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Ftf.TTin?!! RTfllB^SSI AROUND A BIG STATE CODES FOE CABLE USE J . H. M'VICKERDEAD. CIPHERS MUST BE UNIFORM HEREAFTER. $WT faPound 421)0-An.),lfl92 mil i/iaJj3S6-65< BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. Rotable Improvement at State Nor­ mal School -- "Weary Wragsles" Saves a Train from Destruction and Earns a Whole Lot "of Gratitude. Work Bejfins on the New Normal. Work has begun upon the new building "w hich is to be.added to the State Normal University at Normal, as provided for by the last session of'the Illinois Legislature. It will be the third building erected upon the normal campus, a beautiful edifice used for the training school department, being the second. The building is tp cost $40,000. It will be faced with brown stone and will be fireproof. The first floor will be occupied by a gymnasium and the second by the. library and the museum. The building will be an exemplification of AHIMTION TO STATE XORMAI. t'Jyl-VEIf- 81TY AT 350KMAI.. II.I.. [To'be used for gymnasium, library, etc. Cost $40,000.] the Altgeldiau idea in architecture. The Governor rejected the original plans,' and insisted upon a building upon which the most of the show and ornamentation should be at the top. declaring that it is not good sense or good architecture to spend money in decoration that must be hidden by the trees. The removal of the valuable collection in the museum from the old university building to the new. not contemplated in the original plan, was also insisted upon by Gov. Altgeld. for the rea­ son that the new building is fireproof and the old if> not. Tramp Prevents a Railroad Wreck. The heroic work of a ragged tramp Thursday night saved the life of Frank Harsey, a St. Clair County farmer, and the probable wrecking of the south-bound express train on the Cairo Short Line Knilroad. Farmer Harsey had been to Belleville with a load of produce and was returning at night. When lie reached the Freeburg crossing the farmer had fallen asleep. The team turned straight down the railroad track, and with the express wajron thumping along on the ties behind them made no stop until they reached a trestle, ^/l'hey attempted to cross it, but both hordes fell in. One was killed and the other crippled. Harsey slept on. In this condition, the tramp found the outfit. He realized the great danger to the drunk­ en man and to the train laden with hu­ man freight. He quickly removed the farmer from the wagon and secured a _1:111(.- nn-i»-tIiip. ,<pri»ks triiin. The An unknown negro, who,, had slipped into a warm nook at No.. 2 blast furnace at the Joliet rolling mills-, presumably to. take a sleep; was fotrad dead in the ash pit. * . * * George Jones, a farmer living near Quiney, went hunting. . His gun was acci­ dentally discharged, blowing off the top of his head, The body of William Hagel. who left his home Sunday night, was found in Poplar creek, near Elgin. It is supposed he com­ mitted suicide. Frank M. Nichols and his niece. Miss Nellie Forbes, a girl of 15 years, eloped from their home near Stonington, north­ west of Pana, and their whereabouts is unknown. When they left they were mounted on two bay horses, the property of Nichols' father, who has communicated with the chiefs of police of neighboring towns; giving descriptions of the elopers and the stolen horses and asking that they be arrested. In reply to the inquiry, "Does a woman have to be registered to vote at a county school district election in voting for di­ rectors V" Assistant Attorney General Newell says: "If the men are required to register, then the women are; if men are not, then women are not. I do not under­ stand that the registration law applies to elections in country districts for school directors. If, at an election where the registration of voters is required, a Woman applies to vote and. is not registered she can syVear her vote in the same as-any other elector who fails to register." While testifying in Justice Dooley's 'court' at Chicago ; Mrs. Anna Frycak 1 struck Lawyer Berger a blow with a roll- J ing pin which'wjys introduced^in evidence as the weapon she had used in an assault ! upon Joseph Ivlatka. Lawyer Berger • was knocked down. * When he got up, in ' spite of the woman's explanation that she did not mean to strike him. he asked the ; justice for a warrant, but did not get it. 1 W hether it Was the vivid description of how she struck Klatka or whether her . masculine appearance influenced the jury, she was acquitted, and. with her rolling pin under her arm, rtiarelied proudly out of the court. There was wild excitement at Pekin Tuesday night over another murder, the third that has occurred in that section in a few months. For some time there h&s. been bad blood between James II. Lnne and Samuel Beebe. caused by jealousy over Mrs. Lane. Tuesday evening the men got into an altercation. When they reached Lane's house Beebe was ordered not to enter. Mrs. Lane told him to come in, which he did. He was ordered out, but refused to go. Then Lane got his shotgun and a