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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-04-04
TARIFF BILL CHANGES
AMENDED WILSON MEASURE
BEFORE THE SENATE.

Sugar Duty Graded and an Increase
on Collars and Cuffs-Reciprocity
Sections Of the Mckinley Act Re-
pealed - Important Ad ministra'
tive Changes.
The Democratic members of the Finance
Committee submitted the tariff bill, In Its
revised and completed form to the full COM
mittee, Republicans and Democrats, and
when the Senate met, Mr.. Voorhees,, Chair
man of the committees, reported the bill,
giving notice that It would be called up on
April I'd. Mr.. Morrill,, one ofthe Republican
members OF the committee, stated that 80 far
as the Republican members CT the committee
were concerned, they did not object to the
reporting OF the bill, but were opposed tothe
Income Tax feature of It, and the change
from specific to ad valorem duties.
Among the changes are these:
The duty on collars and cuffs is increased
from IS per cent. to 55 per cent. ad valorem |;
the only additions to the free list are horn
strips and tips and cocoanuts.
Section 105 which provided that the Pres
ident shall notify the Hawaiian Government
of the intention Of this Government to alb.
rogate the treaty OF 1875, has been stricken
out.
The sugar schedule Is as follows: All
sugars testing not above 80 degrees, cent !;
from 80 to 80 degrees, 1-10O OF cent for each
degree; from 80 to 9S, 2-100 of cent for
each degree; oil sugars testing above SO, or
about No. 16 Dutch standard In color, II OF
q cent per pound In addition to the duty on
sugar testing above 98 degrees.
Whisky, iron ore, coal, lead ore and opiam
are unchanged.
The reciprocity sections Of the Mckinley
act, sections 8, Is and 16, are repealed and
all agreements or arrangements made or
proclaimed between the United States and
foreign Governments under the provisions Of
said sections are hereby abrogated, OF which
the President shall give such notice to the
authorities Of said foreign Governments as
may be required by the terms Of such agree
ments or arrangements.
The most important ,hange In the admin
istrative features of the bill is the action OF
the committee in striking out the words,
"highest duty as found in the House bill
and regulating the rates Of duty on all goods
coming in under the similitude clause and
substituting therefor the words "lowest
duty"
This was the subject of long argument in
full committee, in which Secretary Carlisle
Endorsed the provisions OF the House bill.
The committee, therefore, has made the
change, and all goods unenumerated or COM
ing In under the similitude clause will pay
the highest instead OF the lowest rate Of
duty.
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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
The Senate.

