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<srf»»srj- *, •.? 'ris* • '• V> •' -4'^ r .;£<•*• / " V "•> ^ •<, -. -sut *i > - v "i-is •rf." v.. - j& ' ,'W' i' •"' : .- *3 •• K *A-^=+s THE PLAINDEALER J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. •cHENUY. IIATNOTS. BIG BEAL IS CLOSED. fAKR a;«i« %•*¥ *•'<• MILLS BDINa EACH. #*lt,T66 i Will TWeet Ajltn In IndlH -Ct-l'nlted States Marshals Tarn Burj- (Hl-An Ahb« Loses Ills Hend-lllt For- «wr • Private. / ' (i§y: • »t». i •v { US uC> ifWi ' f('»»' jp- VnfrHshtnen Bny f*»per Mills. AN Apple ton, Wis., dispatch says: Aft English syndicate \iepresented by YVank Butterworth, of Chicago, nas practically closed a deal for the pur­ chase of all jthe paper and pulp mills in "Wisconsin. The mills involved in the deal number thirty-four and the price •greed upon is $14,0, 0,001 The trans­ fer will be made March 1, half the trice to be paid in ca-h and half in onds secured by mortgage. ,The deal has been i n f ot for seve.al weeks, but tbe information leaked out Thursday. The tacts are admitted by inta estcd Crties. Most of the property invo.vei located on Fox River, and fiiteen of the mills ate at Appleton. The deal, If c<nsummated, will be the largest transfe - of manufacturing property aver made in the Northwest. Hoosier* *»et It. INDIANAPOLIS wa; the place se- lactod for the biennial .encampment ol the Knights of Pythias in 18tk\ Arot- withtanding the failure of the rail- mad co.noanies to make low rates to "Washington 70,000 people have visited the city sine 3 the Pythian encampment began. About two'thirds of these were Pythians and their friends. In the bip* parade on Tuesday the Toronto division of the Uniform lank carried a British flag, and this has b en one of the prin ipal topics of comment among tsfe Pythians on this side of the line. Maj. Gen. Carnahan, Com­ mander-in-chief of the Unilorm rank, says it w»s perfectly proper lor them to carry th • union ;aek. and he holds that it would have been just as pro er lor the Canadians to ha.e o je ted, when, at the encampment in Toronto In i • 8t>, a 1 the divisions carried t&e stars and sti ipe i. , ^ -- - N T ^ / MBWS NUGGETS. l « "J 1 4L,. ,..' IBBE W. T JNNELL I* the Democratic MMoinee for Governor of Delaware. THE C<.ar I f Russia is reported to In suffering from pronounced albu­ minuria. CHINESE, assisted by Coreans, are reported tj have de.eated the Japan­ ese at K aiteng. TOE Canadian Pacific table of earn­ ings for the last half year shows a de­ crease of nearly $1,00J, (,0 ». JOHN JONES, an ELwood, Ind., tin- plate worker, has fallen heir to $4,000,- OU> by the death of an uncle in Wale?. IN a fit o: jealousy at Columbus, Ohio, George Kalb. a patent medicine vender, shot and killed his wi e. The same of a prominent merchant is men­ tioned. MRS. EDWARD L. YODMANS, con­ spicuous in literary circles, widow of the founder of the Popular Scienco Monthly, died at her home in Ridge- field, Conn. SMALLPOX at Milwaukee ha* as­ sumed a very serious phase. The city authorities are unable to cops with the pest, and the State Board of Hea.th has taken hold of it. AMBROSE LEKHDRR an 1 Robert Tuchs left Hui'on, Ohio, for Havana, Ohio, with two large caka of ammo­ nia. The casks exploded, and both men were instantly k lied. THOMAS L. MARTIN, a well-known lawyer of Louisville, ha > gone insane. His principal delusion is a be ief that lie in Congressman Breckinridge and tint he will win his election. E. D, MV NITT, minm both legs and having recentlybeen lufairiio tik« extent of Gov. FLOWER, of New York, has pardoned Col. W. B. Hayes, sentenced , to eight ysari' imprisona-ent in Sing Sing for frauds on the business public, owing to the prisoner's symptoms of incipient j anesis. THERE is much excitement in finan­ cial circ es of Chicago and New York over the performances of men at the heal of th9 Disti lers' and Cattle Feed­ ing Company, bene * known ' us tho whisky trust, whereby favored indi­ viduals have made a profit of almost $i,0d in speculating in the shares of the company, and at the same time an opportunity to *ave for the company a great sun'was- thrown away. By the operation characterized among speculators, as "liggingr the market," the pric3 of whiskv shares was carried up, then down, ancl then up again, and immense profits were made by those who knew how the cat wa; going to jump. But the stockholders of the Distillers' and Cattle Feeding Com­ pany are indignant. They complain that the interests of the corporation were sacrificed that some one might gra^p lar&e winnings in tho stock market, and soma e^en. charge that certain director • played fa->t and lco,,e with the company'.-* affairs. Some of the stockholders intimate that Presi­ dent Greenhut, of the whisky trust, i; re ponsiblo for the tricks played with the property and ii the 'greatest gainer thereby. . " W E S T E R N . ' S T Y SMALL-POX%as made its* appearance at Atwocd, near Bourbon, Ind. • A FUNO o#f $103,0JO has been sub­ scribed by the citizens of Sacramento for the purpo e cf erecting a suitable monument ever the graves of Privates Duaan, Clark, Byrne.