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THE PLAINDEALEB J. VAN SLYKE, Editor arid Pub; McHENRY. TLLINOrc, --in BARBERS GQ TO JAIL. TRYING TO ENFORCE THE ILLI­ NOIS SUNDAY LAW. Twelve or More Miners Dead--Nebras­ ka Farmers Caucht Rnnnine Secret Stills with Rich Results--Report of the Director of the Mint, A Rough Scrape. f Manager Eden, of t lit' Groat North or a Hotel, Chicago, and 'twenty-eight har­ bors were ordered committed to jail 1 ri- day evening by.Justice Lee because they refused to satisfy the Court with proper bonds in the cases where they had been convicted of violating the Sunday law. Bonds were furnished by each, defendant to the amount of $300, but the foe of $1 in each case was refused on the ground Judge Windcs had" ordered the Justice J to.eoiHtot nj^^her fees, until the qnes- j t ion ofTfi^Avrit of prohibit ion which had j been a :sked for had been passed on, *1 he j /defendants also demurred to what they j vailed extort ionate foes. claiming - Justice j Lee'liad no authority.to exact more than j .S3--.cents in-each -£asc. Jtistic.e Lee de­ clared if the fees were not paid he would | commit them all, to .naiji.-. and-'*»i theiri . persisting in their refusal in Minuses w ere j issued, • ' . ; • " New York's Mining I?orrori i Aii accident, "resulting in the loss. <->f j thirteen or fount eeri live*, occurred, at | the mines at Tilly Foster, near Carmel, | N. Y.. Friday afternoon. Foreman Mur- | tha was descending into the pit to take j the time of two gangs of laborers, ntini- \ bering thirty-five men. who were working j at the bottom, when a vast weight of earth and rock slid with "the force of an i avalanche from the mouth of the pit to j the bottom, a distance of 300 feet. The earth Crashed over the men with tremen- i dous force. (Hit of one gang of eleven : men only five came out alve. and three of the men employed in another gang j Were1 taken out dead. Our Gold anil Silver. The Director of the Mint reports .?S7.- I 4S2.082 of gold deposited at the mints ; and assay offices during the last fiscal j year, of which ?22.32<ri>22 consisted of | red epos its. The .value of ..the silver de- | posited during the same period was $15.- | 714,365, all original deposits ex-'ept $479.- I 665. The mints coined. during the year , $43,933,475 gold: S3.050,011 in silver dol­ lars: $5,113,469 subsidiary silver coins; : $712,594 .mini>r coins: total . S53.715.549. j Gold bars to the value of $1".M41.545 were j manufacture*!. Sugar lieets Make Good Wliisky. The vast yield of sugar beets in Ne- i braska and the inability of" farmers to dispose of them as rapidly as convenient ( has provoked some peculiar violations of' the revenue laws. A still has been cap­ tured in Sherman County fn>:n which | whisky was.being made from the beets, j It was owned by Charles Tt'-idi!, a farm- ] er. The quality was good, and fears are | entertained by revenue officials that oth- i ers will engage in the business. Two Negroes Lynched by a Mob. At S o'clock Friday night Joe Robinson and Ozias MeGabey. negroes, were taken from the jail at Fayetteville.• Teiin.. by a mob composed of peo]>le from Lincoln and Marshall Counties and hanged. The negroes had been taken from Nash ille to Lewisbnrg. Marshall County, trieo for assault, convicted, and sentenced to the full penalty of the law. NEWS NUGGETS. killed his two children and himself Son- day afternoon, Hettenhost was the pro­ prietor., of. a college, of physical instruc­ tion in Brooklyn.. In view of the statement from the dep­ uty'collector of customs at Lewes, Del., to the effect that a thorough search had failed to discover arms, ammunition or men on board the Joseph W. Foster, the secretary of the treasury ordered the ves­ sel released. - , •» 0 WESTERN." . A. H. Fnehs* millinery store1 at St. Louis was damaged $200,000 by fire. There are reports of trouble in the vicinity of Huttou, Mont., where the Cheynne Indians are said to be creating alarm among stockmen and ranchers by killing and1 running off cattle and other­ wise terrorizing the inhabitants of the place. A number have been killed, if is not stated by whom, but if is' probable the Indians are responsible' for the kill­ ings. The place infested by them is on the Rosebud in the Wolf Mountains, tin out-of-the-way place seldom heard from. The settlers are greatly alarmed over the appearance of the Clieyennes and their boldness in killing the stock. Fire completely burned out the in­ terior <)£ the--five-story building at the southwest corneV of Wabash avenue and Randolph street. Chicago. Monday night shortly, after 11 o'clock. Eight .firms oc­ cupied the building, which'is owned by A. S." Trude. The loss . will aggregate .$150,000. Though the .Blaze was coii- lined to the Trudg building, the firemen had to make one of the stubborn battles for/which the Chicago department is famous. -The gale was blowing 'fifty miles an hour, and in every direction were enormous' stocks' of goods stored in in­ flammable .buildings.; * A' second- fire in Haymarket .Square, at the same tim^' did several thousand dollars' damage. Chicago staggered all day* Tuesday from the shock of. Monday night's storm. Wreck and ruin were on every hand. Death hung in the air from a thousand broken wires, but luckily passed human­ ity by. From the lake came reports of disaster after disaster, but here again fortune favored life and only vessels suf­ fered in the general destruction. For hours the city was cut off from the out­ side world. At a breath old Boreas hum­ bled its.pride in the snow. The imperial city of a mighty empire, Chicago was re­ duced in an hour to a pitiful dominion thirty miles square. Every telegraph wire leading out of the city was down or disabled, and Chicago sat in the midst of isolation as well as ruin. Three .hundred delegates were present Monday at the opening session of the transmis|issippi congress at Omaha, which wa.