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VOL. 8. NO. 134.
C LARKSVILLE, TENN., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBMER 16. 189!.
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VIII
1
In Brazil Over the End of the
Revolution.
Panics Cease and Confidence
is Restored.
Bio Grande do Sul to lie Fully Repre
sented In the Reassembling of Congress.
The New Republic Now oil the Road to
Prosperity Brazil Apologizes to Chill.
Foreigners Insulted.
Eio Janeiro, Dee. 16. There is much
satisfaction here over the peaceful end
ing of the difficulties with Rio Grande
do Sul. That state will be fully repre
sented In the reassembling of congress.
The panic on the bourse is at an end
and confidence has been restored.
The troubles over the Leopoldin.i rail
road have also been terminated success
fully. Apologies have been tendered by the
new government to Chilian Minister
Kupper because he happened to be as
saulted by foot-pads.
The police at Cardoza grossly insulted
two Spaniard.) and an Italian. Repara
tion has been demanded by the respec
tive consuls of the victims.
HE SPEAKS PLAIN.
Senator Chandler's Charges Against Cer
taln Railroad Official.
Washington, Dec. 10. Senator
Chandler is continuing his fight against
the Boston and Maine railroad, which he
charges with violating the interstate
commerce law by issuing free passes.
In a letter to the commission on Satur
day, he declares that the directors are
criminals. He mentioned, especially,
Mr. Prank Jones and Mr. Sinclair, de
scribing them as in the business of mak
ing drunkards and criminals and as
themselves violating the laws of New
Hampshire every day. But for their
wealth, criminally obtained, they won1 '
be in prison like common malefactors.
Mr. Chandler also charges the directo'-s
with bribing government oflicials vi i
passes, and with swindling British 1 -vestors
by selling $.()n.uou worth oi
breweries to them for $ti,you.Ot)U.
Diamond Thives Captured.
Dayton, 'O., Dec. 16. On the 10th of
November R. E. Kranig, salesman for
Herman Keck & Company, of Cincin
nati, was ro'ibed of !j0,0n0 worth of
diamonds and jewelry in tlie depot here,
having carelessly left his sample case in
the passenger car while he went for
lundy, At an early hour Monday morn
ing Fritzie Dhein, William II. "Hnrliss
and the latter's mistress, a Mrs. Higbee,
were arrested and were arraigned before
the mayor Monday afternoon on the
charge of stealing the diamonds. The
evidence is direct against them.
Wants Unrestricted Reciprocity.
Ottawa, Dec. 16. Oliver Mowatt,
premier of Ottawa, has written an open
letter to McKenzie, the veteran ex-premier
cf the Dominion, declaring that ho
is in favor of unrestricted reciprocity,
and believes that it can be brought
about without imperiling the loyalty of
Canada to Great Britain. He ridicules
the annexation movement, and declares
that, as great as Canada is. the time for
forming itself into an independent na
tion has not yet arrived.
Sugar liounty in California.
San Francisco, Dec. 16. Three beet
sugar factories in this state have closed
down for the season, and statements of
the amount of sugar made has been si ;
to the internal revenue office. The to 1
production from three factories whs
tf,070,Ki8 pounds. The total bounty to
be paid is $101, 400.
School Ma'am Sandlmgged.
Red Bank, N. J., Dec. 16. Miss
Annie Van Winkle, a pretty school
teacher, aged twenty-throe years, was
sandbagged on the highway by a tramp.
She is in a critical condition. No arrests
were mode.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Colorado had a blizzard Monday.
Senator Quay says he is not a candidate
for re-election.
Congressman Johnson, of Cleveland, is
111 in New York.
The Hammond heirs finally win in the
suit against the Lindell heirs at St. Louis.
New Orleans now has a paid fire de
partment for the first t ime in her history.
Samuel Spain, of North Lcwisburg, O.,
was killed in a runaway, lie was seventy
five. The grip is epidemic in almost all parts
of the country, with a large percentage of
deaths.
Sylvester Warren blew his brains out at
Peoria, Ills., because some one poisoned
his horse.
It is now believed that an explosion of
sewer gas caused the Bamberger lire iu
Louisville.
It is now said that Stephen B. Elkins, of
West Virginia, will be appointed secre
tary of war.
