Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 April 1895 — Page 2

0?e3nbepcnöcnt A. R. ZIMMERMAN, Publisher.

PLYMOJTH. SWIFT'S AX L ACTION NEW MAYOR SCORES 1,000 HEADS THE FIRST DAY. Greenhut Accused of Diverting $223, OOO of Whisky Trust Funds-Seven Killed by Fallins Walls-Further Attacks Upon the Income Tax. Cut a AVide Swath. Mavor Swift, of Chicago, swung his ax. Tucsdav with a vigor that broke the record lie harvested the heads of l.W.N) place-holders, blocked several salary-grabbing t hemes bom in the death throes of the'defunct administration, and generally served notice that laws were made to be obeyed, lie had not been in the Mayor s chair over an hour when he sent a cannon ball, so to speak, through the Budding Department that knocked the pins from under a lot of inspectors. By the time another hour rolled around resignations commenced to pile 1 on the new Mnvors desk. He called for the resignation Of A. W. Cooke of the Bureau t Sewers and placed Engineer Lowe in charge. Acting Commissioner of I ublic Works Moody was directed to drop throefourths of the nun en the bridge repair pang, which meant that eighty or ninety men had to let go soft places. This was followed bv an order to cut the water pipe extension force one-half, and front .rfjo to 1,000 heads dropped in the basket. All engineers employed within the last two weeks were ordered discharged. The ewer repair gang was just about obliterated. Greenhut 1 Accnse.1. President Joseph 11. Greenhut of the "whisky trust" is charged with diverting $223,000 from the company's treasury into his own pockets. This accusation was made in a bill hied Tuesday in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. The object of the suits is to compel President Greenhut and other defendants to turn over S2iM,000 which, it is alleged, they obtained at the cost of the" company in the deal for the purchase of three distilleries in 1S02. It is charged in the bill that the Nebraska distillery in Nebraska City, the Central distillery in St. Louis and the Star and Crescent distillery in Pekin, 111., were bought for $1.sr,O0O. while the cost of these properties was charged on the company's books at $1.1K4,407. It is alleged that President Greenhut appropriated to his own use $223.000 of the difference between the actual cost and the amount charged to the company, and that .tr..U0O went into the iockets of Samuel Woollier. To Overthrow the Act. Since the delivery of the income tax decision attorneys and others interested in overthrowing the tax have been taking steps to test various parts of the law in further proceedings. Attacks will be made both on those portions that were sustained by a tie vote and on some fresh points, not passed upon in the particular cases decided. Attorney .1. M. Wilson, who represented John G. Moore in the Court of ApiK-als in the recent case, said that further proceedings will be taken immediately. "Several parts of the law will he attacked," said he, "the principal one being the exemption from taxation of incomes under $4MM. This will be attacked as an unjust discrimination. I cannot say just yet who the complainants or what the titles of the suits will be, but they will be instituted very soon, probably within a very few days, and be pushed as rapidly as possible." BREVITIES. The Carson City mint may be discontinued as a result of the recent discovery of embezzlements there. The steamer I. T. Bhae. owned by Capt. C. I. Lyman and engaged in the upper Cumberland river trade, sunk near Brooks Lauding, Tenn. The freight, value 0, was lost. A count of the money in the Boston Bub-treasury shows a difference of 20 cents between the cash and the books in favor of the sub-treasurer. The amount on hand is .$12,101,1 i:i.2i. Before a crowded house Monday afternoon the speaker of the House of Commons, the liight Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, arose and announced his resignation and delivered his farewell address. Florence Lillian Wiekes, youngest daughter of Vice-President Wiekes of the Pullman Palace Car Company of Chicago, made her first appearance on the stage Saturday with the Wilson Barrett company at Memphis. Owing to the heavy rains the Tunagowant is out of its banks and the lower part of Bradford, Pa., is Hooded to u depth of eighteen inches. Ueorts from neighloring towns say several bridges have been washed away. Thomas Cassady, w ho mysteriously disappeared from Kokomo, Ind., in 1800 and was supposed to have been murdered.jhas been found to be alive. His wife, who married