The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1893, Page 2

Pablished every Saturday at 1109 1 Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Exered at the Post Offiee at Washington second class mail inatter. W. CALVIN CHASE, WORLD'S FAIR APPEAL The colored people of this coun- try should not take any stock in he appeal that 1s made to them for the publication of a pamphlet, fur the purpose, it 18 Stated, to set the colored people right in this countrys before the Columbian bx- position. There are hundreds of books written by negroes in this country that give the true status of the negroes and if Hon, Fred. Douglass, Miss Wells and Mr. F J. Londin, want to benefit the race let them recommend to the colored people to purchase a life of Mr. Douglass, the history of the negro race in America by Hon. Geo. W. Williams, Men of Mark by Prof W. J. Simmons and others. How in the name of common sense will these appealers for aid to pablish a pamphlet set the regroes right in this country? First let the negroes get right and then they ean set the white peuple right or those who are opposed to their progress. The enemies of the negroes are wrong, and the negroes are wrong because they are jealous of each other. 4 What the race want is money, real-estate, education and good mauners. Phe negro is more in need of the above thav be is of pamphlets to be printed in Huglish, French, German, and Spauisb. Ip the first place what besefiit wi | that be to the negro? These nationalities have enough of the vegro already. All you need in those countries is money and education and how to speak the languages. It Miss Wells, sessrs. Douglass and Loudin wavt somethivg to do ths BEE woulu suggest the pro priety of teaching tke poor and ig- porant people bow to earn and save mouey. The race have too much pamphlets now aud too little heir pock« ts. Ce THE RECORDERSHIP. EDITOR. read in lu If there is one man in this coun- try who deserves the confidence and respect of the people it is Recorder Bb. K. Brace, whatever may be bis faults, he das certalbly been true to the negro and man- aged the office, to which be was vppoiated by Mr. Harrison, with dignity aud abillity. It is strange to notice the great number, of applicauts for the recorders of- fice. Some will be «isappointed, there is no doubt of it and some one will be appointed at the expir ation of Mr. Bruce’s term. trom what Mr, Cleveiand has said. The:e is one thing that the colored peo- ple must learn and that is to be more loyal to each other. Not~ withstanding the fact that Mr. Cleveland will allow. republicans to serve out their term, "bere are quite a number who would like to see their colored frieuds removed before the expiration of their term. GONE ABROAD. Miss Ida B. Wells who, in cou- junction with the sage of Anacos~ tin, made such un appeal to the American negro for funds to pub- lish a pamphlet has demon strated her great love and interect in the negro race, by throwing up the greai(?) and important(?) work in which she was engaged to «c- cept a pvsition that will be otf greater persoval benefit to her. What will, now, become of that pampblet? O! Miss Wells how could you leave your people so suddenly? What is to become of the world’s fair pamphlet, which ig to disclose so many inportant fact? THE NEGRO IN THE DISTRICT, is the Caption of a new book re- cently published by Mr. tdward Ingle, A. B. Mr. Ingle gives a jogical, concise aud ¢qutable review of the past aud present condition ofthe negro in the District ot Columbia. 1t is a book that should be in the bands of every colored citizen. ——_—— One peculiarity ot c lored dem~ Ocrats they are afraid 10 apply for places held by white republi- caus. They al want the places to which the iast administration ap— pointed uegro republicans, —s EMANCIPATION DAY coe AN IMPORTANT DECISION. BRATION. Derans oF THE ARRANGEMENTS |" FOR THE PARADE. A meeting of the staff of the chiei marebal of the Emancipation Day par- ade was held last night at Lewis’ Hall, and details of the arrangement for the celebration were decided upon. The divisions of the parade will be as fol- lows: ist Chief marshal and staff, K troop, president of the day, secretary of the day, committee of arrangeuents, anc fiuance committee. 2d. Military organizations District, Maryland aud Virginia. 