The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, January 21, 1897, Image 3
THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. Fitaicri Owe Ire. than Ami Other Lare (rop of People? and reiver Farmcra r'ail. tonimercialljr fcpeakias, than to Other llua neaa. The Credit of Farmer. The pessimli.1, tbe Iguoraut and t calamity hhoulcnt are very fond of irai.n' on tlj "iwverty of l he farm ing -ommuuily." and aouie agricultural Journal, not conversant with the facts, have assisted in nir-aiing the Idea. They have dune their utmost to destroy the faniiiTii' credit. But the real truth la thittf While liiaiiy farmer have I -! In distress, yet, taking the farming peo ple a a whole. It In safe to Kay that tin' farmers have passed throiiKli the yearn of depression tM-ttt-r than anylsidy In Ihe country- To-day Tanner owe lent than any other large group of people. Fewer farmer have 'laih-d," commer cially H-aklug. tl.iin In any other luisl lies. Some farm mortgage companies have failed thai did an extenxlve busi ness, especially In the scml-arld region, where agriculture Is in an experimental Mage, liut the records of well managed concern In this line of business In the Central West and Northwest show that arniera' interest la Im-Iiij; promptly met. and the irlneiial on many mortgage reduced or paid In full. The number of farniB ownwl free of deht In the South hows reniarknhlc gain. In the Middle and Kaatero State farmer have inain jined their goo-I rredlt In the fare of keen Western roinetitlo!. f kintrast this with the record of fail urea among merrhanta, manufacturer and railroad. The 151 ruilronda that havp Roue Into receiver' hand In the hint three and a half yeara were mort gaged for twice a a much ax all the mort gages on all the farina In the Cnlted State. Probably t lie actual los on In vestment In railroad mortgage In the pant fix yi ;ir ha exceeded the amount of all the tartn mortgage In the coun try. Our Judgment I that, taking the country a a whole, i5 imt cent, of the loan on farm during the punt twenty five year have either lieen paid In full or are to-day worth 1h cents on the dol lar. Without In the slightest degree trying to cover up any of the evlla of agricul tural depression, we here enter n sol emn protest against the great wrong that ha been done our farmer by the irrepressible calamity howler. We aol emnly maliitaln that the farmer' whole history demonstrate hi desire and hi ability to pay hi Just debt. Kallrond "rw-elvers," corporation wrecker and tniKt promoter have made an unenvia ble record a repudlalor, but the vast majorty of farmer have, can or will pay )00 eent on the dollar. More cap ital I the crying need of many fanner, and It In to be obtained on reaonable term by proving the farmer' credit, l-t ti build up. not tear down. I.et u inaugurate Ihe policy of construction. io a reign of destruction. American .rn-uliurlKt. Management of Poultry. The condition for success In poultry raining are: Warm, light and dry quar ter, clean water, wholesome food, anil a moderate range. My cold weather ration for thirty hens consists of a touch finely -cut hay as can la? grasped in both ha nil, two quarts of bran, and the refuse from the table for the Inst twenty-four hours. This Is scalded, cooled, and fed In the morning. They set grain, usually wheat, with an occa sional feed of barley and corn, al noon and evening. They get warmed water Iwlre a dav. which Is liberally taken. They should be kept well supplied with cold ashes, and receive ground Txine I wire a week. liens should mteh for their grain, which keep them healthy ami prevents egg eating. The house should be cleaned twice a week, and given a sprinkling of fresh lime. To keep Ihe fowl free from ver min, sprinkle the roosts once a week with coal oil and turpentine, nupply plenty of coal ashes for dust ballis and whitewash the house once a year. To keep up the stock to a high standard the hen should not be kept till over -I years old. In the early part of Maren wleet about eight of the beat hens and tnate them with a male possessing n many as possible of the points de wired to be perpetuated. Only Ihe ggs from thi pen should he set,. This are will nay well for the doing. There Is no profit In the haphazard system f management. Rural World. On tb Care of K lire p. It Is knack and personal manage ment, and not lur k, w hich w ill keep a flock of nheep In go1 condition during the winter. They should enter their winter quarters In good shape, ami then I tended with Intelligence. It