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In June and July, 1887, the rates on iron and •teel and various manufactures thereof, motive machin&ry and other articles were RII raised. In the same year the import duties on agricultural machinery, twisted cotton, yarns and buttons were all added to. Severe alterations were also mado in the rates on 'woolen and worsted yarns. But the last move was the l&sue of a Russian imperial decree of September, 1890, which piaced at once a uniform addition of 20 per cent, on existing rates. As stated before, the Russian tiovernment is taking further measures to protect native manufactures. The importance to England of these laws is vwv great, considering that she has been exporting thence large quantities of hoop and sheet iron, tin plate, cast and wrbught iron, tin and pig lead, steam engines and general machinery. The new tariff will ^o doubt render larger commercial intercourse impossible. The protectionist party in France is using all its influence to make the Gov­ ernment of that country adopt a strin­ gent protectionist tariff when the exist­ ing treaties expire at the end of 1891. It proposes to have a double tariff--one for countries which will admit French goods at a low rate, and the other one for hos­ tile nations. Practically, all the more important chambers of commerce in Franco agree that one or another indus­ try requires protection. The proposal will hit foreign-made cotton, woolen, and other textile goods, machinery, tools, hardware, hides, etc., very severely, some of the suggested duties being ad­ vanced double for the minimum tariff, and of course more than this for the hos­ tile tariff. The question of revision is now being considered by the French Legisla­ ture. The Spanish Government is now con­ sidering the advisability of amending its present tariff and imposing duties on cutlery, agricultural machinery, cotton and cotton manufactures, and many other articles. Already the import du­ ties on foreign wheat, rice, meat, etc., are to be raised. Italy is practically fenced round by a protectionist tariff, and most English manufacturers have given up any attempt to send goods thither. In fact, some British firms have opened establishments in Italian towns for the manufacture of goods they cannot export. Austria-Hungary introduced a tariff in 1887 which increased the duties on most cotton goods, locomotive machinery, and metals. Roumania has made several in­ creases, covering a large number of arti­ cles. Switzerland feels the effect of for­ eign imports to be too strong to be with­ stood, and the Government is preparing to abandon its previous free trade pol­ icy, and intends introducing very soon a n< w tariff. Roumania has made sev­ eral additions to its rates within the last three or four years; also Greece. Tur­ key, Bulgaria, Holland, Belgium, and Denmark have not as yet taken action in this respect "Portugal, in 1887, made large additions to the import duties on cast-iron tubes, cotton tissues, cutlery, etc. Germany continues to maintain her present system of protection, al­ though an international free-trade con­ ference is proposed to be held shortly In Berlin. ? It will, therefore, be readily seen that the European continent is protectionist to the core, and that the termination of many commcr. ial treaties in 1891 and 1892 will accentuate this position and make protection a still more accom­ plished fact. England alone among the . leading nations maintains a semi-policy of free trade, which is not absolutely free, because she taxes a good many im­ ported articles for revenue purposes. Mr. Gladstone recently said that En­ gland traded with the whole world, and not with one country, and that was* her protection against a universal law of prohibition. But all these countries are "Strutting their markets against her, and in time England will only have her colonies to look to. ' The Cause of Abandoned Farms. • Ithe free-trade organs and the free- trade writers in magazines are persist­ ently making the claim that the policy of protection to home industries is the cause of the decline in the agricultural interests of the New England States. The revelations of the census taken last year as to the number of abandoned farms in New Hampshire and Vermont are cited as conclusive proof of this state­ ment. These facts are oeing paraded in every possible way and quoted with in­ tense satisfaction as evidence which can not be controverted by the blighting effect of protection. If the position of these free-trade ad­ vocates is the correct one, then the agri­ cultural interests of England should be in a flourishing condition. But every­ body conversant with the facts knows that they are not. There has been in that country the same drift from the country to the manufacturing towns and cities that has occurred in the New Eng­ land States. So strong has the current been in this direction for years past in England that in many districts it is al­ most impossible to hire agricultural la­ borers. It was recognized years ago that something must be done to change this State of affairs and restore to the farms a part, at least, of the rural population that had been attracted to the cities. An organization was formed called the "Rural Laborers' League," of which Mr. Stanton is Secretary, and which by ar­ ticles in the newspapers and reviews and by public meetings is striving to awaken attention to the need of repopulating the farms of England. There is ample proof to show that the decrease in land values in free-trade Old England has been much greater than in protected New England. The London Field in a recent number gave the follow­ ing facts: An estate in Oxcombe, Lin­ colnshire, which was bought for 8140,000 in 1883, and for §200,000 in 188ti, has been sold quite recently for $100,000. One in Spelsmere, Berks, cost late owner .