Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 December 1891 — Page 1

—? J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Froorietor. ‘‘Our Motto is tibnest Devotion to Principles of Kight. .VOLUME XXII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1891.

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rROI ESSlOrtAt, CARDS. J. T. KIME3, M. D„ Physician and Surgeon, PETERS BURG, IND. . WOfflcc In Bank building, first floor. Will Ira found at office day or nlgfc. XRiJICIt B. POSIT. Dm WITT Q. CHAFFII4 POSEY ft CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Will practice In all the courts. Special it< tention given to all business. A Notar] Public constantly In the office. aa-Offioe— On lint floor Bank Building. M. A. Ult. 8. G. Davenport. ELY ft DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. WOfflce over J. B. Adams A Son's dram Store. Prompt attention given to all business. E. P. Richardson. A. H. Ttnoa RICHARDSON ft TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind, Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Pub] ic constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. dentistry. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURU, IND. Office over J. B. Young’s Store, Main Street WOffloe hours from 9 o'clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. in. E. J. HARRIS,

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Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms* and 7 in Carpenter Build tng. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teetli. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, lira. Will practice in Pike and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and nteht. WDiseases of Women and Ohlldren a specialty. Chronic and difficult oases solicited.

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THE WORLD AT LAME. Summary of tha Daily Nawa ' The chief of the bureau of construction of the navy department states that ilhe last of the old wooden ships will be "useless in fire years. The first S3 bill issued by the treasury bear in if the medallion bust of the late Secretary Windom was given the widow. Number two is retained by Treasurer Nebeker and the third note was presented to Assistant Secretary Crounse by the treasurer. Thk annual report of the treasurer of the United States has been made public. A tki.euram to the war department from lien. Brooke says that there has been no Indian disturbances in Arizona so tar as he was able to learn, and that the coroner’s inquest in the ease of MoDaniel showed that he was killed'by white men and not by Indians. The following named persons have been appointed cadets to the United States military academy: Huston V. Evans, Third district of Missouri; Frank D. Wickham, alternate, Third district of Missouri; William C. McMillan, Seventh district of Alabama; & B. Nichols, Second district of Arkansas. The report of Postmaster-General Wauamaker has been made public. It contains many points of general interest and makes many suggestions ■ The Cherokee commission has declined to offer more than 58,000,000 for the Cherokee strip and proposes to leave the price to congress. THE EAST. The freight steamer Pequot of the Providence line, bound for New York, struck upon Man-of-War rock in East river and sunk shortly afterward. She carried a heavy cargo, which will be badly damaged. . Isaac Sawtelle, awaiting death at Concord, N. H., for killing his brother Hiram, has asked fory. new trial on an affidavit in which he confesses having been at the scene of the murder which occurred in Maine instead of New Hampshire and promises on a new trial to tell who was present, and who did the killing.

