People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — Page 5

Graduated Income Tax.

CAPITALS VICTORIES.

ARE LIKE THOSE OF PYRRHUS OF OLD. A Few More of Them and the Whole Structure of Corporate Wealth Will Crombie to Kuiiu —An Encouraging Feature of the Labor Crista. When the great Pyrrhus went to war with the Romans he learned what real fighting was. He defeated one great army, but his own losses were so great that he exclaimed, “Another such victory and I am ruined!” The most brilliant of capital's victories nowadays are Pyrrhic ones. An economic despotism sustained by the military, which is the form of government we live under, must, in the nature of things, go the way of all other desoptisms. The process is hastened with us by the seething discontent engendered by every recurring dispute of the laborer with the capitalist. Every strike that fails breeds enemies of our social system. The working classes are forced to see how little there is for them in the institutions under which we live. The clergy prosper, the military prosper, the capitalist prospers, and the toiler grows hungrier. We may call out the soldiers as numerously as we please but we cannot destroy the hatred inspired “by such an act. Class hatred is the germ of social revolution and if capital and the military had united in a league for the development of class hatred they could not be accomplishing the object more effectively. From one point of view, then, the failure 01 a strike is positively a good thing. This fact does not justify an inference that sympathy should not be extended to strikers. Strikes are the most encouraging symptoms of the industrial situation. To be sure, some shallow reasonCrs, even among the labor leaders, are contending that it is not advisable to strike, that they always fail and that they are too costly. It is a trifle odd that so many union workingmen are misled by this casuistry. The strike is the one instrument feared by capital. The capitalist is always contending that strikes are costly to the workingman and lose him bread, butter and employment. How very altruistic is the capitalist! He is influenced solely by considerations for the workingman’s welfare in deprecating strikes. The great trouble with the strike is the dftlculty in leading it. There can be no doubt that at some not distant day the laborers will secure a competent leader who, profiting by the experience of his predecessors, will organize a brilliantly successful strike. What the capitalists fear is a strike organized six months in advance, with preconcerted plans to prevent the transportation of scabs to the scene of hostilities. In other words, it is a principle of the art of war, that military science can only be met by military science. The strike of the near future will be organized on strictly military principles and led by a man who is capable of planning a campaign on strategical principles. The coming man will be a tactician, in short. Not that there will be pitched battles. There are the courts to deal with. The most gigantic strike could be maintained for weeks without involving any breach of the statutes. • What has been said implies no reflection upon the brave, able and disinterested men who have led the strikes of the past. Theirs has been a hard lot and they will not be forgotten. But it is to be hoped that no workingman will permit himself to be convinced by the capitalist that he should never go on a strike. The strike is the coming power. The Napoleon of labor may be in his cradle now.—Alexander Harvey in Twentieth Century.

THE BOND CONSPIRACY.

Cleveland Scored by Financier ■!: ~ and Syndicate. New York papers, as e ery i I ' expected, say Mr. Morgan i-a to disclose who the success?. >1 s scribers to the new bond issue were what the amount of their allotments was. The arrangements for the big “bunco” game were made secretly, and Mr. Morgan is not the man to divulge secrets. The only information Mr. Morgan would give out yesterday was the fact that the subscriptions for the new bonds amounted in all to $759,009,000—5200,000,000 here and $550,000,000 in London. That is certainly an enormous subscription for a Mttle over $62,000,000 of bonds, and Wc.il street commented on it freely, taking the ground '? that it showed emphatically that the credit of the government was sill unimpaired. As soon as the announcement was made by Mr. Morgan that the subscriptions in this country amounted to $200,000,000 the price of the new bonds reached 120%. The storm of indignation which is sweeping over the country on account of the miserable Cleveland-Carlisle-Morgan- Belmont Stetson conspiracy tc defraud the government out of millions, is growing louder as day follows day. Persons who seldom think about financial affairs are eagerly discussing, and as they now see clearly the wicked character of the bargain, warmly de nouncing the inexplicable conduct o. Cleveland and Carlisle. “Is it such a small thing, Mr. Cteve land,” the people say, “that you practically place o. er $9,000,000 in the hand.of this syndicate without offeri ,-g to us, to whom this greet sum belongs, same reason for doing this'.” Mr. Cleveland would probably not be much pleased if he could hear the remarks that are made about him "Stetson,” said one man: "surelv Francis Lynde Stetson, Mr. Clevelandpersonal friend and law partner, is i . i this soft thing, isn’t he?” It seems as if people will never get tired of asking why Stetson was such

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., March, 23, 1895, WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PE YEAR.

