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* * " . M THE PLAINDEALER 1. ?A!f SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCSVMTY. ma ILLINOIS ffOltlEDTO ETERNITY •» ^ ' ' < ' \ «• MEET DEATH IN PLODING POWDER MILU £ • r (Mat AnlkUatiM of • Lttde Tlrfflnto " ~T»wu- gpariow lum of > 8Bwr Certl- •aate ud • Treasury Ktte-Dwth la Western Bliseard. •: V --.--. Blown V p by Dynamite. fttB dynamite works of the Acme Powder Company, at Black's Run, Pa., were destroyed by an explosion. Five persons were killed and one badly in­ jured. The works were blown to pieces and buildings in the vicinity wrecked, windows broken and the people within • mile terrorised. Of those killed two were men and three women. The five killed were at work in the packing­ house. Mrs. Arthur, who was injured, was in a dwelling-house near the works, which was literally blown to pieces, and Mrs. Arthur was found among the debris. The bodies of Moliie Remaley and William Ar­ thur have not been found. The body of Sadie Remaley and Samuel Remaley were terribly mangled and were gathered up in a box. So iar as now known the five persons killed were •11 who were in the works. All the victims boarded in the house where Mrs. Arthur was injured. The works •re owned by K. B. McAbea & Co.. Pittsburg. At Logan's terry, a mile sway, a brick block was badly damaged, and at Hulton, Oakraont. and Verona houses we e shaken. Nothing re­ mains of the *works except one small building. The plant consisted of four brick IK ildin^s. These, with the Remaley boarding-house, are com­ pletely demolished. It is supposed that a workman entered the buiidin? with a light, contrary to orders. There were 10,» 00 pounds of dynami'e in the works at the time of the expl >eion. The loss was $15,000. The • plant will be rebuilt at once. J *trrlai» Village Almoat ifurned Up. i*HE Village of Money Point, ju«t outside Norfolk, Va., wa? almost stroyed by fire which broke out in the eheds of the Roanoke Lumber company and raged fiercely from 1 to 10 o'clock p. in., Friday, destroy­ ing the plant of that company, as well as that of the Old Dominion creosoting works The three-masted schooner Elias Mcore, lying at the lumber com­ pany's wharf, Vas destroyed. Only six house i are left standing In the village, and the loss will foot up at least 000. The total insurance is *200,000.. : : V ' . 4 • Jfew Counterfeit* in Circulation. THE secret service of the Trea ury Department ha-! discovered that there are two new counterfeit Government bills in circulation. One is of the $2 treasury note and the other is of the 81 silver certificate. This is the first counterfeit ever found of the $2 treas­ ury note. It is of the series 1891, check lettef AC." W. S. Rosecrans, Register, E. H. Nebeker, Treasurer, portrait of McPherson. The $1 silver certificate ^counterfeit is aeries 1891, check let­ ter "A." . ^ Froxea on tbe Plain*. ' ROBERT BAKER, a sheep-herder, was found frozen to death on the plains five miles from Laramie, Wyo. Baker and a man named Small were in charge of 3,000 sheep. The storm became so tevere they decided to abandon the sheep and endeavor to reach town. Baker lost his way and was frozen to death. Damage Is InealcvlalAa. THE heavy rains which hare pre vailed over the southern portion of Texas for the past few days have caused Incalculable damage. Many fatms have been deluged and crops destroyed. BREVITIES, THE Rt. Rev. Montes de M San Luis Potosi, has denied that he has expelled the Jesuits from his diocese. . IN a shooting ecrape between three negrce3 at Texarkana George Wash­ ington shot and killed Jim Edwards and John Black. ANNIE BAUHART, of Massillon, Ohio, will ride a white horse at the head of Coxey's army. The dispatch doe i not give the color of her hair. "HONEST TOM" TUITE, formerly City Treasurer of Detroit, Mich., who em­ bezzled $15,000 of the city's funds, has been arrested at New York. J. S. COXEY, head of the army of peace, evidently dDes not believe that charity begins at home. It is reported that he has turned. his father out of doors. THE molders employed by the Lock- wood Manufacturing Company at Nor- walk, Conn., have struck because the company refused to restore a recent cut of 26 per cent, in wages. PATRICK CASH, formerly Chief of Police of Williamsbridge, N. Y.. who killed James'Cleary during a fight at & special election in Williamsbridgo •bout two years ago, was acquitted. Cash's plea was self-defense. THOMAS HIGGINS, was hanged in the Chicago Jail for the murder of Peter McCooey on Sept 3 last. The drop fell at 12:03 o'clock p. m., and his death was apparently painles-'. Higgins Showed great nerve cn the scaffold and net death unflinchingly, displaying a Wonderful coolness to the end. NE.V YORK merchants employing 8ft,000 boys have agreed not. to hire wys who smoke cirgaret'.e3. ^CONGRESSMAN "WILSON, who has been ill at Torreon, Mexico, has ar­ rived at Los Angeles, where he will J*tna^n until he recovers strength. THE Champa Building at Denver was g turned. Loss, $303,000. „ DA- NETTLESHIP, the oculist, be- »Sieves an oreration wm fully restore *r. Gladstone s normal powers of •yfe- flght - " EASTERN. THE steamer Anchfcria, which ar­ rived in New York from Glaigow. re- , ports that a steerage passenger and an American citizen, in a moment of tem- E>rary insanity stabbed Charles Mack-hom, also a steerage passenger, caus- ylpg a slight flesh wound. As soon as the ship s officers approached to arrest him he rushed for the rail and jumped Overboard A LARGE mass-meeting of the Pater- N. J., silk strikers was