again, has begun suit for divorce on the ground of desertion. W. Jennings Deniorest. one of the founders of the Prohibition party and the principal rival of General John Bidwell, of California, for the Prohibition nomination for President of the t'nited States in 1K02, died in New York Tuesday, after a week's illness. At Wheeling, W. Va., Tuesday morning shortly after S o'clock, the live-story business house of Chapman & Sons, on Main street, in the wholesale district. und the adjoining four-story hardware establishment of T. T. Hutchison fell in suddenly without any warning whatever, and buried seven persons in the ruins. A bill lias been favorably reported to the Massachusetts Legislature to prohibit the insuring of any child tinder ten years of age. Kx-Prcsidont Kriehel. of the North Manchester, Ind., College, has been ar rested, charged with securing .55,1 HM for scholarships and the college property un der false pretenses. The Pike's Peak cog railway has been reoiK'iied for the season. Lily Langtry has lieen sued for .51.200 damages by M. H. Leavitt for breaking an engagement to appear at Iiis Denver

theater

EASTERN. Gov. Marvil of Delaware is at the point

cf death. Nat Goodwin, the actor, has purchased from Elsie D. West a house on East Thirty-third street, near Madison avenue, New York city, for $oG,750. William Nolan, confidential bookkeep er of the Park Avenue Hotel, at New York, has disappeared, as also has between $30,000 and $00,000 of the hotel's cash. The steamship Parisine, which arrived at Portland, Me., from Liverpool, brought 13G English orphan boys, ranging in age from 5 to 20 years, who will be given homes with Canadian farmers. Ernest Lung. Ludwig Wiekstrom, Har ry Johnson and another little boy named Estergrcn were poisoned near Warren, Pa., by eating what they thought to be artichoke, but which proved to be poison. Wickstrom and Johnson died. By a vote of 2S to 1, during an exciting session of the congregation of the Pres byterian Church at Chaumont, N. Y.. it was decided to ask Bev. William Cleve land, brother of President Cleveland, to tender his resignation of the pastorate. Gov. Werts, at Jersey City, N. J., says he has received a request for troops to suppress the lalxr troubles at the Staten Island terra -cotta factory at Spa Springs, near Woodbridge, Middlesex County. The men who are on strike demand their pay. New York society's accepted godmother, Mrs. Pa ran Stevens, died Wednesday afternoon. This accomplished woman. who, with Ward McAllister and Mrs. William Astor, dominated the New York social world, had been seriously ill not more than a week. Her illness began with a severe cold. That the American Sugar Refining Company of New York will engage in the distilling of spirits is made certain by the fact that a distillers' license has been taken out by the company. The purpose is to utilize the by-product of the sugar refineries, a portion of which it has been sending to New Bedford for manufacture into rum, and for which it received about 2 cents per gallon. The understanding is that one of the old refineries in the eastern district of Brooklyn will be converted into a distillery, with a capacity of i0,O0O gallons of proof spirits per day. WESTERN. The Choctaw Supreme Court has affirm ed the sentence of Johnson Jacobs to lie shot at Pushmataha. Martin Kapsch, just elect.nl town trustee in Globeville, a suburb of Denver, accidentally shot and killed himself while cleaning a revolver. The row in the Claus Spreckels family nt San Francisco is growing interesting. The latest phase is a suit for .."oo damages for libel brought by tins Spreckels against his father. While putting off freight at Antiquity, twelve miles above Poiiieroy. Ohio, the passenger steamer Iron Oueen tok lire and was totally destroyed. The lire was caused by the explosion of a lamp in the engine room. Thebo.it was loaded nearly to the guards with freight and had a big passenger list. Pour persons were killed outright and a fifth fatally injured in a wreck on the Bellaire, Zanosville and Cincinnati Narrow (iiir.ge Iload, at a trestle live miles west of Sumnicrficld, O.. Friday. Four tramps were killed, two fatally ami six badly hurt by the derailing of an Alton freight train near East Alton. Near Galena, Kau., Newton Walters, aged 10. killed two brothers. George and James Cox. lie then attempted to assault Miss Dollie Cox, who was alone at home. The girl gave the alarm and Walters tied. Mi of the Cox boys was found in the woods with a bullet hole in his head. The other is supposed to have been thrown into the river. The post otlice at Springfield. 