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£)£13 :Z,*M 1 -r :T i, -1 W ?'l I .1 'fl r'J t1 THE HERALD. BT BATEMAY it McDOXALD. "WESSINGTON SPRINGS, D. T. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Interesting News Compilation. CONGRESSIONAL. MR. AI.LTSON presented a memorial In the (Senate on the 11th from the Iowa Legislature •asking- th£ passage of a law to regulate faros land freights by railroad. A bill was intro Iduced to suspend the coinage of silver dollars (for two years, and providing for the issue of (one dollar and two dollar Treasury not at. In (executive session the Mexican treaty was rat SHed Jn the House majority and minority (reports were made on tno Morrison Tariff bill. (A lengthy debate ensued on the Post-office (Appropriation bill. IN the Senate on the 12tli a joint resolution iwas introduced by Mr. Jackson for a Con jetitutional amendment tlxing the term of jtlie President at six years, and making him •ineligible to re-election. A debate took place ion the I'leuro-pnoumonia bill and on the measure for the relief of Fit/. John .Porter In the House, in Committee of xhe .Whole on the Post-oftico Appropriation ibill, the clause limiting the salaries of post ,masters to $4,000 was stricken out, and an Amendment increasing the item for clerks by 'Sl&'UKW was rejected. A proposition was «iaile to increase by 5400,000 uie appropriation for carriers. THE bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter, •was passed in the Senate on the 13t.li by a vote of 38 to 25. A joint resolution was submitted appropriating $25,000 for the suppression of "the foot-and-mouth disease among cattle in [Kansas. A favorable report was made on the Iblll for the admission of Dakota In tho House, in Committee of tho Whole oil the Yost-office Appropriation bill, an amendment.' increasing the amount, for the free-delivery {Service to $4,000,000' was passed. IN tho Senate on the 14th a prolonged dis cussion took place on the joint resolution appropriating $25,003 for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease, in co operation with tho authorities of Kan sas, but no action was taken. Adjourned to the 17th.. .In the House a bill •.granting a pension of $2,500 JUT year to the sole surviving grandchild of Tliomas Jeffer son was defeated. Messrs. Keifer, Forney and Ellis were appointed as conferees on tho part of the House on the Military Academy Appropriation bill. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. DOMESTIC. A PATIENT at the Insane Hospital in In dianapolis, Ind., which had over one thou sand inmates, was on the 11th found to be •suffering from small-pox, and was trans ferred to the pest-house. A CIRCULAR to ail United States Attor ney's and Marshals has been sent out by Attorney-General Brewster, calling atten tion to the statutes regulating the shipment of explosives, and urging vigilance to pre vent the perpetration of heinous crimes at foreign ports. NEAR Lafayette, Ind., on the 12th Mi 'cbael Rorick, a wealthy farmer, was killed •by lightning. A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over Saline •County, Mo., on the 12th, doing great dam age to farin-kousos and stock. No one was killed, but several sustained serious in jury. AN extensive prairie fire was raging in the vicinity of Garnet, Anderson County, Kan., on the 12th, and several farm-houses and a large amount of grain had been de stroyed. Two WOMEN wero killed by the recent cyclone which wrecked Starkville, Miss. The total loss in the county was about $103,000. BEX THOMPSON, a well-known desperado, got into trouble with the equally notorious Deputy-Sheriff King Fisher, in the Vaude ville Theater at San Antonio, Tex., on the 12th, and both wore shot dead. ADVICES of the 12th from various points in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Kan sas indicated that the winter wheat crop •was in good average condition. FIVE laborers were injured and one was killed by a fall of coal in the Avondale shaft, near AVilkesbarre, Pa., a fow days ago. IV. W. SCOTT, indicted for stealing .?100, ©00 worth of the city bonds of St. Joseph, Mo., was acqiiitted at that placa the other day. THE Red Cross relief steamer Josh V. Throop arrived at Faducah, Ky., on the 12th, after distributing clothing, bedding, coal and cash all tlie way from Evansville down. FLAMES at Detroit on the 12tU, originat ing in Stradou's wooler-mills, destroyed •six manufacturing establishments, valued at $100,010. AFTER an idleness of several months •work has been resumed in the locomotive .works at Schenectady, N. Y., which em iploy one thousand men. JOHN BOYLE, City Treasurer of Erie, Pa., [recently defeated for a third term, disap Ipeared on the 12th, and a cursory investi gation developed a shortage in his accounts of $7,000. IT was stated on the 12th that two Scotcli men, reoently arrived in this country, car tried the germs of the foot and mouth dis Icase in their clothing, as they had been lierding infected cattle in Scotland. NEARLY all tho business places in Alle gan, Mich., including the Journal and Tribune and the Gazette and Democrat, iwere destroyed by fire on the 12th, the losses aggregating $300,000. It was sup iposed the fire originated from a