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Monday will be the eighteenth day of our big sale of dry goods,
with a "special" nearly every day to keep the pulse beating faster.
There's life and spirit in It, there's music in the folds of the new
dress goods, there's a picturesque beaty in the robes.
"W. C. C. Corsets are the best in the -world. Only these have the
correct shape. And the price, $1,00.
Double fold Brilliantines new colors 35 cents.
Genuine China Silks for underwear and dresses, they will wash
like muslin.
We will have soon a wild, weird, crystal song to sing you about
the 2illinery department. There's a hint in all this. We are get
ting some surprises ready for you. "Visit our store often.
We must not forget the ribbons. Velvet ribbsns, Moire ribbons,
Faille ribbons, all on sale now.
Munson &
COLE &
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SHATTERING PRICES
WITH GREAT EFFECT!
The Slaughter is beyond the Power of a Detailed Description.
Thousands of Dollars worth of Mens', Boys' and Chil
dren's Clothing must be Sold before March 15.
The Bargains offered are Seized with "Wolf Like Voracity by all
Classes of Humanity. You never saw so many Great In
ducements. Come and see the Goods.
All lira's Overcoats at One-Half Former Price!
$5 overcoats going at $3 50
$12 and $14 overcoats going at $8.
$15 overcoats going at $10.
$18 overcoats going at $12.
$20 Chinchilla overcoats going at $11.
The above will give you a slight idea of the
immense cut we have made on our overcoats
We are now in the Midst of ,the
GREATEST.SUIT SALE
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simere and Coeviot Suits, worth all the wav
oirriDro fliin Hh QT7irYh Smr.cs urnrt.h all t. h o ixra tt
from $20 to $80, have placed them on a sep
arate table and will give you choice for $15.
Dispatch is the Soul of Business. Do not
Linger! Do not Tarry! Be Quick! Buy Now!
Bargains Await You!
COLE & JONES,
The One Price Clothirs,
208, 210 and 212 DOUGLAS AVENUE. WICHITA, KANSAS.
FROM OKLAHOMA CITY.
Special dispatch to the Dally Eacle.
Oklahoma City, Ok., Feb. 22. Okla
homa City doesn't make as much noiso as
some other towns, but when you hear the
traveling men talk about her ou tho road,
you can pretty uear guess what kind of a
town .she is. It is said by parties who are
supposed to know that there is more busi
ness dono in Oklahoma City than any
other town in Oklahoma.
The canal is about completed and if the
weather stays favorable there will bo a
number of different manufacturers begin
building soon.
Oklahoma City has more fine residences
than all tho other Oklahoma towns put
together. When the spring time comes
she will be a beauty iu the valley.
THE WORLD'S FAIR FIGHT.
"WashiXGTOX, Feb. 22. The lopresenta
tives of the four cities aspiring to the
honor of the site for the world's fair are
busy making final preparations for tho
conflict to beein in the house Monday.
Mr. Chauncy M. Depew put iu nn appear
ance on the "floor of the house this morn
ing to indulge in a little quiet missionary
work for ZS'ew York. He said he expected
to remain here over Monday and will not
relax his efforts in behalf of New York.
Governor Hill, William C. Whitney aud
other prominent citizens of New York arc
nlso in the city and they expect to be joined
by a delegation of Cbicagoans, even larger
in point of numbers, during the day.
BRIDGE BILLS APPROVED.
WASHINGTON", Feb. 22, The president
lias approved the act for the construction
of a bridge ccross tho Mississippi river at
or near Burlington, Ja., and the construc
tion of a bridge over the Missouri river iu
Douclas county, Missouri, or Sarpie
county. Nebsaska.
Main Street.
DAY!
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J.UL, UJ. W UrSUeU, LiAri- I
CALL'S WORDS DENIED.
Tho United States Clerk at Jacksonville
Answers Them.
Washixgtox, Feb. 22. Senator Chand
ler today received the following telegram:
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 22.
To Koa. W. I'. Chandler:
It having been stated on the floor of tho
senate that the principal law breaker in
Florida are officers of the United States
courts, I de-ire to brand this as an utter
falsehood, which for five months has been
published by a venomous ultra-partisan
press for the purpose of covering up the
real issue, not caring how much they in
cited tlu-ir tools to commit murder as long
as they could cover up their frauds. They
have kept this up until my life and othT
members of the court are not any more
safe thau Saunders, was iu some localities
This I am ready to prove by Democratic
testimony if needed. I hav. never been
cnarged with any crime until now. I made
up tho present jury in every particular
aud drew in the same as all other juries
during that, time ana printed report that
the juries as drawn contained but cau
Democrat to every twenty-two Kepubii-
cans i false. Falsus in uiram falus :n
omna."' Philix Walter,
United States Clerk.
