.
THE INCOME TAX BILL
ITS PROVISIONS MADE PUBLIC
BY THE COMMITTEE.
A Tax of Two Per Cent, on Incomc*
Ol inuiviuuiti>, vur|juinuuii? aiiu i
Civil and Military Oillcials Exceedlng
$4000?Tax on Whisky
$1 Per Gallon.
Tho Internal Rsvenu? bill, including the
Income tax. was submitted to tho full Ways
and Means Committee and then made public.
The title is, "A bill to impose a tax on corporation
and individual incomes, to increase
the tax on distilled spirits, and for other purpos96."
The first section provides
That from and after January 1, 1895, there
shall be levied, collected and paid annually
upon the gains, profits and incomes of
every person residing in the United States,
or t?ny citizen of the United States residing
abroad, derived in each preceding calendar
year, whether derived from any kind of
property, rents, interests, dividends or salaries,
or from any protession. trade, employment
or vocation, carried on in the United
States or elsewhere, a tax of two per centum
on the amount so derived, over and above
$4000, and a like tax shall be levied, collected
and paid annually upon tne gains,
profits and incomes from all property and
of every business, trade or profession, carried
on in the United States, by persons residing
without the United States, and not
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citizens tnereor. auu iuh ku. aumi uc ?osessed
and paid upon the Rains, profits and
incomes for the year ending December 31
n?xt preceding the time for levying, collecting'ind
paying said tax.
The definition of profits is specified very
broadly, so to cover all incomes from
notes, bonds (other than United States
bonds), real estate, sales of live stock, pork,
sugar, wool and other productions, ''except
that portion of the salary or pay received for
services in the civil, military, naval or other
service of the United States, including
Senators, Representatives and Delegates
to Congress, from which the tax has
bona deducted; and except that portion of
any salary upon which the employer is requ
red by law to, and does, withhold the
lax. and pays the same to the officer authorised
to reoeive it." Provision is also made
for deducting losses by fire, shipwreck and
by trade depression, from the aggregate of
profits.
Section 3 makes it the duty of all persons
having an income of over 53500 to render a
return. All guardians, trustees, etc., must [
make similar returns for their charges.
JLQS mum IS lu uo luauu IV/ iud i/gjjuij
Collector of Internal Revenue for the District,
who i9 specially charged with levying
the tax. The return is to be verified by oath
or affirmation. The bill farther provides:
And in case any person having a taxable
income shall neglect or refuse to make and
render such list and return, or shall render a
false or fraudulent list or return, it shall be
the duty of the deputy collector to make
such list, according to the best information
he cflu obtain, by the examination of such
person, or his books or accounts, or any
other evidence, and to add fifty per centum
as a penalty to the amount of the tax dne
on sued list in all cases of willful negleot or
refusal to make and render a list or return;
and in all cases of a false or fraudulent list
or return having been rendered, to add 100
per centum as a penalty to the amount of
tax ascertained to be due. Appeal from the
decision of the deputy collector is provided.
Tha tm-r 4a njvnhlo Julv 1 Anntinllr. and
after that tea per cent, is immediately added
on sums in arrears over ten days, and also
one per cent, per month while the tax remains
in arrears.
section 5 includes noa-residents owning
property in the United States within the
law s provisions.
Section 6 imposes a uniform tax of two
per cent, on dividends of stockholders in
insurance oompanies. banks, trust oompanies
And other corporations and associations.
The bill continues - "And said banks, trust
companies, savings institutions and insurance
companies and other companies and
all other corporations shall pay the said
tax, and are hereby authorized and required
to deduot and withhold from all payments
made on account of Any dividend or
sums of money that may be due and payable
as aforesaid the said tax of two per cen >
turn." The corporation makes the return to
the deputy collector, verified by the oath or
Affirmation of its officers. A corporation falling
to make r9turn is subject to a penalty ol
ArifWl KnaMoo *ha innraaaa in ita tarflc
Section 8 provides for taxing dividend?
from railroad, canal, turnpikes, telephone,
telegraph, electric light and gAS companies,
water companies and street railway com
paniee.
Section 9 subjects to a two per cent, tax so
much of any salaries, public or private, as
exceeds #4000. Government disbursing officers
and private paymasters, cashiers or
employers are compelled to deduct the tax
from salaries and pay it to the internal revenue
collector. Stringent provision is
made against disclosing to the public any
? i detail of private business or of amount of
income.
Elaborate provision is made for assessing
the tax on those who fail to make returns
in special cases. Every corporation is compelled
to furnish a list, under oath or affirmation.
of information on the following points:
First?The gross profits of such corporation
from all kinds of business ot every
name and nature.
Second?The expense of such corporation,
exclusive of interest, annuities and dividends.
Thtrd?The net profits oi such corporation,
Irithout allowing for interast, annuities or
< diridends.
Fourth?The amount paid on account ol
interest, annuities and dividends stated
separately.
Fifth?The amount paid in salaries ol
94000 or less, to each parson employed.
Sixth?The amount paid in salaries o?'mora
than #4000.
Sections 17 and IS provide t'ae psnalties o!
perjury for false returns, etc.
The balance of the luternal revenue bill
oovers whisky and playing cards, etc.
Playing cards are taxed two cents per pack,
The tax is payable by the manufacturer by
stampa. The tax on distilled spirits is made
$1 per gallon after the first day of the second
g- calendar month after th-j passage of the bill.
? The bonding period is fixed at sight yea~.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE.
Jules Yebse is sixty-flve years old.
GovxBHon Pekxoteb, of Oregon, is a rich
man.
Louis Kossuth is blind, as the result of Influenza.
Reed's piolure ha3 just been hung up in
the Speaker's corridor.
Da. Hall, the State geologist of New York,Is
over eighty years of age.
William Pottkb. the retiring United State?
N Minister at Rome, has givaa 1000 lire to the
poor of that city.
