Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 April 1890 — Page 2

Ohe Ligonier 3 e Figonier Bamner, LIGONIER, g s INDIANA. L R A S N . TSR OB T S s BSOSO, Jussg PArrort, who fought under General Andrew Jackson, at® New OrJeans. is living on a farm near Carrollton, Ga. He was born March 22, 1790. Tore 1-eturkn;(“)'{%im,pensi;;éd veterans who fought under the great Napoleon, who now receive $5O a year, put their number at 112 instead of 180, as in 1888. PresipeNT HARRISON has approved the act for the relief of goldiers and sailors who served under assumed names while minors in' the army or navy during the late war. : : Thr increase in the slaughter of horses, donkeys gnd mules for food in Paris is enormous. Last year 16,940 horses. 241 donkeys and 43 mules were prepared for food.

Tur total loss by fires in the United States during the first three months of the present year was $25,032,625, against $30,610,700 during the same period im 1889, and $37,171.600 in 1888. i

: WINE is now transported in Europe in tani cars, like, petroleum in the United States. One recently carried eleven thousand litres from Italy to Berlin, and such transport is looked upon as successful.

- Emix Bey’s salary of $500,000 a year as un exploring officer in the German service will enable him to live on the best the markets of Central Africa afford. Go West, by South, young man, and grow up with Ethiopia.

ALy the first-class race-tracks employ a doctor by the year, or rather the season. They pay a liberal price, from ten dollars a day upward, and expect him to report for duty a half hour before tho races boginz and to remain on hand till all the visitors have left.

TuHE costliest cigar smoked in New York is said to be a Havana Henry Clay, which is usually wrapped in gold or silver foil and which costs $1.25 apiece at retail. As to the cost of manufacture of such a .cigar a manufacturer says that it is wholly impossible to make a cigar whose actual cost, with the use of the choicest and most costly material throughout, can exceed twenty-five cents. _ :

Tur name of a Cingalese gentleman who has been appointed by Queen Victoria to a seat in the Legislative Counc¢il of the Island of Céylon is Panabokke Samastawikrama Karumatilaka Abhayawardhana Bhuwanasekara JayasundaraMudiyanselage Tikiri Banda Ratemahatmeya, and Oriental courtesy demands that the full patronymic should be used whenever there is occasion to address a mnative dignitary. :

A BTORY is told of a fire in a Philadelphia dry-goods store the other day that was extinguished by a singular blunder of the fire-insurance patrolmen. In the -excitement of the moment they seized a young English traveler who had wandered unguardedly too close to the building, and carried him inside, and

. Bpread him over a pile of burning goods. The fire was instantly smothered, but —=the young Englishman’s trousers were hopelessly ruined. .

_Here-is an illustration of the cosmopolitan character of our population. In’ the recent Methodist Episcopal conference at Carlisle, Pa., it was stated that the Bible is now printed in three hun«dred languages. It is found necessary to distribute it in twenty-nine lan--guages-in Pennsylvania alone. That exwels the record of the apostles on Pentecost day, when they spoke to the assembled multitudes at Jerusalem, each man in his own tongue. .

*MobzrN science, though still' rather too spéculative, has now arrived at the more rational conclusion that to take biood ‘from @& sick .man gives him but temporary relief, while it renders hini less able to battle with the disease. In cases where it is necessary to lower the heart’s action (as when there is an internal wound with hemorrhage) this may be proper; but it is now admitted that venesection (as it is called) is a remedy often worse than the disease.

JupGr Tnomas T. BouLpin, of Charlotte County, Va., owns the plantation on which his grandfather and greatgrandfather are buried, and which has been in the family one hundred and for-ty-six years, and although he is seventyseven years of age, he sleeps in the same ‘réom e was born in and upon the same bedstead he was born on. Judge Bouldin slhows with pleasure the spot where stood the cabin which his ancestress, who came from Maryland, had erected An 1744, :

~Javes Wercen, of Middletown, Conn,, having been tcld that the force of a dynamite explosion was downward, made a practical test of this principle a few -days ago by boring a big hole into a monstrous gnarled log, into’ which he put a lot of dynamite, ignited a short‘time fuseand carelessly sat down astride -one end -of the log. Soon-Welch and ‘the log ascended in a curve about thirty feet. In the descent the position of the «wouple was reversed. Welch arrived at earth first, the log followed, and Welch says it thumped him several times after he was down.

Pr. GATLING, the inventor of the famous gun that bears his name, is an ©ld man of about eighty years, with a wealth of snowy hair and a smoothshaven face. His ereation made him rich and celebrated and almost revolutione ized modern warfare. So great a factor 2c was in military science that the moment it was introduced it was copied ‘wholesale, The mitrailleuse, Maxim, Nordenfeldt, Hotchkiss, Krupp and Armsfrong patterns are mere imitations ©f his.original idea. His home is in Hartford, Conn., and he is everywhere well-known as a wealthy relic of the war days. ' :

At the review of the regular troops and the District National Guard in Wash ington a few days ago, which was ordered for the especial benefit of the delegates to the Pan-Ameriean conference, President Harrison was the reviewing officer. This was the first time since thes War of the Rebellion that a President officially reviewed troops by virtue of his office as Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States. The review was witnessed by a vastconcourse of people, and was a sight well worth seeing, and made tho hearts of the multitude glow with justifiable _pride and eathusiasm. e {