China will take no part in the world's
fair, owing to our discrimination against
the Chinese.
At Lima, O., Solomon Folke stubbed
James McCabe during a quarrel, killing
him instantly.
At Springfield, Mo., Dan Vaughan, a
negro desperado, was shot dead by Police
man William Brown.
Senator M. S. Quay, who was attacked
with vertigo at Beaver, Pa., on Saturday,
has entirely recovered.
The residence of Nicholas Druley, Ander
son, Intl., was burglarized Sunday night
of "J,.VK). There is no clew.
At Hannibal. Mo., Kd Brown, a colored
teamster, shot his wife because she was
drunk when he came home.
At Madiaonville, Ky., Ed McNeill fa
tally shot his father-in-law, Thomas Lit
tlepage, without provocation.
At Camatta, Ga., a negro found trying
to enter a store was tnken to the woods
by a mob. lie has not been seen since.
MeCarthyites and Parnellites came to
gether at Ennis and many broken heads
resulted. Mr. Dillon was one of the hurt.
The Cincinnati Post says the famous
Duckworth club of that tlty is about to
disband, owing to Internal disturbances.
M. Charles Soller and (Vioiu-1 An
dru7,7.i fought a duel at Meudon, France.
M. Poller was pinked in the arm, but re
ceived onlv a slight wound, while Colon
SATISFACTION
itnuruzzi sustained a severe wound In the
breast. The quarrel originated in a dis
cussion of colonial politics.
The typesetters of London have con
tributed 500 for the assistance of the
striking printers in Germany.
At Columbus, Ind., Richard Brinkly
and Dan Smith fought with a hammer
and pitchfork. Brinkly was seriously in
jured. Milwaukee offers $100,000 and a car load
of beer for the Democratic national con
vention. The beer is for the national com
mittee. At Richmond, Tex., Mat Dunlavy shot
and killed Dr. Allen. Dunlavy says the
the doctor spoke - disparagingly of his
daughter.
Frank Wright, a Panhaudle freight
brakenian, while switching trains at Col
liers, W. Va., was struck hy his train and
Instantly killed.
The AVare county (Ga.) jail was broken
Into hy a mob and Welcom E. Golden and
Robert Knight, leaders of the Varn riot
ers, shot to death.
The postoflice at Petersburg, Ind., was
robbed Sunday morning of $150 in money,
14(H) in stamps and a large number of sue-
cial request envelopes.
Pukin advices say Unit the rebels have
I again gathered iu force west of Jehol, and
one more imperial victory will be neees-
! sary to decide the struggle.
I Mr. Harley Bartholomew, near Oberlin,
; O., while plowing in his field was sud-
j denly stricken with heart failure and ex-
pired by the aide of his plow.
I Near West Bay City, Mich., an entire
family of nine named Flynn was poisoned
by cooking potatoes in rancid lard.
Prompt restoratives saved all.
Near Sulphur Springs, O., a boy named
' Fletcher was shot by the premature dis
charge of a gun in the hands of Charles
Blaser. His condition is critical.
The old warehouse on the levee at
Leavenworth, Kan., was burned, with a
lot of condemned government stores. The
building was a historic land mark.
The severest storm ever known at Pu
eblo, Col., raged for six hours Monday
afternoon. ires of all kinds went down,
and traffic generally was suspended.
Rev. Harry P. Nichols, of New Haven,
has been called to the pastorate of St.
Mark s church of Minneapolis, made va
cant by the death of Rev. T. B. Wells.
The residence of Presley R. Griffith,
trustee of Clark township, four and a half
miles east of Greenwood, Ind., was en
tered by burglars and a safe broken into
and ItKX) and valuable papers were stolen
At Blackburn, Union county, Ky., Con
stable W llliam tucks shot and killed an
unknown negro who refused to surrender
when he raided a crap game on the river
bank.
Adam Conrad was run down by a
through freight on a bridge about a half
mile east of Rushville, Ind., and instantly
killed. He was nearly eighty years old,
and very deaf.
Murderer Fitzgerald, under sentence of
death in the Ohio penitentiary, attempted
suicide by taking morphine he had cru
cealed about his clothes. Prompt medical
aid saved him.
