Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 April 1891 — Page 1

J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.” ; OFFICE, orer J. B. YOUNG fcOO.’S Store, Main Stroot VOLUME XXI. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1, 1891. NUMBER 45.

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. fSummary of the Daily News. WASHINGTON.NOTES. The treasury department has issued a, warrant for £646,938 in favor of the governor of Missouri on account of direct tax collections. The amount of 4% per cent bonds redeemed on the 25th was £90,800, making- the total £43,118,350. The state and navy departments are e.till ignorant of the state of affairs in Chili. It is believed at the departments that the telegraph and cable lines have l>een cut or else the party in control has established a strict telegraph censoffihia

A special, from Washington says efforts are being made to secure the remission of the unexpired term of the sentence of Commander McCalla, who was sentenced to three years’ suslaension. The first year of the sentence does not expire until May 15. Lord Salisbury has notified President Harrison through Mr. Blaine that a royal commission will he appointed to assist British merchants in exhibiting the products of British industry at the fair. A petition has been filed in the supreme court of the district of Columbia in behalf of George G. Merrick and his associates praying for a mandamus on Secretary Foster to compel him to receive a silver bar for free coinage. This is a renewal of the silver brick suit which was heretofore brought and died with the death of Secretary Windom. It is learned at the state department that there have been no negotiations with Switzerland for several years directly upon the subject of an arbitration treaty between that country and the United States. There was a report that the Say ward case would not be called in the supreme court, an agreement being reached. Secretary Proctor does not intend to resign. He characterized reports as pure gossip. THE EAST. It is reported Anna Dickinson is rapidly overcoming her mental affliction. Basco Frank, one of the survivors oi the Jeansville mine horror, is dangerously ill and his recovery is doubtful. Frank and three companions were discharged from the hospital, a few days ago. Since that time they have been feasted by their friends and the high living proved too much for Frank’s stomach. Chari.es E. Chickering, the wellknown piano manufacturer, died at New York on the 23d. The Clark thread company, of Newark, N. J.; claims a victory over its dissatisfied employes. There was an exciting and amusing sale of unpaid tailors’ bills in New York recently. Several bills amounting to $700 were sold in a bunch to a Jew for $1. „ A. Whitney & Sons, large car wheel manufacturers of Philadelphia, are financially embarrassed. The firm has been rated at $300,000. Helen P. Clark, an Indian girl at Carlisle, Pa., a teacher in the Indian school, has been appointed a special allotment agent by the United States government She will superintend the allotment of lands to Indians in Montana. Theodore E. Allen has brought an action in the New York.supreme court to recover from the Kinney Tobacco Co. $50,000 for his services in connection with the organization of the American Tobacco Co., otherwise known as the “cigarette trust,” in 1890. Oliver William Stangley was hanged at Mauch Chunk, Pa The murder was committed in Weatherly on Saturday, October 12, 1889, when he killed a Mrs. Walbert because she refused his attentions. The Knights of Labor have boycotted Rochester (N. Y.) made clothing because of the strike. Charles Arbuckle, the senior member of the New York coffee firm, is dead, aged 58. The non-union printers on the Philadelphia Press joined the union on the 27th and all parties then struck. The Norwegian bark Dictator, from Pensacola, Fla, to Hartlepool, Eng., has been wrecked off the Virginia coast. Eight lives were lost. The Boston Car Spring Co., with a factory at Roxbury, has gone into insolvency. The company is a Massachusetts corporation with a capital of $50,000. A five thousand dollar fire in the Commercial hotel and boarding house of R. Henry at Austin, Pa, destroyed the building. Three lives were lost: Lizzie McGarisk, a domestic; Jack McCarty, a boarder, and an unknown man. THE WEST. William H. Brown, of Newburg, is the new warden of Sing Sing prison to supersede Warden Brush. Mr. Brown was postmaster of Newburg under appointment of President Cleveland.' Mr. Brush is a republican.

J. C. Adams, charged with killing Capt. Couch near Oklahoma City over a claim dispute, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. During a prize fight in St. Paul recently the spectators became excited and a free fight ensued. It ended with the police clearing the hall and arresting the principals. Dr. J. E. Knickerbocker, of Udall, Kan., was accidentally drowned while attempting to ford on horseback the Arkansas river near the Kaw agency, Indian territory. The deceased was government physician to the Kaw tribe. There was a collision recently between a passenger train and a freight at Racine Junction, Wis., on the Northwestern road. Willis Andrews, a fireman, was killed and several other trainmen were seriously injured. Hon. Rurus King, a prominent attorney of Cincinnati, died “recently of la grippe, aged 74. Banker A.' S. Kean has been indicted by the Chicago grand jury for defrauding his creditors in connection with the failure of his’ bank some months ago. The bill prohibiting .the bringing of detectives into the state to do police or military duty, known as the * ‘antiPinkerton” bill, which recently passed the Ohio house, was defeated in the senate. Mitchellsviijjs, la., a small place near Des Moines, has been seriously injured by fire. _ % Prominent democrats ratified the election of Gen. Palmer to the Cnited States senate at Springfield, 111., on the 25th. Tm grippe is prevalent at Dubuque, la., and it is estimated that 1,000 cases exist in the city. Many deaths hare occurred.

