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TEE TROUBLE IN SAMOA.
The American Fla? Fired Upon,
Torn Down and Burned.
? Number of Americans Stabbed
by German Sailors.
The trouble in Samoa between the forces
cf Mataafa and Tamasese, rival aspirants
for power, the latter being indorsed by the
Germans, has resulted in a serious affray.
A r?nQCAncrpr trhn Yviq inct. orriro/1 of. Son
Francisco from Apia, Samoa, on the steamer
Alameda, furnishes particulars of the row.
He says:
"On the night of December 10 nearly 200
German sailors came ashore at Apia and entered
the stores, saloons and native houses
in search of Americans, Englishmen
and half castes. They entered __ the
residence of George Scanlon, United
States Marshal in Apia He was not in, but
the sailors found him and his brother, Morris
Snyder, also an American citizen, further
up the street, and, starting a quarrel, stabbed
both of the Americans in the back.
"The Americans escaped to a native
church, where their wounds were dressed.
The German sailors ran through the streets
attacking all persons they met except the
Germans Some of Mataafa's soldiers came
In from the bush and were anxious to begin
shooting, but were urged by United States
Consul Blacklock not to fire.
"The following day the United States Consul
sent a protest to the German Consul, asserting
the conduct of the Germans had been
outrageous. That same night the Germans
attacked the town of Matafogatele and quite
a number were killed and wounded on both
sides.
"On December 20 the German man-of-war
Adler bombarded Ladly, which had been
evacuated the night before. Thirty-four
shells were fired by the Adler and then four
boat-loads of sailors landed and burned the
village.
"The Olga went to Matofogatele December
21 and began firing shells on shore and destroyed
the village by fire. The three houses
of " E. L. Hamilton, an American
citizen, were burned. A large
American flag, formerly used for
consular purposes, which had been placed on
on one of the houses, had been burned by the
German men-of-war and then torn down.
Fragments of the flap were then taken to
Apia and delivered to Consul Blacklock, who
has forwarded it to Secretary Bayard.
"The German Consul afterward wrote to
Consul Blacklock that he had been informed
that Americans had led the Mataafa forces
on the night of the 1Mb, and fired the first
shot. Consul Blacklock replied that he had
investigated the rumor and found it to be
untrue."
The Samoan Times, published at Apia,
gives the following version of the fight of
December 18:
At two o'clock on the morning of Tuesday
eighty German sailors from the steamer Olga
were landed at Mataafa and forty more
were sent in boats along the coast. \ At
a German farmer's plantation the sh'ore
party were reinforced by all the imported
laborers thus employed. This
placed King Mataafa with his force between
the 200 men who came down the beach
the previous day and the German sailors and
laborers. Realizing the danger of interfering
with the Germans, Mataafa retired
inland a few hundred yards. The
Germans followed him and fired into his
men, killinga son of the chief. This terribly
excited the chief, but be was prevented by
bis own people from returning the firing of
the Germans. While struggling against
this opposition the chief was himself shot
and fell dead beside bis son.
Mataafa's men then, by a common impulse
and without orders, returned the fire, jl heir
first volley killed six Germans and wounded
?ome others. Several of Tamasese's men then
fled, and the laboreis from the plantation
refused to fight. '1 he sailors thereupon beat ,
a hasty retreat to their boats, Mataafa's
warriors following them for some distance.
Mataafa lost about ten killed and wounded,
while the German loss is stated at twenty
killed. Among the dead is Lieutenant
Beeger.
A Washington telegram says: "A copy of
the above despatch in regard to the alleged 1
insults to Americans and the American Hag
at Samoa by German soldiers was
shown to Secretary Bayard this evening.
He said the disturbance referred to
was undoubtedly the same as that briefly de- i
scribed by Consul Blacklock m bis cable i
message to the department on the 5th inst. i
The Consul's account, he said, was not nearly
so sensational as the one just received from .
Ban Francisco, but contained later inform.*- j
tion, as it told that the Americans who were
seized had been released immediately afterward.
The Secretary added that the depart- '
ment is in constant communication with
Samoa, through its agents, and tbe latest information
received is that affairs are quiet, 1
<uiu in at no benoua ir'juuio nas occurrea since
the 5tb inst" . i
The United States steamship Vandalia
has sailed from San Francisco for Samoa. ,
Origin of the Trouble.
The Samoan or Navigator's Islands, are in '
the Southern Pacific, about four hundred
miles northeast of the Feejee Islands. They
include nine inhabited islands, have an area
of 1125 square miles, and have a population
of about thirty-six thousand people. The in- ]
habitants are fine looking, the women being ,
equal with the men socially. They are olive
in complexion, with straight hair, and many ?
have beards. They pratice polygamy, but '
two wives do not live in the same house.
They were ruled by native chiefs until 1873, 1
when a special agent was sent there by President
Grant In 1878 a native king was
elected, and the agent retired. The Ger- >
mans subsequently went to th-3 island, and
for some time there has been a rivalry be- ]
tween the claimants for the supremo authority.
j
An agreement was made between the Ger- t
man, English and American Governments (
that the three should look after the welfare
of the Samoans, with the distinct understanding
that the islands were under the '
6pecial protection of this country, by ar- 1
rangement with the people prior to the ad- 1
vent of the English and Germans. The 1
latter, however, have pursued so aggressive I
a course since tbey took up stations in those
waters, that the Department of State has i
taore than once been compelled to protest <
It was sd bad at one time that impressive t
language was used in Washington, and a
meeting was arranged between representa- ]
tives of England.Germany and this country, f
The German Minister aeain assured the others
that his Government would respect the j
agreement already entered into, but while he ^
was talking his Government was taking its ^
own way in Samoa. Malietoa, the deposed t
King, was taken 10 Africa and brought back s
in a German man-of-war, and the Germans (
appear now to be taken sides very actively
in the local quarrel. Quite recently Secre- ,
tary Eaynrd was oblieed to call i he attention ;
of the authorities at Berlin to the course of J
their representatives in Samoa, but while ?
' here have been lots of assurances that things .
would be all right, they have been long all '
wn. ng. That appears to have been the cause J
from the start, and whether a change will be J
made remains to te Been. t
"later newsT
An explosion of gas occurred in the Stis- ,
quehanna coal mine at Nanticoke, Penn. i
Seven mine engineers were surveying,
when the gas caught from one of their j
lamps. Two were killed, three fatally hurt (
and two seriously injured.
Willi an C. Smith, aged about thirty- (
two. a teller in the office of the City Treasurer
of Providence, R. L, has committed I
suicide by shooting himself. He left a f
memorandum in his drawer: "Cash shortage, 1
*iow.
