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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
TEE sEx1rE,s PENSION xIEb.
IoS B,n. Passed In % A4i.utss-eose,o go
IN Holm Roneh's Heirs.

to bonu fkohtns As"S'
WARRINGTON. jan. 23.-Tbo Senate devoted
itself to-day TO the business OF clearing the ca'-
endar of pension bills and OF other bills to
which no objection was offered. or the former
all were passed without q single exception.
There were 104 Of them. and It required only
ninety-6ve minutes to dispose Of them. They
included the following;
Granting q pension Of SIS month to the
widow Of Gen. John Newton.
Increasing the pension Of the widow OF Gen.
w. w. Burnes TO $50 month. -
Granting q pension OF $50 . month TO tho
widow Of Bishop Perkins, Captain Sixteenth
Infantry formerly United States Senator from
Kansas.
Bleucker to $50 month.
Thirty other bills wero passed. Including the
To place Col. Henry L. Abbott on the retired
scribe their salaries. Thv bill divides these
500 i yssr 'e class s.H $780, es:.
si,tSS. siss: s s.. 500. elias: $1,000. and class
Appropria,ins $4,000 for the heir, Of three &c
Italians killed by mob violence In Colorado In
Appropriatinr $780, 900 for . statue of Abrs-
ham Lincoln at Gettyrburg. Pa .o,o ooo
for h nsS 20 Of 81. shops sna
gunboats.
The Union Pacific Railroad compromise ar
rangsment was tho subject Of = resolution
offered by Mr.. Allen pop, Nob.) and agreed 70
without objection. calling on the Attorney
General for n statement OF the terms OF the set
Element and Of the personnel of tho reorganiza-
ton com mittee.
The President was requested, through another
resolution. offered by Mr.. Morgan tDem.. Ala.).
tn furnish the Senate with copies Of all corro-
spondcnce and OF all communication relating
to the Nicaragua Canal with the Government OF
Nicaragua since 1887.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
THE NAHUM CHAPIN's WRECK.
Mate Davis's BODY Fousd-Did Capt. Arey
Beach the Schooaers

The body Of Mate Alfred +. Davis OF the
schooner Nahum Chaplin, wrecked on tho beach
near Quogue. l.. l.. on last Thursday. was found
In tho sand near the Quogue Life-Ssving sta
tion by Surfman Overton at daybreak yester-
day morning. II was identified by means of q
description of Mate Davis and his effects, writ
ten out by his widow and given to George f.
Arey. brother Of the late Capt. Arey OF the
Nahum Chaplin. The mates home was at Nal
den. Mass. and he leaves q widow and two chill
dren.
The sailor folk about Quogue are pushed to
understand why the schooner came ashore with
three sails set. For time they were quite sure
that she had "overrnn" her course. but the
fact that capt. Arey's body was clothed In six
undershirts suggested to noino that he put them
on wit the idea that he might have to take to
tho rigging before the night was over. Those
who made this guess say II WAS likely that tho
vessel han sprung u leak and that the Captain
wastryinE TO beach the schooner In such u way
that she would hold together until the storm
ADated.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
TEN-CENr FARE TO CoNEY ISLAND
brooklyn Elevated Road Defeats the West
Fad Trolley Line.

Justice Dickey. in the Suprer,s Court. Brook
Ign, yesterday granted an Injunction restrain
ing the Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad
Company from carrying passengers on the sur
face railroad beyond Thirty-seventh street for
one fare or Ave cents, in violation OF the cop
tract entered into with the Brooklyn Eey ~ ed
Railroad Company. Justice Dickey also awarded
10 the plainti $40 600 damages and per cent.
extra allowance. The plaintifr alleges that
under the contract ten cents fare was to be
CHARGED TO polntA between Thirty-seventh street
the contract in carrying passengers for Ave
cents, The defepoRnth road n nav operated BY
tie Nassau Elect Q Railroad Company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-Tho Senate Commit.
tee on Post offices and Post Roads this morning
held another hearing on the Loud bill, which
cuts Off serial publications from the benefits of
second -clRss postage rates, Those who opposed
the bill were Orville j. Victor. OF Adams d
Victor. Now YORK publishers; Mr.. John Elder.
kin OF the New York Ledger; $, 3. Mcclure. the
other New York publisher. Mr.. Yates Hickey
Of tho American Railway Literary Association
and MI. David Williams OF tho Iron Age favored
the bill
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n.rb.r. a, ODD. Win tho soo,.,,.,..