- to Congre who was rre: at the St. Tin •in year. is the promotion West, and under of questions have cussion and action ded ovr by ex-Delegate rge Q.. Cannon, of Utah, d president of the con- Louis gathering last 1 object of the congress of the welfare of the his head a vast number been scheduled for dis- Aniong those are the of Fort- of forg- applica- Joh.il J. Overtoil, aged 98, Smith, Ark., has been convicted ing affidavits in support of his tion for a pension. At Berlin Dr. Foerster has been sent­ enced to three months ' imprisonment for j leze majesty in the publication of an article in his paper, the Ethische-Kultur. General Charles II. T. Collis, an active anti-Platt Republican, was appointed commissioner of public works of New York, vice William Brookfield, resigned. Jabez S. Balfour, the Liberator So­ ciety swindler, has been sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment. The two men convicted with him get nine and four months each. Judge D. D. Rose, president of the Curryville, Mo., Bank, has been hic­ coughing constantly for the last week, and although several doctors have at­ tended him they can do nothing for him. His death is hourly expetced. A San Francisco local paper prints a letter from Arizona signed John Doe. in which the writer says he committed the murder for which Garland Stemler and Louis Mureno were ly/iched by a mob at Yreka, Cal., last August. Two other rneu were lynched at the same time. The suit of negro residents of the Chero- | kee nation to establish their rights as citizens has been compromised. The set­ tlement makes the negroes citizens of the Cherokee nation and entitles them to $1,- 300.000 of the money received from the strip and their interest in unsold lands. Notice has been served upon the Cen­ tral Trust Company of New York by counsel for a Connecticut bondholder of the Chicago gas companies to show cause before the attorney general of New York why suit should not be brought against that institution to prevent the attempted consolidation of Chicago gas properties. ) Rev. A. Henrich and his wife were as­ phyxiated at PlatteCenter. Neh., by gas /from their hard-coal stove. Mr. llen- .rich was found dead and his wife was fly­ ing when neighbors forced the door. They came from Lo.uisville, Ivy., several years ago and are well known m many States. Their children reside in Denver and have been notified. A formidable expedition against Hayti is being organized at Kingston. Jamaica, by Boissond Canal, it in reported on trust­ worthy authority. Caual is being assisted b&a. well-known Philadelphia firm. The expedition is to sail e: ly in December. The plan is to scatter munitions of war at various points in the black republic during the coming elections. Senor Cyrillo Machado has been ap­ pointed Portuguese minister to the Unit­ ed States. Count von Taafe, llie Austrian states­ man, died at Ellisliau, Bohemia, Friday morning. irrigation of arid lands, the improvement of waterways and deep-water harbors, the construction, and maintenance of levees on the Mississippi and its tribu­ taries. discriminations in transmissis- sippi freight rates, the necessity for a national bankrupt law, the restriction of immigration.' methods Ur the relief of agricultural depression, the project for cable communication with Honolulu and the ;11ii:tiSr<i.*r; of- territories to Statobeedr Because the trustees.of the First Pres­ byterian Church of Chicago refused to give him a six-months' leave of absence to deliver the -Haskell course of lectures in India, the Rev. Dr. John Henry Bar- | rows has resigned his pastorate to take effect Feb. 10. For fourteen years Dr. | Barrows has bc^ii pastor of the church, j He is known all over the world, and his I work in connection with the Parliament I of Religions at the World's Fair added to the fame he already possessed as a i pulpit orator, a lecturer, author, and or­ ganizer of religious work. Dr. Barrows j is the lecturer in the department of <-om- j parative religions at the University of Chicago, and has accepted the Haskell lectureship, a course of which has been I mapped out for India. To deliver this | course Dr. Barrows asked his church for j six months' time, but the trustees of the church believed if lie were to be absent for that length vf time it would be fatal to the interests of the church, and conse­ quently the request was refused. - Dr. Barrows immediately tendered his resig- J nation. I One of the most disagreeable storms in the annals of weather bureaus descended on (.'hit-ago late Monday afternoon. It rained, it snowed, and between times sleet pelted down pitilessly. Untoh] dam­ age was caused by the elements. Wuci inglit came the downpour of the mix-., tiire of snow and rain and sleet came heavier and the wind, which was gusty in the afternoon, ro.se to a gale. The streets the pavements and sidewalks were Hood­ ed to a depth of three inches with., slush. The storm made, the pavements, almost impassable; street ear traffic was seri­ ously interfered with; trolley lines wen broken with the weight of the snow; tele­ phone and telegraph wires were borne down, broken and crossed until half the wires in the city were itiade useless by. midnight, and communication with the outside world was entirely cut oft" ex­ cept at long intervals. Ends of broken trolley and other electrically chargid wires dropped into the streets to the posi­ tive danger of passers. Numbers of acci­ dents of this sort were reported from various parts of the city, and the opera­ tion of trolley lines in the outskirts