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tyk JfOMBTBOUS POLITICAL FRA.IXD IN • ' THE BUCKKYE STATK. .* feiii i? *^fh® Infitmou* Dwnoeratic Gerrymander-- : Three-fourths of th« C*iigr«HiMii to B« Slol*9r-^li« Schsat Ho Kcpagawit to lJecency that Kvea Jo* Fulltser At- in- tickn it. • 'Jk [Prom the Chicago Tribune. 1 . The infamous gerrymander just Com­ pleted by the Democrats in Ohio oagnt fo arouse indignation tbronehtmt the Country. Ohio lias always been a Repub­ lican State on National" issues, and has ^ ;^nly been carried by the Democracy oc­ casionally in off years and on local ques­ tions. In lifti-eu years the Democrats ftave cntried the State only twice. Last (•11 they elected their candidate for Gov­ ernor on account of the disaffection of German Republicans over the Sunday *Dry" law and because many lormer Re­ publicans, blinded by prohibition folly And fanaticism, were duptd into playing Into the hands of the lree liquor party. " « let under these adventitious conditions > ihe Democrats elected only their candi- - date for Governor and had to pull the ; Lieutenant Governor through by throwing . outvotes cast for his Repalil can op­ ponent. The remainder of the Republi­ can ticket was elected by sotne 4,00J ma­ jority. The "utmost that could be claimed f>r the Democrats was that in an off year ||nd with local issues prominent the Stats * *• "Vas about equally divided. Seizing on Accidental control of the Legislature they kavo gerrymandered the State for- Na­ tional legislation so as to give thom lif teen Congressmen and the Republicans sir. The fruud has been so artfully perpe­ trated that unless the Republicans can • iBarry Ohio by over 30,000 majority they Will no: be able to get more than six or leven Congressmen. Not content with this infamous fraud the Democrats are talking of a proposition to give the Leg­ islature power to cast the Llectoral vote . the State so that, although the voters , .anight give 50,000 or 100,(.0J majority for the lleuublicuns in the next Presidential #lection, the Democratic candidate would iave the twenty-three electoral votes of Abe State if the Legislature elected in ' ts'Jl should happen 10 be Democratic. . k; The Ohio Democrats stopped at noth- , in* which they thought might serve to •v:«ubstitute fraudulent minority tyranny for Inajority rule. A gerrymander more out­ rageously unjust and even criminal in jiharacter WHS never made. Tomakesure that they could hold a majority of the Jeats in Congress, even though the State hould be heuvily liepub ican, the Dem­ ocrats mapped out districts without re­ gard to geographical or other considera­ tions except to destroy as many Republi­ can votes as possible and strangle the •oice ot' Republican communities. Where ,it was impossible to do this, as in sec- * lions along the 0h:0 and Miami Rivers, , jkepubliciin conuties .were bunched to- pother to that they woul 1 have excessive, titleless majorities and waste their voting strength in the air. Thus there is a ma- Jprity of 6,500 in the Second District of s Hamilton County, (>,542 in the Tenth, tS>0j5 in ihe Tw.-lfth, 'J,101 in the Nine­ teenth, auti 0,500 iu the Twentieth. These ... ^ jre the districts in which the Republi­ cans aie to liie in the air. On the other han<i there is a Democratic majority of „ .1,000--based ou the lasi Presidential elec­ tion-in the Firkt District, l,b00 ditto in ;\fhe Thiid, 1,800 in the Fourth, 1,100 in %*he Sixth, 1,700 in the Seventh, 1,300 in tie Eighth, i,C0Q in the Mnth, 1,400 in the leventh, J,00J the Thirteenth, 2,0(0 in the Fourteenth, 1,80!) in the Sixteenth, 1,00'J in the Seventeenth,.and 1,100 in the ^Twenty-first. In twelve o'f these districts ' jhere io but 16,00J Democratic majority, %hereas the Republican majorities piled ' lip iu tho Twelfth and N neteenth nre |t>,0 10! The h verage majority in the Re- , put lienn districts is five times that in the democratic. Not onlv were groups of Republican counties bunched together, . -fjo as to make their great strength nuga- ; tory, but lines were m ipped out so as to Hirow other Republican counties in with democratic counties just strong enough to overcome them. Such counties Williams, Fulton, Lncis, Wood, Van ^rert, Hnrdin, 1 ogan. Union, Miami, arren, Ross, Highland, Perry, Jackson, elawttre, Morrow, Madison, Preble, Washington, Noble, Belmont, ind Me- tina, giving an aggregate of some 20,00.) epublic^n majoiitv, are all strnn^led the twenty-one member* on nn equil vote In the State, and would give the Repub­ licans eleven, but the latter would carry the Tenth District by only 114 votes--a figure go small that hard Democratic work might sweep it away. But supposing the Bepnblican* did l>a\e eleven districts? Th y would surely be us much entitled to the odd one as the Democrat*. Compare with Ihis the result of an election held this next fall under the new Democratic apportionment. If the Republicans were to <ariy the State by 20,o0i) they would get bnt six Congress­ men out of twenty-one. If they were to c -Try it by 30,000 it would add but three more to the number. Forty thousand majority would give them but eleven. This is what makes the new apportion­ ment such an ntrocious and infamous gerrymander. This is why the World (Dem.t. after publishing a map of the new districts, to show the outrageous character of the gerrymander, says: Tilt; heavy line in the map marks tne trail of the Democratic "Rerrymniider." Can anv fair- minded Democrat look at it and trace it without a blush for the pnrty to which he belongs? Every crook and turn and bend and twist in the above line represent* thecrooked policy of soma local "riugater" and machinist who is endeav­ oring to steal votes that on lines of common honesty and fair play do not belong to him. There is a "job" in eve.