It now appears that the mob at Way-
cross, Ga., which riddled the cells of Wel
com Guiding and Elijah Cheaves wit h bul
lets, and left them for dead, failed to in
jure the two men.
The volcano of Colima, in Mexico, is in
a violent state of eruption. The govern
ment has ordered the villagers in the
vicinity to abandon their homes and
move to places of safety.
Sixteen men have been sworn in, and
are at Nashville awaiting orders to maroh
to Briceville to aid in the return of con
victs to the coal mines. One hundred and
fifty will probably be enrolled.
Frank H. Hosford, formerly member of
the Michigan legislat ure, and now repre
senting Tiie Detroit Free Press in Wash
ington, has been appointed tally clerk of
the house; salary $3,000 a year.
A dispatch from Zanzibar states that
the position of Emin Pasha, who was last
heard from at Wadelai, is precarious and
that he has had several bloody conflicts
with the tribes of the lake district.
At Hanceville, Blount county, Ala.,
Julius Gritlith, a merchuut, and John Mo
Nelis, a farmer, quarreled over politics.
Griffith s,hot and killed McNelis. This
makes four murders in Blount county
within ten days.
Burglars entered the drug store of Nor
man Wheeler, the mitcliershnp of Will
iam Hawkins and the saloon of William
Kilbourn, Marion, Ind., blew the safes
and took money and other articles
amounting to JO00.
Charles Smith, colored, was executed in
the death-room of the penitentiary at
Cannon City, Colo. Smith's home was at
Walscnburg. Colo. He was hanged for
murdering Taylor Sillman, who was on
intimate terms with Smith's wife.
The strike of the telegraphers on the
Atlantic and Pacific may affect the whole
country, as it is rumored if it is not set
tled soon the Order of Railway Tele
graphers will take a hand, and call out
every man in the order. The trainmen
are, in sympathy with the operators.
Edward M. Fields, the senior partner
of the defunct firm of Field, Lindley,
Weichers & Company, was arrested Mon
day by three of Inspector Byrnes' detec
tives on a warrant issued by Judge Mar
tine, of the court of general sessions, on a
charge of larceny in the lirst degree.
Nelson Perdue, a farmer of Versailles,
Ind., who mysteriously disappeared from
his home sot.ie months ago, and who was
found in a hovel he had dug In a side hill
near this place, leading the life of a her
mit, and taken back to Versailles, leaped
from the second-story window of a room
in which he had been confined, in an effort
to escape, receiving injuries from the ef
fects of which lie can not recover.
Joe Patterson, the negro who killed his
wife and a negro man in Bossier parish,
L., and afterward shot J. R. Lay and
Dave Wallace, was run down by a mob,
returned to his home and put to flight the
mourners who were sitting up with his
wife's corpse. Patterson then blew out
his brains with a revolver. The mob
gathered around his house shortly after,
removed the body of the murdered
woman and set fire to the house. Patter
son's charred remains were found amidst
the ruins.
The Death Roll.
World's Fair Commissioner Billingsly at
Toledo.
George G. Blanchard, a prominent Cali
fornian. Daniel McLaughlin, formerly a prom
inent lawyer of Pennsylvania, penniless
at Harrisburg.
Joel B. Mayes, chief the Cherokee na
tion. He was almost white, and born in
Georgia in 1S33.
John P. Richardson, the largest cotton
planter in the world, on the Epis planta
tion, iu East Carroll parish, La. He owned
fifteen plantations in Louisiana and Ml-iasiuut
ill
nun mrnT
prompts the Indiana Miners
to Continue the Fight
With Starvation Staring Them
in the Face.
Ilie Operators and Men Tell Different
Stories Concerning the Agreement of
Idst Spring The Miner's Life Anything
but an Easy One The Fight Will No
Doubt Become a Nut tonal One.
Brazil, Ind., Doc. 16. The situation
in the bituminous coal regions of In
diana, in which some 20,000 miners are
on a strike, is a gloomy one for the
strikers, and its outcome, may bring the
wolf to the door of many a dolver in the
bowols of the earth in adjacent states.
The Indiana strike is one of desperation.
according to the stories of the old-time
men, and certainly the outlook is one of
pinching hunger, if not actual starva
tion, cold and nakedness.
