Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2. ISHL

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The United States Court of Arpeals, through Justice Harlan. ha3 made an important modification in the order Issued by Jud?e Jenkins In December last, restraining the employes of the Northern Pacific railroad from "combining and conspiring to quit the service of the road." When it was Issued the order wa3 generally regarded as going to an extreme limit in the direction of infringing on personal rights. In commenting on it the Journal aald editorially: Every man In his individual capacity has a right to work or not, and to accept or to quit any employment at pleasure, provided always that he is liable in damages for the consequences of a breach of contract. The courts Cannot prevent a person in hi3 individual capacity from quitting work any more than they can compel him to bepln work. Either would be an Infringement of personal rights and a form of slavery. Justice Harlan takes substantially the sime view, anl reversed that part of Judge Jenkins's order which virtually declared that under no circumstances had railroad rnployes a right to quit work In a body. 'It would be an Invasion of one's natural liberty," says Justice Harlan, "to compel fcini to work for or remain In the personal service of another," and he adds that "one b Eiactl la such restraint li La a

condition of involuntary servitude." The court, however, sustain that part of Judge Jenkins's order which forbade the strikers from conspiring to injure the property or business of the railroad by force and violence. They may quit work either singly or by concerted action, but they may not use force, or violence, or Intimidation against their late employers or against other persons who propose to take their r!ces. On this point the Journal said at the time the Jenkins order was issued: "The laws are designed to protect the rights of property as well as the rights 'of person, and they will not permit men to conspire together or act in concert for the destruction or Injury of the property or business of any individual, firm or corporation." The present decision is good sense as well as good law, and it shows that. In the last resort, the rights of labor are entirely safe under the law and in the courts. POLITICAL OUTLOOK IV THIS STATE.

The Republican campaign In this State has opened most auspiciously, and the fight Is being vigorously pushed all along the line. If any reliance can be placed in surface indications at this stage of the campaign, and they ought to be worth something five weeks before the election, there Is a great Republican victory impending. The common remark that this is a Republican year expresses a feeling so general that even Democrats cannot get away from it. When they see Republican meetings everywhere outnumbering their own, Republican speakers forcing the fight and their own on the defensive, Republican audiences enthusiastic while theirs are cold or sullen, and Republican ranks constantly being swollen by disgusted deserters from the Democracy, the sisn.s and the tracks all pointing one way, they cannot but feel that It Is a Republican year. It' would be strange, Indeed, if the political upheaval which resulted in such large Republican majoiities in Maine and Vermont should fail to reach Indiana. The conditions are not dissimilar, and, although the States are separated by a long distance they are subject to the same political and economic influences. The disastrous" effects of the long-continued "tariff reform" agitation have been felt here as well. as there In a period of business depression beyond anything known in our history, and the utter worthlessness of the Democratic party is as apparent to Western eyes as It i3 to Eastern. Our manufacturing interests are not as large in proportion as those oi the New England States, but they have suffered as severely and our workingmen feel the effects of scant employment and reduced wages as much as those of Maine and Vermont do. The recent elections in those States showed a loss of more than .30 per cent, of the Democratic vote since 1892. A smaller loss than that would give this State to the Republicans by a large plurality. In 1832 Mr. Cleveland received n Inaiana 202,817 vote, and carried the State by 6.4S2. A loss of 23 per cent, on this vote, which Is materially less than was the loss In Maine and Vermont, would reduce It to 197,113 and give the State to the Republicans by a plurality of 53,220, even if they did not cast a single vote more than they did in 1892. If there is any reason why the Democratic vote in this State should not fall off 23 per cent, from that of 1S32 when the vote In Maine and Vermont fell off more than 30 per cent., the Journal Is unable to perceive it. Nor is it able to see why the Republican vote should show any shrinkage at all from that of 1S32. On the contrary, it