Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 December 1894 — Page 2

* * Y A p : & @he Zigonier Banner LIGONIER, 3 2 INDIANA. -m EzekierL. WeLLs, of Burnet, Tex., offers himself asa candidate for the legislature on the ground that he weighs over threeshundred pounds and is so bow-legged that he can’t attend to any regular business. - A RECENT strike of women in Vienna caused an investigation to be made, which elicited the fact that onc of the workpeople in the factory there had labored daily for twenty-three years, and had never received more than 1s 2d a day. ‘ ' - Tuge United States now have . about forty vessels engaged in whaling—the remnant of a fleet which once numbered 500 ships. The demand for whale oil has so greatly decreased that the industry has dwindled away. It is now supported chiefly by the deinand for whalebone.

IT is proposed to make the port of Bristol, England, accessible to transatlantic vessels at all times by damwing the river Avon at its mouth and using locks.: According to the plans of the engineers a constant depth of thir-ty-two feet ean be obtained, and the necessary docks and breakwaters constracted for $11,000,000. > AL W OTTP A AN TS As A result of the costliness of production the output of nickel is so limited that in 1889 it did not exceed onehalf to one-third that of silver. The principal deposits are in New Caledonia. and the province of Ontario, Canada, though it is found in New York and widely distributed in both the United States and Europe. OR TR SRR AR T T S B ETS T “TREATED birch,” says a Philadelphia builder, “‘becomes mahogany of rare - beauty, and ‘soaked’ maple goes into all ‘ebony’ pianos now. So cleverly is the‘fake’ wood ‘weighted’ that nothing short of borings will prove the deception. Maple mahogany is soaked through to a depth of four inches, and will polish even better than the genuine wood.” A VALUABLE use has been discovered for the hair from reindeer. It has Deen proved that the hair has extraordinary buoyancy and it has been made into life belts and cushions and pillows {for vessels. These have all had such success thata life-saving jacket has Deen lined with the reindeer hair, to be used by vachtsmen and seafaring men generally. .

- Mr. W L. DALLAS reports that the observationsof twenty-five years, made in the Bay of Bengal by the Indian government meteorologists, have shown that the average temperature rises during years that sun spots are numerous and sinks when they are few. ‘hen the number of sun spots exceed the average, the barometric pressure was less than its average. SRR B ATR LRSI TR Pao 5 THor protection of the deer in Vermont will extend until 1900, but the farmers say that if there were not g little hunting the animals would so increase as to be a nuisance before then. They have been eating some of the crops this autumn, are often found in orchards consuming fallen fruit, and an agriculturist in- Windsor county complains that they have destroyed his entire crop of buc\kwheat. . SX WM AT S PRI, P Tz annual report of the Pennsylvania state board of pharmacy, contains some odd things from applicants for certificates. One wants an ‘‘ablecation blank.” One blind man wanted

a certificate. One mother requests one for her son. because she is a*widow and has an invalid daughter. - One applicant stated that ad lib. means add a pound. One man had seventy-four answers to questions written on his cuffs. . '

Fraxg E. SNyYDER calls the great dam over the Colorado river at Austin, Tex., “'a second Niagara.” It is 1.360 feet long and 68 feet high, raising the stream 66 feet above low-water marl. Not only will it furnish the city with electric light and power for the pumps of the water works, but there will be a large surplus of power for mills and factories. The lake formed by the dam is 25 miles long and covers an area of 2,000 acres. .

Tine speaking tube on a fighting ship has never been the success the inventor promised for it. Sounds carrjed from the deck to the engine room have been drowned by the rattle of machinery and other extraneous influences. This difficulty can now all be overcome by a set of powerful telephone instruments. By their use the man in the engine room can hear theorders distinetly and that, too, without having his ear glued to the ear-trumpet. T

Prixce Honexrnone, the new German chancellor, is just the age of Prince Bismarck was when he retired from that high office. He is unassuming, obliging and gentlemanly, and personally very popular. Ile has always been very fond of Paris, and has made itan invariable rule to visit the French capital once a year, usually in July or August when hie could lunch and dine in the open air. look for old books in the Quai Voltaire, and see the life of the boulevards at its best.

