Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1894 — Page 2

THIS LNIMANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1SSM.

time for the House to recess- In that time, ami! a roar of applause. Mr. McMlllIn reported the Internal revenue Mil to the House. The advocates of the Income tax Wre victorious and ten seconds later the House took a recess.

fi:ati'iii:s ov tiih him. The Income Tin nml Other Section i n rinnl!)- ARrrpd To. The Internal revenue hill as agreed on to-day provides a tax of 2 per cent, upon ill Incomes of citizens of the United States, tlthcr at home or abroad, from any kind of property, rents. Interest, dividends or .mJarles on all amounts over and above H,XX). The bill goes Into effect Jan. 1. IS'j-j. En estimating lncome-3 there shall be Included notes, bonds and other securities except such United States bonds as arj txerr.yt from federal taxation. The tax is laid on profits realized within the year from sales of nal estate purchased within the year or within two years previous to the year for which the income Is estimated; ol.su, on sales of live stock and farm produce generally, where grown ujon one's own estate; also, other incomes derived from any source whatever, and the share of any person of the proiits of cjmijnies. Whether incorporated or partnership, who would be entitled to the Fame if divided. Whether divided or otherwise, except the inoorr.es received from corporations whosj rllcera, as required by law, withhold a p-rcentum of the dividends and pay the Mime to the officer authorized to receive it. In addition to the ll.Ouu exemption, all national, State and county taxes paid within th year shall be deducted from the fronts of the iwrson who has actually paid hem; also losses sustained during the year from ftres, shipwreck and other causes not covered by Insurance and compensated for, and worthless debts, but excluding estimated depreciation of value and losses on Hies of real estate. No deduction shall be tnad for improvements, which may increase the value of the property or estate. Only one deduction of MM) rhall-he made from the aggregate Income of members of anr family. Every person having an Income of more than shall make a return to the dep uty collector of the district In which he resides of the amount of his income, but persons having less than $3,5"J a year shall not make such a report. These returns ehali be made on oath, and the deputy collector may increase the amount of any list or return it if he has reason to believe that it has been understated. As a penalty for refusing to make up such list, the deputy collector may make up such list according to the best Information obtainable and add .7) per cent, to the amount. In cases v here a fraudulent list has been rendered, a penalty of If) per cent shall be added. , . The bill provides at some length the manner In which persons dissatisfied with the decision of the collector may submit their case to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The tax shall be collected on or liefore the tirst day of each July, and an additional tax of 5 per cent, shall be laid on nay men t after that date, and interest at the rate of 1 per cent, a month upon the amount of the tax. All persons in the civil, military, naval or other service of the United States. Including Senators, Representatives and delegates to Congress, shall pay a 2 per cent, tax upon Incomes above $U0 a year, ims amount shall be deducted from their Incomes by the disbursing oincer making the payment. The bill provides that when any revenue officer divulges the operations of a manufacturer or producer, or the amount or source of his tncome. he shall te subject to a fine and Imprisonment. That the deputy collector shall make lists ofpersons ninS property subject to tax. That It shall be the duty of persons, firms and corporations made liable to any duty, special or other tax not otherwise provided for. In case or a special tax. on or before July 31. annually, in case of Income tax, on or before March 1. annually, and in othr caR before the tax accrues, to furnish the deputy collector complete lists of taxable property. In case such Hereon falls, but permits the deputy to make up the return, such lists may be received upon oath. Section 11 of the bill relates to corporations. It requires them to make return before the 10th day of the month following the declaration of dividends tinder oath by the principal officer. Section U n-qnlres the corporation to furnish, beginning ISO... on or before the first Monday of (each year), a statement, showing the gross profits, expenses, exclusion of interests, annuities and dividends, net profits, without allowance for the same, amount paid out on account of interest, annuities and dividends, amount paid for salaries of emploves. above and below $l,oio. Section It levies taxes upon corporations' dividends, Interest coupons ami annuities wherever and whenever payable, to all parties whatsoever, and the corporation miy deduct or retain from all payments made on account of such dividends, etc.. a proportionate share of the tax so r'sectlon 13 provides for the Issue of receipts by collectors for taxes paid, and whenever the payment Is made otherwise than by a corporation the collector may rive a separate receipt for each tax paid by anv debtor on account of payments to separate creditors in such form that the debtor can present them to Ids creditors in fatisfactlon of their respective demands to the amount snecined in sucn receipts, section ! requires the regulations to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and to be conspicuously posted before takIni effect Vedion 19 provides that after a blank date In 1SJ1 there shall be a tax of two cents a pack on playing cards payable by adhesive stamps. Section 20 provides for the cancellation of these stamps and punishment for their misuse. Section 21 requires makers of playing cards to register. Section 22 relates to the preparation and issue of the stamps. Section- 23 provides for the punishment of counterfeiters of the same. Section 21 provides a punishment for the preparation and sale of unstamped cards, with a provision that they may be exported without tax. Sections 25 and 20 are penalty clauses relative to the misuse of wrappers for cards. Section 27 requires the tax on carls to be paid by the manufacurer. and declares the person who offers them for sale, whether foreign or domestic, to be a manufacturer. Section 2S provides for the collection of the tax on cards Illegally Issued. Section 2i fixes