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The Blair educational bill having been reached, Air. Blair demanded its reading in full, and the secretary proceed ed to read it. After some discussion it was arranged, by unanimous consent, that the bill be postponed till Monday week, and be then “unfinished business. ” By a strict party vote, the house elec tions committee on Wednesday decided to report in favor of unseating Jackson, democratic representative from West Vir ginia, declaring Smith, republican con testant, entitled to a seat. This is first of !lie seventeen contested election eases which the committee lias disposed of, and it was the first one upon which argument was heard. The senate, in secret session Wednesday, resolved to make public the Sar. oa 1 treaty negotiated in Berlin last spring, which has already been published, and the pro tocols, showing the result of each day’s meeting of the commissioners. In trans mitting the treaty to the senate on Janu ary (it 11, the president says: “I am pleased to find in this geneal act an hon orable, just and equal settlement of the questions which have arisen during the past few years between the three powers having treaty relations with anti rights in in the Samoan islands.” Judge Stewart’s federal prison bill was under discussion nearly all of Wednesday in the house. Amendment after amend ment was, however, offered and the bill was not voted upon. Judge Stewart made the opening speech. He said five presidents and two attorney generals had recommended such prisons. He stated the cost of keeping prisoners under the present system to be $400,000 annualy, w hich is the interest on $10,000,000 at four per cent. That his bill only required an outlay of $1,000,000, and that the prisoners in would be self-supporting. The bill will, all probability, pass. Then the president and attorney general, or sec retary of the interior, will have to decide upon the locations. St, Louis, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, and other cities south of the thirty-ninth de gree will contest for the Southern one. The ways and means committee has fi nally begun the preparation of a tariff bill working upon the fines of the senate bill of the last congress. The lumber and wood sections of that bill were adopted entire with the exception of the clause relating to rattan and chair canes, which had been attacked by a number of persons before the committee, and has consequently tion. been held up for future ac The schedule senate bill, covering books and paper, was also adopted. This action is preliminary and all the sched ules adopted will be subject to revision w hen the bill is completed. Air. Hitt, of Illinois, offered a resolu tion increasing the membership of the world’s fair committee from nine to thir teen. and providing that the committee shall have jurisdiction over all questions relating to the fair except that as to lo cation. The location is to be determined as follows: On one day the representa tives of competing cities shall present their claims, and on the following day the members shall vote their choice of lo cation. Referred to the committee on rules. journal Immediately after the reading of the on Saturday, the house went into committee of the whole, on the customs administrative bill. Air. ArcKinley of fered the following as an additional sec tion: Any merchandise deposited in any public or private bonded warehouse may be withdrawn for consumption within three years from the date of the original importation on the payment of duties and charges law to which it might be subject by at the time of such withdrawal; ’pro vided, that nothing herein shall effect 01 impair existing provisions of the law in regard explosive to articles; the disposal of perishable 01 and provided further, that this section shall not apply to any article which has been exported from the United States and re-importeu. NOTES. 'The comptroller of currency has au thorized the first national bank of Besse mer, Ala., to begin business with a capi tal of $30,000. The senate committee on naval affair held a meeting Friday, at which, after considerable discussion, the committee decided upon the policy which will gov ern it during this congress in the work of building up the navy. This is, in brief, that great linc-of-battle ships like the English Ben Bow should be constructed at once. Majority and minority reports will be submitted to the senate. Yulenta, Brazilian minister at Wash ington, on Friday, received the following cablegram from Huy Barbosa, Brazilian minister of finance, dated Rio Janeiro, January 24th: “Capital fora great na tional banking institution, to be known as the national bank of the United States of Brazil, was subseribpd to-day within four hours. The capital is $100,000,000.” \ alenta regards this as a crucial test of the confidence of the people in the stabil ity and permanency of the new republic. A delegation of colored men from Vir ginia, were before the house committee on the election of president and vice-presi dent Saturday, to talk about the opera tions of election laws in Virginia. They formed a committee