The Syracuse Register, Volume 5, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 August 1894 — Page 2

>ijvacus. SYRACUSE : : INDIANAThe value of public school property in the United. States is estimated . at $400,000,000. . i A New York syndicate has been formed for the purpose of buying an island off the coast of .Maine, stocking it with black- foxes and engaging in the fur trade In 1893. 3,341 ships passed through the Suez canal, yielding 808.000,000 in dues. The canal is only 8S miles long,” i but it,reduced the distance from England to India, by sea, nearly 4.000 . mi lea tVhat is generally believed to be Jhe first iron bridge ever built is still in Use.. It spans a small stream on the Worcester A ‘Shrewsbury railroad in England, and was erected in 1778. It ' feet iong. ' - J Ttu: project for. erecting a monument to John Brown at Harper's Ferry . has progressed solar t hat a committee, of w hich Fred DouglaSs is chairman, has been appointed and-steps w ill be taken to raise 812,000 for a granite shaft. • ' i — —« • The Ixmdon Missionary society jn ’ its hundredth rear has 1.47'1 native min- ‘ isters. 61778 other mate native workers. 94, 192 church members and 125.984 scbolhrs in its The income has been the year closing with a debt of about 8166,000. * Tbs displacement Os labor bjr labotr j s;» tig.. appliance' is markedly illustrated by the fact that eleven electric ; jsiwvr traveling cranes recently put ’ ir.-to use in the yards of the Carnegie ! Steel company at Homestead fias dis- j pcr.sed with fifty men. Gn. Rbx sto.se tells the farmers of 1 this country that they lose 800,000,000 anuiially, owing to the badnesa of the ' ?roa is.. It >s pure loss. too. and no- j b» -.• i.r. as though some flourish-" ing tow n was burned off. the face of the earth each year;, w ithout a dollar ■ of.insurance I' ' I Tur tunn<the .world are estir orated to number about- 1,142, w ith a total length us 514, mile,s. There are about l.'s'i railroad tunnels, twelve ► üba.j'ueoii- tunnels', ninety canal tunHeis. and forty conduit tunnels, with nggrygate lengths of 350. miles, nine in os. seventy . mtjes and’ eighty-five Doles respectively « Ir takes not less than 2,600 red cedar trees t-> sup; ly wood for the pencil j Braii'o'n :.u< •ftth s e rnntry. Alabama w;is <>heh the: great cedar pencil producing stale, but its cedar ts exhausted. Manufacturers have tested other kinds of wood w ith a view- to finding a substitute for: cedar, but ao far without, success. ‘I I itoM fa: Si uth Afric’s .sur.nv dime cotne- a sluty that the rights.of women •.arc 1 afnpled upoh—or rather an attempt has lu-vn made in that directs :. .A m- u- .’ .1 has h.--n ■."■ued :u u B : c ,ty prayi’ng t;iat in future .11 shall be allow cd'.to be of th. female -• v Just how the women arc to rd around tike difficulty Os birth is not clear. I Gi im a.s > :s « . !!;’ to smash anarchy un-i anarchist', alsi. The emperor has . ordered the preparation' of brils to ex-. . tir'pai'- afmrcti. s::., and to repress such socialists as, help to breed the anarchistic virus by palliating recourse t > u • ter as an instrument o r social •revolution.. Tin- ibss-Tsslus. of. Europe driven from their [haunts will doubtless swarm to the Brined. Mates. Tawiiiii it ss people who are pratfling of the nerjl., d ”.a.stronger gOV-, ' rnit.cnt ' do not stop to reflect that we Lave a federal briny of 35.W0 men; that there are ever UX’JxXI state militia'of m -t ■ ' presidetftis »'.>mmander in chief, and that there are over 13.006,000 men of military age iu the United Mates, fully jj.oothotx) of whom are ready, at the first calk to take up arms i f<>r the -tars and strips Whehe is there a stronger government? ■ The bullet pt<K>f ’showmen, finding a New York stateflaw forbids such exposure of life, must resort to other w a-. sto exhibit their shields. So Lennanl. the first American Inventor in this line, has put his shield on a donkey and then had a Springfield fired at the patient little beast. The bullet went through one-half inch of the en tire thiekne.xs of oue and three-quar-ter inches. A similar bullet was first tired through sixteen inches of pine boards. - lx IX3O the proportion of lawyers to the male population in this country wax 1 to ami in IBxo It was 1 to 39A’ The number of lawyers in legislatures has always been greater than their proportion of the population would warrant. Os the» entire number of United States senators since 17-7. out of 3.122 have been lawyers. Os the 24 presidents of the United States 19 have been lawyers. Seventeen of the 33 yiee presidents and fill of the 283 cabinet officers have be n members of the bar. The members of the house of representatives as a rule are lawyers. [ TttK sparrow' threatens to become as great a pest as. the rabbit in Australia. They “Rave a “sparrow act" in South Australia, under which the local J bodies in certain badly-infested dia- ! tricts were compelled to spend much money in the destruction of the bird< ami now the government has found it necessary to extend .the application of the act to all the set tied parts of the •colony Syarrows,«rabbits and various other imported fauna thrive remarkably m the warm and congenial Australian climate, and it is now. of course, a matter of general regret that they were eter imported, f Lure Rock lighthouse, at the southern end of Newport harbor, i* a favorite visiting place for strangers, who go there not so much to see the light as to meet its famous keeper, Ida Lewis. She is over 30 years old now. but she can handle an oar as quickly and as well as when she began her record of lifjesaving. with the rescue of four small boys whose boat had capsised in the harbor. Hdr salary is 8740 and two tons of coal a year. She la the only woman lightkeeper in the country, and the department admits that no light on the coast is lietter cared for than is by W keeper, Ida Lewin

