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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES t
YOL. VI.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
ANIT ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the senate, on Tuesday, after the
transaction of some routine business of
little public importance, the consideration
of the land forieiture bill was resumed.
The debate on Mr. Call’s amendment wa*
continued by Messrs. Plumb, Berry,
Mitchell and Gall, i he McKinley bill passed with
out division The custom?
administrative bill was then taken up,
read and amendments recommended by
the committee were agreed to. Othei
amendments were submitted by Messrs.
Evarts, Dawes and West, and went ovei
without action. The senate then ad
journed. Tuesday, lively bout
In the house, on a
was indulged in by the Speaker and Mr.
Mills, on a question of personal privi- bill
lege .... The postoffice appropriation the calendar.
was reported and placed into on committee of
The house then went
the whole on the bill providing for the
classification of worsted cloths as woolens.
The committee theu rose and reported of
the Dili to the house. On the passage
the bill no quorum voted, andtheie being view
no quorum present, republican Mr. Dingley, in
of the fact that a caucus was
called for the evening at 7:30 moved an
adjournment, which was carried.
On Wednesdsy, after the reading of the
journal, the house proceeded bill the to vote classifica- upon
the passage of the for
tion of worsted cloths as woolen cloths.
The bill was passed— yeas 138, nays, 0,
the speaker counting a quorum. The
text of the bill is as follows: “Tnat the
secretary of the treasury be, and
he hereby is, authorized and di
rected to classify as woolen
cloths all imports of worsted doth,
whether known under the name of
Worsteds or diagonals or otherwise”....
Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on rules, reported a resolution
providing for the immediate considera
of the senate service pension bill, to which
the Morrill service pension bill may be
ordered as a substitute, the ordered previous 4
question to be considered as at
o’clock. Mr. Carlisle,of Kentucky,protest- of
ed against the adoptionjof resolutions
this character, which took away from
the committee of the whole the right to
consider many bills, and forced the house
to vote upon them after a brief debate.
Mr. McKinley argued that the resolu
tion was justified under the present code
of rules. The resolution was adopted, took and
Mr. Morrill, of Kansas,
the floor in Explanation and
support of bis bill. This act of justice,
he said, had been too long postponed. service If
the government were to grant without a delay.
pension it should grant it
The total number of persons put upon the
pension roll under the provisions of the
bill was estimated at 440,000, at an an
nual cost of $80,020,000. The object of
tho bill was to render aid to every soldier
over sixty-two years of age, to every dis
abled soldier without regard to age, and
to the widows of deceased soldiers who
needed assistance. Mr. Jarsney, of Mis
souri, opposed the bill because it made no
discrimination between a soldier who
served three months apd a soldier who
served three years; because it made no
distinction between disability arising
from service in the army and disability
resulting from the vicious conduct of the
person to whom the pension was granted.
The Morrill bill was agreed to as a sub
stitute for the senate bill—yeas the 183, nays
71. The bill authorizes secretary
of the interior to place on the pen
sion roll the name of any of
ficer or enlisted man of (50 years of
age or over, or who shall hereafter reach
that age, who served ninety days or more
in the army, navy or murine corps of the
United States during the war of the re
bellion, and shall have received an hon
orable discharge therefrom; said pension
to commence from the date during of applica- the
tion therefor, and to continue
life of said officer or enlisted man, at the
rate of $8 a month. All persons who
served ninety days or more in the mili
tary or naval service of the United States
during the late war, who have been hon
orably discharged therefrom, and who are
now or may hereafter be, suffering from
mental or physical disability, equivalent
to the grade now established in the pen
sion office for a rating of eight dollars
per month, upon due proof of the fact,
according to such rules and regulations as
the secretary of the interior may provide, invalid
shall be placed upon the list of
pensioners of the United States at the
rate of eight dollars per month. It also
provides for a pension to the widow of
any soldier when she shall arrive at the
age of sixty years, or when she shall be
without other means of support than her
daily labor.