$80,000, has been sold for 815,600. Wil­ ton Manor, Lincolnshire, for which the late owner paid $280,060, and afterward built a costly house upon it, sold for 9110,000. Langley Manor, Guilford, cost late owner §100,000, sold for $52,500. Crack ington Manor, Cornwall, cost $92,- 500, and $17,500 laid out since, sold for $75,000. Lilwood Fark, Sunnydale, cost $500,000, • sold for S225,000. Many other similar depreciations in land values in England, Scotland, and Wales are known to have occurred. There is just as much reason for the protectionists to claim that the desertion of the rural districts and the concentra­ tion in the cities of the working classes to England is due to the revenue policy of that country as It Is for the free-trad­ ers to claim that the same drift of popu­ lation in the United State* is due to pro­ tection.--New York Press. ^ DEFINITION NEEDED. Tartll Beftnfr Viewed from a Republican Standpoints e Wa .are assured by Mr. Cleveland > And other Democratic leaders - |hat their party is pledged to tariff reform; but they do not define tariff reform for as in a distiAct and harmonious way. One sajns, it means tine thing, and another says it meaus another thing. Hardly any two of them, in fact, are entirely agreed upon the subject. They talk about it in a beautifully large and or­ nate style without telling us how its promised blessings are to be secured. There is nothing exact and specific in their long and tiresome messages. Generally speaking, they look forward to the time when we shall have free trade; but meanwhile, they admit, we must have revenue to support the gov­ ern ment* and the easiest and best way to obtain it is that of imposing duties on imports. When they are asked to state just where and how these necessary du­ ties should be levied, they give a* many answers as there were tongues at the feast of the tabernacles. Each one has some product or interest in his locality for which he desires the protection af­ forded by the present tariff; and so, tak­ ing them all together, they indorse prac­ tically the whole list of existing duties. They demand tariff reform in the ab­ stract, but they never present the meth­ ods by which they propose to accomplish the desired object It is a well-known fact that the duties The free-traders mr*de this clamor about the high pricc# ihat were coming a part i of their campaign material, and many of these merchants were honestly misled by it. In some ^qw lines, where prices were so low as to be unrcmuneratlve, the Mc- •Kinley hill will temporarily cause a .slight advance, V>ut those cases are few, and in some of them the advance has ijoji established itself yet. In tho vast ma­ jority of cases the bill is operating and will operate, as its projectors expectod it to do, "to cause- a decline in prices, ulttauuuSly In ail fcases and immediately Insome., . ; • The Meaning of Free Trade. Free trade, taken literally, means trade free from taxation or limitation of any kind. No such condition of things exists among civilized nations. England, generally called a free trade country, de­ rives ©no-fourth of Its reveiyie from duties upon imports. In this country, when in­ telligent men speak of free trade, they moau tariff for revenue only, after the English fashion. The objections to this kind of tariff for the United States are numerous. In the first place, its effects upon our pros­ perity wonld be the opposite of those of a protective tariff. It would check and diminish our industries, reduce wages, impoverish the nation, and in the end fail to yield adequate revenue for the Government. It would soon require large exports of precious metals, and bring about national bankruptcy. The nearest approach to such a tariff in this country was the Walker tariff, which prevailed from 1846 to 1861. Its effects were delayed for a while by very remark­ able circumstances--the discovery of THAT 4 $ \ That was a vcjy loving embrace they gave each other, but it would appear as though each ouflhad discovered that the other hold something in reserve.--Phil­ adelphia Press. have been reduced by tho McKfnley.law Uxa point where no more can be spared without incurring the danger of a de­ ficit. How, then, are further reductions to be made? Does tariff reform, from the Democratic point of view, imply that some of these duties should bo relm- posed, and others diminished or abol­ ished? There was a time when the tariff brought us a large annual surplus, but there is not likely to be any surplus iff the next two years. It is all very well to proclaim that reform is a good thing, and that we ought to have as much of it as we can get; but reform is a term that may easily be made to conceal rather than to egress thought. Mr. Cleve­ land's latest speech is a striking illustra­ tion of this fact. It does not contain a single coherent and definite statement with regard to the policy that is to be pursued by his party. A great victory has been won for tariff reform, he declares, but he docs not say how the fruits of that victory are to be applied and se­ cured. The Mills bill was the Demo­ cratic platform in 1888, but it can not be made the Democratic platform in 1892. We are facing a new situation. The legislation of the last session of Congress has created a set of facts that differs absolutely from that which pre­ vailed when Harrison was elected; and yet Mr. Cleveland talks as if no change had ensued. It 1s;folly for him to say that the problem remains as it waB when he wrote his celebrated and fatal message. The question is: What does the Democratic party intend to do under the new conditions that have intervened? In other words, what does tariff reform mean at tho present timo? This is the point^Ofreal importance, and Mr. Cleve­ land, in common with all the other Democratic leaders, carefully evades the task of fif-nisliing a plain and satisfac­ tory deljiiition.--SL Louis GLobe-Dcmr ocrat. * . , i Free Trade, ,. Free trade, to Democrats so dear. In other countries has been tried , The same as has protection here, And which is test let facts decide. If goods are cheap in froe trade lands, . As those who want that system say, There's little money in the. hands Of those who toil from day to day. The hardy tiller of the soil Lives there upon a pittance bare. And thousands ask for leave to toil For whom there is no work to spare; Starvation glares from threatening eyes On wealth oppressed with sickening dread, And in the streets are heard the cries Of workmen clamoring for bread. From day to day whole families strive In workshops, factories, and fields, And just can keep themselves alive. So small's the sum their labor yields. • And some to whom--so harsh their fate, The right to toil would be a boon, gtj: hunger rendered desperate. UiU^irl the flag of the Commune. Look o'er this broad and prosperous land, Where laws the worktngmen protect; r Here plenty fills the willing hand And labor holds its head erect. Here toll finds adequate reward. No hungry wolves howl at its (IQONt Because our workingmen we guaid , Against all cheap competitors. For the Calamity Bhrlekqrl, . V.v In their weekly review of trade B. G. Dun & Co say that business continues unprecedented in volume and satisfact­ ory in character, and that, measured by clearing-house returns, the trade of the week is the largest ever known for the corresponding period. This is a non­ partisan statement, but it does not afford any consolation to the calamity shriekers who stampeded the country in the last election. The fact is there never has been, in the history of this country, a more complete collapse of any theory on which people were urged to base their political action than the collapss of the tliecry that high prices were to follow the McKinley bill. There is hardly a job­ bing merchant in the country who did not receive and send on to his customers circulars advising purchases in anticipa­ tion of the rise in prices that the Mc­ Kinley bill was to bring about, and as a consequence thousands of merchants overstocked themselves, and the goods which their were urged to buy are cheaper to-day than they" ""Were than. .gold fn California, the Mexican War, the failure of European crops, and the exten­ sive European wars--but as soon as the influence of these ceased, the people were plunged into universal distress, and the Government was unable to raise even a trifling sum of money, exepet «t ruinous rates of interest. Solid Facts. * The speech of the late Secretary Win- dom contained a most remarkable con­ densation of facts. Here is a single sen­ tence: "In manufactures wo exceeded (Jreat Bmain In 1880 by $1,579,570,191, France by $2,115,000,000, and Germany by $2,305,000,000." That single statement demolishes thef free-trade assumption that wo have no" aptitude for manufacturing, and that it were better that we should purchase our manufactures abroad. Hero are two sentences.which challenge attention: - "In 1880 our home markets consumed about ten billion dollars' worth of our own products, an amount equal to the entire accumulated wealth of Spain, three times the increase of wealth in Great Britain for ten years, and seven times the increase of France for the same period. Our home markets that year ab­ sorbed five times as much of our manti factured products as Great Britain ex­ ported of hers to all the markets of the world." 1 . " Miked Relation ship. Some years ago two farmers of Polk County, Tenn., lost their wives by death. They naturally felt lonesome, and in due time began to think a second wife in each household would be a most excellent addition thereto. They were neighbors and friends, and each had a family of children, includ­ ing one or more grown daughters. After careful consideration, each took the other's daughter as his second wife. Through these marriages children were born to each. These children now re­ side in Polk County. What was the relationship between the men and their wives, and in what relationship did the children stand to each other and to the old folks? The old farmers were fathers-in-law to each, other, and also sons-in-law. Who will carry out the relationship of the mothers and their children ? • Home Trade Flint. The trifling character of our foreign, compared with our domestic, trade may be gathered from a few figures. The Bureau of Statistics estimates the total production of the United States in 1880 as worth $10,000,000, or $200 per capita of the population, and that of this $200 the value exported was $17, or per cent., the value consumed at home, $183, or 91 % per cent. Is it worth while to trouble ourselves about such a "foreign trade" when our home trade offers to our farmers, manufacturers and mer­ chants the richest market in the world? •!--American Economist. A. Tariff Picture. The census of 1880 showed that the United States had prqduc#"' daring the preceding year 1,145,711 tonn of steel. The census of 1890 shows a total annual production of 4,466,026 tons. --New York Press. COMMENTING on Mr. Cleveland's aw­ fully profound observation that he has "an idea that opportunities for education and practical information among the colored population are most necessary to the proper solution of the race question in the South," the Louisville Commercial says it would not be surprised at any moment by an announcement that Mr. Cleveland has an idea that Noah built the ark. Great man that Cleveland. KNOWLKDGE. like money, increases our responsibility in proportion to the siOUtit obtained* HOW THE WHEAT LOOKS, MANY REPORTS PROIN THE WINTER CEREAL. In Illinois the Condition of the Crap la Vp to the Average, as Also in Indiana --Kama* Gl<E* K*MMWO of a Splendid Harvest. [Special dispatches.] Springfield, 111.: BepOrts received at the department of agriculture relative to the condition of winter wheat are by no means full, but so far as they go they indicate a reasonable average. There has been plenty of rain in the southern portion of tho State and no disastrous freezing. In the central portion there is a severe drought, but so far it has had no appreciable effect on the growing plant, wftich got a good start and has not been injured by freezing. Samples of the plant taken from the fields in Sangamon, Christian, and Macoupin and sent to the department were found to be full of flies, in the embryonic state. What effect they will have the future must de­ termine. At present there is nothing to indicate that the crop will not be an av­ erage one, but the condition may be very different a month hence. Indianapolis,, Ind.: The latest advices from different parts of the State to the Board of Agriculture regarding the growing wheat indicate a very healthy condition, and the prospect is even bet­ ter than it was at a corresponding time one year ago. In many parts of the State the growth is very rank, and in all the graini! has rooted well and the sprouts are above the average in size and healthy in appearance. While there has been a good deal of wet weather throughout tho State there have been but few washing rains, and the roots have been but little exposed. In some sections there has been some spewing owing to the recent heavy freeze, but as a general thing the earth was tolerably dry when the morcury fell to zero and the bad effects of the freeze were con­ fined to a few sections, and in none was it so disastrous as was the cold weather of a later period last year. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio Agricultu­ ral Bureau has issued no bulletin of crops since December. That bulletin showed as to wheat that the acreage sown last fall, as compared with the acreage of the year before stood 100 per cent. As to the condition of the soil at the time of seeding, fifty-four counties report it good, twenty-four counties fair, ami but ten counties bad. Topeka, Kan.: Reports received at the Agricultural Department from ninety of the 106 counties in the State, bring encouraging news regarding the wheat outlook. In four-fifths of the counties reporting the crop is in fine condition, bettor than ever reported be­ fore in the history of the State. The open winter and the frequent rains and snows have put the ground in splendid condition, and the growiug wheat every­ where is advanced beyond the condi­ tion o( any previous year at this time. Tho acreage is very large. Lincoln, Neb,: But very little winter wheat is raised In Nebraska. It is a little too far north, aud as a rule the winters are a little too decided for the successful culturo of this cereal. Tho continued dry weather of last season, and even until lato fall, was unfavorable to the seeding of this crop, and a less ar«a was sown than usual. The winter has been remarkably open, however, and the crop is reported to bo looking well, better than the average at this season of the year, though the acreage is very short- Very little winter wheat is raised out­ side the counties of Cass, Otoe, Nemaha, Johnson, Richardson, Pawnee, Gage and Jefferson, and there only by a few farm­ ers whose farms seem particularly adapt­ ed to the cereal. Inexpensive Displays. One of the features of social practice in London for many years has been the show which can be made on fictitious capital Jf, for instance, the Fitz- shams desire to give a big dinner party, and have no special provisions of their own for an imposing display, they can hire all the requisites. They can rent their silver and porcelain from one man, their tapestries from another, their plants from a third tradesman, and garnish the dinner table with the pine­ apple of the hot-house--strictly sacred from the knife, be it understood. Such ceremonies of a society that keeps up large appearances on small means are probably not suspected in the United States, but they exist all the same, and at Newport, too. The story is told of a Philadelphia society personage who held forth in great state at Newport until she married her daughter to an Englishman with a name as aristocrat­ ically hyphenated as her own, that she gave a garden party on this hiring prin­ ciple with almost perfect eclat. She rented a furnished cottage with ample lawn space. The day before the festival she made a tour of the Newport shops. From one she ordered Oriental rugs to be sent her on approval. From another she had a large marquee dispatched to be set up so that she might see how she liked a tent on her terrace. And in this way she converted her lawns into a picnic ground at not even the expense of renting the accessories. There wa a rather embarrassing interruption 1 the fete in the shape of a personal d. mand on the part of the unsympathetu rug-vender for his money or the return of the goods, but the hostess overawed him before he could bring things to a serious climax, and the Japanese lau- terns glowed upon a scene of suocessful eleemosynary splendor after a day of inexpensive display. the P^ID Ql V" Why China I • the Flowery Kingdo|i&. "We speak of your country as 'the Flowery Kingdom,*" a reporter of the Sun said to an officer of one of the Six Companies in San Francisco last autumn. "Do we get that name from you? Is that what you call China?" "Yep," said the dignitary, "we callee him Flowery Kingdom allee same you callee him. But you Mellicans mean to call our Sina that name like you speakee about some flowers glowing one summer in man's garden. We .Sinamen callee Flowelly Kingdom same like evelly man is flow el. Our great Sina te&chers hab tole us that Sina is allee samee like garden, and evelly man and woman is allee samee like flowels. That mean we got on'y littee time to live. We come up like littee leaf from littee seed. We grow high one summer. We makee pletty tfo'wel. then we done and fall down and anothel flowel come up in our place. That what Sinaman mean 'bout Flowelly Kingdom. Sina­ man hab velly old teacher, and him say we makee lib likee flowel--so we must not steal or fight or kill othel mans; must live allee samee like flowels in Flowelly Kingdom."--New York Sun. WHENEVER a city wants a new park it advances the argument that it is for the poor man's enjoyment. Then it oc­ curs that the joor man can only enjoy it on Sunday, while the rich can put in seven days a week. New York and FuiiauolpLja iu»76 both dissevered th±t their parks have little attractions to pool, fur avay* - RIVERS STILL RISING. JOHNSTOWN'S BUSINESS SEC­ TION SUBMERGEOf* Prisoners hi the Jail Liberated to lVe- vent Tliem from. Belnff Drowned--Ru­ mored Loss of Ufa--On the Lower Mis­ sissippi. Concerning the rising flood, a Johns­ town, Pa., special says: Stony Creek began to overflow its banks and soon the water came pouring steadily into the streets and flooded the business district of Johnstown. Both the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers are rising rapidly and feeding the flood. Thieves took ad­ vantage of the excltemont and began piuudering right %nd left. By orders of the Mayor armed men were detailed in all parts of the city to remove property to places of safety and to show no mercy to anybody who was seen to steal any­ thing. A mounted patrol was established and worked in connection with the gangs of volunteers in tha rousing of sleepers and the moving of property. The rail­ road people sent a crew of men tvlio worked all night at the stone bridge keeping the arches -cleat*. Seven men imprisoned in the town jail were liber­ ated because the authorities found that they might be drowned like rats in a cage, as did actually occur at the time of the great flctod. Many bridges have gone down. All over the city business men hastily rigged pumps and are laboring to get the water out of their cellars, but with discouraging results. Both the rivers arc swelling from hour to hour. The marks show a depth of twenty-five feet. This is past the danger point, and both rivers and all their tributaries are grow­ ing larger. A height of thirty-three feet at least is looked for, and the great­ est efforts are being made to meet this emergency. Should the water go higher AFFAIRS IK ILLINOIS. (ILLINOIS ITEMS GATHERED FROM„VAlW- . -OUS SOURCES." ;.#7T w T* LOWBR ALLEGHENY CtTT. no effort can avert enormous loss of lifo and property. Word comes from the lower part of Allegheny that a house has been swept away and all its occupants drowned, but no names or particulars can be obtained at present. All tho large stores on Penn­ sylvania avenue, a short way from tho Allegheny River, are flooded, and the work of removing property is very dan­ gerous and slow. All of the railroads are seriously disabled by landslides and washouts, and all trains which have not been abandoned are very late. At Jean- netto many persons have abandoned their homes to tho flood, aud have sought per­ sonal safety on the* higher ground. Many bridges and houses have gono down already, and the water is rising at that point very rapidly. All rail­ road traffic has been suspended at Washington. Pa., since the bridges are not considered safe, and at Temper- anceville, a suburb of this city, the Chartier Creek covers half the town and is spreading' Hundreds are homeless, and since all the trains are tied up they can only seek the higher ground and take with them what few belongings they can carry in their hands. A message from Bradford tells that both branches of the Turva Creek have become roaring rivers, and Davies, .Florence, Foreman and Ann streets are inundated. The water has come into the Bcvario and Seifangs mammoth iron works and all tho tires are put out. At Pittsburg, the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers continue to rise and have reached tho highest stage since the flood of 1884, the marks in both rivers registering 27 feet. The river men and those in possession of reliable informa­ tion from up-river points expect the waters to reach the thirty-foot mark. In this event all of the First Ward of Allegheny aud a largo part of that city known as Manchester will be submerged. Every persqp in both cities owning property in places liable to bo affected by the flood is preparing for the worst. Already many of the mills, glasshouses and factories along both river banks have closed down, while scores of residences between Sharpsburg and lower Allegheny City are surrounded by water, in somo instances reaching to •the second floors. Traffic on the Pitts­ burg and Western Railway has been en­ tirely suspended