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pattsmouth Jmmwl C V. SIIGICHAX. Publisher. rLATT.-lIOU'l II. : fFBKAKTC The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. The exchanges at the leading clear ing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 22d aggregated $1,953.184,97-J. against $1,915,882,558 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1802, was 80.8. Thkke were 344 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 339 the week previous and 2S3 in the corresponding time in 1893. Ix a cuve-in at Carnegie's new mill at Homestead, Pa., fourteen workmen were killed and four badly hurt. At Benton, I1L, Judge W. II. Williams was fatally shot from ambush by John Martin, whose divorced wife he had married. The barn of J. L. Shallcross, a stock man at Anchorage, Ky., was burned, together with thirty horses and 100 head of cattle. Foi'R men were killed and five injured by a boiler explosion at a lumber mill near Knoxville. Tenn. Two womex named Tbibodeaux and their three daughters and a Mr. Miller were drowned in Grand lake near Mer menteau, La., by the upsetting of their boat. Oliver fc Roberts' wire mill at Pitts burgh, Pa., closed down for an indefi nite period, throwing 1,500 men out of work. Teleorams from 119 important cities throughout the country indicated that the total number of employes in in dustrial and other lines out of work at this time, together with the total num ber of people directly dependent for support upon those so rendered idle, is nearly 3,000,000. Tkeasurt officials at Washington were worried by the decrease in the cash balance, which was but $90,533, 7S7. A loss of $200,000 was caused by a blaze in a six-story building in Boston occupied by manufacturing concerns. Gov. Mitchell refused a charter to the Duval Athletic ehib of Jackson ville, Fla., before which Corbett and Mitchell were to fight. Judge Tailor, of Terre Haute, Ind., decided a pupil eouldXnot be excluded from school because of failure to be vaccinated. Four masked men, supposed to be white caps, murdered Pleasant Hen dricks, living near Lynchburg, Va.. and set fire to the house. Manchester Center, Vt, suffered the loss of its principal business sec tion by fire. Loss, $-100,000. Roscob Parker, a negro, confessed to killing L. P. Ryan and wife, aged SI and 78 respectively, at their home near Winchester. O. Low water in the Ohio caused the sinking of barges which contained over 400,000 bushels of coaL A New York business agency says that the features of the business week ended on the 22d were the increased uniformity in reports that general trade was quite as much or more depressed than previously; that heavy trading had been unsatisfoctory and far below that of a year ago, and there was con tinued closing down of important in dustrial establishments, reduction of wages and increased instances where 6hort time was being enforced. War on firms which sell patent medi cines at cut rates will be made by the National Wholesale Druggists' associa tion. ' Ix a race war at Laguna del Gallo, N. M., five Americans and nineteen Mexicans were killed. The mayor of Philadelphia made an appeal for aid for 50,000 unemployed workmen in that city. Three receivers were appointed for the Santa Fe railroad upon application of the trustees for the bondholders. The liabilities are said to be $240,000,000. Miss Stella Colbv, of Crown Point, is the first woman in Indiana to take advantage of a decision of the supreme court permitting women to practice Jaw. For the murder of Ben Nabors, his employer, Sloan Allen, a negro, was hanged and burned by a mob near Wests. Miss. Mrs. Fannt Landers, aged 30, died at Bangor, Me., from starvation. She refused to take food for fifty-five days. Despondency over the death of her hus band caused her action. The old house in New York of Albert IJaager & Co., importers of laces, failed for $150,000. Richard McUovern, a Tacoma (Wash.) character, had. $7,000 in gold taken from his room at a hotel. Eight men attempted to rob a Mobile & Ohio train near St. Louis but the messenger refused to open the safe. Kight convicted white caps at Jack son, Miss., were pardoned by Gov. Stone, who urged them to become good citizens. Hundreds of Chinese were said to be crossing the Rio Grande into the United State's. Rich &. Silber, one of the leading dry goods firms in Milwaukee, and the A- W. Rich Shoa company failed, the total liabilities being $331,000. Josef it Donjon, a man who has been writing threatening letters to promi nent public men, was arrested in Wash ington. The Bank of Greensburg, Kan., -slosed its doors, with liabilities of $5S, 000. Clever shoplifters carried away a tray of diamonds valued at $2,500 from the store