The British Royal Astronomical Society hne
conferred its gold medal on Professor 8. W.
Burnham, an American astronomer.
It is said that the Kins of Siam has become
so addicted to the use of stimulants that he
is practically a mental and physical wreck.
The Qu"en has conferred the dignitv of
. knighthood uoon William Lann Booker.
Oousul-Geusral of Great Britain at New
York.
M. Casimir-Pebiee, the new President of
the Council of Ministers of President Caraof,
of France, is the third of his name to All that
high place.
Chief Justice Wiixku Penw* Ltox, o* the
Wisconsin Supreme Court, has retired from
the bench after a continuous service of
twenty-two years.
Samoel Laycock. the Lancashire dialect
po?t who die ! recently, learned tho trade o?
cotton spinner and got his education by reading
after his work.
Governor Altgeld. of Illinois, fin lint;
that he "could not per/orm j>is social duties
while ignorant of the art ol dancing" has
learned how to waltz.
Senator Ishath G. Harris, of Tennessee,
is the only public man in Washinfitfoc now
who was there when Galusha A. Grow first
went to Congress, in 1851.
>' The Commissioner of Patents has adopted
a plan of publishing each day a list of the
patents which expire on that date; heretofore
this important information has neve*
been made known to the public.
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| THE FiWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastarn and Middle States.
.Tohk E. Butleb, a disbarred iawyer, whc
was recently found guilty of forcing his
mother's mark vo a deed, was sentenced, at
Boston. M33** to State's prison for Ave
years.
Johi: G. JoHi.*Jo>r, at Long Island City.
N. Y.. obtained a verdict of $5000 for the
death of his son. who was killed in the accident
to the returning race train on the Long
Island Railroad, at ":he Parkville - tunnel ou
June 20 last.
t . 4.^j vm? u:n4.
X1.1KVAKU UOJtr HOU lain iu IUC juiut ucuaio
at Cambridge. Mass.
The United States cruiser Montgomery, on
hertrialrun in Long Island Soun'J, made
nineteen knots an hour, two knots more than
her contract required, the builders will get
a bonus of $200,000.
Superior Court Judoe Chables P. Thompson.
of Gloucester, Mass., committed suicide
by shooting.
Abthur and Flotd Griffin, aged eighteen
and sixteen respectively, sons of Burleigh
Griffin, and also James, aged sixteen,
son of Aaron Fltcher, were drowned in Otsego
Luke, N. Y., while skating.
Seven children dead with dipbthoria is
the misfortune that has befallen the family
of Andrew Albert, of Delaware Water
Gap, Penn. The last to succumb was George
Albert, aged eighteen. One was a young
woman of twenty and a bride of two months.
Thieves tried to wreck and burn a train
and then plunder it on the New Jersey and
New York Railroad.
The steamer Andes, of the Atlas Lino, was
stranded on the New Jersey coast, and will
probably be a total loss.
South and West.
Mrs. Anna Austin has been elected Mayor
of Pleasanton, Kan., by a majority of eight
in a total vote of 338, of which women cast
123.
Mas. Maby De Itoox was tailed by a lowing
bed. which collapsed, at San Francisco,
Cal.
The National Farmers1 Alliance in session
at Chicago, 111., has adopted resolutions requesting
Secretary of Agriculture Morton to
resign because he had denounced their organization.
John Habdy was hanged at Welch, W. Ya.,
for the murder of Thomas Drew. Wilson
Howard was hanged at Lebanon, Mo.. for
the murder of a deaf mute. Albert F. Bamberger
was hanged near Cando, North Dakota.
for the murder of six members ot the
Kreider family. Ernst Lacore was hanged
at Joliet, III., for the murder of Nellie Byron.
N. L. Odell, an aeronaut, was killed while
making an ascension in Washington, N. C.
The balloon burst when it had reached a
height of 300 feet. Odell's body was badly
mangled.
A h0rbica.ne swept over Oak Cliff and
South and East Dallas, Texas, destroying
property to the extent of $100,000 and killing
a boy. Its path was 100 yards wide.
Thbee men were killed and eighteen injured
in a wreck on the J. E. Potts Lumber
Company's tram road, ten miles south of
Camden, Ark. The disaster was caused by
the giving away ol a trestle.
Thomas Benvett, colored and an ex-convict,
pleaded guilty in the St. Clair (111.)
County Court to the burglary of an office,
from which he stole two oigars valued at ten
cents. He was sent to the penitentiary for
six years.
Mas. Louis A. Lancaster met a frightful
death by Are at Milwaukee, Wis., in trying to
&ave th<j life of her two-year-old child.
A memorial window in honor of the naval
heroes who died in the Samoan storm ot
March, 1889, was unveiled at the Annapolis
(Md.) Naval Academy.
All the banks of Helena, Montana, whioh
closed during the financial panic last summer
are now open. The First National Bank
of Helena during the first day received deposits
aggregating $200,000
Washington.
The official trial board of the new United
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Dwiles eruLSot auuvuuuou uu oyvcn_*
as 21.69 knots, earning a premium of $300,000
for her builders.
Offebs made for the new Government
bonds led Secretary Carlisle to think subscriptions
would reach 200,000.000. and tha
price go to 120, thus reducing the interest to
2)4 per cent.
The President sent to the Senate the following
nominations : William I. Buchanan,
of Iowa, to be Envoy Extraordinary ana
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to the Argentine Republic ; Allen Thomas, of
Florida, to be Consul of the United States at
Laguayra, Venezuela; Edward W. S. Tingle,
of Montana, to be Consul of the United
Stated at Brunswick. Germany.
St. Gauden's World's Fair medal has been
rejected by Secretary Carlisle because of the
nudity of the male figure in relief which u
represented on it.
Bids for the new bonds were received by i
the Treasury Department in remarkably
large numbers.
