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ABOUND A BIG STATE. V JMliEF COMPILATION OF -ft--.': NEWS. ?Xr\( . .• , ' Slwdwoiw Row Over a Keg of Beer-- Kutland Man Kills Himself-Project Springfield Meq^fienorkable Work of Vandals at Staley. May Be a Murder. . •, What will In all probability prove to be r , t murder took place in Bloomington about midnight Saturday night. Joseph "Yordi invited several of his neighbors to jiis house and treated his guests to a keg jof beer. Among the guests was Henry ..fHandlemann, He and Yordi have long been warm friends. The party became *nore or tens intoxicated, and Yordi and » Handlemann became involved in a quar­ rel, when Yordi stabbed Handlemann, < cutting him frightfully in the head. Han- fHcmann seized the knife and cut off r ear and otherwise disfigured him. fa Handlemann will die. Yordi was arrest- an<* locked up. Handlemann is about ,V>'r t• ***** of age and has a family* • Fir® at Nashville. r^,; One of the plants of the Camp Spring A • Company was destroyed at Nash- st>% ®re" When the alarm was given III* efforts of the firemen were of no avail g; " rand the building with its contents was J; destroyed. This mill was built in 1881 y ' ."W a cost of $43,000, and has been re- (> , Gently used exclusively for the manufac- | - • ture of cornmeal, bran and ship-stuff for ^ • the Southern markets, the capacity be- |f',r t inS 25,000 pounds per day. The proprie- f.' tor® will rebuild. It was insured for {• ' ^$8,500 in the following companies: Un- p lierwriters, $2,000; Phoenix of London, ** $1,500; Phoenx of Brooklyn, $1,000; Phe- Sjsj. Oix_ of Hartford, $1,000; Connecticut, #1,500; Fire Association of Philadelphia, ̂ $1,500. . ̂ " Destroyed What Was Not Stolen. f, "f A remarkable act of vandalism was ifcommitted Thursday night at Staley, five • * jniles west of Champaign. Burglars broke into the general store of B. P. Sta­ gey and carried away as much booty as they could. Then they undertook to de- • 8troy ,everything that they could not car- 5 S 17 away. Much of the merchandise was Carried into the street and trampled in the mud, while some of it was burned. J " Almost the entire stock was destroyed, v postoffips is s|so ,in the baiMlsg nnij the miscreants took the mail in the boxes T ' ?n<^ totally destroyed it. Several arrests nave been made, and as soon as the postal •" -authorities take a hand there is little g.„, _ doubt that the thieves will be secured. ' ' Exemplified His Own Theories. s \ Thursday evening the body of Osgood Hutchinson was found in the cemetery ^ Rutland with a pistol shot through his : 4 temple. He chose the place to commit '• '• liuicide where he has been employed for •i „ twenty-five years. He was a great reader -4fcnd thinker, and in letters left behind . -were ideas of utilitarianism that he solved v , . to his own satisfaction. He particularly ' dwelt on the text that suicide was not ' .a sin when through old age and infirmity -W % one's usefulness was ended. He was buried according to his written direc- tions in & pine box with no ceremonies. Will Purchase a Plantation. William E. Shutt, United States Dis­ trict-Attorney; W. B. Brinton, United ^States Marshal; W. S, Burroughs, Depu­ ty " ty United States Marshal; Thomas J. i-. Corkery and M. O'Connor, all of Spring- ^ field, and I. J. Johnson, of Rochester, left T^:\ ^Springfield for a month's tour through |f ^the South, prospecting for the purchase »•' ®f u large plantation. The gentlemen are £ ^ Well-known capitalists and have a view •toward establishing a farming industry ' ©n a very extensive scale at some availa- » We locality in the South. Record of tHe c The St. Clair County Teachers' Asso* ciation held a meeting at Masooutah. ;s Allen Casebeer, of Garrett, aged 14, . _ ^ was fatally stabbed at school by James i' ^Akers, aged 14. ^ liudolphus W. Padelford, a descendant $f Roger Williams and prominent in po­ litical and church affairs at Elgin, is dead. The American Iron Brake Beam Com­ pany, recently removed to Waukegan, has f-J' let a contract for a large a'ddition to its . factory. n ; The Heuver & Glidden Shoe Company %' pt Decatur made an assignment to Samuel '* * " Jack. Liabilities, $19,000; assets, ,000. Chicago police state that political i*; friends are preventing the apprehension ^>> *>f the men supposed to have murdered #*,. Gust Colliander. '§r[ , ' C. C. Withrow, a country school teach- tjv near Whitehall, was badly stabbed in ft fight with Shannon Bradshold and Mar- ' fhall Revis, pupils. The schools of Oak Grove district, ayette County, have been closed on ac­ count of the prevalence of scarlet fever |uid whooping cough. k Rev. N. D. Hillis, pastor of the First ^ Presbyterian Church of Evanston, has £ • been chosen to succeed Rev. David Swing f, , • of the Central Church. If" . Edward Hargraves, a leading dairyman •/.,. '• of Clifton, while assisting his men at a f ^eedfutter, caught his right hand in the •'» machine and crushed it so that he had to -< #ave it amputated. The Board of Trustes of the University «f Illinois elected Prof. Eugene Daven- port, of Michigan, to the chair of agri?ul- 'V ture, made vacant by the resignation of : Prof. George E. Morrow. - ? Mrs. Flower's official majority for ini- Tersity trustee was 180,595. She led all •** "flie rest of the candidates by many thou- •{_ - Vands of votes and ran ahead of her tick- )pt nearly 50,000. She seems to be a prc m- «"f : ising national Flower. • C. S. Youree, ex-coroner and now Pres- i?,; t deQt of the Village Board at Madison, "_ 1 was arrested on the charge of malfeas- : . «nce in ofiiee. Specifically stated the £ Charge is that he allowed the gambling- |i bouses at Madison to flourish openly. He C jfave bond and was released. S. Thomas R. Burlingame, said to be a ,, A prominent farmer of Logan County, Was ;f> " Arrested at Peoria by Sheriff Mason, of liincoln, on a charge of killing a child at « hotel in Lincoln several years ago. Bur- Bngame has a wife and family in Lincoln. '* The Dixon City Council passed an or- \ dinance prohibiting the sale of cigarettes fin every way in that city; also prohibiting >, the holding of lotteries, raffles* games of • <thance, the offering of prizes at church ;• feirs, etc. The movement was started by i 'A the various churches and by physicians Xft the city, who presented a petition to Ifte Council. Goodman Barnet. once a wealthy Chi- %Af ' CRgo business man, committed suicide by •- shooting himself after having taken ,t> . poison. ; v;. Officer Lawrence J. Murphy, one of the , (Hirvivors of the Haymarket riot, has been discharged from the Chicago police force % ."."'.Ipr unbecoming conduct. <;l • " Charles Trebis. 20 years old, who lived ;' With his parents at Maywood, was found ifead on a pile of hay in the rear of a barn, in that suburb. In company with several other young men Trebis, it is ikid, attended an entertainment in May- Wood. It is said that Trebis drcafc a pint of whisky by way of refreshment after ' : 'T.I "4"'. . 'i M ; y-f'" : : j • v _ mm. BM AHJD CHOTERA. : - ^ ; * , - . f i r . < v r . w " A much needed and capitis* tain bai fallen in Central Illinois. Dr. Samuel A. Whedon was married to >;Miss Kate Beckwith, an ocutist j>f Elgi^ Mrs. Joseph Hobson, aged 54, ££ed«at Decatur from injuries received in a run­ away. Myer & Blank, hosse and sign painters, at Decatur, failed. Assets, $1,500; lia­ bilities, $1,100. y The Star Company's agricultural imple­ ment factory at Carpenterville was dank- aged $6,000 by fire. Mrs. Lucy Edwards, colored, who was born in Lincoln County, Virginia, in 1770, died at Springfield. Mrs. Sarah Jones was awarded $2,600 at Decatur for injuries received on the City Electric Street Railway. ^ The crusade for social reform has struck Peoria, and it is reported thirteen citizens will be indicted for gambling. William Conant, the venerable Mayor of Geneva, was found dead in his bed. He was 80 years old and an Illinois pio­ neer. A call has been extended! to Rev. Willis Bede, of Allegheny City, Pa., formerly of Evanston, to become rector.of Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Rockford. August Weisenstine. of Ladd, sued Henry Knoff for $5,000 damages for the i>t uio uuu^uLci, tviiu «v«io under foot by Knoff's loose horse. J. H. Newell, a Philadelphia traveling man, was arrested on a charge of robbing A. J. Sherwood, a St. Louis traveling man, of $100 and a gold watch at Rock- ford. Near Effingham burglars were discov­ ered in the store of J. P. Condon, and in attempting to arrest them Sheriff Tedrick shot one of the desperadoes, probably fatally. The officers and directors of the Illinois Retail Lumber Dealers' Association have decided to hold the State meeting in Feb­ ruary at Chicago or Decatur, the mem­ bers to determine which by vote-. It is proposed to make a trip in a body to the Southern pineries. William Moore, living near Sunny Hill, ten miles southeast of Moline, has suffer­ ed for want of water all summer, as have his neighbors who have wells as deep as 150 feet. The other day he and his son went to drilling with a four-inch drill. They had got down fifty-five feet and went to dinner. When they returned they were thunderstruck to find every­ thing blown out of the well and a four- inch stream of water spouting as high as their heads and throwing out quantities of white sand, showing that they had struck a vein of St. Peter's sandstone. Mr. Moore will tube his well, which is overflowing his farm. For the second time the United States Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Daniel Benton, alias William Newby. Benton was convicted in the United States District Court at Springfield for falsely impersonating William Newby, a Federal soldier killed in the batrie of Shiloh, and reappearing as Newby a few years ago at Newby's old home in South­ ern Illinois and presenting a claim for a pension for wounds alleged to have been received in the military service in the Federal Government. Benton was sen­ tenced to three years in prison. The cause was dismissed because of failure, to file an appeal bond. This will probably end the case. REPORT ON TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Bnresn Of Animal Indnstrjr Oi^ril ̂ s Kesnlt of Long and Thorough £n- vestigation of Swine Plague and Other Epidemics. Strict Quarantine Necessary. With estimated losses of between $10,- 000,000 and $25,000,000 from hog cholera and swine plague in the United States, the discussion of the treatment and means of prevention of these diseases in a bulle­ tin issued by the Agricultural