colored appointed held by a con vention of people in Rich mond. December 17th last, to present this matter to congress. The address con tained some statistics concerning said alleged election frauds and outrages to have been perpetrated in and the state of Virginia in the last election, earnestly appeals to the lawmakers of the nation to change the existing national election law that it shall be no longer in the power of any registrar or other election officer to disfranchise arbitrarily any voter to whom Is given tne right oi bailor by tee consti tution of this country, and to remedy the wrongs by reducing and evils, which they accorded complain oi in the house representation in of representatives to southern that ex tent which suffrage in the •states, and especially in Virginia, is prac tically denied and suppressed. CURRENT -NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CUIJ.KD FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. There has been a great storm of wind and rain in southern England. The hostility of the German press to the Samoan treaty is still outspoken. Sixteen miners’ families were evicted at Walston and Adrian Pa., Friday. Influenza has been so prevalent among members of the Quebec legislature that ne serious work has been done in the house so far this season. Dispatches of Friday say: A terrific storm is raging all over Central Austra lia. There has been a heavy snow fall in Bohemia. The four story brick block. Nos. G5 tc 101, Bristol street, Boston, Mass., owned by the heirs of William F. Paul, was gutted by tire early Thursday morning. Loss is estimated at $100,000. The publication of the Samoan treaty in Berlin lias led to its denunciation by the German press of both parties. Dis patches received at Washington say that radical and conservative papers alike call it a “German retreat.” The little town of Utica, 111., number ing 2.000 people, which was so nearly wiped visited out by tire last summer, was again by a terrible conflagration Tuesday morning. Nearly all of the business part of the town was completely wiped out. At a Portoguese meeting, held at Rio Janiero, Brazil, on Tuesday, it was re solved to suspend business with the Eng lish people, and to send a telegram to Lisbon, stating that members of the col ony there are prepared to make any sac rifice for their native country. The non-partisan Woman's Christian Temperance union at Cleveland, O., on Thursday affected organization and adopted ders. the name of the National Crusa Nils. Allen G. Phinney, of Ohio, was elected president, and Mrs. Walker, of Minnesota, vice-president. H. M. Jackson, former paying teller ol the sub-treasury at New York, who ran away with $ll>,000, and who pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement a few days ago, was on Thursday sentenced to six years' imprisonment in Erie county the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $10,000. amount he embezzled. At a meeting of the dealers in Indis rubber connected with the London chain her of commerce, on Tuesday, it was re solved to memorialize the marquis of Sal isbury against the monopoly established by the Para government and the export duty it has imposed. It has transpired that sixty firms have already petitioned the government on this subject. i Adam Forepaugh, the veteran circus manager, died Thursday night at Phila delphia, Pa., at the age of sixty-eight. Mr. Forepaugh many years ago embarked in the circus business, in which he was very successful, getting together the most extensive circus and menagerie, with which lie amassed a fortune which is esti mated at more than a million dollars. News comes from Flathead lake in Montana, that a band of thirteen Indians attempted to cross the lake near what is known as Wild Horse island, on Sunday afternoon, where the channel is narrow, and apparently the ice is of sufficient thickness to sustain the weight of a hu man being. Five of them broke through the ice and, with their ponies, were drowned. B. 1*. Hutchinson, known as “Old Hutch," board of trade speculator, <>t Chicago, has been victimized by his set tling clerk, acting in collusion with a clerk of W. P. Dickinson A Co., another firm, whose office is on the same floor with Hutchinson. Humor places the amount variously Dickinson from $23,000 to $40,000. was •> Iso robbed by his clerk, placed at $7.<H Both clerks have gone to ('anuda. HERR MOST IN CUSTODY. THE WELL-KNOWN ANARCHIST AGAIN IN THE H ANDS OF THE POLICE. A New York dispatch says: Herr John Most, anarchist, whose conviction and sentence to one year in the penitentiary was affirmed Friday by the general term of the supreme court was arrested on Saturday by detectives from the central office. He was captured as he was leav ing the house of Mrs. Ida Hoffman, who was on his bond, pending the decision of the general term. Most was convicted of using while language intending to incite a riot, making a speech at a meeting of the anarchists held in November, 1887. to denounce the hanging of the Chicago an archists. His counsel will ask that he be admitted to bail pending the appeal. SOUTHERN