Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Page 2

SfeeJemocraticStntroel J. nr. jtcEWEH, Publisher. RENSSELAER, . . - INDIANA.

TARIFF FOR LUMBER.

ITRADE DEMANDS CONSIDERA, TION IN FIXING DUTIES Delegates to Lnmbermen'i Conrent tion at Cincinnati Will Work Toward 'That End—Cuban Sympathizer* in ' Chicago Are Aroused. Convention at Cincinnati. j One hundred and fifty delegates, representing twenty-seven States, assembled in Cincinnati, when the national convention of lumber interests was called to order. Previous to perfecting a temporary ■organization, Messrs. Judson and Defebaugh made elaborate addresses, explaining the purpose of the convention, the requests for the call, and the present condition of the lumber business. They appealed t 6 the delegates from the Southern States, which section was largely represented. Most of the Southern delegates have been free-traders, but, in responding to the addresses of Judson and Defebaugh, these delegates insisted that, if there is to be a protective tariff, lumber should not be discriminated against, and said they would do all they could to secure a tariff on lumber. They stated that all other articles used in connection with lumber in all sorts of construction were protected, and that the lumber trade was now so depressed as to require relief. J. A. Freeman made a vigorous speech against the tariff of 1894 as discriminating against lumber and urging the convention to take such action as would secure just treatment to the lumber interests in the tariff bill to be enacted by the coming Congress. While the purpose of the convention was to secure a tariff on lumber, a permanent organization was also perfected for the general interests of lumbermen in the future. may take action. Caban Sympathizers in Chicago Are 'lhorouchly Aroused. Decided action in regard to the reported treachery resorted to by Spaniards in the murder of Gen. Maceo seems likely to be taken by Cuban sympathizers in Chicago. Leading members of the committee of 100, organized for the support of the Cuban cause, met in the rooms of the Union League Club and discussed the assassination with many expressions of regret and censure. Fearing, however, that the reports may not be confirmed, the committee decided to take no action until later. Chairman Edward F. "Cragin said that the committee would meet as soon ns fuller reports are received, and if the story is confirmed strong resolutions would be offered, and perhaps something more done in the way of stopping Spain’s career on the island.

WILL STOP BEET SHIPMENTS. Change in the Sugar Tariff Affects Hungarian Makers, Carl Hurst, United States Consul at Prague, reports to the. State Department that a marked change in the railroad tariff on shgar just made in Austria will probably stop altogether shipments of beet sugar from Bohemia to the United States via Trieste. The Hungarian sug-ar-makers have been greatly disappointed at the lack of orders for their sugar from the United States so far this year. But 18,889 tons have been exported via Fiume„to New York and Philadelphia, and no less than 25,000 tons remain in warehouses at Flume unsold. rAnge war revived. Colorado Cattle-Men Warn Wyoming Shcepraisers to Leave. The war between Colorado cattle-men and Wyoming sheepmen is again on. Gris W. Edwards, a leading sheepowner, has received two letters from the cattle-men, giving him six days in which to remove his sheep from the disputed strip. Edwards replies that as a taxpayer in Routt County, Colorado, for twentytwo years he proposes to make a stand, and refuses to be intimated or driven from the range. Trouble is anticipated. Colorado’s Cuban Army. It is claimed by the leaders in the movement to send troops from Colorado to fight for Cuban independence that more than 1,000 names have already been enrolled. John McAndrews, middle-of-the-road Populist candidate for Attorney General at the recent election, has been chosen commander, with the title of Colonel. Farm Fchool for Vagrants. Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, of New York, and the Committee on Vagrancy of the Conference of Charities, intend to use their influence toward the speedy establishment of a farm school for vagrants, where homeless men, detained for one or two years, shall receive a thorough course of industrial training.

