Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1897 — Page 2

SljejScmocrottcSenttiicl <■ ■ --- X ■ - - —-_r _ _ •X. W. KcEWEX, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

MEETING OF MEDICS.

FOURTH TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE OF PHYSICIANS. Five Hundred Members of the Pro* feas'on Assemble in Washington Virc in a Paris Bazaar Kills Thirty People—lndians Air Their Woes, Congress of Doctors. About 500 members of the medical profession, among them some of the most distinguished specialists in the country, assembled in Washington Tuesday to attend the fourth triennial congress of American physicians and surgeons, which convened Tuesday afternoon at the Columbia Theater. The congress opened with a business meeting of the Executive Committee, following which the chairman of the committee. Dr. don C. Gfhy. called the general body to order. At night Ur. William H. Welch, of Baltimore, the retiring president, delivered the triennial address, and later a reception was given the delegates by the members of the local society at the Arlington Hotel. The congress is divided into fourteen distinct associations, each of whose presidents is ex-officio vice president of the congress. These associations held daily sessions at their respective headquarters, in addition to the regular meetings of the congress. A large number of interesting and important papers were read and discussed. A statue of the late Prof. Gross, the eminent physician of Philadelphia, was unveiled Wednesday afternoon. The statue is erected in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. OLD DOCUMENTS FOUND. Interesting Discoveries Made in the New York State House. State Comptroller Roberts, of New York, in his search for revolutionary papers which have been hidden for a century in the State house, has come across some ancient documents, which are the oldest he has yet found, and which arc •'pertinently interesting at this time, ns they relate to excise accounts received by the State, then a colony of Great Britain, between the years 1710 and 1768. The excise returns for a year dating from 1710 for the entire colony amounted to £392 6s, less than $2,0<»0, whiilh is exceedingly ittsignific”*!! when compared with |ll,ooo,Opt''returns on th< Iraffic in liquor in 18!|£- Another old document dating bneVfo 1715 is report showing the duty pauPfutu the State treasury on negro slaves./ An interesting paper found at t]ic «gnie time is an account for the services of Philip Livingston as a delegate in Congress from 1777 to 1778, a totul of 198 working days at 34 shillings a day, the aggregate being £336 12s. Still another paper shows that the remains of Gen. Montgomery, who fell in the attack on Quebec in the French and Indian war in 1787, is buried in St. Paul’s Churchyard in New York City, and accompanying this is a bill from one Jacobus Myers for carting the monument for Gen. Montgomery’s body to the churchyard.

Standing of tlio Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore ..8 1 New York... 4 5 Philadelp’ia . 8 2 Chicago .... 3 6 Cincinnati .. 6 2 Brooklyn .... 3 7 Louisville... 5 2 Washington . 2 6 Pittsburg ... 4 2 Boston 2 6 Cleveland .. 4 5 St. Louis .. .. 2 7 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis . 7 2 Kansas City. 5 6 Columbus .. 7 2 Detroit -1 5 St. Paul .... 7 3 Milwaukee .. 3 7 " s ' Lo’s Tale of Woe. American Horse, Red Cloud and other Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge agency in South Dakota have had an interview with Secretary Bliss, in which they paid their respects and aired alleged grievances. A delegation of Wichita and Caddos from Kansas is also in Washington with the object, it is stated, of delayiug t/he work of allotment on the Wichita reservation, now well under way. They are seeking a cash payment in advance of the allotment, and are accompanied by Allotting Agent George A. H. Mills. Fire Horror In Paris. More than 100 people were killed by fire, and in the panic which ensued, at Paris, Tuesday. Flames broke out in a crowded bazar held for charity in a temporary wooden structure. Included in the list of victims are many members of the Freneh nobility. Some witnesses of the calamity were made insane. Aside from the killed, hundreds were injured. Threw Away His Life. route to a freight wreck at Jonesviile in charge of a wrecking train from Columbus, Ind., Engineer Frank Wetzel was confronted with what he thought a fatal danger by the breakage of the right engine railing. He rushed to the left side of the cab and made a fatal leap to the ground. His neck, right arm and thigh were broken. . Eleven Drowned. A collision occurred off Girdleness lighthouse between* the British steamers Collynee and Gringoe. The Collynee sank and eleven of her crew were drowned. Admiral Meade Dead. Admiral Meade (retired), U. S. N., who had been ill at Washington for three weeks past, died Tuesday, after an operation for appendicitis. General Strike May Occur. Advices from Upper East Tennessee and Southern Kentucky show that a general strike in all the coal mines in that section will probably occur during the next few days. The cause-of the trouble is a general reduction of 18 per cent. Boiler Blew Up. ■ Hank Roberts, an engineer on the Chicago and Alton Railway, was instantly killed, and Charles Pardoner, a fireman, seriously injured by the explosion of a freight locomotive near Kansas City. Transvaal Investigation. Before the parliamentary committee which has been inquiring into the Transvaal raid Joseph Chamberlain declared in the most explicit manner that neither he nor his colleagues had the slightest suspicions of anything in the nature of an armed invasion of the Transvaal: Heavy Loss of Life. News has been received via Kingston, Jamaica, of an awful series of earthquakes throughout the chain of Leewurd Islands. All the islands in the group are •aid to have been affected. The loss of iif* has been very large. Many buildings collapsed daring the moat severs shock.

