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Discussion of the Dingley Bill Opens ^
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SYNOPSIS OF MINORITY REPORT ? ??
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Chairman Dinsrley Defended the Measure
and Mr. *Yheeler Led Off for the Opi>o?
?ition-?Republicans Predict an Addift Si:
tional Incame?Democrat*! Declare the Diet
Adft]
Schedules Would Enrich the dilTe
? purs
Wasiiinotox, D. C. (Speoial).? The groaT port
tariff oontest of 1897, which everybody be- lauc
?- it.- \Vhn
Seres will be a memorable one, oopm m ma
Hoit?e of Representatives, Monday. Although tQ tf
Ike time appointed was two hours earlier ^
than that at which the daily sittings usually Saci
ke^in. there was a pretty full attendance of New
members and the galleries were filled with
toterestod spectators. The audience continned
to increase in size during the two set a
kocr? and more con/tmed by the clerks in New
reading the bill. *or ;
Representative SWrman, of New York
bad the honor of presiding as Chairman of
the Committee of the Whole, when the de- .
on the Dinpley bill was opened. . y.
The openin? of the debate was delayed lert 1
?or> than two hours by the full reading of sum,'
the hill of 162 pipes, and th'?, of course, had F0?"
? depressing effect. The Republican lead- ^ 61
era insisted on this to avoid the charges that . j?.0!.'
ibe bill was never read in full in the House, ? y
tbins which happened in the cases of both a
the McKinley and Wilson bills. Only four Th
speeches were made at the day session. Mr. is fal
Bindley, Chairman of the Ways and Means cour
Committee, opening for the majority. In
Mr. Dingley began by referring to the (osti
Government deficiency, which, he said, had jj,
nearly all been caused by a falling oflf of jjje t
revenue from duties on imports, and not by j>rat<
decline of revenue from internal tai"s. In t0 S1
revising the tariff, he said, the committee wee)j
ftml endeavored to discard mere theories 0fth
mud had addressed themselves to the framing orj j
?f a practical remeay, at least iu pan,
k>r the ills which have for so many . An
lonths overshadowed the oountry. "aai
Be said that by placing wool on the ^as 1
ireeljstthe Treasury lost $21,000,000 rev- force
enue and the farmers $30,000,00j per j'ear, yay
ud that this country had not been able to j*.OS0i
Increase its exports of manufactures of wool. liam
The new schedule, he said, would aid the Soi
grower, increase manufactures and ultimate- been
ly increase the revenue. tity c
Mr. Wheeler, who replied for tho D >mo- bene;
rats, said the theory of the Democratic par- York
if was that the way to give employment to jir
American labor was to And purchasers for ft. j
the products of farms and factories, and that her ')
the way to do that was to open the markets the 0
of the world to those products, rne om ne . ,
declare 1, had been framed in a secret star
chamber by eleven Republicans, and was h
largely framed from petitions presented to , '
that body of eleven men by the agents of the
protected interests of the country. Many *.
paragraphs in the bill were in the exiot ?
kntruage of those petitions. Sei
Mr. Hopkins, a Republican member of the *rom
Committee on Ways and MeaDs, defended the ation
kill, which, he declared, was in accordance prem
with the almost universal demand of the peo- Assoc
plefortariflf legislation. Th
Mr, Bell, of Colorado, spoke as a Populist Texa
Is antagonism to the bill. The Populists, he by tl
Mid, believed no tariff bill was fair which hugh
<Jd not carry with It a graduated Income,tax jj0
which would provide that the wealth of'the at je
ountrv should pay something for Its own Qeor
OppOrt. my.
At the evening session cf the House Mr. .
!hylor, of Indiana, spoke in opposition to jr.?
the bill, and Mr. Greene, Populist, of Nebraska,
made a general political speech ?rln0
'ho niiMflnn "TTnw are the neonle 8e?m
to buy the products of idle mills which are ^esr*
to be started by the Dingley bill, when they or a
cannot buy what tho mills now open pro- Wil
*uce?" Ark.,
The views of the minority of the Commit- June
tee on Ways and Means upon the tariff bill In fiw
were then presented to tbe House by Rep- Foi
jesentative Bailey, Among other things, the two <
jeport says: starte
'This bill was framed with the avowed dren
purpose of protecting the manufacturers of smok<
the United States against foreign competition, pW(
?nd it is perfectly obviooJ that if it accorn- overt
plishes ihat purpose it must result in com- tegt?.
polling the consumers of this oountry to pay ""
nore lor their manufactured goods, and for
this reason we think It should not pass. 1
*'We rest our opposition upon the broad railr0
principle that Congress was Invested with Sco
the power of taxation, as a means of collect- Alonz
tag from each citizen his fair proportion to- stude
ward the support of the Government, and the m
that it Is a gross perversion of that sovereign The
power to/employ it ns a means ot enabling Friar'
i*Tornd classes to lew uniust charees UDon fnr? fc
the trreat body of the people. We deny the persa
Tight of Congress to make or enforce any re- ar0 jE
filiation which requires one man to give any . ,
pan ol his honest earnings toward encourag- .
tog the enterprise or increasing the fortune F
f another.
"Our principal contention is that the bill, rs
if passed, will bring more revenue than the Woon
Ration requires, which the people will con- "
tribute, and encourage extravagance. been i
"If the system of unnecessary taxation Is Her n
Indefensible because of thn extravagance ber ^
which it encourage, it is still more so on walki
account of the trusts which it fosters and Bet
promotes. It was not more certain that Missis
protection encourages extravagance than it water
to that it breeds unlawful combinations of of Os<
tepitaL"
CHILDREN KILLED.
Th<
fatal Cyclone Strnck a Schoolliouse at Mada
Arlington, Ga. disco
Eight bodies, all of children, have been Frenc
token from the ruins of 4h? Arliugtoa (Ga,)
Academy, which was demolished by a c.vlono, Gonei
lad four others are dead in the ruins. More
iiian halt a dozen persons were fatally to sec
wounded. Thirty-five children and two ?ni
lencliers went down In the wreck of the jjer tl
Inilding. proie
The cvclone came about 8.30 a. m., and claim
was from the northwest. The Ar.lngton jSI]
Academy, a fine structure, lay direotly in reser
the path of the storm. It was knocked into _.
a great heap, and the work of death was .
