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VOL. XIV.
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
wAsIfINGrON NorEs

GENERAL CONSUL COwAN. of the Bal
Gimora & Ohio Railroad Co, has ap-
peared before the senate com mmerce
committee in opposition to granting
judicial powers to the interstate com
Inerce commission.
The first volume Of the blue book for
1891 shows that there arc employed in
the postal service Of the United States,
in all capacities. 1874, 42I pers ms, and in
all other departments Of the govern
ment G2, SG5 persons making total of
247, 294.
THE military academy appropriation
bill has passed the house at Washing
THE secretary of state is negotiating
a new treaty of cxtradition with the
French government, the present one
being antiqUated
ORDERS have been sent to Montevideo
by the secretary of the navy authoriz-
ing Adm. Gherardi t. return to the
West Indies with tine Philadelphia and
the Concord.
Col CHARLES D. MORTON, one of the
most extensive farmers of North Da-
kota; has protested vigorously against
the passage Of Wash burns anti-option
bill The merchants OF Memphis,
Tenn, have also protested
TITLES of bona fde purchasers of
lots in El Reno are absolutely safe.
Secretary Noble has taken steps to per
init residents OF FL Reno to make their
titles so lately disturbed by his deci-
sion perfect and at no added cost. The
department has moved with prompt
ness and vigor t. correct the troubles
and make certain and sure the titles Of
those who have settled there.
THE ways and means committee of
the house win be petitioned to prepare
n bill invoking the paternaI condemna-
tion OF the government upon the cigar
cite habit
SECRETARY NOBLE declares that no
bona fide lot purchasers in FL Reno,
Ok, will suffer by reason of his deci-
sion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY
HORACE SPEED, of Oklahoma, pleaded
before tie house committee on terri
tories for the admission Of Oklahoma as
a state,
THE senate committee on commerce
has decided to recommend the adoption
of a most liberal policy for the i'm.
provement of the Mississippi river
SO, 600, 600 being the amount named in
the bill, as it will be reported to the
senate.
REPREsENTATIvE CLOVER, of Kansas
has introduce 1 a bill authorizing states
Tor the purpose of increasing trans
pOrtatiOn facilities to borrow money
from the government secured by state
bonds bearing 90 per cent. interest Il
an amount not exceeding Is per cent o
the taxable value of its lands.
TwENTY-FoUR of the United State
ship Baltimore's men have prepared
claims against Chilli for 81, 8O5, 600 dam
ages for injuries in the Valparaiso riot
TIE democrats of the ways an,
means committee have agreed on tht
free wool bill and have decided to re
port bills placing binding twine an'
cotton ties and baRging on the free list
Cong BEssMAN WILLIAMS, OF Massa
chusetts, has prepared the minority re
port of the house coinags committe
against the Bland free silver bill
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COUNTY officials at San Antonio
Tex, have been indicted for misap-
preparation of funds
Col J. Z. SISIPsOS, president of the
Fourth national bank of Dallas, Tex,
and business leader of that city, is g.
fugitive, with u,l sorts of crime charged
against him
SIXTY-sEvEN prisoners, who recently
participated IN the revolution at Chi
hUahua, Mexico, will be taken by
squad Of soldiers to the capital
a PLOT to wreck a passenger train of
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
road has been dis covered
HEDsPETH, the train robber, arrived
at St. Louis Mrs Sly was released on
her own rec2guizance-
DETAILS of the attack on the Protest
ant church in Pirseus, Greece, show
that it was a disgraceful affair in every
way.
CouBErr. the California pugilist,
nominafly knocked out three men be
fore a huge New York crowd the other
night, but many charge that it was all
| a fake
/ THE New Jersey house has ordered
/ an invest cation Of the recent coal roads
| combine
IN Ottumwa, Ia, the other night two
! witnesses against jOintists were badly
| beaten by tEuga-
A MANIAC set hEe 70 the MissIsslppl
! insane asylum on the 10th and himself
{ perished In the flames The loss was
| 5000. COO.
IL the senate on the I6tk the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill was passed
aud the Idaho contest case taken up
! In the house most of the time was
/ taken mp with hlibusteFing on the CON
sideration of the silver bill The Rus
sian aid resolution failed to be adopt-
ed President Harrison sent a message
in regard to the appropriation for mine
inspectors in the territories
! tbs house ways and means commit
tee has ordered reports on bills placing
wool, binding twine and cotton bag
ginE on the free list.
