Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 May 1890 — Page 1

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THE WOULD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily ff'ews. CONGRESSIONAL. An informal discussion took place >B the Senate on the 28th as to the best method of securing the Mississippi against overflows. Senator Blackburn introduced a bill for the admission of Arizona, when the Land Forfeiture bill again came up and was f urther discussed. The tact was soon disclosed that no quorum was present and the Senate adjourned_The session of the House was of 1 ttle or no interest. The conierence report on the bill for a public building at Fre mont. Neb. (limiting the cost to leMWO), was agreed to. The message of the President vetoing the bill to allow Ogden, Utah, to increase Its indebtedness was laid before the House. The remainder of the sitting of the House .was in Committee of the Whole. The Senate on the 29th had a lengthy squabble over the Land Forfeiture bill and it was finally passed. Senator Platt offered a concurrent resolution, which was agreed to, requesting the President to return the Oklahoma bill for the collection of a clerical error. Senator McPherson introluced a bill granting a pension of {2Ji 0 a year to the widow of General George B. McClellan. The bill to simplify the laws for the collection of revenues was then considered until adjournment_The House concurred in the Senate resolution for tho irrigation of arid lands in the valley of the j Rio Grande. After disposing of unimportant business the House went into Cornmit- | tee of the Whole on the bill for the classification of worsted cloths as woolen, which was considered until adjournment. IN the Senate on the 30th Senator Dolph reported a concurrent resolution requesting the President to negotiate with Great Britain and Mexico for treaty stipulations to prevent the entry of Chinese from Canada and Mexico into the United States. The conference report on the bill for a public building at Fremont, Neb., was agreed to, and a resolution adopted correcting the clerical error in the Oklahoma bilL The Customs Administrative bill was then debated until adjournment....The House further eon - side red and finally passed the bill for the classification- of worsted poods .as woolens. Mr. McKinley, from the. Committee on Rules, reported a resoiut'on for the immediate consideration of the Dependent Pension bill to which the Morrill Service Pension bill may be offered as a substitute tho previous question to be considered ordered at four o’clock. Mr. Carlisle

protested against tile adoption or a resolution of this character which rushed through money bills without debate in Committee of the Whole, especially as this bill invoiced an expenditure of $10,000,00% A long debate followed but the resolution was adopted. The bill was then taken up and the Morrill bill, substituted for the Senate bill and passed by a vote of 179 to 70. Adjourned. Is the Senate on May 1 Senator Vest from the Select Committee on Meat Products, made a lengthy report accompanied with an explanation recommending Jour measures for the consideration of the Senate, via : Negotiations with England to bring about a modification cf existing quarantine laws; a National inspection law; to prohibit a shipping monopoly, and to prevent discrimination In cattle shipments by trunk lines east from .^Chicago. The Customs Administrative bill was then considered until adjournment_in the House the Senate bi 1 to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies was considered in Committee of the Whole for some time and passed. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 2d Senator Vest introduced a bill amending the Inter state Commerce act so as to bring express compan ies under its provisions Mr. Dolph’sresolution requesting the President to negotiate with Great Britain and Mexico with Che view of preventing the entry of Chinese laborers Into the United States was agreed to. The Dependent Pension bill was received from the House and referred. 7 he Customs Administrative bill was then discussed at length and finally passed. The conference report on the Oklahoma Town-sites bill was agreed to and the Senitte adjourned...In the House the Copyright bill was discussed all day and finally defeated by yeas 9', nays i& Pending a motion to reconsider the recess hour arrived. Private pension bills were considered at the evening session. WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has refused to pardon Lafayette Tell and Jason Stilley, Indian Territory murderers under sentence of death at Fort Smith, Ark. The United States Supreme Court, on a test case from Iowa, has decided that licyror-in original packages shipped from one State to another can not be interfered with under State law. Justices Gray, Harlan and Brewer dissented. The President on the 29th vetoed the bill for an additional wing to the public building at Dallas, Tex., which was to have cost §200,000. He thought the appropriation extrayagant. ' The President has respited for four weeks Benjamin -Hawkins and Lewis Williams, sentenced to be hanged in Washington for murder. Ex-Pkesident Cleveland appeared before the Supreme Court at Washington on the 1st and on motion of Mr. Garland was admitted to practice before that body. The public debt statement showed a decrease during the month of April of $7,636,901. Tbe President on the 2d approved the act for a Territorial Government in Oklahoma. Another error has since been discovered in the act, the date of the President’s proclamation being given as April 1, 1889, when it should have been March 23, 1889. Se<5beta«y Windom states that his silver measure did not contemplate a contraction of tb^ currency as had beer alleged._