Tae women of Colorado cast 70,000 votes 1n the late election., which was ninety per cent. of the registration. Moreover. they cast ten per cent. inox'e. than one-nalf of the total number of ballots in‘the state. They had an exeellent organization, and, working within the%fines of theexisting parties, were given an equal share and representation in the management of the -ecampaign. The Colorado press generally admits that the first test of woman suffrage has proved a great success. Furthermore, there were none of those disturbances at the polls which often characterizes election day. . ; R S OU DA IS SOV i Cuicico physicians who have been investigating the cause of the gradual decline of their incomes are disposed to attribute it partly to the increasing healthfulness of the city and partly to the increase in the provisions for free - medical practice. 1t is estimated that _ the various institutions where free medical attendance is afforded treat in the aggregate one hundred thousand persons annually, a majority of whom arc able to pay at least moderate fees, _ but who prefer to take free treatment , %g@@g good. This large ine erease in free treatments is discoursg: . ing toindividual physicizns.

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. —_— | - FROM WASHINGTON. ‘ IN his annual report Director of the Mint Preston says the gold coinage of the fiscal year ended June 80 last was $99,474,912, the largest ever executed. ‘The silver coinage was $6,977,296. The estimated metallic stock of coin and bullion in the United States was:, Gold, $627,203,201; silver, $624,847,757, a° total of $1,251,640,958. The net gold exports for the fiscal year were $4,172,665, against $86,892,275 in 1893. The net exports of silver were $31,041,359, against $7,653,831 for the previousyear.

SUPERINTENDENT BROOKS in his annual report says the foreign mail service has attained a high degree of perfection. A RecEzipTs from stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards fell off over $2,000,000 during the year. 1x his annual report Secretary Herbert recommends the construction of threc additional battleshipsand twelve torpedo boats. During the year five ships have been added to the naval list, the Marblehead, Columbia, Olympia, Montgomery and Minneapolis.

SECRETARY MoRTON in his annual report suggests exporting dressed beef instead of live cattle, in view of the prohibition of foreign governments. "I~ his annual report Commissioner of Internal Revenue Miller shows a falling off in receipts during the year of $13,836,540. - SUPERINTENDENT KiMBALL, of the life saving service, in his annual report shows that during the year ended June 30, 1894, there were 894 disasters; value of property involved, $10,000,420; property saved, $b,765,215; property” lost, $2,287,205; number of persons involved, 4,521; persons lost, 68. SECRETARY SMITH, of the interior department, in his annual report deals largely with Indian affairs. The report also shows that the total disbursements to date for the eleventh census amount to $10,865,676. The entire number of pensioners upon the rolls June 380, 1894, was 969,544. The estimate for the fiscal year 1896 is $140,000,000. ) IN the United States the exchanges at the leading clearing houses during the. week ended on the 80th ult. aggregated $1,803,820,000, against $1,019,959,895 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 2.9. A MARKED improvement in business throughout the eastern and middle states was reported.

SECRETARY LAMONT in his annual report urges an increase in the army to 30.000, and praises the men for their worlkk during the strikes. The expenditures for the last fiscal year were $56,059,000, the appropriations for the current year are $52,429,112, and the estimates for the next year are $52,£18,629. ) .

1~ the seven days ended on the 30th ult., there were 289 business failures in the ‘United States against 322 the week previous and 271 in the corresponding time in 1893. GOVERNMENT receipts from customs during < November were $10,260,692; from internal revenue, $7,764,074; from miscellaneous sources, $1,376,637, making the total receipts for the month 819,411,403, and for the last five months $136,398,917. The disbursements for the month amount to $27,567,770. making the disbursements for the five months $158,909,043. ) JaMES KERR, clerk of the house of representatives, in his report shows that for the year ended June 380, 1894, the salaries of members and other ex-penses-of the house amounted to §930,930, of which total $256,539 was for the hire of members’ clerks.

THE EAST. ToE death of George Barker, a landscape and scenic photographer of world-wide 'reputaiion, occurred at his home in Niagara Falls, aged 50 years. NEARLY the entire business portion of Lyndonville. Vt., was swept by fire, the loss being $200,000. ' It was decided by Judge Dallas, of Philadelphia, that the Reading railroad receivers had the right to discharge an employe who belonged to.a brotherhood. SURVEYING is in progress for the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, which is to be an air line from New York to Chicago. ' IN a collision the schooner ‘Gracie H. Benson was sunk in Boston harbor and six of her crew were drowned. IN Boston, New York and Philadelphia the sugar trust closed its refineries, throwing 50,000 men out of employment. : : THE potteries of the Galloway Terra Cotta company were destroyed by fire at Philadelphia, the loss being $lOO,000, \ ;

