St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 July 1897 — Page 2

Cljc independent. XV. A. EIUJLEY, Publisher. WALKERTO T - - - INDIANA. MARINE GRAVEYARD. PERILOUS LOCALITY IN LAKE HURON. •Steamers Ira H. Owen and Susquehanna Collide in a Fog—Kentucky’s Executive Gives Reasons for Freeing a Negro Who Had Killed a Man. Big Boats in Collision. The Anchor Liner Susquehanna and the Owen Liner Ira 11. Owen met in collision in the thick fog off Presque Isle Point, Lake Huron, early Tuesday morning. Both vessels were badly damaged. The Susquehanna made her way to Middle Island and is receiving temporary repairs; the Owen proceeded on her way to Alpena. The fog was very dense, and the two boats met head on. The stem of the Owen was entirely carried away, and her bows are also badly stove in. The Susquehanna is not so badly injured. The captain of the Susquehanna states that the cargo on his ship is uninjured, and that the pumps keep the water down. He will make no statement regarding the Owen, bui claims that at the time of the accident he was running under check on account of the dense fog. The place where the Susquehanna and Owen collided is one of the most dangerous on the chain of lakes. It is at the entrance to the Straits of Mackinac from Lake Huron, and also right in the course of the Lake Superior traders bound for the Detour passage into St. Mary’s river, which is used almost entirely by big craft. The locality may be termed a veritable graveyard for lake vessels. More disastrous collisions have taken place between Middle Island and Thunder Bay than anywhere else on the chain of lakes. In foggy weather it is more like running the gauntlet to pass through there than sailing the wide lakes. The Pewabie collision, the Norman-Jack disaster and many others have made this place bear an unenviable reputation among lake vesselmen. Pcath of Jean Ingelow. Jean Ingelow, the distinguished poet and novelist, died in London Monday night. She was in her seventy-seventh year. Jean Ingelow was the daughter of William Ingelow, and was born at Poston, Lincolnshire. England, in 1820. She was 33 years old before her first book appeared, and it made such an impression that she was hailed as one of the greatest poets of the century. “Poems of Jean Ingelow” appeared at an opportune time to attract attention. Tennyson had been silent for a long time, and the novelty had been worn off Longfellow’s "Tales of a Wayside Inn.” Her poems even ranked next to Longfellow's and above Tennyson's at that time. The Englishspeaking world was especially captivated by "High Tide Off the Coast of Lincolnshire,” a ballad cast in strange form, so musical that it sung itself, so quaint and tender and exquisite in its turn of phrase that there was never a word for its defects. The poet was not precocious as a child, but she had a retentive memory. She was timid and would retire to corners to write down her fancies and treasure them in a box. She spent many lonely hours on the beach watching the billows of the sea and the passing of the ships. There is a sad note in many of her songs, and it has been surmised she was disappointed in love in her youth, but the world has never learned whether she was ever in love. When her first book came out it was thought she was writing under a pen name. She was ranked as the peer of Mrs. Browning, ami it is difficult for the present generation to realize that she created so great a furore in her early career. Standing of the Clubs, Following is the standing of the clubs tn the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 50 21 Philadelphia. 35 40 Cincinnati . .4G 23 Chicago 32 42 Baltimore .. .45 24 Brooklyn ....31 41 New Y0rk...41 28 Louisville ...31 41 Cleveland .. .40 31 Washington. 27 42 Pittsburg ...33 37 St. Louis.... 15 56 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 50 24 Detroit 30 30 Columbus ...40 25 G’nd Rapids.2s 50 St. Paul 51 30 Minneapolis. 25 55 Milwaukee ..48 31 Kansas City. 23 56 Pardon for Dinning. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has pardoned George Dinning, the Simpson County negro who was recently given seven years for killing Jodie Cunn. a member of a party who surrounded his house and were attempting to lynch him. In a long indorsement on the official pardon the Governor closes by saying: "Too long have mobs disregarded the fair name of Kentucky, and while I am Governor of the commonwealth no man, however obscure nnd friendless, shall be punished for killing the member of a mob who comes to take his life or drive him from his home.” BREVITIES, Gov. Taylor of Tennessee has appointed Thomas B. Turley United Stales Senator to succeed Isham G. Harris. Obituary: At Wabash, Ind., Daniel Sayre.—At Columbus, 0.. John Kane. — At Mount Clemens, Mich.. William A. Rowley, 53. —At Stevens Point, Wis., E. B. Grant, 75. Two robbers who tried to hold up the cashier of the Bank of Odell, 111., were captured by citizens after a running fight, during which many shots were exchanged. The men gave their names as Harry Howard and Frank Jackson and claimed to be from New York. The famous Broadmoor Casino, the 8100,060 pleasure resort of Colorado Springs, Colo., was burned to the* ground Monday morning. The loss will be SIOO.000 to the Broadmoor Land and Improvement Company, and 810,000 to Kappler & Miller, of Denver, lessees. There is scarcely any insurance. It is doubtful if the resort will be rebuilt. Mrs. N. C. Crcede has arrived tit Los Angeles, Cal., from luka, Miss. She re- « fused to say anything about her projected contest ft* the- estate of the dead miner except that she would claim about twothirds of the estate.

t EASTERN. Never was Cuvier's assertion that the dog is the most useful conquest ever made by man better exemplified than when two of those faithful animals rushed into the waters of the Hudson at Highland Falls, N. Y., and dragged to life and safety two human beings who, but for their assistance, might now be at the bottom of the river. The dogs belong to J. Pierpont Morgan, the millionaire. Archibald Kelso of Wiley Station, Allegheny County, Pa., for whom the Pittsburg detectives have been searching for ten months, has been captured at Ponca City, Ohio, and positively identified. Sept. 17 last the body of Henry Kelso, a middleaged man, was found headless at Wiley Station and all circumstances pointed to his son, Archibald Kelso, as the murderer. Kelso disappeared at the time. The Connecticut river at Windsor Locks, Conn., is higher than at any time during the present year. The water stands at 15 feet above the normal height. Word comes from Suflield that the crops were greatly damaged by the heavy rains. Tobacco especially suffered greatly, and it is estimated that at least 850,000 damage has been done. In Windsor, it is reported, acres of young tobacco are under water. The Empire State express broke all records for a regular train run Friday. It traveled from Syracuse to Buffalo, 14’J miles, in 143 minutes, making no allowance for a two-minute stop at Rochester and the slow ups incidental to the run for water and nt crossings. This is the fastest run ever made by a regular train. Engineer Edgerton believes he made some record-breaking miles, but us he was not out for a record no one on the train timed the miles as they were run. The train carried Its complement of coaches and the regular engine drew it. Tea importers in New York are confronted with the prospect of a heavy loss on their importation of 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 pounds which began arriving about July 1. It was ordered when the general impression was that Congress would put a duty on ten. It is of the first crop, the finest tea of the year, and to forestall the tariff the importers took all they could get. When the tariff on tea was abandoned it left the second crop and every other inferior grade of tea fie • to come in, and consequently there is a large stock of high grade tea ’o be sold at a sacrifice. Charles A. O'Donohue, of the well-known tea importing house, said: "When the rush for tea began. Chinese and Japanese merchants advanced their prices ami reaped a harvest. To day tea is fully 5 vents lower than it was before there was any tariff agitation." A member of the firm of Carter, Macey & Co. said the “fitst crop,” upon which importers plunged so heavily, is arriving now. The promise that a duty would be placed upon tea had benefited the Chinese and Japanese alone. Melzingah reservoir, in the Fishkill Mountains, near 'Matteawan, N. Y„ burst at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, owing to the heavy rains. The water ran into the