THE TARIFF.
Fynopsls of the Dehate In the National
IIouho of tteuresentatives.
On the 19th Mr. Dalzell (rep-. Pa.) continued
Ills remarks. He began by recapitulating the
charges he had made against Mr. Johnson
(dem.. O ). He did not believe, and had it on
authority of the president of the Cambria iron
works, that Mr. Johnson paid higher waes
than his neighbors. Johnson and Carnegie
were both robber barons, with the difference
that the latter was a true philanthropist and
(rave &,(M a day for tho relief of the poor in
Pittsburga, while the fa'Ke philanthropist from
Cleveland (Johnson) t:i.l:es advantage of tho
winter's blast to dicker about the wa-es of his
employes. He (Johnson) had waxed fat on the
watered stock of his street railroads, and his
bank account was swcUrd by tho manufacture
of rails under the protection of patents.
Mr. Johnson replied by say ins that the ques
tion h fore the committee was whether steel
rails should go on the free list. He had listened
to tho fearful tirade against himself and his
p '.n:it r. but even confejslng that all said was
ti-jt; teat offered no retson why rails should
no, co on the free list. The personal side of
this controversy was not brought into the
house by hini. Instead of arming himself with
arsLuients he (Dalzell) had brought pins he-e
to stick into him (Johnson). As to the par
eonal charges, he plead guilty to tho first, that
he was a monopolist. To the next charge, that
he was manufacturing a class of rails pro
tected by V-iJ patents and would not be af
fected by free rails, Mr Johnson replied: "We
only have twenty or thirty patents on rails: we
tried to perpetuate the monopoly and control
tho market, but the courts decided against us.
That threw us open to home competition. My
amendment proposes to put cirder rails on tho
free list, so that we will be open to the world's
competition."
Mr. Johnson went on to explain that the al
ternative was to reduce wapes or close tho
mills entirely, as was Cone at Sparrow Point,
Ml As to the grave charge that changing
the record he had practiced a deceit upon tho
house, he explained that when he made his
speech he was totally unprepared to answer
the Question Mr. Dalzell projiounded to him.
When he went home and consulted his records
he found he was slig!itly In error and he had
made the change to which Mr. Dalzell had al
ludid But the first thing he had done the
next day was to inform Mr. Dalzell of that fact.
The gentleman had been so hard pressed,
continued Mr. Johnson, that he had lugged ia
his wicked partner, Arthur J. Moxham. Mr.
Moxham. although not a naturalized citizen,
when the flood at Johnstown left 1:2,000 people
in the water and 3,000 drowned, was chosen dic
tator. He fed the living and buried the dead.
It was also true that be had purchased an en
pine in Ensrland because he could not get it
here until five months after the English
manufacturer agreed to deliver it. In those
five months he tad paid out flTd.OuO in
wages. The purchasa of that engine had
benefited American labor. The other per
sonalities had been brought into this con
troversy by the eloquent advocate of the steel
rail trust to cloud the argument. In all seri
ousness he declared that this steel-rail pool
wa;i only typical of other protected trusts the
existence of some of which was perhaps not so
easily proved as this.
Mr. Hland (dem.. Ma) declared that free
rails would enable many companies to repair
their roads and take many out of the hands of
receivers
Mr. Wilson, chalrtnin of the committee, took
a position against Mr. Johnson. He and many
othr democrats had no doubt sympathized
with much that Mr. Johnson bad said, but they
could not afford to ga off in a great question
like this at half-cocit There were, he de
clared, no friends of the steel-rail pool among
those who framed this schedule. The steel
r;.il schedule had been dealt with in the sance
sririt of fairness as others had been.
Mr Hopkins (rep., 111.) offered an amend
ment :o restore the existing rates on steel
rails. This was lost without a division.
T!:e vote was then taken on Mr. Johnson's
fre; -r.iil amendment, which was defeated by a
vote of I0j to 7J, forty democrats voting with
Chairrsau Wiison
Mr Henderson (rep., Ia.) was then reco;
niz' d to offer the agricultural schedule of the
Mi Kiuley iaw as a hubs titute for that of the
W.lb'-.llbal.
r. Hull (rep., Ia.) followed with a discui
sion of tho effect of the agricultural- scbeauis
on l is state. This precipitated a long discus
sion between Mr. Hull and Mr. Springer .(detn.,
111.), who produced statistics and figures to
prove that protection for the farmer was a
sh im :inJ a fraud.
On the 20th Mr. Henderson's amendment sub
stituun the existing law for the proposed ag
ricultural schedule of the Wilson bill was de
feated yeas, CJ; nays, 116. Other amendments
were ottered and voted down. Mr. Uynum
(dem, Ind) offered an amendment defining
more exactly the different classes of iron, but
not materially altering the pending bill. Mr.
Bynum held that failures and strikes were more
frequent under protection than they had been
under the Walker low tariff, and that the
greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the people
'lhi1'0 n;ime Protection was the tariff bill of
' His amendment was unanimously
agree.
