Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 April 1890 — Page 1

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News CONGRESSIONAL. Tub Senate on the 31st disagreed to the III use amendments to the hill (or a public building at Atchison, Kan., and asked (or a conference. The Dependent Pension bill was then taken up, the first question to dispose of being Senator Plumb’s amendment as to arrears of pensions, making pensions on account < f w, unds or Injuries or disease commence from the death or discharge ot tlie soldier. To an Inqu'ry Senator Plumb said thatthecostof rem< Ting the limitations of arrears would approximate S500,O'*),003k The atr.cn -lment was finally rejected by a vote of 9 yeas to 46 nays. All other amendments were reje' ted and the bill passed, ayes 41. nays It. Adjourned....In the House the conference report upon the Urgency Deficiency bill was agreed to. After passing a number of local bl Is the House considered the Army Appropriation b 11 in Committee of the Whole an t when the committee rose the bill passed and the House soon adjourned. After disposing of a few reports of cousin tti-cs nnd other routine business on Apr.! 1 the Senate went into executive session and when I ho doors wero reopened adjourned. ...,’lho House adopted tie report of the Jud’cisrv Committee calling for an investigation of certain alleged irregularities in the offices of Unite! ttates mar

s nis nnu tue practice in Home <i the United State) courts A number of private bills passed and the Fortiil- • atinn Appropriation bill was cmslli rod in Committee rt the Whole- When tho Comml teo rose the bill passed, also the bill pro vl'l in £ for a zoological rarfc In the District of Columbia. Qhc Naval Appropriation bill w.is reported and placed on the calendar, when the death of Hepresentat ve Wilber, of New York, was snnoun.ed and tho llonse adjourned. ' lit tho fenate on the *1 Mr. Edmunds, from the Judiciary C-niniittec, reported back the Anti-Trust bill Id the form of a substitute. He and several other members of the committee expressed views, on tho bill. The conference report on tne Urgency Deficiency bill was agreed to, and the Montana election ca^e was taken up. Pending consider . tlon the Senate adjourned_The House passed a large number of bridge and other local bills and then considered the bit f*r the admission of Idaho-until adjournment, no final action being reached After routine business on the 3d the Senate resumed the Mont tna clei ti on case and rfter several Senators spok*> the matter went over until Monday. The House bill to amend the census law providing for tile enumeration of the I hinesc population was taken up and afte ■ some debate went over. Adjourned until Saturday ..In the House Mr. Lodge (Mass.) presented a petition from tho New E island Shoe and Leather Association against the impositivm of a duty on hides. Several motions were disposed of and two bills passe I emending the artie'es of war in regard to tria and punis mud by cauits me.ttial. The Idaho Admission bill was again taken up and Mr. Perkins (Kan.^concluded his remarks in adv caoy of i’. Afteralong debate a vote was finally reached and thero were 12!t yeas to one nay, the D mocrata withholding their votes. The Speaker count* d a quorum present and the bill was declared as hnving passed. The Democrat a announced that this would he made a test question as to tho right cf the Speaker to declare a quorum p cent. Adjourned. The II use on the 4th considered pr v ite pension I I is th t had come over fro n the previous Fr day. Mr. -tone (Mo.) made a. vigorous pretest against txtravagamee In pension matters, and Messrs Line (III), Chipman (M ch ). Dali ver (Iowa) and Flower (N. Y.) spoke as vigorously In favor * f liberal pensions. The live pension bills under rwnsid ration th n pass* d. The private calend ir was tll-n con - i Irred in Committee of the Wh le and an • veiling S ission held tor the consideration of pension bilis. WASHINGTON NOTES. Vice Admiral Stephen Kowan, U. S. N. (retired) died of Bright’s disease at the Ebbett House, Washington recently. George W. Holman, of Kochester, Ind., has been appointed bank examiner of Indiana. The public debt showed a decrease during tho month of March of 511,389,857, It is understood that the AttorneyGeneral will take an appeal from the ■' decision of the Court of Claims, which : makes the Government responsible to : the members of Congress for their loss of salary through tho Silcott defalcation. It is estimated that the Dependent Tension hill which passed tho Senate the .other day will require 535,000,000. The House Committeo on the Judiciary has appointed a sub-committee to visit Southern States and make a thorough investigation of the alleged improper action of court officers in instituting prosecutions without reason and for the purpose of collecting foes. Tiie bill to give tho iwidpw of the late Major-General Kilpatrick 5100 >>or month has been favorably reported to the House. The House Committee on Naval Affairs has favorably reported tho McAdoo b 11 to prevent the enlistment of aliens in the navy. THE EAST. Thomas Cornell, the steamboat and railroad man of Kingston, N. Y„ is dead. He was a personal friend of Secretary Blame and bad been in Congress. William Kkmmleh h as been sentenced to death by electricity at Auburn, (N. Y.) prison as prescribed by law during tho week beginning April 28. Governor Hill, of New York, sent to the Senate a veto of the Saxton Ballot Reform bill. On tho Hudson River railroad, near Garrison, N. Y., a freight train ran into a mass of fallen rock before the flagman had time to give warning. Three trainmen were hurt and the engine and twelve cars wrecked. P. J. Classen, of New York City, has been indicted by the United States grand jury for embezzlement and misappropriation of funds of the Sixth National Bank of that city. F. R. Townsend A Co., commission wool merchants of New York City, have assigned. They were rated high. The assignees hope to pay dollar for dollar. By an explosion, of fire damp in a shaft at Nanjfcicoke, Pa., the other day, three miners were killed and eight seriously injured. Joseph Wood, a negro aqueduct laborer, who killed Charles Ruffian, has been sentenced at New York to die by elec

