People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — Page 5

Graduated Income Tax.

NEED OF THE HOUR.

FIRST PAUSE AFTER NINETEEN CENTURIES. Fortentlou* Omtu of on Impending Crlcts —Oh! for • Lincoln to Load Ca Oat of the Land of Bondage Into the Land of Golden Light and llopefol Promise. By E. H. Bolden. —In Webster’s immortal reply to Hayne, the opening paragraph reads as follows: “Mr. President —When the mariner has been tossed for many days and in thick weather and on an unkown sea, lie naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance at the sun, to take his latitude and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate his prudence and before we float further refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we are now.”

From this extract let us see if there is any comparison to the present condition of our own times, and whether there are any lines of prudence marked out that would be well ror us to follow. Like the mariner, the great army of round-shouldered bread winners, having been tossed for, yea, these many years, are slowly but surely awakening from the deep slumber of ignorance that has prevented them from knowing their rights, or realizing the depth of slavery from which their generations have gone down to early and unhallowed, yet acceptable, graves. After nineteen centuries, during thiß the first forced pause in the storm of dog-eat-dog policy that has swept the world’s surface throughout the cycles of iniquity, they are catching a glimpse of the golden light of hope that is breaking through the veil above them, and are pausing to find their latitude, and to learn, if possible, how far they have been driven from the course marked out by their God, in which alt men could reap the first fruits of honest toil. Beware! The lion is awakening in its lair. His voice is penetrating the farthest recesses of the jungle. Unbrowaed and effeminate aristocracy stands aghast with fear. The combined power of the world’s brawn and muscle is being united to grapple with caste and cunning in one grand effort to restore the longlost diadem, the equality and brother* hood of man.

A million rivulets of thought and action are being turned into one mighty stream, whose swelled tide is carrying away the ilood-wood of prejudice and superstition that has been built up through the dark ages of federal knight-errantry and barricaded throughout succeeding centuries by the prestige of musty statutes and standing armies, that have been as leeches upon the labor of helpless humanity, enslaved thereby. The very atmosphere is surcharged with the electricity of portentiouß omens for the future. All men are awake to the impending crisis Savants are searching the vocabularies of ancient and modern literature to find soothing phrases to calm the thirst for economic investigations. From the esthetic literature of the most exclusive :magazines to the one-cent dailies, we find exclusive articles on the great movement, while the caricatures of the illustrated press represent the contest in its lurid forms. Strong men walk as if treading the crown of a volcano, while mothers, clasping their infants to their bosoms, look out into the dim future, wondering if the impending contest will remove the present maniacs of unequal opportunities in the race of life before her darlings are grown, or will they in their tender years have to go out on this frozen sea. of corporate greed to be permanently dwarfed upon the tread wheels of unrequited toil? In this hour of expectance, of anxiety, of hope and fear, oh! for a Lincoln to lead us out of the land of bondage i do the land of light and promise. Y.'LA ut such a leader to pilot the wry, m ,y weary and wornout toilers will ; o . n as their feet sink into the col.. _.i <p ; the Jordan that separates us lro.*i ;.i. _« land of our inheritance. As Moses raised up the brazen serpent in the wilderness that, all who had been bitten by poisonous reptiles might behold apd live, so millions are praying that the leader may be raised up whom ail may follow that are perishing under the bite of the poison of corporate oppression. Not with bullets, but with ballots, we trust the citadel of plutocracy’s host must be destroyed. The calling of the ditcher, of the hostler and the hod carrier are called ignoble, but each forms a rung in the ladder up which all industry and progress must climb, and the ballots of these will count as much as those whose gilded chariots spatter the toiler in rags. The battle-scarred veterans of toil, awake to your opportunity and vote only for those to make your laws whose calloused hands are a living witness that they live not from the fruits of others’ toil.

Buying a Title.