The Hon. LorinE. Thurston, the Hawaiian
Minister, reached Washington after his long
trip across the continent, and at once went
to the legation.
The hard times have st.-uok Washington
sooiety pretty hard, and the gayeties of the
winter are on a much more moderate scale
and much less numerous than they were last
season. Some of the biggest houses ar?
closed.
Mas. Cleveland *jid her first public re?
ception. There were no cards required, and
the attendance was, of course, something
enormous. The reception began at 3.30, and
lasted two hours.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, will act as
counsel for the Knights of Labor in the effort
to enjoin the issue of bonds. He will
:k?. t.. J? ~? ta..
*33131 O UUge VsUAO, Ul IVWtt,
Hawatian Royalists sent a tfwaorial to ths
President, who transmitted it \o Congress
with other Hawaiian correspondence.
Foreign.
Firrt man of the Nictheroy garrison wer*
killed in the bombardment of that place by
the Brazilian insurgents.
Over 100 native nomads, with their flocks,
were killed by earthquakes in Urga, Mongolia.
There was rioting by Anarchists in Berlin ,
the police charged the mob; many parsons
were hurt and a large numbe* ot arrests were
made.
The Provisional leaders have made all
preparation for declaring a Republic in
Hawuii; a constitution has been drafted and
a flag chosen : a royalist lobby has been sent
to Washington.
The Government troops were repelled by
the Brazilian insurgents on Conollcao Isl-J
and, in Rio Harbor, with a I033 of 120 killed.
After four days of continuous fighting
the army of President Yasquez, ot Honduras,
has been completely routed by the revolutionists
and their Nlcaraguan allies.
Admiral de Mello has been deposed from
his position of leader of the forces operating
against the Brazilian Government. because
he failed to bring troops from ttie South to
aid the insurgents in the l.ay in making
their proposed land movements.
Heavy gales in the bay at Bilbon, Spain,
have caused the lo9S of twenty-five fishermen.
A Feexch force in Tonquln. China,was attacked*
from ambush by pirates and lost
twenty men killed and wounded.
The cloth and yarn markets in Manchester.
England. have been paralyzed by tha
latast developments in regard to Indian currency.
Lujan* and twenty-five of his outlaws were
killed and the survivors dispersed in Chihua
hua, Mexico.
The New York State Federation of Labot
In session at Albany, by a vote of twentythree
to seventeen, adopted a resolution
thanking Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, for
pardoning the three Anarchists. Neebe,
Fielden and Schwab, Imprisoned for complicity
in the Haymar<cet dynamite massacre,
Cotton* has been picked in Arkansas.
Seventy-flve per cent, of the crop of the State
has been marketed. Not over 800 bales remain
unsold in Little Rook. Indications
point to a total crop not exceeding 7,000.00'J
bales.
The anathem annually pronounced against
the Frenoh since the invasion of 1812 at the
Christmas mass In the St. Petersburg churches
i was omitted last year on account of the
franco -Busaian entente.
LHTEBS FBOM EAWAH
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS WITH
THE CORRESPONDENCE.
Willis Asked to Explain?President
Dole Wants to Know Whether He
Intends to Enforce His Demands
With Arms?Willis Says Dole Insulted
President Cleveland.
President Cleveland, in a brief note of
transmittal, sent to Congress the latest correspondence
relating to Hawaii. It comprises
some brief notes of Minister Willis to
Secretary Gresham, which are unimportant,
but the chief features of it are letters passing
between Minister Willis and President Dole,
in one of which the Minister complains
of an utterance of President
Dole as reflecting on the President of
the United States, and a letter from President
Dole, in which he specifically inquires
if Minister Willis's instructions authorized
the use of force. Both these matters appear
to have been settled by the receipt of the
last message of the President to Congress
and the last instructions of Secretary Gresham
to Minister Willis.
The-interest felt in Hawaiian affairs wag
manifested in a striking manner when PresU
dent Cleveland's message, transmitting the
latest diplomatic correspondence on the subject,
was laid before the House of Representatives.
The House Insisted on hearing till the correspondence
read?a most unusual thing?
and every word was heard in the remotest
corner of the hall, so absorbed was every oue
in listening to the clerk as he read.
The following is the letter of transmittal:
To the Congress:
"I transmit herewith dispatches received
yesterday from our Minister at Hawaii, with
certain correspondence which accompanied
the same, including a most extraordinary
letter, dated December 27, 1893, signed by
Sanford B. Dole, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Provisional Government,and addressed
to our Minister, Mr. Wlills, and delivered to
him a number of hours after the arrival at
Honolulu of a copy of my message to Congress
on the Hawaiian question, with copies
of the instrt cions given to our Minister.
"Gboveb Cleveland.
''Executive Mansion, January 20, 1894.
The letter of December 27,. to which the
President refers, was sent to Minister Willis
by Mr. Dole, and part of the language is
herewith presented
* "I desire to call your Excellency's most
serious consideration to the dangerous and
critical condition of this community, arising,
I must respectfully submit, out of the attitude
which you have assumed, and the
language which you have used in public,
and in communications to the Government,
and also out of the published letter of the
Secretary of State of the United States and
the President's message on the subject of the
restoration of the Monarchy.
"This Government has most earnestly
sought from you and through our representative
at Washington, from your Government,
some assurance that force will not be
used, and has failed to obtain it. Your action
has unfortunately aroused the passions
of all parties and made it probable that disturbances
may be created at any moment.
"I am informed by military authorities
lhat white the foroe at your command is sufficient
to destroy this city, it is insufficient
to suppress any general rising and conflict
of armed forces and insurrections, or to pre
vent rne ioss 01 mo aau prupony.
''This Government is reluctant to believe
!:bat this condition of affaire was contemplated
or expected by yourself or by the President
of the United States.
"I have therefore to ask you to inform me.
with the least delay, whether you hold infractions
to enforce your policy with the use
of arms in any event."
