Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 January 1891 — Page 2

LANOTHER TARIFF TRUST.

The Soap Manufacturers Extending Their Trust in order to Enjoy Their Tariff Spoils —McKinleyism the Breeder of Trusts.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin, a high tariff organ, prints the following picee of news: s A large number of soap manufacturers in Philadelphia, Pa., have organized a branch of the National Soap Manufacturers’ Association. M. M. Eavenson was elected president, Peter Day vice-president, and William Hamilton secretary and treasurer. The territory covered by the new branch was fixed as Pennsylvania, east of the Alleghenies, New Jersey, west of the New York Association’s district, and the States of Delaware and Maryland. . The association here referred to is what is known as the soap trust. The soap makers are but another of the vast number of industries which -are making haste to form trusts in order to “get rid of competition” and enter into the full enjoyment of the spoils which the tariff makes possible. The McKinley duty on castile soap is 1% cents per pound, on fancy and toilet soaps 15 cents per pound, and on- all other kinds it is 20 per cent. ad valorem. Some prominent Republicans teach the doctrine that in cases where combinations are formed for checking competition or for raising prices the protecting duty should be revised in order to invite competition from abroad. This is the doctrine heard only from the stump; it never appears in practical. form on the floors of Congress. The Republican leaders wilfully shut their eyes to the fact that in every department of industry trusts. are springing up, and that this pernicious tendency toward consolidation has never. been more active than during the past six months. Trusts were sprouting up rapidly even while the MecKinley bill was still under discussion; but since the passage' of this bill, with all its jobs and deals, the trust-making industry has leaped forward with unexampled vigor., Trusts come so rapidly that it is scarcely possible to keep a record of them. ' - > :

Some Republican journals are fearful lest these trusts will ‘‘undermine the whole : protective system.” But these journals are clearly not in harmony with the spirit and purposes of the MeKinleyites. The purpose of the McKinley law was to raise prices and thus give the manufacturers higher profits. If this was not the purpose of the law, then = there should have been mno obiget in passing it; and Republican leaders, like McKinley himself, were doing a véry inconsistent . and needless thing when they went up and down the country in the recent campaign making speeches against cheapness. McKinley himself said in his speech on his bill last May in the House of Representatives: “We want no return to cheap times in our own country,” and he argued that ‘“where merchandise is cheapest men are poorest.” It being thus a sound Republican doetrine that cheapness is bad and dearness is to be preferred, how can Republican newspapers and statesmen consistently lift up their voices against trusts? Major McKinley says that a cheap country “is not the kind our fathers builded. Furthermore, it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain.”

Now trusts are the most potent agencies imaginable for realizing the ideal here set forth by McKinley; and if that ideal of a dear country be accepted by the Republicans it is folly for them to denounce trusts. The president 6f the sugar trust takes this view. ile says: ‘‘The great cry of one of the great parties is for protection; that is, they cry for it loudly daring campaigns. Bat when we proceed to give ourselves some protection a howl is raised. They demand protection for the industries. When an industry protects itself it is said that it is illegal.” The sugar trust was making 20 per cent. on watered capital when this was said; but what good Republicans can object to that? The trust at any rate was a blessing to the country in giving us sugar which was neither ‘‘cheap” nor “nasty.”

MILLIONS AND BILLIONS.

Thomas G. Shearman Discusses “The Coming Billionaire” — Striking Figures on . Wealth and Taxation — Burdens For Workers and Millions For Idlers—lndirect Taxes Will Create the Billionaire. " Are we to have a billionaire? We already have by far the liichest men in the world., We have one worth $150,000,000 and a chureh corporation worth the same amount. We have five persons worth each $100,000,000 or more. We have nine persons and estates worth each £50,000,000 or more, and six worth $40,000,000 or more. i Why should we not have also a billicnaire? Shall we not have one? Such are the questions which Thomas G. Shearman discusses in the Forum magazine for January, and his answer is that the billionaire is certain to come if our present system of indirect taxation continues in force long enough. A millionaire now worth $200,000,000 has but to sit still and invest his interest judiciously, and in less than forty years we will havela new wonder of the world—a billionaire. . Mr. Shearman showed in the same magazine for Novémber, 1889, that the total wealth of the country averaged about $l,OOO per head of the population. On this basis he shows in the current number of the Forum that the present distribution of wealth in the United States is as follows: : Class. Families. Wealth. Mign 0 182000 $43,367,000,000 Middle sanvsiee 1,200,000 7,500,000,000 Working. .......... 11,620,000 11,215,000,000 The wealth produced in 1890 is estimated, according to the census returns of 1880, at about $13,000,000. About four per cemt. of this must' be allowed for repairs and replacement; and after this deduction is made the net product of wealth for 1890 was distributed approximately as follows: o Families. Average Increase. Total Increase. 180,000............525,000 . 4,500,000,000 1200000, .. 1 LoDl 1,250 _ 1,500,000,000 11620,000............ 560 6.500,000,000 Leaving taxation out of the account, the 180,000 rich families can save about two-thirds of their income, while the rest of the families can not save more than about one-fifth of theirs. But our taxes are mainly levied, not upon property owned, but upon money spent. About seven-eighths of our taxes are. indirect. Even local taxation upon banks, mortgages, merchandise and houses, which is usually reckoned as direet taxation, is in reality indirect, since these taxes are shifted back upon the final real tax-payer—the worker and consumer. The tariff tax is of course the most familiar form of indirect taxatisn, but it is not the only indirect tax. Mr. Shearman estimates that all this indirect taxation upon expenses averagss about 15 per cent. This would mnle the tax burden borne by the 180,0060 rich families, which spend only onethird of their income, $225,000,000 for 1940 and that of the other families, which spend four-fifths of theirs, £060,84,000, Mr. Shearman estimates that . “W‘”Ma of the whole amount R e DRI AR 2 e ST et e