- and Luberding, of the Fifth Artillerj', who ljst their lives July 11 last on the rail oad tres­ tle near "the city, through the act of the striking train-w eckers. FOUR mine s were mashal. burned, and boiled to death on Fiilay. at the Amethyst mine, at Creede, Colo. The fire which costroyei the shaft-hcuse with all its machinery melted the cable attached to tLe skip, and jthe burning mass fell upon the miners who were ascending the stepway, hurling them to the b ttom of the shaft. The less by the fire i< $20,000. The mine is now filling with water. A TERRIFIC explosion occurred 'til Kramer's sawmill, in Frankfort, Ind., at 9:30 Friday morning. The kiliefl are. John Vermillion, engineer; Will­ iam Jackson, sawyer. Half a dozen others were ser ously injured. A sec­ tion of the boiler weighing 1.S00 pounds was hurled 4C0 .yard-, crushing through the roof of Clas^-ra^er's coop­ er shop and nearly killing Charles Bar­ tow, a workman. AFTER having fled from his home at Elkhart, Ind., because the attorney who assisted him in getting out of tho State penitentiary, where he was serv­ ing a life sentence lor murder, had Beemed judgment against him for his services, Jacjb J. Ncel became des­ pondent and tried to commit suicide in Lincoln irark at Chicaero. The pres­ ence of a park policeman, who was at­ tracted by Noel's strange conduct, frustrated his attempt. THIRTY-SEVEN miners of mixed na­ tionalities were killed Friday after­ noon by ai explosion in the'Oregon Impiovement Compan/'s coal mine at Franklin; King county, t irty-four miles southeast of Seattle. The miners werj trying to save the mines from destruction by fire when the ex­ plosion cccurred. Those who rushed to the gangway when the tire was dis­ covered escaped. Several of tho e caught were not instantly killed ar d a desperate bat futile attempt was at once made by their comrades to rescue them from'the flames. The entire mining community of Franklin aid­ ed tj flood slpe 62, in which the bodies of toe miners lay. Franklin is in the mining district; into which colored Eastern miners were brought two years ago, resulting in a running nght with the strikers and several deaths. Negro and Swede miners predominate among ttO:e killed. Most of them have families. Timbers, ccal dumps and largo chunjcs of coal were hurled in all dire tion^iby the force of the explosion. / Two COOLLY desperate train robj IS.® arm, wanted to marry Mrs. Mar-, _ tea, who had left her husband in Ar- j bers, Henry F. Gordon, aUas GHswold" Fh! refused, and bjth were j and William Lake, both of Chicago, fobn dead at Bonhaaa, Texas. j shot and instantly ki.led Special CMC- TEXAS Republican State ticket: i cer Putricic li, Owens, of the Chicago, Governor, W. K. Makeson: Lieutenant Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Fri- Governor, R. B. Rentfrow; Super n- d:aY night at he was going to the as tondent of Education, A. H. Caldwell; ' * ' r.. = • Comptroller, C. A. Tomlinson. THE Wa# Department has granted a discharge to Grover Flint, a private in A Troop of the United States Cavalry Stationed at Fort'Meyer, to allow him to become posse sor of a fortune esti­ mated at$o00,C00. A CRANK armed with a big revolver flpined access to tlia New Orleans Cot­ ton Exchange, but left without doing may damage. Out-ride his antics d-cw m crowd of 5,000 people before he was arrested and locked'up. IT is j-aid the new At'as disti lery •eon to be built at Peoria, II!., wi.l be the largest institution of the kind in the world and will te run outside of the trust. It wi 1 have a capacity of 8,<ki0 bushels of grain per day. JOHN MADIGAN and David McDon­ ald, ex-deputy United St ites marshals, who were arrested for lcoting a Santa Fe dining car, were arraigned before Jar ice Braid well and held to the crim- aal Court in bonds of $1,00J each. THE pay-rolls of Company F, Sixth Begiment. Illinois National Guard, for strike services, will le paid ly the Mo ine National Bank. D Company of the Eighth will ke paid by a Lank at Ur ana. Tbe Moline Na ional will take up vouchers of Company, Seventh Regiment. • T«K police of Milan have arrested aa anarchist in whose po-se>:ion were papers detailing the plans o." a c^n- •Jiiiacy tosab the King of Gree e. A CONTRACT has b;eu clcsed the fight with a tariff reform banner to guide us." A SECRET has leaked out from dlplo* matic circles to the effect that our Government has become sadly en­ tangled with one of the Central Ameri­ can republics as a result of the reci- prccity treaties, and will have a bill to pay beside which the Bering Sea claims will appear trivial in amount. Tfte country in question is the United States of Colombia, one of the Central American republics which steadily refused all efforts of the State Department to induce it to be­ come a party to one of these reciprocity treaties. ' Moreover, when her sister republ cs and Spain (as to Cuba and Porto Rico) began to ship their products duty free to the United Sta es,under the terms of their new treaties. Colombia claimed the same exemption for her staples, hides, cof­ fee!, sugars and molasses. The State Department rejected this claim, a9 it was obliged to do. else the whole fab­ ric of treaties wouJd ha\e fa len. Co­ lombia persisted in her claim, and pointed to the treaty of 184H, which declares that the Colombians shall not be assessed any duties upon their prod­ ucts ̂ ported into ,the United States higher than on like articles imported from any other foreign country. They have never abated this contention: and at last the United States has been obliged to admit the strength and correctness of the Colombian position. This being done, it follows that the Government must refund to importers the amount they have paid in duties on Colombian produces which should have been free, or admitted at lower rate3. Just what the total will amount to no one can tell at present, but stej>s are being taken to ascertain thi9 from statistics. r1v A POLITICAL. ticket. lieuten- iecretary ^auditor, J. SOUTH DAKOTA Republ; For governor, C. H. Sheli< ant govern r, C. N. Herri< of state, Thomas Thcrson;' E: Hip;le; treasurer, Kirk GTPhiLips, and attorney genet al, Coe I. Crawford. GENERAL T. H. MICHENER cf In­ dianapolis, who managed General Har­ rison's campaign at the Chicago con­ vention of 1888 and at the Minneapolis convent'on of 189?, and who is,an inti­ mate political and personal friend of that gentleman, is authority for the statement that the ex-PresiJent does not desij"eja renomination and would iioVajCC^ptTone unless it should come to hluij^'tu^ractical unanimity. '•!. * ?