Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 March 1894 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DO-iVXIC, XubliMier. INDIANA Tin; house committee on labor decided, on the 1st, to rejiort favorably the bill making Labor day the first Monday in September a national holiday. Thk Kdinburgh Evening News, of the 2$th, emphasizes its assertion that Mr. Gladstone will retire, and says positively that the earl of Rosebery will succeed him as premier. On the üSth Gen. Ortix formally turned over the city of Tegucigalpa, Hondunts, to Vollearpo Uonilla. who hail already arranged an election for members of the assembly and president. IU the bursting1 of the natural gas main, on the 2Sth, the city of Tort Wayne. Ind., was left without fuel or light, and terrible suffering: followed, especially in homes where sickness prevailed. Tin; eleventh annual convention of the National Electric Light association began in Washington, on the '.27th, with J.'.O delegates in attendance, including most of the prominent electricians of the country. Finns were drawn in the Ucssemer department of the Otis steel works at Cleveland, 0., on the 1st at midnight, and 12.' men went ont on strike asrainst a heavy increase of work at the old rate of wages. Sik Wiu.iasi MnuKDiTir, ex-chiet justice of the superior court of the province of Quebec, Can., died, on the 'Cth, aged 81 years. Sir William was lorn in Dublin, Ireland, and went to Canada in 1 Hkkk Wkkneh, director of the Berlin Agricultural high school, and Prof. Mueller, basing their judgment npon personal studies made in Chicago, denounce the manner in which American meats are inspected. Clinton E. Maynk, promoter of the Metropolitan Electric railway of San Francisco, and a prominent man in financial circles, was arrested, on the 2Sth. on three charges of selling lands to which he had no title. William Jamison, of Port Townsend, Wash., is chareed with being the principal in a plot to cheat the government out of $900.000 by stealing the deeds to five large tracts of land from the land ofiice in Washington, D. C. A TCi.Eon.VM was received at the state department, on the 1st, from Con-sul-General Crittenden at the City of Mexico, stating that Hon. William Wilson was out of all danger, and that his convalescence was sure. The alleged encyclical of Pope Leo XIII., that was the cause of so much excitement among members of the American Protective association in Toledo, 0., last fall, is now said to have had its birth in Detroit, Mich. Rev. A. J. Warneic, the leading colored divine in Alabama, and other representative negroes, have called a convention of the colored race for March 21 in Birmingham, Ala., to discuss generally the amelioration of the colored race in Africa. The new taxation programme of the Italian prime minister meets with strong opposition in the Vatican owing to the fact that large investments in Italian rentes were recently made by the financial department of the papal household. Tiie available cash balance in the treasury on the 24th was 513S,754,G3S; rational bank notes received for redemption, J470.325; total for the week, 1,009,09.; government receipts, internal revenue, I315,S70; customs, $302,418; miscellaneous, (14,731. 'Mother Mandlebaum," the former notorious "fence" of New York city, died in Hamilton, Ont. on the 20th, aged 05. She was very wealthy, having accumulated a considerable fortune as a go-between for thieves and crooks and us the receiver of stolen goods in New York. One of the worst fogs of the winter Fettled down on North and East river at New York on the morning-of the 1st. Ferry boats ran only with the greatest caution and much of the heavy trafllc was suspended entirely. A few slight accidents and many narrow escapes were reported. Every raoldcr in the city of Geveland, O., was locked out, on the 2Gth, by the determination of the foundry men to close their shops until the molders accept a reduction in wages from ?2.25 to the minimum standard of two dollars. There are 00 molders affected and 000 helpers. Mr. Hopkins' bill to reclassify and prescribe the salaries of postal clerks, which, on the 24th, was ordered favorably reported, divides these clerkships into seven classes and hxes their salaries as follows: First class, ?soo; second, $1,000; third, tl,200; fourth, 51,'iOO; fifth, $1,500; sixth, S1.000; seventh, tl.SOO. IN the case of Mrs. John Diddtilph Martin (Victoria AVoodhull) against the British museum, in which the plaintiff charged the trustees with exposing upon the shelves of their library books containing statements libeling her character, brought in a verdict, on the 27th, awarding- Mrs. Martin 1 damages. The majority report of the senate committee on forcitrn relations on the Hawaii'in affair (a volume of nearly fiOO printed pages exclusive of maps), Mibn.lMed on the 20th, justifies Mr. Stevens' actions, except in proclaiming b protectorate, and finds nothing irregular in the appointment of Mr. Blount, but arrives at different conclusions from those found by that gentleman.

