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No More Passes.

WASHINGTON, d. c., January 4.-The inter-
state commerce commission has announced
it's decision in the railway pass case. The
Boston & Maine in its answer stated it was
IN the habit of giving passes as business
feature of its administration to numerous
classes or persons, as follows: All cases of
charity; to gentlemen long eminent IN the
puske service; proprietors of sutnner hotels;
employees families; agents of ice companies
andsmik contractors doing business on the
railway: higher officers of states and certain
prominent officers of the United States: rail-
road commissioners of states; mepbers of
railroad committees of the Legislatures of
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Ver-
mont; trustees under mortgages on the prop
erty of the road; persons whose good will is
important to the road who might Justly take
,pffepse if they received different treatment
from that received from other railroad Cor
,porations.
This answer imposed upon the commission
1.-THE duty of giving construction to the act to
regulate commerce in respect to the right of
a railroad company to give intefstate passes
to such classes of persons. The commission
says their construction of the law excludes
the right of railroad companies to 0ive-inte
answer, which included "gentlemen eminent
in public SERVICE" ''higher officers of state"
'prominent officers of the United States"
members of railroad legislative committees
and persons whose good will Is important to
the corporation" The commission post
pones its decision as to the other classes in
order to more fully investigate their claims
which. it is argued by the company, stands
on special grounds of right.
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A General Storm.

CHICAGO, IEL.-Plate glass windows were
smashed, awnings wrecked, signs broken,
structural work on new buildings levelled and
car-starter boxes upset in the gale that swept
over Chicago from II to o'clock this morn
ing. The lake was wild, the waves beating
the breakwater in a mighty roar and the
spray shooting up fifty feet into the air, then
to be frozen and carried far out on land.
There were no vessels out, as visit to the
barge Office showed, and little would have
been left of any lake craft caught outside of
the harbors in last nights gale.
Among the seamen the wind was said 70 be
the worst experienced since the wrecking of
the new lake tunnel crib three years ago.
Dispatches from Milwaukee, Wis. Little
Rock, Ark, and various points in Iowa and
Illinois report that the rain and fog of New
Years day was succeeded last night by severe
blizzard. At Arkansas City, Ark, eleven
buildings were blown down and several per-
sons injured. No deaths have been chron-
icled, but the damage to stockmen, small
buildings and shrubbery will be very great.
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For the Ladies',

WASHINGTON, D. c., January Mrs. Har-
rison is giving a series of state luncheons.
Thirty five ladies are invited to each.
At the last one the floral decorations were
all in white and green. There were palms
and tall rubber plants standing like sentinels
in the corners of the room and at either side
Of the Bullets.
The mantels had banking of low pots of
white primroses mingled with malden-hair
fern. The table decorations were in white
and green. Along the mirrored surface of
the old-fashioned plateau down the center
was an oval cushion of maiden-hair fern
studded with white camelias. At the four
corners of the cloth there were rings of white
hyacinthe blooms and roses.
The tall silver candlesticks had their tapers
capped with hutted white shades The new
small silver pieces and the new glass were
conspicuous adornements of useful sort.
There was no wine served. for at each place
only water goblet and an Apollinaris tum-
bier were placed.
The ladies found loose clusters of white
pin to adjust them to their corsage at their
places. The name cards were decidedly
unique.
Each had water colored portrait of lady
in the fashionable dress of all the decades in
the century. These cards were imported,
and we're etched by a French artist. As
models of old time fashions, now grotesque
In the extreme, they afforded much amuse-
ment to the ladies. The name of the guest
was painted in gilt across each card.
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Burned Barrels.

