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• V - . - ' «&:'d;l:~i.ir,L:ii . • . WRITES OF THE TARIFF. SENATORS IN DMGEB. EL mO MRE-SWEFEL, } TWEHTf. BUILDJNQ8 RUINS. •^j\hf * r .-*£ ... •» >4 A5C)IJ|I> A BIG «m£F COMPILATION OF ILLINOIS ' NEWS. fiaton'i Father Asks Dam»ee« for His Son's D»th-|« Ctssm Kills One and ^iPolso is FIRTF-two Ottwh-Iktal K|M mt A Country Dancft Sw« for Heavy Damages. A suit for 85,00 I dimazes was filed at Marshall against < ity Marshal Hedrick, Sherin A len Hurst. Mavo:* T. W. Clark and Ed war J Brown bv MRS. F. M FOX, a prominent Deca­ tur lady, aged 51 years, diei Wednes­ day. THE village of Smithshire was pa**» tially destroyed by fire, the loss being $).(X.O. MRS. MARGUERITE LANTER, a pio­ neer citizen of Masco tah, .dropped dead Of a oplexy, aged >3 years. ADELBERT WEIR committsd suicide at BlODmington by cutting hid throat with a tastr. He leaves a wile and two children. AT Plainfield, a fa mer found the body o1 a murdered man in his pasture. It is thought the dead man was a bur­ glar killed by hi* companion. THF. ti-year-old daughter of Thomas Tyrrell, *oi Urbana,. (,idd from the John Eaton for the killing of hii srn Will W. Eaton on the night of April effects of burns received bv- accident- 20. A note demanding S.OJ was written Mrs. Elsanor Brown, mother of Ed­ ward ana'Robert a d th?y, with Hu-stand Hedrick, lay iti ambush at the appointed t me, and when a man approached and t>un tha decoy pa er lie was ordered to halt, and oil feeing was shot and killed by Hedrick. Op n- ion i-> still divided on the question of whether he was a guiLtv blackmailer Or the dupe of the guilty parties. This suit will doubtedless a.d in cleai^ag up the matter. ( Innocent Man the One <XUl«d< At a country dance four miles west Of Anna, .Jim tJerkin , who wa* giving the dance, engaged in'a ti^ht with Jim Bright. William Carmack, a brother- in-law of Perkins, stood ever the com­ batants and prevented the crowd from interfering. The eupon one of the party named Walt Brown struck Car- mack with a i\,ek, cutting a gash in Ills forehea l. At this ju .cture Per­ kins seized an ax-handle and hit Brown over the head with it. Brown started to run, whea Perkins drew a pistol and fired at him. The ball missed Brown and struck John Gibson, a team­ ster and borse trader, who. w.tli two other men, had j -;st got into a buggy to go to their homes in . onesbo o. Gibson was taken to his home, where ho died scoi after Perkins attempt­ ed tD escape, but was captured. The Coroner s ji ry he'd him for trial and he is now in jail. He i a fa: mer and has a wife and thiee children. Brown and Carmack are badly hurt, thb,gh probably not dangerously. Bucket Shop Operators Flee. The Lincoln Board of Trade, a trad- irg place for spe :u ators in grain and stocks, created a seasation Thur day by tne conductors failing to appear during business hours. Tne place was operated by W. H. Baxter and Samuel Klaus. They began business early in June and leased a new room, furnished it fairly well, and began operat ons by announcing that they were agents for J_r»mson & Company, of Chicago. They took in a large sum and contracted debts wherever they could and paid for nothing. They operated under the firm nam3 of W. H. Baxter & Co. Poisoned by Eatin? Ic? Cream. The little town of West Union was the scene cf a horrible poisoning <caused by eating ice cream at a churcn social. Mrs. Bobert Domam died in great agony. Three others wete in <iangerous cund tioa a d tifty-two suf­ fered more or less from the poison. It was thought by a few to have been the work of some fiend, but it is m >re probable tj have been caused from poison off the freezer or from the milk. [Bfl T"NT "C1 A i ly Wiped rut of existence." And again: kMiV • M*» Mjjfoljyr "Equality as we understand it is me of , the strongest principles of Democracy, and we should advocate serving all idike." This is just where the people wer« deeived in 1 9\ Monopoly has the strongest noli upon Democracy, not equality. « NATIONAL GRANGE OBJECTS TO AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULE. feature* «f the Wilson BUI OsaaA^Md- Better Prlces lor Farm Products Cndn Protection--Great Is Grover--Democratic Low for Labor--Free Trade Freaks. KeronI of tli« We«'t. G. N. KINNE, a milkman at Bloom-" ington. was thrown from his wagon Tdnd fata'ly hurt. EDWARD JONES, IdyoarS old, whose homj was in St. Louis, was drowi_ed at Waukegan while bathing. En WARD D^NN, brakeman of the Elgin, .Toliet and Eastern Railway, xell from a train and was hilled. THE savings banks of Mol'ne have announced a reduction of interest on deposits from 5 to 4 per cent. EX-SCL'ERVISOR SVVAN ANDERSON'S year old child at .loliet ate poisoned fly paper and died in a few hours. MILLARD ANDEHSON, a farmer near Tennessee, was fatally kkke l by a horse. The blow crushed his skull. EDWARD GORIN was o .ercome by gas in a well near Hillsboro, and dijd before he cou d be brought to tne sur­ face. DANIEL RTTPI , of Mascoutab, while painting a chimney, lost his hold, fell sixty feet and was injured, probably fatally. N/AY BERLIN, a t .rifty village in Sangamon Cou ity, wai almost de­ stroyed by fire, which is attributed to burglars. PUBLISHERS of the city directory for 1891, which is being di tributed, •e.timate Chicagos pop ua'.ion at l,U3o,- 000 persons. NATHAN AIKEN, a wealthy citizen of Murphysboro, comrpittei suicide by hanging. He had been in ill-health for a long time. JOHN B. CREEKMUR was aciuitted at Docatur of the charge of having murdered Rolla Boyd last) April in a barn in Wliiiemore Township. GEORWE GILBERT, a prominent citi­ zen of Grand Detour, is missing. Ho wor.t to Chicago with a carload of val­ uable horses, r'oul play is feared. HENRY A. B:SI:HOKK, editor of the ' B'aik Diamonl and once a famous singer, committed suicide at Chicago by shooting. No cau e is assigned. DEPUTIES with wagons seatchcd Spring Valley for property i-to.on by rioters. Twenty-two arrests ha e bjen made and more a-e like'.y to fol­ low. GEORGE CRAIG was sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary by J u J j. is Chetlain. at Chit