ing upon a recommendation contained
in the report of 180%, Congress appropriated
£10,000 *‘to enable the Secretary of Acrioul-
to investigate and report upon the nfi-
tritive values of the various articles and oog-
mpdities used for human food, with speciil
suggestion of full, wholesome and edivts
rations less wasteful and more economical
tap those in common uss"
» ader this appropriation the department
has prepared and now has nearly ready for
distribution an elementary discussion of the
nutritive value and pecuniary economy of
fool, When we consider that fully one
half of ull the money carnad by the wage-
earners of the civiliz+1 world is expended hy
them for food, the importanes and utility
of such an investigation ls apparent,
The department expended in the fiseal
year 1802, $2.954,809,58 ; and out of that sum
tha total amount expended in scientifle re-
seareon was 45.6 per cent, Dut inthe year
‘ending Jane 30, 1894, out of a total expendi-
tare of $1 94% US8.38, the department ap-
plied 51.8 por cont. of that sum to sclentiflo
work and investization, It is, therefore,
very pininly observable that the economies
whioh have been practiced in the adminis.
tration of the department have not been at
the expense of sciantifle research,
The recommendation contained {a the re
port o! ths Secretary for 1808, that the
vicious vse n of free distrioution of iis de.
partment do uments be abandoned is again
urged. These puhlicitions may well ba fur-
nished without cost to pubiie Hbraries, edu-
cational institutions and the officers and i.
braries of States and of the Federal Govern-
ment. Bu: from all indivilusls appiving
for them au price covering the cost of the
document usied for snould bs required.
Thus the publestions and doe-
uments would be s-curel by thoss
who really desire them for proper purposss,
Hall a million of cop es of tha report of tas
Beoretary of Agrioniture are printal for dis-
tribution at an annual cost of ubout $300,-
000. Larg: namoers of them are cum-
shelves of second-hand book storesthrough-
out the country. All this labor anil waste
might be avoided if the recommendations ot
the Bucrelary were adopted,
The Sseretary also agala recommends that
gratuitous distribution of seeds ceasas
and that no monsy be aporopriatel for that
purpose, except to experiment stations. He
reiterates the reasons givan in his repors for
1898 for discontinuing tis unjustifiable gra-
tulty, and I fally concur in the conclusions
which he has reached,
A further imcortant utility ln agricultoral
starietics Is found in their eincidation of tae
reiation of thesupply of farm products to
the demand for them in the markets of the
UAlted States and of the world,
t is deemed possible that an agricu'tural
oensus may be taken sac year through the
agents of the statistionl division of the de-
partment, Such a course is commended for
trial by the chief of that division,
would be:
(1) The area under cach of the more im-
portant erops,
(2) The aggregate products of each of
such crops,
(8) The quantity of wheat and corn In the
sowings and plantings an { before the bezin-
ping of harvest; and also the quantity of
cotton and tobacco remaining in the hands
of planters, »ither at the same date or at
some other designate time,
The cost of the work Is estimated at #500,-
Owing to tha pecular quality of the statis.
fitness necessary to fie sagoessful proseen.
the opinion that every persona employed in
gathering statistios andar ths chisel of that
division should be admittel to that saervies
only after a thorough, exhaustive and sue.
cessful examination at tha hands of the
United Sita‘es Civil 8 rvien Commission,
“This has le! him to eall for such examina.
tion of candidates for the position of assis
ant statisticians and alsy of ewndldates for
chief of sections in that division, .
CIVIL SERYICE REFORM.
The advantages to the puillo servies of an
adherence to the principles of evil sarvies
peform are constantly mors appareat, anil
nothing is so encouraginz to those {a offi.
olal Hilo who hooestiy desire good govera-
ment as the insrowing appreciation by our
people of these a lvantag=s. A vast majors
of ths voters of the land are ready
to insist that toe tims and attention of those
they select to perform for them important
publie duties, should not be distracted
doling out minor ofMses, and they are grow
fog to be unanimous la regarding party or
Kanization as somethin: that shoaid be
dsed in establishing party principles (astead
of dietating the distribution of public places
88 rewards of partisan activ ty, ,
Kumeroas aliftional ofa and plates
Have lately been brought within CivilSarvien
rules and regulations, ani some others will
{probably soon be incladed,
The report of the Commissioners will be
submitted to the Congress, and I Invite
careful attention to the recommendations it
wcoutaine,
A NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
I am entirely convinead that we ought nod
to be longer withour a National Doarl of
Health, or National Hoa'th OMowr, charged
with no other duties than such as pertaly
#0 the protection of our country from the {g
waslon of pestilence and disease, This would
involve the establishment, hy such boar! of
officer, of proper quarantine precantions, or
the necessary ald and counssl to loeal an.
