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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1596. JERCE SLALGHT * 0FTHE HUNGARA 5 Irish-Americans Battle for ..+ Their Lives With Foreigners. . - Knives Freely Used and Scores % Stabbed During the Ter- rible Combat. Ciubs and Stones Are Also Favorite Weapons and Many May Die From Injuries. CLEVELAND, Omro, Nov. 22.—A riot - occurred on the West Side here to-night . between a score of Hungarians and as many Irishmen, in which many men were stabbed. Dirks, knives and clubs were freely used and nearly all of the com- batants were more or less injured. Two * men were taken to the hospital in a dying condition, two others cannot survive their wounds and many are dangerously wounded. The police arrived on the scene ‘after the affair had been in progress for half an hour. They took seven men to jail and more will be arrested. The place where the trouble occurred is on Frank- lin-avenue extension, near Columbia street, & district inhabited by Hungarians and Irish-Americans. About 6 o'clock Joseph and John Bprends and James Carter became en- gaged in a quarrel. In the melee John Sprends drew a pocket-knife and stabbed Carter several times in the head. Mean- while Sylvester Carter, father of the boy, arrived on the scene. He struck one of the Sprends and was immediately knocked down and brutally stabbed in the head end back. He will die. By this time all . the Hungarians on the hill were out and - . taking a hand in the row. The word was quickly passed among the irish that an Irishman was being killed. Thereport had the effect of a spark on dry tinder. In an.instant fifty or more Irish- men were on the scene. With a whoop they waded into the fray. More Hunga- rians came. Everybody was armed either .with knife or club. Then ensued the live- liest mix up in the history of Cleveland. - Clubs were raiced and slung with ternfic effect. A patrol wagon packed with po- lice officers dashed into the crowd of bat- tling men. There was a rush for escape, and nearly all who were not too severely wounded to run did get away. The police found lying on the battle- field James Carter, who was stzbbed in - the head and haa his skull fractured; his “father, Sylvester Carter, twenty stab wounds; Billy Maloney, twelve deep stab wounds and head supposed to be frac- .tured; Adam S8hierman, stabbed three times and blade broken off in a wound; John O'Neill, stabbed in face and back; Henry Schaefer, clubbed into insensibil- ity; William Zieker, cut in head and in- jured internally from being jumped upon. ‘Malloy was unmeraifally clubbed and slashed. He wae stabbed in the head and * vack fully a dozen times. After receiving the first cut he tried to escape by running down Franklin street. He was pursued by the swarthy Huns, who kept sinking their knives and dirks into his back while running. He finally dropped from weak- ness. Shierman received iwo stabs in the head and an ugly gash in the right shoul- der-blade, and & portion of the blade is still in his back. The police arrested John ana Joseoh Sprends, Michael Zicker, Antone Ballash, 21 years old; Michael Zieka and John Spousler. They were locked up, charged with rioting and cutting to wound. A general alarm was sent out and the police - are now searching for other rioters. CONFESSES A FIENDISH CRIME. Charles H. Elliott Admits Having Killed Guy Hutsonpiller, His Comrade and Roommate. OMAHA, NeBr., Nov. 22.—Charles H. Elliott, or George Elliott, who was ar- rested at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on a train from Omala, and is now in the County * Jail charged with the murder of his friend and roommate, Guy Hutsonpilier, made a confession to-day in the presence of wit- nesses, admitting that he killed Hutson- piller, but claiming that he committed the crime in the heat of passion and that he did not realize until afterward the en- ormity of his deed. The police still be- lieve the murder premeditated, and claim the confession is made in the hope of se- curiog a lesser punishment. According to the statement of the pris- oner he had adispute with Hutsonpiller over a small balance, and both losing their temper a quarrel resulted in which, he " says, his friend threatened to whip him. He then picked up a coupling vin which was in the room and struck Hutsonpiller on the head with it. He then went out and purchased some chloroform with which he saturated a towel and placed 1t over the injured man’s face. He savs that Hutsonpiller was alive and he left him so, and when he had attended to settling his bills he left town. He declares that he had no knowledge of his friend’s death until after his arrest. After he first hit Hutsonpiller, he says, his mind became confused, and except for the chloroform incident he can remember nothing until he started for the depot. He admits hav- ing taken $21 35 from his roommate’s pockets, but insists that his story of re- ceiving $100 in a letter the day before the killing is true. s SENATOR CHANDLE®S VIEWS, * Differs With John Sherman in Regard to Tariff Legislation. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 22,—Senator Chandler of New Hampshire is at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. In conversation with a representative of the United Asso- ciated Presses to-day he denied that he was seeking a Cabinet position, but said that the Republicans of New Hampshire " would like to see Governor Buseil in the Cabinet. With regard to the tariff, he stated that he differed with John Sher- man’s views recently expressed on ttat matter and said : “The reason SBenator Aldrich made the statement that no tariff legislation could ve enacted this coming session was to counteract the effect of what Senator Sherman had said. I agree with Senator Alarich. Senator Sherman being at the bead of the Finance Committee and en- ioying great distinction, made the asser- tion that the Dingley bill could pass. This would naturally create the impres- slon that we would soon have relief in that direction. It is a serions question whether it could pass or not, but the chances are that it would not.” He was of the opinion, however, that the provisious of the Dingley bill provid- ing for the issue of short-time bonds to the amount of $50,000,000 could be passed and for the present the expenses of the Gov- ernment could be tided over. He ex- pressed himself as in favor of the passage of this provision. “I am opposed to the hurrying through of any imperfect tariff measure,’”” he added. “Better take time and pass a bill that will suit and give general satisfaction.” The Senator said he did not believe 1n trying to read out of the party certain Republi- cans who were for silver. He declared that he looked on them still as good Re- publicans and felt they woulv{ co-operate with the Republicans in passing a tariff measure. i R COLLAPSE OF THE NAIL TRUST. Ruinous Expenditures in Buying Up Com- petitors and Paying “Inspectors™ Force the Combine to the Wall. CHICAGO, IrL, Nov. 22—A :porning paper says: The great wire-nail trust which has levied tribute on the people of the United States since January 1, 1!}95, has coilapsed, and will endeavor to wind up its affairs by Decemberl. Sales agents representing mills within the pool were yesterday scrambling to sell nails at $1 70 per keg in Chicago, which is precinly_ $1 per keg below the trust’s circular price, and jobbers were selling in lots of from 1 to 1000 kegs trom store at $2 per keg. Be- fore the end of the present week the price will undoubtedly be down to $1 25 per keg, or within 30 cents of the lowest price they ever sold here. Thetrust hasthrown up both hands, and in a circular to the jobbers gives them liberty to sellatany price they please. Troubles have multiplied on the trust’s head very rapidly during the last eight months. In that time the stream of dol- lars which poured into its coffers during the early months of its career had to be used to buy up at rouud prices the oppo- sition mills which sprang up on all sides, as well as to meet a multitude of other expenses. Not the least of these was the maintenance of a regular force of in- spectors almost as large as the Govern- ment’s secret service, to keep all the members of the pool ‘‘toting fair.” For this and kindred purposes the trust im- posed a personal tax of $150 per keg on all the nails sold by its members, and re- bated to them the difference after the ob- jects sought were accomplished. A fund of $1,500,000 was returned to members on the showing made four months ago, but since that time the trust’s officials and commissioners have incurred liabilities of much more than this in their desperate fight to keep the trust going. These lia- bilities will have to be met by the indis vidual mills composing the trust, and a long drawn out period of litigation is highly probable. The advance of 15 cents per keg, ordered by the trust atits March meeting in this city,was the act which marked the trust’s downfall. This put the base price of nails at Pittsburg at $2 55, which under the pe- culiar terms of nail card meant that the lowest figures at which any nails could be boughu there was $3 05 per keg. This meant $3 20 in Chicago, and made the range of commercial nails to the West- ern consumer $4 to $5 per keg. This re- sulted in an immense curtailment of the demand and in turn forced the trust to close up 90 per cent of its mills and throw its workmen out of employment in order to reduce the output to comply with cur- rent needs. The entire sales of nails by the trust mulls during July were but 20,- 000 kegs and in August but 25,000 kegs, though the output agreed upon for these months was 60,000 and 50,000 kegs respec- tively. The March output reached 950,000 Kegs. J. H. Parks of 608 Sears building,Boston, was the originator of the pool and was its “‘commissioner.” To him was delegated the task of holding the association to- gether, and for this service he collected one cent per keg on each keg of nails sold in this country, besides a large appropri- ation for “‘secretaries’ ’ salaries and main- tenance of the inspection bureau. The association now has on its hands a large collection of leases of factories which it closed up; also numerous contracts with manufacturers of nail-making machinery who were prevented from selling to the trust’s competitors. Eitig s FIVE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. Perished in a Burning Residence While Their Parents Were Away Attend- ing a Dance. HAMILTON, Mo., Nov. 22.