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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. THE .. 0 Queer .Delusion of a Chicago Man- Miss Bloneb Will Not Get Anybf " the Bennett Thousands--Tonnsc Ger­ man Saves Four Lives. Gobbles Joy to the Court. James Herrick was full of the notion that he was a turkey when he was led up from the cells at the Armory Police Sta­ tion in Chicago Friday morning to ex­ plain to the Court how he happened to be in limbd". As he Taced the bar he re­ marked gleefully to the policeman at his side: "I'm safe for ^another year, any­ way." "Safe?" said the bluecoated guar­ dian. "What do you mean?" "Why, I hid under the barn," laughed Herrick, confidentially, "and they had to kill the •chickens instead." Then the prisoner flapped his arms and yelled at the bailiff in tones recalling "Olivette" as sung by amateurs: "Gobble! Gobble! I weigh eighteen pounds and they want to stuff me with oysters! Gobble! Gobble! I took a prize in the poultry show and they wanted to send me to Bill- McKintey for dinner. But I fooled'em. Gobble! Gob­ ble!" They marched him back to "the •cells, still squawking and flapping hisini- aginary wings. > ; ' y:: \ > ' Otto Alwert a Hero. To the bravery of 19-year-old Otto -AHvert four pretty Proviso girls owe the fact that they are alive. While enjoying the first skating of the season a party of young people , broke through the newly formed ice covering Salt Creek, west of •Chicago, Saturday afternoon, and all nar­ rowly escaped drowning. Four of the par­ ty were young women, and Otto Alwert, himself nearly exhausted in the effort to save his own life, dragged them, one after another, from the icy waters. Mina Alwert is scarcely less a heroine than is her brother a hero in the eyes of the good German people of Proviso Township, -and in at least three happy households their deeds have made cause for a second day of thanksgiving. When Otto Alwert sprang into the water, after dragging out three of the young women, to save Lizzie Bauman, who had swooned in the icy cur­ rent and been swept under the unbroken ice, it was Mina Alwert who flung herself over the edge of the thin coating and took the helpless burden from her brother's arms, while he, benumbed in every limb, could scarcely save himself for the sec­ ond time. Scared Man Frightens Robbers. Two men made a wild and ineffectual attends to effect a hold-up in McCarthy Brothers' saloon at 73 West Washington street, Chicago, just a block from the Desplaines street police station, at 5 o'clock Sunday morning. Henry Reuter, the porter had opened the saloon doors and was washing the glassware when the the robbers entered. Supposing they wished liquid refreshment, Reuter asked what they would have. As an answer one of the men pushed a revolver across the'bar and announced a desire for all the cash in sight. Renter promptly fell in a faint behind the counter. The robbers thought he had dived down for a revolver and immediately became as badly fright­ ened as their purposed victim. They ran toward the street, the one with the re­ volver shooting over his shoulder as he fled, the bullets hitting everything but the porter and breaking mirrors and glass­ ware valued at $100. No Balm for a Broken Heart. Miss Minnie Blough, the Davis Junc­ tion young woman who claims that George Bennett sang "Oh. Promise Me" to her and then married another girl, will be doomed to disappointment in the effort to recover cash for lacerated affec­ tions, even if she should secure a favora­ ble verdict in her $3,000 breach of prom­ ise suit when it comes to trial in January. W. W. Bennett Sr.. father of the young man, died two weeks ago, leaving an es­ tate valued at from $100,000 to $200,000. including much stock in the Chicago City Railway Company; but he also left a will bequeathing all of the property to his widow, of every nature, except a few minor bequests to the children, leaving no share to George. The estate includes much valuable farm and city property in Winnebago and Ogle Counties, bank and other stocks. The rumor to the effect that the damage suit has been settled is untrue. State News in Brief. Three men who held up and robbed George Lauterbach, a saloon-keeper at Chicago Sunday night in his place of business, hold the record of being the quickest at their calling of any who have so far visited his part of town. Accord­ ing to their victim the robbery was com­ mitted in less than a minute. Canadian apples will pay a duty of 17 cents a barrel to the Chicago custom house. The appraisement made by r rank Hoyne, the local appraiser, was sustained by General Apraiser Charles H. Ham. The local appraiser marked all up--some from 55 cents to the highest price of So cents, on which a 20 per cent duty is collectable. C. W. Smith, who was arrested in St. Paul, Minn., a few weeks ago on a war­ rant sworn out by M. Layton, a hotel- keeper, charging him with beating a board bill and passing a worthless check in payment thereof, was brought back to Lewistown, and tried and bound over to await the action of the December Grand Jury. Failing to give the $500 bonds re­ quired he was remanded to jail. William Eggert, working at the top of a tall furnace of the Illinois Steel Com­ pany at Chicago in the bitter blasts be­ came partly numbed by the cold. In mov­ ing an iron wheelbarrow that stood by the hoisting shaft he in some way caught the barrow in the rope of the descending car. He was instantly pulled off the platform and fell seventy feet to the ground. Striking on his head among a ..mass of iron, he waff instantly killed. The Rev. William T. Cole, an aged minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, widely known throughout Cen­ tral