between Sharpsburg and the depot at Union fridge. Water covers the track from four to six feet almost the entire distance. On the lower Mississippi the continual rise of the river, says a Helena (Ark.) dispatch, is causing much anxiety. In the neighborhood of the Williamson plantation the levee is quite bad and considered dangerous. A large body of men have been put to work to construct a "run around" in that locality, which is 300 yards in length, It is hoped that this will prevent an incursion of the water, which is barely two feet from the danger tine. Fell One Hundred and Twenty Feet. How ' John Johnson, the Monson Swede, tumbled into the slate quarry pit has been told. Just how Johnson felt as he went through his wonderful fall of 120 feet Bheer descent is yet to be narrated. The man had just emerged from the pit box used for as­ cent and descent, when, as he stepped upon the edge of the pit, the box swung, knocking him over the edge. Down he shot, out of sight of his horri­ fied companions. The side of the quarry is not exactly perpendicular, being spurred with shelves sloping to­ ward the bottom of the pit. Johnson dropped several score of feet and struck the first shelf in a sitting posture. He glanced off into space, turned several revolutions, and struck another shelf, and then shot with terrific force into a deep snowdrift at the bottom of the quarry. Said a fellow workman who had been with Johnson at the edge of the pit: "I did not dare go forward and look down, for fear I should see th& man lying mangled on the rocks below. While I hesitated up came the box, and Johnson sat in it uninjured." When asked how he felt during his tumble he replied that he had no mem­ ory of it at all. It was all a blank from the time he left the edge of the pit until he brought up at the bottom. A peculiar feature of th« case is that the man lost his pipe from his mouth when he fell, and could not be induced to leave tKe soene until it had been found.--Lew is ton (Me.) Journal. Whist Kfat Ifitghbora Are Dotn| of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimea --Personal Pointers. • FOLLOWING is a summary of the news at Chicago: Micha'el Frazier and An­ drew Craig attempted an early evening robbery of Hus^ander's jewelry store, but were captured by the plucky jewelez and several officers, after a lively chase and the exchange of fifteen shots. A third man escaped. Two-year-old Grace Johnson wa* sca'ded to death, whilo alone, by boiling coffee. Letters received by Joseph Gazzolo, threatening assassination, prove the existence of a branch of the Italian Mafia. Chief Marsh says he will exterminate them. Moses Solomon and Gabriel J. Nor- den, attorneys, paid $50 and $10 respect­ ively for fighting in presence of Judge Collins, who said he would have made the fines larger If the culprits had been able to pay more. Mayor Cregier refuses to grant polico protection to alien laborers on the World's Fair site. The Italian sewer-diggers in Jack­ son Park wero mobbed by hundreds of idle workmen.----Two unknown foot­ pads beat Ilenry Gacle, a llundryman, into insensibility, and, robbed him of a watch and $15.---Wm. Sullivan, a 14-year-old schoolboy, seriously stabbed James MCWaters, aged 16, for tale-tell­ ing in school. Charles Horgan, law­ yer, compounded a felony by offering to receive $50 in settlement for embezzle­ ment, and was reprimanded by Justice Prindiville ---John Conti, Italian, has been arrested charged with the murder of Nicholas Sinini. A knife found near the victim is identified as Conti's, who swore It belonged t.i another man. -In excavating for the foundation of a new Methodist Church on Forty-second street, workmen found 35 human skeletons. One wasTecognizablo as a woman's, by a mass of perfectly preserved hair. No remains of coffins were found. It is a mystery how they came there, but one old resident says a pest-house stood there forty years ago and the skeletons are those of small-pox pat ents. Three unknown safe-blowers Were caught rob­ bing Mahler & Mayer's safe. -W. H. Burns was arrested, having In his pos­ session $1,(>50 wbrth of stolen rope and carpenter's tools. Jas. Morrlaey, alias O'Neil, ^saw his brother killed by the cars and didn't reveal his Identity until confronted by his sister.--Joseph Casey, Chas. Williams, Jas Moran, and Thos. McDonough, four burglars, are caught Two highwaymen presented revolvers at Engineer Jas. Dougherty, demanding his money. Instead, he grabbed iheir revqjver and marched them both to police headquarters. Th'e will of C. B. Blair, banker, gives 82,200,COO to lour childrop. Girl? of the Universalist Church, at Englewood, arc having trouble with the older members, on account of a dance for tho benefit of tho church.-- (Vfficer Dennis O'Brien changed his clothes and captured a footpad named George Adams, within five minutes after the latter had robbed A. H. Smith. Grover Cleveland Brandt, a 3-year old, persisted in throwing dirt upon Mrs. Quinlan's doorstep, and she spanked him soundly. Brandt, Sr., had her arrested, but the Court said she had done just right.and discharged her.