held, at Itafebuxiqctllft kstme. The «kik- ert wer« ui*gad to MM| inn and ttHve the manufacturers out" W the city father-tihan be defeated' orsubmit to the low scalo of wagea FIRE Monday morning destroyed the big mill property owned by Frederick Rump & Bros., manufacturers of table cloths and counterpanes, in the heart of the Kensington mill district, Philadelphia, Tne total loss is esti­ mated at $240,000. The building was five stories highand comprised three separate mills. The fire originated in the drving-room of the knit-goods mill of Brawn Bros. & Aberle. This firm sustains a loss of $10,000 on stock and machinery. The machinery is J. II. A. Klauder & Co.'s stockinet mill, which has been shut down for a year, wa* damaged to the extent of $70,000. Rump & Bros, owned the building. They lose $100,000 on building and $T>0,000 on stock and machinery. Nearly four hundred people are thrown out , of employment. . WESTERH." BY • united effort among such Indi­ ana cities as Richmond, Kokomo, Terre Haute and Iudianapolis, Chicago dressed beef has been practically driv­ en out of the State. A DULUTH special says that the rail­ roads are now refusing to accept heavy freight for the Rainy Lake gold re­ gions in anticipation of an early break­ ing up of the winter reads. A Chicago firm wanted tr> ship a twenty-stamp mill over the Me-aba Road to be hauled by t?am from Mountain Iron, the ter­ minus of the road, but it was refused. Provisions are being hurried forward to prevent a famine in the Eldorado during the interval between the break­ ing Of the winter roads and the open­ ing of the water routes. A REPORT was received at Seattle, Wash., that the Great Northern freight train, which left Snohomish Saturday night, was struck by a snow-slide near Snohomish and swept over a 150-foot embankment. Six men perished with it. The train is said to have gone en­ tirely out of sight under the slide in the valley. The local officers of the road claim to know nothing of it, and they express doubt as to the truth of the report. The west-bound passenger train was delayed by a enowslide and bowlders on the track near Welling­ ton. The bowlders were so large that they had to be blasted away. A SECRET conference of mine owners hafe been held at which the situation at Cripple Creek, Colo., was thoroughly discussed. They are determined to ad­ here to the original schedule of nine hours at $3 and will have nothing to do with a compromise, saying that the matter is now in the courts and must be settled according to the dictates of the courts. The. Sheriff has put the Governor on record by sending him a telegram stating the serious conse­ quences likely to ensue if the militia is withdrawn. Tbe owners have also memorialized the Governor, asking that the troops be retained to protect life and property and holding him re­ sponsible. THE bodies of John Reed and Etta Shaw, son and daughter of Cyrus Reed and John Shaw, respectively, farmers near Oskaloosa. Iowa, were found late Monday night hanging from a limb of a tree near their horses, eight miles from the city. Their parents refused to permit them to marry on account of their youth. The deed was probably com­ mitted Sunday night, when they were la?t seen driving in the neighborhoood. They unhitched the horses, and. stand­ ing in the buggy, threw a rcpa across a limb, and tying one er.d to each of their necks swung off into eternity. FIRE destroyed the South Evanston, 111., public school at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, and in the panic that seized the horror-stricken pupils and teachers several children were badly injured. Five hundred boys and, girls were in the building at the* time, and it was only by rare got d fortune that scores of them were not burned or trampled to death in the mad rush for the doors. In the excitement follow­ ing the discovery of the fire a crowd of pupils ran up to the top floor in a wild endeavor to flee from the flames and smoke, and were there hemmed in. Several of them jumped from the window ledges and were seri­ ously hurt. The burning building was surrounded by a crowd of agonized men and women whose children were in danger and who added to the in­ tense excitement by striving to break through the police lines to rescue the imprisoned little ones. The building was three and a half stories in height, and contained ten rooms. Miss Foster, a teacher in a lower grade, discovered the tire just as the children were pre­ paring to go out for recess. The chil­ dren were paralyzed with fear for an instant, and made no effort to escape. Then they fell to screaming, and all rushed to the doors. The fire caused a great sensation in the suburb. Men whose children attended the school locked their shops when they heard of the fire and ran to the scene to render assistance. Women came hurrying trom the adjoining houses and a crowd of 5,000 people scon gathered. hitfi MM* utxwi- the seigniorage it will ruin the banking business, create distrust and in a measure ruin the financial stand­ ing of the country. DEMOCRATIC members of the Fi­ nance Committee having completed consideration of the tariif bill, it was submitted to the full committee of Dem­ ocrats and Republicans Tuesday. The most important change made in the bill is in the sugar schedule, a change being made by which an additional duty of £ of 1 per cent, per pound "is given on all sugars testing abovo 18 degrees by the polariscope test, or which are above No. 16 Dutch standard in color. SECRETARY GRESHA M has negotiated a new Chinese treaty. It practically sets