Rev. Father Peter Havermans commemorated at St. Mary’s church at Troy, N. Y., the sixty-first anniversary of his ordination in the priesthood. He is the oldest priest in this country, having been born in Belgium in 1805 and entering the ministry in this country twenty-five years later. The protectory building, connected with the convent of the Sisters oi Mercy, two miles north of Newburgh, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. There were 940 children sleeping in the building, but all got out safely. The loss was about $40,000. The New York Central Chicago express rushed at full speed into a local train at Tarrytown, N. Y., but Strange to say, not a life was lost The dynamite factory at Haverstraw, N. Y., exploded on the 9d. Four men were blown to pieces and another man killed. A. C. Howes A Ca’s pulley works in North Cambridge, Mass., were burned. §ome hundred hands were employed. ; Four men were killed by an accident jto a passenger train on the Harlem ; railroad at One Hundred and Fortyninth street, New York, on the night of the 9d. J. McManus, a triple murderer of Philadelphia, has been ,J removed his shoes befort ..-a executed. All. the mercantile appraisers of Philadelphia have been ordered discharged from office as the result of the Bardsley defalcation. A disastrous conflagration occurred at Plainfield, N. J., on the nighi-of the 3d. The total loss amounted to nearly $200,000. Gov. Hill has removed the county clerk of Onandaga county, N. Y., who refused to countersign certificates of election of democratic candidates to the legislature. Three ipen were killed and seven badly injured by a collision on the Reading railroad at Pennington, N. J. Suit has been entered against exMayor Richard Pearson, ci Allegheny, Pa., for embezzlement He is charged with retaining $754 of jail and workhouse commitments. The charge is similar to the one preferred -against Mayor Wyman. At A.* J. Cassett’s Chesterbrook farm, i near Philadelphia, the once well known race horse Kurus died. He was 8 years old and was by Eolus, out of Majestic. A madman, supposed to be an escaped lunatic named H. D. Wilson, demanded $1,950,000 from Russell Sage in bis office at New York and when refused caused an explosion which tore the man himself to fragments, caused another death and badly injured several others. Mr. Sage escaped without serious injury. ^ The worst storm in years sweptdown the Cumberland valley, in Pennsylvania, doing great damage. The daughter of Rev. Dr. Talmage (Miss May Mortimer Talmage) has been married to Daniel Delavan Man gam, Jr. Bt the sudden capsizing of brick barges in the Hudson river, opposite Haverstraw, N. Y., probably twenty lives were lost Two passenger and two freight trains were in collision at East Thompson, Conn. Three persons were killed and several injured. A dense fog was the cause. Editor Stink, of Whiteson, Ore., was shot and killed by N. G. Cook, a friend, who then killed himself. Cook was insanei Atache renegades are accused of having killed two men in Arizona lately. Great trouble was feared. There has been a severe cold snap, extending from the eastern states as far west as St Louis The total loss by the fire in the Arc Light A Power Co.’s building in Chicago the other night is placed at $800,000. The clearings of the Kansas City associated banks for November were $4$,146,455, an increase of $4,079,485 over the clearings in November; 1890. The west span of the Great Northern bridge over the north fork of the Columbia river, near Helena, Mont, fell recently, carrying with it nine men, three of whom were killed and three others fatally wounded. 1* is estimated that the St Louis train robbers secured $75,000. Not a trace of the men has been found The Anchor line iron steamer Philadelphia struck a rook and was sunk in fourteen feet of water near the mouth of the Detroit river. The British warship Nymph has arrived at San Francisco from Victoria on her way to join the warship in Chib iap waters.

Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha directors hare declared a semiannual dividend of 3 per cent, an increase of 1 per cent, making 5 percent on the stock for the year. The treasurer of Allen county, 0., has filed suit against United States Senator Calvin S. Brice for $17,350 delinquent taxes. The Marquette clubof St Louis gave a notable reception in honor of the golden jubilee Of Archbishop Kenrick. All the visiting prelates were present At West Superior, Wis., August Swanson and Armour Glover did not return home and their parents spent an anxious night of searching. Next day their remains were found in a cave which they had dug in a frozen sawdust pile. The crust had fallen in and crushed them to death. A father, mother and three sons were burned to death by a fire at the grocery store of George J. Reis, 843 New Orleans street, Detroit, Mich. The Sterling wagon works at Sterling, 111., burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $80,000. The Sterling gas works were damaged $25,000. Heavy rains with some snow are reported from all over the northwest Devil's Lake, N. D., reports a blizzard with drifts fifteen feet high and the thermometer at zero. Low water in the Chicago river has almost caused a blockade of lake vessels. W. W. Knott, a Chicago publisher, has been arrested for printing obscen^, literature. Con. Dick Taylor died at Chicago on the 4th, aged 90. He had been a resident of Illinois over sixty yearn He was a veteran of the Mexican war and a personal friend of both Lincoln and Douglas. It was he who suggested to Abraham Lincoln the idea of greenbacks. Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, was reported considerably worse. He had a high fever and could not open his mouth without precipitating a paroxysm of coughing. A daring burglar stole a tray of diamonds from a jeweler’s window in St. Paul and escaped,, but slipped and lost most of the rings, soveral of which were pocketed. Miss Alice Rideout, of San Francisco, a young lady still in her teens, haB been awarded first prize for the finest designs of groups for the women’s world’s fair building. Seven men were killed and many badly hurt by the fall of a wall of the burned buildings in St Paul, Minn. They were engaged in clearing away the ruins at the time.

