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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17

As the price of sugar is so much lower
in England than with us, its consump-
ton is much greater. England con-
sumes seventy-four pounds year per
person, the United States fifty, France
twenty weight, and Germany twenty.
One reason for the large consumption in
England is the fact that vast quantities
of sugar are used there every year in
making fruit jam, more than 100000, 900
pounds being consumed in this way
alone. Much of this was exported to all
parts of the world and in this way the
actual consumption of sugar in England
is not so great as the figures make it
appear. We are ourselves large consum-
crs of English jams and preserves. En-
glands consumption per capita ought,
therefore, to be slightly reduced, and
ours somewhat increased.
The cheapness of sugar in England is
not due simply to the lack of duty on
sugar: it is further caused by the sugar
export bounties of France and Ger
many. Our own drawback on refined
sugars has also had the same effect as
an export bounty, the American refiner
being able to sell his product to the
English buyer at about $3.50 per 100
pounds cheaper than the home buyer.
George Medley, an English economist,
says: 81 hold that 1t is in a great meas
ure owing to the folly of other nations
that we occupy the commanding posi-
ton we now do in trade, manufactures
and navigation, and that were it not for
that folly we should not be anywhere
near it, absolutely or relatively" Dow
Bramwcll has estimated that foreign
nations by their sugar bounties make
England present of about 81 900, 900
every year.
The great fruit jam industry of En-
gland and Scotland has been built up
as the direct result of cheap sugar. In
London alone more than 5000 workmen
are employed during the season in max
ing lam; and it was estimated even six
years ago that there were II, 200 persons
in the jam making business of England.
Besides these there were $4,000 persons
in the single county of Kent who were
interested as growers, pickers and
packers of small fruit for the jam in
dustry The great production of jam
has given the working people cheap
and wholesome substitute for butter.
This may be seen from the following
words of an English country grocer:
We have just ordered eleven tons of jam
Years ago we never used to keep It, When
1t was high we could not sell 1t, Now it Is an
article of food for quite poor people. At til,
school treats children used to think bread
and Jam great pleasure; now they would
rather have bread and butter, they are 81
accustomed to jam.
1t is interesting to calculate just how
much the tariff operates toward pre-
venting the growth of jam industry
with us. The two following tables are
calculated upon the basis of the ole
tariff duties on sugar and on common
brown earthenware pots (25 per cent
duty in both tariffs. The calculation
is for one dozen jars of jam, each jal
weighing one pound. Here is how th'
matter has stood in regard to sugar:
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Killed on a Trestle.

i. =. Young, of Dalesville, Ala, az
rived in Montgomery, Ala, Monday
night with carload of stock from Co
lnmbia, Tenn. He left the train at the
stock-yards and started to the city on
foot, walking along the railroad track.
While crossing the trestlc passenger
train overlook him, the engineer re-
verscd his engine but Young was either
knocked off or became frightened and
jumped from the trestle. He was pick
ed ND dead.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
SUGAR AND JAM

Opportunity For Building Up Vast Indus-
try--How Cheap Sugar VIII Affect Jam
Maklng-Whae Cheap Sugar Has Done For
England-The Duty on Tumblers and Jars
Still Too Higa.
The duty on raw sugar will not be
abolished till next April, but the price
Of sugar has already begun to decline
in anticipation of the removal of the
duty. The sugar market is influenced
by the knowledge that the tariff is a
tax which the consumer is now paying;
and the certainty that this tax on the
consumer will be abolished April | is
already operating to give the people
cheaper sugar.
The old duty on raw sugar, which Is
still in force, is S1.40 per 100 pounds for
the very lowest grade. The raw sugar
made by the centrifugal process and
testing 951g degrees by the polariscope
pays 50 % per hundred-this being one
of the best qualities of raw sugars
brought in. 1t takes 112 pounds Of this
sugar to make 100 pounds of refined,
and the duty paid on this raw sugar 60
ing into 100 pounds of refined is S2.4SK.
This latter figure ought to represent
the difference between the price of re-
fined sugar in England and in the
United States. Owing to the fact, how
ever, that the duty will be abolished
next April the difference between the
wice here and m England mas -4alen
below S2.4s19. The present price of
granulatcd sugar in England is 1878 per
100 pounds; in New York it is S6.l21a-
difference of S2.37H.
The tariff difference in prices can
best be seen by comparing the New
York and London prices for two months
in 1889, the month of March, when the
difference was least, and the month of
September, when it was greatest. Here
is such a comparison on 100 pounds OF
granulated sugar at wholesale:
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Counterfeiters Bagged.