CURIIEXT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BBIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Tin: senate wan noi In session on the 21th. In the house. aft?r unimportant preliminary business. Mr llankhead. In tho temporary absence of Mr liland. movsd that the house, resolve Itself Into committee of the vrnole on the selcn'orajee bill, and lint all tinbate te closed In thirty minutes. Ou division tlievotowas: Aye. I'M: noes, 0 no quorum. AH further efforts to obtain a quorum to vote on this measure were, fruitless, ami the house, at 3 p. m , adjourned. IN tho senate, on the Cfith, tho report of tho committee on foreign affairs on the Hawaiian matter was presented. Senate Joint resolution for the appointment of h commission to tho Antwerp International exposition was passed. After forty minutes sneat in InclMative business the senate, at 1 :i0 p. m.. adjourned. .. In the house Mr Hland yielded th point for which the opponents of his selzniorase bill had been contending for ten days, and moved to procco 1 to Its consideration without limitation of debate, which was asreod to without objection, and the afternoon was spent In consideration of the measure. In the senate, on the STth. nothing of public interest too place in the open session beyond the adoption of a resolution requesting the president to suspend the consolidation of the Und offices as prorided for in the la-t sundry civil appropriations bill, A halt hour was spent iu executive session, and an -early adjournment was takes to enable the members to continue the caucus deliberations on tho tariff Uli.. .. In tho house the short session was devoted to tho discussion ot the silver selcnlorairo coinage bill. Mr. island's motion to close tho detune failinc to develop a quorum. I.i the senate, on the tSih, Mr. Voorhces proposed to legitimatize Mr. Mills position on the finance committee by movlmr that he lo made the substitute of Mr. Vnnce. absent on account of sickness. Tho expected speech of Mr Frye on the Hawaiian question was beirun.... In the house the senate Joint resolution providing- tor tho appointment of United States commissioners to the Antwerp espo.-! tion was read and referred. Mr. Bland" motion that th hous tro into committee of the whole on his seii-nloraso bill, and that peneral debate be closed at 3 o'clock on tho 1st led to further dilatory tactics on the part of the opponents of the bill, which occupied the remainder ot the session. In the senate, on the 1st. Mr. Frye concluded his speech on the Hawaiian quanioa. The public printing o&lcc bill was tnUen up and made the text of a political and tariff controversy between Messrs. Dolph and Allen In the house the Wand sclnlorasocoinase bill was taken up and passed: Yeas. 107; nays, ISO. The bill approrrlatlns flVO'O for raising the wreck of the Koarsarxe was then called up ty Mr Cummin' and passed. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ciiief of 1'oi.tci Skavy of Omaha, Neb., after asking for instructions to close the gambling houses, and meeting delay in getting them, issued an order to the police, on the -'7th, to close the houses. The gamblers have hitherto been permitted to run openly on paying a tine, which took the place of a license. The stock barn of George Schambs, north of Mansfield, O., was destroyed by fire, on the 20th, with a number of tine trotting horses, including the celebrated stallion Old Crow. The loss is very heavy. Ox the 27th the police of Uraztl, Ind., raided a cabin in a dense woods near Cloverdale, occupied by an alleged stock-thief named Taylor, and found therein a party of men and a 13-year-old girl, who says her name is Murray, and that she was kidnaped from the house of her father, a prominent farmer in Ohio, three years ago. She says she was kept in the closest confinement, and was kept in submission by her abductors and their revolvers. The senate committee on finance met on the 27th, only to adjourn promptly, Mr. Voorhces stating that the tariff bill was not yet ready. From the tenor of the testimony adduced, on the 27th. by the naval board of inquiry appointed to investigate the wrecking