A >n?< even before the dancer was rea'ized.
The structure was smashed into kindling in"rh
wood and the broken timbers and dead
bodies mixed together in sickening con- *rf>
fus:on. The list of dead so far as known is: stea,r
Alice Putnam. Claude Roberts, Ollie Para- Fin
more, Willie MeMurry, Genie Butler, Maud insur
Johnson, Mary Wellous, Kenneth Bovnton. ince.
The two teachers. Professors Covington and Tht
Walker were removed from the ruins terri- of Pe
ily hurt. natui
Nearly every home in the community has jt j
been blighted by the disaster. Men and jjer
women stood about wringing their hands tjje q
and weeping for their children. imnei
The academy hai been built two years ncJer
and was a handsome two-story structure. 8ailj
The storm missed lh6 business part o? the er 0f
town by only about 500 yard?. d
enjoi
ropulists Cla-ised With Democntti. troop
The Populist Representatives presented a
l>etiiion to Speaker ReeJ. of the House of tlt>ea
Representative, at W.ishington, reciting the Cons
laci that at the last election they had cast of 1 I
*bout 2.000,000 votes, elected Governors :n p
live Stutes and chosen twenty-seven inem- reste
bers of the present House, and requesting, -wiiat
lherefor>*, that they h ive a repres entation ou ^(,en
the committees <>n Wayn aua Mean?, Juds- "?(j
ciary, Appropriation, Bulking, Coinage, jj0[?
Elections an 1 others. Mr. Reed has just re- qU(,?
plie.i ;bat lie pre let re I to recognize the
PonuliMs as a part of the Democratic organiion,
an ! that doois.oa will stan i for this au
Congress. Span
A 1
Minor OlUeen Filleil. Centl
President MeKinley has nominated Joseph
L. Bristow, of Kansas, to be Fourth Assist- ruJjj
ant Postmaster-General: Binger Hermann, dami
o( Oregon, to be Commissioner of the Gen- from
trral Land Office; Boya B. Jones, of Massa- from
ehusetts, to be Attorney of the United States but \
lor the District of Massachusetts: James D. mj(
Ellioir, of South Dakota, to be A'.torney of ii
the United States for tne District of South .. .
Dakota. Th
William I. Commemorated. ^
gran
The monument commemorating the con- for I
tenary of the birth of William I was unveiled 'n s';
in Berlin, and the day was observed as a .
holiday throughout Germnnv
5 EPITOMIZEDWashlnsrton
Item*.
10 lioj.ub'.ic.in membors of the Ways and
us Committee deoldeil to transfer book3
scientific apparatus to the free list.
esident JM.ch.miey grauiea >\ rtspiw iu
four murderers of Francisco Cha\ ez, who
?to have beeu executed in Santa Fe.
Mexico.
10 Government was notified of tho blocks;
of Crete. A protest may be entered,
[> state of war exists thpre, and Spain
at close Cuban ports to American vessels
precedent bo established.
DoiaMtie.
rtrrn apprentice boys deserted at San
:o, Cal., from the United States gunboat
us in two days. The officers 3ay that
rent tactics in training the boys must be
u"d, or wholesale desertion in every
will result. An officer went ashore in a
ch with a crew of eleven apprentices,
n he returned to the launch all the boys
; missing, and he hai to hire a DoarmaD
ike him back to the ship.
iree ships grounded during a fog, the
naw and the Emily E. Johnson on the
Jersey coast, and the Wandrian near
Inlet: no lives were lost and the
age was slight.
illiam R. Grace, his wife, and son, have
tside 8200,000 for the establishment in
York City of a manual training school
vomen and young girls.
scause of the Supreme Court's Transouri
decision, several Western railroads
drew from traffic associations.
severe storm struck Chicago, accompan)y
snow and high wind, and soon ased
the proportions of a blizzard. Railand
street car traffic was seriously
fered with. Reports indicated the
n general throughout the northern part
linois and portions of Wisconsin, Iowa
Minnesota.
ie Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn.,
Iling, and the flood prospect is more enaging.
Cleveland. Ohio, a man has confessed
arting forty flres in Detroit, Mich.
e New York Court of Appeals denied
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0T10Q ior ? renuumouL iu tuo o^*vr;d
Fayerweather will oase. This allows
tand the court's decision of several
;s ago distributing the $3,0C0,0U0 residue
e estate to the twenty colleges named
nally in the tenth clause of the will,
explosion of pas occurred in the WilPenn
shaft near Shenandoah, Penn. It
caused by a tall in an old working which
id a large volume of gas into the j?angsvhere
workmen were using naked lamps,
ph Sergeant. Philip Haggerty and WilLavenburg
were fatally injured,
mo unknown vandal, believed to have
an expert stone cutter, chipped a quan>f
granite from one of the pillow blocks
ath General Grant's sarcophagus at New
City.
s. Honorah Hennessey, of Providence,
, was burned to death in a closet, and
msband is under arrest charged with
rime. .
emale convict confined at the Peachtree
tc Camp, near Atlanta, Ga., attempted
:ape by swimming the creek. She was
ived by a b'oodhound and was finally
d, throush exhaustion, to seek the
?, where she was recaptured.
reral Western railroads have withdrawn
existing freight and passenger combins
as a result of the United States Sue
Court's decision in the Trans-Missouri
siation case.
e Farmers' A Merchants' Bank, of Paris,
s, suspended. The failure was caused
:ie suspension of Martin, Wise A Fitz,
cotton buyers.
re than twenty people were killed and
ast 200 injured by the late toruado ir
gia and Alabama.
ere was a heavy earthquake shock at
ne, N. Y., starting with a sudden boom
in explosion and reverberating with a
ing motion for several seconds. If
ed to travel from southeast to north
The shock caused considerable alara
moment, out thero whs no damage.