Secret Service Officer Mulhall, accom-.
panied by some American and Domin
ion officials, went to st, Clair Siding,
Ont, and arrested John Stinson,
the father, and William and James,
his sons, Mrs. Dooley, the housekeep-
er, and Thomas Stoddard. All wcro
locked up at Windsor. The officers found
on the premises a large amount of L. S.
counterfeit coin and a lot of molds and
tools, Officer Mulhall then came to De.
troit and arrested Albert Fisher, an
electrician, at 2l7 jefferson avenue.
Fisher is charged with being mold.
maker. Edwin Stinson and Fisher, who
were captured on this side, will be tried
at Detroit, while the others will be tried
i'm Canada.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
get back their empty baskets from the

get back their empty baskets from the
markets without actual loss.
The abundance of small fruits with
us gives us an opportunity TO become
one of the greatest of jam producing
countries. But the tariff stands in tho
way with its high duties on sugar and
on tumblers and earthenware jars. The
sugar duty will soon be abolished, and
one difficulty will thus be removed. But
Mckinley has made the question of
packing more difficult than ever. The
old duty on tumblers suitable for pack
ing jam was cent per pound, equal to
about 4s per cent; the Mckinley duty is
N cent per pound, equal to about 72
per cent If common brown earthen-
ware jars are used the duty is % per
cent in both old and new tariffs; but If
these jars are glazed the old duty was
55 per cent, and the Mckinley duty is
60 per cent.
The wholesale selling prices in Lon
don by the dozen are: Strawberry jam,
S1.30; raspberry and black currant, S1.24;
and other kinds ranging as low as 95
cents. There is, therefore, tariff diff
ference here against the American man
ufacturer and housewife equal to 40 per
cent and upward of the English whole
sale prices
After our jam industry gets free sugar
+i-- .,av4 stan mnst he in the direction
OF cheaper tumb,ers and Jams. Mr..
Reed Jordan, VIZ Is perhaps the fore
most jam man,9s cturer in the United
States, says:
Give the American potters free chemicals
and clay, give the American glass -tumbler
manufacturers free chemicals and sand and
they will need no protection. In fact the
tumbler manufacturers need none now.
Give us absolute free trade in sugar, glass
ware and earthenware so that we may be
protected from trusts and combinations;
give us absolute free trade in preserved
fruits, including jams, and we will buy more
small fruits from the farmers, pay them bet
ter prices and lower the price of our goods.
We can then control the American markets,
and build up large export trade. to South
America, where there Is a large demand for
lam and other Sweets" Not only this, but
we would be able to sell our goods In Glas-
gov, Dundee and London, the chief jam
manufacturing centers of the world. We
would be able to compete with them in their
own markets, instead of being undersold by
them in our own markets. as is the case to-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
FIGHTING FARMERS.


A sheriff Routed and an Armful IF Mort-
cages Torn to Pieces.
An attorney for the johnson Loan and
Trust Company, of Arkansas City, and
Sheriff Dobson, of Harper County,
Kan, had an experience which confirms
the belief that the Farmers Alliance
intends preventing, by force If neces-
sary, all foreclosure sale of farms.
The Loan Company holds judg-
ments against farms in the west
ern part of Harper County
in the sum of nearly S35, 900, and, armed
with orders of sale, the officer and attor-
ney Saturday proceeded to offer the
property at auction. No sooner was
their purpose understood than some
twenty irate farmers tore the paper
from their hands, and, with angry threats
of violence. ordered them from the ncigh-
borhood, Not being ready for fight,
the sheriff desistcd, but proposes to re-
turn on Monday with force sufficient
to guarantee the sale and the arrest Of
the ringleaders in Saturdays attack.
About three weeks ago a similar case
was reported from Kingman County,
and it seems evident that the farmers
who are instructed from headquarters
are banded together to hold their lands
at any cost.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Row Attacked by Wolves.