creek, and two miles below, near Dutchess Junction, washed away the brickyard buildings, including a boarding house occupied by laborers. It is reported that nine of them were drowned and others are missing. The Hood at Dutchess Junction washed away 200 yards of the Hudson River Railroad track. There were two reservoirs in the mountain, the lower one half a mile distant from the other. The upper dam gave way, letting the volume of water into the lower reservoir. This also burst, and the water rushed down through it ravine. Buildings were torn in pieces and their occupants carried away in the raging Hood. The water works system was operated by a private company and supplied the villages of Mattewan and Fishkill-on-the-Hudson. News of the bursting of the Beacon Mountain reservoirs received at Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ says that three buildings, two of which were boarding houses, were swept away by the rushing water and that twenty people are missing. WESTERN. The crossing of electric light and telephone wires at Pueblo, Colo., resulted in a fire in the fifth story of the Central block, causing a loss of about 850,000, fully insured. Chius Spreckels has instituted another 81,000,000 libel suit against the San Francisco Examiner, W. R. Hearst, A. M. Lawrence, its managing editor, and C. R. Aiken. The libel complained of was published in the shape of a clipping from the Petaluma Courier June 7 last. Mrs, Harriet Waters of Chicago thrust a hot curling iron into her eye while she was curling her hair, and as a result she will probably lose her sight. Mrs. Waters had balanced the iron on the gas jet, mid when it fell she made an effort to catch it, and in doing so the heated end came in contact with the right eye, penetrating the iris. The Choctaw-Chickasaw union party proposes to treat with the Dawes commission, provided the United States Government will buy all of the Choctaw and Chickasaw land outright. They will then form a colony, go into Mexico, buy a lot of land from Mexico, and have their own laws. They said that a white man shall not move among them. A farmer named Kurtz, living at, Melbern, Iml., just over the Illinois State line, is reported to have been swindled out of a snug sum of money. Two young men, claiming to represent a Chicago wholesale house, stopped over night with him and in settling the next morning they asked him to sign a voucher, which proved to be a note for 8300. The McKenna re-rolling steel mill at Joliet made a test run Thursday and everything started off in good shape. This plant is the only one of its kind in the world, and this was the first time in the history of the steel working art that old worn out rails were made as good as new. The plant will start up to run steady within a few days and give employment to 200 men. The fruit crop of Missouri this year is roughly estimated to be worth $20,000,000, and many who ought to know say these figures are too low. The importance of this crop may be better understood when it is stated that it is worth more than the wheat crops of Missouri and Illinois combined, with the cotton crop of Missouri thrown in for good measure. Mrs. Bertha Johnson, awaiting trial at Lima, Ohio, for attempting to kill her husband, made her escape from jail Wednesday night by digging out a staple which fastened a trap door leading to the roof of her cell. She lowered herself down by means of a rope made from bed clothes, and walked to Elida, seven miles. She

1was tracked by bloodhounds to where she boarded a freight train, and was overrj taken at Delphos and arrested. This was. her second escape from jail. John F. James and Henry Blake of J Phoenix, A. T., have returned from the desert region near the Mexican border, j bringing a story of extreme suffering and of success in the discovery of the Cnlifor-j nia mine, one* of the most famous of thel lost mines of the Southwest. The mine! lies eighty miles south of Sentinel station! on the Southern Pacific, in a region tha i appears absolutely waterless. For tei . days the men and their burros were com pelled to live bi - drinking the bitter juici ' of the cactus. They are terribly broke: through their sufferings on the blazin ; desert. They could stay at the mine onl, • a short time, but brought back sampled of gold-specked ore taken from the