Jay Gould's daughter is going to buy nerself a French count. He comes high but she must have him. She can afford to pay $15,000,000 for a title, although her French count Is higher priced than C’. P. Huntington’s daughter's German prince, who only cost $10,000,000. Poor girls, their riches are often their misfortune, for instead of marrjing honest men who love them for themselves, these girls get caught by fortune hunters with titles, and the happiness that even the poorest peasants enjoy are denied the women of millions, whose wealth is spent in purchasing and maintaining some titled rakes, and cruelty and misery brings years of misery te the women who sold themselves.—The Age, Chieafs.

THE PBOPLE’6 PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., March, 16, 1895, WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

KANSAS OIL AND THE TRUST.

Condltiani That fira % (EEIB 4m* •nl Cmmlm*. The only thing that prevcn|p 4te "holes tn the ground” about Nfcodesha from being veritable units of wealth for laddowners and the oil is the lack of a market. This lack is occasioned almost wholly by unjust discriminations against industries by the present freight pooling arrangements. "Build a refinery then,” says some one. But that wouldn’t alter the discriminations on freight rates. The same fate would befall our locally refined oil that befalls the locally crude oil. For instance: The operators here shipped a few barrels of oil into Oklahoma the other day. The freight was $3.10 per barrel. The Standard Oil company was shipping the same quality of oil from the Eastern fields through Chicago and Kansas City to the same point in Oklahoma and selling it for $3 a barrel. Just think of it! And when you think of it cease wondering why there is no market for oil here.

' Nearly 53,000 barrels of crude petro- . leum is above the surface of the ground here at Neodesha. and untold millions of barrels are below the surface, upon which not one dollar can ■ be realized owing to the situation indicated above. Although Neodesha is within 165 miles of Kansas City and the nearest Eastern oil fields is over 600 miles from that point, the producer of-eil at Neodesha would have to give the Kansas Cityi consumers the ell and the barrel and pay him f cents in money in order to meet the prices at which the Standard Oil company sells the Eastern product in Kansas City.— Neodesha Register. And here we are in Wichita, selling bonds and thereby mortgaging posterity, to get "honest money” to dig holes in the ground for oil, and when we get it, what good will it be to us? Just to run away and ruin the productiveness of the soil as it does at Neodesha, that is all, and be a damage rather than a blessing. We see no way of doing away with discrimination In freight ratee, except In government ownership of railways. Then we can send a barrel of ell or salt as cheaply as Vanderbilt or Rockefeller.

{ The postoffice Is in the hands of the government and the humblest citizen can get a letter to its destination Just as cheaply as the Standard Oil company. The postoffice is the moot Intricate and gigantic business in all America; yet the system is managed with the least possible friction and gives the people the cheapest and most reliable service in existence. We can see no reasons why the government should not be the commoncarrying business of the nation. It is nonsense to talk about Wichita or any other interior city, ever being built by establishing remunerative Industries of any kind, so long as these industries are at the mercies of railroad corporations that dictate the terms upon which we are to trade with the outside worfd. ' The railroad corporations in this country build up or destroy cities at will, and whenever it suits their pur- , pose, they do not hesitate to kill, muti late or destroy. The only way to prosperity in Kansas lies in government ownership of railroads. —Commoner.

Shylock vs. Saphead.