® ¢ i : Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, TuEsDAY, April 15.—A pension bill was introduced in the Senate providing that all persons who served in the late war shall receive a service pension of $8 a ‘month and their widows $l2 a month. The Montana election case was further discussed. In the House the naval appropriation bill was passed; also a bill- to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. , i WEDNESDAY, April 16.—1 n the Senate Saunders and Powers (Reps.) were seated as Senators from Montana. House bills were passed for public buildings at Galesburg, 111.,, Ashland, Wis.,, and Grand Rapids, Mich. In the House the McKinley tariff bill was reported and referred. As finally agreed upon the bill places hides and sugar on the free list and provides for the payment of a bounty of two cents a pound on domestic sugars. In the contested election cases of Posey vs. Parrett from the First Indiana district and Bowen vs. Buchanan from the Ninth district of Virginia, ‘Messrs. Parrett and Buchanan (Dems.) were declared elected. The military academy appropriation bill was passed. THURSDAY, April 17. — The bill for the retirement of John C. Fremont as a Major-General of the United States army was passed in the Senate. A joint resolution for the appointment of thirty medical examiners for the bureaun of pensions without reference to the civil-service law was discussed. In the House, after the reading of the journal, a motion to adjourn as'a tribute of respect to the memory of Samuel J. Randall, whose funeral occurred at 10 a. m., was adopted. ' FripAY, April 18. —ln the Senate bills were introduced providing for a monument, to Commodore Perry at Put-in-Bay, 0., and for’'the admission of New Mexico as a State of the Union. It was decided to consider the world’s fair vill on the 21st. In the House the river and harbor bill ($20,000,000). was reported. A bill to erect a public building in every town in the United States in which the- postal receipts‘exceed $3,000 a year was favorably reported. At the evening session fifty private pension bills were considered.

FROM WASHINGTON.

CoLoRED citizens of Washington on the 16th celebrated the twenty-eighth anniversary of the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia.

.TuHE delegates ‘to the Pan-American conference gave a dinner on the 16th in honor of the President of the United States. v e O~ the 17th the funeral ceremonies over the remains of the late Representative Randall took place from the Metropolitan Presbgterian Church, and on the conclusion of the services the remains were taken to Philadelphia for interment. - - ) ; IN the United States there were 214 business failures during the seven days gnded on the 18th, against 209 the previous seven days. The total of failures in the United States January Ito date'is 8,831, against 4,064 in 1889.

; THE EAST. THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion was celebrated at Philadelphia on the 15th with ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes presiding.s : Ox the 15th Jacob Estey, the famous organ manufacturer, died suddenly at his home in Brattleboro, Vt., aged 76 years. : : OVER 1,200 coke ovens at Scottdale, Pa., were shut down indefinitely on the 15th, and thousands of men were thrown out of employment. INx Boston on the 15th the Methodist annual conference, with over 200 ministers in attendance, adopted resolutions condemning allegiance of American citizens to any foreign power or potentate, political or ecclesiastical, and declaring for woman suffrage in municipal eleetions. : G

THE death jof ‘“Commodore’”’ Louis Schwartz, 0 was said to have introduced lagen beer into this country, occurred at Elizabeth, N. J., on the 16th, aged 80 years. ' ForesT fires near Pleasantville, N. J., had on the 16th caused a loss of $400,000. T

A THE firm of Louis Franke & Co., silk merchants of New York, ‘failed on the 17th for $900,000. ; THE Massachusetts House on the 17th rejected by a vote of 117 to 49 the bill to give municipal suffrage to women. Ox the 17th- ex-President Hayes and his daughter Fannie sailed from New York for Bermuda. 0

_vl‘;;A;‘[;Esfdv(;shgrz);ed the Dutch village. three miles south of Port Republie, N. Jdoenthe lith: = - |

At Elbridge, N. Y., Charles McGowan and wife were fatally burned on the 18th by the dropping of a lamp, which setfire to their clothing. 4 Tur landing -of immigrants was gtopped on the 18th at Castle Garden, New York. Debarkation would in the future be made at the barge office.

WEST AND SOUTH.

- Tur Twenty-third General Assembly of lowa adjourned sine die on the 15th. The resolution for a prohibitory amendment passed the Senate, but failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote in the House. ; s

IIN Indianapolis, Ind., all the union carpenters went on strike on' the 15th for @ working day of eight hours with pay at thirty-five cents per hour. NEeAr Jackson, Miss., the house and barns of Jerry Bass (colored) were burned by unknown parties on the 15th, and Bass and his son Charles were fatally shot. No cause for the crime was known. . )

~ THE twenty-fifth anniversary. of the death of Abraham Lincoln was appropriately observed in Springfield, IIL, on the 15th, and the exercises at the tomb were impressive. o . .

ForTY-TWo out of sixty-seven towns voted against license at the municipal elections in Illinois on the 15th.

. I~ Logan County, W. Va., many flood sufferers were on the 15th said to be in a starving condition. :

Tue failure of the Detroit (Mich.) Steel & Spring Company, the largest concern of the kind in the United States, occurred on the 15th with liabilities of $300,000 and assets the same.

