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IkposedT COV. GOEBEL'S ASSASSINS ABOUT RUN DOWN. ARE GOLDEH'S EVIDENCE. Republican State Officials of Ken tucky Are On Trial for Murder. 1 Frankfort, Ky., March 25. Saturday the prosecution in the case against aecrelary of State Caleb Powers.wharg- ed with complicity in the 'Goebel as- sassination, introduced ita principal wltnees, F. Wharton Golden, of Knox ounty, an intimate friend of secretary mmm- lno-TS"gM3 (ii Tiai'e'maiae a confession implicating a number of people in the murder. Attorneys for the commonwealth gay that Golden's fa practically the capstone of the whole structure of evidence, and expect ' to . prove by his testimony, not inly that m conspiracy existed, but also w ho were 'Implicated in it. The court room, was jammed -ions before the hour set for the examina tion, ana when Anally the doors were closed a large crowd remained outside. Secretary of State Powers was tin only one of the defendants brought into ourt. Captain Davis and Culton re maining in Jail. Golden was the first witness. He had known Secretary rowers for about eighteen years and Inew Mr. Culton. He- was also quaimed with Governor Taylor and Captain John Powers. He said he wa! a friend to all of the defendants. H ...was in Frankfort in January and February and saw John Powers near ly every day. He was in Frankfort on January 14 and went to Harlan county on the 18th, then went to Laurel coun ty for two or three days, from there returning to Frankfort "Whee did you. go to Barboursville? isked Attorney Campbell. After hesitating the witness said; "1. won't answer that." "When old you have a conversation with Secretary Powers?" "When Mr. Powers and I left here together. Mr. Powers told me to go to Harlan county and tell Postmaster John Hirst to send down ten witnesses la the contest case. He wanted regu fcvr mountain feudists, when who would ,. Hand up and, if necessary, go into that legislative hall and kill off enough to la&ke it in our favor. did not see Mr. Hirst. I saw damp Howard. I told him we wanted ten regular mountain feudists for wit Jesses. We wanted men who had good tolts,'43a." "Were the Colts 4.5$ to be put In evi lenee?" asked-Attorney Campbell. "Most assuredly they were," axswer td Golden. In reply to a question. Golden said he lid not know the witnesses w ho cams lu Frankfuft. He delivered the mw tage to Howard on Sunday, a few days Wore the shooting of Goebel. "When did you next see Caleb Pow- "I saw him Tuesday. I got on t he bain at Ferris station. Laurel county. He had a couple of men on the train named Pease and Loeka. He told me b take care of them. I next saw pow irs in Frankfort. I don't remember what conversation we had then." SELECTING THE ME. "Who selected the men who came titom Harlan county?" "Hamp Howard. - He selected thirty ten beside the ten. Caleb Powers. I think, selected the men from Knox county. There were about seventy or ighty, Jim Sparks, county attorney - m Laurel county, selected the men from Laurel county." "When was it determined to bring the men to Frankfort?" 'l don't know." The witness stated tht at London Powers said be wanted a regular army If mountaineers to come to Frankfort. - In answer to further questions. Gui les, said that Powers gave him 1180 to give to Judge Bingham in Bell county. -I 'gave some of it to Bingham to send ten men down to Frankfort," said .olden. ''' Witness also said that he gave- toi Howard 173.80 for ten tickets to Frank fort and return. He knew some of the men' from Bell county; most ' of the sen mere mountain feudists. In all about 1,200 or 1,500 men -were brought ' to V rankfort. : They" were fed back of the state house, captain L. 0avis and Charles Ffciley providing- the provisions. Con- Hawing, Golden said: " "We sent most of them back, that Bigot. By we,' I mean myself, Pow ' aM,-Davis, Culton and Governor Tay fcr. Flnlcy, Taylor and Powers decided i wend bock all except ten or Aftn '' from each county. I selected twelve Armed men to be kept from Knox ' woontr- Deputy Marshal Geo. Thorap on elected the men from Laurel Mttty. About 175 men from the Bsonntatns, brought to Frankfort, re MUned to see that we got justice." r, fott bare any further convers a-t'tLM-mlth Powers regarding the work (f Voa b mn ranln,n" here? "JAr.