is alleged to be Menage, the Minneapolis embezzler, has given the American sleuth-hounds the slip, having got safely across into Honduras. The men who conducted him across tho line, among whom was one named Figuero, have returned here, but none of them will; fatk. about the matter; ' Brazil’s Now Warship. The new Brazilian cruiser America made her first movo toward the scene of future action by moving down to the East River the other morning to a point in the upper bay below Bedloe’s Island. All that remains Is to put the destructive gunpowder and dynamite aboard and to ship the two fifty-five-pound rifles which aro to arrive from Europe. Chicago Limited Wrecked. A costly wreck occurred at Vincennes, Ind., on the Evansville and Terre Haute. Passenger train No. 6—the Chicago limited—plunzod into the rear end of freight train No. 50. The freight'engine was taking water and the flagman fulled to do his duty. Into an Open Switch. Freight train No. 35, west-bound, on the fit Louis and San Francisco Road, ran into an open switch In the yards at Van Buren, Ark., and demolished two engines and five cars. Three men were killed and a fourth so badly Injured that he cannot live.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. & Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 @ 5 ao Hogs—Shipping Grades 4 00 @ 8 65 Sheep—Fair to Choice 225 @ 400 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 61 @ 615$ Corn—No. 2 84)4@ 35)4 Oats—No. 2. 26 @ 27tj RYE—No. 2 44 @ 45 Butter—Choice Creamery 26 @ 26 Egos—Fresh 22 @ 23 Potatoes—Per bu 65 @ 66 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 300 @ 5 50 Hogs—Choice Light * oo @ 6 75 SHEEP—Common to Prime 200 @3 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 6514® 66)4 Corn—No. 2 White 34 @ 35 Oats—No. 2 White 27 & 27W ST. LOUIS. Cattle soo @560 Hogs 4 oo @ 6 60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 @ 68 Corn—No. 2 ; 32 @ 33 Oats—No. 2 25)4@ 26)4 Rye—No. 2 43 @ 45 CINCINNATL Cattle 3 oo @ 500 Hogs 300 @ 6 60 SHEEP: 2 00 @ 3 60 W r 2 Red 67 @ 68 Corn -No. 2 39 @ 39)4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed..... 29 @ 30 Rye—No. 2 48 @ 49 DETROIT. Cattle 3 oo @ 4 75 Hogs. 3 00 @ 6 00 Sheep 2 00 @ 400 Wheat—No. 2 Red . 61 @ 62 Corn—No. 3 Yellow 38 @ 89 Oats-No. 2 White 32 @ 33 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 @ 61 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 36 @ 37 Oats—No. 2 White 29 ss 30 Rye—No. 2 48 @ 48 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle—Good to Prime. 300 @ 6 00 Hogs—Fair to Choice 4 00 @ 5 75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard. 68)4@ 69)4 No. 2 Red 63 ® 64 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 67 9 68 Corn—No. 3 34 9 85 Oats—No. 2 White so 9 30)4 Rye—No. 1, 46 9 46)4 Barley—No, 2 49 @ 61 Pobk—New Mess 14 00 @l4 60 NEW YORK. Cattle 200 @575 Hogs 3 76 @ t 25 Sheep 2 25 fit 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Ree 67)49 68)4 Coen—No. 2 45 9 46 Oats—Mixed Western S 3 ® 34 Butter—Choice 26 @ 28 Pore—New Mess 16 so 91* 26

CASH OP THE NATION.

ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER MORGAN. Revised Figures Presented to Secretary Carlisle Giving the Condition of the National Treasury—Secretary Morton's De-partment-Internal Revenue Bureau Report. Total Stock of Money. United States Treasurer D. N. Morgan has submitted to Secretary Carlisle his annual report on the operations and condition of the treasury. It shows that the net ordinary revenues for the fiscal year 1893 wero $385,819,628, an increase of $30,881,844 over those of the year before. The net ordinary expenditures were $383,447,554, an increase of $.38,454,023. There was, therefore, a decrease of $7,772,779 in the surplus revenue, reducing them to $2,341,674. Including the public debt the total receipts were $732,871,214 and the total expenditures $773,007,998. The public funds amounted on June 30,1892, to $786,351,895, and on June 30, 1893, to $746,538,655. After setting apart those sums of gold, silver and the United States notes which were held for the redemption of certificates of deposit and treasury notes there was left a reserve, or general fund, -of $187,012,740 in 1892 and $168,107,391 in 1893. These amounts, however, included certain sums of certificates of deposit, bonds and coupons which were unavailable for any other purpose than the settlement of the treasurer's account, and which, if canceled, would have left an actual available working balance of $165,945,886 and $156,295,169 on the two dates, respectively.

