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. - o » Tle Ligonier Banuer. LIGONIER, : : INDIANA. b T eT T R R S 7 S RS SSSTSN RS R, - A MmAcuiNe for making shoestrings out of paper is a recent Philadelphia invention. . _ Pror. 'T. C. MENPENHALL, the new chietl of fhe coast survey, is going to attempt to locate afresh the magnetic pole of the Northern Hemisphere. ———— " _A cororep man living in Worth ‘County. (icorgia, is the owner of a little red steer that recently trotted twentytwo miles in four hours hitched to a cart. ; : OrriciAL figures published at Ottawa show that while Carada in 1888 im‘ported 2,154,764 tons of hard coal, ‘the imports during 1889 fell to 1,276,085 wons.
Tur largest fruit farm in West Virginia is the Becker farm near Harper’s t'erry. ITt contains 5,000 apricot trees, BT,OOO wpeach trees, 3,000 plum ‘trees, 5,000 miscellaneous fruit trees and 35,QOO grape vines. ‘
A MANUFACTURER of one of the standard typcewriters of the market says that there are seventy-five thousand women and twenty-five thousand men making a living in this country by thrumming the keys of writing machines. '
Ir appears that there are pgople in Italy who derive a dismal satisfaction from being admitted to watch the process of cremation at a charge of one dollar a head, and that it is the revenue from this source that defrays the cost of cremating the poor folks of the place.
A CORK rope is the latest invention. It is made of small corks placed end to end, and the whole covered with a braiding of cotton twine; over this a coarser braiding in heavy strands. According to the inventor a rope oneé inch thick will stand a strain of one thousand potinds: .
At Cincinnati an agreement has been reached for the consolidation of the Louisville and Cincinnati tobacco warehouses. The title is to be the Western T'obacco Warehouse Company, and there will be issued $1,000,000 in bonds, $2,000,000 of preferred stock and $2,000,000 common stock.
_ProrLr leaving the Park Theater at New York the other night were horrified at seeing Lineman Kopp meet his death on an electric light pole, near the theater entrance. They had just witnessed a roaring farce, and reached the strecet in time to be spectators of a ghastly tragedy. .
FounrrreN years ago John Clark, of Bridgeton, N. J., became ill with epilepsy and at the same time had a paralytic stroke. Since then he has not moved from his bed: Recently he had another stroke of paralysis and vitality has returned. Clark can now walk nearly as well as he ever did.
Myp. CoupEßeE is one hundred and eleven years old. Others have reached that astonishing age; but madame remembers clearly the reign of terror, and can tell just how Napoleon and Josephine looked. She issuch a bright, remarkable woman withal that the whole town of Bergerac, France, where she Tives, put on a gala dress to do her honor. .
Dr. Junikk, ‘Who learned in Central Africa 1o relish fried ants and lived for years on a negro bill of fare, expresses <ecided views in his new beok on the way to get along in the Dark Continent. He goes so far as to say that in his opinion the white man who accustoms himself to mative food will keep in better health than if he enjoyed the best of European cookery. : e ] A LoG cutter found a bottle containing $l,OOO in gold dust near Sly Park, %1 Dorado County, Cal. Ie was sawing a tree down when he struck something, #le could not imagine what the saw could be striking in the middle ot a tree three feet thick. After the trec wuasdown and an examination made a boitle containing $l,OOO in gold dust was found in the center of the tree. It was probably put in there many years ago by some old miner. :
- Quern VIcToRIA’s family circle now nuinbers fifty living descendants, inciuding sons and daughters, grandsons and grunddaughters, great-grandsons and great-granddaughters. Beside these shie hus four sons-in-law, four daughters-in-law, five grandsons-in-law, and one granddaughter-in-law. The Queen has lost one son and one daughter, five grandsons, one ‘- granddaughter, one great-crandson and one son-in-law. If these were living, her family circle would number seventy-four. ,
A story is going the rounds that a Foung lady in an Eastern sanitarium is a slave to tho chocolate habit, and will fat two pounds of chocolate candy at a sitting if she can getif. All the grocers and confectioners for miles around have been warned not to sell her any thing containing the forbidden article. She h#s eaten so much of it that her skin has become the color of chocolate. Such is the assertion of the veracious individual that started the story. It will be followed shortly by the marvelous and pathetic account of somebody who has become a hopeless victim to the mashed potato habit.
AN automatic photographic machine has becn invented in England. The patron, after placing a penny in the slot, takes his stand in front of the lens and adjusts his position by a small lookingglass placed above it. He leans against 2 post a few feet in front of the camera, and in about five seconds the ringing of a bell annotnces the completion of his sitting, while forty seconds subsequent1y his photograph is delivered to him by the machine, requiring only half a wminute’s exposure to the sun oralighted muteh to dry or finish it. An additional ‘half-penny placed in the slot producesa frame for the photo.
Tnr new steel safe in the office of the Wellington Hotel at Chicago was unlocked and opened recently by a blindfolded man who had never so much as sren the interior of the hotel before. It was a miracle of ' mind-reading performed by Paul Alexander Johnstone, the young Minneapolis gentieman whose feats for some time past have been amarvel unaccounted for by scientific men. The feat accomplished was considered more difficult than driving through the streets blindfolded and finding o name in a hotel register. Both hiave now beep successfully performed by Mr. Johnsione in Chicago. -~ - -«
et e o . Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS.COMPILATION, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. ; TuEspAy, Sept. 23. — A resolution was introduced in the Senate for the erfiCtibn in the District of Columbia of a memorial building which, shall be a suitable monument to the memory of U. S. Grant. The bill to regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States was further considered. In the House a quorum was sccured and the election contests of Langston against Venable, from Virginia, and = Miller against Elliott, from South Carolina, were disposed of, in both cases the sitting Denfocratic miembers being unseated. - .