3d. Seuth Washington District con- solidated. All organizations not assigned will 1e- port to the chief of the third division, Capt. Ralph Wormley is the chief o: staff, and his assistants have been chosen as follows: Right aid, M. Green; left aid, R, Ev- ans; chief of staff, R. M, Dorsey; special aid, Arthur Paunell; aid-de-camp, Walk- er Gilctrist; aids to chief of staff, W. M. Lyles, Tiblman Dorsey, R. Burnett, W. Cook, J. Stewart, George M, Camp- bell, Joun Coleman, Gooige Washivg- ton, A. Lee, C. Contee, Jonn Mooce, Richard Ga-away, Artiur Goins, Robert Drew, @. W. Puilips, R.A. Brass, H. Banks, James Yerby, Paze Saunders. R. LT. Hogan, W. H. Marshall, R. B. Harrick, James Pease, John T, Norris, J. Russell, Daniel Burnett, C. C. Chee- vis, H. Berryman, and James Mar- shall. It was ordered by the chief marshal that ail the aids should wear blue Sashes. ge W.S dent of the day of the ‘att will be the presi- Prot. J. W. Coles wili acl as secreta ‘Dhe chief of the wie tary diyisiun will Le Albert Davis, ciiet vt tue third division, Prestou Harris, aud cuiet of the tourta division, Mack- enzir Scott. Chief Marshal Wormley bas ordered that tue live be fo.med on Tura street, right restiag on B. street. Tue order of march will be on Taird street to K, northwest; K to Niuti, New York Ave- nue to H street, H to Eigatceuth, Eyhtventn to Pennsyivania Avenue, to tue Executive Mausion, where the pro- cessiun will be reviewed by the Presi- dent, down the avenue to First, up First street to tbe Cummissioners’ office, where tue procession will be review ther. eut C to Second, northwest, Second to East Capitol, East Capitol to Lincoin Park, wuere the ceremonies will take place. Lhe procession will arrive at the Vhite House at 2 o'clock p. m., and be reviewed at the Commissioners’ office at 3 v'ciock p. m. No cait er wagon will ve allowed in the parade, and no dis- orderly persou will be utlowed in tine. A CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEETING, The Young Peoples? Society of Chris- tian Endeavor, of the Lincolu Memorial Congregatio.al Church, held a very suc- cessful meeting Sunday afternoon. The church was crowded to beyond its seat- ing capacity. Mr. C. Garrott, the President of the society, presided, and on the platform were seated Rey. BE. A. Johnson, Pastor of the Chureh, who de— livered the address of welcome; Mr. P. S. Foster, President of the District Union, who delivered the address of the occa- sion, and also the following presidents of other church societies: Miss Coston, Israel C. M. £., Mr. Hun- ter, Metr»politan A. M. E., Mr. Neal, Piymouth Congregational, and the Pre- sident of the Nineteenth Baptist and Fifteenth Street Presbyterian. The music was furnished by the Chris- tian Endeavor Uhoir of Lincoln, under the leadership of Mr, A. 5. Gray. Svlo- were sung by Miss Nellie Thockmoiton, Mrs. J. A. Bostic, A.S, Gray and Wil- liam B. Johnson, Miss Mary Wright presided at the or- gan. The ush-rs were P. B. Bagley and J. B. Barrows. Mr, Hunter led a suc- cessiul praise and song service. The address of Mr. Fcster was interest- ing and instructive, and the members re- ceived many valuable hints and sugges- tions Which will prove beneficial to them in their work. He fully detailed the Christian Endeavor pledge, and im- pressed upon each member their obliga- tioas to their own society, their ow: church and to their God, when they took the End-avor pledge. The Junior Society of Lincoln Chureb atrended in a body, and occupied neariy one side of the church. Five minutes Were spent in prayers, and after singing “God be with you “till we meet again,” the meeting closed by repeating the *-Mizpat.”? Delegations were present fron several sister societies, ——s ae Au obstinate case of cold which the doctors could not cnre.- Mr J. A, Kerr. 817 State S:., Erie, Pa. writes: ‘In October I caugit 2 terrivie cold which settled heavily on my lungs. I could not sleep and had severe pains in my head wher I procured Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, which relieved me evtirely before the first bottle had been use1 up My appetite returned,. my sleep became sound and vataural, and } felt as well as ever. I tried Dr. Bul’s Cough Syrup only after physicians’ remedies failed to give me relief.” ON THE BOARDS. The Ideal Dramatic Company is the name of a new organization iv this city under the managment of Mr. C. T. Carter and others. On Friday eveuing April 14th, at Grand Army Hall a drama en- titled “The Woven Web” wac Presented with a strong casts ot characters, A pretty fashion is to cut off th: lower half cf the skirt and se: ov a deep flounce, bias, with a beau~ ing of velvet or a rouche. Judge Speer, of Georgia, road Engineers. Judge Speer, of Georgia, has rendered an important decision on the petition of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers, to require the receiver of the Cen- tral Railroad of Georgia to enter into a contract with that organization for the service of its members on that road. The decision is regarded by the Brother- hood as a signal vetory. The receiver was instructed by the Judge to enter into the contract, which is similar to an old contract made by the railroad. The Judge holds that has the right to so { order, since the raifroad is really in the Court’s hands. But he warns the engi- neers that they cannot leave the railroad’s employ in a way to injure the property, and that they can not boycott under any condition and railroads on which the Brotherhood is striking. German Arms in Africa. Henry M. Stanley has written to the Peace Association a letter in which he attributes the increase of trade in 1892 at African ports under German administra- tion to the growing practice among Ger- man merchants of importing into Africa small arms and ammunition, These materials of war, he says, are sold to the slave tradersand do inestimable damage. Mr. Stanley inculpates also the Portu- guese in his charges. He appeals to the European nations to suppress the traffic in arms carried on by the Germans and Portuguese. Unlegs this stepis taken, he adds, all efforts to stop the slave trade will be useless. President Cleveland To Open the Fair. President Cleveland will touch off the World’s Fair on May 1 in the presence of from 100,000 to 150,000 people. The ceremonies will be held at the east front of the administration building. There was considerabie objection to the mas- sing of so large a crowd, as it was feared that it might ruin the lawns and flower gardens but these were overcome. A substantial platform just in front of the administration building will be connected with Machinery Hall so that President Cleveland will only have to step to the speaker's table to touch the button. Behring Sea Case Opens. The Behring Sea Court of Arbitration has opened its session at Paris, Sir Charles Russell began argument for Great Britain by demanding the produc- tion of Elliot’s report. Counsel Phelps and Carter argued against it, but finally made the concession, Agent Foster was questioned regarding certain Russian documents and explained that the United States had discovered and thrown out certain misstatements made by Rus- sian experts, The President's Summer Home, The President and Mrs, Clevelind are going to have a home in the country as they did four years ago. By the end of the present month the Middletown House on Woodley Lane Road will be ready for their occupancy. Itisa roomy, old-fashioned house, about two miles from the White House, on the road lead ing to Oak View, his former summe residence. It stands on an, elevated knoll, surounded by fine oaks.’ “Jennie, the Hugger.” Saginaw, Michigan, is excited over the case of a woman who assaults, hugs and kisses young men. The woman is de- scribed as tall, her face fair and smooth, and yet she is apparently as strong as a man. She dresses neatly in black. She is known as “Jennie, the Hugger.” ‘The young men have not been driven to stay in nights on account of the assaults, Dove Nearly Two Hundred Feet. Capt. John Christianson, of Seattle, Wash., has made one of the deepest dives on record. He plunged into the waters of Elliot Bay, and, after twenty minutes, returned with the lead line and a bucket from one of the hatches of the tug Majestic, lying at a depth at half flood tide of 196 feet. He apparently suffered no great inconvenience, Canadian Independence. Ex-Premier Mercier, of Quebec, de: livered his long-expected speech on the “Future of Canada” at Montreal, While he respected the annexationist movement. he did not approve of {political unior with the United States, as he believed Canada should become independent and take her place with the nations of the world. This Week's Elections. The municipal election in Chicago, resulted in the election of Carter Harri- son, Democrat, as the Mayor during the World’s Fair, by about 20,000 plurality. St. Louis