Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1897 — Page 2

Sl)esttnocraticScnttncl J. W. McEWETf, Publlaher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

GIVE UP THE BOUNTY

REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO DROP THE AMENDMENT. General Agreement, However, to Take It Up aa Independent Measure Next December —Rhode Island's Girl Train Wrecker Arrested. Would Delay the Tariff Bill. The Republican Senatorial caucus Tuesday decided to not again present a beet sugar bounty amendment to the tariff bill, and Senator Allison was authorized to move to have the amendment offered by Senator Allen tabled. There was also a general agreement to take up the Thurston beet sugar bounty bill as an independent measure the first thing after Congress meets next December. With out any preliminary business the Senate Tuesday pr- -ceded with the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr. Bacon made a personal explanation of his vote for Mr. Mills' amendment to impose a tax of 5 per cent, on all manufactured products. Mr. Bate of Tennessee then took file floor and delivered a set speech against the bill. Senator Mason, at the request of the American Pharmaceutical Association, argued with the Senate I'inauee Committee against putting a duty on wood alcohol, as it would injure the retail druggists. When he finished the committee assured him that the contemplated duty would not be imposed.

CAUGHT AT HER SIXTH ATTEMPT. Rhode Island's Girl Train Wrecker Is Arrested by the Sheriff. After having made six attempts to wreck New York, New Haven and Hartford trains, Fanny Taylor a l.)-year-o'd colored girl, has been arrested near the hamlet of Slocumville, R. I. When the Sheriff and his men came upon her a freight train had just crushed into a rail which she had placed on the track. It is possible that the girl has made seven attempts to derail trains within half a mile of where she was caught. A pili of stones was found on the track ten dais ago; but nothing was thought <.f that. When the postal express from Bosun ran into a heap of ties and damaged tin engine, the railroad company put a patrol on the track. For two nights the trains were not disturbed. Then, five consecutive attempts were made to wreck trains ou the road. Had it not been for the barking of a dog that the girl had with her, it is doubtful whether the Sheriff’s men would have caught her. The girl was suspected of the attempted erime from being seen near the trucks at a late hour on the night after the postal train so nearly came to grief. A watch was put on her, and she was captured after a freight train had just crashed over a crosstie which she had placed on the* track. The girl, who is of rather light complexion and decidedly attractive appearance, is presumably insane. When she was taken to the Washington- Countyjail, in Kingston, she still refused to talk, beyond saying that she is 19 years of age. She also refused to eat, and attempted to escape whenever a chance offered. Since the girl’s arrest it has been learned that her father, who works as a laborer, Las a fancied grievance against the railroad company on account of a small bill which he says is due him from a railroad contractor. It is surmised that the girl may have heard her father complaining about this fancied wrong and set out to right matters by wrecking a train.

MUST FAIE THE LAW. United States Court Issues an Edict Against the Miners. An important step was taken at Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday in connection with the coal miners’ strike, which puts the power of the United States against all violence or unlawful acts in at least a portion of the territory in Ohio. An order of the United States Circuit Court was made by Judge Taft, upon a showing made by Myron T. Herrick and Robert Bliekensderfer, receivers of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company and of the Wheeling, Lake Erie ano Pittsburg Coal Company, whereby the United States marshal is directed to protect their miners at work and ti> prevent unlawful interference with the operations of their railway. FEAR MUTINY IN INDIA. ' People of Hindustan Exasperated Against the British. London dispatch: Affairs in British India are critical. The belief in official circles, both here and in Calcutta, is that a mutinous conspiracy is being hatched. It is conceded by the newspapers that discontent with British rule in Hindustan is rapidly growing, caused principally by the terrible conditions resulting from the famine and the plague. There are some who openly say that a rebellion may be expected.

Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 14 Brooklyn ....28 32 Cincinnati . .38 18 Philadelphia .29 34 Baltimore ..38 20Louisville ...24 34 New Y0rk..35 23 Washington .23 35 Cleveland ...31 29 Chicago 24 37 Pittsburg ...29 30 St. Louis.... 11 49 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Columbus .. .42 21 Detroit 30 30 St. Pau1....46 23 Gr'd Rapids.. 24 42 Indianapolis .41 22 Minneapolis .21 47 Milwaukee .41 26 Kansas City .20 48 Wipes Out an Old Feul. Sam Mitchell, husband of the newlyappointed postmistress of Empire City, Kan., wiped out an old feud by shooting and killing Link Cole, ex-city marshal. The men met on the street and Mitchell shot without warning. Cole killed Mitchell’s brother a year ago. Canal for the Loire. Plans for building a lateral canal to the River Loire so as to make the river navigable have been taken up earnestly in France. The canal will be 150 miles long and will cost 120,000,000 frans. Many Policemen Injurel. In the fighting which took place in the suburb of Chilporo, India, between the police and the rioters many policemen were injured. A party of twenty-four members of the native police was surrounded by a mob and so roughly handled that all Of them aie expected to die. Eight Years’ Imprisonment. Judge Parlang, in the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans, sentenced ex-Preudent Henry Gardes and ex-Cash-ier Walter W. Girault each to serve eight y««n la the United States penitentiary. They were recently convicted of wrecking the American National Bank.

REFUSE THIS V. First Counterfeit New $5 Silver Certificate Appears. The Hist counterfeit new §5 silver certificate has been discovered in Chicago. Chief of Secret Service Hazen says it is a very dangerous counterfeit. It is made by the lithographic process, and consists of pictures of the front and back of the genuine notes, being carefully pasted together. The paper is-Japanese, thinner than the legal note. Between the pieces silk fiber has been distributed. The note is of a series of 1896 and bears check letter B; plate No. 4 <to be found in the lower part of the large V at the lower right-hand corner face of the note); J. Fount Tillman, register; D. N. Morgan, treasuier; Nd. 370,670; small carmine seal. Much of the work on the note is blurred nnd indistinct; especially is this true of the face of the figure representing “America.” and the imprint of the bureau of engraving and printing, '/he seal is much darker red than the genuine and badly blurred. The numbering is too large and the dark outlines of the original num bers can be faintly discerned beneath those stamped on the counterfeit. ’J he back of the note has a dull, faded appearance. The green ink is a lighter shade than that used on the genuine. The portraits of “Grant” and “Sheridan” are flat, do not stand out in relief as in the genuine. The note has the appearance of having been circulated, owing in a degree to the soft, fibrous chajyctcr of the paper.

WHITE IS THE MAN, lowa Democrats Select Him ns a Gubernatorial Candidate. Following is the ticket named at Des Moines, lowa, Wednesday: For Governor Frederick E. White j For Lieutenant Governor, Benjamin A. Plummer For Supreme Court Justice. . L. G. Kiune ■ For Superintendent of Public InstructionG. F. Reinhardt ■ For Railroad Commissioner. .S. B. Crane ■ Frederick E. White and Judge Kinne are Democrats, Plumber and Reinhardt, silver Republicans, and S. B. Crane, candidate for Railroad Commissioner, is a Populist. The ticket really represents the combined work of three separate and distinct conventions, but on account of the provisions of the antifusion law which was passed by the State Legislature the Democratic convention had to nominate it primarily and the Populist and silver Republican conventions indorsed the action of the Democrats. Fifty-three middle of the road Populists, headed by Messrs. Weller and Weeks, bolted. chapman wins. Nominated for Governor of Ohio nt the Democrat'c Convention. Governor Horace L. Chapman Lieut. Gov Melville D. Shaw Supreme Judge J. P. Sp'.iggs Attorney GeneralW. 11. Dore State Treasurerlames F. Wi'son Board of Public Works. Peter 11. Degnon School Commissioner. .. .Byron H. Hard The foregoing ticket was placed in nomination Wednesday by the Ohio Democracy at Columbus, Ohio, after one of the most exciting contests in the history of Buckeye politics. The currency plank de elated for silver coinage at the ratio of 1G to 1, legal tender qualifications for the silver dollar, and legislation "to prevent demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract.” POPULATION OF RUSSIA Is Now 129,211,1 13, and Has Boubed in Forty-fl VC Years. For the first time in history a general census has been taken of the population of the Russian Empire, which is shown to number 129,211,113, of which total 64,616,286 are males and 64.594,833 fema'es. United States Consul General Karel at St. Petersburg says the figures show thiU in forty five years the population of Russia tins doubled, and during the last twelve j ears it has increased 20 per c->nt To take this census the Russian Government employed an army of 150,000 persons and its completion in three mouths is regarded as a great achievement in view of the vast expanse of territory covered and the illiteracy of the population.

