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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-07-27
LAST DAYS OF CONGRESS,
SENATE PROCEEDINGS WANTING
IN INHERENT.
"c ""Fld's Fair Appropriation ABB
>orbing the Attention Of
the House..

by Telegraph to the State Chronicle.
AshINGToN, July 26-(Senate. y
Mr.. Sherman, as acting chairman of the
committee on finance in the absence of
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont. reported an
important resolution from the committee.
apparently respective to recent agitation
In the Senate in favor Of repeating the
prohlbltory tax of ten per cent upon the
circulation of State banks and permit
ting them to resume the issue of notes as
before the war. Mr.. Sherman's resolu-
tion was divided into nine heads, and
called upon the secretary of the treasury
tor detailed information in regard to
State banks since 1896, and ma
tlOnal banks since 1868, in re-
gard to taxes, outstanding cir
cuiatlon notes, suspensions or
failures, rates of exchange, discount in
New York, and other matters calculated
to BRING out prominently the points of
dlllcrance between the national bank
note system and the previously existing
circulation of State banks. The resolu-
ton was adopted. Following this. two
House bills, relating to national banks
one IN reference to the redemption of
lost notes, and the other in regard to the
appointment of receivers, were called up
by Mr. Sherman and passed. Mr. Chand-
Ter introduced lengthy resolution
which in effect stated that the grand
trunk railroad of Canada, a corpor-
alton with its Office in Montreal
and its headquarters in London,
operated 1000 miles Of railroad, 1900 of
which were in the United States
that American citizens had large
mining and other interests In Canada,
against which it was reported that this
grand trunk railroad was dscrimi-
mating, and requesting the committee on
inter State commerce to investigate and
report whether any legislation was nee
esSary to protect our own commerce at
home or the interests Of Americans in
! Canada against SAID Grand Trunk rail
road company. The resolution was re-
ferred to the committee on interstate
commerce. At 80 p. N. Mr. Aldrich
called up the Hale resolution Son repub-
lican protection and democratic tariff
for revenue, and addressed the Senate
upon them at great length. There were
about forty Senators present, but tn,
galleries were almost deserted on account
Of the intense heat of the weather. Ht
closed at 2 :45. Mr.. Vest took the floor
in reply, and made a strong dem
ocratic speech of two hours. Mr. Hale
presented, and the Senate adopted,
final agreement in conference on the gen
eral deficiency bill, thus leaving the sun
dry civil bill the only appropriation bill
remaining unacted upon. After further
discussion Of the former question Mr.
Davis, chairman of the committee OF
pensions, asked unanimous consent t
take up and pass House bill granting
"a service pension to women army nurses
whose number now unpensioned h
thought would not exceed 800 The bill
was passed, and at Cos the Senate ad
iJurned.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-07-27
Another Arrest For Saturdays
Tragedy.

PrrTsBURG, Pa, July 26.-The police
department has just received a dispatch
from superintendent Omera, saying that
at O'Clock this morning he effected the
arrest of the German baker Monck who
sent the express packages containing
money that were received by Berkmann
in this CITY last week.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-07-27
And Yet Another Arrest Ordered.

PIrTsBURG, Pa July ga warrent
for F. Mollck. the Long Branch snspe ct,
has been sworn out and goes east on
this afternoons mail. 1t charges him
with completely n the attempt to muir
der FriCk
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-24

bly, to the healthy party to it; but
the children born in this wedlock
generally develop the disease in a
few years, even little children OF
four and five years being victims
of it. On the other hand, the case
is given of leper who had been
nearly forty years in this locality
who had passed through several
stages of the disease, but for the
last eighteen years had had no
pain or inconvenience from it. The
mortality of the lepers, however,
is far above the average of the other
people living there. They usually
die of dysentery, fevers and pulmo-
nary complaints. The astounding
thing about all this is the lack of
restraint on the population with a
view to limiting it. If, as the Con-
sui says, the people believe it is
both contagious and hereditary,
and, if from the introduction of a
single case into Antioquia thirty
years ago there can be now
counted eight hundred, what
ever are the authorizes about that
they do not set up some kind of
hygienic regulations of it? If they
are not financially able to isolate
the lepers, they can have help from
the outside world on the simple
ground of ordinary humanity, and
that not of the picture pocket
handkerchief sort either. 1t is not
a case so much of sympathy as of
decent humanitarianism of the
common-sense order. We are near
enough neighbors to Colombia to
take lesson or two from her note
book on the subject of national
carelessness on this matter of dis
ease importations and incubation,
and near enough, too, to respond
to missionary call for aid in car
rying the load of smitten popula-
ton in districts where one in ten
of the people are suffering the
worst of human maladies.-Eh Lon
don Missionary Review.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-24
Is it Fast Enough :?

