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>B£ft OR STARTLING* FAITH- '•* •' FULLY RECORbEb. 8«tacy Pmbyteriui ta s Bitter Qoarrel <-SMMNktiN In Blaoaatngton'ii Dental Cir- • «]««--PkjwtelMS 8«m WMisaa Camtjr fct Services at ike W»n« Wreek.' Qnlncjr Chareh Members at War. , t Somo time ago Miss Cornelia Collins, ItJ-^Wiintnent in Quiney Presbyterian ify* Cfcurch circles and charitable work, | headed a movement against Pastor J. j K. Black of the First Presbyteriaif Church. Miss Collins and her crowd j talked a good deal, and in terms not j complimentary to the Reverend Black, j Their faction was a strong one, and i matters giew serious. Paster Black, ! however he may rank as a preacher, is I something cf a fighter, and he rose t(tj and Great Western ticket office at the < cca^icn by making Miss Collins ! Holcomb, and stole a number of ftick- defendant to a charge of treason, to ! ets and some money. the church. Tha verdict has been . killed A 8 feet Iv W4,/:iS|Wrt by Comp­ troller Eckels, it is shown that Illinois banks show an improvement. JACKSON DEWALD, a resident of Fay­ ette County, dropped dead at his home in Otegp.township, aged 76 years. THOMAS D. GRADY was awarded $3,- 000 damages against the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company at Lincoln. BY getting married at Kenosha, WR. W illiam W. Latham and Lucile Hoblit, of Lincoln, overcame parental objections. FOR the destruction of some horses, William Town'ev, of Perry, was award­ ed damages of $2,100 against the Wa­ bash Read. ^ THOMAS BENNETT was sentenced at Mascoutah to six years in the peniten­ tiary for stealing six cents and two cigars from a atom ROBBERS brc ke into the Chicago verdict has •withheld. And now comes J. W. Stew­ art, one cf the leading business men of the city, who publicly states that Rev. J. K. Black had only fifteen sermons, and those -mighty" poor, that he preached. Mr. Stewart has also been j tried, but the verdict kept secret. As ! the elders who constitute the jury in ' all trials side with the pastor, ana as the pastor himself is the judge, Mr. Black has the beat of the fight in one way. But the opposition counts among its members some of the wealthiest people in the church,' and as they have withdrawn their contributions its financos are in a bad way. It is run­ ning behind in current expenses, but Pastor Black has given it out that he 'is going to stay, and will subject to church trial all those who try to secure his removal. The present indications are that the Presbyterian Church will be thoroughly reorganized from the 9»»und up. Wanu Railroad Disaster Recalled- A suit has been filted in the Madison County circuit court by Drs. W. A. Raskell, W. Fisher, G. Taphorn and W. W. Halliburton, of Alton, to secure payment iur services rendered those injured in the Wann railroad disaster, which occurred one year ago. Neither ' these physicians nor thg Sisters of St. Joseph Hospital, who gave the scores of unfortunates almost exclusive care and service during many weary weeks, have riot yet received a cent for their labors. When the bills, amounting to several thousand dollars, were presented to the County Board they were thrown out on the ground that the railroad copnpany should pay them. Since that time there have been two or three •court decisions in damage suits that the'railroad was not responsible for the injuries to spectators, who wero tres­ passers upon its right of way, and sev- cases were recently appealed to • the United States District Court at ~ . THE twenty-day Christian Church •revival at Virginia closed with twelve additions. Evangelist A. J. White, of Chicago, was in charge. THE RocKfcrd Westminster Presby­ terian Church, by a vote of 38 to 14, has decided not to extend a pastoral call to Rev. David E. Platter, of Chi­ cago. ALBERT FREEMAN, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, at Quincy, was found on the streets in a freezing condition. Before he could be removed to the home he died. ' FATHER MCMANUS, Catholic priest of Virginia, was to-day fined $50 and coists for carrying concealed weapons and disturbing the peace at Pierce Ryan's funeral. MRS. DIREXIA H. BLISS, wife of Rev. Alfred Bliss, cf Effingham, Hied Tues­ day. An hour later the announcement of the death of Joseph Guyon, an old citizen, was reported. ANTHONY MALONE, who was elected Captain of Company G, Seventh Infan­ try, having failed to qualify, Adjutant General Orendorff has ordered an elec­ tion to fill the vacancy. AT Woodstock a jury rendered a de­ cision of not guilty in the trial of John Delhanty for the killing of William Love in Hartland Township op Nov- 12,1892. after a trial lasting two weeks. He set up the plea of self-defense. Gov. ALTGELD declined to honor tht> requisition of Gov. Ncrthen, of Geor­ gia, for the extradition of Harry Hill, wan'ed at Atlanta on a charge of ob taining money by false pretenses. "I cannot afford," said the Governor, "to make this cilice a debt collection agency." Hill returned voluntarily, however. ^ iffpf * 4 -T, s *. - %. PROS •s^S5^? ii , " '"S.. •< 7 Springfield. Several times also these physicians' and hospital claims have sinco been submitted and repeatedly voted down. The matter has caused' considerable scandal in the empty, and the professional men at last nave finally decided to resort to law and ^submit the subject to tie courts on its merits. Family Poisoned by Impure Milk. FRIDAY evening the entire family of H- Wells Atwater, a prominent mar- chant