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FROZEN TO DEATH IN THE STREET
Nathan Phelps. Eighty-five, De.
mented, Wanders Away in the Cold.

lerrrrIr- 70 TFr rvFNTN1 wootDI
sARAr3GA, Fc0. l3--Nathan II. Phelps,
aged c!ghty-iire years, one of the oldest resi-
dents " this place. wa, frozen to death on
the street al an early hour this mornng.
When discovered by he police lie hal moth
Ing on JUt an uEdvrshilt. lie mad been in
poor health Tor II uumucr OF days and his
~ ,r,ndcr..l ,,,,',. -. - ,,-...
about O'clock, ana his lilele.s body was found
three hours later. The mercury stood ten
degrees below zero.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

Bu,sey, spr akinS l,r the forty tidy waters,
said:
I'VE MAKE 40 Jaws un hat point. Our nj n
may nC Esau's II thcy Ike, lut -.
NJ RnS.CT didn't iu!sh me sentence. lie
lust looked abiUt him sigGi irantly. ana the
reporter saw that there Were hut two h'hrdS
IN the cOrrS OF gHrCunS aud these two were
timid little affairs That IN ght have zen mi--
taken In c&h case Tor tNl hair mulcS. onr on
either cheek Of the MCarCr The rest OF the
walters were rs smooth faced as their
mot ners.
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WHISPERS TO THE WINDS.
The Insurance Club Issues an
Edict Against Them.
Its Walters reremptorlly Ordered
to Shed Iiir.utc Aaornmcnts.

CONSERVATION rciras among the gentlemen
who serve material delicaCics to the members
CT lbc Insurance club Ia the club restaurant
ut 80 Cedar street.
An cd!ct has gone forth from the autocrnts
on the & Grycrnlng committee that the eqmlli-
hriots who POI e trays tull OF chops ana ONE
lets ana dance Cayly down tn" dining.rOum
to hungry customers must appear henceiorth
slOrn OF their whiekCrs
The evening world., 1892-02-13
BarriSs Likely 20 Be Declared presi-
dent of Guatemala.

GUATEMALA. Jan. .1.--Tha result OF the
election Tor President is sum clouded WIN
uncertainty. The probability Is that Gen.
Jose Maria Reyha Earrios VIII De declared
elected.
\ statement IL published that he received
J..s!C NOies out uf u tgtll or IlJOUQ, but
this number Is not exact.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
FOR The PENSION INQUIRY.
Speaker Crisp Names the Special
Committee in the House.

wAsulSGTcS, Feb. l3.-The speaker an-
nounced the appointment OF the following
committee TO Investigate the Pension q lice
Nessrs. Wheeler, Of Michigan; Lutte, OF
New YORK; DUNCAN. OF ohio; Lind, OF Minue-
sofa, and Brosius, OF Penusy sylvaIia.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
Two Young Thieves Csgad.

A brace oi thieves, Benjamin Eye, aged
eleven, ard George stamford, aged twenty,
were rcmIpdCu to-day Ut Essex Matvt
court on the charge Of burglari2ins the apart
mcnts OF Brlnget Mcdonald, 10 Allen street,
ANA stealing goods worth $500. Twenty
pawn-tlcAc,s were found IL the boys poses
sion,
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Both Got Bad Falls.

Early this morning JOha Fcehan, NIFTY years
old. walchman in the gaS-house al $50
West Forty-secohd street, lcll ana broke hts
!Cg. Policeman William 4. Boyle, u the
twentieth Precinct, Whit running t. cal an
ambulance Tor him, lei and spraintd his
ankle. Both men were attended 'uS pr. Iay.
lOr, OF the Ro Dsuyc!L .io-ui,a!.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
six Miners Drowned by Tidal
Wave In East Prussia.

w AssOGiATrn pRrss
BERLIN. Feb l3.-siN miners were drowned
In East Prussia last night by n heavy sea
running inland to the shore near PalmEicken,
small hshlng town, and into an amber mine
In which a uumuer OF meu were working.
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Crushed by u Horse Car and Died.

Mss Margaret Palmer " Babylon, l. L.,
who was run over and crushed by Fourth
avenue car at the corner OF Tw-nty.nrst
street La; evening, ana whose sisters child
which She carried IN her arms miraculously
escaped unhurt, died al the New YORK Hospi-
tai this morning.
by Coroner Levy thi, morning IN $500 bail
to await the result ot the inquest. Bail was
furnished.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
Terrible suffsrincs of g Tramp.

