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The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The Republican Legislature in
Maine wouldn't touch the Australian
ballot. They are not wanting reforms
as much as they were.-St- Paul Globe.
Mr.. Harrison says that the race
question has given him more trouble,
since he became President than any
other. He doubtless referred to the
race for office. e.-Louisville Courier
Journal
Senator Ingalls, can't scare any
body with his talk about fighting the
South. He had the chance once to fight
the South and he skulked. He only
fights with his mouth.-Birmingham
ALA Chronicle.
Although President Harrison does
not appoint many colored people to of
fee, it must be said of him that he is
very industriously removing those col
ored people who were appointed by
President Cleveland Rec
ord.
-Brer Ingalls, will never be happy
until the South is again plundered as it
was in the years Immediately following
the war He and his party should try
to be content with the enormous and
ill-gotten treasury surplus.
Courier-Journal.
How do the farmers like it, any
way? May wheat is lower than ever be-
fore at this period of the year since the
war. Corn, oats and provisions are in a
like fix. Our revenue business has
been so atrociously handled that we can
not sell our products abroad. .-6incin-
natl Enquirer.
-"Give me free ore," said the
speaker, land I'll sell pig-iron in Liver
pool and send steel rails to London.
What American industries most want is
free opportunity, and not Legislative
protection nor restriction. on."-Interview
with the President of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company.
Many Illinois farmers have quit
raising wheat as profltless and gone into
apple raising, and now the tariff organs
may beneficially pat them on the back
ano remind them how much they owe to
the protection that makes existence a
continuous feast Of dumplings.-Phila
delphia Record. ' s<s
The speech of Senator Ingalls, on
the race trouble at the South and the
deportation project was very credit
able piece of mad-dog rhetoric perhaps
but nothing more absurd in its state
ments or more inconsequential in iti
conclusions has ever been uttered II
the Senate.-Chicago Herald.
1t would be a shocking state o
affairs If Congress, Republican in boti
branches, with Republican President
elected on platform pledging them Il
the highest kind of high protection,
should fail to carry out their pledges
and let the session go by without tbs
promised revision of the tariff in th'
direction Of higher duties and greatel
protection. But that would be justwha
the Plain Dealer has repeatedly pre-
dicted would be tie essa.-Cleveland
, Plain Dealer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
NEGROES FOR OKLAHOMA.
The Advisability of Making the Territory
n small Negro State.

me Aov1saDnity OF making the Ierritory
small Negro State.
The Republican newspapers are doing
all they can to encourage the movement
of negroes to Oklahoma. They proba-
bly, foresee in the near future a new
State with dusky member of Congress
and couple of Senators. 1t is some
what astonishing what paradise Okla
homa has become since the idea of pop
ulating it with negroes was made pub
lie. 1t now has all the finest qualities
of the best land in the Union, when,
Immediately after is settlement, it was
universally pronounced to be worthless
1t might be cruel, so far as the quality
of the country is concerned, to fill Okla
homa with negroes, and yet it would be
a good riddance for the sest of the Union
if hundred or two thousand negroes
could be placed there, where, among
themselves, they could develop their
own peculiar nature, where they could
practice social equality without him
drance.
The negroes have certain right to
portion Of the country in Indian Terri
tory. AS is known, in 1866 the Govern
ment bargained with the Cherokees and
Creeks for large strips of land lying on
their western borders, to be used for the
settlement of freedmen and friendly In
dians. The bargain was never con-
cluded. but. in a moral sense, the, South
ern freedmen have a right in this de-
partment of the Indian Territory.
1t would be capital thing all around
| IL there could be established small
State which should be settled, owned
and governed wholly by negroes. II
would permit experiments as to their
capability for self-government and
would allow them chance to depend
on themselves which they have never
yet had. 1t is only in community
whether a State or Territory, com
posed exclusively of negroes that theil
real value can be determined. It il
true that in history it is shown that il
no modern instance has the African
made any considerable advance whel
not connected directly with the whit
element. It's, however, possible that
IN a country like Oklahoma, eoloreC
men who have had the advantages of as
sociation With the white race, ana wh
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
THE NEW AUToCRAT.
An Arbitrary Ruling Designed to Crush
the Rights of the Minority.

