Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 February 1894 — Page 6

" THE TARIFF.- . | fynopsis of the Debate in the National i ! ¥ious~ of Representatives. e Ou the 20th Mr. Henderson's amendment substitaling thg existing law for the proposed agr.euliuval schedule of the Wilson: bill was de- - fcated-—yeas, 63; nays, 116. Other amendments sere. offiered and voted down.. Mr. Bynum . 4dgm, Ind) offered an amendment definingizore exictly the different classes of irou, but wot materially altering the' pending bill. Mr. Brnum held that {failures and strikes were more frequent under protection than they had been zpder the Walker. low tariff, and that the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the people I the name of protectiomr wus the tariff bill of - it4o. His amendment was ~unanimously agsreed 10, : . ) : Mr. Hitt (rep., 11L) offered an amendment . providing that when a countiry imposed a tax o American products which ¥his country imported free that the existing rates be imposed:” Ee made a plea against the throwing away of the oppertunities the country possesscd of wresting from Canada free entry of our manus " Gnctures and agricultural products-in.return for free eatrv into the-United States of Canadian. roal. He pleaded for reciprocity with Canada—a reciprocity which should netgive Canada all the © aJdvaniages. Representativez of sCanada had © “Heen Lesiezing the doors of the state depart- " “=ment Sor forty years asking for reciprocity. In sapresiing to the democralic party not to throw % avuy Lthe great advantares they possessed imreciprovity, he suid: “We all live under the sume flag. We are legislating for ourselves - and not for foreigners. There is al market: in vanuda which we coula get in a greéat part,” At the nizht session the tirst three Speakers were Messrs. Talbot (dem, S. €.y, C- W. Stone ey, Pa.) and Boatner (dem.. La.). The lat- - werin referring to Ihe sugar question said it ' #as the only American agricultural product which could be protected incidentally by a tariff for revenue only. 'But the Wilson bill wasnot a democratic measure in the sense of " Being a revenue bill, for it intentionally cut beYow the line of necessary revenue, and was out { “and out a protective measure where it was not i afree trade bill S : Mr. Strong (rep., O.) drew in parallel colamns an amusing picture of -the farmer as he is under protection and as he was ‘“in the good . 9ld days of free trade,” the comparison being largely in tavor of the latter-day farmer. . Mr. Wheeler (rep., Ill.) thought the Wilson billshould be entitled *A Bill to Decrease the Revenue and Increase the Public Debt by the Issue of Bonds,” instead of a bili to reduce taxation and to raise revenue. . 1 On the 22d a running debate was had on several umendments offered to the sugar -scheduleof the Wilson bill. : ~ Mr. Dockery (dem., Mo.) arraigned the boun¥y paragraph in unmeasured terms and said he would cheerfully vote 1o strike the bounty feature irom the statute books. ) Mr. Cannon (rep., Ill) made a vigorous attack upon what he called the Cow,lz'\rdice of the democrierie party in retaining a bounty which - they had denounced as unconstitutional. Mr. Gear (rep., la.) advocated the béstowal of. bounties, which he said had- a.lwa.ys.been the policy of the government. -~ b Mr. Bryan (dem., Neb.) protested against putting & tax back on-sugar, and to raise the revenue needed hie favored’ an income tax. - Mr. Dimgley (rep., Me.) said he was in favor of continuing in the experiments provided by =he tariff of 1880 to test the question as to whether we can produee our own sugar by of'igiz'ix);g for fifteen years a bounty of two cents per ound. He was opposed to the pending propositions. ) Mr. Wilson (dem., W. Va.): spoke’ briefly © zgu'nst any change in the tariff bill as prepared by the committee on ways and means _Brief speeches were made by other members, after which the proposed amendments were voted én—one by Mr. Mcßae (dem., Ark.) suspending the bounty on sugar and putting sugar on tbe free list, being agreed t 0—1135 to (9; another by Mr. Warner (dem., N. Y.) putting =»etined sugar on the free list, being also adopted —137 te 3. . ' At thoe evening session several speeches were made. . Mr. McCreary (dem., Ky.) was in favor of - repealing the suzar bounty at'once and entireiy. He regarded it as a fraud and an outrage, and was gratified at the action of the house in adopting an amendment for its repeal . Mr. Hilborn (rep., Cal) took up and presented seriatim the articles of California pro ~ duction in which “California would be injured by the passage of the Wilson bill. e Golazier (dem., Ill.). defended the Wilson bill and was followed by Mr. Avery (rep., Mich.) who spoke in opposition to it. On the 231 the Warner ameniment placing retined sugar on the free list was decided to be % aubstiture for the Roberts amendment, and as such was adopted—l6l to 39. All sugar, both raw und refined, is thus placed on the free list. The coul gehedule was then taken up and debated, amendments being offered to place a auty of from 40 to 73 cents per ton on coal . 3ir. Brosius (rep., Pa.) opposed freé coal. Fis state, he ssid, produced ¢0,090,030 tons a year. " Free coal weuld leave his censtituents | anaked and defenseiess. ¥z Wrse (dem., Va.) supported the propositon to place a duty on coftl. .~ ‘ Mr. Tucker (Gem., Va) acvocated an amendmet 1o place a duiy of 49 cents on coal. - Mti. Turpin (dem., ‘Ala.) sa2id that his state nhd given a heavy democratic majority for the l caticnal tieker They did so because they ex- | “pected o tariff for gpevenue only. Thes did not ’ siiink’that such men as. Wilson, McMillin and | Brecitizzidze weoyld put coal und iron on the | free list. U S l Mr. Walker (rep, Muss.) declured that no peftion of the country would be so immeasurably benefited by free coal, free iron oré'and {rce wool as New Engiland, and yet she did not ask for .it.. She did not want the raw mate- | J;;,--.:_-;.’ ‘hrt went into her factorfes jrce and erp gworraets taxed She wanted protection 1o al sections pf the countyy. Massachusetts wouid vote for a Auty of 75 cents on coal; nothing meore, nothing less. Mr. Wilson (dem., W. Va.} clogad the debate i support.of the free-coul proposition in the pending bill. It was a matter of no coat Beguence, e said, what the Mills bill did or ~swhat he had said ten years, ago. The demoeratic party had grown immensely since then aud he hoped he had kept up with the procession. _ . L The proposed amendments were then voted npon and defeated, thus. continuing coal upon the free list. © ’ Tae iron schedule was then talkep up, and Mr. Oates (dem., Ala.) offered an amendment ~ sking ircn ore from the frec list and placing -3 duty of 40 cents a ton thereon. -He ,said his amendment would permit the iron nrines to ecntinue in -operation at the same scale of wages as at present. - - Mr. H2ndrix (dem., N. Y.) spoke against the iron schedule of the bill. He said he did not know who authorized*frec traders, socialists and radicals to come into congress and try to dictate democratic -policy. If this radical action were pursued the people at the polls would reverse the action of the last election. Mr. Blair (rep, N. H.) took the floor and ®as speaking when the time arrived fonsrecess. : At the evening session speeches were made by Messrs.:Tate, Wilson (O.), Patterson, DBartholdi amd others. . i . Mr. Beltzhcover (dem., Pa.) said of the Wilson bill that it was neither a protection bill nor a free trade bill, but o miserable hybrid, which . meithér natural law nor cormmon sense can ever justify. Why not haye given us a free trade bill, pure and simple, which four-fifthy .of the . femocratie representatives would cordiaily support as the policy ¢f their pariy, declared | in the Chifago platform, or a bill 10 raise the. aecessary revenues for the. support of the gov- ‘ sriment by a tarifr,sz adjusted as 10 equalize -~ its hurcens .ameng all our people and inci- ' gdentaily protect our industries and labor?, The presgnt viil, he declared, will settie nothing, . but unsettle everything. . . © On the 24th Mr. Denson (derh., Ala.) said he wanted protection on iron ore . ‘*Give us proteciion,’” he said, “‘and leave the consequences 10 God and the Américan people.” i i Mr. Tawney (rep., Minn.) said there was -~ gvery reason why ilhe representatives of Minne soia should favor rostricting theTight of the foreigner to'sell his® products in the American sarkets ‘1 care not whether it be iron ore or anythinz else we cam produce, to the end that - nou ulone the peopie ‘of that state, but of all the . states west of the Mississippi river, may have . greater opportunity to supxi‘;y the demand of that market a 8 it fnereases with the growth of the country in wealth and population.” =~ ' - Mr. Baldwin (dem., Minn.) expressed entire- " iy opposite views to those of his colleague. Under free ore he feared no competition, and Be favored a commercial unton with Canada, .snl commercial union was but another name . for free trade. . Under freer conditions of trade . miron ore a second Pittsburga could .be built up in the.west, o L Mr. Formfn (dem., 111.) spoke in- support. of the bl b oo . Mr Shopson (pop., Kan.) appepled for free W mua&é@,.'vi’ifl&,mfie&at;ixbr;-dmmbk@uwd trusts waifi%&l’;eflamtha protection of thoss SAgenph e Dl s e " Mr, Clark «dem, Mo.) xam;sqmjr of the members on Ms’g;{é_fim the house werd reformers in spots, and th Fe were only tarce MOMbETs Who ¢ z.a 58 agusdie of thelr, f‘"";f,‘;“"“?&““m . given the .weizht of their influcace toward trng on b free st wristes in tio produs. ©ticn of whicll they or their stutes ure inter-