NEGROES on the 16th lynched Samuel Woody (colored), who killed his father at Auburn, Ky. ' FarmiNG lands were under water en the 16th from Arkausas City, Ark., to Helena, a distance of 150 miles, and the destitution and suffering among the people was great. ) Tue Republican State convention in Portland, Ore., on the 16th renominated Binger Hermann for Congressman at large and D. A. Thompson, of Portland, was named for Governor. e i

Tuae Oregon presbytery decided on the 16th that all candidates for license must quit the use of tebacco. In the vicinity of Chippewa Falls and at other points in Wisconsin prairie fires were raging on the 16th. Ox the 16th Martin Futrell (colored) was hanged at Hernando, Miss., for the murder of his wife.

‘THE charge that Oscar Neebe and Samuel Fielden, the Chicago Anarchists, were treated with great cruelty by the prison guards at Joliet. was denied by the prisoners on the 17th. Fraxcis MurpeHY said at Creston, la., on the 17th that since ‘he commenced his campaign in lowa last winter over 20,000 persons had signed the pledge.

DAvVID VANEST'S barn, - near New Sharon, la., was burned on the 17th, and sixteen valuable horses were cremated. , A DEMOCRATIC convention on the 18th at Shoals, Ind., nominated John F. Britz for Congress from the Second district on the 387th ballot. : , ; 'OREGON Democrats in: State convention on-the 18th at Independence nominated for Congressmen N. L. Butler and George Myers. . 'THE execution of Ben Elsey (colored) took place on the 18th at Birmingham, Ala., for killing J. W. Meadows, a railroad contractor, last January. He had murdered four other persons at various stages of his career. ¢ At Cygnet, 0., a wagon load of nitroglycerine shells exploded on the 18th, and two men were blown hundreds of yards and nothing left of them but a few strings of their clothing. The horses were also killed. .

IT was said on the 18th that gold had been discovered on the farm of C. B. Fisher, ten miles south of Aurora, 111.

' BEFORE James Dennis died at‘Wayne: town, Ind., on the 18th, he confessed that he was the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. McMullin, for which aet John F. Coffee was hanged in 1885, Ox the 18th twenty-one imported breeding mares on the farm of N. P. Clark at Brockway, Minn., were burned in their barn. Loss, $25,000. :

' Ox the 18th the wife and two children of Z. L. Tells (colored) at Berlamont, Mich., were burned to death in their home. =y

! At Mishawaka, Ind., Mrs. Kempfer while embracing her sister on the 18th who had just arrived from Germany fell dead from heart failure. | TENNESSEE Prohibitionists will meet in State convention at Nashville June 4.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

| Ox the 15th the Prussian Diet was opened by Chancellor von Caprivi, the successor of Bismarck, who in a lengthy speech expressed confidence in the' future peace of the Empire.

Tue roof of a weaving-mill at Bergamo, Italy, in which 300 girls were at work fell in on the 16th and seventeen of them were killed.

- Tue Canadian fisheries department annual report on the 16th showed that the product of last year was $17,655,266, a gain of $256,745 over the -previous twelve months. . o ‘

FRANCE’s public debt was on the 16th estimated at $6,200,000,000, making it the heaviest of any country in Europe. . I~ Valparaiso over 20,000 cases of la grippe were reported on the 17th.

CHANCELLOR GoOsSCHEN said in the House of Commons on the 17th the revenue from alcoholic beverages the past year was over $29,000,000, and the figures showed a universal rush to the beer barrel, the- spirit- bottle and the wine decanter. - : :

THE house of a woman named Skohiski was destroyed by fire on the 17th at Varsovia, Costa Rica, and in the ruins the police discovered more than sixty corpses, forty of infants and the others of young girls from 12 to 15 years of age. - el

At Oramenbaum, near St. Petersburg, the Imperial palace was burned on the 17th, and seven servants lost their lives in the flames. - . g

THE bodies of the widow of an army officer and her five daughters were found in their house at Moscow on the 17th. They had committed suicide rather than endure their poverty.. } Ix Austria-an incendiary fire on the 18th destroyed 130 houses at NeuTandec. i

~ Ox the 18th the schooner Annie May was lost at Codroy, Can., and the captain and three men were drowned.

LATER,

Tifs, Pan-American conference at Washimgton ended, at noon on the 19th. Before the final adjournment Secretary Blaine, who had. presided over its deliberations, addressed the delegates, congratulating them upon the work ace complished by the conference. ~ IT was reported on the 19th that 10,000 colored people from Alabama would Bettle in Oklahoma before J uly 1. - IN ashaft near La Salle, 111., Jacob Williamson, John Eustice and ‘Nelson Akerson, three coal miners, were suffocated on the 20th by gas. : ~ ADVICES of the 19th say that 500 houses at Taungdwingye, Burmah, had been burned.

- A PoRTION of Geneva County, Ala., was visited by a tornado on the 19th, and houses barns and fences were torn to pieces and nine persons were fatally injured. ;

. By the falling of a bridge on the 20th at Springfield, 0., fifty persons were injured, five probably fatally. THE stables of Contractor Clark in Brooklyn, N. Y., were burned on the 20th, and nearly one hundred horses and mules perished. ‘ _ THE 115th anniversary of the battle of Lexington was celebrated at Lexington, Mass., on the i9th. < :

- At Pigeon Creek, W. Va., on the 19th Smith Baisden, John Baisden and William Baisden, three brothers and noted desperadoes, were killed while resisting arrest. : !