of C. D. Peacock in Chicago. Secretary Smith has ordered the purchase of additional supplies for the destitute Indians in Oklahoma. Seven hundred men started out from Minneapolis, Minn., on a wolf hunt and returned without a scalp. The St Nicholas b ink in New York cijty closed its doors. A great discovery of silver was re ported near the town of Shatter, Tex., in a district which contains several abandoned mines which were worked a century or more ago by the Spaniards. Counterfeiters flooded Cincinnati with aluminum dimes of the date of 1S93. This was the first counterfeit ever made of aluminum. ; Printing and engraving firms at San Francisco, CaL, were burned out with a loss of $350,000. A six-day bicycle race commenced at Madison Square garden, New York, with a big field. While a crowd looked on a thief at Marshall, Tex., knocked down an ex press messenger and stole $8,000. Gov. Waite has issued a call conven ing the Colorado legislature in extra ordinary session January 10. Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas, wants the government to exercise authority in stamping out Indian Territory out lawry. The barn of the Keystone stock farm near Kittaning, Pa., owned by Bowser Brothers, was destroyed by fire and twenty-two valuable horses perished in the flames. All the policemen of Ironwood, Mich., arrested for stealing goods sent to destitute miners, were convicted. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest of over fifty men indicted by the New York grand jury for election frauds. A train on the Union Pacific was held up by eight men at Seminole, I. T., and the mail and express car and all the passengers were robbed of all their valuables. AN earthquake shock at Bedford, Pa., caused persons to flee in terror from their houses. Farmer Pira, who killed two con fidence men at Sioux City, la., was wildly cheered upon acquittal. The visible eupply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 79,8i'.6,000 bushels; corn. 6,932,000 bush els; oats. 3,811.000 bushels; rye. 609,000 bushels; barley, 2,511.000 bushels. Calvin Thomas, a negro who as saulted Mrs. Sellers at Bainbridge, Ga., was taken from the jail by a mob and banged. Overton Price, late cashier of the wrecked Citizens national bank of Hillsboro. O., died from nervous pros tration resulting from mortification oter the bank's failure. Three boys, Tracy F. and Oscar Bingham, sons of Bishop Bingham, and John Ashlander were drowned while skating on a creek at Riverdale, Utah. The Banner Brewing company at Cincinnati went into the hands of re ceivers with liabilities of $275,000. A million dollars is needed in Chi cago by the Central Relief association and agent? will endeavor to secure it by subscription. A statement prepared at the post office in Washington shows that during the last fiscal year the total number of pieces of mail handled in the country was 5,021,841,076, of which 2.401,810,175 were letters. Indiana temperance workers pro pose to begin a crusade to force saloons out of residence sections. Regulations for the yearly calling under arms of men completing their twentieth year are to be enforced in Italy. P. S. Schwartz, a Louisville crank, tried to kill Mayor Henry S. Tyler but was disarmed before he could use his weapon. American Minister Thompson was reported from Buenos Ayres to have recognized the Brazilian insurgents as belligerents. Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, issue 1 an injunction restraining the employes of the Missouri Paeific railway from "combining and conspiring to quit the service of the road." It is the first order of its kind, it is said; ever issued in the United States. Six Milwaukee concerns, with total liabilities of $490,000, were placed in the hands of assignees. The Mahoning Rolling Mill company, whose plant is located at Danville, Pa., went into the hands of receivers with liabilities of $340,000. New rules adopted at Washington for the army provide for the giving of com mands with a whistle. Four men were fatally hurt at Der ringer, Pa., in a fight between Aus trians and Poles. Dr. J. C. Williams, of Denver, has fallen heir to $.2,000,000 from the Tromely estate in England. H. D. Parmenter, a farmer near Hays City. Kan., shot his grandson and then himself while insane. Only a schoolhouse and one dwelling remained at Gaylorsville, O., after a fire, and homeless villagers were being cared for. A system of electric roads to con--nect the cities and towns in northwest ern Ohio is projected by Toledo cap italists. The New York and New England railroad was placed in the hands of a receiver. Joseph and Henry Manly and George Cronk died at Plattsburg, N. Y.. from privations experienced in trying to walk on the