Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 January 1891 — Page 2

HE WILL WEAR NO SOCKS. A Protection Organ’s Comments Upon Hon, dJerry Simpson’s “Free Trade Prejne dices.” ; _ e of the favorite lines of ‘‘argument” adopted by the defenders of the McKinley law in the campaign last fall was to point out that the free list was larger in it than in any tariff since the war. When the opponents of protection ridiculed this boasted free list by quoting its provisions for free ‘‘acorns,” “‘assafetida ” ‘‘ashes,” ‘“‘beeswax,” etec., the McKinleyites were wroth and claimed that this was but another attempt by the ‘“British free traders” to mislead the people by disguising from them ‘“‘the strong points” of the McKinley law. : « ) ; No one expected that after the election was over a leading protection paper would undertake to show. what a narrow and unsatisfying thing McKinley’s free list is; but the Manufacturer, the organ of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Club, has just done precisely that service to the country. Hon. Jerry Simpson, the Farmers’ Alliance Congressman-elect from Kansas, wears no stockings, and a Jersey City manufacturer sent him several pairs, which were sent back with the following letter: _ :

Sir: -Our forefathers refused to drink tea because it was taxed 3 per cent., and held a tea party in Boston to get rid of the stuff. I have just finished figuring up the tax upon those stockings and I find that it amounts to %0 per cent. I will wear no socks till the tax is taken off. .

The manufacturer proceeds to comment upon thig letter to show the difficulties whiglh the Congressman-elect will cncouni%if he seeks to be consistent and will use ino tariff-taxed articles: and it must be confessed that the Ligh protection organ does this in a way which would make the uninformed reader suppose that the following extra¢t was taken from a ‘““free trade” journal: , '

As there is a heavy duty upon soap, no doubt the Kansas statesman finds a pretext for positively declining to use that article. In such matters, however, it is likely that he finds his natural inclinations fitting in nicely with his free trade prejudices. But, if he is indeed going to try to live up to his principles it is diflicult to perceive how he is going to live atall. Nearly every article of clothing and the great mass of articles of food are subject to duties; and, therefore, his theory ought to confine him rigidly to use of materiils that are upon the free list.. The attempt of the Honorable Jerry to live within the boundaries -of the free list would excite universal interest and curiosity. He would, of course, clothe himself with “hides, raw or uncured,” with “asbestos” trimmings, perbhaps, and hisdiet would range from “acorns,” *“aconite” and - “assafetida” to “oil-cake,” “caoutchoue,” “verdigris” and “yams.” The Kansas Congressman is going to be a particularly entertaining object of consideration if he shall try to be consistent.

The Manufacturer should be congratulated for showing up the limited character of the MeKinley free list. 'lf the “Hon. Jerry” mill follow its suggestion that it should be consistent and will dress himself upin “hides, raw or uncured,” with “asbestos” trimmings, he will become, in this John the Baptist garb, a preacher of “free trade” such as this country has never seen. The Kansas Congressman-elect, thus rigoed out in the precarious habiliments of McKinley's free list, would not need to utter one word against our high tariff lawvs; his very appearance would have all the eloquence of a ““voice of one crying in the wilderness.”” _

A PLATE-GLASS TRUST.

The American Manufacturers of PlateGlass Meet and Raise Prices—A Highly Protected Industry Gets More Tariff Pap —Great Profits of the Industry—The English Take a Hand.

On the day after Christmas the New Yorik Tribune, the champion high tariff organ of the -country, printed the following dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa.:

A meeting of the manufacturers and jobbers of the plate-glass trade will be held in tiis city in the mear future. At the reeent New York meeting it was decided to advance prices 30 per cent., but since then Western en have made a stand for a 25 per cent. advance. The avowed intention of the fraternal combination is to keep plate-glass prices at the highest figure possible, and at the same time keep it low enough to shut out all inmvortation. %

When trusts are formed the manufacturers who go into them usually put forward some such excuse as ‘‘ruinous competition,” and sometimes they call it “cut-throat competition.” Before the Ways and Means Committee at Washington they plead for protection upon ‘the ground that it will bring about compotition; but when competition has begun to do its work they suddenly discover that competition is the very thing that they do not want; hence they must ‘et rid-of competition,” and so a trust is formed. ) :

But the plate-glass manufacturers are the last men that should complain of excessive competition and low profits, There are only nine or ten factories in this country whiclgmake plate-glass; and there is usually an understanding among these as to their price lists. This combination, how ever, was not so strong as to prevent some of the manufacturers. and dealers from cutting prices, hence at the New York meeting referred to steps were taken to make the combination more solid. ;

The New York Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, which is also an organ of the glass trade, printed an editorial on the subject of the New York meeting, in which it said:

“On Saturday last the dealers of thig city and Boston met at the Metropolitan Hotel and held a prolonged session with closed doors. At the end of the meeting it was announced that the combination had peen materially dtrengthened Dby: the exaction of renewed lpledges te maintain the agreed prices.”%! N '

"T'his paper furthermore described the plate-glass market as ‘‘in better shape than ever before,” there being an active demand and *‘stocks in all hands low.” These low stocks can not, however, be replenished by importation, as the MeKinley dutiecs are almost prohibitory, and the Reporter points out, further that “no relief can be looked for from the other side, as prices there have been advanced of late, and the import cost is altogether too high to-encourage import~ ations.” ;

The protectionists are fond of pointing to the plate-glass industry, as one of the best illustrations of the wisdom of our high tariff policy. They point out how the industry had to struggle for u foothold here in its infancy, how protection came to its aid, how the production has increased to 25,000,000 feet annually, and how the price has gone down under protection from 65 to 90 cents. i

At first sight this looks like a strong casc for the protectionists;’ but some furthér facts need to be told to show its ““true inwardness.” The small quantity of plate-glass that came into the country for the fiscal year ended June 59, 1890, was admitted, according to the tieasury reports, at 82.86 cents per squiare foot. Now if we calculate the total cost of our 25,000,000 feet of home manufactured glass, (the amount cininied by the protectionists as our amnual output), at this price we find Zhat it would have been §8,215,000.