Tell Different Stories. "
The mine operators say that the pres
ent strike is in violation of an agreement
maue ny tne men last spring not to ask
for an advance in wages for one year,
and that, in view of this fact, they will
not negotiate with the strikers. The lat
ter say that the mine owners took ad
vantage of them in the spring, when
they were not prepared for a strike, to
force them into signing an unjust scale,
and that in refusing to keep that con
tract any longer than necessary they are
no more blamable than they would be to
turn upon a highway robber when op
portunity offered. They declare that
the miners of Indiana have been more
oppressed and ground down than those
of any other state in the Union; that
their wages have been less; that they
have been subjected to all sorts of op
pressions; that tlieir condition was little
better than that of Russian convicts in
Siberian mines, and that they struck for
more decent treatment in sheer despera
tion, preferring starvation to further
submission.
Firm, Though Hungry.
Though their committeemen are try
ing to hide the fact, it is nevertheless
true that many of the men and their
families are already on the verge of
starvation, subsisting on one meal a day,
and have boon doing so for two weeks.
The relief received thus far has been
very scant and in some places the strikers
are totally without food, the mine own
ers having undertaken to freeze them
out by refusing even to sell them coal.
In the face of all this, however, the men
talk with a grim determination to fight
it out to the death, if needs be.
There is hope, however, that this will
not become necessary, as the national
executive board of the Coal Miners' As
sociation of the United States has at last
recognized the strike and approved it
and has issued a call to all of its mem
bers to contribute to the relief of the
strikers.
May Hecome a National Fight.
This broadens the scope of the fight.
It has been stated that mine owners in
adjoining st.itcs have been supplying
contracts for the Indiana mine owners.
This will be investigated by the board
and if it can not be clicjitjd i i any other
way the miners in those states will be
called out also.
CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
The Northwest Want Second Place on the
Republican National Ticket.
Chicaoo, Dec. 16. Prominent Re
publican politicians of Minnesota, who
have passed through Chicago within the
hist few days, declare that the north
west intends to make a strong bid for
the second place on the Republican na
tional ticket. The man upon whom
they are practically united is Oovornoi
W. R. Merriam, of Minnesota. It it.
claimed in hiH liehnlf that he is very
popular in Minneaiwlis, the convention
city, as well as . throughout the state,
and that the local feeling can not fail t
make itself felt in the deliberations cf
the convention.
This is aside from his victual qualifier
tions for the vice presidency, which aie
set out at length and with a good deal of
enthusiasm. His administration as gov
ernor is said to be without a flaw, ar d
the refunding of the state debt is point
ed to as one of his achievements which
entitles him to great credit. Govern r
Merriam is a man of considerable wealth
and will be backed in the convention oy
such men as Thomas Lowry; ft.r.
Graves, speaker of the Minnasota hou e;
Mayor Sutphin, of Duluth; Coloiiel
Mullen, of Wabasha, and many other
loading Republicans. Ho will also,
without doubt, be heartily supported by
all the local Republican pajiers. !3is
supporters claim that ho can have the
votes of Montana and the two Dako as,
besides those of Minnesota, to start with,
and that his vote will increase as the
coldest goes on.
Knd of a Long Litigation.
St. Louis, Dec. 16. The supreme
court of the United States dismissed the
suit of the heirs of Samuel Hammond
against the Lindell heirs and settle, the
title to over fJ.OOO.OOO worth of real es
tate lying between Newstead and Kings
Highway and Delmar and Laclede ave
nues, known as the Hunot grant. The
suits, twenty-nine in number, were be
gun in WM against the Lindell heirj and
other grantees. The first suit was de
cided in favor of the plaintiff and i;wen-ty-four
of the holders property compro
mised, but five continued the figh and
at last worn
lllames F.gan.
London. Dec. 16. The Times Santi
ago correspondent says that the entire
Chilian pres.4 blames United States Min
ister Egan for the tone of Preside! t Har
rison s message, and not a single news-
paer attacks President Harrison. I hey
sav that Minister r.gan was asiceu
whether he would telegraph the circnlar
letter, prepared by the Chilian foreign
minister, and that the official making
the inquiry understood Mr. kg an an
swered lie would.