Department is of great value to the farmers of this country. The Bureau of Animal Industry has been conducting an exhaustive investiga­ tion of this subject and finds that the agents which destroy the germs of one of these fatal diseases, are also effective in the destruction of the germs of the other. Both are spread by infection and their course varies from one day to three weeks. Both are caused by bacteria. The germs of hog cholera, says the re­ port, are very hardy and vigorous, while those of the swine plague are very deli­ cate and very easily destroyed. The lat­ ter are found to be present in practically aii neras or swine, but the tormer must be introduced from infected herds. The most efficient virus remedy tried by the Government's agents is the follow­ ing: Wood, charcoal, sulphur, sodium sulphate and antimony sulphide, one pound each; sodium chloride, sodium, bi­ carbonate and sodium hyposulphite, two pounds each. These are to be completely pulverized and mixed, and a daily dose of a large tablespoonful for each 200 pounds weight of hogs given. The medicine may be used also as a preventive of these diseases. It should be put in the feed of the whole herd. To insure more success­ ful treatment the animals should be kept in dry and comfortable quarters away from drafts of air. Five or six months shot id be allowed to elapse after an out­ break before new hogs are purchased or any of the old herd sold. The report recommends a rigid quaran­ tining of newly-bought hogs and the pre­ vention of their joining those already on the farm for at least six weeks. During the warm months of the year the swine should have plenty of young grass or clover; crushed or rolled wheat should be fed to grooms? ^ptmsjc , CORN UP, WHEAT DOWN. Two Germans, named Chris Meyer and Albert Fen ken, met at Freeport re­ cently, it appearing that Meyer kllew Frenken in the old country aB a, criminal who was wanted by officials there. Fen- ken, fearing Meyer would give up his se­ crets, waylaid him in a lonely 'spot Mid­ day and fired eight shots at him, three taking effect in neck, head and body. Meyer will die. Fecken fled to the country, and at the point of a revolver made a farmer give him dinner. He showed two revolvers and swore not to be taken alive. Fenken was captured late at night, ten miles from Freeport, by Chief of Police Bruboker and Deputy Sheriff Silk. He had a revolver in each hand, but the officers surprised him and he did not have time to use the weapons. The State Board of Agriculture has just given out reports of correspondents regarding the corn crop of 1894. The crop was not seriously injured by drought last summer. The acreage seeded was 6,705,475 acres, greater than any year since 1889, exceeding the acreage of 1893 by 300,000 acres. Three million and nine thousand acres were sown in Northern Illinois, 2,709,500 in Central and 586,000 in Southern Illinois. The average yield was thirty-one bushels per acre, which was larger than in two years. In the northern division the average bushels, central division 38 bushels, and southern but 18 bushels. The total yield for 1894 was 205,637,000, 37,949,000 bushels more than in 1893. The increase in the northern division was 17,638,000 bushels, central 22,900,000 bushels, and southern 2,589,000 bushels, as compared with 1893. The quality of corn in the northern division is 98 and central 95 per cent., or about an average crop. South­ ern Illinois is only 70 per cent, of an average crop. John McCauley, who has been on trial at Springfield on a charge of stealing six­ teen head of cattle from Farmer Scrog- gin, near Harrisburg, on the witness stand gave his life history. According to his story he has stolen hundreds of head of horses in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ken­ tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, and Old Mexico. At one time, he declared, he stole sixteen horses in Mexico. For this crime the greasers chased him across the Rio Grande into Texas. He after­ ward joined the 7th Kansas jayhawkers and marched with them through Georgia, stealing horses for the soldiers. Mc­ Cauley spent three terms in penitentia­ ries. During the winter season, when not stealing horses, he. says he put in his time preaching and holding revival ser­ vices and was the instrument of winning many souls to Christ. He claims that he never stole a horse except from some man who owed him. A verdict of guilty and a sentence to ten years in the penitentiary was returned. S. J. Mitchell, a lightning-rod agent of St. Louis, was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Massac County to eight years in the penitentiary for forging a note and selling it to the First National Bank of Metropolis. W. P. Buell, general agent Standard Horse and Cattle Food Company, who disappeared from Springfield Nov. 11, and who was reported by President San- ford, of the Standard Company, to be an embezzler to the amount of $5,000, re­ turned to that city. He says he has been wronged regarding his alleged embezzle­ ment. The Average Farm Price of Varions Agricultural Products. The returns to the statistical division of tiie department of agriculture for Decem­ ber relate principally to the average farm price of the various agricultural products! on the first day