Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 May 1891 — Page 1

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PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT ISSUED EVERT WEDNESDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Fur one year...fl gg For tlx months. M For three months. jg INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AUVKBTISIMQ BATES! One square (• Unoi). one Insert**..,_AJ « Each additional insertion go A liberal reduction made «a advertisements running three, «U and twelve months. Legal and Transient advertisements must be paid tor la adusnea.

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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. T. KIME, M. D., mysicten and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. fiSTOfllce iu Bank building, first floor. Win be found at office day or uigtit. Frakcis It Posey. Dewitt Q. Chappell I>OSEY A CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Lawf Petersburg, Ind. Will practice In all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public com tantly In the ofllce. fisg-offlee— On first fir.or Bank Building. A. S. G. Davenport. ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind". WOfflce over J. R. Adams ft Son’s drug store. Prompt attention given to all business. E. P. Richardson A. H. Taylor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind.’ Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Ofllce In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. ■ Dli. AVOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, 1‘KTEKSBURU, 1NI>. Office over J. B. Young's Store, Main Street WOfflee hours from 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 o'clock p. in. E. J. HARRIS, / •

Resident Dentist, , PETERSBURG, IND. ALL WORK WARRANTED. wTh. STONECiPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter Build Ing. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petkksbkku,' Inn. Will practice in Pike and e atoining counties. Office in Montgomery ofi -;«ag. Office hours day and night. •-^-Diseases ot Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.

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THIS PAPER IS ON PILE IN CHICA60 AND NEW YORK • * | AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. ► TEES' NOTICES Or OFFICE OAT. NOTICE is hereby glm that I will attend to the duties of tbe office of trustee of Clay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persons who have business with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties Interested that 1 will attend at my office In Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. >» J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. . EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. ^-Positively no business transacted exeept on office days SILAS KIRK. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with tbe office of Trustee of Madison township. Ag-Positively no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons Interested that I will attend In my office In Velpeo, - . EVERT FRIDAY. To transact business .connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. r. BROCK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persona concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAY To transact buslne.-s connected with the office of Trustee of Jefferson township. R W. BARKIS, Trustee.

THE WORLD AT LARGE, Summary <H the Sally Newa irmmWfoN NOTES. An aeeWtent by which four persons were killed and several injured occurred On the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Gaithersburg, near Washington. In. connection with the suits of the state of Wisconsin against ex-State Treasurers Harshaw and McFettridge to recover interest received by them on public funds during their terms of office, Attorney-General O'Conner has brought suit against ex-Secretaries of State Richard Gunther, present consul-gen-eral to Mexico, for 395,600, Henry Baetx for 354,400 and Ferdinand Reuhne for 350,000. It is regarded as an assured fact that Secretary Foster will change the florin of statement of the public deht'Q$i^|he United States on July 1. The secretary declares the present form of statement to be unsatisfactory. It was found that five men were killed in the recent collision on the Baltimore Sc Ohio railroad near Washington. Minister Blair has been summoned hack to Washington. Walter S. Maxwell, of California, has been appointed chief of the horticultural department of the world’s fair. The public.debt statement showed a het decrease during the month of April of $1,514,337. THE EAST. Fire in Harrisonville, N. Y., destroyed the business portion of the town and several residences, causing $100,000 losses Curwin Stoddart, a wholesale dry goods merchant of Philadelphia, tried to commit suicide in Chicago hut failed. Cause, overwork. Investigation showed that the Ninth national bank, of New York, had been defrauded of $400,000 by 3. T> Hill, the late president, who died U month or two ago. Rev. Father Briody, of Minneapolis, Minn., being in New York recently with 33,500 in his possession, confided the money to a policeman he met on the street for safe keeping. Next; morning he t- ied to find the policeman, hut he was not there. Stephen B Elkins is authority for a statement that Mr. Blaine will not be a candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency. Fire from some unknown cause broke out in the basement of the Center block at Franklin, Pa. The local department was unable to cope with the flames and aid was sent from (Ml City. The total loss was 3100,000. Official announcement is made of the dissolution of Kidder, Peal-ody A Co. The rearrangement leaves a house in New York independent of the one in Boston. Twenty-four frame dwelling houses in the village of Leeds, N. Y.» were burned recently. The heaviest loser is ex-Judge Hilton, of New York, owner of the greater part of the village. Hamilton Ward, of Allegheny county, N. Y., has been appointed by Gov. Hill to the supreme court bench to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Corlette. Destructive fires are raging in the Blue mountains near Reading, Pa. Fire on the South mountain has co vered an area of six mites long by two miles wide. The air is filled with dense smoke. An individual known as “Frenchy No. 1,” under arrest, is thought to have murdered and mutilated the woman Carrie Brown, alias “Shakespeare,” at New York. Jealousy was the motive. Forest fires in A tl antic county, N. J., were quite farming and destructive. The timber destroyed was said to be worth $100,000. Several villages were threatened. The convention of the Episcopal chnrch in the diocese of Massachusetts elected R«7V. Phillip Brooks, of Trinity church, Boston, to the office of bishop to succeed the late Bishop Paddock. The vote was 93 to 63. Prof. Joseph Lkidy, the expert on biological subjects, died in Philadelphia recently. His brother, the well known practitioner, also died about the same time.