of Rochelle, was poisoned by milk. A thorough investigation was t^ade, and it was found that one of the cows was diseased. Restoratives were applied and the patients were left in an apparently comfortable condition, but during the night the youngest of the family, aged 10 months, died in Sreat agony. The mother had allowed ae babe to nurse. Its body turned black. Two more of the children were now in a critical condition for two days. The infected milk was sent to a Chi­ cago chemist for analysis. < Daniel Benton Is Now Oat on ^ Daniel Benton, alias William iNew- by, is again a free man. Ever since his sentence ta two years' imprisonment he has been conhned in the Chester , Penitentiary until Judge Allen, of the Springfield Federal Court, ordered his release pending the determination of the case by the United States Supreme Court upon the filing of a bond in the sum of $2,500, signed by Judge E. C. Kramer and Col. G. W. Johns, of Fair- . field, and S. E. Robinson, Newby's at­ torneys. Newby left for Whits County, where he will remain until the Su­ preme Court gets through with his Bloomlngton Dentists at War. / ' Recently a dental office was opened at Bloomington in the name of the New York dental parlors, and the firm advertised extensively the extracting of teeth by electricity and without pain, doing an extensive business. Within the past few days all the other dentists of the city have received anonymous "white cap" letters, threat­ ening that death or great bodily harm "Would be done them if they did not •quit talking about the new firm. The letters were sent through the mails, and have been turned over to postotfice authorities, who will endeavor to dis­ cover and punish the offenders. The J"tetters are too filthy for publication, UNCLE SAM--"That thermometer Is still a-gaingdowal Durn this Demo­ cratic weather, anyway."--rJudgo. . MARKED CONTRASTS. the THE Illinois and Michigan Canal rah behind financially last year The re­ ceipts from tolls were $11,000 less than ever before in the history of the canal, and while the expenses were $6,365 less than in 1892 the canal ha5 not been self-sustaining. It is stated that at Peoria several corp rations have pre- I Democratic policy, empted the river front, and tha sug-| The Populists ough Democratic Year of 1803 and the Republican Year of 1898. The past year will be a notable one in the history of the United States, says the Burlington Hawkeye. The contrast between the Democratic year qJ tillC RCjpllVil j;>ow yaq*« nf 20^2 is most marked. During the past year the imports of merchandise were the highest in.the history of the country, reaching $866,400,922. That means, of course, that we consumed more goods that were manufactured in other coun­ tries and less of those made in our own country. That is to say, we gave the workingmen of Europe preference to the workingmen of the United States. That is the Democratic pdicy. But this increased buying abroad had to be paid for. There was n >^hing in the world to prevent France, Germany, England, and other countries buying our wheat, and corn, and pork, and other farm products, but they were not willing to buy any more than tlfey needed, and as they would not take what we had to sell we had to pay for our extravagant purchases abroad with gold. This is another feature of the especially to gestion is made that the Attorney Gen- note the fact that we do not pay our eral give the subject his attention. THE preliminary papers against twelve ex-surervisors of McDonough County have been filed. These actions are brought to recover $8,000 of county money distributed among the various townships four years ago to be used in caring for paupers. In these ca?es there were no paupers to call out the fund arid the then supervisors caused it to be used in defraying current town­ ship expenses. It is claimed this ac­ tion was illegal and the money can be recovered. HARRY MITCHELL, of Cincinnati, was arrested in Decatur charged with the murder of George Fenser, of Ash­ land avenue, Chicago. A man named Bob stabbed Fenser in Decatur Jan. 14, and he died Jan. 20. Mitchell answers fully the descr iption of the murderer as given by Fenser, and Mitchell ad­ mits he was with the party the night of the fight, but denies that he u*ed the knife. The police are trying to find the two tramps who witnessed the stab­ bing. One is a Swede and the other is a German named Frank Miller. ATTORNEY GENERAL MOLONEY gave an opinion, saying a building and loan association has no power ordinar­ ily to transfer a member in arrears from one series to a later one without the member's consent, but if such transfer be made without the knowK. edge or acquiescence cf the member his assent may be inferred, and if he remains in the series to which he has been transferred, paying instalments and dues, he is es* >pped from saying the transfer was made without his con­ sent. AT Jacksonville the Illinois .Conser­ vatory of Music was found to be on fire in the midst c/ recitations, and .at once there was...a scene of wild confusion. The fire orginated in the hot-air flue and the whole building was soon envel­ oped in flames, as they were not discov­ ered until they had made their way to the attic through thee partitions. The teachers and pupils managed to get out, but there were some narrow es­ capes. The building was much dam­ aged and the loss will foot up many thousand dollars. Miss CORNELIA COLLINS has been suspended.by the Presbyterian Church at Quincy for accusing