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KELLEY ON The TARIFF.

The Father of the House Replies to
Chairman Mills Rank Free-Trade Ha-
rangue-Formal Opening of the Tarin
Debate-R Republican Patriotism aud
Democratic Se,fi illness.
WAsHNGToS. April lS The debate on the
tariff question was opened yesterday by
Chairman Mills. who delivered an out-and-
out free-trade speech In support OF his
bill, Judge Kelley, the Oldest member on
the Republican side OF the Ways and Means
Committee, answered Mills IN Sc speech,
and the issue between the two artits is
thus sharply joined.
When the confusion incident to II
Mr.. Mills speech had subsidized M. kc.. Poi
took the II or in opposition 90
the Tariff bill He declared that TIE enact
ment Of this measure would instantly payaiyze
the enterprise and energy ot the people. Under
the baneful influence OF such law the vcpor-
OF the census OF 1899 would announce
the overthrow OF our manufacturing SUI
premacy and the reduction Of our commanding
commercial position to that Of colonial depend
ence. II was studiously designed 10 produce
these dire results and nicely adapted Tor IT'S
purpose. II was confessedly partisan meas
ure, and was framed IN the interest OF a
party whose leaders appeared to be
obvious 20 the overwhelming soc al
and economical changes wrought by the
atoiltiou OF siuNttNs lh0 esAlttH4SA WHO
framed this bill, an could brook neither modi-
fication nor discussion Of its provisions by their
associates In the committee to which the prep
aration of revenue bills was conhded by law,
were, with but two exceptions representatives,
Of what was slave territory. The bill was an
anschronism; it had no relation 10 this era il
belonged to the saddest epoch IN our National
history, the period between 1921 and 1861. Dur
ing that period slavery dominated our Ma
tional councils and guided the administration
OF our National affairs, in hostility 10 National
interests, and, in the interests Of free trads
twice threatened war. IL was IN the in
terests Of free trade that war was threatenei
in support OF the doctrine Of notification, and
IL was In the interest OF free trade that the
country was involved for more than four years
in a fratricidal war; the proportions OF which
were more gantic than ever characterized a
civil war Tho entire South knew that free
trade was essential TO the rerpetuity OF
slavery in the Republic. and it should
also know that the logic that could de-
fend free trade in a country endowed with
the boundless diversity Of the elements Of
manufacture and the immense supply
we enjoyed, vanished when slavery was abol-
ished.
by putting wool on the free list it would
abolish sheep husbaudry and impoyerish the
more than m llion men who own fioeks or
are employed in their care and by work ng
this ruin it would dtraiaish the supply OF
cheap and healthful animal food now
furnished by wool-growers TO mining
and manufacturing laborers OF the
country. II would also render the production
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NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Happenings in the Northwestern
States and Territories.
ILLINOIS.

Horace Wright, aged sixty-siX years, COM
mitted suicide recently at Carlinville by
jumping into a well. Family troubles were
supposed to have been the cause
At Shelbyville the other day the grand
Jury returned an indictment for murder
against William Devine. for the killing of
Andrew Akers, at Ash Grove. in March
John Reinhardt, a prominent merchant OF
New Minden, was recently found gully of
forgery and his punishment fixed at two
years in the penitentiary.
A Chicago syndicate has sent an agent to
California TO buy twenty thousand acres OF
land on the Sonora river for orange culture.
Robert McEvers was stabbed five times
and killed near Pear Station the other day
by Howard Garrison. his cousin, in dis
pute over a calf.
At Pittsheld few days ago David Doug
lass was convicted of killing Riley Kelley,
and the penalty fixed at fourteen years in
the penitentiary
A freight train on the Chicago & Alton
railroad was thrown from the track near
Jacksonville the other morning. and twelve
cars demolished. but no one badly hurt
Jim Foster and Fan Burns, the Tiskilwa
bank robbers, were & few days ago sentenced
TO ten years imprisonment
NNhfctHaAion ~ tGpionN was Idillth Oh
with perfect ease the other day between
Bloomington AMI Kansas City, 81. Joseph,
Mo, and Topeka. Kan. distance of four
hundred miles The long-distance trans
mitter was used
recent fire destroyed the elevator and
-four mill Of the Cowder Milling Company
at Edwardsvlle, causing n loss OF $50, 900;
insurance, $4,000
An attempt was made TO blow up the
drug store OF r. W johnson, Moweaqua, a
few days ago with bomb. The miscreants
and their motives were alike unknown.
