Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1893 — Page 9

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FOOD FOR DAIRY CATTLE.

EXPERIMENTS AS TO TUB VALVES OF CHAIN AM) GRASS. There I Monrr In Potato Gronln;Prnnlog (irnpe Vine Forcing YoMg Tree 0.uallty and Qunnlilr In Faruilna- Ventilation In the Stablf (iooil Honda October on Hi Farm All Around the Fields and Garden A Hunch of Good Recipes. A season of experiment teaches how to avoid mistakes and also to take advantage of opiortunUiea the succeeding year, says the Phiadelphia Record. When tho experiments are made to extend over a period of three years the rsults are sufficiently conclusive to be satisfactory to all classes. In the feeding of dairy cows at the Cornell university station, which was done for the purpose of comparing the effects of the feeding of grain with an abundance of pasture, and during a term of three years, two lots of selected Jersey cows were used, whlwere In good condition, and running on pasture. The object was to determine If grain feeding In summer was of advantage. As many . as sixteen cows were In the herd, they being divided into two lots of eight each, the division being made on the basis of weight, length of time in milk, length of time In calf, yield of milk per day and per cent, of fat In milk. From May 23 to Oct. 23, a reriod of twenty-two weeks, the cows were given ample opportunity to secure the whole of their food on the pasture, but in addition to the green food one lot of cows received, each day, four quarts of mixed food, consisting of two parts cornmeal. one part of bran, and one part of cottonseed meal, by weight, fed in two feeds, night and morning. The other lot received only the green food from the pasture. This program was adhered to for three treasons from May 23 to Oct. 23. The first year, when the pasturage was abundant, the grain-fed lot gave much less milk than the other lot, but the milk from the grain-fed lot was richer and contained fully as much butter fat as tha milk from the cows which received graa only, the butter production being the same with both lots. Soiling Is that system in which the cows are confined and the green food supplied them, instead of turning them out on the pasture. In the two years following the first experiment both pasturing during a dry season and soiling were tested, one lot of cows receiving the same ration of grain mentioned above, during both seasons. The result was that the Increased product of butter was sufficient to pay for the grain, and at a period when pasturage was not plentiful the result was the same. In all cases the increased product of butter simply paid for the grain. The largest yield of milk was from the use of pasturage alone, and as the milk is also valuable as well as the butter, this is an important point in favor of grass, and especially as the grass-fed cws gave not only more milk, but fully as much butter as the others. This leaves the question open for discussion, the cost of the land used as pasturage being a factor for consideration. OCTOBER OS THE FARM. Profitable Potato Growlua- Cheaper Phosphate. The growing of potatoes should be profitable. A yield of 150 bushels of tubers per acre may cause a loss for the reason that as much work in plowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting such a yield is as necssafy as would be required for twice as many bushois. An experimental plot has yielded In proportion of over 1,000 bushels per acre, which demonstrates that an acre of land can be made to give larger yield with the cultivation if more plant food is applied. Forcing young peach trees is sometimes the cause of their failure at the age of three or four years. Young fear trees should never be forced too rapidly, as the overgrown trees are more often attacked by blight than those which are pushed rapidly when young. The most money made In farming is by Improving the quality. In all cases where an increase in the quantity is sought the cost is made greater and usually too. much land is used, while the lack of quality lowers the market price of the article. Ventilation in the stable is essential, but there is a line to be drawn between ventilation and cold draughts of air flowing in. It is useless to make the stable weather tight and then cut holes to let in the air under the mistaken supposition that the animals are suffocating for fresh air. It is difficult to keep the air out, even if it is attempted, especially during the cold weather. An economical mode of feeding oats Is to cut the grain and straw together with a cutter. It is not necessary to thresh oats unless the grain is desired particularly. The straw can be made more serviceable by feeding it with grain, and especially if the oats crop was cut when the grain was in a milky stage. It does not pay to buy fertilizers and secure only a crop of fifteen bushels of wheat per acre. The land may not need the kind of fertilizer that has been applied, and better result may be obtained by using only a special fertilizer to balance the plant food already existing in the soil. One hundred pounds of bone dust may give better results than half a ton of mixed fertilizer in proportion to cost. The farmer should experiment and learn how to use fertilizers, as well as how to apply them. Sheep need good care. It is seldom that a sick sheep fully recovers its health, and prevention of disease in sheep is far better than attempted cures. Phsophates are cheaper now than a few years ago, and they may be safely and profitably used on nearly all soils, and especially on farms where beef and milk are shipped to market. It will benefit all farms to receive an application of air-slacked lime at this season also, while wood ashes will always be found beneficial. Such