THE NEWS
Mrs. Josephine Murray, who kept a board.
fng-houss in Brooklyn, was burned to death,
Bhe occupied the two back rooms on the first
floor of the house, A lamp which she kept
bureing all night exploded and set fire to
the house, —— Arlington 1. Byers, of Rising
San, Q., was aceidently shot, his dog pulling
the hammer of the gun, -— Major Charles J,
Dickey, retired, died at his home in Beaver
Falls, Pa, —- Armstrong, who killed
Kate Downs, oo wh te woman, was hung in
Louisville, Ky.—The tannery at Romney,
W. Va., owned and operated by the United
States Leather Company, burned to the
ground. Loss between $20.10) and & 15,000,
fully covered by insurance,
Bessemer, Aln,, have under arrest
giving the name of Jim Buckley,
believe, is Roslins Julian, who murdered
Judge Victor Estopinal in Jefl Parish,
La., September 15,and for which three broth-
ers of Julian were iynched at the time,
The new town site of thegold discovery, near
Hartsel Station, Col, has been named
four, in honor of the English
bimetallism. The town site company is cap-
italized at £100,000,
elected,
-Cleorge
a negro
who they
arson
champion of
The town site is the only patented
land within miles of the gold flelds.
steamer Clyde, of the Pudueah and
see River Packet sunk at
Rockport Bar by striking a hidden obstrue-
tion. She sank in fifteen feet of water,
The Only Fanning, a well-known picture
broker, died in Chicago. -
{Ga.) authorities issued a letter of thanks to
their fellow-countrymen for aid given dur-
ing their affliction. Yon Baker, who
sentenced to penitentiary for life for killing
his wife and brother-in-law im Wheeling, W.
Va., died in prison. The insurance
missioner of Peansylvania has declared the
Order of Solon a fraud. —— Passenger train
on the Indiana and Illinois Southern Rail-
road was wrecked while running at a slow
Tennes-
Company, was
was
mails and
a shallow
toon, Ill. Two coaches left the
were thrown into Béezer Creek,
stream running parallel with the tracks
Several passengers were injured. ——Thomas
E. Neal shot and killed Charles Grogan, who
stopped his horse, —— Sheriff Werner, of
Crittenden county, Ark., who was
for embezzling several days ago,
fordsville, Ark. Ho gave bond in the sum
of $2,000.
the end of tho bridge across the river with a
bullet hole in his arm and a badly bruised
bead. He claimed that he was knocked off
a train, shot and robbed of #12,(00, which
be was taking to Little Hoek to turn over to
the state. The story of the robbery was geu-
erally discredited.
Albert F. Fuerst, of the firm of Fuerst Bros,
& Co., agents in the United
ada for the sale of chemieals
by the firm of Bowman,
limited, of England, was arrested in New
York by the sheriff. Orders of arrest wers
given in two actions brought acalnst Fuerst
Bros. & Co. by the English concern to re-
cover moneys which, it is alleged, the firm
received from the sale of goods sent here,
and which it has failed to turn over. — The
remains of Congressman O'Neill were buried
in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Phila
deiphia, —— Broker Charles Rockwell last
week secured the arrest in New York of
Emanuel de Ia Cueve, ex-vice consul from
Epain, on the charge of writing and seading
bim abusive and threntening letters. Tues.
day Mr. Bookwell appeared la Jeflerson
Market Police Court and withdrew the
charge, saying he was laboring under a mis.
take when he made it
Dr.John W, Barlow, whose wife, Mra
Jessie A. Barlow, who eloped in March last,
from Brooklyn, with Dr. Charles H.
of Philadelphia, secured a divorea, Ju
Cullen, of the Supreme Court, granted the
decrees, There was no delense There
was a wreck in the railroad yard at Sayre,
Pa., resulting in the disabling of three en-
gines ——Charles Lord, thirty years oid, a
member of the Calumet Club, was
dead in his bachelor apartments, at 12 East
Twenty-ninth street, New York, The com.