Two miners were blown to pieces in the bottom of the Tamarack mine at Calumet, Mich., the" other night. The men fired one blast and had gone into ‘he drift to fire a second charge. George Karris, of Newburn, 111., who fasted thirty-three days in January and February, has been adjudged insane and placed in an asylum. TIIR SOUTH. St. Paul’s Episcopal church, New Orleans, has been destroyed by fire. The loss was estimated at $45,000; insurance, $25,000. The remains of Gen. Johnston were laid to rest by the side of his wife in Green Mount cemetery, Baltimore, Md. The finance committee of the Arkansas senate has reported adversely to the appropriation of $50,000 for the world’s fair.

BKIG.-OEN. JAMES A. EAKIN, OI tne United States army, was reported dying at Louisville, Ky., of diseases incident to old age. He was in charge oi the government depot at Jeffersonville many years previous to his retirement. The grand jury is to investigate the failure of Theodore Schwartz &sCo., the Louisville, Ky., bankers, and criminal prosecution is to follow. The assets now turn out to be nothing. The failure was for $500,000. Texas and North Carolina have created laws providing for the teaching in public schools of lessons showing the ;ffect of alcohol on the system. Gen. Mahone and John M. Langston have, it is stated, settled their differ;nees and will hereafter work in harmony for the promotion of the inter;sts of the republican party in Virginia. A train on the Galveston Central & Santa Fe went through a trestle near Farmersville, Tex. C. M. Hart, of Kansas, was killed and E. M. McKissack seriously injured. Conductor Garrison and Brakeman Hughes were hurt All an the train were badly shaken up. The British steamer ^trathairly has been lost off the North Carolina coast. Nineteen lives were lost. The account sent out from Wheeling, W. Va., of many Italians employed on the line of the Pittsburgh, Ohio & Cincinnati railroad drilling under arms has been fully verified. On last pay day there was a narrow escape from riot and over 100 of the men were dismissed by the contractors. The excitement in the camps keeps up. Capt. W. D. Howell, a well-to-do farmer and treasurer of the Farmers’ Alliance of Arkansas, was buncoed out of 83,000 at Fayetteville by three sharpers. David II. Morrison, deputy clerk of the Scott county court, Virginia, has, it is alleged, by various sharp transactions, obtained and appropriated to his own use from 810,000 to 830,000 and left the state. The Tennessee senate has rejected the bill to appropriate 8250,0d0 for a state ^exhibit at the world's fair. The house, however, passed a bill allowing county authorities to appropriate money for exhibits at the fair. The life size portrait of Jefferson Davis, which the clerk of the Arkansas house was authorized during the early part of the session to have painted, has been placed over the speaker’s desk. It took the place of the portrait of George Washington that has been hanging in the hall the past twenty years. Private Patrick Hogan, of troop C, Third cavalry, U. S. A., shot and killed Sheriff Marcus Ortego, at Eio Grande City, March 20. Ortego tried to return the fire, but his weapon would not discharge and while he lay dying he cursed the revolver for its failure. If Hogan is acquitted Ortego’s friends will kill him on sight. 1 * Gen. James A. Eakin, of the United States army, died at Louisville, Ky., on the 2tith. Gen. Eakin was born at Pittsburgh in 1891. He was a member of the commission which tried Mrs. Surratt and bore a prominent part in the funeral of Lincoln. The annual meeting of .the yellow pine% lumber association was held at j\kmtgomery, Ala. J. W. White, of Missouri, was chosen president and J. M. Bevins secretary. The price of second class lumber was raised 81 per 1,000 feet and on first-class lumber 83 per 1,000 feet. tiEXERAL. The sealing steamer Neptune has ar-' rived at St. Johns, N, F., with a catch, of 62,000 seals. She reports that the Hector has 25,000 seals, the Greenland 20,000, the Wolf 20,000, the Walrus 5,000, the Kite 3,000, the Iceland 11,000, the Terra Nova 35,000, the Aurora 8,000 and the Esquimaux 12,000. About 100 evicted crofters of the Lewis . island in the outer Hebrides, Scotland, who were evicted to make room for a deer preserve, have returned to the ruins of their former homes and threaten to resist by force any further molestation. The German census shows an increase of 2,665,138 in the population. The signal service reported a Swedish steamer ashore one mile south of Chicamicomico life saving station on the North Carolina coast, about 100 miles south of Cape Henry. Only one of her crew was saved. The steamer Bongvald Lerwick, of Aberdeen, stranded at the entrance to Kirkwall harbor, Scotland, in a blinding snowstorm.