---Miss Plicebe Price lost her life by falling Into an ele­ vator shaft in the Chamber of Commerce Building. THE Bank or Illiopolis sued Reuben Smith of that town for $100,000 for violating an agreement to not re-engage in the banking business there. •- CHARLES KKM.Y, of Caledonia, was cut to pieces by a train. J. A. CLARK, of Paris, manager of the "Cherokee Land Company," sues his partner, L. A. Farmer, for $2,000 claimed to have been Invested in the Company through a misunderstanding. Gov. FIFKR has issued a proclama­ tion forbidding importation of cattle until Dec. 31, 1891, from Indian Terri­ tory, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida aud parts of Texas, because of Texas fever. TIIE Southern Illinois horticulturists closed a satisfactory scssibn at Cfcntralla, deciding to meet again at Villa Ridge in August. Forty-one counties were rep­ resented. MB^, BURN, wife of Assessor W. R. Burn, of Greenville, was killed by being \hrown from a wagon. WHEN George J. Gibson, of Peoria, secretary of tho whisky trust, was arrested, charged with, bribing a Government officer, tho real, though not apparent, complaint against him was conspiracy to' blow up Shu- feldt's distillery, an anti-trust insti­ tution. De War, who informed against hfm, had delivered to the authorities a bottle of stuff which was highly inflam­ mable when oxposed to the air. He claimed Gibson had given it to him, and that its use was to fire an infernal ma­ chine. To more thoroughly entrap Gib­ son, De War wrote him that ho had spilled the lot sent, and for Gibson to brihg some more. When arrested, (Jib- son had in his possession a bottle of stuff which his friends claimed was gin. Gov­ ernment officials tested it. and found that whenever an£ of it was poured out it immediately burst into aflame. This fact, and the fact that Gibson had in his possession 100 shares of whisky trust stock made out in De War's name, to be used in payment for the latter's work in blowing up the distillery, make things very dark for Gibson. Ho is at large, under $20,COO bonds. AT Chicago, Mrs. Ann Reardon, aged 60, and Mrs. Mary Kehoe, aged 50, in­ vited their friends to come over and get drunk. The meeting was a great suc­ cess. The house burned down and the two women perished. AT Atlanta, a son of John Baker lost an eye by an arrow shot from a cross­ bow by another boy. RUDOLPH A. T. MEYERS, of Postville, Iowa, was robbed on the "levee" in Chi- caga of $365. A portion of it was re­ covered; He is nearly crazy. THE total length of the bridge and approaches at Alton will be 2,619 feet, and the bridge proper will be of steel. It is to be a low bridge with eight spans, the channel span being 500 feet in length with a draw. The right of way has been purchased through all the Missouri land opposite, and contracts for grading have been let. AT Bridgeport, John Graham, who fatally stabbed Duane Johnson, a mer­ chant of Russellvillc, because the latter was the successful suitor for a lady's hand, pleaded guilty to murder. He was senteucod to thirty years at Ches­ ter. GEORGE STARKEY was arrested at St Joseph, Mo., and is in jail at Edwards- ville, charged with murdering D B. Gill- man at Alton, last March. He protests his innocent e, but relatives of tho dead ham and the officers claim to have a sure case. He claims to have never seen John Brown or J. Wyatt, two others implica­ ted, who informed against him; but they identified him as the man who did the shooting. Starkey comes of a respect­ able family, but is an old penotentiary bird. A >:UMBEU of grocers, coal dealers, and saloon ists, near the Stock Yards, Chicago, i * u bean swindled by forged checks to tho amount of severai thou­ sand dollars. An expert did it -m-tA LAW-MAKEBS. • M O* the ISth the Joint AjwemMy wan at- , tended by only 15 members, the rest not having returned from home. Bat one bal­ lot was taken for Senator, and that as a matter of form. The only formal husinww transacted in the House was the presenta­ tion of a number of petitions relative to the bill which provides that flags shall float from every school house. This measure Is exciting a great deal of interest all over the State, and the mail of the Representa­ tives contains some suggestion about its passage every day. Representative John Norsw^ rthy handed in a large number of letters from private bankers protesting In a general way against the private bank law : which was introduced by Mr. Springer. The bankers say that the provision requir­ ing them to hav/e a capital of at least 825,000 is absurd, especially when applied to bank­ ers in communities of a few thousand persons. OK the 17th the 101st ballot for Senator was reached and resulted: Palmer. 101; Streeter, 75; Oglesby, 23; Lindley, 1; Stelle. 1: Hunter, 3. Apparently the matter is still far from solution. In a five minutes • session of the House a number of unim­ portant bills were introduced, and Nelson Brooks, of Chicago, offered appropriate resolutions relative to the death of General Sherman, which were adopted by a rising vote. In the Senate Secretary Watson was bombarded with petitions by Senators Caldwell, .4 Fuller, Noonan, Zearing, Kerrick, Ander- 3 son, Hagle and Reavill asking that United 1 - « States flags bo placed upon school build- *l': Ings. Bills were introduced to provide pro- tection at railroad crossings; to appropri- ' • ate §10,950 for the Soldiers' Orphans' Home; c. to aid farmers in their effort* at drainage..'