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Editor Mid CATTLE m a ff"W DEMAND STATES SHOW LOSSES. wr Police Do Quick Work--Mary T, Lathrop Dead--Bungling Work of * Cincinnati I><?fanlter-The Whisky Trust Hard Hit-Kditor Assaulted. Greet Decrease in Live Stock. Slriok Brothers, commission dealers of Buffalo, have issued their annual stock re­ covering the States of Ohio, Indiana, , and Michigan. The table given iAowr the visible supply of stock in com- £V/ parison with last year. The percentage t »r on hogs is baaed on the supplies of last §, , year at this time. On sheep and lambs * ithe percentage is based on the stock on "jband Dec. 31. 1894. The figures: Cattle •--Ohio. 32 per cent, decrease; Indiana, 30 ^er cent, decrease; Illinois 35 per cent, de­ crease ; Michigan. 35 per cent, decrease. Hogs--Ohio, 10 per cent, decrease; In­ diana, unchanged; Illinois, 20 per cent, decrease; Michigan. 5 per cent, decrease. Sheep and lambs--Ohio, 52 per cent, de- •-creaso; Indiana, 42 per cent, decrease; jinois, 45 per cent, decrease; Michigan, cent, decrease. There seems to be ded shortage in cattle in Illinois, two counties reporting more feeding year than at this time last year* are reported generally unhealthy in Southern Ohio and in a .good many parts of Illinois. Some sickness prevails in In- „,v . iliana, but very little in Michigan. Wheat ; is being fed quite liberally; in some locali- ! ties the percentage runs as high as 75. In Michigan particularly it is fed to a « " large extent, and the best result* wtf re- j?orted. Are Run to Earth. f|vv Police Sergeant Martin O'Malley. of Chicago, and a squad of fifteen men M':--: tracked the slayers of Patrolman * Ed- ward Buddies to their retreat Friday af- j§i <•;' . teraoon and captured them, together with «•,** all of the plunder which they had taken '• " from the home of Mrs. Lundvall, where f" , the murder was committed. The men •gave their names as .lolm Cary, "Billy" Roch and William Magee, who is also known under the names of McCormiek W.P.fce** rns, the Bngliih Editor Stead, who wrote ft lit Chicago. Under ordinary dr- nces the Colonel's remarks would been applauded, but as Mr. Burns been invited to a seat in the conven- as a courtesy the matter was smooth­ ed over. t' i j At Keene, N. II., a sleigh containing Charles Brooks, aged 00 years; his daugh­ ter Ada, aged 25; and Louis Bergeron, aged 15, was struck at the Water street crossing by the north-bound passenger train from Boston on the Fitchburg rail­ road Tuesday night, killing them all. The bodies were thrown over 100 feet beyond the crossing. The crossing is not guarded by a flagman or gates. The I^eliigh Val­ ley passenger train No. 134 from Geneva Tuesday night struck a sleigh a half-mile east of Willard, N. Y., containing Mrs. Hughes, her son, and Miss Larkiu of Ovid, and all the occupants were killed. Saturday night the Lcxow Committee adjourned at New York subject to the call of the chair, Just as he was through answering Mr. Goff's questions. Super­ intendent Byrnes handed a letter to Chairman Lexow and said that it was a copy of one that he had sent to Mayor- elect Strong early in December. It was his resignation from the force, of which he has been a member for the last thirty- two years. The superintendent said the department was honeycombed with abuses, which had been growing for thirty years and they could only be reme­ died by radical legislation. Local poli­ ticians, he claimed, were the curse of the department, and as long as politics was a factor in the force such a stateof things Would exist. of Bart Da*> QVIU!9j,lQ« will. be 50 years old in the spring oftS&ftt anf preparations have already been commenced fi*r a celebration of the birth of the State. Peter Murdock, a motorman on the Car- rollton street car line at New Orleans, fatally ahot his wife and then blew out his own brains with a revolver. At Wilson, N. C., a bomb was exploded in the middle of the town. A number of houses were shaken and the Church of the Disciples of Christ was damaged. The Rev. Sam Small's paper, the Nor* folk Pilot, is threatened with a libel suit by the American Book Company because of a statement regarding the manner in which Virginia contracts were secured. On the heels of an attempt to rob the ijjOotton Belt express Monday night near Buena Vista, Ark., an obstruction was placed on the track near the same spot Tuesday night, but was discovered. Two negro boys, 12 and 16 years old, have con­ fessed. They wanted to rioe a tnn wrecked. '^WESTERN. BREVITIES* The public debt increased $31,320,776 daring December. John Creamer, of Sedalia, Mo., broke three of his wife's ribs by hugging her. . caucus of Massachusetts House Dem- .decided to nominate John E. jicester, for the Senate. rood, the young woman who ' 30^day infant by placing pins |»nth and forcing it to swallow be hanged at Durham, X. C., ung negro boys have confessed iaj»t to Wreck the Cotton Belt S£onday night at Buena Vista, _ ir only object was curiosity to ish-up. Catharine Nolan died in Litch- '3SteM» IJL, Wednesday night, aged 112 ilyears and 9 days. She was born in 'Wscklow, Ireland. December 25, 1792, iiseven years before Washington's in­ auguration. Senator Allen of Nebraska. Populist, ..imade a two-hour speech in the Senate de­ manding an investigation of the Senate i restaurant because of an item on the bill *»f fare wherein $4 is charged for beef­ steak and truffles. Mary T. Lathrop died at Jackson, . Siich., Thursday morning, aged 56 years ^7- aid 8 months. She was prominent in national temperance circles, and was in- ^ - ,<®ential in establishing the Michigan re- * ' Iforra school for girls. i * Editor M<kire, of the Blue Grass Blade, _ was assaulted with a cane by John T. Shelby, Breckinridge's law partner, at F , ' Lexington. Shelby pulled out a bunch of ' '"Moore's whiskers. The