Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — Page 2

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EPIDEMIC OF MURDER

mXny women killed in ger* MAN CAPITAL Berlin Afflicted by the Presence of a Criminal of the Type of Jack the Ripper—Knoxville. Tenn., Girl Is Turning to Rubber. Work of a Teutonic Ripper. A veritable epidemic of woman murders afflicts Berlin, Germany, and what is more remarkable is that the majority of the victims belong to the unfortunate 'clasa. Another of these unfortunates, 'named Anna Singer, was found murdered an her tpartanents. Her throat was cut [from ear to ear, and her body brutally lent and bruised. The description of the [murderer in this case tallies with that of (the suspected perpetrator of a dozen other (crimes committed during the last four weeks in the lower quarters of the city. He is described as a modestly dressed young man, tall, and of muscular build, with light hair and a fine, carefully trimmed light mustache. This mysterious individual was seen entering and leaving the apartments of Anna Singer by a number of her companions, both before and after the crime is supposed to have been committed. The police are exhausting their energy and resources In trying to arrest the murderer, but beyond the clew furnished by the companions of the murdered woman nothing has been discovered.

TWO NEGROES LYNCHED. Result of Murder of City Marshal at Clarksville, Mo. An excursion boat from Quincy, IIL, and Hannibal, Mo., arrived at Clarksville, Mo., with about 300 negroes on board. After the boat had tied up, Curtis Young got into a fight with a colored woman named Lena Bryan of Hannibal. The row became general and City Marshal Meloan went on board to quell It. He put Curtis Young under arrest, when somebody in the crowd shot the marshal in the back and he died in fifteen minutes. There was greet excitement through the town when the shooting becamp known, and the citizens began to patrol the streets armed with guns and revolvers. A posse of fifty men went on board the boat and arrested Sam Young, Curtis Young, Bob Taylor and Charley Taylor, all colored, and took them to the city jail, where they were all locked up pending the arrival of the prosecuting attorney. When that officer arrived he found that Curtis and Sam Young had been taken from the jail and hanged to a convenient tree. TURNING TO RUBBER. Twelve-Year-Old Knoxville, Tenn., Girl Is Puzzling the Doctors. Knoxvilile, Tenn., has a curio that is puzzling the medical skill of the South. Three months ago Margaret, the 12-year-old daughter of Clavin Allen, complained of her neck "pulling.” But little attention was paid to her at the time. Her arms grew hard and now her entire body, with the exception of her jaw, is as hard as rubber. She has the use of all her faculties and works her joints with ease. She has a good appetite and when pinched or stabbed with a sharp instrument feels it keenly. It does not appear to be ossification. The girt is decreasing In weight.

VAN WYCK’S CLOSE CALL. Infernal Machine Addressed to Go- , thain’s Mayor in Mails. A package, six inches long, two inches wide and two inches deep, with a wrapping of manilla paper and tied with a string, was received in the New York general postoffice, addressed to Mayor Van Wyck. The package happened to break and a dynamite cartridge four inches long was exposed. A fuse was attached to one end of the cartridge. It was admitted at the city hall that such a package had been received, but no further information was given. The postmark of the package was not divulged. Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..29 10 Chicagol9 21 Cleveland .. .26 14 Philadelphia. 17 19 Boston2s 15 Brooklyn ....15 21 Baltimore .. .20 15 Louisville ...14 28 New Y0rk...22 17 Washington. 12 26 Pittsburg .. .21 20 St. Louisl2 26 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 27 10 Kansas City..2o 17 St, Paul 26 15 Minneapolis. 14 24 Columbus .. .21 16 Detroitl4 25 Milwaukee.. 22 18 Omaha 10 27 Floods in Minnesota. A terrific downpour of rain fell in the district between St. Cloud and Hinckley, Minn., on the Great Northern Railroad. Reports indicate that a tract between Quamba and Hinckley suffered in numerous places. A section of track ninety feet long was washed away. A bridge three miles east of Hinckley and a smaller one a mile west were washed out, and there is greet damage to the roarfbed in numerous places along the line. Natives Attack a Russian Post. A sensation has been created in St. Petersburg official circles by the news of an unexpected attack by 1,000 natives on a Russian post garrisoned by 800 infantry at the town of Andijan, province of Ferghana, Turkestan. It is said that twenty of the soldier? were killed and that eighteen were wotfnded. Rioting at Belfast. Great excitement was caused at Belfast, Ireland, by a nationalist demonstration in honor of the revolution of 1798. Several coMisions occurred. Stones were thrown, a general melee followed and arrests were made. Strike of Pittsburg Miners. Pittsburg miners have decided to stand for the observance of the Chicago agreement and refuse to go to work for less them 66 cents a ton. Ohio Brewery Deal Is Made. The big brewery deal which has been pending in Cleveland for several months past has been made finally and for good. A majority of the Cleveland and Sandusky breweries are in one corporation now, and under one management. The capital stock of the new company is <6,000,000. Many Persons Injured. A terrific explosion occurred in the tarpaper factory of Tobias New & Co., on East 19th street, New York, in which a number of persons were seriously injured. The entire plant was wrecked and thousands of dollars’ worth of damage was done. No one watt killed. Negro Lynched at Texarkana. At Texarkana, Ark., a crowd of citizens took part in openly lynching a negro giving the name of Ben Hayden. Hayden was arrested for assault. He was identified by his victim. A mob of enraged men took him from the officers and hanged him, Worthington Academy Destroyed. Worthington Academy, the college building controlled and operated by the Episcopal Church denomination of Nebraska, located three miles from Lincoln, was destroyed by fire. The loss is placed pt 165,000, ipsurapce gt <35,000.

