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NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE. .
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
The severe weather in England is caus¬
ing classes deep distress among the ] oorer
of people.
The failure of E. Ilorubosthe, broker,
was announced on the Stock Exchange,
at New York, Monday.
The long striky in the shoe manufac¬
tories at Rochester has ended. The em¬
ployees are*ret timing to work.
A gang of five safe blowers wasemukt
by the police the of'C'liicigo Saturday night.
One of gang is an oldqirofessiotiul.
The advisory board of railroad presi¬
dents has decided upon an agreement for
the association, and have elected officers.
Tbe picture “The Angelus,” that has
been on exhibition iu this country for
somo lime, was shipped to Havre Satur¬
day morning.
Judge Pratt, in New York, va¬
cated the order appointing a receiver
for the sugar trust Saturday, and directs
that the company be handed over to the
reorganization eommitte *.
A cablegram of Monday from Paris,
says: Though only 141,000,000 francs
were required by the terms of the new
loan, the enormous sum of 2,340,000,000
francs was deposited by subscriptions.
A London dispatch of Monday says:
Baron Hirsh is negotiating for an exten¬
sive Jewish settlement iu Palestine for the
benefit of several’ thousand Jews now
being driven by persecution from Russia.
William C. Jillson. owner and busi¬
ness manager of the Hope River Warp
Company, at Wilbmantic Conn., lu
closed the mill. Au assignment is pre¬
dicted iu a fe w days with heavy liabil¬
ity s.
B. A J. dispatch M. McCarrell, from Clearfield, A. O. Smith Pa and , savf: W.
E. Wallace, a-signees of W. A. Wallace,
filed their bond .Saturday morning.
ft. Judge Furst, of Centre count-*, approved
Th6 bond b for $1,OfO.bOO, J. W.
Wrigley, assignee of Judge Kribbs, Wal
tne sum of $120,000. *It was ^groved
by Judge Fuisf.
j A cablegram from Cork, says: The
state of destitution into which the poor
people of ejajne portions of Ireland are
plunged, can bo judged by the I act that
Saturday the representatives district, of over waited 100
families living iu Cloyne
upon the board of guardians and ear¬
nestly begged fur assistance. They
stated that for some time past they bad
been starving and living almost entirely
upon turnips.
The bureau of American republics is
informed that since the passage of the
McKinley bill, which places a heavy duty
bn silver-bearing lead ores, formerly
brought from Mexico to the United States
for reduction, a company lias been estab¬
lished for the erection of large smelting
works at San Luis Potosi, with u capital
of $4,000,000. The capital is mostly furn¬
ished by a New York syndicate, and the
company is organized under the laws of
' New Jersey.
The steamer State of Nevada, of the
State line, which arrived in New York on
Thursday, brought to port the officers
and crew i f the Brilish sb-amcr Pollux.
The State of Nevada fell iu with the
Pollux on the 29tti of December, in lati¬
tude 54.14, longitude 21.15, ina and helpless
condition, and took her officers crew
aboard at the request of Captain Whitson,
of the Pollux. The Pollux was in a
sinking condition, her rudder gone, and
she was leaking so badly that it was only
a question of a few hours before she
would go down.
A Berlin dispatch of Sunday says:
Reports received from German hospitals
are favorable to the Koch remedy. Dr.
Koenigshafcr,»of lymph with Stuttgart, in the has applied
the success treatment
of diseases of the eyelids and cornea.
Professor Z emsecn. of Munich, declares
that by the- use of the lymph he has ef¬
fected the complete cure of three and patients
in the eiirly stage of phthisis, thirty
patients suffering from undergoing phthisis in Rome
hospitals, who are the Koch
treatment, are reported to be progressing
favorably.
MISSISSIPPI'S MONEY.
Report of Her State Treasurer
—A Splendid Showing.