tricity. Fast day was strictly observed throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire on the 3d. Fills in New York City destroyed James 8. Bryant's wagon and carriage factory, Noah H. Hoyt’s stable and six horses an^, three dwellings. There were many narrow escapes. Loss, $50,000. The Horace Greeley homestead at Chappaqua, N. Y., burned to the ground recently. All the hooks, a water color picture of Mrs. Greeley andl ahustol Horace Greeley were saved by , the neighbors. Miss Gabrielle Greeley was at church in Pleasantville at the time. Six of the leading white lead manufacturing companies of New York State have consolidated under the name of the National Lead A Oil Company: The capital of the newcompany is $1,000,000. Mccii of Horace Greeley's correspondence, some of it invaluable, was destroyed by the recent ire at the homestead at Chaptpaqua, N. Y. Bt the explosion of a boiler at an oil well near Smith’s Ferry, Pa,, Ford M. Dawson, a workman, was blown newlj ftmilewUa'tft&ttrklM,

Ix three cases of shoes from Georgetown, Mass., H. G. Pointer, a merchant of Polcskey, Mich., found seven one pound cartridges of dynamite. They were £1*0x60 and had not thawed out. Two hundred farms were sold under mortgage in two days by Sheriff Johnson, Ot Atlantic County, N. J. One farmer was so crazed at losing his home that he burned himself in his dwelling. TIIE WEST, The St Joseph convent at Milwaukee, Wis., was destroyed by fire recently. One of th# sisters was fatally injured in jumping from a window. P, E. Wilcox, proprietor of a laundry at Carroll, Iowa, was shot and fatally woundisd by his wife. They quarreled and he chased hpr upstairs with a poker, declaring his intention of braining her when she seized a revolver and shot him. \ The Garfield Memorial Association has sent out a general invitation to all organized bodies in the United States to participate in the memorial dedication in Cleveland, O., May 30. Grant Adsit, his wife and child and a Miss Thomas were upset while fording Sugar creek near Milford, 111., recently. All were drowned excepting Mrs. Adsit, who managed to cling to the willows.

The liconce laetory at AUDuraaaie, O., wait destroyed by fire the other day, causing 550,000 loss. Chicago hide dealers and shoo manufacturers have sent a protest to Congress against a duty on hides. The Democrats made gains in the municipal election nt Chicago on the 1st. The new Board of Aldermen stands 34 Democrats to 81 Republicans with two Independent Democrats and one Independent Republicans. Tiu«f‘Democratic ticket of Milwaukee, Wis., was elected by 5,000 majority oh the lsh Peck, the humorist, is the new mayor. The Bennett school law had much to do with the turn of the election. The purchasers of the Fort Madison & Northwestern railroad in Iowa have taken formal possession. The road will be made standard gauge and extended to Ottumwa. One thousand plumbers of Chicago recen tly struck for 53.75 a day and Saturday half holiday. A secret organization of “ku klux” is said to exist in Oklahoma for the purpose of driving out the colored settlers. The switchmen and brakemen of the Union Pacific railroad between La Grande and Portland, Ore., have struck for 10 per cent increase in wages. Au. the Joliet 111., stone quarries are idle, the men, nearly 1,000, quitting work. They base their demand for 17}£ cents per hour, instead of 15 cents, on the increased demand for stone and the higher prices resulting. By a collision between two light engines and the cahooso of a ruptured freight train near Delta, Cal., Conductor D. G. Gale was caught in the wreck and burned to a crisp. Special Inspector Davis reports the Cherokee Strip entirely free of would-be settlers. Charter.elections for cities of-the second and -third class were held throughout Minnesota and South Dakota on the 1st The principal issue was license or no license, the supporters of the latter principle being victorious in four-fifths of the contests. According to the Farmer’s Review, of Chicago, Kansas is the only State showing a full average for winter wheat In Missouri the crop is generally fair, the rest of the country grading below Missouri down almost to zero. Sensational charges of corruption by school book lobbies have been made in the Iowa Legislature. News has bean received at Tacoma, Wash., of the bark Embleton, supposed to have been lost last falL All the non-union plumbers of Chicago joined the union strikers. The strike of the quarrymen at Joliet, 111., ended in a victory for the men. Three small children of William Brown, living near Huron, S. D., perished the other night while locked in their home by their parents, the house catching fire in some way. The liabilities of Jackson & Co., furniture dealers of Spokane Falls, Wash., are placed at 500,000 and the assets at 816,000. Frei> Krueger, aged twelve, and Charles Borek, aged fourteen, have been held at Chicago for attempted train wrecking and shooting into a train. They confessed. The -6,000 iron miners of Northern AVisconsin and Michigan have organized a union. In tho famous Cemeau-Scottish rite case against tho grand lodge of Iowa, Judge Preston has overruled a motion of the defense to throw the matter, out of court on the alleged grounds that that court had no jurisdiction in the matter, the Cerneau-Scottisli rite not being an incorporated body. The Cerneaus consider this a decisive victory. Six men have been killed by explosions of oil gas in a tunnel being bored near Santa Paula, Cal. The strike of the coopors of Minneapolis, Minn., has ended in a victory for the men._. THE .SOUTH. J. M. Follansbee, of the Bavicore ranch, arrived at El Paso, Tex., from Mexico and reported that the Cosihuiriachic reduction works, located about fifteen miles southwest of Chihuahua aid owned by a New York company, were totally destroyed by fire. The loss was $3,600,000. General Thomas C. Anderson, a prominent Republican politician, for many years deputy collector of New Orleans and a member of the famous Louisiana returning board from 1874 to 1876, died recently, aged seventy. Six small boys were buried under a caving sand bank at Vernon, Tex., recently and killed. They had been digging a cave. A request has been made on Governor Gordon, of Georgia, for the appointment pit a male whipping boss for the punishment of refractory female convicts in the camp near Atlanta. ' A heavy wind storm destroyed two churches and other' property at Arkansas City, Ark., recently—a double misfortune as the city was three feet under water.

