Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 January 1891 — Page 1

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THE WORLD AT LARGE* Summary of the Daily Newe CONGRESS. IN the Senate on tbe 19th a long discussion arose over the approval ol the journal. The elections bill was taken up and Mr. George spoke at length In opposition, but before he concluded yielded to a motion to adjourn in order that members might attend the funeral of George Bancroft, the historian—The Bouse Indulged in a lively tilt over the approval of the journal, tbe taetlos being on tbe part of the Democrats to do as little as possible while the Senate was forcing the issue on the elections bill. After a long and confused discuss on the journal was ap proved by a vote of 137 to 101 and the House adjourned. At the the expiration of the morning hour on the 20th Mr. Aldrich asked that the Senate proceed to consider the resolution for a change of the rules. The motion was agreed to and the discussion continued until 2 o’clock, when the elections bill came up as the regular order and Mr. George continued his speech in opposition. After he had spoken at great length the 6enato got Into a squabble and finally adjourned—The House got into a big rumpus over approving the journal, but It was finally approved, and the District of Columhta bill taken up. A quorum soon disappeared and the House adjourned. THE Senate on the 21st wrangled all day over the approval of the journal and a fight on the part of the Democrats against the elections bill and the adoption of the closure rule, and at midnight adjourned without accomplishing any thing_The House had a stormy session. Mr. Mills (Texas) was especially severe upon the 8peaker. and the proceedings were turbulent, but the journal was finally approved, and the District of Columbia bill was taken np and finally reported to the House, but when a vote was reached tbeDemocratsleft the House and.noquorum

being present, an adjournment was forced. WHEN the Senate met on the 22U no quorum was present, but within a half hour a sufficient number.of Senators appeared and the fight on the change of rules eras resumed, which continued until it was finally agreed to take a recess until next morning—The proceedings of the House were less disorderly than tbe day before, and the District of Columbia bill was finally passed, and the naral appropriation bill taken up and considered until adjournment. Tbe Senate met at 11 o’clock on the 23d in continuation of the session of tbe day before andMr. Cockrell continued his speech in opposition to the proposed “gag rule.” Mr. Gray also spoke in opposition and Mr. Stewart took the floor and the Senate took a recess—The House spent much time in approval of the journal, a demand being made f or its reading in full. Mr. Cooper (Ind.), rising to a question of privilege, had a resolution read he offered last September calling for an investigation of the offioe of Pension Commissioner and as the seluct committee had failed to report to the House, be asked that it be requested to do so. A long discussion followed and the original resolution of Mr. Cooper for an investigation was referred to the Committee on Buies. After considering tl-.e naval appropriations bill for some time tbe House adjourned. _ WASHINGTON NOT15S. The House Committee on Public Buildings has agreed to report favoratfly the bill to appropriate 84,000,000 for a new public building in Chicago. Chairman Lindsay, of the judiciary committee of the Chicago World’s Fair, has prepared a sharp reply to the report of the Congressional Committee. He denies that salaries are too high or that the committee has exceeded its power in any way. Senator Vest testified before the Silver Pool Committee that Senator Cameron had told him that he had bought and sold silver after the vote in the Senate and that he thought, he had a perfect right to do so, because it was after the vote and therefore could not influence his fiction. The Pension Office from January 1 to 15 issued 10,377 pension certificates, the greater portion of them being granted under the dependent pension law. This is said to be the largest number ever issued during a like period. The President was a guest of honor at a dinner given by General Schofield.

THE EAST. The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company will reduce employes’ wages 10 percent. A company with £3,000,000 capital has been incorporated at Albany, N. Y., to construct a tunnel between New York City and Brooklyn. Many noted men are subscribers to stock. The Delaware & Lackawanna's depot at MontclaitJ N. J., burned on the 30th. Loss, £100,000. Seven thousand dollars was found in the hut of a hermit on the banks of the Connecticut river. The miser died recently in squalor, and the find of property is a surprise. Mbs. Andrew Carnegie, at New York, is declared much improved. Eva Hamilton, widow of Robert Ray Hamilton, admitted on the witness stand at New York that the famous baby was not the child of her husband. In the Journal of the Knights of Labor, Mr. Powderiy condemns the recent report to the Legislature by the New York State Board of Arbitration of the New York Central railroad strike as “biased,” “untruthful,” “malicious” and “inspired by personal venom.” Charles P. Jones, long on the editorial staff of the New York Times, dropped dead the other night. His wife was a’Miss Crittenden, of Cleveland, O. The Photographers’ Association of America will meet in Buffalo, N. Y., July 14 nest. In Philadelphia all obstacles of the Reading railroad terminal facilities have been removed by official acts. Eight-year-old Frank Edwards was drowned in a sewer at Paterson, N. J. Rain and thaw caused a rush Of water that carried him in. Governor Hill, of New York, obtained two more votes than Evajpts for the United States Senatorship. Boston business men. at a meeting in Fanenil Hall, adopted a resolution against the free coinage of silver. £ New York is to have at once a new 33,000,000 reservoir dam. The Eastern States were visited by serious rainstorms on the 22d. Wholesale destruction of bridges and dams occurred The Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania was flooded, causing the gravest fears. Orville B. Platt has been sent to the United States Senate for another term by the Connecticut Legislature. Surrogate Ranson, of New York, has decided that Eva D. Hamilton and Robert Ray Hamilton were not legally married, and that Eva is still the wife of Joshua J. Mann. By Hie breaking of a dam near ristown, N. J., was used as i telegraph message in 1835, was destroyed. George Kendall, tb farm hand of Ariingtoi in the lip x \dled at Chambers a victim of form, at Soari fatally