ASKS FOR RESTITUTION. Foreign Missions Board Bearins Action Against a Japanese College. Founded under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a distinctly Christian institution, and supported for nearly twenty-fire years by American gifts on that basis, Doshisba College, Kiota, Japan, has so far departed from the constitution under which it was established that the board has demanded the immediate return to it of $175,000 in gifts in gold, besides the retransfer of houses and lands turned over to the Doshisba company’s trustees by the board in 1893. As the board fears that the letter containing its demand will be ignored, a suit against the Doshisba company for the recovery of the property, with probable international complications, is expected. Dr. Joseph Neesima, a distinguished native of Japan, educated in this country, founded Doshisha College, with the assistance of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1875. All went well until Dr. Neesima's death in 1890. Even in 1893 the board and friends of the college had such confidence in its management that it transferred to the trustees the right and title of property held in trust In several other places. Rumors that Christian principles were being forgotten by the trustees reached the American board in 1895, and a deputation was sent to Kiota to investigate. The report brought back was not altogether reassuring. In February the Doshisba so changed the fundamental principles of the constitution as to eliminate the Christian name and Christian instruction from the Academic school, and the American board considers that the trust has been violated. /

INSURGENT CHIEF f HOT. Spaniards Execute the Wounded General Gonzales Despite a Pledge. The Cubans at Tampa, Fla., have received word from a reliable source that General Gonzales, the insurgent leader in Santa Clara province, who was supposed to have died of his wounds after a fight with the Spaniards, was in reality shot after a trial by a Spanish drum-head court-martial. The first story received was that he was captured after being severely wpunded in a skirmish on the Sagua de Chica River by the troops of General Bernal, who commanded in that province. He was taken to Villa Clara. General Bernal, the Cubans declare, gave the bishop of Santa Clara his word of honor that the prisoner would be well cared for. The next day the mother and the family of General Gonzales were informed that he was dead and buried. The Cubans are infuriated over this example of Spanish treachery. CHASKA GOES TO JAIL. He Has Recovered After His Attempt at Self Destruction. Samuel Campbell, better known as Chaska, the Indian husband of Cora Belle Fellows, who was a short time ago reported by Running Water, S. I)., dispatches as having made a attempt at suicide, is alive and well, his Attempt at ending his life having proved a failure. He was recently sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for complicity with a gang of thieves. Before being taken to jail he confessed and gave evidence against the band. He named his brother William and two other men as leaders. According to his story, the gang found a ready market for stolen goods among the residents of both the Nebraska and South Dakota sides of the Missouri river in the vicinity of its operations. Fraudulent Enlistment of Minors. One peculiarity of the conditions prevailing in the volunteer force has been the enlistment of minors and their consequent discharge from the service on the ground of fraudulent enlistment, a course rendered necessary in most instances by habeas corpus proceedings through the courts. This circumstance has served to reduce the numerical strength of many companies, and the instances have been so numerous as to lead to the suspicion that something more than carelessness is chargeable against the officers who were enabled to have their commands accepted and mustered in by reason of the minimum strength, or in many cases less than the minimum strength allowed by law, having been furnished by the presence of so many minors who were enlisted without the consent of their parents or guardians. This feature is due to the instructions sent out from the War Department, presumably under a misapprehension. They permitted the mustering in of minors who presented themselves for service and whose parents did not interpose objection. This defeats in a measure the object of the statutes which, instead of requiring the objection of parents or guardians as a bar to enlistments, specifically exact the consent of those who have authority over minors desirous of becoming soldiers. In the late war much the same condition prevailed to such an extent as to lead to the dismissal of officers who were charged with defrauding the government to the extent of admitting fraudulent enlistments, and it begins to- look as If greater restrictions must be placed upon those in charge of the acceptance of volunteer troops.