Passengers in a Panic. The boiler of a locomotive on the Chicago and Northern Pacific road exploded early Thursday morning near Morgan Park, probably fatally injuring the fireman ami engineer and hurting three passengers on the train .he locomotive was drawing. There was a sudden erash and the triin came to a standstill before any of the passengers realized what had happened. Men and women were pitched forward from their seats and many received slight bruises. The greatest excitement prevailed. Those who were in the coa.-hes were panic-stricken, %nd all made a rush for the doorways. Women were pushed aside and trampled upon as the frightenei. passengers attempted to make their escape. Once outside they saw what had happened. The engine was a total wrrek. Pieces of iron were scattered about in every direction, and lying near the track were Engineer Fogg and Fireman Latshaw. No cause for the explosion has yet been ascertained. Engineer Fogg cannot account for the sudden mishap, everything having been in. perfect order during the trip he made, so far as he himself knows. The engine was not of a large pattern. It was one of the locomotives used in the suburban service of the Chicago and Northern Pacific system, running out of the Grand Central station. It was going at a slow rate of speed, having just left the station, when suddenly the boiler exploded and carried with it the men who ran it. Nothing is left of the engine except the scattered pieces of iron which compose the wreck that is left around the tracks.

President Gives a Dinner. The President gave a dinner Thursday night to the members of his official family and a few invited guests. It was an entirely informal affair. The guests outside the cabinet were Vice-President Hobart, Assistant Secretary Day, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, who is a guest at the White House, and Secretary Porter. Drank Any Old Thine. Five Indians, including Chief Woe Fug. are dead at Malone’s Point, on Millo lake Minn., and several others are expected to die as the result of drinking pain killer, hair oil and other preparations containing alcohol. The Indian payment has been going jn there and the redskins goiged themselves with this stuff. Accident in Colorado. The first section of the Chicago Christian Endeavor train ran into a freight train six miles west of Akron, Colo. Fireman G. M. Cole of McCook, Neb., was slightly’ hurt, and Dave Maguer, engineer, of the same place, was seriously njured. One passenger was hurt. Half a Million Left Out. The new city directory of New York, ’ to be issued in about three weeks, will for the first time omit the names of hod- 1 carriers, street sweepers, and the poorer classes. Half a million persons will in this way be left out. j Farmers Should Be Careful. Words of warning to American farmers are given in a report on pure seed investigations submitted to Secretary Wilson. It says thousands of pounds, probably lons, of grass and clover seed are ship-.

I ped annnally into the United States which ; contain all sorts of vile weed seeds. In this way such pests as the Russian thistle, 1 Canada thistle, wild mustard, chess, dodder, wild daisy, trefoil and plantain were introduced here. A large amount of cheap seeds, it is said, are now being sold as novelties at fancy prices through manipulation of the name, and the report says that the "German coffee berry,” which many seedsmen are now advertising as a cheap substitute for cotfee, is really the common Soja bean, which can be bought cheaply almost anywhere. The lack of suitable places for impartial tests, by both the seed denier and the buyer, has been met in Europe for nearly fifty years by the establishment of “seed control stations,” now numbering about 100, and on whose tests guaranties are based. Several experiment stations in this country have Liken this matter up. and recently a committee from them had a conference nt the Agricultural Department concerning methods nnd apparatus. For three years the department has been investigating the quality of agricultural seeds. Already this year over half a million o* individual seeds have been counted out and tested, nnd a small trial ground has been started at Kensington. Md. Prominent seedsmen, it is stated, frequently sell five or six alleged different varieties of an article out of the same bin. The report urges careful selection by purchasers. and says if good seed cannot be obtained otherwise legislation will be necessary to shut out bad seeds. The report says most of the imported seed could be successfully raised here, opening new avenues of profit to American husbandmen, and it particularly points out sugar beet and hairy vetch seed as capable of being .made an important industry.