The Rhode Island sene' ..as indefinitely postponed the state' world’s fait exhibit bill. The American Protective Tarifl league had a banquet at Madison fequare garden, New York, on the night of the 29th. Cornelius N. Bliss pre-' Bided. On the Pemickey road, opposite West Newton, Pa., an emigrant train currying 100 Hungarians to the Frick plant collided with an engine and the foreignets were thrown into a panic, imagining they had been attacked by strikers. The Hungarians said they had been told the strike was over and all was settled. The New York tax levy this year is but 1^ mills, for support only of setups and canals, no levy for general purpose^ being necessary. Reports from all parts of eastern Pennsylvania show that there wen. no strikes of any kind. Earthquake shocks of greater or less severity and duration were reported from Cotocock, Keene, Concord,, Manchester and other New Hampshire towns on the night of the 1st, in several instances giving buildings , a severe shaking up. A chambermaid in the Rochester hotel, New York, was burned to death recently. The hotel loss was light Three girls, were burned to death recently in a fire which broke out in the fireworks factory of George Kramer, 1902 Union avenue, Morrlsania, New York. Gen. Veazry, commander-in-chief of the Grand* Army, says that Secretary Proctor will succeed Edmunds in the United States senate and that Gen. Alger will go into the cabinet as Proctor's successor. The master builders and stonemasons of Boston have compromised on nine hours’ work and extra pay for over time and holidays. The log cabin wnich Gen. U. S. Grant Erailt near St Louis is to he taken to Chicago for exhibition at the world's lair. Miss Phoebe W. Couzins has applied 10 the circuit court at Chicago to prerent bar removal aa secretary of the •dies’ board of the world’s fair. The vote for bonds for building new vaterworks carried in Kansas City, 14a, by five to one. Rumors of a general strike May 1 of noal miners in Iowa seems to be sue'ained by statements made by W. H. sidont of the miner*’ mso

■ The Chicago knining stock exchange was formally opened on the 28th. Besides Some hundreds of Chicagoans present there were visiting brokers from San Fra^fisco, Ilelgp^JJutte. St Louis and otKer cities. Six hundred coal miners in Washing* ton, Ind., have struck because a mine foreman was not discharged at their request Sixty molders Of Springfield, O., have struck for higher wages. There was a fire involving a loss of 8108sw0 in the penitentiary at Stilt water, Minn., on the hight of the 20th} mcucing In the Thresher paint Tins Whiteiey reaper works at Spring* field, O., the largest reaper factoiy in existence and the factory next in size in the world to Krupp's gUfi works in Germany, ' him heen appraised under the direction of a receiver and will be sold In thirty days. The works with tile machinery cost over 81,500,008. The Yankton Siottx, Of South Dakota, propose to donate part pf their land to grazing of rattle. A council has appointed solicitors for the purpose. The threatened carpenters’ strike in St Louis has heen averted by concessions of the employers. The Illinois senate has passed a bill allowing women to vote at school elections. The miners of Colorado did not go out May 1 for the eight hour day. Little interest has been taken in the matter. Henry Barrows’ large barns near Irvington, Ind., were destroyed by fire. Fifteen fine horses perished. Ives defeated Carter in a champion game of billiards at Chicago. A fountain and statue in memory of Henry Bergh, founder of the American society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, was unveiled in Milwaukee recently. The sensation in Chicago oh the 20th was the disappearance of it P. Hutchinson (“Old Htitch*’), the grain speculator, who was declared to be insolvent and demented over his losses. Chief Two Strikes denies that the Sioux are meditating hostilities. Under instructions from.Washington, the Guthrie land office will wind up all contests before June 80. Final proof has been allowed in the case of Townsend vs. the city of Edmond. The wholesale price of beef in Chicago and other cities has advanced about 38% per cent, within the past month. Talks with several meat dealers indicate that there will he no decrease in price prior to July 1 and before that time the tendency may possibly be toward a still larger increase. The strike at the Michigan car shops in Detroit has ended in the submission of the men. Sells Bros.’ circus was blown over at Tiffin, O. A lady had her skull fractured by a falling tent pole. By the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive near Dayton, ft, one man was fatally and two others badly hurt. The A. 8. Whitney organ factory at Quincy, 111., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, 845,000. The forest fires in northern Michigan are estimated to have destroyed timber worth 8125,00ft In the territorial court Judge Seay has overruled the demurrer of the village of Frisco in the county seat matter, and the injunction was made final, which practically leaves the seat at El Reno, Ok. ! The epizootic is prevalent in portions of Ohio. Charles S. K agy, of Chicago, was burned to death in his factory by the explosion of a caldron of japanning. Great excitement was reported at Tahlequah, I. T., because of the threatening attitude of Creek negroes determined on avenging ablack man’s death. B. P. Hutchinson, the Chicago grain operator, was found wandering aimlessly nmund at Evansville. Ind.

