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The civil service records of the past
three years show that out of the num
berof men applicants examined foi
(ovomment offices only a little ovei
one-half passed, while four-fifths of th<
women applicants passed.
In Texas there is a stone about
twenty feet in diameter that has won
derful magnetic power. It is said that
ft will draw a hammer or an ax to it*
surface even when placed ten to fifteen
, feet away on the ground.
A South African mining journal sayi
the surfaces of numerous bo widen
havo been polished by the constant
cubbing of countless herds of large
game, aueh as the wildebeest. These
examples of the attrition of rocks by
animals are found in a good many
parts of the Transvaal.
James Robert McKee, the president'!
eon-in-law, has now been in businesi
in lioston for a year, r id is said tc
like the city very much. Thus far h«
has lived at a hotel, but it is probablt
that before many months ho will be
settled permanently in Uoston with
Mrs. McKee.
Mrs. Annio Laurie Diggs, alliance
orator, is held in great esteem in Eas
aas, where Mrs. Lease, her whilon
associate and rival, has reached thal
period of popular aphelion at which
• aho is unkindly referred to as "a sal
aried nightmare—masculine and bo
whiskered."
A stretch of track across the pampas
on the new Argentine Pacific railroad
from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the
Andes is Sll miles long, without a
curve, a single bridge, an opening
larger than an ordinary drain, a cut
greater than one meter in depth, or an
embankment more than one meter in
height.
A new viaduct over the River Lea, in
Bolivia, for the Antofogasta railroad,
Is described as the highest viaduct in
the world. It is 9,833 feet above the
aea level and the height of the viaduct
Above the river is 4,008 feet It is 10,
497 feet long, the highest pillar is 3,738
feet and the weight of the structure is
A, 115 tons
Mosquitoes and strawberries make a
queer combination, certainly, but that
Is what the people in the neighborhood
of Mount St Elias can boast of in a
region of perpetual ice and snow.
Along the edge of tho glacier, it i>
said, is a strip of luxuriant vegetation,
where strawberry vines cover the
v ground for miles.
C Epicures will be interested to know
that Herr Klens e, a German scientist,
declares Cheshire and Roquefort to be
the most easily digestible cheeses. Em
snenthal, Gorgonzola and Nenfehatel
come next, with Brie a bad sixth and
Swiss cheese least easily digestible of
nil. But the professor is silent about
Camembert, best of cheeses.
Much speculation has been indulged
In as to the nature of the glow worm’s
light, Which is not put out by water
nor seemingly capable of giving forth
•ny heat It has been asserted that
the light diffusing substance contains
phosphorus, but this has never been
proved. Certainly it is incapable of
communicating ignition to anything.
There is an effort making in Savan
nah to build a monument to Fathei
Ryan, the poet priest of the confeder
acy. Few southerners have had a more
picturesque career than his, and few
are more deserving of a monument.
And yet the one Father Ryan raised
himself in his songs is, like that of the
Soman poet, "more enduring than
brass" ___
In the cold re gions of the far north,
where timber or bark is difficult or im
possible to get, boats of skin are
almost exclusively employed. To pro
vide material for them the uatlve
hunter relies upon the seal, the sea
lion and the walrus Many patterns
-of such craft are utilised in the fisher
ies pursued among the Aleutian islands
And elsewhere on the Alaskan coast
Prince Lueien Bonaparte, who died
In Epfland a few weeka ago, left to
♦he country of hie adoption hie famous
cabinet of chemical elements. Some
■of the epeelmena are exceedingly val
uable. Among them are gold, plat
inum, iridium and germanium, which
Is worth sixty times as muoh as gold.
The prince's collection was one of the
most perfect in existence.
Fish are drowned when taken from
the water into the air, and animals
when put even for a short' time under
water, but the axolotl cannot be
drowned any where. Yet he is nowhere
safe, for the inhabitants of the place
where he is found—Mexico, New Mex
ico and Texas—think that his flesh is
eery good to eat, and catch great num
bers of the axolotl for food, which they
cook in various ways.
