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r THE TRE ASDREE7S BEPOBT OPERATIONS OF HIS BUREAU i FOR TEE YEAR, E t The Exports of Gold Were $tOS,- c 000,000, Most of Which Was Drawn Out of the Treasury?Av- ? erage of Money Per Capita Higher Than Ever. y The Hon. D. S. Morgan, the Treasurer of the United States, has submitted to Secre- f tary Carlisle the annual report on the opera- 0 tions and condition of the Treasury. The net ordinary revenues for the fiscal r year were 3385.919,628.73. an increase of ? $30,881,844.54 over those of tho yenr before. The net ordinary expenditures were 3383.477,554.49. an increase of 538,454,633.91. There was therefore a decrease of $7,572,- r """ *? 41? ?TT 7/y.O/ III luw >urpiu3 tctcuuw. 4VW?V.MQ them to ?2,341,674.29. Including the public c debt, the total receipts were 3732.871,214.78, a and the total expenditures 3773,007.998.99. The publio funds, on June 30. 1892, o amounted to 3786,351.895.71. and on June30, p 1893, to $746,538,655.58. After setting apart Ik those sums of gold, silver and United States t' notes which were held for the redemption of certificates of deposit and Treasury notes, ti there was left a reserve, or general fund, of r '8187,012.740.71 in 1892,and 3168.167.391.53 in j, 1893. These amounts, however, included cer tain sums of certificates of deposit, bonds, And coupons, which were unavailable for any other purpose than the settlement of the *| Treasurer's account, and which, if cancelled, "would have left an actual available working i " (balance of $165.945,436.60 and $156,395,-1 v '696.84 on the two dates respectively. By Sep- ft Itember 30th this balance had been diminished p jto $149,250,268.72, owing, of course, to a de- K \flciency in the revenues. e At the und of September, 1888, the Trea- c pury IWd $332,551,306 of gold, the largest r amount ever reported. The largest amount n of free gold ever held wa9 $218,818,252, Sn March of the same year. The lowest jpoints touched since then were $160,763,581 of total holdings, and $81,551,- r 385 of free gold, on October 19. In April, for the first time since the gold reserve reached the sum of $100,000,000, it fell bellow that figure, and on the 14th of that J U1Uill LI IUO lOOUD VI gViU vv*kMwvraw> ,r suspended, as required by law. The loss of gold was caused partly by deficiencies o: in the revenues, but chiefly by the C jpreeentation of legal tender notes for re- tl ademption in the coin. In seven months, r< {beginning with last December, upward w of $81,000,000 was drawn out of the Treasury in redemption of notes, and the jj jgold reserve was reduced during the same ^ jperiod by $29,000,000. During the next three ^ (months, with light redemptions and a de- jj 'flolency of $19,000,000 in the revenues, the tI [Treasury lost $15,000,000 of gold, but the re serve fell off only ?2,000,000. ? The amount of gold exported during the fiscal year was the largoet ever taken out of w the country or brought into it in any like 113 period, being upward of $108,600,000, and it is noted that $102,000,000 of it was drawn out of the Treasury by the presentation of legal tender notes, .most ui iuo g"iu *** former years was supplied by the Treasury in exchange for gold certificates, and it is si the first time that any considerable sums of bl notes have been presented for the metal. With the exception of an increase of $45,- v 5C0.000 in the amount of Treasury notes is- a, su ad in the purohase of silver bullion, and a p decrease of $80,000,000 in the combined volume of gold certificates and currency certificates, there has been no important change in tne public debt. According to the revised estimates the total stock of money of all kinds in the country on June 30 was $2,323,547,977, or nearly $51,- hi 000,000 less than at the same time last year, p This contraction took place, notwithstanding ir tho addition of $43,500,000to the stock of silver and an increase of $6,000,000 in the out- ti standing bank notes, and was caused, of * course, by the exports of gold. In July, how- gi Kur.on a hfuiw rwturn movement of iuo*w the metal, supported by a rapid expansion of the bank note circulation. By the end of dl September the stock of gold was restored to r< what it was when the exports began. The m total increase of the effective stock of money 01 in the three months was no lees than $95,000.000, bringing It up to a figure much ol above the highest ever before reached. This it sudden contraction and expansion within tt ' the space of eleven months affords a striking le illustration of the degree of flexibility pos- oi sessed by the currency. The revised figures for the amount of Vi money in circulation, that is, outside of the z< Treasury, on June 30, place it at $1,596,846,829, or about $6,000,000 less than it was av year before. During the four months ending with October there was an increase of $125,000,000, a record altogether without 11 parallel in the history of the country. The aggregate of money in the hands of the peo pie and the average per capita were tnus in brought to a higher figure than had ever be- C lorn been reached- w The redemptions of United States paper ol currency have been unusually heavy, r< amounting to $377,000,000 in the fifteen months ending with October. h, v Daring the past two fiscal years there was ni recoined nearly one-fifth part of the whole 3l estimated stock of subsidiary silver, an iznprovement that is expected to increase the popularity and usefulness of this part of the currency. Contrary to expectation, the Columbian souvenir coins have not proved popular. Some of them were never taken out of the tr Treasury and others have been returned for c< redemption. An arrangement has been in contemplation under whioh the half dollars " In the Treasury will be recoined at the ex- * pense of the management of the Exposition. CJ It has not yet been decided what disposition ^ is to be made of the quarter dollars of this coinage not disposed of. D v The Treasurer concludes by urging that tt the vaults and safes in his office be put in w better condition, in accordance with the recommendations made in the report of the ^ , Commission appointed to investigate the $ present methods of this kind of construction. BIG FIKE ATCOLUMBUS. S A Hotel and Theatres Worth a Million Dollars Destroyed. While tha orchestra was playing the openng overture at the Henrietta Theatre at Columbus, Ohio, fire was discovered in the rear of the stage. The manager appeared before the curtain and asked the audience to withdraw, saying there was no danger. The theatre was emptied quickly and without a panic. The flames spread rapidly, and. though the building was supposed to p be fireproof, the theatre and the adjoining , auditorium were beyond saving when the st firemen arrived. ' Andrew Thompson.