Old Ohio Lawirait Decided. In the suit of the estate of Abraham Powers against the estate of C. H. Andrews, which was brought at Youngstown, Ohio, to recover 5 cents a ton for coal hauled over land of the plaintiff, the supreme Court finds in favor of Powers, the judgment amounting to nearly $50,000. Honor for Rev. J. M. Vanhorn. Rev. J. M. Vanhorn, of the Warren, Ohio, Disciple Church was tendered the pastorate of the West London Tabernacle in London, England. He has the call under consideration. The foreign missionary board had recommended him. Salvini Is Des.d. Alexander Salvini, noted actor and son of Tomaso Salvini, died at Florence, Italy, Tuesday, after a long illness. Seeley Offered the Place. William E. Seeley, President of the First National Bank of Bridgeport, * Conn., has been formally offered the position of United States Treasurer upon the incoming of the McKinley administration. He is 55 years old and a thirtythird degree Mason. Fourteen Pallors Drown. The French steanper Marie-Panny, from Bayonne for this port, has been totally lost off the Island of Alderney. The captain was saved, but fourteen members of the crew were drowned. Canadians Work for Liberty. The Independence Club of Canada, in existence in Montreal five months, the object of which is the attainment of Canadian independence, is gaining in strength, and a convention will be held with a view to federating all the groups and dubs having a like object. Old Insurance Company Fails. The Commercial Travelers’ Life Association of Syracuse, N. Y„ one of the oldest co-operative insurance companies, went Into the hands pf receivers. The order was upon the application of the attorney general's office ou the ground of fftoeivcftcy. ■-1

ANGER OF THE TURK. Saltan Wants a Retraction from the President. Mustapha Bey, the Turkish Minister, has received peremptory instructions from his government to secure a retraction of the injurious statements made by President Cleveland in his message to Congress. A cable was received on Wednesday night which indicated that the Sublime Porte was in an awful stew over the matter, and the hint was given that unless this government did something the Minister would be expected to ask for his passport. In accordance with this peremptory dispatch from the home government the Turkish Minister sought an audience Thursday with Secretary Olney and read the riot act to him. He requested that the matter be presented to President Cleveland to the end that the President might, if possible, send in a supplemental message to Congress explaining the provocation which had been given the Turks to cause them to butcher so many defenseless people. The Turkish Minister does not deny the butchery, but he does attempt to justify it. The Minister, so it is said, almost went to the extent of making a charge of bad faith, for he claimed that the State Department was in full possession of all the facts which would go to show that the butcheries were committed under stress of great provocation. SMALLPOX AND YELLOW FEVER. Many Deaths in Cuba—Ten Thousand Spanish Soldiers Sick. The Marine hospital service has received reports of smallpox and yellow fever in Cuban seaports. Under date of Nov. 24 the United States consul at Cienfuegos reports that during the week ended Nov. 22 there were in that city 12 deaths from yellow fever and two from smallpox. The United States sanitary inspector at Havana reports 220 new cases and 87 deaths from yellow fever, and 54 deaths from smallpox during the week ended Nov. 20. The inspector says he is informed from what he believes credible sources that in the eight government military hospitals which are established in the city and its immediate suburbs there are over 10,000 sick and wounded Spanish soldiers. The scarcity of food is being felt among the poorer classes, hnd fruit and vegetables are sometimes a luxury on the rich man’s table; many people can get no work, and paupers and beggars people the streets.

DRAGGED BEHIND HIS CART. Kansas Farmer Held for Brutal Murder of His Daughter. After a long preliminary examination, Rudolph Brockman, a wealthy farmer living in Osage Township, Kan., has been held in the sum. of SIO,OOO to answer for the murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Mary. Four weeks ago Brockman gave the girl a terrible beating because she did not work to suit him in his cornfield. He then tied a rope around one of her ankles, fastened the other ond of thp rope to the rear axle of his wagon and drove to his barn, a quarter of a mile off, dragging the girl behind. Arriving there, he locked her up in the barn without sufficient clothing and without food. The girl was found by her uncle and another neighbor, who carried her away, but her injuries were so serious that she died Nov. 22. Brorknvan has long been an outcast among the farmers of Osage Township. His ranch joins the notorious Bender farm, and he was the neurest neighbor of the Bender, butchers.

AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE. North German Llovd Steamer Sailer Goes Down on Corrobedo Rocks. Vigo, Spain, dispatch: The North German Lloyd steamer Salier was lost off CorunnaS Corrobedo. All hands were drowned. There were 210 passengers on board. Her crew was composed of six-ty-five men. All on board, passengers and crew, perished. The Salier’s passengers consisted of 113 Russians, thirtyfive Galicians, sixty-one Spaniards, and one German. The Salier was bound from Bremen to Buenos Ayres, via Corunna and Villagarieu. The passengers were mostly in the steerage. The Corrobedo rocks, on which it is believed the Salier was lost, are situated off the southwest coast of Corunna and should have been given a wide berth before the steamer headed eastward, and then in n northeasterly direction for the bay leading up to Yillngariea. WHEAT FOR AUSTRALIA. American Merchants Will Ship Nearly 5,000,000 Bnshels. J. S. Larke, the Canadian Trade Commissioner in Australia, has furnished the Vancouver Board of Trade with a statement as to the condition of the Australian crops. He states that that country will have to import over 5,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, owing to the failure of the Australian harvest. He says that the bulk will come from America. Canadian merchants were late in the field, San Francisco merchants having secured a large number of orders.