elected James Bannerman, a Democrat, Mayor, In Michigan the Re- publicans made gains in Democratic towns and in Ohio held their own, Predicts Success for the Fair. President Higginbotham has issued his annual report to the stockholders of the World’s Columbian Exposition. He re- views the progressof the work; says ti¢ difficulties overcome were many, and predicts the most brilliant success. The Fair will be in readiness for visitors by May 1. Chinese Registration. Secretary Carlisle has amended the in- structions to revenue officers under the Geary Chinese exclusion act. The new instructions dispenses with the photo- graphing of Chinese residents of this country as a preliminary te their regis- tration, To Let Up on Roach. The move to investigate the character of U. S, Senator Roach, of North Da- kota, has resulted in a reference of the matter to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, which will probably re- Port so as to dismiss the matter. A Suicidal Red Skin, Knowing he must die from his wound, White Faced Horse, a Sioux chief, con- cerned in the recent murder of cowboys, shot himself through the head at White River, S.D. The suicide of an Indian is a rare occurence, ees: Favors Rail- - TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The Chicago Presbytery is anxious to have the Briggs case peaceably dropped. Frank Slavin and Jim Hall have been matched to fight in London for $5,000 a side. Reports reached Berlin that Emin Pasha had been murdered by the na- tives. in the House of Commons on its second reading. The “greater New York” bill was killed in the New York Senate by an ad- verse vote of 18 to 11. An extra session of the Kansas Leg is- lature will be held about May 15 to restrict railroad rates. The public debt statement for March | showsa reduction of $1,956,173, The receipts were $34,437,844 and the expen- ditures $32,327,993. Mrs. Montagu, who was sentenced one year ago in Dublin for causing the death of her little child, was released after ful- filling the penalty. The elections in Kansas resulted in Re- publican success. Women voted in large numbers, but the women candidates did not get their votes, Carter Harrison’s majority over Aller- ton in the Chicago Mayorality fight will be about 19,000. The City Council is Republican by a small majority. Charley Mitchell has agreed to meet Jim Corbett at Coney Island in December next, and the battle will take place there if the authorities do not interfere. The Colombian Government has grant- ed an extensivn of twenty months to give opportunity for the organization of a new Panama Canal company. Speaker Crisp has left Washington, for his Southern home satisfied that he would have no opposition for re-election when Congress meets in September. Valuable finds have been made in the old Indian mounds at Martin’s Ferry, O., bones, skulls, implements and bits of jewelry having been secured in great profusion, Mrs, W. J. Knight, of Dubuque, Ia., who was in Chicago, carried $4,000 worth of diamonds in her pocket, fearing to leave them in her room, and while out walking lost them, Secretary Gresham has issued a card stating that the American representa- tives in Paris on the Behring Sea case will be backed by the Government finan- cially and otherwise. Attempts to circulate a petition at Asbury Park, N. J., for the pardon of Carlyle Harris, proved a failure. The feeling against Harris is bitter, as he ran a disorderly house in the place. President McLeod’s resignation from all connection with the Reading is taken to mean in Boston that he will in the fu- ture reside there and devote his atten- tion to the Boston & Maine and the New England. News from Hawaii bearing the date of March 29 tells of the arrival there at that time of ex-Ccngressman Blount, United States Commissioner sent by the President to investigate the condition of the island. Ee The steamer used by the Sultan for his own pleasure and to convey guests and members of his household foun- dered near Constantinople and it is be- lieved that sixty persons on board at the time perished. The Evans dispensary law of South Carolina, which goes into effect on July 1, gives the entire control of liquor sell- ing into the hands of the State, liquor not being obtainable except from auth- orized dispensaries, A meeting will probably soon be held in New York to urge upon the English Government the