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-THE WOELD AT LAEGE.
Summary X)f tho Daily Newa
' -WASHINGTON NOTKS.
President Cleveland returned to
"Washington on the 22d from his trip to
.Buzzard's Bay.
It is beginning1 to look a trifle
squally for C. II. J. Taylor, the cblorcd
recorder of the District of Columbia,
-who is at the head of the democratic
.aiegro organization which has been so
liciting funds for campaign purposes.
The civil service commission was look
ing the matter up, and it was rumored
that Taylor would be removed from
office.
The anticipated enactment of the
Tiew tariff bill has affected the wool
market in England, according to a re
port to the state department from
United States Consul Meeker at Brad
ford. It has caused quicker rates than
-ever known before; buyers are eager
to anticipate a brisk demand from the
United States and farmers rere anxious
to turn their fleeces into ready money.
The prices showed an average advance
of 14 to 1 cent a pound over last year,
caused by the tariff bill changes, as
the consumption of the home trade did
siot warrant the advance.
Repbesextattvk Hudson (pop.), of
Kansas, has introduced a resolution
into the house for the appointment of
three pension commissioners instead of
one. One would represent each polit
ical party, including1 the populists.
They would hold office six years, and
an disputed cases a majority of the
Aboard would decide. Mr. Hudson also
introduced a bill for the coinage of all
silver from American mines into stand
ard silver dollars.
The civil service commission has
unanimously found C. H. J. Taj-lor, re
corder of deeds for the District of Co
lumbia, guilty of soliciting campaign
contributions from colored employes
of the government.
The president on the 24th signed the
jjeneral deficiency appropriation bill,
the last of the appropriation bills of
the session.
The United States may have to pay
a big bill to Colombia, one of the Cen
tral American republics. She persists
in a claim and points to a treaty of
1840, which declares that the Colom
bians shall not be assessed any duty
upon their products imported into the
United States higher than like articles
imported from any other foreign coun
try. That means, they contend, if
any articles entered the United States
free from Brazil and Cuba they should
enter free from Colombia also, regard
less of reciprocity treaties. Just what
the total will amount to no one can
tell at present, but steps are being
taken to ascertain, the amount from
statistics.
GENERAL NEWS.
As awful hurricane swept across the
sea of Azov, Russia, on the 23th, and it
was reported that 1,000 persons had
perished, some by drowning, others by
being crushed under falling houses
and trees in the towns on the coast.
The Gxcitement was great among the
American colonists, as it was feared
that at least two parties of American
tourists were on the sea at the time the
-wind did its deadly work.
Retorts of general destruction and
widespread desolation at Guerncville,
CaL, the scene of a disastrous confla
gration, continue to come in. Home
less people were camping along the
banks of the Russian river and adjoin
ing canyons. They were without food
and necessary bedding and clothing.
The loss is about S120,000, with less
than S20,000 insurance.
A fire at Chicago destroyed property
-valued at $15,000 and twenty-seven
horses valued at S7,030, the property
of the l'acpckc-Lcicht Lumber Co.
Total loss, $30,000; fully covered by in
surance. Col. R. A. Crofton, commanding the
Fifteenth United States infantry at
Evanston, near Chicago, was struck in
the face by First Lieut C. 11. Welch, of
company E. The affair created great
excitement where the assault took
place.
The republicans of Xcvada adopted
a silver platform and nominated A. C.
Cleveland for governor and H. F. Bar
tin for congress.
PuiLir I'ettus, who murdered his
wife at Helena, Ark., in April, 1S93,
because she refused to live with him,
was hanged in the jail yard of the
courthouse in that city on the 24th.
Pcttus and his wife t ere colored.
A fire oa the 22d originating from
an unknown cause in Price & Kirby's
i.tablc at Bowling Green, Ky., destroyed
seventy-five buildings, causing a loss
of S100,000.
The great textile strike at Fall River,
Mass., has developed into a lock-out,
notices bein? posted in the mills on
the 23d that every mill operated by the
manufacturers' association would shut
down indefinitely. This will cause
about 25,000 operatives to be idle.
Kxox, Compton, Mullin and Hatch,
members of the mediationcommittee
of the Sacramento American Railway
tmion, arrested for ditch a train on
July 11 and causing the death of the
engineer and four federal soldiers, have
been held for trial under charges of
murder.
Palmer Moselt, governor-elect of
the Chickasaw nation, recently stated
emphatically that he was opposed to
any change in the holding of land or
the tribal affairs of the Chickasaw na
tion and would refuse to entertain any
proposition from the Dawes commis
sion leading to a change. He will
qualify as governor the first Mondav in
beptember. The Choctaw nation is
also opposed to treating with the
Dawes commission.