Jackson and Slavln to FIrM.
San Francisco. Dec. 10. Peter Jack
son has received articles of ag eement
fur bis fiVht with Frank Slavin. Within
a few hours of the receipt Peter had
affixed his signature under tha ; of his
coming opponent and forward 1 them
by mail to London. They agrw to fight
twenty rounds for a pnrse of $10,000.
The contest is to tako place at the Na
tional .sporting club on Montay, May
SO, ltf!3.
SORCROSS' PARENTS
Fully Identify th Dead Bomb Thrower's
liml:f ui-cil Head.
New York, D jc. 10. The World say
that tho parent'! of Henry L. Norcroso,
the bo'ab thrower, identified the head
at the morgue at 1 o'clock Tuesday
mominf;. Ooronar Messemer had chaise
of the idei tific'Jion, and accepted it as
complete.
The scone (luring tl e time that the
parents were wMi the daud was vry af
fecting The sorrowing uodiec knelt
down on the l ard floor of the hospital
office ;nd laid her head upon the fore
head J! her dead son. She was about to
kiss the forelnad when an attendant
gently drew her back. She appeared
much oxcited and said fiercely: ''I wish
I had come hert alone. I must kiss my
boy."
vv it i a motner s instinct sue recog
nized lim who had been the idol of her
heart, and losing sisrht of tho hideous-
ness and repuls veness of the head in its
presei.t condition, and seeing only in it
me oi.tnnes ot one dearly beloved, she
pressf d her lips to the forehead. None
but the mothoi could have done that.
In u sworn s: atement the mother says
in reference to the letter found in young
Norc xiss' deck in his office in Boston
that :t was rot dated. It began: ''Dear
Motter 1 am ?oing to New York today
togot$l,t!00,0( 0. If successful, I shall
return; if not I shall kill myself."
He signed hij name in full, Henry L.
Not-cross.
Tie identif.ation by Mrs. Norcross
mak as it positive that the man who
threw the boirb was Henry L. Norcross.
Mr. Norcrrss closely examined the
head and full) identified it as that of his
son.
A Boston dentist who had attendod to
the teeth of Henry L. Norcross, the
broker, says h j placed nine fillings in the
man's month. Nineweie found in the
teeth of the dead bomb thrower, who
tried to kill Eussell Si:g
BALNVvCEDA
B'i1
RAYED.
Wl y Chili's
Xate Fresli'ent
Committed
Suicide.
fiEATTLE, Wash., Doc. 16. A Port
Townsend special says that an American
named Shanks, who has just arrived
thire from Chili, says that Balmaceda
was betrayed by the minister of the Ar
gentine Repiblic to Chili. The latter
hfd agreed t afford Balmaceda the pro
tection of tha legation. When ho ar
ri ed he was confronted by Mrs. Carlos
Martinez, tin wife of his most bitter
enemy, who had also taken refuge from
the Balmace lists in the legution.
After some confusion, which grew
from the meeting of these two persons,
tie lady was required vo take a solemn
oath that ihe would not divulge the
vhereabouui or the fleeing president.
Mie subsequently violated ner oath by
ntering in o an intrigue with the Ar
gentine minister to botray Balmaceda to
Jorge Montt. The latter was apprised
of Balmaooda's hiding place. He iu
iitantly inf irmed Balmaceda that he
would be liven every protection if he
would at oi:ce surrender himself. This
Balmaceda agreed to do. In the mean
time Balm iceda at once set about ar
ranging Mm worldly affairs, and when
the time fo.1 his surrender arrived he
committed suicide.
Finding in the Ualtlmore Case.
Valpar." mo, Icc. 16. Judge of
Crimes Fo. ter is said to lie preparing his
finding iu 1 he case of the Baltimore sail
ors. No pi blic stateiue.it has beon made
about it, b it it is reported that it will
exculpate ihe Chilian police, charge tho
Americans with having provoked tho en
counter th rough drunkenness, and im
pose nominal penalties on a row insig
nificant CI dlians arrested in connection
with the a fray. Chilians here assume
in advance that the result wili be satis
factory to tho United States.
MiLITIA CALLED OUT
To Kscort the Convicts Hack to the Mines
From Which They Were Driven.