of the hearsarge on Roncador reef, it appeared likely that Lieut. -Com. Charles H. Lyman, the navigator of the ship, upon whose story of the accident the decision of the court-martial will be largely based, would lay the blame for the loss of the old corvette to her faulty chronometers and current charts, llisitoi RoNACfii of the Catholic diocese of Lincoln has issued an order of excommunication against Father Corbett, sentencing him to three years' suspension from participation in the eucharist and to undergo a penance of that length in a monastry near Montreal, Can. This sentence has been passed without a trial being' accorded the accused, his offense being1 the bringing of the bishop in a civil court on a criminal charge. Empkhoii Wilma it of Germany is giving a great deal of attention to the subjectof bimetallism, and is bringing till his influence to bear to prevent a further decline in the price of silver. Kev. Dn. Hcutskm. recognized as the greatest authority on Roman Catholic canonical law on thissidc of the ocean, and who has been under the ban since he championed the cause of Dr. McGlynn, has won his case at Home. He has been restored to all his rights, nnd may bring the order of restoration, promulgated by the propaganda at Rome, home with him. A hisastI'.ocs fire occurred at Oakland City, Ind., on the 27th, and at one time it looked as if the clly would succumb to the flames. Klenk Ilros.' Hour mill, elevator and warehouse were completely destroyed, as well as their contents, causing a loss of $75.000, on which there was but 117,000 insurance. Five dwellings and contents were also burned; loss, about $3,U00. Mit. tii.AusTOM:, it is said, hasscnt in his resignation as llritish prime minis ter, to take effect at Easter,, anij , IlL Hon. John Poyntz Spencer, fifth carl of that name and first lord of the admiralty, has been chosen to succeed him, Lord Kosebery, it is stated, having declined the office. A l'AKTV of patriotic Kcntuckiansare taking steps to purchase the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, in La Hue county, Ky , and convert it into a park. Negotiations are about completed, and work will be begun early in the spring. Lk.v Watson, aged 27, committed suicide at his home near Rttsl'villc, Kas.. on the 27th, by taking1 "Rough on Hats." The cause is not known. Watson was the son of one of the wealthiest fanners in that section. The Iowa senate, on the 28th. re jected the house kiyouian , mirrngc ntucuumcHi ares, 20; nay, 28.

!U'i:nt.A!t entered tho house o? Henry llolrman, treasurer of Kvetcr township, Monroe county, Mich,, on the night of the 27th, bot Mr. (JeirRiiin twice ami shot tttul instantly killed Mrs. ("SVirman, nnd made their escape with nearly $l,0O0. .loiix Callahan, an aged farmer, win had lived thirty years on a small farm six miles from Hurliiigton, Wis., was shot dead, 011 tltu night of the 27th, by a man who entered the house, revolver in hand, demanding' money. The supposed murderer, George Cloud, was captured. ('aim. Jonas lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin, recently appointed consulgeneral at St Petersburg, will resign his present olllco and accept the consulship. JunoK .1. W. McDill. a member of He inter-state commerce commission ;.ud ex-l'nited States senator, died at Creston, la., on the 2Sth. Avorsrt's St. GAt'ii;.VH has consented to put clothes on the young gentleinn n who adorns his much-discussed World's fair medal. lie has even consented to make a new young nutn altogether, If that will be for the bestThis he agrees to do in the interest of art. He was afraid that if he did not do it his medal would be turned over to some inferior craftsman, who might spoil the art of it completely. How Jackson of Iowa has reinstated Warden McMillan in the Fort Madison penitentiary, who was deposed" last summer by Gov. lloies for alleged misappropriation of funds. An investigation was made by a special legislative committee at the beginning of the session, lesulting in McMillan's exoneration. His reinstatement is a matter of vindication. Coi- William I'uaxhan, an ex-army officer, and irovernmcnt agent an