THE WEST. Is the case of the State vs. Hoff, at Vinton, la., Judge Kinney held the Wilson bill constitutional and the Iowa prohibitory law in force as to imported liquors. The Minnesota House completed its organization by the election of the l!*usion (Alliance-Democrat) ticket. SheriffHouston, of Missoula, Mont.,' has received word that five men were shot by two masked men at McCarthysville, a town on the Great Northern road, 125 miles north of Plat Head lake. The winter in the Northwest has been unprecedentedly warm. J. Randali, Brown, the Iowa mind reader, has been exposed an a fradd. Kalakaua, King of the Sandwich Islands, died at San Francisco on the 20th of Bright’s disease. He was in this country for the purpose of securing a financial loan. Ethel Towne, on trial at Terre Haute, Ind., for uttering a forged check, has been acquitted. In the Indiana House a resolution was adopted to investigate the State Treasury to see if money had been illegally loaned. The StanftffHTOil Company has bought out C. C. Harris, the largest individual oil producer in Ohio. It paid 81,750,000. The Chicago Gas Company has decided to surrender its charter and go out of business. The companies composing the trust will, however, continue their business as before. It may be some weeks before the dissolution of the trust is consummated. Sts men were badly injured by the unexpected explosion of six kegs o<f gunpowder in a mine near Marissa, 111. The opera house in Winona, Minn., was burned the other night, soon after the close of the Maggie Mitchell performance.

The World’s Fair lady managers of Chicago have decided that their building should be on the lake front. There are said to be about' 5,000 artisans in Chicago now unable to obtain work, having gone there expecting jobs on World’s Fair buildings. Half a block of stores in Hillsboro, Minn., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $70,000. The Ohio Legislature has taken steps to investigate the State penitentiary and the imbecile asylum. The final vote in the Washington Legislature for United States Senator was: Squire, 58; Calkins, 30; Carroll, 31. Voorhees has been re-elected Senator from Indiana. President Egan and Passenger Agent Holdredge, of the Chicago, St Paul & Kansas City, have been indicted by the Federal grand jury at St Paul for illegal manipulation of rates. Mbs. Henry Smith was killed and Mrs. Neshlin fatally injured by being thrown down a 100 foot embankment near Oro, Col., by a runaway horse. The strike of the South Side cable railway employes of Chicago has been averted, Assistant Superintendent Luck retiring. - » Two men dead and four more in a critical condition were the result of the mine accident at Marissa, 111. Colorado claims that the much wanted Padlewski, who killed General Seliverskoff in Paris, is hiding in the mountains near Silverton. The Taubeneck investigation' ended in his vindication. Taubeneck was an Independent member of the Illinois Legislature and talk was out that he had once been in the “pen” for counterfeiting. Miss Georgia Mortimer, an actress of the “Night pwl” Company, fell dead of heart disease at her hotel in Cleveland, O., recently. The oatmeal mill and elevator at Mazeppa, Minn., belonging to E. M. Johnson, of Minneapolis, were burned the other night. The loss on the build