NEARLY the entire village of St. Elmge, Col., was destroyed by fire on the 191&1. .. ADVICES of the"l9th from J apan say that flames had destroyed 300 houses at Aomari, 500 at Noshiro and 300 at Mipuro. |

_ THE season of the National Base-Ball League and the Player's Base-Ball League opened on the 19th. s A coAL vessel bound from Shields for London foundered at sea on the 19th and eleven of the crew were drowned, - Tur Shropshire canal sheds at Liverpool were burned on the 19th. Loss, $150,000. , A FoREST fire on the 19th near Egg Harbor City, N. J., caused a loss of $lOO,000. , STEVE J Acoßs (colored) was lynched by a mob on the 20th near Fayetteville, Tepn., for incendiarism. ‘ Tae anti-trust bill and the bill appropriating $lOO,OOO for an equestrian statue in Washington to General Grant were reported favorably to the United Btates Senate on the 19th. In the House tributes of respect to the memory of S. B. Cox, of New York, were paid. The anti-trust bill was favorably reported.

- TARIFF REVISION. The Ways and Means Committee Bill Reported to the House. L . # It Provides for a Reduction in Revenues of ‘571,864,814 -The Majority Tells How It Will Be of Benefit, While the Minority Severely Criticises It. THIE MAJORITY REPORT. WAsHINGTON, April 17.—1 n the House yesterday morning Mr. McKinley. (0.), from the committee on ways and means, reported the tariff bill, and it was ordered printed and referred to the committee of the whole. e Mr. Carlisle (Ky.) presented the views of the minority, and Mr. McKenna (Cal.) presented his individual views. . Ordereg printed. | . The majority report begins with a statement of the financial situation and estimates that the surplus at the end of the present fiscal year will be $92,000,000, and, deducting the sum required to make payments on the- sinking fund, the net ' surplus of receipts over expenditures will be $43,678,883. The estimated surplus of ‘the mnext fiseal’ year will be $43,569,522, which, with the amount of cash now on hand and available (reaching $90,000,000), will justify a reduction of the revenue in the sum contemplated by the bill reported of $60,936,936, and probably more from customs, and, say $10,327,878 from internal revenue, or a total of $71,864,814. The majority report says: : : “The exact effect upon the revenues of the Government of the proposed bill is difficult of ascertainment. That there will be a‘substantial reduction, as we will show, admits of no doubt. It is not believed that the increase of duties upon wool and woolen goods and upon glassware will have the effect of increasing the revenues. That would, of course, follow if the importations ‘'of the last fiscal year were hereafter to be maintained—which, however, is altogpther improbable. The result will be that importation will be decreased, and, therefore, the amount of revenue collected from these sources will be diminished. In every case of increased duty except that ¥mposed upon tinplate (which does not go into effect until July 1, 1891) and upon linen fabrics, thq effect will be to reduce rather than* enlarge the revenues, Decause importations will falf off. It was the aim _of the committee to fix the duties upon that ‘c!aSs of manufactured goods and farm products which can be supplied at home, o as to discourage the use of like foreign goods and products and secure to our own people and ourown producers the home -market, believing that competition amcong ourselves will secure reasonable prices to- consumers in the ruture as it has invariably done in the past. We seek by the Increased duties recommended not only to maintain but to enlarge our own manufacturing plants and check those supplies from abroad which can be profitably produced at home. The general policy of the bill is to foster and promote American production and diversification of American indus try. ‘“We have not been so much concerned about the prices of the articles wé consume as we ‘have been to encourage a system of homev' roduction that shall give fair remuneration/ to domestic producers and fair wages to A erican workm{en, and py increased production and home competition insure fair prices to consumers.”

The committee admits that free trade or revenue duties would temporarily diminish prices, but argue that it would be at the expense of the domestic. products, which would be displaced, and then prices would again advance and the country be left at the mercy of foreign syndicates and manufacturers. The report continues: . 5

‘‘Cheaper products from abroad to the American consumers mean cheaper labor at home and lower. rewards to the domestic producer, with no permanent benefits to the consumer. Neither condition would prove a blessing to the Uhnited States. That country is the least prosperous wuoere low prices and low wages prevail. One of the chief complaints now - prevalent among our farmers is that they can get no price for their crops at all commensurate to the labor and the capital invested in their production, Those who differ from us must believe that even further agricultural depression|is desirable, for no other consequence can result from their economic theories. They advocate cheap prices -as the .chief object [of the industrial policy they commend to the country. This means permanently low prices for agricult:ural products as well as for manufactured goods. This bill is framed in the interest of the people of the United States. It is for the better defense of American homes and American ingdustries. Ample revenues for the wants 6of the Government are provided for by this bill, and every reasonable" encouragement is given to productive enterprises and to the labor employed therein. The committee believes that, inasmuch as nearly $40,00p,000 are annually required to meet the expenses of the Government, it is wiser to ‘tax those foreign products which seek a market here in competition with our .own than to tax our domestic ‘products or the non-competing foreign products. it : \ “The committee, responding as it believes to the sentiment of the ‘country and the recommendations of the President, submit what they consider to be a just and equitable revision of the tariff which, while preserving that measure of protection® whichis required for our industrial independence, will secure a reduction of the revenue both from customs and internal revenue sources. We have not looked alone to a reduction of the revenue, but have kept steadily in view the interests of our producing class€s, and have been ever mindful of that which is due to our pelitical conditions, our labor and the character of our ~itizenship. ;

‘“We have realized that a reduction of duties below the difference between the cost of labor and] production in competingcountries and our own would result either in the abandonment of much of our manufacturing here or in| the depression of our labor. Either result would bring disaster, the extent of which no one can measure. - ! :