- We understood what they 'rt -'haft- tTv Wa knew that 'u "j'gdg bar ta f Into that H.U m clean S7 -aaawai to awto ft ma- r.3 technical point. Golden became 111 and court was adjourned in 1 :30 o'clock. I'LANXKD TO KILL HOEUKL Golden resumed hi testimony at the afternoon session. He said John Pow ers and a black-eyed, niuslached man had a talk concerning the closing of Secretary Powers' office during the lat ter's absence. "I had my back turned," said Gol den, "hut when I turned 1 saw John Powers give the key to the man. John Powers sail to me, 'Goebel is going to be killed this morning." I said, 'This mut not be done.' He said, "Don't get excited. I gave that man the wrong key.' I said, 'We must go and see Ca leb." "John Powers saw him. I didn't." "What wa next done?' ' "Wt ajY r.ntS back to the slate house. I didn't go to Louisville that morning, i can't say why." "ixi you know a man named Dick Coombs?" asked Attorney omi-h-u. "I do; he U colored and lives In Be attyviiie. He. Came down with the Lee .M.iv"r .c-oirj;ent" "I?d you have any talk with Caleb or John Powers about Diik Coombs?" "Sty; but they had two negroes there to kill Goebel. John Powers told me so. Thty w ere Woekersmilh and i Di k Coombs. 1 saw Dick Coombs at the drug store near the depot every morn ing for a week or so previous to the shooting. Coombs, talking to a man named Wallace, in my presence, said: I n him; 1 know him as far as 1 can see him and 1 can kill him as far as I can see him. He was talking of Goebel. This conversation was in the adjutant gen eral's office. H? also said: 'I know his every movement and 1 can hit him with this as far as I can see him." He carried a Colts 23, that shoots a Win chester cartridsje. Coombs was in the 'assistant adjutant general's olfice on the morning of the shooting w ith Hock ersmith and Jim Wallace. 1 saw the man who got the key from John Pow ers that morning. The fellow is a lit tle man. When we (Caleb and John Powers and myself) went back there, he said: 'You have given me the wrong key." I don't remember what John said to him. The rest of the day 1 was around town. So reference was made to the key the rest of the day. The key was to Caleb's office. - "On Tuesday did you meet Caleb and John Powers?" asked Attorney Camp bell. '"Yes, I did. I saw them in Caleb's office. 1 got a letter from Hlakemun that morning, asking me to come to Louisville. Caleb said he was going with me, but said he might want me tt go to the mountains. He was talk ing to Walttr Day and Governor Tay lor. K. J. Howard of Harlan county came up and he talked to Ttfylor. He insisted on Taylor calling out the mili tia. MEANT TO KILL LEGISLATORS. "Taylor said: 'My God. you jeole muHt do something ifirst, adding, I can gi-X the militia quick enough. V ou fellows must act first "liy that I understood we fellows must rtiiwe a riot in the senate cham ber. Goebel was there. As I told you this morning, we would clean out enough of that legislature there tit make it our way." "What do you mean by that?" "Oh, kill them." "After Taylor was through talking I urged Powers to take the train with me, us it was due. A i-a. t, range learned that Senator Goebel had been shot. We continued on to Louisville. Both John and Caleb rowers were along. We left for Frankfort that aft ernoon and went directly to the state house. I did not see Powers again that day." Attorney Campbell then took the wit ness back and Golden told of a con versation he had with Caleb Powers on a train in Laurel county previous to the shooting. "Caleb said," continued Golden, "d them, we've got them.' I understood by that remark that we had the democrats down here and we could do as we pteasc-d after we got here." The witness then took up the events after the shooting.! He said he saw a man named lilakeman in Louisviile. niakeman and John Powers had a con versa tion. , Counsel 'for the defense strongly ob jected to this tins of examination and the commonwealth withdrew it and an nounced that it was through with the witness. Golden, who was very weak from blf hemorrhage, requested a few minutes rest, and he was accordingly taken out by a deputy sheriff. Gulden's illness proved more serious than at first thought, and after halt an hour's delay adjournment was taken until 19 a. m., Monday. , . PROTECTED BY ORDERS. Judge Mungar Passes Upon Duties of a Soldier. the Omaha, Neb., March 28. Fair and Jockens, the two- members of the Tenth Infantry who were held at Fort Crook for the shooting of Deserter Morgan, wore released by Judge Munger on a writ of habeas corpus. Adge Munger held that while the trial and acquittal by a military court for an offence against the laws of the state was not a bar to prosecution in the state court, a private was "bound to obey the order of his superior officer, and such ordet was a full protection against prosecu tion unless the illegality of such an or der is ao clearly shown on Ita fac that a man of ordinary sense wouU know whan ka heard It that such aa or der was lUegaL Tha j4a hatt thai la thoa obeying tka oraar ta fkoot taw feaartar if hi Oajai to E th9M o- ue.