Raynor and Mr. Tom Johnson. The man who is willing to refprm himself is a reformer indeed. The trust—the gold trust, iron trust, the coal trust and all the rest of the trusts—might try to defeat hinj (Mr. Wilson), but the people of the country jwill take him in their mighiy arms and earry him to a higher place. ;,Mr. Bynum (dem., Ind.) in speaking of the petitions which had been sent to, congress said the : American [Protective Tariff league was flooding the country with printed slips calling on everyone to send to their congressman postal-card protests against the Wilson bill. Mr. Breckinridge (dem., Ark.) and Mr. Wilson (dem.. W. Va.) briefly appealed to the democratic party tg stand by the bill as prepared by the ways anfl means committee and to'vote against the perding amendments. The pending pmendments were then voted on and defecated bE about two to-one, thus leaving ron ore on the free list, ' Amendments were then offered to “he paragraph putting {agricultural implements on the free list, and grief speeches were made by several m’embers‘! ‘ Mr. Draper | (rep.,, Mass.) said there was no argument of CLither free traders or protectionists which jusf ified the putting of. a highly finished product{on the free list, while leaving all its componeni parts on the dutiable list. - Mr. Sickles| (dem., N. Y.) in speaking of the pending amendments, said he thought that while free admission of articles should be the rule and ot the exception, still the pending bill did not raise sufficient revenue for the government. Iffit was intended to tide over this deficiency by the imposition of an income tax, he wanted tistate plainly that. he was irreconcilably opnosed to an income tax. g The internal revenue bill containing the income tax clguse was, after considerable oppogition, finally reported, and & recess taken. .- The speakers at the night session were Messrs. Rysn (N. Y.), Swanson (Va.), Baldwin (Minn.), Ikirt (O.), Cummings (N. Y.)—all democrats—and Baker (pop., Kan.) in [avor ot the bill; and Messrs. Wagner (Pa.), Johnson (N. D.), Noon (Mich. ), Kiefer (Minn.) and Blair (N. /H.)—all republicaps—in opposition to it : o ’ On the 25th amendments placing agricultural implementg of all kinds and cotton machinery and equipment on the frée list were lost, as was also & proposition to permit citizens of the United States to ship materials abroad to be manuractured into goods for their own use, such goodp to be admitted free of duty. : Several/committee amendments were agreed to, among them being one to place crude opium on the dlitlable list at §1 per pound, another to place a duty of 15 per cent. ad valorem on coal oil, and a/third to change the rate’oa pearl and shell butions from 1 centaline tol cent a gross.