* FOREIGN. ' '• d? -- i THE 'Iwiri* feeling at Yo^diama growing more intense every day, and there is-a great popular demand for the transfer of the warlike operations from Corea to China. It is suggested that Japan should unite all her avail­ able troops and march upon Pekin im­ mediately. A SCHOONER has arrived at Colon with seventy refugees from Biuefields, Mosquito Territory. They say that Nicaraguans have imprisoned eight American citizens and several British subjects, including the British Vice Consul. The country i3 described as being depopulated and ail business is baid 10 have I een stopped. A CYCLONE swept across the Sea of Azov Saturday. It is almost certain at least 1,0-0 persons perished, seme by drowning, others by being crushed un­ der falling trees and houses. Excitement is greaV among the American colony in St. Petersburg, for it is feared at least two parties of American tourists were cn the Sea of Azov at the time the wind did its deadly work. It is said the leader "of one of these parties had proposed a trip a short dis­ tance north from Temrink into the land of the Black Cossacks. It his tarty branched off in that way," it unques­ tionably perished, for the hurricane ravaged almost the entire east shore of the Sea of Azov. IN GENERAL. sistance of Freight Conductor N. A. Sargeant, who was loing held up and robbed in the ^cabcose by the desper­ adoes. Early Saturday morning, wiiile fleeing from the tcena of their first murder, the robbers shot and probab v mortally wounded Officer Patrick Mc- Grath of the Northwestern, who was about to al tempt their arrest. Tne seer e of the robbery and the fir-t shootinsr was at the little statian of Daerfield,on the St. Paul Railroad, three and a half miles west of Highland Park. The shooting of McTjrath was at Mayfair, on the Chicago and Northwestern Rail­ road. After the second shooting the murderers tied west, and tbeir pursuit and running gun light with the police, their final capture after both were wounded were in keeping with the des­ perate jmethods that tho robbers em­ ployed at the outset. "Tor cool atrocity in both robbery and murder and for desperate determination to escape, cost what it might, either to themselves or tbeir pursuers, the crime and the criminals are alike remarkable. 80UTHERN. SIBYL SANDERSON, the American singer, is reported engaged to Antonio E. Terry, s jn of an enormously wealthy Cuban planter. TEN acres of grdund in Rochest er- ville, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa, covered by lumber yards, lailroad property, a schCol house and other buildings, burned, entailing a loss cf $200,0.0. SENATOR GORMAN'S physicians ad­ vise him to leave for Europe at tho ear iest possible day, not only for the benefit of the voyage but for the pur­ pose of taking treatment at one of the German spring?. His health is de­ clared to be in a very precarious state. THE clubs of the National and West­ ern Leagues stands as follows in the championship race: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Peri W. L cent. I Boston, fiV 36 .•v7:Pittsbnr«..fl Baltimore..*? 36 .6'a<Cbicairos.. .4S New York->.G-< 88 .fi4'2{Clncfnnati.46 Phll'delp'ia"/ 45 J65i>i8t. Lonis .43 Brooklyn*..5.5 48 ^.KHiWashliifrt'uSS Clev6l&iidsw54 48 .62i>|LouisviUe .32 WESTEBN LEAGUE* P*>r| W. lu cent. | • Tft BIOTIX Clty.SS) 44 .6^rIn<5rn'p*Mw,4» Kau»acC'y.6> 43 .683 Grtl ItapidslS Mlnno'p'li8 57 44 .664:Detroit 45 Toied^.,.^2^6^ .6 ;iu; Ml 1 waukee.Si Per W. I,, cent. .twi .463 .438 .400 .843 .80S REFUSED FO HI PRESIDENT ALLOWS TARIFF BILL BECOME LAW. •' ------ j Thovfffe He Could Not ConsistttnftJr^ In- dorse It, He Believes It Improves Kxlst- Inff Condition*--Uoest Mot Co Far Enough it *4toi Letter •. -*% : New Tariff in Forw . At 12 o'clock Mondav night the Mc- Kinley tariff law, which had been in operation since Oct. $), 181)0, practical'- ly four years, died oh the statue books and the new Democratic tariff bill passed by the LIIId Congress i ecame a law without tho signature of Presi­ dent Cleveland. Ti»e constitutional period of ten days allowed the Presi­ dent to consider- the bill expired with the midnight hour and, according to the terms of the constitution, the President haying failed to return the bill to Congress with or without his approval, it became a law. Ihe placing of the bill upon the statute booKs ended one o.! the longest and most remarka >le struggles in the 'parliamentary history of the Govern­ ment. It was practically a year ago that the compilation of the new tariff was commenced. The extraordinary ees-ion of Congress was called Aug. 7, 18H3, for the purpose if lepealing the Sherman silver-purchasing law. Two weeks later the Ways and Means Com­ mittee of the House, with Mr. WilsOn, IWM actls ot' the^torave EGAN ON THE STAND. Per L, cent. 6* .480 54 .471 66 .446 66 ..83 of West Virginia, as chairman, was appointed, and almost immediately the work of framing the Democratic tariff-reform msasure began. Months were spent in its prnparat;on, and it was not reported until after the holidays during the regular session beginning in December. For three weeks it wts debated in tbe House, passing that body January 2*'. Seventeen House Democrats voted against it. The bill went to the Sen­ ate, and, after being considered until March 20, was reported, greatly changed from the House bill. The debate which beoran in the Senate April 2 lasted'until July 3-, when the bill j assed by a vote of 39 to :U. The crisis occur red whty the bill reached conference. On Ang. 13 the. House yielded, and accepted the Senate bill in toto. Two days afterward, Wednes­ day, Aug. .15, it went t > the President, and Monday night, at the expiration of the constitutional ten days (Sun­ days not counted), it became a law without Mr. Cleveland