'1HE I'KONTIKk.
rt'Ill.ISlM'.K KVKISY TIlrKSIlAY ItY
TUB l lldN I irn I’inM'IM! CO.._
o~ x k ill, - x !■: 11 ii as i< AT
Max O'Rell Bay* that everyone except
kings and the prime ministers of a few
great powers, likes to be interviewed,
hnd he considers it a compliment to be
asked to give a novvspaper his ideas.
The earl of Rosebery, doubtless
Great Ilritain's most eligible widower,
wears his face smooth and looks moro
like a decorous young curate than the
political and social personage he un<
doubtodly is.
Less than thirty years ago President
McLeod, of the heading railroad, was
a rodinan on the Northern Pacific. He
Is now the head of a 2,000-tnilo trunk
line and the employor of 100,000 subor
dinates.
It is reported in Augusta, Me., that
Mrs lllaine and her daughter-in-law,
Mrs Kmm >ns lllaine, were exceedingly
anxious that the secretary should be
come a candidate for the presidency,
but thnt ho declared to them that un
der no possible condition would he ac
cept the nomination.
The anomaly a woman hermit may
be found in Glynn county, Georgia, in
the person of Miss Ann I’lper, who has
tpokeu to but three persons in the past
sixteen years Although she lives
within two miles of a railroad, she has
nevor seen a train.
A graceful though untimoly tributo
was recently paid to Christine Nilsson
by an admirer who had heard her sing
“The Last Rosa of Summer.” At 1
o'clock in the morning he rang her
door bell, and when the door was
opened threw in a box containing a
rose in gems inscribed “The Last Rose."
George Du Mnurler, society artist of
Punch, has been lecturing on “Social
Pictorial Satire." He declares that
his favorite creation is the “pretty
woman,” and that a plaster cast of the
.Venus de Milo has been the silent com
panion of his work for thirty yoara
The more he looked upon her the
snore he saw to worship and admire.
Alexandre Rtbot, tlic new French
premier, is just two weeks over fifty
years of age. He is sometimes called
a youthful Theirs, and he has had a
meteoric career in politics during the
last ten years, though previous to the
time of his appointment, in 1800, as
minister of foreign affairs in De Frey
elnet’s cabinet he was but little known
outside of France.
. Dr. William Everett has been lectur
ing on “the Saint in Literature.” lie
thinks we are all greatly indebted to
Aeschylus, ‘‘the second father” of the
drama, who made dialogue on the
•tage possible by introducing a second
actor into plays, and who in his
“stately and tenacious” versos teaches
the doctrine of retributive justice and
the duty of submission and modesty.
Old newspapers are said to make
valuable anti-moth wrappers for furs
and winter clothing, the ink upon
them being nearly as repu lsive to all
kinds of vermin as camphor or coal tar
paper. They are likewise good to lay
on carpets for a like purpose. Being
Impermeable to air they also form ex
cellent envelopes for vessels contain
ing ice and fresh liquors.
Eugene Wolf, the correspondent of
the Berliner Tageblatt, who was re
cently expelled from the German pos
sessions in East Africa, has called
upon the relchstag to explain why he
was expelled, and to prove that his
letters did not give! true accounts of
the condition of affairs in Africa. He
also asks that he be allowed to return
*0 Ainca. Air. woll continues bis at
tacks upon Freiherr von Loden, gov
•rnor of the German provinces, and
(Wes certainly no flattering picture of
that official.
' In Singapore the bridegroom must
seoure his bride in a race, and this cus
tom of bride chasing is quite common
throughout southern and eastern Asia.
In Singapore a circular course is
marked out, half of which is traversed!
by the maiden—encumbered only with'
a waistband—ere the word is given fori
the would-be possessor to go in pur-1
■suit in the hope of overtaking her be-,
fore she has thrice completed the clr
«le; that achieved, she has no choice
but to take the victor for her lord.