A firm desired to send out 500 circu-
lars, and concluded to have them take
the form of a type written letter, printed
on their own letter head. In eight
minutes, the type writer had written
the letter of SIG words, on the stencil
sheet, placed it in the Monograph, linked
the sheet and printed the first copy, and
in exactly so minutes 500 perfect copies
OF that letter were printed. This astonish-
ing result can only be obtained by the
aid of first- class duplicating device. In
this case it cost the firm just q cents to
do the work. AS the copies can be
struck off on any quality of paper it will
be an easy matter to calculate the cost
of getting out 500 circulars. The value
of such device as the EDISON MIMEo-
GRAPH is best appreciated by those who
wish to do large amount OF work in q
short space of time. This circular was
an ordinary every day letter, and not
made up for the purpose OF showing
| speed. 1.-THE RooK-KEEPER."
HOBRON NEWMAN & co.
Agents
3l03-tf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-24
Eeprosy in a South American
State.

The British Consul at Bogota is |
authority for most startling state
ments as to the extent and spread
of leprosy in that State. 1t APP
pears to have been slowly spread
ing for about two hundred and
fifty years in that region, though
in the last twenty years it cannot
be said to have extended slowly,
but very rapidly. A medical re-
view is published in Bogota, the
editor of which is recognized as a
well-known physician, and he
makes the statement that of the
one million population of SAINT
ander and Boyaca, one-tenth-
which would be hundred thous-
and-are lepers. The lazarettos of
these districts contain thirty
thousand lepers if the judgment of
the medical officer of the principal
one of these infrmaries is to be re-
lied on. 1t is fair to emphasize
that both these are estimates. No
census has been taken, nor proba-
bly, could be taken owing to the
secresy observed by the victims of
the disease and their friends.
though there seems to be much
less dread of the disease here
among the population in general
than in any other land of which
we know. The most notable thing
about the consuPs report is thai
regarding the climatic effect or
the disease of locality some 14O(
feet above the sea with tempera
ture of about 824 degrees in thu
district of Tocaima, about thre
days journey from Bogota, wher
there is leper asylum at plac
called Aqua de Dios. 1t was dis
covered a hundred years ago tina
this climate arrested the progress
Of the disease, so that lepers VIII
remained here rarely if ever die
of leprosy, but of some other caus
There are sulphur springs in til
locality, but the lepers do not Ut
them. Other people resort Their
andFquite a population has grow
up about the lazaretto, and tt
people mingle freely and withol
let with the lepers. The lepers
not now constitute more than on
third of the resident populatio
The healthy people of the local.
intermarry with the lepers. T
marriage does not result unfavo1
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-24
SPECIAL NOTICE.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-24
General advertisements.

]. W. WINTER, SR., DDS.
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E&-All transient advertisements and SUBJ
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-24
AN OPEN LETTER.

AN OPEN LETTER.
HONOLULU, March %, 1892.
MESSRS. HOBRON, NEWMAN CO.
GENTLEMEN: Having used the Edi son Mimeo-
graph for the past years we can cheerfully
re commend it as most perfect device for
Duplicating purposes. Tt is in daily use in
our drawing office dupli eating pl ans, specifi-
cations, sketches and circul ars. We find 1t
convenient, c1 can, eff ent and one Of the
most 1ndi spensable appl ances in our office.
HONOLULU IRON WORKS CO.
HoBRoN, NEWMAN CO. J, Agent for the Edi son
Monograph.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
. = ON THE TOP RUNG.

SPEAKER CRISP arrived YESTERDAY morn
ing Mt Fortress Monroe for a few days rest.
IT is reported that Robert Louis Steven
son, the novelist, intends leaving Samoa to
reside in future at Tahita.
KYRLE BELLEw and Mrs. Potter at last
accounts, were contemplating the lease and
management of a theater at Calcutta.
who has won such fame as a painter in Eng
land, wears brown mustache and imperial.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET, who has been
staying in Chicago, has abandoned her pro-
jected trip to Japan and will return to Eng
land with her son early next month.
THE President has appointed Frank r.
Cannon, of Oklahoma, to be a commissioner
from Oklahoma to. the Worlds Columbian
Exposition, vice John D. Miles resigned.
MULEY HASSAN, the Sultan of Morocco,
has strain Of Irish blood in his veins for
his greatgrandmother was q blue-eyed
daughter OF the Emerald Isle, the widow of
q British sergeant of engineers.
EUGENE FIELD keeps in his house in
Chicago all of the checks which the Scrib-
ners have sent him for royalties on his two
books. They aggregate more than SO, ,OO0
and the genial Eugene is preparing to frame
them.
SENATOR MORRILL, is the patriarch of
Washington whist players He has
thoroughly scientific knowledge of the
game, and once a week at least he gathers
about him set of select players from among
his friends in official life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
CURIOUS CAUSE OF ACTION.
An Overhead Wire Elcctrizes a Lake
Preston Mans House.