paid in taxes by rich and poor goes not to the Government but to a small section of the richest class. In this way about $400,000,000 is restored to this class for the $225,000,000 which it pays in taxes. :

The annual savings of the two great classes would therefore be as follows:

ANNUAL SAVINGS OF THE RICH. Natural 5aving5....................53,000,000,000 Deduct taxes, etc........ 5225,000,000 . Add profits from tax | 5y5tem.................. 400,000,000 4 —— 175,000,000

W0ta1..........0.ii0n e, $8,175,000,000 ANNUAL SAVINGS OF OTHER CLASSES. Natural 5aving5....................5,600,000,000 Deduottaxe_s, 080.. . vvoninvas oo i 21980000000 Net 5aving5........................$ 640,000,000

The gain here of the wealthy class over other classes is enough to equal in thirty years, if placed at 5 per cent. compound interest, the present total wealth of the country.

Such are the results of indirect taxation. How would the two classes stand if a system of direct taxation were introduced? Mr. Shearman thinks that under such a system a tax of one and one-fifth per cent. on all property at its full value would be sufficient. The burden borne by each class would therefore be as follows: : 180,000 rich would pay............... 5520,000,000 12,820,000 others would pav.......... 225,000,000

From these figures Mr. Shearman concludes that a system of direct taxation would result in an an=ual saving to the middle and working classes of $750,000,000 for all time; and this is only a part of the salient benefit from the direct system. .

The workings of the two systems may be illustrated by taking the case of a man. worth $10,000,000. Under the present system he would not pay more than $15,000 a year, while at the same time living in princely style. But if he is one of the protected classes, if he owns mines or factories, the tariff taxes and other indirect taxes will often bring him as much as $lOO,OOO a year from the pockets of other people. Now how would this pampered millionare fare under a system of direct taxes? He would pay $120,000 a year, and would levy no tribute upon poorer people. Q If the present system, therefore, is to continue, the coming of the billionaire is a certainty; and with him will come, on the other hand, a million paupers. The question is, will the present system continue? Mr. Sherman is confident that it will not. The Republicans have made the permanent expenses of the Government so great that a deficit of $50,000,000 is a thing of the near future. Moreover, no system of tariff taxation can be devised which will yield sufficient revenue without re-imposing the tax on sugar. But no political party ‘will hazard such a step after the people have learned the blessings of cheap sugar. Sugar was put upon the free list by the Republicans in order to save the tariff; but free sugar is going to work in precisely the opposite direction. The people will learn through it, as never before, that the tariff is a tax, and they will thus be led to demand the abolition of other duties. The late elections have already doomed the tax on raw wool, and the growers have threatened that the tax on woolen cloth will have to ' share the same fate. Blaine put forward reciprocity as a means of saving protection; but reciprocity, too, is going to work in the contrary direction again. The people will readily see that an enlarged trade with all the world is a good thing, just so fast as they learn that our trade can be enlarged in South America. : Thus there are many signs of the early downfall of protection. Many forces are at work to undermine the system, and as the reign of the extortioner passes away the conditions will vanish which tend to make the billionaire. The abolition of tariff taxation, and other forms of indirect taxes, will prevent the coming of the billionaire.

“THE DISCOUNT” CHARGE.