Parle Hapids, Minn., under President Harrison, committed suicide at Minneapolis, Minn., ou the 2Sth, in his sleepingroom. He shot himself through the head. Financial reverses are supposed to have caused the act. The nickel-in-the-slot machines must depart from Washington, la. The citv marshal, on the 1st. ordered them all stopped, and parties failing to comply will be held for running gambling houses. This is the result of the recent big religious revival. Hknhv 15. Hogers, manager and principal owner of the Fidelity Storage Co., of Cliieago, committed suicide, on the 1st, by blowing out his brains with a revolver. He had been a sufferer from acute insomnia since December, and brooded constantly over business reverses. A 300-rorxn Wheeler projectile, tested at the Indian Head proving grounds recently, penetrated a 12-inch steel plate and rebounded from the metal without the slightest damage to its steel point On the 1st Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania issued his proclamation announcing the election of Galusha A. Grow to succeed the late Congressman William Lilly as congressman-at-largc. A London news "bureau states that Mr. Gladstone's secretary lias informed it that the resignation of Mr. Gladstone will soon be tendered. The public debt statement issued on the 1st shows the net increase of the public debt during February was $40,004,215. The interest-bearing debt amounted to 5023,S72,00O, which is an increase of M0.S31JI0 during the month. John Y. McKank, the convicted bos. of Gravesetid, Long Island, was taken to Sing Sing prison, on the 1st, to serve a sentence of six years for interfering with the sacred rights of citizens in connection with the franchise.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was not m session on the 2d In the house a resolution was agreed to authorizing a sub-committee on public buildings to visit Chi-ago to investigate the question of the erection of a new public btiiltlintr. Hon. Galusha A. Grow, conirressman-elect from Pennsylvania, was sworn in. A bill to regulate the disposal of aban doned military reservations was passed, as was the fortifications appropriation bill. The pension appropriation bill was then taken up. and during the discussion a personal encounter be tween Mr. Meredith and Mr. runk was narrowly averted. A night session for the consideration of private pension bills was held. Mrcitof the time of the morning session of the twenty-eighth biennial encampment of the department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., at Philadelphia, on the 2d, was devoted to the discussion of a resolution, which was finally tabled, allowing the Sons of Veterans to participate with the G. A. IL in eonducting the burial services of the latter organization. Michael S. Fay, inspector of the Ninteenth election districtof the Second assembly district of Xew York, who was convicted in the court of oyer and terminer, on the2Sth, of making a false canvass of the votes cast at the last election, was, on the 2d, sentenced to five years' imprisonment. In the Virginia house of delegates on the 1st, the senate resolution providing for a settlement with West Virgina of the portion of the debt of the commonwealth which tuat state should bear, was defeated by a vote of fis to M5, and all the substitutes to the measure were rejected. TitEonoiti: F. Hakeu, ex-paying teller of the Consolidated national bank of Philadelphia, who pleaded guilty recently in the United istatcs district court to the embezzlement of f 17,000 from the bank, was sentenced, on the 2d, to seven years and six months' imprisonmcnL A toii of 200 men attempted to force the jail at Strnttdsbitnr, Pa., onthe'id, for the purpose of lynching HIchard Pryor, a negro murderer. The attack was resisted by the sheriff, who held the mob ut bay until the police arrived, when the mob retired. The largest opal in the world, said to be as large as n hen's egg and without a flaw, and which, it is estimated, will dress 323 karats, and prove of tho highest quality and immensely valtiw hie, has been foutyl in the opal mine near Caldwell, Idaho.

INDIANA STATUS NEWS.