thorities on the subject, prompt advies ang
assistance to jooal boards of health
or health oflcers fn the suppression of
eontagious disenas, nnd in ean
shore therenre no such loeal boards or of
cers, the immediate direstion by the B
tional Bord or offlesr of maasures of sup.
pression, constant an! aatbentie informa.
tion concerning the health of foreign coun.
tries ani all parts of our own country 4a
related to contagious diseases, and consid
eration of regzuistions to be enforced in rom
eign ports to prevent the introiunetion of
contagion isto our oftioes, and the measanie
which should be adoptel to secure their efi-
forcement,
There seems to be at this time a descidad
fnciination to discuss measuros of protectitp
against contagious disease in Internation
abulerence, with a view of adopting meatis
of mutual assistanes, The creation of such
& National health egiablishment would
greatly aid our standing in such coplarenges
and improve our opportunities to avall ode-
selves of their bunefits,
[ earnestly rocom nead the ifaangasation
of a National Board of Health, or simile
National instra nentality, bellaviog the sau
to be a nested precantion against contd
gious dissnsenn 1in the interest of the safety
and health of our people,
RAILROADS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS,
By virtte of a status of the United States,
Jossed in 1888, I appointed in July last Hon,
ohn D. K=ruan, of the State ot New York,
Hon, Nicholas E. Worthington, of the
es of Iilinos, to form with with Hoo, Car
roll D. Wrign:, Commissionsr of Labor, who
wins desiguated by sald statute, a commission
jor the purpose of making careful Inquiry
1010 the causes of the controversies betwesa
@ ratiroads and thelr employes, which
had resulted in an extensive and ructive
strike, mecompnaled by much violenos and
1 % Jistursanes, with considerable
of Jife and great destruction of property,
report of the commissioners has been
ted to ms and will be transmitted to
16 Congress with tae svidenss taken upon
investiention,
work has been well dons and thelr
and Intelligence give assurance that
and suggestions they make are
y of earelul ooasideration.
FAVORS FREE COAL AND iON,
favor of refined sugar stricken ont of our
tariff law, If with all the favor now ue-
cor led the sugar-refining {aterests in our
tardY laws it still lnpguishes to the extent of
elosed refineries and thousands of discharge]
workmen, it would seem to present a BOBge
Joss case for reasonable legislative ald,
Whatever else is done or omlited,
I earnestly repeat hore the recommendation
I have made in another portion of this coms
munieation that the additional duty of one.
tenth of a cent per pound lald upon sugar
imported from eountries paying a bounty on
its export, be abrogated, It seems to me
that exceedingly important considerations
point to the propriety of this amendment,
With the advent of a new tariff policy
not only calealated to relieve tha con
sumers of our lanl in the cost of thelr
dally fe, but to invite a better develops
ment of American thrift and crests
for us ¢loser and mors profitable com
meroial relations with the rest of the
world, it follow<« ns a logleal and im.
parative necessity that we should m
ones remove the chief if not the
participation in tha foreign carrying trade
of tho sam-—-n tariff built unon the theory
that it is wellto chaek imports ant that a
home market should hound the indus'ry and
effort of American reg's' ry to vessss built
abroad though owned and navigated by ont
people, thus exhibiting a willingness ta
abandon sil contrat tor ths advantages ol
Amerioan trinsosanle earriage, Oar
new tariff policy, nuilt “pon the theory that
ft is well to encourage =ush importations as
our people need, and that our prodaets an
manufactures should find markets in wvery
part of the habitable glotw, is consistently |
supplomented by the greatest possible jib.
erty to our citizens in the ownership al i
navigation of ships In which our produers |
and manufactures may be transported, Ths
millions now pald to ‘oreigarrs for
rying American passengers andl prod.
wets across the sea should he turosl |
into American hands, Shiphuiidiaz, whieh |
has basen protecte dl to strincaiation, shoud
ba revived by the prospeet of profitable sme. |
ployment for ships wisn hnilt, anl the |
American sallor should ba resurractel and |
again take his plies — sturiyant Indostie « |
ous eoitizen in time of peace ant 7 pstriotis |
and safe defender of American laterests in |
the day of conflict,
The ancient provision o! our law denvyint |
American registry to ships built asroad an | !