. A fight occurred between tho Pocahontas ]
(Va.) and Elkhorn (W. Va.) miners, in which
five white men and two colored men were
killed, and several wounded.
General William II. Washburn was
elected to the United States Senate by tho
Minnesota Legislature. 1
Senator Plumb, of Kinsas, has b?on
re-e'.ected without opposition. j
Reinforcements for tho German fleet at
Samoa have left Bremerhaven.
A large lira recently occurred on the
island of Samoa, and the German Consulate ,
was among the buildings destroyed.
The German gunboat Olga has taken Malie- 1
too, ex-King of Samoa, to the Marshall <
Islands is eiila. '
, THE MEWS EPITOMIZEH
Eastern and Middle States.
The oldest oak tree in America, said to be
2000 years old, at Woodbridge, Conn., is
being cut up into chairs.
Major-General Charles P. Herring,
a Union war veteran, dipd in Philadelphia,
in the Wth year of his age."
Edward J. Anderson, an old New York
lawyer of some prominence, blew his brains
out at the Putnam House in New York city.
A manvfacttrer of safes in Boston has
received an order for a safe for a Philadelphia
bank. It will cost $100,000, and will te
the largest and heaviest safe ever constructed
.
Supervisor "William Howells and
Assistant Supervisor Cox, of Division C,
Pennsylvania .Railroad, were arrested in
New York city charged with stealing ?12,000
worth of property from the company.
Before help could reach her, Mrs. Anne
Sullivan t was burned to a crisp in her resi
aence ac naversiraw, xs. x.
Isaac Bell, Jr., ex Minister Resident to
the Netherlands for tho United States, recently
died in St Luke's Hospital, New
Y ork city.
Mrs. Mary J. Hale, a lady aged sixty
years, was killed at Riga, N. Y., by Chris.
Burger, a boy aged sixteen years. The murderer
killed bis victim with a boot, pounding
her head and face to pulp, breaking the
froncal bones of the skull and crushing the
nose and forehead.
The second trial of Cleary. one of the alleged
New York "Boodle" Alderman, began
a few days since.
It has just been discovered that the late
Henry P. Marshall, Cashier of the Seamen's
Bank"for Savings in New York, and prominent
in church circles, died a defaulter and
a betrayer of heavy financial trusts.
The barge Josephine went ashore at Point
Allerton, Mass., with a crew of four men,
three of whom were drowned.
John McNeill, who lives on a lonely road
leading from Shamong Station to Indian
Mills, N. J., shot his brother-in-law, James
Dellet, Jr. Death was instantaneous.
The tug Morse, one of tho finest and
largest boats in New England, was stranded
off Hull, Mass., in a hurricane. Her tow of
two barges was wrecked. Seven lives were
lost. The Hull life savers rescued sixteen
men.
Rather than run the risk of catching yellow
fever, five patty officers of the steel
cruiser Atlanta, which sailed recently from
the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Hayti, deserted.
At the annual auction sale of pews in Rev.
Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle the first choice
brought S5U0.
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, has
been re-elected for the third time.
Charles L. Rubsamen, a wealthy retired
broker, committed suicide at his home in
Hoboken, N. J.
South and West.
One hundred persons have been indicted
by the Grand Jury at Parkersburg, W. Va.,
for illegal voting, bribery and intimidation
during the recent election.
Adam Berkeley, who was floggod by
White Caps near Sardinia, Ohio, last November,
has brought suit against sixteen citizens
of Brown County, for ?10,000 damages.
General W. D. "Washburn succeeds
Senator Sabin to the United States Senate
from Minnesota.
They have been enjoying a cold wave in
the Northwest. At Neche, Dakota, the
thermometer registered forty-two decrees
below zero; at Morris, Minn., it was thirty
degrees below.
Calvin Bloodgood has been ki'led at the
mining town of Sam's Fork, Wyoming, by
his wife.
A bridge over Green River at 8pottsville,
Ky., was wrecked, causing a loss of five
lives.
The Territorial treasury of Dakota is said
to be bankrupt, or ?C5,00J worse off than
nothing.
Three colored men were killed in a race
conflict at Ty Ty, Ga.
By a collision between a passenger and
freight train at Elmwood, Mich., James H.
Macdonald, Lieutenant Governor of
Michigan; William S. Cochrane, of Escanaba,
and one other man were instantly
killed and five seriously injured. Macdonald
leaves an estate of $500,000.
The deadlock in the West Virginia Senate
woo Kmbon Kr t.ho olopfinn c\f R 54 Pnrr An
Independent, "as its President
Al. Harrison, twenty-one years old, of
respectable parentage, was shot dead at Wilson's
Landing. Ky.. while burglarizing Wilson's
store with several companions.
St. Paul, Minn., has lost its principal
El ace of amusement, the Grand Opera House,
y fira Total estimated loss, 8100,000.
Seventy-seven politicians have been iniicted
by the Indianapolis Grand Jury for
violation of the election law.
United States Senator Coke, of Texas,
has been re-elected.
Senator Cvllom has been re-elected by
the Illinois Legislature.
The Oregon Legislature has re-elected
Senator Dolph.
M. W. Ransom, of North Carolina, has
aeen reelected United States Senator.
Washington.
A memorial to the President and Congress
of the United States has been adopted .
ay the New Mexico Legislative Assembly
ay a unanimous vote, praying for the admission
of the Territory to the Union of '
States.
Tiie collection of internal revenue for the
first six months of the current fiscal year >
were $03,312,5(55, an increase of $SG8,957 on
the corresponding period of the previous (
iscal year. 1
The President has vetoed four private
pension bills.
the men-or-war vanaana ana iuononga *
ie!a have been ordered by the Secretary of
:he Navy at once to Samoa, as the condition
>f a flairs there is said to be critical.
The House has passed the Fortifications
Appropriation bill. An amendment appropriating
$25,320 for military paraphernalia
md officers' quarters at Sandy Hook, N. J.,
vas adopted. The bill, as passed, appropriates
?'J15,:;20.
A movement is on foot tmong political
ind personal friends of General Grant to ask
)f President-elect Harrison the appointment
is Minister to China for Colonel Fred. Grant.
The President has nominated Archibald
3. Grimke, of Massachusetts, to be United
States Consul at San Domingo, West Indies.
President Ingalls, of the United Statts
senate, has refused to receive the electoral
rotes of Texas, Maryland and Delaware, as
lelivered to him by the messengers, owing
o some clerical irregularities, lhis necesitates
a reconvening of the Electoral
.'ol leges of those States.