defective flue. A fire on the same day at Grand Rapids dkl damage to the extent of $150, 090. A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed near Gun •ersville, Ala., on the 13th. H. S. Hess and Mrs. John Tidmore were killed, and JohnTidmore and Mrs. Frank Farmer were Beriously injured. About thirty houses were blown to atoms. The storm left the earth after devastating six miles. GEORGE TIFFANY, a son of tho abscond ing postmaster of Bennington, Vt., con fessed on the 13th to having stolen Gov ernment funds. TWENTY-ONE students were graduated a few days ago by the Woman'n Medical College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. CHICAGO packers reported on the 13th having slaughtered during the past year 3,852,058 hogs and 1,0S0,020 head of cattle. AT the anniversary meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society at Philadelphia on the 13th it was shown •hat the auxiliary societies had increased 332 during the year, and 7,061 persons had nbeen added to the membership. The re ceipts for the fiscal year wero $24,823. PRENTISS TILLER,who robbed the Pacific •Express at fr't. Loais, was arrested on the tl3th at Milwaukee and .fSOjOOOof the money recovered. McFadden, his accomplice, •was captured at Sherman, Tex., by means ot an intercepted telegraph from Tiller. AN explosion in tho Flat-top mine at Pocahontas, Va., early on the morning of £he 13th, killed one hundred and fifty men and destroyed all the structures on the sur face, houses two hundred feet from the mines being overturned, and the fan-house and fan entirely wrecked. Fire had bro ken out at the entrance to the mine, and it was feared the victims would be consumed, THREE passengers on tho Chicago & At lantic express wore despoiled of their mon ey and whtches by two men who entered the coacli early oil the morning of the 13th at Ada, O., and who held the conductor at bay with revolvers. IT was announced on the 13th that West ern manufacturers of brass had formed a syndicate to control tho market, and that threo large establishments had already beon absorbed. EIWARD SUMNER and Charles Thorn bui-g wero fatally shot during a saloon row at Mansfield, Pa., a few days ago, Tho persons who did tho shooting wero not known. THE Mississippi River at New Orleans was on the 13th within one inch of the high water of 1S7-1, and a rise of one foot would cause a general inundation. IT was ascertained on the 13th that two men were burned to death in the recent carpet-sweeper factory fire at Grand Rap ids, Mich. ON the 1-tth eighty-one thousand dollars in United States four per cent, bonds, dated July 1, 1877, and numbered from 59, 425 to Oil,4"2, were taken by burglars from a safe in Oenterville, Ind. A FIRE in Woodward, Faxon & Co.'s wholesale drug house at West Kansas City, Mo., the other morning, caused a loss of $95,005. An employe jumped from a fourth story window, and was fatally injured. THE foot-and mouth disease has broken out in Adair County, Mo. MATT LEWIS, a colored citizen of St. Louis, was executed on the 14th for killing his wifo seven years ago. He liadonoyear of liberty by breaking jail, and had been tried four times. Frank Slagel, who mur dered two brothers named Adair, for the purpose of robbery, was hanged at Somer set, Ky., in presence of the mother of his vie im s. IT was estimated on the 14th that in the region tributary to the Black Hills there were 363,903 cattle and S,700 sheep. Stock had wintered exceedingly well, the losses not being over one and one-half per cent. THE recent floods destroyed fifty-five bridges in tho Ohio Valley, which would require $.'10,000 to replace. A LAD named W. T. William.", while rid ing recently on the step of a' locomotive, at Minneapolis, was thrown to the lail, when the drive-wheel severed his head from his body. A KNOW-SLIDE on Aspen Mountain, Col orado, caused the death of tbree employes of the Vallejo mine a few days ago. THE grand levee in Pointe Coupee par ish, La., one of the largest embankments in the State, gave way on the 14th, owing to the enormous pressure of water against it, and flooded many of the most valuable sugar plantations in the State. The loss would be enormous. Scott levee, another great embankment in tho same parish, was in bad condition, and fears were felt that it would go. FREDERICK J. DIETRICH, the teller of the Laclede Bank of St. Louis, who was re cently shown to be a defaulter in tho sum of $30,000, was captured at his brother's house in St. Louis on the 14th. DURING tho seven days ended on thel4th the business failures throughout the United States and Canada numbered 224, against 204 the previous week. The dis tribution was as follows: New England States, 27 Middle, 41 Western, 53 Southern, 52 Pacific States and Terri tories, 13 Canada and the Provinces, 38. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THE Massachusetts State Democratic Convention will be held at Worcester April 30. THE California Democratic State Con vention will bo held at Stockton Juno 10. BISHOP WIGGER, of Paterson, N. J., re fused recently to allovr the funeral of William Hayden and wife to take place at his church, as they three years ago ig nored his order not to sell liquor on Sun day. ROBERT SMALLS (colored) has been nom inated for Consress by the Republicans of the Seventh District of South Carolina. LATE on the afternoon of the 11th a jury was secured at Petersburg, 111., to try Orrin A. Carpenter for the murder of Zora Burns, and Mr. Forrest cornmonced his address for the prosecution. WASHINGTON adviees of the 12th state that the House Committee on Coinage would make a favorable report on Mr. Bland's bill to stop the manufacture of one and three-dollar gold-pieces, tho three-cent nickel and thfftrade dollar. THE Wisconsin Democratic State Con vention, to elect delegates to the National Convention, will assemble at Madison May 20. THE Massachusetts Legislature has passed tho bill permitting the construction of Meiggs' elevated railroads in citios and towns. THE Republicans of Vermont will hold their State Convention at Hontpeiier April 30 to elect delegates to the National Con vention. THE Arkansas Sta^e Democratic Conven tion, to nominate State officers and select delegates to the National Convention, will be held at Little Rock June 25. THE Massachusetts House on the 13th, by a vote of 144 to 50, defeated the bill to extend municipal suffrage to women. THE Iowa Democrats will hold their State Convention at Burlington April 24: to select delegates to the National Conven tion. THE preamble of the bill passed by Con gress for the relief of Fitz John Porter re cites that a board of officers convened by the President to examine and report upon tho case of General Porter, stated that justice required the President to annul the findings and sentence of the courl-matial, and to restore him to the position of which thy sentence deprived him, such restoration to take effect from the date of his dismissal from service that the President had remitted so much of the sentence as dis qualified Porter from holding office. The bill authorizes the President to appoint Porter to the position of Colonel in tho army, and, in his discretion, to place Gen-' eral Porter on the retired list of that grade, Porter, however, to receive no compensa tion or allowance prior to his appointment under the act. A MASS convention of the inventors of the country, to take action to prevent pernicious legislation by Congress," has been called to meet at Cincinnati March 25. THE following is the vote in the United States Senate on the passage by that body of the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter: Feat—Bayard, Brown, Butler, Call, Cock rell, Coke, Colquitt, Fair, Farley, Garland, iibson, Gomiau, Groome, Humpten, Harris, Hear, Jackson, Jonas, Jones (Pla), Jones '(Nev.), l.aumr, McPlierson, Muxey, Morgan, I'ondleton, Pike, Push, Klddleberger, Sablti, Saulsbury, SQWOII, Slater, Vance, Voorhees, Walker and Williams. A'ays—Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Oon rar, Culloiu, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye, Harrison, Hawley, Hill, lngaJls, McMillan, Maiidiirson, Miller (Oal.), Mitchell, Morrill, 'Paling Piatt, Sherman, Van W'yok and Wil ton. Paired—Book, aye, with Jlale, no: Cameron Wis~.). nye, with George, no: Miller (N. YJ, no, with Camden, avo Plumb, no, with Vest, ayo Sawyer, no, with Kcnna, ayo. MEUBEBS of the Banking and Currency and of the Gointoge Committees of the House of Representatives at Washington expressed the opinion on the 14th that there was no prospect of the passage of a law at, this Congress for tho suspension of silver coiaage. A LEGISLATIVE committee which inves tigated the departments in NewYorkCity found on tho 14th the condition of affairs absolutely appalling, tho men who hold office not being tho ones who exercise power. A STATEMENT in the Chicago Tribune that J. Appleton Willson had been indict ed for complicity in the murder of his uncle and aunt at Winnctka was met by tho injured party on the 14 th by a suit for $10.'),000 damages for libol. JOHN TAFFE, receiver of tho land-offico at North Platte, who represented Nebraska in Congress for three terms, died a few days ago, aged fifty-seven years. THE West Virginia Republican State Convention, to elect delegates to the Na tional Convention, will be held at Martins burg April 13. i. FOREIGN. A SCHOONER was wrecked a few n^Jvts ago at Wick, Scotland, and six of her crew wero drowned. COWAN & Co., merchants of Glasgow, Scotland, have suspended paywent, with liabilities of £1(X),000. MRS. KILT and Mrs. Jones, sisters, over fifty years old, and a daughter of the latter, were found starving at Montreal on the 11th, beiug so weak that they could not speak. A DYNAMITE explosion occurred in a ho tel at Fulham, Eng., on th6 12th, and one man was killed. It was attributed to Fenians. A TRAIN on tho Canadian Pacific lload from Ottawa arrived ill Montreal on the 12th, having been nearly five days on the road. The track at some points was cov ered with twenty feet of snow. PEACE between Chili and Peru has been definitely arranged. The treaty has been ratified by the representative bodies of the two countries. THE Irish Justices in opening the assizes on the 12th agreed that tbero had been a gratifying diminution of crime. THE French occupied Bac-Ninh en the 13th. The victors had seventy wounded, and the Chinese loss was heavy. GENERAL GRAHAM on the 13th defeated