owned by Americans, apnars in the Hzht of |
present conditions not only to ba a fallnes |
for good at every polnt, but 19 be nearer a |
relic of barbarism than anything that egiste |
mmder the permission of a stats
United States, I earnestly recommend ite
prompt repeal,
THE DOXD I13UE,
During the iast month the gold pessreval
in the Treasury for the purposs of reles. |
ing the notes of the Gov rameat circulating!
as money io the hands of the psopls Ducams |
%0 reduced, and its farther daplation In the |
cortain, that fn the |
paplio wal. |
fara, it became necessary to replenish this |
reserve and thus maintain popular falth io |
the ability and determination of the Govern. |
ment to meet, as agread, its pecuniary obi |
gations, !
it would have been well, if in this emer |
Renney. authority had existad to fssne tha!
Cars
ie of the |
maturing withia a short
period ; but the Congress having fallalto |
confer such authority, resort was necessarily |
had to the resumption set of 1875, ani par |
suant to its provisions, bonds were fssusl |
drawing interest at the rate of live por sent, |
per annum and maturing ten years after |
their issues, that being the shortest time |
authorized by the act, I am gisnd to say, |
however, that on the ssle of these bonds, the |
premioms recaived, operate] 10 reduce the i
rate of interest to be paid by ths Goverament
to less than three per cent,
I cannot for A mom~nt beliava that any of |
our citizens arm deliberately willing that |
their Government should Jdefanit in its pa
ecuniary obligations or that it« finsneia! opens |
ations should be relucal to a «liver basie
At any rate I should not feel that my daty
was done if I omitted any offer |
soul i
make to avert such a calamity. As ioag
edly and constantly deaw fron the Govern.
ment its gold, and as long as no better age
thority for bond issues is allows] than af
present exists, such suthority will be utilized
whenever and as often as It hecones neew
dary to maintain a suffiseat gold ressrve,
save the eralit of
our country and mike goo! the finaacial
declarations of our Govern-asnt,
DIYORCE GOVELNMENT AND DANES
The absolute divorsement of the Govern. |
ment from ths business of banking fs tha i
kioal relation<hip of tha Government to the |
circulation of the eurrenay of the country,
This condition cannot be immsliately
reached ; but as a step in that direction and
As a means of securing a mors alastis cur.
rency and obviating other o'jections to the
present arrangement of bank elreulstion,
the Secretary of the Treasury presents in
his report a schomae modifying present bank
ing inwsand providing for the fssae of ein
culating notes by State banks, free from tan
ation ander oertain limitations,
The Becretary explains his plan so plainly,
and its advantages ars developsd by hice
with such remarkable clearness, that any
effort on my part to present argument in its
support woull be superfluous. 1 shall,
thersfors, content mysol! with an uagaasls
fled indorsemont of the Secretary's pro.
od shanges in the law and a brie! and
mperlect statement of thelr promiuent fea
tures,
It is proposed to repsal all laws providing
for the deposit of United States bonds as se
curity for circulation : to permit Nations
bankas to issues circulating notes not es
seeding in amount seventy-five per cent. of
their pald-up anal unimpaired capital, pro.
vided they deposit with the Government, a4
& gusrantes fund, in United States llega
tender notes, luchu Ying Treasury notes o
(890, a sum equal in amount to thirty ps
sent, of the notes they so desirs to Issus,
this deposit to be maintainsd at all times, Lut
whenever any bank retires any part of
its cireulation a proportional part of its
guarantes fun! shall be ounrnod to it; to
permit the Secrotary 0’ the Trewiry to peas
pare and keep on hand ready for lesa, in
enss an inorase in circulation fs desired,
blank National bank notes for easy hang
having circulation, and to repasl the “prove
sions of the present law imposing limitations
and restrictions upon banks desiring to re
duse or Inorenss ther circulation — has pes
mitting such insresns or redaction witnia
the limit of seventy-five por oon’, of eapital
to be quickly made ns emergencies arise,
In addition to the guaraates fund Ps
gnired. it Is propossd to provide a si'aiy
und for the Immediate redemption olf tha
sircuiatiog notes of failed banks, by impos
mg a small annoal tax, say one-half of on
per cant. upon the average eliren ation of
each bank until the fund amonata to Ave pot
e~ut, of the total circulation ouistan Hae,
When a bank fails ite guaranties fund ix to
bo paid into this safety fund and its notes
are to be redeemed in the fire fostance
from such safety fund thus sugmentod--
and impairment of such fund sawed
thersby to be made good from the
immediate available cash assots of said
Hank, and if theas should be Insuffioiont such
Impairment to be meds good by pro rata ns
sessment among the other banks, thelr cone
tributions constituting a fist Hen upon the
asses of the fslled bank in favor of the cof.