IBS returns irom tne elections xor poor law guardians in Ireland show that the Parnellites are almost everywhere in a small minority. - One of the last acts of Queen Victoria before leaving for the continent was to respond to an appeal for help from the Leper hospital on Robin island, off the Cape of Good Hope, by ordering that two photographs of herself, with her signature attached, should be forwarded to the institution. The Russian government has decided to considerably modify the passport system, governing the admission of foreigners into Russian territory, which has hitherto been excessively exacting. The .contract has just been signed for the Kansas -City, Bentonville & Southeastern railroad, giving Kentonville, Ark., a direct and short connection with all points north. This will give the Missouri Pacific the most direct and shortest line from Kunsas City to Memphis. The relations between Portugal and England are again strained over the stute of siege declared by Portugal in Manic&land, Africa. The Tradesman’s report of new industries established in the southern states dnring the first three months of 1891 shows a total of 858 against 837 in the corresponding period of 1890 and 612 in the corresponding period of 1889. The figures for the quarter show a healthful and steady growth in the south’s material development. '. Gen. Count George Fbkderk/ Alfred Von Fabrice, pnwfcfent of the council of the ministryof Baxony, is dead.

It is now stated that the injuries 'received by Mr.'Timothy D. Healy in the assault made upon him at Cork are more serious than at first supposed. He ttfll be obliged to remain in his room four weeks. ^ The Spanish government has notified ' the-, department of state that it will participate at the world’s Columbian exposition at Chicago. At Sligo Father Kearney, a priest, made a speech violently attacking Parnell. His address incited his hearers to violence and at its conclusion the speaker had the greatest difficulty in preventing his flock front attacking the Parnellites. A fight has been reported between British colonists of Guiana and Venezuelans on the frontier. ^ A Berlin dispatch says that considerable numbers of Germans have gone to, take service with the Chinese and Japanese. China has ordered special war vessels from Germany and Japan has bought a number of torpedoes from Germany.

i His marine couri at uiuraitar uujndged Capt. McKeague, of the illfated Utopia, guilty of a grave error of judgment in attempting to turn his vessel out of the anchorage across the Anson’s bow. M. Sardou denies that he intends to sue the Comedie Francaise on account of the withdrawal of “Thermidor.” Aftek carefully considering the matter the French cabinet has come to the decision that Prince Louis Napoleon, the second son of the late Prince Napoleon, does not come under the category of personages who are pretenders to the throne of France and that, therefore, he does not come under the law prescribing banishment from France of all pretenders. In the course of his remarks at Sligo Mr. Parnell said that even if he were defeated in the election in North Sligo he* would never abandon the fight, but would oppose his enemies to the bitter end. The Czar has issued a ukase which expropriates from its owners the land required for the Vladivostock-Grofakaja section of the projected Siberian railroad. Elliott was beaten for the third time in a live-bird shoot by Capt. Brewer recently. Brewer has announced that he would challenge Elliott for the American field cup which he holds. A semi-official dispatch from Chili says that President Balmaceda has forbidden foreign steamers, chiefly British and German, to touch at ports on the coast between Chanaral and Arica. Corradini & Co., bankers and merchants of Leghorn, Italy, have failed. Liabilities amount to 20,000,000 francs. Other firms are implicated in the failure. A dispatch from Brisbane, Queensland, says that the government has adopted severe measures to repress rioting and has arrested twenty prominent trades unionists for conspiracy. It is announced that the Allan Steamship Co. has purchased the State Line Steamship Co.’s vessels, together with the good will of the latter company. President Carnot has telegraphed to Queen Victoria at Grasse, placing himself and the French officials at her service during her residence at that place. During the performance of “Le Mage” in Paris the opera house was connected with London by telephone and the music was distinctly heard. While the court was in session at Cork trying the Tipperary rioting cases the building took fire and was destroyed. The court adjourned. The winter wheat crop in the south of Russia is very unpromising. Small farmers are in a hopeless condition m consequence. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended March 26 numbered 256, compared with 275 the previous week and 243 the corresponding week of last year. M. Baltcheff, Bulgarian minister of finance, was, assassinated at Sofia on the evening of the 27th while out walking with the premier, M. Stambuloff. The unknown assassin escaped. It was thought the real intention was to kill Stambuloff. Rear Admiral Gherardi has failed in his mission to secure St Nicholas, a port on the northwestern coast of the island of Hayti, as a coaling station. THE LATEST. A mammoth mass meeting was held in Omaha, Neb., on the night of the 28th, to protest against the governor’s signing the maximum-rate bill recently passed by the legislature. Several thousand persons were present, representative railroad employes especially. Resolutions were adopted assuring the governor that the signing of the bill meant the discharge of hundreds of railroad employes throughout the state. Up to the 28th Baron Fava, the Italian minister to Washington, had not informed Secretary Blaine of the action of his government on the New Orleans affair since Gov. Nicholl’s letter was written, if any had been taken. The matteT rests in the hands of the Italian government, which must make the next move in the diplomatic proceedings. Superintendent Kimball has ordered Lieut. Thos. D. Walker, assistant inspector of life Saving stations, to investigate the loss of life incident to the wrecking of the Dictator, near Cape Henry, Va,, and Lieut. Failing to investigate the loss of life occasioned by the wreck of the Strathairly off the North Carolina coast.

