St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 December 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEBENDENi. WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA CUT THE PAY ROLLS. UNIQUE EXPERIENCE FOR CHICAGO. Violent Earthquake Visits Montreal and Vicinity—Wall Street Has a Shaking-up of a Different Sort—Petty Quarrel Costs Two Lives. Heads in the Basket. Three hundred and nine discharges is Monday’s record of discharges of Chicago city employes for whom there is not plenty of necessary work to do. Three hundred of the discharged men have been working on the water main extensions. The weather has become so severe that good work can no longer be done in laying water pipe. The other nine men were sidewalk inspectors. The head of the department and his four clerks will be the next to go. Rather an ominous move is made toward the boiler inspector, who works under a law which gives him 50 per cent, of tho fees of the office from which to pay himself and maintain his office. He reads the law to mean that he may first pay the expenses of the office and from the remainder take half for his own com-

pensation. The Mayor has sent the following letter to the Inspector: “Y'ou will at once report to the Controller a detailed statement of all the receipts of your office: also of all the expenditures. George B. Swift, Acting Mayor.” Similar letters have teen sent to the Oil Inspector and the City Sealer. Wall Street Shaken. The new tariff bill as reported from the Committee of Ways and Means was made public Monday. At New York sugar and whisky got mixed up in unequal proportions on the Stock Exchange. Stock values went tumbling up and down with lightning-like rapidity. The excitement following the. annoucement of the changes in the tariff on sugar reached the proportions of a cyclone at times, and the stock of the trust was jostled about like a toy balloon in a blizzard. Over in another part of the room, in the crowd trading in Distilling and Cattle Feeding stock, another equally severe storm was in progress. The latter was due to the intimation that no increase in the tax on whisky was considered likely. Both stocks have been alternately buoyant and weak for weeks on alleged straight —. Information from Washington given out of those stocks that the Ways and Means Committee would or would not bring in a bill favorable to the two properties. When the bald truth was definitely known sugar stock broke 3f points in the first ten minutes. Distillery stock, which has been very strong on reports that the government would be compelled to raise the tax on whisky for revenue purposes, broke 4 points at the same time. Earthquake in CanadaAt 11:47 o'clock Monday morning,

Montreal, Que., and the surrounding country felt the most severe shock of earthquake that has visited that part of the. continent for several years. Buildings rocked and trembled as if about to be thrown down. At first came a heaving sensation like that of a ship over a heavy dead swell, the buildings creaked as if every joint and fastening was being tested by some awful and invisible force, then followed a dull, muffled, deep-toned sound like that of a subterranean explosion. The shock was felt from foundation to turret of the most substantially built edifice in the city, and then came the settling back, and for an instant it felt as if everything was going down, as if the bottom had fallen out of things generally and they were collapsing. There was a moment of suspense and the earthquake had passed. NEWS NUGGETS. John T. Anders, found dead in his yard at Niagara Falls, N. Y., was a defaulter to the bank in which he was assistant cashier, and killed himself. Mayor Wright of St. Paul, Minn., signed the new anti-pool-room ordinance, and it was published so that the officers may be enabled to enforce it as law at once. The Elwood (Ind.) Land Company has been incorporated with a capital of $250,000. It holds 1,003 acres of suburban territory and has leases on 100,000 acres of gas' land. The Diamond Plate Glass Company of Elwood, Ind., will bring suit against that city for the opening of a street through that company’s land without assessing damages. Detective McMillan of Indianappolis, Ind., who started a report of a dynamite plot to destroy the street-car company’s station, says he was imposed upon, as he cannot trace the story. In Ridgeville. Ohio, Herman Barrows, a respected farmer, aged 68, shot his wife, aged 30, in the breast and head. He then sent a bullet through his own brain, dying instantly. Mrs. Barrows may recover. A petty quarrel between the couple prompted the terrible deed. Jacob Schaefer deafeated Frank Ives Saturday, in a game of 4,000 points at balk-line billiards, for the championship and a stake of 85,000 and the house receipts. The last night of the play Ives was 505 ahead of Schaefer, with but 800 to go. The whole game was of the most sensational order. Stores and shops in the business center of Kangley, 111., were burned. Loss, $25,000. TWO DAUGHTERS of Lewis Davis at Kingman, 111., died of burns from the upsetting of an oil lamp, and their mother is seriously burned. Welcome B. Hathaway, the Fall River cotton broker, who defrauded the banks of that city by pledging worthless warehouse certificates to the amount of SIOO,OOO or more, has been sentenced to seven years in State prison.