Mr. Hitrpp IU) offered an amendment
pro.idingtha.wnenacoil lmposed a tax
on American iro.BCtlI whicn this country im
ported free that tutxisUng ruu.s j ed.
He made a plea agma., the Growing ttwy of
the opportunities the i,untrv pressed of
wresting from Canada free e-,rv of our manu.
factures and agricultural produce )n return for
free entry into the United States ot Oanaaian
coaL He pleaded for reciprocity with Catarta a
reciprocity which should not give Canada all o,e
advantages. Representatives of Canada had
been besieging the doors of the slate depart
ment for forty years asking for reciprocity. In
appealing co the democratic party not to throw
away the great advantages they possessed in
reciprocity, he said: "We all live under the
saiiie flag. We are legislating for ourselves
and not for foreigners. There is a market in
Canada which we could get in a great part,"
At the night session the flrxt three speakers
were Messrs. Talbot (dem. S. C). C W. Stone
(rep., I'a.) and lioatner (dem.. La.). The lat
ter in referring to the sugar question said it
was tho only. American agricultural product
which could be protected incidentally by a
iarilf for revenue only. Uut the Wilson bill
was not a democratic measure in the sense of
lc!tg a revenue bill, fnr it intentionally cut be
low the line of necessary revenue, and was out
and out a protective measure where it was not
a f roe trade bilL
Mr. Strong (rep.. O.) drew in parallel col
umns an amusing picture of the farmer as he
ia under protection and as he was "in the good
old days of free trade." the comparison being
largely in favor of the latter-day farmer.
Mr. Wheeler (rep.. I1L) thought the Wilson
bill should be entltlel "A Bill to Decrease the
Iievenue and Increase the Public Debt by the
Issue of Bonds," instead of a bill to reduce tax
ation and to raise revenue.
On the .'d a runclng debate was had on sev
eral amendments offered to the sugar schedule
of the Wiison bill.
Mr. Dockrry (dera.. Mo.) arraigned the boun
ty paragraph in unmeasured terms and said he
would cheerfully vote to strike the bounty
feature from the statute books.
Mr. Cannon (rep., IiL) made a vigorous at
tack upon what he called the cowardice of the
democratic party in retaining a bounty w hich
th'.-y had denounced as unconstitutional.
Mr. Gear (rep., la.) advocated the bestowal
of bounties, which he said had always been the
policy of the government.
Mr. Bryan idem., Neb.) protested against
putting a tax hack on sugar, and to raise the
revenue needed he favored an income tax.
Mr. Dingley (rep . Me.) said he Was in favor
of ccntinuing in Vie experiments provided by
the tariff of WO to test the question as to
whether we can produce our own sugar by of
fering for fifteen years a bounty of two cents
per iund. He was opposed to tho pending
proposi lions.
Mr. Wilson de:n.. W. Va. ) sr-oke briefly
against any change in the tariff bill as pre
pared by the committee on ways and means
Brief speeches were made by other members,
after which the proposed amendments were
Toied on one by Mr. McKae (dem. Ark.) sus
pending the bounty on sugar and putting su,-ar
on tLc free list, being agreed to 135 to C.'J; an
other by Mr. Warner (dim.. S. V.) putting re
Used sugar on the free li., Deing alto adopted
IUT to i
At ie evening session several speeches were
made.
Mr. :.IcCreary (lem., Ky.) was ia favor of
repealing the sugar bounty at once and entire
ly. He regarded it as a fraud and an outrage,
and was gratified at the action of the house in
adopting an amendment for its repeal.
Mr. Hilborn (rep., CaL) took up and pre
sented seriatim the articles of California pro"
duction in which California would be injured
by the passage of the Wilson bill.
Mr. Goldzier (dem., 111.) defended the Wil
son bill, and was followed by Mr. Avery (rep.,
Mich.) who spoke in opposition to it
On the 23d the Warner amendment placing
refined sugar on the free list was decided to be
a substitute for the Roberts amendment, and
as such was adopted 161 to 39. All sugar, both
raw and refined, is thus placed on the free list
The coal schedule was then taken up and de
bated, amendments being offered to place a
duty of from 40 to 73 cents per ton on coaL
Mr. Brosius (rep.. Pa.) opposed free coal.
His state, he said, produced UO.000,000 tons a
year. Free coal would leave his constituents
naked and defenseless.
Mr. Wise (dem.. Va) supported the proposi
tion to place a duty on coal.
Mr. Tucker (dem., Va.) advocated an amend
ment to place a duty of 40 cents on coal.
Mr. S'urpin (dem., Ala.) said that his state
had given a heavy democratic majority for the
national ticket They did so because they ex
pected a tariff for revenue only. They did not
think that such men as Wilson, McMilltn and
Breckinridge would put coal and iron on the
free list.
Mr. Walker (rep , Mass.) declared that no
portion of the country would be so immeasur
ably benefited by free coaL free iron ore and
free wool as New England, and yet she did not
ask for it. She did not want the raw mate
rials that went into her factories free Bnd
their products taxed. She wanted protect;. n
to all sections of the country. Massachusetts
would vote for a duty of 73 cents on coal; noth
ing more, nothing less.