THE SOUTH. Three miles from Kosciusko, Miss., three colored childreu had been left in a cabin by their mother, who was in a field picking cotton, when in some way the house caught fire and the little ones were burned to a crisp. The cattlemen of West Texas bold a convention recently, the object being to organize and make an effort to have the quarrantine line moved south of its present bounds Capt. Maxwell’s store at Dewitt, Ark., burned the other night Three children in the rear of the store perished. H. J. Dean, a supposed correspondent of a sensational Kansas City newspaper, was abducted while out driving at Dallas, Tex., taken three miles out of town, tarred and feathered and ordered to leave Dallas within four'hours or his life would be forfeited. Four negroes were drowned in the Mississippi near Memphis, Tenn. They were laborers employed on the government works near Hopefield, Ark., and their boat was struck by a sudden gale and capsized. Bryan Callaghan, mayor of San Antonio, Tex., and Alderman Charles Guetergull have been arrested' and placed under bonds on an indictment found by the grand jury for misappropriating the public funds. The two are charged with drawing salaries as mayor simultaneously, one as mayor and the other as mayor pro tern. GENERAL. Mr. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, delivered a political address at Huddersfield, England. In the-course of his remarks he said that Ireland, as an electoral cry, was played out The war budget has been submitted to the Chilian congress. It estimates that there will be a deficit of over 83,000,000 in 1891. The estimates of the expenditures for 1893 are 811,000,000 below those of 1890 and 810,000,000 below Balmaceda's estimates for 1891. Sir Alexander Campbell, lieutenant governor of Ontario, was attacked by a stroke of paralysis last week and is now considered in a critical condition. He is 69 years of age. The Welsh tin plate manufacturers have reconsidered their resolution to restrict the output by shutting down their works for parts of this and next month and will continue work as usual. Several Paris papers are agitating for the deposition of the archbishop of Aix for defying the government A Swiss engineer, crazed by anger at his discharge, started a locomotive at full speed down the track near Berne. It collided with a passenger train. Two persons were killed and many injured. The London Chronicle says that the Vatican is making semi-official overtures to protect Christians in China It is reported in British army circles that Mr. Stanhope, secretary c>f war, intends in the next session of parliament to propose a reduction of the strength of the cavalry by two or more regiments What appears to be a combination of four couf^auies who manufacture hand and steam fire engines, etc., has been incorporated under the title of the American fire engine company, with principal office in Seneca Falls, Hudson and Minerva, N. V., and Cincinnati, OL The capital is 8000,000. Advices from Santos, Brazil, state that, owing to the prevalence of yellow fever at that port, ISO vessels are detained there waiting to discharge their cargoes. Chancellor of the Exchequer Goschen, of England, has made publio his scheme to increase the stock of gold in the Bank of England. The budget committee of the German reichstag has voted about 8338,000 to be devoted to providing a proper exhibit at the Chicago Columbia exposition. The subject, of organizing an exhibition in Berlin was also discussed. The directors of the Chicago A Northwestern road have declared the regular dividend of 1 % per cent, quarterly on the preferred stock end 8 per cent semi-annual on the common stock. The Chinese government alleges that the insurgents number only 1,800 but belles this by its active measures. It is also stated that the rebellion is merely a raid to wreak private vengeance.

The l’aris Figaro baa been fined 500 francs for raising a subscription to pay the fines of the archbishop of Abe. THk Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad's gross earnings for October increased $357,876, and this net earnings increased 837,8181 SeinoR PoirorE, formerly Chiliad minister to the City of Mexico, had gone to the United States, and the Brazilian minister at Mexico City has left for Uruguay. The condition of Dom Pedro, ex-em-peror of Brazil, was exciting the gravest apprehension. He was attacked by a chill, and, despite the attentions of his physicians, ha continued to grow worse. The French ambassador at Rome bas made overtures to Premier Rudinl for Italian intervention in China. The premier declined to act until he received an official report from the Italian minister at Pekin. The French senate, on motion of M. Roche, minister of commerce, rejected the tariff committee’s proposal to impose a surtax of 3 francs on foreign sugars. The KreUz Zeitung announces that the .German court will promote bazars and concerts to raise funds for the famineistricken people of Russia A correspondent says that the czar has refused to receive a deputation of noMemen desiring to present an address asking hijn to grant a constitution to Russia Many nihilists are being arrested daily in Russia Tub French government is inclined not to oppose the preliminary steps taken by the radicals to bring about a separation of church and state. In the meantime it is not probable that any appointments will be made to vacant bishoprics. . The Mexican house has passed the bill to allow of the suspension of duties on food products by the president to permit of relief for the starving people. " The British minister to China confirms the Worst reports of the outbreak in Mongolia He states that hundreds of natives have been massacred, but believes no Europeans have been killed. Large numbers of Russian merchants who have been trading on the 'Wants of the people have been punished. A Paris paper charges that England and China are figuring on a combination. A reciprocity treaty with the British West Indies is regarded as probable. Minneapolis has started a movement to help distressed peasants in Rnssia. The Burlington railroad has resumed the payment of commissions on passenger business in direct defiance of the bovcott.