-who worked in the loft over the stage, appeared at a window in * the third story, and was told to jump, that he oould be saved. He went back into the tc building ana was not seen agam. m ieo? | than forty-live minutes from, tho discover}- ej of the flames the walls were failing. The new Chittenden Hotel." imnjjediately east, caught next, and in half ^n h'bur was in ruins: A brisk wind blew from the west, rt and it was certain that the whole'square bounded by High, Spring and Front streets, o and the flrst alley north of Spring street, tl was doomed. Just north of tho Chittenden Hotel-stood k the Park Theatre. Gray and Stephens's n trained dogs and ponies wpre giving a performance there. The curtain whs & rung down abruptiy and the audi enoe escaped hurriedly but without c panic. In halt an honr the building was in flames. Both the Felix Morris Com- J1 panyaud the Gray and Stephens Company " lost noarly all their wardrobes, several of tho pertorinere boing driven out in stage h attire. Tne guests of tho hotel all escaped b mnur rtf f)iam ?,,v?l their effects. The n los9l*s are placed at $1,000,000. MELLO'S GREAT REVERSE, His Ironclad Ship Javary Sent to the ? Bottom of Bio's Bay. The Brazilian Lsgation in London has received a despatch from Rio de Janeiro, 3ay- S ing that the insurgent war ship Javary had a been sunk by the Nictheroy battery. The ,^rew of the vessel went down wiUi the ship. P The Javary was an iron turret ship of 3640 ? tons displacement. 8he was 240 feet Ion*?, ^ (iffy-eight feet beam, and drew elovan feet n four Inches of water. Her engines were of ?500-horse power. She carried four twenty- ^ ono-ton guuB. besides an auxiliary buttery. I r 7 : THE NEWS EPITOMiZtii). Eastern and Middle States. Mart Powell, aged twelve, of Prospect 'lains, N. J., was frightened to death by ler brother. As she was coming out of the ellar ho shut the door and made a frightful toiso. The little ;;irl screamed. When her irothor opened the door he found Mary dead m the floor. ETT tfoina WOPS mnrArl fit various loints on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, notwithstanding the strike. Three boys, Garfleld Michaels, aged twelve ears, and Thomas Maschal and John Willarns, both aged ten years, broke through he ice and were drowned while skating on he Marsbwood Colliery Dam, five miles north f Scranton, Penn. President Wilbur, of the Lehigh Raiload Company, refused the offer of three owerful mine owners as mediators in the trike, in which neither side had then gained ny great advantage. Faxnie Styeb, a servant who had been arested on a charge of stealing spoons, comlitted suicide in a police station in New York U) uy uruwum^ UUiaca 1U a nmot bove the cells. Congressman Charles O'Neill. " father f the House," died at his homo in Philadelhia. He was born in Philadelphia on [arch 21, 1821, and was therefore seventynro years old. He was unmarried. At Sprinarfleld. Muss., before 30,000 specitors the Yale Eleven defeated the Harvard Hub at football by the score of sis to nothig Walter W. Fish, aged sixty, while diging a srrave for the body of his stepdaugnjr. in Rochester. Penn., fell into it and broke is neck. His body was found in the cave 'hen the funeral procassion arrived. The disagreements between the hat manu iccurers 01 .uautrary, uduq., nuu ucu dmloyes, which have existed for nearly a year, rowing more pronounced when the presnt dull season began, culminated in the losinR of nineteen of the biggest hat factoies in the country and the discharge of early 4000 workingmen aad women. South and West. GustavTbtjhw, a'well-to-do farmer in Bush iake township, Minnesota, billed his wife ad child while in a fit of insanity. At Cheyenne, Oklahoma, Tom O'Hara, a exas ranger, shot and killed a Cheyenne adian named Bed Moon. The United 8tates cruiser Olympia started a ber official trial trip from Ban Francisco, si. SHe made ner run on rue nrst trip over le course, averaging 22.2 knots. On the Jturn a bolt in one of the auxiliary pumps as broken and the trial was abandoned. Jesse 0. Smith, formerly,a merchant of Kankakee, 111., shot and killed his divorced ife, Ella Haughn Smith, and her friend, [rs. Catherine Graybill. He then turned is pistol on himself, sending a bullet irough the top of his head. Rats have taken possession of the World's air grounds. They are there in droves, and here they came from is a mystery. Worklen who are daily tearing down the popcorn ad lunch booths find regiments of the rats uddled under the floors, in the walls and >rners. The Administration Building seems > be a favorite haunt. Thk Mississippi is frozen from shore to lore at Oalena, 111., formingthe earliest Ice lockade in t wentv years. The New York State Building^ at ^ the if oriel's i'air, wnico cost ?iou,wu, una itctju old to the Chicago House Wrecking Comany for $1200. The epidemic of yollow fever at Bruns1ckf Ga., is over. Washington. Sitpkbintendent of Imigration Stump olds that steamship companies cannot apeal from decisions ordering the return of nmigrants. Secretary Hoke Smith issued his requlsions on the Secretary of the Treasury for 9,700,000 for the payment of quarterly penons, due December 4, 1893. The Secretary of War issued a general orar placing General William P. Carlin on the (tired list of the army. General Carlin's lilitary record is given, and he Is highly llogized. The new regulations as to the registration [ Chinese issued irom the Treasury.Depart tent provide that all Chinese laborers in le United States must register before a colictor of internal revenue before May 3 next r else be subject to deportation. President Cleveland bas appointed 'ashington Heesing. editor of the Staats eitung, Postmaster of Chicago. Foreign. Eioht persons were killed by an avalanche t the department of Basses-Pyrenees, ranee. " The report of the commission investigattg the bank scandal was read in the Italian hamber of Deputies : many prominent men ere severely criticised ; there were scenes t wild disorder; the Cabinet will probably sign. A fatal accident occurred at the BurnDne Collierv. Durham. England. While a Limber of miners were being hoisted to the irface the rope by which the cage is lifted roke and the men foil to the bottom of the laft. Four of them were instantly kilted. A meeting of the Italian Cabinet was held, id the situation arising from the reading in ie Chamber of Deputies of the report of the >mmittee appointed to investigate the bank andals was most thoroughly discussed, and te Ministers decided that their usefulness as at an end. In accordance with this desion the Cabinet tendered its resignation i a whole to King Humbert. The French Cabinet, headed