ROLLING MILLS SHUT DOWN. Owners Fail to Aj-ree with Amalgamated Association's Wage Scale. As the result of the failure of the joint wage tonfeience of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and manufacturers to agiee upon the scale at the Youngstown, 0., conferencb, every mill in the United States, with a few exception t, whose wage scales are under the jurisdiction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, is shut down These mills altogether employ 25 (MX) men. who are members of the Amalgamated Association, besides those who are not. The Amalgamated Association scale committee and the manufacturers could not agree on a puddling rate. '1 he committee held out for $1.56a ton for puddling and the manufacturers refused to budge from their stand for ?4. An adjournment sine die was finally taken, each side to set the other know when it had experienced a change of heart. AIMS TO CRUSH GARCIA, Weyler Now Calls for 30,000 Re-eri-forcemeats. The receipt of a telegram from Weyler ordering 35,000 re-enforcemeats to be sent him at once, has set the Havana palace gossips at work. The officials begin to think that Weyler is appreciating Garcia’s worth a little, and that he will try to crush him with overwhelming numbers nt once. News was received that Garcia’s forces had raided the town of Juibaeon, near Manzanillo, and that Manzanillo itself was menaced. The town that was raided was partially burned, and the Cubans held it for two days, within a few hours’ march of n force triple their numbers. The insurgents are preparing lor Weyler’s reception, and doubtless the | next few days will be fraught with im- ! portant events if the .captain general at- ! tempts to try conclusions with Garcia. I nrtliqiioke in Ohio. Some subterranean phenomenon, not unlike an incipient volcano, disturbed a neighborhood near the junction of Ross, Pike and Highland counties, Ohio. It was attended by nil underground rumbling nnd the appearance of deep fissures in the ground, from which smoke or vapor issued. Daring people have attempted to fathom some of these fissures, but could find no bottom.

Married Nine Times. Abner Forsythe, 76 years old, has arrived in Portland from San Francisco, where he has been staying with the son of his eighth wife. He goes to Victoria to meet a son of his ninth wife whom he has not seen for seven years. While walking the streets he was bunkoed by two men out of .$9, leaving him only his ticket to Victoria. Eloped to Australia. Mrs. John Bradbury, Los Angeles, Cal., wife of a well-known millionaire, and 11. Russell M ard, a young Englishman, have eloped. It is said their destination is .Aus tralia. Ward abandoned his wife and two children, who touring Europe. Army of Tramps In Kansas. An army of 15,900 tramps, now in Kansas, is moving westward. They infest the wheat and corn fields at night. The tramps are bound for the coast, where they say they will try to secure work in the irrigated valleys of the West. Eisrht Years for Gallot, Louis Gallot, the convicted Union Bank wrecker of New Orleans, was sentenced by Judge Parlange to eight years in the penitentiary at hard labor. The case will be appealed.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2,24 cto 26c; oats, No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,33 cto 35c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 7c to 9c; new potatoes, 75c to 95c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3 75; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn. No. z white, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4 00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,31 cto 33e. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, 78c‘to 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,33 cto 35c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 78c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 34e to 35c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c: oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,34 cto 36c; clover seed, $4.15 to $4.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 3,24 cto 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 36c; rye, No. 1,35 cto to 36c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, Western, 10c to He.

LONG IN THE SERVICE.

FIVE OLD ATTACHES OF THE WHITE HOUSE. Employes Who fervod Under Many Admininistrations -Presidents Come and Go, but These Good and Faithful Servants Remain. White Hou*e Fixtures. Washington correspondence:

THAT this world is not all a fleeting show is evidenced by several people nt the White House in Washlng- \ ' ton, D. C. You SR meet one of them at the big door as you enter, and he is made known to you as Capiaiu Thomas PeaJel, chief doorkeeper. '* You meet the sec",r ond in the person of Col. William ' 11 Dubois, chief II > usher. If you succeed in gettingpast their vigilant eyes

you will meet a third iu the person of a military- looking gentleman who stands guard over the cabinet room and the door leading to the private part of the President's home. He is Major Loeffler. L’p in that region you will also find Col. Pruden, the White House sphinx, and Col. Crook, the all-around generalissimo. There ate others, but these are the ones who, like Tennyson's brook, go on forever. Presidents come and go, children who played at egg-rolling on the White House lawns grow to men and women and visit the White House with their children, and there are greeted by the same kindly faces that were about them in the long ago happy days. Whole generations of White House children have come and gone, yet the faithful servitors of their presidential progenitors are ctill there under the historic roof, caring for