of the city suspended early in the evening on many streets. Then, too, the lake Was lashed to a seething caldron, and it seems a miracle that many boats were not not lost at the harbor entrance, as a two- days' storm had driven them all to that end of the lake, and snow obscured the harbor lights. William A. Paxton's cattle ranch, Bear TV1?BQ TQ A fl. itXT WPTFT? Ogalalla. is now in jail in Hidalgo Del -U-Ej-DO. i. JX,« t Parrel!, Mexico, under sentence of-death. --'• -- -. ->.v-r: He has written an appeal to Mr. Paxton * • TI """ to' help hint. The latter referred his let­ ter-to Secretary Morton, who in turn re- ferret! it. to Secretary Olney, and instruc­ tions were at once sent to the American, Consul for the Province of Chihuahua to stop the execution until this 'government could fully investigate. Mr. Stuart says li'e was railroaded through the Mexican courts without a chance to properly de­ fend himself. Shortly after lie arrived at Hidalgo Del Parrell he was accosted by a policeman, who put him under ar­ rest, which he resisted, saying he was innocent of any crime and was arrested because be was a stranger. He blushed the policeman aside and walked on. Turn­ ing around ho saw the officer leveling his gun at him. He quickly pulled his re­ volver and shot the policeman dead, and tells Mr. Paxton he did it in self-defense. MANY FRIENDS MEET HIM ^T THE JAIL. • Given a Great Ovation at ChicagfO-- Borne to the Central Music Htall ori the Shoulders of If our Men--His Speech Received with Applause., He saya that on the date of July 1» 1879, the daite^f the resumption or specie CONGRESS OFFICERS. WASHINGTON. Secretary Hoke Smith says thatunder the competitive bid system the cost of printing the Patent Office Gazette has been reduced from $156,000 to $S5,000 a year. " Among the bills recently presented for redemption at t he United State^'Treasury at Washington we're ten Of $100 denom­ ination, one of. $500,' one of $1,000 and five of $50. They , were nibbled around -the" edges, but enough,-remained to, ren­ der them go'od. This $2,750 .constituted, a mouse's nest. The. bills, had been laid away in a trunk, and when the, owner went to look for. them they were go lie. Search was instituted, but ho trace of them could he found: Finally a househole was noticed through the bottom of the trunk, leading under the floor. " The boards were taken .up arid'a mouse scam-1 pored away, leaving five lit It? pink and white creatures too young to Walk lying on the pile of-greenbacks. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agri­ culture, in an interview at St. Louis, comes out flat-footed in favor of a third term for Cleveland. Mr. Mor, n dis­ claims authority to speak for the Presi­ dent. In the course of the interview Sec­ retary Morton said: "I am not in a posi­ tion to state whether Mr. Cleveland will be a candidate or not; There is one thia'g"- I can say, however, the management of the government is a business, as is the management of a bank.* If a bank presi­ dent has proved liiinself competent and faithful he is re-elected, not only once or twice, but a dozen of times. The busi­ ness of a government >s that of managing and preserving the interests of the peo­ ple of a nation and maintaining life, lib­ erty, and property, and if a bank presi­ dent is elected many times'why should it not be so with the President of the Unit­ ed States?" I FOREIGN, General Maceo. the Cuban insurgent leader, is reported to have been killed in battle. Alexandre Dumas, the French writer and author of "La Dame Aux Camelias," is dangerously ill u.t Paris. Instructions, is is announced, have been sent to the British minister at Rio Janeiro to invite Brazil to submit the question of the ownership of the Island of Trinidad to arbitration. Armenians at Constantinople who claim to be well informed estimate the property hisses' "by thp disturbances" in Anatolia alone at $50,000,000, while the number of people massacred is sai.d to reach forty thousand. A special London dispatch from Shang­ hai says that the French mission at Luihsiang has boon destroyed by the na­ tives of that vicinity during the absence of the French gunboat which is usually stationed in those waters. The London Daily News publishes a telegram from Wan which states that the Kurds have destroyed five villages in the neighborhood of that town, and out of the 13.000 villagers driven away at the time of the attacks only 3,000 can now be found. Details from Santa Clara show the town of Guina de Miranda. Cuba, the most important in the district, has been burnedby the insurgents commanded by Roloff. A majority of the brick houses of the place and fifty palm huts were de­ stroyed. Before the revolution there were 4."><(0 inhabitants |here. The main wealth of the place was tobacco, coffee, and cattle. The small garrison defending Guina de Miranda made a heroic defense. IN GENERAL Obituary--At London. Barililemy Saint- Hilaire aud Lord de Tablcy; at Spring­ field, 111., General I. B. Curran, 70; at Juliet, 111-, John Pickering, 40. R. G. Dun A: Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: In every business men now perceive the fact that the purchases in ad­ vance of current distribution, which wore, made when prices wore booming, in­ volved of necessity a season of halting when the rise stopped, and until the actual demand for consumption has been measured. Products are lower, without disturbance or sign of panic. The more sober estimates of wheat months ago rose 50,000,000 bushels or more above the government and speculative guesses, and now a reputable estimate of 475,000,000 bushels excites little remark. Prices have declined about 1 cent. Corn declined half ji cent. Pork products also had rea­ son