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% § V^%r I DISPATCHES IRE NEWS UP TO THE OF GOING TO PRESS. Summary of Daily Happen¬ fm ings Throughout the World. 7 : The lint snow flurry of the season it over Orange and Sullivan coun New York, Sunday night. There quite a heavy fall, also, in Dela¬ ware and Chenango counties. dlho knitting mill of the Aspinock Company, at Danielsonville, Conn., which failed some months ago, has been purchased by Mr. Sanford, of Fall fever, and it resumed operations Monday morning. Advices received at Berlin from Walfish Bay, southwest Africa, say that the rebellious Dtmeraland chief, Withpoi, has surrendered snd exprese «d ur’willingneM to submit to a Ger man protectorate over his territory. At Milwaukee, Monday, Judge Jen kina ’dismissed the petition of Ives et aL, to have T. J. Oakes dismissed as the Northern Pacific receiver, and oonfirms Special Master Cary’s report, exonerating Oakes from making any money out of the road illegally. A dispatch from Ogdensburg, N. Y., «y»: : Petitions for the nomination of General N. M. Curtis, for representa¬ tive in congress, are being circulated in all of the accessible towns of the county, and are being signed by re¬ publicans and democrats indiserimi A Are in a four-story building at Chicago Monday morning, caused a loss of about $85,000, distributed as: Biehard A Co., chemical sapply works, #50,000; Detroit white lead works, #$5,000; Oliver H. Hicks A Co., paper, #10,000. The fire was caused by an explosion of chemicals. The Detroit left Norfolk navy yard Monday sod anchored in Hampton roads. She will go to Newport for her torpedoes and sail for Cadiz and Nap¬ les the last of this week, leaving the Columbian exhibits loaned by the hi government. She is nnder to join the Asiatic fleet early in comber. fhe famous hat trimmings case, in l«h importers of millinery seek to .■ no a return of money collected for ire on McKinley oertain styles tariff of ribbons nn the law, oame up ire Judge "Dallas in the United lea eirouit court at Philadelphia uday and wat continued until Jan. , next. The hew naval dry dock at Port >yal, 8. 0., is expected to be com* Red within a month. In anticipa ia of this, the bureau of yards and Oka has ootttreeted with Rittenhouae, sore A Oo., of Mobile, Ala., to edge out the ehannel necessary to «& the doek to our luge,new battle m Lumber Trade Journal, of New in its issue of Monday shows awing lumber exports from l ports for the month of Sep Total value of timber export ,178; lumber, $654,189; man s of lumber, $74,829; total IM,$6», against $579,504 for or a gain for the month of spraas officials at Biohmond, r think that the Quantioo train did not gat over five thousand Mr. M ftnrrwr, who w handled the and Out them open for the says ha is satisfied from feel * • Ms that the amount did not - He says tha bonds ware , as ha threw tham in a pile of ts of tha weavers at the Hath I Aooahnet mills at New Bed When a ________ »t strike, which Urn mills in the city, was » of th# conditions wss that im to oonform to the ds particulars law. ■o to the satis exoept these mAt that the the of the to Knoxville, has to have Virginia sad now by the dc a* Pekin, m<T to - .* had ire ■i-'Ahs wi » Mi-mH had * a of JUDGE BLECKLEY RESIGNS. * A Result of the Failure of tke Judt ctal Amendments. Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley has resigned his seat on the supreme bench of Georgia In his letter of resigns tion to Governor Northen the Chief Jnstice gives at length his reasons for taking this step. He strongly empJba sizes his indignation at the failure of the people to increase the number of judges of the supreme court. The let¬ ter is as follows: “Atlanta, Ga., October 18, 1894.— His Excellency, William J. Northern— Sir: In tendering to you, for the sec¬ ond time, my resignation of the office of chief justice, it seems proper to make a brief statement of my reasons for so doing. “For some years it has been mani¬ fest to the bench and bar of the whole state that the business of the supreme court has become too heavy to be ade¬ quately threg^fstices. handled and disposed of by The fact has also been twice recognized by the general assem¬ bly, and a > onstitntional amendment to increase ti e number from three to five has been twice passed and submit¬ ted to the people for ratification. The people, either not being convinced of the necessity for the iroposed increase, or if convinced, not