Bold Deed of Robbers. The Iron Mountain fast express, outgoing, was held up by six masked men one mile from the union station, within the city limits of St. Louis, Wednesday night at 9:30 o’clock. Two robbers went to the express car and demanded admittance. Express Messenger W. J. Egan refused to let them in. They threatened to kill him, but he was inflexible. They then placed a stick of dynamite at the car door, and blew it to pieces. The explosion badly shattered one side of the car. When the robbers looked for the treasure they were told that the money was in a time-locked safe. Finding it useless to try to blow open the strongbox, the robbers jumped off and notified their companions on the engine that they had failed to £et anything. The robbers then disappeared, and Engineer William Green started ahead. As the train pulled away Express Messenger Egan came to the shattered door of his car, intending to shoot at the marauders. No sooner did they see him, however, than they opened fire and he fled behind a pile of boxes. The noise of the shooting attracted the clerks in the mail car and they opened the doors and a fusillade followed. Express Messenger Egan said the Pacific Express Company had lost nothing. Filigree in War Paint. Gov.-elect Pingree has said it. Michigan is to be battered this winter with the bullets of reform 1 , while the whole country looks on at the battle. The famous Mayor-Governor has outlined his plan of action and the coming fight between him and his Legislature will contribute the most intensely interesting chapter in the history of commonwealth government in the United States. Depositor* Must Help. The majority of the depositors of the Missouri National Bank, at Kansas City, which failed, hare agreed to a reorganization plan which calls for a contribution of 10 per cent, of their deposits to strengthen the impaired capital of the bank. Take The'ir Ow.n Lives. Mrs. Sarah B. Ingersoll Cooper and her daughter, Harriet Cooper, both widely known as workers in the cause of temperance, Christianity and philanthropy, committed suicide together in their home •) I'

in San Francisco Thursday night. Mrs. Cooper’s will was discovered upon a table in the apartment, informing the world of the joint suicide and requesting that the bodies be not taken to the morgue. Mrs. Cooper and her daughter were foremost among the members of the Woman’s Suffrage Association. Mrs. Cooper was, in fact, president of the California Woman Suffrage Association and was prominently identified with church and kindergarten work. She taught the largest Bible class in the world and was a prominent officer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The suicide has made a profound sensation in the city, where Mrs. Cooper and her daughter had been until recently the leaders in church and Christian affairs generally. The tragedy is directly traceable to the recent scandal which culminated in the church trial and condemnation of Rev. Dr. Charles O. Brown, pastor of the First Congregational Church. Mrs. Cooper was one of his warmest supporters in the early part of the trial. Before the end of the trial, however, Mrs. Cooper and her daughter turned against him, and the part of the Coopers in the case was in violent disagreement with the elinrch element, which censured them for their activity against the accused clergyman. Since the trial the Coopers bad been snubbed by former friends and given the cold shoulder by their associates in church work. Harriet Cooper was so oppressed with the burden of the social boycott that was imposed upon herself and her mother that her health failed and she suffered from nervous prostration. She often spoke of taking her own life, but had been dissuaded by her mother.

LURED TO DEATH. Antonio Maceo the Victim of Spain’s Treachery. General Antonio Maceo, the famous Cuban leader, is really dead, having been treacherously murdered by Spaniards Dec. 7 while on his way to attend a conference to which he was invited by the of Ahumeda, acting captain general of Cuba, while General Weyler was in the field. Saturday a letter was received by Colonel J. A. De Huau, the hend of the Florida junta, at Jacksonville, Fla., from his secretary correspondent in Havana, giving a detailed account of the assassination of General Maceo and his entire staff, with the exception of Dr. Zertucha, who was Maceo’s physician. The letter came from a reliable source in Havana, but the correspondent’s name, of course, cannot be made public, for, as Mr. Huau said: “The writer would be shot within an hour by Spanish authorities if they knew who gave away details of one of the most horx-ible atrocities ever chronicled in modern warfare.” LEGAL WAR OVER BLOOD MONEY. Identity of "Dynamite Dick’s” Snpposed Corpse Is Disputed. A big row exists between the officers of Kay County, Oklahoma, and the United States marshals of the Territory over the identity of a bandit killed near Black well some days ago. The courts will have to decide the matter. In a fight with outlaws the sheriff’s posse killed a man whom they claim to be “Dynamite Dick,” for whose capture, dead or alive, there is a large reward. Half a dozen marshals who claim to know, say the man is not “Dynamite Dick,” but “Skeeter Dick,” a cuttle thief of note. The slayers of the outlaw assert the marshals are attempting to cheat them out of the refward.