59Ta DAY.-The Bland seigniorage bill was
passed, A to 81.
GOTH DAY-A message was received from
the President inclosing Secretary Gresham's
report on the Bluefelds incident.-The
yice-President signed the seigniorage bill.
Considerable routine business was trans
acted.
61sr DAY.-The revised Tariff bill was re-
ported from the Committee on Finance.
The Senate, after disposing OF the Tariff
bill by placing 1t on the calendar, listened to
speech on the Hawaiian question by Mr..
George.
GID DAY.-About twenty-five bills OF little
public interest were passed.-A modified
immigration treaty with China was sent to
the Senate.
The House.
10TH DAY.-Further consideration OF the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was held.
77rH DAY.-The Sundry Civil Appropria-
tion bill was further discussed.
18th DAY.-The House spent the day upon
the Sunday Civil bill.
10TH DAY.-The consideration OF the Sum-
dry Civil bill was continued.
SOrH DAY-The House consumed the day
discussing the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill. The bill was passed. The Repuon-
cans fllibustered against consideration OF an
election case and the House revoked leaves
OF absence.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THREE coal handlers, all Poles. were In
stantIy killed by runaway car In NO. mine
at Edwardville, Penn.
EMPLOYEES of the Hunters Point, n. Y, and
steinway Trolley Railroad struck and rioted.
The Superintendent was shot and slightly
wounded. Traffic WAS resumed upon an
agreement to arbitratc.
THE Rhode Island State Republican Con-
yention renominated Governor Brown.
KENNETH T. SUTHERLAND, the convicted
Gravesend On. Y Justice, failed to appear
in court for sentence; his bail bond was for
feited and q warrant was issued for hla
arrest.
W. STE1N1Tz, the chess champion, lost the
first game Of the match In New York City
for the championship to Emanuel I,asker.
MARTHA J. FULLER, a typewriter, employed
in the law Office Of William NJ. Mullen, New
York City, was shot through the head O few
days ago. She died In few minutes without
regaining consciousness. A young man,
James T. Magee, managing clerk OF the
office, who was there at the time, was arrest
ed. Whether the girl killed herself or was
murdered was matter OF doubt.
EDWARD q. BENNETT and Charles P. Spen-
Ger, two students at East Greenwich (R. l.
Seminary, were drowned In Greenwich Bay
while duck hunting.
ST.. PATRIcK's DAY was celebrated in cities
Of the Greater New York with parades, pic.
mics, banquets, speeches and enthusiasm.
The green flag waved on the City Hall, but
In Brooklyn it was missing from the Num-
cipal Building.
ISAAC PRouTY& & Co., OF Spencer, Mass,
the biggest boot and shoe manufactures In
the world, have failed. There was absolute
ly nothing to indicate that the firm was
unsound financially.
TEE French Line steamer, La Bretagne,
from Havre, with passengers and a general
cargo went ashore opposite the Patchogue
On. Y.) Life-Saving Station, about twenty
miles east OF Fire Island.
n GENERAL FERDINAND P. EARLE, OF the
Hotel New Netherland, New York City, and
his two hundred wealthy guests, have been
dispossessed through proceedings brought
by the lawyer of William Waldorf Astor.
KENNETH F. SUTHERLAND, the convicted
Gravesend Justice Of the Peace, failed to ap-
pear to receive his sentence OF one years i'm
prisonment and $500 fine, the extreme pen.
atty. His bonds of S9500 were declared for
feited. Constable Jamison's trial was be-
gun and as O precaution he was turned
over to the Sheriffs custody.
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LATER NEWS.

JUSTICE R. Y. B. NEWTON, indicted In con-
nection with the Gravesend IN. ~ election
frauds, turned States evidence.
WHILE the police of Davenport, Iowa, were
pursuing two counterfelters one of the fugi-
tives placed pistol to his head and killed
himself. The other escaped. There was no
clew to the dead mans identity.
Two Condor brothers, living near Dwight,
H., started In to wrestle. They became ez-
cited and one threw the othSf in such man
ner as to break bis neck.
The Hatfeld-McCoy feud in West Virginis
Is reported to have broken out again. Two
men have been killed.
GOVERNOR RICE, OF Michigan, removed
three indicted State officials and named
their successors.
MANY persons were killed and much prop
erty destroyed in cyclone which swept
over Louisiana and Texas.
COMMANDER HEYERMAN will be tried for
negligence and cu!pable inefaciency In the
Kearsarge case.
Robert 8. JORDAN was nominated to be
Postmaster at Jersey City, N. j., and Frank
D. Lalor at Trenton, N. J..
BLIZZARD ragged in the Northwest and
played havoc with the moving Of trains on
the Burlington systems.
FRANK WATTS, seventeen years old, was
shot and killed by Mrs. Henry Hugo, in Nor
folk County, Virginia, for wronging her
hfteen-year-old daughter. The shooting oc-
Cured at Lees store, on the Ocean View
Railroad.
BURGLARS pried open the door Of the vault
Of the Centrevllle CIowa) National Bank with
n crowbar and carried off coal scuttle full
of silver dollars, amounting to $4,000.
WAsHours in Idaho have caused great
damage.
CATTLE are dying on the ranges OF Ne
braska, Wyoming and South Dakota from
the effects Of the blizzard.
JAMES MU1L1aAS was confirmed as Consul
at Apia, Samoa.
"PAwNEE BILL" has been loaned thirty
five Sioux Indians to exhibit at the Antwerp
Exposition.
The estimated revenue from the Tariff
bill is 1881, 100000.
WHILE a boat load Of persons were crossing
Patzecura Lake, Mexico, the boat sprang
leak and sank. Six OF the eighteen person.
aboard were drowned. The victims were al
young women.
URUGUAY has finally chosen Senior Borda,
the Government candidate, for President.
TIE Emperors OF Germany and Austria
met and embraced In Vienna.
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will have practically no effect on it. This will
be readily understood when it Is learned that
the new light is of 375, 900 candle power.
Up to this time the most powerful light
house in the world has been at Cape HeTe,
France. This can be seen by reflection sixty
miles away. The Fire Island light has IN the
past flashed once a minute. The new light
will flash every ten seconds.
AS has been said, this is only the begin
ming of the improvements which the Light
house Board proposes to make in and about
the greatest harbor in the New World. One
of the twin lights of the Navesink High
lands, on the New Jersey coast, is to be fitted
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-04-04
TO PREVENT CONSUMPTION.
Board of Health Issues Practical In
formation About tuberculosis.

