i E THE LATEST NEWS Fires During the past year 4,000 miles of main track have been added to the immense rail- ‘way mileage of the United States. according to the Chicago Railroad Age. This mileage consists nearly altogether of extensions of old roads and the construction of branches and feeders. track-laying is in progress on 500 more. In Pennsylvania 256 miles have been built and this is exceeded by ouly one other State.that of Washington, whose record is 420 miles. 37 Roaps Ix THE READING CoMBINE.—The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad has sent in its report to the Secretary of Internation- al Affairs, which shows that they operate 37 railroads, and of these 14 are directly un- der its control. The gross earnings for the past fiscal year were $32,934,316, and a sum of $18,853,188 was required to operate it. Archbald’s mill at Dundas, Mich., and the elevator adjoining it was totally destroy ed. Loss, $100,000. The foundry of the Robinson-Rea Mann- facturing Company, on the Southside, Pittsburg, was burned Saturday night; loss $40,000. The mills of the Neusmantield Company at Sweepsonville, N. C., manufacturing cot- ton goods, have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $80,000. . The works of the Bayless Paper Company at Binghampton, N. Y., have been destroy- ed by fire. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $30,000. At Memphis, Tenn., four large business buildings were burned: Matthews Hardware Company, loss, $70,000; insurance, $50,000; I Geddell & Bros., loss, $15,000; insurance, $13,000; 8. Levy & Co. Trunk Company,loss $18,000; insurance, $10,000; I. Goldsmith & Bro., cloth, loss, $40,000;. insurance $80,000; Dean Carroll, paints, loss, $13,000; insur- ance $10,000. Total stocks, $325,000; total loess, $156,000; total insurance, $163,000. The four buildings which were owned by Mrs. Kate Hamilton, valued at $40,000 and insur- ed for $20,000, were damaged; $20,000. The Allegany,(Md.) Court House at Cum- berland was destroyed by fire. A greater part of the records were saved. The build- ing cost $30,000 aud was insured for $20,000. Thursday night, fire destroyed the two immense buildings at 933 and 935 Penn avenue, Pittsburg. With accompanying - dlamage to other structures and the destruc- tion of merchandise and personal property, eausing a loss of nearly £300,000. No. 933 was the establishment of P. Duff & Sous, wrommission merchants, extending through to Fayette street in the rear and including a huge wing, every part of the building be- ing vacked full of merchandise. The great queensware establishment of Cavitt, Pollock & Co. was at 935. Both buildings with their contents are total losses. The station house at Brighton, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The remains of Miss E. A. Ayers, the telegraph operator, were found in the ruins. Itis evidently a case of murder and arzon. Miss Ayers was re- ported to have had considerable money. Adrian Fairchild, who had been employed nearly 40 years as a diver by the dock de- partment, New York, was under water ram- ming a charge of dynamite into a rock. The charge exploded prematurely, and Fairchild was hauled up dead. Percy Carter, a 17-year-old youth of Good ‘Ground, L. I., while skating fell through the ice and was drowned. C. F. Johnson, of Toronto, Canada, was blown to atoms at the Hercules Torpedo Company magazine, near Kokomo, Ind. A livery stable in Cambridge, Mass.. was burned. Nineteen horses were roasted alive ard Lonis Taylor, an employe, had his brains kicked out by some horses he was trying to save. Arthur Kennedy, 19 years old, and George Freeze, 22 years old, were drowned while skating near Sparrow’s Point. Md. William Freese, a brother of George Freese, broke through the ice while attemptinz to rescue his brother, and was hinsself rescued with difficulty. : —e Washington News. Little Martena Harrison continues to im- prove, but the White House is still .quaran- tined, and the big placards containing the information that contagion exists within are displayed on the entrances to the pri- vate part of the Mansion. Mgr. Harrison's Furure. —In view of the statement published that President Harri- son's health was failing, and that he was likely to break down, Postmaster-General Wanamaker said: ‘The report that the President was in failing health must have originated with some one with little oppor- tunity to know the truth, I would take him to be now at his very prime. It is not a clever thing to make an invalid out of a man because uncommon griefs are not laid off at the end of 30 days. It is quite likely that Stanford University is seeking him; so are a score of other things, but, until his work is completed here, I doubt if he will serious- ly thing of future occupation.” CoMPLETELY StaMPED QOuT.