The composer Rossini was one of the
haziest of mortals. After he had pro
duced his crowning triumph, “Guil
laume Tell,” composed at the age of
Ml, he passed thirty-nine years in in
activity, amusing himself at Bologna
by fishing and pig farming. He had so
freat an antipathy to exertion and
was so enamored of “self-sufficing soli
tude,” as Wordsworth calls it, that it
Is doubtful if he would go ont of his
way now, if he were alive, to hear the
anthems of praise that are sung for him.
SHORT TARIFF SERMONS.
Anr»|« Kata Par Cent.
Free trade dishonesty and deceit is
nowhere more conspicuous than in the
statements regarding the average ad
valorem rate of duty.
The subject is at best a chimerical
one.
It is like chasing rainbows to attempt
to calculate or anticipate a future aver*
age.
It cannot be more than guessed at,
for tlie average rate does not depend on
the rate of duty, but on tho value and
amount of importations. Thus the
average ad valorem rate may change
from year to year, while there has been
no change in the tariff whatever.
The only way, ttien, is to calculate
on actual values of importations and
duty collected.
This will not be a true average, but
perhaps tho nearest that can be com
puted.
Every free-trade paper in the country
is still maintaining that the average
rate under tho McKinley tariff is C>0 per
cunt. Now, what are the actual facts?
The latest figures at hand are those
ending September 30, 1891. During the
twelve months ending on that day our
imports were valued as follows:
Free of duty.It;
lruthiblo. 413,303,103 l>
Total.ifsr.’.otw.tvis i;
Total duties collected during these
twelve months.*103.010,020 «
It will bo seen, then, that during the
twelve months ending September 30,1891
the average rate of duty on dutiable im
ports was 47 per cent., while on total
imports, the honest way of reckoning,
it was only 33 per cent
Tho free trader is not only dishonest
In his amount, but lie uses a dishonest
method In getting at it He only com
pntes tho rate on dutiable imports. Ji-y
this mode of reckoning Great Ilritain’s
average rate is nearly 100 per cent.
Suppose our $800,000,000 worth of im
ports all came in duty free with the ex
ception of S100.000 worth, upon which
we collected $30,000 duty. Would our
average rate of duty be 50 per cent?
Tho fact is, as nearly as we can cal
culate it, that our present average rate
is only 33 per cent.—less than at any
time since 1301.
Foreign Marxets.
What and where are the great mar
kets of the world for which the free
trader would give up our splendid home
market?
The following table shows the pur
chases of the whole world in 1889, ac
cording to that eminent free trade sta
tistician, Michael G. Mulhall:
Million J
U. K..2077;
France. m2;
Germany.992l
Kuseta. 189
Austria.2X11
Italy. 272
Spain. 141
Portugal. 58
Sweden. 77
Norway. 43
Denmark. 72
Belgium. 290
South America.277
West Indies. 84
India. 202
China. 128
Japan. 53
Java. 08
Million |
Holland.MB
Switzerland.l«(
Clreeco. IE
Roumanta. 0;.
Sorvla. S
Bulgaria.. 1-1
Turkey. 9i
Canada.Ill
Australia.S3t
South Africa. 41
Mexico. 8£
Central America. 14
Persia. 3t
Egygt. 34
Algeria. 43
Cuba. 48
Other countries.KM
Here arc the buyers of the whole
world. Now, which of them does our
free trader expect to capture by h's
“lower cost of production?” Even the
abiding faith of an American Cobdenite
can not hope for greatly increased sales
of the products of American mills in
the shadow of English factories, so
Great Britain and its 3,077 millions may
be eliminated. Next subtract France,
Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain
and Portugal, Belgium, Canada.Switzer
land, Scandinavia and Australia, all of
whicli are protected countries, whose
policy is to preserve for their own man
ufactures a monopoly of the domestic
market. The protectionist law makers
of theso conntries will see to it that no
very extensive “captures” of their
markets are made by the United States
or any other country. There remains
then as the only part of this great
world’s market of 7,8S8 million dollars
only 1,093 millions for which we can
even hope.
Well, what are our prospects for ob
taining this remnant? Holland, the
most liberal buyer, exports nearly as
much iron and steel of all kinds as it
imports. As for textiles, it usually ex
ports qnite as much as it imports of
them and sends to England three times
as much as it takes of British products.
India is beginning, with the help of its
extremely low wage rate, to supply its
own demand for manufactures and will
soon be a dangerous competitor in these
“markets of the world." Cottons are
the principal manufactured goods
needed in the Orient, and it is al
together probable that the demand
of China, Java and Japan will soon
be abundantly supplied with Oriental
cottons at so low a rate that competi
tion by either England or the United
States will be out of the question.
Turkey, Africa and the “other coun
tries” have but few wants, and these
are for the most part such as we could
not supply.
Thus do the “great markets of the
world" disappear under careful exami
nation and analysis. If the whole
SI,693,000,000 which represents the pur
chases of the world's “neutral” market
were offered to us in exchange for our
domestic market we could not afford to
accept Our home trade is at least ten
times this amount annually. All its
profits are kept at home, and the risk
of distant ocean transportation is re
duced to a minimum. Its benefits and
blessings are incalculable, and it will
be a dark and dismal day when this
splendid birthright is bartered away
for that miserable mess of pottage,
“the world's neutral markets."—Amer
ican Economist
A few months ago about every free
trade paper in the land was certain that
the senate would not dare to reject the
separate bills for abolishing the duty on
this that and the other item in the Me Kin
ley list of dutiable articles. It is signifi
cant as showing the growing popularity
af the new law and the increasing con
fidence in its effectiveness as the plat
form of the party of protection that
these same papers now confess that
neither the free wool bill nor any other
free trade measure can even pass the
senate, much less the president's veto
WHO PAYS THE TARIFF?
fi Ito^ontlfl Upon tlie Kind nf Tariff Who
Pays It or Whether It la a Tux—The Fnl
l»«y of the Free Tr.ide Argument Ef
poHeil—Kverytlilng Clienper tinier lVoftee*
tion Tlian It Would he tinier Free Trade
If a revenue or free trade tariff, snch
as the former duty on sugar or tin plate,
we pay it all; if a protective tariff, we
may pay a part of the duty at first, but
eventually the foreigner pays nearly if
not quite all of it on goods actually im
ported. If we prefer to buy English
roods, however, even though the Amer
ican goods are better and cheaper, then,
<f course, we pay tho duty. This is a
tax on Anglomania, but on ordinary
products, brought in to compete with
lomestic products made on a large scale
and already in practical possession of
the domestic market, the importer, tho
foreign manufacturer and the foreign
laborers pay tho duty.
In this connection we quote the fol
lowing from a recent number of Lon
don Fair Trade:
If wo are to retain a hold on foreign markets,
slight though It may bo, wages must be kept
down tint tho high foreign tariffs may be over
come. One of the greatest arguments against
the theory tint tho consumer pays the import
duty is to he found In the fact that when a for
oigji nation increases tho tarlfT on a British
product, the establishment charges as well us
tho wages on this side of the water are lowered,
in order to give tho m inufacturer or the mer
chant a chanc) to deal successfully with thf
change. If tho consumer paid the duty there
would l)o little otu.se for our exporter to grum
ble. But our manufacturers and work people
d) make s tcriiiees to meet the extra duty, and,
we accordingly hear grumbling from both.
This is plain enough certainly, and
need only be verified by actual facts.
Ask the Canadian farmer who pays the
American duty. Ask the Sheffield man
ufacturer, the Chemnitz workmen, the
pearl button makers of Vienna, the tin
plate makers of Wales, the foreign
manufacturers of silk and linen and
cutlery, and scores of other articles.
They will all admit that they pay the
duty if they put their goods on our mar
ket- Here is an admission from the
New York Times of February 2, 1891.
We produce it as being good free trade
testimony indorsing our own assertions:
A statement issued by the department of agri
culture, giving tho exports to the United States
from Canada for the year 1890, shows that tho
Dominion exported *11,819,019 worth of agricul
tural products to tho Unltod States last year.
The average rate of duty collected by the United
States customs upon agricultural products is
about 80 per cent., and it is easy to prove from
the speeches of Sir John Maodonaid und other
conservative leaders that tho duties imposed
by tho Americans upon Canadian products ex
ported to the United States come out of the
pockets of the Canadian farmers. Hence we
lind thtt dnring tho fiscal year 1890 no less than
*2.243,800--thatls. 80 per cent, of 111,819.013—went
Into tho Washington treasury, which would
have gone into the pockets of Canadian farmers
if the Dominion enjoyed unrestricted reciprocity.
It seems useless to pursue the matter
further. In the face of the many arti
cles selliug for less than the duty, the
free trader still cries “the tariff is a
tax.” Is the titriff on wire nails a tax.
selling at $1.90 a keg while the duty is
$2? Is the tariff on a yard of calico a
tax. selling at 4X cents while the duty
Is 5 cents? Is the tariff on a yard of
cloth a tax, selling at 75 cents while the
duty is 87cents? We deny that the
tariff is ever a tax—that is, a burden.
In cases where the tariff has been in
creased with a view to create and
develop a new industry, even if prices
are temporarily enhanced, it is simply
an investment which will be repaid
many fold as soon as the industry is es
tablished. The farmer docs not begrudge
the price of the seed in the spring
which will pay him bushels of grain in
the fall.
The l-esnlt has been about as was ex
pected. During the year ending De
cember 81. 1891, our imports of manu
factures of wool were about 810,030,003
less than they were the year before.
Here was an increase of 00,003,000
pounds in the demand of this country
for raw wool to make similar goods in
this country. Manufacturers neces
sarily went abroad for part of their
supply, for our own wool growers did
not produce enough last year to supply
it Hut over and above the extra 30,
000,000 pounds which they imported,
there remains another 30,000.030 as a
positive increase in demand for Ameri
can wools—that is, there were 30,000,
000 pounds of wool less imported daring
the last calendar year than In the year
before. So that Mr. Springer's second
point, about the decreased imports of
woolens, answers his first about In
creased imports of raw wool. The net
result is a gain to American labor, wool
growers and wool manufacturers.'
There remains, then, but one point,
namely: Does the consumer pay a
greater price for any domestic product
because of the tariff? To this we an
swer. No. We do not mean to say that
the duty Is not la some circumstances
added to the price paid in the foreign
market. We do maintain, however,
that if the tariff were abolished we
would havo to pay an equal if not a
greater price than we now pay for the
protected article. Imagine the tariff
on woolen goods abolished to-morrow.
Foreign woolen mills would find for
their output a new market wider and
richer than all their other foreign mar
kets combined. The capacity for pro
ducing would remain the same, while
the demand would be largely increased.
U nder such conditions must not prices
rise? That is to say. if the tariff were
abolished we could not buy in the for
eign market at present prices under ex
istent tariff conditions. That countless
American products are cheaper now
than foreign products would be under
free trade would hardly admit of a
doubt. In these cases the foreigner
pays all the tariff.
We have had many cases of this kind
in our history, and in every instance
where the tariff has been removed or
reduced below a protective basis the
foreigner has put up the price and we
have had to pay it; therefore we con
clude that, while denying in toto that the
tariff on imported goods is a tax on
domestic products, as the Hon. Drover
Cleveland contends, we are very far
from admitting that it is always a tax
even on imported goods. Foreign mill
owners would be the greatest gainers
by free trade. Their eagerness to break
town our tariff walls ought to be suf
ficient proof to an impartial observer
that they pay at least some, if not all,
af the tariff.
Ix Japan, a good mechanic earns
about 40 cents s day. Carpenters earn
10 cjnts a day, masons 25 cents, and
street car conductors about $5 a month.
BEN. ALGER'S WAR RECORD
An Explanation of His Numerous
Disappearances.
^ii0 Michigan Monopolist Replies to the
Criticisms of the New York Sun—
Prints the Papers on Pile Re
lating to Ills Absences.
Dktboit, Mich.. March 14.—The De
troit Tribune this morning prints two
?ages of General Alger’s reply to the
iriticisms of his war record. His reply
takes the form of the publication of
the record itself and purports to give
sll the papers now on file in the war
department relative to the absences,
promotion and final discharge of the
general. It includes favorable in
dorsements from time to time. The
portion that answers the charges made
by the Sun is the most interesting.
The report and recommendations of
General Custer are given in full, with
the indorsements. Thev are as fol
lows:
Headquarters First Brigade First Di
rision Cavalry, Middle Military Division
September lO, 1864 —Captain A. E. Dana,
A. A. G., First Division Cavalry: In com
pliance with the instruction of the gen
srai commanding the division I have the
jonorto submit the following report in the
rase of Colonel B. A. Alger, -Fiftieth
Michigan cavalry, stating the time at
nhich he left the command, for what pur
pose, by what authority anil his present
whereabouts. Colonel Alger left this com
mand the morning of the 2stb of August, as
it marched through Harper’s Ferry to re
loin the division near Halltown. He has
been absent since that date. I was not
aware of his absence until this brigade
salted to feed near Halltown, when As
sistant Surgeon StClair, of the First
Michigan cavalry, informed methatCol
»nel Alger, owing to some indisposition,
had remained at a house near Harper's
h erry. At the same time As
sistant surgeon St. Clair, pre
sented for my approval, an , applica
tion from Colonel Alger for leave of ab
sence for twenty days. As Colonel Alger
had, two or three times previous to this,
applied for a similar leave of absence,
when in my opinion he was fit for du y,
and which opinion subsequently proved
to be correct as it has in the case now re
ferred to, I returned Colonel Alger’s ap
plication without my approval He
failed to join his command. I first
heard of him again as stopping at
the Futaw house in Baltimore, Md. I now
have authentic and reliab'e information
lhat he is staying at one of the hotels in
Washington, D. C , and that he has been
placed on duty in the latter city as a mem
ber of a general court-martiaL How he
came to he detailed I cannot sav.
He left this command without au
thority and after having been
refused a leave of absence from these
headquarters, and I have directed that.be
be reported "absent without leave” on the
muster rolls of his regiment.
Respectfully submitted
u. A. CusTB s Brigadier General,
Commanding Brigade.
Headquarters First Cavalry Division,
September IT, 1864. — Respectfully for
warded for the action of the chief of cav
alry. The case mentioned within
is the third in which Colonel Al
ger has absented himself from the
command without proper authority since
the commencement of the present year’s
| campaign. Severe measures should be
taken to prevent a recurrence of this evil
[Signed] W. M. Meruit,
Brigadier General Commanding.
Headquarters Cavalry, Middle Mili
tary Division, September 17, 1861—Re
spectfully forwarded with recommenda
tion that ho be dismissed from the service
for absence without leave, subject to the
approval of the president. Such cases
are too numerous and the scarcity of
officers requires immediate action to be
taken. [Signed] A. T. A. Torbkrt,
Brevet, Major, General and Chief of
Cavalry. ,
Headquarters Military Division, Sep
tember, 18, 864.—Respectfully forwarddu.
I understand that Colonel Alger is on
some duty at Washington, but it is evi
dent he has left his command
without authority and It appears
he has done so before. I have
always considered Colonel Alger a
good officer, but cannot excuse his con
duct or withhold my approval of the
recommendation of his immediate com
manders.
[Signed] P. H. Sberidax,
_ „ Major-General.
War Department, A. G. U, Sept. 23.
1864—Respectfully returned. This officer
was honorably discharged from the serv
ice by S. O., 311, September 20, 1864, from
tbie office.
[Signed] Thos. M. Vixcixt.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
General Alger's reply is to this
effect:
On August 6, 1864, a month and ten
days before General Custer’s report.
Colonel Alger wrote a letter to Secre
tary Stanton tendering his resignation.
In that letter he said:
1. “I hare been in the military service
of the United States nearly threo
years, haring enlisted in Au
gust, 1861, and hare been off duty
but eight days except on account of
wounds, six of these eight days being
on account of siclcnesa
S. "My private business at home has
become such and in such condition that
my presence there to attend to it is
necessary in order to enable me to save
anything from it. President Lincoln
indorsed this letter as follows:
Let this resignation be accepted.
[Signed | A. Lincoi.x, August 8, 1844.
"It will be seen that this acceptance
by the president was dated a month
and eight days earlier than the date of
Ueneral Custer's letter regarding him.
After leaving the president, with his
accepted resignation in his possession,
Colonel Alger learned that there was a
prospect of an active campaign
in the Shenandoah valley. lie
did not present his resignation
at the war department but
i hastily rearranged his business as well
j as possible and started for the scene of
i operations, arriving on account of mis
! information as to the time of the de
I parture of the train, one day late. It
will be seen that Colonel Alger did not
have to report to his brigade com
mander at all if he had desired to auit
the service at that time. ~He
did not present his resignation,
but went to the front
Six weeks later, on September 16. 1864,
the date of Ueneral Custer’s report, and
seven days before it had received its
final indorsement, he tendered his
resignation anew. The same day it
was accepted by the president. The
acceptance was indorsed by the secre
tary of war on September 17, and by
special order of September 20, 1864,
signed by Adjutant General E. D.
Townsend, he was honorably dis
charged from the service of the United
States "
The paper* which' accompany,
Colonel Alger's record include a letter
from General Custer to the secretary
of war dated October 19, 1803, in which
Custer recommends him for a brigadier
generalship, saying: “As an officer and
a gentleman Colonel Alger justly en
joys the highest esteem of both
his command and his com
manding officers. Ever ready to
perform his duty at any and all
times, zealous in the cause for
which we are fighting, he has
proved himself worthy of the highest
confidence of all. I therefore earnestly
and cordially recommend him to your
consideration, fully believing that any
trust reposed in him will be skilfully
and faithfully performed by him, with
honor to himself and credit to our
army and to the noble cause in which
we are engaged ”
This application was renewed by
Custer under date of June St5, 1864; in
dorsed by General Sheridan June 29;
forwarded without comment by Gen
eral Meade July 5; sent by General
Sheriday to the adjutant-general of thb
array of the Potomac on July 11, and
approved by Meade-July 20, 1804. On
tho same day General Grant wrote a
letter approving all the recommen
dations in the list,, in which Alger's
name appeared. A letter from General
Sheridan to Hon. W. K. Kollogg, mem
ber of congress from Michigan, under
date of July 18, 1864, says: “When I
recommended Colonel Alger, Fifth
Michigan cavalry, for promotion
it was with the expectation
that he would be ordered
to report to me. I have a brigade to
give him.”
General Alger was afterwards bre
vetted a brigadier-general of volun
teers, and on February 27,
1867, by order of Secretary
Stanton, was ordered appointed
a brevet major general of voluntoers
These brevet commissions were signed
py President Johnson, to whom Gen
eral Alger was politically opposed.
The reply is declared by General
Alger’s friends in this city and state to
be eminently satisfactory.
TEXAS LEGISLATURE MEETS
A Special Session to Consider Several Im
portant Matters.
Austix, Tex , March 14.—The state
legislature assembled in special session
at noon today in accordance with the
call issued last month by Governor
J. 8. Hogg. In the call in question the
governor stated that the lives tock in
dustries of Texas were Beriously in
jured by the restrictive laws passed by
congress affecting the transportation
and sale of cattle under quarantine
regulations, and that this injury could
be corrected only by legislative action.
It is also stated that the extravagant
issue of railway and municipal obliga
tions without valuable, just or proper
consideration, but for speculative pur
poses threatened calamity to the pub
lic prosperity, depreciates honest se
curities, casts opprobrium on the state’s
reputation abroad, and should be
checked by some just restrictive laws.
Although, in the opinion of the gov
ernor, these two matters alone are suf
ficient to constitute an extraordinary
occasion requiring the convening of
the legislature, the body will be called
upon to consider many other important
matters, some of them of national im
portance The constitution requires
the state to be reappo tioned every ten
years, and that period having nearly
expired since the last apportionment
the congressional, senatorial and ju
dicial districts must be reapportioned.