BAYoNsE, N. j., January 2.-The great
barrel works of the Standard Oil company at
Constable Hook are burned down.. -
The loss is estimated at from 81 ,OoO, 900 up
ward. The fire started at 800 at night in the
heading room of the barrel works.
1t was discovered by the night Waterman,
who SAID it seemed to spring up in all direc-
tions., The entire Bayonne fire department
worked at the fire. but the barrel factory WAS
entirely destroyed. The building was filed
with. hundreds of thousands of barrels and
cut lumber, ready to be converted into bar
yels. between ,OOO, eco and ZOO. 900 barrel
heads and from 10.OOO, 900 to 1900, 900 bar
rel slaves.
The structure was about $50 feet long, zoo
feet wide and three stories high. It stood in
an enclosure of about six acres. Great stacks
of lumber were piled all about.
These caught fire and burned fercely. Soon
there were five acres of flames lighting up
the surrounding country. Next to the barrel
factory were the chemical works. and all
efforts were directed toward saving them.
After a long and hard fight, during which
the firemen worked in constant peril of their
lives, as a single spark falling among the
chemicals would have been enough to have
caused an explosion which would have blown
them all into eternity, their efforts were sue
cessful and the chemical works were saved.
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At $40 p. M. of January l. 1882, Go-ernss
Lyman U. Humphrey delivered to Bishop w.
Perkins his commission as senator of the
United States from Kansas, to succeed Pres
ton B. Plumb, deceased.
Senator Perkins has been citizen of o.
wego, Labette county. since May, 1869, and
then, although having had much OF the expo
rience of full manhood in the army and in
the scrambles of civil life, his appearance
was boyish and verdant.
He was first elected to congress from tho
state at large an6 served in the Forty eighth,
Forty ninth, Fiftieih and Fifty-first con-
crosses; was a candidate for another term,
but was defeated by B. H. Clover.
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Reciprocity with France.

PARIS January 6.-The Temps says the
government is on the eve of concluding q
convention with tie United States for the
partial application q the minimum tariff.
This agreement, the Temps says, differs from
those pending between france and some of
the other European powers. in reuuirino that
it be submitted to parliament for Ratification.
The government has authority To Grant to
countries already holding co-syention tariffs
the advantage of the new FreLch minimum
tariff. Having no such treaty With the limited
States, the convention must have the sanction
of the chamber of deputies. The new con-
vention, the Temps adds, secures the contin.
uance on the American free list OF = number
of French products, including skins a,cars
and molasses.
The paper further says that President Han,
rison intended on January to enforce against
these products duties applicable to impcsts
from countries that refused the eoncede 10 the
United States reciprocal advantages. To se-
cure the unbrOken enjoyment of exemptions
from the payment of those duties. the minis
ter of foreign affairs negotiated the conven-
ton referred to, by the terms of which the
United States get minimum tariff or. pre-
ducts entering France, the export value Of
which amounts to 1900, 900 francs annually,
and which equal in value French products ex-
empted from duty by the United States.
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enW4 of the American Irish in behalf II the
ceAse. There are men in the United States,
tne Globe declares, who would not think
swite of blowing up Dublin castle if that ap-
peered to be the most likely means of filing
sneir pockets with dollars. The Globe adds
That the authorities should take all these facts
INTO consideration and should not be in q
M 49fiy to attribute this outrage to a lunatic.
~ nnere. are many professional dynamiters in
me me United States, it says, who would jump at
'n 9 cnaAce of lucrative job.
Inc .. James Gazette, which is an indie
Pendent Exporter Of the conservative party,
a =. mas an article on the Dublin explosion.
n ~ says tina, although there is no doubt that
Uonosan Rosa will assume the cr1dit of
that the affair was the result of political
plot.
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GRAVES CRIME.
The Love of Money is the Root
of All Evil.
A Financial Agent Of Wealthy. In
valid Woman Poisons Her to Pre-
vent Her Changing a Request to
Him Of $4,000.

