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F AMERICA'S PLAN SUBMITTED. Her Delegates Offer a Solution Vilror Prnhl^ni V * tutl K7 M I V V A -A. a vv*v>?? oldly Received by the Brussels Monetary Conference. At the meeting of the International Vonetarr Conference at Brujsels, Belgium, Senator tVilliam B. Allison and Senator John t P. J ones set forth the American proposals, *nd reviewed the monetary situation in the United States and other countties represented in the conference. The proposals follow: "It is generally admitted that the very Urge depreciation of silver, as compared with gold, in the last twenty years, and the frequent ana violent duciusviuds m w?n | incidental thereto, have been injurious to the commercial and other economic interests of all civilized countries, and have caused and are causing serious evils and inconveniences to trade, the full extent of which cannot yet be measured. It is the opinion of the people of the United States, with singular unanimity, that the re-establishment of some fixity of value between gold and silver, and the full use of silver as a coin metal upon a ratio to gold, to be fixed by agreement between the great commercial: Nations of the world, would very greatly promote the prosperity of all classes of the people. They are not unaware, however, of the fact that public opinion in some other countries, whose cooperation In a successful movement for cuch an agreement is most desirable, "may not fullv accord with the views entertained in the United States as to the practicability of such an agreement. They believe, however, that the sentiment for the larger use of silver as a money metal has been steadily growing throughout the world, and that the present time is propitious for holding an international conference to consider the subject. ^ "ihe Government cr tne united states, while frankly disclosing its own views as to the remedy to be applied, has not wished to k impose any conditions that would embarrass any Government that might be willing to confer upon the most advantageous relation of silver to the coinage of the world. For these reasons the Government of the United States proposed a convention of the Powers for the purpose of confering upon what measures, if any, can be taken to increase the use of silver as money. In conformity with the pumose of this conference, the delegatss of the United States offer the follow* ing resolution: "Resolved, That, in the opinion of this conference, it is desirable that some ? Wa fftiinrl frt* ltiftPMlinff thft measures suuum w wuuu >? ? use of silver in the currency system of the Nations. 4 'In presenting; as requested, a further programme to f? laid before the conference, the delegates of the United States consider it due to other Nations represented that opportunity be afforded to them to consider plans for the enlarged use of silver as money other than the one favored by the United States. It i? bur desire and expectation that the Powers here represented, or their delegates, will submit proposals to this end, and we desire these to nave precedence in the discussions. In ad* dition to any plans of the kind which may be presented, we submit for discussion the following, which have been suggested by recognised authorities. At the same time -we submit the general plan of bimetallism "which is favored by the United States: "Firstly, the plan of Mr. Morits Levy, proposed to the Monetary Conference or 1881. "Secondly, the plan of the lato Adolph Soetbeer (see Vienna feua Freie Presse, September 80, 1682; Hamburgische Boer * ? no i?m. Mail -cennaue, Angon m, io?, *. ivum , Allahabad, October IS. 1892). "Lastly, we present the plan proposed bj ourselves as delegates of the United States: The re-establishment and maintenance of a fixed parity between gold and silver, and the continued use of both as coined money of fall debt-paying power, would be produc tive of important benefit to the world. These ends will be accomplished by the removal of the legal restrictions now existing , -and the coinage of silver into full legaltender money, restoring by international agreement toe parity, or value between the metals which existed prior to 1871 at such a ratio as the conferenca may j decide upon. The essentials of such an international arrangement should be: The ? unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver into money of full debt-paying power; fixing a ratio in the coinage between the metals, and the establishment of a uniform charge, if any, to the public for minting gold and ?ilver ooins." The proposals were coldly received. . POSTER'S BEPOBT. He Want* the Census Bureau Made Permanent. Superintendent Porter, of the Census, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, strongly urges that the Cansus Office be made a Dermanent bureau of the In terior Department. He says he has consulted statisticians experts and others interested in the improvement of census statistic?, who favor the proposition. Mr. Porter refers to the complaints that have been made against the accuracy of the Eleventh Census by the authorities of certain cities, and says that the work of the enumerators has been vindicated by time. The total disbursements up to June 30 amount?"! to $8,203,633. Ot this amount $2,4851,453 was paid to enumerators. The population and social statistics cost #1.267,663; the statistics of farms, houses and mortgages, #1.<(05,771; printing and stationery, 1631,6556. It is turther stated that in July, 1S91, there were 2330 clerks on the pay-rolls, and in June, 1892, thenumb*r had been reduced to 1214. The Superintendent is of the opinion that after matting due allowance for tbe increase of population, manufactures, agriculture, mining and tbe extension of railroads, and after omitting from the calculation the cost of the investigation of individual in] debtedness, tbe per capita cost of the Eleventh Uensu?, whin finished, will not greatly exceed tne per capita cost of the Tenth Census. There is money available to defray the necessary expenses of the office up to March 1, 1893. From that time until tbe close of the fiscal year, Mr. Porter estimates that the sum ot $240,000 will be required to continue the office. Of the thirteen volumes in which tbe results of the Eleventh Census will be embodied, there are now in the hands of the printers eight quarto Tti tc imrvtsathlA fn wv whpn tha work will be finished. BLEW UP THE BANK. Robber* at Liberty, Mo.. Use Big Charges ot Dynamite. Four expert