A terrific explosion of gas occurred
in a Franklin, Wash., coal mine on the
24th. Sixty-two miners were impris
oned and thirty-seven killed. All the
bodies were recovered.
Drx's review of trade for the week
ended August 24 said in all great in
dustries an increase in the demand for
products had appeared. The injury to
corn was less than many apprehended,
but stiU it was believed the yield
iad been redueed 500.000,000 bushels.
"Wheat had been stronger. Cotton fell
a shade and hog products went up a
shade.
Gf.oegk Dixox and Jerry Marshall,
who claims to be the featherweight
champion of Australia, have beer
matched to fight to a finish at 110 j
pounds for $2,500 and the feather
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a. recent dispatch from A ew York said. '
The bicycle road race from Buffalo,
N. Y., to Pittsburgh, Pa., was won by
George F. Williams in the remarkable
time of 20 hours and 37 minutes.
President Debs, of the American
Railway union, was before the strike
commission again on the 25th at Chi
cago. In reply to a question he said ho
did not believe compulsory arbitration
would prove universallysatisfactory in
the settlement of labor troubles. Sam
uel Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, scored President
Cleveland for not noticing a telegram
sent to him asking his aid in the settle
ment of the strike. Mr. Gompers
thought strikes did good in calling at
tention to the fact that laboring men
would not be driven further down into
poverty. He also said that he did not
expect the strike commission would ac
complish much good. It was too much
like an inquest over a corpse.
A republican who was active in
Kolb's interest during the recent cam
paign in Alabama is authority for the
statement the Kolbitcs will meet in
November, when the regular legisla
ture meets, convene a legislature of
their own, elect a United States sena
tor to succeed Morgan, who will, it is
thought, be a republican, and adjourn.
They will then let their senator con
test with Morgan, who will be re
elected by the regular legislature, for
the latter's seat The Kolbites figure
the repnblicans will be in the majority
in the United States senate next vear,
and hope thereby to have their man
seated. This will, it is thought, be the
extent of the dual government of the
Kolbites, as they cannot hope to pre
vent Oates from being governor.
Two masked men held up a freight
train at Deerfield, 111., and shot and
robbed a detective in the caboose, and
a few hours later, while being chased,
shot a policeman at Mayfair. They
were finally surrounded and captured
in the woods, after a six hours' chase,
and the exchange of fully a hundred
shots. Both the desperadoes were shot
before being caught by the police, and
then the officers had to draw their re
volvers to save the prisoners from be
ing lynched by the excited crowd who
had joined in the chase.
A meeting of about forty Pullman
mechanics was held to consider the
project of moving in a body to Kansas,
where it was claimed work had been
offered them. It was stated at the
meeting the men believed they would
be given employment in car 'works to
be built especially for them b3 a capi
talist at Hiawatha, Kan. The leaders
announced to the men the only step
accessary for ex-cmployes of the Pull
man company wanting work was to
secure recommendations from the fore
men of their respective departments.
A splcial from Petoskey, Mich., on
the 2ith stated that Wetzell village, on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad,
burned at a loss of S50,000. The big
woodenw are manufactory w as in ruins.
A frightful boiler explosion took
place at Frankfort, Ind., in which two
men were killed outright and six in
jured, the majority of them seriously.
John Egan, strike manager of the
General Managers' association, ap
peared before the federal strike com
mission at Chicago on the 24th. He
was asked if it was the policy of the
railroads to settle strikes by force and
he replied in this case it was. He de
nied in an angry manner that he used
ind employed railroad men to burn
ttnd destroy railroad property during
'.he strike. Superintendent of Police
XJrcnnan gave an account of how the
police handled the disorder growing
out of the strike. Several other wit
nesses gave unimportant evidence.
While a number of tourists were
viewing the Black Sand basin, which
is a portion of the Upper Geyser basin,
ia the Yellowstone park, they were
rtartled by a rumbling noise and a new
geyser broke forth within 50 feet of
1 hem, the water being thrown over a
i adius of 200 feet square.
The American consul at Shanghai
has ordered the Japanese living in that
c-ity to discard the Chinese costumes,
and advised a majority of them to re
turn to their native country.
Gen. Antonio Ezeta and his fellow
Salvadorean refugees were made pris
oners by authority of the United States
district court at San Francisco on the
23d.
The American Bar association, of
which Judge Cooley, of Ann Arbor,
Mich., is president, began its seven
teenth annual meeting at Saratoga, X.
Y., on the 22d.
Failures for the week ended August
24 (Dun's report) were 234 in the United
States, against 410 last year; in Canada
29, against 20 last year.
The National Horse Show association
at New York has issued the prize list
for the annual exhibition, which this
year takes place on November 12 to 17,
at Madison Square garden. The classi
fication is most complete, there being
102 competitions, for which prizes ag
gregating $30,000 are offered.
