Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 October 1894 — Page 2

g YOORHEES AT WORK. The Indiana Statesman Opens the - Democratic Campaign. " The Tariff Situation Reviewed and the Republican Methods Condemned— _ What the Democratic Senate Has Accomplished. A huge audience of Indiana democrats assembled.at Terre Haute, on the evening of September 22, to hear Senator Voorhees speak at the opening of the state campaign. The senator spoke at great length upon the tariff law and kindred topics as follows: *Mr. Chairman: The theory of this government is that the people govern "themselves through their representatives chosen at short intervals, and at free, untrammeled elections. In framing and adopting the constitutionunder which we now live our great forefathers planted it firmly and squarely on the broad doctrine of self government. The democratic party has never recognized any control of the people €éxcept their own, nor any master except themgelves. There is not an official personage in all this broad land, from your township trustee to your president at Washington, who can add to or take away one jot or tittle of your supremacy. You are the only people on the face of the globe to whom are guaranteed the inalienable rights of man in a written constitution.

“In thus pointing out the plenitude of your power and your unassailable sovereignty in the administration of your government, I have, on this occasion, a distinct object in view. I am one of your public servants, now many years In your employment, and I fully recognize, as I have always done, the duty I owe in rendering an account, on all proper occasions, of the stewardship with. which you have intrusted me. I also stand to-day,as I 1 .ve

stood for more than the third of a century, for the honor, the integrity. the justice, the patriotism and the triumph of the democratic party. - . _‘““And now. citizens of Indiana, let us take a survey of the political situation, and by the solemn light of recorded and undisputed facts fix the responsibility of parties and vindicate the truth. What a vision rises to our view as we look backward for the causes which have led up to the present condition of the country. A solid mass of republican legislation from 1861 to 1893 confronts us. - “I defy the ingenuity of man: to show where, apd in what instance, the leaders of the republican party ever devised, framed or enacted a financial measure of any kind into a law which was not originated and dictated by organized capital and against labor, whether organized or unorganized. Every concession ever made by statute to the greed and lawless avarice of the money power, since the spring of 1861, is the work of the party so long in control of legislation. During the past twelve months hard times and financial distress among the people have been everywhere felt, gnd the responsibility for such a condition of the country* has been the theme of constant, and, at times, of violent and acrimonious discussion. I challenge history on this subject. The republican party, by virtue of its general financial policy, and the great body of its onesided and unfair financial legislation, has been the author of every period of hard times, scarcity of money in circulation, bankruptey, business prostration, and unemployed labor since the first ascendancy of that party to the control of the government. Power of Money Kings. .

“The fact that the amount of money in actual existence is less than the active business intereats of the country demand is a most oppressive evil, but the power of money centers and of money organizations to contract the currency without limit or restraint, to virtually strip the country of the money it so much needs, and to hoard it away for purposes of usury and speculation, is perhaps the blackest and most pernicious crime provided for in the whole body of republican financial legislation. The vicious machinations of republican lawmakers, surrendering every interest of the people to the control of financial corporations, authorizing them to contract the currency and to deprive the country of its circulating medium whenever the hardened villainy of avarice desires to make huge profits, may be properly styled the giant national curse of the age in which we live. No deep. dark, rotten, miasmatic fen or swamp was ever more certain to propagate death-dealing malaria than is the power of money contraction, lodged in the hands of private greed, to blight and destroy the general welfare of the country. The idea here presented is an appalling one. No other government within the boundaries of civilization, as far as I can learn, has ever committed to private ,pa.rt'iei the power to make money plenty or to make money scarce; times easy or times hard; create business prosperity or business bankruptcy; the .power, in fact, to circulate the government's own currency or to- withhold it from circulation at such times and under such circumstances and in such amounts as will inure to the benefit of 'private speculation and personal gain rather than to the public interest. Yet such is exactly the terrible power wherewith the republican party has endowed the great money ecorporations of the couuntry, and such is the fatal power they have so often called into disastrous action. - .

“Every instunce of business trouble, every period of pecuniary distress, every active influence for evil and unnatural disturbances in the channels of trade, every discrimination against honest industry and in favor of idle, ~ hoarded, interest-eating capital, every huge, jmplacable trust, whether in sugar, whisky, coul, lumber or salt, every grinding monopoly of whatever kind or description, every corrupt, gigantic corporation, combination, syndicate - or pool known to consolidated wealth and edu-. cated villainy, every cruel. dishonest reduction of wages, every malignant denial of justice to organized labor, every strike thrust upon la- * boring men and women to be put down by force in the interest of corporation wealth, . every life lost in such conflicts and every tear and sob and groan in the humble homes of enslaved toil throughout all the states of:-the ‘American union, are as directly chargeable end traceable to the bad laws, fastened on the American people by the republican party as the bitter waters of a polluted spring are to »_ske poisonous fountains from which they flow.”

Mr. Voorhees spoke of the millions of dollars of mortgages on the property of the people. Their burdens, he declared, had never been lightened by the republicans, but on the contrary had been increased. Conditions When Congress Met.