—A few miles north of here five children of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder Neal were burned to death late last night while the parents were at- tending a dance. Soon after starting home the Neals and those accompanying them discovered that the Neal residence was on fire. When they reached the burning build- ing the father saw his 11-year-old girl ly- ing burning in the front door clasping her 3-year-old brother in her arms. The flames prevented rescue. The children were then dead. The father fell in a swoon and has bee n a raving maniac ever since. Nora, 9 years old, is the only survivor of the fire. She says Callie 13, Hattie 11, Clarence 5, Julian 3, and herseif retired at the usual hour in an upstairs chamber. The next she knew the fire was coming through the floor and soon the room was enveloped in flames. S S ) LIVELY FIGHT AT A MEETING. Members of the Armenian Kevolutionary Society Not in Accord. LYNN, Mass., Nov. 22.—A meeting of the Henchagist Armenian Revolutionary Society this evening broke upin a lively fight. Chairs were thrown and knives drawn, but no one was seriously injured. There are two branches of the society in Lynn, and the meeting was called to con- sider the advisability of combining. Some 250 Armenians were present, inciuding a traveling organizer, who had just re- turned from London, England, where he had been in consultation with the Kuro- pean head of the society. Speakers who addressed the meeting in favor of amalga- mation were interrupted. One became angry and asserted that those responsible for the interruptions were not members and should not be al- lowed at the meeting. This was the sig- nal for hostilities. Men in the gallery picked up the seats ou which they and burled them at their countrymen on the floor below, who were not slow to respond in kind. The row was becoming general, as the malcontents in the gallery had al- lies in thelbody of u:'la h_;ll. when a half dozen police arrived. They cleared ball with difficnlty. o e —_— The Vote in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp, Nov. 22.—The election tabulations and footings are all ready for the official canvass of the vote, which takes place to-morrow. These foot- ings show the total vote at the last elec- tion to have been 637,259. They show the following pluralities, all for Republi- cans: McKiniey, for President, 17,978; Mount, for Governor, 26,177; Haggard, for Lieutenant-Governor, 21,673; Owen, for Secretary of State, 25,978; Daily, for Audi- tor of State, 19.828; Scholz, for Treasurer of State, 27,118; Ketcham, for Attorney General, 20,836, CLARA BARTON'S MISSION OF MERCY Noble Work Done by the Representatives of the Red Cross. Food and Medicine Given to the Persecuted Race of Armenians, There Is Yet Much to Be Donme in Relieving the Distress of the A ficted Christians. ‘WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 22.—Graphic and complete reports of the American re- lief expedition to Asia Minor last winter, spring and summer, under the Red Cross, have been made by Miss Clara Barton, vresident, and the officers and agents associated with her in the mission of mercy. The reports have been completed and will soon be published. That of Miss Barton is quite extensive, covering in a general way the work of the several expe- ditions sent out from Constantinople, the details of which their leaders supply. Miss Barton'’s references to the attitude of ths Turkish Government toward the relief work she directed are interesting and val- uable, and will have considerable influ- ence on public opinion. The work undertaken by the American Red Cross had its inception in the reports of the terrible sufferings endured by tise Armenians and from requests of Rev. Judson Smith of Boston, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and of Spencer Trask, connected with the National Armenian committee organized in New York. The party sailed January 22 on the steamship New York under grave uncer- tainty as to the Red Cross representatives being permitted to enter Turkey. The Turkish Minister’s pronunciamento was found to be official upon arrival at South- ampton, with the proviso, however, that such persons as Unitea States Minister Terrell designated would be received. The general field agent was dispatched to Cor- stantinople to confer with Minister Ter- rell, while Miss Barton and the rest of the party remained in London. The confer- ence being satisfactory Miss Barton pro- ceeded to Constantinople, reaching there February 15, meeting a cordial reception from the United States officials and from the missionary board of Constantinople, to which she refers with much feeling and respect. Her first interview with Tewfik Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the pres- ence of Miss Terrell, in which Miss Bar- ton explained the objects of the mission of herself and associates, is especially in- teresting and exhibits the Turkish states- man in an attitude quite attractive. As will be generally remembered, the pronuuciamento pronibiting the Red Cross from going to Turkey was the