and Southern Illinois, died at Hills- boro. Dennis Kenyon was stricken with par­ alysis at his farm home, near McLean. His entire left side is paralyzed and he is in a critical condition. He is the owner of 2,000 acres of the best kind in Central Illinois, is c very extensive stock raiser and dealer and a prominent Republican leader. He represented his district of Illinois in the farm congress recently held in Texas. His age is 06. In a wreck of the MascoUtah coal train •on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, near Mascoutah Friday morning. Con­ ductor Charles C., Kniffen, of Mount Vernon, was killed, and Brakeman V. M. Tenick, of Irvington, and W. S. Kelly, of East St. Louis, were injured. The brake- man will recover. Gov. Altgeld has issued his requisition upon the Governor of New York for the extradition of Arthur and George Haw­ kins, who are under arrest at Buffalo, N. Y., and wanted at Chicago for. holding up the jewelry establishment of Julius H'erman in the Masonic Temple in broad daylight and walking away with a lot of diamonds and jewelry. Fred Beaker, an aged and wealthy Pana resident, created a sensation Tues­ day morning by becoming suddenly in­ sane. His hallucination seemed to be a determination to throw away his wealth. He persisted in throwing his money in the muddy streets, and did likewise with most of his wearing apparel. Beaker will be sent to the asylum. The ^inheritance tax law has been de­ clared invalid by the Supreme Court. It was expected that this measure would produce $1,000,000 for the State. But the State will not be inconvenienced. Be­ fore the last Legislature adjourned a similar measure had been declared inr valid by the Ohio' Supreme Court, and the Illinois .body passed an emergency act to prAvIds for the lacking cash, in case the Illinois law should be annulled. The Sheriff has possession of the plant of the Union Manufacturing and Plating Company, of Freeport, makers of hard­ ware specialties, under three confessions of judgment. The total liabilities amount to $23,091 and the assets are placed at $39,409. The principal stockholders are J. J. j Comstock and Or S. Barrett, of Freeport, and .T. H. 'VSfiilard, of Chicago. The capital is $25,000. The company has been Unfortunate, having been burned but twice before the failure. According to a Chicago morning paper G. H. Wilson, of Monmouth, has made claim to having been the youngest sol­ dier enlisting during the ciyiUwar, having enlisted at the age of 14. During the re­ union of the Fifty-fifth Illinois in Mo- line the same claim was put forth by the veterans for their comrade, Liston B. Howe, of Streator, who they said had enlisted at the age of 10 years 9 months and 9 days. Howe was a brother of the distinguished Orrin Howe, the drummer boy of Yicksburg. The will of James B. Storey, the Chi­ cago furniture dealer who died Nov. 17, was admitted to probate. The estate is valued at $15,000, of which $10,000 is in personal property and the remainder in a leasehold interest. To his brothers, Henry C. and Charles W-, he bequeaths $1 each and a half interest in a gold-headed cane. As an explanation of this, the testator says that this was all he ever received from his father or from his estate after his death. Mr. Storey left $500 to Rose Hill Cemetery Company, the interest of which sum is to be used in placing flow­ ers on his grave. The remainder of the estate is left to the widow, Sarah E. Storey. Mrs. Sarah A. Kimbell, widow of the late Martin N. Kimbell, died Tuqgday at her home, 1527 Kimbell avenue, Chi­ cago. Her seven children were at her bedside. She was more than SO years old. Mrs. Kimbell was one of Chicago's pioneers, having come from Cazenovia, Is. Y.,with her father, Neheniiali Smalley, in the early '30s. She was married to Martin N. Kimbell in 1830 by Squire Foote, and reached the magistrate's office, opposite the Tremont House, by crossing through a muddy street on planks. All her after life had been spent on the home­ stead in Kimbell avenue. Her husband was engaged in the leather business, but was also a director of the National Bank of Illinois. Seven children, twenty- eight grandchildren and fourteeu great­ grandchildren survive Mrs. Kimbell. Rural mail delivery was to have been instituted in Auburn Township, Sanga­ mon County, Monday, but owing to de­ lays in getting bonds and issuing com­ missions it has been deferred for the pres­ ent. Three carriers have been appointed. The carriers will be mounted and each will be provided with a regulation mail bag and a horn to notify farmers of his approach. To cover the specified terri­ tory requires a route of sixty-six miles in length, giving each carrier twenty-two miles. One delivery is to be made a day. Carriers will not visit houses for the collection of mail. Collections will be made when mail is delivered at a house, but a special trip will not be made for this purpose. Each carrier is to be paid $500 per year for his services. Post­ master Brooks, of Auburn, thinks the service a humbug. Some country resi­ dents have already asked him not to de­ liver their mail, while others heartily fa­ vor the service. The Rev. James Miller, of Blomington, who was found foully murdered in De­ catur, was born in Gristliorpe, York­ shire, England, in 1S39. No man who has ever lived in Blooinington was more truly beloved or more worthy of honor and respect. His death fills with sorrow the hearts of all who knew him. He was a man of rare and convincing eloquence and of the utmost candor and simplicity of character. His generosity was proverbial, and he was as highly es­ teemed by the members of other denom­ inations and by those outside the pale of the church as by those of his own