bottoi® of the shaft, where were the tools It ft bathe miners of thirty years ago. They will outfit and leturn as soon as they regain strength. I General Manager Brown, of the Bui*lington, ieturned to Chicago from a five days’ trip to lowa. Northern Missouri anil Illinois. He says the crops in those sections arc l phenomenally large, and he doau not see how the railroads will be l able tip furnish ears and engines for the handling of the freight, that will be received. The report comes from other roads of enormous crops throughout the Western States. Santa Fe officials report there will be a yield of 60,000,000 bushels tit wheat in Kansas alone, and that iviTYm thirty days the railroads will have an they can do to handled, is being held to ere whether itn^sy du r’s erm4lUj|| be a failure or success. If the clop prv^y' Ises well, extraordinarily heavy sht ments of corn arc* looked for, and railroads are in a quandary as to while they will find sufficient equipment to handle all the grain that will be offered. Charles Warren Spalding, former president of the Globe- Savings Bank, ot Clpcago, and former treasurer of the State University, has again been declared by a jury to be innocent of embezzlement. From the time that the Court gave the jury his instructions there was little doubt in the mind of anyone ns to the outcome. The State's Attorney and the attorneys for the defense agreed that there was nothing left for the jury to do except to return a verdict of not guilty. The Court had said that in the agreement between Spalding and the university trustees by which interest was paid upon the funds of the university there- had been established the relation of borrower nml debtor, nnd it could make no difference what the treasurer did with the funds so intrusted to his cure. The Court had also stated that if the jury believed that Spalding used the monei he raised U|K»n the bonds to meet the obligations of the university then he was not guilty of em-bezzh-mvtit. and the jury hud no recourse. It was a question of intent. SOUTHERN. The Hot Springs, Ark., police have arrested a man believed to be John B. Meixscll, wanted nt South Bethlehem. Pa., on a charge of robbing the First National Bank of that city of $10,060. Kentucky national Democrats met in convention nt Louisville Wedm-edi’y, 950 strong, nominated a ticket nml endorsed the Indianapolis platform. Watterson, Carlisle, Lindsay, Breckinridge and Buckner were present. Anthony Williams, colored, was brute cd Thursday afternoon, in the strectwtu West. Point, Tenn., for assault and tA brutal murder of Miss Rene Williams, white. The murderer was kicked to death nnd then cremated. J. T. Burgoies, ngent of Wells Fargo Express Company nt Tampico. Mex.. has been arrested on the charge of robbing that company of a package containing SG.OOO in currency. Two other employes of the otliee have also been arrested for alleged lompiicity in the robbery. A negro Thursday assaulted Mrs. Martin Thomas, a white woman, who lived in the country five miles from Elba. Ala. Shi- was alone in the house with her 6-months-old baby. Terrell struck the woman on the head nnd threw her on the bed beside her sleeping infant. Fagots of pine wood were then placed upon her by the brute and set on fire. The flames attracted some passers-by nnd they rescued the woman in time to get her dying statement. The baby was roasted. Terrell was arrested and was being given a preliminary trial, when a mob broke up the court and took him out and hanged him. WASHINGTON. The Senate has confirmed Louis Lange, Jr., of Chicago, to be consul at Bremen, Germany. It had been predicted that he would be defeated. The publication of Secretary Sherman's dispatch on the Behring Sea question relights momentarily in the English press the smoldering embers of recent criticisms of American diplomatic methods. The text of that dispatch is not pleasant leading in London, as the Pall Mall Gazette and other journals frankly admit. If 100 words had been taken out of the text the dispatch would have been accepted as an unobjectionable statement of the American case. As the matter stands, the implication that England has not ached with good faith is considered a bloA below the belt. The petulant comment^ of the London press to-day ought however, to be taken too seriously. Tlk