* a close party to the peculiar transaction. They still ask the same quesi tions about him. and can not under- ; stand how Mr. Cleveland could have consented to his intimate friend being mixed up in the disgraceful affair. They say he must have known that there would be a great outcry when the ■ country fully understood the nature oi the transaction, and he should have I avoided anything which might make people think there was something ■’cooked" in the deal. When there were men employed by the government to do i the work, they say, he had no excuse i for allowing Mr. Stetson, who is not ■ only his law partner, but is also the legal adviser of J. Pierpont Morgan, to draw up the contract and witness the I paper. They declare that they will not be satisfied until the whole busii ness is fully explained.

THE BOND SALE SCANDAL.

The Leading Democratic Paper of th, Country Denounces It. The folly of the new bond contract now that its terms are published, is almost incredible. The resources of our country are immeasurably greater than those oi France or England. Yet the administration has based its bargain with the bankers upon the assumption that 3% per cent is the lowest interest rate at which we can expect to borrow money, when French rentes and British consols are everywhere deemed desirable investments at 2‘/ 2 per cent. Our own , 4 per cents with twelve years to run are eagerly sought foi investments at 110 and above, which would make these new bonds worth about 119. Yet the treasury has agreed to sell sixty odd millions of them at about 104. The treasury thus consents to a bargain which puts us as a nation upon a credit basis scarcely bettei than that of a South American republic. It consents to pay a rate of interest which, if it were applied to British or French securities, would breed instant panic. In addition to this the government

has placed itself helplessly in the hands of this grinding syndicate for eight months to come. It has agreed that it will sell no bonds to anybody between now and next October without giving the syndicate the option of taking them. It is a bad bargain and a fooiih one from beginning to end. It throws away or more at the outset. It permanently impairs the national credit. It threatens to make further borrowing to meet the emergencies impossible upon any reasonable terms. It is no wonder that when such a bargain was to be made the negotiation was conducted behind closed doors, and that an effort was made, even after the contract was concluded, and despite the foolish denial of Secretary Carlisle, to keep its terms secret. The transaction was scandalous. But for the high respectability of the men engaged in it one. might almost say that the government had been buncoed. —New York World.

A Beautiful Gold Basis.

You should get Henry Clew’s financial review of Feb. 3, and put in youi note book. If you know how to use it. it will do lots of good. Henry is the gold-bug apostle par excellence. It is too long for me to quote entire, but here is a sentence I want you to read: “The business interests of the country have gone down to a geld basis. It is so with manufactured goods of ever description. It is so with iron, steel, cotton, grain and sec udties.” “The business interests of the country have gone down,” see? “to a gol ! basis,” see? Now can you understand why merchants, traders, ignorant little bankers etc., are failing? Now do you know why the price of “grain and cotton” are below cost of production? He says it is the “gold basis” he advocates hat reduces the price. In anoth ■ nlace he says “the prices are forced lown to buy them cheaply.” Now you have been taught the law can not make the prices of wheat and cotton. He says the gold basis caused the price to fall, and a gold basis is made by law! Can you understand? Are you deaf, dunub, blind and halt, that you fail to comprehend? In the same review he says if a silver dollar basis were foisted on the country people would cease i horde money and prioes would go up Do you understand that, you kickei about 30 cent wheat and 4 cent cotton Don't you know free coinage of silvt would have to be gotten by law and the law in doing that raii.es the of things. One thing he tells to blind yo : the other is the information to t’ae conspirators who are plucking you. No • go and vote for the gold basis parti* and become a worse serf than you are if you want to, but don’t re eat like parrot that laws don't regulate the pri< of everthing —for it does. Wheat woul .'ring $2 per bushel and cotton 39 cent a pound, legal tender money, good r gold, in one year if certain financi laws were enacted. But the rich ro'< bers, knowing your ignorance, will st to it that the men you elect will no. enact any such laws. You are too ignorant to know what laws would ’t you, and never discover the cl. .>. Tote the old tickets just once more!3oming Nation. While the papers are bowling aboi he “$9, : '>00,000 dollars lost” in the Im ’ond deal —why not. state the who truth ? The whole amount of the bom s a de?d loss, that must be paid in t.’: labor and produce of the American po pie. The “$10,000,000 loss” on the las bond deal oi which the republican p'-est complains sc loudly, is only one-tt- ith of the loss. T ? face of the bonds, it:. 1 the interest for thirty years, Is a tat-l low. .... , . J

FIND THE WRECKAGE.