GENERAL. The Mossbay Hematite Iron & Steel Company of England has suspended payments, owing to the fall in tbo price of iron and also to unprofitable contracts. The company announces that it will pay its creditors in full. Lister's spinning factory at Bradford, England, has been destroyed by flrei ijoss, *300,000. The first number of .the Kolonial Hiatt, the official organ of the German colonies, has been published at Berlin. It is published under the direction of the Imperial Foreign Office. Joseph M. Davis, of Philadelphia, was neiied with a fit on tbo Bouli yard Madolin at Pari* the other irftMWftrts expiry dav and short!;

Commissioner Kebchmkr, of the Northwest mounted police of Manitoba, has been accused of brutality, tyranny and oppression in the Canadian Parliament An investigation is likely. In consequence of the meat famine in Berlin purveyors are urging the Bundesrath to repeal the law against the importation of foreign meat The restaurants have raised the price of meat 30 percent The Northern Pacific railway directors have ratified the formal lease of the Wisconsin Central railroad. Divers have found that a large hole was pounded by the broken machinery in the bottom of the steamship City of Paris. The vessel has been pumped out The Nihilist suicide who left a letter in which be stated that he had plotted against the Czar's life, was a naval officer who belonged to an aristocratic fafnily. A recent dispatch from St Petersburg to the London Daily Telegraph says the Czar has been attacked by a sudden illness. The seventy-fifth birthday of Prince Bismarck was celebrated with much enthusiasm in Germany on the 1st. The Czar and Prince Bismarck have exchanged friendly letters in which hopes of prolonged peace are prominent feat

