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BEHDB VOLUME DOWNS. OSBORNE COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1888. NO. 1 JnUci THE TARIFF BILU TROUBLE ON THE RIO GRANDE MEXICxlN BANDITS. KANSAS STATE NEWS.

THE WORLD AT LARGE. Tuk other night at Clinton, Sam Price, a white man, who killed a sheriff, and Bill Reams, colored, who shot a iarmer named Jackson, who caught him in the act of robbing his hen roost, were taken out of jad by a mob of fifty masked men and hancrcd. Fihe in AVinusborough, S. the other day destroyed the Episcopal Church, a livery stable, two stores and several smaller buddings. A 8Rmocs firo took place in New York on the 1st, destroying the furniture factory of Pot tier Stimus, Forty-second slreet and Lexington avenue.

The loss was estimated at 1,000, 000. A portion of the elevated railroad was destroyed during the progress of the lire. Iris reported in New York that Brazil will take stops in May to abolish slavery thrcughout its domain. James K. Mfituoc, of Cincinnati, the veteran actor, has been elected president of the Philadelphia School of Elocution and Oratory.

Skvehal barges and canal bo its in Brooklyn, N. were destroyed bv lire recently with their contents. Loss, Gkxekai, John Newton hits resigned the position of Commissioner of Public Works of New York City in order to accept tho place of Chief of the Const Survey. reeds, manufaetefcrdi but not made up tntofiw ished articles. Paintings in oil or watW eolors and statuary not otherwise provided for.

But the term "itatnary" shall not be understood to Include professional productions of a st.it nary or of a sculptor only. Stones, unmanufactured, au-1 undressed, freestone. Krsnite, sandstone, Jd all building or monumental stone. All strings of gut or any other like material. Tallow.

Waste, all not specially enumerated or provided for. Metal ie to pay duties as follow: Pig iron, ffi a ton- iron railway bars, $7: steel railway bars. $11. bar iron, rolled or hammered, seven-eighths of one cent a pound, not less than one inch widf! and three-eighths of one inch thick: in lurger measurement, one cent a pound; iron slabs, blooms, loops, thirty-five per cent ad valorem; iron bars, blooms, billets in the) manufacture of which charcoal is nsed. KO a ton; iron or steel rails.

$15 a ton; round, Iron in coils or rods, and rolled iron enumerated. 1 cent a pound sheet iron, thin, 1 cent a pound black taggers Iron, 80 per cent. hoop iron. 1 cent a pound; cast iron pipe, 10 of 1 cent pound; nails. 1 cent a pound; tacks, 33 per cent.

anvils, anchors, cents a pound: rivets, cents a pound; tledgee, axles, IS cents a pound-; chains, 2 a Epnd; saws. 30 per cent. tiles, 33 per cent. Ingots and blooms. 4-19 of a cent a pound: wire and manufactures thereof unchanged provided that tbe duty exceed 50 per old copper clippings.

1 cent pound: copper, manufactured, 2 cent a pound; lead, lli cents a pound; in sheets, 2' cents a pound; nickel, In ore, 10 cents a pound; zino, spelter, cents a pound; hollow ware, Sbi centa a pound; machine needles, 20 per cent. Tho entire wood schedule is subjected to thirty per cent. duty. All jtrades of sugar are reduced bv an amount varyini? from one-fifth, to one-fourth of tho present duties. Cotton yam reduced to thirty-five and fort per bleached linens to twenty-tlve per other yarns twenty-five per cent; cotton clutfi, forlj per cent.

The manufactures of wool are reduced as follows: Woolen and worsted cloths to 40 pet flannels, blankets and knit goods, 40 per dress goods partly of wool, 40 per ready made clothing, per cloaks, 43 per webbings, 50 per carpets, 30 per cent. Paper and its manufacture generally reduced. Carriages, 30 per cent. Watches 25 per cent. In addition to tbe free list, the following ar some of the most important changes propesed in the bill: China, ornamented, 40 per cent, ad valorem, now 00 per cent.

china, unornamemv Uexlcan Soldiers Cross Into Texas ana Get into a Fight With the Sheriff Two of Them Killed. Eagle Pass, March 5. Saturday morning Captain Munos. commander of the soldiers stationel at Piedras Niegras, Mexico, came to this side and asked permission ot the custom inspector to let four of his men come over on horseback and iook at some horses they wanted to buy. They received the permission, with the proviso that they should return in a short time.

A Lieutenant and thiee soldiers then came over in a ferry boat, and after talktng some time with Captain Munos, they started toward Frank Fox's brick yard, where a Mexican who bud deserted a few days before was at work. The Mexican saw them coming and concealed himself under ono of the kilns. He was dieovered by the Mexican soldiers, who, at the command of the Lieutenant, dragged him out, beating him over the head with the butts of their revolvers. While his men were thus eugaged, the Lieutenant uncoiled a lasso from his saddle, roped the fugitive and belaboring him unmercifully with their six-shooters and endeavoring to get him to cross back lo Mexico with them. About this time Deputy Sheriff White came up and commanded them to quit, or he would arrest them.

They, in reply, drew their pistols on him, telling hiin to get of their way or they would kill him too. White, being unarmed, ran to Sheriff Cooke for assistance. In the meantime the Mexicans, leaving the deserter apparently dead, his body being covered with wounds inflicted with knives and pistols, mounted their borsee and started through for the river. When they got near the ford they encountered White again, followed by Ed and Will Van Riper and Sheriff Cooke. A furious fusilade took place, during which White was shot through the right hand and fell from his horse and the horse ridden by one of the Mexican soldiers fell dead from a bullet from White's Winchester.

The Mexicans made every effort to reach the ottier side of the river before tho Van Ripers and Cooke could catch them, and the Lieutenant, who was riding ahead, succeeded in reaching the Mexican bank, and immeliately turned around and commenced firing -with his pistol into the crowd which had by this lime assembled assembled on I he American bank. The dismounted soldierplunged into the river afoot and was shot ihrough the head and killed by Ed Van per when about half way across. Of the other wo, one, a corporal, was wounded by a rifle shot in the, side and died soon alter reachine the Mexican shore. The Lieutenant had a flesh wound in the face. The people of both Piedras Niegras and Eagle Pass are indignant at this outrage upon international friendship and demand of ihe Government, protection and retaliation.

The civil authorities claim to be entirely innocent of the matter and most probably know nothing of it, as it was a scheme gotten up entirely by Captain Munos and his Lieutenant. Tho Mexican whom these soldiers tried to kidnap is seriously injured but will probably recover. United States Consul Allen has telegraphed an account of the affair to the Secretary of State at Washington. CHECKMATING A TRUST. The Attorney-tJeneral IMrects a.