light followed, in which Lane fired the gnu. The load struck Beebe, killing him instantly. Lane sur­ rendered, and was locked up beside Albert Wallace,, sentenced to be hanged, and George Smith, condemned , to death but not yet sentenced. The inquest was held and the town is greatly excited. Both men were hunters and fishers. Beebe was single. The finding of the lifeless body of young Fred Kuschman in the road near his em­ ployer's farm, about two and one-half miles south of Milan, and the verdict, of the coroner's jury the next day that he had met his death by being thrown from and dragged by his horse, has led to a rigid investigation of all the attending eir- cuinstances and the general conclusion After Jan. 1, 1898, Business Houses Engaged in. Foreign Trade Must Conform to the Osage of the Inter­ national Telegraph Burteau at Berne. signal was given barely in time and the train was stopped within a few yards of the farmer's wrecked outfit, which was stuck on the;trestle approach. The tramp was made the hero of the hour. When the train started again he was comforta­ bly quartered in the sleeper and the offi­ cials of the road will give him a good posi­ tion with the company. Gyves on the Gang, Kv tapping a telegraph wire somewhere between Chicago and Waukesha Charles II. Vogel, Albert Gray Vogel and Frank Smith, "green goods" men, have for the last live weeks been growing rich on rural visitors from Arkansas, Missouri, North Dakota and other far Western States, and have at the same time almost driven Postoffice Inspector Stuart crazy. Sat­ urday morning they had their plans nicely laid to secure $1,200 from "J. C. Bratton, Warren, Ark.," but instead they were cap- inred by the Government authorities after a desperate fight, in which old man Vogel • Charles H.) tried to shoot Deputy United States Marshal W. A. Richards, of Des Moines, la., and in turn only escaped death through the forbearance and cool- headedness of, Richards. After a prelimi­ nary hearing before United States Com missioner Humphrey they were held to the Federal grand jury in bonds of $10,000 each for the Yogels and $500 for Smith and 1aken to Joliet. New Telegraph Rule. On the 1st of January, 1898, the busi­ ness houses in America that are engaged in foreign trade and employ the cable will be compelled to adopt a single uniform Code instead of those at present in use. As is well known, banks, commission houses, mercantile establishments and manufacturers now use groups of arbi­ trary words in sending their telegrams abroad. Each of these words conveys the meaning of a whole sentence, and not only economizes cost, but preserves the secrecy' of dispatches, which cannot be understood by the operators or other persons into whose hands: they may fall Without the use of a code to translate them. An international telegraphic bureau at Berne is supported by the various govern­ ments who own telegraph and cable lines, and is maintained for the purpose of mak­ ing uniform rates'-and rules for interna­ tional business. Representatives, of such governments hold conventions every live. years .for the. purpose of reviewing . the work of the bureau-and taking such ac­ tion as is necessary and expedient tor their.mutual advantage. At the last in­ ternational conference; which was held in Paris in 1891, it was decided to require all patrons of the cable and telegraph sys- j that we should increase our army, let us HILL ON THE CUBAN WAR. • •, --k New York Senator Makes a Strong Speech in the 8enate; Senators Sherman and Hill were the conspicuous figures in the Cuban debate, in the Senate Thursday, the New York Senator forcibly urging the mercenary character of the pending resolutions^ while Mr. Sherman upheld them with another graphic arraignment of; Spain and Gen. Weyler. It was the fourth day of the de­ bate on the conference report and yet there was no evidence of a near approach to a final vote. After an hour was consumed in clearing away roiftine matters, the Cuban resolu­ tions were lard before the Senate, arid- Mr.. Hill of New York was recognized. He pointed out that this being a eonftr- ehce report the resolutions could not be amended. He would, therefore, vole against the report in order that at a sub­ sequent tiiye amendments might be made. The Senator particularly objected to the third clause of the-.resolutionsv stating that the United States has not intervened in the struggles between any European governments and their colonies, but that, owing to the proximity of Cuba, the Unit­ ed States should be prepared to inter- ven.\ This lie declared to be ambiguous and unmeaning. We had intervened in such controversies. We had intervened and recogtiized the countries which had been .Colonies of Spain. - •" What the resolution sought to convey Was a threat to intervene. To tills extent the resolution was unnecessary. It is sub­ ject to doubtful construction and is a mischief breeder.'