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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate,

121sT DAY.-The conference report on the
Military Academy Appropriation bill was
|agreed to. :. Mr. Edmunds offered a reso.
tuition instructing the Committee on
Fisheries to make early investigation
into the administration of the affairs of the
United States Fish Commissioners Office.
a conference was ordered on the Naval Ap.
preparation bill, and Messrs. Hale, Allison
land German Were appointed on the part of
1.-THE Senate. :. The canteen question was dis
acussed and an amendment to the Army bill
Twas passed, providing that no liquor shall be
1Sold to soldiers by post-traders or canteenS In
prohibition States Mr.. Morrill, and Mr..
Harris spoke on the silver question.
122D DAY.-Messrs. Pugh and Farwell dis
cussed the silver question, the latter advoca-
ting the abolition of the Sub-Treasuries. 49,.
The Fortifcations bill was considered, and
the Watervliet items went over without
from toe Committee on Agriculture
p substitute for all the pure food
bills which have been introduced. -.
The Senate bill to provide for the obligatory
attendance at school of the children in Alas
Vas placed on the calendar. -. Mr.. Evarts
ported Senate bill appropriating $50, 900
br monument Of Edwin NJ. Stanton in
Front of the War Department. Placed on
fhe calendar. Among the memorials and
Pener papers presented ana reIerreu were
resolutions from the Louisiana Legislature
Extending thanks to Congress and the Presi-
lent for the relief afforded to the sufferers
rom the recent Mississippi floods.
123D DAY.-The presiding officer (Mr. In
Ealls) announced as the select committee on
Fhe bill for the establishment Of the Univer-
pity Of the United States Messrs Edmunds,
5herman, ingalls,. Blair, Dolph, Harris, But
er, Gibson and Barbour. The resolution
Tor an inquiry into the management of the
ish Commissioners offics was agreed to-.
he Fortifcations bill was passed, among
[he items being one appropriating s2S5, 200
Tor Watervliet IN. ~ Arsenal. The Sem
tie took up the River and Harbor BILL Mr..
doar and Representative Banks urged in
reased appropriations for Charles River and
Manchester harbor, and Mr.. Platt asked for
pore money for Milford Haven and the New
dayen breakwater.
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1T is now said chat the British East
African Company has stolen q msrohl
on the Germans, and that when Enin
Pasha reaches Uganda he will have
the surprise and modification Of find;
ing that the entire region north andl
south of the lake has been @under Brit
ish protection" these six months past.
Captain Jackson did it last summer
with little expedition that modestlyi
stunned advertisement and publioitya
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A TOWN DESTROYED.
Neb., Totally Demolished
and Five People Killed.

Bradshaw, Neb., town OF four or five
undred inhabitants has been laid waste by
! cyclone which struck it about $40 during
be night. Nearly every house in town was
emolished and nothing remains but mass
Z ruins and roofess walls. Five persons
Fere killed and score or more injured.
The wind was accompanied by deluge of
ain and stunning fusillade Of hail. Almost
efore the frightened inhabitants had time
b realize the nature Of their misfortune they
bund themselves in the street and their
ouses reduced to a shapeless mass of ruins.
he business part Of the town is nothing but
pile of kindling wood, not one store being
BIT standing. Every dwelling in the hamlet
in ruins, only few walls remaining, end
hese without roofs.
The scenes enacted after the wind had
lbsided are beyond description. In every
ouse in the town somebody was either killed
wounded. A hospital was at once impro-
ised in q roohess barn and the dead and
bounded were taken there. The killed are:
Ers. Penner, John Shaw's three children,
oung son Of j. A. Brumsey.
A number Of other people were hurt, but
be nature and extent Of their injuries could
lot be learned on the day after the storm.
The fury Of the wind that wrought this
errible devastation must have been ap-
hlling. The shapeless wreck, the country
lid waste, the village in ruins, and the
odies Of the dead that have been recovered,
bgether with the many wounded and suf-
ing, formed a picture Of horror and
56air.
The B. and NJ Depot was destroyed and
blegraph wires are down: Freight cars
Fere blown and twisted about as though
hey were empty paper-boxes. The prairie
round is strewn with dead hogs
hd fragments of buildings. The Russian
ttlement southwest Is destroyed, as also tbs
aaces OF William Morrison, D. Chicken and
]. Kock. Ninety hogs and one horse wers
bund In q grocery cellar. The injured were
poYed to York, Neb,, by special train.
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FIRST FLOOR.