Iliam Johnson wa3 hanged at Hamburg,
for the killing of Henry Hobson last
. His neck was not broken and he died
ful agony.
lr Staatsburg (N. Y.) schoolboys tied
jompanions to a tree In the woods and
id a brush Are around them. Tbo chilsuffered
seriously from fright and
e. A forest Are resulted.
d men diel In Ph ila lelphia of blows
:he heart administ ered in boxing conleral
J. S. Fullerton, o[ St. Louis, Mo.. J
cilled and several persons' hurt in a
ad accident in Maryland. (
tt Jaokson, of Greencoatle, Ind., and '
;o Waliinsr, or Oxford. Ohio, the dental J
nts, were banged in Newport, Ky., for
urder of Pearl Bryan. i
> Mississippi River from Cairo, I'l., to
s Point. Miss.. rose higher than ever be- 1
mown. Several levee9 broke, and 10,000
nsarehomoles?. Five thousand refugees
i Memphis and Dyersburg.
jcomotive blew up in Chicago, instantling
the engineer, Alexander Frank?,
Idward B. Smith, the fireman.
i. Mary Skifflngton dlei at her home in
socket. R. I., Rt the age of 102 years. i
ras born in Ireland in 1795 ami bad i
i resident of Woonsocket forty years. <
lind was clear up to the mornini* of
leath when she dropped dead while
ng about the house.
ween fifteen and twenty mllei of the
ssippi River levee yielded to the high
s and thousands of acres of laud south
seola, Ark., were submerged.
Foralirn Not**.
3 exile of Queen Ranavalona III., from
gasoar is said to have been due to the
very of a conspiracy to assassinate the
:h Commander.
s Duke of Leeds, it is announced, will
ed the Earl of Aberde-n as Governorral
of Canada next year.
}South African Republic is taking steps
:ure close relations with Germany.
rope has demanded that Greeoe recall
oops from her frontier. Greece will
st against the blockade of Crete, dising
responsibility for consequences if
aaintained, Turkey has called out her
ves.
> Mexican Government has ceded a I
tract of land to a Japanese company,
h will colonize the territory. The site is
dapus, Southern Mexico. It will be de- j
ed in connection with the Japanese
iship line.
hting between the Spaniards and the
ut-nts has taken place in Santiago ProvCuba.
i Gold Standard bill pas?ed the HousR
ers and only needs the Emperor's sig:e
to become law.
s reporte 1 that Turkey has expressed
willlugness for Greece to administer
overnmeut of Crete, reserving her own
rial rights, an I that the Powers have
>ted the proposal King George, it is
will appoint his son H:gh Commissionthe
islau I.
miral Canevaro issued a proclamation
uiug the Cretan insurgents and Greek
is not to attack a number of Turkish
on the island.
strong remonstrance to the Porte has
male bv the British Ambassador at
tantlnople on account of the slaughter
0 Armenians.
J. Cazanas. an A.mericin, who was ard
on February 13, at Sagua, Cuba, on
charge has never been divulged, has
released.
vices from Hayana, Cuba, state that
uiu, an important town in Santiago de
. htis been captured by the insurgents.
Intrenched position of the Philippine
d insurgents has been captured by the
ish troops.
iieavv shock of earthquake shook the
e of Montreal, Canada, anl caused
t consternation. Large buildings
k like reeds and there was a general
of the inmates for the doors. So far no
ige has been reported. Despatches
vaiious points in the province and
eastern Ontario report similar shocks,
vithout any damage of consequence,
e financial panic overhanging Cuba
itens Spauish sovereignty even more
the armies of the insurgents.
e Mexican Government announces that
us declared forfeited the concession
ted a year ago to American capitalists
:he establishment of agricultural bauks
s of the principal cities of Mexico. The
>u for the forfeiture is that the terms of
oncession were not complied with.
Af FDt TBABEDY AT SfiA.
Steamship Vilie De St. Nazaire
Founders Off North Carolina,
SAD EXPERIENCE OF SURVIVORS
seven Dayi In an Open Boat Wlthont
Food or Drink*?Thlrtr-tliree Perish In
a Long Boat of Cold an:l Exhaustion
?.Boil leg Thrown Overboard?Foni
Picked Up When Almost Dead.
New York Citt (Special).?An awful tala
>f disaster at sea was made known when
'our survivors of the French line steamship
fille de St. Nazaire, which had foundered
)ff Hatteras, were brought into port on the
jchooner Hilda after havinp drifted about
;he Atlantic In an open boat tor a wees.
The four were survivors of thirty-eight who
and occupied the boat (the remaining thirtyfour
having died of starvation or gone mad)
4nd of eighty-two passengers and crow
known to have been on the fated vessel.
The four men saved are M. Berry, inspector
of the Compagnie Generate Transatlantique;
M. Maire, the ship's doctor; M. Sauts,
the third engineer, and D. Tejada, a San
Domingan. The names of a tew of those
known to be lost are MM. D'Andreus, Herbert,
Lejeune, Nicolay and Mariani, all officers
of the vessel, and Mrs. Tagado and hei
four ohildren, the last-named all starving
fr> dftnth.
The vessel sprang a leak and sank daring
a terrific storm off the North Carolina ooast
on March 8. The crew and passengers took
to the boats, thirty-eight persons, including
women and children, entering the long boat.
When this boat was picked up by the
Hilda on March 14 only four live men and
four corpses were In it The others had
W^lllni^llltmfail>llIiV)llkiinntn.irm^-^n^|^ngTOrtw^a>jyFj
GENERAL GRA.N
,wuhin thu ma?lvA atone the soldier's rem
monument in Me
perished from cold and hunger or tho hammering
of the waves.
The St Nazalre left New York on March
under command of Captain Jaqueneau. Sh<
carried a lot of freight and had a crew ol
seventy-two men and eight passengers. Tne
day after she left port a leak was discovered.
