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< 't' , 4? Vfs* * V.jfis» ^ ». »"~t •»'*(!* <«f^ f,. vm ms Stmimft " tZ je ' >- '* "' * : »PP k >'• - ! %« „*»>* *> p"4 PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. cHKNRY, ILLINOT". *ANK TAX WILL STAY TM.mtL COMMITTEE. ail ra- 'ml* , " v - f tVsrtier 'S Snbitltato Also Beaten--RCT. Dr. '•i I Tilmafe Will Make a Tour of the World "i V) .J t --Cincinnati out «MH - Burned--*ta«r C. i,.N«w.N.tM. _ State Bank Tax Stands. *t TBB effort to repeal the tax on State ;!:.r ^Imiik circulations was beaten in the j . Committen on Banking by a vote of 8 "* yeas and 9 nays. The vote was taken On the bill "of Representative Cox IDem., Tenn.), which relieves State >anks from any tax on their circula­ tion, but does not extend the relief to , circulation issued by private individ­ uals or corporations. The vote in detail was a-t fo.lows: For the . hill -- Cox (Tenn.), Cobb (Ala.), ' Hall (Mo.\ Ellis (Ky.), Johnson (Ohio1, Cobb (Mo.). Black (Ga.), and Cuitert- Bon (Texas), all Democrats. Against the bill--Springer j 111. ),S.perry (Conn.), Warner (N. Y.\ Democrats: and John- j#On (Ind.), Brosius (Penn.). Walker {Mass.), Russell (Conn.\ Henderson (111.)? and Haugen (Wis.), Republicans. The favorable votes of Johnson, of Ohio, and Cobb, of Missouri, were given with the reservation that they would vote against the bill on the floor of the House A second vote was taken on motion to recont ider the motion to lay on the table. This time •he lines were differently drawn, although the result was the same. Yeas -- Sperry, Culberson, Walker, Brosius, Benderson, Russell, Baugen, Johnson (Ind.*, Springer. Nays--Cox, Cobb (Mo.!, Cobb (Ala.), Ellis, Warner, Johnson (O.), Black, Hall. Mr. War­ ner says that his new bill will be de­ signed to secure repeal speedily and with it an elastic currency. Several other bills to secure repeal of the State bank tax, with various limitations, are • before the committee, but may not be |f ken up. ; Corporal Tanner'* Condition. tMi-i A • Qrt&TLEMAN from Brooklyn who met Corporal Tanner at Jersey City Bays: "Nobody save his family and in­ timate friends knows what a sufferer he is, and he tries to hide his condition even from them. For the last six months he has been experiencing agony from the invitation of the stumps of his legs where his artificial limbs come in contact with them. He told me he was on his way to Brooklyn to have, an­ other amputation of a "portion of each limb." ,. 4 " Street-ear Sited:* Burned. * AT Cincinnati the Avondale Street Railway car sheds and machine shop .Imrned, entailing a loss estimated at "$175,000. Fire also did $25,000 damage at Posey ville, Ind., destroying one .en­ tire block. The property was insured for half the value. of a financial Institution in New York, to serve as the bank's metropolitan correspondent, and Brewer ant MB chum Cohn relied it is said, on the well-worn device of "kiting" checks in order to make both ends meet. A BOSTON dispatch says: The life sav­ ing patrol on duty at Nantasket Beach came in at 1:30 o'clock in the morn­ ing, and the - men report that the beach is strewn "with wreckage, indi­ cating that something has gone to pieces on Harding's Ledge, four miles off Mi not's Light. The wrecks of cabin and pieces of spars are plentiful, and it is certain that the unfortunate craft has gone to the bottom. A piece of a pilot­ house has come ashore, and this snows that one of the lost was a steam vessel of some kind. Harding's Ledge is a sunken rock, and it is impossible that any of the men on board the ves­ sels are saved, as their boats would not live a minute in the gale that has blown all day. The storm still raues fiercely, and it is impossible to deter­ mine the extent of the loss indicated by the floating wreckage. The life savers are having a terrible time in making their rounds, as the snow is very deep and the blizzard has not abated ma­ terially. JUDGE COX of the District Supreme Court declined to grant the application of the Knights of Labor to compel Secretary Carlisle to show cause why he should not lie en joined from issuing $a0,0l'0.000 of b mds as proposed in his recent bond circular. Treasury of-, ficials received with unfeigned satis­ faction the decision of Judge C-ox dis­ missing the petition of the Knights of Labor for an injunction against Secre­ tary Carlisle t > restrain him from issu­ ing fco.ids. The claimants will appeal to the Court of Appeals and when that body decides against them to the Unit­ ed States Supreme Court, Secretary Carlisle declined to make fibr publication any statement of the results of his .trip to New York. It was officially stated at the department that the statement, attributed to the Secretary while in New York that if the. subscript ions ran up to $75,000,000 he intended to sell that many bonds, was incorrect. It is said that if the Secretary had wanted that amount of bonds he would have so stated in his circular inviting proposals for them. WESTERN. Colored Preacher Slain. Rev. D. G. COOK, colored, was as­ sassinated as he was returning home from his church in Fayetteville, Tenn., where he had held services. The assassin used a shotgun loaded with slugs, and the entire top of Cook's head was torn off. O. w. Child* DM* GEORGE W. CHILDS, editor of the Philadelphia Ledger and widely known •8 a philanthropist, died early Satur­ day morning. Mr. Chiids had been ill Virata " • ' . short while. . . tat ... if'* 2^"f- ^ i , V i • .rvF-t-r • I BREVITIES, recent cold wave killed peach ^ "lluds in Southern Illinois. ' '* * THEdry-gocds hou-e of Louis Wolf y - & Co., at Fort Wayne, was damaged $50,000 by fire. ; j: TEN THOUSAND miners have been : / forced into id'eness by the closing of * • the Reading collieries in Pennsylvania. THE United States have sued the Union Pacific at Topeka, Kan., upon p ',, jMO.OOO bonds issued to secure Indian lands. ROBEBT JONES, a Peoria boy, fired five shots at his father, instating fatal • „ pounds, because the latter would not J j- loan him mcney to buy a pair of shoes. SOUTH CHARLESTON (Ohio) citizens treated "Professor" Lars Anderson, an alleged spirit medium, to a feast of < iibad eggs and induced him to leave ?