Interior Finish: Trim, oak in hall and din
ing room; cherry in parlor and library. Cell.
ings pane!ed in hall, dining room and billiard
room. A dado Of Lncrusta Walton 3 feet
wide in dining room, front hall, billiard
room and up the main stairs. Oak seats in
hall. Hardwood floors in first and second
stories.
Exterior CoIors: First story main part
the natural color Of the stone used; clap
boards first story of the rear frame part,
painted greenish drab; shingles on side walls
Of second and third stories dipped in yellow.
ish red stain; all trim, including water ta
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FOUR BLOCKS BURNED.

A Destructive Incendiary Fire at
MiddlcsborouSh, Ky.
At II o'clock in the morning an incendiary
started fire in the feel store back of r.
Hoyland's grocery on Cumberland avenue,
Middlesborough, KY. The flames rapidly
spread and in two hours four entire squares,
containing the finest buildings in the city,
were completely burned out. Loss $3U, O0o,
with about SIPS 900 Of insurance.
Several citizens were badly burned, but
none were fatally hurt.
Two thousand people are homeless and had
all their effects burned up.
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AFRICAN RAILROADING.
A Thousand Men at Work on the
New Congo Line.

A Thousand Men at Work on the
New Congo Line.
Over 100 workmen are Low engaged on
the Congo Railroad, in Africa. Four hundred
of them come from Zanzibar, and the others
are mostly Krooboys from the Liberian
coast. The carpenters, blacksmiths and ma
sons are native craftsmen, who learned their
trades in Sierra Leone and Senegal. Most of
the force are engaged in blasting and grad
ing operations. A few Cabindas who live on
the. coast near the Congo are employed as
cooks, and about fifty Congo natives as
Up to April IL about two miles Of the road
way had been completed, starting from the
western end of the road at Matadi, ninety
miles from the sea. Three-fourths Of all the
difficulties to be met are in the first ten miles
before the comparatively level plateau PACK pa x
of the Congo hillsis reached. The work IS
now in charge of twenty-five Europeans, IN
cIuding engineers and superintendents.
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Accommodations: In addition to the ac-
commodations shown by the ground plan
printed herewith, thers is loft 30x45 feet,
open to the roof, except over the harness
room where stable mans room Is plastered
and finished. The stable portion may be e1-
tended to provide for more stalls in case they
ara required, at cost Of about $50 per foot
for such extension.
Cost: Built as described, in tho vicinity Of
New York city, $500.
r. W. SHoPPELL, Architect.
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A LARGE MANSION.
How a Fine Dwelling, With Stable and
Carriage House, May be Built.
Copyright by the Author.)

Carriage House, May be Built.
Copyright by the Author)
The very prevalent belief that it is folly
10 build big house is not we'll founded.
True enough it is difficult to sell ''large
place" of poor design, especially if it is lack
ing in modern conveniences and is in bad
order and has, psrhaps, noisy new factory
as near neighbor, but the fault must not
be ascribed to SIZE AS matter of fact
fine, large mansions are comparatively scarcs
in this country and there is an actual de-
mand for them.
In general way it may be said that
large house and barn that cost to build, let
us say, $4,000, set in the midst Of handsome
grounds, the whole cost, including the new
furniture that is needed for new house, not
to exceed $50, 900, create "a place" that is
worth $50, 900. Where the grounds are ex-
ceptionally large and fine the valuation may
even be placed higher. So much for the
commercial view. We are e commercial
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SOFIA IN RUINS.
A Hurricane Sweeps Over the Town,
killing Many Soldiers and Citizens.

