Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 May 1890 — Page 1

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THE WOBLD AT LAME. Summary of the Daily Kewe« Ik the Senate on the 12th Senator Hoar, from the Judici ry Committee, reportel ba< k the House amendment to the Senate Anti-Trust bill with an a mend m nt. The Senate bill fixing the times and places for holding Federal Courts in Kansas was reported and passed The Silver bill was thei; taken up and Senator Jones, of Nevada, open d i he debate in favor of h's bill. Befon* the conclusion of bis speech the Senst adjourned_Ihe^House had a lively session in < ommfttee of the Whole on the I ariff bLl, which was still under consideration at the time of adjournment. Ik tbe Senate on the 13th a petition was presented from Ph ladelphia business men remonstrating against the increase of duty on dress goods made wholly or partly from wool. After reports of committees Senator Davis, from the. Pensions Committee, reported back the House substitute for the Dependent Pension bill and n oved a bobagreed ta Tbe Senate then resumed consideration of the Silver bill and Senator Jones (Nev.) continued bis remarks in favor of the bill, at the conclusion of whieff Senator Jones lArk.) addressed the Senate in opposition....After the disposition of routine business in the House debate on the Tariff bill was resumed, and Mr. Bntterworth (Ohio) created somewhat of a sensation by his peculiar remarks and views oh the tariff question. But little progress was made before the House adjourned. When the Senate met on the 14th *kenator Wilson (Iowa) reported a bill from the Judiciary Committee subjecting importedliquors i t> the provisions of the laws of the several States. Tbe bill is intended to meet the late decision of the Supreme Court After several Senator* had expressed their views on the subject, the regularorder was demanded, and the Silver bill w.is taken up and Senator Teller spoke in its favor. Several bills, of a local or private nature passed and the i- en - ate adjourned_When the House met, on motion of Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, th« Bouse insisted on its amendments to the Dependent Pension bill and asked for a conference. The Tariff bill then came up as unfin is he I busin as and was debated until adjournment. After the reporting of tills in the Senate on the 15th the Silver bill again came np as unfinished bus ness and Senator Teller continued his remarks in tavor of the free coinage of si vcr. Senator Coke also spoke in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and against the bill as reported. The debate occupied the entire session.When the House met Mr. McKinley, from the C mmitfcee on Rules, reported a resolution providing for the consideration of the Tariff bill each day until Wednesday noon, in Committee rf the Whole, when the bill and all pending amendments sh ill be reported to the House. This was antagonized by t!»e minority but* the p eviouS question wa* ordered and the resolution adopted. A Conference Committee on the Dependent Pension bill was appointed, and debate on the Tariff bill continued. Pens on bills were considered at the evening session. T he Senate on the 16fch farther considered the Silver bill, the question be ngon Senator Plumb's amendment that no funds available for the payment of the public de* t shall be retaine I in the treasury in excess of 1110,000. - 000. Senator Plumb in a vigorous speech advocate l the amendment, and Senator Sherman opposed it. After a long discussion the ' bill w nt;OV* r and the Senate adjourned_ Aft r passing l he Senate bill authorizing the registration of census mail matter the House re-umed the Tariff bill and a lively discuss on was kept up during the entire sitting. At the evening session seventy-one private pension bills passed. CONGRESSIONAL.

WASHINGTON MOTES. Senator Gorman has been chosen chairman of the Democratic Senators in place of the late Senator Beck. Senator Brown, Georgia's Senator, has failed to appear during this session and it is generally understood that he will resign on account of continued ill health. The present Governor of Georgia, General John B. Gordon, will, it is said, succeed him. The Senate on the 14th confirmed all the Oklahoma nominations. The President has approved the Oklahoma Townsite bill. The sentence on Commander McCalla, of the Enterprise, was three years’ suspension. The pecuniary effect was loss of half pay, or about $1,490 a year. THE EAST. A compromise has been effected between striking granite cutters and the employers at Quincy, Mass. R. H. M. Sistare, a member of the broker firm of George K. S.stare Sons, which recently failed, has been arrested in New York. Richard Herkshere, of Philadelphia, on whose warrant he was arrested, says he had $112,000 worth of bonds which were embezzled. Twentt Austrians under contract, to work in Pittsburgh, Pa., have been detained in New York. The New York Independent again publishes returns' from all but five of the Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church, showing that 153 have voted for and 09 against revision and 6 have declined to vote. Most of the Presbyteries not heard from are foreign. The Common Council of Chelsea, Mass., has reconsidered-its vote to petition the Legislature to change the name of the town because of the expression “as dead as Chelsea.”