THE SOUTH* , In a storm Matthew Bower's house, seven miles from Beda, Ky., was razed and two children probably fatally injured. Gen. W. A. Strong, the defaulting and absconding ex-secretary of state of Louisiana, has returned and surrendered. He had been living* in Mexico and the constant dread of arrest caused him to return. Inglkside. the country home of B. N. Baker, a Baltimore millionaire, was destroyed by Are the other night Loss $50,000. The opera house at Troy, Ala., collapsed recently while a company of young people were rehearsing. Two young ladies were killed and two others seriously injured. Chattanooga, Tenn.,‘*had a $150,000 fire on the 29th, commencing in the Campbell nimiture factory. In a quarrel over a fence near* Pine Bluff, Ark., John J. Hooker shot John B. Desereaux, a member of the noted Lucas family of St Louis. Bins for the construction of a system of waterworks at Helena, Ark., will be opened May 26. William Reel, a correspondent at Waco, Tex., for a scandal paper at Kansas City, Ha, was recently given seventy lashes, stripped, tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail. The Baltimore sugar refinery stock has been pooled and put in charge of a trust company for five years to keep it out of the sugar combine. Only four of the 3,267 immigrants who arrived at Baltimore on the 30th will be returned to Europe. GENERAL. The sculling match over the Paramatta river (Sydney) between John Maclean of Australia and James Stansbury, also of Australia, for the world’s championship and £4$0 was won by Stansbury. The United Mine Workers decided that the time was inauspicious for moving for an eight-hour day; consequently the great projected strike for May 1 was declared off. Owing to a strike of printers at Rome, Italy, on the 28th, no papers appeared next morning. Ex-King TAMA8ESE,of Samoa, is dead. He suffered from Bright’s disease of the kidneys. The movement for shorter hours of labor is increasing throughout Italy. In Messina, Catania and Palermo the workmen have resolved upon a general strike unless their demand for a working day of eight hours is granted by their employers, while in Turin no less than 30,000 laboring people have decided to follow the general example. A disastrous fire destroying Duffy* Son’s lumber yard and a large number of tenement houses, occurred recently at Bermondsey, London. The new cruiser Newark has been Ordered to undergo repairsowing to excessive leakage of the spar deck. This will delay the vessel's going into active commission for some time.

A dynamite bomb has been exploded at the palace of Balmaceda, the troubled president of Chili. No one was hurt Gen. Yoacio Mejia, ex-minister of war of Mexico^ is dead. Tax Journal des Debats says that the French ministers are in favor of a reduction on the customs duties on wheat for six months and the total abolition of those duties, if necessary. The Chinese government on the 38th notified the state department of its un* Willingness to receive ex-Senator Blair as United States minister. “Tax priests and pastors of Moscow are overwhelmed With requests front dews for baptised in order to avoid expulsion. The expelled Jews are cruelly treated, being marched out of the city afoot, Chained in bands by the wrists, "the Russians afterward pillage the de* sorted shops and house A Jay (Jould proposes a mortgage of $25,000,000 for the Union Pacific. Tire Union Pacific railway's annual report is not ACMtnlavofable qp"was expected, the deficit for the whole systeni being only $375,066. The Empress of India, the first of the new Canadian Pacific line steamers, arrived off the harbor at Victoria, B. C., on the 38th, exactly ten days, four hours and thirty-six minutes from Yokohama; making the best time on record. Honolulu dispatches report that Minister Carter has resigned from the cabinet and that the people are clamoring for a republic. It is said that the life of the queen is in danger. No particulars were obtainable. Pbesident Polk, of the Farmers’ Alliance, has issued a proclamation to the order in which he sets forth the plan which the National executive hoard has adopted, and counsels the alliance to cease all bickerings and to get rid of disloyal members. The emigration from Hamburg id greatly on the increase and thete has arrived in London a large body of Lutherans driven from Russia by the revolt of religious persecution. Some of them will remain in England and others proceed to the United States A mad bull which escaped from the butchers at St. Johns, N. B., tossed Josie Chase, Mary Barnes and Samuel Fowler. Fowler will probably die. The others were only slightly hurt The trail kept the north end of the city in terror for two hours and at dark he took to the woods, pursued by citizens. Prince Bismarck was elected in the supplementary balloting in the Geste* munde district polling about one-third more than Sinalfeld, the socialist Queen Victoria has returned to Windsor castle from her trip to. southern France. The Canadian parliament met on the 30th. The governor-general’s address referred to pending questions with the United State!!, which were in progress of settlemeMIfc A transatlantic steamer was reported ashore at Kinsale, Ireland, on the 30th. Adrien Marie, the French painter, has died of yellow fever in Senegal. The newspaper announcement is made that the armies of France on the frontier of Germany will he exercised in night military maneuvers on a formidable scale. Seven crofters, who had recently come from Scotland, went out fishing at Victoria, B.. CL While returning, one of the boats with three men was overturned and all. drowned. Emin Pasha has started on the march to recover the. ivory abandoned by him. The report of the stranding of a transatlantic steamer off Kinsale, Ireland, has been found to he erroneous. Greek Christians have been pillaging and otherwise maltreating Jews in the Ionian islands. • Business failures (Dnn’s report) for the seven days ended April 30 numbered 355, compared with 347 the previous week and 311 the corresponding week of last year. Trade prospects were reported brighter. May day in Europe was attended by conflicts in several places. There was a serious encounter at Rome. Among the fatally wounded was Cipriani, a radical deputy. There was a serious disorder at Lyons and also disturbances at other cities in France. The Paris salon opened with 704 pictures less than the usual number exhibited. _