by Premier upuy, has resigned. In trying to get rid of ie Radical element Dupuy wrecked the hole Ministry. Premier Thicoopis announced that Greece as no longer in a position to fulfil her aancial engagements with foreign powers. General Perez. the rebel, routed the [exican federal troops in a sharp battle in a tountain pass. THE LABOE WOBLD, Paris locksmiths got $2.80 per day. France has had 300 strikes this year. St. Louis, Mo., has 101 union grocew. Sicilt has 300,000 union agriculturists. Chicaoo has 30,000 idle clothing workers. Commerce employs 15,620,000 An ericans. Co-operative agriculture is thriving in ranee. Illinois' weekly payment law "is unconitutional." ^hey say 3,000,000 men aro idle in the nited States. Florida reDorts 1300 tramDS on the road ) Washington. Kansas' Eight Hour law has been delated unconstitutional. The Commercial Club of Indianapolis, ad., andthe Board of Trade have started a lovement to aid'tho idle. Colorado is sending her unemployed men t Texas, and Texas fee<ls them and sends Jem on from town to tc wn. The Brooks Locomotive Works at Dunirk, N. Y., which usually employs 1500men, ow has only 100 on the rolls. Buda-Pesth, Hungary, reports a strike of 500 on account of the discharge of a man >r being a member of the union. A scmber of large iron mills in the West ave resumed work, and many woolen mills l New England have started up again. Married men and residents of the city will ave precedence when Seattle, Wash., shall amn thn nrnrt on loful imnrnvaments to rovide work for the unemployed. KILLED BY HIS WIPE. Irs. Schell Was Playing With a Revolver When It Was Discharged. A special from Buchanan, Ga.. says William choll, a prominent citizen of Bremen, was ucidently shot and killed by his wife. Mrs. Schell Dlcked up a pistol and was laying with it and a tiiirteen-months-old aby, when the pistol was discharged, the all passing through her husband's body ear the heart. The only words he uttered were in reply to or question it he forgave her. He replied, I forgive you," and expired. .y: : y; "V .T V:'V 1 PfiOMItfflNT f?,OfLE. The Czar of Russia has presented to President Carnot six splendid thoroughbred horses. Ambassador Thomas F. Bayabd has leased a houstt in Princess gardens, Londoo, for a term of years. W. Clark Russell, the writer of sea tales, forced by rheumatism to keep his sofa, dictates all novels. Sir Geoboe Lewis, recently knighted on the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone, is the most prosperous solicitor in England. Bismabck is an omnivorous newspaper reader and subscribes for many of the important English and Continental journals. Pere Hyacinthe, for whom the French are collecting a popular subscription, has been obliged to take pupils in order t? earn a live| lihood. The autopsy in the case of Prinoe Alexander of Battenberg showed that the original cause of his illness was the lodging of a ' cherrystone in the vermiform appendix. The railroad chapel car evangelist, the Rev. j Boston Smith, is meetina with great success ! in the Northwest. Mr. Smith wa3 the first 1 missionary to utilize the railway car as o 1 chape). ' Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller ol the United States Supreme Court is to de- j liver the oration at the celebration of the. < centenary of Bowdoin College, Maine, in | June next. J The oldest living representative of the arte- | tocratic Creole regime in Louisiana Is Judge j Gayarre, of New Orleans. He will be eighty- < nine years old next January, is erect and ( sprightly and his memory is very clear. - - ? ? - a O AU X a miik li in ftt?_ t senator oheumam, CH UUIU, Willi uu amenty odd years, is as strong and active as he was when he entered Congress nearly forty years ago. His health was never better and mentally he sSems to grow like a school boy. Secretary Jarng of the Korean Legation at Washington is an ardent student of the English language. He takes his lessons ia the most practical way, learning about things he has to handle each day in the affairs of the household. Robebt Louis Steven'son, the novelist, says a private letter from Samoa, published in London, is "immensely wealthy, immensely feared and immensely liked and venerated" in Samoa, where the title of "Your Majesty" is invariably given him. Miss Esnrx Steiseb, who for eight years has been the only lady leader of an orchestra in the United States, and who is the composer of an opera and numerous minor musical works, has been lecturing before women's clubs and leagues in New York. She began writing a grand opera at nine years of age. She isnowat work on an opera to be called "The Viking." Robkbt Taylor, better known in Tennessee as "Bob" Taylor, ex-Governor of that 8tate, who fiddled himself into the Gubernatorial chair, has entered the lecture field as a permanent attraction. His success on the stump inspired bim to prepare a lecture on "The Fiddle and the Bow," out of which he made considerable money. He is delivering a new lecture now entitled "The Fool's Paradise." Thz man chosen as body guard to the President is Benjamin Rhodes, a well-known detective of the police force, who has been detailed as a bodyguard for Mr. Cleveland ever since the tragic death of Carter Harrison. Mr. Rhodes goes out erery cabinet day to escort his charge to the city and follows the carriage closely when business ia finished for the day. The detective wears plain citizen's clothes, and there is nothing in his appearance to indicate the nature of his mission. 3 QUIET IN HAWAII ; There Have Been no Late 9ensational j Developments. , The steamship Alameda has arrivsd at * San Francisco, Cal., from Honolulu. She J brought news that ail was quiet there, and g that there had been no change in the politi- [ cal situation. Up to the time the Alameda sailed Minister Willis had made no intima- I tlon to the Provisional Government as to the ? nature of his instructions. , A letter brought from Honolulu says , "Minister Willis has been so non-committal ? that no ono can guess what are his purposes. t His latest declaration is that be will take no decided action until he gets advice from Washington. On rhe other hand royalists and some naval officers claim to have information tbat the Queen will be restored. r "Between these different rumors the excitement is very great, almost equalling the feeling jnst before the Provisional Government was firmly seated. Tbe patience of both < sides is becoming exhausted and any event is liable to lead to street flgbtinc. Some of the annexationists believe that the royalist c brae; about the Queen's restoration is merely i a blind to cover a bold design to recapture i tbe Government and hold it, if only for a c day, so that Minister Willis