A GROUP OF OLD WHITE HOUSE ATTACHES.

the guest of the nation even as some cared tor the fathers and grandfathers of those who come now. Captain Feudel le Senior, The very oldest in point of service, and of years as well, is Capt. Thomas Feudel, who murks with a star in his memory the 3d day of November, 1864, when he was transferred from the Metropolitan police force, or rather was detailed, for special duty at the White House. Those were troublous days in Washington, and the tired, worried, harassed man who had taken upon his broad shoulders the awful burden of carrying a government through a civil a ar was facing a future that looked black, and his heart was heavy within him. Captain Pendel was a bricklayer by trade, and served his apprenticeship until he was 21. He was born on what was Analostnn island, in 1824, and is now 73 years old. He does not look it, for his abundant hair is coal black, and only a little gray shows at the temples. His grandfather was in the revolutionary war, his father in the war of 1812, and he was himself in the marine service of the Mexican war. He does not know of a creature living to-day, outside of his immed'ate family, who bears his name. He is married and has several charming daughters, who played in youth with the White House children.

Couldn’t spare Crook, Next longest in point of service at the White House is Col. Crook. He says that title was not won in military service, and carries no straps with it, but that it came upon him gradually and he wears it because he can’t seem to get rid of it, but then nobody wants to have him give it up. for it fits admirably. Col. Crook came to act as bodyguard for Mr. Lincoln late in Novi rnber, 1864. He was a soldier in a Maryland regiment when detailed to the White House, and he found favor at once in the eyes of Mr. Lincoln, who seemed to have singled him out on many occasions. Col. Crook was drafted late in the war, and just a little over a month before the death of Mr. Lincoln, he wrote the following: “My man Crook has been drafted. 1 cannot spare him. I*. M. G. please fix. "A. LINCOLN. “March 2, 1865.” Col. Crook did not have to be spared, but the man he had served with such tender dev< tion was taken. The man so valuable to Mr. Lincoln had been just as. much worth to all the other administrations, and so “Col. William Crook” is borne upon the pay rolls of the White House now, exactly as he was thirty-three years ago, only his duties have increased and his responsibilities. He has rilled nearly every desk in the office, and was for a time private secretary for President Grant. He is now the disbursing clerk, ami has served under nine Presidents, two of them having been there two terms, Grant and Cleveland. Loeffler Has a Record. The slight military looking gentleman with the snow-white hair and the keen eyes wno stands guard over the door to the cabinet room, and also over that which leads from the public to the private part of the executive mansion, is Maj. Charles D. A. Loeffler, who was born in Stuttgart, but ,wh > eame to America and entered the regular army as a member of the Second Cavalry in 1858. He campaigned all over the Western frontier liefore the war, and what he does not know of hardship, hunger and thirst is scarcely worth printing. The famous Custer was a cadet at West Point when Major Loeffler was doing outpost duty in Texas, and he saluted Col. Robert E. Lee as commanding officer. Attached though he was te bis command-

er, he lemained la the Union when Lee went out, and was ordered to Washington, where he became dispatch bearer and was trusted with many secrets between Lincoln and ffis generals. He acted as messenger for Secretary Stanton, and finally became a messenger in the White House, where for nearly a quaiter of a century he has watched cabinets come and go, he himself a fixture. He is low-voiced and gentle as a woman, and it is rarely you can get him to open the storehouse of anecdotes that he is so rich in. For many years all the callers upon the President passed through the doors which he guards. He knew all the statesmen and office holders in the country, all the military men, and all the dead beats He got so that he could turn down a man so nicely he never knew it till he was bowed outside of the corridor into the air. He never made a mistake in letting a man in to see the President, it is said, and in that way made himself almost invaluable. Another White House Fixture. Geni.il Major O. L. Pruden is another of the White House appurtenances which President McKinley has found checked over to him for nearly twenty-five years. His office, that of chief executive clerk, comes'next to that of the secretary to the President in importance. Major Pruden has been called "the administration sphinx” ever since he assumed his duties at the desk. He knows a great many things and knows them very well, but he is one of the birds who can sing, and won’t. But, oh, what stories he could tell if he only would. He came to Washington. “a boy in blue, ’ from New Jersey, early in the war, and his splendid penmanship won him immediate recognition in the War Department. His regiment was ordered away, but he was held to be too valuable a penman to spoil his fingers handling a big gun. In 1872 he was detailed to the White House, and was placed on the official staff by President Grant, and he has been there ever since. Col. Pruden’s duties are manifold, vexing and perplexing, but he is jolly through it all. He puts into writing the history of every official transaction in the White House. Every nomination made by the President, from a cabinet minister to the appointment of a cross roads post-master-"whose salary is 5 cents a year and furnish your own postoffice building”