Republican Organs Admit That Our Manufacturers Sell Machinery Cheaper to Foreigners Than at Home. : When the campaign was at its height the Cleveland Leader, one of the leading protection organs of Ohio, denied vehemently that our protected manufacturers sell their wares cheaper to foreigners than in the home market. Since the election, however, this organ has felt the pressure removed, and in discussing the new mower and reaper trusts it admits that “the retail price of American-made farm machinery and sewing machines is often lower abroad than here,” Even so long ago as the first of last September the Philadelphia Manufacturer, the organ of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Club, admitted that our manufacturers make special discounts to foreigners and even defended them for doing so. It.said: If an American is to sell abroad an article which costs more to produce here than it costs in other countries he must meet the lower foreign price. The fact that he makes a fair profit upon his ordinary trade enables him to bid low for an extension of his trade. ‘A factory making a hundred mowing machines a month for the home market can make five more a month at much less cost than if it had only five to make. But the American consumer will consider it pretty hard on him to pay for protection which protects principally the foreigner. The facts about ‘“export discounts” were first brought out at length in a pamphlet brought out by the New York Reform Club, and this pamphlet has been the cause of the heated discussion of the subject during the past six or eight months. The farmer will get an idea of what these discounts to foreigners mean in articles which he uses from the following figures taken from the Reform Club’s pamphlet: : e eet et ettt e e ettt In “Home| To For- ; ‘ Market.” eigners. Lock Lever Hay Rakes $15.00 $14.21 Self-dump Hay Rakes. . 18.00 17.12 Hiay Tadder............ 26.00 25.25 Potato Digger.......... 8.00 6.75 Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, : Rake and P10w......, 11.00 8.40 All steel horse hoe and cultivator,with wheel 8.00 6.76 All stezel,glaln cultiva- : tor, with whee 1....... 7.20 4.60 Plows, 2 horse, chilled,| 5 Sy o 5.60 5.04 SBame all 5tee1...... ... b Al 7.56 2 horse, chilled, 10 in.| 6.30 5.67 Same, all steeli.. ... c. .. 10.50 9.45 2 or 8 horse, chilled, Br. 7.70 6.93 . Same, all 5tee1.......... 14.00 12.60 2 or 2 horse, chilled, Jr. 7.35 6.611 Same, all 5tee1e........ 14.00 12.60 2 gang plow, 4 horses, Pl e MUSOONG. - vocc b peel 7 88000 B 0 _ What it Costs. | / A Missouri farmer figures it out that when corn is 50 cents a bushel, it costs 84 cents of corn value to make a threecent pound of hog—for which under Republicanism there is no market but ‘“the Home Market.” So it is in fine sarcasm of the ‘“‘Home Market” advice, “feed your spare corn to fatten your pork” that he says: “Fifty-cent corn and three-cent hogs is equal to the Liouisiana Lottery.” U

STATE INTELLIGENCE.

. INDIANA short-horn breeders in Ine dianapolis elected J. M. Sankey president. e

‘A ScoTTsBURG hog is lively after bes ing imprisoned in a haystack twentyninedays without food or water. LAPORTE sees an ice prospect for next summer in the rapid filling of her fifty ice houses. =

EvcHrETOWN has a . phantom bell which tolls mournfully from the ruins of an old distillery at one ‘o’clock every morning. ? SAMUEL LANCE, a farmer of Vistula, was crushed to death by a tree he was felling. JACK HART, & Monon brakeman, was crushed to death between the cars at Attica.

AT the meeting of the gasrepresentatives of the gas cities, at Anderson, a legislative committee was appointed.

MRrs. ErizaßerE KRONE, an old German woman, committed suicide at Evansville, by jumping intoa cistern, She worriea over financial matters till she lost her reason.

MRrs. DAviD WRieHT died at Cambridge City of nose bleed.

THE county commissioners of Tipton County ordered all log-haulers of the different saw-mills and the heading teams of A. R. Coleman heading factory to stop hauling on the pikes, owing to their present condition. The teamsters at once submitted to the order.

BrooMiNaéTON celebrated Foundation Day and also the opening of a $60,000 library building at the Indiana University a few days ago.

GEORGE SEARS, a shanty-boat man, and his wife, disappeared from Jeffersonville after sending their two little children up-town on an errand, and left the little ones wandering about the street. They are in the hands of the township trustees. THE trial of James A. Wood, attendant, on the charge of killing Thomas J. Blount, a patient in the Eastern Insane Hospital, Richmond, terminated at 8 o'clock the other night in the jury finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and giving him the extent of the penalty’ provided—twenty-one years. The jury was out three hours. It isunderstood that a motion for a new trial will be made. :

ALEXANDER RAMSEY chose hanging with a trace-chain - at Martinsville to the prospect of living as an insane man.

DuriNG the absence of the family, who were away visiting, the elegant Berry street residence of John M. Landenberger, F't. Wayne, was burglarized the other night, and over. $l,OOO worth of silverware, jewelry and other valuables were taken. No clew to the thieves.

Two hundred and twenty-five members of the National Brick-makers Association and others to the number of over 300 went to Marion, the other day, to inspect midwinter brickmaking with natural gas, from Indianapolis, where the association has been in session. Luncheon was served in an empty kiln, a gas well was turned loose, and they were otherwise entertained.

AT Bethel, Greene County, a protracted meeting is being carried on. Rev. Whisand arose the other night to announce the hymn, before entering upon his discourse, and just as he began to read some unknown person shot through the window at him. Luckily he moved just as the shot was discharged, or he 'would have been killed. The bullet passed through the pulpit and imbedded itself in the wall. The would-be murderer has not yet been apprehended. GEo. JoYCE, aged 25, while felling a tree near Fairfield, was struck by a descending limb and crushed into the earth, causing instant death. He is the son of John Joyce, Esq., a much respected citizen of that locality. .WALTER ROBERTS, an inmate of the county poor asylum, at Greenfield, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by taking morphine. He says he will yet commit the deed. e