A vakty of ladies from Muiieie ana from Anderson, will make a tour of Kitrope this .summer. Clav City jollified, the other night, on the occasion of the initial lighting of the street lamps. Mus. Hose Smith, with one child, and living at Noblesville, went to Lebanon, a few days ago, to her father's house, claiming her husband had deserted her. That night while in the net of peeling an orange, she cut her throat, and is not expected to live. A jao'' cure institute has been opened at LogansporL Tin: market house question is to be voted on at Columbus shortly. Ft. Wavni: sportsmen nre importing quail from Kansas to the county. A iaii fire department will be organized at Laporto in the near future. Leiukon is gettiug very metropolitan. The latest is a board of trade. A new bank will be opened at Clay City April 1. Twe.vty-thhke dogs were poisoned, at Osgood recently. An Edinburg inventor is trying his luck at a living machine. The Hartford City Glass Co. has given out that within a few days it will close down its thirty-six-pot furnnce. The force was reduced about one-half since the closing down of its sixty-pot tank a few days ago. Fire hundred men are thrown out of employment Othor factories in the belt, aggregating two hundred pots, will shut down in a few days. A "mock" wedding ceremony, in which, as a joke, Frank Arnold and Miss Jennie O. Frecbarger were married by the mayor of Connersville. a few weeks njo, is now claimed to be binding. A new glass tumbler works will locate at Greentown. Lot' Panton is in jail for stealing -the horse and buggy of Dr. lt. F. Ilutchings at Crawfordsville. He was caught at Lebanon. Lkonaim) P.i:othei:s' steam brick mill, at Hammond, begins operations April 2. lletween four hundred and five hundred men and boys will be employed. At Laporte the local banks will furnish the county all the money it needs and the invalidity of the bond issue is causing little concern. The jury at llrookfield found Stephen Deilkcs guilty of the murder of Marion George, and sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment llt'CK Stanley, reformed drunkard, induced S00 to sign the pledge at his meetings in Muncie. Oaklani Cm was visited by a $40.000 fire the other morning. The Columbia mills and elevator, Klcnck llros., proprietors. Loss. 35,000: insurance. $15,300. Geo. C Klenclc. residence, loss f 1,200; insurance, $1.100. G. W. Kimble, dwelling, loss ?350; insurance 230. Other property close by was slightly damaged. Origin unknown. Mr-s. Ei.izaiieth Chuistian, living ten miles northeast of Lebanon, while in attendance at her daughter's funerI aL fainted, and died before regaining consciousness. Mns. AuorsTA Schmidt, murderess of John Oscar Walton, is slowly dying in jail at ICokomo of consumption. Her trial is set for March 12. The Adams window glass factory at Frankton has closed down. John Davis, who attempted to pass bogus dimes on the postmaster at Moore's Hill, several days ago, has been arrested for counterfeiting. Tiikiu: was a double funeral at Muncie, the other day. Two children of Charles Deny were buried in one grave. At Selma, six miles east of Muncie, thq wife of Dr. A. II. Goodc opened the valve of a natural gas water pump, and an explosion occurred, badly burning her arms and face. William Fever, of Crawfordsville. was trampled under the heels of several horses the other day and his skull fractured. He was aiding in taking horses to the cars to bs shipped away, and was riding a horse and leading four others, when they ran away. A THiiEE-YEAii-oi.u daughter of Pat Morgan, of Henwood, fell against a red hot stove the other morning. Its clothing quickly ignited, burning the child almost to a crisp before the fire could be extinguished. Its recovery is considered impossible. The republican state committee has received notice of the following dates for congressional conventions: First district, at Evansville, April 19; Fifth district, Martinsville, May 10; Sixth district. Muncie; April 12; Seventh district, Indianapolis, April 24; Ninth district, Kokomo, JuncO; Tenth district, Hammond, May 24; Eleventh district, Ilnrtj ford City, May 10; Thirteenth district. ; Warsaw, June C. 1 Waldo G. Hoiiinpon nnd Miss Emma Alice llrown were married at Indianj n pol is, the other day. Mr. Hobinson's j first wife was a cousin of President Cleveland, and her most intimate friend j was Miss llrown. When she died she ! exacted a promise of her husband to ; marry her friend. She had also per1 sttaded Mbs Urown to consent to tho , arrangement Hill Llotd, brother of A lie Lloyd, the pugilist, and Chas. Skelton, were arrested and jailed at Prazil on the charge of burglarizing Charles A. Fisher's grocery store some time ago. Just after the burglary both disappeared, and, thinking the affair had blown over returned to Hrazil a few days ago. and were quickly arrested and jailed. The Wabash School Furniture Co. will resume operations, the employes agreeing to a cut in wages of from Ü to 12 per cent. Vi:sr-i!oin passenger train No. 7, on the Pig Four, dashed Into an open twitch in the eastern yards, at Union City, the other evening, smashing six freight cars and passenger train engine. No one was Injured. The express and mail cars were badly wrecked. Some person had thrown the switch and put out the light with intent to wreck the train. The circuit judge at Noblesville is after participants in a prize fight recently held there.