The New York State Board OF Health has
issued a circular detailing its measures to
prevent tuberculosis. Local health officers
are required to register the name and ad-
dress Of sufferers, and physicians are re-
quested to furnish such information. In
spectors must visit and disinfect premises
vacated by consumptives.
For the information OF consumptives it Is
stated In the circular that consumption Is a
disease that may be taken from others, and
is not usually fatal. 1t is recommended that
the sufferer sleep alone, that his clothing be
washed separately. and that the expector-
ated matter which contains the germs OF dis
ease be at once destroyed. With these pre-
cautions, the circular says it Is not danger
ous to live with consnmptive.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-04-04
200 MALAYS KILLED.

They Were Defeated In an Attack
Upon the Spanish Forces.
The Government has received advices
that large force Of Mindanao Malays have
made an attack upon the Spanish garrison
on the island Of Pantar, in the Malay Archi-
pelago.
The Spaniards defended their position
stoutly and succeeded In repulsing the Ma
lays with great loss. Over 200 Malays were
killed and large number were wounded.
The Spaninrds had but one man killed,
though many were wounded
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Washington.

The demand for tariff literature seems
more general this year than ever before.
Heretofore the demand for tariff speeches
has been confined largely to the granger
States and outlying communities rather than
to the populous centres Of the East. The
demand for these speeches this year has
greatly increased from the manufacturing
districts.
TEE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations Captain E. O. Matthews, to be
Chief Of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Navy Department Oliver E. Branch, United
States Attorney for New Hampshire; Ed
ward ]. Donovan, Collector Of Internal Rev.
enue, District OF Massachusetts,; L. q.
Shields, Collector OF Customs, District of
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Ya
The Army bill approprlates total Of
S23,577.2
The expenditures OF the Government for
the eight months and half OF the present
fiscal year have exceeded the receipts S52,-
000,00
The President has signed the amended
East River Bridge bill. The structure Is to
be erected at or near the middle of Black.
wells Island, New York City. The effect OF
the amendment is to reduce the height OF the
bridge above mean high water from $50 to
135 feet. This removes the last legal OBJ
stacle, and MIR. Corbin and his syndicate
promise to begin work without delay.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has asked congress
for $40, 900 more to be used in entoreins tue
Chinese act. It is said that tho Chlnese vi
lowed nearly the whole OF january to pass
without offering to register.
TIE total internal revenue receipts Tor tue
past eight months were S95,3ol'oll' ue-
crease OF 81, 1853, ,730.
CONGRESSMAN SHERMAN, OF New 4ork' III,
troduced bill to create Natlonal boaru VI
Health. to consist of nine physicians.
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GREAT BRITAIN EXPLAINS.
The Landing of Troops ut Biuefields
Was a Perfectly InnocentStep.

Danger of the Bluellelds incident assuming
Nh important international aspect has
vanished, a the State Department
has received satisfactory assurance
from the Government OF Great
Britain that the landing OF troops from Ii.
NJ. s. Cleopatra at Blueflelds, Nicaragua,
was solely ior the protection Of the interests
there of British subjects.
Secretary Gresham's report to the Sennte
on the Bluelelds incident shows that Eng
md not to establish protectorate.
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POISONED HIS HOSTS.
A Discarded Lover Kills His Sweet
heart, Her Father and Self.