During| the debate Mr. Dingley, (rep., Me.) defended|the reciprocity provision of the MKinley 13w, and Mr. Coombs (dem., N. Y.) said that whgiie he did not indorse the spirit of the law he did not think anything should be done to force Anmerica to relinquish her hold upon the markets acquired by it L Mr. H’Fndri‘ck (dem., N. Y.) advocated the retention jof the reciprocity clause of the MeKinlebfi law. ‘ Mr. Turner, one of the democrats of the ways and mepns committeg, in opposing it sketched its history. James q Blaine, he said, was its author] 'and it had {furnished the republican party much excuse for glorification. It might have #dened our markets, ‘but he was surprisedjto see any democrat indorse a law that vested! in the president the power of retaliation. | . Aftelr some further debate the amendment oflerefi by Mr. Wilson to repeal the reciprocity section of the McKinley law was adopted—ll 26 to 89. . . . ‘An 'ther amendgent was then offered by Mr. Wl)sgn to put a daty on chocolate valued at over F:’y cents per pound of 2 cents per pound, other| chocolate to be taxed 25 per cent ad va.lorf:m. Adopted. Mr,| Lockwood ¢dem., N. Y.) vigorously atmcke;"d the income tax. R At the evening session Mr. Hicks (rep., Pa) took | strong ground against the Wilson bill and ‘Ldenounced it as an act to abolish revenue -and to destroy American industriesi) It remained for the democratic party in 18": to dis¢yver fl‘;‘?t protecticn was unconsti;wtionai. He sald the pending bill was a retc of ante-bellum days and represented the shrouded spirit of Calhounism stalking abroad. The republican party did not believe in direct taxation, and the policy of that party duripg the last thirty years proved how abuadantly successful protection has been in making this the greatest and most prosperors nation|in the word. The other speakers were Messrs. Hutchinson (de%., Tex.), Cobb (dem., Ala.),’ Goodnight (dem., Ky.) and Hines (dem., Pa.). .

Oxli the 26th several proposed amendments werg discussed and disposed of. Among them was! one proposed. by My Wilson, chairman of committee, 1o reduce duty on uncut diamonds and;ull precious stones from 15 per ocent. to 10 perlceut,. ad valorem. A lively debate followed in wkich the republicans teased Mr. Wilson with the statement that he had reported his amqndmfznt in order that the poor might have their diammonds cheaper. . . Ml,r. Cummings (dem.: N. Y.) expressed surprise that the democratic ways and means committee should have left in the bill a tax on the i necessaries of life which was higher than thejtax én diamonds. Mir. Cockran (dem., N. Y.) sald there ig a cermirj point of taxation where the largest revenuejcan be raised; and if you go above or below that point the revenue would fall off. He regarded that point of sanity in a tariff on diamonds to be at 10 per cent. ' - : M";:‘r. Reed (rep., Me.) said he did not think it wag worth while in the two minutes which remainen to try to explain the situation: but whdn the act of 1890 was passed circumstances Wer‘b different from those, existing at the pregent time Now there are 1.20) men enng}d in the {ndustry of diamond cutting, and!if a tariff of 15 per cent. would result in trmtforring to them the entire business of diathond cutting he was in favor of it. He thought that the proposition to put a tax of 8) pericent. on uncut diamonds, made by certain derdocrats. was not for the purpose of raising rc\‘:{,nue, but of raising the value of certain’ derjocratic speeches. He commended a proposition by Mr. Cummings to- keep the Jduty on dimtwnds as originally fixed by the Wilson bill —l5 per cent. Mr. Alderson (dem., W. Va.) offered a substi tuté fixing the duty« on precious stones of all kingis, cut hut not set, 30 per cent. ad valorem; and on precious stones not especially provided for in this act, including pearls, 'set or strung, 35 Qer cent. ad valorem; and on uncut precious stones, 15 per cent. ad valorem. And also to strike off from the froelist “‘diamonds and other precious stones, rough or uncut,” but leaving in glaziers’ and engravers' diamonds, diamond dust and jewels for watches and clocks. This sulstitute was agreed to—96 to 88—and Mr. Wilson's amendment as thus amended was addpted—lll to 83. . pi The tin-plate schedule was then taken up am? amendments were discussed and defeated —ltp reduce the duty from 11-5 cent to 1 cent; to put tin plate on the free list; in favor of the prgvision of the McKinley law imposing a duty of R 1-o0 cents a pound : - : The. lumber schedule was then taken up, and aujendmems offered and debated. g :

; "'A CLOSE CALL. A | Supposedly-Dead Englishman Revives f Just Before His Funeral. " Loxpon, Jan. 22.—Thousands of persons gathered in the cemetery at Bur-ton-on-Trent Friday - to attend the funeral of. Town Councilor Charles V\fileman. When members of the family were called to take a last look at Wileman’s face before the coffin lid should be screwed down two persons said they saw signs of life. Physicians “‘on were summdned pronounced Wileman alive. The funeral services were sispended and the crowd was dismissed.. Wileman was taken from the cipfiin and he iz now under treatment. E' _ TIDAL WAVE AT SEA, S’teainship Normannia Returns to Port in | a Demoralized Condition. | | NEw YORK, Jan. 24.—The steamship Normannia, which left here on the 18th ifnstant for Algiers, Genoa and N aples, has returned to port. On Sunday morning last, in clear weather, a tidal wave struck her, completely washing out her staterooms, and everything movable was carried away from her decks. The second officer was fatally injured and some of the crew badly hurt. All the assengers escaped injury. Sentenced to'Be Hanged. : ’ FAYETTEVILLE, W. Va., Jan. 24.— Wash Adkins has been sentenced to be hanged. TLast November Adkins. with four masked companions, entered Ike Ladford’s home at Montgomery and [shot him Lefore the eyes of his grandcemzhter - g"‘ L e ‘

