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The twelve-nour day and the 20 per cent lower wages in the Southern cotton mills, and nothing else, have caused the cuts in New England wages which were followed by yesterday’s strikes. Young Mr.' Leiter owns all the contract wheat, which is about 11,000,000 bushels, or one-third of the risible supply, and can at present control the price. Still, the other two-thirds may yet smother the present dictator. f The New York Journal permits another correspondent to accuse Mr. Bryan of too much talking, and to suggest Mayor Van Wyck, the silent, as the fittest man for the Democratic candidate, with a platform which does hot make war upon property. “The conditions of Mexico and the United England still has her modesty with her. All she asks from China in return for a little loan on good security is three large harbors, a cinch on the whole of one of the largest river valleys in the world and a right of way for the main line of the British India railroad. China should jump at that. States are so diametrically opposite,” said Mr. Bryan in Minneapolis, “that a comparison is not only impossible but absurd.” As the conditions of all the people are so much better in this country that comparison is Impossible, there is every reason why w’e should not begin to change them by adopting the Mexican legislation which has put that country on a silver basis. An article by Prof. Hugo Munsterburg in the February Atlantic showing the folly of the study of psychology by teachers as a substitute for the study of the child is in line with two papers read at the recent convention of teachers in this city. As the teachers begin to think for themselves and to question the wisdom of methods which seem not to bring desired results, Instead of accepting them as ultimate law and gospel, the improvement of the system and continual progress in education will follow. The estimates of the engineers for river and harbor improvements are $49,000,000, of which nearly $18,000,000 must be appropriated for the reason that they are due under the continuing contract policy . Speaker Reed and most of the prominent Republicans in the House will bitterly oppose a large appropriation. On the other hand, several senators are committed to lavish appropriations for that purpose, Michigan asking $5,000,000. It is predicted that there will be a bitter contest over the river and harbor bill between the House and the Senate. The Engineering and Mining Journal, in statistical tables relative to the production of metals and minerals, furnishes abundant evidence that the year 1897 was the period of the greatest output in the history of the country in the extent of its mineral products. it shows that the total value of minerals and mineral compounds or derived products, such as coke, natural gas, illuminating oils, mineral paints, was $762,000.000. After making allowance for some products like iron ores and pig iron, which appear twice, the total value is not less than 1740,000,000. This total is but a little below the value of the mineral output of all Europe. Indianapolis has good cause to be proud of its home artists and their work. Local pride, a most desirable sentiment, has been of slow growth in tills city, but It has been greatly' stimulated in recent years, and nothing has done more to arouse it than the canvases of these artists. For the members of the "Indiana school” are not only natives or residents of this city und Slate, but they deal with local subjects, they have made- the public acquainted with “pictur-

esque Indiana,” and to many their pictures hqve beer, a revelation. It is no longer the fashion to speak regretfully of the absence of mountain and sea, and to say that our scenery is lacking in beauty. The painters have found beauty in it and have set it before our eyes. The public owes it to itself to see and study these pictures now on exhibition at the Propylaeum. TAMMANY’S POWER. It is very well for Mr. Bryan and his personal friends to affect indifference toward the combinations making in New York, Washington and probably quietly in Chicago and other centers In the West by those hostile to a 16-to-l campaign in 1900. Mr. Bryan Is very strong with his followers, but thousands of them have not so far parted with their wits that they cannot see that while his popularity with the mass of his party may continue, he will convince thousands that he is not the man to be made President. Whatever enthusiasts may declare, every- man of observation knows that Mr. Bryan cannot carry New York, New Jersey or Maryland upon a 16-to-l declaration as the main issue of the campaign of 1900. The Democrats who have judgment now 1 realize that New York is of more importance to the party candidate than the entire vote of the silver-producing States in the Electoral College. The votes last fall In Kansas and North Dakota indicate to such thoughtful Democrats that the chances are that they will lose them on a 16-to-l issue in 1900, while the votes of lowa and Ohio show that in the next presidential election they' will vote against 16 to 1 as in ISSG. Those leaders can count upon the silver States almost as certainly with an evasive silver plank as with an out-and-out 16-to-l declaration. If they could devise a silver plank like the'two-sided tariff plank of the Democratic convention of 1884, which could b<- held to mean a full-value silver coinage in the East and a ratio of 16 to 1 where the Democracy and its allies are us and to cheap dollars, they might have hopes. Richard Croker, the magnate of Tammany Hall, is the great man of the Democracy in the East. He is so recognized. He has been conferring with the more conservative men and those who have some political sagacity. Mr. Croker has anew club in New York city'. One day last week the chairman of the Democratic national committee, the chairman of the congressional Democratic committee and one other leading Democrat called on Mr. Croker at his , clubhouse. About that time the great silver organ in New York, the Journal, had a three-column attack upon Mr. Bryan und the folly of making a campaign on the ratio of 16 to 1. Three weeks ago the bumptious Hinrichsen, of Illinois, seemed to have a walkover for chairman of the Democratic congressional committee. To-day, Mr. Hinrichsen is not so much as a member of that committee. The average Democrat in this State who is sure that he knows all about matters does not know how’ far this secret movement against 16 to 1 has extended. It might possibly be a most surprising revelation if a number of up-to-date Democrats in Indiana should make a death-bed, clean breast confession. Already there talk of bringing the party’ together. Some of the leaders have been in New York. They will continue to talk Chicago platform of 1896, but it is two and a half years until the next Democratic national convention—a long time for the conservative leaders to instill into the minds of those w’ho control local conventions the importance of conservative action. In the convention of 1596 had New York been in a position to have given any assurance that the State could have been carried upon a less radical platform if. might have been different, but Tammany was in the dust and the party had been beaten by 100,000 votes in 1894. Tammany was never so powerful as now. The patronage in its control and the wealth upon which it can levy are immense. Between the aid of Tammany freely offered and the possibility of personal advantage from the free coinage of the silver mine trust's silver bullion afc-a profit to them of 50 per cent, the local Democratic shouters of the recent silver “push” will turn to Tammany. It is idle to assert that such a change of front is impossible, since the history of the Democratic party during the past thirtyyears proves that any face-about can be made when the order shall be given. The party which turned its back upon its traditions and voted for Horace Greeley, who had spent a lifetime in reviling it, is equal to any new departure.

INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCES. No doubt those papers which have set themselves to the task of making it appear that there has been no improvement in business since November, 1896, in the expectation of political advantage therefrom will work with great zeal, but they will have few facts to help them. Just now the strike of the employes of the’cotton mills in New England because of a reduction of wages affords them an Item of which they will make the most that imagination and misrepresentation are able. This, however, Is the one small exception to a very general activity, even if the purveyors of calamity make it overshadow the whole land. When the business papers are consulted the facts all i>oint to general improvement. Os this the reports of the railroads furnish the best evidence, since prosperity in transportation means that it has already come to other lines of industry. “No year since 1887,” says the Railway Age,, “has shown so few roads or so small mileage confessing insolvency as in 1597, while compared with the record of any one of the five years preceding 1897 the list of new receiverships in the last year is surprisingly small in respect to the number of lines, mileage and capital involved.” In 1593 seventy-four companies, with 29,340 miles of road and $1,781,(KW.OOO of stock and bonds, defaulted, while in 1897 only eighteen roads, with 1,897 miles and $93,000,000 of capital, went intyp the hands of receivers. Furthermore, the earnings of many roads in 1897 were the largest ever made. There can be no better or surer indication of the general improvement of business than the increased earnings of railways. The bank clearings for 1897 tell the same story, being far in excess of any year since 1892, and during the past six months In excess of that golden year. These are the facts which tell the story of the general business and industrial improvement of the country rather than extended extracts from a country paper whose publisher sneers at the existing prosperity because his collections on subscriptions have not met his expectations. A RELIGIOUS ZEALOT. General William Booth, "father of the Salvation Army,” well deserves his military title. He has all the requisites for generalship of a high order-ability to plan large movements and to for* see their results, power to handle great bodies of men, and the forceful personality and determined will that make other men bend to his wishes. And though he is now an old man his cn-

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orgy seems in no wise weakened. For himself he has laid out a programme that would daunt a less zealous worker. He has enj gaged to hold eighty’ meetings while in this country, and also expects to arrange for a great open-air and camp-meeting campaign. In addition, he is planning a house-to-house canvass for the Army “for the purpose of dealing personally with the people of all classes on the great question of death and salvation.” These undertakings, it must be remembered, are not confined to this country, but are to be carried on in all the countries where the Army- is at work. He plans for, America only as a part of the whole. Incidentally* during his tour he will see that his “officers and soldiers are kept in fighting trim." In other words, he will inspire them with something of his own zeal, as a general should. He is certainly a remarkable man and a great leader, and it is probable that qualities similar to his own, inherited by his son Ballington, have led the latter to resent his father’s autocratic methods. Ballington Booth is a man of somewhat broader culture than the general, and more adaptability. His long residence in this country- gave him an understanding of conditions here that his father did not have—the general explicitly says since his arrival in New York that he wishes, during this visit, to familiarize himself with conditions of work here as he has never been able to do before —and the father’s refusal to vary the methods of procedure naturallyroused opposition and led to the present disagreement. But the personal relations between the two men do not concern the public particularly, and do not alter the fact that both, are engaged in a work whose infiuences are far-reaching and only* for good —a work of moral and physical regeneration where regeneration seemed most hopeless. The Brooklyn Eagle, an independent Democratic paper, in commenting upon the election of Mr. Hanna, says: There will be a general satisfaction among men who are both manly and well-informed in both parties at Mr. Hanna’s success. The principle of party responsibility, of the right of a party to instruct.its legislators, in advance of their election, and of the obligation of partisans, who make promises to keep them has been vindicated in Mr. Hanna’s success. Upon that principle, not mei’tly the autonomy of Republicanism, but the autonomy of Democracy depends, and not merely the orderliness of . politics, but the honesty of politics, its purity, and. incidentally, the purity and order of government itself also depend. The moral significance of the result far exceeds its partisan or personal significance, atid they are encysted in sophistry or blinded by prejudice who fail to see that fact. The foregoing is-the view taken, by the Journal while the struggle was iri progress. Let it be understood that a few men, byviolating pledges, can control an election in a legislature, and all the decrees of the people at the polls cun be annulled. It is probably true that the Eagle expresses the opinion of intelligent people generally who have been watching the contest in Ohio when it declares that it “is not Inclined to believe the charges of corruption" made against Mr. Hanna. “He is,” says the Eagle, “an honest, honorable man in business, and there is reason to believe that he is that kind of a man in politics.”