. It was liable, to com­ promise. us. , The phrase the' "United States should be prepared to protect the legitimate interests of our citizens by. in­ tervention" pounded, -like. a threat or }t was buncombe. "If this resolution means S >1̂ 6 Sugar 5'aPoimd Life Imprisonment for Dix. A conclusion was reached in the case of the Berry agency detectives on trial before Jud^e Adams at Chicago for the murder of Frank White. William J. Dix. the man who, it is alleged, fired the shots that killed White, was found guilty of murder and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in tht penitentiary for life. Jacob Fischel, .lohn Frew, William F. Mayo, Charles J. Poole and Charles A. Thompson, who ac­ companied Dix, were found guilty of man­ slaughter, but their sentences were not fixed. The State made its fight for con­ viction on the ground that the detectives bad no right to arrest any one, and the jury apparently agreed with it. Charles Berry, head of the agency, said he would carry the case to the highest court. State News in Brief. Thomas Preston, who was charged with killing Tim Curtin in Joliet a year ago, was acquitted on the grounds of self-de­ fense. Tim Curtin had been paying atten­ tion to Preston's sister, to which Preston objected, and in a quarrel Preston stab­ bed Curtin in the neck and he died within an hour. Rev Peter Peters, for twenty-two years pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic parish in Alton, died from a surgical op­ eration. He was 65 years of age. His last, and greatest work was the building of the new St. Mary's Church, costing $100,000, which was dedicated last Thanksgiving. James W. Sheridan, capitalist, and formerly part owner of the Shufeldt distil­ lery, was held up by three armed men two doors from his home. No. 35)0 Ash­ land boulevard, Chicago, and jewelry val­ ued at $750 was taken from him. Typhoid fever has claimed five victims in the Noaks family of Kirkwood within the past six weeks. The father, William Noaks, aged 70, died Thursday. Those who preceded him were one son, two daughters and a grandson. Two members of the family are still seriously ill. Im­ pure water is supposed to have originated the disease. Nearly 100 persons, the majority of them women, had a narrow escape from serions injury while attending a funeral at Chicago. They were standing-on a board sidewalk which gave way and precipitated them in a heap to the ground seven feet tyelow. A large number received slight in­ juries and bruises about the lower limbs. Ebenezer Z. Ryan, of Lawrenceville, has filed a suit tin the United States Ci'r- cuitOourt against the Western Union Telegraph Company for $10,000. He al leges that the. death of his wife was due *x> the non-delivery of a telegram sent by !bim from Lawrenceville to a surgeon at Robinson, which deQayed an operation nec- «a^ary to save his wife's life. "" 1 V. has been reached that the young man was murdered and then robbed. Kuschmann had been working for a farmer named Henry Bastian. His year was up Feb. 20. but having lost three days during the year he worked until Saturday evening, Feb. 20. to make it up. He then receiv­ ed the balance of the wages due him-- $79--and putting the money in his pocket he put on his overcoat and at 6:30 p. m. started for his parents' home. The next thing known is that about S o'clock that evening Henry Bastian went into the house of Anton Wiegel and asked him to come with him. as he had found Fred's body in the road, a short distance away, with one foot through the stirrup of the saddle. Mr. Wiegel helped Bastian carry the body into his (Wiegel's) house and the coroner was summoned, with the result stated. An uncle of Kuschmann had a post-mortem conducted by two promi­ nent physicians, who found many suspi­ cious wounds. Bastian's story is that Kuschmann said he would ride one of the horses (which Bastian says is "fractious") home, and return the next day with his uncle's rig for some of his clothes; that about three-quarters of an hour after he had gone the horse came galloping home without a rider or saddle, and that he thereupon hitched up another horse to a buggy and drove over the road until he came upon the body, where his horse stopped, and lie got out and found the body lying in the road. The suspicious circumstances, in addition to the character of the wounds, as related above, are that the horse, which Bastian says is fractious, has been found to be perfectly docile; that nobody except Bastian saw Ku sell in a tin after he left the house; that the money was not in Kuschniann's pockets after the body was discovered; that his overcoat was found about 100 yards from the body, apparently having been carried there and laid down carefully; that in three places upon the coat are the plain prints of bloody hands, while the inner side of the flap of the coat is covered with blood; while the hands of young Kuschmann were perfectly clean, and not a drop of blood was on them: that there were no marks or bruises whatever on the body, except on the head, nor did the clothes bear any marks of being dragged in the clay, of which the road Is composed. Two silver dollars were found about 300 yards from the body, but the rest of the money was