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. UFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Regular Seaaion. Mojtoay, Aug. 30. — The amended (sugar oill and the coal, iron ore and [barbed wire bills were reported in the senate. The bills placing wool, coal and iron ‘on the free list were ori .dered on the calendar. The senate then went into executive session, but owing to the lack of a quorum adjourned until the 22d- No quorum could be got together in the house, consequently no session was held. Ti'f,si>ay, Aug. 21.—The senate was not’in. session, ’in the house there was not a quorum present when ! its-tession began, but members sought 1 to take up several measures by unanimous consent.' The senate bill allowing an additional 854.000 for the public tpiilding at Little Rock, Ark,, was passed. The senate bill for the exclusion and deportation of gli'en anarchists was called up, but objection being made to its consideration it went over under the rulesi Wepxksiiay. Aug. 22.—1 n the senate the members present at the opening session numbered twenty-one — less than half of. a qporum. The vice president announced his signature to [ the deficiency bill/ A motion was made.that the sergeiint-at-arms be di- ’• rec ted to request the attendance of absent senators, which he did. and ati executive session was held. The house * was not in.session. 1 Thi KShAY, Aug. 28. —After an hour's wail the senate was unable to secure a quorum, and adjourned. A ■ clerk reached the Capitol with some important nominations, but owing, to the absence of alquorum they could not be laid before Vue senate., iu the house thy chairman Xpf * the committee on naval affairs presented the preliminary report upon tfie investigation of the armor plate apd billets furnished to the government by the ( arnegie Meel Company. The bill to give the Hutchinson A Southern Railroad company two more years in which I to build the road, through the* Indian territory was passed. (Friday, Aug. 24.—1 n the senate the house joint ri solution was adopted i for a final adjournment August at 2 p. m.. after which an executive sesisioi- was held, and ail; nominations to Xvhich no objections were offered Were confirmed. In the l-,<.use a joint resolution was adopted f<.r a final adjournment bn the '.'sth The anti-anarchist bill was brought up and an amendment to it offered, but objection'being made to its consideration the bill went over. » ’ .— US—FROM WASHINGTON. • • Ix the I’diited 'States there were 234 business .failures in the seven days ctidc I pn the 24th, against 236- the Week previohs and 41b in the corre- ! spouding time in 1893. At the -leading clearing houses in the United Mates the exchanges during the week ended on the 24th aggregated 8- .4'.’s.rtKi. against StVO.fis.i.. - ■ t lie previous week. -Th# decrease, compared with* the corersponding week m was 19.5. *, / J: i'AIKST <'<>MMISSIO.XFH Skymoik re-jstf-ts 81,496 patents issued during the year, and 13,167 expired. THE EAST. Tiiot SAXDSpf employes of the textile works’ at New Bedford. Mass., went on strike on account of reduction of wag¥a. Kepi bi tcAxs of Delaware in state conventi -n at Dover nominated Joshua K ilarvill for governor. I Thomas HaRTKR, of Espletiborough, Ta.. re-lurnitig home from a short vacation found his wife murdered and fyisi two children, aged 2 and 4 years, .nearly starved to death. , ’ Ji i iktte Fot rrikß und Julius de Murcus were found dead in Central park. New York. It was supposed they Uoinmi t ied suicide. NKOKO and Slav miners indulged, in a fight at West Overton. Pa.,.during which one man was fatal.ly shot. Tun textile strike has eeveloped into a lockout, and as a result 25,000 mill ' operatives of Fall River, Mass.. arftSs idle ’. ! [ « I’Kor. J. Hixkki.. who fpr yeirs occu pied the chair ofLatin and Greek literature at Vassar college, died from heart failure at Amaganset-t. L. 1 I<T an explosion of gas iu the Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa., two men were killed and eleven, injured. WEST ANO SOUTH. Ax express train' on the Paducah, Tennessee A Alabama railway struck a wagon loaded with.people at Hazel, K , killing fiv<f of the occupairts. Fntr. at Bowling Green. Kv\ destroy id property valued at 82001000, two entire blocks being burned. At Kla.math Falls, Ore., Wj Thompson was taken from jail aqd lynched by a mob. Thompson was held in jail, on a minor charge, but had a bad repulation. Ar Omaha, -Neb., L O. Loffer was killed and