EASTERN. Governor McKinley spoke in Boston on invitation of the Home Market Club. Secretary Hayes was re-elec ed by the Knights of Labor at Philadelphia. Master Workman Powderly may resign. In a lecture on Hawaiian affairs at Somerville, Mass., ex-Minister Stevens gave three reasons why he favored annexation. The steamer John Pridgeon was towed into Buffalo, N. Y., almost a wreck. Her crew had a terrible experience in a gale. Roeth, the stonecutter who emptied his pistol at Delmc nico's. New York, is pronounced sane enough to be put on trial for malicious mischief. The American Casualty Insurance and Security Company of New York has lost $1,700,000 within less than four years. Superintendent Pierce, of the insurance department, and his deputy took possession of the company’s affairs. Chateau Larned, sc n of ex-Pay-master General Larned of the army, accidentally shot and wounded a companion at Barnegat Park. N. J., and was so crazed with excitement that he ran to his mother's cottage and killed himself. WESTERN. The organization of tho Western Baseball Association was completed in Indianapolis. Mrs. Eli Gough died at Muncie,

Ind., from lockjaw, contracted from vaccination. Output of the Minneapolis Hour mills was retarded the last week by anchor ice and low water. Two indictments for embezzlement have been returned against Bank Cashier F. L. Langan, of Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Myra Weed, of West Ir.d’anapolis, died from want. For a year her husband has been out of employment. Capitalists interested in the proposed electric air line between New York and Chicago met in Cleveland, Ohio. Directors of the failed Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Minneapolis have been indicted for fraudulent practices. Sabbatarians demand tho impeachment of the Minneapolis Mayor because he allows saloon back doors open on Sunday. Owing to dissensions the football team of the University of Minnesota has disbanded. All games have been declared off. PRESIDNT Hart and Cashier Densmore of the bank at Buckley, Wash., have absconded. The loss to depositors is about $95,000. The Northwestern Car and Machine Shops at Oshkosh. Wis.. are in the bands of a receiver. Tho liabilities aggregate $75,000. In a suit against directors of the Northwestern Guarantee Loan Company it is alleged $2,800,000 was raised on worthless notes. Armour Packing Company has brought suit to test the validity of tho

o ~ V Minnesota law which requires oleomargarine to be tinted. The victim of the mob's fury at Ottumwa, lowa, has been identified as F. O. Johnson, of Aberdeen, S. D., instead of Fred Gustafson. The Joseph Turner & Sons Worsted Manufacturing Company at Cleveland has made an assignment. Liabilities, over $350,000: assets, $500,00'3. Sim Coy's roadhouse in the suburbs of Indianapolis was burned on the evening set for its re-opening, and the fire is charged to the moral element which has been fighting the place. Clarence M. Overman, late President of the Citizens' National Bank of Hillsboro, Ohio, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement, and was sentenced to a term of ten years. Robert Ewing, a farmer living seven miles from Wooster, Ohio, as a result of defending his home against a visit of bandits at night, received a wound which caused his death. An ordinance for the suppression of pool rooms at St. Paul, Minn., is so sweeping that its enforcement would stop even the progressive euchre and whist games in which prizes are given. William Newman, near Fairfield, 111., fired from his window at men who were pulling turkeys from his tree and next morning Charles Hooper and two of the turkeys were found dead under the tree. At Xenia, Ohio, a Pan-Handle train ' struck a carriage containing Sallie and : Sophia Kelso, daughters of Dr. S. M. 1 Kelso, and Lelia McDilll, daughter of ! Prof. David McDill. instantly killing ■ the three young ladies. Gov. Lewelling, of Kansas, was taken suddenly ill at Girard, on the return from a hunt in n rthern Arkansas, and was compelled to g > to bed? It is thought his trouble is developing into fever and it may be serious. Henry Truhn, near Fergus Falls, Minn., returned home from a revival meeting and choked his wife and beat his baby to death. Neighbors