mg is 860,000, and 50,000 bushels of grain were destroyed. A mob recently evicted the Chinese from Milton, Ore. The Minnesota Senate has adopted a memorial to Congress asking for the passage of a law prohibiting gambling in grain and other food products. The lower house of the Indiana Legislature has passed a joint resolutioh for the suppression of the dressed beef trust jtnd repeal of the McKinley law. Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, has been in another shooting scrape, this time at Walsenberg, Col. Haslet McCoy, slayer of Police Inspector Hawley, of Denver, has asked for a change of venue. After the killing McCoy was taken to Pueblo to avoid a lynching. THE SOUTH. D. S. Gamer, a veteran detective of New Orleans, has been elected chief of police of that city to take the place of the assassinated chief, Hennessy. The Tennessee House has adopted a resolution postponing the World’s Fair appropriation until the fate of the elections bill in Congress has been announced. Whitecaps who visited the house of Bichard Brown, colored, near Little Rock, Ark., were fired on by him and James Hnntly was killed and another man wounded. Captain John Maxey, of Charleston, S. Cm was waylaid and miudered by two negroes. Two colored men were asphyxiated by gas in a hotel in Baltimore, Md., the other day. A colored lawyer for the first time in the State’s history argued before the Maryland Court of Appeals recently. General James Lonostreet was reported quite ill at a hotel in San Antonio, Tex. He is suffering from a wound received in the civil war. GENERAL. News from the South Seas states that King Moli of the Solomon islands has been poisoned and that Goral of the Shortland islands, Moli’s enemy, made a raid on the settlement and stole sixteen wives of the deceased King. Russia proposes hereafter to issue only 3 per cent, loans. The treasury has a large amount on hand. McLachlen Bros. & Co., of Montreal; Can., one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the Dominion, are in financial difficulties. The liabilities are between 8700,000 and. 8000,000. . The King of Abyssinia has asked the French Government to give a port near Obock in return for the concessions granted a French company to construct and operate a railway from that place to the interior of Abyssinia. Russia has protested, through its German agent, against the harboring andemptoyment of Nihilists by the Bulgarian Government. A ton of tobacco being smuggled from Key West has been seized at Havana. Effort to move icebound shipping at

Tint river Tagus and the Ebro, whte“ flows through Saragossa, Spain, are covered with ice, the first since 1825. Canada is invited to the international postal convention at V'-'nna next May. The French Deputies have appropriated $200,000 more to relieve- the sufferers by cold and storm. E. P. Turner, said to have been a son of the late Admiral Turner of the United States navy, committed suicide on the China steamer Abyssinia on its last trip. An attempt was made to induce the Czar to cease persecution of the Jews by a gift of 1,000,000 rubles. The despot was greatly incensed and ordered the arrest of Baron Gunzberg, a Jewish banker, who forwarded the check which he had received from Berlin. Gunzberg, later, was released. Opinion in Vienna is that Bulgaria’s Prince Ferdinand Will effect greatly pacific results by his visit to the Czar. It transpires that the death of the Duke of Bedford was an act of suicide. He shot himself in a fit of insanity.. British war vessels have been instructed to prevent the interference of rebels in Chili with British ,shipping. Tk* increase in the prodeMhnr- of' cigarettes in the United States last year was 280,000,000. The cigar production increased about 20 per cent The London Times, in a long editor

ial on the negro question in America, favors exportation of the negroes to Central Africa. Queen Natalie says she must leave Servia to escape indignities which she can no longer bear. Gladstonians won the recent election at Hartlepool, England. Sib Edwin Arnold, who has been residing in Japan for some time, has started for home. The National Trotting Association of Great Britain has adopted the American rules. Lord Salisbury asserts that the early dissolution of Parliament is not probable. A train on the National railway of Mexico was wrecked recently at Acambaro, some one having loosened the rails by drawing the spikes. Twelve persons were injured. The British Parliament assembled on the 23d. The laborers employed upon the works at Hare Island and Skibbereen, Ireland, commenced by the Government for the relief of the distress existing among the poor classes of those neighborhoods, have struck for an increase of wages. The German Reichstag has refused to repeal the restrictions on American pork. The revolted ships have been expel] ed from the Chilian ports. The people and the army support the Government, so a dispatch from Valparaiso says. The Government has taken severe mea sures against the insurgents. To prevent an expected Anarchistic outbreak the Paris police arrested all suspicious characters loitering in the Place de l’Opera. An avalanche in Quebec filled Champlain street with snow to the depth ot twenty feet. House fronts were broken in, but no person was killed. $ News has been received of a serious collision between two freight trains at Artemisal, near Cardenas, Cubu. The cars were badly wrecked. Four persons were killed and four others wexe more or less seriously injured. Prince Baudoin, heir apparent to the Belgian throne, died suddenly on the 23d. All sorts of rumors were prevalent as to the cause of his death, which was compared to the tragic death of Prince Rudolph, of Austria, two years