Suit to be Itrouclit to Set Aside the Swensoti Sorghum Suatar I'atcnt. Washington, March 5. Tho Attorney- General has caused to be prepared a bill of complaint addressed to the Judge of the United Slates Circuit Court for the dis-! trict of Kansa-, bringing suit against Mag- nus Swenson, the purpose beiug to cancel the sorghum sugar patents taken out by him. Tbe document sets forth that Swea- son's discoveries were made while he was an employe of the Government an 1 in the, receipt of a salary for conducting ex peri- ments in sorghum sugarniaking; that the device is really not a new one, having been descnoed in many books and writing; that it was for these reasons not patentable; that the improvement is of great public impor- tance; that the knowledge thereof by the Department of Agriculture was the re-' search, examination and experiment by persons employed by the department for that purpose and to the' end that Ibis in- dustry "should be made available and re- munerative to all the citizens of the United States who desire to engage therein; and that the respondent is demanding and threatening to demand and receive large sums of money "for the use of this process, so as to establish a monopoly and griev- ously to oppress the people" upon invalid patents. The Commissioner of Agriculture, who brought the matter officially to the atten- lion ot tbe Attorney-General, says he is in- formed that a sorghum sugar trust combi- nation is being formed to control the manufacture of sorghum sug-ir by mean of tho Swenson patent.

He sjys the case of the Government is very strong and he thinks its purpose to prosecute this case vigorously should be made known a an act of justice to intending investors. The have already beeu forward to Kansas. STRIKER SHOT. An Over-Zealous ISridse Foreman Shoots Iturliiicton Engineer Dead. Kansas Citt, March 4.

George H. Bostick, the Burlington bridge foreman at Brookfii Id, Mo at four o'clock yesterday morning fatally shot John Watts, a Broth- erhood striking engineer. The stories toid by the passongors and trainmen who came in from Krookfield are that Watts approached the eugine No. 63, his own enginewhen it pulled in and asked the engineer if he might speak with him. Having received the engineer's consent he mounted the cab and began to argue with him against working for the road.

Ho was ordered to leave the cab by a deputy who was guarding the engine, and on refusing to do so the deputy pushed him off. Watts then arose to his feet and started for the engine, when Bostick, who was standing near, pulled his revolver and shot him through the right Bostick had bee sworn in us a deputy sheriff and claims that Watt anl others approached the engine and endeavored to take charge of it, and tiiat when he and the other deputy attempted to prevent their doing so, Watts drew a pistol, and he-shot him in self defense. Bus-tick was placed under arrest, and to avoid being lynched wes taken 10 Linneus. The Taneott Hunt. Winnipeg, March 5.

A couple of Chicago detectives are here hunting for Tascott, the murderer of mil'ionaire Sue'L The man who arrived hero from the south ton day ago and who after spending a few days at a botel proceeded unrestrained, turns out not to have been This has been established beyond a doubt, although he suffl- cientlv answered the description to justif the snipicion that lie w-ts the man wanted, i x. 1: iii was utneveu in acuecuve circles mat Tascott passed through Winnipeg some ten I days auo e-i route to rora either to China or the Sandwich islands. Inlrrnal ncrennii Itprfurtiona- I tv a Tk. I I I I i i i The New Tariff Bill Reported to the Wj- nd Means Committee of the lloawThs Free Lint Enlarged The Tariff on Redneed A Total Redaction of 000,000. Washington, March 1.

The chairman of the Wavs and Means Committee to-dav submitted to the full committee the Tariff bill upon which tbe Democratic members have been at work several months. The free list section is to take effect July 1, 1SSS. The measure was immediately made pub lic It proposes to fix duty on pig iron at (6 a ton; on iron or steel railway bars weighing more than twenty-five pounds to the yard, and slabs or billets of stoel, $11 a ton or iron or steel rails weighing not over twentv-flve pounds to the yard, fl4 a ton; and on iron or sted flat rails punched, 15 a tou. The bill provides for admitting free of duty after July 1, "all wools, hair of the alpaca, goat and other like animals, wools on the skin, woolen rags, shoddy mengo. waste and flocks." After October 1, 1SSS, it provides amorx other things for a forty per cent, duty on wool and worsted cloth.

shawls and ali manufactures of wool, not specially enumerated; and on flannels. blankets, knit goods, women's and chil dren's dress goods, composed in part of wooL Estimates of reductions in revenue effected by tho bill have not been completed in details, but the aggregate, according to the best information in the hands of the committee, is fixed at This total includes about ttJtf millions on account of tbe free list; 17J millions on account of woolen goods, $1,000,000 for china and glassware, three-quarters of a million dollars in the chemical schedule; something less than half a million dollars on cotton; on flai, hemp and jute, and on sugar There are no internal revo nue changes proposed by the bilL This subject was purposely left, for lack of time, to the consideration of the full committee. The bill makes the following additions to the list of articles which may be imported free of duty Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves. Timber squared or sided. Wood manufactured, not especially enumerated or proviCed for.

Sawed boards, planks, deals and all other articles of sawed lumber. Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon bloeks, our blocks, gun blocks, beading blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough, hewn or sawed only. Staves of wood, pickets nnd palings, laths, shingles. Clapboards, pine or spruce. Logs provided that if any export duty is laid upon the above mentioned articles or any of them, sill said articles imported from said country be subject to duty as now provided by law.

Salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other packages in bulk, when Imported from any country which does not charge an import duty upon salt exported from the United States. Flax, straw. Flax not hackled or dressed. Flax hackled known as dressed linen tow of flax or hemp. Hemp, manilla and other like substitutes for hemp.

Jute butts; Jute, sunn, sizal grass and other vegetable fibers. Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, of flax, jute or hemp or of which flax, jute or hemp, or either of them shall be the component material of chief value. Bagging for cotton or other manufactures not specially enumerated or provided for in this act suitable to the uses for which cotton bag- ging is supplied, composed in whole or in part of hemp, jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bigs, gun ny cloth, or other material; provided that as to hemp and flax, jute, jute butts, sunn and sizal grass, and manufactures thereof, except not exceeding sixty inches in-width and bag- ging for cotton, this act shall take effect July 1, l.9. Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals is a component part by the dipping or any other process, and commer- cially known as tin plates, terne plates and tag- gets tin. Bees' was, gelatine and all similar preparations.

Glycerine, crude, brown, or yellow. Fish glue or isinglass. Phosphorous soap stocks, fit only for use as such. Soap Hard and soft, all of which are not otherwise specially enumerated or provided for. Extract of and other bark used for tanning.

Indigo, extracts of. and carmine io- dine, rcsublimed. Licorice juice. Oil Croton, hempseed and rapeseed oil, flax seed or linseed oil. Oil, cottonseed, petroleum.

Alumina Alum, patent alum, alum substi tute, sulphate of alumina and aluminous cake and alum in crystals or ground. All imitations of natural mineral waters and all artificial mineral waters. Baryta, sulphate of, or baryates unmanufac tured Boracic acid, borate of lime and borax. Cement Roman, Portland and all others. Whiting and Paris white, copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol.