ice from Saranac Lake to Tupper Lake. To test the Florida law warrants were to be secured for the arrest of Pugilists Corbett ard Mitchell. Prizes valued at 520,000 were won by Wheelman Zimmerman during the year. Johnston's winnings were $13,000. Three fires in New York destroyed property worth $475,000 and cost the life of August Miller, a fireman. Burglars looted five stations on the line of the Pennsylvania's New York division, securing money and tickets. A whale 75 feet in length was killed near South Hampton, N. Y. At Linnox, S. D., Mel Baldwin shot his mother-in-law. Mrs. William Vants, and then killed himself. At Providence, K. L. the new Moul ton block was burned, the loss being $200,000. One man perished. The United States Cordage company was organized at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $34,000,000. Thk San Francisco Bridge company at San Francisco failed for $238,000. John Puening, treasurer of Elm wood, a suburb of Cincinnati, fled with the entire funds of the town, $5,000. A deficit of nearly 3,000,C03 was re ported in the finances of Chicago. Behind closed doors the United State senate committee on foreign relations began its investigations into the Ha waiian imbroglio. Samuel Hellner, of Philadelphia, a dealer in anthracite coal, made an assignment with liabilities of $500,000. William Beyers fatally shot his mother at her home in Booneville, Ind., because she asked him to stop drinking liquor. W. II. Shackelford & Co., the largest retail dry goods firm in Owensboro, Ky., made an assignment. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. John Dawson, aged 104 years and 1 month, died at Terre Haute, Ind. He attended the funeral of Washington and served in the war of 1812. George Gorman, who gained a world wide reputation as an amateur oars man, died at Albany, N. Y., of pneu monia. Col. William C Young, the oldest graduate of West Point academy, died in New York. He was born in 1799. Mrs. Ann Stimson died at Hancock, N. Y.. at the age of 100 years. Ex-Gov Benjamin T. Biggs died at Middletown, Del. He served two terms in congress, from 1S08 to 1871. Chauncey H. Andrews, millionaire railroad, coal and iron operator, died at Youngstown, O., aged 69 years. Ex-Congressman John A. Nicholls died at Blackshear, Ga. He repre sented the First Georgia district in the Forty-sixth and Forty -seventh con gresses. Almon Root, in his 100 th dear, died at Whitewater, Minn. Charles A. Zollinger, mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., for fourteen years, is dead. Thomy Lafon, who was the richest colored man in the south, died in New Orleans. He left property valued at $500,000. , FOREIGN. I In a battle between Italian forces and dervishes at Nassowah, Egypt, hun dreds of the latter, including Moham med Ali and all the emirs who followed his standard, were killed. In a conflict at Kauar, Africa, be tween the Arabs and their old-time enemies, the Tuariks, tbo latter lost ninety men and 700 camels. Dispatches from Percambuco say that Rio de Janeiro had fallen into the rebels' hands and that I'eixoto was a prisoner. Grand river was out of its banks at Brantford, Ont, and water was 2 feet deep in the principal streets. The report that the city of Rio Ja neiro had fallen and that President Peixoto had resigned in favor of Admi ral Mello was untrue. A lady in Paris has left 100,000 francs to the Institute of France as a prize to the first person who, within ten years, communicates with a celestial body and receives an answer. A pleasure party boating on the river at Kiama, N. S. W., was carried out to sea and wrecked in the surf and seven persons were drowned. The wine crop of France this year is estimated "at 1.225,000,000 gallons, against 650.000,000 gallons last year. Its value is $250,000,000. A heavy decrease in British trade is shown, by the yearly review of a Lon don paper. Imports fell off 17,500,000. Capt. John Andrews and three of the crew of an American schooner were imprisoned by the Brazilian au thorities. Capt. Wilson and forty men, who were pursuing King lobengula in South Africa, were killed by the Mata- beles. LATER. The annual report of Jeremiah O'Rourke, supervising architect of the treasury, for the 3ear ended September 30 last shows that during the year the expenditure for the erection of new federal buildings amounted to $4,120, 159. Fire swept away an entire block of buildings in Hillsboro, Tex., the loss being $$75,000. D'tkino the year 1893 the mileage of new railway track in the United States was 2,630, being less than for any year since 1878. Bv the explosion of a boiler in a saw mill near Peru, Ind., George and B. Mc Donald were instantly killed. Mrs. Thomas Ransdall, living at Duncan, Ky., was