cause of the trou­ ble was an open letter from Moore to me Pollard inviting her to go on a srjing tour with him. illiam Bowers, marshal of the town allup, N. M., has disappeared. The believe that he is the victim of play. His room indicates the pres- of intruders during the night, and finding of his pistols, star and hat on the table in the room is taken as proof that he has been murdered. Judge Parker, of the New York Su­ preme Court, has decided that the rail­ road commissioners can use railroad passes issued by the Secretary of State and that the new constitution does not prohibit the legislature from providing that passes may be issued to State officials i£n traveling on official business. |stant Cashier Frank II. Sparks, of ncinuati Postotfice. took $583 from St drawer while alone in the lunch make up a shortage of $283. He struck himself on the head so as to an abrasion, lay on the floor to be ound apparently unconscious by the jan­ itor. and then asserted he "hud bn^y. -at­ tacked and lobbed by two men. IIis story was so faulty as to arouse the suspicion of the police, and when closely pressed Sparks admitted his guilt. Troubles continue to heap upon the whisky trust Answers from stockhold­ ers on the organization scheme are not coining in to suit the directors and word was received Friday morning at Peoria w ths collapse cjf one «t iheir outside deals by which they lose over $900,000. President Greenbut and some of his as­ sociates invested $75,000 in an irrigating canal scheme at Gila Bend. A. T.. some years ago, and have kept on sending good money after bad. until their total invest­ ment has reachejl $900,000. The property was sold out /y the sheriff and all the rights of the Jn-oria people were forfeited. fix-Governor Pennoyer of Oregon has endowed a scholarship fund of $3,500 in Williams College in memory of his son, who'died at the college last November. The Mexican Government has made a formal and specific demand on Guate­ mala. indicating the amount of damages inflicted by invading Guatemalans. The total indemnity asked is $l.H68.r>44. General Peixoto. ex-President of Bra­ zil. is dead, according to a rumor from Mountcvideo. Stephen Rapere. the distinguished au­ thor and engineer, is dangerously ill in tha pauper ward of a St. Louis hospital. 2/'; ' z i fh'.. EASTERN. The candidacy of the several men for the speaker of the New York Assembly received a startling baptism of fire Sun­ day night at Albany, for the Delavan House, that famous hostelry known from Maine to California, the Mecca of politic cians and the center of all big State polit­ ical events for forty years, was complete­ ly destroyed. Several persons were fatal­ ly injured. The railroad coal operators and minen) of the Pittqburg district had a joint con­ tention at Pittsburg to decide on a uni­ form mining rate. The business of the meeting was lost siyht. of In a sensational General Manager W. P. Robinson, General Attorney M. A. Reed, Superin­ tendent A. M. Morey, Engineer F. Howe and Attorney Cessna, all of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway, had a narrow escape from death near Edgar, Neb., by the burning of the general manager's pri­ vate car Nemaha. The fire was caused by the explosion of an oil stove. Every one of the officials was nearly suffocated and had to be taken though the windows of the car. All their clothing and the car were destroyed. vJ Within the last few days buyers of or­ anges have been active in San Bernar­ dino, Cal., picking up choice lots at an advantageous price. News of the disas­ ter to the crop in Florida has resulted in an advance from 50 cents a box, hereto­ fore offered in the orchard, to $1 a box. The growers are much encouraged and are now holding No. 1 seedlings and navel at from $1.10 to $1.50 a box. J. E.Pace, orange grower at Sanford, Fla.. has as­ signed for the benefit of his creditors. He is said to have lost $30,000 by the freeze. The ninth convocation of the Univer­ sity of Chicago took place Wednesday night at the Auditorium. Those who looked for a donation from Mr. Rocke­ feller as a result of the recent conference between the university's founder and its chief executive were not disappointed. Mr. Rockefeller's contribution is $175,- 000, to be devoted to the general expense fund for the scholastic year beginning July 1, 1895. This gift, with the income derived from other sources, provides the university with $(500,000 for the expendi­ tures of the year beginning July 1. 1895. Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, of Chicago, the donor of the Haskell Oriental Mu­ seum and founder of the $20,000 lecture­ ship on comparative religions, announces a third donation of $20,000 for the found­ ing of a second lectureship on the rela­ tions of Christianity to other religions. A grand revival of Eugene Tompkins' ballet spectacle, "The Black Crook," has taken place at McVicker's Chicago thea­ ter. It is hardly necessary to recite the eventful history of this remarkable play, not that it is in itself so very remarka­ ble, but in the many epochs it has marked. The present revival marks another epoch In spectacular performance in Chicago, all the specialties, the ballet, songs and dancing being new. and among them be­ ing some wonderfully striking features. The Athos Family of acrobats, whose marvelous feats have astonished all Eu­ rope, are seen here for the first time; the musical doll ballet has created a sensa­ tion, as has also the Tommy Atkins bal­ let, led by AJlie Gilbert, the "Carline," and Sam Collins, the "Greppo" of the play. All the faces in the company are new, the 'Stalacta" is Miss Letta Mere­ dith, the premieres are M'lle Jole Tor- naghi and M'lle Staccioni, and Sig. Alfre­ do Biancifiori. The scenery and the cos­ tuming are all new. In short, the pro­ duction may be called "The New Black Crook." The