Representative PAsciiAi.L.of Texas,
has been defeated for renomination,
the wool question being the main
cause of his defeat His district is a
large wool growing one. Mr. Paschall
voted for free wooL The candidate
nominated is not an advocate of free
wool.
Congressman William II. Holman
was renominated at fchelbyville, Ind.,
on the first ballot At the expiration
of this term Hoi man will have been a
member of congress thirty years.
A number of summer boarding houses
in Maryland have been compelled to
close on account of a plague of mos
quitoes on the eastern shore of that
state.
The triennial convention of the
United Brothers of Friendship, the
greatest negro organization in exist
ence, met at Little Rock, Ark., on the
21st Five hundred delegates had ar
rived and they were still pouring in
from every part of the United States.
When the competitive drill takes place
on the 24th fully 4.000 colored visitors
are expected to be in the city.
Clearing house returns for the prin
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended August 24 showed an aver
age increase as compared with the cor
responding i eek last year of 19.5; in
New York the increase was 11.9; out
side the increase was 29.4.
Five thousand people witnessed the
glove contest at New Orleans between
Stanton Abbottchampion light-weight
of England, and Jack Everhart.of New
Orleans, for a purse of $1,503. In the
twenty-fifth round Abbott was knocked
out after having been knocked down
half a dozen times.
The Kolb meetings
which were
called lor every county in Alabama to
pass indignation resolutions over the
result of the recent state election did
not materalize to any great extent In
many counties not a man appeal sd at
the appointed place. In others the at-
I tendance was slim and no life or on-
cuuaucu
thusiasm was manifested,
uuiuuuk.u.
The excursion steamer City of Ports
mouth -went ashore recently on the
Little Aquavite in Salem, Mass., har
bor. The s'eamcr caught fire the next
morning and was burned to the water's
edge. All on board got off afely.
The dam at the head of Gohna lake,
Simla, India, which had threatened to
break its bounds on account of the
heavy rains, gave way and the water
swept everything before it The gov
ernment had taken steps to prevent
loss of life by removing everybody out
of danger. To this foresight was duo
the fact that great loss of life was
averted.
Heavy forest fires were reported
raging throughout Alcona county,
Mich., on the 2Cth, doing great damage
to lumber mills and standing pine, de
stroying crops and burning the homes
of settlers. Evervthinjr was drv for
want of rain.
General Manager St. John, of the
Rock Island railroad, appeared before
the strike investigating commission on
the 23d. He admitted that when an
employe was discharged from one di
vision a statement was sent to the
other divisions not to employ him.
When asked about his contract with
the Pullman Co. in regard to their cars,
he said the road could haul them on
any train or not haul them, just as
they pleased. He said of 522 strikers
only seventy-four were taken back.
He thought the strike had cost his road
nearly $1,000,000. He believed a system
of government license applied to rail
road employes would be a good thing.
Records of all members of congress
who will run for re-election this fall
are being compiled by the Knights of
Labor executive committee and their
votes on the questions pertaining to the
interests of the laboring classes looked
into. It was said that these records
would be used in the various cam
paigns for or against the members.
The 100 school teachers of Perry,
Ok., and county have been holding a
teachers' institute and gave an enter
tainment There were six colored
teachers among the number and they
demanded to be on the programme,
which caused a terrible row. Some of
the teachers sided with the negroes,
while others said the negroes should
not take part Prof. R. R. Tallj', su
perintendent of public instruction, de
clared the colored teachers should not
speak their pieces. The city as much
excited over the matter.
In Paris at the Velodrome Buffalo,
the quarter-mile bicj'clc race for pro
fessional riders was won by the Ameri
can, Banker. Wheeler, also an Ameri
can, finished second. There were fif
teen competitors.
National officers were elected at tho
Sons of Veterans encampment on tho
23d as follows: Commander-in-chief,
William E. Bundy, Cincinnati; senior
vice commander-in-chief, T. A. Barton,
Providence, R. I.; junior vice commander-in-chief,
Louis Lilly, Daven
port Edward H. Milham, of Minne
apolis, and George Hurlburt, of Belvi
dere, 111., were the other candidates
for commander-in-chief. Knoxville,
Tenn., was selected as the next placo
of meeting.
New s has been received from Lako
View, Ore., that a mob of masked men
surrounded the county jail and forced
the jailer to surrender a prisoner
named W. S. Thompson. The mob
then hanged Thompson on the court
house steps.
J. P. Blis made a new world's bicy
cle record half mile flying start l?i
seconds, also world's standing start of
AS 1-5 sccondsat Hampden park,Spring
field, Mass., on the 22d.