A Discarded Lover k1IIs HIS SWeeI-
heart, Her Father and Self.
Al Cacaria, Mexico, Rafel Lopez was en-
gagged to marry Miss Torina. the daughter
of Marteo Parenzo, wealthy ranch
man. Having recently heard re-
ports derogatory to the character OF
fonez. the Young lady wrote him,
breaking the engagement. Shortly after re-
ceiying the letter Lopez called upon the girl
and pleaded to be reinstated in her affection,
but she refused The father OF the girl IN
yited the discarded lover to remain Tor din
ner and the invitation was accepted.
The three sat down to eat and Lopez put
poison into several dishes OF food and then
partook OF the fatal mixture also. In lew
minutes all three were taken Ill and died De-
fore physician could be summoned.
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DA CANA FLEES.
Portuguese Ships Leave With the In"
surgent and Companions.


A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro confirms
the report that Admiral da Cana and about
seventy of his officers are on board the Por-
1uguase war ships Mindello and Alfonso du
Albuquerque, which left Rio. No protest or
other opposition wills made to the vessels
leaving the bay with the insurgent leader
and his followers on board.
While it is not definitely known where da
CANA and his officers are 10 be taken by the
Portuguese ships, it is generally believed
that they will be put ashore at Montevideo,
and it is possible that they will proceed to
Santa Catharina or Rio Grande do Sui 10
ioin the still active insurgents there.
The success Of da CANA and his compcn-
ions, in getting out of the bay is said to
crafty their sYmpathizers in Rio, who were
anxious lest they should in some way tail
into the hands OF the Government, in " hich
event they would undoubtedly have been
shot, as the result Of q speedy trial by court
martial
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-04-04
TRAGEDY IN A CHURCH.
A Man Kills His Wife at the Alta,
and Then Himself.

The Roman Catholic Church OF the I'm
maculate Conception in Oakland, CAL, was
the scene Of q murder and suicide.
Mrs. Mary Brady, who recently secured
a divorce from John Brady, house
painter, was shot by her husband as she
was telling her beads at the altar
rail, and the murderer then blew out his own
brains. Mrs. Brady was an industrious
woman who found life too hard with her dis
sipated husband He could not find regular
work because Of his cranky disposition. She
had six children, and she finally decided to
get divorce, IS Brady abused her when
drunk.
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GLADSTONE, IN addition to $500, 900 left
him by his father. has a rent roll OF the
Hawarden estate. which came into the pos
session OF his wife on the death OF the last
male Glynne. Added to royalties and his
salary as Prime Minister of $4,000 his an
nual income is 3125, 900 year.
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CHIEF ARTHUR is quoted in St. Paul dis
patch as having said that the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers had for six years been
paying $50 month to twenty-five former
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy engineers,
who had been unable to get work elsewhere.
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A WEEK OVERDUE.

A Train From the East Snowbound In
the Cascade Mountains.
A Great Northern passenger train arrived
at Seattle, Wash, the other night from the
East week overdue. having been delayed
by the snow in the Cascade Mountains. Its
the engine All the snowplows were blocked
by the wreck aud the snow got start snow
fell continually and was piled up about the
tops OF the CARS.
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AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
Killed, Robbed and the House Fired
to Conceal the Crime.

Twenty miles from Elbe, Ala, Antonio
Thomas and wife, wealthy couple, resided
alone A few days ago the house was found
in ashes. Near the door the charred bones
O: the old man were found. Where the bed
had stood were the burned remains Of his
wife. A close examination indicated that
the old couple had been murdered while
they slept, their money stolen and the house
fired
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Definition of "Seigniorage."