for weakening, lard 15 cents per 100 pounds and pork 25 cents per barrel. THE MARKETS, EASTERN. Rev. Julius Feieke, of Jersey City, has left the pulpit and opened a saloon. The Colt divorce case at Providence, It. I., is said to have been settled outside o£ court: It Is also reported that Colonel Colt's prosecution of Yan Alen will be dropped. ~ *i St. Joseph's Church at Mount' Carmel, Pa., was burglarized and the communion cup poisoned in order to murder the Rev. -Father Jakainowiez. This was fortun­ ately discovered at mass. Hymau Hettenhost, a well-known pugil­ ist and trainer, of Brooklyn, shot and SOUTHERN. George Phoalan, son of the late Con­ gressman Phealan, of Memphis, Tenn., died at the University of Virginia, Char­ lottesville, from injuries received in a foot-ball game. Four people were found murdered on a boat adrift in Red River near Paris, Texas. A dog stood guard over one of the bodies. Federal officers are now in­ vestigating the ghastly details of the mysterious affair. A negro tramp was caught trying to wreck a train near Calvert Cit.v,-Ky., and pursued to the woods, where he was overtaken and riddled with bullets and then hanged to a tree. The locality is surrounded by a wilderness. The name of the victim is unknown. George Harris, the old negro upon whose career Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe fou'hded her character of "Uncle Tom," is in destitute circumstances near Lexington. Ky. For some time his daily income and expenditure has been within the compass of a 5-eent piece. He is practically disabled. His colored asso­ ciates Will not help him. saying the white folks ought to take care of him. At Georgetown, Ky., Secretary of State John \\ . Iieadly created a small panic in the court room by attempting to stall Attorney John Brand. The men wove on opposite sides of a case on trial and quarreled. After a little exchange of words Iieadly suddenly drew a busi­ ness-like looking knife, and made several rapid motions not provided for in the briels. Brand did a bit of clever dodging and escaped unhurt. Puurt attaches dis­ armed the belliger.ont Secretary, of State and the case went on. Mac Stuai^, formerly a foreman 6n Lobor Leader Talks, Eugene V. Debs spoke in Central Music Hall, Chicago, the night following his release from jail to an audience that taxed the seating and standing capacity of the hall. Most of the leading labor or­ ganizations were represented and the" re­ ception accorded to the loader of the American Railway Union ivas enthusias­ tic iu the extreme. Eight carloads of Debs' friends went to Woodstock to greet him on his release from jail, and several thousanduinen were at the station of the u Et'GEXE V. DEBS. Northwestern Road when the train, bear­ ing Dobs and his friends, arrived at 7:30 o'clock. The reception given Debs as ho stopped from the train bordered on the frantic. Hundreds of men pushed and struggled to get ii. grasp of his hand, many of them hugged him. and some went to the length of kissing him. Final­ ly he was tossed up to the shoulders of four men and followed by a dense throng that never for one instant stopped its shouts and chcers, ho was escorted to the hall, about a mile distant. The warmth of the reception given him at the depot was repeated when he entered the hall, with the exception that the men wero nil-* able to get close to him and contented themselves with cheering and waving their hats. The speech delivered bj- Debs was received with groat applause by the audience. He commenced by saying that in the , light of recent judicial proceedings he paymehts,'thV yiil\- ('urrehcy, excepT cbiri certificates, required to be redeemed in gold coin was the $346,681,016 legal ten­ der notes then outstanding, which the then Secretary of the Treasury was of the-opinion that a gold reserve of $100,- 000,000 would be suflieient to ruaintain, but. the . paper currency redeemable on presentation has been increased to the extent of $155,030,000 issued in payment of the silver bullion purchased tinder act of July 14, 1S00. Besides these, there were outstanding Nov. 1, 1895, $333,456,- 236 in silver certificates, and as the act of July 14, 1800, declared it "to be the es­ tablished policy, of the United States to maintain the two metals at parity with each other," there , was now a total of $821,220,532 resting on the basis of the goldvfcoserve of $100,000,000. Th#value pf the gold deposited at the mints »4i$ assay offices during the fiscal year'was $87,482,082, of which $65,161,- 007 were original deposits and $22,321,- 022 were redeposits. The classification of the original -de­ posits- -of gold was: Domestic bullion, $44,371,040; worn, uneurrent and mu­ tilated gold coins, $188,258; foreign bull- i«»H and coin, $10,367:040; gold plate, jewelry, etc.. $3,213,800. The value of the silver deposited dur­ ing the fiscal' year was $15,714,365, of •\yhich' $15,234,700' wore original deposits and $470,665 redeposits. The value ,o,f the deposits of domestic silver bullion 'at the rnint^ during the, fiscal year was $8,- 804,363y and -worn and- mutilated domes­ tic coins at silver dollar value $3,899,- 353,'foreign bullion apd coin $1,780,023, old plate; jewelry, etc.; $750,061. " , The coinage by the mints. during, the | year was: Gold, $43,933,475; silver dol­ lars/ $3,056,611; subsidiary silver coins, $5,113,460; minor coins, $712,594; a total •coinage of $53,715,540.; In addition to- the coinage executed by the mints during the year., gold, bars wore manufactured of the value of $43,153,370. and silver bars of the value of $10,341,545. The average London price of silver bullion during the year was 20 pence, equivalent to 63.8 cents. The highest price of silver during the year was 68 cents and the lowest price 50.8 cents. At the average price of silver bullion during the fiscal year, the ratio of gold to silver was 1 to 32.5, and the bullion value of a United States silver dollar was $0.40.168. The total earnings of the mints and as­ say offices during the year was $2,088,- 372, and the total expenditures $1,185,- 435, showing the net earnings from al] sources to have been $902,036. DISTRIBUTION OF SENATE AND HOUSE PATRONAGE. .Allwaya a Lively Scraihble for Places at the BeginninsLof KacH New pen­ sion, When There.Has Been a Chance of Administration. m mm CANAL MUST WAIT. Great Xicaragiian Project Given a fcitajjrgerinsr Backset. According to the New York Herald a serious blow has been dealt the Nioa- raguan Canal Company's project for the ml" s DEBS' RELEASE FROM THE WOODSTOCK JAIL. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, §3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2,50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 56c to 57c; Corn. No. 2, 27c to 28e; oats. No. 2, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 38c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 21c; potatoes,- per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, 2%c to 4c per pound.' Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00 sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 03c to (55c; corn, No. 1 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to S3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 02c: corn, No. 2 yellow. 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 34c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00: hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, "No.'2, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 39c to 41c. . Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn, No, 2 yellow, 20c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye, 38c to 40c. Toledo--Wheat, No..2'red. 65c to. 66c:_ corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 20c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 38c to 40c; clover seed, $4.50 to $4.55. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to'$5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat; No. 2 red. 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35e to 36c; oats.QNo. 2 white, 22c to 24c. Milwaukee----Wheat, No. 2 spring, ,57c to 58c; con* No. 3. 27c to 28c; oats, No 2 white, 18c to 20c: barley, No, 2, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 1, 37c to 38c; p<>rk, mess, $7-75 ,to $8.25. ' - New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; iiogs^ $3.00 to $4.25; sheep,- $2.00 to §3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 6§c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 37p; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 16c to 24c; eggs, i West­ ern, 21c to 24c. 0 stood stripped of his constitutional rights as a free man, and shorn of the most sacred prerogative of American citizen­ ship; and what was true of himself was true of every other citizen who had the temerity to protest against corporation rule or the question of the absolute sway of the money power. It was not the law nor the administration of law of which he complained. It was the flagrant vio­ lation of the constitution, the total abro­ gation of law, and usurpation of judicial and despotic power by virtue of which he and his colleagues were committed to jail against which he entered his protest, and any honest analysis of the proceed­ ings must sustain the haggard truth of the indictment. He had been denied trial. He was charged now with conspiracy, and if guilty should go to the penitentiary. He wanted to be tried by a jury of his peers, and all he asked was a fair trial and no favor.--(The conspiracy case is still undisposed of in the United States Court.--Ed.) He then spoke at great length of "per­ sonal liberty," and in defense of the American Railway Union, saying it would have triumphed but for the in­ terference of Federal authorities, which he characterized as "an exhibition of the debauching power of money." This demonstration, lie said, meant that American lovers of liberty were sotting in operation forces to rescue their con­ stitutional liberties from the grasp o^i monopoly and its mercenary hirelings'^ that the people wore arounsed in view of impending perils, and that agitation, or­ ganization and unification wrere to be the future battles cries of men who would nof^part with their birthright and who, like Patrick Ilenry, had the courage to exclaim, "(Jive me liberty or give me death." Were he a criminal, guilty of crime meriting a prison cell, had he ever lifted his hand against life or the liberty of his fellowmen, had he ever sought to filch their good name, he would not be on this platform. He would have fled from the haunts of civilization and lived in a cave where the voice of his kindred would never be heard. But he, standing before his hearers without a self- accusation of crime or criminal intent festering in his conscience, in the sunlight once more, contributing as best he could to make this "liberation day" a memorial day, realizing that, as Lowell sang: "He's true to God who's true to man; Wherever wrong is done. In the humblest and the weakest, 'Neath the all-beholding sun. That wrong is also done to us. And they are slaves most base. Whose love of right is for themselves And not for all their race." MONEY SYSTEM IS BAD. construction of a waterway cross the Isthmus by the report of the Nicaraguan Canal commission. Inevitable delay and a further and more thorough investiga­ tion of the entire subject are declared to ho necessary before even the engineering feasibility of any canal across Nicaragua can bo decided upon. The