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SOUTHERN.

In West Carroll Parish, Louisiana,
the house of John Wilkowski was invaded, the
moonlighters numbering Major John Mckay
and female cook. They next fred the
premises, and both bodies were consumed An
attempt to assassinate Wilkowski failed
A terrible tragedy Is reported by
telegraph from Irondale, Ala.
w. A Baldwin, supervisor the Georgia
Pacific Railroad. some time since was married
to a Miss Moore The young lady's brothers
Were never reconciled To the match Last
Sunday afternoon Brevard Moore, the youngest
brother of Baldwin's wife, Went to the lat
ter's home, and at once began using every effort
to induce his sister to leave Baldwin. She re-
fused to even consider such a step, at which her
brother became enraged and began abusing
her Baldwin ut this juncture ordered Moore 20
cease his abuse or leave the house, whereupon
Moore drew revolver and fired mt Baldwin
twice. Both shots took effect, inficting dan
gerous wounds. but Baldwin braced himself.
and, drawing pistol, began firing at Moore.
While the men were shooting ut each other
Mrs. Baldwin rushed between them, hoping she
would put an end TO the fusillade Before they
could cease firing, Mrs. Baldwin fell To the floor
with three bullets In her breast She has since
her husband or brother killed her. Moore was
finally shot dead by Baldwin, and the latter has
died of his wounds
A San Antonio dispatch says that
valuable gold deposits have been discovered
in Nueces Canyoa, Uvalde County, Texas.
Two Cinnamon secured wives by
clipping with white girls from Augusta, Ga.
Out of these events grew feeling of hostility
which led to attempts with fire and dynamite
on the house, occupied by the Chinese colony.
While riding in the woods near Red
River, in the Choctaw Nation, George Traafe
came upon four negroes who had stolen hog
and were cleaning it To conceal their crime
they murdered Traafc. The party we're ar
rested, and one of them confessed the crime.
They were taken from the guards who had
them in charge, by a party of citizens, and
without ceremony strung to the nearest trees.
Caesar Robinson, a negro, was hanged by
mob at Florence, S. c.. for assaultng white
woman.
A masked mob invaded the town of
Brennan, Texas, at midnight overpowered
the jaier, and took Shea Fielder, Alfred Jones,
and Ephra m Jones, three negroes implicated
in the killing of Devices Bolton on the night
of election, and lynched them. 1t was so
quickly done that the town was not aroused
until morning, whom the bodies of the three
men were found hanging to a tree
Mining excitement in the vicinity of
the Hot Springs of Arkansas has caused the
location of claims on every available tract near
Bear Mountlin.
Influential citizens of Northern Lou
isiana have formed an association TO put an
end to the iniermarrying of whites and blacks.
In most parishes committees have been ap-
pointed TO serve notice on offenders.
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sdered by the various owners, in order to
control the price OF wheat and the production
of -four.
Arnold's flOur-mill at st. Cloud,
MINI, was wrecked by an explosion, fire COM
plotting the disaster. Gus Krause tho night
miller, was fatally burned Twenty thousand
bushels of wheat were destroyed
"Jim Cummings" writes to ST.
Louis paper that he is getting tired of being
chased about the country by detectives, and
offers to return the express company $4,000
of the amount stolen if they will let him live
in peace.
John ID. Miles has bought for a syn
dictate, for $500, 600, tract of land in Mexico
100 miles long and six miles wide, extending
from Paso del Norte down the Rio Grande A
monster cattle-ranch will be established on
the tract
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NAVAL AFFAIRS.
How to Promote the Efficiency of the
Navy-Admiral Porter's Sug-
gestions.

