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' ' : . ii y _________ MiVSFIiniB THE LEXOW COMMITTEE'S INVESTIGATIONS. Charges of Corruption Preferred on the Witness Stand Against the Rank and File of New York's Police Force?Many Inspectors and . Captains Smirched, By testimony adduoed before the Lexow Senatorial Investigating Committee in New Ink City during the last days of its session, out of the money whioh has been taken ?Mtofthe pookets of polloemen was traoed to Police Headquarters. Sergeant Jchn J. Taylor, now a Yorkviile PoUeeCourt official, declared under oath tDPXSIHTKySXKT OF POLICE BTENES. tafore the committee that while serving as Acting Captain of the Steamboat Sqaad he waived orders from Inspector Henry Y. teers,. now retired oa aa annual pension of, ~$350O, to oolleot the money received by foHeemen from steamship and ferry corn mnlmr and that in obedlenee to that order IK carried eighty per cent, of about $200 to Police Headquarters every month and gave M into the hands of Inspector Steers. Sereit Taylor said Inspector Steers allowed to retain twenty percent, commission. When Captain Allaire took command, the Beegeant said, he left the money, by order mt Inspector Steers, In an envelope marked " Street Cleaning Reports" In the Captain's tak, and supposed it went to Police HeadQuarters. The practice was continued after Inspector steers retired and was sucoeeaea iy Inspector TOomas F. MeAvoy. "I eouldn't swear," he said, when he was adt?i who took the envelope and who then j|0t the money. "I couldn't swear," he said, when he was Mknd who he thought got tt. He, however, continued to get his twenty jnr sent. He went out of nis way several times to tell of Inspector MoAvoy's integrity ud of his belief that the Inspector was not tbe heir to Steers's scheme of blackmail, as fce was the heir to the command of the district. . Kx-Ward Kan Robert J. Vail confessed to li? committee that he collected regularly larif the money received by the policemen oi j the Steamboat Squad from the stexmship and tarry companies, and gave it to Captain fiastliri and then to Captain Schmittberger, who succeeded Qastun. He said that Muatttberger ordered htm to collect all the mwy received by the policemen, and that they demurred. Schmittberger then told Ma to give him a list of thdse policemen who would not give up all they got, and such were transferred. all testified that hie once went to Ho ?IK-A-4 ACA WKCHluia WUOUIC14 vuv ivt va^/iam vuuiuivtSerger (or protection on the Desbrosses street %e!gbt dock. In the coarse*)! a year, Vail F odd, he collected 3000. Guar B. Canohola. Freight Agent or the Itaneh Steamship Company, tola how Captain Schmittbergpr'a friend, Mr. Wolff, ofJtored to seeure thn return ol the 9600 which Agent Forget gave to Sohmlttberger. with ^additional bribe, be thought, of 11000, for th?eojipfcny's boob containing the .record fctthe'original flve-hundred-dollar transaoand now he deolined the proposition. Then there was a procession of policemen ^ BBeeteri with the Steamboat Squad whc testified that CaptainSchmlttberger demand dan the money they received from steamship and railroad companies as oompenmtto* for extra work at piers. They said it was customary for every Captain from Captain. Gastlln to Captain Allaire to lev; monthly tribute upon such perquisites, but ttaf they were all, with the 'exception of Bohmittberger, content to accept hah. When shmlttberger's demand was made known to j them they objected and were transferred to Ism congenial posts. ' XnHn W Dantw>nniiir?n vnr a (rain on thfl stud anl gavt? sotno additional testimony boat the payment of Captain Creeden's 915,000 to John Martin for Police Commlsriooer John R. Yoorhis, who promoted him. tte oommittee declared thnt Captain Creeden had be?n protected from puniah ent at the hands of the Police Commissioncxb for his contagion to the committee that kebad paid f15,000 for his office. John B. Yoorhis, now a Police Justice, was before .the eommittee, ready to testify that he had act received any of Creeden's money, and ,4he eommittee sent a physician to examine John Martin, the man who was declared to Iwrs received $10,000 of the sam. Zz-Aldorman PMiip Benjamin, who is sow a'clerk in the Coanty Clerk's office, Pj&cS' was implicated by the testimony of a man Wbodeclared that he had received $6 from SW& Tammany politician with the under standing that he was to vote tbe Tammany ticket three times at the last election. The &V". wsnese,. however, declared that he had torn ' vpthft pasters Riven him by Benjamin and lad Toted only once, and then had vote 1 the Bapublloan ticker. Another witness told a similar story....policeman Hermann Intern\a returned to <? witness stand and tootc back the testit Sony that he 1 had given. He admitted that he had been in the habit of survaaderlng $25 oat of the (40 he received very month from the steamship company, and explained that fear of his superior offlsets had caused him to perjure himself. On plain Anthony J. Allaire was examined at great length by air. Qoff, but he withstood the-ordeal well, and left the witness stand without having been disturbed for one mosent. Mr. Goff heard that Police Captain Schmltt larger, wbo has been implicated by a numftcr of witnesses and has hm>n indicted for lvibery on account of the (500 which he reastred from the agent of the French line, was making ready to escape from the . Mnntry, and he communicated with the DlsWet-Attorney. Schmlttberger was arrested ? a bench warrant late in tbe afternoon, utdbis ball was increased to (15,000. At a We hour he secured a bondsman. Tbe most Important piece of news that I. flame 10 iiRQt oaiors me Dexow ^aaimiueu L wu the probability that Mr. Goff would cod j tlisue to act as the committee's counsel I daring the-'flrsr "month of his term as BeL-l. ?*Uer. POLICE CAPTAIN CONFESSES. Creeden, of the New York Force, Paid $15,000 for Promotion. !' Thomas J. Creeden, Police Captain of this Morrisania Precinct, New York City, went eo the witness stand before the Lexow Coc.'iiittee and swore that he paid $15,000 to be promoted from the rank of Sergeant 1o that ot Captain. He was ap. pointed Captain by Police Commissioner John R. Voorhis. The money was paid loJohn W. Reppanhagen, the leader of the Tenth Assembly District, in the New York Democracy organized by John R. Voorhis. Bepp*nbacensworn that he paid 810,000 of the ?15,000 to ex-Assemblyman John M:ir Sin, th? intimate friend and political lieutenant ot Voorhis, for tne purpose of having Cteeden aopointed Captain. The Police Board suspended Creeden, and loth President Martin and Superintendent Byrnes were called before the committee, L where they admitted a mistake had been A *iade, but said it would be rectified, prob ably by Creeden's reinstatement. & The committee thanked Captain Creeden, I Who ihey declared, had rendered a great public service, and decided that the fullest protection should be accorded to hJm. He r wasapplauded by the spectators after matting ' to confession. r I Uro's Fixurcu* Rxvnsw says business In ^^g^yUbranehwijijta ?tand, although , THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Thx oath of office as Mayor of New York was administered to William L. Strong, the Mayor-elect, by Judge Barrett in the Special Term of tne Supreme Court. A beab end collision of two trains on the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad resulted in slight injuries to a large number of passengers, wrecked an engine and blockaded travel for several hoars. A vkbdiot for $714,OM was rendered against New York City in a suit for taxes to maintain State insane. Fbank A. McKeas-, cashier of the Indian Head National Biink, of Nashua, N. H., disappeared. and there is an alleged shortage of 1)30,000 in his accounts. Danesl M. Robertson, the wife murdernr, was hanged at New Bedford, mass. xne execution passed off without special incident. This was the first hanging Tor forty years in Bristol County. Adjutant-General Josiah Pobteb. of the New York State National Guard, died of apoplexy at his home In New York City. Samuel G. Seelt, the defaults? bookkeeper of the Shoe ani Leather Bank, New York City, made a full oonressiou In LudlowStreet Jail to his lawyer, telling how he escaped and bow he was betrayed in Chicago. Samuel C. 8eelet. the bookkeeper who stole 9354.000 from the Natlosal Shoe and Leather Bank. New York City, pleaded guilty. He was remanded for sentenoe. Judge Tbuax, In the Supreme Court. New York City,handed downa declsloaoverthrowing the deed of gift made by the exeoutors of the Fayerweather will. Fbaxk Butcheb was killed and two other carpenters were probably fatally injurei by the fall ot a scaffold, on whictt they were working, at Carteret, N. J. South and West. Cabl Schubz was re-eleoted President of the National Civil Service Bsform League at Chicago. George McAnany of New York, was elected Secretary and Silas W. Burt, of New York, Treasurer. At Fort Jones, Cal., a masked mob took William Dean, an Indian, who murdered William Bormore, from the oustoly of Constable Dixon and hanged him to a derrick. The death of Gaul, one of the noted Sioux ehisfs. la reported from. Standing Bock [South Dakota) Agency. He was next to sitting Bull in rank as chief. The jury in the case of the eleven man charged with lynching the six colored prlsnnnra nnar Mumnhis. Tenn . bronfirht In a rerdtct of not ffutfty. ' Govkbkob Bbows ordered Colonel E. N. Gaither, of the Second Eentuoky Rsgiment, to go to Hazard, Perry County, where the French-Eversole fued has broken out again. , Judge Goff decided against the State of South Carolina in the case involving the arms of the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, whloh Governor Tillman required the company to surreuier for insubordination during the dispensary riots. Jaxes Gillfallis, Chief Justioo of Minnesota, died in St Paul. Hokzstxadebs are Booking Into South Dakota to locate on the forfeited right of way of the St. Paul road. Tas home of the Bevl Solomon Bookerman, at Cleveland, Ohio, was destroyed by fire and his two little daughters, aged seven and eleven years, were burned to death. "Gs5." akd John Kennxdt, murderers, were hanged at Jasper, Tenn. Both men made a confession before the drop fell, and the General also stated that they had been Implicated in other robberies. The President renominated Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. C. Clements. Thomas J. Clarke was appointed Superintendent of Mails In the New York Fostoffloe. The Senate confirmed the following nominations : Edward H. Strobel, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile; Herbert C. Squlera, of New York, second Secretary of Embassy at Berlin. Seoeetaet Lakost decided that the proposed New York 'and New Jersey Bridge most be a suspension, single span strnctun. Pbofsssob Lanolby's aeroplane was successfully navigated 303 yards In the air near Washington. Because of a cat in wages all the cars ol the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company, in Washington, were left standing in the streets, and many were lifted from the tracks by tne strikers and their sympathizers. The Pension Appropriation bill, whloh carries $141,381,750, was passed in the House without amendment. The Senate laid aside the Japanese treaty to await an investigation of the massacre at Port Arthur. President Cleveland, aooompanled by Dr. O'Beilly, Captain B. D. Evans and Charles Jefferson, left Washington for a brief hunting trip on the coast of South Carolina. The Senate confirmed the nomination oE John B. Jackson, of New Jersey, formerly Second Secretary of Legation of the United ! States at Berlin, Qermany, to be Seoretary of Embassy of the United States at that place. The President? approved the act providing for the dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, September 19, 1895. Ckaibxan Spbinoeb presented the Carlisle Currency bill to the House, together with the majority report of his committee. The President nominated Charles D. Clark, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee, vice David M. Key, retired. Humphrey B. Hamilton, of New Mexico, to be A9sooiate Justloe of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. Thomas O'Hara, of Michigan, to be Consul of the United States at San Juan Del Norte, WI/inmcna. Foreign. The body of Sir John Thompson, the deceased Prime Minister of Canada, was taken trom Windsor Castle to London, where it will be embalmed preparatory to its removal to Canada. The Unitel States cruiser Detroit, with the Vatican relics whioh were exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Cnicagoia3t year, arrived at Naples. Italy. A band of about twenty Yaqul Indians visited the ranch ot Ruiz Borcena, near Hermoiillo, Mexico, and massacred four cowboys employed ou the place. The Indians burned all tue ranch buildings. Lord Aberdeen invited Mackenzie Bowel to form a new Canadian Cabinet. Joseph Tbuskey was executed at Sandwich, Canada, for the murder ot Constable William Lindsay, on the night of May 3 last. The Japanese garrison at Feng-Huang defeated a Chinese force three times its size. Tbi Snltnn atnvnd off lnntiirv Into the Armenian massacre until the'snow has obliterated many evidences of It. RoBEttr Louis Sievenson, the novelist, died or apoplexy at Apia, Samoa, aged forcylour years. The financial situation in Newfoundland Is said to be growing darker. The resignations of the Bulgarian Ministers were accepted by Prince Ferdinand. Thore is a crisis tu=?=, MOTHER SLAYS CHILDREN. A Missouri Woman Murders Two Little Ones and Commits Suicide. At Dry Hollow, Mo., Mrs. William Jones, during a fit of despondency, cut the throats of her five and sevnn-year-old children with a razor and then committed suicide in the same manner. One child lived several hours and tho other died almost instantly. Jones was at Washburn at the time. BRISSON SUCCEEDS BURDEAU. Elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies. M. Brlsson, who was Prime Minister at the fall of M. Jules Ferry in 1885, was elected President of tne Frenoh Chamber of Deputies at Paris to succeed the late M. Burdeau, by a vote of 249 to 213. ? ? The other candidate waa 1L ilod^fa^Q - . , AT HOI AND ABROAD LATE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TELEGRAPHIC) NEWS. Policeman Thorne, of New Yorli City, Makes a Fall Confession ol Thirteen Tears' Experience Collecting Blackmail ? Tragedy la an Iowa Bank?A Fatal Fight roucoman Augustus J. xaorne, wuo was for nearly thirteen years a "special officer" In tho Leonard street preolnot, New York City, made a confession that promises to be qnlte as startling in its results as that made by Captain Timothy J. Creeden before the Lexow Senatorial Investigating Committee. Thornewas indicted for bribery and perjury in connection with the extortion practised by ex-Captain John T. Stephenson upon Produce merchant Martin N.Edwards. He was the mess anger by whom Stephenson demanded apples, peaohes and money from Edwards ai a bribe for the privilege of blocking the sidewalk in front of his store with'boxes and barrels of merchandise. When Captain Stephenson was on trial before the Police Commissioners, Thorn0 denied under oath that he had ever taken messages to Edwards, or that he had ever seen him. When Stephenson was convicted of the offence of blackmailing Edwards, Thorns was promptly indloted. One night's confinement in the Tombs Prison and the prospect of soon sharing Stephenson's fate convinced him that he had better make a lull confession of his guilty knowledge. Darin* a three hoars' interview with As stetant District Attorney Lindsay be admitted that be had acted as "special officer" for Captains Jacob Slebert, Joseph Eaklns, Max P. Schmittberger, Joslah A. Westervelt and Acting Captain O'Toole while they commanded the Leonard street preofnof. Hs was a patrolman In the same precinct under Captains Thomas Byan, Adam Cross and Michael Doherty. Thorns, It is understood, told all about theblackmall he levied from drygoods and produce merchants, poolroom keepers and polloy shop owners In the preolnct. He also revealed, it is said, oolluslon between the polios and men who conducted the "gyp game"?a species of confidence operation by means of which visitors to the city were induced to pay $200 or $250 for worthless horses. It is understood that Thome's con-, fasslon crave names, dates and the amount and disposition of the "protection money", in all these oases. He declared that he would have beoome a witness for the people against Stephenson had he not been prevented by Stephenson's threats. Captain Timothy J. Creeden was promptly restored to duty as commander oil the Morrisania precinct at an early morning meeting of the Police Board. Commissioner , Sheehan oast the only vote against his reinstatement. Captain Creeden will be allowed to retire on half pay at an early { date. The Senators composing the Lexow I Committee were especially gratified at this result,- for they believe the example oi the kind treatment of Creeden will tend to Induce other Police Captains having gollty knowledge to confess. American Armor Plate. The Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company has received the whole contract for the trmor of Russia's two new battle ships. The contract calls for more than 12,000 tons, ind means a full year's work in- the armor lepartment The contract for the 8ebastopol and Petropavlovsk value is . nearly $4,000,000. The contract was jecared over fourteen competitors, Including Krupp. The work will b? begun ns soon as details are received from St. Petersburg. The Bethlehem Iron Company shipped to the Brooklyn Navy Yard four Harvey plates for the last turret of the battle ship Maine. The Maine's armor is now all supplied. A seventeen-lnch Harveylzed nickel steel piare, represauuug iuo uaiwjuo piaics ui the Oregon, was tested at the nival proving grounds, Indian Head, Md. It was twelve feet one inoh long, eight feet four Indies wide, and weighed thirty ton?. The first shot, a Wheeler projectile, 855 pounds, twelve-Inoh shell, was aimed at the centre. 'The oharge was 278.3 pouads oi powder, velocity 1410 feet per second. It penetrated fifteen inches and rebounded unhurt. It made a crnck in the plate at the right top end to the Impact through the plat*. A number of radical eraoks were made about the shot hole. The result of this shot indicated too much softness in the plate. Another shot about four feet from the top end of the ingot penetrated about ten inohes and was broken into srmii pieces. The plate cracked from each impact to the upper edge. A rigid Interpretation of the armor specifications would roqulre the rajeotlon of this plate. This was sala to be the weakest plate of the number made of that olas3, all oI which cost about $300,000. Fatal Prize Fight. Andy Bo wen, the famous light weight pugilist, has been killed by a blow or George Ltvigne, known a9 the "Saginaw Kid."' and prize fighting at New Orleans, where the' tragedy occurred, from immediate indications has received a blow beneath the belt. The contest, which was one of twentyfive rounds for a 93000 purse, was a generously attended affair and congregated about the ring were some of the best-known fighters of the country. It was In thu eighteenth round that the fatal blow was delivered. Bowen had been knocked down in the previous round, and when he toed the aoratch for what proved to be his last rail? Lavlgne feinted with his right, and as Bowen duoked Lavigne's elbow caught Bo wen's chin. As Bo wan straightened up Lavigne's right landed on the point of the jaw, and Bowen fell back, his head striking the platform with full force. Ho remained unconscious until 7 o'clock next morning, when he died. Bowen was born and had lived in New Orleans most of his life. He would have been thirty-one years old on February 5. A chntge of murder against Lavlgne was made, and the others were held as accessories. Later Lavlgn? wns arraigned in court, and was held in $10,000 ball. All the accessories, Referee Duffy and the seconds, Consadlne, Murphy, Jim Hall. Fltzpatrlck and Layton were also neld in $5000 bail. The fatal termination or the BowenLavlgno flght Is the fourth within a year that has resulted in the death of one of the principals. Daufee killed Danovau at Syracuse, I N. Y., by a knockout blow, and Fitzslmmons caused the death of his sparring partner, I Con Rtordan, at the same place a couple ol months ago. In England recently "Dummy" Winters knocked out George Smith, and the Utter died from tbe effects of it. Five Shots in the Bank. A sensational tragedy occurred It the private office of the Citizens' Bank, Council Bluff, Iowa, at about 11 o'clock, a. m. John R. Huntington, a clerk in the Dank, shot F. H. Hayden, of Chicago and C. A. Cromwell, of Minneapolis, experts in the employ ol the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York, seriously wounded them, and then tura>d bis revolver on himeel r with fatal effect. Hayden received a shot through the neck and was very seriously hurt. Cromwell was shot threw times. One bullet pnssed through the jaw. another fractured his wrist, and a third ball entered his back below the shoulder blade and ranged forward. Hayden aud Cromwell went from Chicago threo days before at the request of the officials of the bank to investigate a shortage of 9500. All the employes of the bank were under bonds in the surety company, and the experts were sent to trace the shortage. They had an engagement with Huntington at the bunk and wore in the dim-tors' room questioning the youns man, when suddenly, without a moment's warning. ho walked over to wber? Cromwell was sitting aad shot him. Hayden and Mr: Edmundson, President of the bank, were tn tbe room, and at once ran out, and so did Cromwell. Before the Inspectors reached the door, however, Huntington emptied three more of the chambers of the revolver into them, and then turned the weapon against himself. The revolver was found lying by his side with all the chambers empty. Unprotected Women Murdered. Mrs. Winslow Shearman, sixty-seven years old, and frer daughter, Mrs. Clinton Davis, thirty-flv*e years old, were murdered at their borne In iBufttl, N. ho ran 1 itay attending the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Shearman, who were so injured at a railroad orossing a week before that they died. Their little grand-daughter was killed Instantly in this aooident. The only other male member of Winslow Shearman's household is the young son of Mrs. Davis. He was at a neighbor's, leaving the two women alone in the house. Mrs. Davis's son discovered the crime. Ha (ouad two rooms stained with blood and the Sodles of his mother and grandmother on the floor. They had been shot and their itnlU crushed with a hatchet. The house Is in plain view of other dwellings, bat none f the neighbors saw anyone enter It. The police are without any ohi9. Kurds Tarn Cannibals. For nineteen days the residents of the Armenian villages, where the late outrages were perpetrated, taught against the Surds. The Armenians lost only ten warriors while the Kurds lost 669. When the regular troops under Zekkl Past]a appeared the Armenians were compelled to sncoumb. After Zakkl Pasha's treachery in offering peaoe sixty Armenian young men were seized and tortured horribly for three days. Then all were murdered and their bodies were buried In a ditch. < Among the Armenian heroes who lost their lives the writer mentions Derbedros. who, with his own hand killed seven Kurds la fall . fight. He was oaptared and flayed to the waist. Pieces of his flesh were cut off, broiled and eaten by the savage Kurds while he was still alive. V Feeds His Hogs Horse 3ieat. P. W. Sohenek, a New York banker, who has large Interests in Montana, fells of an acquaintance of his buying 1000 ranee horses in . Fergus. Mon tana, for $3 a head, killing them, boiling the meat in a huge oaldron and using It to feed a large number of hogs on his ranch. The ranchman olaims he will get mora for his hogs than he would if he had Invested the amount he paid for the horses la corn. f ' LIres Saved, by a Hero. Thomas Lloyd, engineer at the Stavens colliery, West Plttston, Penn., at the risk of his own life stood amid the flames of % burning engine house and kept in motfon the hoisting apparatus, by which forty men were rescued from the bottom of the mine who otherwise would have perished. Lloyd was fatally burned. Ulie imprisonment iur ? nuuuor. ' Aval Johnson pleaded guilty at Los Angeles, Cal.. to the Southern Pacific train robbery at Boscoe station, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. SIX MQNTHSFOB DEBS. He and Other A. B. U. Officials Sentenced for Contempt. t The leaders of the great American Railway Union strike of lost summer were found guilty by Judge William A. Woods, of the United States Circuit Court, Seventh Circuit, Chicago, HI., of contempt, in violating the injunction issued against them during the strike. S \\ XTTOXNZ . DZB3. President Debs, of the A. B. U.. was sentenced to six months In jail. Vice-President Howard, Secretary Xeliher, Treasurer Rog-. ere and Directors Burns, Elliott, MaoVeaD, Hogan and Goodwin were each sentenced to three months in jail. As it was shown that Director MaoVean was oat of the city during the strike, and took no part in the management of it, sentence in his casa was suspended. Judge Woods announced that the sentences would not go into effect for ten days, in which time counsel for the defendants could prepare an appeal. President Debs and the other defendants listened closely to the reading of the finding, and at its conclusion Judge Woods announced that, though it was not in accordance with procedure in such cases to permit the defendants to say why sentence should not be passed, he would allow it in this case. Attorney Darrow, representing the defendants, ' asked that his clients might retire for a consultation. After a brief recess the strike leaders filed back into court, ranging themselves before the bench. Attorney Darrow, speaking for them, said each felt that he had done no wrong. The contempt for whloh the defendants were arranged was a violation of an injunction issued July 2 by Judges Wood and Grosscup, which forbade all men to interfere with trains in any way whatsoever. It was claimed by the United States District Attorney.that Debs, and the other officers nnd directors of the American Bailway Union, repeatedly violated this order of the court by issuing directions to tneir neuieuants All over the country to call out the men and advising the crippling ot the complete railroid system of the United States, if possible. The defense made was that Debs and his assistants bad a right to order strikes and to continue to conduct their side of the light against the railroads. " MOKE GO THAN COME. Number of Immigrants Smaller Than the Number of Emigrants. Superintendent Stump, of the Bureau oi Immigration, has written a letter to Frescott F. Hall, Secretary of the Immigration Restrictive League, ot Boston, Mass., as to the number of incoming and outgoing passengers in the steerage of Atlantic steamships. Mr. Stump makes the statement that from November 1 to December S, 1894, the exodus from this country 01 passouijera uy aicoitixo was 25,544, and the urrlvals for the month of November by steerage was 12,986. "So, you will see.'* says the Superintendent, "that those departing largely exceed those arriving. "I am determined to restrict immigration to the most desirable classes. You will observe this by the great number of those now arriving who are detained for special examination." ' Superintendent Stump also calls attention to the fact that the number of immigrants arriving here, as contained in the Immigration Bureau reports, does not agree with the figures furnished by the Bureau of Statistics, whose figures include tourists and visitors, While his figures embrace only immigrants. SWITZERLAND'S NEW HEAD, Joseph Zemp Elected President of the Federal Council. Joseph Zemp, the Ultramontane, has been elected President of the Federal Council for 1895. He is now Vice-President. M. Lachenal, Radical, has been elected VicePresident. The President and Vice-President of the Federal Counofl are the first magistrates of the Swiss Confederation. Both are elected by the Federal Assembly in joint session of the National and State Councils for the term of one year, January 1 to December 31, and are not re-eligible to the same offices until after the expiration of another year. The Vice-President, ho^ayer, maybe and usually THE INCOME TAI SPIES. THE REGULATIONS ISSUED BY SECRETARY CARLISLE. What the Tax is to Be Levied Upon and How Returns Are to Be Made ?Exemptions, Penalties and Appeals?Instructions to Collectors ?Incomes Over $4000 Taxed. The Secretary of the Treasury approved the Income tax' regulations. Every cttisen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing or doing busines in the United States, who has an annual incomo of more than (8600, J? required to make return, under oath, before the first Monday In March of each year. Tbe first return Is to lnolude all income received in the year 1894, from Jan-. ? * a- 01 n?n Inna tmiL. uftrj" i to tiouvmuci o*. uuumiMui ?u?teee, and all corporation* acting In any: flduolary capacity are required to make similar returns for minors, wards or benefloi iaries. Persons baying leas than 18600 annual Income are not required to make returns. All incomes of ?4000 and over are taxable two per oent. The person making return Is required to, make affidavit that he has Included in said, return ail gains, profits and inoome from every source recefvMi by him, or to whichhe is justly entitled for that year, and that' be is honestly and truly entitled to make alii the deductions entered on his return, and] that he has truly answered the interrogatories set forth on said, blank form. The gross gains, profit and Income returned by persons are to lnolude i Groe? profits of any trade or business, wherever, carried on; rents received or accrued during the year; profits from sales of real estate purchased within two years; farming; operations and proceeds; money and value of all personal property acquired by gift or, inheritance; premiums on bonds, stooksK notes and coupons; inoome from trade or profession not by stated salary and not heretofore enumerated ; from salary or compensation other than that received from the United Rfatpfl; from salary or compensation puid by the United States; undivided gains andi profits of any partnership; Interest received or accrued from all notes, bonds, or other, seoarltlos; Interest on bonds or coupons paid of any corporation; dividends from, corporations; income of wife or minor ehild' or children vail other sources of Income not! above enumerated. The deductions allowed on'the return are: Four thousand dollars exempt by law; interest due and paid within the year; National, State, county, school, and municipal taxes paid, not Including assessments for local benefits; amount expended in purchase or production of live stock or produoe sold wichln the year; necessary expended specified by items actually Incurred in carrying' on any business or trade; losses actually sustained during the year, specified; actual losses on sales of real estate purchased within two years; debts contracted and ascertained in the year to be worthless; salary or' compensation over $4000 from which the tax 01 two per centum has been withheld by disbursing officers of the United States Government; dividends lnoluded in the estimates of gross profits from corporations on orhlnh turn n?r ftent. tax been D&id by suoh corporation. If any person falls to make return or makes false return, the collector la to makei returns for him from evidence obtained by summoning the person and examining his books, and from all other evidence obtainable, and shall add fifty per cent, to the amount of tax found due as a penalty for< neglect and 100 per cent, penalty In case of a fraudulent return. All corporations, companies and associations. both resident and foreign, doing business in the United States, are required to make annual return of net profits on a separate blank to cover the calendar year 1894. The exemption o.f i4000 allowed to persons Is not extended to corporations, but the return must cover all net profits without exemption. The annual return of corporations must Include: The gross profits from all kinds of business, the expenses, exclusive of Interest, annuities or dividends; the net profits without allowances for interest, annuities or dividend; the amount paid on account of Interest, annuities and dividends; the amount paid in salaries of (4000 or less to each em ploye : the amount paid in salaries or more than (4000 to each employe, and the name and address of each of such employe. The gross profits mast Include: All profits of any trade or business; Interest or coupons, from bonds or other securities of any corporation; dividends received from any corporation; undivided profits of any corporation ; premium on bonds, notes, or stocks; commission or percentage; interest, on Government securities, not exempt by law; interest on other notes, bonds, and securities; profits from sales of real estate and from rents; profits from all other sources, to be enumerated. The operating expenses must Include Interest paid 9r accrued within the year on bonded or other indebtedness of such corporation; losses actually sustained during the year, which must be separately stated and 'fully described as to cause, date and amount; all taxes actually paid; salaries and pay of offloers and employes actually paid during the year; rents and necessary repairs; all other necessary expenses, which must be itemized and fully explained In the The net profits ore to iaolode all amounts paid to stockholders or shareholders; the amcunt of undivided profits carried to surplus or any other fund; amount ot net profIts used for construction, enlargement or improvement of plant; all other expenditures or investments from the net profits. Certain specified corporations for charitable and like purposes and certain savings banks, mutual insurance companies, and building and loan associations are exempt from income tax. In suoh cases it is held by the department that the intention of the exemption is to extend its benefits to the small dep>sitors and beneficiaries of such mutual and savings institutions, and that the corporations, as such, and those who speculate in the shares, stock or lunds are not the intended beneficiaries of the exemption. Collectors are required to examine the I ll-'? onH hnalnooa mof h? \ amciva Ul lUliUiyvmuvuo UUV. oda of corporations claiming exemption, and where such are not within the class specifically exempt, lo cause return to be made for taxation, as in the case of other corporations. The tax due from salaries of officers and from pay of employes of the United States is to be* deducted from the first excess payment over $4000 by paymasters and disbursing officers. It is provided that no part of the salary, fees, or emoluments of any State, county, or municipal officer shall be subject to income tax, and no return thereof shall be made of the salary or fees of such officers. Salary received by Government officials in 1891 shall be inoluded in the first annual return to be made on or bofore the first Monday in March, 1895. Appeals, in the first instance, are to be made by dissatisfied taxpayers to the collector, and, if dissatisfied with his deoislon, the appellant may have the entire cause, with all papers and evidence relating thereto, transferred to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for bis decision. n?nn!?Jna Br? imDosed unon all of fleers antl others who make known, in any manner, any fact or particulars contained in or relating to an annual return of an> taxpayer, or any fact as to the sources or amount of the Income of any such person. Collectors are strictly directed by the regulations to rigidly enforce this provision. The tax on incomes for the year 1894 will be due and payable before the first day of July next, anil if not paid at that time the penalties will attach for non-payment. The full test of the regulations contains about 75,000 words. TEE EPWOKTH LEAGUE. The International Conference Will Be Held at Chattanooga. The General Committee has located the International Conference of the Epworth League, for 1893, at Chattanooga, Tenn. The dates fixed are June 27, 23, 29, 30. It was decided to hold the meeting in the South, and Chattanooga forcibly presented the advantages of the historic surroundings that city, as well as good railroad and totel facilities, and has secured the Conferince. An attendance of 10,009 to 15,000 is anticipated. One open air meeting will be held on.Lookout Mountal^Therely^lfll I FIFTT-THIED CONGBESS, In the Senate. 8th Dat.?Mr. Morgan flashed his armament in favor of the Nicaragua Canal.? The bill to establish the University of th? United States at Washington was taken up and speeches in favor of it were made "bj Messrs. Hanton and Vilas. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill providing for a statue ol the late Chief Justloe Chase.??Mr. Bat? presented a favorable report on the bill creating a National park out of the battlefield ol Shlloh. 9th Dat.?The Newark Bay Bridge bill was passed. Mr. Hawley introduced a bill for the rmrranlzRtfnn And <nmuu <if the army. Mr. Vilas gave notice of aa amendment to the Sundry Oivil bill providing for the appointment by the President of a commission of three persons, to aot with any similar committee appointed by Great Britain or the Dominion of Canada, who shall investigate and report upon the feasibility of suoh canals as would enable vessels engaged in ocean commerce to pass to and fro between the great lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Debate on the Nloaragoa Canal bill was continued. 10th Day.?'The bill appropriating 1100,000 to supply an urgent deficiency for public printing and binding was passed. A bill to provide n munioipal building and Court House for tne District of Columbia is Municipal square, at a cost of not over $2,500,000, was reported. Mr. Lodge Introduced a bill for the reorganization of the Consular service by bringing it into the classified service. Mr. HUl made a speech favoring a ohange of the rules for debate. Mr. Turple spoke on the Nicaragua Canal bill. 11th Day.?Mr. Allen introduced resolutions for the appointment of select committees to investigate the Alabama elections anc the Senate restaurant. Mesar*. Cullon and Perkins spoke in favor of the Nicaragua Canal bill, and Mr. Turpie completed hi/ speech against it. The Senate passed the Shlloh National Park bill and Mr. Lodge'i Ezeta resolution. Admiral Walker's report on Hawaii was received. In the House. 10th Dat.?Mr. Cookran's motion to recommit the Urgent Deficiency bill with instructions to strike out the approptlatlon jAfnofn.1 i.ana AO . iu& iuo lutuuao itvA yyna uuicnicu?; coo, iff j nays, 168. The bill was then passed. The Fortification and Military Academy Appropriation bills were passed. Secretary Oar, lisle sent In an estimate of (54,000 deficiency In the appropriation for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act for the current fiscal year. 11th Dat.?The session was consumed with debate on the Pension Appropriation bllL Tbe bill carries $111,331,970 and was passed without amendment. -?The Hitt resolution of inquiry calling; 'on tbe Secretary of 8tate for tne correspondence relating to tbe payment of $425,000 to Great Britala lii connection with tbe fur seal controversy, was adopted. The evenlnx session was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. 12th Day.?The Carlisle Currency bill wai reported.-?The House passed the Arm] Appropriation bill and the bill to protect public forest reservations. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was reported It carries an appropriation of $1,562,118 which is a decrease of $1800 from the appropriation for the current fiscal year.? Mr. Oathwalte Introduced a joint resolutloi io revive me graae 01 .Lieutenant -u-enerai u the army. 13th Dat. ?A bill to establish a Nationa park at Gettysburg, Penn., was favorably reported. ilr. Springer moved that thi House resolve Itself Into Committee of th? I Whole to consider the Currency bill. Agr^ec :o, and Mr. Richardson took the chair. Thi lebate on the measure consumed the re uainder of the session. 14th Day.?Debate on the Carlisle Car rency bill was contlnueil by Messrs. Johnson Wnrnnr GOMPEBS DEFEATED. \ ??? John McBride Chosen to Read the American Federation. The American Federation of Labor, In lee* slon at Denver, Col., cleared the way for Its election by first determining the future location of the headquarters of the Federation. Indianapolis and Washington were the only contestants. Indianapolis was selected by a vote of 290 to 926. SAMUEL OOMFEBS. The eleotion of officers was then taken p. Mr. Gompers and. John McBride, President of the United Mine Workers, were the oily candidates for President. The vote resilt?d : McBride. 1162: Gomoera. 937. Tlere was no excitement regarding the electiot of President. It was evident at the start bat the question had been settled. Preslcent Gompers moved to make the vote unaninous for McBrlde, but objection was made. G>mpers at onoe dispatched a message of :ongratulation to McBrlde, who is ill a his home. For First Vlce-Prcsldent, Mrs. T. J. Morgan, of Chicago, and Mr. McGnire, of Philadelphia, were nominated, the vote leing 1865 for McGuire and 226 for Mrs. Moigan. James Duncan, of Baltimore, was ehuted Second Vice-President, an 1 Raady Keniehan Third Vice-President New York was oiosen as the next place of meeting. Mr. Gompers is a member of the Cigarmakers' Union and has been President of the American Federation sinoa 1882. xaa defeat of Mr. (tampers seems to be due to a general desire for a change of administration. The mine workers, with 320 votes, were for MoBrlde for personal reasons; the radical socialistic members felt that' Gom* pers was very strongly opposed to thiem. THE COLLEGES WIN, Judge Truax's Decision Regardin? the Fayerweather Will. Judge Truax handed down a decision od the contost over the will of the late Danie! B. Fayerweather, the leather merchant, of | New York City. Bv this decision a number of colleges, inclading Yale, Princeton, Amherst and Dartmouth, will get large bequests. Mr. Fayerweather died on Nove nber 15. 1890. He left an estate valued at al rout f 7,000,000. Iu his will he left about hi ,lf of his estate to relatives and the other lalf to a number of colleges and hospitals. Thomas G. Hitch and Justus L. Bulkley weje named as executors. To the will four coc'Jclls were By the fourth all that remained of the estate after the payment of the beqluestsand legacies was to go to the ?Acut<jrs. This would have taken oonside^blo from the colleges, which, by the tcrnMofthje original will, were to receive in addlHitj) their legacies all of the residue. Dartmouth, Amherst, and the University ot Roch^HH|Sg9B the will and the decision was in their HBEHHH liytho decision of Judgc^^BgH^DH lowing institutions will divided among them, bc.sidr^M|SH^HE9 quests they have nlreadj^^HB^H^^n will, as follows; Bowdoin,^HHH^HK| mouth. $100,U00 ; Amherst^H^HHRtB levan University, $100.000HB^^H|^H Columbia, $200,000; Union^^^^^^^^^H inury, $50,000 ; Hamilton, sJty ot Rochester, $100,00<|HRn?HENE 000 i Lafayette,, $50,000 ; ^H UniYersi|JBf Virginia, ^^^ MJMO.OOO; ;$i \ i ! { THE LABOR WORLD, Akdriw Cabmoie,'employs 32,000 men. Thx Pennsylvania ,Bailroad has 1035 looo* motive?, i . .. * Taa lowest paid to any American mall . carrier is $50 a month. Lxvxspool, England, Is to have the largest watch factory la the world. Samanrrs of Mediterranean Iron ore to Philadelphia have bjsen resumed. Tux striking cloakmakers at New. York have decided to continue the strike until spring. The last census puts the number of men employed in the sugar -e fineries or the oouatry at 7500. "" J John Bubns. the Enorllah labor leader. de> Clares N!ew York tol be^the worst mapaged city ha has ever seon. Avooasi lodge in Germany has aroused general lndlgnatioiji by fining a working sum ; for appearing In opart In a bine blouse.' Ik France and Germany the wool oomblng mills are contemplating running short time In the hope of ojrresting a further fall of prices. A plait has bean formulated by philanthropic persons 11 New York City whereby it Is hoped that st -Ikes anl lookouts may be . avoided. f Labob Commi4sioni?b Dowliko's report ,, says labor-savlnd machinery is ruining soma trades-, and that labor organizations have ' kept wages up and hours down.' Thz Swiss Federal Council has been requested to resutfce negotiations with foreign Governments to ' the establishment of inlet* national regulatl ons upon labor questions. The British p< Btal employes are subjfect to polio&duty and nay at any time be sworn in as special constt blea to assist in maintaining order. There I! a well-dHlled fire brigade in the London < ifflce. Tax Locomo ive Firemen's Brotherhood Magazine conti ins a farewell from' Eugene 7. Debs, who s ivers his connection with that \, i_ -li.? >ni? i x _ -? uio?ttttuio eu uui, JLUW JLieauuutinerb ol the Brotherhoc d of Locomotive Firemen has been moved i o Peoria, I1L, Irom Tetre Haute, Ind. Japanese w< rkmen. bathe the whole body onoe a day anc some of them twicp. Public baths are pro^ lded en every street. They are fed by a cc nstant current of oofd and hot water. The bwher plunges In, remains Immersed some [ten minutes, then comes oat and receives a warm douche of fresh water. W. W. Bam?ell, a hod carrier, became Insane at Baltimore, Md., and was sent to Bayview Asylum.' His insanity it peculiar, for, according to an expert, tbe man has become mentally deranged by carrying the hod. The Heavy weight constantly affected the shoulder nerves; this was oommunlcated to the brain, and the result .Is insanity la a dangerous form. One of the strange freaks . or nis insanity u a ravenous aDDetite. 3 pbotoent people Govebxos Waits, of Colorado, is going to lecture. i ' Ex-Quir? LiLrooKaxr, of Hawaii, suffers M from tne ?6ut.' SsHATosfCoss.of Texas, will be [slxty-slx A9 years of age next Maroh. / Thk Pririoe Import*]. of Japan, is Yoehl^F/i Hlto, who Was born in 1870. JJ % Ths late/ ex-Go? arnor Leon Abbett, of New Jersey, ba^d L/Lr Ulo insured for 920,000. j" Thokjls 0. Plait, the Bepubttoan p/Sli- A ticiau of New York State, is a pewholi^fcr in % Dr. Parkhurat's church. .X John Bahtlktt, famous as ftbe vfcompl'er a of "Familiar Quotations," is a rwdent of I Cambridge, Mass., and is seventy-^ar years Ex-Gotebnob Nobthek. oL-Q^rgi^(jc> ,|9 poses te ppen an office in N?w York for tneT^M gromotl<j>a of immigration to North CJaro- 7|| W. S. Gilbeht, Sir /Arthur SulllTan's fa mous collaborator, Has so little ear for music F that h? cannot distinguish harmony from . JH discord. Db. ajiuaos gives up his pulpit in Brook* . lyn, bat not his pulpit la this ooaatry. His sermonjs are still being prepared and printed week by week. Thi wedding of Miss Mary Stewart Sliermon, the only daughter of the senior Sena- 'I tor frotn Ohio, and James I vers McCallum, took place In Washington. Pan ex Hospoli. Mayor ot Bome, Italy, Is ft a belli iver in the United States. He owns land i 1 Florida, raises cranberries in New Jersej bogs and married a lady ot Boston. Tm latest photograph of Mrs. Cleveland "-1. showi that the lady of the White House has I lost a] great deal of ber girlish look. Her I face has become niore plump and matronly. P Be :ohder Ssttth, of New York, probably I seate aoed more men to death than any other I judg > in the world aad he was never reI verst d by the Court of Appeals In a capital W xfield 3. Kerb, who will succeed Mr. ' 1 ~ Har er of Mansfield (Ohio) Dlstriot, was a ' <jj wt vounar fellow, working as a brakeman Srailroad, when he lest one arm in an ent. That decided him to embark hi > j study of law, and he has built ap a and luorative practice. It was a curlcoincidence that hU defeated Demo* .j&j i competitor had only one arm. . :< 'a later"1news, if _ four failures that occurred In Now Tork ? i City in one day In the 3hoe trade, that ofj Sam ael Cohen k Brother was largest, gross 'v. llabl llties being estimated at $400,000. > _ E joenk V. Debs and his colleague* de- < oldc d to take the penalty imposed by Judge Wo< ids without appeal and go to the Chicago jaili Debs says an appeal would be probably of no avail. The worry and expense weire also considerations. *** * - arroH a{T. I1 11LL IA 31 UUIfAB) Wiuiwu uvjj * tee a, wa9 lynched near Ocala, Fla? for as- . ? sat Iting a white girl. ? (JAPTAUf Henbt Ho wo ate pleaded not guilty to seven indictments for embezzle* m< nt while disbursing clerk of the Signal Se rvice when arraigned at Washington. JBpeaieb Cbisp and the House leaders reached a taolt agreement to Adjourn for the holiday recess to reassemble at noon, January 3. > feuE |The Senate confirmed the following nominations: Charles D. Clark, o( Tennessee, to be United States District Judge of the j Eastorn and Middle Districts of Tennessee; > j Thomis O'Hara, of Michigan, to be Consul of the United States at San Joan del Norte, Nicaragua; Judson C. Clements, of Georgia, ( to te an interstate wuuiuua sioner. OvEBDBJiFTg amounting to nearly $2,000,000 have been found in tho accounts of the suspended Commercial Bank, of St. John's, Nfcw Foundland. POLICE CAPTAIN CONFESSES. , Creeden, of the New York Force, 1 Paid $15,000 lor Promotion. ' Thomas J. Creeden, Police Captain of the ! Morrisania Precinct, New York City, went on the witness stand belore the Lexow Committee and swore that ho paid $15,000 to be promoted from the rank of Sergeant f:5*' to that of Captain. Ho was apJointed Captain by Police Commissioner ohn It. Voorhis. The money was paid to John W. Reppynhagen, th<a leader of the Tenth Assembly District, in the New York Pr8 Democracy organized by John R. Voorhis. 1 Beppenhasren swore that he paid $10,000 ot / the $15,000 to ex-Assemblyman John Mar tin, th? intimate friend and political lieutenan*. of Vourhls, for tne purpose of having Creeden appointed Captain. The Police Board suspended Creeden, and ?& I both President Martin ana supcnmeuuuu. [ Byrnes were cailed before the committee, | where they admitted a mistake had been | made, but said it would be rectified, prob- j: i ably by Creeden's reinstatement. I The committee thanked Captain Creeden, n? who they declared, had rendered a great public service, and decided that the fullest protection should be accorded to him. Ha was applauded by the spectators after making his ccnfession. A Profltuble Postofflce.