$20,000,000 in Gold. “Pat” Galvin, who arrived at Tacoma, Wash., from Dawson, reports that by this time the spring clean-up is finished, amounting to <20,000,000. When he left, April 28, sluicing had been in progress for a week, the results on the best creeks being better than expected. Sulphur, Dominion, Bear and Henderson are the best producers after Eldorado and Bonanza. Water began running from Lebarge to Dawson two weeks earlier than last year. The miners were figuring on starting for St. Michael with their treasure between May 28 and June 5, bringing them to Tacoma about July 1. William Stanley received letters from his sons at Dawson by Mr. Galvin. They say many miners believe the treasure ships are likely to be captured by pirates between St. Michael and Tacoma, and they accordingly requested that the Government detail a gunboat to convoy the ships to Puget sound. The Stanley boys have taken <600,000 this winter from nine claims. A special from Lake Lindeman, Alaska, says: “Lakes Lindeman and Bennett are practically open, boats and scows are nowpassing down both lakes along the shore. The ice has become unsafe. Gue man with a big pack on his back suddenly disappeared through the treacherous frozen surface. No one knows who he was. The price of provisions in Dawson and vicinity has dropped materially, being only 30 per cent of what it was a year ago. Real estate is having a tremendous boom, lots on the principal streets selling for from <1,500 to <2,000 a front foot. The long row of tents along the river bank have been removed, property there renting for <lO a front foot a month.”

. Drinks Deadly Poison. James Underwood, a traveling salesman for the Champenoia Jewelry Company of Newark, N. J., drank a quantity of potassium by mistake at the jewelry store of F. H. Niehaus, St. Louis, Mo., thinking it was water. He fell to the floor immediately and lived but ten minutes. Runs Into an Iceberg. The steamship Cestrain of the Leyland line arrived at Boston in a badly damaged .condition as the result of a collision with an iceberg in mid-ocean. The Cestrian’s bows were crushed ip below the water line, and it will cast SIO,OOO to repair her. Destroys a Big City. A conflagration at Peshawar, India, which was not mastered for twenty-four hours, destroyed 4,000 houses, doing damage to the about four crores of rupees (about $20,000,000). This is supposed to be the record fire of India. Enormous Output of Gold. Cripple Creek gold output for May was 34% tons, worth $1,254,430. This is in excess of any previous month’s record. The ore shows an improvement in value. May Stop Pelagic Feat lug. The Canadian negotiations recently concluded St Washington led the »isnin|

of « protocol which formally agreed to the exact subjects to be submitted to an international commission. While the protocol makes no preliminary agreement on the several questions, yet it is the general understanding among officials that the Behring aea question will be adjusted and finally settled by the complete termination of pelagic sealing. This has been a source of controversy for many years, the United States seeking to put an end to pelagic sealing, and Canada, through the imperial government, contesting against this termination of an industry very profitable to many citizens of the Canadian Pacific coast During the recent negotiations, however, it developed that this industry was practically extinct, and was no longer profitable to any considerable number of Canadians. Under these changed conditions, it is said, Canada has only a few sealers to deal with, and she is therefore in a position to meet, the contentions of the United States without seriously injuring a large established industry. It is understood that the protocol specifically recites that there shall be three representatives from each government on the Cana-dian-American commission.

DROWNED IN COLLISION. Lake Tug Record Sunk While Making Fast to a Steamer. The tug Record of the Inman fleet, and. one of the stanchest on the lakes, was run down and sunk in the ship canal at Duluth, Minn. Three of the tug’s crew went down with their boat. They were Contain John Buckley, Elmer Cook of Cueboygan, steward; George Riggs, Cheboygan, engineer. The fireman, Al Davidson, was the only survivor of the tug’s crew. The Record was meeting a steamer as she entered the harbor. Just as she got alongside and was making fast the steamer’s line the strong current setting out into the lake swung the tug broadside against the steamer’s stern and the Record went down like a shot. It is supposed the tug was forced over on its side and foundered from the water taken on. deadly bullets for two. Murderer Kills Himself When He Finds Escape Impossible. Louis Martels, who was released from jail at Alfred, Me., having completed a term to which he was sentenced Jor a misdemeanor in which Mrs. Joseph Glendon was involved, was shot and probably fatally injured as he was leaving the jail by the husband of the woman. Officers who witnessed the shooting followed Glendon, who, when he found he could not escape, placed the revolver with which be shot Martels against his own breast and fired a bullet through his own heart. He died instantly. New Cabinet in Italy. The following is the personnel of the new Italian cabinet: President of the council and minister of the interior, Marquis di Rudini; minister of justice, Sig. Bonacci; minister of the treasury, Sig. L. Luzzetti; minister of finance, Sig. A. Branca; minister of marine, Admiral di Canevaro; minister of war, Sig. San Marzanos; minister of foreign affairs, Sig. Copelli; minister of public works, Sig. Afan de Rivera; minister of public instruction, Sig. Cremona; minister of agriculture, Sig. Serena. It is a colorless combination and is likely to have difficulty in finding a majority in the chamber. Many Drowned at Sea. The schooner Jane Gray, which sailed from Seattle for Kotzebue sound, with sixty-one people on board, foundered abount ninety miles west of Cape Flattery while lying to In a moderate gale under foresail. Ten minutes after the alarm was given she lay at the bottom of the ocean with thirty-four of her passengers. The remainder succeeded in embarking in a launch and reached Seattle in safety. Governor*® Wife Safe. At Glenville, W. Va., Judge Blizzard sustained the demurrer to the indictment charging Gov. G. W. Atkinson’s wife with forgery, but overruled it with reference to J. P. Owens, the man to whom Mrs. Atkinson sold the Camden property and to whom she gave the alleged forged receipts. Owens is now on trial, but the case is ended so far as Mrs. Atkinson is concerned, unless the State reindicts her.