-y curve. There is a nest of fraud in every angle. What honest citizen of Cincinnati can tell under the proposed redis­ ricting scheme in what district he belongs, whero or for whom he should vote ? This is not the way to hold Ohio in the Demo­ cratic line and to win Democratic victories in that state in the future. It is, on the coutrary, tha way to lose it. The former apportionment was fair. The result on a tie \ote proves it. Had Congressmen been elected last fall when Gov. Campbell was, nnd ha J* their votes, kept pace with his, the Democrats would have elected a majority of the delegation. This Democratic gerrymander is a stench in the nostrils of every decent and fair- minded man. It is an attempt to substi­ tute minority for majority rule, to nullify the principle on which all American gov­ ernment is b.ised, and to enable the mi­ nority of 188b to override the majority of 1890. •r. Carlisle as a Juggler. Congressman Cannon, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, makes short work of ex-Speaker Car­ lisle's exhibit of figures arranged to prove that Federal appropriations are al­ ready largely in excess of revenues, and that a heavy deficit must soon follow. Mr. Carlisle took a thoroughly partisan and unscrupulous way of getting a false statement tefore the country. He took the estimates of expenses as made by the administration and compared them with the probable revenues, carefully omitting the $<35,000,000 which is to cotne from postal service receipts. He did not fail to count the cost of the post at service on the debtor side of the account, bu* by re­ fusing to give cred.t for the revenues cer­ tain to be earned he forced a false bal­ ance and attempted to deceive the coun­ try with it. His endeavor to juggle with the pension bills aud misrepresent their character was cquilly discreditable. In Earidinv dishone-t, distorted statements efore the public Carlisle forfeits all claim to the character of a statesman and rhows himself a prejudiced partisan who hates tte National Republican party and its doctrines and wantB to discredit it irrespective of the truth of anv state­ ments he may make. Hereafter the pub­ lic will regard statements coming from Carlisle with snsp cion and give them no weight nntil verifications are pro­ duced. To take his word for anything touching his politico 1 opponents would be nnwiM.--Exchange, . ftncl crushed between Democratic coon ttes in fourteen districts. J hus wbile ' Democratic ballots are mrcle to count for • Is much as possible, some 40,000 Repub­ lican votes in strong Cepublican coun­ ties are grouped so as to make them ; Valueless, and twenty-three counties are #> "fixed" ns to deprive them of tha strength that would belong tothrmun- der any decent or fair apportionment. The result is that while being in a minority of 20,0;i0 to 25.000 on national issues in the State the Democrats have nized three-fourths of the representa­ tion in Congress and will retain it against s swteping Republican majority of the popular vote. Sueh nn infamous gerrymander as this in Ohio is a crime against free institu­ tions. Calling themselves Democrats these political robbers have conspired against what Jefferson termed "the vital principles of republics--absolute acquies­ cence in the will of the majority." Trait- . «rs to the first principles of popu'ar gov­ ernment these political thieves and con- *pirator< have arranged to stifle and de- stror the voice of the majority in order that the minority m <y usurp power and govern. If this outrageous gerrymander <NDiild be submitted to the people of Ohio •8 a direct issue and not complicated "tirith anvthing else it would be repudiated |»y all Republicans nnd by tens of thou­ sands of decent Democrats, That rem­ edy being impracticable, however, the , Ohio Republicans ought to consider seri­ ously the question of paving no attention to the Democratic gerrymander and vot­ ing in their old districts this f 11. Two aets of candidates can then present them­ selves for admission to the House, and . that body can decide whether a State Sirrymandered so as to give the rule to e minority instead of the majority has in fa<*t "a republican form of govern­ ment." The House of Representatives in Washington is just learning that it •can exercise the power of unseating mem­ bers in a way calculated to cure election frauds, and some heroic treatment of that kind may be needed for Ohio. THE OHIO GFBEYMANDBB. The Cleveland Plaindealer and tlie Detroit Free Press are brazenly defending the Ohio Democratic gerrymander, which is so repuguant to common political de­ cency that even the New York World attacks it. The Free Press s iys that the new apportionment is no more unjust to the Republicans than the ola one was to its party! It says that under thp old one the Republ caas el cted at the Presiden­ tial election sixteen members and the Democrats only five, and that under the Us>w ones the figures will simply be -re­ versed next fall. There is a material difference between the two apportionments. Supposing that an election was held under the old one next fall, nail the State went about even, vhich would be a loss of 20,000 for the ^Republicans on the Harrison vote of 1888. 1 h t would be an average loss of 1,000 votes per Congressional district. The Democrats would carry their present five districts by increased majorities and they would capture the following' five from tho Rai ublioins, the f rst column giving the number of the district, the Second the Republican majority in 1888, and the third the Democratic majority in 1890, on the basis of an even vote in the State between the two parties: Bep. ma]., Dem. maj., XHatrlcfe. ? » 1888. 18sfo StojS* ' 685 Jwelttb ...680 an focrteeuth, JM), gg , . , ^ < N A 4 4 F F A R E T M B E I N PCRATF Automatic Art. Many wonderful things are accom­ plished by machinery, but there is one field which it has not yet invaded--the field of art. There are musical ma­ chines, it is true, which produce many beautiful sounds. Such are inusic- boses, atid the* large and elaborate "orchestrions" in which the sounds made by all the musical instruments in an orchestra are imitated with stops constructed oa thd plan of each in- ai_ strument. These orchestrions play many long and elaborate musical com­ positions ; but their work is that of a machine, and does not move or inspire the hearers. . It must be so also with a machine which has lately been invented in France, and which has been exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris, which takes photographic portraits automat­ ically. The machine requires no operator. The entire process of taking the picture is performed by machinery. The per­ son who desires the machine to take his portrait seats himself in a chair which is placed upon a platform some­ thing like that of the weighing-ma­ chine npw quite common. He slips into a slot a small coin, and the process of photographing him begins. In an instant a needle brings out the words "Get ready" on a slip of paper. Then this disappears, and the word "Attention!" comes out, which is fol­ lowed by the word "Pose!" Then the photographing proper be­ gins. A little bell rings, and continues to ring during the exposure of the plate, which lasts from three to six seconds. When this is over there is a little wait, and all at once the completed portrait falls out at the side of the -machine. The entire process has oc­ cupied only a few minutes, and in this time the machine has prepared the sensitive plate and exposed it, and it has been developed and printed. But though this automatic process of photography is interesting, it is hardly likely that it will take the place of work in w hich some intelligence is used in posing the subject, in manag­ ing the effect of light and shade and the length of the exposure, and in the many little details which go to make up a skillful photographer's art. It is to be noted that, in proportion as the mechanical processes of pho­ tography have become more nearly perfect, photography itself has ad­ vanced more and more into the field of art. Mechanism has made photography comparatively easy for any one to learn and practice, but it has not by any means diminished the opportunity for those who practice it to make their work really deserve the name of art. How Cariosity Is Gratified in Russia. The ex-editor of a Chicago paper, who has just returned from Europe, relates tkis incident, which he wit­ nessed in St. Petersburg: One day I saw a carriage containing a gendarme and another person. I asked our guide who it was and he said it was a politi­ cal prisoner. I asked A hat would be­ come of him. "Oh, hell never be heard of again! We don't have any bother about juries and trials. The papers won't take up the matter, and his friends won't at­ tempt to do anything for him." "But if he were your brother wouldn't you try to do something for him?" I asked. "No, sir. If I went to the officer^ and said I wanted to know what they were going to do with him, they would gay: 'Come right in. You ean have the cell next to his and go with him to Siberia to see what becomes of him." WITH a women it is a struggle to pro- Tide something for the inner man, and with a man it is an effort to provide Bom ft thing jor 4be outec *... AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. IKTEBK8T1NO ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Watt Oar Neighbors Are Doing--Matters of General MM! Local Interest --' Mar- rfaffes Mid Deaths--Aoddeqts aa4 Octanes --JPeraonai Pointers. ^ --The following interesting f olnts are gleaned from the annual* report of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com­ missioners: The total mileage of railroads In Illinois Is as follows: • : " Main line and branobM.... » .*,;,• *» #,9S6.C3 Double track 765.G7 Sidings .. t,8Dl.68 Total .»,496.SW The length of new road bailt and operated ia Illinois during the year was 71.41 miles. Th« capital invested in roadu doing business in the State is as follows: - Capital stock 768.271,<581.11 Funded debt wi,803,904,7»4.X5 Current liabilities.ii9,306.1183.02 Total ... .$X,«01,074.MV.W --The Hon. J. C. Campbell, Chairman of the Demoeratio State Central Com- nittee, died at his home in Stre&tor on the 27th of March. His death was en­ tirely unlooked for, as he had been in hH usual health, and had not Jbeen complain­ ing of feeling unwell. He had been aeleep all the mprning. bnt when his wife attempted to arouse him she was unable to do so. Becoming alarmed, she sent physicians, but before their arrival Mr. (jampbell had ceased to breathe. He was 47 yean of age, having been born in Preston County, Virginia, in 1843. With his parents he rettf6V&a: to this State in 1854, and in 1859 settled on the spot nsar which the city of Steator was afterward built. Du ing the late war he served for three years as a priv ite in Company E, of the Twenty-sixth Illinois, enlisting at the early age of 18. After the war he e;nbirked iu the coal-mining business on a small scale, and then for several years WORLD'S FAIR SETTLED. rHK EXPOtykTJTOX POSTPONED OltWDb 1803. Capital atcoK per mile of roa i-- i was engaged as a contractor in the build Funded debt per mile of road 21.576.00 | . . , , Current liabilities per utile Of road 1,707.26 j 1D8 o" railroads. Since lo 19 he had beeJ Total. #50,539.70 Tbe earnings from operation iu Illinois are aa follows: From rassengers .814.182.070.17 From mails 1,615,mill From express and baggagei.....;,,. 1,518,4S3.87 From other sources ... 178.33S.52 , «. • Total passenger department. t. .$17,494,685 yt From freights U,588,000.54 From other sources l-23,3S5.at> Total freight department .$3»,706,082.40 There were earned from othe.- sources 91,528,- 712.97, mailing the total earnings from opera­ tions in Illinois Sj.u,72^,431.34. In the pv»si'nger department, the^e figures shov.-an imriasa of S3iW,i51.3'2 ovtr tin business of list year in the receipts from pusseugrrK, mail, arid expwss, and a loss of s>j2!»,313 in tbe receipts from oth r sources, makitg a net loss of $133,297.40. In the freight department these figures show an increase ov^r the business of last ytai of *53,- 987 95. The total earnings and income in Illi­ nois are shown to be as follows: Earnings from operations 5*53,723,4St.34 Interest cu bonds ownod. 4i)l,C2>.S0 Dividends on stocks owned,........ 433,371.44 lientals of buildings, tracln, etc 8,324,7;72.07 Miscellaneous, less expense 1.280,8ij!o4 Total 8ti3,17o.(-96.1'J This is an increase over the total earnings and income last year of #1,816,580.71. The opera.ting expenses in Illinois for the year were S-O.'iW,- 024.4;), of which i?13,l.S.5,!l37.8t was ehargealla to passenger traffic and $20,11*>,0H6.59 to freight traffic. The incri-ase in operating expenses o Ver last year was i?421,0.»3.Wl. Eleven railroad corporations paid dividends during the year amounting to i?16,!>78,4t)4.fl6. In 1883 thirteen railroads paid dividends amounting to Ihe following are the roadn paying dividends in I88B and the amount paid by each: Per cent. 8 6 7 4 i* t* 4 fi 1 V C# 1 ^ Total. Cbicasoand Alton $1,4')7.«IO.OO Chicago and Eastern Illinois. 237,912.0(1 Chicsgo and Northwestern .. 3,414.501.0) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 3,055,084.0 ) Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul 972,490.50 Chicago, llock Island & Pacific 2,307.707.00 Illinois Central. 2,200,000.00 Lake Shore & Mich. Southern. 2,47;),: 2>.00 Michigan Central 749,528.0 > Rock Island and Peoria..... .. 