APPALLING REPORTS.
TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION IN LOUIS-
VILLE.
FEARFUL LOGS OF LIFE,
NEW York, March 28, —The terrif-
fie storms West appear to have been of
fatal force im the vicinity of Louise
ville, Kentucky, although there are no
positive or definite reports upon which
to base any estimate of the damage,
There is not at this hour, 2 o'clock,
a. m., por has there been for several
hours, any Information whatever from
the city of Louisville or vicinity.
There have been rumors of alarming
loss of life by the force of the cyclone,
but everything needs confirmation.
The absolute breakdown of all tele-
graph facilities causes gieat apprehen-
sion and sus; ense, The city of Louls-
ville is beyon! a'l reach of the tee.
gravh, and is a dead city, so far as wire
communication is ¢g: c+ined, The cy-
clone must have spent its greatest force
the e,
A report rece ved here says the chief
operator of t'e Western Uulon, at
Louisville, lind arrived at Jeflferson-
ville, Ind., actos the river from Louls-
ville. He reports terrible destruction
there, almost the entire western portion
of Louisviile being n ruins,’ and 1000
to 1500 supposed to ba killed.
This information is sald to come over
a rallroad wire between Jeffersonville
and Indianapolis. This must only be
taken as a rumor, as thereare no means
of confirming the reports at prasent,
and the statement Is only given in the
absence of authentic information,
Cricaco, March 27.—A late special
says that Metropol's, a small village in
Illinois, about 35 miles from Cairo,
was destroved by the storm, and sev-
eral hundred people were killed and in-
jured,
LovisviLLE, Ky. March 28 —
Shortly after 9 o'clock a tornado swept
over this city, wrecking two or three
bundred houses and killing 200 people
The wind came from the southwest.
The Union Depot, atthe foot
Seventh street, was lifted from
foundbtion and turned over into the
raging torrent of the Ohlo river, A
traln of cars making up for the Louis.
ville Southern Road went over with
the building.
Falls City Hall, on West Market
street, was wrecked, In the hall were
over one hundred people, and but few
of them escaped alive. Many build-
ings, after falling, caught fire and the
inmates were burned.
All streets are blockaded with debris
of fallen buildings or telegraph and
electric wires,
This despatch is carried around the
¢ity to the bridge and sent by railroad
wires,
St. Louis, March 28, —A special to
the Republic from Cairo, 111, says the
storm struck that city at 4.30 P, M,
The barometer registered 29.5, the low-
est record for years.
The wind, while it lasted, blew with
great violence, The largest hall ever
seen here fell in large quantities. Three
houses were blown from their founda-
tions at Bird's point. Mill creek, 22
milea porth of here, several houses
were blown down and a number of
people injured.
At Little Prairie, a few miles distant
from here, the storm destroyed the
residence of William Rhine, and Mr,
Rbine wag internally injured and no!
expected to live, Two of his children
were carried a quarter of a mile to the
home of David Smith, They were un-
injured,
Smith’s house was destroyed, He
rushed out with his little girl and a
tree fell on them. Neither is expected
to live. Fritz Krum’s house was blown
away and be apd his wife probably
fatally Injured.
Henry Taylor and famlly had a like
fate. Two wete young ladies, a Miss
Moris and Miss Maggie Simmonds —
both of whom will dis from their in-
juries,
All the doctors have gone from this
district to attend the injured, There
is a Poland settlement directly in the
path of the storm which bas not been
beard from, and it is feared great loss
of life bas occurred there
A special to the Republic from Car-
bondale, 11, says a disastrous cyclone
passed through Jackson county this
afternoon. At Grand Tower a coach
of the Grand Tower and Carboudale
Railroad was blown from the track.
A number of houses were leveled to
the ground and three lives are reported
Jost.