her pastor false y. She will appeal to the Schuy­ ler Presl ytery. Miss Collins stated that she felt sorry that this trouble had come u£. She felt bad that Pas­ tor Black should have caused her to _ appear before the session and have j her expre-s her dissatisfaction at his manner of conducting the church in which she had grown to womanhood. But she was compelled to tell the truth and did so. and if that keeps, her out of the ciiurch she says she c^n find plenty of Christian work to do in the cheerful and charitable institutions, of which she has.been one of the pro­ moters. WHEN a young man and woman in •cvrred at Alton between the heads of ! Carl vie called in their friends to their ^ Record of the Week. ^ % / MORE than 3.C00 articles lo3t at the i; World's Fair are still in the Service Building at Jackson Park. JOHN FENOR, whose home is at 1313 *,< Ashland avenue, Chicago, was fatally , fetal:bid in a row at Decatur. V*- ALLEN W. STOLP, a member of the ^7 vi State Board of Education, died at Au- f ^ iroi'a. He was 53 yearj old. JOHN HALEY SPEARS of Jacksoh is dead. HO was one of the founders of ' the Republican party in Illinois. F ^ . JOSEPH F. PRICHARD, convicted of i' ' V: bigamy at Mascoutah, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, has been gianted anew trial by the Su­ preme Court. AN unfortunate shorting affair oc 7v' • * tw© families, as the result of which one tn*y g<> to the grave and the other to this peniten;iary. Edward Carroll was arraigned in the police court lor strik­ ing a i te [ son of M. T. Skaats, and bit­ ter words passed during the trial. Car-' roll was released, but was met at the 4oor by fekaats, who threatened assault upon him, whereupon Carroll fired a revolver full in Skaats' face. The shot took e' est in the mouth, the bullet lodging s ir e where near1 the ear. The wounded man still lives though unable to talk, and Carroll is in jail. * DEAN PEABODY, of Emmanuel Epis­ copal Church, Rockford, has been Unanimously elected to the rectorship •of the ( lu rch of the Good Shepherd at Augusta, Ga. He has not yet de­ cided that he will accept. Miss H t,KIET NARROWOUAG'E, a Sputh Pakota yourg woman, was put off a Milw «kee and St. Paul train at Eldin, because the conduc o thought a milo-Lie b ok in' her possession was not rightfully hers7 Now sh^ threat­ ens t<> sue for damages That's all right: but it wo.;ld seem tha Hattie's name wou'd have stopped the train any­ way, ar.d the Question is whether she br the road has the best cause of ac­ tion. y&SE wedding only to announce they had married the year befere, they having been living the while with their re­ spective parents, we don't know whom the joke was m, LOUIS RAAGEN. one of Alton's prom­ inent citbens, died after but an hour's illness. He came home as usual, and was taken ill abt ut midnight. In a few hours he was dead. Heart disease w as the cause of bis death. He was a mer­ chant for over thirty years, and at the time of his death was Piesident of the Haagen-Feuss Dry Goods Company. C. E. LOOS CO., of Chicago, will build a $100,000 electric street car sys­ tem in Freeport t > sup] lant the pi e-ent horse car lii e. Residents have agreed to take $25,000 stock, of which amount $20,000 was subscribed in two days. J. W. GILL attempted to kill John Marks at Br'er Hill, a hamlet in St. Clair County. Marks elo4ed with Gill's wife from Montgomery Countv, Mo., a bo t a month ago, and the couple were found livii g together in style in the ham t by the husband, who had traced 4h m several hundred miles. Ma. ks made hin escape without receiv­ ing seri n s injuries, anil Gill took his wife and left with her for thlir old home in M issouri. foreign debts in silver or in our paper money, but we had to pay it in our gold coin because the other countries would not take our depreciated silver, and if they took our paper they insisted upon its redemption in gold. So that when the Populists co-operate with the Dem­ ocrats and favor free trade they are creating a contingency which discrim­ inates against silver, their favorite coin. The exports of gold reached $108,- 680,844, which is nearly $8,000,000 more than in the year 1861. which up to last year was our high-watar mark of gold exports. So while we are shutting up our factories and depriving our work­ ingmen of oppo rtunities to earn a live­ lihood, we are paying for our whistle by sending abroad the best money we have. Ol the exports of gold $38,000,- 000 went to Germany, $.12,000,0<X) to France, $21.000,OOo to England, $5,000,- 0C0 to Canada and $6,50^,000 to Cuba to pay for sugar. Of course, after the Democratic policy' of repealing the sugar bounty is carried out and the home manufacture of beet and cane sugar in any considerable quantities ceases, we will send more money abroad to pay for sugar made in Cuba and Germany aud r ranee. Meanwhile how has the farmer danced to this kind of music? The avtrage export price for wheat was 8c. less than it was ever before. In 1892, under Republican administration, the export price of wheat was $1.03 a bush­ el, the export price of barley was 48c. against 63c the previous year. Corn 53c. against 55c., rye 68c. against 95c., wheat flour $4.54 a barrel against $4.96. Our exports to Europe in i8!)3 fell off over $189,001),000: to Oceanica, over $4,000,000; to Asia, over $3,1)00,000, while to South America, with many of Avho e governments we have reciproci­ ty treaties" they decreased only it'4S3,- 000. This makes such a favorable showing