Illinois' Big Corn Crop. The Illinois corn crop of 1890, ns reported to the State Board of Agriculture, was the largest ever raised in the State with a single exception—in 1879, when the total yield of the State was 305,000,000 bushels. In 1890 the yield was 288.500,000 bushels. The average yield per acre was the largest in the history of the State, forty-two bushels. The average price throughout the State is 18 cents per bushel. Pathetic Death of Mae Kelly. Miss Mae Kelly, prominent in musica, and social circles of Duluth, Minn., died suddenly Thursday night of heart failure She had volunteered her assistance at n concert given at a fair held to raise funds for a new Roman Catholic Hospital. Hers was the first number on the program, and she hud sung the opening bars of “He Giveth His Beloved Sleep,” when she fell backward dead. Steel to Be Cheap. War, fierce and to a finish, is to be fought within the cash-supported ranks of the steel billet pool. This grim determination was the outcome of the meeting held at Pittsburg Friday. The pool had under consideration the grave question of dissolving the powerful organization. Long and earnest was the discussion, and the men who had decided upon the wage of battle finally won. Jumped from a Fast Train. Near Columbia, Mo., an unknown man jumped from the eastbound train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road while going at the rate of forty miles an hour and was instantly killed. He had $3,000 in his possession. Over Five Score Buried. A dispatch from Jeres, Spain, announces that a large building has collapsed there, burying over 100 persons.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 75e to 77c; corn, No. 2,22 c. to 24c; oats,'No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 40c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 19c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30; broom corn, common green to fine brush, 2t(,c to st£ per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,87 cto 89c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c io 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 22e to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; h-ogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,91 eto 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,34 c to 3Gc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2,92 cto 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 91c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c t» 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, 37c to 39e. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22e to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 40c; clover seed, $5.25 to $5.35. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 3,22 cto 24c; oats, No. 2jvhite, 19c to 20c; barley, No. 2,30 cto osc; rye, No. 1,40 cto 41c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to ,95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white. 23c to 24c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 87c; eorn, No. 2, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 25c; eggs, Western, 20c to 22c.

CAN WE HELP CUBA?

HOW THE QUESTION IS VIEWED IN WASHINGTON. itroag Sentiment for Intervention, Even Among Conservatives Mnat Look Before We Leap—Attitude of the New Administration. Lively Tim“ Possible. Washington correspondence:

THE shrieks and groans of bleeding Cuba and her beseeching look to this Government for aid are not unx heeded by the |t American people Si nor by their repress? sentatives in Con--9 gress. All behold with increasing horror the specter which hovers over yg'*- the fairest of the West Indies and iFTv* the endless reports || ]H of burning plantaHi' tions, butchered invalids and assaa-

sinated citizens quicken the pulse and make us pray for the time when the reign of blood shall end. The Cuban representatives here say that this end can be accomplished by the intervention of the United States in Cuba’s behalf. Our statesmen agree in this and sentiment and sympathy advise such a course. Intervention may lead the Government into serious complications and conservative statesmen feel that their first duty is to their own Government. Nevertheless there is manifest a strong sentiment for interference unless there be a change in Cuban affairs within a reasonable time. The position of the administration, as made plain by President Cleveland’s message, has the commendation of the conservative element. Maj. McKinley is reported to be in sympathy with Mr. Cleveland’s attitude and to be particularly pleased with the paragraph which foreshadows intervention. The implicatiou

that a guarantee of the fulfillment of any terms agreed upon by Spain and Cuba might be furnished by the United States meets with the President elect’s approval. The latter is’ hopeful that a settlement of the trouble may be well advan-

ced before he enters office, and he particularly desires that no hasty action shall be taken by Congress, such as might confront the new administration with embarrassing foreign relations. Cuba’s wishes regarding action by the United States were set forth by Gouzalo de Quesada, charge d’affaires of the Cuban republic in Washington. “The Cuban legation,” said he, “will strive, during the present sessiop of Congress, to bring to a decisive end the labors initiated last year, when a concurrent resolution, substantially declaring the belligerency of Cuba and recommending the good offices of the United States should be directed toward obtaining the independence of Cuba was

SENATOR LODGE.