' T IE EAST. The cotton brokers of New York have signed a protest against the proposedButterworth Anti-Option bill now before Congress. The big anthracite coal mines near Mahanoy Plane, Pa., have dosed down for an indefinite period. Fibe at De B.uyter, N. Y., destroyed four stores and eighteen dwellings, causing #75,000 loss. The Superior Court,of Massachusetts has virtually decided in a test case that compulsory vaccination is lawful. The Homestead Bank of New York has closed its doors. A boat containing four men was capsized on the lake at Newport, Vt., the other night and three of the men were drowned. They were Ed Foss,'clerk at the Memphremagog House, Ned Green and Joe Robitaile. The failure of the Keystone Watch Company, of Lancaster, Pa,, is expected to cost the stockholders half a mil ion dollars. Frauds are alleged. The New York Independent publishes returns from 193 Presbyteries in the vote on revision of the Westminster confession of faith. Of these 127 haw voted for and Cl against revision and five have not voted at all. There are, yet twenty Presbyteries to be heard from. Daniel Rooebs, -ordained for the Roman Catholic priesthood in Philadelphia, but expelled for a scandal, fatally inhaled gas from a pit in Pittsburgh, Pa., recently. Vessels arriving at Gloucester, Mass., report that the Newfoundland bait law is enforced with the utmost strictness. fleshless skuf, supposed to be ,t of Hiram Sawtelle, has been found iween Cornish and Limerick, Me. execution of Keinmler by elecat Auburn. N. Y., has been postuntil June or longer, an attorney obtanel a writ of habeas corpus ie United States Circuit Court Pennsylvania Democratic tonlias been celled lor Scranton

By the explosion of a furnace at the Edgar Thompson steel wo^k£ at Braddocks, Pa., four men "Waffe* terribly burned by molten iron. “** Aooupuus Bobety and Frank Wells, each aged seventeen, were drowned in the Bedhawk river near Schenectady, N. Y., while returning from a fishing trip. Powdebly, of the Knights of Labor, is out with his views on the eight-hour movement. He thinks a good deal of the profit-sharing scheme. Seventeen Italian laborers at Squires’ packing house, at Boston, were savagely attacked by the strikers, and several of them were seriously wounded. The New York Assembly has adopted the report exonerating Judge Bookstaver frcm the charges of improper conduct in the Flack divorce case. The vote TO to 52. Boston longshoremen have refused to handle the boycotted pork of John B. Squires & Co. intended for shipment abroad. The grand jury has indicted the proprietors of the New York World for criminal libel tfffndgt Henry Hilton, growing out of the recent newspaper articles accusing Hilton of disreputable acts in connection with the A. T. Stewart estate. The Bank of America, one of the oldest in Philadelphia, has suspended. The Pennsylvania railroad directors at a meeting in Philadelphia declared a dividend of 3 per cent • The lower house of the New York Legislature has passed a bill abolishing capital punishment by the vote of 75 to 29. The body of E. D. Walker, editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York, has been found floating in the Boanoke river in Virginia with his hand grasping a fishing rod. The Merchants’ Bank at Atlantic, N. J., has suspended. The Baptist and Catholic churches and the Catholic parsonage at WestBoylston, Mass., were burned to the ground recently.

THE WEST. The Magnetic barge was sunk recently nearSault Ste. Marie, Mich., after collision with the tug Continental, on which a fire had broken out and which in the confusion struck the barge. The Willard tract, comprising seventy acres on the lake at Chicago just north of Jackson park, has been sold for 8850,000. The noteworthy feature was the fact that Willard paid but 8175 for the entire tract, having entered the land in the 50’s at a cost of $2.50 an acre. At Marengo, Wis., recently two small sons of Anton Foraker were crushed to death under a pine tree which Foraker was cutting down. The picture of “The Rag Pickers” by J. Bufferdinger, of Munich, valued at 81,000, has been stolen from a gallery in Chicago. Ole Sandberg and his eleven-year-old son were poisoned recently at Fergus Falls, Minn., by eat'ng wild parsnips. The boy died but his father recovered. High water at Rock Island, 111., washed away 50,000 yards of earth of the new power dam of the Government arsenal island and did other damage to the amount of 830,000. Two Finn laborers were dashed to death recently by a fall down a shaft 100 feet deep, near Negaunee, Mich. An Indian named Anasticio Ugo, who had been arrested for horse stealing, was taken from a box car at Hanning, Cal,, by vigilantes and hanged to a telegraph pole. Conductors on roads centering at Indianapolis, Ind., are smarting under wholesale discharges. It seems a sneak of a spotter obtained free transportation from conductors by giving the Masonic sign of distress. He then reported the conductors who showed him the favors and they were discharged. McAbee and Corcoran, two aldermen, and four others have been indicted for election frauds in Chicago. Marcus Moiller Thrane, who organized the first labor movement in Norway and was imprisoned in 1850 for advocating republics in all Europe in his paper in Christiana, Norway, died at Eau Claire, Wis., recently, aged seventy-two. C. Jj. Billingsley, a wealthy contractor of St. Paul, Minn., has been crushed to death by the overturning of a house he was moving. The Salvation Army at Des Moines, Iowa, has been arrested for parading contrary to prders. The stage running from Bowie to Thomas, Ariz., was stopped by two Mexicans. The express matter was taken and the passengers compelled to surrender their valuables. Charles F. Wright, who shot and killed Sheriff Marshall and Deputy Thurber at ISensonia, Mich., last August, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. By an explosion of natural gas in a cracker factory at Fort Wayne, Ind., the building was wrecked and one man fatally hurt. A misplaced switch at Castroville, Col., caused the wrecking of a freight train and the death of a fireman. The engineer stuck to his post and was not hurt. *