s approval. The Secretary instructed customs collectors that goods placed in bonded warehorses under the McKin^ey law and made freaof duty under the tni\r tariff act are entitled to free entry, and need not be exported and reim- ported in order to get the benefits of the new act. This is of espe ial inter­ est to the wool trade. a large amount Of wool being stored now ih bonded warehouses. In this, as in all other mooted questions, the Secretary will follow the intent cf Congress and let aggrieved parties appeal to the courts if they care to contest on technical grounds. In accoi dance with this «de- teMnination he undoubtedly will hold that diamonds are dutiable, notwith­ standing the erroneous punctuation Of the free list. Whr He Didn't Sign, While President Cleveland did not sign the new tariff law he was pre­ vailed on by party chieftains to write a letter which is to voice his feelings. mxked gtMoaiu* - - , ̂ , fcbftiriioitt of wiffOw- The trusts and ootnbinaUons-- the commun- Jma ot pelf-whose machinations b**» pre­ vented nVfcfom r*achln*the snocess we de­ serve. should not be forgotten or forglven. We shall recover lrom our astonishment at their exhibition of power, and If then the anestlon Is forced npon us whether they shall submit to the tree legislative Will of the Mople •rep­ resentatives or shall dictate the laws which the people must obey, we will acoejt, and settle that Issue as one involvlnn the Integ­ rity and safety of American institutions. I love the principles of true Demoeracnr be- tauHC they are founded in patriotism. ana up- iu a «1 iuw»68U. I Im proud of mv psuty ororauis^tion beoanM it is conservative ly sturdy and persistent In the enforcement ot ite principles. Therefore 1 do not deepaii' of the efforts made bv the House of RepresentuivoH to suppisifient the bill already passed by further leirisMtion and to h-.ve engrafted upon it each xnoalflcations as will more nearly meet Democratic hopes ancl aspirations. „ > 1 can't be mistaken as to the necessity of free raw materials as the foundjMoa of iogioal and sensible tar.ff reform. The ,extent to whleh this is recognized in th* levrUlatlon al­ ready secured is one of its focooraaiiw and redeeming features, but it is vexation* to re­ call that while tree cold and trea ore have been denied, a letter of the Secretary of the Treas­ ury discloses the fact that both might have been made free bv the annual surrender of only about of unnecessary rtvenue. I am sure that there is a common habit of underestimatfuR the impertaoce of free raw material* in tariff iejtislatlon.-and of xegard- lngr them as only related to concessions to be made to our manufacturers. The truth is, their Influence is so far-reaching that, if disregard­ ed. a complete and beneficent scheme of tsriff reform carnot be successfully Inaugurated. When we give to our manufacturers free raw materials we unshackle American enterprise tod inarenuity. aud these will open the doors of foreign markets to the reception of our wares and give opportunity,for the continu­ ous and remunerative employment of Ameri­ can labor. With materials cheapened by their freedom from tariff charges the cost of their product must be «orreepondingly cheapened. There­ upon justice and fairness to the consumer would demand that the manufacturers be ob­ liged to submit to such a readjustment and irodittcation of the tariff upon their finished Soods as would secure to the people the beue-t of tbe reduced cost of tbeir manufacture and shield the consumer against the exactions Of inordinate profits. It will thus be seen that free raw materials and a just ancl fearless regulation and reduc­ tion of the tariff to meet the changed condi­ tions would carry to every humble home in thg lagd ihe blessings of increased comfort aba cheaper living. The millions of our countrymen who have fought bravely and well for tariff reform should be exhorted to continue the struggle, boldly challenging to open warfare and coli- atantly guarding a?atnst 'treachery and half- heartedness in tbeir camp. Tariff reform will not be settled until it is honestly and fairly settled in the interest and to tbe benefit of a patient and long-suffering people. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. SENATORS TO STEP DOWN. 0alte a Number of Terms Bxpired, with the Ulld Congress. The respective terms of the follow­ ing Unit.d States Senators expire next March and the Legislaturea which choose their successors are to be elected this fall: DEMOCRATS-- James H. Berry (Ark.); Will­ iam Lindsay (Ky.), Matthew C. Butler (S. C.), John Martin (Kan.). lJonelson Caffery (La.), John R. McPherson (N. J.). J. N. Camden (W. Va.). Matt W. Ransom (N. C.), Richard Coke (Texas), Patrick; Walsh (Ua.), Isham G. Harris (Tenn.). IMJPUBLICANS--Joseph M. Carey (Wyoming), James McMillan (Mich.), Wm. E. Chandler (N. H.), II. F. Pettigrew (S. D.). Shelby M. Cullom (111.). Tnomas C. Power (Mont.). William ,P. Frye (Maine), George L. Shoup (Idaho). Anthony Hipgins (Del.), W. D. Wathburn (Minn.). Gtfo. F. Hoar (Mass.). Edward O. Wolcott (Col.), C. F. Manderson (Nebraska). The terms of Nathan F. Dixon,Rhode Island; James F. Wilson, Iowa, and Jp- teph Dolph, of Oregon, republicans, and Eppa Hunton of Virginia, A. J, McLaurin of Missi sippi, and John T. Morgan of Alabama also expire next year. Rhode Island has already elect­ ed Senator Dixon's successor, George Peabody Wetmore. Iowa has elected Wilson's successor, ex-Gov. Gear. Ex- Senator Walthall had "already been elected for the next term from Missis­ sippi before he resigned and gave place for the appointment of Maci_,aurm to his unexpired term. Eppa Hunton's t uccessor from Virginia will be Senator Martin, having bein already chosen. In Alabama and Oregon the legisla­ tures have already been electod and Senators Morgan a