By Sept. 30 this balance had been diminished to $149,250,268, owing to a deficiency in the revenue. In seven months, beginning with last December, upward of $81,000,000 was drawn out of the Treasury in redemption of notes, and the gold reserve was reduced during tho same period by $29,000,000. During the next three months, with light redemptions and a deficiency of $19,000,000 in the revenue, the Treasury lost $15,000,000 of gold, but the reserve fell off only $2,000,000. The amount of gold during the fiscal year was the largest ever taken out of the country or brought into it in a like period, being upward of SIOB,600,000, and that $102,000,000 of it was drawn put of the treasury by the Kresontation of lbgai-tender notes. lost of tb,e. igpld exported in former years was supplied by the,, treasury in exchange for certiictroS, and the report says that, it is the first time that any considerable sums of notes have boon presented for the metal. With the exception of an increase of $45,500,000 in tho amount of treasury uotes, issued in the purchase of silver bullion, and a decrease of $80,000,000 in the combined volume of gold certificates and currency certificates, there has been, the report says, no important change in tho public debt. According to the revised estimate the total stock of money of all kinds ill the country on June 30 was $2,323,547,977, or nearly $51,000,000 less than at the same time last year. This contraction took place notwithstanding the addition of $45,500,000 to the stock of silver and an increase of $6,000,000 in the outstanding bank notes, and was caused by the export of gold. In July, however, thero began a heavy return movement of the metal, supported by a rapid expansion of bank-note circulation. By tho end of September the Btock of gold was restored to what it was when the exports began. The total increase of the effective stock of money in the three months was no lower than $95,000,000, bringing it up to a figure much above the highest ever reached before. The treasurer remarks that this sudden contraction and expansion within the space of eleven months affords a striking illustration of the degree of flexibility possessed by the currency. The revised figures for the amount of money in circulation, that is outside the treasury on June 30, place it at $1,596,846,829, or about $6,000,030 less than it was a year before. During the four months ended with October there was an increase of $125,000,000. a record altogether without parallel in the history of the country. The redemption of United States paper currency has been unusually heavy, amounting to $377,000.000 in the fifteen months ended with October.

During the last two fiscal years there was rec lined nearly one-fifth of the whole estimated stock of silver, an improvement, the report says, that is expected to increase the popularity and usefulness of this part of the currency. Contrary to expectations, the Columbian souvenir coins have not proved popular. Some of them were never taken out of the Treasury and others have been returned for redemption. An arrangement, has been in contemplation under which the half-dollars in the Treasury will be recoined at the expense of the management of the Exposition. It has not yet been decided what disposition is to be made of the quarter dollars of this coinage not disposed of.

SECRETARY MORTON'S REPORT. The Head of the Agricultural Department Shows AVhat He Has Done. The Secretary of Agriculture, in his report submitted to the President, regrets the vague character of the department organization, which he says, “offers opulent opportunities for the exercise of the most pronounced paternalism,” but he adds that there are many proper ways in which the Federal Government may legitimately serve the cause of agriculture. He devotes considerable space to a review of what he regards as an anomalous partnership between the Government of the United States and the governments of the respective States for the conduct and encouragement of State agricultural colleges and experiment stations. Referring to the sum appropriated for the use of Stale experiment stations, ho says: “This appropriation is unlike any other public moneys legislated out of the treasury of the United States because there is no officer of the United States authorized to direct, limit, control or audit its itemized expenditures.” He suggests that the stations should be entirely divorced from the department and the sum appropriated charged directly to them, or that the Secretary Bhould have some power to direct and restrain their disbursements so as to insure a legitimate expenditure of the same. adds that in view of the rumors that have obtained credence in some of the States and Territories to the effect that moneys appropriated to the stations have been diverted from their legitimate purposes, a thorough investigation should be made to demonstrate either the truth or falsity of such reports. In reference to expenditures the Secretary states that his strenuous endeavor, in view of a depleted public treasury and of the imperative demands of taxpayers for economy in the administration of the Government, has been to “rationally reduce expenditures by the elimination from the pay rolls of all persons not needed for an efficient oonduct of the affairs of the depart-