AMBUSHED THE SPANIARDS. Cuban Insurgents Won a Victory in the Purgatori Hills. The engagement the Spanish had with Gen. Rodcriguez in the Purgatori Hills, which was reported as a decisive Spanish victory, turns out to have been the reverse. The Spanish columns encountered the insurgents and attacked sharply, relying on their superior force. The rebels retreated toward their camp and succeeded in playing their old trick of drawing the Spanish into an ambuscade. Gen. Castillo arrived with re-enforcements while Roderiguez was engaging the Spanish and fell on their flanls The fightiDg lasted five hours, and in killed, wounded and prisoners the Spanish lost 280 men. News comes from Santiago to Cuba that 200 volunteers, headed by a priest and a prominent physician, have joined the insurgents because they were dissatisfied with the conduct of the Spanish authorities and believed- that Garcia would succeed in maintaining his supremacy in the eastern province. The situation at Banes continues to command attention. Four cruisers and several guuboats have been ordered there to land a force to march on the port from the direction of Holquiu. The rebel force ia and near Banes is estimated at 3,000. Gen. Weyler came quietly back to Havana, after a six weeks' trip to Santa Clara, during which, if he accomplished anything from a military standpoint, the fact has been most effectually concealed. From Matanzas and other towns in Havana, Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio, comes news that starvation and disease are on the increase. Last Monday night Cuban patriots entered the fortified seaport of Tunas de Zasa, raided the place, sacked all the stores and carried off a quantity of plunder. The garrison offered no resistance.

DEBOE FOR SENATOR. Wins the Most Memorable Political Battle of Kentucky. W. J. Deboe was on Wednesday elected United States Senator from Kentucky, the vote stood: Deboe 71 Stoue 1 Martin 12 Blackburn 00 After the official declaration of the election of Deboe there were such loud demonstrations that even the telegraph offices In the lobby had to suspend business and only the bare ballot could be sent out. The excitement was intense, ns it ended a contest that has been waged since last year. Senator Blackburn and his friends, after fighting hard for over a year in the regular and the extra sessions, went do\vn, with their colors flying. TtuvsHver Democrats conceded their disappointment and the gold Democrats joined in the jollification- There never was such a Beene in the Kentucky State House. Senator Deboe proceeded to Washington at once with his credentials, to assist in reorganizing the United States Senate, and in the passage of the tariff and other measures on which the lines are closely drawn. USED FOR PARTISAN PURPOSES. Postal Department to Abolish Method ot Delivery to Foreigners. A practice that has existed for some years of delivering mails addressed to foreigners in the foreign labor colonies of the large cities in bulk to snloous and other places of general assemblage, there to bo sorted over and handed out in the crowd, instead of delivering at the house addresses, is being generally complained of. The complaints allege that in some cities, like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Chicago, a carrier acquainted with the foreign colony is employed, who, knowing the habits of the men, delivers their mail to their lodging places, and that during the campaign of last year there were instances where advantage was taken of the crowds so congregated to make partisan speeches and otherwise manipulating politics while distributing the letters. The matter has vexed the Posloflice Department and the Civil Service Commission, and Assistant Postmaster General Heath has about decided on a step which may put an end to the trouble. Wheat Outlook Poor. The Cincinnati Price Current publishes the following rather gloomy review of the wheat situation: “Wheat crop news is about the same as in recent past as to winter grain; whatever has developed lo change average indication has been in direction of reduction. While present situation furnishes no reliable basis'for estimating ultimate yield, it is reasonable to consider about 300,000,000 bushels for winter crop us extent of present indication. There is little room, apparently, for higher results under most favorable conditions likely to occur henceforward. Information concerning spring wheat in Northwest is far from being satisfactory, and there are elements of uncertainty in much of Minnesota and North Dukota which border on discouragement, although situation cannot be regarded as a hopeless one yet. Temperature has been too low, and excessive moisture has also hindered progress of seeding. A few days of especially favorable weather are urgently needed in that region. Oats havo been sown quite largely in recent past and are making a fairly good start in many sections, but to a large extent the crop is belated, and the acreage quite likely will prove to have been lessened. It is interesting to note that there appears to be an indication of maintenance of area of corn this season in most regions of the West.”

