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THE PL VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. ILLINOIS ®OTED THESPIAN DIES JAMES HUGHES TAYLOR, VETERAN TRAGEDIAN. THE Faases Away at Downlngton, Pa.-- Chinese Fanatics Bntcher Many French Missionaries--Child Labor May Be Abolished In Chicaso. Domise of James Hughes Taylor. James Hughes Taylor, a veteran trage­ dian of wide reputation, is dead at Down- ingtoii. Pp., a victim of dropsy. Mr. Taylor, who was a native of Philadelphia, was 73 years of age. He first made his appearance, at Portland, Me., in 1S50, as Lucius in "Virginins." In 1S52 he be­ came manager of the Richmond, Ya., theater. In 1801. he went to Cincinnati and was leading man at Pike's for two years. He then went to the Pacific coast and came east in 1865 with Edwin Booth. He was leading man for Mme. Janauischek for seventeen years. Later Jn life be. be­ came part owner of the Empire Theater in Philadelphia. Mr. Taylor had collect­ ed a fine theatrical library. He gave many rare voluntas-and' mementoes of the stage to the Players' Clnb of New York, of which he was a member. He was also a member of the Lambs Club. •# Three Killed by Chinese Fanatics. Vancouver, B. C., dispatch: Anti-Chris­ tian riots have taken place in Liu Ching, China. A mob of fanatics, loudly pro­ claiming that Roman Catholics had kid­ naped their children, rushed simultane­ ously en the. mission buildings. In the fierce fight that ensued three Christians were killed outright, eight wounded and four captured. It is feared' that more murders will occur, as leagues are being formed in some districts, thousands strong, with the avowed intention of ex­ terminating the Roman Catholic mission­ aries. The missionaries refuse to leave, saying they will resist to the last, trusting 40 Providence. The priests sent out from the Paris headquarters are twenty-seven in number, the bishop being Mgr. Gui­ don. There are, besides, thirteen nuns. The mission is divided into twenty-five stations, which are attended by about 15,000 Chinese or Manchurian Catholics. The ecclesiastics say that the mission­ aries are inclined to attribute the atroci­ ties which are reported from Mongolia to robbers who infest the country rather than to political or .anti-religious agita­ tors. j v' Canada IJropo«es an Kxport Dnty. A large and representative meeting of lumbermen, bank presidents and directors and representatives of railway and trans- portajion companies was held at Ottawa, Ont., Wednesday night to discuss the ac­ tion to be taken in consequence of the re­ jection by the United States Senate of motions to strike out the duties on lum­ ber and pulp imposed' by the Dinglev bill. The great disadvantages of allowing Ca- nadian*k»gs and pulp wood to be exported to tihe United States free of duty, to be there manufactured into lumber and'pulp, which would' then compete with the Cana­ dian products upon which an import duty must be paid, was pointed out, and it was unanimously resolved that the Govern­ ment be asked to make provision for an export dirty on logs and pulp wood equal at least to the United States import duty, ehoukl that be ultimately imposed. alongside. IjteWas measured up by the motormaafoc a race, and the con teal: be­ gan in"'earnest. Suddenly . Lahiff" was seen to tumble and make, a complete somersault over bis handle bars'. He struck'-with great force and his neck was broken. Capt. Charles Adams, Qf the barge Abram Smith, in the Simon Langell's tow, is under arrest at Buffalo on Che charge of assault. The complainant is Katherine McDonald, cook on ffie Smith, who swore out the warrant at Ton®,wan- da. The penalty for the crime, if proved, fas <iea+h, under the moss-covered statutes of the United States, which were passed Uarly in the century. Adams denies the charge most vigorously. Those acquaint­ ed with the" case do not think the charge can be sustained in the United States Court. The death penalty has seldom "been inflicted on the lakes under the early statutes of the republic, which were cop- led after the severe English maritime regulations, where the death penalty so frequently appears. v -v WESTERN. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore .. .27 9 Pittsburg 19 18 Boston 25 12 Philadelphia. 21 20 Cincinnati -.24 13 Louisville ...17 20 New York... 19 15 Chicago .15 24 Brooklyn . ..20 18 Washington. 11 25 Cleveland .. .19 18 St. Louis.... 8 33 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized belpw: W. L. W. L. St. Paul.....30 14 Detroit 19 22 14 Minneapolis. 19 27 15 G'nd Rapids. 15 27 19 Kansas City. 12 33 Columbus .. .20 Indianapolis. 