release from prison of Irish political offenders confined for ten years and the establishment of amnesty for Irish exiles now in this country. Monsignor Satolli, in answer to the re- quest of W. D. Kennedy, Inspector Gen- eral of the Knights of Pythias, said that order was not under the ban of the Catholic Church and that the Bishops were investigating secret societies in general. Judge Barrett, in New York, refused to grant the clothing manufacturers a permanent injunction restraining the gar- ment cutters from injuring their busi- ness by boycott or otherwise, and dis- missed the preliminary injunction already granted. Mrs, M. W, Caldwell, a negress of Brooklyn, received $800 damages in the United States Circuit Court from the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail- road Company, which, although she had a first-class ticket, forced her to ride in the car set apart for blacks, M. Dupuy has succeeded in forminga French Cabinet. Heannounced thatthe Panama scandal should not interfere with Parliament’s duty to the people. It is thought the budget discussion will be finished by Saturday. M. Develle an- nounced the extension of the Panama concessions, The State election in Rhode Island re- sulted in neither party having a major- ity. Baker, Democratic candidate for Governor, has a small plurality, and both Democratic candidates for Congress have pluralities, but, as pluralities do not elect, new elections must be held. THE CHANCES OF HOME RULE. The Immediate Fate of the Bill Hangs Upon the Speaker. A London dispatch says that upon the Speaker of the House of Commons hangs the immediate fate of the Home Rule bill. Friday evening he will be called upon to decide, according to the Gladstone pro- gramme, whether the bill has been suffi- ciently debated on the second reading, and his decision will stand unquestioned. The real battle over the bill began this week, and Mr. Gladstone purposes to force a reading by Friday, while the op- position hope to stave it off a week. In this emergency each side is putting great hopes in the Speaker using his peculiar prerogative in its favor. The Conserva- tives rely upon his partisanship, since he is ostensibly a member of the party, while the Gladstonians profess that his admitted high sense of fair play will \ give them the decision, ‘The Home Rule bill is in discussion the | ' ARE WORKINGMEN SAFE? SENATORS DENOUNCE RECENT DE- CISIONS IN LABOR CASES. Defended by Vest and Platt—Gorman and Vorhees Assail the Federal Courts, and Hoar Says the Interstate Law Returns to Plague Its Inventors. The recent decision of Judges Taft and Ricks in Ohio, aud Speer in Georgia, in relation to the rights and duties of rail- road employees, came up in the United . States Senate in connection with a reso- lution instructing the Committee on Interstate Commerce to inquire into that and other subjects, and quite a long and interesting debate resulted, which had | not closed when the Senate adjourned. Senator Gorman said that one of the | questions to be inquired into was whether, in view of the interstate com- merce law and of the anti-trust law, Judges had a right to determine not only what a railroad employee should do, but what he should not do. Those decisions were the first great step on the part of the judiciary to make serfs of the men who were employed by railroad corpora- tions. If the law warranted those de- cisions (and possibly it did) then that law ought to be modified or repealed. He did not believe that the Americen people would ever submit to any branch of the Government (whether judiciary or legis- lative) putting such impositions upon them as were put in the recent judicial decisions. Mr. Platt said that he had not yet seen in the decision referred to anything that looked like usurpation of power by the courts, or that looked like degrading the | workingmen of the country to the con- dition of serfs, He believed that the em- ployees of railroads had no more right to engage in restrictions of commerce than their employers had. And he did not believe that there was anything either in the interstate commerce act or in the anti-trust act that was not an affirmation of well-considered and well-established common law. Mr, Hoar remarked that the anti-trust law simply extended to the commerce of the United States the principles of the common law, so that he was quite cer- tain that no such