THE NEW TARIEF BILL. THE MEASURE TO BE PRE- SENTED TO CONGRESS. Chalrman Wilson, of the Ways and Means, Issues a Stetement Giving Its Salient Features Wool, Coal, Iron Ore, Lumber and Salt on the | Free List. After weeks of preparation, involving an exhaustive study of the subject, the new Tariff bill has been completed, and given to tho public, The bill Is the work of the Dem- oaratic members of the and Means, who have jealously guarded its detalls Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Com- mittee, in a statement given out with the committee on Wave ho several schedules ‘In the chemi ferred to the free follows : il schedule we have trans- List quite a number of arti- ales used in manufactures ; the most important of which is sulphuric acid, one of the corner stones of all chemloal industry, “The duty on castor ofl 18 reduced from eighty-five to thirty-five cents per ga 3 and the duty on linseed oll, which was rajsad to thirty-two cents by the Conference Com mittee on the MeKinley bill, we put at fifteen cents a gallon. Pig lead being reduced from two to one cent a pound, lead paints orrespondingly reduced “The McKinley bill increased the duty on pared for smokin the are gto #12 a pound lessening its importation on the Pacific duty has od in each ROO Are | a pond from twenty-five per cont ! 1 and twenty-five is believed to be the most higher nut nt f rly 84.50 pet ad valoren per productive the law 0) ry ent sue rate, and ia than Liveanimals are put at twenty Barley Is reduced from thirty ] Hl to twenty per cent, whi want Freadstufls per nt. ini 114.) pe h is about tw of which we are immense ax riers, are made free, exeopt when import from countries putting oa duties on om lke products, in which 7ase the duty b twenty per cont Fresh vegetables, fralts, eges and like food proiucts are untaxed for the benefit of our own consumers, largely the working peo ple of the cities “Halt in bulk a free ; In packages the salt is free. but the covering Is dutiable at rates presoribed for like articles, The tariff on spirits Is put at double the in. ternal revenue rates on like spirits, and some slight reduction Is made on still wines, malt liquors, ginger ale and like beverages in the interest of increased revenue, The duty on sparkling wines is likewise slightly reduced for the same rensons, that on champagne be ing put op st 871 per doses quarts as against #% in the McKinley bill and $0 in the law of FETE) “In cotton mauuisctares substantial re ductions are made, especially on cheap clothes and prints, and the existing system ol taxing by count of threads in the squars inch is retained, “Hemp ond flax are made free, dresast Hine of hemp and flax one cenit and 134 cents respectively. Burlaps and cotton and grain bagging are put at fiftean eont,, when imported for covering of articles to be exported are daty free, Wool In made free, “Cloths and dress goods are put at forty per cont, clothing at forty-fivy oent., rates higher than ths sommittes Jenired, bat deamed temporarily necessary boosuse out manufacturers have so long bean excluded from two-thirds of the wools of the world bat | which the rates in the woolen schednle are to come down five points with the lapse o five years, “Oarpews, an indastry in which ws will goon be independeft of competition, arn pat L fifty-five per cont, for Axminster, Moquette and Wilton, thirty per cent, for Drussels, while common grades go down to twenty per cent, Thebill provides that the daties shall be removed from wool on March 1st and re duced on woolen goods July 1st “In the silk schedule the reduction of rates is smaller than in cotton or woolen fabrics, “Sole leather is reduced from ten to five per cent, Leather gloves are olassifled ac cording to material and length, and are unl formly rated at specifie duties, which aver age not over twenty-five per on the common varieties and near forty per cent, on the fine lamb and kid gloves, In the sched. ule of sundries many articles, like haters’ plush, are put on the free list, “The duty on ent diamonds, pearls other precious stones is increased “Works of art are, I am delighted to say, put back on the free list, “The above is a rapid summary of the chief shanges made by the proposed bill, and will give a satisfactory