St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 April 1895 — Page 6

.independent. AV. -A. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SWIFT'S AX IN ACTION NEW MAYOR SCORES 1,000 HEADS THE FIRST DAY. Greenhut Accused of Diverting $225,000 of Whisky Trust Funds—Seven Killed by Falling Walls —Further Attacks Upon the Income Tax. Cut a Wide Swath. Mayor Swift, of Chicago. .swung his ax Tuesday with a vigor that broke the record. He harvested the heads of 1.000 place-holders, blocked several salary-grab-bing schemes born in the death throes ot the defunct administration, and generally served notice that laws were made to be obeyed. He had not been in the .Mayor’s s-uhair over an hour when he sent a can non ball, so to speak, through the Build ing Department that knocked the pins from under a lot of inspectors. By the time another hour rolled around resignations commenced to pile up on the new Mavor’s desk. He called for the resignation of A. W. Cooke of the Bureau ot Sewers and placed Engineer Lowe in charge. Acting Commissioner of Public Works Moody was directed to drop threefourths of the men on the bridge repair gang, which meant that eighty or ninety men had to let go soft places. This was followed by an order to cut the water pipe extension force one-halt, and from .hM» to 1,000 heads dropped in the basket. Ai! engineers employed within the last two weeks were ordered discharged. Ihe sewer repair gang was just about obliterated. Greenhut Is Accused. President Joseph B. Greenhut of the “whisky trust’’ is charged with diverting $225,000 from the company’s treasury into his own pockets. This accusation was made in a bill tiled Tuesday in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. The object of the suits is to compel President Greenhut and other defendants to turn over $200,000 which, it is alleged, they obtained at the cost of the eompanj in the deal for the purchase of three distilleries in 1892. It is charged in the bill that the Nebraska distillery in Nebraska City, tfie Central distillery in St. Louis and the Star and Crescent distillery in Pekin. 111., were bought for $1.6*5.(0>. while the cost of these properties was charged on the company’s books at 81.984,407. It is alleged that President Greenhut appropriated to his own use $225,000 of the difference between the actual cost and the amount charged to the company, and that s(s>.ooo went into the pockets of Samuel Woolner. To Overthrow the Act. Since the delivery of the income tax decision attorneys and others interested in overthrowing the tax have been taking steps to test various parts of the law m

further proceedings. Attacks will be made both on those portions that were sustained by a tie vote and on some fresh points, not passed upon in the particular cases decided. Attorney .1. M. M ilson, who represented John G. Moore in the Court of Appeals in the recent cases, said that further proceedings will be taken immediatelv. "Several parts of the law will be attacked.” said ho. "the principal one being the exemption from taxation of incomes under S4JXM*. I his will bo attacked as an unjust discrimination. I cannot say just yet who the complainants or what the titles of the suits will be. but they will be instituted very soon, probably within a very few days, and be pushed as rapidly as possible." BREVITIES. The Carson City mint may be discontinued as a result of the recent discovery of embezzlements there. The steamer I. T. Rhae, owned by Capt. C. L. Lyman and engaged in the upper Cumberland river trade, sunk near Brooks Landing, Tenn. The freight, value $6,000, was lost. A count of the money in the Boston sub-treasury shows a difference of 20 cents between the cash and the books in favor of the sub-treasurer. The amount on hand is $12,109,143.24. Before a crowded house Monday afternoon the speaker of the House of Commons. the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Pee), arose and announced his resignation and delivered his farewell address. Florence Lillian Wickes, youngest daughter of Vice-President M ickes of the Pullman Palace Car Company of Chicago, made her first appearance on the stage Saturday with the Wilson Barrett company at Memphis. Owing to the heavy rains the Tunagowant is out of its banks and the lower part of Bradford, Pa., is flooded to a