The Harrison and Morton Inauguration
Committee has decided that the Inauguraion
ball shall be practically repeated for
hree nights after inauguration day. The
jail room in the court of the Pension Buildng
will be thrown open to the public on the
lights of March 5, C and 7. An admission
ee of $1 will be charged. All the gorgeous
lecorations and the music of the inauguraion
night will be repeated. s
George O. Jones, Chairman of the
National Committee of the National Green- E
back party, has issued a call for a general r
conference of National Greenbackers, to r
meet at Washington on March C.
Fouk examiners and five samplers in the
New York Appraiser's office have been re- r
moved by Secretary of the Treasury Fair- s
child. The cause of the removal is said to j,
fce disregard of the orders of the Secretary, 'c
who has been personally investigating tne
Dffice. j
The Army Retiring Board has reported ,
that General Swaim, now under sentence of ]
suspension, is not incapacitated for further j
service. (
Thk annual convention or the national
Woman Suffrage Association has just been (
held in Washington. ,
Foreign.
The fund to pay the expenses of Mr.
rarnell in ln's litigation with the London
2\nirs amounts to more than ?150,000.
Pom ions of Scotland have been visited ,
by an earthquake. i
Two men were blown to atoms by an ex- t
plosion of dynamite at Slierbrooke, Quebec, 1
L'anada. <
a young woman and man from Lyons
were found dead in a room in a hotel at ]
Monte Carlo. In a letter to a friend they ]
said they had suffered losses at the gaming i
tables, and intended to commit suicide to- c
getber. t
A portion of the imperial Palace at Pekin, ?
Uhina, has been burneu down. . ?
i^mmmmm
An explosion of fire damp occurred in the
Hyde Colliery near Manchester, England.
There were 107 miners at work at the time,
and of these twenty-five were killed.
The Czarina of Russia is said to be insane.
Admiral Monts, Chief of the German
Admiralty, is dead.
Mr. Robert Seymour, Vice-Consul of the
United States at Queens town, Ireland, is
dead.
A schooner making a trip to Skidepate,
British Columbia, sprung a leak and sank.
Eight Indian passengers were drowned. The
captain, a white boy and seven White Boy
Indians escaped.
Three hundred houses were destroyed in
the Sarabat Valley, Asia Minor, by an earthquake.
Seven persons were killed bv a fall of
rock in a tunnel at Abergwynfi, Wales,
A. British cruiser has been sent to Samoa
to protect England's interests there.
A RIOT occurred at an election campaign
meeting held in Paris. Sticks were freely
used and twenty persons were injured. During
the progress of the meeting frequent
cheers were given for General Boulanger.
The German warship Eber, which left
Samoa on January S, has arrived at Auckland.
The officers denounce the reports sent
from Apia by way of San Francisco, and
declare that the statements regarding the
alleged tearing down of American flags,
burning of houses of Americans and firing
on British officers are unfounded.
Eleven native policemen, headed by a
British officer, in a conflict with a party of
Warboys at Sulymah, West Africa, killed
131 of the enemy with a Maxim gun.
United States Minister Phelps had his
last official conference with Lord Salisbury,
the British Prime Minister.
OFFICERS AGAINST MOB.
Fatal Battle Between Citizens and
a Sheriff's Posse.
Between 10 and 11 o'clock at night Deputy
United States Marshal Johnson started to
remove six prisoners from the jail in Graham,
Texas, to the jail at Weatherford. The
prisoners were the four Marlow brothers,
ueld for murder, and two men named Hart
.ind Pierce, held for offences against the Government.
For several weeks threats of
lynching the four brothers have been made.
They were desperate men, and were
charged with every crime in the calendar.
On Uecember 17 the sheriff of Willbarger
county placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff
Wallace of Young county a warrant for the
arrest of Boone Marlow. Marlow had been
in jail charged with offences committed in
the Indian Territory, and had been released
on bond, when Wallace received a
warrant to rearrest him on the
charge of murder. Wallace found Boone
Marlow at his brother's house eating dinner.
The deputy sheriff ordered him to throw up
his hands, and he replied with a Winchester
rifle,shooting Wallace, who died in two days.
Boone Marlow escaped, but his brothers
were arrested as accessories. The four
brothers broke jail recently, but were recaptured.
Then it appears that the
mob determined to take the law iuto
their own hands and hang the brothers.
Deputy Marshall Johnson received orders
to convey the four Marlow brothers and
two prisoners, Hart and Pierce, to the
Parker county jail at Weatherford for safe
keeping. He started with the six prisoners
under a strong guard at ten o'clock that
night. Tiio people soon heard of the fight
and a mob of nearly 100 collected and started
in pursuit They overtook the guard and
Erisoners four miles from town and a redot
fight followed.
The prisoners were defenceless, and a
hand-to-hand fight took place. Then some
one shot one of the Marlows, and two of the
guards opened fire on the mob. Two of the
Marlows snatched guns from the guards and
poured n deadly fire into the lynchers. The
marshal's guard retreated behind trees, and
the prisoners scattered.
Over 200 shots were fired. Four of the
would-be lynchers were killed and three
wounded. Two of the Marlows were killed
and the other two escaped, but are believed
to be badly wounded. The prisoners,
Hart and Pierce, also escaped. The
brothers made a hard fight, and if
properly armed would have killed a
Rcore of their assailants The guard did not
fire into the mob, but over their heads. The
prisoners saw this, and one of the brothers
said: "We know we are gone, boys, but give
us a chance to fight" Three of the guards
then handed their guns to the brothers and
told them to nght. I he moo went in pursuit
of the prisoners.
THE LABOB WORLD.
Tack machines make 275 per minute.
The coopers are to form a National Trade
Union.
Austrian cotton operatives get $4.30 to
I9.C0 per week.
Philadelphia's working people are contented
and prosperous.
New York has a $000,000 order from
South America for locomotives.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has ceased
almost entirely the use of soft coal.
Thirteen' cotton mills in and around
Augusta, Ga., employ 4o00 persons.
The boot and shoe makers produce an
iverago of five pail's daily per operator.
Aiiout 150,000 carbons are burned daily in
the eiectric lights used in the United States.
There are 350 skilled tack workers in
America. They make from $150 to $250 per
month.
National Disthict Assembly 217,Knights
of Labor, which once numbered 10,(JUL) iron
workers, has collapsed.
There are SO,000 men in the Stationary
Engineers' Association. The union was
"ormed in New York in 1SS2.
Cal;fornia fruit growers complain of the
scarcity 01 lie a jauurcrs since me vuiuese
estriction bill went into effect.