THE REINA REGENTE SUNK OFF GIBRALTAR. Th* Spanish Warship Alfonso XII Make* the Discovery, and Ke ports at Cadiz —The Crew of 420 Men Lost with the Cruiser. Cadiz, March 19.—The Spanish cruiser, Alfonso XII., has returned here after searching for the missing cruiser Reina Regente, and reports having found the latter vessel sunk near Bajo Aceitanos, not far from the straits of Gibraltar. Only twenty inches of the Reina Regente's masts showed above water. The Alfonso XII. has returned to the scene of the wreck with a number of divers and diving appliances in order to recover the bodies of the crew of the sunken warship. The Reina Regente was reported missing March 13. She had just con- ' "yed from Cadiz to Tangier the ret lining Moorish mission to Spain, f ieees of one of her boats and flag? were reported to have been picked up along the shore near Ceuta and Tarifa. She carried a crew of 420 officers an l men and all are believed to have perished. The Reina Regente, about two years ago, visited New York as one of the Spanish squadron which escorted across the Atlantic the Columbus caravels. The Infanta Isabel, now reported to have sunk an American schooner off the coast of Cuba, and the Nueva Espana were the other ships of the Spanish squadron. All three of these Spanish warships took a conspicuous part in the great Columbian naval parade in New York harbor on April 27 of the same year. The Reina Regente was launched in 1887 and was one of the three secondclass deck-protected cruisers of tl° same build, her sister ships being the Alfonso XII. and Lepanto, all of 4.80‘ tons, 12,000 horse-power and expected tq steam twenty knots. The wrecked cruiser was 320 feet long, had 50 feet 6 inches beam and a draught of 20 feet 4 inches. She was propelled by twin screws. Her protected deck was 43-4 inches thick on the slopes, her conning tower had 5 inches of armor and her gun shields were 3 Inches thick. The armament of the Reina Regente consisted of four 91-2-inch Hon tori i guns, one on each side forward of the central super-structure, one on eac' side aft; six 4 3-4 Montoria guns in broadside, the forward and after pairin sponsors, middle pair in recessed ports, and fifteen rapid-fire and machine guns. She was also fitted with five torpedo tubes.

TORTURED BY ROBBERS.

Pennsylvanian Bound Head Downwar and His Feet Burned. Newcastle, Pa., March 19. —Word hreached here that five masked rob’-e entered the house of John McMilla near Watts' Mills, bound and gagg l the hired man and three women, athen waited nearly t-wo hours for t return of McMillan. When he came was bound to a board and leaned hedownward aginst the wall, while t robbers threatened him with instar death unless he divulged the hiding place of his moag,’. McMillan had de posited SI,OOO in a bank the day previous. After burning his feet wi’’ hot coals and whipping him tinmen fully the villains believed his story an departed. Mrs. McMillan and '< daughters, who were compelled to wit ness the torture of McMillan, are in i very serious condition from fright.

Will Try to Kidnap Balfour.

London, March 19.—The government has given up all hope of securing the extradition from the Argentine Republic of Jat ez Brlfour, the ex-member of parliament, who was the head and fror* of the Liberator Building association frauds that brought ru'n to tens o' thousands of wage-earner®. The gov ernment, however, has determined keep Detective Inspector Frouest >■. Buenos Ayres until Balfour either di 's or can be kidnaped. To guard again d the latt°r contingency Balfour, who ii the guest of the superintendent of thgovernment prison, never leaves * v e j-. stitution without being accompanied b; a strong body guard.

Train Wrecker’s Trial a Failure.