20 Milwaukee ..25 Child Labor in Chicago, If the interpretation placed on the new child labor law by its friends is correct, the big department stores of Chicaga will Slave to discharge all their cash boys and girts under 14 years of age. The official enactment of the reform measure may causc a small upheaval among employers of minors. There is a difference of opin­ ion, however, as to the actual scope of the new law. While the backers of the bill who should certainly be best acquainted with its spirit and letter--declare it frees from labor children under 14 years, the opinion is adso held that the law applies only to children between 14 and 1(5 years of age. NEWS NUGGETS. Ex-Gov. Jacob D. Cox says he will not accept the appointment as minister to Spain. A destructive cyclone struck near Lyle, -Minn., late Thursday afternoon, and it was at first reported1 that eight or nine people had been killed and many injured. Investigation shows that one man was killed and from fifteen to twenty injured. In addition to this several people are missing. ' , William Andrews, colored, alias "Cuba," was taken from the officers at the door of the court house at Princess Anne, jjMd., and killed by a uiob Wednesday. An­ drews had been tried', convicted and sen­ tenced' to death for felonious Nassau It near /..Marion May 5.; Judge Bago, who passed the death sentence upon Andrews, en­ deavored to reason with the excited crowd, but in vain., Prof. A.'W. Barnard's airship exploded at Nashville- and fell With the inventor •nearly a mile. Barnard.was badly sltak? en, but w®« not seriously hurt. John C. Welty of Canton, Ohio, formal !y announced that lie will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Gov­ ernor at the State convention, and that he wild have the support of his home comity. ! The Portland and'Boston through night 'freight ran into a washout at Fernald's culvert, N. II., Thursday. The locomo­ tive and seven cars were demolished and (three men , were killed. Judge Jesse J, Phillips has been elected chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. In the judicial elections in Chicago and Cook County Monday, the sitting judges were re-elected. This was what was. known as the non-partisan; ; ticket. Throughout the State Republican candi­ dates were generally successful.. Fire Friday morning in the Patterson & Thotuas block at Denver, Colo., caused a loss of about $10,000, Assistant Fire Chief-Frewen. seriously injured his back by falling. The building is owned by Quincy R. Shaw of Boston. The depart­ ment store of John R. Nelson at Bloom- injgton, 111., was damaged by fire Thurs­ day midnight to the extent of $2,000. Nelson's stock was damaged $10,000 by fire three weeks ago. The large barn and dwelling house of F. C. Rogers, near Blakesley, Ind., burned. Loss, $7,000. A mob' at Urbana, O., took "Glick" Mitchell, a colored man, from jail and lynched him Friday morning. An at­ tempt to do this at 1:30 in the morning had been repelled by the sheriff and the local militia company, only after two men had been killed and nine wounded. The sheriff then telegraphed the Governor for more troops, and Company B was sent from Springfield, arriving at 7:10. Though the jail was surrounded by 2,000 angry, bloodthirsty men, the Mayor assured the commanding officers that no assistance was needed, and the troops were with­ drawn. No sooner had this been done ! than the mob made a resistless attack upon the jail, overpowered the guard and secured their victim. Mitchell bad -con­ fessed to criminal assault, and was under sentence of twenty years in the peniten- : tiary. Prince Eui Whk, who will probably suc­ ceed to the throne of Corea on the death of his father, the reigning king, arrived at San Francisco Sunday from the Ori­ ent. The young man, who is only 20 years of age, has come to America to finish his education, and is accompanied by two Coreans of noble birth--Pak Yong Kiu and Sin Sang Koo. The first named, who was eharge d'affaires of the Corean legation at Washington for three years, has been commissioned by the King of Gerea to escort the prinee to America and see him comfortably established in some Eastern institution of learning, where he can take a three years' course in English branches. Prince Eui Wha is not the heir apparent to the Corean throne. He is the second son of the King, but is expected to succeed, since it is generally understood that the Crown Prince is an imbecile. * The schooner Emma and Louise sailed from San Francisco for Guaymas, Mex­ ico, a few days ago laden with lumber. Beyond this commonplace trading trip, however, is an exploring expedition, of which Jesse D. Grant, of San Diego, son of the late General Grant, is the backer. Some months ago Grant obtained a con­ cession from the Mexican Government to explore all the islands of the Gulf of California lying north of the twenty- ninth degree of latitude, he to have all the guano and minerals discovered and the Mexicin Government to receive 10 per cent, of the proceeds. The twenty-ninth degree divides Tiburon Island, which is inhabited by the man-eating tribe of Ceris Indians, and it is proposed to prospect the northern half for minerals. Angel de la Guaradia, the largest island in the gulf, lies entirely within the Grant concession. It is believed the island is rich in" min­ erals, although it has never been thor­ oughly explored. Six men were killed, one fatally injured and two others badly hurt in a collision on the Omaha road near North Wiscon­ sin Junction, Wis., a short distance from Hudson, Monday. The dead: E. S. Hurd, Eau Claire, Wis.; Joseph Leightheiser, Eau Claire, Wis.; Herman Reby, Altoona, Wis.; Thomas Riley, Eau Claire, Wis.; Milton Swain, Eau Claire, Wis.; Frank Thayer, Altoona, Wis., fireman. The fa­ tally injured: S. Seittleman, Menominee, Wis., engineer of pile driver. The slight­ ly injured: L. Brogan, Eau Claire, Wis., engineer; James Owne, Eau Claire, con­ ductor. The accident occurred on the double track going west from the junc­ tion. A way freight, going west, was ordered to take the right-hand track, but took the left track and was running at the rate of eighteen miles an hour when upon turning a short curve on a down grade they came upon a work train back­ ing east and toward them at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. The collision was something terrific. The men on the rear of the work train had no inkling of the danger and were instantly killed. The car at once caught fire and the bodies of the men were consumed. EASTERN. Globe Savings Bank of; Chicago, was sold at auction. The sum realized was $1,315. Arthur Lahiff, of Providence, R. I., while racing agaiast an electric car Sun­ day, met a tragic death. Just outside the Roger Williams Park the roadway is quite steep. Trolley cars are in the hab­ it of bowling down the incline at a high rate of speed, and a good many cyclists have tried to beat them in races. When A car headed down the hill Lahtff was "=-T- oourts for protection, and btrVwaa placed under bonds to keen^ire^xteace. He seems not to have desisted, however, for since then the girl bad received several threatening letters from him, in tbe>Uuvt of which he announced that he would do something which they both would regret. William J. Calhoun, who was sent to Cuba as a .special commissioner to inves­ tigate the circumstances of the death in prison of Dr. Ruiz, an American citi­ zen, reached New York Monday. Mr. Calhoun said the commission held three sittings between May 20 and June 1 at Havana, Regulus and Guanabacoe. The papers examined, in^e case were chief­ ly, military records. >f£he final report will be made to Washington!lby General Lee. Mr. Calhoun declined ^oTgife his opinion on the case. "At thie session of the com­ mission," Mr. Calhoun said, in response to questioning, "we. ̂ .amined several wit­ nesses, but when y<*u ask me if they were plentiful I can sottly say that they did not run after li^antf' we had to use no force to keep themfaway.. They were composed of Spaniards and Cuban®. The Spansh witnesses, and, }n fact, all of those who testified, were a^ surrounded with safeguards that k,'cwas impossible to get at the naked truth. One person whom we would have liked to hear could hot be found.. This was Fondsvella, who commnnded-lhe Spanish in the Guana- bacoiC territory!. He disappeared, and it was impossible to findliim. Geiieriil Wey- ler did not put in an appearance at the investigation. We inspected the jail at Guanabaeoa, and wher. we were there it. was suspiciously' clean." FOREIGN. At Sunday's Cabinet Council at Madrid the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Duke of Tetuan, read a dispatch from Washington which announced that Presi­ dent McKinley had given assuranoes of symparhy with-* Spain. Late returns from Ganudos,. Bahia, say that 8,000 fanatics under Conselheiro were defeated by the Brazilian troops. Tie fanatics made a stubborn and des­ perate resistance, but were finally com­ pelled to flee in great disorder by the Federal artillery. | . It is officially announced at Athens that the Turks have committed serious excess­ es in Epirus, assaulting wonren, defiling churches and engaging in general pillage. The Turkish irregulars, it is further an­ nounced, have committed similar excess­ es in the villages around Larissa. A Madrid dispatch of Sunday says: As the only practicable method of , solv­ ing the crisis, Senor Canovas is to con­ tinue in power. The new ministry will be practically the same as the former one. Tlta Duke of Tetuan continues Minister of State. It is popularly supposed that Gen. Weyler will be recalled. At a cab- ihet council held Sunday afternoon at his residence Senor Cauovas, the Premier, announced that the Queen Regent had renewed his powers and those of the Cab­ inet, in terms most flattering to him and his colleagues. It is understood that the Government does not contemplate any immediate change in the supreme com­ mand in Cuba. The surprise and dis­ pleasure of the various sections of the opposition are not easy to describe. Valuable statistics relative to the growth in Germany of the workingmen's insur­ ance system have been received at the State Department from United States Consul Stern at Bamberg. These socie­ ties insure against sickness, accident and old age. and in the opinion of the Consul have had a beneficial influence upon the economical and social position of the (^er- man working classes. He says that in a country like Germany, where low wages allow but a small fraction of the labor­ ing classes to put by something for a rainy day, a great deal has been accom­ plished by this system, which, he hopes, may be extended to other countries. In ten years, from 1885 to 1895, claims to be amount of $296,015,824 have been paid to 25,061,020 persons, and $250,000 per day is disbursed in such benefits. SECRETARY Of STATE HOW SHERMAN DISPOSES OF DAY'S BUSINESS. Be la Methodical at All Times--SaTea Himself by Relying Upon His As­ sistants--Meeting Office Seekers and Dealing with Diplomats. Mr. Sherman's Day. Washington correspondence: , /-S ECRETARY O F J State John Sherman 'i V. J works at his desk from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the