Carpenters in Toronto, Cana la, get $3.50
io $5 per day, while bricklayeis, plasterers ,
ind stone masons are paid ?0 per day.
Thkke are about 70,Out) lace makers in
Normandy,and in all France there are nearly
200,000 women engaged in this industry.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers is exclusively
beneficial, and imposes expulsion
jpon any member participating in a strike.
An iron factory in Buffalo. N. Y., which
las been shut down for over twelve years, ,
;vill soon start up with a force of two hun- j
lred men.
There were three firms in the United .
states during 1SSS which built over two hunIred
locomotives each, and seven which built
iver one hundred.
The Chinese are getting lamp chimneys roin
the United (States. A Pittsburg firm ,
ecently shipped to China 100J boxes of |
hem, or 6000 dozen. s
Paul Misoxxe, a Belgian who recently s
lied at the age of ninety, had been in the .
;ervice of the coal mining corporation of f
A.merca?ur for seventy-seven years.
Peace has been secured for the year in the ]
nills of Fall River, Mass., by the action of
he Spinners1 Union in accepting the new
chedule drawn up by the mill owners. 1
Hamilton & Brown of St. Louis demand (
i deDosit of $50 from every workman as a 1
;uarantee that he will not leave without
living two weeks' notice. If lie has not that
um they hold back $1 per week.
The Rev. George Guirey, a Baptist clergynan
of Paterson, N. J., recently delivered a
ermon in which be advocated the passage of
i "general law fixing the minimum of wages
>f a hard-working man at $2 a day."
The marine engineers have concluded at
Baltimore the labors of their fourteenth anliinl
i-nnvunfinn ('hnrlpstnn. R_ f>._ WflSHW
ected as the place, niul the first Monday in 1
fanuary, lS'JO, as the time for the neit annual
invention.
The Burlington railroad strikers have re eivod
an official copy of the agreement by i
vhich the strike was terminated, and were
>rderod by the Grievance Committee to report
for work to the Burlington oflicials before
February 1.
The Workingmen's Society of New York 1
;ity has hit upon a plan to aid poor sewinpvomen
and others. It will adopt a "fair
vages label," which will be lurnisbed to
nanufacturers who pay wages enough to
tnable working girls and women to live
lappily. The society also proposes to entourage
buyers to purchase goods bearing
;he new label. 1
The employes of the New York Elevated ,
Railroads have a very strong organization.
Svery member who is sick or out of work
low receives $7 a week until he is able to ac- J
?pt a paying position. The plan has strucK ,
,he employes of Philadelphia street-railway j
ompanies so favorably that they propose to ,
idopt a similar one. ;
TAKIFF BILL PASSED.
The Senate Adopts the Substitute
for the Mills Bill.
Scenes in the Chamber During the
Final Vote.
By a strict party vote of thirty-two to
thirty the United States Senate, at two min
utes btfore eijiht p. M., adopted the amended
substitute of the Finance Committee for
the Mills bill, passed by the House July 21,
18S8. The Senate substitute was reported to
the Senate on October 2, and engaged the
attention of that body until the adjournment
of the first session, and has occupied
its attention most of the time since Congress
reassembled in December. While several
Democratic Senators, notably Senators
Brown and Payne, voted with the Republicans
for a number of amendments proposed
by the Finance Committee, they joined their
party associates in voting against the substitute
itself. The fact that a vote was to be
taken drew to the Capitol a very large
crowd of people and the Senate galleries
were thronged all the afternoon.
The scene in and about the Senate Chamber
during the last hours of the consideration
of the bill was an animated and attractive
one. It was known that all debate must
close at 5 o'clock and voting on the amendments
begin. Just before that hour the
galleries began to fill up with the great
crowd of the people who in Washington
will always turn out for any kind
of entertainment The ladies were present
in great force and several social parties were
made up to experience the novelty of
a night session. Members of the
House came flocking over and rapidly
filled up the sofas from which President
Ingalls, by a recent order, has excluded
the employes of the Senate.
All of the amendments proposed by the
Finance Committee were adopted, and they
included several of great importance. There
was also adopted, on motion of Senator
numb, a provision lor tne appointment 01 a
permanent commission on the tariff. Among
the amendments adopted was one increasing
the rates on oranges, lemons, limes, etc.,
from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent,
according to the bulk of the packages.
At (i o'clock the Senate had thinned out so
that less than a quorum was present. A
flood of amendments was then poured in by
Senators Call, Morgan, Vest ana George. Roll
call after roll call was demanded, until the
Senate lost its patience and the presiding officer
enforced the rule which requires that
a demand for the yeas and nays shall be sup?
ported by one-fifth of the Senators present.
Among the amendments offered by Senator
George was one to place on the free list the
tools imported for the use of workingmen.
Since December hearings have also been
granted to the representatives of many industries,
and the result has been some important
modifications of the substitute as
originally framed. These changes are noted
below:
Mr. Aldrich's amendment to insert in
Paragraph 301 the words, '"white pine $1.50
per 1000 feet, board measure." was agreed
to. Mr. Vest's motion to admit pine clapboards
free of duty was rejected, Senators
Brown and Call voting against it.
Mr. Aldrich's motions to insert after Paragraph
209 the words: "Heeds, 10 per cent, ad
valorem; chair cane. 15," and to increase the
rate on sawed boards of mahogany, etc.,
from 15 to -0 per cent ad valorem, were
agreed to. Mr. Vest moved to put on
the the free list wood unmanufactured
and sawed boards of mahogany,
etc. Rejected, yeas 21: nays 30. Mr. Sherman
offered a proviso (which was agreed to)
to Paragraph 207 taxing fresh fish 1-3 cent
p?r pound; that the duty shall not apply to
fresh fish caught by citizens of the United
States on the high seas or in the open waters
of the lakes forming a boundary between the
United States and Canada.
Numerous amendments from the Finance
Committee were agreed to as follows: Reduc
mg ttoe duty ou nicKei in ore irosn o to & cents
per pound, and on nickel in matte from 10
to 5; reducing the duty on cocoa matting from
10 to 8 cents per square yard; and on cocoa
mats from 5 to 4 cents per square foot
Inserting in Paragraph 417 (which imposes a
duty of 35 per cent ad valorem on manufactures
of leather, guttapercha, eta) the
words "vulcanized India rubber, known as
hard rubber." The amendment to Paragraph
402 ^elating to gloves) was agreed to.
