poo A——————————— THE NEWS, Ignacio Francisco do la Cruz Garcia, who was sald to be the oldest man in the United States, died in Los Angeles, aged 117. He Was a native of Sinaloa, Mexico, His age has been questioned, but he had documents which sustained his claim, F, H. Clergue, of Bault, Ste Ontario, whose big pulp factory is down, had an interview with the ministers in regard to the placing of an ex- port duty on pulp wood, Unless this is done he cannot, he start up again. The cabinet will consider the matter, The New York Union Shirtm#kers, by striking against one contractor at a time, have practically won their demand for a 20 per‘esnt. increase of wages, The baseball will be of ewport News, Va., on April 9, when the Sewport National League team will play Newport News, of the Southeastern Virginia League, The New Mexico Assembly has voted to appropriate $1,430 each for the Omaha and Tennessee expositions, At a conference of managers of roads and miners in that stat Chicago, arrangements have been such Marie, closed cabinet SRYS, business Season ened at Ohio coal e, held at made for of rates as oul wo all miuving points on an equality in reaching the consuming centres, The outecor meetieg will be the strict both rates and prices of coal. Rev, Dr. Simon J, McPherson, of fil, was elected » the board Princetor Judge Helena, a revision ne of mainlenancs zate th bribery the legisiature, The steamer Vancouver: arrived at Halifax, N, S., fi ime. She met with terrible hea high seas on t from Liv Ut due he passage smashed and received o The three Juxen, of Boxman eldest just outside formed | shild lrowned, The Populi Jdative feated in the | and Legislat Tae resolu s————, CABLE SPARKS. Prof. Hen tional law ia the Spi England, ¥ Drumm Washingt tional te] It i negotl pure The British the India office London that the effect plague palients in India good in fresh cases, Honorary degrees were o bridge (Eogland) Un States Ambassador Bay de Courcel, the retiring French ; Mr. Bayard was cheered and a At the parliament Transvaal raid Sir Gy perial secretary to the South Africa, likened t the landing in England but withdrew the parable. Between thirty and forty th attended a meeting in Tr London, to express sympathy and Crete, elaring that the powers aflorded a basis Lord Salisbur and it was declared by the was rushing Great Dritair the will of the pe hes # Resolutions we Answer was h he, - se RII ——— RAVAGES OF THE BLIZZARD. Numerous Lives Reported Lost in the Northwes! Storm, A despatch from St. Paul, Minn. Raports from the big storm of Friday have been coming in faster than the trains, for these are generally delayed or blockaded, and it will be severa all the roads are again in geod raaning or- der. Reports from all parts of South Da- kota give evidence of the storm's fary. Bome lines arp buried beneath ten (Lo fifteen fost of snow, and drifts are miles in length. Aun Ashiand, Wis, spacial says: It is ram. ored that numerous lives were lost in the great blizzard that swept the shors of Lake Buperior. The storm eame from the north. West, piling the cs fifty high on the Apostle Islands, and other points on the pouth shore of the lake. The snow in the streets of Ashland is from four to six feet deep. Railway trafo is almost at a stand. still, Minneapolis, Minn, «Specials to the Jour nal from North and South Dakota and West- ern Minnesota show that the snow storm did more actus! damage than others of this win. ter, one that has never been equaled in the sosts it has levied on railroads, Wednesday of this week after almost her ulean strug- gles, several roads opened their lines and bee gan moving freight to towns where food and fuel famines existed. By the time these trains were well on the way the storm bioek- ed everything. Freighte are stalled in all parts of the three States, Soarsely a passenger train ia moving north of Central Routh Dakota. Drifts miles long and from ton to thirty foet deep oppose the roads which have not vet begun work, Munch stock on moving trains bas been killed, and thousands of head of . eattls are reported dying in Bast South Da- fava ratiroad lave bafore fos {uot forced out of the woods and worz wii cease, i PRESIDENT'S TRST MESSAGE, McKinley Asks for the Prompt Passage of a Tariff Bill. FINANCIAL DOCUMENT. The Recent Issues of Bonds—~The Big De- ficit In Revenues Discussed and Brought Down to Date Tariff Changes Urgently Hecommended - The Home Market to Be Preserved Prompt Action is Advised. I'he President Monday sent the following message to Congress To the Congress of the United States Rogretting the quired me to call yor in extraordin necessity whieh has re together, I feel that your assembling ] § 1b uxt fir the revenues ment, It is conceded th penditures are greater than its re hu a condition Nears, existe With are | has $9,914 458.66 #40 570 467 94 debt, which us , Were Slal revenues expenditures annual interest the charge lowes 17.60 in 18% 