the tax on and after the Fecund calendar month after the passage of the act, on all distilled spirits produced in the United States on which the tax ti3 not paid before that day at $1 per gallon, to be paid by the possessor on or beforo removal from warehouses. within eh'ht years from the date of original, entry for deposit in any distillery or bonded warehouse, except In cases of withdrawal without payment of tax, as now authorized by law. Section 30 continues existing warehouse bonds on distilled spirits in full force for the time named In the bonds. When the tax Is pal l, on or after that date, there shall be added to the present tax of 9 cents a sufficient tax to make the total equal to $1, Ponds may be required for the additional tax. Section .11 provides! for regauging of spirits upon withdrawal, limiting the allowance for loss to one gallon for two months and eleven and one-half frallons for twelve months. Section 32, the ast, repeals all Inconsistent acts. KAN INTO A HURU1CANE. Experience' of the Ship AVUIIe Itoncnfelil While on the Atlantic. QUEKNSTOWX, Jan. Cl.-The American Bhi; Willie Uosenfeld, Captain Dunphy, which sailed from San Francisco on Sept. 5 for Liverpool, has put Into this port in distress. Captain Dunphy reports that the Willlo Hosenfeld ran Into a terrible hurricane on Jan. 8 in latitude 3D north and longitude 37 west. He adds that the ship was In the greatest danger of telnc thrown upon her twim ends and only righted after all her sails had been cut away. For several hours she seemed to t on the iwlnt of foundering, her decks lelng continuously Hooded by the terrific ,scuj which swept over the ship, carrying away her wheelhouse and everything: movable on the deck. Two or her crew were swept overboard find the captain and several others were badly injured. i. Hare AcroM the Atlantic. -NEW YORK. Jan. 24. An interesting contest to score a point in the controversy about carrying the English and American mails was begun at this port te3ay between the two crack steamships, the Majestic, of the White Star line, nnd the New York, of the American line. Each raptain will do his utmost to !m l his mall matter hi Jondon ahead of his rival. A victory of a few hours will count much In the steamship company's cl.ilm lor the Srowrnrrunt contract. The Ne-w Y:k :lir.". the bar at Sandy Hook at 4:22 and iti:e Majestic at 4:26 a. m. Surrender of Sir'l-(ap StrlWor. RKincnPOIlT. Conn.. Jan. 2i.-After a 5onf rciiec to-day the executive committee 3f th' str vt-car Mtrlk rs announced that the nun will go luck to work at the company's terms. The terms are that all strlk;ry. except the nine ring-leaders, shall be tak -ii back, that the company shall recognize no union, and that the men shall work ?n the sm terms and conditions which obtained before the strike. To jrathr pearls from Ocean's vases IMvers go down In divers places: Put at our mouths of streams and bays. No pearls do Asian swimmers raise Like those In beautv's mouth that shine. Made bv tha SOZODONT divine.

PUKDUE'S LOSS TOTAL

Xone of the Engineering Macliincry Saved ironi the Fire. Talk of an Anti-Trust Distillery at Tcrrc Haute 3Iuncieas Chief of Tolice Makes a Neat Capture. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYKTTK, Ind.. Jan. 21. The fire damage to the engineering building at Purdue University will be complete. It was hoped that possibly the big passenger locomotive arid the Ilarrls-Corlis:; triple expansion engines, valuable pieces of machinery, would be saved or escape with small damage, but this was not to be. The monster locomotive, the pride of the faculty and students as well as the admiration of the visitors, is a heap of ruin. The rods are warped and twisted, the engine itself partially toppled over, and as It looks now It Is nothing but ft pile of old Iron. It can be rebuilt perhaps, but looks like a complete wreck. The fire started in the boiler rooms and was caused by an explosion of natural gas. This report was soon followed by'a second, which blew out the walls of that part of the hall and gave the flames full sweep. Had there been such a thing as a hand engine near at the outset It Is believed the building could have been mainly saved. There was a small supply of hose, not enough to throw the water on that part of the hall where the tire started, and only the west wings were saved. The main building walls are iartialiy standing and the bandsome tower is still up, but the walls and tower are cracked so badly it is believed they will have to all corno down when the shops are rebuilt. President Smart says the shops will be rebuilt as soon as the insurance is paid in. Following are the companies carrying policies on the building and contents: Westchester. fl.50: Farmers' Fire, $1,500; the Traders', $l.!ni; Ohio Farmers', Jl.&fJ; Commercial Union. Il.&jo; Phoenix, 1,W; National. $l,etjn: Commercial I'nion. $2,om); Greenwich. $3.00; Hamburg-Dremen (two policies), $4,Mdt; London Assurance Company, U.fn.1); Heading Fire, $2,00(1 ; the (iermania, $2,j); the Northern. $2,000; Imperial. London, $:J.OUO; Merman. SJ.cuu; Milwaukee Mechanics', $3,000; American. New York, 5.000; Rochester Herman. $2,00; total, $15.(XiO. The trustees accepted the building from the contractors last Saturday morning. AXTI-THIST IHSTILLEUV. Mr. IIckkm InveKtlgntliiK the Scheme nt Terrt Haute. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TEH UK HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 2I.-Vlce President Deggs, of the Whisky Trust, ha3 arrived In town to investigate the project for an anti-trust distillery which George Jj. Woolsey, now of New York and formerly of Des Moines, Is promoting with some encouragement by local capitalists. Woolsey came here a few weeks ago with Henry Klepfer, formerly of St. Louis, but now of Chicago, and Immediately sought Crawford Fairbanks, who was In the old whisky pool and helped to organize the Whisky Trust, from which he dropped out within a year to devote his time and money to the Straw-board Trust and the Wheel Trust. Fairbanks says he has not gone info the proposed opposition distillery, but others havn taken an active interest In securing it. Klepfer had been a partner of Nelson Morris. Woolsey has the record of selling tho same distillery at Des Moines twice and as being a professional promoter of projects to be forced on the trust. Mr. Ueggs Is a resident of Terre Haute, although his duties keen him at Peoria, and it Is thought that this fact influenced him In selecting" Tone Haute as a point of nttack on the trust- The doubt about the sincerity of his purpose to build and oper ate a distillery Is making It difficult to secure some aid now being asked of Terre Haute people. LOTS OF TltOini.!2 FOR IftMI. Muncle Chief of Police Doc n .Yent Piece of Work In Taking it Thief. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIK. Ind., Jan. 2i.-Joseph Piatt is In Jail here charged with stealing J.0 from Albert Gcshorn, a young manufacturer. Piatt escaped the officers yesterday and left the city, but was arrested. The police shadowed a woman. Mrs. Emma Cox, with whom 'the man was very intimate. Last night she took the east-bound train and was followed by two officers. She got off the train at Union City jnd was at once escorted to the Ohio side of the town where Piatt met her. In disguise Superintendent Miller, of the Muncle police force induced Piatt to cross over on i loonier soil and the man was arrested. The woman was found to have the money and she has since been arrested for receiving stolen money. The escapade is the result of Goshorn getting drunk with a livery stable hand. A tough gang of companions attempted to take Piatt away from the officers, but a traveling man assisted Miller in taking care of Piatt while officer Turner kept the crowd back with his revolver flashing In the midnight air. Mr. J. W. Perkins 'left the door to his ttg iron safe open In his printing establishment, last night, and burglars made an asy haul of $S0 in cash. There la a clew to tho perpetrators. im; I'otirs waiiash sciii:mi:. AMueh Needed Improvement on the MlelilK'nu Division. Special to the Indian ipolls Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan. 24. The PIg Four Railroad Company ha3 determined on some extensive and expensive changes In Its tracks entering this city. All who have traveled over the Michigan division will remember that trains on that line are obliged to back in and out, consuming much time. It is propositi to build a line, leaving the present route nt the crossing of the Lafontalne road and the" railroad, north across the river, a large Iron bridge being thrown across that stream, through the bottom where heavy filling will be required, to the present station and then curving through the yards and running almost due east, strike the main line east of the limestone bluffs. There will be several curve and the bridge to construct, but It will obviate backing in and out of Wabash. On hundred thousand dollars has been set apart for the work which it Is hoped to complete this year. A OMISII COLONY. Nninber of FnrmerM Start n Venture In Allen County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FOIIT WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 21. A large part of Maumee township bordering on the Ohio State line la Allen county is in a wilderness, but is of excellent farming land and easily and profitably cultivated when once cleared. Several sections of this land belong to the estate of the late Hon. Joseph K. Hdgerton, and yesterday a big deal was closed whereby a colony of progressive Ornish farmers purchased twelve hundred acres of this land for $15,600. being $13 an acre. The colony la composed of eighteen families from Allen and Adams counties. Indiana; Allen, Fulton and Putnam counties, Ohio, ami Tazewell county, Illinois, They will commence to-day to fell timber and will clear larjre part of their purchase money from tint source. They expect to have "half of their land cleared ready for use next spring. Decision in an Old Properly Cnte. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 24. The wellknown case of George W. Ewing the third against John H. Pass and others, involving the title to many thousand dollars worth of real estate in Allen, Cass, Miami and many other counties in the State, was decided In the Superior Court yesterday against Ewing. The facts of the case are tlvse: Gtorge W. Ew'ng the second, and father of the plaintiff. Inherited property valued at over $.'..o from William (J. Hwins. an uruie. Pefore arriving at maturity he conveyed all of this property to his father for a nominal consideration. A few ye it s after the father dee ded all of this j roperty b ic.i to his s'in for a like norriiud coni '"rclon. The plaintiff. Ewlnr the third, claimed tliat hh grandfather had no rlicht to recentfey to h. father, and that his doni v.-s void, but the court holds that the consideration leing onlv nominal that the transaction was but a family arrangement ;'nd the parties In Interest had a right to revoke It at any time. The case will now go to the Supreme Court. Pitiful Cnc of I)ctitn!i:!t. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELRYVILLE. Ind., Jan. 2I.-The cry of tho unemployed .was listened to last nlnht by the City Council and they ordered the improvement of the streets and alleys

until the distressed condition eases up. leputy Sheriff Anders revealed a pitiful case when he arrested, just. over the Johnson count v line, John Anderson for larceny of a hoq from John Toner, a wealthy farmer, a few miles went of this city. Anderson's wife had just given birth to a child and was s!ck. To get food he slaughtered one of Toner's hogs and started home with It. His ve'ikie broke down and he cut out th best meat and left the rest on the roadile. When arrested there was nothing to eat In the ho use and the wife and babe had hardly enough clothing to cover them.1'- '.,- Promotion for Jack Hylton. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PLAIN FIELD. Ind., Jan. 24.-On Feb. 1 Jack Hylton. for the past three years assistant superintendent at the Reform School for Hoys, will leave for Montana, where he goes to take the superintendency of a similar Institution. Mr. Hylton has been connected with the school In various ways for the past twelve years, beginning his work as night watchman. H; understands all the details of the work and will be greatly missel at the school here. He is a native of Hendricks county and his friends are glad to know of his promotion. mi. Lew Mnllnee Tin Whistle. . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CUAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 24. At the residence of Gen. Lew Wallace there is a small tin whistle that Is chained to the private mall box on the porch. The mall carrier blow-3 the whistle when he puts mall in the box. This morning he delivered mail and blew the whistle, but could not get the whistle out of his mouth. It ha1 frozen to his lios. There he stood