The pumps were started, but shortly afterwards
the vessel ran into a terrible revolving
tempest.
The leak increased and as the water came
in the vessel was unable to mount the waves
nnnn+ntna nf water sweDt over her.
Sometimes the great waves towered above
the smoke?tack and the wind catching theii
summits precipitated tons of water on the
deck, smashing the superstructure, killlne;
and maiming members of the crew and flnall j
extinguishing the engine fires. The passengers
were huddled below aDd the frightful
hammering of the water on the deck drove
some of them insane.
On the morning of the 8th it became certain
that the vessel would sink, and the
order was given to launch the boats. The
fljrst boat gotten out was swept back on the
deck and smashed to flinders, injuring several
men. Barrels of water and provisions for the
boats were swept away. Th9 situation was
awful, but discipline was preserved, and the
long boat got away witn tnirtyeignr persons
aboard, including the wife of Juan de
Tejada, and his four young children. The
boat hung for a moment on a great wave
high above the vessel's deck after she got
away, but she came down on the right side
of the wateiy mountain and escaped destruction.
Two or three other boats wern se9n in
the water as the longboat pulle i off.
No one in the boat expected to see laud
again. The frail craft was pitched and
tossed at all kinds of angles, and during one
of those pitches, when she almost stood on
end, a man was thrown from the stern half
way to the bow. He fell on his head and
was killed. After that several were drowned
and others were crushed to death where
they sat in the boat by tbe waves tnac Drose
over them.
The flr9t night wns_ one of horror. Not a
Btar lit the gloom, and the sea was black except
where here and there it was lighted by
a phosphorescent glow. It was intensely
cold, and the water that half filled the bout
benumbed the survivors.
Now and then one of the men felt a vacant
space beside him and he knew some one had
gone overboard. Nobody could help any
one else. All held on for dear life. At
times one or two rolled in the bottom of the
boat around the feet of the others. When
the morninj? dawnea these were found to bn
corpses. That day the sea moderated and
the dead were dropped overboard.
" ' ' m.? 4.u~
The otHer days unci ninats wore a&o mo
first, except that to the danger of the rough
ocean had succeeded the horrors of hunger
and thirst. Not a crumb of bread or a drop
of water was aboard.
Only four remained when the Hilda sighted
the boat. They were hardly able to speak
when taken on the Hilda. They were landed
at Perth A.mboy, N. J., and then came to this
city.
Agent Forget, of the French line, gave out
a complote list of the passengers of the ship.
There were, he said, but ten of them.
The vessel was valued at 4300,000 with het
cargo, which was a general one, worth S50.000,
and the St. Nazaire also had aboard
325,000 in gold.
Steamer Burned Ht Sea.
The crew of the Wilson Line steamer Rialtc
arrived at New York in the Carthaginian after
a thrilling experience in mid-ocean. The
Rlalto took Are and foundered at sea on
March 6. A part of the Rialto's carco consisted
of chemicals. These caught fire,
there was an explosion, and after forty
hours of desperate but unavailing siruggle
to check the flames the officers and crew
abandoned the vessel and were taken on
board the Carthaginian.
Mr. Cleveland at Home.
Former President Grover Cleveland arrived
at Princeton, N. J., from Cape Charles,
Ya., where he concluded his hunting and
Ashing trip. It is his first visit since he purchased
his private residence at Princeton.
Mr. Cleveland left the train at Princeton
Junction, where he was met by his coachman
with the family carriage and driven to town,
Fierce Fighting at Ketlmo.
Sharp fighting occurred between the Turks
and insurgents outside of Retimo in Crete,
Tea men were killed and eleven wounded.
Cycling Notes.
Newark, N. J., now boasts of a woman's
bicycle club.
The latest membership of the L. A. W. is
about 75,0i/0.
A gunpowder motor for driving a bicvele
has been devised by T. M. Fremble, of Latrobe,
Penn.
The Hempstead (N. Y.) Bicycle Club is
raising money to be used in the cpnstructioi
of a club house.
A new bicycle boat has the propeller geared
to the pedals and the handle bars turn the
rudder for steering.
It is estimated there are 107 bicycle clubs
in New York City, which comprise l'rom hall
a dozen to 400 or 500 members.
*
NAMED BY PRESIDENT.
1 A New Batch of Nominations Sent to tbe
Senate.
The President sont to the United States
! Senate the following nominations:
State?Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to be <
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni" i
potentiary of the United States to Mexico. <
William M. Osborne, of Massachusetts, |
| Consul-General of the United States at Lon- i
don. I
- <
? POWELL CL.lYTO>\ OF .LBKANSAS.
' (8elected by President McKliley asi Minister
j to Mexico.)
. " I
donil El, uowuy, Ol Xiiuitma, UUIUUI-UDU
; eral of the United States at Paris.
Joseph H. Brlgham, of Ohio, to be Asslst:
ant Secretary of Agriculture. g
Perry 8. Heath, of Indiana, to be First As- t
, sistant Postmaster General,
i Interior?Sylvester Peterson, of Minnesota, J
1 to be Register of t tie Land Office at Crooks- j
| ton, Minn. j
> 1
T'S SARCOPHAGUS.
nlna trill rAQf at- tho riArltraHflll of tllQ Gratlt
w York on April 27.) o
,1
THE CRANT SARCOPHAGUS. b
E
' Great Porphyry Receptacle for Hia Bod; ''
Has Arrived In New York. ,
> The sarcophaeus In which the body of b
General Ulysses S. Grant will permanently t
! rest has arrived in New York. The Grant *
monument, begun by cltlzons of New York
Ave years aaro, is now nearly completed, and
1 will be dedicated on April 27, the birthday of
the famous soldier. ^
> In its completed state thfi immense aaroo- .
' phagus weighs 17,000 pounds. The main J
portion, or that section in which the co'fln *
will be placed, weighs four and a half to as. ?