I folly to try In make anything out of the weakling, and liny should tie weeded cut closely. It I noticeable that the preion of confidence In the future if the sheep business cotum from men f experience, who have la-fore come l'iro:i(;b periods of great depression up i i greater prosperity. Those who rush .h'ii (Hid out of It w ith every breejic of r.n.ine are alsnit shaken out of the .!!. ihvm. and sacrifice will le fewer Mme'orth. I'eople eat meat and wear i IkIIiIiic: sheep furnish both, and no other animal doe. In Ihe beginning of the depression some one wanted to nee It go ihut way and Itegan calamity howling. low a sheep are, Ihey will buy more which the farmer need than they did when higher, and time point to a renewal of proairlty. The loo common opinion in regard lo Mheep I Dial they are hilt scavenger and fitted ly to eoiuHimc the weed and cither waste on the farm, not out of nothing come nothing. If there la no proper food, care er ehelt" prorklcd tti ot"! eret our sheep to pine away and c Ish. A good aheep will make a growtl of m-arly thrw-uaHera of a und dtv the flrxt 2m I day, when it Is-comes excellent inuttou. I"..r Kl days it will make hali a pound. Six h a shii'p will net I cents a pound on the farm, usual ly, and su- 'i shM-p. having a large cur ea, will rirc a irojMirttoiiately l.trga flee-e. Is- it worth what it will. In aiteep breeding tiiere is but one wa.f of keeping an Ideal mx k. and that Is by trying to Improve it whfii It Is sinmii lugly at Its very best. The betit iuys in all tilings fsTta'tiiug to stis k. The averag- Americau ea's tlv the amount of mutton he did twenty year ago because he gets It ts'tter. The fleece weigh double, too, Ix-aupe of lM'tter breeillng and handling. ;h1 sheep will pay. but the old scrubs will not.- (Jermantown Telegraph. Immense Apple Croi, The apple crop thut year amounts to about iisi.issi.tKHi barrels, lu bushels It Is about e-( ua 1 to our wheat crop. New York contribute OTt.OUO.tKrf) bar rels, Michigan ,10,(HSi,(HKi, New Kugland 40.mh.mhi. and other section also jro duee largely, tine-half or more of this enormous crop Is wasled -allowed to rot ou the ground -although It could b" dried or converted Into vinegar. Aa a "good apple year" Is usually followed by small crops the succeeding wason It would have Ix-en profitable to have made vinegar. This year the product was about three Imrreis for every man. woman and child In the country, but apples will be high, nevertheless, In a few month. "H'ond W ill Tell." The expression "Itlood will tell" ap plies to all classes of slock. It may be noticed ill Ihe fleet running and trot ting horses, the beef, butter and milk breeds of cattle, the numerous breed of sheep which are bred for mutton and heavy fleeces, and lu the swine, which possess meritorious characteristics pe culiar to each breed. Stockmen must bring themselves to a point where they must recognize thte facts ami obliter ate from the farm the thousands of scrub animals which fail to give profit because they ore Incapable of o doing. High fanning, with Improved methods, depends for success upon stock raising based upon the bent breeds of stock. Apples tor Mnrsea, A quart or two of sweet apples per day for each horse will 1m worth more to It than the same bulk of oat addi tional to lia regular ration of hay or grain. The apple are better than any kind of roots, and this year they ar everywhere cheap and plenty. Sour apples are nearly as good, but the horses prefer the sweet apples when they can lie had. In nutritive value there Is very little difference. There Is much sweet In what we call a "sour" because an acid disguises the sweet it contain. Farm Nott-a. Turnips for table use should be put in layers of sand !n ba rrels. When stor ed that way they are fresh, and never wilt or shrivel up. fruit, bee and sniltry can Is- kept on the same land, and a crop of buck wheat, for tsth lxe ami poultry, will assist In reducing the cost. There an- aeventy-four stations and sub-ntations In the I'tilted State, lu which H"'! trained Kpc-iallta are em ployed throughout the year, solving by experiment and study the hundreds of Important problem which confront the tiller of the soil. KxH'timeiil made In Ihe use of suit upon crop demonstrate that It is to a certain extent beneficial to onions, cab bage ami celery when used in light ap plication, lint Injurious lo potatoes, Ih'cIs, tobacco and melons. t'harcoiil is not comtidcrl a fiod, though It is uil largely for lslh awlne and poultry. It serve as a corrective