the Rights of the Minority.
Politicians seeking party advantage
shift their ground as rapidly as the law
yer celebrated in the old spelling-book
when he learned that it was his own not
the farmers OK that was gored.
Republicans we're able through the
presence of every Congressman-elect to
the House Of Representatives to organ
ize that body, but the majority was so
slender as not to constitute working
force as it is called, and the partys pur-
pose is to unseat every Democratic MEM
Der where a contest has been made. The
House is as yet without rules, and the
Democratic demand is that in a matter
so important as the report OF the COM
mittee on elections action shall not be
taken until rules are adopted. The
minority does not propose to be at
the mercy of Speaker who in
his brief service has exhibited
despotism and partisanship without
precedent in the history of the
House. Lacking a quorum, the Re-
publicans nevertheless proposed to
push the resolution for unseating jack
son, of West Virginia, and, pursuing a
policy ancient as Congress itself, the
minority abstained from voting. The
call of the roll showed that quorum
was not present. The Speaker, how
ever, went outside of the journal and di-
rected the clerk to record various mem
bers as present, not because the call dis
closed their presence but because he
chose to take the evidence of his senses.
AS all precedent in Congress is againss
his proceeding, as Blaine and Garfield
are recorded in opposition to this exer-
else of power by the Speaker, and as
Reed himself when in the minority had
declared on the floor that ''the constitu-
tional idea of quorum is not the phys
ical presence of majority of the mem
bers of the House, but majority of the
members present and participating in
the business of the House." intense ex-
citement was naturally caused by the
| Spe akers extraordinary conduct.
So arbitrary and unjust is the Speaker
that it was his purpose to enforce his
ruling without the permission of appeal
or debate, but he was compelled to give
way at the demand of Republicans like
Butterworth, who realized the extraor-
binary character of the ruling and were
unwilling that so revolutionary proc.
ess should stand without full debate.
If the functions of the Speakers eye
are to be enlarged, and in addition to
determining who shall be heard upon
| the floor he is also to determine by his
visual sense when quorum of the
House is present, the value attaching to
working majority will disappear, and
the minority, observed or unobserved
accordingly as the Speakers eye is will
ing to operate, will be shorn of one eleA
ment of potency. The business of the
House would be greatly facilitated no
doubt by a rule which would compel all
members present to vote unless specific
ally excused, but such has never been
the practice of the House, and if
change is to be made after one hundred
years of precedent the House and not
the Speaker should make it. Reed needs
a gun, not gavel.-Chicago Times.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

BoATMAN's SAVINGS BANK, one OF the
oldest financial institutions of Missouri,
will on March become Boatman's Ma
tional Bank, with capital of 81, 600, 900,
the largest in st. Louis.
Two Cincinnati Southern freight trains
:ollided at Melville, Tenn, on the 10th.
Engineer Henry Crow and Brakeman
Will Gray were killed. Fireman Andy
Moore was badly hurt and it is feared he
will die.
ONE wing of the Insane Asylum, two
miles west of Little Rock, Ark, burned
on the 10th. Loss about 100000 or S4O,-
900. No insurance. Fire origin is a
mystery.
A TERRIBLE scourge of smallpox is
prevailing along the Rio Grande, and
particularly among the inhabitants in
the region of country between Laredo
and Brownsville. 1t is said the people
are diving off faster than they can be
buried.
WHILE engaged in burning some brush
on her husbands farm near Athens,
Tenn, on the 18th the clothes of Mrs.
VIM. Sapp caught fire, and she was
in a few seconds so badly burned that
she died during the night from her in
iuries. She leaves husband and
several children.
Work was commenced at Birmingham,
Ala, on the 14th, on the gallows on
which Dick Hawes will hang on the
2sth. The carpenter who is building
the scaffold was one of the jury that
convicted Hawes.
The most severe wind storm known to
the oldest inhabitants of Gallatin,
Tenn, struck that place on the 14th.
Trees, signs, fences and outhouses were
blown down on every street OF the town
A BILL. was introduced in the House on
18th providing for the pensioning, at the
rate of S25 month, from March 4, 1889,
of all women who were nurses in the
Federal army during the late war.
GREAT excitement prevails at Salem,
m, over the robbery Of the bank at
that place on the night of the 14th. The
cracksmen got about S25, 600 in cash and
securities.
SEVERAL members of a prominent
syndicate of Philadelphia are at Little
Rock, Ark, for the purpose of organic
ing a new national bank with capital
Of $500, 900.
Ir is reported that the Cincinnati
Southern has offered a large sum OF
money for the Nashville and Knoxville
railroad.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
THE SIBERIAN HORROR.
Further Particulars Aggravate the Awful
Affair.