cracksmau, with dynamite and the latest approved tools, succeeded in cracking the big safe of the First National Bank of Liberty, Mo., a few nights ago and iecure.1 a sum of money which, though it ^ ?Af Ka sioHnir nl nivSncr tA CVUIU U WW WC UAVU uuumv. j t V If ?V>^ the reticence of the officers of the uank. is variously estimated at from 911,030 to |1 \0.)0 by those who were in a position to know. The burglars were scared away before they had completed their work, and did not get into the reserve vault of the safe, in which was S10.0C0 more, principally in gold. They had dynamite and a fuse at'a? ied to tbip, but for some unknown reason fl*d without touching it off. The first intimation of th? robbery came at 10:30 o'clock next morning when County Treasurer Riley, wdo has an offica in toe building adjoining the Danic, went to his office. When ae entered the foora he. saw that the wall of the builaing was caving in, and, on investigation, he found tnat there had been a terrific explosion in the bank, which had almost wrecked both buildings. He at once gave the alarm, and upon searcu it was learned that bur.^larj had bean at work successfully in the bank. Here ali tracs of the men were lost, but the police of Kinsas City are working oa the case and thiuk they Have learned who the men are, but refuso to give names. It is stated that they got across the river by means of a boat' rraica confederates had in waiting. ** **> loubet mmm. The French Ministry Defeated on a Panama Canal Issue. The Premier Defies the Deputies m rr ana is Beaten on a lest vote. M. Loubet and his Ministry a few after* noons since tendered their resignations to President Carnot, of France, who asked them to continue to conduct the business of their respective offices until their successors shall have been appointed. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Brisson, Chairman of the Committee on the Panama Investigation, demanded of the Government that an autopsy be held on the body of the late Baron Reinach. He referred to rumors that the burial was only a sham, and that the cofHa did not con> tain the body of Baron do Reinach. He demanded that the coffia be exhumed and ex amined as to its contents. M. Ricard, Minister of Justice, said that he regretted that such accusations had been made. It was evident that the intention was to bring discredit on the Administration. There were protests from the Right. M. Ricard continued, saving; that the usual formalities had been observed in the burial of Baron de Reinach's body. The doctors had certified that death was from natural causes. A post mortem could not be ordered without previous judicial intervention. He was not prepared to intervene himself, as no crime had been committed. M. Brisson supported this demand and said that the official seals should be affixed to Baron de Reinach's naneri as it was im perative that the truth should ba discovered. fie concluded by moving a resolution of regret that these papers had not been sealed immediately on the death of the Baron. Premier Loubet arose and declarad that that wbich M. Brisson had requested was illegal. M. Brisson protested. M. Loubet continued, saying that M. Brisson's words could ba intrepijeted only as indicating a want of confidence, and as the Government's intentions were regarded with suspicion he had nothing further to say. Great commotion ensued. When order was restcrai M. Loubet simply declared that ho rejected M. Brisson's resolution. M. Maujan proposed that there should be added to M. Brisson's resolution au expression of confidence in the Government. There wu armlauso from the Left, when M. Loubet interposed to say that despite his respect for the wishes of the Chamber he , could not agree even to M. Maujan's motion. He couid accept nothing bat the simple order of the day. There was great excitement, and by a vote of 304 to 219 the Chamber rejected the Premier's motion to pass the order of the day. A division was taken as to sustaining M. flicard, and the Government was defeated. The resignation of the Ministry was at once announced. Th* early downfall of the Cabinet has seemed a foregone conclusion since the course of Premier Loubet in respect to the Carmaux strike. His vacillation during the strike and bis decision as arbitrator orfended both the aristocrats and the Social* ists, and alarmed the substantial middleclass. which is the chief support of the republic. The prosecution of the managers and beneficiaries of the Panama Canal fiasco has displeased many even of those who suffered by the Panama failure, but who were opposed to holding up to the world the spectacle of what might be regarded as u great National misfortune. Within tho past few days evonts have ripened rapidly iu the Panama affair, and there has been a growing feeling that the Government was deceiving the oountry, and the admission of M. Ricard that no seal had been placed on the papers of M. Reinach, although Baron Reinach was virtually under prosecution when he died, probably by suicide, excited both ast .nishment and disgust PROMINENT PEOPLE, The personal estate of the late Duke of Manchester was worth only $3165. The Prince of Wale*, Csar Alexander and Kaiser William are all pronounced big feed* era. > Paul Bourq*t, the distin^uiahfld literary rival oe uamas. was onca a rarisian reporter. JtrLrAX Hawthorne, who is the father of seven children, calls his home at Sag Harbor 'The House of Seven Gabblers." The Daughters of the American Revolution, in Washington, will have a portrait of Mrs. Harrison painted for the White House gallery. ? Lieutenant Peart has agreed to take charge of another Poiar expedition, but will be obliged to surrender his commission in the nary. JoHif DitcKKR, the last of the Chiefs of the old New York Volunteer Fire Department, died a few days a?o. at his home, Port Richmond, 8taten Island, N. 7. Ed iso it, the famous inventor, is as simple in his habits and mode of life as a poor clerk. Cracied wheat and cream is his daily luach, and he often dines almost as plainly. Mme. Adele Ckzpat, whose essay on 'The Dangers of the Emancipation or Women," Gladstone wished might be put within the reach of men and wjmau in England, is said to be a Viennese. Ulrvuf ion Afffrvorvv wKn offao flffit vaopo of wort, has made a trip across the water for recreation, fluda that there Is no difficulty in smoke prevention where municipal authorities insist upon it. Judge Shepherd, the newly appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and