RRRR R R R R RTRIR R RO RR TR R R, ' THE SUNSET CITY. California’s Midwinter Exposition Formezally Opened. Great Entbusiasm Characterizes the Ex. , ercises, an Qutline of Which Is Here e Given—Over 72,000 Pensons { { in Attendance. : } TSR g ? .IN FULL BLAST. SAN Fraxcisco, Jan. 30.—The Mid-' winter fair has at last been opened. Thousands of peopie from all. parts of the state witnessed and participated in ! the dedicatory ceremonies, and the " greatest and grandest ente?prise ever seen west of the Mississippi river is i finally in full swing. i It was a holiday in San Francisco. . The shops were closed and business was i neglected and abandoned. Buildings ! in every part of the city were lavish- | Iy decorated with flags and bunting, " and the whole population thronged ! the “streets ' and. gave to them [an eminently festal appearance. Thousands -of visitors were here { who are residents of Los Angeles and | the distant. southern part of -the state, : of Oregon, of Washington,” of "Navada, ' of Arizona and of British Columbia. ’ The exposition itselfis beautiful, and . its beauty was thoroughly appreciated 'by the throng of visitors. Everyone ! agreed that never before was seen a ! more charming collection of tasteful | buildings. ' s | Shortly after 10 a. m. Saturday the pa- ' rade, under command ot Gen. Dickinson, i’started for the fair grounds. In the | procession were four regiments of the, ! national guard, the regular army itmops from Presidio, Gov. Markham tand staff, the fair officials, civier i societies, and many of the conces- { sional © features to be seen at ! the {fair. Golden Gate avenue, the | main drive to the park, was thronged !with spectators. who listened to the | stirring music of numerous bands, and | cheered as the long line of men marched | by. Shortly after 12 o’clock the pro- | cession reached the fair grounds, and | assembled on the recreation grounds, %where a huge grand stand had been i erected near I'estival hall . The order of exercises was as follows: i Medley of:-the airs of all nations by the l Midwinter lair band: introductory i address by the president of the day, { James D. Phelan; prayer by Bishop | Nicholas; grand chorus, ‘‘America,” ' sung by the Midwinter Fair chorus ’of 300. voices; address by Gov. Markham; music by lowa State band; address, by Director General M. H. De Young declaring the exposition open; oration onjthe general benefits and permanent, results of the Midwinter exposition, by Gen. W. H. L. Barnes; music by the Austrian band. ‘ At the conclusion of his address Di- | rector General De Young declared the [expositio-n‘ open and Mrs. De Young lpressed the electric button which set i the enormous machinery of the expo- ! sition in motion amid the shouts of the g great gathering, the waving of thoui sands of flags and banners, salutes of. a battery of artillery and the playing of ‘“The Star-Spangled Ban- ! ner” by the five bands. The vast audilence, wildly enthusiastic, gave vent to [ their feelings in cheer after cheer. ]lSuch a scene -has never before been I witnessed in Golden Gate park and it ! was some ‘time . before comparative . quiet was restored for the concluding i exercises. - . .

At night the buildings were illuminated and the opening day festivities clogsed with a grand pyrotechnic

display. ‘ ' o - Official figures from midwinter headguarters show that 72,248 persons passed through the turnstiles Saturday, opening day. Of this number over 60,009 persons paid the regular admission fee of fifty cents. . i

IMiR. SOVEREZIGN'S PETITION.

Bill in Equity to Prevent Secretary Car- ' lisle trom Idsuing Bonds.

WasHINGTON, Jan. 30.—General Master Sovereign and General Secretary John W. Hayes. of the Knights of Labor, were ready with their bill in equity against Secretary Carlisle, but Judge Cox, of the district supreme court, after = consideration, named Monday next at 10 o’clock to hear argument as to whether the bill could be admitted. It is a biil for an injunction sued out by James Richard Sovereign, for himself and in behalf of the Knights of Labor, who are-said to number 390,000, and to be ‘‘too numedrous to be named,” against John, Griffin Carlisle, secretary of the treasury. and prays that the said Carlisle apd his confederates may -be required to male answer on oath under what basis of statute or of necessity they claim the right to issue the bonds specified in the reeent treasury circular, and to specifically answer whether such bonds are to be made payable in United States gold coin or otherwise, and why' the necessities, if any existing, shouid not be met by twe coinage of the silver now in the possession of the department, and especially - why it is proposed to sell bonds to a greater amount than is required to make up the deficit in the hundred millior gold reserve. They ask avpreliminary injunction to réstrain the selling of the bonds and that after a hearing the injunction be made perpetual. ‘ The attorneys in the case are C. C. Cole, of Des Moines, la.; Shellabarger & Wilson, of Washington, and Congressman Pence, of Colorado, and Mills, of Denver. :

WHEN MARRIAGE FAILS. KrxTUCKY has thirteen legal reasons for divoree. : IN twenty years Canada has had but 116 divorees. DesERTION is the most eommon cause of divorce in Sweden. : ' Panis has nearly one-half of the divorces granted in all France. ' ‘ScorLAXD has fifteen divorces to every 1,000,000 in population. ; o AUSTRIA has twenty-six divorces to 1,000 marriages; Hungary, bat six. Ix England to 1,000,000 of population there are nine divorces every year. Or divorced couplesin Ge;many, over fifty-five per cent. have no children. THE most common cause for divorce in Italy is cruelty from the husband. Turrr are at the present dlay 62,062 divorced persons living in Germany. ix Colorado a wife was granted a decree because her husband cut off her bangs. : el Ix almost every country the greatex nummber of divorces is granted at the petition of the wife. .~ ~ ExcrLaxp’s chief maker of playing cards, Goodall, has died, leaving: s3ooy 000. e S

RIOTOUS MINERS.