id Dolph a e practi­ cally assured of being chosen their own successors. Eefide thece Senators, N. C. Blan- chard of Louisiana, and Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, Democrats, and George C. Perkins of California and John Patton, Jr., of Michigan, Re­ publicans, were chosen by governors to fill vacancies, and the Legislatures to be elected this fall will choose their successors for the remainder of their respective t rms. Montana. Washing­ ton, and Wyoming have had only one Senator each during the present Con­ gress and the vacancies caused there­ by are to be filled by the Legislatures elected this fa.l in those States. * BORN IN SLAVERY. The President of the National Negro Dem- oratlc League. C. H. J. Taylor is President of the The letter, which was addressed to' National Negro Democratic League, T JREPOF.T8. ! i . _ --_ ,--_ at Philadelphia for the tran portation of ;^UK) negroes frcm the South to Li- |4 «®"a bafore Nov. 1 and fnore lat^r. BKUNEAU, -fo merly vicar of "we church at Entrammes, who on July ^ 13 was convicted of murder, robberv • t «nd arson, was put'to death bv th« to«a of t,(XX) persons :V - EASTERN. • ' :!( warships Philadelphia and JEtenniugton have arrived at Ma e Jhland. The vessels will "be docked jRbd cleaned after their long service. ^ N * AN Orangey N. J., trolley-car ran on a steep grade and was thrown lom an embankment fifty feet high. Thirty persons were hurt and it is Jeared three may die. T THE United State? Cielit System «9tapaBy cf Newa k. N. .J , which in- •K mwd me cha-ts. against bad debts is ^ to the hands of a receiver, its capital PHILIP PETERS, colored, was hanged at Helena, Ark., for killing his wife. LIGHTNING kil'el Mr. and Mrs. Hiliyard and two hordes near Colum­ bus, Tex. ANDERSON BOYP, alias Jacob Hultz, colored, had b >en committed to iail at Knoxville, Tenn., on the charge of murdering Fd Uhl i:i Marion County, Ohio, ten years ago. Miss READ and Miss Belle Chambers of Baton Rouge, and Miss Eleonore Garland of MinJen, all young society ladies, were carried beyond their depth tw the current in the Ami e Hiver near Baton Rouge and drowned. WASHINGTON. THE tariff bill bccaine a law without ihe signature of Grover Cleveland. The President's explanation of his failure to sign the bill was given to a correspondent by an official ve y close to him. He said: " \\ e> came here to fight for tariff reform. We did not come to be the tools of monopolies. The bill a* pa Bed is, under tne circum­ stance* turrounding its passage, not CHICAGO. C4TTLB--- Common to Prime.... HOGS--(Shipping Grades SHEEP--Fair to Choice WHEAT--No. 2 Ked CORN--No. i OATS--"No. A IIYE--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery.... Eftos--Fresh 13 60 i oe 3 00 64 66 80 «S 29 14 POTATOES, New. perJsu 70 INDIANAPOLIS. > CATTLE--Shipping. 3 00 Hoos-- Choice Light 4 00 RHEEP--Common to Prime..... - 8 00 WHEAT--No.-** Red 49 COBS--No. 2 White. OATS-NO. 2 Wh.te.... ST. LOUIS; CATTL* HOGS WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. CORN--No. -1 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2. / CINCINNATI. CATTLE Hoos. SHEEP WHEAT--No. -i Red..,..*..^.*.'." CORN--No. 2 Mixed 4. & 6 n KB 6 09 0? a 75 & 65 i ̂ 49 & 24 O 16 & 80 ® 4 T5 & 6 00 « S 35 & 4»H & 6* 82 U,& 83H S 00 @ 5 26 S 00 (9 6 00 60 <& 61 62U'^ 53* 30 & 31 62 Q 64 65 WHEAT--N)o. 1 White OATS--No. 2 Mixed RYE--No. 2 DETROIT. CATTM HOGS.. SHEEP WHEAT--No. t White CORK--No. 2 Yello# OATS-NO. 2 White TOLEDO. . WH31T--No. •> Red CORK--No. 2 Yel»o»r OATS--No. 2 White RYE--So. 2 No. 9 Red T_ CDBN--No. 3 Yellow i..*. OATS--No. 2 White MILWAUKEE. such a bill as the i>eople had a right J ^bn^No's' 2 8prln* to expect. F-r the President to sign | oAIS-NO.' 2 WhVte it would be to approve it. His approv­ al would mean that he bslieved that taritf reform had been accomplished, j In that event what would become of ' our battle cry: 'tariff reform'? What banner would there be to fight under? As it i-4 we hava an unaccomplished mission to accomplish. We must ac­ complish it. Ana we shall pre-s on in 3 50 «• 4 73 4 00 & 6 00 3 00 & 3 35 C0%@ ' 81*6 67 & SB «* 32 & 45 BARLEY--No. 2 RYE--No. 1 POKK--Mesa HEW YORK. CATTLE Hoos SHEEP I...... WHEAT--No. 3 Bad...... COBK--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western BUTTER--Creamery, Boos--State: »i Oi 6 75 «14 35 13 60 (4 3 95 Cen. Catchings of the.Rules Committee of the House, wa$ of course meant for publication. To address it to Gon. Catchings was a mere convenience and a copy went to tha press association by the same hand which bore the original missive tr> Catchings. ' The President objects to the bill for the reason that he" regards it as not being in line with honest tariff re­ form, and becau^o it contains incon­ sistencies that should not he found in any tariff law. He speaks of the vicissitudes of the bill during its progress, through the two houses, and t6 the bad treatment it received 'from pretended friends, and expresses th£ opinion that not­ withstanding these it s a vast im­ provement on exi-t ng condit ons. "It is not only a barrier," says the Presi­ dent, "against a return to mad protec­ tion, but furnishes vantage ground from which must be waged aggreSgtae operations against protected mon poFSP and ffovernment favoritism." follow­ ing is the missive: EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, D. C. ( The Hon. T. C. Catchings: MY 1>EA it HIR--Siuce the conversation I had with you and Mr. Clark, of Alabama, a few days ago in regard to my action upon tbe tariff bill now before me. 1 have given the subifct further and moat serious consideration. The result is I am mote fettled than ever ln'the determination to allow the bill to become a law without my signature. When the formulation of legislation which it was hoped would embody Democratic ideas