said to be tho youngest man that ever held the position, began business life as a telegraph operator in Washington, D. C. One of the new Virginian Representatives in the Fifty-third Congress will ba J. W. Marshall, of Craig County, better known as "Cyclone Jim," an original and rapid talker, a master of repartee and a good story-teller. Joskph Coos, the noted Boston author and lecturer, is described as a broad shouldered man with a massive h?ad and intel itnjlusi laueiraciieu iu wuwuoio of mixed gray and red, and kindly features illumined by a pair of large blujeyes. There is no foundation whatever for the report which is being so persistently circulated that the Prince of Waies contemplates visiting the Chicago exhibition, nor is it true that there has been any idea o? the Duke of York crossing the Atlantic next year. Ex-Reprksentativs; S. V. White is teacamg the boys of this country a good lesson. When he was overwhelmed by financial disaster the courts adjudged his Western creditors fifty cents on each dollar of indebtedness. Mr. White is paying them dollar for dollar. LOST IN THE ARCTIC. A Whaling; Bark Crushed in the Ice and. Forty ot Her Crew Perish. Captain Healy.of the revenue cutter Bear, under date of Sc. George Island, Alaska, reports as follows: "The whaling barks Freeman and Osca.of San Francisco, stopped at the island and reported that ihe whaling bark Helen Mar, of San Francisco. Captain Baxter, master, had boon caught in the ice in tbe Arctic Ocean, about 1000 miles north of the island of St. George, and crushed in. The Osca picked up from a cake of floating ica the fifth mate and four men of the Helen ?II f i-ATan Tho T?poamnn iuax , au. ua?iij . the day after picked up in an open boat one of the crew o? the Helen Mar, who, after three days, died of exposure. The remainder of the crew of the Helen Mar, numbering forty men, and including Captain Baxter, perished Captain Healy reports that he believes all vessels have now left the Arctic, the Fresman and Osca being tho last to depart. The whaling season has been most successful, the capture being reported at *00 whales, valued at |L? 500.000.,r HUU.K Lank, a youth of eleven yaar\ * ? ? Uio hrtmft TlAflf broke a wmaow-pauo m uo Huncingtonville, N. Y.# and bis father threatened to beat him. Shortly after, be was iound hanging in a boathouse, nearby, dead. He committed suicide through fear. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I EMtera and Middle Slate*. Evacuation Dat was celebrated in New York City by the Old Guard's annual march and salute and by banquets of the Sons and Daughters of the Revoiutioa. CoRWKLnra Vanderbilt's cottaare, "The Breakers," Ochre Point, Newport, R. I., was burned with all its furnishings and decorations. The loss is estimated at $300,009. The recount in Massachusetts shows Governor William E. Russell is elected with a plurality of 2696. Miss Marf Rosetta Par*, seventy years old, who dwelt with h?;r sister on a big farm in Preston, Conn., fell from the hay mow in her barn and broke her neck. She had been repairing the building. She was a sister of ex-Chief Justio of tha Stata John D. Park. At West Point. N. Y., the football eleven of tha Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., administered a sever 3 drubbing; to th9 eleven of the Military Academy. Many people in Elizabeth, N. J., met in places of worship and in dwellings to pray for the averting of the threat9nei collision of the comet and the earth. Official figures of the vote in New York City were made public. The highest vote received by the Democratic candidates for Presidential electors was 175,269 for Edward Kearney; the lowest vote was for Richard Croker, who got 175.246, a difference of twenty-three votes. The plurality for the Cleveland over tne Harrison electors was 76,300. The plurality of Gilroy, Tammany, for Mayor over Eiastein, Republican, was 75,537. A northeast storm wrought great damage to the beaca at Long Branch, N. J., and the ocean driveway has been washed away for nearly a quarter of a mile. The official- figures of the vote cast in New Jersey at the recent election follow: Democratic electors, 171,042; Republican, 155,068; Prohibition, 8131; Socialist-Labor, 1337; People's, 969. Democratic plurality, 14,974. The vote for Governor was: Werts (Dem.), 167,257: Kean (Rep.), 159,632; Kennedy (Pro.), 7750; Keim (Soc.-Labor), 1338; Bird (People's), 894. Democratic plurality, 7625. Sonth and Weit. The total vote polled in Missouri on November 8 was 540,844, of which Cleveland received 268,039, Harrison 228,824, Weaver 41,183, and Bid well 4293. A study of the figures shows that the third party vote comes almost entirely from the R3publicaos. The Secretary of Stata has comoleted the footings of the vote in Ohio on Presidential electors. Danford, the leading Republican elector, leads Sewari, the leading Democratic electoral candidate, by 1072 votes, which is Harrison's plurality in that state. Seward is the only Democratic elector elected. He leads the second highest Republican elector by 13^9 votes. The official vote of Indiana has just been ascertained. Cleveland's plurality is 7033. Mathews, for Governor, has 109 votes less than Cleveland. The total Populist vote Is 21,926; Prohibition, 13,700. Six men from a Governmsnt scow at Lewiston, Washington, were in a boat endeavoring to set off a blast, when the boat capsized. Poor of the men were drowned. The floods in the Northwest have caused great suffering among miners and railroad 1uoiu The overland westbound traia oa the Northern Pacific Railroad was held up near Hot dprings, Washington, by three masked men, who robbed all tbo male passengers in the Pullman sleeper Wadena, six in all. The amount taken was about 11300. 