report is at such variance with the numerous rumors and predictions which have from time to time been published concerning it that it will cause great surprise and disappoint­ ment among those who have hoped for a generally favorable report, and who have, therefore, placed credence in these ru­ mors, which usually stated "on the high­ est authority" that the commission fa­ vored the route proposed by the com­ pany apd placed the cost of the canal at about $1110,000,000. The report points out that it is neither practicable nor advisable to attempt the construction of the Nicaragua Canal up­ on the tiata at present available, and that the undertaking would be fraught with hazardu too obvious to disregard. That the necessary knowledge may be had of the physical and topographical conditions affectinj; the construction and mainten­ ance of a canal across Nicaragua, upon which to form a final judgment as to the feaaibility, permanence and cost, the commission recommends an appropria­ tion by Congress of $350,000 for extensive additional surveys and examinations, cov­ ering a period of eighteen months. A\ itli the data at hand, however, the commission makes a provisional estimate of the cost of $133,472,893, or nearly double that of the Maritime Canal Com­ pany's unconditional estimate of $69,- 893,660. The commission makes its es­ timate "provisional," for the commission­ ers say the existing data are inadequate as a basis for estimating the cost of many structures. Some portions of the work may cost more, others less: The report says the.official estimate by '.he company of $69,893,660 is insufficient for the work; that "in several important cases the quantities must be greatly increased, and in numerous cases the unit prices do not make proper allowance for the difference in cost of work between the United States and Nicaragua." The general trend of the entire report is certainly very unfavorable to the caual company. The commission refrains from any direct criticism of the company's prospectus, but its report shows that cer­ tain features, which the company has persisted in assuring the public through Congress were known to bo absolutely safe and feasible, if put in execution might jeopardize the practicability of the whole system, and possibly destroy for­ ever the .hope of a canal by means'of the San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua. POSTAL REVENUES GAINING. Director of the Mint Says Sensible Currency Legislation Is Needed. The director of the mint has submitted his report to the Secretary of the Treas­ ury. Mr". Preston, in a review of the monetary legislation of the country, states that the real demonetization of silver took place In 1S53, when the weight of 4he-dtvisioaai coi ns was-reduced-about 7 per cent. This, ho says, was not an acci­ dent or an oversight; it was expressly de­ clared in the House of Representatives that the Intention was to make gold t,ho sole standard of value in large transac­ tions, and silver, subservient to Jt,: for small ones. The act of 18(3, lie says, was only nominal. In his report the director of the mint says that the result of the currency legis­ lation of the United States for over a hundred years lias been such as to leave an incoherent monetary system, as in­ consistent, illogical and expensive as can will be imagined, that inspires little con­ fidence at home and is not conducive to our credit abroad, and its reform is one of the most important and urgent political And financial questions of the hour. Postmaster Genets., in His Kenort, Says the Increase Is Noted. Postmaster General Wilson has made his first annua! report to the President. The receipts of the pos'toffice department for the year ending June 30, 1895, were $76,171,090, and the expenditures $86,- 700,172. It is gratifying, says the report, that a large portion of the -dcfieiency oc eurred in the first quarter of the year and that revenues are increasing with return­ ing prosperity. Mr. Wilson estimates the revenue for the year ending June 30, 1S07, at $89,793,120, and the expenditures at $04,817,000, the difference to be made up by Congressional appropriation. The postmaster general refers, to the growth of the free delivery service and says he believes it is good policy for Con gross, and for this department to foster thp extension of this service, by judicious administration. Mr. Wilson reiterates the necessity for legislation to punish train wrecking and obstruction to mails urged by his predecessor, recommends legiala tion authorizing the use of private postal cards. n.nd says that the civil service rules | should be extended wherever practicable. Rewarding Party Felalty. Washington correspondence: - V- ORE than 200 anx­ ious bread winners are interested in the outcome of the contest over the re­ organization of the House at the begin­ ning of. each new session of Congress when there is a change of adminis­ tration, for that number of salaried positions are vacated ______ by the'outgoing in- i„*»,wii.i|rr eUiiibents to be filled by representatives of the party coming in- , to power. The uiinor jTi-r-iB! f̂ 7\\. ^ - •' '1 *'• patronage connected with the offices of the, 'sergeant-at-arms, clerk, doorkeepers, and -postmaster fon­ der the contest for the elective positions interestjng, inasmuch as the representa* fives'taking part in the campaign expect to benefit by the result in providing for -their"customers.