Matt. Goschet seriously injured by a fall from a scaffold. AViixian MtT'oRMRK, deputy postmaster at Wordsworth, 0., waa drowned at Lake Brady. Rkpvblk axb of Nebraska in convention at Otn&ha nominated a ticket headed bytThomas J Majors for govj ernor. . ■■ ‘ ■ John Lind and Louis Burg were killed and four, others injured by the explosion of attraction boiler on a I farm near La Moure. N. D. Thu attorney general has decided tiial women will hereafter be allowed ; to vote for superintendent of public instruction in North Dakota. LtEiT. J. R. Rathb<»n. United States army, committed suicide at Perry, a t. Gkobae Baldwin was murdered in the presence of his family by Deputy Sheriff Jackson Lily and a posse in the Choctaw Nation. At Davenport, la.. Cot William E. Bundy, of Ohio, commander in chief of the Sons of Veterans. At the triennial convention at Topeka. Kan., John W. Cbbnrn, of New York, was elected grand master of the general grand chapter of Royal Arch ' Masons. Mixers in Ohio who have been on strike for an advance in wages would resume work September 1 at the operators' prices, y J. M. Winstead, a prominent citizen of Greenhorn, N, C, committed suicide by jumping from a# balcony on the fourth story of the city hall. Henry R Pearson committed suicide at Kassas City because of a shorthis acountewlth the PlaAodMMr

Is a wreck on the Chicago <k Northwestern road-near Fort Atkinson, Wis., three men were.killed and three seriously injured. j, William Bland, a prominent and wealthy citizen of the Concmaugti, committed suicide at Johnstown. Pa., while melancholy from business reverses and drink. , Congressional nominations were made as follows oi the 23d: New Jersey, First district, IL C. Loudenslager (rep.). Tennessee,Third district, Foster V. Brown .(rep.). Nebraska, j Sixth district,, Omar M. Kem (pon.). j Kansas. Third district, W. T. Sapp ' (dem.). Pennsylvania, Fortieth dis- [ trict, D. 8. Walton (rep.); Twentjeighth district, Aaron.Wil.iams(dem.). North Carolina. Sixth district, J. A. Lockart (dem.). New York, Twentythird district, W*. T. Foot. Jr. (rep.). Missouri, Seventh district, 0. B. Wisker (pro.). Virginia. Fifth district Claude Swanson (dem.); Sixth district, O. C. Rucker (pro.): Tenth district, Edmund R. Cooke (pop.). Missouri, Fifth district, B. P. White (pop.). Florida, Second district, C. M. Cooper (dem.): Mont Atkinson (pop). Bki ai sl he had been accused of embezzlement, William Day. former champion cross-country runner of the country, hanged himself. At the national encampment at Davenport Miss Madge Howe, of Springfield, 111., wife elected preskient of the i.a lies' Aid stMiety. auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans. At Helena. Ark.. Philip Peters (colored) was banged for killing his wife. An emigrant's wagon near Columbus, Tex., was struck by lightning, killing bu-band and wife, but leaving their babe unhurt. William Jackson and John Vermillion were killed and a number of others seriously injured by the bursting of a sawmill boiler at Frankfort, Ind. « H. O. King, a mechanical engineer of Memphis, was killed by Alex Carr, an employe to whom he was indebted. California democrats in state convention at San Francisco nominated Congressman James Budd ■for goT- [ ernor. Al Franklin, Wash., an explosion of gas in a mine imprisoned sixty-two men, thirty-seven of whom were taken put dead, . Richakd Jordan and Riley Walker, two negroes convicted of murder, were I taken from a train at Mitchell's Station. Ala.. and lynched. At Forest City. Mo., Mrs. L. B. Christ, together with her twochildren, was burned to death as a result of a gasoline explosion. G. L. a han. of was elected grand high chief of .the grand chapter of the Royal Arch Masons at the[convention in Topeka. A freight train was held up at Deerfield,lll..,4 1 .., by two men. who killed a 1 detective who was on the train and robbed the conductor. PoPfLiSTS of »Nebraska nominated a ticket' headed by Silas A. Holcomb for : governor, . , FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Advices state that by the explosion of a gunpowder wagon in Largo do Sanidad, Rio: Janeiro, thirty-two persons were killed, many more were wbnnded. aud several houses were de--molished. - Rains in Mexico caused the overflow of the Nassas river. Fifteen persons were drowned>and many families were tnade homeless. , I At Forest. Ont., a tbrasbing'machine in William Hayward’s barn broke the cylinder shaft and tired the straws and two men who were in the mow were burned to death. , Nr.ab Durango. Mex., a eave-in occurred in one of the mines' burying ten miners. Six of the men were rescued alive, but the others were dead when found. Corkan advices state.that in a battle between Chinese and Japanese 1.300 of the latter were killed., F. Fkazer. of Toronto, until recently commissioner of publie works in the Toronto cabinet, was found dead in bed. * ■ At New Westminister. B. C., Hugh Lyon, was hanged for killing a peddler on Sanary island. ,j . LATER NEWS. A TiKRiTLE u r . ane, swept over the Sea of Azov., in Russia, and many vessels were sunk and over 1,009 persons draw ped. , Thomas W. Heathcote, chairman Os the Pullman strikers’committee, declared