of tariff reform was lately entered upon by the Congress nothing was further from my an­ ticipation than a result which I could not promptly and enthusiastically indorse. It is therefore with a feeling ot the utmost disuppcistnicnt that I submit to a denial of this privilege. I do not claim to be better thsn the masses of my party not do I wish to avoid any re­ sponsibility which on account ot the passage of tbis law I ought to hear as a member of the Democratic organization, neither will I per­ mit myself to be separated from my party to such an extent as might be i 111 piled by my veto of tariff legislation which, though disap­ pointing, is still chargeable to Demo­ cratic effort. But there are provisions In this bill which are not in line with honest tariff reform, and it co' tains inconsistencies and crudltlen which ought not to appear in tar­ iff laws or laws of any kind. Besides there were, as you and 1 well know, incidents ac­ companying the passage of the bill 1 iimiwli CongresH wnich made every sincere je'ormer unhappy, while influences suirounded it In its latter stages' and interfered with ita fi'ml con­ struction which ought not to be recognized or tolerated in Democratic tariff reform d.niuuU*. And yet, notwithstanding all its vicissitudes and all the bad treatment it receiv't at the hands of pretended triends. it preset ts a va«t ovi.'iiiciit to 0Aistiuji; condition*, it will certainly lighten many tariff burden* th*t n<»w rest heavily upon the people. It is not only a barrier against the return of mad piotection. ' but it furnishes a vantage ground ro<t» which must be waged further aggressive operations against protected monopoly and governmental favoritism. ^ I take my pl^ce with the rank ard file of tbe Detiiocia ic 1 arty who believe in tariff re­ form and who know what It is: who refuse to accept the results embodied in this bill as tbe 1 close of the war; who are net blinded to tne fact that the livery of Democratic tariff re­ form has been stolen and worn In the service of Bepublican protection, and who hate . - ;W- " •- *V~ - "«•<- ' . V '-ZL - whi„*h held v its annual meeting at In­ dianapolis recently. Twenty fctites were represen'ed in the meeting. C. H. J. Taylor, of Washing­ ton, was re-elected President of the League. Mr. Taylor was born in slavery at Marion, Ala, ,'18 years ago, got his ed­ ucation in the public schools and "picked up" the law, but he d i d i t ' B O t h o r - C.H. J. TAYLOB. pughly that HE WAS admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. In l*8:i he went west *and held some public offices ia Indiana and Missouri. President <J©vela d .ent him to Li­ beria as Minister resident and Consul General, but he did not like Africa and returned to the United t-tates in a few months. He is a Democrat and his home f>s at Kansas City, where, in ad­ dition to his activity in and law, he owns and edits a weekly paper, the American Citizen. EDUCATED AT HARVARD. K^otaro Keneko, -JUpan's Now MtoMter- to the United States. Kentara Keneko, Japan's new Min­ ister to the United States, was educa­ ted at Harvard College. In 1871 when Prince Kcmatsu vis­ ited Chicago, 'ust after the great fire, Keneko was or.e of ihe brightest memv bers of the r o y al J a p ' s s u i t S o o n after Keneko took the collegiate course at Harvard, and was graduated with hon­ ors. He subsequent­ ly studied for several years in London, and on the co tinent of Europe. In 1S91 he reappeared in Chicago w»th a commis­ sion from his Government to report up­ on the prospect or the approaching World s Columbian Expo ition, and the elaborate exhibits from Japan were largely- due to his olforts. He has filled the important posts of Secretary of the Hou-eof leers, the Senate of Japan, and Assistant Minister of Agricultuie and Commerce. FOUR persons we e in ured and much valuable property destroyed by an ex­ plosion 01 dynamite which was being used in e. cavating in New York. R. W. LATSHA W, a .lust'ee of the peace at Kansas City, is t-hort $9,030 in tines rail into hi J C.UL KENTARO ACTIVE FIGHTER OF THE RA1L- KfAY UNION TESTIFIER v Vho&iKt Deb*' Letter to the Managers * >lece of Cheek--Says the Charge that the Companies Hired Men t<? Bum Gars xsTftoitot. ' :* Ballroad Mm Teattr*. -^---rV John M. Fgan, who was the manager ,the fight against the American Railway Union, testified before the Strike Commission that it was his duty to receive reports of condition of things on the different line? and the nature and amount of violence committed; to hire new men, take charge of the new men lrom the k'a>t and ta as­ sign them to duty and to report to the ^ a u t h o r i t i e s p o i n t s 'oh* v. SGAir. * where protection was needed. Mr. Egan said that he made a requisition on tbe Unitad States Mar­ shal for men and sent a great many men to him with the request that they be sworn in as deputies. Referring to the visit of Mavor Hopkins and Aid. McGillen to his office with a proposi­ tion from the officials of the American Railway Union to declare the strike off if the roads would take the men back, Mr. Egap said he told the Mayor that the assyc ation would not receive any such document and that he was sorry to tee him acting as a messenger boy for theH American Railway Union. He thought the document wa'i a piece of cheek. Asked if he regarded it as an insulti g document, answered that itjpokejtor itself. "You do'noT answer niy question. Mr. Egau," persisted Commissioner Worthing- ton. "1 am asking you was tbe document of an offensive or insulting character." "Well, so far as the roads were con­ cerned tho strike was settled. The docu­ ment dictated tbe terms of an adjustment of a matter which so far as we were con­ cerned was already settled." "Had the troops been withdrawn?" asked the Commissioner. "No." "Were you running the trains