att«. li&iAax* Mr. Thomas Quins, M. P. lor county Kilkenny, Ireland, has withdrawn from the Parnellites and expressed his desire to associate himself with the McCarthy ites. Mr. Quinn says that his action is mainly attributable to the refusal of Mr. Parnell to* agree to the release of the Paris fund, thus preventing the use of money for the relief of the evicted tenants. Alexander Hu per, a traveling sales•man of Kew York, shot and dangerously wounded his former landlord, Frank Kratchman, on the ad, for placing'his wife and two small children, together with their household effects, on the sidewalk for non-payment of rent, during his absence on a commercial trip. J ewish exiles from Russia are spreading contagious diseases throughout Germany. Two cases of well-developed leprosy have been detected in Posen among the Russian emigrants, and it is said that there are many snch in the interior of Russia. A la del containing molten steel overturned, on the 2d, at the steel works in South Troy, N. if. Frank Van Brosiek, Charles Yarwood and John Berry, workmen, were terribly burned. Yarwood’s hand were burned off. Milton H. Alger, a Boston police of fleer, disappeared, on the 2d, with jewelry of considerable value in his possession which he had obtained ostensibly to show his wife. Mrs. Alger was left penniless. The swichmen employed by the New York Central Railroad Co. have had their wages cut down 37.50 per month. The men say the reduction is the result of last fall’s strike. The most conspicuous feature of the Berlin art exhibition is the absence of French and the paucity of German works of art. English art works are the most prominent. During a fight, over a game of cards at Steubenville, O., on the 2d, George Burke stabbed Charles Mehan twice in the left side and onoe in the head. Mehan will die. •A meeting was held in London, on the 2d, at which a resolution was adopted to form an association to prevent the immigration of destitute aliens. An epidemic of measles prevails at Norwalk, Conn. H is estimated that there are over 10,000 cases in the city, but no deaths have been reported. The electrio-car stables at Scranton, Pa., were burned, on the 2d. causing a loss of 8J 50,000. T*

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The other evening, near Mmit-ie, a number of boys were throwing small bottles of nitro-glycerine in the White river to kill fish. Grant Phinney handled one bottle too carelessly and it exploded, shattering his right hand and badly cutting his face. Jons Conrad, confined in the Jack* Boh cohnty jail at Brownstown. wanted bail, and a few nights ago succeeded in cutting a hole in the rear upper part of the jail and escaped froth the roof. H«S went on fbot to his home, teh miles away; but, on failing to arrange for a bail bond, he returned, crawling back into jail at the same hole through which he had escaped. The jailer knew nothing about it until told by the prisoner. Tan first section of a through stock train on the Toledo, St Louis and kanaka City railroad, was wrecked at Greentown, ten miles east of Kohnwih , The train was running abbut fifteen miles an hour through the town. It struck a cow at the Main street crossing, turning engine and tender over, wrecking them and eight cars. Engineer Isaac Koonerine and Fireman Clyde Young jumped, the latter saving himself with a badly-sprained ankle, while Engineer Koonerine was caught in the wreck and crushed to pieces. Fifteen head of cattle were killed and a score crippled. M. S. Lebo, a citizen of Noblesville, has fallen heir to $50,000 from the estate of his grandfather, Geo. Seibert, of Toronto, Ont. The estate consists of $7 000,000, divided among 553 heirs. At Haughville, John Abbott, a negro suspected of assaulting and robbing an old man, was taken from jail by a mob, stripped to the waist, laid on the ground face down and given fifty lashes There is doubt1 of Abbott’s guilt At White Pigeon, Mrs. L. J. Brick, who was being brutally beaten by her husband, shot him dead. The recent terrible accident on the Lake Shore road, in which seven postal clerks lost their lives, has spread consternation among the clerks of the Goshen division, eleven of them having sent in their resignations somej^f-them by wire. The retirement of these, together with those killed and wounded in the collision at Kenton, O., has bafj^y crippled the system. The new breeders' association at Green castle will build a mile track at onee. Asher Cruixosi, living near Mooresville, was fatally injured by a falling apple-tree limb A red-oak log at a saw-mill near Edinburg was split and found to contain 127 bh.cksnakes hidden in the hollow. An octogenarian named Brooks has startled New Albany society by announcing his approaching nuptials with a young weman whohas been his friend since she was a girl. -j-“> Joseph Combs broke jail at Brownstown, fled, fell through a trestle, sustained severe injuries, returned to give himself up to the Brownstown authorities, was tried at once and acquitted. Wm. Dougal, of Seymour, died a few days ago of heart disease. When stricken he was engaged in reading an article in a newspaper on the topic, of sudden death. Recently one of the small bones in the leg of Andrew T. Conner, of New Albany, snipped as he was walking along the street, and before that reunited another one was broken. Mr. Conner the i discovered that he was afflicted with chalky deterioration of the bones Lagranc e is thought to be the only place in the state that has not adopted standard tiiiae.