faith. He was an athlete in his younger days, and retained his vigor and strength in a remarkable degree. This, coupled with courage of a rare quality, rendered him no mean adversary, and those who knew him best believed that he showed fight and thus lost his life when he was halted by the footpad. He carried a very valua­ ble watch and a diamond-studded jewel of the Knights Templar, which, it is be­ lieved, attracted the attention of the murderer. A meeting was held at the State House in Springfield Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Christian Citizenship League of Illinois. E. D. Wheelock, of Chicago, presided, and A. M. Haskell of Chicago, W. F. Atkinson and Robert H. Patton spoke. An address was presented to the Christian people of Illinois, setting forth the influence which the'Christian citizens ought to exert upon the next Legislature of the State. It was deter­ mined to ask co-operation in an effort to procure legislation to prevent desecration of the Sabbath day and to preserve it as a day of rest; to secure a good local op­ tion law, and a law prohibiting the man­ ufacture and sale of cigarettes in the State. The committee also asks for funds to carry on this work, and urges contribu­ tions sent to Isaric R. Diller, treasurer, Springfield. The preachers are asked to help in -arousing the people to the need of these reforms. South Chicago sewers are full of gas, which has been burning for several weeks. Yiolent explosions occur, hurling heavy iron manhole, covers many feet. Trouble is anticipated. Patrick Meagher was found dead in his bed at Gilbert Sunday morning, asphyx­ iated by coal gas. Meagher was 45 years old, a justice of the peace and filled other offices in his town; where he was born and had always lived. The gas came from a coal stove, the top of which was open several inches. f It is thought- he in­ tended fixing the store for the night alul fell asleep before doing so. Enraged at something which had been publishedvconcerning him, John Fillson, of Springfield, attempted to shoot pair, mett Johnson, a reporter. ^ p;i Roy Stevenson, a Maquon farmer, be­ gan suit at Galesburg for $10,000 dam­ ages against George Moss for alienating the affections of his wife. Moss came from California six weeks ago and said he owned a gold mine. It is charged he secured the conseiit of Mrs. Stevenson to elope with him provided he would give her $5,000 in iash, a gold watch, and a silk dress. The woman left' her home Friday with a child and was arrested on. a charge of abduction, but was ./after­ wards released. W-\ > {>.: MANY BILLS PENDING. WORK FOR THIS SESSION OF CONGRESS TO DO. The Dingle; Measure in the Hands of the Senate--Pacific Funding Legis- lation Likely to Be of Great Inter- eot--Other Laws Wanted. Little Legislation Likely* Washington correspondence: It is improbable that the House at this session of Congress will dispose of much of the proposed legislation which en­ cumbers its calendars. Little, is usually accomplished at the short session, be­ yond the passage of the regular supply bills. The question of legislation for additional revenue for the Government will depend on the Senate, to which body the House sent the Dingley bill almost a yeafvago. If it should be impossible, or deemed inexpedient, to press that meas­ ure through the Senate, there is a possi­ bility that the proposal to increase the revenues by an additional tax on beer ojjgthe imposition of a duty on tea and coffee, may take tangible form,rand, if so, such legis­ lation mast originate, under the Consti­ tution, in the lowet branch of Congress. There are on the several calendars of the House 1.4(55 bills reported from the various committers, and thp proportion which will pass at the -coming session; must be necessarily small. The private bills number 1.100, but there are also 250 bills on the calendar on the state of the Union and ninety-nine public bills on the regular House calendar. Some of these are of very great public importance, and those interested" will no doubt do ail in their power to. secure action upon' them. Power of the Rules Committee. The powers lodged in the liands of the Committee on Rules, which'give its mem­ bers control of the House program, will make that committee the practical arbiter of what shall be submitted to the House for its action. That committee is com­ posed as at present constituted of the Speaker, Mr. Henderson, of Iowa; Mr.- Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, anil Mr. McMil- len, of Tennessee. The death of ex- Speaker Crisp makes a vacancy at the head of the minority of the committee which must be filled by the Speaker. The names principally mentioned in connec­ tion with the vacancy are Mr. Bailyy of Texas, Mr. Catchings of Mississippi, Mr. Turner of Georgia, Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, and Mr. Doekery of Missouri. The bill, which in many respects, is of most interest and which will press hard­ est for consideration is the Pacific Rail­ way funding bill. The bonds guaran­ teed by the Government are payable early in the coming year, and either an exten­ sion or a foreclosure stares the roads in the face. For ^eight years funding bills have occupied a good share of the atten­ tion of Congres-s. The present bill, of which Mr. Powers of Virginia is the author, was reported shortly before the close of the last session. Everything will be done by those interested in it to secure consideration. The friends of the Nicaragua Canal also are bending every energy to secure action on the bill report­ ed by Mr. Doolittle. which provides for a guaranty by the United States of $100,- 000,000 of bonds for the construction of the canal. The War Claims Committee, which