'i'kobge Freeicy, colored, was hanged at F>- mklin, Texas, for Che murder of his step& >11, John Robertson, aged twelve years. He wit* convicted on circumstantial evidence. -heriptt McSi.vxis, of Calhonn County, Georgia, was shoe ana killed by a railroad man named Soott at Plainfield. His friends retaliated by lynching the guilty man. The official vote of Iowa shows the follow, ing result: For President?Harrison, 210,873; Cleveland, 196,408: Weaver, 30,616; Bidwell, 6323; Harrison's plurality over Cleveland, | *2,963; all others over Harrison, 3973. The official vote of 'Kentucky is: Cleveland, 175,424; Harrison, 135,420: Weaver, 23,503; Bidwell, 6335: total, 340.732. Cleveland's plurality, 10,004. In 1838 Cleveland ; received 188,100; Harrison, 155,131. The 1 * r\r*r\ Oli OAA total vow in low ra oh, wv. An extensive prairie fire swept over a large tract *of> country near the Missouri River, Sooth Dakota, iuriug out a number of farmers, aome of whom lost quite largely. Brevet Brigadier-General Richard H. J ACK80.T, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Artillery, died at McPherson Barraofcs. Atlanta, Ga. He was born in Ireland July 14, 1830. The frame dwelling of W. L. Dassjy, at Chicago, 111., was burned. His two children were roasted alive an 1 two adults seriously hurt. Near Enterprise, Ky., Carl Burnham killed his wife by cutting her throat with a razjr, and then committed suicide by shoot* in; himself through the head. William D alton, a brother of the notorious bandits, shot and killed Deputy Marshal Chapman in a quarrel at Muskogee, Indian Territory. The trouble graw out of a dispute over a horse Emmet Dalton had bought rrom Chapman before the Coffeyvllie raid. Comvodori E. True, colored, who killed Walter Waltham, another colored man ia Hiawatha, Kan., was taken from the jail there by a mob of colored men and hanzed to a tree twelve leet auray. as soon as ne had been raise i from the ground twenty hots were fired into True's body. Washington. Controller of the Currency Hepburn, in his annual report just submitted, recommends that the tax on National bank circulation be repealed. The banks have already paid into the Treasury $72,670,412.3 ) in taxes upon cir<ssiagoDr' Thx Secretary of War "has granted permission to the Tablet Committee of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution upon the application of General Butterfleld, its Chairman, to place memorial tablets upon the old forts ac West Point. The Civil Service Commission has more requisitions for Doth male and female physicians for the Indian service than it is able to fill. There is also a dearth of teachers for that service, especially for the second and third districts, embracing the States in the extreme northwest and southwest. The examinations for 1S93 will begin in January. The Navy Department has determined to have a practical test of an ingenious device for the coaling of vessels at sea, and two of the vessels of the North Atlantic fleet have been directed to conduct the experiments. Commodore Skerrett was appointed to command the Pacific station of the Navy. In his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy, Chief Naval Constructor Wilson shows that five old wooden vessels were stricken from the naval list, which number was smaller than the number of new vessels commissioned. Foreign. A band of 250 dervishes, presumably a nart of the forces of Osman Diena, attacked Fort Tamrin, near Tokar. The Egyptian troops garrisonincr the fort repulsed the dervishec. Beventaen of the latter were j killed and many were wounded. 8ir John C. Abbott resigned as Premier of Canada, and Sir John Thompson was sworn in as his successor. A dispatch from Airier?, North Africa, ??t? that thn Frnnnh Cardinal Lavicrerie is dead. Eighteen miners hava been killed by a cave-iu at the BorJa Mine at Pachuca, M-ixico. Barow Hirsch, the great philanthropist, accidentally blew off his right hand while shoojing over his preserves in Austria. At the monetarv conference in Brussels, Belgium, M. de Rothschild, the English delegate, proosei tuat Europe buy annually $25,000,OOJ of silver to keep up tho price, an i that silver be male a legal tender up to $25. Two son-* of John Dougherty, a hotel keeper of West woo .1, Canada, aged nine and eleven years, while skating broke through the ice on a mill pond and were drowned. President Carnot asked M. Brisson to form a new Frencu Ministry. Thr G-arman Minister of Commerce gave a dinner to Minister Phelps in Berlin. TREASURER'S REPORT. Annual Statement of the Con. dition of National Finances. Government ExoeniJiturea Are Far Exceeding the Revenues. The Treasurer of the United States, Mr. E. H. Nebeker. in bis annual reuort for the year ending June 30, 1892, says that the net ordinary revenues of the Government for the fiscal year were $354,937,784, a decraasa nf 437 H7A. flftS a a iwmrwrnl with the Tear b<y for". The nat ordinary exDenditures were $345,023,330, a decrease of $10,349,354. The surplus revenues were thus cut down from $37,239,762 to $9,914,453. Including the public debt, tlie total rdCaipts for the year were $735,401,296 and the expenditures $6S4i 019,2S?. Considered with respect to theeffect upon the Treasury, the receipts are divided into two general classes, of which the first, comprising the ordinary revenues, the receipts from loan?, and the deposits for the retirement of National bank note?, increase for the time the cash available for the uses of the Government, while the second, arising from the issue of gold, silver and currency certificate?, United States notes and Treasury notes tend to swell the assets of the Treasury but not affect the available balance. For the first ofr these classes the figures show an excels of $88,007,003 of expenditures over the revenues in 1S91, and of upward of $27,000,000 in 1892. Ia the pecond class there was an exce83 of nearly $69^000.000 of receipts in the former year ana one 01 ou.wu.uw 1a lu? mium. uumpared with 1891 there was a saving or upward of $14,000,000 of interest, out or which a surplus was realized, notwithstanding the cuttinz down of the revenue by legislation. Analyzing the true condition of the Treasury, and setting aside the trust funds, the Treasurer shows that there was a working balance of cash and deposits In banks amounting to $207,110.452 at the beginning of the year, and to $103,718,151 at tbe end. Of the former amount $119,000,000 and of the latter $114,500,000 was gold. The suo cess which has attended the efforts of the department to maintain a strong gold reserve is considered satisfactory, in view of the heavy disbursements. Tbe amount of the public debt is given as $1,545,906,591 on June 30, 1891, and $1,588,404,144 on J une 30, 1892. The loans resting on the credit of the United Statjs were cut down from $1,005,838,560 to $968,218,840, while thos9 secured by full deposits in the Treasury increased from $540,199,081 to (620,245,304. There was a gratifying improvement in the condition of the debt, produced by reduction of the interest-bearing loans, the conversion of matured bonds into other?, payable at the option of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the extinction of a considerable part