of the month. By farm prices is meant the price at the farm ors i»t the nearest local or railway market. comparison of these prices with com­ mercial quotations allowance must be made for cost of handling, transportation, profits of dealers, etc. The farm price of corn averaged 45.6 cents per bushel, which is 9.1 cents higher than the corresponding price of last year, which was 36.5 cents per bushel. This price was 6.3 cents per bushel higher than the average price for the decade 1880 to 1889, and is just 4 cents higher than the average for the four years, 1890 to 1893. The average: price of wheat is 49.8 cents per bushel, the lowest price in the past twenty-five years. This price is 33.9 cents less than the average for the ten yars, 1880 to 1889, and 22.1 cents less than the average for the four years, 1890 to 1893. The returns make the general price per bushel of rye 50.5 cents, which is 1.3 cents lower than the price at the same date last year. The average farm price of oats as returned for Dec. 1 this year is 4.1 cents higher than for the corresponding date last year, being 32.9 cents per bushel, against 28.8 Dec. 1, 1893. The average farm price of barley is 44.3 cents per bushel against 40.6 cents for the year 1893, or a gain of 3.7 cents. The price for 1892 was 47.24 cents. The average price of buckwheat is 56.2 cents per bushel, against 59 cents for the year 1893, or a decline of 2.8 cents. The returns show the average price of hay to be $9.18 per ton, while that of last year on the farms was $9.12. The average condition of corn is 45.7. The condition of winter wheat on Dec. 1 averaged 89, against 91.5 in 1893 and 87.4 n 1892. In the principal winter wheat States the percentages are as follows: Michigan, 92; Indiana, 88; Illinois, 91; Kansas, 72; Nebraska, 76; California, 92. The returns of correspondents of the de­ partment make the acreage of winter wheat sown last fall 103 per cent, of the oT I final estimate of the area harvested in 1894, which was 23,518,796 acres, a larger figure than the preliminary esti­ mate given out in June last, which upon further investigation was found to be too low. This preliminary estimate there­ fore makes the area sown for the harvest of 1895. 24.224.000 acres. land thereby or If the HtwiMte promises to guarantee the safp collection of taxes in the future or the payment of overdue moneys owing to thfe soldiery and army officers. The harem under Abdul Hamid is not the festive institution of old. Quality has given away to quantity even in the selection of odalisques. The Sultan has one real wife--the Sultana--who is the mother of seven child >n. The quan­ tity of the odalisque^ kept for his benefit varies between 150 and 200--all extreme­ ly young. When they reach their 16th summer Abdul has no further use for them, and either sells them or presents them to his friends or officials. The chief objects of interest that enter into Abdul Hamid's official life are: European poli­ tics, fires in Constantinople and keeping cholera at a distance. THE GIBBONS RESUSCITATOR. DR. P. J. OIBBOHS. Designed to Revive Those Apparently Dead from Klectrlcal Shock. Dr. P. J. Gibbons, of Syracuse, N. Tn who applied to Governor Flower for per­ mission to use his apparatus for resusci­ tating victims of electricity on Mur­ derer Wilson, who is to be executed in Au­ burn prison, speak­ ing of his attempt to try the apparatus on Wilson, said that the Attorney Gen- kttiKi uc/iiiicu iiitii that neither the Gov­ ernor nor the super­ intendent of prions nor the warden of Auburn prison had authority to grant the desired permission. Dr. Gibbons added: "My apparatus is designed to resusci­ tate people who have undergone electrical shock, taken poison, been long immersed in water, or have suffered from similar misadventure. To resuscitate people it is necessary simply to restore breath into them. There are a number of methods now in use for this purpose. My instru­ ment is designed to restore suspended ani­ mation more expeditiously and more cer­ tainly than any method now in use." Dr. Gibbons' invention is a simple double bellows. The end of the long tube is inserted in the mouth of the patient, or if this be closed, in an opening made in the throat. The patient's nose is closed, and when the handle of the bellows is raised the air rushes from the patient's lungs into one apartment of the bellows. Simultaneously the other apartment is tilled" with fresh air through a tube on the THE GIBBONS RESUSCITATOR. reverse side. This air is forced into the lungs by the compression of the handles. This is all there is to it. Dr. Gibbons says a large percentage of deaths from electricity are not instanta­ neous, and could be averted by using his invention. The voltage necessary to kill is not a fixed quantity. In Stute executions from 1,200 to 1,800 volts are used, where­ as, he says, he is acquainted with one case where a man operating an electric dyna­ mo received a shock from a current of 4,600 volts strong, arid was resuscitated by ordinary methods after seven minutes. In another case Dr. Gibbons' own assist­ ant, a Mr. Greenwood, received 1,500 volts atid was restored. D'Arsonval re­ ports a case where a man received 5,000 volts and was resuscitated after half an hotir. HEAD OF THE SYNDICATE. While