Is likely to show a considerable increase. The disappointment and disgust, the apathy and indifference, the empty stomachs and the empty dinnerpalls that are depleting the ranks of the Democracy are not operating against the Republican party They are bringing it recruits. Of the thousands who voted for Mr. Cleveland two years ago and who will desert the Democratic party this year, a large proportion, perhaps a majority, if they vote at all, will vote with the Populists, but a considerable number will emphasize their disgust with the party of imbecility by voting the straight Republican ticket. As It looks now, therefore, the Republicans may reasonably expect to carry the State by a plurality which it will take five good-sized figures to express. The dangers that are now threatening the Republicans are jverconfidence and a relaxation of the effort necessary to get out a full vote. A splendid victory Is within their grasp, but it is not to be won without a fight and would scarcely be worth having if it were. Maine and Vermont were not carried without an effort. Although the Republicans of those States had even better reason for being overconfident than those of Indiana have, they fought as If they feared defeat. They worked as hard to bring out a full vote as If they had not a vote to spare. This is what the Republicans of Indiana must do. If they want to redeem the State and achieve a victory that will be memorable in its political annals, let them work as they never worked before. HEADING AX OLD SPEECH. The Journal regrets to learn from a report of Governor Matthews's speech at Peru that he is still reading from a book the same misstatements to which his attention was called a few weeks since regarding the national finances. Governor Matthews ought rot to do this. He should leave such exhibitions of ignorance and unfair partisanship to his antagonist, the Hon. Alonzo Greene Smith. He should not say that the Harrison administration left the government "on the verge of bankruptcy" when the gold reserve was Intact and the net cash balance was $2U2S.037.S$ a total of H2U2S,0S7.S$ when he went out of office. It was not until after Cleveland was re-elected and the Democracy had announced a purpose of overthrowing the protective system that the receipts of the treasury began to be materially less than the expenditures. If there had been anything serious in that direction a Republican Congress would have increased the tax on beer or something in that line instead of putting a tax of 40 per cent, on sujar. In this connection the Journal would call the attention of the Governor to the condition of the treasury Sept. 1. ISO I. as

follows: Gold reserve, $33,216,900; net cash balance, $71,931,137.27; total, $127,118,097.27. From this cash balance deduct $30,000,000, the amount realized by a sale of bonds, and the net cash in the treasury Sept, 1 would be $77,118,097.27 a decrease of $45,979,990.61 in the assets found March 4, 1SD3. Again, during Mr. Cleveland's first term the public debt was reduced $143,834,330, while during the Harrison administration the reduction wa3 J259.071.960. True, Mr. Cleveland left a cash balance of $$3,000,000 in the treasury in March, 1SS9, more than half of which was distributed among a lot of favorite national banks, for which no interest was being received. The Harrison administration took this money out of tho banks and used it to redeem national bonds, expending during his term more than $116,OOO.WO for that purpose, which satisfactorily accounts for the $2),000.000 more of money which It found in the treasury than it left there for Mr. Cleveland. Most people will say that this money was more wisely used in the payment of the public debt than loaned to national banks without interest, If Governor Matthews will look at the debt statement of March 1, 1893, when Gen. Harrison retired from office, he will find that the interest-bearing debt was $383,031,2C0. against $S44,106,220 when he became President. If he will turn to the statement of Sept. 1, 1S94, he will find that thi interest-bearing debt Is $633,042,670. That iJ. under the Cleveland regime since March 1, 1S93, the public debt bearing interest has been increased $O0,010,0o0. In this connection it may be added that under the free raw sugar policy of the Republican party, between Oct. 1, 1S90, and June 1, 1891, the consumers of sugar spent $264,909,787 less for that commodity than it would, have, cost them under the act of 1893, while only $28,000,000 was paid as sugar bounties a net gain to the consumers of $234,909,000. If Governor Matthews desires to edify an audience as he never has before let him announce that he will give his candid opinion of Attorney-general Smith's school fund grab, give, county by county, an estimate of the amount he has grabbed from the schools of each, and he will talk to a larger audience than he has had this season.