At Pekin the other afternoon George
SchOnebaum, a laborer out of work and
dependent hung himself in his house
during his wife's absence. He left four
children.
cyclone passed over the southwestern
part of Washington County the other night,
demolishiug houses. barns and fences No
lives were lost
Governor Cglesby recently received no
tice fro.l Governor Foraker of Ohio, that
the remaining quarantine against Cook
/ County cattle had been removed
! Two funeral professions in Chicago raced
( for the cemetery recently, and several per-
sons were hurt by collision that took
1 place
Governor OgiosDy mas appointed JOhn IL
! Collier, OF Paxton, to succeed W. O. Saokett
on the State Board of Equalization.
| NJ NJ Powell was sentenced To the peni-
/ tentiary FOR eight years a few days ago for
/ killing William Huddleston in Harrisburg
I last fall
| Thomas Stafford, seventy-thre years old
ana an old resident of Galesburg, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in a barn
the other night for fear Of paralysis
! David Fleming. an old and respectable
citizen of Olney, committed suicide the
/ other morning by shooting while insane
/ Mr. Fleming served on the Richland County
/ board OF supervisors the last twelve years
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FROM WASHIHGTON.

THFRE were Isl business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 10Th. agaius. 162 the previous
sevan days The total failures from jan
uary l 10 date were 3. SAB. against 3,6I9
in the same time last year
THH present Congress had been in session
one hundred days on the 10th The House
had passed I2J bills and the Senats S3l
Altogether 2O9 bills had passed both houses
and gone to the President for his signature,
and l.. 56S bills and resolutions had been
intrOduced-tJe largest number on record.
AZ tweuty-siN leading clearing houses in
the United States, the exchanges during
the week ended on the 2ist aggregated
1888. 100. 264, aga nst $685.. 200, 439 the
previous weeS As compored with the cor
responding week of 1887 the decrease
Amounted 10 10 3 nor cant
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QrEEN Victoria arrived at Berlin on the
18th.
A BIT hAb been introduced in the Mani
t3be legislature 10 authorize a losn of
10000 TO bull the Red River Valley
road.
A MAN named Olson was killed on the
18th by falling into the shaft Of the Mime
sofa milne a; Tower Iinn.
TUE President On til at i sued an order
assigning Maj. Gen Crook to tie command
o. the dlyi ion of the Missouri, AID Brig
Gen. Brooke to the command Of the divis-
ion Of the PlItse
TRE seer tary Of the treasury on ths cath
accepted the following OFF rs for the sale
Of bonds TO the &, verDment: Three hundred
Thousand dollars registered IS at l24as, and
100000 registered a. IS l25iS
JONI L. Sullivan, the prize fighter
arrived at New York on tbs Gath.
GgN. y, x, Fer was renouiinated Nv the
Republicans of the Tenth Illinois district on
the 9Th
The Centenn al hotel at Butte, Mont,
vas destroyed by fire on the Gath, and two
men persisted in the flames The fl ancial
oss was $4,000
THE session OF the Senate on the cath was
opened with a prayer by Rev DR.. A. Per
reira Mendez, rabbi OF the Spanish sud
Portuguese eOugreg stion Of New York,
who, according to tie Jewish custom, wore
dis hat while engaged in prayer. Tie
House bill appropriating $4,000 for an
arsenal at Columbia, Tenn, was passed.
In the House the resolution from the COM
mittee on commerce providing for an inves-
tigation Of the Burlington strike was re-
ferred to the committee Of the whole The
tariff bin was then taken up and consider
ID in committee OF the whole, aud Mr.
McAilin Tenn made lengthy speech in
favor of the bill.
SEcRETART FAEcHTLD appeared before
the senate finance committe on the Gath, at
the request Of the committee. 10 present
his views on the bin which has passed the
house providing for the issue of fractional
currency. The secretary strongly opposed
the bin. He asserted that previous issues
Of fractional currency had cost, in the
expense Of production and the loss
from destruction, as much as
the entire face value of the average circu
iation maintained. he did not believe
that public convenience required a reissue.
nor that it would be popular. The cost and
great loss incident 10 such an issue and its
manifest disadvantage which hal led to is
were, to Ills mind, conclusive
reasons against rsnewsl Of such circula-
ton
TIE Milwaukee elevator and depot North
field, MINI, were burned on the 24th,
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WEST AND SOnTa.

T. T. Miller. OF Sos u t;end, Ind ,ifed on
the lS-h ggsd seventy seven wears He
was enc OF the Nldest Journalists in the
country, and Founder Of the first anti
slavery paper. the Pi.da,sr9ps,' which
he started in Western Pennsylvania in
iS.}d
lS,sSDIARIEs fred the stables of Senator
Stanford at Palo Alto, Cal, on the S,h aud
several valuable racing horses were turned
10 death or permanently injured Loss.