- The majority of the positions included in the list of patronage at the disposal of the hewly elected of­ ficials comnia.nd lucrative salaries, and each Representative has-a following- of; eager constituents anxious" to fill the office and drew the emolument therefor. The clerk of the House does not have the largest amount of patronage at his disposal, but the respective offices in his department command the most attractive salaries. He himself draws $5,000 a year and i' required to give a bond of $20,000. His i:. a position of some honor and more responsibility. The clerk has forty-throe employes under him, commanding aggre­ gate salaries of $71,308 a year. His right-hand man, the chief clerk, draws $3,600 per annum. The clerk appoints the journal cierk and an assistant, who keep the official record of the proceedings of the House; two reading clerks, who, of late years, have boon selected by com­ petitive examinations, indicating their ability to road to the satisfaction of the House; a tally clerk, who keeps track of the yea and nay votes, together with a number of minor officials. There is one salary of $3,000, four of $2,500 each, seven at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each,, seven at $1,600, two at $1,400, two at $1,200, and ton at $720. lie also appoints a carpenter, who earns about $2,500 at" piece work. , The sergeant-at-arms gets a salary of $4,500, and is now compelled to furnish a bond of $50,000. His most important duty is to take charge of the disbursement of the salaries of the members, their mile­ age and other perquisites. He is sup­ posed to be responsible for the good or­ der in the House, to preserve the peace among would-be belligerents, to prevent fights on the floor and to arrest absentees and bring them before t lie bar of the House when ordered to do so. The ser- geant-at-arms dispenses one salary of $3,- 000, two of $2,000, one of $1,800, one of $1,200, one of $720, and one of $660. He also appoints one-third of the Capitol police, consisting of eight privates at $1,200, one lieutenant at $1,600, and two watchmen at $1,000. The doorkeeper of the Ilousf) i!k paid the smallest salary of all tlw? elective of­ ficers, except the postmaster and chap­ lain, but dispenses the largest amount of patronage. He draws $3,500 a year, and is not required to give a bond, llis duties are defined by his title. He guards the doors to the floor and the galleries, ap­ points elevator men, pages and folders. Under him there are five positions at $2,000 each, one at $1,800, three at $!.- 500, one at $1,400, one at $1,314, sixteen at $1,200, nine sit $1,000, fifteen at $900. five at $810, twenty-five at $720, ten at $600, and thirty-three pages at $50 per month during the session. The postmaster attends to receiving and delivering the mail of the members and to forwarding the public documents sent out from the Capitol. Ilis salary is $2.- 500 and he is not required to give bond. There are no sinecures in his office, for every man has to work hard. The post­ master appoints one clerk at $2,000, ten at $1,200, one at $720 and eight men during the session at $100 a month each. The chaplain of the House draws $900 per year, in session and out, and has an easy berth. He is supposed to open the House with prayer, and is not blamed if he makes it short. Sometimes the chap­ lain pays pastoral calls among the mem­ bers of his flock during business hours, lingering after the House has assembled to chat with members. He never aims at his congregation in his prayer, although in times of turbulence and great public excitement in the House he may try to invoke the spirit of peace and a blessing of wisdom upon the public councils. It is usual to elect a minister of the District of Columbia with a regular salary, for the emolument of the place is not large. The Speaker of the House has a bit of patronage at his own disposal. He is allowed one clerk at $2,350. one at $2,- 250, one at $1,000 and a messenger at $1.- 000. The Speaker himself receives $3.- 000 in addition to his regular salary of $5,000 as a member for the added duties of the speakership. The Senate Officers. The patronage of the Senate is much less than that of the House, but the po­ sitions are usually more secure. Some of the employes have been in their present positions for many years. "Old Man" Bassett, as ho is called has been in the service of-the Senate a little over sixty ypars, and there is but one Senator, Mr. Morrill, who has been continuously in the Senate during the term of employment of Mr. Nixon, the financial clerk, though he is still a young man. The Senate does not like repeated changes. There are but three elective officers--the secretary, the sergeant-at-arms, and the chaplain. The patronage, except committee clerk­ ships, comes under the secretary and the sergeant-at-arms. The chaplain--gets small pay and has no employes under him The sergeant-at-arms lias the appoint­ ment of the acting assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, the postmaster and his subordinates, the superintendent of the document room and his subordinates, the superintendent of the folding room and his subordinates and the laborers, mes­ sengers and pages. This patronage--isr- in accordance with the custom of the State, apportioned according to a regular system among the Senators, the minority getting a certain proportion. This appor­ tionment being fixed at the beginning of the Congress, is not changed in any re­ spect. "If a vacancy occurs the Senator who had the original appointment is called upon to name some one to till it, and if his choice is not satisfactory he is called upon to make another. Efficiency is always exacted of the employe, and ev­ ery Senator has enough friends to pro­ vide for to enable hint ultimately to pre­ sent the right sort of man. The clerks to the committees are ap­ pointed by the chairmen- of the various committees and do not form a part of tlfe patronage under the. elective officers. 