for the Republican reciprocity plan that, of cour. e, it is the Demo­ cratic policy to repeal the reciprocity treaties. Anything that helps this country is to bo wiped out; anything that help< other cpnntries is to be fostered. That is the charming under- lying principle of the present admin­ istration and the artv in power. Democratic li .. ••Old Glory." Thus far there have been four dis­ tinct flag episodes in the official life of Grover Cleveland as President of the United States, and all of them have been shameful. Two occurred during hi6 first term, and two have disgraced him since his second'inauguration last March. Nobody has forgotten how 'the stars and stripes were lowered to half mast on the Interior Department Building during Cleveland's first ad­ ministration as a mark of sorrow at the death of Jacob Thompson, the ex- vebel who had tried to introduce small­ pox into Northern cities during the rebellion. Tnat incident created a storm of indignation in the North, but a greater tempest of wrath was aroused soon afterward by the order of Adjutant General Drum, which Cleveland approved, retu ning the rebel flags captured on the battlefields of the rebe.li n to the Southern States. The opening of the second Cleveland administration was signal­ ized by the hauling down of the United States flag in Honolulu, by Grover s personal representative, Mr. Blount. Now the news comes f. om Washington that "Old Glory" no longer floats over the Capitol building, because the Democrats cannot afford to buy new flags wnen the old ones are worn out. If anything weie needed to complete are satisfied. They wish for no more news from Hawaii. They hunger for no more remarks from Liliuokalani. They have hearol all they desire from Blount and Willis and Gresham. They are willing ta drop Mr. Cleveland's Hawaiian policy and take any other subje -t unaer the sun. They wish that the 2,000 miles which separates North America from the Sandwich islands were 10,000 miles. Liliuokalani was a good Democrat, in that she believed in "turning the rascals out." But 'she believed the Democratic dictum too hard. She be­ lieved in beheading the rascals first and confiscating their property to her own uses, and turning them out after­ ward. She believed not only in the Democratic doctrine about kicking the other fellows out, but she accepted mo»t heartily that other article of Democratic taith--to the victors be-, long the spoils. Among these spoils she included the property and heads of her opponents. She especially doted on heads. When she went after political 6calps she did it literally, not figuratively.--Minneapolis Tribune. Failures In Thirty Year* Seme of the disturbed brethren of the Detnocratic press have had a great deal to say in comparison of the fail­ ures of 1873 under Republican govern­ ment, with the failures of 1893 under the free trade and trust government. Dun & Co.'s Review, a non-partisan au­ thority, has this interesting table, showing the annual failures and liabil­ ities in the United States during the past thirty years: Year. Fail. Liabilities. 1«:3.. 493 1864.. 520 8,57Sl,00;> 1804.. 530 17,625,000 I860.. l.fOS 5H.7HH.IMKi 1867.. 2,780 OMjGGti.lHiO 18HH.. 2,608 18( 9.. 2,7iW " 1870.. 3,610 . 7 1871.. 2,915 1872.. 4,009 1873.. 6,183 1874.. 5,830 187i.. 7,740 1876.. 9,094 1877.. 8,872 1878.. 1(\478 8"',252.00*1 121,t.5i%0XKi 22K,4'.»8,'.)0 1 210,000,000 191.117.00 M0,«H9,»W 284,381,13; Year. Fail. Liabilities. 1879.. 6,658 *'.>8,149,0)2 18*0.. 4,735 1881.. 5.582 1882.. 6,738 18S3.. 9.184 18S4. .10,968 1885..10,637 1886.. 9.834 1887.. 9,614 1888..10,670 1889..10,882 18M0..10.907 Will.. 12,273 1892.. 10,'334 1893.. 16,757 65,752,000 81,1:5,^32 101,547,364 172,814,174 220,243,427 124,220,^21 134,6'.*1,11V 167,COO,944 126,829,913 148,7RT4,3S7 18'.),BSC).964 189,868,638 114,044,167 687,778,697 tration, except in the latter £V$rt to thrust m>on the country a 8wf*r Bounty Veraas Doty. The sugar farmers of Louisiana have invested in their chief industry over #160.100,000. Over ten millions of new capital have been invested in sugar plantations, machinery, etc.. since the bounty law took effect, July 1, 1891. The beet sugar farmers ana producers Of California. Utah, and Nevada have invested OH the faith of the promised continuance of that l%w until 1904-- several millions of dollars. Together, these two--cane and beet--great na­ tional interests have been working to give this country, in a very reasonable time, probably all the sugar we will need, say, four billions and a half of pounds in the year 1900, There sfeems to . be a wonderful amount of ignorance displayed among the people as to the object of the pres­ ent bounty law, a certain part of the public press persisting in misrepre­ senting the whole matter. Let us see how it has affected the consumers of sugar: The United States consumed, in 1892, say, lbs ..4,069,330,800 This, at the average price usually peld, 8'»e, before the bonntv took effect, would be $340,1TT,54# Since the bounty last took effect consumers have paid an average of but fi'-c per H> on the amount con­ sumed, or a total of only... 224,913,180 The difference to the consumers, tlert-fore, in 1892, was 115,804,864 We imported, iu 1892, sugar to the amount or, lbs. .3.865,802,240 Old duty on it at 2o 172,116,044 Add to this bounty paid............. IO.OOO.OOO __ Total... $82,716,044 Difference to the people, or con­ sumers, in favor of the bounty law 83,148,322 In other words, the people have sim­ ply kept not only the duty formerly paid and have paid the bounty, but they have left, besides, in their pock­ ets over $33,000,000.