Mr. Wilson (dem , W. Va.) closed the debate
In support of the free-coal proposition in the
pending bill. It was a matter of no con
sequence, he said, what the Mills bill did or
what he had said ten years ago. The demo
cratic party had grown immensely since then
and he hoped he had kept up with the proces
sion. The proposed amendments were then voted
upon and defeated, thus continuing coal upon
the free list.
The iron schedule was then taken up, and
Mr. Oates (dem., Ala.) offered an amendment
taking iron ore from the free list and placing
a duty of 40 cents a ton thereon. He saiu
his amendment would permit the iron mines to
continue in operation at the same scale of
wages as at present.
Mr. Hsndrix (dem., X. Y.) spoke against the
iron schedule of the bilL He said he did not
know who authorized free traders, socialists
and radicals to come into congress and try to
dictate democratic policy. If this radical
action were pursued the people at the polls
would reverse the action of the last election.
Mr. Blair (rep., N. H.) took the floor and
was speaking when the time arrived for rfcess.
At the evening session speeches were made
by Messrs. Tate, Wilson (O.), Patterson, Bar
tholdi and others.
Mr. Beltzhoover (dem.. Pi) said of the Wil
son bill that it was neither a protection bill nor
a free trade bill, but a miserable hybrid, which
neither natural law nor common sense can ever
justify. Why not have given us a free trade
bill, pure and simple, which four-fifths of the
democratic representatives would cordially
support as the policy of their party, declared
in tie Chicago platform, or a bill to raise the
necessary revenues for the support of the gov
ernment by a tariff so adjusted as to equalize
its burdens among ail our people and inci
dentally protect our industries and labor? Tho
present bill, he declared, will settle nothing,
but unsettle everything.
On the 24th Mr. Denson (dem., Ala.) said he
wanted protection on iron ore. "Give us pro
tection," he said, "and leave the consequences
to God and the American people."
Mr. Tawney (rep., Minn) said there was
every reason why the representatives of Minn
sota should favor restricting the right of the
foreigner to sell his products in the American
markets "I care not whether it be iron ore or
anything else we can produce, to the end that
not alone the people of that state, but of all the
states west of the Mississippi river, may have
greater opportunity to supply the demand of
hat market as it increases with the growth of
the country in wealth and population."
Mr. Baldwin (dem., Minn.) expressed entire
ly opposite views to those of his colleague.
Under free ore he feared no competition, and
he favored a commercial union with Canaaa,
and commercial union was but another name
for free trade. Under freer conditions of trade
in iron ore a second Pittsburgh could be built
up In the west.
Mr. Forman (denv, IIL) spoke in support of
the bilL
Mr. Simpson (pop., Kan.) appealed for free
raw material and attacked the combines and
trusts which came from the protection of those
articles.
Mr. Clark (dem., Ma) said some of the mem
bers on his side of the house w ere reformers in
spots, and there were only three members who
had the courage of their convictions and hai
given the weight of their influence toward
putting on the free list articles in the produc
tion of which they or their states are inter
ested. Those disinterested patriots were the
chairman of the committee, Mr. Wilson, Mr.
Raynor and Mr. Tom Johnson. The man who
is wliling to reform himself is a reformer in
deed. The trust the gold trust, iron trust, the
coal trust and all the rest of the trusts might
try to defeat him (Mr. Wilson), but the people
of the country will take him in their mighty
arms and carry him to a higher place
Mr. Bynum (dem., Ind.) in speaking of the
petitions which had. been sent to congress said
the American Protective Tariff league was
flooding the country with printed slips calling
oa everyone to send to their congressman
postal-card protests against the Wilson bill.
Mr. Breckinridge (dem , Ark.) and Mr. Wil
son (dem.. W. Va.) briefly appealed to the dem
ocratic party to stand by the bill as prepared
by the ways and means committee and to vote
against the pending amendments.
The pending amendments were then voted on
and defeated bv about two to one, thus leaving
iron ore on the free list.
Amendments were then offered to he para
graph putting agricultural implements on the
free list, and brief speeches were made by sev
eral members
Mr. Draper (rep., Mass.) said there was no
argument of either free traders or protection
ists which justified the putting of a highly fin
ished product on the free list, while leaving all
its component part's on the dutiable list.
Mr. Sickles (dem.. N. Y.) in speaking of the
pending amendments, said he thought that
while free admission of articles should be the
rule and not the exception, still the pending
bill did not raise sufficient revenue for the sov
ernmrnt. If it was int-nded to tide over this
deficiency by the imposition of an income tax,
he wanted to state plainly that he was irrecon
cilably opposed to an income tax.
The internal revenue bill containing the in
come tax clause was, after considerable oppo
sition, finally reported, and a recess taken.