NON-PARTISAN W. C. T. U.
Chicago, 111., Feb. 22. A branch of tho
non-partisan Woman's Christian Temper
ance union, of which Mrs. J. Ellen Foster,
of Iowa, is the recognized. leader, was
formed here yesterday.
RAILROAD CONDUCTOR'S BALL.
NEWTOX. Kan., Feb. 22. The second an
nual ball and banquet was given by New
ton division No. 11, order, railroad con
ductors, at the opera house here last night,
Six hundred ladies and gentlemen from
neighboring cities were present.
MeN
GL0RI0SS0 SILKS,
At 49 c.
Tuesday, Feb. 25th.
SOMETHING If,
100 Pieces New Dress Goods,
Ginghams 6 1-2 cents.
Prints 5 cents.
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I STOP IN AND SEE IT.
Fresh roasted and crashed coffco a specialty
Jlnil and telenhom orders Htten Ued to. State njrent
w nnte C. 1. F ULLEK. 'JOS Douglas A e., Wichita
IMPROVEMENTS AT GUTHRIE.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.
Guthrie, Ok., Fob. 22. The cities of
Oklahoma are lively and are fast pushing to
the irout. When a traveling man goes into
tLe Oklahoma country and don't sell sev
eral nice bills, the first thing other travel
ing men want to know i3 the "color of his
hair."
By actual count thero were this morning
150 people in line at the postoffice for their
mail. The postoffice is iu a 25x110 foot
building ami it was jam full of people.
Postmaster Flynn and clerks wero as busy
as bees pushing the letters out to the
anxious souls. Just so soon as the news
of some sort of a town site bill goes click
ing over the wires there will be such a
sorimago between lumber, hardware,
contractors, architects, etc., as never be
fore heard of. The memorable 22d of
April so far as solidity is concerned was
no comparison to tho gcod time that is
coming, and some don't even ciro to wait
for tho passage of any bill, knowing that
if the- trecfc fine business houses o.i un
disputed grouud that the department will
protect them.
M. G. F. Herriott, of Iudianapolis, Ind.,
is erecting an elegant thiee story souc
building on the corner of Harrison avenue
and Division streot, 23x140 feet, with a
front on both Harrison and Division. It
will be a combination of range rock and
cut stone with plate glass front and fin
ished inside with all the modern Improve
ments. Beams Bros. & Co. are erecting a
large brick and stone hotel building ou
the corner of Harrison and Second streets,
50x110 feet, with basement all through.
On first floor is dining 100m, office, bil
liard and bar looms, also store 100m;
second and third iloor to be cut tip into
bedrooms elegantly finished all through,
heated by steam, with conveniences found
in any other first class hotel. The first
story is cut stone; second and third stories
St. Louis piessed brick and on the cornice
pediment fronting Hairison avenue, gilded
;. APni 22, i&a, represents the
sun half risen: another nearer the front of
the building representing the sun fully
M - '1!1 a
nd dated lSlM). 'lhe estimated cost
of the above described building is 523,000.
The Fred Heim Brewing company.of St.
Loui, are preparing to build a 30.000 ice
plant and storage iQn in Guthrie. A
two-story frame business house is being
built adjoining Bunker McNeil's corner.
The city treasurer, Mr. Eiseuschmidt,
of East Guthrie, says there has been a ery
large amount o) money paid into the
treasury as a contest fund. He says tho
city is in first class shape financially. All
tluMieonla need now is to nick un their
Eagle and lead that the town site and !
territorial bills have been passed.
NORMAN'S WONDERFUL GROWTH.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Ease.
Noiimax, Ok., Feb. 22. There has been
a most wouderful growth iu the town of
Xornian in the last four mouth. Mauy
new firms have been added to the city and
all are first class. There isn't a town in
the territory that has as many good, sub
stantial business men according to its
population as has Xormau. The first
thing that attracts a stranger's attention
is so many good business houses, but when
they look around the town in every direc
tion, especially across the river into the
Chickasaw country, and see the rich quan
tity of rich valley land iu culthation
they do not wonder at the prosperous condi
tion. Xorman today has about 2.000 people, of
which the majority are of the enterprising
kind and have the staying qualities.
Through the kindness of Mr. D. W.
Murquart, who is mayor and also post
master, we were shown all over the city
and made acquainted with a great many
new business firms. Mr. Ma'rquart likes
Wichita's way of doing things and espc-
ciallv nur school svstem. His two daugh
ters. Mioses Gertie and Yida, are attend- j
:ng the Garfield.