' I It is the work or the J. ti. Anaersou uramte
Company, of Montello, Wis., and the atone a
out of whioh it has been carved is the finest D
i and largest of the kind ever taken out of :he ?
quarries. All the blocks are uniform in *
quality and perfect in color. The exterior i
> surfaces of the sarcophagas are highly pol- i
i ished and of a rich, dark red oolor. It is a
' muoh harder than the ordinary granite and 11
i caa withstand a much greater pressure. The ?
1 treatment is simple in the extreme, the only
break in the uniform brilliant surface being
i the words "Uly9ses 8. Gnnt" engraved on
the top ef the cap.
The sarcophagus is 8 i!eet 6 inches long 13
and 4 feet 3 inches wilie at the top, sloping p
toaba3e7feet 9 Inches long and 3 feet 7 i
inches wide. It is 27 Inches high. The t
cavltv in which the casket will be placed is t
7 feet 2 lnchos long by 30 inches wide and fi
24 inches deep. ' I
An exact duplicate of tho sarcophagus will e
bfi made for Mrs. Grant and will be placed v
placed beside that of the General. The
stone for this is now being quarried at
Montello. '
JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE DEAD. 1
Prince Arisujrawa, the Probable Successor 9
ot tbe Emperor. ?
Passengers on the steamer Peru, which ar- n
rived at San Francisoo, Cat., a few days ago, ^
brings news of the death of the Crown Prince ^
of Japan, Yoshi Hlto Haruno-Miya. The
ppjjfl
CROWX PRINCE OF JA.PAX. f
' death of the heir npparoat, which has been j
kep. a secret for State reasons, will probably n
> be announced at tbe sarae time that the Em- c
t peror issues the proclamation designating tj
Prince Arisugawa Takahito his successor. v
For Governor of Rhode Inland.
! Ellaba Dyer, of Providence, was nomtj
nated by the Republicans for Governor of ^
Rhode Island. 1
Shot by Their Father.
At Philadelphia, Ponu., Frederick Prank,
shot and killed his nine-year-old son William, tl
I dangerously wounded, his five-year-old Y
. daughter Amelia, and then turned the ptetol A
on himself, inflicting a fatal wound. The tl
t tragedy is said to have been the outcoma o1 i
t a jealous quarrel with nls wife.
Gladstone Thunder*.
Mr. Gladstone has issued a Damphlet on
the "Eastern Crlsifi," ia which he says that
' Greec-3 has done a noble thins? in interfering g1
in Crete, and that tho Powers are playing a j.
disgraceiul gamo ia trying to coerce her. c~
The Lnl>or World.
1 The South contains 500 cotton mills.
The Board of Arbitration settled Duluth's ^
laundry strike.
New York ferryboat employes are forming Cl
' a K. o?L. Assembly.
Sydney (N. Y.) silk weavers struck rather ti
than give up their union.
j South Boston master painters have conceded
tho eight-hour day.
I San Francisco carpenters kick against
, carpentering by policemen on municipal
buildings. ^
i Boston Central Labor Union wants the
! city to build and operate the proposed ele- y
vated road. j(
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CRAINS HELD BY FARMERS.
An Kitlmate by the Departjnont ft Ajri"
culture.
The crop report of the Department of
Agriculture, basel on returns irom tnree independent
sets of regular correspondents
iddad to several thousand from mills and
slevators, all carefully combined, relates
principally to the distribution of prlnclpil
grains, the stocks remaining on farms, and
[ho proportion of merchantable and unmershantable.
All grains in the hands of farmers, including
amounts remaining over from previous
years, are included in the estimates given,
rho corn on hand is estimated as aggregating
1,164,000,000 bushels, or Qfty-one ppr cent.
:ent of the last crop, against 1,072,000,0 jO in
March, 1896. Both the proportion and the
quantity in original hands at this date are
unprecedented, although closely approached
ast year and in March, 1890. Corresponlents
report large stocks in cribs, pnrtlcuarly
in the prairie States, awaiting better
jric^s. The aggregate sold from farms tD
{o beyond county lines is 623,000,000 busheli,
)r 27.8 per cent. ot the crop. Tne propor:ion
merchantable Is 1,936,050,000, or ?4.8
)er cent.
The wheat reserves in farmers' hands
imount to 20.6 per cent, of the crop, or 88.!00,000
bushels, asainst 123,000,000 bushels
as: March. Of this amount three per cent,
s reported as coming over from previous
irops. The proportion of wheat sold outilde
the county is 51.7 percent.
Of oats, there are 313,000,000 bushels, or
[4.2 per cent, of the 1896 crop yet in farmers'
laads. The proportion shipped beyond
lounty lines was twenty-seven per cent.
IN HONOR OF WILLIAM I.
k Grand Historic Procession Alarchea
Through Berlin.
A grand procession marched through the
treets of Berlin In honor of the centenary of
William L, the first Emperor of Germany.
!!he streets were filled at an early hour With,
teople anxious to witness the great historio
iageanf, which was the principal outdoor
eature of the celebration.
The procession beean forming in the
iTilergarten at 9 o'clock, and started at 10.30
k m. on its march. The route taken was ;
hrough the Un{er den Linden and out of
he Brandenburg Gate to the Kaiser. Wil- j
lelm 1. monument, wnicn was unveuea
rlonday, where the Emperor, with the Etn)ress,
Empress Frederick, the Prince Regent
>f Bavaria, the King of Saxony, the King of
Vurtemburg, the Grand Duke of Baden, the
Jrand Duke of Hesse and other exalted
lersonages awaited its arrival.
As the procession filed past the royal party
he vast orowds which had assembled to witless
the review kept up an Incessant round
?f cheers.
It Is estimated that upward of 20,000 per- i
ons marched In the procession, which was
if the most gorgeous description. Many of ,
he historic costumes worn by the paraders
rere of costly material and ornamentation,
,nd of artistic designs.
THE TRANSVAAL'S NEW TREATY.
oath African Republic and Orange Free
State to Support Each Other.
A dispatch from Pretoria says that drafts
f treaties between the South African Repub' ?