Iron, sulphate of, or copperas, potash, crude, carbonate of, or fusel and caustic potash, chlor ate of potash and nitrate of potash or saltpetre crude, sulphate of potash. Sulphate of soda, known as salt cake, crude or refined or niter cake, crude or refined and glubers' salt, sulphur, refined in rolls, wood tar. coal tar, crude. Analine oil and its homologies, coal tar, pro ducts of, such as naphtha, benzine, benisoie. dead oil and pitch.

AU preparations of coal tar, not colors or dyes, and not acids of colors and dyes, logwood and other dye woods, extracts and decoctions of. Spirits of turpentine, boneblack, ivory drop black and bone charcoal. Ocber and ochery earths, umber and umber earths, sienna and sienna earths, when drv. All preparations known as essential oils, ex- pressed oils, distilled oils, rendered oils, alka line, aiaaioias ana an combinations of any of the foregoing and chemical compounds by whatever name known and not specially en umerated or provided for in this act. All barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots and excrescences such as nut galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains gums p.nd gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens.

nuts, roots, and stems, vegetables, seeds and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used ex pressly for dyeing and dried insects. All non-dutiable crude minerals, but which have been advanced in value or condition by re- nmng or gnnaing cr by other process of man ufacture, not specially enumerated or provided lor. All earths or clays unwrought or unmanufact ured China, clay or kaoline. upium, cruae, containing per centum and over of morphia for medic-d purposes. Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bailing purposes, not ininner than No.

20 wire gauge. Needles sewing, darning, knitting and all others not specially enumerated or provided for in tnis act. Copper, imported in the form of ore, regulus of, and black or coarse copper and copper ce ment, oia copper nt only for manufacture. Nickel, In ore, matt, or other crude form not ready for conKumplion in the arts. Antimony.

as regulus or metal. Quicksilver, chromate of iron or ihrotnic ore. Mineral substances in a crude state and metals ncwrou ht, i ot specially enumerated or provided for. Brick. Vegetables in their natural state, or in salt or brine.

Chicory root, ground or un- grouna, burnt or prepared, and all other arti cles nsed or intended to be used as coffee or substitutes therefor not specially enumerated or provided for. Cocoa, prepared or manufact- I urea. Dates, plums and prunes. Currants, seante or other. Figs.

ST)lit Meats, game and poultry, beans, peas and Pulp for paper maker's use. Bibles, books and pamphlets printed in other languages man t-ngiisn, ana books and cam- lets and all publications of foreign CJovern- tribution. Bristles, bulbs and bulbous roots not medic- inal. Feathers of all kinds, crude or not dressed, colored or manufactured. Fmi-hing powder.

Grease. Grindstones, finished or unfinished. Curled hair, for beds or mattresses. Human hair, raw, unclcaned and not drawn. Hatters' fur, not on the skin.

Hemp ana "I5 seea aaa er oil reed of I ke charac- au'j loi- seed. Marble of all kinds, rough or squared. Osier or willow prepared for oasket-makers' use. Broom corn. Brushwood Plaster of parts, when ground or Rags of ifhatycr-iaqterjRl composed, Rattan and JonN Ecuns.

a prominent farmer, living aear Rsynold's Station, en the Missoui Pacific, seven miles southwest o' Fort Scott, while trying to ford the Marmaton the other evening, got beyood his depth and was drowned. He was moving his household goods from one farm to another, and was driving a team to a wagon on which was a hay ladder. The wagon wa unloaded at the time, and, being in something of a hurry, he attempted to cross tha river at, a place where there was no regular ford. He leaves a wife and one child. The Board of Railroad Commissioners recently decided that the Missouri Pacific road must furnish the people or Kickapoo with depot facilities.

Patents granted Kansas inventors for Wagon brake the week ended February 24: lever, Walter A. Wrestbrook, mower, Lamb2rt Erpelding, of Kingman; of Leonard- ville; refrigerator, Gi bert M. Lee. of Jefferson; cultivator, Schermerhorn Jury, of Terra Cotta; Fender for hoi so rakes, Lebbeus Mundy, of Morgan. Tna man whose body was recently found in the Smoky Hill river near Junction City with his throat cut, has been identified as Frank Matson, a Dane, wbo, it is believed, was murdered for his money, as he was known to have S400 in money and a gold watch when last seen.

Fre I Blackburn was arrested nt St. Joseph, and held on suspicion of being the murderer, as he was known to have been with Matson a few hours previous to his disappearance. The murder was probably committed last December. Charles Sciiwedeu, an old and highly respected ciiizen of Atchison, committed suicide recently by severing his j.igular with a case knife. No reAsoii could be assigned, as he was worth atiout tfl and had his life insured for in the ld Fellows, and a few minutes previous to the commission ot tho act he was conversing with his brother and family and seemed quite rational.

He was sixty-four years of age end left a wife and four grown children. Miss Katie Holmes, aged twenty-one years, the daughter of a traveling salesman of Atchison, attended a revival meeting the other and returning me, informed her mother that she desired to run over to a neighbor's for a fow minutes. Some timo elapsed, and as the young lady did not return, her parent became alarmed and search was commenced and keot up until next morning, when she returned home but could give no account of herself, and it was soon discovered that she had lost her reason. Late post-office changes in Kansas: Established, Astor, Greeley County, Lucy E. Garrett, postmistress; Hertha, Meade County, Martin Hagan, postmaster; Hamburg, Reno County, Edwin R.

Rogers, postmaster; Montgomery, Linn County, Thomas II. Paddock, postmaster; Sluttgard, Phillips County, George Veeh, postmaster. Name changed, Corvadis. Smith County, to Atho), Andrew J. Hennon, postmaster.

Discontinued, West Cedar, Phillips County. Tne safe of Magle Giibraith, jewelers at Greeneburgh, was blown open the other night and robbed of $7,700 in watches, jewelry and money. "Wee Folks" is the appropriate title of a small illustrated monthly published at MoPherson. Its pages contain a variety of entertaining pictures, puzzles, stories, just suited to the tastes of little readers. The subscription price is fifty cents a year.

D. W. Wilder, State Superintendent of Insurance, has given public notice that tho following named insurance companies are no longer authorized to do business in Kansas: The Anglo-Nevada Assurance Corporation, of San Francisco, Cul. the West ern Home Insurance Company, of Sioux City, Iowa; the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company, of New York; the Dwelling House Insurance Company, of ston, and the Hartford Life and Aunuiiy Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn. AVai.tek L.

Kier, engineer on a local freight running between Brookville and Wamogo, was horribly mangled by being run over the other day while coupling cars in the Union Pacific yards at Abilene, and died two hourj after. H-3 was married only three days previous loMiss Kershner, of North Topeka, The State Grand Lodge A. O. U. late in session at JVtchiso-i, elected tho following officers for the ensuing year: Grand past master workman, M.

Miller, of Council Grove; grand master workman, Joe E. Riggs, of Lawrence; grand foreman, O. J. Nichols, of Cherokee; grand overseer, N. F.