Affair.
PARIS, Feb. 15.-Further particulars
Of the Siberian horror have been re-
ceived, and show that the cruelties were
worse than at first reported.
1t now appears that Nine. Sihida' IS
younger sister, sixteen years old, went
to Siberia to look after her comfort.
Arriving there, she had the misfortune
to please the eye of the director of the
prison. She was detained by him upon
a trumped-up charge of conniving at
Nine. Sihida's attempted escape, and
became victim of his brutality. She
was subjected to such atrociouS treat
ment as to cause her death soon after.
Nine. Sihida, indignant and terror
stricken by this awful event, yehemently
denounced the outrage. She attracted
the attention of the director, who then
approached her with the same insults
he had heaped upon her sister. The
mOnstrouS revenge of the director in
having her publicly fogged followed,
and this punishment was accompanied
by inhuman Incidents which probably
had more to do in driving her to suicide
than the exposure to which she had
been subjected.
The revolt in the male prison is con-
firmed, and it is now definitely known
that the number killed amounted to
forty-one.
Upon learning the particulars and
realizing the universal protest and
violent feeling the case would arouse,
the Gar dispatched an officer to replace
the director and ordered that official tc
report at ST. Petersburg.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

A PORTION of the great Farwen build
ing, Adams and Marke: streets, Chicago,
was destroyed by fire recently. The
loss footed up nearly $500, 1000 and would
have been immense but for fire-proof
wall.
The fugitive Walton, who stole. $685.
300 from the Pacific Express Company
at Dallas, Tex, has been traced to To
ronto, Ont.
A STREET car was smashed by Pan
handle train at Newark, o., recently,
A man and a woman were fatally in
jured.
THE fourteen-gun British steel and
iron corvette Conquest has gone on the
rocks of the island of Pemba, above
Zanzibar, and will probably prove
total loss.
BY the explosion of the boiler OF a
moving locomotive on the Mckeesport
railroad, near Douglass, Pa, two men
were killed and three badly hurt.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
COMPLAINT DISMISSED.
Decision OF the Interstate Commission II
the Cattle Reshipment Case Favorable Il
the Chicago a. Alton.

the Cattle Reshipment Case Favorable to
the Chicago e. Alton.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The Inter.
State Commerce Commission yesterday,
In an opinion by Chairman Cooley, rem
dered its decision in the case of the
Chicago, Rock Island e. Pacific Railroad
Company against the Chicago & Alton
Railroad Company, dismissing the com
plant
The case was a controversy between
the two railroad companies, involving
the right of the Rock Island Company
to be protected in its method of shipping
cattle from points west of Kansas City
billed through to Chicago and of allowing
them to be held over at Kansas City for an
indefinite time to try the market there.
and then if it reshipped either the same
cattle or others substituted in their
places at the through rate originally
agreed upon, that the Alton Company
| should have no right to take the reship-
ment from Kansas City to Chi
cago at the proportionate rate of
| the original through rate. On this
point the Commission held as follows:
Where property is to be transported by
rail by continuous and uninterrupted
carriage from one station to another,
there may be sound and legal reasons
for making a charge for the through
transportation which is less than the
sum of the locals for the transportation
Of like property from point to point
between such stations. But where prop
erty is billed from one station to an
other with the understanding that it is
to be unloaded at an intermediate sta
ton, and that whether it shall be re-
loaded for further carriage will de-
pend upon the option of the shipper
or of any one who may have become
| purchaser, the case does not fall
within the rules governing rates on
through transportation and the carrier
is not at such intermediate points en-
titled to have the carriage protected as
through shipment as against compel
| itors.''
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 15.-Tom James,
who came to Dallas from Kansas City
three months ago, died early yesterday
morning from the effects of injuries re-
ceived in glove contest with Louis
Bazina, young light weight travelling
with the Muldoon-Kilrainc combination.
James accepted the proposition OF
Muldoon to stand up for four rounds be-
fore Bazina for S25 and at the end of the
fourth round just before time was called
was knocked senseless by terrible un-
dercut blow in the neck. He was re-
moved from the stage and the show pro-
ceeded, the condition of the unconscious
man not exciting any alarm.
After the exhibition was over it was
found that James had not recovered con-
sciousness, and physicians were hastily
summoned, but at one o o'clock in the morn
ing he died, never having rallied from
the blow he received.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
OLD COUPLE MURDERED.
Double Murder in Nebraska and Cattl
Stolen.


OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 15.-The bodies OF
an old couple named Jones, living six
miles west of here, were found yester-
day morning hidden in a heap of refuse
behind barn on their farm. Both
bodies were perforated with bullets.
They had evidently been dead for some
days. The husband was seventy-one
years of age and the wife had just passed
her sixtieth year. The body of the old
man was found in dung heap adjoining
the COW barn. He had been buried
in the excrement at a depth of
couple of feet. The old lady was
found at the base of hay stack
and had been completely covered with
hay, which so conformed to the outline
of the hill that some searching was in
stituted before the discovery was made.
There is not the slightest doubt that
both we're murdered. Eighteen head of
cattle belonging on the farm were
driven away. Frank Offitt and Jerry
Dee, two employees in South Omaha,
have been arrested charged with the
murder. 1t is found that they sold the
stock cattle to South Omaha commits
sion house.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

The Drovers' journal, of Chicago,
learns from Colonel Pierson, of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, that the
Government authorities have decided
on the new quarantine line for splenic
@Iexas fever, starting at the southeast
corner of Kansas, running due west
along the Kansas southern boundary to
"NO-Man' 's-Land. Then directly south
TO Cottle County, Texas, and then due
west on the 34th parallel to the center
oil Bailey County, Texas. In other
words the new quarantine line places
under the ban all of the Indian Terri
Tory and all of Texas except the Pan
handle portion lying north of the 34tf
parallel.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

!, n BILL passed the Senate the Other
uay ua appropriating $500 to pay attor-
hs hssS lees due Porter, Harrison & Fish
oa"a oaOA' Toward the close of the war Gen
si n noVey, now Governor of Indiana,
aon IN command of the department,
OonVened oo1 military commission to try
Ga,s t.ain members of the Knights of the
O.O, uOiaen Circle. A number of years after
"asu Lamden P. Milligan, one of the
bOns b,. convicted by the commission,
sao: sht suit in the United States Court
oi rst aus General Hovey and the members
c,sa sae commission for damages. The
tbs V wa, was prosecuted for the plaintiff by
hr % a. tate Vice-President Hendricks, and
tSe ectlon Inn OF the Secretary of War and
ouage Advocate-General, the firm OF
tainss Harrison & Fishback was re.
co.a aeu TO defend the members of the
de-. dtulsSlon. m Mr.. Harrison, now Presi.
tho Sa' harrison, did most of the work in
n.s."s .sSe Tor the defense, and the bill
H. gssSed in the Senate is to remunerate
At that time. = '' 'ne sei'i'o'
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
Mwanga,s Great Yictory.

ZANZIBAR, Feb. 15.-In the struggle
for the recovery of the throne of Ugan,
da, Mwanga was assisted by Europeans,
and there was very severe fighting,
King Kalema's force was annihilated, a
few Arabs escaping the subsequent mas
sacre. During the battle a dhow
on the lake was blown up and
all on board perished. In the dhow
were twelve Arab chiefs and 200
fighting slaves. The battle occurred al
the capital of Uganda. Only three
Arabs escaped. The victims are mem,
bers of most Of the leading Zanzibar
families. 1t Is not known who were the
Europeans who aided Mwanga.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