Di;ns in roLiTics. Mr. Eugene V. Debs, late labor agitator and self-appointed manager of various end sundry railroads, is in evidence again. His latest appearance' is as a speaker at a Populist meeting in Chicago. Although ostensibly a political address, his speech was little more than a defense of labor strikes in general and tne late Pullman strike in particular. After informing his audience that the American Railway Union had decided to cast Its fortunes with the Populist party as the only hope of obtaining "industrial emancipation," he proceeded to emphasize his entrance into politics by ignoring the subject altogether. He regretted to say that there were "thousands of excellent people who are opposed to labor organizations, principally because they do not apprehend their mission," rnd to prove that strikes were no part of their mission he said: Let me call your attention to the fact that we live under a striking government, a n4 the man here or elsewhere who hasn't not the courage to protect himself should not be protected. I have said before, and I want to repeat it here that at Lexington, where the shot was fired that was heard around the world, and at Concord, all along that track of gioom and glory, clear down to Yorktown there was one continuous succession of strikes. Against what? Against tyranny and oppression. And for what? For liberty and independence. Had it not been for the magnificent courage and patriotism of our revolutionary fathers in striking for their rights and the rights of posterity we would be British subjects Instead of sovereign American citizens. And so of labor organizations. They are not or-, ganized for the purpose of inaugurating a' strike. They are organized to protect their' members in their rights, to strike only as a last resort. The illustration Is delightfully illogical, but, as nearly as the point can be discerned, Mr. Debs was trying to prove that labor strikes were a patriotic duty in the same sense that the rebellion against Great Britain was. This seems to-be bis idea of politics. It is but fair to say, however, that he did not advise a resort to arms. "The American Railway Union," he said, "has reached the conclusion that if they expect to do anything in the way of emancipating themselves and their fellowworkingmen from this degrading condition, they have got to unify their forces and strike at the ballot-box." This shows that Debs has learned something from his recent unsuccessful effort to control the railway system of the country and suppress the United States government. It Is a distinct Improvement on the part of Mr. Debs when, instead of urging his followers to save their money and "buy a run." he advises them to reserve their fire till election day and then shoot with the ballot. The ex-dictator is to be congratulated on his conversion to American methods. If he will continue to advocate the substitution of the ballot for the boycott perhaps the United States Court can afford to release him on his parole of honor. Changes In the Printing Trntlc, The International Printers' Union, one of the strongest of the labor organizations, will have some new and serious problems to consider at its annual convention in Louisville next week. These problems grow out of the adoption of type-setting machines by the newspapers and the effect the change of methods must necessarily have upon the Interests of the craft. The official report of President W. B. Prescott. of Indianapolis, advance copies of which have been sent out. Is largely given up to consideration of the matter. A readjustment of forces naturally follows the Invention and use of any class of labor-saving machinery. Men whose handiwork is superseded by machine work find it necessary cither to learn to operate machines, to find places for themselves in other branches of their special craft, or to fit themselves for entirely new callings. When, as has often happened, in the manufacturing lines, for example, the machinery so lessens the cost of production that the demand for the ware is increased the artisan experiences no distress by finding himself thrown out of employment, but only adapts himself to changed conditions by learning the improved methods of work. This Is not true of type-setting machinery. Doubtless their use will enlarge the business of publishers to some extent and so make place for a proportionate number of workers, but the adoption of the machines in newspaper cMIccs hai been so ceneral within such a short, period that this result has not yet been possible, and in consequence many skilled type-setters have found themselves displaced and many more fear that pros pect for themselves. The president's report estimates that the machines, of which about 1.430 are In operation, have thrown