action of the foreign otliee has discloser, willingness on the part of the Government to discuss the question without irritability. FOREIGN. Mrs. C. Dakyns, a wealthy American woman, said to be a relative of ex-Presi-dent Cleveland, Cjmmitte* suicide at Brussels. The British privy council has refused to entertain an appeal on behalf of Mrs. Uarew, sentenced to life imprisonment at Yokohama, for poisoning her husband. It is reported that a European conference will shortly be convoked in Vienna or Berlin to discuss measures to be adopted against the United States tariff policy concerning the sugar bounties. Mr. Hannis Taylor, the United States Minister to Spain, who is at present in San Sebastian, says the press report that the United States Legation authorized the story of the alliance between Spain and Japan against the United States is an absolute canard. It is announced that the negotiations for the purchase of La Esperanza gold mining property by U. D. Lane, representing a California syndicate, have been dosed at Toluca, Mexico. The Consideration was $6,000,000. Lane deposited SIOO,OOO ns an option on the mine a short time ago. Frank Butler, who was arrested at

efu— — ~ i San 1 rancisco while seeking to escape I a ,St vv e ’ haS been han K e(l «t Sydney, N. ? w ii ” for the ,nurder of Capt. Lee i A eller, u horn he enticed into the bush on the pretense of going on a gold prospectJlmg trip and then killed for a paltry t amount of property in his possession, f ”“ ort Jy before his execution Butler eonI f eS . 8 ^ that I,e lln< i not only killed Weller, I nut that he had murdered two oilier men I mimed Preston and Burgess in a similar - man ner. He also confessed other crimes. A dispatch from Faris to a news agency i . 1 -Uoudon says that inquiry at an Anu-r- --, lean embassy there has elicited a contirm- । of rumor that, the Governments ° ’’Pnin and Japan have arranged an offensive alliance against the United 1 i l .*? 8, . terms of the understanding, which is for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii, provide that in the event of an actively aggressive movement on the part of the United States tending toward interference in Cuban affairs or persistence in the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, both Spain and Japan shall declare war simultaneously against the United States and shall make hostile demonstrations along both the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines of that country, IN GENERAL. The dominion government has decided to put the alien labor law in force in western Ontario, as well as Manitoba, the North western Territories and British Columbia. ^Exports from the Vancouver consular I iiitinX,Hlates for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted to $2,501.48'J, the largest on record, being over $500,000 more than last year. El Mundo, a Mexican newspaper, comments unfavorably on the projected annexation of Hawaii to the United States, and intimates that Japan is able to make trouble for the United States. Obituary: At Middletown. N. J., Chas. Coudert of New York. J t Toronto, Ont.. Henry M. James of Memphis, Tenn. At Streator, 111., Michael Purcell. 60.—At Decatur, Mich., Mrs. Margaret Guy. Obituary: At Washington, ex Congress num John I-’. Farnsworth of Illinois, 77. —At New York. John O’Neill. At Whinhall, 111.. John North. G 2. At Becket, Mass., Mrs. C. Emeline Wadsworth Harris, 81. The following is an extract from n letter received by the Excelsior, just arrived at San Francisco ftom Alaska. It was sent from the Cloudyke region by a prom incut and wealthy young busim—s man of San Francisco to his brother: "The excitement on the river is indescribable and the output of the new Clotidv ke district almost layond belief. Men who bad nothing last fall arc now worth a fortune. One man lias worked forty square feet of his claim and is going out with $46,(J00 in dust. One-quarter of claims are now selling nt from $15,660 to B,'»O,IH>O. Ihe estimate ot tin- district given is thirteen miles, with an average value of 8300.000 to the claim, in which some are valued as high is SIJ | O6.OOO eti<-h. At Dawson sackH i f dust are thrown under the counters ill the store for safe keeping. Some of the stories are so fabulous that 1 am afraid to repent them. Labor is sls a day and board, with 100 days’ work guaranteed. so you can imagine how difficult it is to bold < mployes. If reports are true, it is the biggest placer discovery ever ntnde in the world, for though other diggings have been found quite as rich in spots, no sm-h extent of discovery lias been known which prospected nnd worked so high righk through." No wonder S' attic has gone stark, star ing mad < n gold. The North American Transportation Company's steamer Porthind reached that port Saturday from St. Michael- with at least a million and a quarter in gold dust as freight and sixtyeight miners aboard. Some of the miners have with them 875.1HM1. and not one of them hud It >s than ss,ihmi, every dollar of which has been taken from the Clondyke within t hoy ear. am! most of these men bin e claims in that fabulously rich region that almost leyond doubt will net them Lun dreds of thousand' more. In the captain's cabin were three chests and a large safe filled with the precious nuggets, most of it taken out of the ground in less than three nn nths of last winter. In size the nuggets range from that of a pea to a guinea hen's egg. One peculiar feature is that tin big strikes were made by “tenderfect." while the old miners of many years' exp<>rience. after suffering indescribable hardships and privations in Alaska and the Northwest Territory, have only a few thousand dollars to show for their labor. Fortune seemed to smile on the inexperienced men who went into the mining districts late last year, as nearly all of them were the most fortunate. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to 83.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2,25 cto 27c; oats. No. 2, 17e to 18c; tye, No. 2. 36c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c: eggs, fresh, 8c to 10c; new potatoes, 45c to 60c per bushel. Indianaiiolis—Cattle, shipping, 83.00 to Si .y.">Ji<>; hogs, choice light, 8”>.00 to $3. to; '■ sheep, omluioii to choice, $3.00 to $3.7.>: wheat. No. 2. 67c to 69c; corn. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. I/ouis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2. 32c to 34c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.<5; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2, mixed. 27c to 29c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; lie, No. 2,34 cto 36c . Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25, hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; ri e. 36c to 37c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2,36 cto 37c; clover seed. $-1.25 to $4.35. Milwaukee—Wh<-at. No. 2 spring. 75e to 77e; corn, No. 3. 26c to 28e; oats, No. 2 white. 21c to 23e: barley. No. 2. 30e to 35c: rye, No. 1,37 cto 38c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York —Cattle, $3.06 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, Western, 11c to 13c.

IT PASSES THE HOUSE THE NEW TARIFF MEASURE IS PUSHED ALONG. Labor of Republican Conferees Upheld by a Decisive Vote—Democrats Make a Vigorous Attack on Sugar Schedule—Vote Stands 185 to 1 18. Report Is Adopted. The conference report on the tariff bill was adopted by the House shortly after midnight Monday by a vote of 185 to 118. The result was accomplished after twelve hours of continuous debate. Only two speeches, were made by the Republicans—one by Mr. Dingley in opening the debate and one by Mr. Payne of New York in closing it. In all ten Democratic and one Populist speeches were made—M< ssrs. Wheeler of Alabama, Swanson of Virginia, Ball of Texas, Lanham of Texas, Kelly of North Dakota, Fleming of Georgia, Handy of Delaware, McDowell of Ohio, Berry of Kentucky, Bailey of Tqjias and McMillin of Tennessee being the speakers. The sugar schedule was the main point of assault, but the most interesting feature of the debate occurred when Mr. Bailey and Mr. McMillin, the two rival Democratic leaders, crossed swords on the question of orthodoxy of the free raw material doctrine, the former opposing and the latter championing it. The galleries were crowded up to the time the vote was taken, many distinguished people being present. Among them were a number of Senators, several members of the cabinet and a few members of the diplomatic corps. An analysis of the vote shows that ISO Republicans and 5 Democrats voted fol the report and 166 Democrats and 12 Populists against