They Burn Coal Tipples and Loot Stores . in Pennsylvania. S ; } PITTSBURGH; Pa., Jan. 29.-—A wave of '

anarchy in whose train followed bloodshed, arson and the destruction of prop- ' erty passed over the Mansfield coal region Saturday.. It began at dawn | and at dusk it was estimated that §200,000 worth of property had been | Edestro'yed. ‘Made mad by fancied grievances and liquor, a mob of several | hundred foreigners—Hungarians, Slavs | and Italians—swspt over the country ‘ surrounding Mansfield and through the | valleys of Toms and Painters run. ! They “attacked mine owners, miners | and a few scattered deputy sheriffs, and destroyed railroad property. i

The foreign element of the mines in that region has been making threats for several days. They have been incensed at the fact that some of, the English diggers, together with a num-

beér of their brethren, have been working for fifty and sixty cents per ton, | when they themselves want. the for-' mer seventy-five cent rate to prevail. | The Huns, Slavs and Italians formed | the majority of this discontented horde, ! and have been nourishing their anger with bad whisky. e ' | About 4 o’clock Friday afternoon 400 ' striking miners from Mc¢Donald ' marched to Armstrong’s works and at- | tacked the tippte. They smashed in | the windows and doors, drove out the occupants, and attempted to fire the buildings. They demolished the | carpenter shop and started for the pits, where the men were working. The first man to come out of the pit was Paul Kotar. He was ' chased half a mile, captured and badly beaten. Edward Fork and J. Plazo . met, a similar fate. They were left ! bleeding and wounded laying in the! road. Conrad Fritz was beaten, str}pped ot his clothing and shoes, andl!com- ' pelled to walk almost naked and barefooted through the snow. ‘ The mob then wegt to Mansfield. At dayboreak; Saturday morning they appeared at the Rosedale mines of Steen & Co. and took possession of the tipple. As each car came” out of the mine: it was run off the tipple and allowed to drop down to the tracks of the Pan-Handle railroad. After wrecking the property the' mob’ marched to Tom’s Run, where they attacked the property of the Pittsburgh Fuel company. A number of miners at werk in the pits rushed out at the sight of the mob and were badly ' beaten. The mines were then cleared of 21l of the employes who fled for their | lives.”. The mob then went to the Federal mines, 4 miles from Wcodville, | -Ater committing numérous depreda- I‘ tions they started across the hills for the Pan-Handlé coal tipple of N. A. Hanna & Co., of Cleveland. Constable: Hegling and five deputies took posses- | sion jof the tipple house. The : mob opened fire on the officers with revolv- ! ers and drove them from the place. ! Standing on the traclks at the mouth of ; the mines were dan engine and fifteen loaded coal cars. The mob, gfter driving -the engineer from -his cab, | opened. the throttle of the locomotive ' and ran the train off the tipple. The , cars crashed to the Pan-Handle tracks, ' 40 feet below, blocking the road all ! afternoon. They then poured oil over the tipple and applied the torch. The ' property of the company was complete- ! ly destroyed, entailing a loss of $15,000. ! At 2 o’clock the mob appeared within ' sightof the offices of Beadling Bros., ! where the first serious resistance was encountered. A telephone message to the owners of the mines put them on ! their guard, and, with eight employes - armed withrifles, they awaited the com- ' iag of the mob. Theoffices and pit mouth ‘are located in' a ' valley between two . hills. A long - stretch of level land, 2,000 feet wide, extending half a. mile ! in either direction from the tipple; gave a good' view of the approaching mob. The latter appeared over the hills, and, with yells, rushed down on the tipple, brandishing clubs, pick handles, guns and revolvers. “Thinking that the tipple and. offices were de- ! serted they came running at full speed. When within 700 feet ot the office one of the leaders of the mob fired a revolver. This was the signal for the guards concealed in the tipple. A volley | from the Winchesters stopped the mob in - its wild raush and threw 1t into confusion. The shooting was entirely | unexpected, and before they could recover from their astonishment another volley was fired into their ranks. They | broke and seattered for the hills. :

Five men fell, four were carried off | the field by their companions, leaving ' bloody tracks on the snow-covered earth. The other man, Frank Stipepeney, was shot through the breast and | died Saturday evening. The guards pursued the fleeing rioters and captured seven. :

'l'he other rioters then marched to Bridgeville, where after driving out the occupants they sacked Mayer & Schuetting’s general merchandise stores. Everything was taken, the windows smashed and the buildings generally demolished. When the first news of the riot_was received in Pittsburgh thirty deputy sheriffs were sent out. This number was increased hourly. By evening Sheriff Richards had 125 men on the grouad. ’ Memorial for the First Public School. PostoN, Jan. 30.—There. will be a meeting of the citizens of Dorchester to petition the legislature to appropriate a memorial in honor of the establishment of the first public school in the world, which opened its doors May g iOO ,

EUROPEAN GOSSIP. Tae.house of commons is known as the house of influenza. - - Tue average profit annually of the Revue des Deux Monde is put at one hundred thousand dollars. Tue Vienna publicans have started a boycott against beer, on account of a rise in the price, and they are agitating throughout Austria-lungary for cooperation. ' A PoRrTION Of an ‘*Adventurer’s share’ in the New River company has been sold, making the price of one share more than four hundred and fifty thousand pounds. 'This is the highest figure ever reached. : TEERE is said to be but one Dritish hovse remaining where the old feudal custom is observed of guests and servants all dining together on Christmas night and the dance afterward being led by the hostess with the gamekeeper. Tuers is o clug in Derlin called the Giants, every member of which is six feet tall. Vienra has.a Lazy club, no member of which does anything for & living, and London a Bald-headed club, where nothing but polished skulls are seen. .

