Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 February 1896 — Page 2

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AN argument in favor of good roads is the fact that a horse can draw on the worst kind of earth four times as much as he can carry on his back. On & good macadamized road he can pull ten times as much, and on a wooden road he can pull 25 times as much.

THE guillemot’s eggs have one remarkable peculiarity—they are nearly eonical in form, broad at the base and lsharp at the point, so that they will lonly roll in a circle. They are some(times laid on the bare edges of high rocks, from which they would almost surely roll save for this happy pro'wision of nature. ‘ :

A CIRCULAR has been sent out from |Ban Francisco in reference to the plan lof erecting a drinking fountain in the old Plaza in that city as a memorial of 'Robert Louis Stevenson. ‘‘He dwelt ‘for a time with us,”’ it says, ‘‘and added a distinction to our cosmopoli{tanism, to our picturesqueness, by recognizing both.” . . : :

PresiDENT KRUGER, of the South African republt,l lost the thumb of his ileft hand while%he was a boy. He was jout hunting, when his gun burst and jshattered the thumb. He calmly took jout his jack-knife and cut what was lleft of the member off at the joint, after which he tied his hand up as best 'he could and went home.

~ Iris stated in Nebraska papers that [during the last three mionths more ithan 100 carloads of immigrant baggage and farming utensils have been received at Omaha, consigned to various points in. Nebraska by former residents of the state who left some ‘time since for the south, and who are returning and are glad to be able to get back. ;

. PriNcEsBS MAUD, of Wales, whose be'trothal is a matter of recent history, jis not over fond of the formalities and attention which her position demands. In days gone by, when the duke of York was often to be seen walking inicognito about' London, it was usually this youngest sister who accompanied ’him, and on more than one occasion she has joined 'parties in a country house under an assumed name.

SENOR CASANAS, the principal secretary of the Spanish government in Cuba, is acting as censor. He doesnot speak English, and all cable dispatches in that language must be accompanied by a literal copy in Spanish. Senor ICasanas is extremely courteous and kind in his manner, and only pauses in hiis protestations of regard to draw his pen through a few sentences in a disfpatch which do not meet his approval,

. ONE of the many natural wonders of ‘Arizona scenery just made accessible by the opening up of new rail and stage roads is a remarkable natural bridge, in the "Tonto basin, not far from Flagstaff. The bridge is 550 feet long and spans a canon some 200 feet deep, at the bottom of which flows the river, The bridge is of rock, and is perfectly proportioned. = The under side is gracefully arched and the upper perfectly level. ]

A cHAIN of compressed cakes of guncotton tied around the trunk of the largest size trees and exploded,will, by the action of its violence, cut the tree down instantly as smocthly as if it were done by an ax in the hands of an expert woodsman. Timber -cutters wofiking among the forest giants .of ‘Montana, Idaho and Washington declare it to be the cheapest and most 'economical mode of felling trees that ‘has yet been devised. 5

WiLriam E. Cur Tis is authority for the statement that Jose Maceo, the Cuban general, when he was a mountain bandit, ‘“plotted the -capture of John Sherman, while that gentleman ,was making a tour through Cuba some ‘'some years ago. It was intended to seize him, carry him off into the mountains and hold him for ransom, with the expectation that the gove ernment of the United States would jpay a large sum of money for his release,” |

THE Scoville Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury, Ct., has just completed a contract to furnish 23,600 Columbian medals to the United States government for distribution among successful World’s fair exhibitors. The medals are bronze and are packed in aluminum cases. KEach medal is three inches in digmeter, weighing about half a pound. The design on the obverse side is by St. Gaudens and on the reverse side by Barber. The medals ‘have all been shipped. |

Crl¢AGo banks are réceiving letters from country correspondents announcing bids which ‘have been made for from $25,000 to $200,000 of the new government bonds. One bank alone has received over 50 such letters, indicat~ iog subscriptions to a total amount of $2,000,000. Many of t)te banks write that they will themselves subscribe for the bonds and that. they have the gold with which to pay for them. In many instances the bonds will be used -as a basis for additional circulation.