could then c legally recognize them as the existing t Government. To provide against thf t possibility .of sudh an attempt, a s force of sharpshooters has been per- s manently installed in the Government t Building and the regular gufrl has beec y strengthened. It would be incpossiblo now t for any except a large and determined force t to get possession of the building before the ij reserve force of four hundred men could be $ summoned. . f "About the only significant speech made t\ by Minister wans was m response to <t u mitteo of the newly organized protective association known as the American ii League. The committee tendered Willi? jj their aid in case he should need it in t| carrying out his instructions, but they de- " clared plainly that they supported fullj [ the Provisional Government, The new Minis- , b ter responded by aayingtbat he would like 'tc n see the Stars and Stripes, under certain con- h ditions. floating over Hawaii, as well a3 ovei y all the other islands of the Pacific.' Then he y added that nothing which ne could say or dc ? would alter the policy of the United e States, which had been fixed. He said he was an executive officer, delegated to carry q out certain instructions, and at th6 appointed time theso instructions would be exe b cuted and no local power would be permitted a ? / > intarfara Ff? plnaftH hv Havincthftt Ameri (1 cans would have nothing to regret over th< ft action of the United States, and that if hie instructions had conflicted with hi? si own personal views he would nevei tl have accepted the office of Minis a ter. This address, which was delivered t< under pledge of secrecy on the part tl of all present, has leaked out, and each sid T takes a radically different view of it. Thf hi annexationists look upon it as a sign that a si protectorate will be established over the p Provisional Government, while the royalists y, see in it a declaration that a protectorate c< will be declared over the restored monarchy.' ii cl JUMPED TO THEIR DEATH. I tt Disastrous Results of a Big Blaze la ol Detroit. r( 31 Shortly after noon the immense wholesale tl dry gpols establishment of Edson, Moore <Sr ** - n..?, ucuupyiuj? IUO uuiiuiu^ at No?. 194 to 204 Jefferson avenue, De 0 troit, Mich., was burned to the ground. p< with an estimated loss of $750,009. Reiford c< Dunning, a porter, aged forty-four, and pi James McKay, aged thirty-eight, were killed by jumping from the top story of the burn ing structure. Three othec men were reported missing and were supposed to havo lost their lives in J] the flames. Their names are Edward Zoit; order clerk : Edward Genther, entry clerk, single, twenty-etgnt years oia, ana i-ai Mnrkey, thirty-two ye;irs old. A fireman r, who was forced to jump from one of the win dows was seriously Injured. " The burned building and stock were amply tl insured. An explosion oa the top ilo?r is ,1, supposed to have started the fire. r( -v- tl NEWSY GLEANINGS. v Chicago has a deficit of $1,300,000. ^ The unclaimed funds in the English courti ? amount to $339,262,410. " A Government medical school has bocc ^ established at Washington. j Twextt-fxve thousand horses aro used io ? the carrying trade of London. x A Philadelphia tailor is making an over- * coat for a customer which 1b to cost $800. Tacoma, Wash., claims a population ol 52,329 on thestrength of anewcity directory. It has been decided to remove the Bureau ? of Awards of the World'9 Fair to Washing- _j ' di n REPORT OH AGB1CDITDEE! THE YEAR'S WORK REVIEWED BY SECRETARY MORTON. xue jporce jrceaucca oy ou.i Men? Free Distribution of Seed?Work of the Animal Bureau?Improved Efficiency of the Weather Bureau?Recommendations. Secretary of Agriculture Morton says in his annual report that he has been able to reduce the force of his department by 503 persons whose services were not needed, leaving him with a force of 1994. His estimates show a savins of $369,656.94 over the appropriations for the current year. The Secretary asks for authority to direct disbursements of money appropriated for State igricultural colleges and experiment stations and suggests that reports of the misuse 3f such funds be investigated. Careful comparison of meat exports for L893 and 1892 sbow3 that mioroscopic lnspecion has not increased foreign sales and the Secretary thinks it does not pay The in /lAfit fho rtrtn nt?lf o( Y nvwl n V? r? 1 # nan tvoi i"d wuuiij' 9ia uuu a uau ;ent. of the value of meat exports to thecounrica demanding it. The Secretary asks for tfgislation compelling the immediate iestruction of any animal or carcass conlemned by the United'States-inspectors ; for in extension of the work in regard to tuberculosis in co-operation with local authorlies until danger to human life has been reluced to a minimum: and for a civil service examination for inspectors and assistant nspectors with the requiremeat of a diploma rom a regular veterinary college. The completion of experiments in sorghum lugar is announced on the ground that a it age has been reached when "individual en- . prprise can and should take advantage of 1 vhttt the department has accomplished." On t he advice of Professor Wiley some further t sxperiments with sugar beets and with sugar r sane in Florida are recommended. The Secretary has, during the first quarter >f the fiscal year, reduced expenditures, in lomparison with the corresponding quarter >f last year, by over $56,000. Tbo distribution of seed at the public ex- t )ense is reviewed at length, and It is shown ^ hat considerable saving has been effected in he purchase and the distribution of the seed t his year. XUtJ WUtiV Ui IUO DUlOttU VI AUIUini UlUliy ry is reviewed in detail. The result of the * fexaa fever regulations is pronounced to be . lisrhly satisfactory; but to increase their ifflciency. it is suggested that a penalty " hould attach for violation of the department r egulntlons by railroad companies transportuk' infected cattle. A further reduction, it s said, has been affected by vessel inspection n the percentage of cattle lost at sea, the alio being for the last year less than one- ( lalf of one per cent. The law at present -> loes not provide for the inspection of horses j, m ported into the country, and an amend- t aent in this respect is suggested. Promiscuous free distribution of publica- . ions is condemned, and the suggestion is t nade that, after supplying certain copies t ree to libraries and educational institutions, Q i moderate price should be charged for the ? emaining copies. Of the Weather Bureau, it is stated tnat c he work has been carried on with Improved t sfflcicncy and economy, a reduction in cost L f maintenance of nearly ten per dent. j >elng effected, and estimates for the fiscal