Near Murphysboro, Mr, Linsley’s
dwelling was litetaliv blown to pieces,
his child killed and bis wife dacgerously
injured. At Carbondale, the banking
house of W, Hi, Wilkes, was unroofed,
and several houses more or leas dam-
aged
st. Louis, March 28 —A special to
the Iepulbiic from Coultersville, IIL,
says the monotony of this quiet little
town was broken to-day by a disas-
trous wind storm, accompanied by hail
the size of hen’s eggs.
The storm struck the town at 3 34
with terrific force, shattering windows
and unroofing houses, tearing down
av uings and filling the streets with de-
of
its
The storm assumed the Importance
of a eyclone south of us, and there are
numerous stories of narrow escapes,
Wastmisaron, March 27, 1.30 p. m,
~The Signal Officer furnishas the fol-
lowing special bulletin to the press:
Al 8 o'clock this morning a severe
storm was central In Eastern Kansas,
with velocliy on the eastein side of U6
miles southeast at St. Louis, on the
southern mide of 48 miles west, in
Northern Texas; on the western side
of 60 miles north, in Colorodo, and on
the northern side of 36 miles north, in
Nebraska and Sonth Dukota, with a
severe blizzard and snow in Nebraska,
Warnings were sent out this moro
fag for severe local storms in Blates
of Ohio, Indians, Ilinole, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama,
and for a severe norther ex-
tending from Kansas to Northern
Texas to-night aud Lo-moOrrow morn-
ing. AL poou the storm hac tnoved
eastward, so as to cover all lilinots,
with high winds, Chileago reporting 40
want and jocreasing. :
MixNeArous, Minn,, March 27.
A —————— —————— OP A RIO RNA
t Minnesota, Dakotaand Iowa show that
A general snow storm has prevailed
throughout these States during the day,
The storm has been most severe in
Northern Iowa, where railway traffic
has been impeded and stock will suf.
fer to some extent, In Dakota the
snow is regarded as a great benefit to
the crops now being seeded. The tem-
perature at all points is little below the
freezing point. The snow is very light
here,
ST. PAUL, Minn, March 27,—A
snow storm has been raging in Soulh-
ern Minnesota and South Dakota, ac-
companied by severe winds, It has
not been cold, and the wet snow is
considered a cause for rejoicing among
the farmers, the ground now being
molster than for years at this season,
In some places the storm was the worst
of the year, At Sioux Falls the wind
drove the snow at the rate of eighty
miles an hour,
MiLwavkee, Wis., March 27,—The
weather is comparatively warm, but
snow fell heavily and the wind blows
flercely., In places drifts are plled so
high that the street car lines have had
to suspend traflic. Telephone wires
scatter the streets and trip up pedes-
trians,
New Onrreans, March 27.—The
Times Democrat's Greenville, Miss,
special says: Heavy winds have been
blowing all day, causing the levees to
wash badly,
A terrible storm has been and is now
ragiug at Leota and Washington, sev-
eral houses and stores baving been
blown down,
The wind 18 rising here again. Coun-
trymen, hitherto confident. believe a
terrible disaster imminent.
Kaxsas Ciry, March 27
has prevailed throughout Kansas and
Southwestern Missouri to-day. Snow
is reported from some portions of
Western Kansas,
The barometer varied In different
localities from 28 at Wichita to 20-28 at
this point, the lowest reported for
years,
Tue velocity of the wind was extra-
ordinary for such a long continued
storm. At Wichita, Kansas, the wind
did comsiderable damage. Heavy plate
glass windows were smashed in, signs
displaced and chimnpeytops blown
down. The water works building was
partially unroofed and a part of one
wall was blown down, falling upon a
workman named Willlam Eads and
severely injuring bim., lathe northern
part of the city, where the wind bad
the freest play, several shanties and
outhouses were demolished, Telegraph
wires are in a bad condition,
~A storm
— —— .