111., was robbed of about 10,000 worth of stamps and silver Wednesday. The robbery was committed about 12:00 o'clock w hile Postmaster Kedick M. Bidgely was at dinner. The robbery was not discovered uutil ." o'clock, and those implicated have so far covered up their tracks. Access was gained to the vault by the use of duplicate keys, impressions doubtless having been taken in wax at noon when the majority of the employes are at lunch. The robbers have nearly live hours' btart.. and doubtless left the city before the discovery had been made that the vault had been entered. A desperate battle too!; place between Marshal Medsen's deputies and five of the Bock Island Baiiroad train robbers at Cimarron, live miles west of Hcnnessy. O. T., Thursday evening. One robber was killed and another wounded. The robbers were taken unawares and lired at random at their assailants, not one of the shots taking effect. The robbers then took to the bush and the marshal was sent to cut off all avenues of escape. The dead man was identified as "Kattlesnake Phil." a notorious territory outlaw. The Bock Island road offered a reward of .51,(00 each for the arrest and conviction of the robbers. An attempt was made to blow up the vault in the county treasurer's otlice at Elyria, Ohio. A fuse was found Thursday morning attached to the vault door, which had K'eii plugged with nitro-glycerine. The fuse appeared to have been lighted. Half a dozen horse blankets covered the door. The outer door leading to the office had been forced with a chisel and entrance to the corridor had been gained by a window, which was found open. A full outfit of tools was found near the vault, indicating the work of professionals. There is $17,000 in the vault. The sheriff telegraphed for an expert to open the vault, as it is feared that the nitro-gly-terine would explode if tampered with. What has become of the enormous campaign fund raised by assessment on city hall employes? Thai's the question that the Democratic managers of Chicago are now discussing with much vehemence of language and bitterness of feeling. It is alleged that one of the prime factors in the recent defeat of the Democratic candidates at the jxdls was a lack of sufficient funds to conduct the campaign properly. The iolitieians who realize this fact are denouncing the penurious policy which seemed to actuate some of the big men in the party, and it is openly charged that a very large sum of money, which was supposed to be held for the benefit of the campaign, has gone int' the pockets of individuals for whom it was not intended, and who had no right to it. The Chicago, Kock Island and Pacific passenger train No. 1 was held up near Dover, O. T., early Thursday morning by five unmasked bandits, and the passengers of the smoker, day coach at'd chair car were relieved of their valuables.

Express Messenger Jones was wounded in the left wrist, but he steadfastly refused to open the safe in I113 car, and the booty secured by the robbers as a consequence was very small. A posse of determined citizens of Kingfisher, under the direction of Deputy United States Marshal Madsen, mounted upon horses capable of standing a protracted chase, started in hot pursuit of the train robbers, and but an hour and a half behind them. According to information received, the train robbery was a well-planned, badly executed and quite profitless affair. Charged with the embezzlement of $00,000 from the Northwestern National Bank of Chicago, F. W. Griffin, until Friday assistant cashier of that institution, is a prisoner in custody of the United States marshal. The arrest of Griffin was made on the complaint of National Pank Examiner John C. McKeon, and it was followed by a circular letter issued to all patrons of the Northwestern National and to other banks in which the state of affairs was briefly but explicitly presented. Assistant Cashier Griffin has been in the service of the bank nearly eighteen years, and has held the trust and confidence of the banking world. He had full authority to sign for the bank, and this position he is said to have used to appropriate money for his own uses until his shortage amounted to exactly $j0,000. Yice-President W. F. Dummer said that the amount of Griffin's defalcation was small compared with the capital and surplus of the bank the former being $1,V,000 and the latter $.VJ0,000. In addition there are individual profits of S?00f000. Griffin has made a full confession.