Minister Willis was more than surprised at
receiving auch a letter, and in reply asked
the charges so unjustly put forward should
be made more specific. To this Mr. Dole answered
that the special message of the Pres
ldent of the United States had rendered any
further correspondence on the subject unnecessary.
Believing that the charges, whether so intended
or not, reflected upon the President.
Mr. Willis again insisted that the desired
specifications be furnished as soon as convenient,
but up to the time of the 3tearner's
departure, no answer had b?en received. In
a letter to Secretary Gresham, Mr. Willis
says.
'This delay in answering is a great surprise
and regret. I am fully prepared to
show that every step taken by the reprcsen ,
tatlvesofour Government ha3 been in the
direction of peace and good order, and that
the military preparations of the Provisional
Government were in progress at the time of
my arrival."
Toe remainder of the correspondence consists
of the full text of the letters, ot which
the material portions have been quoted.
ITFTY-THIBD CONGRESS.
The Senate.
23d T>at. -The Clerk read a letter from
Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, resigning
his seat in the Senate, to take effect on
January 24. The reason for the resignation
Is that Senator Walthall's health ha=?
not been good for several years and
he thinks the climate of Washington
does not agree with him.
The bill appropriating $50,000 for a monu- .
ment to General John Stark was passed bv a 1
vote of S2~yeas to 15 nays. Messrs. PofTer
and Allen introduced resolutions denouncing
Secretary Carlisle's proposed bond issue.
Mr. Vest spoke for repeal of the Federal Election
laws.
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in i/Ai.? x 110 jrrcBiucui .icui in auuiuuu.n
Hawaiian correspondence, including an appeal
from Royalists. President Cleveland
nominated Wheeler H. Peckham lo be Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. The day was devoted larcrely to a
discussion of the authority of the Secretary
of the Treasury to issue bonds.
25th Day?The vetoed New York Bridge
bill was referred to the Committee on Interstate
nnd Foreign Commerce. It is proposed
to renort a now bill. Mr. Cullom deliv
' red a speech on the Hawaiian question.
Debate w.'is continued on the Federal Election
laws and the PefTer bond resolution.
26th Day.?A Ions: discussion took place
over Mr. Turpie's Hawaiian resolution.
Mr. Lodge spoke on the proposition to repeal
the Federal Election laws.
The House.
29th Day.?Debate on the Tariff bill was
continued; Mr. Burrotvs's amendment substituting
the wool schedule of the McKinley
bill for that of tho Wilson bill was defeated.
30th Day.?Debate on the Wilson Tarifl
Dili continued ; there was a sharp personal
controversy between Messrs. Dalzell and
Johnson. Mr. Johnson's proposal to put
ste?l rails on the free list was defeated.
318tDay.?The amendment to substitute
the agricultural section of the McKinley bill
was beaten, sixty-three to 116. At 11.17
the House went into Committee of the Whole,
with Mr. Richardson in the chair. Brief
speeches on the Wilson bill were made by
Mr. Grosvenor. Mr. Coombs. Mr. Mercer and
Mr.Simpsou.The amendment proposed by Mr.
Ilitt provided thut when a country imposed
a tax on American products which this country
imported free, the existing rates be imposed.
The hour of 5.30 having arrived the
House took a recess without acting on Mr.
Hitt's amendment. At the evening session
the speakers were Mr. Talbert, Mr. Charles
W. Stone and Mr. Wheeler.
32d Day.?President Cleveland sent in another
message and moro correspondence on
the Hawaiian question. The debate on th?Wilson
bill was continued. Mr. McRae'fl
amenlmentto the Tariff bill, striking out the
bounty on sugar was adopted by tho Committee
W the Whole. The amendment putting
refined sugar on the free list was
adopted.
33d Day.?Tho New York and New Jersey
Bridge bill, together with the voto message,
was referred to the Committee on Inter-State
and Foreien Commerce. In tho Committee
of the Whole amendments to the Wilson
bill putting a duty on coal were voted down.
Both refined and raw sugars were put on
the free list.
34th Day.?The Internal Revenue bill was
reported. All amendments to the iron ore
schedule of the Wilson bill were rejected.
The speakers at the night session were
Messrs. Ryan, Swanson. Baldwin, Ikirt, Cummings,
all Democrats, and Baker, Populist,
in favor of the bill: and Messrs. Wanger.
Johnson, Moon, Kieferand Blair, all Republicans,
in opposition to it.
LATER
NEWS.
Tstz Republican Senate at Trenton, N. J.,
rejected Governor Werts's proposition ror
quo warranto proceedings to settle the Senate
controversy; the Benate and House will
meet in joint session on February 6.
William T. Zell, Treasurer of the Lehigh
and Wllkesbarre Coal Company and of the
New York Athletio Club, is a fugitive defaulter.
a shortage of $10,000 or more having
been found in his cash accounts with the coal
company.
The Hamburg-Amerioan Line steamer
Normannia. bound for Genoa, relumed to the
Port of New York for repairs, having beer
damaged by a tidal wave; several of her
crew were injured.
A blizzabd raged in Kansas and othei
Western States.
Mas. Aska Lixdgrex was crushed to death
at Chicago, 111., while struggling for bread
H/Mt fenaVtnrwl waa fftf)
at u rtmtu mhuuu. uci
weak to go into the crowd and her children
were starving.
A baxd of train robbers was captured by
police in the Indian Territory; one of the
gang was killed and. another mortally
wounded.
The Mirz and Daniels brothers fought to
the death in Arkansas. Of the four tbrec
were killed.
Committee resolutions on the Hawaiian
question favoring strict non-intervention
were brought into both Houses.
Ik response to a Senate resolution the
Secretary of the Treasury sent to the Senato
a statement showing that from the year 1875
to 1891 the United States has paid for the
prosecution of criminals in the Territory of
Utah the sum of $725,555, which amount
was due the United States from that Terri
tory.