1..' CHICAGO'S CANAL, It la Hard to Grasp the Vastness ot. tl^e Undertaking. The drainage canal which Chicago i» building 1 "-een.it and Lockport is near­ ly twenty-nine miles long and is a won­ derful undertaking. Wot-k on it is di­ vided into twenty-nine sections. Given under contract to twenty different and re­ sponsible, firms, the work on all these- subdivisions is in full progress,' .and on two or three <jf them--and that in the- most difficult' rocky part--is already fin­ ished. The w[i_dth of the great trench-at the bottom is'upwhere less thSh 110 feet on the first nine sections froin Chicago, while on other sections it will be. 202 feet, to be reduced again to 160 feet. A large part of the excavation has to be made through a solid ledge of limerock, underlying the track of the Despiaines River. The width of the' upper edges of the huge ditch will vary from 162 to 305 feet, /.the former width prevailing only on the ten solid rock sections of the ex­ cavations, where the walls are vertical aud not sloping down as on the--remain­ ing nineteen sub-divisions, which are ex­ cavated by digging, shoveling and dredg­ ing. ' . '• - . • : The. clear water depth will be twenty- two feet. This will be uniform through­ out, .oven at the lowest possible condi­ tion of Lake Michigan, which will feed the canal at tiie rate of 300. t000 cubic feet a minute and later, when the bottom width of the first nine sections. shall- have been enlarged to 200 feet, at the rate of 600,000 cubic- feet of water a minute. ' FWnl t he estimates recently made-there will have been .remo'ved by 1897, when it is expected the canal will be- completed, 40,070.439 cubic yards of eitrth, or-in other words, nearly two-thirds of the ex­ cavation of the newly .opened Baltic canal, fivO-sixths,of the Manchester ertiial, two- fifths of the Suez canal,.ami three-tenths «f the abortive-Panama' ditch. Of the 40,000.000 cubic yards of excavated soil, clay, gravel, broken stone and crushed primeval rock fully 12,000,000 cubic yards alone will belong to the latter class, mak­ ing the Chicago enterprise a really unique one. A stroll along the works is highly novel. One sees big dredges, flanked by living bridges and gigantic scoops, lad­ ling lip whole loads of dirt at one sweep. One sees leviathans of machinery ex­ pressly invented and built to dispose of the loose stone rubble and blasted pieces of rock along the second half of the "Big Ditch." Under the name' of "can­ tilevers," they tower like oblique gallows of antediluvian monstrosity over the land­ scape. loosening, lifting and removing tons of blasted rock with no mbre exertion than that with which children handle their toys. Along-with these and kindred cyclopia devices, there is a whole army train of steam, gas, water and electric motors, to, gcther with from 6,000 to 8,000 men, GOO teams, numberless graders, carts and trucks, and finally an array of blasting machinery, needing five tons of dyna­ mite as their daily bill of fare. During one month recently 1,160,616 cubic yards of earth arfd rock were excavated and the cost of this one month's work amounted to $605,055. In the beginning the cost of the work was estimated at between $40,00:1,000 and $45,000,000, but it is now estimated that tvt least $30.f>00,000 will suffice 'to com­ plete the work. MEISSONIER'S STATUE. Great Painter Is Represented as Seen in His Paris Studio. A statue was nnvoiied in the garden of the Louvre at Paris last week'in mem­ ory of Joan Louis Ernest Meissonier, one of the most celebrated painters of Prance, and the statue was the work of one of Prance's most celebrated sculptors, Marius Jean Antoine Mercie. The-monu­ ment is in white marine. Meissonier is represented as he was seen in his studio, clad in a voluminous dressing gown, as in the portrait of himself which iie painted A meuoie's statue of meissonier. in 1880 for A. T. Stewart to accompany his most ambitious picture "1807." Marius .jean Antoine Mercie, who wrought the statue, is one of the most famous of modern Preneli sculptors, now 50 years old; he does not excel iu statues of repose like this, but in statues or groups of action, such as his "tiloria Yictis," a highly theatrical composition designed to console his country for the German defeat, which now stands in the Montholon Square in Paris. He is an officer of tiie Legion of Honor and has been medaled at the Salon ami at inter­ national exhibit ions repeatedly. THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH. His Corinaels Were Unheeded Dnrinar Recent Troubles. The Armenian Patriarch at .Constan­ tinople, whose portrait we publish, played an important part during the recent riot with the Softas. A f t e r celebrating high mass at a great ecclesiastical festiv­ al, when the Armen­ ian community gath­ ered together at the cathedral of Koum- Kapou. he was re- qnested by the lead­ ers of a. certain Armenian anarchist party to head a pro­ cession to the porte to petition for re­ d r e s s o f t h e i r wrongs. The patri- beggod his flock to tt-v-oid--tmy~deTrronstrationT'but they were" beyond his control.. They formed a pro­ cession and came into collision with the police. Then the Softas--Mussulman theological students--began to hunt down the Armenians right and left, and the public soon joined them. Numerous Ar­ menians were killed and for some tirae Stamboul was in a sta.te of seige. The patriarch is severely indisposed, and has been confined,to his bed. MGK. KBIMIAN arch refused, and The large five^stpry-build ing on Middle street, Lowell, Mass., known as the Par­ ker Block, was almost destroyed by fire» The fire \vas aided by repeated explosions of wliisky in barrels, which blew out the windows and created havoc in adjoining buildingg. The total loss exceeds $350.- 000. .