fertilizers may be termed 'staple," as they are of value to all crops. The fall is not the time to work on the roads, as the frost will not permit of travel over newly made roads. The spring is the proper time for repairs, but the misfortune is that the teams are then required for other work. To secure a good road It must be made good at once, without regard to cost, instead of being worked over and repaired every season. Roads are expensive when they require work on them every year, and are no better year after year than when first laid out and graded. More people and more animals die of "fresh air" In winter, from cold draughts on them, than from all other causes Combtrjfd. It 1 doubtful If any animal has ever lacked for plenty of fresh air in the stable on a cold winter's day. To keep up the appetite of an animal Is to promote growth and increase. "When an animal refuses Its food, or is dainty, the best thlnap to do Is to change the food, or add to the variety. Instead

of giving medicine or tonlca. An animal may become disgusted with one kind of food and readily partake of some othpr kind. Every day that Is lost by the animal in falling to increase in weight or production is so much time that can never be regained. If farmers will try the experiment rf weighing, or estimating dally, the ma

terial that is wasted, but which could i be used for food in some way, they win ! be surprised at the amount of the loss which occurs in a year from waste. An orchard not only permits of a crop of fruit, but the ground may be used for hogs, sheep and poultry. When the trees are very young the growing of hoe crops will permit of enriching the soil. The Kitchen Schedule. Housekeepers troubled with forgetful servants can reduce their cares considerably by making out a schedule of the work to be done each day of the week, and placing It In the kitchen, where it can be seen by he maid who presides over the household work. The duties of the work if apportioned to certain days will make work easier to mistress and maid, and If these days and duties are put down in black and white In view of the kitchen goddess, they will impress themselves more readily upon her mind and leave no excuse for the forgetting which servant glrla are so addicted to. A constant bugbear to the kitchen Is the maid who "forgets" that there is no sugar, or butter, or coffee Just at the moment when dinner Is ready to be served. There Is nothing more exasperating than this phase of domestic annoyance. A Boston cooking school once had a wooden "marketing card" for the kitchen wall, which could be used to advantage by housekeepers and could be copied in home-made form. It consisted of a light wood frame, provided with slips of dark wood, upon which were marked the names of the different housekeeping stores sugar, tea, soap, starch, etc. These wooden slips were arranged In slots and could lie moved into place against the light background. When any particular supply gave out the corresponding slip was brought in view upon the card, and when the grocery order was given nothing necessary could be forgotten. This plan will work to perfection with the most "difTlcult" of help, who will refuse to understand all other methods of exercising their memories. Boston Globe. AH Around the Farm. German estimates place the world's production of hops in 1S53 at 146.000,000 pounds, against 153.000,000 pounds in 181)2. The (Senna n crop is short about 15.ÖÖ0.000 according to the latest estimate. It is the market price you are after, no matter if you are making the best butter in the world, In your opinion. If you fail to pet the highest price for It you are failing to realize the most profit. When you are husking corn this fall and design the stalks for the cows don't be afraid to leave all of the nubbin ears Unhusked. The cows will eat them with the fodder, and will be greatly helped on milk yield thereby. A rainy day depresses the market and one so unfortunate as to have fruits or vegetables arrive on such a day is likely to suffer -In consequence. So we see how circumstances -utterly beyond control or foresight affect prices. One of the principal advantages of dairying on the average farm is that it offers a good opportunity far converting all kinds of grain and fodder and at the same time secures a large amount of valuable manure that will add to the fertility of the soil. Get a cow for the specific purpose for which she is to be used, and If you cannot get your profit out of her by the time she is useless in the dairy then the fault is not so much in the cow as in her management. With a good dairy cow, her future value for beef should not be considered. Agriculture can be made more nearly an exact science by the application of irrigation to the soil than by any other means whatever. It prevents drought and makes crops certain, and thus fixes the earning power and value of the land. We shall see It much more extensively applied in the future than it has been in the past. The' auestlon is sometimes raised whether it is possible to always keep wooden dairy utensils perfectly clean. It Is not good policy to let milk stand for any length of time in wooden pails or receptacles, but wooden churns and butter workers are all right, and can be kept perfectly sweet and bacteria-proof by the use of lots of hot water. Propping heavily loaded fruit trees of any age is a mistaken policy. Thin out the fruit until the limbs need no props, first picking off the specimens injured by Insects, and next the smaller ones. There is money in this work, though it may look otherwise at first. A tree allowed to overbear will become feeble and fail to bear to half its capacity. The business of manufacturing starch from potatoes has been confined to comparatively few localities. Where