Hewitt, of Glen Elder; grand recorder, E. M. Forde, of Emporia; grand receiver, J. B. Hibben, of Topeka; grand guide, D.

S. Casscll. of Parsons; Brand watchman, George P. Hosier, of Topeka; grand medical director, C. C.

Green, of AViudlield grand medical director, (degree of honor), H. A. Warner, of Mer.den; trustee, E. S. Bertram, of Council Grove; supreme representatives, J.

M. Miller, of Council Grove, John M. Price, of Atchison, and XV. D. Gilbert, of Atchison.

Henrt RiDnEU, a quarryman employed Wrheeler's quarry at Rosedale, was instantly killed while blasting the ot her morning. Goveiinok Martin has issued a proclamation offering a reward of for tho arrest and conviction of T. Ewiug, a colored man about thirty-five years of age, who is under indictment for murJering a child about one month old, at the city of Topeka, in August, 18S7. -TnE Congressional Committee for the Second district recently met at Kansas City (Kan.) and decided to hold the Congressional nominating convention at Fort Scott on May 3 and the convention to select delegates to the Chicago convention at Kansas C.ty, May 17. Governor Martin recently pardo-ied John J.

Long, sent up from Linn County for three years for forgery; Fred Cann, of Wellington, sent up for one year for grand la'ceny, and Martin Bales, of Cloud County, sent up for ten j-ears lor rape. These cases had been investigated and pardons recommended by the Board of Pardons. A recent storm at Newton tore down fences and uproot I trees besides damaging a number of buddings. William J. Lacey was struck on tbe head by a flying timber and killed.

He was a single man thirty-seven years old. The storm was attended by a heavy fall of bail. Thkeb of the murderers of Frank Matson, whose body was found in the river 8V Junction City, have been taken to thai piace from St. Joseph, Mo. Scott Citt is to have a broom lactory.

In a letter to tbe Governor Mrs. Senator Ingalls has acknowledged the receipt of the beautiful doll sent to the Grand Army fair at Washington, und expressed her admiration of the young lady who brought a Kansas greeting to tbe Potomac Division of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Chicago, Kansa? Nebraska rail way has been completed to Meade Ceuter. Two men were recently arrested in Stev ens County for and fraud in entering Government land, it is state 1 that others are implicated in thi3 aaJ liar transactions, and these are the first cf sev eral arrests which have been ordered by Special Agent Cleary. Tnis Missouri Pacific depot at Alton v- as burned recently.

Supposed to be the work of incendiaries. Representative Morrill, of KanFa3. has succeeded in getting a favorable com mittee report on the Prisoners of War Pension bili, whereby ex prisoners who were confined sixty davs or more set two dollars per day extra for such confinement, and for any disability contracted dnrinr confinement tho sam.3 pension as now nro- vided for like disability. Ihb Fort Scott road recently made a sweeping rednction in freight rates in order to meet the cat rnahe by competing lines from St. Louts into its territory.

Classes 2, 3 and 4 werj reduced respecti vely iro.n 4J. aii and 13 cents to 25. 2J 15 and JO cents. Summary of the Dally News. CONGRESS.

A nir.r. was reported in tho Senate on the firth abolishing the ofllce of for the district of Nebraska anil Iowa. The Senate then took up the bill incorporating the Nicaragua Canal and after some debate passed It by a vote of 3H to 13. The Total Disability Pension bill was then taken ud and debated at length. Senator Plumb introduced a bill for public buildings at Lawrence and Kan- San City, Kan.

Adjourned In the House the resolution directing an inquiry into the circular issued by Commi'sioner Black requiring certain pension claimants to perfect the prosecution of their claims within loo days was tabled. Uills mid resolutions were introduced. After transacting business pertaining to the District of Columbia a testimonial of respect in memory of the late W. Corcoran was placed on the record and the House adjourned. Amojjo the bits introduced into the Senate on the 88th was ono by Senator Sherman authorizing the issue of circulating note to National Hanks to the par value of bonds do-posited.

After unimportant business and some political talk consideration of the Dependent nnd Total Disability Pension bill was resumed in Committee of the Whole. An amendment was adopted extending its provisions to soldiers of the Mexican und Indian wars who served thirty days. Then followed a long talk which ceased only with adjournment In the House the Oklahoma bill was fur; her considered in the morning hour. In Committee of the Whole publio building measures were considered and number passed on. When the committee rose the House adjourned.

Iff this Kcnuto on thCWlh the bill to establish a National Art Commission passed. The bill to provide for tho compulsory education of Indian children passed. The live civilized tribes are excepted from its provisions. The Total Disability Pension bill was then taken up and a lively debate followed without reaching a vote. Adjourned After tho usual routine work tho House went into Committee of the Whole for the consideration of the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bond-, with the surplus, and debatccontinued until tho Bpeciiil order eulogies upon the late Koproson-tatlvo Moffutt, of Michigan, was reached.

Kulogles were delivered and tho House adjourned. I.v the Senate on March 1 tho resolution reported from the Committee on foreign Kela-tions requesting the President to negotiate a treaty with China containing a provision that no Chinese laborers shall enter the United Stall's was taken up anil after some debate adopted. The Pension bill was then taken up and debated until adjournment In the House tho blil forbidding the transmission through tho mails of papers containing lottery advertisements was reported adversely. The resolution accepting tho Invitation of the French Kcpublic to take part in the International Kxhihil at Paris in 1SS0, was discussed In Committee or the Whole, also tho resolution authorizing a conference to be held in Washington iu l.S'-n, to provide commercial relat ions with the Republics of Central and South America. When Hie Committee rose tho resolutions passed and the House adjourned.

Tun Hetiatii was not in session on the 2d In the House a resolution was adopted setting apart each Friday evening, beginning at o'clock, for the consideration of pension and political disability bills. After tho report of committees the House In Corrimll tee of tho Whole took up the private calendar and the "omnibus" bill providing for tho payment of a large number of claims for supplies used by the army during the war. When the committee rose the bill passed. At the evening session twenty-live pension bills and several bills removing political disabilities were passed. WASHINGTON NOTES.