ago. He Ibeaded guilty to mans'aughter in kill-Og 1 tt e Emma Werner in April, 1803. A ife sentence was expected. • GOVERNOR ALTGELD honored the re­ quest of Governor Matthews, of Ir.di- '«na, for Fred Taylor, who is wanted at Mi.unt Vernon, lnd., for shooting L m Smith, a woman, with intent to kill, lie is now in jail at Shawneetown. AR Elgin eaith haulei from a build­ ing excavation was found to contain sii> er money, and as much as $1:0 J was secured by the crowd that began dig­ ging on the discovei y becoming known, it is supposed a former owner of the place excavated had hidden money in the walls. As a result of colliding with a c w, a double-header freight on the Toledo. Pooria and Western Road was ditched between Canton and lJushnell. Will­ iam Schwartone of the engineers, was killed, and John «vuinlan the other en­ gineer, and William Scbrllbager and lid Beam, the firemen, were injured. STRIKERS and soldiers gathe-ed be- .. fore the Pullman wcrka, and, after listening to an eloquent sermon by Dr. Thomas, joined in the singing of ".\meiica." PRIVATE DOWNING, of the Second tlegiment at Chicago, shot and killed Patrick O'Connor, who bad gone to the ,»efense of children who were menaced by the militiaman. ~FRED ARNING had his traction en- jfins destroyed by a dynamite bomb on the farm of William Schall. three sniles west of Mount Pulaski, Foot­ prints and buggy tracks were traced for some distance south. They have oiferei $500 for the parson committing thecriaitt. ally setting fire to her clothing. THIRTEEN men. including an Alder­ man and th > Superinte ident of the Waterworks ha e been arre ted at Ladd for conspiracy and burglary. LYMAN ROBINSON, while running thrashing ma-Hue in Oakland Townshio, Schuyler Cjuit'* wa? over­ come by t ^e heat, causing #», death. NELLIE. WEAVER, the l;Vyear-old I girl 'tfrho poi-oned D. A. Walmer and wife at Montpelier a few weeks ago, pleaded guilty aid was sentenced to the reformatory. WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, of Chicago, was out of work, became i 1, and couldn't pay his rent to William Hus- todt, a prospe ous North J- id; baker. He was evicted in the night, and for six davs ho and his wile, with three little children, slept out of doors with no covering but the willows that bor­ der Humboldt Park. Mosquitces and tugs nearly drove them all crazy. A LARGKcrowd witnessed the Aurora races Wednesday afternoon. It was insufferably-hot.* Two valuable hcrses fell dead in the 2:3.) pace, liessie Bald­ win. i wned by Harry mith of Ravens- wood, dropped dead on the home­ stretch, and Prelude, owned by A. P. Hanes, of Pe ria, on tho bick-tretch in the second half mile. Bessie Bald­ win had finished third in tho first heat and Prelude second. Death p.rob ibly resulted from the intense heat, as the horses had scored eight or ten times before getting the word. CHARLES EGDORF aid Hubert Storey, residing near Monee, pa?sed a house* in the country which > e ven years pgo was occupied bv th i Egdorf family, but which since that time has n t been inhabited. IJenry Kracke resided on a farm adjoining. As the boys reached' the old houso they concluded to enter the old buildiug "through a window. The sight that met them was enough to dri.e them from the place without delay, for right in front of the window was the corpse of a man poorly dressed. The boys reported the case to Mr. Kracke. who in turn notiiied the po­ lice magistrate. Investigation showed that the man must have beeodeid many months. The b)dv was that ^fa man 40 years ol,l. slightly baldheaded, the hair bnng a dark bio^n color. One cf the front teeth was gold filled. WHEN the late George Stewart, of Wilmington,died he had m inv thousand dollars worth of securities, money, etc.. locked no in his safe, of which he alone had the combination. When the executor. M. N. M. Stewart, came to administer thi estate he could not get into the i ecepta^le holding the valu­ ables. Consulting Warden Allen, Mr. Stewart to'.t the safe to the Joliet prism. The most expert safe crackei in the country, who is serving a long term, was shown tho safe and, walking up to it, looked it all over. 'Can you open safes.'" he was asked. Throwing his eye 5 around the room significantly, and shrugging his shoulders, he re­ plied. "Th it's what got me inhere." He was handed a chair and soated himself in front of the door. Giving the handle several lively twists he be­ gan a job that occupied over an hour's time but which ended in his throwing the door wide open. THE poisoning ai West Union at an ice cream supjer has created great confusion and uneasiness, and, although reports \ ary concerning it, the most reliable peorle of that village give the following statement: An ice cream supper was held at the church, the neighbors and citizens demting the n.illv. A wagon was sent t) gather up the milk, which was put in a tin vessel with a copper botlom, and this wa^ supposed to have been the cause oi poisoning, but after the death of R. L. Dona nam a post mortem was held by a board of six physicians and the stom- a h was sent to a chemist to be ana­ lysed. Some of the physicians tay that larg'o quanti ies o? arsenic were found and the symptons of those af fected indicate arsenical poison. Threats had been made against cer­ tain i ersons connecte I with tho festi­ val and some of tho milk was furnished by the parties making them, and it is now the arcepted theory that the milk was poisoned. The physicians say that the poison could not have I een ex­ tra -ted from the vessel. The raaHjr is being investigated. No other deaths have occurred. THE drought was broken at Vandalia Wednesday by c lpious rains. It is thought the rain was general in Fay­ ette County. It cam? just in time tc save the corn, which had be.un to suf­ fer for rain. The coi n c op in Fayette county promises to be the largest of many years. Tne first rain for twenty days iell at Moweaqua, being general throughout the central j)art of the State. It was greatly needed by the large acreage of corn, ^o rain has fa len at Sycamore for a month, and the effect of the drought is alarming. The thermometer