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.

Ttir Mt of Triid. Tlirouitl""" "b tryn Itrilrvtrtl Thronet H. ' U'-.-Uly KelMVA WloMrlytSroulnir Itt-nmiul fur lltxitt. Iiidlralliieu iriiduul ICi'liiru of CtmlUleiiri- ltulur4 l'nilorr IiihIiik 11 (irntlfylnc IMiiiiiietliin. New Voi:k, March :i.H. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: With no more defli tto Information thnn a wcennco regardlm; tho outcome of tho iluanclnlnnd revenue dWputen ix rhaps more people ho come to the U'ltrf t the end will umwer their wlshe-t fertalnly rather moro nre taliltir limited rHUn in Wutne-. especially In sloclc. It is usu illy a tfood plan for practical men to rely llttlu on Impressions which nro n-sliIuo isly fostered In peculattvo circles, where people rarely Iator 10 lift price of thltu-s they want to buy. A more substantia! Vails Is tho slowly-srowltii demand for Koods caused by gradual exhaustion ot stoehH held ty dealers, and this has further enlarged tho working force In manufactures. The fall of silver to 2?u pence nnd below fi cents hero, and nfter a slight rocovery Us re newed weaknevs. have an unf avonlde Influence on tho markets. The announcement that ImiHirt duties are to In Im-tosud by India, if continued, may Increase tho difficulty. Th passage of the sieiirnloraco Mil hj the houstj late on T!iurd:y has not had time to produce much effect, hut Is not financially reassurlucMore works havo resumed or Increased hands or hour than havo stopped or reduced, but mtmerou. reductions In wokos tontluue to lessen the 1 urliaslg power of those at work. Sharp reductions in Indian head l-iieetltiss and AtnosU"a tickings ciuso larger tradtiu. but print cloths are accumulating and weak, and gflVer.iI mills of Imporlaico have closed. In all tmmehes of the woolen manufacture tho demand Is yet far below tin usu il mark, but It is somewhat Improved In wor.-ills and dress j-cmmIs. and leadiiic mills have lt-t.n taking wool quite largely. that In three chief markets tho sales have Uvn l.k9Ä)J jtounds for tho week, against S.lW.'.iXi last year, in part locauye s-areely any foreign wool has been tin-norti-d for mouths and supplies are short. Western markets are also broa.ter without Improvement in price. Continued weakness nonpars In prices of metal products, notwithstanding sumo Increav in actual business, liven in tho Pittslmn;h rejjlon little over half th force Is employed, a iu! only .'m per cent of the Connellsvllle toke ovens are yet In ojeratfon. A few more furnace.-, are In blast; MUharn plj is wr-nkcr. and 6.CtO tons of southern warrants have been Liken by i:lih holders, who now have 11.01 tons. There nro heavy transactions In lake oro at l'lttsbur;h. and It Is said that with ore at i'i.Ti. cofco at 8 ceatx.nd wages reduced su per cent, tanny furnaces can make Iron at a profit ove i at present prices. Minor metals are weaker, tin in part because of th-fall in sliver and dior;atiIi-d oastTn exchanges, and lea l because of eipoeted leslla:lon. Shipments of hoots and shoes from llostoa showadeireaso of only S pvr cent, for tho week, which is the best for a Ion time, and there is taore buyln-;. but almost exclusively of raeJium or low-priced noods. Scculothe markets are mors active and stocks -troiu-rr. railroads having advanced an average of 71 vents, aud trust stales 'Zi cents, mainly on Thursday. Kecclpts and exports of vvh,-at for the wee'iCihave been utvo-.it one-half i'f last year's, wall there Is a creat incrtass both Iii receipt.