Nashville, Dec. 16. The convicts
will go bi A'k to the mines at Briceville,
Coal Croik and Oliver Springs. The
govemoi of Tennessee has said it, and to
back his -vord has called out the militia
of Tennessee, to join the adjutant gen
eral at fsnhville. Troops are pouring
in, and K) are here, eiicumpod on the
hill at tho state capitol.
Some 100 troops, armed with puns,
Gatlings and howitzers, will escort ItiK'
convicts beck to tho three mines during
the latte- part of this week. There or
dors are to carry the convicts back to the
mines, a id if there is any attempt what
ever on vhe part of the miners to release
the prist ners again, to slay them in a
body.
The n.ilitia are under tho command of
General Kellar Anderson, and will be
divided into three detachments one for
each mining djstriet. Of tho4')0 convicts
released, four-fifths of then? have been
recaptu d and are at the penitentiary
now. jliero will hardly be any more
trouble with the minors, oa tho trootiH
will be kept at the mines ror an indefi
nite period.
The frovornor will not talk about his
action, but the lessees, who have lieen
nagifipfhim to this, are jubilant and
the quick action speaks for itself.
Murder or Kulclde.
Brikle, Ark., Dec. 16. Mrs. Sydney
J. Wilion, wife of a well known travel
ing nun, was found dead at her home
here shot through the heart. A letter
signed by the dead woman was found,
which stated that she intended to kill
hersel!'. Notwithstanding this Wilson
has been arrested charged with tho
crime.
Crisp and Mills ltoth III.
Washington, Dec. 10. Spvker Crisp
was c mfined to his room by a eli;ht coid
Tuescay but was ablo to continue hS
work on the committees. Mr.
Jir.ls h 1
also lidd up with a cold, but ie reported
slightly better, and the miiio! tha be
has p ieuinonia is unfounded. .
Hacked In a Ud Cr.se.
Harriman, Tenn.. Deo 1C A var
rai.t 'lasbeen swon oat hcie for Henry
Bums, the Kingston 'dim d.Iver, for
bringing whisky i.i this place, but bis
Kingston friend will allow no one to
serve, the warrant and a fight u ex
pectocL Terrible llusiness.
Bi ki.in, Dec. 16. The Midgermrf po
lice lave arrested a man and his wife
who hav? Ixwn in the habit of advertis
ing for female truveling couipai.io n
and then murdering and robbing tls ap-1
plic ints after decoying thoui to lonely
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WE'LL TOLIATI
Against Countries Which IIati
Not Sought Reciprocity.
A New Tariff Law Provision About
to Be Enforced.
Proclamation to Be Issued Nov
Year's Day.
China, Japau, Hawaii, H a jrtl, Uragma,
1'araguay and the Argentine SepakU
Will Have Ulsorlmluatlag Datles
possd on Their products France m4
German yWIll Kndeavor to Secure the
Repeal of the Sugar Bounty Clans el
the McRlnley Law.
Washington, Dec. 16. President
Harrison is about to take a most import
ant step in the commercial dealings of
this country with others. It is nothing
short of a proclamation now being pre
pared, practically placing an embargo
against idl countries which have not
made reciprocity treaties with the
United States under the provisions ot
the McKinley act. The procUvtuntlon
will be iwiued on the 1st day of JanuAry
next, which is less than three weeks of.
It will attach retaliatory duties po
sugar, molasses, coffee and tea imported
from those countries which hare t ailei
to take advantage of the reciprocity
clause.
This proclamation will be of more im
portance in its commercial effect Uaa
the negotiation of a dozen treaties, fot
it effects many countries, and practically
clows our custom house gainst the
chief articles of exjHirt of several nations.