it has been carried on it has proven it profitable industry, and has Increased the value of farm lands devoted to growing the crop. The combination of agricultural production and manufacturing is usually satisfactory to all concerned. Very much depends on the road In determining the capability of the horse. On a poor earthen road he can drag three times as much as he can' carry; on a macadamized road, nine times as much: on a plank, road, twenty-five times: on a solid stone trackway, thirtythree, and on a rallwoy, flft--four times as much as he could carry on his back. This is the time of the year to look after the fences. Are you getting a little short of good material for rails? Then It should be a suggestion to you that it is time to be planting a little timber. Wrhen the supply begins to get so short that there is not an abundance of wood for all the needs of the farm the market value of the farm suffera at once. Bo far as Is possible, succulent foods should always be provided in winter as in summer, as this kind of food is productive of the largest quantity of fat in the milk and also has the effect of causing the cream to separate more readily from the milk and the butter globules from the cream and leaving less fat in the buttermilk: to a more or less extent it also increases the flow of milk. The introduction of an entirely new fodder plant Is reported from Europe. It Is a kind of vetch, and is said to be extremely productive, and to grow well in very dry weather, owing to the extraordinary length of its roots. Which are sometimes from twenty-five to thirty feet long. Its name is almost as long, for it passes by the euphonious designation of lathy rus silvestrls wagnerl. The Improved breeds of cattle, for beef or butter, will always profitably market the raw products of the farm, while scrub stock will almost Inevitably consume them at a loss. The market reports are the best evidence of this fact, and we do not see how a farmer, who is conversant with these, can go on raising cattle to sell at bottom prices when he might be growing such as would sell at the top. Prof. Webster say3: "I wonder if the country horticulturist ever stops to consider what an important' factor country fences may be in the problem of success in his calling. Can you compute the number of raspberry sawfiys, cane

borers, root borers or leaf rollers, each half mile of worm-eaten rail fence, with its wide margin of brambles on each side, will produce and send over the surrounding country?" The National Frovlsloner says that the future salvation of the farmer will depend to a large extent on the diversity of his products. A greater variety of stock as well as crops will increase his chances of profit materially. In many sections the systematic; raising of hops has been much neglected. Hogs increase rapidly, tat a great many differ-" ent kinds of food and can be full fed for market in' a comparatively short time. The large amount of feed that can be grown on an acre of Jerusalem artichoke and the fact that hos will harvest the crop Is left without rings in their noses lead farmers to plant them for the hogs. But they are not very nutritious and hogs need grain with this feed if they are to keep thrifty. If they have grain enough to fatten them they will not root much. The artichoke crop is, therefore, disappointing to those who expect from it a means of fattening pork at low cost. If the tomato vines are pulled out of the ground and placed in some shed or cellar where light frosts will not reach them the fruit will grow and ripen several weeks after like vines out of doors have been recently destroyed. Sometimes when frost comes early a cloth may be thrown over tomato plants for one or two nights until the danger Is passed. But they can be kept in good condition in a barn basement for several weeks after tomatoes fresh from the Vine are impossible in any other way.

It rot pea. Turnip Tasty Boll thoroughly onehalf dozen turnips, mash them up, adding a teaspoonful of cream and seasoning with salt and pepper. Tut paste around this mixture, like a dumpling, and bake or steam. Leeky Pie Cut up a dozen leeks, put them to boil with enough water to cover them: when boiled strain off the water. Season them in a pudding dish, pour over one-half pint of buttermilk and a beaten egg. Cover with ordinary paste and bake. Potato Fie Slice eight raw potatoes and cut up into small pieces one-haft pound of bacon. Line a basin With some suet pastry and put in the bacon and potatoes; add boiling water and a little Hour to make gravy. Put to steam for four hours. Raised Cake One cupful ff raised dough, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one cupful of sour milk, a little grated nutmeg, a cupful of raisins, a teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonsful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of mace, one teaspoonful of cloves, three and onehalf cupfuls of flour. Bake slowly. Loaf Cake-;Two cupfuls of light dough, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful of cream, two egfes, one-half tablespoonful of soda, one cupful of currants, a teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon and mace, and a grated nutmeg. Work well together and add sufficient flour to make it stiff. Shape in loaves, put Into pans, raise, and bake slowly. Dutch Apple Pudding Line a cake tin with a little thicker crust than for a pie. Take good flavored apples, pare, cut into sixteenths, lay these regularly along the crust, each piece touching, but not lapping. Press slightly Into the crust, to prevent moving. Dust well with sugar and a little nutmeg. Fill the dish with a sweet custard (as for custard pies), and bake. Meringue Whip the whites of the eggs stift.and add to them