IN the struggle for the recovery
Oh the throne of Uganda, Mwanga
was assisted by Europeans and there
was was very severe fighting. King Ka-
Nmas force was annihilated, a few
ARABS escaping the subsequent mas.
'scfe' During the battle a dhow on
'ne lake was blown up and all on board
peflshed. In the dhow were twelve
a. ntao chiefs and 200 fighting slaves.
~ me battle occurred at the capital of
~ Tsahaa' Only three Arabs escaped.
ius victims are members of most of the
rSoing Zanzibar families. 1t is not
ai1 alo%h who were the Europeans who
s% tIIeu Mwanga, but it is supposed that
' %ey belonged to Jackson's and Gedge's
Caravans.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

SENATOR CoCKRELL has not been able
to procure from the Treasury Depart
ment a statement in regard to the
amount of money that has been made by
the Government in seniorage for coinage
silver since the Bland act went into ef-
feet, and if his personal request for this
information is not granted within few
days he will introduce resolution in
the Senate calling for the report.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

NEs. DELLA PARNEIL has called on
Governor Albeit, of New Jersey, and
asked his cooperation in securing the
passage of her pension bill, now pend
ing in Congress. The Governor wrote a
warm letter of Endorsement and prom
sed to write to the New Jersey Congress-
men in her behalf.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

ABIG railroad trust has been formed
called the Central Union Company. 1t
is to control the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton, Fort Wayne &c Chicago, In
dianapolis, Decatur & Western and the
Dayton & Union roads. Among the in
corporators are Sidney Dillon, Russell
Sage, II. z. Schoonmaker and Stephen
Whitney.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

PAYMASTER-G GENERAL WILLIAM B.
ROCHESTER, of the army, is sixty-four
years of age and has retired from office.
lie was the occupant of this position
for eight years and earned the reputa-
ton of being one of the most efficient
and careful accounting officers who ever
served the Government. The retire
ment will nccessitate the appointment
Of new Paymaster-Geneaal
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

THE French Council of Agriculture
has voted in favor of imposing duty of
three francs on Indian corn, five francs
on corn meal and its derivatives, three
francs on rice in the husk and eight
francs on broken and cleaned rice and
ricp flour.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

G. W. PooLE's gelding ST. Nick, broke
his leg in race at Gutenberg, n. Y,
and was shot 1t was a valuable horse,
we'll known in Kansas. His rider, So
den. was badly Jared, but not danger
ouSlv hurt.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

Tur Fish Bros Wagon Company, of
p,cire, Wis. have refused to prosecute
" A. Booth, the old secretary, who ran
away in October, 1883, with $4,000 and
vas lately found in California.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

rur Emreror of Germany has forbid
! u" 'ho exhibition of portraits of him
.it VIZ his family or his ancestors without
his sanction
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

posryAsrER-GENERAL WANAMAKERre-
Gently read an elaborate statement in
t,vor of postal telegraph before the
Uonse Committee on Post-offices and
n,.t-rnahs
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

rrr Catholics in Ontario, Cam, are
ating united action against the ao0i''
,9.n 81 separate schools.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

tion 'A,L has been issued for a conyen.
UnitoS 9. eoiored business men of t.he
in M NJ States, to be held at WASHINGTON
ing lun' ao Tor the purpose of establish
busindp"et permanent organization of colored
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

TIM architectural cornerstone oil
40 now Tabernacle for Rev. DIR. Tai
mage's flock at Greene and Clinton av-
T"1 Dn@es Brooklyn, has been placed in
.nsifinn.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

rur nilots on the upper Mississippi
5rcr are actively at work trying to Sc
n,.' sunday tieing up for their boats.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

n,sp,rcIEs state that Emin Pasha
=. reluctant to leave Bagamoyo and
'%.t @ now he is gricved and expresses
'u'.zement w., at Stanley's statement.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
CURRENT COMMENT.

,rrryr glass tableware trust is saio
a. no forming.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

would be in close contact with the su-
perior civilization of the pale-faces,
might attain considerable develop
ment.-Chicago Herald.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20

THE House was engaged all day Friday
discussing the appropriation to the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College. The
Appropriation Committee recommended
$4,000 for 1890 and $4,000 for 1891, in
cluding the $1,000 received on the land
script fund from the Government, also
$1,000 for library and 50, 500 for Pres
ident's house. Mr.. Terry, of Leake,
moved to strike out all of the appropria-
tion except the money derived from the
land script fund. This was lost, but
there is an element in the Legislature
who favor killing the College outright
by withholding all appropriation. Nc
result was reached.