Chicago Post says: Corruption in almost every form pervades the poli justice system of Chicago. The justices themselves may not be guilty of contam inating their hands with base bribes, but the hangers on in these so-called courts are usually men without principle, bent only on getting hold of the money of the unfortunate victims of police justices ?is they can seize by means fair or foul. Nearly every station in which police court is held has as vicious criminals promineut in the proceedings as there are in the cells. The special bailor who robs the wretches who are arrested; the shyster lawyer; the man with a pull, who ex­ torts money from the criminals under a specious promise of being able to have their punishment mitigated, and last and ,most dangerous is the man who really has a "pull," who can secure the suspen­ sion of fines and who does so for a consid­ eration paid to" him by the prisoner. The figures taken from the records in the offices of the city attorney, city prosecu­ tor, comptroller and the various police courts show the amazing disproportion between the fines stayed and the fines collected in police courts in the months of October and November, 1894. Over $38,- 000 tines were jmnn«wjt onij Uut $4^,000 collected. Bart Scott, defaulting treasurer of Holt County, Nebraska, is reported to have been hanged Monday night by vigilants. There are many rumors afloat in regard to Scott's disappearance, and some be­ lieve that Scott has been disposed of, that he has been either hanged or his body weighted and dropped into the Niobrara River in the quicksands. Others be­ lieve that it is only a ruse for Scott's es­ cape and that he has fled to parts un­ known. while a few think that Scott's own friends have put him out of the way to keep him from telling on them. Bar­ rett Scott, while serving his second term as treasurer of Holt County, Nebraska, about eighteen months, disappeared from his home in %>'Nvtii. He was traced to Mexico and a long fight ensued over bringing him back to the States. The Holt County Sheriff first came back without him, and after a long delay he was brought home. He was arraigned and convicted of stealing $70,000. The county sued his bondsmeu, but Aug. 29 the District Court decided that Scott and not his bondsmen was responsible Scott was out on bail. The case has at^ tracted much attention all over th whole West. WASHINGTON. Congressman McEttrick declares thai he Will press his bill for the creation of a department of commerce. Driven by the iuexorable necessity of raising more money with which to meet the current expenses of the Government, allies of the powers that be are about to move for an increase of $1 a barrel in the tax on fermented liquors. The revenues would be swollen $30,000,000 or more by that means. Beer is now taxed $1 a barrel, and the income from the beer tax for the fiscal year 1893-'94 was $28,- 618,000. The year preceding it amount­ ed to $31,890,000. The annual produc­ tion of beer in the United States averages 33,000,000 barrels, of which 10 per cent., or 3,300,000 barrels, is manufactured in Illinois, Chicago being the great center of production in the' State. There was some talk before Congress convened of enlarging the tax on spirits, but this sug­ gestion was frowned upon by the Treas­ ury Department, as the change coming right on top of the new law would in­ volve the revenue bureau in inextri­ cable confusion and complications, and it was abandoned as inexpedient. Not so with beer, however. Tha^is a sim­ ple proposition, the tax business 1 easily in control. being FOREIGN. The British steamer Yozford sunk the French bark Marie Louise. Five of the bark's crew were drowned. Judicial inquiry into the conduct of di­ rectors of the French Southern Railway has revealed another financial seand|£l. Liu Kun Yi has been appointed com­ mander of the Chinese forces, supersed­ ing Li Hung Chang and Prince Ivung. Letters sent to missionaries in Armenia from the headquarters of the American board are opened and examined by Turk­ ish officials. Fire started in a French laundry in Edgeware road, London, early Wednes­ day morning and eight persons asleep in the building were burned to death. It is reported that the Governor of Bit- lis% Tanshin Pasha, who commanded the military operations in the Sassaun dis­ trict, where so many outrages have been reported, has been assassinated by an Armenian, who committed suicide. The topic of conversation at the City of Mexico is President Diaz' speech, which is universally applauded in all cir­ cles. The general opinion is that Guate­ mala must be made to satisfy Mexico. A prominent official says that Mexico wants only justice, and if Guatemala wants war it will have to declare it. What is most to the point in Diaz' speech is that he says no useless delays should be allowed in the discussion, and that exist­ ing treaties should be respected. The State of Jalisco has now fallen into line and offered all its resources to the Federal Government in case of war with Guate^ W1ALTH IS 1ST LAND. CONSTITUTES SO l*ER CFENT,.^ THE COUNTRY'S ASSETS. IN GENERAL The bark Osseo was wrecked on Holy­ head "breakwater and the twenty-four persons on board were drowned. Plates for the printing of facsimiles of) foreign postage stamps will be seized by the secret service if not surrendered. The private car of President Booth of the Canada Atlantic Railway recently struck a man near Malone. N. Y., killing him instantly. President Booth has sent $1,000 to the widow and children. Judge E. Rock wood Hoar, Attorney General under President Grant, is dyin«i of a disease of the mitral valve of thij heart. Physicians who have been sunw moned in consultation say the end is like* ly to come at any minute. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Commercial failures in 1S94, already re­ ported, number 14,292, against 15,242 last year, with liabilities of $163,238,404, against $346,779,889 last year. From these accounts, hanks, bankers, financial and transporting companies are excluded. Manufacturing failures number 2,756, against 1,422 last year, but liabilities are only $64,491,287, against $176,982,091 last year. The trading failures numbee 11,314, against 11,512 last year,, but lia^ bilities are only $87,899,657, against $130,062,333 last year. The statement sections shows a decrease tof about two-thirds in defaulted liabilities in the noddle and central northern States, one- h|ilf in the west and southwest, and a ird in other sections. Holiday trade t expectations. Purchases were nu- rouf, but smaller than usual in amount re confined to needful urticles. ticipating ordinary trade. tlius a MARKET REPORTS. fntercntinsr Report of the Censua Bu­ reau Haa Been Made Public--Percent- •fee of Farm and Home Owners Com­ pared with Different National itieat. SOUTHERN?** Doss Hatts murdered his fiance, LizzJ Smith, at Hunter Hill, Ala., and the i killed bimself. Three children of Mrs. Viola Ke left alone in their home near Rome, Gi were burned to death. A sawmill boiler exploded at Bona Ky., killing five men and badly scald ig several more. The names of four Of Aptad are Bird, Fann, Derring and Sluftt icago--Cattle, common to prime, .75*0,6; hogf,. shipping grades, $3.50 i4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2@4; heat. No. 2 red. 53<ifi54e: corn. No. 2, M!@45t^c; oats, No. 2. 29<&30c; rye, No. 48@50c; butter, choice creamery, 23<£i! e; eggs, fresh. 19@20c; potatoes, car ots, per bushel, 50@55c. Indianapolis -- Cattle, shipping, $3@ 5.50; hogs, choice light, $3@4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2^/3.25; wheat. No 2 red, 52@53c; corn, No. 1 white. 4'.i(a 43^&c: oats. No. 2 white. 33(®34e. St. Louis--Cattle, $3@5; hogs, $3@4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 51^/51 Vac; corh, No. 2 42@42Vfcc; oats, No. 2, rye, No. 2. 52@54c. CinrirniaTi--Cnttlr. $3.50®5.50; hogs. $3.50^/5; sheep, $1.25@4; wheat. No. 2, 53(a54c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42i/^43c; oats. Xo. 2 mixed, 32(&33c; rye, No. 2, 53@nr,c. Detroit-- Cattle, $2.50@5!50; hogs, $4@ 4.75: sheep, $2@3.25; wheat. No. 1 white, 55@56c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 45@46c; oats. No. 2 white, 33@&4c; rye. No. 2. 55@56c. ? Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 54@55c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43@44c; oats. No. 2 white, 33@33y»e; rve, No. 2, 50@52c. Buffalo-Cattle. $2.50@5.50; hogs, $4® 4.75; sheep, $2@3.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 561/2<f(,57c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 46@47c; oats. No. 2 white, 35@36c. Milwaukee--Wheat. No. 2 spring, 58@ 58%c; corn, No. 3. 41@42c; oats, No. 2 white. 31@32c; barley, No. 2, 53@55c; lUK)*0" P01*' n,es,l» *11.00® New York--Cattle, $3@5.50: hogs. $3.50 <®5; sheep, $2.50(^4; wheat, No. 2 red, 61 @62c; corn, No. 2, 51@51V^c; oats, white, Western, 38@42c; butter, creamery, 22@ 25c; «gg». Western, Figures Are of Interest. " f, The Census Office has made publ&lt re­ port showing that the owners of farms and homes, regarded as substantially the landowners of the United States, owa more than 90 per cent, of the wealth «»f the country. Of the white owners and teuant heads more than 51 per cent, aif owuers; of the negroes, more than 17 pen cent.; of mixed white and negro parent­ age, 25 per cent.; of the Indians, (>5, and of the Chinese and Japanese, 14. The white owners of farms and homes that are free from mortgage form 71 per cent, of all white owners; of negroes, 89: of those of mixed parentage, 87; of the Indians, 90; and of the Chinese and Japanese, 97 per cent. The percentages of ownership are slightly higher for women than for men. and free ownership is also higher among women except with the Indians and Chi­ nese and Japanese. The results for farm properties show that 72 per cent, of the whites are own­ ers, 21 of the negroes, 29 of those of mix.?d blood, 79 of the Indians, and over 10 per cent, of the Chinese and Japanese, whilfe for home 39 per cent, of the whites are owners, more than 15 of the negroes, 23 of those of mixed blood, 53 of the Indians, and 14 of the Chinese and Japanese. The white farmowners who are free from mortgage are 71 per cent, of all white owners; negroes, 90; those of mixed par­ entage, 89; Indians, 95; and Chinese and Japanese, 87. The corresponding figures for homes are nearly the same. In the fifty-eight cities of 50,000 popu­ lation and over almost 25 per cent, .of the white proprietors are owners, and not quite 9 per cent, of the negroes. For farms and homes 53 per cent, of the native proprietors are owners; from Austria-Hungary, 41 per cent.; from Can­ ada and Newfoundland (English), 47; from Canada and Newfoundland (French), 31; Wales and England, 46; France, 47; Germany, 52; Ireland, 44; Italy, 15; Nor­ way, Sweden and Denmark, 61; Russia, and Poland, 31; Scotland, 45, and from all other countries, over 47 per cent." The native farm proprietors are exceed­ ed in ownership by the natives of all '"f these countries except Italy, whose per­ centage for native owners is 69 and for the Italians 68. The highest percentage is 87, for the Irish. Ownership is more prevalent among native than among for- eign-born proprietors in the case of homes than it is among farm proprietors. Of the native proprietors of homes 41 per cent, are owners, and the lowest percent­ age representing the ownership of homes for places of birth is 12, for the Italians. The ownership of homes in the fifty- eight principal cities is nearly as great among the foreign born as among the na­ tives. Among the native hoiqe proprie­ tors in these cities 23 per cent, are owners. The highest percentage