three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and one of cocoanut. Flavor delicately with vanilla, and after spreading upon the custard, sprinkle the remainder on the cocoanut over the top, and set in the oven to brown. This dessert is to be eaten cold and requires no sauce. Sponge cake is very nice to pass with the meringue. Apple Dumplings Take a bright, round tin pan (say three pints), fill half full of apples (cut in small pieces), a little water. Make a cream-of-tartar biscuit dough, soft enough to pour over the apples. Cover with a round tin that is the same depth and will fit over the edge. Let it cook on top of the stove, not directly over the fire. Serve at once when the cover is removed, with a sauce or butter and sugar, as preferred. Spiced Quince For this I take the pulp of quinces after I have made jelly from them, and, mindful of the need of some quince flavor remaining, I do not squeeze the pulp altogether dry. Then I take for four pounds of this pulp a pint of vinegar, two pounds of sugar and a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, ginger and mace. Put the spices in a bag, and, with the fruit into the supar and vinegar, simmer slowly over the fire for two or three hours; then seal in jars. Apple Butter Making apple butter is almost one of the lost arts, but I have gathered the process from old experienced folks, and New York state farmers say that it is apples pared, cored, cut and boiled In sweet cider till the whole is a dark, rich pulp, and the cider is reduced ore-half. No sugar is needed, for the fruit furnishes its own sweetness. Half th apples may be sour and half sweet, or all sweet, as one likes. It takes nearly two gallons of cidar to make one of apple butter, spices are added, or not, to taste. I should spice it, the rule being one tablespoonful of cinnamon and one-third of a tablespoonful of ground cloves to each gallon of apple butter, added when it is taken up boiling hot. It may be kept in barrels, stone pots or butter firkins and boxes. A clean second-hand butter firkin is a very good thing to keep many kinds of preserves or pickles in. Cocoanut Meringue One quart of sweet milk, five tablespoonfuls of desiccated cocoanut. three tablespoon fuls of tapioca, a generou3 half cupful of granulated sugar, the yelks of three eggs, salt and vanilla to taste. Wash the tapioca and soak for several hours in plenty of cold water. After draining off the water, add the tapioca to the milk and set them on'the range in a pudding dish. If there is the least doubt as to the freshness of the milk, stir in a pin?h of soda. Cover until the boiling point is reached. Now stir in two table spoonfuls of tho cocoanut, and, after drawing the dish to the edge of the range where the milk cannot boil, add gradually the yelks of the eggs and sugar, which have been beaten together until light. Replace on the hottest part of the range, stirring continuously until the custard has thickened. Remove from the fire and set aside several hours to cool, when salt and flavoring may be added, and the meringue spread upon the top. Delicious Raised Cake Three pounds of flour, one and one-half pounds of sugar, twelve ounces of butter,' seven ounces of lard, one and one-half pints of milk one coffee cupful of yeast, two nutmegs, teaspoonful of mae, three egg3, one pound of raisins, four ounces of citron and a teaspoonful of salt. Scald the milk, lard and a pint of sugar togther. When cool, stir in the flour and add the yeast Set in a warm place until light. Then add the butter and sugar beaten to a cream; eg-ps, fruit ;nd spice. Let it rise a second time. Then divide and put it Into pons, and after setting it in a warm place for half an hour, bake slowly for an hour. This makes quite a quantity and if desired the recipe may be halved, or thirded. but the cake will keep a long time indeed, it improves by Keeptng.-and is most convenient for unexpected company. It will be found much more delicious if old-fashioned hop yeast Is used, although the proper proportion of yeast cake may be used as a substitute.

WILL PAY NO REBELCLAIMS.

PLA1X, OlTSrOKEX ' POSITION OF MR. SAYERS, Chairman of the Committee on AppropriationsThe Efforts of Some of the Southern Members to Secure Favorable Consideration. BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct 12. Whatever the Fifty-third congress may do or fall to do on the financial question there will be one score upon which the record will be right. There will be no rebel war claims paid. This will be a severe disappointment to the partisan organs that have been printing columns regarding bills that have been Introduced by Southern members asking appropriations for cotton seized or destroyed during the war, forgetting at the same time to say anything about measures equally as ridiculous and Ill-founded brought in by members from the North. It wa9 left for several of the strongest of the Southern members to put an end to this talk, and they did so the other day in a most effectual manner. It was during the morning hour and Congressman Bunn of North Carolina was the man who precipitated the discussion by asking unanimous consent for the passage of a bill providing for the payment of a balance due the keeper of a North Carolina light-house, on April 30, 1861, when he relinquished the office. This seemed to give the chairman of the committee on appropriations, Mr. Sayers of Texas, an opportunity to nail the stories regarding the rebel war claims, and he was not slow in availing himself of it He objected on the ground that no Investigation had been made to ascertain whether or not the claim had been paid by the confederate government This nettled several Southern members, who set up the claim that this made no difference. Finally Mr. Sayers made the following