Miss Ervin Got $75,000. The Illinois senatorial investigating committee which has been probing the cause of failure of the Globe Savings Bank of Chicago, summoned Miss Sarah Louise Ervin, the stenographer whose name has been so frequently coupled with the affairs of President Spalding of the bursted bank. She told the committee that Spalding had given her cash and property to the amount of $75,000, and that he had promised to secure a divorce and marry her. Spalding had embezzled the funds of the State University, and Miss Ervin has refunded all she still possessed of what had been given her. Nesrroes Lynch Negroea. For the murder of an old man in his dotage, a child in its nonage and a woman in the first flush of young womanhood, the assaulting of two young girls, the burning of the home of their victims, two of the bodies being consumed in the flames, six young negroes were Thursday night sent to their doom by an infuriated mob of negroes, the victims also being negroes, at Sunnyside, Walter County, Texas. Many Die by Flood. A terrible flood in the Cottonwood river suddenly ingulfed West Guthrie, O. T., shortly after sunrise Wednesday morning. There is reason to believe that fully a <core of persons were drowned. Hundreds were driven from their homes and many houses were swept away. Blackmailer Geta Two Years. Charles A. Glessner, the Fort Wayne, Ind., correspondent of the Kansas City Sunday Sun, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for an attempt to blackmail Valorus Brown, a wealthy farmer. Brown refused to pay money to isuppress an alleged scandal. To Extend Commerce. The United States consul general at N'uevo Laredo, Mexico, reports to the Department of State a visit to that place from the delegation of the “Gulf and Interstate Transportation Company,” appointed by the Governors of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Wiex were particularly impressed with -*',v J’ J.K 1 w s- )« i -d”' *V- " .

the opportunities which exist for the corn trade. Corn is a favored food of the people of Mexico, where it is worth a Mexican dollar per bushel. The committee were introduced to the Mexican officials, who gave assurance of earnest co-opera-tion in any movement for bettering the mutual interchange of agricultural products. MILLIONS IN A FIRE. PittsbnrK la Vieited bv tbe Worst Blaze Since 1845. Tbe greatest fire that has visited Pittsburg, Pa., since the memorable one of 1845 started shortly after midnight Sunday in the immense wholesale grocery establishment of Thomas C. Jenkins. Three large blocks, extending from Liberty to Penn avenue and from Fifth street to Sixth street, have been reduced to smoldering ruins. The loss will exceed $4,000,000, and la well covered by insurance. Among the buildings destroyed are Jenkins’ wholesale grocery establishment, Horne’s six-story dry goods establishment, Horne’s office building, the Duquesne Theater, and tbe Methodist Book Concern. The fire started in the cellar of the Jenkins building, in a pile of barrels filled with waste paper. The flames were discovered by Watchman William Hunter while making his rounds on the third floor. He had smelled smoke earlier in the evening, but believed that it came from the outside, and had paid no attention to it. DEATH CLAIMED MANY. Loss by tbe Guthrie Flood Still Matter of Conjecture. Daylight Thursday morning in the Cottonwood valley found dozens of people still clinging to trees, overturned houses or timbers in positions which they had sustained all during the weary night. Here and there positions known to have been occupied when darkness came on at night were empty in the morning and the only conclusion to be drawn was that the luckless victims had dropped into the river during the night, drowned and that their bodies had been swept down stream. For miles along the scene of devastation 2,000 people, homeless, half ill from exposure and hungry, passed a miserable night. During the night the water had receded rapidly and the work of rescue was mare easy in the morning. What the damage to life and property furthei out in the country was will be known only when wire and raijwpv tr^jn^catn* municatfoa.il iinsinffllTr^ DEADLY DYNAMITE. Street Explosion In San Salvador Kills Many Persons. Panama dispatch: A terrific explosion of dynamite in San Salvador Friday resulted iu the destruction of two entire blocks of the city and caused the loss of many lives. Four wagons were being driven down one of the principal thoroughfares of the city, each loaded with several barrels of dynamite. In some unexplained manner one of the barrels of dynamite exploded with a deafening crash. In an instant every other barrel on the wagon had blown up. Then, With an awful roar, the dynamite on the three other wagons, which were near, exploded simultaneously. This last explosion was followed immediately by the crash of timbers and the two blocks of buildings opposite on each side of Concepcion street fell away like houses of cards in ruins.