The new White Star steamer Majestic started on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic from Liverpool on the 2d. The Dublin Express, Independent Conservative, denounces Mr. Balfour’s Land hill and says it imperils the interests of the Irish Conservatives. The Nation, Mr. T. P. Sullivan's paper, says that the bill is a public bribe to the peasantry to purchase their peace. Its failure is certain. The British expedition recently sent out against the Somalis having failed to .accomplish its missipn another expedition has been started from Aden. Agitation was reported spreading lit three or four places of the Bussian Empire among the peasantry, notably in Finland and Poland. The Berlin correspondent of the London Chronicle telegraphed on the 2d that a partially successful attempt had been made on the life of the Czar. In the Ontario Legislature at Toronto, Can., Mr. Graham moved the passage of a resolution calling on the Canadian Parliament to take steps looking to closer trade relations with the United States. The treasurer of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, has been arrested for embezzling 1,000,000 francs. The report of a rupture between Bulgaria and Servia is officially declared to be untrue. Sib Francis De Winton, president of the British Ipmin Pasha relief committee, is bitterly indignant at Emin Pasha’s course in entering the service of Germany and charges Emin with absolute want of gratitude. The British war ship Sultan has captured off Zanzibar a dhow with twelve enslaved Wangamwese porters aboard. The Brazilian Bishops will shortly issue a pastoral refusing to consent to the separation of the Church and State. Dom Pedro was reported unwell. The Pacific mail steamship China has lowered the record from San Francisco to Hong Kong to twenty days. The Sultan of Turkey has ordered the reopening of negotiations with England for the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt Explosives have been found in the grounds of the Czar’s palace at Gatschina. 4 ( Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven-days eneed April 3 numbered 236, compared with 243 the previous week and 222 the corresponding week of last year. , Severe hurricanes on the Pacific during March caused many disasters on the coast of the New Hebrides. Several l^hips were wrecked at Labour. A vessel grounded at Mallicello and five whites and thirty natives were drowned, while thirty others who reached the shore were massacred by natives. Russia has notified Turkey that it will enforce a first lien on the proposed new Turkish loan in order to secure the arrears of the war indemnity. It was rumored on the 4th that the O’Shea divorce case, in which Mr. Parnell was co-respondent, had; been finally settled. THE LATEST. In the Senate, on the 5th, a number of bills were taken from the calendar and passed, among them one appropriating $500,000 for an additional fireproof building for. the National Museum; one prohibiting the importation of adulterated food and drink, and one for an inspection of meats for exportation. After a short executive session, private biUs on the calendar were taken up, and 113 bills were passed in just one hour..In the House a number of bills relating. to military affairs were passed, among them one amending the Articles of War in reference to courtsmartial; authorizing the construction of a hotel on the Government Reservation at Fortress Monroe, and reorganizing the artillery force of the army; after which the House listened to eulogies of the late Representative Newton W. Nutting, of New York, and adjourned as a further mark 6f respect to the de

ceased. A barge containing twenty negroes was capsized, on the 4th, in Bayou Falaya, Miss., and seven of its occupants were drowned. » During the month of March. 16,374 pension certificates were issued, being the largest month’s work ever performed by the Pension Bureau. Of these, 8,183 were original applications. Secretary Blaine, since {he death of Walker Blaine, who was the medium of communication between the public and the Secretary, has lost, in the estimation of many of his warmest friends, much reputation by his secretiveness about affairs of which the public have a right to be informed. The dam of the upper reservoir of the Ithica (N. Y.) Water Works Company, holding 20,000,000 gallons of water,’ burst, during the night of the 5th; and when the water plunged through the cliff-bound chasm below the dam it was a terrific torrent eighty-five feet deep No loss of life resulted. Commissioner Baum says that as business is now«arranged in the Pension office, he will be able, by the last ol May, to cause the examination of every olalm pending in the office on the first day of January last; have every olalm allowed that is completed and Mils for evidence made in those not completed. The Hotel West at Greenville Junction, Me.,was burned ealryon the morning of the 6th. Mrs. Chandler Woods was slightly injured by jumping, and one. man had a leg badly hurt A number of woodsmen stopping at the hotel lost their winter’s wages. A number o;( homes, cows ami bogs wbiob were In the Ht*bi« wer* Wlls4

STATE INTELLIGE NCE.

Medley Gibson, of Columbus, aged fifty-six years, was throyn from a road wagon l>y a team of runaway horses and his thigh broken. Dr. F. 1’iulk was called to reduce the frac ;ure. He gave his patient chloroform ani insrnt death ensued. James Hubbard, of Mupletin, on the 27th, celebrated his on t hundred and fifth birth day anniversary, and the event marked the gathering of many friends and relatives. He settled at Lawrenceburg in 1812, bit followed his children to Mapleton n any fears ago. Altogether there are ten chili :ren, with forty-seven grand, seventy gieat-grand and ten great-great gram children. Jacob Cline, of St. Jt-seph City, has brought suit for 5400 against John and Catherine Ffaffenbach for pulling his whiskers. > ■_ The Chicago and Indiana Coal Company is the name of a new corporation now fbiming for operating coal mines in Clay, Parke, Vigo, Sullivan and other counties in Indiana and Illinois. Billy Sharp, supposed to he the oldest veteran in Indiana, was found dead in hi3 bed the other morni ng, in La- . Porte. He was ninety years old, a member of Hathaway Post, G. A. R., and served in Company H, Twen ty-ninth Indiana Volunteers. Charles Dessow.a grocery dealer of LaPorte, mysteriously disappeared recently. It is thought he wandered away during a fit of temporary insanity. Larky G. Beck, a prominent young attorney of Delphi, was shot through and through by a burglar the other night, who wasgoing through Mr. Beck's residence when the attorney discovered him. He jumped out of bed and grappled with the intruder, when the burglar shot him, thp bullet en tering the right breast. The burglar escaped. Mr. Beck, on the 29th, was lying in a very dangerous condition. Tiie following fourth-class postmasters were commission®i a few days ago: Ashboro, Clay County, E. G. O’Brien; Ceylon,'Adams County, J. L. Love; Don Juan, Perry County, S. B. Peckinpaugh; Foster’s Bilge, Perry County, J. C. Foster; German Rjdge, Perfy County, P. Maier; Siberia, Perry County, J. Bender. The wheat throughout Southern Indiana is damaged by the recunt freezing weather from 15 to 20 |k)r cent. Wheat which had a good stand is uninjured. The greastest loss is upon hilly and