For a Peace Commission. An agreement has been reached at Washington for the creation of a commission which shall consider all the subjects of controversy between the United States and Canada, and frame a treaty between the two Governments for the complete adjustment of their controversies. Trains Wrecked at Lima, Ohio. A limited passenger train on the Pennsylvania road and a freight train crashed together at Lima, Ohio. Fireman Sheahan of the freight was dangerously cut on the head. Both engines and eleven loaded freight cars were demolished. The monetary loss was very heavy. Distress in Spain. Widespread distress is reported in various parts of the interior provinces of Spain, more especially in the Province of Catalonia. Food prices have risen considerably and many working people have been thrown out of employment. Reciprocity with France. President McKinley has issued a proclamation setting forth the terms of a new commercial reciprocity agreement with the French Government. It is the first agreement entered into under section 3 of the Dingley tariff law. W. A. Stone for Governor. Col. Wm. A. Stone, of Alleghany, the Quay candidate, was nominated for Governor by the Republican convention in Pennsylvania. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, was a good second. Samnel Plimsoll la Dead. Plimsoll, known as the “Sailors’ Friend,”- and originator of the famous “Plimsoll mark,” to prevent the overloading of ships, is dead in London.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.12 to $1.13; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 11c; potatoes, common to choice, 50c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; bogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2,25 cto 27c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.06; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.07; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye, 55c to 57c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red, sl.ll to $1.13; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,44 c to 46c; clover seed, $3.25 to $3.35. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, $1.14 to $1.16; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1,47 cto 49c; barley, No. 2,43 cto 49c; pork, mess, $10.75 to $11.25. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.06 to $1.08; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs; $3.00 to $5.00; sheep,. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, sl.Ol to $1.03; corn, No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; butter, creamery, 13c to 17c; eggx, We?t?rn, 10c to 12c,

POLICS OF THE DAY

TAXING CORPORATIONS. The House of Representatives, under the rule of Speaker Reed the Despot, no longer debates public questions. It has sunken Into a dull and placid condition, such as might be expected to prevail In a Council of State held by a Sultan, or a Pasha, or some such Oriental lord and master, and It does what It Is Ordered to do with scarcely a grumble. The activity and verbosity of the Senate somewhat compensates for the vacuity of the House, and It Is In the former chamber that the war revenue; measure has had the only discussion preceding its enactment, and the only disclosure to the public of its purpose and nature. There are still some Senators who really appear to desire to know what the people want and to do It. They find that their constituents are willing and glad to contribute to the expense of carrying on hostilities provided thatfairness and equity are observed In exacting the necessary contributions. That the war should be energetically conducted, all agree, but that its cost should be borne by all equally is a reasonable demand. That those upon whom great favors have already been bestowed should contribute of their abundance is only just and right The present generation has devoted Itself to creating corporations and bestowing upon them exclusive privileges, and that these should now escape their share of dues in a time of public danger, would not be just nor wise. The debates In the Senate have taken a wide range. The advocates of Incorporated capital have held the floor anti uttered every excuse and every appeal in their power. They were met by the 'arguments of the champions of justice and honest dealing, and political divisions have been formed and lines drawn, which will survive the present financial exigency. There is one class of corporations and only one—in which the great mass of producers in this country have a deep interest. We refer to the savings banks—the depositaries of the savings of the Industrious poor. They alone have a right to demand that their painfully earned boards shall not be depredated upon. All other corporations belong to the class of well-to-do, and should pay their share.—New York News.