The United States steamer Boston has arrived at Montevideo, The latest report of the victims of the Japan earthquake makes the deaths 7,500 and the injured 10,120. Nearly 500,000 were homeless. The hatred of foreigners in China is said to have begun to he displayed in Pekin. Indignities are offered whites who venture out alone Arrangements have been perfected for the American Boman Catholic congress in 169a The main feature will be social and economic questions Dun & Cow’s weekly trade review reports gradual but sure improvement in business. Bradstreet reports the stock market also doing well. Dom Pedro, of Brazil, died at the Hotel Bedford, Paris, at 12:05 a. m., on the 5th. He was born December 2, 1625, and deposed November 15, 1889. France’s overtures for a united demonstration of the powers against China have been received very coldly in England and Germany. The former is afraid of a Russian trap. Influenza’s ravages in Germany this year are more serious that any previous time. The victims are almost countless. In the Bussell separation case at London the jury returned a verdict in favor of Earl Bussell. The announcement was greeted with loud cheers by friends of the earl. Four English Quaker delegates have arrived in Russia to visit the faminestricken districts. The Mexican government has entered into a contract with the colonizer. Beeves, to establish agricultural col* onists in the state of Pueblo. THE latest. Advices received at the Chinese legation in Paris say that a revolt was inaugurated by the secret societies in the province of Jehol against all the foreigners and Christians in that province on November 18. During the revolt a, number of Mongolian princes and several hundred Christians were put to death. Also a number of native priests. Churches were burned and other property destroyed. The national troops were ordered to proceed to the scene and quell the disturbance. On November 25 they met -the rebels, and after a desperate resistance, defeated them. The news of Dom Pedro’s death was received with sincere grief by the Brazilians. But while all unite in regret for the former emperor, there is a deep and strong determination that the empire shall never be revived. Should the Princess Isabella and the Count D’En make and persist in any demand for the imperial succession, the result will probably be the confiscation of all the property of the imperial family in Brazil. The Bellefonte (Pa.) Nail and Iron Co., limited, has suspended, with liabilities of $809,000. The president, exGov. Beaver, assumes all indebtedness and will place the plant in the hands of a trustee for the benefit of creditors. It is probable that a combination will be made between the radicals of the Argentine Republic and the supporters of Gen. Mitre. President Pelligrini, it is said, will support the candidacy of Gen. Mitre. The resignation of Redfield Proctor as secretary of war was accepted by the president oh the 5th. Mr. Proctor took his seat in the United States senate from Vermont on the 7th. ' The Official Journal of Paris published a decree, on the 5th, which authorizes the importation of American pork via Dunkirk, Havre, Bordeaux and Marseilles. The United States , cruiser No. », named the Montgomery, was launched at the Columbia iron works, Baltimore, Md., on the 5th. The political complexion of the United!States senate is: Republicans, 48; democrats, 87; Farmers’ Alliance, 3. The French government has decided that Dom Pedro, the ex-emperor of Brazil, shall have a royal funeral. The French army commanders have reported against adopting the system of two years’ service. A national bank has been opened in Buenos Ayres, with * W»ital of 900,000 ip gold.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. GEN. HOVEY’S FUNERAL. Burial of the Governor of Indiana at Mt. * Vernon. Mt. Vernon, Indij Not. 28.—The funeral of Got. Hovey todk place here Thursday. The remains were placed in the rotunda of the courthouse at 8 o’clock Thursday morning, lying in state until 11:30. The regular, services were held in the court room at 3 p m. Got. Ira Chase delivered a very able sermon. All of the state officers were here and many other prominent men, including Ex-GoYs.'Gray and Porter and Senator Turple. At the grave Gov. Chase delivered another short address, followed by Ex-Govs. Porter and Isaac P. Gray, both of whom talked most eloquently. Then the G. A. B. ceremonies Were performed and ended the last sad tributes to our illustrious dead statesman. Abont 10,000 people were In attendance, post of whom passed through the courthouse to view the remains. The state militia was well represented, with eleven companies. There were also representative bodies fromthirteen G. A. R. posts of the state, all forming with the procession. Union City complains of insufficient supply of natural gas. Ralph Winters, aged 5, of Reno, was kicked to death by a hqpe. A $10,000 school houle will be erected next spring at Centresville. The waters about Eckerty are filled with turtles from the size of a silver dollar to three feet in diameter. Ziba Cosby,.^ son of one of the wealthiest farmers of Davies county, was arrested charged with burning Lorenzo Evans’ barn one night last June. Mitchell Sohen and wife, of Columbus, have seven children. The mother and seven children were stricken with typhoid fever a few days ago. The mother died the other night, and two of the children Caih’t live, while the other three are very sick and will probably die. They contracted the malady from using water for drinking and culinary purposes from a well recently sunk on the site of an old livery stable. At Columbus the twenty-one gamblers’ arrested the other day pleaded guilty .before Mayor Graham and were fined $20 each, a total of $420l Thebe are already fourteen candidates in the field for nomination as sheriff on the democratic ticket of Shelby county. Evert vestige of the old courthouse at Laporte has been removed and the ground cleared for the proposed new building.