--American Econ­ omist Dot Cleveiandt Beesness. <*' „ J " s. Der vorkinRmen's dey rode last tall&fovjT. S For Cleveland, 'cause he shworo He'd smash dot darlffs. bust dot dnjsdf, t'ndt priii* Root dimes vonce morel But hardt dimes Id vas voraser shdilU • For Clefeland vas von lie, % > Undt all around dot Yankee landt, \ £, % For pread der vorkaaens cry. t A monkey dells a tomcats vonce, ' / 1 "Youse let me take your paw, I shweeb der chesnuds from der shdtfHK ' Or else you eat dem raw;" >• Undt so dot fool cats lendt his paw, • Vich make him quickly learn * V,' How dot sharp monkey got dernudv ~ v1 Und how he Reds --der burn. Clefe says: "Dot darlff law's von shdO«Ln But ho led dot law b& " ' 4- Ouf I hellup a common dsef, ' v "* • I'm youst so bad as h& ^ • He youst shpit on dot Geary *' He blay In Chon Pull's hand, , ! Uttdt in von hundredt sh pea king InsulUt dot Yankee lacdt Der war ships dey vas haff hard dimf^ Der ain't no piste so dick, , - But van you 8hood dem mit von gua, Der palls go through dot quick. • Vel I make now one shtnall suRgesd^,. You hear mo vhlle 1 shpeak-- " ^ Vhy don't dey covor alt der ships , Mit Mlater Cleveland's check? He nefer waved dot bluddy shlrd, Dot shirt ho uefer vore: He send a subsdidood to dip .; His own shlrd in der gore; ,\.V Vhlle prave boys tight on pluMy - Heshneak to BulT'lotown, Undt de dot safe "Our Glory Flag," lie £ut* der bensions down. O, beeplei of a glorious land! ' ,* Your cheeks must purn mit than»%-,t Dot you elecdt a man like dot . • e ^ , t T o p l a c k e o y o u r g r e a d t n a m e . f S f i . O, land of Llnkoln, land of Grant; O, land of Vashlnstton; *riy- O, land vher shleeps de mUhty Vhere vos your manhood g6ne! ; ® --Hands Dunderfoodle. . V y That table will be useful and helpful during the Conerdssional campaign of this year, and you ought to cut it out and paste it where it will be conven­ ient for you and your free trade friends to see it when the argument becomes so warm as to demand the production of the actual facts.--Pes M^uies Register. Farmers Favor Protection , At a recent meeting of the Farmers' Institute held at Danville, Ind., the following resolution was passed: ' We favor domestic competition to the full­ est degree. \Vc favor the home market first, last and all the time, and especially do we tavor our lake shore and sea-board market* as home markets tor the farmers of the United States, and particularly those of tlie Missis­ sippi Valley. As farmers, we oppose the addi­ tional competition of our own products with the products and labor of other countries. We favor such protection by our tariff laws to our interest and the people at larare as will not leave our people at a disadvantage either iu trade, labor or competi­ tion. We believe that the theory of cheap labor as a means of constant employ­ ment is a delusion, and cannot be borne out by actual practice. To exalt and dignify labor is to rewari' it well, and it cannot be well re­ warded nnless the products of capital and labor can have a constunt and paying market, and we csnnot have that market without the levyinu of duties amply sufficient to cover the difference in the price of labor and transport­ ation in other countries entering into compe­ tition with our own products. We believe that the history and experience of tariff legis­ lation in our own country are safer guides than theories of political econumy. and should dic- *tate the wisdom of legislation or absence of legislation necessary to restore public confi­ dence and relieve the present financial and business depression. No Income Tax for Americans! The income tax is, of all taxes, no­ toriously the most unjust, unpopular and inquisitorial. Is is a war tax, pure and simple. It can be defended only on the ground of absolute, inexorable necessity. A nation struggling for its li e against ai-ired enemies miy justi­ fiably place a tax on the incomes of its citizens to raise funds for the supreme duty of self-preservation. For a great and rich nation founded on the princi­ ples of' equality aud justice, at pearce' with all the world, possessing already an equitable and efficient system of taxation, to resort to this odious and dihcreditable device would be criminal folly. An income tax is class legisla­ tion of the worst sort. It assails the "Xjr" Infamous Policy. "Frcm the-e and ether facts "which have been developed," wrote Minister Willis from Honolulu, November 10, to Socrotary Gresham, MI feel satisfied that there will be a concerted move­ ment in the event of restoration for the overthrow of the constitution, which would mean the overthrow of constitutional and limited government and the absolute dominion of the queen." In the same dispatch .Mr. Willis says: "Fortunately the men at the hegd of the provisional government are ac­ knowledged by all others to be of the highest integrity and public spirit, which, combined with the large ma­ terial interests they represent, will, it is hoped, cause them to stand tirmiv and successfully for good government." And yet, in face of that dispatch, Presi­ dent Cleveland and Secretary Gresham, in reply on November 1:3, and again December insisted upon Willis car­ rying out his original instructions! Could anything be more infamous? Would Imvetch Cleveland. The talk of impeaching President, Cleveland has not been received by the$ country with disapproval. Few Re-| publicans are disposed to defend him, the mugwumps aj-e silent, and tho Democrats are lukewarm in their loyal-> i* ty. There is even Democratic eni out- agement given to the Republicans.