Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 February 1892 — Page 1

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PROFESSION All CAROS. j!T.BaHBnrD~ Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. WOffloe in Bank building, first floor. Will Artifice in Bank building, fir Co round at offloe day or nknt Fsahcis a Poset. ' Dewitt a Chaffru. POSEY A CHAPPKffli, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. WMl practice in all the conrts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly In the offloe. fiffl-Offlce— On first floor Bank Building. & A. XLT. B. O. DAVENPORT. ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYER, Petersburg, Ind. WOfflce over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store. Prompt attention given to all business. X. P. Richardson. A. H. Tailor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business, a Notary Public constantly In tho offlee. Office in Carpenter Bolldlng, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist, o PETERSBURG, INO. Office over J. B. Young’s Store, Main Street 49-Offiee hour* from 9 o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentistf PETERSBURG, IND. Office in roomsO and 7 in Carpenter Building. Operations llrat-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to nil Business. * OTOfflce over Barrett * 800** store. L a I, A MAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ijtd. Will practice in Pike and adjoining connties. Office In Montgomery Building. Jfflce hours day and night _ ta-Diseases of Women and Children especially. Chronic and difficult oases solicited.

THIS PAPER 18 OH FILE IN AND HEW YORK V AT THE OFFICES OF A. I. KELL066 NEWSPAPER CO. " V. 'jC 1 OFFICE DAT. NOTICE Is hereby slYen that I will attend to the duties of the office of truetee of Clay township at Union on EVERY &ATUR»3tt All peraoae who hare bnaiaeas with the office will take notice that I will attend to business on no other tla^ IN' tmcK n, W *: tereated that i all parties In“1 at my office K EVERY ST. To transact bisiness office of trusted arsons haem* bus please take notice, wRb the lownahlp. All -- will J. 8. BABBITT, Trustee. NSM EVERY XTOTICE Is hereby ivmyffSl Him

QOND CONGRESS. —j», on tbe iat, after morning business had boon disposed of, the Paddock pare food blU was taken np in* made tho special order for the 3d. Tbs La Abra and Weil bills, referring the claims to the court of claims with right lot appeal to the supreme court, ware passed. Both bills provide that in case the courts decide the claims fraudulent the unexpended balance of the awards shall be returned to Mexico. ..In the houae.nnder the call of states, a targe number of bills were introduced. The report of the committee on rules was then taken up, the various amendments proposed giving rise to some spicy discussion; but littis progress with the bin was made. In tbs senate, on the M, house bill authorizing a change of location in a railroad bridge across the Mississippi river at South St. PanT Stan!, was passed. Mr. Voorhees and others spoke to a question of privilege, denying statements in an article In the Philadelphia Press. The senate then proceeded to the consideration of bills on the callender, and at * o'clock took np the printing bffl and discussed it the rest of the day. ....In the house the consideration of the rules was resumed, discussion of an amendment offered by Mr. Heed that when a quorum failed to vote there should be a call of the house and each member, as ~ vote on the pending question, occupying almost the entire session. rerman governof the United States in the international art exhibition to be heM in Munich June 1 to October 1,1S98. Tito joint resolution for an amendment to the constitution for_ uniform marriage and divoroe vide for the need t£S,Q[» < receipts exceed 18,000 ^r an remainder of the session . ■Mention of the report rules was resumed and In the senate, on the duced a bill for a monument Commodore Perry and those the battle of Lake Erie. The tng Senator Call, of Florida, e was unanimously adopted.... of aft od. The senate wai_ the house a bill was Introduce cultural Implements on the frw sualurgency deficiency bill waa daim of Pennsylvania for 18,447,800 sustained by citizens during the favonbly reported. The bill to pital corps of the army waa fa The passage of tbe bill to vania for money expended in lMH for recommended by tbe committee on The committee on the judiciary vorably an amended MU to amend revenue ‘ lake n,BiE is frozen from 1 lean to the Canadian shore to time in six years. Lake St also frozen solid from shore and the ice is so thick that have been laid upon it and held daily. Vessel^owners are pleased with the situation, as it is likely to make the opening of navigation late, which will insure better rates of freight E. W. Hutchinson, a wealthy Nebraska farmer, who, last April, murdered an adventuress who, he claimed, had tried to defraud hiaupf.his propIterward erty, and who was afterward sent to the Insane asylum, was discharged, on the 1st as cured, after two months- incarceration. The proprietor and the editor Beaver (Pa.) Star were sentenced, the 1st to six months' imprisonmt and a fine of 9600 each for charging Senator Quay with complicity in the Bardsley embezzlement A message was received in Pittsburgh, Pa., from New Orleans, on the 1st saying that Frederick C. Fitzsimmons, the murderer of Detective CUlkeson, who escaped from jail in Pittsburgh last fall, had been captured in the Crescent city. Alice Mitchell and Lillie Johnson were joiutly arraigned in the criminal court at Memphis, Tenn., on the 1st charged with the murder of Freda Ward. They pleadod not guilty. One of the greatest compliments ever