merit.” The distribution of seeds at the public expense is reviewed at length and its growth traced from the year 1839, when Commissioner of Patents Ellsworth obtained an appropriation of SI,OOO for the purpose of collecting and distributing rare varieties of seed and for other purposes. He shows a considerable saving to have been effected in the purchase and the distribution of the seed this year. The work of the Bureau of Animal Industry is reviewed in detail. The result of the Texas fever regulations is pronounced to be highly satisfactory, but to increase their efficiency it is suggested that a penalty should attach for violation of the department regulations by railroad companies transporting infected cattle. A further reduction has been effected by vessel inspection in the percentage of cattle lost at sea, the ratio being for the last year less than one-half of 1 per cent. The law at present dees not provide for the inspection of horses imported into the country and an amendment in this lespect is suggested. As regards meat inspection the microscopical inspection has been greatly reduced, the intention being to confine it rigidly to products intended for direct export to countries exacting the same. Promiscuous free distribution of publications is condemned, and the suggestion made that, after supplying certain copies free to libraries and educational institutions, a moderate price should be charged for the remaining copies. Of the weather bureau it is stated that the work has been carried on with improved efficiency and economy, a reduction in cost of maintenance of nearly 10 per cent, being effected, and estimates for the fiscal year being correspondingly reduced.

INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT. Receipts for the Current Fiscal Ycv Will Re Less than the Estimates. Joseph Miller, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has submitted to Secretary Carlisle his report of the operations of the bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1893, and also certain additional information relating to the collection i made and work performed during the first three months of the current fiscal year. It is a long document of over 200 printed paacs and includes a number of tables c( ntaining much statistical information on the operation of the bureau, some of which date back for thirty years. The report shows that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue have increased from $116,902,869 for the fiscal year 1886 to $161,004,989 in 1893. The estimates of the last commissioner of internal revenue were that the receipts of 1893 would reach $165,000,003, but owing to the general, business depression Mr. Miller says this amount was not realized. He estimates that the receipts for the fiscal year will he $150,000,000.

The receipts for the fi cal year 1892 were $153,857,544. The receipts for 1893 were made up as follows: Spirits, $94,720,260, an increase of $3,410,276 over the previous year; tobacco, $31,889,771. an increase of $889,218; fermented liquors, $32,548,983, an increase of $2,511,530; oleomargarine, $1,670,643, an increase of $404,317; and miscellaneous, $175,390, a decrease of $67,898. The receipts from internal revenue for he first three months of the fiscal year 1894 have been $36,874,402, a decrease of $5,519,143 as compared with the first three months of the fiscal year 1893. Of this decrease $3,830,858 has been in the taxes on spirits and $1,828,882 on tobacco. The cost of collecting the revenue during 1893 was $4,219,769. The expenses for the previous fiscal year were $4,315,946. being 2.80 per cent, of the collections. The estimated expenses for 1895 are $4,498,550.

ACT OF A DRUNKEN FIEND.

Jordan Kills His Wife, Her Sister, and Parents, and Himself. As the result of a terrible tragedy growing out of a family feud five persons are dead in their country home, several miles east of Seymour. Ind., says a dispatch. Four years ago Clinton Joi’dan, then 21 years old, married a daughter of Joshua Foster, with whom he never lived happily. Last week they separated, and she returned to the heme of her father. The other night Jordan met his father-in-law and accompanied him home in spite of his protests, as ho feared trouble. Jordan promised to behave, but soon after his arrival at Fester’s home he began a quarrel. When Foster then ordered him out of the house Jordan fired at the old man. The ball missed him and struck Cora Foster, aged 17, in the head, killing her instantly. A second shot hit Foster in the head and knocked him down. The old man picked himself up and ran about half a mile to the home of anc-thor of his sons-in-laws, William Powell. He fell unconscious and lingered until late in .the afternoon, when he died. Jordan then turned his revolver on Mrs. Foster, his mother-in-law, shooting her in the neck, the ball ranging downward and causing a wound from which she died. Jordan's wife attempted to defend her mother, and he stabbed her repeatedly in the breast, hands and face, and ended by shooting her through the head. Jordan then opened his vest, placed the revolver against his breast, and sent a ball through his heart. He dropped dead, falling across the dead body of his wife. The revolver was new and had evidently been bought with premeditated purpose of killing his victims. The knife with which the murderer’s wifo was so cruelly gashed was also new and long and had been freshly sharpened. Jordan had an unsavory reputation and in frequent spells of intoxication was ugly and quarrelsome. All the other victims were peaceful and orderly citizens. Jordan, the assassin and suicide, was illiterate and stupid, but had always been considered harmless.

BIG BLAZE AT HANNIBAL.