’ But the price of the glass manufact~ ured in this country ranged, according to protectionist authority, from 65 to 90 ‘cents a foot. The average of these two figures would be 77%; but putting the average still lower, say 75 cents, the wholesale price of this glass was $lB,750,000. In other words, we paid $lO,535,00 more for it in the home market than if we had bought it from the foreign manufacturers at the average prices prevailing in 1890. The full significance of these figures can be seen by taking the case of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. In their advertisement "in the latest number of The Manufacturer and Builder they claim to have a ‘“‘capacity of 260,000 square feet monthly.” This would be 3,120,000 feet in a year, which, at 75 cents a foot, would bring $2,340,000. If the same. quantity were bought at 32.28 cents per square foot, the foreign price as above given, the total cost would have been $1,025,2382, or a net tariff difference of $1,314,768 for the American consumer to pays, -+

Early last year there was a case in Pittsburgh in which one of the men interested in this company testified that it cleared 843 per cent. on its capital in 1889. About the same time a repre‘sentative of this company went to England to negotiate with an English syndicate, with a view to uniting the nine plate-glass factories of this country. The English had already gotten wind of the great tariff spoils our glass men were making, for it was announced at the same time that an English company had begun the erection of afactory at Irwin, a town near Pittsburgh, Pa. The high protection given the plateglass men' under the old law had become almost prohibitory even before McKinley began to turn his tariff mill. The last English firm doing business in New York closéd up its establishment in that city several years ago, and our imporfations of plain polished plateglass are now less than one million dollars’ worth a year. Yet McKinley strengthened the practical monopoly enjoyed by our manufacturers by raising the duty on the smallest size of glass from three cents per foot to five cents—an advance which was not asked for by the manufacturers themselves, so far as the official published reports show. The duty on the largest sizes of plate glass is 50 cents a foot, which is equal, according to the official figures used by the Senate, to 141.43 per cent. ad valorem. Additional protection is now given the manufacturers by the new customs law, which allows nothing for broken glass. The McKinleyites did all they could to smooth the way for trusts, and trusts are now springing into life with a rapidity which ought to be very gratifying to McKinley, who believes that ¢‘cheap merchandise means cheap men.” g

1O PUT IN YOUR HAT. How McKinley Increased the Duties on . ‘Wool Hats. The McKinley duties on wool hats show a sharp increase upon the old rates. The duties in both the old law and in the present law are so-called compound duties; that is, there is a specific duty of so much per pound and an ad valorem duty in addition. Thus on hats valued at 30 cents a pound or less the old duty was ten cents a pound and 35 per cent. ad valorem—the compound duty being equal to an ad valorem duty of 68 per cent. 'The corresponding MeKinley duty is 1614 cents per pound and 30 per cent., the two duties here being equivalent to an ad valorem duty of 85 per cent. ; - Hats of the next class are those valued at more than 30 and not more than 40 cents a pound- The old duty en this grade was equivalent to 65 per cent. and the McKinley duty 90. The next grade of hats under the old law was those valued at between 40 and 60 cents a pound. The McKinley law makes this class stop at 50 cents and adds a class covering those between 50 and 60 cents per pound. Thus under the old law hats in the class between 40 and 50 bore an equivalent ad valorem duty of 71 per cent., and under the McKinley law the equivalent ad valorem is 101 per cent. On hats worth between 50 and 60 cents the equivalent in the old law was 68 per cent.; in the McKinley law it is 112 per cent. ,

The next class in both laws extends from 60 to 80 cents a pound—the ad valorem equivalent being 72 per cent., and the McKinley ad valorem 100 per cent.

The last class in both laws covers hats valued at above 80 cents a pound. The old tariff levied a duty here which was equal to 69 per cent.; and McKinley made only a slight advance in this highest class of hats, his equivalent ad valorem being 71 per-cent. Having gotten above the range of the poorer class of buyers he saw no good reason for increasing the duty very much. '~ The equivalent ad valorem duties here given are obtained by combining the pound duty and the ad valorem rate and calculating them upon the value of hats imported. Very few wool hats, however, were imported under the old law, the rates under it being almost prohibitory; but under the McKinley law importation may be expected to cease entirely. The American manufacturers had a practical monopoly before, and McKinley gives them a complete monopoly. Shall we not now have a wool hat trust?