DEED OF A FIEND. North Dakota Man Attempts to Murder a Family. Near Larimore, N. D., August Norman Saturday night cut the throats of four children of Knute Hillstead, a farmer, and escaped. Of the victims, Thomas, aged 13 months, and Oscar, 4 years old, are dead, while Peter and Adolph, aged 15 and 11 years respectively, are not expected to recover. Norman went to the Hillstead home in the evening and asked to be allowed to remain all night. Hillstead was not at home. About 1 o’clock iutho morning Norman knocked at the door of Mrs. Hillstead, who failed to respond, and becoming enraged Norman went up-stairs, where the children were sleeping, and attacked them one after another with a razor. Mrs. Hillstead and two small children escaped from the house. seventy Perished at 8e». Seventy lives were lost by the foundering of the French brigantine Y’alllant, which collided with an iceberg 150 miles from St. John’s, N. F., April 14. The Valliant was bound for St. Pierre and had on board a large number of fishermen to assist iu the summer’s codfishiug off the Newfoundland coast. Seven men escaped from the sinking vessel in a dory. They were without food or water. The second day two of them succumbed to their miseries. The next day a third perished, and the four miserable ’survivors resorted to cannibalism to save their lives. They were picked up by another French vessel that same evening and arrived at St. Pierre Tuesday night, where they were taken to a hospital. Their condition is terrible, and they will be maimed and afflicted for life. All four are terribly frost-bitteu, feet, arms aud ears being affected. Hotel Destroyed by Fire. At Milwaukee, fire destroyed the Sehmidt Hotel, a four-story building at 123 Huron street, at 3:30 o’clock Thursday morning

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice. $2.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2,24 cto 25c; oats No. 2, l(Jc to 18c; rye, No. 2,33 cto 34c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 9c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, 2c to 5c per It). Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 90c; corn. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22e. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,97 cto 98e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,33 cto 35c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 92c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,3 Sc to 40c. Detroit—CaUle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 35c to 37c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 92c to 93c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, Nq. 2,34 cto 36c; clover seed, $4.30 to $4.35. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73c o 1 4c; corn, No. 3,24 cto 25c; oats, No. 1 white, 21c to 23c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 34c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 37c; pork, mess $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 91c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 13c to 18c; eggs, Western, 9c to lie. i

By making the foreigner s contribute from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 an* Vitally to get into our market tee enable our own people to run their business at « profit.—American Economist, Organ of Protective Tariff League, March 26,18*7.

Uncle Sura: “Say, Dingley, you might as well come down. You’re no* getting any chestnuts, and you’re not fooling voters. McKinley bad some experience up that tree —it’s a horse chestnut—in 1890. He pretended that be was making the foreigner pay the tax, but lie soon found out what the people thought of him aud his bill. The bulk of Americans are both honest aud intelligent. The intelligent voter knows that you can’t make the foreigner pay his taxes, and the honest voter prefers to pay his own taxes. You can never make your bill popular by such tomfcclery. ”

THE TARIFF ON CUTLERY.

