REVENUE MUST BE INCREASED.
A SeadjutmeBt of the Tariff ti Urgently
Seeemmenioi.
Tht president Monday sent the following
Dwngt to congress:
"To ths Congress of the United States:
"Regretting the necessity which has re
quired me to call yon together, I fait that
your assembling Id extraordinary session Is
tndlspensuble because ot the condition In
which we fin J the revenues of the govern
ment It Is conceded that Its current ex
peadltures are greater than 1U receipts, and
that such a eondl'.ton has existed for now
more tban three years. With unlimited
means nt our command, we are presenting
the remarkable spectacle of increasing our
public debt by borrowing money to meet the
ordinary outlays incident upon even an
economical and prudent administration of
the government. An culmination of the
subject discloses this fact in every detail and
leads Inevitably to the conclusion that the
condition ot the revenue which allows it is
unjust IS able and should be corrected.
"We find by the reports of the secretary
of the treasury tbnt the revenues for the
year ending June 80, 1S92, from all sources,
were t4P.8u8.2'V0 22, and the expenditures
for all purpose were J415,9J3,Wfi 56. leaving
an exce.. i.f receipts over expenditures of
9.914, 4c3 06. During that fiscal year HO,.
670.4'.7 OS were paid upon the public debt,
which has b'en reduced since March 1, 18S9,
t269,O70.H90, the nnnunl Interest charge de
creased 11, 64,576 BO. The receipts of the
government from all source during the
fiscal year ending June 1)0, 1H!'3, amounted
to 44ol,710,5fil PI, unci its expenditures to
.469.S74.6S7 (showing an excess of receipts
over expenditures of 42,341, t74 29.
A FINANCIAL I.XII1DIT.
"Since that time the receipts of the fiscal
year and, with but few exceptions, of no
month ol any fiscal yenr, have exceeded tho
expenditures. Tiie receipts of tlio govern
ment, trom all sources during the llscul year
ending June .SO, H!4, were :)72,S02,492.fi9,
. and Its expenditures 4 142,(105,758. SM, leaving
a deficit, the first since the reMimption of
specie payments, of 4fi9,s03,200.fN. Not
withstanding there was a decrease of 4 lti.
769,128.78 In the ordinary expens 's of the
government, ns compared with the previous
fiscal year, its income was still not sufficient
to provide fc.r Its dully necessities, and the
gold reserve in the treasury for tho redemp
tion ol greenbacks was drawn upon to meet
them, But t it is did not sufllce, and the gov
ernment then resorted to loans tn repleuibh
the reserve.
"In February. 1894, 450,000,000 In bonds
were Issued, and In November following a
second Issue of 450,000,000 was deemed
necessary. The sum of 4117,171.796 was
realized by the sain of these bonds, but the
reserve whs steadily decreased until, on
Februury 8, 1805. a third sale of 402,815.400
In bonds for 405,110,244 was announced to
congress.
"Tho receipts of the government for the
fiscal year endlug June 80, 1S95, were ?390,
873,203.30. and the expenditures 4433,178,
28.48, showing a deficit of 442,805,223.18. A
further loan ol 4100,000,000 was negotiated
by the government In February, 189G, the
sale netting 4111,100,246, and swelling the
aggregate of bonds Issued within three years
to 42I'.2,S45.4(0. For tho fiscal year ending
June 39, 1896, the revenues of the govern
ment, from ull sources, amounted to 440!),
475.408.17, while Its expenditures were 4434,
678,054.48, or an excess of expenditures over
receipts of 425,203.245.70. In other words,
the total receipts for the three fiscal years
ending June 30. 1896, wqro Insufficient by
137.H11.729.46 to meet the total expendi
tures. CONDITIONS NOW F.XIK,T1.U.
"Nor has this condition ' since improved.
For the llrst half of the present fiscal year
the receipts'of the government, exclusive of
fiostal revenues, were 4157,507,603.76, and
ts expenditures, exclusive Of V6al service,
1 195. 4 10, 000. 22, or an excess of expenditures
over receipts of 430,902.390.46. lu January
of this year the receipts, exclusive of postal
revenues, were 4 24,316,994.05, and the ex
penditures, exclusive of postal ser
vice, 430,269,389.29, a deficit "of 45,952.
895.24 for the month. In February
of this- year the receipts, exclusive of
postal revenues were 424,400,997 38, and ex
penditures, exclusive of postal service,
28,796,066 66, a deficit of 44,395.069 28, or u
total deficiency of 186,001,580 44 for three
years and tight mouths, ending March 1,
1897. Not only are we without a surplus in
the treasury, but with an Increase in the
public debt there has been a corresponding
increase In the annual Interest charge from
22.893 883 20 in 1892, the lowest of any year
since 1862, to 434.387,297 60 in 1896, or an In
crease of 411,493.410 40.
"It may be urged that oven if the revenues
of the government bad been sufficient to
meet all Its ordinary expenses during the
an tnree years, tuc gold reserve would still
ave boon insufficient to meet the demands
upon it, uud that bonds would necessarily
have been issued for its repletion. He this
as It mny. it is clearly manifest, without de
nying or affirming the correctness of such a
conclusion, that the debt would have been
Increased in the least the amount of the de
ficiency, and buslueas cunlldeiice Immeasur
ably strengthened throughout the country.