Two or three weeks ago Louis Haase, an Indianapolis jeweler, accosted pretty Miss Helen L. Patrick as she was hastening home after nightfall, and insisted upon kissing her, and the terrified girl was compelled to submit tothe embrace. He had previously followed her for some distance. She reached home terribly alarmed, and acquainted her brother, and, through his co-operation and that of the police superintendent, a trap was laid for-Mr. Haase and he was arrested. The mayor fined him $25 and costs and sentenced him to the workhouse for ten days. He appealed to the Criminal Court, and on the 20th he was fined ssoo° and ‘all costs of trial, and a most determined effort upon the part of his attorney alone prevented him from receiving a jail sentence in addition. THE other morning Orville Gaylord, aged seventy-one years, residing at 231 Lafayette street, Ft. Wayne, left his home as usual, enjoying the best of health. When he reached the Murraystreet wood-yard, where he is asawyer, his fellow-workmen greeted him. He responded and talked freely till 10 o’clock. Suddenly he stepped from his saw and stood the picture of despair, yet uttered not a sound. In a few minutes he left his work and ran to the office. At the desk Gaylord wrote: ‘I can not talk.” He was told to open his mouth. This he did, but his tongue was motionless and apparently stiff. The case puzzled the attending physicians, but it is thought his tongue is paralyzed. ‘ THE Indiana Wool Growers’ association, at Indianapolis, elected president, Chas. A. Howland, of Indianapolis; vice president, J. R. Tomlinson, of Land; secretary, J. W. Robe, of Greencastle; treasurer, J. L. Thompson, of Marion. WALTER ROBERTS, an inmate of the Hancock County Asylum, attempted suicide with morphine. TuE Kokomo Enameling-Works, the latest factory coming into that field,began operation " recently, giving em ployment to eighty men. Mgzs. GORDON, from Jasper County, an inmate of the Evansville Insane Hospital, made her escape by jumping from a second-story window. ! TuE two lads who started from Crawfordsville to fight the Indians have returned home, having come to the conclusion that their services are not needed. _ - Ar Terre Haute, Ethel Towne was acquitted of the charge of forgery. CHAS. SHERMAN grabbed a burglar in his Indianapolis - residence, forced him into a closet, and while he went for the police the prisomer dropped out of tha window. : MircneLy is organizing a Law and Order League for the purpose of enforeing the statutes against the sale of intoxicating liquors. = .

THE LAW-MAKERS. Proceedings of the Fifty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly of Indiana.. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 17.—SENATE.—Senator Smith presented a bill, the purpose of which is to protect the gas belt from enterprizes that may have for their object the piping of gas to Chicago*or Cincinnati. The provision that is expected to accomplish this prohibits the use of any appliance in the way of a pump that will increase the pressure on mains beyond the natural force of the wells. Itis provided that any person or corporation violating this sectionshall be fined not less than $1,(00 nor more than $10,00). The Committee on Swamp Lands recommended the passage, with slight amendments, of Senator Shank’s bill providing for the removal of limestone rock from the Kankakee river.: Bills introduced were those by Senator Kopelke to legalize records and acknowledgments of @leeds that have not been properly certitied, and by Senator McGregor making an appropriation of money due the Indiana Legion and independent companies of militia and minute men for services rendered by order of Governor Morton during the rebellion. : HOUSE—Not in session. 3 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—SENATE.—The special order in the Senate this afternoon was the bill appropriating $lOO,OOO. The billis the same in all respects as that adopted by the House last week except that no specific amounts are apportioned to the two houses. Upon motion the rules were suspended and the Dbill was passed. Bills introduce: Providing against the waste of natv al gas; to protect quail and grouse; to abolish :he office of State Mine Inspector and create tho office of Inspector of Mines; to amend tt . act defining the duties of town boards, and city councils; to provide for the creation of circuit courts in each county, and the election of judges and prosecutors by county commissioners.

HoUusE—Nothing was done beyond the introduction of bills. The most important propose to amiend the election law; abolishing the office of State oil inspector and creating the office of Supervisor of State Oil Inspectors; providing for the appointment of probate commissioners in counties of 75,000 population or over; prohibiting the sale of cigarettes; authorizing cities with a population of thirty thousand or over to issue bonds for public libraries and library buildings; authorizing county commissioners to meet once a month.

INDIANAPOLIS, . Jan. 20.—SENATE—An hour was ‘consumed in debate over the question whether it should employ L. A. Simpson, a colored man, in the cloak room. The clored man was finally appointed. The Committee on Executive Appointments recommended the approval of the appointment by the Governor of Murray Briggs and Isaac H. C. Royce as trus: tees of the State Normal. Concurred in. Senate Bill 38, giving discretionary powers to the commission appointed to remove the limestone rock from’the Kankakee river, and to widen, deepen and lengthen the channel, ‘was called up for third reading, and passed. Senate Bill No. 18, authorizing the commissioners of counties bordering on other States to co-operate with the commissioners or other authorities of border counties in such other States in the construction of ditches and the opening of water courses, was called up for third reading and passed. : HOUSE.—The vote on U. S. Senator was the special order of 11 o’'clock. Representative Beasley set the ball rolling for the majority and presented Senator Voorhees as the unanimous choice of the Democracy. Governor Hovey received the Republican nomination. The vote which was then taken showed Voorhees 74, Hovey 2. At noon to-morrow a joint session will be held, at which Voorhees’ Senatorial lease will be formally extended another six years.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 21.—3ENATE.—The time in the Senate this morning was devoted 1o the report of standing committees. The Cominittee on Judiciary reported, recommending the passage of Senator Mount’s bill providing that constables may arrest horse thieves and other felons without warrant, and hold them until snch warrant is procured. The committee also recammended the passage of Senator Mount’s bill providing that deeds and mortgages shall be recorded at once, instead of waiting fortyfive days, as the law now provides.