after­ noon; then he goes borne and reads nov­ els. He is an omniv­ orous consumer of novels of all degrees of merit, of all colors of binding--yellow preferred. He says they rest his mind. He considers that.at the age of seventy-four he has earned a rest from the heavy literature of finance, of economics, of statesmanship, and Mr. Babcock, his secretary, says that he fol­ lows the woes of the latter-day heroine, the truly good stiitings of the modern hero, and the sulphurous ejaculations of the fin de siecle villain with a really re­ markable interest, even if he does smile a good deal through his spectacles over what he reads. But all this happens after 4- o'clock in the afternoon, .when Mr. Sherman is Mr. Sherman, and not the Secretary of State, and it is with his man­ ner of putting in his time as Secretary of State that this article is concerned. When Mr. Sherman became the Secre­ tary of the Treasury a matter of twenty odd years ago he was confronted by one of the most herculean tasks that ever IN GENERAL. SOUTHERN. Fire, which started in Bryan's fertiliz ing mill at Alexandria,' Va., destroyed a block of buildings, principally manufac­ tories and warehouses, causing a loss of $500,000. Camp Peihain, United Confederate Vet­ erans, at Anniston, Ala:, has passed reso­ lutions calling on Confederates in the South to ignore Federal veterans during the Confederate reunion at Nashville. A small-sized cyclone struck rhe section of the country ten miles below Gadsden, Ala., Thursday evening, blowing down fences, trees and buildings for twenty miles. Immense trees were snapped off like pipe stems. The wind crossed the river half a tiiile below Gadsden and tore up trees in East. Gadsden. A severe wind in the city uprooted many trees. A heavy rain and hail accompanied the wind. No one was injured. WASHINGTON. The throng of Government clerks and others hurrying up Pennsylvania avenue, at Washington, just before 9 o'clock Mon­ day .morning, were startled by the at­ tempted murder of Miss Dorothy E. Squires and the suicide of Charles Barber, rr* ... , X1 , , , , i. a patent attorney, who had gained much ,f . of the^anticook stock faim notoriety of late by his eccentric actions, at Merninac, IS. H., owned by »C. W. Mrber shot Miss Squires, and then turn- bpaldmg, late president of the suspended revolver on himself put a pistol ball through liis brain, causing almost in stant death. Miss Squires will recover. Barber had considerable of a patent prac­ tice, but had been grojving more and more eccentric for several years. Miss Squires formerly worked for him as a stenog rapher, and upon leaving his employ he annoyed her with his attentions, threat­ ening to injure her If she would not per­ mit him to call. Finally the matter be­ came so serious that she had to appeal to The officei*s of the steamer Hupeb, which arrived at Vancouver, B. C., from the Orient, say that when in the Philip­ pine Islands, on their last trip, it was learned that the Spanish" force had cap­ tured twenty-five Roman Catholic priests supposed to be in sympathy with the reb­ els and had roasted them. Eli A. Gage, manager of the North American Transportation and Trading Company, is in Seattle on his way to the company's trading posts on the Yukon. He said that a chartered British con^pany is proposing to operate on the Yukon on the same plan and scale as that of the famous chartered South African com­ pany. It proposes to build and govern towns and cities, maintain a force of sol­ diers, operate mines, and build steam­ ships. The company is admitted to have millions of morcy back of it. A transcontinental railroad, from tide­ water to tidewater, is the gigantic enter­ prise which was set in motion Friday, when $30,000 was paid at Springfield, 111., for the incorporation of a company with a capital stock of $30,000,000. The Baltimore and Ohio, the Wisconsin Cen­ tral, the Chicago and Northern Pacific and the Northern Pacific systems figure in the great undertaking. By a consoli­ dation of these, their branches and con­ nections, will be produced the new sys­ tem, one end of which will touch the At­ lantic rnd the other the Pacific. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2. 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 34c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 9c; potatoes, per bushel, 25c to 35c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, $25 to $70 per ton. Indianapolis---Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 77c; corn, No. white, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; whieat, No. 2, 85c to 86c; corn, No. yellow, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 17t to 18c; rye, No. 2, 30c to 32c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50 wheat, No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed,, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50 wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No, yellow, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye. 34c to 36c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c corn, No. 2 mfxed, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 wihite, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 34c to 36c clover seed, $4.20 to $4.25. Milwaukee--Wheat, No.'2 spring, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 3, 22c to 24c; oats, No - white, 21c to 23c; barley, No. 2, 28c to 33c; rye, No. 1, 33c to 35c; pork, mess $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50 wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 28c; oate, No. 2 white, 2 to 25c. ' -- New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75 Wheat,, No. 2 red, 74c to 75e; corn, No. 