tegisters over 100 degrees daily. Potatoes are small an l oats are dry and withered. Tt e con­ tinued dry and hot wea her of the past six weeks is becoming a serious matter to cops around \ irginia. Corn is badly tired. And i.nless rain comes soon the crop will be a total failure. Stock wells have given out and there is con- si lerable suffering among stock in con­ sequence. The thermometer ranges from 9S to lOi degrees. The drought was broken at Carlyle by a heavy rain, which will greatly benefit the corn. Fastine Jands are completely dried up. SEVERAL sh cks of earthquake were felt Wednesday at Alton. Tne disturb­ ance was not - f much f rce, but was of 1 nger duration 'han any felt f r many years. The waves appeared to m >ve from southeast to northwest, and lasted four or five minute*. THE death < f Mrs. Rachel Kring, a pioneer citi'en, occurred at the Kring homestead, near Fairbury, Wedne day, at the age of si> years. Deceased is the last one of the original members of tho Methodist Episcopal Chur h. which was organized wit \ eleven members in July, 18.3S, in Fa.'/bury by Rev. J. W. Stubbles. THE fire department of Chamoaign was summoned to Bond vilie Tuesday evening to assist in subduing a fire there. Bondville is a small vil'age" on the Havana branch of the Illinois Cen­ tral. Four business houses and one dwelling were burned. The loss is $i',0 0, partly covered with insurance. REV. ARTHUR BRADSHAW, of Sid­ ney, has commenced pro< eedings for a divorce from his wife. Mr. Bradshaw is an aged divine of the Methodist Church and was the first pastor of the Urbana Methodists in the earlv days. A year or two ago he took a wife of or 18 years. The young wife soon tiiod of her octogenarian husband and de- firtacL Hence hi* suit for divorCNk. Fear Foreign Compstitlon. OWICK or THB LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE, • 611 F street, Washington, D. | To the Senators anil Keproa«jjtuiivrs us- sembleU lu tho Cou^rcs^ of the Unite J fctaies: GENTLEMEN: We. the undersigned. LI»Ve beeu appointed a committee of the Nation- nl Grange of the Patrons of Husbaudr/ to uigi before your hunoraOie body sucU leg­ islation as is deemed bjM^ur order essen­ tial to the prosperity of il.e agricultural interests of our country, and in attempt­ ing to discharge this duty we iind it neces­ sary to emphatically object to some of the changes proposed in the agricultural schejuie by the so-called Wilson t:iriff bill, and in so doing we have nothing to say for or azainst protection as a policy of the Government, but us a revenue meas­ ure every American citizen is interested. We deem it the true policy of tne nation­ al Kovernnient to collect revenues as mpch as possible from duties on Imports, as be- ins a system o! taxation more equi able and less burdensome, when justly -distrib­ uted. than dlroct taxation upou the indus­ tries aud property of our people, thus leaving this class of subjects to the States for taxation, for the collection of their rev­ enues, as they cannot levy an Import tax under the Constitution of the-general gov- ernmeiit. Another reason why foreign trade should pay import duties is that our gov. ermuent must maintain wharves and warehouses for the accommodation of their trade,4 and this trade sbould justly pay for this privilege out of which it is proposed to gain a livelihood. " The members of our order, of course, differ in their views upon the details of fquitable tariff legislation It is not the duty if tho order to interfere with the free exercise of the rights of our members as citizens. When the people at tho ballot box de­ cide any issue raised by the political par­ ties on generaj ptinclple* our order cheer­ fully accepts tne situation and only in­ sists that the policy tbu? Indorsed snail be fairly carried into effect without any dis­ crimination against the farmer, or any class or interest in our country. When the people dcciued for the pro­ tective policy at the polls we asked 'Jou- gre-s that in the propose! tariil revision agriculture should receive the same con­ sideration us did other interests. Our de­ mands were respectfully and fully con­ sidered. and, with one exception, all that we asked was incorporated in the tariff laws of our country, and the farmers werj largely incidentally protected in the Amer­ ican markets, and as a result realized bet­ ter prices for hay, barley, vegetables, po­ tatoes, beans, livestock, poultr., eggs, to­ bacco, fruits a:;d many other products, which were not oppressive to those engaged in other vocations. " Iu the change of the political situation of our country our farmers had reason to believe that In tho revision of the tariff, placing it on a new basis, it would be so udjusted that duties wouli be itnpose.l largely on luxuries aud such products as iniuht be imported tlrat would directly come iu competition with American agri- cuLurai productions and American man­ ufactures. which were essentia) to Rive employment to American labor and capital. In tact this was guaranteed in the Chicago platform of the present party. 'JJhe Legislative Committee of tho Na­ tional Grange, at the sn ceial session of Congress, advised the Ways and Means Committee of the importance of t. klug •:are of the agricultural interests In draft­ ing a revised tarifT bill. Had the committee reported a bill iu strict conformity with the decision of the people at the polls we should have noth­ ing to say against it, but we believe the proposed legislation is unjust. In se far as it pertains to the farmers, and un­ fairly discriminate, against, the interests of agriculture by virtually abandyulnz the New England, New York, and ccust trade 10 Cauada anl other foreign coun­ tries, by reason of proximity and choap water transportation, which In effectbrint ' the producers In foreign countries closer to these markets than our American farmers in the interior, who must trans­ port. by the move costly methods of rail. The gre it bulk of agricultural products imported into the United Stales from Canada and countries beyond the sea are consumed in our seaboard cities and great manufacturing centers