“We have recommended no duty above the pointof difference between the normal cost of production here, including labor, and the cost of like production in the countries which seek our markets, nor have we neglected to give this measure of duty even though it involved an increase over present rates and showed an advance of percentages and ad valorem equivalents. We have not sought to make & new uniforn rate of duty upon all imperted articles. This would have been manifestly unjust and ineqvitable.” X

The committee closes its argument upgn the general subject of the tariff by a quotation from the last annual message of the President, and - then proceeds to discuss the details of the bill, taking up first the general provisions intended to prevent frauds, such as the:limitation of exasmption from duty of wearing apparel to the value of $5OO, the omission of the present provision for free entry of goods wherein the price paid included the duty and the protective clause relating to registered trade-marks. The report next treats of the changes that have bden made in the dutyimposing schedule of the existing law. Of chemicals it says that many not produced in the United States are placed on the free list to benefit the consumers—mainly manufacturers. The result is a remission of $876,304 in duties. Earthen and ching ware remain without masterial change, but an increase had been recommended on glassware to compensate for the high labor and cost and to prevent destructive foreign competition. £t In the case of wool the report cites figures as an evidence of the alarming decline in production, and sdys that an advance of duties has Dbeen recommended ! which it is bpelieved will afford ample protection to wool-growing farmers. While the: Senate bill fixed the duty on third-class wool at 4 cents, the commsittee places it at 844 cents, acting apon the belief that, with the restrictions, definitions and classifications, and the . addition of port charges recommended by the bill, the difference will be fully compensated. The committee believes that the United States ‘shoulé produce all the wool it consumes, and that with adequate defensive legislation it will do gso. The annual cpnsumption is 600,000,000 pounds, and with the protec: tion affarded by the bill the farmers of the United states will at an early day be able to ‘supply this demand by the addition of 100 per eent., or 100,000,000 sheep, to the preseént num‘ber. The bill seeks to stop the frauds which have been so shamelessly practiced in the past by impoeting wools l}-ia.dy for the loom under ‘mew namnes and forms to avoid legal duties, The report gives the increase of the duty on wool and the naugtruction given to the worsted

clause of the existing law as a reason fov tn creasing the duties on woolen goods to protect the manufacturers. It continues:

' *““The necessity of this increase is apparent in view of the fact already stated that during the last fiscal year there were imports of manufactures of wool of the foreign value of #2,381,482 as shown by the undervalued invoices, and the real value in our market of nearly $90,000,000— fully one-fourth of our entire home consumption—equivalent to an -import of at least 160, 000,000 pounds of wool in the form of manue factured goods. el : “The existing law gives, it is said,a protection of 25 to 45 per cent.—the bill gives a range of 3¢ to 50 per cent. The Mills bill gives a uniform rate of 40 per cent. more than was required on low grades and less than was needed for fine goods. The advance in these fine grades will, it is believed, diminish importations and thereby. reduce instead of increase“the revenues and transfer to the country the manufacture of from §15,000,000 to §20,000,000 of woolen goods now made abroad. The average rate of the woolen-goods schedule proposed., including the specific duty on the ¥hole used and the manufacturer’s duty, is 91.78 per cent. The average rate at present is 67.15 per cent., but if the worsted decision had been made at the beginning of the year it would have been increased 10 per cent., and 15 per cent. more would have been added if worsted yarns had paid the duty of woolen yarns at the same price, so that if these manifest errors in constructions of law had been earlier corrected the average rate last year would have been nearly 80 per cent.” : : Of lumber the report says that the reductlon of the light duties would have discouraged the proper care of our timber lands and have inured to the benefit of Canada without diminishing market prices. . Of the metal schedules the report says that no reduction can be made on pig-iron orore duties without detriment toexisting industries, and the committee has not felt - justified in interfering with the further development of our iron-ore resources, now 80 promising in the Southern States.

Of sugar the report says: ‘“The committee recommends that sugar up to and including No. 13 Dutch standard of color, and molasses be placed on the free list, with a duty of 4-10 of 1 cent a pound on refined sugar above No. 16, and that a bounty of 2 centsa pound be paid from. the Treasury for a period of fifteen years for all sugar polarizing at least 8 per cent. made in this country from cane, beets or sorghum produced in the United States.” g £ !