Hindostan, Martin-county, has disappeared from the face of the earth. It was once a county seat, and in the early days an important trading post The famous snit of Mrs. -Abigail Lieurance against Milton Shirk, regarding an old mill in Miami county, and which has been in the courts since 1871, was decided against the plaintiff It had previously appeared in the dockets of Wabash, Cass and Howard counties, and was once decided in favor of Mrs. Lieurance. Martin Haul, a Lagrange drug clerk, who was charged with poisoning Henry Hughes by putting poison in a dose of quinine and whisky which Hughes had called for, was the other day found guilty of murder - and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. A livery stable belonging to George Fisher, at Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire at an early hour the other morning. Seven horses were suffocated by the smoke and more or less burned, but the timely arrival of the fire department saved the vehicles from serious damage. Loss $3,000. A burglar entered the residence of John Craig, at Danville, securing several hundred dollars and Craig’s pants. Craig is the showman who weighs something over 700 pounds Mbs Esther Phillips of Clinton township, Elkhart county, died a few mornings ago, aged within she weeks of 90 years She was the mother of eight children and could enumerate thirty-five grandchildren, sixty-four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Northern Indiana is threatened with a coal famine that promises to work disaster and to cause considerable suffering. At points in Porter and adjoining counties farmers and residents of small hamlets are burning corn-cobs for fuel Along the line of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad the famine ip general, and the coal on hand is held at exhorbitant prices. The cold weather only serves to add to the tale of woe. A new gas well is to be dug in Anderson. Loganspobt’s electric cars are running. The odd fellows have opened a reading room at Goshen. , Rbdkey is to have a new glass factory which will employ three hundred people. Eedkey, it may be remarked, hasgaa Some one has sent the treasurer of Wabash college, in Crawfordsville, an express package for 330,000. The doner is a modest friend of the college, and wishes his name witheld from the public. It is learned that the fund is not to be used except as an endownment for a chair of astronomy and fittting up of an observatory. There are many guessing as to who the gentleman is, and it is generally credited to S. H. Williams, of Lima, one of the college’s honored trustees. The national officers of the United Mine-workers have indorsed the miners’ strike in Indiana and will give them financial aid. A hard and bitter fight is now on. The other afternoon Mias Laura Woodruff, aged 17, of Ravsville, was accidentally shot just above her heart while handling a revolver. She will recover. The new race track at Elkhart extends for a distance of 390 feet over a tamarack swamp, and during the late rains that portion of the track has sunk about eight feet Boring into the sunken portion fail to show anything like solid bottom short of 48 feet The Fulton oil well, just drilled in, is good for one hundred barrels a day. A large number of wells have been drilled in Jackson township, and none dry wells. A great number of new wells are going down. While Alexander Lewis and his two sons were hunting in the vicinity of Temple, the dogs “treed” something in a hollow tree, which proved to be an Infant but two or three days old, and still alive The child had evidently been abandoned to its fate Lewis adopted the child. * They are boring for ms again at Riohmond.

THE NEW CONGRESS. The Legislative Outlook for the till#* Second Congress Mot Clearly Defined-, Being a Near Congress* All Legislation Host be KeV-Mssy important Measures that Died with the Last Congress May be Taken Up. Washington, Dee; t—The legislative outlook for the Fifty-seCond con{rress, in the opinion of leading- men id both houses, is not! clearly defined. There are no continuing subjects which either house can take up of itself and pass to completion. This being a new congress, all legislation must originate de novo. A number of important measures passed by the last house were pending in the senate when it adjourned. Amongst them were the. elections or force bill, a bankruptcy bill, the pure lard hill and others, There is no probability of an attempt to revive the elections bill during the next congress. It is likely that the desirability of adapting some national system of regulating bankruptcy may engage the attention of the senate committee on commerce. Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, will endeavor to press his pure food bill as a substitute for the lard bill. Senator Cullom has some amendments to the Inter-state commerce bill to propose. The silver question, in various shapes, was pending when the Fifty-first congress terminated, and there was an investigation into the works of the McKinley tariff act in progress by a committee of the senate. Should the result of that investigation be actively brought to the front it might precipitate a tariff debate in the senate. There is a disposition, however, on the part of leading senators of both parties to leave the initiative tariff fight in the house, where it belongs, and not to force the fighting in the senate on any of the issues which will enter into the presidential contest of 181*9. Senators believe that a very large interest of the coming session will he centered in the executive sessions. Interesting information is expected in regard to onr relations with Chili. If in the time that has gone by or at the present time, our relations with that country havetassumed a phase which might have endangered or which still endangers peace, the facts will be laid before the senate, either by public message or by confidential communication, in either case to be considered in executive session. It is thought that not all the reciprocity agreements which have been negotiated with Spain and Span-ish-American countries under the reciprocity clauses of the McKinley bill come under that clause. The increasing graviMMta|j^^ituation in China may impHM^9|MBl United States the necessity of taking action for the protection of American interests in that country. -