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
~The Cannon Ball train on the
Louisville and Nashville Rallroad ran
a misplaced switch at Linck’s
Depot, in Nashville, Tennessee, on the
24th, wrecking several cars and killing
Alexander Sievenson and Benjamin
Daley, both colored, An express train
ran into the rear of a freight train on
the Pennsylvania Raliroad, near Dris-
tol, Penua., on the evening of the 234,
and the express was deralled, Engi.
neer Kelley had three fingers of his
right hand cut off, and his fireman had
one leg s0 badly lacerated that it had
to amputated, The road was
blocked for several hours, It said
the collision was caused by the opera-
tor s«tiing a white instead of a red sig-
nal
feyt
nto
be
in
~—A violent storm swept over por-
Carolina on the after-
noon of the 23d, Many telegraph wires
are still down, and satisfactory reports
have not yet been received, So far as
known the loss of life was small, but a
number of houses were damaged, There
is po further apprehension of a flood at
Cineinaati. worl was recelved on the
evening of the 24th of a stationary or
falling river in the Obio and all ita
tributaries, from Portsmouth ap. The
rivers at Pittsburg were receding on
the 24th and fears of a flood were over.
The tracks of the Pittsburg and West.
ern Ratlroad were partially submerged,
~The boiler in a sawmill pear
Wickiiffe, Kentucky, exploded on the
evening of the 229, demolishing the
mill and killing John Dennis and
Frank Parker, mill hands, and badly
sciding R. J. Jameson, the engineer,
who will probably die. William Nance,
John McCawley and Willlam Sullivan
were sh.ghtly wounded, The cause of
the accident is unknown.
tions of South
- A passenger train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad was wrecked near
Nixon, Montana, on the 25th, The
cars took fire and were burned except
two sleepers, Express Messenger
Miles is missing, and it is supposed he
was burned to aeath, Two emigraut
passengers, two lady tourists, one
child, the baggagemaster, a postal
clerk and porter of the tourists’ sleeper
were Injured. At New Harmony, In-
diana, on the evening of the 24th, Pro-
fessor Richard Owen, an ex-soldier and
scientist, and A. N. Tretagot a mer-
chant, drank embalming fluid by mis.
take for mineral water, Owen died in
a few hours and Tretagot is not expec-
ted to recover.
~-Michae! Furey was stabbad by
William W. Foley in Susquehanna,
Fa., on the 26th. It 18 feared that the
wounds will prove fatal. Foley es
caped. Bud Wheeler, a mulatto, was
fatally stabbed in Kansas City, Mis.
sourli, by Grant Jones sarly on the
morning of the 256th. Thay guarreled
over a game of pool,
~ Mary Giles, aged 25 years, was
taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, in
New York, on the 25th, with her leit
tand severed from the wrist, Subse.
quently the police found the severed
member in the parlor of her residence,
She refused to make any statement
and the facts of the occurrence could
not be Jearned. It 18 supposed the
woman, who has been living apart
from her husband, became suddenly
Sethented and committed the deed her
~A wagon containing John Brown
and the three small children of a
neighbor, was struek by a train in San
Frunciseo, on ihe 25h. Brown snd
two of the children were killed and the
other child was badly hurt,
-
|
—In Long Island Cily, on the after.
noon of the 26th, in presenee of scores
of people passing along Borden avenue,
John Ropan, an ex-car driver, shot and
mortally wounded Alfred Moulton,
General Superintendent of the Stein-
way and Hunter's Point Railroad,
Ronan had a grievance against Moul-
ton, who had discharged him some
time ago.
~A freight wreck occurred at
Shelby’s station, a few miles west of
Altoona, Penna, on the evening of the
20th, as the result of a rear end col-
lislon.
two hotels and a dwelling, The en-
gineer of engine No. 885 had his wrist
broken in fighting the flames, Travel
was delayed from three to four hours,
At 11.30 P. M. the fire was still burn.
ing, and it was reported that ass'stance
had been telegraphed for.