Of the internal revenue sections the committee, after reciting them, says it has recomsmended the repeal of the statutes imposing restrictions upon farmers and growers of tobacco, so that they will sell with freedom. In conclusion the report says that the advance of duties on\gg‘ricultural products would increase the revenue it the imports continue to be as large as during the last year. But as they are for the most-part articles which this country .can produce to the extent of our wants the increased duty will reduce importations so that the revenues will not be increased, and our farmers will hold their own markets. The same result will fol« low in other cases of increase, and where the revenue is in special cases increased the increase will ¢ far less than is indicatedby a computation based on the theory .that the importations will continue as large as under lower duties. - : : 5 THE MINORITY REPORT. The minority report is'signed by all the Democratic members of the commite tee. 1t is in brief as follows: It says thot the remedy proposed by the majority is the imposition of more taxes upon every article of foreign origin which the people of this country desire to buy and for which they are ready and anxious to exchange the cotton which they can not spin, the corn and wheat which they can not consume, the oil and coal which they c¢an not burn, and many other products of our farms, our forests and our mines. These surplus products must tind -a market: somewhere out of the United States. Inder our unwise system of taxation there is no market which will pay our industries, and to attempt to remedy -the evil by increasing the cost of production is simply to begin at the wrong end, and will greatly aggravate the situation. . el The majority bill is framed upon the assumption that as our industries grow older they grow weaker and more dependent upon the bounty of the Government. It devolves upon those advocates now to explain, if they can, why it is that after a low-tariff policy has been abandoned for more than a quarter of a century and a high-tariff policy-substituted in its place the manufacturing and mechanical industries of the country are less able to maintain themselves than they were when the change was made. And when this is done it will still remain for them to show upon what principle of justice or sound public policy consumers can be periodically subjected to additional taxation, not for the benefit of the Government, which does not want the revenue, but for the exclusive benefit of private business eliterprises which are not able to sustain themselves. The silk-bounty.is severely criticized in the report. Continuing the report says the bill will increase the taxes on wool and. woolens $l5, 500,000 per annum, according to last years’ importations, but really to & much greater sum, while taxes on tobacco to the amount of $8,860,994 are abolished. The minority can not agree to do this at the price of an increase on necessaries. The only substantial reason urged for the repeal of the tobacco taX is the relief from Governmental supervision, but a mere reduction of the tax from 8 cents to 4 cents does not dispense with this supervision or reduce the cost of collection.

' Of the metal schedules the report says that there are many increases and scarcely any reductions on articles that can be imported at all. -z - 2

The bill proposes to make »arge increases in the duties on carpet wools, and take silver ores containing lead from the free list and subject the lead contained in the silver ore to a duty of 1, cents a peund, not because we need the revenue, but for the sole purpose of prevent ing-these articles from being imported into this country. .

The bill inereases the rates of duty on all classes of wool imported -into this country. These increases have been made principally upon the demand of a few large flock masters in the State of Ohio, and they will be defended by the majority on the alleged ground that they are beneficial to the farmers of the country who Kkeep sheep on their land. The fact is that wool is one of the least important.agricultural products in point of actual value and by comparison with others. It does not amount to more than 3 per cent. of-the total value of farm products. o The report criticises the sugar bounty and protests against.the gross favoritism' and injustice of such a policy. The sugar duty is defended as far more just and equitable than that on many other articles, and. while the minority believes the duty should be reduced, it can not see the justice or propriety of making this revenue article free, paying a beunty, and making this an excuse for imposing $65,000,000 additional taxes on the other schedules of necessaries. i

The minority finds it impossible to state with accuracy -the effect of the increases. It expresses the opinion that the increase of the tobacco duty will be $16,305,925 and that other items will show an increase of $8,000,000. Adding these amounts to the $40,055,152 shown by the committee’s tables to have been added to the duties on articles remaining on the dutiable list, shows a total increase of duties on artiocles still dutiable outside of the sugar schedule of about 65,000,000, and the minofity is satisfied it is more than that.

LOST WIFE AND MONEY. el

A Wealthy Kentugkian Robbed of His Eride and 87,000 in Gold by a Gracelsss Nephew.

CiNcINNATI, April 17.—Mr. J. W. Middleton, a well-to-do citizen of Davis, Scott County, Ky., was in Covington yesterday in search of his bride of three weeks and $7,000 in gold. Last Saturday he had drawn the gold from the bank to use in various ways for the benefit of his bride, but while he was away from home on Monday, Matthew Middleton, his nephew and ward, who was living with the newly-married uncle, took the gold and his uncle’s wife, and came to Covington, where a marriage ceremony was performed. They then disappeared. The bereaved Middleton is using every means in his power to find his money and his wife. : . Three 7qutal Men, - Lixcorx, Neb., April 17.—Tuesday .afternoon, near Silver Creek, Neb., the three sons of a farmer named Charlton ‘beat their father and sister and then fled. The girl is dead and the old man is in a dangerous condition. =

-~ A SAD CHAPTER. i Dispatches Which Tell of Woe Brought, to Many Hearts—Three Miners Suffocated in an Illinois Colliery—A Bridge Falls at Springfield, 0., Injuring Fifty Persons, Some Fatally—A Cyclone in the South Said to Have Killed ' Fifteen Humans—Many Deaths By Fire and Drowning. = VRN SPRING VALLEY, 111., April 21.-—The £ity is in mourning over-an accident that occurred at one of the: coal-shafts Sunday morning by which three men lost their lives. A fire started in an entry at the bottom about 8 o’elock a. m. and several unsuccessful efforts were made to put it out. At 10 o'clock John Eustice, who has charge of the mine, went down with four others. Soon after reacking the bottom they sent word to shut off the air, which was done. In twenty minutes three men were overcome by the smoke and suffocated. The two survivors signaled for-assistance, which was at once rendered and the bodies of the unfortunate men quickly hoisted to the top.Physicians were summoned and all possible means used to resto'reithem; but in'vain. The dead are John Eustice, N. P. Akeyson and Jacob Williamson, and éach leaves a large family. ' SPRINGFERD 0., April 21.—A frightful accident occurred Sunday afternoon at the Limestone bridge over Buck creek, by which over fifty people were injured, five of whom are not expected to survive. The announcement - that baptismal services - would '- be held by the Third Baptist Church (colored), near the bridge, attracted probably 2,000 people to the banks of the stream. The majority of those present were white people. The Li'mestonq street. bridge, which for four or five years has not been considered safe, was packed with-people, probably 600 in all.