Information will und^^redly be laid before the senate as to the proposed arbitration of the Behring sea question with Great Britain. The correspondence on this subject, when the senate last heard of it. had reached a stage where Great Britain proposed to limit arbitration to the question of what rights Great Britain had conceded to Russia in Behring sea before the purchase of Alaska by the United States, and to limit United States authority over Behring sea by the decision thus arrived at. To this the United States replied that such a form of submission would not be calculated to assure a conclusion satisfactory to either party, and proposed instead, six points of arbitration. 1. What exclusive jurisdiction as to seal fisheries did Kussia exercise before the cession tothe United States? 9. How far did Great Britain acquiesce? S. Was the Bebnng sea included in the phrase “Pacific ocean” used in the treaty of 1825? 4. Did not all Russia’s rights pass to the United States? 5. What are now the rights of the Unite! States in the seal fisheries outside the three-mile limit? 0. What international regulations are necessary for a closed season? The senate will probably be informed to what extent Great Britain has agreed to submit these questions to arbitration. In the matter of confirming appointments the executive sessions of the senate are likely to he important. The names of nine new circuit judges otappeals, two inter-state commerce commissioners and a secretary of war will probably be among the first nominations sent in. Changes in the personnel of the senate will necessitate a complete reorganization of the senate committees. Senators Edmunds, Evarts. Ingalls, Payne and others who have hitherto borne a large share of the committee work, have left their places to be filled by others. ' , „ The element of new membership will play a still more important part in the organization of the house. Of the 395 democratic members of that body 105 have never before occupied a seat in congress. When to these are added twentyeight new republicans members and eight Farmers’ Alliance men, it will be seen that Whoever is chosen speaker will have a herculean task before him in ascertaining as far as possible the preferences of 141 new members who know nothing about committee work and making assignments that will be satisfactory to all of them. It is not in the least likely that the committees can be arranged and the house be organized for legislative business until after the Christmas holidays. Hot Yet Ready to Report. New York, Dec. A—Assignee Gould said yesterday that he was not yet ready to make a report as to the affairs of the wrecked firm of Field, Lind ley, Wiechers & Co- He denied that the report iB being delayed until certain matteA can he settled and criminal proceedings prevented. A new story Of the financial misdeeds of Bid ward M. Field has gained currency. It is to the effect that field misappropriated a block of sugar trust stock belonging to a German capitalist, who placed it in the hands of the firm to have it replaced with other certificates. Revolt la the Chinese Province of Jehol. Paris, Dec. A—Advices received at the Chinese legation say that a revolt was inaugurated by the secret societies in the province of Jehol against all the foreigners and Christians in that province on November 1A During the revolt a number of Mongolian •rinces and soToral hnftdrfcd Christians were put to death. Also a number of native priests. Churches were burned and other property destroyed. The national troops were ordered to proceed tothe Ou-November 35 t pud feated them met the rebvfc 7