Strikes in Chicago planing and iron mills and reaper works were declared on the 2d for the eight hour day. The master carpenters, it was reported, were ready to make the concession. At Chicago George Sleaver is seeking to establish a common law marriage with Alice M. Case in order to get a divorce recorded. This is the first instance where a man has sought to establish* the fact of such a marriage, though several women have done so. Passenger tickets from Kansas City to St. Louis were selling as low as S3.50 on the 2d. By a collision at a railroad crossing at Lima, O., recently an engineer and two tramps were killed. Daniel Dustin is the new assistant United States treasurer at Chicago. THE SOUTH. Some excitement prevailed at Nottingham, Ala., over the disappearance oi Garry Pittman, cashier of the Bank ol Nottingham. Pittman was also treasurer of Albany, Ga. The loss of the bank was not known. One convict was killed and anothei fatally wounded in trying to escape from the conviot camp south of Black Jack, Tex., the other day. Two others got away. The steamer II. B. Plant was burned recently on the St. Johns river 108 miles south of Jacksonville, Fla. Three colored men were drowned. Take Ackerman, a notorious thief, was shot dead recently in a police court at Memphis, Tenn., by his wife, whom he had been beating. C. L. Maxwell, a young farmer living near Forestburg, Tex., who went into the Indian Territory several days ago with con iderable money, has not been heard from since and it is feared he been tnurdwsd for his money,

The survivors of the terrible Sultana disaster on the Mississippi river near Memphis, April 27, 1865, held their annual reunion at Adrian, Mich., on the 29th. A hurricane passed through Blooming Grovg, Tex., on the 1st Many residences and the Baptist Church were demolished. There was a report that the WellsFargo messenger on the Southern Pacific train bad been robbed of $45,000 at Eagleville, Tex. . general. A bill has been introduced in the Spanish Cortes to prohibit the working of boys under ten and girls under twelve and to fix the hours of labor for all children. Captain Schmidt, who sold the plans of the Kussian fortifications at Cron; stadt, was shot secretly in the fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul. Twelve Anarchists were arrested in Paris the other day. Among them were the Marquis De Mores, his secretary, M. Mondac. and M. Prevost, secretary of the Hair Dressers’ Union. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has passed the bill granting an indefinite number of terms to Presidents, if elected. Canadian farmers have made successful experiments with sugar beets, and this year a large area will be planted. A letter from St. Petersburg says the Czar was afraid to pass May day in Gatschina and that this was the motive of his sudden return to St. Petersburg. An intimation had reached the imperial ears that the day might be made memorable in a way terrible to the Czar, and it was thought best to be intrenched at St Petersburgh. Sir Francis de Wintox has definitely accepted the Governorship of the British East Africa Company. An expedition under Mr. Jackson, an officer of the British East Africa Company, has arrived at Uganda and concluded treaties with MwaUga and other chiefs, placing Uganda exclusively unE(der British influence. A fight with rifles between union and non-union fishermen on the Columbia river resulted in one man being killed and two seriously wounded. De Mores, arrested in Paris recently, is said to be implicated in an Orleanist plot and not in an Anarchist uprising.