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, West­ ern, 10c to 11c. hard>-workin.g head. All this formally and elaboratly courteous' correspondence, with its "renewed assurance® of profound, distinguished consideration," and so on, of course, pass over the Secretary of State's desk, and is subject to his revision before he signs it; but it is very rare that he finds it necessary to make any changes in it, so carefully and thoroughly is this work done. Whenever any document reaches Mr. Sherman's desk that does not absolutely require his personal attention, he sends immediately for the official to whose branch of the department the document properly belongs, and turns it'over to him with a few succinct instructions. He does not lay it aside for future consideration, and thereby accumulate a monumental pile of papers filled with possibilities of grief and labor to come. It is really quite entertaining to see Mr. Sherman cut open an official letter as. it reaches him hot from the mail, glance it over and grasp it within the compass of sixty seconds, and then either send for the proper official or else shoot it out by messenger to the place it belongs. " • The only occasions upon which Mr. Sherman feels called upon to grow a little expansive are the diplomatic day^i--Thurs­ day. This is the especial day that he sets aside for the reception of the diplomats; to talk over things with them confidential­ ly, and on this day other visitors have a very slight' chance of being received by him. The Secretary of'State receives the diplomats in a room adjoining his office, and called the "diplomatic room"--by all. odds the most gorgeously furnished gov­ ernmental chamber in Washington. Run­ ning its entire length is a carved ebony table, and it is at the head of this table, seated in a tall revolving chair, that Mr. Sherman receives the diplomats, one by one. They string int othe anteroom for their audience with the Secretary, of State all the way from 10 to 1 o'clock, and in receiving them no matter of precedence is observed. The first to arrive is the first 4; WORK OF CONGRESS. SECRETARY OF STATE SHERMAN. loomed up before an American statesman the.resumption of specie payments--and Mr. Sherman worked away at that job, and accomplished it, from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon no more, no less. - . I first became connected with Mr. Sherman at that time," said Mr. BabcocU, his secretary, "and I never knew him to work longer than the office hours of his clerks. Mr. Folger permitted the secre­ taryship of the treasury to kill him; ̂ prob­ ably Mr. Manning did also. Neither of these gentlemen was generous to himself. A whole generation of political experi­ ence"taught Mr. Sherman that ..lesson be­ fore he assumed the reins of the treas­ ury, and, accomplishing more work in that capacity than did Hamilton, he emerged from the ordeal with his health and strength. The secret of it? He trusted his assistant secretaries; he allowed his subordinates to do the work they were ap­ pointed to do. He never permitted a pa­ per to lie on his desk for ten minutes, and made disposition of his affairs as they came up. His desk was clean down to the blotting pad when he put on his hat and quit his office at 4 o'clock in the af­ ternoon. The Secretaries of the Treas­ ury who allowed the position to give them nervous prostration attempted to do the whole thing themselves? and no secretary of any government department can do that and live through his term. As was his rule, when Secretary of the Treasury, so is Mr. Sherman's rule as Sec­ retary of State. When he came here he found, as he expected he would, that the State Department is filled with men who have been here a long time, and who have every detail of the department's routine at their fingers' ends. Mr. Sher­ man perfectly appreciates the fact that these men know more about the practical workings of their respective branches of the department than he himself could hope to acquire in a period of service here twice as long as that for which he was appointed, and he is a strong believer in the value of routine. So he lets them go ahead, keeping an eye on their work, but in no wise interfering with it without good occasion. And I guess this is the reason that he has all the hair he bad when he was twenty years old, that he is as straight as a string at seventy-four, and that his eyes are just as good to-d«y as they ever were.",. For instance, to elaborate a little on Mr. Babcock's talk, the country in gen­ eral probably fancies t!hat ail the sound- tog diplomatic documents that are occa­ sionally published in the newspapers are written by the hand of the Secretary of State niniself; that lie sits down under a gas lamp and gnaws Ibis finger nails and tousles up bis hair in' doing it, like any youthful member of a school of journal­ ism preparing an essay thickly sown