3.26, in 1802, r since 1852, to 834,287.) crease of $11,493 414.40, Need of a Tariff Bill, ay be urged that even government il the reveryes 3 + had been sufficient et all ita ordinary expenses during the past three years, the gold reserve would still moet the demands upon it, and that bonds would necessarily have been issued for its repletion. Be this as it may, it is clearly manifest, without denying or affirming the correctness of such a conclusion, that the debt would have been decreased in at least the amount of the de ficiency, and business confidence immeasqr. ably strengthened throughout the country, Congress should promptly correct the exist. condition. Ample revenues must be igplied, not only for the ordinary expenses of the government, but for the prompt pay- ment of liberal pensions, and the liquidation of the principal and interest of the public debt, In raising revenues, duties should be 80 levied tipon Joreign products as to pre serve the home market, so far as possible, to our own producers; to revive and increase manufacturers; to relieve and encourage agricultnre: to increase our domestic and foreign commeree; to aid and develop mining and building, and to render to labor in every Held of useful occupation, the Hberai wages and adequate rewards to which skill and in. dustry are justly entitled. The necessity of the pamage of a tariff law whish shall pro- vide awpie revenue, nved not be further urged. The imperative demand of the hour is the prompt enactment of such a measure, and to this object I earnestly recommend that Congress shall make every endeavor, Before other business Is transacted, let us first provide sufficient revenue to faithfully administer the government without the con- traoting of further debt, or the continued disturbance of our finances, (Signed) WILLIAM M'KINLEY, Executive Mansion, March 15, 1897, have wen sufficient to fag sag PENNSYL.VANIA ITEMS. A meeting was hold in the Board of Trade rooms at Reading, for the purposs of selest. ing committess to confer with the different rallyay companies with a view of securing rheaper excarsion rates to Rea ling, Pros] dent Leinbach suggested that a permanent wommittes be road officials, A notice has been phia & Reading iron reoting the moulders not to prior to 7 A. M. Heretofore working by the place their day's hose, many beginning 1 appointed to call on the rail posted at foundry, the Philadel. Ronding, d4- begin work 1Mer Lo cor the me wers allowed work as menea early as the Lt 6 oeclock and som: us early as 5 o'clock dur Without apparent Smith, an ladustrious farmer, residing near ng the longer days, nny muse Willian Fredericks! stifoide His famiiy wore is alleged to have committed hy et by shiooting when the act was house on the 50 years of age, Major J. Clayton Mi Hier sam well-kn Eastern Pennsylvania and Grand Army cles, wns ran yoie at and He ising NEW AMBASSADOIS, FPorter Get Two of the Hess Hay and Flaces, I WORK AND WORKERS The plant of the Russel] ( Bn, Mass, has nakers and iti, Mase al a meet fo RPIove 3 these the fas wy of TT. DD. In Boston enttors i iepartments larry & Co. struck Mass. as a result of the granite strike, the granite manufacturers have arraoged to put at work a large number of Italian cutters. If the Italians do not the requirements men are to be from New York to take the strikers’ places, The Luddington, condition of the dockers’ strike at Mich., is aggravated, Manager Crapo, of the Fiint and Pere Mar- quette Railway, will not discharge non-union men. The strikers offered to work for 18 wtith an hour, hie new hands are out down to 10 cents per hour. The big Derby Cotton Mill, at Shaiton, Conn , at which 27 weavers recently struck, bas been permanently elosed by Robért Adams, the owner. Mr. Adams ordered £1) unfinished work shipped to his Patterson, N. J.) mille, Two handred hands are thrown out of employment, All of the factories of the Pook, Blowe & Wilcox Company, manufacturing edge tools and general hard ware, at Bouthington, Conn, have sha: down indefinitely, This throws out of employment a large number of hands. who for the past six months have been working on a short sohedule, The Lowell ( Mass) Carpet Mill, who oper ate ome of the Inrgest carpet mills in the country, shut down for ope week owing t« the light demand for carpets, Impending tarifl legislation makes it unwise to store carpels at present, The cartallnient of pros duction will affect 2,500 employes, while Hf will keap the market well in hand, Bepairs will also be made in the interval, A —————— On Raturday last the fion. John M. Francis, the sditor and proprieter of the Troy, X. ¥.. “Times” celebrated his 740 birthday, The celebration toek place st Hot Bpriogs, 8. C, and was inclusive of & dinner of twenty-fous £Overs, More ONLY FOUR The 1 "TH SAVED, J 4 Ville De St. Nazaire Lost, Steamer TERRIBLE SUFFERING. Further Particulars of One of the Most Cases of on Wife ni Distressing Shipwreck