trivuting banks, As a further security ir is
contemplated that the existing provision fix
ing the individaal liability o! stoskholders it
to Ertuinad pind fhe bank's lndabtednem
on resount of reuiating notes to
made a first Hen on all its ssests, *
For the purpose of mooting the
notos, oMalal
thors shall
Honnl bank, exoope (n ones 0! a felled bank,
shall redeem or retire fts notes fa the flest
Instance at its own office or at npn ies to
be designated by it, and that ny fixe! ree
serve need bs maintained oa asconnt of de-
posits,
BXEMPTING STATE BANKS,
Another very important {satire of tds
plan is the eXompiion of Btate banks from
taxation by the Unite! States in conde
where ft Is shown to the sats.
faction of the Becrvtary of tha
Treasury and Comptroller of the Currency
by banks elaiming such exemption that they
have not had outstanding their elroulating
notes exceadlng seventy-five por eont, of
their paid-up and unimpaired eapital ; that
theirstockhold ars are individually Hable for
the redemption of thelr circulating notes to
the full extent of their ownership of
stock ; that the lability of suet banks
upon thelr circulating notes constitutes
under thelr Biante law a fiest len upon
their assets ; that such banks have kept
and maintained a guasrantes foud in
United States legal tender notes, in-
eluding Treasury notes of 1800, equal
to thirty per cant, of their oustanding circa-
lating notes, and that such banks have
promptly redeemed their eirculating notes
when presented at thelr principal or branch
offices,
I conclude this communieation fully ap-
prociating that the responsibility for all Jeg.
isintion affecting the people of the United
States rests upon thelr representatives in the
Congress, and assuring thom that, whether
in accordance with recommendations I bave
inande or not, I shall co-operate in perfecting
any legisiation that tends to the prosperity
and welfare of our country,
Grover CLeysrasd
Executive Mansion, Dueceaber 8, 1994.
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES,
faps Charged With Murier ng the Vanguishol at
Pot Arthur
The corssspendent of the London Times
telegraphs as Dllows from Hiroshima, Ja-
pan:
“I havo just returned from the seat of war
and had a conversation with Viscount Matsa
Munemitzu, the foreign minister, in regard
to the misconduct of the Japanese at Port
Arthur. I informed him that I had watched
the Japanese Arm,
Chinese resisted
enter the
to the last,
town.
I saw Chinese
in plain clothes with firearms
their persons. [also found
lets,
he Japaness reported thet civilians fired
upon them from the houses, and thoy there.
deemed It nes
concealed on
bul
explosive
fore Mary to exterminate
them. The Jajanose were further exeited
by fading the mutilated remains of Japaneso
had
rosistance in
prisousra,. Some of these
prisonors,
besn burned alive,
the town,
Isaw no
Daring the nest fous days the
Japaaness pillaged the whole town and killed
almost every man. Very few won
chil.
dren were killed, hose who were killed
killed unintentionly i
nese aris
were probably TN 1
soores of aera pine sir Pe
ripped
Many
ped and shot, backed with knives
open, disembowled and dis nembered,
bodies wore partly burned,
“The foreign minis or expressed himself as
intensely surpraed and grieved. ‘Hithert 5!
be added, ‘the Japancse Army bad been ad-
mired for its hum y and He
was unwilling to believe it possible that thoy
bad acted as reported or to
oplalon on the subject
eial report arrived
Izod me to say he
ment was sincerely delermined to
principles of humanity and civilization, and
was firmly resolved to maintain the hosor of
Japan and refute Chisese sianders,
“1 am satisfied that vornment de.
sires neither to conceal the truth or permit
erueities,
d seipiine.’
SXpress an
detailed of.