the strike.at an end. Tux'democrats of the Fifth California district nominated J, I’. Kelly for congress and Daniel C. McKinnon was nominated by the populists in the First district of Florida. In convention at Reno the republicans, of Nevada nominated A. C. Cleveland for governor. . j Adam A. Parbott, his wife and two of their three children were drowned while attempting to ford the Scioto { river in a wagon near Portsmouth, 0. Twenty persons were badly injured by the falling of » bridge in Fairmount park at Kansas City. ) The Steamer New Y’ork made the ! passage! from Southampton to New Yorkiinsjxtiayseight hours and thirtyeight minutes, breaking all previous records. Lightning from an almost cloud leas sky killed William Carr, aged 20, who was bathing at Atlantic City. N. J. B. F. Griswold and., William Lake, I whqheld upabL I*aul train at Deerfield, 111., and killed Special Officer Owens, weye captured after "a running fight in which they shot an officer and both were wounded. In her speech proroguing the British parliament the queen said strict neutrality would be observed in the war between China and Japarf. j G. E, Williams won the bieyele road race from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, traversing the 234 miles in 30 hours And 37 minutes. ’ - j At Washington park, Chicago. Di rectly paced a mile in 2:10&. lowering the w orld's record for two-year-olds a quarter of a >econ«L John Newell, of Chicago, aged 64, president and general manager at the Lake Shore railroad, died of apoplexy at Youngstown. O. Abs Blzxard, the notorious Pennsylvania outlaw, was sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment for burglary. The town of Guerneville, Cat, was destroyed by fire. The percentages of the baseball clubs in the national league for the week ended on the. 25th were; Boston, .060; Baltimore, .640; New York. .635; Philadelphia. Cleveland. .540; Brooklyn, .525; Pittsburgh. .500; Chicago. .456; Cincinnati, ,43d; SL Louis, .404; Washington, .880; Louisville, ,81L

BUN DOWN. eaMMWaaMwMa «a Two Men Attack a Northwestern Tram Near Chicago. A Detective Killed and the Conductor Bobbed—Caught After a Long Cbaso— They Shoot a Policeman and Are Shot Themselves. MAN-HVNT NEAR CHICAO. Chicago, Aug. 27. —At 10 o’clock Frli day night a north-bound freight train i on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road was held up by two masked men i at Deerfield a small station just north of the line between Cook and Lake counties. Patrick Owens, one of the ' detectives of the road, who was riding on the train, was shot and killed and the watch of Conductor Sarjent, who was in charge of the train, was take.n from him- This was the only plunder ! secured by the robbers. The train ■ had stopped to allow the engineef to take water from a tank, and ! within thirty seconds after it had to a standstill the two masked men climbed into the ! caboose and ordered the conductor and 1 one brakeman. ' who were in the caboose, to throw up their hands. The men were forced to obey.. .The detective entered and showed fight and he was shot and instantly killed by one of the bandits. Both of them jumped from the train and disappeared in the 1 darkness. The news of the murder and robbery bad meanwhile been telegraphed to every station along the St. Paul and Northwestern roads and aH the railroad detectives were on the lookout for the men.. Conductor Simmonds on the freight train .which the men b earded saw them riding in a gondola or high-sided coal car. Suspecting that the men on his train were the train robbers, Simmonds telegraphed to Station Agent Marshall at Mayfair. The latter at once called Special Officer McGrath to assist him the two waited on the platform for the train to pull in. As it reached the station and stopped McGrath saw thjj two men in the coalcar and at once clambered on a boxcar just «head of the car in which the men were riding. As . he reached the roof of t(ie car one of the ' bandits dropped on one knee and raised a heavy horse pistol, steadying it with both hands and resting it on his knee. Three shots came yi quick succession from the big * revolver, each one striking Officer McGrath. “Help me, Marshall,, I’ve got it in the side." he cried and fell on the roof of the car. Station Agent Marshall was unarmed and could do nothing to check the flight of the two men ; who jumped from the train and fled west across the fields to Milwaukee, ■ avenue. McGrath was hastily carried f to a house near by, whence he was afterwara removed to St. Luke’s hos-! pi'tai, wherehe lies in a critical jeondiI tipn. One ball passed through his i right breast,'another broke Kis arm i,, ■ and the third passed through his leg.' ‘ After this second Tiit of bloody work the bandits hastened out Holcomb av-! ec je ,to Lawrence avenue, Ou the ! way they met Jlenj-y Eggerston. a , farmer in a wagon on the nay to *the [ city. It was but a moment's work to : throw him out and talje p3!NeSsion of his vehicle. With horses to draw them the thieves made better'time and .they ; were soon on their way to a hiding place. • ’ The fugitives were hotly chased by boys and men on horses and a body of police