There is trouble between the organized bar
bers OF this city and tho Central Labor Fedora
ton over tho proposed State bill to license bar
bers. Most OF the BARRIERS In this city belong to
tho Journeymon BARRIERS International Pro-
gressive Union, which Ia initiated with the
Central Labor Federation. Tho latter Is q So
ciali.t organization and is opposed to the pro-
posed bill, as the Socialists do not want TO have
anything to do with the old political parties.
have now almost decided to leave the Fedora
tion on this account Their Executive Com
matter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
TROUBLE ENOUGH on THIS BOAT
Five Men KILLED by an Explosion ana tho
Chier OnIcer Shot.

san Francisco. Jan. 23.-The French collier
Madeleine arrived yesterday from Csllao. One
OF her boilers exploded soon after the steamer
lett Callao, killing Ave men and inJurlng sew
eral others. She put into Acapulco for repairs.
After leaving Acapulco, Chief Engineer Obs
had a quarrel with Chief Ofcer DiR mond over
o letter which Diamond had received from Mrs
ODE, and shot and severely wounded Diamond
and also cut him with knife.
Tho Madeleine returned to Acapulco, where
Obe was left In tho hands of the Mexican
authorities and Diamond was placed in hos
ptAl.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
TEE LkURhDA ARRTYEs
No Fourdatio. for the Report OF Her Ar.,.
FIiibustering.

BALTIMORE. Jan. 23.-The steamer La, raj.
passed In at Cape Henry this morning. on h.,
way from Palermo, Italy, to Baltimore or pbn..
delphis. as her consignees may direct. Tie vs,-
sci carries 10000 boxes Of lemons and Orange,
Tho Laurada left Palermo on Jan. for pnI,I'
more. after having been told not to innI ",
Valencia, Spain, because Of the part The y.s..i
had taken In Cuban hlibustering expcd lions
In well-informed shipping circles the Latirad.
was not expected to reach Cape Henry hefor.
yesterday. and consequently there was no toun,
dalton for the sensational rerori that she 49,
gone on another expedition TO Cuba "'e
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
Miss Ethel Douglass Sues Richard Mans.
field for Eleven Weeks SALARY,

WAsHiNGToN, Jan. 23-Suit was begun hero
to-day against Richard Mansfield, tho actor, by
Miss Ethel Douglass. said to be Ethel spraque.
to recover eleven weeks salary due her by Mr..
Mansfield. Miss Douglass claims contract with
Mansfield to pay her 500 per week salary as a
nomoer OF his company, and that Mansfield re-
therefor from April IL 10 June 20, 1896. period
OF nine weeks. and that an additional two
wsoks SALARY Tor . prior date V due and unpaid.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
John u. Shorter Hurt In . FAN.

Former Assistant District Attorney John u.
Shorter. whiie trying to get on Fulton avenue
trolley car at Franklin avenue, Brooklyn. yes.
terday afternoon, fell and bruised his face and
cut himself over the left eye. He was Attsnded
BY an ambulance surgeon and then taken 10 his
home, $40 Elatbush avenue e.. t..i.. : .
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24

The Thermometer At tho United States Weather Blu.
au regsIered the temperature Yesterday as folloMa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24

Senator Nelson OF Minnesota was to-day
asked II ox.Gov. Morriman OF Minnesota would
be q member OF McKnlcy's Cabinet. He TO.
piled that he did not believe Minnesota would
get Cabinet place. But" he added In the
same breath should II develop that Mime
the ex-governor Is the most likely man TO be
selected" -
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

That was 200 miles away, the streams
were swollen, the swamps covered with
water, the roads deep In mud and slush,
and the weather chilly. But the contrast
of this journey with the recent expert
ences made it seem like a pleasure trip.
She was now among friends and soon
with her child was warmly wrapped in
blankets and sheltered In q comfortable
home. She arrived Mt the block house
safely only to find that her trials were
not over. Within short time after
reaching home, her only sister and her
sisters husband were killed by the In
dams while they were at work in the
field. -Four little children were witnesses
of the murders. The Indians were at that
time on the warpath in Ohio, and it
seemed to Mrs. Simmons as If she had but
gone from one danger to another as great.
The body of Mrs. Simmons sister was
brought into the block house ON the an
niversary of the killing of her own hus-
band and son at Chicago.
Susan Simmons, the child who had pass
ed through all these privations under the
care of her mother, grew to womanhood
in Ohio. There she met Moses Winans,
whom she afterward married. In 1853
they removed to Springville, Iowa, and
there in 1857 her mother died. Soon
afterward husband and wife removed to
California, and in the home of one of her
six surviving children she is spending the
evening of her eventful life.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Victoria's Gold Plate.