An Overhead Wire Elcctrizes a Lake
Preston Mans House.
BRooKINGs, S. D., Feb. ia new and novel
law question is up tor hearing before Judge
Andrews. 1t is question which has never
been adjudicated by any of the courts. It
appears that at Lake Preston, S. D., the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
crosses the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road at right angles; that the depots of the
respective lines are situated some 25 rods
from the crossing: that the railroad com
panies and the Western Union Telegraph
Company have a telegraph line along each
OF the railways, and as a convenience for
the two railroad companies and the tele-
graph company connecting line was run
between the two depots.
This connecting line passes directly above
the plaintiffs house, but not touching it. No
telegraph poles were set on the plaintiffs
premises: the line was so placed against the
objections of the plaintiff. In July, 1891,
during thunder storm, the wire was strrck
by lightning and fell across the plaintiffs
house, and through this wire, as plaintiff
claims, the electric fluid was conducted to
his hou> >e and struck the building, stunning
and injuring plaintiff. The plaintiff, OF
course, claims that the apparatus was negli-
gently constructed, but the parties agree
that plaintiff would not been injured had it
not been Tor the thunderboit. He has sued
the two railroad companies and the tele-
graph companies for damages in the sum OF
IS OC0
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
EDUCATION IN sELF-GovERNMENT

The crisis which has led to the resigra-
ton of the French Cabinet is little diff
cult for the average American to under
stand Il grew out of the long-standing
problem in Europe of the relations of
Church and State. As the French Minis
try held its majority in the Chamber by
a coalition of elements opposed on this
issue, its efforts 10 steer middle course
necessarily resulted in disaster
The complications Of question which
are so entirely exotic to our system will
have no such direct interest to the people
of this country as the indication that
twenty-five years of republican govern
ment have taught the French people to
take their political changes peaceably.
Time was within the memory of most
people when the resignation of a Cabinet
was expected to produce popular dis
orders, if not actual revolution. Now,
while the politics of France cannot be
considered any nearer the ideal than our
own, Cabinets rise and fall, and the
French people take the change more
quietly than the English do a change of
Ministry and with much less noise than
attends a Congressional election in this
country
This illustrates the educational effect of
representative government There is no
way in which nation can learn to govern
Itself more surely than bv doing it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20

The resignation OF Mayer. Wyman was
| the naturaland easiest result of the dis
closures and proceedings that had pre-
ceded it. It is legitimate expectation
that this recognition of the inevitable will
render it less necessary TO apply severe
measures, than if the Northside munich
pality had been forced to deal with a
! Mayor who persisted in maintaining him.
self in Office after conviction of grave mis-
demeanors.
The vital question for Allegheny citi-
zens now is what sort of a Mayor shall be
chosen to fiji the vacancy. It has been
evident to every observer that the source
of the scandals Of which this is the end
has been that the principle of selection
in Allegheny politics did not make high
character and good business ability a
necessary qualification for municipal Of
fee. The Mayoralty was rated too low.
This political vice cannot be abolished by
a single exposure. The universal partici-
patton OF the best citizens, the discarding
OF party lines in favor OF honesty and char
acter as the issue, and the constant ac-
tivity of the reform element viii all be
necessary to establish a radical and per-
manent change.
The future of Alegheny's city govern
ment rests with her citizens. The good
result of the late exposures will be to
stimulate the best elements of citizenship
into activity. Under that stimulus it is
possible to hope for a new regime on the
Northside.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
PITTsBuRe. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 20.
TWELVE PAGES
TEfE CANAL svAvE POLITICS.

VIII the improvement of our waterways,
especially the building Of canal from the
lakes to the Ohio. be an issue in our State
politics this year? We rather think so.
Though the contest for President must
make the State sure for the Republicans,
there will be tremendous struggle for
the Legislature. The United States Sena-
torship is at stake; the fight for it has
begun. None of the ambitious aspirants
can afford to throw away points The
immense interests of Western Pennsvl-
vania to be subserved by ship canal will
be courted and patted upon the back from
all quarters.
But even aspiring politicians will not
long help those who do not care to help
themselves. If the people who are to be
benefited by the ship canal do not care to
see that candidates for the Legislature are
pledged to get State recognition and aid
for it, and further, to send to the United
States Senate man committed to the prof.
ect, they cannot look for these things.
Now is the time for the people to arouse
their energies and give the canal a boost
by demanding that the approaching Re
publican State Convention clearly and ex-
pressly pledge the party to support the
canal construction. Don't forget this at
the county conventions next month.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
GOLD AND SILVER SPECULATION.