Actimi Hkcketauv TiioMi'ov has signed Orders for tho dismissal ami reduction ol salaries of assistant custodians, janitors, 'levator conductors nnd laborers in all public building! under tho Treasury L)r-purl incut. This action was rendered necessary by tho condition of tho appropriation for this sei viec. Tun President has sent tho following nominations lo tho House: John K. Car-land, of Dukutn, to ho Associate Justice of tho Supremo duel, of the Terrilory of D.i kota; Moses Liiiil -ll, of Louisiana, to Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of tho Territory of Montana; Lucius Nash, of Washington Territory, to bo Associate Justice of tho Supremo Court i tho Territory of Washington. Tim President has directed that tho new military post nt Highwood, near Chicago, do Known ami (icr.ignnteil as loit Sheri dan, iu bonor of Lieutcinuit-fiotieral Shen Usui.

i iib Decretory or tlio interior has reorganized tho foreo of his immediate ofilco employed on land appeal eases, with nvievv to greater cfllcioncy. Tho office is at present 1, W.M case behind. Tiir will of tho Into XV. V. Corcoran, of "Washington, was offered for probate on the 2ln.li, Tho greater portion of tho estate which is valued at is bequeathed lo his three grandchildren George) Louise M.

and ilLam C. Kustis to bo held in trust for them for ten years. ItiK reduction in he public debt during February iinuuiuloil to and since Juno 80, or tho Hist seven mouths of tho current llseal year, Aggregates Tiir. Mills Tariff bill was published on the 1st. Wool, lumber, salt, 11 ix, jute, bng- ging, tin plates, soap, oils, copper, opium.

pulp, works of art nnd other products were placed on too free list. The duties on a lavgo number of articles wero also reduced The reduction contemplated nmountod to 15.1,0110. 0M No change was propose in the internal revenue. Tub Secretary of the Treasury hns linen advised oT an ortranizod movement for tho emigration of German convicts to this country and has taken steps to guard against such. Mil.

CJ en a nirs, the new Greek Minister to tho Unitid States, win officially received by tho President on tho with the usual formalities. THIS EAST. WliEX J. jeweler, arrived nt his oflVo on tho second flior of 1013 Ch-' stunt street, Philadelphia, the other morning ho found that hi sale had been broken open during the night and jewelry valued at between fi.09d and taken. XV.

It. IIkii.i.y, shoe manufacturer of Auburn, N. has inndo iv general assignment because of tho failure of tho First National Bank of that place. His assets nnd liabilities arc not known. Tun umpire appointed to settle the wages dl- pute nt tho Pittsburgh (Pa.) lube works has decided that the company was not justified in ordering a ten per cent, reduction in wages.

About mon were uffectc 1. und the decision occasionel a general sensation. Finn in Salamanca, N. tho other morning destroyed three business blocks, three residences and a rink und their contents, causing $7.,000 loss. Tun Union Square Theater, Now York, was destroyed by fire on the nficrnoon of the Sikh.

During tho progress of tLo tire a number of firemen wero seriously injured by tho roof falling in. Thero were some nnrrow escapes from the Morion House, r.djoinlng. and thero wero rumorJ of massing guests and employes. A TEiticinc boiler explosion occurred at the Last Chance colliery, near Sbainokin, recently. "The foreman, Israel Starth-rl, wns severely and, perhaps, fatally injured.

Tim building and machinery was much damaged. Govermok Gkkcv. of New Jersey, has vetoed tho Local Option High License bill passed by the Legislature. Tub grand jury at New York has refused to indict Gouid and Sage for larceny of the Kansas Pao'fio bonds, the statute of limitations operating as a bar. Dvfino a concert at Wilkesbarre, recently, lima di Murska fainted away on thestnge.

An effort was mudo to resume, but she was too ill to stand, and was taken immediately to tho hotel. Her life, was de-pu'red ol. A Band of Twenty Raid Two Plaoas and Kill Ten or Twelve Persons. Troops in Pursuit Murderer Erich-ner, of St. Louis, Sentenced For Ninety-nine Years.

A Constate Kills a Contractor Supposed Mail Eobber Arrested A "Woman Murders Her Husband. Matamoras, March 6. Advices from Leva do Canales, iu the southern part of the Slate, say that on the morning of the 28th ult. that place and I'icacho ranch were attacked by a party of nineteen or twenty men from Escauodon, commanded by Braulio Cervantes. At both places bloody contests took place.

At Leve, the first alcalde, Juan Sanchez, and his daughter were killed, as were also Maneglido Ruiz, Epigmence Podriguez and Crescendo Munoz. At Picacho they killed President Julie Acoana and his son, Pablo Bus-tamonte, Analdoman Mendarno and Lopez and Nemecco Juarez. Of the attacking party, one Porfiro Sapatta was killed. TLo loss on the port of Leve was nine men and one girl killed. The loss of Escanodon was one killed and a number of persons wounded.

Th i fight is said to have been a bloody one. It appears that the assailants first attacked Leve, killed wounded many of the most prominent cit zens, robbed the post and stamp oCices, and attacked several stores. They then, after doing all the damage possible, As far as can be ascertained, the names ot the attacking party are as follows: Braulio Cervantes Keyes Badillo, Jose Montes, Agapito Do-reigo, Lemus, Ireneo Francisco and Nicholas Sanchez, Emil Iras, Nicholas and Fernando Kogue, Cleopas Lopez and Pilar Cervantes. General Stella at once ordered troops from various quarters to actively pursue the bandits. Two of them, Nicholas and Fernando Rouee, were captured at Jai mauve and at Hermano's ranch near Lis Presas; Francisco Sanchez was run down and captured by a squad of tho Thirteen! Cavalry under Cornel Santos-, Sanchez was well armed and mounted and tried to resist arrest.

NINETY-NINE teaks. St. Louis, March G. Adam M. Krichner, the wife murderer, pleaded guilty to the charjie of murder hi the second degree yesterday morning in the criminal court, and was sentenced to years' imprisonment in the pen.

Knchner's crime was a cold blooded one. He killed wife Helena, on May 3), 1S85, at their residence on Illinois avenue. She had a little money and this appears to have been i he aitraeth for him. He was always after her lo give him money. He wanted her to start him in business with her little fund, but she refused.

This led to trouble, and were quarreling constantly. He beat her ono day and they separated. She sue! for divorce and preferred a charge of assault and battery against him. The day of the killing he received the papers in the divorce snit. He immediately went lo the house.

When be arrived there he found his wife had put all his things outdoors. He emleavored to get her to place them back and also to drop the suit she had brought against him. When she refused he drew a revolver and shot her. CONTRACTOR- KILLED. St.

Locis, Miireh (5. An atrocious murder has been committed at Winona, Shannon County, a prominent radroad contractor being the victim. The Currant river branch of the Gulf is being constructed here under a contract, sublet lo Gecrgo Madden. The contractor, in obedience to a demand from his laborers, has often asked I for an advance in the payments. Saturday morning he threatened to shoot Mr.

Mc-Kee, surermtendent of construction. Constable John Rucker interfered and saved trouble, but later lay in ambush and as Madden passed by shot and killed him in a most uucalled for and cowardly manner. He flail to a justice's office and in firteen minutes was released on bail and took to the woods. In Hie meantime the railroad hands organized for a lynching bee, and the last seen of Rucker was when flying through the woods, pursued by a howling mob. There is no communication with this point, and it is not known if tbe fugitive escaped or not.

The men have returned to work. A MAIL ROnilEU ARRESTED. Denison, March 6. Postmister Malcom, of Colvert. I.

came in at 10:3) o'clock last night, having with him a man giving his name as B. Snyder, who had been arrested by him for opening United States mail. The man was found with a large number of valuable letters which he said he had picked up along the railroad track about three miles north of this citv. Dratts on New York City to the amount of 147.a75 were among the matter received, He was placed in jail here, where he was visited by a reporter to whom he stated he was from Dallas County and that he had been in" McKinney Friday last, end it is now thoui-'ht that he is the man who robbed the post-office at that place on that day. S.lXDBAKGED AND KOBBED.