Lincoln, Neb., March 19. —After bei”' out forty-nine hours the jury in tl Oevis murder trial reported that th*' could not agree, and they were dw •barged. The jury stood seven to flIn favor of acquittal, which Is the pr 'ortion illustrated by the first ball >1 aken. The case w’H be set for a ne” rial at once. This is the case wherelr George Davis, a negro, is accused of wrecking the Rock Island express las ummer, resulting in the death of eleven people.

Herbert Bismarck Declines.

New York, ?'arch 19.—A cablegram t > tue Herald from St. Petersburg says Count Herbert Bismarck, wiv vas reported to have been chosen as Ger. von Werder’s successor, has refused to accept the St. Petersburg nost, as he does not wish to take orders rom Taron Marschall von Bieber ‘ein, secretary of state for foreign afairs.

Adrift on a Burning Ship.

Liverpool, March 19. —The British •rnk steamer Delaware, Capt. Thomas. from New York March 6, has arrived in the River Mersey, having on ‘•card the crew of the steamer Donau, which was abandoned in mid-ocean. When sighted by the Delaware the '' rsau had been on fire for thirty-six ‘’ours, and the crew had taken to the boats.

Succeeds M. De Giers.

St. Petersburg, March 19.—The appointment of Prince Lpbanoff-Rostov-sky, recently ambassador to Vienna, as Russian minister for foreign affairs in succession to the late M. de Giers has been officially gazetted.

Chang Is Now in Japan.

sMmonseki, March 19.—Viceroy LI I Hung Chang and his suite have arrived | here in order to negotiate for peace UtL iwrvp China and Japan,

THE GREATNESS OF INDIA.

FvuMlhlnn of Its Population, Religion, Crops and Beasts. There at e some big figures in a recent blue book upon Indian affairs that has just been published 5n England, Bays the New York Evening Post, The grand torfal of the ]opulati*>n, including British India aud native states, according to the censtc of 1891. was 287,223,431, as compared with 253*783.514 at the eensus of 1881, the males numbering 146.727.29 t; aud the females numbering 146,496,135. Taking the distribution of population according to religion, there was In 1891 207,731,727 Hindoos, 57,321,164 Mohammedans. 9,811.467 alwriginals, 7,131,361 Buddhists, 2,236,380 Christians, 1,907,833 Sikits, 1,416,638 Jains, 89,904 Parsees, 17,194 Jews and 12,763 of other religions. Of the Christian population, 1,315,263 were certified to be Roman Catholics and 295,016 Chui-ch of England. The total number of >w>Hce offenses reported during 1892 was .-35,639, as against 124,550 in 1891 and 115,723 in 189'1, the police being composed of '50,516 officers and men. The opium revenue in 1892-3 was Rx. 7,fhK','lßO and the expenditure Rx. 1,602,49 J, giving as the net receipts on opium Rx. 6,390,384. In the last ten years the net receipts on opium have been Rx. 6..',X .',987, while the a/erage annual num*-er of cb<sts of Beigal opium sold for export during the 'nt ton years has 1-cen 53,994. The actunJ area on which crops of various kinds were grown in India in 1892-3 was 196.897,389 acres, of which 65.7W.812 were devoted to rice, 21,484,889 to wheat and 92,927,655 to other food grains, including pulse. The area devoted to cotton was 8,940,248 acres, to jute 2.181,334, to oil seeds 13,545,025, to tobacco 1,149,548, to sugar cane 2,798,637, to tea 36V,463 and to coffee 122,788. The length of railway lines open to traffic in 1893 was 18.459 miles, the number of passengers conveyed was 134,700,469, the goods and minerals carried represented 28,727,386 ton.--, the gross receipts were Rx. 23,955,753 and the net earnings Rx. 12,679,200. In 1892 21.988 human beings and 81,668 head of cattle were killed by snakes and wild beasts, the chief human mortalfry (19,0251 having been due to snake bite. Tigers claimed 947 human victims, leopards 260, wolves 182, bears 145 and elephants 72. On the other hand', whereas oiuy cattle were killed by snake bdte, no fewer than 29,969 were devoured by tigers, 30,013 by leopards and 6,758 by wolves.

TEMPERING ALUMINUM.