Seceetart Hebbert approved the recommendation
of the National Stability Board
with reference to the lengthening of the
gunboats Machias and Castine in order to
relieve top-heaviness.
President Cleveland, accompanied byjhis
sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, and
Private Secretary Thurber, left Washington
for Hartford, Conn., to attend the funeral oi
Henry E. Hastings, the President's nephew.
Mr. Hastings was the son of Mr. Cleveland's
sister.
At iredencKton, JNew ijrunswicii, .mu^e
Barker sentenced the deaf mate Edward
M. Wheary to be hanged on Friday, April
20, for the murder of his sister-in-law, Bertha
Wheary,
Kaiseb William has made a peace offering
to Piince Bismarck in the shape of a
case of old wine and the ex-Chancellor has
promised to personally thank His Majesty
for the gift in Berlin. All Germany rejoices
at the reconciliation.
Lace of work and scarcity of food are causing
many acts of brigandage in Spain.
The Brazilian insurgents recaptured Mocangue
Island, with three small cannon and
130 prisoners The killed and wounded
number fifty. The insurgents lost fourteen
killed.
Striking employes ol the Bridgeport
(Conn.) Traction Company returned to work#
Union women hat makers of Danbury
Conn.. prevented resumption in four fac
tories by refusing terms the union men accepted.
Mb. asd Mas. Gcstave P. Tyson and Miss
Minnie Chapman, teachers in the Sac and
Fox Indian School, at Guthrie, Oklahoma,
were drowned while attempting to ford Deep
Fork Creok.
Fiftt convicts confined in the branch
State prison at Coal Creek, Tenn., escaped
by crawling through the bars of the water
gate leading into the stockade.
The annual Pension bill reported to tho
House appropriates 4150,000,000.
The State Department is advised that the
death of United States Consul Meade at San
Domingo was caused by yellow fever.
Pbesidext Cleveland returned to Wash,
ington from Hartford, Conn., where he attended
his cousins funeral.
The ship Willie Rosenfeld, jit Queenstown,
Ireland, had two of her crew killed and the
captain and eight othera badly injured in a
hurricane.
The gallery of the Ducal riding school of
Gotha, Germany, collapsed during the rehearsal
for the festival when the new Duke
will make his formal entry into the city.
Four of the persons were killed, and twelve
I were so seriously injured that they were
thought lively to die.
PEOKHAM FOR JUSTICE.
| Cleveland Nominates Him for the
Supreme Court Bench.
The President sent to tne united states
Senate the name of Wheeler H. Peckham, of
New i'ork City, to be Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court. Wheeler H. Peckham,
nominated for Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, is a brother of Judge Rufus
Peckham. of the New York Court of Appeals.
He was appointed District Attorne
by Mr. Cleveland when he wa9
Governor, but subsequently resigned.
Although the New York Senators deiined to
talk. it was understood that the nomination
was distasteful to them, but they would have
been glad to have seen the name of the
brother sent in instead. The indications
seemed to be that the Hornblower struggle
would be renewed against this nominee.
Wheeler H. Peckham,who has been named
for Assooiate Justice of the Supreme Court,
was at one time District Attorney of New
York City. Mr. Peckham was born at Albany
in 1833. At school he won the reputation of
being a careful student and won several
medals for proficiency. After receiving an
academic education, he entered the Albany
Law School, from which he graduated in 1854.
The yeung lawyer at once op9ned an office
In his native city, and followed his profession
with varying success until 1857, wheu
his health began to fail and he went to
St. Paul, Minn. He still continued his law
practice, however, and was interested in a
number of cases which attracted general
attention in that newly settled territory.
In 1863 he returned to Albany with hi*
health renewed. In 1864 he went to New
York, and rapidly rose to a position of prominence
in his profession. H<j gained much
popularity by his connection with the famous
Tweed ring suits in which he was instrumental
in procuring the conviction of
Tweed and his co-conspirator3, with the assistance
ot Judge Lyman Tremaine, of Albany.
and John Parsons, of Neiv York City.
In November. 1883, Governor Cleveland appointed
Mr. Peckham District Attorney ol
New York City, upon the death of John
MeKeon. After serving but a short time
Mr. Peckham wa3 compelled to resign the
office on account of ill health. Since then
Mr. Peckham has been engaged in the practice
of his profession in New York City.
DYNAMITE IN A STOVE.
Two Persons Killed and Six Injured
on u Texas Train.
A stick of dynamite which some person had
placed in the smoking car stove on the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas Railroad at Marco#,
Texa8, exploded as the train was leaving
that place.
Ed. Binding, a traveling agent of the City
Brewerr of San Antonio, and J. C. Heidelman.
a merchant of Austin, were instantly
killed, and six other passengers in the car
seriously injured.
LDNATICB BOBN TO DEATH
A SCENE OF HORROR IN AN
IOWA MADHOUSE.
Eight Human Beings Perish Miserably?Penned
in a Little Building
on a Poorfarm ?The Flamed Break
I Out at Night While a Blizzard
Rages.
The building on the Boone Coun ty (Iowa)
poorfarjn used as an insane asylum was
burned, and eight of the nine inmates lost
their lives. The Are started about 10 o'clock
p. m., and when discovered wa3 under such
headway that nothing could be done to save
the unfortunates in the building
Six years ago Boone County decided to
take charge of its incurable and harmless Insane
who had before baen kept in the State
asylums. For that purpose a two-story frame
building was erected on the poorfarm near
the poorhouse. In this building the insane
were keot. The steward of the poor farm is
Henry Holcomb, who lived with his wife in
the poorhouse. .
They retired at about the usual time last
night and were asleep at 10 o'clock, when
they were awakened by Mrs. Hibbard. one
of the nine insane persons, who came into
the house and said that the madhouse was
on Are.