t nn.r hninir oorreaDondinarlv reduced. Are- It urbanization of the bureau has been J >&rtiaily effected, designed to modify ox- t ) nses and magnify the value of the service j. o agriculture, commerce, and the people at j urge. A system of exchange with the de- c >artment and the Central Meteorological ^ )bservatory of Mexico is announced, on j erms similar to those in operation with ^ Canada, while the desirability of full telegraphic reports from the Bahamas is em- ( >basized. In conclusion the Secretary says: "A a rear from this time, it is hoped, after con- . ultation with, the Congressional com- J nittees and other representative forces fhich are endeavoring to educationally de- a relop and define duties for this department, . iseful progress in the right paths may be J ruthfully reported." t INTERNAL BEVEME. \ rhc Annual Report of Commissioner !j Miller. I The annual report of Joseph 8. Miller, 1 Commissioner of Internal Revenue, makes t 10 recommendations. The bulky volume a >f oyer 200 pages (not including tables) & 9 made up entirely of statlstieal infor- , nation. No mention is made of In- , * some tax, or increase in the rate J if taxation on distilled spirits, malt liquors, J; olra jco, or any other products coming under _ he scope of the InteVnnl Revenue laws. Asuming that rates of taxation will remain the ame, the Commissioner estimates the probate revenue from internal revenue for next ear at $150,000,000. This is $15,000,000 les? han last year's estimate, and $11,000,000 less hnn the actual yield last year, which wae jlul,000.000. Tnere has Been a decrease or (5,519,000 in the first three months of this Iscal year. The ohief oolleotions have been l< rom distilled spirits, and next to that malt cl iquors and tobacco. bi There has been a decrease of over $90,000 a the amount collected for chewing and smok- f; rig tobacco, which is attributed to the operaIon of the law permitting the sale of tobacco w in hand",by farmers and retail dealers. a. n cigars, cigarettes, and snuffs there has ?ea an increase'Of receipts. Nearly four P nd a half millions more gallons of whisky ? lave been withdrawn from bond during the I? ear thau last year. Most of it was Bourbon rhisk}-, and the reason for its withdrawal J* rus that the bonded period had expired and a Sorts to obtain an extension failed. In regard to sugar productions the Com- 0 lissiouer says: ? The operation of the law in relation tc the 11 ounty on sugar has had the effect, so far as 11 ane sugar is concerned, to increase the proaction and to lessen the number of sugar ~ -i /? /> winn rt W/^nnfl " IVIUUI'9 VI pivumicio. In the district of Louisiana, where cane ugar is principally ciade, there were during 0 je first season in which the law was inopartion (that of 1891-2) 627 producers licensed n > manufacture sugar, and the product of P lat period aggregate-! 357,875,557 pounds. ? henumb?r of producers licensed during the 0 ^ason ef 1892*3 was 618, and the amount of r igar produced aggregated 445,857,840 _ oiinds. an increase of 87,982,283 pounds,not-: _ 'ithstanriing a reduction of over eleven per u ant. in the number of licensed producers. 3 It is estimated that -2,000,000 have been . ivested in Louisiana in improved ma- ? trinery for making sugar since the begin- ? ing of the present year, the full effect of hlch will not be seen and appreciated until . le conclusion of the coming season. These 11 tiar.ges in the machinery of sugar factories isult in a more economical manufacture ot ^ igar and indicate a gradual departure from a ie primitive and more wasteful methods 0 jrmerly in use. The production of beet sugar in the States f California and Nebraska and the Territory t Utah showed an increase of 15,000,000 T ounds. Sorghum sugar decreasod on ac- ( >unt of the ravages of "chinch bugs." The reduction of maple sugar had increased, g T. V. POWDERLY OUT, * ? lis Successor as Hetul of the Knights * of Labor Is J. R. Sovereign. ^ The General Assembly of the Knights of M auor nas jusi ciosen ui i-uii?uoi[mm,i-eiiii., le most exciting; session it ever held. For of io first time in fourteen years T. V. Pow- be wiy is not at the head of the order. His ;signation wa* accepted by a vote of fweu- j? f-Jive to thirteen. ' Juims R. Sovereign, Labor Commissioner f Iowa, was elected to succeed him by a ?c ote of twenty-three out ot thirty-four oust, !*{ owderly getting two votes, T. I}. McGuire, ne, and James Campbell, of the windowlass workers of Pittsburg, eight votes. The following anti-Powderly men, wio rerennmod by General Worthy Foreman , tishop while acting as General Master Work jan pro lem., m're oieciwu iu ma joxecuuva toard: H. B. Martin, Minneapolis ; C. A. 'rench, Eoston, and J. I. Konny, Omaha. m 'he result has caused a split iu the order. 69 ea of The cholera in Russia Is less virulent. The th fflcial statistics show that from May to Sep- th imber, 1892, there were throughout the Ein- th ire 433,643 cases of the disease and 215,107 he aaths, and from January to November, 1895, PI 5,167 casee and 30,284 deaths. pe ; ' ' Ppf I "i-y | THE PATRIOT SPY. The Nathan Hale Statue Unveiled 1b New York City. THE NATHAK HALE STATUE. Thfc unveiling of the Nathan Hale statue n the City Hall Park, New York oity, wai nade a beautiful and impressive ceremony >y the patriotio efforts of the Sons of th? devolution, aided by afrmy. and navy brigades and delegations from many ancient ,nd honorable civic societies. The occasion ran also the anniversary of the British evaclation of the city, thus making it an especially appropriate day to commemorate the leroio death of the patriot spy who wat mnged near the spot where his statue tande, when caught in an attempt to learn he movements of the English troops. On Broadway near Mailstreet, facing the eiled statue, a stand wis erected to accomaodate the speakers, offloials. and a number if guests, and to this Mayor Gilroy led from he City Hall the little procession composed it these persona, including some "Colonial tames." when tne head of the parade WW een passing the Post Office on Broadway. First came the army brigade, composed if batteries from the first and flecond fiagiif Av+411ai?v TOnrrinAAPK iinH fTnflnitnl Jorps, commanded by Colonel Langdon. ?hey swung into Mall street and lalted there, facing the park. Colonel ^angdon and his stuff, Major Brown an4 lieutenants Bailey and Hunter talcing postion at the southeast oorner of the park. In he rear of the Broadway end of this irilllant line stood the Hospital Corps, a hit >f bright green color for that side of thr dcture. The light battery of the First Regiment, ommanded by Captain Diilenbock, did not urn into mail street, but kept to the pla&i n front of the City Hall. They