‘ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

International Lesson for February 4, 1894 —Beginning' of the Hebrew 'Nation— Gen. 12:1-9. : it {Specially arranged from Peloubet's Notes.]

- GOLDEN TEXT.—I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.— Gen. 12:2.

THE SECTION OF HISTORY belonging to this lesson includes chapters XI. and XII. - . INTERVENING EVENTS.—I. Repopulation of the carth in the three lines, Shem, Ham and Japheth, to which the races of men and their languages are still traced. 2 The Tower of Babel, the formation of different languages, and the dispérsion. 3. The genealozy of Abraham. TlME.—Abraham entered the Promised I and, B. C. 1921; 427 years after the flood, and 47¢ -years before his descendants took possession of if.. : {

CHRONOLOGY.—Abraham was born B. G 1096; i e, A. M. 2308, almost exactly half way between Adam 'and Christ. Noah died two years before his birth. Abraham left Ur about B. C. 1926, aged seventy years. He left Haran and entéred Canaan B. C. 1921, aged seventyfive. From this date 1s usually counted the four hundred and thirty years to the Exodus. He lived in Canaan ard vicinity about/one hundred years, B. C. 1921-1822. fh s e ;

Praces.—Ur, in Chaldea, on the lower part of the Euphrates. Haran, in Mesopotamia, on a branch’éf the Euphrates, and various parts of Palestine, then called Canaan. UR OF THE 'CHALDEES.—The ruins of this city, called Mugheir, are six miles west of the Euphrates, near where it is connected with'the Tigris, about one hundred and twenty-five miles above its entrance into the Persian gulf. Here there havd lately been discovered bricks bearing the mark of an ancient king, Urukh. LESSQON NOTES.

The Development of the World After XNoah.—The new race started on a mugh higher plane than the former one. They had learned ‘many lessons from the old world. Theyhad seen the effects of sin. They had records of God’s dealings in the past. They stood on the plane of civilization and invention attained before the flood, but with better purposes and uses. ' - The most noticeable story of this intervening time is that of the confusion of t-Onglies at the tower of Babel, near the present site of Babylon. The story represents the beginning of the diversity of languages, am act which did not indeed shatter the one primitive language into many complete languages, but into the beginnings of many, an impulse of the natural development of languages. A very slight influence only would be necessary. Note an example in Mark Twain’s “Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral,” the interviews between the minister and the miner.. Even those Americans who first attended a Sunday-school convention in London felt the need of an interpreter, different names being so often given to the same thing.

The First Call of Abraham.—ll:3l. Abraham. (1) Name: Originally Abram (high or exalted father); changed afterwards to Abraham (father 6f, a multitude). () Parentage: He wwas the son of Terah, of the line of Shem. (3) Birth: He was born at Ur of [the Chaldees, B. C. 1696, two years after thedeath of Noah, through whom his father could easily have gained a knowledge of the true God. ‘‘With him begins' a new chapter in the history of the race.” His Surroundings at Ur.—ln Abraham’s time the city of Ur, though now over onc hundred miles from the sea, was on the shores of the Persian gulf. Abraham, no doubt, often wallred upon the sands of the seashore, to which the number of his descendants was compared. The city was a great maritime emporium, a walled town, witha high civilization and a large commerce; situated in a ‘marvellously rich country, said to be the original home of the ‘wheat-plant, and famous for its dates and other fruits. Pomegranates and ‘apples, grapesand tamgrisks grew wild, The city of Ur was not only the capital, it was the holy city of the Chaldeans. The remains make disclosures regarding the worship of the gods which must shock even those who are familiar - with the immortalities frequently fostered by heathen religions. "Nhe Call.—Ten generations and more than four hundred years have passed since® the flood. Again man goes astray and falls into idolatiy and wickedness,: . There is danger that the truth will again be lost from the earth, and the race ruin itself through sin. Another method of redceming man, from that of our last lesson, is now undertalten, whose beginnings are recorded in to-day’s lesson. The purpose of the Most High was to choose a man, and in him a family and a nation, to.be his witness upon the ecarth, and the repository. of ancient truths and ot Messianic hopes, unti]l the fullness of redeeming time should come. Through the training of this family and nation should come the redemption of the whole world. Therefore God called Abraham to leave his country and friends and move northward to the land of Canaan. - The Second Call.—TFor some unknown reason Abraham and his company remained at Haran for a number of years instead of going on to_Cznaan. But Abraham did not know thathe was going to Canaan (Acts 7:3; Heb. 11:8.) The statement in 11:31 that he was going to the land of Canaan means that this was the divine purpose, and not that it was Abraham’s plan. He remained in Haran till after bis father, Terah's death, and then the Lord showed him that he was not yet at the end of his journey. . ol ;

LIGET FOR TO-DAY FROM AN ANCIENT PILGRIM. The true life in this world is a pilgrimage from worldliness and sin to the promised land of. holiness and Heaven. - i God calls us all to go on this pilgrim: age; to leave 21l who insist on remaining in sin, bowever dear to us they may be b TRANSATLANTIC LINERS. MosT of the telegrams sent by the queen are in cipher. : HALr of the foreign trade of DBrazil is done by English vessels. FaLsk teeth for horses are now manufactured by a Parisian firm. BAronEss BurpETT-CoUTTS owns the finest flock of goats in England. SomE of the orange trees of Malta are more than two hundred years old. WasTE land in Turkey sells at £3 per acre; good farming land at £25 to £B7 10 shillings. : P TaE largest church in the world is St. Peter’s in Rome; the smallest a church ten feet square in the Isle of Man. ’ e W. H. Leckrey has been elected a corresponding member of the I'rench Academy of Moral a.r;% Political Seiences. o ; ‘Somr of the fish in the Royal aquarium at St. Petersburg have been been exhibited for the last one hundredand fifty years: ... . . . oo Tun Italian fire engines ore supplied with hose fitted with electric wires .so that the firemen can cormmunicate with those at the engine.