I am onlv able to mention some o th
new firms at present. Mr. A. J. Rain
water, dry goods and clothing. W. T.
Davis, manager for T. 1L Johnson Hard
ware company, both formerly o! Texas.
Thomas & Callaway, of Waveriy. Mo.,
have opened recently a very fine line
of general merchandise in the Atkm-'
oa urich near iuc oum xe rauroau. j
.u.iyueiu cc Duuuit ate uuius a nice urui; i
bussiiess on Mam street. Ellridce &
Furgerson are among the grocers. Brnce
&; Sons, of Kansas, aro open.nc a lanre
new store of general merchandise. Mr.
George Blake is a large property owner
and alo lxu a nice drttg store. Mr. W. T.
Wallace is a late arrival from California
and has ODcned out one of the lnrgesr gen
eral Mores in this country. Mr. . is
from Hollister. Oil., but says Oklahoma
is good enough for him. It. J. Weefc-s ic
also celling curatives. Mr. J. B Gavlord
of Charlotte, Mich., is an old time nor-e
man ami says ne wm nave some gooa j
horses down here soon that can play with
their feet at about a 2:S0 gait.
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SHE PENSIONS.
AN
EARNEST MEETING OP OLD
SOLDIERS AT STERLING.
Colonel Hallowell Clearly Sets Forth
the Justice of the In-
galls Bill.
The Hatioa Pully Able to Make All Pos
sible Recompense for the Sac
rifices of the Soldier. '
Petition Asking that the Bill Pass
Signed by Hundreds of Old Sol
diera All the Southwest Well
Represented Senator Bent
ley and Hon. W. R. Payna
on Resubmission at
Kinsman Items.
Special Dispatch to tho Dally EaIe.
Sterling, Kan., Feb. 22. The meeting
here today, origiuall3' intended for the old
soldiers of Rice and Reno counties, at
tracted attention from all the adjoining
counties. It was for the purpose of dis
cussing tho "service pension" bill now
pending, and some idea of the interest
taken in tho question may be gained from
the fact that the representatives were
present not only from Rice and Reno but
from McPherson, Barton, Stafford, Har
vey, Kingman, Pawnee, Pratt and even
thre6 from Sumner.
The iucoming delegations were met at
the trains by reception committees from
the Sterling Grand Army post. Some ar
rived last night, while this morning trains
kept the reception committees busy.
The meeting was called at the opera
house at 2 p. m. The hall, having a
capacity of 000, was filled with neople.
Over half were old soldiers while the
others were interested citizens. Many
ladies were noticed in the gathering.
The meeting was organized by electing
Judge Clark, of Sterling, chairman and
Comrade Porter, adjutant of the Sterling
post, secretary. Judge Clark on taking
his seat spoke for ten minutes upon the
importance that prompt and earnest ac
tion be taken on the service pension bill.
Ho closed his remarks by introducing
Colonel J. R. Hallowell, of Wichita, who
spoke in part as follows:
COLOKEL HALLOWELL'S SrEECH.
Comrades It is with my heart plum
full of love and pleasure, I join you today
to deliberate of questions pertaining to
our vital interests as survivors of the late
war that saved the union, nssurring you of
my contiuued co-operation in all matters
of general good and particularly the pen
sion question which not only affects the
old soldiers and sailors, bat we have
reached such a condition of affairs
in business, public nnd private, that our
interest h-'s become the affair oH'all the
people iu tho west and particularly in Kan
sas, where S0,C00 out of tho 124,000 of our
fellows are producers of agricultural prod
ucts aid aie practically farmers, winch
proposition I think that I will be able to
fully and satisfactorily establish before
concluding" Cheers.
"As one of the original service pension
advocates, I have not for one moment
ceased to urge it upon our representatives
in congress, nor to talk in argument to
our public men, and we have made great
progress, as it is but threo or four years
since many of our comrades whom we de
light to honor, wero earnestly opposed to
the movement; but now nearly all, if not
quito all of them, are working shoulder to
shoulder, elbow to elbow, and hnvo joined
in the grand march for justice to the men
who sacrificed so much for humanity, and
a government that today can boat of a
taxable pi operty valued at at least sixty
biiliou of dollars. Yet under the very
shadow of this pyramid of enormous
wealth, we are informed by men who call
themselves statesmen that tho govern
ment cannot afford to pay its surviving
soldiers and -ailors the small sum of eight
and one-third dollais per month or any
other sum as a service pension for the
want of funds, and that they do not know
how to raise the revenue for that purpose.
Some of these statesmen tell us that we
anut wait until the bondholders are paid
in full. I say let the bondholder who pur
chased his bonds at sixty cents on the dol
lar and speculated on the blood of cur com
rades and our patriotic services wait.