mittee on reorganization of the Union
fie Railroad Company met, and elected Sena
tor Calvia 8, Brice chairman, The other
members of the commitiee are as follows:
Louis Fitzgerald, A. H. Boissevias, Samuel
States and C
manufactured
Thompson & Co,,
Gilles,
found
pont Morgan and J. B. Reilly. -
tions, the railroad company being able to
supply them with cars, The strikers’ com-
mittee issued a statement to the public dis
countenancing the acts of violence commits
ted by parties supposed to
with them, and declaring that the Brother
boods are opposed to any
methods in the centest,
officials claim that the condition of the train
service Is improving, while the strikers as
eert that their chances are brightening. -
The Inilure af A. Y. Davidson, a broker, was
sunounced on the Philadelphia Stock Ex-
change. —— Louis 8, Delaplain, a prominent
dry goods merchant of Wheeling, W. Va,
died from the effects of a fall gown a stair.
way,
————
THE DEBT STATEMENT.
— ———
The Increase Daring Novembsr— Cash
in the Treasury.
The debt statement issued shows a net fn
erease in the pubiie debt, less cash in the
Treasury, during November of $6,716,138 47.
The interest-bearing debt increased #180,
the non-interest-bearing debt increased
$378,305.50, and the cash in Treasury de
creased §7,004,674 97,
The balances of the several classes of debt
at the close of business on November 30 were :
interest-bearing debt $585,089,220 ; debt on
which interest bas ceased since maturity
#1,989,580.26 ; debt bearing no interest $374, -
$89,715.87 ; total $961,568,316, 12,
The certificates and Treasury notes, offset
by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury
outstanding at the end of month wore $500,
220,902 nn increase of $11,619,441,
The total cash in the Treasury was $784,
£20,435,85. The gold reserve ¥ b £82,000,.49.
Net cash balance $12,240,567. 8
Gn Te ot har win + Jools in gold
coins and bars of $2,152,043.26, the total at
the close being $161,122,128. Of silver there
wae an Increase of $52,122 64.
Of the surplus there was in national bank
‘depositories $17,220,002, against $20,421,870,
NEW TARIFF BILL.
A Large Free List and Duties
Cut with An Unsparing Hand.
Free Raw Materials Given to the
Manufacturer, but the Finished
Articlesare Taxed Less Heav-
iHly=-The Difficulties the
Committee Met With,
At 11,10 o'clock Monday morning the new
and Mir,
“In the chemical schedule we bave
ticles used in manufactures the mi
acid, one of
The
duty on castor of! is reduced from #5 to 15
cents per gallon, and the duty on lHoseed oll,
which was sceretly raised to 33 cents by ths
the MeKinley bill,
ch house bad openly voted
wo put at 15 counts a gallon,
after ea fora lower
Pig lead
and, lead
duty,
being reduced from
paints are o«
“In the pottery schedule substantial redu
tions are made, Pint a white ware is dre
the high sche in which it
ously erowded itself De
2to leentnp
respondingly reducasd
corte od ware
indecor
ent
per ©
' common window-gianss, where
combinations have kept up the price
‘in
#% 10 con-
the shelter of duties
a reduction of
averaging
more than ong.
the larger s zee
There is no doubt that these rates will
the
“In plate glass reductions
cents per
Of silvered, 60 to
cents,
TRON AND STEEL
“In the rou and steel schedule
with
we began
free ore, The discovery ol the immense
aud of foundry ores in Alabama has
swept us to the leadership of the
the production of iron and steel and br
near at hand our undisputed
the great field of
“The use o!
of miniag to a point where the
rapidly
world
supret
manufactures
steam shovels reduces the
Wes
evant Plg ir
are irrel
reduce from $6 72 per which is fro
to 9% per
cent. ,
fon,
cont., to a uniform duty of 23
8 rate sor
than the rest clthe schedule bee
netthat higher in proportion
cheap
. It being a favor
ase of
freight rates on foreign pig
ite freight on westward v Heal
m #13
25 per cent.