paid to a man’s commercial integrity has been accorded to S. V. White by his New York creditors, representing obligations of $1,000,000. These hare given Mr. White a foil legal release on his simple word that he will pay oat with interest when he gets on his feet again. Off the 1st a queer religious convention began at Findlay, Q., to continue for nine days The delegates are from all over the country, and represent faith-cure adherents, sanctificationists, Christian scientists and others holding to equally peculiar doctrines About 000 delegates are present, and the proceedings are of a highly entertaining character. H. H. Yard, who was arrested charged with aiding and abetting Gideon W. Marsh and Charles W. Lawrence in the misapplication of the funds of the Keystone National bank, of Philadelphia, was given a hearing before United States Commissioner Bell, on the 2d. Special Agent Barrett, of the United States treasury department, testified that Yard had received over $49)*,000 of the bank’s funds. At the conclusion of the testimony Yard Was held for court and his bail increased from $15,000 to $30,000. . Japes McCullough, the last surviving son of the distinguished tragedian, John McCullough, died at the old homestead in Philadelphia on the 1st McCullough’s daughter, Letitia, is now the only surviving descendant of the great actor, and will inherit an estate valued at $00,000. At Cote St Louis, an outlaying suburb of Montreal, Can., several- frozen dynamite cartridges, which had been placed on a stove to thaw out exploded, completely wrecking the house. A. Dupre, the owner, was terribly injured, and his two tittle daughters were fatally burned. A third daughter’s skull was fractured and she will Ebablydie. Mrs. Dupre escaped unin

Ward Watebbubt. the 8*year-otd son of Charles P. Waterbary, a wealthy farmer of Poundrklgei N. ¥.t Was kidnaped by uhkhown parties, oh the 1st, and oh the 2d his father received a letter demanding 8*1,000 ransom for th child, coupled with the threat that i the money was not forthcoming the f tber would never see his son again. Th* historic old Appomattox (Va.) courthouse was destroyed by fire, the 2d, with all the county treoo The McLayne house, near by, in wl Gen. Lee signed the terms of surrende of the army of northern Virginia Gen. Grant, narrowly > escaped desk tion. Reports from the stranded steams Eider up to the night of the 2d ind cated that all hope of saving the ve had been abandoned. It was also i that seveial hundred sacks of matter still remained on the vesael I would undoubtedly be lost. Mbs. Ann Finlayson, mother Margaret Mather, the actress, died st) denly at Detroit, Mich., bn the night I the 2d. She was taken sick at a grow store, and died before reaching hon She lived in poor circumstances, one would never have imagined he be the mother of the talented won bearing her maiden name. Egard Raoul-Duval, the ■ known French •statesman and mist, died in Paris, on the 3d, i years A lot of waste paper and rubbii a toilet-room of the national hon

y Field cony of i in the ten Ga* one of Kaiser tained. The western districts of ! famine stricken like the adji inces of Russia, and the garlan government is, thr bureaus, supplying food tol' inhabitants. On the sth the president J proclamation promulgating! ity treaty with the British | colonies—Trinidad, Wind* ward islands, etc. On the 5th the house elections decided the Fens tested election case of Stewart in favor of the fo ocrat There was recently (Mexico) prison, forty-} under sentence of death. Advices from Lower < of a scarcity of provii Buffering among the i Jay Gould has signs for the reorganisation i tional A Great Norther and the plan will dout out It is understood ' anteed the payment of f dissenting stpckholde In view of the dens Marshall Prince) cruelties practiced by i German army, the N« zette takes occasion the memorable acts of Frederick, during to issue a decree 1 the treatment of his i tell great ignarats of