in a patrol wagon. ' They finally took to the woods that skirt the pesplaines river. More policemen arriving, the robbers were surrounded in a cornfield. Their capture was only effected after a hard fight in which fully 100 shots were j exchanged. The desperadoes fought off the blue coats and excited civilians participators in the man-hunt unt.il their ammunition was exhausted an 1 then, uaable longer to reply to the fire that was poured, in upon their retreat, the men sought safety in flight. Bullets from the officers' revolvers brought both men to the earth and when the police apprehended their game the men were weak from loss of blood. One was shot in the back and the other in the neck. Neither is badly injured. The crowd which ■ had gathered wanted to lynch the ; men but the police held the mob back with drawn revolvers. The prisoners [ were taken at once to the West Chicago avenue station. The desperate fellows gave their names as William Lake and P. F. Gor-, don. It has since that's i Gordon's right name*-is. H. 'F. GrisI wold, who resided with his wife; in this city. Ilis family connec-; tiohs. it is said, are of the high-> esL His - parents live in New: York city where his father holds a trusted position with the Home Insurance company. At the time young Griswold committed his crime he was [ in the employ at a large salary of the [ Manchester Assurance company.which ' has a number of offices in During the daytime he filled the important position of tire-risk inspector. I which he used as a cloak - tor his marauding excursions during the night. Lake, hia accomplice, appears to have been the Griswold, who i persuaded him to join him in his career ; ; .of crime. He is a skilled haberdasher, j and prior to his recent crime had borne . : a good* reputation. I M«rctauit« IMaappear. I New Yobk. Aug. 27.—Benjamin and ; Morris Kraus, constituting the firm of Kraus Bros., dealers in Carriages and harness in Brooklyn and New York, are missing, leaving their creditors to -mourn their departure. It is said they; have disposed of nearly 875,000 worth of • goods, secured for the most sart on four . months' time, and have decamped with [■ the proceeds. They laid in large stocks of carriages, wagons and harness, and bought from city dealers and from others all over the countrv. This stock 1 was disposed of at auction, ent rates : or any other way to get rid of it on a 1 cash baa is. Nine PrrMMW MurderedVienna, Aug, 21—Robbers attacked the home of a wealthy Jewish farmer named Bibrovic, in the village of Boachewein. and murdered the whole family, which eight persons besides Herr Bibrovic. F The robbers, • after plundering the house, set fire, to it, and it was burned to the ground. There is no clew to the perpetratersA Ball Flijers Fe.t Washing tms. Aug. 27. -Billy Shriver, of the Chicago Baseball club, on Sun- , day caught a hal ; lueowq from the i vvishingu-u nfcfntimedk, aHiwaace'iff I 6OJ feet. «

SAYS STRIKES DO GOOD. | Gompers Declare* They Expose Industrial Evils and Suggest Reforms. Chicago, Aug. 27.—When the labor commis- * Bion met at 10 a. m. three distinguished labor leaders were ready to go on the stand. They were SamucJ A. Gompers. president of the American I ederatjon of Labor. Eugene V. Debs and George W. Howard, president and vice president of the American Railway union. This was Mr. Gompers’ first appearance. Com- j missioner Kernan was not present during the ' session. Mr. Debs was called first. He read a letter written to him by a t-legraph man at South Butler. Mont., named Calderhead, which explained that the pH rase “sc ve .your money and buy a gun” was a standing joke sentence used time and again by telegraph operators and understood by them as nothing more than s joke. The letter also said that its writer understood from the first that the telegram containing the phrase was sent by : 'Mr. Benedict and not by Mr. Debs. Mr. Debs did not have any personal -j definite knowledge of blacklisting A suggestion had been made tp the commission advocating an amendment to > the O'Neill act to bond corporations and labor organizations to secure arbitration. Mr. Debs ! did not favor anytilt>g that looked like com- ‘ pulsory arbitration. President Samuel Gompers of the American \ Federation of Labor was then called to the I witness stand. He said the federation had a j membership of 500.000. He told the commis- I sion about the Briggs' house conference of ! July 12; at which there were present repre- I sentatives of all the prominent national 1 labor organizations. This conference was called upon by a committee irons several Chicago unions asking that a general strike be or- • dered as suggested. The request 'was considered I carefully, and tho conference of the American ■ Federation of Labor came to the conclusion tnat the president Of* the United States should I be called upon to dp whatever there was in his power to bring the great labor trouble to an amicable settlement. To that end a. telegram I was sent to the president asking that he either , come to Chicago or send some one to act for ? him in: a conference with the elective . council of the American Federation of i.aboV. The president did