“Blessings of Protection,”

When protectionists seek to convince people that protection is a good thing they usually try to show how it has lowered the price of goods. But now that the Republicans have discovered - that ‘‘cheap and nasty go together,” that cheapness is a ‘‘curse,” that it is “the fetich of the British free trader” and that a cheap coat makes a cheap man, the organs ot protection are adopting a new way to show the beauties of | protection.” The high tariff Philadel- | phia Press prints a news article under the caption ‘“Blessings of Protection,’ in wl}ich the following sentences occur: A. Ilapagan & Brother are satisfled that business is looking up. Double-reeled yarns, a little finer grade than gray yarns, have advanced over 30 per cent., and the dealer is now beginning to run after the manufacturer. | Jau:es Leach, of the Ashland Mills, mannfacturers of woolens and worsteds, said Kentucky jeans and shoddy jeans were going up, and all the higher class wool goods ara advancing. : Oarter & Lord, manufacturers of blankets and yarns, said the business prospects were good. Confidence is restored and the prices | of all kinds of stock are ruling higher. ! Yet this paper said some time after " the election, ““‘there is no more talk of | rising prices on account of the McKin- ] ley act or any thing else.” '

—The McKinley law increases the already high protection given to our manufacturers of calico prints; but calicoes are not demanded in the same quantities this year as last year, and no amount of protection medicine will avail in such cases. -

STATE NEWS ITEMS, TrE four-year-old daughter of H. Boyer, of Morgantown, was standing before an open fire, when her clothing took fire, and before assistance could be rendered was enveloped in flames. She died several hours after the accident. CovINGTON was startled the other morning by the intelligence that Mrs. Wm. Hill had suicided by hanging herself in the wood house, using for a rope a silken sash belonging to one of her children. Her mipd was affected by ill-health. JAcoB ORTH, a well-to-do farmer living near Delphos, was drowned in the canal the other night. Itis supposed that he was endeavoring to cross over on the ice and broke through.

THE President has sent to the Senate the following nominations for postmasters: Wm. H. Gibson, Tiffin; Wm. A. Hunt, St. Clairsville; ' Johnson Brown, Bridgeport; W. Howard Anderson, Barnesville; Mary S. Mong, Minerva.

SUMNER BRros., Cleveland jewelers, were mixed in the Dueber failure, and assigned for $50,000. ' R. SiBLETT, colored, a Pullman car porter, was knocked from the platform of a sleeper at Bellaire while the train was passing over the B. & O. bridge at that point and was instantly killed. The body struckthe bridge and rolled off to the ground one hundred feet below.

- B. F. SAvAceE and wife were terribly injured in a runaway at Bucyrus. THE council of Cincinnati has passed an ordinance making the giving of public exhibitions of hypnotism punishable by a fine of 8500. v - DAve C. JoHNSON and his two sons, W. P. and Harry, were arrested in Cincinnati, charged with violating the antilottery law by mailing lottery circulars. ! . At Hamilton Viola Groshaus committed suicide on account of the failure of Joseph Steffen, with whom she has been living as wife, to keep his promise to marry her. TrHE Annual Convention of the Ohio Agricultural Association was held in the Senate Chamber, a few days ago. The most interesting feature of the meeting was the address of President J. G. Russell. The convention in the evening elected five members of the State Board of Agriculture, as follows: A. H. Kling, of Marion County; A. J. Clarke, of Guernsey; W. H. Miller, of Erie; J. C. Bower, of Athens, and Geo. Lewis, of Van Wert. The State Board met immediately afterward and organized by electing J. M. Black, president; A. H. Kling, treasurer; L. N. Bonham, of Oxford, secretary, and J. W. Fleming, of Columbus, assistant secretary.

At Cincinnati John Turner, for ‘themurder of Schmidt, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.

- Dr. MAxweLL and Charles Schott were indicted by the grand jury at Canton, for attempting a eriminal abortion, by which Lillie Borden lost her life. To PROMOTE Mansfield’s interests the board of trade, acting upon suggestions of citizens, has written to Senator Kerr and Representative Gaumer, requesting them to prepare and introduce in the Legislature a bill authorizing the Mansfield board of trade to issue $lOO,OOO bonds for the purpose of using the money thus obtained in encouraging and aiding new manufacturing concérns to locate in that city.

‘JoHN BAIR, an insane farmer from Darke County, committed suicide at the insane asylum, Dayton, by hanging himself with a window cord.

‘THE janitor at the opera-house at Millersburg the next morning after a recent performance, found a pocketbook on the floor, containing notes, certificates and money, amounting to over $2,000. A search disclosed that they belonged to Jacob Uhl, a stockbuyer and farmer living near town. Onro’s banks during the past year drew drafts to the amount of $772,069,028. )

CoLuMBUS was without a single natural gas fire on the 15th, and numerous cases of inconvenience were reported on account of the sudden cut-off of the supply. The flow was stopped at 8:30 in the morning and 6,000 fires went out. The company says that in all probability the gas will never be turned on again, as the supply will not be sufficient for practical use. : : - THE annual meeting of the Ohio Wool Growers’ Association was held in the Senate Chamber the other night, President David Harpster being in the chair. Judge William Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, delivered the principal address of the evening, which was adopted as the sentiment of the association. The following resolution, offered by Judge Lawrence, was adopted: ‘Whereas, The Association of W®ol Manufacturers, by its secretary, expressed the opinion that a modification of -duties on wool may be expected, and by so doing has intimated that such modification is necessary and proper, this association does unanimously Resolve, That such expression is unjust, unfriendly and in violation of the agreement made between the manufacturers and producers prior to the passage of the McKinley bill. Resolved, That when the duties on wool are made by reduction the wool growers will demand such reduction on manufacturers as will place the manufacturers in no better condition than that enjoyed by producers.” Judge Lawrence was elected president, Mr. Harpster not wishing longer to retain the office, and the other old officers were re-elected. ' 0 CHESTER A. ALLEN’s house at Bellefontaine, was burglarized of $l6 in money and $2OO in silverware and jewelry, the other night. Mrs. Allen had just been paid $1,700 and the thieves expected to get it, but were foiled.