aside and supersedes the Scott ex­ clusion act and the recently enacted Geavy. law. It is an immigration trea­ ty ana provides for the admittance of Chinese immigrants under restrictions. ' It also has for its object the protection of Chinese already in this coun­ try. While it does not repeal the Geary law it is said to render it nugatory in many particulars. The Pacific Coast and Western Senators are already vigorously fighting it. Tho new treaty, it is understood, runs for twenty years. In return for conces­ sions "the Chinese government is to take greater precautions to prevent the coming of Chinese laboreri to this country. The object of the Chinese government Is to secure to the Chinese in this country ample protection ana to relieve them from any unusual hardships, although the right of citizenship is not asked nor guaran­ teed. Those who are in favor of the treaty think it is absolutely necessary in order to continue the present friend­ ly neutral relations with China, and it is pointed out that tbe commerce be­ tween this country and China has grown to large proportion, and large sums of American money have been in­ vested in the Pacific commerce, all of which depends largely upon continued friendly relations with the Chinese G o v e r n m e n t . . 1 " : J ; ' t ] •K T1 .* Which a number of fiery speeches were the SOUTHERN. A NATIONAL and inter-State drill will be held at Little Ro^k, Ark., the first week in July. The value of the prizes will aggregate $10,C0:». The crack companies of the United States are expected to participate. Two op Louisville's pioneer dry goods merchants died at their homes in that city. They were John Allen Carter, President of the Carter Dry Goods Company, and John M. Robin­ son, senior member of J. M. Robinson,' Norton & Co. THE mail rider carrying the mail be­ tween Pine Bluff and Sheridan, Ark., was held up by two men while en route and two pouches taken from him. The men rifled the pouches. Only one reg­ istered package was in the maiL The robbers escaped to the woods. Six persons were killed and many injured by a cyclone at Longview, Texas. The dead are: Jasper Collins, Alexander Lester, Alexander Lester, Jr., Robert 'tester? Sarah Lester, Sissy Lester. Six lives were lost at Lansing switch. At Emery, Miss Easter Alexander, Henry Bras, a child named Murry and three unknown per­ sons were killed. Hailstones weighing fourteen ounces fell . during the storm. RICHARD TERRELL, a prominent planter, and his tenant, Silas Johnston, had a duel to the death at Huntsville, Ala. Terrell had advanced money to Johnston to make a crop.- Johnston threw up the job and started from Ter­ rell's place with his household goods. Terrell forbade him to remove the goods unless he repaid the advances made. Thereupon Johnston knocked Terrell down with a club. Terrell arose to hLi knees and plunged a knife in Johnston's breast. Johnston died. Terrell surrendered. The latter's head is crushed in and he may die. WASHINGTON. POLITICAL THE Milwaukee Republican city con­ vention renominated Mayor John G. Koch. GENERAL HARRISON is quoted by Indianapolis friends as saying that he will not again be a candidate for Presi­ dent. i THE Massachusetts House of Repre­ sentatives has passed a bill requiring every man to pay for his own drinks and making it a misdemeanor to treat. FOREIGN* -iS t, it J kll.ii THE-threatened French Cabinet cri­ sis has .been averted, the Senate hav­ ing Agreed to Premier'Cassimir-Pe- rier's propo al to establish a'minister of the colonies. - • ANOTHER conspiracy to kill the King of Corea has been uj^Srthed. Ten thousand pounds of powder were found under the council chamber Twenty- seven conspirators, including the in­ former, have been arrested and will be beheaded. • A DISPATCH from Luoca, Italy, says that while a gentleman was leaving the Pantora Theater Sunday night he noticed a box with a lighted fuse at­ tached tD it in a recess of the corridor. The gentleman promptly extinguished the fuse. Six ] erson* have been ar­ rested on suspicion of having been concerned in this alleged attempt to cause an explosion. ADVICES received from Minianao, capital of the island of that name in the Malay archipelogo, show that a large body of Mohammedan natives made an attack upon the Spaniards on the island of Pantar. In the fighting that ensued one Spaniard was killed and many were wounded. The Span­ iards inflicted severe losses upon the natives, 200 of them being killed. Louis KOSSUTH, the exiled Hun­ garian patriot, died at Turin at 10:55 Tuesday evening, after a long illness. His end was extremely painful. He showed signs of consciousness until the last. He expired in the aim* of his son, and died pressing the hand of the Hungarian Deputy, Karolyi. The members of his family and a few of his intimate friends 6tood around the bed­ side of the expiring patriot. IN GENERAL A MEXICAN counterfeiter has been arrested for circulating tin foil 10-cent pieces. WHILE a boat was crossing Patzcua- ro Lake to the pueblo of Tzinzuntezan, Mexico, the boat tprunk a leak and be­ fore help could be given or the shore reached six young women of the eighteen persons on board were drowned. R. G. DUN & Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says: w ices of commodities are this week on the whole the lowest of which there Is any record, having declined L2 per cent, in March, and averaging 11.3 percent, lower than a year ago, so t&at more than a third of the decrease In volume of all payments Is doe to decline In prices of things con­ sumed. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime.... 99 50 @ 5 00 HOGH--Shipping Grades * 00 & 5 00 SHEEP--Fair to Choice 2 2S <!* 4 00 WHEAT--No. 2 lied ~ 66 <3 57 CORN--NO. A 35 & 80 OATS--Xo. 2 30 & »1 KYE--NO. 2 46 @ 49 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery 1»M EGOS--Fresh 10 & Yi POTATOES--Per bu 60 <$ CO INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping ;. 3 00 HOGB--Choice Light 3 *0 SHEEP--Common to Prime...,.OO WHEAT--No.:i lied *«4 COBN--No. 2 White iae OAA8--No. 2 White 33 ^ ST. LOUIS. CATTLB goo HOGS GOO WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 63 COHK--No. 2 34 OATS--No. 2 BYE--No. 2. CINCINNATI. CATTLB s 00 HOGS 3 00 SHEEP % 00 WFCEAFC^-KO: 2 Bed ..... 66 CoKK--Naai 38 OATS--Mixed 35 KYE--No. 2 64 9 4 75 & 4 75 <a> 3 25 <<e 64/3 <3 Vf <0 34 & 5 00 & 6 00 & 64 (<$ 35 S2*6 49 back IN %M MHAM. WILSON TARIFF BILL (8 AGAIN REPORTER *H«r Ski IaereMed* Heetpfoettjfcilpaetfl- eally Repealed and the Hawaiian (Treaty Left Standing--A Number of ChMge* in Atolnbtwtlw Features. vj. Kany Alterations Mad«t: w , The Democratic members of tlie fi­ nance Committee have completed con­ sideration of the tariff bill, and in its revised and completed form it was sub­ mitted to the full committee, Repub­ licans and Democrats, Tuesday. After the Senate was called to order at neon, Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the com­ mittee, reported from that committee the bill, introducing it in a few words. The most important change made in the bill is in the sugar sohedule, a change being made by which an addi­ tional duty of one-eighth of 1 pet cent, a pound is given on all sugaihT testing above 98 degrees by the polariscope test, or which are above No. 16 Dutch standard in color. , The text of the sugar schedule as now agreed upon is as follows: "All sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet juke, inelada, concrete and concentrated molasses testing by tho polariscope ridt above for 1» this elcMette orefc**- pajper In all tier cant, ad " K "'*V' v.* • rf? -r * i f 6BXATOB VOOBHMA bETndiW' CATTLE ISO HOGS, U.*/...> 3 00 SHEEP .... *3 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed .-. 67 & COBN--No. 2 Yellow W OATB-NO. 2 Mixed 33 TOLEDQt , WHEAT--No. 2 Red / 66 & COHN--No. 2 «»..* 87 & OATS--No. 2 White BYE--No. 2 i,.,. ' 4» » BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. l Hard 71 & COEN--No. 2 Yellow 41 0 OATB-NO. 2 White.'. 87 «• TTYE--No. 2 58 & MILWAUKJRB. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring......;.;.; ss <8 COEN--No. a 85 OATH--No. 2 White 82 & RYE--No. 1 48 BABLEY--NO.2 51 POBK--Meae 10 75 NEW YOBK. CATTLE I 00 HOGS • 75 SHEEP t 00 WHEAT--N& 2 Bed..... 62 CORN--No. 2 45 OATS--White Western..... 88 BUTTER--Choloe 21 Poaa--Mesa 12 00 • @ 4 60 5 00 & 4 00 <9 & i» & 30Vi 0 66 <9 4 60 (<s 4 75 & S 60 <!* 67Ji 40 84 67 8D4 32 •{) 60 71 & 42 38 65 M 30H U i s etn as 0471 <§ 5 60 rs @ 45 u 80 degrees shall pay a duty of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional degree or fractfon of a degree above 80 and not above 10 degrees shown by the polariscope test, shall pay one one-hundredth of a cent per pound ad­ ditional, and above 90 and not above 98 degrees, for every additional de­ gree or-fraction of a degree shown by the polariscope test, shall pay a d uty of two one-hundredtha of a cent par pound£:4dditional, and upon all sugars testing above 98 degrees by the polar­ iscope test, or above No. 16 by the Dutch standard in color, there shall be levied and collected a duty of one- eighth of 1 cent per pound in addition to the duty imposed upon sugars test­ ing above 98 degrees. Molasses test­ ing not above 56 degrees by the polar­ iscope shall pay a duty of 2 cents per gallon. Molasses testing above 56 degrees shall pay a duty of 4 cents per gallon." The provisions abrogating the Ha­ waiian reciprocity treaty are struck from the revised bill, and the clause of the section repealing that part of the McKinlev act providing for reciprocal treaties has been' amended to read as follows: That section? 3, 15 and 1,6 ftre re­ pealed and all agreements or arrange­ ments made or proclaimed between the "Lnited States and foreign governments under the provisions of said sections are hereby abrogated, of which the President shall give such notice to the authorities of said foreign govern­ ments as may be required by the terms of such agreements or arrangements. Some Important Changes. The most important change in the administrative leature? of the bill is the action of the committee in striking out the words "highest duty" as found in the House bill, and regulating the rate9 of duty on all goods coming in under the similitude clause and substi­ tuting the words "lowest duty." This 'Was the subject of a long argument in full committee, in which Secretary Carlisle indorsed the provisions of the House bill. The committee, therefore, hade made the change and all goods unenumerated or coming in under the similitude clause will pay the highest insteak of the lowest rate of duty. Other changes made in the revised bill from the bill as agreed upon by the sub-committee are as follows: Glycerine changed back to ihe rates fixed in the House bill, which are 1 cent a pound for the crude and 3 cents for the re­ fined, instead of 2J per cent, ad valorem In the Senate,sub-commit tee bill; licorice, 4 per cent a pound, instead of 25 per cent, ad valorem in the feoate sub-committee bill and 5 cents a pound In the Wilson bllL Lime la placed at 15 per cent, ad valorem. Instead ot 20 pgr cent, in the Senate sub­ committee