-l txi ti irnr- 1 nzz vex c rv A BLIGHT. PUERTO R1CQANS ARE HAVING A TOUGH TIME. FILLED WITH ALARM. Tariff Legislation Throttlaa All Manner of TradeThe Peo ple Starving, San Juan, P. R.. March, 16. I have been looking around San Juan for a week, ti-J'ihK to find out what is wrong. American militaiy officials told me at the outset that the year and a half ol Amr-rtosn sovereignty had been a blight on the ls!;,nd. This was not the echo of Spanish or of Puerto Rlcan feelings. They spoke of their own views with soldierly frankness and sometimes with i word of regret for their own posi tion. Their talk was more jxdnted than when filtered through ofliclal "haiiiiels. Ieavitig for the moment the question f responsibility, no one can doubt the evidence of the senses. The blight is here. H spreads over the town and out into the country. Trade is dead and mercantile and Industrial activity ire paralyzed. At first I thought the evidence might be misleading. Busi ness never goes forward in the tropics with the hum and roar of the north. The luck of noise and push would not be conclusive. Such life as is seen in the harbor monies from the government transirtB unloading supplies for the troops and relief supplies for the people of the in terior, who have not yet recovered from the ravages caused by last summer's hurricane. I made a search through the customs records to learn the extent to which trade between Spain and its late colony continued. Notwithstanding that Spain hasi practically closed its market to Puerto Rican products, it yet ships a large amount of its products here. Col one) Davis, the collet.-tor of customs, has been gathering data which estab lishes this fart. STILL TRADE WITH SPAIN. Hoisting Itu? flag has not enabled the merchants in the United Stales to wrist this market from those in whose hands It has been for generations. The notion that all the customs of Latin commerce could be Americanized by forcing the trade has had a severe jo!t. The Jolting is likely to continue till the American merchants learn that they must conform to existing condi tions. That will b some time and in the meanwhile such importations as there are from Spain and England will continue. It is on an understanding of this probability that Collector Davis bases his belief that Puerto Rican free trade wit hthe United Slates and the Ding Icy tariff against the rest of the world would enable the island to collect 0 fair amount of customs revenue for several years. I have asked a number of army offi cers who have been stationed In the isolated sections, and they all tell me as much, but they add that the tend ency to pauperizing the inhabitants is becoming pronounced and that in the sugar and tobacco regions the relief should be stopped. In those districts there is some work and money could be earned with which to buy supplies and a little local trade be set in motion again. ' . The merchants are so careful to avoid politics that they go to the other ex treme.' In talking with tbem I have not heard the Philippines mentioned once, nor even a hint of the constitu tion. If congress has the power to re lieve Puerto Rico they would like to have that power exercised. That is the substance of all tbelr talk, but they want it exercised in the right way. Provisional tariff legislation fills them with alarm. The hurricane was the act of God. These Puerto Rico business men have gotten into a state of mind where they would dread its recurrent less than an act of congress, which tantalizes them with the promise of a free market at some future time, whlie denying a present outlet for the isl and's crops. MANY WOMEN WILL VOTE. Registration In Cleveland This Year Unusually Large. Cleveland." O., March 26. Over B.OOO women registered In' Cleveland Satur day in order to be eligible to vote for a director of schools at the spring elec tion. The Indications are that fully as nany more will register, heretofore :he number of women voters have been jonflncd to a few hundred. The un asual "heavy registration by the women as the result of agitation in favor of iteepin; the schools out of politics. Arrange Wool Sale Days, Pierre, 8. D., March 27. At a meeting of the Missouri Valley Sheep Growers' association held at Fort Pierre recently It was decided to arrange for two wool sale days for the coming season and the secretary of the association was in structed to correspond with wool deal ers In regard to sending representatives here on such dates as were selected. The dates on which It Is expected to hold the wool sales are June 28 and J air II. The wool men expect to bring la their eltpa and store them for theae dates, when it la xpacted to hare a aamber of bayers on band attracted by tha appwrtwnltr of aaearla larva aalp ntata wtthowt fr Ca ft UKX STRIKE 111 PUERTO RICO. Men Cettlna 30 Cents a Day Strike and Lose Out. San Juan, P. R., March :6 The first strike of any importance in Puerto lllcc since the American occupation was started February 27. Five hundred men employed on the Pom-e-.yijuntas-Ctado government road quit work. They formed themselves Into an order ly band and marched to Adjuntas, car rying flags and banners bearing the In scription: "The workmen on the mill-, tary road demand a1 cents gold per hour." The prevailing rate had been S cents per hour, or 30 cents per a ten-hour day. A delegation interviewed the con tractor and an amicable settlement was effected. The men were told that no concession would be made; that others were ready to take their places, and that they must work for 3 cents or not work at all. The men thereupon re turned to woik, apparently satisfied. Another strike was organized March 12, this time at the Areclbo end of the road. Over 600 employes of the Cen tral Construction company of New York went out. These men demanded a uniform rate of 50 cents, per day. The shovelers were then receiving 40 cents and the drillers 00 cents. This rate was higher than was being paid to the same labor elsewhere on the island. The contractors refused to con sider any proposition for an advance In, wages, for there were, at the very lowest estimate, 50.1WO laborers on the Island without employment. The strik. era remained quiet and orderly and made no attempt at demonstration. On account of lack of funds to keep up the estates many plantations are idle and are being fast overgrown with wild vegetation. Thousands of work men are out of employment on this account. Governor General Davis says in his estimation 300.000 of 'the Inhab itants of Puerto Rico are dependent on labor. It was thought that the country was in such a condition us to allow the distribution of relief supplies to be stopped, but immediately after this was attempted the cities and towns began to ill! up with beggars and in stances may be recorded where whole families have died from starvation. As a consequence General Davis has suggested to the authorities at Wash ington that the supplies be continued. About TOO natives have Immigrated from Ponce to Cuba, hut from letters received by their families here, they have found conditions in Cuba evetj worse than In Juerto Rico. OUTSIDE THE CONSTITUTION. Iowa's Governor Says the Colonies Must Depend on Congress. Lincoln, Ni b., March 27. When ques tioned concerning the promised Piierio Rican measure, and the to tion of the lower house of the Iowa legislature in adopting a resolution condemning it. Governor Shaw said: "1 do not care to discuss the action taken by the lower house of the Iowa legislature. Whether or not 1 should sign the resolution provided it pass'-s the upper house is something I do not care to anticipate. "I am In favor of the Puerto Rican tariff measure as it passed the lower house of the national- congress, not so much because of the financial consid eration urged as its necessity as a proof to the world that this nation has put off its swaddling clothes. U Is nec essary to settle that interpretation of the constitution insisted on by Daniel Webster, that It, that that document applies to these United States only, and not to territories. The constitution delegates to congress the power to legislate for the territories, and tl.cy have no rights except those given them by congress. They are entirely outside the constitution. "It is the duty of the territories to take what congress gives them. This is the position In which Puerto Rico exists today, and ills the aspect In which she should be held by the Amer ican people." JOKES SAYS "NO, SIRS." Mayor of Cleveland Will Co To' Jail To Protect Citizens Interests. Toledo, ().. March 28, The City coun cil last month sold the Municipal Nat ural Gas Pipe line to the Ketlln iiros. company. The purchasers deposited money in payment with the city treas urer and last week called upon Mayor Jones to sign the contract. Mayor Jones has flatly refused to sign the con tract. The purchasers declare they will compel hi mlo act through mandamus. Mayor Jones says he will go to Jail for contempt rather than yield; that he is in the right, and that he will not wrongfully convey the people's prop erty even If ordered by the courts. Jones will bt a non-partisan candi date for congress in this district next fall, and If he gor-s to prison as a mar tyr to his principle and convictions, it is thoucht that he wfll enlist such sympathy that he cannot be beaten at the polls. There was much scandal at tending the sale of the pipe line, and the price is held to be far below thf value of the forty miles of Iron pipe. CANNIBALS EAT HIS FRIENDS, Vancouver, B. C, March, 27. Th steamer Warrlrnoo brings from Dutch New Guinea, a Pacific Island, the ac count of the devouring of three offi cers of the steamer General Pell by cannibals, who caught tbem on shore taking photographs. Ernest Wlcgan, one of the party, was wounded by ar row, and while biding aaw the bar barians tie his three companions tc tree, cut off portions of tbelr living flesh and anally roaat and devour tbem Tha Datck ataa-of-war taaMtra la re porta m ttKUti to ftrtm Ca urac 1C serais. CROOKS AND SWINDLERS GO ING TO