Why the Trust Can Dictate Such Outrageously Hff'h Duties. Ono of the worst schedules in the Dingley bill is tlrnt relating to cutlery —especially pocket cutlery. The duties on pccketkuives range from 100 per oent to 300 per cent above present duties and are nearly double those in the McKinley bill. Why, you will ask, are these duties so extraordinarily high? -Aud why are they allowed to remain there? Both questions are easily answered. It is unnecessary hero to go into details. Befoie McKinley’s nomination one of the five or six large manufacturers of pocket cutlery, who was prominent iu tho trust, which raised prices an average of about. 35 per cent under the McKinley bill, began to hustle for McKinley. Ho is said to have raised a large sum of money by passing the lint among the 20 or 25 cutlery manufacturers. Just how tho money was spent is not known. It is probable, however, that severnl McKinley delegates to St. Louis owed their presence there to this fund. Tho hat pusser himself was one of the very few delegates from New York who was for McKinley first, last and all the time. He was one of Hanna’s most trusted lieutenants. One of the two favors which he is said to have asked as compensation for his valuable services wus the fixing of the cutlery schedule. This privilege, being an ordinary and expected one under the protection system, was readily granted by the power behind the tlirono. This is probably tbe whole story. It explains fully why tho duties ure there and why they will stay there. Below is given iu detail some of the effects of tho proposed duties as applied to importations for the last fiscal year. Of courso but few knives will bo imported under such exorbitant duties. PROPOSED SCHEDULE. First.—All pocket knives not costing more than 40 cents n dozen, £5 per cent ad valorem. Second.— Costing more thun 40cents a dozen, 1 blade, 20 per cent ad valorem and 00 cents a dozen. Third.—Costing more than 40 cents a dozen, 2 blade, 20 por cent ad valorom and $1 a dozen. (If pearl or sholl, 00 cents a dozen extra.) Fourth.—Costing more Ilian 40 centsadozen, 8 blade, 20 per cent ad valorem and t 1.50 a dozen. Fifth.—Costing more tlian 40 cents a dozen, 4 blades or more, 20 per cent ad valorem and $3 a dozen. (If pearl or shell, 75 cents a dozen extra on 3 and 4 blades.) Calculation showing result based on importations for fiscal year 181X1: All knives costing 40 cents per dozen gnd less: 206,000 dozen, average price, 28 cents; value, $76,660; 85 Fer cent. Knives costing over 40 cents per dozen: v 48,000 dozen, 1 blade, averago price, 60 cents; value, 128,800; at 20 per cent and 50 cents a dozen; duty, $20,760. 802,000 dozen, 2 blade, average price, $1.03; value, $408,760; at 20 per cent aud $1 a dozen; duty, $472,762. 277,000 dozen, 8 blade, average price, $1.27; value, $351,700; at 20 per eent and $1.50 a dozen; duty, $485,858. * 254,000 dozen, 4 blade, average price, $1.78; value, $430,420; at 20 percent and $2 per dozen; duty, $505,884. Total value, $1,223,770; total duty, $1,584,264; 120 U per cent. Estimated that of 2, 8 and 4 blade 25 per cent are of pearl or shell, adding duty ns follows: 88,000 dozen, 2 blade, at 60c. $49,000 80,250 dozen, 3 blade, at 750. 50,438 63,500 dozen, 4 blade, at 7oc. 47,625 $1,740,317-142.0; p. c. RESULT. Knives to the value of 0 per cent of importations, duty would be 35 per cent. Knives to the value of 94 per cent of importations, duty would be 142>£ per cent. The duty on pocket cutlery for some years prior to 1860 was 24 per cent ad valorem. From 1860 to 1890 it was 60 per cent ad valorem, with the exceptions of a short time during that period when it was 45 per cent ad valorem. The McKinley tariff averaged about 91 per cent ad valorem. The Wilson tariff averaged about 51 per cent ad valorem. The proposed Dingley iariff will average, based on the importations of 1896, 142}; per cent ad valorem on 94 per cent of all knives imported during tlrnt year. The equivalent ad valorem duties on the following popular description of knives, under the McKinley bill, Wilson bill and proposed Dingley bill, are os follows: McKin- Wilson Dingley bilL bill, ley bill. P. C. P. C. P. C. 8 blade Jackknives that retail at 25 cents 113 66 145 2 blade pearl ladies’ knives that retail at 2u cents 112 56 195 2 blade pearl ladies’ knives that retail at 50 cents S 3 61 120 8 blade penknives, not pearl or shell, that retail at 50 cents 83 61 120 3 blade penknives, pearl or ’ shell,that retail at SOeents 83 61 170 4 blade penknives, not pearl or shell, that retail at 50 cents 83 51 160 4 blade penknives, pearl or Bhell.that retail at 50 cents S 3 51 204

Mockery of a Wool Tax.

The growth of sheep is merely an incident of the farm, and no labor is employed in wool growing in the Western States and Territories, from which our chief supply of wool comes. The flocks graze winter and summer without inclosed pastures or stabling or feeding ill winter, and the care of a flock of 5,000 sheep is intrusted to a Mexican greaser and a dog. It is an idiotie mockery to assume that a tax upon wool is protection to labor. It is wholly a tax upon the consumers „of the country, and especially upon the

SAME OLD CHESTNUTS.

workingmen who largely wear woolens in all seasons of the year. Such taxes not only cannot be justified, but they cannot possibly be excused.— Philadelphia Times.

