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The IsTews Condensed.
Important ln!e!!igence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Regular Session.
The senate oa the 5th received the nomina
tor. of Seneca Hazletoa. of Vermont, for tnln-itt-r
to Venezuela. anJ Georce Keenan, of Wis
t.ii;ia, fur consul to Bremen. No business of
Importance was trar.3aetsd....The house was
not in session.
IN executive session the Chinese treaty was
til. !eJ for six hours in the senate on the 7th.
t-n.ui.cr McPherNon introduced a M-l for the
Tr.vl of Ri-ar Admiral Stanton and the oCloers
av.l enlisted men of the wrecked Kearsurgc.
tT.ator Ix! Introduced an amendment to
tlie tariff bill providing that as against Great
Iir:ta:n or any of her colonies a duty double
the amount imposed in the proponed tariff bill
sha 1 be levied and a duty of 35 per cent en all
BriKW oa the froo list.... In thw house the
JCew York and New Jersey bridge till was
passed. A resolution was Introduced making
it -.u order to amend any genvrul appropriation
bill so as to reduce or repeal the bounty and
tut t-irilf on sugar, or either of tliem.
i:: the senate the new tariff bill was briefly
tTsciis.-ed on the 9th la the house Mr. Hatch
icp.n ied his anti-option bill and the naval ap
trcDiMinon bill was called up and briefly ex
p: .ii.ea in some of Us parts.
Os the Sth the tariff bill was discussed In the
senate and during the debate Senator Mills
(Tex. t snnounced that under no circumstances
-would he supporfthe amendments proposed by
the compromise bill In the house the bid
cuihfr.ziug the construction of a bridge across
tlie Mississippi river at St. Louis was passed
tn.d a bill was favorably reported by Mr.
Springer (111.) to suspend the taxation or 10 per
cat on state bank issues. Alter hearin? Gen.
Coxev the committee on labor decided to re
port a rsjlutioa for a joint investigation by a
tpecial committee of the senate and house of
tl:e Coxey movement and the depressed condi
tion of labor la general
Is the senate on the 10th, John Patton, Jr.,
the new senator from Michigan, took the oath
cl ofSce to succeed the late Senator Stock
bridge Tlie resolution to investigate the al
luded 'police clubbing. May 1, was discussed,
but no ac.ion was taken. The tariff bill was
lurtaer considered.... In the house a bill was
introduced for pensions at the rate of one cent
pt r day for each day ofrservice and one for;a
currency commission to be composed of fifteen
persons, not more than seven to be bankers, to
investigate the currency question and report to
c nress in December. Mr. .Taibot briefly an
nounced the death of JMs colleague, R. F. Brat
tan, of Maryland, and the customary resolu
tions were adopted.
DOMESTIC.
Rev. T. DenYitt Talmage completed
his twenty-five years of continuous
service as pastor of the Brooklyn taber
nacle. Miss Florence Kelly, inspector of
Illinois factories, reports having found
in five months 0,570 boys and girls un
der 10 at work.
The W. '. White.y reaper and mower
works at Muncie, Ind., were destroyed
by fire, the loss being S245.000, with no
insurance.
A band of kidnapers was supposed to
be at work in St. Joseph. Mo., as five
children had disappeared within two
days.
Tahoe City", on the shore of Lake
Tahoe, CaL, consisting; of about fifty
houses, two hotels, stores, etc, was de
stroyed by fire.
Twelve indictments were returned
by the grand jury as a result of the in
vestigation into alleged election frauds
in Chicago.
A hi.'T at Miles switch, near El
dorado, Ark., in which was a negro
sick with smallpox, was burned by a
mob and the colored man was cre
mated. The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 7th was: Wheat,
65,15S,000 bushels; corn. 10.353,000 bush
els; oats, 2,659,000 bushels; rye, 352,000
bushels; barley, 225,000 bushels.
Col. J. A. Watrois. commander of
the Wisconsin G. A. R-, charges that
money sent from the north to the Rich
mond (Va.) post for use in decorating
soldiers' graves has been diverted to
other purposes.
Charles Craglv, John Ilutton and
William Dindgrove, papermakers, were
drowned in Lake Winnebago, Wis.,
while fishing.