AS TO THE DEFICIT. = Pfoi;eation, and Republican. Extravagance ! ! the Cause. e The deficit now existing in the United States treasury is the direct result of republican legislation and republican administration, not of one republican administration, but as the legitimate result of the application of false economic theories applied year after year in more and more extreme form and of false ideas of the purpose and office of government. : - e

But even yet protection and paternalism has not borne its: worst fruits. About two more republican administrations, without a democratic interval for repairs’' and reform, would have been required to undermine and destroy all the principles upon which the government of this republic was originally founded, and to bankrupt the nation and bring about revolution. -y oFhe ways and means committee of the house of representatives is supposed to frame laws and devise methods for raising revenue to defray the public expenses af the nation, and the appropriations commitiee supervises the national expenditures, and both committees are supposed to give careful attention to the necessities of the government and to conform the revenues and the appropriations thereto; but in the last republican congress the needs of the government did not enter into the calculations or control the legislation planned arnd directed by either committee, G

The’ways and means committee, pre‘,; sided over by Mr. McKinley, framed a bill bearing the name of its chairman, which was cunningly devised to operate in restraint of trade by prohibits ing, so far as possible, all foreign im-~ portations, and securing the control of American markets to domestic trusts and monopolies organized -to force down the prices of the farmer’s raw prodacts in his hands, and increase the prices of food products to the codsumer, and rob and tax for their own private gains the masses of the people upon all articles of manufacture which by aid of a prohibitive tariff these trusts were enabled absolutely to control. o The first'step in' the development of the protective, or trade prohibitive, idea was based upon the constitutional right of the government to levy a tariff for revenues. If such a tariff afforded incidental protection to home manufacturers it could not be successfully attacked as unconstitutional, because its chief object was to raise revenue for the support of the government. - - .~ But gradually the trade monopolists grew bolder, and their political tools advanced and extended the doctrine of protection, pure and simple, intrenching it behind the revenue idea, but applying it in-a mannerto work restrdint of trade and foster monopoly. Every “protected” industry déemanded more, and so long as any importations whatever were possible under any tarift schedule, this fact was wurged as a reason for increasing the tariff tax to a raté which should work absolute prohibition of imports. And as; under this doetrine, all articles which could not be. grown or manufactured in this country were placed omthe free list and not taxed at all, thetenlency was constantly to decrease the amount of revenue while increasing the teibute that the: people were compelled to pay to private monopolies for all necessaries of life except those not produced at home in sufficient quantities; and even upon sugar, though freed from tariff taxation, they were compelled to pay a tax in the form of a bounty to the home producer.: : P

‘The crowning infamy in the development of this system ivas the McKinley bill, which, coupled with the extravagant appropriations of the Reed congress, is-directly rcsponsible for the present dangerous condition of ‘the United States treasury. - : The McKinley bill is framed to prevent the accurhulation of revenue, by prohibiting importations, and thus to work restraint of trade. The people will remember that it is the Mc¢Kinley law, now in force, which fails by :ten million dollars every month to provide the treasury with sufficient means to meet the obligations that were created at the same time by a republican congress; while the people, because of this same MeKinley law, are forced to pay millions into the coffers of trusts and monopolies, which sums, if paid into ‘the national treasury instead, would fill it comstantly to overflowing and soon extinguish the national debt. At the common law, a contractin restraint of trade is void, as Dbeing against public poliey and welfare; but republican legislation “has legalized and encouraged restraint’ of trade to the injury of the public¢ welfare. It is this condition of things, made almost impregnable by long success, with which the present démocratic ad‘ministration has te deal. It requires ‘courage and hard tighting to bring about reform, and it demands the exers cise iof patience on the part of the people. Great reforms are accomplished gradually. and so it will be with tariff reform. We must patiently but persistently and steadily undo the wrongs that have been done to the people, in the name of specious, but false and vicious principles and doctrinés, —Kansas City Times. Ao

FRAUDULENT PENSIONS. An Inevitable Qutcome of Ruinous -Republican Methods. e Following close upon the discovery of extensive pension frauds in West Vir ginia, Jowa, Nebraska and Baltimore comes the announcement that a single Buftalo pension agent has fraudulently secured for pensioners at least one million dollars and that ‘‘this is only the beginning of the nnearthing of the most gigantic frauds ever perpetrated in the pension department.” : : i These frauds are the natural, legitimate, inevitable outcome of the Tan-ner-Raum methods of “busting the surplus,” The profligacy of congress in the matter of pension legislation has almost justified .pension agents and others in bolding that any scheme for looting the treasury is justifiable provided it is in the name of the "‘old soldier;” and successive pension commissioners have winked at ‘‘rulings” that have made petty retail frauds seem almost respectable by comparison, Commissioner Lochren will' deserve well of his country if he will not only stop the wholesale frauds perpetrated through ‘‘rulings,” but check the minor but still monsirous frauds that ave the work of dishonest agents and perjured pdnsion-grabbers. No one desires to deprive the deserving veteran, disabled in the line of duty, of his country’s bounty. DBut the bounty-jumpers, deserters, cheats =and frauds musi bagtricken from the roll as fast afi&l& covered. Only in this way can the pane sion roll be maintained as “a roll of boson"—N. Y. Womld . . - 0 0