The speakers at the night session were
Messrs Kyan (N. V.), Swauson (Va ). Bald
win (Minn.). Ikirt (O ). Cummings (N. Y.) all
democrats anl Baker (pop, Kan.) in favor of
the bill: and Messrs. Wagner tPo.). Johnson
(N. D.. Moon (Mich.), Kifsfer (Mlftn.) and
Blair (N. H.) all republicans in opposition
to it.
On the 2Tth amendments placing agricultural
implements of all kinds and cotton machinery
and equipment on the free list were lust, as
was also a proposition to permit citizens of the
United States to ship materials abroad to be
manufactured into goods for their own u.-e.
such goods to be admitted free of duty.
Several committee amendments were agreed
to, among them leing one to place crude opium
on the dutiable list at il per pound, another to
place a duty of 15 per cnl ad valore m on coal
oil. and a third to change the rate on pearl and
. ail
sneii buttons from 1 cent a line to 1 cent a gross.
During the debate Mr. Dingley (rep. Mo,)
fended the reciprocity provision of tho Ms-
K:iley law, and Mr. Coombs (dem., X. Y. ) said
that while he did not indorse the sutrit of the
law(he did not think anything should be dona to
fore America to relinquish her hole, upoa the
markets acquired by it
Mr. iTrn irick (dem.. N. Y.) advocated the re
tention of Uie reciprocity clause of the Mo
Kinley law. V
Mr. Turner, ene of the democrats of the ways
an 1 means cotimittfe, in opposing it sketched
its history. jAines G. Blaine, he said, was its
author, and it 'id furnished the republican
party znuch cxcutoVor glorification. It might
have widened our markets, but he was sur
prised to see any democrat indorse a law that
Tested in the president the power of retalia
tion. After some further debate the amendment
offered by Mr. Wilson to repeal the reciprocity
section of the McKinley law was adopted 129
to 89.
Another amendment was then offered by Mr.
Wilson to put a duty on chocolate valued at
over 35 cents per pound of 2 cents per pound,
other chocolate to be taxed 25 per cent ad
valorem. Adopted.
Mr. Lock wood (dem., N. Y.) vigorously at
tacked the income tax.
At the evening session Mr. Hicks (rep. Pa)
took strong ground against the Wilson bill
and denounced it as an act to abolish
revenue and to destroy American indus
tries. It remained for the democratic party
in 19- to discover that protection was uncon
stitutional He said the pending bill was
a relic of ante bellum days and represented
the shrouded spirit of Calhounism stalking
abroad. The republican party did not believe
in direct taxation, and the policy of that party
during the last thirty years proved how abun
dantly successful protection has been in mak
ing this the greatest and most prosperous na
tion in the word.
The other speakers were Messrs. Hutchinson
(dem., Tex.), Cobb (dem., Ala.), Goodnight
(dem., Ky.) and Hines (dem.. Pa.).
KILLS WIFE, CHILD AND HIMSELF.
Alonzo lteese, of l'ike County, 111., Puts
an Knil to His I nliappy Family.
Jacksonville, 111., Jan. 24. The
eastern part of Pike county ib excited
over the murder at I'erry of Mrs.
Alonzo Keese and her little babe, but
S weeks old. The deed was done by
the husband and father, who shortly
after ended his own worthless life, sav
in? the infuriated people from taking
things into their own hands. This
makes the third nyrder affair in the
countj in a month.
Tuesday morning the immediate
neighbors were horrified to see Keese
appear with a revolver, lie said he
had killed his wife and child, and
seemed totally unconcerned about it.
As soon as the terrible shock of the in
telligence wore off the men of the
vicinity determined that he should
not escape, and they accordingly
organized a posse to pursue him
which was done. For a short
time, though, lie had considerably the
start of them; he saw them coming in
the distance and he made toward the
residence of his sister.Qwho lived at
some distance from the scene of the
crime. He coolly told her what he had
done and she was speechless with
mazement and fright, and before she
could recover from her amazement he
had gone about 30 feet from her and
then deliberately drew his pistol and
blew out his own brains, an l by the
time his pursuers arrived they Iiad only
his corpse to see to.
They then turned their steps toward
the home he had left, and arriving
there a ghastly siorht awaited them.
Stretched on the floor lay the young
wife, a wound in her forehead showing
where the fatal ball had entered. She
had evidently been more concerned for
the welfare of her child than herself, as
the little body was clasped tightly
to her breast, but the fiend
had not spared the little one either, for
he had taken deliberate aim and sent
a bullet through its heart and it lay
cold and stiff in its mother's arms. The
remains were tenderly cared for and
will be suitably interred. The whole
v'cinity is dreadfully stirred up. and
had not lteese taken his life himself
there would never have been a trial.
Eeese, who is 3-i years old, was mar
ried a year ago to the daughter of one
of his neighbors. He was of a quarrel
some disposition and made the life of
his bride very bitter. About eight
weeks ago the birth of a baby girl
made him a little more reasonable and
he ceased his abuse, though he showed
no affection. Several days ago he was
again seized with one of his fits of
temper, which ended in the tragedy.