idea, | its get eral structure cent, and believe, will redu & fow nme of its operation fi pared by Mr he was in Con gress, and the changes proposed in our bil are to make it more «affective, at the same time so : lod by ft : some of the Jealu? added the unt v ir am : ih 10 I'in piate i fifths i valorem, wi THE MARKET Late Whole Produce rice in N¢ sale mniry Quoted Ors. EA Welsh tu “ Walsh tule. third estorn Tm, exen ae Tel otm “w iIrseys Ch Western, Kone Fowls-- St, at Ducks W Spring, Fast Spring, L. | Govse. Fasten Heusbm Dark White, ¥ doz Potatoes. State Jersey, ¥ 180 Pa ‘ EL. L. in bulk, ¥ bid Cabbage, I. 1. #100 Unions 5t, & West FEastera, red, P bl Eastern, white, ¥ hb! 1. L. & Jersey, yellow Squash, marrow, ¥ bbl, Hubbard, ¥ bb Carrots, ¥ bhi Turnips, Russia, White, ¥ bbl Celery. 1. LL, ¥ don Cavliflowers, ¥ bbl Sweet potatos, Bo, Jomoy Virginia, # bol Parsnins ¥ bb bi bbl bunches ORALE, ETO, Flour Winter Patents Spring Patents, ,... Wheat, No, 2 Red. ... vorn-No, 2 cisbns Onts-No, 2 White, ....es Mixed Vestorn RyeStale..........co000000 Barley Ungraded Western. , Hay«Good to Cholem.,,.. StrawLong Nye ‘ Boods Clover, 100 ...... Timothy, ¥ 100... Lard Clty Stonm ,,...oo0iv 1IYR STOCK, Baeves, ofty dressed, , ...... 64®& Mileh Cows, com. 10 good. ...00 0 5 Calves, City drosssd, .cvivvev 9 @ H , RI00 IDS oo iinenives 200 F100 Ma, oovereess B00 HegsLive, ¥v 100 | ih ihe TIE WAR | SECRETARY | Great Progress Made in DE ARTHENT.| LAMONT FILES HIS ANNUAL REPORT. the Manus facture of Heavy Ordnance and in I'he Entire In- fantry Force to Armed With the New Magazine Rifle, Seaconst Defence be War son iecretary ol 1y, containing It the of the army. Vs usunl review of Some of the facts conoersing Yarious arms of the enlisted ry redpo five {0 enlisting ——— NEWSY GLEANINGS, Fant n Hoston 1 oF loss ear there wy Mass... of Tag eight foreign Nations heat repre if the World's Fair sold #10 000 000 worth of goods in this sountry wad. died from the swallowed on a bet, Gronor Bponren, col sfiocts of a quart of win, in Washington, DD, ( loapymes East, West and South has vived, and the prospects are bright all over the country Mus, Many Crosny, a poor sesmst ross, Hv. ing at Springfield, TL, has won a sult which sntition her to land in North Carolina worth ro. considernd { $75,000, Tun New Hampahira World's Fair build. | Ing has been bought by General Charles Williams, who will present it to the city of Manchester, A vocroa of Allegheny, Penn. , kept a pro. maturely born infant, which the mother thought dead, in an incubator four months and surprised the mother by restoring it to her, Two boys of elght years fought a dusl with pistols at Ghent, Pelgiam , in the presence of two other schoolboys who acted sa seconds, Clie of the boys was kilied by a shot through the head, Trax wore in Massachusetts last your 48.767 deaths, 65 824 births, 22.507 marriages, and 700 granted divorees..a greater number Un enol than has been the average for the last twenty yearn, ——— Tus dead body of a colors tramp was found at Bi, Louis, Mo,, crushed het ween the top of a plie of lumber and the roof of the ont loaded with it. The man had crawled on and top of the lumber and to and the which was Cianp, {| Uhl, i» a country boy. | farmer folks who live near Ypsilanti, Mick, | to sallege at Ann Arbor, | walk from Ypsilanti to Ano Arbor, a distance | of ten milew, every Monday morning, return. | Bun | ke | White House turkeys usually do. It THE PATRIOT SPY. The Nathan Fale Statue Unvelled In New York City, — PROMINENT PEOPLE. inli Nosisly Lhis Your MM. Be 3 was Wood vnatist, wi explora northeastern graphioal African explorer, being the land Rockhill, an Amerioan diy had made himsel! fan «hn tions in western and Thiet A wosANLY trait of Que innid In her intense lows | Jove which she shares with every other oem ber of her family Khe delights in the small ereatures about her, and nothing #0 quickly brings tears fo het eyes as a pathetic story about a ehiid Manvix Heaney, who controls the vast Lt his China wh Viet rf tie ’ ¥ ng children an ria Chisago and Northwestern Railway system, | with ite 10.000 miles of tracks, hogan his | milroad sareer by earrying water to oon | struction hands on an lowa line Ho was then a boy of fourteen and at