Tur first sewing machine that was ever made was probably that patented by Thomas Saint in 1790. He patented a machine for stitching, quilting and sewing. It was intended chiefly for 'leather work, and just missed being a real sewing machine. After him came Barthelemy Thimoler, of St. Etinne, France, who invented and patented a machine in 1830 which contained the germ of the modern machine. He was nearly murdered by the Parisian work people, who objected to the use of machines for sewing. This happened in 1841. Walter liunt invented the eyepointed needle and lock-stitch. :

- “Crerr, Raopges,” says the London Review, ‘‘is a strong man, of the kind that is never finished by a single stroke. And he is strong with the strength of a coarse, ruthless, greedy egotism, the strokes of whose pistonse rod force the minds and the money of weaker men into its reservoir. As he was at Oriel 20 years ago, so he is at Cape Town to-day—lonely, self-abs sorbed, irritable, and no% to be relied upon, He hates women, whom he regards as unnecessary impediments in ‘the camp i?;, and he has mno'idea of %fi% he only recognizes instrue menta 10 be used, encmies dealt with..

4 . ¢ P Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. : FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. The Proceedings of the First Session. Washington, Jan. 29.—Foreign affairs and finance occupied the atténtion of the senate yesterday. Mr. Thurston (Neb.) .\'igorously upheld a strong application of the Monrce doctrine and Mr. Turpie (Ind.) touched on the Turkish atrocities in a brief but energetic speéch i which he said that a shot should be sent through the suitan’s seraglio that would sweep back Mohammedanismn and advance Christianity.

In the house the diplomatic and congular appropriation | bill ($1,637,058) was passed. o Washington, Jan. 30.—1 n the scnate vesterday two reports were made on the Cuban question, the majority resolution asking the president to urge Spain to grant belligerent rights to the insurgents, while the minority report directs the president'to,’take steps toward secutring from Spaih the complete independence of Cuba. Senator Tillman (8. C.) in speui&ing on the bond bill severely arraigned the president and other officials, charging President Cleveland with political charlatanry ;. 0 S and hypocrisy and calling for his impeachment. In the house no business of importance was transacted. washington, Jan. 31.—A very ammated debate tock place in the senate resterday over the question of taking the vote on the pending silver bond bill, but no action was taken. Bills were introduced prohibiting the purchase or use by any federal ofticial of any con-vict-made goods, and to grant pensions to soldiers who served in the confederate army and afterward served in the army of the United States. In the house the report of the elections committee 1n favor of the sitting member, L. B. Culberson, from the Fourth Texas district, and agajnst T. H. Davis, was adopted. The bill to amend the de-pendent-pension act of 1890 so that in considering widows’ claims seven years of unexplained absence should Dbe deemed sufficient proof of the death of the soldier was passed. Washington, Feb. I.—The time in the senate yesterday was occupied by Serator Vilas (Wis.) in a speech against the silver bond bill. A reportwas made in favor of seating Mr. Dupont (rep.) as senator from Delaware. In the house most of the session was devoted to the District of Columbia appropriation bili. It carries $5,417,960. A resolution was favorably reported providing for an investigation of tariff discriminations against American products and of the effect of the repeal of the reciprocity laws. -

FROM WASHINGTON.

In the United States there were 404 business failures in the seven days end¢d on the 31st ult., against 373 the week previous and 354 in the corresponding veriod of 1895. G The ctatement of the government receipts and expenditures for Janunary show the aggregate receipts to be $29,237,670 and the expenditures $32,696,250, leaving the deficit for the month about $3,459,16¢ and for the seven months of the present fiscal year about $18,853,£67.

Exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 31st ult. aggregated $890,980,970, against $979,967,447 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1895, was 5.6. 5 oo

Secretary Olney said in an interview that the United States government was doing all that could be done to protect the interests of Hammond and other Americans in the Transvaal.

The court order disbarring Belva A. Lockwood from practicing as an attorney before the pension bureau in Washington was suspended. :

THE EAST.

Fire destroyed the lumber storehouse of R. C. Pingree & Company at Lewiston, Me., the loss being $150,000. 0;1 the Caughnawaga reservation near Saranac Lake, N. Y., an Indian named Macomber died at the age of 103 years. He was the father of 36 children: 8

A receiver was appointed for the Union Trust company of Pittsburgh, Pa. The liabilities were $130,000.

At Millbury, Mass.] Fred A. Lapham, a wood manufacturer, assigned with liabilities of $lOO,OOO.

