Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 September 1894 — Page 2

. - » @ Che Figonier Banuer, LIGONIER,. T 3 INDIANA“Cuier Fomp, of the bureau of statistics says that the revenue from the income tax will range between $12,000,000 and $39,000,000.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OLXNEY is noted as the tennis champion of Washington. He takes great interest in the sport and is an’ enthusiastic and expert player.

© IT is said that Senator Dolph, of Oregon, never smiles. In the whole course of his service in the senate nobody has seen his eye light up or his lip_quiver. Why it is, no one hasever had tbe courage to ask. <

THE state with the greatest railroad mileage is Illinois—lo,42B miles. Next comes Pennsylvania, with 9,435; Texas, with 9,184; Kansas, with 8,931; Ohio, with 8,558: lowa, with 8,513, and- New York, with 8.110.

Gov. MATTHEWS, of Indiana, does not want the impression to go abroad that he mortgaged his farm to get money to pay the militia, because he did nothing of the sort. That story.is now going the rounds of eastern papers. '

NEWSPAPERS in Russia have been forbidden to make any mention of the dresses worn by the empress on state occasions, -because one of them, by mistake, described her as wearing a gown completely out of fashion.

THE standard colors of the Postal union will, it is expected, be adopted by the United States government. These colors are: Green for one-cent stamps, red for two-cent stamps and blue for five-cent stamps. Most of the Postal union countries have adopted them. o

Two men left a large case at a railroad depot at Memphis, recently. As they did not return, the case was opened and found to contain the mummy of a man, which, it is said, came from a mine in Norway. The body was 9 feet 114 inches long and was in a splendid state of preservation. :

A Corcaco jury has decided that a man who fired at his wife five times at close range and only hit her twice is not guilty of assault with intent to kill. They seemed to think that so wretchedly poor a shot is not capable of a murderous assault, but his offense merited at least a short term in a shoot= ing gallery.

AMoxG the titled Jews of England in this ceftury the Jewish Chronicle mentions Sir Samuel Montagu, Sir Albert Sassoon, Sir Moses Montefiore, Sir Julian. Sir Francis and Sir James Goldsmid. Sir Anthony and Sir Nathaniel Rothsehild, Sir George Jessel, Sir David Salomons, Sir Augustus Harris and Lord Beaconsfield. g

THE largest diamond in the world, the Excelsior, was discovered June 30, 1803, in the mines of Jagersfontine, Cape Colony, by Edward Jorgansen, an inspector. It is a stone of the first water. valued at £5,000,000. It was shipped to London on a gunboat and deposited in the Bank of England for safe keeping. The stone weighs 971%{ karats.

FIVE new statues have recently been set .up in the parks and squares of New York: The Columbus, designed by a Spaniard, in Central park; the Roscoe Conkling in Madison square; the Greeley at the junction of Sixth avenue and Broadyay; the Ericsson in Battery park, and the Nathan Hale in City Hall park, and among these the last named is the only one which can be called worthy of its cost and its place. _ '

Tae bronze gates erected at the main entrance of Trinity church, New York. by William Waldorf Astor in memory of his father, John Jacob Astor, are in place. but are still screened from public view by a cover of heavy canvas. The doors at the sole entrances. also a part of the memorial, have been in use for several months. It has taken nearly three years to-coms-plete the entire set of doors, and the cost has been about $lOO.OOO. :

A XEw instrument for the use of navigators is now ' being tested on the Nortl German Lloyd steamer Weimar. It is called the solar-meter, and is intended to supplant the compass, and enable a vessel's course to be determined without the nécéssity of mathematical computation. It is placed in the water and floated on mercury, thus to avoid any vibration. It is promised to overcome the difficulties experienced by the deviations of the magnetic needle when in close proximity to iron or steel. —— “Cy” WARMAN, the poet, who is re= sponsible for *‘Sweet Marie,” in an in- . terview with a Chicago reporter observed that there were people who affected to prefer his “*Be Nearer Me, Lucille.” or his *‘Clamber Closer, Clara,” but for his -part he liked ‘best “the poem .with the hard, round. shiny bones in it;” whereupon he produced a walletcontaining a quarterly statement of his royvalties on ‘*‘Sweet _Marie,” showing that July, August and September they would ex- - ceed $2,000., / ———— Tae silver dollar of the United States will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its birthday upon October 15 next. says the Philadelphia Record. Cin July 18, 1794, the Bank of Maryland deposited at the Philadelphia mint French coins of the value of £80,715 for coinage - into silver dollars under the act of 1735. The first ot of these finished coins was delivered on October 15, 1794, There were 1,738 of them in all and they were the precursors, the first waves of the vast floodtide of silver dollars that has poured out upon the country during the one hundred years that have elapsed. : O A P T et T 8 TSR ORI * A recENT bulletin from the last census makes known some huge figures as to mortgages in this country. It shows " that the American mortgages in the decade ending in 1880 represented an indebtedness of $12;094.877.793. It showed that the mortgage indebtedness January 1, 1890, in thge_United - States amounted to $6,019,679,985. The number of mortgages were 4,777,008, " The averagerate of interest paid on these obligations was 6.60 per cent. The aggregate interest annually paid in real estate obligationsalone amount~ ed to $397,442.792. In mortgage indebt« - edness New York state is the leader,