" ' tkFOIIATTN NNTTi
BEAVER FAILS, Pa, Feb. l3.--Robert Hast
ings, u tramp, Of ST. Louis, was IOunL IN u
dying condi ion in an Old stone quarry near
Homcwood Thursday night. While WANDER
ing In he dark on Monday night he had fallen
over pGrclplCe. lie Was unable q move, and
lay there for seventy hours without food
or water.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
Agains. Unlicensed Liquor Dealers

lssWTI1 v " "TT "a
SYACS. fcb. IA mo''Icu' agains, un-
licensed liquor dealers iu RucNllui county Is
10 be undertaken by tAr Board OF ENci-c.
The Hrst cusr will b" that against Richlrd
Ktlly, u httr.-."pp"r, ot OranS"loMn. oth"r
cas-, IN dliIrrtnl parts OF the county are 10
inlinW
The evening world., 1892-02-13
FLAMES In A GIRLS SCHOOL.
The Girls Dressed Themselves and
Got Out Safely.

Fire at e2.3O o'clock this morning In Miss
Ely's girls boarding- school, l+2 COLUMBIA
Heights. Brooklyn, caused $1,000 damage.
The fire originated on the ih!rG moor OF the
building All the young women IN the build
Ing dressed themselves before leaving the
DullGlug.
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Fire and Fireworks All Together.
fBY ASSOCIATED pRrss,

PETERSBURG, Va, Fe1. l3.-Fire last night
destroyed the trunk factory OF Romaine
Bros, together with SIX frame dwellings
occupied by colored people. In the rear u
the buildings MAS the itreworR establishments
OF Mr.. Charles ROmalne, which contained
quantities OF tirewOrSs. These LOOK IRE ana
explosion after explosion occurred, creating
CONSERVATION among the crowd NJ the nro.
Loss estimated at s32, 200.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
Nyack Ice.Dealsrs Hopeful.

NJ ASSOCIATED rRrssl
SYACk, Feb. l3.-The thermometer regis
tered degrees above zero early this morn
| ing. The most terrific wind storm known
| heIe In years prevailed all night, Ice dealers
! are hopeful VI scouting second crop.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

School Trustees to 20 Investigated.
4 committee Of the citizens OF Fort Rich.
mond. $. l., has been appointed to investigate
the accounts OF the local school trustee, rs u
result OF runors allrgiuE Irregularities IN the
expenditure Oi sa?,ssl Tor II new s.hogi-
house,
The evening world., 1892-02-13
Accused Forzer Moses Held.

Rafael Moses, charged with forging the
name OF Isaac Ferg to a check Tor $3.50,
waived examination to-day In Essex Market
court ana WAS held Tor the Grand Jury.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

The discussion started by Sorosis nnd
continued 10y THE ENENING WORLD
ON "liow 10 Manage II iIusband.v will
hr summed M in nrNt Moudnv's INEN-
ING WORLD. when the decision OF Mrs.
JenRir N, Lo<ier, Pres .deni %. s,oro,is.
nmiug the winner in IUE EVENING
WORLD contest will be pnblishrd.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

Patrick Kane, OF $50 East Eight !cth street
died IN the = e,byterian Hospital lhis moru-
Ing num injuries received last Monday BY
inlling IN the area OF l.3 East scTentJ tJ-IUurth
street White drunk.
The evening world., 1892-02-13
The Oay in WASHINGTON.

The Anti-optIon bin hearing is adjourned until
Aondag.
Iicrt. -Crmmauder Rnhert T.. Impey las been
ordered 20 uuty ht tie Navy, isru al League, L.
land, Pa.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

The WEATHER AND STORM NG-
NILS Of the United stats" Weafh-S
R"r~an ~U be Ionnd Hi1sirsied IN THE
WORLD .4LM-iNAC yor 1897.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

HAIL's"BrrwEES THr Acrs and BRAVO. lOe
u Al DIME, ne, All-l obAcCo Cigarettes are ths
vnlS Brands made by ThVs IA. Hall. EstaG Il 1885,
The evening world., 1892-02-13
THE BORLD ALMANAC,
1892,

nor realty for d,sfr.bwHoH. For safe
all .Sers Dealers and StaUVncrs.
The evening world., 1892-02-13

Young e. sua Acme'' Ltcerice Psliess
UueQ ualled tor purity and oxoesncs. Drassisss ~
The evening world., 1892-02-13

PANI. PAM, PANI, PAXI,
best ali tobscco cigarettes, 10 tor 10 esntA. -
The evening world., 1892-02-13

gnAplenorlyr never i..l. TO sprs He.Aashs. =.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
TAXING SOLVENT CREDITS.