5000 O0O
By the foods in Wisconsin and Minnesota
the losses 70 lumbermen were on tho 18th
estimated at $3.50. 600
SOUTH CARoTISIA Republicans RE, al
Charleston ON the iss4 and elected dele
gates to the Chicago convention who favor
senator sherman Tot President
On the ~ h a large portion Of the town
OF Caledonia. WIS. ". : flooded bv break
IN the Ievoe ON the ives, hank Of the Wis
consin. Farms were a.so submerged, and
the damage would he great.
A. \ ABEI.r. founder and proprietor of
the Baltimore .'c,s. died in that city on the
I9-h. aged eighty-tvu years He leaves an
estate valusi az nearly 500. DOC. 600
AT the Ohio Republican State canven-
ton in Dayton on tire - Joseph p Brad
bury was nominated fcc Supreme Court
Judge and Daniel J. Ryan for Secretary of
state Governor Foraker Ex-Governor Fos-
ter and congressman Mckinley and Butter
worth were chosen a. delegates large to
the Chicago convention Instructions for
sherman were adopted The platform de-
nOuaces Democratic election frauds. de-
mands protection for American industries;
censures Cleyeland's free-traGo message;
comments the "a min s.rat.on OF Governor
Foraker; demands Just and comprehen-
sive pension bill. and pledges support to the
soldiers and Sailors' Home
NgAE + WAYNE, md. Mss Bertha Evsrd.
schOOl-tezcher, wss burned 70 deash on
tie 10th by her clothes taking IRE from TIE
stove
Ok the l9;h four hundred brewers az Gu
cinnat. struck because Of the discharge {
several union iacn
* each Congressional district in Indiana
conventions were held on the 10th for the
selection Of de egates 20 the National Re
publican convention, and the result was a
victory for General Harrison for President
IHE death Of IL Dewart, a prominent
Democratic politician and \ member Of the
Thirty-hfth Congress, occurred on the l9;h
a; Sunbury. Pa. = tbs age Of sixty-eight
years
CONGRESSIONAL. nominations were made
as follows on the iath; Indiana, Fifta dis
tTicf. George ". Cooper DEM; Sixsh dis
triet. General Tom Brown iRepl. Eighth
distr.ct. James ]. Johnston CReph linois,
Fifth district. Albert J Hopkins Rspl
TRE death Of v. Hicks. a veteran OF the
war OF Is1a and tic BIlck Huwk war oc-
CURED at EoOdhouss. Ill, ON the 2O;h az
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TERRIBLE DISASTER

Onhcial Report of the Awful Des:ruciiors
Caused by the Chinese Earthquakes
-Four Thousand Persons KILLED aud Ia
jured.
san FRASo1sco, Cal, April 23.-Ths
steamer City OF New York, arriving yester-
day from China. brings details Of an earth
quake at Yunnan. The Project Of Lin An.
with Chi Hens OF Shih Ping. and kieH
Shut, under him. have jointly. reported to
the Governor OF Yunnan, as follows: From
the second dav OF the twelfth month Of tho
last year till she third day of this year there
were over ten shocks of earthquake, accom-
panied with noise like thunder. lamens
in the cities of Shih Ping and Kien Shut
were either knocked down or split right
down, and temples likewise; in shin
Ping eight or nine-tenths of the houses
in the south are falling down, and
half of those in the east; in the northwest
1000 being cracked or bent out Of the
perpendicular; 200 people, men ana wom-
en-, old aud young, being crushed to DEATH
wounded and injured over 300 At Tung
Hang over 500 were crushed to-
death and about zoo or 500 wounded At
Nan Hang there were over 200 dead and
over 100 injured At 81 Hang there ar6
over 200 dead and over 500 injured. At
Peh Hang about loo were killed and the
same number injured In the town and
suburbs over 1000 people are either
killed or wounded, eight or nine
tenths of the houses fallen down, and the
rest cracked and leaning over At Klein
shui in the city seven were killed and many
wounded in the northwest suburb 800 10
400 houses were overturned, 30 people
killed and 100 or 1G0 wounded.
In one town the Jail was oyerthrown and
three notorious criminals convicted of
triple murder were enabled 70 escape in
the general confusion. The suffering
among the people was very great, as most
oil those whose houses were demolished
los. every thing. Tho Imperial Council
voted liberal aid and the Emperor y said
to be much grieved over the affair, which
IS the most disastrous earthquake known
in Chinese history The district is
mountainous and dotted with lakes. and
the heaviest shocks were felt near Yunnau
lake. The earthquake was of the linear
kind, and moved at right angles to the
mountain chains It is also reported that.