A TRAIN struck football players riding to a game at Southbridge, Mass., and two were killed and sixteen injured, three of them fatally. Ix a fit of jealousy G. N. Richards at Watkins, N. Y., murdered Miss Kittie Quirk and then committed suicide. ‘ ' GEORGE R. TorRTINER, of Camden, N. J., died of 'bristles from a toothbrush.that lodged in his throat eight months ago. ' : Maup JoxE GaBRrIEL, aged 20, and Samuel Ward Parshley, aged 70, were married at Chicopee, Mass. » WEST AND SOUTH. Frames destroyed the business part of Marion, N. C. TrE Michigan Teachers’ association will ask the legislature to prohibit the issuance of teachers’ certificates to any person who uses -tobacco in any form. MARY OCKANDER, aged 18 years, and a younger sister were drowned while skating on a pond at Bancroft, Neb. Mrs. GoDFREY WEINHOLTZ killed her brother, Ernest Weisner, at Eldora, la., and then poisoned herself. a Joux Joxus, James Dyan and Henry Taylor were fatally injured by an explosion of gas in the Jack Oak coal mine near Albia, la. : Swirzer, New, WirTter & Co., one of the largest dry goods firms in Vicksburg, Miss., failed for $148,000. .EmMprLoyrs. who went on a strike burned the Shelley hoop and stave factory, at Holgate, 0. ; At Carey, 0., Ambrose Woods, a farmer, and his wife were killed by the cars. e ' ~ IN Oklahoma drought had Aried up everything and prairie fires were doing maeh ddmage, . A. NATHAN'S clothing store was destroyed by fire at Great ¥alls, Mont., the damage being $200,000:: < " " ATt Howard, 8. D., the Kendall Banking eompany closed its doora.

In Chicago Lawyer Edward P. Hilliard was shot and killed at his desk by Henry C. Hastings, who claimed he had been defrauded of his property. Ox its line running through Indian territory the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad company has put additional armed guards on its express cars.

Froyx the Cherokee legislature a strong delegation will go tolWashington to oppose any statehood measure. S

THE legislature of Alabama reelected John T. Morgan (dem.) as United States senator. Warren Reese (pop.) will contest the seat. IN the Bradshaw mountains in Arizona the most wonderful village of cliff dwellers extant was discovered.

UNDER masonic auspices the corner stone of a new $lOO,OOO courthouse at Winamac, Ind., was laid.

ARMED men went into a faro bank at Baker City, Ore., and took all the money on hand, about $1,160. '

FraMEs destroyed the business part of the town of Athena, Ala., the loss being $150,000. ! ‘ THE supreme court of Indiana decided the fee and salary law unconstitutional as applied to county treasurers. -

At Palerm, Ark., Mrs. W. K. Walters locked her three children in the house and returned to find them all burned to death. : .

FIrE destroyed the business portion of Murdock, Minn. SoME 1,800 feet of the water front of Tacoma slipped into Puget sound, killing two persons. : Flre destroyed the Lozier bicycle factory at Toledo, 0., where 25,000 machines were being constructed, the loss being $500,000. FrLaMES nearly wiped out Metamora, a village in Ohio, seven stores, a church and several residences being destroyed. . : THE James Lick monument at San Francisco, completed at a cost of $lOO,000, was unveiled. : IN a fire at St. Louis Mrs. Jacob Schoppenhelm and her two children were burned to death. )

IN the Indian territory the Missouri Pacific abandoned night trains because of the prevailing terrorism. AveusT MIiLLER and wife, living near Gettysburg, S. D., were away when their home was burned, together with their three children.

At the age of 73 years ex-Gov- Joseph E.” Brown died in Atlanta. He was the war governor of Georgia, was chief justice of the supreme court, and since the war was a United States senator. ) :

FRANK SMITH returned to St. Louis, Mo., after a mysterious absence of three years, and found his wife married to James Burns. IN southern Illinois rain broke a drought of two months and benefited growing wheat crops. .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.,

EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt in several provinces of Venezuela. The town of Carache was destroyed.. SoME 20,000 Chinese soldiers were killed at the defense of Port Arthur. The Japanese loss was not heavy. In Turkey American newspapers have been debarred from circulation

owing to their attitude on the Armenian question. AT St. Petersburg Czar Nicholas 11. was married to Princess Alix of HesseDarmstadt.