Already there is talk in Wall street
about gold premium, with premonitory
| symptoms of tendency to speculate on
the fluctuations of that staple. ThiSiS an
| indication that the gambling clement of
the financial center are ready to turn to
the amusement Of betting on and corner
ing gold, just as they now do with stocks,
oil OF grain.
The New York Tribune warns Wall
street that gold gambling is not in order.
As a general declaration of principle this
would be about as effective as if it should
tell them that stock gambling is not in
order. The logic OF it, however, is based
on the fact that there will be no gold pre-
MUM until free coinage is enacted; and
there cannot be free coinage while the
President holds the veto power. That
the gold premium will come if We ever
reach free coinage of the present silver
dollar is recognized even by Mr. Bland.
That the spectators will at once COM
mence betting on the rise and fall of the
gold premium and follow by trying to
manipulate the market is beyond dispute
to those who know the nature of the
speculative mind.
Nevertheless, we think those who look
for revival of the gold speculation of
generation ago will be disappointed In
fact, in this respect the change will not be
very great from the present one The
gold premium, if it comes, viii represent
the market value of gold stated in silver,
except as the market is cornered: and
there is reason 10 believe that the stock
will be too large for the cOrnerers to
handle. The rise of the gold premium
viii therefore represent the fall of our
silver currency, and the so-called gold
speculation will be really speculation in
silver.
Although the speculation in silver,
n1UtGt0 nOmine, may be more general than
heretofore, it viii not be new thing.
Less than two years ago the attention Of
the country was called to the fact that
sundry eminent Congressman were specu-
lating in silver at about the same time
they were !egislating on it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20

doubt that war with Chile would be a
holiday excursion, and an intimation that
it was not discreet to insist ON war, when
we could have peace just as easily" "as un-
American and unpahiotic. If it is Amer
ican to urge the nation into war unnec-
essary in its cause and likely to result in
disgrace to the national arms, that indict-
ment is true. But 1t surely cannot be
more patriotic to urge such disastrous
conflict than to advocate the course which
will avert il.
If the Tribune was not among the
organs which assailed the loyalty of all
VINO refused to swell the lingo howl for
war, we have failed to observe in its
columns any reproof of its contemporaries
for adopting that course. Now that the
war cry is over, however, it permits itself
to state facts which prove that the true
welfare of the country was regarded by
those who held that war is not an enter
prise to be lightly undertaken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
WHERE WAS TEE PATRIOTISM

In an article on National Defense" the
New York Tribune quotes the Herald, of
the same city, to the effect that if we had
got into war with Chile we would have
navy without battleships, and an army
'maneuyred by old tactics and armed
with obsolete weapons The Tribune
after indorsing this statement goes on to
say that further weakness would have
been developed as follows:
Before an army could have been trans
ported from California to Valparaiso, 4 fleet
OF transports would have been required. and
owing to the decline of the American COM
mercial marine these would not have been
available. No maritime nation can be con-
sidered in proper state of preparation for
war, offensive or defensive, unless it has n
fleet OF fast merchant steamers which can
be converted into an auxiliary navy. If
hostilities had arisen Chile would have en-
ployed the fine vessels of its national line as
cruisers and transports. and the United
States would have had no merchant vessels
on the Pacific seaboard equal to them for
war purposes If there should be a similar
emergency on the Atlantic side there would
be no merchant feet under the American
flag available in war with any European
maritime power. If an army, moreover had
been sent to Chile and the American naval
resources had been concentrated in that
quarter for active operations and blockade
duty. the California coast would have been
deienseless, San Francisco exposed to at
tack from the most formidable Chilean war
ships, and Atlantic ports without ADEQUATE
means of resisting long-range fire from such
battleships as the Prat.
Yet it Is not month since the organs of
the administration were denouncing the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
William McWilliams,

William McWilliams, one of the old
est editors and printers in Westmoreland county,
died suddenly yesterday morning at the Zim-
norman House, from the grip. Mr.. McWill-
Jams was GO years old and was well-known in Pitts
burg, having worked in nearly all the Offices in
this city. In the '70's he held responsible posi-
tion on THE DISPATCH. and after severing his
connection Herewith. occasionally contributed to
its columns. For % years deceased was editor of
the armstrong Democrat, of Kittanning. He
founded the Salisbury Press. one of the livsliest
and neatest of the weekes of Western Pennsyl-
vania at that time. He the father of Alex Mex.
McWfliams, foreman of THE DISPATCH composing
room. Deceased at the time of his death was fore
man of the job department of the Greensburg
Press. He leaves three sons and daughter. Mr..
McWilliams was one of the true disciples of the
Art Preservative, his artistic taste winning for
him honors at all times. He was besides poet
who drew his inspiration from Nature. and m my
of his sweet little songs still going the rounds Of
the anonymous in literature.