depth of eighteen inches. Reports from neighboring towns say several bridges have been washed away. Thomas Cassady, who mysteriously disappeared from Kokomo, Ind., in ISG9 and was supposed to have been murdered, has been found to be alive. His wile, who married again, has begun suit for divorce on the ground of desertion. W. Jennings Demorest, one of the founders of the Prohibition party and the principal rival of General John Ridwell. of California, for the Prohibition nomination for President of the I nited States in 1892, died in New York Tuesday, after a week’s illness. At 'Wheeling. W. Ya., Tuesday morning shortly after 8 o'clock, the five-story business house of Chapman & Sous, on Main street, in the wholesale district, and the adjoining four-story hardware establishment of T. T. Hutchison tell in suddenly without any warning whatever, and buried seven persons in the ruins. A bill has been favorably reported to the Massachusetts Legislature to prohibit the insuring of any child under ten years of age. Ex-President Kriebel, of the North Manchester, Ind., College, has been arrested. charged with securing $3,000 for scholarships and the college property under false pretenses. The Pike's Peak cog railway has been reopened for the season. Lily Langtry has been sued for $1,200 damages by M. B. Leavitt for breaking an engagement to appear at his Denver theater

EASTERN. Gov. Marvil of Delaware is at the point of death. Nat Goodwin, the actor, has purchased from Elsie D. West a house on East . Thirty-third street, near Madison avenue, ■ New York city, for $36,750. 14 illiam Nolan, confidential bookkeeper of the Park Avenue Hotel, at New York, has disappeared, as also has between $30,000 and $60,000 of the hotel’s cash. The steamship Parisine, which arrived at Portland, Me., from Liverpool, brought 136 English orphan boys, ranging in age from a to 20 years, who will be given homes with Canadian farmers. Ernest Lung, Ludwig Wickstrom, Harry Johnson and another little boy named Estergren were poisoned near Warren. Pa., by eating what they thought to be artichoke, but which proved to be poison. Wickstrom and Johnson died. By a vote of 28 to 1, during an exciting session of the congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Chaumont, N. Y., it was decided to ask Rev. William Cleveland. brother of President Cleveland, to tender his resignation of the pastorate. Gov. Werts, at Jersey City, N. J., says he has received a request for troops to suppress the labor troubles at the Staten Island terra-cotta factory at Spa Springs, near Woodbridge, Middlesex County. The men who are on strike demand their pay. New York society’s accepted godmother, Mrs. Paran Stevens, died Wednesday afternoon. This accomplished woman, who, with Ward McAllister and Mrs. 1 William Astor, dominated the New York social world, had been seriously ill not more than a week. Iler illness began with a severe cold. That the American Sugar Refining Company of New York will engage in the distilling of spirits is made certain by the fact that a distillers’ license has been ; taken out by the company. The purpose j is to utilize the by-product of the sugar I refineries, a portion of which it has been ■ sending to New Bedfotu for manufacture i into rum. and for which it received about | 2 cents per gallon. The understanding is i that one of the old refineries in the eastern I district of Brooklyn will be converted into j a distillery, with a capacity of 50,000 gal- j lons of proof spirits per dav. === WESTERN. — The Choctaw Supreme Court has affirm- , ed the sentence of Johnson Jacobs to be ' shot at Pushmataha. Martin Kapseh. just elected town trustee in Globeville, a suburb of Denver, accidentally shot and killed himself while ■ cleaning a revolver. The row in the Claus Spreckels family tit San Francisco is growing interesting, i The latest phase is a suit for S3OO dam- : ages for libel brought by tills Spreckels against his father. While putting off freight at Antiquity, ; twelve miles above Pomeroy, Ohio, the ■ passenger steamer Iron Queen took fire : and was totally destroyed. 'The tire was j caused by the explosion of a lamp in the j engineroom. The boat was loaded nearly to the guards with freight and had a big ■ passenger list. Four persons were killed outright and a : fifth fatally injured in a wreck on the Bel-