C. Yeager was probably fatally injured. General & F. Butler thinks the Chicago Anarchists were condemned unjustly, they not being present in the Supreme Court when sentence of death was pronounced. He has been retained in habeas corpus proceedings.* There was a cloudburst at Greensburg, Pa., on the afternoon of the 13th. 6 The heirs of Paul Spofford, of New York, who left several millions, have petitioned for the removal of J. L. Spofford as executor, alleging that 33,000,000 is unaccounted for. The $8,COO liquor license recently granted to John Lennan by the selectmen of Dracut, Mass., has been revoked and the money will be refunded. The general convention of the Order of Kail way Conductors at Bochester, N. Y., decided by a very decisi ve vote to eliminate from its constitution the Clause prohibiting strikes. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, was married at Buffalo, N. Y., recently to Mrs. F. M. Base, daughter of the late James H. Metcalfe. The wife and daughter of President 6. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, were found dead in their bed nt Worcester, Mass., recently, sccidentally snlfbl^ted by illuminating gas. Hlcave in occurred in mine No. 8at Bw, Pa., on the 15th. A number ok i_ ■were entombed with no hopes of ^L:overy alive as choke damp acliston occurred in the East river, rk, between the ocean steamship Georgia and the ferryboat Fakn^iderable damage was done, le was hurt. Ip Valvis, an artist, was struck ^n New York City and killed. It II., a rank outsider, won ■vn handicap on the 15f;hBiildren playing in an excavaHellar at Seventh avenue and Hrtreet. Brooklyn, were kiltid nv tne explosion ol tne Dealer ol a locomotive on the Reading railroad near Shamokin, Pa., Engineer Hoglegoni and Fireman Charles Kauffman were instantly killed and Conductor George

Newox H. -Davis, Brigadier-General United States army, died on the 15th. l ie had just arrived at Governor's Island, N. Y., to visit fr.ends, and was apparently in good health. On entering General Tomkins’ office he was stricken down by an apoplectic fit and expired. Cijxtox G. Reynolds, a lawyer, of 6!) Wall street, New York, was shot and mortally wounded in his office by Alphonse J. Stephanie. Reynolds was the legal adviser of Stephanie's mother and had pla.ed certain property out of the reach of the assassin, who was a i spendthrift. The Republicans decided not to pnt up a candidate in Randall’s district, leaving the election a walk over for Vaux. Tub suspension of the extensive brokerage firm of Doran, Wright & Co., of New York and elsewhere, b<ks been formally announced. Liabilities to it3 bneket shop patrols, 5300,000; assets, nil. Three Italians were killed and several others severely Injured by the coblapse of a coal bank at Olyphant, I’;,., recently. Tehee men were drowned near Yorkville, Pa., while fishing from a boat. Two river drivers near Moose river, Maine, were recently killed and tlfee others were terribly injured by the explosion of a keg of powder in an old cabin in which they had taken refuge from a storm and built a fire.; THE WEST. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has announced that they will sell tickets from St. Louis to Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., for SI, and Atchison and Leavenworth, Kan., for the same price; to Council Bluffs for 85, and Denver for $8.50. Governor Waterman, of California, has urged the people of all sections of the State to begin work at once to secure proper representation at the Chicago World's Fair. J ames Atwood, a farmer living near Rcekport, IneL, shot and killed William Miller, a neighbor, and wounded two others the other night. The men were trying to Whitecap him. It is reported that James Bell, a Cherokee, living near Vinita, I. T., will be the first person to test the forty-third section of the Oklahoma bill as it applies to Indians becoming citizens of the United States. EIigbt inches of snow fell in North Dakota, doing the wheat crop much good. *

1 wo pronounced cases or leprosy are reported in the Chinese colony in Chieago. Thousands of acres of valuable timber in Northern Wisconsin have been destroyed by forest fires, which are still spreading. T be American Society of Mechanical Fngineers held its annaal convention in Cincinnati on the I4th. The report sent out from Oklahoma City stating that a bloody battle oecurred on the Canadian between farmers and cowboys, wherein five farmers were killed and several cowboys wounded, was wholly without foundation. • The Illinois Supreme Court has decided that the Snell toll gate in Chicago, recently burned by citizens, was illegal. » Two engines were demolished and two train men injured by a collision between a passenger and a gravel train at Klgin, 111. All the newspapers of Fort Wayne, Ind., have granted the demands of the Typographical Union for an increase in the price of composition. The Typographical Unions of Minneapolis and St. Paul have demanded ten hours’ pay for nine hours’ work, which has been refused. Fire in San Bernardina, Cab, destroyed the West Coast Lumber Company’s mill and lumber, causing $90,000 loss. C. M. Whittaker and J. M. Stubbs were crushed to death under a huge piece of granite near Monrovia, Cab, by the breaking of a derrick. The immense flourmill of the Winona. (Minn.) Company was burned recently. 'Jlte loss was $305,000. Poisoned sausage caused the death of Mrs. Clem Ehlers, of Ivanhoe, O. Two of her children a e seriously ilL Cn arles Randolph, ex-secretary of the Board of Trade of Chicago, who disappeared some time ago, is at Portland, Ore. He could not tell how he left Chicago, his mind being a blank. Judge Drfnkond, who was succeeded by Judge Gresham in the United States Circuit Court, died recently at Wheaton, 111., aged eighty years. lb m collision between a pay-car special and the rear end of an accommodation train at Tuscola, lib, a lady was fatally and other persons slightly hurt. Alphets Bull, president of the Gould A Curry mine, was drowned near San Francisco recently. The onion stonemasons and bricklayers of Joliet, tlb, have struck for eight hours and increased wages. Tut repotfSoncerning three actors of the Nat Gdjpwin Company being killed in a railroad wreck in Montana proved unfounded. A member of the company. Miss Slay Du See, had died and this-had delayed the company, causing the false repopt