1t is notorious fact that most of
the solvent credits in this State, repre-
scented by mortgages and other ample
securities, have long escaped their just
proportion of taxation, because not
given in to the assessors, as they
should be.
1t has been thought by a considera-
BILE number of the Legislature, that it
might be an improvement on the past
order of things if all money loaned in
the State at a rate of inter
est not greater than 8 per cent,
were expressly exempt by law
from taxation altogether, as the
probable effect would be to make
money more plentiful and cheaper,
and at the same time avoid, as in many
instances is the case, taxing the same
capital twice-because it is given in
to the assessor by the person who loans
and the property which it represents is
again given in by the borrower. This
proposition, however, has been rejected
as unsound and is not likely to be &C
cepted by majority of the Legislature
at this session.
Mr.. Madison, Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, stated in con-
versation the other evening with some
gentlemen, that his committee is now
preparing a scheme which they think
will have the effect of putting all sol
vent credits, notes and accounts, etc,
on the assessment rolls. The commit
tee proposes to remedy the evil by an
ironclad provision something like that
in relation to privilege taxes, by pro-
viding that where the owners fail to
give them in they shall have no re-
course to law to collect them. All
notes are to be numb cred and given in
to the assessor by number and amount
Accounts, where practical, are to be
treated in the same manner, In this
way they can always be identified and
if suit is brought and the rolls show
they are not assessed at their true
value the case is thrown out of court,
as it would be under the present law
in the case of meschant who had an
insufficient amount of privilege tax.
1t is claimed a measure of this sort
will increase the assessed values s., 000,-
600
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
A FICTITIOUS ISSUE.

In his remarks before the Legisla-
ture last Thursday, Mr.. Watterson de-
clared that the issue in the coming
presidential campaign would be the
tariff, and that the Democrats are a
unit on the question ercept as to details.
Practically speaking, the tariff is only
question of details as between the
Republican and Democratic parties,
and the people are beginning to find it
out. With the Republicans it is free
sugar and tariff on salt. With the
Democrats, it is free salt and tariff on
sugar.
AS long as the extravagant pension
legislation is continued, large appro-
priations to rivers and harbors and the
like, voted for by Democrats and Re
publicans alike, it will be a financial
impossibility to reduce the tariff with
out running the government deeper III
debt and furnishing a new pretext for
perpetuating the national banking sys-
tenn hence the tariff is likely to re-
main one of details, as we'll as one
largely influenced by mere local or sec
tional considerations.
In truth, rightly speaking, the tariff
is no party question at al, but should
be absolutely transferred from the
arena of partisan politics, where it is
the ever convenient shibboleth of the
demagogue, and relegated to non
partisan commission of experts, as has
been done by national railroad super
vision, there to be regulated under
general rules, according as varied con-
ditions and circumstances may from
time to time suggests.
Yes, there are more important ques-
lions demanding the attention of states
men and voters than the practical diff
ference between the Democrats and
Republicans on the tariff, and one of
these is an increase in the volume of
the circulating medium otherwise than
through the agency of national banks,
as demanded by the Alliance, and the
other is, the destruction of the legal
lied liquor traffic with all its vast po-
litical power and moral corruption.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04