Shylock—Say, Sappy, let me suggest to you a business proposition. Suppose you give yourself no uneasiness in the future about what you are going to eat, and whatever you produce you turn over to me. Then, whenever you want anything to fill your stomach you will know where you can get it. Sappy—l dunno. Will I git anything for what I let you have? Shy.—Oh, I expect you will have to have something for it—enough, probably, to cover the expense of cartage and wear and tear. Sap.—What good will It do me to do that? Shy.—Why, you will have the assurance that your rations are on a solid ba.sis. I will conduct a comm: isary and you can go out of the burliness.. Sap.—What will it cost u\g? Shy.—Not very much. I will loan you whatever you want and charge you 10 per cent and you can pay me in commodities as fast as you produce them. Sap.—l don’t see anything in it fer me. Shy.—You don’t. Why, man, don’t you believe in elasticity? Just see! Whenever you have a surplus I will call it in and whenever there is a scarcity I will put it out. I just be Meve it will be the making of you. It has the indorsement of all the best financiers. It. is called the “Baltimore plan.” Sap.—Let me see. I loan to you in the first place for about nothing and borrow back for 10 per cent. That’s a losing game, hain’t it? Shy.—Oh, no. I will have to pay taxes: besides, I will add stability to the business. I will deal with you as I deal with everybody else, and you certainly ought to be willing to allow me something for serving as a public benefactor; for carrying the burdens and responsibilities of distribution and for serving as a check against a dearth or a redundancy of food supplies. Sap.—lt sounds pretty nice; I believe I will do it. (Exit Saphead). 11. Sap. —l don’t like the way this thing Is workin’. Shy.—Why so? ’ Sap. —Well, it’s this way I draw out so much but I have to take back more’n I draw out. There’s more going hack than ever comes out. Shy.—Well, what of it? S«P —Why, It’s only a question of time when you’ll clean me up. Shy.— l guess not. You must economise and work harder and produce More, Stop if U’» M bad as you gay,

yan don’t effect me to furnish you pravlzioaa fbr Mping. That's anarchy. ah#.—But f waat etg of this. I want ts baa die my awn shift. Shy.—Why, Sappy, I am surprised at you. I had supposed you would be contented wfien you had nothing to bother your head about but work. But here you are with a lot of wild and visionary notions that are absolutely impracticable. The idea of producing and issuing to yourself and controlling your own victuals is preposterous. Look at Argentine! *1 am a philanthropist and a public necessity. The fact that you patronize me proves that. You ought to rejoice that you know where to go when you are hungry. I should have absolute control of your “chuck” in order to keep It at a parity with all other “chuck.” You are not so much Interested in quantity as you are in quality. You should not desire to possess so much as to make it worthless. The value of your feed should be eqn&l to all other feed, pie, sorghum and squash always convertible into each other. By any other system there would be danger >( a slump to a basis of degraded and lebnsed material that would leave a Sad taste in your mouth. Sap. —lt may be. I’ll try It again. Let me have some more of that sowbelly and another sack of meal. Shy.—l can't do It. Sap.—You can’t? Shy.—No. We have retired part of our circulation. I have orders from headquarters to draw up on the puck*, erlng strings till confidence Is restored. That isn’t all; you are eating too much meal—so much that there is danger of driving all the doughnuts and fried cakes out of circulation. Sap.—Well, I don’t know qrhat to do. Shy.—l can tell you. Hard work 1* the boat cure for hard tlmea. Just dig right into It and never look up. Don’t bother your head about questions that should be left to those whe have made them a study. You are not competent. You have nothing to show for the success of your theories. I have. (Exit Sappy). 111.

Shy.—What’s the matter, Sappy? Sap.—l would like to know what haln’t the matter. la the first place I am suffering for something to oat, and I have declared war on this “Baltimore plan.” I want to abolish it. I boliove you said it was elastic, like “laje” rubber; that It would give and stretch and then dry up—stretch when you want to stuff a man and draw up whon you want to take off his feed. Now, It haln’t working that way. So far, I have done all the stretching and I believe I am thq only one where the drawing-up business is gettin’ In Its work. Their haln’t any elastlclsm in it. Hash is too scarce. There is got to be more of it in circulation. Shy.—lt Isn’t scarce. We have got dead loads of it, and if you will just hold up a bit and not frighten capital with your appetite you will get an opportunity to fill up. Sap.—But I must have something now. Shy.—l see that we will have to Increase the United States army. There Is no reasoning with you. Sap.—An empty stomach has no reason and it don’t know what fear Is. Look out! ' * * • Press dispatch: Last night, about dark, Shylock was raided by one Saphead, who seemed to be thirsting for carnage, and at this writing the doctor', have not been able to find all rhe pioces. Saphead is known as a desperate anarchist.—Leroy Miller, in Farmer’s Tribune.