Mr. Holcomb rushed to the burning building,
which he saw was aflame inside, and
burst in the door. He could not enter, owing
to the intense heat, and no sound except
the crack ling of the flames was-heard.
The unfortunates were already dead,
eiu suffocated before they awoke or Jacking
intelligence to make their escape. Four
of the poor creatures who-were not considered
perfectly safe were locked in their
cells at night and could not have escaped if
they would.
The tragedy was over in a half hour, when
the roof of the madhouse fell in. The victims
were seen in the coals, burned beyond
recognition. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by the furnace, which was
overheated on account of the intensely cold
weather.
Mrs. Hibbard. the only one who escaped,
is uninjured, but is not intelligent enough to
give un account of the discovery of the fire.
The victims and their ages are
Thomas Leper, forty-five; Joseph Craig,
eighty-one; Sarah Scott, eighty-two ; Chris
tian Peterson, eig?tty-3even; unnsuana
Anderson, twenty-eight; Anna Sodderberg,
thirty-eight; Johanna Briggs, thirty-live;
Nancy Tucker, forty-eieht.
TALMAGE WILL EESISN.
He Startles Hlsfongregatlon by the
Unexpected Announcement.
The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage at the
close of the Sunday services announced to
his congregation in the Brooklyn (N. Y.)
Tabernacle that he Intended to resign, and
that his resignation would go into effect on
the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the day he took charge of the church.
The church was crowded to the doors, and
when Mr. Talmage made the announcement
men and women were almost speechless with
surprise for several minutes.
There had been no intimation of such a
thin;;. His text was from Revelations vii.,
17?"And He shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes." * When the sermon was finished
Dr. Taimage said:
"I have an announcement to make which
may be of some interest to this congregation."
He then leaned over and, picking up several
sheets of paper, began reading as follows
"This coming spring I will have been pastor
of this church twenty-five years. A quarter
of a oentury is long enough for any minister
to preach in one place. At that anniversary
I will resign this pulpit, and it will
be occupied bysuch person as you may select.
'Though the work has been arduous, because
of the unparalleled necessity of building
three great churches, two of them destroyed
by fire, the field ha3 been delightful
and blessed of God.
"No other congregation has ever been
nnllori iinnn t-rt hnllrl thrftn phnrnhftfl. And T
hopo no other pastor will be called to such a
fearful and tremendous undertaking.
"My plans after resignation have not been
developed, but I shall preaob, both by voice
and newspaper press, as long as my life and
health are continued by the grace of God.
"Prom first to last we have been a united
people, and my fervent thanks are to all the
Board of Trustees and elders, whether of the
present or past, and to all the congregation
and to the people of the city of Brooklyn. I
have no vocabulary intense enough to express
my gratitude to the newspaper press
of these cities for the generous manner in
which they have treated me and augmented
my work for this quarter of a century.
"After such a long pastorate it is a painful
thing to break the ties of affection, but I
hope our friendship will be renewed in
heaven."
As Dr. Talmage finished speaking he
seemed almost to break down. He nervously
clutched at a glass of water which was beside
him, and after taking a long drink
seemed to regain his strength. He tried to
join the congregation in singing the closing
hymn, but could not do so.
After the hymn was sung he pronounced
the banediction, and then hurriedly left the
church for his home.
When Dr. Talmage was seen at his home
he refused to say anything about his cause
for resigning from the church.
"I have nothing further to say to the public
now beyond what is contained in the announcement
that I made at the church this
evening."
It is suggested that Dr. Talmage Intends to
resign because he is opposed to the Board of
Trustees, who are anxious to charge an adTyWacion
fao r\t fan tr% .all vlaitnrs who at"
tend the church. For several years Dr. Talmuge
has beet greatly worried by the financial
condition of the Tabernacle. I
Ills Shlary is $12,000 a year, but during the
past four years he has not received anything
for his preaching. Dr. Talmage, in his set
mons, often made the anaouncement that he
dedicated his salary as pastor of the church
to the cause of God.
He often went on lecturing tours, as he
explained, to get money to defray the expenses
of the Tabernacle. One year ago he
announced from the pulpit in the Tabernacle
that the church was in such a condition financially
that unless $20,000 of the floating debt
were raised by April 1. 1S93, he would be
compelled to resign. This sum was raised.
Russell Sage holds a mortgage of $125,000
on the Tabernacle, with interest which
amounts to $15,000. This interest Mr. Sage
thinks ought to be paid, and recently he has
oeen stirr'ng up the trustees.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Boston has fifty-three labor unions.
Pittsbubo has a trade school for girls. i
Thf. Federation claims 652,300 members.
Tex trade organizations work eight hours.
Ohaha (Neb.) packing houses employ 4500.
The British miners' strike co3t $150,000,000.
Michiqan has6000 union commercial drummers.
In Great Britain 1000 miners are killed an- '
nually. <
Cobxellsville, Penn.. has 9000 coke ovens
running. j
European laborers are emigrating from \
America.
Fabkeb, Penn., ia to have a co-operative
glass mill.
Railboad trainmen paid $2,243,000 in bene J
fits in a decade.
Milan, Italy, is to have an international ^
workingmen's congress. <
The labor troubles in the Black Hills are 1
growing more and more serious. ,
Weavebs held a convention in New Bed- <
ford, Mass., to discuss proposed labor laws, j
Matebno (Spain) weavers" co-operative
society owns a mill, club house and fitty
houses.
Mechanics at Mare Island (Cal.) Navy '
Yard have had their pay cut from twenty-flve <
to flfty-slx cents per day. ,
The English inhabitants of Canada do not j
take kindly to Lord Aberdeen, their new '
Governor-General. He is a Scotchman and 1
bjproud rather than ashamed of the fact. __ j
WOMAN'S WORLD. ?