Masdas, D. March 6. About mid- aight, at New Buffalo Pullman Conductor Towne was attacked in the drawing room of his car Dy two masked men who sandbagged him and robbed tho contents of his pocketbook. They Ihen dragged him to the platform and left him for dead. He was found shortly after the the train ha I started by a passenger, but did not regain bis senses until tbe train reached Mandan yesterday r-iing.

New Buffalo is a few les from Fargo, and the train was a west-bound Northern Pacific express. MURDERED HER IICSBAXD. Palmtra. March 6. Marl in St ein-hauser, a farmer, r.

sidmg two miles south of this place, was found in a dying condition on the floor of his house, with a bullet wound in his head and other serious wounds evidently infl cted with a sharp instrument. Mrs. Steinhauser reports that the deed was committed by burglars, but before the ctim died he said hi wife had done it to get him out of the way. Mrs. Steinhauser wai arrested, and it is proba- ble that a man liv.ng in the neighborhood win aiso De apprehended an accessory.

Cutting- a maiden's hair would seem to be a task i pleasure. My barber tells me this is not so. He is an affable gentleman, with endless patience a-id small conversational powers. "You'd think it was fan, would you?" he said the other day. "Well, Jemme tell you it ain't" A girl has just put her head in the door to say that Misa Ethel Blr.ck wanted a shingle and would be at homo an hour later for the operat cn.

This provoked tte query. "People who da't know might think as you do, young reler, but they fool themselves. I'U go 'round there in an hourand a mighty mean time will I have. Ethel 11 be there, of course. Ho'll le Ethel's three sisters, her maw, her Annt Sairy, her gran'maw and like as not some of the neighbor's women.

They won't none of 'em want her to do it, except perhaps, the yourg-ast jl1 in th 5 loL Ethel's made up her mimt, but they a'l talk to her. Her Aunt Sairy will snufSe tnd ak Maria, which is the girl's maw, how can the let her l-i it, and She neighbor's women side with her. Grsn'-muw will kick, too. (Xher girls giggle nd tell tow bad she'il look. Then I gits to work.

They all yell at the first nip of the shears. Tnen they begin cn me. I've pot to suit ail of 'cm, including the aunt and Rr-ju'maw. wbo caijt see no moro'n a cat. in It's kick, kick, kick, ail the En, from the start to finish.

When I'm through 1 tell jou I'm tired lucky if 1 aui't mad. Cut a gal's lir fuaf Sol v.r much, Brooklyn CESEKAT. Gheat excitement prevailed at Guaymas, r'-cently over the news that the Mexican Government had chartered a steamer to take troops from Mazatlan to San Benito where tho Guatemalan insurgents were invading Mexican soiL Thomas J. Mooxey, who on August 3 last threw what was supposed lo have been a dynamite bomb on the deck of the National line steamer Queen, has been acquitted of the charge on the ground of msanity. The British House of Commons has adopicd new rules, decreasing tho cloture number to 10J and givingthe Speaker power to suspend members.

The conuivanco of General Boulangcr with the promoters of his election in the districts where vacancies exist is said to have been proved. The French Ministers were considering the question of punishing him. Theub were rumors recently that Captain Ikecticr, son of tho la'e Henry Ward Beecher was in some way mixed up with the opium smuggling scandals. Cap'ain Beecher is special agent of the Treasury IKp.irim 'nt at San Francisco. Ir is stated on good authority that the deficit of the late Norquay and Harrison Government of Manitoba will amount to 000.

The freight brakemen on the Atlantic Pacific railroad recently threatened to strike against tho extension of the freight divison between Williams and Peach Springs, without extra pay. General Bkago, the new American Minister, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in tha City of Mexico on tho They were met by a committee of prominent American residents. Tiie sarcophagus containing tho body of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Sa da. Fi ne, tho member or Parliament who was iirrested in London, was convicted at Clonmel, Ireland, of offenses under the Crime act, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment without hard labor. Some talk of a compromise of the Bur-linglon strike was prevalent on the Ai.onzo DifiMicK, the noted insurance agent defaulter of Buffalo, who fled to Canada to avoid a live years' term in prison, died recently at.

St. Catherines, Ont. Another avalanche in Italy has killed many cattle and destroyed a large number of houses. 5i. Wii.sont, the son-in-law of ex-President Grevy, who has been on trial for complicity in tho legion of honor decoration scandals, has been convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, to pay a fine of .1,000 francs and to be deprived of his civil rights for live years.

A I. tho Powers have replied to tho Russian proposals concerning Bulgaria. England, in her reply, declares that she is unable to advise the Sultan to take steps leading to 1 he removal of Prince Ferdinand before sal isf.ictory measures are proposed to settle Bulgaria's future after his removal. The rumors of a compromise of the Burlington railroad strike proved baseless, and on lio 1st the situation was worse than ever. The Brotherhood had entered into an agreement with the Knights of Labor, and orders were given for tho former's engineers on tho Reading road to str ko in a.d of the Knights.

Tho outlook was considered serious as it was probable tho troubles would involve other roads. Canadian lumbermen are especially pleased with tho provision of the new Tariff bill placing lumber on the free list. The final transaction in the deal for ho removal of Ltbby prison from Richmr nd, to Chicago has been completed and the famous building will be removed at once. The Speaker of the British House of Commons has invited Justin McCarthy, Irish Nationalist, to join the panel of live deputy Speakers created under the new procedure rules. The Bishop of Cork permitted the body of the late Stephen J.

Meauy to be placed iu Iho Catheiral thero on tlfc condition that there was no political demonstration. The condition of of the Crown Prince of Geun uiy was reporled alarming cn the 2d. A tciina paper stated that one of the at tending physicians had nearly choked him to deal owing to lack of experience. Business failur js (Dun's report) for the seven davs ended March 1 numbered for the United States, 2B; Canada, total, lt, compared with 70 the previous week aud23tbe corresponding week last year, TIIU JLAXJSSX. No change was reported in the Burlington st rike en the 5lh.

There was a gather ing of Brotherhood officials at Chicago to liseus. tho situation. At Kansas City a strike look place lasting a few hours on i h'. Rock Island under a mistaken impression that tho road was handling Burlington business. The Senate on the fth took up the bill.

In the House a resolution iuiroluced to investig itc the Burling-on strik The election ae from Alabama was considered without result. The French stfancr La Normandio, vliich arrived at New York on the 5th from Havre, has been detaiued at quarantine account of a case of cholera in the steerage. A i. railway traffic in Sweden and Den-n w.is stopped on the 5th by heavy nowfalls. Trade on the lines in North-ast Gei mat was also interrupted.