|B|^a»wn. .J REAB ADMIRAL KIRKLAND has been i ordered to proceed to Honolulu and re f " ^ lieve Rear Admiral John Irwin, who #%oes on the retired list. Admiral Ben- % ; liam, who so gallantly upheld Ameri- - • lean rights at Rio, will retire in April. s' THE French Customs Committee has ff^iadopted the proposal of M. Melin to ,,V * raise the duty on wheat -to 8 francs "' f. •Ivith the proviso that when the price ". ( - reaches 25 francs the duty is to be re ifluced by progressive diminutions of 50 - \ centimes and the duty is to be removed s} t altogether when the price reaches 33 '..francs. THE House Military Comw^tee has rdered a favorable report on the bill troduced by Mr. Curtis, cf New York, imiting enlistment in the army t3 hree yearj without any provision for l,hree months' extra pay. The bill fur- M %her provides that no soldier t hall be ' rre-enlisted whcee record is not' good; ~ \iho is not a citizen of the United States, or has net declared his inten­ tion of being such; who cann )t speak and read the English language, an<i who is over 30 ve-irs of age. WM. B. HORN BLOWER, who was re­ cently nominated as the successor of Justice Blatchford en the Supreme Court bench, and Mrs. Emily S. Nelson were married at New York. The bride was TT9 widow of Lieut. Col. A. D. Nel- U..SA., and a sisle/ of Mr. Horn- 4%> - - blower s fir^t wife. J- • RICHARD p. Fox, a paper manufac- Cincinnati, Ohio, has disap- '^6ared and foul play is suspected. L WILLIAM HAYES was arrested on a ^ charge of robbing a Mojave Indian. /hi, poking as a museum freak, of $50. EASTERN. JfciOMASC. BREWER, or John C. De Austin as he has been known, who made such a lamentable failure in hit attempt to establish the Pontiac Bank at 91st street and Amsterdam avenue New York, has been connected with other remarkable financial enterprises. An application was made for the ar­ rest of Brewer and an associate, Her­ man L. Cohn, on the charge of passing worthless checks issued on the State Bank of Barton. Brewer's plan con' tern plated the establishment not onlv «( »Wk in the wiidsof Vermont, but WILLIAM PORTER, a colored farm hand, robbed his employer of $500 near Centralia, *IH., and inside of seven hours had been arrested, tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. JOHN B. JOHNSON, a ranchman liv­ ing near Compton, Cal., shot and killed his son George, and the boy killed his father before his own wound proved fatal. The only eye-witness to the tragedy was a 10-year-old son. and brother. THE third annual distribution of the profits--of Congressman C. G. Conn's hern factory at Elkhart, Ind., which is conducted on the cc-operative plan, took plac3 Tuesday, 147 employes re­ ceiving an aggregate of $12,533.20, about $2,000 less than at last year's dis­ t r i b u t i o n . . . . DETECTIVE CHARLES ARADO, of the Harrison street station, Chicago, and one of the best-known policemen on the force, was thot and almost instant­ ly killed by Officer John A. Bacon at Wabash avenue and Twenty-second street. The shooting was the result of a saloon brawl. THE California Midwinter Fair was foamally opened at noon Saturday by Mrs. De Young, wife of the Director General, who pressed the electric but­ ton with a gloved hand. Fifty thou­ sand people cheered this woman as she arose timidly from her chair and set the wheels of Machinery Hall in mo­ tion by her magic touch. , IT is feared that three of the victims who were injured in the wrcck on the San Francisco and San Mateo electric line, on Saturday, will not recover. The motsorman lost control of his car on a down grade, and the momentum of the car, in swinging Ground a curve, overturned it. Over fifty people who were in the eoach were buried beneath the wreck. THE California Supreme Court de­ clared the act passed by the Legislature 1891 regarding the right of the State to limit immigration is unconsti­ tutional. The case was that of a China­ man arrested in unlawfully remaining in the State. The act provides for de­ portation, but the court decides that the power thus attempted to be exer­ cised belongs exclusively to the Gen­ eral Government. STERLING BRASEUER and his wife were arrested charged with poisoning the Comstock family near Jerico, Mo., a few months ago, and Mrs. Braseuer's mother and brother were arrested at Jerico charged with complicity in. the crime. Mrs. Comstock is Braseuer's mother. Air. Comstock and Mrs. Wal­ lace died as a result of the poison ad­ ministered and Mrs. Comstock and other members of the family were made seriously ill. THE preliminary hearing of Edward Pease, charged with robbing his errand- father Sunday night, tooK place at Cleveland, O. The nur e, Mrs. Davis, positively identified both Pease and Richard Hamilton, who was arrested as an accomplice. She detailed the story of the robbery, saying a candle was lighted and Peace's eyes were held open and the burning end placed against them. The old man's sight was nearly ruined. According to Mrs. Davis young Pease broke down and cried when she recognized him. "SOUTHERN^ INFORMATION has been received from Alpine, a small village in the northern portion of Clark County, Ark., announcing the killing of three men and the wounding of two others during a melee at a country dance held at the house of James Forbes. Lew Jones, Cbarles Ross, and