with Wets." For any Secretary of State to do this, or anything like it, no matter what the degree of bis volubility, would be a sheer impossibility. Tens of thou­ sands* of words of this sort of correspon­ dence are sent broadcast throughout the world from the American Department of State every day, always over the signa­ ture of the Secretary of State; but tihe Secretary of State himself no mpre re­ vises it and shapes it up than does the editor of a newspaper write the police court news that appears in his paper. The momentous documents, those bearing up­ on great international questions, the Sec­ retary of State does write himself; but all the other diplomatic correspondence, even that relating to affairs of very .con­ siderable importance, is gotten up in the diplomxtic bureau of the State Depart­ ment, of which Mr. Oridler is now the to be received. The Secretary of State gives these audiences for ^general re­ sume of each diplomat's business, and it is for this reason that he only receives them one at a time. He leans back in his revolving chair, with his spectacles push­ ed up on his forehead, taking in what each of them has to say, and occasionally jot­ ting down a note on a scratch pad in front of him. Mr. Sherman is not a linguist. The only language he can speak is Eng­ lish. But as there is not now in Wash­ ington a single representative of another nation who cannot also speak English, the Secretary of State has no trouble in car­ rying on these conversations. NEW UNITEDSTATESTREASURER Ullis H. Roberts, a New York Banker, Recently Appointed. Ellis H. Roberts of New York, who has just been appointed treasurer of the Unit­ ed States by President McKinley, is the president of the Franklin National Bank of New York. He has long been promi­ nent in national affairs. He was a dele­ gate to >f!ie' Republican national conven­ tions of 1864. 1868 and 1876. In 1866 he was a, !Uiember of the New York Leg­ islature and in 1870 he was elected a mem­ ber of Congress from the Oneida district and was re-elected in 1872. Mr. Blaine, then Speaker of the House, made Mr. Roberts, a new member, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, an unugual honor. -In '{18S9 President Harrison ap­ pointed Mr. Roberts assistant United States Treasurer at New York City. In 1893 Mr. Roberts was offered the presi­ dency of the.Franklin National Bank, and accepted the place. Mr. Roberts is a wide­ ly known traveled man and has written J ELI.I8 II. ROBERTS. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN 8ENATE AND HOUSjE. A Comprehensive Digest of. the Pro­ ceedings in the Legislative Cham­ bers at Washington --Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. 1 The Senate had a period of speecfr mak­ ing Friday, and as a result little progress was made on The tariff bill. The advance covered about two pages or seven para­ graphs, and brougbt.the Senate up to the wool schedule, the first item of which was considered but not completed. When the Senate laid'aside the tariff bill Saturday night it had reached the sugar schedule, which has been the sub- jeet. of so much interest and conflict. During the day many of the paragraphs of the wood schedule had been agreed tb, but that restoring lumber to the dutiable list at $2 per 1,000 feet proved the greatest stumbling block since the debate bS'gan. Mr. Bacon (Dem.) of Georgia gave his support to the committee rate, saying it was essential to the lumber industry of the South. He also spoke in favor of a .revenue tariff so adjusted as to give equal benefit, to all industries. Mr. Bacon and •Mr. Vest clashed several times on tariff doctrine, Mr. Vest expressing his regret that a Democratic Senator would aid in restoring to the dutiable list; one of the three products--lumber, salt and wool-- which the Wilson bill put on the free list. Mr. Clay of Georgia also spoke at length on the tariff bill, criticising the sugar schedule and other features of the bill. The Senate Monday defeated the motion to put white pine on the free list, and the entire lumber, schedule was agreed to as reported. In the House the Senate bill to amend the act to authorize the con­ struction of a steel bridge across the St. Louis liver was passed. A Senate bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across Pearl river, Mississippi, was pass­ ed. The House adjourned until Thurs­ day. <, By the decisive vote of 42 to 19 the Senate Tuesday adopted an amendment to the tariff bill placing raw cotton, the great j.roduct of the South, on the dutia­ ble list at 20 per cent, ad valorem. It is the first time in the history of tariff legis­ lation that a duty on cotton has been in­ corporated in a bill. The amendment was proposed by Mr. Bacon (Deni.) of Geor- gi. He saift the omission of this article from the dutiable list was a violation of the principle of the Democratic platform that tariff taxation should be so imposed as to discriminate against.no section. The tariff as a whole fell like a dead weight < • the producer of cotton, raising the prices of all articles essential to his use .and yet on his article of production, raw cotton, he was "left in the lurch." Sev­ eral other items were discussed, but noth- g further was settled. The Senate had. a period of tariff speeches Wednesday, and as