is 32, for the Ger­ mans, and the lowest 6, for tne Italians. The result of the inquiry as to nativity of parents of the white native farm and home proprietors shows that for farms and homes 55 per cent, of the proprietors have botli^rarents native born and owners and 43 per cent, those who have one or both parents foreign born. The percent­ ages for farm owners having both pa­ rents native born is 69 and in the case of homes 42 per cent. The total for both sexes and for farms and homes shows that of the proprietors under 25 years of age 20 per cent, are owuers; from 25 to 29 years, 28 per cent; from 30 to 34 years, 37 per cent.; from 35 to 39 years, 42 per cent.; 40 to 44 years, 49 per cent.; 45 to 49 years, 53 per cent.; 50 to 54 years, 57 per cent.; 55 to 59 years, 63 per cent., and* 60 years and over, 69 per cent. Percent­ ages are generally somewhat higher for women than for men. Farm ownership is more prevalent at all ages than home ownership. Almost 35 per cent, of farm proprietors under 25 years of age are own­ ers and the percentage increases with age up to 83 per cent, for owners of 60 years and over. Among home proprietors of less than 25 years of age 13 per cent, are owners and the percentage increases with­ out interruption to 58 per cent, for own­ ers of 60 years and over. Ownership is more prevalent among women who are farm and home owners and heads of tenant families than among men, the ownership of the women being represented by 57 per cent, and the men 46. The women exceed the men also in the fifty-eight principal cities, where of the male home proprietors 23 per cent, are owners and of the female 31 per cent. One reason for the difference between the figures for the two sexes is the custom that makes the husband instead of the wife the head of the family. The owner­ ship of farms and homes is divided be­ tween the two sexes in the proportion of 83 per cent, to the males and 17 to the females. Slightly more than one-quarter Of the 2,928,671 owned homes of the United States are owned by women and about one-tenth of the 3,142,746 owned farms.' LUMBER THIEVES AT THE FRONT They Take Advantage of Order Per­ mitting; Indians to Cut Burnt Lokb, More than one is asking the question: Is there a reward for incendiarism? The Indians of the White Earth and Red Lake reservations in Minnesota have been granted permission by the President, upon the advice of the Secretary of the Interior, to engage in logging and the sale of certain timber. The recent forest fires killed between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 feet of timber which would have been lost to the Indians but for the permission given them to cut and sell it. While this permit is granted to the Indiuns, it is well known that it will be entirely assumed by white men. The Indians will not cut or log a stick or tre«^--the lumber companies will do it all. It is the luiul>er companies who, ever since last summer's forest fires, have buzzed about to get this order issued "permitting Indians" to cut and log dead timber. These lumber companies have had their way. Instead of being 30,000,- 000 feet, expert opinion put the burned timber at over 500,000,000 feet covered by the orders to "permit Indians, etc." This lumber is valueif at the rate of $4 per 1,000 as it stands in the tree. The Mfl>/kl,\ VIllllA AMLI k. n rn i ,-| p. A/\/V A/V/W «bs!s ^au;c weuni ks o,er <i.,wu,uw. It would be of interest to note what the Indians get for it. They usually make a fizzle of their financial operations. Last summer Chicago insurance people accused the lumber pirates of burning these for­ ests for their own business puri>oses. The game charge was made b.v the se­ cret agents of the Interior Department. Whether the lumber companies burned the woods or not they at least jumj>ed promptly in to take advantage of it and have now succeeded. A famous French detective said: "When you seek to find the criminal who committed a crime think first who would benefit by it, who had the njotive." These woods were purposely and of aforethought set on fire, not only in one, but in forty places. The lumber compan­ ies while the forests still smoked came swarming to the Interior Department to get the dead trees in their clutches. They never could have got the trees while the timber was alive. It had to be killed by fire or some other force before the Inter­ ior fcna^to loganFertt tlm^rsome very characters, with not a drop of Indian blood in their veins, are going to get rich, and when they have cleaned up from last summer's fires without doubt another ac­ commodating fire will sweep new regions ntld la.y them bare and blackened tit WHEAT AS FEEO. Some States Disposing of Fully Half the Crop in That Manner. The Farmers' Review says: Reports have been received by the Review from correspondents in Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the^ Dakotas on the extent to which wheat is being fed to cattle. In some parts of Illinois wheat has been fed large­ ly, especially where fedrkets are not easi­ ly reached, or where other feed crops are short. In other parts less has been fed than in some other States, apparently because no other farm product is found so salable. So a good many counties re­ port little or no wheat being fed. Indi­ ana is feeding probably a little larger pro­ portion, and in some of the counties a third of the crop will be disposed of in this way. Ohio is feeding the crop freely and in localities more wheat than corn is being fed. Over a large part of the State half of th6 crop will be marketed in the form of live stock, and there are counties where the proportion of the crop fed will not be less than 70 per cent. In Michigan the amount fed varies great­ ly. some counties feeding none and others nearly all of the wheat crop. Reports of 30 and 40 per cent, beiug fed are quite common. Kentucky reports large quantities being fed, and some coun­ ties will dispose of half their crop. Mis­ souri reports a like condition. Kansas and Nebraska are feeding Very largely, the low price making it a very economical feed. In some counties in Iowa it is being fed largely, even up. to half of the crop, but in other counties it is receiving little attention as a feed. In Wisconsin, Michigan and the Dakotas considerable is being fed, but the practice is far from universal. 