of the East, which should be preserved as a market for the products of the farmers of the United States. Your petitioners respectfully maintain that the difference in the cost of agricul­ tural productions la the United States and in foreign countries should bj regarded as a just measure of the duties which may be laid upon the products of foreign agricul­ ture for the protection of American farm­ ers. The .cost of agricultural productions. Including the transportation in the United states, exceeds tho cost of such produc­ tions in Canada, Including transportation, by 44 per cent., owing to the price of labor, 'i his is at least 10 per cent, in excess of the duties now Imposed by law upon the products of foreign agriculture, and the cost of agricultural productions In coun­ tries beyond tho sea Is even less than in Canad;i. owing to the same cause. The Wilson tHriff bill us it now stands is unjust as between the manufacturers and tbe farmer w ho Is a producer of wool, flax, and other fibrous productions that enter into the manufacture of cloth. If the manufacturer should have froa wool, then the farmer should have free cloth. We ask only for justice, that you treat the farmer iis others are treated. The phicini of agricultural Implements on tbe free list in compensation for the reduction of the duty 01 agricultural products is ridiculed by every Intelligent farmer, as no agricultural Implements are Imported of any consequence, being much inferior to those manufactured in the United State®, vhich are sold to the farmer for a less price and on easier terms than in anv country in the world. In view of tho foregoing facts we ear­ nestly ask till true friends of the farmer to insist upon a fair revision of tho tariff, and that in any legislation upon the sub­ ject that the present agricultural schedule be maintained, or otherwise defeat the proDo^ed legislation. We also desire to impress upon your minds the fact that ue do not consider the present Onnncial system :>f our country as satisfactory, and believe it Is the cause of much of the financial embarrassment. Our members generally favor an increase in the volume of the currency to meet the business requirements and revise the in­ dustries of our country and % lve employ­ ment to labor. The majority of our farmers are bi- metalllsts. They may differ somewhat as to the details, but earnestly desire to main­ tain both silver nnd gold as money, with an issue of United States Treasury notes, if necessary, to bring th^ volume of the cur­ rency up to at le ist §40 per capita. They favor sucii financial legislation and such an adjustment of the tariff as will secure our American markets for American la- l:or aud American capital which will auain start our country on a prosperous career. We. therefore, respectfully petition youi honorable body 10 favorably consider the ureat agricultural interests of our coun­ try. upon which the prosperity of all other industries depends, and so legislate that the forego'.n:; suggestions, which we have felt it our duty to present, may be en­ acted iuto law. helleviDg that It will be the means of bringing contentment and happiness ti thousand* of rural homes »nd prosperity to our whole country. He- speetfully submitted. J. H. KRIGHAM. LEONARD RHONE Gr«>t.l« (Irovw, . The entire Republican tw^jr ^a^ been striving for thirty years to pro­ mote the best interests of the United States and succeeded until it met with fli-asttr at the clos? of the year 1-92, when its political antagonist, tho Fem- ©c atio D try, came to i 'e again. But, while the Republicans have not been able t) completely destroy fiee '.rade Eemoeracy, that much desired result has been achieved within one year by one man. Grover Cleveland has utterly annihilated the ent re Democ:atc party bv* his administration dur ng 1m3 and 'l^. Samson sljw a mere SUGAR SCANDAL MAY POSSIBLY LEAD TO ARRESTS, Ant Prominent Statesmen Said to Han Farjnnd Themselves In t)M Recent In­ vestigation--Talk of Criminal Prosecu­ tion and Exposure. Democratic Monopoly N<»t Equillty: The "offens've" answers to tho Voor- hees interrogatories would seem, in a measure at least, to have emanated Irom men < f the same political faith as Mr. Voorhees, judging by a protest from Maine lumbermen, in which were found such remarks as: "We do not uphold the general slaughter that the Wilson bill calls for, neither will we support it." Again: "Were this (the tariff) matter to come before the coun- iry to day for a vofeT^ve should never know we had worked all our ii es to place us before the country where we BOW stand, but we should, tta thorough- GROVER THE GREAT. handful of the Philistines, but Grover has la:d low his hundreds of taousands. Great is Grover. "the Sugar Srandi*. The stock of raw material hold by refiners at Eastern pot ts, May ,il. was lt<i.(j*l long tons, a; against (iO,34(i long tons as against 60,:v*<> tons held on the t amo dato a year ago. Thus we ha^e additional purchases at that date amounting to J^iyW) leng tons more thin the refiners held at the close of May, 1H< 3. It is of further in­ terest to note that the market prico of raw sugar was 1* cents less this year, at the end of May, than a year ago, while granulated sugar was only It cents cheaper, there thus being a dif­ ference of 4 cent per pound in favor of the refiners. Tne total tugar yield of all countries fo.- the i»3 season was n,5">8,3^1 long tons, and that for the 18513 94 : eason is given at 7,:U(),oOO tons, an in­ crease of i'88,l71 tons of '1,240 pounds each. There was no scarcity in the world s supply of sugar during tho 1*92-93 year, but there was a surplus carried over. Allowing, even, that there was no surplus, or that any sur- plu ? may have been consume i by an extra demand during the 18:3-94 sea­ son, we lire still confronted with the fact tnat the sugar-producing coun­ tries have t > find a market for 788,171 tons moro suear this year than they had to sell last year. This will not be "growing crops'," but sug-r harvested, stored, and awaiting buyers. There is nothing whatevor to pre­ vent the purchase of this 788,171 tons lefore December 31 next. Let us call it 8 0,000 short tons of 2,00 I pounds each, which could be purchased at »5:) per ton, a very moderate price, and we have an outlay of $4C,00J,0i:0 upon which a clean profit of 40 per cent., or $lo,000.0 K), could be made if a sugar tariff did not go into effect till January 1, 1895. This would be just half a year's supply. Any additional quan­ tity cou d Le secured by dealin'g in futures, a commercial mium operandi not entirely unkuown in the sugar trsde. Their Love for Labor. 