Banks in Politics.

Ignatius Donnelly.—The banks are running the country and running it into the ground. You cannot pick up a newspaper but you will read of a meeting of bankers, here or there, to dictate to congress—or of President Blank of the Blank National Bank, drawing a series of resolutions, to instruct members of the house or senate, the bankers philanthropists? No: their business is to lend money and collect business upon it. As a class they have not a particle of connection with the people, except to suck the substance out of them. Are they looking out for the welfare of the masses? No; they are simply trying to concentrate the wealth of the masses in their own pockets. You can’t blame them. That |is their business. But to govern a republic so that the many will be prosperous and the greed of the few be restrained —Bah! You might just as well expect a Bengal tiger to establish an orphan asylum. He might furnish the orphans, but not the asylum. Now, we are not objecting to bankers per se. ■ Many of them are excellent gentlemen; but when it con es to a money-lending j class controlling the legislation of this groat republic we protest with all the emphasis we are capable of. All our disasters are due to them coming out I from behind their counters to dominate the politics of the country. Let them stick to their legitimate business of money grabbing.

Carrying Mail In Street Cars.

How subtly and csrefully carried on has been tbe agitation to place mail, j boxes on street cars. It is another un- : derhand effort te bring laber into con- ' tltct with the power of the government; of the corporations to coerce and reduce labor to their terms by illegitimately using government servants. This play of the murderous and slave-grinding trolley and cable road corporations which steal the streets from the people by bribing corrupt councils, should be stopped. Street cars rhould net be made for carrying the malls until tne street can are owned by the munic^alltles. — The Age, Chicago.

We #lll meet the enemy on our own line of battle— not upon “hie chosen line.” We have forced the issue, and will fore# the fight.

RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS

EIQHT NEGROES SHOT DEAD WHILE GOING TO WORK. Another Victim I* ■ White Man —The Mlltta Called Oot the Moment Troop* were Thought to lie Needed—Coal Minen Gaining. New Orleans, La., March 12. —Shortly after 7 o’clock this morning about fifty white dockmen marched down to the Harrison Cromwell line landing and waited till a band of negroes came along. When the colored men appeared they were subjected to a galling fire, before which nearly a dozen fell, one fatally wounded dying in a few moments. The others were more or less seriously hurt. Rioting was the order to-day and it is feared many men will be killed, as the police are determined to put down the lawless element. Another outbreak took place at the head of Joseph street, where one negro was killed. In the rioting at the French market a Mexican sailor Is reported to have been killed and three men. negroes, fatally wounded. The nsgro killed at the head of First street is unknown. He was walking along the levee, where he was met by a crowd of 200 white men armed with shotguns, Winchesters and revolvers. One of the men put a pistol to Ills head and blew out his brains. The levee Is crowded with armed men patrolling it and they threaten to shoot every negro they can find. The policemen are trying their beat to keep the men in check. At the same time the negro was killed at First street the beat portion of the police force had gone te the French market, where more rioting occurred. At 1:46 o’clock everything was reported quiet, although It la expected more trouble will occur. The militia, has been called out. The vletims of the various skirmishes. In the city are as follows: The killed: JAMEH A. CARRIBBEEN, shoemaker. Shot through the head. He was killed in the rioting at the French market. TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES, shot to death at Bienville etreet. TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES, shot through the head. They Jumped Intothe river and were drowned. FOUR UNKNOWN MEN, died at the, Charity hospital of wounds inflicted at the steamer docks. The Injured: J. A. BAIN, purser on the British, steamship Engineer; shot three times through the head and will die. ROBERT BROOKS, white; shot through the head; will die.