Most Rev. James Wai.su, Roman Catholic Bishop of K.ldarc and Leighlin, Ireland, is dead. At a recent meeting of the Ministerial Association, of Louisville, a resolution vas adopted condemning Sunday newspapers, and pledging the members to notallow heir church notices to appear in them. Tiie big steel gun has been taken from he annealing furnace of the Pittsburgh eel Casting Company's works and found bo quite perfect. The joint Democratic Congressional 'xocutivc Campaign Committee met at Washington on the 5tU and organized by he unanimous election of Senator Kenna, West Virginia, as chairman.

It also lecied Hon. Pail B. Thompson, as ciT. ta-y and J. L.

JTorris, or the District Colombia, as treasurer. Tun Presbyterian Mutual Assurance As- of Louisville, has made an i -signoeut. RonEitT akisett, of the Baltimore Jhio, has been hear! from in Asia. Bi.Acii mor.sl-js has been ravaging the cz "Perce Indians in tho vicinity of Spo- vane Fulls, W. T.

It whs announced in Boston on the 5th hat the death of Louisa M. Alcott was mo- expected. The death of her veu- fitth-vr, Brouson Alcott, was a severe hock to her naturally delicate organiza- iou. Tub President has sent to the Senate the nominal ions: John Lee Logan, if Neiv York, to be Associate Justice of jiie Supreme Court of Idaho; Charles C. Joiie3, tf Nebraska, to be rcgistt of the and oftice at Nehgh, JSeb.

Rev. John S. Oo'phin, cf Minnesota, to be post- chaplain, tn I George K. Hollis, of Massachusetts, to jo United State- Consul at Cape Town. Municipal, elections were held on the 5'h hroughout Maine.

In Lewiston. the vote i Mayor Litile (Rep.) was McGell-cuddy, (Bern) l.OKt. Ia Auburn, Penny Rep received 1,166 votes; Foss (I)etn.) 70; Stanley (ind.) 1231; French (Pro.) 5J. The city governments of Auburn and Leu islua are THIS WEST. Pkkxtiss Tili-eis, who obbed the Pacific Express Company's oflico in St.

Louis of over $10,000 in IHxt, was discharged rrom tho Missouri penitentiary on the -i h. A SKiuors wreck occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee ct St. Paul recently near Kockford, 111. P. K.

Wilheim, rout.o agent, nnd Thomas Morrison were seriously hurt. The accident, it was alleged, was ie to an inexperienced engineer employed by the Burlington Company, who could not tret his engine out of the way of the Milwaukee train at the crossing. Several cars wore smashed. Wasijtkxaii County, is tho first one of twenty-eight counties which have voted on b'cal option to go It did so by 1.500 majority. At Fairlniven, the oilier night, while a farmer named Miller his wift wore at church, their house burned down and their three children, aged thirieen, ten and seventeen, who had been locked in, perished.

The explosion of a lantern was tho cause. Tun Union League Club House Minneapolis was destroyed by lire tho oi lier morning-, causing S'-'oDOO loss. Justice Haki.an, of the United States Supremo Court, recently at Indianapolis, refused to grant a new trial to tho convicted ballot forgers. Fihe at Wellington. tho other day destroyed ton building- in tho business section, causing )-) loss.

It is reported in Cincinnati that a local syndicate hns obtained control of enough Cincinnati, Hamilton ci Dayton stock to keep the Ives interest out of tho management. Di'itiNo a dance at William Handficld'a farm house near West Salem, 111., the other night, John Snocrly shot and killed Henry It. Klwcll. There was an old grudge between the parlies. Stioerly escaped.

Ho is about twenty-live years old. A roiiTiox of tho new Midland Hotel nt Kansas City, fell on Six or seven of til! workmen were injured, two supposed fatally. Ono man was missing, and it was thought he was dead, buried under the debris. At Sutter Creek, recently the Sutter Hotel rcof was discovered to bo on fire. Fanned by a strong southern gale the lire soon spread through the business houses.

The loss was between and The Manistee (Mich.) Salt and Lumber Company has made an assignment. The assets are If.) and the liabilities $Mi 1,000. Tho liabilities are composed mostly of floating indebtedness to banks. The Supremo Court, of California has refused a rehearing of the decision of the Circuit Court that Sarah Alt hoa HiU was legally married to the lato Senatcr Sharon. Two men were fatally and two others seriously injured in a mine near Hancock, recently, by a fall of rock.

A toiisapo or severe storm blew down several houses and killed ono man at New ton, on the evening of the 1st. Storms wero also reported at Kay more, and ol her places. THIS sccia. A blizzard struck Columbus, i the night of the 2Mb. and the ground was covered with snow.

Mrss Kate Woi.f, living in Kavenna.Tex., was burned to death the other evening, her clothing catching lire from a iireplace. The Kagsdalc House at Meridcn, was burned the oilier night. Loss, insurance, 10 Wll.l.m KoiuxsoN- and Charl Rosberry, two boys, aged twelve and fourteen, drove into the Trinity river at Fort Worth, recent ly to water their- horse. The horse stepped beyond his depth, audi he cuiTcti; swept wagon, horse nnd boy down the river. Robinson was drowned, bat was rescued.

JriiOE E. B. TntNKii, of the United Slates Court for tho Western District of Texas, was report I at the point of dealhmt Austin. His sickuess was Brighl's disease. Coi.oxei, E.

B. Cash, the famous duelist and lire cater," who killed Colonel William M. Shannon, a prominent lawyer, in a duel in August, 188'). and who subsi queutly defied the State to arrest him, di'd iu Chesterfield County, S. recently, of paralysis, aged sixty-six years.

Ho ivas buried besido his son, Boggan Cash, a young desperado who was killed by a sheriff's posse while resisting r.rre.'-t for the murder of the town marshal of Cheraw. lieforothe war Colonel Cash own several hundred slaves. City Makshai. of Fort Worth, lias received a telegram from Ofllccr Evans, dated Rosenberg, to the effect that Y. L.

Reason, tho man arrested for tho fearful Gainesville crime of July 13, S7, had tried to essapc by jumping from the train and w.is fatally injured. The murder was a horrible one. Miss Genio Watkuis being murdered and Miss Bostick mutilated. At a settlement known as the Spanish enmp, about sixty miles from Houston, composed of Mexicans, negroes and desperate whites, a negro cabin was set on tire and he occupants brutally shot down as they ran from the burning house. Five were killed outright.ono severely wounded, and two ethers consumed the burning dwelling.

Another negro was also found hanged. The negroes had recently gained possession of the property in a lawsuit and this was thought to have tccasioncd the butchery. Tit.ux No. 2 north bound on the St. Louis, Arkansas Sc Texas was robbed by three men near Kingsland.

on the morning of the About $10,000 was taken from the express. Hits. Maktiia. Bfttcir, tho missing Ken- lucky heiress, has turned up inNicholat- ville. that State, but has not accounted for her absence.