Asr insurrection • has broken out in Paraguay. Several persons have been killed and many wounded. There was a conflict with the police in an eight-honr demonstration at The Hague on the 30th. The Irish Land Purchase bill passed the House of Commons on its second reading by 348 to 268. 5, Two little girls were struck by an express train while playing on the railroad track at Norwood, Ont. One was killed and the other fatally injured. Excited French workingmen on the Place do la Concorde, Paris, were charged by a squadron of cavalry on the 1st. Several were wounded and many were arrested. During the labor demonstration at Pesth, Hungary, on the 1st a riot occurred at the rolling mills. The mob was charged by the military and several persons received bayonet stabs. The forebodings concerning laboi demonstrations of the 1st of May were quite unnecessary. In the United States carpenters struck in a few cities and peaceable demonstrations took place, the most notable being the one at Chicago. Herr Barnay, the German tragedian, celebrated his jubilee on the 2d. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended May 1 numbered 311, compared with 218 the previous week and 214 the corresponding week of last year. Stanley will retain his American citizenship. A change might possibly vitiate the copyright of his books in this country. A commissary of police accompanied by a number of gendarmes went to the house of a Russian Jew in Sofia, Bulgaria, to search for seditions documents. The Jew resisted, and procuring a revolver shot and killed the commissary . The theft of the jewels of the Duchess of Edinburgh is stated to be an irreparable loss. An Israelite named Solomon is charged with robbing the Bank of Bengal of “550,000. _

, TU£ LATEST. IK tha Senate, on the 3d, the resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the export and import of gold andr silver during the calendar year 1889, was agreed to. The Senate then proceeded to the jouaideration of bills on the calendar, and had passed two or three of no general interest, when, at ft quarter-past four o’clock, a dispatch was read by the presiding officor, in a voice betraying deep emotion, announcing the sudden death of Senator Beck, of Kentucky, in the Baltimore & Ohio railway station, whereupon the Senate immediately adjourned.In the House the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole and passed. The House also passed the joint resolution appropriating $17,000,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi river from the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio. While workmen were hoisting the statue of “Justice,” weighing four tons, to the fifth story of the new Government building in Philadelphia, on the 8d, the derrick broke, letting the statue tall to the ground. Thomas Carry, a laborer, was struck by the falling derrick and instantly killed. A large ornamental stone was also broken and the sidewalk damaged. The statue, however, is uninjured by its fall of five stories. A rapid rise in the Coeur D’Alene lake and the Spokane river and its trj.buties has been caused by the melting of snow in the mountains. In the lowlands many families have been competed to move, and the mayor has notified property-owners, advising them to employ watchmen to guard their property A rich citizen of Weimar, Germany, named Doebeeriner was, on the 3d, sentenced to nine months imprisonment for insulting Miss Lemmer, an American lady. Aotion in the case, however, was only secured after an appeal had bsen made to the American consul. Washington correspondents of loading newspapers to the number of sixtyfive were entertained by an old-fash-ioned barbecue at Atlanta, Ga., on the 3d. The day was spent in> the woods, dining, speaking, singing and swopping war stories. In accordance with the opinion of Attorney-General Huston, of Michigan about 1,500 of the veterans of the lata War in that State are entitled to •100bounties. This third oil well was struck in Terra Haute, Ind., on the 3d, It :is located wi thin | block of the center tf the city.

STATE INTELLIGENCE. A queer tgal fight is on at Ifew Haven, betwe: n Charles William son and the Sunday-t/osing people. The law closed his cl|-ar store on Sunday. He placed a slot cigar machine outsi de with which he has nothing to do on Sunday, ■foe lawyers n re in a quandry and don't know who is guilty, Williamson <r the machine. It rill undoubtedly te i test case.. . . A huge litre war eagle, ten m >nths old, was eaptii red in Crawford Com t» by one of the hill dwellers of the county, who managed to escape the huge bird's talons by throwing his overcoat ov3r it. It measures seven feet six incites from, tip to tip, and weighs fifty pounds. This kind of eagle, while lour d is abundance in the mountains of the Western Territories, is very rare ii. this pirt of the country. The Kokomo Window Glass Comp uny ’ l factory, at Kokomo, burned, a few days ago. Loss, $30,000; insurance, 1516,1 00. A "Woman’s Christian Tenpe ance Union was organized at Covin gtoi, the other day, with a membership of tl irty. Mrs. Sanford Dryden was elecaad president, and Miss Jennie Deube ■*, secretary. A freight train ran dowi Farmer Mannahan at Circleville, the ot ter evening, frightfully mangli ng him. He had been drinking. At Wallace, charged with cotrip . ©- ity in the murder of Static it Agent Trainer, at Posey ville, was. ac titled a few nights ago. The owner of a ’bus line atCi awfordsville is “Walkup,” and he is i t a peck of trouble over what to place upon his vehicle, because his own nap o might suggest_ to travelers an invi ation to “walk-up” from the depots. A four-year-old daughter of Carl Huffer, residing near Muncie, v as kicked in the head by a horse and dangerously injured. The revival in the Clyistiar Church at Crawfordsville has closed, .’ith 104 additions.