HouseE—The House devoted itsclf almost entirely to-day to the reports of standing committees and the introduction of bills. The Indiana General Assembly met in joint session at noon to-day, and the action of the two branches yesterday in the matter of the election of U. S. Senator was formally ratified. The elerks of the two branches read those portions of the journals relating to the business in hand. The chairman then-announced the result as follows: Total number of votes cast, 149; for Voorhees, 109; for Hovey, 40. Continuing he said: “Daniel W. Voorhees having received a majority of all the votes cast I declare him to be the duly elected Senator from Indiana for six years from the 4th day of March, 1891.” INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 22. —SENATE—The Committee on Labor recommended the passage of Senator Hudson’s bill requiring manufacturing and mercantile companies to furnish seats for their female employes when they are not engaged at their work. The same committee recommended the passage of Senator Hudson's bill providing for licensing boiler engineers, and for the appointment of a State Inspector of Boilers. The bill of Senator Clemans, prohibiting the killing of quail for five years, met with a favorable report at the hands of the Committee on County and Township Business, HOUSE—Reports of committees was the order of business. Mr. Short’s .bill for the better government of the house of refuge, and changing the name of that institution, was recomsmended for passage.. Natural gas legislation was the subject of a good deal .of discussion in the House this afternoon. The passage was recommended of Mr. Fowler's bill regulating the use of gas through mixers. With proposed amendments relating to the inspection of pipe, etc., the bili was referred back to the Commite tee on Natural Resources. Among the bills introduced were those making the Auditor of State custodian of State House, with authority to purchase all supplies; creating a Bureau of Forestry, and making the State Geologist exe officio chief of said bureau; creating the office of Natural Gas Supervisor, at a salary of $l,BOO, with §6OO for traveling eéxpenses. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23.—SENATE-Bills re. commended for passage by committtees: Providing for the deduction of mortgage indebtedness from real estate assessment; authorizing attorneys of record vo receipt for judgments; authorizing married women to make contracts; making the burning of a building or other property, for the purpose of collecting insurance. arson, and providing a penalty of from two to fourteen years; groviding for the destruction of counterfeiters’ and burglars’ tools and lascivious books: making rape punishable by imprisonment from two to fourteen years; to iegalize the official aocts of deputy county officers under age. The Senate adjourned until Monday at 11 o’cloclk, HOUSE.—-Bills introduced: To amend the act for the incorporation of high schools and academies; defining the Eleventh Judicial Circuit; providing for automatic brakes on all railroad trains: requiring foreign fire and life insurance companies to keep money on depoit in Indiana; for the 1 itter protection of fish in streams; to am nd the act providing for County institutes. AN Indianapolis baby was pawncd for one dollar, and the father had to brung suit to get it out of soak. - At Columbus Rosani Keller has sucd for divorce from Peter Keller, to whom she has been married forty years. She is seventy-five and he eighty. She charges cruelty and desertion. THE fly-wheel of an engine in Lauderbeck’s saw-mill, near Grass Creek, Cass County, weént to pieces. None of the many employes in the mill were injured. A MOVEMENT is on foot for an electric road from Brazil to Knightsville. : THE body of Peter Sheets was found in a swamp about eight miles from Plymouth. He was a well-to-do farmer, but became demented, and about six weeks ago wandered away. WirLriam WATsoN overturned a tank of boiling water in a Terre Haute saloon and was badly scalded. Three days later he died of lockjaw. BEDFORD,. a village ten miles north of Mitehell, is scourged with an epidemie of scarlet fever. All the members of one family have died with the disease, and many are leaving town to escape. Vigorous efforts are being made to stay the contagion. HeNRrRY THORNTON, colored, who is the possessor of a white wife, attempted suicide by hanging in the Madison jail. 'He was jealous of his brother’s attentions to his wife. )

FURIOUS FRESHETS. Heavy Rains Swell the Streams in New England and the Middle States, Causing an Enormous Amount of Damage. NEw YORE, Jan. 23.—Much rain has fallen over New England and the Middle States, and from many points come tidings of freshets and threatened flood. Bridges are being swept away in Dutchess County, N. Y., and at Wassaic two women and a team were drowned in a swollen stream. In the Mohawk valley a breaking up of ice in the river is feared. There is an immense ice-gorge near Tribe’s Hill and people living on the lowlands are becoming frightened. The ice is piled to a great height. The people living along the banks of the Mohawk are ready to leave their homes at a moment's notice. On the lower Hudson there has prevailed the fiercest gale and rain-storm of the season, and some places are completely flooded. At Highland Light, Mass., a terrific southwest gale has developed and telegraphic communication is cut off. The storm islikely to cause considerable damage in the bay and about Provincetown. The combination of a heavy fall of rain, a very high tide and a strong wind blowing the water in from Long Island sound caused the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers to rise in an alarming manner. Between 1 and 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon the water rose fourteen feet. A terrific rain-storm accompanied by high winds prevailed at Danbury, Conn., and is doing a vast amount of damage. The water in Still: river has risen above its bank’s and the lower floors of factories along its boundaries are flooded. In all parts of the city cellars are flooded and streets are about impassable. = The schools [ are closed and business is praetically suspended. It is reported. that several wash-outs have occurred on the New York & New England railroad east of that city.