State Treasurer Evans’statement of the
condition of the treasury on January 1-t,
made pursuant to section 137 of the new
constitution, shows that the present
treasurer received of ex-Treastuer Hem¬
ingway $270,835.90; received from all
soutccs since, $1,241,020 52; disbursed,
$1,195,271.27; balance on hand, $323,-
185.25. Governor Stone verified the
statement by counting the money. and the No
bonds were sold last ^ ear, re¬
ceipts, with the exception of a short loan
of $25,00o, are made of the ordinary
revenues of the state.
__
The wealth of colored people m tno
South is estimated at $263,000,000.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Proceedings of the Second Ses¬
sion of the 51st Congress.
In the house Thursday the house foreign
affairs committee instruc ed the chairman,
Representative Hilt, of Illinois, to report
the diplomatic and consular appropria¬
tion bill. The'bill carries an aggregate
wxsm MSaSfi
been paid in aggregate fe. s, were made salaried
offices. T, e fees of these six
teen consulates during the past year were
141,870, and the salaries provided the debate for
aggregate $04,000. Owing to
upon the subsidy bill, Mr. Iithian of
Illinois, opposed the measure, and
veigbed against the system of subsidies,
He then proceeded to argue in favor of
free ship policy and the policy of abolish
ing restrictive navigation laws, as the
best means of restoring the Amencan
flag to its proper place upon the sea.
Lng and had adopted that policy and the
result was that she now commanded
fifty-two .per cent of the tonnage
of the world Mr. U heeler of Michigan,
fP n On % Friday ? ly the in , house ° f went °r £ into Tl: com
mittee of the »hole, Mr. Allen, of Michi
gan, in the chair, on the private calendar,
The first t ill on the calendar was one re
ferring to the court of claims, the claim
of the Citizen’s t ank of Louisiana, grow
ing out of Hie seizure and covering into
the United states treasury of certain
moneys of the I auk by General B. F.
Butler. The amount involved is $215,000.
The measure gave rise to quite a long dis
cussion, it being advocated by Messrs.
Blanchard and Boatner, ol Louisina, . and
opposed by Messrs. I homas, of Wisconsin,
and Grosvenor. of Ohio. 1 he hour of 5
o’clock having arrived, the bill went over,
the eommitte rose, and the house took a
recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session
to be for the consideration of private
pension bin-.
The vice-president Saturday, laid before the sen
ate on the protest of twenty
three members of the Idaho legislature
against allowing Mr. Du 1 ois to take his
seat. Referred to the committee on privi
leges ai d elections. Mr. Sherman, from
tke committee on foreign relations, re
ported a bill to amend the act of Febma
ry 1S8.Q, Company incorporating (authorizing the the Nicaragua is-ue of
Canid
bonds guarant-ea By tbe aud l/nited with the states)
placed On the calendar ac
copi panving report oid red printed. The
senate then r sumed tonsi l oration of the
finance bill (or of m; anti-c infraction
bill, as Mr. Sherman termed it iu his
motion) and Mr. Morgan continued his
sp'-ech begun by him Friday, in support
of the free coinage amendment. Mr.
Morgan yielded the floor, temporarily, and
Mr. Dawes presenied the conference re
port on the bill to carry out. in part, the
provisions of the act to divide the Sioux
Indian reservation and, and in l’esponse
to explanation. a question by Mr. Edmunds, made an
He said that the commis
sion of which Gen. Crook was the heart,
promised the Sioux Indians, in the course
of negotiation, to use its influence at
Wnshingtsn for the redress of certain
grievances. The commission subsequent
ly met forty representative Sioux Indians
from tbe reservation where the present
outbreak occurred, to see to it that those
assur nces were carried out. The Indian
conuni tees of both houses were also pres
ent, and all being together, the bill had
been prepared to carry Iudiahs out understood exactly the
assurances as the
them. The co fercnce report was agreed
to, and Mr. Morgan resumed his speech,
During »n intermission the pension ap
propriation bill and the bill nppropriat
ing $800,000 for a public reported building nt
Providence, R. I., were and
placed cqncludcd ou the calendar. and Mr. the bill Morgan
at 4 o’clock, was
laid aside and a message from the prisi
dent was read, forwarding a memorial of
the legislative assembly of Oklahoma for
the relief of destitute people of that teri
tory. Referred to the cominitte on ap
propriations. The senate adjourned.