A hurricane swept over Sofia, Bulgaria,
completely leveling the buildings in the
north part of the city AMI wreckiug many
structures in other portions.
Eleven soldiers were killed and several in
jured.
The number Of civilians killed or injured
could not be ascertained.
The pecuniary damage to the palace will
reach $500, 900.
Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria. The popu-
lation is about 90, 900. The palace was built
at cost of $500, 900, and European town
surrounds it in the eastern suburb, where it
stands. The city is famous for its mosques,
of which there are thirty or more, and the
hot baths Sofia was founded by Justinian
on the ruins of ancient Sardica.
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A Paralyzed Mother Compelled to
Witness Her Daughters Murder.
A terrible tragedy has just occurred at Or
leans, France.
A soldier in the artillery service quarreled
with and shot his cousin, girl of seventeen,
while dining at his aunt's house.
he then blew out his own brains with the
same revolver.
The only witness Of the affair was the poor
girls unfortunate mother, who, confined to
Che sofa by a stroke Of paralysis was unable
to interfere, and was thus compelled to rS
main for ten hours alone with the corpses be-
fore the crime was discovered.
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,n,rops OF Texas this year are estimated
\, best known. but the greatest ad-
been in the cotton crop. Conserva-
tes place its value at sec, 600, 600,
n above any crop Of previous
ID agricultural product Will
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-26