Mr. Dolph, from the committee on for
eign relations, reported to the senate on
■Wednesday the concurrent reselutions re
questing the President to negotiate with
the governments of Great Britain and
Mexico with a view of securing treaty the
stipulations for the prevention of
entry into the United States of Chinese
from Canada and Mexico. The resolu
tion went over till Thursday, and the
senate resumed consideration of the cus
toms administrative bill. After consid
erable discussion the bill was laid aside.
The Oklahoma bill was corrected as indi
cated in the joint resolution recalling it
from the President. After executive ses
sion the senate adjourned. Thursday, Mr. Mc
In the house, on
Kinley, from the committee on rules, re
ported a resolution for the immediate
consideration of bills reported from the
judiciary committee in the following or
der: Senate bill relating to trusts, house
bill relating to copyrights, house bill re-
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1890.
luting to bankruptcy, and such other
bills ns the committee may call up. The
resolution was adopted, and the house
proceeded to consider the senate bill to
protect tmde and commerce against un
lawful restraints followed. and monopolies. Mr. A long
running debate Bland of
fered an amendment making unlawful
any contract or agreement to prevent com
petition in the sale or purchase of any
■commody transported from one state to
another. Mr. Biund's amendment was
adopted on a viva voce vote and the bill
was passed in the same manner with a
single dissenting vote... .Mr. Adams, of
Illinois, next called up the international
copyright bill and explained its provis- the
ions. He said that since its report
bill had been critically examined by a
number of prominent lawyers and
os a consequence it would be
necessary to adopt some purely
formal amendments to perfect the intent
of the bill. Undents terms the American
people would get cheaper literature, It would of
the best class, than at present.
also enlarge the privileges of American
authors. Without acting upon the bill,
the house, at 5:15 adjourned.
NOTES.
The president has vetoed tho bill to
provide for the erection of an extension
to the public building at Dallas, Texas.
Representative Biggs, of California, on
Thursday, intioducei in the house a
bill to repeal the civil service act.
A large number of applications for
pensions arc coining up from the southern
states from soldiers who served in the
Mexican and Creek Indian wars.
Tlie secretary of the interior estimates
that it will require $88,80(5,752 annually
to give a service pension to every survi
vor of the late war not now on the rolls.
The house and senate committees .on
immigration and naturalization on '1 hurs
day listened to Timothy D. Lee, special
agent of the treasury department, upon la
the subject of violations of contracts
bor. During his speech he told of how
Italians are supplanting the negroes in
the South Carolina phosphate beds, work
ing for one-fourth of what the colored
laborers received.
Several of the Georgia members have
been served with a list of questions sim
ilar to the one recently issued by an Ala
bama Alliance and forwarded Col. Oates.
It is presumed that answers will be made
soon. The Aliiance und organizations legisla- are
surprisingly tive proceedings alert Washington. watchful of A large
at
number of protests against the passage of
the Conger bili came Thursday.
A delegation hearing of Knights of committee Labor were
given a before the on
labor on Thursday. The Wade bill was
indorsed with slight amendments. The
bill provides that eight hours shall con
stitute a day’s work for the all laborers of
every class employed extraordinary by government,
except in case of emergen
cies m time of war, to preserve or pre
vent destruction of human life, and tl ien
they ure to be paid on the basis of eight
hours per day.
The Washington Star of Wednesday
says: “The Democrats now have a case
they may get into the Supreme court to
test the constitutionality of the net of tho
speaker in counting members who do not
vote to make a quorum. They refrained
trom voting on the Dingley worsted bill
and the speaker it was passed counting by 188 affirmative It votes, is the
the importers a quorum. resist the
purpose of to
operation of the bill, if it President’s is passed by the
senate and receives the signa
ture. By taking a test wise to the courts,
when an attempt is made to collect the
duty imposed on worsteds by the bill,
they can get the question before the
supreme court."
A LIVELY TIME EXPECTED
AS A RESULT OF TnE MANY MAY DAY DEM
ONSTRATIONS.
On Monday morning tho Boston Globe
published an England, article showing regarding the the situa- labor
tion in New
demonstration to take place Slay 1st. It
says that Boston and Worcester will be
the main battlegrounds for the state.