Philip Vassen, a plumber, or Port Wayne, upset a pot of molte i metal; which splashed into his face, ilinding both his eyes. While R. H. McCormick, for iman of Battles & Palmer's stone-qusi yies, at Montpelier, was picking up a dynamite cap to throw away, it exploded ind tore his right hand all to pieces. Tie wires bad rusted so that they were ;>f no account. Benjamin Long, of Loganspi rt, aged seventeen, has won the Youth’s Companion prize of $100 for the best essay on “The Patriotic Influence of tile American Flag When Raised Over the Public Schools.” Benjamin Reynolds, colore., is suing Joseph Schwartz, of Danville, for $5,000. Schwartz had Reynolds arrested for the alleged theft of 8100, which ho had mislaid and afterward found. While Everett Herley, son ol! Nixon, Herley, and a schoolmate named Charles Phillips, living nine miles northwest of Martinsville, was examining into the intricate workings of an old-fashioned pepper-box revolver during school hours, the weapon was discharged, the bullet striking Phillips in the face, wounding him severely. Nathan Bray, one of the oldest citizens of Monroe County, died at his home near Bloomington the other day, aged ninety-four years. While Clark Talbert, of Carthage, was hunting, his gun was accidentally discharged, the load entering his side. The wound may prove fatal. Julius Addison committed suicide near New Castle, because his sweetheart refused to :(ix an early date lor their marriage. English was flooded by a cloud-burst early the other morning, great damage to property being done. Dennis Barrett was kieked in the face by a horse at Terre Haute. His nose was broken and several teeth dislodged. James Phillips, section boss in the C. and I. C. yard, at Brazil, was badly and perhaps fatally Injured while load ing ties at Mecca, Parke County. The Republ icans of Park and Vermillion Counties, nominated George W. Hobson State Senator. Carpenters’ union at Ft. Wayne ha# demanded ant. will receive 82.25 per day for nine hours’ work. Brown County is attaining quite a notoriety. It has not a mile of railroad within its lim its; it boasts of the tallest man in theSlate, a Mr. George Stevens, who is little less dhan seven feet in height; the highest point of ground in the State is at the Webb Patch, where a Government weather station is located, and now Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Hicks, who reside near the latter come forward with, a boy midget four years of age. The child is oighl.een inches high and weighs but twenty pounds, and has never been sick a day. The parents are of averago ■ height and Weight. The third ;rial of John Sage, Indicted at Marion, lor murder, in the Hrst degree, has been set for May 5. He is charged with complicity in the drowning of Harry A. Cunningham, a two-year-old child, at Hartford City, eight years ago.

The remains of the man found m an alley at Terre Haute, are still unidentified. James Thompson was arrested at Columbus on the charge of violating the revenue laws. Adam Haskett, a prominent farmer, committed suicide, near Martinsville, by shooting himself. Despondency was the cause. Madison coal merchants shipped during the year 2,500 car-loads of coal to stations along the line of the J., M. A I. railroad. This year’s shipmenia promises to be much larger than those of last year, and it is expected that the number of car-loads shipped from that city will reach nearly 4,000. While boring for gas on his ground at Spencer, Calvin Flochef struck mineral water which flows at the rate of 120 barrels an hour. Ben Carberby, aged thirteen, shot Cora Benbach, aged eleven, at Brasil. They were classmates, and the girl informed the teacher of the boy’s imisconluct State Fish Commissioner Dennis will institute proceedings in the Dubois County courts against persons who have been violating the fish laws by eining n Patoka and other rivers of that rounty. Some one came pretty near retting sven with the Indianapolis 1; iggage smasher by packing a loaded ni vy revolver in a trunk. As the tru ik was iropped with the usual dull, sic lening thud, the revolver went off, sen ding a bullet within two inches of the smashSr’s head. Five prisoners t(scaped from jail at ion, on ifee 35'k

THE MERCHANTS’ BRIDGE. The Sew Structure Spanning the Mississippi at St. Louis Formally Opened for Trafte Amid Booming Cannon, Inspiring Music and the Cheers of the Assembled Multitudes — Description of the Bridge and Its Approaches. *' St. Louis, May S. —Notwithstanding the threatening clouds that hung over the city all day. tho programme of the formal opening of the Merchants’ Bridge was carried oat substantially as arranged and the ceremonial passed off in a highly ly satisfactory manner to all nniooiniijBt amid the booming of cannon and cheefB of the assembled throngs on both siddS" of the river. The structure itself, seen for the first time by many of those present, called forth many remarks of surpriso that so stupendous an undertaking could have been so quickly brought to completion, and of admiration of the simple and yet substantial character of the work, the inception and consummation ot which has covered but a comparatively brief period. ? - ■m* —