DENVER, January 6.-The CRIME for which
DR.. Graves stands convicted was q remarkable
one. The poisonous agent used was arsenic,
sent through the mails nearly across the con-
tinent. On April 8 last Mrs. ]. B. Barnaby,
who had been in San Francisco for her health,
arrived in Denver, accompanied by Mrs. c.
S. WOrrell. Among the numerous letters
awaiting Mrs. Barnaby was package wrapped
IN brown MANILA paper. 1t was postmarked
Boston. Written in ink on the wrapper was
the message: wish you happy New Year.
Please accept this fine old whisky from your
friends in the woods The liquor was laid
away.
On April ID Mrs. Barnaby and Mrs. Worrell
took q long ride and returned much fatigued.
The bottle of whisky was brought out and,
not doubling its contents, Mrs. Barnahy made
toddy for herself and Mrs. Worrell. Both
we're suddenly seized with commissions. Mrs.
WOrrell rallied, but Mrs. Barnaby, whose
health was delicate, died on April IL, after
nVe days of agony. The whisky was analysed
ana .he nature of its deadly contents revealed.
suspicion pointed to DR.. Graves, of Provi-
uence' 2. l., and his arrest soon followed.
MIS-. harnaby was IS years old and afflicted
Win partial paralysis of her right side. She
s~-~ .WlOOW Oh y. d. b0r0ADy, the we'll
1nown clothier, and her home was at Provi-
oe.lce, n I. Her married life had been un-
nappy and by the will of her husband she was
.. 20 n - for divers reasons an annuity of
sz,oU tn,m his immense estate. She con-
testeu tnf will, but the case was compromised
OUT Oh cd urt she receiving nearly e-quarter
OF mEllion of dollars from the legatees in
aaoltlon to the annuity. Her medical ad-
VISOR wa;SDr. L. Thatcher Graves. a specialist,
whose ~ -mer home had been Danielsville,
Conn, Which place he is said to have left in
haSte. lHe gained an ascendency over the
WIDOW afd later assumed entire charge of
ner estate. Hrs. Barnaby travelled much and
Europe knew her presence. But favorite
retreat was he home of Edward Bennett, a
guide, WHO lived in pretty cottage ON Blue
Mountain lake, in the Adirondacks. She
thought m UGH of the BENEFITS and promised
them a legacy of $4,000. This did not meet
the approvA of the domineering doctor, who
by Mrs. Bafnaby's will was to receive $50, 1000.
he threatened to resign as her business agent
and have a guardian appointed. Mrs. Bar
naby travelled all winter and went to Califor-
MIA IN the sprihg, where she remained until
she went to Denver
DR.. Graves, it is claimed, poisoned Mrs.
Barnaby in the expectation of receiving the
legacy OF $4,000, as he feared she meditated
a new will.
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An American Linen Factory.

CHICAGO. January Am extensive COM
pany. backed by eastern capital, has been
organized here for the manufacture of Amer
lean flax. A license of incorporation has
been issued under the name of the United
States Manufacturing company, by the sec
rotary of state ut Springfield. The capital
stock is placed at S3.00O.0OO. The attorney
for the new company said: ''At present
nearly all the fax used in this country is i'm
ported. This company experimental to its
own satisfaction that it can manufacture the
American article much cheaper than it can
be imported, ana at the same time furnish
as good an article as that made in foreign
countries"
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FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS.

The senate received the following appoint
ments from the president:
Interstate commissioners
James W. McDill, of Iowa. vice Thos. H.
Cooley. resigned.
William NJ. Lindsey, of Kentucky, vice W. l..
Bragg. deceased.
William X. Morrison, of Illinois, Ia re-ar point
ment.)
For governor Of Oklahoma: Abram j. Seay, OF
Oklahoma
The house re-assembled and as Speaker Crisp
was unable TO be present, Clerk Kerr called to
order and announced that the election of speak
er pro ten was the only thing in order
On motion of Mr.. Springer. of Illinois. Mr.. Nc
Milan of tennessee, was elected speaker pro
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WAsH1xeToN D. c.. January 1.-The COM
missioner of internal revenue has issued q
special report on the sugar industry. It in
cludes some interesting information about
the sorghum sugar production of Kansas. In
March Last congress passed law providing
for the payment of a bounty of 2 cents per
pound on all sugar produced in the United
States from beets. sorghum, sugar cane or
maple sap, the sugar to test 80 degrees.
The commissioner says that Kansas 10 tho
only state which is producing sorghum sugar.
Last year the production of the state was
1922 pounds. Only three factories in
Kansas have applied to him this year for the
bounty. They are the Parkinson Sugar
company of Fort Scott, the Medicine Lodge
Sugar Works and Refining company, and
Pape d Hansford of Topeka. The Parkinson
company planted 200 acres of cane and es-
tiinated their production at loo, 600
du&tion is only 10000 pounds. Pape d
Hapsford report to the commissioner that
they planted !, 800 acres and say they will
fap4ly tor bounty on about ], 0OO,U pounds.
:.he commissioner says in bis report: Reg
Ations has been issued by this Office govern
TX VIC WituuEAWoi lEOm OlStIucry WHO
houses, free of tax, Of distilled spirits to be
used in the manufacture of sugar from sor-
ghum. pursuant TO this provision. The sor-
Rhum manufacturers have not taken advan-
tage OF this provision the present season.
The use of alcohol, free of tax. by manufac-
turers of sugar from sorghum for the pur-
pose OF separating the gummy matter from
the sorghum juice promises to be of great
advantage to the industry In Kansas. Re-
cent experiments made in this direction by
the department of agriculture show that the
yield of sugar from sorghum cane will be
about doubled by the new process"
The report says regarding the beet sugar
industry: "In the continental countries of
Europe this industry has grown within re-
cent years to great dimensions, so that now
the production of beet sugar in the world eX-
cesds that of the cane. The improved meth
DDS of manufacture and the protective sys-
tenn established in those countries, and the
payment of bounties to beet sugar manufac-
turers on exporting their product have pro-
duced this result. The bounty granted to
manufacturers of sugar, tine admission free
of duty of beet sugar machinery until July l,
1892, and the encouragement given by the
departm ent of agriculture in the experiments
for the benefit of the farmers, and the aid
given BY the different states will doubtless
have the effect of stimulating the industry in
this country. In 1880 thIee factories in this
country 1.-TWO in California and one in Ne
braska) produced about 100000 pounds.
Three additional factories have been estab-
lished during the past year, and it is esti-
mated that their production this year will be
e, 600 pounds"
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Trade Review.