Paragraph 412 (calf Rkins, etc.) was amended
by increasing the ad valorem rate on sheep
and goat skins from 120 to 25 per cent,
and on skins for morocco from
10 to 15 per cent. The amendment to Paragraph
3^1 (as to stockings, hose, eta) was
agreed to. The rice paragraph was finally
amended by making the rates i 1-2, 1, 1-2 and
1-4 cents on cleaned, uncleaued, paddy and
broken rice. An amendment putting rough
diamonds, etc., on the free list was agreed to.
The amendments were disposed of right
and left, Mr. Ingalls wielding the functions
of the chair with lightning rapidity, and the
reading clerks performing their duties with
the celerity of machinery. There were no
speeches delivered and no demonstrations
were given of approval or disapproval, either
on the floor of the chamber or in ihe
galleries.
At last all the amendments were disposed
of. Mr. Allison now moved the vote upon
the bill as amended. J t was exactly 8 o'clock.
The doorkeeper, from his post beside the
President pro tempore of the Senate,sounded
the electric call bells in all of the committee
rooms, document rooms, the corridors
and restaurant, announcing that a
roll call was about to bo taken.
The Senators were all in their seats except
ing Mr. Allison, who stood beside his desk,
awaiting the finalitv. It was very generally
understood on the floor that the vote would
be a party one, but as each name was called,
ntn?a ii*v\n tlm Qnnnfah Kofnrn lin
cjca Tfvr* d tuiucu upvii uuo i^&uuwi i/viviv uu
responded.
'1 he amendments agreed to m Committee
of the Whole were agreed to, the date on
which the biJl was to go into effect was
changed from February 1 to July 1, and,
amid considerable excitement, the final vote
was taken, and the bill w as passed by a vote
of 32 to :J0.
FIVE BODIES IN THE RUINS.
\ Woman and Four Children Killed
and Their Home Burned
Tlio houso of Mrs; Minnie Hall, a young
vidow living four miles south of Brookfield,
tfd., was burned down on a recent night.
When the neighbors gathered there they
"ound the charred remains of the five
jeeupants. The eldest child was nine years
jld and the youngest about two. There
aeing fresh snow on the ground, it
was discovered that hay had been
placed around the house and fire set
:o. The tracks of a man's feet were
;een leading toward the city. This clue reiulted
in the arrest of a young man named
James A. Howell, at the Bobb Hotel. Howill
held in his possession an unloaded revolver.
He was going to take the early
morning train, so he said, for Laclede and
would walk from there south to the Prairie
Mound school-house neighborhood, where he
bad been teaching.
Howell is a cousin of the woman burned to
fleath. Public opinion inclines to the theory
that the woman aied of malpractice,and that
Howell shot the four children and set fire to
the house to cover his crime. He had
for some time been spending Saturdays and
Sundays with the murdered family. The
prisoner is twenty-four years oH. He says
he is innocent and knows nothing about the
crime.
MISSIONARIES KILLED,
Tragic Scene at a German Station In
uast aiuuu,
The Arabs have destroyed the German
missionary station at Tugu, fifteen miles
nest of Dar-Es-Salem, in Africa. A majority
of the slaves captured by the German
man-of-war Leipzig were lodged at the
Btation. One missionary succeeded in escaping
from the Arabs, but eight others were
massacred. Three bodies, one of them that
of a woman, wero found mutilated in a barbarous
manner.
The Arabs carried off the servants and
slaves at the station. The French missionary
stations, especially those situated near Tugu,
are in imminent danger. The Arabs who
are now joining in the slave trade
come principally from Kilwa and
Lindi, and aro richer and more influential
than Bushiri, and are likely to overshadow
him. These accessions to the ranks
of the slave traders will have the effect of roInvigorating
the revolt, which would have
2ied out if the Germans had not retained
Bogamoyo and Dar-Es-Salem.
.- ...
SUMMARY OF CONGBESS,
The Senate.
28th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration
of the Tariff bill, the pending question
being on the amendment reported from the
Finance Committee, allowing a bounty of
one cent per pound on sugar produced from
beets, sorehum. and suear cane crown in the
United States. Mr. Reagan opposed the
*7iendment. Messrs. Mitchell, Teller, and
Dawes spoke in support of the bounty.
Finally the discussion was closed, and the
vote taken on the sugar bounty amendment.
It was agreed to by a vote of 27 to 23, party
lines being maintained on it, except in the
case of Mr. Payne, who voted with the Republicans,
and Mr. Quay, who voted with
the Democrats against it
29th Day.?Tne Tariff bill was further
discussed. The Finance Committee's amendment
reducing the duty on table and other
knives valued at not over $1 a dozen
from 20 cents a dozen to 15 cents
and 80 per cent ad valprem was
adopted without debate....The annual report
of Governor Swineford on the operations
of the Alaska Commercial Companv
'was presented... Mr. Blair introduced a bill
for tne construction of four semi-submerging
jtorpedo boats, with armored, protected, deflective
decks.... In accordance with a Senate
resolution Secretary Fairchild transmitted
to that body a copy of the manuscript!
report of frauds in sugar in New York and
Philadelphia.
i 30th Day.?The Senate bill to authorizo
the Omaha, Fort Dodge and Southern Railway
Company to buila its road across the
Fort Hayes Military Reservation in Kansas
was passed.... The Senate at 11:80 took up
the Tariff bill, and Mr. Allison asked unanimous
consent to have the debate limited by
the ten minute rule after 3 o'clock. The
question being on the amendment offered by
Mr. Brown, increasing the rates on rice,
Mr. Morgan made a speech on that subject,
and was followed by Messrs. Butler and
Aldrich. Mr. Aldrich said that while the
present duty on rice was 113 per cent ad
valorem, and while it would be fifty per
cent under the substitute, the duty on
woolen clothing was only forty per cent
above the duty on woo!. The amendment to
place wool on the free list was defeated.
Oiai I'AI. "" v tuiuuo ujoijivi icaio iroio pro" |
.sented... .The Senate at 11:30 resumed con- J
sideration of the Tariff bill?the pending j
question being the amendment offered by
iMr. Reagan to the wool sectioa Mr. Reagan
made an argument in favor of changing
jthe duty on all grades and kinds of wool to
twenty-five per cent ad valorem. After remarks
by Mr. Turpie against, e nd by Mr.
Harris for the amendment, a vote was taken
jand it was rejected. Yeas, twenty-two,
inays, thirty-one. Mr. Vance then moved a
proviso that no article in the wool and woolen
ischodule should pay a rate of duty exceeding
Seventy-five per cent, ad valorem. Rejected;
yens, twenty-seven; nays, thirty-three.
A final vote was then taken and the bill was
(passed by a strict party vote of 32 to 30.