Honey could be immensely improved
by the planting of the flowers known
to yield a fine-flavored nectar. Every'
one knows the difference in the con
tents of the comb contents in different*
parts of the same country and in dif
ferent regions. The Narbonne honey
obtains its fine flavor by being har
vested chiefly from libiate plants, such
as rosemary, etc., and though it ap
pears that the Maltese honey does not,
as often stated, owe its flue aroma to
orange blossoms, the latter undeniably
perfumes the Greek honey.
Oregon fruit growers say that Ore
gon is to be the greatest fruit-growing
state of the union. One fruit expert
says that Italian prunes grown in the
Willamette valley are superior to those
grown in Italy. The climate, he says,
is like the great fruit region of Asia
Minor. One grower has planted about
15,000 prune trees in 150 acres in the
Willamette, and it is said that prunes
and other'iruits are being planted in
thousands of other farms. That part
of the state promises to be a vast fruit
orchard in the negr future.
PURCHASING POWER OF WAGES
Kept High by Trolsetlnn — t’nilcr Free
'I mite mill I.ower Wages the Articles
■ 'ought by the Klch Wniilit l-*aU In
Trier, Hut Nut Those Tseil by tbe Tnor
— Illirlier Wages, Not l.uwor Triers, Is
tVliut the \t orklllgiiian should strive
for.
We often hear free trailers claiming
that tinder free trade prices would fall
so much that, even admitting wages
would fall, their purchasing power
would not be diminished. "Suppose
wages do fall,” says the “reformer,”
"is it not true that, if prices also fall
correspondingly, the workingman will
I be just as well off as before? We an
swer “Yes, undoubtedly he would.”
If prices would really fall correspond
ingly, the workingman’s condition
would not be changed for thu worse,
lint this is a supposition which is op
posed to all experience and facts. It is
true that if hand labor were the only
factor in production, lower wages
would, mean correspondingly lower
prices, but under present conditions,
with the age of improved processes,
with many articles made almost en
tirely by machinery, this could not be
so. Let us take an illustration: When
a rich man goes to a shoemaker in this
country and has his feet in ensured for a
pair of shoes, which arc tube made to
order and exactly fitted to the peculiar
shapo of his foot, he undoubtedly pays
more than lie would pay for similar
work in England or in Europe. Our
shoemaker gets two and three times as
much as the shoemaker of other coun
trios, and it is but natural that, even
allowing perhaps for his greater skill,
the product of his lnbor should be
dearer.
lint take, on the other hand, a pair
of shoos made by the wonderful ma
chines which can be found in any one
pf our great factories, which cut the
leather, sow the shoes and finish them,
almost entirely without the interven
tion of human hands, one machine
turning out hundreds of shoes daily,
fan it be for a moment supposed that
the mere fact that the wages of the
workingman who tends to such a ma
chine are lowered would make iF.iy ap
preciable difference in the price of one
of those hundred pairs of shoes which
that machine turns out? Certainly not.
And yet it is just the laboring classes
who buy this kind of shoes. Rarely, if
ever, does the workingman go to a
high-priced shoemaker and have his
shoes made to order; that is reserved
for the millionaire banker and the im
porter. The laboring man buys the
factory-made article every time, and it
must ue said that it is just as good, just
as substantial as the other. So it is
with the whole range of articles that
the masses of our people buy—cotton
poods, woolen goods of a substantial
quality, collars and cuffs, tools and
hundreds of other things, aro all the
products of those wonderful maohines,
themselves only made possible by the
inventive genius which protection has
stimulated. *
That this is so every one knows.
M any a free trader has unwittingly ad
mitted, and even that rabid ‘‘reformer,’'
ex-Consul Schoenliof, has given invalu
able testimony on this point, when he
said that all substantial articles of “the
whole sale process of manufacture” are
cheaper here than in free trade En
gland, but that things made entirely
by hand are dearer in the United States.
So we see that while lower wages
would undoubtedly mean lower prices
for the splendid raiments and luxuries
of the rich, it would not make much
difference in the price of machinery
made articles purchased by our work
ing men; and thus lower wages could
only mean diminishing purchasing
power, fewer comforts and a lower
standard of living.