showed fight on several occasions at the last session, promises to renew that ag­ gressiveness this winter, especially for the passage of the claims awarded under the Bowman act and the French spolia­ tion claims. These claims--the former amounting to $502,459, and the latter to $2,70S,19(5--were put on the,(sundry civil bill at the last session as a rider of the Senate, but the bill was vetoed by the President, and they were then dropped. Mr. Mahon. who is chairman of the War Claims Committee, will also press the Pennsylvania border claims, which have been pending in Congress for years. Other Legislation Proposed. The Loud bill, to cure the abtises of th^ law relating to second-class matter, un­ der which newspaper matter is transmit­ ted at 1 cent a pound, and which has been the subject of much criticism of the Postoffice Department because of the ad­ vantage taken of the law in various ways for the transmission ol' books and pam­ phlets, will also be pressed, as will tho Pickler service fusion bill, which occu­ pies a favorable position on the calendar as a privileged report. Among the other bills are the Wads- worth bill for the creation of a bureau of animal industry, for the inspection of meat and the regulation pf the transpor­ tation of live stock; the immigration bill, the Chiekering bill, for ascertaining the feasibility and cost of a ship canal from the great lakes to the Hudson; several important public-land bills, the bills for the admission of the territories, and many others of especial interest to particular localities. There are also several import­ ant measures in the Senate which might come over to the House for consideration. Matanzas Province, Feb. 24, 1895, tho day of the outbreak, together with the mulatto journalist, Juan Gnalbnrto Go­ me*. The poor fellow had been locked am all these long twenty-one months, hoping against hope, which at times.passed into certainty that he would not be executed. There were the same great cliffs, which constitute one side of the ditch, black with the crowd, which had come to see a! Cuban patriot die. Below was the ditchj itself, more than fifty yards in width, and on the other side the stern ramparts of the Cabanas, with the gate leading into the ditch, which is so narrow that four men can hardly pass through abreast^ Once through the gate, Coloma gave a quick look around. In an instant his glance swept the cliffs above, and then fell.to encounter that array of Spanish soldiers, everywhere pitiless faces, a thou­ sand to one. Two more steps he took forward, then, raising his head proudly, he shouted distinctly, "Vive Cuba librel About to die, he defied them all. As the words left his lips the officer of the guard drew his sword, and with thej uplifted blade sprang toward the man­ acled prisoner, but before the sword could fall, the priest, holding .up the crucifix, stepped between Cqloma and the coward, who drew back. Undaunted, Coloma again cried out, 'VViva' Cuba'libre!" This time he was seized and gagged with a white handker­ chief tied over his mouth that he might utter those hateful words no more. Then with a firm tread he marched in the hol­ low square to the, spot where he was to die. Then shots rang out, Coloma fell forward on his face, and another Cuban hero lay dead, shot like a dog in the Laut rcl ditch.. • ' ~ • •' FINANCES OF THE NATION. FREE TRADERS'PLANS WOULD OBSTRUCT RESTORA­ TION OF PROTECTIVE DUTIES. Measnres Proposed with No Other Ob­ ject than to Kxcnse Further Resist­ ance tp the Restoration of Protec­ tive Duties. Catching Up. The return of prosperity involves a process of catching up. We have been going backward for nearly four years; we cannot recover our lost ground in a week, nor in a month, nor in several months. The measure of our progress must be from the nadir of our depres­ sion; every step»upward is an approach toward the zenith of prosperity that was regnant ill 1S92. By way of illustration we quote the reports of 1,388 manufacturing estab­ lishments in forty-six States and terri­ tories. as made in response to circulars issued by the America?! Economist: * : No. of hands • . , V ! employed. A TRUST BURSTS. United States Treasurer Morgan Srib- v , l- .mits His Report. The annual report of Daniel N. Mor-t gan, ' treasurer of the United States, shows the net ordinary revenues of the Government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1S96, to have been $320,970,200; and the expenditures $352,175,440, leav­ ing a deficiency for the year of $25,203,-. 24(3, or $17,001,977 less than during the preceding fiscal year. The report shows that during "the last fiscal year there was an increase of $7,- S03,134 in the receipts from customs, an increase of $3,341,192 from internal revenue sources, an increase of $2,479,62^ from miscellaneous sources and a loss of $97,S23 from the sale of public lands, making the net increase in the receipts $13,580,125. The decrease in the ex­ penditures amounted to $4,015,852. The report shows the total receipts from the first $50,000,000 loan of 1894 tO| have been $58,000,917; from the second1 loan of $50,000,000 of 1S94, $58,719,710j from the loan of $02,315,400 for 1895,1 $65,42S,05G. and from the $100,000,000 loan of 1890, $111,355,012. From the first loan there was realized $52,850,204 in gold coin and $5,S10,420 in gold certifi­ cates; from the second loan, $53,051,188 in gold coin and $5,008,410 in gold cer­ tificates; from the third loan, $G5,42S,05l in gold coin, and from the fourth loan, $109,327,455 in gold coin and $2,026,810 in gold certificates. The total receipts from the several bond sales, therefore, were $294,104,295. The public debt outstanding June 30, 1S96, is shown to have been $1,769,840,- 323, and on June 30, 1895, $1,070,120,9S3. According to the revised estimates of the department the composition and dis­ tribution of the monetary stock on Juno 30, 1890, is as follows: In treasury mints. .