laire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Narrow Gauge Road, at a trestle five miles west of Summerfield. 0.. Friday. Four tramps were killed, two fatally and six badly hurt by the derailing of an Alton freight train near East Altom Near Galena. Kan.. Newton Walters, aged 19. killed two brothers. George and James Cox. He then attempted to as sault Miss Dollie ('ox, who was alone at home. The girl gave the alarm and 44’al ters lied. (»n<‘ of the Cox boys was found in the woods with a bullet hole in his head. The other is supposed to have been thrown into the river. / The post office at Springfield, 111., was robbed of about SIO,OOO worth df stamps and silver 4\’ednesday. The robbery was committed about 12:30 o'clock while Postmaster Redick M. Ridgely was at dinner. The robbery was not discovered until 5 o'clock, and those implicated have so far covered up their tracks. Access was gained to the vault by the use of duplicate keys, impressions doubtless having been taken in wax at noon when the majority of the employes are at lunch. The robbers have nearly live hours' start,, and doubtless left the city before the discovery had been made that the vault had been entered. A desperate battle took place between Marshal Medsen’s deputies and five of the Rock Island Railroad train robbers at Cimarron, live miles west of Hennessy. 0. T., Thursday evening. ((ne robber was killed and another wounded. The robbers were taken unawares anO fired at random at their assailants, not one of the shots taking effect. The robbers then took to the bush and the marshal was sent to cut off all avenues of escape. The dead man was identified as "Rattlesnake Phil.” a notorious territory outlaw. The Rock Island road offered a reward of sl,000 each for the arrest and conviction of the robbers. An attempt was made to blow up the vault in the county treasurer's office at

Elyria, Ohio. A fuse was found Thursday j morning attached to the vault door, which I had been plugged with nitro-glycerine, i The fuse appeared to have been lighted. Half a dozen horse blankets covered the door. The outer door leading to the office had been forced with a chisel and entrance to the corridor had been gained by a window, which was found open. A full 1 outfit of tools was found near the vault, indicating the work of professionals. There is $17,000 in the vault. The sheriff telegraphed for an expert to open the vault, as it is feared that the nitro-gly-cerine would explode if tampered with. What has become of the enormous campaign fund raised by assessment on city hall employes? That's the question that the Democratic managers of Chicago arc now discussing with much vehemence of language and bitterness of feeling. It is alleged that one of the prime factors in the recent defeat of the Democratic candidates at the polls was a lack of sufficient funds to conduct the campaign properly. The politicians who realize this fact are ; denouncing the penurious policy which i seemed to actuate.some of the big men in the party, and it is openly charged that a very large sum of money, which was supposed to be held for the benefit of the campaign, has gone into the pockets of individuals for whom it was not intended, and who had no right to it. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific passenger train No. 1 was held up near Dover, O. T., early Thursday morning by five unmasked bandits, and the passengers of the smoker, day coach and chair car were relieved of their valuables.

(Express Messenger Jones was wounded in the left wrist, but he steadfastly refused to open the safe in his car, and the booty secured by the robbers as a consequence was very small. A posse of determined citizens of Kingfisher, under the direction of Deputy United States Marshal Madsen, mounted upon horses capable of standing a protracted chase, started in hot pursuit of the train robbers, and but an hour and a half behind them. According to information received, the train robbery was a well-planned, badly executed and quite profitless affair. Charged with the embezzlement of $50,000 from the Northwestern National Bank of Chicago, F. W. Griffin, until Friday assistant cashier of that institution, is a prisoner in custody of the United States marshal. The arrest of Griffin was made on the complaint of National Bank Examiner John C. McKeon, and