Tan senate was 6th...In the ho sion, He nor Montt, was on the floor f was introduced Congressman Ban a small attendan the session was gi the late Hon. \V. pnin, after which were adopted and A i.asge oak w the farm of John cie, Ind.. on the sound. Immedi been chopped. It peculiar hissing stump. A mate' blaze shot up burned with tree w as filled out th A* awful dl city of New ing of the Fortieth burned to persons, their Hr windows or A us rr*R 8. Clarkson, national mer d< for the pi will not made bn the the sesinister, and ■ (S'* was but rs, and of of Vir* ilutions rued! down on of fdnnperfectly tree had that a ■pm the und a air and ’Che gas, #|iich of the irred in the on the morn* Royal at avenue was a number of in all, lost g from the

[i. Flood celebrated tbelr golden wedt Farmland, in, of Monon, eomshooting himself Stephen Johnson, a green-goods tan, is arrested at Washington. Indianapolis is fighting over the nestion of brick oi asphalt streets. Experts pronounce the Indianapolis argical institute reasonably safe. Wm. Long, whilci drunk, nearly set le Madison county court house afire. Clinton Houston, fourteen years Id, is arrested at Lafayette for robbing post office. * Bandall Yarbbdugh, the first pioeer of Clark county, died at the age f ninety-three. The pastors of aM the churches in lew Albany will no eet to consider the set ways of instituting needed reforms Thomas Woblahd, a prominent firmer living neat Waldron, Shelby county, was cutting timber when a tree fell on him, crushing his skull and back. He died almost iast sntly. The Indianapolis Central hospital refused to-receive Lillie Stephens, the Insane gin who killed Mrs. Boss. Limn Ciusman helld up a street ear at Richmond and robbed the cash box right in front of a police station. He was arrested. Bobkbt Offutt eras caught on a flywheel at Greenfield and whirled around 200 revolutions a minute. His injuries are serious Wm. KfeE, of Martinsville* suffering with lockjaw, became crazed and rode a wild race on a worse. He was caught and returned to bed. Bubolabs literally carried away Cooley’s Ft Wayne grocery. A number of Chinamen who have been attending an Indianapolis Sunday school, refuse to go again. A stallion kicked Norman Lacy to death near Osgood. Simon Svggkbfoos, of Sonth Elkhart committed suicide by the rope route. He was forty years of age, and leaves wife and three children. The deed wa. enacted in a barn on a lot where the family lived. Deceased was addicted to the liquor habit and lately, while in a fit of frenzy, threatened to annihilate his family, and on one occasion administered chloroform to his.wife. In addition to eighteen months’ imprisonment for petit larceny. James and Curtis Rowland were disfranchised for ten years, a year .ago, on their conviction in a Morgan county court The term of imprisonment having been fulfilled, Gov. Chase was asked to restore to the Rowlands their rights as voters. Hehas granted the request Mb. and Mrs. Foster, of Kendallvilie, were almost smothered to death from smoke while their house was on fire.

wants a bridge across id a tunnel under the cks. :r, of Knightstown, t mother of 17 chil Johnstown White river ' Pan-Hand! Clarissa 9tf years oli iren, is d>ad. k P. Huston, patient, hung h: port Insane asylum. Porch climbers entered the DePauw s, an Elkhart county himself in the Logansmzrm residence at New A, worth of diamonds Milton Thorbub duced short-horn ca in Wayne county. The saloon at Bur ed by a posse of mei Thieves robbed loon of 87,500 at Sp* Th* Indiana dem will be held April 2 The village of He ty, is suffering from Dan’l Kile, aged nutted suicide, wit Goshen. ,■ Edward Neal, o sixty years old, w bany and got 81,000 e, who first intro,tle in Indiana, died i was wreckBaker’s saeonvention Porter counthe grip epidemic, sixty-three, commorphine, near ttyy. Ablet Herad w jailed at Columbi stealing two b< from Ed Peel, dep which cost 850 each. Richmond, about found dead in his arrested and charged {with »1« fox-hound^ county clerk, * LitTLE Bertha A: olis, who was dying, j ans enough to see Her prayer was in her father's i the ceremony. Bicrhond has lea| Lapobte county ams, of Indlanapto live long brother married. for she died immediately after year parties its roads im