- WEDNEsSDAY, Sept. 24.—1 n the Sen_ate bills were passed to recognize the ‘merits and services of the officers and men of the Jeannette Arctic expedition, and to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. In the House Mr. Kennedy’s speech assailing the Senate in general and Senator Quay in particular was ordered exrunged from the record by a vote of 150 to ‘-'ig Bills were passed granting pensions of $2,000 a year each to Jessie Benton Fremont and the widows of General McClellan and General Crook. A resolution was adopted calling on the President for information about the killing of General Barrundia. THURSDAY, Sept. 25. — Bills were passed. in the Senate to establish a port of delivery at Peoria, Ill.; extending for one year time for payment on land claims in cases of crop failure; requiring the United States to defend homestead titles. where the- land is claimed to be mineral because of phosphate deposits and other minerals, and for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians in Wisconsin. In the House a bill was passed appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase of nickel ore or matte for nickel steel armor. A bill was introduced to locate a branch mint of the United States at Chicago for the coinage of gold and silver. A resolution was introduced to investigate charges of extortion brought against J. L. Wheat, postmaster of the House. FriDAY, Sept. 26. —ln the Senate the House alien contract labor biil was amended so as to permit the coming of all “‘regularly ordained and constituted ministers of religion,” musicians and artists. The conference report on the bill to establish the Roek Creek Park in the Disgrict of Columbia was agreed to. In the House a bill was introduced making it unlawful for any National bank to act as the agent of any lottery eompany. The conference report on the tariff bill was submitted: Mr. McKinley introduced a joint resolution for final adjournment on the 30th inst. At the evening session 112 private pension bills were passed.
FROM WASHINGTON., A COUNTERFEIT on the two-dollar silver certificate is in circulation. In the words ‘‘Register of thie Treasury” in the counterfeit the “i” in ‘‘Register” is not dotted, neither is there a period after the word “Treasury.” In the genuine there ars both. THE collections of internal revenue from all sources for the first two months of the fiscal year 1890-'9l aggregated $25,502,5%06, against $23,670,774 for the corresponding periods of last year. THE President has returned to Washington after a three weeks’ sojourn at Cresson Springs, Pa. THE President has appointed Generai E. Burd Grubb, of New Jersey, as Minister to Spain, and Representative E. H. Conger, of lowa, as Minister to Brazil. ' _ . IN the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 26th numbered 219, against 190 the preceding week and 192 the corresponding week last year. . . THE EAST CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made on the 23d as follows: Pennsylvania, Twenty-fifth district, T. W. Phillips (Rep.); Twenty-seventh, C. W. Stone (Rep.). Connecticut, First district, William E. Simonds (Rep.) renominated; Second, C. M. Whittemore (Pro.). Massachusetts, Third district, Edward L. Pierce (Rep.); Fifth, James A. Fox (Rep.). Tur United Labor party has nominated Theodore P. Rynder for Governor of Pennsylvania. v\ , NomiNATIONS for Congress were made as follows on the 24th: New York, Twenty-ninth district, I N.' Page (Dem.); Thirty-third, George A. Davis (Rep.). Connecticut, Fourth district, Robert De Forest (Dem.); L. D. Baldwin (Pro.). Massachiusefits, First districty, Charles S. Randall (Rep.): Tenth, Joseph H. Walker (Rep.); Twelfth, Francis W. Rockwell (Rep.). New Jersey, Seventh district, Edward F. McDonald (Dem.). : Tur State Prohibition Committee of Pennsylvania has nominated John D. Gill for Governor to take the place of Charles Miller, who declined. OvVER 500 women cast their ballots at a school election in Binghamton, N. Y. NomINATIONS for Congress on the 25th were: Massachusetts, Fifth district, Sherman Hoar (Dem.); Eighth, Moses 'H. Stevens (Dem.). Pennsylvania, Thirty-eighth district, C. F. Krebbs (Dem.). Virginia, Fourth district, James F. Eppes (Dem.). : _Eowagrp T. Ryan, aged 18, and G. Barnard, aged 20, were instantly killed by taking hold of an electric wire at Winchenden, Mass. : IN Pittsburgh it is proposed to erect a monument 'to Steven -G. Foster, author of **Old FFolks at Home” and other songs.
WEST AND SOUTH. SurrMAN LiNes and D. T. Lee fatally shot each other in a quarrel at Ottawa, O, : Ep WiGeAND, of Omaha, fatally shot Miss Allie Horine and then blew his brains oyt. He left a note saying the girl hufpromised to marry hiri but had been false. ; : : GERMAN citizens met at Indianapolis and formed a German-American Prohibition League, the object being to create a sentiment among GermanAmericans in favor of total abstinence.
Tue nominations for Congress on the 24th were: Indiana, Second district, William N. Darnell (Rep.); Fourth John P. Rankin (Rep.). Illinois, Twelfth district, Milton McClure (Rep.). Louisiana, Fifth district, 8. W. Green (Rep.). Michigan, Fourth district, G. L. Yaple {Dem.).. Missouri, Third distriet, W. J. Gibson (Rep.). Ohio, Fourteenth district, B. F. Swingle (Rep.). South Carolina, Seventh district, William Elliott (Dem.). West Virginia, First district, Jobn O. Pendleton (Dem.), renominated. ; A .