Bt RULES IN THE AIR. As Advertised, The Lady—Can you match' this piece of ribbon? The Gent—No, lady. You may remember that it was one of the matchless bargains we ran last Monday. The Clieerful Idiot. “Poverty,” said the platitudinous boarder, “is the cause of most crime.”' "Strange, isn't;it,” commented the Cheerful Idiot, “how straightened circumstances will make a man crooked?” t '". L ' i \ U .< Searching the Scriptures. “I s’pose you got a Bibte you’ll let a guy look into,” said one of the two tough young men who had called on the minister. “With pleasure, my young friend. If I can be of any assistance to you ” “Nah, I got to see fer meself. Dis is to decide a bet.” Sure Sign. “Somethin’ is the matter with my liver, I’ll bet,” said Mr. Jason. "You got a good enough appetite, fur as I can see,” said Mrs. Jason. “Oh, yas, I eat all right an’ sleep all right, but I was down to the grocery to-day’ listenin’ to the fellers talk, an’ them jokes I been laughin’ at fer years didn't seem funny at all.” To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Y\ hat was the average amount of na-tional-bank currency in circulation during the past year? 2. What amount of circulation might have been used had the banks issued up to the legal limit of 90 per cent, of their bonds deposited to secure circulation? 3. What amount did national banks pay to the government as tax on their circulation the past year? T. The circulation of the national banks Oct. 5, 1897. was $198,920,670. Dec. 17, 1896, the circulation was $219,659,953. The amount has fallen off during the past year, presumably, because circulation is not profitable. 2. The banks doing the largest general busiress under the national-banking law need deposit only $50,000 of bonds, and, as a rule, banks do not deposit for circulation amounts in excess of the requirements of the law, but many banks carry large amounts of bonds as a part of their assets because they can be quickly turned into ready money. If circulation were profitable banks would utilize their bonds to increase it. 3. The tax on circulation is equivalent to 1 per cent, per annum, paid semi-annual-ly. Therefore, the tax for the last fiscal year, on tin average circulation of a little over $200,000,000, would be $2,000,000. As tax on circulation the banks have paid $81,411,384 from 1863 to June 30. 1897. The taxes of all kinds upon bank circulation, stock, etc., amounted to $150,207,339 from 1863 to June 3o’ 3837. A friend of the cigarette lately delivered an address before'the Medico-legal Society of New York, and presented an array of evidence going to show that the cigarette is not only not hurtful, but really beneficial to the consumer. He said nothing, however, about its effect on the unfortunate people in the neighborhood of the smoker. It is really they and not the man addicted to the vice who need protection. By to-day it is anticipated that if the two San Francisco health officers succeed In deciding who’s “it,” President Dole will have had his microbes inspected, and that he will be permitted to land and take up his journey for Washington, D. C. There is a possibility that Mr. Dole may know more about Hawaii and the reasons for annexation even than some of the congressmen. If Emperor William had been twins he would have had a sufficient number of anniversaries to have kept him busy all the time without fooling with the insignificant affa is of s ate. And, cn that basis, low those people wish he had been triplets! Subscriber: Congress passed a law in 181*4 which subjects greenbacks to state and local taxation as other property. Mr. Cooper, of this State, presented the bill and looked after its passage in the House. General Booth and his son Ballington met “as father and son,” but before witnesses. Fathers and sons arc not always so much afraid of each other. Every woman to iter taste. The new woman in Ohio went into polities and lost.

The Mexican new’ woman lights bulls find wins. This should be a pointer for the Ohio woman. “Kid” McCoy has baited his hook with raw beef and has cast far out with manifest intention to land the biggest fish in the pugilistic sea. “Foreign relations” would naturally include one’s “cousins German*” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Sarah Bernhardt Is a total abstainer from all alcoholic drinks, and to this she attributes much of her wonderful energy and mental power. Her favorite beverages are milk and water. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the President, contributed a pair of slippers, made by herself, to a recent bazar held in Washington by the union of Methodist churches. She has already given 3.600 such pairs of slippers to religious and benevolent enterprises. Miss Helen Gould is collecting any articles she can find used by her father in his youth and has come into possession of a wheelbarrow’ used by him nearly a half a century ago. Whether she has a collection of the mouse traps which w’ere the humble beginning of the great fortune is not stated. Mme. Sarah Grande, or Mrs. MeFall. lives In delightful apartments at Kensington, and is described by her friends as a most charm* ing woman with a low’ voice and a very pleasing manner. She talks well and is much interested in the subject of marriage and its duties. She is not averse to talking of her own works, especially her last, the "Beth Book,” much of which is autobiographical. One branch of the Boprbons has learned to forget, and is trying to live up to modern ideas. Both sons of the late Count of Aquila, King Bomba’s brother, wdio married the late Emperor of Brazil’s sister, married wives of the nonroyal rank, one of them an American girl, and settled down as loyal Italian citizens. A grandson of the count has just become engaged, with his parents' consent, to a young woman of Naples, who is not even