The National organizer of the Farmers’ Alliance, Mr. D. J. Cole, has arrived in Salem, Ore., and will shortly begin his work of organizing county alliances in that state. He expects to visit every county in the state. Nelson P. Rees, senior partner of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Commercial-Ga-zette and 'a leading republican politician, who had been ill for some time with the grip, died at his residence in that city on the 88th. Rev. Dr. Howard Cbosby died, after a short illness, at his home in New York city on' the afternoon of the 29th.* He was born in New York city in 1838, and came of an old revolutionary family. The inquiry into the affairs of the sugar trust by the New York state senate committee on laws has been postponed on account of the illness of Senators Irwin and Vedder. The largest French spoliation claim yet allowed by the treasury department, was paid, on the 88th, to Mrs. Mary S. Scott, administratrix of Jacob Scott. The amount is $34,897. The New York clearing house committee, on the 88th, examined the affairs of the Mechanics’ and Traders’ bank and found it in a perfectly safe ind solvent condition. The Illinois Central Railroad Co., began, on the 39th, to run a new vestibule and limited train between Chicajp) w4 New

Indiana state news. Mbs. Esther France, a minister u» Ike Friends’ church, is conducting I. revival of wonderful interest at Columbus. Hrer one hundred conversions are reJjbrted and the interest continues unatfeted. -jKev. J. S. Bitler has closed a very successful revival at the M. E. church at Kokomo. There were one hundred and twenty-five accessions to the church' membership. An inebriate asylum is soon to he established at Plainfield. Prof. L. F. Harris, principal, has resigned this principalship of the Edinburgh high-school on account of failing health, and his wtte has been elected as his successor. ■ John Wilson and Henry Matthews, of Laporte, relate that the other night they were Seized by three «men and throvrn into thecattle car of a train gfung to Chicago. After being robbed of their valuables they were hurled from the train and left unconscious on the roadside, where they were found and conveyed to a neighboring house.