SOUTHERN. Boone County. Ky., was struck by a cyclone Wednesday, which did much damage to property, but caused no hiss of life. Many horses and cattle were killed. A farm wagon was carried two miles by the wind. The national reunion of the survivors of the Army of the Tennessee, the Ohio and Mississippi opened Friday on the battle field of Shiioh. Illinois. Iowa, Indiana and other Northern States were represented by delegations officially appointed by the respective Governors, and so were Tennessee. Mississippi, Kentucky and other Southern States. A reduction in wages of miners throughout the Plat Top, W. Va., district has been made, and the men are very unsettled. It is known that organizers for the Miners Union have been at work in the Flat Top and Norfolk and Western re 1 g gions for some time, getting the men in hape for a general strike. The union. which failed in the Kanawha and New I liver strike a year ago. promises supiort to the Flat Top miners. If the strike takes place about 10,000 men will be affected. Nearly 000 tramps, who ar unable to obtain work on the oyster boats, have taken possession of the towns of Bivalve and Port Norris, N. J. The township authorities are unable to cope with them, and it may become necessary to call on the sheriff to drive the desperadoes away. The men were brought there to find employment during the oyster planting season, which has just opened and which will continue until June. They are made desperate by hunger and are so bohl that they enter houses in daylight and roh I them of all food thev c:ni find. i An explosion took place at 2:10 Friday inorning in a saloon opposite the Urench market. New Orleans, and many persons were killed and others injured, the building taking lire. The explosion occurred "1:1 a grocery and ship chandlery kept by Charles Salathe and was caused by jiowder kept in the magazine. Salathe and his family except two children miraculously saved were killed by the falling walls, the entire three-story structure falling into a heap of ruins. Next door to the chandlery was a saloon kept by Entile Boulet. Half a dozen fishermen were drinking in the place and they were all buried under the wreckage, that building being also destroyed. Fully fifteen persons are known to have been killed. In the big sham battle at the City or Mexico. Maj. Yillareal was knocked from his horse by a collision with an artillery wagon, badly hurt, though believed not fatally. One mule was killed at the same time. Two cavalry soldiers fell with their horses lamed. Various accidents of a similar nature were recorded during the charge by the cavalry on the Plain of Peralville. Some of the infantry privates succumbed to the heat and were lorne from the field for medical treatment. During one of the cavalry charges two riders were knocked from their horses and trampled to death, and several privates presented themselves to the chiefs with wounds in their bodies. Lieut. Charles G. Dwyer. military attache of the American Legation, who servtil on the President's staff, was sunstruck and borne from the field. Considering that the battle was the finest military spectacle ever seen in Mexico, the number of serious accidents was small. WASHINGTON. The Hon. William L. Wiison assumed the jtortfolio of Postmaster General Wednesday. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fuller. It is said Secretary Gresham has left Washington for a short vacation for his health. At his hotel all that was 6a id was he was not in. It is thought he left for the West. The Supreme Court has decided the income tax case. While the decision of the lower court is upheld as a whole, all incomes derived from rents are exempted from taxation by the Federal Government, as well as municipal funds. Thcs? are the greatest changes made by the decision. FOREIGN. The upper house of the Prussian diet has referred to a special committee the proposal of Count von Mirbach for an international conference on the currency question. The United States ship Marblchead, now at Gibraltar, has been cabled by Secretary Herbert to proceed with dispatch to Bey root, Syria. The conunand-cr-in-chief of the European station was instructed to order the vessels of his command to visit also Alexaudretta and Ada: to confer with the United States consuls and resident American citizens, and if it is found that there are good grounds for the apprehensions expressed in these quarters concerning a probable massacre of Christians to intimate to the responsible authorities that this Government will afford full protection to American citizens living peaceably in that part of the world under its treaty guaranties. It ?s stated on reliable authority that Japan has proposed the following coudi-

tions for the conclusion of peace: The independence of Corea; the cession of Southern Manchuria, including Port Arthur; the cession of the Island of FJrmosa; the opening of Chinese ports and rivers to commerce; the payment of an indemnity of 400,0t0,0o0 yen; and the occupation of a number of strategic points until the indemnity shall have been paid. The London Times says it considers Japan is justified in imiosing these conditions, and adds that the British cannot object to the occupation of the Liao Tung peninsula. The wound in the face of Li Hung ('hang, the Chinese peace envoy, has now completely healed. Liu Ching Fung, son of Li Hung Chang, has been apjointed a Chinese peace plenipotentiary to assist Li Hung Chang. Japan has formally aeeepte' him as au envoy.