Samuel Powell were the men killed. THE official report of the production and coinage of gold and silver in Mex­ ico during the fiscal year of 1893 is out. It shows the production of $1,400,000 in gold and $48,500,000 in silver. The mintage for the year was $301,072 in gold and $27,100.87# in silver. The fow amount of gold coined arises from the fact that the monetary system of Mexico is now operative practically on a silver basis. ON their way to Texas a family of emigrants, consisting of two children and father and mother, traveling in a canvas-covered wagon, were caught in the recent blizzard at a point on the road several miles from Clarendon. Ark. The boy, about 14 years eld, and the little girl were frozen to death, and the father and mother, when relief came, were so badly frozen that they will probably c ie. REV. C. W. LEWIS, colored, with many aliases, has been placed in jail at Chattanooga by Special Pension Examiner Fitzpatrick. The most gi­ gantic pension frauds ever kno«rn in the South have been unearthed and will lead to the arrest of probably a hun­ dred negroes implicated with Lewis in swindling the Government. Lewis himself drew a large pension Mid on evidence of his own maxittfactum se­ cured pensions for other* He ap­ peared as a witness in numberless cases, stole a notarv's seals and forged the names of notaries to false affidavits. He has operated in Chattanooga, in Kansas City, New Orleans and other points. There are twenty-seven charges against him up to tills time, and more are coming. wASiHNGT3ii^ IN advance of its regular statistical report the Interstate Commerce Com­ mission has compiled the returns from 479 operating companies whose railroad mileage is 1*j5,8(59.58 miles of line, or 87 per cent, of the total operated mileage; in the United States for that period. The gross earnings were 1,085,685,281, of which $322,805,538 were from passenger service and $739,2-19,365 from freight service. The operating expenses were $735,427,- 532, or 07.74 per cent, of the gross earn­ ings. leaving net earnings ot $350,257,- 749, which is about 3.5 per cent on the capitalization of the roads reporting. A comparison of these items with the complete returns for the previous year shows an increase in g^oss earnings of $230 per mile of line, and in operating expenses of $2X1, resulting m a de­ crease of net earnings of 3$ por mile. "FOREIGNT . Gazette . dectarfes it learns from a source in which it has ©very confidence that Mr. Gladstone has finally decided to resign his office almost immediately. According to the Gazette, Mr. Gladstone will announce his decision in a letter to the Queen before the reassembling of Parliament. This decision is paid to be due to a sense of his advanced age and the great strain the late arduous session imposed upon him. Finally, it is said, Mr. Glad­ stone is deeply disappointed at the re­ jection of the home-rule bill. The Ga­ zette adds that it is understood that domestic pressure has considerably in­ fluenced Mr. Gladstone in this de­ cision. RtO JANEIRO advices say the insur­ gent warships have had a narrow es­ cape from being blown out of the water by the American fleet under Admiral Benham. A complete backdown alone averted the anninilation- of the rebel force in the harbor and the ending of the whole Brazilian war. As it is, one of Da Gatoa's gunboats has an Amer­ ican shell in her stern post as a re­ minder that Admiral Benham "meant business" when he declared that he would protect American shipping. Ad­ miral Da Gama opened fire '"upon the American warships in tne harbor. Admiral Benham, the American com­ mander, vigorously responded, and after a short, sharp engagement Da Gama surrendered. tliEAtfOB INCOME TAX MR. M'MILUN, OF TENNESSEE, IN ITS FAVOR. pifi Ike ZUch Should Vmr More Taxee-- Keainre Is Opposed by the Republican Miiiorlty--InBurtenta at Bio Itoght a Talaabln T^fsson. . IN GENERAL CENTRAL TRAFFIC agents are to meet in Chicago to arrange a pool on all passenger business'between com­ petitive points. THE Toronto (Ont.) Rowing Club has decided to tend J. J. Ryan, the ama­ teur champion sculler of America, to compete for the diamond scull race at Henley-on-Thames next July.' CARDINAL GIBBONS has sent to the Pope at itome portraits of President Cleveland and ex-President Harrison. The Cardinal said: "The Holy Father expressed a desire fo/ the portraits and I got two very good ones. His de­ sire for them shows the interest he takes in America and Americans." OBITUARY: At Tacoma, Wash., Judge William H. Calkins, ex-Con­ gressman from 'Indiana, aged 52.--At. Cincinnati, Herman Moos, the Jewish novelist.--At Houghton, Mich., Mrs. Fountaine, aged 110.--At Pawpaw. Mich., Captain Edmund Smith, aged 78.--At New Orleans, James D. Hous­ ton, aged 46.--At Marshalltown, Iowa, Banker James L. Williams. - A DISPATCH received in London from Rio Janeiro says that the French naval commander has congratulated Admiral Benham upom the vigorous action he tcok to protect the American vessels. The commander of the Aus­ trian warship in the bay, when he saw that trouble was brewing, ordered his vessel to be cleared for action, so that she might be ready,to give assistance to the American vessels if it wa* nec­ essary. R. G. DUN & Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says: IKCIEIHRY Carlisle's decision to Issue bonds, aud the early reports of large bids for tboin, helped to accelerate the recov- eryof industries and trade as was hoped- The sale of the amount offered will check anxiety about the maintenance of note re­ demption. remove the only pretext for further Issues of paper, add thus give a solid basis for greater confidence regard­ ing the financial future, 'ihe revenue is •till small, from customs reported thus far $10,805,501, against (10,035,635 last year, and from internal taxes {0,487,079, against 911,008.498, and the volume of domestic trade is still small- The increase in num­ ber of hands employed adds to the pur­ chasing power of the people, and dealers' stocks are eo reduced that any sign of larger consumption quickly gives mills more orders. In short, the conditions ara such that if not Interrupted by adversq forces they would naturally bring A steady revival of biielness. SO & 3 00 & 3 00 0 2 00 <& MARKET RBP0RT8. CHICAGO. CATTTJ*--Common to Prime $8 W # G so HOOB--Shipping Grades 4 CO & 5 80 SHEEP--Fair to Choice 1 26 <<# 4 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Red 69 <$ CO CoBN--No. 2 85 «# 84 OATS--No. 2 29 & 80 RTK--No. 2 44 & 46 BUTTER--Choice Creamery 2696) EGGS--Fresh 14 68 15 POTATOES--Per bu^ INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOOB--Choice Ijlght. SHEEP--Common to Prime.... WHEAfl1--No. 2 lied CORN--No. 2 White. ... OATS--No. 2 White afc. Louis. CATTLE HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No. 2.... OATS--No. 2. POEX--Mesa... CINCINNATI, CATTLE HOGS COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed RT*-NO. 2. DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS HHEEP. WHEAT--No. 2 Re* COBN--No. i Yellow OATS--No. 2 White. ^TOLEDO. - WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. A Mixed. OATS--No. 2 White RTE--No. 2. WHEAT--No. COBN-- No. •i Yellow OATS--No. 2 Wh te LIVE HOGS--Good to Cboioe. .. MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. a .. ........ OATS--No. 2 White RTE--NO. L BAKL**--NO. 2. -V POBK-»-MeM..... MEW YORK. CATTLE HOGS BBttP...... WHEAT--No. 2 S«d.' *n... COB*--No. 2 OATS--White Western j,... BvTm--Cboioe................ POBK-VtM. IS 60 & 60H 34 & 35 28H@ Mi » & 4FR «• «£ V IS 00 @13 60 A f 26 S6 60 4 S 00 3 75 ^ 2 00 IT 4 76 44 $ 44* 38 D 40 Si » •!» * Debate in the House* The debate on the intern*!' revenue bill, including the provision for the in­ come tax, began in the House Monday. Mr. McMillin (Dem., Tenn.), Chairman of the sub-coramittee of Ways and Means on Internal Revenue, began his argument. Said he: If a man owns $50,000,000 or $100,000,000 *orth of property in the United States, as some do, he pays only on what he eats, what he drinks, what he wear* and the other things he uses. The time has come when this should be changed. I ask of any reasonable person whether it is unjust to expect that a small per cent of this enor­ mous revenue shall be placed upon the ac­ cumulated wealth of the country Instead of placing all upon the consumption of the country. Is it not time that the great es­ tates, which are protected by our army, which are defended by our navy, which are benefited by the various opera­ tions of our Government, should contribute in some greater degree to carry on that government through which alone they could have been accumulated, or by which they are to be protected? The people of the United States do not ask that all of it shall be placed on accumulated wealth But they do Insist that it Is not unreasonable or unjust to require that a vary small pro­ portion shall be. And yet when It is pro­ posed to shift this burden from those who cannot bear it to those who can; to divide it between consumption and wealth; to shift it from the laborer who has nothing TYIT his power to toll and sweat to the man Who has a fortune, made or inherited, we bear a hue and cry raised by some individ­ uals that it is unjust and inquisitorial la its nature and should not be adopted. ' Itaen we insjst, Mr. Chairman, that It is not unreasonable or unjust that a small part of this money should be collected ;from this accumulation. I know of no ar­ gument that is at all conclusive or rational that can be urged against this form of tax­ ation. I believe that onco It 1* inaugu­ rated it will not cease to be a source from which to draw some of the vast revenue that we need. Mr. Chairman, it has been the effort of the Ways and Means Commit­ tee to so construct the bill as to leave it, as far as possible, free from criticism. Unlike the old law, it does not require a schedule from every citizea Only those who have S4.000 income have to make a return. There is nothing in this against which any just man can complain; there is nothing to arouse fear that any ill ckn ccme from It. It Is no tax on bread. It is no embargo placed upon prosperity. It is no effort to prevent prost erity. It is no death-blow aimed at commerce. But it is an effort to in some way require each citi­ zen to contribute to the government in pro­ portion to what he has. Other Arguments Pro and Con. Mr. McMillin was followed by Bepresent- ative Ray (Itep.. N. Y.), who opened the debate for the Republicans in opposition to the income tax. He attributed the business depression to threatened tariff changes and contrasted a Democratic pol­ icy on an Income tax duriug the war and at present Mr. Tarsney (Dem.. Ma), member of the Ways and Means Committee, followed. 1 he Income tax was first resorted to in the dark days of the civil war. When the war etided and the people began demanding a reduction of their excessive burdens, in­ stead of taking the taxes off the necessa­ ries of life by lowering the tariff ratea one by one, the internal-revenue taxe* were removed. The taxes which the rich were able to bear were repealed; the taxes of the poor were retained. This was unjust. Men 6hould pay according to tbejr wealth for the support and protection of "the Gov­ ernment. There were $70,000,000,000 worth of property in this country^ If one man owned i 1,000,000,000 worth would it not be just that he should be taxed his equitable share for the proportion of his property? Mr. Dinsmore (Dem., Ark.) said this hour was an auspicious one, as it marked a new era in taxation. It meant that the wealth of the country was to pay a just tribute ta the Government for tbe benefits it received irom the governmental system. It meant that the great burden of taxation was to be taken from the shoulders of the poor. Mr. Daniels (Repi, N. Y.) called atten­ tion to the hostile attitude occupied by the Democratic party toward the Income tax for years and quoted the words of grea?