Hut this is not all. Cannot the work
ingman see that wages have not the
slightest connection with the cost of
the liund red and one things that go to
make up his expenses? Will the thou
sand dollar mortgage on his home be
pome less than a thousand dollars be
cause he earns lower wages? Will the
debt he owes be smaller because his in
come is less? Will the flve-cent car fare
be reduced, or the price of a newspaper,
or the admission feo to the lecture or
entertainment? No, these things will
cost iust as much as before, so that
lower wages simply mean more labor
to purchase a smaller amount of them.
The intelligent workingman cannot
but see that higher wages, not lower
prices, must be the watchword in the
battle to better his condition. As Wen
dell Phillips used to say:
The mainspring of our progress is high wages
—wages at such a level that the workingman
can spare his wife to preside over a home, can
command leisure, go to lectures, take a news
paper, and lift himself from the deadening level
of mere' toil. That dollar left after all the bills
are paid on Saturday night means education, in
dependence, self-respect, manhood: it increases
the value of every acre near by. tills the town
with dwellings, opens public libraries and
crowds them, dots the continent with cities and
cobwebs it with railways. The one remaining
dollar Insures progress and guarantees millions
lo its owner, better than a score of statutes. It
is worth more than a thousand colleges, and
makes armies and police superfluous.
the Tariff Again.
The anthracite coal roads, controlling a cap
ital of KUO,000,000, have combined. Free coal
would enable the people to escape in part from
the clutches of this monopoly.—Kansas City
Times.
Will the tariff editor of the Kansas
City Times please refer to his copy of
the McKinley bill. Paragraph 536 says:
"Coal, anthracite — free.” This is a
sample of the kind of arguments (?) ad
vanced by the “reformers.” mg
To the Kescue, Free Traders.
The English (tin plate! market is firm at
trices which are in most eases as low as the
owest on record, and in some cases below the
owest on record: and it is the fact that prices
ire at such a tow basis that has led to the busi
tess that is being done in future.—Official Or
gan of the Tin Plate “Consumers” Association,
lauuary 30.
This piece of information should spur
“very free trader to renewed efforts to
ibolish the tariff on tin plate in the in
terest of his British friends.
Tuk free trade “reformer" is sure
that if the president by proclamation
imposes duties on the products of those
countries which will hare refused to
jrant reasonable concessions to Aineri
::in products, the whole of such duty
wi 11 come out of our own people. Just
wait and see this free trade theory go
to smash.
jJ
■ • ¥
PROGRESS IN INVENTION
Is stimulated by Protection—Machines are
the Product of tlie (lentils of Mechanics,
and tVe Never (’oulil Have Had Any
Alechaulr* Had It Not Iteen for tlie Tarll!
—Nuin her of Patents Compared.
When, in tlie midst of his dogmatic
assertion that the tariff is a tax, the
free trader is confronted with statistics
showing the cheapening of articles un
der protection, does he ndmit that he is
wrong, that his argument is not sound?
Far from it. Instead of honestly con
fessing that he was mistaken, he drops
the •’tariff is a tax” question altogether,
and attempts to get out of his dilemma
by answering: “Well, machinery cheap
ened these articles.” The Cobdenite
does not see that he contradicts himself
by this answer, for if goods are cheaper
on account of inventions in machinery,
how can they also be dearer on account
of the tariff? The fact is that the argu
ment that improved machinery is tlie
cause of the cheapening of commodities
is merely a cloak to hide the discom
fiture of the free trader, when con
vinced that prices have fallen under
protection.
Hut is it true that the employment of
machinery has, to agreatextent, caused
the cheapening of commodities? Un
doubtedly. The protectionist does not
attempt to deny it; nay, he even claims
this as a direct result of the protective
policy. Inventions in machinery are
the result of mechanical skill, the
product of the genius of mechanics: and
how could we ever have had mechanics
had it not been for the tariff? For free
trade would have kept us a nation of
agriculturists. Wc do not claim that
protection is all powerful, that it can
kindle inventive genius in the brains of
men not born with that talent; but we
do claim that by diversifying industry,
by giving every man a chance to earn
his own living in his own way, and by
thus affording our Yankee ingenuity an
opportunity to assert itself, protection
lias created the conditions favorable to
progress in invention. That this is so
is proved by the records of the United
States patent office, which show, that
the number of patents has always l^een
relatively far greater in times of pro
tection than under free trade.
NUMDKR OF PATENTS COMPARED.
Number of patents Number of patents
granted under w anted und^r
men ue tariff. protective tariff.
18KM880. 1881-1875.127,815
1875-1889.286,955
If any other proof of the fact that
protection has stimulated invention is
wanted, we need only quote the words
of Mr. Ueorcre Carlvle. the inventor of
the improved machinery in use at the
new pearl button works at Detroit, es
tablished by the McKinley tariff:
But for the passage of the McKinley bill my
Invention would he of no value, and there would
have been no incentive for me or any one else
in this country to make further inventions in
this line.
Hut all this should not lead us to for
get the main point—namely, the false
hoods of the free trader, who first as
serts that the tariff is a tax, and then
disproves his own assertion by saying
that under this very tariff, which he
claims raises prices, prices have fallen
on account of improved machinery.
American Boot! Cheaper.
The London Times of February 8
quotes from the testimony given before
the labor commission by Mr. J. Ingle,
secretary of the Leeds Boot Manufac
turers’ association, the following state
ments, which were alluded to before in
these columns:
“During the past thirteen months
thirty-six firms in the shoe trade in
Leeds had faile^. He knew one place
in Leeds where thousands of pounds'
worth of machinery was not allowed to
be worked owing to the trade unionists
declining to work it at a profit to the
employers. Ever since 1874 they had
been importing from America men’s
strong boots suitable for workingmen,
and selling them at 4s. 2d. a pair, orSd.
less then they could sell an English
made boot of the same quality. Wc
were twenty or thirty years behind the
United States in shoemaking. They
employed more labor-saving machinery,
the men were more expert, and the
leather was cheaper. In the United
States they could make up £100 worth
of material at an expenditure of £17
iu»., as against Jtau in ungiana; and in
Leeds the unionists were so strong as
to prevent the American machines being
used. Two firms had taken their busi
ness from Leeds and were uow working
the American machines with non
unionists. In reply to Mr. Burt, wit
ness said that probably the persecution
of the Russian Jews had brought them
over to Leeds, but the people of Leeds
thought it was unfair that the bread
should be taken out of their mouths by
foreigners, and that there ought to be
a tax upon them. The houses in which
these foreigners lived were in a most
insanitary condition.”
Two Questions for Irishmen.
Every Irishman in this country knows
that if it was not for his vote and that
of his compatriots the democratic party
would be without hope of success. All
also know that the democratic majority
in congress, a majority elected by Irish
votes, proposes to build but one war
ship.
The two questions that should inter
est them are: What power is helped,
placated or in any wise pleased by this
reduction of work to be given to me
chanics and this cessation in our prep
aration for a defensive as well as
offensive war except England? And,
what are you going to do about it?
Keep on voting for men who serve En
gland, and not either this country or
Ireland?
Ask a lawyer if he would like all
those engaged in other occupations or
professions to become lawyors and com
pete with him, and he will quickly
answer, No. Ask a merchant whether
he would not be glad to see all those
who are now manufacturers or import
ers change their business and become
merchants too, and he will speedily ex
press his disapprobation of any such
scheme. Yet the free traders want tc
make us a nation of agriculturists, and
they ask the farmer to hail with joy a
system that would transform all those
who are now his customers into his
competitors.
NEBRASKA.
A ladies’ athletic club is a new venture
for Geneva. *
Table Rock Methodists have paid ofl
their church debt.
About fifteen houses are is sonrse o!
erection at Wayne.
Fillmore county republican^ wilt hold
their convention at Geneva April 9.
Red Cloud merchants have agreed tc
close their doors each evening at 8 o'clock.
St. Edward citizens have raised a bonus
of $1,000 and thus secured a plow factory.
The farm house of Alexander Sullivan,
near Schuyler, wus entirely destroyed by
fire.
Several alliance farmers have a move
ment on foot to establish a bank at Gib
bon.
A Falls City enthusiastic horticulturist
is putting out 100,000 apple trees this
spring.
Bertrand suffered from a coal famine
for a few days last week and cobs fur
nished the ouly fuel.
Burglars made a raid on a clothing store
at Fairmont and made away with $33
worth of ready made pants.
A $10,000 stock company has been organ
ized by the citizens of "Dawson and vicin
ity to rebuild their mills.
At a town meeting at Allen it was de
cided to have a town well and about $100
was raised for that purpose.
A farmer near Norden, Keva Paha
county, killed a bald eagle which meas
ured nine feet from tip to tip.
H. harris, who lives just west of Super
ior, cleared $1,300 off of his eighty ac ■ e farm
this last season. Farming in Nuckolls
county pays.
The commissioners of Dawson county
have decided to put in a new iron bridge
across the Buffalo, east of Jewell, 16x80
feet, to cost $1,200.
Charles Harding, of Norfolk, recently
received a draft for $800 in payment for a
carload of butter which was wrecked
while enroute to New York.
There are twenty b -chlorido of gold
cure institu es in Nebraska, says the
Tecumseli Journal, and it will soon bo as
easy to get cured as to get drunk.
The farmers' organization at Trumbull
and Bromtield have leased the Ferguson
elevators at those points and will com
mence the grain business at once.
Miss Clara Snyder, rne of Haynes
county’s popular school teachers, made
final proof on her claim near Estell before
Clerk Gowing at Hayes Center Saturday.
Rev. J. E. Brercton. for nearly six years
pastor of the Ashland Congregational
church, has resigned to accept the ap
pointment of field secretary of Doane col
lege.
A special election will be held in Ran
dolph on the 16th of April, for the purpose
of voting* bonds to the amount of $5,000 to
aid in boring an artesian well at that
place.
HoUlrege will put in twenty-five acres
of sugar beets and Red Cloud twenty acres
for the Grand Island factory as a test of
the adaptility of the soil for raising
beets.
There is talk of a stock company being
formed in McCool for the purpose of put
ting up a brick building with a hall over
head, fitted up and equipped for lodge
purposes
Harry Simpson, a Pender painter, went
down to Bancroft and drew a check for
$15, signing M. Emmington's name to it
He then disappeared and hasn’t been
heard from since.
The Ewing creamery will open about
May 1. The management has already se
cured 2,500 cows and expects to have over
8,0J0 when the fires are kindled and the
churns begin to revolve.
Lieutenant, and Mrs. Trout, of Fort
Robinson, were out driving when their
team ran away. They were thrown out
and knocked senseless. Mrs. Trout had
her shoulder badly hurt.
State Superintendent Goudy has issued
a circular to teachers of the state. The
document contains suggestions pertaining
to the importance of observing in some
fitting manner of Arbor day, April 23.
Lizzie Groner. of Plum Valley, Knox
county, met with a painful accident while
driving some cattle home from the reser
vation. She was riding horseback and
the horse becoming scared she was thrown
to the ground.
There will be a meeting of the York
County Horticultural society at the court
house in York on Saturday, April 16.
York county is now conceded to be one of
me uusi ior iruit raising- in uie central
part of the state.
Frank Bull, of Weeping Water, while
riding in a wagon last Thursday seated in
the rear of the bed, was jolted out owing
to the horses getting scared and making a
sudden turn. In striking the ground his
knee was dislocated.
The Beaver Valley Tribune says: The
cattle along the Sappa bitten in February
by a rabid dog have since developed evi
dences of hydrophobia. Among others, A.
E. Dawes has found it necessary to kill a
valuable male bovine.
A 10-year-old son of Frank Kobo, of Lib
erty towship, Franklin county, was acci
dentally wounded in the leg by another
boy while the two were playing with an
old revolver. The wound, while serious,
Is not considered dangerous.
An exhibition of the work done^ the
public schools of Crete has been lield at
the city hall this week. Work from all
grades has been placed alongside of that
of previous years, and the improvement is
very striking and pleasing
Wayne business men have already com
menced the erection of several fine brick
stores in place of the frame buildings
which were burned last fall, and a num
ber of others will put up brick structures
this season The walls of the new nor
mal college are steadily rising.
The Gothenburg Independent says: It
is estimated that over $30J,000 has been
paid out for farm produce at this place
since last year’s crop was put upon the
market. This is a pretty good showing,
both for the business men in town and the
farmers in the surrounding countrv.
A number of citizens of Arapahoe have
organized a company and taken stock in
ft lake north of that town, made possible
by the water power and improvement
canal. It is the intention of those inter
ested in the enterprise to stock the lake
with fish and convert it into a summer re
sort.
Thursday last some small hoy* aet fire
.to a bay stack belonging to tho Rev. John
Berk, of Hickman, and which was stand
ing near his barn, but by the prompt and
energetio work of citizens the fire was ex
tinguished before much damage was
dona.
TWO FIRES IN NEW ORLEANS
Four Million Dollars’ Worth of
Property Destroyed.
8iitjr-Flve Thoufiand Bales of Cotton and
Eleven Blocks of Buildings Go Up
in Smoke — Started by a
Cigarette.
New Orleans, La., April 4.—New
Orleans was visited yesterc- y by two
of the worst fires in the city’s history.
Eleven blocks of buildings were de
stroyed, involving a loss of $3,600,000.
Both fires were the result of careless
ness, and would have been trivial but
for the extreme dryness, which was
'the result of a long drouth, a high
wind and the inadequacy of the fire
department. The latter was reor
ganized in January from the volunteer
to the paid department system, and
the number of firemen was reduced
about nine-tenths.
The first fire started in a pile of cot
ton in front of the fire-proof compress
at the corner of Robin and Front
streets. Someone threw a lighted
cigarette in the pile, which in a few
moments was burning fiercely. The
flames soon made their way into tho
compress building, where 12,500 bales
of cotton were stored. The air was
soon full of sparks, which soon com
municated the tire to adjoining build
ings. The Orleans compress, with 25,
000 bales, was the first to go.
While the firemen were combating
the flames in the Orleans compress the
walls suddenly gave way and Captain
Dupee and Lieutenant Shaw and Pipe
man Bordeaux were buried in the
ruins. All were seriously and possibly
fatally injured.
The Independence cotton yards had
been engulfed and the fire covered an
area of five squares. The Baldwin ag
ricultural works and the Louisiana
rice mills, four squares distant,
were ignited by the masses of burning
cotton, which tilled the air, but after a
hard fight both buildings were saved
without serious loss.
A panic prevailed in the vicinity of
the fire which was close to the resi
dence district, and people living many
blocks distant began fleeing for their
lives, carrying what few belongings
they could gather up in their haste.
There were also destroyed in the
cotton district several minor buildings.
The New Orleans vinegar factory was
destroyed, involving a loss on the
stock of $10,000. A frame bar room,
oviv-vyK, uaa id^u. t
321 South Front street n two-story
brick building was destroyed. No. 333
Front street, a three-story brick resi
dence, was damaged considerably, as
was 333 and 337 Front street, build
ings o 1 the same character. A three
story brick bar room, No 2 Thalia
street, was damaged considerably.
The cotton loss is estimated at about
65,000 bales. This would mean a loss
of about *3,225.000 in cotton alone.
It is claimed by some that the fire
was the work of laborers who wished
to avenge the purchasing of the presses
by tho trust. The fire proof press is
owned by the trust in the name of the
Penrose Brothers, managers. The Or
leans is also in the trust in the name
of Adam Borch, manager. The Ship
pers’ press is owned by Boyd & Her
rick, who are not in the’ trust.