JIW1 ltIUUS. A I. ice, the two-year-old daughter of Edward Alexander, living eight miles north of Shelbyville, was fatally burned by her clothes catching fire from the stove. Mrs. Dorsey, a neigh bor, had her lands and arms burned while trying to extinguish the flames. The school enumeration of Crawfordsvillo shows that there are 3,431 white •children thfere: of this number 1,213 are boys and 1,219 are girls. There are also 153 colored children of school age, sev-enty-eight being females and seventyfive males. Samuel Smith has filed suit at Columbus against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, operating the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis road, for $14,000 damages for injuries received in a wreck last May. Grant Sherman was lodged in jail at Logansport on a charge of horse-steal-ing. lie is a member of a gang that has been operating for a. long time in the counties of Cass, White, Fulton^Miami and Pulaski. The journeymen coopers, of Indianapolis, on a strike against a reduction of wages, have accepted a compromise of thirty cents for the summer rate, and returned to work. A Muncie man named Wm. Sayre, has reappeared after a mysterious absence of thirty-eight years. Fraxcis M. Pritchett, of Little Point, Morgan County, has fallen heir, l>y the death of an uncle, to $100,000. Hexkt Sciirivklbine, a young farmer near Madison, was drowneef-while crossing Plum creek in a boat. Ei> Siierman, thought to be a professional cracksman, was arrested at Wabash, the other day. Cowardly White Cups cruelly beat an old soldier with clubs in Orange County. Henry Parker is in the Vanderburg county jail for making un exhibition of sublime nerve. He borrowed a team of Alexander Darling and used the same to haul off several loads ol Darling’s corn, which he sold in Evansville. The othernightthievi smadearaid on A. F. Wilden’s st^re at Hast Goshen and carried away $309 wc th of goods in wagons. They also ci aclced the safe, but got nothing. This I s the tenth robbery there with in two < /Oeks, and there is no clew. William Justin was Tilled by a falling tree near Muncie. Mrs. Wm. Rectinwai.d, of Jeffersonville, while insane, suicided by cutting her throat and wrists w th a razor. David Chambers was found dead on the railroad track near Harrodsburg, The immense starch actories at Madison, owned by Messrs. R. Johnson & Son and John Clemen ts & Son, have been sold to the National Starch Manufacturers’ Association, and will be managed by a board of di -ectors. The establishments will be rum as heretofore. The Reeves Pulley Works, recently established at Columbus, will be re

moved to Kokomo. The residence of Frederick Wesson, in the suburbs of Fort Wayne, was burned recently, and Mr. Wesson, overcome by the smoke, fell into the flames and was fatally burned. The commissioners of Tippecanoe County have rescinded the right of way of a the electric street railway over the new bridge across the Wabash at Lafayette, and ordered the track removed from the levee. Litigation will result An unknown assassin shot at Jeremiah Wheeler, a young farmer of Shelby County, while he was returning home the other evening, wounding him severely. A few nights before a stranger' waylaid and attempted to stab him. Wn. Watson and Samuel Fisher were sentenced at Columbus to ten and five years respectively, in the penitentiary for highway robbery. The 555,000 breach of promise suit brought by Miss Sallie Drake against Enos M. Campbell, in the Clay County Circuit Court, was decided against the plaintiff. A foitb-foot vein of block coag^han been struck at Clay City, at a depth of 116 feet. Under the coal vein is a rich deposit of clay suitable for fire-brick, terra cotta, sewer-pipe and other purposes. A man named Webb, under arrest for assaulting Wm. Trainer, tried to escape from his guards, near Poseyville, and broke two hoada with a club before fyj

THE PENSION BUREAU.