—According to the report of Secretary Rusk to the Senate, the work of stamping out pleuro-pneumon- ia has been carried on as rapidly as was possible and the disease has completely dis- appeared. The United States is the first of large nations of the worid which has been uble to completely extirpate it. The time required was only about five years, and the total expenditure a little in excess of $1,- $00,000. AE Personal. Ail hope of the recovery of Lilly Langtry {who is seriously ill at T.ondon) has been abandoned by her physicians, She may live a week, a month, or a year, but per- manent recovery is out of the question. Senator Colquitt’s condition is now con- sidered critical by his physicians. He was able ten days ago to walk with some aid about the house, but he is now confined to his bed and unable torise. one side being In addition to this 4,000 miles 1 835 acres; completely paralyzed. His wife liesin am adjoining room paralyzed, ‘her brain being affected. She is not expected to live many days. Senator Kenna continues critically ill and the gravest apprehensions are still felt. His family physician, Dr. Chilton, is constantly with him. James G. Blaine, who is quite ill at his home in Washington, is reported as im- proving. Crime and Penalties. Monday night a masked mob overpower- ed the sheriff at London, Tenn., took Henry Duncan from jail and hanged him toa tree. Duncan was accused of the murder of four persons. Six prisoners at Atlanta, after locking their keepers in their cells, walked out of jail. AT Albany, N. Y., William H. Shattuck, 22 years old, shot his wife, 19 years old, three times in the head, killing her instant ly. He then shot himself in the temple, but isalive and will probably die. Cause: jealousy. At the hospital Shattuch said the shooting of himself was accidental. le Jrodicial. At Boston in the Supreme Court,a petition was presented Irom several ceruncate hold- ers of the order of the Solid Rock, asking for an injunction against the order. The complainants allege that the liabilities of the order are $775,000 and the assets but about $26,000. It is also alleged that it cost $36,000 to collect $ -6, aL Legislative. The New York Legislature passed the Constitutional Amendment bill. A bill has been introduced ,in the New York senate providing thatin New York City the wages of day laborers employed by the city shall not be Jess than $2 a day, and of otlier employes not less than 25 cents per hour. Preference shall be given to citizens of that state on such work. HERR Capital. Labor and Industrial, The Macungie furnace of the Crane Iron Company, at Macungie, Pa., has been light- ed after an idleness of several months. The boilermakers at the Brooks locomo- tive works at Dunkirk, N. Y.. struck for higher wages, Lena Miscellaneous, At Philadelphia, an insane man caused a scene at the Catholic church of St. Thomas Aquinas Sunday morning by trying to attack the priest at mass. A number of women fainted. COLORADO'S MINERAL rropucr.—The astonishing figures $41,865,114 23 are the total mineral productions for Colorado for 1892, giving totals of $2,012,052 92 in copper, $6,082,478 34 in lead, $28,161,111 96 in silver and $5,667,807 42 in gold, as against £33,548, - 934 for 1691. The figures do not include the Holden smelter at Leadville, whose estimat- ed output is $2,000,000. Tue Cunard steamer Umbria reached hex dock at New York Saturday morning, all well. She was 6} days overdue. A broken shaft caused the delay. SEVERE Corp 18 CAnApa.—Exceptionally severe weather is being experienced through- out, Canada and in the Northwest, where the thermometer registers 40 degrees below zero. In most places the snow is lying to a depth of 25 inches, and should the cold wea- ther continue there will be a heavy mortal- ity among cattle on the ranches. The ther- mometer on Friday registered 17 degrees be. low zero in Montreal. The iron Hall Supreme officers Somerby Baker, Glading and Eckersley. each waived a hearing in Philadelphia by District Attorney Graham, and were held in $5,000 bail each to answer at court. This an- ticipates the action of the Indiana authori- ties, and prevents the granting of the requi- sition papers. BEYOND OUR BORDERS. Seven persons were killed and 29 wound- ed in the recent wreck on the Mexican Southern Railroad. Cholera continues to spread in the North of France. In the town of Gravelines, near Calais, three deaths and one new case were reported on Wednesday, and three deaths on Thursday. Several streets in which the disease is especially prevalent have been closed by the town authorities. A battle took place near Guerrero, Mex., between government troops and rebels, in which the