75,000.00 St.Louia, Altou & Terre Haute 24,<ks4.iK) During tiie year 40,939,129 tons of freiclit were carried in the State. Tlie total number of cars and locomotives required to equip the roods is 2">l,9t>3. There were 557 persons killed and 1,700 injured on lines in Illinois during tbe year. Of the killed 25 were passengers, 172 were employes; of' railroads, and il/K) were neither passengers nor employes. Of the in ured 110 were passen­ gers, l.lfB were employes, and 402 neither passengers nor employes. This is a decrease of 44 in the number killed and .58 injured. The taxes paid by the roads in the Sta o during the year were «2,825.988.72. an increase over the amount paid last year of $8 3,370.19. The esti­ mated number of immnns »mnloved by th© roads in Illinois was 52,975, and thiir estimated aggregate.1 salary was i\)l,003,b2l.l5. --Mr. John A. Gardner, a wealthy Chi- oagoan, has, after fourteen years of toil, constructed and patented a marvelous machine, which, if it achieves one-half what is claimed for it, will proveta labor- saver beyond anything heard of or con­ ceived in oonnection with farming. The Chicago Herald thus describes tho chine and its advantages: It is very large, being not less than fifty feet in length and weighing nearly fifteen tons.' Its inventor and owntr claims fcr it an absolute revolution in traction power, and certainly nothing like it was ever seen before. The motor movement is a combination of plane and wheel. The machine literallv lavs its own track and picks it up again, the latter bein? a;>elt of steel plates or laths four and one-half feet long, and inclosing four large cog wheels, whica play into the sockets of the plates and urge it forward. This steel belt is o^l in Bhape, as the double wheels inside it would indicate, aud the machino is so constructed that the entire weight rests upou it. There is at present attached to this machine a gang of twelve plows aud as many harrows with seeding attachments. Mr. Gardner claims that he can plow lto a?res inadavatan ex- pense of l-^ss than $12. But he is not content with making plowing easy ; he expects to have it applied to thrashing, ditching, hauling, rail­ road construction, derrick work in bridge build­ ing and many other tilings. The belt-plane- wheel constantly presenting a surface of twen­ ty square feet to the earth, it is claimed that it will 11 >w in ground too soft for a hone to walk. It will, besides, run up, down or alongside a hill, over ridgy or unqual ground of any kind and may be made even to do the hatUing for the farmer as well as all his other work. --Springfield correspondence of the Chicago Tribune: Vermillion County has at. Danville, in the library of Hiram W. Beckwith, what ii proba­ bly the most valuable collection in the West on French-American history. Soma twenty five years have been occupied in its selection, vol­ ume by volume, from among dealers on both sides of the Atlantic; and it now embraces almost every book irintod, in English <r French, that sheds ligtt rpon the discovery and first settlement of toe old Northwest Territory, especially that part of It now known as Illinois. Tha collection is also replete with inaj s and wirks on the toj ogr&pl y of the region * ratnei, to the end thac descriptions given by the early travelers may be identified and projjerly localized. Besides these it contains nearly every known book on the language, implements, and manners of the aboriginal inhabitants and their wars with the border settlers. The owner is a thorough mas­ ter of his collection, gli a ied over a broad range of rare volumes, and pruned unspiiringlv to a single purpose. The Governor lately appointed him one of the Trustees of the State Historical Library, and his associates selected him as President of the board. It may therefore ba hoped that the public will be benefited by his knowledge and experienae in this particular field. --At one time the late Jonathan Tonng Scammon of Chicago was worth over a million dollars. His will, just probated, devises an estate valued at $250. The fire and the panic crippled him badly, and all the money he made in the later years of his life was paid ont in settling his debts. Had he lived ten years longer he would have left a large estate, but his family is not by any means unprovided for. Mrs. Scammon, his widow, has prop­ erty worth over $250,000. --State Auditor Pavey has decided that the Order of Tonti, an insurance organi­ zation, has no authority to do business in Illinois, and has instituted proceedings to olose up the various lodges in the State. --At Springfield John Rapps, a fireman on the Wabash Railway, killed his mis­ tress, Stella Howe. He had left the woman's house and gone to a saloon. She followed him, slid while endeavoring to get him to return with her Rapps struck her on tbe neck, felling her to the floor, death following almost instantly. --Tbe Bloomington Eye volunteers these hints to the coming Legislature: .The next General Assembly should enaet a la^ and provide a per.a'ty in th case of any member of the Legislature, any judge, or State official receiving a free pass from any railroad <J'he members of the Legislature who receivo free passes and exact mileage from the State should do so voluntarily, but as they now under­ stand the r ublic demands it they should no longer hesitate. The next General Assembly should convene and get right down to business. Bevoke bad laws and enact good oufes if needed. This ought to be done in the shortest pogsftde time consistent with the public welfare and the careful consideration of State legislation. Both houses could then ad ourn and the members return to their constituents in the conscious­ ness of having discharged their duties diligently and economically to the people. --Ail epidemic of searlet fever ia pre­ vailing at Midland City, De>Wittr County. been manager of the Riverbank Coal Com- pany. --Char'es Rockwell, the oldest native Debate ott His Bill When It Came ftp fcr Vinal Passage In the Bouse--Chairman Candler's Warm Support of Chlcaxo-- Various Amendments to the BUI. Washington dispatch: The Bouse has passed the world's fair bill bv a irote of 202 yeas to 49 nays atfeer an intendment was adopted changing the late of opening to May 1. 1*93. The ;ontest was admirably conducted. Its successful Issue has not unduly elated the Chicago contingent, because it was » foregone conclusion. The New York and St Louis Repre­ sentatives came down handsomely, and ;lie last fragment of opposition to Chicago has disappeared. The country is now united to make the exposition an achievement of supreme splendor. The scenes in the House were interesting to crowded galleries, and at times exciting in themselves. When the final vote in approval of the bill was announced the jpectators broke iwto cheers. Mr. Candler, chairman of the special fair committee, called attention to the stipulation that tho debate was to end of Jacksonville living in the city, died * o'clock and the vote taken at once., last week. His father, Dennis Rockwell, was the first Circuit Clerk of Morgan County and held many positions of trust and responsibility. --At the closing exercises of the Con­ gregational Association of Southern Illi­ nois at Norris City, White County, the Rev. Dr. Shim suddenly fell dead while delivering an exhortation to the audience. --A State convention of the Prohibition party of Illinois is called to meet at Blooraington, Tuesday, May 25. The special business of the convention will be to put in nomination candidates for State offices, to nominate a man for the office of United btates Senator, and to present to the people of Illinois a state­ ment of principles. The call contains tho following: In accordance with our party declarations on the subject of equal suffrage tor the sexes and our established usage ladles ajv eligible as dele­ gate.!, and it is suggested that no mere earnest and thoughtful prohibitionists cau l>e found than our sisters of the Woman's Christian Temper­ ance Union, nor are there any workers iu the sacred cause of home versus tlie dramsliop who are more thoroughly trained and educated than they. If the county conventions shall cause their delegations to be composed in part of our mothers, wives, and sisters they will certainly confer honor, dignity, and character upon our State convention. --There are thirty-two railroad compa­ nies doing business in Cook County, and their taxes for 1&89, based upon their right of way, rolling stock, depots, etc., smount to $681,753.39. Following is the detailed list, shoving tile taxes paid by each company: Chicago and Northwestern tPl.l.TO Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 42.1'iO Chicago, Burlington and Quincy <B,051 Chicago and Alton 90,33!) Chicago, Hock Island and Pacific. 2.4C1 l,7S-5 1.272 15,431 K>,238 ID, U3H 723 14,512 8B,3:U 10,129 B,l>S3 44,17? 3,813 «),175 V./MM 07,912 •4,923 1.273 42,304 IIS,756 JM75 »,281 6,783 • 4,<«60 1,2 n 12,671 Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City K., .1. and K C., M. and N Chicago and Grand Trunk O. T. Junction Cnicago acd Bastem Illinois. C. and I. S B., 0. and C ..'. Lake Mi ore and Michigan Southern Michigan Central J. aud N. I Chicago, St. Louis and Pacific Erie Company Pennsylvania Company. Wabash Chicago and Western Indiana Belt Louisville, New Albany and Chicago..... Chicago and Atlantic New York. Chicago and St. Loais fc'outli Chicago .v.v«* Chicago, Santa Fe and Califurpia Chicago and Great Western. Wisconsin Central S. C. and K Calumet River. Chicago, Harlem and Bala via Total.....'. 8881,734 Ihe Illinois Central is not included, becanse it pays 7 per cent, on its gross revenues to the State. --The following Illinois pensions hare been granted: Original--Alonzo E. Carr. Chicago; Lewis H. Bonnell, Wellington; Win. W. Kcrbaugh. Dela- fleld; Wm. C. Pickard, Ewing College; Wm. T. Hays, Keyesport; Jacob S. Foster, i aeon ; Chat Dodgsrn, Virden; John F. Hunsaker, Cobden; James W. Henderson, Gilson; Thomas J. Wheeler, West York ; Wm. C. Stewart, It loom- ington; Mogloire Denoyer, alias Michael Hick­ ory,; Papineau; James K. P. Uruiier, Quincy: Samuel White, Beardstown ; Eldridge P. Kice, Metropolis. Increase--David H. Plummor, Springfield: James Gordon, Sidall; George Hawk, Altamont; Anson Gurley. JJck Creek ; George H. Hoffman, lieurdstown ; Lewis M. Sliff, Sumner; August Bauinann, Peoria; John Moore, Wuupotisee; George W. Campbell, Marietta; Thos. J. Hark- latul, Atlanta; Aloyslus E. Saunders, Vochester • Edward P. tellers, Wyanet; David W. Ollis' Marion; Henry W. liing, Kansas; James T! Hamey, Hillaboro; John Lovett, Pittsfleld; Thomas J. Carpenter, Altamont; George T. Taylor, Arthur; Charles H. Calif, Beards- town; John D. Spicer, Kellersville; George. M. True, Neoga; James E. Bedwell, Hume; William C. Brown, Somerset; Joel Q. Meador, Hickory Hill; Isaac Forth, Aid; John M. Adair, Springfield ; Porter 8. Bordish, Kane- ville ; Jesse F. Orr, Bridgeport; John W. Bonds, Vienna; John W. Ward. Kose Hill; John P. Simpson, Metropolis City; John M. Folaer, Joliet; Joseph Smith, Claremont; Christian Horman, Metropolis City; Charles B. Welch, Aurora; WilliamH. Bister. Fairfield; Martin V. Todd, Lynnville ; Adam Biggs, Westfield; Ben­ jamin F. Neher, Springfield; John C. Upton, Springer ton; William H. H. Hartley, ora; William W. Kerns, Morris; Jerome B. Quinn, Casey ; Itezin E. Strode, Springfield ; John H Ledbelier, Shelterville ; John B. Tiner. Carbon- dale ; John Stover, Kipley; John Chepnut, Latona. Restoration and Increase--James H. DrAam, Paris; John 8. Whitton, Blue Mound. Original Widows, Etc.--Minors of Henry Brooks, Bible Grove, Breckenridgo and Flora; Mary A., widow of James B. Allison, ltockford; minors of George Specht, Washington ; Frances A. Belt, former widow of James W. Ouillan, Cave in Rock ; Sally, mother of Clement E. Ked- fleld, Lisbon ; minors of I.invillo W. Crtmeens, Belle Prairie: minor of James Hale, Karber's ltidge: Nancy, mother of George W. Pennell, Good Hope ; Maria, mother of Orrln H. Whitney, Chicago; Susan, widow of James Wiight, Ilii- opolis ; Mary E. Story, former widow of James Hill, Equality; minor of Andrew J. Smith, Dan­ ville ; Eliza jane EsteB, former widow of Lin- ville W. Cremetns. Belle Prairie; Clarence Crim, former widow of Jackson Bowtman, Charleston. --Ex-Senator D. B. Gillham, of Alton, who was recently shot by a burglar, is slowly bnt steadily improving. He has had the best of care and attention from the very first, and no unfavorable symp­ toms have developed. --A number of Ohio men, together with Chicago capitalists; have organized for the manufacture of plate glass on a scale that will make Chicago the distributing point for the plate-glass industry. They have bought about thirty thousand acres of the best natural-gas land in Indiana. The largest plate-glass factory in the world will be erected at Chicago and the works at Kokomo, Ind., greatly enlarged. The capital interested will be about $2,000,000. The daily output will be 20,- 000 square feet of pi ite glass. --A number of farmers' wives met at Centralia last Saturday and organized a "Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association La­ dies' Guild," which the State Assembly of the F. M. B. A. will b« QBked to in- ; dorse. It was decided to appeal to the I farmers' wives and dau hters all over the State to organize. The officers of the parent society are: President, Mrs. Smith Gordon; Secretary, Mis. J. T. Me- Kibben, both of Sandoval. | --Warren Brothers, dealers in dry goods , and clothing at R»shville, have faileO. Their liabilities are estimated at over 950,01)0; assets not known. He said said that the timo of those in favor of the bill would be controlled by himself and the time of those against the bill by Mr. Flpwer'of New York. The world's fair bill was then read bv the clerk. The reading of the bill ended Mr. Candler said he desired to offer some amendments. The first, nna'nimonsly reported by the committee, added to section 6 a provision for the appoint­ ment by the national commission of a board of lady managers to be associated with them and to perform such duties as might be assigned to them. The amend­ ment was adopted without objection. A second amendment, also agreed to with­ out dissent, provided for a separate building for tho fish commission exhibit. Mr. Candle* then addressed tho House On the merits of the bill. It was a matter of gratification rather than of regret, said Mr. Candler, that these three great cities had contested for the location of the fair. It was becom­ ing tho patriotism of the republic that great municipalities should thus vie with fcach other for tho privilege of celebrat­ ing the discovery of tho new world. The issue of an exciting contest in the House has been to locate the exposition in Chicago. It had been thought expe­ dient, therefore, to change in somo par­ ticulars the original bill so it might bet­ ter subserve the interests of the fair. The substitute offered by the com­ mittee for tho original bill had been accepted by tho World's fair committeo and was. tho speaker ventured to say, generally satisfactory to all interested. In regard to an appropriation for the fair he said that the gentlemen ought not to object to that. Such nn appro­ priation had been made for the Phila­ delphia exposition, tho New Orleans exposition,.and the Atlantic fair. Mr, Kilgoreof Texas, asked if the money was not loaned to Philadelphia and re­ paid. Mr. Chandler said it was not; that $100,000 had been given for the pur- poso of the fair outright by tho Na­ tional government. Chicago has done more than we ex­ pected her to do in preparing for tho fair, said Mr. Candler. Five millions of dollars have been raised by the citizens of Chicago--$5,000,000 that are as solidly secured as though by promissory notes; bnt theyohave not stopped there; in ad­ dition to these $5,000,000 they gutyan- tee that another 85,000,000 shall bo raised, making in all $10,000,000. They have secured this by guarantees by business men who have a national reputation for probity and financial judgment. But the committee has not stopped there. They have put in the bill an additional check, and that is that the President of the/United States shall not invite foriegn governments to participate in the exposition until $10,- 000,000 are raised, as provided for. Mr. Beldcnof New York said: "Mr. Flower, Mr. Hatch, and myself have signed a minority report objecting to this bill. We object to fl because in our opinion Chicago has not given* proper guarantee to raise $10,000,000. and with­ out this amount we do not think tlie fair will be a success. The Chicago rep­ resentatives on this committee have shown us no subscription list. They have given us no statement, no signed guarantee, nothing that we can put our fingers on. I asked for the subscrip­ tion list and I was told*that I might look at tho list In confidence, but that I must not make it public. Tlie first name on that list was that of Mr. St. John and opposite it a subscription of $395,000. I asked the chairman what that meant, and ho gave me au ex­ planation I could not understand. I gathered that a meeting had been held by ^itizens of Chicago and $H95,000 promised, and that is the kind of a guarantee they want us to accept. This supplementary provision makes the guaranty $10,000,000 absolute or ,tnere will be no fair. Speaking upon the amount of the contemplated appro­ priation, he said that $15,000,000 was not an extraordinary amount, and it should be remembered that only $320,000 was to bo appropriated for the present fiscal year Mr. Candler then offered an amend­ ment in his original motion, to be con­ sidered as pending, providing for the dedication - of the buildings of the world's fair with appropriate ceremo­ nies, October 12. 1892; and furthor pro­ viding that the exposition shall be opened to visitors not later than May 1, 1893, and close not later than October 30, 1893. He said that this postponement was not asked by Chicago, but he ^thought that it wonld inure to the beno^t of tho exhibitors who were to take jiiart in the exposition. The House agreed to Mr. Candler's amendment postponing thd fair until 1893. On motion of Mr. Carlisle of Kentucky an amendment was adopted providing that the government buildings shall be built of such material as can be taken out and sold after the expedition, pref­ erence in tho sale being given to Chi­ cago or to the world's exposition. Mr. Frank said that, nothing should be done to retard the progress or imperil the success of the commemoration of a great historical event in tho city of Chi­ cago. The honor of the entire country was involved in its success. Mr. McCreary of Kentucky spoke of the benefits which would accrue to the entire country by the holding of the ex­ position. Mr. Hatch of Missouri expressed him­ self as satisfied with the clauso in the bill declariug that the President, before issuing his proclamation, shall satisfy himself as to the genuineness of the sub­ scriptions, There was nothing left for Congress to do but to extend to Chicago every legitimate facility for making the fair what it should be--a great national success. Messrs Hooker of Mississippi, Mc- Adoo of New Jersey, and Mansur ol Missouri, who had respectively favored Washington, New York, and St. Louis, expressed tkeir earnest liuye. for a suc­ cess in Chicago. The bill was tbe a passed--yeas 202, nays 49. The negative votes were cast by those members who have been from the first opposed to the heidtnff ef my world's fair. STARCH DUST EXPLODES. 1 JfANCTACTOKT AT CHICAGO VOH- PtEXKU OXHOUSOBO. hmiTtoM teHlssLlTM Knom to Heve Been Lo»t~Ei|[hteeii Persona Reported More or Leu SoMoualy Injured--l>etails of the Disaster. Chicago dispatch: An explosion in the starch-jjvouso of the Chicago Sugar Refinery company at Taylor and Beach streets resulted in the loss of from three lo nine lives and the wounding of sev- ;nteen others. The dead who .h^ye been eeovered are: L. PRANK GRAF of South Union streets • TIEDEM AN of 1M DeKoven street. Unknown man, not yet identified, The wounded arc: D«. AKNO BF.HB, the superintendent. 8801 Cornell avenue; burned about head and arms. MAHTIN STORK. 154 DeKoven street; badly oumed. BERNARD DirrHut*. 67 Kramer street: surned about face and hands. PKTKR GERAI.D. 208 West Taylor street; burned about the head and necks JOHN GH.UQAN, 635 Uni-n street; very badty burned: JOHN HOBAT.D. foreman, 188 Eighteenth ?treet: burned on head, face, arms, and lands. FRITZ GRAR. Union street: leg fractured ind burned about face. WII.I.IAM ISEKINGHACS, 67 Kramer street, burned and bruised on head. OSCAR SCHUETZ. 4X1 Soutli Canal street, fcadly burned on face, arms, and chest. WIT.LIAM HOLMSH. ,192 DeKoven street burned on face, arms, chest., and hands. JOSEPH OSMOND, West Twentieth street, slightly injured and burned. FRANK BAPTISTS. 4O7 South Union street, badly burned about face, handg. and arni9. ind left leg fraeturcd--will probably die. HERMANN STORPE, 4»"> West Erie street. Unknown man, badly burned, taken to 297 Leavitt street. AI.BERT POPP. hurt internally, taken to jounty hospital. _ THOMAS HOLMES,, watchman. Beach and Taylor streets. FHKD SWATEK, slightly injured, taken to friend's house. The missing are: ALBERT HESS. FRANK HALT.TSH, TO Clayton street. MICHAEL HAITKR, Union streets, between Barber and Wright streets. Several days betoro Franz Schla- lorn and John Freese, two of the mon smployed in tho drying-room of the ?tareh-house, thought they smelled what seemed to them the odor of burning •rust. As fire is tho most dangerous jlement in $ starch-mill tho two men in­ stantly reported their suspicions to the superintendent. Dr. Baer, who immedi­ ately caused a thorough investigation to !>e made. It was soon discovered that a small blaze had originated in the dry-steam coils which surrounded the drying-room. These coils, twenty to thirty in number, are laid horizontally one above the other Llear around the room, apd are incased for greater precaution against fire or even superheating In a sheet-iron box made perfectly air tight. The only opening is at one end, where a door has been left,but which is usually kept tightly closed. When Dr. Baer came he opened that door and discovered the fire. It was only smouldering, and a few bucketfulsof water extinguished the incipient blaze. On the day of the explosion this odor, nomewhat stronger and more penetra­ ting than before, manifested itself in the drying-room. Schladom and Freese igain went after Supt. Baer. When he •jame he proceeded at once £o what he rightly judged to be the seat of danger. The door opening Into the steam colls, incorrectly called by the employes of tho refinery "the furnace door," was thrown open by tho doctor. Almost tnstautlly a tremenduous explosion fol­ lowed. It seemed as if the sterch-house had been lifted bodily into the air. The next moment It settled, a crumbling mass of broken timbers aud flying bricks. It Is supposed the first fire had not been entirely extinguished, and that when Dr. Baer opened tho gate of the shoet-froi) cagipg the superheated atmosphere coming into contact with tho powder-filled air of the starch-room in­ stantly fired up the millions of particles that filled the room. Certain it is that not one of the six­ teen or eighteen men in the two rooms at tho time remember anything abnat the occurrence. They heard the explo­ sion, that is all. When they recovered consciousness they were in tho labora­ tory of the refinery, where they nad been carried after being rescued from the ruins. In less than a minute after the explo­ sion took place the 500 or more employes In the refinery were rushing frantically down the stairways. It is a great won­ der nobody was hurt in that mad rush. The building is practically devoid of easy modes of exits, the stairways being rickety wooden affairs, dark and nar­ row, and less than four foet wide. A stream of humanity poured out of the building for fifteen minutes after the explosion. It was fortunate that no wtmen were in the building. It was still daylight when ihe accident occurred, and i( attracted many people. The starch house juts almost to the water's edge on the south branch of the river. Tho opposite bank was crowded with people. It was really the only available spot from which to view the ruins. Another big crowd also assem­ bled in front of the office, and another crowd stood on the tracks to the nerth of the starch house. There was little fire among the ruins, but plenty of smoke, which at times was blinding. The two fire boats arrived early on the scene and did excellent work. It was a hard blaze to set at, partly owing to the inequalities of the ground and partly to the high easterly wind which was then blowing. Most of the dead bodies were not recovered until after da*rk. !IE. BALFOUR'S REMEDY. BOW HE WOULD APPKA8E TBK 111 fit ' XBSAXTHY. • * fe*-' B» haw Bill Irtftemf It*, the Borne of Commons--The- Meaivr* Dtscnssed ft.- the Metropolitan Farnell Interviewed on the- Na^Jject ^ London cable: In the Hoase of Commons Mr. Balfour introduced Ills Irish land purchase bill. It facilitate* ihe transfer ol land and improves meth­ ods of purchase, making tliem cheaper *nd more rapid than these- provided by lJhc Ashbourne act. Purchase is mad* voluntary. Them .s no risk to the- British taxpayer, at- though British credit is utilized. Tho maximum advances allowed the buyer is (ixed at twenty years* rent less local rates paid the landord. The total of the advances which may may be made under the bill is inameaot fc'33,000,000. The provisions of the bill had been kept secret, and the detailed 'statement and explanation of Mr. Bal­ four were listened to with the deepest lttention. Mr. Gladstone followed Mr. Balfour. While unable to pronounce at once on so elaborate and comprehensive a measure, tie said he felt compelled to admit that the government had followed a courage- jus poliev- < Mr. Balfour promised on the part of the government an nnbiased discussion yf the merits of the-bill. The Post, referring to the land-pinr» "liase bill, says that the plan for obtain­ ing the needful security is complicated ind artificial, while any organized resists ante to its operation would in the end involve a recourse to drastic measures. ' If it can be bettered nobody Is more likely to welcome the fact than Mr. Bal­ four. Unless this is done it deserve* the treatment due the only feasible Scheme under public notice The Daily News says that a more_ elaborate and complicated measure than the land-purchase has seldom, If ever, been introduced in Parliament. One thing stands out clearly from the tangled labyrinth--that British credit may be pledged to the extent of £33,000,000 for the benefit nominally of tho Irish ten­ ant. but really for the benefit of the land­ lord. The Chronicle says the scheme is com­ prehensive and ingenious, and if the apposition approach the question In the spirit of Mr. Gladstone's remarks, with the view of bettering Ireland rather than of damaging the government, we may get a scheme that will go far toward solving the Irish question. The Times,commenting upon the land- purchase bill, says: '-We do not like to commit ottrselvos, without having seen and studied the bill, to a decisive judg­ ment. Doubtless there are some provis­ ions which are open to comment. Bnt upon the whole the bill seems to prompt the ci-eation, in process of time, of a peasant proprietary on a very large scale without practically involving the British exchequer or the tax-payers in any addi­ tional risk whatever.'^ * Dublin cable: The Freeman's Journal prints the report of an interview with Mr. Parnell on the sublect of t|ie land-purchase bill. He said the bill "S3- absurd and objectionable 3a the highest degree. The liability which the English tax-payer will not incur it Is coolly proposed to transfer to the Irish cess-payer. That the object of the gov­ ernment is to inflate the value of the Irish lands to an inordinate extent Is clearly disclosed in Balfour's speech. A * fatal defeat iff the measure is that tt proposes to give no local control over Its * administration. In that respect Mr. Parnell said it is a long way Trevolyan's bill, *Kfr. i)avlti is equally ptan against the bill as an insidious p to give the landlord more th value of his land. Mr. Sexton says the bill is less favor­ able to the tenant than the A»hbur«fr act.- • ItM YATES <)>: JMSMARCK. .t A SWINDLER ARRESTED. j. Joluit E. Jameson, an Associate of Sweney Taken .Into Custody. Chicago dispatch: A man who it believed to be one of the associates of John Sweney, the alleged gold-brick swindler, has been loeked up at the central station by Detectives Hearle and Bell. He gave his name as J. E. Jameson, and when searched at the station a large revolver was found .on him. Jameson is said to have come to Chicago to help Sweney get o^ of trouble, not knowing that lie had already been turned over to the New York authorities on a requisition &rom Gov. Hill. Jameson is said to be pne of the best confidence men aud burglars in the country. He Is an associate of the con­ fidence men who lure wealthy victims from the Hoffman house and o.ther fash­ ionable hotels in New York. He recent­ ly concluded a term of imprisonment in Iowa. Recently thirteen'gold watches were found in Chicago express offices which Jamesou shipped here. Besides the revolver which Jameson had about $500 and a gold watch wfro found in his possesion. \ Minor Heotiaa, P. D. STARK, of the insurance firm of Blake & Starr has left Kansas City, Mo., and is reported to have fled to Mexico. His partner says he is short $3,000 in his accour ts. TOM LLEWEI.I.YS\ aged twenty-two, of Brazil, Ind., has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for pur- jury. He had assaulted a woman and on the witness stand swore that another person struck the blow, M (IO Loafer Will the Prlnee Play tfcel*rt of a King. Edmund Yates London cable to the New iTork Tribune says: "The Berlin corre­ spondents of the London press have dilat­ ed on the physical resemblance between the ncW Chancellor of the German empire indBismarck. There Is.indecd, a striking. personal likeness except in one particu~ lar, and that Is the voice, which has not been pointed out. Nothing astonishes those who see and hear the late Chan­ cellor for the first time so much as the apparent incongruity between his phy­ sique and tho weakness of his speech. "Gen. von Caprivi, on the other hand, * has a clear, sonorous voice, strengthened by muclwise in the open air. It was In the sumnicF"of-18«W. during the Bohe­ mian campaign, that Caprivi first came into notice. He was intrusted with the revision of all telegrams to newspapers. While taking care to satisfy his military st^periors, he was not less successful in winning the favor of newspapers, even of those representing democratic views. ••The Emperor has made a good choice in his new chancellor. He wili not at­ tempt to overthrow the personality of •*is master, whose purpose is not to di­ minish his own brilliancy by employing ambitious and clever ministers. Gen. von Caprivi, moreover, is a bachelor. The Bismarck gatherings in Wilhelm strasse, where, in the midst of a small circle of parliamentary stars, the Prince played the part of a king, will be known no more, nor will those famous diplo­ matic dinners on the old Emperor's birth­ day, when the Princess would light the cigarettes of any plenipotentiary whose favor was to be cultivated, be seen in the old Prince's garden-room agairn" WAR WITH THEJiROTHERHOOD. Cite Federation of Lsbir and the Boston Players' Club Quarrel. ' Boston (Mass.) dispatch: The car­ penters at work on the Boston players* grounds were ordered quit by the Car* centers' union, and all but seven of the Jiglity employes went out. According to walking delegate Clin- "ard of the Carpenters' union, th© Federation of Labor had been given in f understand that in payment of its ia»v dorsenient the brotherhood would s<» , M it that contracts were loaV " >ut only to such contractor, » would agree to employ union labof^vf ;f pay union wasres, and enforce the ion working day. „ | It is claimed that not only has th|P brotherhood dub of Boston failed tjj>^' " conform to the requirements of the ni#i^%"J on, but that the brotherhood manageniv^j .if the othef cities have practically ig­ nored the indorsement of the labor or­ ganizations and the wishes of the Car­ penters' unions in Chicago and » lelphia. . Telesraphle Brevities. . %-gJ Cot.K & KXKTT, silk manufacturer* . ->f Paterson, N. J., have assigned^ * yjrl Liabilities, about 885,000. ^ THE Grand Army of the Republic hay > bought a (tract of land comprising th* {rf:' Cedar creek batttie-ground. Ai.t. the wire-aail works iu the Na>* -* tlonal association which shut down tw#>.^' . weeks ago have resumed operations. . * ' ̂ L, R. M. Kxxo, a Seventh-Day Adventisfc^ *1'*" 5 >f Obion county, Tounessee, has been, ,:>*> ' - J Sned S?5 for working iu his fields oi|. * VJ Sunday. t ^ JOHN S. FARLOW. president of theCin-; ( * ** j slnnati, Sandusky & Cleveland railroad^i'# > '>£§1 Jf lied suddenly at Ms resMepo* ta K»*» ^ % ton, Mass. ^ • ~m... . .... X..,ii», * 'A