supreme in three-fourths of the island; our complete military organization, our humanity to the vanquished, are proofs of the existence of a responsible, determined, rising, nationality, where there was yesterday an oppressed colony. This nationality cannot be crushed even by the landing of new European armies on a territory over which the Monroe doctrine is perfectly applicable. With as much reason as when the French troops were made to withdraw from Mexico can the United States urge the evacuation of Cuba by Spanish armies or request that Spain shall fight her battles with the troops she has already ou this side of the ocean. We will work unceasingly to see the independence of Cuba and her belligerent rights proclaimed by America.” It is possible that there will be a lively time over this question in both houses of Congress. Representative Hitt, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations, thinks no definite action will

be taken by this Congress unless there is some decided change on the island or in the attitude of Spain toward the United States. Senator Sherman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, will not speak on the subject. The atti- *

tude of most of the members is aggressive and several have declared their intention of introducing resolutions directing thePresident to recognize the independence or belligerency of the Cubans. Senator Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, expresses himself thus forcibly: “The United States ought to take possession of the island and hold it until the Cuban people can form a stable and satisfactory government for themselves. This country is under obligations to do this. We have stood guard over Cuba for Spain for years, and have allowed her to perpetrate her horrible butcheries there while we have prevented the interference of any other power. Thus we became morally responsible in the eyes of the universe for Spain’s atrocities. Had not the United States stood in the way and given notice to all the world that no other nation except Spain would be allowed to control

SENATOR CULLOM.

Germany and Fraqce have been prevented in like manner from taking it. Under one of these three great and enlightened Governments the Cuban people would have been happy and prosperous. The United States have, however, held them as prisoners for Spain to oppress and slaughter. My blood boils when I think of It, and I am convinced that nine-tenths of the American people agree with me as to the responsibility of the United States in. the matter.” fienutor Henry Cabot Lodge says: “The efort# of the administration to terminate

SENATOR MILLS.

passed. Since then the Cubans have grown stronger. We claim that Cuba is free to-day. We assert that Simin is trying, unsuccessfully, to reconquer Cuba. She is attempting to exterminate a people, not to subdue a revolution. Our civil government,

SENATOR SHERMAN

Cuba, the Cubans might long ago have escaped from Spanish oppression and would to-day be living under an enlightened and stable gove r n m e n t which .would have ed them in their 'lives, liberty and property. I “England would have taker; the island in IS4I had not the United States interposed, and both

the war by offering it* good offices hare apparently failed. I consider that the recognition of belligerent rights *t this point would be ill-advised. It would be a direct help to Spain, and would not work for the interests of peace. I believe we have reached a point where we must either recognize Cuban independence or else continue to await developments, following out the policy Mr. Cleveland has pursued hitherto.” Senator Cullom’s opinion is: “This thing has been going on long enough and that it is time for the United States through its administration to let Spain know that we canot allow this butchery at our doors to continue without any prospect of termination. I am not a jingo, but it does seem to me that some way should be found to put a stop to the war with as little delay as possible.” Senators Morgan and Daniel expressed themselves strongly in favor of granting belligerent rights.

REED THIS!

An Odd Complication of Congressional Names. A Washington paper has been studying the list of newly-elected Congressmen and has this to say about it: “From over in Maryland comes Dr. Booze, and, while there may be no significance whatever in this close conjunction, the name of the representative in the very next district is Mudd. Maryland also sends a Barber and a Baker to the next House. A Cooke is found in the Illinois delegation, a Gardener in New Jersey, a Plowman in Alabama, a Cowherd in Missouri, a Bishop in Michigan, a Brewer in Ohio, two Coopers, one from Texas and the other from Wisconsin; two Taylors, one from Ohio and the other from Alabama; four Smiths, two from Michigan and one each from Illinois and Arizoha. A Miller comes from West Virginia, but Illinois furnishes Mills. Illinois also has a Hunter; New Jersey and North Carolina each a Fowler. But Pennsylvania contributes Robbins. “The little New England State of Rhode Island sends a Bull, Virginia a Lamb, North Carolina a Martin, Mississippi a Fox, Missouri a Cooney, and Ohio a Kerr, while a Skinner comes from North Carolina, and a Packer from Pennsylvania. There is a Fischer in the New York delegation, but the only thing for him to catch is Sauerherring of Wisconsin. Fruit, too. is scarce, there being only one Berry, from Kentucky. “Congress is a large body in itself, but it has only a Foote in New York and a Tongue in Oregon. A whole Mann is in Illinois, however, and there is another Handy in Delaware. There is a Moody in Massachusetts, a Minor in Wisconsin, and a Young in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and, above all, a Bland in Missouri. New York appropriates to itself all the Payne, North Carolina all the Love, and Missouri all the Joy. Utah is represented by a King, Illinois by a Prince, and the pedple of lowa by their Cousins.