significant statement: "I wish to notify my colleague here and now that so far as I am concerned, claiming neither for myself nor for the committee to which I belong any superiority in intelligence or honesty or economy, that I intend to stand in my place and use the privileges accorded me as a member of the house in demanding of every gentleman who presents a claim for payment by this house that it shall be proved . beyond dispute, that It Is a Just claim, and that it has never been paid. I give gentlemen fair warning." This plain statement coming from a distinguished Southerner, a member of the committee on appropriations, and a man who will be in a position to defeat almost any claim that may be brought forward, stirred up some of the Southern members who attacked the position of Mr. Sayers fiercely. This, however, brought Congressman Cockrell of Texas to his feet with the following: "Mr. Chairman, I am from the same section of the country that my friend hails from who has grown so enthusiastic in support ot this claim. I want to say that the federal government owed me about $50.000 for the destruction of property during the war, and when I entered into the rebellion against the government I concluded that I had sacrificed all the rights and privileges I had to any claim against the federal government .for the destruction of that property. I have been unalterably opposed from that day to this to any man coming from within the limits of the confederacy, so called, putting in a claim against the federal government for any amount of money based on such claims as these which were originated during the rebellion." This was straight from the shoulder and would have ended the discussion for any ordinarily sensible man but Bunn of North Carolina, and Hutcheson of Texas persisted In continuing it with the result that old man Cockrell. who is a brother of Senator Cockrell of Missouri, and quite as determined and plain spoken, was again stirred up, when he came back with a cutting criticism of those members who are really acting as claim agents. "Personally," said he, "I would not present such a claim. The truth of the business Is that I started out In my Bhirt-tail after the war, not wishing to ask any favors of the government or anybody else. The Spirit of the majority of the men living in what -was the confederacy and their hard work has established it on a firm basis since the War. "They have built up a prosperity such as never has been exhibited before in that country but they have never been suppliants , to the federal government for anything they may have lost during the war. And I wish to give notice to the house now that I have received not less than ten or fifteen letters since I have been elected to congrss notifying me that the writers had claims against the federal government: that they proposed to present them to this congress in order that they may be paid for cotton destroyed and for property destroyed during the war. I have universally written to them that I was not In that business, and I do not propose now to go into it, and I give notice that no bill shall pass this house growing out of these transactions with my consent while I am on this floor." Such statements as these, coming from men like Sayers and Cockrell, one of whom at least Is in a positon to enforce his views, are especially significant and show the absurdity of the attempt to persuade the people into the belief that this congress is going to pass a large number of southern claims. As a matter of fact there are preposterous and impudent claims brought in from all parts of the country and the southern states have no more than their due proportion. But with Mr. Sayers at the helm, claims Of this character frort any section will receive scant courtesy." FAMILY POISOXED. A Jfeln-hor Thought to De Guilty of the Crime. NEVADA, Mo., Oct 11. News has reached here of the wholesale poisoning of a farmer's family near Jerlco Springs, twenty-five miles south of this city. The poison was in the well from which the family used water in the cabbage eaten for dinner and other articles of food partaken of by the victims at dinner yesterday. The mother died in a few hours and no hopes of recovery are entertained of three of the children and two others, not members of the family, who took dinner at the house. It Is supposed the poisoning was done by a neighbor who bore the family a grudg-e. Many persons keep Carter's Little Liver Pills on hand to prevent bilious attacks, sick headache, dizziness, and Had them Just what they need.

AIHSDAXCB OF MONEY.

The Country. IIa f 1 00.000,000 More Than In 1802. During the past month the circulation cf all kinds has Increased $21,377.274. As this increase follows the extraordinary expansion of circulation during the month of August it must be acknowledged that the government has done all that it could be expected or reasonably desired to do by way of counteracting the contraction of circulation through the hoardinar of money during the panic. The increase during the month was $14,829.711 in gold coin. $.".052.317 in national bank notes. $3,403,930 in treasury notes, $2.595.000 in currency certificates and $590.846 In United States notes, while there was a decrease during the month of $2.821.962 in standard silver dollars, $235.033 In subsidiary silver, $786,450 in gold certificates and $1,251,202 in silver certificates. A part of the Increase In circulation came from the decrease of $5.800.000 in gold coin held by the treasury, and its holdings of treasury notes also decreased $1,9CG,908. On the other hand, the treasury took in about $2.822.b0C2 more standard silver dollars than It paia out. and J4.C57.894 more bank notes, probably in part because some of the banks, which had ordered additional