caring to better the efficiency of the court by adopting the appropriate means, have twice re¬ jected the amendment by a decisive vote against it. Now, whether the people know it or not, I have personal knowledge that the necessity exists, and whether they care to remedy it or not, I feel constrained to care to the extent at least of declining to remain longer in the situation of high and re¬ sponsible public service in which three men mast either do the work of five or violate the constitution by leaving undone a considerable part of that whioh the constitution not only re¬ quires to be done, bat limits its posi¬ tive terms the time within which it mast be performed. “For several years iuy associates and myself, in order to comply with the constitutional mandate in respect to hearing and deciding aH the oases within a given time, have been obliged to omit the preparation of written opinions in very many cases in which, acoording to judicial usage in this state and elsewhere, such opinions would rightly be deemed indispensi ble to render oar work thorough and complete. “The opinions which I, myself, ought to, have written and would have written had time and strength per¬ mitted, in addition to those which have appeared or will appear in the reports, number, I am sure, not lees than two or three hundred. “Had there been two additional justices to aid in deciding the cases and in writing opinions, all these opinions might easily have been ten, for from such and a doable saving of time would have resulted; first, de¬ cisions could have been made more rapidly; and, secondly, the work in preparing opinions beirg divided amongst five instead of amongst only three, each jnstioe would have had but onA-flfth the whole number of opinions to write^instead of one-third thereof. “It may be thonght that as my brethren remain at their posts and straggle on, I should do likewise, and that if the loss of the constitutional amendment affords any why I should resign, the same reason applies with equal force to them. One of them is ten, the other twenty years my jnnior, and it is reasonable to suppose that both osn hold oat better and longer against the wear If and tear of overwork than I oan. I remained with them and did my foil part I oonld not hope to rival them in endaranee. I should have to drop out soon, and I might as well do it now. Besides, they work fester than I do or oan, and I sincerely believe their onerous task would be somewhat lightened .if theyoould have, in my stead, someone more expeditious thaa I am, in deciding **ntf** Being a slow and cautious judge, unless I have ample time for r ese ar ch ead study, I oan decide nothing difficult with any absolute assurance that my conclusions Mw OOiTdCI. quite too alow to oo-operate with them on equal terms in the exercise of thif most well important judicial function. less timid They and obn spare me for u hesitating mind, especially might, if their new excel colleague, as he easily should in legal laasmlng. from the court with much reluctance. At this period of my life judicial work is that for whioh I am beat fitted, and I would rather do it ‘for nothing than be idle ou full pay. I . Imre ao wish to retire from active life or to shun mod labor. health ia good, and both by consti t u tio n and king habit, oc¬ cupation ia e sse ntial to my happiness. No feeling that I ax troubles I or remaining Gladly; would serve out the four yearn of the tom tor which I waa last sleeted if I could do ao with jnstioe to myaoU or with read advantage to the “Finally, to those, if any, who may be m my pr ese n t would urge this my I t m m of aad & *e w in private life Ysball not the .ew cherish sentiments of grateful affec tion toward all those, the living snd the dead, by whose favor and Ooufi denee I have been trusted, promoted and honored. t , “* desire this resignation to take effect on Monday, the 29th day of Oc tober, **Wiih instant >» ^' * high and re ? pe ofhci*l, ^ ^° I n8I< e tion, personal am y obedient servant, Blxcxlm.’’ K E. A RICH HAUL. Highwaymen Rob m Express Train and get Nearly $200,000. The north-bound express between Richmond, Va., and Washington, leav¬ ing Richmond at 7 o’clock Friday night, was held np by a gang of rob¬ bers at Aqnia creek. As the train rolled into the station two masked men leaped upon the engine, covered the engineer and firemafi with revol¬ vers and forced them to leave the loco¬ motive. In the meantime a number of confederates in the dariqg deed were engaged in uncoupling the ex¬ press car and driving therefrom the passengers. This done the engine palled np the road about a mile, bear¬ ing only the express car. The safe was rifled. It is believed that the robliers se¬ cured in the neighborhood of $180, 000, as an unusually large amount of money went out of Richmond Friday evening, to say nothing of the tbrongh currency. When the men secured their a wag they started the locomotivo off at a rapid rate of speed, alighting themselves. On towards Washington rambled the engine with no one at the throttle until it reached Gnantico, Which place is only thirty miles this side of the national capital. As soon as the other train official* 1 realized what bad happened, the news of the flying locomotive was telegraph¬ ed ahead and a number of ears were rolled upon the track at Gnantico to stop the engine and probably prevent loss of life as well as property* The engine crashed into the ears demolfeh ing them and playing havoc with itself. The messengers, according Tb%. to reports received, were not hurt. were B. F. Crutchfield and H. Murray, both of Richmond. The safe in the express car was not blown open. One of the messengers was carried np the road and commanded to open the casket of treasure which he did iu compliance to the dictates of half a dozen pistols. There were seven robbers in the gang. The express messenger said tljat the safe contained $150,000. The robbers secured this and all of the express packages containing money, It is thought this amount will foot np to about $180,000. STAMP STEALERS Make a Big Haul From the Bureau of Engraving. A Washington special says: of ,The stamp robbery at the bureau en¬ graving and printing, discovered a lew days ago, turns out to be much larger than at first supposed. Instead of one package containing 50.000 2-cent stamps, it is now believed that over 200,000, and possibly 250,000 stamps of various denominations are missing. Postmasters in all parts of the country, it is thought, have received fewer stamps than they ordered, and failed to notify the department of the deficien¬ cy. When their quarterly reports are made up these shortages may be found. It will take two weeks to discover the full extent of the robbery. Wheif it is known that Thursday’s shipments of stamps were served to 1,800 postmast¬ ers, some idea of the enormity of the task of ascertaining what offices liave received short packages, is bad. The stealing has been going on for thirty days, Mid seems to have been the re¬ sult of a plot William B. Smith, formerly of Plain field, N. J., and George W. Longsireet, who were employed in the stamp de¬ partment of the bureau of engraving and the and printing, are nnder arrest detectives are looking for William A. Beach, who was until recently hotel em¬ ployed in a billiard room in a in the city, and a man, whose name is believed to be SimmereliU. Both men left Washington Thursday for the pur¬ pose of selling stamps. Friday Smith made a proposition state’s to the police Mid authorities make full to oonfesaion turn if svidenoe a they would sign a paper Kegaid gusranteiag would him foil protection. ha implicate govonunent employes mush higher than himself. He was told that such protection aould not be granted. Smith then told the author¬ ities that he knew where Beaoh was, but would go to jail before ha would tell his whereabouts. The authorities are at a loss to know what tobaaka of Smith’s offer, as he has told ao saaay conflicting stories since his arrest. HILL’S OPPONENTS. - Marts The third ticket party of New York, sta meeting held Tuesday ticket: For of New York; srsv'l for U governor. UsM M. Buffalo ^f orjndge of the - . j Lockwood would a_ raff! wmww |ass»w: klVnMi JSSf EFFECTS OF FREE WOOL vwm WAGES ASX> OBKATEB FBOBFEKITY IK TEXTILE mDTXSTKIES. V qjieaper-Domestlc Foreign Wools Wools Dear/r-New Mills Sprlsg v lag Up Old Ones Enlarging — — Tough Times for the Calamity Howlers. > » These are tough times for the calam¬ ity howler. He was dead certain be¬ fore the passage of the Wilson bill not only that free wool • would knock the bottom out of prices and ruin the wcol and sheep industries, bnt that the great reductions of the duties on woolens would close up all our woolen mill*. “His position is now most pitia¬ ble. Facts refuse to submit to his pessimistic theories: moreover, they stand out so plainly that he cannot possibly deceive the voters