CAtJGHT IN A FIRE TRAP. Destruction of the Hotel Boyad in New York City. ■ Vi f. The Disaster Accompanied hr an AppallIn* Loss of Lire, While Many ol the Inmates were Terribly Burned. Nxw YaapgFeb. 8.—A disaster, paralleling iPaorror sad probably exceeding in loss ol life the terrible occurrence in Park place, the remembrance of which is fresh in the public mind, , occurred in this cljty early yesterday momihg. The Hotel Boy al, at Fortieth street and Sixth avenue, was burned to the ground and a large number of people were burned to death, many suffocated by smoke and others crushed to death in the ruins. It is known that there were 130 guests in the house at the time the fire broke out There was also some fifty-five employes of the house. Of these, six have been found dead, six are in the hospitals and sixtythree have been reported alive, either by themselves or friends This leaves 100 persons missing and they are supposed to he dead in the ruins. The police have searched that part of the ruins accessible, but have found no bodies. They believe that many of the missing persons will he found to have eseaped. Of these, many are supposed to have gone to their homes. They were mostly transient guests and it is believed a large portion will never report their escape. At this writing it 3s impossible to Btate the number of killed or injured with any positireacss. The police place the number of killed at fifty while they admit that the number of injured will be very large. It was a few minutes after 3 o'clock yesterday morning when the flames were firrst discovered. They never had better- fuel. The building Was composed of several old structures, all amalgamated into the Hotel Boyal years ago. 8o far as can he learned, the flames kindled in the shaft of the elevator in the basement, at about the middle of the building. A janitor was at work in the basement at about the time and was suddenly frightened by the flashing of flames, He rushed to the street and notifled-the policeman on the Sixth avenue corner, who sent in an alarm, while the janitor rushed back into the building to arouse the sleeping guests. The blaze had already shot np the elevator shaft, finding kindling as inflammable as tinder in the frame work, and James T. Powers, of the “Straight Tip’’ company, smoking his good night cigar on the piazza of the Gedney house, at Broadway and Fortieth streets, saw the flames. He rushed to the nearest fire alarm box and sent in an alarm before the Sixth avenue officer could reach his nearest box. In fifteen minutes the whole of the six-story structure was ablaze. Flames shot out of every window in the front af 'the bouse, and people in the street could see persons rushing frantically to and fro on every floor of the burning building. One, two three alarms were sent out in rapid succession, and the streets and avenues were soon filled with fire engines and trucks. Other alarms brought ambulances from every hospital in the city.

People leaped out of the -windows to the sidewalks, anjL^were gathered up unconscious, burned, maimed and mangled by the fireman and carried to places of safety. The most heroic efforts of the firemen were impotent against the devouring element, and the whole middle portion of the city was brilliantly illuminated by the tremendous fire, which the hotel made. Crowds gathered, and Capt. Reilly, with the reserves from the thirtieth station, had more than their hands full in controlling the excited throng. It was known that the hotel was full of people, for it Was a popular resort for thousands, and the prospective loss of life is appalling. The windows were filled with the people in their night clothing, making piteous and heartrending appeals to the people below for help, while behind them was a great sea of flames. Indeed, these unfortunate beings seemed to be actually in the fire. Barrowing scenes were witnessed by those who were assembled in sight of the burning hotel One unknown man sprang from a window on the third floor and was dashed to death on the sidewalk below before the horrified eyes of the spectators. This terrible scene was enacted on the Sixth avenue side of the building. A moment later another man leaped from a window-on the Fortieth street side and was manpled to death on the pavement Shortly afterward two women Jumped from windows on the Sixth avenue side. Willing hands soon grasped them up, but they were dead. Their bodies were at once removed to the morgue. Thus already had four lives been sacrificed. From other windows of the doomed hotel, men and^ women had leaped in their endeavor to escape from the flhmes, but so far as known none of them were killed outright, but many were badly bruised^The numerous ambulance surgeons who were summoned as soon as the fire was discovered had more than they could do to attend to the burned and injured people. The hotel ourued like a tinder box. The flames raged fleroely, but above all bould be heard the cries for help from the unfortunates penned in the building. Firemen and spectators helped1 to rescue the imprisoned guests and employee Many were taken from windows where they had sought refuge from thp flame, and the flftemen dared and flame to save life. Ward and Patrolman Phillips t into a room on the fourth floor and took* Walter H. Phelps and his wife in safety down a ladder. Officer Phillips succeeded in saving Mrs. Samuel Knapp, of Chicago, who was unable to save about to leap fi third floor. Mr. Jfreueriofc ummann, a well-known dealer ini guest of the hotel for 3 and brother also making 1 abode. Saturday bis with Mrs. Uhlmann at I Mr. Uhlmann had after 1