latter were defeated. The total loss was 17 killed and 32 wounded. Hundreds of Austrian villages are snowed ander so badly that inhabitants are unable to get out of their houses. Two trains collided at Kaniza, Austria, killing eight passengers and badly injuring 15 others. The Mexican authorities have confiscated the estate of Adolph Villareal, valued at $80,000. In addition, Villareal has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. His crime was the hiring of a person to assassi- nate D. McKellar, who owned a neighboring ranch. THE CEREALS IN 1893. The Wheat Crop Almost Unprecedented. The Corn Crop 2 Short One. The wheat crop ix sli zhtly above an aver- age one in yield, and in volume has only been exceeded in 1891, 1884 and 1882, ai- though the crops of 1839 and 1880 nearly equaled it. Tlie area, estimated, is 38,554,- 430 acres, product, 515,949,000 bushels; value, $322,111.881. There has been a considerable enlargement of breadth the past year in several Western States. The rate of yield is 13.4 bushels per acre. The average value per bushel, 62.4¢, is the lowest average value ever reported, that of 1884 being 64.5¢, and that of 1887 being 68.1c. Tleaverage of the crop of 1891 was 83.tc. The weight of meas- ured bushels will be determined later, but it is probable that the aggrezate will be equiv- alent to nearly 500,000,000 commercial bush- els. The corn crop is short, exceeded in quant- ity seven times in the last 10 years, but slightly larger than in 1883, 1887 and 1890. Its average yield per acre, 23.1 bushels, has been exceeded in 10 vears. The breadth, as estimated, is 70.626,658 acres. The produc tion, 1,628,464,00C bushels; value, $642,146, - 630; averaging 39.3 cents per bushel. ~ The estimates for oats are: Area, 27,063, product, 661,035,000 bushels; value, $209,253,611; yield per acre, 24.4 bushels. pre - To Fly the Stars and Stripes. The International Navigation Company has settled that the City of New York is to be the first of its handsome twin screw ves- sels to leave this port flying the American flag. consent of MANY LEGISLATURES MEET. Governor Flower, N. Y., Discusses the Rights of Labor. NEW YORK. Areaxy.—The Legislature was convened Tuesday at noon, Wm. Sulzer, Democrat, of New York, being made speaker of the house, and Mr. Malbey of St. Lawrence county the Republican leader. The gover- nor’s message was read in both houses and adjournment was taken for one week. Touching the Buffalo strike the governor announces the expenditure by the State to have been $192,647, and then adds: ‘Em- ployes have the right te strike and peace- ably persuade others to join them, and in their earnest and lawful efforts to benefit their condition they may always feel sure that public sympathy is with them and against selfish corporations. But every citi zen and corporation.every employe and em- ployer, must observe and respect the auth- ority of law and government. So long as they keep within the law, the State govern- ment will leave them to settle their own disputes. But law must be observed, persons and property must be protected, and the lawful use of property by its owner must not be interfered with. These are the ends for which the State primarily exists. For the maintenance of these ends every dollar of the State’s money, the nfe and services of every member of the national guard and the support of every law-abiding citizen are ledged. *1t should be the aim of the law making body to see that our laws confer equal privileges, It is not right that powersshould e granted Lo corporations to oppress either their emploves or the people. Whatever can be wisely done by legislation to guaran- tee equal rights to all should be done. But law will notaccompiish everything. Corpor- ations will learn by costly experience that, even from tne selfish point of view, it pays to be considerate of the welfare of their em- ployes. No men or corporations cau stop the march of civilization. Shorter hours of labor, better wages and the opportunity which these give for education and enjoy- ment, are natural human sspirations. They should be treated as such in a friendly Christian spirit, not. repe led with arrogant manner or impatient consideration. Hon- est recognition by corporations of just de- mands from employes will solve many a labor difficulty and prevent many an o order.” Dealing with the law against ‘sweat shops’ and iis results the governor rays: “The present law does not go far enough’ to remedy all the evils which have grown up nnder this system. If the manufacturer escapes the responsibility and expense of running a factory he should be compeiled to keep a register of those who are making up his goods, and no person should be given work who could not produce a certificate from an inspector stating that he occupied heaithy and suitable quarters for the pur pose of manufacturing.” DELAWARE, Dover.