. A terrific rain-storm swept over the Wyoming valley Thursday morning, continuing till 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Over one-third of Wilkesbarre, Pa., is now under water and traffic is completely suspended on the street railway. The steam-heating plant is completely submerged and two fire-engines have been pumping the water out all the afternoon. The gorge in the Susquehanna now extends from Tunkhannock to Nanticoke, a distance of thirty-seven miles, and it is feared that the storm may cause the river to back up and flood the section from end to end. It was rumored that the Tunkhannock bridge had been swept down by the torrent, but up to a late hour the rumor had not been verified.

A dam at Hibernia, N. Y., on Wapping creek, has been broken, adding the waiter of a large pond to the already swollen stream. The rush of ice and water struck the large iron bridge on the Central New England & Western railroad just below the dam and moved it several feet out of line, stopping trains. An iron . highway bridge was destroyed and part of the mill at Hibernia torn -away. At Pleasant Valley, a few miles below, the people of the village were driven into the second stories of their houses and were only able to get about in boats. Two or three bridges were carried away on the New York & Massachusetts railroad near Pine Plains.

People residing in the vicinity of Cape Henry were terrified Thursday night by the storm. Houses swayed and trees were bent to the ground. Many inhabitants gathered their valuables together ready to leave, as every moment they expected to see their dwellings blown out to sea. The velocity of the wind reached sixty miles an hour and was somewhat in the form of a cyclone. -

Early Thursday morninggthe water in the Housatonic and Naugatuck (Conn.) rivers began rising and by noon seven feet of water was falling over the dam. All of the factories were closed down at noon and large crowds gathered along the river. Fears were entertained that the dam would not withstand the pressure, so Foreman Curley of the water company stationed sentinels along the river at 6 o’clock and arranged to have an alarm sounded in case of danger. At 7:45 p. m. the gate-house on the west end of the long dam began to waver and the danger signal was at once given. Five minutes after the signal was sounded the gate-house was twisted around by a large body of pack ice, and this movement was closely followed by the giving away of a section of the dam three feet in depth and about 300 feet in length. Just before the dam gave way the gauge showed seven feet ten inches of water going over the dam. The gong continued to sound and the people rushed from their houses amid great excitement. The immense volume of water rushed down the river and the paper-mill and-Albert Daggett’s postalsard factory were the heaviest losers. I'wo hundred feet of the Housatonie railroad trestle was carried away at the same spot as in last week’s flood. A pile-driver was swept down the river and: two men had to jump to save themselves. There is now four feet of water on the Derby railroad tracks and trains have stopped running. A number of factories will be compelled to close. At ' midnight hundreds of people were flocking to the scene, and great excitement prevails. So far no serious accidents have been reported. The dam, which was built in 1870, was 500 feet long and 22 feet deep. It cost $1,000,000 to build. : An Opera-House in Ashes. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 22.—The Journal’s special from Winona, Minn., says that the opera-heuse in that city burned Tuesday night soon after the performance was finished. The Maggie Mitchell Company had occupied the house for the evening’s performance and some of the property of the company was destroyed. Loss, $7,000. ! General Benet Retired. ~ WASHINGTON, dJan. 23.—BrigadierGeneral S. V. Benet, chief of ordinance of the army, Thursday was placed on the retired list, having reached the age of 62 years. ) Will Start a Twine Factory. Des MoiNes, la., Jan. 22.—1 t is reported that the Alliance Twine Company of Des Moines will in a short time start a $300,000 plant here. The prediction is that prices will be greatly reduced. The eompany has purchased patents whereby the twine can be manufactured from slough grass. M\'nu}er and Suicide by a Woman, St. Louis, Jan. 23.—At San Antonio, Tex., Wednesday, during a lovers’ quarrel, Bertha Gross, 80 years old, shot and fatally wounded James Hartley, of Rattery F, Third Artillery, and then committed suicide. :

THE SENAIORIAL MILL, It Turns Out a Grist of Members of the Upper Branch of Congress — Governor ~ Hill Elected in New York — Senator Voorhees Gets Another Term from Indiana—Result of the Balloting in Other States. et 5 i

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 22.—1 n joint convention of the Legislature the votes of the two Houses for Unit€d States Benator were compared, and D. W. Voorhees declared elected. Voorhees received 110 votes and Governor Hovey received 40. j ‘

ALBANY, N. Y., January 22.—Every member of both heuses of the Legislature was present when the joint ballot for United States Senator was taken at noon. The vete, as announced, gave David B. Hill 81 votes, William M. Evarts 79 votes. Hill was declared elected. - :

Concorp, N. H., Jan. 22. — Both houses met in joint: convention Wednesday and declared Jacob H. Gal- g’ linger elected --‘“3/' ' United States ol = i Senator to the L .k full term of six L SR years, from ‘,',i;'iii\__ : March, 1891. eNG TR Ezra S.Stearns J\ /c \\\\\\\3 ! Wi\ =| | ! (Rep.). was elect- \\% ig i ed Secretary of RS o State. The elec- X : tion of other J. BH. GALLINGER. -