~— During a runaway in Madison, Ip-
diana, on the 26th, Captain Henry
Tower and Charles Cravens jumped
from the carriage, and the former was
dangerously hurt, The team ran upon
the sidewalk, running over and it is
feared fatally Injuring Miss Alice
Y ater.
~The levee in front of Skipwith,
Issaquena county, Mississippi, about
70 miles above Vicksburg, broke on
the morning of the 26th, and by even-
Ing the crevasse was 400 feet wide and
cutting rapidly. The water In the
town was up to the eaves of the hou-
ses, and the people were sald to be
“swimming for their lives,’
—8, 8. James, of Compton, Penna.,
walked into the Empire breaker at
Wilkesbarre on the 26th to watch the
working, and was caught by a loaded
coal car and crushed to death, He
was 305 years of age, and leaves a wife
and four children,
that while a funeral procession was
crossing a swollen stream over the
Tennessee border, and the hearse had
water opened the doors of the vehicle,
and before it could be prevented the
and were lost.”
-—A despatch from Sasquehanna,
Pa., says that as a freight traln was
passing over the high Starrucea
duct, at Lanesboro, on the 206th, the
wind blew the roof from a car, and
it fell upon Patrick Monalen acd
Thomas Shaughnessy, track laborers,
The former was fatally hurt
—Lincoln Shannon, a clerk, was
on. the evening of the 25th. He was
strolling along Portland stroet when
he was suddenly confronted by two
women with revolvers, They requested
him to hold up his hands ana he
promptly complied, when one of the
women went through bis pockets and
got §7. The women were
dressed and heavy veiled,
very large and strong
aud the other
Que was a
looking
was of medium height,
blst CONGRESS.~=First Session,
EENATE.
In the United States Senate, on the
25; bills were introduced by Mr, Mor-
rill to establish an educational fuod
from the proceeds of public lands, and
by Mr. Farwell, giving a pension of
$2,000 & year to the widow of General
Crook. Mr, George introduced a joint
resolution to amend the Constitution
80 48 to give Congress power for the
suppression of “combinations in re-
straint of trade or production.” and
*"to prevent transactions that creale a
WOonopoly or Increase or depress the
prices of commodities that are or may
become subjects of commerce among
the States or with foreign nations.”
The Anti-Trust bili was discussed, and
a motion by Mr. George for the refer-
ence of the bill and amendments Lo the
Judiciary Committee was rejected,
Pending action on amendments the
Senate adjourned
In the U, 8 Seaate, on the 26th, Mr,
Sherman, from the Commities on For.
eign Relations, reported a substitute
for the first section of the Mest lo-
spection bill, which, be said,
intended to meet the objections
packers and dealers in pork. Mr, Me.
Pherson, from the Committees
and to purchase a site for and to erect
A naval magazine at
{and appropriating $71,000 for the par-
pose). Mr. Hiscock moved to amend
by appropriating a further sum
$75,000, to enable the Secretary of the
Treasury to improve Ellis Island for
immigration pucposes. The smend-
ment was agreed to and the joint reso-
lution was passed. Adjourned,
ln the U. 8, SBenate, on the 27th, the
House bill for the pnrchuse of 2000
teuts for the Mississippl flood suflerers
was passed, A bill was passed sas
pending for one year the statutes re-
quiring steamers to te supplied with
certain life-saving spphances. The
Dependent Pension bili was considered.
The House bul for the admission of
Wyoming as a State was laid on the
table and ordered to ba printed. Ad.
journed,
HOUSE,
In the House, on the 24th, a confer~
ence was agreed to on the Urgent
Deficiency bill, After some time spent
in conmaering District of Columbia
business, the House adjourned.