chained to the mall box and howled for help. He finally got himself loose and departed with his mouth raw ami bleeding. Fought for the I'nion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, ind., Jan. 21.-E. F. Stlmpson, of this city, died last night at his home, aged sixty-five. He was born in North Carolina .and came to Indiana In 1S54, settling near Mahalasvllle. this county, where he resided most of his life. He served throughout the late war, although he was born of slive-ownlr.g parents, lie was a member of Company G. Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. He leaves a wife and several grown up children. Ilrakemiin Fntnlly Hurt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 24. Andrew Shlssler, a freight brakeman on the Nlckelplate road, fell from the top of his train just west' of the city early, this morning nnd laid on the ground with both legs crushed several hours before ho was missed. When found he was nearly frozen to death. lie cannot recover. He has a wife and two small children. Miit Take Their Medicine. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 21. Judge Hester yesterday refused to grant a change of venue in the case of the State against Mason Whlteman, Charles Compton and John Parker, charged with attempting to kidnap Olive Kraft, the twelve-year-old daughter of Joseph II. Kraft. They will be tried Feb. 8. StnrlliiK'n Slayer Acquitted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADIoON, Ind., Jan. 21. The jury; In the case against Albert Smith, indicted for murder in the first degree for killing Jaryes Starling, returned a verdict of not guilty In twenty minutes. Intllami Notcn. The schoolhouse in District 3. Franklin township. Montgomery county, was burned on Tuesday night. A defective flue was the cause. Humane officer Rradbury, of Terre Haute. Is trying to indict the persons concerned in a cock r.ght held Sunday west cf that city. He has also sent word to Fonianet, Vigo eountv, that he will prosecute all who take part in a pigeon-shooting match oidvertlsed to take place there next Monday. 0MTUAKY. Connlnnce Fpnlinnro Cooper AVoolson, the American Authoress. CLEVELAND. O.. Jan. 21. Mr. Samuel Mather, of this city, to-day received a cablegram from- Venice iinncuncing thi death of Constance Fenlmore Cooper Woolson, the authoress. S'le was Mr. Mathers aunt. Constance Fenlmore Woolson was born In Claremont, N. II., In ISIS. She was the daughter of Charles Jarvis Woolson anl Hannah Cooper Pomeroy, her mother being a niece of James Fenimore Cooper. While yet a girl her parents moved to Cleveland, and Constance was educated at the Young Woman's Seminary there, afterward attending Madame Chegary's French school in New York city. On the death of her father In 1S')9, she began to write. She moved with her n: Aher to the Southern States In 1S73. where she resiled, princlially In Florida, till 1S71-. In that year her mother died, and she went to England, making that her future home. She m a constant and popular contributor to periodicals and published "Arne," her llrU work. In New York In 1S2. The next year she published "For the Major." "East Angels" came In 1Sht, and soon after "Rodman, the Keeper" and "Ca?tle Nowhere." a volume of "Lake Country Sketches." Since then she has visited all parts cf Europe and written much. Dr. Joseph Ilobblnn. MILWAUKEE. Wis., Jan. 24. Dr. Joseph Hobbins, one of the foremost surgeons, died to-day at his home In Madison. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Imdon. Also a Fellow of the Geographical Society, of England, and one of the most enthusiastic horticulturists in America. He founded that department In the State University and was known as "The father of horticulture in the Northwest." Laura. 31apleot. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Mme. Laura Schierner Mapleson, the world-famous soprano, and wife of the celebrated lmpressralo. Col. Henry Mapleson, died In the Everett House to-day after a short Illness. The malady that terminated so prematurely the career of the universally admired artist, was prip. Heart failure is named as the Immediate caus; of her death. Other IJenth. CLEVELAND, Jan. 2l.-George II. Ely died suddenly at 9:r,0 thlv morning at Washington. He was there as a delegate from the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce to the National Hoard of Trade. CORK, Jan. 21. Capt. Richard II. S. Parry, one of the deputy lieutenants in the County of Cork nnd a well-known sportsman and yachtsman. Is dead. PARIS, Jan. 24. Edmond Regnler, who undertook the mysterious and abortive negotiations with the Germans during the war of 1S70, is dead. PARIS. Jan. 21. Rev. Mr. Newell, an American clergyman connected with the Morgan American Episcopal Church, in this city, is dead. IlnnlnesH Eiiilmrrussiiientn. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Jan. 24.-C. P. Williamson. president of the Williamson iron works, has been appointed receiver for that company, which has a capital of $150,000 and owns larre iron works and a. furnace. William Hardie has been appointed receiver of the Birmingham iron works, with a capital stock of S150.0O0. This company has uefaultod on Its bonds and Is insolvent. The low price of iron and general depression of business is given as the cause. Ul'FFAIA X. Y.. Jan. 24. Tho 15uffak and Niagara River Navigation Company Is In bad shape tlnanclally and Is In the hands of a temiorary receiver. Assets, J22.C22; debts, 107,57l. Lumber Healers Association. COLUMDUS. O., Jan. 21.-The twelfth annual convention of the Union Lumber Iealers Association of Indiana. Ohio and Pennsylvania was held here yesterday with ntout two hundred members In attendance. The secretary's reiort showed the total membership was The receipts for the year were Jl.tM'J. .", and expenditures, $1,S..4. The association discussed anl recommended to the Ohio legislature a lien Mv giving absolute lien iio:i ground and buliding to contr-ictors and subcontractors, materia! men ami laborers. Governor Mclvndey addressed the association. j following olliiers were fleeted: Pi talent, ; D. W. Thomas. Akron. . ; vice president. Wlinam Abler.--. Aiiegaeny, i a. ; treasurer, J. Elliott Pierce, Dayton. Want a Heeelvor for Iie Itoad. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. Jan. 2I.-Smi-ley. Smith Steveiu'. attorneys, filed a bil! of foreclosure In the I'nltcd States court to-day asking for the appointment of a receiver !or the Erankfjrt V- Sjuihoniern J railroad. Tno suit was begun v ihe in- , stance of Augustus C. Hall, of New York, irusice ior in u-jimi;v;.iieia. The safest means of getting rid of a bad I couh is Dr. Hull's Couh Syrup.