until No¬ vember. While prices of foreign wools have fallen about forty per cent —just as the Democrats promised- ad¬ prices of domestic wools have vanced fully ten per cent, over Mc¬ Kinley prices of three months ago, and on top of this advance the Dry Goods Economist of September 29 says: market in New York for “The wool the past week has shown a more ae tive and general demand and fully sustained prices. Slight advances in prices have been paid for certain classes of domestic wools, notably the medium and quarter-bloods. Texas fall There wools is a good demand for and so mp sales of the earliest arrivals. A fairly large and diversified stock is being offered in the market and manufacturers are showing better in¬ terest than they have evinced for a year past. market has “The Boston wool ex¬ perienced a good demand this week and prices have been fairly well main¬ tained." . mistaken _ and misanthropic The ca¬ lamity ahrieker can get no more satis¬ faction when he begins to look for woolen mills closed up by the new tariff. Never before, in our history, have so many woolen mills been opened in such a short time. The Wool and Cotton Reporter, by far the greatest authority in America on textiles, devotes considerable space every week to a “Bulletin of New En¬ terprises." We show in the table be¬ low, compiled from the Wool and Cot¬ ton Reporter’s bulletins, the result of the first month’s experiment with free wool. In order, if possible, whole to induce table, protectionists to read the we have sorted out and placed at the head of the table every “calamity” item mentioned. RECORD OF TEXTILE HILLS. Chut-Meat too ct 18**—DurV»R week 20. eodinjt— Sep 2T. notices. Sept. «. Sept. 13, Sept. . Shutting down becauso o I low water. .. 3 l 8 Shutting down because of re¬ pairs, usual vaefttfons.ete, X 3 1 4 Shutting down ' because Of strike.. . - .. 1 Shutting down because of lack of work. 2 Unexplained. . 1 2 New mills.. 5 15 10 10 Enlargements and improve¬ 28 IS 14 13 ments........ Millsstartlngup 20 20 26 30 * Forty mentions of new mills, seven¬ ty-three of enlargements and improve¬ ments, ninety-six of mills starting np and only two (or possibly five) mills idle because of lack of orders is the record for the first month under free wool. Protectionist croakers oan find no such prosperous record with ao few shut-downs, for lack of orders, during any oonsacutive three weeks of the four years of MoKinleyiam. Free wool has'' caused the change from idlen to setivity. It is set¬ ting the old spindles to turning and bringing thousands of new onee into existence. of September The 29 Dry £k>ods Economist says: yarn Spinners all a first-rate condition. are very busy and unable to supply yarns ee q ukkly as users require them.” Under the heading “Woolen” it men tions four mills. eight mills starting up ,and shutting down. One of the mentions says that every mill in Hudson, N. Y., started up full headed and ou full time on Monday, September IT; mill starts up with sixteen new looms; another after being eloead “several years,” Mid two others after being dosed a year. it may be admitted that the new tariff * the eaaae of the one close¬ down ; bnt McKinley is wetooaM this to all the eapstal he oan get out of mill, for it “elosad down on eeeouat of the oi per cent, in c r eea e m wages. xne Wool and Cotton Reporter Bawitser of Bros., Septem¬ of ber 6 says that brd Springs, had “settled with tty-five per cent in WoratedNmT^ iu toe Gon il PhHadelphU, •» *d of the above ad m wi _ McKinley explanation woolen for part of a ' -j . kA ggjr $ P.'W* l* only ofie oi these cases—of workers at Fall River—were any con¬ siderable number of workers con¬ cerned, and the rise it, wages to a few thousand of these amounted to abont only' five per cent. " * Since the passage of the new bill several thousand of the textile workers in Fall River and New Bedford have gained substantial advances in their wages, and several others are still on strike with fair prospects of winning. In New York City about 10,000 work¬ ers on garments, who have been get¬ ting from about $3 to $6 per week by working twelve, fourteen or sixteen hours a day in “sweat shops,” are now getting $S or $10 a week for working ten hours a day in factories. Protec¬ tionists may claim that reduced duties had nothing to do with the case of these “sweaters.” Perhaps, but it is strange ^that the “sweaters” were al¬ ways unsuccessful during the McKin¬ ley times, but