Tur wife of Bismarck, ex-chancellor of Germany, died at Varzin. She had been ailing for some time. AT Quito, Ecuador, an earthquake lasting t,hirty-seven seconds did great damage to property and many persons were killed or injured. : SEVERE shocks of earthquake were felt at Huntington, Ormstown and Athelstone, in Canada. MiniSTER DENBY advised the government that Peking was in a state of chaos and that the American legation was in danger of being sacked. AT Belleville, 111.. George Michael Centrel was hanged for the murder of Frederick Kahn near East Carondelet on August 7 last. A FIRM of chemists in Detroit is making preparations for the manufacture of anti-toxine, the new remedy for diphtheria.

LATER NEWS.

A STATEMENT prepared at the internal revenue bureau shows that the receipts for the four months ended October 21 were $064,749,529, an increase of $10,324,825 over the previous. four months. . x .

By the burning of a dwelling in Philadelphia Mrs. Ella R. Smith and Miss Cullenden lost their lives.

HENRY STUNKLE, probably the wealthiest farmer near Wichita, Kan., was swindled out of £5,000 by the three-card.- monte and tin box swindles.

Tie king of Corea appealed to the American minister for protection, believing his life in danger. In his annual report Comptroller Eckles advises a change from a bond to a safety fund security as a basis for bank circulation.

THE czar, it was said, would pardon the three members of the imperial family who are in disgrace and exile. J. M. RArort, who made a bet of $5,000 that he could leave New York May 15 and walk to San Francisco %e--before midnight December 1, won the wager with only five hours to spare.

TuE first rain for four months fell in Arkansas, putting out the forest fires which had done great damage.

Tur coinage at the mints of the United States during the month of November was as fellows: Gold, $2,040,000; silver, $1,073,000; minor coins, $94,900; total, $2,207,900. AN earthquake shock, which was accompanied by a rumkling sound, was felt at Pittsfield, Tl ' : FrANK WALLER, of Chieago. won the twenty-four-hour professional bicycle race at New York, making 434 miles. THE Great Western Electrical Supply Manufacturing coipany of ‘Chicago failed with liabilities of $BOO,OOO and assets of $700,000. : JouN BURNS, the English labor lea 1- | er, reached New York, and was wulcomed by trade-unionists. - Tue eleventh annual report of the United States civil service commission | shows that from Ju'y 1, 1898, to June 80, 1894, 4,372 appointments were made in the classified service, an increase of eighty-three over the previous year. SHERWOOD DixoN, United States district attorney, died at his residence in Chicago from consumption, | CORRECTED treasury fignres show the \ receipts from all sources during the month of November to have been $19,411,408, disbursements, .. $28,477,188, which leaves the deficit. for the month ! $9,065,785 and for the five months of the present fiscal year $22,205,162.

FAVORS A CHANGE.

Comptroller Eckles Suggests a New System.of Currency.

His Plan for {mproving the Present Na=tional Bank-Note Issue—lnteresting Facts Extracted from His An- ) nual Report. !

WASHEINGTON, Deec. . 3.—Suggestions have been received, says Comptroller of the Currency Eckels in his report, from many eminent financial sources that the whole question of a banking and curreucy system ought to be referred by congress, to a commission to be created by law, appointed by the president, and clothed with proper authority.

‘A commission non-partisaninits character,” hesays, ‘‘composed of men of eminent abilities, could unquestionably devise a currency system sousnd in every particular, and one which would commend itseif to every interess of the couniry. It could largely take the question out of politics, and have it considered simply in its business aspects and upon merit algne: but if the present congress is to enact a law upon the subject, the appointment of a commission could avail nothing. If, however, nothing more definite can be accomplished, the question of the creation of such commission ought to be considered and acted upon.” ;

The report also gives full information in regard to the organization, supervision and liquidation of the national banks for the year ended October 81, 1894. It shows that during this period but 50 banks were organized, with a capital stock of 85,285,000, the smallest number chartered, as we.l as the minimum amount of capital, in any one year since 1879. The charters of forty-one banks were extended during the year, having an aggregate capital - stock of §5,143,000 and a circulation of $1,678,050. Ten banks, with a capital stock of 1,575,000, which were in the hands of receivers at the date of the last report, resumed business during the year, and the charters of six, with a capital stock of (655,000, and a circulation amounting to $283,650, expired by limitation, five of which were succeeded by new associations, with a capital stock of $600.000, and circulation amounting to $92,250. On October 31, 1804, the total number of national banks in operation was 3,756, with an authorized capital stock of §672,671,865, represented by 7,955,076 shares of stock, owned by 287,842 shareholders. On October 2, 1804, the date of their last report of condition, the total resources of the banks were §3,473,922,055.27, of which their loans and discounts amounted to §2,007,122,191. 30, and money of all kinds in bank $422.428,192.45. Of their liabilities §1.728,418,819.12 represented individual deposits, §834,121,002.10 surplus and net undivided profits, and $172,331.978 circulating notes outstanding. The total circulation of national banks on Osctober 31, 1894, amounted to $207,472.603, a net decrease during the year of §1,741,5€3, and a gross decrease of §8,614,834 in circulation secured by bonds. ; :