of Ihiwi'1 disorders and Is of value only when freshly burned. Wood ashes, which ate alkaline, are some! lines readily eaten by hog, especially when they are finl mostly on food of a floppy kind which is acid. There I fur more dimmer of giving house plant loo much water rather than too little water In winter. Iiurlng the short day and long nights, with very little sunlight on the soil. It Is hard to keep it at a lemcraturc where the plains can grow vigorously. All the surplus water added lower the tem perature until It reflohe a point where the plant Ixi rely exist without inaklug any growth. If the soil ha much veg etable matter, humle acid will lie de veloped at a low ic niMraturc, and this will poison Ihe plant root. Tb Temptation. "Whatever Indiwed you to marry me. anyway, If I am o distasteful to .vimi?" he aked, ttervfly. "I think It was Ihe adTeriiwiiieni,' he said. "The what 7" "The advertUwuienl. The household bargain, you know. I thought It would be o lovely to go to the department More and buy lev pick for 9 rent, real f-eent dipper for only 1 rent, and all that ort of thing. Of course, I had no use for that sort "of stuff a long a I remained ingle,"-C1nclnnall Knqnlrer. Try ! t I hear Him. "There I one thing I have made up my mind to." said Willy Wellington. "KeiillyT answered Ml Cayenne. "Vw, I shall never he a man of one klea." "Oh, don't my thiil. You are el III too young to be discouraged." Washington Htar. Awfal HeapoBjalblHU. "I tell yon that a Juror In a murder case ha an awful responsibility en him." "Ye, Indeed. If he goet l sleep 04 W liable to be fined for contempt of toiiii.-Trut. ti t 1.IMI I llhEIU Plafie a li,dia 1'rvjii Tfeo.aaads Int ! tbe ouuirjr. j lkiv, Jan. IV It ia estimated that over &i0,00 pereons, comprising J more than hull the population of the ! ritr, have fled to the e juntry to et-cape j the plague. The street are practically I lewr ed, shop and baziar are clost-d and business i practically at a etmd- : Hill. I The doctors are lieginning to fear treating t tie plague patieol, lest they contract the dieeaae, and many of ttie native doctors have fled. About MX) ,000 pertom ate encamped at And her i, but they will not !e able to remain there, long, owing to the scarcity of water and the uneauitary conditions prevailing. Tbe cemeteries of the city are filled with the dead, and it ia becoming very difficult to bury the corpses, Owing to the refusal of even friend and relatives to handle tht m, dreading contagion. Up to Wednesday night the oflicial statistic (bowed that ttiere ere 3.8W4 tasea of the plague and 2,;Wi death ironi the disease. tt Aground In t e f.ltte IlAxni KU, Jan. l.'i. During the past few days there has lieen a series of groundings in the river K.be that has not been equalled in a long time. The Hamburg-American stesmer Fnerst r.ismatcli, which struck bottom a week ago, remained fast until Wednesday night, when she managed to get gfluat. The Normannia, belonging to the tame line, while coming to the port from Genoa also took ground am! is still fast. 1 he German rteanier Hochheimer, from Bombay, ran aground in ihe river, and while in ibis position she was run into by the British steamer Feimoor, from Galveston. The latter bad her item stove and her bows cut down to tie mater's edge. The stem of tbe ilex hheiirier was also damaged. The Hamburg-American line steamer, Pola ria, from New Orleans, and several other veeecla, are fast in the mud. Villi Marry Ouuld. Ham Francisco, Jan. 15. Katherine Clemmons, the Califarnia actress, will hecoma the wife of Howard Gould. This statement was made yesterday by Mrs. J. W. Dayan, mother of the lady, who has just returned from a visit to hei daughter'. "My daughter will be with us very soon" sne said, "when she will leave lot New York. Miss Clemtnons is engaged to marry Howard Gould, of course, and baa been for a long time. It would b foolish to deny it, but we dislike the notoriety which the announcement brings. Proieasional notice Is one thing and the intrusion into personal matters is quite another. In de:erencl lo the wishes of Mr. Gould she has given up her proles-ional engagements, not because Mr. Gould has any prejudice against the theatrical profession, but only because he feels it to be unriecea eary for her to continue at work. No date has been set for the marriage of my daughter, and I aui not at liberty to give an opinion as to whether it will be celebrated here. For my part I al most wonder that it is to occur at all, pc thoroughly is my daughter in