IN GENERAL, Mr. Yanderpero has been appointed official representative for the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in Belgium and a fine exhibit will be secured from that country. Alfred Noble, of Chicago, has been appointed to investigate the Nicaragua Canal. The other members of the board are: Major William Ludlow, U. S. A., and Commander U. T. Endicott. U. S. N. The Indian murderer of Government Officer Skyner of the Blackfoot reservation, Manitoba, was captured and shot dead by a posse of police Friday night. The murderer made a determined fight to the last. B. J. McGuire, formerly a fireman cmployed by the Union Pacific Railroad, has sued the receivers for $00,000 damages for injuries which crippled him for life. He charges gross carelessness in allowing a defective locomotive to be used. After sixteen years' wandering through the West in search of fortune, Bichard Mackey has found his wife, whom he married in Alabama, residing at Lexington, Ky. She has married twice since, and has been supposing herself a widow for the third time. Mackey is wealthy. It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly Review of Trade says: Beturns showing the condition of retail trade in March throughout the country and the distribution of goods of final comparison with the same month in 1S94 and 1S1C give gratifying evidence that in most trades and districts marked improvement over 1804 is realized, though on the whole trade is smaller than in lb'M. What the Bell Telephone Company has been fearing since its patents expired has now assumed definite shape, according to reports that bear the stamp of accuracy. This is nothing more or less than that a competing concern has been launched, or is in p-oecss of const met ion, the mission of which will be to tight the Bell people out of the field; not in patches, here and t'iere, but in the entire territory where they operate. According to the reports a telephone company has been formed in New York with a war chest of tremendous extent and backed by men at the mention of whose names visions of vast wealth arise. The capital stock of the company is given as 100,000,000. The backers big enough in the financial world to have their names associated with so many figures are: The Parrott Company of New York, the Standard Oil Company, Searles. of the sugar trust: George Crocker,, the S:in Francisco millionaire; Pillsbury, the Minnesota Hour man, and J. S. Clarkson. Governor John P. Altgeld has paid his respects to Chaunccy M. Depew. The occasion for the bitter criticism was the speech recently delivered by Mr. Depew at the Auditorium in Chicago, when he took occasion to lind fault not only with the Mayor of Chicago, but with Governor Altgeld as well. The Governor was asked if he had read the speech. "No. I have not," he replied. "Some years ago I listened to Mr. Depew for two hours. So long as the Lord insisted on limiting human life to about three score and ten years, two hours is all the time that the average man can afford to spend on Depew. lie is the most conspicuous product of the doctrine Mo evil that good may coino of it that this country has ever seen. lie first attracted attention many years ago as a lobbyist at Albany, where he for a long time was engaged in the highly honorable business of putting metaphorical collars on the New York legislators, so that to the public they apjeared to belong to the Yanderbilts and the New York Central Baiiroad. A train of slime and corruption was stretched across the State from New York city by wry of Ali nny to Buffalo, and from there it spread over the whole country, corrupting public officers, polluting legislative halls and even tilling courts of justice with its odor. This was the beginning of that flood of corruption which is to-day washing the foundations from under our whole governmental fabric." MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $ö7ö to JfO.00; hogs, shipping grades, $2 to $0.