sixtesn he was a station agent with a salary of $35 a month, Tux now Assistant Secretary of State, Mr His parenta are plain He saw some very tough times when going Mich, Heo wand to ing home on foo! every Friday night, The object of this was to save a board bill over * _ ————I—— - Paespexy Crevetasn's Thanksgiving tur this your did not weigh »0 much as hed twanty seven pounds and was shipped Westersy, BR. 1, by Horace Voss, who has had the selection of a New England turkey for the White House ever since President Grant's The largest turkey he ever ME TH TREASURERS REPORT | having | { JPERATIONS OF HIS BUREAU FOR THE YEAR. Were 8108,. Most of Which Was of the Treasur) Ave erage of Money Per Capita Highe: fie Exports of Gold O00 O00, Drawn Out Than Kver, nage not 4 The Troasur the vaults a win apy present methods of this kind ——— COLLISION IN A FOG. Many Persons Killed and Injured by a Rallway Wreck in Italy. bound from Milan with a freight midnight at Limitro station in a passenger conches were completely terad The wreck took fire from the turned engines Thirteen parsons were killed and twenty two were seriously injured, The wounded wore taken to Milan and placed in hospitals All the employes of Limitro station aed numerous oftizsens hastens to the scene of the disaster to lend sosistance in rescuing the injured, slograms wore sent to Milan and other asking for assistance, and a train ar rived In a short time from Milan with doe. tors to care for the injured and a company of soldiers to ald in rescuing, In the meantime the rescuing party bad cut away (he burning woodwork with axes, and streams of water were poured upon the wreckage, under which a number of passen. gers were inextricably jammed, Rome of the vietins met with horrible deaths, being cremated before the eyes of the ators, who were powerless (0 help them owing to the im lity of removi the heavy masses of papa mint with wh they were surrounded, Other anfortunstes were only extrionted to dle In the arms of their rescuers, All the injured men wore suffering from barens, and most had broken Habe, In somes caves immediate Amputation WHE DOCARRATY Anovr 95,000,000 tons of con! have acca. mulated at Pittsburg, Penn, owing to low ae is thw largest at one An express tral Italy, to Yeniow ocollidea train at I'wo shat over quantity ever ANNUAL POSTAL REPORT. POSTMASTER-GENERAL BIS- SELL ON HIS DEPARTMENT. Operation of a Great System No Ad- vantage Derived From the Ocean Mall Subsidies A Deficit of Sear. ly Eight Million Dollar World's Falr Postoflice, annually wrod Ming al makes special wis of the ten larger Post ( wit, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, San Fras Balti more and Pittsburg, which yield one-third of the total postal revenge Me Postmaster-General as highly gratified at the results shown from the m Moe, which proved such and conveniences to offices of sntry, to WOO, exprosaos himeell most satisfactory jel branch Post. A great attraction visitors at the Worlds Fair The gross receipts during the six months of its continaance wore $64,388 62, or equal to the postal business of a city of 80. 000 inhabitants, The total number of pilose of mall matter handiod yas 15,178,813, MANIAC'S AV/FUL DEED. te Deliberately Murders His Family of Your John his threes children Foster killed and blowwell, i Sa . 15 At Uniont wile wn, Ohio, his 5 four years old ana = do. Me has been considered weak-minded at times Y' his selghbors, the infirmity owing ot, of & wound received in the fe War, The hour of the tragedy was shortly before midnight and the weapon nesd was a revo ver, Mra Foster was the first 10 suffer, bedog shot through the hanrt, The murderad (hen went into the bedroom where his ¢hildren, two boys and a girl, aged respectively sleven, and seven years, were asieep. From the Foster was forty the abot which killed his mother, hands were clasped above his head, he was knoeling, ss NM In rayor The other two children worg shot through the head an thay slept, Returning tothe dead body of his wife Foster sent a ballet through vs owa brain wad fell prostrate soroms the corpse, Tux Now York City banks now hold de of $478,000,000 more than one-third id, silver and fod Bates, for which
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