not reply to the telegram. I The council decided that it would be detri- i mental to the cause to indorse a general strike, ' j as rhe American federation had no such au- ■ thoity. even were its members so disposed. I Mr. Wright asked under what circumstances [ the federat ion could order a general strike. This, the president said, would be very difficult except under the conditions pertaining to the early days of the organization. To-day a general strike would have to arise by separate votes in all ■ local unions. and this action would have to be crystallized in the general convention of the federation. It ■wasdecided in 1889 that a genyr-il strike for f the eight-hour ruiet would be uhwise. The I main fight of the federation has been to secure the eight-hour day. but strikes have not been used largely for that purpose. The throwing of the Haymarket bomb had killed the federation s eight-hour werk. Mr. Gompefssaid he bad no scheme for the ■ abolition of strikes, boycotts and industrial disturbances, lie said that he did not join in the denunciation ’of strikes. So long as the present system of 'labor and trade exists there would,, be strikes. 'The . strike shows that the workingman has ■ left yet some honor, manhood and tourage. j Strikes have forced tjie employing ejas-c s and the rest of the world to pay some attention to the labor question. Strikes were not the tailures they were usually’ written down to be. ! More than two-thirds of the strikes were . ictories for the laborers involved, Mr. Gompers said that strikes bettered the condition of the people generally, eveh when they failed. Employes -j of a railroad strike. The corporation hires | other men. These, new men certainly elevate ■ their economic condition, else they wouldn’t j make the change. Mr; Gompers said his obser- ’ rations.had le-3 him to believe that the men I who str*ke are not lowered do Evt take’rela- ; tive positions, with the other men. So that. I even fiuling ,sti efit th< nmt n He did net advocate strikes where it was pos- ■' ..alble to do without them. He believed iu vol- I utitary arbitration. ? He was not prepared to say that’s’at. social- j ism would be the remedy: he did.believe in the | government ownership of railways aid all means of transportation and communication. He said: ’ ; “The government already operates a great number of. railroads. If it can operate a bank- ’ rupt read j do not see why it could not operate i it before It become* bankrupt • The, more the w age-worker gets the more he I wants. You will find that the man who earns , *1 a day wants sor IO Cents more, a ;-u> . the ; man who earns $3 wants 25 or 31) cents more: the man who gets JS.ftX) wants £7.000, and’the man with 850.000.OOJ,Waits the earrfi. Mr. Gompers thought the beneficial outcome of the recent strike was the appointment of the commission beforewhich he was testifying. only it would have been better it the commission had been sent, to Chicago earlier -during the strike. Lie thought that it would have been able to bring the General Managers’ association and the leaders of the labor organizations together. The witness had some-things lie wanted to say about the injunctions issued by court. He held that these injunctions were not rightly based bn the inter state commerce law. that that law was not Intended to apply to labor organizations. . He” sail the injunct Kins ' were based on court-made law. upon decisions given in the absence of law. He held further that “old musty laws” made a hundred years ago. before the application of steam and electricity to industry ■ had ever been dreamed oL were not pliable enough elastic" enough to deal with the problems of to-day. ' Conditions had changed so that the laws should be Changed. A humane and I enefivial law. when passed. was not infrequently pronounced unconstitutional. BASEBALL. 9 Standing of the, Various Professional I'lufia—Recent Games. ■The following table shows the number of games won and lost this’season bv clubs’of the’ National .Baseball league: •Cl/ÜBS. . . Ho% Boston <s* 3 > Baltimore *♦ l*> '’*• New York .*5 Philadelphia .M 4-’ Cleveland cd to Pittsburgh «t 51 5W Chicago 17 M 45e Cincinnati...:.. M 57 13d St. Louis ’ 1-' Washington.. . .. .... ....34< CT 339. Louisville, .... .j , 34 .■' We-tern league: * CLCBS. hi- Zerf' Sioux Citv. ■ • » « -Sgl Kansas ettv ;* 2 1? Toledo 5- ?■* Indianapolis.,.t.... J.A.... - J; Grandßapids ....... ® J,f Detroit «- ■” * Milwaukee. .. ...—..-at ”3 344 Western association: cxcas. ’ .'«>• t-e Rock Island -4 45 Peoria » G.. St Joseph . 5. 4r . , Omaha • Jacksonville ® i Quincy 37. »» DROWNED AT A FORD. Ex-t’ounty Cuiautulvri r FarraiG. Wife, and Children Perish Near Portsmouth. 0.. Aug. 27. —Word has reached here of the drowning of four persOßS il miles north of this village. Adam A. Parratt. ex-county commissioner, and jhis wife ■ and three children tiding in .a- spring wagon, attempted to ford the Scioto river, it being very low. but the team struck a sinkhole-find all the occurpants of the wagon were drowned except a 12-year-old boy. who managed to get to shore. W Drowned in t harie* Kicer. , Waltham, Mass., Aug. 27.—Benjamin Kershaw, and Robert Thomas, middle-aged men, and Johnnie rvershaw. aged 10. were drowned ir. the , Charles river here by the overturning Hos a canoe. While the three were paddling up the rivejf the men attempted to throw a large dog overboard. In the effort the -canoe was capsized and all went down. The P»U»u»B Strike Is Off Cuoago.- Aug. 27.—Thomas W. I Heathcote, chairman of tha Puiitiao . I strikers’ cvmmjtuje, in »let«-*r ha* <ie- ; aUroi tn's rti’ifeat anend. I