noble. The Empress of Austria possesses a unique collection of photographs taken by herself during her travels of the last nine years. They consist of poitraits of all the beautiful women and girls whom her Majesty has seen, a great number of them being Italians and French. Attached to each photograph is a paper, on which is written the name, age and description of the lady depicted, together with the date cn which the portrait was taken and the place. It was Sir Henry Havelock Allan’s boast that he could make his Arab—like the British army—“go anywhere and do anything,” and there is a well-authenticated story of how one day, mounted upon his horse, he called upon a friend, who received him from an upper window, with the remark. “I'll be down in a moment.” “oh, don’t trouble to come down,” was the general’s reply, “we’ll come up to you,” and he set his steed at the steps ami in a moment was in the hail anti would .undoubtedly have ascended to the drawing room. Dr. Caird, for many years principal of Glasgow University, having previously been professor of divinity, is about to resign his post, owing to age. and infirmity, and it is rumored that he will be succeeded by Professor Story, of Roseneath, who holds tue chair of church history. The post is worth nearly $6,000 a year, With an excellent residence. Principal Caird has-been famous for more than forty years as one of the most eloquent preachers in Europe. Dean Stanley declared that Dr. Caird was the finest preacher he had ever heard. Principal (Mart! Is the oldest brother of the master of BalHol. The unpublished manuscripts Alphonse Daudet has left behind him include, besides several short storfes airci {lages of personal reminiscences, a novel written comparatively recently, and entitled “Quinze Arts de Mariage.” The great novelist, too, often spoke to his friends oi a' book he purposed calling “Ma Dculeur.” He always referred to the volume as the \ast,he would publish. It was to be at once an account of his own sufferings and a study of other famous writers afflicted w r ith persistent ill-hea.th. Large port.ons of ti e work, if not the w’bole of it, are undoubtedly .completed It is certain that in due course a seVction will be Issued of these .uflpdblteh l J. writings, though it'is too earty as yet to say exactly of what this posthumous work will consist. The issue is also contemplated of some of the correspondence of Daudet, The editor’s waste basket was A thing of willowy graces. With silken ribbons intertwined And fancified with laces. You see, he meaivt, the poet’s lines Should fall in pleasant places. —Philadelphia Bulletin.

MARYLAND SENfITORSKIP. Balloting fQr Arthur rue Gorman's Successor to Begin To-Duy. ANNAPOLIS, Md„ Jan. 17. The Maryland General Assembly will begin at noon to-morrow to ballot for a United States senator to succeed lion. Arthur Pue Gorman, whose present term expires In March, 1899. That a Republican will be chosen is reasonably certain, as that party has a majority in both branches of the General Assembly, but who the lucky man will be is a matter of the greatest possible uncertainty. The leading candidates at this time are Judge Louis E. McComas, of Washington county; Major Alexander Shaw, of Baltimore city; General Thomas J. Shryock, of Baltimore city, and John V. L. Findlay, of Baltimore city. Os these Judge McComas, who is supported by the state administration, including United State Senator Wellington, undoubtedly has the most numerous following, and, if a caucus could be had, he would probably carry it with ease. The sudden death of Representative Wright, of Queen Anne, and the inability of Representative Malcolm, of Baltimore county, to attend because of illness, reduces the Democratic representation in the House to forty, while in the Senate they caa muster but eight. All of these will vote for Senator Gorman, the Democratic caucus nominee The Republicans have forty-nine % otes in the House and eighteen in the Senate, but eleven of these are not in harmony with their party, and this fact, more than any other, casts doubt upon the final outcome of the struggle. Ohio Investigators. COLUMBUS, 0.. Jan. 17.—Speaker Mason, of the House of Representatives, this afternoon appointed the committee to investigate the alleged attempt to bribe Representative Otis, of Hamilton county, to vote for Marcus A. Hanna for senator. The committee is composed of Representatives Rutan, of Carroll county; Spellmyer, of Hamilton; Box well, of Warren; Rankin, of Fayette, and Kenney, of Mercer. Spellmyer and Kenney are Democrats, and voted for MeKisson for senator. The other three members are Republicans, but Rutan voted for McKlsson, making the committee an atdi-Hanna committee. The committee met to-night and elected Mr. Rutan chairman and Mr. Spellmyer secretary. A subcommittee was also appointed to call on the investigating committee of the Senate and arrange for joint sessions. This arrangement will probably be effected, as it would only serve to complicate matters if the committees acted separately. A joint session will probably be held to-morn w, when a plan of procedure will be agreed upon. The Senate committee has already fixed upon a time for beginning its Investigation. The committee consists of Senators Burke, of county: Robertson of Hamilton; Fincke. of Ferry; Long, of Miami, and Garfield. of Lake. Burke and Garfield are the only Republicans on the committee. Burke voted for MeKisson and Garfield voted for Hanna. The latter fias not thus lar met with the committee, and may not serve. McMillin May W in in Tennennee. NASHVILLE, Tenth, Jan. 17.—The Democrtaic caucus of the members of the Legislature met to-night. Representative Fritzpatrick, a MeMiHin man, urged immediate nomination of a United States senator. Mr. Parker, supporter of Governor Taylor, pleaded for daley. Mr. Brandon, for MeMillin. said a short delay would be fair and could hurt no one of the candidates. The caucus thereupon adjourned until next Wednesday night without voting on the senatorial nomination. The contest for the nomination is becoming exciting. The city is filled with prominent men from all parts of the State, and the prevailing opinion tonight is that Congresman McMillin is in the lead and has the best show now for the nomination. A Canal for Uncle Sam. ALBANY. N. Y.. Jan. 17,-Doek Commissioner O'Brien, of New York, arrive! Ik re-