it was followed by a circular letter issued to all patrons of the Northwestern National and to other banks in which the state of affairs was briefly but explicitly presented. Assistant Cashier Griffin has been in the service of the bank nearly eighteen years, and has held the trust and confidence of the banking world. He bad full authority to sign for the bank, and this position he is said to have used to appropriate money for his own uses until his shortage amounted to exactly $50,000. Vice-President W. F. Dummer said that the amount of Griffin’s defalcation was small compared with the capital and sur- ’ plus of the bank —the former being sl,- । 500,000 and the latter $500,000. In addi- > tion there are individual profits of $60,000. Griffin has made a full confession. SOUTHERN. Boone County, Ky., was struck by a cyclone Wednesday, which did much damage to property, but caused no loss of life. Many horses and cattle were killed. A farm wagon was carried two miles by the wind. The national reunion of the survivors I of the Army of the Tennessee, the Ohio I ami Mississippi opened Friday on the bat- । tie field of Shiloh. Illinois, lowa, Indiana 1 and other Northern States were represented by delegations officially appointed , by the respective Governors, and so were | Tennessee. Mississippi, Kentucky and I other Southern States. A reduction in wages of miners throughI out the Flat Top, W. Va., district has been made, and the men are very unsettled. It is known that organizers for the ! Minets’ Union have been at work in the Flat Top ami Norfolk ami Western regions for some time, getting the men in shape for a general strike. The union, i : which failed in the Kanawha and New i River strike a year ago. promises support ! to the Flat Top minors. If the strike takes pim e about 10,000 men will be as- ’ j feet cd. Nearly GOO tramps, who are unable to ; obtain work on the oyster boats, have 1 taken possession of the towns of Bivalve ami Port Norris, N. J. The township authorities are unable to cope with them, and it may become necessary to call on the sherifi to drive the desperadoes away. I The men were brought there to find emI ployment during the oyster planting sea- : son. which has just opened and which will continue until June. They are made desperate by hunger and are so bold that they enter Imuses in daylight and rob | them ot all food they can find.

An explosion took place at 2:10 I’’riday ' , ' morning in a saloon opposite the French ij I market. New Orleans, and many persons f f were killed and others injured, the build i ing taking fire. The explosion occurred in a grocery and ship chandlery kept by Charles Salatlie and was caused by pow tier kept in the magazine. Salathe and ' his famih except two children miracii I lously saved were killed by the falling ' j walls, the entire three story structure | falling into a heap of ruins. Next door j : to the chandlery was a saloon kept by | Emile Boulvt. Half a dozen fishermen : were drinking in the place and they were I all buried under the wreckage, that build- | ing being also destroyed. Fully fifteen ' persons are known to have been killed. In the big sham battle at the City of ' Mexico. Maj. 4'illareal was knocked from j his horse by a collision with an artillery r wagon, badly hurt, though believed not । fatally. One mule was killed at the same ( time. Two cavalry soldiers fell with j their horses lamed. 4’arious accidents of j a similar nature were recorded during the I I charge by the cavalry on the Plain of , Peralville. Some of the infantry privates j i succumbed to the heat and were borne ■ from the field for medical treatment. During one of the cavalry charges two riders I ' were knocked from their horses and tram- ; pled to death, and several privates pre- j : seated themselves to the chiefs with ! wounds in their bodies. Lieut. Charles : J G. Dwyer, military attache of the Ameri- : ; can Legation, who served on the Presi- ’ dent's staff, was sunstruck and borne I . from the field. Considering that the bat- I । tie was the finest military spectacle ever : ; I seen in Mexico, the number of serious ac- . ' cidents was small. ~ - = 4VASHINGTON. ' । The Hon. 44'illiam L. 44'iison assumed I the portfolio of Postmaster General 4Ved- . | nesday. The oath of office was adminis- | tered by Chief Justice Fuller.