Justice and Congressman-elect Woodman, of Chicago, was uniting two rural swains his horse and buggy were stolen. At Moline, George Chadwick died, aged 00. He was a native of England and had been prominent in municipal politics for several years. The State Board of Contracts con­ vened at Springfield for the ptrrppse of investigating the charges of attempted bribery of State Printer Expert Here­ ford by ex-Public Printer Rokker, Here­ ford has his statement and books ready for inspection. The board will make a thorough investigation of the case before triiotirninf. v , ^ ' • > . V / . * 1 A GERMAN OFFICER Has Recently Been Put in Command of the Chinese Navy. Among the lenders of the war in the East none is more interesting than Capt. von Henneken, the successful German officer, who, it is reported, has . been put in complete c o m m a n d o f t h e Chinese navy. For the past twenty-five years he has held a prominent position in the Chinese serv­ ice,previous to which he was an officer in the German army. He has served as aide-de-camp to Li Hung Chang. He VON HK> was on board the nkkkn. Kow-Shing at the time it was sunk by the Japs, and was picked out of the wa­ ter. He has done good work for the Chi­ nese in the present war, and was recent­ ly decorated in recognition of his valu­ able assistance. ttIS NOD IS LAW. John A. Stewart Organized the Pur* chase of the Recent Bond Issue. John A. Stewart, sponsor of a great syndicate, who organized the purchase of the most recent bond issue of $50,000,000, is 72 years of age. His early education he received in the public schools of New York, and he was graduated from Columbia College when he was 18 years old. For ten years he was clerk of the New York Board of Education. Then he accepted a position as actuary of the United States AID FOFIEIGN TBADE. SOME AMERICAN RAILROADS NEED INVESTIGATION. tia Plate Manufacturers Charge that Railroads Are Discriminating in Favor of Foreign Goods--A Costly - Administration. This Meeds Investigation. , • The Association of Tin Plate Manu­ facturers have published a statement regarding the foreign competition with their business. Probably its most im­ portant features is the table of freight rates on tin plate, which shows that foreign tin plate is carried from New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore to our interior markets at a rate considerably cheaper than that at which the rail­ roads will carry American tin plate from the American manufacturing cen­ ters to the different consuming mar-' kets. The bitter fight and the strenuous op­ position against the American tin plate industry that have been made by the foreign manufacturers of tin plate and their active coadjutors in this country, cc5t c? U.u to the consumer down to a price that leaves a very narrow margin of profit to our producer, and which has checked to a very great extent the importation of the foreign article and caused the shutting down of tL«' foreign factories. The reduction on tin plate under the Gorman tariff was made, as 4s well known, at the instance and for the benefit of the tin plate manufacturers In Wales and for the English transat­ lantic transportation companies. The existing rate of duty Is not so low as these foreign friends of the present free trade administration had antici­ pated, and does not give them such ab­ solute control of the American tin plate market as they had hoped for. It would appear, therefore, that the American transcontinental railroad companies have been called upon to contribute their mite In support of this element of foreign trade by giving to foreign tin plate a freight rate that dis­ criminates against American made tin plate in reaching the consuming mar- bet. Adding this concession by the rail­ roads to the concession made by the Gorman tariff bill, the Welsh manu­ facturers secure double advantage over the American tin plate makers, an ad­ vantage that may secure for them ab­ solute control of our tin plate trade. It Is not stated In the report of the Association of Tin Plate Manufactur­ ers what railroads quote this particu­ larly low rate of freight on the foreign tin plate, while charging a higher freight rate on the American article. This is a point that we should like to know. That It is done, however, does not surprise us so very much when we recollect ihat large blocks .»!" stock in certain American railroad companies are held and controlled by English cap* ItnlisN, which, therefore, would natucr ally seek to serve English manufac­ turing interests. This is a subject of much deeper significance than appears at first sight and one that will bear fur- titiei: laves' igatlon. {Hypothecating Securities. JOHN A. STEWABT. Lite Insurance Association, with which he remained eleven years. In 1864 when Assistant United States Treasurer Cisco vacated the office, Mr. Stewart was chosen by President Lincoln to fill it, which he did, discharging his duties with skill and ability. He has for many years been president of the United States Trust Company, and under his care the business of the company has grown to its present great proportions. SEALERS SHOW ANXIETY. The Sultan of Tttrke} and 2|ow He Rules His Barbaric Land. One of the most interesting personali­ ties in the world just now is