When the Fifty-third congress met the country was being robbed by the McKinley law and the treasury was empty. Public creait was menaced by vicious silver legislation. He continued: ' #I drew the bill which repealed the Sherman act, but while removing that admitted obstruction to the general welfare, I was careful to substantially reassert the democratic national platform of 1892, wherein it is declared that ‘we hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of thé country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal, or charge for mintage, but the dollar mint of coinage for both metals must be of equal intrinsic or unchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement. or by such safegudrds of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equai power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payryent of debts; and we de-~ mand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin.’ ° He declared himself a bimetallist, and then told what the democrats have done, saying: i “Aftar a severe and protracted struggle and much vexatious delay, occasioned by the mis~ erably defective rules of the senate, this republican nuisance and standing menace to the business of the country was removed, the purchasing clause of thé Sherman act was repealed. For some months pastyou have often heard the sneering and somewhat idiotic inquiry as to what the demooratic party has done since it came into power. I would say, in all kindness to our republican friends, that we have been engaged thus far, day and night, and to the point of utter exhaussion, both physical and mental at times, in undoing and réforming the wretched and dangerous work you left when the people rose in their majesty and turned you out. The author of the Sherman act himself, and every leadingz republican newspaper organ in the United States, denounced it 48 fraught with business ruin, and clamored to Mr. Cleveland's administration for its instant repeal. g “The nekt great achievement of the demoeratic perty in the order of events as they oceurred in glie Fifty-third congress was to wipe out a systgen of federal election laws fastened upou the colintry by the republican party more thany 4 quarter of 8 century Bgo—a sys~ tem intmijei 4o liserty, an impeachment of

the people’s capacity for self-government, af invasion of natural and inalienable righis more odious and indefensible than the British stamp act against which our fathers took up arms more than a hundred yearsago. I will not dwell at this time and place on the repeal of the federal election laws further than to rejoice with you that the gleam of the bayonet nor the threat that it is coming will ever again be seen or heard in the sacred precincts of the American ballot box. We may also rejoice with an exceeding great joy that corrupt judges on the federal bench, partisan marshals and their disreputable deputies, with incidental straw bail, will never any more in Indiana. or in any other state, pollute popular elections or overthrow the fundamental princip%es of. free government. When some one again asks what the democratic party has done in the past year it can be answered that, among other good deeds, it has restored the freedom of the ballot box and the purity of the elective franchise. In fact, the whole body of the public service was so filled, crammed and choked up with partisan, corrupt and unpatriotic legislation during the long ascendency of the republican party that the task of reform appears on every hand and wherever we turn. When I look out on the vast and difficult work to be done, the exten=sive reformations required before the government can again yield harvests of prosperity and happiness to the people, I am sometimes reminded of an old farm which for many years has been in bad hands and has ceased tobe productive of wholesome crops. Its fields will be found breeding briars, brambles, poison vines, thistles; cockle burs, beggar lice, gimpson weeds, dog fennel. smart grass, skunk cabbage and yellow jackets’ nests. Old snags and ugly stumps also cumber such fields and hinder the work of the plow and destroy the patience of the plowman. When afarm in this condition has the good fortune to get a change of owner-ship-and to pass into the hands of a skillful and honest farmer, you would hardly expect him to clean out all its moxious obstructions and put it in perfect order for corn, wheat, oats, hay and clover in a single season. You would grant him at least two or three years to overcome the evils with which his farm was afflicted before he took possession. 7The benefit of thisillustration, and the same indulgence you would extend to the farmer in his work of agricultural reform, are all I ask for the democratic party in its present attitude. We have begun our work nobly and well; much has been done and yet much more remains for us to do before all the foul growth in the political fields for more than thirty years past can be entirely extirpated.” ' The Tariff Law. : - Senator Voorhees said one of the greatest of democracy’s works was the repeal of the McKinley law, and added:

“I do not desitate to declare that the bill which passed both houses of congress and becamealawonthe 28th day of August, 1894, whatever its other merits or defects may be. will do more in the aggregate toward the inevitable reduction of duties, and consequently will make a longer stride in the direction of freedom in trade and commerce, than any other measure ever enacted into ‘law by the American congress.” )

Of the income tax he said: ““We provided that at least thirty million dollars a year should be collected hereafter from people who have good, net incomes,rather than from people who have nothing but their wants, and their labor with which to meet them. What is this but a transfer of taxation for the support.of the government from the laboring man to the idle and romfortable rich? What is it but a relief from high protection and a direct and powerful blow to the whole protective system? On the floor of the senate I said: .

‘* ‘The proposition containéd in the pending bill to levy a tax of two per cent. on all net incomes of corporations and of individuals in excess of four thousand dollars per annum is so just and equitable toward the hardworking taxpayers of meager resources throughout the entire country that not a word in its defense or explanation would seem necessary here or anywhere else.’” But the narrow and corroding selfishness of riches has been aroused by this simple measure of justice into fierce resentment and contention. We hear on all hands the dictatorial voice of individual and corporation wealth demanding that it shall not be disturbed by the slightest touch of the tax gatherer, whatever may be the demands of the government or the oppression of the toiling masses.

*On all the wants and necessaries of life the man of wealth, with a heavy income, pays less rates of tariff tax under existing laws than the laboring man or laboring woman whose wearing apparel is of coarser material and whose household living is supplied with cheaper goods bearing higher rates of duty. His bonds, his accumulated riches of all kinds, and all incomes arising from them, are exempt from all government” burdens, remaining not only diminished and unmolested, amidst the darkened homes and flagrant distress, but growing fatter, stronger and more defiant as the days and the years'go by. He who has spent all his life in making an amassment of wealth looks out upon the poor. tired, toiling world as if from a fortified castle. He feels himself sumptuously, provisioned against all wants and amply protected against all contact or cohcern with the labor-stained millions who struggle from one ocean to the other for the means of existence.”

Mr. Voorhees then entered into an elaborate explanation of the tariff, and said: ‘I stand with Grover Cleveland on tariff reform, and with him I be: lieve in the curative processes of future legislation. ‘“The tariff on sugar has been greatly reduced,” said Mr. Voorhees, and ! added: ‘ ‘ “It is needless for me to say that we would have wiped it out if we could have done so. A ' solid phalanx on the republican side of the | senate chamber, allied to a small but well l known contingent on our side, is the only reason why the trust has one-eighth of one cent a pound left to swear by, or rather to | swear at, as it” has been® doing ever gince the | senate bill became a law. - } *The brightest feature of this tariff is found | in the fact that it is a turning point in the history of our economic legislation. It sigmalizes the final stage in the most costly experiment ever tried by a peaceful nation. For an entire generation of men this country has continued to apply the doctrines of an unscientific, narrow, provincial school of economists who teach that a people enrich themselves by diverting } their energies from more or less produc- i tive industries, by taxing. hampering and discouraging those activities for which their soil, climate and abilities are adapted, and fostering those which are wunnatural to them. As -all economists of worldwide repute | have taught from . the first, such an effort must fail, and the semblance | of success can only be 'maintained aslong as the taxes and discriminations the system requires continue to grow heavier. Accordingly tariff after tariff has been passed in successive years, each more burdensome .and l more unjust than'its predecessors, until in the McKinley law of 18J0 the protective system ! reached its culmination and broke down. The experiment has failed. In the new law the nation has turned its face toward justice, toward economical truth, toward lasting prosperity, toward ultimaté freedom of trade: and the movement henceforth will be in that direction. “But now, a 8 my remarks are drawing to a close, perhaps some one in my audience—some kind friend, democrat or republican, no matter which—here to-night wants to inquire again, and something more in detail. what the Fiftythird democratic congress has done thus far. Let me answer in the splendid language of Speaker Crisp: . : **‘We have not done all we hoped to do; we have done more in the past year to redress the wrongs of the people; we have done more. for their relief than wus ever done by any party in the same length of time in any country under the sun. These are bold words, yet [ hold myself at all times ready to defend them Coming into power at a time of panic, when Dusiness was at a standstill, when labor was unemployed, when our treasury was empty, with courage and fidelity we entered upon a struggle with the enemies of the people, We emerged from that struggle victorious in thia: * “We have repealed the McKinley law. ‘'* ‘We have greatly reduced taxation. “ ‘We have made living cheaper, - ** “We have made all money taxable. * We have taxed surplus incomes. ‘* *We have restored freedom of elections.. * “We have reduced public expenditures, and we have deelared undying hostility to all trusts and monopolies organized for the oppression of the people, On these foundations we “build our house;” on these issues we go before the people. For them we have -fought the good fight;” to them we have kept the faith, and we have no fear.’”’ 4 : i ——*"*Wages Must Come Down!” say | the organs of high taxes and monopoly in their biggest type. If wages come down now the way they went up after the McKinley bill was passed the workingmen will not feel it much.— | Chicagoßlemald, /5. " r - @ )

FLORIDA’S LOSS. Damage of Over SI,OOOMOO from : Wind and Rain. : Sea Wall No Protection Against Raging Waters — Wharves and Plers Washed Away and Many Houses Flooded. GREAT DAMAGE DONE. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 1. —Communications with southern Florida is being restored and dispatches are pouring in relating to the damage done by the West Indian cyclone which raged in the state Tuesday and Wednesday. They all tell the same story of houses wrecked and crops destroyed, but no loss of life is reported. Buildings Wrecked. At Tamipa several large cigar factories were wrecked. . The three-story brick factory of Heidenberg & Co. and the factory of C. A. Joyce were demolished, as were also the factories of Yabor & Manarara, Theodore.- Perez & Co., and O’Halloran. The First Presbyterian church and the palatial hotel, Tampa Bay, were badly damaged. Several smaller structures were also demolished. The loss on buildings at Tampa is estimated at $50,000. Steamers Suffer. During the storm at Fernandina the Britich steamships Boston City and Elmville collided and wWere badly damaged. The steamer Princess was sunk between Palatka and Picolata. She was valued at $12,000. The steamer Edith was driven ashore. The steamer Debarey was driven against the drawbridge and wrecked. The steam yacht Maude was sunk near Crescent City. . St. Augustine Flooded. Advices were received from St. Augustine which had been cut off since Tuesday. . No lives were lost, but several houses were wrecked and the losses will run far into the thousands. Nearly all the windows in the city were blown in and the houses flooded with water. The Ponce de Leon hotel was damaged in this way. The loss on the hotel’s furniture is héavy. The waves dashed over the sea wall and made rivers of the streets. Many wharves were blown away. Orange ‘Growers. Lose. Between Green Cove spring and Palatka, on the St. Johns, twelve wharves have disappeared. Between Jacksonville and St. Augustine not a telegraph pole was left standing. The damage to the orange growers is incalculable. In the large groves the ground is completely covered with green oranges. The loss is fully 20 per cent. ‘ On the East Coast. B The_ east ecoast is still cut off from communication below St. Augustine and Palatka. Every effort is being made to hear from Jupiter and Key West, which are supposed to have been in the storm center. The storm was as severe in the interior of the state as on the coast.

v DUN’S .STATEMENT. Review of the I’afieek's Trade—Some Comparisons. NEw Yorg, Oct. I.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Special inquiry has been made this week at all commercial centers regarding the state of retail §rade. Wide diversity appears in different trades. The main facts disclosed are: First, marked improvement in the last month and a considerable excess over the business done a year ago, particularly in the necessaries of life. But, second, it appears that the volume of trade at present is on the whole considerably less than in a normal year at most points, and in the more important trades is apparently about 20 per cent. smaller than in September, 1892. Evidence of continued improvement in whole= sale trade and manufacture does not appear this week. There is large distribution on orders given some time ago. but new business going to the manufacturers is everywhere slackening. The completion of orders for replenishment of stocks leaves a narrower demand and it is yet too early for consumption to provide further orders. : The depression in prices ©of farm products will have some influence. TUnprecedented records have been made in cotton and wheat, though as to wheat only in contracts for future delivery in which the prices are the lowest ever made. The available stocks are about 15,000,000 bushels greater than a year ago, and western receipts for the week were 5,252,716 bushels, against 6,191,034 last year, and since August 1, 51.000,000 bushels, against 38,000,000 last year. It is encouraging that the speculation in corn has broken and the price has fallen five cents, less gloomy estimates than those of the department having gained general acceptance. It is now supposed that the yield is not far from 1,500.000,000 bushels, which will compel much economy in feeding, but speculation in pork has also broken, and the price has fallen 75 cents, while lard has declined half a cent. Failures are few and small for the week, liabilities amounting to $5,278,285, of which $2,282,313 were of manufacturing and 2,575,112 of trading concerns. Theé failures during the week have been 235 in the United States, against 334 last year, and 55 in Canada, against 83 last year. g PENNANT WINNEBS._ Baltimore Sure of National Championship —Sioux City Wins in Western League. CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—8 y defeating the Cleveland club on [uesday the Baltimore baseball team made sure of the National league championship, its per centage of .6Y6 being such that the New York club, its closest rival, with a percentage of .664, cannot pass even should it win all of the remaining games of the schedule. New York, however, stands second in the race, Bostons two defeats on Tuesd~y settling this position in her favor The season in the Western leagne closed yesterday with the Sioux City an easy winner of the pennant. The contest at no time has been as close between the clubs. as it was in the Western association. Early in the season Sioux City placed herself at the head and Milwaukee at the foot of the list, and neither luck nor good playing could dislodge them. : The clubs ended the season in the following position: ¢ . CLUBS. Won. Lost. Fer(C'. Sloux Clty. ... ..o eid 51 .b 92 01080 .. (.. i i e BT b 5 549 Bansas Clby ... ..o oivieani OY 58 .h 43 Mlnneapolls .. ...ciiv.ivevensseld 62 604 Grand Baplds ... .00 000 65 488 INHANADOLS ..., il iinasiiv, B 0 66 476 BeLroll o diasivahty 69 .448 Mllwaukeo .. ... .ciiisesenvisndl 74 403 MOVE OUT OF COREA. Chinese Abandon the Contested Territory . and Go to Chin Lieu Ching. : " SmAaNaHAIL Oct. I.—lt is reported that the Chinese troops have evacuated Corea and are now massed at Chin Lieu Ching, 380 miles westward of the Yalu river. It is stated that there have been numerous desertions from the Chinese army of late because of the faulty condition of the arms and ammunition supplied to the troops. It is also reported that the emperor has granted Li Hung Chang’s request to take the field in person and .i:at Li Hung Chang will malke his headquarters at Lui Tai, near Kai Ping, the present headquarters of the provineial commander in chief of Chihi Li.

RIOTING IN RIO.

| Internal Disorders of Brazil—Other South i American News. | MoONTEVIDEO, Oct. I.—Admiral Da : Gama asserts that there has been rii oting in Rio de Janmeiro lasting five - days, accompanied by outrages on Portuguese merchants, instigated di- ' rectly by President Peixoto, who incited soldiers, dressed as citizens, to make an attack on the pretense that 1 they wanted to break up a meeting of i royalist conspirators. : | Rio, it is reported, looks like a great military camp, soldiers patrolling the . streets, cavalry encamped in publie { gardens, launches patrolling the harbor front. The number killed is stated to be 828, and 2183 wounded L have entered the hospitals. Many of the wounded were taken to their homes. v Most of the fighting occurred near the water’s edge, and many bodies were cast into. the harbor. The damage to the property of Portuguese, British and other foreign residents will amount to $1,500,000. BueNos AyYßres, Oct. I.—Correspondents #a Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, telegraph that the revolutionists, actuated by a desire to avenge recent cruelties, | are assembling in the mountain re'gions near the frontier of Uruguay. It is reported that this force numbers 5,000 men, and that a demonstration against the government will soon be made. ‘ ' . It is now known that after Saraivas’ i death the commander of the govern- { ment forces cut the ears “from his i head, and, after packing them in salt, sent them to Gov. Castilho. PANAMA, Oct. I.—News has been ) received from Costa Rica of anat- | tempt to assassinate ' President Iglesias. During the military review in San Jose an anarchist, Michinor Araya, fired five shots at the president. l Iglesias escaped on horseback. Araya was arrested and would have ! been killed by the police if the crowd | had not interfered. His accomplices, ' Juan B. Jimenez, Francisco Aguirrea, . Jose Zeledon, Andre Cerpedes and | twenty others were also arrested. - 1 Dynamite was found in the house | where Jimenez lived. There were also - seized many documents which give | evidence of a widespread conspiracy. | Aguirrea was formerly a trusted aid-de-camp on the staff of President ' Rodriguez. { CAracas, Oct. I.—A government force under Mendizabal has been defeated by rebels, with fourteen killed. The movement to organize a rebellion is upriting the malcontents in both . Venezuela and Colombia.

CLAIMS OF EACH SIDE. How Republicans and Democrats Figure on Congress. WAsHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The two great poliiical parties of the country have been doing somde figuring lately through their campaign committees on the complexion of the next congress. Below is given the full table showing their claims and estimates: ~—=REP.EST.--— —-DEM. EST.-— State. : Rep. Dem. rop. Dem. Rep. FPop. Alabamal. oo 9 e 9 o i Arkansas.. i adiiuy 6 P 6 & o California...... . 8 1 o 4 8 Coloradoi... ... 2 5 - g o 2 Connecticut ..... 3 1 W e 2 i De1aware......... 1 i ‘s 1 o = Flovlda.;. =i i 2 o 2 e o Georgla...icooio wlt S 11 2 o Idaho.. i -sivais 1 i i s 1 e Illinois. 00l 11 o 9 18 Indiana.....cce. 9 4 . 7 6 o 8 JOWR iiors vises 0220 1 e 1 10 e Kansas.. i, 8 e % 4 4 Kenftucky........ : 2 9 &5 1011 e Louisiana.. ...... .. 4. 5 1 a 3 Maine ..o 004 i R i 4 5 Maryland. ....... 38 8 e 5 1 S Massachusetts .. 12 1 oo 2 11 o Michigan: ~ So4l 2001 o 4 8 e Minnesota........ 7 ot e 2 Dot Mississippi.io.... .. 7 . Lo vy Ve Missouri-. . ... 38 5 4 12 3 e M0ntana......... 1 ¥ 3 = ! 5 Nebraska........ 6 S o 3 3 i Nevada..ovoooin o ir 1 i b 1 New Hampshire. 2 o o 4 e 2 New Jersey...... 5 3 e 4 4 . New Y0rk....... 19 15 e 17 17 = North Carolina.. 1 8 Fre 8 1 £ North Dakota... 1 ‘.. o 2% 1 e Obdaii oo ol 16 -8 e 6 15 = Oregon. ....i.v..c 2 e o g Pennsylvania. .. 24 G g g A o Rhode Island.... 2 5 o 1 1 5 South Carolina.. 1 6 o 4 = 3 South Dakota... 2 7o . o 2 % Tennessee....... 4 6 o 8 2 o Texas ... side s 9 4 13 % S Verm0nt......00. - 2 S ae Qo Virginia.......o.. '8 7 i 9 1 e Washington...... 2 2 i i 2 i W. Virginia..... '3 1 o 4 2 i Wisconsin........ 7 8 e 5 5 i Wyomng . c..aveiiil 3 1. e & T0ta15....... 200 147 9 190 156 10 SLAIN AND ROBBED. Well-Known Railroad Man Murdered Mysteriousiy in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 27.—A horrible murder shrouded in mystery was committed in the very,;heart of the city some time during Monday night, and the police are completely 'haffled for lack of a clew. James B. Caven, general freight agent of the Valley railroad (Baltimore & Ohio), was sk.ot and killed by some unknown assassin. Five bullets pierced his body, and when picked up shortly after he was stone dead. Parties living near the scene of the murder heard the shots and a woman’s scream. No one was found near the body and the police so far have been unable to secure the slightest clew. The body was removed .to the morgue, where it was stripped of its clothing. Then it was discovered that the body had been robbed. A finegold repeater which the dead man carried in life was missing. His money, of which he always _carried a large amount,was also gone. The pockets had been turned inside out. The fact that a rcbbery had been committed was plainly evident, and a search was made for the wounds.. They were found, five in number Several hours must have elapsed since the shots were fired, as the blood had congealed and closed the wounds. Every inch of the yard where the body was found was gone carefully 6ver by the detectives in the hope of finding a clew.. Not a thing did they find to reward thci= search. : | HILL IS CHOSEN. New York Democrats in Convention Name _Him for Governor. SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 28.—At 1:50 o’clock Chairman D. B. Hill rapped the convention to order. After the transaction of some routine business Galen R. Hitt proposetl John Boyd Thatcher as nominee for the governorship. Senator Hill ordered the roll called. When Allegany county was reached Delegate Reynolds arose and amidst intense - silence said: *“The united delegation from Allegany county desire to place in nomination for gov ernor tl?eir first and only choice, David Bennett Hill.” ! Gamblers Indicted. ° Cuicaco, Sept. 29.—Fifty indictments were voted against gamblers just before the adjournment of the grand jury Friday afternoon and the state’s attorney was directed to prepare indictments in the cases to be returned into eourt to-day, ) , L

PULLMAN SCORED. Gov. Altgeld Declares His Taxes to Be ! Ridiculously Low. , SprINGFIELD, IIL, Sept. 27. — Gow. Altgeld was present at Tuesday's meeting of the state board of equalizacion. The governor disclaimed any intention of interfering with the work of the board, but said he felt it his duty to lay before them some facts which he had recently collected. Pullman’s Palace Car company, according to the records in the secretary of state’s office, has a capital stock of $36,000,000. Mr. Pullman had testifled before a commission, among other things, that' this capital stock was paid in cash and had been enlarged from time to time during the twenty-seven years of its existence. Mr. Pullman had further declared under oath that the company had no bonded debt and had accumulated $25,000,000 in undivided profits, the gov--ernor continued. ‘Adaing this $25,000,000 to the capital stock makes $61,000,000 which the stock of the Pullman company represents. The ' market reports show this stock to be worth more than $61,000,000.

The governor continued to give facts and figures from the company’s own reports and showed that the company’s surplus had been upward of $8,000,000 a year for many years. If the stock of the Pullman company were assessed like other property it would make an assessment of from $12,360,000 to $15,000,000. Instead of this it was assessed at only $1,650,000 in the state, the company having represented that its property was assessed in other states, but failed to show where. :

It appears that in sixteen states the company pays no taxes at all. In several other states and in Canada no assessments are shown, and in seventeen the total amount of tax paid by the Pullman company is only $21,425. In the remaining seven states the taxes paid are not given, but the total assessment is only $1,104/359. - The calculation based upon the ruling per cent. of taxation would place the total amount of taxes paid by the company at $40,751 outside of Illinois. This in Chicago would pay the taxes on less than $4,000,000 of property. < The governor estimates that the Pullman company pays taxes on only about $2,000,000 in America, and that nearly $60,000,000 entirely escapes taxation, and the company has now in its possession millions of dollars that should have been paid into the public treasury. The board could not, the governor said, reach back and compel the company to pay what it should have paid in the past; but it could assess the company as high in proportion to the market value of its property as others are assessed.

DOWNFALL OF LI HUNG CHANG. Report That the Viceroy Is to Be Soon Superceded. New York, Sept. 29.—A special dispatch from Shanghai says Li Hung Chang will shortly be superseded as viceroy of China by Wu Ta Cheng, late governor of Hu Peh. A Lord Li, late Chinese minister to Japan, has been degraded. Yu Lu, the military governor of Moukden, will succeed Li Hung Chang as superintendent of northern trade. : Four imperial princes are watching ‘events in the emperor’s behalf at Tien Tsin. ' A massacre of foreigners at Pekin is regarded as not unlikely to occur, and the legations” have asked that bluejackets be landed to protect them. One hundred and eighty thousand men, partially armed cavalry, have assembled to defend Moukden. A battle is expected to take place before a fortnight has elapsed. The Japanese warships are scquting in the gulf of Pechili. Naval experts say that the Chinese vessels will never again appear on the scene. SHANGHAI, Sept. 29.—1 n an imperial decree issued yesterday the dowager empress commands a curtailment of the festivities in celebration of her birthday. She will dispense with the grand ceremonial of congratulation, and everything will be on a reduced scale. The money thus saved is to be devoted to meeting war expenses. ) AMGUNT PAID PENSION ERS. For the Year Ending June 30 Last 1t Ag~gregated $137,636,981. WAsHINGTON, Oct. ..—The report of the third auditor of the treasury for the fiscal year ended June 380, 1894, shows the total disbursements at pension agencies on acecount of pensions for that year have been $137,636,981. The amounts paid to pensioners under the general laws were as follows: Invalids, $58,682,119; widows, $13,142,021; minors, $1,010,204; dependent relatives, $3,681,961. Sk

The amounts paid under the aet of June 27, 1890, were as follows: ‘lnvalids, $438,666,091; widows, $9,856,892; minors, §697,004; dependent relatives, $1,709,829; helpless children, $8,065. To pensoners of the war of 1812 the following amounts were paid: Survivors, $5,312; widows, $645,297. Under the Mexican war survivors were paid $1,388,707, and widows $BOB,845. Indian war claims paid amount to $377,883 to survivors and $456,652 to widows. . Army nurses received $65,682. About $650,000 was paid to pension examining surgecens and the balance of the total disbursements was for expenses of pension agents. ARE ACTUALLY STARVING. The Wretched Condition of Many of Pull- " man’s Residents. 2 CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—When 600 destitute men, women and children went to the headquarters of the Pullman relief committee Wednesday morning they found nothing there for them. The provisions were all gone, and when and from where more will come 4is a matter of speculation. That is the sad condition of affairs that confronts County Commissioners Kallis and Lundberg. They were appointed a committee by the county board to go to Pullman and investigate the condition of the people and devise medns for their immediate relief and for their support during the coming winter. They found things far worse than they had ever dreamed. ' “There is no doubt,” said Commissioner David Kallis, after the investigation was over, ‘‘that the people of Chicago will have to support the destitute in Pullman during the coming winter. It must be done. If they do not the people will starve to death, and that condition of affairs cannot be permitted.”. = e ’

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 4 ® A LITTLE HOUSEMAID. Wanted—a little housemaid, L Just to help mamma to-day; - . Hair tusked neatly in a braid, ‘ Aproned, capped and smiling gay— Here she comes—as prompt and neat As a household fairy sweet! & : . Chairs in every round and chink _ ‘ Shall be dusted perfectly; Hearth swept clean, before you think Baby's scattered toys will be Quickly put away in place ‘o . By this fairy household grace. :

Then she has her wages paid. : Promptly every penny, too— o Trusty, winsome little maid! = . L She gets paid in coin so true— : : Praises, kisses, loving words, - Till she’s happy as the birds! Sl —Lulu Curran, in Good Housekeeping. IT FRIGHTENS SPIDERS. Peculiar Effect of Tuning Foi;{s on the Web-Spinning Insects. ; A friend of mine one day sounded a tuning fork within an inch or so of several spiders’ webs, and found, to his astonishment, that in every case the spiders came for the fork in an attitude of attack. e I could give him no explanation for this, as it had not come under my observation. Since then I have learned from naturalists who have studied spider life that a certain species of spider will attack the tuning fork-in the manner my friend described to me. . There are three species of- spider common to our hedges and gardens. : ;o % L 7 C / / \ 4 .‘/‘ T\ ’W?\F“E \ N J X\;\ A D The one a big one, which -can be seen in the autumn in great numbers; sitting in the middle of a web, and the other two of a sma#er and more graceful build. They all three spin webs of different patterns. - When the tuning fork is sounded over the web of the biggest spider it will at once raise its forelegs to snatch at the instrument. When sounded over the smaller ones, one will drop at once by a single web to the ground. while the other will retreat to the furthest end of the web. i

Is it the vibratory movement of the tuning-fork that is communicated to the web, and felt by the spider through its legs, or does the spider hear the sound?

Opinions are divided, but generally inclining to the direction of the spider hearing the sound. Others there are, however, who think that the sound of the tuning fork is mistaken by the spider for the buzz of its natural enemy, the wasp. : The big spider lnows from experience that it can kill or keep off its enemy, and so springs forward to the attack. The. smaller ones, on the other hand, know equally well that, unless they can escape, they will be snatched by the wasp from their nest, and so they retreat, the one dropping to the ground and the other seeking the shelter of the far corner of its web.

A spider looks to me such a calmly cruel and merciless insect; think of the tortures of the fly when ‘it gets entangled amid those deadly gossamer strings—the more it struggles the more completely does that web of death entwine it. But I am glad to state that death to the fly after the spider’s bite is very quick. ; . % From numerous experiments Tmade by placing bees in different spiders’ webs that spin among currant bushes 1 found that in every case the spider took good care to keep out of the reach of the bee’s sting while encireling the unhappy insect round and round with its endless length of web till all hope of escape was over. The spider then cautiously approached the bee, gave it one bite in the leg and retreated to the corner of its web to watch the result. The struggles of the doomed bee got less and less, till within one minute of the bite they ceased altogether. The poison of the spider had done its work very speedily. ; : : Dr. Dallinger, who for many years has been making a close study of the ways and doings of spiders, speaks very highly of their intelligen¢e and considers them of a more superior order than has usually been imagined. But all observers are now telling the same story of that particular form of life which they have sympathetically studied.—Golden Days. : :

LITTLE WOODEN CHAIN. How a Handy Boy Can Make One Containing Twenty-Four Links. A pretty experiment, which boys with a knack for carpentering will find interesting, is the making of a chain out of a single block of wood. This is how the feat is accomplished. This diagram almost explains itself: Take a piece of very soft wood, one inch square by six inches long. Out of

: 7 o o g IR 110 15 ‘\x\\\ N \\g-’ ‘u \ ;/' N ¥ m e 0 o rtea | FIEY ol i L. / 7 /// AeE. THE WOODEN LINKS. : this cut a piece lilkke that shown‘in Fig. 2, then mark off the links as shown in Fig. 3. Hold this piece sidewise and cut out the darker portions shown in the illustration. Do the same thing on the other ‘'side of the piece. A swmall bit of wood will be left between each of the links. Cut through this and they will loosen. Round out the pieces and sandpeper them down. The illustration shows only three links, but a chain of about twenty-four links cun be made easily, and it will serve many useful purposes. o ‘ When Fay was about four years cld she went to a circus for the first time in her small existence. On her return _her aunt said to her: “Well, my dear, what did they have at the circus?” 0 auntie, it was lovely,” answered Fay, in the fullness of her joy, “they had pink lemonade and ..eleahan,tg-f'é-i-' Youth’s Companion. e 0

SIRRAH WAS FAITHFUL. How a Sheep Dog Tdok Care of Sevem ; Hundred Lambs. . - You often hear a great deal about dogs destroying sheep, and some persons would like to kill all the dogs in the country. That is very foolish, because the dog is really the sheep’s best: friend, and if, instead of hating dogs, each farmer would get a good one to look after his flock they would be quite safe. He would not let any strange, bad, fierce dog hurt the sheep that were in his charge. v ' Such a brave and faithful animal was Sirrah. He lived in Scotland a good many years ago, a collie of the best and purest breed, and as handsome as he was intelligent. He had a beautiful white frill and the clearest, most honest and affectionate hazel eyes. Rl B

Now, Sirrah held a post of great responsibility. He had to take care of the lambs. Not of a few lambs, a dozen-or so, but of seven hundred. Just think how hard it would be to count seven hundred lambs! But that was what he had to do. He was expected to keep watch of all and not to lose one.

One very dark, stormy night the sheep managed to break out of the fold. -No one knew what started them, ‘but they followed each other, as sheep will, being very stupid animals, and before. midnight the fold %vas empty and ‘the sheep and lambs were seattered in three separate parties over the wide range of hills. | The shepherd called Sirrah, who. was sleeping after working hard all day, and started off with his men. It was pitch dark and they could not see the dog, but he knew his.duty and went off to look for this lambs, while the men hunted for

the sheep. ; ; . They found - them after awhile and then sought for Sirrah and his charge, but no trace of them was to be seen. All night they wandered over the hills, till finally they turned towards home in despair, having made up their minds that the lambs wgré all lost and that they should never find them alive, for there were many steep precipices and placeswhere they might all have fallen off and been killed.

It was now getting light. The shepherd and his men were going slowly' and sadly along, when as they passed a deep hollow among the hills they Leard a bark. They looked down and saw some lambs and the dog in front looking round for help, but still at his post. Then they did not feel tired any more, but ran down the side of the hill, and Sirrah was glad enough to see them. He came a little way to ‘meet his master and the look of, care and responsibility left his face.

. Not one lamb of the whole seven hundred was missing, but how they

s o %_:3:&; ::‘~.~.'.‘ : BN O \) e [ AR A A A /TR SN & TN gems it [\ Pl i e 1 NN /TN 2 AN\ *’/‘/[f(\ W “3 ‘:”‘;%'\t;“‘\\\ R} \":?_’ffif,‘”\)\, I : ~ 3y TP 45@% b % }f‘:,x R . §/ e - 2 T =it ‘ THE SHEEP DOG: | had ever been got there, how the dog, all ‘alone, in the black darkness, had ever managed to get them all together and then to bring them safely down the sides of the deep hollow, no one ‘could ever tell. - Sirrah had been all alone from midnight till sunrise. He had no one to help him, and yet all the shepherds of the hills could not have done the same in so short a time.—N. Y. World. : A Little American Girl, : Last summer a little girl, ten years old, living in Indiana, was walking across one of the railroad tracks near a trestle across a deep ravine when she discovered that it was on fire. She knew that it was almost time for a train to come. She knew that the train would drop into the ravine if allowed ‘to cross it. She took off her ‘'red flan'nel petticoat and went running up the track waving her danger-signal. She stopped the train at the curve and saved it. There were a number of French people on the . train going to the world’s fair. These people were so _grateful to this brave little girl that they, on returning to France, petitioned that the little girl should receive a medal of honor. President Carnot ordered the medal struck off, and it was sent to the little girl. This medal is ‘given in France only to those who have done marked acts of bravery. It is the medal which France gives her soldiers. —Outlook. . Chicken Surgery in Florida. A marauding hawk made an_ attack on a Lakeland (Fla.) fowl yard, dnd sueceeded in ripping a chicken’s craw entirely from its t;iody, so that it dragged ‘on the ground; and also cutting a hole through the craw, so that it would 'not hold food. A day or twoafterward the owner caught it and one of the ladiesof the family performed a surgical: operation. The craw was sewed up, the chicken was soaked in hot water until the wounded and dry skin was made elastic again, the craw was restored to its place, the wound sewed up, and now .that is about the healthiest chicken in the yard. . © A Curiosity Among Colors.- > It isa curious fact that the color of yellow, whether it be vegetable or animal, is much more permanent than any other hue. The yellow of a flow= er’s petals is the only color known botanists that is not faded or entirely discharged upon being exposed to the fumes of sulphurous acid. Tale the viola tricolor (heart’s ease) as an illustration. If exposed but a mement to these fumes the purple tint immediately takes its flight, and in the wall-flower the yellow shines as byightly as ever after all other colors JHave fled. e . : The Small Boy's Paradise. ' Small boys who ecannot resist the temptation to make predatory excur‘sions on neighboring apple orchards should be transported to the Sandwich islands, where the apples have become wild, and where forests of many acres are found in various parts of the country. Theyextend from the level of the sea far up the mountain sides. It is said that miles of these apple forests can occasionally be seen. A traveler is ‘responsible for the statement that the ‘extent of one of them is between five ‘and ten miles in width and about twenfymilosdong.: 0N v ST e sl sPR R