? ? Qfnfa h ITTfl
IO SllU IUO UIUUJO X- LOO hjiaio, IIUIVU U4IW
oen oonolude J at Bloomfonteln, the Orange
'ree Stute capital, are published in the Preoria
papers.
The treaties, whloh must be ratified by the
Tolksraands of both republics, give the
mrghers of each State the franchise in either
epublic, and bind each republic to support
he other In the event of an attack.
Grant Day a Legal Holiday.
Governor Black, of New York, signed the ,
>111 making April 27, the dato of the dedicaIon
of the Grant memorial, a half-holiday
n New York, Kings and Westchester counles.
Secretary of War Alger writes that he
las Issued orders for 4100 officers and men to
ttend the dedication exercises and to
aaroh in the parade. General Butterfleld
aid that fourteen Governors had promised
o be present. The entire National Guard of
'ennsylvanla, 8000 men, will be in line.
lalf the National Guard of NeV Jersey, ,
nd organizations from Massachusetts, Con- ;
lecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia :
rill participate.
Diaease Germs In Crude Rubber. [
Germs of disease In orude rubber are j
ilamed for the illness of forty-seven em- |
tloyes of the Lambertville (N. J.) Rubber ]
lanufacturing Company. So rar three deatns i
iave resulted. For want of a better nime i
be doctors are calling the disease typhoid l
aver, although the symptoms are different
mpure drinking water was blamed for the
pidemlc at first, but an analysis showed the
rater to be pure.
Tbree Men Lynched.
Three colored men, James Gllmore, James
l
liley, and Otis Miller, were taken from the
heriff at Tallahassee, Fla., by fifty armed '
len, strung up to tree3, and their bodies rid- I
led with bullet9. They wore acoused of the <
mrder of James Barefleld, Postmaster at |
Hue Springs, and his assistant, John B. <
'urner, on Maroh 3. The killing was the re- ]
ult of an attempt at robbery.
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Relief FurnUtaed In India.
The special representative of the Associated ]
'ress has just completed an exhaustive tour {
f the famine-stricken Northwest of India,
n an area of 400 by 2C0 miles 1,750,000 per- ,
ons are being relieved. Owing to the !
lovernment's timely grasp of the situation (
he correspondent did not discover a single
tistance of death from starvation during the
rhole tour. (
Dutch Republics United.
It Is stated on what is regarded as good i
uthority that as a result of the visit of <
'resident Krseger, of the Transvaal, to j
'resident Steyn, of the Orange Free State, J
federal union of the both Republics has
een decided upon. Such a union is re- J
arded by the British with much concern. 1
s it would seriously complicate the sltua
ion.
i
Elephant Strangled to Death. j
The unruly elephant Tip, belonging to the ]
tarnum and Bailey show, was strangled to '
eath at the winter quarters of the circus at '
Iridgeport, Conn. Death came in about
inety seconds. Efforts to poison Tip by
oncealingcap3ules oontatning large quanIties
of cyan! le of potassium in his food
rere futile. 1
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Greater New York Charter.
The New York Assembly at Albany passod j
tie Greater New York charter by a vote of 1
19 to 28. I
Rapid Transit tor New York City.
The New York Court of Appeals decided
3at the Rapid Transit acts affecting New ^
ork City are constitutional. The Board of ,
.ldermen, by a large majority vote, adopted c
ie underground rapid transit plan sub- {
iltted by the Bapid Transit Commission.
Crime* of a Jealous Farmer.
Bee Rainwater, a farmer living in Orrick,
ear Kansas City, Mo., murdered his wif<*,
is mother-in-law, a step-daughter and a (
tep-son. He then sbot himself. Jealousy
I saiil to have caused him to commit the
rimes. ,
Out of the Common Run.
The flag of Greece is a white cross on a
luo ground. t
Tho Chil-an Government telegraph lines
omprise 7500 miles. c
Heavy snowstorms are blockading railroad
ains in the Northwest. c
The Horn silver mine of Utah has paid al- s
jgether in dividends ?5,180,000. <
There are 580 American citizens, including
33 Hebrews, residing in J^^alem. c
Rome's carnival this :^^^cas the most ;
rilliant and animated ne^^^^ars.
Montana fcst year e^^^^^^s previous
ear's dutput of copper^^^^^^Lilve mill>n
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WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.
The House passed the two remaining '"'left H<
over" appropriation bills?the Agricu tural
and the Indian. ^
Yale University's faculty sent a protest to R
Congress against the proposal to tax books |
Imported by educational institutions. tc:
Postmaster-General Gary announced that ur
Senators and Congressmen will, heretofore, bli
control the appointment of postmasters. rei
Mr. Dilllver, of Iowa, aroused Republican lo;
enthusiasm in the House by his speech on ?
the Tariff bill. Mr. McLauriu (Dem.,S. C.)
argued in tho House for a protective tariff on
cotton.
Criticism of the Civil Service law and the
methods of administering it was made by a
number of Senators. A oommittee was asked
to report as to whether the law should be
continued and in its present form.
Unexpected opposition to the peace treaty
leads its friends to fear the result in the Senate.
Senator Foraker is understood to be
opposed to the compact, and Senator Hanna,
it is said, is giving it only a lukewarm
support.
Mr. E vans, (Rep.,Ky.,)i member of the Com
mittee on Ways and Jleans, Introduced in
the House a joint resolution requesting the '
President to give notice of the desire of the
United States to terminate the commercial
reciprocity convention with Hawaii.
The Republican members of the Senate >
Committee on Finance have engaged quarters ]
at the Arlington Hotel in which to hold their u
meetings for the consideration of the Tariff t
bill. They have taken these quarters in A
preference to occupying the Finance Com- j?
mittee rooms. ?
The Senate has confirmed the nominations
of General Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to
be Minister to Mexico; William M. Osborne,
of Massachusetts, to be Consul-General at
London; John K. Gowdy, of Indiana, to be
Consul-General at Paris, and Joseph H. ?
Brigham, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture. He
his
Representative Maxwell, of Nebraska, has tQ.
introduced a bill to encourage the erection g
of mills for the manufacture of sugar and
syrup from beets. The bill sets forth that the '
production of beet sugar is hindered by the |L
great cost of erecting mills, and provides that
on every ton of suifar made from beets there .
shall be pa.<d a bounty for a period of nine
years, the amount for three years to be sev- .
enty-flve cents a ton, for the second three
yeari fifty cents and for the last three I wen- .
ty-flve cents. by
tin
THE WHITE HOUSE PIT.
It Will Be Marjorle McKlnley Morse, the ^
President's Grnndniece.
A Washington dispatch says that the Baby ^
SIcKee of the McKlnley administration will
be Marjorie McKlnley Morse, the grandniece (
of the President. This charming miss is a j
3peclal favorite of Mrs. McKinley, and in ,
order to be persona grata at the Executive *L(
mansion it will be necessary for every one to ~Tr
conciliate the little lady. Little Miss Morse
?.?j|$ IK '
MABJOBIB K'KINLET" MOUSE.
(The comlnsr pet of the White House.) aa?
3i
[3 not the only intimate child friend of Mrs. ^re
McKinley. That lady is very fond of the littie
ones, and surrounds herself often with
little babbling guests who own and control ?
the McKinley household while under its roof.
mill ?a luofl Ka ??ta r\t tho WhftA TTniiao ftl1
J.U1Q wot UV ICiW WW IfcUU v? fcuv ?. M*kw
ind the children In Washington may look 'be
forward to gorgeous times 'during the next [*pi
Four years. As ohlld mistress of the White >ur
House Miss Morse will certainly entertain on ?e!
\ stupendous soale, if Mrs. McKinley has
invthing to say about it. and she undoubted- (
ly will. *n!
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"AUNT HANNAH" CHARD DEAD.
? fee
she Was Nearly 108 Years Old, and Her
Descendants Number 150.
"AuriF Hannah" Chard, the oldest woman
h New Jersey, died a few days ago, at the
lome of her son, Joel, in Ferrel, Gloucester j
Dounty. Had she lived until April 20 she ,jq
ivould have been 103 years old. She nevsr pe.
lully recovered from an attack of grip, which 1
ihe had this winter, but she had hoped to I0*1
live to celebrate her 108th anniversary. 3ro
"Aunt Hannah," as she was familiarly 3u
:alled in the vicinity of her home, was born Jra
In Now York. Her father was Peter Wilder- na
burger, a man-o'-warsman. He died when thi
Hannah was an infant Her mother soon pea
narried attain, and her stepfather treated int
aer cruelly, and Hannah ran away from Jit;
home, with only her dog for a protector. She Th
irtiri flftwoiM in th? struts of Phlladelohia. lite
md she always referred with pride to the ?n<
tact that she had Washington and Lafayette ser
among her customers.
She was soon after "bound out" to a farmsr.
whose place was on the site of Brandywine.
The family with whom she lived
K>on after moved into New Jersey, and set- Shi
tied near the site of her late home, which
was then in the midst of a wilderness. At
the ace of twenty-two she married William '
Chard, Twelve children were bora to wei
thorn, two of whom survive her. aft,
They are Joel, seventy-one years c.d, >
with whom she lived, and William, who 4
Is alxty-six. Her husband died fourteen *
years ago, when he was ninety-one years old. to 1
"Aunt Hannah" celebrated her 107th birth- Jol
3av last year, when nearly one hundred und nis
fifty descendants representing live genera- nei
tions. gathered at her son's home. Aunt hei
Hannah's mind was soun 1 until the last, and sor
her step was firm and elastlo until her last 1
llness. doi
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123 Heads on Morocco's Walls.
Insurgent tribesmen in Soos, Ihe southernnost
province of Morocco, ambushed and 1
;ut to pieces the expedition sent there by the Bai
Jultan of Morocco to quell a rebellion. A ale
orce defeated the rebels and sent eighty tea
leads to the S'lltan as a proof of victory. an(
rhes?, with forty-three others, are now exjoaed
at the gates of Morocco City.
Girl Killed by Lightning. 1
Lily Johnson, seven years old, daughter of vas
Holes Johnson, a 'oayman living at Baldwins, tre'
jOng Island, was struck by lightning and in- ?lr
itaatly killed. A younger sister standing
>eside her escape ! uninjured. Johnson's Va
louse was wrecked by the lightning.
the
sou
Five Children Kurned to Death.
News has been received of the bumins to j
leath of five children of Frank Peurod at
heir home at Laidsdale, Iowa. It Is not ^ee
cnown how the fire originated. The ctiil- _a,
lreu were all under twelve years of age. v
Cj-clins Note*.
Ttio French Touring Club has 50,0-0 mom- I
>ers. a
A bill for the taxation of bicycles has been Eel
lefeated in the Vermont Legislature. S
Soap and water aro fine things for soiln i bin
iork yrips, and although the remedy is very &er
imply, thousands of riders have yet to dis- I
.over it. En
It is estimated that a bieylist <'an trave Eu.
?ver fifteen miles of ?ood road on his wh-;ei
vith less exertion than he can walk four C
niles on foot. sig
Riding after dark for pleasure is forbidden
n Japan. An English writer objects to such "
eatrictioDS, but forgets that a cyole cannot
>e ridden after 12 m. in Lcmioa'a parks. fat
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THE NEW FARMER SENATOR.
Bnry Heltfeld, Idaho's Jan lor Keprefen* I
tatlre in the Upper House. 1
Eenry Heltfeld, the new United States 1
i.-- 0 T.lnk.. -.1 aAnA. fl
uaiur uulu xuauu, nuu uas ic^iavou ovuw- ~m
Dubois, is one of the most interesting flg- J
es in the Upper Hous?. Z'e is a plain, 1
jnt man, farm bred, with a rough and *
idy experience in life an'i a snug little
rtune of $35,000 or 540,000 wrung by hard
HEmttT HEITFELD. OF IDAHO. 1
' \ ;
rk with his hands from an nnwilllng soil. s,
i is full six feet high, and while no orator,
i words, spoken In measured and emphatic j
ies, never fail to impress his hearers. The /
aator Is a native of St. Louis and Is only
rty-eight years old. His parents were \
or, and young Heltfeld after trief studies
the grammar schools of St. Louis, started
t West. He went to Kansas and to Wash;ton,
and Anally to Idaho. He tramped
ough the new country looking for work
i finding it as farm boy, laborer, stoneson
and other occupations, until he at
t settled down as an agriculturist. Then, I
incessant labor, he built up his little forie.
;
BLOCKADE OF CRETE BEGUN, .
rected Solely Affninit the ChrUtians la
the Interior.
Lccording to the proclamation issued by
i Admirals of the Powers, the blockade
Orete began at 8 o'olook Sunday morning,
t is apparent that the blockade is directed
ely against the Christians in the interior, 1
1 that the Moslems will suffer little inconlience
from the action of the six great
rlstian nations of Europe. It appears
it the object of the blockading squadron is
prevent the landing of supplies ot food,
thing, etc.. destined for the starving
iKa {nfAPlA* rr?Mla fha MtiflaaL
risiiam 1U IUO lUkWtiVtf nunw IMV mwjwwi
ns who have flocked to the coa9t towns
i allowed to land whatever they want
?he few Christians remaining at Canea
d It difficult to understand the motives
it are prompting the Powers to exert their
irgies to crusn the Christian population
the island, while the Moslems are given a
e hand to do about as they please. About
i only hope of the Christians outside the
ist towns is in Greek blockade runners,
0 will not hesitate to run through thecor1
of foreign warships around the island.
?here was an exchange of shots between
urgents and Moslem volunteers in the
lnlty of Suda Bay. The Turkish warships
the bay bombarded the Insurgents. A;
mber of foreign warships were In the bay,
: they took no part In the firing. CREEK
TRANSPORT SUNK.
Austrian Gunboat Fire* on a Schooner
Carrying Cretan Insurgents. /
*n-- " TTJAnnn kno ?AAA(?la^
1UO VTUVVIliUloul aw T ivuua uao iwu^TVu
rices that the Austrian gunboat Sebenioo
i sank a Greek schooner with a carg<i> *
munitions of war and a number of^
(tan insurgents on board. The Sebd- ^"1
0, under the orders of the British I
miral commanding the British squadron
Cretan waters was patrolling off Capo
1, Crete, when the schooner hove in sight
s schooner was hailed by the gunboat and
i insurgents on board in reply opened fire
dh the Sebenlco, whereupon the latter: '
ned her guns on the schooner and sunk'
The orew of the schooner swam ashore.
ne of them was injured.
Greece will protest against the firing upon
i sinking of the schooner. She will claim
it the action of the Austrian warship was
)itrary. The inoident is regarded as
>of that the concert of the Powers i* pert.
THREE ROASTED TO DEATH.
a Result of the Wreck of an Engine In
Denver, Col. i ^
ames White, a hostler in the Union Pa- ,
c shops at Denver, started for the Union
pot with three passenger engines all
led together. As his last engine was
ssing the track of the Denver, Texas and
If Boat], an engine pulling a coal train
shed squarely Into it, turning it over and
king a complete wreck. Patriok Casey,
rteen years of age: Hugh McBrlde, fifteen
irs; Edward J. Hayes, twenty-one years,
1 John W. Brandt were riding into the
7 to their work on the demolished engine.
a first three were caught in the wreck and
irally roasted to death Dy escaping steam
1 boiling wator. Brandt lumped, but was
iously burned ana bruisel
TRIED TO MURDER A FAMILY.
ot Wile, Her Mother. Father and Sister,
and Then Himself.
7Illiam Fees, a farmer, living five miles
9t of Wamego, Kan., blew oat his brains
ar a murderous assault, In which he atlpted
to exterminate a whole family.
''ees's wife recently left him and returned
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mr*. .
inson. Fees went to the house, and, after 4
wife had reiterated her determination j
or to live with him again. Fees shot her, J
: mother and his sister-in-law, Miss John- 9
l, and his wife's father. V
(one of the women can recover, and it is I
abtful if Johnson will live. Fees r?- I
ned to his own house and killed himself. "
i
Real Indian Ball Player.
lanager Tebeau, of the Cleveland League
3e Ball team, has signed outfielder ytockxis,
formerly of the Holy Cross College I
m. The player is a full-blooded Indian, I
1 is said to be a strong batter and fast
der. I
Havoc From the Broken Levee. I
'he valley of the lower Mississippi is & I
it inland sea. Death, desolation and dis- I
5s are spreading from as far north as I
d's Point, Mo., to the country below Hel- I
i, Ark. The heavy rainfall in the Ohio I
iley and the consequent floods are the im* I
diate causes of the frightful swelling In B
i Mississippi in the vicinity of Cairo and I
ith of there. m I
Keduclnj; a City's Payroll. S
)uring twenty-one months of Mayor 1
ift's administration in Chicago there has 9
in a decrease ot nearly $2,000,000 In the I
rolls of tho city. 1
Prominent People. I
resident Errazuriz, of Chile, will marry 9
Perv.au woman, a relative of General H
lenique, the Chilean Minister. J
ouator Push, of Alabama, has earned for _ I
iselr the titlo of the '-Pie Eater of th-""
late." His favorite is pumpkin pie.
t is said that Mr. Bancroft, tin retiredj^H
ejlish actor, has made over $15,003 for^^
tjlish hospitals this season by residing H
skens's "Christmas Carol." ! 9
General G. W. C. Lee. who Aias just rfr- fl
ned tho Presidency at Washingtor. and
i University,was the oldest siin of Gederal JH
E. Lee, anil through his motjher was a di? fl
t descendant of George faashinfton'a B
her. - / ? |