-, and exports of corn, but scarcely any ch.tnge is seen In prl.es of these or other pro lucts. Cotton receipts for the week nr- still lli;atly nlKive last year's. The fall in silver and tha closing of some mills, hinder a rise In prices The withdrawal of deiwslts from New Yor!t ; saving hanks of late have teen unusually lnrj-'e. end these banks havo Kenerally raised their rst" of Interest to i per cent. ThemoM encouniKlncf'-ature of the week's record Is the continued tlocr-uso In number and Importance ot failures. Tho failures ilurlc ihe rast weck numbered, in the United States. Ml. against 3--4 last year; ai.il Canada '-. against last year, scurcely any being of much importance. THE WILSON BILL To be Materially Modified tr the Kennt Committer 011 Flnmicr Tlir Sujar unit Lead Men Fit-titlnc Hard for Protection. Washington, March 'J. The senate finance committee began its session again this morning at 10 o'clock with all democratic members present but Mr. Vance. It is understood that the committee has practically decided upon the sugar schedule, and in the result reached the sugar men appear to have gotten more than conceded up to this poinL According to the best authority obtainahlc all sugars up to SO degrees by the polariseopie test will have a duty of 1 cent; between SO and 90 degrees, one-tenth of a cent additional, and between 10 and 9i the rate has not been decided although the demand is made for two one-hundredths of a cent for each degree. Above G degrees a net increase of one-eighth of a cent in askef., and up to this time refused by the committee. Senator Voorhees said this morning that the committee hoped to lay the bill before the republicans by Tuesday morning at the latest. The lead men have reason now to believe that they will get at least threequarters of a cent a pound on lead ore, and if this 1e true lead products will prohablv be restored to the dutiable list. WANT RECIPROCITY. AKrlrtiltural Implement Men Object Co I.rcUlMt Ion In Favor of Admitting Cn:idi:iii Mnrliltie Free In the Fre of the Dominion Tariff. Washington, March-O. C. II. Deere, of Moline. 111.: Mr. I. K. Studebaker, of South Iteud, Ind., and A. I,. Conver, of Akron, O.. nre here on behalf of tho Association of Manufacturers of Agricultural Implements of the United States, who object to the freo admission of agricultural implements from Canada to this country, while as American manufacturers, they are shut out from that country by reason of a duty imposed by Canada on their manufactured articles of 35 per cent Canada also imposes a duty 0:1 farm products, and these gentlemen ask to hsue a feature of equal trade relations embodied in the bill that the same shall not be operative until such j time as Canada will open her doors to us, mm our ntanumciurers snail be put upon an equal footing witli litem. Serving the State In the Clotlilni; Department nt Sine SlurSixo Fiso, N. Y., March 3. John Y. MelCane, after being duly received nt the prison Thursday evening, was locked iu cell 119 on the third gallery, lie ate scarcely any supper, hut slept .veil all night This morning he marched to the mess room with the other convicts and ntc quite a hearty breakfast He has been consigned to the clothing industry, and took his place in that department this inornitig. He is taking his imprisonment In a very sensible manner and shows n hii-ns of breaking down.

THE RIOTING MINERS.