“The silver Moon from the Tennessee mountains looks down peacefully upon a Hill in Connecticut, a Marsh in Illinois, near which is planted a Cannon that has seen much service, a Flood in Virginia, a Beach in Ohio, an Eddy in Minnesota, a Strait in South Carolina, and a Hull of long standing in lowa, while it sheds a bright Ray upon the State of New York. “Color lines are not sharply drawn, for there are only Browns in Ohio and North Carolina, White in the latter State, and both White and Jett In Illinois. “A Bell from Colorado may ring loudly in California and Sweet and Low in New York. Pennsylvania sends two fine-look-ing Stones, both of whom have been here before, while Vermont, which has such an abundance of fine marble, sends only Grout. Three good Walkers will be in the next House, one from Massachusetts and two from Virginia, to say nothing of Strode from Nebraska. The Little man from Arkansas may offset Grow in Pennsylvania. “Messrs. Robb, Steele and Gamble would hardly be a success as a firm in any other business than bank breaking or train wrecking in either Missouri, Indiana or South Dakota. Should they decide to divide their Gaines in Tennessee they might Settle in Kentucky, or possibly in North Carolina, after a Sharp contest. Should any of the members of Congress desire to indulge in the national game they may use the Ball, which will be sent here by Texas. Illinois will bo sure to make a safe Hitt.”

HORSES A PEST.

In the West They Are Praying for Cold to Destroy Them. Nearly 100,000 horses are likely to starve to death in Eastern Washington this winter and their owners are praying that they will. The horses are practically valueless; they would not bring $1 a head, and yet many of them are fine-look-ing animals. Electricity and the bicycle are the cause. Instead of being man’s best friend, the horse has actually become a pest thereabouts. Hot winds, squirrels and grasshoppers are less dreaded. There being no demand they are running wild on the ranches, are multiplying fast and eating the bunch grass that would otherwise support cattle and sheep. One horse will consume as much as five head of cattle, and yet they bring no return. Thousands of acres of ranges have been utterly destroyed by the horses. Up to three years ago Washington was shipping horses East in large numbers. Electricity and bicycles have killed the market. This year Traffic Manager Hannaford, of the Northern Pacific, h’as made vigorous efforts to find a market for horses in the East. Horses very cheap have been offered to glue factories and rendering establishments of various kinds. They do not want them. A few carloads are being shipped to the Atlantic coast for shipment to Prance, where horse meat is in demand, but these shipments make no impression on the supply.

Sparks from the Wires.

Mr. Gladstone is disappointed at the small sale of his edition of “Bishop Butler,” only 2,0G0 copies having been sold. Four men are in jail at Hebron, Neb., charged with robbing twenty banks in Nebraska within the last forty days. John E. Redmond, M. P. for Waterford City, Ireland, and leader of the independent section of the Irish party, is in New York to lecture. A receiver has been appointed .for the Columbian liberty bell at the instance of George Knapp, the custodian, who has a claim of $5,505 against it. James Carter, a prominent member of the Virginia Legislature fell into a fire at Cartersford, Va., from apoplexy. When found his body was burned to a crisp. Adolph Kobitzsch is playing Nemesis on the trail of attaches of the Randall Island Infant Hospital, 5» 7 cw York, to whose neglect and positive cruelty he charges the death of his year-old son, Otto. A legislative inquiry into the workings of, the Raines excise law was begun at New York. ' The 'committee consists of five members of the State Senate, with Mr. Raines, the “father” of the law, chairman. Ayers’ spiritualistic meetings in Bostoij were broken up by a disturbance, and When the lights were turned on the was discovered to be O. L. Connan. the medium, in a state of nudity. *