EB. SABORN, aged sixty-one, was burned to death near Zanesville, his house being almost consumed. Post and Harding, two of the convicts who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary some days ago, were captured at Bucyrus. ‘ Miss JEANNETTE BURNS gets $4,000 from Robert Poultney, of Youngstown, for breach of promise. URBANA has natural gps. ;

THOMAS DAVIDSON, a well known farmer of Franklin Township, Adams County, was sent to the Athens Insane Asylum a few days ago. . THE citizens of Lima have selected a committee to visit the State Board of Equalization to secure a reduction of tax valuations.

A. W. SmitH, of Newark, took a dose of arsenic, by mistake, he claims. Prompt use of the stomach pump saved his life. : :

Six cars loaded with merchandise were wrecked on the Pan-handle railroad, near Newark, by two sections of the traip coming togethey.

THE LAW-MAKERS. ! Proceedings of the Fifty-Seventh ' Session of the General Assembly of Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12.—SENATE—The Senate Committee on Elections, which had promised a report on the McHugh-Osborn case, ask® ed for more time. An attempt to increase the number of pages to ten or a dozen was defeated. Senator Boyd’s resolution, providing for the increase of the number of Supreme Court Judges from five to eleven, went to the Committee on Amendments. A resoiution, by Senator Byrd, asking Congress to pension prisoners of war, met with no opposition, and Senator Megee's resolution, asking the door-keeper to. furnish the names and places of residence of his assistants, went through without opposition. Billsintrodu¢ed: Appropriating money for additional buildings at the Soldiers’ and Sailers’ Orphan’s Home; fixing the salaries of county commissioners and township offlcers.

HOUSE—BIIIs introduced: Providing penalties for provoke; for recovering stolen property brought from other State or country: relating to tolls to be charged by millers; relating to separation of young convicts from hardened ocriminals; providing for the collection of the wages of laborers ; to keep water courses clear of obstructions; for the weighing and screening of coal and for the protection of tniners: providing for a board of turnpike directors; providing for the appointment of election inspectors; prohibiting the collection of constructive fees; providing for free text books and supplies; re quiring joint stock companies to pay license; defining the liability of employers to employes. for injuries; securing the payment of wages to employes. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 13.—3ENATE.—The contested election case of McHugh-Osborn from Tippecanoe County, came~ up this morning. The majority of the Committee on Elec!ions reported in favor of seating John H. McHugh, the contestant 'The minority of the committee, composed of Republican Senators Yaryan and Caster, presented a report dissenting from the finding of the majority. On a motion to substitute minority report for the majority the question came before the House for discussion. Two hours and a half were aliowed for debate, one half of the time being allotted to each side. Senator Hubbell took up the cudgel in support of the minority report. Senator Ewing conducted the case of the majority. At the close of the debate McHugh was seated by a strict party vote.

HOUSE —Resolutions to investigate the killing of Blounf at the Richmond, Insane Hospital, was laid on the table. Mr. Beasley, of Sullivan, introduced a resolution reflecting upon the reliability of the Indiana census. Mr. Claypool said the resolutions were a libel on an honorabie public servant, and moved that they be tabled. The resolution, however, prevailed. In the call of the roll for the introduction of bills, the following were offered: To prevent dealing in options and margins; to define the privileges of lessors. and lessees of natural gas lands; providing for the maintenance of superanuated preachers; to provide for the equipment of the Southern Insane Asylum; appropriating $200,000 for the Columbian Exposition; requiring trains to stap at county seats; providing for uniform assessment of personal property; providing for the heating of railroad cars. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 14—SENATE—A memorial signed by 8,500- miners was presented, asking for the correction of a grievance. Referred. Bills introduced: To permit the inmates of insane asylums to correspond with outside friends, and to prevent the incarceration in insane asylums of sane persons; to secure the better security of the money of children and feebleminded persons; amending the drainage act; for the better government of the insane asylums and asylums for the deaf and dumb; abolishing the Staie Agricultural Board, establishing the State Board of Agriculture and State Industrial Board; for the relief of the Supreme Court by the appointment of live additional Judges; to prohibit the waste ol natural gas: amending act incorporating building and loan assoclations; authorizing the incorporation of savings banks; relating to gravel roads. HoOUsE—Bills introduced: Empowering county commissions to fix the salaries of county officers; regulating the sinking of gas wells, and. the laying of gas pipe; amending the school law 80 as to establish county libraries; establish--ing a uniform system for weighing coal; providing for the transfer of insane convicts from the prisons to the insane asylums; allowing paupers ,to select their own physician, to be paid by the township; prohibiting Sunday baseball; providing for high license to restrain the sale of-liquor. The most important matter in the House this afternoon was the resolution introduced by Representative I'ippen—for the appointment of a committee to co-operate with similar committees from the Legislatures of the several agricultural States now .in session, to inquire into the amount of foreign capital loaned in these States, and to provide means for its taxation. Adopted. ¢

INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 15, —SENATE.—BiIIs introduced: Providing for the appointment of administrators de bonis non in certain cases; concerning roads and highways; amending an act relating to public offenses; to amend act relating“to animals running at large; to amend act establishing city courts in cities of six thousand and over; providing for the regulation of the liquor traffic; repealing the section authorizing county commissioners to call elections to vote appropriations to railroads, machine shops, et¢. ; making Supreme Court opinions evidence in certain cases; providing for the issue of drainage bonds; establishing coun. ty courts; providing for the current expenses of the Northern Insane Hospital; to give ille: gitimate children the right toinherit their father's property.