Champ Clark of Missouri is not only one of the wittiest men in the house of representatives, but he is one of tho best posted on the tariff question. In ridiculing some of the rates of the Dingley bill that to him seemed subject to criticism, he recited how a man of the name of Goodyear went before the ways and means committee and secured the tariff he wanted by some skillful palaver about the great statesmen that Maine had produced. Then he said: “Mr. Chairman, that piece of ‘soft soap’ made it harder for every poor man in the United States to build a house. Governor Dingley swallowed the bait as quick as a trout would swallow a fly [laughter], and next summer some poor devil out west, living in a dugout 100 miles iiem a railroad station, who voted for McKinley under the deluded idea that prosperity would come under his administration and who has not heard of this tariff bill, ciphers it out that be can build him a two room cottage with lumber and other building materials at the old rate. He goes to the station to get the lumber and finds that the price has gone sky high, and he goes back to his home and says to his wife: ‘My dear, I am sorry that we must stay in the dugout. We cannot build our little house. A great man by the name of Governor Dingley has put the price of lumber and other things so high that we cannot do it, but, thank God, he has left dragon's blood freo. ’ [Laughter. ] Next year, when my handsome friend from lowa (Mr. Dolliver) returns to that fine agricultural district which ho represents, some man who has not been able to buy a coat because of the high price of woolen cloth will say to his neighbor, ‘There comes Dolliver, who put up the price of woolen goods. ’ But the successful candidate for the postoffice in that district soys, ‘Oh, but Dolliver put divi-divi on the free list!’ And in chorus they sing, ‘Dolliver and divi-divi forever.’ ” [Laughter. Applause on the Democratic side. ]

Under the existing tariff bituminous coal pays 40 cents a ton. The Dingley bill proposes to make this 75 cents. In 1895-6 the imports of bituminous coal into the United States were 1,248,885 tons. The exports were 2,246,284. The figures for Canada were: Imported from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc., 123,404 tons; from Quebec, Ontario, etc., 89,987; from British Columbia, 627,257; exports to these three divisions respectively, 413 tons, 1,671,802 and 8,094. Canada now proposes in case the Dingley rate is imposed to retaliate by a high duty an our coal, which will certainly not stimulate exports. Here is an export business worth twice as much as the corresponding import .business, and it is proposed to run the risk of ruining the former for the sake of screwing $350,000 taxes out of the latter, and this on the plea of reviving American industry. Can any sane man fail to see that, even assuming that imports do not fall off, it is hardly worth while for the sake of a paltry $350,000 to tempt Canada into ruining an established business nearly twice as large as that which is to yield the tax? Yet this is the way in which “the old thing works.”

The opposition of the protected interests of Massachusetts to a duty on hides looks like an abandonment of the favorite protectionist theory that “the foreigner pays the tax. ”

Political machines may be made effective for a time, but the only machine which can be depended upon all tlie time is the people. The officeholder who lias the confidence of the people, and who is backed by the people, needs no other macliiue. The way to get the confidence of the people is to be frank with them.—Cleveland Leader. Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Champ Clark’s Wit.

Why Increase the Coal Duty?

The Protection Umbrella.

Punctures the Theory.

Only One Reliable Machine.

DREAD DAY IN PARIS.

ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISH BY FIRE. Awful Work of Flames in a Crowded Bazar Being Held for Charity-Mem-ber* of the French Nobility Among the Victims. Paris Fire Horror. Fire broke out at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in a crowded charitable bazar in the Rue Jeau Goujon, at which the Duchess d’Uzes and other well-known patronesses were present. The bazar was opened for the first time Tuesday, and the stalls were in charge of the most prom-* iuent people in the capital. One hundred corpses were quickly laid out in the Palais de I'lndustrie. It is believed that another hundred are beneath the ruins. Among the injured, who number 180. are the Duchesse de La Torre, the Prinfess Kotehonbuy, the Viscountess D Avenel and Mesdames Moreau, Dußrouil, Malesiux, Kugeno, Challeuiel, Itecamier and St. Didier. Unnbli; to I>c p The building was erected in the flimsiest manner, the nudity of scaffolding being concealed by inflammable tapestry hangings. Moreover, there was only one exit. The bazar was in full swing, when the cry of fire rose in the quarter where the kinematogrnph was being exhibited. Before the firemen could arrive the roof of the bazar crushed in, burying numbers of those who had been unable to make their egress, many of whom are supposed to have previously succumbed to the stifling smoke. The building was constructed about six months ago. At the time it was remarked that it would burn like matchwood. The interior was divided into shops a la old Paris, constructed of prettily painted canvas. Recovering the Dead and Injured. The prefect, M. Lepine. was one of the first officials to reach the scene, and he directed the operations for rescue and distributed the injured among the various houses of the vicinity. The dead were piled in heaps, and near the exit the charred remains were five feet deep. In some eases only the trunks remained, with no vestige of clothing. The firemen and a company of infantry followed to clear the ruins and search for corpses. T'he news spread like wildfire. All the enhinet ministers in Paris went immediately to the scene. Hundreds of equipages streamed along the Champs Elysees, their occupants, with anxious and tear-stained faces, inquiring for their relatives. Many Heartrending Scenes. There were many heartrending scenes of grief and despair. Cabiuet ministers, ambassadors, noblemen and members of the highest social and financial circles were side by side with the lowliest and the poorest, anxiously inquiring for their missing relatives. About thirty were saved by Pere Ambroise and Pere Bailly, who helped them over the wall with a ladder to the printing room of the newspaper La Croix. The staff of the Hotel du Palais lent valuable assistance and saved 150 persons through a barred window overlooking the bazar, where, while the hotel employes were carrying away the bars, they saw three persons burned to death.