THE NEW TARIFF RATES. Reductions Made by the Senate BUI as Compared with the McKinley Act. * The following is a statement of the average ad valorem rates of duty of the McKinley law and senate bill, with the percentage of reduction made by the senate bill on the under-men-tioned articles: Percent. McKinley. Senate. Seduction. Camphor, refined.... 13.20 10. 18 03 Sumac, extract 0f... 23.24 10. 56.97 Epsom salts 38.34 25 52 33.46 Castor 0i1..100 35 43.87 56.28 Cod liver 0111.... 1... 28.65 20. 30.19 Opium prepared for smoking 169 65 84.82 50.00 Chromium c010r5.... 80.84 20 66 « 33.33 Ochre 19.64 16.37 16.66 Sienna ....21.64 17.62 16.66 Umber 25.80 21.50 16 66 Spirits varnishes.... 69.66 89.56 14.88 All other varnishes. 35 00 25 00 28.57 Whitlng.dry 142.48 71.24 60. i Ground lnoll(putty)lß9.so 94.75 50. White lead 59.21 29.60 50. Nitrate of potash . . «1 32 10.66 50 Bicarbonate of soda. 60.47 30 24 50. ichromate ®f soda. 50. 25. 50. Strychnia or strychnine.. 93 79 70 34 25. ’ Sulphur,.sublimed 28 66 20 00 25.00 Sumach, ground 19 81 10.00 49 5? ’ China, painted, etc , 60 00 95 00 41.67 Plain , 55 00 90 00 45 45 Bottles, empty.:..., TO 17 c? 63 25 FlUed 71 48 63 61 25. Demijohns, empty;, 37 91 28.43 25. I Manufactures of glass. J ..... 60 35. 41 CT i Cylinder glass, perished. unsilvered., 20 to 64 13 to 48 25 to 38 Plate glass, undelivered, cast, etc, . 98 to 174 88t0222 10 to 30 I’lateglass.fiuted.ete 49 to 64 37 to 43 *25 to 33 Plate glass, cast, slivered.above 24x26 49 39 31.28 36 CT Cylinder and crown glass: silvered , ,- 43.88 27.79 36 CT Spectacle lenses 60 35 41. CT Stained or painted window glass 45 35 .22 22 Roofing Slate, 1..,. 25 .20 .20 iron ore, ~,;..... 42.77 22.77 46 67 i Iron in pigs, etc 26 to 41 15 to 21 *4O 47 ' Scrap iron a... 1.....<■’ 88 28 47 -40 48 I ScrupsteelL.,,..., 43. 25 59 -40 49 Bar iron L., ,25t0 53 16 to 32 .'25 to 40 Bar of rolled iron, , 61 67 44 93 «7.25 Boiler or other plate I iron or steel ,54 25 53 TO ; Rails or steel 58 24 33 99 24 47 I Sheets of Iron or j steel common or black 25 to TO 20 to Sb 21 to 30 Tin plates 78 41 42 32 46 05 Tin, manufactures of 5> to ~ 35 to , 36 to 36 Steel ingots, etc 29 to 50 '.O to 40 i.O to 35 Wire rods, . 34 to , 22 to 67 33 to 33 Cast iron vessels, etc. 26 to 97 17 tgre 23 to 33 Malleable irob cast- s V Ings - 31 to 83 16 t 037 33 to 34 Hollow ware 35 to 33 13,t055 33 to 34 Chains, I 47 to 28 30 36 to 55 Firearms.,—. —, . 41 toßo A) 27 toft! I Nails.,, ... 23 to 16. 25 to 30- 3to 46 Railway fishplates, . 72 to 18 20 66 to 36 Hand, back and oth- ,i i ,er saws. ♦.» 25 37 to W Screws 47 to 111 33 to 6, 26 Wheels, , 83 to 72 4.1 to 86 50 ' Plates, bra- . , , ■. zters, copper . 35 20 ■ 42 to 88 Gold. leaf,,;. I, 44 to 87 ».» 33 toll : Silver leaf, 71 to 78 30 61 to 43 Lead sheets. . .j....... 36 to 65 18 to 33 50. N ickel, .- 23 10 77 14 to aft 40 ' Gold ifens.... 30 25 16 to CT’ ■Penholders «"d . * parts of , -A) .25 « 16 to 67 | pfns S' 25 16 to 67 i Zinc in sheets. , 2919 14 59 50 Mauufactures of metaU;-, I ~45 XI 22 22 * ! Shocks and boxes. 30 20 53 33 Casksand i arreis .30 £0 33 83 i Clocks of wood 35 25 28,57 Rk e. defined i 11l to 85 83 to 89 25 Rice, uncleaned.,..*64 to ld 41 tooß 20 Honey 1 44 to 83 £! to 42 . -49 to 99 Oranges, lemons and I limes ITtoSl 12 to 32 i Comfits, sweetmeats.- • . • . Nuts, not shelled (almonds) , , . 51 to 34 30 to 80 40 to-01 * Nuts, shelled (almonds) .' , 42 to 42 28 to 28 33 to 33 Filberts, not shelled. 52 to 90 X- to 32 33 t 0,35 Peanuts, unshelied 72 to 86 10 go . 72 to 85 I Extract of meat ~ . 17 to 95 15 U> 10 '.087 \ Spirits, distilled. , ” to 3CT 65 tp 204 2lfc to . I Cotton ctoth.not over WO threads, not I bleacned 35.19 25 05 37 39 i Ditto bleached,, ~38 ft) 26 63 31.27 I Ditto died, colored. - - etc. , 40 80 30 54 25.15 Exceeding lOOthreds noUbleached, 42 33 32.39 23.59 Bleached, , 43 27 35 » 1« 88 Dyed,etc 43.84. 38 84 11.40 Cables, cordage and twine ,16 to 31 10 to 20 40 to 67 I Bagging for Cotton.. 3.’ X Free 100' t Woolen yarns 279.68 30 89.23 ' Shawls, woolen.’not i above 40c per lb 150.30 35 76.71 I Knit fabrics not above -We per lb,. 136 31 74.27 Blankets . so to KM 3t» 66 to 71 Hats Os wool. 86 to KM 3b 72 00 Flannels, not over 50c. per pound. , 85 to KM 25 to 35 66 to 71 Silk.partially manu* ■■ factured , , 60 to 50 30 66 to 71 Silk webbings, gor- j • , Ings.etc,,,,,, 50 43 10 Silk buttoaai ft) 45 10 Silk dress g00d5,... 50 45 10 Silk ribbons; 50 ’ 55 10 All other 5i1k..,;., 50 45 10 Wr.ting.drawingand other paper 25 8) 20 Dolls and other toys. 35 25 28.57 Emery, »- I# ' 1015 » Firecrackers 147.32 50. 66.06 Coal, bitumihous,, 22.72 12.12 46.65 Slack or cultn of . . coal 28.68 14.34 50. Coke L. £0 15 25 Matches ~' 33.93 20 41.08 Haircloth, known a« crinoline cloth 27 99 £0 99 26. - Haircloth, kpown as ■ hair seating. , 23.6! 