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $0; wheat. No. 2 red, lite to r.c; corn, No. 2, -15c to 40c; oats, No. 2, 20c to "Oc; rye. No. 2. 50c to 58c; butur. choice creamery. 20o to 20",e; eggs, fresh, Iltuc to ll'lV; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 7öc to STc; broom corn, per II, common growth to fine brush, -Ic to 0'e. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. to $0.25; hogs, choice light, to $5; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 55c to 55t,c; corn. No. 1 white, 40c to 40V.c; oats. No. 2 white, :Wc to ;54c. St. Louis-Cattle, $3 to $0.50; hogs, $1 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 re'd, 54c to 55c; corn. No. 2, 4.?c to A'.VU-; oats, No. 2, 00e to .'Be; rye. No. 2, 57- to ."Sc. Cincinnati Cattle. $:i.50 to $0.25: hogs, $.1 to .$.".00; sheep. $2.ÖO to $4.70; wheat. No. 2, 55c to 50c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 mixed. UUic to 32 Ac; rye, No. 2, 08c to 00c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $4 to $5; sheep, $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 white, 50c to 00c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 40e to 4011-c; oats, No. 2 white, ."5c to 00c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red, 50o to 57c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 40c to 40e; oats, No. 2 white, Sic to :i2c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 5tK Buffalo-Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs. $5 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 00c to OOc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 40c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 05c to SOc Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to 58c; corn. No. .', 48c to 48i.c; oats. No. 2 white. :?2c to SSv: barley. No. 2. 52c to 55V; rye. No. 1, 55c to 57c; pork, mess. $12 to $12.50. - New York Cattle, $3 to $0.75; hogs. $4 to $5.50; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to (Etc; corn. No. 2, 51c to We; oats, white Western, 37c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 22c; eggs, Western, 13c to 13Jie.

FAST IX SXOW BANKS.

PLIGHT OF MANY TRAINS IN THE WEST. Twenty-one Washington 3liitcrs Killed Near New Whatcom Big; Steal in Stumps-Itumors of War in Scandanavia Big Bcnk Fails in Texas. Snow in Colorado. Owing to the terrific snowstorm which prevailed in the vicinity of Cheyenne. Wyo. in eastern Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, trains were stalled on all the railway lines east of Denver, and hundreds of men and several snow piows are now engaged in clearing the tracks of drifting snow and sand. In some localities telegraph wires are down. A train on the Kansas Faeitic was laid up at Cheyenne, and a snow plow wa sent out ahead io clear the track. The east -bound Bock Island is stalled at Goodland. Kan. At Cheyenne the storm is severe and traffic is shut down on the Northern. The storm is working south. n the .Tuiefburg line sand lias drifted to such an extent that gangs of men are engaged in shoveling it from the track. Millions of Counterfeit Stamps. United States secret service operatives iu Chicago and Washington have unearthed probably the most unique and at the same time important swindle ever perpetrated upon any government. Its magnitude, after two days investigation, can only be guessed at. but it is believed thousands of dollars have been secured by a gang of skillful counterfeiters, who have reproduced with wonderful skill and accuracy the piuk two-cent stamps of commerce. As a result the entire issue must be recalled and rctirwl. Whether the counterfeiters have accomplices in dishonest postmasters or whether they are in league with sonn one nearer the throne is not known. But this much is certain: Uncle Sam has been carrying millions of letters from which he received not oi:e cent of revenue. It is thought the country is Hooded from New York to San Francis- with these spurious