Meanwhile, he author.
uniil a
was certain the govern.
act on
the G
& Chinaman who escaped from Port
states there were six generals of
thority in command there,
Arthur
equal
was
an
One from
from Beehuen, while the other
from Annie, All fought bra vely Lat were de
ieated Ly iack of unity In their plans, All
the troops were thoroughly demoralized and
they fled. Two of the genera's have
at Cheloo,
three
One iss l in hiding
has gone to Tien Tein, where he runs a groat
risk of being beheaded,
Itis reported that the Japanese floot is de.
sirlous of taking a more prominent part in
the war. The fleet was secon off Weil Hal- Wei
but has now disappeared, .
strongly defended, The Chinese fleet is still
inside the harbor. Reinforcements are teing
poursd in from the land side General
Chang is in command, He is a brave and
competent offio-r and, is assisted by several
foreigners, The Chinese people lear that if
peace ia made the disianded troops will
commit outrages, In 10 days time all traffle
porthward will close, The Japanese will
base to act quickly il they intend tc attack
Pekin,
The last reliable report received In Chetoo
states that Japan has informed the American
Minister that she is willing to nagotiate If
Ghina sues for peace, This China has done,
#0 an armistice is likely to bo arranged.
A —————
MONEY NEEDED FOR THE YEAR
Scoretary OCarlale Sobmive Ris Bitimate or Ap.
prepriations to Congr ma
The Becretary of the Treasury bas submis
ted his estimates for appropriation for the
next Deenl year ending June 80, 1806, There
is nothing in them to indicate that any pub.
He work is to be prosecuted exoopt that which
the law provents him from ignoring aod
which js under the contract system, The
recommendations of engineers for work that
ought to be done and not acted upon and
the same “economy” with regard to public
Improvements is everywhere observed,
The evtimates of appropriations required
for the servios of the flanal year ending June
80, 1896, acgregate 410,486,070, a+ against
£411,870,041, estimated for the present flsca)
year, Following is a recapitulation of the
entimates by departments for 1898, with com.
parisons for 1805, cents omitted:
Departments Esta, for "08. Appro. foe "05,
legislative, .......8 B8.586,724 10,871,617
109,540 104,604
Exeoutive,........ hy
Bate. ............. 1,780,588 2.008.218
i A 184.487 981 188,735,562
NAVY... convene 81,900 580
IntOrio ree. i... 108,020,878
Post Oo, ....... 6080080
2,400,880
Agriculture, ......
i 157.470
PER EAE Ran
Justion, , .......... 6,724,960
Grand Totals... .. 0410,435,009
A @pateh from Bt, Petersburg says tha
ak fy Conv outigation & IA 1p being pro
53RD CONGRESS.
——————————————— A ————A— SA
The Opening Proceedings of the
Usual Routine Character.
BIG DISPLAY OF FLOWERS.
Close Attention Given to the Pead~
ing of the President's Message
Especially the Fiscal Para~-
graphs-Resolutions Intro-
duced in the Senate,
Bright sunshine, with an atmosphere
slighty tinted with frost, eombined to proe
dice a typloal autumual day aod bronght
large crowds to the Capitol to
opsningof thethird session of the Fifty-third
Congress,
utmost eapncity hour
hour appoluted for the assembly, and not-
withstanding the fact that it was well under
stood the
place and routine in
fully an Leflore the
proceedings would be common
character, the crowds
Hngered until the last lines of the President's
message were read the
session was officially declared at anend. The
and first legis ative
House side of the capitol was the main point
*
of attraction. Toe early arrivals having
those unable to secure
the
House
lofts swarmed over the
tho and remained
the
until
ime lor the
The usual scenes that a'tead the opening
pening
Members excuanged
aad evident
) BUIL08-
ous and without acrimony on the part of
The Democrats took the
good-natured chaffing in the Leet of humor,
without
experience lo adversity, and that they were
similar feelings In
dis
pay of lowers, and neitherside was neglect.
ed in these floral contributions,
Al precisely 12 0
tuto the hall, aad, as be passod to bis place,
¥
whica di-
Hin a
the future, There was the usual Hueral
HOCK DPpoaker Lrisp cam
membars oo Doth sides of the alle
vides the
warm weleo
called to
parties joined
Tue H
and the routine bus
in giving
me, use was im nediately
order,
as hough there had
’
of its silings
rum bad bon aA
roriain «od
y
Ji, & resolution was ad opied
commities 10 wall
in oonju «ling
on the part of
upon tae
Willi a sumilar
the & anil to
ravens | and
rate,
fm him taal Congress hai o
was ready to receive any communications he
Masars
the commits
migat bo pieasald to make,
Ho
polutel,
Wilson,
nas anil Rw wore el
anil a rooms was takes un il J
o'clock, which was subseqaeaily extends to
ball-past 1 the Senate baviag taken a r-coss
to that hour,
be proceedings in the Senate did not dif,
fer materially from thoss of the House There
was a great crowd in the
alle there was
than on that of
KA Lares,
tn Fuk ind sam t
Bas cODTuUNIOn on the
the House, there
same degree ol hberality exhibiiad
donors ln (heir distribution,
The attendance
of Benators was remarkably large, oaly
y Al.