2.300 members of the union out of employment. The International Union will be asked to consider the, welfare of these men and to direct its efforts to dealing with the new conditions. There is no purpose to antagonize the introduction of machinery, printers as a body being intelligent men and realizing that such changes are inevitable in the progress of events. Tha wish indicated is to work in harmony with employers, to prevail upon the latter to select machine operators from their own staff of printers a tning that has so far been done, as a rule and to avoid any hostility between the new class of workmen, many of whom will presently be of those who know nothing about hand typesetting. This last is considered especially needful, as otherwise the union itself is in danger of being disintegrated. The president says that to his mind the best interests of all will be subserved by the creation of divisions In the order, "one branch comprehending all those employed on newspapers and others composing trades that enter into the. manufacture of bocks and are required in the production of Job work, all to be embraced in one general organization, whose chief function will be to disburse benefits and give effect to necessary regulations for offensive and defensive purfoses." It is in the study and adjustment of such practical questions as these that the true benefit and importance of labor unions are best seen. The d'splacement of good workmen has been an unpleasant proceeding for publishers, but one to which they were forced by the exigencies of their business and the necessity of keeping pace with their competitors in methods of work. None will be more gratified than they to sije measures taken .to have the burdens of the reconstruction period, as it may be called, rest as lightly as possible upon the craft. The work of the convention will be watched with interest. BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

loNlMlltle. If the bloomer fad continues to boom. Ere long the fellows rude Can't tell if the vision gliding by Be Daisy or a dude. Thoe Loving; GIrln. Minnie Willie told me last night that I was the prettiest girl at the dance. Mamie Of course he told you. lie knew no one else would believe it. Difference. "I hear." said the clam, "that you are going in for Christian socialism." "You have been misinformed," averred the -oyster. "It Is church socialism that I expect to figure in." Sordid Mutlvesi. "Aren't you going to join the S. S. L. P? the Society for the Suppression of Living Pictures?" "Of course not. Didn't you know that the woman who started It Is In the dressmaking business?" ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Dr. Charles 3. Page, of Boston, says that the best remedy for a cough he has ever found is a teaspoonful of moderately hot water, taken every time a paroxysm of cough comes on. There Is rejoicing among the students of Amherst College because the college authorities have abolished the old rule re- , quiring them to go to church twice every Sunday, and now require them to go only once. Faris papers say that the Pope recently .told several French prelates that he would .not receive M. Zola, the writer, should the latter ask for an audience. He gave as a reason that the novelist was a declared enemy of the church. During the sessions of the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Cnurch, the other day, in the Methodist Church at Galena, 111., pew No. 65, which General Grant used to occupy, was draped with the stars and stripe. Bishop Vincent, who was then pastor v of i the- church, presided over the i conference .- Latin seems to have been the favorite language with the men who decided what should be the mottoes upon the coats-of-arms of the States. Elaborate Latin mottoes are commoner West than East. Maine is the only State to have for .ts motto a single Latin word, and Maryland is the only one having an Italian motto, the famous "Fatti maschi, parole femlne." (Deeds are masculine, words are feminine.) Campaninl was a blacksmith, ana Watchtel a postillion. Now we have a woodman from the forest who aspires to become a vocal star. Alois Burgstaller, who sang the part of Ilelnrich, one of the minstrel knights in "Tannhauser," at Beyreuth, was a wood chopper in upper Bavaria at 23 cents a day when Frau Wagner discovered him last spring. His heroic tenor voice Induced her to bring him to Beyreuth, where he has been studying singing, receiving meanwhile $36 a month for expenses until the first salary day at the theater comes round. Eugenie has the London and Paris newspapers read to her after breakfast every morning, and not until she knows the news of the world doss she open her mall. The ex-Empress was sixty-eight years old last spring, and as1 a concession to the Infirmities of age she carries with her a plain umbrella of unbHached muslin as a walking stick. It is never unrolled, and no attempt is made to make use of It as a protection against a sudden shower. She usually promenades alone in entire lndiiTerence to her personal appearance, and