found him praying on his knees. Four older children escaped from the house. Dr. C. E. Boynton writes frem Buena I ista. Oregon, denying the story that he was arrested at Rio Janeiro while trying to blow up a Brazilian gunboat. He says he has not been outside the United States for several years. I HEIGHT train No. 35, west-bound on the St. Louis and San Francisco Road, ran i’.to an open switch in the yards at X an Buren. Ark., and demolished two engines and five ears. Three men were 1 killed and a fourth so badly injured s that he cannot live. ■ ' There is a difference of $1,000,000 in | the reports made by the Cleveland na- ! tional banks to the comptroller of the ’ ! currency and to the Ohio State auditor. This is explained by the fact that the banks are taxed on the figures sent to the State official. 1 At St. Louis there are thirty-six typhoid fever patients at the City Hos-

pital and this number is being increased daily. Superintendent Marks i of the City Hospital, estimates that 16 . per cent, of the cases come to the hospital, while 90 per cjnt. are treated in their homes. GEORGE Heil, of Clarington, 0., . while on his way to Woodsfield, capil tai of Monroe County, to pay his taxes . of S3OO, was attacked by robbers, who ' broke one of his legs and both of ' arms before they overpowered him and obtained his money. Heil's condition is critical. i John B. Koetting, the cashier who assisted in wrecking the South Side Savings Bank, Milwaukee, was assaulted while leaving Judge Wallber’s t( urt-room on his way back to jail, by Mrs. Thuermerler, who had $5,000 in the defunct bank on which she is not likely to realize anything. The poor woman jabbed him with her umbrella and fainted away. The five-story brick structure at Jefferson avenue and Bates street, Detroit Mich., occupied by Edson, Moore & Co \ t ho most extensive w hole ale dry goods merchants in Mich'gan. stood complete at Ip. m Thursday. Within its walls were sixty employes, and goods valued at more than $500,000. Twenty minutes later the remains of the floors wer^in the basement, the stock was inasip-, five bodies were masses of chaKid flesh and bone, and two more ofjhe employes were at hospitals dyingJ A’d* shows the frightful rapidity Wy? which a fire that started on the I, floor near the elevators progressed. a flash, without, an advance gunWß o * smoke or warning, the fifth floor wTs a furnace of flame and live lives were wiped out. Two others reached -the windows and drop] cd to the pavement below fatally injured. The Chicago and West Michigan east-bound passenger train, leaving Chicago at 4:55 p. m. struck a misplaced switch half a mile north of Zeeland, Michigan, Thursday night. Tho baggage car, smoker, and day coach went off the track, and for a hundred ygrds plowed along tho rignt of way. taking down a telegraph pole and stopping all communication. The smoker contained twenty passengers and the day coach was well filled. Tho passengers were piled up in heaps. Many were injured, but none killed. Among those most seriously injured are: Francis Campbell, Grand Rapids, back hurt; F. H. Devendorff, Milwaukee, badly ! bruised: G. C. Flynn, Macon, Ga., skull fractured; W. S. Gunn, Grand Rapids, leg broken; E. G. Myers, Goshen, arm fractured: Joseph Neftel, Cleveland, badly bruised: Vevue Van Otte, baggage master, scalp wound: A. 11. Wilson. Detroit, bruised about tho body: Frank Worth, mail agent, leg fractured. Joseph Jefferson will s< on commence his annual engagement at McVieker's Chicago Theater. “Rip Van Winkle” will be the only play ) res mte 1 during bis stay, which is for two weeks. The “Black Crook," which crowded McVicker s for fourt -en we -k~ during the beginning < f the Fair, is now touring the country, and is meeting with the same success everywhere. The company, when it comes to this theater, will be precisely the same as last summer with the exception of some additional specialties. Miss Julia Marlowe during her coming engay-jment at McVicker’s will present rMujridan Knowles’comedy, “The Love (Aase." This comedy has nut lasen seen Chicago for some years, in fact, no J* since the old stock dais at this theater. Miss Marlowe will impersonate the character of ‘Constance." She produced it last season and her success