MORE MINES GRANT SCALE. Strikers In West Vlrglale aud Pennsylvania Uaia Ur.-uad. Clarksburg, W. Va„ March I*.—After being In session all night the managers! of the Glen Falls and F&rnum mines, and their employes arrived at a settlement and COO men returned to work thl* morning. The operators granted the rate of 35 cents per ton, which is the price asked by the men for machine mining. Other differences were compromised. The demand for coal has greatly Increased of late. At Wheeling the Cleveland and Pittsburg Coal company, operailng the TUtonvill* mins, announced that their mines would resume operations in full as soon as th'-y can be gotten In shape. They have been. Idle for the past four months and for a month past the miners have been living on charity. EIUHT THOUSAND RESUME. Coal Minors of the Pltt«burg District Art at Work Asrln. Pittsburg, Pa., March 12. — Eight thousand river coal miners In t'lls district resumed work to-day. the operators having granted the 69 cents per ton demanded by the men. The operators claim, however, that the advance Is not permanent and that it would not have been granted but for the reason of the favorable condition of tlxo river for shipping coal. The railroad coal operators’ association has decid< rt to pay not over 65 cents as long as he New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company pays its minors that price. The mormbers of ihe association who granted the 69 uents de*. anded by ti e miners exi lained that they did it so they could f’irnish coal to their local retail trade and that no coal was being dug for outside shipments. To Look Into Strike. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 12. /vccording to Asse.uM.ymnn Friday the Brook yn strike investigating com nittee will c , J ve particular attention to the Long Island traction company. An) >ig other witnesses who have been subpoenaed are Chauncey M. Depew, G. and faster Workman Sovereign of ti . Knights of Labor, President Arthur o' the Locomotive Engineers, T. . 1 -wdcrly and United States Labor Commissioiner Carroll D. Wright.

Chicago Is Nearly Hades.

Youngstown, Ohio, March 12.—The Rev. J. S. Crowe, state s » vtt ry of the American Sabbath Scho»»l l? ion, said in a sermon Sunday: “In Alit xma over 900 families are starving, arud they are the families of seven-day v.i>i >rs. The recent strike In Brooklyn w caused by workers, and . - Homestead strike was caused by ?ven-day workers. Since the World s '"air was kept open Sunday, we have iid riots, strikes and trouble. To ni tk»• hell of this earth destroy the law. Chicago is the nearest approach to hell that we have upon this earth.”

Body of Victim Found.

Cincinnati, Ohio, March 12. —The body of David Albrldge of Rome. S. Y.. one of the victims of the steamer Longfellow disaster of last Friday, was recovered from the wrecked hul\ lying at Trautman’s station, eight idles d >wn the river, this morning. The brother and son of the dead man are tiers and will take charge of the remains It is expected that two or three other bodies will be found in the same part of the wreck.

William Opens the Councill.

Berlin, March 11—Emperor William at 1 o'clock thte afternoon opened the husbandry committee of the state council, called te consider agrarian reforms.

FOREIGN.

Correspondence whfc+i passed beweea the peace envoys of Japan and hose first appointed by China la made mblle. China has notified Japan of her ac- | -eptance of the ooodttlons imposed by I he latter for a settlement of the war. Catarlno Garxa, the notorious Mexi- ( >an bandit and pretended revolutionist eader, was killed in an attack on Bocas lei Toro. French government has sent another passport to J. Gilfortoul, the Venexuean charge d'affaires, to replace the one aken from him at Caracas. France lias Instructed Its minister at Haytl to demand an explanation of the nurder of a Frenchman In San Donlngo. Dispatches from Berlin announce that -ount von Kotze has been acquitted of complicity In the recent court scandal. Two thousand Chinese were killed or wounded In a battle with the Japanese at Tlen-Chwang-Tai. The Japs’ loss was but ninety. Volcano of Orizaba, in Mexico, is In a itate of eruption, and great fear is felt by people in the adjacent villages. Lord Rosebery Is seriously 111, and •sily the entreaties of his friends have Itept him from resigning.

CRIME.