dresses always in black, which looks funereal In contrast with her white hair. In London when the sun was low. And William Wilson dressed to go To that big banquet, doncherknow. His feelings surged tumultuously. Rut England saw another signt; Her furnace fires were burning bright. And mills were running day and night, Thanks to free-trade Democracy. And brighter yet will burn those fires. While labor here still cheaper nires, And Democratic campaign liars Tell of our great prosperity. Kansas City Journal. Hill "Without nn Issue. New York Evening Post. The decision of the Republicans of the constitutional convention to submit the apportionment and canal amendments separately and all the other amendments in a body Is a serious blow to Mr. Hill's candidacy. If all the amendments had been submitted in a body Mr. Hill could have appealed to Democratic partisanship to defeat the whole batch as a menace to the party, and in this way ne mignt have rallied many unwilling votrs to his support. But with apportionment standing alone on its merits it will be impossible to make an issue of it for general party purposes. This loss leaves Hill without an Issue save his own personal record upon which to make his canvass. He cannot use the tariff for this purpose, because he was the bitter opponent of his party's tariff policy. He cannot appeal to Democrats to vote for him and save the President from party defeat In his own State, because he has himself been the President's most venomous opponent, and his election would be approval of his conduct. He must stand and fall on the plain issue of Hilllsm alone, and he will find that every day of his canvass will cut down the number of voters who will be willing when flection day arrives to inflict upon the State a continuation of tnat pest. That Independent Cnndldnte. New York Kvening Post. It seems to us that the proposition to run an independent or anti-machine candidate for Governor, which the leaders of the reform Democratic organizations in this clty and Brooklyn are considering, is of doubtful wisdom. Of course, the effect would be to make certain the defeat of Hill ami the election of Morton. .ow. if Morton is to be erected anyway, what Is to be gained by a third ticket? Maynard was defeated last year without the aid of a third ticket, and his defeat was far more crushing than it would have been had a Democratic opponent to him been in the field. So this year it seems to us that the most effective way by which to rid the State of Hill is to bury him under the largest adverse majority possible, and this can best be rolled up by Democrats voting directly for Mor ton. Tlie Murvrump Retreat. Washington Post. We think we detect the New York Tlmes's Dne of retreat. It will support Mr. Hill but will never forgive the convention that nominated hlm:

THE LAST SESSION

METHODIfr CONFERENCE ADJOURN3IENT WITH. TUB APPPOINTMENTS. Condition of the Yearly Meeting Fill uncen Shown by the Reports at Richmond Yesterday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., Oct. 1. The forty- ' third session of the Southeast Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church Is a thing of the past. The meetings have . been crowded full of Important, legislation to the mass of Methodists In this district, the most important of which probably is the lifting of the lire dividing it from the Indiana Conference and ijic vuic iu nave equal lay auu luiiiisiriKtt representation in the General Conference of the church. To-day's session was taken up with the reading of reports and a genthe earlier days of the meeting. Rev. E. B. Rawls led the morning devotional exercises. Bishop Hurst gave the history of the origin and growth of the great American University which the church has commenced in Washington, D. C. A subscription for the purpose of aiding th.it cau?e was taken and about $2,400 acded. Mrs. Van Pelt, of this city, transferred to the conference the lease on a lot' in Camp Acton for the use of the oldest widow of a superannuated minister of the conference. The speech of the Bliihop before he announced the appointments was a happy statement of the duties and opportunities of those in the ministry. The appointments were as follows: Connersville District C. C. Edwards, presiding elder. Abington, T. J. Anthony; Arlington, J. Gillespie; Brookville, E. H. Wood; Brookville circuit. J. M. Wines; Carthage. W. N. Fletcher; Clarksburg. J. L. Brown; College Corner, George Cochran; Connersville, V. W. Tevis; Everton, D. A. Wynegar; Fairfield. W. S. Smith; Glenwood. John T. Scull and J. L. Messon; Liberty, W. R. Lathrop; Lairel, J. G. Chafee; Maplewood, Jesse Miller; Metamora.W. C Crawford; Mllford, E. D. Keyes; Milroy, C. E. Hester and W. G. Proctor; Milton, G. C. Clouds; Morristcwn, It. L. Kinnear; Mount Carmel. T. T. Hedges; Rushvllle, C. W. Tinsley; St. Paul, J. T. Maupin; Waldron, John Clouds. Indianapolis District