their jug, let them send out of the
State for it, as they can under the in
ter-state commerce regulations, in
spite of anything the Legislature may
do. II is not the ambition of Prohibi-
tionists to give a monopoly of the jug
trade to Mississippi liquor dealers, and
they do not covet whisky revenue.
We have not taken into considera.
ton the immense and dangerous politi-
cal power such a policy as Senator
billiard favors confers on a few men
who. under high license, build up a
monopoly in the liquor traffic in CEN
ters like Meridian, Columbus, Green
vile. Vicksburg, Natchez, jackson and
even smaller places, and which was so
forcibly presented by Senator Roane.
If any body questions the existence
of this political power of the whisky
rings, let him observe the stand taken
by majority of the members repre-
senting license counties. Above all,
let him consider the men who have
come here since this liquor question
has been pending, to lobby in the in
terest of the saloon keepers and parry
the blows that have been aimed at their
business. Men who are Representa-
tives and eX-Scnators, District Attor-
neys and others who stand high in par.
ty circles and whose influence because
of that is the more potential-men who
have aspirations to be governors, con.
gressmen and hold other high positions
of official trust. have not deemed il
beneath their dignity to come here
and use their influence at the behest
of liquor dealers who dare not show
their own red and bloated faces fol
fear of revulsion of sentiment against
them
1t is this sort of respectable politica
backing in the lobby and on the out
side as we'll as the inside, that ha:
caused and is causing some timid Pro
hibitionists to halt and falter for feal
of going too far" and the LEADER in
tends that the people of the STATE
shall know the whole truth before it il
done with the subject.
1t is hoped that Mr.. Heidelberg
amendment, or one covering the sam'
points, will be introduced in the House
as we have good reason for believing i
will be, and it is uncomfortable, hov
any friend of Prohibition, who viii
consider it maturely, can refuse to Civ
it his hearty support. 1t is not onl.
an act of simple justice to Prohibition
counties, but it is in entire accord will
the object of Prohibition and the gen
eral policy of the bill, and will hedg'
in and cripple the traffic in the Stat
so as to insure it's early and complete
destruction.
The LEADER repeats and wishes t.
emphasize the declaration that Thu
amendment, with the one already re
ferred to, covering all license none.
into the State treasury, would maxi
the chapter on dramshops as near per
feet and satisfactory to PrOhibitionist
} as any LICENSE LAW the Legislature
could be asked to pass.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
THE SENATOR FROM LowNDEs.

Senator Harrison arose to a question
of privilege in the Senate last Friday
afternoon and defended himself against
what he alleged was aa-sintrue and un-
Just attack by the MISSISSIPPI LEADER,
entitled: ~ Coquettish Senator"
reading. as he did so, the article in our
last issue bearing that caption. The
LEADER did not have representative
present at the time, but is informed
that the incident created considerable
merriment among the Senators, chiefly
at the expense of the Senator from
Lowndes. Senator billiard, who is a
bachelor, upon whom the charms and
and Establishments of the fair sex have
so far been spent in vain, proposed
that the article be amended by substi-
tuting the word ladies, wherever the
words prohibition and liquor traffic oc-
cured. This created a hearty laugh
and finally Senator Sullivan moved
that the article be committed to the
LEADER for amendment and correction,
causing renewed laughter.
AS the article has not yet been so re-
ferred, we are somewhat at loss to
know at what particular portions the
Senator from Lowndes took umbrage
The facts as to the Senator's contra
dictory position on the liquor question
are substantially as given in that arti
Gle, and it is submitted that any infer
ence drawn or opinion expressed was
:. legitimately deducible from the facts
In it's first issue published in this
city the LEADER contained the follow
ing declaration
1T will not be machine to CRAFTY
the personal likes or dislikes of it's ed
itor; it will put on no airs of infalibil
ity it will be careful to libel no one
and to make no mistakes, but If Il
should fall into error, it will be eager
to make amends"
We stand and will continue to stanC
by that declaration. If the LEADEI
has done the Senator from Lownde:
an injustice or placed him in false
light, when shown it's error it is ready
to make the fullest amends, but unit
then we stand pat on what has beer
} published
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
TOO LOGICAL.

If the Legislature, disregarding the
expressed desire of the leading reli-
gious denominations of the State, the
w. G. T. u and the State Prohibition
Conventions, decides as a finality to
continue the licensing of saloons, the
second suggestion of the Clarion to
cover all the license money into the
general treasury, is by far the best
plan, and agrees with the position of
the LEADER. To use it to establish a
State inebriate asylum, while decided
ly logical, is, we fear, too much so. For
the State to license drunkard factories
and at the same time provide an asylum
for the drunkards, might become a
standing argument for the perpetua-
ton of both institutions as a mutual
necessity.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
THE INSURANCE QUESTION.

The subject of insurance has not yet
come up in either house, but when it
does, there is likely to be lively fight.
The plan of the Code Commission to
restore the deposit system,wit tax
ing the State with interest on the de-
posits, which are eXacted as an add
tional protection to the assured, will be
vigorously resisted by those who hold
that this system, which was discarded
by the Legislature of two years ago, is
in the interest of a few companies and
calculated to build up an insurance
monopoly.
1t was recently asserted by cores
pondent of the Memphis Commercial
who had consulted the Auditors books,
that under the present system there
are two-thirds more insurance COM
panies in the State than formerly and
all of them are of the best, paying
losses as quickly or more 50 than I'M
der the old deposit law, and paying In
to the State treasury for taxes S}i,OOV,
compared with $4,000 under the old
plan.
This being true, there can certainly
be no sufficient reason for reviving the
deposit system, even though it is pro-
posed to be done without cost of inter
est. and the LEADER hopes it will not
be favorably considered.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
STRAIGHT TALK.
The Legislature Should Face
the Issue and do its Duty ou'
the Liquor Question.

Not To- do 50 Is To Invite Party Disruption.
MERIDIAN, MISS, Feb. 1, 1892.
Editor Mississippi Leader:
We want State Prohibition and will
be satisfied with nothing short of this
we must cross the Rubicon. / con-
fess my great establishment at the &C
ton taken on the amendment to pre-
vent liquors of any kind being shipped
into the dry counties. 1t is this venal
commerce that renders local option, III
a great measure, nullity i'll the dry
counties.
My establishment is still more in
creased to find professed prohibition
lists voting against this just and right
eous act.
We have watched with great interest
the action of the members of the legis-
lature, and to find them at this late
day feeding us still on diluted Cruel,
excites nothing but indignation, and a
dangerous indignation at that.
If nothing sharp cut and positive is
done by this legislature to overthrow
this ..sum of all villanies," that retards
agricultural, financial, moral and rell-
gious interests, then we are in for the
fight to the bitter end.
| This question can never be settled
rightly, until we have absolute State
Prohibition, and our legislators might
Just as we'll settle down to this fact.
The Democratic members, must GER
tainly be purblind or profoundly I'M
read on this great issue, not now to
know, that they will originate warfare
against the party that will never cease
until our State is delivered from this
demon traffic.
Meridian is ready for the fray, and
good judges say we can carry the coun-
ty'under the new Constitution.
l also have the authority of one who
knows that Jackson, Hancock and Har-
rison counties, will vote by large ma
iority to drive it out of their borders:
and then for members to vote that
these counties, when victorious over
this foul enemy may still be harrassed
by whisky sellers of other counties, is
inconceivable:
Shame where is thy blush AS the
legislators seem to have no courage, we
must organize at once, and pitch the
battle. JOHN w. HARMON.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
TRANSPARENT INCONSISTENCY.

From the Commercial, we learn that
w. S. McAllister, of Mississippi, and
U. S. Hall, of Missouri-the former
chairman and the latter member OF
the National Executive Committee Of
the nti-Sub-Treasury Alliance met
in Memphis last Friday, by appoint
ment, to consider matters pertaining
to their little side-show. In answer to
a query, Mr.. Hall is quoted as saying,
II am willing to say most emphatically
that we have not nor do we intend to
allow one vote to be controlled by these
Sub Treasury 'heelers' of the Republi-
can party, if any efforts on, our part
will prevent it,"
Of course Messrs. McAllister, Hall
& Co. are would-be leaders without any
Alliance following to speak of, but if
this were not true, their movement
would fail because of it's transparent
inconsistency. The Alliance, by its
very constitution, is non-partisan
organization, and cannot, in its organic
capacity, champion the Democratic,
Republican or any other party yet.
the avowed purpose of the leaders of
this so-called Anti-Sub- Treasury wing
of the order, is in the interest of one
particular party-the Democratic-as
opposed to all others. And what is
transparent, the journals and
politicians which have been loudest in
decrying the Alliance as political or
ganization and saying it had no bust
ness in politics, are patting these
would-be disorganizers on the back
and giving their efforts all the encour-
in their power.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-04
SALOON TACTICS EXPOSED.

A telegram was sent from Meridian to
the New Orleans dailies last week stat
ing that meeting of the boards of
trade and the cotton exchange was
called for the evening of the 18th to
consider the Dramshop bill, and that
..the business men, of Meridian are
awake to the disastrous consequences
of such bill on the town prosperity and
will move to defeat it.
Capt. John A. Lewis, staunch Pro
hibitionist and leading business man
of Meridian, who was here when the
telegram appeared, wired the President
of the Meridian Cotton Exchange to
know if the report was correct and
promptly received the following re-
Spouse:
John A. Lewis, Jackson, Miss:
No meeting has been called, nor del
egation sent to Jackson to oppose the
LIQUOR bill by our cotton exchange.
Reports sent from here to New Orleans
papers are untrue.
B. F. ORMoND,
President Meridian Cotton Exchange.
The Clarion well says, "the same con-
fusion of terms has appeared as to
authority from merchants and delega-
tions from other places. For business
men members of the legislature may
usually read the saloon keepers.