NEW YoaK. January 2.-R. 6. Dun 4 Co. .
weekly review of trade says:
The old year closed with a little more than
Sheusual holiday 0ulluess in general trade. but
Sopoets a. to the volume of the holiday trade
ere mainly satisfactory. At Chicago it was
- heaviest ever known, at st. Louis unusu-
aaly large and in the jewelry business the
haGross evsr known. but az Philadelphia and
1f0W Orleans not quite up to expectations,
8n6 6 Little Rock unsatisfactory.
! n quiet in other trades at this season of
ih0lvoar Is not bad sign. and IN nearly all
1nDugts it is added that the prospects for
ing year are considered unusually
= Exceptions are to be found in the
u1ore unusually low price cotton and
mulatiou of extraordinary stocks
J 3 Expression in trade and strin9sncy
un0D6y maTketa bus at New Orleans
4 tDey mazketis eaEses, thoaGh sill thsee
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PETER on Perkins.

WASHINGTON, D. c., January 5.--Senator
PETER is pleased With the appointment of
Perkins. He said toa reporter:
~ served in the. same regiment from Hi
nois with Mr.. Perkins. we came TO Kapsas
in the same year and our relations have been
most pleasing. Mr.. Perkins views on many
leading questions of the day, including trans
portation and silver coinage, have been more
in line with mine.thar the views of any other
republican, leader in Kansas whom can now
call, to mind. His appointment is; therefore;
very agreeable to me, and have no doubt
wewih get along all right together In the
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Miners Lost in the snow.

S1IvERToN, COL, January 5.-Mike Perrino
and two other Italians have been mining near
here. Perrino started down the mountain to
stream for supply of water. When near
the stream he was overtaken by snow slide
and buried out of sight. His two compan-
ions, booming alarmed at his absence, started
in search of him. They had not gone far be-
fore they. too, were overtaken by slide
which carried them 200 feet down the noun
tain, but by hard work they extricated them
selves. They did not push their search for
Perrino any further, thinking it best to come
to town and obtain assistance. PerrinO's
body has not yet been found. No trains have
arrived here for the past three days. the road
being showed in between here and Durango.
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On the Ragged Edge.

ALBANY, N. Y.-The senate of the state OF
New York, as composed by those holding tho
necessary certificates to participate in its or
ganization, comprmess sixteen democrats, if
teen republicans. and Rev. politician, too
good to belong to either patty.
1t required seventeen to make q quorum
and all eyes were watching and waiting for
the democrats. If he goes in to make quo
rum republican senators will take their seats !;
if he stays out they will stay out, and q dead
lock follows.
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Dr.. Graves Found Guilty

DENVER, COL, January 5.-Dr. Graves, Of
Massachusetts, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree by the jury. He was the
financial agent and advisor of a wealthy
woman of the same state, who was touring
through the west. While at Denver she re-
ceived package containing bottle of whisky
with arsenic in it.
The jury believed that DR.. Graves sent this
bottle to her because of fear that she would
change her will, in which he was named for q
large sum. She died here and he was brought
here for trial
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NaShVllle'S Loss