The convention of international col
ored Knights of Pythias at Indianapo
lis, Ind., adopted a unification resolu
tion, which action will bring 15,000
knights into one body.
The Japanese minister to Corca ha3
been killed by his own countrymen.
The yacht Saxon has arrned at
Peterhead, returning from a scientific
expedition to the Arctic regions. Sho
reported that she landed Prof. Aubrey
Battye, the ornithologist, and one com
panion on Kolquev island, 100 miles
from the Russian coast, on June 2. The
Saxon, however, was obliged to aban
don Battye and his companion on ac
count of the heavy seas and the ice,
which threatened the destruction of
the yacht It was hoped that the ex
plorers would be rescued by the next
Russian gunboat which visited the
island.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
The Baltimore & Ohio express was
wrecked at Silver Run, near Parkers
burg, W. Va., by a rock on the track.
The fireman was killed and the engi
neer was injured. The passengers
were not hurt
George M. Pui.lm an appeared before
the national strike commission on the
27th and gnve the reasons for reducing
the wages of the Pullman employes,
saying it was purely a matter of busi
ness with the companv. Contracts for
cars were taken at a loss to give the
men work. His objection to arbitra
tion was that a man had a right to
manage his own business. Vice Presi
dent Wickes, of the Pullman company,
also testified as to the part he played
in the strike.
The new tariff bill became a law at
midnight of the 27th, the president
having failed to return the bill to con
gress with or without his approval.
The fight at Coney Isla nd, N. Y'., be
tween McAuliffe and Griffo was given
to McAuliffe on general principles,
after ten hard fought rounds, against
a storm of protests.
President Cleveland sent a letter
to Representative Catchings, of Missis
sippi, on the 27th about the tariff bill.
He said it by no means suited him, but
it presented a vast improvement to ex
isting conditions. There were provis
ions in the bill winch he thought were
not in line with honest reform and it
contained inconsistencies and crudities
which ought not to appear in a tariff
bill. He dwelt on the importance of
free raw materials and said they would
open the doors of foreign markets to
our wares and give remunerative em
ployment to American labor.
Charles L. Glasscock, of Washing-1
ton, nas nied a suit for divorce from
his wife and has named Senator Stew
art, of Nevada, as co-respondent The
senator stated it was a blackmailing
scheme.
The war feeling at Yokohama was
growing more intense every day and
there was a great popular demand for
the transfer of the -warlike operations
from Corea to China. It was suggested
that Japan should unite all her avail
able troops and march upon Pekin im
mediately.
Alexjeffs wool cleansing works at
Charkov, the largest in Russia, have
been destroved together with a larce
stock of wool, by fire. The loss was
estimated to be 1.5C0.000 rubles.
Congressman George B. Shaw died
on the 27th at Eau Claire, Wis., after
a. lonr illness, aged 40 years.
The President "Writes a Letter to
Representative Catchings.
THE BILL DOES ROT SUIT HIM.
Mr. Cleveland gays There Are Provisions
Not la Lino with Reform, bat It Is
an Improvement to Existing
Conditions.
Washington, Aug. 28. The presi
dent yesterday sent the following let
ter to Representative Catchings, of
Mississippi, who consented to its pub
lication in view of its public character
and importance:
Hon. T. a Catchings:
Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug.
27. My Dear Sir: Slnco tho conversation I
had with you and Mr. Clark, of Alabama, a few
days ago in regard to my notion upon the tariff
bill now before me, I have given tho subject
full and most serious consideration. Tho re
sult Is I am more settled than ever In tho de
termination to allow the bill to become a law
without my signature.
When the formulation of legislation which it
was hoped would embody democratic ideas of
tariff reform was lately entered upon by tho
congress, nothing was further from my antici
pation than a result which I could not prompt
ly and enthusiastically Indorse. It Is therefore
with a feeling of the utmost disappointment
that I submit to a denial of this privilege.
I do not claim to be better than the
masses of my party, nor do I wish to avoid
any responsibility which, on account of the
passage of this law, I ought to bear as a mem
ber of the democratic organization, neither
will I permit myself to be separated from my
party to such an extent as might be Implied by
my veto of tariff legislation which, though dis
appointing, is still chargcablo to democratic
effort. But there are provisions In this bill
which arc not in line with honest tariff reform,
and it contains inconsistences and crudities
which ought not to apper In tariff laws
or laws of any kind. Besides, there wero, as
you and I well know, incidents accompanying
tho passage of the bill through congress which
made every sincere reformer unhappy, while
influences surrounded it In the latter stages
and interfered with Its final construction which
ought not to be recognized or tolerated in dem
ocratic tariff reform councils.
