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TAHPf BILL IS PASSED. HOUSE ACCEPTED THE SENATE AMENDMENTS. Action of the Democratic Caucus? Speaker Crisp's Motion to Recede Adopted?Separate Bills Passed Putting Sugar, Iron Ore, Coal aud Barbed Wire on the Free List. At a caucus of House Democrats in the Capitol at Washington it was decided by an overwhelming vote to accept the Senate tariff bill. A statement was made by Chairman Wilsoa to the effect substantially that there Vas no prospect for tariff legislation unless the Senate bill were adopted. The motion to accept was made by Speaker Crisp and the resolution was adoDted by a vote of 113 to 28. There was no division on tne vote to pass separate bills, placing coal, sugar, iron ore and barbed wire on the free list. Mr. Holman, Chairman or the caucus, took the chair. When the roll call (which showed that 153 members were present) was completed a hush of expectancy fell upon the caucus. Mr. Wilson (Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee) took the floor. Although outwardly calm and cool, he was manifestly laboring under deep emotion. His speech for the first Ave minutes was general in character and contained no specific points. It was devoted in the beginning to an explanation of the embarrassments under which the House conferees had labored. He said that the representatives of the House had J gone into the conferences with a desire of faithfully representing the wishes of their colleagues. That they had failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion?a conclusion honorable alike to the House and to the Democratic party?was not their fault. Mr. Wilson referred to the proposition made to the House conferees by thoir Senatorial associates to accept free sugar. This proposition, he said, was rejected, inasmuch on tL funrasnntAtivnfl of the House had as certained that a compact existed In the Senate to defeat tariff legislation or postpone its consideration until next December If free sugar were made a part of the conference rpport. He turned at this point and called upon his associates. Messrs. Montgomery, Breclcinridge, McMillan and Turner, to substantiate this statement. Mr. McMillan immediately arose and said that from the beginning of the conference thoy had been given to understand from day to day that any displacement of the Senate votes on sugar, coal and iron ore would lead to absolute defeat, or, at least, the postponement of the bill. Mr. Wilson stated substantially that there was no prospect for tariff legislation unless the Senate bill was adopted. When Mr. Wilson had finished Speaker Crisp arose and was greeted with applause. He began by saying that the House must take the Senate bill. While the Senate bill must be adopted, the House would make a determined effort for free sugar. He elaborated his statement that the Senate bill must be accepted or there would be no tariff legislation at this session; and his declaration that the House of Representatives had used every honorable and fair means to secure the passage of their bill without avail was vl .-orously applauded. Speaker Crisp closed his brief speech by offering a resolution that the House recede from its position and accept the Senate bill. The resolution also included a provision placing bart>ed wire, sugar, coal and iron ore on the free list by a series of separate biil* to be presented at once in the House. Bourke Cookran, of New York, then took the floor in opposition to the resolution. Mr. Cockran contended that he, as yet, had no information which would lead him to beJ'.rrClmtfthe House bill could not be adopted. Turning toward Mr. Wilson he challenged the gentleman to give the names of the four Senators who stood in the way of an agreement. He did this twice, but Mr. Wilson remained silent. A vote on ordering the previous question on Mr. Crisp's resolution was then taken, 1 ??X n 1 AO tTAna 01 n O TTU A f t HQU rWUUCU ILL LUii iu lit un|a, a?ui the previous question had been ordered? which was considered equivalent to the adoption of the resolution?the Louisiana members were given ten minutes to explain their position. Mr. Robertson, speaking for the delegation, said that the sugar growers had made their contracts Tor the current fiscal year, and that any action by Congress abolishing tho bounty for the next twelve months would work a severe injury to their * Interests. On the motion to accept the Senate bill the vote resulted: Ayes, 113; nays, 28. Among those voting in the negative were Messrs. Robertson, Davey, Meyer and Price, of Louisiana ;Tarsney, of Missouri; Warner, Straus, Tracey, Cock ran. Covert and Dunphy, of New York; Kilgore, of Texas ; Dockery, of Missouri; Cooper, of Indiana, and McKaig, Rayner, Rusk and Talbot, 01 Mary land. On the motion to pa99 separate bills Dicing sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed wire on the free list, there was no division. Then a resolution,offered by Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, was adopted, thanking the House conferees for their light for the House bill. Having completed the work of the caucus, tho meeting was adjoined 9lne die. The Bill Passes the House. A soeclal dispatch to the New York Herald describes the scenes in the House of Representatives while tho Tariff bill was on it3 passage an follows: ror once during this- _ w ?;.. -e..atioa the expected has happened. The House caucus agreed upon the 8enato bill, the bill was passed sue hours later, and the separate bills were rushed through before adjournment putting sugar, iron ore, coal and barbed wire on tho free list. This was not accomplished without a display of managerial vigor, parliamentary skill and partisan courage astonishing even to those who participated in the proceedings. The House wing ot tho Capitol was a scene of excitement from early morning, whet tbe Democratic caucus met, to a late hour at night, when the last "pop gun" bill, amid the yells of the Democratic majority, placed sugar on the free list. The galleries were packed with eager spectators all day, and when the hour of ad journment was reached at twenty-live minutes after 10 o'clock, p. m., few vacant seats were visible in the vast auditorium. On tho floor legislative pandemonium reigned all day. Not in years has the House of Representatives been the theatre of such continuous uproar aud tumult. It was a duy of cheers and jeers, of speechos and yells, roll calls and shouts o? laughter and applause. To Mr. Turner, of Georgia, fell the task of explanation and defence, and to Mr. Heed, of Maine, the leading of the assnult