In her home at Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Helen .Dean celebrated her 102 d birthday. : In Boston Henry M. Fowler, a trusted clerk in the Shepard & Morse Lumber company, was arrested on the charge of embezzling $50,000. Stables on the Narragansett park grounds at Providence, R. 1., were burned and 14 valuable trotting horses perished in the flames. Charles and Edward Shepard, aged 19 and 17, respectively, broke through the ice at Chester, Pa., and were drowned. L

By the explosion of a boiler at the works of the Hollidaysburg (Pa.j Iron & Nail company six persons wereXkilled and nearly a score injured, some of them fatally. At the age of 90 years Dr. W. H. T'urness, the oldest and most prominent Unitarian divine in the country, died 1t his home in Philadelphia. While experimenting Dr. Alfred L. Kennedy, one of the most distinguished chemists in this country, was burned to death in ‘his office in Philadelphia. At Rome, N. Y., Cashier George Barnard, of the Fort Stanwix mnational bank, killed himself. and the bank was closed pending an examination of its affairs. ;

A committee of the New York yacht clubappointed to investigatethecharges of improper handling of the Defender in the race with the Valkyrie for the America’s cup found that lord Dunraven’s charges of fraud were unfounded. : ; :

WEST AND SOUTH.

A mob lynched Alex Jones, a negro who boarded a train at Keystone, W. Va., while drunk and fatally shot three men.

Express Agent Krout, of Colorado Springs, Col., and his father were arrested on the charge of being implicated in the theft of $35,000 from the Wells-Fargo compuny November 11 last. Tt

lllinois prohibitionists will hold their state convention in Springficld on April 8. e . Adolph Nie#® and his wife were sentenced at Colville, Wash., to-20 years in the penitentiary for beating their ten-‘year-old son to death. Shortly after the prisuners were placed in jail they comuitted suicide with a rdzor, i bl et S

A boiler at the lumber mill of the Southern Pine company at Offermar, Gia., exploded, wrecking the mill and killing four employes. ' At a wedding at the residence of Albert H. Baker near Sandusky, 0., the floor gave way and 75 persons fell into the cellar. Mrs. H. N. Norton was fatally injured, and others were badly hurt. In Chicago the large department store of lessenden & Nachbour was closed with liabilities of $125,000. .

Spotted fever was raging in the convict camps near Rusk, Tex., and several deaths had occurred.

While insane John R, Haines, a farmer near Indianapolis, Ind., beat his wifeto death with a poker and then hanged himself. Nine children are left orphans. Eo Y

In their home near Marshall, Mich., larvey Page, his wife and two young sons, aged three years and ‘three months, were burned to death. At Toledo, 0., Madeline Messner, of Gibsonburg, 0., a patient at an insane asylum, committed suicide by hanging herself with her hair.

The notorious Ilardin county moonshiner and murderer, Gus 'homas, was captured and placed in jail at Savanna, Tenn. Thomas has murdered three revenue officers. :

At Colorado Springs, Col., George Krout, the Wells-Fargo Express agent, confessed that he stoie the.express packages containing $35,000, and said his father was innocent. ;

The death of Dr. George F. Magoun, founder and ex-president of lowa college, and one of the most prominent men in lowa, occurred at his home in Grinnell, aged 75 years. As an educator he had a nfltifinal reputation.

In Indiana the supreme court decided that gerrymanders for legisiative purposcs are unconstitutional. Pennie Armit and Johnny Morris were drowned while walking across the Calumet river on the ice at Hammond, Ind.

At Richmond, Va., Richard L. Brown, wholesale grrocer, failed for $lOO,OOO. The Jeath of George A. Anderson, a member of congress from. 1887 to 2539 from the old Twelfth district, occuried at his home in Quincy, 111., aged 43 years. : A boiler in the stove-mill on William Morrison’s farm near I'reeport, 0., exploded, killing “Wiliiam Laporte, Wil:iam Kiefer and oy Vesey.

In state convention at New Orleans the republicans indorsed the ticket already nominated by the populists and ‘ndorsed by thc sugar republicans, with J. N. Phares (sugar planter) at its head foc governor. : Texas republicaus will hold their state c¢onvention at Dallas on March 24 to celect four delegates-at-large aud alternates to th=: national convention.

At Kalama, Wash., Charles Asimus, a hunchback, was hanged for the murder of James Greenwood last September. At Albany,Ore., Loyd B. Montgomery, who murdered his parents and Daniel McKercher, a neighbor, on November 19 last, was hanged. At Chillicothe, 0., the Union Shoe company failed for $lOO,OOO.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A Rio Janeiro physician declares that he has found a cure which is almost certain in its effects in yellow feyer.

The secretary of the interior of Mexico wired the state government of Chihuahua that the prize fight between Fitzsimmons. and Maher must not be allowed at Juarez. .