Admiral Porter has submitted to the Sec
rotary Of the Navy a report embodying sug-
gestions for promoting the efficiency of the
navy. He says that in rehabilitating the
navy there is no subject worthy of more
consideration than that of home defense,
and regrets that the ironclads now laid up
at City Point, which are SO well adapted
for this purpose, should be left in the con-
dition they are to-day. He SAYS the new
cruisers have given no evidence of great
speed, and it is feared by those most inter-
ested that they never will, which will render
them useless as commerce destroyers. The
Admiral says we require for the navy the
following classes of vessels
The frst-class should be represented by
vessels of not less than 5000 nor more
than 5000 tons, and able to make for few
hours speed of nineteen and one-half
knots. The second class, to serve as flag
ships on foreign stations, should be vessels
OF not less than 4, 500 nor more than 5 200
tons, able to make for a few hours speed
of nineteen knots. The third class should
be vessels of 5000 tons, able TO make for
few hours speed of eighteen knots.
The Admiral remarks that the proposed
thirteen knot gunboat with four guns could
a
nese gunboat would be more than a match
for her.
The United States is making the same
mistakes as European powers have made in
building so many different classes of YES
sells Mt the outset, without knowing whether
any OF them will meet the requirements of
cruiser of the present day. No nation,
he says, can dispense with forts, but il is
better to depend upon n navy to protect
our coasts. Instead of maintaining SO
small a force of ironclads as we have at
present, every year we should construct
three or four double turreted monitors, no
matter if we do not build any cruisers in
the meantime.
Admiral Porter says that he has seen
enough of torpedoes to know that two or
three hundred pounds of gun-cotton ex-
ploded under ship-no matter what her
size-is bound to sink her or place her
hors de combat. Yankee ingenuity, if
stimulated by the prospect of sufficient
reward, would no doubt soon give us
superior torpedo. He commends the
Ericsson torpedo, and says what we re-
quire to fire such torpedo is the fastest
vessel in the understanding that tor
pedo destroyers can not overtake.
The report treats of the reorganization
of the different branches of the navy, and
especially of the Navy Department. The
Admiral takes strong ground in favor of
the Government encouraging the private
shipyards of the country by giving them
all the work possible TO enable them 10 i'm
prove the plants so that in time of war they
can aid the Government in building and
repairing vessels. He also advocates O
Government iron shipbuilding yard.
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FOREIGN.

For committing an outrage on q SER
want girl, sentence of death has been passed
upon nine youths of Sydney. New South Wales
Russian sympathizers are plotting a
new rebellion in Bulgaria
The United States Minister at Paris
has been requested by the Municipal Council
to intercede with the Governor of Illinois in
behalf of tho condemned anarchists of CHI
cago.
DR.. Robertson, q blind man, has been
elected to the British House of Commons from
the Brighton district.
France and Mexico have concluded q
treaty of peace
A trainload of aristocrats and sport
ing characters went from London to Paris to
witness a priz flight between Knifton and
Jem Smith At the last moment the former
declined to enter the ring on the ground that
his friends were outnumbered and he might
not receive fair play.
NJ. II ouquet, Secretary of the Paris
Municipal Council, having forwarded to United
States Minister McLane the petition adopted
by the Council, Nov %, asking that Governor
Ogesby exercise Execut We clemency toward
the condemned Chicago Anarchists, Mr..
McIAne calls attention 10 the fact that the pc
titon would be much more efiicacious if adj
dress d direct to the Executive of Illinois, but
consents 10 transmit the same as desired
T. ID. Sullivan has been reelected
Lord Mayor of Dublin. lie pledges himself
to refuse any honors that may b. offered by
Queen Victoria during the jubilee year
The Offering of bouquets to actresses
has been prohibited in Vienna on the grounl
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that the practice has grown to an absurd ex-
tent
The ancient Church of st. Mary
Magdalene in London. with four warehouses
on the same street, was destroyed by fire; loss
$4,000.
Thirty men were killed in a coal
mine explosion in Durha'i, England
The French Minis ers have rendered
their resignstions to Pre- ilont Grovy.
Contracts have been made in London
for the construction OF iron tower, $40 feet
high at tho head OF Oxford street TO COM
memorate the Queens jubilea
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THE CURRENCY.
Report Of Comptroller TrenhOlm-Impor.
tant Changes Suggested-Inter-
esting Statistics.