THE SOUTH. JriMiE Stewart, of Baltimore, Sid., has delivered an opinion in the case of Stevenson Archer, ex-State Treasurer, in which he held that Areher can not be tried for embezzlement Texas Prohibitionists have nominated a full State ticket. Jones Moruis, for the. Louisiana State Lottery Company, has offered the State Legislature,' now" in session at Baton Rouge $1,000,000 a year for the extension of the charter of the company for twenty-five years, or $25,000,000 for the entire term. The Kentucky Derby at Louisville on the 14 th was won by the Kansas City horse Riley, owned by Corrigan and ridden by Murphy, defeating the favorite, Robespierre, by nearly two lengths. A caisson accident occurred at LouW vile, Ky., on the 14th. A hawser ported and a pier turned over, bringing do wn the scaffolding. Three men were killed, one of them being C. H. Mitchell, of Kansas (Sty, second assistant superintendent of construction. Baemon Williams and Wiliam Spivey, two reputable white farmers of Fitzpatrick, Ala., got into a row over s hog eating some chickens. Spivey hit W illiams with a clnb and the latter shot Spivey through the bowels. Both men will die. Ret. Sam Small has announced himself as a candidate for the Georgia Bouse from Fulton County. Hon. J. G. Caklisle was nominated to succeed Senator Beck by the Democratic caucus at Fnnkfort, Ky. All the candidates withdrew, excepting Carlisle an d Lindsay, the final ballot resul ting M follows: Carlisle. 73; Lindsay, 4ft '

d' iSENIBAL. A dispatch' to the London Time! says that the removal j& Prince Bismarck decided the Czar to reverse hie policy of an alliance with Fnjfeee and to revert to the policy of tort^jtf an alliance with Germany. JSP A contract has been signed between the German Government and the East African Steamship Company* which will receive 900,000 marks annually for a line of steamers from Hamburg’ to Delagoa bay. An official report states that the general condition of winter rye and wheat in European Russia is good. In many districts, notably the Eastern provinces, Poland, Livonia, Conrland and Southwest Russia, the condition is very good. A quantity of balistite, the new explosive, exploded recently at the factory at Aviglina. fourteen miles west of Turin, Italy. Fourteen persons were instantly killed and many others in.ured, some of them fatally. Major Wissjiann bombarded Lindi May 10 and captured the town. A party of Albanians attacked and plundered a Montenegrin provision train which was on its way from Irek to Cettinje. A woman who was a passenger on this train was killed and several other persons were wounded. The Montenegrins were greatljr excited. Mining riots are reported in Portugal and Spain. The whole province of Biscay Jias been placed under martial law. The Austrian Agricultural Exhibition Opened at Vienna on the 14th, the Emperor presiding. France and Germany were well represented. The Parnell.tes snatched a victory in the Bouse of Commons on the 14th, the second leading of the Irish Agricultural Laborers’ bill being agreed to without a division. The Government’s usual support was absent when the measure was sprung. The ocean steamship Paris'an ran .full into an iceberg in a fog off Newfoundland, but was not seriously injured. A panic was narrowly averted. A plague of lccusts is devastating trans-Caucasia. A quarter of a million ; of acres of agricultural land at Tiflis, Ellisavetpol and Baku have been ravaged by this insect. The striking miners at Bilbao, Spain, indulged in another riot on the 15th. There was a small outbreak against the Brazilian Provisional Government at Porto Allegro recently. It was suppressed after a number of persons had been wounded. ;

iiif* casu, against James vampucii, president of the' Window Gians Union, for importing English workmen in violation of the Alien Contract law resulted in an acquittal. Ton Irish tenants’ defense fund has reached £60,000 and has been closed. County Cork people subscribed £8,000. The Independence Beige denounces i Minister Terrell for h:s action in the Anti-Slavery Conference as tending to increase slavery in Africa. A Berlin dispatch says that France and Germany have agreed in order to avoid disputes on the frontier to strip a wide space of ground on either side of the boundary line and place at frequent intervals large stones marking the line of delimitation conspicuously. The Berlin Tageblatt says it is a significant fact ths^t visits of foreign newspaper writers and other recognized visitors to Friederic h srue have been very frequent of late. On the river Oder, near Ratisbon, Siles a, a ferryboat loaded with passengers was crossing, when it suddenly capsized and thirty-six of the people were drowned before assistance could reach them. All the passengers were children who were returning home from a confirmation service. It is said that Henry M. Stanley is engaged to Miss Dorothy Tennant, a young English artist Tomskii, in Western Siberia, has been almost destroyed by flood and fire. Cuba is troubled with drought The French Board of Trade returns few April show an increase in imports of more than a million dollars and an increase in exports of more than four millions. Business failures (Dun’s report' for the seven days ended May 15 numbered 213, compared with 209 the previous week. The failures for the corresponding week, of last year were 342. In the Senate, on tire 17th, after the transaction of minor business, the calendar was taken up and a large number of bills were considered and passed, those of most general interest being: To pay the assignees of John Roche 338,840 for extra work on the monitor Puritan and 830,274 for the care of The monitor Roanoke; Senate bill to paj 820,000 to the daughters of Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian institution, in compensation of a:. _AH*-Kill

[amended] to appropriate 8300,000 for the erection of a bronze statue to General Grant in the city of Washington .In the Boose, in committee of the whole on the Tariff bfll, Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, speaking to a question of personal privilege, used grossly unparliamentary language, and was (after the passage of a resolution to that effect) taken before the bar of the House in custody of the sergeant-at-arms, and censured by the Speaker. David S. Coffkod, a well-known contractor and bridge builder, who built nearly all the Pennsylvania railroad bridges and whose speedy work in repairing the ravages of the Johnstown flood was greatly complimented, died in Philadelphia, on the 18th, of injuries caused by being thrown from a wagon some time ago. As Italian bootblack named Joe Scleaitiama, while engaged in cleaning windows for the Inter-State Bank of New York City, <m the 17th, placed his hands on an electric-light wire that ran into the building and was instantly killed. Amoks the passengers arriving at New York, on the 18th. by the steamer Etruria, from Liverpool, was George Francis Train, who started the next evening for Tacoma, Wash., to complete his journey round the world. Tax schooner Jessie Brack, lumberladen, from Toledo, Ot, for Garden Island, capsized near Nine-Mile Point, Labe Erie, on the 17th, and it is feared that all on board perished. Last year’s derby winner. Spokane,is slowly recovering from bis supposed attaek of lung fever and is pronounced out of danger. However, the attack will p re rent him being prepared for racing th is season. The great filly Flyaway, valued at 815,000 and by odds ths best filly of her age iin America, broke completely down, on the 17th, and will be retired to the breeding farm. State Sbkatob Cham*b a Apian, of Baltimore, Md., died, on the IStfc M t))o moll- of g otroko of apoptos*

STATE INTELLIGENCE. At Swayzee. on the ISth, th ? residents werejjcatehing fish owl of she pools and puddjles made by a terrific rain the nigh, before. Later, when the water sunk into tbe ground, sunfish and shiners by tbe thousands strewed the ground. There is no stream within four miles of Swat*ee, and the theory :is that these Minfjfch were caught up by a whirlwind and deposited where they were found. Jacob Strader of Jeffersonville, aged seventy-fire, am old river captain, who was blinded by a rash of escaping steam in a boiler explosion, in 18S5, is gradually recovering his sight. Generai. Wm. J. Ei.r.n rr, aged 80, of Indianapolis, is der.d H :i served in the State Senate many years ago. and was also county recorder. A nong his children is Judge llyron K. liUliott, of the Supreme Bench. At Lafayette, George 3! areh, a saloonkeeper, shot himself' tb ough the left It®*, dyi»g t wohoi; rn I at< r. It is thought lie was deranged-HorsK-BEEAKEKseflecied an entrance into six residences at Columbus, securing over fifty dollu-s and two gold watches. Indiana Sanitary Commissioners have ‘ordered three horses in tbe stable of Allman & Bach at liar tington killed, they being afflicted wi th jlanders. Members of tbe Fnrnie i-s* Alliance are boycotting the merchant.' of Warren. George W. Smith, an aitorney of Mulberry, was found guilty of subornation of perjury at Frankfort and given a sentence of two years in prison. “The htorveaeitw,’ a hhndsome structure designed mai nl;r for the use of women's dubs and other organizations, is in process of erection at; Indianapolis. More than two hundred pronpinent women of that and other cities are the projectors and stockholders in tie enterprise. Lorenzo,f- the three-year-old child of George Walker, a farmer, living near Winamac, unnoticed hr its mother, strayed from home, and in an attempt to cross Hall’s branch on A foot-log, fell into the stream and was drowned. Clark Coenty repot ts a pest of white rats.

A bed or leafl ow, eighteen incnes thick, has been discovered near Yountsville, Montgomery County. The other night all tfau members of the Crawfords ville fire dep i rtment handed in their resignations, n tieh were immediately accepted. Thi i was caused by the action of the count 1 electing J. J. tVeidle as chief of the d i partment. A farmer named Tullk , living four miles west of Kockport, has in his possession a owe that is twenty- -wo years old, and in that time has given h irth to thirtyeight lambs, all bocks, a: d coming in pairs. CoXTKAt’TS have been $$g ned by which C. T. Doxey, of Andersen, is to pipe gas to Lebanon by August Hi. Mts.s Clara Botsfoii » got a verdict, at Indianapolis, for $11)1000 against the Union Pacific railroad lor injuries received in a sleeper. Thebe are several cases of glanders among horses at HuBtingt KL. Mn«. Elizabeth Adams. aged 47, took poison and died, at Seymour. She had separated from her husband and failure of an attempt at reconciliation caused the act. Chas. Pope, of Midland, aged seventeen, was shot in the hrp by sornymknown man, while returning ::rom cijftrch after night. :* James Marlatt, an elderly farmer and stock dealer living near Milton, dropped dead of heart disease, David Mix sox aged I't, was struck bv lightning and instantly killed near Shelbyvilie. Cox Roe was arrested at Muneie for robbing the express oflSiee at Losantiville, Randolph County., recently, and ■taken to Winchester jail. Rev. Father Kof.xig. ol Logansport, was leaving the train at Pern, a few dips ago, when the.coach door blew out, catching his hand and completely severing the mittdle finger of the right hand. Fraxk Birlet, married, had his right arm torn off at the elbow recently while operating an automatic spoke lathe at Bimel’s factory, Portland. Jett Williams, while drunk, went to sleep under an engine at Brazil, and sustained injuries which will probably prove fatal. Wm. L. Helm, aged sixteen, ran away from home at Indianapolis and was killed by the cars at Paxton, 111. JosEPn IIui.LixcEK was killed by cars at Marion. J. A. Phillips, living at Elkhart, and employed on the Lake Shore road, had both feei cut off at Mishawaka, four miles from South Bend.

UAJUUOUkl 11*13 XlUliilUia >vli James 11. Rogers for postmaster at Huntington. ' * Jons Sack was eonvictedptrfmurtier at Marion, and sentenced to imfirisonment for life. The Fifth District Indiana Republican Congressional Convention meets at Martinsville Wednesday, Jane II. Tubes prisoners escaped from jail at Craw fordsv ille. ♦iie jury in the Bowen murder ease at Greencastle rendered st verdict of not guilty. A cabbies pigeon was killed near Monrovia, having a German silver ring on one of its feet bearing the inscription “X 14,844.” Upon each wing was written “O. & W. Randle, 113 Thornton street, Frankfort, Ky. Db. Kent K Wiieeloc s and Mrs. Matilda Wheelock, his di vorced wife, were remarried at Ft. Wayne the other day. Mrs. Patrick Mas si x, a bride of a week, was thrown from a buggy and fatally injured in a runaway accident at Charlestown. A sen was filed in the Superior Court, at Evansville, by Bessie Weltey, wife of the late Aaron Weltey, and administratrix of bis estate, asking $10,000 damages of the Peoria Decatur <& Evansville Railroad Company for the death of her husband, killed by a fall from a bridge. At the tweirth annual commencement of Greenfield High School the graduates were Austin Boots Rosa Stephens, Alien Frost. Marcel]us Neal and NeUie Hoc!. Rev. W. IX Weave*, pastor of the Baptist Church at Mari mi. has resigned, to accept the position of uuperintendeat of the Marion schools, made vacant by the death of J. K. Wal ss. A JtECKEESSEY-MHVKi* none attached to a buggy ran over J. S. Bennett at Jeffersonville and seriously bruised him. On aceount of his age :uid feeble condi*ff>n his injories may result fatally. ’ Hiram Stastield, of Hill ham, was convicted in the Dnhoiit Circuit Court of baying the vote of Da rid Philips and sentenced to jail for thirty days with a fine of m and disfranchised for {an pant .

CARLISLE THE MAN. 1 The Ex-Speaker of the Ifuose of Bepre- . ' ■wntitim Chosen by the Kentucky Uera- | oentie L«(hlatin Csurn a* Candidate for the United States Senate to Sneered the Late Senator Beck. i Frankfort, Ky., May 17.—Immedi- , ately after the Democmtic joint Legis- i latire eancns had been called to order , last evening Senator Cooper arose and announced the withdrawal of ex-Gov-ernor Proctor Knott as a candidate for United States Senator.

John Origin Carlule. When the ballot began there was great excitement, as it became evident that a majority of Knott’s supporters were going to Mr. Carlisle. Judge Unsays followers, however, stood by him, and eight of the Knott votes went to Representative McCurdy. The ballot resulted: Carlisle, 52; Lindsay, 33; McCreary, 30. Senator Smith then announced the withdrawal of Representative McCreary. Before the roll call for the second ballot was concluded it was evident that Mr. Carlisle would receive the nomination, and! amid cheering and much confusion the vote was announced: Carlisle, 72; Lindsay, 43. On motion of Senator Thomas, on behalf of Judge Lindsay and his friends, Mr. Carlisle's nomination was made unanimous, and a committee of five was appointed by the chairman to notify Mr. Carlisle of his nomination and conduct him to the chamber.

TRADE AND TRAFFIC. It. G. D'mn M Co’s Weekly Review of the Conntiry’s Tr.tde -A Tendency Toward Lower Prices in tbe Grain Markets—Cot- I ton Slnggish and Coal WeakeningGeneral Trade Only Fair—The Week’s Failures. » , New York, May IT.—R. O. 0m & Co.*3 weekly review of trade says: Tile stock market lias rushed ahead until, it has absorbed all the money within reach, and now some signs of reaction appear, with a little selling by foreign holders. Substantially the same phenomena has been observed in the wheat and corn markets, ami in the market for pork product4. So the tendency has been lower prices dnr* fag the past week, as to most products that are objects of aetiye speculation, and after a remarkable advance stocks and boinds begin to manifest some reaetioh. which is called healthy by operators. It means that the betting on higher prices has reached its limit, and now the question is whether still higher priees wtti actually come. Ia tbe wheat and corn market this natural , reaction began more than a week ago. The tendency of prices daring the past week his been downward, wheat declining 2 cents on sates here of only 14,000,003 bushets; corn 1% cents on sales of 12,500,000 bushels, while oats are steady. The trade begins to comprehend that inside of thirty days a now crop of wheat will begin t«» eome into tba market, and while winter wheat is certain to be abort, the reports from spring wheat States Indicate increase in acreage and good condition. 'The eotton market is sluggish, though with nominal sates of 243.000 bales, tor it begins to be understood that raw cot- ' ton at the present price ean not be worked toto goods at the present price, and of material advance in the priees of goods there is seen no indication. Prospects for the next Crop are favorable. Oil is 2*4 cents higher, without definable reason. The market for corn is weaker, and the increased production is sufficient explanation. The key of the iron business is, that railroad bniiding does not increase, though it is estimated that about 5,000 miles may be built this year, and the demand for structural iron is cut down by the concession of the eight-hour day to the building trades in many cities. Coal is still weak but copper and tin are firm and rising. The reports from other cities are almost uniformly encouraging. At Chicago dry goods sales exeeed last year’s, and payments are fair, but the clothing trade is dull, and the fact that bank clearings are larger than ever before finds explanation in speculative activity in tbe grain and pork markets. St. Louis reports a good trade, and supplies of money equal to the demand, while at Pittsburgh trade is rather dull, at Cleveland fairly active, causing some monetary stringency at Milwaukee, only fair at St- Paul, improved by recent rains in the Northwest, where drought began to bo feared, at Kansas City ratber quiet, and at Omaha good, with easy money. The monetary situation at New York has not been altogether satisfactory. Money has been growing eloser, and S per cent. : is now the selling rate, with every indication that the supply for specu- : Iative uses has been nearly, if not quite, absorbed by the advance in tbe market for securities. Failures for the last seven days numbered: For the United States, 194; Canada, 21; total, 1 212; compared with 209 last week. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 291 in tbe United States and 55 in Can- :

Escapes from Wroth. New Yoke, May IT.—An elevator at, No. 634 Rroadway, containing ten young . women employed by Zimmer <& Feld- , stein, leather and flower makers, fell six stories yesterday afternoon, the accident being caused by the breaking of the cable. One of the girls fainted from fright daring the fall, and all were badly frightened and suffered from shock,' bat none of them were much hart otherwise. The escape from death or serious injuries is considered mar iet«a Fourteen Besotted Alire. Wilkesbakbe, Ft, May IS.—Fourben men were this morning taken out of the cared-in Hartford mine alire. There is great rejoicing among tho f iends and relatives of the rescued men, v ho tell thrilling stories of the efforts they made to keep themselves alive. Exploring parties have found nineteen dead in the mine; six more are missing, and it is probable they are also When the nineteen dead and charred ] todies were being brought out, the leene at the mine was heartrending :im the extreme. WlLkKSBARKE, Fa., IT.—At eight o’clock last evening all operations at the Hartford mine were abandoned. There were still six men in the fatal chamber. • They are Michael and John Soally. brothers; Robert Richards, Michael Henry, Richard Jones and Joshua Williams. Work will he reaamed in the morning ami rushed forward. Six mates were token ant alive yesterday afternoon. The bodies of five Founders were boiled yesterday, no one having yesterday, '

3ABPET WOOL AND SHODDY. L Caw ofPretert^a Kltat Witt Protect Xoiwtfy writ Ia)(» All. Secretary Eiti.sk: insists in a recent Jeter that we can and must grow onr own sarpet wools. It is tb bring about this ■esuit that the tariff bill now before Congress contains a clause which raises ■normously the duty on carpet wool, it present carpet wool'worth less than . iwel ve cents a pound pays a duty of two I ind one-half cents a pound: carpet wool rbove the twelve sent limit pays five rents only. jj The law now proposed ra-'ses the duty >n wool worth twelve cents or less to three and one-half cents; and on . that ibove twelve cents, the duty is fir be iight cents a pound. This is an attempt so compel fanners to raise carpet wool. Bnt why do m not raise carpet wool? Because we have developed onr wcolprowing industry beyond that stage. Our farmers used to produce carpet wool bat they soon found that they coula improve the breed of their sheep and proluce a finer grade of wodl. Accordingly we produce no carpet wool now. The grower finds it much mare profitable to produce Merino clothing word worth thirty cents a pound, or more, rather than to waste his time and energies in producing carpet wooLworth only terror twelve cents. A sheep with coarse carped wool on its back will eat just as ranch as one with fiat- clothing wool and will cost jnst as much in every way. Where is the sense then in trying to compel our people to grow carpet wool when they can. do better for themselves? Is it not like a foolish attempt to make water flow ujrl.il! while it w II serve our purposes better by Bowing down-hill? Besides this the carpet manufacturers of onr country need the carpet wool of certain foreign countries, 'ihe manufacturers are seriously embarrassed, inmany places. In Philadelphia, which is the greatest, carpet manufacturing center in the United States, several large mills are reported so be idle, and several thousand laborers in the mills are out of employment. Under the proposed tariff the manufacturers would be seriously hndered, the wool-growers would still refuse to raise carpet wool, and the people who use carpets would foot the bills for all this folly. The McKinley bill would put certain grades of carpdt wools absolutely out of reach of our manufacturers. They will have to import practically every pound of wool they use, for even a tariff of 100 per cent would not be sufficient to induce our people to go bosk to raising carpet wool.