ago. Business failures (Dun’s report) lor the seven days ended January 33 numbered 380, compared with 411 the previous week and 388 the corresponding week of last year. A recent agrarian outrage in County Clare, Ireland, was the skinning of a cow alive. The opinion, generally maintains throughout Chili that unless President Palmaceda speedily resign^ the entire armed forces of Chili will /rise in insurrection. Foreigners residing in Chili are declared to be safe from molestation. Italians living in the country are accused of having openly and secretly given- aid and comfort to the revolutionists. ■ _ ' THE LATEST. In the Senate, on the 34th, after e brief executive session, held soon after meeting, the remainder of the day was spent in discussing the cloture resolution. Senators Stewart and Morgan spoke in opposition to the proposed change in the rules, and Senator Saunders spoke in support of the resolution and incidentally favored the passage of the Elections bill. During the afternoon Mr. Aldrich asked unanimous consent to limit debate on the resolution and to name the 36th as the day for taking a vote on it; but objections to each request came promptly from the Democratic side of the chamber...In the House two hours’ time was spent in the reading and approval of the journal. The Naval Appropriation lull was then taken up in committee of the whole, but without disposing of the bill the committee roee and the House adjourned. The Paris Seide states that Mr. •William O’Brien has ..received from Mr. Arnold Morley, the Liberal whip, on the part of Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues, such guarantees for a measure of home rule as are sufficient to meet the conditions upon which Mr. Parnell will retire from the leadership of the Irish Parliamentary party. The Chilian revolutionists constantly gain in strength and confidence. In Valparaiso and its neighborhood the workmen in the factories are joining the revolutionary forces in considerable numbers, and the sympathy of the public seems very generally to turn to the rebels. Ex-County Clerk M. D. Hamilton, of Sim Diago County, Cal., whose accounts were nearly 86,000 short when he turned over the office to his successor, on the first of January, has been arrested, and is nowin jaiL His bondsmen are responsible. The efforts of the Earl of Aberdeen to settle the Caledonian railway strike have failed, and Sir Michael HicksBeach, M. P., intends to move a commission to consider the condition of railway employes. The Treasury Department, on the 24th, under its circular of October 9, 1890, redeemed 8460,400 four-and-a-half per cent, bonds, making the redemptions to that date 89,566,860. The State Department is informed ol the death at Borna, Africa, January 18, of Lieutenant Emery H. Taun t, United States Commercial Agent to the Congo Free State.

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Jakes A. Patton, Harrison County, undertook to wash his sweetheart’s face with snow, and the young, lady threw him down with such violence as to dislocate Jus knee. At Middletown a son of Jasper Boone, aged 7, was gored to death by a bull the other evening. An Indianapolis baby was pawned for one dollar, and the father had to bring suit to get it out of soak. Miss Henrietta Fountain, member of a very prominent family of the neighborhood of Seymour, aged sixteen years, while temporarily crazed i>y disappoint ment in love and betrayal, blew her brains out with a revolver the other night. Her betrayer is a stranger who came there only a short while ago. He has disappeared. Jakes C. Stanfield, of Hemyville, a brakeman on the JV, M. & I., fell beneath the wheels while making a coupling at Columbus, the other morning, and was cnt in two. ;' . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swintz, of South Bend, served cheese at a luncheon, and all tbehuguests were seized with sudden illness. The results were not permanently serious. Bert Lew aLlen, who has lain in the jail at Crawfordsville since last fall charged with stealing a pair of boots at Newmarket, has pleaded guilty and the judge released him on good behavior on account of his having already been in jail so long. Studebakers have struck a strong flow of sulphur water at Paoli at a depth of 845 feet. The water is equal to any found at the famous French Lick and West Baden springs, and shoots eighteen feet into the air. This is the second flowing sulphur well struck in that town in the last thirty days. At Columbus Rosani Keller has sued for divorce from Peter Keller, to whom she has been married forty years. She is seventy-five and he eighty. She charges cruelty and desertion. The fly-wheel of an engine in Lauderbec*kTs saw-mill, near Grass Creek, Cass County, went to pieces. None of the many employes in the mill were injured.