In the House, on the 25th, the
World’s Fair blll was taken up, and
several amendments were adopted,
among them one postponing the time
for holding the Fair until 1803, The
bill, as amended, was passed by a vote
of 202 to 49, the negatives being those
members who were from the frst
to the holding of any World's
Fair, Adjourned,
In the House, on the 26th, the en.
tire session was coupled with discus.
sion of the bill for the admission of
Wyoming us a State,
Iu the House, on the 27th, the bill
for the admission of Wyoming as a
— 183 197.
Appropriation’ Sn" wes
|
CLAIR, NEW JERSEY.
VILLAIRY OF A RESI'ECTADLE
CITIZEN,
MonrdLrair, N. J.. March 25
Ope of the most respectable and re-
spected citizens of this town has been
James Tuthill, a boss mason. He came
here from Port Jervis five years ago.
He found plenty of work, and soon
after he took up bis residence here, He
married and went to live in 8 cosy
home on Bloomfleld avenve, He and
bis wife joined the Mont Clair Congre-
gational Church, and won the respect
and esteem of their neighbors.
Tuthill became very popular with his
fellow townsmen, Ile joined Excel.
sior Hose Company, No, 2, and sev.
eral social clubs, and every one who
knew him liked him. He never drank
nor swore, was ever ready to help any
one in need, and counted his friends
by the score,
To-day all this is changed, Tuthill
is a prisoner in the Haymond Street
Jail, Brooklyn, his wife 18 locked up in
jail at Newark, and their names ex-
week ago were proud to be seen on the
streets with them.
The emivently respectable Mr, Tat.
hill has been found out to be the reck-
has been robbing the homes of the
wealthy in Mont Clair, Glen Ridge,
Bloomfield, Orange and surrounding
towns, and his wife is suspected of be-
ing his accomplice,
Shortly after Tuthill came here to
ive several bold burglaries were com-
nitted io rapid succession. The bur-
rglar was fearless, He selected the
| uest residences in which to find his
plunder. As the burglar was always
| masked, no one could ever give a de
i scription of him, Tuthill started a
movement to bring Viokerton detec
tives here to chase down Lhe thief,
This was done, but the criminal had
{| apparently sought other felds, for
nothing was heard of him while the
detectives were in the vicinity. Mr.
Tuthiil’s house was never entered, and,
{ while he was loud and devoul nn his
i thanks to the Almighty, who spared
him such a visitation, he was aclive in
| counselling those who had suffered by
{ the depredations of the midnight in-
truder. A week ago last Monday
night the residence of George Douth,
| mason and personal friend of Tuthill,
was entered by the burglar, Hab.
| ertson, who is thinking of moving Ww
Montclair, was Mr, Boot%'s guest that
night, As the village clock was tolling
12 be was aroused by his bedroom win-
“
ts
lightly jumped into the room from Lhe
veranda,
Mr. Robertson watched him and saw
him coolly strike a match on the wall
and look about, Then he ftly ab-
i stracted Mr. lobertson’s gold walch
{ from his vest and Lhe malch went out
{ The thief was striking another match
when Mr. Robertson jumped out of
bed and grappled with hum, The cold
| muzzie of a pistol made
quickly, and he fell back on
The burglar laughed
swung himself out of the window
got away. Mr. Robertson awoke Lhe
{ household, While he was telling his
{experience the burglar was Jess than a
{| block away, getting into the residenec
i of John Manuel, apother mason,
warm friend of the good Mr.
de
v
him let go
the bed,
CARLY,
ALG
farcast
and
lar got into his
gave him battle on
though
plazza,
root,
the
. and Mr. Manual could
| his senses, for the face
iroke
The latter 1
‘gold and diamond mine. Buried
| the party wall ana thrown in conceal
i ed crevices were rings, walcher, dia
monds, pocket-books, money, bracelets,
| breastpins, eai-rings, walch
and every kind of jewelry, representing
toany thovsaonds of dollmis, and some
{ which were stolen years ago.
The burglar had jumped on his horse
and ridden furiously to Bloomfield,
where he tock an express to Hoboken.