bill and 10 per cent in the Wil­ son bill, and the duty is made to Include tbe value of the covering or barrels. Plaster of parts which was not changed !n the Senate sub-committee bill from the Wilson rate of 10 per cent ad valorem on the ground article. Is to pay a duty of 91 per ton; calcined plaster of parls, $1.25 per ton. Instead of 15 per cent ad valorem in tbe Wilson bill; cast polished plate- glass, finished or unfinished, and unsllvered, not exceeding 24 by 00 Inches bquare, 20 cents per square foot instead of 18 cents us in the Wilson bill; all above the dimension given, 35 cents per square foot instead of 33 cents as In the Wilson bill. All sheets of iron or steel, common or black, thinner than No. 25 wire gauge, sire changed from 9-10 of 1 cent per pound . > % of 1 cent per pound, and the provision uhlchthe House bill carried, but which was stricken out of the original Senate bill, that this change shall take effect after Ocf. 1, 1604, Is restored; tin-plate, terne-plate, and taggers tin, 1 cent per pound Instead of 1 1-9 cents, aa In th^ Wilson bill, the Senate sub-committee not having before changed the Wilson rate. In this paragrapK the Wilson bill provision that the rate shall take offect Oct 1. 1894, is restored. Cast-iron pipe of every description Is to pay 22yt per. cent ad valorem Instead of 23 per cent in the Wilson bill and 20 per cent In the (senate sub-committee bill: cross-cut laws, mill, pit and drag saws 15 per cent id valorem instead of 25 per cent, the Wilson bill rate; aluminum In crude form 13 per cent, ad valorem instead of 2ft par cent, the Wilson bill rata Mo Change In Lead, Iron or CoaL The lead and lead ore duties are left un­ changed from the Senate sub-committee rates, as are tbe iron ore and coal duties. Oatmeal pays 15 per cent ad valorem instead of 2u per cent, tbe Wilson bill rata Castor beans are restored to the Wilson rate of 25 cents per bushel. The naragraph In tbe Wilson bill relat­ ing to "cans or packages, DIIIIO of tin or other metal, containing shell-fish," la struck out entirely. Collars and cuffs are left unchanged from the Senate sub-oom- inlttee rate, but shirts and all other arti­ cles of every description, not specially provided for, composed wholly or in part of linen, will pay 50 per cent ad valorem in­ stead of 85 per cent, the Wilson bill rata 10 cents ner pack Instead of fi cents _ ik as ixed by the Senate s«b-«om- nUtte* On plpe* pipe* articles net spec _ , act, IncladiDf ciferttM book covers, poaches far tag tobacco, and clfi forms, tbe Wilson rate of M valorem is restored, the Senate sub-com mlttee rate having been 40 per cent ad valorem, and the remainder ot this para­ graph is made to read as follows; «And pipe-bowls of clay, M per .cent, ad val­ orem. » Tbe provisions of tbe Senate sub-com­ mittee bill to a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on bananas and pineapples is stricken, out The following articles are restored to tbe free list: Cocoanuts and horn strips and born tips. Ta^ on CUrat* Remains as It Is. In tbe internal revenue schedule the committee strikes out tho provision which the Senate hub-committee inserted taxing cigars and cigarettes weighing more than threo pounds $5 per 1,000 and cigarettes in paper not weighing more than three pounds tl per 1.000 and wrapped In tocacco 50 cents por 1,000, thus leaving tbe taxes on these articles unchanged from tbe present law. The provisions of tbe income tax amend­ ment relating to a tax on building and loan associations, which were exempted by the House, but which exemption was stricken out when the Senate sub-com- mitiee reported the bill, has been restored with the proviso that the tax shall not be levied upon those Institutions which make no loans except to share-holders for the purpose of enabling them to build homes. THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE. Sensational Testimony Given by Miss Pol­ lard, the Plaintiff. According to a Washington dispatch the bailiffs have the utmost difficulty ill repulsing the crowds who seek ad­ mittance to the court­ room where the Pollard- Breckinridge trial is in progress. Miss , Pollard on the stand undeJr direct examination related in great detail the attempts of Breckinridge to gain cor,. BRECKix-her confidence. He told RIDGE. her she had wonderful intellect and hadca brilliant future. "I teemed to be completely under the influence of his wonderful power of persuasion," she said. He promised to oversee her education and repay money Said by Rhodes for her schooling. "He id not accomplish his purpose the first day," she continued, "and it was only late in the second day, when we were in a house in Cincinnati." The relations then established, she averred, continued until May 17, 18!)3, the last time she saw Breckinridge. She re­ membered this date AS it was subse­ quent to Breckinridge's marriage to Mr.