The Merchants? Bridge. The bridge has been built substantially as recommended in the report of Engineers Morison and Corthell, presented to the directors on November 2, 1887. The main superstructure may be described as three spans, each of which is a Pratt truss with a single intersec-tion-each of the diagonals intersecting with -only one post—and a curved top chord. The diagonals of the Merchants’ bridge run two panels, as they do in a double intersection truss, but the intermediate panel points are supported by struts for the top chord and the floor beams, and the* panel points are hung on suspenders to the bottom chord, so as to make a small number of pieces of great weight The spans are 517 feet 6 inches long, in eighteen panels, each 29* feet 6 inches. The trusses are 75 feet high in the center and are set 30 feet apart on centers, making room for two tracks placed 13 feet apart^ center to center. A system of diagonal and lateral bracing is carried down the posts so as to leave, a clearance of 21 feet over the railroad track, thus bracing the center part of each span for the upper 50 feet of its length. The bridge track is laid with two tracks of steel rail weighing 05 pounds to the yard, the rail fastened to the supporting timbers by the Bush interlocking bolts. This last feature is rendered necessary by the fact that each span of the main bridge has one end fixed, and one end free to move on friction rollers as the expansion or contraction of the chord may require, Hence the rail has to be so fastened as to prevent any of the “creeping” that is so conspicuous a feature of the track on the Eads’ bridge, and. the result is best achieved by the use of the interlocking bolt. The bottom chord of the bridge is 52 feet above high. water, or two feet more than the act of Congress requires for the passage of steamboats. The east approach next to the bridge consists of three spans of 125 feet, resting on cylinder piers. The tracks of the Alton, Bee Line and Wabash railroads are crossed by an iron span of 175 feet, with two masonry abutments, and th9 rest of the approach on this side, about threefifths of a mile long, consists of a wooden trestle built upon piles driven 20 to 25 feet into .the ground and standing 25 to 45 feet above the ground, all the members of the structure above ground being firmly braced and tied together. On the west side the approach nearest

the bridge consists of three spans ot 134 feet carried by open work piles resting on cylinder foundations. The overhead crossing at Angelica street has masonry abutments and steel girders. The rest of the west approach is about one-forth of a mile of trestle work and a solid embankment till tracks are reached on grade. It is probable that the trestlework of these approaches will by and by he filled in with earth, so as to make a solid embankment, after the method pursued by the St Louis Bridge Company with its trestle approach on the east side. The terminal tracks and the bridge will be operated with block system of signals, which will be put up immediately after the opening of the bridge. Toll-Houss Burned by a Mob. Chicago, May 3. — A mob of angry citizens gathered around the toll-house at the southern terminus of the Snell road at midnight last night and after removing a part of the toll-keeper’s household goods, burned the building. As soon as the building was well on fire the mob dispersed, and when the fire department arrived there was not a soul in sight save the keeper, Fred Smith, and his wife, with one or two of their friends. The men who made up the mob made no efforts to conceal their identity, and Smith and his wife recognized many of them as residents of the vioinity. Mother and Daughter Murdered In Their Bed. Bai/timoke, Md., May 8.—Mrs. Sarah Blaney, aged seventy, and her daughter, Caroline Blaney, aged forty-five, living at 1035 Sreenmount avenue, were this morning found dead in bed, their Bkulls crushed and their bodies terribly mutilated. The house had been ransacked from top to bottom. Mrs. Blaney sold some property recently, for which she received $1,800 in case. The coroner has found $000 concealed in the old woman’s bed, A grandson ot the old lady, Wm. Blgney, has been arreted OH ItlipiOiOIV

A Ut.ANGE BACKWARD. BtsaliihwofM By ttic Report of KeKtnlnj’s Tariff Committee. Every-body remembers the lordly and supercilious tone in which the Republican organs of the tariff rings discussed the Democratic efforts to reform the revenue system two years ago. The Democratic members of the ways and means committee—Messrs. Slills, Breckinridge, Bynum and others—devoted two cr three months to i|Mb preparation Jrf a tariff bill, and the Republican ■prgans reproached them for their dilaKpriness. The prgahs poked all sorts of Iran at these gentlemen because they did not report a bill within a week or two after they had taken up the question, and declared very broadly that their failure to do so was duo to their lack of general intelligence and ability to do such work, as well a3 to their shocking ignorance of practical business conditions and their want of familiarity with manufactures. The Journal of this city, taking the cue from the Eastern organs of monopoly, printed the figures showing the insignificance of the manufacturing interdbt in the Mills and Breckinridge districts, and insisted that as Mr. Mills and Mr. Breckinridge represented farmers principally, and Southern farmers at that, it was monstrous effrontery for them to assume to know any thing about tho principals of taxation, or to have any thing to say aboutthe amount of tribute that the protected ’interests should be allowed to levy upon the masses of the people., The Democratic members of the ways and means committee two years ago agreed upon a bill before submitting it to their Republican colleagues. For this they were fiercely denounced by the New York Tribune, which characterized the Mills bill as “a dirk-lantern bill”—a phrase which was echoed and re-echoed by all the other organs of the tariff rings. When the Mills bill was reported the Republican papers, before their able editors had had time to read it, assaulted it in unison in aii attack upon the business interests of .the country; which, if successful,3 was certain to throw the whole commercial world into confusion, close mills and factories all over the country, throw thousands of workingmen out of employment, reduce the wages of the rest and play smash generally. There were some people scat- . tered around the country whose unconscionable dividends the Mills bill would have cut down. Some of these people called themselves Democrats and they hurled imprecations at Cleveland, Mills and the- rest of the tariff reformers, whereupon the monopoly organs shouted in chorus: “Behold how the Democratic party is-torn up and likewise split wide open. Lo, it is demoralized and rent with internecine strife. Tariff tinkering has done the' business for it. The