Kelrt.-Moore Troops IIrKei,, fnr-Thr 1'HIi.b AmonC , jj,'? I'lmlmLd- Destroying trl.lB,. ' Oll.et rroiierty-Trouldn IVilr,l Martini Law iVoclul,,,,.,!. ' CiiAlti.nsroN, W. Va March dispatch received here from HvauKow. ell, manager of the Mount Carhon Co nine miles above F.agle. asks the gov, ernor for troops, stating that they tire threatened from front und retirhya large force of strikers. The governor wired for details, but had receive,) no reply at 10:30 p. m.. and has issued no orders. A dispatch states that part of tho militia have htarted from F.aglo to Fowelton. it is not believed there has hoen any lighting there up to this hour. The feeling among the strikers has in no way abated, but they are awed by the soldiery. The governor is using nerv means to get at the true situation. Tom Adkius, the wounded miner, died, nst night. The governor has issunsed vigoroorders to the sheriff to spare no pains ut the inquest to locate the guilt. The dead man will bu buried to-morrow with demonstration, and it is feared that it will provoke another serious outbreak. St ri kor De troy I lis; Itallrond Itrldcwild Other I'roperty. CliAiti.KSTON, W. Vti., March 2. li: p. m. blieritT Silman just received a telegram from Division Superintendent Oill, of the C. ,fc O., to the effect that he is reliably informed that a hirgt body of strikers are marching up Carbon creek to destroy the railroad bridges and property of (I. L. Harri son s Co., and called on him for protection. Sheriff .Silman, with eight deputies is at the depot waiting on a freight, due here at l'J o'clock. The sheriff requested the governor to send militia. tJov. MeCorkle immediately telegraphed to Company I. of Huntington; C, of Ilinton, and the l'mcevorte company to be ready to move at once. He requested the C. v O. to have c ts ready to transport troips. .ccrlous Trouble Feiirrd. Cil.utixsTON, W. Va., March .'I. 12:0" a. m. Two hundred and fifty striken came down from New River to Montgomery. Two hundred said they were troing to Kugle to raise trouble, and fifty came down toward Hundley, live miles below. It is feared there while Rcrious trouble before daylight. TRAIN-ROBBERS FOILED tly the I'reeiiee or .11 1 nil of it Ilravo KnKlneer Who Cot Onlu tint (iniue .lust in Time. St. .losr.rir, Mo., March H. The gang of train-robbers who havo been operating in the vicinity of this city mathanother attempt last night, which, however, was a failure, owing to the nerve of Kngineer .lames McKinney. of the Rock Island train No. 18, bound for Chicago, which left this city at 7:'J.i iu charge of Conductor J. A. Warner. .lust as the train reached a deep cut on the line three miles east of this city Engineer McKinney saw a red lantern flash across the track, lie promptly applied the brakes, and the train came nearly to a standstill, when he noticed several men with guns in their hands rise up from the side of the track and start toward the engine. He instantly realized that they were robbers, and pulled the throttle wide open. The engine shot past, and as it did so the gang opened fire pouring a volley into the engine nod baggage car. The engine men crouched down and escaped unharmed. As the engine went by one of the robbers yelled: "Stop that train, you ," and emptied two revolvers into the cab. The train wal safely out of their way, und the gait was not slacked until Stockbridge was reached, where the ollicers in this city were notified and n posse sent out to .scour the country. There were fourof the bandits and they wore white masks. A GENTLEMAN OF JAPAN Commit Suicide Over m I.ove AfTnlr at Iletrot, .".Itc-li. Dbtikht, Mich., Marclif!. Chickanori Tomahari, a native of Japan, aged 2-. who came to this country three yeanago to study chemistry at a ocal laboratory, was found in his room iu an unconscious condition at nn early hour, and died shortly afterwards, lie showed every symptom of narcotic ponioning. Iti believed he committed suicide. Disappointment in a love affair is said to he the cause of the act Tomahari's father, who died a year ago, was a prominent general in the army of .lap;in, and his family are influential people in that country. THE DEXTER BANK ROBBERY. 'Til Announced that Koran Arrests Will Soon he Mude. nnsTK, Mich.. March:!. The excitement over Thursday's robbery of the Dexter savings bank still runs highMany plausible theories have been nil vanced, and it is said that arrests will fiOonte made. Small threads of evi dence arc being closely followed pi and the strange fact that no one wtä Keen either entering or escaping from the bank is beginning to phty an im portan t part with the detectives. It develops that the burglars left only CM) in tho safe. Young (Jregory, wl war; sandbagged, Is doing us well as can be expected. A mil That Mrer Not Worlh tho Taper It Ik Written tin. St. Loi ih, March 3.-tVlicn Dr. A. C Ilernays presented hi.s bill for 11. to the legal representative of th n,ur derer Ducstrow yesterday f"r !l s""' gieal operation performed upon theJat ter's wife after she was mortally wounded, the lawyer not only disputed the doctor's bill on the ground that no responsible person had employed 'dm. bul further Informed him that if could establish his clnlm nt hi"' "e would have to collect it from a jm parattve pauper, all of which made m expectant surtreon feel very gl1-