Wolves are invading the western bor-
der counties of Kansas in great packs, in
search of food. A short distance from
Liberal, Sunday morning, Mrs. Garvey
and her child were attacked by pack
of wolves few steps from their home,
and, while the woman escaped with
slight injuries, the boy was carried
some distance and mangled so horribly
that he can not recover. The men about
the place finally beat off the savage
bcastS,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Accidents al Parkersburg, W. Va.

Edward Byrd, while driving team
across the Stephenson farm, few miles
out from Parkersburg, w. Va, was
thrown out of the wagon by the runa-
way team, and seriously, if not fatally,
injured. A young boy named Nelson,
whose team took fright at the Citizens
Coal Yards, was knocked down and
thrown under the wheels of the heavy
wagon, which passed over his abdomen,
iniuring him internally.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
BAD NEWS.
Prof Virchow Says the Great Koch Com
sumption Cure is No Cure at An.

Prof. Virchow Says the Great Koch Con-
sumption Cure is No Cure at All.
Prof Virchow delivered lecture be-
fore the Berlin Medical Society on
koch's discovery, in the course of which
he gave the results of twenty -one post
mortcm examinations he had
made of persons who had died
up to the end of December after
having received injections of the So
called lymph. DR.. Virchow declared
that the injection increases the bacili
in the body, and causes them to migrate
to previously unaffected parts of the
body, thus virtually generating new
affection. He also stated that the fluid
invariably caused intense hyper@mia of
various parts, with the result that the
patients life becomes endangered.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
NEW WHITE HOUSE.



ecutive Mansion.
Senat r Stanford introduced in the
senate IL day bill for the extension
of the Executive Mansion in accordance
with the plan proposed by Mrs. Harri.
SON. to embrace the present Mansion as
a Private Executive Mansion, enlarged
by the addition of an Executive Office
or official wing on the west, and a
public wing or gallery of pictures, his
torlcal relies and art treasures on tho
east, both counterparts of the original
structure in design, and connected there
with by colonnadcs and railways. and
on the south by a connecting range Of
IRON and glass structures Of symmetrical
design, forming Executive conservator.
les ana winter gardens, the whole ar
chitectural group formingan inner park
or garden, at Il cost not to exceed $780,
600. The present intention and hope is
that the cornerstone of the new struc-
ture can be laid with appropriate cere-
monies October l3, 1892, as this date is Pc
culiarly appropriate, being the four hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery e
America and the centennial of the lay
ing of the foundation of the present
ediiicc.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
The Chippewas Join the Dance.

The Chippcwas, the old deadly enc.
mics of the Sioux, have forsaken their
cnmity and joined in the ghost dance Of
the Sioux. Thursday night a delega-
ton of fifty Indians arrived from sur.
rounding reservations, and now tho
dance has commenced, and is continued
night and day. The excitement il
great, and many of the Chippewas are
contributing to the support of tho
dancers. The dance is held at Bad
River, near Ashland. Wis.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17

In digging cellar in the rural ham
let of Montvillc Centre, six miles south
west of Norwich, Ct, David A. and $.
NJ. Johnson unearthcd solid ball of
snakes five feet beneath the surface of
the ground. They killed the serpents
as the ball slowly mwound itself.
They got fortythree black and two
milk snakes, whose bodies just filed
bushcl basket. The snakes were from
three to six feet long.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Must Marry Mrs. o'Shaa.

Archbishop Logue, of Armagh, re-
plying to an address of welcome on his
return from Rome, declared that the
Bishops and priests of Ireland would
have nothing todo with any compromise
with Mr.. Parnell on the subject of re-
tirement until he married Mrs. 0'Shea.
He defied Mr.. parnell to carry on an
agitation against the clergy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
ON A ROCK.
Sailors Cast Away Beyond Help and With
out Food and Water.

out Food and Water.
United States revenue steamer Wood
bury at noon Monday discovered signals
of distress from shipwrecked crew
on lone rock known as Junk of Pork,
lying outside of Green Island, about
five miles east of Portland Head, Me.
A terrible sea is running. The break
ers are fearful, and they extend 100
yards or more outside the rock No
boat could live for moment once with
in the breakers. The vessel has
been ground to atoms and six of her
crew are on the rock, well up out
of the way of the sea. They can not be
rescued until morning, and not then un-
less the sea goes down. They have no
food or shelter. The Woodbury. laid
till dark, vainly endeavoring to get an
opportunity to lower her boats and go
to the rescue of the men, but was COM
PEELED to leave them until daylight
Tuesday morning Dories have been
procured and an attempt to catch the
ship-wrecked men will be made.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Arkansaw's Lawmakers.