^ Democrats realize that their one-timeii idol has so bedeviled their party that| it is doomed to lose both Congress and, the Presidency at the earliest day at which the people can crowd to thetj {tolls. Therefore has a great hungers or revenge been created in many Dem­ ocratic bosoms, and the ejectment of Cleveland from his office would give a satisfaction to many of his late tollo-.v- ers far exceeding in intensity that like* ly to bo experienced by other citizens who have only a patriotic interest ^u i the matter. < ? | May Be Set Aslle. The outrageous decision by whichs I the haif-demented old veteran, Win. Newby, was consigned to prison at Springfield for two years for trying to secure a pension which the Govern­ ment almost beyond question owes him, may yet be set aside, an appeal having j been taken to the United States Su- j preme Court. The whole power of the ; present administration has been em- Eloyed to crush this penniless and rtiken-down old man. It is a case FIRE IN Terrible HOTOEA--T AT the BOOM Cowlj (tows) Poor Farm. Eight incurably insane paupers were cremated alive by the burning of the asylum at the Boone County (Iowa) poor farm the other night. Only one of the inmates escaped. The dead are: Mary Tucker, Johanna Sniggs, Anna Sonderberg,Christine Ant^erstn, Chris­ tine Peterson, Mrs. Scott, Thomas Leaser. Joseph rv*ug\ Jlibbard, a half-witted woman, escaped from the burning building and gave the alarm to Steward Hoicomb, who was in the main building adjacent. It was th.n too late to save the people, and the main building wa3 taved only by great effort. The steward says he banked the fires in the furnace about 9 o clock and dees not know how the' fira origi­ nated, unless from a defective flue. The institution is situated in an iso­ lated place and out of reach of even such apparatus as the town of Boons could afford. By the time the alarm was given there was no time to do any­ thing. Tho inmates could not help themselves, and waited for death, cry­ ing wildly as the tire burned in upon them. The building burned rapidly, and almost as soon as it was known in the city that there was a the the whole place was consumed. Immediately a party hurried to the scene, but tco late to afford any assistance whatever. The search for the bodies was b^gun as soon as the ruins had cooled suffi­ ciently to permit of it, and the hopes of those who had thought that perhaps some of the inmates had escaped to the fields in the neighborhood and had concealed themselves were found to be baseless. Ail the bodies were either found or evidences w&re discovered to show that they were in the smoldering ruins. If there had been somebody in the place able to torce the inmates to leave it is likely that they would have escaped without serious ihjury, but no­ body was at hand. * . The building burned was aft old two-" story frame structure, which was as dry as tinder. To add to the inflam­ mable nature of the place many of the partition walls were padded with cot­ ton, and some of the bedclothing was of cotton batting three inches thick. This was becauso only the incurable insane, who had been returned from the State Asylum, were kept there. These patients were nearly all violent, and the great amount of cotton batting was.to prevent them injuring them­ selves. The building was heated by a furnace, which was condemned last summer by a local expert as unsafe, but no attention had apparently been Eaid to this warning. It is thought to e certain that the fire started from a defect in the furnace, as there were no stoves in any of the rooms, .and great care was exercised that no matches should be allowed in the building. Mr. Holcomb, the steward, fays he first knew of the fire when alarmed by Mrs. Hibbard, the only inmate who escaped from the building. He was in the main build­ ing, which stands but three feet dis­ tant from the "crazy" house. When he got outdoors flames were bursting from all the windows of the frame structure and it was a mass of flames insidtf. He burst of en a door, but was driven back by the flumes, which in a few minutes burned the building to the ground. Tho main building was saved by pouring on water which tho heat of tho fire melted from a huge snowdrift alongside the building. No one saw the eight people who were burned to death, and whether they made any effort to escape can never be known. There seems to have been no attendant of any kind in the building where the insane people were Iccked up. A PICTURESQUE OUTLAW, Chris Kvam, On* of the Most Daring Ban­ dits of the West. The most audacious bandit in Cali­ fornia is Chris Evans, who has recent­ ly escaped from the Fresno State prison, where he was serving a life sentence for train robbery, murder and other crimes. Evans is one of the pic­ turesque class of outlaws of whom Bret Harte delights to tell in his sto­ ries. For some years Evans has been at the head of a gang of bandits who roamed through the mountains and 'valleys of the Golden State, commit­ ting depredations of all kinds. "Their most daring exploit was the robbery of a train in the San Joaquin valley. On • the night of August o, JoSi2, thteo of the gang. Evans and George and John Sontag, boarded an express train at Callis, a little station out on the plains, blew open the