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House—Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch—Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. In the Senate Wednesday the prayer of Rev. Dr. Milburn made eloquent reference to the late Charles F. Crisp of Georgia—“A man faithful and loyal in all his relations and faithful servant of the people; may his name be graven on the tablet of the nation’s memory.” Early in the day three sets of vigorous resolutions for Cuban independence furnished an interesting feature. The Senate bf a vote of 35 to 21 adopted a motion to take up the Dingley tariff-silver bill. The House passed a dozen billls of minor importance. The House also agreed to the Senate amendment approving certain acts of the Legislature of New Mexico for the issue of bonds, so as to validate $172,500 of bonds of Santa Fe County.' The Senate Thursday took up the immigration bill, and also heard the first of the speeches on Cuba —those of Mr. Cullom and Mr. Call. The immigration bill was not finally passed upon, but the Senate agreed to the Lodge bill as a substitute to the House measure. The substitute requires that all immigrants over the age of 14 years shall be able to read and write their native language and shall be required to read and write in the presence of a United States official at least five lines of the United States Constitution. The Senate adjourned to Monday. Pending the preparation of the next appropriation bill the House again devoted its time to the consideration of bills on the calendar, but only two were passed during the four hours’ session. One of these was a copyright bill, urged by prominent playwrights and theatrical managers to secure to musical compositions the same measure of protection under the copyright law as is now afforded productions of a strictly dramatic character. A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor in the capitol building was also passed. A bill to modify the law forbidding the alien ownership of lands in the territories so as to give aliens the right to acquire under mortgage and to hold for ten years real property was defeated.

In the House Friday Rev. Mr. Cowden, the blind chaplain, referred in his invocation to the action of the House in prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Capitol. “We thank Thee, O Lord,” said he, “that the House is no longer responsible for the liquor traffic within the halls of the national Capitol. Grant, we pray Thee, that the bill passed here yesterday will go through the regular channels and speedily become a law, never again to be repealed in the history of our nation.” At the conclusion of the prayer, half a hundred members applauded vigorously, but Speaker Reed promptly suppressed the outburst. On motion of Mr. Dingley, the floor leader, it was agreed that when the House adjourn it be to meet Monday. The joint resolution extending until the close of this session the time in which the joint commission for the investigation of the subject of the rebate of the tax on alcohol used in manufactures or arts may report was adopted. Beyond agreeing to a resolution for a two weeks’ recess the proceedings in the House Monday were almost entirely devoid of public interest. Most of the day was spent in a struggle over the bill of Mr. Morse of Massachusetts to render the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia more stringent. The reported assassination of Maceo, the Cuban patriot, and its effect on the attitude of this country toward the revolutionists was almost the sole topic of conversation on the floor before the House met. No resolutions, however, were offered in open session. Among the resolutions introduced in the Senate was one by Senator Morgan of Alabama calling upon the President to send to the Senate copies of the papers relating to Cuban affairs which was referred to in the recent report of Secretary Olney. The resolution asks for especial information in regard to the trial of persons captured on the Competitor. Representative M. V. Howard of Alabama introduced a resolution recognizing the republic of Cuba as a free and independent government. Senator Morgan of Alabama held the attention of the Senate and well-filled galleries for an hour Tuesday by his earnest advocacy of a strong and decisive policy in dealing with the Cuban question. He asked for the adoption of the resolution presented Monday, requesting the Secri'Tary of State for the papers in the Competitor case and in other cases involving the arrest of American citizens by Spanish authorities. The resolution was agreed to. The Senate took up the bill pensioning Nancy Allabach, which had been vetoed by the President, and passed it over the. veto. In the House a bill to reorganize the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company was passed without division, after certain amendments had been adopted. The House then entered upon the consideration of the Loud bill to amend the law relating to the transmission of second-class mail matter. The bill met with the most intense opposition from certain quarters. It denies the right of serial novels to admission to the mails at the newspaper cent per pound rates; denies to newspapers the sample copy privilege; prohibits the return of unsold publications at pound rates and makes some Other changes in the present law, designed to correct existing abuses. It is estimated that the abuses of the law have cost the government $240,000,000 in the last ten years. No final action was taken.

Told in a Few Dines.

Ira Marlatt, known as the demon of the Ohio State prison, attacked Warden Coffin and four guards with a knife. Citizens of Alexis, 111., attempted to blow up an illegal whisky joint with dynamite and shook the whole town. Ernest Engel, the German statistician, is dead at Berlin. He was born at Dresden in 1821 and became director of the Bureau of Statistics in 18(50 and retired in 1882. A club of Cuban sympathizers is being organized at Butte, Mont., to join the im surgents in January. Capt. Bordeaux is the organizer and nearly 200 names are on the list. Achille Tomasi, who has been a musical director for years, and has managed a number of opera companies, was adjudged of unsound mind by a sheriff’s jury in the Supreme Court at New York. During forty-eight hours the criminal element of St. Louis ran the entire gamut of crimes prohibited by the statutes. I ifty of the mechanics employed by Moran Bros., shipbuilders, of Seattle, Wash., are on a strike and will leave on the next steamer for San Fra •'cisco. The men have been employed on two steam steel vessels the Morans are building for the Government. It is reported that Prince Ernst of Windisch-Graetz, a lieutenant in the regular artillery, with a physician named Meade, was attacked at Vizgavona in the interior of Corsica, where he was traveling for his health. The Prince had with him much money and pany Valuables.