8ngar Bomb Hay Ran'. It ii reported here, on what issaid to be good authority, says a Washing­ ton correspondent, that, despite the denials of speculation and the sworn statements of Senators who had been called before the investigating com­ mittee, it would be proven that in three instances at least speculation bad been engaged in, and that the three Senators referred to had been guilty of perjury. An in :eresting story is going the rbunds --a stO:y so startling in its de­ tails that it is almost past belief. It is said there is a man in V\ ashington who has in his possession the original brokers contract whereupon one of the Senato.s--a prominent one at that ^contra ;tod to buy sugar when it was down to 8J, just before its phe­ nomenal rise. It is said that interest­ ed pei'scns "short" on sugar, and who had b en "squeezed" in the process of manipulating th 3 market, or because they did not have the "inside tip," had lost an imjpense amount of money, and had deterftiinod so bieak the sugar schedule at all hazards. The most interesting part, of the story is the way in which they intend to sot this schedule aside. It *is by no other proiess than by the arrest of a certain Senator on a charge of per­ jury. In a criminal < ase of this kind, it is said, stock b okers would be com­ pelled 1o show their books in court and th 3 persons back of this scheme say tney can pr >ve, not only by the evi- den e they now claim to have, but by what trey could t.ius lay bare, that somebody l as been doing some tall lying before the int e&tigating commit­ tee. It is thought this particular Senator, rather than s bmit to such proceed­ ings, would undo the wo-k it issaid he has assis ed in doing, aud through the influence he i S said t J yield, sugar would be placed on tho free 1 st and the men "short" of the stock would recoup their capital dropped while they wtreonthe wrong side of the market. OUR FORTY F.FTH STATE. Asking for Justice. In demanding protection for "their sheep the wool-raiders of California have simply asked for justice. Any tariff bill which places American wool on the free list and dooms American flocks to slaughter is infamously un­ just. Tne Northern and Western sh^ep-grower has precisely the same right to protection as the Southe n suga • and rice planter, and no meas­ ure which deni >s that right shou'd ever be permitte 1 to pass the Ameri­ can Senate.--Burlington Hawkeye. Cheap F'rm Products. If any one want- to know why prices of all farm p.oduet* are low--fearfully low--let him look over the list of silent factor.es, dead furna es and empty shops. These are the reasons, more eloquent and more com incin^; than all the oral and written testimony_ that has ever been produced. And it is the fulfillment of Reoublican prophecy, literally and aVsdu.ely. - i-atesQounty (Mo.) Reco d. Students Are t^irninj. In the New England colleges the number of protectionist st'idents-in­ creases the number of free-traders gees the ether way, and all this in spite of the professor, who try to pound into the boys the British artie'e of po­ litical economy. What a man sees and feels strikes him more forcibly than what he hears.--Wheeling Intelli' gencer. The Frjt-Trade Freaks. Utah Adds Another Star to Old Glory's lt'.ne. By a few strokes of his pen Grover Cleveland made operative the bill which provides for the admission ol Ltah to the Union as a State. By the conditions of admission this, o^r forty- li th Stxtc, will have full powers of statehood upon the commencement of the next session of Congress--that is, she is to send no Representatives or Senators to tho present Con»1*0=8. Utah, with an area of 8-i.47li square miles, had in 189 a population cf 2 >7,- 000. which was greater than that ol either Delaware, Montana, Idaho, No th Dakota Nevada or Wyoming. Utah is divided into twenty counties. Salt Lake City is the capital and largest city. Utah s divide! into two pa:ts by the Wahsatch mountains. The west part belongs to the great basin, its waters having no outlet to tho tcean, while the eafct part is drained bv the Colorad > River of the West. Tnis ri\or is formed by the junction of tho Grand and Green, and flows southwest into Arizona. WTest of the Wahsatc 1 Mountains are several fall ¥«Xt of President Cleveland's L«tt« to Chairman Wilson. Following is -the letter written ty President Cleveland to Chairman Wil­ son. The letter was under date of July 2, and was a private communica­ tion, to the publication of which the President only gave his consent r«- cantly: EXECUTIVE MAWS ION, WASHINGTON, July 1 To the Hon. William L. Wilson: MY DEAB 8IB -- The certainty that a conference will be ordered betv e -n the two houses of Congress for tae" pur­ pose of adjusting diff r>BCf8 on the sub­ ject of tariff leg station makes it alBO cer­ tain that you will be again called upon to do hard service in the cause of tariff reform. My public life has been so closely related to the subject, I have so longed for its accomplish­ ment, and 1 have so often 1 r imlsed its realiza­ tion to my fellow countrymen as a result of their trust and confidence in the Democritic party. I hope no excuse is necessary for my earnest appeal to yon that in this crUis you strenuously insist np^n party honesty and Kood faith, and a sturdy adherence to Demo­ cratic principles. I believe these are abso- lutey necessary conditions to the continuation of Democratic existence. 