William Watson overturned a tank of toiling water in a Terre Hautfhaloon and was badly scalded. TMee days later he died of lockjaw. A movement is on foot for an electric road from Brazil to Knightsville. At Terre Haute, Ethel Towne was acquitted of the charge of forgery. Bedford, a village fen miles north of Mitchell, is scourged' nth an epidemic of scarlet fever. All. the members of one family have died with the disease, and many are leaving town to escape. Vigorous efforts are being made to stay the contagion. Henp^JThornton, colored, who is the possessor of a wt te wife, attempted suicide by hanging in the Madison jail. He was jealous of his brother’s attentions to his wife. Chas. Sherman grs : bed a burglar in his Indianapolis residence, forced himinto a closet, and while he went for the police the prisoner dapped out of the window. Mitchell is organizing a Law and Order League for the purpose of enforcing the statutes against the safe of intoxicating liquo- s. The body of Peter Sheets was found in a swamp about eight miles from Plymouth. He was a well-to-do farmer, but became demented, and about six weeks ago wandered away. Two or three weeks ago Louis Haase, an Indianapolis jeweler, accosted pretty Miss Helen L. Patrick as she was hastening home after nightfaU, and insisted upon kissing her, and the terrified girl was compelled to submit to the embrace. 'He had previously followed her for some distance.' She reached home terribly alarmed, and acquainted her brother, and, through his co-operation and that of the police superintendent, a trap was laid for Mr. Hafise and he was arrested. ' The mayor fated him $35 and costs and sentenced him to the workhouse for ten days. He appealed to the Criminal Court, and on the 20th he was fined $5Q0 and all costs of trial, and a most determined effort upon the part of his attorney alone prevented him from receiving a jail sentence in addition. The other morning Orville Gaylord, aged seventy-one years, residing at 2S1 Lafayette street, Ft. Wayne, left his home as usual, enjoying the best of health. When he reached the Murraystreet wood-yard, where he is a sawyer, his fellow-workmen greeted him: He responded and talked freely till TO o’elock. Suddenly he stepped from his saw and stood the picture of despair, yet uttered not a sound. In a few minutes he left his work and ran to the office. At the desk Gaylord wrote: “I can not talk.” He was told to open his mouth. This he did, but his tongue was motionless and apparently stiff. The case puzzled the attending physicians, but it is thought his tongue is paralyzed.

Mysterious foot-prints m the snow in various parts of Knightstown have aroused considerable anxiety , and interest among the citizens of that place. The prints are those of hare feet, of average size, and have been seen in the yards and upon steps and verandas of a number of residences in remote parts of the city. They have 'been closely examined by a number of the citizens, and thera can be no doubt of their genuineness. Who the midnight wanderer is, whether male or female, an(d why abroad without the feet being dressed is shrouded in.mystery, and no little interest is being manifested. Two electric street-railway companies —the Bay and the Thompson-Houston— want the franchise to put in a system at Crawfordsville. John G(abbity, prominent man of Ft. Wayne, sought death as a refuge from torturing disease. , Franklin can no longer be called a “cow pasture.” At a special election held a few days since to vote upon the question as to whether or not cows should be allowed to run at large, the “cow up” proposition carried by a majority of 186 out of a total vote of over seven hundred.' The result was a surprise, as the “cow out” people were very confident of winning. Thb natural gas , company at Ft Wayne, the other day, on short notice, shut the gas off from manufacturing establishments* the supply becoming so limited that this step was imperative in order that the supply might be sufficient for domestic purposes. Mitchell is now profoundly stirred by the greatest religious revival it, has ever known. Meeting are being held at the Baptist and Methodist Churches, and large numbers are converted Joseph Combs is in jail

EX-MINISTER MIZNER. The Ex-Minister to the Central American Republics Discusses His Rcmovel—lie Still Believes He Acted In Strict A«cunl with All the Precedents of International Isw—Barrnndla Described^as a Common Criminal. San Fbancisco, Jan. 36.—Ex-Minister Mizner, who arrived from Guatemala Saturday, talked freely of his removal. He said he thought Mr. Blaine was not the author of the letter he received from the State Department censuring his conduct, hut that it had been written by a subaltern and signed by the Secretary of State without careful perusal. Prior to the death of General Barrundia, Minister Mizner had procured his safe conduct out of Guatemala. “It was impossible for me to think of giviag all my personal attention to the Barrundia matter,” said the ex-Minis-ter, “as the interestof the United States and the peace of five republics seemed to demand all my time and attention iust at that moment. On August 26 the basis of peace was finally agreed upon, and I could see that my labors were about to he rewarded. The day before that General Barrundia entered Guate-' *nala in the Acapulco. In finally advtec iug Captain' Pitts to surrender the rebel, I believe I acted in strict accord with all precedents and with international law.”