the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, who stands re­ sponsible for the re­ cent horrible massa­ cre of from 6,000 to 10,000 Christians in Armenia. He has been Sultan since 1876, when he suc­ ceeded his brother, Murad V., who be­ came insane and was deposed. The Sul­ tan is a striking character. He nev­ er writes and he never reads, and de­ spite the large num- secretaries and coun­ selors who dance attendance on him he rarely consults. He just sits down, nods or shakes his head, and these dumb rul­ ings of his carry power in eVery section of the Ottoman empire. The Sultan is an absolute autocrat. Standing himself in eternal fear of assas­ sination, he thinks nothing of having 10,- 000 men, women and children butchered be la? abdul-hajiid. ber of ministers, v Canadian Fishei s Expected More than President Cleveland Rcconttnends. According to a Victoria, B. C., dispatch President Cleveland's recommendation to Congress to pay $425,000, practically in full settlement of the claims of Canadian sealers against the United States, causes arxious speculation. WThen it was in- ofbeially stated some months ago that that amount would be paid it was under­ stood to be merely for claims presented to the Paris tribunal arising out of the seizures in Behring Sea during 1886, 1887, and 1S89, there having been none in 1888. About $400,000 was the amount of claims on this account. Canadian sealers fully expect to receive large sums for the loss of prospective profits through ex­ clusion under the midug vivendi, especial­ ly because for 1891, the first year of the arrangement, England advanced about $100,000 as indemnity. Claims of 1892 and 1893, which will be pressed against the Canadian and British Governments, amount to considerably more than $500,- 000. Governor Flower has dismissed the charges against the Board of Managers of the Elmira (N. Y.) Reformatory, in­ volving charges against Superintendent Brockway of cruelty to inmates. The Governor says the punishment inflielied caused no permanent injury. t" There is likely to be a strike of 10,000 coal miners in the Reynoldsville, Dubois and Punxsutawney fields, in Pennsylva­ nia, owing to a reduction of 5 per Cent in wages. Passage of the Patterson amendment to the interstate commerce act has been endangered by a breach of . faith on the part of the railroad lobby. Harry Goodloe, a student of Centra) University at Richmond, Ky., died of in- inFjoa nlocino, fiftrtt-hftll Naval Department Reform. British coal, mined by Chinese labor, has been purchased for the use of American war ships on the Pacific Coast, instead of American coal. An apology has emanated from Washing ton since this exposure, and "the naval engineers believe that they have found a suitable coal for the marine furnaces of steamers in the Pacific." They have certainly been aAong time discovering It The owners "of steamers in the Pacittc^Mve, and this may be news "to "tHe naval engineers," for a great number of years been using Franklin and Fairhaven coal mined in Washing­ ton, with every degree of satisfaction and success. The steamship owners were patriotic enough to be satisfied with American coal, mined by Ameri can miners in American mines. They bad no complaints to make "that it burned out the furnaces and caused dense black smoke." This was left for "the naval engineers" to do. We are sorry for the British coal mine owners mul for their "Chinese laborers," but, though long delayed, this symptom of reform In the United Stiites Naval De­ partment will be welcomed by Ameri­ cans who have American interests at heart -- * The Price of Cotton. Is the present low price of cotton due to a diminished demand for the staple in the United States resulting from the threat­ ened and effected Tariff reductions? W. J. WAMBAUGH. The price of cotton Is regulated pri­ marily by-= Stlie question of supply and demand. Added to unusually large cot­ ton crops in the United States more cot­ ton has been grown in other countries within recent years. At the same, time there has been general tra.de" depression throughout the world, all of wbleh facts tend to depress the value of the raw staple. In this country there ui»- doubtedly has been a diminished de­ mand for cotton goods, due to the threatened and effected tariff reduc­ tions, because the threat of the change in the tariff caused such a panic and such general business stagnation that there was little or no demand for man* ufactured goods. Factories were com­ pelled to close, tens of thousands of people were thrown out of employment, and, of course, when earning no money these people were not buying any cot- j ton or other goods that they could pos­ sibly do without - fronts the people, not "a theory." This addition of debt during ten months of a free trade administration is at the rate of $10,000,000 a month. It has cost the people $333,333 during each and ' IN A DREAM.j;*;i:/^-" Ughtniag-Likc Plaj of the Imsgtiw tion Dnring Sleep. A curious example of the dramatic every one of the 300 days in these ten ! ^ °f <lr<-am8, of the power of compressing time, once related to me by a lady, writes Ah. months to pay for the privilege of threatening protection. . It has cost $13,900 every hour of the ten months; it cost over $230 every minute; it has cost the country