The contest will be for a working day of
eight hours. The greater part of the
8,000 carpenters eight hours, employed they in Boston make will
strike for but no
demand for an increase of the hour rate
of wages. They believe that a decrease
in hours will cause an increase
in wages according to the
law of supply and demand,
In several cities the plumbers, i bricklayers
and Masons will demand nine hours.
Quarrymen and granite cutters in Quincy
will probably strike, as the bosses, while
willing to grant the nine hour system will
not agree to the price per hour demanded
by the workmen. granite Strikes are Westerly, expected
among the cutters at
R. I., Concord, N. H., and Hallowed,
Maine. The mechanics at Portsmouth,
N. H., and carpenters at Portland and
Lewiston, Me., demand nine hours.
A dispatch of Thursday from Denver, •
Col., says: The labor situation in Colo
rado Springs is growing more complicated. decided
Most of the contractors have to
grant the demand of the carpenters for
nine hours, with ten hour’s pay, but a few
have held off, and the men say that
unless the boss carpenters all concede the
request by May 1st, there wiU be a gene
ral walk out. The quarry and brick men
are asked to supply no building material
until the trouble is settled.
The Washington, D. C., workingmen
are growing restless and are threatening
to join the eight-hour the stricke. It is re
ported that brick layers, carpenters
and plasterers will demand on May 1st
that thereafter eight hours be constituted
a day’s labor. Refusal on the port of
the employers may lead to a general
■trike. Meanwhile attention is centered
on the outcome of the movement is
Chicago.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TI1E FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE COUNTRY.
Tho Farmers’ Alliance of Kansas is or
ganizing a campaign against Ingalls and
protection.
The Newton Couuty Ga. Farmers Alli
ance passed resolutions Friday eadors.ng
the sub-treasury plan, now belore
gress.
The Farmers’ Alliaac^ Exchange of
South Carolina has been in operation two
months and a half, and hits done a busi
ness in that time aggregating $50,000.
There are 130 county Alliances and
about 2,810 county sub-Allianees, with a
total membership of about 65,000 males
and 20,000 females in the State of Geor
gia.
*** trememh boom
The Alliance is on a us
in Forsyth, Milton, Gwinnett ana Wilton
counties, Ga. In Gwinnett alone there
are forty sub-Alliance9 and a very large
membership.
*% twenty-eight States
We now have
and Territories organized in our grand esti
Union, North and South, with an
mated membership of nearly three mill
ions.— Week ly Toiler.
#** that
Remember, Alliancemen, your en
emies are now at work trying attempting to stir up
strife among our membership,
to blacken the fair numes of your chosen
leaders. This is done to divide your
forces and cripple your influence. Money
and corruption go hand in hand when
the enemy decides to ruin you .—Southern
Mercury.
*** is the
Oppression beyond incentive endurance determined
motive power or to
resistance, and is clearly shown by the
unprecedented rapid coining together of
the industrial classes of Kansas, where
the corn is fifteen cents a bushel nnd
burned for fuel, and where in many coun
ties eighty farms out of every hundred
are mortgaged and foreclosures ninde at
the rate of 200 a week in the State. Farm
ers are slow to move, but when driven to
resist the oppression, woo be to the op
pressors.— Weekly Toiler.
***
What, is the Alliance good for if it can’t
accomplish something on this line? Is it
any disgrace for it to go into politics for
the protection of the needs farming do interests is to be- of
the country ? All it to
ware that it is not hoodwinked by arch
schemers, who are sure to seek its influ
ence for their own personal whole aggrandize
ment. The prosperity of the coun
try depends upon that of the farmers, and
we wunt them to take hold of the govern
ment and establish themselves on an en
during basis of prosperity.— Ieetburyer,
Leesburg, Fla.
*% for
Read a good word and a strong one
the Alliance which we clip from the
Middle Georgia Argue: “The people of
Butts couuty are more united now than
ever before on all questions. The Alliance
has done more than any one thing to bring
about this Btate of things.” This is just one
of the many good things which tlie
Alliance has done. A little later thu
papers will say: “The people of Georgia united
and the South are more thoroughly and finan
for their mental, moral, social
cial improvement than ever before, und
the Alliance has done more than one thing
to bring about this state of affairs.’’ The
Alliance wants to do nothing but good,
and that good for all .—Southern Alliance
Farmer.