missing. The theory of the officers who are working upon the case is that Kuschmann was murdered, probably be­ fore he left the farm, his overcoat wrap­ ped about his head, and the body loaded into a buggy and taken to the spot where it was found and laid beside the road, the foot placed in the stirrup loop of the sad­ dle, and the overcoat carried some dis­ tance and dropped. The young man's cap has not been found, and the motive in de­ stroying it is plain, for it must contain the tell-tale evidences of the murderous blows which sent Kuschmann to his death. Rev. David J. Strain, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia, died, aged 64. He was born in Ohio, graduated from Miami University, Oxford. Ohio, with Whitelaw Reid in 1857. His father served three 5-ears in the revolutionary war. Adjutant General Hilton has issued an order upon the recommendation of Col. Francis T. Colby, commanding the Sev­ enth Infantry. Illinois National Guard, appointing Quarterjnaster Sergeant Mi­ chael H. Hoey as quartermaster of the Seventh Regiment, with rank of first lieu­ tenant, to fill a vacancy in that office. Gov. Altgeld appointed Clarence S. Dar- row. of Chicago, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Industrial Home for the Blind at Chicago to succeed Charles E. Simmons, resigned. The bodies'of an old man and a baby boy, found terribly mutilated in a barrel in a Chicago alley, were identified as dis­ carded cadavers from Hering. Medical College. The matron of the institution had given a negro $5 to bury the bodies, which had been used to demonstrate op­ erative surgery. The negro, frightened by his grewsome errand, dumped the bar­ rel in an alley. The authorities will pros.- ecute all parties responsible for the shock­ ing affair. terns -in the'Countries belonging to the union to use ah authorized uniform code, which it is proposed to make universal. A commission was appointed to prepare a vocabulary "in seven languages English, French, Gorman, Dutch, Italian, Portu­ guese and Latin--and their work will be submitted for approval at the next confer­ ence, which is to bo held at Buda Pest in the coming June. Copies of the proposed vocabulary have been forwarded to the United States for inspection. It is a large volume and contains 2«jO.OOO words selected from the languages named and arranged in alphabetical order. ^ hile the American cable companies have not accepted the new code, they will be com­ pelled to do i|j>, for the reason that for­ eign companies will not accept messages in any other cipher after Jan. 1, 189S. The patrons of the cable are not requir­ ed to accept the arbitrary meaning of the words given in the official vocabulary, but are allowed to apply them to any sen­ tences or figures or combinations they please. That is. each patron of the cable system may arrange his own private code as at present, but muse use the symbols furnished by the international union. Therefore the same message may be sent to a dozen different firms and have a dif­ ferent meaning to every one of them. This will make it necessary for the Gov­ ernment of the 1 nited States tp arrange new official ciphers. Those in ude at pres­ ent by the State and Navy Departments are old and cumbersome, and it is be­ lieved that several foreign g^vcrunients have translations of the State Depart­ ment. United States ministers in Madrid have been amazed at times to discover that the 0flic Hrls of"thc-fnreig 11 office tlicre- were familiar with the contents of cipher dispatches received from Washington, and when Mr. Trescott's peace commis­ sion went to Chili in 1882, they found that the minister of foreign affairs had trans­ lations of their instructions from Wash­ ington almost as soon as themselves. It has been freely charged that a former minister of the United States at Santiago gave of sold a copy of our code to the Chilian Government. Several times the Secretary of State has proposed to frame a new one, but it has never been accom­ plished. Among European governments new codes are adopted 011 the 1st of Jan­ uary every year, and the old ones destroy­ ed. / say so frankly and frame a bill, for that purpose,'* said Mr. Iliil."if it 'meant' we should increase our navy, let 11s state it frankly and fearlessly and frame a bill to that end. Let us not indulge in idle boasts and threats and doubtful phrases as to our being prepared to protect legiti­ mate interests by intervention." Mr. Hill asked what these "legitimate" interests referred to were. Were there any "illegitimate interests?" This was not a proposition to intervene in the cause of humanity or to aid in the cause of free­ dom or to stop bloodshed, but to "pro­ tect our legitimate interests." Mr. Hill uttered the words with great scorn. NEW YORK'S LIQUOR LAW. Puts the Entire Liquor Traffic Under State Control. Behind locked doors the New York As­ sembly voted on the Raincy excise bill Thursday, and before adjournment it passed by a vote of 84 yeas to 59 nays. The Raines liquor bill is a measure to put the entire liquor traffic and interests un­ der State