of loans payable on do* raand. The total net reduction of $37,537,720 in these items was effected by the application of the surplus revenues of the year, amounting to nearly $10,000,003, together with upward of $37,000,000 taken from the oash in the Treasury. According to cue revised estimates, the total stock of money of all kinds in the country on Jane 30 was $2,374,331,049, an increase of 1150,000,000 in the year. By eliminating thatptrc of the paper currency which is purely representative, consisting of certificates of deposit and Treasury notes, the effective stock is found to have been $1,753,953,745, an increase of $70,00J,000. This increase the Treasurer finds, was the result of the production of nearly $17,000,000 of gold in excess of the industrial consumption, a fresh issue of $5,000,000 of National banknote?, together with the changes in the stock of sliver. The gold exported between January and September was taken mostly from the Sub-Treasury in New York. Up to the end of June the withdrawals were made by the presentation of gold certificates, but from that time on to the cessation of shipments, mostlv upon -? m TT_n..j Ci^_I fc-- - I m wnaen at united owub uum? auu nouiuji notes. Of the aggregate stock of monej at the end of the fiscal year, 9771,252,313 was in the Treasury and mints, leaving $1,633,081,736 in the hands of the people. The holdings of the Treasury increased $50,000,030, an 1 the amount in circulation 1100,003,000 during the year. The issue of United States paper currency amounted to 1376,736,533, exceeding those of any previous year. The nearest approach to this total was <310,030,00 J, in the year before, and the next nearest $231,000,000 In 1863. Of the whole amount, $298,000,000 took the plaoe of like kinds and amounts destroyed, while 978,030,000 consisted of freeh issues. Satisfactory changes hare been effected in the condition of the fractional silver coin* age, through the liberal appropriations of the past two years for this purpose. There has been a slight decrease iq the amounts of counterfeit silver coins and paper currency presented at the Treasury office?. There was an incraass of over 920,000,000 during the year in the amount of United States bonds held for the security of National bank circulation, and a decrease of 910,000,000 in the amounts held as security for public deposits. A total addition of 91,664,000 was made to the par value of the securities composing the Pacific Railroad inking funds. In proportion to the volume of National banknotes In circulation the redemptions continue heavy,having amounted to upward of tW, 000,000 in the fiscal year. LIFE-SAVERS. The Superintendent's Annual Report on Naval Disasters. The annual report of General Superintendent Kimball, of tbe Life Saving Service, makes the following showing Tbe establishment Gmbracei at the close of the last fiscal year 342 stations, 181 being on the Atlautic, 48 on tbe lakes, l'i on tbe Pacific and one at the falls of tbe Oaio, Louisville, Ky. The number of disasters to documented vessels was 0S(. mere wer<3 cm ooara caese vessels 2570 persons, of whom 263!) were saved and twenty lose. The number of shipwrecked persons who receive t succor at the stations was 747, to whom 1847 days' relief in the aggregate was afforded. The estimated value or the vessels involved was $5,584,100, and that of their cargoes 42,700,365, mairine a total value of property imperiled 18,254,."525. Of tuis amount $7,111,001 tvas saved and $1,173,523 lost. Tne nuuioer of vessels totally lost waa sixty. A BOY HANGED, Jact Before He Was Taken to the Gal lows He Asked it It Would Hurt. The execution of William Bell, the fifteenyear-old colored boy, convicted of the murder of a deputv sheriff of Bibb County, in tha 1*11 VAP.l lit Miirvin Ga. Bell appeared to be indifferent, to his fate almost up to the last moment. H? said that he was going to heaven. While bxnng pinioned he asked repeatedly if it would hurt much to be hanged. After leaving the jail the tears flowed freely down his cheeks and be tremblei continually. The hanging was private, only the Sheriff, two assistant*, the clergyman and the relatives of the condemned being admitted. The neck was broken. Bell wa? arrested by Deouty Sheriff "Wilder on May 20 last on the charge of petty larceny. On the way to the jail ho drew a pistol and shot the deputy through the head. FROZEN TO DEATH. Four Coastwise Sailors .Perish Ne^r new uerne, u. v, News has been recaived of four men being frozen to death below New Barne, N. C. A two-masted boat, carryin; woo.1 and haying six men aboard, was caujht in a whirlwind and capsized. The men regained the boat, but the water was freszing, and during the night three of them died from exposure; one other man undertook to swim kshore and perished. After tifteea hoars' intense suffering, the two remaining men were rescued. The naruos of the dead are: '1 ? Di?ho^? TJ anrr Wfllinni ureiugu ikiuuttiiw, ".JU. j w, ..??? , Willoufchby, one unknown, a passenger. Captain Hay wool and D ivo and Ervrin Green, of New Berae, wars rdscaad. I LATER NEW8. Thk plurality of Harrison over Cleveland in Ohio as officially announced i3 1072; S. M. Taylor's plurality for Secretary of State is 1029, The vote of the Presidential candidates is as follows: Harrison, 405,187: Cleveland, 404,115; Bidwell, 26,012; Weaver, 14,852. The Nicaragua Canal Convention opened its sessions in New Orleans, La., with delegates present from every State and Terri torj The Stone Bank, of Joliet, 111., suspended, with liabilities of $530,000. Governor B. R. Tillman and Lieutenant-Governor Eugene B. Gary were inaugurated in the hall of the Hous9 of Representatives at Columbia, S. C. George L Morse, of Minneapolis, Minn., a real estate dealer and loan agent for Eastern capitalists, has confessed that he has forged his father's signature to paper aggregating $125,000, all of which has been negotiated with local banks and money loaners. The President has appointed John P. Eirioh, of Ohio, United States Consul at An tigua, West Indies. The place has been, vacant for soma time, and the silary is 91300 a year. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Rath bone reports that the number of new poetofficss established during the past fiscal year wa3 405 greater than any previous year, except 1890. Over one-fourtb of the>? new offices went to Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi* Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. The Department of State has received news from Spain that th'. bpanish Government will appropriate $200,000 for the erection of a building for th; ir exhibit, instead of {150,000, as heretofore stated. The unseating of Nathaniel George Clayton (Conservative), who was elected to represent the Hexham Division of Northumberland in the House of Commons, increases Mr. Gladstone's majority to forty. Thb wreck is announced, in the Sea of Japan, of the Japanese steel despatch boat Chisima-Kan, from France for Japan. One hundred and fifty men were lost. tee labor wobld. Thb labor question Is quiet. Thb Baldwin Locomotive Works at PhQa* delphia have now 4503 men at work. Thb Japanese laborers have now an aid association in Lucerne valley, California. Oicb of the biggest mu foundries in the world is to be established at Buffalo, N. Y. Fall Rrvsa (Mass.) barbers have decided to close at 7 p. m. Mondays and all day holidays. Thbre has bean no resumption of work along tbo Monongahaia Valley, in Pennsylvania, at the three and a half oent rate. Thousands of building trades workmen are out of employment in Vienna, Austria, where building has almost come to a stand Mil At the Ohio Iron Company1" mills at Zanesrllle work was resumed after sixteen months' idleness. The company pays _thi Amalgamated scale. All managers and foremen of factories in the Vistula district; of Russia found unable to speak the language will be expelled from the country on January 1_ Strut car coptouctors receive only 62)$ cents for a day's wages in Berlin, Germany. The day is eighteen hoars long, with a half holiday once in two weeks. Knights or Labor have sent to the President a vigorous protest against the lax enforcement of the laws prohibiting the importation of foreign laborers under contract Owing to the general black-listing of its members the Queensland Shearers' Union has permitted them to sign froa-clad .agree* mnnfca not to hAlanar to inv labor Omnizi* tion. "" ' 7 7" Ship bohidnra and the cotton and iron trades are dull In England. Workmen are being discharged by the thousands, and wagw reduced. This will probably itimulate emigration. Colored men were imported from Birmingham, Ala., to take the plaoes of members of the Amalgamated Association ot Iron and Steel Workers, on strike at the Ohio Iron Company, Zaneiville, Ohio. Am. the London building trades, Including carpenters, masons, Bricklayers, plasterers, painters aa? builders' laborers, nave won a substantial trades' union victory in getting a forty-eight hour week with no reduction in wages. A vtrikz among agricultural laborers for higher waxes at harvest time, occurred reoently in Essex County, England. The farmers refused, theraafter, to reoognits either the union laborers or the organization to nfU^k fUr\n Kal/tniwu^ TTUibU VUD^ UViUU^WM Tax National Federation of Trade* Unioni in Spain is at present' oompoMd?o( ninety-' seven local branches, with about 8000 members. They will be represented at an international labor congress for the first time next year in Switzerland. Thk late Thomas Nelson, the publisher of Edinburgh, Scotland, left 9330,000 in legacies for the erection and equipment of five workingmen'a clubs anl reading rooms, which will be erected gradually, and will be so fitted as to attract w?rkingmen. FATAL EARTHQUAKE. The City of La Union Laid Low and Many Persons Killed. Advices from La Union, San Salvador, by the steamer City of Sydney, state that ail earthquake has laid low nearly all the houses in the city, and that those left standtag had their walls so crackel chat it was not safe to remain in them. The people are living in tents and are in fear of further disturbance. A passenger on the steamer Uity oc Panama, which called at La (Jnion on the way up, and which was subsequently passed by the City of Sydney, writes that be went ashore and viewed the rains. The desolation was complete. The residents of the city were almost driven to a frensiy, and processions were parading the streets with ringing bells, headed by priests praying for an abatement of the disturbances. Many persons were killed and many wer? seriously injured. FLOODED WITH OIL. A. Phenomenal Oil Well in Ohio Drowns the Country. One of the moat -phenomenal oil gushers ever struck in Ohio has been completed on the Hollister farm, in Portage Township, Hancock County. The flow of oil became so strong as to burl the heavy drilling tools from the hole. The first hour the well Bowed about two thousand barrels, or at the rate of 43,000 barrels per day. The entire surrounding country is being flooded with oil owing to the company's inability to construct sufficient tanks. BUiiNED TO DEATH. DrunJteu UmOreiia Menaers sui mo to a Connecticut Barn. Three men and two women were burned to death a few nights ago at Middle town. Conn., in a tobacco barn owned by John Hubbard on the old fair grounds. The victims were a party of umbrella menders seen near there before the fire. It is supposed they were drunk and set fire to a small pile of hay, the only contents of the barn. Tbe building was totally destroyed. The lira companies wero unable to reach the struo* ture, Skcretart op th* Trkasurt Fostmr estimates that pension expenditures will sooa reach the sum of 1350,OOJtOOO, ' ' r?* f PENSION OFFICE REPORT. " There are 876,068 Veterans on the Rolls. $139,035,613 Paid This Year, Leaving a $10,508,621 Deficit. The annual report of Green B. Raum, Commissioner of Pensions, just made public, shows that there were on the pension rolls on June 30, 1892, 876,038 pensioners, an increase during the year of 199,908. There were added to the rolls during the year 223,937 new pensioners and 2477 pensioners previously dropped were restored to the pension lists. During the year 25,306 parsons were dropped from the rolls. fhetobu amount expended for pensions during the fiscal year was f!39,035,612. For the present fiscal year 1144,959,000 is appropriated, an j, taking the cojt of the pension allowances during the first four months of this fiscal year as a barfs of .'calculation, the Commissioner estimates that a deficency appropriation of $10,508,031 will be necessary to supplement this years appropriation. An estimate at $165,000,000 is submitted for the next fiscal year, bat Commissioner Raum says that if as many allowances of pensions shall be made during the fiscal year to come as during the fiscal year ended June 80 this amount will not be large enough. He says, however, that it is difficult to forecast pension payments so far in