The report that there was d leather
CON biue is denied by the dealers in
New York
BosroN artists are excited becauss
they have been slighted in the world.
fair jury
nR o A MACY. OF Guthrie, Ok, has
been arrested for forgery by raising
sheelz.
THE governor Of Fiorids has issued q
proc Glnation asking relief for suEsr
ing Russians.
A FIsHISe boat fou1aered on Kew
, caste. Eng.and. and ave Of her erev
we're drowned
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ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES

The hosts are marshaIling for the
frey. Who shall ruIe-the man or the
dOliar2-NoncOn
Every reformer ia this nation is
auxiously awaiting fox the 22d dav Of
February TO come The conference
Will be either glorious or ign9miuouz
Southern Mercury.
The great conference of organized
labor bodies, which will meet in St
Louis February %, viii be the largest
and most important gathering Of the
kind ever known in the worlds history.
Kansas City Midland Mechanic.
The sUb-treasury plan knocks the
sPeculatOr out, Rbolishes gambling in
futures, allows the usurer to keep hi
money, equalizes prices, secures to the
producer his earnings brings business
90 cash basis and establishes Justice
-Southera Mercury
Inquiries are coming iu for club
blanks to organize the peoples party
clubs over the country. Owing TO time
being so short before the new platform
viii be made, proba bilities are that
none will be officially issued until after
the 22d.-N -NOncouformist.
The best bill for the promotion
and protection of Interstate commerce
would provide for the acquisition bv
the government Of the trunk lines of
railroads Think what fix we would
be in if the postal service was i'm the
hands of numerous warning compe ting
and demOralizing CorporatIons--St
Louis Chronicle.
The banner of organized labor
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No GssembIage Of citizens, perhaps in
the history OF this country, has ever
excited such deep and universal inter
est as the one which will couveue in
tho city of St Louis on the 22d inst
The great industrial elements VIII there
be repressuted- They are TO meet aud
consult together for the common good
The men who 90 there will be sent to
represent the sentiments OF their re-
spective constitueneies. They viii not
20 there 20 carry out their own pecu-
liar and indiEidual views They are
not to work in the interest of any. par
ticular political party They are TO do
the very best thing for the relief aud
welfare Of the people who sent them
there We regret 70 see some disposi-
ton in certain quarters TO pack that
BODY in the interest OF the democratic
party. We would quietly give ont a
friendly note of vVaFuiug-if any man
goes 10 that conference aud assumes %
drive his people into 4 false position he
will be sapudiatsd, as he should be. by
his people Let the people De watch
ful, arm aud faithful and they VIII tri
umpl resident Polk's Progressive
Farmer
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State Alliance, to say to those of our
order who are In favor Of such action,
that the alliance as an organization
cannot under our laws, iudorse any
political party. Its mem berz, as free
citizens of the country, can and should
exercise the most perfect and untram-
melcd freedom in their political action
and afhliatiouz They should consult
their own Judgment aud Conscieuces in
selecting or iBdorsiug such party as
they honestly believe will best carry
out their principles. If they want to
hold meetings aud iudorse any party
they should do it in the capacity Of
should preserve our organization as "a
great educational force and to do this
it should not be converted into a politl-
cal party. We admonish the alliance
men of our state to keep cool-be eau
tious, watchful and deliberate-bs firm
and true as steel to your principles
Vote for no man or men or party who
oppose your principles Extend the
cordial hand of friendship to all men
or to any party who stand faithfully
10y vour principles This is the only
way by which you can hope to secure
their recognition and enforcement.
Form no entaugliug alliances with
your enemies Demonstrate to the
world that you value principles and
tine well being of your country as the
most solemn and responsible charge
that can be committed to your care as
a citizen. Stand by and for these and
all will be veIl.-President POIk's
Progressive Farmer.
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H.