in it was another triumph a filed to her already long list. As far as the production of “Tho I.ove Chase" yoes. there is nothing left to be desired, everything 1 eing new and of the most app opriate description. Fike broke out in the new Henrietta ' Th eat r at Columbus, Ohio, at vU I Friday night, and in less than an hour ; and a half this elegant playhouse, the : Chittenden Hotel and Auditorium, and l’ark Theater wers in ruins. Andrew Armstrong, astage I and, was killed and Engineer Thom] son is thought to have perished. In both theaters the actors lost ail their personal propertv. The two audiences left the theater without disorder. The Henrietta had just entered upon its second season. This ■ theater, the auditorium adjoining, and the Chittenden Hotel were built three । years ago by Henry T. Chittenden and ; were owned by him. The Henrietta j was supposed to be fireproof. The Park i Theater was ow ned by a stock company. ' The loss on the Henrietta Theater and [ auditorium is SfiOO.(MK>, that on the ' Chittenden Hotel, including furnish- ; ings and property contained, $400,000, and the l’ark Theater SIO,OOO. There were also in the buildings the Ohio Savings Bank, the Star shoe store. I Rice's drug store, and Goodman's cloth- ' i ing store. The losses on these will ag- ; I gregate $50,000 The Union Pacific fast mail had a ; i narrow escape the other night on the! j Wyoming division from being crashed • ! into by a runaway freight. The fast ! ' mail was booming along near Simpson, ! and following it was a heavy freight i train in charge of Engineer Sadowsky. I Striking a heavy grade there the j freight gave a lurch forward and Sadowsky, who is a new engineer lost j control of the engine. In a fef min- j ut s he saw the lights of the jear of the mail and fearing a collision, jumped from the engine, followed by the fireman. The conductor and brakeman, I realizing that something was wrong, ! began applying the brakes. The opera- ! । tor at a small station, when the two j i trains dashed by. saw that the engine j ! was running away and tele- ' graphed the fact to Medicine i Bow. When the fast mail stopped i there to register the operator ! rushed out and told of the runaway : train. Engineer Wright, with great presence of mind, sprang for his engine and opened the throttle wide, and ; there ensued a mad race, which for a i time threatened to end in a frightful j tragedy. Conductor Rapp of the 1 freight finally managed to crawl over , into the engine, and soon brought the । runaway to a stop, and by his prompt action prevented what would have been an awful wreck. SOUTHERN. ' A SYNDICATE will develop 25.000 - acres of coal and timber lands in West i Virginia. Jefferson Wallace, who dm ing ; tho late political campaign at R ch- - mond, Va., challenged Editor Jo.. .uh

Bryan of the Times to a duel, was con- ' victed and sentence ! to c ue hour in jail and to pay a fine of $5, the minimum punishment. At Greenville, Miss., Solomon & Blackenzie, dry goods, failed. Liabilities, $50,000. Six men held up an electric motor car at the race track turn near Latonia, ! Ky. (opposite Cincinnati), and got i watches and S4O in mcney. WASHINGTON. The State department will take no notice officially of the statement of Hawaiian Minister Thurston. Mr. Thomas, Assistant Attorney General of the Post Office Department, | advises that the privileges of the mails be denied to all “bond investment” companies that, are operated upon the plan which has been under investigation for some time. FOREIGN, Herr Nagel, spirit refiner, has failed at Hamburg with liabilities of 1 $700,000. Thirty Spanish convicts distinguish- I ed themselves in the fighting at Melil- ! la. Effort is being made to secure 1 their pardon. , IT was officially stated in tho House of Commons that, so far as had been ' ascertained, 237 lives wore lost off tho 1 British coast during the recent gale, and 500 lives were saved by coast guardsmen and life-saving crews. A MEETING of the Italian Cabinet was held Friday morning. The situation arising from the reading Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies of tho I report of tho committee appointed to J investigate th.