.u ns. MtiiEDiTH, me esieemea wire oi the minister of the Friends’ church, of Moaresvillt, fell into the fire the other day while suffering from an epileptic fit. Kone of the family was near enough to rescue her, and she received burns from which it is thought she can not recover. At Lawrencehurg, Louis Ricketts strangled himself to death with a clothes-line. » At the outbreak of the rebellion Van Rensselaer Morgan was senring in the federal navy, but enlisted in the rebel navy. He owned a residence in Wabash and a fine farm of eight acres north. Ihu ing the war his"1'property was confiscated by the government and sold at U. S. marshal’s sale, Miles Morgan bidding in the town property, and J. F. Payne became owner of the valuable farm. A late decision of the U. S. supreme court holds that property sold under the confiscation act csi> be held by the purchaser only as long as the parties fro an whom it was confiscated live, and the heirs of Van Rensselaer Morgan, wlio died at Washington, D. C., a few days ago, have begun proceedings for th a recovery of the property, valued at J* ,000. The G. A . R. committee investigation of the charges against Camp Morton finds that c uring January, of 1864, the time particularly mentioned by l>r. Wyeth in his article in Scribner’s, there were 2,918 persons confined at the camp. Dur ing this month 90,463 rations were issued, which consisted of 2,148 rations of nork, 35,006 of bacon, 51,006 of fresh beef, 88,180 of flour; 24,442 of hard bread, 7,867 of beans, 5,288 of potatoes, 2,926 of rice, 875 of hominy, 4,437 of brown coffee, 526 of tea, 13,569 of sugar, 904 of vinegar, 1,181 of candles, 3,619 of sos ]K 3,392 of salt, 226 of pepper and 226 of molasses. A further investigation will ae made. A gas well of wonderful strength has just Ibeen drilled in at Dunkirk. Experienced persons declare it the strongest in the Indiana gas field. The Redicmptorist missionaries are holding successful revival meetings at Green castle , Gov. Hoc-ey has pardoned Edward Yocum, sentenced from Clay county in 1889, for fourteen years for attempted rape. Bins for t ie new theological building of DePauw University were opened a few day! ngo and the contract was awarded to I. L. Fatout, of Indianapolis, for $15,000. The building will he completed September 1, One of the strongest natural gas wells in the stale has been struck near Fonntaintci irn. It is said to be a real gusher. W1 icn five-feet in Trenton rock, at a depth of 928 feet, the flow was so strong that water could not be poured in the well, and it was extremely difficult to work the drill Gkobge V'. Bennett, Lafayette’s alleged double muaderer, is said to 'be feigning insanity. Farmers in St Joseph county report that the gr awing wheat never looked more promi ting thin it does this season. There will: also be an abundance of fruit