Elder B. Green, amid the singing of songs of praise, took his staff and marched into the water. He had just found a suitable place for observing the i:ite of baptism when a ecry of horror went up from the- assembled “hundreds. - "Bhere was a loud c¢rash and splash and 100 people were struggling in'the water and on the banks below. The bridge runs over a race in addition to the creek. About 100 feet of the footwalk over the race had fallen, but fortunately gthe iron guard frailing did - not break. If this had broken probably fifty people would have been killed outricht: = = i o ey

The authorities are severely censured on account of the rotten condition of the bridge. An attempt was made to repair it last summer, but nothing was done. The footway was braced by two-inch planks and some braces set into the stone wall. These braces pulled out of the wall like .twigs when the strain came. A large numbet of damage suits against the city are expected to result. Loxpey; April. 21.—A coal . vessel bound from Shields for this port has foundered at sea. She carried a crew of fourteen hands all told, eleven of whom were drowned and three saved. s

PHILADELPHIA, ~ April = 21.—Daniel Mitchell, aged 22, and Joseph Cani, 21 years, started with'three companions from Gloucester, N. J., Sunday morning inea small boat to spend the day fishing. The boat capsized and Mitchell and Kani were drowned. o el

WasHINGTON, April 21.—A fatal accident occurred on the river front Sun: day afternoon. A party of young men were out in boats when George Mason and Joseph Hanserd, who were in one boat, rowed too near the dam ‘at the city mill and the frail craft was drawn violently against the rocks.. The boat was stove in and Mason and Hanserd ‘were sucked under. Hanserd failed to reappear, but Mason.rose to the surface and was rescued. = 2

BeTnrLeuey, Pa., April 21.—The loghouse of Farmer Andrew Young, -of Pennsville, mear here, was ; destroyed by fire Friday night. . Two little children of Mr. Young’s were burned to death and Mrs. Sielfis, the housekeeper, was horribly -burned while ‘rescuing the other children. The fire was caused by the explosion of a coal oil lamp. . OzArk. Ala., April 21.—The upper ‘portion of Geneva County was visited by a destructive tornado late Saturday afternoon. Houses, barns and fences were torn to pieces. The country is thinly populated. No ' towns were struck. .One report places the number of persons killed or fatally injured at anine and another at fifteen. e

" A BIG SYNDICATE. ¥Formation of theEce-Poruvlan Company with®h €apital of $52,500,000—1ts First Issue of Bonds Easily Floated. NEw YoRK, April 21.—The World says: Tangible steps have been at last taken in that gigantic South American scheme , known - as -the GracePeruvian contract. The company has been projected for a long -time and is to assume the mnational debt of Peru, amounting to $250,000,000, in return for valuable coneessions and grants from that Government. It has been or-. ganized in London. The first issue of $7,500,000 debentures of the comrpany has 'all been taken up, thus }ass'l’l:r-_ing the entire success of the scheme financially. The capital of the corporation is £10,500,000, or double the amount of Peru’s original national debt. ©~ . Three Desperadoes Killed, CATLETTSBURG, Ky., April 21.—1 n West Virginia, near Pigeon Creek, last Friday Smith Raisden, John Raisden and William Raisden, three brothers, noted desperadoes, were killed. James Brewer, deputy sheriff, and posse attempted to arrest them and were fired upon, when a battle ensued and the desperadoes were killed or mortally wounded and captured. : ,1 e W. K. Vanderbilt Astonishes the Foreigners with Hls 812,000 Train. ° PARrls, April 21.-—William K. Vanderbilt created a great sensation here Sat~ urday by arriving from Nice in a special. train de luxe provided expressly for the accommodation of himself and family at a cost of 60,000 francs, or $i2,000. Dozens of bankers, and industrial mag--nates and noblemen fond of traveling have their private cars on the great continental railways, but Mr. Vanderbiltis’ probably the first person not of imperial or royal rank who has been able to boast of a complete train equipped throughout for long journeys. : ol ; ' His Mind Out of Gear. CuicAGo, April 21.—E. J. Lehmann, the millionaire preprietor of ‘‘The Fair,” is alleged to be distracted, and his wife, Mrs. Augusta Lehmann, has filed a petition in the probate :court to have a conservator appointed for his estate, which is said to be worth $2,500,~ 000. o e Sl EOely e - Urica, N. Y., April 21.—At Oneida, 4es%*w nam’s hardware store. - Total loss, $45,SGI s e

ORGANIZED RELIGION. o Pope Leo Says It Is the Only Cure for Present Disord ri, and By It A'one Can . Tranquility Be Restored to the World—- . A Remarkable Interview with the Holy Father. . : Romg, April. 21.—Pope Lee XIII. on Saturday accorded an interview to a correspondent of the New York Herald, and it was a remarkable one in many respects, and none_more so than in point of its length, it being the longest ‘audience ever given by the Pontiff to a private individual. This is regarded as a mark of ' his friendliness towards America and Americans. The stories about the Pope’s weakness, says the correspondent, are absurd. There was a surprising vigor in his gestures and his voice was clear and unwavering. Greeting the journalist kindly, and inviting him to a seat by his side, the Pope saidy ¢ o 0 - ' ‘I have a claim upon Americans for their respect because I love them and I love their country. I'have.a great tenderness for those who live in thatland, Protestants and all. Under their constitution religion has perfect liberty and is a growing power. Where the church is free it will increase and bless. Flove the Americans for their frank, open, unaffected character and for the respect which they pay to Christianity and Christian morals. It pleases me to say this througn an American journal. “The press and the church should be to‘gether in the work of the elevation of mankind. American journalism especially should -be amiable and benevolent toward me, because my only desire is to use my power for the good of the whole people—Protestants and Catholics alike—and to increase their prosperity and bappiness. ‘I have no other aim on earth than to benefif them and I will never do any thing that is-not for their gdod. Journal‘ism is now very powerful and it should help me to extend the spirit of religion and charity and to teach sound morality." * His Holiness asked how the Protestant part of America received his utterances, and was assured that the people, without respeet to particular churches; listened with deep respect and sym‘pathy to his appeals for a more charitable and unselfish spirit in society. Said Leo: -