THE RECIPROCITY CLAUSE, It Don Nat Applf to hha Rttillnu Bar tarn* BlaUU, liGH *c<S the Major. Whatever may be tueaut by the policy Of “reci procity, * which is interpreted in so many ways by the repnblican statesmen add organs, it is plaid that it does not include reciprocal good feeling between the three great republican leaders, Blaine, McKinley 8Sd Harrison. As it matter of fact, there is nothing in the Mc'Klhley tariff providing for reciprocity directly. There is only a clause giviug the president & limited power of retaliation upon governments which do not accord what he regards as fab’ concessions to the United States. That power has never been explicitly used. Whether there has been a threat of using it or not we cannot say. Mr. Bi»ine( in his recent letter, intimated that there had been snch a threat tosste to Germany, that German beet sugar bad been “left” free Of duty in consideration Of the admission to Germany of American pork. But if that be- the ease the public has not been informed of It. Mr. Harrison is authority for the statement that the admission of our pork “has nothing to do with any question of reciprocity, but is based upon the acceptance by the German government of the inspection of meats by this government under the law of the fast congress.” This is Rot the only sign of a fatal Want of figreemeati between the president and his nominal secretary of state on this point, it will be remembered that when Sir. Harrison was op his famous trans-continental tour Iasi spring be claimed all the credit for -ha insertion of the reciprocity clauses in the McKinley bill. But whether he or Mr. Blaine be really the father of this legislation it is impossible to tell. What is entirely clear is that they are quarreling over its. character and effect as openly as the conventionalities of official life and the exigencies of party politics will permit Meanwhile poor Maj. McKintey has become sadly tangled in the “difficulty.’' The democratic papers in Ohio were quoting Mr. Blaine's famons*letter denouncing the McKinley bill because there was “not a section or a line in the entire bill that will open a market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork.” Whereupon Mr. Blaine writes to say: “Before the bill was finally passed the reciprocity clause Was in, serted ami a large addition was made to the free list It will, therefore, be seen from what I said in my letter that the objection which I made to the McKinley hill was entirely removed before the hill became a law. * * * I am not, therefore, an opponent to the ■HWgjr bill, ivs the frraicratic papers of Ohio are constsHty alleging. On the contrary, I have eordially supported it ever since it wasf- perfected by the insertion of the reciprocity clause.” >

As we have already pointed out, this is very cold comfort for Mr. McKinley. So far from explaining* or retracting' his savage criticism of the bill, Mr Blaine reiterates and justifies it Upon the bill as Maj. McKinley made it, carried it through the house, and sent it to the senate, Mr. Blaine now passes the same judgment that he pronounced in July of last year. He has nothing good to say of the law except for the reciprocity clause of which he claims to be the parent So far as we have been able to get at the facts in the very confused record, Mr. Blaine’s claim has a very slight foundation in fact, and the so-called reciprocity clause was in reality due to Mr, Harrison, who did not care very much for it but who wanted to head off any opposition that Mr. Blaine and his friends might make. Mr. McKinley, however, is entirely out of the whole affair, and con only claim that he killed Mr. Blame’s original notion of putting hides on the dutiable list in order to give Mr. Blaine something to “trade on.” Considering thtf utter futility of the “reciprocity’1 legislation the heated dispute carried on around it is a curious indication of the state of the repub'ican mind.—N, Y. Times. BENNY AND dlM. An Interesting Sit nation In the Republican Camp. These are not pleasant days for a president desirous of a second term. There is cold comfort everywhere for Benjamin Harrison. Republican organs indulge in the faintest of praise for the president, and even those journals whose editors were honored with the choicest gifts at his bestowal are shy of outspoken support of him. Mr. Beid in Paris and Mr. Smith in St. Petersburg are not making battle for a patron (dearly imperiled, especially as the menace comes from the chief of the state department And local officeholders do not appear to give the president that flattery which officeholders ordinarily bestow upon the person who has signed their commissions. Many republicans of Indiana, the president’s own state, are organising with the purpose of assisting anybody to beat Harrison. The recent elections contained no message of comfort to the white house. Neither Pennsylvania nor Ohio, where republican successes were recorded, is a Harrison state. The former will be for Blaine, the latter for Blaine or McKinley. Blaine’s nomination by the republican convention in Minneapolis is almost certain. Unless be negatire the present programme it may be set. down as a certainty. The sole hope of the republican party is in the candidate who was repudiated in 1831. It has rarely happened in the political history of the republic that a cabinet officer during the first term of a presMelft has been a stumbling, block in the path of his chief, ambitious of a second term. Sherman had full understanding with Hayes, who bad neither inclination nor encouragement to seek renomination. Chase was in Lincoln’s way, but was shelved upon the supreme bench. There is tacit understanding that cabinet officers shall not bo presidential candidates during the first trim of the incumbent who has honored them with place. If Mr. Harrison feels chagrin at the existing situation, one which shelves him that his subordinate may have party honors, there will be little sympathy with hist in any quarter. He knew his man thoroughly. It Blaine’s selection rfas his own choice he Is richly punished for trusting him. I# his appointment e&ma of a pre-election compact his hr msiiation is none the less, indeed It is all the greater.—Chicago Times. the! -After oceusiag fifty - n tosra of taking 1— , away from the polls, — workers” now trying i ver by trickery and barefaced at which they teat In the ele.,-,„,v iey are liktely 4» flud Naw York a hard •M for state-* Y, World,