16,000 MASSACRED.. further Details of the decent Arme­ nian Outrages Received. At a meeting of the Methodist Episco­ pal ministers of Boston and vicinity reso­ lutions were adopted expressing sympa­ thy with the Christians in Turkish Ar­ menia,. thanking President Cleveland for ha ving appointed a commission to investi­ gate the Armenian outrages, and urging the State Department #to prosecute this investigation by every means at its com­ mand. A letter received from a point near the seat of the recent outrages in Eastern Turkey, places the number of slaughtered Armenians at fully 15,000. The writer, in part, says: "The, Armenians, oppressed by Kurds and Turks, said they could not pay taxes to both Kurds and government. Plun­ dered and oppressed by the Kurds they resisted them; there were some killed. Then false reports were sent to Constan­ tinople that the Armenians were in rebel­ lion. Orders were sent to the Mushir at Erzengan to exterminate them. The re­ gion was surrounded by soldiers, and 20,- 000 Kurds also are said to have been massed there. Then they advanced upon the center, driving in the people like a flock of sheep, and continued thus to ad­ vance for days. No quarter was given, no mercy shown. Men, women and chil­ dren were shot down or butchered like sheep. The most probable estimate is 15,000 killed, thirty-five villages plun­ dered, razed aud burned. Women were outraged and men butchered. A priest was taken to the roof of his church ehd hacked to pieces and the edifice set on fire. A large number of women and girls, collected in a church, were kept for days, the sport of soldiers, and then murdered. It is said the number was so large that the blood flowed out of the church door." ORIGINATED THE BLOOMERS. Death of Mrs. D. C. Bloomer at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr8.D.C.Bloomerdiedat Council Bluffs, Iowa, the other day, aged 76 years. Mrs. Bloomer was a woman of national re­ nown, being the or­ iginator of the dress reform which bears her name. She and her husband cele­ brated their golden wedding four years ago. They had lived in the same resi­ dence in Council Bluffs forty-one years. It w^s in 1851 that she began to MBS. bt.oomkr. wear the costume which is now known throughout the Eng­ lish-speaking world as the bloomer. She was then living at Seneca Falls, N. Y., where she was publishing a temperance paper called the Lily. In addition to be­ ing a prohibition advocate the paper also devoted considerable space to the subject of woman suffrage. A Mrs. Miller, who in 1.851 paid a visit to Seneca Fulls, ap­ peared in the bifurcated dress and Mrs. Bloomer published a description of it. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton adopted the style and advocated its general adop­ tion. Mrs. Bloomer wore the costume on several lecture trips, and in this way it became associated with and finally kuown by her name. By and by Horace Greeley took the subject up and was followed by other editors, the result being that the bifurcated dress became known all over the country as the bloomer. LEVI P. MORTON INAUGURATED. New York State Changes l&xeeutives with Simple Ceremony. ' Levi P. Morton was inaugurated a Governor of New York at noon on Tues day. The ceremonies were simple, new Governor and his full military staff in carriages were e s c o r t e d , t o t h e Capitol by four com­ panies of the Na­ tional Guard. In the executive chamber the Governor-elect was greeted by the retiring Governor, who was surrounded by his military staff, after which nil proceeded to the assembly chamber. After prayer by Bishop Doane Gov. Flower extended a formal welcome to bis successor iu office. In a brief reply Gov. Morton complimented his predecessor, both as a man aud as an official. There was nothing of a partisan nature in either address. The oath of office was adminis­ tered by Secretary of State Palmer. llA&AftinAtit iitftKrfM flf- it- "liAff : i V-,"' J," "• • ' "r 'Vstf.* ' : > % , LISLE'S RESIGNATION. I.KVI P. KOIITON. J. Pier/M>nt Morgan and Other Wall Street Magnates Urate the President to Get a New Secretary of the Treas­ ury--The Currency Bill. ; The President Is Angry. Washington special: Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the famous New York banker, and some of the other gentlemen who were taken into the President's confidence last fall concerning an issue of bonds have been making a secret visit to the W^hite House on an important errand. They asked the removal of John G. Carlisle for the reason that he has demonstrated his unfitness to manage the finances of the country and that his continuance iu office will imperil the public credit and retard improvement in the financial condition of the country. Mr. Morgan and his asso­ ciates also endeavored to ascertain where the President stands v^ith regard to the currency bill now under consideration by the House of Representatives. President Cleveland is said by those who associate with him tt> be very angry at this demand of the Ntew-Yorkers for Carlisle's head. He is exceedingly in­ dignant that a coterie of bankers should have the effrontery to poke their noses into the administrative affairs of the government, demanding the dismissal of an official whom the President lias hon­ ored with his confidence. It is pretty cer­ tain that they got no satisfaction. It may be confidently stated that the