3'Jd Day. ?On motion of Mr. Hoar the
jeonenrrent resolution for the counting of the
ielectoral vote was passed....On motion of
Mr. Sherman, the bill to declare unlawful
trusts and combinations in restraint of trade
and production was taken up for consideration,
and amended....Amendments to the
Diplomatic and Consular bill were reported,
appropriating ?500,000 for a coaling station
in the Samoan Islands.
The House.
80th Dat.?The consideration of the Territorial
bills was resumed, the pending question
being on the MacDonald substitute for
the Springer Omnibus bill. The substitute
was rejected?yeas, 117; nays 122. Mr.
Springer then offered an amendment to the
Omnibus bill, providing for a division of Dakota.
Debate over this consumed a large
part of the day. The Springer ''Omnibus"
bill wcus finally adopted as a substitute for
the Senate bill for the admission of South
Dakota, by a vote of yeas MS, nays 120; this
bill admits South Dakota and Montana.
SIst Day.?The Fortifications Appropriation
bill was passed in Committee of the
Whole....The Ford Investigating Committeo
reported an Immigration bill, which was
placed on the calendar.
32d Day.?Mr. Vandever.of California, introduced
a joint resolution requesting the
President to'open negotiations with th? Republic
of Mexico for the cession of Lower
California to the United States.... After a
half-hour of debate the rules were suspended
bv a vote of lf>4 to 7G, and a "continuing order"
was made under which the Oklnhoma
bill is to be considered for four hours by the
Committee of the Whole, at the expiration
of which time the House is to vote on the bill.
33d Day.?When the Clerk finished the
rending of the journal, Mr. Crisp called up,
as a privileged matter, the contested election
case of Smalls vs. Elliott The House refused
?yeas 100, nays 100?to consider the election
case.... After a delay of half an hour, caused
by filibustering tactics, the House went into
Committee of the Whole, Mr. McMillin in
the Chair, on the River and Harbor Appropriation
bill.
34tji Day.?Immediately after the reading
of the Journal the House went into Committee
of the Whole, Mr. Dockery in the
chair, on the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill. Mr. Landes raised a point of order
against the clause of the bill providing that .
for the use of the steam presses in the Bureau
of Kngraving and Printing a royalty shall
l>e paid not exceeding one cent per thousand
impressions. This clause occupied the atten
UUU U1 LUU UUUjr UUHU^ IUU cui/iiu kxiaj
LYNC5INGS.
A Number of Desperadoes Executed
by Mobs.
Henry Thomas, a farmer in the town of
Bo'ar, Mercer County, Mo., had four daughters,
Hattie, Margaret, Nancy and Jane,
ages sixteen, eighteen, twenty and
twenty-two respectively. Last Wednesday
night Samuel and Charles Hasburn,
brothers, procured a ladder and
helped Margaret and Jane out of a secondstory
window of their father's house. As
they were about to elope with the girls, the
old man appeared on the scene, but too late
to prevent their escape. He mounted the
best horse he had and with a shotgun started
in pursuit. About twelve miles from home
he overtook the fleeing partv. He immediately
opened fire on them, killing both the
boys and seriously wounding Margaret.
After getting nearly home with the
girls he was told that the other two, Hattie
an.1 Nancy, had also eloped with "Ned"
Gleason and Thomas Allison. He at once
left the girls he had with him in charge
of some neighbors and started after the
others. After securing the other two girls
without nny serious trouble, he starte 1 back,
but when about two miles from home a mob
strung him up to a tree. The old mart was
strict with the girls. He would hardly let
them out of his sight, hence the elopement.
He always bragged that he would not be I
bothered with lazy sons-in-law.
AC i lptonvme, ienn., a ian<unji on sne
Mississippi >river, about oue hundred and
fiftv nules north of Memphis, some
weeks ago a young man married the J
daughter of Mrs. J. F. Atcheson,
a widow. The young man's father
learning that his son's mother-in-law pos- '
sessed $300 or $400 concocted the plan for
him, his son and the young wife to murder
the old lady for the purpose of robbery. The '
plan was agreed to and the crime was com- .
mittod.
The neighbors learned of the crime, fixed ,
the guilt upon the trio and the latter hastily j
departed. A posse of indignant citizens j
followed, overtook and hanged the entire j
party to the limb of a tree.
A PALACE AFIRE.
i
Enormous Loss by the Burning of
the Chinese Emperor's Home.
The fire which broke out in the im- a
porial palace at Pekin, China, on the 17th
was still raging three days afterward. The *
loss is enormous. The palace enclosure is a v
city in itself, and about a quarter of it Is in P
flames. The great audience hall, with its f
elaborate ornaments and valuable works of ' !
art, is destroyed. The treasury building and J
most of its contents are in ashes. Whole 1
- * -? -T i i
StrCPlS Ol Ullltca, o wivuuuooi anu i cniuoiucs of
ollicials of the court have been swept s
away. The quarter of the palace in which *
the Emperor and Empress Mother lived was 1
saved, but the panic was terrible. Their Jj
Majesties were hastily conveyed to the ?
fortress, at a safe distance from tlie flames. *
The palaces and warehouses were heaped c
with costly stuffs and treasures, which had '
been accumulated in preparation for the *
marriage of the young Emperor. Immense '
quantities were destroyed. The loss far ex- P
ceeds that of the looting of the summer 0
palace by the English thirty years ago.
M The calamity has had a depressing effect ^
on the superstitious Chinese. It is regarded
as an evil omen, having occurred in the
midst of the preparations for the wedding e
festivities of the Emperor. The marriage I f
will have to be postposed is consequence of I fc
the disaster. i \
IIM i
WORK OF TIE WIRES
Some Notable Happenings Transmitted
by Telegraph.
A Bill to Admit Five New States :
Passes the House. i
The House has passed the bill for the admission
of North and South Dakota, Mon
tana, Washington and Isew Mexico, by a vote
of 144 yeas to 98 nays. All the Democrats j
voted for the bill, as did also quite a number
of Republicans.
; It provides, in brief, for the admission of
two new States, South Dakota and Montana,
and that North Dakota, Washington and
New Mexico may be admitted after they .
have formed and adopted State Constitutions,
and whenever Congress shall have passed
special acts in their oehalf?that is, at soma
indefinite date in the future.
The main provisions of the measure are as
follows: South Dakota is to be entitled to ]
two Representatives in Congress,and is to be i
admitted into the Union upon proclama
tion by the President, provided that (
at an election to be held on November 5,1889,
a majority of the voters of North Dakota
and South Dakota, voting separately,
shall decide in favor of division; and
that the Constitution of 1885 shall be
ratified by a majority of the voters of 1
South Dakota. If either North Dakota or
South Dakota shall vote against division,
neither of them will have any separate i
status, and Dakota Territory is to be ad- i
mitted as a single State, if at all, under this i
measure. In other words, Montana, in that
case, will be the only actual beneficiary. i
Montana is to be admitted upon proclama- <
tion, if a majority of the voters at the elect- ,
tion on November 5,1889, shall ratify the
Constitution of 1884.