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, +IFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Regular Segsion. " MoNDAY, Aug. 27.—43;111e senate held & short session d adjourned without transacting any . important business. In the house a-resolution was offered to print the tariff bill, and Mr. Wilson said the senate bill, which is now a law, would increase the basis of taxation $63,000,000 over the MecKinley law. The death of Congressman . Shaw, of Wisconsin, was announced, and a committee was appointed to attend the funeral. TUESDAY,; Aug. 28.—The last day of the second session of the Fifty-third congress was attended by just a score of senators. The committee appointed tocall upen the president announced he had no further communication to make to congress. Resolutions of thanks were tendered Vice President Stevenson and the senate adjourned sine die. In the house the resignation of Representative Oates, recently elécted governor of Alabama. to take effect December 3, was presented. The committee appointed to wait upon the president reported that the president had no further communication to make to congress, and -the speaker declared the second session of the Fifty-third congress adjourned. FROM WASHINGTON. _ StaTistics ‘from the census office show that nearlv one-half the families in the United States own their own homes. : " ExcHANGES at the leading clearing houses 1n the United States during the weelk ended on the 31st ult. aggregated $744,230,241, against $813,498,631 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 14.6. Ix the United States there were 168 business failures in the seven days ended on the 31st ult., against 283 the week previous and 356 in the corresponding. time in 1898. ThRE supreme assembly of the Pythian Sisterhood in conclave at Washington elected Mrs. George Bemis, of Worchester, Mass., as supreme chancellor. The Pythian Sisters elected] Mrs. Ida M. Weaver, of Des Moines, la., as supreme chief. ToTAL receipts from all sources at the treasury during August amounted to $41,021,330, and the disbursements to 831,688,804, leaving a surplus for the month of $9,332,526. THE EAST. : THE maimed baseball player, Charlie Bennett, is 6,000 richer as a result of a benefit game played in Boston. Ix New Jersey the first'direct steamship line between. America and the west coast of Africa has been chartered. _ DEMOCRATS in state convention at Dover, Del., nominated Ebe W. Tunnel, of Sussex county, for governor. - AT the depot at Erie, Pa., tramps entered two Lake Shore trains and robbed the passengers. Five were captured.

THE Brooklyn (N. Y.) biscuit works were burned, the loss being over $200,000. .

" AT Beverly Farms, near Boston, Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his 85th birthday. CAee IN a tenement house fire in New York city Mercio Levine, aged 53; Joseph Levine, aged 18, and Elias Levine, aged 16, perished. At East Northfield, Mass.,. William Revell Moody, eldest son of the revival) ist, was married to Miss Mary Whittle;, eldest "daughter of Maj. D. W. Whittie.

THE president arrived at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., where he will spend a brief vacation. . -

THE eastward and westward Atlantic records were broken, the former by the Campania, which made the trip from New York to Queenstown in 5 days 10 hours and 47 minutes, the latter by the Lucania, which made the trip from Queenstown to New York in 5 days 8 hours and 38 minutes. New CastLE, Pa., was literally flooded with counterfeit quarters and dimes.

Ex-Vice PRresiDENT MORTON in an open letter to the republicans of New York announced his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination.

WEST AND SOUTH.