falling- over some obstructions in th8 passage way, succeeded in feeling arid groping bis way down the one flight of stairs to the street. He had on nothing but bis night shirt, but some one threw him an overcoat, and barefooted and with the coat abont,Jtis shoulders he walked un the street several fllocks to another hostelry; Mr. Chlmann lost everything in bis room, including $18,000 in cash, several checks and other, valuable business documents. Among the narrow escapes related is that of William C. Thompkins, of this city, who was a transient guest. He was aroused by the cries of fire, and finding escape by the stairs impossible, coolly packed his things together and lowered himself to the ground by the means of the rope fire-escape Which lid found in the room; When 6u the ground, he gathered tip tas effeets; which he had previously thrown out of the window, and went elsewhere to finish his sleep. A tall, handsome yonng man climbed down the Sixth avenue front from the topmost window. He slowly climbed from sill to sill until he reached the ground. He was seriously burned and bruised, but alive, and the crowd cheered him wildly, while he disappeared, unidentified, in the crowd. Mrs. Keuper and her daughter Julia, who occupied a room on the third •floor, at the corner of Fortieth street and Sixth avenue, and who registered from Flemtngton, N. J,, on Saturday, were reached by a policeman and a fireman, who carried them down a ladder. They lost all their Clothing save their, night dresses Which they had ofl, Mrs, Keuper suffered greatly from the shock, and Miss Keuper’s long back hair was badly singed by the flames, which burst out of the window as she Stepped Oil the ladder to safety, Richard Meares, proprietor of the Hotel Royal, miraculously escaped death with his wife. They retired at 1 o’clock and were asleep on the second floor in the middle of the kflilding and only a few feet from the elevator shaft which formed the draft for the fire. The janitor succeeded in' waking the people on this floor but could get no further up into the building, owing to the progress of the flames. He awakened Proprietor Meares and his wife first, bnt when they emerged into the hall, only partly clothed, they found a conflagration. The stairways were filled with flames and smoke and tongues of flames darted out from Mie elevator shaft. Saying, “Follow me,” Mjr. Meares, with his overcoat over his head climbed over the bannisters at the head of the stairs and dropped to the floor below. Turning to catch his wife vdien she dropped,, he was horrified to me that she had not foll^red him. ™he frantic man would have rushed hack up the burning stairs, but the firemen seized him and roughly hastened him out of the building and turned him over to a policeman. Meantime, Mrs. Meares had acted for herself. With rare presence of mind, she rushed to the window and leaped to the roof of the portico over the entrance and was taken down by the firemen. She sustained a sprained ankle, but was otherwise nnhnrt by her thrilling experience. These escapes occurred before the walls of the building fell, while the firemen were doing their utmost to stop the progress of the flames, which, at that time, threatened to engnlf not only the hotel bnt the entire block of buildings to the south. When the walls fell, people, were seen at several windows on the upper floors, crying for help, but they fell back and were swallowed up in the outburst of the flames which rose from the ruins. How many then met their deaths and how many were suffocated in their rooms, is not known.

The flames of the burning building illuminated the sky for miles around and drew thousands of people to the setae, which, during the entire day, was an object of curiosity to the immense throng of people. Beserves from the nineteenth and twentieth police precincts held the crowd well in check. The fire lines were strictly drawn and maintained during the whole day, and none save a person authorised to enter, by means of his official position, was allowed within the prescribed boundaries. The Are had spent its fury at 5:15, for there was practically nothing combustible left in the shell. Then the scene surveyed by the firemen, the police and the crowd of citizens, was one of complete-and sorrowful wreck. Ambulances had carried away the injured, and those who had escaped unhurt had gone to the homes of frienda All that remained was a smoking, blackened mound of debris, that rose to a height of twenty-five feet Beyond to the south the eye gazed unobstructed by floors or roof up through that portion of the building that remained standing to the sky. Tp the west were the walls of a section of the building, but they had been dismantled of all the woodwork, and in the cellars were the debris of the whole interior of the Hotel Boyal. And under the debrjs what would the men set to work immediately to clear away the wreck—what would they find there? This question stayed with the crowd and all day long there has been a throng of people in Bryant park, opposite the ruins, and around all the approaches to the demolished hotel, watching while 100 able firemen labored in the smoking heap, anxious, yet fearful of what each upturned heap might bring forth. It was at It o'clock when the first body was -found. It was a horrible sight to behold, burned, blackened and bruised. It was hurried away to the morgue, where after much difficulty it wasjjdentifled as the body of Harry C. Levy, a member of the firm of Strauss & Freeman, 707 Broadway. At 4 o'clock a gang of fifteen laborers were put to work, clearing away the debris on the cbrner of Fortieth street. They continued their work untill dark. Early this morning 100 men, under Contractor Gullaway, were put to work, aud it is expected the fearful work of thtifire will soon be known. Coroner Hanley, who was early on the scene, arranged for the removal of all tho bodies recovered direct to the morgue, where a description of them will be taken and they will be placed in coffins