Bimetallism. The gold standard is wrong. Why is It wrong? What was the occasion which brought us to experience Its results? For two thousand years mankind has used both gold and silver as final money, ultimate money, foundation money, basic money. These are some of the terms that are employed to designate that money which is final payment and never has to be redeemed; which, when it changes hands in consideration of service or property, ends the transaction. It Is Itself a payment, and upon it may be -■'ared and is reared the structures of representative money, .of paper money that has to be redeemed in it, and of credit, which, also, like reprt? senta/tive money, is stated in dollars, and for which, In the last analysis, real dollars must respond. That is ultimate money. And I say for over two thousand years the world so used both gold and silver. Why, the exigencies of the gold standard to-day have compelled its advocates to do what? They have invented a new morality, for one thing, the doctrine of which is that the creditor has a perfect moral right to take a 200-cent dollar from the debtor, but that the debtor is a most repreh.enslve villain and moral outcast if he objects to it. And they have also invented a new political economy. Is there anything difficult about that? And yet your friends of the gold standard say that is not a sound principle; they say, in the New York newspapers, in effect, that there Is no distinguishable relation between the amount of money and the course of prices—a most marvelous discovery, if true. I say the instinct of mankind was always to the contrary; the experience of mankind was always to the contrary. Why, when gold and silver were coming in streams from the mines, mankind In all the past ages of its history found that it was a good thing 1 for society; they found that it built up the waste places; they found that it extended civilization; that it encouraged every kind of Investment; that it developed and strengthened the great producing classes. They found that it was always coextensive and concomitant with Increased prosperity; and that, on the contrary, when the production of the mines fell off, the opposite effects were realized. —Charles A, Towne.

Sons of Senators. Sons of Senators, sons of millionaires, sons of political bosses have been given commissions In the army until the matter has become a public scandal. These civilians know nothing about war, and many of them know little about anything except golf and pink teas, but President McKinley has chosen to slight experienced army officers and confer honor upon ignoramuses. Why? Politics. That these young men are Intensely Ignorant of what they are expected to do Is shown by the following story, told of one of them by a correspondent of the New York World: “One of these gilded youths went to an old officer in the regular army a few days since and begged for a consultation with reference to the duties of his office. He Is reported to haye said: “ ‘Can I have five minutes of your time while you tell me how to perform all of the duties of my new office in a satisfactory manner?’ A smile of amusement and derision curled around the officer’s mouth when he replied: ‘Young man, I have been in the United States army thirtyfive years, and I don’t know how to perform my own duties satisfactorily.’ ” So far the members of the House have not been allowed to play in this little game of military appointments. It has been a friendly gambol for Senators, beginning with Vice President Hobart and running all along down the list. But now that more volunteers are called perhaps, the Representatives may get a chance to chip in and saddle some of their “greenhorns” on the Government. Old soldiers have been thrust aside to make room for Senatorial favorites under the new call, and they will doubtless continue to be thrust aside as long as there are nephews and second cousins of Congressmen out of a job. Taxation Heresy. Heresy in taxation is worrying the administration newspapers, and they are much exercised for fear corpora-

tlons and plutocrats may be forced to help pay the expenses of the war. Whenever the Democrats !n the Senate propose to make the Standard OH Company pay a small per cent, of its unearned millions to aid the Government under which it thrives and thieves, the administration press shrieks a protest against this “heresy in taxation.” That the Democratic finance committee of the Senate is a bold, bad band of robbers is shown by an esteemed Chicago contemporary, which, with a fine display of sympathy for the oppressed and down-trodden trusts, exclaims: “They would fix upon the people an Income tax, an inheritance tax and a tax on corporations.” Such propositions as this are. Indeed, monstrous. Think of “fixing upon the people” that terrible Injustice of an income tax! Reflect for a moment how Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and J. Pierpont Morgan would suffer if such an oppressive measure should be passed. The “people” who have incomes over SIO,OOO a year would really suffer for the necessities of life if an income tax should be levied. By all means tax the laborer who earns a dollar a day. Tax his beer and his tobacco. Let him understand that this is a “Republican war,” and he must pay for ft. But tax Rockefeller and men of his class? Never! And then to tax inheritances! Isn’t that dreadful? To make a man pay a small part of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars that he receives without labor as a gift? Never. But corporations also are threatened by these heretical Democrats. The Standard Oil Company, the sugar trust, the nail trust—in a word, all the trusts with their combined capital of two thousand million dollars cannot afford to pay taxes, and the esteemed Chicago contemporary Is quite right In crying out In horror against such a suggestion. Again, “Monetary Reform.” Republican newspapers that are roaring about the partisan attitude of Democrats on the war revenue bill are also demanding that “monetary reform” be pushed in Congress. Stupidity and selfishness could not go further than this. The men who urge the currency measure know that it cannot pass the Senate. They know that such a bill would arouse bitter opposition In both houses. They know that nothing could more surely provoke political division, and yet they urge that this bill be taken up and passed by the House. What Is the object of such a proposition? Simply the desire of crazy fanatics to .push the currency question Into prominence. Good political sense on the part of administration newspapers would prompt them to keep the money question in the background. If the Republicans gain any sort of standing before the people It must be from a vigorous prosecution of the war. But the Republicans are not prosecuting the war with vigor, and it is alleged that they will not prosecute it vigorously until after Congress has voted to Issue bonds. To sink political differences and to unite in a patriotic support of the President in the war against Spain means, from a Republican point of view, sacrifices by Democrats and a grab at every possible political advantage by Republicans. But that sort of thing won’t work.—Chicago Dispatch.