1 cannot rid myself of the feel inn that this confcrencs will piesent the best if not the only hope ot true Democracy. Indiestlons point to its action as the reliance of those who ..esire the genuine fruition of Democratic ef­ fort. the fulfillment of Democratic pledges and the redemption of Democratic promises to the people. To reconcile differences in the details comprised in the fixed and well-defined lines ot pi iiciple will not he the sole task ol the conference, hut as It seem-; to me its mem. 1 bers will also have iu charge the Question I whether Demrcratic principles -themselves arc to be save 1 or abandoned. There is no excuse for mistaking or ml*ap- prehending the feeling nud the temper of tne ran* and file of the Democracy. They are downcast under the assertion that their party fails in ability to man ge the government, and they are apprehensive that th-ir efforts to briui about tariff reform may fail, bus they are much move downcast and apprehensive in their fear that l^cmocratic principles maybe! surrendered, lu tkes«' circumstances they j cannot do otherwise than to look with confi- ! deuce to you and those who with you have patriotically and sincerely championed the cause of tariff reform within Democratic lines and guio'd by Democratic principles. This confidence is vastly augmented by tue action, uilder your leadership, of the House of Repre­ sentatives upon the hill now pending. Kvery true Democrat and every sincere tar­ iff reformer knows that this bill, iu its pres­ ent form and us it will be submitted to the conference, falls far short of the consumma­ tion for which w« have long labored, for which we have suffer< d defeat without discourage­ ment. which in us auticipation gave us a rally­ ing cry in our day of ttiumph. and which iu its promise of accomplishment ts so inter­ woven with Democratic pledges and Demo­ cratic success that our abandonment ot the cause or the principles upon which it rests means patty perfi.iy and party dishonor. One topic will be submi ted to the confer­ ence which embodies Democratic principle so directlv thit, it, c«nnot be a compromise. We have in'our platforms and lu every way possible declaiedlniavorof th • free importation of raw materia's. M'e have again and airaiu promised that this should b 3 accorded to our people and cur manufacturers as soon aS ih? Democritic party was invested with the power to deter­ mine the tariff policy of the country. The party has now that piwer. We aic as certain to-dav as we have ever been of tho great bene­ fit that would accrue to the country from the inauguration o this policy, and uothing has occurred to reiease us rrom our obligation to secure this advautage to our people. It must be admitted that no taritf mea ure can accord witu Democratic principles and pro nises to bear a genuine Democratic badge that does not prov.de for free raw ma­ terials. in these circumstances it may well excite our wonder that Democrats are willing to depart from this the most Democratic of -11 tariff principles, and that the inconsistent rhronjlifc n fiarfcar'* Canltmml * iMtt*.! flagratlon Is Started Which I«|t #m» tho Business District of tho lpdiana Tpw-n Scorched. •'^IS ' *»»rt«d to* a Far'or Xatedfe. * El Paso has had a disastrous history with regard to fires, but a conflagra­ tion which swept its business portion Thursday was the severe t blow it has ever received. As a result more th«« twenty of the finest buildings in the place are in ruihs, many line stocks at gocds destroyed, and a loss of fully $250,00J entailed. About 9 o'clock in the morning a deaf and dumb ba. ber named Taylor, who had a shop in the basement of Chris Schaeffer s building-, on the north side of Front streo% lighted a match to heat a curling iron. The match broke and th# flaming end fell int3 a vessel con­ taining gasoline. The b'aze com­ municated at once to a partition ad.oining, ani in a flash broke through into the center of Schaeffer's grocery- lit the room were stored twenty bar­ rels of gasoline and bal< as many more of kercsene. The barrels caught fire and exploied one after the other, scat­ tering the flames in every direction and starling a conflagration tnat in fifteen minutes was beyond controL The Schaeffe.- store is in the center of the block between Centar and Elm street , and the flro ragel in bjth di­ rections from that center. Goods were hastily removed and piled up on the opposite side of the street, where they were damaged by a shower which came about 1:15. / In response to telegrams. Blooming- ton sent a steamer and hose cart and onp flra company. The run of nine­ teen miles was made in tweuty-one minutes. Minonk and Gridley ahrosent assistance. A3 tho Bloomington men arrived, the large four story briok Eagle Block, the pride of the town* was just breaking into flames. The Bloomington engine was at once put to wo -k at the Illinois Central water tank, and pumjel water into the Eagle Block, but it was too late to do mtrj than protect the De­ pot Hotel. A line of fames or dismantled walls extended frosa Central to Elm street, and the beat part o. the town was going down in red ruin. The crash of lal.i g wails was accompanied by showers of sparks that threatened to* consume buildings re­ mote fivm the bur. ing di-trict. By good management the fire was kept within the territory bounded by Front street on the s uth, Elm on the west, h irst on the north and Central on the ea >t. The fire was under control at ll.oU. Ltwei and Insurance. At the corner of Central and First street, stood the Eagle Block. The building was erected in 1S72 at a coat " * * ' * * , , , , , J 1 UUiAUliifik »' UO VI VV'i«7U Ait -1> - I rn* U V VWQtf absurdity of such a proposed departurei should f , (W, l t nwnoj -nintlir Hir be emphiisized by the suggestion that the wool ooo.t-UO. it was ownoa .Ointiypy __ lph . of the farmer be put, on the free list and the protection of tariff ta\ation be pla ed around the iron ore and coal of corporations and capit­ alists. How can we face the people after in­ dulging in sudi outrair«ous discriminations and violations of piinc P e? It i.s quite appar­ ent that this questiou of free raw materials does not -diuit ot r.diustment on any middle gro und, since their subjection to any rate of tariff taxation, great or small, isalike violative of Democratic principle