BSTEMT. THE OCrAT SCKI.
Congress should promptly correct the ex
isting condition. Ample revenues must bo
soppiled, 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 luteresl of tho public
debt In raising revenue, duties should be
so levied upon foreign products as to pre
serve the home market, so far as possible, to
to our own producers; to revive and in
crease manufactories; to relieve and en
tourage agriculture; to increase our
omestlc and foreign commerce: to
aid and develop mining and building,
and to render to labor lu every Cold of
useful occupation tho liberal wages and
adequate rewards to which skill and indus
try are justly entitled. The necessity of the
passage ol a t art II law which shall provide
ample revenue, teed not be further urged.
The Imperative demand of the hour is the
prompt enactment of suoh a measure, and
to this object I earnestly recommend that
congress shal! make every endeavor. Be
fore other business is transacted, let us first
provide sufficient revenue to faithfully ad
minister the government without the con
tracting of further debt, or the continued
disturbance of our finances.
"William Mi Kini.it.
"Executive Monslun, March 15. 1897."
Er. Hunter ths Nominee.
The Republican legislativecaucus at Frank
fort, Ky., nominated Congressman W. God
frey Hunter for I'nited Slates Henator by 38
vote to IB for Holt. 5 for Lewis, ft for liovle
and 2 for Yerkes. All the candidates joined
to supporting lr. Hunter for eleollon. Lieut,
Gov. Worthingtou ruled that no ballot fur
senator can be taken until March 23, the
second Tuesday after the assembling of the
legislature.
Colliiion la Kentucky,
The northbound Illinois Ceutral St Louis
ipress collided with a freight train ot Kust
Calru, Ky., killing Fireman Walter Kodgers,
colored, 'telegraph Operator Uodwln lions
was Injured. He was lu the station, which
was knocked over into the backwater by tho
passenger engine. The train left the truck.
TEESE TELEGRAMS.
At Danville, Ky., Taylor Stevens and John
Bayley were crushed tu death by a full ot
slue.
A rolling mill at theUupont powder works,
Wilmington, Del., exploded. Due mail was
Wiled.
PLAN FOR A NEW PARTY.
A Permaaeat TJniea ef ths Forces that
spportsd Bryan.
An effort Is to be made to effect a perma
nent amalgamation of the factions which were
allied tn the support ot W. J. Bryan. Severs1
conferences have recently been held In
Chicago, at which the situation was discuss
ed and a decision reached that some steps
should be taken to prevent the threatened
disruption ot what may be termed the "re
form forces." '
The April number of "New Occasions," a
magazine published in Chicago, voices the
sentiment of those who have been In confer
ence in an address which calls for the aban
donment of the old party lines and a re
organization under the name of the American
I'arty. ,
The editorial proposes a novel method of
forming a party platform and organization.
It suggest that at noon, July 4. the Ameri
can people organize by voting precincts all
over the I'nited States, each precinct to elect
ono representlve to a Congressional conven
tion to be held a few days later. At the
Congressional conventions one representa
tive should be chosen as a meralif r ot the
l'eople's Congress, selected "not for his
oratorical ability, but for bis capacity to
think." This congress of 357 mon.wlth dele
gates from the territories, should meet at
some central point and map out a plan of.
work.
Copies of this plan have been mailed to
national i committeemen and lenders of the
different organizations, and it the responses
are favorable a conference will be held In
Chicago nt an early date, and a definite plan
of action agreed upon.
TERMS OF SILVER REPUBLICANS.
Will Permit the Tariff Bill to Pu if No At
tempt is Made to Reorganizs the Senate.
Henator rettigrew, of South Dakota, In an
Interview said: "The five (Silver Republi
cans, (Senators Mantle. Jones of Nevada:
Cannon, Teller and myself, will not do any
thing to delay or hinder the adoption ot a
protective tariff law. There are a number of
Democrats who will be just ns considerate.
If there is an attempt to reorganize the Ken
nte, we may be in session all summer, and if
there is a serious attempt to seat the three
new senators that have boeu appointed, a
great broach will bo opened and the tariff
and everything else may bo lost sight of.
"There Is also some talk of passing other
legislation than tariff and appropriations. It
is not my opinion that it is tactitly under
stood that the Senate will not be reorganized :
that the new senators by appointment will
not be seated, and that there will be no gen
eral legislation. In that event the way Is
clear to an early passage of the tarilT law,"
FORTS ORDERED BLOCKADED.
Ruisia Issues Instructions to Clots Both
Cretan and Greek Cities.
The following seml-oSlelul statement was
published In Vienna:
Iiussin instructed the commander of the
Russian squadron in Cretan waters to take
steps, in conjunctlou with his colleagues, to
blockade the Cretan and Greek ports, tier
many and Austria had previously sent simi
lar instructions to their squadrons, and
Great ilrltain ami Italy are ready to partici
pate. A similar decision upon the part of
France is awaited with certainty.
The Russian government hasdispatched a
circular note to the six powers proposing
that each of them send immediately 2.000
troops to Crete to effectually occupy the
island and compel the Greek troops to with
draw. The powers are considering the pro
posal. SUPPLIES LANDED AT V0L0.
Ths Greek Soldiers Destroy Bridges on
ths Railway.
The reply of the Greek government to the
ultimatum of the powers having been
delivered to the foreign representutlves
at Athens, preparations fer hostilities be
tween Greece and Turkey, which are appar
ently inevitable, are being hurried forward
with all possible speed.
Crown l'rince Constantino is about to start
for the Greek frontier to assume command
of the Greek troops there, and several Greek
transports have landed grent quantities of
war material and large numbers of horses
and mules at Yolo, Thessaly.
It is reported that Greek bands huve de
stroyed a number ol bridges ou the railway
between Monastir, ths present headquarters
of the Turkish army, and Kalonlca.
TRAINS DYNAMITED.
Blown Up by Insurgents and Mai; Span
ish Killed.
A dispatch from Havana says: The Insur
gents have nttacked the important town of
(i nines, in tho province of Havana, burning
25 houses, ransacking all the stores, and
taking 410,000 from the municipal safe. The
hpauish garrison resisted for two hours, but
after losing all hopes of reinforcements for
tified itself In the church nnd loft tbo town
defencelots. The Hpauish losses are reported
to be very heavy. Bejiient, another import
ant town of the province, has also been nt
tacked by the Cubans, nnd with equal suc
cess. Two trains have been blown up with
dynamite by the insurgents nt Faootaco, and
ou the Han Clara line. In both coses many
Hpanish soldiers worn killed.
Killed Them Both.
Stephen Horton, n wealthy farmer, who
resides in the little village of Rutland, six
miles from Manslleid, I'm, is lying dead In
his home, while In another part of the hoiiso
lie the remains of his wile. The death of
both bos been attributed to poison, and the
coroner's jury has found that Mrs. Horton
administered it to her husband, and then
ended her own distance with the remainder
of the deadly powder. Tho Mortons lived
quietly, and ns far ns cr.n bo ascertained,
were happy mid contented in thoir domestic;
relations. The only known trouble existing
in he family has been tho frequent periods;
of dementia exhibited by Mrs. Horton, ami
it is thought she accomplished the terrible
deed while temporarily derauged.
A Business Myth.
Secretary NortlL of the National Associa
tion of Wood Manufacturers, contributes an
article to the "Forum," in which he shows
that England's industrial supremacy Is a
myth, uud that sho will eventually be out
stripped by Germany, as she is now out
stripped by the United States. In this con
nection It is best to quote the exact language
of the writer. Hays Mr. North: "Machinery
Is the slugle item of manufactures In which
English exports show an Increase daring
these 20 year. Even in machinery the Gor
man have latterly discovered that they can
make a better nrticle than the English, whllo
In the Iron nnd steel industries generally tho
Kugllsh no longer dispute German supre
macy." A Terrible Voyage.
The Heaver line steamer Lake Widnulpeg
Captain Taylor, 25 days out from St Johns,
N. IS. , arrived safely at Liverpool. Captain
Taylor reports having had a terrible voyage,
during which his vessel had such a largo
quantity of wut-r In ber engine room thut
the passengers had to be called upou to as-
sist in clearing ber and In righting her cargo,
which bad shitted during the heavy weather.
The fires of tne Lake Winnipeg were out for
over a fortuigbt nnd 307 head ot cattle, 22
horses and 7 sheep had to be thrown over
board owing to the scarcity of drinking water
on board and the Inability of the engineers
to work the condensing apparatus.
FIFTY-FIFTH C0X6RESS HEl
EXTRA SESSION.
Ths Poblio Cilleries Were Faeksd and 61
Senators Were la Attendance.
There) was an abundance of flowers on ths
desks of senators when at 11 o'clock Monday
Mr. ' Hobart called the Senate to order.
There was an exceptionally full attendanoe
ot senators. The public galleries were pack
ed and the reserved galleries were filled. The
chaplain's opening prayer Invoked divine
grace and blessing on the senators and mem
bers now about to take up the work of the
extiaordlnary session and on the president
and Vice President.
The roll call disclosed the presence of 68
senators. The new senator trom Kansas, W.
A. Harris, took the oath of office, Mr. Mtf
Bride, of Oregon, 1 presented the creden
tials of Henry W. Corbett, appointed
by the Governor of Oregon to All
the vacancy caused by the failure to elect
a successor to Mr. Mitchell.- The governor's
certificate was read, and McBrlde requested
that the new senator be sworn In it there be
no objection, but Mr. Oray said some unusal
circumstances attended the appointment
and the credentials should be scrutinized.
He moved the credentials be referred to the
Committee on Privileges sod Elections, and
It prevailed by unanimous vote.
Mr. Hoar and Mr. Coekrcll were earned a
committee to wait on the- President and In
form him that Congress was in session and
ready to receive any communication from
him.
The Henato then at 12:20 took a recess un
til 2 o'clock
At twelve o'clock Monday Maj. McDowell,
the clerk of the House, rapped for order,
llcv. Mr. Couden, of Michigan, the blind
chaplain of the House, then delivered nn in
vocation, appealing to the throne for God s
blessing on tiie work of the new congress
and tho new administration. The clerk of
House then read the proclamation conven
ing congress, after which the roll ot mem
bers was called.
Speaker Thomas It. Iieed was re-elected,
the vote standing: Heed, 199; llalley, (Demo
crnt, Texas,) 114: Hell. (Populist, Colorado),
21, und Nuwlands, (Sllverite, Nevada), 1.
At 3 o'clock the session was resumed. ,Mr.
Hoar and Mr. Crockrell r-ported that they
had called on the president. Secretary
I'ruden of tho White House staff thereupon
stepped forward, message In hand. It was
sent to thetiesk and the reading Immedi
ately began amid the close attention of sena
tors. It took but ten miuutes to read the
message, and Immediately thereafter, on
motion of Mr. Allison, the senate adjourned.
TARIFF BILL READY.
Committeemen Hope to Raise $50,000,000
to 160,000,000 Additional.
The new tariff bill made public Monday
by the ways nnd means committee, embodies
the results of hard work by the members
ever since tho meeting of tho last eesslou of
Congress In December. It Is intended to
raise from 460.000.000 to 00,000,000 more
revenue under the bill than is provided by
existing law under similar business condi
tions. Duties have been advanced for the
double purpose ot protection and levenue.
Another importaut rule which has govern
ed the committee is the substitlon of specific
duties wherever possible for those based
upon value. Such duties have been restored
upon nearly nil of the chemical schedules,
muny articles of iron and steel, upon sugar,
upon agricultural products, and upon many
sundries,
It Is in textiles, however, thut the greatest
care has been taken in transforming ad
valorem Into specific duties. The cotton
schedule was made spocllle in form, with tho
exception of some general provisions when
the present law was framed. The duty per
yard was based upon the number of threads
tu a yard, thereby permitting au increase of
rates upon tbo liner goods. A similar sys
tem of classification is applied in the new
tariff to manufacturers of flax and silk. The
duties upon silk are to be based upon the
amount of pure silk contained in a given
weight of fabric, the rates being higher ac
cording to the proportion of silk without
adulturntlon or admixture is larger.
The duties on woolen goods are nt present
compound tu character, and some of them
will have to be left so. The committee has
done much figuring, however, with a view
to substituting specific, rates, and has been
able to do ho iu a number of cases. Tho
textile schedules of the bill are nut likely to
bo subjected to great changes in the senate,
except perhaps In the case of woolens, where
a bitter contest Is riiging between wool grow
ers and woolen manufacturers.
Tho committee, endeavored, where It was
In accord with their views of protection, to
keep below the McKluley rates, and in every
ease avoid going nbovo them. They have
been ohligod to disregard this rule iu a few
cases, but many of the schedules, like Iron
and steel, where McKluley rates nro no
longer needed, can be cited as evidence that
they have adoptod a moderate scheme ol du
ties. They huve put back the full McKlnley
rates on Agricultural products, because they
have fi.lt that the farmer was entitled to all
that it was possible to do for him by protec
tive duties.
The McKlnley rates have been preserved
also upon tobacco, wines and silks, because
they are considered essentially luxuries.
There has been an Increase upon tiller to
bunco, In order to make the difference less
wide between tiller nud wrapper and the
temptation to fraud less serious. The bill,
as a whole, represents what tbo committee
regard as a scientific scheme for the protec
tion and development of American Indus
tries and the maintenance of a supporting
treasury.
'J ho Republican members for several days
have been considering how best they could
chango the duty on woolens uud pottery
from nil valorem to specific, so as to make
the bill consistent throughout. At tho final
meeting specific rates were fixed on some of
'he principal manufacturers ot wool. In
some cases this change of basis was found
not to bo practicable, but It was made in
every Instance wherever possible.
Four Wom:n Drowned.
A Mexican woman named Luz Santos Rod
rnguez, and ber three daughters were
drowned at a ranch 20 miles from lirowns
villi-, Tel. One ol the girls, while bathing in
a luoou went beyond her depth The two
sisters rushed Into the lagoon to save her,
and also began to sink. The mother then
threw herself into the water to save her
children, und was drowned with them.
LABI TICKS.
The senate agreed on the Alutklan bound
ary treaty without change.
lly the falling of a wall iu Fez, Morocco,
180 workmen were killed.
William Drury, the millionaire land owner
of Ktltbsburg, 111. , died on Saturday, aged
87. .
It ts now reported that Xansen may try to
explore the polar regions in his ncw-fnugled
flying maebluo.
On a little Georgia coal road an engine ran
into a washout, kllllug tho engineer and
fatally wouudlng the fireman.
The upper house of tho Arizona legislature
has passed a bill making legislative sessions
hureafter to be at ten-year intervals.
Governor Bradley wrote "refused" across
the back of the petition and record In the
ease of Scott Jackson, the murderer of Pearl
Bryan.
Two children of William Btureman, La-
Sort county, Indiana, were poisoned to
eath by eating patent pills, and three others
an critically 111, .
THROUGH ABRIDGE
A.Traia hi Indiana Dropped lata a Swollen
Stream.
A special from Princeton, Ind., says a
a frightful wreck occurred early Wednesday
morning 10 miles north ot that place, on the
Evansvllle A Terre Haute railroad. For the
past week several small bridges and large
sections of track have been washed away,
but every precaution has been taken to avoid
accident
In spile of all this, passenger train No. S
had the track washed out trom under her,
and the smoking car now lies in the botton
of the river, with every passenger in it lost.
The balance of the train is lodged in tree
tops, SO or 75 yords from the track.
Conductor Sears and the fireman , are
known to he among the lost.
A dispatch from Terre Haute, says: The
train which left here at 6:30 this morning
went down through a trestle at the approach
to the White river bridge, four miles below
Yincennea. The reports received here are
that of more tban 70 passengers, less than 10
were taken out alive.
Nothing can be seen except the smoke
stack of the locomotive and the top of the
rear Pullman.
Several bodies had been recovered at 10
o'clock including those of the engineer and
IT reman.
A later report says that five men were
killed snd two seriounly injured, as follows:
Killed Herbert Allen, Kvansville, head
janitor In the State House, caught in the
smoking car and drowned: Joseph Bole man.
of Evansvllle, locomotive fireman: John
Sears, of Terre Haute, conductor; two un
known men.
injured Urakeman Jacob Haursen, of
Evansvllle; J. l;. llen!orson, brother of ex
State Auditor Henderson, iloth will recover
FIGURES ON IMMIGRATION.
For Seven Months Past the Decrease Was
Nearly 0,000.
A statement prepared at the Immigration
bureau shows that during ths six months
ended December 31. lH96,tho number of immi
grants who arrived in this country was 149.
NJH, a decrease, as compared with the same
period In 1H95 of 42.200. Iu January last the
decrease, as compared witK January, 1M90,
was 3,820, making the total decrease for
the seven months 45,526.
This decrease Is said to be largely dun to
tho difficulties and uncertainties attending
a lauding In this country. The many de
portations and the strict' examinations en
forced iu this country Is stated to huve caus
ed a large increase of immigration from
Europe to Ilrazll. Argentine republlo and
other South Am or I can countries, where in
ducements nre offered. Au important factor
In tho largo decrease of arrivals in this
country is believed to be the proclamation ot
the Italian minister of the interior warning
undeslruble classes from embarking for this
country and refusing them passport.
FOREIGN NOTES.
Inland Psrti of Crete ars Beiet by Bands
of Robbers.
The Mussulman refugees who have been
brought to Canea are destitute and on tho
verge of starvation, and the Island is full of
bands ot robbers who are pillaglnlng the
towns iu the vicinity,
Tbe Cretan Insurgents nre bombarding the
fortress of Kpliialonga, The garrison ts still
resisting. Several conflicts between Mussul
mans and Christians have occurred in the
village ot Arcbanes.
A scourge of black vomit Is devastating
the City of Oaxaea, whim makes- thrre epi
demics that are now iu progress in Mexico.
Smallpox is increasing dully, nnd the grip In
tbo western part of the republic shows no
signs ot abating. No Instance is known of
anyone recovering after boing attacked. As
the plague spot is, far from railroads, no
dnnger is apprehended of the disease spread
ing over the country. Hundreds have died.
A dispatch from Constantinople says that
large quantities of Gras rifles and cartridges
are being smuggled from Greece Into the
Turkish Island of Chios, off the west coast of
Asia Minor, by way of Smyrna. and that they
are being sold to the Inhabitants ot Chios nt
low prices.
A dispatch received frein Yalta, in the
Crimea, reports that a sanguinary encoun
ter bus taken place there between Russians
ami Turks. Many shops were demolished.
A number of the wounded men have been
arrested.
CRUSHED BY FALLING WALLS.
Wind Storm Causes ths Death of Two Men
and Injures a Third.
A whirlwind visited the town of Mingo
Junction, Ohio, Saturday night, doing con
siderable damuge, ami was attended with
fatal results. The wind was so fierce that It
was with difficulty men could keep on their
feet at the plant of the Junction Iron and
Steel company. A lull occurred shortly be
fore 2 o'clock in the morulug.tben in another
second the wind lifted tip the Iron roof of
the cost house,which collapsed, the tail brick
walls, which were held by hog chalns.fHlling
li. Few men were nt work at the time, but
Frank Hobson and Larry Fahey were caught
under the fulling walls. A force of men
were put to work to rescue them, and Fahey
was taken out dead. A wife and seven
children survive him. He was 50 years old.
Frank Hobson, agod 29, and single, was so
seriously crushed that lie died three hours
afterward. John W oik as, a Hungarian, was
struck by- falling timbers and brioks and
badly crushed. He managed to crawl away
and it was some time before he was found.
He may die.
IN SCIENTIFIC INTEREST.
Ai Expedition to Searoh for Light on
Man's Development
Morris K. Jessup, president of the Ameri
can Musem qf Natural History in New York
is fitting out an expedition that will be put
in charge of 1'rof. Frank W. Putnam and
Dr. Enill Iloaz to seoure anthropological
specimens aud Information. The 'North
western coast will Im) visited first to the north
of British Columbia, after which the expedi
tion will proceed along the Alaska seaboard,
orosslng Bering sea to Asia, work down the
Silieriau and Chluse coast to the Indian
ocean and proceed to Egypt. The expedi
tion will he absent six years and its cost of
400,000 will be defrayed by Mr. Jessup.
The Battleship Wtsoomin.
. The koel has been laid at the Union Iron
works at Han Francisco for the battleship
WiBOonsIn, the coutraot for which was hit by
tbe govormeut six months ago. The Wis
consin is to be one of tbe same class as tbe
Oregon, which was built in tbe same city,
though larger and more heavily armored.
She will be one of three war ships ot the
same pattern, the other two being the Ala
bama and the Virginia, which will be con
structed In eastern shipyards. The con
tract price of the Wisconsin ts about 43,000,
000. Steel Ralls for Japan,
The first cargo of .steel rails from this coun
try for Japan is now being loaded on the
British steamer Fortuna, Philadelphia and
Heading railway coal warves, at Philadel
phia, together with a large consignment ot
looomotives built In that city and intended
for Japan. Three other steamers have been
chartered to carry engines, and raUs from
that pojt to Japan, "
EEZ1 STiLl FIOTIS F03 IBiRIY.
CUBANS WIN AGAIN. X
Mors Brilliant Vifitoriea Gaiaei Over ths
Spaniards.
A dispatch to ha NCw York Sun trom
Havana, says: Reports are received from
Mansanlllo about another serious engage
ment near Cauto river, In which General
Garcia captured from the Spaniards a large
supply of arms and ammunition, and made
100 Sjiaaish soldiers prisoners.
Tbe situation In the province of Santiago
de Cuba continues to be favorable for tbe in
surgents, and the Spanish eolumns bave
practically abandoned active operations on
tbe field. They escort only the convoys
with provisions from one fortified town to
another, carefully avoiding any tight with
the Cubans.
Col. Vara Del Rey has reported to General
Weyler that It is impossible for the Spanish
to move In the province In columns less than
4.000 men strong. The Spanish guerrilla
of Guauabana, Matanzas provinoe, has been
defeated there by the Insurgent forces com
manded by lien. Betancourt, Tbe engage
ment was very hot and lasted for four
hours. The Spanish bad 60 killed, and the
Cubans 37.
Tbe estate Carmen at Sabaullla hu been
attacked again by the Cubans, who ransack
ed the stores und dispersed the garrison.
Gov. l'rocet, f Matanzas, has soul 80
more prisoners tn Havana. They are ac
cused of being Manigos. Two hundred
prisoners have been previously reported as
forwarded to Havana. They will be sent to
the Island of Fernando Po.
Senor La Harrera.chief of police at Havana,
will embark for Spurn soon. Seuor Porra.
civil governor of the province of Havana,
will also go tq Spain. Itoth functionaries
are said to bo iu serious disagreement with
Gen. Weyler.
Fonsdeviella is committing new atrocities
at Uiiunabacoa. Seven prisoners were taken
out ot the jail and murdered half a mile out
side of town. Fonsdevtella boasts of bis
crimes, and says that tne more he is attacked
by the Cubans the more of them he will kill
in order to prove that he has the confidence
ot his government
WHEAT, CORN AND OATS.
Statement of tbe Amount Now on Hand ia
the Country.
The crop report of the department of agri
culture, based on returns from three inde
pendent sets of regular correspondents add
ed to several thousand from mills and eleva
tors, and carefully combined nnd weighed,
relates principally to the distribution of prin
cipal grains, the stocks aud the proportion
cf merchantable and unmerchantable. All
grain in tbe hands of farmers, including
amounts remaining over trom previous
years, are Included In the estimates given.
Tbe corn on band, as estimated, aggre
gates 1,104,000,000 bushels, or 60 per cent of
the last crop, against 1,072,000,000 in March,
1496. Hotli the proportion aud the quantity
iu original hands at the date are unprece
dented, although closeiy approached Inst
year and in March, 1H90. Correspondents
report large stocks In cribs, particularly in
the prairie states, awaiting better prices.
The aggregate sold from farms to go be
yond county lines is 623,030.000 bushels, or
27.3 per cent of the crop. The proportion
merchantable is 1,936.000,000, or H4.8 per
cent.
The wheat reserves In farmer's hands
amount to 20.0 per cent of the crop or 88,
006,000 bushels, against 123,000,000 bushels
lost March. Of this amount 8 per cent is re
ported as coming over from previous crops.
The proportion of wheat sold inside tbe
oounty is 61.7 per cent
Of oats there are 813,000,000 bushels, or
44.2 per cent of the 1897 crop, yet in farmers'
hands. Proportion shipped beyond county
lines, 27 per cent.
WRECKED BT THE WIND. .
Ths Tewboat Hawk Overturned and Her
Pilot Drowned.
Thetowboat Hawk, owned by the McKln
ley Coal company, was overturned by the
high wind on the Ohio river shortly before
noon Sunday. William E. Devers, the pilot
on watch, was drow:nd, but the rest of the
crew escaped by climbing upon tbe boat as
it turned over. Devers was 60 years old,
nnd resided at Freedom, Pa. He leaves a
wife and two children.
Tbe Hawk was returning from liellalre,
(., where she bad taken three model barges
ot iron, aud was on her way baok to Pitts
burg to get tho balance of her tow. Tbe
boat encountered heavy winds coming up
the Ohio, and just as she steamed past lielle
vue tho wind caught her and turned the
boat over as though it were a twig,
THREE LIVES CRUBHED OUT.
Wreok on ths Misiourl Paciflo Csussd by
Horses.
Five horses on tbo track ditched tbe north
bound Missouri Paciflo passenger train at
Wolf Creek, Kan The engine, baggage car
and two coaches were wrecked. Tbe killed
are: Engineer Edward Nye, Fireman Law
rence O'Connor. J. Meadow, traveling sales
man for Slninis Grocery company, was badly
scalded and had bis leg crushed. He died.
Tbe injured are F. F. liaoon, traveling
passenger agent for the Santa Fe, cut about
the heud; H. A. Kemp, express messenger;
John Appleton, baggsgemaeter, severely
burned: N. M. Auiterlaud, Oklahoma; V. P.
Piper, Kansas City.
The engineer and firemen were pinned un
der tbe baggage ear. The fireman was in
stantly killed, Nye died ten minutes after
ward. Deatbs From Plague.
l'he total number of cases of bubonic
plavue In liomoay up to date Is 9,032. ot
which 7,640 proved fatal. In the whole
presidency to date there have been 14,856
cases of the plague and 12,204 deaths record
ed. 8FASXS FROM THE WIRES.
Tbe University of Cambridge conferred the
degree ot LL. D., upon Ambassader Bayard.
Among the passengers on the Teutonic
from Liverpool from New York, Is Mrs. Annie
liesant.
Tbe keel for tbe battleship Wisconsin was
laid at tbe Union Iron Works, San Franolsoo
Thursday.
The relations between Great Britain and
tbe Transvaal are becoming seriously
strained. ,
Tbe blockade on tbe Northern Paciflo, oc
casioned by suow storms iu Dakota,bas been
broken.
The Monon road was bought In at Indian
apolis by the reorganization committee for
43,000,000.
Prof. Henry Drummoud, the scientist and
author of "Natural Law in tne sptrltua
World," is dead.
Itlohard C. Hooker, an ex-naval offlcer(re
sidiog at Berkley, Gal., has volunteered his
services to ureece.
The French have exiled to island of Re
union Queen Ranavaloan, the nominal sov
eroign ol Madagascar.
The safe In the court house at La Orange,
Ind.. was blown open and robbed ot 44,000,
wuicn inoiuaou z,uuu pennies.
. Ber. Simon J. MacPherson, pastor ot the
Second Presbyterian church, of Chicago,
has been elected a truitea ot Princeton tint
wenitjr.
? INCREASE OF TRade.
Ths Gala ressesses the EiutllfL I
a.as. "K
il O. Pna k Co., says ia thi,
view of jtrade: It ia a carious luUJtl
Dumas nature, this continued dwT1
ment, even while the increase o(
Industrie and of legitimate biui0
grows. No genuine or lasting ZI,,H
could coma otherwise than lo:,
step, after such a depression as to, J? 1
years have witnessed, and tbe .
feature of the situation Is that tt,.
nearly devoid of elements which b'
soundness and probable reaction,
The money markets continn. . )
favorable to Industrial recovery
is no such speculative epidemic ieiHwi?
an excessive share of available caolu' '
annual statements nf whht T h
on March 1 bave not stimulate4io!I!,S
Those commonly considered w.)rtkH
tentron indicate that farmers' IL 4
menial supplies, together, mW
206.000.000 bushels, exeewl th.
mate ot home demand lSO.OOO.ooa biXi!'
Julv 1. bv much mora than .i..
like'ly to to be wanted for export,
the past two weeks to 6,h!4
aguinet 1,691,476 bushels last yeT
Corn is also a traction lowef. TMt-J
latlon in wool continues and nw i1
two weeks bave been 17'ms I1,
u . v. . i . . i ' 'V BUMS,
wurrcu iun largest previous r&ln i
same period wer 12,017,676 pomj.
V nile there is much lr,l lu, ri
manufacturers show by purrkiB
bevond their present vnn n,. , . 4
larger business Is cominir. '
The demand for finished nroduet .;,
uruilIU tlio BUIPiriv ot l'IJ ITOll HliwM i
great steel works whoso stocks r, C.
porteo, but their orders without d.jubiT
lull production for severul inouibj. kZ
mer pig is a shade lower, i,ut
change in quotations appears, un.l tfcT
gradual Increase In the demand u-ttil
sheets and all the wire family 0f MiS.
With the ad veal of spring weather
door work much more buslue-s i, eitl
The starting of the Maryland mil
der contract with the Carnegie fornix,
order to make shipments by
cheaply, Is suggestive. The reportiofj
road earnings in February cotit li
miles, 45 per cent of the total milfseii
country, and the United States rmidi b,
show earnings In that month of t'Xnl
only a tenth of one per cent, lew t'C;
year, but 10.8 per cent, le?s this a U
March earnings thus far reni.rte.1 a,..
Increase of 3.0 per cent over last year
the tonnage west bound, as well u ,(,,,
class of east bound tonnage, is jnlu,
gaining. Failures for the pint t
been 25C in the United States, m(Kta (
mm jenr, aim ui iu t.auauu, ugaiUst
year.
BOATLOAD DROWNED
Over 100 Passenger Perish in tht HutJ
Straits.
According to advices brought by tiJ
press of India, which arrived st 'am:J
U. G. from the orient, a terrible imJ
happened on Saturday, January ts. loiiJ
crossing tne uuuaing strnits from Uilud
She bad 10 passengers ou buHrd.uiliiJ
not far from the Haltalng shure tut M
Doing overioaaea.
One Hundred and four Misssnmn m
drowned, among them were llirw mind
son and two daughters, of tlm chief pd
oi inn American aieuiouiM cnurci
Haltalng.
According to advices by the sameita
smallpox Is not so prevalent In Hodi
as it was a iew mourns ago, nut tut
Is still raging In Japan, ami the Horn
board of Health has recommended u
ernor to declare Hiogo aud Kobe W
ports.
There was no authentic infrtasut
hand when the steamer left regarding
belllon in the Philippines, with the eiea
of a telegram dated February 14. Mituit
the governor general bad Icftluki
personally conduct operations agutti
rebels at Cavite. The Manilla pawns
tlnue to publish reports of the illrpl
cess of the Spanish troops, but it the do)
of killed and wounded on the rM4i
recorded in tbe Spanish press, xrereani
ed from the beginning of the outbreill
original strength of tbe rebels ivouldss
up higher tban tbe Spanish uuthorttmsj
willing to admit. rne sugar groswej
trlcts were not so seriously ulT'Ctsll;
rebellion as many supposed, hileuM
growing district is not atiecieu situ
REED RENOMINATED.
Ths
Maine Man Will Again Willi
Gavel in the Houit.
A caucus of the Republican memberH
of the Fifty-fifth congress, held bin
night, voted by acclamation to reussj
ex-Speaker Heed and all the oOlcer oil
last house to serve during the t iiiv-bmi
ivrwllU I llu BIMTA niaHti TllllllWS: I
U nomas li. Heed, speaker: in'i. J
l ouden. ( baplaln; Alexander wj
clerk; Renjuinin F. nussell.serneatit-ilfl
W. J. Glenn, doorkeeper; Joseph C.Mtt4
Mr. Reed's name was rreseiited VI
Pnvnn nf Kmw Vnrlr whn inaile a Ml? 4
speech, which was replied to t y Mt.H
alinrt txlllni lilruui III which heOM
the wants of the Incoming ailmlnl't)
Chairman Dingley of the wayi aw J
committee made nn adilrem ontHl
measure, now being prepared.
Tho ro.tMt nf -ha flemncratlC CHI'S
considerable significance, as sliowlJ
tent of W. J. ltryan's Induem JJ
Democratic representatives iu l"2
Benton McMlllln. of Tennessee, wiJ
candidate, and j received 30 re'1?
22 for Bland and 66 lor Bailey. W
and McMlllln bad served lu codkk-
tban Ballev, but tbe majority i twr
nreferred 'the leadersllili of tM
young Texan.
FEBRUARY OIL RECOW
Higher Production Hoted This ' K
ary.
February was a favorable Boaii"
i i.. Th. dailf ft"
n vuuviivui uw . "r - - j
Hi QAA friarrula li fl iu'TfW 1
J UUD 1 tOO VlfSIVW -- J
barrels compared with January.
I OA OOK V. I B . I li V ISSI
lis aday.tJ
y. lntbeWj!
. 924 barren
nent laths";
vvrnguu d,mu uiiivid -ji - .
compared to January.
daily runs averaged i,
ments 64,138 barrels.
l nere is no aoaiemom ut
over tbe strike on Elk Fork.
tlve and territory has been sKUW-j
bonus. v
The Fonnsr farm well io Ore .
Pa.. Is holding up at 460 barrel twy
Phil Fonner farm, couslstiu ot
and to tbe south of tbe gurt .
leased for a bonus of 46,U0O soi "J
royalty. It is reported that tb J(
Fonner farm gusher have P"6""!
price for the well and leases P L
The new well northeast of ' "J
nnnl nn tha Hehambaiicb farm,
county, establishes the cerUintJ
east extension. It was drllleJ I
Increased to 30 barrels an hour.
xire vmu i"'" j
The Chicago hotel, corner
Exchange streets, Buffalo,
aged by lire. Three persons
and two were Injured, lbe !
ward O'Donnell, Paddy HM1
list; William Hauahau. ! H t
liam Wilson and wife. O'UoM"
aban were suffocated in then
nan Jumped from a window
juries from which ho died.