THE ELECTIONS BILL

Senator Lodge Opposes Opening the Gates to Fraud. John Y. McKane's Dirty Work Pointed Out as What May Occur if Federal Laws Are liepealed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The Hawaiian question cani prominently before the Senate again to-day, and. after an hour's brisk discussion, w ent over until to-monow, when Senator Teller will take' the floor. The result of the debate was to show that there is division both in the Democratic find Hepublican ranks as to the wisdom of adopting the resolution reported by the 'foreign relations committee. Senator Vest objected to It on the ground that it indicated the project for annexation might be more favorably received in the future, and Senator Allison and other Republicans objected to it on the ground that, according to their interpretation, the resolution pledged the Senate as altogether opposing the principle of annexation and as approving the policy of the President in this respect. A half dozen amendments are now pending to modify its phraseology, and it Is likely to be subjected to material changes before final adoption. At 2 o'clock the bill repealing the federal election lav? came up as the unfinished business. Senator Lodge tcok the floor in opposition to the hill. He made a vigorous speech against the measure, and pointed out the outrages perpetrated by John Y. McKane as evidence of what political bosses would do in the absence of federal laws to punish frauds; Mr. Lodge said that It would b? a waste, of time to argue concerning the constitutionality of the national election laws. If ever there could have been doubt on this subject Supreme Court decisions had settled the question for all time. After reviewing the decisions of the Supreme Court relative to this matter, the Senator took up the question of election frauds and reviewed in detail recent instances of corruption In New York city. The Senator then continued: "The passage of the law which it is now proposed to repeal and the appointment of supervisors in accordance with their provisions put a stop in a large measure to these frauds. Whatever the defects were in this legislation and they were many at the time, they at least produced good result. These frauds thus brought to an end were the work of that eminent Democrat, the late William M. Tweed. Hut although he was driven from the rield of his political activity and died In obscurity his throne has not been left vacant, nor his sword unswayed. He has both successors and Imitators. I will take only one very recent example to prove this and to show that if these laws were needed to repress Mr. Tweed's activity, they ars Just as necessary to-day to curb the zeal of those who would rival him in his chosen sphere of public usefulness. "Last fall Mr. John Y. McKane, of Gravesend, L. I., rose at a bound to national reputation. If he lacked the powerful imagination of Mr. Tweed in dealing with voting lists and voters he quite equaled him In boldness and effrontery. If ills performances were less picturesque and finished than those of his great master, they we-re quite as flagrant. I will describe what he did. not in my own language, but in the forcible sentences of Mr. St. Clair McKelway, a Democrat, and the editor of the Hrooklyn Eagle, the leading Democratic newspaper of that city. Mr. McKelway states what occurred at Gravesend last fall as follows: 'At the election thi3 man had MIS population to take Into account In his town. He credited himself with 6.1M8 voters. Never did mathematician or fecundity furtner po.' 1 dislike to correct Mr. McKelway. but I do not think that this statement is quite accurate. In the earlier and better days I have shown Mr. Tweed displayed a richer imagination In dealing with erection tlgures than Mr. McKane. Hut. on the other hand, In justice to Mr. McKane. it ought to be said that Mr. Tweed never beat and stoned American citizens because they carried a mandate of the Supreme Court authorizing them to examine the voting lists. Mr. McKane's performance proves sufficiently that crimes against the suffrago are attempted now just as flagrantly in our Northern cities as they were more than twenty years ago. and that tho need of stringent legislation, both Stato and national, to prevent and punish them is as great as ever." In conclusion Mr. Lodge said: "The United States has no right to meddle in any way with State, county or city elections, and, in my theory of the Constitution, the State should not be permitted to meddle In any way with elections of members of the national House. The present attempt is an effort to lnvnde the domain of national authority, to break down national ixrwer. to sweep from the statute looks any recognition of national rights. On this ground I oppose the bill. And I also oppose it because I believe that national elections, separate from ijll local elections, should be under the control and conduct of the United States, to the end that citizens of the United States, when In that capacity they exercise their highest rights, might be able to do so without fear or favor. As I quoted in the debate in the House In 18!V): '1 wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings; from you a.s me. " At 3:CG the Senator concluded his remarks, and on motim of Senator Allison the Senate went Into executive r-es.lon. At 3:1." the doors were reopened, and Senator Coke, of Texas, called up the bill authorizing the Gulf, Hrumont & Kansas City Railroad Company to bridge two rivers in Louisiana and Texas. This measure was made the o.