hon. Isaac degraff n elson, autnor of the Nelson railroad law, died at his East Berry street residence, Ft. Wayne, early the other morning from general debility. He was 80 years old. The city authorities of Anderson have closed a contract for a 560,000 water works, with the privilege of purchase in ten years. Elizabeth Fight, 96 years old, died at the residence of E. C. CJements, Zenas, Jennings county, with whom she had lived thirty-five years. Marij 0. Adams, just released from the Indiana state prison, after serving twenty years, was discovered by her daughter and provided with a home. Daughter was 5 years old when her mother was imprisoned. The starboard of tax commissioners, of Indiana, has been organized. G»v. Hovey is chairman. Bush Chambers, of near Edinburg, who was recently gored by a cow, receiving injuries that necessitated the amputation of a leg, died soon after the operation, Which was performed a few days ago Henry Fiffer, a farm-hand residing near Wilkinson, Hancock county, was attacked by a vicious mare the other day, and his nose was entirely bitten off. The other afternoon Wm. Wesseman, employed in the Bass foundry and machine shops at Ft. Wayne, was instantly killed by a large car wheel falling on him. Chas. Deokard, of Bloomington,was sentenced to two years in the spate's prison for shooting off his revolfeMa a saloon. Prof. David S. Jordon, president of the Indiana state university, has accepted the presidency of the Leland Stanford university of California. A new bank is being organized by some of the leading Germans in New Albany. Lizzie Bond, a young woman 30 years of age, in company with her sister, was passing down the C. W. and M. railroad at Anderson, when a construction train passed .at high speed. Miss Bond stepped to one side, but the suction of the passing train drew her dress under the coach and, catching upon an iron rod, dragged her fifty yards or more, dashing her brains out upon the cross-ties. The unfortunate woman was literally ground to pieces. Near Muncie Harry Thomas, a young man about 16 years old, while out hunting, had his skull fractured and his left eye destroyed by the breech-pin of his gun blowing out. At Seymour Edward Gartland and John Cain fought three rounds for the hand of a young lady, who agreed to the arrangement. Gartland was knocked out in the third round, but both were severely punished. Gov. Hovey has announced the World's fair commissioners. The appointees are as follows: State-at-large —John L. Campbell, Crawfordsville; Mrs. May Wright SeweU, Indianapolis. First district—Robert Mitchell, Princeton, Phillip Pry, Evansville. Second district—Joseph L. Wilson, Washington; Royal E. Purcell, Vincennes. Third district—Jasper Packard, New Albany; Mrs. S. S. Harrell, Brookville. Fourth district—Sidney Conger, ShelbyviUe; Cortez Ewing, jr., Greensburg. Fifth district—John Worrell, Clayton; Mrs. F. E. Worley, ElletsviUe. Sixth district —J. M. Westcott, Richmond; Thomas Hant, Muncie. Seventh district—John B. Conner, Indianapolis; Edward Hawkins, Indianapolis. Eighth district— Daniel H. Davis, Brazil; David Lee, Crawfordsville. Ninth district—D. J. Mendenhall, Westfield; Charles B. Stnart, Lafayette. Tenth district— Mrs. E. P. Hammond, Rennsselaer; W. N. Hailman, Laporte. Eleventh district—Clem Studebaker, South Bend; B. F. Louthain, Logansport. Twelfth district—James H. White, Fort Wayne; Fred. J. Hayden, Fort Wayne. George H. Honk, a citizen of LOgansport, has become insane from losses in lawsuits and religion, and was placed in jail. A four-year-old daughter of John Stupp, Cardonia, fell in a well and was drowned. The Lafayette National Gas Co. is paying death claims for persons killed by the explosion several weeks ago. While blasting coal near Brazil Dayton Stinson was instantly killed and Ross Parker so badly injured that he can not live. Crawfordsville has an epidemic of la grippe. Ada Metz, of Brazil, quarreled with her lover and attempted suicide by taking six grains of morphine. She wiU live.

ciiAnuoiutiu ni *,uwv dents of Rushville to temperance in one week. William Scotteb, of Connersyille, was sentenced to one year for stealing $81 from William Gise, a farmer. The residence of H. D. Thompson, an Anderson attorney, was entered by thieves in the absence of the family and about $3,000 worth of diamonds and clothing stolen. Twelve young ladies entered into the novitiate of the Poor Handmaid of Christ, at the St. Joseph hospital, Ft. Wayne, a few days ago. The impressive ceremonies were conducted by Bishop Dwenger, of the Ft. Wayne diocese. A witness in a case at Crawfordsville testified that the reputation of the defendant for honesty was good, but that for stealing it was bad. Wabash college, at Crawfordsville, has just received $10,000 from the estate of the late Daniel A. Jones, of Chicago, the* interest to be used to purchase books for the Jpnes alcove in the college building.

PLEASED WITH THE PLAN. Nelmon Morris, the Chicago Parker, is Pleased with the New Meat Inspection Law. and Makes Application for an In. spection—He will Heartily Co-Operate in Having it Folly Carried Out, Believing the Kesolt will Redound to the Benetit of Our Meat Trade. Washington, March SO.—An application was received by Secretary Rusk, yesterday, from Nelson Morris, of Chicago, for inspection under the law of March 4, 1891, of hogs and hog products designed by him for export abroad. The regulations for such inspection are already drawn up so far as necessary for compliance with the requirements of the law. In some details these regulations may be modified as experience indicates to be necessary so as to minimize as much as possible any inconvenience or expense entailed upon the trade, keeping in view, however, the secretary’s determination to carry out to the full the powers given him under the law to secure such an inspection as will absolutely forbid on the part of any foreign government suspicion or accusation regarding the healthfulness of-our animal food products.