burned to death with her three children, together with the house. The village of Lawrenceville, I1L, was practically wiped out by fire. Cheers greeted the verdict of the jury at Indianapolis which found Anna Wagner not guilty of poisoning the Koesters. A mob lynched Mack Segars (col ored) at Brantley, Ala-, for an at tempted assault upon a young lady. Fifty sheriffs of Kansas met at To peka and protested against the so called "tramp circular" of Gov. Lew elling. Chris Evans, a notorious outlaw, es caped from jail at Fresno, CaL, aided by his wife and a waiter. Four miners named Faulkner, Lois, Savage and Tuttle were drowned in the Symonds-Kaye golcl mine near Hal ifax, N. S. Andrew Carnegie offers to assist the needy in Pittsburgh, Pa., by giving $5,000 a workiug day for two months The commissioner of patents pur poses making public the names of rights that have lived their seventeen years. Gov. Lkwelling. of Kansas, has re moved Mrs. Mary E. Lease from the presidency of the sta te board of chari ties. The Cass county bank of Atlantic, la., closed its doors. Charles Mitchell and James J. Cor bett were arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., to test the law in the state in ref erence to glove contests. The attorney general of Kansas says a soldier's pension cannot be attached for debt. After a residence of twenty-five years the Louisiana State Lottery com pany has bought an island at Hon duras and will operate a second Monte Carlo. BUSINESS IS BAD. Gloomy Outlook for Trade In England. All Lines Practically at a Standstill- Great Oistreas Reported Among the Merchants and Manufactur er In Canada. London, Dec. 29. The Pall Mall Ga zette publishes a review of the trade of the year, compiled from official returns, in which it says: "Trade during 1893 was worse even than in 188a A general gloom now hangs over the country's Industries. The imports for eleven months declined 17.500.000 as com pared with NSC, and exports declined 0,500,000. There has been a shrinkage la every Important class of imports and exports. Tobacco, with an increase of im ports of 67.00 J, and manufactured articles made in Germany and elsewhere, with in creased imports amounting to foJO.oOO. are the olj exceptions. As an aid to this latter com- Seiitloa, additional machinery for mill works as been exported. -The coal trade and the trade in textiles have declined enormously, and the value of yarns for textiles exported bas diminished nearly 750, 000. The shipments of coals have suffered an equal reduction, and there is a terrible depres sion In ail trades, due to the coal strike, prior to which trade was reviving. , "1 he cotton trade was not only injured by the coal strike, but by increased foreign com petition, and the quantity of raw cotton im ported U remarkably smalL Less than 10.000, uOO cwts. have teen purchased in all countries: whereas, more than this was obtained in Amer ica alone in l&fi "During the last month the expert of cotton yarns and twists has declined in bulk, but has been compensated for by an Increase in price. The decline In the exports of cotton piece goods is serious; last month their value decreased 20.000. Since 18i there has been unbroken de cline in the quantity and value of these goods for eastern demand. "On the other hand, American trade is stead ily advancing; but what effect the chance of tariff will cause is a matter of conjecture. Brazil and other South American republics, except Chili, have been large buyers. "Merchants generally, however, are looking with confidence for an improving trade in lt&4, provided there U no serious strike or lock out" Montreal, Can., Dec 29. The finan cial and commercial depression exist ing in Canada at the present time is being more severely felt than any de pression since 1807, when, on account of the unprosperous condition of the : country, nearly all the prominent public men in Canada signed a petition to Queen Victoria pray- ! ing to be allowed to annex to i the United States. Bankers and mer- j chants are becoming alarmed seriously j at the situation. The bankruptcy list j is larger than for years back, the 1 amounts of liabilities are of greater j proportions, while most of the failures ! are bad ones. A larger number of ; factories than usual is closed, while the ' number of unemployed is increasing day by day. Grand Trunk earnings de creased 300,000 this month and Cana dian Pacific earnings (200,000. The syndicate which controls the cot ton mills of the dominion threatens to close them all if business does not im prove. Two of the mills are closed now, while others are running ou half time. There are thousands of unem ployed operatives in the cities of Montreal, Quebec, St. Johns. N. B-, Halifax, N. S., and Winnipeg, Man. In the Canadian northwest there is more distress than since the country has been opened for settlement, this being due to the par tial failure of crops. The low price of grain and the high cost of transporta tion and the collapse of the silver boom in British Columbia have caused a financial crisis there. In New Bruns wick and Nova Scotia merchants say there is no business at alL The uncertainty about the American tariff bill is also accentuating the de pression here. Manufacturers and wholesalers are afraid to purchase ahead till they know what the duties are likely to be. The Canadian gov ernment is being urged to effect a gen eral lowering of duties, but can do nothing till the new United States tariff becomes law, as Canadian duties will have to be modeled on the lines of the American schedule. STOLE S300.000. Charges of Wholesale Itribery Agalns! Joseph It. Louis. New York, Dec 29. Joseph H.' Louis, who caused a sensation by at tempting suicide in the Union Square hotel recently and whose defalcations as bookkeeper of A. J. Schloss & Co. were the immediate cause of the firm's downfall early in Decem ber, was rearrested again Wednes day and arraigned in the Tombs police court. The charge against Louis now is grand larceny, and he is held in heavy bonds to answer the several charges which have already been brought against him. The experts who have been at work on the firm's books have discovered shortages amouting to 170.000. The law firm of Wolcott, Kohn & Uhlman, who repre sent the assignee, are authority for saying that Louis' defalcations will amount to between (JOO.000 and $300, 000. Mailt Lose It AIL Mil WAt'KEE, Wis., Dec 29. A special from Ashland says Secretary Hoke Smith has decided that the land claimed by Col. J. H. Knight under the innocent purchaser act belongs to the six homesteaders who had ' settled on it three years ago. The land is situated near Ashland and is valued at $300,000. Secretary Noble, when the case was before him. held that Knight as receiver of the land of fice at Ashlaad was aware that the Central company did not have title to the land, and was therefore not an in nocent purchaser. Must Favor Heads of Families. Topeea, Kan., Dec 29. Gov. Le well ing has addressed a letter to all police commissioners in the state instructing them in future to employ only heads ot' families on the police forces. lie urges this because of the financial depression, He also advises that in certain cases removal be made that positions may ba given to men having families depend ing on them for support. Big Earnlng-s of Bicyclists. New York, Dec 29. Prizes valued at 120,000 were won by Wheelman Zimmerman during the year. Johnson s winnings were 113,000. TO PUT AN END TO WARS. ' afova for Arbitration of International ! Disputes Forty Nations Interested. j Washnigton, Dec 27. Mr. IV. E. j Blickstone has presented to President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham the memorial adopted by the World's j- , . ; - i : U . steps be taken to secure arbitration of international disputes. President Cleve land had made reference to this subject in his annual message, and has ex pressed gratification that so much had been accomplished. Secretary Gresham aid he would take measures to have the fac-simile of the memorial sent to all foreign governments, and they will be asked to taka steps to bring about a conference to carry out the plan which originated at Chicago. Mr. Blackstone was made honorary commissioner for the purpose of secur ing signatures to the memorial and, acting under a resolution of the com mission, he has obtained many indorse ments securing the signatures of the commissioners from som forty differ ent nations which participated in the exposition. The memorial and signa tures, making a large volume, will be engraved in fac-similie for presentation to the governments. The memorial is as follows: "To the Governments or the World: The undersigned, citizens of many countries, gathered at the Columbian exposition in Chi cago, in the United States of America, recoa nizinsj the advantages accruing to those nations which have pursued the policy of arbitrating international disputes, and desiring that the like benefits may in the future be enioyed by all nations, and, deem ing this a iittin? opportunity, do hereby . Join iu this memorial to all various govern- ments. praying that all will unitedly agree by . mutual treaties to submit for settlement by ; arbitration all sui-h interactional questions and ; disputes as shall fa.l of satisfactory solution by ordinary peaceful negotiations. And for U?is the petitioners will ever pray." It is requested that this shall be pre sented to each of the