stamps. Only Two Escaped. A terrible explosion occurred Sunday in the lilue Canyon coal mine on Lake Whatcom, seven miles from New Whatcom. Wash. Ten bodies have been taken o"ut. and it is known that at least eleven others were killed. The mine was inspected about three weeks ago and pronouiu-cd safe. W. A. Telford was at the bunkers when the explosion occurred. He went to the incline and found James Kearn at the mouth of the shaft nearly dead with exhaustion. Kearns said aft in the mine were dead. He had carried Ben Morgan as far as he was able and then left him. Morgan, lie thought, was dead. Kearns and Gelluui were the only ones who had escaped out of twenty-lhree men w ho were at work. NEWS NUGGETS, l'liilip Gafl'ron. a watchmaker. wa shot by burglars in his house at Denver. Employes of the llainey coke works in the Coimellsville region. I'euiisyl vania. have resumed work on the promiso of ila ( per cent, advance in wages in force at other plants. .Mrs. Henry Purges, of Hebron. Ind.. who has been bedfast for ten weeks. ir ported to have fasted for forty-five days, during which time she has drank only a thimbleful of water. In a fight growing out of a dispute about a can of beer James McBennett. a Chicago bricklayer, was shot and killed by James Gardner, a bartender iu the saloon and grocery of .lohn Harper. An attempt was made at Mineisville. Ohio, to blow up by dynamite the family boat of John Forbes, a miner, imported ttake the place of striking miners. The boat was badly battered, but no lives were lost. The schooner Josiah B. Smith of Bath, from Baltimore to Boston, was run int.: and sunk three miles west of Gay Head light by the barge Lone Star in tow of the steamer Orion. Capt. Freeman and crew of seven men were saved. Iu Pawnee County. Oklahoma, an unknown man on horseback set lire to the dry prairie grass during a high wind and the country was devastated for many miles. Si-ventceii farmers lost everything, having hard work to save the lies of their families, and the village of Chilco was almost destroyed. Carl Beard sley. son of Charles Beardsley, of Elkhart, Ind.. who disappeared mysteriously from the University of .Michigan at Ann Arbor last fall, is engaged in business in San Francisco, and does not evince any interest in his Alma Mater or and other incident iu hi school days r home life. Supreme Chancellor Ritchie of the Knights of Pythias says that .SH,hx belonging to the endowment rank of that order was on deposit in the 'ity National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, which tailed Friday, but the funds are amply secured, and the order has other resources which will enable it to meet all obligations. Christiania advices say the estimates which are to be submitted to the storthing have bet 11 published and cause much comment. They give fresh impetus to the wild rumors of an impending war between Norway and Sweden. The estimates far exceed any previous sume required. The sum of 4.HK.m kroner is to be devoted to the construction of iron dads. In addition, large credits will h asked for the purchase of munitions of war and for the completion of the forts of Toiisburg harbor. At Titusville, Pa.. George Kese ha been arrested charged with embezzling $.-O0 of the funds of St. .lames Episcopal Church, of which he was treasurer. John Stephens, a farmer residing in MHrion township. Noble County, O.. nn.rdered his son by striking him on the head with a club. The son had refused to give his father $2. .Mine. Emma Eanies-Story. the singer, caught her linger in the door of a Wabash car and had a nail torn off. William Shipp murdered Samuel Brow? at Lexington, Ky. Shipp was enamored of Brown's wife. Oscar Wilde is rejnirtcd to be hysterical over the prospect of going to prison, and is iK'ing carefully guarded to prevent suicide. Jabez Spencer Balfour, the London swindler, whose extradition was granted a few days ago. has scilcd from Buenos Ayres for England.

BLOW TO TAX LAW.