Democratic party always was au ass. That is why it tackled the tariff. There is nothing like being a grand old party and possessing all the wealth, patriotism and intelligence in the country, and being led by ‘friends of protection to American industry.’ Grand old parties like that know enough not to tackle the tariff, and that is why they are always— or almost always—on top.” We are led to indulge in these reminiscences by a survey of the spectacle naw presented at Washington. The majority of the ways and means committee—composed of “friends of the tariff”—“students of markets and not of maxims”—gentlemen with highly-pro-tected potteries and such things in their districts, and therefore familiar with the business interests of the country and competent to make scientific tariffs —after working on a tariff bill twice as long as poor, ignorant Farmer Mills and his associates worked on their billhave finally produced an abortion. They thought they had a bill several times, but they changed their minds, and not until a few days ago did they know what they were going to do with sugar, wool, hides and a dozen other things. Their bill is a “dark lantern” bill, because they did jast what the Democratic members of the committee did. two- years ago—framed their measure without consulting their Democratic associates. And what a plight they are in: The leather, woolen and iron manufacturing interests of New England have been up in arms for weeks because of the additional burdens sought to be placed upon them; the carpet industry of the country protests that the McKinley measure, if it becomes a law, will involve it in absolute ruin; the sugar planters of Louisiana and the beet root theories of Kansas and other States are in a condition

Doraeriug «is uisa-muy, me wumug mterests are paralyzed. The ' g- o. p. is utterly demoralize! throughout the country; the President doesn’t seem to know whether ho is “afoot or a horseback:” Blaine, Butterworth and Hitt are talking free trade, while Crazy Horse MoKir.ley is vainly striving to apply his absurd protectionist theories to actual business conditions. In view of the assumption of superior intelligence and capacity to deal with revenue questions, in which the Republican leaders and newspapers indulged two years ago, the existing situation would be. inexpressibly absurd, if it were not fraught with such dire peril to the country.—Indinnajwlis Sentinel. sqomTngTagriculture. rho Braying- of the Donkey at the Head of the Agricultural Department. The farmers have succeeded in making an impression upon the minds of the statesmen at IVashington. Tho depression of the agricultural interests is now generally admitted, and all sorts of panaceas are suggested. Secretary Rusk, of the Agricultural Department, eomes forward with two recommendations. He thinks, in the first place, that the farmers do not entirely comprehend their business. He says they should not acquire more land than they can properly cultivate. Ho believes they lack intelligence and skill. When the farmers read this they will want Secretary Rusk’s scalp. In the second place, the Secretary recommends high rates of duty on agricultural products. In this particular the Secretary is logical. *If we are to have high rates of duty on one thing, there is no reason why we should not have similar rates on another—that is to say, if the idea of a tariff for protection is to prevail as against the tariff for revenue- But we do not believe the farmers will accept Secretary Rusk’s suggestions. They merely tend to show how small a potato is at the head of the Agricultural Department. The Secretary shows that ho is neither a farmer nor a statesman. Just how a congested “home market” is to compensate the former for t he loss of his foreign market psjsses comprehension. But if protection is » good tiling, then by all means 1st the farmers’ products he protected,