-. Wing, which occurred secretly on the 29th ot April, 1893. Madeline Pollard faced her oppo­ nents on the witness stand under a continuous fire of cross-questions, and tho ti ial was like a play in which one actor is starred to the exclusion and belittlement of all accessories. Major Ben Butterworth, the ex-Congressman trom Ohio, played a minor part as the questioner, all the interest centering about the slender, black-robed plaintiff in the case. Tuesday was the most interesting day of the sensational trial, and it was made more so by the masterful rapidity of intellectual resources, of quick perception, and of telling replies which flashed forth at every turn of the plot, as the lawyers followed every possible trail which might lead to ad­ missions casting any sort of shadow on the life of the woman apart from thoso passages which had been identi­ fied with the career of HISS POLLARD. the Kentucky Congressman. Seldom does a witness manage to give replies so telling in support of her own case and keep within the limits of court­ room regulations, and several times the plaintiff's attornoys admonished her to confine her statements to answers to the questions which were put. May Sue for Divorce. - It has been intimated that the wife of Col. Breckinridge intends institut­ ing divorce proceedings against her husband, the defendant in Miss Pol­ lard's breach of promise suit, but if such is the ca&e, a Louisville dispatch says the fact is unknown to her rela­ tives in that city. Inquiries have elic­ ited the information that tho family of Dr. Scott, Mrs. Breckinridge's brother, knew nothing of Mrs. Breckinridge's alleged intention to sue for a divorce. The Scot£s are seemingly greatly har­ assed by the various rumors afloat con­ cerning the former Mrs. Wing's ac­ tions. • HONOR TO NEAL DOW. NEAL DOW. Authorities, the His Ninetieth Birthday Is Celebrated with Great Pomp. Neal Dow, the great temperance lecturer, Tuesday celebrated his 90th birthday, and the event was celebrated t h r o u ^ r h o u t t h e civ i 11 z e d world. Exeter hall in Lon­ d o n r a n g w i t h prai-ei of him, and every temperance organization in the United States did as well pay tribute to the aged reform­ er.* In Portland, the home of Gen. Dow, the c i v i 0 churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union united in celebrating his 9Lth birth­ day. The Governor of the State and several of Maine's Congressmen as­ sisted in the celebration. In the West not ?d workers had charge of the cele­ brations. The English gatherings were presided over by the president of the British association, Lady Henry Somerset. Gen. Neal Dow was born in Portland, and early in life began his career as a temperance agitator. He was among Maine's first soldiers to respond to the call of duty and achieved renown on the battlefield as well as in the foren­ sic arena. It was in January, 1850, that he took the office of Mayor of Portland, on the first temperance plat­ form ever made the occasion for a suc­ cessful political fight. In August of the following year he had the satisfac­ tion of seeing his years of agitation crowned by the adoption of the Maine prohibitory liquor law. From this time he was known as the father of the prohibition law and followed up his agitation in almost every State of the union, with comparatively little success, as the results have shown. Gen. Dow lives a rather secluded life, his son attending to almost all his cor­ respondence. y. • Telegraphic Clicks. BOSTON is shocked over a Imrlelque ©n the Passion Play. ROY HALI., 3 years old, fell into an open well at Lebanon, Ind., and was drowned. WILLIAM TOFP. while hunting aft Shelby, Ind., accidentally shot and killed his little son. SEVERAL farm buildings and a school- house were destroyed near Miller, S. D., by a prairie fire. OHIO Populists will nominate Coxey, the leader of the "good roads to Wash­ ington" army, for Congress. Two MEXICANS at Guanajuato killed Pedro Letrero, aged 60, and his grand­ children, aged 9 and 5 years. TEXAS AT LEAST A DOZEN PERSONS ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT. CyetoM frwepe Over iMtftiew,' Hhmry and Other Plaeea, Demolishing; Houses and Uprooting Tree*--Hailstones Weigh Pourteen Ottnees--Peculiar Shaped CIMA Death la It* Wske. A destructive storm passed over Longview, Texas, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. At least six persons were killed outright, three were fatally and many seriously injured. Great lumps of ice fell, breaking 300 pane3 of glass. Many pieces of ice weighed fourteen to eighteen ounces, while others, which must have been very much larger, were found in the morning after a heavy warm rain with the mercury at tO. Some of tho stones were as large as goose eggs. They sank from two to five inches in the ground near the town. Chickens and turkeys roostiug in trees were killed, while ducks, geese and hogs were pelted to death. At Lansing switch, six miles east, a dispatch says, the cyclone struck the graveyard, tearing up large forest trees by the roots and taking them northwestward. It struck the stanch old house of John Cains, occupied by a family of negroes named Lester. The house stood in a grove of ancient oaks, every one of which was uprooted. The house was buiit on stone pillars, pinned and cemented together and ceiled throughout, the rooms fastened to­ gether by walls of logs, but it is now entirely demolished. There are six persons dead, three mortally wounded, and five seriously and painfully hurt. Half a mile south of the ill-fated Lester house, the house of JohnBufflt, a white man, was taken away from the fioor and dashed to splinters, leaving the family unhurt^except from bruises by h|ul stones. The storm swept on toward Marshall. Fruit t: ees and fences were demolished for many miles around. A Texas and Pacific passenger train was passing at the time and barely escaped the funnel-shaped cloud. Six Killed at Emery. The cyclone passed over Emery, the county teat of Bains County, thirty miles south of Greenville, totally de­ molishing the western portion of the town; Six persons were killed out­ right. In addition to these at least fifty are wounded, and some of them will die. The cloud came from the southwest, aid, as described