cdntrol. It abolishes all local excise boards and creates a State com­ missioner at a salary of $5,000, a deputy at $4,000, three inspectors at $4,000, $3,- 000 and $2,000, and sixty inspectors-at- large at $1,200 each and e^i>ens,gs. The commissioner's bureau is located^ at Al­ bany. The bill raises the license rates in New York city to $800, in Brooklyn to $650, and in smaller cities to $500. The present license rate in New York for sa­ loons is $250. and the granting of licenses is at the option of the municipal excise commissioners. Under the Raines bill all night licenses and the sale of liquor on Sundays are pro­ hibited except in hotels with meals. This prohibition extends to clubs. It fixes a fine for a violation of the law at not less than twice the amount of the license. It allows'local option in towns but not in cities. It compels the posting of liquor licenses in windows of saloons, and also requires saloons to leave open the shades during the time they must close. No sa­ loon can do business within 200 feet of a church or school. The bill gives one-third of the net reve­ nue collected to the State and two-thirds to the county. Under the present law the entire tax goes to the county or State. When first presented to the Legislature the bill equally divided the tax between the counties and the State. It is presum­ ed that the immediate effect of the meas­ ure will be the wholesale reduction of the number of saloons in the State, and its adherents claim a great increase in State revenue.. Joseph Soular and William Verrill, both under 21 years of age, have confessed at Duluth to the murder of Samuel Demars at Biwabik. Minn. Anna Post, the 13-year-old daughter if C. Post, died at Salina, Kas., from in­ juries received by falling from a chair. SOLONS UNDER GUARD. Policc Look After the Welfare of Kentucky Senator-Makers. Gov. Bradley Thursday morning held a conference with Mayor Julian of Frank­ fort, Ivy., and the latter ordered twenty extra policemen on duty in the rotunda of the eapitol, the Governor expressing his intention of ordering out the State militia should it be necessary to preserve order. The one thing that seemed to be settled by the day'r. doings is that Kentucky will have but one representative in the United States Senate from March 4, 1897, when Senator Blackburn's term expires, until at least January, 1898, when the next Legislature can meet and fill the vacancy. The newly installed Republican in the House, Dunlap, did not qualify before the joint assembly met ai>' so was not a fac­ tor. The Republicans adopted the tactics of breaking the quorum, and this brought WAR ON MOONSHINERS. LABOR'S EARNEST LESSON. Last year the Democratic gift of free ra\yt material to woolen manufacturers more than doubled our imports of for­ eign woolen goods, as compared with the average value of similar imports during the four years of McKinley pro­ tection. The exact increase was $30,- 599,813. If we take one-half of (his amount as the value of the labor em­ ployed in making such goods, then the loss to American labor employed in our woolen mills was $15,300,000 in a single year of free trade in the raw material of only one industry. But the loss to our wage earners has been more than this, and for several reasons. In the first place the imports of hist year's woolen goods, so called, very largely consisted of the cheapest quality of stuffs, in which rags, nuingo and shoddy, formed the bulk of the component parts. Hence the increase in value does not fairly represent the increased quantity of goods imported, which was greater than the value indi­ cates. Another reason is that when the purchaser of these,cheap goods be­ gins to complain of their bad wearing 90.(840 369 29.262 337 inscription: "Oklahoma for starvation, Kansas for desolation, Texas for de­ vastation. Nebraska for damnation. Going to Ohio to sponge qn wife's re­ lation. To hell tli Democratic Ad­ ministration." r Senator Warren's Summary. In 1884, under Republican policy, our sheep were 50,- 626,626 in numbers and of the value of. $119,902,700 Under influences of. the threatened Mills bill they shrank to 42.599,079 in numbers and to the value of A shrinkage of 8,027,547 head and ip value........ . From the lowest point re­ corded under flie Mills bill fright up to 1893, under Republican guardianship. ...t • sheep increased to 47.273.- 553 in numbers and to the value of 125.909,264 An increase of 4,674,474 head and an increase in . value of 35,268.895 But again upon Mr. Cleve­ land's second election <we turn backward and down- ward as usual under the- blighting, withering iutiur - eaice of a.wrohg policy, and " in'two years -sheep decreas- • •»,, . ; ed to 42,294.004 head, of the value' of.. . . . . . . . v 06,685,767 A loss of 4.979.489 head and a loss in valines of..... 59,223,497 ; A. shrinkage in two sliort years of nearly oue-h.aIf!