Beaator
Hill was among the delinqueats. The ecom-
mitier appointed 10 wait Presiudeat
reported at 1.3), and the report was fo.dow ud
almost Immediately Ly Secretary Prudes,
who presented the President's message, first
to answer ihe roll ea i,
on the
the Senate and
proceading direct'y therefrom to the Hal of
The readiag of the mossage was
the Houses aod
was given close attention by both sides, The
paragraphs relating to fiscal affairs cous i
and the
anxiely to hear what the President bad to
recommend in relation to those matters h id
members in thelr seats aati the
relating to them were read.
paragraphs
Upon
was announced and adjournment
Atety foliowed
immedi.
Ameriean Consul to the
massacre of the Armenians by the Turks
in I.
WORK AND WORKERS
Tux 500 bands employed at Faulkner &
Bons’ woollen mills in Lowell, Mass, went on
dirike against a ten por cent. reduction,
Inesipexr Dens, of the American Railway
Union, will appear before the Wisconsin
Legisiature this winter to urge the passige
of bills for the benefit of raliway employes,
Tux union printers employed on the World
an afternoon paper of Roanoke, Va., struck,
because a non-union pressman was employed
by the proprietor, The World engaged non-
union men and lmued a paper as usual, The
printers threaten to start an opposition
paper,
Tur Werner Company, a publishing eon
corn, with headquarters in Chicago and
works in Akron, Ohio, has announced that
the wares of its omployes, 1000 in number,
will be restored to the standard of a year
ago, when they were cut 10 per cent,
Onnens were sald to have be js.ued from
the headquarters of the American Sugar Re.
finery, in New York to shut down completely
all the reflaerios of the company fn Dosion,
New Yok, Philadelphia and other large
citien. Fifty thousand operatives will be
affected by the closing of the sugar works
The demoraliz-d condition of thetrade and,
the uncertainity ns to the action of Congress
Aro given as the reasons, John EK, Soares,
the Bocretary of the company, sald that the
works would only ¢lose down over Thanks.
giving Day. At the Havemeyer refineries in
Willinmsburg nothing was known of the re
ported shut down,
FENKSYLVANIA ITEMS
Epitome of News Olesned From Vartons Parts
of the Btate
Judge Mel lung, st Pitisburg, reserved de.
elsion in the sult of the Amaigamated Asso.
¢ ation of lron and mieel Workes
the United
breach of contract
Judge « layton, at Media, decided that the
farm property of the Pennsylvania Hospital,
in Newtown Township, was not exempt [rom
taxation,
The Homestead Bleel Works and several
other big steel concurns at Pittsburg started
on all time,
In the United States District Court at Pitts-
trial
Greene, the cashier of
against
new
in the case of Do La
the First National Dank at Muoeile,
The trial of Franz Bezok, the Austr.an who
murdered his sweetheart, was opened at
One miner was killed and two were badly
by an explosicu of coal gas,
The Logan eolllery, Ashland, owned and
operated Ly Lewis A, Riley & Co, at Cen-
tralin, was the scons of an accident by which
is expected to recover, The victims are Joho
Gangham and Dennis Rowan. They were
time and thers
wal which caught the
ani them
9 hey
working in a breast at the
«a huge inl of top ec
ulortunate miners pinionsd
mou the rocks and lumps of coal,
q ekiy rescaed from
their perilous
worst lpjured
ia. Unanghsin was the
two men, Rowan suffered several in-
i dujurics,
M. Irwin gave additional bond for
aranes {or trial this month and three
pioyoees of the
were sreestod,
Fidelity Company
Litentski, a burglar,
officers io the court roo
The Bor. 4 nm Gas ang
awarded €./ 000 dam
eseapod from the
at Pottsville,
Water Company was
gos io a sult against
the Lackawaana Iron & Steal ( ompany.
By au accllental expiosion of gas In the
wal Bank the interior of the
wrecked the teller and
bookkeeper dangerously injured,
The report of
Wks and
the Blate
the
finances of
ireasurer at
the
Le in an
Of the lscal your shows
sweat to exoeilent
rom Hazleton says that President
the Lebigh Valley Raliroad bas
i or mors than enough 13 re-
il nmesident
eas, who asaisted Dr.