Mr. Mizner described Barrundia as a common criminal who was wanted for other crimes than those of a political nature. Me. Mizner will remain in this city for the present, and then proceed to Washington to state his case to the Secretary. He is not over sanguine that the treaty between the five republics will last long. Both Guatemala and Salvador are now buying arms and ammunition in Europe and in other ways preparing for the war that he thinks will not be long delayed. CHARGES OF BRIBERY. A Decided Sensation in the South Dakota House of Representatives—Charges of Attempted Bribery Made from Various Quarters and the Proof Promised—The Senatorial Contest. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 25.—A Pioneer Press Pierre (S. D.) special says: At the afternoon session of the House in voting on the Davison County election contests sensational bribery charges were made. Representative Converse first announced that he had been threatened with the defeat of a bill in which he was interested If he did not vote a certain way. , Mr. Kelly thdfctated that there were other influences at work, that he had been offered one thousand dollars to vote for Moody for Senator and would disclose the name of the party to the proper committee. This created a decided sensation. - — Mr. Hall said he had been offered a bribe of $1,000 by a prominent Democrat to keep out of the Republican caucuses and could produce witnesses to the same. The committee oh bribery announced that their report would be ready at the nest session, and the first one of the contesting Independents was seated. Other contests will be added to-morrow. The ch&rges of bribery made yesterday were ordered referred to the committee appointed early in the week to investigate similar charges. Two ballots were cast in joint session at noon, the last resulting: Moody, T7; Tripp, 25; Harden, 24; Kyle, 16; remainder scattering. The decision of the first of the five Lawrence County contests against the seceding Republican members is a decided defeat for Moody. MORE WORK FOR THE ARMY. The Red Lake Reservation Indians In Minnesota Preparing to Go on the War Path—Invitations Sent to Other Tribes to Join Them.

Red Lake Falls, Minn., Jan. 26.—A settler from Thief River Falls, the nearest settlement to the Red Lake Indian Reservation came into town yes- . terday afternoon and reports that the Indians on the reservation on hearing' of the arrival of Adjutant-General Mullen at St. Hilare were greatly incensed and have dispatched couriers to the Winnebago and White Earth bands asking them to prepare for war. Some of the squaw men are fleeing into the settlements and their fear has alarmed the settlers greatly. While there are less than two hundred Indians at the Red'Lake Reservation, there are about 8,000 Chippewas in this part of the State, and Alex St. Pierre, a squaw man who lives near Thief River Falls,' reports that a number of bands from other points have lately joined the Red Lake bands. ONE .AGAINST EIGHT. A Plucky Officer Prevents a Well-Planned Jail Delivery at Cleveland, Tenn—A Nervy Fight Against Desperate Odds. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 25.—Yesterday a desperate attempt at jail delivery occurred at Cleveland, Tenn, When Sheriff Duff unlocked the door of a cage he was seized by two of the men confined therein and a pistol taken from him. A lamp was knocked out of his hand and a desperate fight ensued, one man against eight. The plucky officer drew another jiistol and firing began. The prisonewwho had Duff’s pistol, put it in the officer’s face and fired it, but the bullet missed its mark, although the sheriff was badly powderburned. Duff wrenched the weapon away and was master of the situation and locked up the unruly inmates of the cell. Alleged Counterfeiters Arrested and Jailed. Dks Moines, la., Jan. 26.—The police Saturday arrested Matt Merritt, his wife Millie Merritt, and William Frow, charged with counterfeiting coin. All were arraigned before United States Commissioner Jordan-pleaded not guilty and were sent to jail in default of $S00 bail. Their place was searched, and the officers found a tin pan part full of metal, plaster paris, molds, files and other tools. The United States authorities have been aware of the counterfeiting for some time, and have been looking for the parties. Bctte, Mont., Jan. 26.—Yesterday afternoon a Northern Pacific sleeper was dropped at a point where it stood to be transferred to the Montana Union tracks and taken to Garrison. For some reason the switch engine did not appear for about twenty minutes, and

ANOTHER TARIFF TRUST. The Sc£g> AE«»uS»etarer» Extending Their Tra«4 la of^sr to Enjoy Their Tarlif Spoil* l:~M«Kias»y!s«n the Breeder of Trnetg. The Botou Commercial Bulletin, a high tariff organ, prints the following | piece ox news: A large luojber &t soap manufacturers In Philadelphia, Pa., have organised a branch of the Rational Soap Manufacturers’ Association. II. M. Euvchsob was elected president, I'eterUay vice-president, and William Hamilton secretary and treasurer- The territory covered bv ib& new branch was fixed as Pennsylvania, east ol the Alleghenies, New Jersey , west of the New York Association’s district, and the States of Delaware and Maryland. The association here referred to is what is known as the soap trust. The soap makers are bnt another of the vast number of industries which are making haste to form trusts iu order to 'get rid of competition” and enter into the full enjoyment of the spoils which the tariff makes possible. The McKinley duty on castile soap is IK cents per pound, on fancy and toilet soaps 15 cents per pound, and on all other kinds it is 20 per cent- ad valorem. Some prominent Republicans teach the doe trine that in cases where combinations are formed for 'checking competitiomre foj;- raising pricks the protecting duty should be revised in order to invite competition from abroad. This is the doctrine heard only from the stump; it never appears in practical form on the fioors of Congress. The Republican leaders wilfully shut their eyes to the fast that in every department of industry trusts are springing up, and that this pernicious tendency toward consolidation has never been more active than during the past six months. Trusts were sprouting up rapidly even while the McKinley bill was stall under discussion; hut since the passage of this hill, with all its jobs and deals, the trust-making industry has leaped forward with unexampled vigor. Trusts come so rapidly that it is scarcely possible to keep a record of them. Some Republican journals are fearful lest these trusts will “undermine the whole protective system."’ But these journals are clearly not in harmony with the spirit and purposes of the McKialeyites. The purpose of the McKinley law was to raise prices and thus