The house drifted along in a careless
fashion, Monday and only two or three
unimportant appropriation bill$ were
acted on.
of c Senator . Q.«y r. bill Monday got . in . , hw . much , talked . „ ,
election which proved to
be a twin to the Hoar lodge bill. It au
tbonzes the president to use troops to in
sure fair elections when in his judgment
troops may be necessary. The house by
nhn-'prf 108 to
charged consideration the committee . on rules from
fur her ol the Dockery res
olution, asking lor an investigation
the alleged and silver pool by which
bankers members scooped a million.
A heated debate preceded the vote.
ls otes.
The legisl dive appropriation bill
laid before the house Saturday and placed
on the calendar. The army appropriation
bill was then taken up in committee of
the whole.
The secretary of state is in corr spond
ence with tbe Spanish minister in regard
to the alleged outrages perpetrated ou
the American missionaries in the Carolina
islands.
Senator Stanford, *n Friday, intro¬
duced a bill providing for an extension of
the executive mansion in accordance with
the plans suggested by Mrs. Harrison, at
a cost not to exceed $950,000.
The secretary of the treasury laid be¬
fore the house Saturday morning a rec-
$87,000 ouunendution for an appropriation ot
to put electric wires in certain
public buildings now being aud constructed.
Che building at Atlanta Augusta,
'
U;l - ll,ul,s -' d >» thc l ist *
The * secretary ’ of war has appoints i
Gen. Charles W. Field to the place made
vacant in the war records office by the
lecent death of Gen. Catlmus Al, Wil
cox. Geu. Field is a graduate of West
Point, aud was a dim in pushed major
general under Robert K. Lee in the army
of Northern Virginia throughout the war.
The following postmasters were ap¬
pointed for Georgia by the president
"Wednesday: J. C. McCall, Buffington, Bingen, De
eatur county; M. C. Bowdre,
009 -.unng the iceeiit fimi-.ciul flurry by
die heavy purchase of 4 per cent bonds,
has been steadily increasing since the lsi
Instant, by reason of the large cxcesi of
now reached “PJJ? ncauy 1 $18,000,000. ZToOi) 000 ^a In
speaking of this apromment .
increase, a
treasury official said Friday, that the do
part meat was once more in a position
where it coud again go mObm**
and buy 4 percent, bonds if there was
any urgent necessity lor so doing.
ihe house-committee on appropriations,
Friday, completed consideration of the
legislative executive and judical appro
prmtion bills for the next faseal year. I lie
bill carries with it a total appropriation
° $2 1’ 55!) ’. 346 - b0,,, & *H 8 \ 138 ess
than the estimate, and $208 o 411 less than
tile nppr< printim for the cum specifically nt year,
The whole number of salaries
provided for in the bill is 10,597, Ring
201 le s than the number estimated for
atu [ fifty-nine less than is provided fin¬
i n the act for the current y. ar. Ten
clerks to the civil service commission,
w ith salaries aggregating $15,800, are
provided for, this reiee to take aggregating the place
of ten clerks with salaries
$l4,e00, detailed to the commission from
the revera! executive departments. Tin’s
was strongly recommended by
the civil service commission,
FEARFUL WEATHER
Which Being . Experienced . m .