Constable Allworth traced him to New
York, to Brooklyn, and foally to
| Greenpoint, where he arrested him
yesterday, He was taken to Raymond
| his guilt,
lleve that he is the captain of a robber
(band, and that his wife is his
ttusted lleutenant, She was arrested,
arraigned before Justice Morris, who
committed ber to jail at Newark. It
Is said, she has made a fall confession.
Requisition papers bave been applied
for, and as soon as they are obtained
Tuthill will be brought back here and
committed to the Newark jall with hus
wife, to await trial,
~There has been an epidemic of
diphtieria in Bain, New Foundland,
There is no doctor in the district, and
the soffarers were attended by Rev,
Father Walsh, who, with his own
bunds, clesned out the throats of the
vietima, Of 40 cases that the priest
attended only ove proved fatal, The
priest took the disease blmesell, and
died after a few days’ illness,
~At Sweelzer, Indiana, on the after.
noon of the 23d. Roy Pritchett and
William Speece found a can of nitro.
giycerine In the woods, and tried to
explode it by heaping leaves over it
and setting them on fire, The can not
exploding Pritchett began to punch it
with a burning stick. Saddenly the
explosion occurred, blowing out both
his eyes and tearing off both his armas,
causing death In a few moments
Clarence Moneys boy we. Wag passe
lug, was severely injured a fly
Pritchett leaves a wife bin
BROWNING'S
ENERQY.
Was Due the Poet's Success,
The energy of action in Browning's
| appeal to his contemporaries. Energy
{ tells at all times, but in a century re-
markable for its vigor, in ceaseless un-
rest, seeking outlets for its life in every
direction, excited by its more constant
acquinted with the history of the past,
and wide-reaching vhilanthrophy and
sympathy, & poet who infuses his work
with vitality and seems to prize it for
ita sake breathes the
times. It is said that the
| tie in
own mir
purest artis-
pleasure lies
kind, more strennous.
| latter sensibility, aroused through sym
pathy with the doing of a deed, rather
| then to the former, which involves dis-
interestednes disengagement of
Browning himself, in many
4 and
the mind,
exculpatory verses, sets forth his claim
| to the
praising force for its own sake, in the
; he
nest piteh.,
virtue of strength; ho is ever
vein of Carly likes to exin
others at its hig
wiih this spirit,
Age EYIDPA
1 - TT 5 1 § },
finds it more native itself than the
which 1s the
art. Br
nforced even
fi
ing, however, had re
powerful attraction by presenting lif
but
WOrks
force,
He
le field of hist , brings his
with great vital
wn the broadest scale. in
up
the wh
reading in forgotten books to bear, az
crowds the e with
diverse gaths ring of
RB arveion
5 Lig
great and ot
men, of artists
Arab and Greek, of
of and
Aracters
whieh its owners
i
| piante of rare
ture sav th
i in this branch
ne fine
fine roots worth S50
are
held
i
rarity, the diffi
nave al even
Their ulty
they are propagated, the
quisite delicacy, strange forms and
blo
n for these
Before the
mont street florist, not
Street Church, yesterday,
of SROInE Are the
extraordinary
w
fre
give
ralues winds
far
a throng
hic)
| lowers which just now occupy so high
a place in the popular mind. Strange
in form, of a
whiteness, daintily lined with pink or
delicate pearly, waxy
{| rity and their costliness
-———
Beauty Only Skin Deep.
A few days ago a young girl, beau-
tiful in form, feature and dress, sat in
a Madison avenue car, says the New
York Evening Sun. Directly opposite
sat a poor child of about the same age,
shabbily clothed, with a shambling
body, slightly deformed as to the shoul-
ders, and an exceedingly plain face
which bore the lines of suffering and
want. Her eager eyes were fixed on
the face and figure opposite her with
a devouring, pathetio Jook that showed
how keenly alive she was to
exceeding beauty of a
body.