At Lima, 0., Jacob Anderson, a fisherman, shot and killed Jacob Botkin, whom he caught robbing his nets, and <atally wounded Lewis Smith,
PReSIDENT WOODRUFF, of the Mormon church, has issued a manifesto denying that the church encourages or countenances the practice of polygamy intitah. :
Tur South Carolina Republican State Committee met at Charleston and nominated a full State ticket with A. C. Haskell for Governor. All the nominees are Democrats who oppose the candidacy of Tillman, nominated for Governor by Democrafs and the Farmers’ Alliance. '
AT Anniston, Ala., a man named Zaner whose trial for murder had been continued from term to term for twenty years was on the 25th sentenced toa term of one year for his deed. ’
NEAR Port Townsend, Wash., twenty Chinese were arrested while attempting to enter the United States in a small sloop. Dr. W. W, EvERTs, for twenty years pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chicago: (from 1859 to 1879), died suddenly on the 25th of heart failure. He was 76 years old.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the 25th were as follows: Illinois, Sixteenth district, Rev. J. W. Vanclave (Pro.). Kansas, Sixth district, Tully Scott (Dem.). Michigan, Sixth district, Arthur Cole (Industrial). Ohio, Third district, H. L. Morey (Rep.); Tenth, R. E. Doan (Rep.); Nineteenth, Edward ‘T. Hoyt (Dem.); Henry Rhoads (FParmers’ Alliance). Louisiana, First district, .C. Warmouth (Rep.). Colorado (at large), T. :;J. O'Donnell (Dem.). Washington (at large), John L. Gibson (Rep.) renominated.
THE Democrats of Colorado nominated a State ticket at Denver headed by Judge Caldwell Yeaman, of Trinidad, for Governor. -
A. K. CoNEY, Consul-General of Mexico at San Francisco, does not believe the story that an attempt was made to assassinate President Diaz. O~ the 26th the nominations for Congress were: Indiana, Ninth district, Leroy Templeton (Dem.). North Carolina. Third - district, George C. Scurlerek (Rep.). Tennessee, Ninth district, W. I*. Poston (Rep.). West Virginia, First district, W. P. Hubbard (Rep.). Ohio, Twelfth district, Edward V. Dean (Dem.); Twenty-first, Theodore E. Burton (Rep.) renominated. :
" NELsoXN lowered the world’s stallion record at Kankakee, 111., to 2:1114; and Faustina lowered the 2-year-old record to 2:2314. . . '
IN Kansas the enrollment of soldiers and their widows and orphans has been completed as provided for by the last Legislature, and shows about 100,000 service records. IN 1888 W. R. Schrieber embezzled nearly $200,000 in money and bonds from a bank at Columbus, Ind. He has been arrested at Detroit, Mich. ’
THE Farmers’ Alliance and Prohibitionists of Northern Dakota indorsed some of the nomineces of the Republicans and the Democrats and then nominated Walter Muir for Governor. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FLAMES nearly wiped out the:town of Colon, on the Isthmusof Panama.. Loss, $1,500,000. ‘ Tur President of Mexico announces that he will not grant concessions to American lottery companies. THE famine in the interior of Egypt was said to be terrible. Thousands were dying of starvation. Caravans were plundered by the ‘desperate natives to obtain food, and the owners were murdered if they resisted. CELMAN, ex-President of the Argenine Republic, embezzled the enormous sum of $42,000,000 while in office. Tur damage by the floods in France in the department of Ardeche alone amounts to 50,000,000 francs. - IN Goa, India, soldiers indulged in the wildest excesses, shooting persons indiscriminately, over 300 being killed in two days’ fighting. TFor violation of the fisheries law the American schooner David Crockett was seized at Souris, Prince Edward’s Island. . IN London Frank Slavin, the Australian, knocked out Joe McAuliffe, the American fichter, in two rounds. The fizht was for £l,OOO. g A cYCLONE swept overia large portion of Algeria, doing an immense amount of damage. - ~ IN the floods in the south of France fifty lives have been lost. : LATER. Ix the United States Senate on the 27th the House bill to repeal part of the act of 1882 dividing the State of lowa into two judicial districts was passed. The House bill to amend ‘‘an act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract agreement to perform labor in the Unitel States, its Territories and the District of Columbia” was considered, but no action was taken. ‘lnthe House the conference report on the tariff bill was agreed to by a vote of 152 to 81. A resolution providing for final adjournment on the 30th inst. was adopted.
TweENTY Armenians were killed in a fight at Igdyr and the village was reported in a ferment. INx a fit of anger George Hinkle, aged 8 years, of Nicholas Court-House, S. C., shot and instantly killed his 5-year-old sister. - , :
FrEIGHT trains on the Baltimore & Ohio road collided near Pleasant Valley, 0., killing eight men and causing a damage to property of $lOO,OOO. The negligence of a telegraph operator caused the disaster. :
A FirE destroyed Fowler Bros.’ packing house at the stock yards in Chicago, cagsing a loss of $730,000; fully insured.
‘Four HUNDRED Russian soldiers are said to have been drowned by the collapse of a bridge during the recent military maneuvers at Kovno. Ture Banlk of Madison at Jatkson, Tenn., has suspended payment with liabilities estimated at $200,000; assets, $225,000. . GENERAL ABRAM DURYEA died at his home in New York of paralysis. CHARLES SEIFERT, of | Lacon, 111., became maddened becau?e his daughter had married against his wishes and shot the young woman, killing her instantly. Hethen committed suicide. The husband of the dead woman became insane. £ ’
Two Youxe men, W. B. Emerson and Ross Fishbaugh, were found murdered in a freight car at Cheyenne, Wyo. Robbery was the motive for the crime. Mrs. RuruH' ANN HintToN (colored) died in Chicago on the 27th at the age of 110 years, , , THe percentages of the base-ball clubs in the Players’ League for the week ended on the 27th were: Boston, .631; Brooklyn, .587; New York, .584; Chicago, .537; Philadelphia, .528; Pittsburgh, ,446; Cleveland, .414; Buftalo, .264. The clubs in the National League stood: Brooklyn, .653; Philadelphia, .608; Chicago, .606;. Boston, .604; Cincinnati, .579;: New York, .480; Cleveland, .308; Pittsburgh, .171,
A BRIDE’S FATE. | She Weds a Mgp Disliked by Her Father, and While Asking His Forgiveness Is Slain by the Latter, Who Blows Off His, Own Head — The Newly-Made Husband a Raving Mania¢. _ : : Proßla, 111., Sept. 20.—At Lacon, a small city twenty miles north of here, Charles Seifert, about 45 years old, was employed as a spinner in the woolen I miils. He lived with his only daugh- | ter, Mary, a girl 19 years of age, in a little cottage in the northern part .oi the city. A young man named Joseph Baxter, also .an employe at -the woolen mills, had been paying attentions to Marya.,l He was disliked by her father and she ‘ was forbidden to see him. The warning | ~only served tgstrengthen her affections for Baxter, and she finally consented to marry him. When news of the approaching marriage reached her father’s ears he was furious and told ther he would kill her if she married young Baxter. Saturday night the girl took ‘advantage of her father’s.absence from the house, donned her wedding .gar- ' ments and was married at the house of 'a mutual friend two blocks distant from her home. She did not go home Saturday night, but Sunday morning about 9 o'clock she ‘went over to her father’s house to ask his forgiveness, leaving her husband at the friend’s house. When she entered the house she found her father sitting on a trunk with his face buried in his hands. She spoke to him, but received no answer. She then turned to walk into a bedroom. where her father seized a shotgun standing behind the door and discharged one barrel at her head, blow‘ing away one side of her skull and face. The girl tottered a moment and fell backward. As she did so the blood gushed out in a tor: rent, deluging the floor and her father’s face and hands. He contemplated the result of his awful deed for -amoment, and then, placing the barrel of the gun in his mouth, reached down and pulled the trigger. The remaining load entered his head, blowing it off his shoulders. His headless body fell back over the trunk on which he had been sitting when his daughter entered the room. The husband of the girl heard the reports of the shotgun and hastened to his father-in-law’s house. The sight was too much for his overwrought nerves and he is now raving mad.
ROAST PORK.
One of Chicago’s Big Packing-Houses, That of Fowler Bros., Destroyed by Fire —The Loss Estimated at £700,000.
CuicAco, Sept. 29. — Fowler Bros.’ packing-houses, one of the largest establishments at the stock yards, took fire about 2:30 a. m. Sunday, and at midnight the ruins were still blazing. ; The firemen worked against obstacles from the start. Water had little effect on the grease-soaked floors, and the fire soon reached ‘the tank-room, where thirty-two tanks of lard were located. These exploded one after another with loud reports and the boiling lard burned fiercely. The heat was so intense the firemen were compelled to work at a distance. The flames spread to the cooling-room and commenced burning the carcasses of the hogs hanging there: In the room were 6,689 hogs and they burned like oil. The roof fell in about an hour after the fire started and the conflagration became more furions. The west wall of the packing-house fell soon after the roof went down. At 4 o’clock a. m. the fire was under control. It was seen to be impossible to extinguish the burning pork and water was thrown on it to keep the fire down as much as possible. It was that which kept the firemen at work all of Sunday and it is still burning. The buildings destroyed were begun in 1872, and have been added to from time to time since. The entire plant, including buildings, machinery, fixtures, etc., have cost about $1,500,000. It is carried on the books of the company, now, however, at about half that fizure. About 1,200 men and girls were employed by the company. The girls were employed in sewing hams, trimming meat and other light work. Mr. Fowler estimates his loss as follows: On the building and machinery, $125,000; 7,000 dressed hogs hanging in the packing-house, $75,000; on the twenty tanks of lard, the meat and hams and other products, $500,000, making a total of $700,000. The loss is fully covered by insurance. . COLONEL BOUDINOT.
The Famous Cherokee Statesman Passes Away at His Home in Fort Smith, Ark.
Fort SMitnh, Ark., Sept. 29. —Saturday morning Colonel Elias Cornelius Boudinot, the lawyer, statesman and orator breathed his last after an illness of about eighteen days. He was buried Sunday with Masonic ceremonies.
[Colonel Boudinot was a quarter-blood Cherokee Indian. He was born in New Echolay Ga. His Indian ancestars were distinguished among the Cherokees and were noted for their prowess in war and their eloquence and sagacity in the councils of their country. In 1861 he was secretary of the convention which took Arkansas out of the Union. At the adjournment of this convention he went to the Cherokee nation and raised a regiment of Cherokees for the Confederate army. He was elected Major of this regiment and afterward became Lieutenant-Colonel. Colonel Boudinot became a -member of the Confederate Congréss, in which ecapacity he served until the war closed. Shortly after the war he Dbecame involved in a dispute with the Federal Government, which dispute was finally settled by an act of Congress in 1871. In a speech in the Cherokee nation he put forth the idea that the Indians should drop their tribal customs and become citizens of the United States. For this he was forced to flee fromthe Indian Territory to save his life, but latterly the Indians of the Territory had become reconciled to his doctrines and satisfied he was their best friend.] e . GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Four Hundred Russian Soldiers Said to Have Perished by the Collapse of a - Bridge.
~ VIENNA, Sept. 29.—Polish journals assert that during the recent maneuvers of the Russian army at Kovno, the Krasnostaw bridge collapsed, and that 400 soldiers belonging to the Pultaun regiment, which were crossing the bridge at the time of the accident, were thrown into the water and drowned. The papers state thatamong those who lost their lives was General Bardowsky. There has been no official confirmation of this report.
Whisky Ablaze.
MapisoN, Ind., Sept. 29.—The old warehouse of Snyder’s Richwood distillery at Milton, Ky., opposite Madison, burned Sunday afternoon, with contents, 1,500 barrels of tax-paid whisky. The loss is estimated at $lOO,OOO, The property belonged to Levy & Bro., Cineinnatl. = : ‘
The. President Will Be There.
GALESBURG, IIL, Sept. 29. —President Harrison has sent a measage fo the committee in charge of the reunion of hig brigade here October 8 saying that he would be present. He will also speak at )ttumwa. ; |
THE TARIFF BILL.
Report of the Conferrees — The Measure | to Take Effect October 6 — A Reduciion of £66,000,000 in the Revenue — Principal Alterations. i . WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Mr. McKinley (O.) entered the House at 5:20 o’clock Friday afternoon with the conference report on the tariff bill, and was greetegd with applause from the Republican side. The report was submitted. : The conference report as submitied provides that the law shall go into éffect October 6, 1890. The Senate reciprocity feature is preserved in the bill, but the date for it to go into-effect hasbeen ' changed from July 1, 1891, to January 1, 1892, i The duty on binding twine of all kinds is put at seven-tenths of a cent per pound, and the provision for this article is made to apply to binding twine made in part from istle or Tampico fabric, Manilla, Sisal'grass or sunn. The conference changed the time for the bonded period to go sinto effect to February 1. The provision relative to the bonded period allows merchandise deposited prior to October 1, 1890, to "~ be withdrawn at -the present rates of ° duty Dbefore the time the period goes into effect. It is also provided that- when duties are based upon the weight of merchandise deposited prior to October 1 the duties shall be levied upon the weight of the merchandise at the time of its withdrawal. i . The conferrees, in their report, speaking of the effect of the bill on the revenues, say that they do not believe that -there is any material difference between the House and Senate bills in the matter of estimated reduction made in the dutiable schedules, namely, $60,000,000, and their action has not materially affected that ' estimate except in the restoration of the internal revenue provisions of the House, and on that point they say: ‘‘For the year ending June 30, 1890, the receipts from special taxes on the class of persons to be relieved by the bill were $1,515,481; from taxes on tobacco, 818.235,482, and from snuff, $738,731. By the passage of the bill the reduction in revenue from tobacco will be $4¢,581,870 and from snuft - $184,433, making from these two sources -an aggregate of $4,765,803. Adding these figures to the reduction whichs would follow 'in the abolition of special taxes would make the total reduction in the internal \’revenue receipts $6,281,284. The probable reduction by the customs schedules will probably be about $60,000,000, which would give ap aggregate reduction by the bill of about %6%%,-
000.” ~ | In the internal revenue. features of the bill -nearly all the House provisions of the bill are restored.. The provision removing all restrictions on farmers and growers of tobacco in regard to the sale of leaf tobacco are restored, and a proviso added - that the farmer shall furnish on demand of any internal revenue officer a statement of his sales, ete. A fine of $OO 1s provided for vio lation of this provision. The tax on smoking and manufactured tobacco and on snuff is placed at 6 c¢ents a pound. Opium manufacturers are taxed $lO per pound upon opium manufactured in the United States for smoking purposes, and only persons who are citizeps of the United States are permitted to eéxge in its manufacture. The Senate amendment providing that all special internal revenue taxes shall become due July 1, 1891, is retained. . In the free list a number of changes were made, most of them of° no material interest. Raw and manufactured bristles were stricken from the free list in conference. The House - provision placing on the free list Americancaught fish except salmon, caught by American vessels, ete., is reinserted. The Senate provision concerning pure mineral waters ig allowed to remain. The paragraph covering ores of gold, silver and nickel and nickel matte is retained, with a proviso that the duty on the copper contained in them shall be % cent per pound. Among the other Senate amendments that were agreed to by the ' conference committee are those covering plaster of paris and 7 sulphate of lime unground, potashes, seeds and sulphuric acid, not over 1,380 specific gravity. The conferrees inserted paragraphs providing for the free admission of feathers and downs for beds, {)eltmes and other usual goods of Indians pass_ing the boundary line of the United States, tin ore, cassiterite and tin in bars, blocks, pigs.or granulated until July 1, 1893, and thereafter as otherwise provided for, and works of art by _American artists residing temporarily abread. The sugar schedule provides that all sugars not above No. 16, Dutch standard, all tank bottoms, all sugar drainings and sugar sweepings, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentratec melada and concrete and concentrated molasses and molasses shall be placed on the free list. This is the House provision, subject, however, to the restrictions of the reciprocity. - feature = which empowers the President to suspend the free admission of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides under certain conditions. The schedule is amended 80 as to grant a bounty of 13 cents per pound on sugar testing between 80 and 90 degrees polariscope test and 2 cents on sugar testing not less than 90 degrees from July 1, 1891 to . July 1, 1905 - (The bill as passed by House and Senate granted a bounty of 2 cents a pound te sugar testing 80 degrees and over). The conferrees agreed to the Senate amendments extending the bounty to maple -sugar and providing that no bounty be paid on less, than 500 pounds. Sugar above No. ‘l6 Duteh standard is to pay 510 of ‘a cent a pound duty, and 1-10 of a cent _additional if the country exporting or producing it eharged an export duty. Machinery for the manufacture of beet sugar is to be admitted free until July 1, 1892; and any duty collected on such machinery imported since January 1, 1890, shall be retunded. Glucose is retained at the House rate—3¥% cent . per pound. The ¢ schedule is made to take effect April 1, 1891, with a proviso that during the month of March sugars may be refined in bond without payment of ~ duty and transported in bond and sold in bond~ed warehouses under the provision of the exist- - ing laws. The schedule covering imported tobacco and manufactures of tobacco is left as it passed the Senate. . In the earthenware and glassware schedule -the House conferrees succeeded in retaining nearly all of the House items in the act. Fancy glass is made dutiable at 67 per cent. ad valorem; colored glass bottles at 1 cent ‘per pound for pints, and 1% cents for quarters and 50 cents per gross for bottles holding less than a quarter of a pint. Most of the House provisions relating to the metal and cutlery schedules remain as they passed the House. with unimportant Senate amendments. The reduced rates of the Senate on fire-arms are retained, as are also the reduced rates of -the genate on copper. .In the spirit schedule, brandy, cordials, liquors, etc., and spirituous beverages or bite ters containing spirits are made dutiable at §2.50 per proof gallon; bay rum, $1.50 per gallon; champagne and all other sparkling wines, §8 per dozen in quart bottles; ale, porter and beer in bottles, 40 cents per gallon. The rate on undressed flax is fixed at 1 cent - per pound: ‘on tow of flax or hemp, % cent per pound; on cables, cordage and twine, except binding twine composed wholly of manilla or sisal grass, 1% cents per pound; on cables and cordage, made of hemp, 2% cents per pound, tarred, 3 cents per pound; cotton bagging, valued at not more than 6 cents per square yard, l 1 6-150 cents, valued at more than 6 cents, 18-10 cents. : Two important changes made by the Senate in the wool schedule were ‘allowed to remain. These provide that the duty on woolen and worsted yarns made of wool, worsted or the hairs of animals, valued at not more than 30 cents per pound, shall be. dutiable at two and a half times the duty imposed on unwashed wool of the first class, and in addition 85 per cent. ad valorem, and the duty on woolen or worsted cloths of the same standard shall be three times the duty imposed on unwashed wool of the first class. '
BEAT AXTELL)’S RECORD.
A Mile Covered by Nelson, the Maine - Stallion, at Kankakee, 111., in 2:11 1-2, Thus Defeating the Best Previous Time by One-Half Second. - KANKAKEE, 111, Sept. 27.—Nelson, the Maine stallion, on Friday lowered the stallion trotting record for a mile by a half a second, he making the distance on the new kite-shaped track in 2:11}4. The best previous record was 2:12, held by Axtell and made on the fast track at Terre Haute October 11, 1889. Nelson moved in beautiful style and made neither a skip nor a break of any kind. - Mercier’s Prizes to Large Families. Quesßec, Can., Sept. 27.—Mercier’s act providing that every family of twelve or more children shall be entitled to 100 acres of Government land is being largely taken advantage of. So far 100,000 acres have been claimed by families of twelve or more children. Fifty Lives Lost in the Floods. : . PaAßris, Sept. 27.—1 t is believed that fifty lives were lost in the floods in the south of France. The driver and pass sengers of an omnibus going to Mayres are missing. "1t is feared that the conveyance was swept away by the flood and that all perished. b
THE ELECTIONS. o Many Are to Be Held During the Next Six Weeks—List of States, with Officers to Bé Chosen and Propositions to Be Voted on. v'.»- ) ‘ Elections will be held this fall in the following States: e Alabamawillelect eight Congressmen Novemberd o » Arkansas will elect five{ Congressmen NovemLer 4. : g California will elect State officers, Legisla-. ture, and six Congressmen lovember 4. Colorado will elect State officers, Legislature, and one Congressman November 4. ¢ Connecticut will elect State officers, Législa-’ ture, and four Congressmen November 4. is Delaware will elect Governor, Legislature, and one Congressman November 4. = = = : . Florida will elect Supreme Court Justice, Controller, Legislature, and two Congressmen November 4. et ! Georgia will elect State officers and Legislature October 1 and vote upon two proposed amendments to the constitution of the State, one extending the benefits of State pension to widows of Confederate soldiers and the other allowing the reading and reférence of bills by title, when introduced; will elect ten Congressmen November 4. - S ; Idaho will elect State officers, Legislature, | and one Congressman October 1. ; Illinois will elect State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Legislature, and twenty Congressmen November 4. S Indianawill elect minor State officers, Legis-. ' lature, and thirteen Congressmen November 4. lowa will elect minor State officers and eleven Congressmen November 4. : : L Kansas will elect State officers. Legislature,: seven Congressmen, and vote upon two pro(posed amendments to the State constitution November 4. One of the amendments increases the number of Supreme Court Judges from three to seven and the other 'lengthens the: biennial session of the Legislature to ninety days and provides for the pay and mileage of members. A . o Kentucky will elect eleven Congressmen Noveafiber 4. . i e , Louisiana will elect six Congressmen November 4. : ! : Maryland will elect gix Congressmen Novem: ber4. - ¢ - Massachusetts will elect State officers, Legis- 1 lature and twelve Congressmen November 4. * Michigan will elect State officers, Legislature and eleven Congressmen November 4. : Minnesota will elect State officers, Legisla~ ture and five Congressmen November 4. Mississippi will elect seven Congressmen November 4. SRy | - Missouri will elect minor State officers, Legis- ‘ lature and fourteen Congressmen November 4. ! .Montana will elect Legislature and one Con- | gressman November 4, Mo Nebraska will elect State officers, Legislature, and three Congressmen and vote upon four proposed amendments to the State constitution November 4. These amendments relate to prohibition and high license, provide - for five Supreme Judges. and increase the | Judges’ salaries. . , - Nevada will elect State officers, Legislature, and one Congressman November 4. New Hampshire will elect Governor, Legislature and two Congressmen November 4. =~ - New Jersey will vote upon two proposed amendments to the State constitution September 30. One of these amendments ' cancels the prohibition against special legislation regulating the internal affairs of towns and counties, and the other eliminates the clause in reference to the appointment of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Will elect Legislature and seven Congressmen November 4. : New York will elect Judge of the Court of Appeals, two Judges of the Supreme Court, Assembly, and thirty-four Congressmen November 4. v North Carolina will elect Chief and Assol' ciate Judge of the Supreme Court, Legislature, and nine Congressmen November 4. North Dakota will elect State officers, Legislature and one Congressman November 4. : l Ohio will elect minor State officers and twen-ty-one Congressmen November 4. , Pennsylvania will elect State officers, Legis lature and tayenty-cight Congressmen November 4. . : | | Rhode Island will elect two Congressmen November 4.! o L G South Carolina will elect State officers, Legislature and seven Congressmen November 4, South Dakota will elett State officers, Legiss lature and two Congressmen November 4. Tennessee will elect Governor, Legislatire and ten Congressmen November®4, : j Texas will elect State officers, Legislature and eleven Congressmen and vote upon two proposed amendments to the constitution. of the State November 4. One of the amendments relates to the State tax and the other authorizes the Legislature to create a commission to regulate railroad traffic. L . Virginia will elect ten Congressmen Novem ber 4. : ; Washington will elect Legislature and one Congressman November 4. i West Virginia will elect Judge of the Court of Appea.ls, Legislature and four Congressmen November 4. t o Wisconsin wlll elect State officers;, Leg islature, and nine Congressmen November 4. s
DEATH OF GENERAL DURYEE. t The Famous Commander of the Fight- | ing Zouaves Expires in New York. NEwW YoRK, Sept. 29.—General Abram Duryee, the famous commander of the fighting Zouaves and of ‘the Seventh Regiment at the Astor place riof, died | at his home, No. 81 West Oné Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, Saturday of general paralysis. . _ [ln 1838 Abram attached himself to the Twenty-seventh, now the Seventh Regiment, as a private. Within eighteen months he was promoted to @& Captaincy, and -was successively Major, * Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel. His first appearance in the uniform of a Colonel was at the famous riot at Astor place. The regiment was ordered to suppress the unruly demonstration on the part of the people, who were at that time frenzied with excitement over the rivalry -between Actors Macready and Forrest, and when the battle came at the old Astor Place Theater the Seventh Regiment bore the brunt of it. At the outbreak of the rebellion he organized the ecelebrated Fifth Regiment, better knc®n as the Duryee Zouaves. The 3lst of August he was commissioned Brigadier-General and placed in command of 13,000 men at Baltjmore.‘ Mareh 13, 1865, he was breveted Major-General by the President of the United States for gallant and distinguished service in seven aifferent battles.] | Failure of a Tennessee Bank. el JacksoN, Tenn., Sept. 29.—The announcement Friday morning that the Bank of Madison, a private bank of this. city, had made an assignment, created great excitement in business circles. The bank was capitalized at $50,000. N. S. White was president. The failure was precipitated -by Eastern creditors calling for money which is outstanding. The liabilities are $210,000, and the assets $230,000. The heaviest creditor is the city of Jackson, which is in for §16,000. The county officials were also depositors and will lose $12,000 each. , . What Illinois Pays in Charity., . = SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 29.—The secretary of the State board of charities’ annual statistics of the charitable institutions of the State for the year ending | June 30, 1890, show that the average number of inmates of the institutions was 6,199, and the cost of maintenance was $996,000. . e A Peoria Church Burned. : Proria, 111., Sept. 29.—Grace Presbys terian Church caught fire during the morning. | The fire caused a stampede of the congregation, but nobody was seriously hurt. Loss, $12,000; insurs ance, $770. v Ll Cashier Gone—%ls,ooo Missing. JEFFERSOXVILLE, Ind., Sept. 29, — George Schow, cashier of the Carbon (Kan.) Bank, has disappeared and lefta shortage of $15,000. His brother Henry, who lived here, had intrusted all h?s, funds to him also, and does not know what has become of them. e ~ Died at the Age of 110. | CHicAco, Sept. 20.—The health department issued a burial permit Saturday for Ruth Ann Hilton, who is said to ‘have been 110 yearsold, Ruth was @ colored. woman who lived at No, 2516 Butterfleld street, and was born in 1780 in. Richwobd, Voo . oo 0 0
. . IRISHMEN CLUBBED. Ex;:iti'ng..Scen'e» at the Trial of Dillon and O’Brien—Tipperary Police Attack the Crowd Around the Court-Room—Many Persons Injured. - e e w DosLiy, Sept. 26.—Patrick O’Brien, who was arrested at Cardiff on Tuesday,. was brought to tbis gity Wednesday and placed in prison.. The police refused to give any - information as to when he would be taken to Tipperary ~for a hearing. . But: late ° Wednesday = night the Nationalists learned . that he would be conveyed thither by the morning train, and they at once made preparations to. give hinx a worthy escort. Much to the surprise of the authorities a large delegation of Nationalists bozrded the train at the ‘' same time® that the officers. appeared - with O’Brienm. Amaong these were John Morley, who has' been in Ireland for some time studying the Irish question; John Dillon, Alfred Illingworth, member of Parliament for Bradford; T. M. Healy, €Commoner Harrington and several others. ‘ On the-arrival of the train at Tip‘perary the Nationalists started for the court-house in ‘a body. They had not gone far when they stopped at a street: corner and entered into a conversation. While they were standing, in no way disturbing the peace there, they were ordered by the police .to ‘move on. John O’Connor, member of Parliament from South Tipperary, took very vigerous exception to this order and showed his contempt for the police: . by calling upon the crowd, which by that time -had become large, to give three cheers for John Morley. The cheers were given with hearty zood will, much to the exasperation of the police, who thereupon charged -upon. the group and attempted to force’ it to move forward. In the melee that followed .the policemen did not’ hesitate to use their batons. One burly constable aimed a blow at John Morley himself, but John o’Connor, who stood near, warded it off. 'The Nationalists then continued their ‘way slowly toward the court-house : ‘Early 'in the day it became known that still another arrest had been made. The victim this time was Thomas J.. Condon, member of Parliament for Tip- | perary East. He was taken at Limerick 'and-also brought to Tipperary. _ As it was the day fixed for the trial of the arrested Nationalists, the streets of Tipperary were full to cverflowing ‘with people interested inm the case. When the hour for the sitting of the court arrived animmense crowd had collectéed before the court-house, ready to rush - in the: moment the. doors were thrown open.. The authorities thereupon decided not to open the doors to the general public, but to admit only those who were immediately interested | in the trial. The crowd did not take kindl ly to this treatment, but pressed forward trying to force a way into the courthouse. The police stoutly resisted, charging repeatedly upon the crowd )and" ‘using - their clubs freely on whoever happened to .be within reach. Many of their blows took effect, but the crowd did not yield instantly. For fully five minutes. there was a stand-up fight between the: now excited throng and the police. At last, however, the crowd was gradually forced back, and the police succeeded in maintaining' a clear space in front. |of the court-house.. The leaders of the crowd continued to make vigorous. protests against betug excluded from the court-house and the police were subjected to jeers and taunts from the angry and wounded victims of their | recent onslaught.
}" During -the conflict many persons ‘were wounded with blows from the \po’licemen,’s bludgeons. One of the most serious cases .was that !of 3 ,m.a,n,f some of whose teeth were ‘knocked out and forced into his ‘throat. Several men were so badly hurt as to require surgical attendance. Among the wounded were Timbthy Harr,ington, member of Parliament ‘for Dublin, and -a Mr. Halifax. Both received heavy blows on their heads, iwhichflbled profusely. They made their way into the court-room as soon as they could. But by that time their hair and coat collars ‘were saturated with blood and they presented a pitiable spectacle. Their uppearance in court created a profound sensation and lent additional emphasis to the ¢omplaint which Mr. William O’Brien was making to the court of the brutality of the police. = -
- At first .Mr. O’Brien had refused to enter the court-room unless the public - could be ¢ freely admitted. He maintained this attitude for some time, but at last decided that he could accomplish more by appealing to the court, entered the room and bitterly denounced the wanton clubbing of the crowd of which he had just been a witness. It was while he was speaking that the sensational entrance of Messrs. Harrington and Halifax occurred. ) ;
Then John Morley rose and addressed the court, manifesting great agitation both in tone and manner. He earnestly appealed to the court to protect the populace against the wanton use of the club by the police. Meanwhilethe National leaders continued to protest against the exclusion of the general public from the court-room. Both Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon appealed to Colonel Caddell, the presiding magistrate, to reverse his decision to keep the doors shuf against the public. For some time he . refused to recede from his determination. Messrs Morley and Dillon, howsver, continued to labor withi him, and at last he yielded the point and ordered. the doors thrown open. LOTS OF FRESHMEN. Harvard and Yale Open with Freshmen: ~_Classes of 400 Members. BosToxN, Sept. 26.—Harvard College opens with a Freshman classnumbering 400—the largest in its history. The large number of new students entering' the advanced classes this term is particularly noticeable. New HAvEN, Conn., Sept. 26.—The Freshman class that will enter Yale will be the.largest that ever entered the academic Freshman class, and will have 950 members, and the scientific Freshman class will number 160, making a total of 410 Freshmen. : Wil Appeal to the President. Crry oF Mexico, Sept. 26.—The married daughter of General Barrundia, who made the attempt on Minister Miz‘ner’s life, has arrived in the city of 'Oaxaca to see her mother and family before leaving for the United States, where she goes with a large number of documents concerning her father’s murder, to lay them before President HarAR Ll Lo M o B IER 0 ~ BrECEUZ, Sept. :26. - Through im sudden rise of the Rhine the -cown of ‘Lustenau, Voralberg, Austria, is com-