WATCH I NO THE GAME. Republican Caaaaineas About ft* f™*1' lantlal Candidate*Expressions drawn from repreaantatire republicans In connection with the selection of a location for their ns tioBal convention show in averystrikiag way that the election of McKinley in Ohio did not increase his popularity in his party. They also recall attention to the well-known fact that the possibility of having to renominate Harrison occasions general republican mneasiness, timbers of the republican • national committee, as well as of the delegations which appeared before it. are virtually unanimous, and their expression, }n almost every instance, takes the (Stereotyped form: "Blaine, if he’ll take it,” or "Blaine, if he’ll say tile word.” If there has been any Change since the November election, it has been in’ the direction of increased repugnance to either llar^apn or McKinley, and, as an escape from both of them, re' publicans, those who are politicians ss well as these who are not, seem more than ever anxious for Blaine. There is no “booming’’ in this, and no enthusiasm about it It is rather negative than positive. It is the talk of men who dislike Harrison and have no love^ _ for McKinl ey, who believe there would be small chance of electing either of them, and who are very much afraid that one of them will be nominated unless Blaine £an be induced to "take it'* Partly through design, but more as a result of circumstances, Mr. Blaine has established himself in this position. Where a single word from him will retire Harrison from politics, change the course of the republican party, avoid the blockhead policy of MoKinleyism and give the party a fighting chance to win in 1892. But will lie ever say it? It was easy enough for him to throw his silk hat against the wall of a committee room to emphasi se his opinion of McKinley as a blockhead, bnt backing away from the position of extreme radicalism to which the republican party has been thoroughly committed is quite another matter. And as a presidential candidate Mr. Blaine would have to do that to have any chance of election. To oppose the democratic party and at the same time to make it clear that he does not represent the republicanism of the force bill and the McKinley bill would tax the utmost versatility of his intellect if it were now in its period of greatest vigor. And to attempt it while constantly threatened with nervous prostration might give pause to a far less cautious man than Mr. Blaine. Though he has more - brains than any other politician in the republican party, it is not probable that he or anyone else will be able to change its course and save it from the fate it has sp long deserved and invited • —St. Louis Bepublic. ' *

THfc WAT II LUUR9. A Complicated Problem for the RepobUo* ana to Solr*. The recent elections leave a very large margin for conjecture about the £ distribution of the electoral vote of 1893. Neither party can confidently claim the possession of anything near the 323 votes necessary to elect a president | • Under the new appointments the twenty states that cast their electoral votes for Harrison have 249 votes. But "* this easy majority in the electoral college is wiped ont when the following states are ranked as doubtful: ttasseehusetts„...................... .... 13 voles Michigan...H voles Nev York...36 rotes Total.... ..MvMea These reduce the available strength of the states that went republican in 1888 to 156 votes. Add to these the IT votes of the new states of Idaho, North and South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming and the total is still 50 votes short of a majority. Under the newly established district system in Michigan its electoral vote will be divided, but only 6 votes are claimed by the republicans. Add to these the votes of Indiana, Iowa and Massachusetts and the election would be a tie. Let the Democrats carry I Nejv York, Indiana and eight districts in Michigan and their victory would be complete. Let tbe fact be admitted that Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are no longer securely republican stales and the problem becomes still more complicated for the party that won in 1888.—N. Y. World. 4 CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS. -—In a single year at Harrison’s administration there have been over si* thousand labor strikes They were after the Brussels carpets and pianos he told them about in 1888. Have they got them?—SU Louis Republic. -Mr. Blaine promises that he decide by Christmas whether W will be a presidential candidate or not From now until the 35th of December President Garrison will dream of finding Blaine’s letter of declination in his stocking.—Chicago Times. -It is claimed that Blaine and Hrrrison have arrived at a perfect understanding. j Harrison is to nurse hia i boom, but will not be an active candiI date for renamination until Blaine dCI eidas what he shall do. J0us is jnstlike Blaine; he always gets the best of a i bargain.—Kansas City Star. -Hon. Bill McKinley’s bill has not, to date, proved a powerful jackscrew in hoist ing the wages of working people in the protected industries; but now that he has been elected governor the milleninm will necessarily begin to dawn for the highly protected working*man in Ohio, at least. As soon as he is inaugurated the Ohio potters and others whose wages have been reduced sines the bill went into effect can,i;of course, get a twenty per cent increase on the old rates of pay by simply stepping up to this captain’s office and asking for it—St Louis Republic. -—To-day no man is deal hearts of the people of Iowa illustrious, sturdy and grand Horace Boiea. The people 1 and are proud of hint. From comes tidings of great joy. T were in earliest They hav earnest for several years, cowardice of the republic! holders and office-seekers has to sacrifice their own They have 1 fanatics who the triumph The people! der tones. “ Will the longer be ,f *