The Twenty-eighth General Assem-
bly, OF Arkansas, met Monday and or
ganized, electing J.. 2. Clark, of Phil
lips. President of the Senate, and L. w.
Recor, Of Garland, Speaker of the House.
The Legislature is largely Democratic
h both branches.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
c.,sa,on indians Dancing,

The sheriff of Bottineau n. D., has
telcgraphcd the commander OF the
mounted police that the Indians on the
Turtle Mountain reservation, on the
Canadian side of the line, have begun
their war dances. A detachment OF po-
iico has been ordered 10 the reserve.
The reserve is small one and the In
a;ans an II ore American Sioux,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Fatal Tornado in Texas.

A cyclone passed east of Sherman,
Tex. several houses were blown down,
an infant was killed and four adults
severely wounded. John Schmidt was
blown over barb wire fence. lie
seized the wire as he passed, and his
hand was almost torn off. Household
goods are scattered about for miles,
and the loss is great. Further search
may reveal many more deal bodies.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
,.n,,v po,eoned by a Hired Girl.

A new hired girl in the family Of
Samuel Ward, Saginaw, Mich'' mad
,ertently mixed quantity OF r'usn a
on rats" with the flour with which she
vas rolling fish intended 1or sul'p.r' ,,
The accident resulted in making Mr'
Ward his wife and two children a'ath'
lv sick. None of them are dea" y'~
hrt their condition is prccarious'
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17

The production OF small fruits In the
United States is hardly less than that Of
England. A conservative estimate
places the value Of our yearly crop of
Strawberries, cranberries, blackberries,
currants, etc. at sls,000.O 900. This value
would be much greater but for the fact
that the growers are often compelled TO
sacrifice their fruit in u glutted market,
and are even fortunate at times II they
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
AT PINE RIDGE.
skirmishing Near the Agency--Indians
Burning Buildings Outside the Picket

skirmlshing Near the Agency--Indians
Burning Buildings Outside the Picket
Lines.
Firing began Sunday just north OF
Pine Ridge Agency Many of the In
dians have. broken away near the re.
doubts thrown up at the headquarters
Of Captain Dougherty, of Company b,
First Infantry, and are now
firing buildings just outside the
picket line extending around the
Agency. The pickets of the opposing
side have been exchanging shots since
early dawn, but there are no casualties
reported yet. The pickcts have been
doubled and every preparation made to
guard against surprise, though the main
body of reds is many miles away. A
party of thirty Indians came into Doush.
erty's camp Sunday and was disarm.d
in twinkling. One buck hid his rifle
under his blanket and tried to fire in
order to arouse the friendlies, but the
soldiers were too quick for him and he
was disarmed in jifiy. Several cabins
were burned by the Indians short dis
tance north of the agency Sunday.
Broolie's command is now near tho
main body of the hostiles, where he can
watch every movement.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
"M'KINLEY PRICES" FOR GLASS.
How the Prices of Enameled and Ground
Glass Have Gone Up On Account of the
Mckinley Duties.