NASHVILLE, Tenn, January "a most de-
struetive fire destroyed several business
houses, one of them seven.stories high.
The members of the colored fire company
were standing across an alley on three story
building when.th tall building suddenly
bulged out in the center and fell across the
alley.
Four of the firemen were crushed to death.
One of them was leading citizen and had
been member of the legislature.
There were a number of men injured at
various times by falling walls and explosions
that blew out the fronts of two or three stores.
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Grain Moving,

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, January 5.-The grain
blockade Is being broken.
A circular was received at the Office of the
Rock Island from the general traffic manager
of that road, giving orders to resume the
loading of grain and fax seed consigned to
Chicago, subject to Chicago weight and in
spection. It also ordered the receiving of
grain from other roads, to be forwarded with
out charge. The Rock Island has now plenty
of cars here, as have the Santa Fe and some
other roads, and the cause of the blockade
here has not been on account of q car famine,
but because of the blockade at Chicago. This
order will afford immediate relief
General Agent Courtwright, of the Alton,
predicts an early breaking up of the blockade.
The Burlington's order forbiding the load
ing of cars for Kansas City will doubtless lie
rescinded now or in few days at the most.
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strong demand there and a. Richmond and

is strong demand there and at Richmond and
Savannah.
At Chicago the receipts of wheat doubled
in comparison with the same week last year,
increase u third, with some increase in
cattle and -four, but decrease of third in
hides and quarter in oats.
The sales Of general merchandise much e1-
ceeds last years.
At Omaha and Kansas City the car famine
restricts the movement of products.
At 1T. Louis the mild weather has q bad
| effect on the trade in woolens, heavy clothing
| and rubhers.
The week has been peculiarly favored by
| an enormous foreign demand for crops,
which would otherwise be depressed, because
| they are the largest ever known.
Wheat comes forward as rapidly as the
crowded condition of the railroads will per-
NIT, and exports, though reduced last year,
are very large again this week, and for six
months exceeded 100000, 900 bushels, flour
included, whereas the greatest movement
ever known in the last half of any previous
year was lis, O0O. 600 bushels in 1879.
The price of wheat declined nearly 1
cent during the last week, corn ~ and oats
Il, but the prices are highly satisfactory to
western farmers. Pork products a shade
lower, coffee nearly cent lower, oil e lower
and the prices of all commodities average
more than q hal f of l cent lower for the
week.
The money markets continue well supplied
aud undisturbed.
Foreign trade continued exceedingly favor
able, for while the increase of imports az
New York during the past month has been
a per cent, the Increase in exports here
has been over SIC, l78, 600, or about 81 per
cent, which would indicate an excess of ex-
ports over imports exceeding -, 000, 600 for
the month. The record on receiverships dur
ing the year includes twenty-six railroads.
with 2, 159 miles in operation and So, AS, 900
in stocks and BONDS.
The annual statement of failures in 1891,
just completed, shows an increase over last
year of 1855 in number; the total in the
United States Il, 175, against 1O, 907 in 1890,
but substantially NO increase appears in the
amount of lIabilities-S189 ,83S, 638 agains:
$189. $50, 1854 last year-so that the average
liabilities for each failure is reduced from
S17, 406 to SIS, AL for the past year.
In the middle and eastern states the labll-
tiles decreased largely, nut at the south they
have increased from $27 COG, 600 to 81, OOOy-
coo in amount, and the proportion to the
number of firms in business is one to fifty
nine in the south, against 100 in the middle
states and 129 at the west.
The business failures occurring the past
week number 329, compared with 292 the
previous week. For the corresponding week
last year the figures were 348.
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Five Tramps Killes

COLUMBUS, O., January 5.-Freight train
No. 4. east bound, on the Baltimore & Ohio,
broke in two on steep grade near Franklin,
nine miles west of Bellaire, o. One section
of the train dashed down the grade with light
ming rapidity for distance of six miles and
finally crashed into another train ON bridge.
Five tramps were ON the broken section and
were fatally injured.
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Making Flour by Lightning.

ST. Paul, January Ga great -four mill te
be operated entirely by electricity is to b<
built here.
The structure is to be on the site of the St
Paul roller mill, burned two years ago, anG
is to be under the direction of Kingsland &
Smith, of ST. Paul.
If the experiment proves success all of the
great mills of st. Paul and Minneapolis viii
use electricity as motive power. Smith says
that he has solved the problem of manufac-
turing -four with ''harnessed lightning"