The Territories of New Mexico and Wash- '
ington are authorized to elect delegates and
hold constitutional conveutions and frame
and adopt constitutions. but the
fledgling States are to be kept 1
out of the Union until Congress by '
special acts shall open the door and admit 1
inem. i>ortn jjaKoca is to nave me same <
privileges, provided that both North and
South Dakota vote for division, but not <
otherwise. It will be observed that the ad- <
mission of Montana under the bill deoends on i
a single condition? the ratification i
of the old constitution adopted five years
ago, while the admission of South Dakota j
depends not only upon the ratification of the |
constitution of 188.), but also upon a majori- j
ty in favor of division in North Dakota as j
well as in South Dakota.
Veterans In Politics.
A number of leading Republican ex-sol- 1
diers, members of the G. A. R. and Union 1
Veteran Union, have organized themselves ]
at Bloomington, 111., into Camp No. 1 of a
new organization, to be known as the Re- ;
Eublican Soldiers' League of the United
tates, and have chosen Colonel John Reed j
President. The object of the organization is j
openly political. It is founded for the ex
press purpose of concentrating the political j
power or the Republican soldiers of the
Union. Organizers will be chosen at once ,
to introduce the Order throughout the State
and the United States. !
A dispatch from Fort Dodge, Iowa, says:
xue movement ior me organization 01 a society
of Democratic veterans of the war is '
not confined alone to Indiana. Steps are be- *
ing taken for the organization of a camp in ,
this county, and eighty-one members of the
proposed organization have already been ob- 1
tainedL
His Wife Was Petrified.
A remarkable case of what is alleged to be
petrification has just come to light. Sixteen
years ago a half-breed named Kolade buried
his wife about twenty miles from Winnipeg,
Manitoba. A few days ago he exhumed the
remains, intending to carry them to another
burying place.
Lpon opening the coffin the body was
found perfectly preserved, the eyes and
mouth being partly open and the hair quite
black and natural. When an attempt was
made to lift tbe body it was found quite impossible,
as it was completely petrified.
Examination showed that a small |
spring of alkali water had been
running through the coffin, and the action of
the water on the remains had caused petrification!
Assistance was procured, and the
body was raised to the surface and transferred
to the city where it was weighed.
The weight was found to be 700 pounds. i
A Relic of the Revolution. j
The old blast furnace at the Oxford Iron
Works. Oxford. N. J., is beine torn down to
give way to modern improvements. The
furnace is one of the oldest relics in the (
county, and was erected over a century ago.
It is the oldest stack in New Jersey, and
rendered valuable service in manufacturing ?
ammunition for the Revolutionary War.
New Panama Canal Company.
The Banque Parisienne has assumed the '
entire cost of the issue and constitution of
the new Panama Canal Company, but it j
stipulates that after the opening of tho canal
it shall receive annually one per cent, of the .
net profits.
CONGRESSMAN BURNESDEAD <
Stricken With Paralysis in the 1
House and Soon Expires. .
Mr. James N. Burnes, Representative in
Congress from the Fourth District of j
Missouri, died at a quarter to one a. m. in j '
Washington.
Mr. burnes was stricken with paralysis the* 1
day before at the Capitol. Tne first j 1
symptom of the approaching attack was
experienced when Mr. Butterworth in tbe | I
House called Mr. Burnes's attention to a j 1
passage of the Sundry Civil bill, then under
consideration. * j
Mr. Burnes then remarked that his tongue j
appeared to be affected so that he had great
difficulty in speaking. Noticing that his face
appeared to be somewhat drawn on the left j 7
side, Mr. Butterworth insisted on Mr. Burnes j 1
accompanying him into tho fresh air on the
east portico. r
Mr. uurnes in a s^urw uujo cApmsm mm- ; ?
self as feeling better and went to the room of j
the Committee on Appropriations, where be j B
was induced to take some stimulants and lie j]
upon a sofa. He soon bejjan to breathe
in a labored manner and to lose con- ?
seiousness. Messrs. Gallinger, Atk inson and
Shaw, who are physicians as well as Representatives,
were hastily summoned from the
hall and a messenger was a'so despatched for .
Dr. Sowers, who has been attend ng Mr. i
Burnes during the winter. Tho physicians f
labored with their pntienc for an hour or J;
more when he suddenly expired. ^
Mr. Burnes wns a resident: of St. Joseph. J
He was born in Indiana August V3. 1838. his 4
parents removing to Piatt County, Mo., T
in 1SI17. He was a graduate of the *
Harvard Law School in tho class ^
)t 1H53. Appointed Circuit Attorney }
n 1S50, he was a Presidential elector on the I
Buchanan and Breckinridge ticket the same f
rear. From l&W to liJ7:i he was Judge of the V
Common Pleas Court He had been a mem- *
jer of Congress since December, 1S81, hav- r
ng been elected as a Democrat g
FISHTING A ROOSTER I
L'errlblo Strujjjjle of a Child "With a
Huge Plymouth Rock.
While driving out on the prairie road.
ear South Bend, Ind., Orlando Martin Heard
he screams of a little child near the farm of ^
lenrj Kale. Martin at once got out of his g
ehicle and ran into the yard, and was sur- y
irised to se9 a large Plymouth Rock rooster I
tanding over the prostrate form of a little girl ?
The rooster was crowing in triumph, and as j
Jartin approached he saw that the cock had
teen fighting tuo little girl, who was lying on (;
ler back with her hands over her face and (j
creaming from pain and fear. Her hands, j
vrists and face were covered with blood.
The rooster had savagely attacked her anil t,
lad attempted to get at her eyes, as was ovi- ^
lent from the spur marks on the child's r
ace. Martin's arrival had been timely, as the o
hild was almost exhausted from her* contest
rith the rooster. The little girl's name is
Sthel, and she is two and a half years old. E
Yhile her mother was engaged in a remote S
lace the child had started out to hunt eggs L
nd had the encounter with the enraged H
owl. Her injuries are severe, but it is
bought her eyesight will not be impaired. p
? V
The first sample of silky-leaved tobacco of C
xcellent quality has arrived at Hamburg 0
rom the Cameroons, Africa. Good news P
as also been received from the cocoa and B
anilla plantations. J CI
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MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO.