A Recent Dtacovery That May Greatly lucre'', e Its Vsefu tale**. The successful tempering of aluminum so as to give it the consi itency of iron is the latest tri can ph <.» F. Allard, the Levis blacksmith, wbotte rediscovery of the lost Egyptian art of harJening copper startled the meci anh al world some three or four years tygo and only faii'-d t • make the fortune of its author because of the expenslwi mens of the process. A recent trial of Allan'* j tempered h.umiin «** lias pro\ ed the success of I,ls new method in Queitpc and the practical purposes to which it can be applied. He has made and hardened a cannon, w’-i'h has-just beep tested in presence of Col. Spence, the American const!. with the grep est success. This cannon is twenty-six inches long and I . c inchi s- in dial .eter, the metal of the gun outside the bore being o ly a quarter of an • thick A ci ai je consirtIng of a pound of powder, has been successfully fired oil of tl :, 11. tie pl we of ordnance vithout having; any appreciable thect upon it. A aev and more scientific trial cf the ci.nnca has been ordered by the ('anaflan military authorities, to be held im t edi itely at the Quebo* cit.lel i. ’ the aitiLiry experts there, and the United States consul, in, view of this move, is understood to have encouraged Mr. AJlarc to manufacture, as speedily .is possible, a cannon twelve fee in length for shipment to Washington, but vv. ethe this is to be at Allard’s risk or by ; istructions from the United Stales government is not known and can not be learned here. The great advantage of cannons made of aluminum, everything eise being equal, lies of course m the lightness of the metal. The cannon just sted here weighs fourteen pounds. If *l were of iron and the same dim melons it would weign 180 pounds. Allard's friends here, .nd military enihusi.u ts over the project, assert that if u e tempered alumi.;Ui. supersedes iron for the making of L.g guns field trtillei-ymen, nstead of lu. ig dependent upon horses and gun carriages for dragging neir weapons over rung.* country, will be able to shoulder tj.em like musket.'. In appearance the .initmed spei!i_.jen lo<.ks us though it were made of ,jurnis.,ed silver.

JURY FLAYED CARDS.

Remarkable Discovery ..(ale by a Chicago .Judge. “I have a mind to s< n . you all to jail,” said Judge Goggl to the dozen jurors who recently sat . t r.ng the tri il of a damage suit brought by Mrs. Mae McLeroth against t.ic- l>e La . erne Refrigerator company for ‘SJu.Octt She was Injured in an accident on the ice railway at the World’s Fair. Th.- remark of the judge was due to the act that when a bailiff went to the ;ry room to inquire v>; ether a verdict /as possible before adjournment of the court 1:» found the twelve men playiog "pedro. and so reported to t >e coin . Judge Goggin seat for the Jury, a.w asked if it was true that the n».-.i rs were t laying cards instead . .:v avoring tn arrive at a verdict. l.po? ~elng informed by a juror that ii ' is: so, he gave vent to 1 is anger w: h t.ie above threat. He on’ered 1 e men < > go back and attend to their dutit as jurors, and cease their “high five’de.iberat ions. T: e twelve left the court roo: .n a dejet ted way, with instructions to seal ti.eir verdict.

About Elephants’ Tongues.

"Only few of the many people who have thrown peanuts in* > the ele- >: ant s mouths,” said Head Keeper danley of the Zoological gardens to a °:.iladelpl.ia Record ma,;, "have no- .! ed that the tongue is hung at both ads. A tongue hung in the middle Is human complaint, but elephants ave a monopoly on those l.ung at bothnds. The trunk suffices to put the ood just where it ought to be, and the ongue simply keeps it moving from de to side over the grinders. When a ■a nut gets stuck on the elephant'.* • ueJ.e r ft in the middle, like a <>ving cat«jp..Ur. and the shell cracks .gainst the r.tof of the mouth, to then disappear down a capacious throat”

FOREIGN.

Groat Britain has sent an ultimatum to Nicaragua demanding s7s,ot»(' be cause of the expulsion of Minster Hatch. Other damages are claimed. ' Spain's readiness to apologize to the United States for the Allianca affair is because of domestic troubles. The country is on the verge of a revolution Spanish .government has assured the American minister that there will be no repetition of the Allianca outrage. ' Postmaster General Bissell's order that postal clerks must live on the lines of railway over which they run will be enforced by his successor, Mr. Wilson. Gen. Miles strived in Washington after Inspecting army posts in the south. The rebellion in Cuba has assumed alarming proportions. Fully 8,000 men are already under arms. Russia and England are said to be planning a concerted demonstration of naval strength in order to frighten Japan. Spanish troops engaged the Malay Mussulmans at Mandano, killing many of them, including the sultan and his son. The Spanish ministry has resigned, owing to trouble in the chamber of deputies resulting from the wrecking of El Globe's offices.