—with the action of the Senate, is recorded by him in handwriting that rivals copper-plate. All the communications between the executive mansion and the departments are entered in his books. He makes the copies of all the President's messages, and personally delivers them to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House. The history of the documents which he has thus carried would make interesting reading, if he would give the inside facts away. But he won’t.

FATAL TO MAN AND BEAST.

The Little Buffalo Gnat Already Has a String of Victims. From many places come reports of a plague of buffalo gnats. Near Jeffersonville, Ind., a farmer named Price, while

THE BUFFALO GNAT.

semble small flies. They appear in the spring along the river regions find are carried into the country by north winds. Wherever they bite they cause burning itching. Soon a painful, hard swelling makes its appearance. It may remain for a week or longer. Many such bites close together produce severe inflammatory fever, and in more susceptible victims cramps. Animals, when attacked by large numbers, grow frantic and seek to evade their tormentors by rolling in the dust, rushing about and whirling round and round. At times they are literally covered with the animated pests. The ears and nostrils are the chief points of attack. The former are tilled clear to the tympanum with layer upon layer. An inflammatory fever, with a high pulse, soon sets in. The afflicted cattle soon die of cramps and convulsions. In the dead animals the skin of the entire body will be found covered with numerous minute ulcers.

Season of Storms.

Reports received by Commissioner General Stump of the Immigration Bureau show the number of immigrants that arrived in this country during the eleven months ended May 3, 1897, was 210,271. This is a decrease, as compared with the same period last year, of 105,038. Congressman Walker of Massachusetts is often seen in Washington accompanying the President on his afternoon horseback rides Both are very fond of the exercise.

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceeding* of Senate and liouaa—Bill* Passed or Introduced in Either Branch—Question* of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. As a result of the rapid work on the tariff oili Wednesday the close of the long debate in the Senate and the final vote on the bill is felt to be very near at hand. Two.of the most important provisions —those relating to the Hawaiian treaty of reciprocity mid the duty on coal —were perfected, while another source of much conflict, the reciprocity section, was matured by the Finance Committee and pre sented to the Senate. Aside from these larger items a great many minor ones which have caused more or less conflict were disposed of. The Hawaiian provision of the House bill was restored after brief debate and without the formality of a vete. Ibis has the effect of leaving the Hawaiian treaty of reciprocity in full force and effect. During the day Mr, Turpie of Indiana spoke in support of the amendment for a 2 per eent. tax on inheritances. His speech was notable for the picturesque metaphors and the virulence of his denunciation ol the pending bill. The Finance Committee suffered several unexpected reverses during the progress of the tariff bill 'Thursday, being defeated on three important votes. Cotton bagging was placed on the free list, 30 to 25. and cotton ties also, by a vote of 2'J to 23. The duty on white pine lumoer was reduced from $2 to $1 per thousand, 32 to 31. The bill is now completed, witli the exception of the reciprocity section and some comparatively minor para graphs. Much prog.ess was made in clearing up detached paragraphs heretofore passed over. Oiry three of these—coal tar, potash and tea—remain. The House held a brief session, at which noth ing was nrcomplished Reciprocity and retaliation were the two phases of the tariff bili to occupy the attention of the Senate Friday to the exclusion of all other subjects. Both provisions were agreed to, although the debate on the reciprocity clause was protracted to (1 p. m. The retaliatory clause provides that whenever any country bestows an export bounty on any article there shall be levied, in addition to the duties piovided by the act, an additional duty equal to the amount of the bounty. The reciprocity clause empowers the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make reciprocity treaties giving 20 per cent, reduction in duties on designated articles or placing articles on the free list. The Senate disposed of two tariff amendments Monday, that placing a stamp tax being agreed to with little or no opposition and without the formality of a vote, while the Spooner amendment, proposing a tariff investigation, was withdrawn after a protracted struggle. The stamp amendment, as agreed to, fixes the following rates on bonds, etc.: “Bonds, debentures or certificates of indebtedness issued after Sept. 15, 1897, by any association, company or corporation, on each SIOO of face value, or fraction thereof, 5 cents; and on each original issue, whether an organization or reorganization of certificates of stock by any such association, company or corporation, on each SIOO of face value or fraction thereof, 5 cents; and on all transfers of shares or certificates of stock in any association, company or corporation, on each SIOO of face value or fraction thereof, 2 cents.” Exemptions from the stamp taxes are made in the case of State, county and municipal bonds, and the stocks and bonds of co-operative building associations. Tuesday the Senate agreed to devote one more day to discussion of the tariff under the five-minute rule, and then proceed to vote. The beet sugar bounty clause was withdrawn. Mr. Bacon made a personal explanation of his vote for Mr. Mills’ amendment to impose a tax of 5 per cent, on all manufactured products. He had, he said, given the amendment his vote without due deliberation. If the imposition of such a tax could be confined to the sugar trust and other gigantic concerns existing in open violation of the law it would, upon meditation, commend itself to his judgment, but as it would touch every village and hamlet in the land and lay its hand upon the most humble he frankly avowed his regret for the vote.

