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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
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SHANGHAI. April "A great confag-
ration ID raging here. Already a thou
sand buildings, large and small, are
destroyed. The fire is still raging.
LONDON, April 3.-The Pail Nall
Gazette says that a complete pro-
gramme of the government in the ex
pendlture for the ensuing financial
year of 917, $3.50, 100 in the Naval Estab
llshment, a. announced in the naval
estimates, involves the construction of
thirteen ironclad war ships, thiTty
seven cruisers, sixty four torpedo de-
stroyers and six sloops. The estimates
Tor 1894 exceed those of 1893 by e3,-
126. 600.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
SENATE PASSES THE SEAL BILL
No Opposition on Either Side--Summary
of the Provisions.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The bill to
carry out the award of the Paris Tri-
bunal Of Arbitration on the seal fish
cries question was passed by the Senate
to day without division.
After reciting nine articles OF the
award of the tribunal of arbitration at
Paris, 1t provides that no citizen of the
United States OF person owing the duty
of obedience to the laws or treaties of
the United States, and no person be
longing to, or on board of, a vessel OF
the United States, shall kill, capture, or
pursue, at any time or in any manner
whatever, outside of territorial waters,
any fur seal in the waters surrounding
the Pribilof Islands, within a zone of
sixty miles around those islands, ex
elusive of the territorial waters.
No citizen of the United States and
no person belonging to a United States
vessel is to kill, capture, Oh pursue 1
any manner whatever, from the 1st of
May-to the 31st of July in each year,
any fur seal on the high g outside
of the sixty mile one The President
is to have power to make regulations
respecting special licenses and other
matter. Violations of the act are 20 be
punished by fines of not less than 5000,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

or by imprisonment for not more than
six months, or both.
1t is to be the duty of the President
to cause a sufficient naval force to
cruise IN the waters indicated. and to
seize and arrestan vessels of the United
States found there in violation of the
act. Any United States vessel or citi
zen offending against the act may also
be seized and detained by the naval
officers of Great Britain, and are to be
delivered up to naval or revenue Off
cer of the United States.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
PARDoNED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Clemency Shown in a Number Of Inter
esting Cases.

WASHINGTON, April 3-The Presi-
dent to-day granted a pardon toa man
who was serving the extraordinary
sentence of imprisonment for life ''snd
five years." Henry Williams was one
of a gang that robbed the United States
mails in Northern Texas in 1879. The
leader of the gang was the notorious
Contrell, who was under q similar SEN
tence until 1892. President Harrison
committed the term of imprisonment
to fourteen years. The sentence eX-
pired last January, and Contrell was
set free. AS Williams had been pun
ished as much as his leader, and had
given every evidence Of a repentant
disposition, the Presidnt pardoned him.
Another peculiar Texas sentence was
put aside by the President to day In
the case of Henry d. Kone. a bank
cashier who embeZZled bank fundsan
made false entry in his report to the
Comptroller of the Currency. for which
was found guilty in three out of five
counts of the indictment, andsentenced
tofiVe years imprisonment under each,
the terms to run ''concurrentIy."
Another odd case was that Of Henry
W. Hord, of Kentucky, who pleaded
guilty to passing a n hundred dollar
counterfeit bill in a barFoom while he
was under the influence of liquor. He
had not yet been sentenced. The Presi-
dent found a reasonable doubt that
criminali intent was shown, and prompt
ly wrote on the back of the application:
''Inasmuch as it is conceded that in-
diligence In drink was the cause of the
prisoners fall, the pardon is granted
on condition that he entirely abstain
from indulgence in intoxicating bever-
ages for the term of five years from
the date of this pardon"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
FOUR E KILLED.

PrTTsBURG. Pa, April -Four men
have been killed in the coke regions
this afternoon during the riots between
the strikers and workmen. One of the
killed is Fl. @. Paddock, one of Tricks
managers at Scottsdale. More facilities
will be likely to occur before order is
restored.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

but there were times when it was neces.
sary to resor to the courts for protec-
ton. Trusts and combinations should
not exist contrary to the spirit of the
Republic. They were dangerous cor
poratiOns, and should fall under the
ban of outlawry.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10
INDIAN OUTBREAK
Fight Between Indians and White Men
Twelve Men Killed.

ELRENo, Oklahoma, April "A bat
tie with Winchesters occurred Sunday
between the Indians and the white
men who went on the open reservation.
At last advices ten or twelve men
were killed. Five companies of troops
from Fort Reno and troops from Fort
Sill and Fort Supply have started for
the scene of the fight.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
TOO THIN TO DECEIVE.

The charges that attempts have
been made to bribe certain Democratic
Senators to vote against the tariff bill
are too transparent to becloud their OBJ
ject. If such attempts were made they
were unquestionably made for a purpose
and that purpose was not to purchase
the votes in question, but to create the
impression that such attempts had been
made to discredit the opposition to the
bill. whether proceeding from the manu-
facturers most injured or from
those Democrats with Americanism
enough in them to stand
up in favor of American and
not foreign industries. The trouble
with the story is that the wrong Sena-
tors were approached according to the
rumors from Washington. That Sena.
tor Eppa Hunton of Virginia should be
approached by such clumsy measures by
any sane lobbyist is too ridiculous to be
entertained for moment.
His continuous service in the House
and Senate for 22 years is "agin" any
such supposition. His long and honor
able record would preclude the possi-
bility of his even being dreamed of as a
man whom bribe could tempt.
1t is the last despairing attempt of the
cuckoos to whip their recalcitrant men,
bers into line by threatening to expose
them to the suspicion that their opposi-
tion to the bill is the result of venality
on their part.
But il will not work.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
FLOODS IN THE WEST.

While the East was suffering from fire
the Northwest was undergoing disaster
from water. aud never before in its his
tory has the Northwest suffered from
such a flood as swept over the Dakotas.
Minnesota aud Wisconsin last Tuesday
night. Creeks became rivers, rivers
ovefflowed their banks and swelled
to lakes and thousands Of acres
of lowlands became flooded. Crops were
ruined, houses swept away by the hun
dreds and other hundreds were sub.
merged. railroad tracks were washed
away aud to add to the horrors Of the
disturbance lightning accompanied the
storm, Aashiug necessarily aud setting
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

over score of fires, while several people
were stricken dead. Trains stand on
bits of track, traffic is S uspended and on
every hand the ruin and devastation is
complete. People were driven from
their houses and stood exposed to the
fnrious storm, wondering il for second
time food was to destroy the earth.
The loss in the Chippewa valley alone
is estimated at 81, 600, 900, and the total
loss will probably exceed score Of mil
lions.
The sufferings of the people do not
abate as did the storm, and they will be
practically dependent upon charity for
months to come, while in many cases
men of wealth are reduced to beggary.
Thus the elements have worked their
will upon the people of this country
during the past week, and the East ex-
changes condolences with the West.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
Condemned In the House Of Its Friends
Boston Journal.

Boston Journal
There were other incidents besides the
secretary's report Of large loss In member
ship which were calculated to cast pro-
found gloom over the banquet Of the New
England Tariff Reform League last evening.
One of these was the vigorous denunciation
of the new Democratic tariff scheme BY Mr..
William Lloyd Garrison, who possesses In q
conspicuous degree the ancestral trait OF out
spoken sincerity. There is nothing timorous
or time serving about Mr.. Garrison. To the
dismay and probably TO the secret
wrath Of some Of the assembled ''re-
formers" he gave "the German Brice
corruption bill" one Of the severest excoria-
tions which that mongrel measure has re-
ceived in It's brief but tumufruous existence.
He did not hesitate to declare his conviction
that the bill was so bad that Its defeat would
far better serve our cause than its success"
and he vehemently DECLARED that
Its betrayal Of principles by professed
friends" "its shameless surrender to robber
trusts" and "its personal and sectional pref
erences," made it "a satire upon reform and
treason to the people" Mr.. Garrison ar
raigned the Democratic majority In Congress
for ''abJect surrender TO the base and un-
scrupulous Democratic minority" an l he did
not spare the President himself. accusing him
of exchanging principle for expediency, and
attributing to his sacrifice of civil service
reform" a large share Of the disgrace which
has come upon this Administration. $50
marked is the change" exclaimed the in
dignant orator, vividly illustrating his point,
that low comedians upon the stage who wish
10 raise n ribald laugh have but to mention
Mr.. Cleveland with disparagemcnt How
short a time ago his name was greeted with
irrepressible applause
Mr.. Garrison's spirited repudiation of the
German Sugar Trust monstrosity is precisely
in line with the Springfield Republicans
protest against the "incompetency incon-
ceivable" of the Democrat Senators; with
the Louisville Cour ier-Journal's description
Of the bill as ''mise rable betrayal" "a mon
grel pisbald OF pate hes and pusillanimities, a
grotesque hodge, -podge Of pretence and
pettifoggng, q nondescript abortion OF
incompetency, selfishness, cowardice aud
treachery,r and the Baltimore suns affrma-
ton that mo such abJect surrender OF a great
pa, ty has ever been proposed or even conteln-
plated in any previous Am rican Congress-, :"
and that the passage of the bill would be "a
legislative fiasco, party humiliation and a
national misfortune"
All that is most honest and respectable in
the Democratic party is up in arms against
this economic and political abomination. Its
only supporters In the Northern States are
the men who perfunctorily defend 1t from .
sense Of party discipline, -pisewaed- -and de-
nounced by the bo.ter clement of the DEM
ocracy, Gormanism can expect no mercy
from Republicans, whose onty to their coun-
try no less than their party requires them to
fight ii until il is annihilated.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
PAwTUCKETS LOSS.

THE NEWS regrets to fill in the vacant
space in the list, for the third big fire,
which superstition says must follow a
big conflagration, with the name of its
progressive and enterprising sister city,
Pawtucket, but the destructive blaze of
yesterday leaves no opportunity to
escape the unpleasant necessity.
While the property loss Is large
and the business interests affected
are temporarily crippled our neighbor is
to be congratulated that her people are
not homeless and that the misery and
suffering attendant upon the Boston
confagration are not repeated in her
own case.
Pawtucket pluck, energy and business
enterprise will soon repair the damage
caused yesterday, big as it was, and out
of the ashes of the old will arise a new
business section better adapted to the
modern methods.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
CRECORY'S
Bookstore,
PROVIDENCE. r. Z.

ford and interviewed the leading under
writer's there.
Mr.. James r. Dudley, vice. president OF
the Etna, said, al am not q member OF
Coxey's army and am not looking for a
job"
National, said, contrary to general reports,
he had not been offered the position,
although he had received pleasant visit
from the English manager.
1t is thought In Hartford that the po-
sition will not be filled from that place,
but that the successor Of Mr.. Bisgden
will be found in such men as
Colonel Cunningham OF the Glens Falls,
George M. Colt of New York, or the as
sistant manager Of another we'll known
English company.
Soon we shall see what we shall see and
in the meantime must possess our souls
in patience.
Secretary OF the John Hancock Re-
signs.
At a meeting of the board Of
directors OF the John Hancock
Mutual Life Insurance. Company
q orge b. Woodward. secretary, resigned.
mediately, and on Monday next he will
commence his new duties In New York
as secretary OF the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company.
The present secretary OF the Metropoli-
tan will be appointed second vice presi-
dent. Roland @. Lamb, chief clerk Of the
John Hancock, was appointed secretary
at the meeting.
Wachuset Mutual Appoints General
Agents at Boston.
O'Brion h Russell OF Boston have been
appointed general agents for the United
States and Canada OF the Wachuset
Mutual Fire Insurance Company OF Fitch
burg, Mass.
Cutler e. Lassoe Resign London Guar
rantee Managership.
- The eastern managers OF the London
Guarantee and Accident Insurance Com
pany, Cutler q Lasoe OF New York, have
resigned. A
Notes.
Special Agent Brewer of the Sun Fire of
London has been elected q member OF the
New England Insurance Exchange.
The Prudential Insurance Company OF
Boston has paid dividend In liquidation
Of 80 per cent. j. II. M. LYONS.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
INSURANCE.
Test of Extinguishing Apparatus.

lest OI bSxun8uishinS apparatus
On Saturday last, delegates from the
Boston Fire Department, Board OF Under
writer's and New England Insurance Ex-
change witnessed test OF the Emergency
Chemical Hand Fire Extinguisher which
was made In the Gas Works building at
Aliston. A. large structure, IA feet high,
was built OF piano cases and excelsior
and then saturated with kerosene. The
whole mass was then ignited and allowed
10 burn 20 seconds, then word was given
by #. Il. Cabot, superintendent OF the in
derwriters, to extinguish the flames.
This was done with one extinguisher In
nine seconds. Another and smaller test
was afterward made with results equally
satisfactory.
time was kept by the writer.
North British and MercantiIe'sva Vacancy
Underwriters all over the country are
with much eagerness and expectancy
awaiting the announcement OF the new
manager for the United States OF the
North British and Mercantile Insurance
Company.
country who would not gladly accept the
position despite the announcements that
''it has been offered to several" for
the North British boasts OF the largest as
sets Of any fire company in the world and
the salary attached 90 the position now
vacant is most liberal.
The general manager OF the North
British, now visiting this country, has
conferred with several Insurance. men
and the gossips have had food
for conjecture but this comforting IN en-
old trick Of English managers and after
asking everyonc's sdvice they generally
follow their own.
Hartford underwriters have been picked
out by the knowing ones as likely to cap
ture the prize, and your correspondent in
search Of Information ioui neyed TO Hart
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

BosToS had another big fire this
morning, but fortunately it was located
in building isolated from surrounding
business blocks, and could be easily at
tackled on all four sides. while the big
fireboat could be used to advantage.
Still the loss is very heavy and will help
swell the big loss of the past week.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

take hold Of the reins Of government
may celebrate on It's own account. The
annual Lection on the last Friday OF the
present month should be observed with
due form and ceremony attended with
the full measure Of festivity that distin-
guishes the yearly visit to the sister cap
ital by the sea.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
THE NEWS, 2 Weybosset ST.

of Providence for q regular weekly supply OF
exchanges received daily by The News and
forwarded every Thursday 20 the school,
These exchanges coming from all parts OF the
conntry are greatly appreciated by all, as
much information ia derived from them by
the cadets. which. II 1t were not for the kind
ness of The NEws, they would not receive.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

AcTREss SADIE MARTINoT's diamond
studded opera glasses sold for $1,000.
That's dollar apiece for the diamonds
As there were 1900 diamonds on the
glasses. Maybe they were stage dia-
,nonds.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
n.pntl.. Caught rir..

NEW HAVEN, May IA fire broke out
In car loaded with nsphtha In the freighI
yard Of the Consolidated road. The
flames spread to the freight house. and
this was completely destroyed. Fifty
cars loaded with freight were consumed.
The loss In estimated at t60. 600
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

ACCORDING to THE News handbook
of the National Banks of Providence,
just issued TO the banks, the total sur
plus on hand exceeds the required re-
serve by s., ,45l, ,4i2.55.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

LONDON. May i1.--About 1000 cab driv.
ers of this city went out on strike yesterday
40 q protest against the sxorbitant charges
for cab hire insisted upon by the owners
OF cabs. The strike n chiefly directed
against the Cab Owners association
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

A WAR shut the Democratic party out
Of power for quarter of century
before, but the present period of depres-
sion has cost the country at a higher
rate, in money, than the Rebellion did.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