almost $4 during every second of the ten months. This is only the cost to the people, as represented by the actual increase in the national debt in the sum ol almost $4 during every second of the ten months; over $230 during every minute; $13,900 every hour, and $333,333 every day of that time. The cost of a course of lec­ tures delivered by a Buffalo lawyer and a West Virginia college professor is certainly considerably more than It is worth and very much more than the present generation of people will ever pay again. ' t" ' ; Buffering a Recoverx. V* No Free Ship Bill. Not less than four and a half billion dollars, or an annual average of $150,- 000,000 a year during thirty years past, has been paid out to foreign ships for ocean transportation. Is it any won­ der that we are called upon to export gold to Europe? We can stop doing this by building up the American mer­ cantile marine, by carrying our own freight and paying our own gold to our own shipowners. . Who Struck Wilao*Y "Who struck Billy Patterson7® iflls the songster's plaint a generation ago. and echo answered, Who? It is one of the unsolved mysteries of the ages. But no such perplexity will surround the historian of the future, who, in reply to the question, "Who struck Billy Wil­ son?" can sing out truthfully: His name' was JoUnpiQ Bull. Louisiana's $tate Bounty ̂ The State of Louisiana exempts tt*»ro taxation the property and capital em-, ployed in manufacturing within Its bor-: ders. This is neither more nor less than a direct bounty for the promotion of American industries, and we should like to have explained the difference between that method and b sugar bounty. ii . ---- • Crockery Imports* There was an increase of almost $200,000 in the value of the exports of earthenware, china and pottery goods to the United States from the United Kingdom last month as compared with the exports of similar goods during October, 1893. This Is good for tbe Straus factories. $343,000,000 Difference. During the protection administration Of President Harrison the natioual debt was decreased by $244,816,890. Dur­ ing twenty:one months of the free trade administration of President Cleveland the national debt b&s been increased by $100,000,000. They Got It. "So far tbe House of Representatives Is concerned the Republicans have cer­ tainly a long way to travel before they can overcome the ascendency of their opponents."--North British Daily Mall, Nov. 1, 1894. But they traveled it * Protection Lowers Freights. ^ In 1880 the freight on a barrel of flour from St Louis to New York, by rail, was 84 cents. In 1893 it was only 57 cents--a reduction of 27 cents per bar­ rel within thirteen years, as the result of protection to our coal, iron and steel industries. Foreign Goods Coming. The exports of linen manufactures from Great Britain to the United States comprised 7,<558,700 yards last month as compared with 3,784,800 yards la October, 1893. Tariff tinkering tells. War at Any Price. Gold at a premium. This,£s the result of another civil war, the war of tbe free trade administration .against American industries. Electric Tooth Pulling. Trials have been made at London, eays La Nature, with a new apparatus for the extraction of teeth i>y elec­ tricity. It consists in an induction coil of extremely fine wire, having an in­ terrupter that can vibrate at the rate of -150 times a second. The patient sits in the traditional armchair and takes the negative electrode in his left hand, and the positive in his riffht At this moment the operator turns on a current, who e intensity is gradually increased till it has attained the ut­ most limit that the patient can sup­ port. The extractor is then put in cir­ cuit and fastened to the tooth, which under the a t Ion of the vibrations is loosened at once. The oporation is performed very quickly, and the pa­ tient feels no other sensation than the pricking produced In the hands and forearms by the. passage of the cur­ rent. "It would be interesting'," con­ cludes La Nature, with a little par­ donable skepticism, "to have a detailed description of the apparatus to com­ plete this somewhat brief descrip­ tion." <4_ ' Jewels from the Sky. Gold,'diamond-s and twenty-two dif-* ferent chemical elements have been found in terolites, or " t jnes from the sky." Writing the Message. drew Lang. She, in her dream, was sit­ ting in her room looking out on a botp- tiful clear autumn twilight She beanl , ̂ a knock, heralding visitors, and going down stairs, found two strangers in * ; 'J* her parlor. One she recognized--ft nil* ' , V, tive who. had died in her childhood. He w a s a l i t t l e o l d g e n t l e m a n , i n a b r o w n ' > * dress of the early part of the century. ?s,, ^ With him was a handsome lady In a Spanish mantilla. They had on the ^ „ J table before them a small ancient Iron- frV ^ 4 bound chest At this moment (still in *! tbe dream) a servant entered with tea. i; or some refreshment, and, lo! the vis­ itors vanished. The servant went out ? and there were the visitors again. They bad opened the coffer and displayed two sets of yellow documents. One was a list of securities; one a list of names. The lady in the mantilla ex­ plained, While the old gentleman nod­ ded assent, that he and she'had been trothed and that she had