Protected against the importation
Of mowers and CultivatOrs by the tar
itf, and from serious home cOmpcti
tiOns 10y patents, Lew Steward poses
as democrat and friend Of the farmer
-,StrcdtOr Free Press.
Lew Steward is a somewhat extern
siyc manufacturer Of agricultural i'm.
plements. As such he uses great
deal of iron, steel, nails, screws, paints,
&c, &c. on all of which he pays a
duty Of 10 per cent and up. If the re.
publican party will kindly give him
his raw material free from taxation.
he will gladly forego all advantage he
reaps from any tariff on the kind ol
implements he manufactures.
As to the charge Of the +. Press that
Mr.. ). sells his wares TO foreigners at
from 30 TO 30 per cent less than 10 his
home customers, that he may he able
to do when the wis, provision OF the
Mckinley tariff bill goes into effect,
under which he can claim a rebate of
all the duty paid on raw material used
in the manufacture of goods sent out
OF the country, but meantime Mr.. :.
has had no occasion to affect the sort
of patriotism that taxes our own peo-
pie for the benefit OF other countries.
that being an exclusively McKinlcyite
republican invention.
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| All OF WHICH Is Respectfully SuUmlt-
ted. VIM. M. REED.
WILL II. MCINTYRE,
A. N ANDERSON,
JOHN WILEY,
CHAs. Il. BOWLING.
Supervisor Irwin, chairman OF the
committee on roads and bridges, sub
united the following report:
Mr.. Chairman ant Gentlemen of the
| Board Of Supervisors: Your committee
ON roads and bridges would respectful
| Iy report that they have examined the
matter of the resolution that Elias
rrumbO, Martin FlaheTty and Basil
Green be appointed inspectors of toll
roads, as provided by law, presented
| before them. and recommend that the
resolution he adopted.
Your committee would further re-
port that they have examined the mat
ter of the petition OF the commission
eTs of highways of the town of Ottawa,
asking for an appropriation by the
county of $4,000, and would recon-
mend that 1t be not allowed.
Your committee would furtherrepOrt
that they have examined the matter OF
the petition of commissioners OF high
way of the town of La Sale, asking for
assistance in the repairs OF the bridge
across the Illinois river in the said town
of La sale, and find that the repairs
are needed and that the estimated cost
of such repairs will be about eleven
thousand dollars. We also find that
the town has provided for the necessary
funds TO pay their proportion of the
cost of such repairs, as provided by
law, and would recommend that com
mittee of three be appointed to act with
commissioners of highways In the
above matter. as required by law.
All of which Is respectfully submit.
ted. A. l.. IRWIN. Chairman.
q. REINHARD,
LACEY HTBBs,
j. f. PHILLIPS.
Said report was adopted by the fol.
lowing vote:
Anderson. BreiniDg, Burkart, Carr,
COnertOn. Connover, DOnlevy, Dow.
ling, Duffy, Ellsworth. Gransden, Hall
tWm.l, Hall IS. Al, Hibbs, LAUDER,
Lynch. Mayo. Miller. Mueller. Nc Lauch-
Ian, Mcintyre, O'Loughlin, Phil.
lips, Guam. Read, Reinhard, Sauer.
TAYLOR, Trowbridge. Trumbo, Walter,
Wylie, Mr.. Chairman (34l, voted in the
affirmative. Dawson, Ferguson. linus,
Spencer, Truman, Werner t6l. voted in
the negative.
Supervisor Fades moved that the
board reconsider Its action OF yesterday
in adopting the report of the committee
on attachments so far as the same refers
to VIZ ne4 of Sec. =, Utica. Motion
carried.
Thereupon supervisor Anderson sub
mitted the following as an amendment.
to said report:
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nois river, thence west along the center
line Ot said river to the center line run
ming north and south through section
twenty, thence south through the center
Ut sections OF twenty, twenty-nine and
thirty two To the south Hue OF eaiu
township, thence east along said south
line To the east line OF said township,
thence north along said east line to the
north line Ut said township, thence
west along said north line to the place
OF beginning, shall be known and des
ignated AS district nun Der one. Polling
place. town hall. Judges OF election,
VIM. Penn.ng. ID. b. Fox, }, l., LAUDER.
Second district. All that portion OF
said township lying west OF said above
described district number one shall be
known ana designated AS district mum
Der two. Polling place. fourth ward
school house. Judges Of election. An
ton Blrkeubeuel. Louis Briel, Gustav
Breining.
Township of Richland: Polling place,
school-h0use, district D.
Township of Rutland
First district: Polling place, Butter
field Building on west side OF Main
street. Marseilles. Judges OF election.
Nathan Fleming, Cnas. Wilson, |. IL.
Trowbridge.
Second district: Polling place,
Grove school.house, on Chicago road.
Judges of election. o. G. Thompson,
Freeman Wheeler. Class Classen.
Your committee further recommend
that as TO all other townships not here
Inbefore mentioned the polling plac'
90 therein be the same as fixed bv this
board at It's July session. a. ID. ISIS.
All of which is respectfully submitted
j. l.. LAUDER, Chairman.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
Board OF Supervisors: Your committee
on pauper ciaimt beg leave To report
that they have examined all claims pre-
scented before them. and recommend
the payment OF the following, and that
the clerk be directed TO issue an order
tor the total amounts to the County
Agent, and he TO disburse same to the
several ella mants. tO-wit:
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Chief Arthur, of the locomotive engl-
necrs. said in Il recent interview that
strikes were decreasing, and that they
would be fewer in the future than they
have been in the past. In the face of the
facts this looks like queer statement.
Strikes are on the upward tendency, and
they will continue SO until some radical
changes are made in the system of EN-
ploying labor. Workingmen are learn
ing fast about the wrongs pat upon them.
and they intend to fight harder and
harder until the burden is lifted. What's
the use of trying to- hide SO glorious IA
truth as this; But, it is said, Mr.. Arthur
has not known anything about the laborer
and his aspirations for seYeral years.
JOS. X. BUCHANAN.
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Some say that the universal establish
ment of the eight hours working day
would reduce the volume of production,
and others say it should be established
by legislation. Neither set will find any
support in records of the experience of
the Australasian colonies, where the
eight hours day prevails generally. 1t
was established there by trades union
agitation. resulting in voluntary agIee-
ment between masters and employees.
and the Australians, far from having
been Impoverished 10y it, are far the
wealthest people in the world. Sir
Charles Dixie describes the artisans of
Victoria and New South Wales Is gen
orally well-to-do property owners, whose
wives employ household servants and
have plenty of leisure for intellectual
Improvement,
Connected with most of the factories
there are not only excellent bands Of
music, but debating societies, adnlra-
bly, managed. and concerts of good mu-
sic given 10y the men in evening dress"
The citizens If Victoria have had the
short day ever since lS56, when the stone
masous started the agitation. found
themselves joined promptly by allied
trades and won along the whole line
after only twelve days struggle. New
South Wales soon followed suit, and all
the Australian colonies, including those
of New Zealand. have enjoyed the boon
for years. Experience declares for its
continuance 80 conclusively that Cana
dams without distinction Of class may
well think it safe 10 Join III initiating the
social reform. Globe.
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After an Illness Of twenty-four hours
Mrs. w. b. Bishop died at Atchison,
Kan, Friday, and physicians unite in
declaring that Asiatic cholera caused
her death.
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The labor question is becoming more
and more IA matter Of international con-
Germ. This is the outcome Of the moro
intimate relations which commerce has
created among nations, and also 10 tie
international associations which the
to,lers themselves have formed.-Louis-
Vile Courier Journal.
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YARN WITH KINKS In IT.
USUALLY LIBERAL LYMAN ABBOTT
MAKES SOME SAD BREAKS.