PARIS. THE PEOPLE WARNED. Tha Way Cay Paris Will Entertain Tha World at tha Expos ition, Paris, March 27. Crooks are- swarm Ins to Paris for the exposition, the crowds promising a splendid field for all sorts of confidence games. Already ihe courts are busy dealing with scores of swindling cases. The authorities. through the newspapers, warn every body especially foreigners to tight ehy of alluring promises concerning cheap hotel accommodations, agreeable female guides, concessions within the grounds, societies of mutual entertain ment and fortune making schemes of fering 500 per cent on the Investment. Every consul tells pitiful stories of people brought here from their differ ent countries by fallacious promises ot exposition employment and desiol!od of their little resources by the adver tising sharks. Now, the victims are only anxious to be assisted home. There is mich an outpouring of needy strangers that hundreds apply to fill every conceivable position. The manager of a fashionable hotel told me that, he engaged yesterday as chambermaids three New York type writers who came here-together two months ago and had been unable to find work among (he Kngllsh-speaking firms. Now these girls are paid 20 cents dally and board. In New York they held positions worth $15 and $-0 a week. WILL FIGHT DESPERATELY. Defense of Pretoria Will Be Espe peclally Vigorous. Durban, March 27, It is learned from in authentic source that the iiovr lead ers are aware lhat they are beaten, but think they can hold out for four or six months, in which lime they firmly be ll; vc foreign Intervention will force Great Hi llain to grant favorable terms. including Independence. They expect O-rniany or the United Stales to In tervene. The mission of Messrs. Wol marens. Fisher and Wessels to Kurope, ix to hasten this, so far as Germany Is ?oncw ned. The P,o r plans Include a stand it Kroonstadt. the Vaal river and other points, culminating In the defir.se of Pretoria, which has been pi-epaiin.'j for ). siege. The rJige of the guns havr been tested, mines have been la hi, and the forces in the Held have not allowed themselves to be cut off wi'h their heavy gunj. whii h are newlud In ihf1 forts at Pretoria. The majority of the Transvaalers arc ignorant of the gravity of the situation ind though tired of remaining so long from their farms, will fight hard, be lieving that their liberty and property are at stake and confident of ultimate success. BI6 CUBAN RAILROAD DEAL. Proposition to Improve and Con solidate Them, Chattanooga, Tenn., March 26. Pres-.-dent T. G. Hhaughnessy of the Cana dian Pacific railroad, accompanied by Directors II. H. MeDougall, It. H. An gus and C. It Hosmer, are here, en route home from Cuba. It Is learned that these riuurnates have lieen in Cuba inspecting the railroads of the island with a view of obtaining control f all the railroad mileage and consol idating It into one system. Kir William Van Horn of Montreal, it is said, has been conferring with Sec retary Itoot about the proposed deal nd President Hhoughnessy thinks It will be effected, in case the deal Is consummated it is proposed to extend !he railroad lines through rich agrb ul .ural and mineral region of th-; Island, .o fit up resorts for tourists, equip roads twlth new anil modern rolling lock and quicken the schedules.. ROBBERS OPEN SAFE. thieves Secure About $4,000 at Hardy, Neb. Hardy, Neb., March 25. The Hardy bank of this place, one of the oldest banking houses In this pHrt of the slate, with a paid up capital of Ho.'hw. was robbed yesterday morning of about tl,000. Thieves blew tho safe front ail to pieces, using two blasts, shattering all the glass and making- several holes in tho building. The noise was heard by parties near and the alarm soon given, since which time searching purlieu have been out after the robbers. The thieves took a il, & M. hand car and went east half a mile to where they had a team, then brought the hand car vack and dumped it and drove back esct and south Into Kansas. Three men wefe In town Friday even ing, ooe a tall man and the others me dium sized, who are suspected. A re ward of $250 has been telegraphed to nearby towns and the atrlce blood hound have arrived here, The toss will fall on the bank, but will not crip ple or interfere with the business. Hon. George Washington Rebec, a rancher of Ashcroft, ;Sk C, ha been worn la aa a member ot Premier Mar Sa'a fovonuaaot, with tha portfolio of KICK OF STATE lUkiZ'JM. Yearry Protest of trta Iowa Official , Haa Bean Suppressed. Ih-n M'tnes, Ia March 27 n Sat urday a sensation was sprung In state house and legislative circles hers in the announcement that the state treasurer, who walked out of the state executive council .Friday and refused (o vole on the railroad assessment because he be lieved it too low, would on today or to morrow file with the secretary