by an eyewitness, it resembled an hour gla-s, approaching like, two funnels together, point to point. The bottom of it was forked, and it was one continual blaze of elec­ tricity. It had the rotary cyclone mo­ tion and seemed about thirty or forty feet wide. It struck the ground nortn of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas depot and its track extends about lour or five miles north and is Lb >ut 100 yards wide, according to dispatches from various points. Everything in the track of the storm is a complete wreck. Overflow of News. THE old Otera House at Winnebago City, Minn., fell. The damage is $16,- 000. ISAAC L. HILL, was chosen as the Re- Sublican candidate for Mayor of Des loines, Iowa. AT the Iowa State University a class of thirty-one students in the dental de­ partment was graduated. PUGILIST CORBETT in an interview says he will quit the arena after his fight with Peter Jackson. STUDENTS of a homeopathic medical college in Cleveland, Ohio, are involved in a>row which is growing serious. EIGHTY THOUSAND persons took part in the trade unionist demonstration in London against the House of Lords. MICHAEL DAVITT, in a speech, said he is convinced Lord Roseberry is as firm a home ruler as any Gladstonean. POLICE at Paterson, N. J., fear that striking silk weavers will attack the county jail and release the ringleaders. IT has been decided by the Y. M. C. A. of the University of Illinois to erect a hall at Champaign costing $20,- 000. INDIANA saloon men haVe combined to defeat Judges Daily and Coffey ot the Supreme Court at the election this fall. * THREE Poles were killed in No 4 mine of the Kingston Coal Company at Edwardsville, Pa., by a runaway car. TWELVE masked men attacked four non-union sailors at San Pedro, CaL, and beat them nearly to death with clubs. IN the vicinity of Spencer, I. T., four lives were destroyed by a cyclone. The bodies wei e blown a quarter of a mile. MRS. MARTIN and daughter and Miss Nellie McCarthy were drowned in San Francisco Bay by the capsizing of a yacht. AT Norwood, Minn., an elevator con­ taining 6,000 bushels' of grain was burned. The loss will aggregate about $25,000. CALIFORNIA recruits to Coxey's good roads army threaten to seize a Santa Fe train if free transportation is denied. HEAVY rains in Western Tennessee and Arkansas have washed away the growing crops and wrecked a number of houses. WHILE sitting at the supper table Mrs. John Johnson and her son, of Lawrencevillfc, Ga., were killed by lightning. PETER DIEHM, of Allentown, Pa., distrusted banks and kept his money in his home. Burglars secured $3,000 from him. 7u T. WHITE, serving out a fine of $20 ) for hanging J. Sterling Morton in effigy at Nebraska City, has been released. GALLONS of spoiled beer were turned into the Sandusky River at Tiffin, Ohio, and the fish in the stream became in­ toxicated. IT is stated that Miss Emma Juch, the opera singer, and District Attor­ ney F. A. Wellman, of New Jfork, are to be married. LIGHTNINO destroyed a barn at Owensboro, Ky., in which were several fine trotting horses. The loss will reach #30,000. IT is said that C. P. Huntington has secured an option on the Panama Rail­ road, the price being between $5,000,- 000 and $6,000,000. AT Columbus, Ohio, George Gesch- wiim. accused of uxoricide, is said to have confessed to the murder of John M. Ginniver in 1889.4 THE Rhode Island Republicans have again nominated D. Russell Brown as their candidate for Governor. The se­ lection was unanimous. DURING a fight over a timber con­ tract at Ladoga, Ind., James Starke struck John Tinkenbroker with a dub and fMally injured him. SENATE AND H SENTA OF REPRE- Oar WatkNial Law-Make** a&4 Are Doing for the Good of the Conatry-- •arloKJB Measures Proposed. DiiesMM ̂ asd Acted IJpeli. - ̂ Doing* of Congref 1 In the House Saturday the Senate amende ments to tbe Senate to charter thtjfe Iowa aud Nebraska Pontoon Bridge Company and to construct a high wngon bridge at gloux City, Iowa, werflK; agreed to. Tbe House then wen* Into committee of the whole, and the con- - slderation of .the sundry civil approprla-. tlon bill was resumed. Mr. Bowert . offered an amendment to the appropriation.: ' ot $20,000 for special council to aid dls- trict attorneys so as to provide that9800 of v|S' this be expended ia the employment of special counsel In the cases of the Fou:b», ern Pacific Railroad to set aside United* States patents now pending at Los Anselear A The Chair ruled the amendment oat on th$. ground that It changed existing laws. committee then rose. A resolution aa-T" thorizing the enlisted men of tbe army an«L navy to wear a badge on public occasions^ on motion of Mr. Outhw&ite, was agreed! to. . The remainder of the day wa#< ,, devoted 10 eulogies upon the life and char* actor of the late Representative W. H,> \V Enochs, of Ohio. > The Bouse Monday devoted tbe entire ' day to the consideration of the sundry civil bill. There teas no important bnM-. ; , ne<s transacted In the Senate, the entlr<$£f^'&; day being consumed la tbe consideration ' , / of bills on tbe calendar. Most of thosa , were measure? Of omnll importance, anions them being several of immed Smut Interest to the people of the District <if.