YAO rails
i4 per ton, now 5 per
rent. to
“As the pool which has kept up pr
many years in this country seems n
ganized, the other producers will soo
Mr.
Pittsburg, and Mr. Stirling, st Chicago, thas
against foreign producers,
“The residue
to 30 per cent,
Intter figure, per
cent. because of the waste in cutting beams
nnd the variety of long
of the frequent necessity of changing %he rolls
protection more against Carnegie,
¢
200d screws being put at the
Beams and girders at 35
ths and sizes, and also
cause of the
irregular quantities and lengths and sizes of
orders,
TIN-PLATES
3 n-piates are reduced to 4) per con
ore than oneo-hall of the MeKi
This is a revenue duty, and at the same
time enough to permit any existing
live and flourish,
cutlery are 35 per cent,
Table cutlery Is put at 35 per
little m
rate,
mils to
{ heaper grades of pocket
Higher grades 45
eent, There
reach in some
grades of
cent, but with reloase of taxes on raw mater.
ials, especially on pearl and ivory for
ample,
handles
seem
SUGAR,
“Sagar has been a diffle
with, Baw sugar was tragsferred 10 the [ree
list by the McKinley bill because nearly
ult subject to deal
all
ury.
valorem
the bounty at onos, After much considera
duty on refined sugar and to
bounty one-eighth each year, leaving raw
sugar untaxed as at present.
TORACCO,
“In the tobaceo schedule those rates were
revenue
The present taxes of #2 and #2.75 a pound on
wrapper leaf have blotted out many small os.
tablishments and actually impaired revenues,
We make the rates 1 and $1.25 per pound
on wrapper leaf and 35 cents and 50 cents
per pound on filler tobacco, unstemmed and
stemmed in each. Manufacturers of tolmeco
are put at 40 cents. Cigars are reduced
from $4.50 per pound and .5 per cent. ad
valorem to #3 per pound and 25 per cent,
which is believed to be the most productive
revenue rate, and Is higher than thes law of
1883,
LIQUORS,
“The tariff on spirits Is put at double the
internal revenue rates on like spirits, and
some slight reduction is made on still wines,
malt liquors, ginger als and like beverages
the interest of increased revenue. The
duty on sparkling wines ls likewise slightly
reduced for the same reasons, that on cham-
pagne being put at #7 per dozen quarts, as
against #4 in the McKinley bill and §6 in the
inw or 1883,
“In cotton manufactures substantial re.
ductions are made, espeefally on cheap
cloths and prints, aud the existing 8; stem of
taxing by count of threads in the square inch
is retained. Hemp and flax are made free;
dressed line of hemp and fax, 1 cent and 1g
eonts respectively. Burlaps and cotton and
groin bagging are put at 15 per cent. but
when imported for covering of articles to be
exported are dmty free,
WOOL.
“Wool is made free. This takes the stilts
the hope that they may recover
languishing condition in which they have
been for a quarter of a cf
get woolen goods at rensouable rates
instead of at duties that on
frequently reached 100 per cent,
two or three times that figure,
Cloths and dress goods are put at 4) per
rates higher
muy
common grades
and in cases
merciless
cent., clothing nt 45 per cent,
than the sommittes desired, but decmaod tem
POrariy ne
have #0 long been excluded from tw
of the wools of the world that they will have
to learn the art of
wool A sliding scale is,
by which the
are to come
therefore,
woolen
five points
rates ip the
down with the
lapse of five years, Carpets, an londustey in
1 we will independent of come
petition, are put ¢ 45 for Axmin
ster, Mod uet
per cent,
Viiton, 30 per cent. for
Brussels, while common
20 per cer he will provides that the
duties shall ywvedd from wool on Mareh
oolen goods July 1.
a rapid summary of the
nade by the prop wed bili, and
ry idea, I believe,
ated
sis of
’ JOH) (BED 5
of tax bit
It Is not 1
reached regar
CABLE SPAKRS,
northwar
river
IRE pay fie n wana assures the
Yatican t
ment tha
sintle
thn
beir pres
pode (0 3
eile Lill in the H
ae
Udo amoag thin elsciors married women
entitied to vote if they were
slog .e, but it was ater
sion
Lot
mnie
withdraan disguises.
185 orious French fe.
that the increasing
rer people in Europe and
the severe means of repression adopted war-
mnt mors terrible Khe
favors the use of clement
Micur:, the not
anarchist, says
the po
meats of defense,
dynamite BE 0
means of extending the propaganda
I ——
DIC ASTERS AND CASUALTIES
A ft. Louis deapaich says that
fever is becoming epidemie there,
Mus, Gro, 8 Lesuant, of Williamsport,
Pa., was fatally burned by the accidental
overturning of a lamp,
Denison fire in a tenement in Lewiston,
Me, Mis, Albert Dutois and her two young
children were smothered,
Bra ireight wreok at Van Buren, Ark,
three workmen were killed and one fatally
injured.
Frank Kemmerer, aged 20 years, a butcher,
of Easton, P'a., was found dead on the steps
of a physician's office. He bad rua a large
knife into his abdomen, presumably by soci
dont, and bad crawled some distance irom
his shop.
Tue Merrill House, a threestory Irae
building near Beaver, Peunsyivanin, wus
burned, Seven men were burned to death
und several others were badly hurt, The
men were asleep when the alarm was given,
They were al employed in the construction
of the Government dam at that point,
A passenger car on the New Holland Rail.
rond, left the track near Greenland, Lancas-
ter county, and went down a 15fo0t em.
bankment. It immediately took fire. The
eight pnssengers were badly eat and bruised,
They escaped by breaking through the win.
typhoid
SELLS REPORT,
Postmaster General Reviews the
Operations of His Department.
EFFICIENCY OF THE MAILS.
A Deficiency During the Last Fiscal
Year of Several Million Dollars
Abovethe Estimate of His Pre-
decessor-Extension of the
Free~delivery System,
The anuual report of Postmaster
General
Bissell shows, the operations of the depart.
ment during the seul year,
The report indicates that the department
has been conducted on strictly business prin.
, and that in this respect
sii's ado
ful. The
ue in others,
inistration has been very
most has been made of the
available, and | fied
ring the first 3
standing
cloney «
Hans noi
rut year ol
mntorial
ited dell
fmaster General estimalos
ywever, will be decreased
§
funds taken the
from
2h there are ninety three a
the free
pow entitied to
* A Ph
ers fi possible the
eYeG Ong f these 1
iter General ad
tha *
1ween
tly much enlarged,
the Eset and
iened
sy wl wosn
been materially si
aster General is in favor
eetric ear lines for mall
hid
Rl pEFYiOe
Ml #
ausporiation, and states that desire is
t whatever the gene ean Le ad
transit
par
mail servicer,
ade of rapid
He Pp
nilway
ie
this year will, he
Pen ee of em
6. He urges such
a reasobabie
hildren
daty,
provide sum
ows and minor
eria killed while on
#20 000 suvually will be
He recom
orps of clerks,
mends
made for a re
the etng
that the
OY oR
Mr ploe financial de-
ression great jiminished the Yo
He do t think, b
rt eney wt 1 hnve a
pn eft
{ pO8-
wipla oR 13( yWever,
oni de
are def)
ferrent the general devel
eff ot upon
of the service por indus an increase of
rates Liberal appropriations, however,
will be required, which coml ined with siren
gous efforts in all of the
may bring it to a high degree of efficiency.
The Post master Genoral notes the improve.
ment in clerical service resulting from the
act of March 2, 18 8, classified and
fixe | salaries of clerks in first and second.
class offices, and urges an amen
Cougress Ly incrensing the maximum salar.
clariral service,
tratiches
which
iment by
jos of certain classes in the
The Postmaster General comments on the
ne cesaity of a new building lor the depart.
ment, which are al pros
ent conducted in seven
for which the government pays snnually
pearly £3,000 rental, only one being owned
He states that the Busch
building on E street, and the annex building
on Bight street are not proper bulidiags for
use, und that the apprehensions for their
safely may be repewed Ly the steady increase
of accumulations of documents and flies. Heo
recommends the construction of a modern
fire.proo! office building.
WORK AND WORKERS.
Ar Milwaukee orders were received at 11.9
Illinois Steel Company's Bayview Iron
Plant to start the puddling mill nud all other
departments. This will be the first time the
whole plant has been running since July.
Ar Fall River, Masa, , the Chace mill strike
is settled, aud the i856 weavers will return to
work, The settlement was affected ona
basis recommended by the agent, He agrees
to give them ball a cent increase on wide
good, and the offer is satislactory,
At Bridgeton, N. J., the wage scale has
been signed by Manager William Bodine,
snd the work of blowing window glass be
gan in the big tank furnace of the Cohansey
Glass Company. Three hundred and Any
men will have employment there
Maxy deeds of herolsm wore pesfesmed by
the life-saving crews of Bnaiand Guring the
recent storm,
the transactions of
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Parts of the State
Anthony Stahl, a miner, employed in the
Bliverbrook mines, Hazleton,
singular sceident which will
futal, Stahl had com pleted
and was about to the chamber. In
golug down the be suddenly
and fell directly on the point of
which was carrying, The
bar penetrated his
met with a
Lis day's work
leave
chute
a biassting
steel
holding him
needle he
abdomen,
himsel!, When assistance
exiricate arrived
be had lost consciousness and will probably
die,
The dwelling house of Geo, F, FP.
of Pottstown,
bers of the family
Wanger,
ithe
vulding
enught fire while al men
were out of the
John, ;
the fi
ept two children,
When i
room the little boy dragged bis baby
years old, and
n pe nes spread over the
from the cradle and ni
through the door to
Lefor
side
aud the dan
Wi no Hall,
ger of her
hester, whic
thirteen years
RTHY report
nding
, bay and sppiv
Ir is expecied that
ia and Mary ls
! simte a plas
eivers,
Walter W.
the grave he
be body of bis step
A iRany entered
Ut fas vad
i Upland
lor church ut
niered and
aries Bowers, 2
irg od Lils sorrel
at the usus
ir afterward |
it baving a
who were flirt
Tenza Fur
Henry Feuelt
slog
t ieath this nr
dale, Pa
wok im Ir
ny lguated
ghee was
was ba
BRO,
Mas Parnes Manors was ba
while trying
aby
ing jury inthe H
aGiesion murc
Tar 6
ier, of Uniontown,
Tug post office
money,
IL. R
ighter of Edward
was burped to death,
at Heliam
wind notes
wo the postin aster al
year-old da
was IY
stamps and p
Crouni: He
ince five miles from Columbian, was
se in the rearol his he
be saw tw
Looking out of his window,
foe,
He fi
and
red two shots at them from a
wrted 10 roo,
noney from
revoiver
one of the men » while the
the
the
dime
safe and followed, They both escaped in
Crambiing
ww bad been brolen
larkness. Upon exe pation
that the offi
and the sale, which was a
carried oto the yard
into
small one, Was
and broken open with
The loss inclules
Rd
iron bars and sledges
#175 in eash and the postal order and
Looks and a lot of stamps,
Mus. Asxie Klinesa ith of Li
applied at the Department of
She is 47 years old, and has
iberty Avenue,
ior
been de-
Charities
heip,
Fifteen ye
serted Ly her Lustand, RTS
she married { Baden,
Germany, She was an heiress, Laving money
in her own right 1,000. They
Reg ©
y Jacob Kllp~smith in
amounting to §3
ment house on Forty fifth street, New York,
I'he groom spent tLe money recklessly and
three years ago all of it was gone Then
they came Wo Plitsburg snd she was deserted.