The annual report of the Hon. William
l.. Trenholm, Comptroller of the Currency,
contains suggestions for the amendment of
the Newfoundland laws in about a dozen
instances, including the contingent liability
of shareholders, requirements as to re-
serve, the limit of loans TO individuals.
more thorough examination of banks, and
their protection against unequal State taxa
ton. The specific character of these sug-
gestions is withheld for the present. Three
thousand five hundred and eighty national
banks have been organized in all, of which
2,S5S are now III operation. or these
ia have been organized during the
last year, with capital of S2l,-
900, 600; circulation, $2,900,000. Twenty
four banks went into voluntary liquidation
during the year, one ceased 10 exist by ex-
piration of charter, and eight failed. Since
the beginning of .he system In 1863, only
liz national banks have failed. OF these,
sixty-three have paid their creditors in full,
and twenty have paid interest besides-ff-
teen in full and five in pant. Over 80 per
cent. of all national bank stocks is held
by the residents of the State in which the
bank is located, more than 81 per cent. is
the number of shareholders are natural
persons. The total number of shareholders
is 223, 900; the total number of shares
over 100000. The effect of the
reduction of the public debt and the
high premium on bonds upon the volume
of national bank circulation is very fully
illustrated in the report. The contraction
in national bank circulation during the year
exceeds 500, 100000.
Besides the usual tables showing the con-
dition of national banks at various dates,
the report this year contains an abstract
which specifies each item of their resources
and liabilities. The banks in the several
States. reserve cities, and Territories, have
their condition stated separately. large
diagram exhibiting the many features of
the national banking system and its varia-
tons during the last twenty one years ac-
companies the report From this 1t appears
that the aggregate deposits in the banks has
increased from 1922, 100000 in January,
1886, to Sl,173, 000,00 in October, 1886.
while loans and discounts have risen from
$500, ZOO, 900 to 81 ,443. 000, 900.
The specie held by the national banks in
1886 was $40, 000,0 600; in October, 1875, it
was only $4,000, 900; while in July, 1885, it
was $4,000, 900, and is now $780, 00,-
900.
Mr.. Trenholm declines to say whether
his report contains any specific recon-
mendations in regard to n modification of
the law making United States bonds the
basis of the national bank currency, but it
is understood ut the department that he
has presented a strong array of facts and
figures to show how valuable the system
has become to the entire country, and how
important it is that it should be made
adaptable TO the needs of communities in
the West and South, where vast natural re-
sources await development by the aid Of
outside capital.
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WESTERN.