is 1
European States,
a London cablegram of Friday says:
It is now the'seventk week of the preva
Jenee of frost throughout the United
Kingdom, with ao signs of abatement
oAhe severity of the weather. For du
ration of the frost period this is and the in
greatest winter of the century,
point of severity, the winters of 1818
; ,nd 1814 alone exceeded it. The Thames
below Richmond rsmains partially frozen
and impeding is covered with ice floes, which are
navigation. Numerous deaths
have resulted from the extreme cold,
several of them at the very gates of. the
workhouses, where groups of poor peo
pj e wero waiting for shelter,
Midland newspapers declare thatthous
ands of persons in that region are in a
condition of semi-starvation, many labor
ers being compulsorily idle without fires
or food. Them yors of cities, with the
aid of local boards, are directing an or
ganized distribution of bread and coal,
and arc starting relife kitchens; still they
fail to reach most of the cases of distress,
The coasts of Belgium, Holland and
north Germany arc blocked with ice. In
Scheldt river, navigation is nearly north at a
standstill on account of ice. At the
German port of Cuxlmven, twenty-nine
steamships are ice bound,
Antwerp 10,000 workmen have
been thrown out of employment, owing
i 0 unusually severe weather. The misery
caused among the poorer classes in conse
q Ue nee is widespread and intense. The
use of dynamite is about to be tried to
bre ak the ice at Copenhagen, where
8CV cral steamships lie ice-bound,
At Berlin the temperature is at sixteen
degrees Fahrenheit. In the northern
part of Italy snow began to fall *W-ednos¬
j a y au ,i did not cease till Friday. The
inhabitants of that region are entirely suffering
acutely, such weather being is feared un
known to them, and it that
numbers of people hAvc perished In the
gtorm.
Dispatches from Vienna say that com
munication with points south of that eity
j s frre at y impeded, and on all railways
centering thij«j the movement of trains
is paitially suspended,
SNOW IN SPAIN AND FRANCE.
A telegram from Madrid reports heavy
now-fails in Spain aud says that cointnu
nicatio „ wil k all provinces oi Spain is
j oi . u p
j t a i g0 reports the prevalence Valencia, cf where in
{ J { cold weather in
£ have been swept by the
yUum _ e tailins hca accompuniei vy losses. by hail
A violent storm it
d su ’ aud extending long distance
in the lan d IS report c<l from Algiers, "the
, P J p 0r t j 8 fcoupled J with tiio assurance that
, . , ik 8Uch severity of weather
"
k in that ro ion before.
Advices from Par is say that the Seine
is blocked with ice near Rouen and that
the Saone is frozen above Lyons. r l de¬
grams lr<-m Arras and Nimes sav that
much mfferjng is being caused at these
places by the intensely cold weather, and
that a number of persons have been
found frozen to death.
Ttre total annual income of the gam¬
ing tables of .Monte Carlo is about 20,000
0 0 francs, A* or in the neighborhood table shows of $L
000,900; roulette an
average daily profit of from $1,000 to
$1,250, and occasionally, when a reckless
player has been putting down the maxi
mum stakes, the fable's winnings will
amount to $15,000. Eight of these
tallies were in action at Monte Carlo
throughout the busiest part of -last sea
firm
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS O'F THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Hens of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
Tin-: demands at ocaua.
Ou arc uut of th* continued and tier
sistent misrepresentations by the press in
regard to the action of 'he recent na
Sect ionVwl' d.'-mmll the abolition of
, fc p
Uvcral StS, r 8
which sub
'curies shall loan mon.-y to the people of
ou approved V 1 .,J ^ sccmtitv i t a l 0 w rate in
ter , s t (> j vceed two per cent per
jj, rrovi l>d That real estate non
^^ f products ill-ill be con
,|J «d that the
circu , uU incdium lie ‘inc. cased to at
least $.70 / per capita, .,‘ keeping the volume
, Vor j U) h(; (k uuuL
this the following substitute was
adopted, to which Wade, of Tennessee,
!l;t d ius name withdrawn from this por
tion of the report: ,Lnd
1(l . We d the abolition of na
tional banks
b. We demand that the government
shall establish sub-treasuries*or Deposito¬
ries in 'the several States, which shall
loan money direct to the people at a low
rate of interest, not to exceed two per
cent per annum, on non-perishable Jarm with . ,
products, , mm , a , iso upon real , estate, of
proper limit .fcioiis upon the quantity
land and amount ol money.
