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ALABAMA WHITE GAPS.
Informcrs OH Moonshiners Get IS
Lashes Each.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. March S.-A hor-
rible story of white Gaping comes
from Cherokee county. Wylie and
Will Pruitt are two respectable farmers
who some time ago informed revenue
officers Of the whereabouts of an illicit
still. Saturday night 26 men went to
their house, dragged them ont of bed,
stripped them and gave them IS lashes
apiece. each of the White Caps giving
three strokes. The whipping was done
with hickory switches and was horribly
brutal. While it was progressing the
women and children of their families
were required to come out and view the
spectacle. The victims recognized the
whippers and have sworn out warrants
for them.
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Busincss Houses Rnrned

MEXICO. Mo-, March S.-The little
town of Clark. at the junction of the
Wabash and Chicago and Alton rail-
road, has been almost destroyed by fire.
The burned district was mainly occu-
pied by small stores and business houses
including several dwellings. Total loss
will reach $4,000; partially insured.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
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coMpAI,ArlvE STATEMENT
Condition eff the Treasury March I,
1903. and March 4. 1880.

WASHINGTON. March "A compar-
ison of the condition of the public debt
Of the national treasury on March /,
1880 at the close OF the Cleveland adj
ministration. and on March l. 1893, and
at the close of the Harrison administra-
tion. based upon the form OF the
monthly statement issued at present,
makes the following showing:
Interest hearing debt. March ], 1875, $685.
G4.GO; March |, 1888, $50, lu'@sa.
.Dcbt on which interest has ceased since :nne
turin. March i, l@ti, S.:,s u5.sd; March /, 1883
S2,O47, ,245.:!6. s
tional currency, etc.,) March !. lsG, s3'b.sl2.
1879: March /, 1889, S44ss, s4O,5 ,52l.l2
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Seized Arms.

New YORK, March s.-The Herald's
Valparaiso correspondent cables: The
government of Brazil has seized six cars
Of arms destined for the revolters who
are besieging Santa Anna. The cargo
of the schooner Carlnelita has also
fallen into the hands of government
troops. Defenders of the City of Santa
Anna still hold out. awaiting relief
from Porto Allegro, which reached there
from Rio Janeiro.
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House Side Deserted.

WASHINGTON. March S.-The house
side of the Capitol, usually the point of
interest was almost deserted Monday,
A quorum Of visitors was present but
members were few. The committee
rooms and clerks quarters were almost
deserted. The few members. and en-
ployes who made their appearance re-
mained only long enough to pack their
effects to send home.
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Total March !, 1893, s96s, ~ .7752. .6,.
Total March /. 1881 SlS89 81 3(e2. 593. .98B.;s8

Total March !, 1893, sts,s, ~ .77;52.65
Total March /, 1889. SlSs9, 81 ,30s, ,593, ,9s8.3s.
Certificates and treasury notes Offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury. March ],
1879, SG0l 82s 3}4s; March l, 1885, 1929, 56O,3sl,
Total March l, 1893, 81, ,565 llO,O9863.
Total March l, 1850, 81, ,726, l54367.3s.
Cash in the treasury March /. 1893, SIG, 32ss
2G6.7s; Merch ], 1889, S7s2a 66' ,:lj556.
Demand liabilities dncludng Sl00,O00GO
greenback gold reserve (Alarcl l. 1893, $740, 1874
1880; March /, 1889. $3.50 1853, ,l27.03.
Cash balance of surplus March l. 1888, 81,
l26, 80: March /, 1889, s72 2,9a7, ,42S.53.
The coin and bullion in the treasury at the
two dates. asilc from the minor coin, were as
follows: Gold, March l, 1893. S2l7,6 ,947. .95;
March /, 1869. S325456.6a7sl. Silver, March l.
1893 SAT-, 40 520 0S March |, 1885, sos 99 20
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Sale of the ,,repon Pacit,c

PORTLAND. Or, March s.-The sale of
the Oregon Pacific railway will take
place at Corvallis during the day in
accordance with an order issued by
Judge Fullerton, who on Saturday last
removed Edgarton Hogg as receiver
and appointed Z. w. Had,ey of Corval-
lis in his place.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1893-03-10
UPRISING OF PEASANTS.
servian <bandry Have a Brust
with Soldiers-Ten Killed.