' ._ THE MEANING OF IT. - Democratic Legisiation on the Sugar l e © . Question, : {. The days of taxed sugar and a subsidized sugar trust are numbered. The ‘day of an untaxed breaifast table for othe poor man is at hand. ~ : | Though the republican and assistant _republican obstructionists have managed to- involve the house in an un- ~ seemly tangle, there is no obscurity in | the measure which was passed the othi‘er day in committee of the whole by a { vote of 161 to 88 The bounty is abol- | ished outright, and all sugar, raw and ¢ refined; is to/be free. Sucfi is the meas- ; ure which a democratic congress will | undoubtedly give to the country. i‘ How could a democratic congress do less? In a democratic tariff formed on ! the. thecry that all tariffs are evil, i there is no place for a tax on an article { which appears first in the list of plain | mecessities of every household. In a i scheme for the honest and economical 1 administration of government there is no money to be taken from a depleted | ‘treasury to enrich a robber trust, to burden the poor with-an insidious and widely disseminated tax in the interest | of a coterie of millionaires—that is MeKinleyism; it hés no place in democratie legislation: ' - The sacrifice of revenue due to the abandonment of the tax on sugar will be very large, but from its total are to be subtracted the millions heretofore 1 paid in bounties. The difference will still be large, but were it fourfold | what it is the necessity for the repeal would be no lxss urgent. Indeed, the -virtue of the new legislation is proved by -the character of those who oppose | it. It'is the plutocracy of both parties that recoils from the proposition to lift this burden from the common people, - because at length the plutocrats, democratic as well as republican, realize that the deficit thus created must be made’ good by a tax upon their own superfluities. Free sugar is hateful to the heartless and unpatriotic rich because it means taxed incomes. It 1 mearns the unmasking of hidden wealth i which has never paid its own share to i taxation, but compelled poverty. to | bear the unegual burden. No man | whose income 1s not far in exciess of | four - thousand dollars will feel a’ | fedther's weight of the new burden.: | How many wage earners of America | derive that sum trom their/labors? How f many merchants, how ingmy profession|l al men? Count them and you will ! have the number of those whose taxes | the poor man has .been paying. but | will shortly pay no more.—Chicago I Mimes 0 be e

coa R FOOLISH CRY, : Irrational Reasons for a Change in Public i . Opinion. One of the current cries of the g. o. p. is that while the people probably did demand in 1890 and,iB92 the reform of the tariff, they would, if nqw appealed to, recall thé demand. It is a silly ery. There is not a particle of rational evidence to support it. There is not much evidence on the subject anyway, but the presumptions are all against the claim which is the basis of the ery referred .to. - The people did not vote blindly or. unthinkingly in - either of the years named. ‘They found them: selves confronted” by conditions of immediate and imminent peril to their business and - prosperity — conditions whicli they were firmly convinced grew out of the extremes to which the pro teéctive doctrine had been carried. The strong impression they had'to this effect in 1890 ripened into firm conviction in 1892, and in that year, with the question as to the necessity of tariff reform more directly before them than it had ever been, they deliberately and by an overwhelming-majority voiced a demand for it.. There was no doubt as to whiat they meant. "Ewven those who nosw insist that they would vote otherwise concede that. What has occurred since to change their minds?

“The condition of thé country is far worse now than: it was in 1890 or 1892. The baleful McKinley tariff has had a year and more since the later date to et in its work. The overproduction which it unwisely . stimulated has stopped the wheels of industry all over the land and ‘it is only within a few wéels that there have been signs of recovery. " All the impediments to healthy growth and prosperity which were in existence in 1892 are still in existence and will ‘be, measurably, until the passage of the tariff reform bill now before congress. What reason have the people for changing their minds? Should the Wilson bill, ‘after it is put in operation, prove ineffective in reviving the industries of the country and putting it on theé bLroad road to renewed prosperity, the people will perhaps be justified in cancluding that they were mistaken in their condemnation of the drastic medsure it is' designed to supersede.: But until that happens there can ‘be no reason for a revision of that ¢ondemnation; and those who confidently assert that the public mind ‘has even now changed-on the subject dre taking counsel of their hope and not of their judgment.—Detroit Free Press.

“OPINIONS AND POINTERS. . ——BSecretary Carlisle, findiiig that congress is not dispesed to help him inmaintaining the necessary gold reserve, has eonciuded to help himself. This is a very sane and satisfactory determination.—Philadelphia Record. ‘ r——Let Blount and Stevens pair off ' in this Hawsiiian muddle. Then if a pair can be arranged between Senator Hoar and Lilivokalani the democratic party will ‘submit the case without ‘argument.—=St. Louis Republie. ©___The criticism that the \Wilson bill does not go far enough is voiced almost as frequently in the tariff debate in the house as is the complaint that it goes too far. This looks as if Chairman Wilson had struck the golden mean.— Boston Herald. : —-—Republican assertions concerning the bond issue are not at all consistent “with the facts. The first Cleveland adniinistration turned over to the Harrison - administration an overflowing treasury.. The Fifty-first congress did the rest.—N. Y. World, ——Gov. McKinley has been arraigned {for not doing his duty in the metter ¢ 'supervising the expenditures of public institutions in his stdte, the result being a burdensome deficit. The governor's idea seems to be that the highest function of American citizenship 8 to pay taxes.—Detroit Free Press.’ _ ~——A republican contemporary has - made the discovér{y‘ that the democrats propose to repeal the MecKinley bisl simply because it was passed by the republican party. If our contemporary ‘believes: that, he ‘would be, if ademocratic member of congress, just such a. ‘natrow and shallow partisan as to vote for the McKinley bill's repeal solely on the ground that it was pussed by repatelicans.—~Louisville Courier-Journal. -