and Democratic good faith. I hope that you will not consider it intru­ sive if I say something in relation to another subject which can hardly fail to be trouble­ some to the conference. I refer to the ad just­ ment ot tariff taxation on sugar. Vnder our paity platform and in accordance with our declared patty purposes, sugar is a legitimate lakes, of which these with no outlet "told logical article of revenue taxation. Un- ' ,, ,. m. . fnrt.iinnt.olv- however, inciaents have ac-are salt or alkaline. The largest of these and tho most famous is the Great Salt Lake. South of this lake, into wh ch it flows through the hiver Jot dan, forty-five miles long, is Utah Lake, a sheet of pure fresh water abounding in fish. In tho valleys tho climite is gener­ ally mild and heal hful, with little enow. On the mountains the winters are severe and the snowfall is more abun ant. Much of the soil of Utah is fertile, and by thorough irrigation can be made to produce good crops. But the pleins in thei • natural state aro ior the most part hard, dry and barren and fro quently covered with a ea ine incrustation. The principal agi icultural product J are wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and other root crops. Apples, pears, peaches, plums and grapes grow well. Grazing is con­ ducted on a larger tcale than is agri­ culture. Uiah fo ms part of the territory ac­ quired fr. m Mexico in 1S4J. It was settled in 1*S47 by the M n mons under Brigham Young. Uta i--named from a tribe qf Indians o' that name--was organised as a Territo y in i!*50, and embraced ^l0,l!i(i square miles. With­ in its limit* were portions of what have since b^como Co'orado, Wyoming and Nevada ' GROVER SPEAKS OUT. Better from Him Indorsing the Wilson Hill Kead in the Hou*e. A Washing'on dispatch says: In­ tense interest was created by Air. Wil­ son's announcement in th-j House Thursday that he had a letter from President Cle eland, which the latter had permitted to be make public. Th) letter was the desk and read, fortunately, however, incidents have companied certain stages of tbe legislation which will be submitted to the conference that have arcu9ed in connection with this subject a natural Democratic animosity to the methods and manipulations of trusts and combination#. 1 coufess to sharin; in this feeling: and yet it seems to me we oujht, if possible, to sufficiently free ourselves from prejudice to enable us coolly to weigh the considerations which in forma.at- | ing tariff legislation ought to guU'e our treat- inent of sugar as a taxable article. While no I tenderness should be entertained for trusts, I aud while I am decidedly opposed to granting them, under the culse of taritf taxation, any opportunity to further their peculiar meth­ ods, I suggest that we ought not to be driven away from the Democratic principle and poli­ cy which led to the taxation of sugar by the fear, quite likely exaggerated, that in carry­ ing out this principle and policy we may iudircctly and inordinately encour­ age a combination of tho sugar refining interests. 1 kuow that in present conditions this is a delicate subject, and I appreciate tho depth ami strength of the feelin* which its treatment has aroused. I do not believe we should do evil that good may come, but it seems to me that we shou d not lorget that our aim is the completion of the tariff, ar.d in taxiug sugar for proper purposes and within reasonable hounds, whatever else may be said of our action, we are in 110 dantrer of lunnin/ counter to Democratic principles. With all there is at stake there must be in the treat­ ment of this article some ground upon which we are nil willing to stand, where toleration and conciliation may be allowed to solve the problem without demanding the entire surren­ der of fixed and conscientious convictions. I ought not to prolong this letter. If what I have written is unwelcome, I beg you to be­ lieve in 11 y good intentions. In the conclu­ sions of the conference touching the numer­ ous items which will be considered, the people arc not afraid that their interests will be neglected. They know that the general re­ sult, so far as they are concerned, will ba 10 place home necessaries and .comforts more easily within their reach, and to insure better and surer compensation to those who toil. We all know that a tariff law coveting all the varied interests and conditions of a country as va»t as ours must of necessitv be largely the result of honorable adjustment ana com­ promise. I expect very few of us can say, when our measure is perfected, that all its features are entirely as we would prefer. You know how much I deprecated the incorpora­ tion in the proposed bill of the income-tax feature. In matters of this kind, however. then seut to amid profound si ence. T/ e letter was which do not violate a fixed and recognized in tho 1 residents vigo.ous sty e, and w,. to was a stirring tribute to the Wrilson bill and a direct biow at any surrender to the Senate bill. The letter was ac­ companied by a speech fnm Mr. Wil­ son. He t. enounced .the Senat® and the manner in which the House members had been treated in tho conference. With unmistakable suggestion he declared that, should it be pro\ed that, the sugar trust had corruptly influenced legislation, it was the duty of Demojrats to make a bitter reprisal on this conspiracy by sweep­ ing aside the d..ty 0.1 refined sugar. Sparks from the Wires. THE cost of the census up to this time is $10,L65,6tt7. IT is proposed to erect a monument to John Brown on the site of the his­ toric enginehouse at Harper s ferry. Democratic doctrine, we are willing to defer to the judgnunt of a majority of our Demo­ cratic brethren. I think there is a jieneral agreement that this is p irty duty. This is more palpably apparent when we realize that the business of our country timid­ ly stands and watches for the result of our efforts to perfect tariff legislation: that a quick and certain return of prosperity waits upon a wise adjustment, and that a confiding people still trust in our hands their pros­ perity aud well-being. The Democracy of the rand plead' most earnestly for the epeeiiy completion of the tariff legislation which their representatives have undertaken, but they demand not leBs earnestly that no stress* of necessitv shill tempt those they trust to the abandonment of Democratic principle. Yours vtry truly, GKOVEM CLEVELAND. The Jury System In Germany. It is impossible for a German jury to be hung, as is so often tho case with similar bod es in this country, sa. s a lawyer who has been there. L irder our'plan one ignorant or perverse man , . , , ,, I can nullify the eflorts of eleven int-el i- DITNAMITE was placed under a rail- | 1 d J ri ht Cltize:_, if he wishes way bridge nea • South Enid, Ok., and k*51!