$50 miles away. On the Upper Iangtze,
land at Su Chen subsidized and became a lake.
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IOWA.


John Downing. a Dubuque saloon keeper,
shot himself the other day, death resulting
Immediately No cause was known for the
act
l. A Cobb, a leader in the temperance
aause Iowa, and noted as a lecturer, died
the other morning at his home in Waterloo.
w. l. Watts coal dealer at Cedar Rapids,
who faded recently and had since been
drinking heavily, committed suicide a few
days ago while threatened with an attack
OF deliTium tremens He was thirty-thr
years old
At the recent annual encampment in
Cedar Rapids < A Consigny, of AvOca.
was elected Department Commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Captain C. J. Swan, a prominent Sioux
City attorney, died suddenly the other
morning of apoplexy. He was forty eight
years old
Toe wife of Senator L z Cassett died a
few days ago at her home at pella.
Articles Of Incorporation OF the Sioux
City Rapid Transit Company have been
filed, with a capital stock of s 600, 900.
The incorporators embrace the leading
business men of the city.
The official call has been issued for n con.
ventiOn of Republican clubs to be held in
Des Moines on Wednesday, May >
Three constables In Des Moines were re-
Gently indicted, charged with receiving
bribes in liquor cases. Theif names are
Potts. Hamilton and West
v. A. Uvermire, formerly a supervisor OF
Carroll County, cut his throat from ear
to ear the other day In Des Moihos he had
lost money.
Abo3t eigh5 miles northeast of Altoona
lives a thrifty German family, with five
children, three of whom are-Albinos Ono
is a boy about sixteen years CT age, with
very small pink eyes, TINT are Indifferent to
light He Keeps hts eyes shaded in day
time and sudden glare of light woul {
knock him down. His pupils are scarcely
observable He can not do any work in
day time, but frequently plows all night
TIC darker the night the better he can sec
The three children have Light Albno hair
en- skin as soft as velvet
The Callahan Female College md Drake
University of Des Moines are to be combined
rs a normal school
Dubuque grpcers have been generally
victim zed Ly a man dressed like la
torer, who presented checks forged for
small amounts
Ths Des Moines P,esbytert recently
adopted resolutions con iemning the order
forbidding ms ructson Of indiana 10 thef
native language
Governor EarrdJes has vesoed the bill
passed by the late Legislature which pro-
yided tor a rebate in case Of COZ ricts Whc
conducted themselves wei, shottcnlnq their
terms in the penitent ary. The Governor
decided that II was retroactive IN its ma.
tire, and If it became a law would imme-
1iately rsiease from the psnitenuary l27
cOnvicts
The State Amateur Rowing Association
will hold regatta at spirit lake Juy "a
and 20
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3
! Mrs Fred Strauss. of fiion. n Y caused
/ the arrest Of her husband az Darlington a
I few DAYS ago Strauss elopsd in 1879.
I taking ST. 600 of his wifes money The
I latter spent ~, 600 in sreaing for the
3 RUNWAY
silas HrEd. presideht Of the Bunk of Ed
| gert0n. at Edgerton, died recently at his
home IN Fulton, aged seveuty-one years,
leaving Ave children aud an estate If $500
( OOd
I The clergy Of tho diocese of Green Bay
presented Bishop kaiz with purse OF
+ 1900 IN gold previous 70 hid cent depart
urc for Rome
/ The Beloit College has bought the Beloit
! Water Power Company's paper mill for
7 Sl4 600
I David Carbon, woll-knuwu Indian
guide. SAYS the entite western end OF lake
I superior. from Port Arthur 10 the WAGON
Z Sin shore, was soudly frozen over this win
\ Ter. and that several trips wets made By In
ans across the immense ice hoe with
safe y
The water a, Marshfeld aud vicinity was
few 4 iys agd the highes, knogn for
Years The yellow river ras n torrent and
nearly every bridge over il WIS swept
ANY,
Early the her morning the California
House AMI twenty other structures 81 De-.
IRE Were destroyed ly fre. causing loss OF
$75, coo; Insurance., $40 600
Mr. and Mrs William Dsebe, natives OF
New England aud pioneer settlers OF this
State. celebrated the iftieth anniversary OF
their wedding at the ia nIly residence in
PlItt srvi.ie the other eveling.