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PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR wo
FEMININE READERS. a I
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A PAD FOB PHTECOOKOMT.
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Professor Annie Oppenheim seems ^
to be making qnite a good thing over Q&
in London ont of the proverbial curi- gp]
osity which people feel abont them- ^
selves. She is a physiognomist, and ca^
has "delineated" 9000 people in five g^fl
months, hundreds being turned away
because she had not time to read them.
Miss Oppenheim disclaims any con- er
nection with palmistry or pretension a j.
to psychical powers, ana eays ner sys- W(,
tem of face reading is purely scientific.
-New York Sun.
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THE HANDBAG. ^.c
That old-faehioned and dainty little
adjunct of a woman's dress has again &Q
appeared, and to many whose dress
makers have proved obstinate in re- ^
gard to pockets it is a boon and bless- ^
ing. It is quaint looking, and when
prettily made is a real embellishment
to a handsome dress. A pretty one is
of rose silk, brocaded in cream and
gold. The shape at the bottom is tri
angular, and old pink velvet is used to b1'
bind it. The bows at the three corners
and the drawstrings are of rose ribbon sh
and the lining is of gold surah silk. ? sp
New York Mail and Express.
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SUSAN* B. ANTHONY'S SILKS AND LACES, ha
If Susan B. Anthony has a weakness
it is black silk, with point lace. The fai
memory of this generation runs not as gr
far back as the time when this famous
lady took to wearing these costly, ele- {.rj
gant textures. Although a very busy eg
woman, she is quiet and restful. Her
clothes never wear out, and, as she
scorns to follow the fashion, her 8a
dresses and ruffles and lace capes and s.
scarfs last forever. None of her gowns
?re trimmed, the flxnense for that item
being put in the material. As a result, ca
some of the straight, round skirts are
made of satin and silk thick enough va
and stiff enough to stand alone. She ey
wears nothing but black. When she
wishes to change the character of her co
toilet she changes the lace at her ^
wrists and throat and the little shawl A
that drapes her shoulders. Miss An- th
thony reads no newspaper but the bl
marked copies sent her by her friends.
She alleges that newspaper reading is th
a great waste of time, and a great sti
detriment to the mind, making a sieve su
of the memory and perverting the wl
literary taste. She depends on gossip vii
for the news, and upon her friends for
the advancement of thought. ?Detroit pj,
Free Press. m(
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lOV^G 01318' DRESSES. Sp
Pretty styles for young girls' dresses kn
are always most difficult to find and
dressmakers generally do not like to 8h
make for girls younger than eighteen. an
Two pretty dresses recently seen were wc
* " J .hi.. i.;
particularly nauy anu at wc wmc viuic
comfortable and serviceable, two very jn<
important points for growing girls. ^
The first was a gown of dark-colored
woolen stuff, its yoke, belt and cuffs
braided with soutache. The skirt was mt
of straight breadths and gathered to ^.n
the yoke. The bodice had a fitted lin- 1
ing and full fronts and back join-ad to reJ
the lining with side seams.. The dress ^
hooked behind, the opening being 00
concealed by the full folds of the stuff.
The sleeves had a fitted lining and very 18
full puffs ending in long tight cuffs. ra:
In the other dress the bodice was worn de
inside the skirt and hooked in back.
It had a fitted lining over which the
stuff was draped, and was trimmed lit
with two lace ruffles, the lower one a 1
ending at the armholes and each headed
by a narrow plaited band of white no
silk. The skirt was gored and trimmed co
with three gathered bias ruffles. The an
skirt was made of half a breadth of wc
surah hemstitched at the edges and foi
hooked in back. The sleeves have big M<
puffs and lace epaulettes. The mate- pa
rial used was a yellowish pink woolen be
suiting. ?New York W orld. i
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SPRING TAILOR DRESSES. ?0]
A number of models for spring tailor ba
dresses show the back of the jacket cut up
with flaring basques and the fronts in th
Eton shape open on a bengaline waist, Ye
under the belt of which is an added trf
basque, which has somewhat the effect mc
of a short overdress or tunic. This is
a style becoming to tall, slender wo- feg
men. On some gowns these basques eo]
are sewed permanently to the belt, on ^
others it is adjustable and when added pi,
converts a house gown into a street
costume. There is a leaning toward feg
basques, real or simulated by trim- Qf
? -"J t)iaro ia s>nneir)prn.VtlA r
IlllUg, QUU nuuo HUViv *w
style about a basque bodice it is not a ^
youthful model, imparting always a ,
severe, prim appearance to even the
graceful, youthful figure of sweet "six- T
teen. A Russian blouse bodice, a 811
Princess May corsage, pointed waist,
Breton corsage, Spanish corselet, baby ^ 13
bodice?any of these styles is far more
attractive. The basque bodice is said ?.
to be pre-eminently suitable for state- 19
ly, rather short women. This is not
so; the arched hip seam of the basque 0
outlines and emphasizes the fullness
of the figure just here and besides
gives an unjrraceful, short-waisted ap- *
pearance. Even the slim-figured ma- Cl
trom looks better in another style of |
bodice. A closely-gored skirt and a |
deeply-pointed corsage is the very best | ~8
style of dress a stout woman can 3elect "is
for day costumes or evening toilets JT"
with train.?St. Louis Republic. X?
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WOMEN OF EUROPE. eaC
The celebrated man of letters, Paolo ^
Mantegazza, of Florence, is airing his
opinions through a German newspaper
on the women of Europe, says the
Philadelphia Times. He gives the palm
Tor beauty to the Spanish woman,
thereby showing keen discrimination
and judgment. His praise is not, howjver,
wholly unmixed. "'The Spanish
Roman," he says, "is bewitchingly
beautiful. She has small hands and
feet, and large eyes like the open winiows
of a sunburnt marble palace. A
figure full of grace and life, and long,
tvavy, dark hair. She is very religious,
yery ignorant, very jealous, sensitive,
idle and proud."