J. W. Dashiel. presiding elder. Acton, W. O. Wycoff; lirightwood, D. A. Robertson; Castlenn, Merritt Machlan; Fairland, G. W. Cohagan; Flatrock, J. L. Funkhouser; Franklin. C. W. Lee; Freetown, T. D. Hall (supply): Georgetown. J. L. Sims; Greenwood. F. M. Westhafer. Indianapolis: Barth-place, C. A. Ward; Broadway, A. W. Marlatt; Centralavenue, H. A. Buchtel; East Park and city missions, George H. Murphy and C. A. Ward; Edwin Kay, E. li. Kawls; Fletcherplace, R. Roberts; Furnace-place, B. W. Cooper: Grace, M. J. Black; Ht.ll-place. J. A. Sargent; Lincoln-avenue, J. W. Maxwell; Oak Hill, B. F. Morgan; Roberts Park, T. I. Coultas and R. S. Hyde (supply); Woodside, D. W. Noble. Irvington. John Machlan; Lawrence and Bethel, W. H. Burton; Mapleton, T. W. Northcott; New Bellsville, to be supplied; New Palestine, S. W. Troyer; Nineveh, H. W. Sterxitt; Oglevllle, J: W. Edwards. Shelby ville: First Church, J. R. T. Lathi op; Weststreet, M. A. Farr. Southport, E. L. Wimmer; Whiteland, C. E. Mead. Jeffersonville District E. A. Campbell, presiding elder. Brownstown, J. N. Thompson; Charlestown. G. M. Smith: Columbus, G. L. Curtiss; Columbus circuit, J. L. Perry; Crothersville, C. S. Norton; Edinburg. J. T. O'Neal; ElUabethtown. Frank Wolf (supply); Hope, J. D. Curran; Hartsville, D. Ryan; Henry ville. A. R. Jonea; Holman, G. S. Connor: Jeffersonville. Port Fulton, Lv N. Jones; Wall-street, C. Tinsley: JefTeron ville district. M. D. French (supply): Kent. E. Ti. Jewett: Lexington. E. M. Chambers; New Washington, E. E. Miller (supply); North Vernon, W. W. Reynolds: Paris. J. K. Crelghton; Scottsburg, J. T.' Jones; Sellersburg. E. L. Sanders; Sardinia. Isaac Turner; Seymo ir, J. H. Doddridge; Seymour circuit. W. J. Stewart; Taylorsviile, W. B. Grimes; Utica, Harvey Harris; Vernon, J. S. Campbell (supply.) Moore's Hill District E. L. Polph. presiding elder. Aurora. F. S. Tincher; Batesville. C. H. Muse: ButWville. C. W. Maupin; Canaan, T. J. Tone; Delaware, W. F, Smith; Dillslwro, T. G. Cocks; Gilford, J. W. Allen; Greensburg. Centenary, L. D. Moore; First Church. J. W. Duncan; Hartford, J. W. Cordry (supply): Lawrenceburg. M. B. Hyde: Madison, J. H. Ford; Madison, circuit. C. B. Larrabee (supply); Manchester, John N. Jernan; Moore's Hill, u. Reach; Mooresfieid. U. G. Abbott: North Madison, H. C. Pelsor; Osgood, F. A. Guthrie; Patriot, J. W. Johnson; Rising Sun, R. H. Moore; Sugar Branch, II. M. El win; Versailles, A. M. Louden; Vevay, to be supplied; Westport. W. C. Watkins; Wilmington. A. W. Stout. INDIANA YEARLY MEETING. Reports Sliowlnp the Condition of the Friends This Year. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 1. There was quite a large attendance at the devotional service of the Yearly Meeting this morning, conducted by Rev. James R. Jones, of North Carolina. The business session began at 10 o'clock. The epistle from the Canada Yearly Meeting was read. The Yearly Meeting trustees submitted their fourteenth annual report. It shows the deficiency of the Yearly Meeting to be' about the same amount as last year, but a larger number of the quarterly meetings are In arrears. This neglect compels the treasurer to borrow at least $3,000 more than wouuld otherwise be necessary. One thousand dollars of last year's Indebtedness was paid. The bequest of Elmer Cattell of ten shares of stock In a bank in Providence, R. I., the par value being $1X per share, was received and sold at $135 per share, and the amount, $1,330, added to the foreign mission fund. The treasurer's annual report showed the following condition of the Yearly Meeting's finances: Assets Real estate, $1G1.S"; stock and materials. $18,316; Invested funds, $9S,2yi.33; general fund overdrawn, $3,6bl.0; cash, $2,916 49; due from quarterly meetings, $3.SS1.C8; bills receivable. $273: committee on Uible schools. $100; evangelistic and pastoral committee, $2.12.09; total. J290.C16.G1. Liabilities Indiana Yearly Meeting, $175,121. 32: bills payable, $9,228.17. Endowment Funds Temperance, $1,000; women's home supporting fund, $12,000; Indiana Bible Association, $100: foreign missions, J9.S81.52; Shawnee. $7,000; ministers, $13,0U0; books. $4,000; Ionian and Phoenix. $1.0u0; missionary fund, $36,677.30; Ionian Hall, $1,961.81; Women's Home Improvement, $10,000; Women's Foreign Mission Association, $3,123; total, $101,743.83. Total cash receipts. $36,962.34; total expenditures, $36,997.S3. Indebtedness Bills payable, $9.22117; due standing committees, $3,521.12; due endowment funds, $3,431.50; total, $16,203.79. Resources Due from quarterly meetings, $3,389.63; due from overdrawn accounts, $823.83; due from bills receivable, $273; cash, $2,916.49; denctency, $S.7G3.77; total. $16,2)3.79. The thirty-first annual report of the missionary board, which has Southland College in charge, snys that there is marked advancement of students in the college. Th past year several students partially paid board