< * ^ Columbia. A ncmbcr of bills --sre iakeiif; from the calendar and passed, among tberrv. , a bill to "regulate the making of property* „ J! returns by officers of the government" an act authorizing the Texarkana and For|£$ Smith Railway Company to bridge tn«|J " Calcasieu and Sabine rlrers in the States ' of Louisiana and Tex us. The Senate re-t \ celved from the President a message in re-|#" gard to the occupation of Bluefields, Nica-. ragua. and also a message relative t<#' V Hawaiian affalra Tbe sundry civil appropriation bill vt^ passerby the House Tuesday without di-?: vision. The amendment of the appropri-* atlon for the General Land Office, amend­ ing the provision of the act of 1801. repealing the timber culture and pre-f^ emption acts, wblch was adopted In the:-, committee at the suggestion of Mr. Hoi* man and which was bitterly opposed by the western members, was defeated In th^ House, The clauses which sought tore^l quire an accounting by the disbursing! officers of soldiers' homes to the Trees-#'" ury Department and annual report# by the boards to the Secretary ofel War fell under Mr. Black*a poinf of order. The bill as passed carried 1217,000 more than it did as reported frora • the committee on apnropriatlons. TlW four appropriation bills passed by the House (District of Columbia, pension, forti­ fication and sundry civil) carry a net re­ duction of 824.315.958 as compared with the same bills for the current fiscal year. The Senate bill for the construction of 1 bridge across the Monongabela River a{|i Pittsburg passed the House Thursday, and$J the balance of the time was s~pent in fili-f| bustering over the O'Neil-Joy contested; election case from the St. Louis dis-tr1 trict The report of the committee is in favor of unseating^»Mr. Jojr (Rsp.V For five hours they fill-; bustered and kept the House deadlocked*; ;, The highest number of Democratic votes|;S cast during the day was 166, thirteen short'- of a quorum. An unsuccessful attemp|; was made to adjourn over Friday. The. Benate's principal business was the confir* matlon of a lot of postmasters and consld eration of the tariff bilL The House met at noon Friday. Mr. Bayers presented for immediate considera­ tion a joint resolution appropriating 810, -> 003 for the salaries and expenses of addi­ tional deputy collectors of internal revenue, to carry out the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act as amended by thejoint reso­ lution passed Dec. ? last It was agreed tck. The struggle over the O'Nell-Joy contest*; ed election case from Missouri was post-* poned until next week. In tbb case of Whatley va Cobb, from tbe Fifth Ala, bam ft; District, the report of the committee unani-t s moosly confirmed Cobb's title to the/ seat, and was adopted. The House went into committee of the whole to consider the military academy appro­ priation bill. The amount carried by the ' bill was ?400,438. against $432,540 for th«i currcnt year. The original estimates foi tbe next fiscal year aggregated $599,463. They were reduced by the Secretary ot War to $465,149. and the bill was passed. Several private pension bills were passed at the nieht session, the House adjourning} at 10:30 o'clock. Tbe Senate did nothing. Lessing's Forj*etfftalness. The celebrated Leasing', having. missed money at different times with-v out being abie to discover who took it, ^ determined to put the honesty of his servant to the test, and left a handful of gold on the table. "Of caurse y<;it counted it." said one of his friends* " "Count it?" said Lessing, somewhat^ embarrasssed: "no, I forgot that." AH a public sale there was a book which Lessing was very desirous of possess­ ing. He gave three of his friends at different times a commission to buy it at any price. Thev accordingly bid against each other till they had got as far as ninety crowns. Happily, one of them thought it best to speak to the others, when it appeared they had all been bidding for Lessing. whose for- getfulness on this occasion cost him eighty crowns. Helped Morse with the felegnqih. The recent death in Hartford, Conn., of Mrs. Albert Vail calls attention to thdf fact that her husband, who died in Morristown, N. J., in 1859, aided Morse in inventing the electric telegraph. In fact. Mrs. Vail for thirty years ex­ erted herself to secure for him proper credit for share in that great work. At the World's Fair he received recog­ nition by having his name displayed in letters of light among those of emi­ nent electricians. IIS £'i> ir VJ A 4 .5 5? - Queens Who Died MiaeraM|, Of sixty-seven Queens of Prance only thirteen have lived without leaving their histories a record of misery. Eleven were divorced., two executed, nine died young, were widowed, three cruelly treated, three exiled; the poisoned and broken-hearted make up the rest. Personal Paragraphs. Miss FRANCES CROSBY, who is best remembered as the author of "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," has been blind since she was o weeks old. She is now 62. LUCAS MALET, the English author, is of a family of writers. Her father is Charles Kingsley, and her husband is William Harrison, the successful novelist. THREE generations of the Benham family followed the sea. The admiral's father was a commodore in the United States navy, and his son Harry is a lieutenant in the service. THE late William Harring von Am­ nion, of San Francisco, is said to be the father of the art of lithographing in colors in the United States. He was a Prussian and died at the age of 82. SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, like many of his countrymen, is very fond ol athletics. He is a member of an ath­ letic club in Washington, where he is taking lessons in fencing and boxing. JOHANN SCHAUB, of New Haven, Conn., has received $1,000 from the Peruvian Government for injuries sus­ tained at th® hands of a mob while eingtagrata Masonic funeral in Peri* W A ^