love iih her profession." A K. form I'anv. St Lot is, Jan. 15. The commonweal conference at the Lindeil hotel was in tesston from 1 o'clock p. m. till 5:30 las) ii ght, when its labors ended. The sts i ion was largely occupied in discussing an address to the public. This docu ment of about 800 words was issued ovi t the signatures of Jacob S. Coxey ai chairman of tbe conference. The re- J forms advocated are tbe imperative ruanilate to legislators, none -interest-' bearing bonds, direct legislation, good roads and trionomic ballot. The pijjiu list leaders of the last campaign aie ar raigned a corrupt and incapable. An organization committee was chosen, ol Which J. S. Coxey is chairman ami Carl 'Browne secretary. All reform nrg-ui na tions are InviteJ to send delegate to tl national convention to be held at Nash. . ville. Tenn., on July 4, next. No namt was decided ujkhi lor the new party, that being left to the Nastiville contemj tion. One of the resolutions calls upon ' all the unemployed to meet in their ie-1 spective towns on Washington's biitli- day aud organize for weekly parailef thereafter. Tbe conference adjourned at 7 p. in., to meet in Memphis, Tenn., on February with the reform prrsi assisiation. Hrave )BI-w (icine Mxil w asHiKoro.v, Jan. 15. Capt I'hiii MiGlffen, the former offii-er of tht United States navy and aftemard ol the Chinese imperial navy, who fought in the flagship Chen Yoen, against the combined attack of the entire Japanese fleet in the vemorable battle of the Yalu river on the afternoon of Septem ber 17, le04, has been taken to the post graduate hospital in this eity, a violent madman. The complete wrecking oi this brilliant naval officer ia the result of the terrific strain to which he was subieced during the battle of the Yalu. Both hi oar drama were raptured, hi eyos permanently affected and his. bean nd body filled with splinters of wood work and steel. It ia only by operation that the cause of the oftcer's insanity can be determined. May fight la Nevada Ci.tvn.Ann, O., Jan. 15. The Carton City location (or the CorbetUFItttlm. mont fight waa almost confirmed bj Oorbett laat night. Ho hat evidently boon adviaed by Stuart, and baa shaped bla plaui acooidingly. He told a per tonal friend yeetenlay afternoon that titer tbe elote of bit engagement ia Kan- eat City neat week he would visit hie home ia 8mi Fraecisee aod would fleleh training In California, "which will be very close to the aeene of tbe battle." I si IK (;i'Hs IT IT fcpain Acknowledges be Can Kevei Suppress tbs P.ebellion. rHE U- S INTERVENTION ACCEPTEf. Oliir kul mln ihe TVrnm t pi n Whlili Spain hhuuld lve I'pt uba ( alia tu he iva Vontplet Autoucimr a'd TainiK I'wi-r. New Yokk, Jan. 14 The Journal's, fonetpoudent at Madud telegraphs: i aiu has at last C'Jiui-'ded that al her effurts to suppress, or even to makt iiny impression upon the Cuban insur reitiou are futile and useless. Appreciating this fact, which ha, I'een patent to all other nations fo pearly six month, Prime Minister Cam i.vus ''"l Castillo has definitely accepter rerr. of State Olnty's proffer Ann i.. ,n intervention as eli as tbe leriii- bis excellenry, President Oleve land, and Mr. Olney prescribe as the I j ice for their interference and the use i-f their prerogatives in attempting td bring alsMit a state ol peace in tbs is-bind of Cuba. Kollowing the refusal of the American ecretary of Btate to accept, so far as America was concerned, the plan of tb(j Munich prime minister for a restora lion nf Spanish rule in Cuba, Mr. Olney through the usual oflicial channels, sub milted in full to Senator Canovas the leruie for peace with Cuba upon which the admiriibtration o: President Cleve land was prepared to intervene and use its effort to bring about a settlement between Srain and the colonies. Tbe conditions, I am able to state uisjn the highest authority, mean per' feet and complete autonomy for Cuba I am unable to transmit now an suthen tic copy of the correspondence on the lubject between the United States and pain, through Secretary Clney and he Spanish minister to the United Ktates, Deputy de Lome. I can state with absolute knowledge of the facts, however, that they provids for home rule; to disburse all public Dooeys. Spain to be debarred from 111 chare in the revenue of the island and all interference in elections held on the ihland. In fact, the scheme ent to the ex treme point of empowering Cuba to levj tariff in bar own iavor against export irom tpain sent to tne isiana. in Cuban attitude