White screwmen attacked negroes *ho had taken their places at New Orleans. Many shots were fired and two of the negroes were wounded. Mattie Meadows of Lewiston, W. Va„ used a razor on her aged father and a woman of whom he was enamored. Harry Hayward, the convicted murderer of Miss Ging, was sentenced to death at Minneapolis, an unruly mob cheering the while. Albert E. Keith, a letter carrier of Ann Arbor, Mich., who had been discarded by his swetheart, killed himself. Incendiaries are again at work near Anderson, Ind., and blodhounds have been employed by the farmers to run them down. Unknown miscreant attempted to wreck a fast express train on the Nickel Plate road near Valparlso, Ind. Mrs. Mary Caruthers, living near Paris, Texas, poisoned her two children that she might elope with a hired man. Harry Hayward was tound guilty of the murder of Catharine Gtng at Minneapolis. Two of the witnesses for the defense have been arrested for perjury. Henry A. Wing, for thirty-eight years cashier of the Grafton, Mass., National bank, killed himself by shooting. Scatterfleld white cap gang of Anderson, Ind., burned the barn and stock of Isaac Goodman, against whom they had a spite. Six masked robbers visited the home of George Wagner of Exeter Borough. Pa., and burned him in an effort to extort money.

OBITUARY.

Charles Frederick Worth, the famous man dressmaker, died at Paris. He was born In England In 1826. Capt. Charles Cropsey, for thirtythree years master of the Pennsylvania union station In Chicago, died at Crown Point, Ind., aged 64 years. Mrs. Anna Klskadden, a pioneer of Ohio, died at the residence of her daughter, In Union Plains, aged lus yeara Frederick E. Sickles, Inventor of the Corliss engine, died In Kansk* City from heart disease, aged 76 years. Otis Russel Johnson, a millionaire lumberman and prominent In Michlg.ui Industries, died at Racine, aged Bi> years. Edwin Forbes, the artist, war correspondent and writer, died at his home in New York, aged 64 years. Mrs. Elizabeth 1* orrest, wife of Attorney W. t>. Forrest of Chicago, is dead. She was prominent In charitable work. Harry T. Armstead, captain ot the Oxford boating team of the New Eng land Amateur league, died at Linn. Mass., aged 26 years.

POLITICAL.

The Indiana legislature finally adjourned. Tl ere was a desperate flgi.i caused by republicans trying to prevent the delivery w a veto message. Tney were su cessful. Gov. Slone of Mississippi Is a candidate for the seal now held by Kent: tot George. A bill has been Introduced in the Illinois house proviumg mat gas companies shall furnish consumers with slot meters. Ur.‘ Hay, superintendent of the Nebraska Insane asylum, retuses to give up control of the institution to his successor, Dr. Abbott. Minor elections were held in lowa and Michigan. It is authoritatively stated that Chairman Cantrell of the hoard of railway and warehouse comiiih--loners will be removed by Gov. Altgeid and that «.xCongressman Fithiun will succeed him. Disorderly Chinese soldiers entered an American missionary chapel in Pho-Tlng-Fu and broke the benches. No other harm was done. Spain is making energetic efforts to suppress the insurrectin in Cuba. Twelve thousand troops are under sailing orders.

SPORTING NOTES.

Western league magnates met at Milwaukee, but were unable to agree on a schedule for the seaw n. Fred PfefTer will p<y his fine to the National League, but refuses to play In Louisville. Frank Craig, the "Harlem Coffee Cooler," was knocked out in one round In London by Frank P. Slavln. R. p. Uormully says that bill to license bicycle manufacturers, repairers and dealers in second hand machines Is unjust. Tbs Chicago hall team was beaten at Galveston by the Louisvllles In the first gams of the season. The American yacht Dakotah was beaten in a special race at Cannes by the the Comte de Itochechouart’s Salnot the Comte de Rochechouart's Salnot MartUl. Declarations from the Hawthorne stakes are surprisingly light. Only five have been declared out of the Chicago Derby. The Oriffo-Dime fight at Boston was decided a draw at the end of eight rounds, though the Australian had much the better of the oontest. Corrigan's Ducat defeatsd Bells Tehe In a six furlong race at Ban Fran***W«***«? »» IM-

Graduated Inheritance Tax.