Corpses Terribly Mutilated. Policemen, their hands covered with gloves, have been deputed by the prefect of police to pick out the portions of remains and to wrap them in pieces of cloth, to be transferred in ambulances to the Palais de 1 Industrie, The remains present a horrible spectacle of limbs burned and twisted. Arrangement of the Bazar. The proceeds of the sales at each stall were devoted to a separate charity. The stalls were presided over by Mme. Fevrier, the wife of Gen. Fevrier; the Marquise de l’Aigle, Mme. Macobs, Barojne del la Lueette, the Marquise de St. Michel, the Duchesse d’Uzes, Mme. Miguotte, the Baroune de Stoldier, the Cointesse Dzalynska, the Marquise le Gouestier, the Marquise di Argence, the Marquise de Pitti, the Duchesse d’Alencou, a member of the Orleans family; Mme. d’Arlu, Mme. Boisseaux, the Ilaronne F. de Schickler, Mme. Moreau, the Marquise Costa de Beauregard, her royal highness the Duchesse de Vendouie, the Marquise de Maison and the Comtesse de Grefful. Mdl’e. de Florez presided over the refreshment stand. These ladies were assisted by many equally well-known society ladies, and all perished. The dowager Duchesse d’Uzes is one of the molt prominent women in France, and is said to have provided 3,000,000 francs for the propaganda of Gen. Boulanger. The Due d’Uzes is the premier duke of France, the creation of his title dating back to 15(55. As soon as President Faure heard of the disaster he sent the most pressing inquiries for full particulars to the prefect of police. All the theaters in Paris closed at night. At midnight it was learned the wounded number at least 180. Mme. Flores, wife of the Spanish consul, expired at the Hospital Beaujon, where are several others injured. M. Faure has visited the hospital and the Palais de l’lndus-trie to pay his respects to the dead.

Greece Tired of War.

The Athens correspondent of the London Daily Mail says the ministers of war and of the interior have returned from Pharsala and made their report to the cabinet. It is understood that as the result of their inquiry the war will be discontinued.

News of Minor Note.

The construction of a $600,000 cotton mill, to be erected by Boston capital, was begun at Cordova, Ala. The cruiser Brooklyn and the battleship Indiana will be sent to England to take part in the queen.’s jubilee exercises. The Portuguese gunboat has complained to the Government at Lisbon at being stopped by Greek cruisers near Salonica. Burglars blew open the safe of the postuffiee at Lewisburg, W. Ya., securing some S7OO in stamps and cash. Ex-Champion Pugilist Tom Alien was arrested for creating a disturbance in a St. Louis saloon and passed the night in a cell. A plan is on foot to colonize in Kansas all the negroe« who have been driven from their homes in the flooded districts of Missouri. A movement is on foot at Indianapolis to place limits upon the territory in that city within which the liquor traffic shall be confined. The collector at Taeoma, Wash, has been instructed to hold a gang of some 100 Chinamen, who are said to hold forged certificates. A rigid investigation will be made. As the result of the defalcation fef Cashier Cassiu of the Washington Loan and Investment Compauy of Atlanta, Git., that institution has gone under, the third of its kind in as many days. Cassin is in jail. Harry Clark, cashier of the First National Bank of Bridgeport, Ohio, hurriedly disposed of Iris property and has disappeared. His accounts with the banks are all correct. 11l health is given as the cause of his peculiar actions j

EURIED IN THE RUINS.