it. Expected to Raise $225,000,000. As to the question of revenue to be raised by the bill. Mr. Dingley pointed out the ditlb ulty resulting from the large anti<ipnt"ry importations. The bill next year, he i nleulab d, would raise $225,000,(M)O, S7S,(MMi,(HM) more than the present law. Over XIOJHfO.»N>o had been lost in this year's revenues by the importations of wool ami sugar and other things, the duty on wlii'h was raised in the bill, so that be raleulated that the bill this year would taise $185,006,000. The Treasury Department, taking 107.17 pounds of raw sugar testing !»6 degrees as required to make 160 pounds of hard refined, imide public a statement estimating the sugar differential, as follows: A t of IX9I, r.t.X2 cents; House si hedtne, 12.33 cents; Senate schedule. I'3 s;; cents; confetcuee schedule, 13.92 cents per 100 pounds. The following is a summary of the changes made by the conferees in other schedules. The conference reduced the Senate ad valorem of 20 per cent on hides Io 15 per cent, and added a proviso as follows : "That upon all leather exported made from imported hides there shall be allowed a drawback equal to the amount of duty paid on such hides, to be paid under such H gulations as the Secretary of the 1 reasury may prescribe.” The a< t was made operative immediately upon its passage. The changes in the wool schedule, made in confc'cm e, leave the duties on disputed items as follows; ‘Taragraph 351. The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of the first and second classes which shall be im;»orted scoured shall be thiee times the duty to which tl;ey would be subjected if impo' ted unwashed. The conference restored the House rates on first and second class wool. "Paragraph 367. On blankets and flannels for underwear, composed wholly or in part of wool, valued at not more than 40 cents a pound, the duty per pound shall be the same as the duty imposed by this act on two pounds of unwashed wool of the first class, and in addition thereto 30 per cent ad valorem. "I'atagraph 376. On clothing, readymade, and articles of wearing apparel of every description, made up or manufactured wholly or in part, felts not woven and not specially provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of wool, the duty per pound shall be four times the duty imposed by this act on one pound of unwashed wool of the first class, and in addition thereto 60 per cent ad valorem. ’ The duties on carpets range from 18 cents a square yard to 60 cents a square yard, plus 40 per cent ad valorem. The Reciprocity Clause. The reciprocity provision as agreed to by the conference contains some of the features of both the Senate and the House bills on this subject. What may be termed the retaliatory clause of the provision is that which empowers the President to suspend by proclamation the provisions of this act providing for Ilie free introduction of coffee, tea. Tonquin or tonka beans and vanilla beans commg from any country which imposes duties upon products of the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable. The rates which he is thus empowered to fix are: On coffee, 3 cents a pound; on tea, 10 cents a pound; on tonka beans, 50 cents a pound; on vanilla beans. $2 a pound; on cuts. sl. The President is required to act within two years in securing these reciprocal trade treaties, and they are to be submitted to the Senate for its ratification. Articles are to be reduced to the extent of 20 per cent in these treaties, and the President is specificall.v authorized to enter into negotiations which w ill place certain articles upon the free list for a specified period of five years. The President is empowered to revoke the concession when satisfied that the agreement is not adhered to in good faith by any other country with which an agreement shall have been made. Fire broke out in a large building on the Hausvogter-Platz, the center of the dress and mantle trade in Berlin, causing a loss of between 6,6(10.900 and 7,000,000 marks. The firms of Frankel & Backer and Leon were the chief sufferers. Ihe goods destroyed represented large American orders. Probate Judge Frank Randolph, who two vears ago became a defaulter at Montgomery, Ala., and fled to South America, has been sentenced to death at Bogota. Colombia, for the murder of a German merchant.