And yet, notwithstanding all its vicissitudes
and all the bad treatment It received at the
hands of pretended friends, it presents a vast
improvement to existing conditions. It will
lighten many tariff burdens that now rest
heavily upon the people. It is not only a bar
rier against the return of mad protection, but
It furnishes a vantago ground fromwhlch.must
bo waged further nggressiie operations against
protected monopoly and governmental favorit
ism. I take my place with the rank and file of the
democratic party who believe In tariff reform
and who know what It Is. who refuse to accept
the results embodied in this bill as the close of
the war, who aro not blinded to the fact that
the livery of democratic reform has been stolen
and worn in tho service of republican protec
tion, and who hao marked the places where
tho deadly blight of treason has blasted
tho councils of the bravo in their hour ot
might. Tho trusts and combinations the
communism of pelf whoso machinations have
prevented us from reaching the success wo dc
sene should not be forgotten or forgiven. We
shall recover from our astonishment at their
exhibition of power, and If then tho question
is forced upon us whether they shall submit tc
tho free legislative will of tho people's repre
sentative? or shall dictate the laws which tho
people must obey, wc will accept and settle
that issue as one involving the Integrity and
safety of American Institutions.
I love tho principles of truo democracy be
cause they arc founded in patriotism and upon
justice and fairness toward all Interests. lam
proud of my party org-inlzation becauso It Is
conscrv atlve. sturdy and pcr&Istent In the en
forcement of its principles. Therefore I do
not despair of the efforts made by the house ot
representatives to supplement the bill already
passed by further legislation and to have en
grafted upon Jt such modifications as will more
nearly meet democratic hopes and aspirations.
I cannot be mistaken as to the nercsity o
free raw materials as tho foundation of logical
and sensible tarirf reform. Tho extent to
which this is recognized In tho legislation al
ready secured is one of Its encouraging fea
tures; bat it Is vexatious to recall that while
free coal and Iron have been denied, a letter of
the secretary of tho treasury discloses tho fact
that both might have been ma Jo free by the
annual surrender of only about jroO.OJO of un
necessary revenue.
I am sure th.it tucro Is a common habit of
under-estimating the importance of free raw
materials in tariff legislation, and of regarding
them as only related to concessions-to be made
to our manufacturers. Tho truth Is their influ
ence Is so far-rcachln2 that if disregardoJ a
complete and beneficent scheme of tariff re
form cannot be successfully inaugurate!
When wc give to our minufacturers free raw
materials wc uashaclilo American enterprise
and ingenuity, and theso will open the doors ot
foreign markets to the reception of our wares
and gl vc opportunity fcr the continuous and
rcmunerativ c employment of Amerlcin labor.
With m itcrials cheapened by their f rce Jom
from tariff charges, the cost of their product
must bo correspondingly cheapened. 1 here
upon justness and fairness to the consumer
would demand that the minufacturers be
obliged to submit to such a readjustment and
modification of the tariff upon their finished
goods as would secure to thc-people the benefit of
the reduced cost of their man afar turc and shield
tho producer against the exactions of Inordi
nate profits. It will thus bo seen that free
raw materials and a just and fearless regula
tion and reduction of the tariff to meet the
changed conditions, would carry to every hum
ble homo in the land tho blessings of increased
comfort and cheaper living.
The millions of our countrymen who hive
fought bravely and well for tariff reform should
bo exhorted to continue tho struggle, boldlv
challcnglng to open warfare and constantly
guarding against treachery and half-hcarted-ncss
in their camp. Tariff reform will not be
settled until it Is honestly and fairly settled in
the interest and to the bcne.1t of a pationt and
long-suffering peop'e. Yours verv truly,
GllOVtll CLtVI-HNlJ.
ACCIDENT TO A TROLLEY CAR.
Many Persons Injured, Three Trobably
I'atally.
New York, Aug. 2S. An accident
to a trolley car on the Suburban Trac
tion Co.'s new line about 3 miles out
side of Orange j-esterday afternoon re
sulted in injury to more than thirty
people, three of whom, it is believed,
cannot recover. The accident hap
pened in the second sharp curve on the
side of the Orange mountains, between
Eagle Rock and Orange. As the car
struck the sharp curve the flange ou
one of the forward wheels broke.
The car left the track and the next
moment it was rolling over and over
down an embankment and came to a
stop about 50 feet below. The eighty
passengers in the car were thrown into
a mass of struggling, bhriekinghuman
ity, man j of whom were women and
children. They were cut by the broken
glass that rained upon them at each
turn of the car.
An appeal signed by L. Meyers, pres
ident of the strikers' committee, has
been issued to the charitably-inclined
public, asking for contributions toward
a fund to be used in the transportation
of Pullman's unemployed to points
where they will be able" to obtain em
ployment BITS OF INFORMATION.