died before elr marriage. The old gentleman had 'jjoeo r.hroad 2+ -- had been caught and detained on tbe outbreak of war, and this had led to some accident in his affairs by which the coffer and Its contents had been neglected, and the securities were still lying unclaimed. ' *'J i "They ar$," said the lady of the man- ^ ttlla, "now in the keeping of Messrs. A knock at the door. Enter the maid " with tea--the maid in flesh and blood; • disappearance of the dream. The so- Heitors' names were never communi­ cated. Now, the dream-mind dearly started s | /j from tbe maid's first tap at the door. , '.f This was the knock announcing the ar- ,. rival of the visitors in the dream. All ', the rest of the scenes were a myth, in- * vented by the dream-mind to account " ? ~ for the first half-heard tap. The dream- ' m mind created the person of the old-for- ^ * gotten relative, and invented, without t | any assistance from conscious memory, ^ '«• 4/ ^ the lady of the mantilla, and ber love story and her -death: The box, iiie w- ~ -1 curities, all the dresses and properties were improvised by the dream-mind and placed on the stage of vision. All this was done, all this drama per­ formed, merely as a myth accounting for the first tap, and everything was in- *vV ^ *. vented, staged and acted in the mo- "v £ ment between the fir̂ t tap at the door "*4 the secftpd.--Illustrated Neife ;-i . ':-. i ,.'r -.4 ' 50 A Big Inclination. I was acquainted with a well-dis­ posed young gentleman of large for­ tune, whose only fault was the habit of swearing--such a 'babit that he of­ ten declared that he would give half his fortune to get rid of it This desire came to the ears of a Quaker, who thereupon had an interview with young gentleman, and said: * "I can cure thee, of that bad habit.' .•Whereupon the youth caught bold the Quaker's hand and gave it a h shake, saying:' * >- • "How can you perform the mlracleT' V "I can tell thee. I have heard tbat:^ 1 thou art Just my size; nobody will know thee; thou shalt come to my house, put on the cocked hat the coat ! •without buttons, the knee-breeches, ^ and the shoe-buckles, and thou wilt find that the strangeness of the dress ;11 will have such an effect on thee when ( ^ thou art going tojalk that it will re- strain thee from swearing--as thoa perhaps knowest, my friend, that wo , < ! Quakers never swear." • , The young man cheerfully assented to the proposal, and accompanied the Quaker to his house, where, after changing his clothes, be took his de­ parture in the garb of a Quaker, and went on his way rejoicing. The period of the young gentleman's tour elapsed, and the Quaker, all anxiety, started to meet him. Having met him, he said: "Well, friend, how hast thee got on?" "Very well," replied the young man. "Hast thou sworn so much with that dress on thee?" The young man, rubbing tbe sleeves of his coat replied: "Certainly not; but I felt a great In­ clination to lie.* '•'OT5 * 1 >; if . hi,, in'mi in. mi,-- ' % •• . ..;3' In a small country village thefe lived a certain schoolmistress. She thought herself and was looked upon as a per­ son "above the common." In the same village resided a grocer's son, named Tom, who had fallen in love with tbe schoolmnfmbut for the life of him he dared not tell his love to his adored one. One day he mustered up courage to lay his case before a neighbor, a woman, who advised him to go to the parson at once and put the "axing®"* In for himself and the lady. The young man did as he was told, and on tbe following Sundaythebannswerecalled over in church. The schoolmistress was not present but a neighbor who was lost no time In telling what aha had heard read in church. The '"school- marm" was of course in a terrible rage^ and said, "Wait until I see that Tomt I'll give him Something he little ex­ pects for his mad pranks!" Tbe fc** , lowing day she met poor Tom In the lane--Tom had been told frhat be might expect at such a meeting--and , Jj began to give him the "length of bet; 1 ".J*% tongue." Tom, in his fright, could only blurt out "Well, if you dunnot lik< it I can go to the parson and stop 1 "Oh, bother it" she said, "it's too la now!" "' f , • £} *f A Costly Administration* The addition of $100,000,000 to the national debt within ten'months is a fair sample of a free trade "object les- I* ip ** condition" tfrftt joon- tlL 'i.*; JL-'i . vv&wl.. . .1*. a Hi. nxfOHWV • Drying Oat Coat Ta® It Is well known that the tar ex­ tracted at gas works contains a large amount of water, In many cases as much as 15 per cent Tbe separation of this water from tbe tar is essential for most purposes to \vhich the laltta is put, and on that account it Is fre­ quently the custom to allow the mate­ rial to remain In wells for some timet so that the water has an opportunity of rising to the surface. Recently a more rapid process has been introduced to bring about the separation, a process identical with that of skimming mitt in a centrifugal separator. The fresh tar Is heated to about 92 degrees to se­ duce Its viscosity, and then placed In a centrifugal machine revolving at aa enormous velocity. The tar being heav­ ier than the water presses against th* inside of the vessel, leaving tbe watar nearer tbe center, where it is stiamed ky projecting tubs* _ $ \ $ t : i