and tuition by farm produce or labor on the college farm, or by teaching one class daily. The total income of the college was $6,438.10; expenditures, $3,327.39; deficit, $.4.49; Indebtedness. $SiW.38; resources, $101.94; increase of indebtedness, $997. This afternoon the report of the Christian Endeavor societies was received. It showed the number of societies to be sixty and active members 1.692. The Bible school committee reported 123 schools, 730 c!as-se3 and 14,6t6 members. Eight Aniirchlstfi Arreatetl. MARSEILLES. Oct. 1. Acting upon information received from an Italian police spy. the authorities of this city, early this morning made some important arrests of Anarchists. The py. it appears, discovered a plot, hatched by fourteen Anarchists, to blow up the Ita'ian consulate in this city. Consequently, a detachment of police was detailed to surround a certain house, and, shortly after daybreak, eight Anarchists were arrested. Upon searching the house the police found a number of compromising documents showing that this band of Anarchists was in communication with similar bodies of Anarchists in Cenoa and London. Other arrests are imminent. Want 1i Compete with Pullman. SCRANTON. Pa.. Oct. 1. It has been rumored that the Pullman company Intended establishing a branch in the East, and favored a location in the coal and Iron regions of Pennsylvania. The Scranton Hoard of Trade communicated with Mr. Pullman on the subject, and to-day received a let ter saying that the report is false and without foundation. It has since developed, 1 however, that the foundation for the rumor

is the f.ict that several prominent employes of the Pullman company who lost their positions In the late Mrike have been at work, particularly at Elizabeth. N. J., endeavor ing to Interest well-known capitalists in establishing a palace and sleeping-car manufacturing plant. The cars to le produced are said not to infringe on existing Pullman or other patents. MIL WEST EXONERATED.

Decision Affecting Ownership of Chicago 'I inies Stock. CHICACO. Oct. 1. By the decision of the United State's Court of Appeals, handed down to-day by Judge Woods, James J. West wins every pofht In the suit brought against him by H. J. Hulskamp and others to settle the question of ownership of 5,001 shares of stock in the Chicago Times Company and valuable property belonging to the Storey estate. The decision of Juige Blodgett. in the Circuit Court, is reverses, and the case Is ordered to be referred W a master for adjudication of the point! fai dispute as to the value of the property tfi litigation and the relative rights of iha claimants. Mr. West is declared bv tho Appellate Court to be guiltless of the breaches of honesty charged against him by the complainants in their original bill. He is also declared to be rhe owner of the Times Frock, and its sales by the complainants are said to have been illegal. The suit In which the decision was rendered was one of the many phases of litigation growing out of the squabble among holders of share in the Times company which engaged public attention a few years ago. James .1. West and Clinton A. Snowden organized a stock company to buy the Times from the Storey estate. The transaction was completed and the syndicate fok roPtlen of the p.ioer. A.er a little more than a year dissensions aros. West was cnarged with breach of faith, with having illegally Issued stock, and with having used the company's property for his own advantage. Many suits and -counter suits followed, and a criminal prosecution was bgun against West for alleged fraudulent issue of stock. Not for Snle. CHICAGO, Oct. 1. The proprietors of the Chicago Tribune emphatically deny the statement made by a Philadelphia paper of the sale of the Tribune to H. H. Kohlsaat or to any person or syndicate. Tii property is not for sale. TROUBLE OYER SUGAR GERMANY PROTESTS AGAINST TIHJ DEMOCRATIC TARIFF LAW. She Object to the Clause Imponlns; Extra. Duty on Snjrnr Imported from Bounty Paying Countries. WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. Aq international question involving the United States and Germany has teen raised by that feature of the new tariff law which inspired the most domestic trouble the sugar schedule. The German government, through its embassador, Baron Von Saurma-Jeltsch, ha made a strong protest to the Secretary of State against that clause of the act which imposes an additional duty of one-tenth of a cent per pound on sugars imported from those governments which pay an export bounty on the article to their producer. The embassador himself has Just arrived In the city from his summer trip, but the protest was conveyed to the department of State by the official of the embassy acting, as charge d'affaires ifrhis absence, and has been the subject of a conference. It is held by the German government that thij feature of the new tariff act is more oppressive in Its