TaE following congressional nominations were reported: lowa, Tenth district, J. F. Babcock (dem.). Illinois, Ninth district, D. F. Thompson (dem.); Thirteenth, W. L. Barnes (pop.). Michigan, Fifth district, W. A. Smith (rep.); Sixth, G. L. Kilbourne (dem.); Eighth, P. O. Crosby (pop.). Minnesota, First district, J. A. Tawney (rep.) renominated. West Virginia, Second district, William L. Wilson (dem.) renominated; Fourth, James Capehart (dem.). Maryland, IFirst district, A. 8. Dryden (rep.). North Carolina, Third district, Cyrus Thompson (pop.); Tenth, T. C. Milliken (rep.). Mississippi, First district, J. M. Allen (dem.) renominated. Texas, J. O. Abbott (dem.) on the 3,398 th ballot. Pennsylvania, Twelfth district. W. H. Hines (dem.) renominated. Ix Denver Gov. Waite, of Colorado, and three police officials were arrested, charged with opening letters addressed to an ex-police matron. _ :

Ep OrLiver fatally wounded Anna Carlock and then killed himself at an old settlers’ reunion at Chandlerville, I -

NeAR Fairmont, Minn., the house of C. J. Freeberg, a farmer, was burned, and his wife and child perished in the flames. ’

FraMEes wiped out the business portion of Elliston, arailroad and logging camp. near Helena, Mont. . Fire destroyed the business portion of Burdick. Ind. ey ik

FreIGHT and passenger trains collided at Tower Hill, 111., doing damage to the extent of $lOO,OOO. No cne was injured. s AN International Migration society at Birmingham, Ala., has arranged for the transportation of 5,000 negroes to Liberia prior to November 1.

WaILE going at full speed the steamer Northwest ran on Bar point, Lake Erie, and a panic was created among her 150 passengers. She was in no danger. ; THE state of Tennessee was said to have been defrauded out of $4,000,000 in taxes by derelict officials, and suits would be entered. . : A VETERAN railroad man, John C. Gault, died in Chicago from paralysis, aged 65 years. AT Bonham, Tex., E. D. MeNitt, minus both legs and one arm, killed Mrs. Martin, who had left her husband in Arkansas, because she refused to marry him, and then took his own life.

FIRE destroyed the St. Denis hotel, two livery stables and three residences at Columbus, Ind., the loss being nearly $lOO,OOO. e ; By the death of an uncle in Wales, John Jones, an Elwood (Ind.) tin-plata worker, has fallen heir to $4,008,900. . IN northern Wisconsin amidl Michigan farest fires continued to rage and in the former state several towns were endangered. . Frasgs. that originated in the Brooks’ Bros.” lumber yard at St. Paul caused a loss of $llO,OOO. CONGRESSIONAL nominations were reported as follows: lowa, Seventh district, J. R. Bancroft (dem.). Illinois, Sixth ‘district, James J. Linehan, (pop.); Tenth, John Olsen (dem.). Indiana, Twelfth district, Freeman Kelley (pop.). Wisconsin, Third district, C. M. Bullett (pop.); Fifth, S. S. Barney (rep.). Mississippi, First district, L. A. Brown, (pop.); Second, John C. Kyle (dem.) renominated. Tennessee, Eighth district, J. A. McCamm (rep.). Texas, Thirteenth district, B. B. Kenyon (rep.). : THE firm of Parke & Lacey, dealers in machinery at Portland, Ore., failed for $125,000. ; . RepußLicANS of North Carolina met in state convention at Raleigh and indorsed the populist state ticket. THE congressional labor commission, after devoting fourteen days in Chicago to the investigation of the recent strike, adjourned to meet again in Washington September 26. IN Detroit, Mich., over 30,000 Sunday school children marehed in the annual rally day parade. It was stated that an English syndicate had purchased thirty-four paper mills in Wisconsin. - The deal involves 814,000,000. .

AT Dajrton, 0., Lord Clinton trotted a mile in 2:12, breaking the world’s record for time over a half-mile track.

Tae Diamond Match company lost 90,000,000 feet of lumber by the forest fires in Michigan in the Trout creek district, and the Nester estate 20,000,000 feet.

GeoRGE THoMASand Richard McAvoy were killed at Hartford, Kan., in a quarrel over some chickens. O~ a charge of stealing horses Mary Hopkins, once a society leader in Lawrence, Kan., was in jail at Guthrie, 0. T.

At Fort Wayne, Ind., Robert J., owned by C. J. Hamlin, of Buffalo, N. Y., broke the world’s pacing record, making a mile 1n 2:03%{. ' WHILE bathing in Silver lake at Akron, 0., Prof. D. E. Conant, instructor in the gymnasium of the University of Chicago, was drowned. = WirLr McGrrlrrF, of Geneva, Ind., and Richard McGriff, of Deerfield, Ind., celebrated their 90th birthday. They are said to be the oldest twins in the United States.