Aue Ni'hN"uAerS n"u sH''ss"" ,''bN"
tion-Ncw York Labor Politics-The
Gompers and Powderly Row-Bellamy
and Established Cooperation.
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott has con-
tributed to The Forum an article on the
wages system which, while it does not
offer substitute nor suggest any i'm
portant remedial changes, testities TO the
absolute inetficiency and injustice of
that system. He says that the question
is burning one and that 1.-THE press. in
spite of the fact that it is owned and
controlled by large capitalists, is begin
ming to reflect the general demand for
social and industrial reform" To this
he adds the following hit of truth, which
all thinking men indorse: The great
daily newspapers are better as reporters
of the current life than as interpreters
of its significance or prophets of its ten
denotes" As Il rule the IIs,tser of the
daily newspaper which is known as
editorial is prepared by men who
know little or nothing about the labor
question, and one sometimes wonders
how they can make such blunlers when
their own local columns would show
them their error if they would only read
them.
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There is much more in The Forum ar
ticle that is open TO criticism, but space
will not admit its consideration here, and
there are several good things on the
other side which must, in justice 10 DR..
Abbott, be quoted. These will be given
without comment: Nevertheless the
wage system is not the ideal 1t is not
the end. II is "a step toward something
better" Enforced likeness,
says Carlyle, 'is the Englishman's hell
That system cannot be right which turns
900 900 workers in rich America into
this hell and locks the door against
them" THAT system cannot
be right which gives the profits of in
dustry 10 the few and compels the many
to live always praying, Give us this day
our daily bread" Four gifts
God has given to all his children to pos
sess III freedom-air, water, sunlight,
land. The wages system, concentrating
the land in the hands Of "A few tool own
ers, crowds tn many IN tenements
where sunlight Is darkrned, water is poi
soned and air is residential
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-07-26

What commentary upon a Christian
civilization is furnished by the cloak
makers strike in New York! Every
paper in the city contained daily, for
weeks, reports Of the condition of the
poor creatures that We're heartbreaAng,
and yet the money grubbers went along
about their business as If nothing un-
usual was happening. I'VE are starry
ing was the cry which came up from
women and little children. and Yet Fifth
avenue nr-.r missed reception. nor did
one cf tbs men who have grown opu-
lent off of he system which made the
cry possible postpone any Of his sx.
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THAT the rich have grown richer and
the poor poorer under this system has
been often asserted but never demon
strated." Is it not true that capitals
proportion Of the wealth created is con-
stantly growing larger while the labor
er's ,,rows smaller: Is it not true that
the great army of enforced oilers is
growing ont of all proportion to the in
crease of population: Is 1t not true that
the means of employing labor is passing
into fewer and fewer hands, and that
the small employers are being reduced
to the ranks of the employees; These
things being true and considered in CON
nection with the facts that through en-
HANGED methods Of production wealth
has piled up at an enormous rate, and
that the workers of today are not those
Of the feudal days but men and women
born and brought up in the midst Of
these improved surroundings, prob
ably the demonstration" may be found.
DIR. Abbott may get some light on this
point if he will compare the rich man Of
fifty years ago with the poor man of the
same period and then make n similar
comparison for to-day.
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Socialism means revolution ultimately
in so far AS n complete change of the So
cial system implies revolution, but it
does not necessarily follow that that
change must come by revolutionary
methods, or even all ut once by any
method. 1t is being brought about
now by evolution, step by step, and
may so continue to the end. DR.. Abbott
is too broad II man to juggle with words,
and he should not allow himself to be an
echo of that portion Of the daily press
which makes bugaboos of Socialism
and revolution"