The New York Recorder offered prize OF
twenty-five dollars for the best definition OF
the word "Ssigniorage," so frequently heard
of late in connection with the silver ques-
ton. A definition of the word given by
Senator Sherman. and agreed to by. silver
Senators, is in these words "The seignlor-
age Is merely the difference between the
coinage value of the silver and its cost
The clearest, brIefest, and, on the whole,
best statement OF what 'seigniorage' means
as applied to the existing financial condition
of this country was that received from Mr..
Fred. J. Herzog, of New York. to whom there
fore the paper has awarded Its prize. Mr.
Herzog's definition Is as follows:
sSeigniorage consists OF the difference be-
tween the cost OF an amount OF bullion and
the face value OF the coins minted from IT..
By the Sherman act the Government was
compelled to purchase 4, 500, 600 ounces OF
silver Dor month, at thu market price. AS
the price of silver fiuctuated, so tho amount
OF Treasury notes issued in payment OF this
bullion sometimes increased. sometimes di-
minished. The downward tendency having
been greater in the last few years, there were
issued, from the time of the passage OF the
Sherman act to its repeal, $154: :000, 600 IN
Treasury notes, to cover An amount OF pull
lion which should actually have made 2O9,
600, 900 silver dollars. II other words, there
is now an amount OF bullion Gin excess OF the
reserve necessary to cover the $l54, ,0O0, ,000
Treasury notes) In the Treasury which, II
coined. would make IS. 000, 900 silver dollars,
against which the seigniorage bill is 20 issue
paper currency, and 50 put $50, 100000 IN
the Treasury and help the Government out
of its financial difficulties"
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The statistics issued oy Lloyds show that
within the last three months twenty-eight
vessels have been abandoned 10 the Atlantic.
Nineteen OF them carried cargoes of timber
and must be dangerous derelicts.
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FROM THE SAME ROPE.
Two Lovers Whose Parents Were
Cruel Hang Themselves.

SIuCi
The bodies OF John Reed and Eta Shaw,
son and daughter OF farmers, were found
hanging from the limb of tree. eight miles
from Oscaloosa. Iowa.
Their parents refused 10 permit chem to
marry on account Of their youth. The deed
was probably committed on Sunday night,
when they were last seen driving in the neigh
borhool.
They unhitched the horses and, standing
in the buggy. threw Il rope across alimb and
tying ono end to each Of their necks, swung
Off into eternity.
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IT is now believed that the deficit In reve-
nues for the current fiscal year will fall con-
siderably below Secretary Carlisle's estimate.
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Time money can boast Of a longer period of
inactivity than has ever before been noticed.
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with electrical apparatus similar to that at
Fire Island, the shaft OF light to be sent in,
vertical, instead of horizontal direction, Il
finger Of fire pointing to the sky. The press
emit method OF lighting channel bucys Is to
be changed, and instead of fixed red and
white lights there will be shown series o.
scintiIlating or twinkling electric lights. The
power of the various range lights is 10 be
greatly increased.
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MOST POWERFUL BEACON.
New York to Be the Best Lighted
Port in the World.

New York will soon be the best lighted
port in the whole world, and the first move
toward that end is about to be made by the
Lighthouse Boa-d. The most powerful and
largest electric search light ever made has
been brought from Chicago, where it was on
exhibition at tho Worlds Fair, and will be
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Lobsters and Smells Scarce.

Lobsters and smelts have been SO scarce
along the Maine coas. this year that "hard
times" prevail In the industry Of catching
them.
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Foreign.

BOMB carried by an Anarchist named
Pauwels accidently exploded as the fellow
was entering the Church OF the Maueilne,
Paris. France. Pauwels was killed anu
several other persons were hurt.
PRESIDENT PE1xoTo, Of Brazil. has paio on
tbe Nictheroy's men and sent them nome
with thanks The dynamite gun VIII oe
mounted on Santa Cruz to command the en-
trance to Rio Harbor. Admiral Ben mas
been ordered to Bluefelds With tne Dan
francisco.
Tqy most exclusive Tory club OF England
the Carlton, which has limited ITS meaoHr its
sbip heretofore to Englishmen, mas open ns
doors to william Waldorf Astor.
THE Russian treaty passed its third READ,
mo In the German Reichstag; there was q
hit between Chancellor Won Caprvl and
Count Herbert Bismarck In the course OF the
debate.
QUEEN VICTORIA has arrived at Florence.
where she will make sojourn OF several
weeks.
OXFORD easily defeated the Cambridge
crew on the Thames, at London.
PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT LoRENA, OF the
Brazilian insurgents government, sent a
note to all foreign Powers asking for recoS-
milton.
RIO DE JAyEIRo has ceased to interest for
eien countries and their warships are all
withdrawn. Yellow fever continues cpl.
darnic
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placed in position in Fire Island Lighthouse,
of Long Island, as soon as the machinery
with which it is to be operated can be COM
pleted. The old light in this lighthouse, ac-
cording to the New York World, throws a
light which can be seen by vessels nearly
twenty miles in clear weather. The new
light will be visible by reflection on the sky
for more than 100 miles, and will be so pow
srful that the ordinary Atlantic seaboard fog