to-day to take the first step in a proposed plan to turn the Erie canal over to the federal government. The state Constitution will have to be amended to permit the transfer and a resolution to that end was introduced in the Legislature tc-day. SOCIAL LVIL PROBLEM. The Subject Discussed by the Mayor of New Orleans and New York. NEW Y’ORK. Jan. 17.—Mayor Walter C. Flower, of New Orleans, called on Mayor Van Wyck at the City Hall to-day and the two mayors engaged in a consultation on the social evil problem. Mr. Flower said New Orleans had adopted a plan similar to that of Paris, restricting fallen women to one section of the city. Mayor Van Wyck said that the regulation of the social evil was one of the serious difficulties with which this city would have to deal, and he seemed inclined to think that the New Orleans modification of the Parisian plan, as outlined by Mr. Flower, would have to be adopted sooner or later by all American cities. FOUR LIVES* DESTROYED WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN MURDERED BY JOHN MATTHEWS, Who Then Turned on the Gas and Shot Himself—Probable Result of n Double Suicide Agreement. ♦ NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—John Matthews, a retail grocer, some time between last Saturday night and this morning murdered his wife and their two children, a hoy ten years old and a girl of twelve, by hacking them to death with a hatchet, Matthews then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Before dying it is believed that lie turned on the gas with the intention that asphyxiation should complete his murderous work. The crime was committed in a small bedroom in the rear of the "store kept by Matthews. The wife and her two children met death while asleep. It is supposed that Matthews had become despondent from pecuniary difficulties. Tne tragedy was discovered through the odor of escaping gas, which prompted a milanam making his rounds early to-day to call a policeman. On the floor of the sleeping room the officer found the corpse of Matthews. In his hand was a revolver, and there was a bullet hole just above his mouth. There were two beds in the room. On one of these lay Matthew’s’s wife. Her head was chopped und mangled almost beyond recognition. On the other bed the two children tay, side by side. Their faces, too, were frightfully cut and hacked. That the murders and suicide were premeditated was apparent. Matthew’s had waited until his wife and children were asleep. Then he stripped himsetf to the waist, took the hatchet in his hand and brained hfs wife. After that he attacked his children. I ront letters Jeff it was ascertained tnat for some time Matthews had been intending to end his ow n life. He had been in the dry goods business further up town, but had failed. A few months ago he opened the grocery store and had met with little success. His wife, a pretty little woman, had recently undergone a severe operation, it was these things evidently that prompted Matthews to write this letter, which was found open and unaddressea: “It is a terrible thing I have to do to keep my word. 1 promised that all shall go with me. and delay is no good. If I could only have died alone. I love my wife and two children. 1 told them I did not want to go in any business, that my mind was gone and 1 guess that my nerve is all that is left. Lor live years we have talked the tning over. 1 always wanted to go out in a boat and accidentally capsize, l knew tuai otherwise 1 would have a hard time of it.” From a letter left by Mrs. Matthews to a friend it was gathered that sne was a party to a suicide agreement. Mrs. Mattnews left instructions as to the clothes in which the dead children should be buried and signified the place of interment for the enure family as Highlands, N. Y. Matthews was thirty years old.

MURDER AND SUICIDE. Young; Man Kills His Betrothed and Himself in Florida Woods. PENSACOLA. Fla., Jan. 17.-One of the most horrible tragedies that has ever occurred in this vicinity was brought to light to-day. Last Friday night Herbert Seely and Miss Alice Caro, of Warrington, attended a party at Millview and were among the gayest of all the guests. Dancing was kept up until after midnight, and about 2 a. m. the young couple left in a buggy to return home. Miss Caro and her escort did not appear at Warrington Saturday, but no alarm was felt by her family, as it was supposed that she had remained over with a relative who resided near Millview. It was learned yesterday evening that the couple had left Millview the night of the party, and the young lady had not stopped at the home of her relativ ?s. This morning a searching party .was organized, and near a bridge a few’ miles from Millview the horse attached to the vehicle was found tied to a tree. A few yards further away in a clump of trees the bodies of the two young people were found, both dead, with bullet holes in their bodies. After viewing the bodies and surroundings the coroner's jury decided that the young man had criminally assaulted the young lady and then committed murder and suicide. It is said they were engaged to be married, and so far as is known there was no opposition to the marriage. Both are well connected. Philadelphia’* Juvenile Fiend. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.