15.48 33.23 L4iA.her.bend er belt- * ins and sole. I<> 10 ~ .... Leather, calfskins. japanned,. ~,,30 20 33.33 .... Leather, not specially provided for, 10 10 .... Boots and shoes..... 25 21) 20 i 'Manufactures of In- " dia rubber 3U 25 14.29 Umbrellas covered with silk or alpaca 55 2d 18.18 ' Burrstone manuf t’d 15 Free 100 Compositiofi - metal. , copper. , 6ft049 Free 10b Plates of copper, not rolled.etc ........ 11 toßo Free 100 doer - 18 t 052 Free 100 Binding twine • 647 Free 100 Paintings in oil or . water colors.ls Free WC Statuary --I-■ ■ •-•’•••v Free: Hatters' plu-h,...*. 10 Free 100 CARNEGIE COMPANY SCORED. Report of Mr. OuniniLngs' Cominlttee on the Armor-Plate Frauds. / Washington, Aug. 2S.—Representative Amos J. Cummings, chairman -of the hoase.conimittee on naval affairs, ■ to the house the preliminary report upon the investigaj tion of the armor plate and billets furnishetf to the government by the < arnegie bteej company. The investigation has been in prepress for weeks and during its course testimony has been given by the principal • officials of The Carnegie company, by workmen and by government officials The repojt is a remarkably complete review of the case. The committee finds that charges of fraud have been sustained, scores the ■ company’ severely, and recommends that fifty-nine suspected plates in use should be tested as the only method of proving their fitness or unfitness. It only finds that the government inspection was negligent, but bo charge of dishonesty rests upon the inspectors. Accompanying the report was a joint resolution to authorize and direct the secretary oi the navy to remove the Monadnock, the monitor Terror, the ships Oregon. Indiana and Massachusetts and the cruiser Monterey certain specified armory-plates and to subject them to the ballistic test at the Indian Head proving ground. SLAIN BY A BANDIT. Murder Committed Near Chicago by a Train Robber. Chicago. Aug. 27.—At 10 o’clock Fri- < day night a north-bound freight train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul road was held up by two masked men at Deerfield, a small station just north of the line between Cook and Lake counties. One of the detectives of the road, who was riding on the train, was shot and killed and the watch of Conductor Larzen, who was in charge of the train. w»s taken from him. This was the only plunder | secured by the robber*

Cheap Excursion* to the West. I An exeeotionally favorable opportunity for visiting the richest and most productive sections of the wesi and northwest wul be afforded by the Home-Seekers’ low-rate excursions which have been arranged by the North-Western. Line. Tickets for these excursions will be sold on Sept. 11 th and 25th, and Oct. 9th, to points in northwestern lowa, western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Nebraska. Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and Idaho, and will be good for return passage within twenty days from date of sale. Ftop-over privileges will be allowed on’ going trip in territory to which the tickets are sold. For further information, call onor address Ticket Agents “of connecting lines. Circulars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed, free, upon application to W. A. Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago & North-Western Railway, Chicago. ", When the shoestring of u girl thirty-seven years old comes untied you may be very sure that it was by accident; also that she „ will have to tie it up herself.—Somerville Journal. ■ Don't Tre»d on Me. f Vibrates the rattle snake with his rattle. Sensible people take alarm at the chill whifh ushers in chills and fever. If they don t know they should, that Hotsetter’s Stomach Bitters is 'the preventer and remedy. Nor should they forget that it remedies dyspepsia, liver complaints, nervousness, sleeplessness and debility, and is a genera.’ tome without equal. “Rise in the-worl’ all yoh kin,” said Uncle,. • Eben to the young man, “’but doan fohgit yoh repy titip’n. Hit do come in handy ioh j er parachute’.”- Washington Star. Pure and Wholesome Quality Commends to public approval the California liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. It is pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels to cleanse the system effectually, It promotes the health and comfort of all who use it. and with millions it is the best and only remedy. A great deal of. stealing is being dono that does not go by that name.—Ram’s Horn. Hall’s Catarrh Cure ' Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.; The right kind of goodness is alwaysgood for sometliing.-Ram’s Horn. e . Sleepless Nights Make you weak and weary, unfit (for work. Indisposed td exertion They show that your nerve strength is gone and that your nervous system needs building up The Mood’s Sana--1 parilia surest remedy is — Hood’s Sarsaparilla # It purifies the blood, strengthens'the nerves creates an appetite, and gives sound,refreshing sleep. Get Hood’s and only Hood’s : Hood’s Pills cure aril liver ills 25c. 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