—Both houses of the general as- sembly organized Tuesday morning. In the house the members elect took their oaths on a Latin Bible printed in 1531. Gov- ernor Reynold’s message was read in both houses. It deals almost entirely with State affairs. He culls attention to the granger demand for taxation of investments and says: ‘As equality is one of the fundamen- tal principles of taxation, it seems unfair and unequal that any class or species of property should be entirely exempt from tax burden.” MINNESOTA. St. Pauvn.—The two branches of the legislature met and or ganized. Ww. S. Lee vas chosen speaker of the house. The Republican Sen- ators secured the adherence of three Alli- ance members who had formerly been Re- publicans and all of the officers chosen were the nominees of the Republican cau- cus. Governor Knute Nelson was sworn in. IDAHO. Boise City.—The ldaho legislature met Tuesday at noon. The house organized by the election of the Repub.ican caucus nom- inee. In the senate a temporary secretary, J. H. Wickersham, Democrat, and a tem- porary sergant-at-arms, Geo. Williams, Pop- ulist, only were etected. Governor Me Connell and other State officers were sworn in, TEN SESSEE. NasuviLLE.—The forty-eighth general as sembly isin tie throes of organization The lower house nas selected and installed 3 speaker, Ralph Davis ot Memphis, its clerks and sergeant-at-arms, but the senate is dead: locked on the speakership contest. Fifty: turee ballots were taken without an election CALIFORNIA, SacraMENTO.—The California legislature assembled, the Republicans orgamzing the senate and the Democrats organizing the as sembly. SOUTH DAKOTA. PiERRE.—At the joint session of the twe houses of the legislature, Governor Sheldon. after having been sworn in, delivered his inaugural address. ONE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS FOR GOOD. Hartrorn, CoxN.—Both branches of the Connecticut Legislature of 1891, after brief sessions, adjourned without date. A num- ber of petitions were continued to the new General Assembly. s MAINE. _Aveusta.—The sixty-sixth Maine legisla- ture was organized Wedresday. In the Jenate A. M. Speer was elected president. In the House A. R. Savage was elected speaker. NORTH CAROLINA. Rarricn.—The legislature of North Caro lina organized by the election of John I. Overman speaker of the House. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston.—Both branches of the legislature met on Wednesday. The Senate organized by the re-election of President Pinkerton of Worcester. In the House Speaker Wm, E. Barrett was re-elected and the oaths were ad- ministered (o the members by Governor Russell. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Coxcorn.—Both branches of the legisla ture met and organized, Inthe House 355 of the 358 members qualified. Robert N. Cham- berlain (Rep.) was elected speaker. In the Senate John McLane of Milford was elected president. MISSOURT. JEEFERSON CrTy.—The general assembly of Missouri convened Wednesday. After the new members had been sworn in both houses by justices of the Supreme Court, an adjournment until to-morrow was taken. LUTHERANS TO SUFFER, TOO. “More Persecution Coming in Russia, Power Being Given the Holy Synod. St. Petersburg dispatches confirm the re. port that the Czar has ordered the Ministry of the Interior to transfer to the Holy Synod the administration of all church affairs. .This order is certain to result in putting further vexatious restrictions on non-orthodox religions, and will probably lead to religious persecution. 1t is feared that the chief sufferers will be Lutherans who are mostly German or decent. of German PRONOUNCED CHOLERA. ah Physicians Now Declare That the, Arkan- sas Penitentiary Plague Is the Gen- uine Asiatic Disease. Physicians pronounce the disease that has been raging in the Arkansas Penitentiary at Little Rock, and which was first reported to be due to poisoning, then malaria, to be genuine Asiatic cholera. There are 60 cases of sickness and have been 16 deaths. te evn —TFor the first time in seven years the Ni- agara river at Niagara Falls, Ont., is block- ed with ice. portunity for lawless strife and civil dis’ King presidelit of the Senate and Lee £.