It is said Secretary Gresham has left Washington for a short vacation for his health. At his hotel all that was said was he was not in. It is thought he left for the West. The Supreme Court has decided the income tax case. While the decision of the lower court is upheld as a whole, all incomes derived from rents are exempted from taxation by the Federal Government. as well as'municipal funds. These arc the greatest changes made by the decision. FOREIGN. The upper house of the Prussian diet has referred to a special committee the proposal of Count von Mirbach for an international conference on the currency question. The United States ship Marblehead, now at Gibraltar, has been cabled by Secretary Herbert to proceed with dispatch to Beyroot, Syria. The command-er-in-chief of the European station was ■ instructed to order the vessels of his command to visit also Alexandretta and Adana to confer with the United States consuls and resident American citizens, and if it is found that there are good grounds for the apprehensions expressed in these quarters concerning a probable massacre of Christians to intimate to the responsible authorities that this Government will afford full protection to American citizens living peaceably in that part of the world under its treaty guaranties. It is stated on reliable authority that Japan has proposed the following coudi-

tions for the conclusion of peace: The independence of Corea; the cession of Southern Manchuria, including Port Arthur; the cession of the Island of FtJrmosa; the opening of Chinese ports and rivers to commerce; the payment of an indemnity of 400,000,000 yen; and the occupation of a number of strategic points until the indemnity shall have been paid. The London Times says it considers Japan is justified in imposing these conditions, and adds that the British cannot object to the occupation of the Liao Tung peninsula. The wound in the face of Li Hung Chang, the Chinese peace envoy, has now completely healed. Liu < hing Fung, son of Id Hung Chang, has been appointed a Chinese peace plenipotentiary to assist Li Hung Chang. Japan has formally accepted him as an envoy. IN GENERAL .Mr. 4 anderpere has been appointed official representative for the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in Belgium and a fine exhibit will be secured from that country. Alfred Noble, of Chicago, has been appointed to investigate the Nicaragua Canal. The other members of the hoard are: Major 44'illiam Ludlow, U. S. A., and Commander U. T. Endicott, U. S. N. /The Indian murderer of Government dLfieer Skyner of the Blackfoot reserva^>n. Manitoba, was captured and shot Jead by a posse of police Friday night. The murderer made a determined fight to the last. B. J. McGuire, formerly a fireman employed by the Union Pacific Railroad, has sued the receivers for $60,000 damages for injuries which crippled him for life. He charges gross carelessness in allowing a defective locomotive to be used. After sixteen years’ wandering through the 44’est in search of fortune, Richard Mackey has found his wife, whom he married in Alabama, residing at Lexington, Ky. She has married twice since, and has been supposing herself a widow for the third time. Mackey is wealthy. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly Review of Trade says: Returns showing the condition of retail trade in March throughout the country and the distribution of goods of final comparison with the same mouth in 1894 and 1893 give gratifying evidence that in most trades and districts marked improvement over 1^94 is realized, though on the whole trade is smaller than in 1893. 44’hat the Bell Telephone Company has been fearing since its patents expired has now assumed definite shape, according to reports that bear the stamp of accuracy. This is nothing more or less than that a competing concern has been launched, or is in process of construction, the mission of which will be to tight the Bell people out of the field; not in patches, here and there, but in the entire territory where they operate. According to the reports a telephone company has been formed in New York with a war chest of tremendous extent ami backed by men nt the mention of whose names visions of vast wealth arise. 'Die capital stock of the company is given as sl(>O.