HOUSE—BIIIs introduced: Making it a penal offense for a bank to receive money or valuables when the officers of the bank know it to be insolvent; defining the loaning of money by foreign corporations as a privilege; providing for the abolition of township assessors, and ta create the office of county assessor, who shaly be paid five dollars a day for sixty days; pro. viding that when prisoners/are found guilty of a crime they may be sentenped for an adjustable period, a minimum and & maximum time; providing that illegitimate children should be entitled to bear the names of their parents; pro viding for employment of counsel for indigeni persons; - prohibiting State, county and town: ship officers from accepting railroad and steam: boat passes; prohibiting railroads giving public officials free passes, abolishing the attorney fee clause in promissory notes, INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 16.—SENATE—Governoi Hovey introduced a message calling for an in vestigation of the Prison North. After discus: sion a reference to the regular Committee oY Prisons eventually prevailed after much time had been wasted in talk. The Senate held a short afternoon sessior and formally adjourned until to-morrow to give the committees time to report. 3 HoUusSE—The Governor introduced a message in which he charged that Warden Murdock, of the Prison North, has refused 1o pay into the State Treasury the cash balance in his hands as warden, the same for November, 1889, being 8422,667.52, and for October. 1890, $17,916.53. The Governor further c'arged that for years the warden had converted the prison shops to his own use, and that the profits thereof amounted to a’ large sum of money. He recommended that a special non-partisan committee be appointed, with a competent and skilled expert, to make a thorough imvestigation of the aocounts, receipts, lexpenditures, contracts and reports of Warden Murdock during his term of office, which covers several years, and report the result before the adjournment, of the present General Assembly. After a long and acrimonious debate, on motion the matter was referred to the Committee on Prisons. Adjourned until Monday afternoon. .

THE three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Henry Beaver, of Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, died a few days agc from what physicians pronounced to be hydrophobia. Three months ago the little girl was bitten by a dog, receiving a scalp wournd. : THE other day about sixty farmers met in Wilkinson and incorporated the Wilkinson Butter and Cheese Association. The capital stock is $6,100. Shares are $lOO each. Both butter and cheese will be made from the milk furnished by the stockholders.. Mgs. ErizA J. RoBERTSON was fourd dead in bed at Kokomo. A ¢

JoseEPH LOCHRIDGE, a well-known soldier of the late war, residing near Manville, Milton township, near Madison, ate a hearty supper of oysters the other night, threw up his hand and died in a few minutes of heart disease.

A RAGGED burglar came into a Peru revival meeting, confesséd that he had broken every commandment on the list, in addition to breaking locks, and requested the people to pray for him. MRgs. RusSELL BLAIR, of Elkhart, has been driven insane by the prediction of one ‘“Dr.” Baker, a fortune-teller of Mishakawa, who told her her husband would be killed in a railway accident,

STANDING COMMITTEES,

As Announced by the Speaker of the In~ diana House of Representatives.

‘Ways and Means—Messrs. Oppenheim, Curtis, Harrell, Beasley, Nolan, Work, Hess, Claypool and Haggard. Judiciary—Messrs. Beasley, Oppenheim, Ader, Harrell, Voight, Fippen, Adams, Glessner, Morris of Henry, Hess and Haggard. . Reformatory Imstitutions — Messrs. Short, Higgins, Hench, Thienes, Robbins, Trimble, Heathman, Morris of Park and Guthrie.

Labor—Messrs. Kelley, qurt, Carroll, Robbins, Inman, Thienes, MecDowell, Latta and Haggard. State Medicine, Health and Vital Statistiecs—Messrs. Teal, Osterman, Fulton, Kyle, Troy, Trimble, Parker, of Hendricks, Hougham and Stone.

Cities and Towns—Messrs. Voight, Nolan, - Ebert, Gray, Bernethy, Branstetter, Lindemuth. Parker, of Hendricks, and Haggard. ; - Roads—Messrs. Bowman, Carroll, Beauchamp, Peters, Beigler, Osterman, Rrown, of Morgan, Sleeper and Morris, of Parke. :

Statistics and . Immigration—Messrs. Fulton, Ebert, Calvert, Wright, Peters, Watson, Sleeper, Aikman and Doll. ‘ Insurance—Messrs. Stull, McCloskey, Johnson of Carroll, Erwin, Cullop, Farlow, Sleeper, Guthrie and Wilson. Elections—Messrs. Fippen, Kern, Mack, Kyle, Kilgore, Johnson of Dearborn, Aikman, Doll and Bryant. -

Organization of Courts—Messrs. Hench, McCullough, Glessner, Zoercher, Lee, Bernethy, Claypool, Brown of Steuben and Bryant. . Education—Messrs. Leyden, Higgins, Teale, Oppenheim, Lee, Heathman, Short, Wells and Lindemuth.

Banks—DMessrs. Glessner, Moss, Gent, Leyden, Fowler, Patten, Troy, Parker of Newton and Jasper, and Hougham.

Affairs of State Prison South—Messrs. Faulkner, Osborn, Stall, Lee, Johnson of Carroll, Beauchamp, McDowell, Brown of Morgan and Oldham.

Affairs of State Prison North.— Messrs. Nolan, Erwin, Moon, Carroll, Barlow, Smith of Perry, Officer, Sleeper and Huffman. ¢

Swamp Lands—Messrs. Kerns, Faulkner, Baker, Timmons, Bowman, Roscoe, Bryant, Huffman and Wilson. Military Affairs—Messrs. Robbins, Curtis, Higgins, Teal, Leyden, Calvert, Officer, Stone and Doll.