> Democratic leaders like Samuel J.. Tllden in condemnation of it.. He pro­ ceeded with a careful argument against the income tax. Mr. Williams (Dem., MTAS.), in supporting the income tax , said that .-i t was not a new thing. It has been , resorted to by every democracy since the days of Solon as the most equitable of all taxes. He was followed by Mr. Ha]l (Dem.,Ma), who has been one of the most earnest ad­ vocates of an income tax. Taxation, as Mr. Hall asserted, came from one of three sources--rent; profit or wages. He quoted from Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and other eminent political economists in sup­ port of the principle of an income tax. Mr. Covert (Dem.. N. Y.) in criticising the action of the Ways and Means Com-' mittee said he was opposed to free trade and the income tax. DECKS CLlARED FOR ACTION. American War-Ship* Prepare to Resent an Inaolt at Itio. Monday was one of tho most exciting days that Bio Janeiro has' experienced since the commencement of hostilities between the insurgents and the Brazil­ ian Government. The United States naval fleet stationed in that harbor ha? furnished the excitement. Provoked beyond the endurance of patience ty the continued carelessness of the gun­ ners aboard tlie rebel warship Aquida- ban, and tried by the indifference shown on the part of the revolutionary Admiral to all his protests that Amer­ ican vessels entering or leaving the harbor were not afforded proper pro­ tection by the rebel fleet. Admiral Ben­ ham maae a demonstration with the American war vessels under his com­ mand which will undoubtedly have the effect hereafter of securing proper rec­ ognition of the rights of vessels under the American flag. ^ Three American vessels, the bork Amy, Captain Blackford; the bark Good News, Captain Myrick, and the bark Julia Rollins, Captain Kiehne, were fired on last Saturday by the in­ surgent vessels. The three captains held a hurried conference and deter­ mined to appeal for protection to the United Sta.es war ships and to request that the barks be given an escort to the wharves. Capts. Kiehne, Myrick, and Blackford put off in small boats at forest danger to themselves, and puli­ng up to where the Sag ship New York was stationed, stated the case to Admiral Benham. He promised to adjust matters. Admiral Benham then eent ore of his officers to the Aquidaban with or­ ders to acquaint Admiral Da Gama with the facts and to ask him to have an end put to the reckless gunnery. Da Gama was apparently in a very bad humor when the American officer ar­ rived on board, and with many excla­ mations of impatience he listened to the recital of the errievanee. "When the American officer had finishedtnak- ing his statement, Da Gama, with a shrug of his shoulders, taid ty^yery sharp t me: "It is not my fault. The American ship captains should know enough to keep themselves and their crews out of range of our guns. I shall not take any notice of this matter." This curt response to his message aroused the ire of Admiral Benham, and he determined to make such a showing that it would produce a last­ ing effect upon the insurgents. In the morning the decks of the vessels of the American fleet were cleared for action. The bark Amy, the captains of the ppw other vensels having weakened, fm| fear position in the ranks of the Amer> lean vessels, and was escorted to the wharf. Throughput the whole affair not a single Shot was fired, but the scene was quite as impressive as if this had been done, and- the incident has taught the insurgents a lesson. After passing along Rio's water front the fleet re­ turned out into the bay and anchored in nearly the same position it had oc­ cupied previous to tho demonstration. Full protection from this time on will be given to all American vessels. HISTORY COSTING MILLION^. The Government Is Preparing an Enor­ mous Work on the Rebellion. The biggest literary work ever un­ dertaken in America is the military history now being produced by the United States government under the title of "War of the Rebellion." It was begun twenty years ago. The whole work will embrace 120 huge royal octavo volumes of 1,000 page Beach and a gigantic atlas, and the cost will be about $2,500,000. Each separate book in a set is three inches thick and weighs from fifty to sixty ounces and the combined weight of an entire set will be 520 pounds. The volumes, if set up in a row on a single shelf, wrill extend a distance of thirty feet. # Eleven thousand copies will be printed, so that the edition will com­ prise 1,320.000 books of 1,000 printed pages, aggregating 1,320,000,000 pages of matter, exclusive of the atlas. Up to this date eighty-nine serial volumes have been published and about $1,800,- 000 has been spent in all branches of the work, or about $20,000 a volume. The printing and binding alone cost $10,000 a volume, while the previous preparation of each volume for the printers' hands cost an equal sum. SENT TO THE SENATE. One Envoy Extraordinary and a Number of Minor Officials Nominated. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo­ tentiary of the United States to Bolivia- Thomas Moonlight, of Kansas. United States Consuls--Edgar Battle, of Texas, at Acapulco. Mexico; Louis Bruhl, of Texas, at Catania, Italy; Frank W. Roberts, of Maine, at Nosrales, Mexico. Collector of Customs--John T. Galley, at Los Anjreles, Cal. Surveyor General of Washington--William P. Watson. Beceiver of Public Moneys at Seattle, Wash. --John Y. Terry. Registers of Land Offices--Thomas J. Bolton, at Los Angeles, Cal.: Solon B. Patrick, Visalia, Cal.; Raymond Miller, Pueblo, Col.; William C. Bowen, Del Norte. Col.; Louis Davis, of Georgia, at Perry. O. T. United States Marshals--Wm. L. Desmond, Northern District of Iowa: Charles R. Pratt, Western District of Michigan. United States Attorneys--Alfred P. Lyon, Eastern District of Michigan; John Power, Western District of Michigan: Robert Culber­ son, Western District of Texas. Judge of Probate in the County of Emery, Utah--Herbert Savage. To be Rear Admiral--Commodore John G. Walker. Postmasters -- Illinois: Patrick Stuart. La Salle: David P. O'Leary, Evuston. Iowa: A. J. Salts, Corning; Moses Mr Ham, Dubuque; Thomas Bowman, Council Bluffs. Michigan: John Drawe, Marine Citv; William A. Bahlke, Alma; Alfred V. Friedericl). Traverse City; Stiles Kennedy, St. Lonis. Minnesota: J. Le- roy Paul, Brown Valley; A. W. Bukely, Rochester. How the World Wi»>r*. JIM CORBETT, tjie pugilist, arrived in New York, was given an ovation, and made a speech. C. W. LEACH, a prominent. mining man, was accidentally asphyxiated at Grass Valley, Cal. ATTORNEY MA DIG AN, of New Ulm, Minn., will go to the penitentiary, for five years for perjury. MATTHEW R. ASHTON was found guilty of killing his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Stone, of Janes ville, Wis. MRS. LEASE opened the campaign at Topeka, Kan., and paid her respects to Gov. Lewelling in her speech. W. J. HOLT, Pert Wayne, Ind., wa3 fatally shot by the explosion of a re­ volver in his overcoat pocket. JOSEPH BROWN, hit on the head at the McNamara riot in Kansas City, is expected to die from the wound. ONE of the FlemiDg brothers, des­ peradoes, was killed and the other cap­ tured by officers near Bogges, W. Va. BAD-DEBT collectors ha\ e been swin­ dling residents in Southern Minnesota, in twenty-one towns securing $30,000. HENRY HURSON, insane convict in the Columbus, Ohio, prison, is thought to have died from the effects of a beat­ ing. SUICIDES: Bruce Grant at Newton, Ga.; George Helche, at Pittsburg, Pa.; Marshal N. Crawfcrd, at Kansas City. MILLS of the American Cereal Com­ pany at Akron, Ohio, were destroyed. The loss is $lo0,000; insurance about half. CLAY SHACKELFORD shot and badly wounded his brother Bates,, at Rich­ mond, Ky., in a quarrel about^ euchre party. \ STOCKHOLDER HATCH, of New York, declarer Nicaragua Canal funds have been misappropriated and the officers overpaid. THE 8-year-old son of C. P. Emmett while coasting was run down and killed by an electric motor at St. Jo­ seph, Mo. WM. CHAPMAN, a Pittsburg, Kan., merchant, was found horribly mutil­ ated in his store, piesumably the work of robbers. WHILE riding a railroad velocipede near Spokane, Wash., Joseph wtall was run down by a Union Pacific engine and killed. EGYPT'S Khedive may be deposed. The succession will lall upon his brother, Prince Mehemet Alt, in all probability. PROFESSOR GROGOROWITSCH will try in a series of experiments to hypno­ tize Milwaukee subjects by telephone from Chicago. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S 35th birthday anniversary was brilliantly observed at Berlin, overshadowing the Bismarck demonstration. THREE prominent Cleveland, Ohio, men were anested by government in­ spectors for running a fraudulent in­ surance scheme. JOHN RHODES, claiming to be a reve­ nue agont, was killed with a club by Samuel Williamson, a negro, in Obion County, Tennessee. LOUISIANA Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court in the Olympic Club case, thus ending prize fighting in the State. DURING the year the Chicago Citi­ zens' League prosecuted 701 saloon­ keepers f jr violation of the law. Flees and feosts were $10,753. BY a lamp explosion at Cleveland Samuel Mawby, an aged invalid, was terribly burned, from the effects of which he died an hour later. TOM AND BRYAN LEATH are sus­ pected of having poisoned James Basket, a wealthy old miser, who died suddenly at Birmingham, Ala. MRS. A. E. BUCHANAN, wife of a f»rominent young dentist of Indianapo-is, commenced suit for divorce, alleg­ ing desertion on the eighth anniversary of their marriage. JOHN B. JOHNSCN and his son George fought with shotguns and revolvers f while drunk at Los Angeles, Cal. The 1' father was shot in the breast and tiM sgn in the abdomen. tm UNITED STATES ASSERTS ITSELF AT RIO. OrdHr Drtirti Vram Htr jpsanMi I/oose and Briny* the Insurgimts to Tbelr KnNS-Adnlnl Benhmm's Course Ap. . gngland May FoUow ------- v.. f. , . Xmmnon In the Shot Uncle Fam's guns have spokeri in the bay of Rio Janeiro. By a timely shot fired on an insurgent ^^sel Rear Ad­ miral Benham, of the United States navy, brought Admiral da Gama and the Bra­ zilian rebels to real­ ize that they cannot with impunity fire on American merchant vessels. The insur­ gent leader came near resigning and seeking an asylum on board the American fleet, ANMRAI. BENHAM. BUT THE GER OFFIL cers would not yield. The principle lias been firmly established that Amer­ ican vessels are not to be fired on. Admiral Benham, finding that Ad­ miral ca Gama persisted in leckless firing that endangered the safety of American merchant vessels, entered a protest. Da Gama paid no heed Ito this. Furthermore, he notified Admiral Ben- ham that if the three American mer­ chantmen, the Amy, Good News and Julia Rollins, went to the Sandre Piers, as they had proposed, he would fire on them. Admiral Benham at once re­ plied that the vessels would go to the piers if they wanted to and that he would send the Detroit to protect them. If the Detroit