advance, and that as Congress will be in session, no embarrassment will arise if his successor, In the light of the actual cost of the work for the first six months of the next fiscal year, finds that a further appropriation will be needed. Under the Dependent and Disability Pension act 920,957 claims have been filed, of which number 403,859 have been allowed. The pension payments under the law up to Seotember 30, 1892, amounted to $78,494, 443. The commissioner, in commending this disability law, says: "This law has brought relief to a host of needy and deserving persons?many who were living upon charity, fkmioan<4a rtf nfkaM wkft WAM OUiU Wfc VtfUCl O ITUW *? vi W upon the verge of that condition, were relieved. Many claimants who were seriously disabled from earning a living by manual labor, and who had endured the hardships and dangersoC military life, could not establish the fact that their disabilities were of service origin, and they were, therefore, unable to obtain pensions under the old laws. The '(usability bill' gave pensions to thousands of claimants of - this description. From everything that I have learned in connection with the enforcement of this law, I am satisfied of its wisdom and justice. While the act of June 27, 1890, did not receive the approval of a large number of prominent soldiers, who had urged additional legislation upon fka Arnonannoa hdVA been gained by the enforcement of the law have, I think, disarmed all opposition to it. As far as my information goes, there is bnt on* opinion among tbe great majority of old so Idiom now?It is. that the law has been of immeasurable service and that the good it has done baa folly justified the expectations of those who enacted it" DB. SOOTT DEAD. President Harrison's Father-in-law Expires in .the W bite House, President Harrison has another affliction thrust upon him. The shadow of the grave again darkens the White House. Dr. Scott, xl T"k? - #af>iAwJfiJaap AftkrI ahn^lw IUO rnBUKMlva utun-iu ia'', after four o'clock a few afternoons a*o ia the Executive Mansion at Washington. There were present at the bedside, the President, Mrs. McKee, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison, Lieutenant Parker and wife, Russell Scott, his grandson, and Dr. Tennis Hamlin, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, of which Dr. Scott was a member. John W. Soott, the only surviving sod, and Mr. MoKee were the only members of the family absent. Before leaving the house Dr. Hamlin offered prayer in the library with the family. Dr. Scott's illness was of short duration. He went .to. Indianapolis-wtti the-party accocaponing Mrs. Harrison's remains. He bore the'fatigue of the trip very well and retamed to Washington in his usual health. On November IS ne caught cold and was compelled to go to bad and place himself under the doctor's care. The Rev. Dr. Jonn w. ocou, tea iom?rin-law of President Harrison, was bora with the century on January 23, 1890, at Hookstown, Beaver County, Fenn. His father was a well-to-do resident, of that place, and gave to his son a good education. According; to Dr. Scott's own account, he was the wildest boy in the county. He became a minister of tbe Presbyterian Church, and filled several pulpits acceptably, but in a few years nis roice tailed and he was forced to give up his vocation. After teaching in several schools, among them the Hanover University, in Henover County, Ind., he established the Western Female Seminary at Oxford. Ohio. Her* - ?i | situatea juikiiu uunu=i*j, .... Benjamin Harrison received the finishing touches to his education and became acquainted with his lata wife. Dr. Scott had fire children. During the time when Mr. Harrison was a United States Senator Dr. Scott was appointed to a clerkship in the Pension Office, and ho held this position until his son-in-law became President. He resigned then and moved to the White House, where he resided till his death. A JERSEY JAMES GANG. Two Robbers Hold Up a Bank Caahier in On let Alfentown. Allentown, N. J., wa3 the other afternoon the scene of a bold bank robbery, in which two desperate looking young men held up the cashier and his assistant in Jesse Jimes style and secured 82000. The two robbers were captured after a hot chase and the money was recovered. At 1 o'clock Cashier Hutchinson and his assistant were at work In the Farmers' National Bank, which is situated on the main street of the little city. The other clerks had gone to di nner and the cashier was busily engaged with bis books. The door opened suddenly, bui thinking it was one of the depositors who had entered, the cashier did not look up. The next moment he did so, however. He was surprised to hear the command, "Hands up!" when he raised his head a pair of pistols was in front of his face and the assistant soon found himoaI# in o oianDap rwiiHnn "Whit do you want?" asked Mr. Hutchin800. "Money," was the o?ly reply, and being unable to do anything but comply, $2100 in greenbacks which lay on the counter was shored out to the robbers. One of them kept the cashier and his assistant covered with his revolver; the other put the money in his pockets and then started towards the door. The other robber commanded Cashier Hutchinson and his assistant to walk backward to ward* the wall and then to stmd there facing it. They did so, and the robber who took ?ihe money flndiag the coast clear walked out of the door The other soon followed and started on a ran down the street As soon as the bank men found that the ?vi ~ ? >,?.? ot-arf-a.l in nurauit. ruuuers woro i^uuo uuoj ov?t ?w? r r firing at the robbers as they ran. The sight of four Seeing men ani the sound of pistol shots soon brought out almost the entire l^ale population, who, armed with shotguns, pistols and clubs, started in to capture the robbers. The chase was kept up for several hundred yards, when the robbers were brought to a standstill by several men who had seen them approaching. The crowd gathered around them, and,amid many wild threats, they were secured and the money taken from them. They gave names of J. B. Morris and Frederick Smith. * ' *- At 1 *u ~ fa Iran M .uater in toe u?j moj h?d . hold JaiJ. Upon being searched a memorandum was found bearing the words "Woodstown Bank, November 30." It is supposed that they intended to pay that place in Salem County a visit. uovkrnor Martin, of Arizona, nas offarad a reward of 16000 for the capture of '.Kid," the notorious Apache cattle rustler, aiive or dead. A