as at preseu.-aud vastly more just
In fact, 10 would destroy one Of the
most gigantic sTudicates OF uespltlsm
known % Humanity control OF tHs
food products Great West
AT the risk OF appearing eEuusacalr
OK becoming tedious, shall publish
once more before sue conference thl
following platform: Tt is at once
combination aud a cumpr1mlser ald is
and yet is not, "a sub-treasury platform
dispensing, as IL does. with the ware
houses built by the Feacral govern
ment and leaving each state tG uruvi DO
a system OF bouicd warehouses ana
state inspection ami grading, 10 cm-
bodies the iaul-blsis feature Of the
su su1-rrsusury plan and com uiucs the
essential features OF the u1u-pcrlslg-
able product stipulation of such plan
with the lIil banking system, and yet
10 gives TO the peoples banks mo- 10 1rl
powers o- latitude than Is now given
u national banks 10y Ilitad States
statute
l. ,al The riFht 90 make ami i~-ae maaey rs
PIE for the common beuelr r- beu1e We druaur Iru
abolition uf the national banks ana u= O. sub
sututc ror national bank notes we acEulul iHll
volume as may uC demanded ulr 90 exceed she
present assessed value OF improved productive
real estate. such bills 90 be legal tender iu ulv-
meut of all debts public aut private. and when
demanded ly the people tH Doe issued r1 rn.1l uE
%
mum upon improved ur.H..Her... real estate 10
sums NOS Co eZceeL tle present l7-.--rI value
OF such real estate
tbI We further drmaaI Che 0-rEnI faurur Of
United States postal banks iu lhr -tIU- ana
principal towns which said BANKS -nHI.- Ha
banks uf deposit. eEcLIu-r all discount and
loan money ar two per cent interest uuuH urr-
ssuaI security and upon storage rruH.Hr- fog
non -pCrfshabIc products issued from bonded
warehouses and elevators ny state Inspector.
UrI We further demand that tla rrHl-lrr
bills heretofore specified shall nC u1t promises
60 pay bus promises lp rcreiver and =Etu
read as follows ''TlC people of tBs
United States, -everlIy aud collectively
promise 20 receive tntz niI iu payment OF
uu debts public aud private and iu -gE-
change for labor luI products" ana
shall De fuudaGIa lu UuitrI States savings .rf-
p1sit CerLilCatsas OF convenient tuuumlulr rIuus
iurercuuvcruble at tlc pleasure uf tHr govern
Uuur ur holder. and drawing rate uE interest
not 20 exceed one per sent peE auuuU
tdI We demand Lhs FREQ and uu limited coin
age OF silver upon equal terms with gold and
LllE silver coin le made ru- leEEt tender Iu
any amount fsr ail debts. uuuric aHt private
GEORGE o.. bF aHlIr
~ H-Iu Kansas the assessed THIu- of rrli
estate I- about oUu-IllrI uf dts actual value Ia
Missouri IT, a forty rHnr cent.
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BENCH warrants have been ordered
by Judge Nelson, of the United States
court. for the arrest of all the Priaci-
pals in the Mississippi Valley Lumber
mems association, the corporation in
dicted by the grani jury for maintain
ing a lum Der trust
THE coIored people of Little Rock,
Ark, have formed an association for
mutual protection, and filed articles for
a stock company with capital stock
OF s., 800, 600, divided into 100. 900 shares
of S25 each
THE Grand Central hotel at FL Paso,
Tex, was destroyed by fire on the Ilth-
Its 200 guests escaped, though many of
the escapes were narrow and were eff
fected by the 6remen, and many did
not save even an Overshirt or dress
The loss was about $500, 900 and insur-
ance $780, 600.
AN appeal to the G. A. r. for contri-
buttons for statue in Washington to
the memory of Gen. w. 7. Sherman,
has been made by a committee appoint
ed at the meeting of the society OF the
army of Tennessee
MURAT, Ark, was almost completely
wiped out the other day by fire which
broke out in an old lumber yard.
About twO-thirds of the buildings were
burned including stave factory. The
total loss was about S!25, 600
Four men, one from Kansas City,
were arrested in Dallas, Tex, recently
while buying arms with which to com
mt a train robbery.
A NEGRO murderer was lyHched in
the very center of Pine Bluff, Ark, re-
Gently. Then the Jail was broken open
and the first victims accomplice was
also seized and strung up.
ADJE gen, MARTIN, of the depart
ment of Texas, declares that stories
about the CARA troubles have been
| grossly overdraEn.
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MEETING of democrats was held in
New York on the 18th to protest against
holding the state convention Febru-
airy %
AL. the officers of the Louisiana Lot
terry Co. have been indicted by the
grand jury in the United States circuit
court in Boston, and warrants have
been issued for their arrest
The dealings on Wall street on the
18th were the heaviest on record.
Reading and New England were con-
spicuous features of the bull movement.
Bears were given a terrible drubbing
THE New York grand jury has re-
turned an indictment for forgery in
the second degree against Edward NJ.