FIRE swept away the business portion of the village of Roberts, 111. THE oldest practicing lawyer in Ohio, Judge John E. Hanna, aged 90, died at his home in- McConnellsville.

THE town of Uvalde, Tex., was inundated by the bursting of an argesian well and it was thought 200 persons were drowned. The property loss was estimated at $1,500,000. , THE prohibitionists mnominated a full ticket for state officers in Colorado, headed by George Richardson for governor. A :

NoMmINkEs for congress were selected as follows: Virginja, Eighth district, J. G. Mason (pop.). Texas, Fourth district, D. B. Culberson (dem.) renominated. North Carolina, Third distriect, Cyrus Thompson (pop.);: Sixth, O. H. Dockery (rep.). P THE death of Chaney Matthews, a negress 110 years -of age, occurred at Little Rock. She was the oldest resident of Arkansas as far as known. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. TaE king of Maori, Tawhiao 11., died from influenza. PovricE in Milan arrested an anarchist in ‘'whose possession ‘were papers detailing the plans of a conspiracy to stab the king of Greece. VaAQur Indians ambushed Mexican troops near Los Guesimes, and twelve soldiers and one woman were killed. DuriNG a fire among the flower boats on the Canton river 1,000 Chinese were burned or drowned. .

LATER NEWS.

ForesT fires wiped out the towns of Hinckley, Mission Creek. Milaca and Standstone’ in Minnesota, Bashaw, Barronett, Benoit, Cartwright, Fifield, Granite Lake, Grantsburg, Glidden, Marengo, Muscado, . Shell Lake ‘and South Range in Wiseonsin, and Sidnaw, Ewen and Trout Creek in Michigan. The total loss of life as far as known was placed at 466 and the loss to property at $12,000,000. '

Hexry LoescoE shot his ‘wife four times at St. Louisand then cut his own threoat. -

GEN. NATHANIEL P. BANKS, famous as both soldier and statdsman, died at Waltham, Mass., after a long illness, aged 78 years. ; : ; "~ HeAvy wind and rainstorms wrecked several buildings at Indianapolis and destroyed hundreds of shade trees. SAMUvEL J. Kirßkwoop, lowa’s war governor and secretary of the interior in the Garfield cabinet, died at lowa City, aged 80 years. £ SMOKE from forest firées became so dense in' the city of Boston that artificial light was necessary at noon. Six negroes who had been arrested on a charge of barn-burning were shot to death by a mob while being taken to the jail at Millington, Tenn. A NEwW counterfeit two-dollar bank note was discovered by the redemption agency of the treasury department pn the Commercial national bank of Providence, R. L : , Mgrs. THOMAS MCEMERY and her child were run down on a bridge and killed by a train near Fulton, 111. S. BaroN & Co., knit goods manufacturers of New York, were forced to assign through the speculating of a junior partner. Liabilities, $150,000. JouN KAUFFMAN, a wealthy brewer in Cincinnati, 0., was fatally wounded by his wife, whom he had left. : - MASKED robbers tortured an aged couple near Warren, 0., and secured seventy cents. The old people would probably die of their injuries. ~ Tue first ocean ¢able ever laid in New York bay was put down by the Commercial Cable company. ACCORDING to the treasury statement the public debt decreased $1,713,654 during August. - . THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league tor the week ended on the Ist were: Baltimore, .660; Boston,: .639; New York, .636; Philadelphia, .561; Brooklyn, .542; Cleveland, .524; Pittsburgh, .491; Chicago, .468, Cincinnati, .485; St. Louis, .418; Washington, .845; Louis. ville, .296. / '

A DISASTROUS FLOOD.

Perrible Disaster Befalls a Thrive : ing Texas Town.

The Leona River Overflows and Submerges a Large Part of the City of Uvalde—An Earthquake Adds 8 Its Terrors. . :

HUNDREDS THOUGHT TO HAVE PERISHED.,

UvaLpge, Tex., Sept. 3.—A terrible catastrophe befell this thriving town Thursday night and therg is mourning in many households. The calamity was entirely unexpected. The treacherous Leona river, swollen to a raging torrent by recent rains, rushed down upon the town, submerging and wrecking many houses and drowning a number of péople. In this arid section such destructiveness by the elements has never before been chronicled. In the excitement of the day it isnot definitely known how many have been drowned. It is feared that 200 or 300 people may have been drowned in the lowlands south of Uvalde.

Flood Came When All Were Asleep.