<K (0,(100. The backers big enough in the financial world to have their names associated with so many figures are: The Parrott Company of New York, the Standard < >il Company, Searles, of the sugar trust; George Crock yr, the San Francisco millionaire; Pillsbiirv. the Minftcotn (lour mnn. nn<l J. S. ^•arkson. JlGovmiHjr John I’. Altgeld ha- paid his Twpects to Chauncey M. Depew. The occasion for the bitter criticism was the speech heventiy delivered by Mr. Depew at the Auditorium in Chicago, when he took occasion to find fault not only with the Mayor of Chicago, but with Governor Altgeld as well. Tli< Governor was asked if he had read the speech. "No. I have not," he replied. "Some years ago 1 listened to Mr. Depew for two hours. So long as the lord insisted on limiting human life to about three score and ten years, two hours is all the time that the average man inn afford to -pend on Depew. He is the most conspicuous prodwt of the doctrine ’do evil that good may come of it’ that this country has ever seen. Ue first attracted attention many years ago as a lobbyist at Albany, where he for a long time was engaged in the highly honorable business of putting metaphorical collars on the New York legis lators. so that to the public they appeared to belong to the 4’anderbilts and the NewYork Central Railroad. A train of slime and corruption was stretched across the State from New York city by wry of Albany to Buffalo, and from there it spread over the whole country, corrupting public officers, polluting legislative halls and oven tilling courts oi justice with its odor. This was the beginning of that flood of corruption which is to-day washing the foundations from under our whole governmental fabric." MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades. $3 to $5.50: sheep. fair to choice. 82.50 j to $5; wheat. No. 2 red, 54c to 55' : 1 corn, No. 2, 45e to 40c: oats. No. 2. 29<to 30e: rye, No. 2. 50. to ss. ; bntn i. cWr e . nuto. "< I. to JoC-c; e^-s. fresh. to l-Qc. potatoes, car lots, per i.^hel. 75c to 85c; broom corn, per lb, common growth to tine brush. 4c to 6‘4e. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3 to $6.25; hogs, choice light. $3 to $5; sheep, common to prime. $2 to $4.75: wheat. No. 2 red. 55c to 55>.0e; corn. No. 1 white. 46c to 4644 c; oats. No. 2 white. 33c to 34c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3 to $6.50; hogs. $4 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red. 54c to 55c; corn. No. 2. 43c to 4314 c; oats. No. 2,30 c to 31c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 5Sc. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $0.25; hogs. $3 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75: wheat. 2,55 cto 56c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 47<- to 48c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 31'oe to J— *2c; rye. No. 2, .>Sc to 60c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to 86.25; hogs, $4 to $5; sheep, $2 to $4.75; wheat. No. 1 white, 59c to 60c: corn. No. 2 yellow. 46c to 4644 c; oats. No. 2 white. 35c to otic. Toledo—44'heat, No. 2 red, 56c to 57c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 46c to 4644 c: oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rve, No. 2. 54c to 56c. Buffalo- -( ’attic. ^2. 5o to $6.50: hogs. $3 to $5.75; sheep. 83 to $5.25: wheat. No. 2 red, 60c to (iIPAc: corn. No. 2 yellow, 49c to oOe; oats. No. 2 white. 35c to 36c. Miiv.aukee—44 heat. No. 2 spring. 57c to 58c; corn. No. 3. 48c to 4844 c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley’ No. 2. o2c to 53c; rye, No. 1,55 cto 57c; pork, mess. sl2 to $12.50. New York—Cattle, $3 to $6.75: hogs. $4 to $5.50; sheep. 83 to $5.25: wheat. No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn. No. 2,51 c to 62c; oats, white 4Vestern, 37c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 22c; eggs, Westera, 13c to 13^c.

FAST IN SNO4V BANKS. PLIGHT OF MANY TRAINS IN THE WEST. Twenty-one Washington Miners Killed Near New Whatcom—Big Steal in Stamps-Rnmors of War in Scandanavia—Big Bank Fails in Texas. Snow in Colorado. Owing to the terrific snowstorm which prevailed in the vicinity of Cheyenne, B yo, in eastern Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, trains were stalled on all the railway lines east of Denver, and hundreds of men and several snow plows are now engaged in clearing the tracks of drifting snow and sand. In some localities telegraph wires are down. A train on the Kansas Pacific was laid up at Cheyenne, and a snow plow was sent out ahead to clear the track. The east-bound Rock Island is stalled at Goodkind. Kan. At ( heyenno the storm is severe and traffic is shut down on the Northern. The storm is working south. On the Julesburg lino sand has drifted to such an extent that gangs of men are engaged in shoveling it from the tracks. Millions of Counterfeit Stumps. I nited States secret service operatives in Chicago and 44’ashington have unearthed probably the most unique and at the same time important swindle ever perpetrated upon any government. Its magnitude, after two days' investigation, can only be guessed at. but it is believed thousands of dollars have been secured by a gang of skillful counterfeiters, who have reproduced with wonderful skill and accuracy the pink two-cent stamps of commerce. As a result the entire issue must be recalled and retired. 