° THE FIFTY-CECOND CONGRESS, A... Proceedings of the Senate and the House Tersely Told. FOURTEENTH DAY. SENATE—The Senate resumed business Wednesday with a fair showing of indus- try. Some progress was made on the Anti- Option bill, and Mr. Sherman took occasion to state in view of the subject, that,although he had some doubts, both a« to the consti- tutional power of Congress in the matter and as to whether the bill, if it became a law, would accomplish what was expected of it, he would vote for it in deference to the wishes of farmers’ associations and indind- ual farmers, who believed that with the sup- pression of dealing in futures, which Mr. Sherman characterized as gambling not so fair as what took place around the faro ta- ble. the prices of their products would be zoverned by the law of supply and demand. An amendment offered by Mi . Whice, in- cluding flour among the “articles to which the bill is to apply, was agreed to after some discussion. A joint resolution was reported to amend the ¢ onstitution extending the right of suf- frage to women. It provides that the right of citizenship shall not be denied or abridg- ed by the United States, or by any State, on account of sex, and that Congress shall have the power to enforce this provision. Senator Vance submitted a minority re- port, setting forth that the matter in “ques- tion involves the rights of States and should be left for them to determine. Senator.Chandler, to stop further opera- tions by the Pinkertons, introduced a bill frovie ng that it shall be unlawful for any ody of men numbering 10 or more, any of whom are subject to enroliment a+ a part of the militia of any State, to assemble, or drill or bear arms as ‘a military squad, company, battalion, or other military or- ganization, unless they are called for by the civil or military officers lawfully authorized to make such a call. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. House.—As was expected, the House met after the holiday recess without a quorum. A few measures which were unimportant and of merely local significance were passed. IFTEENTH |DAY. SexaTE.—The Senate bili concerning testi- mony in criminal cases or proceedings grow- ing out of the interstate commerce laws was passed. It provides that no person shall be excused from testifving on the ground that his testimony might tend to criminate him- self. The anti-option bill was then taken up and Mr. Vilas addressed the Senate. He opposed the bill because it was unconstitu- tional. The Senate then, after a short ex- ecutive session, adjourned, House,—The second general appropria- tion bill to pass the House this session was the fortification bill, and it went threugh to- day without amendment or the slightest debate. It appropriates $1,735,000. A few private pension bills we e passed and the house adjourned without a quorum. SIXTEENTH DAY. SENATE.—To-day’s session of the Senate was given up exclusively to the discussion ot the bill on the subject of quarantine regulations and its corelative measure. the bill to suspend immigration for one year. Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, spoke for about three hours, devoting most of his argument to the last mentioned bill, wthough the other was really the one that was up for discussion. Arguments against the quarantine bill were made by Senators McPherson, Piatt, Mills and Dolph. After further argument, the bill was modifi.d in some particulars and ordered printed. The resolution offered yestered by Mr. Hill calling on the State Department for information as to whether the §bill to sus pend immigration is in confict with any other treaty with any foreign Government was taken up and agreed to with some ver- bal amendments, The Senate then adjourn- ed. House.—The session of the House was aneventful. The attendance was small and nothing but private business considered with the exception of a bill providing for the muster and pay of certain officers and men of the volunteer forces. About 25 pri- vate pension bills were passed and the House adjourned. SEVENTEENTH DAY. SeExaTE.—After routine business was dis. osed of the discussion of the quarantine bil was resumed, the section authorizing the president to suspend immigration being taken up. Discussion of the bill occupied the rest of the session and no vote was reach- ed when the Senate after a short session adjourned. House.—The District of Columbia appro- priatic nn bill was taken up in the house and considered in committe2 on the whoie, after which the House adjourned. Three Persons Killed by Gas. By an explosion of natura! gas in the cellar of 1010 Sarah street, South Side, Pitts- burg, Saturday morning at 6:30. John Dov- ev, wife and baby girl were killed, and William Harris and Charles Dovey were severely injured. : The house was a two-story brick. Mr. Harris, with his wife and baby, occupied the first floor and John Dovey. and his family lived on the second floor. ‘The two women were sisters. Both families burned coal and there were no gas pipes in the house. Mr. Harris went into the cellar with a lighted lamp and the explosion followed. The