a result lit­ tle progress was made on the bill. Mr. Rawlins of Utah and Mr. Mills of Texas discussed the Democratic attitude on the tariff from their respective standpoints. Later in the day Mr. Cannon of Utah pro­ posed an amendment placing an export bounty on agricultural products. He spoke for two hours on the need of giving the farmer a1 share of the benefits of the tariff. Mr. Butler of North Carolina also spoke in favor of giving the farmer equal benefits with other classes under the bill. Only half a page of the bill, covering four brief and comparatively unimportant par- agrapns, were disposed of during the day. The long-deferred debate on the sugar schedule of the tariff bill came on Thurs­ day, after the Senate had disposed of the cereals in the agricultural schedule. Nothing definite was accomplished. James T. Lloyd, who was recently elected to succeed the late Representative Giles, of the First Missouri District, took the oath at the opening of the House. Mr. Hitt asked unanimous consent for the consid­ eration of a joint resolution for the pay­ ment of the salaries of certain consuls general and consuls; the names of whose posts were changed in the last consular ind diplomatic bill. The resolution was passed. Mr. Payne then moved an ad­ journment, which was resisted by the minority. The rising vote resulted in a tie--87 to S7. Speaker Reed saved the motion by voting aye, and the House ad­ journed until Monday. several books, not only on finance but on other subjects; among them may be men­ tioned "Greece and Beyond," "Planting and Growth of the Empire State" and "Government Revenue," "Especially the American System." He is 70 years old. John A. Coison, a brother of Congress­ man David S. Coison, was shot and in­ stantly killed by John Dougan, who ran a saloon at Middlesboro, Ky. Dougan has been arrested. Isaac Hoffman, one of a firm of whole­ sale clothiers in San Francisco.,was found in h'is office in a dying condition, with two bullet holes in his head. The police believe it to be a murder.^) , The Pennsylvania road' reports net earu- ings us $708,767 less than last j'e&r. COST OF GOVERNMENT. Federal Expense Accoantfor the Nine Months Knding March 31, 1897. The following statement shows the co«t » of sustaining the various branches of the Federal- Government for the fiscal year ending March 31: ]• IjeglBlatlve: Senate : $ House of Representfiwes.... legislative, miscellaneous ... Public printer Library of Congress Botanic gardens Court of Claims ^Executive proper: White House Civil Service Commission..... Uxeeutlve departments; - btate Treasury war I?§vy -- Interior ......... .." Postoffice Agricultural Department of Labor Department of Justice Judicial 1896. 1,102,116.8T 2,843,823.08. 90,177.76* 3,078,127.71 831,974.40- 22,744.30- 891,993.74. 95,667.34 97,251.70- 965,317.91 66.032.897.0S 52,601,516.16- 26,913,908.40 158.050,042.39- 11,719,016.60 2,897,241.6& 163,935.15 302,925.39 ••••••••••Ig 7,658,618.50 Total actual expenses $336,839,221.54 The following statement shows the es­ timate of expenses for the present fiscal year, as submitted to Congress Tby the Secretary of the Treasury: Legislative. Executive proper •' ... .... S t a t e D e p a r t m e n t Treasury Department War Department ....... Navy Department Interior Department ..... i'ostofiice Department Agricultural Department Department of Labor.... Department of Justice... .? 7,958,817.40 196,680.00 1,888,278.76 143,212,278.10 54,489,143.4& 30.459,956.20 161,716,415.92 7.620,669.25 2.542,692.00 192,370.00 7,810,772.00 T o t a l . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4 1 8 , 0 9 1 , 0 7 3 . l Y T'ne following statements show some of tihe most important and interesting items- of expense in the management of the Gov­ ernment doiring°recent years: Fiscal Increase year. Salaries. of navy. Pensions. 1889 ....$44,862,605 $ 5,630,953 $ 87,624,779 1890 ... 44,707,866 6,831,803 106,936,855 ̂ 1891 ... 46.721,001 10,609,197 124,415,951 1892 ... 46.192,597, 13,756,499 134,583,052. 1893 ... 47,114,805 15,030,226 159,357,557 1894 ... 45,626,198 16,199,258 141,177,284 1895 ... 47,653,321 13,182,134 141,395,228 189U .., 48,949,083 9,453,002 139,434,000 Interest on Fiscal year. public debt. 1889 ....$41,001,484.29 189 0 36,099,284.05 1891 37,547,135.37 1892 23,378,116.23 1893 27,264,392.18 1894 27,841,405.64 1895 30,978,030.21 1890 35,385,028.93 River and harbor improvements:. $11,208,296.701 11,737,437.83 12,250,627.23 13,017,208.48 14,799,835.98 19,887,362.12 19,897,552.60 18,104,376.44. Total expenditures.. $383,477,954.49•* 367,525,279.83 356,195,298.29 352,179,446.08 The total revenue and expenditures of.' the Government for the last four fiscal, years are given below: * Total revenue. 1S93 $385,819,628.7S » 1894 297,722,019.25 1895 313,390,075.11 1896 326,976,200.38 It will be noticed that, with the excep­ tion of 1893, the expenditures of the Gov­ ernment have exceeded the revenues, the excess being ?69,S03,260.58 in 1894, $42,- 805,223.i8 in 1895 and $25,203,245.70 in 1896. For the first nine mouths of the current fiscal year ended March 31 the revenues of the Government from all sources had reached a total of $242,785,- 051.25, while the expenditures during the same period amounted to $281,090,332.18,. or a deficit of $38,90S^280.93 in the reve­ nues. c> "SPITE" HOUSE OWNER DIES* ceras5 £2 or The next time Broker Chapman will try Mr. Havenieyer's receipt for defying Sen­ atorial interrogation points.