enivened the picture by unlimbering and lacing their breech-loading pieces in tosition. Following the light batery into the plaza came the marines from he ships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The iluejackets are great favorites with New fork crowds, and as they rolled into place, - ii.Al? ^na ?a 4# wam /innatun ttrryiii^ LUCH ?W *4 kuoj no4<B vouov<?w lan, they were eheered. Captain Black Jnited States Navy, commanded the naval irigade. The Sons of the Revolntion and the Old J-aard marched into the park and grouped hemselves about the base of the statue, and II the other civio organizations finding ilaces on or about the stand the picture was omplete and the ceremonies began. The official ceremoniee were brief. Aflei , prayer by the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix and the indentation of the statue to the Sons on belalf ot the 8tatue Committee by'William Gason Hamilton, Miss Cornelia Montgomery ailed, the cord* which released the veiling tag, and the beautiful bronze stood exposed, "hat was u signal for the light artillery, and it hundered out a salute of thirteen guns 'he bands played and the people cheered. 'resident Tallmadge accepted it on behalf if the society, and in turn presented it to he city. It was a gift deserving n handsome .cknowledgHment. and Mayor Gilroy made t in a brief speech. There were excellent addresses by Majorrenoral O. 0. Howard and the Rev. Dr. Edrard Everett Hale, great-grandnephew of !aptaln Nathan Hale. Then there was patiotio music by the bands and the ceremony ras over. AN EARTHQUAKE. hocks Felt in Canada, New York and Other States. An earthquake, the most severe in the his>ry of Canada, visited Montreal. Houses, lurches and great public and mercantile qKaaL' t?irtlonf lrr Vnvar hafnrA haH UilUiU^S ouwa T1VIVUVIJI Aivfva ww,w.v ich scenes been witnessed in the city, Ithough there were no fatalities. The hole population seemed to realize the nrfnl danger, and almost instantly tho reels were thronged with terrified eople fleeing from buildings which lomentartly threatened to crumble and ill. Stores, offices, the City Hall, the aurts. the great Board of Trade buildlg, Police Headquarters?all were abanoned. The weak were trodden on, clothes ere torn, and a prisoner on trial for a serius offense, abandoned by his custodians, ained the streets and liberty nnbindered. [ardly a buildini? has esoaped without some larks ot the earth's upheaval. An earthquake shock was experiencod at t. Johnsbury, Vr., about noon. The.remor isted three or four seconds and buildings book perceptibly, as if under tha influence fsome near-by explosion. Inhabitants of Barre, Vt., were startled at oon by a rumbling sound, which at first speared to be the sound of a moving train, ut upon investigation it appears to have een an earthquake. Buildings shook, dishes attled and doors flew open in all directions. Shocks ot earthquakes were plainly felt at rroenlleld, Mass. it was a swayiug uiunuu s though the earth suddenly slid forward evoral feet and as suddenly came back. The towns of Rouse's Point, Plattsburg. tu Sable Forks, Keeseville, Peru. Port [enry, Rome and Ticonderoga, in New ork, all report that they felt an earthquake isting from five to ten seconds, commencagat 11.47 tu m. At Keeseville the clerks left Prescott's furilture store, fearing tho building would rail, limilar reports come from the small towns n the west side of Lake Champlain. A BIG- FAILURE. he Corporation Which Involved Cashier May of the Bank of England. The American Association (limited), the ngliah corporation which founded Middles>rough, Ky.. and which is said to have in jived Cashier May, of the Bank of England, as placed in the hands of a receiver by ldge Jiarr in the Federal Court at Louis- ( lie on a suit brought by the Central Trust Dmpany. of New York, to foreclose a mortice of nearly a million and a half dollars. The corporation owns thousands of acre? , coal, iron and timber lands, and Middles- j >rough was laid out for a groat city, hun eds of thousands were spent on improve- \ ents, streets were shaded for miles, electric j ?his placed in fields, a costly system oi iter works and drainage canals constructed < id immense furnace-s built, but tho money | lally gave out and the bottom dropped out j uimuitrsuuiuu-^u. a uvv.ii. But now a stealthy growth haacommonced, id Middlesborough will probably become i important iron-producing centre, but the earns of the English promoters will hardly i realized. This season's orange crop In Florida Is * uch above the average iu quantity, being timated at 5,000,000 boxes, and Is much i ,ruer inan usual. wmie during tne wnoie last season some 53,000 boxes were shipped rough Savannah to New York City, more an 83,000 boxes have already beon shipped ere this year. Unusually large shipments ive also been made to Europe, where orida oranges are now beginning to comite successfully with Mediterranean fruit .y\ /V ;V ; THE NEW TABIFFISL THE MEASUBE TO BE PBESENTED TO CONflEESS. Chairman Wllaon, of tho Ways and Means, Issues a Statement Giving Its Salient Features?Wool, Coaly Iron Ore, Lumber and Salt on the Free List. After weeks ol preparation, Involving an exhaustive study of tho subject, the new Tariff bill has been completed, and given to the public. Tho bill is the work of the Democratic members of the committee on Ways and Means, who have jealously guarded its details. Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee, in a statement given out with the bill, briefly recapitulates the salient changes of the several schedules, as follows: "In the chemical schedule we have transferred to the free list quite a number of articles used in the manufactures; the most important of which is sulphuric acid, one of the corner stones of all chemical industry. "The duty on caBtor Oil is reduced from eighty-five to thirty-five cents per gallon, and tne duty on linseed oil. which was raised to thirty-two cents by the Conference Committee on the McKinley bill, we put at fifteen cents a gallon. Pig lead being reduced from two to one'cent* a pound, lead paints are correspondingly reduced; "The McKinley bill increased the duty on nranovoH amrtHno? jr>w|n?vu ivt oiuvnmg ?v r? )/viutu in the vain hope of lessening Its importation. The Custom House officers on the Pacific coast declare that this increase of duty has simply placed in the hands of smugglers the bringing in of opium to the demoralization of the customs service, and the loss of over half a million revenue. The duty proposed is believed to be collectable and will put the traffic under Government control ana supervision. V 'Tn the pottery schedule, substantial reductions are made. Plain white ware is dropped from the high schedule in which it mysteriously crowded itself. 