ot the executive council and give to the pub lic a document explaining his position on the railroad assessment and an swering some charges made by a local paper, that he forced the state auditor, who has lately returned from the west and south after a serious Illness,, to go to the state house at the peril of his life, after Mr. Hcrrlott refused to at tend a council meeting held at one of the hotels. The document Is expected to contain much lhat is sensational, as for the past five years Treasurer Har riott has yearly filed a protest to what he termed tpo low an assessment, of the Iowa railroads and each year the document has been suppressed by the council and has never even gotten into the columns of the newspapers. The apearance of it at this time, therefore, is anticipated with much Interest. Friday the figures on the railroad as sessment were completed by the coun cil after the state treasurer went out of the meeting. A resolution prepared by; the governor whs substituted for the Ileniott Resolution, filed several days ago, proposing to imtrcase the railroad assessment over H.fioa.fiOO, and adopted. Taking out of consideration the, 'new railroads built In iowa. lust year, the completed figures show a reduction of $100,000 in the total assessment. ." SHOT WHILE HUNTIN6. Wh le Gunnlnsc for Ducks at Cut-Off Lake With a School Friend He Is Instantly Killed. Omaha, Neb.,' March 26. While out hunting In a boat on Cut-Off lake Sat urday Italph P.edimtn, 17 years of age. smi of o-orge A. Kidman, a live stock dealer living at 620 South Twenty-fifth avenue, was Instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his own shut- gun. The body was blown from the boat, but was recovered and towed ashore by John Arnold, a companion. who had accompanied Iiwlman on the hunting excursion. liedman, who was a pupil of the Farnam school, decided to begin the spiing vacation by a hunting trip and took with him Arnold, a lad la years ot age. Shortly before o'clock they, arrived at the lake in the vicinity ot the Hammond be housv. There they took the boat and lowed out Into the lake. Arnold handled the ours, while Ki-dman sat in the su-rn waiting for a shot. His shotgun was lying on the seal in front of him. A flock of ducks went Into the dr a short distance ahead, and Redman reached for the gun and drew It to him, w ith the muzzle pointing directly at his load. The hammer of the gun struck the seal and the weapon was discharg ed. The shot tore awny the entire left side of Redman's far e and head," and he fell into the water, dead. His startled companion recovered from the sudden shock of the disaster Just as the body came to the surface, lie managed to seize the collar of the coat and with much difficulty to bring the body to the bank of the lake. The coroner was then notified "find took charge of the isxly, which was removed to the undertaking establishment at Seventeenth and Cuming streets. Word was sent to the father, and a brother In South" Omaha, both of whom called at the morgue later in the day. An inquest will probably he held. Board Grants a Hearing, Lincoln. Neb., March ,27.--On lh strength of the decision of Judge Mun ger of the federal court, th- state board of traruqmrtatlon has decided uion Thursday, March 2&, at 10 a. m., for hearing answers of railroads on the order commanding the reduction of freight rules on shipments of cattle. The roads that will be compelled to make a showing are the Chicago, liur linglon & (juincy, the Fremont, F.lk horn & Missouri Valley and the Chlca- go, H!. Paul, MIuneaioliK Sr. Omaha. Cndi-r the maximum freight rate law dit-l.lon these roads are exempt from lis provisions to a ert:ii ncxtent. The "three glher fipds, though, are not, In ' the Judgment of Attorney General myth, arid he Is seeking to hold them amenable to It. . . ... England's Liquor Bill. Indon, March 27. A most . Ins truu live return of the M-nsumpUun of al coholic beverair-B In 'dlff.-rent countries, , issued by the government, shows that M inir cent of the total ISrltlsh revenuo ' Is obtained from this source. This Is 8 per cent raw" than In the United States and double the proportion ot Frame. , The consumption of beer per head In' Kngland 131:3 gallons a year, (ler many Imbibes only. 27.1 gallons. The average American takes 13 gallons per year and the Frenchman 5.5 gallons. France consumes annually per head 3rfl gallons of oplrits, Great Hiitaln 1.03 gallons and Germany 1.8S gallons, w hile America registers .only 0.S2 gal lons. , ' Of tho beer consumed In the United Kingdom 99. 8 per cent Is home made, in Franco M.K, In Germany 8.2, and In the United Htates W.8. The United Htates manufactures M.I per cent of the spirit, England 80.9, France and Germany 92.6 and Vt. r spectlvely, In Australia the consumption of wins la LM gallon per bead and of haa W.I. Canada' flfwa art cvta kpa i it i