44’hether the counterfeiters have aci-omplices in dishonest postmasters or whether they are in league with some one nearer the throne is not known. But this much is certain: I ncle Sam has been carrying millions of letters from which he received not one cent of revenue. Il is thought the country is flooded from New York to San Francisco with these spurious stamps. Only Two Escaped. A terrible explosion occurred Sunday in the Blue Canyon coal mine on Lake 44'hatcom. seven miles from New 44’hatcom. Wash. Ton bodies have been taken out. and it is known that at least eleven others were killed. The mine was inspected about three weeks ago and pronounced safe. W. A. Telford was at the bunkers u hen the explosion occurred. He went to the incline and found James Kearns at the mouth of the shaft nearly dead with exhaustion. Kearns said all in the mine were dead. He had carried Ben Morgan as far as he was able and then left him. Morgan, he thought, was dead. Kearns and Gollum were the only ones who had escaped out of twenty-three men who were at work. NEWS NUGGETS. Philip Gaffron. a watchmaker, was shot by burglars in his house at Denver. Employes of tin' Itiiiuey coke works in the t’onnellsvilie region. Pennsylvania; have resumed work on the promise of the (I per cent, advance in waves in force at other plants. Mrs. Henry Burges, of Hebron. Ind., who has been bedfast for ten weeks, is reported to have fasted for forty-five days, during which time she lias drank only a thimbleful of water. In a fight growing out of a dispute about ti ctn <>f beer James Mcßenm-tt. a (’hi cago bricklayer, was shot and killed by James Gardner, a bartender in the saloon and grocery of John Harper. An attempt was made at Minersville, Ohio, to blow up by dynamite the family boat of John Forbes, a miner, imported to take the place of striking miners. The boat was badly shattered, but no lives were lost. The schooner Josiah R. Smith of Bath, from Baltimore to Boston, was run into and sunk three miles west of Gay Head light by the barge Lone Star in tow of the steamer Grion. ('apt. Freeman ami crew of seven men were saved. In Pawnee County, Oklahoma, an unknown man on horseback set tire to the dry prairie grass during a high wind and the country was devastated for many miles. Seventeen farmers lost everything. having hard work to save the lives of their families, and the village of Chilco was almost destroyed. Carl Beardsley, son of Charles Beardsley. of Elkhart. Ind., who disappeared mysteriously from the University of Michigan at Atm Arbor last fall, is engaged in business in San Francisco, and does not evim e any interest in his Alma Mater or and other incident in his school days of home life. Supreme (’haneellor Ritchie of the i Knights of Pythias says that 814S.tM(:» belonging to the endowment rank of that order was on deposit in the < ity National Bank of Fori W orth. Texas, which failed Friday, but the funds are amply secured, and the order has other resources which will enable it to meet all obligations. Christiania ad vices say the estimates which are to be submitted to the storthing have been published and cause much comment. They give fresh impetus to the wild rumors of an impending war between Norway and Sweden. The estimates far exceed any previous sume required. The sum of J.tHMI.OtM) kroner is to be devoted to the construction of iron clads. In addition, large credits will be asked for the purchase of munitions of war ami for the completion of the forts of Tonsburg harbor. At Titusville. Pa.. George Keese has been arrested charged with embezzling ss<Ht of the funds of St. James' Episcopal (’hureh. of which he was treasurer. John Stephens, a farmer residing in Marion township. Noble County. ().. mur- | dered his son by striking him on the head i with a dub. The son had rei used t<> give his father 82. Mme. Emma Eames-Story, the singe:-, caught her linger in the door of a Wabash car and had a nail torn off. 44'illiam Shipp murdered Samuel Brow: at Lexington. Ky. Shipp was enamored of Brown's wife. ( G -ar Wilde is reported to be hysterical over the prospect of going to prison, and is being carefully guarded to prevent suicide. Jalsz Spencer Balfour, the London swindler, whose extradition was granted a few days ago. has sailed from Buenos Ayres for Ensriand.