- bank scandals was most i thoroughly discussed and the minis- | tors decided that their usefulness was ! at an end. In accordance with this de- I cision the cabinet tendered its resig- ; nation as a whole to King Hum- I belt. Among the many things ! contained in the report’ of the ’ c remittee on the bank scandals is a statement that the charges made by i certain newspapers that Prime Minis-, ter Giolitti used money of the Banco Romano to advance the interests of his party at the last election tire not proved by the evidence, but the committee declined to say they were dis- I ' proved. President zanardolli. at the j meeting of the Chamb r of Deputies. [ declared the Chamber prorogued, j This action was taken only after it was shown that personal violence would be offered to Sig. Giolitti. IN GENERAL Reports of great destitution among the Canadian Indians are now-aid to be unfounded. Yaqii Indians in the northern part , of Chihuahua arc said to have joined i the Mexican insurgents. LORD SoMERSEI and party were lost 1 in the Canadian Hookies while hunting, and lived for two weeks on horse m nit. At Chicago George M. McDonald, President and General Manager of the Guarantee Investment ('• mpuny: Wm. ; H. Stevenson, Vice President and Treasurer; aud Francis M, Swearinger, Secretary, were found guilty of violating the anti-lottery statute. The penally "Is n fire of not more thnn^’oo, or imprisi nment of not more than one year, or both. The steamshii> Alameda arrived from Honolulu Thursday bringing new- that no change had been made in ‘ the government up to the time of sail- j ing. The United Pie>s corre.-pondent ' at Honolulu says: As yet Minister I Willis Las made no intimation to this j government of any s].ecial communica- 1 ! tion with which he may be charged. ! nor is it kn wn that he has any. The ' city is daily alive with strange rumors ' of the minister's intention-, all of which are traced to royalist sources. Three days ago the ex-queen made a brief call upon the American Minister mere- i ly to pay her rc>]iects, as Mr. Willis ■ subsequently stated. Up to this time Mr. Willi- ha- not returned h* r visit. I On the same day a committee of the American League tendered a reception to Minister Willis, at which he deliv- j cred an address in diplomat! • but agreeable and encouraging terms. Mr. \\ illis said: “1 have my in-tructU.ns 1 which I cannot divulge. Hut this much I I can say: The policy of the United States is already formulated regarding j these Blands and n thing which can ! be said or done, either here or there, j can avail anything now.” MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. | Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 @5 HO Hogs—Shipping Grades 4OJ if' 565 ! ■ Sheep—Fair to Choice 2 21 < ■ 4 oo I I Wheat—No. 2 Spring ri & 61^ I ’ COBN—NO. 2 31 . ' 351^ j i Oats—No. 2 2« 27 2 I Rye—No. ?........................ 44 45 | Butter—Choice Creamery 25 («' 26 I Eggs—Fresh 22 @ 23 1 Potatoes—Per bu t 5 & 56 INDIANAPOLIS. 1 Cattle—Shipping 3 00 (<T 5 .’o ; Hogs—Choice Light 4 1(1 5 75 ; 1 Sheep—Common to Prime 210 "3 on I | Wheat—No. 2 Red 5 ’-.A 5(. l A I COBN —No. 2 White i t 35 I I Oats —No. 2 White 27 it 27^ I ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 co @ 5 50 Hogs 4 co & a so AVheat—No. 2 Red 57 & 58 Corn—No. 2 32 @ 33 Oats—No. 2 25$@ 26ts Rye—No. 2...". 43 @ 45 CINCINNATICattle 3 co @ 5 oo j Ho 3 00 @ 5 50 Sheep 2 00 @ 3 50 I Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 @ .'8 | Corn No. 2 30 @ 39 I Oats—No. 2 Mixed & 30 i Rye—No. 2 48 @ 40 DETROII’. । Cattle 3 CO @4 75 I Hogs 3 00 & 6 oo I Sheep 2 co cj 4 o । I Wheat—No. 2 Red Cl & 62 Corn—No. 3 Yellow 38 <«i 39 ! Oats—No. 2 White 82 & 33 TOLEDO. ! Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 @ 61 | Corn—No. 2 Yeliow 36 @ 37 Oats —No. 2 White 29 (<s 30 Rye—No. 2 48 @ 49 BUFFALO. i Beef Cattle—Good to Prime. 300 @ 600 I Hogs—Fair to Choice 4 co @5 75 | Wheat—No. 1 Hard 68^@ 69>6 No. 2 Red 63 @ 64 MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 2 Spring 57 @ 58 Corn—No. 3 34 & 35 Oats —No. 2 White 33 @ 301 j RY E NO. 1....................... 46 (ft 46 Barley—No. 2 49 @ 51 Pork—New Mess 14 00 @l4 50 NEW YORK. Cattle 2 00 @ 5 75 Hogs 375 @6 25 । Sheep 225 <<® 400 ; Wheat—No. 2 Ree 67ls@ 685$ I Corn—No. 2 45 @ 46 1 Oats—Mixed Western 33 @ 34 • Butter—Choice 25 @ 28 • Pork—New Mess.... 15 50 @l6 25