at that time?" •'Only irregularly." "Then why did you refuse to confer with the officers of the American Hallway Union?" , "Well, I had no authority to confer with them; and a9 Hooked at It such authority could only be given by tbe association.". "You had full authority to hire men and to employ force In quelling the strike, but no authority to seek any peaceable meth­ ods of settling it, Is that it?" "Well, we regarded the A. B. U. as whipped and did not 'propose to compro­ mise at that late datj." "Did the Managers' Association ever use any means other than force to settle a great strike which was causing both themselves and tbe country hundreds of thousands of dollars every day?" Mr. Egau admitted that they had not "Was it njt a fact that the Managers' Association was determined to crush out the American Railway Union, and was it not for that they steadily refused to ie- ;eive any communication from them?" Mr. Egan Anally admitted that was about tl^e true state of the case. «• "One of the witnesses here stated that there was evidence that you used money to hire men to burn cars. What do you •ay to tbat?" asked Kernan. Egan replied: "Well, considering the source, it Is tbe vilest rot. I never heard of such a thing till I saw It in the papers, and consider it on a parity with n>any other statements made by Debs and How­ ard." Asked to state his views on the methods to be employed to prevent strikes, Mr. Egan said that he favored government li­ cense ot all railway employes exoept com­ mon laborers; tbat each class be provided with distinctive uniforms and be required to pass an examination as to their compe­ tency in their line); that all should be able to read and write the English lan­ guage, and that none but citizens of the United States should be licensed. That a schedule of wages should be made and that both parties should be under severe penalties for violation of existing agree­ ments. ' Manager 6t John brought with him a pile of documents, among them a set of b.ioks showing tbe schedule of w;<ges paid tbe employes of each railway belonging t o the Managers' Associa­ tion. He began his tes­ timony with- a report made to him by an agent of the Bock IsU and Railroad on June 30 of a meeting held at Blue Island, at which • Vice President Howard made an inflammatory speech, saying that be "would like to hang Pullman." and "toshow St John that the Amer­ ican Railway Union GEO. W. HOWARD. had strength and stamiua tu tie up the Bock Island so tight that a fly couldn't get over It." and that he "hoped if any sneaking detectives were found among us there would be moral courage enough to use t|)e round end of a coupling pin.n This report was made by rne of the "sneaking detectives" which it was alleged Howard wanted a coupling pin used on. Superintendent Dunlap. of the Bock Island, testified briefly regarding tho al­ leged blacklist, wlilch he declared ha^ no existence^ WINDS ARE WROTH. Wipe They Spring Up from the Sea and Out Ilunalan Town*. It was a wind of death. No other nfune can describe the cyclonr that swept across the Sea of Azov Saturday. It w'ill be impossible for days yet, says a St. Petersburg dispatch, to compute the damage done, bnt it is a most cer­ tain that at least 1,000 person* have perished, some by drowning, others by being crushed under falling hou es and trees. The excitement is great among the American colony in this city, for it is feared that at lea t two parties of American tout iits wei e on the ssa of Azov at the time the, wind did its deadly work. The wind wa« fir st felt at Nogaisk. Wogaisk ie people 1 mostly by fisherman, who were out on the water. When the hurricane had swe >t out to the north a terrible scene was prestwted. Tho village was razed, overturned--as if an immense plow had been pu'hed through it. Uying everywhere were woman and children, dead or in the last agonies. The shallow waters of the Sea of Azov w ere lashed to such a height that it was plain tbat every fishing-boat must have been sunk. The cyclone swept on to the northeast after wrecking Nogaisk. It nath seems to have baen unusually wide, for at Mar- inopol it devastated the country to a point eleven miles inland, and had its outer edge far u> on the sea. Marino- pol was practical ly blotted out of ex­ istence. Not three houses in a hun­ dred are left standing. HAD BEEN DEPUTY MARSHALS. Decpersdoes Who Held Up ft Train Htd Been In UIICIA Ham'* KMNLOR- " Henry F. Gorman and Willian Lake are now,prisoners in the West tJhica?o Avenue Police Stati n, charge.! with hoi iir^j| up a train cn the Chicago, Mil- wauke > & St. Paul Road at Deerfield, murdering Special Officer Patrick H. O w e n s , a t t a m p t i n g t i t a k e t h e l i f e o f Wm. McGrath, a watchman employed by the Northwestern Road, and rob­ bing Conductor N. A. Sargent. The aen werj crily captured after a des­ perate fight, in which 1U» ooli.e offi­ cers and they w^re engagjd. Both prisoners werj badly wcuride 1 before they surrendered. Over 200 shots were man hunt, for such It wu, lasted oven- , eight hours.. During the desperate fight a distance of over thirty-twQu miles was covered. '-'t At first it was thought that the ban* dits were novices in crime, but after th«L ir e x h a u s t i v e e x a m i n a t i o n s m a d e b y I n f f ^ f S •pector Schaack and Capt. Koch it ia tne general opinion that the murdee- /', and robbery of Detective Patrick Hi Owens, the shooting of Detective Mcf. -'-V?, Grath and the robbery of the conduct*,/ 4" ^ t o r a n d b r a k e m a n o f t h e M l l w a n k r ^ " frsijjht train, for whieh they are nowft" i held, are but tlje last of a series 0% • ./ depredations marked by the tame aar<- £>£ ihg recklessness. * Jf the two men. Gorman, Griswald, -- or Gordon--and the police only con- '•%,[ iecture how many other aliases he may ^ have--is the deperado. He is the onia , wiio did mcst of the shooting and all 01 ^ the talking, and it has become apparent, ^ to the police that Lake was only ait umlerotuiy, a pupil, sworn to do thee -- bidding of the master-hand in crime* *: " * It is now balieved that the two mtit' - r '• committel many o; the recent depre* * . dations on the Northwestern and Mil* i , w a u k e e R o a d s . T h e i r a p p o i n t m e n t a i * ^ deputy marshals to protect the prop*?] erty of the railroad companies against the ravages of the strikers during th®1* recent disturbances attendant cn th®. v boycott doubtless gave them a doublrt' opportunity to nufsue their path of crime. The hold-up of a freight traiif^ on the Lake Shore roai several week# | ago and the robbery of the conducto^-1 aiid> brakeman in a manner exsctljif similar to the attack on the Milwauke# trainmen early Saturday morning canl the police think, be traced to Pandit,#-': Gorman and Lake. •sS BLACK DEATH IN CHINA. FrlfbtTal Ravages of the PUgm Amon| ^ . the Celestials. The fatalities accompanying the Elague in the Canton district of China ave been terrible, thus far over 120,-'; 0(0 paop'e having perished. In thaf; streets of Hong Kong a'hd other citiedp the dead were so numerous that they|4: lay on the strfets for hours, awaiting?", the carious funeral rites so peculiar tqt^ the Chinese. In Canton, says Consul ' Seyiticu", everything is in wild con­ fusion. Business is almost suspended. DBAJ) LYING IK TBS ST REE During all of this plague heathen pro­ cessions have constantly marched through thestreetBof Canton through­ out the night pounding gongs, explod­ ing firecrackers, exposing idols, and other similar doings, supported by con- tr'ibutions from the sho. s and stores, to propitiate the evil spirits and to dis- {»ere the adverse elements. Among its atest victims are Capt. Vesey and tw<| privates of the Shropshire regiment! who caught the dread disease while en* gaged in sanitary duties in the Chines® quartar. All three were strong men. but despite the efforts of the doctor# they were <jarrie<f off in a few hours. No treatment that has yet been dis* covered has had the slightest effect upon th^ disease. The death of these men conclusively proves that the plague is not a curse which falls upon Chi, ne.se alone, as wa? at first thought, bu| is a contagious disorder, if it is not highly infectious. ^ iNumerous orders have been pub? lished in the Government gazettj en­ joining sanitary measures, such ati whitewash ng and cleaning the draini of their dwellings, but, as might b® expected, scarcely any notice was takeip by the natives, who herd together ia Bong Kong; under conditions 'that wou d be tolerated in no civilized!? country in Europe or America. Th^iy richer Chinese have left the colon^ and come to the coast ports, the arriv­ als at Shanghai alone being often acO a day. Fully a quarter of the nativ®, population has thus fled from th® plague-stricken cotyqy. BUNKO THE FARMERS. ii'; Bow Chicago rrodnee Swindlers Daringly Victimize Country Shippers. Country produce dealers think they have a grievance against South Water street, Chicago. They canno| be satis­ fied until various sums of money out of which they have been swindled are re­ turned to* them or the swindlers are put behind prison ba.-f, or both. Souto Water street teems with swindlers whose operation^ are crooked as a forked stick, but who shrewdly man­ age t> work and thrive safe from ptosecuticu though evading the crimi­ nal laws. The Chicago police appear to be powerless, and the postoftice au­ thorities, within whrse jurisdiction the^e transactions come, con ess that they are unable to make out a ca-:« that would, "sUck." These swindle?s are men who have for stock in trade a little cheap furni-. tjire and office stationery. They rent-, a small room somewhere in the produce , commission district and send out in- Hated advertising circulars and busi­ ness cards to the country dealers. They q.re ready to promise anything t<», get trade quickly, as time is preciou^j Ti j$ to them. The countryman ships hi$, | | sroods and waits for a check. Aftet ^ waiting a long time, as he Is in­ variably compelled to do, he may write to the firm lor a settlement. T,,,, J He receives no answer, and then he " - ,<"? makes a si$ht draft, which in du® time come> ba k marked "payment re».l Ji' is- fused," or "parties aot found." Then he writes to a friend or an officer of th® ' *'* " law, and he is informed there is nq such firm in the directory or at the ad*"1 dress given. The produce i* then sol<$ll_<J? on the open market and the* alleged. \ commis ion man pockets the proceeds* In a month or two he has complete^ ^ many of these transactions and reaK ; ',"'tf ized considerable money in cash, as hia&H ^ expenses are light. In the mean tim® 'j complaints, which he oomoietely ig^j nOres, are pouring in and the twindier , V 1 - knows that he m ifct soon change hia base >r he may get into trouble. He* , i- hires another room, changes the iirm. 4$^ name, has a new 6tock of office 6ta- : tionery printed, lias th®. old sign re-* L -"| painted and moves. ' Members of the Chicago Produced" .. f Exchange at a recent meeting decidedf i j to take prompt a tion in getting rid oft 1 j these swinalera A committee has'if M baen appointed to thoroughly investi-> 1 w gate the matter, and stops will prob- ably be taken to secure Stat® legisla- a tion,to meet the ex ge&cies of such, • MRS. NANCY MARTIN died at Massil- Ion, Ohio, aged 95 years, leaving con­ siderable property, six children, thirty grandchild: en-and 8®veaty>4y® great grandchildren. ̂i- 'ri u ; : f f; fw tney surrendered, over 200 shots were s A CHAPTEBof Daughters-of tkeRev- firea during tne engagement, and the^ ohitlon waa organized at Dubuque, T» > V r . ;- *• -* •4 11 H-•ih.&i