-caslon of a detailed discussion by Senator Vest of the recent veto by President Cleveland of the New Yrrk and New Jersey bridge bill. "The President," said he, "in his veto message, stys: I am by nc means certnln thit the Secretary of War. who is vested by the terms of the bill with considerable discretion as far as the plans of the structure are concerned, would have the rower to exact of the promoters of this enterprise the erection of a bridge spanning the entire river.' We have In the New York bridg? bill the identical provision that we have here, that the plans should be submitted to the S"cretar of War. and until approved by him the structure shall not be commenced. The President, and I mention it with gnat respK:t, has overlooked the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on this very matter. In the New York case, where the identical question submitted to the court was the one raised by the President in his recent message, the court decided as follows: 'It Is competent for Congress, having authorized the construction of a bridge at a given height over a navigable water, to emicwer the Secretary of War to determine whether the proposed bridge will be a serious obstruction to navigation, and to authorize changes in the plans of the proposed structure.' " After these remarks by Senator Vest, the bill wa-s parked, several minor amendments being first adopted. The bill extending the time for the construction of the bridge across the Calumet river. Illinois, the Senate bill authorizing t'ie issue of a patent to the Presbyterian borne missions for certain lands on the Omaha Indian reservation far school purposes, and the House bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve from sale certain land In the abandoned Fort Cummlngs military reservation were passed. At 4 p. m. the Senate adjourned. Danker Indicted. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Jan. 24. Seven Indictments were returned against John Held, president of the Western Trust and SavinpTS Association, by the prand jury In the Criminal Court this afternoon. He Is charged with takins deposits knowinr: tno bank to be insolvent. Held is under bond. The ifrand Jurv will continue the investigation of the failures of the Continental Trust Company and the Security Savings Trust Company, iteld was arrested and lodged In Jail to-night. Editor Chillis' Condition. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2I.-A bulletin issued by the physicians this morning on Mr. Chllds's condition was to the effect that he passed a comfortable night and was resting easy this morning. Neither Dr. Costa nor Dr. Leldy would say anything in reference to Mr. Chllds's lower limbs being paralyzed. The fact that a physician is constantly at the bedside of the distinguished patient Is proof i.osltive that Mr. Childs is a very sick man. Indicted for ICIniny. CHICAGO, Jan. 24.Harry Trueslell was indicted for bigamy here to-day. It is chawl th:it after having married JVssio Prav in Toledo he married Huld.i Howard in Milwaukee without the formality of a divorce. The President Iteli:rlti Home. HATr.UOIlI. Conn.. Jan. 21. The President and Miss Kose Clevelan 1, who attended the funeral of their nephew. Henry 11. Hasting, here t.i-day, left for Washington at ti o'clock this evening. I'oliun I ii lit end of 'liolorai. KACINK. WU. Jan. 24.-The authorities here are looking for the widow of Herman Groenke. who died last August very suddenly of what was reported to be cholera. Soon after receiving $1,00) Insurance money M widow married a younjj butcher and

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they left for New York. Groenke's brothers suspected foul play and the body was exhumed and the stomach sent to Chicago for analysis. To-day word was received from the examining chemists that large quantities of arsenic had been found in the stomach. The authorities will endeavor to apprehend the widow and try her for murder. THE NEW AGRICULTURE. Transformation of Southern Farm Methods Economy of a Truck Farm. Correspondence the Indianapolis Journal. NOHFOLK, Va., Jan. 20. For those who plant and plow in April it is hard to realize that already in the tide-water counties of North Carolina thej furrows are bein; turned and the seed put Into the ground for the first crop, and, more than this, that farmers of thrift who have an eye to the main chance and know how to improve it will not only harvest their Irish potatoes, etc., about the time that the frost comes out of the ground In Minnesota and Vermont, but will raise and market subsequent crops besides in the course of the year. Within the pact decade or less the spirit Of a new agriculture has taken possession of the effete South, and the tendency is now quite generally turned toward smaller farms and better cultivation, with greater diversity of crops. Improved implements have been introduced, snd, in conspicuous instances, new systems and processes have been adopted. Fertility of soil has been increased by ditching and mai.uring, and the honorable old lields, once sufficiently productive In their mediaeval sort of way, are now being rapidly transformed into the richest. most: lntr5tlnrr ami itrnfltahlo trucking and farming districts in the United Biaies. iwr is cneap, in rair supply tractable, and, when sufficiently paid, sonably efficient. So far the results and rvahave year been eminently satisfactory. For the lyJi the trucking Interest of the Norfolk district, which is the shipping lort of most of the North Carolina seaboard, was $S,500,ooo, which is an increase of a million and a half In a single season. The environment of Norfolk Itself is largely occupied by productive truck farms, but New Berne and L'denton, in North Carolina, can get their crops to market ten days earlier, as they have the advantage of two degrees of latitude and a nearer proximity of the leid gulf streams. New Berne alone has eight thousand acres in garden truck, and Elizabeth City nearly as much more. What degree of profit is within reach, ultimately, in