There are six hundred and forty
eight million Buddhists.
Denmark's dikes are over seven cen
turies old.
In Canton, China, three hundred
thousand people live in house boats.
The Moslems believe in the existence
of "seven great hot hells."
The most densely populated spot on
earth is the island of Malta.
Tiie alphabet was invented about
1500 B. C. by the Phoenicians.
A scientist has said that thero arc
one hundred different kinds of sugar.
WORK OF CONGRESS.
A Brief Review of What Was Accomplished
at tho Lato Session.
Washington, Aug. 27. The last
month of the present session of con
gress excepting the ten days during
-which the tariff bill has been in the
president's hands have been f airly pro
ductive of general legislation and there
is a short list of bills which have be
come laws to add to the review of the
session's work previously published.
All of the appropriation bills have
now become laws. The general
deficiency and sundry civil bills
were both signed late in the ses
sion and the latter measure embraces
two important pieces of legislation, the
appropriation of S200.000 for a govern
ment exhibit at the Cotton States' ex
hibition, to be held at Atlanta, and the
cession to each of the arid land states
and the states which may be formed
from the territories, of 1,000,000 acres
each of desert lands for reclamation, a
plan which is intended to advance the
movement for irrigation in the west
and to partially take the place of the
scheme for irrigating by the general
government which has been fostered
by the western members.
The only financial measure which
has been enacted, by the Fifty-third
congress, excepting the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act,
became a law August 13. It was the
bill introduced by Representative
Cooper, of Indiana, to subject to state
and municipal taxation the national
bank notes and the United States
treasury notes, under the same provis
ions, by which gold, silver and other
money is taxed. It is left optional
with the states, however, to tax those
heretofore exempted forms of money.
Tho most important acts emanating
from the committee on judiciary were:
One authorizing the compromise and
settlement of the differences between
the government and the state of
Arkansas and of certain states of
bonds held by the government; an act
for the protection of persons furnish
ing material and labor for the con
struction of public works by allowing
them to bring suit against contractors
in the name of the government; an act
permitting certain classes of corpora
tions to furnish bonds for government
offeials; one fixing the time for hold
ing federal courts in Nebraska; one
changing the lines between the judicial
districts of North Carolina, and an act
amending the funding act of Arizona.
On the recommendation of the ways
and means committee the articles of
forcigii exhibitors at the Iowa inter
state fair were exempt from the pay
inont of duties, and from the foreign
affairs committee was reported an act
for the disposal of the accretions of the
Virginius indemnity fund, an interest
and premiums of the bauds in which it
was invested to the original benefi
ciaries of the fund.
The contest between the interior de
partment and the railroads operating
in Oklahoma, which has been a stub
born one, has finally been settled by
the enactment of a law compelling the
roads to maintain depots and stations
at all townsitcs on the lines estab
lished by tho department An act was
passed extending from four to five
years the limit of time within
which final proof may be made
by settlers who have declared
their intention of taking up desert
lands. Another law in the interest of
western settlers wasone enabling those
vv ho desire to locate in other than min
eral lands to secure a survey b3 depos
iting with the government a sum suffi
cient to cover the cost of the survey.
Affidavits in land entry cases made be
fore United States commissioners in
stead of a United States Circuit court
commissioner, as provided by law, were
made valid by special enactment
Other legislation of importance relat
ing to public lands includes an act to
enable the state of Montana to select,
as a part of the lands granted to her
on becoming a state, any of the lands
in the Bitter Root vally, above the
Lolo fork of the Bitter Root river; an
act extending the time of payment to
purchasers of lands of the Omaha tribe
of Indians in Nebraska to December 1,
1897; an act authorizing the secretary
of tho interior to lease for periods of
ten years twenty-acre tracts in the
Yellowstone park for hotel purposes; a
grant of the abandoned military reser
vation at Oklahoma Citj- to the city for
school purposes, and an act for the
resurvey of Grant and Hooker counties
in Nebraska; for the sale of the old
custom house in Louisville, Ky.; a grant
of public land in Castine, Me., for use
as a park ; one to grant leases for cold
reservoir site on the Springs reserva
tions in Arkansas, and an act for the
construction of a military road from
El Paso to Fort Bliss, Tex., and one to
grant a right of way through Indian
territory to the Arkansas, Texas &
Mexican railway.
Iho bridge bills have recently been
added to the list, one authorizing th
Purccll Bridge and Transfer Co. to con
struct a bridge across the South Canu
dian river at Lexington, Ok.
Two most important investigations
desired by the house committee on la
bor have been authorized. One is fo
the investigation into the effect? ol
machinery upon labor, with reference
to its productive power and effects
upon wages, hours of work and em
ployment of women and children; tho
second for an investigation of the ex
tent of the emplov raent of women and
children and the conditions under
which they work. Both inquiries will
be conducted by tho commissioner of
labor.