Others of these enlightened states-
med
tell us that we must wait
until they build a navy to cost a half bill
ion, as we may have war with some for
eign country. This is again in the inter
ests of the sea-board, and hence of the
money centers." "Right you are," cried
many. "I answer, we do not need a navy.
No nation dare attack us. Three million
sons of American soldier?, with blood of
steel coursitig through their veins, natural
soldiers and sailors, would spring to the
defense of our fliig. And all nations know
us. Wait! In the name of our martyred
dead, how long must wo wait' Waitl We
didn't ask the nation to wait wien she
ueeded our strong arms and stout hearts
to defend her, or. if need be, our lives to
save her. Wait! What? Docs this nation
ask us to wait until the lone icy fingers of
death have fixed their grasp upon us and
takpn us from our dear ones to answer the
command with Grant, Sheridan, Thomas,
Logan, Hancock, and other comrades on
the golden shore, where bondholder?,
navy - advocate statesmen, w.ll harp
against service pensions, nevermore.
Well may the great monied interests
both in and out of congress say wait
they fattened off of the services of the
soldiers and sailors during the war and to-
i dav holding the kev to the money vaults
and forcing us of the west to barrow of
them at their own terms, they do not
want an additional 130.000,;X) paid to us
In pensions to alleviate the depressed
financial condition in this country.
Let us look at this question in a practi
cal business like way and see if congress
can afford to pass the Ingalls service pen
sion bil!s, and having discussed this
proijosjtion, I
will pas, to the practical !
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illustration es applied to our own state
The chairmau of tne house pension com
mittee, Comrade Morrill, told me while in
Washington a short time since, that the
Ingalls biil would increase the pension
expenditures about 130,000,00!), and said,
if you can point out a way to raise addi
tional revenue to meet it, we will pss the
measure. I told Comrade Marrii! to
I pass the bill, let it become a
law, end tho people would sts that
rrif n-nra unci iw.ae immirr nmrinpn
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for tce funds to pay the pensions. As I
tell you, the people of the country are
with us. Comrade Morrill is our friend
and we can rely upon him with more con
fidence than some others that I knowfully
as well.
Now let H3 see by examination of our
condition as a nation if we can afford to
pass this bill and increase the annnai pen
sion expenditure the amount proposed.
You have seen that the estimated value of
the entire property of the people of the
United States is $1,000,000,000. Why, it
almost dazzles one's senses to contemplate
the enormous snm, yet when we recover
from our bewilderment at the thought of
its enormity, our first thought is: This is
the accumulated, wealth of the govern
ment we saved the government rescued
from treason's grasp; the government of
Washington, of Lincoln and Grant that
claims through its statesmen that it is too
poor to do justice to her surviving soldiers
and sailors. I have heard it said, and
that by comrades: "Oh, the government
is and has been liberal to the
soldiers," I love this nation, and all her
institutions are dear to me. "I love her
flag nrj flag and every star and every
stripo ate as sacred as earthly things cau
be. Many of us sealed our devotion to all
this with our blood, and many broken and
decayed constitutions of our comrades are
sure but solemn index to their perform
ance of noble, sacred duty to these institu
tions, this flag, the stars and stripes of our
beloved country. Yet when we remember
that many of our soldiers and sailors, and
the widows and orphans of our dead are
being cared for by charity and in the alms
houses, while such wealth exists, I deny
the government's liberality. However, it
is not the government, it is tho representa
tives chosen to do the business of the peo
ple. Not from this state I do not mean
that but from other states, for I believe
every member of our delegation, unless it
be one, has recognized our demand at lost,
and is now in favor of tho Ingulls ser
vice pension bill. We have stated
the amount this bill will in
crease the nension expenditure. The
present charge to the government on ac
count of pensions is $9S,000,000, well pro
vided for by ample revenue. But let us
take the most gloomy view of this ques
tion. If the disability pension bill be
comes a law, and it ought to, it will re
quire not less than $30,000,000 to pay that
yet it will include pensioners under
other laws, so that it will not require but
about $ 25,000.000
Now add present pension list... 9$, 000.000
Add service pensions 130,000.000
And you have a grand total of.. $253,000,000
The $93,000,000 being provided for tlieu
it will require $155,0 0,000 to pay disability
and service pensions. It was stated on the
1st of January, 1690. that the surplus in
come to the government for the year 1SS9
was over and above all expenditures aud
charges $SS,000,000, and we can presume it
will not be less this year or next. Now,
deduct SSS.OCC.OOO from $153,000,000, and we
are abort $07,000,000. This is the calcula
tion given me by statesmen in the Capital,
and I glTe them to, you as a basis
upon which wo must work. I am
awaro that it is now claimed by
our opponents that theannual surplus rev
enue is ooly about $41,001,000. but I assume
the former to be correct. We do not loose
sight for a moment that tho amount is
enormous, but this is an enormous govern
ment, with enormous resources and enor
mous developed wealth, iu fact everything
about us and of us is enormous, except
some of our statesmen. If we should
adopt the direct tax system two and one
halt mills upon the dollar upon the prop
erty of each state would raise $150,000,000
annually and increase. It is a small con
tribution consideriug the benefits derived
from our service as soldiers and sailors. It
would take four time- this sura, or $000,
000,000, annually, taking England, France,
Russia and Germauyas critenons, to pay
the standing army of this government
alone had tho southern confederacy been
established, a&sunitug that it would have
been necessary to guard our frontier as
the countries mentioned do. I mention this
direct tax theory to point out the compara
tively insignificant amount necessary to
raise the sum to perform single handed
justice to our comrades when shown along
side of the actual benefits derived from
our service.