During the yedr 79 banks, with an aggregate capital stock of $10.475.000, passed out of the system by voluntary liquidation, 21, including 2 which failed in 1893, with a capital stock of $2,770,000, became insolvent and were placed in charge of receivers. - The comptroller suggests the maintenance of a-safety fund to be provided by graduated taxation upon the outstanding circulation of the banks until the same shall be equal to not less. than 5 per cent. of the total of such outstanding circulation, this fund to be held by the government as an agent only and for the purpose of immediately redeeming the notes of insolvent banks. It is immediately to be replenished out of the assets of the banks on which it shall have a first and paramount lien and from assessment to the extent of the double liability on the shareholders. ;

Continuing, the comptroller says: “The general government ought to be wholly free from the. direct issuing and redeeming of notes to pass as money among the people. No government has ever yet successfully engaged in g 0 doing, and the experience of the government of the United States has .iproven no exception to the rule. The general cost and loss entailed upon the government and the repeated r%riods of uncertainty as to the government credit and the stability of our monetary system, have been so great as to make the legal tender and treasury issues of 1890 one of the extraordinary burdens placed upon the people. The issues ought to beredeemed and cancelled, and the government thus enabled to retire from the banking business, a 'business for which it is so peorly equipped. In the light of the present condition of the government's finances, Mr. Eckels says, that which ought to have been done when there was a surplus in the treasury cannot now be undertaken, and the same conditions must continue to weaken the country’s credit and plague the lines of business unless a means is devised for removing these issues from the channel of current redemption until such time as the government finds itself in a position to do that which at first was the intent of all—gradually redeem and cancel them. If the franchise is granted the banks of issuing circulating notes against their assets, instead of against bond security, it is'suggested that the banks in return should recompense the government by relieving the treasury department of the current redemption in coin of the present treasury issues. The ultimate redemption, of course, must fall upon the government, but the embarrassment does not arise from their ultimate, but from their current, redemption. : : It is therefore suggested that if congress shall repeal the 'provisions of the present act requiring the national banks to make a deposit of government bonds in order to secure-eircu-lating notes, and substitute therefor a provision giving them instead the right to issue the same against their assets, it incorporate therein and as a part thereof that as a prerequisite to so doing, the banks be compelled to deposit with the treasurer of the United States legal tender issues or issues under the act of 1890 equal in amount to the difference between the percentage of their capital stock of issues granted against their assets and the total of such capital stock. . The. deposits thus made ought to remain with the treasury until the bank ceased, either through voluntary or involuntary liquidation, to do business, and in either case the government ought to then redeem and cancel such treasury issues deposited. It is only by such deposit during the life of the bank, that the issues named can be removed from current presentation for redemption. : P

As against this deposit of legal tenders and treasury notes so made there should be issued to the banks, dollar for dollar, national bank notes, either of the same or different design, as might be deemed best, that thus the volume of the currency as it is now contributed to by the issues of the ' government should not he contracted so long at least as the banks making such deposits are ‘in existence. The percentage of the bank notes issued against the deposit should be free from any taxation imposed upon eirculation and ought to be such a percentage as is deemed equitable to be used as a part of the banks’ legal reserve held against deposits: The law should make it incumbent upon the banks to deposit with the treasurer for the current redemption of such notes, gold coin, to an amount necessary to make sure their current redemption. {

A FATAL BLAST. Spectator of O'i)erations on the Drainage Canal Is Killed. CuicAago, Dec. 8. —Edgar Isbell, the door-tender of the buildersand traders exchange, was instantly . killed by a rock from a blast on the drainage canal near Lemont Saturday afternoon. A large party of Dbuildders were . being shown the work at Eastman’s camp, viewing: the progress of the construction from! flat cars, when a blast was set off a quarter of a mile away. A flying stone struck Isbell on the head, killing him instantly. Two other members of the party were slightly hurt. o Coxeyites SBentenced to Jall GRAND Forks, N. D., Dec. 38.—The eleven members of Coxey’s ariny arraigned in the United States court for resisting officers pleaded guilty. Nine of them were sentenced by Judge Thomas to one month in jail, reserving sentence for the two leaders, Smith and Breshman, : | Husband and Wife ;nhune, i NewsuUre, N. Y., Dec. 2.—Monday last Harry Pocine was sent to Middletown insane asylum. .The shock 80 disarranged his: wife’s mind that she was on Saturday adjudged insane, and ‘ will be taken to the same institution.