Gcttjbbur;; Kattletleld.
New York, Aug. 27. Gen. Daniel E.
Sickles has a scheme for the creation
of a grand national park which will in
clude the battlefield and other historic
points of interest at Gettysburg. The
purchase of about 4,000 acres in
and around Gettysburg is embraced
in the plan. The government al
ready owns several hundred acres at
the scene of the decisive battle of the
war, and Gen. Sickles proposes to ac
quire about 2,500 acres more. His plan
contemplates the establishment of a
military post at Gettysburg, a soldiers
home and an Indian school and per
haps a G. A. R. museum.
No Quarter Given or Asked by tho Desper
ate Choctaw Factions.
Paths, Tex., Aug. 27. The situation
in the Choctaw nation is growing worse
every hour. Every man is armed and
great uneasiness prevails among them.
Last night a large body of Indians en
tered the house of Albert Jackson, in
Cedar county, and dragged him from a
sick bed into the yard and shot him to
pieces. This morning they surrounded
two other Indians, whose names have
not been learned, and delibcratoly
killed them both. Parties are search
ing for each other, and there is no
quarter given nor asked.
PULLMAN TALKS.
Tho Sleeping Car Magnate Ap
pears Before the Commission.
REASONS FOR NOT ARBITRATING.
Fallman Says a 3Ian Has a Right to Man.
rje Ills Own Business Vice Presi
dent Wickes Tells the Fart
lie Flayed.
Chicago, Aug. 2S. George M. Pull
man was before the labor commission
for nearly three hours yesterday after
noon. In reply to queries by Chair
man Wright, Mr. Pullman told of the
contracts for work undertaken by the
company at a loss, in order that the
men might be kept at work.
Judge Worthington asked: "As to
this reported declaration of yours that
you had nothing to arbitrate, were you
correctly reported?"
"I have already explained my views
on that subject"
Turning the subject. Judge Worth
ington brought out the fact the com
pany's original capital stock of S1.000,
000 in 18G7 had increased to 530,000,000;
that the company had paid dividends
of 13 per cent during the first two
years of its organization, 9K per cent,
during the next two years and 8 per
cent, annually since, and at the same
time had accumulated a surplus
amounting to 523,000,000. He also
elicited the statement that the stock
of the Pullman Land association
was entirely in the possession of
the Pullman Palace Car Co , having
been acquired gradually by the invest
ment of the car company's surplus
earnings in the certificates of the land
association. The original 500 acres on
which the town stands was acquired
by the car company on legal advice and
by the authority of its charter, which
gave it right to acquire land to the
amount needed in the business opera
tions of the company.
Referring to the stocks of the com
pany, Mr. Pullman said it represented
actual cash paid by the stock-holders
as the capital was needed, and the
capital stock was increased for the
legitimate business of the company.
There was no water in it and none of
it represented dividends.
Coming back to the question of arbi
tration, Mr. Pullman said he remem
bered no formal attempt to get him to
arbitrate with the men. He had de
clared his willingness to arbitrate.
"The only question with me." he said,
"was whether the shops at Pullman
should be closed or whether we should
put prices so low as to command all
the work available in the country. It
was not the amount of loss, but the
principle involved that made me averse
to arbitration."
"Now. Mr. Pullman," said Commis
sioner Worthington, "taking the whole
year through, has the Pullman Co.
made or lost money?"
"It has made money," was the an
swer. "You have paid your regular divi
dends?" "Yes. sir; 8 per cent."
"That is s-omething like 52,800,000
you have paid out in dividends for the
year?"
"Yes, but that includes the latter
part of the world's fair season, which
was exceptional."
"Lot me ask you, Mr. Pullman,
whether you do not think a company
that pays dividends of S2,800,003 could
not afford to share the losses of its
employes who have worked for it so
long?"
"The manufacturing business is sep
arate from the business of the sleeping
car compmy. I see no reason why I
should take the profits of tho 4,200
stockholders in the Pullman Sleeping
Car Co. and pay men a higher rate of
wages than was paid in other parts of
the country for the same work or than
was paid by other companies for
the same work. Because we hae
been careful and accumulated a sur
plus I do not see that it is a reason
why we should take the surplus now
and pay it out for exceptionally high
wages."
"Has the Pullman company during
the years of its prosperity ever ad
vanced the wages of its employes vol
untarily? '
"I do not know as to that It has
always sought to pay fair wages, and
the fact that we have never had but
one strike is pretty good evidence that
the men have been satisfied."
"What do you see that is objection
able in submitting a difference like this
to arbitration?"