The two houses will also receive and
act upon the report of the committee
appointed to investigate the. case of
Jay Gould va the International and
Great Northern railway under the con
current resolution passed at the gen
eral session of the Twenty-second leg
islature. Legislation will be submit
ted to change the general laws limit
ing and regulating the right of a iens
to own real estato in Texas; also to
strengthen the general law of 1889 de
fining, punishing and prohibiting
trusts and conspiracies against trade
A bill is being prepared providing for
the protection of the public and in
vestors against the fraudulent issuance
of insurance, and against the circula
tion of railway bonds and state.county
and municipal bonds, and also to regu
late the issuance of bonds and stock
by such corporations.
Last, but not least, the legislature
will be called upon to elect a successor
to United States Senator Horace Chil
ton, whose term expires next year.
DIAMONDS IN A PLASTER.
Edvftrll Hardt, a t'liloago Jeweler. De
tected Smuggling Them In.
Nkw York. March 14. — Inspector
Donohue had his attention drawn to a
passenger on the steamship 8aale as he
stood on the company's pier Friday.
This passenger was observed to trans
fer a watch and a locicet from one of
his overcoat pockets to another, and as
the movement aroused the suspicions
of the inspector he asked him to
step down down to the exam
ination room. The passenger
was Edward Hardt, who said
he was a jeweler and that he lived in
Chicago. Hardt was subjected to an
examination, and upon the removal of
his garments a porus plaster was dis
covered fitting nicely to his shoulder
blades. A gentle tapping upon the
plaster convinced the inspector that
something besides lame back lay be
hind the plaster, and so the plaster
was rudely torn off. when there
dropped out one pair of diamond ear
rings. on© pair of diamond and pearl
earrings, one diamond bracelet and
one diamond ring; total value, 9000.
l'he jeweler was seized.
THE ENGLISH COAL STRIKE
Factories Forced to close and Thousands
Are Idle.
Lon-dor, March 14.—The coal strike
continues universal in England, ex
cept that a few. pita in Durham,
Staffordshire, Worcestershire and
North Wales are at work. In all other
districts south of the Scotch border
universal idleness prevails. Ex
cept in the few places
where the coal supply from the
pit mouth is maintained, factories con
tinue to close and hundreds of thous
ands of people are being thrown out
of employment The Northwestern
railway has closed its forge works at
Crewe, which is said to be the greatest
centre of railway iron works in the
world, and there is fear that the whole
population of that place may be
thrown out of employment for a time.
Sneak thl.se. are Very 4*.
»et
land.
Wan, .. v.l„a„
Wymore i. to hare , new - v
church to coat (15,000. '-•‘holla
St. Stephen's church at Qr..,i ,,
is free from debt. ^ l*'»»d
A portion of the Bussian colon, k.
rived at Nelson. ny h*» w
The Sydney authorities have b»»,
raid on the ramblers. ga* »
A camp of Sons of Veterans has v
muatered in Palmer. be,»
The camp of Sons of Veteran, at Crl.
imra has been reorganized. ^w*
Wymore will celebrate the annivers...
f iti founding on May 21. nit*
ItlIs said that the Platt.mouth eanubg
factory U to bo reopened. •
Holt county has five mills and alls,.
working at full capacity. ™
Mlnden will probably vote (10 0001.
bonds to build a new school house. ’ *
Indianola’s paint factory has started ns
and employs twelve workmen. '
A Congregational church has been on1
ganlzed at Butte City, Boyd county.
Twenty people are employed in the ct
gar making Industry at Grand Island.
Robert Good, of Murray, chopped hit
foot instead of a log and nearly lost his
limb.
The Nebraska Blizzard has broke*
loose at Sumner. W. P. Porter blows ths
bellows.
John Dodd was fatally shot by Samuel
Pirkecing, near Fullerton, as the result 0|
family feud.
The postoffice, together with the dwell,
ing house of Charles Seiz, at De Soto, was
burned. L09 0,001
A number of families are now on the
rond from the east bound for Duel county
to settle on farms.