AGUES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA SON’S AND DIXON’S LINF,. A fire in Nashville, Tenn.. Thursday night, caused a loss in round figures of $120,730. The trial of Mrs. Cota Alay Scales Mor ris began at Wentworth, N. C., Friday. Mrs. Morris is charged with having caused the death of her husband by chlo roform. August IS), 1889. The libel suit over the grave of Alary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericks burg, Va., happily terminated by the de fendants in the suit making a gift of tht property the monument association. It is reported that gold has been found in large and paying quantities on the larm of Air. Burrell Higginbotham, near Chulatinee, Cleburne county, Ala., and that lie has been offered in cash, $30,000 for his farm.” The Alississippi house of representetives in session at Jackson, spent two hours Thursday vention discussing a bill calling a COU to make a new constitution. The race problem is the bone of conten tion. The executive committee of the Charles ton, S. C., chamber of commerce on Sat urday adopted resolutions indorsing the t onnage bounty bill, now before congress, to encourage the building of American ships. Thirteen distilleries of T. J. AIcGibben, it Louisville, Ky., who was buried on Saturday, have shut down. AIcGibben appointed no administrator, and there was nobody to take charge. About 300 men were thrown out of work. The Atlantic and Danville railroad, from Norfolk to Danville, Va., was form ally opened Thursday by special excur sions from points along the line to Dan ville. The road is 207 miles long, and gives Danville a direct route to the sea board. The principal labor agent at work in North Carolina is quoted as saying that since September he has removed from North Carolina 19,900 negroes, and toys that 35,000 is a reasonable estimate of the number who have left North Carolina in the past thirteen months. The committee appointed by the Nash ville, Tenn, Commercial club, called on Governor Taylor Friday, and urged that in ease he called ari extra session, to in clude in the call the subject of double taxation. Governor Taylor accorded the committee a pal ient hearing, and prom ised that in ease lie decided to call an ex tra session he would include the subject. A dispatch from Raleigh, X. C., says: Last week E. C. Day, of Pennsylvania, was married at Henderson, N. C., to a lady from Alississippi, who had advertised for a husband, the two having agreed to meet ship, at and Raleigh. It was a brief court the honeymoon lias come to a startling end. Day went over to Oxford, and has been arrested there on a charge of forgery committed in Clarksville, Va. The legislature of South Carolina has enacted a law that hereafter no allowance shall be made for breakage or draft on cotton, and whenever it is agreed be tween buyer and seller to deduct the tare on cotton bales, it shall be sixteen pounds on bales covered with seven yards of standard cotton bagging and six ties, and twenty-four pounds on bales covered with seven yards standard jute bagging and six iron ties. li. M. Long, a Guyandotte county, Ivy., constable, was murdered and his wife desperately wounded Monday night by a baud of ruffians who broke into their house. Friends of the murdered man believe that a gang of desperadoes,against whom he had warrants for “moonshin ing,” committed the deed. Others be lieve that it is merely a continuation of the Hat field-McCoy fued, as the victim was related to the former family. Airs. Long's wounds are believed to be mortal. A SOCIALIST MEETING. RESOLUTIONS PASSED DECLARING THEIR POLICY—ANTAGONIZING HERR MOST. At a meeting of socialists in Waverly hall, Chicago, on Sunday, resolutions were adopted, calling attention to the declaration of the socialist leader, Herr Bebel, in the German reichstag, on Sat urday. The statement of Bebel was that the disappearance of anarchism from Germany was due to the efforts of the so cialists, and the government had inter ested itself in efforts to support an an archist movement for the purpose of with confounding its action and declarations socialism, and thus discrediting the latter, and that Herr Alost’s Friehert was the product of the secret police. The resolutions concluded as follows: “AA «• hereby emphasize the necessity of socialists in the United States giving heed to this declaration of the poiicy and prin ciples of German socialism; that in this country dynamite agitation has no justification whatever, and its ad vocates—the Alosts and the Del/.ims— should be recognized and treated as agents of despotism, and not as reformers, and mtagonism between socialism and their reactionary fined and agitation be kept as well de aggressive as in Germany.” The newiy tested textile plant knows as kanalf, brought from the shores of the Caspian, has been further experimented with, and is found to be soft, elastic, tough and silky, and can be bleached chemically without losing these prop erties, its resistance being also far greater than that of hemp, while its specific weight is lancli less. - ___ trade review. COLDER WEATHER MAKES THE COND OF BUSINESS MORE FAV. N RAELE. R. G. Dunn – Co.’s review of tr:aj for the week ending Jan. r . Business has decidedly 25th, a more favorai,v appearance. Colder w eather has brou.