Claims—Messrs.. Ader, Cullup,Osborn, Wright, Baker, Hay, Officer, Brown of Morgan and Harlan. - Trust Lands— Messrs. Osterman, Thompson, Voight, Branstetter, Kyle, Kelleher, Oldham, Whittenberger and Brown of Morgan.

Fees and Salaries—Messrs. Harrall, Kester, Ader, Moon, Moss, Pickhardt, Morris of Henry, Claypool and Wilson. Sinking Fund—DMessrs. Hay, Thompson, Inman, Glessner, Roscoe, Beauchamp, McDowel, Wilson and Huftman. '

The Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of the State—DMessrs. Adams, MeCullough, Farlow, Kester, Leyden, Zoercher, Beigler, Brown-of Steuben and Claypool. ‘Railroads—Messrs. Bernethy, Bowman, Lee, Byrkit, Inman, Adams, Lindemuth, Wells and Guthrie. Manufactures and Commerce—Messrs. Timmons, Baker, Rude, Callicutt, Branstetter, Kelley, Oldham, Latta and Whittenberger. ; County and - Township Business— Messrs. Work, Matthews, Teal, Thompson, Smith of Posey, Smith of Owen, Harlan, Doll and Whittenberger. Agriculture—Messrs. Kester, Byrkit, Cullop, Beigler, Gray, Wright, Kilgore, Latta and Aikman., Benevolent and Scientific Institutions —DMessrs. Moon, Adams, Kyle, Calvert, Kilgore, Gent, Lindemuth, Doll. and MecDowell.

Temperance—Messrs. - Gent, Peters, Kern, Hench, McCloskey, Ebert, Aikman, Bryant and Harlan.

Mileage and = Accounts — Messrs. Thompson, Baker, Gray, Callicutt, Zsill, Johnson of Dearborn, Parker of Newton and Jasper, Hougham and Parker, of Hendricks. :

Corporations—Messrs. Zoercher, Patton, Heathman, Matthews, Hench, Hay, Brown of Steuben, Stroll and Parker of Hendricks.

Canals—Messrs. Patton, Wright, MeCloskey, Kelleher, Osborn, Watson, Brown of Morgan, Wells and Harlan. Public Expenditures—Messrs. Cullop, Johnson of Carroll, Calvert, Ader, Osborn, Peters, Whittenberger, Huffman and Oldham. :

Federal Relations—Messrs. Troy, Patton, Faulkner, Johnson of Dearborn, Trimble, Smith of Posey, Hess, Latta and Wells. ; :

Natural Resources—Messrs. Fowler, Stull, Fippen, Timmons, Fulton, Kilgore, Wilson, Hougham and Huffman. Apportionment—Messrs. Curtis, Seventh District; Nolan, First District; Pickhardt, Second District; “Callicutt, Third District; Johnson of Dearborn, Fourth District; Short, Fifth District; Guthrie, Sixth Distriet; Morris, of Parke, Eighth District; Sleeper, Ninth District; Parker, of Newton and Jasper, Tenth Distriet; Branstetter, Eleventh District; Adams, Twelfth District, Fowler, Thirteenth. . Drains and Dykes—Messrs. Smith of qun, Byrkit, Kelleher, Beauchamp, Roscoe, Osterman, Latta, Brown of Steuben and Morris of Henry. Mines and Mining—Messrs. Carroll, Thienes, Moss, Timmons, Rude, Beigler, Parker of Newton and Jasper, Of firer and Whittenberger.

SHORT WITTICISMS.

GET mashed—Potatoes. THIN skinned—Grapes. A HARD race—Cannibals. Not allowed—A whisper. TiME locks—Gray hairs. ALWAYS in ecstacy—*‘Y.” Fit like a glove—Mittens. ALwAYs missed—The fog. MEgET and drink—Treating. THE belt line—A girl’s waist. Loox up aloft—Astronomers. WARRANTED all wool—Sheep. SpEAKS for itself—The parrot. “Bap Lands”—Unsalable lots. TaE oldest club—The bludgeon. Svips of the tongue—Stuttering. “LINE upon line”—Music scores. Nort in it—The stamp on a letter. MAKE their mark—Lead pencils. EXPENSIVE costumes—Law suits. DRrAwN all over the world—Corks. ON tick—The telegraph instrument. TALE of a century—The last decade. A PRECIOUS cord—A string of pearls. A BUCKET shop—The hardware store. A HANDY instrument—The accordion. UNDER currents—Wires in the subways. ' v

WITHIN THE LINES. Hostiles Pitch Their Tepees at Pine Ridge Agency—Hostilities Apparently at an iE;lnd, but the Savages Will Bear Watchg PN RmogE AGENCY, 8. D., Jan. 16.— The hostiles all broke camp at an early hour and came into the agency and took the positions designated by General Miles for them. There was nodemonstration. Every thing went along smooth. They are all peaceful, but hungry. This will end the trouble. Frank Grourard, the scout, estimates: the number of lodges at 742, though he can not estimate the number of Indians. The latter can .not, however, be less than 3,500. The Indian camp two miles from the agency has been broken up. The advance guard of the hostiles had scarcely reached the agency when Big Road sent ward that he had collected the arms of his followers and wanted to surrender them to the agency. When the weapons came in they were found to consist of simply two short guns, a heavy rifle and a broken carbine, two Sharp rifles and one Winchester—nine guns in all. This surrender is an evidence that the Indians do not propose to give up all their guns, and that they have hidden their best weapons on the hills. 'On this basis, the entire hostile band would be expected to give up in the neighborhood of 100 guns, when itis Imown that every buck is the owner of a weapon: American Horse, Standing Bear, White Bird and Spotted Horse, friendly chiefs, are now asking protection from the hostiles who have camped among them. ' : : It is not likely that General Miles will be satisfied with the disarming of the Indians on the basis of Big' Roads’ surrender.” If he should not be, some people here consider that the difficulty is far from being settled. :