It is estimated by a high authority that the increased cost of carpet wools under the proposed law would raise the price of carpets anywhere from nine to thirty-three cents a yard. Increased cost means fewer sale?, fewer carpeted parlors, fewer carpet mills, and fewer workers in them. And who is to he protected by this law'? Nobody-, absolutely nobody. It is simply a part of the scheme to humbug the farmei by making h m believe that he, too. is getting some of the benefits ol protection. It will be a nice th ng to tall the farmer in campaign speeches, “Here is protsctic n for yon, too; we hare not forgotten you; you also shall grow rich." Men who expect the farmer to believe this stuff, so far as it relates to carpet wool, give him credit for a very shallow brain. Instead of helping him. th s duty on carpet wool is a direct injury to him; for the farmer is to some extent a buyer of carpets. The price of carpets will be higher by reason of the "h gher duty. But th;s is not the whole effect. The quality of the carpets themselves will be ma le- mtieh poorer. Everybody knows that the use of shoddy in cat pet making has been very largely extended during the past *en years. According to the census of IS8C we used fifty-two ittillron pounds of domestic shoddy, besides what we imported. How much is used now nobody knows exactly; but a calculation has been made by the New York Commercial Ba letin to show that at least one-third of the material used by our carpet and woolen m Ils is shoddy. This paper is a high authority in trade circles, and its eat mate deserves careful •’feonsSfterat'om from the grower of wool as well as from the consumer of cloth and carpets. The Bulletin estimates that the shoddy used last year was some two hundred million pounds. Every pound of shoddy used of course draws out an equivalent of pure wool. “But'the wool-grower,” as this paper says, ‘never stops to consider that this use of wool, collected in the form of old and rags and worked up, after clea^Kr in the mills, is powerfully stimnj^Hl by the v<#ry' steps he insists upon. iMlng to shut but cheaper supplies of wo®. Neither does the consumer consider that the deterioration in quality of goods produced, of which he often complains, is due in considerable measure to the same influence- The ’manufacturers of wool, when forced to choose between highpriced wool and shoddy, inevitably use more sheddy and-less wool, and the growers and consumers both get the worst of it all the 4 me. Nor is this tendency one which can in any way be arrested by legislative interference. There is no remedy,for it possible, except to secure the amplest and cheapest possible supplies of *o«l far the manufacturer. Any attempt to enhance the friee can only result in nsore rapid increase in the censumption of shoddy.”

T«fc»c#o Duty. The tobacco men of Hew York are talc ng steps to fight the tobacco schedule of tbe McKinley bill. The feature they object to is that which places a tax of 88ttS » pound an Sumatra leaf tobacco. This is the kind of tobacco which is used for making wrappers for cigars. American grown tobacco does not supply wrappers of she grade repaired for good cigars; and as the -Sumatra lea f is needed to wrap the satire tobaetto, it can be easily shown that it is a real advantage to oar growers that these wrappers should he imported as largely as possible. This would fe© an advantage to the cigar-makers as well as to the growers of ubacco. The quality of native cigars depends upon the fine Sumatra, leaf around them; and with an abundance of good -wrappers we should have more workers In cigar factories and more in the tobacce fields. One groat piece of injustice in the proposed bill is, that if any part of a hale of tobacco will do for cigar wrapper?, the whole bu> shall he taxed at 88.W a ppund. According to th>* if a package containing l<3 pounds el tobacco shonl.4 happen to, have a law leaves fit for wrappers, the whole bale would he taxed 88.m. Tbe cigar-iaskera say that this would ruin their hmBtmmm, To such extremes of ra msticeoorliigh tariff latr-snskers are ready to go ii, order to make t» * •comnsejwialiy independent.'’ _ ._; —Taxpayer* ea* derive m ce«sol»tio* from the StVKia vy 'Txxift hSlf fist ttei i* tnMm 18i4 ?9 JWt *«#*