Property Worth 8265,000. Wiped Out— Help from Quincy. The total loss by Saturday night's fire at Hannibal, Mo., foots up to if265,000, on which there is insurance aggregating $155,000. The fire broke out about 6 o'clock and resulted from the explosion of a lamp in the establishment of the Williams-Voorhis Dry-Goods company, the largest store in the city, occupying a three-stury block on the corner of Main and Church streets. In ten minutes the building was a mass of flames, and the gale which prevailed carried the fire through the block and across the street. The Hannibal fire department was helpless, and two steamers from Quincy, 111., were fighting the flames within an hour after the lamp explosion. The combined forces were only able to confine the flames to the. blocks first visited. The telegraph and telephone lines were inoperative, and the storm of ice and sleet which followed further crippled the wires in all directions.

A verdict was rendered in Brooklyn for $17,000 against S. V. White & Co., the brokers, in favor of Eugene Palmer, who charges that he lost that amount in a transaction with White's Chicago house.

TARIFF REFORM BILL

PROVISIONS OF THE WILSON MEASURE MADE PUBLIC. Free List Extended to Wool, Coal, Lumber, Salt and Iron Ore—lt» Enactment Would End Reciprocity and Require Revision of Treaties. Extensive Free List. The new Democratic tariff bill has been given to the public, and, according to a Washington dispatch, its provisions fulfill every expectation that it might be a radical measure of reform. In many respects it is a surprise evon to the Democratic members of Congress, as it is unprecedented in many of its provisions. The free list is of that liberal scope sufficient to satisfy the most radical advocates of reform and the repudiation of the principle of reciprocity which has been the pride of the Republicans is decisive and emphatic. -It will necessitate a readjustment of treaties with th( se South American countries which enjoy practical or theoretical reciprocity with the United States. The bounty on sugar is to be repealed by easy gradations and will not reach its conclusive effect until after the end of the present century. On and after the Ist of March, 1894, the following articles are to be added to the free list: Bacon and hams, beef, mutton and pork, and meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for In this act. Baryta. All binding twine manufactured In whole or In part from thißtle or tamplco liber, manila, sisal grass or sunn, of single ply and measuring not exceeding MO feet to the pound. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments, and bird skins, prepared for preservation, but not lurther advanced In manufacture. Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper. Bone' char, suitable l’or use in decorating sugars. Coal, bituminous, and shale, and coal slack or cut; coke; coal tar, crude, and all preparations and products of coal tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for In this act. Oxide of cobalt. Copper Imported in the form of ores; old copper, lit only for manufacture; clipping from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially provided for In this act; regulus of copper and black or coaise copper, and copper cement, copper in plates, bars, ingots, or pigs, and other forms, not manufactured, not special y provided for in this act. Copperas, or sulphate of iron. , Cotton-ties of iron or steel cut to lengths, Bunched or not punched, with or without buckles, for belting cotton. Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to be used in the manufacture of watches or clocks. Yelks of eggs of birds, fish and insects. Downs of all kinds, crude, not specially provided for in this act. Fresh fish. Furs, undressed. lodine. Resublimated iron ore: also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur and pyrites or sulphurtt of iron in its natural state. Lard. Lemon juice; lime juice, and sour orange juice. Mica, and metallc mineral substances in a crude state and metals unwronght, not specially provide t for in this act. Ochre and ochery earths; sienna and sienna earths; umber and umber earths, not specially provided for in this act. Cotton seed oil, paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary, not otherwise provided for in this act. Plows, tools, and disc-harrows, harvesters, reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, threshing machines and cotton gins, Plnsh, black, for making men’s hats. Quicksilver. Salt. Silk, partially manufactured from cocoons or' from waste silk, and not farther advanced or manufactured than carded or combed silk. Soap, all not otherwise specially provided for in tills act. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or nitre cake; sulphuric acid. Tallow and oil grease, Including that known commercially as De Gras, or brown wool itrease. Straw. Burr stone, bound up into millstones; free stone, grauite, sandstone, limestone, and othsr building or monumental, except marble, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this act. All wearing apparel and other personal effects shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber squared or sided: sawed boards,,planks, deals and other lumber: laths; pickets and palings; shingles; staves of wood of all kinds; wood unmanufactured: provided, that if any export duty is laid upon the above-mentioned articles, or either of them, all said articles Imported from said country shall be subjeot to duty as now provided by law. Chair cane, or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or leeds. Weeds, namely, cedar, lignum vitas, lanoewood, ebony, box, granadilla mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of cabinet woods, in the leg, rough or hewn Bamb o and rattan, unmanufactured. Briar root or briar wood and similar wood unmanufactured. Reeds and sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle and other woods in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sun shades, whips or walking canes. All wool of the sheep, hair of the camel goat, alpaca, and other like animals, and all wool and hair on the skin. Nails, yarn waste, card waste, bur waste, rags, and flax. Including all waste, or rags, composed wholly or In part of wool.