express car with dyna­ mite bomfcs and then, after seriously wounding the messenger, escaped, with CHRIS CVAITS ff«W • Wealthy li»r a Mr. and Mrs. K. AJJ _ New Haven; Dr. and Ifcik-' Grihnell of New York, Baldwin's maid, baVe left ton on a journey which will 183 days. Mr. Baldwin is a t»ri vate citiren of .New HsW'fi, s«'1 world traveler of lonw experience, winters being devoted to its nocks and corners where*«r ibe beautiful and the novel he found. This year he decided to visit Japan, China, and Corea, lioJrorlofr in California long enough ta ^§i^$r its winter climate. What tuakfetflfr. Baldwin's trip remarkable, lie' Washington Post, is the fact tfcttitiQ- fore he left New Haven the entire ! itirieracy had been arrange !, and he - knew to a minute when the train < which carries his private Pullman car would arrive at and leave every « place visited in America, botHjcbtng f aud returning, as well as the fdCwsd- ule of the boats and other of transportation which would take him across the Pacific and be at his * dls> posal on the other side. Not on)y fe he equipped with a printed schedule containing this information but he also has a packet of railroad and steamboat tickets covering the entire journey of the party. Mr. Baldwin had all this arranged for him by an official of the New York Central in New York, and gave him a checs cov­ ering the entire expense of transpor- ^ tation in accordance with the pro-- gram Mr, Roach arranged. The party left Washington for New Orleans, going over the Southern Pacific to California. Some time will be spent in California, and the Pullman will then take a northern route, reaching Vancouver, British Columbia, March 4. On March 5 Mr. .% Baldwin will sail on the steamer 13m- ; press of China for Yokohoma, arriv­ ing there March 19. The points of interest in Japan and China will he visited und ths curiosities cf O&TwS* investigated. Beturning, the tray- * elers will embark at Yokohoma June 1, on the Empress oi Japan, reaching Vancouver June 13, Here a private Wagner car, will be awaiting them and the Canadian Pacific Eoad will be taken back eastward. The party will branch otf and visit Chicago and arrive home at New Haven on the afternoon of June 22, 1894. In con­ versation Mr. Baldwin said he would not know a simple discomfort of j traveling. "We have an Excellent ^ cook on tbe car and the servant Jr I one of the best in the Pullman serv­ ice. We will be just as comfortable as we are at home, and if we desire to stay longer at some place than tbe schedule calls for, all 1 will have to do will be to telegraph JVlr. Roach ' 'and he will arrange things satisf«c- * torily. Every detail of our trip has »: been arranged. Our staterooms on the steamers have been engaged, and we will not? have a single one of the I annoyances to which those who make long journeys are usually subjected. Yes, they are certainly getting travel down to a science in these advanced daya^V . v-; • , ;vv.; * p It does not lie in the mouth of onv newspaper to criticise another for ^ changes of policy, or of characteristics i which had made it distinctive, but a journal may become so important in ' its relation to a community or to the country that an altered course calls for comment and besides the case is cited as an illustration. Harper's Weekly, 4 a journal of civilization," formerly justified its sub-title Its new columns were not behind the 5 editorial department in dignity, and of the high character of this paper's f editorial discussion in Mr. Curtis' day nothing need be said. His career as an editor is a p irt of tbe history or American journalism. For some time before the death of Mr. Curtis H the news and literary features of the weekly showed signs of deterioratior. A venturesome young man was made the executive editor of the papery 1 and before long be bad caused radical changes. Mr, Curtis' editorial was ' < ; not disturbed, but his cont ibutions , remained aione aud singular of the ;-~ features of the old Harper'a Tho ^ new editor placed great stress upon ; the doings of college boys, and a de- 1 partment established for the discos- / ^ sion of the merits of football teams • \:iyl and of "crack" amateur pitchers: %|| The literary quality of the paper fell f ® off sadly. Its short fiction is not what it used to be, much of the lV- verse printed is by a writer who en- ' deavors to hit off incidents of the ryme Machine-made poetry attains something akin to grandeur in his performances. Some one writes each week a conservative editorial on a political or economic topic, and this is followed by other editorial that Is only trivial or silly, bringing down the level of the whole. Of all this we say it is melancholy, p tiful, and shameful that a vaua le oumai should thus abdicate its place, Be­ coming a picture paper for the amuse­ ment of young men of fraternity chapter bouses acd college clubs. It is too bad that a 4 'journal of civili*? atiqn" should so degenerate dianapolis News. <" £ A "Force" BUI Tariff Tariff-Tinker Wilson has insinuated that wage-earners are being "forced" to sign the petitions that are pouring into C ngress against his bill of de- tho humiliation which every loyal son ' ^truc ion. We are afraid that the „» ! coercion screw applied from tli6 White House to the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee must have af- which appeals to all the better impulses fundamental doctrines of Americanism, j 0f humanity, and right nobly have the It puts a premium on perjury. The i pe0 ' "" 1 ' ! "" ' Wilson bill was already heavily weight- j ed wifch injustice and hostility to American interest*. The burden of, , , *> • .,,- the income tax ought to sink the in-1 If the will of President Cleveland tj« famous measure beyond all hope of ; allowed to prevail the power of the resurrection.