^ demand that the amount _ ihe
«• « oi
circulating medium be speedily increased
to not hss than $54 jier capita. proposi¬
'fhe vote by States on the first
tion was as follows:
Alabama............... . 4
Arkansas Alliance...... 2
Arkansas Union........ 2
Indian Territory........ 2
Virginia.............. 4
West Virginia.......... 2
New York ........... *-»
Kansas................ X
Florida................ SC
North Dakota..."...... to
South Dakota.......... IS
Kentucky..............
Pennsylvania, not voting.
Michigan.............. w
Louisiana............
Mississippi............. 1
Indiana ..., ...........
:
-
to
Georgia.........*..... *1
Carolina......... rfk.
Carolina........ rfk
;... If*
Colorado, not voting.
Ti nnessee ............ h o
Many land.............. ts
California.............. t:
L, L. Polk, President ... h
B II. Cloner, Viee-Pres, m
J. H. Turner, Secretary.... 1
C. W. Maeune, Chr. Ex.... 1
Jones, Judiciary Coin....... Absent.
A. Ward.11................ 1
Tennessee, iu voting 1 aye and 8 no,
explained that they would have voted
t aye ou the section as it came from the
committee before it was amended.
This would have made but seven votes
atreins:. that portion of the report which
contained the subtreasury clause, The
balance of the demands were adopted
unanimously, "we as demand follows: that Congress,
2. That
shall pass such laws as shall effectuMly
prevent the dealing iu futures of all ag¬
ricultural and mechanical productions; of.proced¬
preserving a stringent system the
ure in trials us shall secure prompt
conviction, and imposing such penalties compli¬
as shall secure the most perfect
ance with the law.
8. We con temu the silver bill recently
passed by Congress, and demand iu lieu
thereof the free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land, nnd
that Congress tike prompt-acti m to de¬
vise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by Miens and foreign syndicates;
and that all lands now held by railroads
aud other corporations in excess of such
as is actually used and needed by them
be reclaimed by the government, and held
for actual settlers only.
5. Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and spec al privileges legis¬ to
none, we demand that our national
lation shall be so framed in the future as
not to build uji one industry at the ex¬
pense of another; and we further de¬
mand a removal of tlie cxis ing heavy
tariff tax Lorn tlie necessities of life that
the poor of ourland must have; we fur¬
ther demand a just and equitable system
of graduated tax on incomes; we be
li-vo iliafc the money of the country
should be k jpt as much and as possible in
tlie hail Is of the people, hence we
demand that all national and St te r v
enues shall be limited to the necessary
expenses of the government economic¬
ally and honestly administered.
(i. Wo demand the most rigid, honest
and just State and national governmental
control and communication supervision of the means of
public and transporta¬
tion, and if this control abuse and supervision existing,
do s no.t remove th - now
vc demand the government ownership of
such means of communication and trans¬
portation. 7‘ We demand that Congress the
(Jinied StatrH submi* an amen 'mont to
the eonsthuti >u providing for tlw ole<
lion of Umled Stales Semi'ore by direct
viit, • of the j»e )>1 >> of each Slate.
Immediati ly after ttx«* niiftiitio i of the
above Mr. Davie, of Ke tu ;Uv, intro¬
duce 1 ! die following loaolti'i n, wluc.l
win adopt. "I l»v a rising Viiic wiih only
lour mcmbcis voting ngaius' it.
Whereas, there i« now a bill known ns
the sti''-treasury hill in the hands of the
ways and means committee of the house
of repriscBtntives which should have
t ,1-011 reported and acted upon at the he-;
session, and which if enacted into Ian
would bring the fimncial relief so much
riteded by all lasses and industries.
........—
hat 1 c ‘‘ ,ny °)‘. t ,hes e Pnury
p«<- •"*" d meet tbe DCCCS91tieS of tbo l01 ‘"
mg masses.