$112,589,974 . 32,102,920 378,073,137 15,707,056 Gold coin . C* il bullion Silver dols. , Frac. silver In circular tion. $454,905,064 Silver bill. .. 120,933,958 Tot. metallic. 060,067,051 U. S. notes . 122,431,148 Treas. n's '90 Nat. b'k n's . 52,110,904 GO,204,451 1,032,505 568,258,98^ 224,249,863 95,045,247 215,168,123 42,198,119 330,057,191, 31,910,000 959,208,547 1,507,407,531 34,638,033 10,832,425 Gold certif. . 020,070 Sil. certif. .. 11,962,313 Cur. certif.. 320,000 Total paper . 180.803,989 Aggregate .. 840,871,040 The total stock, therefore* is $2,348,- 33S.571, as compared with $2,399,704,6S8 on June 30, 1895. Since the close of the fiscal year this loss has been fully re-i covered, chiefly by the importation of gold. The net proceeds of the national bank notes redeemed during the year were $107,891,026, the largest amount for any like period 111 ten years, and, with the exception of three years, the largest since 1S79. The expense to the banks, of redemptions will be $1.12% per $1,000. The appendix to the report contains a number of new tables, which will be found exceedingly valuable to persons specially interested in the financial af-, fairs of the Government. OUR CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN. The Wire Nail Manufacturers' Asso­ ciation Goes to the Wall. Not every trust formed for the pur­ pose of stifling competition and raising prices is successful. A fortunate illustra­ tion of this we have in the Wire Nail Manufacturers' Association, commonly kuown as the nail trust, which has gone to the wall, and which wound up its busi­ ness Dec. 1. This trust started into life in June, 1895. the guiding hand at the helm being .T. H. Parks, of Boston. Dur­ ing that time it ruthlessly forced the price of wire 00-penny nails from 80 cents to $2.55 a keg and of cut 00-penny nails from 70 cents to $2.25 a keg. Its net profit during the period of its existence has been $1,000,000, exclusive of the royal salaries drawn by its officers. The trust started by controlling a large number of manufacturers and buy­ ing up and subsidizing rival concerns. From the manufacturers in the pool it exacted $1.50 for each keg of nails man­ ufactured. Of this sum G5 cents was used for the purchase of rival plants and the balance was rebated to the members of the trust. • Then from each of the jobbers, or those to whom it sold its stock, it took 15 cents for each keg sold. This sum was held on deposit to insure against a cut in prices, and at certain periods a debate in full was made to those who hail re­ mained faithful. Those who had cut prices received no rebate. To further guard against competition it sought to control the manufacturers of nail-making machines. But new and more economical machines were nevertheless turned out and competition in manufacturing nails became so keen and constant that the trust was forced to allow the jobbers to cut prices, and hence the collapse. HOW A PATRIOT DIES. Coloma Is Shot Like a Dos in Laurel '• Ditch at Havana. There wtts another frightful scene in Laurel ditch, in front of the Cabana fort­ ress, at Havana, Saturday afternoon just as the sun was hiding its head, as if ashamed to lend its light to such a cruel deed. The victim this time to Spain's heartless custom of dealing with prison­ ers of war was Antonio Lopez, Coloma, well known .as a Cuban soldier since the very outbreak of the revolution. Coloma was a white man captured at' Ybarra, in Counter Claims Against Us Which Spain Will Presents There are being laid before the treasury officials by the Spanish legation a for­ midable list of what Spain claims to be violations of the neutrality laws, most of them being founded on filibustering ope­ rations from this country. The Spanish Miuister is keeping close watch on tho claims being laid before the State De­ partment for damages to American citi­ zens in Cuba, and will be prepared when the claims are presented to offset them with counter claims, based on the damage to Spain caused by the outfitting of fili­ bustering expeditions in this country. The claims of Americans for damages, already filed, amount to over $12,000,000, but Spain will present a damage roll eveq larger than this. Industry. Lumber ..,.. .*. .537 Woolen and worsted ,..108 Iron and steel ... 27 Pottery and glass. 15 Pig iron and iron : ore ... ....; 6 Agricultural im­ plements .... . 9 Cotton ..... 21 No. of July, reports. 1892' 41,243 22,OSS 9,395 1,735 3,391 July, 1896. 2o;69S 11.673 5,207 633 1,401 2,3S3 1,514 17.S05 13,974" ' • , Amount of wages paid. Industry-- Jidy, $892. July, 1896. Lumber $1,442,011.50 $768,613.79 Woolen and worsted .... 599,417.37 278,665.17 Iron and steel . 407,535.99 214,173.35 Pottery and glass 64,409.11 14,070.84 Pig iron and iron ore .... 145,313.39 49,412.21 Agricultural im­ plements . .. 