Cost of War. War is expensive. But It is only fair to say that the conquered nation will have to pay the bills. Spain has a dismal outlook. Fated to meet defeat, the dons will not only be forced to pay their own war debt but that of the United States as well. Down in Manila Bay He the hulks of $5,000,000 worth of Spanish ships, and that’s only the first Installment of the debt which Spain will have to meet as a reprisal for the cowardly destruction of the battleship Maine. For the first week In May the expenses of thjs Government were $3,565,000, as against $865,000 for the corresponding week last year. Nearly $3,000,000 of this should be charged to the account of Spain. It makes little difference whether the dons can raise the money to pay the war Indemnity to the United States or not. The Philippines and Porto Rico are good for It, and will be held by this country as security for the debt. People who are exercised over the amount of money which the war is costing this country should be comforted. If that were all the loss to be expected there would be little to worry over, but there are Ilves that will have to be offered, and for those there is no Indemnity. Nothing but the gratitude of a nation for their brave sacrifice can be given to the dead.

Push Ahead! Full Steam!

Cows used to throw trains off the track because the engineers, in a panic, blew down brakes and equalized chances. In these latter days, asserts an Eastern writer, a whole herd of cows could not harm a train. If a thousand w€re to get in the way of a locomotive the engineer would “pull her wide open” and go scooting through. When the Captain of the Paris sought to reassure his passengers on the last trip from England he said, with much nonchalance: “Under full headway the Paris can cut through fifteen Spanish warships.” That was a slight exaggeration, of course, but experience has proved more than once that safety in a collision at sea depends'on the speed of the moving body. A steamer of 10,000 tons displacement traveling twenty knots an hour goes through an ordinary vessel like a hot knife through butter, escaping without a scratch.—Kansas City Journal.

Donkeys in Persia.

The facetiousness of calling Persia the Land of the Lion and the Sun becomes apparent as soon as one enters the country. Persia contains, maybe, 100 lions, while the jackasses number not less than 10,000,000. Within the boundaries of the Shah’s dominion ears are trumps every time, and the universal music is the donkey’s mellifluous bray. Almost every Persian owns a donkey, and many of them whole droves. The population of Persia is estimated at 10,000,000 souls. Current opinion, at Teheran places the donkey population at about the same number. Reckoning each donkey’s wealth of ear at two feet twelve inches each, the aural appendages of the Shah’s musical toilers would, if laid end to end, reach 4,000 miles. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.—Washington Irving.

JACKETS AND CAPES.

ARTISTIC TREATMENT APPARENT IN SUMMER WRAPS. Jacket* that Are Quite Mannish Are Relieved by Some Little Bit of Purely Feminine Adornment—Fashionable - Cape* Are Mostly Trimming. Correctness in Wrap*. Tew York correspondence:

,RTISTIC treatment Is apparent in the shoos’ current showings of 'summer wraps. Art can hardly go much further, for Instance, than In the sort of tailor jacket that presents a suggestion of mannish trigness, and yet yields graciously to girlish outline and feminine fancy. What could be more misleading or more satls-

factory than the first Jacket of to-day’s pictures? It was of unlined satin faced cloth, with severe high collar and Jaunty revere to conciliate the manly taste. But a lot of dainty little pleats were set at the pinch of the waist to draw the coat Into a perfect curve with the tapering figure. After that the sleeves daintily puckered at the shoulders, and

SUMMER OUTSIDES WITH LITTLE OF ORNAMENTATION.

k little show of dark red braiding came as another relief to what might have been “horridly gentlemanly." As sketched, this Jacket was in the Intense and stylish shade now called Yale blue, hut much the same thing may be had in a variety of colors. The Jacket made to show a gentlemanly display of linen and a stunning waistcoat is one of the most swagger designs. Wearing it is to suggest that you can afford a change and so are able to have a second Jacket that will fasten up snugly to the throat if necessary. One of this type Is displayed at the left In the second Illustration. It was of beige cloth, self-trimmed with bias folds, and had revere, collar and waistcoat of white pique. It Is an entirely new Idea, this supplying the street Jacket with revere of pique or corded silk In white.- The effect Is dressy, and when wash pique Is chosen It can be freshened as often as necessary without great trouble. Opposite this model In the same picture Is a standby, the simple Jacket, moderately gentlemanly in design and made to wear slightly open and display the gown and neck arrangement worn beneath. This year It appears In solid colors. Orange brown was the color of this one, and is a favorite shade. As a rule such a jacket Is enlivened with a little braiding and possibly something In the way of a fancy clasp at the one fastening. In this Instance the braiding was a darker brown than the goods, and the clasp was gilt. The return of capes to stylishness Is signalized by a high degree of elabo-

CAPES THAT ARE ALMOST ALL TRIMMING.

