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V" r S i T^ > -*, ;v- • >•+»)<. «,? _ #v v*t. •*. " ' ttimmmmidmrnrn •0- *W,je. ..-•" AFFAIRS IN ILLIXOIS. f WW*/. *"«»» / ^J' "'"<.**«* '"* * »' * * > ** •• ' " " '* " '•*•*•-•>*' "<- "' " • 3." ' J&. -1 / •-, ' ' - < V >• '." . ' , ,Vr -1KTEXMC STING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Wftt Our Xelghborn Are Solnf--Mat IMF • of General ami Local Interest--Kmr- xtmgea and Deaths--Accident* and Crimea --Personal I» inters. • --Superintendent Porter, of the cen- *», has completed the list of Snper- viaors' Districts in the different States, and it has been approved by Secretary Noble. Following are the divisions made in Illinois: ... t" First Distriflr-eook, DoPage, and liaka Coun- Socond district--Boone, Carroll, BeKftlb, Jo Davleeg, Kane, Kendall. Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, White tide, and Winnebago Coun­ ties. Third District--Bureau, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, H< nrv, Knox. McDonough, Meroer, Peoria, Putnam, Kock Island, Schuyler, Stark, tod Warrfn Counties. Fourth I'jstrict-- Grundy. Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston. Logan, McLean, Marshall, Mason, Tazewell. Will, and Woodford Oouiitks. fifth District--Chamv&ign, Clark, Coles. Cum­ berland. DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iro­ quois, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, fchelby, and Ver­ million Counties. Sixth Distiiet--Adams, Brown, Calhoun. Cass, Christian, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin. Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Pike, Sangamon, and Scott Counties. Seventh District--Bond, Clay, Clinton, Craw­ ford, Effing'ajim, Fayelts, Jasper. Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Richland, St. Clair, and Washington Counties. Eighth District--Alexander, Edwards, Frank­ lin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jef­ ferson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Va«<|A lnl. C-1:^« Uo r*T Kandolph, Saline, Union, "W aba White, and Williamson Counties. "Wayne, --The annual meeting of the Illinois National Cluerd Association was held at Springfield last week, with 200 members in attendance. The constitution was so amended ne to. admit to honorary mem­ bership officers of the United StateB Army who have shown an interest in the Na­ tional Guard, and Major General Crook, Captain Gaines Lawson, Twenty-fifth Infantry; Captain Philip Reade, Third Infantry; Lieutenant W. V. Kennan, of General Crook's staff, and Lieutenant Loais Greene, Quartermaster in the United States Army, were admitted to membership. A paper was read by Snr- geon General Matthews on the adoption of the ambulance and hospital system of the United States Army by the National Guard of Illinois, which provoked con liderable discussion. --The Lima Lake level is completed. The work was begun on the 17th of July last, and has cost $59,000. There are now three levee districts on the Illinois side of the Mississippi north of Quincy--the Indian Grave, Lima Lake and Hunt--and the work done on them during the last year cost about $140,000. These three districts embrace 46,000 acres of very rich farming lands, and when the levees are absolutely safe the land will be very valuable. --The Soldiers' Home Committee of the Illinois G. A. R. visited Quincy last week, and inspected the Home, and re ported themselves well satisfied with the results of their visit.' --The Illinois State Millers' Associa­ tion held their annual meeting at Spring­ field last week. The questions of in- eurahce and patent rights were discussed, and the old committeees relative thereto continued. The old officers were elected. --The Appellate Court at Springfield has decided that canvassers for mercan­ tile houses do not require a peddler's license. --Mrs. Jane Martin, the wife of Gen. J. S. Martin, Chairman of the Repub- lican State Central Committee and De paitment Commander of the Grand Army of the Bepublic of Illinois, died recently at her home in Salem after a lingering illness. --Andrew Michaels, in charge of High land Park at Quincy, was gored to death by one of the deer in the incloBure. --The State Board of Pharmacy will be reorganized with the beginning of the new year. A new member will be ap pointed to succeed Dr. A. E. Ebert of Chicago, whose term expires. The candi­ dates for this place are James B. Boyd of Quincy, L. C. Hogan of Chicago, and Henry Smith of Decatur, The appoint ment will, of course, be made about the close of this nronth or early in January Much interest naturally centers in the Secretaryship so long filled by Dr. W. C. Day. It is assumed that he would accept the position again if tendered to him. --Mrs. Mary Schwambeck, an old-time chop-lifter, and her hnsband, Albert Schwambeck, have been put away for four years each at Joliet prison for a series of robberies committed at Waukegan. The woman is one of the most adroit shop­ lifters in the country and for many years Jhas made her home in Milwaukee. It is said she originally came from Chicago and belonged to the aristocratic gang of thieves that lived in a respectable neigh­ borhood in houses owned by themselves and bought with the proceeds of their pilfering^. ^ --General Charles F. Griffin, Com­ mander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans of the United States, has just issued a general order in which he decides that Col. Frank McCrillis, of Chicago, a post division Colonel of the Illinois division, Sons of Veterans, is not entitled to mem­ bership in the order, as his father served with the "Ohio squirrel-hunters" and was never mustered into the United States service. Col. McCrillis served two terms as Colonel of tlae Illinois Division Sons of .Veterans. --The programme is announced for the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Illi­ nois State Teachers' Association, to be bgld at Springfield December 26 and 27. The work will be done this year in five sections--county superintendents; princi- pals, primary teachers, high schoolteach­ ers, and college instructors. The general meetings will be held only in the even- -v v f « °n 0,6 ••eaing of the 26th the a*» w- sociation will be addressed by Dr. W. T, Harris, United States Commissioner of %,••• Education. 1: 5 --It i« claimed that iron ore, man­ ganese, has been found near Peoria in inexhaustible quantities. The vein is fifteen feet thick and extends over a large territory. Specimens of the ore have been sent to Pittsburgh for analysis and assay. If the report is favorable §£* * measures will be taken at once to connect r 4t with the new *°m*g mill, and blast E .( 7 ' furnaces will be erected to reduce it. Ex- • , " perts have long insisted that there is icea > % in that vicinity. j&L'-V. --The Second Congregational Church Jjpjmr^eld was burned last week, f * ̂U & *nUy covered h? tesminssi Sf®5'-' ,eles"",0 a"CB*,Jn- .FIGURES FiiOll WIN DOM. OUR POSTAL SERVICE. CIVIL-SERVICE REPORT j DEATH 15 AWFUL FORM. ter Ocean: The workm«n have practically ootnpleted the repairing and refurnishing of the Governor's mansion, provided for by the Iftst Legislature, and the result is that the residence of the Gov­ ernor becomes a luore beautiful, r.iry. and taste­ ful placf than it tver was before. The amount appropriai ed for the pnrpose was ^13.500, and one of the Trustees in charge'of the work says they are satisfied they have got about !y20,000 worth of improvement out of the money. All the contracts were let at very favorable figures for the State, and ths wx>rk claimed to te first-class in all respects. The old mansion had no system of Bewerage. under the improvements the old CCFS-pools are all banished, and a complete sewerage system substituted, with a system of ventilation foi all compartments of the building. The walls have been artistically treated, and now show a complete job of excellent frescoing. The old Bquat windows are fione, and large, heavy plate- glass has taken th 'ir place. New carpets on the floors harmonize with everything else, and at last the official residence of the Governor of Illinois is a place of which th* people at a great State need not be ashamed. --A circular from the census bureau at Washington makes official announcement of the fact that James H. Blodgett, A. M., of Bockford, a gentleman of long ex­ perience in educational work and in pnb* lie affairs, has been appointed a special agent for the collection of statistics of education for the United States, and adds that public schools are so related to sys­ tems of public record that their statisties are obtainable through established meth­ ods. Incorporated private schools have a place in publio records. Parochial schools generally render stated reports to some controlling body. , --The Illinois Board of Live Stock Commissioners has issued a call for a national conference of all State boards having in charge the work of exterminat­ ing contagious diseases among domestic animals, to be held 'in Springfield, Dec. 18 and 19. The purpose is to discuss what additional legislation should be recommended for the prevention of the spread of diseases among cattle. --Chicago Herald: Bichard Mnlhoek, a Hollander, 23 years old, who for the gast two months has been assisting Lockup Keeper Kelaher, of the Twelfth Street Station, for his board and shelter, has re­ ceived word that his grandfather, a wealthy man of Botterdam, had died and left him 150,000 guilders (about $60,- 000), and that the cash would be forwarded to him soon. The lucky fellow loft home early to live with his grandfather. He enlisted in the ai my, but deserted and came to America a year ago. On his departure his grand­ father gave him his blessing and one ci­ gar--nothing else. He says ho intends to stay in Chicago to see the World's Fair, and that he will subscribe for fair stock. --In Chicago the other dayk tiro young men were sentenced to ,lhe penitentiary for life for thett. The amount of the theft was only $8, but the young men had been twice sentenced to the peniten­ tiary before, and under the professional criminal act in fhis State the verdict of guilty in this case involved the life sen­ tence. The penalty Eeems excessive, but as a matter of fact it is not alone forthis particular crime, but for the character of the offenders. It proceeds on the theory that society has a right to protect itself permanently against a man who has dem­ onstrated that he is a confirmed criminal. --Isaac L. Milliken, who had been a citizen of Chicago since 1836, and who was elected Mayor in 1854, died in that city a few days ago, aged 77 years. --The residence of Mrs. F. R. Felts- haus, of Springfield, was burglarized the Qther night, and negotiable bonds and notes amounting to between $4,000 and $5,000 belonging to Miss Elizabeth Baumgardner, a school-teacher, were taken. " ' --Citizens of Quincy have decided to bore for oil or gas. --Unsuspecting farmers in Fayette and adjoining counties are being successfully Worked by another lightning-rod swindle. The oily tongued agent goes to the far­ mer's house and tells him he has been sent out by the company in which his house is insured for the purpose of exam­ ining the lightning rods to ascertain if they are in good condition, and if not he represents that the company intends to fix them. A paper purporting to be a statement that the rods are in bad condi­ tion is signed by the farmer, which, as usual, turns out to be a promissory note. --George Wendell, 11 years of age, was strangled to death at Bock Island by a piece of orange pulp. --The Louisville and Nashville Bail- road C ompany will remove its car and machine shops from Mount Vernon, I1L, to Evansville, Ind. The citizens of the former place sought to have the company enjoined from so doing, but were unsuc­ cessful. « --Carrollton is to bore for an artesian well. The contract provides that the company bore 1,000 feet for $2.25 a foot, the boring done after the first 1,000 feet .to be done at the city's option at the fol­ lowing rates a foot: First 200 feet. $2.40 afoot; next 200feet, $2.60 a foot; next 200 feet, $¥.80 a foot; next 200 feet, $3.10 a foot, and the next 200 feet, $3.50 a foot --Dr. J. H. Bauch, Secretary of the State Board of Health,, has received an application from the Medical Examining Board of, Florida for the report of the Illinois Board of Health, and also two inquiries from Ohio and Indiana in re-> gard to the standing of the medical schools. The Board of Health of the State is being constantly referred to ait authority on such matters. The Northwestern Illinois Poultry Association held its third annual exhibi­ tion at Bock Island, last week, with a large exhibit of all classes. Some of the ost notable fanciers in Illinois were present with birds, and the show was a success in every way. The case of Fred Schnellbaeher, in­ dicted at Pekin at the September term of court on two counts of assault, was set­ tled by the defendant pleading guilty to one charge and paying the costs in the case and a fine of $1,000. --A l$ucg£r.>tract of swamp land on the Hne oi tne Jacksonville Southeastern Bailroad, near Manitou, has been recently drained. The result of the tiling has been peculiar. In some places the road­ bed of the Southeastern sunk four feet, and the road was compelled to spend a large amount of money in making neces­ sary repairs. --Ex-City Attorney McEniry, of Bock Island, has sued the Morning Union of that place for $10,000 damages for libel, alleging that the paper h&d accused him of betraying hisj|^||g^f}e holdmg the •See named. ®?THE sECRirt^|r-.^m,. '"*W" TBEAaWfcT.^ / Zr->7V. ' The Revenues and Expennen of the Gov­ ernment--Pension Payments--The Sect e-' tsry'n Solution or the Silver Question-- Hi* Tariff and Internal Revenue Beoom- is. The Secretary of the Treasury in his annual report shows that the total ordinary revenues ot me government from all sources for the fiscal year ended Juue 3'.), 1839, were $-"£4,050,05^.84, and the expend ttures $281, 443.60, leaving a surplus of $l0>,<»5-,>,443.24. Of this there was used Tor the redemp­ tion of notes and fractional currency and purchase of bonds $4~,oS'>,313 *55. leaving a net surplus of t57,470,129 09 for the year. For the present year the revenues, actual and estimated, are 000,OUJ and the expenditures $293,000,000. The estimated amonnt required for the sinking fund is $4S,3?l,llti J 9, leaving a net sur­ plus of $1% 678, SS 5 01. As compared with $103,3^1,461.71 at the close of the fiscal year 1888, the cash balance in the treasury over and above ell accrued liabilities at the close of 188:4 was $71,484,052.39. If to this balance there be added the estimated surplus for the current fiscal year the amount that may be applied to the purchase of bonds to June 30, 1890, will be §163,4S4104'.'.3». Bonds and other obligations of the United {States havtt already been purchased and redeemed to the extent of $iO,465,485.49, leaving the available cash on hand Nov. 1. 188 », $ 5, <35,76?. 40. The diriouut estimated tor pensions for the year 18 9 was $76,312,40'* and the es- mates for same purpose for the year 1891 are $98,587,252, showing an apparent in­ crease of $22,274, £52. These figures, the Secretary says, do not even approximately represent the actual increase of expendi­ ture for pensions, because the estimate for the year 188!) was wholly inadequate to meet the demands of the service. The amount regularly appropriated for pen­ sions for that year was $8i,757,700. To this was r.dde'd a deficiency appropriation l»y last Congress of $8,000,000, and about $8,000,000 more was necessarily drawn from the appropriations for the current year to pay pensions due in the fiscal year It89 but for which sufficient appropriations had not been made. The total amount, therefore, which was actu­ ally reqnired for pensions for the fiscal year ended June 80. 1889, was $95,624,- 779 11. The amount appropriated for pensions for the current year was the same ns last year, $8],758,700; but there is an esti­ mated deficiency of $24,000,000 for this year, making a total of $105,758,700; de­ ducting from this the $.<, 0<>0,000 drawn out, as above stated, to meet the deficiency for 'ast year, will leave chargeable to the current year $97,758,700. A comparison of the expenditures of 1871) with those of 1889 will show that during the last ten years the increase of pensions has not differed very widely from the decrease of interest on the public debt: Pensions in 187i» $ a5.131.4i&3) Pensions in 1880 . 85,<524.770.11 Interest on public debt. 187i> 10i>,:fi7.!)4!).00 Interest on public debt, 188!) 4l.00l,4>s4.29 The total amount received from cus­ toms the last fiscal year was $223,832,- 741.69, an increase over the year 1888 of $4,741,568.06, and being the largest amount ever received in any one year from that source. The total net receipts from internal AXXTTAZ. IMS PORT OF POSTMAST8R Vi- . QKXKBAX WAKAXAKKB. ' 1 '.v . v Dor Strict Business Pr!n«tfiieft In Every Branch or the Service--Interest­ ing Statistics Concerning the Malls One-Cent Postage Surely Coming. [Washington telegram.] The Postmaster General's report has been given out for publication. It opens as follows: "To THE PRKSIDBHT: The first Post­ master General submitted his report to President Washington 100 years ago. Its exact dat<> was Dec. 9, 1789. I mention this as of interest in this centennial age. I have the honor to state thdt to the Post­ master General of the United States is committed the management of the largest business concern in the world, consisting of a central establishment, with almost 60,000 branches and employing over 150,- 000 people. Its agents embrace one-half of the civil list. It maintains com­ munication between the near and the remote places of the country with frequency, celerity and security. The number and value of its messages are such that the imagination can scarcely form a conception of them. The capital in use in carrying on this vast business was last year $1 to each man, woman and child in the United States; nevertheless, the postal service is not a money making enterprise. It is not in­ tended to be. It's a mistake to expect it to be self-sustaining until it is fully per­ fected. The postoffiee is the visible form of the federal government to every com­ munity and to every citizen. Its hand is the only one that touches the local life, the social interests and business concerns of every neighborhood. It brings the government to every door in the land and makes it the ready and faithful servitor of everf interest of commerce and society. The peoD e, trom whom aione this all- pervading agency springs into action, and by whose encouragement alone it can sup- a**KAR-L •* ' 'V^\; IKECSlOlEKDAnOKIb ' System In IBaftlig promo­ tion» Highly Praised-- A Larger Cleri­ cal Ferce Asked For -- Statement of the Public Debt at tlae- Beginning of the Month. ( The annual report of the Civil Service Commission !s a vigorously written docu­ ment, considerable of it being devoted to the laudation of the "merit" system, and, by implication a denunciation of the patron- age system. The Commissioners claim that the advantages- of the former have now been demonstrated beyond any dispute. They declare that the criticism of the politicians that the exam­ inations are not practical are very far from the truth, and show that the ques­ tions are invariably framed with due re­ gard to the particular class of work upon which the applicants for position are to enter. It is further claimed that the- ex­ aminations are conducted with strict im­ partiality and that every effort ha? been made by the commissioners to prevent vio­ lations and evasions of the law. The commission recommends that tbey be given power to administer oaths, as they are now directed by law to make ex­ aminations touching the enforcement and effect of civil service rules; that local boards of examiners be made up of persons not in the government employ, so that they maybe independent of the appointing officer?*, or, better still, that a central board of twenty examiners be established at Washington, who shall mark all papers, and, finally, that the appropriations for the support of the commission be in­ creased. In this connection it is stated that the clerical force employed daring the year has been overworked, and that, notwithstanding this fact, the marking of examination papers was fully two months in arrears at the end of the year. The present force in the employ of the com­ mission numbers fourteen, and an increase , r of eight is asked. The estimate ot the ply their jealyus needs, simply want the j expenditures for the coming year is $53,- apMkGA<T8T Bl XHK UKK1IMUS VKIBVRA BUILDING. { system administered with such efficiency | and economy that it shall offer them more 1 and more accommodations and tax them less and less. The only method I can sug- | gesfc by which all their desires may be ! gratified is not merely to talic about the 1 application ot business principles to tbe department. It is really to apply them. | It is not to work in poor quarters, it ia I not to transport mails afoot when they : should go in railroad traius; it is not to tolerate disloyal or listless employes if better ones can be had; it is not finally to keep unwillingly abreast of the times; it is always to lead the times. "Ancient regulations and time-honored customs require the Postmaster General to make numberless signatures each day to vouchers, journals and papers that could as well fall into other hands. Be must receive delegations of the people who have claims of all sorts to present, must make appointments to office and removals, must establish offices and hear suggestions. The Senators and members of the House must represent their constituents at the Postoffiee department and have the Post­ master General's best attention consider­ ing the 2.GOO presidential cases. Com­ plaints of irregularity at the various post- offices and demands for enlarged service come to the ear of the Postmaster General. The various department heads must refer many subjects and be in frequent consul­ tation on the dally work of the office. There is but little time to originate plan*, to study the means of developing the sys­ tem, or to improve the servioe. The Post­ master General is continually in the deep ,^Sea' ^re'ar were (drudgery of each day's recurring duties, $1 0,881,51?. 92, being an increase over the year 1888 of $1,5^4,04 *. 91. The Secretary thinks a part of the sur­ plus might be used lu enlarging our for­ eign markets, strengthening the coast de­ fenses, and building up the navy. The expedient of purchasing b(onds is of doubt­ ful wisdom, he says, because it is mani­ festly wrong to take money from the peo­ ple for the cancellation of bonds, to the saving of only about 2 per cent of inter­ est, when it is worth to them, perhaps, three times as much in their business. It is ratber through a reduction of customs receipts and internal taxes that an unnec­ essary accumulation of money in the treasury should be avoided. A table is given showing that the total tax on tobacco was $31,8'>0,837 53. The repeal of this tax would reduce the sur­ plus about $32,0')0,00 >. "There is a general agreement," savs the Secretary, "that a revision of the tar­ iff and customs laws is urgently needed. I believe it to be the dominant sentimenCv ot the conntrv that in the adjustment of duties on imports protection to home in­ dustry should be a governing considera­ tion." The Secretary recommenls that the many inequalities, conflicting provisions, and ambiguities in the present law b9 cor­ rected, and that uniformity of assessment at the various ports be secured if possible. A large part of the report is devoted to details of the customs her > ice and to tables giving statistics of imports and exports during the last three fiscal years. On the question of silver coinage the Secretary says: ' 'The continued coinage of the silver dol­ lar, at a constantly increasing monthly quota, is a disturbing element in tbe other* wi&e excellent financial condition o£ the and with but little Opportunity to attend to anything beyond tbe routine work." Mr. % an a ma iter says h s chief recom­ mendation is the creation of the office of fourth assistant postmaster-general. He •ays what is needed first is a fourth assist­ ant postmaster-general to be in direct charge of the great divisions of the railway mail, tbe foreign mail, the money order office, the registry and supplies divisions, and the dead letter office. Congress should create this new place and the best educated postal man in the service at the Postollice Department, or in any of the {>9,000 postotiices should be found and made general manager. Mr. Wanamaker wants a new depart­ ment building and a new building for work in the city postoffiee. He discusses the telegraph question at length, and says: "1 respectfully ask that such legislation be enacted as is necessary to empower the poftnihster general to enter iuto contract with responsible parties for a term not ex­ ceeding five years on conditions favorable to the government for the purpose of es­ tablishing a limited post and telegraph service," The report favors pensions or retire­ ment allowances for old employes of the department. On the question of Sunday mails It says: "This subject shall continue to receive my thoughtful consideration, and I shall make use of all proper means tending toward tbe minimizing ot post- office work upon Sunday, because I be­ lieve that tbe government should, as far as possible, make no requirements which will prohibit its employes from enjoying a day of rest." One cent postage, the report says, is an eaty possibility of the near future and must come as a matter of course. The Postmaster General states that the country and a positive hinderance to anyl increase in the number of postotiices since international agreement looking to the 1880 is 15,999, and that during tbe same free coinage of both metals at a fixed ratio. No proper effort has been spared bv the Treasury department to put in cir­ culation the dollars coined, but without success, and the point has been, or soon will be, reached where the further coinage of silver will become a waste of public money." After specifying tbe various causes of the depreciation of silver, the Secretary says it is unquestionably true that public sentiment and commercial and industrial necessity demand the joint use of both gold and Bilver as money. Neither can bs discarded without the most serious conse* Cuences. The problem is, therefore, says Mr. Windom, bow we shall use both gold and silver. He briefly considers the vari­ ous solutions offered and points out the obiections to them. The Secretary then makes the following im portant recommendation: "Issue treasury notes against deposits of silver bullion at the market price of silvar when deposited, payable on demand in such quantities of silver bullion as will eaual in value, at the date of presentation, the number of dollars expressed on the> face of the notes at the market price of silver or in gold, at the option of the gov­ ernment, of in silver dollars at the option of the holder. Repeal the compulscry feature of the present coinage act." Among the advantages which the Secre-r tary claims- for the measure are that it I would bring into use all the money metal | of the country'; it'Would give a1 paper cur- • rency not subject' to undue or arbitrary' I inflation, or contraction; it wiould enhance' the Value of silver dhd open the way' to its free coinage; gold would be re- ; lieved of part of the work required1 of it; it would meet the wants of those de­ siring a larger volume of circulation, and1 I it would be aclvantageous to silver' pro- I ducera. Tbe Secretary gives many facts • and figures tending to support the posN i tion taken by him. | The report concludes with a brief con­ sideration of matters relating to national bauks, immigration, Chineseexclusion act. Internal revenue, and the civil service. Pedestrianism. Jones (to fat friend)--Do you walk much ? ' Fat friend--Well. I ehonld say BO. I expect to lose twenty-five pounds. Jones--Good idea. The more you lose the more you'll gain, as far as per­ sonal appearance is eonoerned.--Texa$ < iSif tings. period the length of the routes has in creased 72,159 miles, the gross revenue $22,8t,611 and that the number of stamps issued for the last year was 1,085.980,840. The total expenditure to foreign steam­ ships duriug the last fiscal year was 582.57, ^ the amount paid to American steamships $109, ^24.14. The aggregate amount of the money orders issued in the United States for payment in Europe large­ ly exceed the aggregate amount of money orders issued in those countries for pay­ ment here The amount issued for pay­ ment in tbe United Kingdom was $5,117,- 159, and the amount issued there for payment here was only $860,066. If letters and arguments ana articles in the newspapers presented at the department are evidence of interest there is a growing sentiment in favor of the government offering through tbe postoffiee a depository for savings. The deficiency in tbe revenue for the fiscal year is $(5,350,183; gross receipts, $>6,191,090. Commodore Walker, chief of the bureau of navigation, in bis annual re­ port recommends that tbe term of enlist­ ment be increased *o four years; that ap­ prentices be enlisted until twenty-four years ot age and be entitled to dis­ charge at the age of twenty upon payment of a certain sum; that the number of ap­ prentices be increased from 750 to 1,50J, making the enlisted force of the navy 9,000: that petty officers be given more stability of rank and'favors ttie passage of the Whitthorne bill authorizing the en­ rollment of a naval niali'ia and Che'forma­ tion of a naval reserve. The annual report'of Gen. Hepburn, so­ licitor of the treasury, &how$ that' during: the last fiscal year 4,8«i8 suits were institut­ ed, involving $i:<,430,272. The entire num­ ber decided or otherwise disposed of was- 4,1 <8, and the entire amount collected' from all sources was $288,252. During tbe year forty-six offers of compromise, representing $1,30:»,034, were accept­ ed, the surti received being $76,007. Solicitor Hepburn says that the dockets of tbe office show that $55,000,000, principal and interest, is due the government evi­ denced by j udgments of the Circuit and District- courts. A large number were obtained many years ago and 'in many in­ stances the lien of the judgment has been lost. In other cases the present residence of the debtor is unknown. The solicitor recommends an appropriation of $10,000 to investigate these cases, THE House Democratic oShctiS felected ex-Speaker Carlisle chairman pr6 tem and then adjourned, no quorum ' Wag pmsnt. 00ii, provided there be no extension of tbe system, but this the commission think is advisable. " s The following is a statement of the In­ terest-bearing debt of the United States: Itonds at 4'i now cent $124.4IH.00,1 Bonds at 4 per cent Refundtng certificates at 4 per cent Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per oent ' (x^iil.lOO 111.0.10 14,000,000 (V4.BZt.512 Principal.. Interest *8«3.6TO.363 8.<E4,?.NJ Total....'. 1851,304.0(10 DEBT or WMCBIMNNTCSTHAS CSASKD SINCE MATURITY. Principal 11,847.223 Interest 152,037 Total.. ti,SOU, 282 DEBT BVARIITO NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal tender notes $340,737,458 Certificates of deposit 13,140.000 Gold certificates 133,4811.110 Silver certificates 270,794,388 fractional currency. Jess (8.375,- 934, estimated as lost or destroy­ ed 8,014,132 Prlnolpal..... TOTAL DEBT. Principal..., Interest.... .... *704,000.095 ..... #1.608, KTOK) ..... 8,778,8; ft! Total ^ f . i \ $1,017,37SJ419 Less cash items a valla- ^ * bio for reduction of v debt UUjMtUm Less reserve held for redemption of U. 8. notes 100,W0, 000 681,042,227 Total debt less available cash items II,008,830,103 Net cash in the treasury 40,310,187 Debt less cash in the treasury Dec. 1,1880 11,080,081,005 Debt less cash in the treasury Nov. 1, 1880 1,000,080,877 Decrease of debt during month....! *8C0.(>7£ Decrease of debt since Ju no 30,1889 20,565,016 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR B*- DCCTION or THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold securities actu­ ally outstanding ,jT JSy&JI9 Silver held for stiver certificates actually outstanding 276^004,380 United States notes held for oertt- flcat os of deposit actually out­ standing 10,140,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 10,024,001 Fractional currency ^661 Total availablo for reduction of th© debt $ 421,043,227 RESERVE FCXD. Ileld for redemption of t'nited States notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12 1882.. t 100,000,000 UNAVAILABLE COB REDUCTION OR THE PEBT fractional silver coin I 22,i:t3,43() Minor coin. 102,300 Total 8 22,335.88# Certificates held as cash. 33,007,264 Net cash balance on hand...... 40,240,187 Total cash in the treasury as shown by treasurer's general account.. .8 617,234,504 THE PLOT T0_KILL TSSZA. How the Hungarian Minister'* Life Wu Saved--Ha Refuse* to Benign. Vienna cable: Important discover is* have been made by the police of the de­ tails of the attempt to essassinate the Hungarian prime minister, Tisza. Four persons were designated by tbe conspira­ tors to place dynamite beneath the pavement, with such connections that it could be exploded under the feet of the minister as be passed in or out. The minister's life was saved by the fact that a member of the opposition was let into the secret by the conspirators and succeeded in persuading them to abandon their plan. In the debate on the budget in the lower House. Minister Tisza spoke strongly against the tactics of the opposition and declared emphatically that be had no in­ tention of resigning. ON A PAYING ERRAND. Three Bllnnesotan* and an Ionan Going " to Europe for Large Legacies. A Faribanlt (Minn.) dispatch says: Mr. Joseph Thompson, Mr. J. W. Thompson, end Mrs. Keougb, of Faribault, and Mrs. Warhurst, of Iowa, are heirs to millions.'^ The Messrs. Thompson have left for Bir­ mingham, England, to settle the estate of John W. Jackson, their uncle, who left tbem a fortune of $4,000,000. While there they trill look up the estate of their grand­ father, who was very wealthy, and one or two other estates running into the millions. They are tbe only living relatives. MORMON ISM_IN MANITOBA. The Settlement There in a Flourishing Condition. Ottawa (Ont) dispatch: Mr. Parmalee, assistant minister of agricaltore, who has just returned from visiting the Mormon settlement in the Northwest, says they have turned the wilderness into a garden in two years, and are far al-.ead ot their neighbors. He saw no objection to their colonizing in large numbers the big block of land they had just purchased, provided tbey obeyed' the laws. He did not thins they would' attempt- to' practios polygamy. Wa»hinjj(Vn UOMI|I. JOSEPH A.- NEILI ,. examiner of National banks in Pennsylvania, has* resigned! THE plan of establishing: a permanent internation&l marine commission has been unfavorably reported1 upon by a committee of the international marihef'congrew THE United States steamer Enterprise has been ordered to prdCoAd to Antwerp to receive the remaint'of ex-MiniStfcr Pen­ dleton anft to convey tbeob' tothe United States for burial. The Mammoth Structure Burned WfeM the Seventh Floor Was Filled with Km- ployes--Seven Dend Bodies Recow-ered and Others Supported to Be In the Baku, [Minneapolis telegram.] About an hour befere midnight Are >ioke out in the third- fieor of the Trifcaae newspaper building in- this city and the building is a total lossj. with a loss of life ; of fifteen or twenty and' possibly more. The fire,which started1 on the third floor at about 10:30, made sush rapid headway that in a very few moments the sixty-five men working on the seventh floor lounA that escape was being cut off and made » dash in a body for the stairway. Forty made the run safely and got out. The- *"est made a frantic effort to get through the blinding smoke. Five of these were cut off at the fourth floor and jumped to the pavement. Three of them were badly hurt and the other two killed, being man­ gled frightfully. The fire broke out in the third floor and seen the upper stories were cut o f from the sfreet The building was on the cor­ ner and the only adjoining buildings were only eae^story in height, so that no means of escape was afforded in that direction. The flames cut off the escape of the Pion­ eer Press force on tbe sixth floor as well as the Tribune folks on the seventh and eighth. Reporter Barnes ef the Pioneer Press had a narrow escape from the build­ ing and left behind him . Milton Pickett^ the assistant city editor and one of the old­ est men in the service of the paper. Pick­ ett was lost in the burning building. Bnt the Tribune force suffered most. They were located higher in the building and had less warning of their danger. John Olsen, the president of a Dakota college, was in the composing rooms at tbe time the flames broke out looking af­ ter an advertisement to be inserted in the morning paper. He jumped from one of the windows to escape the flames and met with an even more horrible death from shattered limbs and body. James F. Igoe, the night operatorof tbe Associated Press, met with a sad death as the result of his faithfulness to his employ­ ers. Be was at work on the seventh floor when the report of the fire was first re­ ceived, and immediately opened his key, stating the fact to the head office at Chi­ cago and asking for a minute's time to investigate. Soon be returned to his instrument, apparently thinking be was safe, and told the sending operator to continue. In a moment ho said he would have to "skip," and found too late that escape was cut off. He jumped from the seventh story window, and was so badly injured that he died before reaching the hospital. He leaves a family. An old man named Pierce, a printer, was also killed. A. J. Blethen, the proprietor of the Tribune, says that be heard the cry of fire and started down stairs to investigate. On the third floor he found the flames burst­ ing out of the Union League rooms and . saw some man tryi.ig unsuccessfully to subdue them. He jumped into the elevator to get a fire extinguisher, which he sup­ posed was on the fourth floor, and started up after it Before reaching the supposed location of the extinguisher he was half suffocated by the dense smoke and com­ pelled to leave the building, which speedily burned down. The flamed were to the north of the elevator and shot up the elevator shaft and stairway with terrible rapidity. Those on the upper floors who had not previously got out were penned in by the fire, which cut off tbe way in most instances to the fire escapes on the north side of the building. Mr. Blethes is of the opinion that eleven lives have been lost It is almost positively known that there are no m^re printers in the ruin*, every one's card being accounted for. There is, however, a bare possibility that some printers had come to town Saturday night and gone to work without having turned in their cards, bnt this is doubted. Sev­ eral employes of the Swedish paper, which wa: published on the eighth floor, were in the habit of sleeping in the building and nothing has been heard of them. Some law students slept in offices in the building and !ome of them may be among the lost The following is a complete list of the dead and injured so far as has bees ascer­ tained: MILTON PICKETT, assistant city editoi of the Pioneer Press, dead. JAMES F. IGOE, Associated Press oper ator. dead. ' EDWARD OLESON, president of the Uni­ versity of South Dakota at Vermillion, dead JJSBHY tl £>i'KIN\S<>N. a printer, dead. ROBERT McftTTCHEON, a printer, dead W. II. M1LLMAN, commercial editor of the Tribune, dead. WALTER E. MILES, operator and agent of the Associated Press, dead. WILLIAM LOWN. printer; burned oh hands and face. E. C. ANDREWS, printer; badly burned OP hands and face. GEOHU* E. WORDEN. printer; burned on hands and face. FRANK UKUBBB. deaf-mute printer; hands and faoo burned. ADAM WKINBHEIMER, printer; hurt about the hips. CHARLES ALT WILLIAMS, managing editor of the Tribune, badly burned about the head and face. W. II. WILLIAMS, foreman of the composing room, badly burned about the face and bands, 8. H. JONES, Pioneer Press reporter, hands and face slightly burned. FRANK UOOVEB, printer; burned about the neck. From twenty to twenty-five persons in ad­ dition to those whose names are given above have perished. The fire was so sudden, the means of escape so crimi­ nally inadequate, tbe panic so great, tbe advance of the frames so rapid, that many of the men on tbe upper floors must have perished, but their number cannot be known until the work of excavation has ended, if indeed tbe exact record of fatal­ ities can be learned even then; for in a heat so intense as that which destroyed the great building it is probable that the bones of some of the victims were con­ sumed as completely ss the woodwork of the ill-fated structure. The body of a ' man, caught in the ruins, ia in plain sight of the crowd on Fourth street. Charles A. Smith, tie elevator did very creditable work. After tho fir* broke out he made five trips (the last when the shaft was actually on fire) and saved a number of people. Smith says he sine! led fire for three-quarters of an hour before he could find its location. Smith is sure that more people were burned tLan have been reported. He says that about five minutes before tbe lire was discoverel he carried two ladies to the sixth floor. They asked for the editorial rooms of the I ioneer Press. He dh! not take tbem back in the elevator and he is sure they could not have gone down the stairway. Smith also says that a tall young man with a black mustache shot him-elf on the seventh floor near the composing room door. He seemed dazed by tbe beat ana smoke and deliberately drew a revolver and fired into his own bead, falling dead. Just before he fired the shot he exclaimed: "My God! My wife!" and then the bullet did it3 work. Assistant Foreman Kinney also saw tbe man shoot himself to escape the torture of the fire. Smith is badly buVned as the result of his bravery in running the elevator at the risk of his life. He saved at least twenty- five persons. A. Frank Pegensdorf, a stenographer employed at St. Paul, is reported missing-. He left home Saturday eveuing to visit friends in this city, and it is feared that he is one of the unfortunate victims of the Tribune fire. The following Is a revised estimate of the losses and insurance: Lossea. Insurance. "SKIN" POKEB PLAlgr M V«i(iui lui Gets a F.w Pointers Game. yon ever see a 'ukin' poker ble ̂asked a fly gambler of the •porter a few days ago. "No, I was not aware that were made that way, l>nt supposed the player who wanted to cheat had do it by a sort of avatem or slight hand." "Just eom» uptown a little way me and 1 will show yon a table at a man wfcn knows nothing of «lfr»T»^ hand or other gamblers' tricks cast out as many partis as he pleases and, them back into his hand at any tiajs wants them withonfe fear of detoctio©.*' Thinking to learn something new Hp! reporter readily assented to a trip up­ town, and the-pair wore soon standing in the parlor erf a pleasant flat on Tie* mont Street.. ' ' s "There," sa&l the gambler, removing an ornamental cover from what ap­ peared to be an ordinary round poller table, but whiefr, it was observed, waa $•, eovesed with green cloth. ;̂ | ornamental eover had been laid the gambler said: "Yon dont see any- - thing strange or suspidoos-iookiaff^- % about that tables do yon T' " , M The reporter was forced to scknow]-' :; edge that he did not, for the looked exactly like those generally tne^l' - for poker; that is, it was covered with the green billiard table cloth tip ; |j| .within a couple of iGches of the edge* where it gav» place to an edge of pel* ished wood. Going to a certain part of the table the gambler sat down and, sticking a 'f y small and very thin piece of wire down in the seam where the wood and cloth. 'M met, touched a spring of some kind, and si this caused a lever to drop down under > J the table, where the gambler held ft between his knees. ^ "With this lever between his knees,* •aid he, "I am able to work the little machine which is in the table," and /J Inking some cards from a pack he pro- *; ceeded to illustrate. Turning hit \ knees oneway, up through the innocent- -3. looking seam popped a clamp, into ^ which he put a card, and turning his knees the other way, down went the 'A card out of sight without the least par- k ticle of noise. "If I wanted to use that cud, all 1 < •would have to do is move my knees the other way and it would oome flying up . ? into my hand, which I should hold close to the table, and I could put an- ;:- other card from my hand into it, and down she would go again until I wanteds to use that one. Great scheme, • it?" •* And the reporter -was obliged to eao '̂' fess that it was.--Boston Globe. Pan r 1- " Evening Journal Tribune Job Printing Co.. S&.0M Tribune Building 100,000 Other offices in Building.. 30.an Tribune newspaper Sympathy Which Did Not Worth a lent. "What an outrage it is," said the seedy man Sunday morning, against the bar in a careless an A addressing the barkeeper, who wiping his |umblers with a cloth, *vrtn| an outrage it is for the authorities of New York to interfere with the righti of saloon keepers and force them to shut up their places on Snnday. Tot pav your license don't you?" The barkeeper coldly nodded -and mentally said: "If you get anything • • here you'll pay for it," too." "That's it, you see. There's where the wrong comes in. You pay for privi­ leges that von dod't gel Give me a "%M little brandy." fcMy braudy is t\ye»t; drink, and I can't^tfcrd ^ pafticniarlv array rent was other day. "You are fortunate in rent already raised. I don't I shall be able to raise mine. As I saying we live under a very tymnnoaa Govegnneqt,. in whioh our righti little respected, with perhaps the exception of John L. Sullivan's Bather seat, that, eh? Alittie whisky, please." "You will have to exetlse hie' tsnl you have fifteen cents about your clothes. I am only half-partner in this bar and have to look out for the righta of others besides myself. You had bet* ter go somewhere else." "Rome," continued the seedy man, wiilriut appearing to have heard tho la?t remarjs of the tumbler wiper, "Borne in the most tyrannous daya her power ney^r dared to dose saloons on Sunday." « "How was it in Syracuse V "Dionysius, the tyrant of 8. committed many outrages, but he went as far as that. He even oi palooa doors to be removed from their hinges altogether on Sundays, and a ,> - thirsty man without any money---" V"'* "Do you think it's going to raitt?* , ^ "Saloon keepers should fight this ex». s oise board to the death, and I for one anlL with you% It is the sacred cause of hu? man liberty, for which our fathers--* glass of beer if you don't miud." , 5 "Now you get out of here," cried the t barkeeper, starting from behind the bar. "I don't want any broke men ot dead beats in here. Git!" "I'll report you to the board,** cried the seedy man% hurrying to the sidflfv . door. "You're breaking the law selling H liquor on Sunday, and I'll have yourt f license taking away. Ill have youA; abut up--" ^ An empty beer bottle struck the in dangerous proximity to his heai he incontinently shut up himself' tied.--Life. Some of the Virtue? of the Skiit. A woman oft herself will hurt weep and moan all day, but she fall down in a Miller skirt--tbey are i built that way. No more short she'll have to take, to stride she j chance; no more with weight thegrl make her ache, they're cut too : like pants. The dress reform is ing bolder, most women nowindoji tbey swing their dresses froi shoulder and throw away the No more when in the walts-tp with lacing will they tingle, no : when boys embrace them will backs feel like a shingle; no : Cupid's arrow flios. whea love is and reeking, will the corset, aWjeUfjjtj maiden sighs, embarrass the^fi" squeaking. Quite free he'll wintji arms about, at once his love tale and reach her tender heart * witho journey through whalebone. this dress reform will end to say not able; it gives the women bend and makes them Good-by, tight drsss, you've __, day, we think vou'il have to httwjjff side by side are l*id away the < the bustfo--Atchison Globk. morewh**! M A j l i k i . . . » L \ a 8 L » * . . . . . . >:tS *-ii. Vs'* • . A' ..„i ,*rt PLAIN*, straightforward mfl every-day righteousness ia all emotion and dograaiisas churehism, says the world, ' ^tianity says much the samel straightforward right* every-day moraUty eoaue when a man is k«w»i4ng eloMp