eir culatlon during the time of especial pressure in July or August, found it unprofitable to continue that circulation and have taken steps to reduce the amount of notes outstanding. In comparison with the returns a year ago the figures presented this month are most extraordinary. The changes s'nee Oct 1, 1892, are an increase of $105.900,000 in circulation of all kinds, which is at least two and a half times the amount of Increase which might be considered a reasonable allowance for the gain in population. It is worth noticing, moreover, that the gain in gold coin was about $72,800.000, in United States treasury notes about $41.800.000, in old legal tenders about $10.000.000, and in bank notes $35,800.000. But from these additions there must be deducted about $700,000 for decrease in standard silver dollars outstanding, $800.000 for decrease in subsidiary silver In circulation, $41,600,000 for decrease in gold certificates outstanding, and $1,900,000 in silver certificates, besides $9,000,000 in currency certificates. It will be observed that while the gold circulation, exclusive of certificates, increased during the year about $31,000,000. the circulation of silver dollars, exclusive of silver certificates, decreased more than $1,000,000. and while the circulation of legal tender notes, less certificates outstanding, increased $1,000,000. tie circulation of the new treasury notes shows an addition of nearly $3,500,000 per month, which Is fully as much as the purchases of silver bullion, the price of such bullion being considered, would warrant. It is plain that during the past year this increase in circulation has not been In any way proportioned to the actual demand for money in use. There Is considerably less business i1.n than a vonr 1 ago at this time, and yet there has been an increase in the volume of circulation amounting to about $IOG,0',000, or something more than 6 per cent. Under existing laws it is evident tho supplies of money can be Increased far more largely and more rapidly than the emergencies of business require. Yet there aro at Washington, and through the West and South, many who believe that the business of the country Is prostrated In large degree because the supplies of money have been restricted. Strange as this Idea appears. In the light of the official returns, it is unfortunately clear that the notion so strongly prevails in western and southern states that it influences very powerfully the action of senators and representatives. Doubtless the delay in action on the silver questloa is in large measure due to the fact that members from those sections apprehend severe criticism from their constituents fi they assent to any measures which check the expansion of circulation. To those who are in close touch with banking Interests, and who know how the supply of unused currency clogs and hampers banking movements at such a time as this, the feeling in western and southern states seems almost incomprehensible. Yet it has to be reckoned with as a factor in the financial as well as the political situation. N. Y. Journal of Commerce. THE FLY WHEEL BURST. Part of an Electric Power House Destroyed and Several Injured. NEW YORK, Oct 11. The electric power house of the Atlantic-ave. railroad of Brooklyn was completely wrecked this evening by the bursting of the flywheel of the engine, which is situated in the rear of the engine building, and used to drive the eight large dynamos which supply the motive power for the company's system. The fly-wheel, which is eighteen feet in diameter and carries a forty-inch belt, was making 500 revolutions a minute when it burst into fragments with a terrible report. The entire roof and rear walls of the building were carried away. One piece weighing about two tons flew a distance of two blocks and struck the twostory frame building at 472 Carroll-st, completely wrecking it. Mrs. Ann Keegan, a tenant, was badly cut by flying debris and also suffered from shock. She wastaken to the hospital, nother piece of the wheel weighing about a ton flew over the four-story building of John Miller and Henry Schrieber at 462 Carroll-st. It land?d in the rear of the house, ploughing up the earth. The foundations of the house were loosened and the windows smashed. The candy stre of Mrs. Johanna Rober at 4C8 Canal-st. was considerably damaged by flying portions of the wheel, as was also the coal office of Scraeder & Hoffman at Thlrd-st and Thlrd-ave. John Caples, fifty years of age, of 379 Seven-teenth-st, the engineer at the power house, received severe cuts about the head and face and was taken to the hospital. Joseph de Loso, who resides in he rear of 493 Carroll-st, was struck by a fragment of the wheel and received a fracture of the left arm. He was taken to the hospital. The damage sustained by the company on account of the wreck is estimated at $30,000. CÖRBETTS LETTER. He Doesn't Seem to Underestimate His Opponent. CHICAGO, Oct. 12. James J. Corbett has written a letter to the Chicago Record from York, Pa. He says: "Next Monday, Oct. 16, 1 will commence steady, rigorous preparations for my coming contest which is dated to take place Dec. 18. at the Coney Island athletic club." Ills training is to be done at Asbury Park. Regarding the issue of th fight Corbett says: "I consider Mitchell a very hard man t6 beat. He is very intelligent, well versed in all ring tactics, very strong and full of endurance. He is in the prime of life and has not dissipated one-tenth as much as people say he has. I have youth, hight and reach on my side. Mitchell has strength and harder punching: ability on his side. I expect him to f.ght for my body. I also expect the contest to be a very lonjr one, say forty rounds, and the general will win."

CONDITIO OF THE CROrS.