four Doveys were sleeping on a mat- tress on the gecond floor at the time. The walls at the first floor fell out, those at the second fell in, covering the Doveys with the debris. Mrs. Harris and child escaped with slight injuries, but Mr. Harris was severely . burned. The house which was owned by Nicholas Maul, is a total wreck. It is thought that the gas followed the water pipes into the cellar from a leak in the street main. eo Frozen to Death on His Doorstep. Mrs. A. M. Olson, residing in Chicago, missed her husband the other night. But that did not surprise her until she awoke next morning and found even the early hours of the morning did not bring him bome. Then she investigated and found he had reached the doorstep where a fall had probably stunned him and he was frozen to death. A WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH. Mrs. James Haverstock, of Wellesly, near Boston, Mass., visited a friend on Tuesday night. Shestarted nome about 10 o'clock, but did not arrive there. Though continuous search was made, no trace of her body was found until Saturday, when her boay was discovered in a field by two boys. She had lost her way in the severe storm and per ished from exposure. She leaves a husband and six children. A HUGE NIAGARA ICICLE Knocks Two Photographers Over a Precipice--Both Fatally Hurt. Frank H. Warner and Harry W. Halo: well, two Philadelphia photographers, who were at Niagara Falls to take pictures of the ice bridge, were knocked off the ledge over the Cave of the Winds by an icicle which weighed nearly a ton. The men fell over 100 feet. Both will probabiy die. H 1) well had both arms broken and his collar bone is smashed 'beyond repair. Warner i: seriously injured No Cholera in Arkansas. At Little Rock, Ark., Dr. Goddings, of the Marine Hospital service, has completed his investigation and forwarded his report to Washington. He failed to find a single cholera germ. The disease was caused by the filthy condition of the penitentiary, which has been thoroughly cleaned out and fumigated. KIRK’S ROAD LAW. Third Revision of an Act Providing for a State Road Department and Its Operation. Arthur Kirk has just sent out the third re. vised edition of his road law, which will be presented to the legislature, probably this month. He invites criticisms to be sent in speedily so they may be considered. with a view to amendments, before the bill is in- troduced. It is practically the same bill pre- sented by Mr. Kitk two years ago. Mr.-Kirk-sets - forth at length the reasons wiv the road should be made only by the State as they are exclusively the property of the commonwealth. When the land ofthe State was first platted six acres were reserved for every hundred for road purposes, and as a hundred years’ experience has proven the counties and townships cannot be depended upon to make either good or uniform roads he thinks it is time for the State to take con- trol of this important feature. Mr. Kirk thinks convicts should be made to work on the roads. The act itself provides, first for the ap- ointment by the governor.and subsequent- v at each election for governor, for the election of a State superintendent of roads, to have full control subjec: to decision of court in all matters pertaining to location and improvement of roads. He shall appoint for each county a county superintendent and he in turn distric. superintendents, all of whom are held under heavy bonds for performance of their duties. State superin- tendent’'s salary is fixed at $4,000 a year; county superintendents, $3,000, and district superintendents, £1,000 a year each. The expense is to be provided for by the issue of $6,000,000 in bonds each year for ten years, payable in twenty years with interest at 3 per cent, payab'e by the state treasurer temi-annually. It also provides for the levy- ing of a.poll tax on each male inhabitant of the state of $1 a yéar for road purposes ex- clusively. It also provides for a property tax which shall be levied on all property alike, whether in city, borough or country. But Mr. Kirk argues property in thecountry will be s0 enhanced in value in twenty years by good roads that the burden will not be elt, It has the usual provisions to prohibit superintendents from being interested inany contracts for either work or material. It also provides that any private individ- ual, pipe line, telegraph or telephone com- pany, electric light or power company, or any transporation company desiring to en- croach npon any road must file a map and particulars with the district superintendent, who will transmit with inform tion to the county superintendent, who shall pass upon the question and fix the charges for such encroachment, The bill in detail is lengthy, but the fore- going are the main provisions. There are some good ideas in it.and it is now generally admitted that some kind of a road law is a necessity, ii HARRITY’S REPORT. 