natu- ral result of the free expression of our opinions in public assemblages and through the press. Soat the beginning of the work considerable delay in sending out the first expedition, arranged in less than one week after arrival, was caused by the receipt at the Turkisih Gov- ernment in Constantinople of a quantity of American newspaper clippings adverse in tone to the Turkish administration. The Government censor wanted to know what they all meant and whether they had any connection with Miss Barton’s work before permitting her to proceed. Translations showed that there was nothing official in the publications. The request for delay was withdrawn. The relief was then carried into the dis- tressed districts by their five expeditions, under charge of Dr. Hubbell, E. M. Win- stor and C. K. Wood. Dr. Ira Harris of Tripoli, Syria, in aid of the work, took charge of the medical rellef in Saiioun and Marash, where 20,000 people were stricken with contagious diseases. Theseexpeditions penetrated the interior at a distance of a thousand miles from Constantinople, going in at the Medi- terranean and out at the Black Sea, cross- ing the Taurus Mountains and the EuJ)hrAlel in both the snows of winter and the suns of midsummer. Miss Barton speaks of the labors of her associates on these expeditions with sin- cere approval, paying them a high com- pliment for their faithfalness and devotion in the face of almost iuconceivable diffi- culties, which confidence and good-will is manifestly not without return on their part. Miss Barton returns thanks to the press of the United States, to all contributors to the relief fund, to the National Govern- ment, especially to the Secretaries of State and of the Navy, all the officials of the Unitea States legation in Constantino: le, and to the Embassadors of Engiand, Ger- many and Russia for substantial aid in carrying out the purposes of the mission. In conclusion Miss Barton suys not- withstanding all that has been done through all agencies infinitely more re- mains to be done by some one. ‘‘Between the Archipelago and the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea and the Meaiterranean,” she says, ‘‘are to-day living a million and a half of people of the Armenian race, ex- isting under ihe ordinances of at least semi-civilization and professing the re- ligion of Jesus Christ. According to the stated estimate of intelligent and impar- tial observers of various countries and concurred in by our own agents, whose observations have been unrestricted, from 100,000 to 200,000 of the persons—men, women and children—are destitute of rai- ment, fire, food, medicines and the com- forts that tend to make human life pre- servable, or any means of obtaining them, save thrangh the charitable beneficence of the world.’ BATTLE OF CHURCH FACTIONS. St. Stanislaus Parish the Scene of a Bitter Riot During Which Threats of Using Dynamite Are Made. BAY CITY, Mich., Nov. 22.—St, Stanis- laus parish, which has at various times for two years been the scene of incipient riots over the devositiou of its favorite priest, was the battle-ground at intervais for seven hours to-day of two factionsinto which the parishioners have divided. ‘When trouble ceased this evening it was ascertained that one policeman and about twelve of the church members had been injured, but none seriously. he trouble started at high mass when Father Bogacki announced that the anti- Matkowski faction could not examine the church accounts. Eighty men left the church. ‘When mass Was over a great mob had gathered about the vestry door and 1efused to permit the pastor to return to his residence. to lack of organization and clubs. When the police came they clubbed a way for Father Bogacki and had landed him on the rectory steps, when the anti-Mat- kowski faction made another charge. Priests and ofticers were driven back to the vestry. Here Father Bogacki re- mained a prisoner withoui food or drink until about 7 o'clock this evening, when Frank McPhillips, editor of the Tribune, learning that threats of dynamiting the church bad been made, drove to the scene and per-uaded Father Bogacki to quietly leave the building with him. After the riest had departed the mob dispersed. R‘he church was locked by the police and a strong guard placed in the pastoral resi- dence. To-morrow the ckurch will be opened. Trouble is expected, as both fac- tions will be out in force. e “WHY, THEN, MAY NOT 12" Rouss, the Sightless Multi-Millionaire, Hopes to Receive Vision by the Wonderful X Ray. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 22.—Perhaps one of the first to try the new cure for the blind discovered by Thomas A. Eaison, the wizard of Menlo Park, will be Charles 8. Rouss, the sightless multi-millionaire. Mr. Rouss is eagerly following every one of Edison’s experiments with the Roent- gen rays, and just as soon as he believes there is a possible chance of success he will submit himself to the treatment. . Mr. Rouss offered $1,000,000 to any one who would restore his sight. This offer attracted everybody from the scientist to the crank, and Mr. Rouss found it im. possible to try all the remedies offered, and engaged a young man named John Martin, also blind, to submit to any and all tests bafore they were tried on him. If the wizard will consent, Martin will probably be his first patient. Mr. Rouss declares if Mr. Edison thinks he can do him any good he is willing to go out to Menlo Park and stay a year. He is hopeful of the X rays, too, and points to the fact that a blind boy in S8an Francisco was made to see by them, and asks, “Why, then, may not 1?” e AN ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN Two Rails Fastened Across the Track, but the Plot Was Frustrated by a Timely Warning. SALT LAKE, Uran, Nov, 22.