CmmUnoiMr Baum Getting the Work-or 'the Pension Korean Down to a System, and the l&aamtnation and Adjudication 'if Casas Wnj Materially Expedited. Washington, April7.—General Baum, Coffimissionor of Pensions, on Saturday submitted the following report of rapid progress recently made in adjudicating claims: Bn. Jots IT. Kotte, Starters »/ the Interior: snt—On the 2S(1 of December last X issued sn order requiring that an examination of the claims pending in the office should be made and that all cases which appeared to be complete should bo placed upon what X denominated the “completed flics.’’ As a result of this 'examination, 30,837 coses were placed Upon this list, and the adjudicating divisions were required to spen d flve days In each week in their examinations. Some days later I 'issued a further order which provided that claims would be placed upon the “completed flics,” upon the Application 011 the claimants or their attorneys upon a proper statement of tacts showing that the cases were complete. Since the issuing of that order 25,533 cases have, upon motion, been placed upon the “completed flies” in all 56,207. During the past three months 52,25® of these cases have been acted upon, and there now remains but 3,978 cases on the “completed flies," and applications at the rate, upon an average, of 150 per day are received for placing cases upon these flies. These orders also required that one day in each week should be devoted by the adjudicating divisions exclusively to making calls for additional evidence in {lending claims. Is a result of this arrangement for the transaction of the business of the office, we are sow sending out calls in about flfty thousand eases per month, and adjudicating ever sixteen thousand cases per month, so that we are actually handling about sixtysix thousand cases per month. During the month just ended, 16,374 pension certificates were issued, being, as I find from the records, the largest month’s work tver performed by the bureau. Of these, 1,183 were original applications. During the past flve days 3,540 certificates were Issued, of which 2,(81 were originals. I take pleasure in informing you that the. business of tie office is now in such a condition that eveiy claim placed upon the "completed flies” trill be taken up and acted upon within the week billowing the day it is so placed upon the files. As the business is now arranged in the office, I will be able, by tho last of May, to cause the examination of every claim pending iji the office on the first day of January last; have every claim allowed that is completed and calls for evidence made in those not' completed. It is proper to state that we have a section tin each adjudicating division for issuing orders for medical examination in all pending claims for increase of pension. These examinations, when made, will fix the date uppn which the increase of pension will begin, where parties are entitled to increase, and In a very short time the work of ordering those examinations will dispose of the accumulated business, after (Thick time the orders for examination in new cases will be made from day to day as the cases are filed In the office. Very respectfully, Gixsn B. Ha cm, Commissioner. THE CATFISH POINT CREVASSE.

Thirteen Hkindred Feet Wide at hast Accounts—Sad Condition or ABhirs in the Sunflower Lowlands — Three Women Drowned while Fleeing Before the Flood. Greenville, Miss., April 6.—The crevasse at Catfish Point was 1,300 feet wide and increasing at last reports. The water from there reached Greenville yesterday morning, and is flooding the first floors of buildings. Parties arriving here by skiff from Greenwood report a sad condition of affairs in the Sunflower lowlands. Plantations are submerged and buildings are being washed away into the , swamps. The colored people are huddled, upon the levees, hungry, cold and shelterless, Many are likely to die of exposure if aid is not received. Tents, food and clothing are greatly needed. The Government boats are doing what they can, but they can not cover the entire field. Friday while a colored man with three women, in a skiff, were fleeing from the approaching flood in the Bogue country on the Georgia Pacific railroad, the skiff commenced to leak, and before any assistance could be rendered them, the whole party went down. The man had a narrow escape, but the three women were drowned. OVER THE FALLS. William A. Welch, a Farm Foreman, Supposed to Have Been Carried Over the Falls of Niagara. Niagara Falls, N. Y., April 6.— Wm. A. Welch, who has for several years held the position of foreman on H. C. Howard’s farm near LaSalle, is missing, and there seems but little doubt tha'i he was carried over the falls. On the evening of March 27 he was seen by his step-son to go out into the river opposite Mr. Howard’s residence to set a night line. A search along the river began Friday. An oar with the name of the missing man was picked up below the Falls, and a short time afterward a portion of a boat which proved to be a parti of the side of the boat belonging to Howard, was caught, which makes it almost certain that Welch was aarried over the precipice. Welch was about forty years old, and leaves a widow and step-son. The Maryland Treasury Steal. BALTiMoiiEv Md., April 7.—The Legislative feemraittee authorized to investigate the accounts of State Treasurer Aroher commenced its work in this city Saturday. A number of bank presidents and cashiers and stock brokers, with or through whom Archer disposed of the. State's securities, were examined. One witness, C. C. Shriver, president of the Metropolitan Savings Bank, swore positively that the first transaction (96,000) was made with Archer in the Safe-deposit building, wherein the State securities were kept in a vault, and that the State Treasurer handed him/the bonds there as collateral. The amount of the defalcation is now known to bo at least $192,700. The Btrlke is On. Chicago. April 7.—The Carpenters’ Council declared, Saturday night at twelve o'clock, thatthe strike was on or would be this morning. About seventyflve delegates were present representing over six thousand men. Until twelve o’clock the council was prepared to receive any committee from the Master Car penters’ Association with a view to arbitration, but no committee appeared. The object of the strike, is to make forty cents an hour the minimum wages;; to secure an eight-hour work-day, and to bring about a recognition of the council from the employers. SnppoMd Incendiary Fire in the New York Custom-House. New York, April 6.—A Are occurred last evening' in the room on the fifth floor of the custom-hohse which is used for the storage of drawback vouchers, ledgers, etc. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The flames were observed in time to prevent much damage to the building. The books and papers were scorched, hot it is believed that no records were entirely destroyed. The firemen very finely expressed their belief that the firo was an inoendiary one. Indited they claimed that there vvps no •rtltef t) wwenirt Ifc

TME WHITE HOUSE AUTOCRAT.

Jim—Good morning, Bpa.