upon She resolution Riving tho Tariff bill the right of way. Aftor Mr. Turner had spoken in 7avor of the resolution it was passed by 176 yoas to 97 nays. The Democrats who voted against their party on this proposition wero Messrs. Covert, New York: Davey, Louisiana ; Gorman, Michigan: Johnson, Ohioj Meyer, Price nn I Rouortson, Louisian-i. and Warner, New York. Mr. Cockran did not VOtfi. Upon tho announcement of the vote Chairman Wilson immediately submitted in writing the motion receding from the disagreement in tbe Senate amendments and concurring in them, which would pass the bill. Mr. Wilson made an explanatory speech, and was followed by Mr. Reed, who taunted the House conferees at their inability to cope with the representative of the Semite. He said they would find that they were mere babes in the wood, and that they had been left there by their uncle In the White House. Mr. McMillan, of Tennessee, defended the bill. Mr. Pence, of Colorado, gave the Populists' view of th'> situation, and then Messrs. Cochran, of New York, and T:?rsney. of Missouri, both Democrats, denoan??d the Senate bill. Speaker Crlep snoke in favor of tbe bill. Air. Wilson orieny eonciuieu tno uodrio and the vote was taken, resulting in the adoption of the Senate bill by 182 yeas to 105 nays. The Democrats who voted in tho negative wore: Messrs Bartlett ami Cockran, of New York . Davey, of Louisiana ; Dunphy. of New York; Everett, of Massachusetts; Gorman, of Michigan; Hendrix, of New York ; Johnson, of Ohio ; Meyer and Price, of Louisiana; Tarsney, of Missouri, and Warner, of New York. Seven Populists voted for the bill, and all the Republicans were recorded acainst it. This disposed of the Senate bill as far as Congress was conccrned. It was already 6.80 o'clock, but the programme for the day included! the passage of the four "pop gun" bills which the special order provided for, and C&airman Wilson sont up the first one, which provided for putting coal, shale and coke on the free list. It was passed by a rote of 160 to 104, and then the bill for free iron ore was taken up. The House had filled up again on the roll call on the previous vote, and from that time on until the end of the session there was a continual hubbub on the floor. The fr<*e iron ore bill went through by a vote of 163 to 102. The bill putting barbed wire on the free list was then passed by 187 yeas to 81 nays. The final measure was the Sugar bill. placing all sugars on the free list. Messrs. Price and Boatner, of Louisiana, made a last ple:i for their State, and Mr. McMillln gave some figures as to the immense profits of the Sugar Trust, after which Chairman Wilson closed tha dphato briefly, and the vote was taken, resulting in 276 ayes and 11 nays?all the Republicans present voting aye. It was now after 10 o'clock, and tho House adjourned without further action. Gist of the Tariff Bill. The new Tariff bill provides tho following rates of duty upon the great staples which have been the bones of contention : All raw sugars 40 per cent, ad valorem ; sugars above No. 16 (refln?d), one-eighth per cent, additional; sugars produced in bounty paying countries, one-tenth per conr. additional to these rates. Hawaiian sugar is still free under the reciprocity treaty. Iron ore, 40 cents per ton, pigs. $4 perton or steel rails. 7-20 of one cent per pound. Lead oro and dross iron, % of one cent per pound, and silver-lead bearing ore the same duty on the lead contained therein. Tobacco for wrappers, $1.50 por pound unstemmod; $2.25 stemmed. Cigars and cigarettes, $4 per pound, and 25 per cent, ad valorem. Coal, bituminous and largo slack, 15 cents por ton. Precious stones, cut and unset, 25 por cent, ad valorem ; set. 8^ per cent. ; uncut, 10 por cent.; ghizlers' and miners' diamonds, free. Logs and sawed lumber and timber (savo tropical woods) and wool aro free. Tin plate, hi -15 cents per pound after Octobor 1. Marble, rough, 53 cents ; dressed, 85 conts per cubic foot. White and red load, 1cents per pound. Under the internal revenue sections of the bill playing cards are taxed 2 cents a pack; an income tax of 2 per cent, ou income3 above $4000 is provided for; also a tax on corporations of 2 per cent. Whisky is taxed at $1.10 per gallon, and ?ho hnnHurt n?rlod ia fixed at eight years. The Income tax provisions of the bill :ira as follow*: "That from and . after the first day of January, 1895, and until the first day of January, 1900, there shall be assessed, levled. collected, and paid annually upon tho gains, profits and income .received In the preceding calendar year, by every citizen ot the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing therein, whether said gains, profits or incomo bo derived from any bind of property, rents, interest, dividends, or salaries, or from iny profession, trade, employment or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from anj* other source whatever, a tax of two per centum 011 tho amount so dorived over and abovo four thousand dollars, and a like tax shall be levied, collected and paid annually upon tho gains, proflt9 aad income fro{ all property owiuid and of j every business, trade or profession carried en In the United Stato3 by persons residing without the United States. "And the tax herein provided for shall bo assessed by the Commissioner of lutornal Revenuo and collected and paid upon tho gains, profits aud income for tho yoar ending the thirty-first day of Deconitier m?xt preceding tho timo for levying, collating and paying said tax." mujyLiJN.t.JNT r.t,ur.LiJ5, Two of Pullman's brothers are ministers, Mas. Bayabd Taylob now lives in New York City. The Kaiser Wllhelm. of Germany, is said to reoeive more than 690 letters a day on an average. Fbaxcisque Sabcey, the famous Parisian dramatic critic, is the latest convert to vegetarianism. Mayob Gii-bot declines under any circumstances to be renominated for the mayoralty of New York City. Rev. Db. Talmaoe will preach la New York City in Madison Square Garden after his return from abroad. Loed Salisbury turns the scales at 252 pounds in his boots. Mr. Gladstone, on the other hand, weighs less than 117 pounds. The Count of Eulenburg, the new German Ambassador to the court of Vienna, is an author, a oomposer, a singer and a linguist Edison has a disbelief in doctors generally. Whenever his liver is out of order he attends to the matter personally by reducing himself to a vegetarian diet. Wheneyeb President Cleveland Is asked by an enthusiastic mother to kiss her baby he always declines. "The best of my reason is," he explains, "that the babies never like it." A obeat many persons, including not a few Washlngtonians. are unaware of the fact that a daughter of President Tyler is living at the Louise Home, In the National Capital. rr>__ r> xnc vuiuuiauuu-ur-vuioi vi vuu uv^uuu army is an American, and a Chicago man at that?Major Dye. He is a graduate ol West Point ana served on the Union side daring the Civil War. Charles Ashtox, a constable of Dlnas Mawdduy, Wales, is known as the "literary policeman." He has written a "Life of Bishop Morgan," a "Biography of Welsh Literature," and several other learned works. Pbince Roland Boxapabte, who is now the hope of the Bonaparti&ts, Prlnoe Victor being poor and in exile, is bulidlng a palace an the Avenue d'lena, in Paris, of so splendid a kind that it will be one of the show places of the capital. Sion'ob Fazzabi, a rloh Member of the Italian Parliament, is so convinced of the truth of Tolstoi's social theories that he has ceased to be a landed proprietor and now describes himself on his visiting cards as "agriculturist and fisherman." The new Lord Chief Justice, Russell, who has just taken bis seat, makes a striking figure on the bench. Clad in a new white wig and a bright gray gown, he is the personification of dignity. He has taken with him to the bench his famous snuff bos. Naqabab, the recently deceased chief of the Chippowas, is said to have held the office for 100 years. The tribe has held n grand pow-wow near Fon-du-lac, and passing over the old chlers son, has elected Aunlmosson to be head chief over nil the Chippewas. B. P. Chf.net, Jn.. of Boston, is said to be the -wealthiest young man in New Eng- < land. He is a Director of the Mexican Central Railroad ani of several other great railway companies, and is President of tho largest land and Irrigation company in Calilor- t nia. , Thi ruler of Coburg, better known a9 j the Duke of Edlnburg, Is a man of man; hobbies. Among them must be counted his ! curious mania for collecting miniature slU ver ships. At the present time he is the ' proud possessor of a fleet numbering considerably over fifty. Fbom being a persistent enemy of the bi- , cycle the King of the Belgians has become , one of its most ardent devotees in his do* , minions. He ho3 taken his favorite "machine" with him to Ostend, and has been seen rapidly traversing the Digue, accom- | panled by an aide-de-camp, who is as enthu- ! Biastic a cyclist as his royal master. Joseph Pulitzeb, proprietor of the New York World, has presented to the city ol Paris a bronze group twolve feet higo, ro- ! producing Bartholdi's ?rork, portrayin? tho lounders of American independence (Washington and Lafayette), which was exhibited in the Salon of 1892. The group will be ! placed upon a stone pedestal to be erected upon the Place des Etats Unis. In Bas> . tholdi's masterpioce Washington and Lafayette are standing hand in hand beneath the i iolds of tho flags of both nations. There are three vacancies In the United States Senate?from Montana, Idaho and Washington. The Legislatures of thes*? States failed to elect at their last session, which leaves eighty-Gve Senators and makes forty-three a majority. According to the annual report of Suparintendent Carroll D. Wright tho total disbursements on account of the eleventh census to June 30 last were $10,365,677. DEAD IN A FIERY WM PASSENGEES BUENED IN A EAILEOAD DISASTEE. An Engine and Two Cars Flange From a Trestle Forty Feet Above Ground Near Lincoln, Neb.?The Work of Train Wreckcrs?Horrible Fate of the Victims. A learrui wrecK, involving me loss 01 eleven lives, one engine and two cars, occurred Ave miles south of Lincoln, Neb., on the Chicago, Rook Island and Pacific Railroad where It crosses on a high trestle the tracks of the Union Pacific and Burlington and Missouri River Railronds, shortly after 10 o'clock p. m. All indications point to train wreckers as the cause. The dead are: 0. D. Stannard, conductor, Council Bluffs, perished in the flames, leaves family; William Craig, fireman, burled under encrine. leaves family; Ike Depew, engineer, Council B!uffs, buried under engine; grain dealer, of Fairbury, name unknown, burned to death in the wreck ; five traveling men, names unknown, burled under oar and burned to death; two farmers from Jansen, Neb., en route for South Dakota, burned to death. The injured: Harry Foote, brakeman, leg broken; C. H. Cherry, postal clerk, terribly cut about the face and head; Fort Scott express messenger, baok Injured and cut on the head; 0. S. Bell, Lincoln, traveling man, injured internally. Train No. 8, drawn by engine No. 215, Is an accommodation called the "Fort Worth accommodation," and is due to arrive at Lincoln at 9.40 p. m. On the night of the accident it was about ten minutes late, and was making up time when It struck the trestle that crosses Salt Lake Creek, about four miles from the city and two from the penitentiary. When it struck the trestle the rails immediately spread, and the engine, drawing the two cars aftor it, went thumping along over the cross ties for about fifty feet, and then with a crash it fell forty leet to the bed of the cieek below. The engine burst, and glowing coals, preading, Ignited the wooden supports and the coaohes behind it, and in a few moments the bridge, dry as a tinder from its long exposure to the sun, was a mass of flames. The coal?, falling upon the coaches lying in the ditches, set them afire, and five mtautes after the first warning the entire train of cars, With its load of human freight, below, was one mass of flames. It was an awfal sight. Willing hands were there to help, but little could be done. The engine had fallen first, then the combination car of smoker aud express coach fell partially upon that, and the rear coaoh falling behind it, telescoped that "car, thus pinioning those unfortunates who were in the smoker, bo that it was impossible to save them or for them to escape. Colonel C. J. Bliss and Jay McDowell, Fairbury passengers, and the brakeroan, Harry Foote, were the first to extricate themselves from the rear car. They immediately Btarted to work, and after a half hour's effort, the fourteen occupants of the car coach were saved. It was heroic work. The flames wore scorching in their Intensity, but those three men struggled hard to save their fellow sufferers. Rapidly the work of rescue w?nt on, until the entire fourteen rear coach passengers, including three women, were rescued and iald upon the bank beside the bridge. Those engaged in the work of rescue begged them to assist, but they were too frightened and excited to do anything but lay on the bank and moan. Many of them were severely injured and were unable to help. Harry Foote, the injured brakeman, is the one who advances the theory that the train was malioiously wreoked. According to his story, a rail was removed on the bridge and the fish-plates and a crowbar wera found in the grass near by. The evidences were plainly there and unmistakable. Marks made by a wrenoh on a loosened rail were plainly visible, and the marks of the crowbar on the cross ties were there so plain that no lantern was needed to examine them. The wood of the tlei was deeply dented where the crowbar had been inserted and the rails lifted clear of the ties, and the spikes which had been palled ont were lying around loose on the bridge. Just after this discovory City Detective Malone arrived and was informed of the facts and has the matter under Investigation. All the Injured were brought to Lincoln and are being given excellent core. Tho doctors thinlc all will recover. The loss to the railroad company is not lees than (80,000. CHINESE TREATY EATIFIED. * ? Senate's Vote of Ratification?Maio Provisions of the Treaty. The Chinese treaty has been ratified by the United States Senate. The vote by which treaty was ratified was 47 to 20, the North' western Senators generally voting against the treaty. Senators Lodge and Hoar,' of Massachusetts, also voted against ratification. me treaty provides tcatior a period oiren years the coming, exoept under conditions Bpecifled, of Chinese laborers to the United States shall be absolutely prohibited. Thi& does not apply to the return of any registered Chinese laborer who has a lawful wife, child or parent In the United States, or property here of the value of $1000 or debts of like amount duo him and pending settlement. Every such laborer is required before leaving the United States to deposit with the Collector a full description In writing of his family property, etc. The right to return must be exercised within one year from date of leaving, but the right to return may be extended, lor good cause, for one year. This treaty does uot affect the right now enjoyed by certain designated Chinese subjects (who are not laborers) to travel or to come to the United States or reside therein. Chinese laborers have the privilege of transit through the United States. The United States recognizes the right of the Chinese Government to enforoe registry regulations similar to those of the United States against all American laborers, skilled or unskilled in China, whether residing within or without the treaty ports. The United States also agrees to furnish the Chinese vernmont an annual report of all its citizens, including missionaries, who are in China. REMOVED AS ACCESSORY. Judge Talley, of Alabama, Stripped of Ills Ermine. The Supreme Court of Alabama rendered i decision in the impeachment proceedings igainst Circuit Judge J. B. Talley, of the Ninth District, declaring him guilty of being in accessory to the murder of Banker R. C. Ross, of Scottsboro. and removing him from Ms office as Judge. Ross was a man of family and President of i bank at Scottsboro. Miss Annie Skelton, 5f Scottsboro, is a member of one of the most prominent families in North Alabama ind a very accomplished and beautiful woman. A letter from Rose to Miss Skelton was opened in the latter's absence by th? wife of Judge Talley, who is a sister of Miss Skelton. It Is said to have shown that improper relations had existed between Ross ma tno young woman ior raouius. Miss Skelton's four brothers immediately planned to kill Ross. The banker was in Stevenson, ten miles away, at the time, and his brother, Edward Ross, learning of tho conspiracy, sunt a telegram addressed to him at Stevenson giving the plans of the Skeltons. TiiHna Toiifur hooTfi .-?f telegram and ,"""6" - .. wired the telegraph operator at Stevenson and the Mayor of Stevenson not to deliver the telegram and not to let Ross escape. Edward Ross's message was not delivered and Banker Ross was met In the road and shot to death bv the four Skeltons. The Skelton brothers were arrested and pave bonds of $25,000 each. Judgo Talley was also placed under bonds as an accessory, and the impeachment proceedings were commenoed. Cnri-E ha3 declined to join Mexico lu a proposed monetary conference for the establishment of a rate of value between gold and silver. TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Charles Miller, a murderer, cut his throat in the Tombs, New York City, and died in Beilevue soon afterwards. Michael Kennedy, No. 323 Madison street, Hoboken, and Peter Sullivan, New York, were Killed ahd six others injured by the falling of a wall in the new City Hall, at Jersey City, N. J. Twentx-eioht houses were wrecked at Scranton, Penn., by a cave-In caused by robbing the pillars of a coal mine underlying a portion of the city. At West Bnrgen, N. Y., the two little daughters of William Brodie, while playing with matches, caught fire, and the vounsrest, aged four, wa3 burned to death. The other, aged six, was dangerously injured. Thomas Holt, sexton of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement. Brooklyn, N. Y,. killed his wife, Caroline, at their home in that city. He fired a bullet Into her back, two more into her breast, and then out her throat with a carving knife and a razor. Nicholas Fredericksen, a United States citizen, arrived in New York after escaping from a Russian dungeon where he had been imprisoned without cause. His case is the subject of diplomatic correspoadence. Thousands of New Jersey farmers gathered at tho shore to celebrate their annual "Beach Day" in social reunioas and surf bathing. South and West. 4 suuden storm in Loudoun County, Virginia, blew over a temperance ''bush meeting" tent upon 3300 people, killing a man and perhaps fatally Injuria!? six women. EronTr-EioHT members of Coxey's "Commonweal Army'" at Hyattsville, Mi., were arrested and sentence 1 to jail. The Mississippi broke all records at Dubuque, Iowa, falling three-tenths of an inch below the 1864 mark. Traffic was almost wholly suspended. California wino-crowers have formed a syndicate with $10,000,000 capital. Miss Lulu Randall, aeronaut, In descending by parachute at Nashville, Tenn., was blown against a tree and killed. Three children of J. Walker, a farmer, living one mile south of Oelwein, Iowa, died and the four remaining members of the family were brought to the point of death from drinking a cooling mixture containing tartaric acid. C. 0. Mabth aad Mrs. Murray Mlltoa were thrown from a carriage and killed near Evergreen, W. Va. Evictions of strikers and their families were ordered at Pullman, III. Genxrous rains fell throughout Nebraska, and the crop situation is improved. The rains extended Into Colorado, South Dakota, Kansas and Iowa. Thx Attorney-General of Illinois has begun action to declare void tho charter of the Pullman Palace Car Company. L. W. Brainard shot and killed his wife at Vicksburg, Miss., and then committed suicide. Mrs. Brainard had recently commenced divorce proceedings against her husband. Three boys?Frank Burns, WfllJam 8lat? tery aud Matthew Slattery, ages between ten and thirteen years?were drowned while swimming near Norwood, Ohio. The Wichita (Kan,') National Bank, the oldest banking institution in the Southwest, has suspended. Nearlt eighteen hundred of the striking Pullmau employes reported for work. Washington. Captaik Sampson testified before tho CummlnpiH committee that the Carnegie Company hud fraudulently substituted a plate In the recent ballistic test growing out of the investigation. The members of the Georgia Weekly Press Association were received by the President at the watte House. The State Department Issue:! a warrant for the arrest of General Antonio Ezeta as soon ns he lands from the Bennington, In extradition proceedings begun by the Government of Salvador. Remnants of the Commonweal army were driven lrom Virginia by the militia and were provided with accommodation In Washington on Navy Department grounds. Foreign. The Venezuelan troop* have been defeatod by the rebels, with xieavy loss, north of Bolivar. General Caceres has been Inaugurated President of Peru, but will havs to fight to keep tho office. Guano Duchess Xesia, daughter of the Czar, and her husoand, were injured by being thrown from their carriage while driving from their wedding dinner. The Tien-Tsin correspondent of the London Times declares that the report that tho rank and pr.vileges of the Viceroy Li Hung Chang, of China, havo boen reduced by imperial command is entirely unfounded. The Britannia beat the Vigilant over tho A..Pahojo of TT.nrrlanrl fAi? fKa V^UCCU 9 wuwo Ofc wn Wj 4?ft.uuuj ?v? iuw Town prize ol $503. Thirteen persons were killed and twentynine were wounded by the earthquake at Aci Reale, Sicilv. A fxohx occurred on Corn Island, In which the Governor of the Islands was one of the combatants. Four Nicaraguan soldiers were killed and several parsons were severely wounded. The* Edinburgh express dashed against the buffers in Sr. Pancras Station, London, injuring twenty-one persons. It is confirmed from an official Chinese source that LI Hung Chang, the Viceroy has been reproved and degraded for dilatoriness in prosecuting the war. Cholera Is steadily spreading to the west of Europe. An Hxpedltion to bring the Wellman party back from the Arctic regions has started lrom Norway. A strong Chinese fleet has left tho coast, for the purpose, it is believed, of Intercepting transports conveying Japanese soldlera to Korea. Germany's Emperor called on cx-Empress Eugenie of France at her home in England. -BUHI-tiD UJNDJtitt A ilUUA.. Four Men Killed While Blasting for a Flume in Wyoming. A terrible accident, resulting in the death of four men and the serious injury of two others, occurred at the McShane Tie camp, in Granite Canon, on Tongue River, thirtyfive miles northwest of Sheridan, Wyo. A force o f men were fit work on the Tont^un River getting out ties for the Burlington <fc Missou? rl Railroad extension to Montana. A flume was being constructed in the bend of the river pnd a blast of 200 pounds of giant powder was exploded. A.fter the smoke hM cleared away a number of workmen were removing the rock and dirt that had been loosened by the explosion, when, without warning, a hus?e pile of rock fell from th? overhanging ollfT, burying four men beneath It. The dead are; F. P. Gallagher, N. P. Watts, William Angrove and John Hendrlck* son. YAQUI OUTRAGES. Mexicans Defeated in Their Fights With the Indians. Tho forces of Mexicans soldiers sent against the Yaqui Indians have met with defeat in all attacks so far made, and the Indians, emboldenod by their successes, are committing depredations upon the unprotected ranchmen. A courier has arrived bringing news of an encounter between soldiers and Indians near tho village of Cuiltepines recently which resulted in llfteen soldiers being killed and a largo number wounded. The Indians lost about ten killed. The Indians ambushed tho soldiers, and alter firing one volley into their ranks, lied into tho mountains. Tho Government will be asked to send reinforcements against the Yuquis. Seventeen* vessels of tho Navy have eirne ! premiums tor speed and horse-power, in excess of the contract guarantees, aggregating $2,264,586, and about ono-half of this amount has been paid to Cramp <fc Sons. The Minneapolis won $414,600 in premiums, tho largest amount eyjr earned by any war vestal. INCOME TAX FEATURES. PROVISIONS OF THIS PAET OF THE TARIFF BILL. Two Per Cent. Tax on All Incomes Exceeding $4000 ? Who Will Have to Pay and Who Will Be Exempt-Special Exemption for Farmers?The Corporation Tax. As explained by the New York Herald, the income tax addition to the new Tariff bill provides that Irom and after January 1, 1895, 3nd until Junnary 1, 1900. every citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person not a citizen residing in the United States, who has an income In excess of $+000 per year, oVioll i-?oT-a for nt f-ron nor f?nnl- on all his in come In excess of $4000. All those who have Incomes of not more than $4000 will escape this taxation, unless part of all the incomes are derived from investments in the stocks of corporations from the dividend? of which the tax will be deducted before they are paid. The taxed class will consist of all those whose incomes are more than $4000. with few exceptions, which will be noted. In some quarters there is some question as to what la meant by the $4000 exemption; the idea prevails that a man with an Income of more than 34000 would be taxed on his total income. This is not a fact. It is only th6 excess of $4000 that will be taxed. For instance, a man having an income of $5900 will not pay tax upon the whole $5000, but only upon the $1000 in excess of $4030. The only parsons who are exempted from the payment of this tax are theohlcersof States, counties and municipalities, the salaries which they receive not being included in estimating their Incomes for the purpose of taxation. The Governor of the State of New York, who receives a salary of $10,000 and who resides in a mansion provided by the 8tate, will not be taxed a cent on his salary, but the bank cashier or businessman, whose income is in excess of $4000 a year and who must provide his own home, will pay two per cent, of all his income moro than $4000 Into the Treasury of the United State'. The directions in the bill for estimating individual incomes are very minute, and are made to cover the incomes from every conceivable source, except the interest on bonds of the United States, the principal and inter est of which are by the law of their issuance oxempt from all Federal taxation. There is nnn uramnfinn whleh relieves the farmer from Including in his income the value of his farm products consumed by his family. In estimating incomes, all personal property. acquired by gift or iaheritanoe, is to be included, as are the profits realized within the year from sales of real estate, purchased within two years previous to the close of the year for which the inoome is estimated. In estimating incomes, the net expenses o( carrying on any business or profession are to be deducted. These expenses are to inolude interest, taxes, losses of all kinds, not compensated for by insurance or otherwise, and bad debts, but no deduction is to be made on acoount of permanent improvements or betterments made to increase the value of property. As the two per oent. tax levied on the incomes of corporations is to be paid by the corporations, in estimating individual Incomes all receipts from such sources are to be doduoted. While no one having anincomoof less than $4000 will be taxed, the law will compel every person having an inoome of more than (3500 to make a return of his income to the Collector of Internal Revenue in his district, and if any person having a taxable income neglects or refuses to make a return for such Income, or makes a wilfully fraudulent return, the Collector of Internal Revenue for hie distriot Is to make out a return according to the best information he can obtain by the examination of such person, or from any other evidence, and add fifty per cent, as a penalty to the amount he thinks to be due. In the bill as it passed the House the internal revenue collectors had power to ex amine private dookjs huu nuuuums, m>i mat feature was Btrioken out in the Senate. The taxes on incomes are to be payable on or be* fore July 1 of eaoh year for the calendar year preceding, with a penalty of five per cent, and interest at the rate of one per cent, per month upon suoh tax for failare to pay on the date prescribed. The provisions in regard to the taxations of the profits or incomes of corporations are very lengthy and complicated. The provisions as to exemptions and as to methods of making returns are as nearly as possible the same as those relating to the incomes of individuals. The bill exempts the incomes of States, counties, municipalities \, of organizations conducted solely lor charitable, religious o* educational purposes, including fraternal beneficiary societies operating upon the lodge system and providing for the payment of life, sick, accident and other benefits to thoir members ; of funds and securities held by trustees for charitable, religious or educational purposes, or building and loan associations which make loans to their stockholder only; of savings banks and institutions which have no shareholders or * onH Tin fl?nit?l I1IC LI IUU10 UO|/W3?vi?) ? -~J except deposits, which do not receive deposits to an aggregate of more than $1000 in one year from, the same depositor, which do not allow an accumulation of deposits by any one depositor exceeding $10,000, and which divide ratable to deposits all the net earnings, and which do not possess asurplus exooeding ten per cent, of their aggregate deposits. The bill also exempts the incomes of savings banks and institutions composed or members who do not participate in the profits, and which pay interest or dividends only to their depositors, and also such parts of the business of any savings bank or institution that is conducted on the mutual plan solely for the benefit of its depositors on such plan, and whioh shall keep a separate account of suoh business. The incomes of parely mutual insurance companies having no capital stook and no shareholders are also exempted. DESERTING THEIR FARMS. Hundreds of Western Settlers Forced Out of Their Homesteads. Long trains of canvas-covered wagons pass daily through Plattsmouth, Neb., eastward. They belong to the array of settlers who have been forced from their homes In Western Nebraska and Eastern Colorado by tho unprecedented drought of the present season. Many havo no particular destination In view. Their sole object is to reach some locoity east of the Mississippi where they can eke out au existence until another season has rolled around, and escape the hardships of a winter on the prairie. Since this exodus began It has been estimated that 10,000 people hava left the State. At Plattsmouth one day three hundred wagons were waiting to cross the bridge. One man who had driven through from Holyoke, Col., said that along one stretch of road he drove fifty miles, passing a farm every half section, and It was only at long intervals he found one occupied. The land offices are dailv receiving applications from homesteaders, who havo not yet proved up for a year's leave of absence, tho applicants asserting that it will be impossible for them to remain on their places and support themselves. Thousands of farm hands are idle, and there is no other work for them to turn their hands to. A GIRL KILLS ANOTHER. Thej' Unci a Quarrel and the Younger Had 11 Pistol aud lrscd It. Lizzie Daniels; aue'l fourteen year?, of Bridgeport, Peun., shot and initantlv tilled Mary Weaver, sixteen years of age. Tho girls had a quarrel about a swing, and tho Daniels girl pulled a thirty-two calibre revolver and llrel, the liull interim; the Weaver girl's brain above tho right eye. The Daniels girl has been arrested and held for trial. The Coroner's jury found that Miss Daniels shot Miss Weaver. The defence will he that it was by aeeideut, and that she did sli:l not intend to shoot. The Chines Government ha3 speciall y thanked Gorinany for the action of tho German warship litis in rescuing 150 Chinese who were struggling In the watac aft-r tho sinking of the Kow Shung. ' . - - .; * 'V?r * * ' 'y ' FIFTY-THIRD CONORESS. The Senate. 172d Day.?The entire day was spent in the consideration of private bills of little publics Interest. 178d Day. ?Mr. Hill's resolution that the tariff conferees report an agr?9ment or disagreement stirred up a lively debate, but the matter went ovpr without action. 174th Day.? After the morning business had been disposed of Mr. Hill's resolution was laid before the Senate, and he proposed to modify it so as to read: "That the conferrees on the part of the Senate who are now considering the differences between the two Houses on the Tariff bill, report to the Senate If they are likely to come to an agreement, and, if not, to report the principal items of disagreement, delivering said bill to the Secretary of the Senate for the further action of the Senate thereon." After an all-day debate the resolution was de(nnfflH hw n Ha vnt? thn Vine-President cast lne the deolding vote against it. 175th Da.y.?In exeoutive session the Chines* treaty was ratified by a vote of 47 yeas to 20 nays. 176th Dat.?The tour free-material bills passed by the House were read once, and Mr. Hill pave notice of an amendment to each providing for the repeal of the income tax.??Senate bill to promote Commodore Louis C. Sartoris, retired,, to be Bear Admiral on the retired list, and a House bill authorizing Soldiers' Home managers to extend outdoor relief to veterans were passed. 177th Day.?The conference report on the Deficiency bill was agreed to, the only matter still left in dispute being the amendment of the Senate appropriating $1,809,539 to pay the decree of the Court of Claims in favor of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A farther conference was ordered. The conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, with agreement on all points, was presented. Inquiry was made as to the Senate amendment appropriating $105,000 for the families of the twenty-one Government employes killed in the Ford's Theatre disaster. After debate the report | was agreed to. The House joint resolution providing for the extension of the appropriations till August 24th was taken up, amended by fixing the time to August 20th, and passed. The rest of the day was devoted to debate on the Free Sugar bill: a letter from Secretary Carlisle was read, saying it would produce a deficit of $30,000,000; Messrs. Vest and Vilas made the principal speeches. Ti? House. 195th Day.?Mr. Cannon eulogized the President for sending troops into Illinois. Mr. Boatelle made an attacic upon cne Administration for its Hawaiian policy. 196th Dat.?The Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill were taken up and discussed during the entire session. 197th Dat.?The House, by a vote of 55 to 127, rejected a motion by Mr. Wise, of Virginia, dlreotlnir the House conferrees to recede from their disagreement to the Senate amendment to the Sundry Civil bill appropriating $250,000 to purchase for the Government Printing Office a site owned by exSenator Mahone. The House then adopted the proposition of Chairman Bankhead, of the Committee on Public Buildings, to buy additional ground adjoining the building now in use. 198th Dat.? By a vote of 182 yeas to 105 nays the House passed the Tariff bill with the Senate amendments, and it was then sent to the President. 199th Dat.?A bill to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more perfectly carry out the purposes of the act of March 3, 1891, providing for the inspection of live stook and meats that are the subjects of inter-State commerce, was passed. A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge over Newark Bay by Hudson and Union Counties, N. J. A bill providing that all contracts hereafter executed for the payment of any sum of money, whether in gold, silver, or coin, may be discharged by any money which Is by law a legal tender for the payment of debts when the contract matures, was discussed for a time without action. The conference report on tha Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, of an agreement on all items, was agreed to. The report on the General Deficiency bill gave ris< to a discussion of the item appropriating $1,800,000 to pay the Southern Pacific Bailroad Company for the transportation ol troops, mails and merchandise, under a judgment of the Supreme Court, which was not concluded when the House adjourned. ' A JAPANESE RUSE, The Naval Attacks on Wel-Hai-Wel and Port Arthur. The Japanese naval demonstrations at Wel-Hai-Wei and Port Arthur were not regarded as having been serious attempts to take either place. They were merely a ruse, designed to ascertain the exact position; and force of the Chinese guns mounted on the fortifications there. The Chinese fleet was away, and the Jap aneae commander, doubtless informed of the Pet Yang's fleet's movements, probably Beteed a favorable opportunity to And out the weak and the strong points of the fortifications at the two great Chinese navaJ stations on opposite sides of the entrance to the preat Gulf of r<e-Chee-Lec. At the further end of that gulf ure the Taku forts, which guard the mouth of the Pel Ho or North River, leading to Tien-Tsin, where Li Hung Chang resides, and Pekin. the seat of the empire. There were twenty-3ix vessels io the Japonoao onnndron. The warships drew up in line of battle off the port of Wai-H;ii-v7ei and opened Are. The forts seemed to repulse the enemy without much difficulty. About fitty shots wero exchanged, but no material damage was done on either sida The soldiers manning the guns of the shore fortifications showed the&selves lamentably deficient in marksmanship. Nearly all their shells either fell short of the vessels aimed at or went wide of the mark. When the fleet withdrew it sailed across the Yellow Sea to Port Arthur, whlcl place it attacked in the evening. Little, if an}*, damage, Is reported to h??? been done at this latter place. THE NEW TARIFF. Reduction In Existing Rates Made by the Senate Bill. The following is a statement of the average ad valorem (according to the value) rates of dntv of the McKinley law and the Senate bill, with the percentage of redaction made by the Senate bill on the under-mentioned important articled : jreKinloy Senate Percent. Artlc'es. law. bill, reduction Painted china 60 35 42 Plain china.. 55 30 45 Iron ore. 41 21 49 Pig Iron 43 23 47 Steel rails 58 34 41 Tin-plate 78 42 46 Manufactures ot tin.. 55 35 36 Wire rods 34 23 33 Saws 40 25 87 Screws Ill 67 40 Cotton clorh 44 25 43 Cotton plusb ? ? 50 Woolen yarns 279 30 89 Woolen shawls 150 35 77 Knit fabrics 136 35 74 Blankets 104 35 71 Hats 106 35 67 Flannels 104 35 67 Woolen dress goods.. ? ? 54 Flushes ? ? 52 Carpets ? ? 64 Silk _ , _ 67 Buttons ? ? 50 Gloves ? ? 