Advices from Madrid say that as soon as Gen. Weyler, the new captain general of Cuba, arrives at Havana he will issue a proclamation giving the rebels eight days to lay down their arms and surrender. If they do not do this he will then inaugurate a campaign of blood and fire against the rebels and their abettors. -

An appeal was made by John Hays Hammond, an Amerjcan imprisoned. in the Transvaal, to the United States for assistance.

~ A tornado accompanied by flood occurred in Norti Queensland attecded with great destructicn of life and propenty. S :

Lord Salisbury said in a speech at a banquet in London he was a firm supporter of the Monroe doctrine.

LATER NEWS.

The public debt statement issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased $5,747,975 during the month of January. The cash balance in the treasury was $13,591,778. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $953,046,237.

The Evans, Belle & Clark company, shoe manufacturers at Waldoboro, Me., failed for $lOO,OOO. - ' Fire in Philadelphia destroyed buildings occupied by the Baptist Publication society, the American Baptist Historical society and a dry goods firm, the total loss being $2,000,000. The monthly report of the director of the mint shows the total coinage during January to have been $13,033,560, classified as follows: Gold, $12,914,600; silver, $35,000; minor coin, $53,960. The plant of the Wayne Electrie Light company at Wayne, Pa., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $lOO,OOO.

Tillie Anderson, a Chicago girl, won the six-day woman’s bicycle race in Chicago, making 344 miles and 3 laps. Miss Farnsworth, of Minneapolis, was only 1 lap behind. The best previous record for 18 hours was 319 miles and 2 laps. v - Mills Haitheock died at Calvin, Mich., aged 104 years, and James H. Culver passed away at Spencer, Ind., at the age of 106 years. The Towa senate passed a bill making it a crime to manufacture or keep on sale or sell cigarettes in the state. The insurgents were driven out of Sabinilla by Spanish volunteers, who afterwards shot and killed 30 women and children and 16 men in the streets for cheering the insurgents.

John and Jacob Mantz, brothers, aged 60 and 75 years, who lived alone near Wewoka, O. T., and were wealthy, were murdered by unknown persons. J'ifteen thousand men and boys in the western anthracite coal fieids in Pennsylvania were thrown out of work by the closing of collieries for an indefinite period. o ¥ire at Boomeville, Ind., destroyed five buildings on the south side of the city square, the loss being $lOO,OOO.

Washington, Feb. 3.—ln the senate on Saturday the free silver coinage substitute to the house bond bill wa¥g passed by a vote of 42 10 35. In the house a bill providing for-the establishment of the Vicksburg nation:l mititary park wag favorably reported. The Distriet of Columbia appropriation bill was further considered.

SENATOR VILAS TALKS. ° A Vigorous Speech Against the House Bill-Opposed to Silver. Washington, Feb. I.—Senator Vilas (dem., Wis.) paid his respects to the silver bill in a vigorous speech in the senate Friday. He not only antagonized the free-coinage proposition, but denounced the bond measure as it came from the house as a “fraudulent pretext” to meet the “reasonable suggestions of the president, which it denied, while avowing their wisdom.” Among other things the senator said: - With the exception of provision for emergency certificates—which ought to stand fu the permanent statutes—the house hill contained nothing commendable; everything else was but mockery of the legislation demanded by our fiscal conditions. And so again, as a year ago, partisanship or imbecility, or both, has stricken congress with paralysis and the rescue of business prosgerity from its recurring peril has l?een thrown upon the executive. 1t is almost as fortuitous as fortunate thatan old statute has remained untouched during our financial madness whi¢h can again serve the turn; and although in a clumsy way, considered with reference to existing conditions and suitable measures of relief, yet it shows God’s pity and mercy are not wholly withdrawn from us. If any trusted agent in private affairs should so deny duty and abuse trust as congress did a year ago, and now repeats, no judgment in their condemnation would be too severe. Over $16,000,000 in the public debt were then thrown away in the reckless rage of partisanship, and the injury that must now be sustained by the people for the same reason is probably no less aithough the exact measure of it is not quite g 0 clear. .

Declaring that the bill as it came from th¢ house was a mere sham and fraud, Senator Vilas proceeded to show that the senate amendments made it worse than the original measure, saying: ‘lt was a bhad stock; though it has been budded with a warm scion. The best hope is that both will shrivel anl lie in the desert air of the senate.”