THE MAN OF THE HOUR

General Jnan Huia Rivera.

General Juan Ruis Rivera, who has been appointed to succeed General Antonio Maceo in the command of the Cuban forces in the province of Pinar del Rio, has achieved military reputation scarcely second to that of his late chieftain. He is a veteran of the ten years’ war in Cuba, and a warm personal friend of Commander-in-chief Maximo Gomez. He enjoyed Maceo’s confidence and esteem. General Rivera was horn in 1847, in Mayaguez, Porto Rico. -His father was a Spanish colonel. The son was a student in the university at Barcelona when the first Cuban war commenced in 18G8. Although but 20 years old, he gave up his studies and at once sailed for Cuba, where he received a warm welcome from the insurgent leaders and was appointed an officer of General Gomez's staff. Afterward he was appointed as secretary to General Garcia and later was made commander of the department of the east. When the war was ended Rivera stood firmly with Maceo in his refusal to accept the treaty of peace of San Juan, and when the terms of the compact were finally acepted he departed in despair to Central America, where he became a planter. On the breaking out of the present wfi'r he at once lef-t his home, returned to Cuba and headed an expedition in the western part of the island. He has since been closely connected with the Cuban chief. He is a soldier of great personal magnetism and Maceo’s natural successor.

FEDERATION OF LABOR.

Sixteenth Annual Convention Held in Cincinnati. The sixteenth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor was called to order in Cincinnati at 10 a. m. Monday by President Samuel Gompers. About 150 delegates were present and there were many visitors. Martin Fox, President of North America, had been selected by the labor organizations of Cincinnati to deliver the address of welcome. Owing to the death of a relative Mr. Fox was not present, and his address was read by E. J. Denny. In the welcoming address more effective action for the eight-hour law and other reforms were recommended. Special greetings were extended Delegates Samuel Woods and John Mallinson of England and Louis Yigoroux of France, who were seated with Secretary McGrath and Assistant Secretary Martin Walters on the stage. President Gompers, in responding to the address of welcome, referred to attacks on the organization because it was merely a federation and not a more compact union. He showed how the fullest scope was given to individual opinions and rights in the American Federation of Labor and thus the affiliation of different labor organizations was possible in one general federation. He appealed for continued efforts for the cultivation of public opinion as well as for favorable legislation and for the most earnest cooperation of all labor organizations.

MANY ILLICIT STILLS FOUND.

“Moonshining” Is Increasing at a Steady Rate. “Moonshining” has steadily increased during the last twelve years, according to the commissioner of internal revenue. Last year 1,905 illicit distilleries were seized by the government, the largest number discovered in any one year, and more than twice as many as were found in 1893, or in any year previous. In its efforts to enforce revenue laws in the last twelve years, the government has had ten officers killed and fifteen wounded. None was killed last year, but three were wounded, which record equals that of any one other year of the twelve. The largest number of “moonshine” distilleries, 587, was found in Georgia. One Congressional district, the ninth, developed 430. North Carolina was second in the “moonshine” industry, with 453 “blind stills.” Secretary Carlisle’s State, Kentucky, furnished eighty cases of illicit distilleries. Only one was found in the State of Illinois, that in the Fifth Congressional District

UNCLE SAM’S CASH.

Coined a Great Deal Since Commencing Business. The total value of all coins authorized to be used as money and issued from the mints by this government since the enactment of she first measure of authorization, as shown by recent publication front official sources, drawn out, doubtldss, by the recent campaign discussions of the “crime of 1873,” is stated to have reached the enormous total of $2,407,798,116.25, which amount, as a means of effecting exchanges, is, of course, but a part of the circulating medium with which the country is provided. The coins are proportioned among the several metals as follows: Gold, $1,755,813,703; silver, $085,023,701.90; minor coins, $20,900,711.35.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Martin L. Stevens,of Brooklyn, a prominent Knight of Pythias, is dead, aged 00. Walter C. Heinecke, 20 years old, son of Edmund Heinecke, who claimed to be a German count, died in Manhattan Hospital, New York, from wounds he inflicted himself. The police think there is a woman in the case. J. B. Labouisse, ex-president, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and well known in every cotton market in the country, began coughing and within two hours expired from heart failure, brought on by the violent exertion.