Uxe.mpi.oted laboring men threat
ened to burn the business portion of
Anderson, Ind., unless given aid imme
diately. II. A. Hill, the famous trick bicycle
rider, with his manager, Eugene Hol
tier, started from the city hall in New
York on a bicycle for a trip around the
world.
Hannibal Pcrcell, aged 82, and
Benjamin Simons, aged engaged in
a half-mile foot race at Logansport for
$100 and the championship of Indiana.
The former won in 5 minutes and 58
(seconds.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada for the month of April, as
reported, amounted to $11,540,000,
against ?i4,ib'J,yuo during the same
period in 1893.
Miles C Mats and his wife died
within ten hours of each other at Van-
dalia, I1L They had been married just
one month, and both were taken sick
a week ago on the same day.
The State national bank at Wichita,
Kan., suspended, with deposits of S-!07,-
000 and assets of (400.000.
The steamship La Touraine made the
trip from New York to Queenstown in
five days and sixteen hours, the short
est time on record.
The work of the senate special com
mittee on the tariff bill was completed
and it was reported to the full commit
tee. Fearing he would be hanged for
using a canceled postage stamp, a
(swede named Johnson drowned him
self in Boston harbor.
A. N. ScncsTEJt & Co., wholesale deal
ers in clothing at St, Joseph. Ma, failed
with liabilities placed at $500,000.
t avokable crop reports were re
ceived at Washington from all sections
of the country except the Pacific coast
and the southern portion of the cotton
region.
Organization of the state constitu
tional convention was affected at Al
bany, N. Y., by the election of Joseph
II. Choate as president.
Refusing to obey a request to go
around La Porte, Ind., Gen. Randall
and his staff were put in jail. A de
termined effort was being made to
nreak up the army.
Miss Della Frank, of Lima, O., who
tried to commit suicide a week ago be
cause of her poverty, has fallen heir
to 59,000.
Gov. Jonas Wolf, of the Chickasaw
nation, was indicted by the Chickasaw
grand jury upon the charge of embez
zling between ?25,000 and 475,000 of
the per capita funds.
The village of Pawnee, I1L, was
nearly wiped out by an incendiary fire.
Coxkv, Browne and Jones, the com
monweal leaders, were found guilty in
Washington of violating the law. A
motion for a new trial was entered.
Turks convicts in the state prison
at Jackson. Mich., overpowered a guard
and tried to blow down the wull with
dynamite. A catastrophe was narow
ly averted.
Discoverv of irregularities at iioston
impelled Secretary Carlisle to order an
accounting of stocK in all the bonded
warehouses of the country.
William Crawford shot and killed
Jessie Lowery and himself at Jackson
ville, O. They were lovers, but he was
out of employment and despondent.
Col. Carpenter and Capt, Logan,
commanding an army at Sutter"s Fort,
CaL, disappeared with t-300 of the in
dustrial funds.
At the annual meeting in St. Louis
of the National Union of Chiefs of
Police President Seavy, of Omaha, was
reelected.
Mrs. Moi.lie Page filed a bill for di
vorce in Chicago from her husband in
the morning, and meeting him in the
afternoon was reconciled.
The National Temperance society at
its annual meeting in New York elected
Mai Gen. O. O. Howard president.
The patents on tj-pe distributing ma
chines, seed planting machinery and
fare registers have expired.
Fire in the little village of Norway,
Me., destroyed seventy dwellings and a
number of business places, the total
loss being f 500, 000.
Commissioners of the district of Co
lumbia declared the commonweal camp
a nuisance and ordered its abatement
within forty-eight hours.
Gi'S Weisiirodt, treasurer of Middle-
town, O., was said to have used 30,000
of the city's funds in trying to beat the
races.
Colorado commonwealers who stole
a Missouri Pacific train got around ob
structions placed on the track at two
points, but were stopped by an engine
and two cars piled up in a cut near
Chivington.
Kelly's army of commonwealers
left Des Moines, la., on flatboats.
At Sharon Springs Kan.. William
McKinley and his son, Lewis, were
lynched by a mob for inciting a young
er son to murder Charles Carey, his
brother-in-law.
Kate cutting in the trans-Atlantic
steerage business has reduced the price
of passage from London to New York
to 612.50.
A battle occurred at Yakima, Wash.,
between deputies and commonwealers,
in which two deputies were shot, one
fatally.