doctrine as that appre- hended by the Senator from Maryland would be warranted by that law. The interstate commerce law was a new piece of machinery, and he had no doubt i€ contained a good deal that would at some day “return to plague the in ventor.” Mr. Vest said that Judge Speer had only affirmed what every lawyer knew to be the common law. He had decided that any contract or regulation in re- straint of commerce was absolutely void ; that any engineer had a right to quit work, but that when the Association of Locomotive Engineers or any other asso- ciation or corporation undertook to make and enforce a rule in restraint of commerce, that rule was absolutely void. There was nothing startling or revolutionary in that. If any Judge had declared such a monstrous doctrine as the Senator from Maryland spoke of it would be reversed by the Supreme Court without one dissentimg opinion. Mr. Butler understood that one of the points decided at Toledo was that the court had the right to enjoin the em- ployees of a railroad corporation from combining in such a way as to obstruct the operations of the road. Mr. Voorhees said he was satisfied that { the the Interstate Commerce act went farther than any one supposed at the time of its passage itdid. He thought that the fault was in the law, and perhaps in the wil- lingness and eagerness of Federal Judges to construe the law in favor of the cor- porate power and against the labor of the country. The most dangerous ques- tion that the country was facing to-day was the encroachments of corporate power, of colossal wealth against those who were helplessly in its power. The debate was continued by other Senators. SOUTH CARULINA’S LIQUOR LAW. State Officials Getting Ready for the Liq- uor Business. Governor B. R. Tillman and State Commissiouer H. Troxler, of South Caro- lina, arrived at Pittsburg, Pa., on Mon- day, of this week, and on subsequent days visited the glass factories there to place large orders for liquor bottles and glasses. Governor Tillman said to a reporter: “The new dispensary law goes into effect July 1, After that date there will not be a licensed saloon in the whole State of South Carolina, The wines, whiskies, beer, and in fact all beverages contain- ing alcohol, will be sold only at State dis- pensaries by salaried and bonded officials, Every ounce of alcoholic liquors sold within the State will be purchased by the State Commissioner, and no liquors of any kind can be shipped in the State by any common carrier except the pa -kages with a certificate signed by the State Commissioner. These packages will be distributed to local dispensaries, one or more of which may be located in any town where a petition for its establish- ment issigned by a majority of the free- hold voters. Drugstores are prohibited from selling any spirits except alcohol, | which must be purchased from the State. { The new law will make a wonderful | change in the State, and I think it will; be universally adopted as a solution of the liquor problem. For forty years it! has been in successful operation in Nor- | way. There are six prohibition counties in South Carolina, where there will be no dispensaries. ” | | duties gold in considerable quanti The French Apologize. The French Government has upologized to Count Muenster, the German Ambas- sador, for the detention of the letters written by Herr Kurtz to the German Embassy and Consulate while he was imprisoned on suspicion in Rouen, Count Muenster was assured that a repe- tition of such incidents would be care- fully avoided in the future and that if Herr Kurtz returned to France he would not be molested. TURKEY TO BE HELD RESP ONsi—;- The President Insists Upon the tion of Citiz The United States has ie action in regard to the outrage: ican citizens at Marsovan, in { dominions, and the violations of th mails of the United States Lozation, The facts of the case are ag follo On January 10 last a number of sad placards were distributed in 4 The Turkish authorities asc; authorship to the students of 4 ‘atoba College, an American educational j ‘ tution at Marsovan. On Febuar girls’ seminary of this institution wag burned to the ground. Circumstantial evidence shows that this was done with the full knowledge, if not by the direct act of the Turkish officials. Despatches passing between Minister Thompson and Consul Jewett, at Marsovan, have been repeatedly violated and formal cone. plaint of this fact has been made by the American Minister to the Sublime Por roo Gresham has cabled to Min. ister Thompson a stron pression o| the President's views on tha cade re manding not only prompt reparat 01 the burned seminary, but the puni ment of all parties found guilt matter. It is understood to bet of the United States to make the Marso- van incident a test case in our relations with Turkey. Protec. 