99,614.98 61,136.44 Cotton 484,680.75 349,377.96 Going into further detail we find that 63 establishments in Illinois employed 13,236 persons at a wage rate of $551,- 844 in July, 1892, and 9,228 persons at a wage rate of $.535,324 in July, 189G. In Ohio 139 firms employed 21,941 persons in July, 1892, and paid them $S43,153, but in July, 1896, they employed only 16,416 at a wage rate of $499,427. This is a shrinkage of nearly one-third in the number of persons employed, and of nearly 27 per cent in the wage fund paid by 1,388 firms. In July of this year 52,448 men were idle who in July, 1892, were at work in 1.388 mills and factories. If this be. the shrinkage in a fractional number of the industrial enterprises of the country what is the shrinkage in the sum total of the mills, mines and factories? The wage list of 1,388 industries is less by $19,214,44S a year in 1-890 thaw in 1892; what must it be in all the industries of the country? Thirty years of wise Republican legis­ lation had built up our industries till an- apex of prosperity was reached in 1892; less than four years of foolish Democratic policy have sufficed to low­ er the pyramid well nigh to its base. That which was built so slowly and lias been pulled down so quickly cannot be restored to Its old-time altitude in a day; but the work of reconstruction is begun and will progress rapidly. We are "catching up."--Chicago Inter Ocean. DECREASE IN REVENUE. Collections for the Mouth of October AEKrecated Sum of $13,275,205. The monthly statement of the collection, of internal revenue shows the total col-! lections for the month of Oct, 1896, to have been $13,275,205, a decrease as com-i pared with October, 1S95, of $475,008. The receipts from the several sources of" revenue are given as follows: Spirits *.. .$7,908,945 Tobacco 2,633,167 Fermented liquors 2,597,599 Oleomargarine 197,874 Filled cheese 813 Miscellaneous .' 3G,805 For the four months ended Oct. 31 there was a decrease in the total receipts of $424,000. News of Minor Note. Iowa State officials jheld 'a post mor­ tem on seven cattle which died at Wash­ ington, and decided that death was due to hydrophobia. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has issued a decree making lard duty free from October to April. Flour and corn, which are scarce, are also made free of duty. Later reports from that part of the Seminole nation swept by prairie fire in­ dicate there were no fatalities. The loss to property was considerable, but no esti­ mate is given. News from. Manilla, Philippine Islands, is to the effect that the Spaniards have had a brilliant victory over the rebels, and have capt-ured their strongly fortified po­ sitions at Noveleta after desperate fight­ ing. The rebels had 400 filled and the Spaniards lost thirty-three killed, accord­ ing to the official report ' , : , :T To Prevent Protection. More than thirty years ago the Re­ publicans abolished the duties 011 tea and coffee 011 the ground that these ar­ ticles of universal consumption, of which the wealthiest consume even less per capita than the poorest, ought not to be burdened with duties in pre­ ference to other articles which this country is able to produce, so that du­ ties thereon operate as encouragement to home industry. At that point was drawn the distinctive line of separa­ tion between the free-trader, who would put taxes 011 the workingman's breakfast table in order to avoid stim­ ulating a home industry, and the pro­ tectionist, who prefers duties that help home industry find do not render arti­ cles of general consumption more cost­ ly. About the rates to bo imposed ou different articles, or tho choice between different objects of duty belonging to the same class, protectionists may dif­ fer from other protectionists, and free­ traders from other free-traders. But there has been 110 time when the whole body of free-traders was not disposed to tax the poor man's breakfast table in order to avoid imposing duties on man­ ufactured goods imported. ' Exactly the. same, principle was in­ volved in the removal of duties on sugar in 189.0, and 111 their imposition by the free-traders in 1894 in order to make possible a reduction of $72,000.- 000 in duties 011 manufactured pro­ ducts. Whether the sugar duty may hereafter be considered protective in character, in view of tho considerable development and great promise of the beet-sugar industry, is a different ques­ tion: but in 1S90 the encouragement of home production by a direct bounty was preferred, while in 1S94 the duty 011 sugar was imposed avowedly be­ cause it was considered not protective in character. This brief statement or the principles which have governed the two opposing parties for twenty years will suffice to show why men of Repub­ lican convictions cannot be expected to approve duties 011 tea and coffee while many important industries languish be­ cause inadequately protected. The increase of the tax on beer has been long advocated by free traders for the same reason. It would take away a reason for part of the duty 011 manu­ factured products. But it has never been proposed by free* trade statesmen or politicians, nor have they dared to attempt it when in power, because they would not affront a large body of voters to whom the brewers and the sellers would readily make such a tax appear most obnoxious. It does not matter that the increased duty would in fact be paid by the brewers and the sellers, and need not advance the sell­ ing price of beer by a single half cent. The organized forces interested to make such an Increase of tax appear in the last degree offensive are well known. The fact that the voters who would be likely to be thus influenced are numerous enough to turn the scale in several great States, which no party desires to abandon, is also well known. It is now about thirty-two years since the tax on beer was fixed at its present figure, and in all the changes of taxa­ tion since attempted, sometimes by one party and sometimes by the other, neither has made a serious effort to al­ ter this particular tax. It is safe to say that it will not be changed this year or next, and would not be if the question were left exclusively to the Congressmen of either party. These measures are not proposed with any other object than to excuse further resistance to the restoration of protec­ tive duties. For that restoration, not in detail but in principle, the people have decided by the greatest majority ever gi ven on any issue. The measures proposed in oreter to avoid duties on manufactured products are distinctly hostile to protection in principle, .and are urged for that reason and no other by the free traders. Every one of them would enhance the cost of living for the working millions throughout the land, whereas protective duties .would directly help them by encouraging the establishment of new industrial works, and. increasing the demand for labor. It is not for a moment to be doubted what the decision of intelligent advo­ cates of protection will be, arid the vote lately-cast shows plainly what de­ cision the people, and ' especially the working millions, demand.