Tub Supreme Court of Alabama has de cided the act establishing a colored university to b-5 unconstitutional, on tiie ground that the money appropriated was part ot a fund which had bee.i declared. by the Const itut'iDti to bo for common schools, and which could not be used for auuiver- sit v. Eighteen of the twenty-five prisoners confined in tho parish jail at Sbreveport, made their escape tho other morning. All of them could have escaped, as all the ceils were broken open, but those who remained preferred to do so. Enwis BAitmirn, son of Hon.

James Bar bour, recently shot and killed Ellis Wil liams, at Culpepper Court House, Va. The shooting grew out of a newspaper contro versy. Barbour is a nephew of United States Senator-elect Barbour. Two small chitdien of Thoma Jones, col on, of Hampton, were burned to recently. A disastrous wreck on the Southern Pa cific occurred fifty miles east c.f San Antonio, recently.

As local freight No. was crossing Hondo creek the bridge gave way when the engine had just parsed over, killing Bob liardesty, a brakeiuan, and a San Atonio stockman named Eth-eridge outrigt-1, and breaking bo-h legs of Conductor Guotge Dav.dscu siad Brakem.m Leui Hull ed, and earthenware 40 per cent, ad valorem. now about per caustic tiles pel cent, ad valorem, cow 33 per cent, preen and colored glass bottles, three-fourths of ono cent a pound, now one cent. There i3 also a provision for adding the value of bottles when tilled to thj value of the dutiable goods. Fliut and lime plaws bottles and pressed glassware.

3tf per cent, ad valorem, now 40 per cent. cj lindex and crown glass, polished, and between 24 by 3d and 24 by 6) inches square, 13 cents a square foot. Above that measurements cents a squara foot; now 20 and 40 cents respectively. Unpolished cylinder crown and common win dow glass not exceeding lu by 1 inches, ccnl a pound. Above that and not exceeding 1G bj- i4, Vt ceats; above that anU not exceeding jh ny 31, 1V4 cents; all above cents, now l.

aua IS, audS.V The administrative provisions constitute tne most voluminous part of the bill and embrace the provisions compiled by Mr. Hewitt in the Forty-ninth Congress and incorporated in the Morrison bill. Mr. Hewitt's provisions anonsn- ing the office of merchaut appraiser and providing new methods of appraisement arc omitted. THE PANOLA TRAGEDY.

Lrn'hijr of Yoanu Fumyth For I lie Mne cler and Robbery of Treasurer Hill. Longview, Alarch 1. Last night, while news of the arrest of Tom Forsyth, his confession of the murder and robbery of D. U. Hill, treasurer of Panola Countv.

was being flashed over tho wires from this place, quite another scene was being enacted at Carthage, which has no telegraphic communication. About 400 mon were taking him out or jad by forca Young Forsyth offered no resistance, bul begged to be spared death by firo. ll climbed up a ladder while both of hie hands were pinioned behind and af the word, jumped off, breaking his ucca and dying at the end of the lyncher'i avenging rope. All this was done quicke than it takes to record it. No masks were used and the moonlight at len p.

m. shone as bright as day, disclosing the familial features of about -20) of I'anola County'f best citizens. The scene was in the court yard, right in plain view of the hotel. Aftci life was extinct, lie was cut down and car ried by the lynchers to the very spot stir, stained with ibe llood of County Treasure! D. C.

Iliil, and laid down in a similar position and tho mob quietly dispersed anc friends look the young mau'is remains anc prepared them for the coflin. His bodj was taken to Bockviile for interment. 1I confessed to II. E. Farki who worked ui the case.

Mr. Parker's first suspicion was nrouseC when he look young Forsyth to the 8ol where Hill was murdered, and from thai time on lie left nothing undone to Jind out where tbe money was concealed. Ho first succeeded in getting 3'oung Forsyth tt think he was after the negro. Carter Tib bett, thus lulling all suspicion. He brought ycuug Forsyth up to bis place ostensibly rdiitdow Tibbett, whose father lives lieni, While here young FcryLh gambled, awl.

being broke, borrowed money from Mr. Parker, which he paid ot Carthage when he returned. Tho j'oung man continued to lose and replenish from tha stolen money each vWit, which waa closely watched until the whereabouts of the money iva Mr. Parker wishing to locate the silver which Forsyth uevei seemed to resort to, usked him if he could get him some silver, as lie could not raise any in town, to which Forsyth assented, nnd soon was shadowed to a thickel iu the woods near Carthage. After sonw search a broken pine limb was found under wh.ch fresh dirt was discovered.

Upon digging the silver was found and guarded. Then further developments were w.iitcd till Monday, when the arrest was made, and the lynching deferred by young Forsyth making confession in open court. The money was found in Forsyth's trunk in hi room at his father's, lis said ho killed Treasurer Hill while no one else was at the court house, and buried the money in an old outhous-j near by, and rode out in the country to see a you ug lady tli at evening. Returning late at night, he took iho bills i his room and buried the silver stated above. Forsyth had tried to implicate Carter Tibbett, by putting some of the money in his yard, and Tibbett came near being lynched.

PUBLIC DEBT. Tha Reduction Dorinc tbe Month, of VrW rnary, 765,330. Washington, March 2. The reduction in the public debt during February amount ed to and since June 39, or the first seven months of the current liscai year, ag gregates $76 974 C'J. Th-! net cash in tho treasury to-Jay i or moro than a month airo.

Tbe gold fund balance lo-day i or about 000,000 more than on I'cbruaiy I. The silver fund balance, exclu-dve of 6.500.0 .11 trade dollars bullion, to-day is 150,000, a decrease about during the past month. liatiunai Dank depositories bold of Government money. or S5J.000.OJO more than February 1. Government receipts dur.ng February $3L 151,431, mora than ia February, JS7, whilo expenditures 'wars but $13 bas.6tfi.

or less than iu February, 1537. Receipts from all sources for the nrst seven roonlfcs of tbe current fiscal year reach 5253, 903, and esjendi-tures during the urn; period aggregated Carlisle' Kick Son. Wichita, March Hon. John O. Carlisle, Speaker of the National House of Representatives, who arrived in this city last week is detained at the bedsido of XV.

K. Carlisle, his eldest son, who lies in a critical condition. Ii is reporled from Paris that a sleeping car company has been ordered to prepare a train to take the CrowrTPriafe ot Germany fro sau Rerao to yerUa. revenue reductions were agreed on yes- I publications of forei gn societies, his-. t.

toncai or scientific minted for gratuitous dis terday by the Democrats of lhe Ways and Jueans Committee and will be reported to tbe full committee early next week and considered with the Tsriff bilL They effect a total reduction of or The tobacco tax, except on cigars and cigarettes, is repealed, reducine the revenue about $19.0:0,000. Licenses abolished will make a further reduction of between? 4 OOaOOO and 5.00J,000. There ia no KnlrilK Tho I factnrerj of fruit brandy are allowed lo place their product in bonded warehouses and take warehouse receipts for the saine timo as the wbisky distiUcr-J cow have,.