—An at- tempt, with a view of robbery, was made this evening to wreck the Union Pacific southbound passenger train leaving Ogden at 6 o’clock and due in Salt Lake an hour later. ' The plot was frustrated by the rail- road people receiving an anonymous warn- ing that somethine was going to happen, in consequence of which the train crew was re-enforced and instructed to keep a sharp lookout. The train proceeded very slowly until it reached a point where two rails were laid across the track and se- curely fastened in such a way as to cause derailment had ‘the train been going at or- dinary speed. The spot selected, near Kaysville, about eighteen miles from Salt Lake, was miles from any house and an ideal place for a robbery. Three suspicious characters have been arrested, but it is doubtful if they are the guilty parties, i P T HORRIBLE DEATH OF A PALLBEARER Plunges Into a Grave and Is Fatally Injured by Being Struck by the Falling Coffin. DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ara, Nov. 22— John Welton met a horrible death at Shiloh burying-ground, near here, yester- day afternoon. He was one ot the pall- bearers at the funeral of Junius Roberts, a farmer. The coffin was lowered into the grave by straps. The strap held by Welton and another man snapped as the coffin was being low- ered. Welton lost his balance as the strap broke and fell headlong into the grave, which was six feet deep. At the same time the rear end of the coffin, which had been held by the broken strap, also plunged downward. The falling coffin struck Welton on the head and banged him against the side of the grave, which was of hard soil. Mr. Welton was ex- tricated, but died two hours afterward. == CULLOM MAY GET A PLACE. Possible Promotion of the Semator to McKinley’s Cabin CHICAGO, ILn, Nov. 22.—A morning paper says: There was an unusunal amount of talk yesterday among the Republicans concerning Senator Cul- lom’s possible promotion to the Cabinet. The opinion that he may be recognized by McKinley is gaining ground, and a good many men yesterday were wondering who would be his successor in the Senate if he did receive a Cabinet portfolio. It is con- ceded that Chicago or Northern Illinois will name Palmer’s successor, and Central or Southern Illinois undoubtedly would claim the right of filling the vacancy which would be occasioned if Senator Cullom should resign. It seems the matter has been the subject of comment in inner Republican circles for some months, and ex-Governor Fifer has been sounded time and again as to his wishes in the premises. Mr. Fifer kas told a number of the most prominent Republicans in Cook County that under no circumstances would he be a candidate forthe United States Senate or any other elective office. ————— ZALK ABOUIT THE TARIFF. Visitors to Major Mckinley Discuss the Dingley Bul CANTON, Omio, Nov. 22.—President- elect McKinley attended divine service this morning without the company of his wife, although he took her for a drive during the early hours of the forenoon. This afternoon at the family dinner Major McKinley had as guests besides Mrs. Mec- Kinley, Mother McKinley, Miss Helen McKinley and a sister of Mrs. Abner Mec- Kinley. During the past week many of the visit- ing Congressmen have talked tariff with the President-elect and the Dingley bill has been the burden of conversation. It is said a majority of the callers agreed that, it would not be an easy matter to pass that measure, and that it would be wiser to have an extra session of Congress for the purpose of drafting a new tariff law. Major McKinley to-day said he ex- pected to' be in Canton Thanksgiving day. ——— Sentence of & Bank- Wyecker, HEBRON, NEBR., Nov. 22—Captain J. H. Stickle, for years a leader in politics in Central Nebraska and president of the de- funct Blue Valley Bank of this place, was last night convicted of wrecking that insti- tution and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by Judze Hastings. The specific charge on which he was convicted was the embezzlement of $800 of the bank’s funds. Captain Stickle made an unsue- cessful race for Congress as an indepen- dent Republican in the old Second dis- trizt, —_—— Death of an Acrobat. CHICAGO, IrL, Nov. 22.—Hoard Dun- ham, the acrobat who was injured in the spine while attempting a triple somer- sault in Barnum & Bailey’s. circus a few weeks ago, died yesterday in the Chicago Hospital on Forty-ninth street. He had lingered s0_long that yesterday morning his phkysicians were hopeful of ultimate recovery. His death then came quietly. —_———— Fine Writing-papers, Envelopes, Fountain Pens and Visiting Cards at Sanborn & Vail's,* FARMER MORTON MAKES A REPORT Telling Figures Gathered by the Agricultural Department. Improvement in the Force Causes a Saving of Two Mil- lions in Three Years. Facts to Show That the United States Should Control the Markets of the World. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.—In his fourth annual report the Secretary of Agriculture shows that with $180,000 that may be saved from the appropriations for the current fiscal year there will have been covered back into the treasury since March 7, 1893, over $2,000,000. That this great economy was effected without any loss of efficiency he attributes in a large degree to the improvement in the per- sonnel of the force under the civil service rules, One more step Secretary Morton deems necessary to comnplete the system of civil service In his department. Thisis the appointment of a director in charge of bureaus and scientific investigations, who shall be designated to serve as acting Sec- retary in case of absence simultaneously of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary. He declares that the chiefs of the scientific buresus and their divisions and their as- sistants do the actual thinking and rea- soning for the development of agricul- tural science, and adas that the persons are not adequately compensated. He states that during the past few years no less than thirty-two skilled experts in the department service have left it to take vositions in institutions of learning at sal- aries averaging fully 50 per cent higher than they were getting from the Govern- ment. The inspection of animals intended for food is treated at length. Mr, Morton urges that the Government inspection should be extended to all ani- mals intended for human food, whether for consumption in the United States or abroad; but he maintains that the cost of this inspection should be paid by the packers. The total consumption of meat in Great Britain for the year was 1,100,000 tons, 75 per cent of which was produced at home, the remaining 25 per cent being produced abroad. Of the live meat arriv- ing in Great Britain during the first nalf of the year 1896 the United States supplied 75 per cent of the cattle and 45 per cent of the sheep. The testimony of the depart- ment reports abroad is that cattle from the Uaited States arrive in English ports in excellent condition. The Glasgow mar- ket is especially commended to American shippers, 83 in that city cattle from the United States compete with the very high- est quality of British animals. American packers are not participating in the profits of the growth in consump- tion of swineflesh and hog products in Great Britain as much as they ought, be- cause they do not cure meats to suit to British demand; on the other hand, Dan- ish and Canadian packers are increasing thelr shipmenis every year. American bacon averages about 2 cents per pound below Continental and Irish bacon, and about 3 cents below English. The shipment of American horses to England is steadily increasing. In 1893 Great Britain took 13,573 American horses, nearly 23,000 in 1894 and 34,000 in 1895, but during the first nine months of 1896 more American horses were shipped into England than in any previous twelve months. The seeds distributed gratuitously by the Government during the present fiscal year weighed 230 tons and occupied thirty mailcars in transit. The cost of carry- ing them through the mails was over $70,- 000. Enough seed was sent out gratuit- ously to plant 115 square miles of garden. Each Congressman received enough to plant 163}¢ acres. For the current year at present prices, the amount required by Congress to be expended in the purchase of sced will make each Congressman's quota double what it was last year. The Secretary regrets this unnecessary and wastelul expenditure of public money, and hopes Congress may in good time put a stop thereto. Becretary Morton refutes the idea pre- vailing that the farms of the West and South are more heavily burdened with mortgages than those of the East and Northeast. States along the North Atlantic, he says, are quite heavily incum- bered with farm mortgages, and New Jersey carries a debt of this Kind greater in proportion to is farm valuations than any Siate in the Union. Referring to the stress of competition which the American farmer is compelled to endure, Mr. Morton calls attention to nearly 2,000,000 farms of eighty acres each given away by the Government under the homestead act of 1866 during the past thirty years, and to the amount donated under the timber-culture law, equivalent to over 550,000 more farms of the same size. It was impossible, he says, for farmers in the old States to profitably sell their products in competition with those of the newer States, grown upon lands which cost their owners uothing. Referring to the impression that greater rates of interest are charged for money loaned upon farms than that loaned on other kinds of real estate, Secretary Mor- ton states that the rate of interest charged upon mortgages or relidenti.