An unknown schooner, while pass
ing Ludington, Mich, had its flag at half
mast, and the Point Sable life-saving crew
put out 70 render assistance Their boat
however capsized and Captain Flynn, Orrn
Hatch, and John Smith lost their lives
The Hendricks Monument Commit
tee at Indianapolis has $40, 900 on deposit, and
has reason to expect $4,000 more from
promises made
Mackenderoffs large store at Mason,
Neb, was destroyed by fire, j. J. Hoagland,
Malcolm Miller, and a son of the proprietor
perishing in the flames. Mackenderoff, in es-
Gaping by jumping from window, broke a leg
Shipley, Doisey & Co., wholesale
dry goods dealers at Cincinnati, have made an
assignment The liabilities are placed at
$4,000
The Chicago Ledger, in its an
nouncement foe 1887, promises a series of ar
ticles from the pom of DR.. H W. Thomas,
pastor OF the Peoples Church, of Chicago
DIR. Thomas is one Of the most vigorous and
original writer's of the day, and the Ledger is
to DO congratulated upon securing his SER
vices
District Assembly No. AZ of Cleve-
land has passed resolutions deploring the
great loss of lives on the lakes claiming that
the disasters are mainly caused by overload
ing the vessels and the incompetency of the
crews, and urging Congressman Foran TO do
his utmost TO get the bill passed that he intro
duced last winter to regulate lake and marine
shipping, and stop this Wholesale murder.
The Iowa Supreme Court has af-
firmci the decisions OF the lower court in all
the saloon cases from Ottumwa, including
that Of the notorious stormy" Jordan.
Theodore S. Mize, the confidential
man of Miner T. Ames, millionaire coal
dealer of Chicago, has made way with a sum
said to be in the neigbborhood of s1006O0
Large parties of Chinese continue to
cross from British Columbus into Washington
Territory, carrying packages believed to con-
tain opium and other dutiable articles.
l.. b. Frankel & Co., mining-stock
brokers at Virg nia New, failed for 1915, goo
Prominent shareholders in tho C6mstock
mines are tho principal creditors. The active
members of the firm have fed and the great
est excitement prevails
John G. Mann, of Minneapolis, has
commenced, in Chicago restaurant, the task
of eating thirty quail in thirty consecutive
days, the wager being 81 1000 Only three
successes in this line adorn the records.
Fire at Detroit swept away the Pipe
Foundry Company's works. The loss Is
$4,000, with insurance of s21,0O0
In the Federal Court at Indianapolis
Judge Woods rebuked the Grand Jury for
failing to indict parties charged with mutt
lating and forging returns at tho recent cleo
ton.
Tho plan of consolidating all the
mills at Minneapolis is being seriously con-
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The convention is to be held at Cincinnati Feb.
-, 1887. The plan of organization contem-
plates the appointing of ali organizer for each
State and Territory in the nation; the State
Organizer to appoint district organizer for
each Congressional district in his State. and
the district organizer to appoint local organ
izers. The basis of representation gives each
Congressional district one representative for
each of the following orders or organizations
in such districts: Knights of Labor. trades
unions, Greeaback Labor party, Farmers AL
lance, Changers, Patrons of Husbandry,
Anti Monopoly Leagues, Peoples party,
Farmers and Laborers' Cooperative Union,
agricultural wheels, soldiers organi cations,
and all other organizations which indorse and
subscribe TO the new declaration of independ-
ence
Official notice has been filed that
Congressman Worthington will contest the
election of Gen. Z. s. Post from the Tenth Hi
nos District
The President has made the follow
ing appointments:
Charles b. Morton, OF Maine to DO Commits
sioner of Navigation j. Il. Caldwell, of Indiana
20 be Deputy Second Auditor Of the Treasury (;
A. T.. Lewis of Pennsylvania, 10 be Deputy Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury; Hugh A. HARRISON of
Georgia, to he Deputy Auditor Of the Treasury for
the Postotiice Department; John MoCafferty TO
be Collector of Customs for the District ofAaska
John Cousins, to be Collector of Customs for the
District of kennebunk, Maine; Ernest A UNI
land, of Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public
Moneys at Taylors Falls, Mimi James McNa-
mara, of Illinois, to be Indian Agent at Colo
RADIO River, Arizona Postmasters-A. Gaut, at
Irwin PA. Lillian Il. Reyes. at Yonkers, N Y. /;
j. T.. Lehman, at Hamilton, Ohio; Henry Pen
niman, ut Winthrop. Me, vice Elliott Wood
suspended; Fckford Moore, at Trenton. N j.,
vice C. III. Skirm, suspended; Frank +, Cole. at
Albion, Mich, vice Marin Haven, suspended.
Edward smith at Carrollton, Ill., vice james
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Gated and applied himself to the study of
the law. He ran as n Democratic candi-
date for Congress in 1860, but was defeat
ed. In 1862 he entered the army as Colo
mel of a regiment OF cavalry, and was taken
prisoner, but was exchanged. Returning
TO civil life he became a Republican, and in
1868 was made Attorney General of Illinois.
At the Republican convention of 1876 his
speech. in proposing MIR. Blaine's name for
the Presidency, aroused general attention
for its eloquence, and since that time Col.
Ingersoll has been prominent before the
country as an orator. His law practice is
very extensive and his fees large. 1t is said
that Stephen w. Dorsey paid him the enor-
nous sum of S100,0 for his services III
the Star Route trial.
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RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Commissioner of minor railway
pool at Chicago, after sending out men to pur-
chase cut-rate tickets OF all descriptions, sum
moned the General Passenger Agents and lot
them wrangle for six hours over the evidences
of bad faith. Then they voted TO cling to the
tariff and let the Commissioner infict penalties
for past misdeeds.
The Erie Railroads net earnings last
year were s7,O57, SOS.
The Reading and Jersey Central sys-
tenn has issued orders that no employee be al
lowed to ride free, or to reside at distance
from his place of business, except by special
narmission
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The annual report of the Lighthouse
Board asks for an appror iation of $50, 900
Tor the establishment of a lighthouse and
buoy depot Mt Little Traverse, Mich.
Among the other appropriations are these:
For the Crosse Isle Mich range lights,
$1,000; for light station Mt the eleven foot
shoal of the Michigan Peninsula, $50, 900;
for light station at Squaw Island, Lake
Michigan, to mark the passage to the west
ward of Beaver Island, S25, 1000: for the
purchase of the Grand Island lighthouse,
which has been found to be on Michigan
school lcnds, Sln6.
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ROBERT &. INGERS0LL.

Portrait of the Noted Lawyer and Agnostic.
The convicted Chicago anarchists have
lately made al unsuccessful effort TO enlist
the services of Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll in
the legal battle for their lives. He has thus
far declined to take part in the celebrated
case, on the ground that he has not the
time to spare. Col. Ingersoll is native Of
Dresden, n. Y, where he was born in 1888.
When twelve years old, he accompanied
his parents to Illinois, where he was edu-
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81 SEE, "said Mrs. Follansbee, looking mp
from her paper the other evening, that
they say Modieska has lot of perfect
sticks supporting her this season." THAT is
entirely appropriate" replied the Colonel,
"Why, she is a Pole herself, you know"
Mrs. Follansbee was so indignant that she
didn't speak TO him for all the evening.
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POLITICAL.

