I ‘THE HOUSE HEARS A LETTER In LEVELNDIOHIS PARTY FROM THE PRESIDENT. a Communication to Chairman Wilson He Urged the House to Re- jeet the Senate Amendments, Placing Iron, Coal and Other Raw Materialonthe Datiable List, Washingt prised well-defined lines » tusk of the ita + reamatan Dam the wonder that oft from this ol t Armer t ha protection af and the frou or f enpitalists ft ol ar i as an How er indulging h {nat and v dings tite apparent that the que material 4 admit wl middie grounds sine thelr rata of tarifl taxation, great violative of Democratic ratio good faith asider it Intra. relation to an fall to be I paler t fugar ons "TAY " ot ton 10 Any ofl, In nlike ipleand Dame that you will not something In which can hardly the conference of tariff taxation Int! and in accordance sugar is article of revenue ar, ineldents stages of the treed to the 3 i nt ir party PE ir dew WA party | Bn lesitiroste and login! tasation, Unfortuuntaly ha i my certain Inzisintion whieh will sth conference that have aroused econnetion with this sabjeet a natural Demooratie animosity t methods and mauipniations trnsts and comblustions, I confess to sharing in this feeling : snd yot it sesms to me we ought, If pomibie, to saMsiently (ree ourselves from prejudios to saable ns coolly to weigh the considerations which, In formu. Iating tariff legisintion, ought to guide our trent ment of suzar us 5 taxable articis, While no tenderness should be satertained for truste, and while I am decidedly opposed W gal Li anied Pye ¢ 34] th 0 y granting the under the gals ot fe taxation, any opportuiity to farther the neenling methods, 1 suzgest that we ougat n it to be driven awny from the Democratic which load to the taxa tion of sugar by the fear, quite lkely oxag- gorated, that in carrying out this prineiple wo may indirectly and inordinate ybhinntion of sugar-refining hat iu present condiiops subject, ny I and prinsinte and pol and pole \ | | \ sg i i ap. IR Heato th i | reitment hag aroused, i do should do evil that I y that we nay It action, r r to Den With all thorals at sti ! {this arte willing to Hation may ut de- ing count alent « are I beg youto In the con touching the bo considerad that their interests mt the gen- Are oon. howe they thoso who ———— OXFORD WINS. Yale Athletes Defeated for World's College Champlonship the Yale made a splendid fight a circumstances in the international sports at West Kensington. Bagland, b she falled to win, Oxforl was the winner of va out of the nine events hot she ia not making crousss fof the delsated to say that they were peculiarly unfortunate, In the first place it was Eaglish, not American weather. lastead of hot sunshine in which American athiotes do thed work, It was a cold, drisaly a heavy rain only nal! aa hour t games ‘his caused Yale all the runs, leh comprised SAAS linglate at > at with afterno to among all ad Among sportsmen g British Isles. Over 15. present, The results were as follo ¥) spent a ; 8] oxy Broad Jumt ley, Ox! High Jum Ox tied at 5 Putting Shot yon, Yale, se Throwing Hammer Brown, Yale, second, One Handred Yard Dash ford ; Jordan, Oxford, sec onds, One Handred and Twesiy Yard Hardle Won i Oakley, Oxford ; Hateh, Yale, seo- ond, ime, 16 3.5 saconds, Quarter Mile Bun-—Won by Jordan, Ox for Sandford, Yale, second. 51 seconds Half Mile Ran-Won ford ; Pond, Yale, second Time, 2m. 4-54 Mile Bun—~Won by Greenhow, Oxford Hildpard, Oxford, second. Time, 4m. 24 2-0, ap 5! rd Br nd Distance, 115 Won by Fry Tim Ox 10 se Pe Time, by Greenbhow, Ox. II 5A KILLED HER HUSBAND. He Had Shot the Stage Driver and a Passenger Robert Logan was so jealous of bis wife that she applied for a divoree, a few days ago wont home to her at Cottonwood, Nev, Logan followed her, and that night seversly wounded Dan Love. lock, the stage driver, Mrs. Logan thereupon drove the stage back, and returned to Cottonwood to bring Lovelock home, The wounded man sat be. | side her, and on the back seat was Fred Sal. livan, a stranger, About dusk Logan rode up on horsebask, armed with a Winchester, and ordered bis wife to leave the stage, When she refassd, | he turned his