governments of the world. A DARING THEFT. An Express Messenger Knocked Senseles and Kobbed or About SS.OOO. Marshall, Tex., Dec 2 7. A. Mc Culloch, messenger for the Pacific Ex press company, was knocked down at 3 o'clock Monday morning. Train No. from the west had just arrived. Mc Culloch was transferring from train No. 4 to the New Orleans Pa cific train the express pouch con taining the valuable packages. His assailant secured the pouch and made off with it- There were 150 persons on the platform at the time, yet the robber escaped with his booty. A short distance from the depot he rifled the sack of its valuable contents, throwing away the pouch and papers. Officers and others pursued the fugitive but he made good his escape. Some say that he was a negro, others that he was a white man. It is known there was one pack age of $1,000 and one of $2,000 besides the contents of the inner pouch, which are of value unknown. The total haul is estimated at from $5,000 to $3,000. Messenger McCulloch was struck just behind and above the right ear. His physician dies not regard his wound as fatal. An oak bludgeon was picked up on the platform and is believed to have been the weapon with which the mes senger was assaulted. A BOY BLOWN TO PIECES. An Innocent-Looking; Itoz on a Railroad Platform Suddenly Explodes. New Okleans, Dec 27. II. Ray Shubert, the 11-year-old son of the fore man of the New Orleans & Southern railroad, was blown to pieces by dyna mite at the Belair plantation, just below the city in Plaquemines parish. Young Shubert was out hunting with ltichard Dymond, son of John Dymond, the president of the Louisiana Sugar Planters' association. By the side of the railroad were several boxes, the contents of which were un known and which had been left there by mistake by the railroad two weeks ago. Young Shubert seated himself on one of the boxes to fix his shoes. The next moment there was an explosion which could be heard miles around and the boy was blown to pieces, while young Dymond, who was a hundred feet away, had his hat blown from his head and torn to pieces, and was him self thrown to the ground and badly bruised. An investigation showed that the boxes contained a large quant'ty of dynamite. The boxes have been lying in the open field for two weeks, and no one seems to have suspected how dangerous they were. " PEACE AND GOOD WILL." The London Timet Thinks the World Is 'Short" on These Attributes. London. Dec. 27. The Times, review ing the general political situation, dwells upon the discord at home and says that circumstances through out the world generally appear to favor the prevalence of peace and good will equally as little as in South America, where the political movement is conducted with the aid of shot and shell, adding: "While everywhere the great powers 6tand watching each other with in cessant suspicion, straining their re sources to the utmost in prepar ing for the anticipated attack, happily there is no immediate danger of war; but it is idle to deny that in many quarters and between many people the tension is greater now than it was a few months ago." The Times then proceeds to argue that the safety of the empire demands urgent and im perative attention being paid to the de fenses. ABOARD A MAN-O'-WAR. Thk engines of a first-class man-of-war co6t, nearly 8700,000. Tok total number of men in the world's navies is 237,000. In the British aavy the annual cost of maintaining a man is 211. Tns average cost of maintaining a man in the American navy is 1,500. The principal nations of the world have 2,291 warships, mounting 8,553 guns, mostly of very heavy caliber. Thk average cost of building an English ironclad is 48 per ton; French. 55; Italiap, 57; German, 60,' MUST NOT QUIT. Iforthern PaciSe Employes Enjoined from Stopping; Work. Milwaukee, Dec 25. A conflict is on between the receivers of the North ern Pacific railroad and its employes, including all the engineers, conductors, firemen, trainmen and switchmen and bo on. The new schedule of wagea adopted by the receivers, which implies . a cut of 5 to 10 per cent, in the employes' pay, was rejected by the employes' rep-?' resentatives at a conference held in St.. Paul with General Manager Kendriclr Monday, and the prospects are that oa'' January 1, when the new scedule is to go into effect, 3,500 men employed all ' along the road will quit work. The outcome of the controversy was foreseen by the receivers, for as early as December 19 they applied for and obtained from Judge Jenkins of the United States court of this city, an order authorizing and directing them to put into operation the new schedule of wages and restraining the employes and their unions from, "combining and conspiring