Albert Woodlet, a painter, in a fit
of jealousy shot and killed Mrs. Jennie
Buchanan at her home in Allegheny
City, Pa., and then shot himself in the
head.
At the hotelmen's convention in Den
ver the United States Hotel association
was disbanded and the Hotelkeepers'
National association was organized
with D. C. Shears, of Cincinnati, as
president.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers met in biennial session at St.
Paul.
A storm of unprecedented severity
swept over Stillwater, Minn., and side
walks and street pavings were torn up
and a number of houses were under
mined.
The general federation of women's
clubs met in biennial convention at
Philadelphia.
The report on mineral resources in
the United States for iS?3 shows an ag
gregate valuation for the product of
SG09,5Si,0S3. a decline of . over 5175,000,-
000 from the previous year.
Tue twenty-three members of Gal
vin's commonweal army who were ar
rested for attempting to capture a
freight train were sentenced at Pitts
burgh to twenty days in jail each.
A careless man sitting on an oil
barrel and smoking a pipe caused the
destruction of 1 100, 000 worth of prop
eriy on a dock in New York.
John Porter, an Izard county (Ark.)
farmer, tried to ford Strawberry river
with a wagon and his wife and three
children were drowned.
E. B. White, a painter at Houston,
Tex., killed his wife and himself.
Passenger and freiarht trains collided
at Menomonie Junction, Wis., and En
gineer James Jeffreys was killed and
four other men badly injured.
Business houses and residences in
Indianapolis were unroofed by a vio
lent storm, and a child of S. J. Hunts
man was killed by flying debris.
Ex-County Recorder J. P. M. Good
man died at Ashland, O., after having
lived thirty-nine days without eating
anything.
Patriotic women unveiled a mjno
lith to the memory of Mary Washing
ton at Fredericksburg, Va. President
Cleveland made an address.
Sanders and his band of train steal
ing Coxeyites surrendered to United
States marshals at Scott City, Kan.
Richard Croker has withdrawn from
the leadership of Tammany hall in
New York.
Chief Hazen, of the secret service,
will wage active war on firms counter
feiting world's fair medals and di
plomas for advertising purposes.
Official figures show that nearly
one-fourth of the old corn crop of Illi
nois is yet in the hands of the pro
ducers. Commonwealers at Elkhart, Ind.,
seized a Lake Shore train and started
east.
Seven men armed with Winchesters
robbed the bank in South .vest Oity, Ma,
of 4,00o, and shot four citizens.'
Maj. J. W. Powell, at the head of
the government geological survey, has
resigned, owing to failing health.
The total number of Chinese that
registered throughout the country un
der the exclusion act was 105,314. The
total Chinese population by the census
of 1890 was 107. 4S2.
Women of the Ashland district In
Kentucky have determined to petition
Breckinridge to withdraw from the
congressional race.
The freight depot of the Pennsyl
vania Railway company at Columbus,
O., was burned, the loss being S10O.OO0.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
At the republican congressional con
vention in Geneva, 111., Congressman
A. J. Hopkins was renominated.
Horatio Nelson Clark. C3 years old.
who discovered the spring of water in
Andersonville prison during tbe war,
was run over and killed by a train at
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Edward Lane was renominated for
congress b3' the democrats of tho
Eighteen Illinois district.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Phcenix died at Del
avan. Wis., aged Do years. She was tho
widow of the man who founded tho
town in 1S3G.
Gen. Matthew M. Trlmbull died
nt his residence in Chicago, aged 08. He
did brilliant service in the civil war and
had written exhaustively on the tarill
and labor questions.
Roll A Hart was nominated for con
gress by the Democrats of the Ninth
Kentucky district to succeed Congress
man Thomas Paynter.
The republicans of the Twenty-second
Illinois district renominated
George W. Smith, of Murphysboro, for
congress.
Finis E. Dow.nino was selected as a
candidate for congress by the demo
crats in the Sixteenth district of Illi
nois. Congressman Robert F. Brattan
died at his home in Princess Anne.
Md., after a long illness.
The republicans of the Fifth district
of Indiana nominated Jesse Overstreet,
of Franklin, for congress.
Minnesota republicans will hold
their state convention at St Paul on
July 11, and the republicans of Mis
souri will meet at Excelsior Springs on
August 14.
FOREIGN.
The German steamship companies
hive ordered the reduction of steerage
passage rates from Italian ports to
New York to SJO.
Four persons were killed and thirty
injured by an explosion of acids at the
Cordite works near London.
More than 200 Indians in the vicinity
of Ungava bay in Labrador died of
starvation during the past winter.
A telegram from Buenos Ayres says
that during the last ten 'days business
failures have occurred there involving
liabilities aggregating nearty 20.000,
000. A Canadian patrol vessel seized the
American fishing boats Visitor and
Leroy Brooks while cruising in domin
ion waters.
A telegram from Hakodate. Japan,
reported the loss of the scaling schooner
Matthew Turner with all on board,
twenty-three in number.
It was said that gold had been found
in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, equal
ling in extent the gold fields of South
Africa.
An earthquake destroyed the cities
of Egido and Merida and several vil
lages in Venezuela and 10,000 lives
were said to have been lost.
A vast nihilist conspiracy was said
to have been discovered in St. Peters
burg and 100 arrests had been made.
The Kingston milL a large cotton
spinning company at HulL, Eng., failed
for 1400,000.
Ex-President Caceres was reelected
president of Peru.
Elections in Hawaii for delegates t
the constitutional convention -were
orderly. The complexion of the con
vention will be strongly coawrf itive.
LATER.
The tariff bill was considered in the
United States senate on the 11th and
several of the amendments were
adopted. Senator Gallinger spoke on
his amendment providing for a re
taliatory clause against Canada but no
action was taken. In the house the
bill providing that the first session of
each congress shall begin the first
Tuesday after March 4, instead of
waiting until the following December,
and the second session to begin on the
first Monday in January, instead of De
cember, as at present, was favorably
reporteiL The cieil appropriation bill
was discussed.
Two Coxeyites were shot and 100
captured in a fight with officers at
North Yakima, Wash.
There were 20tt business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 11th, against 233 the week
previous and 257 in the corresponding
time in 1S93.
Thomas Burke, who was 100 years
old last Christmas, died at his home in
Merritt, Mich.
"Tip." the ferocious elephant in Cen
tral park. New York, who has de
stroyed eight men, was killed by poi
son by the authorities.
In accordance with a resolution
adopted hy the general grievance com
mittee 3,500 operators at the Pullman
car works in Chicago went on a strike.
George Dunlat, crazy from alcohol,
ism and confined in the bridewell in
Chicago, beat his cellmate, James
Maher, to death with a bucket.
1. J. O'Connor was elected president
of the National Ancient Order cf Hiber
nians at the Omaha meeting.
Gus Meeks, his wife and two chil
dren were murdered at Browning, Mo.,
by men against whom they were to be
called as witnesses.
New York men have commenced ac
tion to secure possession of lands in
Lyon county, la., valued at S3!-9,200.
Charles D. Walcott. of New York,
has been appointed to succeed Maj.
Powell as director of the United States
geological survey.
At the session in Philadelphia of the
general federation of women's clubs
Mrs. Charles Henrotin. of Chicago, was
elected president.
Ten business blocks at Red Jacket,
Mich., were destroyed by fire.
Thk exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 11th aggre
gated f903,225,545, against 1955,219,455
the previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1S93. was 34.2.
FATE OF A FAMILY.
An Atrocious Murder Committed
Near Browning-, Mo.
Gas Meeks Slain to Prevent IIU Appear,
a nee as a YVltnenn IIU Wife and
Two Children Also Killed Sus
pected Hea Flee.
PUT OUT OF THE WAT.
Milan, Ma, May 12. A most atro
cious crime was committed Thursday
night near Browning. Gus Meeks, his
wife and two children were murdered
outright and another of the children a
girl 7 years old was so badly injured
that she may not recover. The circum
stances leading up to the crime are
about as follows:
There are a number of criminal cases
pending in Lynn and Sullivan counties
against William F. Taylor and George
Taylor, brothers, the former being
a banker of Browning and tho
latter a farmer. The charges
against them are forgery, arson and
larceny. William P. Taylor, Gus
Meeks and others were jointly indict
ed and Meeks pleaded guilty at the
last term and was sent to the peniten
tiary. About a month ago he was par
doned by Gov. Stone in order to use
him as a witness against the Taylors,
who were in consequence anxious to bo
rid of him.
It is said the Taylors had arranged
with Meeks to give the latter a wagon
and team to get out of the country so
that he might not be present
when the case against the Tay
lors was called for triad. From
Meeks' mother it is learned that
on Thursday her son received a letter
from the Taylors at Browning, telling
him to be ready at 10 o'clock that night
to go away. Gus Meeks and children
waited for Taylor until midnight, when
two men whom Meeks said were George
and Bill Taylor came to their home in
a wagon. Meeks and his family got
into the wagon and started for Brown
ing. The details of the crime, as near as
can be obtained, were told by the little
7-year-old girl, who was suffering
greatly as she recited the story. It ap
pears that when tha Meeks family and
the persons accompanying them
reached a-point near the schoolhouse
in Lynn county, a short distance east
of Browning, they were met by two
other men who were lying in wait.
Gus Meeks was first shot and Mrs.
Meeks jumped.
She also was killed. The murderers
then took stones and beat the brains
out of the two children and left the
other for dead. The murderers then,
it is supposed, loaded the whole family
into the wagon and hauled them near
ly 2 miles to the Taylor farm, where
they were buried under a strawstack.
At 4:30 o'clock Friday morning the
eldest child came to her senses and
made her way to the residence of a Mr.
Carter, near by. The Carter family
then sent a boy to the Taylor farm,
where he found the murdered family as
stated by the Meeks girL The Carter
boy then saw George Taylor and inno
cently told him of the murder as de
scribed by the almost dying child.
Geore Taylor immediately started for
Browning on horseback, got his brother
William and both departed on horse
back. T'heir departure from Browning
took place before the knowledge of the
murder had reached there.
The people of the neighborhood
placed guards around the strawstack
where the dead bodies were found.
Upon investigation it was discovered
that a bloody quilt around the bodies
was on fire, the evident purpose being
to cremate the bodies.
Tlie little girl recovered sufficiently
to describe some of the parties, and
upon her evidence Sharon McCullough,
of Gould, and George Howlett, of Lime
county, have been arrested as par
ticipants in the crime. A party of citi
zens from Milan and Browning found
at the place of the murder the revolver
and a stone with which the murderers
had shot and killed the father and
motner and beat out the brains of the
two children.
The child says that they struck, beat
and kicked her into Insensibility and
thought her dead. At this writing the
Taylors have not been arrested, but it
is not thought possible they can escape.
Great excitement prevails, and if the
murderers are fully identified tho sher
iff will be unable to prevent summary
punishment. At a late hour a farmer
came in from the northeast and said
that the Taylors had left their horses,
and that not less than 500 men were
after them.
WON'T TAKE PART.
Coal Operators Will Not Attend the Cleve
land Contention.
Chicago, Maj' 12. The northern Illi
nois coal operators, controlling what
are known as the Wilmington, Streator
and Third Vein coal fields, which have
a daily output of 25,009 tons of-coal,
will not participate at the conference
called to meet at Cleveland on
the 15th insU for the purpose
of adjusting existing differences
between coal operators and miners.
This was decided Friday after
noon at a meeting held in the
offices of the Wilmington and Vermil
ion Coal company in the Woman's Tem
ple building. The meeting was a unit
in opposing any participation whatever
in the Cleveland conference. The op
erators say the miners embraced in the
northern Illinois district vitiated aeon
tract with the operators, which did not
expire until May 1, by leaving ttie mines
at the time they did.
PROPOSES A NEW SYSTEM.
Con(rvwmnn Krdinxii SUKcest.s It.ldlral
liaitgen in tlto (. Irll-fc-rrvice Law.
Washington, May 12. Mr. Erdman
(Pa.) has introduced & bill amend
ing the civil-service law. It in
creases the number of commission
ers from three to four, not more
than two of them to be of the same
political party. Persons who pass the
examination are to be divided into two
classes, according to the two political
parties .casting the largest vote. The
patronage is to be divided equally
among the several states and territories.
THE TARIFF.
Discussion Over the BUI as Amended by
the Senate Finance Committee.
On the Sth the tariff bill as amended by the
finance committee was discussed by Mr. Boar
(rep., Mass.) Two grea; disturbing causes, be
aid. threatened the peace of the republic, and
exposed us to the dauger of great social disor
ders. One was tho acquisition la a few han1s
of vast accumulations of wealth by dishonest
or questionable practices, and the other the
wicked and unscrupulous appeal to the preju
dices and passions of large masses of people by
political leaders spreading abroad throughout
the country falsehoods which made the people
dlssatistled with their own Institutions and
their own laws.
Four things he said omt from competi
tion, viz.: High wages, national inde
pendence, varied employment and a stimulant
of the inventive faculty. Upon high wages, he
Insisted, depended constant Improvement la
manufacturing processes which increased pro
duction and diminished cost. It was said that
you cstnnot interfere with the natural laws of
Industry and trade, but Mr. Hoar contended
that all the progress of human life rested upon
such interferences.
Talking about the methods used by the so
called "conservative" democratic senators to
secure concessions in the form of higher duties,
Mr. Hoar concluded his statement by declar
ing that democratic senators who would sup
port the compromise bill .agreed upon by the
democratic caucus would violate the constitu
tion and their oaths. This statement brought
Mr. Gray (dem., Del.) to his feet. He de
manded to know what the Massachusetts sen
ator meant by such a charge a charge, he
said, which was unworthy of Mr. Hoar.
"I meant to say." said Mr. Hoar, "that form
democratic senator who subscribed to tbe doc
trine of the Chicago platform that a tariff for
protection was robbery, who went to the peo
ple affirming his allegiance to that platform,
and who now comes here seeking and obtain
ing protective duties I mean to say that for
! such senator there is no escape from the logio
I that be violated both his senatorial oath and
the constitution."
I Mr. Gray arose. This was the sixth week of
I the tariff debate, he began. If there was any
j doubt about the artificial character of the
I edlSce of protection this debate had supplied
: It. Every attempt to approach the monstrous
j aggregation of folly and greed known as the
McKinley bill had been met by those
' who raised a clamor about the interests
of the people and by tbe greed of cor
j porations. The culmination of McKlnleylsm
i was characterized In this debate by the wild
I statements and assertions of the advocates of
: the system that had wrougnt so much ruin to
I the country. They threw aside all restraints
: of speech and dealt In the rhetoric of tbe slums,
j They cast their foul aspersions on those who
sought to do their duty to their country and
I their party. To-day, in the speech of the sena
; tor from Massachusetts, the decorum of debate
. had been violated, but .the language he had ln
: dulged in only showed the straits to which he
had been put
j Mr. Hoar's temper was seemingly unruffled
, when he replied in a few words to what Mr.
'. Gray had said. He f-ald that the senator from
Delaware had been too severe in his condem
' nation of the McKinley law, and he stood here
on this floor advocating a measure dotted and
crowded all over with protection. If protec
i tlon was unconstitutional and robbery, this
j was a wicked thing to do. Why did he not tell
' the senate, in extenuation of his course, why
be had put a protective duty on sugar?
; -I do not propose to put a protective duty oa
: sugar," ejaculated Mr. Gray from his seat
j "Can the senator not understand the difference
j betwet-n a protective and a revenue duty!"
j Mr. Hoar Insisted that an attempt to show
; that Increases in duties were for revenue pur
,' poses and not for protection was simply aneva
, sion.
I When Mr. Hoar took his 'seat Mr. Palmer
: (dem.. Ill) felt called upon to defend htmself
from several of tbe insinuations In Mr. Hoar's
remarks. As far as he was concerned, he de
; dared, half a loaf was better than no loaf at
! alL If he could not get in a measure framed
by his democratic colleagues all he desired he
; wou'd take what he could get
Mr. Hale (rep. Me.) inquired sarcastically
! which bill it was that the senator from Illinois
thought the American people would approve
j the Wilson bllt the first draft of the senate
I bill, the bill ;introduced by Mr. Voorhees,
tbe bill at present before the senate un
der the management of Mr. Harris, or the new
' bill Introduced yesterday. The bill Introduced
by Mr. Jones yesterday was no more like the
bill berore tbe senate than the gavel of the
senate was like an K flat bugle. Its make-up
frm tho foundation was entirely different
Certainly if it was right to pass anv one of
these Ave bills prepared by the majority it
would have been wrong to pass any one of the
other four. Which bill, he asked, had receiveu
the appro! ailon of the couutry and which part
of the country!
Mr. I'almcr, in response, said that he denied
that any of the bills framed had received the
Indorsement of the country. What he had said
was that the country had overwhelmlncly dis
approved of the McKinley law. As any one of
the bills framed was preferable to that Infamous
measure, he asserted that any one of them
would meet to a greater or less extent the ap-
I probation of the reople. ll republican sena
I tors were skeptical or Impatient on this
' score let them wait for the verdict at the ballot-
: box.
The discussion was closed by the venerable
republican senator from Vermont, Mr. MorrllL
As he hnd on previous occasions said some
thing in derogation of the democratic tarill
measure, he desired now to say something la
approbation. The 4X amendments to the
tariff bill offered, he said, showed that
after listening to the republican speeches
for six weeks the democratic senators had
learned something. If the tariff bill were laid
asid for a month and that month were devoted
to study by his friauds on the other tide of the
chamber be thought that at tbe end of that
time they would bring in a bill which would be
perfectly acceptable to tbe republican side and
which would pass the senate unanimously.
When Mr. Morrill took his seat Senator
Quay (rep. Pa.) resumed the speech he has
been delivering since April 15.
He completed bis long, detailed account of
the processes of refining sugar and took up the
subject of wool and woolens, treating it in the
same exhaustive manner in which he had dealt
with sugar.
A Lou of SI 00,000 Caused by an Explo
sion or Oil.
New York. May 10. A barrel of oil
on the pier of the Clyde line at South
and Oliver streets exploded. There
were many barrels of oil on the dock
and the fire immediately communicated
to them, making a terrific explosion.
In a few minutes all of the docks from
Oliver to Catherine streets were ablaze.
The bridge was packed with people
who were looking down on the blaze.
The burning oil made a dense volume
of smoke. Iso one is reported injured
and it is thought no lives were lost.
The three fire-boats New Yorker, Have
meyer and Seth Low, responded prompt
ly and did good service. The build
ings on the piers were all of wood and
there was nothing to obstruct the
flames until they had burned them
selves out. The fire was under control
at 2 o'clock. The loss is estimated at
flOO.OQO.
TUK Central Congregational church,
of Brooklyn, sent to its former pastor.
Dr. llenrv M. Seudder, S700 in gold
and a congratulatory letter on the oc-
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casion of his gomen weuumg, mtu
was celebrated at Winchester, Mass.,
recently.
U.L- til 1 C illl"""" ,
are of open pattern, and many of them j
are wrought in andykes. iney are
the handsomest of this class of trim
mings. Is 1S33 the population of the British
, colonies numbered w-i.uvu.uw.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Effects of Strikes and Tariff Uncertainty
In liuslness Circles.
New York, May 12. Bradstreec's re
view of trade says:
Prolonged warm weather has stimulated farm
work as well as sales in seasonable lines of mer
chandise, but renewed tariff uncertainty tends
to prolong the period. during which merchants
will continue to buy for actual needs only, evi
dences of which fact have appeared. Dank clear
ings this week amount to 1(103,000,000. a de
crease of 5 5 per cent from the week before
(which showed an Increase) and a decrease of
84 per. cent compared with the second week of
May lost year, when total clearings were
among the largest on record. The great coal
miners strike has been extended in tbe far west
and in portions of Maryland and the Virginias,
and this has been followed by an increase in the
number of industrial shut downs due to in
creasing scarcity of fueL Kot far from 175,000
men are reported Idle in the coal trade alone,
and with those idle or on strike in other line
the total out of work la not less than 238.000.
"General trade remains dull, as does busi
ness in manufacturing lines at Buffalo, Cleve
land, Detroit Cincinnati. Louisville. Milwau
kee, Minneapolis snd Omaha, except that at
the last-named more activity is reported la
dry goods and hardware. Favorable crop
prospects and activity in agricultural lines
have checked trading by country mer
chants. At Chicago, also, thero are increased
volumes of sales with Jobbers in dry goods, mil
linery and clothing, while tho natural result
due to Bpring trade being completed and au
tumn trading not having made itself felt
felt at St Louis At Kansas Clty trade in
staple lines is fairly good and crop prospects
are excellent but at St Paul the volume of
business is small compared with previous years.
"The continuance of tho gold shipments to
Europe, which amounted for the week toti.000,
000, has attracted attention, but appears to have
influenced speculative sentiment In a very lim
ited degree."