The English woman, he thinks, is
beauty itself. "Her hair is like gold.
3hehas heavenly eyes, a peach-like
;omplexion, a delicately-formed nose
?nd good teeth. She is reserved, a I
ittle hypochondriacal, very active and his
generally a slave to etiquette." But thii
;he French woman is "a cat and a ser- Elli
pent, a palm aad_ a violet, aad even aut
ien she is not pretty she is charmj.
She is amiable, a dreadful co?
ette, and generally false." The
men of Germany are not graceful aa
ace, but are strong and withstand
i ravages of time. They are "blonde,
le-eyed, with white skin, and ave
>re suited to play the part of wive#
in lovers. They are naive, goodtured
and industrious, and make
lendid housekeepers and mothers.
,ey are, on the whole, the best eduted
women in Europe." The Rnsn
woman is an Oriental type which
s been prematurely transplanted to
trope. "In her are combined the
traordinarv charms of a savage and .
ughly civilized woman." The Italian
>mpn is fond of art, sentimental and
)deet, bnt is generally ignorant and
d is often false. Two important
ints in forming the character of the
men of different Nations are, acrding
to Mantegazza, the religion
d the amount o^f freedom they enj.
The greater the freedom allowed
e more virtue. This last will please
nericans.
FASHION* NOTES.
Some of the handsomest fans for the
nter social season are developed in
ack and gold.
A fine striped velvet that is both
ot and moired is a novelty among
ring dress fabrics.
A dark-gjeen broche called Persian
ocatelle is shot with pale blue, and
8 trefoils in turquoise blue and gold.
Bayadere stripes of old rose and
int sea green appear on lustrous
ounds of fawn-colored corded silk.
Silver bead galloon is a popular
imming for ball dresses, especially
"n/>firra nn nnwna r>f tvink or white.
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New striped gauzes to be made into
y little gowns show black satin'
ripes of a greater width than theii
;ernate lines of colored gauze.
Small cone-shaped glasses of delitely
tinted Bohemian ware are
own for holding violets, and tall
ses of pressed glass for ferns and
ergreens.
Everything now being served in
urses, the new "corn set" is really
acceptable addition to table service,
platter and a dozen plates comprise
e set ;the decoration very rich?ears,
&des and stalks of corn.
One of the handsomest novelties of
e season is a tripod of carved wood
inding about three feet high and
pporting a huge Dresden china bowl,
iich is meant for .a receptacle for
siting cards and invitations.
Hand-painted frames lor cabinet
totographs are presented in china,
?ny of them very beautiful, Around
e face a friend, a garland of violets,
rays of forget-me-not or a gracefully
lotted ribbon holding a single rose.
Among the freaks of fashion appear
oe tips and heels in sterling silver
d perforated in a pattern. The
>man who "does not know what to
i with her money,'' having never been
trodaced to charity, will be the
lling victim of tbis snare.
A doable reversible shot silk has a
mve ground with pale green spot on
e side and a vi6let one on the other.
>vel English silks are woven in fine
ps in white on pale tinted grounds,
th a cross-stitch row between each
rd that matches the background.
Fashionable by way of gift-making
the "trinket get."In almost all the
re chinas the decorations are very
licate in flowers with gold introced.
The articles included in the
; are comb and brash tray, three
tie covered boxes, a ring stand and
?in tray.
Among articles of home adornment
thing is more sought after and
veted than the beautiful pedestals
d tabourettes made from teak
>od. Hand carved, with top of rare
reign marble and crowned with a
sorish bowl holding a graceful
lm, it is difficult to eqaa} them in
autiful effect.
The latest novelty in silver, the "salt
ngs," is very small, like those used
r bon-bons. A perforated hollow
11 which opens in the.center to take
> the salt, then closes and is sifted
rough the perforations in the sides.
1'-J- ^ Trail/19 a
ry dainty ?uu uacim n?
ly, but on the dinner table "one
>re*thing to be in the way."
(Jntil recently the shaded ostrich
ither with darker or lighter tip was
asidered quite a novelty, and now
is already beginning to be sup-'
inted by a new sort of shading,
e novelty consists in the enstre
ither showing several similar tones
different colors, or else in different
ides of one color, so arranged as to
76 the effect ot snot sii&.
Photograph holders, to hang like a
11 panel, are suitable for the bed or
ting room. They are made of
jteboard covered with Japanese silk,
ish or velvet. Slits io hold the pho.Taphs
are cut horizontally, one
>ve the other, the edges being fined
with gold or silver cord. These
;rtures must be just wide enough to
.d the picture upright.
Washington as a Singer of Songs.
general "Washington and Chief Jusb
Ellsworth, of Connecticut, were
imate friends. On one occasion
ishington dined with Ellsworth at
residence, in "Windsor. During
visit he was taken into the nursery,
ere were twojtwin boys, afterward
vernor Ellsworth and the Hon.
nrv L. Ellsworth. He took one on
:h knee, and sang to them this song,
i words of which are preserved, but,
fortunately, not the music:
THE DEBBV (DA3BY) BAX
As I was going to Derby
Upon a market day.
I spied the biggest nra, sir.
That ever was fed ou hay.
Tow de row de row,
Towde row de da.
He had four feet to walk, sir,
He had four feet to stand,
And every foot he had. sir.
Covered an acre of land.
Tow. etc.
The wool upon his back, sir,
It reached unto the sicy.
And eaglos built their nest.s there,
For I heard their young ones cr^.
Tow, etc.
The wool upon his tail, sir,
I heard the weaver say.
Made three thousand yards of oloth, sir,
For he wove it all in a day.
Tow, etc.
t is not often that the Father of his
Country appears in this role; but
i anecdote was handed down in the
sworth family, and is undoubtedly!
heatic.?The Wifcaeaa, ' '