Remarkable Sand Dune. In the eastern part, of Churchill County, near Sand Springs Station, on the road from Wadaworth to Grantsrille, Nev., and about seventy-five miles from the former place, is a sand dune which is remarkable alike for its peculiar formation and moving propensities. As far around as the eye can reach is a vast wilderness of grease wood and stunted sagebrush, with here and there abrupt mountain ridges, or a sharp, rocky peak, evidently placed there long before tha mythical ptersons left their mysterious footprints in the mud, now hardened for the annoyance of the State Prison inmates, and for no other apparent purpose than to deceive the unaccustomed traveler as regards their distanoe from any place he happens to be located. The dune, or sand mountain ridgo, which is about four miles in length, and covers probably a mile ot greasewood in width, was perhaps formed by the heavy winds which prevail in that section, blowing across these deserts through a natural opening in a small range of mountains and depositing the small particles of sand that were picked up in a heap where the wind's course is disturbed and an eddy formed. In the whole dune, which is from 100 to 400 feet in height, and contain* millions of tons of sand, it ifr. impossible to find a particle much larger than a pin head. It is so fine that if an ordinary, barlev sack be filled and placed in a moving wagon, the jolting of the vehicle would empty the sack, and yet it has no form of dust in it, and is as clesn as any sea-beach sand. The mountain is so solid as to give it a musical sound when trod upon, and oftentimes a bird lighting on it or a large lizard running across the bottom will start a large quantity of the sand to sliding, which makes a noise resembling the vibration of telegraph wires with a hard wind blowing, but so much louder that it is often heard a distance of six or seven miles, and is deafening to a person standing within a short distance of the sliding sand. A peculiar feature of the dune is that it IB QOC Piationary, out roua uowiy railward, the wind gathering it up oa the west end and carrying it along the ridge until it is again deposited at the eastern end. Mr. Monroe, the well-known surveyor, having heard of the rambling habits of this mammoth sand heap quite a number of years ago took careful bearings on it while sectioniztng Government lands in that vicinity. Several years later he visited the place and found that the dune had moved something over a mile.?Boston Transcript. Insect Wax. Trees afford the birthplace and cradle of the wax insect, scientifically called Coccus pe-Ia. In the early spring the bark of the boughs and twigs become* " covered with brown' pea-shaped scales, ?t-5-U , U. AAoil ?f on/I whl^ll WUIUU UOU LTO caoitj uvwvuv^, when opened reveal a flowery-looking mass of minute animals, whose movements can just be detected by the naked eye. In Hay and June, however, the , scales are found to contain a swarm of brown creatures with six legs and two antenns each. 8otne of the scales also contain the white bag, or cocoon, of a small black beetle, which, if left undisturbed, burrows into and consumes the scales. The Chinese say that this bee- * tie eats the little wax insects, and it appears certainly the case that where the . parasite is, most abundant the -scales fetch a lower price in the first market. This first market is one of the most' curious incidents in a - curious history., The valley of Sheoo-Shan produces the insects, but the wax is produced elsewhere. At the proper season the scales are detached from the ligustrum and made up into paper packets of about sixteen ounces each. A* porter's load is - ?i about sixty ot cnese pacugvs, uu WIO duty of the porters ii the convey them with the utmost speed over the mountains, a distance of 900 miles,* to the town of Chia-ting, which is the centre of the wax-producing country. Tbe greatest care has to be taken in the carriage of the brittle scales, and tbe porters must only travel during the night, ap the high temperature during the day will develop the insects too f rapidly, and they may escape from their natural cages. Wherever they stop for rest the porters must open up their paper packets and spread them in cool places; but with all precautions there is a large percentage of loss upon the journey? the packets usually weighing at Chiating each about one ounce lighter than when they left Shooo-Shan. The usual price at Chia-ting for a pound or scaies is about half a crown, but in years of scarcity this price has been doubled. A pound of scales ought to produce from four to five pounds of wax, but in bad years only pound for pound is yielded, so that the profit] of the industry are very fluctuating.?Chambers's Journal. A Tramp's Terrible Experience. A tramp giving his name as John Fair appeared at the Atchison, {Kan.) police station the other night, bruised from head to foot, and asked permission to sleep in the cell until morning. Fair said he bad come to Atchison from Omaha on a through stock traio, and bad the most terrible experience of hia life. Shortly before the train pulled out of Omaha, the tramp said he crawled into a car which was loaded with steers. The steers soon began to step on him, ?a thin would never do. the KUU ncciug -? ?w tramp climbed on the back of one animal. This enraged the steer, and it lunged forward, exciticg the other steers, when there was a panic. The maddened steers dashed about, hooking each other and striking the tramp on all sides. He put his arms about the neck of the steer which he was riding, and held his grip until the train stopped at Atchison.?Boston Transcript. A Contrirance to Inspect Tunnels. The first train has just been sent out by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to determine thu relative width and height of all tunnels, bridges and other obstacles along the line. It onsisted of a loeoraotive, baggage car, with its for mation changed so that its top plAte was fifteen feet above the rails, a living car aud a dining car. The investigating car was constructed in a peculiar manner. Along the outside and on the top were pins three inches apart and extending further out at every point. Whenever any of these points strike an obstruction the train will be brought to a standstill aod a measurement made of the spot. The inspectors stand on a raised plat form, so that their heads aoout wmcn the top of the car. From this point they make their measurements.?New York A Preu.