% a general increase of activity and T,! provement in collections. The heavy .jj.' bursement by the treasury for bonds* have brought easier money markets, and sev oral troublesome labor controversies havi; been adjusted. The prevailing sick tie though seriously interrupting > industry in trade am} 1* many quarters, is distinct y abating at the east. The association^ official ment of the iron and steel that particularly gratifying, because it shows contrary to the general impression unsold socks in the hands of makers, and the warrant company did not increa^ during 1889. but actually decreased Pi. 300 tons. The production was 7,004,.305 tons against 0,489,738 in the previous year. sumption . Adding imports the total con probably of pig iron in this country will prove to have been about 7, 750,000 tons against 0,088,744 in 188s. A gain of more than a million tons in the year over the largest consumption ever advancing previously known, fairly explains the precedented prices in the face of the un production. TH E WOOLEN BUSINESS. has been little improved for all grades by the colder weather and fairly active for cheaper eassimers and worsted, with some gain in heavier woolens. Cotton goods move fairly at firm prices, but the rise in material begins to cause some dis turbance. Speculation in cotton has marked up the price half a cent with sales for the week of 1,100,000 bales and receipts for the week slightly fall behind, while ex ports in slightly exceed last year’s. Except unhealthy cotton the speculative markets show no activity, though money here lias been decidedly easier. The decrease of $4,000,000 in cash held by the treas urv, and the rate for money on call has declined to 3^ per cent. Foreign ex change increasing is also a shade lower at 4.80, and England gold reserves at the banks of dence. and France give more confi In the foreign trade, some im provement is observed in exports at New York, which fall only six per cent, below last year’s for January thus far, while the decrease in imports is seventeen per cent. But the exports of wheat have been de cidedly small since the recent rise, and flour shipments are light, while even corn exports appear to fall behind those of last year. Reports from other cities are gen erally more satisfactory for the .week, Alost reports note an improvement in weather and in trade. Business failures occurring throughout the country in the last week, number for the United States, 295; Canada, 43; total, 338; against 330 last week. CONVENTION OF MINERS. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS. The United Mine "Workers’ convention held its session Friday and Saturday, at Columbus, Ohio. The final report of the committee on constitution was made, and the constitution adopted as a whole. The revisions of the articles are: Coal fields are to be divided into divisions, or dis tricts, and a state union may be organized when more than one division exists. The following officers were elected: Presi dent. John B. Rae, Pennsylvania; vice President, * W. H. Turner, Ohio; secre tary, treasurer, Robert AVithorn, Ohio; auditor, J. H. Kennedy, Indiana! execu tive board—Patrick McBride, Pennsylva nia; William Scolfe, Illinois; R. F. War ren. colored, Ohio; John Kane, Indiana: AV. C. AVebb, Kentucky. Resolutions were immediate reported and adopted favoring the enactment for the abolition of the company store system; that the safety of the miner is of highest importance, and that the most improved machinery should be used for the protection of life, therefore indorsing the Shaw machine, recommending the its adoption in all mines of country. SEABOARD FARMERS ORGANIZE AN ALLIANCE AND ELECT A FULL QUOTA OF OFFICERS. The Seaboard Farmers’ Alliance wa organized at Charleston, S. C., Saturday. The following officers were installed: President, W. G. Henson; vicc-presi dent, John S. Horbeek; secretary, E. L. Roche; treasurer, S. C. Henson; lecturer, E. L. Rivers. assistant lecturer; H. B. Lee, doorkeeper, J. II. Ligon; assistant doorkeeper, T. G. Hamlin; sergeant-at-arms, Sandy Bee; business agent, E. T. Logare. The farm ers on its roll are those <>n the sea islands and on what is known as the neck. Tli«y raise sea island cotton and truck. A BUILDINU PALLS CRUSHING TO DEATH THREE MEN—CRIMI NAL CARELESSNESS. The north wall of the machine shop* iri the yard of the Long Island railroad depot, loud in Long Island City, fell burying with n crash Tuesday morning, three men under several tons of brick. The men were dead when taken out, every none in their bodies having been broken. The building had been sold for removal. The accident was due to carelessnos in undermining the building, and the have con tractor for removal and his foreman been arrested on the coroner’s verdict, charging them with manslaughter. A monument to Leopold Arends, the in ventor of the system of shorthand known by his name, has just been unveiled in Berlin. The ceremony was attended by representa tives of “the national stenography” from all parts of Germany.