'Decorstod ware is reduoea from sixty to forty-five per cent. Undecorated from fiftyfive to forty, "In common window glass, where close combinations have kepi up theprioes to consumers, under the shelter of duties averag inglOOper cent., a reduction of more than one-half has been made in all the larger sizes. There is no doubt that these rates will permit a very healthy growth of the industry here. "In pint* glass reductions are made, the largest sizes from fifty cents to thirty cents pel: square foot. Of silvered from sixty to thirty-five cents. In .the iron and steel schedule we began, with free ore. The discovery of the immense deposits of Bessemer ores in the lake region, and of foundry ores in Alabama have rapidly swept us to the leadership of the world in the production of iron and steel, and brought near at hand our undisputed supremacy in the great field of manufactures. "The use of steam shovels reduces the cost of mining to a point where the wages paid natural labor am irrelevant. Pig iron we reduce from $6.72 a ton, wbioh is from fifty to ninety per cent., to a uniform duty of twenty-two and a half per cent., a rate somewhat higher in proportion than the rest of the schodule because of cheap freight rates on foreign pig, it being a favorite freight on westward voyages. Steel rails we reduce lrom $13.44 par ton, now seventy-five per cent, to twenty-five per cent. "The residue of the schedules vary from twenty-five to thirty per cent, wood screws being put at the latter figures. Beams and girders aro thirty-five per cent, because of the waste in catting beams and the variety of lengths and sizes, and also of the frequent necessity of changing the rolls in making beams and girders, because of the irregular quantities and lengths and sizes ol orders. ' Tin plate# Are reduced to forty per cent., a little more than one-half of the McKinley rate. This Is a revenue duty, and at the same time enough to permit any existing mill to live and flourish. Cheaper grades of poccet cutlery are thirty-flve per cent.. higher grades forty-five. Table cutlery is put at thirty-five per cent. "These are very substantial rsdnotions from present rates, which, being specific, reach in some grades of pocket cutlery as high as ninety per cent., but with release of taxes on raw materials, especially on pearl and ivory for handles, seems ample. "Both copper or,es. and... pip: copper are made free; wo being large exporters of the latter and the duty serving only to enable the producers to sell higher to our people than to foreigners. ' Nickel is free. Lead ore has a small duty of fliteen per cent. Pig lead, one cent a pound. "Silver lead ores aro restored to the free list. Unmanufactured lumber is free. Manufactured is put at twenty-five per cent., with the proviso that if any export duties are charged on foreign lumber, it shnll be admitted only at the rates now existing. "Sugar has been a difficult subject to deal with. Raw sugar was transferred to the free list by the McKinley bilL "A strong desire among some members of the Committee was to put an ad valorem duty of twenty or twenty-five per cent, on it ->nH tr? afviHah th? fconnfv nt nnw Aftftr much consideration it was decided to reduce by one-half the duty on refined sugar and to repeal the bounty one-eighth each year, leaving raw sugar untaxed as at present. "In the tobacco schedule those rates were sought which would bring moot revenues Tie jproMAt taxes of 82 and t2 75 a pound On wrapfecjaaf have blotted out manysmal! establishments and actually impaired revenue. We make the rates $1 and $1.25 per pound on wrapper leaf and thirty-five cents and fifty cents per pound on filled tobacoo, unstemmed and stemmed in each. "Manufactures of tobacco are put at forty cents. Cigars are reduced from $4.50 pec pound and twenty-five per cent, ad valorem to $3 per pound and twenty-five per cent., which is believed to be the most productive revenue rate, and is higher than the law of 1883. ' Liveanimals are put at twenty-percent. Barley is reduced from thirty cents per bushel to twenty per cent., whteh is about twelve cents. "Breadstuffs, ofwhlch we are immense exporters, are made free, except when imported from countries putting on duties on our like products, in which cas9 the duty is twenty per cent. "Fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs and like food products are untaxed for the benefit of our own consumers, largely the working peonla nf m'fIno "Salt in bulk is free; in packages the salt is free, but the covering is dutiable at rates prescribed for like articles. "The tarlfTon spirits is put at double the internal revenue rates on like spirits, andsome slight reduction is made on still wines, malt liquors, ginger ale and like beverages in the interest of increased revenue. The duty on sparkling wines is likewise slightly reduced for the same reasons, that on champagne being put up at $7 per dozen quarts as against $8 in the McKinley bill and $6 in the law of 1QQQ ' In cotton manufactures substantial reauctions' aTe' ma<3e, especially on cVeap cloths and prints, and the existing system of taxing by count of threads in the square inch is retained. ' Hemp and flax are made free, dressed line of hemp and flax one cent and 1% cents respectively. Burlaps and cotton and grain bagging are put at fifteen per cent,, but when imported for covering of articles to be exported are duty free. Wool is made free. "Cloths and dress goods are put at forty percent., clothing at forty-five per cent., rates higher than the committee desired, but deemed temporarily necessary bccause our manufacturers have so long been excluded from two-thirds of the wools of the world l Hilt J nay win iijivo iu lu.iru mo art vl mauufaeturing with free woo!. "A sliding soalo is therefore added by svlilch the"rates"~3ii"lhe woolen schedule are to come down live points with the lapse of live years. 'Carpets, an industry -in which we will ioon be independent of competition, are put rt fifty-five per cent, for Axminster, Moquette ?nd Wilton, thirty per cent, for Brussels, ivhile common grades go down to twenty per ?ent. The bill provides that the duties shall >e removed from wool on March 1st and reluced on woolen goods July 1st. "In the silk schedule the reduction ofr.itea s smaller than in cotton or woolon fabrics. **0.?. .'s.rrsr n i^-iJc'trroi TTT. to n-m ler cent. Leather gloves are classified ac or<Hng to material and length, and are unlormly rated at specific duties, which averige not over twenty-live per cent, on the :ommon varieties and near forty per cent, on he fine lamb and kid gloves. In the sctiedV r-v/.K?C? >./' i !.'