—Samuel Henderson, the fifteen-year-old boy w’ho is charged with the murder of five-year-old Percy Lockyar, was committed to prison to-day by Magistrate Jermon to await the action of the coroner. There seems little doubt now that Henderson brutally hacked the bov to pieces, and before life was extinct threw’ him into Reddy’s creek and weighted the child down with heavy stones. To-day's hearing was not without its sad scenes. The boy, apparently unconscious of the extent of his crime, stared stolidly at the magistrate while his father knelt by hi a side and went over and caressed his boy. Mr. Henderson believes his boy guilty, but asserts that he is not in his right mind. Samuel had an attack of typhoid fever some years ago, and his father maintains that he has acted strangely ever since. Outiuw Vovuded. ALVA, O. TANARUS., Jan. 17.—Paul Metcalf, said to lie a refugee from Montana, with a thirty years’ sentence for murder hanging over him. was probably fatally wounded to-day in a desperate fight with a posse of Sheriff McGrath’s deputies in a dug-out near Winchester, twenty miles northwest of here. Metcalf received a bullet through his chest and now lies at the point of death in the c< unty jail at this place. Should he recover requisition awaits him. Chief of Police Holmes, of Pittsburg, Kan., gave the local authorities warning of the outlaw s presence in Oklahoma None of the deputies were seriously injured in the battle. A SSOO price is said to be on Metcalf’s head. Trial of Merry and Bmith. CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—The trial of Christopher Merry and James Smith, the peddlers charged with the murder of Merry’s wife, was begun in Judge Horton’s court to-day. The most important testimony given was that of Charles Smith and Mrs. Alice Daldorf. The latter rented a room to Mrs. Merry once, to w hich she fled to take refuge from her husband. Mrs. Daldorff described Merry’s discovery of his wife in hiding, and the latter’s terror when she knew she must face her husband. Smith described Merry’s ussult on his wife, and said the peddler dragged the women to the floor by her hair and flourished a revolver in her face. This v/as after the wife had Merry arrested for cruelty. To-morrow Marshal McNutt and Policeman Wilson, the Kentuckians, who caught Merry and Smith, will testify. Suicide Greenleaf* Remains. CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—The remains of Albert C. Greenleaf, who jumped from the sixteenth floor of Masonic Temple Saturday. have been sent to Columbus, 0., for burial. H. C. Brancroft, of the firm of Brancrolt & Sheldon, dry goods merchants at Columbus, who was a brother-in-law of Greenleaf. accompanied the remains to Ohio.

MR. WOLCOTT SPEARS HE TELLS ABORT THE BIMETALLIC COMMISSION'S FAILURE, % Anil SunimurixeM Che Situation li> Sny)iik Brituin Will Not Bea Party to International Agreen^rnl. HE PRAISES THE PRESIDENT BIT TRIES TO MAKE TROIULE iiV SCORING SECRETARY GAGE. • ♦- Lome Speech ill the Senate That \Y|* Not Well Received by Souml.Mone> Reinthliean Member*. ♦_ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—Senator Wolcott’s report of the failure of the international bimetallic commission was made with dramatic effect this afternoon to a niaßnificent audience. The Senate seats were full, the jmHeries were full and every available inch of standing room in the Senate chamber was occupied. Tlie senator followed the general plan outlined at least a month ago, except that }ie did not formally wrench himself loose from the Republican party. What lie did, however, Was tantamount to that, for he. in effect, served notice that he was only in sympathy with that organization as long it made bimetallism the keystone of its platform and subordinated the gold standard thereto, lie extolled the President in extravagant terms for his unswerving allegiance to bimetallism. and then proceeded to excoriate Secretary Gage for misrepresenting his chief by talking gold standard and presenting a financial plan and bill based on that theory. Although the speech was directly along previously advertised lines, it nevertheless produced a sensation, for Senator Wolcott is a rarely gifted orator and a master of language. He is the most popular and attractive speaker in Congress, and when he talks he is sure to command close attention. The straight Republican senators listened to the spech with a sour taste in their mouths, for to them Wolcott’s meaning was plain. He was making a shrewd’ but predestinedly futile effort to cause a breach between the President and Secretary Gage and serving a covert threat upon the administration and the party as a whole that if it did not yield to the free-silver sentiment there would be further desertions. The independent free-silver Republicans listened to the speech with sardonic satisfaction and the sneering comment, “We told you so. You'll be coming all the way over next time. You'll be iri our camp soon. We told you the Republican party was playing you. You'll believe us next time.’’ HE SPOKE UNOFFICIALLY. Senator Wolcott was in fine voice, and spoke with only occasional reference to his manuscript, which he had before him. He was accorded the closest attention by his auditors, among whom were many members of the House. He introduced his subject by saying that he was glad to make a statement respecting certain phases of the work of the recent bimetallic commission, but that in doing so he spoke unofficially, “not committing his associates in the slightest degree either to his opinions or deductions. Later in the session,’’ he continued, “we are certain to have ample discussion on the subject of silver, and it will probably be acrid and bitter enough.” In his remarks to-day he said he must avoid, as far as possible, anything which might give rise to controversy.

Taking up th© subject of his remarks, the commission had, he- said, in its six months’ Stay abroad, visited only London and Paris, and he added that whatever measure of success or failure had been meted out to the commission, “it had been hampered by no lack of authority or sanction or administrative support,” Summing up the favorable conditions under which the commission operated, Mr. Wolcott said: “W r e have had then a law broad and full in its powers; we have been free to act under its provisions; our views have been identical and earnestly favoring an international agreement; and we have had the hearty support of our ambassador at the court of St. James. Further than this, from the day of our first entering on the fulfillment of our duties until now the President of the United States has extended to the commission his unswerving support in all its efforts to bring about an international agreement. There has been no moment that we have not known that, back of our efforts, was the earnest desire of the chief executive to carry out in its integrity the provisions of the platform of the Republican party pledging it to every effort to bring about an international bimetallic agreement.” Mr. Wolcott detailed at some length the joint negotiations on the part of the American commissioners and the French ambassador in England. At first, he said, there seemed but few difficulties in the way, and he quoted the resolution of the House of Commons and the utterances of Mr. Balfour and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach of March 17 189fi. “We were not, therefore,” he continued, “intruders. We could present ourselves with the certainty of that reception which must follow direct and open invitation. And the welcome we had the right to expect we received. From the day we reached England until we left it finally, in October, our official treatment was everything that could be desired. The English Ministry, in terms, asked the French ambassador and ourselves to suggest wherein, in our opinion, England could materially contribute to a solution of the question anil at the same time maintain for her own people the gold standard; and what are termed the ‘proposals’ were not volunteered, but w re made by way of suggestion at the explicit request of the English Ministry. When they were received they were treated with full consideration, as were the representatives of the two governments conducting the negotiations.” LONDON PRESS SCORED. Mr. Wolcott admitted, however, that it w as not surprising that another view should have prevailed in this country, a view based, he said, “on the intemperate and hostile and somewhat brutal utterances us the London press respecting the proposals of the French and American representatives. The newspapers of London, like the newspapers of many capitals of tha w-p id,” he went on, “are dominated by and allied with the banking element, and re'leet their views and often their • xpiesaijns. The business of money-loaning is an engross-ing pursuit, not always lending to th© cultivation of the amenities of life, and it is not to be wondered at that the London newspapers. voicing that ir.d isiry, should, in .heir hostility to a policy <>f which they disapprove, forget for the moment that courtesy which is due to the stranger within the gates, especially when he comes upon invitation, and that they should be led to characterize proposals as impertinent’ which were made only upon the request of their own government, it was perfectly realized from the beginning.” he said, tb.it bimetallism for England was out of the question. India was the vital point of all the neg-illa-tions with England, and .ill other proposals were insignificant in comparison with that respecting the reopening if the mints of India to the unlimited coinage of silver and the repeal of the order permitting got! tc he paid tor government dues and to be ixchatiged for government rip >?s.” Mr. Wolcott spoke at some length upon the condit’ons in India and the refusal of the government to open the mints th*ro. “To us,” Mr. Wolcott continued, “the India situation is inexplicable. Millions of people, most of them extremely poor, haw for years Invested all of their savings in silver. These acoum tlanons ■> < w years ago were worth a thousand million ol dollars and more. To-day ihev are worth less than half that sum. By the cite © of the India mints and the artificial gold voice given to silver. India Is at a gt-' i*. disadvantage with the neighboring' countries, the exports of which are . timuiuUd by tl e higher premium on gull, and th< • are ’•ebbing India of much of tier nnmifat tu: uig and export trade, ''he [ re-tent ) ->lt v inflicts upon India, as well, me evil: cf ;n insufficient and steadily lessening curren-cy-evils which the vicissitudes of that dependency during thy nasi twelve months.

haVb served to emphasise. The world has heard much of the famine In India and of the great funds subscribed for Its victims. It has not been, however, so generally known that the famine was one of money rather than food; that the contributions were chiefly forwarded to India In the form of money, and not grain, and that during the whole period of the famine rice wax abundant where men were starving and its price was but a trifle over a cent a pound—less than the price of wheat in England. For all these evils the loss in the vame of the savings of the people, the disadvantage Os a different purchasing value for silver In India from that which prevailed in China, the evils of an Insufficient volume of money and the enormous injury which commerce buffers through violent fluctuations in rate of exenange. we offered what we believed to be a remedy. Our offer was refused, and the refusal must be considered as final until tho failure of the experiment upon which the India government has entered shall be demonstrated. There was one oversight in communicating the so-called proposals to the India government. It was distinctly unders* ood at all of our interviews to be a condition of the assent of any country to an agreement that it should be entirely satisfied that the plan was proposed, because of the adhesion of a sufficient number of other nations, or otherwise would secure the maintenance of the parity proposed. Had this been fully understood it is possible, though not probable, that a somewhat different answer would have been returned from India.” BRITAIN IN THE WAY. Mr. Wolcott summarized the present situation by saying that it is apparent that for the time being it is useless to count on any co-operation from Great Britain towards a bimetallic agreement, and that, while France actively desires to see silver restored to its old position as a standard of value equally with gold, she insists that the problem is one which demands international action and the co-operation, to some adequate extent, of other leading commercial nations of the world. “Questions of possible future negotiations between France, the United States and other countries and the question of change of ratio are for the moment held in abeyance," he said. “While we hope for continued Joint action. France owes no further duty to us. She stood shoulder to shoulder with us in our attempt to secure from England even the concessions she voluntarily offered a few months ago. fn days when the influence of the money-lender is potent in almost every capital of the world and dominates courts and national policies, the Ministry of France stood fearlessly by the interests of the whole people and counted the weilare of its hundreds of thousands of small holders of land, dependent for their xistenee upon the fruits of the soil, as paramount to that of the powerful class which wants money dear and grain cheap.” Here Mr. Wolcott announced his intention to retire from the commission. He said: "It is my sinctre conviction that an international bitnetuitic agretnwnt is still feasible, by the terms of which certain countries will join us and open their mints to the unlimited coinage ot silver and others will contribute to the plan an enlarged use cf that metal as money, and I say this the more freely because i shall give way upoii the commission to somtbdy more fitted so such negotiations and better able to givS them his constant time. This result cannot be brought about without the expenditure of both time and patience, and the persons intrusted with the duty of negotiation must have back of them the hearty support of the Prtsident and Congress.” He thoughtit might la. necessary to change the ratio to somtthing lily; twenty to one. At this point ne referred to the attitude of Secretary Gage on the financial question, contrasting it with the President’s position, his words on this point being as follows: "W hen congress convened on the 7th of last month, the President, in his references to the subject of international bimetallism, spoke earnestly and anxiously of his desire .0 see an international bi>metailic agreement consummated. His assurances gave renewed hope to bimetallists all over the country, and seemed final and conclusive answer to ihose who had claimed that the Prtsldent was not in earnest in his efforts towards international bimetallism. For myself I needed no such proof. I had again and again been maue to know how genuine wqs the President’s devotion to this settlement of the vexed Question. Within a fortnight after this, with' no event meanwhile would change existing conditions, the secretary of the treasury in support of a bill which he had prepared respecting the* currency, said as follows to a committee of Congress.” Here he quoted the- remarks of the secretary of the treasury.