Osman Digma after a stubborn fight of two and one-half hours' duration near Suak'im. The rebels fought with such desperation that they at one time broke the second British square. The rebel loss was esti mated at four thousand killed and six thousand wounded. Tho British loss was seventy killed one hundred wounded. BISMARCK, in a speech in the Reichstag on the 13th, on the Lasker resolution, said he recognized the good intentions of the American Congress, but could not harness himself to the car of opppsition. The re lations of the two countries had been quite satisfactory during his whole term as Min ister. TIUCHINIASIS, engendered by home-bred pork, has developed at several places in Germany. Tho Lyons Chamber of Com merce on the 14th entered a protest against the embargo on American hog product. Two EDITORS and thirty-six other persons were arrested at Pestli, Hungary, on. the 14th, on tho charge of complicity in the schemes of the Anarchists. ALICANT, Ea province of 'Spain, was se verely shaken up by an earthquake on tho 14th. LATER NEW3. OFFICIAL reports at Washington showed on the 15th that for six years and seven months, ended with December last, 478,303 persons emigrated from tho Dominion of Canada into tho United States. Two PIRSONS in the Sandwich (Ont.) jail for robbing a post-office, in making their escape on the ICth, killed the jailer and turnkey. ALL the land from Sharkey to Green wood, Miss., a distance of one hundred miles, was overflowed on the 10th. No loss of life er stock was reported, and the planters were in good spirits, as they be lieved tho worst was over. MRS. MCELROY, assisted by fourteem ladies, received over one thousand persons at tho White House on the 15th. AT Dayton, O., on the 15th the brother of Christine Kett, a youne girl murdered seventeen years ago, made a death-bed confession declaring that their mother had, previous to her death, confessed to committing the crime. THE Talue of exports of breadstuffs for February, 1884, was $10,103,338, against $11,577,301 for tho same time last year. For tho eight months ended February 29 the value was $110,309,840, against $149,. 431,113 for the corresponding period last year. A VIRULENT disease resembling blind staggers^has appeared among the horses of Oregon, and a largo number of valuable animals had succumbed to it. Over four hundred had died in two counties up to the 15th. THE Secret-Service division of tho Treas ury Department at Washington discovered a counterfeit silver certificate of the de nomination of twenty dollars on the loth. The paper is much shorter than the gen uine, and is thick and stiff. WHILE carelessly handling a revolver on the 15th in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dennis Riley shot and killed his betrothed, Celia Ren ney, aged seventeen years. CUBAN troops had a fight on the 15th with the bandit baud of Santa Claro, kill ing three and capturing eleven.- Tweuty two others subsequently surrendered. IN tho cattle-contagion district of Kansas quarantine was strictly enforced on the loth, and it was believed there was no danger that the disease would spread from asy herds now known to be infected. MISS ELIZA, eldest daughter of Governor Thompson, of South Carolina, died on the 15th from burns received while reading at an open grate. CHARLES W. HASLER, of New York City, a railroad bond broker, failed on the 15th for $100,000, and Wolff & Seligsberg, coffee dealers, suspended for $230,000. THE U. S. Senate was not in session on tho 15th. In the House the time was occu pied, in Committee of the Whole, in dis cussing the Post-office Appropriation bill. Di A TOMB OF FLAMES. One Hundred and Fifty Men I-OM Their Liven by an Exploxlan of l'iro-Dnnvp In A Coal Aline at Pocahontas Va. PETERSBURG, Va., March 14.—A tele gram from Pocahontas is as follows: "Tho night relief went into the mines at tho usual hour Wednesday night, one hundred and fifty strong. A littlo after midnight the town was startled from its sleep by a report that, sounded liko the rumbling of an earth quake, followed by a clap of thunder, fc^oon a messenger came from the mines, three quarters of a milo away, with information to the Superintendent th.it there had beep a terrible explosion there. Tho Superintend ent and others went to the mines at oneo, and the scenes there were indescribable. Words could not convey the slightest idea of the destruction wrought in a few short seconds. Signs of it were plainly visible on every hand. The entrance to the main draft had been entirely torn out and scattered pell-mell for hundreds of feet The little train track was torn and twisted, and the shapeless tim bers and ties were mixed in confusion all around. The cars were taken up bodily, torn in twain, and their iron wheels broken and shivered. They were thrown throe hundred and four hundred feet away. The ridge and the timber on the ridge opposite this draft were blackened to (lie summit, six hundred feet away. A searching party found a pair of shoes that had been blown to the summit of the ridge, and a mule was found at the same place twisted into an in describable mass. The second entrance to the mine pre sented a similar appearance to tho (irst. At this point lived a Hungarian