rateness, and tailor capes are only occasional. Some of those offered are designed as accessories to traveling rigs, and it is one of these that holds the center of this picture. It was of dark gray ladies* cloth, was lined with the same shade of taffeta and was trimmed with rows of black satin ribbon. This type of cape is made just full enough to hang easily from, the shoulders with no pleating above the bust line. It fastens with an under flap In front, may pe made of double-faced material, and rows of braid or lines of small tucks may serve as trimming. The typical dressy cape for summer is after the order of those put in today’s second large picture. In It flufflness and airiness or highly wrought effects, or all three, are at a premium, and the new fancy capes are quite as elaborate as they were when all women were last using capes as winter wraps. The very latest thing in these garments Is the drop cape. This comes usually a little short of the waist, and is really a double cape, the under one being silk upon which is laid a pair of fluffy pet or chiffon flounces one above the other. The silken portion of the eape shows in yoke-shape about the

neck. At the top of the silk collar there is an upbuilding of frills to match the flounces. The right-hand one of the pictured three capes was orange silk covered with black lace and finished with two black net ruffles. The upper of these two ruffles had a beading of orange ribbons ornamented with ribbon rosettes. Simple as the general scheme of this garment is, the dressiest effects are produced by It Next to the cape just described is shown one that is almost as new and Just as pretty. Its drop or cape was black taffeta, and over this was a net cape on which were set three'frills of grenadine, each frill closely pleated and finished at the edge with a puffing of chiffon. The edge of the drop cape was finished in the same way. The collar was a frill set up about the neck and spreading prettily to admit graded frills of chiffon-topped silk. The effect of this Is better In black than in bright color. Still another modification of the drop cape is made of all-over lace on silk, usually of a contrasting color. The lace may or may not be tacked down to the under cape, but In either case a fluting of silk, chiffon or lace finishes the under cape. One of this type completes the cape group. It was watermelon pink silk covered with heavy black lace that was not tacked down. Hem, fronts and collar were edged with black chiffon fluting. The richest lace may be used for the upper cape, and Imported capes of this kind show that the cape has been woven In one piece. Still, skillful fingers can match the patterns In piece lace with very good results. A pretty variation

is afforded by laying over the lace when it is not of the very heavy variety an applique design of silk to match the under cape, a spray of rosea, a sweeping vine or something of the sort. As the display of the lace design is a feature of such a cape It Is as a rule made little longer than the other sorts of capes, dipping just to the waist line, in front and lifting a little at the sides. The drop cape should set easily full, but the over cape, when of the variety just described, should set qultt smooth. Copyright, 1898.

Last of the Buffalo.

A number of years ago, when It became apparent that the buffalo was to be exterminated in the Northwest, Fred .Durpee, an old ranchman living on Cheyenne River, about seventy miles northwest of Pierre, S. D., captured several calves from one of the small herds which were yet roaming In Dakota, and began breeding them for the purpose of keeping them in existence. Many times his efforts seemed a failure, but the little bunch finally began to Increase, and now consists of thirty head of full blood buffalo apd seventyfive halfbreeds. With the care and attention he has given them and the free life which they have led, there are among them what are pronounced to be the finest specimens of the buffalo In existence. He has just secured from the Indian Department permission to Inclose a large tract on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation tn which to

keep his herd and prevent their scattering. His efforts will assist in keeping in existence these animals, which, without the care of a few men, would now be known only in Metory. Remarkable Cigar Smoking Feat. The greatest cigar-smoking contest on record was decked on a Thames River boat when a well-known English turfman on a wager consumed eighty-six strong cigars in nine and one-half hours. The only refreshment taken by the winner was a chop and a small quantity of brandy and water. Sultan Doesn’t Want Electricity. The Sultan has prohibited the use of electricity in Turkey for any purpose, and patents for electrical Inventions are consequently refused. Despite these facts, the doings of the Turks have been shocking the civilized world for centuries. Manuel Garcia, Mallbran’s brother, who sang the part of Figaro at the flrat performance of “The Barber of Seville” tn New York seventy-three years ago, has entered upon bis ninety-fourth year and is atlll teaching singing In London,