* *
* forth by Felix
The following ruling Bet Committee
Corput, Chairman Executive
8. F. A., iu the matter of five cents per
capita required for dues to the National
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union,
will be read with interest: “In order to
meet the requirements of tho National
body, the State Funners’ Alliunec of
Georgia by resolution passed at its annual
meeting on the 22d day of August 1880,
increased the yearly dues of the County
Alliances in the sum of five cents per
capita, it becomes the duty of the state
secretary to charge the same to the va
rious County Alliances, arrearage on these
increased dues will debar the county from
representation as provided in Sec. 8, Ar
ticle 2, ot :he constitution and by-laws
for County Alliances.”
***
Washington dispatches section say protests are
coming in from every against the
Butterworth “options” or “futures”
bill, which pieces a heavy license fee
upon dealers in futures, together with a
tain tax upon speefied every articles pound or bought bushel of sold. cer
so or
Its object is to break up the speculative
dealings or corners which have
taken place in the grain, cotton
and meat markets of l went years.
That portion of the oill which relates to
cotton, in place of relieving the farmers,
only increases their burdens, and at the
same time should the bill become a law,
would terribly cripple one of the
south’s most important industry, Under the man
ufacture of fertilizers. the pres
sold sent during practice the fertilizers winter months are shipped the and
for en
suing cotton crop. The farmer has not, as
a rule, to pay cash for the same. To give
a cash note would compel him to mark
et his cTop by a given date to meet his
obligations, a condition which the buyer
would be quick to take advantage of to
his detriment. What he does do is to
give a cotton note, payable pound, in cotton
»t an agreed valuation per but
lince this is given before a plant is in the
ground, it would not come under the ex-
the king to see that legislation is adopted
by the eortes for the regulation of labor,
^U. QUIET IN AUSTRIA.
Vienna dispatches say: Despite the
belief that the labor demonstration in
this city would be attended by grave dis
orders, there has, as yet, been no dis
turbance ■ whatever, It is calculated
throughout Austria and Hungary that one
million men have struck, orha’te threat
ened to strike. Over sixty which workmens’mect- resolution!
ings were held, at all of
were a dopted in favor of a working day
of eight hours.
1‘ETITION OF SPANISH WORKMEN.
Thjusan , ls of workmen assembled in
Madrid, and after organizing a meeting,
appointed delegates to present a petition
to the eortes asking for the passage ol
on eight-hour law.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINK.
The congressional committee invosit
gating the timber coses of Alabnma, were
in session at Mobile Tuesday.
Rome, Ga., is hurrahing over the fact
that a $100,000 spieglo iron furnace is
soon to be erected in that prosperous city.
The house of William Holder, near
Cumberland Gap, Tenn.,burned Wednes- and
day night. Mr. Holder, his wife one
child perished in the (lames. Six other
children escaped in their night clothes.
The town of Seneca, 8. C., was visited
by the fire fiend on Sunday morning, and
an entire block of buildings in the busi
ness eontcr was laid in ashes within a few
hours. Over 15,000 worth of property
was destroyed.
Twenty-three years ago Mrs. M. A.
Schaeffer took charge of the Monroe, Ga.,
postoffice, and has held tiie position the con
tinually ever since. in connection One of with most this re
murkublo facts
long tenure is that she has never lost a
day on account of illness.
Nearly all the leading merchants and im
porters of New Orleuus, met Wednesday to
protest against the passage of the McKin
ley hill; A resolution was delegating adopted con- tho
demning the bili and
chairman to go to Washington to put the
matter before congress.
The labor unions and organizations seriously of
Brunswick, Ga., have been
agitating trie nine hour movement. This
movement, as was decided at the last
regular meeting of the building and trade
council of Brunswick, will be put into
effect on the first Monday in next Septem
ber.