family named Glassee, wliosc house was shivered almost to atoms, but, wonderful to relate, the in mates escaped without serious injury. At the entrance of the fan tunnel stood the company's large elevator, which, with a house around it, was swept entirely away, leaving the engino standing on the founda tion and all shattered and broken, with tho pipes twisted and forced. The force of the explosion must have been terrific. Rocks were thrown through the work-shops, and every object that stood in the direct eourso of the forced air was demolished. Several work men in tho shops wero seriously injured, and the shops, as well as the locomotive liouse, were leveled with the ground. Of the one hundred and iil'ty men in the mine at the time of the explosion, not one lias returned to the surface to tell the story of the calamity. There is no probability that a single soul survives. Parties who ventured into the mine yesterday morning found several mangled bodies, one of which was identified as that of M. L. Hampton, night foreman, who leaves a wife and large family. About thirty-live Hungarians are among the victims. The others are coored men and white miners o£ this State and Pennsylvania. It is pretty well concluded that tho explosion was caused by fire-damp, though it is inex plicable how the horizontal coal vein above the water level contained so much explosive gas. The churches and houses at Poca hontas are draped in mourning, and busi ness is entirely suspended. Flat Top Mount ain, over the mine, is rent by the convulsion. The hill under which the mine is dug was rent in several places by the caving-iu of the tunnelling beneath. The six bodies recovered have not vet been recognized, as they are too badly dis figured. From tho position in which they lay it was evident that the explosion did not take them unawares, but that some premon itory warning was given, and they were at tempting to make their escape when tho liery blast overtook them. Last night at seven o'clock it was thought an entrance could bo had, as the smoko shewed signs of decreasing. A party of men attempted to get in, and lmd gone below ground, when a volume of ilame shot up, and they were hurriedly assisted to the sur face. One of ttieir number, an Italian named Carlo Pranchi, was missing, and had evidently dropped l'rom the cage. All of the party were badly burned, and this showed how fruitless were any hopes at rescue. The shaft at eight p. m. was a roaring funnel of flame. All the outbuildings in the vicinity ignited, and the fan-house, which had been looked to as the salvation of any of the men who might be alive below, caught also. A shriek of despair went up again at this catastrophe, which was regarded as fatal to all hopes of rescue. The men fought manfully to save tho building from destruction, but without avaH, and it was soon a mass of cinders. It became evident at tliis hour that the whole mine was ablaze, and it doubtful whether it can bo ex tinguished for weeks, if at all. This settles the fate of tho unfortunates below the ground and they have_absolutely no chance for life. Kot the least distressing of phases of tho calamity is the fact that all the families of the dead will bo left utterly homeless in the wild mountain region. Such a perfect scene of destruction is hard to picture. The passages in the mine have been entirely destroyed, and the entire hill will have to be excavated to got to some of the chambers. The mine in which the disaster occurred is known as the Flat-top Mine, and is sit uated in the northeast portion of Tazewell County, at the-base of tho Flat-top Mount ains, which divide that section of' Virginia from West Virginia. The company work mg the mine is known as the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, but the in inert are really under the control of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Companv, who have a branch road, the New River Di vision, running from New River to Poca hontas, about sixty miles. J. C. Ilsey. of Pennsylvania, is President of the Improve ment Company, and William A. Lathrop, Superintendent. The mines are compara tively new, having been in active operation but a little over a year. From live hundred to six hundred hands were employed, and a large quantity of coal was being taken out. Pocahontas is a small mining town of a few hundred inhabitants, situated in the hills of laze well County, twenty miles from any railroad. Mail is delivered there from Petersburg. „whluli is the nearest railroad town —In a recent speech at Calcutta, Prof. Monier Williams pointed out that some of the inscriptions at the exhibi tion there were liable to bo misunder stood, as, for instance, that under an image of Bali. This god is accounted the prince of darkness, tho despot of the infernal regions, and the Indian cataloguer has named him "Tlie Kinir of the Netherlands." —A Washington boarding-house mis tress created considerable excitement in one of the bureaus of the Treasury Department recently by publicly cow hiding a young clerk who had failed to pay his board bill.— Washington Star. TILLER TAKEN. ArrMt In Mlt^ank®® of tho St. Loul* B** p™« Thief—Nearly All the Stolen Fund. Recovered. MILWAI-KF.B, Wis., March 14.