were successful as soon as lower duties began to bring about general prosperity. occurring in Wage advances are Wool many protected industries, The and Cotton Reporter of September 6 8avs that the weavers in the employ of Rawitzer Bros., of Stafford Springs, have secured a twenty-five per cent, advance in their wages. On Septem¬ ber 27 the Wool and Cotton Reporter says that the proprietor of the River¬ side Knitting Mills, at Cohoes, N. Y., had promised to increase the wages of his winders on October 1. He also told the striking carders that no in crease would be granted before Octo¬ ber 1. Other textile workers are now on strike for advances. Of course, some reductions are still occurring. The protected manufacturers have be come so accustomed to forming trusts and reducing wages that they expect to continue this sort of business in¬ definitely, Their expectations will probably miscarry. General prosper ity will put everybody to work, and laborers can then have some say as to what shall be their compensation. Protection Prosperity in Australia. Two articles in the Investors’ Re¬ view (London) for September present ditlons in Australia. It says that the farmers m Australia will soon be un able to pay interest on the money they have borrowed. The condition in of the ono 200,000 V ono W men ° r8e in - J Sydney 1 ? 7 thoU8an are out ? of employment and many are working only on short time and at very low wages “As many as 10,000 names have been registered at one time as applicants for employment at the Syd ney Government Labor Bureau, nearly all workingmen. Melbourne is in a ' rorf * e condition. The difficulty of the bulk Of the Australian people at present is to obtain the means of exist ence. The unemployed are often given free railway passage “just to break them up and get them distnb uted and out of sight. The country is greatly troubled to provide enough work and food to keep their own un employed from crime and starvation and to protest against the sending of more unempioyed to their districts This is the condition of affairs that began soon after protection became thoroughly established m all of the colonies about three years ago. And yet we are told by the Repub beaus of New^York State that “The Path of Pro tection is the Path of Prosperity. Of course Austraha might have had a de preasion if all her oolomes had re framed from high protection. It is certain, however, that ruin and starva¬ tion have followed m the wake of pro¬ tection in Australian colonies. An¬ other certainty, not in harmony with the Republican claim, is that the first colony to drop protection is now the only prosperous one. In 1891 New Zealand adopted free trade and direct taxation and soon became the most prosperous spot ou earth. Thousands of unemployed have emigrated from protected continental Australia to free trade New Zealand, to get ont of the path of protection prosperity. An¬ other event that may disturb the Re¬ publican theory is the recent decision of New South Wales and Victoria to return to free trade. Vietoria been the most pronounced protection¬ ist colony; but even she has become siok and tired of protection pros¬ Democratic Aehiev its. whioh Sorely shows it eoonomy is no insignifleanhjlist in expenditure, with a lightening of the taxes whioh the people pay for the support of their Government, and a much greater lightening of the taxes whioh they pay for the support of private industries; an improvement and purification of the pension system, which was ao rapidly degenerating into a National scandal; the wiping out of a law that waa fraught with to sound finance, and whose repeal opens the way for a proper settlement of that difficult issue, the obliteration of election laws which lay right the grain of our Federal system, and failed to produoe exasperation and bitter feel lag, aad to involve wasteful and irre¬ sponsible expenditure of public money, and a continued advance ia the of oer Civil Service from spoils. -Hon. — William L. WUeon, ia October North American Review. -to be ia to mu i d it i be but. rt • ig**^ae<eaMLfcl ' * Party Traditions and Tendencies The Democratic parfy, by principle and tendency, by the tradition of its" Ciders and its steady momentum, tends to economy, to lower taxes, to revenue tariffs, immedia.te responsi¬ bility Fo the people, and no Federal interference with local rule. These are the very essentials of free and pure government. If the people want these