at work on his farm, was stung to death by a swarm that lit upon his face and hands. In western Oklahoma and parts of Texas adjoining several hundred head of horses, mules and I cattle have been killed. The gnats re-

CURRENT COMMENT

1 he Jubilee. The last sixty years have been great ones in the history of England, but they have been even greater ones in the history of this land of ours.—Baltimore American. John Bull has time to turn from the serious business of the month and indulge in a characteristic bit of English humor. He calls us land-grabbers.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The American contingent in London seems to have done all it could to make the jubilee affair a big success. Let us hope her majesty is duly grateful.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It. is to be hoped that the Prince of Wales made the most of this diamond jubilee, as the chances are very much against his ever having one of his own.— Washington Star. Annexation, With both Hawaii and Cuba on the bases, President McKinley will have a great opportunity to make a double annexation play.—Washington Post. Hawaii is at least affording a little diversion. When some of the Senators tire of annexing Cuba they can turn in and annex the other island for a while. —Chicago Record. Speaking of Hawaiian annexation, it is pertinent to remark that if Uncle Sam would attend to his own business he would have more business to attend to.— Louisville Courier-Journal. With Hawaii as a part of the Union, we should have to look forward to the day when it would be a State. Think of a presidential election hanging on the mongrel vote of those islands!—Baltimore News. Cuba. Weyler's trocha is apparently successful. It still keeps the insurgents out of Havana.—lndianapolis News. If Weyler could only have a dose of his own medicine, what a hemp festival it would be for the paciticos!—Louisville Times. Spain is anxious to know what the Unit.ed States are going to do. The same 1 anxiety prevails over here.—Detroit Free Press. Weyler says he needs (>O,OOO more troops. This just by way of proving that the Cuban revolution is already suppressed.—New York Journal.

WAR ON ALL BUTTERINE.