Average Cut of 35 Per Cent.

The average cut in duties, says the Washington correspondent, is between 35 and 40 per cent., with no duty going beyond 50 per cent, ad valorem and very few coming up to that mark. The uniform substitution of ad valorem for specific duties makes it quite difficult in many instances to accurately estimate the extent of the cut until acjual experience in importations gives some guide by which to go. The actual loss from additions to the free list can be computed on the basis of importations for the fiscal year 1892, but not for the year ’93, because complete statistics are not at hand. When the two years are averaged it will probably appear that the additions to the free list will he to cut down revenues by $20,000,000 to $22,000,000: of this $8,000,000 may be placed to the account of free wool; coal will cause $1,000,000 deficiency; iron ore, $750,000: lumber, $900,000; salt, $400,000 ; silver lead ore, $850,000; flax straw, hemp; etc., $250,000. The duties on other articles which will go on the free list have ranged from $5,000 to $250,000. ■ The total on the chemical schedule will be a large one. Tinplate is not made free. The old rate of 1 cent a pound is fixed, and it is estimated that $11,000,000 may be secured, or $2,500,000 more than can be counted on under the present law. There has been great contention over woolens, but with few exceptions the rates run from 25 to 35 per cent, ad valorem, rarely rising to 40 per cent.

Antiquity of the Bagpipe.

A representation of the bagpipe was .found in the ruins of Tarsus. The instrumSht was in use 2,000 years before the Christian era, and its origin is unknown. —--

About Ships and Shipping.

Op 10,000 British seamen, 66 are lost every year. The heaviest anchors weigh about 7,700 pounds. Italy has 50 ships of war, 171 guns and 19,224 men. Frigates in the modern style were first built in 1649. The use of steel for ship building was begun in 1879. The Austrian navy has 129 ships, 411 guns and 8,740 men. The modern French navy dates from the reign cf Napoleon 111. The screw propeller was introduced Into the British navy in 1840.

CARLISLE ON FINANCE.