with Soldiers-Ten Killed.
vienna, March S.-A serious conflict
has occurred between troops and peas
antry at Gonashitsea, Servia. The
peasants appear to have risen against
the authorities on account Of political
agitation, and troops were summoned
to suppress the disorder. The peasants
seized the principal building and offered
an obstinate resistance to the soldiers,
who only succeeded after desperate
struggle in driving the peasantry from
the building. Ten Of the peasants were
killed and seven wounded i'll the fight.
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New President of the Santa Fe.

BOSTON, March Sat meeting of
the stockholders of the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railroad First Vice
President Reinllart was elected to the
presidency in the place of Allen Marvel,
deceased.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1893-03-10

Mitchell offers an excellent opening
for the investment by some capitalist,
satisfied with sure and moderate re-
turns, in score or more of neat dwell
ing houses, to rent at from $40 to $40
Der month. We must have them right
away, too, or people desirous of locat-
ing here will be forced to go elsewhere.
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refused toJ1IarilnIilie.

LONDON, March S.-The legislative
assembly Of Jersey has declared by vote
that quarantine is not preventive of
cholera, and has therefore refused to
establish quarantine against vessels
from ports alleged to be cholera infected.
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Hon. John j. Cole of the Yanktop In
dian commission reports that the re-
quisite number of signatures has at last
been secured, and says further:
In regard to the treaty, | consider it
the best ever presented to congress.
1t provides literally for the Indians
and at the same time protects the
government. 1t gives the Indians $780,,
900 for surplus of about l6S, 900 acres
OF land, of which 800, 600 is to be paid
in cash and the other $500, 900 to be LETT in
The United States treasury to drew 8
per cent interest for twenty-five years;
this income of S25, 1000 to be disposed of
BY dividing each year among the
Indians the $19, 900 in cash and the re-
naming $4,000; with as much more to
be appropriated by congress if needed,
to be used for the care of the poor and
for educational purposes
Over 200, 900 acres of land have been
allotted to the Indians in severalty,
making !50 acres for every man, woman
and child. This land is to be held in
trust by the government for twenty-five
wears, during which period it is en-
tlrely free from taxes and cannot in any
way be disposed of by the owners.
The treaty must now be ratified by
congress, and there can be no certainty
OF the early opening of the reservation.
1t the history of the Sioux reservation
furnishes any Indication.
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4,4OO. ]. 9. Adams 1900, Andrew Jack
sons first AMI second each LOO, Van
Buren employed $500 words and Will
liam Henry Harrison. the most voluln-
inous of them all. 4.5OO. John Tyler, III
entering upon the duties of president,
after the death of Harrison, addressed
his inaugural of 500 words to the pul
lie and published it i'll the newspaper.
congress not being in session. Polk en-
ployel nearly 5000 words Taylor 1000.
Fillmore simply announced the deatho of
Taylor in a message of 1000 words
sent it to each house of congress, and
Delivered No inaugural.
Franklin Pierce's address was 3.O00
words; Lincoin's on his first election
$500. on his second only $50. johnson
took up the reins of government after
Lincoln's death in a brief message of
800 words Grants first inaugural was
l.l0O words long: his second 1,300.
Hayes employed 2.400 words; Garfield
$500: Arthur followed the custom of
ohte vicn-presidents i'll succeeding to
the presidency through death, by giving
only very short address of 400 words
Cleveland's first inaugural. which he
committed to memory, was 1 900 words.
Benjamin Harrison entered Office with
an inaugural OF 4.5O0:
All Made Some Display.
The installment OF every president,
elected as such by the people has been
attended by more or less of a civic
military parade. the firing OF cannon
and other manifestations of public re
ioicing. The story that Jefferson rode
unattended to the capitol and hitched
his horse to the fence, is simply one of
three contradictory accounts of the
event and the one bearing least evidence
of authenticity. Contemporary news
paper report represent him as being es-
corted from his lodgings to the capitol
by a body militia and procession OF
citizens.
Inauguration Weather.
In the matter OF weather the inaug-
urations of William Henry Harrison,
Polk. Lincoln. Grant. Hayes and Ben
iamin Harrison, alone were marred by
storms and rain. All the other presi-
dents were favored with sunshine;
some even with balmy warmth. Thus
the popular idea us to the prevailing
inclemency of March weather in Wash
ington does not seem to be borne out by
the facts. The exceptions. however,
have been of grea severity. AT Grants
second inauguration some of the troops
nearly froze at their posts, and many
death were directly Attributable to the
cold, drenching rain which accom-
panied the late presidents into office.
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Mrs. John H. Baldwin Killed.