Tlic steamer II. B. Plant, one of tho
best known of the St. John's river craft,
burned to the water’s edge Tuesday Bercsford, morn
ing, in tlie middle of Lake 108
miles from Jacksonville, Flu., while on
her way to Sanford. Three lives were
lost, all colored. The men are supposed
to have drowned while attempting to
swim ashore.
Mrs. Bailie E. Haynes, on Tuesday,
filed a suit in the; Atlanta, Ga., City
Court against the Western Union Tcle
grnh compiyiy for $4,500. A message
sent to her announcing her husband’s
death, was made to read erroneously so
that she did not know of his death until
after it was too late to see his face again,
she therefore sued for $-1,500.
The river improvement and levee con
vention met at Vicksburg, Miss., on
Wednesday. Three hundred and fifty
delegates from Louisiana, Missippi, and Mis- Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky
souri were in attendance. Resolutions to
congress were adopted and that navigation the question is
of best river aided improvement from national stand point by
a
an effective system of levees.
A New Orleans Picayune Bayou Bars
special says that the old levee in front of
the hermitage and Pointc Coupel ride
caved Wednesday and caused letting water
against the new levee it to give
away and the crevasse is now between 200
and 300 feet wide and widening. This
break will prove disastrous to the river at
West Baton Rouge and Ebervillc and also
put grosse Tete levees to a severe test.
At the recent meeting of the Southern
Press association at Charleston, 8. C., a
resolution was introduced by Hon.
Patrick Walsh, of the Augusta, Ga.,
Chronicle, and unanimously adopted,
urging senators southern to their representatives best indeavors and
use
to secure the defeat of the gov
ernment introduced telegraph by scheme. A resolu- Pool,
tion was Mr. 8. D.
of the New Orleans Time*-Democrat, rela
tive to government improvement adopted. of the
MississioDi river, which was
UNCLE 8AM WIN8.
A CONTRACTOR SUES THE GOVERNMENT
—AN INTERESTING CASE.
Mr. w - F - Bowe, a contractor who
built a number of hoases for tho govern
mcn ^ °t the new barracks at Atlanta, Ga.,
brought sjjit in the United damages, States Circuit and
Court to recover $10,000 on
Tuesday the esse was decided against
him. He claimed that he was damaged
sum of $10,000 by the interference
oi Captain Jacobs, the officer in charge,
which he sued the government. The
CMe wa * brought under the Drovisions of
the act of congress of March 3rd. 1887,
which provides that all claims against the
$Lb00, involving and on amount $10,000, not less than
not over except
wt *at is known as war claims, may be
brought in the U. 8. Circuit Court, and
tried by the court without a jury. The
bos been watched with a good deal
Merest, “ it w a» the first to be tried
in the United States under the new law.
A QUIET DAY.
MANX STRIKES INAUGURATED BUT RO
RIOTS OR 1JLOODSHKD A8 PREDICTED.
Chicago dispatch say: Mayday, with
its demonstrations by organized iabor in
belmlf of the eight-hour work day, lias
come and gone, and the predictions of
riot and bloodshed and an almost uni
versal strike by the trades have not been
realized. Labor, indeed, was in a great
measure serted their suspended, trails but day those who de- do
for the did not
so for the purpose of taking up sticks and
demonstrations. paving stones and Thousatidsof indulging in them riot quit us
work for the dnv to march in tho great
parade, but by far many more thousands
made it a holiday. It was an orderly
good-natured crowd and an orderly
parade. four miles Tho long, marching and the number line was about
of men
in line was estimated at from 25,000 tc
00 , 000 .
AT PHILADELPHIA.
The journeymen carpenters of Philadel
phia went on a strike Thursday morning,
as would they do. had Their previously demand announced is for nine- they
a
hour working day, with pay at thirty-three
cents per hour. A few employers, in
cluding John Wunamaker, who employs
sixty men, and Allen B. Ronrke, u promi
nent builder, who lias 175 carpenters on
his rolls, notified their men several day*
ago that, beginning increased Thursday, their
wages would be to $8.15 per
day. The number of men thus affected
is something over five hundred. A ma
jority of the master carpenters, however,
will resist the demands for an increase,
lloughly estimated, three thousand men
are out.