AN AMERICAN SfcuLdvriw Uer dren at Prices It Is a soothing flotloa which Jrfoteetion papers are tr/icjr to circulate that the McKinley It** has not increased prices, but a flotioii ail the' same; Women who go to hay wooled dress goods for the admire* and thoir cbih dren this winter know that prices are higher than they were before duties werQ I t A woman writes to the New York World giving' cme of her experiences in buying such goods, and some sharp comments on the iniquity of McKinleyism. „ ;'-V She saysi “I am s b.;sy mother, and I am shut id oay room with grip. I harp spoked disrespectfully of if—did not believe In it; Sdvr it has me in its grip itnd I Cuhild cry. Cue other thing this winter I did slot Believe, have found true, and have cried over—the cruelty 6f the tax ca wooleM to little Childreo. I look to American raefti to stop this tax, which is, I say, the mmi monstrous iniquity done in oUr land since the ddra of our acquaintance with King George III. But the stupid arrogance Of his taxation was more endurable than the fraudulent sham of our fellow-citizens. Where is the spirit of the men who threw over tbs tea into Boston harbor? How I should llk« to see Mr. McKinley there! But this is irrelevant *pd he -is governor of Ohio, aod, of course, it wan not the money of any tariff beneficiaries that helped him there! King George III, stupid and bigoted as he was, would «eve? have legielated against the health of growing children —the men to be, Good woolens are necessary as good milk to children, and he Whc dilutee their milk is no worse than he who taxes their flanndt? “I hare tost no child yet, and 1 believe 1 owe it, linger God, greatly to their good woolen clothing. I have let silks and velvets go, even my bonnets may go, but: my. little ones have always had a full supply cf good all- wool clothing, from head te* foot: “from the skin oat,” of different weights, as the weather changes - . “Now our best houses offer me an inferior German stocking at the price I have paid for Euglidi merino. There is ad Australian woo) in the market, heavy and coarse—all kinds of inferior substitutes. The beautiful, soft, heavy French flannel I have made my little girls’ dresses of for years is taxed ont of the market. It is now made nearly as light as eaahraera, being taxed by weight, Arnold’s salesman told me, and he sold me a coarse German flannel at the old price of t e French, I looked for Shaker skirting flannel at remnant counters. Tue kind I wanted was dear •because there is a great deal of wool in it.’ Domestic flannels are dearer; perhaps it is because the price enn be raised. “Now,I ask what will be used by those who formerly bought German, and domestic woolens cheaply? “Will their children wear a mixture, of cotton and wool, mostly cotton, or shod/ly or all cotton? Ask Mr. McKinley. I cannot 'believe he understood what he was doing. Wooleas may be. less necessary inland, and men do not know it all about children and flannels, but there will be more croup, diphtheria and bronchitis, mote -halfclothed and stunted children. How dare they make this infamous thing a law? “But I have faith it. my country yet! Our people are very patient and lawabiding. but when the. wrong is understood I believe there is a power in our laud to rise against it, by whatever party it is done. J am told there are republicans opp ased to this measure of the men who load them by the nose. I am reminded of Dean Swift’s remark when some one said; ‘The air in Ireland is very excellent and healthy.’ ‘For Heaven’s sake,’ said Swift, ’don’t say so iu England; for if yon do they will certainly tax it.’ “As; Aubkicah Mother”