--SpCecli of lloh. Fran­ cis E. Warren, U. S. S.. of Wyoming. Results of*'Cheap.nes"e." How the poor man with his "cheap" overcoat must curse the shoddy Demo- cyatic tariff during these wintry days of snow and sleet, as lie thinks of the good Mclviuley protection times when his labor was in demand and he could afford to buy a good warm overcoat that the wind didn't whistle through, and which didn't rot and tumble to pieces when exposed to n few blasts from the Arctic. Nearly three million dollars of gold sent abroad to pay for rags and shoddy picked up from (iod knows what European gutters and dumping grounds and sent here to clothe American workmen!--New York Commercial Advertiser. Imports Iron and Steel Manufactures. Manufactures (pounds): 1894. 1S95. .. $r>7.614 $70,901 35,910 87,097 . . 1,220.707 2,092,038 Anvils, dut Chains, dut Cutlery, dut ...... Files, tile blanks, rasps and floats, dut Firearms, dut .... Needles,, hand sew­ ing and darning. free Machinery, dut . . .. Shotgun barrels, forged, rough bor­ ed, free All other, dut Totals .... 49.413 294,230 286,655 1.189.905 45.425 1.277,936 (.1,083 623.760 314.426 2.199,518 56,665 2.291.515 .$4,457,855 $7,797,003 from Lieut. Gov. Wortliington the ruling that seventy members constitute « qim- qualities, he is informed that they were rum necessary to elect a Senator. So long as this ruling stands no election can be had except by breaking over party lines. Members of the legislature were nerv­ ous with suppressed excitement as the time drew near for the joint session. All eyes were turned on Sergeant-at-Arms Summers, the Blackburn ̂ Democrats do manding of him that he allow no one on the floor except members entitled to vote. Senator Branston made a motion that everybody be excluded, but when it was put the Republicans defeated it by refus ing to vote. A Battle in North Carolina in Which Two Were Killed. From the deep recesses of the mountains of western North Carolina comes a story of a desperate struggle in an isolated por­ tion of that country between revenue offi­ cers on the one side and a band of moon­ shiners on the other. Some time ago it was learned that this gang were openly violating the revenue law by illicit distill­ ing. They sent word to the officers warn­ ing them to keep away. Notwithstand­ ing this broad threat, a band of revenue men set out from Greensboro the other day for the seat of war. On arriving they dismounted, and were in the act of tying their horses when a storm of rocks and bullets was poured upon them. More shots were then ex­ changed on both sides,, arid the moonshin­ ers began to sneak from their hiding places) and made a dive for the forests. As they ran two of their number were killed, but the others, six in number, es­ caped to the woods. The dead men were identified as James and John Cook, two noted illicit distillers. During the fight Revenue Officer Jones was shot three times, and, it is believed, will die. After the smoke of the battle had cleared th.e officers found stored away in caves and beside a stream that runs along the mountain side 100 casks of brandy and whisky. More trouble is feared, as that section is inhabited by a desperate class of people. The Flag of Free Cuba. Gen. John B. Woodward, a prominent Brooklyn politician, died of pneumonia. AMUSEMENTS OF A "PROUD-SPIRITED AND SENSITIVE PEOPLE." American goods, and that lie had better buy foreign clothing hereafter. This tends to check a subsequent demand for the produce of our own mills, and thus it checks their output and again the demand for American labor. As the value of labor is so much less in Europe than here, a better grade of goods than we imported so largely in 1895 could undersell American goods of similar quality if existing tariff condi­ tions were continued. As the value of labor in most American industries rep­ resents more than half the cost of the finished article, the estimated loss to labor is greater tnan we have stated in the case of last year's woolen imports. Labor in every industry would be af­ fected, in preeicel.v the same ratio as labor in the woolen mills, if the tariff in all industries were on the basis of the woolen schedule of the Wilson bill. Hence it is the duty of labor to reflect, not only upon its actual position of to­ day. but upon the possibilities of its future conditions, should the free raw material craze be. by any possibility, extended to every American Industry. Labor has had its lesson. Labor knows the remedy--to vote, at every oppor­ tunity, against every candidate for Congress who favors free trade. No Power to Buy. The acknowledgment might as well be made that the real cause of business and industrial distress is in the absence of money among the people who con­ sume the products of the farm and the factory. It is because the purchasing power of the people has been cut down in. the interest of the foreign producer that those who have things to sell can find no inarket. If the farmer had his old prices for his grain and his live stock, and if the wage earner had work to do at the former rate of compensa­ tion, they would be buying as much as ever and all clashes of trade -aud the industries would be in full drive.