TI1E DAY IN BOSTON.
The strike of the carpenters of Boston,
Mass., for an eight-hour work day, wiu
formally inaugurated Thursday estimated morning.
About 1,(500 men are out. It is
that there are 2.000 men in the city who
have boon granted eight hours by about
100 firms who ure not members of the
Muster Builders’ association. These men
have ion in the continuing approval of work. the Carpenters’ un
ut
a strike in rirrsnuno.
Labor day in Pittsburg, Pa., was une
ventful, and pcacw and harmony employed prevailed
among branches employers business, and the cornice in all
of save
and tin work industry. Three hundred
tinners came out Thursday morning for
an advance of twenty-five cents a day,
and seven firms have shut down.
KNOXVILLE HEARD FROM.
All the carpenters of Knoxville, Tenn.,
both union and non-union, are hours’ on a strike
for eight hours’ work and ten pay,
THE DAY IN LOUISVILLE.
Some estimates place the number of
workingmen in line in the great May
day parade at Louisville, Ky., at ten
thousand. made Tho the body of the procession unions
wus up of various labor
under their respective banners,
QUIET IN NEW YORK.
New York city’s end of the world-wide
labor demonstration wus not a great suc
cess, ns far as the numbers who attended
the Unioq Square mass mcctiug was con
cerned. It was not the meeting that the
labor leaders expected 15,000 men.
The meeting was under the auspices
of the socialistic labor party. Reso
lutions were adopted the fact by that tho meeting day
which recited the
had been fixed by the American Federa
tion of Labor us the inauguration Tiiat of the
eight-hour movement. the Interna
tional Labor Congress at Paris, lust July,
hud issued such a call to the workingmen
of the world; that the eurpenters have
0 |>cned the eight-hour buttle. The eight
hour demand is only temporary relief
from the workings of capitalism; that
nothing but socialism will solve the labor
question; therefore, Resolved. That we
aeinund that the hours of labor be re
duced to eight. It should be decreed by
statute—that in the struggle the ultimate
object of the abolition of the wage system
be not lost sight of.
A GENERAL REPORT.
Washington dispatches say: Up tc
10:80 o’clock Thursday night only attended two
cases of labor demonstration
with violence have been Prossnitz, reported. These
were at Pesth, and at a small
town iu the province of Moravia, Austria.
No other has been heard from in Europe
and not any iu the United States, al
though demonstrations, with or without
strikes, were made in almost every great
center of population in the United States
and Europe. A majority of these were
tor shorter hours of labor; but in a great
many eases a demand was made for in
creased pay. Dispatches indicate that
there were no labor demonstrations at
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City,
Omaha, Milwaukee, Toledo. Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Cleveland or Demonstrations,
usually as incident to strikes, were made
at a large number of the smaller manufac
turing cities of New England, New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
IN THE OLD WORLD.
The procession of workingmen held at
London on Thursday expected fell would fur short take of the
numl^r it was part.
The procession marched to Hyde park,
where a number of speeches iu favor of
the workmen’s cause were made.
IN 1‘AUIS.
M. Floquet received a socialist delega
tion, bcaued by Gueste, which presented
a memorial in favor of the eight-hour law.
Crowds were gathered at various points
throughout the city, but provinces perfect order
was maintained. The were
everywhere tranquil.
THE PORTUGUESE WORKMEN.
A manifesto was issued by the work
men at Oporto, Portugal, in which they
tL’s
festo further says that the men will ask
NO HI.
eruption clause. The present practice and en
ables the farmer to pay a part, often
an important part of his indebtedness
with his produce at a fair valuation, which
the fertilizer manufacturer then converts
into cash. Abolish this method, and the
grower becomes a victor indeed, while the
increased uncertainty of receiving
his pay injures directly the
manufacturers of the fertilizers.