things—and... sorely they need them more than at any other time in their history—that party, and that party alone, is the instrument they must use to secure them. Upon other great issues also the scale turns in its " favor. It is as trustworthy as its op¬ ponents on the money question, while its ancient financial traditions are sounder than those of any great and long-lived party we have ever had. And what is truly a crowning merit: it is, and ever has been, a National party, The Republican partf, by its tradi¬ tions and tendencies, the teachings of its leaders, past an J present, and its whole history, has a steady momen¬ tum towards sectionalism, high gov¬ ernment, interference with local rale and local control of elections, extrava¬ gant expenditures, heavy taxes, boun¬ ties, subsidies, and exorbitant pro tection. “Ideas of governmental meddling and centralization denomi¬ nate it; class interests hold it firmly to evil courses. ” These things are in¬ compatible with free and pure govern¬ ment. The American people need none of these things; only a small mi¬ nority really desires. No party can be expected to reform abuses and evils which itself has pro¬ duced, if in their maintenance rests their only hopfeaf continued p ower. The streams of Republicanism is poisoned from its source, and cannot wash away the pollution which it brings in its own waters. It is vain for the people to expect it to cleanse the Government, When it cannot cleanse itself, or hope for any “power divine” to henceforth wash the River Rhine.—Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, in Oc¬ tober North American Review. Wilson Asks a Serious Question. .SffSltSiftiK BugZ andother proteotive £ ^dules of the new ar jg- ’siniste/inffuence and Q , the un-Democratic or even which molded them, w« may yet ask with great con fidence wh ' £ Democrat B honld, for the80 reMO isll to / ptmi8b or ^au don Ms £ ' in th fftll election, What altg either * to the oun re c try J or to his f party, ^ can he expect from tn rni over he xt Congress to the Eepublican? £ Not one of the things I hft enumerated would they hare eyen attempted £ to do, with the possi bJe t n of the repeft i of t he which they themselves put upon U8 in i 890 . Against every otlie t reform, whether accomplished in fnU or im f fect mefl8are , they hftye stnbborn fo ht . With Republican * Congress there could haye b n ao aotion the Fed . eral election j DO repeal to tho McKinl ' bill not one cent ] eS6eD i n g of publi ^ taxe8 or of the tribntc paid ^ £ 1@ to the s Eduction Trugt and mo 1 H no in ej £ enditarea and no abo i it ion of use . Je office8 . With a Bepub 4 i ica a ad ministration there wool have been n0 purification of the pension system advaDCement Civil Servica Wm . L WilsoD> in October North American Review- Cheap Lumber, A Republican calamityite news¬ paper publishes as disastrous news a statement to the effect that millions of feet of Canadian lumber are com¬ ing into port at Saginaw. It is a good thing. Thousands of men building houses, termers building fences, and other classes of consumers can pro cure cheap lumber, Chcaper bnifaing materials will make cheaper rents for the poor. The tunal allegation of ent wages at the lumber camps does not aooompany the announcement ot cheaper lumber, and the fact is that wages are not reduced. Cheap Canada lumber will hurt nobody but the pine log barons and monopolists who have* bought up all the pine lands in Wis¬ consin, Michigan and Minnesota. It is charged that Senator Vilas is a large owner of pine lands, bnt he voted for free lumber, in the interest of consumers. Sawyer always voted for greater lumber tariff, to make lumber higher-for builders, termers, furniture makers and other classes of consumers.—Chicago Herald. For McKinley to Explain. Mr. McKinley is talking a great deal these days, but be is not trying to explain why wool that kept telling under a McKinley tax keeps rising under free tirade.—New York World, HAD FORTY PA86K& Debs’ First Lieutenant, Mr. Howard, • Traveled Like a Lord. A Chicago dispatch says: George W. Howard, vice president of the American Railway Union, and widely known as the first lieutenant ot Doha in the great strike last J41y, recently lost a pocketbook containing forty annual paaaea, and he advertised for them. 'The were over all l ea ding railroads, and among them n Pullman pass. The passes i turned. subsequently found aad safely re¬ Tbo of Howard’s loss to gj apf,