the direction of rhi3 new agriculture is best shown by comparison with the statistics of a certain Whitechapel farm in England, which is operated under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural Society, that country having several years' precedenee of America In this special line of economic industry. The farm in question consisted of 127 acres of grass and sixty acres of arable land, which is only a flea bite compared with the expansive Southern estate of ante-bellum times, of which some p'-ill remain intact and undivided. One of these at Edenton employed 1.8u0 slaves. In iw the Whitechapel farm was a worn-out property, but the purchaser at once spent on it for manure and repairs of buildings, and within four years, in its earnings were over $11.0(JO and the net profits more than $i,300. Its principal products were cheese, butter, pigs, calves and potatoes, the maximum off cf grass. Trucking, per se, it will be observed, dees not appear In tho equation, and, therefore, the appeal In favor of meat, stock and dairy products is all the stronger, and should be heeded by parties interested. I have In mind an abandoned fifty-acre farm in New England which h?s relatively done better than this, and possibly the En-xlcld-Baxter farm at Elizabeth City. X. C, which has been operated only two years by the son of an old United States naval oillcer. will come absolutely to the front frr merit, the tract of 125 acres, fifteen wooded, which was purchased for $3,J, having paid for Itself and $5,000 over. Attorney Lamb's farm, near by, with two Indiana men, named Buffkins, for overseers, Is a model of Its kind, and at New Berne, on the Dunn farm, the snu-: item of $700 was realized from a single acre in the year 1831. Throughout the State at large the increase of agricultural production has been sevenfold within ten years, according to an estimate based on official figures. Under the new aifricuitur.il disnn.Tti.-n a farm of 120 acres would be divided somewhat as follows: Eight acres of cabbage yielding 4:2.000 heid; ten acres corn, yielding thirty shelled bushels to the acre; tenacrts Peanuts, worth fifi rents nr hniiol- tn..-... acr.-s Irish potatoes, yielding seven hundred bushels per acre; ten acres cotton, at a bile ler acre; twenty acres grass and clover, twenty acres stock peas, five aires truck peis, live acres artichokes, five acres strawberries, and the balance in melons, small lrult and fancy crops. Pastures are seeded to redtop, timothy, clover, herdsgrass ind orchard grass, and sown with oats or rye which are mowed early with a self-binder! leaving a compact, clean sward. Jan. 10 Is late for planting peas. Irish potatoes are planted early In January and again in Febiii try for a later crop. Bv Jan. 27 the ttelds will be green with rows of yo ing ra binges, and by April SO the entire arable country will be alive with well-paid pickerti gathering strawberries, radishes, p?aand other early vegetables for Northern markets. Corn will be planted March 1 and cotton April 21, the harvest following in September.. Bv June 1 the ground wifl be plowed again for a second crop of corn or for hweet or Irish potatoes, with millet which is growing In favor. The residue of the unshipped truck will be fed to horses and. cows. Farmers calculate to raise two crops of cabbage, potatoes, truck-peas, grass, and fodder peas, to be followed by turnips and rutabagas. Field pens are sown between the rows of corn and plowed in as fertilizer. Hogs are turned loos to root on the residue of peanut and pea patches. Killing occurs In March and November. Thrifty farmers raise as much stock nnd poultry as the farm will conveniently carry without making It a specialty, for the sake of the manure, as well ns to Utilize the waste. Drainage Is requisite to remove excess of moisture, and water Is found by digging only a few feet to the depth of the old marine, bed which underlies tho soil. . Wherever one digs. In swamp, marsh, hamik. old field, or upland, he will Inevitablv strike marl, shell rock, or white sea sand. Hardly any attention has been paid hitherto to dairy products, but an Inclination is shown In that direction. Any one skilled in thc?e specialties who will undertake to establish creameries or cheese factories among the people will meet with active cooperation. Creameries ought to be estallished in every school district. They have been the salvation of the abandoned hill country of New England, and are worth ttftv thousand dollars per annum to eich collective district. Pantego. In Beaufort county, Hertford, In Perquimans, and Shawboro In Pasquotank, afford rare openings for such enterprises both in respect to feert and pure water and proximity to markets, while the savannas of Hyde county constitute splendid ranges for teef stock. Oruzinff is certainly a coming Industry f tnls lowland seaboard region. It 1ms been overlooked since the war. hut previously fanners would have a. hundred acres In clover and rals tus fine stock as ever were brought into Chicago. There Is profit in sheep, too. If their fleeces would be accented as substitutes for buffalo robes and fur trimmings for garments. Their manufacture would Induce the operation of small tanneries. Iands can be bought at one-fifth to onehalf of their ante-bellum value. If only parcels cf 1 acres or less are asked for and are selling much below their reai value; but landowners do not care to part with !H they have at such a Hacrilice Field hands receive an average of 10 per month and ration. The tenant system is much I". voeu. but this is a delusion for all concerned. What Is needed now, especially. Is to divide up the big farms and operate the several iortlons with Intelligent labor. A few industrious Northern and Wf stern men. who !nv alreidv located at tidewater, have made money, even under the obsolete Ftyle of agriculture. .Men with only a little capital can buy tv.enty-acre panel.. If they will mit It into grays and milk, ami in a few years acquire a competence. As to trucking, albeit produce Is sellln? low at present, it can be madv? an abounding success with the existing trans" nation ficilitles and the reduced rates'just offered by th? Norfolk & Southern railroad, which traverses seven of the counties. Market stuff picked one day can be laid down In New York within thirtysix hours. The chances are certainly inviting to such as desire to change to a much-favored climate, and the cost of gcttlnj; here from New York is but by the Old Dominion steamers. 