-- Kansas City Journal. Why Wool Won't Selli • :-1 Last year we bought nearly live times as much shoddy as in 1894. We paid for it more than live times as much money. The foreign rag merchant knew that English goods would swamp our markets aud that our factories must use more shoddy or "shut up," so they marked up the price of their rags and shoddy.. The increase of 15,- 500,000 pounds in our imports of rags and shoddy displaced 46,500,000 pounds of American wool. No wonder that more than 100,000,000 pounds of Amer­ ican wool were carried over unsold into the new year from 1894, at Bos­ ton, Philadelphia and New York.--New York Press. Knjjland's Bad Rxainple. If the hope of agriculturists is in English free trade they had better ponder 011 (the fact 'that while the wages of artisans have increased in England $2.43 per 'week since 1S50, the wages of agricultural laborers have only increased 72 cents, and while the IvaQoasliire operatives in the factories live as -well as anybody except Amer­ icans. the agricultural laborers are hardly better off than the Continental peasantry. England's example will no<t do for agriculture.--Hon. Thos. B. Reed. » . ^ Democracy Will Get There. The old legend, "Pike's Peak or bust," which used to adorn the canvas covers of emigrant wagons in the old days, has been succeeded by' various signs appropriate to the changed and changing location Sf the boomers' par­ adise. A big prairie schooner passed through Osborne, Kan., bound east from Oklahoma, last week, bearing the Wheat and Corn Farm Values. In cents per bushel. Corn. Wheat. . . 40.0 83.9 . . 39.4 62.4 . . 36.5 53.8 . . 45.7 49.1 .. 26.4 50.9 189 1 189 2 189 3 189 4 189 5 It will be noticed that the average farm price of wheat for 1894 and 1S95 was exactly one-half of the Democratic dollar that was promised to farmers in the campaign of 1892. Farmers, there­ fore. can estimate a Democratic prom­ ise at exactly half its face value, or at fifty cents on the dollar. A Sugar Trust Prophecy. John E. Searles, Jr., Secretary of ilie American Sugar Refineries Company, said: "1 do not think any party would dare to do anything that would materi­ ally disturb the prosperity of the eevn- •try. The country is too great to allow the upsetting of any of its industries, and the party that attempted it w^nld come to grief."--New York Sun, No­ vember 11. 1892., While Mr. Searles did not fathom the depth of degradation of the Demo­ cratic party, to those campaign funds Veteran Theater Manager ,8^?cn mb« to« Recfent Apopl&efTC^Sfrolje. J. H. McVicker, ths; nestor of Ameri­ can theater managers,\1hm1 at his home in Chicago Saturday afteb^oon from, thd effects of a stroke jof apoplexy about a month ago. During the two , fo,llowing [the shock Mr. M eVieker im­ proved and it was believed that his fine constitution *J woukl enable him to resume his us­ ual activity^ but advanced years J. H. M 1cKt.1t. were against him. Mr. McVicker had been a prominent theater manager for nearly half a cen­ tury. He was born in New York in 1822 of Scotch-Irish parentage. His father died when he was a "child. As a young man he became a printer. In 1840, while in New Orleans, he decided to take to the stage. He went to Chicago in 1848 and since has , made that city his home. In 1851 he purchased the right to Don Mar-* ble's plays and became a star. He went to England and was well received there. /' But Mr. McVicker was determined to become a manager,, anil in 1857 be built what was christened "The'New Chicago Theater.'^. It was opened Nov. 5 of that; year. The enterprise became so thorough­ ly, identified with the young proprietor that MeVicker's Theater became its name and Mc Yieker's Theater it remains. Mr. McVicker himself appeared as Cousin-Toe in "The Rough Diamond" on the opening night, and was greeted by an enthtiglastie audience. During thfe war the theater continued to divert the pnblic mind with the best talent the dramatic field afforded. * In 1871 Mr. McVicker rebuilt his thea­ ter. He opened in August of that year and assumed the leading role in the com­ edy "Extremes." The Chicago fire de­ stroyed the playhouse, but in 1872 it was rebuilt for the second time. In 1885 the theater was remodeled and was again burned to the ground Aug. 26, 1890. Mr. McVicker Was visiting in the East. Upon the receipt of the dispatch announcing his loss he determined upon the immediate restoration of his building for the fifth time. The deep regret awakened by the news of the death of Mr. McVicker reaches be­ yond the people of Chicago aud the mem­ bers of the profession for which he did so much. He was one of the few men en­ gaged in theatrical work whose personal influence had its eft'eet not only upon the affairs of his own profession, but upon the public at large. It was his theory that the theater might be made something more than a place of idle relaxation. He saw very clearly that an institution en­ joying such a large share of public pat­ ronage must have a strong effect upon public life, and he aimed whenever possi­ ble to make that effect a constant and increasing benefit to the community. He wished to see the theater