AMENDING THE WILSON BILL.
Important Changes Are Iecrrd by tb
Way and Means Committee.
"Vasiiixgtox, Jan. 26. A number of
important amendments have been
adopted by the ways and means com
mittee to the customs and internal
revenue sections of the tariff bill.
Among them are the following:
The tax on cigarettes, which had been placed
at tl. 60 a thousand, was reduced to 11. It is
now 50 cents.
The sections admitting petroleum from other
countries Tree of duty when they admit Ameri
can petroleum on the same terms was stricken
out, leaving petroleum to come in free without
any qualillcations.
Crude opium was taken from the free list and
put on the dutiable list at fl a pound.
To the paragraph relating to condensed milk,
upon which the house recently placed a duty of
tuocents a pound, the committee added a
clause that the duty should be computed by
adding also the weurht of the package.
Cut stones, incluuing diamonds, are left at 10
per cent., as in the existing law.
"i he pearl button scheu tile was made to read
"one cent per line per Rross."
The paragraph relating to the free importa
tion of medals of gold, silver and copper was
enlarged to include trophies of all sorts, such
as prize cups for yatchinjr gices and the like.
Tho reciprocity provision of the McKinley
bill is stricken out of the bilL but the commit
tee decided to make their action clearer by in
serting a special provision in the bill specifical
ly repealing section 3 of the present law.
An amendment will be probably adopted in
creasing the tax on manulactured clears from
3 to fo. 50 per l.oou.
Several amendments were also mado to the
income tax section. Section 2 was amended so
that in computing Incomes tho necessary ex
penses actually incurred in carryin? on any
business, occupation, trade or profession may
be deducted, and also all interest actually due
and paid within the year by such person on
existing indebtedness. The same section was
further amended by strikin? out the provision
permitting guardians to make a deduction of
f l.uod in favor of each and every ward under
their guardianship.
Where reference is made in section 2 to the
taxation of incomes derived from the sale of
live stoc c und farm products an amendment
is made exempting from the operation of the
tax any part thereof consumed directly by the
family.
A CLOSE CALL.
A Supposedly-Dead Kiigliiliuian Kevives
Just ISt-fure His Funeral.
London-, Jan. 22. Thousands of per
sons gathered in the cemetery at Bur-ton-on-Trent
Friday to attend the
funeral of Town Councilor Charles
AVileman. When members of the fam
ily were called to take a last look at
Wileman'a face before the coffin lid
should be screwed down two persons
said they saw signs of life. Physicians .
who were summoned pronounced Wile- j
man alive. The funeral services were j
suspended anil the crowd was dis
missed. Wilimaa was tak.r from the
coCia and he is now under treatment.
A SCENE OF HORROR.
It Attends the Hanging of Georsre
H. Painter, in Chicago.
The Rope flreaks and the Doomed Man
Falls to the Floor Picked l"p in a Dy
ing Condition, His Inanimate
Hody In Hanged Again.
A BOTCnED JOB.
CniCAGO, Jan. 29. George II. Painter
was hanged in the corridor of the
county jail at 8:03 a. m. Friday for the
murder of Alice Martin. The exe
cution was marred and delayed by
an unfortunate accident. At the
first attempt made to carry out
the sentence of the law at 7:59
the rope broke, carrying the condemned
man to the floor with a heavy crash.
Blood streamed from a wound in his
head and dyed the white shroud in
which his form was enveloped with
deep crimson stains.
The spectators there were not many
of them jumped from their benches
and chairs as the body struck
GKORGE II. PAISTEIt.
the floor. Dr. Fortner and tho
other physicians and jail officials
hurried to its side, but there
was not a movement to indicate that
life still existed. While the shroud-enveloped
and bloodstained body lay at
one side of the scaffold with the physi
cians hovering over it, the drop was put
back in place and a new rope was
strung. Then the body was dragged
to the drop again, while suddenly cries
from the prisoners in other parts of the
jail broke in upon the almost deathlike
stillness. Tliey had in some way
learned that the drop had fallen. The
cries and shrieks were taken up from
cell to cell, and from tier to tier until
pandemonium seemed to have broken
loose. The bailiffs were sent back to
stop the thrilling clamor.
There was a pause in the proceedings
until the cries could be stopped, and
then the body was placed a second
time under the rope. It was a diflicult
task to fix the noose, and the scene
was revolting. Blood had trickled to
the bottom of the shroud and the
hood was saturated. The neck had
been broken in the first fall and the
head had to be held up while the noose
was put over it- Then it was found
that with the body flat 'on the drop
there would be almost no fall, anu it
had to be pulled back to the inner
edge, where it could be support
ed in a sitting position by one
of the jail officials standing on the
more solid part of the scaffold. It
seemed a long time, but in reality
it was only four minutes from the
time the drop fell the first time until
Jailer Morris gave the signal and it
again felL It was 8:03 o'clock when
Painter's body straightened out at
the end of the rope after the second fall
and at S:18 he was pronounced dead.