toward Spain was i to hi ;pt orj entirely one cf independence, except tli'j one matter that Cuba was to re a tin in name Spanish province. To M. tribute eedl WASmwroN, Jan. 14. The agricul' ;ural appropriation bill was presented to the house yesterday by Mr. Wads; wirth, chairman of the committee on. agriculture. It carries an appropria tion of 1:1,152,752, an increase of $102, 080 over the amount appropriated fo the current flical year. The only ma terial increase is tinier tbe head of the bureau cf animal industry, and is in tended to allow the extension of meal inspection. The committee disoutsej the matter of compulsory meat Inspeci tion, but decided to make it the subjeej pf an independent bill and not to p!ac4 It in the appropriation bill. For the purchase and distribution o) valuable seeds an appropriation of $120,i 000 is made and the secretary is directed to expend the appropriation, Secretary pforton made no estimate for this ex-' iienditure, and as in former bills it wi 'n sorted itliout his sanction. I Olney Is Hnaltbcri. j Washington, Jan. 14. After an txec( utive seBsion of a little more than twq bouts the senate refused to reconsider the treaties with the Orange Free State, ' and the Argentine Kee-ublic, as re. quested by Secretary Olney. Mr. Olney bad railed attention to the fiirt that s clause preventing the extradition of the citizens of the country from which tb extradition was asked had been omitted. I It was contended that each government Has the charge of it own subjects on' the question of their extradition and tht ! explicit language suggested by Mr, j Olney would create an unnecessary in. novation for which no good reason could lie given. A resolution was passed removing tht injunction of secrecy from the genera) traly oi arbitration tatween this conn Irv nd Great Britain. War Vrsaat strike N'nw Yokk, Jan. 14, The Unite) States steamship Montgomery, whicb tailed for Florida waters on fllihusterint duties, returned to the Brooklyn navt yard, having met with an accident be fore she got clear of the harbor, which will necessitate her going into the dry dock immediately. Captain Bradford lays the vessel struck something at tht rounded Governor's island Tuesday and that he thought it best to come back and have the vessel examined. He could not aay what the obstruction was. Wainotox, Jan. 14. The navy de partment hat been advised that tht cruiser Montgomery struck a submerged object of snrue kind while rounding Cas tie William and the cement nnder her port propeller appears to be damaged She hat been ordered to the Brooklyn dry dock for thorough examination. Will Pareelma the V P. Ntw York, Jan. 14. A member of tbs Union Pacific reorganization committee says that President Cleveland will adopt one of two course, either call upon com greet for an appropriation to ay eff tht first Mortgage bonde aad attune gov ernment ownerthin and ananaa-tment ol the road or to diapoeeof tht government eiaim try lorecioturt. TBe latter eonrtt will no doubt be taken ia the matter, u President Clevelaad't vtewa In I iltlon te governmeat rMtrol of rallroadf liKO IUl K Hl.HT rilKA HUtiH Suitors for lb K m r II ,ud Mild the Wotnxa Ci ge Them On. New Yokk, Jn. 13 A Herald epe cial irom C'rawlordbville, Ga , tay s: I ecause of a woman John and David Wui na fought a duel to the death near jiere Saturday. The men ere brothers and the wouiMU aas the wife of David Warri-, who married her during Christ mas week. It eeeins that the girl had been en paed to marry John Wains, but with out giving a reason ele j lted him a week la.er and wedded David Warris. kecently John Warris learned that the girl b.d been t M glanderous storie coucerniug biiu by hi brolher David. For this reason the young woman had j lt-d John and out of pique a few days later married David. John War is saw bis brother's wife Sunday morning and i elated the story of her husband's duplicity, bhe was greatly enraged by t lie recital and both agreed that David should be punched fur bis treaelieiy. The woman told John be in iit-t dght David and kill him. The couple reparate I and in tiie aiter n'xin John went to David's home and chatged li'in with treachery. David did ' t deny the story and Ji bn then insifted iliat 0113 or ilie ol her must die Mrs. Warris also denounced tier lius bmd and insisted tliat be muht flight John. David consented and the two brotbors went, to the yard, revolvers in hand, and pared earn other at ten paces, Mrs. Warns looking on. John gave the signal to Jire and the p'stols cracked