wvioi aa iui. iuui i is vuu^xi uvu uo expresses the utmost confidence in the good results of the law and every willingness to co-operate in fully carrying it out. Referring to this law and to that which provides for the regulation by the secretary of agriculture of the condition of cattle-carrying vessels, he declares his conviction that these laws will help the farming and cattle-raising interests beyond anything now possible to* estimate. Foreign countries, he says, will not take our animal products for human food without inspection, and he is persuaded that by these two bills becoming a law millions will be saved to this country, lie believes another result will be, by securing a foreign export demand as an escape valve for our export products, to greatly minimize gambling in hog products, heretofore so prevalent. As to the cattle-car-rying vessel inspection bill, he gives it as his experience as one of the largest cattle-shippers in this county, that heretofore the captain of the vessel has been absolute master on the ocean with the result that the poor dumb beasts have been liable to ill treatment, an evil which will be fully remedied under the provisions of the bill in question. He adds that whereas he is now killing 2,500 hogs per day and hopes to soon increase that number to 5,000, he would not have killed any had not the inspection bill become a law. SIGNS OF WAR. Unusual and Signiflmi Activity in tho German War Department — The Idea Prevalent'that Something: Important is on the TapisThe Pntente Cordiale Between Russia and France Undoubtedly a Disturbing: Faction—The Socialist Propaganda in the Armies of Furope. London, March 30.—Last evening’s advices from Berlin state that unusual activity has prevailed for the past three days in the war office, and that an unusual number of employes were busy at the office yesterday. The emperor had a long audience with Chancellor Caprivi, and the high officials generally look as if something important was on the tapis. There is no doubt that the movements Of Russian troops near the German frontier and the evidence of cordial intimacy between Russia and France have caused much anxiety, in Berlin, and it- is possible that the alarm caused by the apprehension of war may lead to important military changes. Beside the thought that Russia and France may be preparing for war, .the German government is said to he very much stirred up over startling facts that have been disclosed in regard , to the socialistic propaganda in the army. The military authorities have come into possession, through a recent arrest, of evidence going to show that the social democracy has been spreading its doctrines through the ranks of the army and navy, and has made numerous proselytes, and that the propagation of socialism among the troops is not confined to Germany, but is systematically carried on throughout Europe, with the exception of Russia, and that all the armies of western Europe are honeycombed with the subversive ideas of pledged enemies of established institutions. The kaiser, it is stated, has given directions that the evil should be dealt with most radically, so far as Germany is concerned, and any officer or soldier detected in propagating the prohibited opinions shall be punished with the utmost severity.

UNADVISED OF IT. The Dominion Government Hag Received No Notltlcatlon In Reference to Free Balt for American Fighermen. Ottawa, Ont., March 29.—A Gloucester (Mass.) telegram states that United States Consul Maloney at St. Johns, N. F., had stated that bait license this season for United States vessels will be free. The Dominion government has received no official information in reference to the Newfoundland fishery regulations for next seasou beyond the intimation that the bait act of last year is likely to be renewed. Members of government here are unwilling to believe that the Newfoundlanders, even in a fit of exasperation at the home government, would go to the length of surrendering their only hold on Washington authorities, especially in view of the strong probability of the Atlantic fisheries coming up for settlement as a question in which Canada and Newfoundland are jointly interested. A Scheme to Get Speaker Elder or the Nebraska House Out of the Way. Lincoln, Neb., March SO.—It is alleged that an attempt was made Friday night to spirit Speaker Elder away to prevent him from signingthe maximum freight bill, but it was unsuccessful. A dispatch from his home in Clay Center was handed to him saying: “Come home quick; I am sick.” It was signed M. A. Elder. That is his wife’s name, hut as she always signs her name Maggie A. Elder, he thought it fishy. Upon investigation it was found that though she was sick she had not sent a disnatch nor authorized one. The Japanese Government May Tender an Es<$prt to Mr. Swift's Kemains. San Francisco, March 29.— Congressman Morrow says that - the dispatch to the state department announcing the funeral of John F. Swift, tho late minister to Japan, will probably be followed by a letter from the Japanese government tendering an escort of a war vessel to this country. For thia reason it is not likely that the remains will, arrive on the next steamer from Japan, but adetter from the Japanese department of foreign affairs addressed to the secretary of state will pro&abij arrive on that sGw—n •

THE FARMER'S MARKET. HlnS the Farmer Sella Abroad—'Treasury n*ntffl of Agricultural Export* For 1890 —England Takes Stoat of the Farm Exports—An Important l.csson in Reciprocity. The American farmer has never been so deeply Interested as just now in his foreign market Agricultural depression has made the farmers look to the foreign market as never before. Even fanners who have heretofore been deluded by the protectionists into the belief that their home market is allsufficient, have been shaken from that delusion by no less a protectionist than Blaine himself. This arch protectionist has himself dealt the home market heresy a deadly blow with his famous remark about the market for “another barrel of pork and another bushel of wheat;” and his present agitation of the reciprocity question is further calculated to impress upon protectionist farmers the fact that foreign markets are the hope of American agriculture. As the foreign market is thus attracting attention from all sides it is well that the farmer should know its dimensions, and that he should know, too, where his best foreign market is. The figures recently published by the treasury department for the year ended December 81, 1890, give accurate information on both these points. The most striking fact brought out in this report is that the foreign market is at times more valuable to the farmer than to the manufacturer. This is seen from the figures of agricultural exports, $628,772,000; and those of manufacturers, §156,988,000. Total exports amounted to §845,987,000. Agricultural exports were thus 74.33 per cent, of the total, and the manufacturers only 18.56 per cent. Wherever, therefore, our wild McKinleyism arouses a spirit of retaliation against us in foreign countries, or forces those .countries to seek trade elsewhere, our farmers have four times more to lose than our manufacturers. The details of farm products exported are interesting. The largest item is cotton, §254,275,000; then follow provisions, §142,842,000; breadstuffs, $141,602,000; animals, §35,665,000, and miscellaneous agricultural products, about 835,000,000— - The principal provisions exported wer as follows: Beef products—Canned beef, 88,610,000; fresh, $18,837,000; salted or pickled, $6,089,000; tallow, $5,738,000. Hogproducts—Bacon, $37,855,000; hams, 88,495,000; pork, fresh and pickled, §4,704,000. Dairy products—Butter, §3,228,000; cheese,. §8,130,000. Exports of provisions have increased very largely in three years. These are the figures: 1558.. ................................t...$ 91,(19.003 1589.. ..... 129,307,000 18S3..... 112,812,mo Besides these exports of meat products live animals were exported to the extent of §35,065,000, of which cattle were the principal item, reaching $33,297.000. against $25,673,000 in 1889. Ex- ! ports of hogs were $970,000; horses. §808,000; mules, $358,000; sheep, $199,000. The different classes of breadstuffs exported were: Corn, $37,603,000; wheat, $42,348,000; wheat flower, $52,2 709,000; oats, $4,141,000; rye, $1,025,000; commeal, $917,000; oatmeal, $579,000; barley, $463,000. Many articles" of a miscellaneous character were sent abroad by our farmers. The most important of these were as follows: Bones, hoof, horns, etc., $400,000; fruits, $2,845,000; hay, $577,000; hides and skins, $1,488,000; hops, $2,172,000; seeds, $2,945,000; leaf tobacco, $21,155,000; vegetables, $1,370,000. The above articles are all strictly farm products. Besides these there were exports of manufactured products, amounting to some §40,000,000, for which our farmers produced nearly all the raw. materials. These are as follows: Cotton goodsj «^tolSM)00; leather and manufactures offlfeather, $13,275,000; lard oil, $646,000; cottonseed, $5,400,000; oilcake, $7,762,000; manufactured tobacco, $4,018,000. The figures here set forth will furnish the farmer with an adequate answer to ex-Gov. Foraker’s famous sneer, “what have we to do with abroad?” These were the largest exports of farm products in the history of the country, except in the two years 1880 and 1881. The enormous volume of agricultural products going abroad demonstrates •the ability of our farmers to beat “pauper labor” on its own ground. In his report on the tariff hill McKinley said: “The‘world’s market,’to which the advocates of tariff for revenue only invite the farmers of this country, is today crowded with the products of the cheapest human labor the earth affords All over the old world there is a rush for their surplus to that market, and it is to such a contest as this that free trade would allure American agriculture.” But the farmers are already allured into that contest in the world’s market; and they have no idea of withdrawing from it. They do not propose to keep their products at home, as McKinley advocates, to still further glut the home market and carry prices lower than they have ever been. ■? While the “great reeiprocitist” is trying to find a market for our farmers in South America, it is important to know where their greatest market now is. and where, in fact, it will remain. It is in England that the American farmers sell most of their exports. Let Blaine s#cep iu all South America with fcis reciprocity treaties, he will never make a market for our farmers there half so great as that of Great Britain alone. Here are the figures showing the value of the British market; Total exports of cattle, $33,297,000, of which England took $31,364,000; canned beef, $8,610,000, to England, $6,356,000; fresh beef, $13,837,000, to England, $18,654,000; salted beef, $6,125,000, to England, 63,952,000; tallow, $5,788,000, to England, $2,643,000; bacon, $37,855,000, to England, $80,966,000; hams, $8,495,000, to England, $6,857,000; lard, $36,062,000, to England, $11,139,000; butter, §8,288,- ’ 000, to England, $1,355,000; cheese, §8,130,000, to England, $7,080,OOO. Our exports of breadstuffs were also principally taken by England. The leading items were: Corn, $37,608,900, to England, $19,474,000; whe«t, $43,343,900, to England, $28,810,000; flour, §52,703,000, to England, $82,356,000. Exports of raw cotton amounted to 8254,000,000, of which England took $148,000,000. Hops to the value of $3,172.000 were exported, of which ail except about $65,000 went to England. Of $31,155,000 of leaf tobacco England took $6,191,030. England has been offering us reciprocity for forty years, has absolutely thrown her markets open to us and invited us in. Our protection lawmakers have always declined this English reciprocity; since the advantage of it would go mainly to our farmers, and the ham, if there should be any, would V® W% by saEtBcf&ctuwwfc