Nevada.. . THE TARIFF _ON LEAD ORE. Effect of tfee Dotj <« t.eatl Ore—Builiiioar Op the Le«'I 'artachr of Wexlc> at the Expeuse of 1 hat of the Dotted Matos. At the demand of the lead miners of Colorado and Montana, the last congress imposed a duty of VX cents per pout'd on the lead, content of imported ores. Under the tariff of 18SS lead ores containing silver were free of d&ty. The mass of onr imports of these ores come from Mexico, being shipped thence to Kansas, Missouri, mmols and other states having large smelting worlcs, where they are smelted with the silver lead ores of the United Starts. The mixture of these ores in the smelter reduces the eost of production to a considerable extent. The lead ora miners nf Colorado believed that if a duty were imposed on Mexican ores the price of their own lead would rise., They cared little for the injury which such a course would have on the smelters and mines of silver-lead ores here. The duty has been In fores a year and its effects con, therefore, be shown. The production of land in the states, the mines of which secured the duty of IX cents per pound ou lead ere, in 1890 and 1891, has iyeu as follows:

sd when they < Hot benefited, by the they were told won * K> their advantage, lead ores continued to e what would bare been Undoubtedly the smelting« tan ores would have bee# i country, to the obvious our metallurgi al indii in works built wit! in Mexico. “lead might h ave ruled lowerinp had a. very large amount of ore c la from abroad, but this would 1 Neatly ethnuUtod ««wi“ would have kept down smell on dry ores, the mining of occupation to more men thaa i mining of lead ores.” Taming from the injurious effects of the duty on the production and smelting of silver lead ores in the United States to the effect on the production af lead in Mexico, Mr. Roth well says: "Previous to 1890, only a few unimportant smelting works existed in Mexico, the product of which was very small, but when tha American market was closed to the Mexican miners, who :ouid not afford to pay the heavy freight charges to Europe on the low rrade ores, nothing was left for them to do hut to establish a smelting industry of their own. The opportunity was promptly seized, not only by them but also by the larger American smeltsrs, who fonnd themselves deprived of a. proportion of their supplies; they, too, went over to Mexico and started op smelting works, which are now partially in operation, and will be entirely so this year. “At present the production of lead bullion in Mexico goes on at the rate of a,bout 1,200 tons per month, but very shortly this will be* increased to about 3,500 tons; and may by the end of thia year amount to 3,000 tons. If latter figure it reached it will that Mexico will thus produce one-sixth as much as the United and there can be no doubt that this bullion would have been prod here had not the law been altered most deplorably narrow-minded spi Since the duty of Mi cents per poi on the lead content of imported benefits no one in the United Sta but positively injures the other 1< producers and smelters, why should not be repealed? this -i. FALSE PROMISES. n Illustration of H hat It b to Promise and Not Perform. . “Now what we want to do is to go off nd prosper.”—Msjor McKinley at th* anqiiat of the American Protectttth ariff League, Now York, April 39, “Easiness failures in the Uni tates in 1891 numbered 12.SM._or 1 ;r cent, more than in 1890.”~*“~ ;reet*s, January 2, 1892. It is nevftr pretended by tariff revrrners that the adoption of a tariff or revenue bnly will usher in a polltiil millennium or of itself bring steady nd universal business prosperity. AH ley claim is that it would lighten th# urdens of taxation, make a fairer “ •ibntion of these burdens, •om taxation the materials of ik— nd thereby increase the wages of labor id the opportunities of employment, id that It would stimulate commerce, and foreign, thus, opening; aa..r__ ett in our own as in foreign countries, rger markets for the products of bor and especially for tjie disposition 1 that surplus that to-day finds hut a ecarious and not always a paying deand.

Scarcely less important lsitioaissoiv the partnership between the money power of the country and the gpvel ment, with all the demoralization politics and business that inevital jjrows out of it. These reforms aeec p'.ished, we hare thrown open to all« people the fairest Held for i adust _ thrift and enterprise yet offered la hi) man t.istiry, wher; every individc can feel that he will enjoy for hhr* the fruits of his own labor andprnde and that his success in business life i be as nearly commensurate as laws can make it with what kb deserves. But no laws can guarantee a couni or its individual inhabitants against L _ manifold^dvils that flow from their own errors and ignorance, or from force* that occasionally impair theirsBrosperity, without being under the control or '; within the range of their own foresight. Not so with protection. It never hesitates to promise all the material or ether blessings that men are eager to secure, and especially to secure them without paying the price for them, by mere operation of statutory laws. We sro always justified in putting their promises and performances side by side, and May McKinley furnishes ns many opportunities for doing this. Here la another: * •*X beg to say in passing that the rates given on wool and woolens are mssnredy protective. They will help every farmer in the countiy who owns sheep, utd will enable manufacturers _ housei ... .... ,, wnferenee report i ‘'Manufacturers i ly unless largi n their favor, orices on a mi—- _ 890.”—Bradstreet's, Jaot >n Wool.—W. I* W., in onblief