He then proceeded at considerable length to discuss the free coinage provision of the rending bill, declaring that the financial distress and public misery of the last three years were the direct products of the offorts to force silver upon the country, and adding: ‘‘Our course to relief is a return to sound principles.”’ He believed especially that every stop of the fatal progress in error had been opposed to the cardinal doctrines on which the democratic party is based, and by which it must abide or sink in recreancy while the spirit flies from our institutions of liberty.

He contended that the silver-mine owners were largely responsible for the agitation for free coinage, and after asserting that silver mining was confined to: the western states said the mines were owned by comparatively few people and largely corporations, who, by the employment of labor, often make large profits on comparatively small outlay. The keéenest and best-trained intellects, he said, were enlisted by this solid interest, which was possessed of ‘‘great strength of numbers and riches, powerful in intelligence, learning and skill, keenly perceptive of ' its special interest, hardy ‘and resolute to seek it.” That interest was intent to win, to secure the best price for silver. He declared the people of the Rocky mountains to be subservient to the mine holders, saying: o _ ‘““The veriest despot of story, the ‘Grand Khan’ of Tartary, the great mogul, never had more submissive subjects than the silver king of the Rockies; nor was ever tyrant more pitilessly exacting. No independence of thought or speecllbis tolerated there. No party, no creed, no business can thrive which dares to doubt in the realm of that monarch, the law of finance, as it is in silver. The business men find it prudent to say nothing, and, as for the politician who dares to flout his independence, woe betide him. Where is that sturdy senator, the brave, unbending Carey? Where fs Dolph, the strong, able and indefatigakle? Look on the bioody Moloch of silver to learn their fate.” :

He continued: ‘Bimetallism is a high- | sounding, splendid word, if only bimet-{ allism; but, alas, what is it and where is | it? Like dreams that wane before the| half-shut eye or gay castles in the clouds}' that pass forever flitting in the summer sky, always dancing before the vision, al-| ways something to be gained but never| realized, the glittering bauble has flittered | on afar before the fatuous pursuit on| which the public has so long been conduct- | ed, yet always to disappear, Mve in the | pleasing speech of silver advocates, while| the realities of gain could be matched by | the other and mastering purpose.” He de-| clared that from the beginning practical bimetallism had never been proposed to| congress, and that Senators Teller and Wolcott, as champions of silver, had based | theircontentionsupon a protective founda.-i tion. $ : ; |

Referring to the claims of the debtor ~class,. saying that at best they asked to have something taken by law from one class for another class, he claimed that a free-coinage law would be especially hard upon pensioners—an unspeakable and unparalleled outrage, Indeed, such a piece of legislation would be, to sum up, a genuine shame. . 3

After reciting the glories of the old party of Jefferson and Jackson, the senator continued: *“This party will continue on its great career, yielding neither on one side nor the other to the reactionary forces of old absolutism or red fires of anarchy.”’ |

FOR A UNIVERSAL BALLOT.

Woman Suffragists Elect Officers and Declare Their Principles,

Washington, Jan. 28.—The woman suffragists reelected the following officers for the ensuing year: Honorary president, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New York city; president, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N. Y.; vice president at large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Philadelphia; corresponding secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia; recording secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Mass.; treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, O.; chairman committee on organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, New York city. Asunder the constitution auditors of the national association must be changed every jyear, Miss Loury Clay, of Kentucky, and Miss Sarah Cooper, of San Francisco, were elected to those positions. » ‘Washington, Jan. 29.—Following is a synopsis of the resolutions adopted on Tuesday by the National Woman Suffrage association: '

They demand suffrage for all American citizens of the United States, women and men, upon reasonable conditions attainable by all as a right and not as a privflege; rejoice in the admission of Utah into| the union as a third woman suffrage state; declare organization the watchword of the hour and their primary object; petition congress-and the state legislatures to secure the women of this nation the full rights of citizenship: congratulate the women of Kentucky upon having recently secored the election of four women and four mehn upon the municipal board of education in Lexington; appeal to congress to take measures for stopping the Armenian massacres and also expressing sympathy with the men and women in Cuba in their struggle for independence. In addition to the above the following, which stands as the eighth plank-«in the platform was acopted by a vote of b 3 to 40: ‘'That this association is non-sectarian, being composed of persons of all shades of religious opinion and that it has no official connection with the so-called ‘Woman's Bible,” or any tbeological c{mbllca.tlorx." The resolutions also demand state and national legislation that mothers shall have equal custody and control with fathers over their minor chils dren. The action of the National Purity association in endeavoring to secure better protection for youths is commended and the establishment of a permanent inter: national hoard of arbitration favored in the resolutions. . :

Disbarment Sentence, Suspended.