CRIME.

The jury in the Davis train wrecking case at Lincoln, Neb., was unable to agree, and was discharged by Judge Holmes. Postmaster Mcßain of Owosso, Mich., was assaulted and almost murdered by an unknown thief. William Loeber has confessed that he murdered the Milwaukee cattleman. Ferdinand Moritz, but claims that the shooting was accidental. James Cooley of Spartansburg county, South Carolina, was whipped by wnue caps for teasing his mother. Nath Reed, alias Texas Jack, who participated in the Blackstone, I. T„ train robbery, is under arrest at Fort Smith. Two tramps who offered stolen goods for sale were captured at Battle Creek, Mich., after an exciting chase, darii g which many shots were fired. Cornelius Stagg, proprietor of the Wayside resort of San Francisco, was murdered and robbed by unknown thieves.

OBITUARY.

Col. M. V. B. Edgerly, known through his connection with varlius insuran e companies, died at a New York hotel. I rof, Peter ii. Vander Weyde. well known as a scientific writer and teach' r, died at New York, ager 82 years. Judge A. A. Winters, president of the Ohio League of Building and Loan associations, died at Dayton. Amos Townsend of Cleveland, Ohio, ex-congressman and a prominent m rchant, died at St. Augustine, Fla. Col. Daniel E. Robertson, aged 82, one of the pioneers of Minnesota, died In St. Paul. Helen Cummings, known to Catholi » as Sister de Chanlei, died at the Vlsi.atlon convent in Washington, aged 84 years. Baron von Schorlemer-Alst, the leader of the centrists in the Germ tn reichstag, died from influenza. Charles E. Lougiiton, ex-lieutenc ni governor of Washington and Neva..a, died at Tacoma of heart disease.

POLITICAL.

The civil service bill is in danger of being killed in the Illinois senate. Country senators oppose it. Because of an error of an enrolling clerk of the Indiana senate Gov. Matthews signed a bill which had not been passed. A bill was introduced tn the Indian: legislature providing for the appointment of a commissioner who shall ex amine into the condition of building and loan ass.iciatb ns. Minnesota populist leaders have an nounced their opposition to joining forces with the new silver party. Dr. Parkhurst ex< >nates the Lexow committee for its utter failure to con vict corrupt New York police officials. There is a strong probability that Mrs Mary Ellen Lease will be nominated for mayor of Wichita. Kan . to oppose a republican. The arbitration hili will be passed this week by the Illinois legislature. Among matters to be considered by the Illinois legislature this week are the civil service and revenue reform bills. Jesse N. Core ’ Id a Massachusetts legislative committee there had not been an honest election in Boston in fifteen years. Indiana satoon men end county officers will contest the • ;ality of the Nicholson and salary bins. Lieut.-Gov. Milnes o' Michigan says he will not rtsign tits present office if he is elected to congress Investigation by a legislative committee into official coir option in Chicago will be postponed until after the election. The New York police reorganization bill was reported in the legislature by Mr. Lexow

WASHINGTON.

The Supreme court dismissmed the bill in the Oakland water front case. President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham celebrated their birthday:: The President was 58 years old and Mr Gresham 62. Col. D. G. Gordon, who commanded the regulars in Chicago during tl;< strike, is a candidate for the brlgadlgeneralship made vacant by Cook's retirement. It is probable that contracts for thbuilding of two revenue cutters will L. let to a lake ship bu.luer. Postal employ es have formed a com bination to firing pressure to bear m congress to overturn obnoxious regu.., lions. Four mail cars will be put in use o the Yerkes line in Chicago April 1. Secretary tiresham has notified tl Spanish government that •mmed:.iapology must be made for the firing ■>. an American ship. A promise not to <! so again will also be required. Secretary Smith has decided that But falq Bill is the only showman who cis takes nsrtv of Indians around the con, try this year. Ambassador F•• va has called the state department's attention to the killing of Italian subjects at Walsenburg. Colo., and requested prompt punishment of the mortem*

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SPORTING NOTES.