could not fur­ nish sufficient protection every ves­ sel of the American squadron would be employed in the work of protection, and Benham sought to warn the insurgent Admiral by clearing his decks for ac- THE WARSHIP DETHOIT. tion. Da Gama refused to take this hint. A musket was fired from the Guanabara, Da Gama's flagship, at the Good News. The Detroit at once fired a six-pound shot across the bows of the Guanabara, whereupon the latter vessel replied with what is supposed to have been a blank cartridge. The Detroit then turned one of her guns upon the Guan­ abara and tent a small shot into her stern p jst, and was on the point of de­ livering a broadside at the insurgent ship when the Guanabara signaled that she would stop firing. Da Gama Would Surrender. In the meantime an American^ citi­ zen, G. M. Rollins, who acted as the agent of Admiral da Gama in the arbi- t ation negotiations, had visited all three of the American merchantmen and offered to have them towed fit the expense of the insurgents if they would not go to the pier^. This the captains of the merchantmen agreed to. This arrangement was reported to Admiral da Gama on board his flagship, the Lib- erdade. He then said: "It is too late. The glass is broken. I must yield to this foreign fleet of superior force. I will resign and give my sword to.the Amer­ ican Admiral." Later in the day Ad­ miral da Gama called a council of his officers, expecting that all of them would seek an asylum on board the American fleet, but the younger offi­ cers would not yield. It was stated at the council that Admiral Benham had offered Admiral da Gama and his offi­ cers a-ylum on boaid of the American war ships. The situation was extremely delicate when tho Detroit, was beside the Good their guns loaded and aimed on all the New--. The Guanabara and Tra;'ano had Amer'cm vessels, while two heavy in­ surgent tugs were leady to ram the De­ troit. The Guanabara and Trajano to­ gether have eight splendid rifles, but THE G U A N A B A R A . when the Detroit fired a six-pound shell into the Guanabara and Captain Brownson gavo warning that if a gun was fired, even by accident, he would sink them and advised that they take the men from tho guns, they weak­ ened. Admiral Benham had the New­ ark ready to aid the Detroit, while the New'\rork, Charleston and San Francisco were alert to receive the Aquidaban and Tamandare, which were under steam. Enclin<l Will Follow Kxnmple. It is thought England will follow the example ^et by the United States. The London Standard tays: "The blockade of Rio de Janeiro has been broken up so far as American trading vessels are concerned, and we do not suppose that the American ex­ ample will be lost upon merchants and naval officers iepre?enting other na­ tions in the port. If the blcckade is thus forcibly raised the insurgent hope of reducing President Peixoto to submission by starving out th'e capital is ended. This is the insurgents' main­ stay. THE TITLE TO MILLIONS. Immense Interests Affreted by Delay to Confirm Peckbam. Probably the most important inter­ est affected by tho delay of the Senate in giving the'full bench to the Supreme Court is the settlement of the titles to mineral lands alcng the Northern Pa­ cific Railroad. By its charter this road was given tho alternate sections of land forty miles each side of its track, excepting the mineral lands, but the question has arisen in numerous lawsuits whether the title was for those BectionB which were known to contain 'mineral deposits when the fgrants took effect or also for all lands a which mineral deposits have since been discovered. Circuit Court decisions have placed the first construction upon the grants, and there has been the tes-t case of Richard P. Borden against the North­ ern Pacific before the Supreme Court for more than a year. This case has been once argued, but is now side­ tracked to await the confirmation of a ninth justice. Upon its decision de­ pends the title to all recently discov­ ered mineral wealth along the North­ ern Pacific, for an eighty mile belt across the whole width of the titikie of Montana and part pfldaho. WORK or OUR NATIONAL LAI MAKERS. -i* - !•< ' " • • •• -f Fvo&edifics of 1«fiB gMfete 'aai BOM* Bepre4ent»tives --"' Important DtacaMed and Acted Upon -- Bosineas. Tbe National Batons. ' Debate on tbe Internal Revenue MIL In* eluding the provision of tbe income tax, begun In the House Monday. Mr. McMillin ! (Dem.) of Tennessee. Chairman of the | s u b - c o m m i t t e e o n W a y s a n d M e n u s " internal revenue, offered as an amend- ^ ment to the provision impoalnic a tax of $1 per thousand upon ciifMr- ettes, the entire Internal Revenue bill. Mr. McMillin was recognised to opei* the debate in favor of the amendment, but as he was about to bezln Mr. TTWStfr (Dem.), of New York, asked to reserve all points of order against the amendment, • „ Messra McMillin and McCreary contended that It was too late to make a point of der, debate upon the Amendment ha*»'. ing been entered upon before tNM point was made. The Chair sus^ talned this position and over* ruled the point of order. Under the call • of committee1* for reports in the House* Mr. McCreury. Chairman of the Foreign Affttirs Committee, reported his resolution expressing the sense of the House on the Hawaiian situation. The minority were given leave to submit their views. The greater part of the time in the Senate wee occupicd by Mr. Teller in a speech favor­ ing annexation of Hawaii. Mr. Call !ntru» " ducad a resolution inquiring into the Influ* ence of railroads and other corporations cut' % the civil service 8nd tbe press. ' Tbe bond question came up in ti)e Senate * again Tuesday, and. after a long debate, f went over by unanimous consent until the ' following day. '1 be siznifl'cant feature of the dlscussjpn was the Arm stand taken by Senator Sherman in favor of the authrrity 4 of Senator Carlisle to Issue the bondn, Ar- gumentt for and against the Income ta* occupied the time in the House. Wednesday In the House the Internal J revenue bill was placed a' a rider upon the tariff bill by a vote of 173 to 56, The entire day was spent In the consideration of amendments which were offered to the various internal revenue features. The principal fight came upon the proposal to increase the tux upon whisky from 90 cents to 11 and to extend the bonded period from three to eight years. Theie provisions, es­ pecially the one looking to an increase of * the bonded period, were. bitterly opposed by prominent members on both sides ot the House, and. despite Ihe opposition, the latter proposition--that Is. the Increase of t the bonded period to elzht years--was stricken out. while the Increase of the tax from 00 cents to $1 was allowed to stand. Discussion of the bond resolution was con* tlnued in the Senate. Messrs. Allen and Hoar argued a?ain"t the bond Issue. The debate on the Hawaiian matter be- gan in the House Friday under a special ' order. T he adoption of the order was pro- ceded by a lively passage at arms between, j Mr. Boutelle aud Mr. catchlngs of Mis-" sisslppl. a member of the Committee on Rules, which resultpd in two at­ tempts made by the former to have the words of the latter excepted to by the House in order to subject him ta censure. Only two speeches wera made. The resolution which formed the basis of the discussion is that, of McCreary con­ demning the acts of Minister Stevens and. approving the policy of the President, at the same time expressing the sense of the House that the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands is inexpedient For this the Re­ publicans offered the minority report ap­ proving Minister Stevens' action and condemning the acts of the present administration. The day In the Sen­ ate was not an eventful one After an hour's debate early in the IMSIOII the resolution of Senator Peffer was adopted calling upon tbe Secretary of the Treas­ ury for the names <>f persons and Corpora- tions bidding for United states bonds ant the amount of bids and the rate of inteiv « est The original resolution of Senntcnr t Stewart denying the authority of tho 6 'O* • retary of the Treasury to is*tie bonds at this time was taken up a"d consumed the : remainder of the dav. The Senate ad­ journed without action on the resolution, j Notes Ahont t,h» Capita'. 7^ THE new pension bill reported to the j House cuts down the amount for next | year $15,000,000. . ' ' 1 MATERIAL modifications were made j in the Sovereign petition for injunction^! against the new bond issue. | MR. CARLISLE is in a quandary. St. Gaudens refuses to put a breech-clout on his World's Fair medal figure. | PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said tp | have settled upon F. A. Crandall, of Buffalo, N. Y., for public printer. ^ SECRETARY CARLISLE has sent a de- ^ Bciency estimate to the House askiny | 850,000 more to deport the Chinese. | WARRANTS of deportatien are being ~ prepared for nearly 200 Cuban curar- ^ makers recently arrived at Key West,. ̂ Fla. i REPRESENTATIVE MAGUIRE intro- duced a bill to increase the revenue bv i a direct tax on land in the United ; States. SECRETARY CARLISLE wm called to ;| New York to straighten out a hitch between the Collector and the im- porters. . f| IT is considered doubtful whether ^ regulations in conformity with the recommendations of the Bering ^ea tribunal for the protection of seal life can be perfected before the sealing sea­ son opens. THE appropriation for the District of Columbia recommended is $4,927,194.97. Last year it was $5,413,233.91, and the estimate of the District Commissioners for this vear was $5,381,473.91. _ One- half of the District appropriationi i» paid by the government, the remainder by the' District. Chinese Officials. A Chinese mandarin is not expected! to have any friendships or intimacies outside of his office, and ho cannot en­ courage visitors within its precincts without laying himself open to a charge of favoritism or corruption. If the inhabitants of a district wish to show their appreciation of an . official's ad­ ministration and testify to his probity, the most effective way in which they can do so is to wait upon him at one of tho city gates as he makes his farewell exit, and beg the gift of his official boots, which are thenceforward pre­ served in some temple as public prop­ erty. ; *, ; *A Distinguished Woman. ' Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. who died in Boston, aged 10, was a distin­ guished woman. One sister married Nathaniel Hawthorne and another Horace Mann. Mrs. Peabody belonged to Massachusetts' most famous group of intellectual men and women and wa» prominent in anti-slavery and woman- suffrage agitations. At the age of t?0 she learned Polish because of her in­ terest in Poland's struggle for liberty. During late years she occupied herself- in writing upon education subjects and lecturing. Overflow or News. PITTSBURG dedicated a $25,000 school building. It is considered a model. CUSTOMS officers at El Paso, Texas, seized P. de la Sota and found $2,000 worth of opals. > •GEORGE LANTIS, a Columbus (Ohio] cr&nk, called upon Gov. McKinley with . a demand for $15,000. POPE LEO, speaking in St. Peter's OI the Sicilian troubles, said the nation^ must return to the o'd religion. THE Standard Oil Company is sued for the damages by fire at Columbus, .fi&'SSSiJf ^ "T - V.:Me*' if.,, : .A- * . ,1...... /.if*,., A.. 13 •' •' K Hi-' •_ ! . J •: ;<~ - - '--ni 1 r <&&-*% i-< W£i* * -"V - ,r ' • * > "•'f i "kx ^ i i f -as