Washington, leb: i.—Acting Secre: tary Reynolds has ordered a suspension of operation of his recent order disbarring Belva A. Lockwood from practicing as an attorney before the pension "%yré;n’u; “ Mrs. Lockwood has givin asstirance that she wil refund the fee alleged to have been iwproperly reeeived, & 0 Reassr e

CALLS FOR HELP. An American Prisoner in the Transvaal : Pictures the Situation. - New York, Jan. 31.—W. R. Hearst, proprietor of the New York Journal, has received the following from John Hays Hammond, the American imprisoned at Pretoria, in the Transvaal republic, for complicity in the =socalied Jameson conspiracy. The dispateh is dated Pretoria, January 29:

“I was arrested with 64 others, charged Wwith sedition and high treason. The circumstances are as follows: The histcry of the Transvaal is that of a small, unenlightened, retrogiessive community. The government is a narrow oligarchy, with a bad, in=flicient administration. Monstrous' monopplies and corruption are rampant. 7The new population, including many prominent Americans, comprises more than twice the number of the governing class. They are the wealth-producers, capabhle of ull industries, yet they bear nine-tenths of the taxation.

‘““They feel themselves alone, have no volce in affairs, are excluded from franchise, have no municipal government, no participation f6r their children in the public schools. They are oppressively taxed and badly treated. The independence of the supreme court is constantly assailed by the legislature. This condition of affairs has continued for years All petitious for redress of grievances and remonstrances to the Boer legislature were treated with scorn. ’

“In December the leading citizens of Jokannesburg, including all the prominent Americans, constituted a reform committee to obtain constitutional redress and issued a manifesto of their demands. having first hoisted the Transvaal flag and sworn to maintain the integrity of the republie. . ‘“While agitating the questions constitutionally the Jameson incident occurred. It was quite dissociated from the reform movement. December 31 the government sent a commission to Johannesburg asking the reform committee to send a deputaticn to Pretoria. The deputation went and conferred with the government. No understanding was arrived at. “The battle of Doornkop was fought, Jameson’s column surrendered, and Johannesburg’ss people were asked to lay down their arms, which was done on uncerstanding {rom the government our demands would be favorably considered, which we were making solely to protect the lives of our women and children and our property. ;

“The government guaranteed protection 10 all these. The conditions of the.govcrnment were. carried out without any cemonstration of violence on our part. ‘“Nevertheless many prominent Americans and others, numbering 60, were arrested and prosecuted for sedition and treasor under penalties involving imprisonment and confiscation of property valued at millions sterling. The detention of g2ll the prisoners is unjustifiable, and the cenfiscation of property a monstrous oppression. :

‘*Ask our governinent to-urge on the Transvaal goveriiment that the demands of the reforin coinmittee were reasonable and based on primary principles of the ripublie. Protest against the treatment ot all, and of the Americans in particular. “If the Transvaal government persists in its present course our government can only invoke the aid of Great Britain, as the paramount South African power, to coerce the Transvaal, which then forfeits the moral support of a sister republic. This course the Transvaal would fear. : “First urge the reasonableness of our claim; then warn the Transvaal government of the consequences of loss of support and of inv?‘;ing the aid of England, which is much disliked by the Transvaal government. Wire copies of this to Gens. Miles and Schetield. Urge our government to act immediately. Enlist sympathy in our favor. Reply to consul, Cape Town.” “JoHN HAYs HAMMOND.”

DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Opinion on the Congressional Apportionment Act of 1895 in Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 81.—The supreme court of Indiana in a sweeping cpinion unanimously decided Thursday that gerrymanders for legislative purposes are unconstitutional. Th=2 decision is that the apportionment act of the legislature of 18¢5 is void because it was passed at a time not authorized by the constitution, and that the act ot 1893 is unconstitutional because it sought to gerrymander the state for political advantage. The act of 1893 was a democratic messure. In Deceu:ber, 1593, the courts held that the acts of 1891 and 1893 were unconstituti\pnal, SO that going bacic to the first valid act, or the first act unquestioned, the court bolds that the election of a legislature next November must be held under the nct- of 1885, which was a democratic measure.