The Butterworth bill is one of two ira
portant measures recently committee. reported from The
the house agricultural lard bill. The
other is the Conger men
who favor the Butterworth bill, as a rule,
oppose the Conger lard bill. Both sides
want a day fixed fat the house to con- the
sider the bill they favor, but want
other laid asido. Thoso who favor the
lard bill are very much opposed to the
Butterworth bill, and the two factions of
the houso are lighting each other's bill
vigorously. For this reason it is believed
by many that neither of the two bills will
pass
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT nAPPEN FUOM DAT TO DAI
Throughout the world, culled
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Cold weather bus delayed the cotton
crop in Egypt.
The carpenters’ strike in Chicago i»
having tho effect on lumber of decreas
ing sales.
Three men were drowned by the cap
sizing of a boat on tho lake at Newport,
Vt., Tuesday.
elected Lyman J . Gage was on Thursday night
mission president in Chicago. of tho world’s fair com
It is estimated that thsre lias been a
decrease of $7,500,000 in the public debt
since the first of April.
Ex-Htate Treasurer Archer, of Mary
land, was on Monday Indicted by the
grand jury at Anmqiolis for embezzle
ment.
The French ministerial council on
Tuesday in decided to maku retrenchments
tho budget to the extent of 20,000,000
francs.
been Thirty-eight of the Vienna rioters have
sentenced to terms of imprison
ment, three varying from eight months to
yeurs.
Reports received at Springfield uboul from
many parts of Illinois say that
three-fourths of the land seeded to wheat
last fall is being plowed up for planting
spring wheat, oats and corn.
The annual report of the Southern Pa
cific railroad shows that its gross earnings
for last year were $40,843,207; operating
expenses, ficit. $30,304,805. There was a de
of $1)0,472 this year against U surplus
of $1,1570,488 last year.
An English Sala $85 jury damages lias given George Au
gustus for that he as compensation painted
a statement once a
figure which had six toes on one foot, and
that he was utterly lacking in tho quali
ties that should distinguish an art critic.
Tho secretary of State of Illinois has
issued u license to the John lirown Liber
ty Museum, at Chicago, to purchase and
remove to Chicago the building known
as John Brown's fort at Harpcrls Ferry.
I he capital stock of the company is $180,
000 .
'Avrcs Dispatches Several of Thursday from Buenoa
say: persons have lieen
killed und many wounded in a revolution
which lias broken out in Paraguay.
Meigro details only have been received,
as telegraphic communication is inter
rupted.
Mr. Vest’s bill, which lias been favora
bly Iiidiun reported affairs, by provides the senute’s for committee the compul- on
sory education of Indian children. TI 10
bill makes it the duty of the secretary of
the interior to establish industrial Ismrd
itig schools on every Indian reservation
where the population of adults exceed
five hundred.
The Homestead I sink, doing business
at the corner of Tenth avenue and Fifty
third street, New York, shut down os
Tuesday. Its affairs are now in the
bunds of N. A. Chapman, who was con
nected with the Western National bunk.
Everyone will receive the money duo him.
The bunk was not asked profitable, withdraw and the their de
positors were to
money.
A heavy shrinkage in the imports of
dry goous at New York for last week is
reported. The entries footed up $1,885.-
728, and the amount thrown on the mar
ket $1,02 0,7(53, against $3,007,'927 and
$3,140,105 period respectively week. for she entries corre
sponding last The
of general merchandise aggregated
$8,090,355, against $10,123,441 during
the previous week.
In the eortes, at Madrid, Spain, a bill
was introduced Tuesday morning which
prohibits the employment of boys under
(en and girls under twelve years of age.
The measure also prohibits all minors
from being employed in mines, circuses.
or in any unhealthy occupation. All
holidays, Sundays and fete days are to be
secured to such minors, and a maximum
day’s labor is to be five hours.
William Moore, paymaster of the Far
rell Foundry company, at Ansonio,
Conn., was arrested Wednesday aud held
in $(5,000 bond charged on the that charge rnanip of embezzle- ulated
ment. It is he week
the pay roll, drawing $20 a for a
number of ficticious employes, and
charged the company nt the rate of $3.75
for other employes, while the men re
ceived but $2.50. The large number of
men employed and the frequent changes
make an accurate estimate of the losses
•inpossible.
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