Field
FIVE hundred Russians arrived at
New York January 80, aud eighty of
them were sent to the lodging house of
the United Hebrew charities and others
went to lodging houses in other parts
of the city Fifteen of those at the
lodging house OF the United Hebrew
charities were taken with typhus fever
on the Ilth. Fifty other cases
haze been found
THE Mercantile Trust Co. of New
York has begun suit against the Mis-
touri Kansas & Texas railway for the
enforcement of the payment of Febru-
airy 1, 1891, coupons on the second
mortgage DOn0a OK GuG ueISuutt
pany, upon which they defaulted.
THE anti-early convention democrats
of Brooklyn he'd mass meeting on
the 18th and were addressed by Con
gressman John d. Warner aud others
Strong resolutions were passed
A. J. CAssATT, of the Pennsylvania
road, believes the coal combine will
not be allowed to stand in that state.
MRS. DR. GRAVES has raturned to
Providence, r L, from d visit to her
husband, confined in the peniteutiary
Mrs Barnaby.
THREE trains were wrecked on one
road near Pittsburgh the other night
but no one was hurt
The viee-president et the New York
cottou exchange has slated to the house
committed on agriculture that Texas
wool men asked to have their staple
dealt in like eStt ln.
Ex-MAYoEl RICHARD p. PEARSON, oi
Allegheny, Pa, who was charged with
anbezzlemsnt while in office, was &c
quilted, the prosecution falling 70 make
out a case. The cost was placed OF
the county.
FennsyIvania Railroad Co. iEstEGctinl
their agents to sell tickets including
round trip at one-half rae TO min
isters. This is considerable cOnces
sion, as two-third rates prevailed here
tofOrs-
The Massachusetts, G. a. r by 1
uunnfmOus vote has indorsed the gen
eraI order of CoEumsnder-iu-Chie
r. Palmer protesting against the use o
the canfederaae nag on any oecasiou-
HNRoN HIRsCH IS said 70 have visite'
Rev York in disguise aad fousd tha
his Jewish relief funda were not use
srHr trial Of the Deiamatsrs, brol1sr
bsnlrers -of zbseadEilie, Pa, has been il
,,r6lSf.ssT g Assigues HesiSins made
bad ssslss7inis for the firm
E1EF.E,S more cases OF tyPnus Ieve
have been found in Ne" \, TX Mn
bave been discovered IN Chicago, a
THR extensive locomotive shops OF "a
New york. Lake Erie & western raj
Rad haze ben placed on e a" NJ
tiue. 4 TedIStiea eF Qae s-i'lt's pes es'
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E1aur thousand coal porters in. Lon
don have gone on q strike IN cOuse-
quence Of a dispute with q firm regard
ing the wages to be paid the men 10
their employ.
RUAoRs were current in London and
Liverpool OF impending difficulties in
the corn and cotton trade owing to Sc
rious declines in prices
THE Cluny muse um of Paris has been
robbed Of some ancient gold coins
The thief escaped by a rope from
window but was later captured
BLACK smallpox aud typhus fever are
epidemic on the Russian Frontier,
TIE religious marriage Of Miss Nat
tie Mitchell, daughter Of Senator
Mitchell, Of Oregon, a.nd the Duke de
In RocheEoucaulds OF France. occurred
lsEaris recently
FRESH disturbances In BraziI are re-
garded as not Improbable. The people
in several provinces are very uneasy.
AT the funeral of Rev. Mr.. SpurEeon,
the eminent Baptist divine OF London,
thousands were in procession and
mourning tokens were general
GEN. TCgtEN kIroHGs of China has
been executed because OF his eonNer-
sion to Christianity and his work for
the Catholics
The empress of Germany was re
/ ported on the 18th as suffering from IN.
/ fiuenza- The official statement IS e
| the effect that the attack is only slight
| nevertheless the empress is eompelled
/ to keep her chamber
FHE Paris police have disproved the
/ rumoV that Gen Won Hnfsord, OF Rus
! sia, who commute suicide. was ths
| victim Of a nihiiist
X q coadict between Russian gen
durEes and omigrants thrse OF the lat
ter vers killed.
THE Spanish anarchists are appar
entiy Eos oversNyed by the quadruYI'
| execution E4svlsssness continue
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A CALL has been issued for a national
furniture dealers convention TO be held
in Grand Rapids, Mich. July Il, to cor
rect abuses in the business
E +. MURPHY, Of the International
Artificial Rain Co., of Kansas, and A
Borders, of the firm OF Linder & Bor-
ders, Of Tulara, Cal, have made a con-
tract with the farmers OF Huron, Cal,
and vicinity for rain for the seasons
crop.