HURON, S. D.. March MRS. John
Fl. Baldwin, wife of the state engineer
OF irrigation, while out driving with
her husband at st. Lawrence, was
thrown from the buggy and instantly
killed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1893-03-10

The ease with which this great
country has just passed over from one
administration to another indicates that
the wheels of the government are fitted
with either cushion or pneumatic tires.
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Other Inaugurals.

Previously the inaugural address had
been read in the senate chamber. JEFF
ferson was the first president to be in
augurated in Washington city. Wash
ington read his inaugural i'll New York.
Adams in Philadelphia. Washington's
first inaugural was 1900 words in
length, his second only 1874. John
Adams inaugural was s.30O words long,
Jefferson's 2,ll0, Madison's 1,1UO, on
both occasions. Monroe's $1,000 and
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THE rNAuGU.AL ADDRESS.
AS Many as t"nii Get Within Ear.
shot Heard Ii.
WASHINGTON March

Capitol Hill. as far as the eye could
reach. from the eastern front Of the
capitol was an undulating sea of hu-
manlty, assembled to witness the adj
mmlstering OF the oath of office to the
new president by the chief justice of
the United States, and to hear, as many
OF them as could get within earshot, the
inaugural address. The picturesque
and thoroughly Republican practice of
taking the oath of Office and delivering
the inaugural addresses in the open air
in the presence of the people was begun
by Zachary Taylor in 1S4y.
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PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Bell Telephone Patents Have Expired.
They Have Others.


WASHINGTON, March .S-The principal
patent of the Bell Telephone company
has just expired, and it is probable that
within the next few days host of COM
peting concerns will spring up in differ
ent parts of the country. The patent
which has expired is based upon the
Transmission Of sound by the undulat-
ing current, and is the famous fifth
claim of the Bell monopoly. which has
withstood scores of legal onslaughts
that have been made upon it during the
past decade.
Still Have Monopoly.
The opinion has gained considerable
currency that hereafter the Bell COM
pany would be on an equal footing with
any other concern that might choose to
go into the. telephone business, but this
is far from the case, and it is not at all
likely that the expiration of the patent
in question will tend to loosen the grip
OF the company upon the telephone
using public. For years the company
has had an agent in the patent Office at
Washington. and every valuable device
IN telephonlng has been purchased.
While the foundation patent has ex-
pired, there are a large number of
auxiliary devices. such as the carbon
transmitter. the automatic arrangement
for closing and opening the current
through the local tsansmitter, and the
universal switchboard. that are essen
tial to the operation of large exchanges
and are covered by the Bell patents.
The Independent companies will be able
to operate comparatively small ex-
changes without using the Bell patents
and paying the extortionateroyalty that
is charged for them.
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Kimball Graphic: Harper's Weekly
thinks the Harrison administration has
no business to meddle with so import
ant a matter as the annexation of
Hawaii in view of the slam the people
paye it in November,
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Under what theory OF government is
it taught that an administration should
cease its operations before the expira-
tion OF the term for which it was called
into action?
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New York Sun:-It seems as if. the
next division of political parties in this
country was almost sure to be on lines
like these: On the one side the party of
vigorous, aggressive, progressive
Americanism; on the other the party of
obstruction, of foreign sympathies and
alien ideas.
1t wont worry a Republican much to
ioin the first named party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-10

1t is a matter of great interest, DR.. Bill
lings suggests, to the residents in these
districts to the health authorities OF the
city to the owners Of real estate and to
the life insurance companies and business
men generally, that the causes Of these
great differences in death rates should be
determined as far as possible, in order that
wise action may be taken to reduce the
number of those deaths which are due to
preventable cause.
Causes OF Differences.
'To determine the causes Of differences
in the death rates of two cities, or Of diff
ferent parts of the same city," says the
report, "is a difficult matter. for these causes
may be many and various. The statistical
method of research for this purpose is an
imperfect one. partly because the data are
imperfect and more or less Inaccurate
partly because 1t cannot take into account
temporary and local conditions. 1t should
be clearly understood, therefore, that the
differences in death rates of different wards
and districts shown in this report do not
prove that those districts having the high
est death rates were necessarily the most
unhealthy nor do they furnish satisfactory
indications as to the causes Of the differ
ences; they merely indicate the localities
where 1t Is probable that special causes of
sickness and death existed, and may thus
furnish the foundation for a special inves-
tigation of such localities by persons IA
miliar with their topography and peculiari-
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MORTALITY ACCORDING TO DISTRICTS.

ties in short. they should be considered as
statements of problems rather than as
answers to them. Among the remote or
predisposing causes of sickness and death
which should be taken into account in at
tempting to ascertain whether a particular
locality Is healthy or unhealthy may be
named race, age, sex and occupation; and
the variations in death rates connected
with these circumstances may be to a con-
siderable extent ascertained by statistics
and serve as basis for special inquiries
into the more immediate causes. such as
the poverty and ignorance of the people,
the dampness or pollution of the soil. the
water supply, house drainage and sewage
disposal, and the presence OF collections Of
filth or other special dangers to health and
life, all Of which are matters to be ascer-
tanned by the local authorities.
Taking first the Influence OF race the
question arises, are the marked differences
in the mortality of the white and colored
indicated in the preceding table, due to
two races, giving rise to special liability to
or special mortality from certain forms OF
disease or are they due to differences in
the character and place of residence, the
food, occupations or habits and modes OF
life?
LAS the death rates Of infants and young
children and of old people are much higher
than those of persons between fifteen and
forty-fve years Of age, a comparatively
high death rate in a city or any particular
district may be due mainly or entirely to
the fact that that city or district contains
a relatively large proportion OF children or
Of old persons: hence II Is important to
study the death rates by groups of ages.
The following table is given as affording
certain data for comparison between the
cities. The figures relate to June /. 1890:
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Columbia occurred entirely among the
colored population, and the mortality of the
whites was greater in Baltimore city than
1t was in the District of Columbia, the
figures being for the District of Columbia:
whites. 1885; colored. 1926 and for Balti-
more city: whites, 2o.A; colored. eco. lot
including stillbirths.
The COlOred Death Rate.
A comparison of these death rates with
those of some other southern cities having a
considerable proportion of colored popula-
ton is shown in the following table. which.
however, gives the figures for the census
year only and not for a period of six years,
and includes stillbirths among the deaths.
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Gties.
Average see.

This table shows that the death rate of
the colored population is greater than that
of the whites in the southern cities, and
that, therefore in comparing the death
rates of such cities with each other or with
those of cities having a small colored popu-
laton, 1t is desirable to state the mortality
of the white and of the colored separately.
The aggregate death rate has, upon the
whole, been diminishing in both Baltimore
and the District of Columbia during recent
years. In Baltimore during the ten years
from 1850 to 1859 the average annual death
rate was 26.0S per thousand of population.
For the next ten years. 1850 to 1853, IT was
22.79; from 1870 to 1879 1t was $50. and for
the period Of 1880 to 1889 it was 22S6.
We have no trustworthy data as to death
rates in the District Of Columbia prior to
1875. The following table shows the varia-
tons in the death rates of the two places
for the fifteen years ending with 1880. 1t
will be seen that the lowering of the death
rate was more uniform and progressive in
the District of Columbia than in Baltimore
from 1875 to 1883. and this may be connected
with the fact that there were during this
period more improvements in drainage
sewerage. paving, &C, going on in the form
er than in the latter place Since 1888 the
death rate of the District OF Columbia has
been above that of Baltimore.
The table shows for Baltimore and the
District of Columbia the death rates per
1000 of population for each year from 1875
to 1890 stillbirths being excluded.
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THE DEATH LEDGER.
What Figures Show Concerning
Mortality in Washington.
DR.. BILLINGS SPECIAL REPORT.
An Instructive and interesting
Array Of Statistics.
COMPARED WITH BALTIMORE.

The census bureau has published a special
report made by Dr. John s. Billings. expert
special agent, giving vital statistics Of the
District Of Columbia and Baltimore. cover
ing a period Of six years ending May 81,
1890. The report. which is accompanied by
series Of tables and Illustrations. con-
stitutes a volume of over 240 quarto pages.
The tables were prepared under the direc-
ton Of Mr.. William A. King chief of the
division Of vital statistics of the eleventh
census. The grouping of figures makes
especially apparent the great mortality
among the colored population and among
coiored children under five years of age.
1t shows. too, the preventable diseases most
destructive OF life in the District and in
that way points out lines of work to be
followed by sanitarians and others actively
interested in the work of life saving. The
many tables printed group the figures OBJ
tanned by DR.. Billings researches In a most
instructive way. Some Of the most sig
nificant of these tables relating to WASH
ington are given in the extracts from the
report that follow
The cities OF Washington and Baltimore
are reported together, because the results
of the comparison of their vital statistics
are interesting, owing, as DR.. Billings says
both to certain similarities and to certain
differences in the circumstances which are
likely to affect the health Of their respect
i've populations. Each is subject to nearly
the same general climatic conditions. has
comparatively large colored population,
presents considerable differences in sur
face levels in different districts and has an
abundant and good general water supply
On the other hand, Washington is a sew
cred city and Baltimore is not and there
are considerable differences in the occupa-
tons of the majority Of the Inhabitants for
the two places.
Mortality in Different Localities.
The figures relating to Washington are as
follows, the boundaries Of the districts re-
ferred to being shown on the accompanying
map:
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Operation on Ex-Secretary Rusk.

Dr.J. 3. Hamilton returned to Chicago yes-
terday from Viroqua, where he assisted in
performing surgical operation upon ex-
Secretary of Agriculture jeremiah Rusk.
THE ordeal was a painful one and danger
Gus one for Mr.. Rusk," said DR.. Hamilton
but the ex-Secretary passed through it sue
cessfully, and when left last night he was
resting quietly.
1t was learned that the veteran politician
was troubled with growth in the bladder
and the necessity of an operation induced
the family and friends Of Mr.. Rusk to send
for DIR. Hamilton, the ex-Secretary's close
friend.
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To ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are urgently re-
Quested to hand In advertisements
the day prior to publication. IN
order that insertion may be as
sured. Want advertisements win
be received up to noon OF the day
OF publication, precedence being
given to those first received.
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OUT OF WASHINGTON.

ST. GEORGES HALL FOR BOYS, ST. GEORGES
Nd. Prof ]. c. KINEAR. AN, Prin: 18th
year; college or business life: unexcelled advap-
tages; home comforts; reasonable terms. oc11 -2m'
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In tse whole Of the District Of Columbia.
Differences Noted.

1t will be seen from this table, the renort
goes on, that Washington is the more
densely populated Of the two cities, but that
Baltimore has the greater average number
Of persons to a dwelling; that the amount
Of open space in the shape Of streets and
parks is proportionateiy greater in Wash
ington, which has also greater capacity
Of water supply, while Baltimore has rela-
lively the greater proportion of saloons. A
greater proportion Of the business popula-
ton of Baltimore lives outside the city
limits than is the case for Washington
The mean population Of the District of
Columbia for the six-year period was PIP, 500
and that of Baltimore city was 80, 034, both
being computed by the usual geomerrical
progression formula from the population
returns Of the censuses of 1880 and 1890
During the period Of six years in question
the average annual death rate in the Dis
trict of Columbia was 23.4 and in Baltimore
city 2239 per 1000 of mean population, hut
the excess of mortality in the District Of