1
Park.
lis Now York
Fuss
rl eached ir
rs, preached in
ruption amoag poliee olicias
H Lawalt, of the Tos Barre
Coa: Company, Is mentioned at Hazleton in
with the presidency of the Lehigh
Coal & Navigation Con
econneciion
IPpADLY.
Bamuel Legeeit was §
and near Shamokin
with his skali crashed in by an axe, the work
of robbers,
A fant freligh
at Lockport
Jersey,
killed
ay ade
Senntor Wi
ae Oh.
aad
Distr of, i» anvounosl as a candidate
#
Republicans nomination for
Governor when
General Has lugs term expires
Join Good, the Teonessee negro, Was con-
viciod of murder in the first degree at Greens-
burg.
Phillip IL Allwein of Lebanon, wasattacked
ate at night by the
his
bighwaymen and at
point of a pistol was made to give up
watch and chain,
Matthew Brown and Archie Johnson, two
ladian popiis at the Cardsie Sobhool, who es.
eaped from the iostitution a week ago, were
caught at Huntington by joeal officers, and
will be returned to the school
Hiram Garrett, a brother of wile murderer
Charles G. Garrett, was arrested at the
North Lebanos lurnaces, charged with steal.
ing a horse and buggy belonging to Joba H
Doumoyer,
Pittsburg district miners are organizing in
perder to resist any attempt at a reduclion of
wages by the coal operators,
The Sainte Board of charities adjourned at
flarrisburg after deciding to recommend an
appropriation for a new Stale (nsane hos-
pital in the Western part of the State,
Hon Wm, H. Brodhead, ex Major of the
Ninth Regiment, NX. G. P., was married in
Bloomsburg to Miss Mary Vantassel, of Der
wick.
Friends of Dr, I. D. Heller, of Hellerton,
election of Edward T. Laubach as State Ben-
ator, alieging fraud. 5
representing a membership of 10,000, will
meet at Harrisburg the third week in Decem-
ber,
ed Evangelical Church,
Colonel Richard MeMichael, a well-known
veteran, died at Reading.
FOR A NEW TERRITORY.
A Dill Xo redase! tor a Ooverammst in the
Iadias Country,
Benator Derry, of Arkansas, introduced a
bill to ereate a territory to be known as In-
dianola, out of! what Is now known as the
Indian Territory, As Arkansas borders on
that Territory it is deeply interested in the
disordered and unsettled condition of affairs
in the Indian country. The depredations of
the Cook gang and incom petancy of the In.
dian government, as attested by the Dawes
Commission and by well known facts, make
it urgent that something stoud be done at
onoe 10 provide the Territory with a proper
form of government.
Sonntor Decry says that the people of Are
kansas, ns well as the cther surrounding
territory, suller severely now from the lack
of good government in the Indian Territory,
Dut speculators are said to be interested in
the maintainance of the existing condition
of affairs, and this may preveat the passage
of any Lill to remedy it,
sit AIS.
od at Varein, The body was removed
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRES]S
tERATE,
Frwy Dax. The preseaiation and reading
Of the Presideni’s annus tes se eotistiuted
Lhe chief puini of jut rest in (he Untind dlis ee
Breunte, Tue reading of the message occupied
two hours and five minuns It was ordered
10 be printed nod in d on the tabi, the usual
course with sueh documetits, On the rlleet
O the tarifl tie President save tial nwis
Important amendments, and he declares him
886i! “dec ledly fa favor of putt.ug conl snd
fron on toe fre st He is amo In nvor of
sirikia: out o 1% suznr selinda o every
ticle of different al HY FO
sugar, In cone us bres dent
the propo-od prinu for uationnl beak ¢ reuls-
Hon—dispeus tg with the deposits of United
Btuies Lond», nud auth riging elreu ation to
the extent 0. 756 por cent, of the pid up capi
tal of banks, aad (he issus of circulating
Boles Ly Bate banks within ecrtain Limita-
tions, Alter the ! the message,
Te«0. UlI0O08 O06 YRIious = igmts wers jutro-
duced, including tie the
surrender of two ihe
Chinese authorities sad tus election of Und od
Btutes Ben !
ors by the people
' dug
The 8
an hoor, | A , ©
had Jara
iniormation whie
Guy in
on the
tvnditug ©
Arinenilnn oulrages,
1
diputisse Cliiscug tH
BEcosy Das
for oniy
pels
session
Mas.