It was about 2 o’clock in the morning when the flood came. The weather had been threatening and there were ominous clouds.to the morth and east of town. The atmosphere had been close during the evening and predictions of a storm were freely made. As the hours wore on the dark clouds rose higher and higher. Just as the storm broke over the city in all its fury a torrent of ‘water rushed down the Leona "river, overflowing the banks of that stream and flooding the low lands on either side to a depth of several feet. The east side of the city is built on low land and was directly in the path of this water. All the houses in the heart of the town were submerged and in the darkness throughout the downpour of rain could be heard the cries of distress from the ill-fated inhabitants in their wild efforts to save their lives. There were a number of miraculous escapes, and the rescuers and the rescued performed many heroic acts. As soon as those in the higher part of town were made aware of the terrible flood and dire consequences the work of rescuing was begun and carried out as rapidly as possible in the darkness.

\Made Worse by an Earthquake.

An earthquake shock of some seconds’ duration was distinctly felt during the night. At one place near the city about a quarter of a mile of huge cracks appear on each side of the Leona river, having apparently no bottom. According toreports received at the Southern Pacific offices the terrible flood was aungmented by a most remarkable phenomenon' which was caused by the earthquake.

Loss Will Reach %1,500,000.

The loss to the Southern Pacific company is enormous, 40 miles of track and many bridges having been washed away. ©Over 100 car loads of material and 300 laborers left San Antonio for the scene of the wreck Friday evening. The damage to the Southern Pacific extends eastward about 75 miles from this city. A rough estimate of the loss to property in general and the railroad company will, as far as known, reach $1,500,000. -

Heavy Rains Fxtend Into Mexico.

St. Louis, Sept. B.—Dispatches from southwestern Texas report very heavy rains in that seetion and heavy damage done to railroads and other property. Three bridges on the Southern Pacific road over the Sago river were swept away and several washouts occurred. The Rio Grande is higher than forfive years. The storm extended into Mexico and several miles of track of the Mexican International and the Monterey & Mexican Gulf railroad are washed out. The cities are badly flooded and three children drowned. It will require several days to repair the damage to railroads.

A THOUSAND PERISH.

Awful Loss of Life by a Fire Horror in China. i

Hoxae Koxg, Sept. 3.—A terrible fire has occurred on the Canton river. A flower boat caught fire, and the flames spread until hundreds of those craft were destroyed. The progress of the fire was so rapid that at least 1,000 native perished in the flames. The flower boats ~were, moored stem and ~stern, in rows, and large numbers of natives lived upon them. The spread of the conflagration from one boat to another was so rapid that the unfortunate Chinese had no time to cut them from their moorings, a strong wind materially helping the increase of the fire. Many hundreds of persons on board the flower boats leaped overboard and were drowned, while several hundred others remained on board the craft and perished in the flames. SCANDAL IN THE 400.° Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt to Begin Proceedings for Legal Separation. NEw Yorxk, Aug. 81 —Reports from Paris are to the effect that Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt is about to make application for divorce. If she does, she will ask for an allowance of $300,000 a year, the custody of the children and the three homes which the family occupies at different seasons of the year. - The white marble palace at Newport, that cost £1,000,000, was deeded to Mrs. Vanderbilt some time ago. The husband’srelations to Nelly Neustretter, a well-known woman in Paris, are said to be the immediate cause of Mrs. Vanderbilt’s impending action, though other women will doubtless be dragged into the case as co-respondents. _ : A FATAL DUEL. Blight of the Breckinridge Canvass Falls : on Two Families. LExINGTON, Ky., Sept. I.—A iuel to death with knives occurred in Clark county, near Boonesboro, over the scandal feature of the Ashland congressional contest. John King, a Breckinridge man, living in Fayette ‘county, met on the highway his old friend George Cook. who lives in Clark county. Cook said any woman who went to hear Breckinridge speak was no better than a courtesan. King dismounted from his horse, saying his wife and daughters had heard Breck{nridge. Cook insisted it was a shame. He also dismounted. Both drew knives and blood flowed freely until Cook dropped, having three stabs in the breast. King has escaped. _ Lumber Yard Destroyed. . Bt. Pavurn, Minn., Aug. 81.—Fire started in the Brooks Bros.’ lumber yard, Union park, Wednesday afternoon. A representative of Brooks Bros. estimates that there were 10,000,~ 000 feet of lumber in the burned yard at Union park. This would make ihe loss 110,000, It is fully insured.