The Grandson—Mr. Mo Kao, if yon please.—Pucki ON DANGEROUS GROUND. The tiea »f the C. O. f. Is K»» Qnlj a gnntioF, of Heaths. Power is often taore fatal than the lack of it, and the Republicans at Washington seem to have gotten themselves into a pretty pickle. They have not chosen the straight ana narrow path, and consequently they have wandered very deep into the wilderness.. In their effort to revise the tariff by increasing its wrongs under the pretense of alleviating them, they have incurred the just wrath of every section of thd country. They have found it impossible to graduate the evil with such nicety that no man can say that he does not endure a more grievous weight than is inflicted upon his neighbor, and in consequence they find themselves very nearly at their wits’ end for remedies. Since the McKinley tariff abomNation was proposed to an astonished public, protests against the manifest and startling evils of the bill have been pouring in. That it would create a tariff for prohibition, and not for revenue, is becoming evident oven to these who do not usually disturb their brains with this very important but. sometimes vexing question, and since the people have begun to recover from the surprise caused by the bold iniquity of the measure they do not hesitate to make known their opinion in decided, words, bringing grief to the hearts of those who cling to the decayed doctrine that the Republican party, like the King,

The sugar-maker* first raised th* ery of bad treatment. Louisiana, Kansas and California have sounded the slogan of battle. Republican members from sugar districts say that the party lash may be laid hard and often upon their backs, but tbey will not respond to its sting, as tbey can not neglect the interests of thoirconstituents for the sake of party fealty. If this bill goes through they claim that their districts will be ruined, and it will have to be said that the Republicans did it We suspect, however, that some of these gentlemen talk a little too loud, and when the time of action comes will vote as' their leaders dictate, for the Republican party has ever been a well-disci-plined one, and allows little rebellion in its ranks. But neither their adherence nor theiT defection can smother the discontent in their districts, and the sanctified Republican party must answerfor it. The Republicans might withstand the sugar question if that was the only evil, but as misfortunes never .come singly, they are oppressed by a cloud of complaints caused by this bill of their’s. Delegations from all the great cities representing the canning interests are hurrying in an angry multitude upon Washington to protest against the placing of such a heavy duty upon tinplate. Verily, when Mr. McKinley sees them coming he will flee like the ostrich and hide his head-in the sand, for he knows that he can make no sufficient answer to their reproaches. In slang parlance sugar and tin are correlative terms, and, perhaps, the Republicans hope to neutralise evils by cutting the duty down on one and putting it upon the ether. They abolish the major port of ono revenue tariff and double another, and while they are wrestling with those who object to such a wonderful way of doing things, they must take a turn with the hide men. In these days of her old age and faultfinding New England picks many a flaw in the high tariff which she formerly thought came direct from Heaven to bless and enrich mankind in general, and New England in particular, and our Republican brethren find themselves enable to gratify her wishes. With free hides New England manufacturers have built up a large export trade in manufactures of leather, and they have made their part of the country the center of our leather interests. Since the McKinley tariff bill was proposed they are all in a tremble with indignation and fear. If this duty is placed on hides what is going to become of their business? Prompt to act, they are sending pretests By the train-load to Washington, and as\the loss of six Republican districts in New England is threatened, it is said that Mr. McKinley will not bs able to withstand the pressure, and will with the majority vote to strike out the hide clause from his hill. These are only the three more important propositions,.for which the Republicans have been heng upon the spit and roasted over the soa’s by their .own brethren. They are compelled to endure the evils of lead ores and other such things until they must wish that the tariff and ail its belongings were at the bottom of the deep blue sea. Added to the responsibilities of such an erratic tariff measure as that proposed by the committee are the evilp of their pension policy. Who can fever lead them out of the mazes into which their devious course has led them? Having promised hundreds of millions more country would endure, how are they going to release themselves from the weight of their obligations? A better - party than the Republican could scarcely escape from such difficulties. The pension system and the tariff/ system are a sufficient load to wrack any ship. The thousands of complaints against the McKinley bill shdp what an artificial and unnatural structure the high tariff is. It Is impossible to construct it so that all people may be treated alike .--It is the most gigantic instrument of fraud and oppression over devised, and the growing intelligence uf the human race revolts at both its theory and its practice,— Louisville Courier-Journal. -The tariff question has grown broad to b* sinefesd by s small jjolii tioian lifer- MoEWry. Lhtfin 'fir, public '

ROBB^feBY PROTECTION.