State officers has been postponed by the Legislature. : HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 22.—80th Houses met in joint convention at noon. The roll-call began on the vote for United States Senator at 12:40 and the result .announced as follows: Total number of votes, 275; necessary to elect, 138. Orville B. Platt received 141 and Carlos French 134, Mr. Platt was declared elected. > St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 22.—A PostDispatch Jefferson City (Mo.) special says: Both houses of the State Legislature met in joint session at noon and voted for United States Senator as follows: Vest (Dem.), 130; Headlee (Rep.), 82; Leonard.(Labor), 8; Jones (Labor), 1. Senator Vest was therefore declared re-elected. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 22.—The two houses of the Legislature met in joint convention Wednesday. A joint ballot for United States Senator was not necessary under the law, as Senator Cameron received a majority in each house. The parts of the journals referring to the vote being read, J. Donald Cameron was formally declared elected United States Senator, and Lieutenant-Governor Watres, in the presence of the joint assembly, signed the certificate of election.

- DENVER, Col., Jan. 22.—The Senate and House met in joint session at noon Wednesday to ballot for United States Senator. The vote was: H. M. Teller, 47; Caldwell Yeamans, 27. :

OrLymprla, Wash., Jan. 22.—The Legislature in joint session Wednesday elected Watson C. Squire United States Senator. The vote stood: Squire, 58; W. A. Calkins, 380; Thomas Carrol], (Dem.) 21. : 3

SALEM, Ore., Jan. 22.—The Legislature in joint session Weédnesday formally re-elected John H. Mitchell United States Senator to sueceed himself. P Zin e

LitrLE Rock, Ark., J an.;éz.——ln joint session Wednesday the General Assembly completed the work of re-elect-ing James K. Jones United States Senator by the following vote: Jones (Dem.), 106; Trieber (Rep.), 14; scattering, 5. : ' .

TWENTY MILES OF FLAME.

Two Rivers Covered with Oil Are Fired and Much Property Is Destroyed.

GrAFTON, W. Va., Jan. 22.-—The great pipe of the Eureka Oil Field Company broke Monday night where it crosses Buffalo creek, and when the break was discovered the creek and the Monongahela wriver for twenty miles were ecvered with oil. After dark some one fired the oil, and the streams were soon on fire for twenty miles. Every object for miles was visible. Thousands of trees were killed and five bridges burned, including the great iron bridge at Pine Grove. ;

Lymph from Minister Phelps. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The President has received a package from Hon. William Walter Phelps, United States Minister to Germany, containing five vials of Koch’s lymph, and has distributed them as follows: Two vials to SurgeonGeneral Hamilton, of the Marine hospital service in Washington, and one vial :each to the Policlimic hospital of Chicago, the Charity hospital rof New Orleans and the City hospital of Indianapolis. L : Xce Scenery at Niagara Falls. ,LockprorT, N. Y., Jan. 22.—The ice scenery at Niagara Falls is unusunally beauntiful just now. The trees and shrubs in the park and om the island are covered with frozem spray, which glistens like diamonds in the sun. An ice mountain has formed at the foot of the American falls, and from the targe amount of floating ice it looks as if an ice bridge might form at any moment. : Newspaper Office Buarn:ed. HoLrLAND, Mich., Jan. 22.—The office of De Grondwet, the largest Dutch paper in the United States, was totally destroyed -by fire early Wednesday morning. Loss about $4,000; insured. The West Michigan Furniture Company had a large amount of furniture stored in the building. Its loss is about $3,000; not insured. The fire is supposed to have been the work of anincendiary. For a €ongress of States.. DeNVER, Col., Jan. 22.—There is a movement on foot to hold a congress go be composed of' representatives of Texas, Arizona, New Mexieo, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Montana. The purpose is to unite the people of these States and Territories in the work of securing National legislation demanded by the best interest of the Middle Western States. The congress is to be held at the great mardi gras and inter-State %rade display at Galveston, Tex., from February 5 to 10, inclusive. ’ , Giant Powder Explodes. AsHLAND, Wis.,, Jan. 22. — At the Sampson mine, near Rlummer, Tuesday afterroun, ten sticks of giant powder, lying vnder a boiler, exploded, completely demolishing the engine, boiler and engine-house, and very serijusly injuring three men, Ed Miller, Louis Osthoff and John Kroutvebost. - Nine Stores Burned. s HousToxiA, Mo., Jan. 22— Nine stores in this town were burned Tues~ day afternoon, entailing a loss of $20,000; insuvance, $6,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of 8 can of gasoline, e