.' '""> %$? "SESj^V/J. ' ' '- ' - , ' ' ',- V " "' -V^ ' ' \ *V ale of 8undfle8~many articles, like hatters' i plush, are pat on the free list. "The duty on cut diamonds, pearls and otner preclouu stone* is Increased. "Works of art are, I -am delighted to Bay, pot back on tbe free list "The above is a rapid summary of the chief changes made by the proposed bill, and will give a satisfactory idea, I believe, of its general structure. ^It'lslSumatedlhat it will reduoe revenue on the basis of the importations of 1892 about fifty millions, with an immensely larger decrease of tax binding to the American people. "The administration law is reported with a few amendments, suggested by experienoe , of its operation. That law was chiefly prepared by Mr. Hewitt when he was in con- gress, and the changes proposed in oar bill are to make it more effective, at the same time softening loibe oif the features added by thflMcKinley bill." Under tbe new bill wearing apparel to the auiuuui yjk <puw vau uo uiuu^rn. w IXCT? vi doty from foreign shores. Tin plate is reduced from two and twofifths cents per pound to forty per cent, ad ,-v' valorem, which, at present Liverpool pricee. amounts to one ana one-eighth to one and one-fourth cents per pound. t Block plates are reduced to twenty-five per cent ad valorem, the original duty being one cent per pound. The reciprocity clause is eliminated In the new bill. The bill provides that it shall go into effect on March 1st, 1894. Ill LATEB NEW^ ^ i i Mbs. Em Pases, stung by her grand* mother's taunts a ad reproaches, drowned herself la Pompton Lake, N. leaving an . ; V'Infant son. JtTsnok Babwaud issued warrants for the arrest of John Y. McEane and six otbars, charged with criminal contempt of court in connection with the election day outrages at Gtavesend.N.Y. WzslxyPabub, a farmer, of Laurel, Mi, t laughed for an hour, got to hioooughing and died in two hours. Aw infernal machine, in a box addressed to Chancellor von Caprivl, of Germany, was received at the Chancellor!? in Berlin; it was sent from Orleans. France. > Euro Hiticbkbt charged Signor Zanardelli, President ot the Italian Chamber of Depalias, with the formation of a Cabinet. Wiixuk A. Pouchke, ol Oswego, N. Y.r has been appointed United 8tates Attorney lor the Northern District of New York. Has. Eitnnnt Al?e:c!h died a few flays ago at Rlverhead, N. Y.. and it is asserted that she was 100 years and four months old. She was.the widow of Eowell Aldrich, a veteran of the war of 1812. That* wreckers killed Joe Foaarty, (Ire nun, and fatally hurt Mat hew Casey, engineer, on the Mississippi Valley road near v Lutcher, Miss. WakkfieUD, Vz., a town ol 300 inhabitants, has been destroyed by fire. Mtxos A. Si.vo, a mvon, shot and killed his wife at Grand Ilapids, Mich., and then fatally shot himself. ' The coupia had not lived happily. ColonslE. 8. Otis, ot the Twentieth In- * ; fan try, was appointed Drigadler-General by President Cleveland psesmoxt Clsvelaxd has removed Civil Service Commissioner Johnston from office. Tex recent examination ot the United BIS163 cruiser JUCUiag, u in xuu, uug 3uuitu that the vessel is In a worse plight than was ; first expected. As infernal machine similar to that roceived by Chancellor von Caprivi from Or leans, France, was seat 10 Emperor Williiurf ' of Germany ;'.an infernal machinorwMfuand v near a railway terminus in Dublin, Ireland. The German police are convinced that a corn- Y bined plan of campaign is being carried out by anarchists in all thu principal cities of Europe. The memorial to James Bussell Lowell was ' } unveiled in Westminster Abbey, J,00 Jon. Addresses were made by Dean Bradley, Leslie, Stephen and Mr. Itay&rd. . > J MANIAC'S AWFUL DEED. Be Deliberately Murders His Family of Vour. At Uniontown, Ohio, John Foster killed his wife, his three children and himself. Foster was forty-four years old and well tc do. He has been considered weak-minded 'at times by his neighbors, the Inftrmity growing oat of a wound received In th? late war. The hoar of the tragedy was shortly befort midnight and the weapon used was a revolver. Mrs. Foster was the first to suffer, being shot through the heart. The murderer then went into the bedroom where his children^ two boys and a girl, aged rcapecttvoly eleven, and seven years, were asleep. From th? attitude in wnica the eldest boy wu foand, he must have been awakened bj the shot which killed nia mocner. ou hands wen clasped tiliove his head, and he was kneeling, as if In prayer. The other two children were shot through the head as they slept. Returning to the dead body of his wife, Foster seat a ballet through his own brain, and fell prostrate across the corpse. FOUK BDTuNED TO DEATH, i A Fatal Fire in Oil City?A Mother's Devotion. Flrp, which started at 4% o'clock a. m. at Oil City, Penn., resulted ia tho loss of four lives and tho destruction of about $90,000 worth of property. The district burned comprises the square in the heart ot the city bounded by Center street, the railroad tracks, Sycamore street and Elm street. The buildings were all occupied as storas, saloons, markets and the like. They wero old wooden structures, erected in the early days of the oil excitement. The Are originated in a defective flae in Shield's restaurant ami spread with such rapidity that it was with diifl.mlty that any of the Inmates escaped. Mrs. Hugh Shields, wife of the proprietor, after carrying one of her six children to ttvj sidewalk in safety, returned tor the others and lost her life while attempting their rescue. Her daughter Fannie, aged fourteen, Charles, aged live years, and a baby aged seven months completed tbe list. ACTIVE ANARCHISTS. A K Bloodthirsty Manifesto Sent Out From London. An Anarchist manifesto, published iu London, and printed on red paper, has been sent to Belgium, France and Spain, predicting vengeance for the execution of the Chicago and Seres Anarchists, and expressing regret that General Martinez Campoa escaped when Pallas threw the dynamite bombs at him at Barcelona, Spain. The manifesto continues: "But the dynamitewos not lost, as some oJ the subordinate ruffians of hia suite were disembowelled. The only unfortunate side of tho Liceo explosion was the escape ol Campos and hia family." OPPRESSION m WARSAW. . Fifteen Persons Sent to Siberia With no Publication of Their Offense. The rumors of tho arrest and banishmenl of Poles from the western provinces of Russia havo been confirmed. Eleven priest? have been suspended from their dutios and I ?1?nf .MH*pnq aru pmi;cu 111 ^iuuu, uuu ova/i ai v? v.???? detained in the citadel at Warsaw. Fifteen persons, inoludingsome ladies and young girls, are alroady on their way to Siberia, although their friends have no knowledge of their offense. V"<