IMPORTANT SU3GESTIONS. An Old Honduran Merchant dim n Few Ideas' as to the Causes of the Ssa-Sse eeaa of Americans in Securing South and Central American Trade—They Do Sot Adapt Themselves to the Conditions, Nor Learn to Speak and Write Spanish, Washington, May 4.—The bureau of American republics furnishes the following extract from a private letter from an old merchant in Honduras, that contains important suggestions to exporters in this country; “There exists,” he writes, “another feastm that Could be Well added to those you give for the failure Of the met* Chants Of the United States to capture the Latin-American trade. That they do not send out reliable agents who can speak the language, and are well acquainted with the habits, tastes and wonts of the people English and German houses avail themselves of the services of such men, and the Conseonence is they get the businCsa Asan instance of this, a few months' since a commercial traveler came to this eity; he represented several manufacturers and shipping houses, three German and two English. He stayed in this city two weeks and sold $45,000 worth of goods; he had been about twelve months on his journey through Venezuela, the United States of Colombia, Costa Rica and Honduras, and in that time he had sold more than $1,000,000 worth of goods, as he proved to me by his’ order books. He was going from here via Salvador. Guatemala and Mexico, and said he expected by the time he reached the end of his route to have sold $800,000 more. The great requisites for Bnch a man are ability to speak and write the Spanish language; knowledge of the tastes, wants, manners and customs of the people; knowledge of the patterns, styles, classes and value of the goods suited to the various markets. “I have never heard of an American traveler visiting this part of Honduras; and many I hgive met in Mexico and South Amenca were utterly unfitted for their position by imperfect knowledge of the language, manners and customs of the people and the principles of business existing in these countries, and a complete ignorance of the goods most saleable. I think it would be a most valuable and useful addition to yottr bureau if you could establish a sample room, or as it might be more properly termed a commercial museum to display samples, patterns and photographs of all manufactured articles and goods most saleable in the different countries and districts.” ‘ * _a_A_ THE DELAMATER DEFAULT. It la Bwomlnjt Evident that the Creditors will Never Receive Anything— Certiorate* of Deposit Worth No More than Waste Paper. Meadyille, Pa., May A—The city is filled with indignant men and women, and excitement runs high against the members of the late firm of Delamater & Co., bankers. The members of the committee representing the unsecured creditors have worked hard for Hie past three months, but their labor appears to have been fn vain, and it is plainly evident that the firm has never had any intention of paying creditors anything. Mr. Delamater makes a frank acknowledgment that he is unable to do anything. Mr. Charles Faher, a prominent merchant and a member of the committee, said this afternoon: “We can go no further. AU hope is lost. Certificates of deposit in the bank are worth nothing, and I wouldn’t give a nickle for all I could carry. Wallace Delamater has deceived and made fools of the committee.” The feeling is-so intense that an indignation meeting is talked of. It is understood that the committee are preparing a statement and hope to have it ready by Monday. ‘ At T:80 o’olock last evening, George Wallace Delamater, George B. Delamater and Victor M. Delamater were arraigned before Alderman Lauderbaugh, complaint having been made on the charge of embezzlement by John Kelling, who had $300 in the bank when the assignment was made. Mr. T. A. Delamater, who is in Chicago, is also a defendant The other three waived a hearing and furnished bail in the sum of $300 each for their appearance at the court of quarter sessions, which convenes Monday, May 11.

rRANUt utmnu untAsr. sho Smuu to Hove an idea that She na* Some Sort of an Interest In Hayti. and Will Show Her Teeth ir We Do Not Keep Onr Hands OS'. y London, May 4.—Englishmen are gleefully circulating the report that they will not long he alone in French hot water, and that the methods which have made the Newfoundlanders and Lord Knutsiord miserable were about to be applied to the United States, in regard to Hayti and the Mole St. Nicholas. The French look upon Hayti as a French negro colony, and the relations between it and the West Indies republic are very intimate, the good will of the French being fully reciprocated by the Ilaytians. France, therefore, views with the greatest jealousy any proposed alienation of Haytian territory and is ready'TO show its teeth to prevent it. Englishmen are watching curiously to see whether America will be frightened and give France a pretext for making substantial and political a protectorate over Hayti which has been heretofore social and sentimental; The Haytian situation is regarded with more interest here than Americans may imagine. Coke Strikers Wilt be Forced by Hanger to Capitulate. Harrisburg, Pa., May S.—Information received here by the state officios from the coke region indicate that the strike is nearing an end. The families of the strikers are in actual want for the necessities of life and the men will be forced to go to work soon. Companies C and E will remain in the coke region subject, to the call of Sheriffs Clawson and McCormick, for the present, but it is expected that they can be recalled this week. Adjutant McClelland, who returned here Friday, apprehends no further trouble. To Resume at the Company's Terms, Mount Pi.kasant, Pa., May S.— Twelve families were evicted at Morewood yesterday. Four hundred eviction notices expire in this district this week. It is now the general opinion that the strike, is about ended in the vicinity of Uniontoyrn. It is said (that a secret ballot was taken yesterday by the strikers at Redstone works, and that all but four ballots declared in favor of returning to work at the company’s terms; The citizens of Fayette county are very indignant at the importatlfp of m large a number of Italiaia. : : ’ .. ,