After a whole yea, of ridicq'c, false ar
gument and misrepresentation, in 8 a can
vention representing lotos tvventy-n no ates.
but seven could be found against it
andouly one St to, Illinois, voting solidly
iu opnosi-ion. Even o e third of the dele
„ iU , from Missouri, the home of tin
most unfair, unjust and misleading opp
sition, ’ voted for the proposition. U
vva3 a C om,)let- iub-treasury victory for the support
( .,-s of tile plan, and demon
strated that it or something better
be demanded a„d insisted upon by th
i.ttth-eiit. farmers of tlrs coun ry.
TOPICS OF TRADE.
Dun & Co.’s Business Review for
the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The vear op ns With the ox
t )C £tcd improvement in the money market*
and in collections resulting from annual
disbursements, which have been larger
tfaan ugual> - r i l0 hopeful feeling in most
branche8 of tia< j ( . continues also, J and the
railroad outlook is improved. I he legis¬
lative prospect is regarded by m iny with
appreher sion, and the situation in tin
iron and cotton industries is not satisfac¬
tory. Prices of some pro iucts in both
have been further reduced nnd many
works have stopped for a t me. ’ihe cur¬
tailment of credits, which t >e monetary
uncertainly causes, is, there'O’C, severed
felt in these as in other branches of busi
ness. It is becoming clearer every day
that one great obstacle to prosper.ty is a
fear that the debasement of the dollar
may produce violent contract! .n«, the
withdrawal of foreign" investmc ts, a col¬
lapse of credits and disaster which will
be felt in every branch of trade and
industry. the shrinkage of
In cotton manufacture
credits has severely strained many con¬
cerns, and prices of goods have been tow,
but further reductions have be n made
during the past week in blenched cotton,
Reports mf tr.de from different cities Ore
sitill much influenced by reviews of last
year’s great size, but generally ind cate
a l.irge volume of traffic iu progn ss foi
the season, with marked improvement,
since the monetary pressure abated. At
Philadelphia, the leather and shoe trades
are dull, and retail purchases are confined
to evening up sizes. Wool is in little
demand. Some uneasiness is seen r> gard
ing obligations in tobacco, but better col¬
lections in paints. Higher throughout cotton pro¬ the
duces greater activity receipts New
South. Sugar and rice at
Orleans arc good. 'Ihe money markets
throughout the country are less strmgent.,
and reports of collections are more favor¬
able. Speculative operations continue
wholesomely inactive. '1 he foreign trade
continues favorable, f xports showing a
large gain over last year, while there is
more increase in imports. 'Ihe week's
failures number 875; for tlie correspond¬
ing week of last year the failures were
384 .
TO CULTIVATE RAMIE.
Plans on Foot to Grow the Plant
in Texas.
A Galveston dispatch organization of Sunday says:
Following the utilize of a stock
company to the lands adjacent to
Galveston" for the culture of ramie and
other and fibrous plants, a meeting has been
held a committee selected to formu¬
late a prospectus of the enterprise, which
was done later. Four parries have each
d nated 100 acres of Ian t adapted to the
■purpose, between Galveston and Houston.
Subscriptions to the stock will be taken
for small amounts, thus making interest
in theenterpri e include a large number
of people oi the c ty. About $7,500 wil!
be the amount required to meet the ex¬
penditures of the first year, and wilt
cover the cost of machi cry for derovti
ing. labor and all th- expenses incident
t> tiie undertaking for thirty acres of
hind. IT e demand for this material is
unlimited. Experiments with the ramie
plant in Texas prove the ability of the
soil for its cultivation.
A TEXAS CYLONE
Which Left Death and Desola¬
tion in its Wake.
At 8 o’clock Thurs : ay afternoon a cy¬
clone [passed about three miles of this
town, carrying death and destruction iu
itspaih. It was 100 yards in breadth,
and demolished everything it struck.
Several houses were blown down, and an
infant was killed and four adults se¬
riously, if not mortally, woatr ed John
Schmidt was blown over a barb wire
fence. He seized the wire n- he passed,
anu Ills hand was almost torn off.
H- usehold goods were scattered about for
miles, and the loss is great. A further
search may reveal many more dead bod¬
ies, but mght coming on put an end to
the quest of the rescuers.
