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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
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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. .
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Mink nia
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WHEAT
a
session
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