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T'n It c'i'M In Plant riiydil :V wi'l be given lo PLYMOUTH CHUK('t ly President foiltcr. t Like Forcut University. First P en, re. rri.'.ay even. Insr. Jan. "J. h oYlotlc Tiect f r cmre. $.; half ccnrM. fl; sinule alm'.-iii. c Out linen of th 'ecture ami tickets may be hatlat Plymouth Chtmh. EMPIRE.: Corner aU anl i". $tt MATIN F.K t J. IOC, loC, TO-XimiT -it 8 l.V. 2 iC, OUC. May Russell Co. A pH-ial ir vrlll he run to the theater anl tlie r. turns of the Corbott Mitiiiell lijrht will be ri-l trova 6:age an they come in. t.t may lo w-iirea by TVleToue 170S. Next week Irwin Iiros. lilir Miw. National Mi M TOtGDHMS PIPE roR Gas, Steam and Wate f F.oler Tubes, Cat and Mall able iron FlttlnuK ihUck mm1 irn 1 va u 1 1 rt. V Ives. Stop i ojx. i:ticili Trimming'.. Hlemu Gairs I'ljo Tenfc. l'Ue Cutters, V'.mph. ser.w Plilanl Dis, Wrench. stau Tr), l'iimi. Kitchen iok, Ho, lU'Itli.. lltb-.it MetJl. Sub di r. Wiilt ot r... rl ip. lu Wjte. I sill oilier Mii. lites i:e I in cetdirrt o i w itll ;a. Htrain v.tr. .Vu teal an !iuu;je a ;- -ia tr. Meaui.:;e.a:l:i j Ayi; rat lot 1'iiblic Ifu lai.im Moie n nn, MILh. hn; FaehT.fi, lAUil'ir.ea. FuiuIm r In-v-hou-'-, ete. '"t an 1 l J.re l tr W r auv s.ve W o :cht-iren !'!. f:i:ii H Inca to li 1i.Cj diameter. Knight Jtllscn, o an I 77 S. PENNSYLVANIA ST. kind and un.iFsumin, of simple manners, purely American, with only 5 per cent, of f jreipn population, and tho stranper will hnd a welcome, and make friend If wants them. North Carolina Is prosperous, and has no bKars. All she needs Is a little more money and an Infusion of en ery. ClIAHLi'.S HAIJ-OCIv. Wedded n Count. NEW YORK. .Ian. 21. Miss Caro'.a Uv inirston and Count le Ivinsler-Vallar wera mirricl at St. Patrick's Cathc-lral on F.ftn avenue by Archbishop Corrhran assiitel by Kev. 1. J. McKc r.nin-. A wed tins breakfast to wblch one hundred per-on wert invited was served at the Livingston mansion immediately after th ceremony. Presents of the usual kind in the way of plat?s were sent be lrlen ls of the family. Johnston Livingston presented the Counter with a cbe'k fcr spu) upon her return from the oitheilrul. The br.de and bridegroom will sail for Europe this week. Antlonnl Ilurlal Cnae .Noclu(lnn. CINCINNATI. O.. Jan. 21. The National Ilurlal Ca,e Assoclation met here in ret session to-ilay. I'rcsl lent Vm. Hamilton, of Pittsburg, was in the chair and one hundred delegates were present. Committees were appointed and adjournment made till to-morrow, when the association will probably complete Its work. It is likely that the present oU'iecrs will be re-elected, and that Philadelphia will be the next place of meeting. Ultimatum of Mine Operator. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 21. The executive committee of the Ohio cual operator?. It has leen leamei from an authentic ofce, has derided to give the miners the alternative of working for So -ents a ton or the closing of every mine In Ohio. Presilent Nugent, of the Ohio Miners' Union, w 11 call another convention of miners to pas.i on the ult imp. turn of th? operators. A meeting of all operators of the Htate will be held wn. Willi' lnofnlncM Ilndetl. Washington Post. No matter what our future relations with Hawaii are to b. whether friendly or hostile, neutral or antagonistic, Mr. Willis cannot under any circumstances le a potent factor In th' equation. Presilent Dole has so utterly eliminated Ms rerresmtatlve influence as an officer, end his Fpeclllc gravity cs an individual, that he must alwaya remain a nonentity In his present capacity. Hank Iloobed by flu Dal Inn Guns. GUTHKIE, O. T.. Jan. 21. At Pawnee, fifteen mil northwest of here. to-Iay, three members of the Dalton gang rode into town and entered the bank, but found the Mfe lockM with a time lock. They took $!Cx) from the cash drawn- and role away, cnrrvlnff the cashier on a hore three miles Into th? country ani compelling him to walk hack. Couldn't Help Him Any. Ti i Bits. A mendicant approached a benevolentlooking oil gentleman the other day and said, "Dear sir, I have lost my leg;" to which the benevolent-looking centleman repiled, as he hurried away: "My dear friend, I am very sorry, but I have not en anything of ItT The Cotiulin Trlnl. CHICAGO. Jan. 21. In the Cuh'.ln trial to-day ther l.t-in,; no more ir...i u-u I witnesses present the MefnnM began its refutation cf tne v.dehce agi iit ieemun O'Sullivuii by callla to the t-laud l;tn.-s Mlnehin, who, in Miy, 1. w.rke! for tn-5 Icemen. Cut Hie Tliroat of Mis VItrt-. CHATTANOOC.A. T.-na. Jan. 21 -At p. in. to-day. alter threatening to burn 1:13 her alive. Alonzo Thompson drew the heiil f his mistress, Mo-llle Mentlow. Into his l .p nnd cut her thrtit from ear to ear. Se died In a half hour. The murderer cacaiod. liort About l7,mU. LAS VEGAS. N. M.. Jan. 21.ipo 6a 1azar. treasurer of Lincoln county 1 l 1 n .... n I . . . . . .huh fc-' . t - . A turned some of his property over to h.st bondsmen. The money was Invested io sheen and ranches.

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