^. by requiring railroads and highway com- mlssioners to provide outlets; and a very important bill providing that it sbaH not be necessary. In Indictments for murder, to specify the «nct manner or methods used to compass the murder. Ix joint session, on the 18th, the 107th ballot for Senator was taken amid the wild­ est confusion and no choice m;:de. The Democrats still cast 101 votes for Palmer, and the Republican and F. M. B. A. votes: are for A. J. 8treeter largely, about 17 being scattered. In the House, Representative Barton Introduced a bill to allow farmers to ,, own one dog free of taxation. The bill was ' ^ greeted with roars of laughter, but no oppo-: sition. Representative Mclnerney handed in two bills. One of them makes it a misde­ meanor for a saloonkeeper to sell a child; beer or other liquor without a written, request from the child's parent, guar­ dian or physician. It also makes; it an offense for any person other than a parent or guardian to employ a child- to go for liquor. Mr. Mclnerney says thei bill will, if it becomes a law. put an end t« the debasing practice of "growler rushing."1 In which so many children are now em­ ployed. Mr. W'iwl introduced a bill which compels railroads to pay the full value of! all stock they kill. The Caldwell Interest, bill, reducing the contract rate from 8 to T per cent, and the legal rate from 6 to 5 per cent., passed the Senate without amend- ^ ment. A bill to change the minimum nuM-tV'^ ber of days during which schools are re­ quired to be held from 110 to 130, was intro- . - duced by Senator Chapman. 'f'M • ON the the 19th, the iioth ballot for SEN-. a tor was reached, resulting: Palmer 101.\ Streeter 95, Oglesby 8. Flag petitions poured into the hands of the Clerk of thefe House. There were 100 of them. Sen-' a tor Anderson introduced a bill to fur-» nish free text books for use in publlcr schools. A bill compelling owners of land through which streams run to keep the chan-1 nel clear of driftwood and other obstructions was introduced by Senator Karraker. Sen­ ator Andy O'Conor's bill to put an end to the truck-store system at the mines and to establish a weekly pay day was Indorsed! by the Committee on Labor and Manufac­ tures at Its first meeting. This bill Is st> drawn as to affect all corporations, with the exception of railroads. Another bill, by* the same author, is to make eight hours at legal day's work, and upon a motion by- Senator Lehman it was sent to the printer and recommitted. Senator Wells' bill mak­ ing Labor Day a legal holiday was recom­ mended for passage without discussion. THK joint assembly, on the 20th. reached J the 121st ballot for Senator, resulting 101] for Palmer, 96 for Streeter. and 7 for Oglesby.' Representative Carmody's resolution de­ manding an Investigation of the World's Fair ' Directory for alleged violation of the eight- hour and antl-allen clause of the World's Fair bill was adopted by the House without a dissenting vote.. Representative Lyman offered a bill which makes it a misdemeanor for packers to falsely label canned food products of any sort. Mr. Morris introduced: a bill which provides for the establish-f ment of a new reformatory which will be known as the State Home for Juvenile Fe- ' male Offenders. An amendment to thai registration law was Introduced by Seutator Thlele, making it possible for persons not la ­ the city on the first registration day to register at the office of the election commis­ sioners fifteen days prior to the day.beforeg the last day of registration. In cases wheu;. there is but one registration day, he may* • report and register at any time not earlleif than fifteen days prior to it. Both housed adjourned to 24th. "y fit* TelephoM In Ameriaa. ' The popularity of the telephone m this country is much greater, propor­ tionately, in the smaller cities and ii% ' towns and villages than in the gi;<eai* centers of population. Still, it will fa^x, matter of news to many readers thaiJR: the American people are not only raorcf addicted to the telephone habit thacf any other nation on the globe, but that) there are at least twice if not three? times as many telephones in nse in the; United States as in all other countries !.<; put together. T A statistical writer in a Berlin paper C* goes even further than this, estimating^ sj the number of telephone subscribers ' , in America a^ one million, and in all; ^ the rest of the world at about two bun- r dred thousand. But the tendency to» make large figures for everything that is done in this country has produced in, . this instance a decided overstatement. " The Bell Telephone company, which| • may be said to control the whole busi­ ness here, had about 475,000 instru- "j ments in use according to its last report., Some of these undoubtedly repzesented two or more subscribers each: but it/.P would be reasonable to assume that ther *4' ^ whole number of subscribers is much , nearer 600,000 than 1,000,000. Thet » dimensions of the fact, plain and un-> :: ̂ embellished, are qnite sufficient toK* gratify our national vanit J, without any ' f|< fictitious expansion. , / The estimates for the various En-*-"-' ropean countries have so much the ap- ^ pearance of an actual census that they 4* may be taken as substantially correct. Thus, the number of telephone sub-"" scribers in Germany is given as 31,325; ̂ in Great Britain, 20,4'Jb; in Sweden, / 12,864; in France, 9,487; in Italy, 9,183 in Norway, 8,390; in Russia, 7,585; in Switzerland, 6,570; in Belgiam, 4,674; in Austro-Hnngary, 4,200; in the Netherlands, 2,872; in Spain, 2,218; in Denmark, 1,837; in Portugal, 890; * making a total of 122,521. What Honey t'oata. The honey-bee has long been m type of the industrious worker, but there are few people who know how much labor , the sweet hoard of the hive represents. ; Each head of clover contains about »^ sixty distinct flower-tubes, each of r which contains a portion of sugar not exceeding the five-hundredth part of a grain. ^ Some enthusiast who has watched s, the bees' movements concludes that the proboscis of the insect must therefore be inserted into five hundred elover- tnbes before one grain of sugar can be: i obtained. There are seven thousand " grains in a pound; and, as honey con­ tains ihree-lonrths of its weight of drj sugar, each pound of honey repreaenki two and a half rocked bj beee.