Bimuitaneomly, but neither was bit. At the second ex change of shots both men ere slightly wmtidi d. At the third exchange John Warris' right band was sha'.lereci, but he took his pistol in hi left hand and insisted that the duel be continued lourth exchange of shot followed, and David Warris fell dead with a bullet through his brain, and lohn received a third wound, which may prove fatal. Seeing that her husband was dead and her brother-in-law badly wounded, Mrs. Warris sent for a physician to whom she told the story of the duel. She seemed to think that her husband received only justice und that she and John Warris acted proiierly. John Warris is badly woundv.1 He i close ly guarde! and will be removed to jail if he recovers. Mrs. Warris may also lie arrested. Hp.iln Innnot Win. Washington, Jan. 13 Speaking ol his recent visit to Cuba, Senator-elect Money says : "I went ttiere to personally inform myself, for my own guidance as a mem ber of the house committee, to the con dition of tilings in the island At the very outset I will say that everything I saw and heard taught me that Spain is unable to cope with this insurrection She will never put it down. Spain will never end this war with victory to her- eelf. "This is also the opinion of ConBul General Fitzhuh Lee, and he has here tofore expressed it to Secretary Olney. He lias sold the secretary of state that the insurrectionists, whether soon or later, were bound to succeed. The last thing General Fitzhugh Lee said to me as I left Havana wag : 'Please see Sec retary Olney and tell him that today I am more firmly convinced than ever Spain cannot put down the insurrection, and that every day it continues means a, loss of life and property without the re motest encouragement of any final Spun sii success As I long 'since told him, the insurrection will succeed. My judgment, lo that effect receives daily loiilirms'ion.' 'Saiurdsy I saw .Secretary Olney and roiniiiiuiirateil to him General Lee's message," Mr. Money says that toe province of I'mar del Rio is dill occupied by in surgents, although General W'eyler as certs that thev have disbanded. H. pt.rt of a Mann civ. LuMjuN, Jan. 13. A dispatch from Bonny, on the coast ol Upper Guinea, reports the massacre of all the mem bers of a peaceable British expedition which left tbe coast about January 1, intending to prccecd to Ban in City, on the Benin river, by way of Sapele. The expedition consirle.i of Acting Consul Phillips, Maj. Cop. Iniul Crawford, Cap tain Ho srsgon, v.lii v- the comman dant of the force of the Niger toast pro t.'ctorate; Cap'ain rlalinr, belonging to the same force; Messrs Campbell and Locke, consular official; Dr. Elliot. MerMS. Powis and Gordon,, civilians, ' and a number of kroomeu and native ! carriers. I The yacht Ivy has returned to Bonny I and reports that the entire party wat killed by Mihjcctt ol the king of Benin, which country is included in the Niger coast protectorate. A scanty unuflicial eport of the affair which has reached the foreign office tayi that the members of the expedition were raptured and not kiil.'d Tbe for eign otlire deprecates the assumption they were massacred nntil oflicial ad vices shall have been received. It is stated that the expedition was not armed and it ia likely they have fallen victims to some of th". wild tribe in festing tbe borders. It is probable tbat the king of Benin will not be involved in the matter. sell a Kallrund Wali.ai x, Idaho, Jan. 18. The prop erty ol the Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Co., consisting of a narrow guage railway from Mission to Wallace, and a line ol steamers plying between Mission and Coeur d'Alene City, was told here yeeteiday by order of the United 6tates circuit court, under decree, of foreclosure held by the Central Troet company of New York lor $220,000, the Northern Pacific Railroad company be Ing the purchaser. GLOOMY FUTURE Bpain Kcw in a Serious Condition With the Oatlook Dubious. fHE PEOPLE MISTRUST THE LEADERS Puliry or eylr ia i ul4 rrutokes Ureal Juijiaii-ur - Atuutiff lb .