A KNIGHTLY ARRAY. Pythians’ Parade in Washington Reviewed by the President. : WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.—The feature of the Pythian encampment was the grand parade of the uniform rank Tuesday afternoon. Fifteen thousand knights were in line, marching by State brigades, and the procession was more than two hours passing the presidential reviewing stand. Pennsylvania avenue was crowded with more than 100,000 people, a large proportion of them visitors from out of the citv.

The president reviewed the procession from a small stand erected on the curbing just in front of the white house. : ;

The conclave of the stupreme lodge , was called to order by Supreme Chah- ; cellor W. W. Blackwell in ' Builders® exchange hall at 10 o’'clock. Great secrecy was observed and the entrances 1 were carefully guarded. The roll call was answered by delegates from nearly every state and territory. Supreme Chancellor Blackwell ‘and Supreme ,ngeger of Record and Seal R. L. C. White read their biennial reports. The supreme officers wore crape badges on their arm as a token of respect to the late Past Supreme Chancellor Shaw, of Wisconsin. '

In view of the action of the supreme lodge at Cincinnati in 1888 the supreme chancellor advises the abrogation of the edict of the Kansas City session, which placed under the ban the order of Pythian Sisters. The saloon qusetion is not unno ticed. Many lodges, the report says, have under act of grand lodges permitting a vote on the subjéct excluded saloonkeepers from membership in the order. 'This, the chancellor thinks, is a grand thing, as it will have a tendency to elevate the character of the lodges. He holds that quality, not quantity, is what is wanted. He says:

“I heartily commend that saloon -keepers, bartenders and professional gamblers be pronounced ineligible to further membership in our order and ‘that the supreme lodge firmly plant itself upon this moral and progressive platform, that all the world may know just where we stand.” ’

WABHINGTON, Sept. I.—The supreme lodge Knights of Pythias elected officers as follows: _

Supreme chancellor. Walter B. Riche, Ohio; supreme vice chancellor, Philip T. Colgrove, Michigan; supreme prelate, Albert Steinhart. Alabama; keeper of seals and records, A. S. C. White, Tennessee; master-at-arms, A. D. Gardiner, New York; inner guard, James Moulson, New Brunswick; outer guard, John W. Thompson, Washington, D. C; chairman board of control, John A. Hinsey, Wisconsin.

R. G. DUN'S REPORT.

A Gradual Improvement Is Noted in Come

‘ mercial Interests. NEw Yorg, Sept. 3.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says:

“The activity which came with exhaysted stocks and the pressure of delayed fa%sdemands, and which was increased by the removal of uncertainty about the tariff, has continued with heavy entries of foreign goods since the bill became a law. The gain is not vet what was expected, and business, if good in comparison with last year, is still poor in comparison with years preceding. Presumably there has not been time to feel the full effects of the change, and a gradual gain will be more healthy and encouraging than a spasmodic rise, but the expansion of commercial leans has suddenly ceased, prices of manufactured products show weakness rather than strength, and there has been a reaction in the stock market, prices of railway stocks averaging 32 cents and of trust stock 211 per share lower than a week ago. “The price of wheat has risen a shade during the week. Corn advanced 3% cents, while pork has risen 25 cents per barrel and lard 55 cents per 100 pounds. Fears of frost, the crop being late, are argued as a reason for quotations otherwise unwarranted. Cotton has declined an eighth - for the week, but the ' year closes with every indication of a yield materially exceeding the world’s maximum consumption of American and with 1,600,000 bales of old cotton in sight. The demands for products of iron and steelhas increased, but prices tend downward where any change appears, as there is not enough business yet to employ the works in operation.

The Failure Record.

“Failures are still few and small. For the third week of August reported liabilities were £2,976,518, but for three weeks only $8,214,470, of which $2,845,338 were manufacturing and $3,884,414 of trading concerns. The average isonly $11,521 per firm failing. The failures this week. have been 168 in the United States, against 356 last year, and 40 in Canada, against 20 last year.” : : MOB OF WOMEN RULES. They Drive Away with Clubs Milwaukee’s Health Officers. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 31.—The women in the smallpox-infected district ran riot. unchecked all day Wednesday. Quarantine officers have been driven from the houses which they were guarding and no attempts have been made to check the infuriated mobs. These women seem to be organized and are determined to resist all efforts of the health department to remove patients or quarantine affected houses. The women are all armed with baseball bats and wear white caps. About 400 paraded through Fifteenth, ' Sixteenth and Seventeenth avenues and drove the quarantine officers from their posts. At 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon the. health department temporarily abandoned the attempt to quarantine and remove patients to the isolation hospital or to investigate new cases in the Eleventh ward. TWO OCEAN RECORDS BROKEN. Lucania Makes a New Westward Mark and the Campania Ope Going Eastward. NeEw Yorxk, Sept. B.—The Cunard liner Lucania, which sailed from Queenstown at 12:45 p. m. August 26, passed in at Sandy Hook at 5:18 o’clock Friday afternoon. She had lowered the record of the steamer Campania by forty minutes. . LoxpoN, Sept. B.—The Cunard line steamer Campania, which sailed from New York August 25, arrived at Queenstown Friday, bringing with her another new transatlantic record of speed. She passed Daunt’s Rock at 5:34 a. m., having made the passage to that point in 5 days 10 hours and 47 minutes. Heretofore the eastward record has been 5 days 12 hours and 7 minutes. \ : Cost of Militia Service. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. B.—The pay rolls of the militia commands that performed service during thelate strike of coal miners and railroad men have at last reached the office of the adjutant general and have been consolidated. They aggregate $244,457.87, and the amount unpaid on them is $214,408.98. Of the total amount on the rolls $205,963.11 is on account of service performed in Chicago.' These rolls are for services of the men only and have nothing to do with subsistence, transportation or other items of expense. :

A New Orleans Councilman Arrested While Taking a Bribe. New ORLEANS, Aug. 80.—Councilman Doudoussat was caught in the act of taking a bribe from Charles Sherman on Wednesday. The amount taken was $lOO. He was caught by Detective D. C. O’'Malley and Sergt. J. C. Aucoin and lodged in the fourth precinct station. , 5

'REFUSED TO SIGN IT. el I Poa st e Predident CO#veland Allows the Tariff Bill to Become a Law. It Does So Without His Indorsement—He Explains His Attitude in a Letter to My, Catchings—End of a Long Struggle. : :

XEW TARIFF GOES INTO EFFECT.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—At 12 o’clock Monday night the McKinley tariff law, which had been in operation since ,getober 30, 1890, practically four years, ied on the statute books and the new emocratic tariff bill passed by the Fifty-third congress became a law - t;l}_%ut d%.he signature of President eve a—‘gia - z } “EXBCUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Aug #7.—Hon. T. C. Catthings—My Dear Sir: Since the conversation I had with you and Mr. Clark, of Alabama, a few days ago in regard to my action upon the tariff bill now before me I have given the subject further and most serious consideration. The result is, I am more gqfctl&d- than ever in the determination to al&w © bill to become a law without my signal "‘%r'hen the formulation ot legislation which it was hoped would embody democratic-ideas. of tariff reform was lately entered upon bY this congress‘!}othing was further from I_n&V afl= ticipation than a result which I could not promptly and enthusiastically indorse. It is therefore with a feeling of the utmost disappointment that I submit to a denifal of this Privilege =

*I do not claim to be better than the masses of my party nor do I wish to avoid any responsibility which on account of the passage of this law I ought to bear as a member of the democratic organization; neither will I irmit myself' to be separated from my" Emy to such an extent as might Dbe tlied by my veto of tariff legislation, which, thoegh disappointing, is still chargeable to. deméeratic effort. But there are provisions in this Bill which are not in line’ 'with honest tariff Yeform and it contains inconsistencies and ceudities which ought not to appear in tariff laws or laws of any kind. = . “Bepides, there were, as you and I well know, incidents accompanying the passage of the bill through congress which made every sincere reformer unhappy, while influences surrounded it in its latter stages and interfered with its finad construction which ought not to be recognized or tolerated in democratic tariff refory coundails. e - . “And yet, motwithstanding all .its- vicissitudes and all she bad treatment it has received &t the handsof its pretended friends, it presents a vast improvement to -existing- conditions. It will certainly lighten many tariff burdens that now rest heavily upon the people. Tt is notonly a barrier against the return of mad protection, but it furnishes a vantage ground from which must be waged further aggressive operations against protected monopoly and governmental favoritism. : ‘ “] take my place with the rank and file of the democratic party who believe in tariff reform and who know what it is, who refuse to accept the results embodied in the bill at the close of the war, who are not blinded to the fact that the livery of democratic tariff reform has been stolen and worn in the service of republican protection, and who have marked the places where the deadly blight of treason has blasted the councils of the brave in their hour of might. . E ’ “The trusts. and combinations—the communism of pelf, whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserve, should not be forgotten or forgiven. We shall recover from our astonishment at theip exhibition of power, and if then the question {8 forced upon us whether they shall submit to the free legislative will of the. ¥eople‘s representatives, or shall dictate the laws which the people must obey, we will accePt. and settle that issue as one involving the integrity and safety of American institutions. : *I love the principles of true democracy be=cause they are founded in patiotism and upon justice and fairness toward all interests. lam {)srouq of my party organization because it conservatively sturdy and persistent in the enforcement of its principles. Wherefore,; Ido not despair of the efforts made by the house of - representatives to supplement the bill already passed by turther legislation and to have engrafted upon it such modifications as will more nearly meet democratic hopes and aspirations. - *I can't be misvaken as to the necessity of free raw materials as the foundation of logical and sensible tariff reform. The extent to which this is recognized in the legislation already secured is one of its encouraging and redeeming ‘ features, but it is vexatious torecall that while free coal and iron ore have been denied a let- \ ter of the secretary of the treasury discloses the fact that both might have been made free by the annual sarrender of only $700,000 of unnecessary revenue. . : I am sure that there is a common ‘habit’ of underestimating the importance of free raw materizals in tariff legislation, and of regardt ing them as only rglated to concessions to be made to our manufacturers. The truth is, their influence is 8o far-reaching that i{f disregarded a complete and beneficent scheme of tariff reform cannot be successfully inaugurated. L Yok e s -2

“When we give to our manufacturers free raw materials we unshackle American enterprise and ingenuity, and these will open the doors of foreign markets to the reception of our wares and give opportunity for the continuous and remunerative employment of American labor. **With materials cheéapened by their freedom from tariff charges, the cost of their producs must be correspondingly cheapened. Thereeupon justice and fairness to the consumer would demand .that the manufacturers be obliged to submit to such a readjustment and modification of the tariff upon their finished goods as would secura to the people the benefit of the reduced cost of their manufactures and shield the consumer against the exaotions of inordinate profits. *lt will thus be seen that free raw materials and a just and fearless regulation and reduotion of the tariff to meet the changed conditions would carry to every humble home in the land the blessings of increased comfort and cheaper living. The millions of our countrymen who have fought bravely and well for . tariff reform should be exhorted to continue the struggle, boldlf challenging to open warfare and constansly guarding afahut treachery and haifheartedness in their camp. Tariff reform will not be settled until it is honestly and fairly gettled in the interest and to the benefit of a pitient and long-suffering people. Yours very truly, *“GROVER CLEVELAND." _4he placing of the bill upon the statufe Yooks ended one of the longest and most remarkable struggles in the parllamentary history of the government. It was practically a year ago that the compilation of the new tariff was oommenced. The extraordipary session of congress was called August 7. 1803, for the purpose of repealing the Sherman silver-purchasing law. Two weeks Jater the ways and means committee of the house, with Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, as shairman, was appointed, and almost immediately the work of framing the democratic tariff-reform measure began. Months were spent in its preparation, and it was not reported until after the holidays during the tegular session beginning in December. For three weelks it was debated in the house, passing that body January 20. Seventeen house democrats voted againstit. The bill went to the senate, and, after being considered until March 20, was reported, greatly chan%ed’fro'm the bouse bill., The debate which bégan in the senate April 2 lasted until July 3, when the bill passed by a vote of 39 t 034. The crisis occurred when the bill reached conference. On August 13 the house %ielded and accepted the senate bill in toto. wo days afterward, Wednesday, August 15, it went to the ?resident, and Monday night at the expiration of the constitutional days (Sundags not counted) it became a law without Mr. Cleveland's approval o FOR A NATIONAL PARK. ‘en. Sickles Wants the Government to Acquire 4,000 Acres at Gettysburg.

. New YOREK, Aug. 28.—Gen. Daniel E. Sickles has a scheme for the creation of a grand national park which will include' the battlefield and other historic points of interest at Gettysburg. The purchase of something like 4.000 acres in and around Gettysburg is embraced in the plan. The government already owns several hundred acres at the scene of the decisive battle of: the war, and Gen, Sickles propoees to acquire about 2,500 acres more. ' o ; Ground to Pleces. PirrsßußreH, Pa., Aug. 28. —J. C. Price, a mine foreman for the Scott Coal company at Robbins, on the Baltimore & Ohio railway, was literally ground to pieces by an express train Sunday. Price, with a friend, was in sight of his home, walking on the tracks returning from a visit to friends at Guffy station, e Cost of the Strike. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 28.—The exf:nse to the state caused by the callg out of the militia during the late strike is placed by the adjutant genes WAt @ssoon. - o

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