Yet, let us go further. Our work a sol
diers and sailors established beyond con
troversy the adhesiveness of the union
and the stability of the nation, and the
twenty-five years that have elapsed since
the last gun was fired has shown the won
derful capacity of our people for business.
Iu establishing the stability of the nntioti
wo ga'e an impetus to all business and en
abled men to liuild up large enterprises
and accumulate enormous fortunes, there
by securing to them greater incomes than
were ever known in this country, upon
which incomes and fortunes burdens of
government iu meeting just demands
should rest more firmly; anil I claim that
congress can, with snuple justice to all.
raise a sum necessary to pay all pensions
due and to become due, by adopting
an income tax (similar to tLe one
iu force during the war, and
in doing this, can nlso relieve
the people from tho burden of custom
duties upon the necessaries of life and
farm machinery, thus helping the we-t
acain, and if need be increase the tariff
upon those articles of luxury only known
and enjoyed by the rich.
While I earnestly endorse the proposi
tion of service pensions and insist that
congress might adopt some plan to reach
the wealth of the country, and while the
income tax is very feasable and I mean
fully what I have said about custom
dutici, yet my plau to realize more
speedily "and with less directness, the de
nmnd of our soldiers and sailors and
which will bo of less burden upon the
general business of the country, is to in
crease the internal revenue on liquors and
tobiccoat least sufficient to pay the entre
pension charges of tne government, even
if it should be $253,000,000, as fLued and
claimed bv the architicts of scarecrow
figures. This would place the burden en
tirely on luxuries of the cursed kind
and would relieve the ?sS,tKX.UO0
excess to be wiped out by
the reducticn of the tariff mentioned.
But I am told this is far from practicable.
1 bat the south will never consent to it.
My answer is, it was practicable during
the war to place thi5 tax on liquors and
tobacco, an'd the south was not consulted,
and the pensions we now ask are from
causes created by this portion ot our coun
try' I do not believe any man or any set
of men can give any sort of a national ex
cuse for not adopting this sort of a plin
for nayiog pensions: and when adopted let
this fund be set apart as a sacred fund to
p-iy pensions and care for our soldiers and i
sailors, ana tueir wiaows ana. orpcan.
We can gamay it? Who cum bat it
Those whose efforts to destroy the govern
ment onlv ended at Appomattox, nnd j
whose disloyalty still exiit may combine
with the money loaners of the east who
never entertained a noble loyal impulse
for the government, onlv for dollars and
cents, and they fight not that they want to
bffnend whisky and tobacco, but the one
from hatred for us, aud the other to pre
vent the west from obtaining money only
through the medium of loans made from
them, out of which they expect to
gather their interest from money obt-iined
by the sale of 50 cent wheat and 15 cent
corn. No better plan for raising rereace
for our purpose cn be devised and had I
the power it would be ia.-ujguriSd wjtbia
thirty days. Von may tali: of over pro
duction, bat if there was plenty of money j
in circulation you wocid never hear of over s
production. That argument would be a I
times I feel that I don't care bow they
raise the inonev or from what source of!
internal revenue, for. on tfee WBumption
that it is right, we ought to fear it and
SOCIALIST GAINS.
GERMAyrS GOVERNMENT PAETT
FORMIDABLY CONFRONTED.
Opposition Composed of Eight Dif
ferent and Probably Not Har
monious Parties.
The Socialist Vote Mora than Double in
Three Years Fifty Seats in the
Reichstag Secured.