SUPREME COURT MANGLES THE INCOME STATUTE. Rents and Bond Interest Icclared to Be Exempt --Buincfc Men Must Pay So Must i:m i!oycv While Uia Trust Companies Escape. Yut Change Decreed. A special dipatch from Washington Fays that the United States Supreme Court in the income tax case has reversed the decision of the lower court. Tho income tax law as a whole is upheld, but only by a divided court. Two important portions of the law, however, have been decided to be unconstitutional, and they are so serious as to affect materially not only the revenues of the Govtri.m. nt. but the" estimation in whic'i the income tax will be held by the p.-..p'.e. Under the decision, as refuted, all incomes derived from rrnfs are exempted from taxation bv the Federal Government and all incomes derived from State and municipal bonds are similarly exempted. In other respects the income tax stands as it was passed last August, but the result of tin consultations in the Supr. me Court shows verv conclusively that the law can easily be picked to pieces, provided suits are brought to contest ea h parti.r.'.ar point as it cones up. It is a curious fact, but nor.e the b-s true that the law which was passed at the dictation of the Populists has biH-n distorted by the decision of the I inted States Supreme Court in such a way that it will absolutely protect the class of capitalists most offensive to the Popubstic element. The landlords of the country will pav no income tax. The owners of bonds of almost any kind, either Federal. State, county or municipal, will also bj free, while the business man, the manufacturer and the salaried employe will, for the present at hast, be compelled to contribute to the treasury of the United States Government 2 per cent, of all incomes in excess of $U0 per annum. The decision of the Supreme Court is a matter of deep annoyance. Collection of the tax has begun; the Government budget was made out with regard to the $30.mOMN or $4O.tHiO.m0 expected to be derived from this source. The exemption of great fortunes and great estates, tho sweeping away of a large part of the expected revenues, is bound to create a situation in the treasury that will W embarrassing, to say the least. Further cause for dissatisfaction will be given to persons who think they see a menace to the rights of the people in the frequent interference of Federal courts in legislative concerns. It is said that one learned justice even attempted to "legislate" building associations into the act. The first meeting of the Supreme Court was held March 10, two days after the conclusion of the argument, but no decision was reached, and it was not until March :!0 that they succeeded in agreeing til on the outlines of a decision covering the opinion of the lower court. Tho court was evenly divided. Justice Jackson was too ill to take part. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Field. Gray and Prewer were opposed to the iaw. Justices Harlan. Brown, Shiras and White voted to sustain the law. FREE PEWS A Failure, llccauc "Wc "Smile and Arc Villains Still.' It was a painful confession of the failure of the free-pew system that was mad on Sunday in Prooklyn by the rector oC St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. After a free-iew experiment of nine year Ilev. Dr. Parker admitted that he had gained a larger knowleilge than he ever before possessed of the sinfulness, or we may say the wickedness, if not even the viciousness, of some of the people who :r church-goers. lie declared that some f the men who occupied th free imws had no regard whatever for the moral obligations involved and seemed to him but as religious vagabonds. He told of men who would drop a cent in the box, and of others who would break their promises, and of more who seemed to 1k destitute of shame. One man, for example, who hr.d hired a pew in another place of worship, cleared a year by sub-lctt iug it to another parly, while lie hinisrlf took a seat in Dr. Parker's froe-iew church. It was a melancholy sermon of Dr. Parker in which he announced the freepew fa ib; re. lie spoke of another church in Brooklyn which had tested the freepew theory with the result that the deficit in its treasury had to be made tip by the rich members. St. George's Church, in New York, is still experimenting with the system; but he said that the shortage there was to be made up by the many millionaires w ho belong to it. He did not know of a single case in which it had Invn successful. After appealing to his listeners to "pay up this time." he made a startling remark: 'I notice," he said, "that some of you smile, which remind me that some can smile and smile and be villains still." Not Such n Wonderful Increase, The statement of Librarian SpofforJ that more than V.000 publicati ns wete copyrighted iu the United States list year, as against 2TI.nn in lNS-1. shows an immense increase in the business of his office, and has elicited a great amount and variety of press comment. But there does not appear to be any occasion for alarm. To understand the matter thoroughly, it is necessary to bear in mind the fact that in 1SS4 the international copyright lawhad not been passed. Another so.ireo of increase is the growing habit of copyrighting matter that appears iu the newspapers. Probably there is ten times tin much of this class of copyrighted publications as there was ten years ago. ami the chances are that it will continue to grow. Col. William D. Pollock is lying in a perious condition at his home in Hen Peck, Ind. Several days ago Col. Pollock made a wager that he could suck throe dozen eggs at one sitting. He had disposed of two dozen and a half, and on entering uion the last half dozen struck a chicken, which stuck in his throat and almost choked him to death. The King of Servia has taken tip with he slumming fad and enjoys going around viiig his subjects Vitbcut icttiuj tiicat Lnuw who he is.