WHY doesn't President Cleveland hire
. boat instead of using a government
revenue cutter when he goes fishing?
That would be true Jacksonian sim
plicity and ordinary decency combined.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

The sale of candy balls alleged to be
filled with brandy is prohibited to child
rem by the Gerry Society. But the
chocolate cigar is permitted to pursue
its tomach-distressing mission.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

THE inauguration of the State officers
and General Assembly Of the State Of
Rhode Island Is not a political observ-
ance. Il is an affair OF State and should
he 80 regarded however much the par
ticular political party that happens 10
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

Miss OLIVE ScHRErNER, author of
The African Farm" has achieved
signal victory and considerable advertis-
ing by marrying herself to an amiable
man who takes her name aud drops his
own
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

THE Boston fire department seem to
have lost their heads and their appara-
tus after their usual fashion when
fighting fires Of any account in the Hub.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

ACCORDING to the Coxey revision of
the Century Dictionary, an "industri-
al" isa man who won't work (see loafer,
bum hobo.l
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

THERE is no money in counterfeiting
Uncle Sans silver dollars for the
counterfeits cost more to make than the
value of the real thing.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

MELBOURNE, May 1.-THE premier OF
New Zealand expresses his opposition to
the suggestion that Great Britain be
given control of the Tonga islands In ex-
change for the surrender OF Samoa to
GERMANY. .U
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

THE latest bit Of pathetic humor comes
ont in the petition for divorce of a
famous horse trainer who claims that he
is afraid of his wife.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
Peters Racksr Comes Up.

CHICAGO, May l7.-Parson Davies de.
hversd "A certified check for 5000 to w. j.
Davis, the stakeholder. last night, and
thus completed Peter Jsckson's side bet
OF $40 600, AZ provided In the articles oil
agreement signed by him and Corbett
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

A CRANK in the gallery of the House
Of Congress created CONSERVATION the
other day. The floor of the House is
the part reserved for cranks.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
AS a Matter
of Fact he
Majority Of
Folks
Only read ONE news

Only read ONE news
paper. If THE News ZONE
CENT has circulation of 100 copies
every evening you may depend upon IL
that at least go of those copies are read by
persons who read no other evening news
paper. AS matter of fact. THE News
actually prints nearly one hundred hundred
copies every evening and no newspaper ad-
vertising can he said to cover the field here
Abouts that does not include THE News.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

IT's about time Uncle Sam took hold
of the Nicaragua Canal and began tC
dig.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

Coal hasn't for years been so cheap a,
now. It's good chance to fill the bir
for next winter.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

This penurious Democratic Congress
may be responsible for the next Indian
outbreak.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

WASHINGTON. Msy i7-Ths intimstion
Of an immediate and direct Intervention
from the Roman headquarters betweea
Mgr Satolli and his Amsriesn opposests
hss met with an emphatic denial IN This
city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.
'Rah for Captain Pettis!
Lowell Times.

The city authorities OF Providence are TO
compel peanut vendcrs 10 measure their
wares hereafter by dry instead of wine
measure. As buyers will get more peanuts in
a quart by the new method the citizens OF
Roger Williams town are happy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

ODESSA, May u. "A severe earthquake
was felt yesterday at kars and other
places in this Caucasus
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

TARIFF reform seems to be sugar
coated.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
Most Everybody WANTS to See Him
Get n.
n. Y. Recorder.

IL is said that Marsden J. Perry has an am
-hitien 10 be president OF the Ne~-furk a.
Now England Railroad. which will he known
after the reorganization OF the company "a
the New England A. New York Railroad. Mr..
Perry Is now one OF the receivers OF the CO M
pany. lie is man Of large wealth.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17
Appreciated.
Howard Times

The superintendent OF the Sockanosset
School returns thanks ~ toe EyEsISo NEWS
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-17

gv- Patrons win confer a favor by re-
porting to this Office any irregularity in
the delivery of THE NEWS, or inability OF
newsdcaiers TO supply all demands.