In the afternoon the Brules abandoned their proposed camp near Red Cloud's house and pitched their tepees with the Ogallalas, forming a camp nearly-. a mile and a half @ ia length, connecting with the friendlies ‘south of the agency. The muin part of the camp extends westwurd from White Clay creek up the bluifs, on the summit of which the Indians have posted pickets to guard against surprise. They took possession of the bluffs just about the time the main body reached its camping ground, suddenly appearing as a deploying party both mounted and on foot, ‘after the most approved military fashion. Since the surrender of Big Road of the nine rifles referred to nothing has beer: heard from the hostile camp. All the guns, rifle and Hotehkiss are, however, trained in that direction, and indications of life there will be watched with interest. To-day it is expected that the othier chiefs will turn over to Agent Pierce the arms of their followers, but it is doubted whether the surrender will exhaust the supply of hostiles. The ¥ndians of Big Road have followed in the matter of giving up their miserable “weapons the example of Big Foat’s warriors at the time of the fighkt on ‘Wounded Knee. It is doubtful whether General Miles will order a search of their tepees for more arms. There is also a certainty that he will not seek for hidden weapons in the Bad Lands or near the camp sites which the hostiles have abandoned. Such being the case, the Indians will searcely miss the weapons which they have surrendered or will voluntarily surrender, knowing that they may at any time regain posession of those which they have temporarily stored away in their tepees or in the hills. ey

During the afternoon General Brooke, accompanied by Major Benham and Aids Truitt and Roe, came-in. General

Brooke called on General Miles -and later returned to his camp, which is pitched but a short distance outside the northern’ breastworks. His command near the mission has been- divided and

all of the divisions are either moving in this direction or have already arrived. - Itis said that the hostiles are in very bad humor. ' They are suspicious of the military and are exercising the same vigilance in guarding against a surprise as if they had not agreed to come' in. While every thing looks like peace, the Ind’ans have now a better position than ever before if they choose to stampede.’ Some of the bucks told an Indian scout that, in their present place they had the ageacy at their mercy. This is probably bravado, pure and simple, born of the fact that being conquered they want to make a last show of spirit. : Colonel Forsythe has received a dia-mond-hilted sword from settlers in the vicinity of the reservation. The Colonel will not make an acknowledgment of its receipt until after the report of the investigating committee appointed to loolk into the Wounded Knee affair has been made publie. L

THE SECRET OUT.

Prof. Koch Makes Known the Composition and Ingredients of His Lymph for the Cure of Consumption. ; BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Prof. Koch’s secret is out at last. "The famous bacteriologist has made public in the Medical Journal the ingredients of his remedy for consumption. The doctor admits that his lymph is composed. of pure generated tuberculosis bacilla in a solution of glycerine, which latter forms from 40 to 50 per cent. of the compound. The lymph, he says, is a derivation of albumen, and he acknowledges that it contains a mass of necrotic substance that attacks even certain sound tissues of the body when injected. _

EARTHQUAKES IN MEXICO.

Six Persons Killed and Nine Wounded at Parral—Shocks in Algiers. )

City or MEXICO, via Galveston, Jan. 16.—Three earthquakes occurred Thursday at Parral, in the State of Chihuahua. The gallery at the Convent of the Sacred Heart gave way, killing six persons and wounding pine. ALGIERS, Jan. 16.—Reports from various points show that the earthquake was felt throughout an extended region.. The shocks were severe at. Couraza, near Cherchell. Part of the buildings of the village were demolished and many persons were buried in the ruins.

A POST-OFFICE ROEBBED.

Burglars Blow Open the Safe of the Office’ at Key West, Fla., Securing a Large Sum,

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 16.—A special from Key West to the Times-Union says that the safe in the post-office there was blown open by thieves early Wednesday morning and $2,300 in money, stamps, ete., stolen, besides the contents of twenty-four registered letters. H. L. Hafer, of Barnwell, S. C., by trade a baker, has been arrested on suspicion. His chum, John Cline, is missing. The amount of money in the registered letters is supposed to be large. L

SEVERE ON THE SEVENTH. Miss Elaine Goodale Scores Custers’ Old Regiment in ' Her Report on the Slaughter of Wounded Knee—Ogallalas and Brules Hold a Powwow in the In=terests of Harmony Between the Tribes. . . WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received from Miss Elaine Goodale, supervisor of education, the following letter dated Pine Ridge, January 12: _ & “Yours of the 7th inst. askingfor a report of the battle at Wounded Knee isteceived. Iwas - not an eye-witness of the fight and my information has been obtained chiefly from Indian prisoners who were engaged in it, half-breeds who were present and from parties who visited the battle-field several days after the encounter. *The testimony of the survivors of Big Foot's . band is unanimous on one important point—namely, that the Indians did not deliberately plan a resistance. ' The party was not a war party, according to their statements (which I believe to be true), but a party intending td: visit the agency at the invitation of Red Cloud. The Indians say that many of the men were unarmed.. When they met the troops they anticipated no trouble. There was consequently friendly intercourse between the soldiers and the Indians, women even shaking hands with the officers and men. : - *The demand for their arms was a surprise to the redskins, but the great majority of them . chose to submit quietly. The tepees had already been. searched and a large number of guns, knives and hatchets'confiscated, when the searching of the persons of the men was begun. . The women say that they, too, we}-é searched and -their knives (which they always‘i cory for domestic purposes) taken fromg them. A number of the men had surrendered their rifles and cartridge-belts, when one young man, who is deseribed- by the Indians as a - good-for-nothing young fellow, flred a single shot.. This cadled forth a volley from the troops and the firing and confusion became general. I do not credit the statement which has been made by some thatthe women carried arms and participated actively in the fight. The weightof testimony is overwhelmingly against thissup ~ position. . There may have been one or two isolated cases of this kind, but there is no. . doubt that the great majority of the women and children, as well as many unarmed men ' and youths, had no thought of any thing but flight. They were pursued up the ravines and . shot'down indisceriminately by the soldiers. ; “It is réported that one of the officers called out: ‘Don’t sheot the squaws_’,"?but the men were doubtless too much excited to obey. The killing of the women and children was in part unavoidable, -owing to the confusion, but I think there is no doubt that it was in many cases deliberate and intentional. The Seventh Cavalry (Custer’s. old command) had an old grudge to repay. ! 1 “The party of scouts who buried the dead report exghiy-four bodies of men and boys, fortyfour.of women and eighteen of children. Some were carried off by the hostiles. A number of ‘prisoners, mostly women, have since died of their wounds and more will soon follow. The party which visited the battle-field January 1 to ‘resecue any -~ wounded whp might have been abandoned and brought in seven, reports that nearly all the bodies of the men were ' lying close about Big Foot's tent, while the women and children were scattered along a distance of two miles from the scene of the encounter. ] & .

‘The main reflection which decurs to me in connection with this most unfortunate affair is that the same thing should not be allowed to happen again. The irrespounsible action of one hot-Headed youth should not be the signal for a general and indiscriminate slaughter of the unarmed and helpless.” L

PiNe RIDGE AGENCY, S. D., Jan. 17.— The question which seems uppermost in the mind of everybody around the agency is whether or not General Miles will insist upon the complete disarmament of the Indians. It is réported on good authority that General Miles has ordered civilians to keep out of the hostile camp because he intends fo disarm the Indians-if he has to shell their camp to accomplish his purpose. The General could not be'seen to substantiate this. Adjutanj’t-G-enérul Corbin was asked if Generad¥ Miles had issued such an order, but he would neither admit nor deny the report. Ie claimed that so long as the arms were being surrendered by the Indians there was no necessity of using force to compel more speed.. ; .

Friday afternoon a significant effort to promote harmony among the Indians was made. A gathering took place at the instance of the Ogallalas and was held in what is known as:‘Loafers’

camp’ in the vicinity of the friendliex guarters. Six hundred Brules were¥ present. The Ogallalas had prepared a feast of hot coffee ‘and boiled dog and. the braves squatted in a ecircle, in the center of which steamed the viands. ‘The only white man presenf was Lieutenant Taylor, Ninth 'Cavalry, commander of the famous Ogallala scouts. Among the Ogallalas present were Chiefs Standing Soldier, American Horse, Standing Bear, Fast Thunder, Spotted Horse, White Bird and Bad Wound. Among the Brules were . Chiefs Short Bull, Kicking Bear, High Pipe, Ires Bull, Turning Bear and Two Strike. American Horse reviewed the circumstances which had led to the present difficulty and had impelled General Miles to issue his order disarming the Indians.: He said the order ought to: be complied with and that they should return to their homes and bring their young men to respect their good white friends, dissuade them from violence and compel the children to return to school. :

Short Bull said that a great many of the Rosebud Indians wanted to come to the. Pine Ridge agency because they knew they would be treated better there. High Pipe and Two Strike also spoke. B Lieutenant Taylor was asked to speak, and_said that he knew very many Ogallalas and was satisfied that they were friendly. He did not know the Brules so well, but felt that there were many good and brave men among them who would listen to reason. The trouble ‘was now over, and if they wished to remain in peace all'they had to do was to comply with the order of General Miles. He closed by saying that their -rights would be recognized by the present officers who had been placed over them. The council closed in the best possible humor. END OF THE BASE-BALL WAR.. Two Leagues Are ¥Formed, the Players‘ i Are Absorbed. - NEw YORK, Jan. 17.—The base-ball war is at an end and the prospects fora successful séason in 1891 .are excellerit. Friday night the National League, the American Association and the remnant of the Players League, in joint session, formed into two leagues, absorbing the Players’ and admitting the Western Association to the new National agreement. Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia (Players’ League) and Washington were admitted to the American Association ‘in place of Rochester, Syracuse, Toledo and the Athletics.

Must Pay for Archer’s Stealings.

BAvLTIMORE, Md., Jan. 17.—A dispatch to the Sun from Towson, Md., says that the jury in the Arfir bond case has returned a verdict against the sureties for $60,000. Archer was the defaulting State Treasurer. He is now serving a five years’ sentence in State prison, pleading guilty to a charge of embezzlement. . i

Bt. Petersburg’s Population., ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 17.—The official census of St. Petersburg, just . completed gives the population of the city as 956,300, an increase of 95.000 during the past decade, -