BLO4V TO TAX LAW. SUPREME COURT MANGLES THE INCOME STATUTE. Rente and Bond Interest Declared to Be Exempt-Business 'den Must Pay —So Must Employes, While Big Trust Companies Escape. Vast Changes Decreed. A special dispatch from AA'ashington says that the United States Supreme Court in the income tax case has reversed the decision of the lower court. The income tax law as a whole is upheld, but only by a divided court. Two important portions of the law, however, have been decided to be unconstitutional, and they are so serious as to affect materially not only the revenues of the Govtrument, but the estimation in which the income tax will be held by the jieople. I nder the decision, as reported, all incomes derived from rents are exempted from taxation by the Federal Government and all incomes derived from State and municipal bonds are similarly exempted. In other respects the income tax stands as it was passed last August, but he result of the consultations in the Supreme Court shows very conclusively that the law can easily be picked to pieces, provided suits are brought to contest each particular point as it comes up. It is a curious fact, but none the less true, that the law which was passed at the dictation of the Populists has been distorted by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in such away that it will absolutely protect the class of capitalists most offensive to the Populistic element. The landlords of the country will pay no income tax.. Hie owners of bonds of almost any kind, either Federal, State, county or municipal, will also be free, while the business man. the manufacturer and the salaried employe will, for the present at least, be compelled to contribute to the treasury of the United States Government 2 per cent, of all incomes in excess of $4,000 per annum. The decision of the Supreme Court is a matter of deep annoyance. Collection of the tax has begun; the Government budget was made out with regard to the $30,000,000 or $40,000,000 expected to be derived from this source. The exemption of great fortunes and great estates, the sweeping away of a large part of the expected revenues, is bound to create a situation in the treasury that will be embarrassing. to say the least. Further cause for dissatisfaction will be given to persons who think they see a menace to the rights of the people in the frequent interference of Federal courts in legislative concerns. It is said that one learned justice even attempted to “legislate ' building associations into the act. The first meeting of the Supreme Court was held March 16, two days after the conclusion of the argument, but no decision was reached, and it was not until March 30 that they succeeded in agreeing upon the outlines of a decision covering the opinion of the lower court. The court was evenly divided. Justice Jackson was too ill to take part. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Field. Gray and Brewer were opposed to the law. Justices Harlan. Brown, Shiras and 44’hite voted to sustain the law. FREE PEWS A Failure, Because We “Smile and Are Villains Still.” It was a painful confession of the failure of the free-pew system that was made on Sunday in Brooklyn by the rector oC St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. After a free-pew experiment of nine years Rev. Dr. Parker admitted that be had gained a larger knowledge than he ever before possessed of the sinfulness, or we may say the wickedness, if not even the viciousness, of some of the people who are church-goers. He declared that some of the men who occupied the free pews had no regard whatever for the moral obligations involved and seemed to him but as religious vagabonds. He told of men who would drop a cent in the box. and of others who would break their promises, and of more who seemed to be destitute of shame. One man, for example, who had hired a pew in another place of worship, cleared $250 a year by sub-letting it to another party, while he himself took a seat in Dr. Parker's free-pew church. It was a melancholy sermon of Dr. Parker in which he announced the freepew failure. He spoke of another church in Brooklyn which had tested the freepew theory with the result that the deficit in its treasury had to be made up by the rich members. St. George's Church, in New York, is still experimenting with the system; but he said that the shortage there was to be made up by the many millionaires who belong to it- He did not know of a single ease in which it had been successful. After : ppealing to his listeners to "pay up this time." he made a startling remark: "I notice,” he said, “that some of you smile, which reminds me that some cau smile and smile and be villains still.” Not Such a Wonderful Increase. The statement of Librarian Spofford that more than 55.000 publications were copyrighted in the 1 nited States last year, as against 23,0“0 in ISS4, shows an immense increase in the business of his office, and has elicited a great amount and variety of press comment. Bur there does not appear to be any occasion for alarm. To understand the matter thoroughly, it is necessary to bear in mind the fact that in 1884 the international copyright law had not been passed. Another source of increase is the growing habit of copyrightI ing matter that appears in the newspap- ! ers. Probably there is ten times as I much of this class of copyrighted publiI cations as there was ten years ago. and the chances are that it will continue to grow. Col. 44'illiam D. Polio-k is lying in a serious condition at his home in lien Peck. Ind. Several days ago Col. Pollock made a wager that he could sack three dozen eggs ; t one sitting. He aad disposed of two dozen and a half, and on entering upon the last half dozen struck a chicken, which stuck in his throat and almost choked him to death. The King of Servia lias taken up with he slumming lad ami enjoys going around seeing his subjects A’thout letting them know who he is.