The decision brings about this situation: The governor may exercise his prerogative and call a special meeting vt the general assembly to enact a new law, or'the republicans may challenge the get of 1885 and secure its nullificaWre the coming election. If ; fl]er of these steps should be taken, ihe election must be held under the act of 1885. It is practically settled that the governor wii' not call a special session. The court points out that the members of the present legislature were ciected under a 'aw that has been held to be void, and inat they are members de facto only. Tt is doubted by the court if a defacto legislature would have the power to enactanew law. Iftherepublicans shouid maintain a succ2s3ful suit to set the act of 1885 aside, th 2 next act in line, going backward, wouid be the act of 1873, which was a republican measure.

VINDICATED.

Yacht Club Committee Exonerates Mr, Iselin.

New York, Feb. I.—The New York Yacht clubs’ home on Madison avenue was crowded Friday night with members who were anxious to hear the report of the investigating committec which was appointed several months ago to hear the charges preicrred by Lord Dunraven agamst the owners, of the victorious Yankee craft Defender. The report was read by Mr. J. Pierrepont Morgan. The Defender’s owner and crew have been entirely and fully exonerated.The report is voluminous and contains the affidavits of almost everyone who was aboard either yacht or connected inany way with the race. The inference from the testimony is that Dunraven’s charges against Mr. Iselin were made in an unsportsmanlike manner and on either hearsay testiniony or the gossip of incompetent witnesses or were based on the judgment formed by himself by a mere glance at the water-line of ithe vessel on two separate days. A A Campaign of Blood and Fire, - ‘Havana, Jan. 31.—The alarming news rcaches here from Madrid that Gen. Weyler assured intimate friends before his departure from Spuain that he incends to inaugurate a blood and fire campaign immediately on his arrival here. The dispatch states that he will issue a proclamation in which he will demand that the rebels lay dewn their arms within eight days, If his orders are not complied with by that time | he will cause all rebels to be seized by the troops, and, after a brief court: martial, will eause them to be executed. The proclamation is to include M*kabfimm“%&rgflWmefllg punishment will be dealt out to all who dre knows b 0 Syt pßthine wish iy surpents, . g S

CONFLICTING VIEWS. Dun Notes an Improvement in Trade— Bradstreet Is Disappointed. : New York, Feb. I.—R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade,say: - . "Though business s still waiting, there are some signs of definite improvement. It is now believed that the first payment fer bonds will cause ne further pressure, and-the money markets are easier, as respects loans on collateral, though the difficulty of making commercial loans still chécks operations. But large maturities at the end of Jaauary have been met more satisfactorily than was expected and merchants and rankers report that the signs promise a good spring trade. ‘ '“No increase appears as yet in the demand fo- the principal products, unless for some forms of iron &nd steel, in which good contracts have been made this week: Domestic trade recorded through clearing houses is 6.5 per cent. smaller than a year ago. Signs of improvement in the iron and sieel business are gratit%'lng, even though they spring from combinations which have raised the price of coke and allotted the output of lake iron ore. Pig iron is rather ‘'weaker, southern works competing sharply,while speculative buyers of some months ego are selling below present furnace prices, but the average for ‘all products is practically unchanged and 11.4 per cent. below the highest last year. ) “The demand for boots and shoes does not enlarge, though prices still decline about 6 per cent. for the week and hides und leather are both lower. The cotton mills are discussing curtailment of production, as goods continue weak, with an output largely exceeding distribution, though the week has brought considerably more inquiries and a larger spring trade is still hoped for. Woolens are practically unchanged. Sales of wool at the three chief markets have diminished of late, manufacturers buying only for present needs. E ‘““Wheat has again advanced about 3 cents for cash, but only 1% for May, although Atlantic exports are little larger than a year ago. Neither this fact nor the continued excess of western receipts explain an advance for which the basis or the excuse must be sought in foreign reports. Corn has ceased to ‘‘sympathize,”” ~and records little advance. Cotton is a shade lower than a week ago. ‘““The earnings of railroads in three weeks of January were 9.9 per cent larger than last year. The stock market %has been lifted by these returns and hopeful monetary conditions, so that the average for railroad stocks is $1.84 per share and for trust $1.84 per share higher than a week ago. The expectation of an anthracite settlement has been a powerfiul factor, and it is generally supposed that prices will rise after the bond settlement. o

“Failures in three weeks of January show liabilities of $17,836,511, against $lO,685,060 last year; in manufacturing $6,661,129 this year, against $2,479,193 last year; in trading, $10,317,360, against $8,165,267 last vear. Failures this week have been 404 irc the United States, against 354 last year, and 70 in Canada, against 54 last year.””