80ME RECOMMENDATIONS MADE REGARDING TRE BALLOT LAW. HARrrIsBURG.—Secretarv Harrity has sub. mitted his annual report to Gov. Pattison. It shows that during the last two years 1.- 158 charters were granted under the act of April 20,1864, and 79 locomotive and 127 street railway companies were incorporated, besides a great 4 miscellaneous busi- ness. The fees for the last twenty-two months amount to $71,577 50, which does not include the bonus fees received on the granting of charters. The expense of the de- partmeh} for the same period was $61,141 62 ‘rom this it appears that the fees more than exceeded the expenditures of the de- partment by the sum of $10,435 83. In ad- dition to this there has been received from commissions, certified copies and miscellan- 2ous sources the sum of $12,016 12, which would make the excess of such receipts over the expenditures amount to $22,452. ‘Lhe total commissions issued were 6,342. Secretary Harrity refers to the defects in the new ballot law, and makes suggestions for the benefi t of the legislature. He thinks that nominations made by nomination papers, which do not have attached thereto the number of signatures as required for any state or district nomination, should not be certified to county commissioners and sheriffs as directed in section 10 of the act. The reason for this is that no authority is given in any part of the act to anyone to de- termine what is the required per centum of the vote at the previous electicn in the dis- trigt from which a nomi- nation paper purports to come. [t is suggested that section 4 should be so changed as to set out clearly what po- litical appellation may or may not be used by parties inaking nominations by nomina- tion papers. He thinks that the time for fil- mg objections to nontination papers and certificates should be reduced one-half, Regarding the form of ballot he says: “In justice to the several political pariies com- pelled to make nommations by nomination papers this section should be so amended a8 to allow their nominations to be arrang- :d on the ballot in the same manner as aominations made by certificates of nomi- nations.’ Further, he suggests that the manner of marking the ballot by the voter + sould be simplified by providing that one :ross mark opposite the party name or ap- pellation at the head of the list of candidates thall be considered as a vote for all the can- lidates of the party. — THE BIG KRUPP CAR. LARGEST IN THE WORLD, AT LAST COMPLETED AT THE ALTOONA SHOPS. Avrooxa.—The largest freight car ever built in this country was turned out of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s shops bere. it will be used to transport from Sparrow Point, near Baltimore, to Chicago the 124 ton cannon being manufactured at the works of the Krupp Gun Company in Prussia for exhibition at the World’s Fair. The car practically consists of iwo cars, with eight pair of wheels each, joined by an iron bridge, thus presenting the appear- ance of one long car with 16 pair of wheels ny THE RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN. In an opinion delivered by Judge Green in the case of the Latrobe Building and Loan Association against Margaret A. I'ntz, the Supreme Court has decided that a mar- ried women can now make any kind of 1 contract in relation to the improvement of her seperate estate, which she could make if she were a single woman, includ- ing even the giving of a bond. In this case the Court reverses the county court, which had treated as illegal and void a bond given by Mrs. Fritz for the payment of money loaned her by the building association for the improvement of her real estate. — UNUSUAL SNOW AND ICE. CONNELLSVILLE.—Not within the memory of the oldest citizen has there been as much ice in the Youghiogheny river as at present. From West Newton almost to Ohiopyle the river is entirely frozen over, a foot in thick; ness. In the mountain districts travel along the public roads is blockaded on account of the snow, which in many cases has drifted i0 a depth of five and six feet. The farmers report mucn suffering from their stock. ER ALLEGHENY FROZEN OVER AT KITTANNING. Kirraxsing.—The Allegheny river at this po nt has been frozen over all week. Ice men are at work cutiing the ice, which is five inches thick. This winter is the first time 1m six years that the river has been {rozen over here. Pennsylvania Legislaiure. Ist Day.—At noon. Tuesday, Lieut.