The Secretary of the Treasury Speaks la Favor of Gold. At the 125th annual banquet of th® Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Hon. J. G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, occupied the post of honor. In response to the first toast of the evening, which was “Commerce Demands, and the Honor of the Country Requires, That the Obligations of the United States Shall Be Paid ia Coin Current in Any Market of the World, and That the Question Shall Be Settled for All Time and Beyond Controversy,” Secretary Carlisle in substance said: Money and its representatives constitute the tools with which the merchant and the banker perform their parts in the num'eroue and complicated transactions necessarily occurring in the growth and development of our trade at home and abroad. It is not possible to do perfect work with Imperfect instruments, and if it is attempted the:consequenoes will not fall upon you alone, but must be felt sooner or later In every part of the land. Confidence would be destroyed, trade would be Interrupted, the obligations of contracts would be violated, and' all the evils which have invariably attended the use of a base or fluctuating currency would afflict not the commercial and financial classes only, hut the country at large. But our commercial interests are not confined to our own country; they extend to every quarter of the globe, and our people bny and sell In nearly every market of the civilized world. A very large part of our farmers, mechanics, and other laboring people find constant and profltaule employment in the production and transportation of commodities for sale and consumption in other countries, and the pricos of many of our products are fixed in foreign markets. Without exception these prices are fixed in the markets of countries having a gold standard or measure of value either by express provision of law or by a public policy which keeps their silver coins equal in exchangeable value to the gold coins at the legally established ratio. I think it may he safely asserted that this country could not long maintain its present position as one of the most conspicuous and impoitant members of the great community' of commercial nations which now controls the trade of the world unless we preserve a monetary system substantia ly, at least, In accord with the monetary systems of the other principal nations. There can be no international legal tender without an international agreement, but there must, from the very necessities of the case, always be a common basis upon which bargains are made and a common currency in which balances are settled. No one nation can determine for the others what that basis shall’ be or what that currency shall be. It may establish a currency for itself and for the use of its own people in their domestic trade, but th'e value of that currency will be ultimately measured and conclusively fixed by the international standard, whatever that may be. The stamp on its coins attests their weight and fineness, hut it adds nothing whatever to their intrinsic value, and nothing whatever to their exchangeable value in the markets of the world; so that a nation’s stock of International money always consists of its uncoined bullion and the bullion value of its coins. It cannot augment its stock of such money to any extent whatever by overvaluing either gold or silver in its coinage laws, nor can It diminish Its stock to any extent whatever by undervaluing either metal. While the number of its nominal dollars, or -hillings, or francs may' be increased or diminished, as the case may be, the actual value of the bullion or coins will not be chauged in the least, for no act of Congress or other legislative body can repeal or alier the laws of trade or the laws of finance, and every attempt to do so must result in disaster sooner or later. No matter, therefore, what our monetary system may be here at home as established by our own laws, we must either relinquish a large part of our share in the commerce of the world or conduct our international trade upon such basis as the general judgment of commercial nations may establish. We cannot possibly change this situation, and-, consequently, the only practical question is, whether it is better to establish by law an inferior kind of money for use at home exclusively and another kind for use abroad, or to have all our money good enough for use In every market where our peoplo trade. I believe the people of the United States are entitled to have for use in their domestic trade just as good money as any other people in the world have, and that they ore entitled to have just as much of it as may be necessary to carry on their business regularly and profitably. Whether it be gold or silver, or both, or paper based upon the coins of the two metals, the people have a right to demand that it shall beIn fact what it purports to be—a just and truemeasure of value, or the representative of a just and true measure of value. Gentlemen, the question whether the obligations of the United States will be paid la coin ourrenoy in all the markets in the world has already been settled, and it has, in my opinion, been settled for all time to come. This does not imply that silver is to have no place in our monetary system. What is to be the ultimate fate of that metal Is one of the problems which time and events alone can 1 solve. How much of it can be safely coined and upon what conditions it can be safely used are questions upon which there will be wide differences of opinion, but after all that can be said on both Bides they will be finally determined by circumstances which cannot now be foreseen and by the natural Increase of our population and the natural growth of our industries and trade.

ADLAI’S SON MARRIED.

Miss Helen L. Davis Becomes the Wife of Lewis G. Stevenson. Mr. Lewis Greene Stevenson and Miss Helen L. Davis were married. Tuesday night at Bloomington, 111. The groom is the only son of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, and the bride the eldest daughter of William O. Davis, proprietor of the Bloomington Daily Pantagrapn. A singular feature of this marriage is the fact that the contracting parties ai e children of families strongly opposed to each other politically. Miss Davis is one of a family of three children. She has a brother older and a sister younger than she. She is an accomplished linguist and is of a decided literary turn. Young Mr. Stevenson was educated in the East, and has had some experience as a journalist. He is now his father’s private secretary. The wedding took place at the Second Presbyterian Church. Cne thousand invitations had been sent out for the ceremonies at the church, and that edifice was compactly filled. The church was most lavishly decorated with pure white chrysanthemums, and it presented a beautiful sight. The white of the flowers and the delicate green of the foliage were the only colors in all the wealth of decorations. After the ceremony a reception was held at the Davis residence and it was attended by nearly all of the 300 invited guests. The bride and groom will sail early in December for Europe, and will spend a few weeks in Southern France. On their return they will take up their residence at the Hotel Normandie, Washington, D. C. ,

TWENTY THOUSAND HUNGRY.

Idle Miners in the Gogebic Range Have Exhausted All Their Resources. All business places in the several mining towns of the Gogebic range, from Ashland, Wis., to Ironwood, Mich., have closed. Even the gamblers and other servants of vice have left the region. For six months 5,000 miners and 800 woodedoppers have been out of work, owing to the closing of the mines, and their surplus funds are now practically exhausted. Twenty thousand people are on the verge of starvation, their food being mainly beets and potatoes, while 1,000 children are sadly in need of clothing and shoes. A few weeks ago Philip Armour, of Chicago, sent 10,000 pounds of pork to the suffering miners, but this has been consumed. The distress in Ironwood, Mich., according to a dispatch, is perhaps deeper than in the other towns, because of the typhoid fever epidemic last summer. Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, is preparing to send a car-load of provisions, and Governor Rich, of Michigan, will be asked to help.

This and That.

Can a hungry man make a square meal off a round steak?—Lowell Courier. - The baker who mixes his dough properly has a soft thing of It— Buffalo Courier. A Hindustani work on music says that “music is the painfully acquired art of speaking very loud In a shrill voice”