EXPERIENCE WITH WOOL f AR! WNMJCJOXKWCUtCJONNMXfCMNfO 8Si3=82Eir5S8s5aS24SIS ©e©oSSSSS;Sas,S:a8S;f.SSS3SS S’: s c oo oo SSSSooSS?S5oSoS &3?g3SgS8SS83SSS5g88388 Si k £23 £ £ £ Hg *; £ 2 85252 St Sh It is true, the number of sheep in the far west and southwest has greatly in- j creased since 1886, but this is to be considered. not as the effect of the tariff I on wool, but as the natural result of the settlement of these parts of the ' country. How the tariff could increase the number of sheep at the same time that the price of wool was steadily de* I dining is one of those contradictions] which only the protection mind can be»| lieve. The figures above given amply justify] the wool growers of Livingston and| Ontario counties, in New York state, f denouncing the wool tariff as a' “dein sion and a share” and in demandii that wool be placed on the free ,!-A Our Tariff Company. The tariff sometimes puts- natio into strange company. Protection constantly express their satisfactio that. all the continental., Europe have high tarij gland Hands practicallJT tabling free trade. Ta them much pleasure, sil in a different class from* puts us along with Gob Italy, etc. In the matter of the curious to note in whafl Figures Showing Decline of Wool I In Pennsylvania and Michigan—Thn Wo Duty "» Delusion and a Snare.” Farmers who believe that the duty has been of any advantage them in raising the price of their i or in increasing the number of sheep should examine the foil table showing the number of she«J Michigan from 1866 to 1889; the i value of sheep per bead in each J fromyear to year; the tariff da wool each year, and the average ma**^ ket price of wool each year. This table begins with 1866, that being the year before the high wool duty was enacted. The figures here given r re taken from the annual reports cm the department of agriculture. The table is as follows:

high McKinley duty on t Here is the list of the countries whi< admit wool free of duty, and the Unit States “is not in it:’’ -4

Austria, Now South Wales, Chll', Tito Netherlands, British India, France, Portugal, Greece, Victor!:*,

Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, New Zealand.

Ana nere are tne countries wmcn wool; also the duty per pound e levies on ordinary clothing wool: Brazil..81.02 and 65 per 11 per 35 per United Stalest S m Salvador..1,.06 Kcuidor... .051 Pc> toRI'.o...059 Mexico.....046 1* ru.-....Oil Arg'lit ne Republic. II y.l.04 Hon lur is.032 United St tea of Columbia..^...*.....023 Russia. 0.16 Koran.* Rohinania.f 1 Turkey..;.0072 Chilli...;....0036 Spain..OOU Suritz rland.0006 Siam.A;..... This puis us in the company of least civilized and least progressist tions in the world oa the wool ques The United States is the only firstnation in the list. 8 per ■> >«'

The Hand-to-Hapd Club. | The tariff battle of 18!/2 is already in" on in a qui >t way. A curious, ganizatioxi in New York has undertal a novel and important step in prep ti->n for the great struggle. This i lland-to-Hand club, of which L Carlisle, son of the great Kent statesman, is president. The worl dertaken by this club is to prinl distribute a half million copies of H George’s “Protection or Free Trad the extraordinary price of ten cen copy. Of this undertaking Mr. Carlisld “It is certainly the duty of every ( crat who is in accord with his ] assist in this educational work i Hand-to-Hand club, since it line with what must be don democrats to achieve sue 1892. The idea that the can be educated in ninety been demonstrated to be an er one. As a matter of economy, i work must be done now. One-ha m ncy that is spent foolishly and ishly in the heat of a campaign« be spent for 1891 to better lasting effect in educating the ] sound economic principles.” The first 100,000 copies of br Free Trade” is now in book can be had at ten cents a^ mail when ordered in quantilj secretary is W. J. Atkinson, sityPlaee, New York. —The agricultural dep issued its bulletin showing the ) of sheep in the country on Ja 1891. The total number is 43,^ showing a decrease from 1890 of 1 As there was an increase of 1,7 January 1, 1890, as compared'' nary 1, 1889, the result is very t aging to the advocates of high < wool. There are 7,195,490 fev in the country than there wer This loss has been attributed t duction of the tariff of 1883-. gain in 1889 under the tariff of 1 be followed by a relapse in 1890 j all the calculations of the ] prophets. The sheep grower* J fuse to respond to more tariff ' sheep are guilty of rank Philadelphia Record.

Too much for the McKinley 1 The New York Mer gives a good illustration < tection costs. This is raisins and prunes. ,-' Th duced last year $3,990,0 raisin and $1,595,000 worth ; total, $4,585,000. The Mel on raisins and prunes on 1 ports would have amo 000, which is the sum we in order to get $4,58',000 5 home at McKinley ]