2 vigorous Sou Amer. he Turkish NEW PENSION COMMISSIONER, A Gettysburg Veteran Will Preside Over the Pension Office. The President has nominated Jy William Lochren, of Minnesota, as f sion Commissioner. Judge Loc 57 years of age, and was born in mont, where he was educa n public schools and admitted to He went to Minnesota in 13 ticed his profession, but w broke out enlisted in the First } Regiment. His service was : minating at Gettysburg, where | ment mace the famous chary i checked Pickett’s onslaught. Of the} men who made that charg» o} came out whole and young Lochren, started on the rush as a first lieut of Company E, came out in cor the regiment, every officer abov grade having been killed or wounde He took part in Minnesota politics aft the war as a Democrat, but was pointed Judge of the Circuit Court | Republican Governor. The Repub Legislature passed a unanim tion endorsing his candic missioner of Pensions, altlic Democracy is unquestioned. AS res THE NAVAL REVIEW. Secretary Herbert Issues the (Official Pro- gramme for the Demonstration. TheSecretary of the Navy has de upon the official programme of view of the United States an ships of war which by act of ( will take place in New York ha 27th. The men-of-war 7 anchored in two colums exending from Twenty-sixth street up North the foreign ships on the New York side. While the Dolphin, carrying the Presi- dentof the United States, is passing be- tween the columns, that portion of North River between the American col- umns and the New York sho: , closed and all traffic and pa: pended, After the Dolphin has ane at the head of the line vessels « kinds may circle around the fleet upon the New Jersey side of ti but the passage between the two will be closed until thé Pre: landed from the Dolphin and thie r thereby terminates. The salute the heavy guns of over 40 w each firing 21 guns, will be the r rific bombardment New York ha listened to. from To Build Great Tanneries. Huge tanneries with a capacity equal to tanning all the raw hides produced in their great packing establishmen scheme credited ty Armour, S Morris, of Chicago. ‘The trio tu 4,000,000 raw hides annually, whi nearly 90 per cent. of the total product of the country, so that if they chovs¢ they could practically monopolize business. The combination ow acres of land at Telleston, Ind., the immense plant would be loc Adjacent to the tanneries the plan is t have leather and harness makers, bot and shoe manufactories, etc. One packet is ready to put up $600,000, and the ot! ers probably as much more. In further- ance of their plan, it is said that repre- sentatives of the packers have been bu ing up hemlock tracts in Michigan avd Wisconsin, from which to get tan bark. is 12,563,000 Soldiers in Europe. Capt. Molard, a professor at St. Cyr, who ought to be good author ras made a careful calculation of the force of soldiers now under call in Europe. le puts France at the head, with 2,500,000 next, Russia with 2,451,000: close upod her, Germany with 2,417,000; Italy, wit! 1,514,000; while fifth among the « that of Austria-Hungary, with 1,0° A great drop brings us to Turkey, 700,000; to England, with 342,000; to Spain, with 300,000. The lesser p ers put together can muster 1,239, that the aggregate would be The Treasury Gold Inereases. The Treasury Department is now is an easier condition than it has been f0! several months past, due largely increased receipts from customs. WY this condition the tightness in gold 1 somewhat disappeared, and whereas ™ gold was received in payment of cus tities now paid. The net gold in the Treasury is $6,292,012, and it is being re daily in exchange for small notes, which the demand still continues 4094 One More Chance on the Canal. The Colombian Government signed © contract prolonging the Panama Cana concession until October 31, 1394, in °F der to allow time for the oe ies new company. The company ¥ soni be granted ten years in which to cou: plete the canal —