too large, then let those who nave iav toned oil the tar .ff for so long a time let the farmers go to the head of the table. —Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal. QUAY STILL ON PECK. The Charges rreferrwl against Him Do Not Worry the Does. The Republican National Committee is about to convene with reference to organization for the Congressional cam- < paign. Some conscientious, high-mind-ed Republicans have supposed that Matt Quay would receive a hint that his services as chairman will be no longer in demand. Others have fancied that Quay would feel it incumbent on himself to retire. . ■ These worthy but mistaken souls do not understand either the chairman or the organization over which he presides. Quay is a managing politician of great self-confidence and no scruple;. What does he stand charged with? Nothing serious as he and his friend^ view it. When he was Secretary for Pennsylviyua he induced the Treasurer and his cashier to let him have sums aggregating $350,000 and - more. These he gambled away personally at the gaming table and by broker on the Stock Exchange. But the State lost none of it. Did not Senator Cameron through Wayne MacVeagh adjust the whole matter without loss to the State and without public scandal? And did not Pennsylvania condone the wholeinatter by subsequently choosing Quay for State Treasurer? It is. true that electors knew nothing about the temporary deficit, so adroitly had Cameron covered it up, but their election of Quay to the responsible post— - of Treasurer is triumphantly cited as sufficient vindication of the much-ma- - ligned gentleman. Having the funds in his own hands Quay diverted $400,000 to a little speculation which, proving <- profitable to himself, left him under nc temptation to default. Quay himseli is not the man to regard these performances as calling for censure. He has no sympathy with the squeamishness that reprobates them, and will hot respond to any sentiment in his party calling for his abdication on any trifling matter g of the kind.

v^uay s manner oi wuuuuuu" me campaign of 1888 is not questioned bj the man in the White House nor by any of a body of rank partisans. Quay gave them success, and they are not going behind that fact to inquire into methods. Quay was a savior, and they do hot propose to crucify him. They need just such a man for coming conflicts, and having him will be encouraged to shout the louder that they alone form the party of moral ideas. > ' The patron of Wanamaker and of Dudley, of the cash-gatherer and the cash-disburser, the Napoleon of the Harrison campaign, will not retire because some timid party men talk about honesty and scruple. He is not the man to be affrighted by a demand for conscience in . political, management His associates in party control are of hir kidney.—Chicago Times. DRIFT OF OPINION. -“Do you think Harrison, will ft“t a second term?” “On the contrary i think the people would be willing t» commute his first”—N. Y. Sun--On the basis of the vote at the recent election the Democrats will carry both Rhode Island Congressional districts in November.—Albany (N, Y.) Argus. -The ninety-eight per cent1 protected starch manufacturers having formed a trust they cooUy tell Uncle Samuel to “keep his- shirt on.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. * -Not long ago some of Mr. Randall’s old Philadelphia friends raised a fund of 530,000, which they offered him as a mark of their respect for him. But he respectfully declined to accept it He could not receive a money reward for doing his public duty.—Buffalo Courier. -—Governor Campbell says the steady Republican losses in Ohio are due to the young men, who are almost , solidly on the Democratic side there— It is very much so everywhere. The 6 young voters are not declining to look at the new moon out of reverence »for that ancient institution, the old one.—r __ Boston Herald. -County convention after county convention in Illinois instructs its delegates to vote to make the nomination of John M. Palmer for United States Senator in open convention. There, is no longer any doubt that*the Gladstone of Illinois will be so nominal!® and when so nominated he wiU car#y the State against Farwell or any other millionaire the Republicans can induce to open his^barrel.—St. Louis Republic. %-—Some carpet manufacturers of Philadelphia told the House committee on ways and means that the proposed

meroasD ui tuo uu u would make the raw material for ingrain carpets cost more than the carpets now sold for in the open market These manufacturers Jjave yet to beinducted into the philosophy of this style of legislation, that “the higher the duty the lower will be the price to consumers.”— Boston Transcript -For Sale Everywhere. — Quay's Soap. Quay’s Soap. For Sale by all Druggists! “I used your soap with great effect in the last campaign."— Benjamin Harrison. “I know just how your soap is made and I heartily recommend it”—John WalJamaker. “If I had more of your soap I should not now be in the soup.”—J. B. Foraker. Quay’s Soap. Best in the World for Political Complexions.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. ^ -Mr. Isaac Clements, a stout and able-bodied Republican politician, has been appointed pension agent in Chicago in the place of the widow of brave Colonel Mulligan, the famous command- - er of the Mulligan Guards, who was killed in battle. Our soldier President was not ashamed 'to make this change, and ex-Congressmen Clements-yas not man enough to refuse the place. But such a transaction ought to open the eyes of the veterans.—Rock Islander. Where Will Ton Get the Remedy? “Too much corn,” observes the Philadelphia Press, “has made corn cheap and cut the farmers’ profits, and the remedy is not in more corn, but in more factories, which the McKinley bill will give.” What sort of factories is the MoKinley bill going to "“give?” It certainly will not give any more carpet factories if President John I>. Houston, of the Hartford Carpet Company, is to be believed, and be ought to be,- for ho is a Republican and came very near being a Republican Congressman instead of Mr. Simonds. Mr. Houston and other carpet manufacturers say in effect that the duty on carpet Wools would shut up their factories, and this would not help the Western farmer who is constantly producing H9F? ft»<l pjorei ■« Providence Jwrntl.