Corn Shows a Falllnar Off The Other Averages. WASHINGTON, Oct 10. The October returns to the statistician of the department of agriculture make the general condition of corn 73.1 , against 6.7 for last month and 79.8 for October, 1SD2. This falling off in condition is the result of the continued drought which has prevailed since June and was not broken In the corn belt until the latter end of September. The drought was most severe In the principal corn-producing states. The averages of condition in these states are as follows: Ohio, 70; Indiana, 61; Illinois, 66; Iowa, 98; Missouri, 69; Kansas. 64; Nebraska, CS. The returns of yield per acre of wheat Indicate a production of about 11.3 bushels, being 1.7 bushels less than last October estimate. The rate of yield in New York is 14.5 bu; Pennsylvania, 14.0; Ohio. 10.0; Michigan, 13 0; Indiana, 14.2; Illinois, 11.4; Wisconsin, 13.3; Minnesota, 9.1; Iowa, 11.5; Missouri, 9.5; Kansas, 8.4; Nebraska, 8.7; South Dakota, 8.6; North Dakota, 9.5; California, 11.2. The highest rate of yield Is in the New England, eastern, extreme western and mountain states and lowest in the central, western and southern states. The small yield is in the region of the drought during the fall which caused poor germination and growth, the severe winter following causing considerable winter killing. The low condition in many states is the result of the dry spring. The states reporting the lowest averages as to quality are: Kentucky, 86; Illinois, 80; Wisconsin, K5; Iowa, b&; Missouri, 73; Kansas, 73; Nebraska, 84. The .average yield of oats as consolidated is 23.5, against 24.30 last year. The last report of condition was 74 9, against 78.9 the same month last year. The average of estimated state yields of rye is 13.3. against 12.7 last year. The average yield ot barley is 21.7, against 23.7 last year. The condlton of buckwheat Is 73.5, against 77.5 last month, and 85.6 Oct. 1, 1892. The condition of potatoes is given at 71.2. a loss of only 6-10 of a point since the last report. But three October conditions have been lower In the last decade, 1887, 1S90 and 1892. The conditon of tobacco has improved slightly over last month, being 74.1 against 72.3 last month. FIRE DEPARTMEXT SEXSATIOX. The Chief Found Drunk and a Fireman Arrested for Arson. OMAHA, Oct 12. An arrest was made in Council Bluffs this morning which promises sensational developments, as it involves a portion of the fire department in serious difficulties. Shortly before 11 o'clock Wednesday night an empty building was set on fire, the blaze being discovered by officers, who extinguished it Half an hour later the same officers found the fire burning again. After extinguishing it they followed two men who seemed to be skulking about the fire and saw them enter the upper Broadway hose house. Knowing the fire would probably be started again the officers concealed themselves and caught eight of a fellow prowling about and followed him. They caught him Just as he had reached the upper floor of the engine house with a big chunk ot waste in his hand saturated with kerosene and carefully wrapped in paper. He proved to be a fireman named Webber. Search of the hay loft revealed Chief Nicholson lying on a pile of hay sleeping off the effects of a night of dissipation in Omaha, where he had been accompanied by Webber. Nicholson has been trying to Induce the council to increase the size of the department ever since his appointment. Webber has been subbing at various engine houses for several months past The matter was taken up by members of the council committee on fire department and an investigation is in progress. Sensational developments are looked for and a special meeting of the council is called for tomorrow night by Mayor Lawrence, at which it is expected that several changes will be made In the membership of the fire department CAPTURE A FREIGHT. A Southern Pacific Train In the Hands of Armed Men. HOUSTON, Tex., Oct 10. Southern Pacific officials are considerably excited over news wired from points along the line concerning the capture of one of their freight traln3 at Delrio by a band of of sixty-five armed men, who claim to be miners from California and New Mexico, who took possession of a train, driving off the crew and all others who attempted to dissuade them. They say they have been driven to desperation by the delay of the senate in settling the silver question, so that business may be resumed in the silver producing states, and that they propose going to Alabama to take the places of the striking miners, as it is now work or starvation with them. They are running the train on their own schedule and the dispatchers are puzzled in order to avoid a collision with regular trains. They stop at the different towns and levy tribute of provisions, but so far have committed no other depredations. Being well armed and determined, officers dare not attack them unless they can muster a sufficient posse, which cannot be done, except In the cities. It is expected they will abandon the train near the end of the division, go around the city, and by capturing other trains, proceed on their Journey. 11 p. m. The headquarters of the Southern Pacific here have Just received a telegram from San Antonio stating that when the train pulled In there forty of the tramps were caught, while twenty-five escaped, but are being pursued. PR1XCETOX SOrilOMORES. Punishment In the Cases of the Hasers. PRINCETON, N. J., Oct 11. An Important faculty meeting was held this afternoon and final action was taken in regard to the sophomores who had been sent home by the discipline committee for hazing, to await the decision of the faculty. Dr. Cameron, clerk of the faculty, gives the following as the result of the meeting, the names of the men being withheld: "Two men are suspended until Jan. 16; two dismissed from the college and they cannot enter any other college; one suspended until Nov. 1; one suspended until Thanksgiving; one suspended until March 1; two cannot return to college, b t .nay enter another, a d one dismissed and recommended for severe punishment Xatural Gas. The earliest use of natural gas of which there is any record is in China, where for centuries it has been conveyed from fissures in salt mines to the surface through hollow bamboos and used for burning purposes. There are also places in Asia, near the Caspian sea, where it is seen to issue from the earth, and a similar phenomenon is to be seen in the Bzalatna salt mine in Hungary. The first discovery of natural gas made In America was. according to Thorne, In the neighborhood of Fredonia, Chautauqua county. New York, early in this century.

MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY

MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY AT SAX AXTO MO, TEX. Jeweler Kornlglirlm Shot and III Safe Rohhed of f.,(MM) In Money and Jewel alrlde of Chicago Girl at Madrid A Quarrel. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 10. Marcus KoenlRhelm, one of the oldest, wealthiest and most highly-respected Jewish citizens of San Antonio, was murdered and robbed some time last night, his dead, body being found at 5 o'clock this morning with a bullet hole through the heal lying in the hall of his j-alatial residence. There Is a deep mystery surrounding tha crime. Mr. Koenigheim has been for many years one of the most prominent Jewelers and pawnbrokers of the city. In the back part of the lower hall of his residence he had a large iron safe which was opened with a key. In this safe h had a large stock of money and Jewelry, amounting in value to fully $23,000. He and his family spent the evening with friends, returning home at 12 o'clock. His bed was placed down on the balcony, all of the members of his family sleeping on the next floor. The only person down stairs was a young cotton buyer named Hirsch, who occupied the room adjoining .the hall in which the murder occurred. This man Hirsch and several members of the family state that they heard quite a noise, but no pistol shots, about 3 o'clock last night, but none ct them made an investigation. The body was discovered by Mrs. Koenighelm aC daylight this morning. The Bafe wad open and rifled of all the money, Jewelry and valuables except a goll pair of bracelets, which were a heirloom of tna family. The burglar had entered by way of the dining-rocm window and proceeding upstairs had secured Mr. Koenighelm's trousers, from the pocket of which he took tie key to the safe and a pocketbook containing a considerable sum of money. It is supposed that Mr. Koenlgholm heard the noise and mada some move to Investigate when he met with his death. It is believed that tha crime was committed by some ona thoroughly familiar with the premises. CHICAGO GIRL'S SUICIDE. Quarrel with Her Lover Doubtless the Cause. MADRID, Oct. 10. A young lady, ta.ll and fair and apparently about twentythree years old. arrived at the Hotel Parts in this city yesterday. She was ao companled by a Portuguese gentleman, who waited until she had secured ari apartment and then departed. Tha lady appeared at breakfast this morning and afterward retired to her room. Sbol ordered that writing material and a bottle of brandy be broupht up to her and she commenced writing. . A little later the hotfl people were aiarmed by tha report of a pistol.. The sound came from the room occupied by the young woman, and when some of the attendants opened the door they found her lying on the sofa holding her band to her side and apparently in great agony. She had shot herself through the side Just below the heart and the bullet had lodged in her left arm. She was able to speak, and said that her name was Brown. From papers found In the room, however, it is believed that this name is a false one. It Is learned that the lady Is a native of Chicago, and the Unltel States legation was notified. A representative of the legation was sent to tha hotel and had the wounded woman conveyed to a hospital. There the doctors repotted that she was in a dying condition. It seems that the young woman left Chicago in the company of an Englishman for London. For f-ome time past she has traveled and has lately been visiting at different places in Portugal and Spain. It is reported that the motive for her suicide was a quarrel with her lover, which she had while visiting Teneriffe. Only a few pounds in money were found in her possession, MAY" HA YE 11EEX THE MAFIA. An Italian Found Dead In Xew Tortt Five Arrests. NEW YORK, Oct. 10. Has that dreaded society of vengeance among Italians, the Mafia, found another victim? Circumstances surrounding the death of the young and handsom Italian found dying in a hallway at 51 Mulberry-st just before 2 o'clock this morning leads to tha belief that such is the case. While tha police of the south precinct refuse ta express opinion, the fact that five Italian have been arrested is proof that they have suspicions. Tha victim's mustache; was carefully trimmed and his hands were as soft and white as those of a, woman. He was breathing when tha policeman found him. Around one foot was tightly knotted a long piece of. clothes line which was extended to hla left arm and tied again. There were na marks of violence upon him except that the knuckles of his left hand wera bruised and blackened. The policeman summoned an ambulance, but before it arrived the young man was dead . Ui AO ACTIOX TAKES ! J . - j By Street Railway Employes Cos eernlne Amalgamation. CLEVELAND, Oct 10. The Arnalga mated association of street railway employes this morning admitted to the session the delegates from the brotherhood of surface railway employes that they might present their application for membership. After doing so the convention considered the application for admission and finally appointed a committee to report on the matter. Nothing definite was done by the Amalgamated association regarding Its admission of the brotherhood. It was finally decided that th brotherhood should submit a proposition in writing and it is probable that action will be taken on It tomorrow. The delegates to the convention were entertained at a banquet tonight. - J McCURTAIVS SHORTAGE. It Will Doubtless Reach Over Half m Million Dollars. TUSKAHOMA, I. T., Oct 10. ExTreasurer Green McCurtaln's shortaga is still the talk here and the more it Is looked into the larger the shortage gets. A total shortage of $453.844 on lease district money alone lias been figrured out. Beside Dr. E. N. Wright the nation.! agent, had turned over to him $130.003 collected as royalty. None of this has been accounted for. The finance committee Is still at work on his accounts and it is thought the shortage will reach $583.000. It la said that AlcCurtain hsji over $223,000 of the lease district money deposited in a bank in Missouri and hat never drawn a cent out.