--Washington Post. = Mr. Bailey's aspersive remarks, about full dress are somehow recalled by the Logan-McCook embroglio.--Indianapolis News. An earthquake shock has shaken Greece. All sorts of powers seem to be against the little kingdom.--Baltimore!' American. " It is to be hoped that Senator Tillman won't snap the tines off liis pitchfork by a jab on the back of-the sugar octopus.-- New York Press. The latest society item is to the effect that Broker Chapman is passing a few weeks as the guest of the nation, in jail. --Providence News. Weylet should obtain from the Sultan his recipe for securing the aid of the pow­ ers. He may want it soon.--Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Spain is buying cannot from Krupp. The explosions of the big guns in the United States Senate evidently worry her. --Kansas City Journal. As to talking being cheap, let us hope that the Senate will not make it too ex­ pensive for the United States.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Kentucky views with scorn the colonels that are being made to order in South Carolina and Illinois. In Kentucky colo­ nels are. born and not made.--Chicago Record. So the weather bureau is going to un­ dertake to forecast the wether twelve hours earlier than usual. That is cer- taiul.v a case of bunting for trouble.--Bal­ timore News. \ "Is this a circus?' asked Mr. Hoar in the Senate. In getting through with its program and folding its tents it is safe to say that the Senate'-is not a citcus.--SE Louis Globe-Democrat. "Cut it short" is the unanimous advice of the country to tae Senate, now that It 'lias begun to debate the tariff bill.--In­ dianapolis.Journal'. It is not enough to know that Mr. ve- meyer whistfed in low notes through one day of his trial. What did he whistle? Soihething sad or something contuma­ cious--Boston Journal. Technically, Havemeyer is not guilty of contempt. However, that gives no clew tc his real opinion of the United States Senate.--Chicago Post. Mr. Havemeyer has not gone so far as to declare that-the result of his trial ought to be a lesson to the Senate to curb its curiosity.--Washington Star. Wealthy Joseph Richardson Passes. Away in His Singular Abode. Joseph Richardson, New York, an ec­ centric man of wealth, died Tuesday in his "spite" house, at the corner of Eighty- second street and Lexington avenue. His bed had been placed in the parlor of his home. This room is five feet wide by twenty feet long. He had been carried there from his cramped bedroom. Mr. Richardson was 84 years old, but was active till a few months ago. He was es­ timated to be worth $20,000,000, though his notoriety was chiefly due to the "spite" house, in which he had lived for fifteen years. This house was built on a strip of land five feet wide by 104 deep. The oc­ cupants of the house adjoining this land on the west wished to build houses. They offered the Richardsons $1,000 for the strip, but they held out for $5,000. The parties refused to give this amount, think­ ing to force Richardson out. The owner had begun to build on his five-foot lot when the others offered him an advance. He then refused to entertain any propo­ sition, and in spite of all opposition and entreaty erected the odd house in which he died. This remarkable man owned stock in nearly every railroad in America, and was the possessor of passbooks over the roads here and in Canada, and on nil the steamship lines leaving this port. In ap­ pearance Mr. Richardson closely resem­ bled Russell Sage. His clothes were ill- fitting, his gait shambling and his sole object seemed to be money making. For years he carried bis lunch to his office. FIVE HUNDRED MEN DROWNED. Great Storm Disaster Overwhelms ° Chinese Fishermen. Meager particulars were brought by the Empress of Japan of a disaster which be­ fell the fishermen of Chusan archipelago, off the coast of China. On May 6, when all the fishing boats Were out on the fish­ ing banks, a terrible gale sprung up. Of the several hundred boats out at the time very few returned, and it is estimated that some 500 men lost their lives. The storm was one of those sudden ones for which the coast of China is noted, and the fishermen had no chance to seek shelter. The storm swept over the entire archi­ pelago, which extends across the mouth of Hanchow bay on the eastern coast of China. Several large junks were lost, in Which scores perished. Logan and McCook in Uniform* Military trappings were worn at the coronation of the Czar in Moscow. Mr. Logan wore the uniform of a captain in the Ohio National Guard, of which he is an officer. John J. McCook wore the uni­ form of a colonel in the United States army. Mr. Logan claims the McCooks started the story that he. appeared Jn an unauthorized uniform. He brands the story as false and demands an immediate retraction. If it is not given', Mr. Logan says in his letter to Gen. A. McD. Mc­ Cook, he will hold ^ the general "person­ ally responsible." " Told in a Few Lines. An anti-saloon league was formed at Milwaukee. v Mrs. Langtry is said to be the possessor of a bicycle made of solid silver.