The object of the gaze began to grow
uneasy under its intentness and fixity,
and finally, looking the girl eoldly in
the face, she leaned partly across
the nisle and said: “Well, Miss Im-
pertinence, if vou have looked at me
long enongh, will yon be kind enough
to look somewhere else. I'm tired of
it.”
Ths poor child grew first red and
then white. A look of keen pain came
eame mito her eyes, and then tears, and
as she turned away she said softly:
“I was only thinking how beautiful you
are.”
the
beautiful
nears MAA
LONDON isto havea Cenorship of
music bull songs, all performers in such
places belog required to submit to a
censor coples’ and descriptions of the
tongs, sketches and dances that they
propose to give. This may be a good
thing for the public, but even London
could hardly afford to pay a fair sajary
to a man required to endure such an
awful lofliction as will fall pon that
censor.
CE ET RSE TN a TN -
A STRIKE in the Nashua (N. H.)
ills appears to be particularly bitter,
The operating company issued an ulti-
not
return to work, shut down the mill in-
The operatives, on
part proved just as stubborn, and
their
left
would
of
Such behavior
bad slate
do not
gre
Men give up their
homes under at provocs
tion,
except
A A
NEw YORK's representatives are
rather hard on Chicago in the matter
of the World's Fair. They are seek-
to compel the Windy City to do
what New York could have done,
gS And a
guarantee fund of $10,000,000. It was
not supposed at the time the vole was
taken on the site that Chicago was as
well off inthis respectas New Y ork, and
victory for the Western city was
in spite of admitied advantages
New Y¢ it not
fair, therefore, to demand that Chicago
all, in advance of the passage of the
bill, show that she has a site and such a
fund, t
$5,000, 000—guarantesd
won
vi
ib. in
by
8
large guarantee Half the
amount —or
would
cess of Li
be sufficient to insure the
& enterprise,
a
THE the
stables, ac
Bang ol
dof t
ing
great public schools,
cause of ti
vernacular
the
he would-be w
comic Yo men of
a
yd
u
or
»
of
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necessity, but 101 the conmdera-
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hundred million dol
ired for pensions next
year. The Chalrman of the Pension
Committee estimates that, under sxist.
the number of peusioners
reach the maximum about July
when there would be 750,000
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laws,
2.000000. But the propositions
now before Congress, if adopted, would
the number of
sioners and the aggregate amount of
their pensions. The decrease in the
pensions should” be very
great, however, before long. The larger
pensions are paid to men very
greatly increase pele
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badly
have now survived the
war twenty-five years, In the course
of nature they cannot be expected to
The great body
of pensioners are now probably fifty
years of age or more. The pensions to
widows, however, help to swell the
appropriations, as they are reduced by
the deaths of veterans, so that it will
be many years before the pension list
ceases $0 be a heavy burden. It could
be cheerfully borne, however, if there
were not so many fraudulent cases on
the rolls,
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Dures of the Louisiana Lotiery may
learn from the lberality of the com-
pay what enormous profits are made
out of the r weekly contributions, and,
consequeniyy, how remote their chances
are of getting any return. What the
company may spend In trying to cor
rupt the Legislature of North Dakota
or Louisiana is, of course, secret. but
the gift of $50,000 to the city of New
Orleans for the repair of the levees,
and the offer of $100,000 additional to
the Governor of tue State for the same
purpose, were made openly, and were,
no doubt, intended aus indirect bribes,
Governor Nicholls returned the check
sent to him, because the company is
about to ask an extension of its char
ter from the State, and the latter must
not, under the circumstances, be put
under obligations to the lottery com-
pany. Governor Nicholls is understood
0 be opposed to the lottery businoss,
and the company cannot get its char.
ter extended unless it can control
enongh members of the Legislature to
overcome his probable veto. That is
the reason for seeking a charter in
North Dakota. But the thing for lot
tery ticket buyers to note is the ex: reme
liberality of the company with the
money they have aoutributed,