A circular has just been issued by the
National Committee OF the United Labor or
CARNATIONS containing a declaration of their
principles and objects of the industrial move
mcnt to form national un.on labor party.
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for many years the
confidential partner
of jay Gould, has
retired from active
business and will go
to Europe for a sea-
son of rest and rec
reation. Though
barely forty years of
age. he has accumu-
lated n very hand
some fortune, and
now prefers to de-
vote himself to man
aging his own affairs
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WASHINGTON.

1t is understood that the naval esti
mates are $1,000, 900 less ia amount than last
year.
The following is recapitulation of
the debt statement issued on the lst inst,
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II Mr.. Brown marries a Miss White,
and a son Of this couple marries n Miss
Gray, and daughter of theirs again mar
ries a Ar. Black, what color is their Off
spring.
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rather than continue to discharge the nrdu-
Gus duties that devolve upon the head Of
an active stock brokerage house.
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UNION PACIFIC REPORT.
Large Increase in the Earnings of
the Road-Funded-D Debt
Statement.

The report of tae Government Directors
OF the Union Pacific Railway shows that
the Surplus earnings of the entire system,
comprising 1881 miles, for the nine
months ended September 80, after deduct
ing operating expenses and taxes, was
Soils, DAP. To this must be added income
and profit from investments, land sales,
ETC., which brings the total income up to
So, ,020. From this must be deducted:
Discount and interest premi ums. "a, l2l
Sinking-fund requirements, company's
Dohu. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4b),3Jo
Interest on bonds of operat ID roads,. 0J3,Jl7
Land taxes and land expenses, Union
Division. -. ..................... 1889
One-half of loss In operating Leaven-
worth, Topeka and Southwestern
Railway ........................ n.721
Total. s., 429. O9O
This leaves net surplus of 81, 6S8, 1927,
from which deduct $500,000 for United
States requirements, leaving a surplus bal
ance OF 81, 1892. Compared with the
first nine months of 1885, the gross earn
ings increased 1881, COO, or AS per cent.
The passenger earnings increased $2Sl,-
3Oo and the freight earnings S657,77
The mail earnings show decrease of
SS,74O. the express earnings $S,663, aud
the mlscel lane Gus earnings $40, 625.
The increase in operating expenses was
81 ,lSJ,O2O, or 10 per cent, of which $685.,
9l6 was for maintenance of way ex-
penses and Sl53, $50 for car expenses. On
the average road mileage the gross earn
ings per mile rose from S4,075 in 1856 to
81 ,23O i'll 1886. an increase of 1856, or 3.S
per cent. The Pacific coast earnings,
which IN 1885 repre- sented S.S per cent. of
the total, fell off in 1886 to point where
they represent but IA per cent. The
e A.
changed with its branch-line system for
twelve months were in gross 3d.
900, 1893, or about 30 per cent.
of the total earnings of the parent
company. AS this traffic is done at less
average cost than its other business, the net
earnings from 1t are estimated ut over 3d.
600, or 80 per cent of the total net
earnings. This is in addition to the net
earnings of the branch lines themselves,
after paying all fixed charges, which were
-, 493, 459 for the nine months of 1856, and
indicates the vital importance of the branch
line system to the main system. The follow
ing is comparative statement of the
funded and other debts of the entire system
Dec. 30, 1886:
Funded debt in the hands of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1910
Total funded debt. .Sli7 ,9o7, 45o
Deduct cash resources. ............... 2,772, ga
Balance of debt .S145, 2l4, $40
Deduct land grant assets ............ %, 1881
Debt in excess Of land assets. SIZE, 270, sos
Miles Of road. Observation-Disclosures. 4,597
Debt per mile. Observation-Disclosures. S25, O70
The mileage and debts of the Central
branch and the st. Joseph and Grand Island
Company are not included in this statement.
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JAY GOULD'S PARTNER.

A Famous Spectator Retires from Bust
A recent New York dispatch states that
Washington Z. Conner, one of the most
prominent spectators in Wall street, and
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Mrs. John Davis, daughter of the
late Secretary of state Froliughuysen, and
well known in Washington soc al circles, has
become n hopeless paralytc.