Bradstreet’s says of the trade situation: ‘“The features of the week are continued retarded demand for merchandise and checked industrial operations. Least satisfactory is the waiting attitude of some of the more important industries.' Shoe factoriesat Philadelphia are shutting down or running on part time; cotton-goods makers regard the outlook for their product unpromising; there is a reaction in the price of steel billets; among 50 pig-iron furnaces in the Pittsburgh and Shenango districts 14 are idle, and the position of woolen-goods manufacturers is shown by the fact that foreign woolen goods are relatively.the most active. ) ‘ . ‘““General trade at the close of January proves disappointing, particularly in central western, western and northwestern states, where the movement of mer-' chandise from jobbers has been slow and unsatisfactory, it being only fair at a few points. The volume of spring goods distributed from Chicago in January falls behind expectations, although larger than in January, 1895. Some traders in territory tributary to Chicago are making orders small,, owing to having carried over large stocks and to a désire to confine purchases to actual requirements. At St. Louis spring demand is slow and general trade is characterized as only fair by the most sanguine. The condition in the northwest is'such that grain moves freely in scme regions, irrespective of low prices. A result of all this is shown by the cuts by New York, Chicago and St. Louis jobbers in prices of standard cotton goods, which demoralizes demand.”’ v

SALISBURY IS HEARD. He Declares He Is a Supporter of the Monroe Doctrine. London, Feb. I.—The banquet of the Non-Conformist Unionist association at the Hotel Metropole Friday night was the occasion for an address by the marquis of Salisbury, prime minister and secretary for foreign affairs. In the course of his remarks he said, with referance to Venezuela: “T have been held up as the denouncer of the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of fact, although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law, my dispatch to Mr. Olney, the secrctary of state of the United States, supported it as a rule of policy in the strongest and most distinct terms. ‘“But when I stated in that dispatch, and reiterate now, that as a rule of policy we are the entire advocates of the ¥onroe doctrine we mean the Monroe doctrine as President Monroe understood it. In that fense you will not find any more convinced supporters than we are.”

Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian question, and he reproached the religious communities with laboring under a mistake when they supposed that England had bound herself in honor to suceor the Armenians, which means to g 0 to war with the sultan in order to force him to govern the Armenians well. The Berlin treaty, Lord Salisbuny said, merely bound the signatory powers that “if the sultan promulgated certain reforms they would watch over the execution of those reforms—nothing more. He did not think anyvone could interpret that as an undertaking to go to extreme measures. He continued: 2

. “Mr. Gladstone wrote a letter that England could cope with five or six sultans. That was a most ill-judged and rash observation. If the sultan would meet us on the open, undoubtedly wé€ .could cope with five or six sultans. But it is not worth arguing the possibility of England occupying these inaccessible provinces. v i “I am not bound to answer the question why Europe did not interfere. I say confidentially that none of the powers wished to interfere, and I believe their view-is that with patience the sultan’s prestige, which is the only power left in the country, will ultimately reestablish order and allow industry and commerce to take their usual secure course. That is their view, and it is our duty to give the sultan time. It is not for me to pass judgment on that view, but no other remedy has been suggested. It is some encouragement to find that already some degree of order is being regtored. %

“If you do not act with the great powers you. must act against them and produce calamities far more awful and terrible than the Armenian atrocities.” 5l L.ondon, Feb. lll.—An editorial in the Chronicle (liberal) this morning describes Lord Salisbury’s speech ‘‘As the most amazing utterance that ever fell from the lips of the governor of a great empire at the crisis of its fortune. Lord Palmerston, in his wildest after-dinner escapades, could not have beaten it. It will do England grievous harm in the eyes of the world. He bestowed but one word on America, and it had better have been unspoken. We take leave to tell him that he is playing with fire again. He should have said either less or more. His confession of failure with regard to Armenia is a most ignominious admission."” |

Republican Mayor for Loulsville.

Louisville, Ky., Feb, I.—George Todd (rep.) was on Friday night elected mayor of Louisville, over William R. Johnson (rep., A. I’. A,). The vote stood: Todd, 20; Johnsen, 15.' Ono,J member of the general council was ab-~_ sent, The election was to fill the vacancy caused by the death'of Henry S. 1 Tyler (dem.), the law requiring the general council to elect for an un‘axnired term. ; Mo e

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McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. ; The enl%ugement of Creston Clarke commences Feb. 2, and is for two weeks, in Shakespearean and classicdl dramas. .

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