—Excite ment is great here over the arrest yesterday morning of Prentiss Tiller the coniklential clerk of the Pacilic Express Company at St Louis, whose bold theft recently of com pany funds to the amount of nearly $100, 000 is still fresh in the minds of the public. He was captured by detectives of this city about ten o'clock yesterday mornins. When arrested lie was dressed in ragged clothing, wore a red wig, and his intention evidently was to assume the disguise of a tramp. A portion of tho funds, amounting in the ag gregate to eighty thousand dollars, was re covered. He endeavored to shoot the offi cers who made the arrest The story of the capture is as follows: A man in the dress of a workingman entered the trunk-manufactory m,oest of Carpeles & Co.,on East Water street, and asked to be shown a trunk of a cert.iin size and price. llis was granteil, and ho selected and bought such an article as he desired, llo stated that he was on his way to Detroit, and as his sachcl, though somewhat worn, contained such clothes and other articles as he wished to take, he would simply have the satchel placed in the new trunk, safely packed, and tho trunk and contents then for warded to Detroit Wednesday tha saciiel, without the owner, reached the trunk-store. It lay about for a time, awaiting further orders from the man, who finally put in an ap pearance and gave directions as to the man ner in which the sa' chel should be packed, and further directed that the trunk be sent to the depot addressed to Detroit for him. lie then disappeared, evidently on his way to tho city named. One of tiie employes of the store proceeded to obey orders in regard to packing, when the satchel was accident-lily broken. An ef fort to clo3e tho rent resulted in mak ing the matter worse, and the con tents of the bag began to fall out On gathering up tne bundles he found them wrapped in the Pacific Express Company's labels, and closer examination disclosed that every package contained money, the total amounting to nearly $90,000. The polico were notilied, and, with the description of the man, traced him to a cheap boarding house in the third ward, but he was not at home. They found his trunk and seized it As the boarding-house people said the man was frequently out all night, the police continued searching the city, thinking he must be on a spree. Ho returned to the trunk store to ask about the valise and was arrested. He has been at the Third Ward boarding-house since March 8, but it is not known whether or not he boarded anywhere else before that Besides money there was a large amount of valuable jewelry in the valise. Tho money was placed in tho Merchants' Exchange Bank. He has made a clean breast of the whole matter, and con fesses that he and an accomplice committed a huge robbery. His accomplice is also un der arrest Whe» eounted at the Express Company's office tli* ]wle was found to contain 539,000 in currency and $1,480 in coin, which, with S3,500 found on Tiller's person, makes near ly $45,O08T In addition to this there is be tween §2,000 and $3,000 iu jewelry and gold-bars. Tho checks were not counted hero, bilk Mr. G. N. Thiol, who has been working the case, said that the checks would probably amount to fully as much more as the currency, wliioli would bring the total amount above $100,000. ANOTHER mimsu VICTORY. Four Thousand Arabs {Said to Have Seen Slain in a Two Hours' Flglit Near Zariba. SUAKIM, March 14.—General Graham has achieved another decisive victory over the hordes of Osman Digma. The xiritish troops remained quietly encamped Wednesday night about one mile from the camp of the rebels. About one o'clock yesterday morn ing the enemy opened fire in the bright moonlight The British were called up to repel the expected charge, but no attack came, and tho men were ordered to lie down. The fusilado continued all night, but no reply was made by the Brit ish. At daybreak the men were formed for the attack. The British forces advanced in two brigades, which had been thrown into tho form of squares. A Gardiner's gun and a liine-pouuder were turned against the reb els, who were only thirteen huudred yards away, and affordbd a most excellent target Colonel Stewart's cavalry arrived at 6:30 o'clock, and took up position on the Brit ish line so as to turn the enemy. As the British were advancing, the reb els, under cover of tho smoko which en shrouded the soldiers, crept close up to the first square on their hands and knees, and, suddenly rising, dashed against tho bay onets of the marines and the Sixty-fifth and the Black Watch regiments. They gave and received fearful wounds and paused great confusion. The Sixty-fifth began to retreat and crowded upon tlie marines. All became inextricably mixed. General Graham and his stalf dashed into the midst of the lines and did their utmost to rally the retreating men. After the Britisli had retired eigfit hundred yardb the lines wero reformed and assist ance arrived from the other brigade, after which all went weli. In the meantime the rebels made a terri ble onslaught on the Second Brigade. They crawled up to tho lines on their hands anil knees, carrying their long swords in their teeth. As soon as they got near enough they began slashing