Painter kept up his courage to the
last. He had taken liquor to strengthen
him before beginning his inarch to the
scaffold. He walked to the platform
without a tremor. On the scaffold he
made a brief speech, concluding as fol
lows: "If I killed Alice Martin the woman I dear
ly loved, the woman I loved so much that I
would have almost committed a crime for her.
I pray this minute my last minute on earth
that tho Kternal God will put me
into eternal hell. Look here, gentlemen, if
there is oue man among you who is an Amer
ican, I say to you on his soul on his soul, I
say, see that the murderer of Alice Martin is
found. Good-by."
(Painter's alleged crime for which he suffered
the penalty of death was the murder of Alice
Martin, in her room at S5 '"'reen street,
ulout midnight May 17, IKU. A man
named Truesdale and a woman named
Morris also lived In the house. A few
moments lefore 12 o'clock they heard
quarreling in the room of Alice Martin, fol
lowed by sounds as if blows were being
struck und a tight was in prepress.
A few moments later they wero startled by
the appearance of Painter, who rushed
into their room crying out:' 'Alice has been
murdered." His coat, they declared, was
somewhat bloody and he was greatly excited.
They followed him back to tho room where
they found the lifeless body of Alice
Martin lying across the bad ' and evi
dences of a terrible struggle. Painter
gave the . alarm to tho police. He
was subsequently arrested and at his trial was
convicted. An unsuccessful appeal was made
to the supreme court. Then Gov. Altgeld was
called upon for executive clemency. Twice he
grauted a rcs-pite, but finally tefdsed to inter
fere further, and. the law was allowed to take
its course.
BATTLED SEVEN YEARS FOR LIFE
Calif ornla' Governor Finally Commute
the Sentence of a Murder-r.
Sacramento. CaL. Jan. 2a. The sen
tence of John MeNulty, condemned to
hang, has Wen commuted by CIov.
Markham to imprisonment for life.
Seven years ago he 6hot Patrick Col
lins. ; The murderer was but 10 years
of age ani he got much sympathy.
For nearly seven years he has been in
jail. Six times has the day for his
death been fixed, five times a gallows
has been erected from which he ex
pected to drop to death, but each time
execution of his sentence has been
fctaved.
FOUR GIRLS WERE KILLED.
Fatal Result or n Snowslldo in White Itird
(lulch In Idaho.
Boisk, Idaho, Jan. u. News reached
hete that a fatal snowslide occurred in
White Bird gulch. A family named
Thomson lived at the bottom of the
gulch, and the slide came down with
out a moment's warning, wrecking the
house and killing four girls. The
parents and one infant child escaped.
Six Men f)roviieii.
Charleston, S. C, Jan- 29. B. B.
Campsen and Fred Miller and four oth-
,i i- ., tn., . n t. . ' , , .
near hulUvau salami.
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SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES.
Numerous Evidences of Increasing ActlT-
tty In the Kasiness World.
New York, Jan. 29. R- G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
"Secretary Carlisle's decision to issue bonds
and the early reports of large bids for them
helped to accelerate recovery of industries and
trade, as was hoped last week. Sale of the
amount offered will check anxiety about the
maintenance of note redemption, remove the
only pretext for further issues of paper and
thus give a solid basis for greater confidence
regarding the financial future. The revenue is
Btill small from costumes in January thus far
$10,805.aJl, against I19.9.v."e5 last year, and
from internal taxes 59, 4H7.979, against S11,IW3,498
and the volume of domestic trade is still
mall.
"The increase in the number of hands em
ployed adds to the purchasing power of the
people, and dealers' stocks are so reduced that
any sign of larger consumption quickly gives
mills more orders. In short, the conditions are
such that, if not interrupted by adverse forces,
they would naturally bring a steady revival of
business.
"Industrial gain is more definite than a week
ago. A few establ-jshments have stopped work,
while many have resumed or Increased produc
tion, and though these are not works employ
ing thousands each the aggregate increase Is
considerable. Reductions in wages continue,
and about a quarter of them are of )SJ per cent.,
the rest ranging from 7 to 17 per cent.
"In no direction are quotations of manufac
tured products higher, but while some have ac
tually declined the general tone is some
what stronger. The increase in demand for
iron products is mainly in structural furms,
csist pipe, wire rods, barbed wire and wire
nails, while in rails and other railway iron busi
ness is remarkably sinalL
"Textile industries have increased the work
ing force mainly in knit goods, underwear and
carpets, though several woolen mills have
started nnl others are reported about to start.
1 he shoe and leather trades appear to gain a
little, though shipments from lioston for tha
week are ajaiu -4 per cent, smaller than last
year.
'The produce markets have been de
cidedly dull, though wheat for May fell
at one time to the lowest point on record
Wheat exports are insignificant and the stocks
In sight are too large for speculators or short
crop prophets. Coffee and petroleum ars a
ghado lower. Cotton, after a decline, has ad
vanced a shade, although receipts continue
heavy.