The reciprocity section which empowers
the president to make this proclamation,
is as follows:
With a view to secure reciprocal trade
with countries producing the following
articles, and for this purpose, on and aft it
the 1st day of January, 16V2, whenever
and so often as the president shall be si.t
isllcd that the government of any country
producing aBd;ea)MrlaaTugasa, snolaaaM,
coffee, tea and hides, raw and uneured, or
any uf such articles, Impose duties or
other exactions upon the agricultural or
other products of the Uuited States whluh,
in view of Mia free introduction of such
sugar, Ptolatsee, coffee, tea and bides Isto
the L'nitjJ States ha may deem l be
reciprocally unusual and uarsoeehl.
be shall ha the power, and It shall
his duty, to suspend, by proclamation lis
that effect, the provisions of this art re
lating to the free Introduction of sure
sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hide,
the production of such country, for sunh
time as he shall deem just, and in stirh
pase, and during such suspension, duties
shall be levied, collected and paid upon
sugar, molaffsrs, coffeo, tea and hides, the
product of, or exported from such desig
nated country, as follows:
The act then specifies the discrimina
tory duties which may be imposed. Th'e
are seven-tenths of one cent per pontvt
on sugars not above No. 18 Dutch stand
ard, and ono and three-eighths cent p
pound on Migars above No. II Dutch
standard. On coffee the discriminatory
duty is throe cents per pound: on tea,
ten cents t pound, and on all kinds of
hides one and a half cents per pornd.
Who It Will Affect.
The proclamation will be it silly (im
portant in its effect on the grat tea im
tKirts of China and Japan, the tuormnns
riide products of the ArgenML Republic,
and the sugar and coffe r. relucts if
Uruguay, Paraguay and wrtl mil r
southern countries. CVna and Jarx
might have secured muiasi'jc of t! is
ten cents per pound duty .-i iem. bnt
they have fail-vi to take advantage of
the reciprfH-ity clause, and the pioclam
ation will lie specially directed against
them. The A vgentine Republic is the
great exporter of hides to thhi country.
The average vidne of importations la
seldom short of 14,000,000. Other conn
tries which will suffer by the pr-iai v
tion are Kayti r.nd the Hawaiian. Wan. Is,
with their great sugar products. nd the
Danish, Dutch and French colonies t
the south of tliis country.
I.ncky Ones.
The proclamation will also be import
ant In securing to the countries which
have embraced reciprocity the full ad
vantage of the United States markets In
engar, tea, coffee and hides. The coun
tries which thus fur have accepted re
ciprocity or are now tiegotiartna; treattssj
to that end are llrnr.il, Ssnto Doming,
CVsta Rica. British Columbia. Porte
Rico, British OnJ nv Guatemala, Co
lombia. British Honduras, Venemela,
fkinador, I'ern, Mexico, British Wee
Indies and Nicaragua.
Asidn from the commercial impsrfc
ance of thia proclamation, i wJl popu
larly be accepted as offset tir r the Tmtt
criticism directed at the pr.Tiut'a mew
sage because It wholly failed to mtntiva
reciprocity. This lies been ndehr
strued as an effort on the part of Ifr.
Harrison jo ignor Secretary Blaise's re
ciprocity plan. It sppears, however,
that the president fully agrees with Ms.
Blaine on the importance of a rerlpreo
ity program; so much so that he desires,
t j treat it specially in the proclamatiea
of Jiui. 1 rather than cover it np in a
general messago.
Afraid of the Sugar Bounty.
Washington, Doc. 16. It is stated
that France and Germany will try to se
cure the rnjkl of the bounty upon ear
domestic sagKf production provided ky
the McKinley hill as it threatens to M
enlarge sugar prodnction in this eonntay
as to Lnpair the industry in France and
Ifermuny. Tho latter conntrie intend
U use as a leverage to secure the rtTmal
of thi sugar liounty the fact that ihrj
fire now admitting our pork ard curet
to their shores.
School yuc.tlon la MaaleV,
Winnipko, Man., Doc. 16.- The ap
plication made by the Chnrch of En
gland to quash tho act recently psmd
by the Manitoba government ahJtrhing
all separate schools in the p"oHtcr ei
ManiUha, dinu up before tha full coot I
Monday. The docisi-m deck res the aoi
l)gal. The case wili b eppcaicd and ,
carried to tne privy coujm U (J ahtgltwia!
f need be.
tlllsmard.
Fceblo. Colo., Bo. ;f .' A
mow iitorro is raging tlw,ig!w.t "'to
section and part of New Mtiico. CaQe
are reported dyitr from cold s Jtrva
tiou. The blizxard has blAT eF Vtra
houses in this cit.