R. G. Dun & Co.'s review for the week
Bays:
'The speculation in grain has again broken
records with the lowest price ever made for
wheat, although western receipts are a little
smaller than a year ago, while exports are also
smaller by more than a quarter. The prevail
ing belief is that the yield will, as in other
years, far exceed government indications, which
are again pointing to a short crop It lb a
striking evidence of the general want of confi
dence that there is so little speculation w hlle
money Is abundant almost beyond precedent
"One larg failure about doubled the aggre
gate of liabilities for the firms failing la
the week ending May 3, which would otter
wise have been quite small, but were I2,3--A7,9.
The number and the general average of liabili
ties are still encouragingly shrinking. For the
last week the failures have been 209 in the
United St3tes, against 257 last year, and 4" in
Canada, against 23 last year, with nothing of
especial importance, although four back fll
tjre are Included."
SHOT BY A CONSTABLE.
CoL
PuUley, of the Industrial
Killed In California.
Army
Sacramesto, CaL. May 12. Tele
phone advices have been received here
to the effect that Constable Fleckenger
shotand killed Col. Paisley of the indus
trial army at Rock in, CaL At 4 o'clock
a. m. Friday the industrial army, under
command of Lieut. Gen. Smith,
TOO strong, seized a freight train
at Arcade station and went to Ilocklin.
Engineer Williams, a member of the
party, was placed under arrest by
Constable Fleckenger, and Smith and
CoL Paisley objected. A quarrel en
sued and Fleckenger drew a pistol and
pointed it at Smith, who jumped to one
side. The Constable then killed Paisley.
The industrials became furious and at
tempted to lynch Fleckenger. Gen.
Smith, however, protected him and
aided him to escape. He is now at
large. Engineer Williams was locked
up, but the industrials demanded his
release and the citizens fearing further
trouble restored him to liberty.
North Yakima, Wash., May li
Another collision occurred between
deputy marshals and commonwealers
about 4 o'clock Friday morning and
two of the latter are now confined at
the hospital, suffering from gun-shot
wounds. Word was received that
250 men had captured two freight
cars at Ellcnsburg and wera coin
ing down to liberate the Coxeyites im
prisoned in the county jaiL The mar
shals met the industrials and stopped
their cars by throwing a rail across the
track at a point 2 miles from
this city. The industrials scrambled
off the cars and started to ran,
but were brought to a halt by
bullets from the rifles of the marshals.
Two of them were wounded, but
not seriously. Others to the number
of 120 were marched to the county jail
and locked up. Fifty Coxeyites and a
number of Yakima citizens, accused of
inciting the army to resistance, were
started on an early train under heavy
guard for Seattle.
GLAD THEY WERE CAUGHT.
Zanders' Train Stealers Say They Will
.Fare Kettrr an I'ncle Sam's Prisoners
Topeka, Kan., May 12. The Sanders
Industrial train stealers arrived here at
1:20 o'clock Friday afternoon as pris
oners of United States Marshal
Neeley, having been captured without
even a sign of trouble at Scott City
Thursday afternoon.
Sanders and his men look upon their
arrest as a beneficent act of Providence
to hasten them on their journey to
Washington. Sanders does not believe
they can be punished, and that is why
he counseled his men to fall easy vic
tims to Marshal Neeley. Sanders said
complacently just after he and his
men arrived in Topeka: "We are very
much obliged to Uncle Sam for helping
us this far on our journey, providing
ns with comfortable cars and keeping
lis from hunger."
A toxeylte Orowned.
Washington, May 12. The Coxey
forces have been further deplete d by
the drowning of one of the members of
the army, William Weisler by name,
who joined at Hagerstown, Md., and
who while taking a bath in the
Potomac last night was seized with
cramps and drowned before assistance
could reach him. The body has not
been recovered. He was about 30 years
of age. -
A Illoyol!r Kllleu.
Chicago, May 12. -Charles Whittle,
son of Mnj. Whittle, the evangelist,
was killed by a train at Wheaton. He
was riding a bicycle between the rails
and failed to see the train approaching.
Mr. Whittle was 25 years old and leaves
a widow and twochildren. His father,
who is now in Maine, was notified and
will be here next Sunday.
To Fill I'nwell'a Place.
WAsniXGTOX, May 12. The president
has nominated Charles D. Walcott, of
New York, to be director of the goo
logical survey, vice John W. Powell,
resigned.
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