* SECRETARY MORTON. Hls Report on Affairs in the Department of Agriculture. ; ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Following is a synopsis of the annual report of Hon. J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture: ; The report presents a statement showing that of the total exports of this country for 1894 (fiscal year) farm products aggregated $628,000.000, or 72.58 per cent. of the whole. The markets of the world, says the secretary. demand from the American farmer the very best quality of breadstuffs and materials. The farmer exchanges his products, the results of his labors, which have specific purchasing power, for money having a general purchasing power. M Under the heading, ‘“For Prime Pork Give Us Prime Currency,” the secretary asks: “Would the §60),000,000 worth of farm products from the United States sold last year to foreign nations have been as remunerative to the American farmer if they had been paid for in silver as they would have Leen when paid for in gold or its equivalent? “When the standard -coln of the republic shall be made of metal worth as much after it is melted as it purports to be worth in coin, and the mint values and the commodity vaiues of all metallic money approximately equal it, will not the American tarmer and all other cit=izens become more permanently prosperous? If the American farmer, laborer and manufacturer are compelled by law to submit to the measurement of the value of the products of their efforts by a silver standard, will not the foreigner in buying those products always use the same measure? With his beef, pork and cereals the American farmer buys money, and why should he not demand as superlative quality in that which he buys as the domestic and foreign purchasers insist upon in that which he sells?

“If those buyers demand ‘prime’ beef and ‘prime’ pork. why should not the farmer demand ‘prime’ currency, thé best currency. the best measure of value, the most fair and facile medium of exchange, in the most unfluctuating money which the world of commerce has ever evolved?”

The secretary denies the frequent aliegatjo’ns on the part of European governments regarding disease, et¢., and suggests that if certain European nations continued to insist on microscopical inspection of American pork and veterinary inspection of beef with governmental certification to each, the government of the United States might well insist upon inspection and certification by such foreign governments of all importations therefrom, whether edibles or beverages, intended for home consumption. : More than two years have passed without the development of any pleuro-pneumonia or other djsease in this country which might be dangerous to British stock interests. The heped-for revocation, nevertheless, remains unrealized. The. scientific investigations of the bureau have progressed steadily. Special mention 'is made in the appropriation bill for the current year of tuberculosis and sheep scab as diseases the secretary of agriculture is authorized to guard against in view of the danger to human life from tuberculosis. Theé steriliza‘tion of milk has been thoroughly explained in a leaflet which has had a wide circulation. It appears that sterilization .of milk may be a perfect safeguard wherever milk is used. The secretary reviews the subject of foreign markets and gives figures of our agricultural exports, especially those to Great Britain. That country paid during the year 1893 for American breadstuffs, provisions, cotton and tobacco over §324.000,000. Including about $lO,000,000 worth of mineral oils with. agriculturail exports, the united kingdom took 54.3 per cent. of all exports of breadstuffs, provisions, mineral oils, cotton and tobacco. , Of dressed beef Great Britain took from us during the first six' months of the year 1884 $10,000,000 worth. - Australasia is our chief competitor for the trade. Mr. Morton deems it probable that the American farmer will find more advantage from the shipment of dressed beef than from the exportation of live cattle.

He reports a very large increase in the exports of beef and hog products over the year previous, with on, the other hand. a marked decline in the exports of wheat. The review of the foreign market leads him to certain conclusions as to the future of our export trade in agricultural products as follows: : “Competition -of Russia, “Argentina, Australia and other countries favored by conditions which enable them to grow wheat ata low cost, and especially by the proximity of their wheat-growing regions to water communication, warns American farmers to no longer depend upon wheat-as a staple export crop. On the other hand a good market, at fair prices, is to be found in the United Kingdom for barley and corn, which, owing to the great variety of uses to which they may be applied, promise to be in constant and increasing demand.” ; With reference to the weather bureau the secretary shows that nearly $140,000 has been saved from the appropriation and covered back into the treasury. He shows that by heeding the admonitions of the bureau relative to the great tropical storm of September, 1894. vessels valued at over $17,000.000 were saved. Soin October, when over 1,200 vessels, valued at $19.000,000, were kept in port, owing to the bureau's warnings. Moreover, many human lives were preserved. °