-Gov- srnor Watres called the senate to order. Secretary Harrity was then introduced and handed the president the certificates of new- members, sworn in. Senator George Handy Smith p'aced Sena- tor J. P. 8. Gobin in_nomination for presi- dent pro tem. and Wm. Penn Lloyd nomi- nated Jared C. Brown of York county for the same office on behalf of the Democrats. There were only two members absent, Sena- tor Flinn of Allegheny and Senator Brown of Westmoreland. The vote resulted as fol- lows: Gohin 31. Brown 17, Senator Gobin was declared elected. . | SH ; ng | # BN A 7 # 1h), “2 2 SPEAKER CALEB C. THOMPSON, Mr. Gobin made a rather lengthy speech, in which he said the legislature should be made no of a fair class of citizens and he be- lieved it was. ‘‘This is a government of the people, and we must be successful if we take an interest in the welfare of the people Wa must not confer monopolistic legislation, but must legislate for all the people and re- lieve burdens where we can.” Smiley was elected chief clerk, and the other officers named by the Republican cau- cus were also elected. After the Senators bad listened to the Goverror’s message the joint resolution for an adjournment until} ‘hursday of next week was adopted. In tne House, when the members had been formally sworn in Caleb C. Thompson of Warren county was elected speaker over GEN. GOBIN, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. Walter E. Kitter of Lycoming, the Demo- cratic nominee, by a vote of 135 to 69. After the members had been sworn in it was dis- covered that both Andrews and Higby had gathered with the crowd and both had tak- ‘en the oath. Higby arrived first this morn- ing and took possession of the seat assigned to the Crawford county member. Andrews ‘will probably slip into the seat the first time Higby vacates it, and thus the war promises to go on. : Mr. Leeds of Philadelphia nominated Charles Voorhees for chief clerk, and Mr. Wherry nominated IE. P. Kearns of Alle- gheny, on behalf of the Democrats. The roll was called and resulted the same as the speakership. After the officers were sworn in several resolutions were presented relat- ing to rules. The House then met in joins, session with the Senate to listen to the read- ing of the Governor's message, afier which an Sdjonrnment was made to Thursday next. : THE LABOR WORLD. T'rA¥ silver mines have shut down, . CHICAG) has 562 bona file labor organizae ions. FACTORIES aro busy making summey IT is well known that over 100,000 people gre at present unemployed in Vienna, Aus- : 2 BEOPOSITION to establish a universal abor heaaquarters is being consi ! Chicago labor men. ig considered IY LATE statistics show that in London more than 300.000 families earn less than seventy- five cents each per day. JouN BURNS asserts that sixty per cent. of the Engusn worimen over sixty years of age are in receipt of poor relief, IN Boston the bosses and the clothing. nt g-cut- ters have joined hands to compel sweaters bo grant the demands of their workmen, AT New Plymouth, New Zsalani, E, M. Smith, a lamplighter, was elected a mean. ber ot the Colonial Parliment by the local labor organizations, A FEDERAL court in Macon in a decision against the Georgia Central road held that a man could not bs discharged si |ply be- cause he belonged to a labor unior.. . ALL railroad employes of Russia who have nov embraced the faith of the Greek Church prior to February 1, 1803, will be discaarged from tne Govsrnment's service, ONE HUNDRED miners at the slope minss of the Oaio an 1 Pepnsylvania Cal Company, at Salineville, Ohio, have struck, a dis. agreement witn the company over the wiza Of screens used having arisen. THE privation in London amonz the un. empioyed increases with the advance of winter, and, notwithstanding the numbers alreauy there, multitudes continue to throng in from other parts of the country. . PETIT ONs are arculated by many work- ingmen’s organizations in France, asking their respective municipalities to imitate the example of the Common Council ati Roubaix in piving meals to tne children in public gchools, CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused in New Zea'and by the action of the Governor in apoointing four veritable work- ingmen to the higaer house of the Lagzisla~ ture, whose members hitherto have been se~ lected invariably from the class of rich meng or jarge land-holders, or prominent polities cians. ADVICES from Lancashire, England. sta* that the locked-out employes rio oh manufacturing districts had a hungry holi- day, thousands of them being dependent up- on charity ior sustenance. Hundreds are walking about begging, and it is feared that: the rigorous weather will cause the loss of ' many lives, ly eiected members, which were read and the . On motion of Senator Penrose, E. W.! as calli i? ——
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers