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The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19
The fourth ship to leave this

The fourth ship to leave this
 country for the famine-stricken dis.
 tricts of Russia will be the Tyne
 head, which is to start from New
 York in few days. This enterprise
 is due almost entirely to American
 women, more particularly those
 who are citizens of Iowa. The wo-
 men of the latter State, under a committee of thirteen, with Mrs.
 William Larrabee, wife of ex-Gov- ernor Larrabee. as president, and Miss Alice French (Octave Thanet) as secretary, collected the cargo of corn or Indian four, which is val ued at $60,OOO. This corn was re- ceived by the women solicitors in quantities from a single bushel up, and in cash the public school chil- dren sent in hundreds of dollars in small coins, beginning with a pen ny. The railways furnished the transportation, the express compa- nies carried packages and money, and the telegraph companies trans mitted messages free of charge. 
 The city of Washington, under the leadership of Clara Barton, has fur nished the funds necessary for the expense of the voyage. Mrs. M. Louise Thomas, Mrs. Theophila of Long Island, and Mrs. Mary Weeks Burnett, a Chicago physician, will go to Russia to nurse the sick, to establish kitchens in the famine-striken districts, and to teach the peasants how to prepare palatable dishes from American grains.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

It is predicted by Mexican min- ing men that when the U. s. gov ernment takes off the duty from lead ore that the Mexican govern ment will place an export duty on it. The object is to compel the building of smelters on Mexican soil to work Mexican ores.-Pros- pector.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

J. V, Vickers and Peter Brady on the part of the council, and Hof1 and Freeze on the part of the house, composed the committee that amended the funding act by making the principal and interest payable in gold coin. Every banker and man of prominence in the territory asked to have it done. G. w. Chey- ney was in Phenix when the matter was before the legislature, and should have known the gold clause was gong into 1t, but didn't raise his silver voice against it. He now accuses Mark Smith ot having done it.-Prospector.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The next meeting of the Nation al Academy of Sciences is to be held at the Johns Hopkins Univer- si.y building in Baltimore, in Nov ember next. This is a pleasant re- cognition of the standing of our great university, and the scientists may feel assured in advance of a most pleasant and profitable season in Baltimore.-Baltimore Sun,
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19
The Prices of Wool.

1 The Toledo Blade does not set
 how the free-wool bill could raise
 the price of wool, and warns wool
 raisers that the bill threatens theil
 industry. We do not know wheth'
 CT it would raise the price in money
 nor do we care. Neither does the
 intelligent farmer. We know, how.
 ever, and so does he, that with wool
 free he would be able to trade a
 given clip of wool for greater quan-
 titles and a better quality of the
 things into which woolis made than
 he can now when it is protected. This is the important consideration
 for farmers who raise wool; and it is the important consideration for farmers and other laborers who do not raise wool.
 But. though we have no opinion as to whether the free-wool bill would or would not raise the price of wool, we are able to give double authority for the claim that it would, Free-traders say that in many important manufacturers, domestic wool must be mixed with foreign, and that if foreign wool were admitted free the demand for domestic wool would be so vastly increased for the purpose of sub- stituting woolen for shoddy goods that the price of domestic wool would rise. That is our free trade and tariff-reform authority. Our other authority is the protectionists themselves. They say that pro- tective tariff, so far from increasing the price of domestic products, di- it. If that be true, it must apply as we'll to wool as to steel rails, the price of which, they tell us, has been reduced by protection and wool is now protected, it fol- lows that the price is lower than it would be if 1t were free.-New York Standard.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Hubbard and Bowers of the bo- nanza mines at Harqua Hala have been working ore that was thrown one side at first as waste ore, from which they cleaned up $60,000 in gold. The Yuma Sentinel also re- ports Frank Levan and Lew Smith have discovered very rich silver mine 40 miles west of there. Some excellent copper veins have been recently discovered about 12 miles west and alarge deposit of very fine brown hematite iron ore has been found about seven miles east Prospector.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Superintendent McInerY, of the prison at Yuma, is preparing an elegant gavel for the chairman of the national republican conven- tion to meet at Minneapolis in June. It will be of native woods, onyx and gold, and will be the handsomest thing of the kind ever seen in con- vention.-Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The oldest known journal of the weather was kept by Rev. William Merle, rector of Driby, Lincoln shire, England, from 1887 to 1344. The journal had been deposited in the Bodleian Library, and was men, toned by Dr. Plot, of the Royal Society, in 1885, which mention led to it's recent discovery.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Arizona beats the world for varie. ty of climate. April 18th summer heat prevailed along the South ern Pacific railroad, while on the A. and P. road, in the vicinity of Flag staff and Winslow, a severe snow- storm ragged. interfering with the regular movements of trains.-Sil- yer Belt.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

An ancient copper mine, which was first worked 1 ,183 years ago, is about to be reopened in Musashi, Japan. Old Japanese manuscripts of undoubted authenticity mention this mine. The galleries and levels are in some cases just as they were 700 years ago.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Indian Agent Crouch of the Sac aton agency, spent the afternoon yesterday in Yuma. MT. c. is try ing to abolish the Pima Indian sys- tenn of treating their sick, which consists chiefly in making all the noise they can by beating tin pans with clubs and blowing in the faces of those indisposed.7ASentinel.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The new town, Arizula, on the desert near Casa Granda, is to have a postoffice very soon. Every inch of ground along the canal has been filed on, and in their anxiety to get land, many quarter sections have been filed on two or three times by as many different parties.-Tombstone Prospector.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Antonio Picon, an old Mexican miner, said to be 103 years of age, came to the Aldgodones ranch on Monday, having 32 ounces of gold, valued at $500, which he had taken out of the placers in the east end of the Mejor range, near New river. Yuma Sentinel.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The company of soldiers march ing from Camp Apache to Whipple is reported to have run short of provisions on the route. Two out fits with provisions have been sent out from Whipple. The first outfit lost four mules, the second will probably connect with the troops without mishap.- Prescott Cour- fer.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Earwigs differ from all other in- sects in both their origin and strue- ture; they are matched from eggs, like chickens, Naturalists often re- port seeing the maternal earwig with her newly matched brood crowded under her like chickens under a hen.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

William Waldorf Astor is report ed from Europe to be writing a nov el of the Fifteenth Century. When he wants to describe a certain kind of room he has one fitted up in ex- actly the way he desires it, regard less of expense.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

years, but not for 10,000,000 years.
 Here then we discern in the remote future limit of the duration of
 life on this globe. We have seen
 that it does not seem possible for
 any other source of heat to be avail
 able for replenishing the waning
 stores of the luminary. It may be
 that the heat was originally impart-
 ed to the sun as the result of some
 great collision between two bodies
 which were both dark before the collision took place, so that, in fact, the two dark masses coalesced into a vast nebula from which the whole of our system has been evolved. Of course, 1t is always conceivable that the sun may be reinvigorated by repetition of similar start ling process. It is, however, hard ly necessary to observe that so ter rife convulsion would be fatal to life in the solar system. Neither from the heavens above, nor from the earth beneath, does it seem pos sible to discover any rescue for the human race from the inevitable end. The race is as immortal as the in- dividual. and, so far as we know, it's span cannot under any circum- stances be run out beyond a num- Der of million of years which can certainly be told on the fingers of both hands, and probably on the fingers of one.-Sir Robert s. Ball, in the Fortnightly Review.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The home of the first governor of Indiana is still standing at Cory don, but owing to its reputation for being haunted, and the consequent difficulty in obtaining a perma- nent tenant, is soon to be torn down.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

A few days since, some Italian miners went to work in the Solo, mon placer mines near Cargo Mu- chacho. From one little place, a creyice in the rocks they took out seven pounds of gold equal to 112 ounces or $2,22t.-Sentinel.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

MT. F. c. Sessions, Columbus, Ohio, banker, who recently died at Asheville, N. O., left real estate val ued at $500,0O0 for the establish ment of an Academy of Art at Co., lumbus. This does not take effect, however, until his wife's death.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Burmah must be a heavenly place for women. In that country the members of the fair sex select their own husbands, and when they tire of them procure divorce for the asking and marry again.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The oldest spoon in the world be- longs to George A, Warren, of h. dlanapolis. Itis 229 years old, and was brought from England,
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The finest collection of ancient Greek pottery in the world. valued at 930,000, is now in the Brussels Museum of Antiquities, and will shortly be disposed of either at public auction or by private sale.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

In the days when wigs and pow der were fashionable ladies are said to have paid as much as 9200 for having their hair dressed for spec ial or state occasions.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The proposed plan for the postal tube between France and England is to suspend two tubes, each about three feet in diameter, by means of steel cables thrown across the chan nel, 120 feet above the level of the water.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

The deposits of asphaltum which have recently been discovered in California are said to be the most extensive in the world.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Ebony is said to be so abundant in some parts of Mexico that it is used as frewood by the people and as fuel by the railways.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

Since 1914, France has sent thir- ty-eight representatives to the Court of St. James, while Lord Duferin is only the eighth ambassador sent by Great Britain to France in that time.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19
The Tax of the Farmer.


 the House of Representative ol
 March 31. 1892.
 1 The population of this countr, in 1860 was 31 ,443 ,321 and the ex
 penditures of the Government $71,
 648, ,665.88, an expenses amounting
 to $2.22 to each inhabitant. Con
 trast this with the showing made by
 the last Congress, when provision
 was made for paying as expenses $5S1, ,761, ,652.66 for each of the years of 1891 and 1892. This you will see amounts of $9.09 to each man, wo. man and child in the United States the population as shown by the sta. tistics being 63,975,OOO.
 Now, MT. Chairman, I represent a constituency engaged in making cotton. This industry is their source of revenue. There are .2S9.- 600 people, all told, in the State of Mississippi, and they produced in 1890 1,265,000 bales of cotton, aver aging in weight 392 pounds each. aggregating 495,6S0,000 pounds. Suppose we could sell 1t at ' cents per pound, about the average price net that we have of recent years re- ceived for middlixg cotton. though not more than 6 cents could be real ized at this time. The gross sum would be $34,697 500. Now. assume that th1s ,2S9,6O0 people pay the average proportion of taxes: S9.O9 each, it amounts to 1,722, ,464, a fraction less than one-third ot the gross proceeds of the crop. Then add to this the taxes paid for State, county and municipal purposes you have the sum total contributed by these people for governmental pur- poses.
 MT. Chairman, these figures are startling, but I suppose if similar was made in reference to the producers of wheat and corn and others engaged in agricultural pursuits a similar state of affairs would be made manifest. In order to present in another form the idea as to how much taxes are paid by the American people to meet the appropriations of the Fifty-frst Congress let us assume the families of this country average five persons each; 63,975,0 5,00Opeople would make families, the heads of which, supposing that the head of the family provides the means with which to pay taxes and other ex- penses, have to contribute to the support of the Federal Government annually $45.45. which l submit, to- yether with the exactions for State, and municipal purposes, is . burden too grievous to be borne oy free people.
 These enormous exaetions are made to provide the fund which the Congress of this country votes lway to pay bounties to trusts and iilk industries, and subsidize steam hip companies, and to pay for inn shows such as the one soon o exhibit at Chicago. MT. Chair nan, I am again constrained to say his IS all wrong and express the lope that there will soon be an end if it. Is there a gentleman upon his floor who can conscientiously ay that there is no cause for com. ,laint?
 It is a matter of some surprise to ne that the masses have been so ,atient, and I am glad the great Northwest is waking to true sense if the situation. She contributed o this House a Democratic delega- ion at the last election which does Ter credit, and I prayerfully hope he will continue to doso until such eforms are wrought as will put an nd to the abuses to which 1 have cen referring.
 The company of soldiers march
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The St. Johns herald., 1892-05-19

It is not impossible to meet with a plump refusal from a slender girl.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28
THE GUARDS DOUBLED.
A Sensational Story Prompts Extra Care on
the Part Of the Military.

A Sensational Story Prompts Extra Care on
the Part of the Military.
A sensation was created in Camp Sam
Black just after noon yesterday by Pitts
burg woman hurrying into camp and
reporting conversation she had
heard while on train coming to
Swissvale. The woman said that two men
resembling mill workers had within her
hearing talked of barrel of dynamite in
sticks which they had in hiding near the
encampment which had just been abandoned
by the Fourteenth Regiment. She said the
men talked of blowing up the Little Bill, !,
the boat used by the militia to cross the
river between the two encampments. The
woman left with Colonel Hawkins her
name and address, Her story was at once
signaled to division headquarters.
Captain Laird. of I Company, Tenth
Regiment, who was officer of the day, was
detailed to investigate the woman's story.
With squad of soldiers he thoroughly
searched the woods surrounding the emf
had been encamped, but he was unable to
find any trace of dynamite or anything
else that appeared suspicious. After
Captain Lairu's report had been made to
Colonel Hawkins, it was forwarded to
division headquarters. A general order was
then issued doubling the guards for last
night and each sentry was instructed to be
especially diligent in watching and
promptly reporting anyone found near the
military lines after nightfall.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28
MEMPHIS WANTS IT.

The Carnegie Company Is Asked to Move
Its Plant There.
H. c. Frick has received letter from the
Young Mems Business League, of Men,
phis. inviting the company to remove its
plant to that place. The letter says that it
has been learned that the Carnegie Com
pany is thinking of removing its plant from
here and has Chicago in mind as a
probable location. 1t suggests that Chicago
has more bold and dangerous Anarchistic
element than Pittsburg, and such a move
would not be good business policy. The
advantages of Memphis are then set forth,
and it Is urged that only one labor trouble
has ever occurred there, and that that one
was not on account of wages, but convict
labor. The letter closes by stating that the
sentiment there is against such uprsings
and that the population is free of that
vicious element that causes so much trouble
in the North.
On this subject Mr.. Lovejoy said: 'The
Memphis letter was the most urgent one of
many we have received from various sec
tions of the country. do not know how
the rumor that we intended to remove our
plant was started. We have no intention
of removing our plant from here. We have
seen no petition asking for the establish
ment of conference court as provided for
bv act Of 1883, and would not sign it
anyway. We have announced our ultima
tum, and there will be no deviation from
our previously outlined policy. No arb-
tration, no conferences, nothing but what
we have stated. We will never take back
some of the men who participated in the
riot"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28
A PRETTY PICTURE.

Tho Elements Unite With and Beautify .
Weli-DriIIed Regiment.
The visitors to the Provisional Brigade
headquarters last evening enjoyed de-
lighttul treat. The Fourth Regiment, in
command of Colonel Case, the Junior
Colonel of the State, was being reviewed by
Colonel Hawkins, the Senior Colonel
of the State. The Fourth Regiment
is probably the most complete military Or
ganization in the National Guard. 1t is
composed of German Turner's and athletes,
and its every movement is like that of q
well-regulated machine. The command had
been drawn up at attention. The sun, de-
clining into mellow clouds, was gliding the
eastern sky and was throwing pretty refec-
tions upon the shining arms of the WELL
trained soldiers. Colonel Case and his
staff had turned, and at a present was
saluting the reviewing officers when a rain
bow, distinct as picture, flashed over the
regiment and hung like halo over their
heads. For the time the whole sky cleared.
Colonel Hawkins, dignifed and like mil
i.ary giant, stood out 20 PAGES from all the
rest. Next to him Colonel Case stood with
his staff about him, and before them
all the regiment. Their arms were glisten-
ing and they looked more like painting
than like body of living soldiers. Withal
it was an inspiring sight, and every
soldier on review seemed to realize that he
was part of the picture that was delighting
the spectators
''That was the prettiest picture ever
saw" Colonel Hawkins said after the regi-
ment had been dismissed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28
SOLD HIS WIFE CHEAP.
An Ex- A narchist Tells q Strange Story
Two of the Prisoners.

An Ex-A narchist Tells q Strange Story OF
Two of the Prisoners.
The members, past and present, of An
archist groups in Allegheny are beginning
to feel uneasy over the recent arrests.
Those who are still active members are re-
naming very quiet, and those who have
dropped out of the organizations are show
ing desire to square themselves"
Last evening Chief Murphy, of ALLIE
gheny, was visited by a well appearing gen.
tleman who gave his name as Emil Clauert,
employed by Wolf & Son, the wholesale
liquor dealers. He said that he had, until
about eight months ago, been secretary of
group No. of the Allegheny Anarchists.
There were at the time only 40 members in
that group. He had become disguised with
some of the actions of members of the group,
and had cut loose from the whole matter.
Mr. Clauert then gave to Chief Murphy a
story representative of some of the ways OF
the internationalists
He said that Bauer, the Anarchist leader,
had tired of his wife, who had taken lik-
ing for Carl Knold, the Cherry street man.
The two men then made a DEAL by which
Knold paid Bauer S25, and the Spring Gar
den man agreed to secure divorce from his
wife and relinquish her to Knold. The
woman has lately been living at No. 5
Cherry street, and Clauert said he under
stood that she had been divorced from Bauer
and was the wife of Knold. What Bauer
did with the S25 is problematical, but
among his effects was found q receipt for
SIS from Joseph Friedman, the attorney,
whom Bauer employed to conduct the di-
vorce proceedings
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-28

furnishings of the interior. As the COM
missioner was about to enter, voice from
the sidewalk called him, and turning, he
saw a well built woman carrying in her arms
a baby of perhaps six months Two other
children were beside her She said she
was Mrs Finster, and when the reporter
told her that her husband was under arrest,
and asked her a question about his views on
anarchy. she said, in German. that she could
not talk English. This did not stop the
conversation, but the woman answered all
questions put to her with apparent
frankness. She said her husband had
been in Allegheny five years, and had
worked steadily in various tannerles. The
Punishment of the house showed that he
had we'll cared for his family. She denied
positively that he was an Anarchist. She
said he did not belong to any societies.
She was asked if she knew Mr.. Bauer.
She said he did not, and also said that she
did not know August Pirnack, who was ar
rested in company with her husband. The
woman was asked if her husband
took any anarchistic papers She
said that he did not except that she had
once seen in the house, only a few days ago.
a paper printed in New York which might be
anarchistic. She was asked if her husband
had any pictures of Spies or Parsons. In
her naive way she asked who those gentle
men were, and when she was told, made
most emphatic denial that she had ever
heard Of those unfortunate individuals or
had ever seen their portraits.
Quit Work Before the Assassination.
Pirnack had room at No. 256 Sandusky
street. That is the number of grocery
store kept by young German, who rents
few rooms to friends but does not furnish
meals TO them. The proprietor said
he made the acquaintance OF Plrnack
when that gentleman came to
America perhaps IA months ago He is
baker by trade" tie man said, "and struck
me as being a nice fellow. l lost sight of
him for several months and do not know
where or how he lived in the meantime.
About two months ago L met him on the
street. He told me he had got q place to
work with a baker (F. A Richards) on
Palo Alto street, and wished to get room
somewhere in this part ofthe city. l said
to him, August 1 have a room / will rent
to vou. So he came to room here. He was
very quiet I never heard him talk anarchy
or anything like it, and 1 don't think he
has any anarchistic pictures in his room.
don't know whether he attended meetings
on Sunday evenings, for he sometimes went
away early in the day and 1 do not know
what time he came home.
yesterday wheL the papers said that
Henry Bauer had been arrested, he said he
knew Bauer. He went away about
o'clock this morning, and have not seen
him since. never heard him speak of a
man named Finster."
At this point the landlord gave one of
the most important pieces of information.
He said: "Mr. Pirnack does not work
for the baker on Palo Alto street. He told
me last Saturday that he had quit the place
the day before, but do not know why"
This resignation was rendered on the
evening of the day before Mr.. Frick was
shot.
The police last evening did not visit the
homes of these two prisoners.