-. who Hava Mum iu ib VI ur -ltiimoia of a liHugr iu tbe Cab art Maheiii, Jan. Vi. The pupurir im tat encM with the government because of t'.e failure to euiipiess the reisllion in Cu a and the Phil ippine islands is daily increasing. Thousands of the young men of pain have been sent to L'uba, where they have met their death from disease or the hardships of the campaign. Their families believe that they ho:iI. Lj alive if it were not for the procrastinating policy of Captain General Weyler, who despite his prom ises to put down the insurrection, has apparently accomplished little, while bis unacclimated troops havirg been dying by scores of hundreds. The leaders of bith the conservative and liberal parties are distrusted, and th presens outiook is chaotic. Rumor of a change in the ministry are frequenty put in circulation and as frequently denied, but in tbe present temper of the people the succession of the liberals to power would not banish the distrust which prevails everywhere. The future is looked forwa-d to with much anxiety. lie lis Ooliig- to the Ktrike. Denver, Colo , Jan. 12. Eugene V, Debs passed through this city yesterday en route to L-aiiville to investigate the miners' strike, which has been in pr ges there for (he past five months. "I deeire," he said, ''to look over the military camp which hat been main tained against t lie miners, to see with my own eyes ho much force has been considered necessary to keep the miners from committing arbitration. I have not read your governor's attempt to justify himself for keeping the armed guard at Leadville. In the east wa have heard that over 2,000 men wer kept there, but I am informed here tberu never have been over 957 soldiers in camp. My conviction is that the minere' stand is wholly to maintain wages. No laboring man upholda vio lent measures, and I do not believe that the Leadville miners, the body ol them, were interested in the attack. In so far as the miners seek a peaceful, lawful way to maintain wagea they ought to be supported by every class ol organized labor. Every wage worker is vitally interested in the result. It ii my impression that the men will win, for the mine owners cancot operate, with the men they have taken in. I do not know that this is a move to break up labor organizations, but I am satis fied that if thty can break up the organ ization hire t will be the initial step. Break up organized labor in Colorado and the miners will soon be in tbe con dition of the Pennsylvania coal miners. They will simply be convicts." fight at th thurcli, 1 Constahtinoplk, Jan. 12. Oflicial ad vices received here from Jerusalem ahow that there has been further trouble among the Wi r.diippere at the church ol the Holy Sepulchre. It appears tha the Roman Catholics were opposed to members of the Orthodox Greek church entering the church by a certain dool on the eve of January 6, the day ob. served by the orthodox church at Christmas. Tbe latter insisted upon their right to enter and tbe result wa that the two factions became involved in a serious fight, which did not end until the Turkish authorities intervened to restore order. Some of the combat. ants were bandly injured, but it is nof known whether anybody was killed. Will I'robablT be Pardon, d. Des Moines, Ia., Jan. 12. An effort will be made to secure a pardon for 8. R. Dawson, serving a ten years' sentence, in the penitentiary for murdering Wal ter Scott a year ago. Dawson it the in venter of a method ol hardening cop pet and making Damascus steel. Hit eigh-teen-year-old daughter Cbnstmaa eve a year ago left her father's houae and eloped with Scott, a merchant. The) were married, and an boar later Scott went to Dawson's houae for hit bride's clothing. Dawson murdered him on, (light. A local corporation it intonated in the manufacture of tbe Damaacul steel. Dawtoo has the secret, and will tell no one about it unlets he it released from confinement '1 hit leverage may secure his pardon. ; Relief fur f amlae Batterer. i LoNiMiN. Jan, 12 The queen hat con tributed 600 pounds to the fund tbathai been started by George Faudel Phillips, lord mayor of London lor tbe relief ol the famine sufferers in India. High Water In (lie Tlianit. Iaikdon, Jan. 12 There ia very bjgj water in the Thame and at several places between Teddington and Readint tbe river is out of iu bankt. The eel lart ol tbe houses along tbe riverside at Windsor are full ol wetw. Further flood Ing it certain, at the river it rltidg. A (.oetijr Fire. Bt)KAi.o, N. Y., Jan. 12. Fire broke out in the Richmond block and dam aged the building and contonta to the extent ol $100,000. Tbe building la a flve-ttory itrnctoee, located at th tar ner of Seneca and ElliooU atrtett. It it occupied by the clothing firm of Altmaa at Co. The retail department la on the first floor and (ha other floort are aaad to ttore turpi a atock. Nearly M. OJtZi worth ol stock waa In the bulldta aad It waa more or lea damaged by tbe Ira aad water. .. ire well known. . ..