horse in behind it, and #0 they journeyed for two hours, | Huddenly there was the sharp erack of a | rifle, and Sullivan fell forward, shot through | the heart from behind, Another report and Lovelock toppled over dead in Mrs, Logan's np, Then Penn took the reins and drove | five miles to a well, saying that he would | throw the dead bodies into it and then kill his wife, dhe, however, persuaded him to water the horses first, and as Logan stooped to take a bucket from under the stage, she wrenohed A revolver from Lovelook's body and fired Logan begged for , bat she fired and as her husband the Jompel from the stage and put still unother bullet into his body to make sure that he was dead, Sho loft it thers in the dust and drove into nasnely and mothet's baling lionized tor her courage, Tur Chief of ths Darean of Rtatistios at Washington estimates that the revenue un. der the proposad income tax will be very small from private Incomes, hardly covering the cost of collegtion, while from corpora fons it may reach $30,000,000 per annum, but is more likely to be near $12.900.000, THE NINERS USED RIFLES TWO BATTLES AT AN ALA- town with the other corpses, where sho was | BAMA COAL SHAFT. White Strikers Kill Half a Score of Colored Men Who Had Taken Thelr Places—Many Desperately Wounded -~Five Hundred State Militia on Guard. rifles, \r with Pp. m. of ths Ten- ympany, large body of men, armel wera discovered about 5 o'el Slope No. 8, ne ook of tha Pratt mines nesses Coal, Iron and Rallroad © seven miles from Birmingham, Ala, It was ths hour when the men the mines came out, men were ool ored miners who had taken the places of the strikers, and the attacking party were strik- ers and their sympathizers, As the colored men came out the strikers, who wera hiding behind bushes and fonoes, opened fire, Several hundred were fired before the strikers seatterad, Guards stationed around the mine returned the fire, but they were few in number I'he casunltios wera: H, W, Tierce, white killed ; lored miner, name un- known, killed ; striker named Racquet fatally wounded, Several men on both sides wore wounded, One of the wounded strikers was iragued off by his friends It was a de rate attack by the strikers on the miners put to work in d , and they shot to kill Iwo hurriad which gent to other 8 Week ilroad strike had been ios at work at Theso shots on guard, {hes Je worn to had been for eitien for wompanies the soene, ympanies gham from i wunt of the wrderad ho Ti ware sie th ne n in le yf 1 we 1s. BN aa than A arya vt a 0ae I ad The bitterness of the strikers b7 a captured striker, Ho was knee hiad a cowpan fence firing his rifle bullet from a guard knocked | and emptied d ap rose uj ni speak nn word Tb word ¢ he rad cept Ten bodies wera pi { were Jifeless,. Many wounded were belpad away by thelr sot .cades, The names a | eoloped dead are unknown, . George Campbell, one of the colorad la. had his broken, and a ballet bin He says the “XK up, Oras ft " wae THE LABOR WORLD. residents are « t Lake, Utal A algamated ( rireasor irpenters | ir Max: Ky.) ani Ay 50 000 rallroaders stos are not unlor “ od UTTER: will } Toronto, ( 1th Wales thee ers io the H Mountain (M4 assed wages twen! Xr nada in New Labor mes Ax Iron tari ner 1h Baltimore and and Is mi onl open ing Ld] on rvrant Miave are forming Live company 10 ~naaee in the business in West Virginia te] al and Wu FRE great pottery strike in New Jorsey ended Over twelve thousand men resame work, A uniform reduction in wages of 12 per cont, was the basis of the settlement nr hers, of Chisag oN to sever conntstion with the governad by Debs and Sovereign, eolaimin to have been Induced to strike when defeat wan assured KYanps hut vote! Irene are mors working days in the veat of the American workman than of any othet save the Hungarian, The latter works 317 daye in the year, and thas has almost no holidays save Randay I. W, Eaax, Chairman of the General Man agers, whose roads were disturbed by the Paliman strike, was at one time a machin Ist’s apprentions in the Ulinols Central shop and rose step by step til be besame Pees dent GREAT interest Is