A purse was raised by subscription at
Rising City to buy a hearse. Rising is. not
a dead town, though.
Loran Clark, of Albion, has announced
himself a candidate for delegate to the
national republican convention.
Ex-Attorney-General William Leese has
a patent on a rat trap which will be manu
factured by a stock company.
The wholesale saddlery house at Hast
ings employs twenty-six men and turns
out an immense number of harnesses.
Phil Gruesel. of Plattsmouth. has filed
an application for an appointment as an
umpire of the Nebraska State Base Ball
league.
The alliances of Brown, Bock and Keya
Paha counties have arranged to build s
company elevator at Long Pine. Stock
has been taken.
C T. Schlueter, a prominent merchant
merchant of Alexandria, committed sui
cide recently by shooting himself with s
32-calibre revolver.
The C. 8. P. 8. lodge at Humbolt gave a
masked ball, at whjch beer flowed as free
as water and the participants didn't go
home till morning.
* H. T. Wilson has said goodbye to the
readers of the Holdredge Progress and
has been succeeded by Montgomery A
Johnson as editors and proprietors.
Harry Kinsey, alias Geoage Emery, s
Burlington brakeman, was found on the
top of a car of his train at Sutton, with
his skull crushed la by some blunt instru
ment.
The Indian school building on the Win
nebago agency, together with the ice
house and warerooms, was entirely con
sumed by fire. The building was a large
brick structure and oost about $18,000.
As,a fast mail was leaving Grand Island
for the west, three tramps attempted to
board it Two were successful, but the
third missed and stepped back on the
next track, when an engine backing to the
round house struck him, killing him in
stantly.
A young man named Probat, living
south of Taylor, in Loup county, has re
fused food, drink and medical aid for
twenty-five days On recovering from de
lirium tremens he became convinced he
was going to die and took the above course
to make sure of it.
Great Interest is being shown by prac
tical farmers in and near Kearney in the
matter of raising winter wheat, and won
derful success has already been attained.
Should the test prove satisfactory it will
forever solve the question of competition
between Nebraska and Kansas flour.
Judge Crawford, of - West Point, has
come out in a card declining to be a can
didate for congress on the democratic
ticket, The judge is so afraid that he
might be named that he concludes with
the statement that he wouldn’t even ac
cept a certificate for a seat in the house.
The Nebraska G. A B. la nothing If not
considerate. It couldn’t make all the
prominent candidates commander, but af
ter electing General Dilworth, Judge
Church was made senior vice and Bobert
La Fountain junior vice. The boys are is
the line of promotion, anyway.
James Murray, at Columbus, who was »
captain of the Pawnee scouts in the early
days, has jpst been.granted a pension of
(IS a month and arrearages for about six
teen years. He was known as Brare
Chief by the Indians, which w*» gi»eB
him by reason of the bravery he always
displayed.
While the police court wee » ,MS10B
Lincoln a crank by the name of W •r"er
entered the room, and opened fire wit *
revolver at Justice A. IX Borgelt Three
shots were fired, two of them tskmf
effect. The man was speedily arreste
and disarmed. He is thought to be in
sane. The judge will recover.
There is a slight touch of romance m
the history of Isaac Rakestrnw and >*“
evaCatherine Haines, of Silver Cre«
Col., who were married in Lincoln
Judge Lansing. They are both 63 y**
of age. Forty years ago they were o»
in their native village in Ohio,
paths diverged, aud until a f*w n’°? ce
ago they had not seen each other »
early youth. , . re.
Miss Florence Crosser, a hig. gn33
spected young lady, daughter o .
Crosser, of Murray, left home la*‘ '
in company with Darius Butler, son
Governor Butler. The destination o ^ ^
young couple is not known, but t a;
clear case of elopement, with ma ri ^
intent, is not doubted by *n^°? „»r
quainted with the facts. U‘,s putlef
formsd the acquaintance of ,o4),,
while attending school at , «
la, about a year ago, and had eP f1rt
correspondence with him until rt.
weeks since, when he came to
walnlng until his sudden departure