While the firemen were engaged in a
hopeless struggle with the cotton fire,
another blaze broke out at the corner
of Laurel and Third streets, a mile
away. .Mrs. Valentine tried to start
a file with coal oil. An explosion fol
lowed, and the house was soon in
flames. It was reported at the time
that two children were killed by
tho explosion, but investigation failed
to confirm the report. For half an
hour tho fire was a small affair, but no
engines arriving it finally spread to
the surrounding buildings', which were
all wooden cottages, and in two hours
the flames had swept bare an area six
blocks in extent, reaching from Maga
zine street to Constance crossing. In
all about 185 houses were destroyed.
The loss will approximate $500,000.
Althougth the cotton compresses
were sold to an English syndicate, tho
formal transfer had not yet taken
place, consequently the loss will iall
on the old owners. The cotton and
wiu miuamg-s ana machinery were fully
insured, mostly foreign companies
Several local companies here are hard
hit, however, and it is believed that
two of them will not be able to weather
the storm.
A careful estimate of the total insur
ance on both fires fixes the amount at
>3,300,000.
Th i llna«PH Destroyed.
The following is a list of the houses
destroyed as nearly as can be learned:
Dan Dioderick’s butcher shop.
George R. Bovolo, two-story house, oc
cupied by himself and Dudley Selpb.
Double cottage occupied bv Ed Craig.
One-story frame occupied' by Ed Bor
brais as a bakery.
Single cottage owned by Mrs. Potter
x oung.
Cottage owned by Mrs. Lester.
Double cottage owned by Mr. Lally, oc
cupied by Mr. Holt.
Single cottage owned and occupied bv
Mr. Nestor. '
Two-story frame occupied by Mr. Du
gage as a butcher shop. .
1 wo single cottages owned bv Mr
Blacksmith. 1
Double cottage owned by Mr. Boach.
Grocery store occupied by Mr. Demitrv
J. B. Ballard, residence. y'
Two-story vacant house.
Mr Geis, two-story tenement house.
Mr. McMeade, double cottage.
Mr. Vigers, grocery.
Mr. Stats, residence.
H. B Mctta, residence.
M. C. Schenck. frame building occupied
by John Hortgoller. *
FIREMEN «.VEHCOME.
Incendiary Blaze at Montreal Nearly De
stroys the Honzcours Market.
Montreal, April 4.—This city was
beset by a number of fires which in
four instances were of incendiary or
igln. At the last fire an attempt was
made to destroy the Iionzcours mar
ket. It came near being a success and
before it was gotten under control
eighteen firemen were overcome bv
Bmoke and had to be taken to the hos
pital, while thirty others had to be laid
off for a short time. The loss is about
>100,000.
Buying Right of Way.
t W ausa. Neb., April 4.■—-A representa
tive of the Yankton, Norfolk and
Southwestern railroad waa here Saturn
day and is purchasing right of way
from land owners along the prospec
tive line*
The Six Stater. Who Robbed Co,
Salmon Fall,, (,llkllo "■*
Boise City, Idaho, April 4 _Th
tectives who went to the ranch near a ,
mon Falls of the six women suspect
beiny stage robbers, have placed a
women under arrest and report tha!
there is no doubt of their guilt Th
women who claim to be sister,,**
said to have committed many hic-hwn!
robberies in that section of the coui
try. They were dressed as men whiU
engaged in their Crimea
The belief was strong that old man
Harvey and his family were responsi.
ble for the numerous stage robberies
that have occurred lately and the of.
fleers by a clever scheme caught the
women in tin act There were certain
spots along the road near Harvev',
ranch where the robberies were done
and,at one of these places the
sheriff with ten men waited while the
stage stopDed at the house, the driver
being previously instructed to hetrar
fear of robbery because he carried 1
money box. The bait took and whet
the stage people were ocatins
dinner the girls disappeared
and sdon the sheriff and his
party in ambush, saw six young men
sneak into the little canyon and hide
themselves close to tho road. When
the stage came along the bandits went
forth and stopped it at the point of
their (runs. But the sheriff was also
there and took in the whole gang,
which proved to be composed of the girls
who had left the house. When the
arrest was made one of the girls weak
ened and told the whole story. She
said she never liked the work and was
glad they were caught. They were
trained to it by their father and the
proceeds were shipped east for sale so
as not to awaken suspicion in the coun
try. The arrest of the old man is ex
pected.