--New York Tribune. Politics and'the Offices. . There is one point In connection with the late presidential campaign which should not be overlooked by thought­ ful-people. For many years we have had it dinned into our ears by the pro­ fessional politicians that there is great danger to the Republic in the adoption of civil service reform. It has been sol­ emnly affirmed again and again that unless there were offices at stake the "people" would take no interest in poli­ ties. In fact, it lias been upon this ground that most of the spoilsmen in Congress have based their opposition to the extension of the civil service laws. They have affected to regard ineivLsm as the greatest evil which can overtake democracy, and nil less there were of­ fices to tight for they have been unable to see how neglect of political duties by the citizens could fail in the end to dis­ rupt the Government. Like the free silver doctrine, however, which was vigorously contradicted dur­ ing the campaign by the rise in the price of wheat, this theory lias been completely demolished by the history of the past four months. Never within the memory of the present generation has so much interest been taken in poli- "ti'es as during the late campaign. Even the oldest inhabitants regard thp fight for sound money as more interesting than the fights that were made in the GO's for the preservation of the Union. Certainly, if one were to judge from the noise that accompanied the contest, it was the most stupendous known to our history. Yet the offices were practically not at stake at all. By President Cleve­ land's last civil service order practically all the public plunder left was brought under the law, and thus the only offices at issue were the cabinet portfolios, the first-class postofflces and the heads of the various departments of the Gov­ ernment. The "people" could not have had, and did not have any interest In these otiices. The 90,000 "places" which used to excite the energy of the masses are now under the competitive system, securely protected, from intimidation alul assessment. Moreover, McKiuley is expressly pledged to extend the ser­ vice further than Cleveland. He is a civil service reformer of the bluest de­ scription. In voting for him the people could not have had any idea that he would reopen the public crib. The fact is--and the late contest proves it--lively politics do not depend on the otiices.-- San Francisco Post. ONE MAN THE ARMY. WM Morsenet Boasts of a Military Fc Both Small and Efficient.* The smallest independent state Europe is neither the principality ofi Monaco, with its population of 12,0001 souls, nor the republic of St. Martin, with its 8,000 inhabitants, nor that ofj Andpra, containing only 6,000 citizens^ but Moresnet, with a population ot scarcely 1,200 souls. Moresnet, which is thoroughly autonomous, is situated! on the Germano-Belgian frontier, about half way between Verviers and Aix- la-Chapelle. It lies in a picturesqua valley, watered by the little river Gueule. <• How Moresnet has maintained its independence has just been explained to a French journalist by a Belgian <•.. minister in Paris. The commune of Moresnet, as it existed,under the em­ pire, was, after the retreat of tha French in the early years of the cen­ tury, administered exclusively by tho Parisian authorities till 1817. At that time it was divided into three parts, in. virtue of the treaty of June 26, 1816. The principal portion was annexed to ^ Holland, another portion was annexed to Prussia, and the third portion, sit­ uated between the other two, formed -the neutral territory. It contained the calamine establishment of the Veille Montague, and the importance of that West Not for Silver. . That portion of the country which the Popocrats called the "silver West" before the election, but not since, which includes the free Silver reduc­ ing States, voted as follows th year: McKiuley. Bryan. The Central & West­ ern States--Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon­ sin 1,983,241 1,005,346 The Northwest--Min­ nesota, Iowa, Kan­ sas, Nebraska, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Wyoming The silver mining camp States--Ne­ vada. Colorado, Montana. Idaho, Utah The Pacific States-- Washington, Ore­ gon, California ... establishment, which now produces yearly some 25,000,000 kilograms of ore and f urnishes Europe with about 50 per cent of the zinc It employs, ren­ dered it impossible for the negotiators to come to an understanding concern­ ing that fraction of the frontier. It, indeed, seems unlikely that a decision concerning it will be taken for a long time, as the governments of both Ger­ many and Belgium claim possession of the mines of the "old mountain." That is why that piece of contested terri­ tory has, for the last eighty years, pre­ served its neuti-al character and its po­ litical independence. Prussia and Belgium have each a commissary, whose duty it is to inter­ vene in case of difficulties arising, but that is a purely formal suzerainty. The Belgian representative is at the pres­ ent moment M. Bleytnesy, subprefect of Verviers, and that of Prussia Coun­ selor Gulchei*. The supreme chief of this minute republic is M. Schmetz» who contents himself with the title of burgomaster, and has occupied that post since 18S4. The ideal taxation of about Oofrancs per head, nevertheless, suffices to provide a subvention for the school and for the repairing of the roads. Moresnet has one soldier, who wears a splendid uniform, to preserve order. As there are no tribunals In the territory, law cases have to be tried alternately at Verviers and Aix-la- Chapelle.