Little Change Expected in the Secondary
Elections Further Particulars of tho
Murder of Madame Sihida and the
Suicide of Other Political
Prisoners Gleaning3 from
the Old World.
tCopy rlcMeu I'M. by the J ew Yort: Associated rress
Berlix, Feb. 22. Official influence aud
the bureaucratic system aro pulling to
gether to delay the official returns of the
election nnd to nttenuato the importance
of the success of the Socialists at the polls.
Last night an independent and entirely re
liable authority gave figures showing that
the Socialists had actually elected twenty
members and had a good prospect to cap
ture thirty more seats on the second bal
lots. The semi-official press records today
the election of sixteen Socialists; other
papers say that nineteen Socialists aro
elected. The reichstng will involve almost
revolutionary modifications. The most
sanguine of the Cartellers do not expect
that the second ballots will make such a
change in tho result as to seriously
modify their defeat. Tho supiemo ques
tion is how far w ill the Socialists success
ultimately go? On Thursday their total
record of votes reached nearly one million
and a half against a record of 774, 12S in
the eleotion of, 1SS7. No combination of
their opponents seems likely to head them
off on the second ballots aud thus wo hao
before us tho pro-speet of speing thirty-five
to forty Socialists seated in the reichstag
The party held eleven seats in the last
reichstag.
Another result suggest ivo of the growth
ot the popular movement is the reappear
ance ot the Volksparteie or Democrats o
called. Iu the reichstag of 1S34 this party
held eleven seats. It vanished completely
in the parliament of 18b7, for as it stood in
the borderland between the Ger
man Liberals and tho Socialists its
forees became absolved respectively into
these. It has now captured three scats
aud has a fair prospect of gaining eight on
tho second ballots. The positiou of tho
German Liberals is doubtful, though Herr
Eugene Reichfer, tho leader, predicts that
it will have fifty seats. It now has thirty
five. Formerly, however, the strength of
this party was much greater. Tho chief
suffrage now and prospectively Is tho
National Liberal party the partv of Ben
uigsen and Miguel, and the backbone of
the Cartel combination. It is doomed to
reappear in tho reichstag with the certain
loss of thirty seats. Iu the Jast reichstag
it had niuety-threo seats. Taking the
whole result together as it stands in actual
results, and as it is likely to staud alter
the decision on tne secouu nai
lots, the prospect i- that opposition
v. ill have 224 in tho house against
173 for tho covernment groups. This op
position will be made upas toliows- cen-
terists or Ultramontunes 100, German Lili-
erals or Liberals, properly speaking 15,
Socialists 37. Volkstmrteic or Democrats 7.
Poles 11, Alsasians 12, Gueiphs and Danes
together 12. This is a ry heterogeneous-
opposition, ueiu fcogemur uy iiu ucyuiiuu iu
a common purpose, but only by the nega
tive tie of objection; yet it is bound to give
the government some lively times nnd to
play a momentous part in the history of
Eurone.
t-omo incidents ot tne contess are so
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strikingly notable that they are likely to
figure iu history One of these is the de
feat of Protcssor Virchow, the famous
and popular man of hcieucc and a
distinguished Liberal. He was de
feated by Janizewskyf, a journeyman
a bookbinder and a Pole, a very old man
and extremely poor, who speaks broken
German. Yet the second district of Berlin
put him at the top of the poll because he
has been the victim of repeated persecu
tions. Herr Woermand, Prince Bismarck's
ft lend, a gat Hamburg ship owner and
the candidate of theNatimial Libera!, was
defeated by Dietz, the Socialist. This as
tonished the Socialists themselves. Ham
burg is entirely in their hands.
The opposition pres comments freely
upon the fact that after twelve years of
the operation cf the law for tho suppres
sion of the Soc.ftlists the great populous
centers of thf country have become hot
beds of .socialism. It is orgned that since
the law expires in September next the
government must abandon the at
tempt to repress thu movement by
legislation or dissolve the reichstag and
denend on the nation for this special issue.
The emperor Is personally engaged in
drafting the program for the laiior meet
ing, whicii is to Us submitted to the coun
cil on the 2Cth. It is already determined
that the conference will not touch the sub
ject of the eight hour agitation. Several
suggestions received from the Marquis of
Salisbury indicate that it is the intention
of the " British government to tend
delegates, provided tb; votes of the
conference shall not ba understood
pb binding the government to
anything and that thf proceedings are
wiil consent to be brigaded under state o
ncials.
At P.-Jo tonight there are some addition
al particular known of thf eiTtion giving
the result iu 3:1 district aimI including 11
district where there was ik elrettoo. In
the 3ftJ districts lor walch we
thus i ive d-fint'c
rultjs thrr i
ijiniiTTstlve.