--New York Pre58. A Democratic party in Congress will con- i tinue until the next' Congressional elections give voters opportunity to responded.--Champaign »(Iil.^ Democratic Prophesy* voters express their resentment and • no longer, while in the White House De-locratic tenancy will end March 4, 1 •; 7. --Chicago Times (De'm.). 01 x'ne republic must ;eel at being com­ pelled to live under such an adminis- t ation, this late t exhibition of hatred for the stars and strioes is enough. What a speatacl \e must p;e ent in the t ye ; of theew. rd! A ration of ne rly seventy millions of 1 e pie too poor to float the flag of our tou try <. ve t e Nat onal Capitol! Of cour e. pove ty i simply' an absurd and silly e eu, e --< It ve and Leader. < »« t < Mm •* - • £ . ' * facted that gentleman's ideas of iair play. This is a tree country and people are not generally " orced" to co things against thei • w 1L There are more than €0.0 m ,00'J of people who how see , hin s ditTe/ently to the smaller num- Qi Ies3 than ,()0>/,C0"J with whom the worthy Chai man i in the minority. B t there a e exceptions to every iu e, as the President lias fully proven dur­ ing the last ninj months, when he "iorced" Congress and his execu ive officials to do hi. bidding. Tuese are he only instances of "IOSCJ" that have Tney ha. e had enough. They , been used under the present adminift- Ths • H T! H d KnoaKh. ( Th# profound ilence of our est 3emed Demoi ratiC-<gnump. rarios sJice the last batch of 1 a an.tu cor.esp udence came nip ofou d t the point of sadness. 'fib; " v • fr. ,-a: ONE thing now seems certain. It is that the Wilson bill cannot Income a law. This does net mean that it may not pass the House as it now is. In­ deed, the chances are it will, for the President is master in the lower branch. The Senate, however, * will rip it to pieces. Its fir t mauling will be in the finance Committee, and after that the gamut of the body. The Senate will exercise a deliberation ut.on it which White Hou;-e influence cannot inter­ cept.--Washington dispatch to the Cin­ cinnati Enquirer. THE messenger boy goes slow because he is determined'not to ronout of a job " *-• , 1" * 1 &,jr three sacks of gold coin. George Son- tag was speedily captured; bat it took nine months to arrest the other two, during which time railroad, United Sta*es, State and county detectives, Pinkertons, Mojavef Indians and ama­ teur man hunters were actively en­ gaged ih the hunt. A deputy United States marshal and posse finally surrounded the two men in a cabin near Visal'a. The usual desperate battle followed, and during it Sontag was wounded so that he could not move, and Evans s> badly that be could only crawl. When darkness came on the bandits still held their position, and Evans saw a chance to crawl awav. Sontag b gged his com­ panion to kill him before leaving, but Evans refused. The posse then cap­ tured Sontag, but Evans escaped. He managed to reach the house of a woman he believed to be a sympathizer, but was there betrayed. Sontag died. When the time came for Evans' trial there was no money for his defense. However, his wi e and It-year-old daughter interested a theatrical specu­ lator, a play was written in which her husband s career was depicted, and this the mother aud daughter presented thr ughout California. They drew immense h uses, and made money en ugh to procure for Evans the best le«al talent in the State, with the re­ sult that he secured a life sentence, instead of death which he so richly deserved. His wife and a waiter smug­ gled revolvers into the prison at Fresno, and got th m into Evans' hands. The latter immediately held up the jailer and escaped. Omliow o >ew». H OHLENDORF, the well-know* Berlin e itor, is dead. GENEII EMILE MEIJJSEWP, of the.,,, , • • . French a my, i dead. i^stomach. and, when in dan^e^o . % HELEN A. SHAFER, President case iroiu the excessive >ira.o ipoo Welleslev College, is dead. , it of one em >tioo. a counter THE Philad ^>III» I ptical and Wateh tion u om Qthjr smaller oum W * Company >>a* f d'ed, w .th liabilities of wholes© e and usuall? fc.5j,ooa. trea& ent % V f \.r * t IV 4--.sr Minlsterine to the Mind. A century ago a shrewd ^<urmui . J'i recommended to every man overcome " ^ with sorrow to force himself each day to study for a fixed period » M language or art whatever was most* .J agreeable to him. The work for th© |- ^rain on a totally different side from its grief is stimulating, strengthen­ ing. A political exile* also a Ger­ man, being sentenced to a long soil* tary imprisonment, kept madness at bay by decorating the walls of his cell and by making lists and sketches of people and places he had known. He recommends a man in grief to pay instant attention to the little" pur» suit> or occupations which usually give him pleasure, and to obstinately devote himself to them unt l his brain has had time to heal. "If W* are denied great joys let us earn­ estly seek to fill their pla e by mail ones,he advises. Peo ieof method­ ical habits should tfe given occupation ,which will ail forth their geunts 'QC organi ation aud system, iu uort* we should ri member that «o oralflt is a material ort»an as we!: as the * ;