Mas. Langtry is writing ber life. <
Edwin Booth is worth $1,000,000.
Italian opera is dead in this country.
Fred Warde, the Florences and Dixey
are in the West
There are fewer pantomimes than usual
In London this year.
Mary Anderson never refuses a photographer's
request for a sitting. .
Emperor William, of Germany,is to heal
two of Wagner's operas in private.
Will 8. Rising, the comic opera tenor, it
to be starred next season in a musical
comedy.
The New England Conservatory of Mutl<
is asking the Massachusetts Legislature for I
grant of 1300,000.
Patti, at the end of her present tour, wfljH
probably return to the Paris grand opera
and remain there for good.
Walter s. Mathews, the young Louis-*
viMe actor, is said to have memorized "Ham-a
let"* entire wben only fourteen.
There are over 20,000 young women Jafl
Great Britain studying music with the ideaV
of some day blossoming into stare. A
Ihre Kiralfv will present his spectacular?
pieces, "Mazulm" and "Excelsior," in the CitjS
of Mexico during the present season. N
" An infant pianist, five years old, who playM
Chopin wonderfully and is named fiaowH
Koczalski, has appeared in St. Petersburg9
Russia 9
"Annie Brunfl" a German dramatizafl
tlon of William Black's novel, "In Silk AtH
tire." has been very successfully produced a^H
Antwerp. , >
Clara Louise Kellogg is suffering fronfl
a broken collar bone, due to a fall on th^l
stage of a Syracuse (N. Y.) theatre. She ha^H
to sing with her arm in a sling. 9
Marie Van Zandt, the American prinuH
donna,has had an immense success in Llsbon9
where she appeared as Roeina in the "Baruo^l
of Seville." She goes thence to Madrid. *9
The will of John Leeter Wallack, thq9
actor, has been filed by his widow, Emitol
Mary Wallack, who is made an executri r.M
All nis property is given to his wife for lifft
The city authorities of Worcester, Mast, I
recently forbade the appearance of aal
accomplished female whistler at a SundaV
concert, unless she agreed to whistle sacred^
music. . -'V&yH
rtrrwnn Rt.ttt fVia vnndarfnl llHla maffib
:ian who amused the boys and girls of th
country, thirty years ago by his perform
mces.has just been sent to the insane asyltm
at Harrisburg, Penn. ...
Young Coningsby Disraeli,the nephew an
heir of the late Earl of Beaconsneld, ha
been achieving great success as the leadin
low comedy man of Lady Folkstone's amateur
theatrical entertaimentin London. , ^
Wire curtains are now used when Jame
Owen O'Conor, the "uncrushed tragedian,
ippears on the stage. These protect fain
from recurring blizzards of decayed veget*
bles which the gallery gods contribute for
tiis spocial benefit ' (?/!!
Opera is rather curiously performed at
Buda-Pesth, the capital of Hungary. M.
Lasalle, the famous baritone, has been sluging
his part in Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine" H
the French tongue, the prima donna lz
Italian, the other principals in German ant
the chorus in Czech.
Nat. C. Goodwin, who is now playing ij
Philadelphia, has refused the largest' salary
?ver offered an American actor. The Ne*(
York Casino Company, desiring to haVehfcfa
take the place of Francis Wilson, who leave!
the company next stetson to star for himself,
offered him $36,000 a year of fifty weeks*
with a guarantee of the same for three yeara
The offer was refused, as Goodwin has outlide
interests to attend to.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.\ 1
India has 14,191 miles of railway. <
Montreal is building a fine ice palace.
The Nile is lower than ever before n
cordedThere
is a boom in silk cnltnre in Call
luruiu,
France has become a large buyer oH
wheat B
Last year pneamonia killed 450 people
Cincinnati. , W
The Cincinnati police arrested 15,907 pe^H
sons in 1688. D
Rhode Island business failures last yea9|
numbered 132. , fl9
Berlin tram-cars carry annually nearlS|
10,000,000 passengers. M
Canada dairymen are giving increasoJH
attention to cheese-making. B
The Tripoli,of the Italian nary,is the nex^B
fastest vessel to our Vesuvius. W
The fishery dispute between France anfl^
Newfoundland is growing bitter. B,
The yield of wine for the season of 1588 i^B
California was 17,000,000 gallons,
The unusually mild weather has npset a^H
:alculations in the butter market.
A stringent anti-trust bill has been intrc^H
luced in the Nebraska Legislature. B
New Orleans is going to have an ezhib^H
tion building constructed of cotton. _ .
Austria, Germany and Italy are ail adopj^H
Ing the Lee pattern of magazine rifles. H
There are now sixty-four "wet" an^H
leventy-four "dry" counties in Georgia. HI
Six Illinois railroads during 1SS8 failed t^H
?arn enough to poy operating expenses. HR
The tobacco crop of the United Stafc^B
iverages about 50-J.000.00J pounds a year.
The consumption of tea in Great BritaJ^H
ncreased over 8,000,000 pounds during 188'^H
The exports of apples from America^?
x>rts for the season have been 1,04(5,740 ba^H
-els. IB
Chicago Board of Trade clearings fc^H
.898 were $105,758,105 against $75,1708(0
.887. .
The receipt? of live poultry at New Yor^H
>y freight during 18&> amounted to 791 ci^H
oads. BH
The output of American copper mines f<^H
888 was 5-4,275 tons of mineral against 47,6.^H
a 18S7. K
Massachusetts has just placed a loa^^B
vith New York bankers at 2.9-10 per cen^H
nterest. BH
Lord Sackville's successor will
lamed after President-elect Harrison's
luguration.
On the 15th of May an International Co^Hj
:ress of Scotch-Irish will assemble at C^H
timbia, Tenn.
THE MARKETS.
4 new TORE.
?pavps...4.,.? 3 05 @ 5
inch Cows. com. to good...28 OO @45*0
l&lves.common to prime.... 3
?? aj ?
logs?Live 5 "a )? "
Th-essed " @
'lour?City Mill Extra. 5 CO & 5 2-jK^
Patents 5 W J 7 M
Vheat-No. * Red ? >&?
lye? 58 @ S
Parley?No. 1.. ..... ** ^ ?
orn?Ungraded Mixed.... oi ?
)ats? No. l White ? @
Mixed Western s~i^@ 'J0^H|
traw?Long Rye ? ,i5 ?
,ard?City steam ? @
lutter-State Creamery.... 21 @
Dairv. fair to good.. 1? &
W est. Iin. Creamery Hi & 21HB
Factory 13 & l^^H
bees??State Factory. 1;;>&@
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lour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 7 10 @7
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