A FIRE in Cincinnati caused loss to
two firms to the extent of $3.50, 900.
GEN. BARRIOs CARRILLo, command
ing the troops which were sent to fight
the Yaqui Indians, died the other day
in Sonora
Four aud a half million pounds of
-four have been shipped from Mime
aPOlis, MINI, TO relieve the distress in
Russia
The United States grand jury has in
dicted eleven Cinnamon at DeadwOod,
S. D., for using the mails for transmits
sion OF lottery tickets and literature.
The governor of North Dakota is try
ing to get Is, 600 men for spring work
in his state.
WHILE 100 SanduslSy, o., school chill
dren were having skate on the bay
the ice broke up, and they began to
drift toward the lake A steamer went
70 their rescue and overlook them
about two miles from shore. No lives
were lost.
GOV. MELLErTEE, of South Dakota,
has decided to appoint by proclamation
a state relief committee to receive and
forward contributions of wheat
clothes, etc, to Russia.
THE Marquette club of Chicago ceIe-
brated LincOln's birthday by a banquet
on the 18th. Senator Cullom was the
principal speaker. Regrets were nu-
merous.
/ FIVE thousand barrels of -four were
sent from Minneapolis the other day to
/ Philadelphia for shipment to Russia TO
relieve sufferers, Iowa is also doing
noble work.
TIE dead body of man supposed to
/ be J. II. Coulters found in IA briclzyard,
in Kansas City, with a bullet hole in
his head. Theories of murder and OF
suicide.
! ALoSzo WADDELL, the South Dakota
alliance leader, declares that the cord
/ age trusts connection with the national
union was one of business only.
THERE has beOn a great rush to take
up sapphire ground along the Missouri
river near Helena
THE democracy of Nebraska ceIe
brated the seating of the first demo
cratic governor of the state in grand
| style the other day.
THE democrats of Iowa have pre-
pared a stringent high license bill fol
! presentation in the legislature.
PRESIDENT HAAuLI4 of the Chicago
board of trade, appeared before tbs
house committee on agriculture recent
ly in opposition to the anti-option bill
THE corOner's jury in the case of the
Morton family poisoned recently a
Salem, Ill, rendered n verdict tina
death was caused by poison placed il
the flour by an unknown party.
ES- SENATOR JAMES C. FAIR, of Ne
vada, has made Will bequeathine
$780, 600 to charity, $500, 600 to the
Catholic orphan asylum in memory o.
his late wife, 500, 600 to the Protestan
orphan asylum Of San Francisco anS
S1OO, 900 to the Hebrew orphan asylum
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LIE 81. LOUIS cONEERENCE

Ita Platform should EunBody the CousoIi-
dated Demands aud lie Made the Test Of
FenIry-
Delegates from the various farmer
aud vorkingmen's societies of the
nation will meet in St Louis on the
22d of February. The primary task of
this body is to see If a ma iority of the
mem bers thereof can come TO q har-
monious underz landing as to essential
measures of relief that are demanded
for the general good OF the country as
well as for the special interest of the
working wea' tn creators OF the nation
AS Lhe demands, declaration Of priu-
cip' es and fundamental beliefs of these
different societies lie ia the same
politico-ecou 1mic domain, the confer
euCe viii dou ubtless arrive at a practical
unanimity of opinion as 60 the reform S
which it viii Officially champion
This viii probably be done on a
basis of mutual concession. Each
powerful society viii bring forward
the remedial measures Ia which it is
most deeply interested, and an the
others will agree TO their being em-
/ bodied in the demands and declaration
{ OF princi7I put forth by the confer
/ ence, because all of them alike Will
. wish the same consideration
It Is both important aud emluenty
I proper that this should be done and
i done fully aud with unstinted liberal
I ily, because it is highly fitting that the
I whole DO ly OF the American people
. should be informed as 90 the nature
] scope, quality aud full dimensions Of
I this mighty reform moVemeut OF the
I producers. h. hich IS certain 70 have a
] potent influence In determining the
/ future destiny of the republic
IL VIII be well for this greet confer
enca 20 place before the nliisus Of
VTeil-to-do and sadig uuinforued eitt-
Eena of the country an aut-ariSlFe pro
uEpriauelfo which shall c.eaFiF and