50 Coal 23 12 48 Binriiug-cwine 6 Free 100 Paintings 15 Free 100 Statuary 15 Free 100 I Fresh fish 15 Frew iuu Lumber 'ill,,' Frets 100 Timber 10 Free 100 TORNADO IN SPAIN. More Than 200 Persons InjuredGreat Damage to Crops. A tornado which swept over flieProvinca of Ciudad Real, Spain, was accompaniol by ft terrific storm of hail. More than two hundred persons were injured and several thousand domestic animals were kiMwd. The damage to crops is estimated at $300, 000. LATER NEWS. Johs Qutxcy Adams, the greatgrandaon of President John Adams, twice Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, died at his summer residence in Mount Wollaaton, Mass., aged sixty-one years. Pbominxnt Pittsburgers have called a convention, to be h aid at Braddock, Penn., tor tne organization of a new national party. BLtrzFiELDa has been retaken by 2000 Nlcaraguans who arrived from Bama and Qreytown on board transports flying the United States flag. The American marines re-embarked on their approaob. The British cruiser Mohawk has arrived at Port Llmon, Costa Eica, with Chief Clarence and 112 refugees from the Mosquito const on board. Copious rains in the corn belt have done much good to the orop. "Ed" Pabdbidqe, the noted Chicago grain speculator, accounted a multi-millionaire and proprietor of one of the largest dry goods stores in the city, became crazy and violent from drink, and was forcibly removed to an inebriate asylum by his son. Two colored men were lynched near Maoalpin, Fla., for assaulting a fourteen-yearold girl, and for a similar offense, the victim being a farmer's wife, Marshall Boston, also colored, was taken from the Frankfort (Ky.) jail by 250 men and hanged. President Cleveland wrote an encouraging and sympathetic letter to Chairman Wilson immediately aftor the passage of the Tariff bill, admonishing him to guard his health in order to continue the fight for tariff reform. Govebxment receipts are expected to amount to $392,251,142 under the new tariff law. The President has approved the act to subject to State taxation national bank notes and United States Treasury notes. The British House of Lords rejeoted the Evioted Tenants' bill. Mobe than 400 Anarchists have arrived in London within the lqst few days. Solabes, the Peruvian rebel commander, is marching upon Lima and says he will shoot President Caceres.| Seve^ Anarchists, said to have plotted to blow up Premier Crispi, were arrested la Borne, Italy. It is estimated that when the Tariff bill passed Congress the 125 bonded warehouses in New York City contained 1.500.000 packages of goods valued at $40,000,000, upon which duties to the amount of about $30,000,000 remained unpaid. Comptbolleb Eckels said to bankers at Saratoga, N. Y., that the powers possessed by every business man are denied the first financial officer of the United Statea. He predicted speedy return to good times. A thousand barrels of sugar, wirh a largo quantity of other groceries, were destroyed, in a fire in B. C. Williams ic Co.'s building in the wholesale grocery district, New York City. The strike . commission appointed uy President Cleveland to Investigate the Pullman and railroad strikes began its work In Chicago. The United States cruiser Bennlnarton, with the Salvadorian refugees on board, was stopped by a Government tuar outside the three-mile limit, off San Francisco, Cal. Democratic State Conventions met in Indiana and Tennessee. The Missouri Republican Convention met at Excelsior Springs, Mo. Secbetabt Carlisle wrote a letter saying that free sugar meant a deficit of $80,000,000. The Kaffirs in the Transvaal Republic. South Africa, are said to have murdered * 1 an/1 iJoer iarmers uy mr atrocious cruelties. H THE LABOR WORLD I Saw Francisco has sixty unions. H Chicago has 70D Union plumbers. M Uncle Sam has 5000 Union clerks. M Massachusetts has 11,214 K. of L. H Italy's railroaders demand less hours.. M The A. B. U. strikes cost $100,000,000. H Chinese masons get twenty cents a day. H August 25 is West Virginia's Labor Day. H St. Louis laundry girls average $5 a week. S Labob is gaining power in Great Britain. H Chinese farm servants got $17.50 par year. ? The world has 300 profit-sharing concerns. H Italian railroaders held a national con* H vention. BR The coal strike is estimated to hare coat H $90,000,000. Sax Fbaxcisco will begin a crusade against H child labor. |8| The National Bureau of Labor was estabiished in 1884. President Debs, of the American Railway Union, was once a fireman. ?fl A home where working women mar live HE ? * 1 A AU.'A HWi cheaply 13 projected in lyievemuu, V/UIW, East LivERPooL(Ohio)crirl pottery workers struck against a cut to sixty-five cents a day. A firm of attorneys at Detroit prosecutes free of charge employers who do not pay^H wages. The number of employes in the service ot^| American railways on June 30, 1893, was^l 873.602. The National Lahor Tribune says that^f Debs's projected union of all workingmen Is impracticable at present. President McBribe, of the United Mine^H Workers, has advised his followers to seek relief in politics hereafter. Av Iron Mountain (Mich.) Iron firm has voluntarily increased the wagas of its employes twenty-five per cent. Neislt 2000 strikers applied for their old^M positions on railroads at Chicago, hut their places were filled by new men only a^H few wore re-employeJ. Delegates from twenty-four American Railway Unions met in Chicago and de-^H clared the strike off on all roads but the^H Santa Fe and Eastern Illinois. Representatives of the United Mtne^H Workers' Union, the American Railway^H Union. Knights of Labor ani the State^H Trades and Labor Assembly of Ohio met at^H Columbus and discussed adoption of lnde-HR pendent political action. DM The Switchmen's Mutual Al<l Association^ has had its affairs woun 1 np on account o^Bj a cash deficiency or $32,000. The failure ot^B the association is said to bo due to misman-^H agement nn part of the treasurer, who dis~^H appeared some weeks ago. KB ALe Claire (III.) plnmbers' supply conv^S pany has been shurin? profits with em-^H ployes for six years. Waives were cut dur^H in? the recent depression, but whenbusines^^H boome<l the wages withheld were paid. t<^H the delight of the m?n. Taere is a co-oper^H atlve storo at Le Claire, a library, ciul^H house, etc , and men are aided in purchasLa^^B lota in the village. TWENTY PERSONS DSOWNEDH Large Kowboat Upsets at a Re~att;^M at Tenby, Wales. Puriu? the regatta at Tenby, Wales, ,'^H large row'uoat in which excursionists wur<^^H being convoyed in a trawler, was upset^^H All of the occupants were thrown into th^^| water, and before help could reach them^^a about twenty were drowne.i. gBH Tho party had prepared for a cruise on th^^H trawler and had many baskets and bundle^H| which were piled so as to disturb tho balanct^N ol the boat.