National Dairy Unicn Intend* t» Drive It from the Land. “Butterine must be legislated out of the United States” is the dictum of the National Dairy Union. The successful fight for the new anti-butterine law in Illinois has inspired the dairymen of the entire We-st to crush and utterly annihilate the butter substitute industry. They are going into politics to do it. Right now the creamery proprietors, the butter dealers and the dairy farmers of the big butter producing States —Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Michigan and the Dakotas—are being drawn into a compact fighting organization of not less than 500,000, and maybe more than 1,000,000 voters and vote controllers. They are being pledged in writing to work unceasingly for legislation that will prevent the coloring of butter substitutes and “to fight the men in high places who are unfriendly to the interests of the dairymen.” Promises of money contributions go with the pledge. A campaign fund which would delight the heart of a professional politician is already in sight. If necessary, a fighting capital of $1,000,000 can be raised, it is believed, before the Legislatures of these dairy States meet again. This fund will be used to drive the butterine manufacturers from their few remaining strongholds, and if the industry then find loopholes in State legislation, the organization will move on Washington. W. D. Hoard, former Governor of Wisconsin, and president of the National Dairy Union, is giving the movement all the benefit of his organizing ability and political acumen. Charles Y. Knight of Chicago, secretary of the National Dairy Union and manager of the anti-butterin* fight in the Illinois Legislature, is secretary and treasurer of the new movement. The dairymen have already done much to restrict the manufacture of butter sub? stitutes, colored to resemble the genuintOs dairy article. prohibiting the oring of such substitutes are now in force in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. But there are two State* in particular which have no such laws and which are favorably situated with respect to the packing centers and the sources of raw material for the manufacture of butterine —Indiana and Kansas. Since the market for the colored article is unrestricted, except in these few Western States which have legislated on the subject, enough butterine can be made in Indiana and Kansas to cut a big figure in the butter trade of the country. The dairymen expect, therefore, that the butterine makers will make a hard fight to retain their standing in Indiana and Kansas, and even to have rescinded the antibutterine legislation in some of the other States. Hence the broad scope of the dairymen’s movement to complete the annihilation of their enemy. The National Dairy Union is building up its fighting organization around the creameries. There are nearly 4,000 of these in the north Mississippi valley. Each creamery has on an average 100 farmer patrons, or 400,000 in all. The price paid by the creameries to these farmers for their milk is regulated by the price of butter. The extinction of competition with butterine raises the price of butter and therefore of milk. It follows that all these 400,000 farmers are expected to be eager for enlistment in a last rally against butterine. The farmers who work up their milk into butter in their own dairies outnumber those who sell to creameries. They are expected to take an interest in this movement. The same view is held of the farmers who ship milk to the cities, the price of their product being influenced always I jar the price it will bring at the creamerr®*. Then there are the creamery operators and their employes, and the men who handle butter in the big cities, the commission men—all these are interested in one way and another in boosting butter and killing butterine. Tliis indicates why the active spirits of the National Dairy Union are figuring on a political army of 1,000,000 men or more. The movement is being given the widest publicity through the dairy press. “Butterine must be legislated out of the country” is the war cry.

HORACE BOIES SPEAKS.

Statement of His Position in the Currency Controversy. In response to numerous queries, former Gov. Boies of lowa has given to the press a signed statement in reply to the attack made by Col. M. D. Fox of Des Moines on the position taken in his last letter. Boies says that his first letter was not an effort to outline the details of the plan he proposed, but was to give a general idea of a plan by which gold and silver for all practical purposes could be jointly and equally used as a redemption medium, on the basis of the actual commercial value of these metals. He then restates his plan and says that the net result would be a practically irredeemable national paper currency, backed to its full face value by gold and silver bullion held by the Government for redemption purposes. “No idle reserve in the treasury would longer be necessary. No greedy speculator would approach its doors with notes for redemption for speculative purposes. No bonds to replenish a useless reserve would ever again be issued in times of peace. Every dollar of national currency now in existence would be as good as gold, for the deposit of the full face of notes hereafter to be issued would of itself provide a reserve many times more than sufficient to meet every demand upon the treasury for redemption purposes that would ever be made.” Col. Fox asserted that the redemption of the notes in either gold or silver meant virtually a gold standard for our currency, to which Boies takes exception, and says that in a broad and practical sense it means true bimetallism. He then continues with the details of his proposition, and then says that “more important than any question of ratio between the metals is that of the future character of the paper currency of this country.” In closing he states that the idle gold reserve of $100,000,000 is as useless as if buried under the sea, and can be dispensed with by the adoption of a bimetallic system. “There are graver questions than 16 to 1 crowding upon us.”

MEN AND WOMEN

Edward E. Ayer of Chicago has given $15,000 worth of books to the Newberry j Library of that city. William Peagues, a negro Baptist j preacher of Chesterfield, S. C., is the fath- I er of forty-three children. Austin Gallaher, doubtless the last; of ■ the boyhood friends of Abraham Lincoln, ; lives at Hodgenville, Ky., and is in feeble j health. Ex-Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson strongly commends the efforts of the League of American Wheelmen tOjgeei'ty better highways throughout the countfy. Six of Europe's queens smoke, the Dowager Empress of Russia, the Queen of Portugal, the Queen of Roumania, the Regent of Spain, the Empress of Austria and the Queen of Italy.