rehabilitated in popular esteem as one of the strongest and most elevating influences of the day. In his high ideal of what it sheidd be the stage occupies a diguified and honorable place among the various factors which, like the pulpit and the press, serve to determine the trend and direction of mod­ ern thought and life. With these ideals it is not surprising that the manager of McYieker's Theater-should his house up to a plane which formed a standard for the theaters of Chicago and the West. It was his cherished plan to establish a stock company which should be able to present dramas with uniform excellence. How much he actually ac­ complished is shown by the esteem with which he was greeted everywhere and by the very sincere sorrow which the news of his death creates not only in Chicago but throughout the country. SPAIN AND UNCLE SAM. his sugar trust contributed liberally in New York State, yet he was a true prophet. The party that did attempt to "disturb, the prosperity of the coun­ try" has "come to grief." Cause and' Eflfect. Mr. Cleveland is unable to judge be­ tween what is "Cjiuse" and what Is "effect." The greenbacks are not the cause why our gold reserve Is stead­ ily falling. If they were all called in to-morrow, gold would continue to be exported, if the balance of trade continued to be against us.--John C. Freund. Chance t'or Reciprocity. Now that the people have come to the assistance of the Administration it would be well for the Administration to do what it can to help the people whose industries it has paralyzed by its incompetency.--The Press. New York. \ Always. j Reduce the tariff and labor is the first to suffer,--Hon. Win. McKiniey. We Have a Material Interest in the Prosperity of Cuba. Alphouso XIII., King of Spain, is in the tenth year of his age. The country is governed by his mother, the queen regent, Maria Christina. The legislative power is in a Senate and the cortes. About one- half the Senate is elected. The cortes consists of 431 deputies, chosen by citi­ zens of 25 years of age who pay taxes. The population of the country Is about 18,- 000,000. Ministers have been defeated and cen­ sured several times daring the past year, but have not resigned. Cuba has been the chief cause of political and financial excitement during the year. Although represented in the national Legislature by ten Senators and thirty deputies, it is practically without voice at Madrid., The present insurrection, now more than a year in progress, is supported by two classes of the people--radicals who want separation and independence, and auton­ omists, or home rulers, who would be satisfied with the same relation to the crown that Canada has to that of Great Britain. Four years ago, on ministerial assurance of a home rule measure, the radical Cuban party became quiescent. Broken faith at Madrid revived it, and the ranks of the radicals were largely recruit­ ed from those of the home rulers made desperate by disappointment and decep­ tion. After sturdy fighting, in which the in­ surgents proved themselves fully a match for the ablest generals and the flower of the army of Spain, they proclaimed the Cuban Republic in August last, to be com­ posed of five States. In September the home rulers sent a petition to Madrid through Marshal Campos, begging self- government on conservative lines, and assuring the queen that this concession would dissolve the rebellion. The only answer was the recall of Campos and substitution of liini with Weyler, whose policy is understood to be thoroughly Cromwellian. If he cannot subdue he will extirpate. If Cuba will not submit to be ruled by Spain, it will be destroyed. The position of the Government of the United States is one of extreme delicacy. The money loss to American trade alone in consequence of the rebellion is a grave injury. In 1894 exports of merchandise from the United States to Cuba reached a value of $17.1S0.S35.' Last year the value fell to $9,498,054. American im­ ports from Cuba in 1S94 reached the valuer, of §76.413,131; last year the total fell to $51,052,125. The United States, therefore, have a direct and material interest in the destijiy and prosperity of this island. Far above this interest is the interest of humanity. It is intolerable to the public sentiment of the United States that slaughter and pillage, due to political oppression, shall go on indefinitely at our very doers. The struggle Cuba is making for civil and po­ litical liberty is identical with the struggle the founders of the republic of the United States made against the selfishness and oppression of the crown of Great Britain. Thanks to the friendly aid of France, that struggle was brought the more -speedily to an end. The struggle in Cuba ought to be brought to an end by the friendly aid of the United States.--Chicago Times-> Herald. . Sparks frotfi the Wires. Three hundred "*ous of armor plate ha* been shipped by the Bethlehem Steel Com­ pany to Russia. Al Spink's play, "The Derby Winner," has been sold to George Murrson, « base­ ball writer, who has been its advance agent.