The railway boarding house at GAINESVILLE.
a
frs early the other morning Loss, -, 800;
Insurance., =. 600
The Safe BoIrd OF Pharmacy at its re-
cent animal session at Madison elected the
following officers. President. A II Hollis
ter. OF Madison; Secretary and Treasurer,
L Z. He!nsueet OF Evansville
Judge DYER. OF the United States Court
at Nj. waukee has sent his resignation 70
Washington. lie abandons the bench TO
become general counsel for the Northwest
ern Mutual Life Insurance Company, at a
salary OF $40. QUO year
Fire the other night destroyed the Fort
Atkinson high school building with all its
contents Loss, $50. 600; insurance, So,
OO0 The fire caught from the furnace
a woman, arrested for poisoning her
neighbor's chickens. was discharged re-
Gently al Milwaukee by Judge Mallory, who
decided that the hen is not domestic ami
NAL and that the law provides no penalty
for the alleged offense.
William Carsry's railroad eating house at
GAINESVILLE VS. burned early the otner morn
Ing, at loss OF 81, sos partly insured
Ten milton feet OF logs were released by
the receut collapse Of a boom on the Wolf
river. near Fremont and carried irRo Lake
Pagan. They could be recovered. hut anly
a. great expense
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II the sixth annual report ~ the Di-
rector II the United Statrs Geological
Survey Prof. Shaler estimates that the
iuiprovabIe marshes of our Eastern
coast amount to at least 5. 0pn. OOo acres.
Fully 90. 900 acres IF salt marsh lands
are situated between Portland and New
York. all Of which are capable of be-
ing reclaimed from the sea by dikcs
and brought under cultivation 10
make them yield profit ga valus-
ton of two hundred dollars per acre,
while the cost of retaining them
ought not 90 exceed onc-iifth Of that
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THE birthplace Of General Grant. at
Point Pleasant. o.. Is still in good re-
pair. snG used n a dwelling. With no
accident il will last century yet. II
i somewhat queer. hut j, j. fact,
chat this old homes hold on public
sentiment seems 10 tighten. The Gin
cinmati centennial offered a biz sum
for the old home aud the Columbus
centennial offered Is. 600 for its rent.
with guarantee that they will re-
place It unhurt upon its foundations
when the centennial IS over But the
old homestead is not on the market.
anil can not be purchased.
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BORNE TO THE TOMB.
The Remains of the Late Roscoe COnk-
ling Placed in the Tomb at Utica, n. v
-The Services Floral Tributes from.
tbe xgI,tts HouSa

The Remains of the Late Roscoe COnk-
ling Placed ia the Tomb at Utica, n. v
-Ihe Services Floral Tributes from.
the White House.
UTICA, n J, April - The day on
which the ciuzens of Utica are bidding
farewell TO all that is mortal of Roscoe
Conkling, opened with clouds threatening
rain The draped city, Notwithstanding
she presence of many strangers, exhibited
less than its usual stir, for business was to
be suspended during the entire day in
many establishments. and in all CONNER
cial houses at least during the hours devoted
to the funeral and viewing of the remains.
The principal delegations from abroad
arrived during the night, bat the
trains Of the morning. have brought thrOngs
OF official and unOfficisl friends from all
parts of the Nation
Calvary Church was filed TO OVERLOOKING
long before > o'clock. the hour named for
the beginning of the services Upon the
arrival of the procession it was met at
the entrance of the church by the
rector, Rev A. B. Goodrich, d D..
IN his robes During the passage OF the
procession into the church. the rector read
the opening sentences of the beautiful and
impressive burial service of the Episcopal
church, commencing ~ am the Tesur-
rection and the life" When all were
seated the burial anthem taken from the
5Oth and goth Psalms. was rendered re-
sponsively by the officiating clergyman,
the choir singing alternate verses. After 3
Brief but impressive service the sad pro-
cession Yended its way TO the cemetery.
where the c0mmittal service of the church
was held in ths conservatory. The
bearers were: William j. Comstock
William IL Watson, Francis Herman,
Henry D. Pixley. Theodore Pomeroy,
/ William Blaikie, Publius v Rogers +
/ Prentiss Bailey, and Charles " DeBnison.
The remains of Mr. COnkIing lay in
state from II to O'clock Before noon 6
very large number of the friends of the
deceased had assembled in the vicinity OF
the house, and during TIE following hour
O continuous stream of people passed into
the residence to take a last look at the
+ features of the dead The floral tributes
were very numerous and of unusual mag
nlficence Conspicuous among them was.
large wreath of Gala lilies, intertwined
Tith blue immortelles, attached to which
was plain white card bearing the words.
+ The President
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A NEW type OF Euuch Arden has
been found 1t Lockport. y. \. Twruty
wears ago john Langdou left hts wife
and ran away with another woman.
Recently he and the second wife
agreed 20 separate and return To- their
old homes He wrote tn hi~ first
vile and she agreed to live with him
again. but when he appeared on tho
scene she declined TO keep her bargain.
aud 10 shot himself