"There are some matters that are
proper subjects for arbitration, but I
cannot arbitrate on a question where I
know the facts to be thus and so. The
question v as to whether our shops
should continue to be run at a loss is a
thing that could not be arbitrated."
"Why was it impossible?"
"Because it violates the principle
that a man has a right to manage his
own business."
After Mr. Pullman was excused Vice
President Wickes called. lie rehearsed
the history of the strike and the part
he played in it He said the discharge
of the members of the grievance com
mittee after he had promised that they
should not be molested for the part in
the committee's work was altogether
without his knowledge and was not in- '
tcntional on the pirt of the minor offi
cials who laid them off. In support of
his declaration. Mr. Wickes presented
the affidavits of the foreman who had
laid off the committeemen, averring
the discharge had come in the ordinary
course of tiie company'a business, and
was due entirely to lack of work in the
department where the committeemen
were employed. Witness said he had
agreed to remedy the f-o-callcd shop
grievances wherever they were proved
true, and had bcun the work of in
vestigation when the strike was pre
cipitated and ended the investiga
tion. The balance of Mr. Wickes evi
dence was mainly corroborative of
the statements made by Mr. Pull
man, lie was followed bv
Managcr Bryant,
Clippings.
The use of the toothpick is essential
y an act of the toilet, pertaining as it
loes to the care of the body, and should
be performed in as much privacy as
possible. Only a perverted taste would
ead one to habitually perform this act
n public,as is daily done by thousands,
ind only a vitiated sense of propriety
jvould sanction this, as is daily done.
The use of the toothpick in public is a
distinctively odious and vulgar habit,
and should have the stamp of disap
proval so strongly set upon it as to kill
it. As a nation we cannot yet claim
fine perception in regard to some
thjngs. Cincinnati Times-Star.
THE TIGER SNAKE. ,
An Australian Reptile "Whose Ultels In
stantly Fatal.
"We hear a great deal about the.
deadly qualities of the rattlesnake, the-
adder and tho copperhead," said.
Georgo Wharton, of San Diego, "ani
pretty nearly everybody has shuddered,
at the description of the horrible ef
fects that ensue from the bite of the:
Gila monster. They have a snake in.
Australia, though, whose fangs are
more deadly than those of all the oth
ers I have mentioned combined. I al
lude to the tiger snake. The reptile:
does not grow to large proportions, a-.
length of three feet being a pretty
good size, and its skin resembles the
coat of the animal after whom it was
named. The bite of the tiger snake is
instantly fatal, and chemists who have
analyzed its poison as far as possible
are of the opinion that it possesses pre
cisely the same qualities as prussic
acid. Persons have been known to
walk out of their houses on the brief
est sort of an errand and to have been
found dead five minutes afterward
from the effects of the tiger snake
bite. The government of Australia
has a standing offer of five thousand
dollars, or a thousand pounds, which'
is nearly the same thing, to be given,
to any one who may discover a remedy
for the bite of a tiger snake. A man.
named Underwood, so I have been told,
once discovered the successful anti
dote, and proved its efficacy by allow
ing himself to be bit by the deadly
reptile and incurring no evil effects
from it He wanted two thou
sand pounds for his secret, how
ever, which the colonial authori
ties refused to pay. One clay, while
drunk, Underwood was giving an ex
hibition and allowed two tiger snakes
to bite him. In his maudlin state he
had forgotten where he had laid tho
bottle containing the antidote, and he
died in a few moments, his secret per
ishing w ith him. Washington Star.
The Norwegian Fjords.
The fjords correspond to our bays or
inlets. They are long, narrow, wind
ing arms of the sea, with bold shores,
and deep waters, the surface of which
is as smooth and mirrorlike as a pond.
If you can remember the Palisades of
the Hudson river more massive and
bold, and the water a dark blue color
and deep, you tv ill have something of
au idea of the formation of the fjords.
The rugged shores rising abruptly
hundreds and thousands of feet, some
times only about a quarter of a mile
apart; the quiet, dark, deep water,
with its glassy surface rellccting the
picture of snow-covered rock and dull
gray cloud and all without a sign of
life anywhere. The only noise, except
the swish of your own steamer, is that
made by small cataracts tumbling
down the sides of the mountains into
the fjords. The absence of life always
has its effect. The solitude of the for
est and th prairie, of stream and sea.
stirs the same emotions in the breasts-
of all true lovers of nature. George
Card Pease, in Harper's Magazine.
Just I.Ike Them.
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threw herself into a chair upon reach
ing home, "I am almost tired to death."
"What is the matter, love? Where?
have you been?" asked her husband.
"I've been shopping all day long."
"Shopping? and what did you buy?""
"Oh, I didn't buy anything. I only
went to see the styles and get the
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