"failures in the United States were 430 this
week, aguinst -iilast year, and 55 in Canada
against 4J last year. None are of great magni
tude. The liabilities of the firms failing thu'j
far reported this year amount to ?13,0GB,99iJ. of
which S6.07-.8;7 were manufacturing and k6,iOJ,
3j3 of trading concerns."
Uradstreet's says:
"The improvement in industrial and commer
cial lines heretcfoia reported continues to grow
moderately and shjws gains from week
to weeU, although more conspicuously
In inanufactur.nK than in commercial
lines This is Indicated by the records
of sixty-two resumptions of more important
manufacturing establishments this week com
pared with seventeen shut-downs, and by tho
total of 8S4J,'-''-7.i)j0, the bank clearings of the
week at fifty-four cities, which is 9 per tent,
smaller than ia the preceding week and 31 per
cent, smaller than in the like week last year.
DIED ERE FORTUNE SMILED.
An Ilclr to Ureit Wealth Fills a l'auyrr'l
Grave at Ituffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y.t Jan. 29. Mrs. James
IJ. Amos, of Auburn, Baycounty, Mich.,
found her long-lost husband among tho
unidentified dead here Thursday. He
had died unconscious that he was worth
from $150,000 to 200.000. Amos was a
marine engineer. lie shipped from
Bay City on the steambarge Maine ia
October, It was her last trip. On
arriving in Buffalo Amos wrote to his
wife that he was unable to find work
there, bhe received no further commu
nication from him, and for tho past
year has mourned him as dead.
Recently his aunt. Miss Abigail
Amos, a wealthy spinster who lived
part of the time at Fort Gratiot and
part of the time at Detroit, died, mak
ing James B. Amos her residuary lega
tee, thus bequeathing to him an estata
vorth from 5150,000 to $JO0,000. Mrs.
Amos wrote to all parts of the country
but could find no trace of her husband,
so she set out on a tour of the lake
ports. She appeared at the coroner's
office, and from the register of the un
identified recognized a description of
her hubband.
i?jThe body has been buried, but Mrs.
Amos has engaged a lawyer to make
proof of the-identity in the Michigan'
courts so that she can get possession of
the estate. Amos was also insured in
the Ancient Order of Foresters. Tha
body which she identifies as her hus
band's was lound near the New York
Central tracks in a badly mutilated
form. It is supposed that Amos was
killed by a passenger train. There
were tattoo marks on the iirtn which
Mrs. Amos recognizes as points of
identity. She has been on this search
fur a year.
NATIONAL EOARD OF TRADE.
It Adjourns After Adopting; Kesoluilons
on Many Topics.
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I 1 1 I I, 1 U , . ' . . to ULU IlltJI ti
ing session of the National loaid of
trade a resolution was passed ruemo
ria'iiziiig congress that Senator Mor
gan's bill for a guarantee of 7d,0'JO,000
of Nicaragua canal bonds should be
enacted. Other resolutions adopted
wore as follows:
Urging prumpt action by congress on all
mailers relating to tho tariff, and reTenue, in
order that the indusirlvs of tho country may
adjust themselves to any new conditions, and
to recuperate from the cfleat of the
recent financial crisis. Favoring the cru
atiou of a commission to investigate and
report to congress upon the subject of
th; development of a comprehensive system of
free waterways connecting some of tho great
cities i f the country and principal lakes and
rivers: favoring the deej euiuc and widening of
the channels of the Delaware and Chris
tina rivers: favoring thj consolidation of third
und f.iurtli-ci.iss mad matter at a rain of 1 cent
for two ounrns: favoring the suggestion made
by Postmaster tJcneral Hissell in Lis last
j annual report that congress make direct
appropriations xor inciueniai expenses to ten
of the larger post o:lices of the country: me
morializing congress to amend tho national
banking law so as to provide that
all inlractioils of the Provisions be r-
J ferred lo a commission consisting of the soore
j tary of the treasury, the comptroller of tlie
currency and tha treasurer of the United
I Slavs.
. - - V..., .V . ' . 1. 1 L II L l Pll.-) If.
thanks had been adopted the board ad
iourued sine Hrt.
MISSING LINKS.
The Chinese language is spoken bj
the greatest number of people, over
400.000.000.
The deepest coal shaft In America Is
at Pottsville, Fa. In 1883 it had
reached 1,570 feet.
Tns longest wire span is a telegraph
wire over the river Ristuah, in India.
It is over 0,000 feet.
The swiftest bird is the kestrel, or
f-pv.rrow hawk. It has been known to
majice 100 miles an hour.
It 1720 the world's commerce was
p-imated at 88,000,000: in 1S30 it was
w.ted at 3,377,000,000,
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.
It Takes Action on a Number or IAr
Topics.