olution. ot
bring the Ha
and Diueflvid wid nits 1 lore Cone
gress for come criticism,
Benator Pefler iutioduerd 8 nunie ! alin
Ouse of thes 1rehinse of
Ce Wilh gress
Has
wailan
Licks,
Twin Day
forts Lo secre &
. Vest's of
rder
be culef
Gri ery
{ suunounced he
ture was imperative
! respect of
Mr,
800
went
ay was Lhe
aie
event of 1he «
vpppo edt
Jasersion, as
sis ¥
Lo ino ntnin
{ho Benaie ae
{
ogi i fw %
thivened
1 question,
alicininge
from a
recent issue of
on Hoance,
Yovura Dax
Mr. Turple
s United States Senate,
avoring the
painr vole, A
unl dedication
Oa No
tang
then adjourned,
Finsr Day. —1In the House much attention
Was given oh mies-Age curing
the first hog i! snading, ut jnteresi
ingged then until the i Rilng with boo.
reiary Carilsi oud s was read, Bile
enoe marked 1 after tue
if Repres Pennsyi-
nde
memory,
nd
deall
vanis, bad been asaounced, the House
j.0r0-4 as a fs i respect {o Dis
Ercoxy i © of Representa
fives, un Lill f for th dedication of
the Chickamn nooks Miliary
Park, Beptes aud one for
tho estabiis itary park
# the site « the Lait © iioh, were
assed and the day vas de
ted ton Ir » printing
iil, Depies Yenneyi-
alla, in rod (by request)
y the for.
by John
a Uli granting i
’ iit slvmmer E is, Owned
D. Han, of Pui
ign-i
Tun Day it
raer, setli
¢ House adopted a special
Gay aller the morn-
ing hour for ihe tisidera fon of the Rale
road Pool.ug L4il, the « utinue un 3
hie 14] »houi wo £ in 10 in
erfere with is Of BPPropre
ut:on bills, aesion of this vill
began three bills, the
Praag t ent the fren use of
tipber on Pp ic land and 10 prevenst
granting of perm
LU aside cach
rder 10 ¢
fisgn
Beare
4
Fovsra Dax.—The entire time of the
House was ocoug ded in the discussion of tue
tallroad pooling bli, to which there appeats
{0 be a great deal of opposition. No action,
bowever, was 1aken on ihe Bll Mesn,
Cooper, of Florda; Gresham, of Texas;
Morse, of Massactuseils, and Daniels, of
New York, took part in the de ate. The
former directed his opp siti 1 to Lhe section
giving the railr the power 10 carry
questions relating to the revoenti nm of pool
ing orders into Lhe courts, and off-red a sub.
stitute giving toe later-tate Commerce Com.
Commission Also.ute comirel over ail
povilng econtsacis, Mesrs. Gresham and
Morse favored toe ull, while Mr. Daniels at-
On the ground thet it would sab
vert the ol jects of tue Interstate Commeros
Ade
CABLE SPARES
Banos Swaxsxa is dead in London, aged
A decree abolishing public executions in
Spain has been issued,
Eanraquakx shocks were felt throughout
Tur possession of two provinces now bed
to be determined by a plebiscite,
Ax engagement has taken place between
CaovLzna bas not broken out in Rio de
Janeiro, and the epidemic of a choletic na-
ture In the provinces is believed to be under
Tux French Chamber of Deputies adopted
the bill to ratify the tariff convention signed
in Paris in February, 1508, between France
and Canada.
Ix consequence of continued tumults io the
Portugese Cartos the King has closed the
session and the body will be again summons
od when the King deems it opportune,
It is reported In London that the Queen
has invited the Czar and his bride to make a
short stay in Eagiand next summer, and thay
the newly married couple will protauly ar.
rive there in Juoe,
Tur Dolgrads (Servia) University, has
been closed owinng to disorders among the
students who threatened the life of ex. Mine
ister Georgevitoh, professor of jurisprudence
who is very unpopular, :
Turner is some excitement in Honolulu over
the discovery of an alieged Royalist plot to
seize the government’, The affair was ex.
posed and it fs thought that only a few jor.
sons were concerned in the plot
Ir is reported from London that the Mos.
qui 0 lnuinns have resolved 10 Ineorporate
thelr territory with Nieatagua, This would
end the Beiliah protectorate over the reserva.
tion and sottle the Diucllelds affairs for aly
time,
Tue mission of Mr. Dietring, the commis
sioner of maritime customs, who was sent to
Japan to negotiate terms of pence, has failed
him, Ane trom Emperor 10 Emperor is
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