Record A His and Children Die Before His Eyes. FPussonger Secs Four Survived th Disaster, A dispatch from New Y the eighty-two persons SHEers o arew of ti Nuzalre March 6th for whi y which rare known to have i the or “lk r Survivors 4 fs CASUALTIES. Central Railway ag near Marysvi stantly | Presi Board that 8500 000 “in saved herself and two elifidren. A snowslide swept down upon the works of the Daily mine, at Park City. Utah ing eight men, Four of them were recovers and resuscitated: the dead bodies of thres were dug out by the miners, and one is not yol recovered, although il Is certain he § dead. The four men who are alive we re +more or leas injured and%be mili property was damaged to the extent of #50,000, — C—O ——— EXPOATE AND IMPORTS Heavy Balance of Trade in Favor of the United States, The monthly statement of the exports and imports of merchandise, gold and sliver from and into the United States during Feb. ruary last, issued from the Bureau of Statis. tics, shows as follows Merchandise exported, $79.773.30%: mer- chandise imported $59 193.868 which nesarly #33.000.000 was {roe of duty), Gold exported, $336,697; gold imported, £554.700: silver exported, $4,660,362: silver imported, $762,042, As compared with Pebruary, 18056 this statement shows an inorease of about 2.070... 000 in the value of merchandise exported, and a docrease of over $3.250 000 ia the amount Imported. Por the eight months ended February 2% there was 8 gain of over 3,250,000 in the nmount imported, For the eight months ended Fobruary 29 there was a gain of over #132.000,000 in the amount of merchandise exported, and a decrease of nearly $110.000000 in the amounted ime ported, : The goid exports during Febraney ware $1,847,000 less than a year ago, and the im- ports about §11,000,000 lees than February 1898, and the imports #700 000 less, i — a A dispateh from Havana says the family of {Of Consul-General Pitzhugh Loe will return tc the United States within two weeks, CONGRESS Renate. he first Presid wis presented and read in the Bennte Monday It wax dey the tarlfl, While the message undivided attention of Benator no demonstrations approval. W. A. Harris, Populist, ay nL yok the onth of offic AeLALOr but the message of Of either approval or dis [ened ( Fen Kansas to sucecesd Mr. Pe i Henry W, Corbett, ap i the Governor of Oregon Mite I (the legisiature were re red to Privileges and Elections In the United States pension public ferred r On 00 dentinls of sieaced i were intr all had been 1ie in the [inst Dill was posse and private Nearly nmitteo f House, WORK AND WORKERS. {toe R sirike ve arranged t {f Italian i cittors Answer 1 brought from pinoces, The Luddington, Mich AR TAavALe Manager Crapo, of the Flint and Pere Mar- juette Railway, wili not discharge pon-utis men. The strikers offered to work wuts an hour. The new hands are ev to 10 cents per hour, The big Derby Cotton Mill, at Shelton. Conn , at which 27 weavers recently stra has permanently closed by Robert Adams, the owner. Mr. Adams ordered ail unfinished work shipped to his Patterson, N. J.) mills. Two hundred hands are tarown out of employment. All of the factories of the Peck, Stowe & 1 requiremen New York to take the ondition vo lk OTE been uave shut down indefinitely. This throws out of employment a large number of hands, who for the past six months have been working on a short schedule, The Lowell (Mass. ) Carpet Mill, who oper ate one of the largest carpet mille in the aouniry, shut down for one week owing to the light demand for carpets, Impending tariff legislation makes it unwise to store carpets wt present. The curtaliment of pro. duction will affect 2300 employes, while it will keep the market well in hand. Repairs will also be made in the interval. ROBBERY OF A POSTOFFICE Stamps and Bonds to the Value of Thou wands Stolen, The postoMos at Cambria, Va, a town on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, was robbod Saturday, The safe was blown open, and all the stamps, money order ands, and about $17,000 of bonds and other securities, 0 private individuals, takes. The robbers took the oash-book of the money or. der department alvo, There i no clue to JEATH INTHE WATE Many Rumors of Loss of Life Along the Mississippi. HUNDREDS IN DANGER. They Are Compelled to Stand in Shallow Water In Some Instaaces, Being Unable to Get to Dry Land Others Gather the Rallroad Embankment, Which Threatened by Water, on Are SAVE as al inst A I IF THT MA SAL GR Rint ces B North « wrosing LIVE POULTRY Hens .$ Pucks; per Turkeys, per ib CHICKENS TOBACON, TOBACCO-MA. Infer's.. 8 sound common Middling Faney LIVE 87008. BEEF Dest Boeves. ..,..% SHEEP Hogs. Racecon Bed Fox... Skunk Black. . Uponsum Mink nia Oer....... “en XEW Yous FLOUR-—-Southern. . ... WHEAT a session RILADELYMIA —— FLOUR-Southern.. . ..8 860 WHEAT No. ha T = OATS--Noo 8.............. BUTTER-State. ......... a
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