How the Prices of Enameled and Ground
Glass Have Gone Up On Account of the
Mckinley Duties.
The prices of enameled and ground
glass have recently careered upward
in way that might have delighted the
souls of those statesmen who think
cheapness un-American.
A reporter called the other day on a
prominent New York dealer who
handles both American and foreign
glass. The dealer said: "As soon as
our stocks of enameled and ground
glass, imported before October g. were
exhausted we were compelled to revise
our prices. Since November 10 we have
been selling at an advance of from
40 to IS per cent
LET me show You some of that
glass;" he said, and then he conducted
the reporter down long narrow alley
in his warehouse, talking meanwhile
about the terminology of the glass
trade single thick" double thick
'clear," "obscure," etc. 81 want
you to know all this" he said,
$50 that you may understand
a table of Mckinley prices on glass that
l am going to show you. Here, now, is
what l wanted to show YOU and then
he drew two sheets of glass out of the
labeled apartments which we were
passing. 81 will show you what we
mean by clear and obscure he went
on; ''you will see that there is almost no
difference between them. The figure
on these two sheets is the same, and as
you look at them toward the wall you
see no difference. But stand around
there on the other side now, so as to
have the window for background.
Now you see the difference; you can
distinguish objects through one sheet,
but not through the other; yet the two
sheets are precisely the same glass; the
difference is in the grinding. This
sheet we call clear the figures are
simply ground on the clear sheet. This
other sheet we call 'obscure;' one side
of it is ground and then figures are
ground upon it.
"These are both a cheap quality of
glass, such as are used in the cottages
of people of modest means for making
glass doors. The old duty ON all glass
of this kind was Al per cent. AS the
old duty on unground glass was much
higher than that the domestic manu-
facturers did not grind any glass. There
were reports of one factory in Ohio, but
we never heard of it in the trade.
"The increase of duty on ground and
enameled glass in the Mckinley act is
simply enormous. There is one kind of
ground glass on which we paid S1.35
per 100 foot case under the old law, and
which we sold in July at $3.50 per case.
We are now selling the same glass at
$3.50 per case, the duty being s5.55,
and in some sizes even as high as S6.s5.
Here now is table which will show
what the Mckinley law has done for us.
The prices given are our wholesale sell
ing prices net for 100 foot cases:
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
The Rarhed Wire Trust.

The barbed wire manufacturers of the
United States have met in Chicago to
form a trust. j. W. Gates, of the st.
Louis wire works, stated the objects Of
the meeting very frankly. at is our
intention" he said, Ito put up the prices
on barbed wire one cent per pound and
form trust, and we are going right at
It In business-like way" There is
tariff protection for this trust Of e-1O Of
one cent per pound.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17

Rev. T. X. Beecher, Sunday preached
the funeral scrnon of Mrs. Langdon,
mother of Mrs. S. L. Clemens, at FL
mira. N. Y. Neither Mr. Clemens nor
his wife attended, but listened by tele-
phone, 45O miles away in Hartford, Ct.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Initiating succi.

At Detroit, Mich, Arthur Milmeau,
the rival of Succi, the faster, Monday
commenced thirty days fast. He will
abstain from all foods and liquids ex-
cept croton water. He will receive n
purse of $1,000 if he is successful and
$500 additional if he prolongs the fast
to forty-five DAYS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17

Walter Sefcrt, of Alliance, o., aged
twenty-five, unmarried, a railroad fire.
man, in jumping from his engine while
in motion, at Toledo Junction, Sunday
night, got his left arm entangled in
some way in the machinery, and had it
tore off at the elbow. He will probably
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
THE NUMBER KILLED.
Three Hundred and Sixty-Three Warriors,
Squaws and Children Shot by the Sol

bttt anu
Squaws and Children Shot by the Sol
ders.
Fred Laplant, half-breed Indian
ranchman, near Ft Pierre, S. D., has
Just received letter from an Indian
relative at Pine Ridge stating that 1868
Indians, including women and children,
had thus far been killed there by
troops. The letter further states
that the Indians will now continue
the war TO the bitter end to avcnge
the killing of these women and chill
dren. Parties in Monday from the
Cherry Creek country.say that the In
dians there are still keeping up the
wailing and lamentations over the kill.
ing of the women and children at Pine
Ridge and Wounded Knee, all of which
leads the friendly Bad river Indians TO
fear an attack before spring.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Ohio's Offer of Troops.

President Harrison has informed Col
onel L. j. Pococll. of Columbus, that
his tender of the services of the Seven
teenth Regiment Ohio National Guards,
for use against the Indians, has been
referred to the Secretary of War for at
tcntion. The regiment contains 600
men well eQulppcd.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Baked a Cartridge.

AT Amherst, Mass, by the explosion
of a cartridge. which had been placed
in nm oven to dry, Mr., D. Il. Powell liau
both legs blown off and Mrs Nelson
Powell was badly injured
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-17
Victim Of the Deadly Electric Light.

At 2s4 Congress street, Boston, John
Ticrney, a workman. attempted TO re.
place a globe Of an incandescent light
which had become broken, and In doing
so, he took hold Of the brass ring at the
small end, instead Of the glass, and re-
ceived heavy shock which killed hun
instantly - =