Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1889 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1889.

Tndigestion IS not only a distressing complaint,' ol itself, bat, by causing the blood to become depraved and the system enfeebled, is the parent of innumerable maladies. That Ayer's Sarsaparille Is the best enre for Indigestion, even when complicated with Liver Complaint, is proved by the following testimony from Mrs. Joseph Lake, of Crockway Centre, Mich.: "Liver complaint and indigestion made my life a burden and came near ending my existence. For more than four years" I suffered untold agony, was reduced almost to a skeleton, and hardlv had strength to drag myself about. Aft kinds of food distressed me, and only the most delicate could be digested at all. Within the time mentioned several Chysicians treated me without jiving reef. Nothing that I took seemed to do any permanent good until I commenced the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which has produced wonderful results. Soon after commencing to take the Sarsaparilla I could see an improvement in my condition. My appetite began to return and with it came the ability to digest all the food taken, my strength improved each day, and after a few months of faithful attention to your directions, I found myself a well woman, able to attend to all household duties. The medicine has given me a new lease of life." Ayer's Sarsaparilla,

? REPA SED BT Or. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price il ; six bottles, 5. Worth 5 a bottl. KILLING OF AN OUTLAW. EXCITING AND DESPERATE FIGHT. Bill Moran, the Terror of tho Two Vir. gin las, Refuses to Surrender to tho Officers and Dies in Ilia Tracks Pierced by a Dczen Ballet. Bramwei-L, W. Va., April 7. The details of the killing of Bill Moran, the terror of Flat Top coal region, which occurred last Tuesday, at a point about twenty miles from Pocahontas iu Brauiwell county, Virginia, shows the fight which ended in the death of the outlaw to have been one of the most exciting and des perate ever known in this part of the country. Moran has for a year past been a veritable terror to the people along the border between the two states, and for the past three months he has been especially obnoxious, openly defying the authorities, running things pretty much as he pleased, and declaring at every opportunity that he would never be taken alive. He kept his word in that particular, only giving up the ghost after he had been pierced by a dozen revolver balls, and fighting to the last, although confronted by three armed men. The particular circumstanc e which led up to the killing of Moran dates back about two weeks. At that time he cot on a big drunk at Tails Mills, W. Va., shot into the depot several tiroes, obliging the occupants to flee for their lives, broke out the windows, threw the switchl.iraps into the river and promised to kill anyone offering to interfere with him. II was let iilone for the time being, but the railroad people determined to put an end to such outlawry and sent for Detective Baldwin of the Eureka agency, with headquarters at Charleston. Baldwin swore out a warrant for Moran and, accompanied by Detectives Wallace and Robinson, started in search of him on March 31. They located him in Tazewell county, Va., Monday night last, and the following morning, about 5 o'clock, the officers went to the house where he was hiding. Baldwin went np to the door and aked for a drink of water and Wallace and Bobinson, coming up about the same time, JUidwinsaid: "lie's here; I'll make a break for him and you two follow quick." Baldwin at once sprang through the door into one of the two rooms, and peeing a man in bed in one corner, supposed it was Moran, and called to him to surrender. Jut then Moran appeared at the door of the other room, and tired two shots at Baldwin, ne pacing through his coat on a line with his heart, and the other striking him in the arm near the wrist. By this time Wallace and Robinson were in the house aud the firing became general. Wallace went down with one shot in the mouth and two in his right arm, and Robinson fired five shots at the outlaw, when his pistol was knocked from his hand by a bullet which cut oil" on; of his lingers. A woman in the house also iired five shots at Moran and then fainted. Moran shot all the cartridges ircru his (wo revolvers and then fell. He died in two minute and when examined, twelve wounds were found on bim, six beinsr in his body. The three detectives received eight balls. Wallace is lying at the point of denth at a house near the scene of the shooting and Baldwin rode twenty miles for a doctor for him before he would have his own wounds dressed. Moran never spoke after the tiring bejan. There is general satisfaction at his death. A HOWLING SUCCESS. Logansport in unday Clothes Celebrates th Introduction of Natural Cias. I.ocanspokt, Ind.. April 1. Special. The completion of the natural gas line from Howard county to this city was celebrated to-night by a grand illumination. It was, in fart, a bowling success. Four four-inch stand-pipes were erected in the east part of town, aud at 8 o'clock ths gas was turned on. The pressure wm put at 3 0 pounds, and steadily maintained for over an hour, and the flames extended fully thirty feet into the air. People could not stand rearer than 200 feet of the flames. The test proved highly satisfactory to the company, and fully 5,000 people witnessed the illumination. All the neighboring cities were represented, Lafayette especially sending a very large delegation. A brass band furnished the music, and the occasion caused preat rejoicing among our citizens. The fierce roar of the flames could be heard a long distance. It is predicted that natural gas will soon make Logansport one of the most important cities in northern Indiana. It ia already blessed with an energetic, wide-awake population, and with the many natural facilities surrounding it, the city must of necessity boom ita way into an important commercial center. Dr. Davis Located. To THE Editor Sir: I see in to-day's paper where you want Dr. Davis. I read medicine with a Dr. Davis in Thorntown, Ind., and he said that he had been an army surgeon during the late war, and had charge of camp Carrington hospital part of the time. By seeing John A. Com in kr or, M. D.,77 S. Illinois-st., you can find out whether he is the man you want. His address a short time ago was Lewis Jackson Davis, M. 1.. 552 W. Madison-sL, Chicago. Telephone 7,022, II I ram J. Coos, M. D. Colfax, April 2. Ir. Harriton'i Attack on Gray. Hancock Temocrat. This attack on Got. Gray, under the circumstances, is unfortunate for Dr. Harrison, as he will learn in time. Dr. Harrison baa thus far refused to give up his office, and is now playinjj into the hands of Got. Hovey and the republican surrounding him. IDs Conscience Ilurt Him. Calhocn, Ky., April 4. J. W. White, sheriff of this (McLean) county, attended a religious revival, and there confessed that thirteen years ago he embezzled one thousand dollars of th" county funds. lie paid over the money, and promised to pay the interest,which will amount to $00. A Thoronih ISIgot. Boston Tost There are very few who can rival Mr. Halstead in thorough-going partisanship, or in a bigotry which is the more notable because of the boldness with vhich.it ii proclaimed. -

MILLS ON TARIFF REFORM

HIS GREAT SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD. How tho Republican Protective Policy Robs Labor A System Which Breeds Millionaires and Paupers A Magnificent Effort. At the banquet given by the Jefferson club of Springfield, O., last Tuesday evening in honor of the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the Hon. Roger Q. Mills of Texas responded to the toast of "Tariff Reform." His speech was a magnificent effort, and must have been heard to be appreciated. He said, among other things: Tariff reform is a dull subject for a speech at a banquet, but dull as it is, it is a subject that demands the attention of the American people? and it will continue to demand the attention of the American people until the monuments which au unjust and excessive taxation has placed in the pathway of our industrial advancement have been removed. As a people we have arrived at that stage when the productive capacity of our labor has far outstriped the capacity of our people for consumption. This is a remarkable condition in which our country is placed. It demands the serious consideration not only of the statesmanship of the country, but of the people, who, thanks to the memory of Thomas Jenerson, are the sources of all power in this land. Applause. What are we to do with this surplus production of our labor? For nine months in the year we produce more than our people can consume in twelve. It means three months of idleness for men who cannot a (lord to be idle, men upon whose work depends the subsistence of themselves, their wives and children. They must have employment What is the solution of this question? You must have an extended capacity among your own people to consume, and you must open a pathway to all the people of the world to help consume that product. How are you going to get that? There is only one way in which you can have the markets of the country or any market, and that is to undersell your rivals. Distort this question in any way you will, surround it with any fallacies you may, it is a question of business, l ou can t keep the market unless you undersell your rivals. You must produce the thing you sell in the market at a lower cost than your rival. Lvery article that goes into the market has a cause of value the production of the thing, labor and material. I maintain before you all to-night, and no man can successfully contradict it, that we have the cheapest labor in the world. We have the poorest paid labor in the world in proportion to the amount of labor they do. e have the most skilled labor: we have the most efficient labor in the world; we have the most productive labor in the world. No people on the face of the globe can stand in the way of the advancement of American genius and American enterprise. Applause. Do not misunderstand me. A great many people are deceived by the rate of wages paid in this country, by the day, by the week, by the month, by the year, or by any given time. That is no index to the cost of labor except that it proves pretty conclusively that we fay the highest wages iu the world paid to any people. It simply means that we produce the thing lower than any other people so far as the labor is involved. Let me illustrate to you. Mr. Wright, the chief of our bureau at Washington, one of tho most distinguished statisticians in the United States, some years ago instituted an investigation into the relative rates of wa-jes paid iu some forty-five or fifty brine-lies of industries in Lngland and Massachusetts, taking Kngland as a class paying the highest wages in Kurope, and Massachusetts as paying the highest in this country, lake tor instance the boot and shoe industry, and he showed conclusively that in Massachusetts we paid 129 per cent, higher rate of wages than were paid anywhere in (ireat Britain. Now our friends who talked about protection would say you must protect our American labor. Why, we are paying 123 per cent, more for the same labor, and we can not afford to come in competition with that shoemaker over there ot a less per cent. Hut let us go a little further and see about that. When we take that very instance and go down to the very bottom of the question, we find that the shoemaker in Great Britain was paid 50 cents a pair for making the same pair of shoes that the shoemnker in Massachusetts was paid 33 cents a pair for. The shoemaker in Massachusetts gets, for making wholesale, 33 cents a pair, while the laborer in Kngland gets 50 cents a pair, and yet the Massachusetts man gets 120 per cent, more by the day or week than the Englishman. How are you going to account for this? It is just this, that the Massachusetts man makes thirty-five pairs in a week at 33 cents a pair, making $11,."5, while the Englishman makes ten pairs of shoos at 50 cents a pair and gets o a week. 1 here is the question illustrated. Now, my friend, is the rate of wages paid in England, and imported to this country, sold in competition with the rate of wages paid to the Massachusetts shoemaker, or is it the pair of shoes? Why, it is a pair of shoes. Then tell me how a pair of shoes that cost 50c for the labor put upon them can be imported, and pay the cost of transportation to the United States, and be sold in competition with a pair of shoes that cost 33c? Now, I told you a while ago that our labor is the cheapest labor in the world in proportion to the labor done. Iet me give you one more instance. By the statistics of our state department it is shown that a weaver earns in Switzerland 2.0, in England '5, and a weaver in the United .States geis $l.söa week. This is the averaee here. Uur weaver earns more wages by the day, week or year than any other laborer in the world. Therefore our people say we must frotect our labor against the cheap foreign nbor. Let us see about that. When we take a piece of cloth and go hack where it was made, and see the cloth for which the weaver was paid, we find that the Swiss weaver was paid t0e for weaving, and we find that the English weaver is paid 65, and we find that the American weaver is paid 40c for weaving. Is the American not the cheaper paid labor? Now, how is it that the American weaver gets $4.80, while the Swiss gets $2.80? It is because the Swiss weaves 470 yards, the English weaves 7CJ, and the American weaves 1,200 yards in a week. Therefore, iu proportion to the amount of work done, the American gets less than anybody else in the world. Now. gentlemen, we don't want to protect the genius and the productive capacity of the American workman against the incompetency of foreigners who can meet with him and compete with him. lie is not to be protected against our genius and our enterprise applause, and when high-priced labor comes into competition with low-priced labor, it is the low-priced labor that needs protection, not the high-priced labor, and in all the world where these two have come in competition the lowpriced labor, like the Arab, has folded his tent and stolen away. Applause. Why, we used to have low-priced labor all over the country. I remember when I was a boy of my mother using the spinning-wheel to clothe the family. How many pounds of cotton could she spin in a week? Three pounds. What was the rate of wages per week? About $3. That is $1 a pound for the spinning of that cloth, the labor cost of it Now, think of the spinning by machinery at a cost of 1 cent per pound. By the aid of machinery and the inventive skill of Americans, we are able to turn out 3,000 pounds a week; and what is the labor cost of a pound of thread now spun by machinery? Three thousand pounds cost $6; $o a week; and the wages are increased 100 per cent, but the productive capacity of the labor is increased 3.000 per cent. Now, what is the cost of a pound? Not f 1, but 1-5 cent. Now, take the product of cheap labor fifty years ago, and compare it with the cost of the thread produced by the present machinery, at a cost of 1-5 cent per pound, and everybody knows the result Your old spinning-wheel of the civilization of fifty years ago has given way iu the onward march of the genius of our American people and their productive capacity. Now, gay we have the most productive labor in the world ; we have the cheapest labor in the world ; and those are the two great elements in the cost of any article; and there is a second material. Now, if we can produce those things lower than anybody, all that is required for us to do is to produce it at an equal cost of material, and then we can take the market away from theni and keep it. Applause. But we l.ave not the material as low. We have not the wool a cheap in Ohio, as t heap as they have it in Europe. 1 have said that to my people in Te.vas, who raise about twice as much wool us you. They take the market away from us: they bring all their material to the doors of their factories and give work to their own peof)le and then transport the product of their abor ail over the whole earth. Now let us buy all our coal, all our wool, all our cotton, all our iron and steel and what is necessary to fire employment unl pat uioa the tame equal

plane with these people, and then we can take all the markets from them in spite of everything that they can do. Applause. Europe is exporting to-day over $l,00O,000,0U0 in textile cotton, silk and linens; $1,000,000.000 in textile that we can manufacture, nine-tenths of them cheaper than they can to save their souls, as we have cheaper labor than they have. Now take your taxes call it a tax; it is a tax the tax has to be added when you buy all your wool. They buy their wool in South America, Russia or Australia, but there is a tax on your wool, to be added to the cost Take that tax off and you put your manufacturer on an equal plane with theirs; then, your labor being cheaper than thy can possibly have it you sell to the world. Think how many workmen would be called in to manufacture; conceive of the hundreds of thousands of hands; what a demand for labor all ever the country. Is it not a tariff on the thing that effects the laborer's wages? Would it not increase the demand for us? It is the cheapening of a man's labor that decreases and not increases the price on goods which he makes. It is the lack of the article which is imported, the profits of which go into the pockets of his employer and not into his. The tax is not on the labor; it is on the thing that the labor makes, and the thing that belongs to his employer, not to him. Applause. If you want to increase the wages of your laborer; if you want to give employment not only for nine months, but for twelve months; if you want to keep him constantly employed at wages tending upward; if you want to put bread into his

mouth and into that of his wife and children, then make a demand for his employment, constant active and vigorous, and to do this you have got to take down these barriers. If that raw material is purchased in all parts cf the world upon an equal footing with all other countries, then give' him the privilege of doing that work, and you will do that yery desirable thins. fApplause.l Take the taxes oö of wool, take the taxes off of coal, take the taxes off of ore, off of flax and all materials that enter into our manufacture, let them be admitted without duty, and there would be a demand not only for the inhabitants in this land but for more people to come. Why must we have a high tariff to protect labor? J s there any tan a on labor? la there a duty of 10 per cent, on foreign laborers coming into this country with a fixed value put on the head of each one? Any tax upon the importa tion of arms, legs and heads, the things that make goods? Iä the supply made less by a duty on that foreign competition kept out and the demand being improved in this country? lhatis protection. How far docs that protection go? Is not that a thing to redeem the laborer? But the protection is upon the material owned by the employed, and the enhanced prices goes into the pockets of of the employer, not to him. There is no protection for him. No tariff can benefit him. It is beyond the genius even of au American man to make any tariif that will afford any obstruction to movements of commerce that possibly benefit the workmen. The only thing that the American workman can do is to tear down the barrier, and allow commerce to flow as God intended it should, for the benefit and happiness ot his children. Applause. But the tariff must be for the workman. As Mr. Blaine said iu the beginning of the last campaign, ''Capital can't take care of itself ; it is a question of labor from skin to core, and back to skin again," and it has got to 6kin again. Laughter. It is a question of labor from skin to core, but if the tariff is for the protection of the workman, why don't they give him the benefit of it? 1 find that there is a tax of $.7'2 on a ton of pig iron imported into the United States from foreign countries, but when I look into the report made by the manufacturers of pig irou made by the census of 1SS0 I find that the amount paid for labor is from $1.25 to $1.50 per ton, but who gets the balance of that $o70, and who gets it all? Why, the man who owns the pig irou, not the laborer. If there was no tariff on pig iron at all, if admitted into this country free of duty, they would still pay him $1.25 and 1.50 a ton. As it is now, all that goes into the pocket of the man who owns the material. We are paying duties of from 100 to 250 per cent on woolen goods, aud the cheaper the goods the higher the duty; the poorer and cheaper the higher the duty. Thomas Jefferson said, under the inspiration of heaven I believe, when he penned the declaration of independence, when he appealed to the universe he said: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Applause. Equality is the fundamental condition of association of all men in every government." In those good old days we did not hear of millionaires. You could have counted on your fingers thirty vears ago all the millionaires. I can only recollect of hearing of Stephen Girard and John Jacob Astor. Now we have the Vanderbilts think of the capital they control and the amount of tariff you must pay to furnish five or six heads with bonnets or their bodies with clothes! Does anybody fail to see that there is not a distribution of tariö equally? Is not evervthing we have made up of labor? Certainly everything is from labor. This house is made by labor, your food is labor, your farm, everything, the pearls these beautiful ladies wear, gotten from the depths of the sea, the flowers, the adornments, everything is composed of labor. Now tell me, why now is there any tarifl? Here is a suit of clothes that cost a man ten days' labor in Massachusetts. He wants wheat, and he proposes to exchange it for ten busuelsof wheat, that costs some man in Minnesota ten days' labor. The man in Massachusetts can't make wheat and the man in Minnesota can't make clothes. One has to depend upon the other, each working at their own occupation. They make the ex change, but suppose the man in Massachusetts is protected by a tariff and compels the man in Minnesota to work thirty days for a suit of clothes. One of two things must result either youreduce the labor in Massachusetts or the labor in Minnesota, because if you reduce the wheat m purchase price by adding tanll for the clothes you will decrease the price of making the clothes to that extent, and you can understand now where the millionaire comes in. f Applause. But go on with that policy and you will have millionaires on all your streets. There are thousands of millionaires made within the last quarter of a century, and only three or four in the half or three-quarters of a century during Jefferson's time, or two or three generations. The result is that the farms are mortgaged, men are standing idle begging employment, wages are being reduced by men who make these argumenta, and yet in this country these thintrs exist. Vote, then, for that policy which calls into life again our merchant marine, call lack that policy which .Mr. Jellerson so strongly and ably advocated when, in the declaration of grievance to the king, he announced the principles of freedom. Vote for the policy which floats our navy in every part of the world and on every sea, as she used to do. SENTENCED TO THE SCAFFOLD. William Ilenson Found Oullty of the Murder of Jacob Mottweiler. Jeffersonvillk, April 7. William Benson was convicted yestorday of the murder of Jacob Mottweiler near New Albany, Ind., and sentenced to hang. Benson was Mottweileria farm hand. Mottweiler had no neighbors within a mile, and only hia wife and servant girl were on the farm with him and Benson. A quarrel arose about the girl, and one Sunday, last summer, Benson shot Mottweiler dead and then tried to kill Mrs. Mottweiler with an ax. She was left apparently dead, but finally recovered. The girl fled and reported the trasredy. Benson made no attempt to escape. When taken he at first denied his guilt, but later confessed. His attorneys tried to show insanity and on the stand Benson denied ever having made a confession. He said he was subject to fits and remembered nothing about the murder and made other singular statements. The jury was out only half an hour. An appeal will be taken. The case was tried at Jeffersonville on change of venue from New Albany, and the execution will take place there. Murder and Suicide. Pittsbpro, Pa., April 4. Edward Dietz cut the throat of hia tbree-year-old daughter from ear to ear this morning and then cut hia own throat. 1 hey Mere discovered shortly afterward, both dead. Dietz was a German. He assaulted his wife last night and a warrant was issued for his arrest He became desperate on hearing of it, and said he would put an end to all his troubles. A Familiar Heading. X. Y. Weekly. Wife (glancing over a newspaper) "Here's an artich; headed 'A Terrible Wreck.' I wonder what it's about Shall I read it?" Husband "No-o: most likely it's a patent medicine advertisement, or else an obituary notice of some daily newspaper that was started to fill a long-felt want'' Touching. Puck. Kirby Stone "I've just witnessed a very affecting street incident Lott" Job Lott-"What was it?" Kirby Stone "Two truck-drivers got their wheels locked ou West-st., and both had such SSYtre colds they couldn't speak a loud word."

DEFRAUDED UNCLE SAM.

AN EXTENSIVE CASE OF SMUGGLING. ABard & Sons, a Large rnrisian Firm, with av Branch In New York, Betrayed by a Discharged Employe Will Amount to a Million Dollars. New YOP.K, April 5. One of the most extraordinary cases of smuggling and fraud in the custom-house known in this country became public through the customs authorities in this city yesterday afternoon. Allard & Sons, a large Parisian firm dealing in antiques, art furniture, rare tapestries, paintings and bric-a-brac, have a branch establishment in this city at 301 Fifth-ave. Tor a period extending over at least Beven years this house has engaged in the most bare-faced acts of smuggling. For many years the agent of Allard & Son in this city was a man named Bloosaire. About three years ago he was superseded by their present agent, Paul P.oules. Under Roules management Bloosaire was steadily degraded until last February he was discharged from the employ of the firm. In revenge for what he claims the injustice practiced against him, some weeks ago Bloosaire called on Special Treasury Agent George II. Simmons and imparted some startling information that led to an immediate and searching investigation of the affairs of the firm. Special Treasury Agent Simmons soon found that smuggled goods had been pur chased unsuspectingly from this firm by some of the wealthiest residents and most liberal art collectors of this city, including William K. Vanderbilt II. McKay Twombly and Orme Wilson; also by Robert Garrett of Baltimore, William Bor den of Chicago, and many others. The scheme Sursued by the firm was to consign to their ew York house cabinet furniture in which were concealed under the marble tops and in the false padeling costly portiere curtains and rich goblin tapestries. Customs duties, of course, would bo paid only on the furniture. In the Fifth-ave. store the smuggled goods would be removed. Purchasers were invariably charged extravagant prices for the articles, with the duties, out of which the government had been swindled, added thereto. Thus a double fraud was perpetrated. It is not suspected that any one of the many purchasers had the remotest idea that the goods were smuggled. The investigation made by Special Treasury Agent Simmons having progressed far enough, by last Monday night to warrant him in making a seizure, he had the necessary papers executed and called to his aid Special Treasury Agents J. C. Cummings, Frank Finley, Special Agent Bitter and the Informant Bloosaire, who had been deputized as an olficer. They went to the Fifth-ave. hotel, remained most of the night, and Tuesday morning proceeded to Allard's store, ,'i04 Fifth-ave. As soon as the janitor of the place opened the store they made a raid on the stock and captured a large quantity of chairs with upholstered seats, that were found stuffed with rich laces, tapestries, silks, bronzes, portieres, curtains and almost everything a person could imagine. These chairs were a recent invoice, and had not been unpacked. A large quantity of other stuff, bearing recent marks not identified on the custom house invoices of the firm, was also seized. These things were 6ent to the seizure room in the barge office, and the party went to Koules' house in West Hoboken, where they seized a lot of tapestries valued at tl.OiX), which they found packed in a plush sofa. These things were also sent to the seizure room. An examination was held yesterday afternoon before Collector Magone, Deputy Collector Charles P. McClelland and Special Treasury Aeent Simmons. Bonles. the New York asrent of Allard & Sons, was present as well as liloosaire, the informant. , Koules made a full confession, and said he was cognizant of the dishonest transactions and the smuggling of the firm. The offense enumerated in this story, besides many others on the complaint, extend back only to the year 1S6. but the customs authorities are gathering new evidence every day to show that the firm has been engaged ia smuggling ever since they established their house here, seven years asro. The customs authorities do not hold any of the persons who had smuggled goods in their possession culpable, although they will probably have to pay the duties or have the goods seized. So tar as is known the government has been swindled out of more than a quarter of a million dollars by the firm, as the unpaid duties range from 30 per cent to 50 per cent ad valorem. What the total sum will be when the investigation is completed remains to be seen. The fact that Allard Sc Sons number among their patrons some of the most select and wealthy families in the United States will probably increase the sum up to $1,000,000. No arrests have been made in the case because all of the Allards are out of reach, being in France. Whether they can be extradited and punished is a question on which the government officers will express no opinion. Their representative in this city, Paul Iloules, can be punished, however, and it is only by the clemency of the treasury department that he is not behind the bars. The fact that he has practically turned state's evidence.it is supposed, will save him from state's prison. AMERICA'S "DARK CONTINENT." A Newspaper Syndicate to Explore Portions of Central America. EvANSVILLE, Ind., April 7. A strong newspaper syndicate, composed of some of the leading and greatest dailies in America, has just been consummated by Mr. A. J. Miller of this city, for the purpose of a scientific exploring expedition to the unfrequented portions of Central America. The syndicate is composed of such papers as the New York Sun, Louisville Courier-Journal, St Louis Republic, and others, including the Tribune of this city, of which Mr. Miller is the present editor. The expedition will consist of Mr. Miller as manager, Prof. Thomas Darragh, naturalist; Prof. J. Koy Brown, geologist and archaeologist, and Mr. William II. Venable of Atlanta. They will be joined at Iielisle, British Honduras, by Thomas H. Ros3, who precedes the expedition to make certain preliminary arrangements. The expedition will sail from New Orleans May 1, and first visit northern Guatemala and the region of Lake Petin, the ancient home of the Mayas and Itzaes. From thence they will visit all of the five republics. The primary object of the expedition is to explore those portions of central America which have heretofore remained a terra incognita to the outside world. A special effort will be made to discover the source of the Rio Wanks in Honduras, and determine its possibilities as a commercial highway. To this end they will receive the moral aid of the government of Honduras and the new king of the Mosquito territory. The eiploration of this great stream has been unsuccessfully attempted by the late lamented E. U. Squire, and other travelers, but the savage tribes of that section have always proved an insurmountable barrier. But more favorable conditions now exist, and Mr. Miller is sanguine of success and of bringing to light all of the secrets of this absolutely unknown section. The recent death of the old Mosquito king removes the chief impediment The expedition expects to complete its .work in six months. This is the second journey made by Mr. Miller through Central America, and his experience, familiarity with the natives, their language and customs will be valuable to the present enterprise in exploring America's "dark continent." Sarcastic. Merchaut Traveler.! "Look here," said Mr. Blankerton, as he aat opposite his wife at supper. ''What's the matter r "I've found a pearl in my oyster." "It's odd," said his wife after a pause, "how every day brings forth some illustration of an old proverb." "I don't quite follow you." "I was just thinking of the casting of pearls before swine." l'owfr of Association. IS. Y. Weekly. Mrs, DeTemper '(looking np from the paper) "Well, I declare! Another woman, singlehanded, has captured a burglar. I should think she would have been killed by the brute; but the paper says the moment she grabbed a poker and made a dash for him, his knees trembled and bis teeth shook, and he sank to the floor in afTrlght." Mr. DeTemper "He ia probably a married man."

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

In the Winter "Wheat Regions Rain a Have Had a Favorable Effect. Washington, April 7. The week ending April 6 has been warmer than usual in all sections except in New England and the lake regions, where the daily temperature ranged from one degree to three degrees below the normal. Throughout the southern states and over the greater portions of Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota the daily excess of temperature ranged from three degrees to five degrees, while in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Montana it was from six degrees to nine degrees above the normal for the week. The temperature for the season from Jan. 1 to April 6 has been unusually high in the Northwest, including the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys. In Minnesota and Dakota the average daily temperature ranges from three degrees to five degrees above the normal, and the season is from ten to twenty days in advance. In Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and New England there is also an excess of temperature for the season, whi?h is about one week in advance, while in the southern states and Ohio valley about the normal conditions are reported. The rainfall for the week has been in excess over the northern portion of the winter wheat region, where rain was most needed, and over the greater portions of Missouri, Arkansas, New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Well distributed rains also occurred over the greater portion of the south Atlantic and gulf states, Tennessee and Kentucky, and the upper Mississippi valley. No rain fell in Nebraska, Colorado and northwestern Kansas, while light showers are reported from the north and central Pacific coast region. The rainfall for the season continues in excess along the Atlantic coast south of New York, and from the Texas coast, northward to Missouri and Kansas. There is a greater deficiency in moisture in the winter wheat region east of the Mississippi, where only from 50 to 65 per cent of th usual rainfall is reported, although the rains during the past week have doubtless greatly improved the crop condition. The weather during the week was generally favorable to growiug crops in the southern states where the grain crop is reported in good condition and the cotton crop is about twothirds planted. Heavy rains retarded farm work in Arkansas and West Tennessee and more ram is needed iu Kentucky and the southern portion of the East gulf states. In the winter wheat region, extending from Ohio to Kansas and Nebraska, rains during the week affected growing crops favorably. The season is well advanced and the crops are in good condition, but there is a general deficiency in moisture throughout the winter wheat and spring wheat regions of the central valleys and the Northwest In the middle states the conditions were generally favorable for wheat, rye and oats, but the work was delayed by wet weather. In New England the ground is generally covered with snow, and but little farm work is completed. A DEMOCRATIC LAND-SLIDE Swept Over Chicago Yesterday Roche DefeatedOther City Elections. CniCAGO, April 2. A land-slide for the democrats was the result of to-day's election, as indicated at 11 o'clock this evening. At that hour out of a total of 381 precincts 320 give Boche (rep.), 3.H.S13; Creiger (dem.), 47,67fi. Cregier's majority, 8,8C3. Nearly every office on the list was captured by the democrats. The only republican success was in hanging on to the South town offices by a very narrow margin. The result is generally conceded to be a sweeping victory for the labor element, the ad vocates ot elevated roads and those who favor a divorce between municipal and national poli tics. St. Louis Goes Democratic. St. LOCIS, April 2. The municipal election passed off quietly, though the interest has never lagged and the bulletins at the newspaper offices are now surrounded by great crowds who howl lustily at the returns from each precinct Up to this hour, 9:30 p. m., returns are in from most of the precincts, showin? the following is the result: Butler (rep.), for mayor, 21,160 ;Noonan (dem.), 22,540, a majority of 1,371 for Noonan. The remainder of the city ticket is running close, but the interest is concentrated on the mayoralty contest Brown (dem.) for auditor has probably defeated .icen v rep. ; upon waom auca a Diner ngnt has been made. Complete returns from the twenty-eight wards of the city show that Judge E. A. oouan (dem.), for mayor, has a total vote of 28,715; CoL James G. Butler (rep.), 27,0S9. Noonan's plurality. 1.020. The democrats elect the auditor, inspector of weights and measures, register and but one of the five councilmen, while the republicans secure the collector, the comptroller, treasurer, president of the board of public improvements and four councilmeu. The house of delegates will be eighteen republicans and eleven demo crats. The Prohibitionists Defeated. DrBCQCE, Ia., April 2. Stewart (dem.) was elected mayor yesterday by 359 majority over Hayden, the nominee of the republican and union-labor parties. The entire democratic ticket was elected by majorities ranging from 200 to 1,200. The campaign was largely fought on the enforcement of the prohibitory law and the anti-prohibitionists achieved a victorv. The next council is democratic. WOMEN ANDTHEIR POLITICS. But Few Are Prohibitionists And Still Fewer Favor Woman Suffrage. St. Lons, April 6. The Sunday rost-Dis-pahh to-morrow will print interviews on politics with 500 women in different parts of Missouri. These interviews show that while Missouri is democratic at every election, the majority of women interviewed are republicans. Only a few are prohibitionists and not twenty in the 500 favor full woman suffrage, but quite a number of them would be glad to rote on license and school questions. One woman who, with her mother and sister, pays the taxes of an entire ward in her town, cannot understand the utstice of taxation without representation. Their ideal statesmen are Ingalls, Conkling, Bayard, Vest and Wmdom. One lady says: "Frances Folsom Cleveland is the greatest statesman ot the day." A lady living in Holla says President Harrison's cabinet is good with one exception Proctor and she remarks in regard to him that a man with whiskers and no mustache must be looked upon with distrust. Miss Elizabeth Harrison, also of Itolla, says: "Notwithstanding the present prominence of my family in the republican party, and despite the fact that 1 call President Harrison 'Cousin lien,' I have never strayed from the paths of righteousness. I am a atanch democrat, and I think Thomas Francis Bayard the greatest American statesman next to Grover Cleveland." A Solution. Merchant Traveler. "Why do poets begin so many of their lines with the interjection, 'Oh,' Mr. Scribbleton," asked a young woman of a youth who sometimes woos the muse. "I'm sure I never thought of that," said the yonng man reflectively. "But it's noticeable that they use the word very freely." "Possibly it's because they're so constantly in de bt that the word 'Owe' comes natural to them. That's the only solution of the question that I could offer." A Flaudlbla Idea. The Epoch. "Pa," said Bobby, who was .looking over bis picture-book, "isn't that a picture of Jonah and the whale?" "Certainly not," repliedthe old man impatiently he had been answering foolish questions all the evening "if it were wouldn't Jonah be there, too?" "Perhaps he's inside the whale," suggested Bobby. When Justice Puts On Motley. I Puck. Culprit (who has just been sentenced for ten days on the Island.) "Many thanks. Sure your honor is a pleasant gintleman I" Magistrate "What's that, prisoner?" Culprit "Why, sor, barrin' the minstrel show, Oi can't remember so funny a speech as yours since Judge Uufiy sent me up the last timel" Snappish. fK. Y Sun. Young Wife 'The trouble with my husband ia be doesn't thoroughly know me." Old Maid "How thankful you ought to be, dear.'.'

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TIIE CITY IS BURXIXG UP. CONFLAGRATION IN SAVANNAH, GA. A (treat Fire Now Raginc Several Tine Business Blocks and a I.arfce Number of Private Ileaidencea Already Destroyed. Savaksah, Ga., April 6. At 6:55 o'clock tonicht fire broke out in the show window of D. II. Hogan'a dry goods store at Broughton and Barney-sts., while a man was lighting a gas jet. Soon the fire had run to almost every part of the building, and those in it had barely time to escape. The fire was communicated to the crockery store of James II. Douglas fc Co., immediately east of Hogan's, and it was all ablaze in a jiffy. A high wind prevailing contributed to spread the flames, and there was no possibility of checking them. This building is one of the finest business blocks in the city, and its destruction represents a loss with its contents of at least $150,000. The fire then jumped to the magnificent fourstory brick building known as Odd Fellows' hall. It was totally destroyed. It represents a loss of $125,000. Among its occupants was the Y. M. C. A., and several storekeepers on the ground floor. The second and third stories of the basement brick dwelling immediately west of this was also destroyed. Loss, $3,000 to 110,000. The fire next spread from the corner of Barnard and State-sts. through twelve or fifteen brick dwelling houses, completely destroying them. They represent a loss of not less than $75,000, including contents. The air was filled with sparks, one of which lodged on the steeple of the Independent pre.byterian church, corner of I'll and S. Broadsts., four or five blocks from the starting point of the fire. The church was totally destroyed, as was also its handsome brick Sunday-school building and four or five contiguous dwellings. The ciiy has only four fire engines and all were needed in the business part of the city. No attempt was made to light the fire at the church. Loss on church, chapel and contents $200,(K)ij. Loss on dwellings ia the vicinity at Jeast $'', 000. In the meantime the fire had communicated to the cupola on the large four-story brick building used as a store for paints, oils and builders' materials by Andrew lianley. Los on this building and its contents probably $.S0,000. Across the street from this was the handsome new brick arsenal of the Savannah guards battalion, which was totally destroyed. It represents a loss of fully $-35,000. Ten or fifteen wooden dwellings have also been burned, on which the loss is probably $15,000. It is impossible to tell where the fire will stop, as sparks are starting new outbursts in spots quite remote from those now burning. Charleston, 8. C, Augusta and Macon have been asked to send engines. The tctal loss will doubtless reach $1,500,000; insurance will be much less, borne loss of life may be developed to-morrow. Latkr At midnight the fire is under control. In addition to the buildings already mentioned the fire swept away all the structures on each side of Whittaker-st-, between York and South Broad-sL They were not fine buildings, but will probably add $25,000 to the losses mentioned above. The fire also swept along the north side of S. Broad-st. from Whittaker-st. east to within one house on Bull-st., the structure left standing being a red brick residence owned by Dr. Daniel Hopper, which covers a site which the government once endeavored to buy as a location for the U. S. court and postoffice building. Xo loss of life has been reported and no serious casualties. Neighboring cities promptly started fire companies, but all were turned back before reaching here. The best estimates justify the previous statement of $1,500,000. Half of the south side of the block on York-st., between Whittaker and Bull, is also in ruins. One of the heaviest losers there is Thomas B. Henderson, undertaker. (et the Undertaker, The Medical Gazette alleges that the following letter was received by a physician from a man whom he knew, practicing medicine and desiring counsel : "dear Dock I have a pashunt whos physical sines shows that the wind-pipe has ulcerated otf and his lungs have drop down into his stumick I have given hym everry thin without efect her fother is welthy honable and influeushal as he is member of assembly and cod nose I don't want to loos hym what shall i do ans by return male. Yours frat" A Comforting Suggestion. ruck. Mrs. Finncgan (starting up as Tiui comes home a little shaky) "Ph'at 'a all the n'ise below? Did I hear some wan shout 'Foir?' " Mr. Finnegan "B'gorrah, ye did;, but be aisy. The foir 'sh in Widdy M'lone's tinimint, an the first flu re, an' there's aizsh flu res bechune it an' us!'' Irrelevant. Puck. "Mamma, at the Ponce de Leon hop, lust nicht, Mr. de Hitch asked me to be his wife." "Of course you accepted him?" "Of course but he began so queerly." "Howf "He asked me if I loved himt"

THE CLAYTON ASSASSINATION.

Congressman. Elect Breckenridg; Engaged in Hunting Down the .Murderers. Little Boc k, Ark., April 4. The Cozdit to-morrow morning will say: "The Hon. C. R, Breckenridge, congressman-elect from the Second district, was in the city yesterday afternoon. It was learned that the object of his visit was to confer with the governor about the efforts being made to catch the Clayton murderers. When Mr. Breckenridge was here some days atro, he conferred with the governor on this subject, and finding him in possession of information that needed to be followed up, but without funds for that use, he at once supplied the governor with the necessary funds and promised to procure more. Yesterday he turned in more money, and told the governor to let him know when he needed additional funds, and to speak as often as he needed money and for all he needed, aud he (Breckenridge) would undertake to go over the Second district and raise as many thousands of dollars as were needed to exhaust all human eöorts to bring the guilty to justice. "Mr. Breckenridge indignantly resents th idea that the people are in sympathy with ' crime. He recognizes, however, that however ! ... u . l v .1,: ir me iitciuciua Hi iiiLur uaic uctru, mis Clavton case has become in same way a tet case of the resolute intention of the people to protect society where crime has a passion or prejudice against some one, living or dead, to divert the public purposes. He says the people of Arkausas are not a people to execute the laws or to permit them to be executed in a passionate or a partisan spirit, and expresses the opinion that the people of Conway countr and of every other county in bis district will prove enual to this need of civilization and society, lie does not doubt that the murderer will be caught, and thinks that the lapse of time is no evidence of their security or of diminitdied public determination. It is evident that Mr. Breckenridge has confidence in his people, and that he is determined to stand by them and to stand by the governor through every difficulty and need." BURNED TO A CRISP. The Tragio Death of an A;ed Lady Near Steubenvllle. . STEIT.EXVILLE, O., April 7. Bridget, widow of the late William Kelley, living in a small house between here and Alikanna, was burned to death last evening. She was about eighty years of age, feeble and childish. Her granddaughter left her alone to come into town. Patsy Powers, a boy, saw smoke issuing from the windows, and gave the alarm Eugene. Galvin and some hands from the Alikanna mill went inside. They found the poor old lady lying on the lloor, with her feet close to the fire-place, and her body burned brown and to a crisp. Her clothing and hair were burned oft The stench was sickening. The rag carpet waa burned aud smoulderiu around her for ßorne distance. The cloth upon the table, where she had evidently attempted to get her supper together, was burring. When they took hold and carefully lifted her upon the bed their hands stuck to her burned flesh, and yet she was alive and moaning, living for an hour in terrible sutlerim,'. It is a strange coincidence that her married daughter, a Mrs. Yocum, was burned to death in tne same house a few years ago. THOUSANDS DROWNED. The Island ot Tahiti in the South rarifle Swept by the Kecent Hurricane. Auckland, April 3. The disastrous hurricane of March 15 swept the island of Tahiti, lying about 1,500 miles southeast of Samoa. Its effects were terribly disastrous, the capital city of the island having been totally submereed. and the loss of life enormous. Thousands of natives were swept away and drowned. On the island of Tonga the hurricane created great havoc. Thirty persons perished there in the storm. Retribution Will Come. Cvansville Courier. As we have said, there are communities ia this country where such shameful injustice at the hands of the judge of a court would subject him to a hearing before Judge Lynch. The people ot Indiana are a lawabiding people, and the democrats of Indian area long stitfering people. Whether they will patiently endure much longer the intamies of this mau Woods or not, retribution will overtake him sooner or later. Justice walks ! with leaden heel but strikes with an iron hand. Most Dress In Taste. Clothier A Furnisher. "Miss Carmine," be pleaded, "the love I bear you cannot be measured by mere words. It is ineradicable, indistinguishable, infinite. Will you be mine?" "Mr. Botts," replied Maria Carmine, "1 feel deeply the great honor you have conferred upon me. But there is between us a fatal barrier. 1 can never marry a man who wears a silk hat and a sack: coat at the same time." Couldn't Please Her. .(Philadelphia Ileeord. Little Daughter "Mamma, may I play with, that little girl next door?" Mrs. Tiptop (severely) "Certainly not. Her papa goes to his business in a 6trcet-car. He hasn't a carriaca to his name." "Well, can I play with Salno liveryman, around the eoruer? Jler papa has twenty-five carriages." "Xo; ha has toe many."