action against the sugar producers of that country than any other ani violates the spirit of the treaty arrangements between the two governments, particularly in view of the concession by which the embargo against American pork, for a time enforced by. Germany, was raised. Germany thinks that her commercial interests in this matter should be upon the same plane as the. most favored nation ta use the common treaty term of Europe. Her representatives here, however, understand the status of their case; that it 19 not In the power of the State Department or Treasury Department to change the workings of existing law that it Is the prerogative of Congress alone by legislation to take that step. The German embassador said to a reporter to-night that the protest had been entered in a friendly spirit; While the feiture of the law to which his government objected operated also against France, Austria and Belgium, it was much more unfavorable to the German sugar interest because the export duty paid by Germany was lower than that grained by either of the other countries mentioned, so much lower that the German exporters were placed at a decided disadvantage in competing 'with their nelgubon. in the markets of America. With this discrimination removed, he said, the German sugar-growers would be able to conduct a profitable business with the United States. The embassador was very hopeful that legislation would be adopted at the short session of Congress to obviate the discrimination against his country. Secretary Gresham, in accordance with diplomatic usage, declined to spealt of the matter when asked about It. WILL INSPECT ALL SUGAIt. Louiitlunn Planter Prepnrtntr to Sue for a I.nrne Amount. PHILADELPHIA, . pet. 1. W. M. Lonsdale, art extensive sugar planter from Louisiana, who is now in this city, in an interview to-day. said that the business outlook In his State is not very encouraging as yet. The rice crop, he says, is only about one-half of what It was last year, but the sugar crop is very large and considerably in excess of the last crop. The refineries expect to commence cp-ratioti4 about the 10th of this month. Mr. Lonsdale Fays that Louis Sour, an ex-government official, has been employed by the planter to weigh anl test all the sugar produced In Louisiana, with a view of bringing suit against the United States government for the amount of the bounty heretofore promised them. The bounty last year amounted to about Sll.uG0.0u0. of which as yet there has been only about fct.O-W.WO paid in. Suxnr Refineries Clonlnjr. PHILADELPHIA.5?. Oct. 1. The Sugar Trust to-day closed the Spreckels sugar refinery in this city. The trust's Franklin refinery Is now running on half time, but is only turning out soft grades, the supply of which Is not at present excessive. McCahan's refinery, which is Independent of the trust, will probably shut down to-morrow or Wednesday. This cessation is due to the overstocked condition of the markets, and operations .will not be resumed till the sugar at present on hand 1 disposed of. It Is reported here that the llavemyer & Elder refineries in New York: and the plant operated by the trust in Boston are about to shut down. Step In Electrleal Science. NEW YORK, Oct. 1. The power anl mining department of the General Electric Company has Just closed a contract whlcn marks a further step in the advance of electrical science. This 'contract is with the Sacramento Electric Power and Light Company, and call3 for the transmission Xty electricity from a water power at Folsoro, Cal., twenty miles distant, of several thou sand electrical horfe power to th city of Sacramento, to supply lit;ht.. heat, power, etc., to an extent that will practically supersede all the present steam plants, now in operation. This will make the longest transmission by electricity of p.-rarer in large amounts installed in the world. A MllIIoniilre'M Mnrifnl Doing. ORANGE. Mars,. Oct. l.-The announcement of the marriage of William I. Grout, one of the millionaire owners of a sewing machine works, to Miss Eliza Rcynol Is, of Brockton, Mass., has crettei a big ftir. A few months ago his iirst v.ifi' ll!ed a suit for divorce an I attached her husband's property for $1 ',(. This was almost Immediately followed by the statement that Mr. Grout had become a legal resident of Arizona, and had been grxnfd a divorce there. Mrs. Grout has palJ no Httention to the Ariiona Mil and hits oont'nued to receive $3,000 a year from Mr. Grout. Wir Null WorU Cloned. CLEVELAND. Oct. l.-The I'aacket Wire Nail Company, of this city, the largest concern of the kin 1 in th world, has closed down for an InJellnlte period. It is said that the plant may he closed permanently, owing to a combination with Eastern manufacturers. On account of the business depression during the past year the plant has Iteen run to only a limited extent, and not to exceed two hundred men will be thn 4 out of wrotk.