[ property other than farms averages eighty-four hundredths of 1 per cent less than the rate of interest charged upon farm loans. In seventeen States the average rate charged on the latter is less than that de- manded for loans uvon other residential property. In two States the rates are the same upon urban and real estate. In Pennsyl- vania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa, Texas and Alabama ihe rates of interest are less for money secared by mortgages than for money securea by other reaity. In five States, including Kansas, the dif- ference in favor of the former is from one- fourth to one-half of one per cent,and in Texas it is over one per cent. If the West- ern farmer pays a higher rate of interest than the Eastern so does the Western merchant and manufacturer. During the fiscal year just ended the ex- ported products of American farms aggre- gated $570,000,000, an increase of $17,000,000 over the preceding. In spite of this there was a falling off in the percentage of agri- cultural products exported to the total ex- ports, but this was due to the unprece- dented sale abroad of American manufac- tured goods. The principal market for American produets is found in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and her colo- nies. These English-speaking ' people bought 58 per cent sof exports irom the ‘Unigud States during the fiscal year 1896. Together with Germany, France, Holland and Bel- gium they purchased (%) per cent of our entire ouiput, leaving 18.1 per cent for the Test of the world. Sec‘;eu‘;{‘ ?&réon ':I:l ifa N-fio: which, like the tal possesses the great- est power and faculities for producing and manufacturing things which the world demands, is not destined to monopo- lize the markets of the globe. With the most favorable conditions for varied and successful agriculture and the lightest burden of National taxation, what coun- try, he asks, can compete with this in developing the best resources of human toil with a minimum of human effort. With our wonderful labor-saving con- trivances applied to nearly every avenue of production ' the wages paid in the United States, in tiie production of wheat and cotton, for instance, are 50 to 100 per cent higher than in countries with which ‘we compete, so the wages vaid in manu- factures frora metal are from 25 to 100 per cent higher than the wages paid workers in the same industries by other nations. And in this contest for feeding and furnishing mankind —noting the fierce compvetition which it meets all over the globe—American agriculture, manufac- ture and commerce are steadily gaining more trade, and this is furniching an en- larged wage fund on a gold basis, out of which seven millions of American labor- ers and skilled artisans draw their yearly remuneration and upon which they and their families largely depend for employ- ment and comfort. DEATH OF GEORGE W. FERRIS. Was the Inventor of the Great Wheel at the World’s Fair Which Made a Fortune for Him. PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 22.—George W. Ferris, inventor and builder of the Ferris wheel, died to-day at Mercy Hospital, where he had been treated for typhoid fever for a week. The disease is said to have been brought on through worry over numerous business matters. He leaves a widow in this city. Mr. Ferris was born at Galesburg, IIL, lived his early life on the Pacific Slope and was educated at Carson Gity and San Francisco. In 1876 he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, N. Y., and graduated with high honors as an en- gineer. He first worked at locating coal mines and railroads in West Virginia, and was then employed by the Louisville Bridge Company at Louisville. It the capacity of inspector he came to Pittsburg to in- spect the structural works for the Louis- ville and Nashville railroad bridge at Henderson. After the completion of this work he was engaged 2s an_inventor on his own account. He organized the firm of G. W. Ferris & Co. In 1893 Ferris conceived the wheel which made hjm famous and which was one of the particular features of the ‘World's Fair at Chicago. The wheel was constructed in Pittsburg, under the super- vision of the inventor, and shipped to Chicago, where he watched the erection of it. Its capacity was 1400 passengers, and thousands made the revolution 1in it. The wheel made a fortune for Ferris and gave him fame as an engineer all over the world. When the fair closed the wheel was erected in a North Side park in Chicago, where it now is. Mr. Ferris nad, however, disposed of his interest in it. S MADE DESTITUTE BY DIVORCES. Hundreds of Women and Children in a Kansas Town Without the Neces- saries of Life. CHICAGO, IiL, Nov. 22.—A special from Topeka, Kans., says: The officers of a Topeka charitable institution yesterday made the remarkable statement that there are over 400 deserted wives in this city, and that every day adds to the list of the deserted or divorced women who appeal for work or solicit funds with which to buy bread for themselves and help their children, in a city of 35,000 inhabitants. The charitable society which has made the investigation that reveaied these facts attributes it to the hard timesand the gen- eral worthlessness of the men. The divorce mill in Topeka is running on steadily. 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