The report indicates that the recent discussion in several of the larger cities resulting in a lessening of the cost of bread and the betterment of the article itself, was the outgrowth of the department bulletins bearing upon the nutrition investigations recently undertaken. Secretary Morton devotes several pages covered with tables in showing what the expense of the department has been each year since 1878. He again reiterates the conviction that the promiscuous free distribution of department publications should be abolished. .The secretary is opposed to the whole business of giving away seeds, and says: ‘Educationally this enormous sum could be made of great advantage to farmers if expended in the publication of practical bulletins, new ideas being of more value than old seeds.”. . Inlieu of $160.000, the present appropriation for seeds, he proposes $56,000 to be devoted to the issue of such bulleting If seed is to be given away gratuitously at all, it should be done under the direetion of the several experiment stations, the appropriztion of each being increased 8500 for the purpose.

CITIZEN BANDITS.

? Alleged Scheme Whereby Wealthy Cattle~ men Defraud Express Companies. ELRENO, O. T., Nov. 29.—Twenty-five thousand dollars was expressed from Kansas ' City to George Isaacs, a . wealthy Chickasaw cattleman at Can- !‘ adian, Tex., arriving at that point | Saturday evening last. When the “train pulled into Canadian station a ‘ygang of bandits held up the express | car, opening a general fusillade on the | train. ' | Sheriff McGee, of ‘this county, was % called in and took a hand at the shoot- | ing in protecting the express company and was shot by the robbers, being literally shot to pieces, and several others were fatally wounded in theengagement, among them being some of the robbers, who were carried away | by their pals. , ‘ 1t is stated that a combination has | been made by wealthy cattlemen and Kansas City parties whereby money is. to be shipped into the territory where the express companies are to be despoiled. The shippers will then present their claims to the express companies for settlement. A number of wealthy cattlemen of the Chickasaw Indian nation are said to be implicated. ’ George Isaacs, a wealthy stockman living in the western part of the Chickasaw nation, has been arrested. Isaacs shipped to himself from Kansas City two packages said to contain $25,000. | They were addressed to Canadian, | Tex., and were on the train attacked . by the robbers, in the defense of which ' Sheriff McGee was killed. The packages were opened and found to contain $2OO in $1 and $2 bills. Two of the rob- . bers were identified as Isaacs and a friend. The former was captured. Both Were Dend, = ScraNTON, Pa., Nov. 80.—Frederick Rysn and the Hungarian laborer, Anthony Paulby, who were entombed at the Northwest colliery, near Carbon‘dale, were reached at 1 o'clock Thursday morning. - Both'had been caught ‘beneath the great fall of coal and were ' dond. e

o THE ARMY. ‘ Becretary Lamont Recommends the BatA : Man Formation. WASHINGTON, Dec. 38.—Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont in submitting his annual report to the president gives the expenditures of his department for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1894, at $56,039,009.34. The appropriations for the fiscal year of 1895 are $52,429,112.78. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1896, are §52,318,629.55. ; : % The reports of the officers in commana of the several geographical departments corroborate the opinion. expressed in the last annual report that Indian warfare is virtually at an end in the United States, and that beyond occasional calls for police duty in the neighborhood of Indian reservations, the army will henceforth be relieved to a greater degree each year of the labor of armed surveillance over the tribes of the west. There have heen ho serious infractions of the neutrality laws on the Mexican frontier durfng the year. but the presence of a regular force there for some time to come is clearly prescrited by the conditions of civilization in that region. < e . ¥¢ was found necessary during the period be ginning with March and extending through July of the current year, in various sections of the country, to employ a considerable part of the army to execute the orders of the United States courts, otherwise successfully defied and resisted, to protect the dispatch of the United States mails, to remove restraints to travel and commerce. and to guard the property of the government. The movewment of troops thus necessitated wasthe largest which has taken place since the close of the civil war.