OPERATORS WIN.
The Santa Fe Ratal-. Salaries All Along
tlie Line.
Topeka, Kas., April 4.—The tele
graph operators succeeded in bringing
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad company to time and salaries
have been readjusted for the entire
system. The new schedule increases
the wages of the 900 operators em
ployed by the company $80,000 a year.
Under the old schedule there were s
number of offices receiving $20 and $3j
per month, and the petition of the tele
graphers to establish a minimum sal
nry ui per man mi was granted.
Operators receiving over ¥45 per month
were increased $5 and $10 each, ex
cept 200 offices. In these minor
offices the committee asked for
an advance of S3.50 per month, which
was compromised at $2. Train dis
patchers and chief train dispatchers
were allowed an advance of $15 per
month, making the salaries of the
former ¥120 and the latter $145.
The rules regulating operators and
train dispatchers were also revised. At
stations where there are more than two
operators ten hours will constitute a
day’s work instead of twelve, and
eight hours will hereafter be a day's
work for train dispatchers. All opera
tors and train dispatchers will be paid
for extra time.
Grand Chief Ramsay left for St Louis
to confer with the superintendent of
the St. Louis and San Francisco. A
strike had been ordered by Ramsay
on the ’Frisco April 6 unless Operator
Groome was reinstated, but on receipt
of a telegram from the superintendent,
Chief Ramsay declared it off until after
a conference was held.
A CHEAP CHAMPION.
John Jiurns Gets Only S10 a Week, and
That Comes Hard.
London, April 4.—John Burns’ wages
committee has issued an appeal for
funds to help pay the famous labor
leader his modest salary of £2 a week.
When Burns was elected three yean
ago to a seat on the London county
council he was earning £2 a week at
his bench as a fitter. He stipulated
that, as he would have to give up all
his time to municipal matters, the
workingmen of London should enable
him to live by raising that sum per
nrnnl, 4__t_t -, f'r-.nep.
quently the John Burns wages com
mittee was formed, and Burns has
since received his modest stipend. As
a mcmbr of London's municipal par
liament he has rendered incalculable
service to the cause of labor, but labor
has not shown much gratitude to its
champion. The committee has raised
the necessary money from week to
week with great difficulty, and several
times, as at present, the treasury has
been almost empty. The fact is. the
older and richer trades unions object
to Burns because he is a socialist, and
only the dockers' union, which he es
tablished, has contributed to the fund.
THEY ARE OfcTERMlNED.
The River Men Will Not Work Until Their
Demands Are Granted,
St. Louis, Mu, April 4.—Contrary to
expectations, the strike of the river
firemen, roustabouts and longshore
men is today more determined
in character than at any time sines
the beginning. The men who deserted
from the ranks of the strikers
have been induced to quit work,
and at noon there were scarcely fifty
men at work on the river front. A
present there are fifteen boats waiting
to load or to unload. Meetings are
constantly being held and the men ex
press determination to remain idle un
til their demands are complied with.
Distributing Million*.
Chicago, April 4.—Pension Agen
Clement today commenced the distri
tribution of the enormous sum c
SO, 500,000 to the pensioners of this
trict Of the total amount $150’ ,
will go into the pockets of the na
veterans, and the remainder to
army veterans, their widows ana
phans. _
For Shorter Hours and More F*y.
New York, April 4.—-The ca 1D
makers and varnishers of this city we
in a strike this morning. They
sight hours woru. a day an, r
establishment of the old rate o y -
One-third of the cabinet o(
have granted the request and
one-fourth of the varnish men.
a thousand men are on strike.