*I feel- sure that it is so. I want the Protestants as well as the Catholiecs to esteem me. They may all be sure that I have a very deep and real affection for them. In America the ‘vicar of Christ is respected, but it isnot always o in Europe. : ‘ “These are times of social unrestand impending disorder. There is na power which can deal with anarchy, socialism and discontent - but- organized religion, which will restore’ morality to society. The results of the efforts which have been made to throw aside Christianity and hive without it can bé secn in the present condition of society. Discontent, hatred and® profound unhappiness. I have studied how to bring about.a change, and while T live I will labor to relieve the world of this terrible confusion. The suffering and helplessness of the working people is a source of great anxiety and grief 4o me. Their troubles have been largely due to the enemies of Christian morality who want to see Christian history ‘ended and nmiankind returned to pagan life. “There are two things in the world at present ‘that receive special attention—slavery and the social question. To abolish slavery I have established colleges and am sending cut missionaries into Africa. Whenever men are held in, bondage the true way tofree them is to educate and Christianize them. An enlightened man can not be enslaved. . .

“For that-reason I shall devote the c¢nergies of the chureh to the spread of knowledge among the poor savages. Humanity must aid me to teach these unfortunates and suve them from slavery, for the social question can only be solved by increasing the h:orality. of the world. While Christian morals governed there was no such condition of affairs as we see today, but with the efforts to destroy religion began the‘evils which are agitating society. The social troubles can not be cured unless mankind comes back to some principle. :

‘““Phe governments of the various nations must do their work and I must d}'mine. Their work is'local ‘and particular, such as the enforcement of the laws of labor or such ameliatory . measures -48 seem wise, but' my work, as the head of Christendom = must be universal and ‘on a different- plan. It .is ‘for © the ' church to Christianize the world and teach morality and charity. The moral condition of both the workinz-man and his employer must be raised. I intend to have committees' . formed in every diocese in the world. Each committee shall have the Bishop at- its. head and shall congist either of working-men or those who Sympathize and associate with them. On fast days and whenever there is rest from labor these committees will call the toilers together, discuss their duties and teach and inspire them with true morality. Sound rules of life must be. founded.on religion.” - i -

- Referring to the subject of a European disarmament,. he.said that a military life surrounds thousands of young men with violent and immoral influences, and crushes and degrades them. Armies drain countries of = their- wealth; they withdraw labor from the soil, overtax the poor, impoverish the populace, set the people against each other and intensify national jealousies. They are anti-Christian. The doctrine of arbitration as accepted by America is the true principle, but most of the men controlling Europe do not desire the truth. : T

RUSHING TO OKLAHOMA.

Ten Thousand Colored People to Settle in the New Territory Immediately.

KaANsAs City, Mo., April 21.—Rev. B. F. Foster, of Topeka, who has been in Alabama for the last two weeks in the interest of he Oklahoma Immigration Society, writes that 10,000 colored people will come from Alabama before July Ito settle in Oklahoma. He Has been making speeches all through the State and has met with marked success. ‘The association has another agent at work in Texas, Arkansasand Louisiana, and-he writes that several thousand ‘people are preparing to move to Okla‘homa this year. A letter from Atlanta says that 1,700 colored people left that city on .the 15th imst. for the new country. A colony from South Carolina will start for the territory in a few days. - . J " A Cleveland Woman’s Suicide. - - CLEVELAXND, 0., April 21.—Mrs. John Schumacher, aged 45 years and living - on Lester street, went to the attic Sunday, pounded her head with a hammer until almost unconscious, and then - hanged herself from a door binge. It is thought she was insane. e v Funds for the Davis Family. o New. ORLEANS, April 21.—The committee to aid the.family of the late Jef-_ ferson Davis Saturday sent to Mrs. Davis $10,960 stock in the Davis Land Company, which, with an additional sum of $B,OOO, will be used towards paying -the debts of her late husband, which amount to $45,000. : 3 . Killed by Lightning. . LrrrLe Rock, Ark., April 21—The residence of Mr. Keithley in Caney: County, Choctaw Nation, was struck by lightning Friday night. The electric current descended the chimney and killed Keithley’s wife and child. =~ -7 Proud of His Record, - JEFFERsON CiTy, Mo., April 21.— “Dutch” Charley, a notorious. criminal, completed his tenth term of imprisonment Saturday and was released from ‘the penitentiary. Heis 70 years old,well - connected and is proud of ‘the record he haséstabiished, o ie 0o - Lowpox, April 91.—A dispateli from Australia says that the Darling riveris that the only building” pot flooded is & Sao¥in ?fi'w’“"*‘“fih%’%@%% |