give toe manmaeturers matter pronts. M this was cot the purpose of the law, then there should have ■'been no object in passing it; and Republican leaders, like McKinley himself, were doing a very inconsistent and needless thing when they went up and down the country in the recent campaign making speeches against cheapness. McKinley hiihse'lf said in his speech on his bill last May in the House of Representatives: “We want no return to cheap times in our own country,” and be argued that “where merchandise is cheapest men are poorest.” Ft being thus a sound Republican doctrine that cheapness is bad and dearness is to be preferred, how can Republican newspapers and statesmen consistently lift up their voices against trusts?Major McKinley says that a cheap country “is not the kind om? fathers builded Furthermore, it is nbt the kind their sons mean to maintain.” ‘ Now trusts are the most potent agencies imaginable for realizing the ideal here svt forth by McKinley; and if that ideal of a dear country be accepted by the Republicans it is folly for them to denounce trusts. The president of the sugar trust takes this view. He says; “The great cry of one of the great parties is for protection; that is, they cry for it loudly during campaigns. But when we proceed to give ourselves some protection a howl is raised. They demand protection for the industries. When an industry protects itself it is said that it is illegal,” The sugar trust was making 30 per cent, on watered capital when this was said; .but what good Republicans can object to that? The trust at any rate was a blessing to the country in giving us sugar which was neither “cheap” nor “nasty.” MILLIONS AND bTlLIONS. Thomas G. Shearman lMscnsses “The Coming Billionaire” — Striking Figures on Wealth anil Taxation — Bardens For Workers and Millions For Idlers—Indirect Taxes Will Create the Billionaire. Are we to have a billionaire? We already have by far the richest men in the world. We have one man worth 8150,000,0C0 and a ehureh corporation worth the same amount. We have five persons worth each 8100,000,000 or more. We have nine persons and estates worth each 850,000,000 *i- more, and six worth 840,000,000 or more. Why should we not have also a bit

tfeirn. $43,067,000,000 7,500,000.000 11,215,000,000 lionaire? Shall we not have one? Bitch are the questions which Thomas (f. Shearman discusses in the Forum magazine for January, and his answer is that ths billionaire is certain to come if onr present system of indirect taxation continues in force long enough. A millionaire now worth $200,000,000 has but to sit still and invest his interest judiciously, and in less than forty years we will have a new wonder of the world— a billionaire. Mr. Shearman showed in the same magazine for November, 18S9, that the total wealth of the country averaged about $1,000 per head of the population. On this 'oasis he shows in the current number of the Forum that the present distribution of wealth in the United States is as follows: Class. Ttmilies. Rich......... ;|....,. 182,000 MMrtte..5 .t... 1,»w,ooo Working.. ......... 11,620,000 The wealth produced in 1890 is estimated, according to the crnsns returns of 188C, qt, about $13,000,000. About four per cent, of this must be allowed for repairs and replacement; and after this deduction is made the net product of wealth for 1800 was distributed approximately as follows: families. Average /lecrtate. Total /ornate. 380,060...*25,000 *,600,000,000 1,200 MC.u. 1,250 1,600,000,000 11,320,000. 360 6.600,000,000 Leaving taxation out of the account, the 189,000 rich families can save about two-thirds of their income, while the rest of the families can not save more than about one-dftb of theirs. But our taxes are mainly levied, not upon property owned, but upon money spent. About seven-eighths of our taxes are indirect Even local taxation upon banks, mortgages, merchandise and houses, which is usually reckoned as direct taxation, is in reality indirect since these trxes are shifted back upon the final real taxpayer—the worker and coneamer. The tariff tax is of course the most familiar form of indirect taxation, hat it is not the only indirect tax. Mr. Shearm estimates that all this indirect taxation upon expenses averages about IS per cent This would make the tax burden borne by the 18ty009 rich families, which spend only oAthird af their income, $233,090,000 for 1830; and that of the other f amilies, which spars! four-fifths of theirs, $860,900,090. Mr- Shearman estimates that »boc! o! the whole amount