to quit, . with or without notice, the service of the road, with the object of crippling or embarrassing its operation, and gen erally f row interfering with the officers and agents of the receivers or their employes in any manner by actual violence, intimidation, threats or otherwise." The injunction was held back until Tuesday, the receivers having ex pected to arrive at an amicable agree ment. When they found such an agree ment impossible they telegraphed to their agents and attorneys all along the line to have the injunction served by the United States marshals on the proper men and to make the injunction generally known. The order of the court restraining the Northern Pacific employes from, 'combining and conspiring to quit the service of the road" is an extraordinary document. It is the first order of its kind, it is said, ever issued in the United States. A somewhat similar injunction was issued by a United States court in Michigan during the strike of the To ledo & Ann Arbor employes, but that injunction was issued after the striko was in progress. The grounds for tha issuance of the present injunction are set forth in a long petition of the re ceivers, which was filed December 18. It appears from the petition that two days after their appointment (Aug. 17) the receivers, finding the road in a de plorable condition, ordered a reduction of salaries varying from 10 to 20 per cent, of all officials and employes whose pay per annum exceeded $1,200. That reduction went into effect at once and was cheerfully ac cepted. About a week afterward (August 25) the receivers ordered a re duction of 5 per cent on all wages running from $50 to $75 per month, and of 10 per cent, on 'Wages averaging from $75 to $100 per month. This order of the receivers did not go into effect at once. They concluded to in vestigate and revise the entire sys tem of wages and the different schedules of pay, the task being im posed on the general manager. At a meeting of the receivers on Octo ber 23 resolutions were adopted abro gating the old schedules of pay, direct ing the general manager to prepare a new schedule for the engineers, train men and telegraphers and ordering a reduction of the wages of the other men as provided for August 25. The petition says that in the old schedules the employes were paid for services not performed. In enumerating those who are en joined from striking or ordering strikes the petition of the receivers mentions the names of thirty-two mer who have been the conference committee with the receivers, and asks th;t they be en joined from ordering a strike, which the court grants. The petitioners say that the employes cannot carry on a strike without the pe cuniary assistance of the different na tional organizations to which they be long. They therefore pray that thesa organizations, through their chief of ficers, such as P. M. Arthur, E. C Clark, E. P. Sargent, D. G. Ramsey, S. E. Wilkinson and others, he enjoined from ordering and sanctioning the strike. The court grants this and these men are included in the injunction. TO MAKE BEET SUGAR. The Omaha Commercial Odd Closes a Contract for an Extenaire Factory. Omaha, Nell, Dec 23. After about two weeks of negotiations and confer ences the contract has been made be tween Count Lubienski, representing a Polish syndicate, and the committee of the Commercial club by which a beet sugar factory will be erected in this city next year. Count Lubienski agrees to build the factory and bring 200 families of Polish emigrants nnd will conduct a mode, farm of 300 acres to teach beet culture. The Commercial club agrees to take $100,000 stock in the factory, which will cost about $1,500,000, and will grow 4,000 acres of sugar beets within a radins of 20 miles of Omaha The factories at Grand Island and Norfolk have be come very successful after only three years' experience and have produced 6,000.000 pounds of sugar this year. Count Lubienski will establish a smaller factory in the Elknorn valley also. He represents a Polish emigrant society of large capital who wish to get homes and occupations for farmers in this state. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Ernest Lecoor to Be Handed 11. On -lannUF. , o at JoIIet, Joliet, liL, Dec 23 .Ernest Lacour, who so brutally murdered little Ella Byron near Wilmington on Sunday, August 6. as the little girl was returning from church, was arraigned in Judge Dibell's court The pleas in abatement and motion for a new trial were all denied in a lengthy opinion by Judge Dtbell, reciting the horrible details of the crime, who then sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on Friday, J&n nary l9- Tbe prisoner was unmoved M the Motfaco was pronounced.