The number of. enlisted men in service on Cctober 81 was 25516, Deducting the sick, those in confinément, recruits not yet joined, those absent on furlough, and others employed in stajf departments or on detached service, the effective field strength on the same date ‘was 22,114 of all arme. - i

The report says: ‘I earnestly recommend that congress enact thie legislation necessary to establish in the army the battalion formation, now adopted by the armies of every other civilized nation. As necessary to offect thas change I recommend the removal of the limit of 25,000 men fixed by the act of June 18, 187¢, and a return to the limit fixed by the act of July 15, 1870. Legislative approval of these two propositions will restore to the effective force about 4,000 enlisted men, bringing the actual strength of the army up to the nominal strength now fixed by law. By these changes the army will be increased in efficlency 20 per cent.. in numbers about 163 per cent. and in cost of maintenance only about 6 per cent. . “The organization of the line of the army has undergone no material change since the close of the civil war. During this period of thirty vears every large foreign army has been completely reorganized. Changes and improvements in arms and ammunition and equipments have forced upon the leading tacticians of the great armies of the world the necessity of a broad departure from the old systems. All have adopted the battalion as the tactical unit for infantry and artillery serving as -infantry, and ‘nearly all the equivalent of the squadron as the cavalry unit. The light artillery battalion has a similar composition. Should our army ever be brought into collision with disciplined foreign troops, our present formation would prove so defective as to turn the scale against usina confiict on terms otherwise equal. : The policy of concentrating the troops and abandoning unnecessary posts has been prosecuted throughout the year. Where practicable small garrisons remote from railroads, whose further retention has become unneccessary by a change of conditions, have been consolidated with garrisons at more important centers, thus reducing the cost of maintenance and transportation and utilizing improved facilities for the prompt dispatch of troops to any point where their services may be required. The changes have in no instance lessened the protection afforded by the army to any region in which a garrison has heretofore been stationed, but have considerably augmented the extent of territory over which that protection can promptly and effectively be afforded. -

On June 30, 18983, the army was distributed among ninety-five independent posts. During the last year the number of posts was reduced to eighty, with garrisons ranging from 60 to 750 men. The aggregate area of the military reservations abandoned since the last annual report is upwards of 208,000 acres. : Army officerg on duty with the national guard of the stateg of whom twenty-seven were regularly assigned to state headquarters, concur in reporting steady improvement in the training and efficiency .of the militia. The fact that state camps of instruction, in which forty additional army offlcers participated. were held by thirty-three states is proof that state military establishments are on a better footing now than ever before in time of peace. In several instances army detachments took part in state camps, and the profit to the army in acquaintance with the soldierly qualities of the militia and to the militia in observation of the attention of the regulars to details, which is necessary to the perfect soldier, is both a present benefit and an investment for the future from which we should reap returns in any emergency calling for the cooperation of the jtwo forces. The strength of the militia shows an increase of about 5,000 since last year. the latest returns showing a total organized force of 117,633 officers and enlisted men. The artillery arm, maintained by thirty-three states, has an enrollment of 5,922 officers and men: the cavalry arm, maintained by twenty-six states, of 5,069. e

THE CZAR'S MARRIAGE. Nicholas IL of Russia Weds Princess Alix !‘ of Hesse. i : ; . St. PETERSBURG, Nov. 28.—The wedding of Nicholas 11., czar of Russia, to Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt. took place here Monday afternoon. After prayer the arch-priest ‘took two crowns, placing the first c¢n the \\\}\'\\\:‘3\‘ =\ | »{,f- LN v = 6// ' .'-‘j‘i, i\l : b ol Y Z Ny s /é/”/’fl N = ) N A s e i o W M NS MG A \ : \ \ ¥ = : Y \\‘\\ P b’, 10. : i CZAR NICHOLAS ALEXANDROVITCH. head of the czar, saying: ‘‘The servant of God, Nicholas, is crowned for the handmaid of God, Alix, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” Placing the other crown upon the head of the bride, he said: ‘‘The handmaid of God, Alix, is crowned for the servant of d”o ' £ i B, 0 o v | AN , | 9 (LS S vf/ Al[;,;-/ ‘ =, . = ‘m‘__,_ > -:;,53:55‘.\1\ : /”/”I:’»;{;”/ £ i 1,’:,,’;,/ 7 7'.&“ 4 : z .~ | e ,J/”,,nr "“\ 'f" » \.\"f;“n o l"‘/'. NI gE% ég"”?‘ _ o e s b S - ALIX, THE NEW EMPRESS OF RUéSIA. God, Nicholss, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” : e A short time later the guns of the fortress boomed forth the intelligence that the ceremony had taken place and that Russia hasa new czarina. IR L e e T .. Rain in souihern ’mjgoi's; flfighfi‘oken a dfought of tivo months and benefited growing wheat crops. =

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