42, Imperialist 32. ' :CUoon! Liberals
H, Centensis 76. Oermnn Jjberata 14,
Socialists 17, Pole? JO; tnrieiMiod&at 1,
Alsatians -ii. olk-parteie (Democrat 3.
Danes 1 Ibe secondary ballot in the
above lit district will be costfci by Con
servatives 20, Imperial IU. National Lib
erals GL Centeni 16, German Liberals HZ,
Socialists 47, Gueiphs 2. I'oies 4, Yotks
parteieO, aMi-Semltea 29. lhe German
Liberals claim that the returns show they
have to coutei la Bpplean3ry elections
sixty-two seals. As forty foor of ihtie !
are against tbe Carttiier ami rocrtees
against the Socialists they are coaadrai
their party wni nave tlie next racastag C7
to 70 votes as sgaiast the last.
A PETITION TO THE CZAR.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 23. A largely
attended meeting of the Siberian Exile
Petition association was held In Associa
tion ball in this city this afternoon. Thu
form of a petition to the oasr of Jtajt
was agreed upon. It Is the porcoe of
those interested in this movement to cir-
cuJate copies of the petition U oTer toe I
United States for signatures and to pUce
tbesameia the hand of theexsr. Xe
petition, in substance, is as fd!ow
To bis Imperial MajrstT, tL Czar of all
the Euislas: That your sajy trltl per-
medelirauvr Iheeor i Jsu m the lioman correspondent In btai.
that the feature of the program shall be he snys that the congregation of th unl
establishment of trade unions under of-! versai itiquUitton has isut-d a dwn-e,
ficial coatrol. This would, of course, be ned br Cardinal .Monaco, and pnbMhi
impossible In England, and It is doubtful j ,a tfce omcilxl orHtl ot lne Vatican, abai
whetner the workimrmen of the continent , . . , . -., ,i fcitiM-B nf
sonally take note of wide interest amoag
us in the workings and effect of the
Siberian exile system w do not forget the
reforms alreadv accomplished in tha
Russian empire. We are not
blind to the mental and physical
sufferings that of necessity are a part of
any system of punishment for crlmo
against individuals, society or tha state,
nor are we unmiudful oi! the need of re
forms which are actively enraging the at
tention of philanthropists. In this we are
but giving expression of feeling of
friendly people that in the punishment ot
some of her subjects Russia, whethe- from
causes peculiar to her p)pio or on account
of ancient custom, is not in all points iu,
harmony with the humanizing sentiments
of the age. Whether we err in this, or
whether we are right, ottr wish is that by
the wisdom and power of the czar and tho
favor of God, Russia may continue to grow
iu the admiration and sympathy of tha
American people and of tha whole civilixed
world.
M0EE LOATHSOME DETAILS.
The Earbarity Leading to Madame- Sihida'i
Death and the Suicides.
LOXDOX, Feb. 22. Furtlfer detailes ot
the outrage in the political prison at Kara
reached the Russian exiles in Loudon to
day from friends who are located a short
distance from the scene of the horrors.
They are brief, but conclusive, confirming
lully a report of the aff.iir received here
from an official Jn St. Petersburg who is
in sympathy with the cause of the people.
According to the mail received today it
appears that this trouble at tho Kura
prison originated in u hunger strike in
August when the women political prison
ers tried to starve themselves to death to
escape the brutalities of their jailors. Thoy
abstained from food for fourteen
days. The jailors did not be
lieve that they would be nblo
to keep up the struggle. At first they
jeered at the women, then tempted them
with food and then, finding thoo of no
avail, threatened them. When several
of the women were at ths point of death
from the voluntary abstinence trom food,
the prison officials resorted to artificial
means to compel them to take nourish
ment. The methods adopted, lion ever,
wero vinleut and licentious and tho women
were compelled to abaudon their strike.
Abominable outruges followed and wero
ot daily and hourly occurrence. This state
of affairs led Madame Slhlda, whoso. Hog
ging has already been announced, to auk
lor an interview with tho director of the
prison in hope of securing, ameliora
tion of the condition of prisoners.
This request was urantcd but when
she was tuken before hint, sho found him
abusive. It is said that in her exaspera
tion at his abnse sho called him a villhtn
and slapped his face. It is not positively
known, however, what took place during
the Interview, but whatever did happen
Madame Sihida did not return to her com
panions, fche mis taken from the direct
or's office and convoyed to tha prison In
which common offender aro confined.
Three of her compautous from among tho
political prisoners wero permitted to join,
Uer. The advices received today stato that
they wero .Marie Koaleski, wife of Prof.