Nero won the St. Patrick's handicap at New Orleans, the seven furlongs being covered in 1:28%. Tommy White of Chicago bested Geo, Siddons of New York in a six-round go at the Triangle club. Jake Kilrain and Steve O'Donnell fought an eight-round draw in Boston. John L. Sllivan was an interested spectator. Young Griffo's manager has covered McAuliff's deposit for a fight for the lightweight championship. Anson's colts and Stagg's university men will play May 3 and 10. Cornell will send her varsity eight to England to take part in the race for the Visitors' Challenge Cup.

CASUALTIES.

Steamer Spokane, running on Lake Kostenal, was burned while making a trip. Passengers were panic striken, but no one was hurt. Three men were killed, one fatally and ten seriously injured, and property worth SIOO,OOO destroyed by the burning of the Wabash roundhouse at Toledo, Ohio. Several persons were drowned and great damage done to property in Alabama by the recent violent wind and rain storms. Jacob Huber, a prominent merchant of Indianapolis, Ind., was killed by falling under an electric trailer car. Mrs. Frank Sumner and Miss Nellie Closson were fatally burned by an explosion of gasoline In a St. Pau) house. Building at Cleveland, Ohio, occuPied by the World and the Kellogg company, was burned. Loss, $l5O 000. Property valued at $20,000, including a Homing and lumber yard, was destroyed by fire at Litchfield, Minn. Holmes county (Ohio) infirmary was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $2. - 000. All the inmates were rescued unhurt Storage warehouse elevator of Hugh Rogers & Co., of St. Louis, was burned with the contents. The loss Is $200,000. Three-masted schooner Zlmri S. Wallingford, loaded with lumber, was burned off the Delaware breakwater at Philadelphia. An early morning fire damaged three manufacturing concerns in Milwaukee to the extent of I4U.UUO. fudy insured.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Georgia Central reorganization plan provides for the i , 'nuiriT of new securities to take up the floating debt and all obligations The Pennsylvania refuses to permit an examinant,a to ~D; ; , au whether or not it has been cutting rates by means of mileage book deals with scalpers. The National bunk of Kansas City has suspended. Liabilities are $1,050,000, and assets $1 880,000. Mrs. M. E. Holton, living alone on a ranch near Butlt, Neb., was outraged and then lynched. Cattle rustlers are suspected of committing the crime. A new will of the late Senator Fair was offered sot probate In San Francisco. It divides ti.e property between the three children. Window glass manufacturers of the United St: tes will meet at Pittsburg and form a trust. Commissioner Shields of New York, issued an order of <om .ilttment for Editor Dana, but paroled him pending argument of a motion for his rei >vul to Washington on a charge of libel Two hundred negroes at Suvnmiuh Ga., are awaiting to go aboard the steamer Horsa, which will take them to Liberia. The colony of 1,000 negroes recently established at Waplma. Mexico. Is breaking up, the negroes leaving fur their old homes in Georgia and . Jubama. In a speech at Ottawa, 111., Rev. Father Malone of Colorado denounced the Incendiary utterances of Recorder Golt of New York, who advised Irishmen to use violence. R. W. McCloughry and F. H. Wines, of Illinois are among the delegates tor the international prison congress appointed by President Cleveland. Walter 1. Chapin, aged 79, and Mary A. Chapin, aged 78, lovers who were separated in youth, were murrieu at Wllkesbarre, Pa. Pietre Giubanco, one of the Italians missing after the h netting al Walsenburg, Colo., has been found and | . - I in Vesselmen hope lake navigation w'l not open before May i, b*-11*v1..„ ,t would tend to stiffen rates Muncie, Ind., Catholics are indlzna it at an attempt by Pr-m Rant ministers to prevent a concern in ceieorati*. . of St. J atiick's day. The attorney-gener:-. I of Neb: ska has decided to try Barrett Scott r alleged lynchers In Bo ? d county, wi.ers Scott s body was-found. I’lilindupbltl Hlld New Y<i<K capitalists i ave pur< ! used street nd other railways in Mexico, paying •.-.juO.tLx

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