Presi­ dent declined to ask for Mr. Carlisle's resignation, but he is believed to have promised to look after the finances him­ self during the remainder of his adminis­ tration. It is known and admitted that the President informed Mr. Carlisle of SECRETABY JOHN O. CARLISLE; Mr. Morgan's errand and repeated much of their conversation to him, but Mr. Carlisle's private secretary said that his resignation would not be asked for and that he would not voluntarily tender it. What explanation the President may have given Mr. Morgan as to his attitude oncerning the currency bill is unknown, and he is no more communicative than a sphinx on the subject to the members of his cabinet. One of them, who is opposed to the bill, said to-day that the measure had never been discussed in cabinet meet­ ing, and all he had to go upon was the concluding paragraph of the recent mes­ sage, which, in general terms, indorsed the recommendations of the Secretary of the Treasury, and urged the necessity of some kind of revenue reform. He had not heard the President say a word on the subject since, and could not say whether he approved the pending bill, bnt it was at least inconsistent with his previous ideas and public utterances on the sub­ ject of sound money. Nor was the pend­ ing bill an exact formulation of the sug­ gestions in the treasury report, so that it could not be assumed the President was committed to it. He doubted the report that Mr. Cleveland intends to send a spe­ cial message to Congress on the subject. He had not heard of any such intention and was inclined to believe the contrary. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. = Telegraphic CIIcm. ' A sneakthief stole $100 worth of jew­ elry from Herman Lustig's store in Akron, Ohio, carried his plunder through crowded streets, und escaped. The trial at Clearfield, Pa., of the seven miners charged with conspiracy, riot and the burning of the Coaldale tipple on July 19 ended in a verdict of not guilty. Capt. Buford A. Tracy, one of Winches­ ter's (Ky.) most prominent citizens, was accidentally killed in an elevator shaft, his neck being broken. Capt. Tracy served on the staff of Col. Breckinridge The Amount of Cash Owed by Uncle 8am Increased in December. The monthly statement of the public debt issued from the Treasury Depart­ ment shows that Dec. 31, 1894, the public debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $910,903,695, an increase for the month of $31,320,775. Following is a recapitu­ lation of the debt: Interest bearing debt, $675,168,130, increase during the month, $40,025,100; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,825,800, de­ crease during the month, $1,130; debt bearing no interest, $383,247,345, increase during the month, $126,780; total debt, $1,654,375,379, of which $590,134,104 are certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. Cask in the treasury is classified as fol­ lows: Gold, $139,606,354; silver, $504,- 035,456; paper, $122,914,759; general ac­ count, disbursing officers' balances, etc., $16,197,719; total, $782,754,289; against which thore are demand liabilities amounting to $629,416,709, leaving a cash balance of $153,337,579, of which $86,- 244,445 is gold reserve. The monthly statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States shofrs receipts during December amount­ ing to $21,866,136; disbursements, $27,- 135,460, leaving a deficit for the month of $5,269,324 and for the six months of the present fiscal year $27,564,465 The re­ ceipts from customs were $11,203,049, igainst $10,260,692 for the month of No­ vember; from internal revenue. $9,394,- 039, against $7,774,704 for November. The receipts from customs during the last six months were $69,664,880, or only about $161,000 less than for the first half of last year. The receipts from internal revenue during the last six months were $82,160,782, or $8,201,276 in excess of the first half of the last fiscal year. HOLDS HIGH STATION. New Superintendent of Coast and and Geodetic Survey. General William Ward Duffield, the newly appointed superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, wasjborn at Carlisle, Jra., in 1823. In 1842 he was graduated from Columbia College, and served in the Mexican war on the staff of General Gid­ eon J. Pillow. By hard service in the late war he gained the rank of brigadier g e n e r a l o f t h e Fourth Michigan In- fan try. President w*. w. duffield. Lincoln brevetted him major general for conspicuous gal­ lantry in the battle of Murfreesboro. A» engineer he has managed many, great works/and was engaged as chief engineer in the construction of the Kentucky Union Railroad when appointed to hia present position. Though past 70 years of age he is still quite vigorous. Disease Added to Other Tribulations of Nebraska Drought Sufferers. Additional diapatehea hav* be^n receiv­ ed from Western Nebraska tdlifig of the destitution and diatrns prevailing anion* the inhabitants of tlie drought-stricken . districts. A dispateh from Hasting* says: "Terrible destitution exists in Perkins, Chase, Dundy, Lincoln, Hayes, Hitch­ cock and Frontier Counties, and th» worst feature of it is that the people ife several localities are afflicted with scarry for want of wholesome food. The State Relief Committee finds itself unable to relieve all the people in distress, so great is the demand for aid. Railroad men re­ port that since the cold snap no less than a dozen people perished in the above conn- tics in the past two days for want of food and fuel." Hundreds of families are without coal, and in the border counties, where no trees or brush exist, the poor people will have a hard time to keep from freezing; t*> death. In Perkins County the destitu­ tion is complete. Over 600 families aw appealing for help. In Hitchcock County the wife of a tler gave birth to twins during the storm, and before neighbors could reach her home the poor woman expired for want, of suflicient food and attention. The twins are still living ahd in charge charitable neighbors. North Platte reports that there ar» many cases of suffering and hunger among drought sufferers in Lincoln and Logan Courities. Overseers of the poor state that unless aid comes from outside there*, will be ; many deaths from hunger and want.