WORK OF CONGRESS. THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington — Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The Senate was in a deadlock for several hours M ednesday, with business at a standstill, while calls of the Senate, roll calls and other parliamentary expedients were resorted to. It was due to the effort to secure action on the resolutions of Mr. Harris of Kansas, designed to prevent the disposal of the Government lien on the Union Pacific Railway under the terms of an alleged agreement. No final vote on the motion was secured. It finally went over. In the House Mr. Henderson of lowa asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a joint resolution to permit the erection of a temporary studio on the future site of the statue of Gen. Sherman, for the erection of which a contract has been made. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Cannon moved non-concurrence in the Senate amendment to the general deficiency bill. '1 ho motion prevailed, and Messrs. Cannon, Northway and Sayers were appointed conferees. Mr, Stewart moved in the Senate Thursday a reconsideration of the action of the Senate in passing the resolution directing the Secretary of War to proceed in the construction of a breakwater at San I’cdro, Cal. It reopened the longstanding controversy over the location of a deep water harbor on the Pacific coast and led to an exciting debate between Mr. Stewart and Mr. White of California. The motion to reconsider was disagreed to. Mr. Thurston, chairman of the Committee on International Expositions, secured Ilie passage of the joint resolution accepting the invitation of the French republic to take part in the international expos'.tion at Paris in 1900. Mr. Tillman secured the passage of the bill in relation to the interstate transportation of distilled spirits and declaring such spirits to be subject to State laws to the same extent as spirits distilled in the State. The House did nothing. In the Senate Friday the Harris resolution relating to the Union Pacific Railroad was further discussed. The conference report on the deficiency appropriation bi’l was considered. Mr. Hale said the price of armor plate was not included in the icport. Nothing had been done on that subject except that the Senate conferees had stated positively that the Senate would not consider any sum over S3OO for armor. The report was agreed to and a further conference ordered. Mr. Morgan secured the adoption of a resolution requesting the President for information as to the arrest of Alfred O. 11. Hugnet, a citizen of the United States, by the Spanish authorities at Havana Sept. 6. 1896. On motion of Mr. Pettigrew of South Dakota the bill was passed to give the consent of Congress to a compact entered into between the States of South Dakota and Nebraska respecting the boundary between said States. The House agreed to the partial conference report on the n'-noral deficiency bill and then voucuiTed in the Senate amendment fixing the limit of cost of armor plate for the three battle-ships now building at S3OO per ton. The < onference report on the tariff bill was adopted by the House shortly after midnight Monday by a vote of 18u to 118. This eclipses all previous records. The result was accomplished after twelve hours of continuous debate. But two speeches were made by the Republicans, on<- by Mr. Dingley in opening the debate and one by Mr. Payne of New York in closing it. In all ten Democratic and one Populist speeches were made. The sugar schedule was the main point of assault. Every Republican in the House who was present voted for the report. The Democrats, with five exceptions, voted against the report. The exceptions were Slayden of Texas, Broussard of Louisiana, Meyor of Louisiana, Davey of Louisiana and Kleberg of Texas. An analysis of the vote shows that 180 Republicans and five Democrats voted for the report, and l(Hi Democrats and twelve Populists against it. The tariff conference report was presented to the Senate Tuesday, but little progress was made on it beyond the formal reading of about two-thirds of the report. Mr. Tillman openlj - threatened a filibuster until next December if cotton bagging and cotton ties were not restored to the free list, but the threat was regarded as somewhat facetious. The sugar amendments occasioned a long debate, and the lumber amendment also brought out animated criticism from SenatorsTeller and Pettigrew. Early in the day the Semite passed a joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President to take all necessary steps for the release of the Uompetitor prisoners frean prison at Havana. Representative ^Mitchell of New York has inlroduccd a bill in the House to establish a currency reserve fund for the redemption of United Slates and treasury notes iff 1890. The fund shall .aggregate at the start $150,000,000, of which not over $100,000,000 shall consist of gold and the remainder of United States treasury notes. The fund shall be added to from time to time as the treasury’s cash balance exceeds $75,000,000. but shall never aggregate more than $200,000,006. The fund shall be used to redeem United States and treasury notes, which shall not be reissued, except in exchange for gold, to be deposited in the reserve fund. Counted the Geese. T’mler Henry V. of England an act of Parliament ordered all the geese in England to be counted, and the sheriffs of the counties were required to furnish six arrow feathers from each goose. Passing of the Skirt Dance. France is doing away with the skin danee and there is a return to favor of the beautiful, stately dances—the minuet. the gavotte, the pavane, and the saraband—which lent grace to the eighteenth century. Hawaii's Best Safeguard. The American flag over Hawaii will be a better defense for the islands than half a dozen warships charged with maintaining an uncertain protect-orate.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.