Vh* nrm«r Betrayed by ate SellUh end Hypocritical Frlendu. The average Republican farmer to rsry sincere and honest in his political opinions, but deeply infatuated with the power and grandeur of the "grand old party," so infatuated that he is"impatient of the least thing that would impute fallibility to such a "splendid, organization.'* Protection has given prosperity to American industry and saved the American toiler from the degradation of pauper labor in Europe. Protection has given to us farmers a matchless home market for the sale of every thing we can produce. He will say: "Perhaps we pay a spall tribute to protection as well as a small tax to the Government, but that is but casting our bread upon the waters, to return ere many days to us a thousand-fold in the increase of our home market and general welfare and blessings to all the people. ’ Tell him that his nearest railroad depot Is his home market; tell him that for every thing ho sells there the price is fixed in the free-trade market of the world, at Liverpool, Eng.; that ocean freight, railroad freight, commission charges, etc., are deducted out of the price ruling in the free-trade market of Liverpool. -The largest portion of his sales may never smell salt water,* yet he has paid the freight to Liverpool, or, in other words; it was deducted from the free-trade market price. Tell him that all imported goods have added to the price the ocean freight. All American goods sell for the same price as the imported, and although they never smelt salt water, yet protection enables the home market to add the ocean freight on all American goods. Teii him ho pays all freight on all he sells to the free trade Liverpool market and pays all freight on all he buys of protected American goods to bis depot home market, and that the entire freight business of, all theqe great railroads comes out of the farmers’ pockets. Tell him that he pays a tribute of about sixty .per cent, to protection and a tax of the same to Government on every thing he consumes of goods taxed for the benefit of protection to American industry and he stares at you with open-eyed wonder and amazement —for there is the blessing of a home market and the terrible image of British free .trade, that to him is some undefined horror, that threatens ruin and bankruptcy to the whole Nation, tie believes all this as he believes and has faith ih his religion. Long time ago an old man and his son went to the woods to hunt squirrels. The old man soon found a squirrel on the top branches of a tall tree, aimed and fired, and when the

smoke cleared away tbe squirrel was still there. He aimed and fired again; still the squirrel remained stationary. The son came up qp hearing the report of shots a1}d said: “Dad, let me have a crack at him and I’ll bring him down.” The son looked tree all over -but could see no squirrel. He said: “Dad, there ain’t no squirrel on that tree. The squirrel that’s on that tree, dad, is all in yer eye. Yer mustin git mad at a feller fur telling ye, dad, that I see * louse in yer eye-lashes, and every time yese looks up yese takes the crawler fur a squirrel, dad.” Alas! Alas! the splendor bestowed upon the Republican party—Lincoln, Chase, Sumner, Seward and Greeley—has faded away, and the pleasing dreams to be realised to the tillers of the soil through protection to American industry hare all proved to be myths, and the golden promises of a home market for all the fruits of his industry are all in their eyes. The poor homesteader of the plains of Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas is stUl dwelling in bis dugout or sod hut, clothed in rags; the water runs through his broken shoes, the cold wind blows the rain through his old hat, and his heart is filled with sorrow for the suffering of his wife and children who freeze for the want of clothing and coal, while the poor miner in the coal regions suffers for the want of corn. The protection and Government tax on the tattered remnant on his body, when new, made the cost enough for two such suits. Oh! how protection has blessed the tiller of the soil!—John T. Lindsay, ih Chicago Herald. NOTES AND COMMENTS. -Senator Blair is completely prostrated by the vote on his eduoationa! bill. So is the bill.—Philadelphia Press (Rep). -Congressman McKinley should whisper into his phonograph: “Whoe the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”—Shoe and Leather Review. -Webster’s unabridged dictionary contains less than one-half the number of words contained in Senator Blair’: speech on the education bill, hut it ha' the advantage of telling something nev all the way through.—Utica Herald. —r-What the farmers of this country are suffering most from is a system o taxation which compels them to sel their products at the lowest prices anc buy their supplies, at the highest, an: drains their resources to sweU the pre fits of “protected” capitalists.—N. Y Times. :-Henry Wildeye Blair failed t force his everlasting education bil i || through the Senate, and it seems to b about time for him to fulfill his threa' made a short time ago, to leave the Re publican party. It is rumored that th post of envoy, extraordinary to the oourM of Luna wiU he offered him.—N. 1 Sun. -The most singularly idiotic per sion scheme that has yet been put fort is that of Senator Ingalls, who wan* pensions granted to women who m* hereafter marry disabled veterans, wit i fe the additional advantage to the latte oi procuring a divorce whenever deeme necessary at an expense of $5. Befor long it is likely to be a mark of dir tiuction for a citizen to draw no pensic from the Government. — Philadelph? Record. ' -f--The unseating of Democrats i the House of Representatives is golf on without any .reference whatever t the evidence presented. It is done c the broad plea of the contestant in tt V Catchings case, who declines to figure majority, -but • claims a seat on tt ground that Democrats are such unco amenable rascals that more Republioa; fchan Democrats must have voted.—£ Louis Republic -Cotton exports prove nothir against the freegjaw-material argume—at least their smaUness now prov nothing. Were the duties t?.ken off, ho aver, from the raw materials that ent into the construction of the maohiner sc that the latter could be obtained less cost, there would in all probabili be so much more profit in the busine that the number of mUls would inores until the production outstripped t home requirement* and the Southe market* would be considered worthy