being excited amons maritime workers over the prolable action of the National Seamen's Unlon regarding the formation of an International Union, in cluding the sallors’ organizations of Eng land, Ireland and Australis, with a total membership of about 78,600 men, —y i ————— . Anargaare bank note stands at $207 250.807, thorn of cireulation ati} In spite oftue ple. loanable eapital at Noasoinl osntess, organisation i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Foursr fires raged with increased fury in Bouthern New Jersey; between 0000 and 7000 nores of land have been burned over, Povier Commmsionen MceCrave, of New York City, resigned and General Michael Kerwin was appointed in his place, Ar New York City Joseph Palermo, twelve vonrs old, grew tired of life and twice in one day tried to kill himself with sarbolie acid, A YORRST th Green Bust . Mun, Mas chostor (N. fire hamlet of N.J MoCLerrax Y.) Hospital for ith ag Mrs, another inmate of th Inwvin te Pihlr yertrua inmate tha nr \! 1 1 11D OG rend West, South and med in the rallrosd strike, supposesl to inciude President many of the rank and file y | Washington. A RETARY Heanent nportant ns CovNrEnre: looted by Ne stroyed at unterfeit fraodulent purposes ret Nervi the Treas r Department present on not ie rer ) Foreign, ne Vigilant w Britannia i er until she st th eraft held a hroegs by this Suke Tue Dobros and Kasan wane suns drowned Tur American supper t the mem! team Fue Vigilant won hi ~ i Rn Commodore Britannia was Vigilant had a winning | ue Italians of Lyons, Franes fered injury and loss daring the ant outrages after the mur ler of Carnot for $400,000 as compensation Tee Samoans have sent to Emperor Wil fam a petition praying that Gormany annex the islands Avancuinr Leos, who shot at Crisp! in Rome, Italy, is sentenced t yoars' solitary confinement Cimier Cranexce has been proclaimed ruler of the Mosquito Territory by Indians and the police force, nud the Commissioner has beens expelled, Toe United States ara ner Columbia has been ordered to Blnsflelds Huxpaeos of Mahdists lost their lives In a battle with an Italian forse near Kassala, Abyssinia, A Aan an Ix ™ rive ivy in and n bet wo the D aight pers ot AT th when th s Cup ot sable w ’) Italian Are suing Premier wont ———— - Trovaaxps of dollars’ worth of damago Is being done dally by the ravages of the sray worm In the vicinity of Marshfield, Wis, The hay cut and placed in barns Is full of thom, and farmers are afrald to Mod it 1o stork, It In by far the worst scourge that has ever vis ited that portion of the State, Ise Atsont A400 ownors of public halls hala meeting in Berlin, Germany, the other day, at which they agrd unanimonsly not to re ot thelr halls to Socialists aud Ansar hists, | | aliway : : : | i | on the ground as em UTAH ALMOST A STATE THE PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED | THE ENABLING ACT, Machinery Set in Motion to Make Developed and the Undeveloped, Mormon Territory Utah practically passed int midnig 4 the act snabling the Territor into the ht, when President Union, There was about the in pen * = the n per esut, of the pro the public lands 4 a 5 ie Ls the State sUDL ut afl by the A permsoent mon sek Government to fund for the ’ any fertile an the progress adding to them The Indians Terri. tory are all quiet and peaceably disposed The schools are thriving, thanks to the Free Scheols laws, and Utah has an agricultural college, besides Deseret University, Above all, polygamy is dead, never 10 be resurrect. od either by Church or State, and thus the great olwtacie of former years to Utah's ad- mission Is removed a yet there are man) waters] ands, and tion is : 3 frrigw { the EE ——— SS DEBS IN JAIL, Committed for Violating the Federal Court's Injunction. Chere was a sensational elimar at ( veago to the troubles which have boon dist arhin raliroad circles the Mountains weeks, when President of the American President ¢ wont of the ¥ Raflseary Union George WW. Howard Sncretary Sylvester Keliher and I. Rogers, Chairman of the Executive © mittee and editor of the Journal of the or. Kanization, were taken to the county jail Rod inoarceratod as prisoners of the 1 nited Btatos, for violation of the injunction issued mn July 2 by Judges Woods and Grosseun restraining them from co nbininingan { ie spiring to hinder interstate commeres traf or the movement of United States mails The imprisonment of the chiefs o Alleg aan during last three Y Dabs, Vio (enor! w yoy 1¢rne {the now union was not in any sense an ar bitrary proceeding. Although prodioated upon what the Court regaried as an opm and defiant violation of orders pravioasly issued from its Juristiotion, an opportunity was afforded the defendants of presenting bonds for their appearance in court a work hence, This proposition, however, was rejoactel phasizad by President Debs, after the Court had rendorsd ite ulti matam, that the principle invelved was one entirely too sarfous in Ie nature to admit of the defendants availing themsolves of any technioalitios that might be rogarled a loopholes In the law, Many bondemen offered their aid and a pout to the anion leaders, but thelr over ures ware declined and the priso taken 10 jail and looked up. _ Tue amount of the world's supply of tia for the calendar 1808 was i daa tons, The total value of tin and tin plates import. od and entered for cousumption in the al. ed States during the year was 820 802.804 the Forty-fitth Member of the Union i The Population, and Resources, | of | | Cleveland 88 30 AT A ix A THE NATIONAL GAME, OF TAZ LEAGUE CLUBS or RECORD 3 3% 41 “4 47 Clubs. Won, Losi et] € Baltimore .45 22 Boston... 47 25 New York.42 27 | Puilndel, ..57 29 Tubs Won 2 Brookivy..50 3 Cincinnati, 82 A414 2, Louis 53 A6L Olsloago, .. 27 B08 Loalsville 28 \ 8 Bb & T0 SUCCEED WHITE. Clifton R. Breckinridge to Go to St Petersburg. years He attended 3 three years. bees planter in Arkansas in 1570, and was engaged in the planting and commission business for thirteen yonrs. He was Alder man of his town for one term. He was elect ed to the Forty-ighth Congress from the State at large, and was rewlected to the Fifty-first Congress He was unseated by the House and the seat declared vacant. He was nominated for the second session of the Fifty-first Congress, and elected to Fifty-secound Congress and reslectod to the Fifty third Congress, receiving 16.508 votes against 7272 votes for Heartsell, People’s cu seven votes soattering ROLL OF PENSIONS, Over 600,000 On the List—Nearly 800,000 Additional Claimants. The results of a wook's examination of the files of the United States pension oMoe are tet forth in a statement made public, It shows that although the tots! number of casas on the les on June 20, 1804, was £10.« 027, the aumber of actus! claimants for pan sions was 514.414, Of the latter 227.285 are already on the rolls, leaviag the number of cinimants not already receiving pensions 287.208, Cialms for sarvies prior to Mareh 4, 1861, aggregate 8326, and) 080 10 weg went 10 that date are as follows : Genorsl laws, 206.988 ; not of Jone 27, 1890, 190,004 : claims under the ast of June 27, 1890, additional 10 others on flie but not pensioned, 11,571 pore | sons pensionsd under old laws who hate in- crease claims ding, 162.570; persons on rolis under old laws who hate origina claims peading under the ast of Jane 27, 1800, 51,402; olaims of widows, ote., for ae craed peasion of deceased pensioners, 12.« #31 ; and claims under the act of June 27, 1580, with ding old law claims on fle tharswith, 37.291, Of these claims, includ. the | Ing Inorowss claims, the number under (he At of June 27, 1900, ts 280.770, of wileh 162,657 are invalid, 68,161 widows, and ¢,- P81 tnoroase, Thora are also In the files 340,438 rejected and Md aAbandonsd olaims, making & total of 801,947 clalms abandoned and rejected b different administrations upto June $0, M00 Of the slaimants, 252,845 are olamsd as orig. inal invalids; fosreass fnvalids, 196.507 bounty land, 628; widows, 124,178, snd widows Increase, 221, ——— Tawar was a groat rash of people to urope, cnused by the cut in stesrage rates to $10. Several steamers sold tiokets to more prople thas they could earry,
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