*S*KSNLEYISM _IM FRANCE. n* FtfMh Are *i Tiring • High Tariff L»* —America ConQIa M a«e—A LmM ta Im4> HO-.S T»rtf:«. France Is now going through th* throe-sofa McKinleyism similar to that with which we wore afflicted a year ago. The commission which has for some time been revising the tariff has at length made its repora, and naturally enough the McKinleyhes of France plead the example of th s United States Bhh reason for reforming their tariff epvrard. Those people in our country who fancy that we can hare our Mo-Ki&k-yism ail to ourselves, build up a high tariff wall again* a outsiders and Continue to soli those outsiders our own products in the same quantities as before, will see that Meiinleyism is a game which two, and «ren more, can play at At the same time that this report was made public the Paris « xrespondent of the Lonusstg Economist r otes a piece of hndastriafnews in France which is of interest to our farmers. A few years ago our corn was admitted free into France) then a duty of i .bout 7 scuta a bushel was imposed; but last summer, when MeKirtley was ei>, -aged in laying duties on French products, which seemed to threaten the very exi stence of some of the industries of France, a spirit of retaliation was called forth there, and the duty on our eon was raised to 15 cents a bushel. Now note the consequences of onr McKinleyism. This Paris correspondent calls attention to the fact that the increase of the duty has just had tho effect of closing up three large distilleries, two in Marseilles and one of the largest in, the country at Bordeaux, all"' of which used American corn. So great was the buffering which was likely to be caused to the employes thus out of work that a bill Was Introduced into the chamber of deputies to appropriate #8,000 to their relief. It is also s tated that the Increased cost of living resulting from the new French tariff is likely to cause a feeling of jealousy to grow up between the people of the cities and the farming population; which will he but another part of the old war between producer and consumer fought in all lands and in all times M. Meline, the French McKinley, made a report in presenting his tariff bill which contains many utterances skin to those of onr own McKinley. For Instance, he said that the best regime for a nation was, in his opinion, that which secured for it the greatest amount of labor. But M. MelWmBtoerlooks as completely as Maj. MWKnley, the very ohvloua truth that the best regim s for a nation Is that whieh secured to it the greatest amount of commodities for its labor, and which saves labor instead of creating it. jin view of the high tariff mania in France at this time it is interesting to note that country’s previous experience with tariffs. Sir Joseph Crowe points out that when Cobdeit, in 1880, negotiated the treaty of commerce between England and Franco the exports and imports of the latter country amounted to 8SS3.800,008, and in 1880 to #1,700,000,000. Then the French rovermr entabondoned the Cobden treaty in 1881. In that year the entire foreign commerce of France reached $1,470,000,000; and in 1888 it had fstlen to »1,470,000,00a Like all high tariff plans of the pro:eetionists the French tariff of 1881 wis intended to increase the exports of France and thus get what is called a “favorable balance of trade;” but French exports fell off steadily from 1881 to 1888 in which even the Paris exposition caused an increase, but the downward movement has since continued.

WOOL VARIES. Ra-CooeuI Bchoenliof Writes on the T»rlfT— Different Qualities of Wool Needed By Miusnfoeturer*—Free Wtoi Necessary— jtntrimn labor More Eiti dent Than That of Europe. Ex-Consul Jacob Sehoenhof, who represented our government at Tunstall, Eng., during President Cleveland's administration, md who had written largely on the co nparatlve cost of production in Europe and America, has begun a series of articles in some of the leading daily papers on the same general subject. Mr. ichoenhof has examined the processes of manufacture minutely in this country and in the various countries of Europe; he has ascertained the rate of wages by the day and 'by the piece, has tound out how long it takes to do the same amount of work in different countries, and his conclusion is that American labor is cheaper than European labor. While Mr Scboe nhof held the position of consul he was ch arged by Secretary of State Bayard to make an investigation into the cost of production in Europe. The state Apartment published various valuable reports from him from time to time, but bis investigations were not yet fully made public when ho was removed from office last summer by President Harrison. His present articles will be in the nature of a continuation of his reports as partly published by the state department. In his first letter Mr. Sc hoenhof devotes his zttention partly to the question of wool. He shows that free wool is necessary, since the varieties of wool ore so great that the manufacturers must have access to all markets in order to get the' particular grade of wool best enited to each fabric. Our own wools show conclusively, says Mr. Sehoenhof, that almost every state of the union produces a different grade of wool. For instance: The wools raised in the iar west, in. the. new territories and states, are considered very inferior to wools raised in the states east of the Mississippi. The pasturage consists of wild grasses, which during the dry season become parched, leaving the dry, sandy soil underneath as a fine dust, or sand, which permeates the fleece, adding much to its shrinkage and changing not only its appearance but the strength of staple, more especially where! the soil is alkaline. Such wools lack in luster and spring, and goods made from them show a dead, cottony appearance. They could" not possibly he used as an offset in the manufacture of faeries; which we import, amounting in 1880 io 930,000,000, and, adding dut ies. 985,000,000, represent 985,30cy>«0 American value laid down at the ports, exclusive of freight and other charges. . For tire replacing of this vast amount our c-wn wool supply would be entirely insufficient We raise the corresponding wools in very limited quantities (and, what is more to the point, in receding quantities} in the older states only. Texas and California wools have good felting properties. For combing pur posee they are unserviceable. Of comb tog wards only a limited amount ii raised to the states lying east of th< Misaiu&ippi But 9! the fpod* pft