THE LAST TRAIN' ROBBERY. Additional Particulars ot the 820,000 Haul Made by Texas x3andits. St. Louls, Jan. 23.—A special from Brownsville, Tex., says: aldditional ‘particulars have been receivesl of the train wrecking and robbery on the Rio Grande railroad on the 19th, in which the bandits seeured $20,000 in silver. on the way to New Orleans. The train left here in\ the morning with passengers for the! steamship Morgan at Brazos. When twelve miles from here the train was de-ailed by obstructions placéd on the track at a point in the hills near the river bank. Fifteen masked men then plundered the express car, taking the silver shipment above mentioned, and . rifled the United States mail pouches. The passengers were then held up and plundered of their money and valuables. Therobbers then blindfolded the passengers and trainmen, forced them into a box car, locked them in and left. The derailed cars caught fire from the overturned locomotive, and but for the timely appearance of some- countrymen living near the scene, 'the imprisoned passengers and trainmen would = have - perished in ‘the’ flames. The fireman and engineer were seriously. injured when the locomotive went over, but fortunately no lives were lost. Officers are on the track of. the -bandits, but as they are supposed to have crossed the river into Mexico, there is little prospect of their being captured. WasHIN6TON, Jan. 23.—Post-Offica Inspector Maynard has telegraphed to the department from Austin, Tex., that an investigation shows that the train robbery between Brownsville and Isabell was committed by a band of fifteen armed.men. He has offered $l,OOO reward for each robber.

GREAT EIGHT-HOUR STRUGGLE.

It Will Be I¥naugurated by the Miners of © . America Next May.

PrrrsßureH, Pa., Jan. 23.—From ‘(eneral Organizer Dillon of the lederation of Labor it is learned that arrangements are complete for the great eight-hour struggle of the zoal ‘miners to begin om May 1 next.” The FPederation has promised to support the miners, and the united mine-workers will formally indorse the movement at their annual zonvention in Columbus next month. About 150,000 men will be directly involved in the contest. Of these 75,000 will be in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, 25,000 in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, 12,000 in the Pittsburgh district and 20,000 in the central bituminous fields eof . this State. It is, of course, not expected that the operators will concede the sight-hour day without a strike on the part of the miners. The latter are therefore arranging to eollect a $1,000,300 defense fund by NMay 1. For six weeks prior to that date it is caleulated that 500.000 of the 690,000 members of the Federation of Labor will contribute ten cents each per week, making $300,000 from that source. The several miners’ organizations already have over $200,000 for their fund, and will swell the total before the battle begins to approximate a million. There.are 75,000 miners already organized, and the others will join in anticipation of the struggle.

SLAIN BY TRAMPS.

A Gang of Roughs Board a Prain at Elma, la., and Murder the €onductor for Trying to Eject Them.

DuBUQUE, la., Jan. 28.—Cenductor o’Neill of the Chicago & Northwestern railway . was murdered by tramps aboard his train about 3 o’clock a. m., near Long Point, a station between Elma and Cedar Rapids. O'Neill was in charge - of a - freight train: north-bound. | At Elma three men boarded. the train. They carried sacks, - which it lis. believed contained articles which had been: stolen. O’Neill was informed by the brakeman that the men had gotiaboard the train just asit was pulling out of the station. and he went forward and ordered them off. They refused to get off or pay their fare, and it is supposed O’Neill attempted to eject them. Then they jumped upon him, one of them stabbing him: in the side and another hitting him with some blunt instrument. The conductor was found in a dying ceondition when the train stopped at Long Point. The men had escaped. There is little doubt that they were house-breakers. The citizens of Long Point were informed of the murder and pursuit has been begun. Itis believed the murderers are headed for this city. O’Neill wasa popular and reliable employe. - He leaves a wife and family at'Belle Plaine. FUNERAL OF KALAKAUA. Imposing Ceremonies in San Francisco— The Charleston Sails for Honolulu. SAN FrANcisco, Jan. 23.—The funeral of King Kalakaua took place from the Trinity Episcopal Church of this city Thursday and was attended by a large number of distinguished citizens and Government officials. The funeral arrangements were in charge of the navy and military authorities, and the ceremonies were very imposing. The buildings along the line of march were elosed and fully 100,000 spectators viewed the cortage. From the church the body was taken to the United States steamer Charleston, which wilk bear it to Hono-. lulu. After the body had been ple: - board the Charleston’s amehors . .re weighed and she began to move down the bay, while minute guns were fired from the batteries at Alcatraz and the Presidio. - About 5 o’clock p. m. the Charleston passed through Golden Gate and proceeded to sea. . ‘ ' . Gone with the Gems. : NEw YORK, Jan. 23.—William C. Duncan, a city salesman for the diamond house of Lewesohn & Co., Maiden lane, has disappeared with $30,000 worth of diamonds and pearls. The bulk of the property is in diamonds. Last Thursday he started uptown with about $30,000 worth of goods. - On - his return he told Mr. Lexow, the manager, that he had left part of the goods for approval with different firms, accounting carefully for each stone. It is learned that he had not been near any of the stores at which he said he left the stones. . Run on-a Bank Ended. Kaxsas City, Mo., Jan. 23,—The run on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank ended at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. Since Menday the savings bank has paid out $150.000 to depositors and was prepared to pay the full'amount of deposits, $300,000. = Got the Bank’s Mail. CurcAgo, Jan. 28.—About seventy letters belonging to the Northwestern National Bank, of this city, and supposed to contain over SIOO,OOO in.drafts, etc., were delivered to a stranger by a ~clerk in the post-office Wednesday snd