* 1 \n "Kin,r wiiaam s domain, the structure was partly demolished. DYNAMITE was placed on the North­ ern Pacific tracks at Sauk Bapids, Minn.,and exploded under a train. Ths cars were wrecked, but no one was injured. JOHN WILLIAM?, colored, was shot and kil'ed by Fenjanfiin lassett at the Columbus (Ohio; larracks. Both were recruits. A. E. FERTF, s cretary of the sink­ ing fund trustees of Winnipeg, is charged with embe zling upward of $7,000. AoriKEGATE banknote circulation still stands at $207,25' in 6pite of the pletho.a of loanable capital at financial centers. EX-JUDGE THOMAS M. COOLEY, the distinguished constitut'onal lawyer, has Written Pre ident Cleveland in­ dorsing the latter s course in tending feeder*! troops to Chicago. however, such a thing s impossible. Take for :nstance a crimina taso in a (>e:man cjjrt. If, a'ter con.ultation. the jurv- stands sx t? six fo • and aga nst the priso: er, he is ac ;uitted. if sewn jurymen believe h m guilty and live arc e ually sure of his inno­ cence, his fate is decided by the judge who has presided over the case. If. however, eight of the jury decide that the accused is guilty, it amounts t) a c nvict on. New Requirements for Fire Fighting. Tbe Union Railway Company of Providence is to maintain wagons equipped to do service on the wires at all tires where the trolley is near enough to be dangerous. These wagons are to be provided with every appliance for rapid work in cutting or unst: ingii^g wires and will ba manned by a regular force of men. several persons, who occupied it. The ;f El Paso Bank loses $10,00o. and was in­ sured for $t:,<XX). In the basemont was / the El Paso Journal, which lost *3,000, • and was insured tor S-2,000. Cotton X Biothers had a restaurant in the base- ment next north ot the newspaper, and their loss is ab^ut $1,000.* Over the restaurant was North's farm implement store, with $8,000 worth of st ;ck and insurance of $2,000. In the second. 3 story was the city hall, and the city loses $8,000, partly insured. The upper floor was occupied by the Masonic ossm ders. who lose $0,0t 0 and are insured for *3.0 j0. Next came H. C. MeCerd'a genoral store, whose loss is $(i,00i>, in­ sured for to,000; J. H. Strathmaa's . furniture store, lots $1",000, insured ? for $3,u0i>. Besid as there were several proforsi nal men in tho upper rooms ;; who lost from •: 200 t > So R) each. All these were in the Fagle Block. - f Other losers aro as follows: Frank Kysor, -ewe'er. .>700 on building, $.*,000 b on stock; D. Dunn, druggist, $i,£01 on building, stock $J,00 ; F. A. Young, f harness. $1,K0 on stock: Wm Fitzger­ ald, saloon, $1,0 0; Newel Steen, hard­ ware, $5,00) on stock, S8,CtO on build­ iug; J. K. Tegtm^yer, general store, ? tw,0C0 on ttojk; P. Schaeffer, two S stores $l,oOO, stock of goods $M0(^ | residence damaged, not a cent of in- 4 surance; A. H. Wait, hardware, steck S',000; George Buster, clothing, stock $10,000: frame b ildirg, $1, Fogg brick block, lo s $,V00, occupied by VVorthington's dry goods store, loss ie.O 0, insured for $;-<,000; W. N. Sype,, boots and shoes, loss $2,COO, with no ! insurance: Henry let. on s saloon, Mrs. Harrier s frame block, loss $800; Kear­ ney's frame building, less $300: Sonier & Co., butchers, loss $1,500; vacant store-room owned by J. McCann, of Normal, lo s $300. On Central street the Clifton House was destroyed. It had been built but a short time wad crs; $ ,000. le"gu ons livery star ble, loss $O0J*. Chris Schaeffer's dwelling, slightly damaged. N artin Lush's dwelling, loss $1,(0 »: Welling's dwelling, l«ss $!, Oi), insuted_ Pete Tometz, biter, loss $1,500 on stock and $400 on building. Parm^Iee & Forter butchers, loss $4C0; Frank Welting, undertaker, loss not given. Henninsr's stab'e also caueht firo and bui ne l in the block north of the Clif­ ton House: loss about $5C0. Tho Campbell Hous^ was in great danger at one time and wa$ cleared of furni- tuio. somerset'* Baslnes* District Barn • The busineis portion of Somerset Village. Ind.. eighteen miles south­ west of Peru, was burned Thursday. Tho place ha< 110 lire protection, and the Hamts continued until nothing was left to burn. Among tho places de­ stroyed were the Masonic H >il, Frank Starbuck's restaurant, George Weee- nor's m at market, Tom Bodkin's bar­ ber shop, Haas Bro.-.' dry go>ds store and others. The loss is estimated al* about *15,003: insurance very light' Won the Old Man's Heart. * £ He leaned gracefully against tta mantel. "Ye-." he r pcated. "I love yew daughter." The o.d man in the easy chai:* regarded him keenly. "Can you support a family?" heaskea after a pause. The youth knit his brow. "Ihat depends. How * Ho locked the father of his beloved straight in the eye. " how many of you are there.-" Presently they tame t) the terms of an amicable under­ standing. ' . : ' ... Room for CorrsctWa ̂ "Remember, boys," said the teacher," "that in the bright lexicon of youth there's no such word as fail." After a few moments a boy raised his hand. "Well, what is it, Socrates?" asked the teacher. "I was merely going to suggest," re­ plied the youngster, "that if such is the case, it would be advisable to write to the publishers of that lei icon, and call their attention to the wtl- sion." ^ Wool from Rabbits. In parts of France a species of rabbit Is utilized for the w.nl. which is *aid to be softer and liner than that . sheep. It is obtained at intervals If - combing the animals • && '=: t A v4g .Cr'jt