WAsnixoTox, Jan. 27. Immigration,
especially as applied to the importation
of artisans and professional men and
women under contract, was again
the absorbing topic of discus
sion at Thursday's session of the
national board of trade. It was evi
denttthat there was considerable differ
ence of opinion among delegates. The
debate was precipitated by the report
of the special committee on immigra
tion matters. In brief the report,
which was adopted, was as follows:
It stated that the national board of trade
recommends the strict enforcement of the im
migration laws of the country: also that these
laws, be so amended as to require from the
authorities of the town or district whence
immigrants depart a pertificate that the
immigrant is a person of good moral char
acter, has never been convicted of crime, has
never been a public charge and is of indus
trious habits and character and capable of tak
ing care of himself, such certiticate to be
countersigned by the nearest United States
consul. It further recommends such modifica
tion of the immigration laws as will admit
(under agreement!, professional men and
women and technically expert artisans, as in
structors, with such safeguards and restric
tions as will preserve the spirit ofexisting laws.
Resolutions urging congress to con
fer further powers on the interstate
commerce commissioners and recom'
mending that the commission be di
rected to put into effect a classification
of freight which shall be uniform
throughout the United States were
adopted. A resolution was adopted
urging on congress the passage of
measures for the benefit of our mer
chant marine engaged in foreign com
merce. Train robbery and train wrecking
were discussed at the meeting. In tho
course of the discussion some interest
ing statistics were furnished by one of
the Chicago delegates. F. G. Io
gan, who said, he had com
piled them from figures furnished by
the Pinkertons. According to his st: ..
ment during 1S93( robberies wt-rt' im
ported in seventeen states and one ter
ritory. The amount of money known
to have been taken in all cases fo-jtcd
up JoJ0,700. One train v.-as ditched,
twelve train employes or express mes
sengers were either killed or wounded,
four passengers were wounded, and in
three cases passengers were robbed.
All but oae of these depredations
were committed upon trains that would
come under the provisions of the inter
state commerce law. The record for
IS'jS showed an increase of 100 percent,
over the preceding year, while for the
first sixteen daj-s of 1S94 the increase has
been at the rate of 400 per cent, over
1893. In the face of such statistics
as these there was no opposition to the
passage of a resolution calling upon
congress to enact such legislation as
will secure that safe transit of passen
gers and of merchandise guaranteed by
the constitution of the United States.
The committee on finance asked the
adoption of a series of resolutions favor
ing the continuance of the currency
issues of the nation and its national
banks, protesting against the re
peal of the law taxing the cur
rency issues of state banks, favor
ing a law authorizing national banks
to issue notes to tte value of its
bonds on deposit with the secretary of
the treasury; also a resolution for the
creation of an expert monetary com
mission to investigate the currency
systems of this and other countries.
The resolutions, after discussion, were
adopted.
NIAGARA'S POWER.
A Successful Test Made of the Hydraulic
Tunnel.
Niagara Falls, X. Y., Jan. 27. The
first practical test of the hydraulic tun
nel which has been under construction
in this city for the last three years was
made Thursday morning. When the
gates were raised the waters of the up
per river poured through the new
channel to the wheelhouse, where
they poured down the penstock of the
pit, 13 feet in diameter, for 155 feet,
striking in an upward direction three
of the largest turbine wheels ever built,
and passing into the big tunne"
and out under the city to the
river, 2 miles distant from the
point of the fall. The scheme for
harnessing the power of the Niagara
has already cost nearly 54.000,000. The
Niagara Falls paper mill's contract
calls for 6,C00 horse power, oue-'ialf of
which is being used now, and the cost,
including the lease of the land occupied
by themilL is eightdollars a horse pow
er a year. The test proved satisfactory.
The hydraulic tunnel, with a capacity
of 120,000 horse-power, is a success and
there remains only the opening of the
general power house, where 5,000 horse
power turbines will operate electric
generators. This opening will take
place June I.
BOTH ARE DEAD.
Father and Daughter Asphyxiated by Gas
at Indianapolis.
IswiSAPOi.18, Ind.,, Jan. 27. Ed
ward Thornton, his wife ami 10-jear-old
daughter Belle were fourul uncon
scious Thursday morning at their homo
on Blake street. The pipe had been de
tached from the stove to get. more heat,
allowing the natural gas to esoape into
tlie room. Thornton died during the
morning and his daughter in the after
noon. Mrs. Thornton will recover.
Fifteen Killed In Wrc k.
Berlix, Jau. 127. A dispatch from,
Orenburg says that a passenger train,
collided with a freight; train near Sa
mara, Russia. Five naphtha trucks
were set tire to and fifteen persons lost
their lives.
Burglar to Get a Life Sentence.
Toledo, O., Jan. 27. The jury fmTil
William Botts, aged 2-1, guilty oi bur
glary and larceny. The verdict alsc
stated that liotts had been twice before
convicted of a felony. This brings the
prisoner within tho provisious of the
habitual-criminal law, and there re
mains nothing for the court to do but
impose a life sentence under the habit
wtvl-.riminal law.
(louil otlok for Iron. "
Nsw York, Jan. 47. A review of the
iron trade says there is an improvement
ami indications point tu active operas
tiona by spring n
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