paid in t?ixes by rich and poor to the Government but to a tion of f;he richest class. Ih about $400,000,000 is restored class for the $225,000,000 which in taxes. The annual savings of the classes would therefore be as f< ANNtfAI, SAVINGS or THE Natural savings....,». Deduct tares, etc.$225,000,000 Add prctlts from tax system...400000,(03 Total.....$S27i ANNUA], SAVINGS OF OTHER i Natural suvlngs,...$!,< Deduct taxes, etc...,.!s......... Net savings..$ The gain here of the wealthyover other classes is enough to < thirty years, if placed at 5 per compound interest, the present ' wealth of the country. .-..t. Such are the results of indirect 1 tion. How would the two classes f it* system of direct taxation1 trodnced? Mr. Shearman thinks under such a system a tax of one ! otfe-fifth per cent, on all property i full value would! be sufficient burden borne by eich class i fore be asifollows:

160,000rich would pay....i. 12,820.000 ethers would pay. From these figures Mr. Shearra eludes that a system of direct Would roRiilt^in im normal savinff middle

The workings of the twosyj be illustrated by taking the, -"worth $10,000,000. " man present system he would not ] than $15,000 a year, while at time living in princely style.is one of the protected classes, I owns mines or factories, the tariff | and other indirect taxes will bring him as much as $100,000 a from the pockets of ether pwpple. how.-WQuld this pamperetf millic fare under a system of direct t He-would pay $120,000 a would levy no tribute upon poor nle. year. poorei

If the present system, thereto continue, the coming of the is a certainty; and with him ' on the other hand, a million ] The question is, will the pr tem continue? Mr. Sherman is that it will not The EepuWii made the permanent expens Government so great that a 850,000,000 is a thing of the nesj Moreover, no system Of can be devised which will cient revenue without re-imp tax on sugar. But no polit; will hazard such a step aftev J have learned tlje sifcnr. Sugar yhad P'Afijfifil

UM, by the Bep\,bli£g£pH the tariff; but freesujpd^JI work in precisely the opposit The people will learn thrt never before, that the taril and they will thus be’led to * abolition of other duties, elections have already doon bn raw wool, and the grol

threatened that the tax on wpolen will have to share the same Blaine put forward reciprocity means of saving protection; but procity, too, is going to work i contrary direction again. The I will readily see that, an enlmsgeJ with all the world is a osirl so fast as they learn that pur tfrcl be enlarged in South America. ; Thus there are many signs tl early downfall of protection®! forces are at work to underqofl system, and as the reign of tlr^* tioner passes away the conditsM vanish which tend to make thi^B aire. The abolition of tarifE H and other forms of indirect taM prevent the coming of the jillJ® “THE DISCOUNT” CHAI Republican Organs Admit That On factnrers Sell machinery CheatM elgners Than at Home. kW When the campaign wap the Cleveland Leader, one offl lug protection organs of Oi^H vehemently that our prot«?Sil facturers sell their wares chJ foreigners than in the home j Since the election, howevpj organ has felt the pressure rt and in discussing the hew mm reaper trusts it admits that “tt price of American-made fai chinery and sewing machines

lower abroad than here, Even so long ago as the September the Philadelph facturer, the organ of the Pe Manuf acturers’ Club, admitted jj manufacturers make special to foreigners and even defend for doing so. It said:

If an American is to sell abroad! which costs more*to produce tie* costs in other countries h«l lower foreign price. The f ii lair profit upon his ordinar^B him to bid low for an extens^HnM A factory making a hundred mon chines a month for the home ma make firemans month at much} than iyffrad only fTtcteiaake^. J BfKthe American consumer 1 sider it pretty hard on him tJ protection which protects prfl the foreigner. The facts about “export did were first brought out at ISM pamphlet brought out by the hfl Reform Club, and this pam]| been the cause of the heated,at! of the subject during the pas eight m&^hs. The farmer will idea of what these discounts to i ers mean in articles which he ui the following figures taken fi Reform Club’s pamphlet: .j

In “Home Market.” I

Loot Lever Hay Bakes Sell-dump Hay Bake*. Hay Tedder.. Potato Digger.. Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow. AH steel horse hoe and cultivator,with wheel A11 steel,plain cultivator, with wheel. Plows, 2 horse, chilled, 3 in. cut. .. Satneall steel—.. ... a horse, chilled, IS In. Same, all steel...... 2 or S horse, chilled, 8r. Same. aU steel...... ,_i 2 or 2 horse, chilled, Jr. Same, all steele oanitr, an avo«w. • * »» .

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