with ttieir weapons regardless ef the galling tireof tho British riflemen. The British were HO match for the rebels atclose quarters, and soon began retreating, but in the utmost order. Thoy wero unable to carp- off their Gatling and Gardiner guns, which were only recovered after a severe fight, when tha British gained possession of the rebel camp. The Arabs fought with the greatest pluck and most reckless bravado. The battle was mueh lieavier than the engagement at Teb, stnd several times it looked as though tho enemy would prove victorious. Caieful estimates of the losses on the sido of the British show that some seventy-five were killed and over one hundred wounded Ot the enemy over two thousand are lying dead on the field of battle, and it is almost positive that their total death list will aggre gate four thousand, while tho wounded will number at least six thousand. General Gra ham is cucaniped in Osman Digma's late position, but will return to Suakim to-day. Chicago's Packing Interest. CHICAGO, March 14.—Howard, White & Co., of this city, have just issued their an nual circular of the packing in Chicago dur ing the past twelve months. The summer packing of hogs was 1,900,408 head aver age net weight, 200^ pounds yield oi laid, ob.s»4 pounds. The winter-packing of hogs was 2,011,384 head average nei weight, -OjJ.37 pounds yield of lard, Tel!SrMeXCl'diminS THE TARIFF. The Morrlnon Bill, Revised by 1 Way* »»d Menu Committee, Report! I to the House—The Bl«Jorlty and Mlil0, I ity Keportt Accompany tug the Doc^l merit* I WASHINC.TOX, March 18.—The majority! and minority reports of tho Ways, and Means Committee 011 the Morrison Tariff bill werJ submitted to the House yesterday. The di, I vision was upon strict party lines. Morri. I son says he does not know when he will call the bill up for action. The majority, report says: The Chairman of tlie Senate Committee 0-1 Finance, in explanation of the bill before thj Senate last year, which, after various ameiu! inentF, became a low, estimated at $45,xj" the reduction in revenue which would follow the changes in the tariff. Ihese caleulntiuna have not been veritled. So the question siiii presses, what legislation is neec-s. irr to relieve tho people of unnecessary taxes? Your committee tind that in tho months ending December3, IKS), merelmtulVr. was imported into the United States valued «t fSSS si'8.103. on which duties wore pai.l anionm ing to fi'ti..ril4.13«, being 40.91 per cent, oathV. value thereof'. In the corresponding sjv months of ISrf, under the old law, the value of dutiable imports amounted to $3(i0,85«,: and the duty paid was fill,206,507, or 42.05 cent. 011 the value. It thus appears that ilio. av erage cost of importing was only l.vt ]K.r cenu less under the new than under the ohi law. The nominal reduction made by the pro posed bill is twenty per cent., or one-lifth tha, present rate. With the Morrill tariff limita tions in the bill, and the liquor and silk sched ules omitted, the actual reduction will not ex ceed l.i.74 per cent. The average reduction made in the Tariff-Commission bill and tlmt to be made by the proposed bill, together, da, not roach the reduction at which the commit sion aimed. The decrease in revenue as shown by tho receipts under the new law other than that re-' suiting from the nominal reduction of per cent, results from the falling off of nearly tlin.UOS.O'O of the imports in the lirst. hall' jvar under the new la-.v, as compared with the tirsn half of the previous year undor the old law. The reduction of revenue under the bill res ported is estimated at $31,000,IKM, on the basis of last vear's imports. To the extent of that $ u,000.000 the bill will relieve the people of unnecessary taxes. To that extent taxes will be reduced directly as g, measure of justice to consumers, and in dir.-otlv in largely increased proportions, l'rom the statement made by the llureau of Statistics it appears that the duties or taritr taxes were decreased on some and increased 011 other articles under the new law, lint, while this is true, there has been no increase in wages in any, but a reduction of wages in most industries, as well as iu those whose competing products received more, as in. those that obtained less protection under tho act of -March last. Referring to the condition of tho iron and steel trade, as one of the leading manufact ures. the report attributes the depression and the enforced idleness of the workingmcn to the enormities oT the protective system, and declares that, as such calamities always fail upon the laborers, the committee had de cided to report a bill for the partial relief of the people from unneeossary taxes. The minority report, which was prepared by Mr. McKinley. after reciting the action oi the hist Congress iti revising the tariff in places where reductions were needed, urges that the time which has elapsed since the new tariff went into effect has beon too short to give it a sufficient lest, and asks that it, bo given a fair trial before the subject is brought up again. Another objection urged is that t'.io reduction proposed by the bill under consid eration has not been asked lor by a single in terest in the whole country. Continuing, the report