tor outer wear are new and not of carded wool. The same differences ws find in English wools. The Southdown wool is different from the north country wool; the Scotch wool different from the Bin* glista wools; the Welsh wool different from the English and Scotch. Keen in Scotland certain wools are grown in certain parts, so that certain tweeds can only be made from certain Scotch wools. Irish wool is different again. Welsh, Irish and Scotch wools shrink but very little when manufactured into flannels, knit goods, eta, in the wash* ing; German and American wools very much more so. Australian, Cape and Plate wools differ again. But these differences can be made very valuable by adapting the varying qualities to the respective fabrics to which they give their special character. Mr. Schoeohof says that our wool manufacturers would have been bene* fited more bjJUp- Mills bill than any other class of manufacturers The •* Mills bill freed raw wool and gave a protection of 40 per cent. Now, it is — well known that the entire labor cost in a pound of manufactured woolens, such as are made in this oonntry, does in very few instances reach as high as 40 per cent, on the cost of a foreign* made article, with which it has to compete. The foreign article not alone covers the cost of the wool, of labor and of the incidental expenses of manufacture, but also the interest of capital and the profits of the manufacturers and dealers handling the goods. The duty of 40 per cent., therefore, oovers not alone the cost of foreign labor and the cost of capital and management, but oi the freed wool itself consumed in the ifacturing process. / wool would have vitalised the e range of wool manufacture, now in S state of permanent infancy in constant need of sirups and props. The only ones benefited by the wool , and war tariff, the shoddy manufaetnr* ' ers, quits naturally have been standing in the breach in defense of the palladium of protection against the enemies of the holy faith. It tanot to be wondered at that they put their hands deep into their pockets for the creation of a « fund which was to buy an election and a tariff to their liking. But, strange to say, many of those were contributors who could only be benefited by tariff reform, as taken up by tho democratic party, downwardly, and injured only by reforming upwardly, as represented by the republican party. The present tariff, the McKinley act, is the outcome of their well considered, deliberate demands. They insisted on obtaining, and they have obtained, a measure which proceeds in a diametrically opposite di* . rection from what their interests actor ally command. , „ / The McKinley Quality. One of the absurd promises made by the McKinley ites was that higher duties would not result in higher prices. Some curious instances are coming to light now showing how higher prices are avoided by making a poorer quality of goods and selling them at the*old price. McKinleyites thus finding old prices maintained fall to abusing the “mendacious” democratic papers which raised the cry of “McKinley prices.” • Some time ago the New York Dry Goods Economist showed how the importers continued to sell a 25-cent stocking by getting an article «rf a poorer quality. A similar case has recently been pointed out by Tobacco, a trade journal devoted to the tobacco industry. Tobacco says the refusal of many retail cigar dealers to pay the advanced prices caused by the McKinley tariff has led some cigar manufacturers to adopt a plan which it truly says is “fraught with danger' and disaster.” They “reduce the cost of production to about the old figures, by using a smaller quantity of leaf per thousand, and thus turn out a cigar which in length _ and girth pretty nearly the same,. is » looser filled, lighter, and practically speaking, a smaller cigar.” The manufactur -s are thereby enabled to sell at old figures, and the retailers are also able to do so. Such are some of the “beneficences” which McKinley told the country last fall it was now in op der to. expect from .his tariff law.

A Flcajmne Tariff Maker. The ridiculously small spirit that manifested itself in concocting the Me* Kinley tariff job was well shown by what Senator Plumb told in the closing days of the recent session of congress about Senator Edmunds and the bounty on maple sugar. Mr. Plumb stated that the republican senators were appealed to last year to rote for the maple sugar bounty on the ground that it would help Senator Morrill, of Vermont, to be re* elected. Plumb, and apparently some of the other senators, voted for the bounty for this purpose, with the nil* derstanding that the conference com* mittee would strike it out. When this became probable Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, one of the great republican “statesmen,” threatened in writing that he would vote against the entire tariff bill unless the maple sugar bounty were retained. The learned senator was willing to join the “ene* mies of American industry” and cast his vote against the McKinley tariff bill un* less the Vermont farmers were paid tw® x cents a pound on their maple sugar by the United States government! Of such stuff are “great” men made, and such is the pettiness tpat donli* inates the makers of tariffs. >, Cheaper Sugar. The effect of the removal of the duly on raw sugar has already been felt. Sales of twenty-five ton lots of No. 4 for April delivery have been made in New York as low as 3.40 cents per pound. The tariff seems to be a tax m this case; and when it is' removed It seems to be the American consumer who leaves off paying it, and not the ,; foreigner. Free sugar, which was in* tended to “save, the protective system** is going^to do just the opposite by teach* ing ths people once for all *that thb tariff is a tax. ft —Before the sugar trust was formdfi we sold $16,000,000 worth of refined sugar abroad in a single year. La^ year we exported only $1,900,000 worth* the sugar trust having kept np thh price in the “home market” to a which made exportation less profitable Notwithstanding the demonstratedabttity of our refiners to compete in forein markets, and even alarm their foreign rivals, the McKinlayites gave “ur rtt finers a duty of 50 cents per hundred pounds on refined sugar. —McKinley told the republics Providence, R. I., “If taxation unnecessary there would be no tariff." Then the tariff is a tax after all. mm to