A ————————o)
TRIED TO BLOW UP CAPRIVL
————
An Iafernal Machines Sent From France
to the G_ rman Chanoellor,
A parcel directed to Chancellor Caprivi
was received at the Chancellor's. The po-
lee placed the parcel, which was suspicious
looking in water and gave it a thorough
soaking, after which they examined it. When
the wrappins were removed a striking eap
was found atiached to what proved beyond a
doula 10 be an infernal machina,
The box came from Orleans, France. The
letter necompanyiug it was in French, It
was written appartentiy by an jiliterate per.
son, as the penmanship was bad and several
words were spelled jncorrectly, The sender
evidently was aware that the Chanoelior’s
hobby is gardening.
It Col, Evmeyer had not seen powder
leaking out, the box would have exploded
when forced open, as the mechanisn was
perfectly arranged. The president of polios,
who was ealled at ones to the chancelierie,
wished to keep the affair quiet, Jost other
enemies of the chancellor might be encour
aged to make attempts upon his lite, Caprivi
however, refused to Jet him do soa. The
chancellor said he wished the country to
know the facts. No clue of the identity of
the sender of the box has been obtained.
III
B Pouiem Smite, wocompanied by Miss |
Catharine Fuller and Miss Jane Fuller daugh-
tors of the Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, arrived la London.
STEVENS REPLY.
Commissioner,
Delegate Accused of
being ignorant, Ungentiemanly,
and Prejudiced. -Accused of
Playing Into British Hands.
Hawaii
wing answer to (
Blevens makes
missioner
‘A A ‘ "
A deey my country
3 a : ’ . o .
ana an America Hy to defend an insull-
ed, threat
awalinn
with
Fratit
grant
the
tod States,
{taken part in
lings of the pre-
IE Weeks
American gente
His
pelle, ana
men were introduced
unt manper of
receiving
their visit r nsked
i i] me 10
pleasant
erped bio
slate the reasons why it would be
3 Fr 1 t f " . ¢
10 him and better for all con 4 10 go
10 the rovalists hotel} ti fake residence on
neutral ground, where hie i be masier
wn surroundings. As de jeatelyas 1
vf the commit
te him
wition he would
legation, which
, which I would be
nee 10 ieee at his
y | 8. sted the offer ¢
uulrymen, pointing out
ejting 1}
s archives of
be could oo
pleased at «
ir p Op ¢
the
nyenient!
disposal,
Brusquely, not to say
the o
fnsultingly, be refused
his
amid
royalists and ou tra-British surroandings,
urtecus honestiy-intended offer of
countrymen, and at once placed himself
i insinuations
Blount's ort that 1
legati
and fmplioations in
his
shameless
reg was adverse fo
aconss 10 the a records is a
perversion of facts
Ex-Minister *Stevens than
Blount report in detail,
portant stat 'ments under
takes
denying
up the
its meost im
date and title in
the same mander as Minister Tharston did,
and concludes as loliows
1 am fully aware that 1 have
paper too lengthy.
made this
1 regret to tax the public
Against all
forced to ex-
un-American and
Joant and associates
against my official conduct, my honor and
This ex-
traordioary assault on the American colony
in Hawaii, antagonizing the American Chris.
tinn civilization established at the cost of
lives and labors of noble American men and
women (here, the strange turning back of
an American policy of more than ball a cen.
tury, this wanton disregard of the opportun-
ity to assume jurisdiction and ownership of
a territorial and maritime prize with a clean
title and without the cost of a single life, is
justly causing profound indignation among
the American people. These strange and un
patriotic proceedings in the presence of our
national rivals is making a most shameful
page of American history, which our future,
if not our present, statesmen and generation
will repudiate and blot out by wise snd effec
tive measures,
mine,
just expectations 1 bave been
the
most unfair course of
Jony L. Stevens ™
Tt has just been discovered that an admire
sable crayon picture of ‘St. Michael the
Archangel Smiting Sates,” on a wall of rhe
University of Maryland, in Baltimore, Is the
work of Dr. Frederick Butler, whe died a
fow years ago at the age of 88.
At a meeting of miners’ Jologates, held "
Glasgow, it was decided that the Seoteh
miners shall stop work until the mine-own-
15 Ageee to AdvASES hele WUges ousbitng