says: Whiie all unite in opposition to any reduc tion some interests assert the necessity of an increase of duties for the actual maintenance of an industry. The wool-growors of the country demand the restoration of tlio wooL duty of 187U. The undersigned have sought to respond favorably to this dumaud of more than a million of our l'ellow citizens representing tho agriculture of tiie country, but we have been overruled. The opponents to our views, not con tent with the refusal to accede to the requests of this large class of producers, deliberately propose to reduce duties still lower. Against this we enter a moat earnest protest. There are someliieipiaiiUes, however, fouud in the present Ifiw which it would be only just to correct. Among these, wire rods, cotton-dig and rin piaies bear greatly dispiouort.ouaie duties to kindred articles, and should be mado consistent and harmonious. We are opposed to the bill, bcoauie, firstr It will disuirb business, unsettle values., retard incipient enterprises, cripple those now established, impair tlie confldenco among business men so essential to our development and prosperity, and bring 110 countervailing be net! is. !•'. It will of necessity force down the prioe of labor in the United States, wiil stimulate imports, increase competition from abroad,, which can only be successfully mot by re ducing the cost of home product. We can not too strongly emphasize our opposition to* any legislation which even teuds to reduce our labor to the foreign standard, either iu price or condition. 3. That tho proposed reduction will inevit ably increase foreign Importations, and as a. consequence will increase our revenues, to which increase every interest of the country is opposed. 4. It is wholly.unnecessnry and unjustifiable The enormous increase in the wealth of the country during the last liftoen years, under a protective tariff, now forces capital to seek employment in the development of all min eral, agricultural and other resources, and a change or modification of the system 11 create such doubt of successful enterprises as to chock this useful tendency. 5. It has none of the merits of a carefully matured Tariff bill, and is not tho result of a. studious consideration of the iuterests of our people. It proposes to reduce alike tlie duty upon every article of foreign import, without, any examination as to its effect upon particu lar industries, and wholly ignoring ius neces sary effect in advancing prices abroad by the. desi ruction of competition at home. Vvhilo nominally it is uniform reduction, in fact.it ia grossly unequal under the limitations of tho bill, and it will be found difficult if not im practicable of execution. 6. That feature of the bill which applies nd-. valorem duties to most of tho schedules af fected by it is especially objectionable, be cause It will greatly increase the existing evil of undervaluation, and consequent frauds upon the revenue, as well as so complicate the rule of assessment duties as greatly to embarrass the administration of the law. Against the statement of the majority as to the effect ot protective duties upon wages, is. the statement of the workmen themselves, wlio unite in declaring tlmt protective duties are essential to fair and remunerative wages, and that every reduction inevitably results in lowering t.he standard of American wages. We dissent radieaiiy from the statement of the majonty that a reduction of duties lighten* by so much the buudens of taxation. The whole history of our National experience shows a constantly decreasing price as the eneet of increased heme competition, "hat the country wants most is relief iroin Congressional agitation. All the indus tries ol the country are extremely sensitive, nnu just at tbie time, when business is inor© or less depressed in every branch, threat or tear of change introduces an element of un— certainty throughout the. country the evil ef fects ot which no one can foresee. Twenty or mi' fi™. "dl 1 1 "lns reduction how- 80close upon the redue- tions made last winter ean not bo defended „l° „fcmfle schedule, and as to many r'10"'n to te wholly disastrous. '.'lftor a sufficient trial of the ef- 1, '"f1 revlsK,u. 11?. ?, ,? shall appear that 'nl."-'sts of the country can be and tllat tho sI.nh ry condition of W'i ju8tlfy a further revision., k- Ii! !5 .more wisely undertaken with of the protective system, and than ^,nce. public prosperity. 5 a ad at so protection? American system of re l'lKen, i- 'V' h!ts.son- berenf .l,» '"n McKinley, Unssell and ivPr,Bln,fA1 tbo Republican rnernr Otis of the ays and Menus Committee. A Cyclone In Mississippi. JACKSON, Miss., March 13.—A cyclone Sirnek the agricultural college at Sharkville. yesterday afternoon. Captain Lucas was 'tij bounded. All the buildings wero1 more or less damaged, and stock suffered! frr^tn Ff™ ilnplerncnts blowu aii(| Sirin7 34.5? pounds, lotal number of hogs packed foi tilt twelve months, 3,911,792. The num. head. year, tor Jilt^ mny Vlctims fenoes and! the total damage. At West Point every cabin iu gin house on tlie plantation of Major. V:"'^as wrecked by a terrific wind-storm, reP°rt«1 a' lost. Rain -fell i«i lU'S' accomPau'ed by bait a 10X13 toWB' .. .. .&?•,