#®? clothing this winter. s "The State Relief Commission has fifty, families on its list as needing assistance 'and most distressing reports come in from all over the western part of the State relating to woful lack of food and cloth­ ing," says a Lincoln dispatch. "No deaths certainly attributable to •tar vat ion are yet reported, although St is claimed that a woina and two chil­ dren found dead in a cabin near Niobrara tlie morning before (Christmas died from lack of food and care. Coal is most need- .ed and Mr. Ludden, of the State Relief Committee, and General Manager Hoi- jdredge, of the Burlington and Missouri jRiver Railroad, are doing everything in jtheir power to forward supplies to the ;tnore destitute localities. Very few farm­ ers in the border counties have any stock left, having let cattle and horses roam at large. The people are living in covered wagons by hundreds rather than face starvation and freeze to death.. More OB less destitution exists in every county, from the Colorado line east to Hall and Adams Counties, and the various relief Committees, although overwhelmed with applications for aid, are doing aU they can to relieve the distress." • " I K- STRONG IS NOW MAYOR. wit x. sTEowa. Be Becomes the Kxecntive Head oi New York. For the first time in twenty-two years a Mayor not of the Democratic faith is at the head of the New York city govern­ ment. William L« Strong, who was on T u e sday inducted into the office, rep­ r e s e n t s m u c h t h e same conditions and social elements that asserted themselves in 1872 in tlie eleva-> tion of William F. Havemeyer to the Mayoralty. In both instances there was a revolt against mu- n i c ipal corruption. Upon both occasions public sentiment was crystallized through the medium of a committee of seventy, the main purpose in 1872 being to overthrow the 'Tweed regime, and in 1894 to correct abuses, known or suspected, in the police and oth­ er departments of the city government. The exposure of the practice of levying blackmail by the police, particularly upon the criminal classes of society, who, in consideration of their payments of money, were granted immunity from arrest, was primarily the work of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, which procured the appointment of the State Senate Commit­ tee which has become famous under the name of its Chairman, Mr. Lexow. Without an enlargement of the powers of the Mayor, it is argued, says a corres­ pondent, Mr. Strong, whatever may be his disposition, is as helpless to combat corruption in the departments as his predecessors in office have been. It is proposed to enact a law giving the Mayor power of removal over heads of bureaus and an absolute control of the police de­ partment. . Under the present system, while the Mayor appoints members of the police board and other department chiefs, he may not remove them except through processes that practically amount to a deprivation of the power. The fram­ ing of new laws touching these points promises to be as important work as any that is likely to come before the State Legislature and to bring out as many conflicting theories. HORSE-MEAT SAUSAGES. v f h 1 The Ute Indians who invaded Utah have consented to teturn to their reserva- up cattle. * . , ' § Three EqAlne Slaughter Houses Near Chicago. France may laugh at our cereals and sausage, Germany may grumble about American meats, and Denmark may lay embargo upon our hogs and cattle from Texas, but there is at least one among the countries of Europe which is glad to get a certain kind of food from Uncle Sam, and that is Belgium. But wliatjs still more remarkable, that commodity Which Beigium is so giad to b^y frotlti aB is horseflesh! ^ And Chicago, ever ready to supply what­ ever anybody in any part of the world may want, is only too glad to undertake to supply the Belgians with horsemeat sausage, pickled horseflesh and horse­ flesh in any other form. As surprising as it may seem, there are at present three equine slaughter houses vvitliin a few miles of this city, says a Qhicuxo dis­ patch, which are daily shipping horsemeat to Europe. Two of these are located on the Indiana side of the State line and the ether on the Illinois side. The horse butchers make no secret of their unusual industry. They admit that they btiy horses--decrepit brutes, old, worthless, attenuated, disabled, halt, maimed and blind--and kill them for their hides nnd theif meat; for their blood, their offal and their bouen. The hides and hoofs and bones find a legitimate home market, apart from popular preju­ dice; the blood and offal is likewise din- posed of; and the meat--well, all the horse butchers swear by the gods that every pound of meat goes to Belgium and through Belgium to France. There is at least one man who doubts that all the horse'meat intended for faod goes to Europe. J. P. Davis, who is a Justice of the- peace at Hammond, Ind., and who also runs an express wagon route, laughs at the idea of the horse product going-altogether to Belgium. He says: "My wagons have carried a good deal of tlie product up to Archer avenue. Of course it goes thore. The sausage meat goes up iu pails and tubs and there is a plaee up there «*n Archer avenue where they mix it or make it up into sausage. These little Frankfurter sausages--look hngt mnat m* - «•. , >" r <• „ 4; mailto:3@4.75 mailto:3@4.75 mailto:2@3.25 mailto:2.50@5.50 mailto:2@3.50 mailto:3@5.50