--London Standard. ••mm '• C'i Hi 820,580 709,939 53,133 2S0.G01 234,92S 240,955 Totals 3,091,S82 2,830,S41 McKinlev's majority in the West 235,047 Thus it appears that if the election had been held only iu the so-called sil­ ver West Mr. Bryan would have re­ ceived a smaller proportion of the total Electoral vote than he did by the vot­ ing of the whole country--McKinley's Electoral vote in the above States be­ ing 125 and Bryan's 41. The South was the backbone of the silver movement in 189G. Will it be so hereafter? Money la Kasier. In New York, Friday afternoon, $2,000,000 was loaned on call at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum. A few days ago, says the Tribune, a single loan of a small amount was made at 1 per cent., and it adds that not for inoutlis lias money in any amount been- loaned as low as 2 per cent. Money 011 time was easy to obtain at 3 per cent, for sixty days, and 3U per cent, for ninety days. And yet there are those who spend their days in declaring that the volume of money is not sufficient to do the business of the country. These facts show that such claims are absurd. Those who can furnish good security can obtain money at very low rates. It is probable that there is a scarcity of security 011 the part of many who would borrow. Consequently they should deplore the scarcity of collater­ als and implore the Government to fur­ nish them to the people in sufficient quantity to enable them to borrow mon­ ey at 4 .01,- 6 per cent. Opening the Olympic Games. The crown prince, taking his stand In the arena, facing the king, then made a short speech, in which he touched upon the origin of the enterprise, and the obstacles surmounted in bringing it to fruition. Addressing the king, he asked him to proclaim the opening of the Olympic games, and the king, ris­ ing, declared them opened. It was a thrilling moment. Fifteen hundred and two years before the Emperor Theodo- sius had suppressed the Olympic games, thinking, no doubt, that in abol­ ishing this hated survival of paganism he was furthering the cause of progress; and here was a Christian monarch, amid the applause of an assemblage composed almost exclusively of Chris­ tians, announcing the formal annul­ ment of the imperial decree; while a few feet away stood the archbishop of Athens, and Pere Didon, the celebrated Dominican preacher, who, in his Easter sermon in the Catholic cathedral the day before, had paid an eloquent trib­ ute to pagau Greece. When the king had resumed his seat, the Olympic ode, written for the occasion by the Greek! composer Samara, was sung by a cho­ rus of one hundred and fifty voices^ Once before music had been associated with the revival of the Olympic games. --Century. j , Tho Chinese Are Self-Helpful. The percentage of foreigners in our hospitals, asylums and penal InstitU; tions is overwhelming, But the Chin-, ese make little call upon us for philan­ thropy, and that only for medical help. Little by little these people are coming to see the superiority of our med.icg^ treatment, and in cases of severe sick­ ness they will sometimes turn to ouc hospitals for help. But they ask no otitf er aid from us. If a Chinaman needs any monetary assistance, his country­ men help him without burdening our public philanthropies. It is not uncoqi- moil for the men of one clan, or friends from different clans, to band together to establish a loan fund, every man givingso much toward it week by week. This is loaned to needy men, without security or interest; and \^%n repaid it is loaned again, and thug many a, man is carried through a sickness or set up in business, and outsiders are none the wiser.--Century. " il m hfl Lotta is deeuied one of the wealthiest women in the dramatic profession. In spite of her vast income, she. lives with her mother in a style that is hunt&4e rathey than pretentious. The Resort Courteous. Lord Russell's visit to America re­ minds the London Chronicle of an an­ cient story. It says that during Lord Russell's previous tour in this country with Lord Coleridge, he came in con­ tact with many members of the bar, including Mr. Evarts. It was while walking with Mr. Evarts one day along the banks of a stream that his atten­ tion was called to a point at which Washington, according to tradition, had thrown a dollar right across. The water was wide, and Lord Russell looked doubtful. "You know a dollar went further In those days than It goes • now," the American lawyer blandly insinuated. "Ah," said Lord Russell, quite equal to the occasion, "and it may have been easy enough to Washington; it is well known that he threw a sovereign across the Atlantic." HaS Ha! (p » Mr. Floorwalker--Why is a baby suf­ fering with colic like a conservatory? Mrs. Floorwalker--Because they are just too sweet for anything. Mr. Floorwalker--Naw; they are both full of windy panes.--Pittsburg ChrOnP cle-Telegraph. "I do hot believe that I have a true friend in the world." "So you have been trying to borrow money-, too, have youV"--Truth. People who eat the most usually think" the least. T ,iv,