GAGE’S PLAN CRITICISED. “The two statements are utterly at variance,” he continued, “and contradictory to each other. They cannot be reconciled. This is not the proper occasion to analyze the bill of the secretary. It will reach limbo long before it readies the Senate. He proposte to capitalize the premium on our bonds sold recently and to make them, with others to be issued, a security definitely payable In gold. He forgets that only a few months ago, when the country, was in dire distress, we were compelled to pay $9,000,000 for the privilege of keeping the word ’gold' out of some of these very bonds. He ought not to forget, for the bank of which he was president got. it is said, some of the bonds and rectivtd some of the proceeds of that deplorable transaction. But I dot not intend to bill which the President’s message spetfittcally does not indorse, and it is premature to criticise the secretary's Republicanism, for his advent into the party and the Cabinet were practically contemporaneous. We must accept the situation. In my opinion, the great majority' of the members of the Republican party are bimetallists, and the fact that they are misrepresented by a Cabinet officer is not pleasing, but it is endurable. The selection of the members of his official household is the President’s own affair, and so long as he stands upon the question of bimetallism where he has ever stood there is no serious ground for apprehension. But even in the inconceivable event that the chief magistrate of this people should, in the exercise of his judgment, determine to countenance the final fastening upon this country of the burdens of the gold standard, 1 trust we may still find warrant for faith and hope in the pledges of the party and the wisdom of its counsels. We will cross our bridges when we come to them. The time when this country will submit to the final Imposition of gold monometallism as far away'.” t’ontinuing his presentation ol' the desirability of an international agreement, which had been diegressed from to refer to the secretary of the' treasury, Mr. Wolcott said: “Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the ability of this country alone to maintain the parity between silver and gold, there is no questipn that the concurrence of other nations would help and not hinder the cause of bimetallism in the United States, and efforts to secure it ought to secure the cordial support of every citizen who is opposed to gold monometallism. International bimetallism is not a myth, a chimera. The people of Europe are, even as we are, struggling to keep their heads above water and seeking blindly for that which may make for prosperity and for progress. * * * International bimetallism is to the gold monometallists a stumbling block and to the silver monometallists foolishness. but it is, nevertheless, a splendid possibility; its accomplishment would be the greatest blessing that could befall our people, and to achieve il we might well afford to sink for the- time the hostilities of party and the bickerings of factions.” At the close of Mr. Wolcott's speech, the immigration bill was taken up and disposed of. Consideration of bills on the calendar whs next in order. Among the measures ctnsdered was one called up by Mr. Hansbrough. amending Section 2234 of the Revised Statutes so that registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys for each land district established by law shall be liable under their bonds for all moneys received by them for the sale of Indian lands. The hill was passed. A Biscuit Trust Dent. CHICAGO. Jun. 17. —Within a week’s time the big biscuit deal will be practically closed. The date Jan. 22 has been set for the returning of New York blseuit stockholders’ subscriptions to the stock of the new company. The underwriting of stock in the new company was practically completed by a subscription of jToo.otw ta-t week from n. syndicate of capitalists headed by Norman B. Ream, who is now in New York. This was in addition to $303,090 previously subscribed by Mr. Ream. Among the other big subscribers are some of the most representative capitalists of loot hi New York and Chicago. Ilrc-ud It loth in . ANCONA, Italy, Jan. 17.—The re have been bread riots here arising from a demonstration of women organized by the Socialists that preceded to the Town Hall to beg a reduction In the price of bread. The mayor promised relief, but the men then joined the demonstration and stoned several shops. In the melee that ensued several wore hurt. Several arrests were made. Fumioum Fonmlv Cycler Dying. FORT SCOTT, Kan.. Jan. 17. The largest woman bicycle rider In the world,. Miss Margaret Clare, of Cincinnati, is 111, probably beyond recovery, in this city, and her physician attributes the cause of her affliction to the riding of a wheel. Miss Clare weighs 412 pounds, and for twelve seasons has traveled with the largest circuses in the country giving exhibitions of trick riding.