VELVETEEN, TOO. Another Direction la W hlell the l.onz-Sof-ferine FnbUc b to Be Bled. Mr. McKinley, in hid process of “simplifying” the process, proposes to change the present ad valorem duty of 40 per cent on velveteen to a Compound duty of 10 cents a square yard and 20 per cent ad valorem. The effect of this would be to make the duty lower on the higher grades of velveteen, which are bought by the rich, and to make it enormously higher on the cheaper grades, which are bought by the poor. One of the most prominent of the dozen importers of velveteens in New York says: “With respect to the lower grades of velveteens the result would be an increase in the duty of nearly 100 per cent. Take a yard of velveteen, ha!f-a-yard wide, which costs us 10 cents. The present 40 per cent, ad valorem duty is 4 cents, making the total cost to us 14 cents. If the proposed duties were in force the 20 per cent, ad valorem duty would he 2 cents and the specific duty would be 5 cents, makingthe total duty 7 cents, as against the present duty of 4 cents, and the total cost 17 cents, as against the presr ent cost of 14 cents.” But the duty on the higher grades would he made less. A piece of costly velveteen would pay nearly three cents a yard less than at present. But the cheaper grades are three-fourths of all the velveteen raised, and the people least able to bear the increase would feet the burden of the higher duty, whue those who are able to boar an increase would actually pay less. That is called “simplifying the tariff.” Some call it, too, “removing the inequalities of our present tariff system.” It is a plain specimen of what some protectionist newspapers have been calling for under the name of “tariff revision, not tariff reform.” But even in the interests of protection there can be no excuse for’'raising the duties on velveteen, nor for any duty at all on it; for the article is not manufactured in this country. Some attempts have been made to manufacture it, but they have failed, owing to a lack of knowledge and skill indying it. Our supply comes from Manchester, England, and from Germany. The raw- material of velveteen is cotton. This we s- nd across the ocean and when the manufactured velveteen comes back it pays a dutyof 40 percent, of its value. Even under these favorable circumstances the manufacture has not Aken root here. It is another one of those protected industries which do not yet exist.

Major Kmley went to the helm a lewmonths ago with the avowed purpose of reducing the revenues, and he has recently boasted that his bill would cut of? sonne 5-45.000,000 of surplus collections. The total revenues collected on velveteens last year were about §1,300,000. Instead of reducing this Ma'or McKinley now proposes to increase it largely. Is he getting ready to meet the heavy drafts on the treasury from the extravagant appropriations of the present Congress? . The consumers of velveteen will bo Interested to know how the importers feel in view of the increased duty. Those who use velveteen have, along with all* other consumers, teen treated often to the queer doctrine that the foreigner pays the duty. If this were true, Jt would not be necessary among honest people to eaT attention to this cheap and dishonest method of getting: our taxes by other people. But what do the importers say? ‘-'To us importers higher duties signify nothing, because not a . yard of velveteen is made in the United States; and as long as that is the case, we can with impunity count the duty in with the cost and charge whatever is necessary to give us a fair profit. But higher duties do signify immensely to people who buy velveteens, for it is out of their pockets that the duty is paid.” Free Sugar and a Bounty. The action of the McKinley committee in putting raw sugar on the free list is to be highly commended. When this results in cheaper sugar for the millions, as it certainly will, the users of sugar will he asked to dec'de whether the tariff is a tax; and if they find thatitisa tax, they may see that a tariff is a good thing—good to get rid of as fast as possible. This is the kind of educa tion that not only saves money to the consumer, but also prepares him for intelligent views and wise action in the future. A most valuable part of The education f will come from the bounty which the mil gives to the sugar-growers. The<„ bill provides that the growers shall receive from the United Stakes treasurytwo cents a pound on all the sugar they produce. This will lift from the treasury each year the neat little sum of seven million dollars, and a still larger sum as the bounty-fed sugar-growers multiply in number and add to their acres. When the people see this sum flowing out of the treasury every"year to pay the sugargrowers for doing their own work, they will begin to see that it is all a huge piece of folly. If the sugar-gre wer is to be paid by the Government, why not the corn-growers also, and the wheat-grow-ers and the cotton-growers? Then why not pay everybody for doing his own work? . But that would be a piece of gigantic socialism such as few intelligent men are ready to saction. Besides bankrupting the treasury it would bankrupt the self-reliant American character. It Is a good doctrine that every man should depend on bis own strong arm, rather than lean on the strong arm of the Government. Every system of bounties and every form of protection tells a man to rely on the Government rather than on himself. And there is socialism.

For Hr. ■stain* to An*wrr. Sir. Blaine has claimed that tinder the first so-called protective tariff, that of 1788, the country was wonderfully prosperous, that all departments of business, agricultural, manufacturing and commercial, were exceedingly profitable, fTMs is not denied; but it should be stated that the tariff of 1789 averaged only eight ami one-half per cent The nut for Mir. Blaine to orach now Is this: Jf Me country, in its rude, p> neer condition of one hundred years ago, was wonderfully prosperous under an eight and one-half per cent, tariff, why could not the country, in its highly developed condition of 1890, prosper under an equally low tariff? After a century of the tariff are 'ire less able than ever to face the great world? Has a hundred years’ training of the hand in cunning made us less skillful? Has the opening of mines, tbe clearing of fields, thedevwopraeni of industry in a thousand different diioetioos and to an extent never before witnessed by man, made us less able to cope wii|h the world than our gntat-grandfathei* were? Do