OMAHA’S GOOD WORK. I OPENING OF HER MAGNIFICENT BRIDGE. Sensation in Chicago Politics—Schaefer Defeats Ives —French Ministry Resigns— Thousands Perish in Persia—Terrible Tragedy in an Indiana Settlement. Omaha Bridge and Terminal Lines Open, The Omaha Bridge and Terminal Company opened its bridge and lines for business. All railroads were noti- ' tied that the company is ready to an--1 swer any calls upon it. The cold weather prevented any formal opening. From Oct. 1, 1892, work has been almost continuously prosecuted. Up to date there has been an expenditure of $1,500,000. The line connects at Council Bluffs with all the Eastern roads and work is being pushed to complete the line to South Omaha. The bridge । company was incorporated three years ' ago and has a capital stock of $7,- । 500,000. Five Die by One Ilan 1. i Near Seymour, Ind., Clinton Jordan late Saturday night shot and killed j Josiah Foster, his father-in-law, Mrs. i Foster, and their daughter, Miss Cora ।r < ster. Ho then stabbed bis wife, who was trying to defend her narents, nnt J finally shot and killed himself. The scene of the tragedy is at a place which has been named the “Heathen Nation.” This name is derived from its beinirjlocated in a poor country, tho land not being valuable. । The house where the quadruple murder ' and suicide were committed is ।an old-fashioned one-story farm i residence owned by Martin Corf yell and occupied by Josiah j Foster and his family, consisting • of his wife and one daughter. Miss i Cora, aged 17 years. Mr. Foster was a ' soldier and served three years under I Capt. Joseph Balsley, of Seymour. The Captain says that Foster was one of his best men. The family had continually I quarreled, and the last before the murders resulted in a separation. Mello Captures Cittle. Capt. Barclay of the steamer In- ' dian Prince, which arrived at New ■ York from Pernambuco, reports that i while at Rio de Janerio she was an- • ehored directly under the fort, and although shot and. shell whistled ! through its rigging it sustained no damage. He says that while tho steamer Sardinian Prince of the iame line was discharging cattle into a lighter, <'ne of Admiral Mello's launches filled with armed men steamed up and cut out the lighter with seventy-three head of cattle on board, and in spite of a hot fire from the forts succeeded in towing it away. (iovs Insane tn a Re’inions R »viv;iL Matilda Perkins, a 16-year-old •rirl. has gone crazy as the result of ex- ■ eitement a* the Sam Jones revival just | closed at Birmingham, Ala. Wednes- ■ dav. after the sermon, she professed I religion and jumped upon the benches i during the meeting, and while shouting । and wa ing her hands she fell and ' ; hurt her head. She recovered physically. but became violently insane. She wa< taken to the jail, where she is cl sely confined and shackled. She will he to the State Asylum at Tuskalvi sa. l*nttie <'onhl X'ot Live Without Him. | Hlnry C. Di'KAN, farming near Sac- i ramento, McLean County. Ky.. forbade ' ; his 15-year-old daughter, Pattie, to ■ hold any intercourse with Richard ! ! Albina neighboring planter's son. i i Not making her ap] earance next i ■ morning at breakfast Mrs. Doran went i ' to Pattie's room and found her dead, t ' An empty laudanum vial was on a ’ 1 stand near tl e bed with the following ! ’ note beside it: “ Dear Parents: I could not be content without Richard. Can you forgive your unhappy Pattie?" Hesing Chicatro Postmaster. The post ffice of Chicago will be un- ! der charge of Washington Hesing, and ' the Internal Revenue Collectorship of that district goes to W. J. Mize. The i two appointments were made by Presij dent Cleveland Saturday, and created the greatest commotion in political • circles. Frank Lawler and his petition with 50.0(0 names are turned down. ' Many prominent business men who ! don't mix in politics have expressed i their approval of the appointments. Trade Is Stronger. R. G. Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review of I Trude says: Consumption increases s:owly, and all I branches iff business are waiiins for its | growth. There has been a little improve- : ment in stocks, about $1.25 for railroads ! and 50 cents per share for trusts, while the - price of products has declined a little on ! the whole, but the volume of business has somewhat increased. BREVITIES, The French ministry resigned Saturday, after a vote of no confidence in ! the government. M. Dupuy will be I asked to construct a new cabinet, i Louis D. Withup and William H. Tredick were arrested at Denver upon four indictments, brought by the United States Grand Jury for forgeries in making out pension papers. Mrs. Perry Layman, of Cloud Corner. Ind., poured oil on a fire and her clothing was ignited. She ran to a pond and jumped into the water to extinguish the flames, but died in a few hours. A dispatch from Teheran to the Times says that 12,000 person were killed in Kushan, Persia, by the earthquake. Ten thousand bodies have been recovered from the ruins. Fifty thousand cattle were killed. Shocks are sti’l felt daily. The Supreme Cnirt <f North Dak< 11 has decided that the Governor has not power to remove State officers other than those whose duties are of a financial nature, in the case of the Agricultu’’al College trustees, whom Gov. Shortridge wanted to remove. As the result of a kick in the stomach and over-exertion in a game of football Robert Christy, of Delmont. ! Pa., a freshman in the University of ' Wooster, <>.. died. The young man's j widowed mother, whose only support i he was. and an uncle were ths,only relatives at his deathbed.

TARIFF REFORM RILL I PROVISIONS OF THE WILSON MEASURE MADE PUBLIC. Free I.ist Extended to Wool. Coal, Lumber, Salt and Iron Ore-Its Enactment Would End Reciprocity and Require Revision of Treaties. Extensive Free List. The new Democratic tariff bill has been gi\en to the public, and, according to a Washington dispatch, its provisions fulfill every expectation that it might be a radical measure of reform. In many respects it is a surprise evon to the Democratic members of Congress, as it is unprecedented in many of its provisions. The free list is of that liberal scope sufficient to satisfy the most radical advocates of reform and the repudiation of the principle of reciprocity which has been the pride of the Republicans is decisive and emphatic. It will necessitate a readjustment of treaties with these South American countries which enjoy practical or theoretical reciprocity with the United States. The bounty on. sugar is to be repealed by easy gradations and Yvill uot reach its conclusive effect until after the end of the present century. On and after the Ist of March, 1894, the following ai tides are to be added to the free list: Bacon and hams, beef, mutton and and meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved’ not specially provided for in this act. Baryta. AH binding twine manufactured in whole or in p ,rt from thistle or tampico fiber, mwaila sisal grass or sunn, of single plv and measuring not exceeding 6(0 feet to the' pound Binis, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments, and bird skins, prepared for preservation, but not further advanced in manufacture. Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper. Bone char, suitable for use in decorating sugars. Coal, bituminous, and shale, and coal slaok or cut; coke: coal tar, crude, and all preparations and products of coal tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for in this act. Oxide of cobalt. Copper Imported in the form of ores; old copper, fit only for manufacture; clipping from new copper, aud all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially provided for in this act; regulus of copper and black or eoars® copper, and copper cement, copper in plates, bars, ingots, or pigs, and other forms, not manufactured, uot special y provided for in this act. Copperas, or sulphate of iron. Cotton-ties of iron or steel cut to lengths, । punched or not punched, with or without buckles, for belting Cotton. Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to beused in the manufacture of watches or clocks. Yelks of eggs of birds, fish and insects. Downs of all kinds, crude, not specially provided for in this act. Fresh fish. Furs, undressed. lodine. Resublimated iron ore; also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur and pyrites or sulphuret of iron in its ia»tural state. Lard. Lemon juice; lime juice, and sour orange juice. Mica, and metalic mineral substances is a । crude state and metals unwrought, not spe- ; daily provided for in this act. j Ochre and ochery earths; sienna and sienna j earths; umber and umber earths, not specially : provided for in this act. I Cotton seed oil, paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary, not otherwise provided i for in this act. । Plows, tools, and disc-harrows, harvesters, ' reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, threshing machines and cotton gins, Plush, black, for making men’s hats. Quicksilver. Salt. Silk, partially m—ufadsilk, h a o t h for iu this act. ' I sulphate of or salt cake, or nitre cake; \ ‘ sulphuric acid. I Tallow and oil grease, including that*kncwn I commercially as De Gras, or brown wool ■ grease. ; Straw. Burr stone, bound up into millstones; free t stone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and i othsr building or monumental, except, marble, i unmanufactured or undressed, not specially i provided for in this act. j All wearing apparel and other personal I effects shall be admitted free of duty, without 1 regard to their value, upon their identity being I established under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. i Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used I for spars and in building wharves; timber ' squared or sided; sawed boards, planks, deals i and other lumber; laths; pickets and palings; I shingles; staves of wood of all kinds; wood ! unmanufactured; provided, that if any export duty is laid upon the above-mentioned articles, or either of them, all said articles imported from said country shall be subject to i duty as now provided by law. i Chair cane, or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds. Weeds, namely, cedar, lignum vita?, lancewood, ebony, box. granadilla mahogany, rosewood. satinwood, and ail forms of cabinet ' woods, in the log. rough or hewn | Bamb o and rattan, unmanufactured. I Briar root or briar wood and similar wood , unmanufactured. ' Reeds and sticks of partridge, hair wood, I pimento, orange, myrtle and other woods in the rough, or not further manufactured than I cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umI brellas. parasols, sun shades, whips or walk- ’ ing canes. All wool of the sheep, hair of the camel, : goat, alpaca, and other like animals, and all | wool and hair on the skin. Nails, yarn waste, ' card waste, bur waste, rags, and flax, includ- ’ ing all waste, or rags, composed wholly or in : part of wool. Average Cut of 35 Per Cent. The average cut in duties, says the j Washington correspondent, is between i 35 and 40 per cent., with no duty going ■ beyond 50 per cent, ad valorem and : very few coming up to that mark. The : uniform substitution of ad valorem for ' specific duties makes it quite difficult , in many instances to accurately esti- । mate the extent of the cut until actual I experience in importations gives some I guide by which te go. The actual loss from additions to the free I list can computed on the basis of inffportations for the fiscal year 1892, but not for the year ’93, because complete statistics are not at hand. AVhen the two years are av- ’ eraged it will probably appear that the - ! additions to tlie free list will be to cut down revenues by $20,000,003 to $22,000,000: of this’ $8,000,003 may be placed to the account of free wool: coal will cause $1,010,030 deficiency; iron ore. $750,000: lumber. $900,000; salt, $400,000 : silver lead ore, $850,000 : flax straw, hemp, etc., $250,000. The duties cn other articles which will go on the free list have ranged from $5,000 to $250,000. The total on the chemical schedule will be a large one. Tinplate is not made free. The old rate of 1 cent a pound is fixed, and it is estimated that $11,000,000 may be se- ; cured, or $2,500,000 more than can be counted on under the present law. । There has been great contention over , woolens, but with few exceptions the rates run from 25 to 35 per cent, ad valorem. rarely rising to 40 per cent. Antiquity of the Bagpipe. A representation of the bagpipe was found in the ruins of Tarsus. The instrument was in use 2.000 years before । the Christian era. and its origin is un- ' known.