CONGRESS

The Senate remained in secret legislative session for three hours on Tuesday. The entire time was given to a rather free discussion of the Hawaiian question based bn a motion declaring It to be the sense of the Senate that the question of annexation should not be discussed in open session. At the conclusion of the debate the Senate voted viva voce not to pursue the subject further except behind closed doors. Consideration of the pending war revenue measure was continued in open session, but no real headway was made. The House passed a bill authorising the construction of a railway bridge across Lake St. Francis, near Lake City, Ark. A concurrent resolution, directing the commission now codifying the criminal laws to prepare and submit a code of civil law and procedure for Alaska, was also approved. A number of private bills were passed and the House, in committee of the whole, passed a bill authorising tbe Secretary of the Treasury to keep open during June and July this year such lifesaving stations on the Atlantic and gulf coasts as he might deem advisable. Wednesday’s session of the House was given to the consideration and passage of a bill called up by Mr. Jenkins (Rep.) of Wisconsin to remove all political disabi.ities incurred by the third section of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. The debate gave rise to notable, apeeches from Mr. Grosvenor (Rep.) of Ohio and Mr. Settle (Dem.) of Kentucky, upon the obliteration of all section feeling and the reality at last of a reunited country. Incidental to the debate several members reviewed she conclusion that a member of Congress could not hold simultaneously a military and civil office. Upon its passage the bill received a unanimous vote. Marked progress was made by the Senate toward the final disposition of the war revenue measure. The committee amendments on nearly sixty pages of the bill were passed upon. The interest of the session centered in the action taken upon the amendment of Mr. Gorman (Dem.) of Maryland, levying a tax of one-quarter of 1 per cent, upon the gross receipts of all corporations doing a business exceeding $260,000 a year. By a direct vote upon It the amendment whs rejected—27 to 84. The Gorman amendment so modified that It levies a tax of one-quarter of one per eent. on all corporations engaged in the refining of sugar or petroleum was passed: Yeas, 33; nays, 20. The Senate continued its consideration of the war revenue bill through its session of Friday, completing everything but the bond provision and the amendments proposed by the Democrats to take its place. The speech of the day was made by Mr. Butler (Populist) of North Carolina. The House, practically without debate, passed the urgency deficiency bill providing for emergency expenses of the army and navy departments incident to the war. j Two very important votes were taken Friday in (he Senate. In lieu of the seigniorage amendment offered by the majority of the Finance Committee, Mr. Wolcott (Rep., Colo.) proposed an amendment directing the Secretary of the Treasury to coin the silver bullion in the treasury and to issue silver certificates against it. The amendment was agreed to, 48 to 31, several Republicans voting for It. Mr. Aldrich (Rep., R. I.) then pressed the amendment of the Finance Committee providing for the issue of $100,000,000 of certificates of indebtedness and $300,000,000 of bonds, to be used exclusively for the payment of the expenses of the war. After an extended debate the question was brought to an issue, and by the decisive vote of 45 to 31 the bond amendment was incorporated in the bill as a substitute for the amendment to issue legal tender notes. The war revenue measure was passed by the Senate Saturday evening at 7:05 o’clock. A score or more of attempts were made to amend it, but in only three or four instances were the attempts successful. The most notable amendment adopted was that offered by Mr. Tillman of South Carolina, placing a duty of 10 cents a pound on all tea imported into the United States. The amendment created no debate and was adopted by a vote of 88 to 82. As finally completed the bill was passed by a vote of 48 to 28. Mr. Allison moved that the Senate insist upon its amendments and that conferees be appointed. The motion was agreed to and Messrs. Allison, Aldrich and Jones of Arkansas were named as conferees. In the House Mr. Lacey of lowa secured consideration of the Senate bill to protect homesteaders who may enlist and serve in the forces of the United States. After some delay it was passed. The war revenue bill was advanced a step further. It was received in the House as amended in the Senate, and the lower branch of Congress accordingly became the center of legislative interest. Mr. Dalzell, from the Committee on Rules, presented a resolution introduced by Mr. Dingley providing for an Immediate vote upon general non-concurrence and sending the bHI to conference. After some debate the vote was taken upon the resolution. Mr. Bailey demanded the yeas and nays, the roll call resulting: Yeas, 137; nay*, 106. It was a party vote. The House then voted to non-concur and agreed to the conference, and the Speaker named Messrs. DfSgley, Payne and Bailey as conferees. Under suspension of the rules the Senate bill ratifying an agreement between the Dawes commission and the Seminole Indians providing for the allotment of the latter’s lands, was passed. Beyond the passage of an urgent deficiency bill, made necessary by the war with Spain, the Senate accomplished little. The deficiency measure carries appropriations for ahe war and navy establishments aggregating $17,745,000.

This and That.

In France bicyclists use a whistle Instead of a bell. Dried apricots are now sent from California to London. The word squirrel Is from two Greek words which mean shadow-tall. The first life boat station In Great Britain was established in the year 1824. Truffles will soon be cultivated on scientific principles and are likely to become cheaper. It takes eight times the strength to go upstairs that is required to accomplish the same distance on a level. In the People’s Palace, in London, there is an Italian castle and battleship carved from a lump of. common rock salt. Among the Anglo-Saxons In the seventh century men wore gloves, while women covered their hands with their sleeves. The Japanese foot has been praised for its strength and beauty. Japanese can walk incredible distances without feeling weary. A German has invented an automatic lighter for incandescent gas lamps* in which the gas impinges upon a pellet containing platinum black, whereupon the plantinum wire becomes Incandescent and ignites the burner. Plants and shrubs can be transplanted without disturbing the roots or earth around them by a new implement consisting of a pair of curved blades, which form a short tube with a cone-shaped end, the blades being swung open and pressed into the earth around the plant and closed up below it so the whole can be lifted out together.