WASHINGTON.

Arguments on the income tax law were made before the Supreme court by Assistant Attorney-General Whitney and Mr. Edmunds. The postoffice department Is appointing 400 mall weighers for the middle western states Manuel de Almagro, who It is said robbed the Argentine minister, was discharged from custody, the United States having no Jurisdiction. Three hundred and fifteen tons of Harveylzed armor, made by the Carnegie company for the battleship Oregon, have been accepted. Government officials are not satisfied with the Chicago council's permit to locate a temporary postofflee on the lake front, and may seek a new site. Secretary Morton has presented to the Nebraska Historical society the original manuscript of a noted speech by President Cleveland. Dockery Joint commission has submitted a review of Its work, showing a great saving In various government departments. Consul Bruhl at Catalonia, Italy, has dtscovsred a market for ready-made American houses among the earthquake sufferers. Class legislation and the demonetization es sliver are given as the causes of the agricultural depression by the special house committee. France, Russia. Japan and Hawaii •nay Join with the United States In laying a Paelfic cable. Secretary of State Gresham is confined to hto room with a severe cold, which has brought on neuralgia. Assistant Secretary Curtis denies there has been a failure In the gold deliveries under the recent bond contract. Arguments In the Income tax cases were continued before the United States supreme court. Attorneys Guthrie and Seward declared the law was u.i-ofi-stituilonai.

CASUALTIES.

Twenty diggers in the Sultana mine In Manitoba were suffocated. An accident shut off their air supply. Fire, started by an Incendiary, destroyed the court house and a business block at Murfreesboro, Ark., causing a loss of 116,000. Holating house of the Old Abe mine at White Oak, N. M., was destroyed. Imprisoning eight men. who, It Is feared, have been suffocated. At Bt. Joseph, Mo., while returning from church, Mrs. Thomas Allen was instantly killed at a grade crossing. Two girls with her were fatally Injured. Two men were recently killed at the spot. Mi-s. Ellen Leyden, aged 26. was fatally burned while beating a cup of alcohol at a neighbor’s house In East Liverpool, Ohio. An express train ran Into an open switch at Scotland, Ga., a woman and her child being killed and five persons injured, Including Roland Reed, the actor. The steamboat Longfellow ran Into a railroad bridge at Cincinnati and sank. Twelve of those on board were drowned. A cyclone passed over the northern port of Georgia. Great damage was done In the vicinity of Cedartown. Two boys at Los Angeles were polsond, one of them fatally, by cakes containing strychnine, given by a neighbor. Three members of the Detroit fire department, while responding t<> an alarm, were run down und Injured >y a train.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Eastern officials are planning to an agreement based on a division of all through business at present lutes. In the suit of the VVestlnghouse Company against the Boyden for infringement on a brake patent, decision was given at Washington In favor of me Weslinghouse people. Father Noonan of Wilmington, 111., claims to have been wronged by Avchgishop Feehan and a fellow priest and has brought three suits for damag s. In an Interview Pope Leo expr.oe.<-l his approval of the appointment of Father Mahone as regent of New Y«>i.c University. Ex-President Harrison is better and may be able to leave his room mis week. Ami-Trust Distilling oorenany ties determined to erect another mam-, ut'i concern. It may be located at 'i i-rre Haute. Gov. McKinley has started on a trip to the south which may have pol.ilcal significance. Citizens of Spring Valley, II!., in 1 lass meeting, demanded tl e resi;, nation of the'mayor, attorney, treasuier and aldermen. Six members of the Teutonic's . raw were given mtduls for bravei in re. cuing nine men irom a murid... d vessel In midocean.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

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