Koaleski. of Kliff, Madame Simritrksy
and Maria Kolujuv; the lat two ladtca
wero from Odessa.
Two months elapsed after thej eventa
belore Lieutenant General Korff, governor
geiicral of the province of the Amour, in
structed the directors of prbons lhAt tha
secret edict of March, lfeSS, which ordered
t hut political prisonors should be treated
by prison officials In precisely tho same
manner as prisoners condemned for com
mon law offenses, would bo en
forced, and ordered the directors to
notify tho political prUouers of this, so
that they would be liable to corporal pun
ishment if thi-y violated certain of the
prison regulations. The male prisoners.
foreseeing immediate daugrr, held n con-
Uuluttion and M-nt to the director cf tun
nrjson a petitlou that lie would tele-
Kraj,u to tin
' ,nPutSL !..!
ho minister ot itio inicr
lertburg. requiting him to
j BUsp;d the application of tho edic
tJie director refused to pay any a
edict- Thin
ttentlou
to, and thereupon tho men warned him
that the first floging of a political jirii
onca would be the higual for the others to
commit suicide together. Three day aft
erwards the lieutenant general. Boron
Korll. hen t a special onler directing that
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Mudntnc Sihida be puuinbud according to
the regulations, and tho order wan ex
ecuted to tho fullest extent. Madamo
bihlda whs stripped and re
ceived one hundred Inshcs. She was
carj-ied off bleeding and In an unconscious
condition and her death ensued from a
rupture of the heart. Ilcr threo compan
ions committed suicide within an hour of
the time of hearing of .Madame Slhida's
death. The corpses of the four women
were burird iu the courtyard of the com
mon offenders' prison.
For wteks a cordon of vigilant guards
was so closely maintained nruuud the
prison that nothing wat known of what
was happening viutnn. bitice thu secret
channel of information has been re
opened it has been learned that tho
men carried out their threat of
sticide. They met together nnd thirty of
them shared what poison they could obtnlu
and tht-u went to liieir celln to die. Tho
quantity of poison which had been smug
gled into the prison was not sufficient to
kill quickly, but iu the couthc of the even
ing two ot taos who nsd shared It, Bo
bokoy .md Koiujny, died. They had oou-vtiKioii-,
and the dfld silence which
reigned in the other cells aroused the at
tention f the guards, and they Immedi
ately summoned phynichir. who adminis
tered emetics to the survivors and endeav
ored by every menos to counteract ths
effects of the poison.
THE LENTENIFAST ABOLISHED.
St. lyOCls. Mo , Feb. 22. The Weitera
Wntcatnnti, a prominent Cithollc w?ck!y
journal of this city, prints today a leujr
this year. This Is extended to the wbola
world, th r lttr sr, wiiffrer tho ordi
naries bH judge the disp'-malNHi neae
Hry. The reason lor Mrttttt? ad tho
Lanteo obligation, it It ciMtuod, U lb pre-r.-uilt''
influenza, which is nuking nah
raVflgtt in ad rrt , Eams. and It U
tfeotnrlit to bv prrralrBt Jn tae UtiUrd
fetaie. TUdcrre. U ,UiiI, will b quit
a sarprw . mbwh 4.ww..
uttml to b ik flrt o" of tho kirn! ever
isaced la the history ot th ctjiireb.
JEWS ORGANIZE FOR THEIR RJGH7S.
Lojf&O. Veb. 22. TL rftit warfare
Rgaiait the cutfr Jwit race In Kafc
i aod !iw iit-iUlt aatl-esitic crtuadrs
In Gtnaawy d obr ooamrSs hare Il
to nroool for a eetig o! prominent
-d representative Kcrp'n Jews, to
.-,-, it a uadtt.-tood a fw Acwrfcaas ef
thAt race will aiso ie toK4. t AmU&-
dsza cr some otbar city in a smalt ration
ality in li ooorM: of th coming
summer The priocipol meaare to t-s
discussed wi.i ttztluubiMly be tho r&Uinz
of a fund to b devoted to tae ;irottioa of.
t&eir br,iarp intra t&e perwaitiea al
inrictotts ditirctios to nhtch they urn
bow so&jtctwi Ja the rna jerity of the eono
trls tarcegboat the werfai.
WILL NOT HEED CA1NE.
IrrytXMf. Yah. t" Th Ktjmrfart! ar
tka, .-. mt-raMM of .,- T-nioeUtciem-
Uj. o( pifa-n,., Calae, with regard to
the Times and the grernmeat wltl at U
j lded by tb LfWral UolotifeU. Tfcrjr
j win snpport Mr. W. IL Smith motloa fa
i rtsrd to the Parcel! coissLuiea.
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