One Man Killed and Many Injured in the Pittsburg Fire. One fireman ia dead and four others are hurt as a result of the Pittsburg fire, and the losses aggregate $2,700,000. Fifteen hundred persons are thrown out of employment. It is tie worst conflagration Pittsburg has bad since the memorable railroad riots of 1877. The dead fireman is George Acbeson. His body was found under the debris of the Citizens’ Traction Railway shed. The buildings destroyed were: Thomas C. Jenkins’ wholesale grocery, Liberty street; Joseph lxorne & Co.’s dry goods establishment, Penn avenue; Horne’s office building, Penn avenue, containing the

MAP OP THE BURNED DISTRICT.

stores of W. P. Greer, china and glassware: E. E. Heck & Co., drugs; Boisel & Erwin, millinery; Dabbs, photographer; numerous doctors’ offices, etc.; John Hall, Jr., farm implements, Liberty street; 1, W. Scott & Co., farm implements. Liberty street; Scobie & Co., farm implements. Liberty street, building partially saved, but contents destroyed; Hauch, cigars and tobacco. Liberty street. The full insurance lists will not be compiled for several days. Joseph Horne & Co.’s loss on building and dry goods stock is $900,000. The insurance is $728,000. Of this amount $300,000 was on the building and $35,250 on the fixtures. The insurance on the Home office building was about $(54,000. Thomas C. Jenkins carried $552,500 worth of insurance.

BIG POSTAL CONGRESS.

Representatives from Every Country Meet in Washington. Rates of postage for nearly the whole world will be fixed at the meeting of the International Postal Union, now being held in Washington. It is the first time that the Universal Postal Union, now comprising and controlling, so far as the mails are concerned,- every organized government, save three—China, Korea and the Orange Free State —has had its delegates assemble in America. Sixty-odd countries and provinces are represented by about 120 delegates, each country having but a single vote. The sessions are held in the building which until recently was the home of the Corcoran art gallery. The delegates who form the congress are men of the highest rank in postal service. The postmasters general of several nations are among them, while leading diplomats have been

CORCORAN ART GALLERY.

sent by some of the countries. The gathering will be in Washington from a mouth to six weeks. The congress was opened Wednesday morning by Postmaster General Gary, who delivered his salutatory in English, while the assemblage read the French translation. Then the senior delegate responded in a'few words. The election of a presiding officer followed. The business of the congress began at once, all proceedings being conducted in French and behind barred doors. These conventions, which are held but once in six years, are of great importance and are attended by the leading postal authorities of every nation. It is the union which has made it possible for a letter to be sent to almost any part of the world for.s cents. Before that time it might have cost anywhere from 10 cents to a dollar. In those days the postage on a letter was determined by adding the postage in the countries through which it would pass, together with the “sea postage,” which was more or less according to the route traveled by the ship. Those who wished to conduct international correspondence had to consult charts or go to the postoffice and figure out the amount. This haphazard arrangement is in marked contrast with the ease with which the transmission of foreign mails is effected to-day. And the change has been brought about within the memory of the present generation.

ADMIRAL MEADE DEAD.

American Naval Hero Passes Away at Washington. Admiral Meade, retired, U. S. N., who had been ill at Washington for three weeks, died Tuesday. There were present Drs. Johnston and Wales, Mrs. Meade and Miss Patterson, at whose house Admiral Meade was taken sick with the grip, which was afterward aggravated by appendicitis. An operation had to be performed, and from its effects the admiral failed to rally. Admiral Meade was one of the best known officers of the modern navy, saw hard service before, during and after the civil war, and served in all parts of the world on important naval and diplomatic missions.

Notes of Current Events.

The Theosophical Society of America held its third annual convention in New York. The application at the White House for the various consulships is beyond all precedent. Ora Melton, the Competitor prisoner, who has been held in Cabanas, Cuba, for over a year, is to be released at once. ’* The Southern Pacific is making arrangements for building a $5,000,000 bridge across the Mississippi river at New Orleans. James E. Pierce, a patrolman on the national capital force, has been arrested on the charge of robbing two houses on his beat. About $1,500 worth of plunder was discovered in his house. The proceedings instituted at Milwaukee by Rev. Hellstern against Archbishop Kaizer and others on the ground of conspiracy to have him deposed from his pastorate, have been dismissed on the ground of improper service. The students and faculty of the University of Notre Dame, Ind., were rudely startled when Major Brownson lectured, attacking the democratic fdrm of government and violently assailing the public character of Abraham Lincoln