The gold plate at Windsor castle con-
sists of about 10000 pieces. 1t Is kept
in the gold pantry, which Is al iron
room situated on the ground door I'M
der the royal apartments. The clerk
Of the pantry gives 1t out in iron boxes
and receives receipt for ii. 1t Is car
ried by special train, under escort of a
guard OF soldiers, and delivered to rhe
butler at Buckingham palace. He gives
n receipt for 1t and is responsible for
1t while II remains at the palace. The
same formalities are observed In TAX
Ing 1t back, and all persons concerned
are glad when 1t Is once more restored
to the safekeeplng Of the gold pantry.
The total value of the plate In this de-
partment Is nearly f2,OO0,00O. A great
deal OF 1t dates from the reign Of
George w.. but among the antiquities
are some pieces which were taken from
the Armada.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Some Old Heroes.

Superstition Is not dead in the CIV
ilized world. There are yet many peo-
pie who believe that King Arthur will
awaken some day from his long sleep
at Avalon. The German Is not rarity
who thinks Frederick Barbarossa sits
spell-bound in the great Kyffhauser-
berg cavern In Thuringia, and that
when his great red beard shall have
wound itself thrice around the stone
table he will come forth to battle for
Germany. To others Charlemagnc
sleeps in the Gutenberg in Hesse; the
Irish Brian Boru, the Spanish Boabdil
ell Chico and the Servian Kuex Lazai
wait in the heart Of the mountain,
crowned and armed, till the time Is
come for them to live again. And SO 1t
is with thousands of the heroes and
great men Of earth. Each has his fol-
lowing of devotees who watch and
wait for his reincarnation.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Aluminium Sign Letters.

One of the fields in which. of late,
aluminium has made most noticeable
progress Is it's use for signs. Letters
and numbers on show windows were
heretofore usually painted or gilded,
or else made of glass or enameled let
tiers attached TO the panes. These are
now being superseded in many cases
by letters and numbers of aluminium,
which metal has many recommended
tons, making It specially suitable for
this purpose. Aluminium letters are
light and strong; they keep their color
and their silvery luster makes them
stand out boldly, especially Mt night.
Moreover, they do not crack and are
remarkably durable. They can be read
lily attached to glass, marble, brick.
stone. wood. metal, or, in fact, any sub
stance, and their lightness obviates the
difficulty often found with metal or
enameled letters, whose weight causes
them after time to become detached
and to fall off the window or other OBJ
ject to which they have been fastened.
The manufacture of these goods has
now become quite an important indus
fry
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
STATES SALT INDUSTRY.
Great Decrease in Amount Manufact.
ured in 1906.


ured in 1896.
State Salt Inspector George w. Hill
has forwarded his fourteenth and the
twenty eighth annual report of the OPP
erations of the State salt inspection law
for the inspection year ending Nov. 30,
1896.
The salt producing territory of the State
is divided into nine districts having manu-
featuring capacity as follows:
District No. /, Saginaw County, has
nineteen salt companies, with nineteen
steam, 5000 solar salt covers, having a
manufacturing capacity of 1000 barrels
of salt.
District. No. 2. Bay County, has eight
cen salt companies, with seventeen steam
blocks, one vacuum pan, and with a man
ufacturing capacity of 100000 barrels
of salt
District No. 3, Huron County, has one
salt company, with one steam block, and
with manufacturing capacity of $4,000
barrels of salt.
District No. 4, st. Clair County, has six
salt companies, with one steam and five
pan blocks, and with a manufacturing
capacity of 100000 barrels of salt.
District No 5, Iosco County, has six
companies, with six steam blocks, having
manufacturing capacity of 100000 bar
rels of salt.
District No. 6, Midland County, has two
salt companies, with two steam blocks,
having a manufacturing capacity of 25.-
600 barrels of salt.
District No Z, Manistee County, has
eleven salt companies, with nine steam
and three pan blocks. having a manufac-
turing capacity of 100000 barrels of
salt
District No. 8, Mason County, has three
salt companies, with three steam and two
pan blocks. having n manufacturing ca
pacity of 10000 barrels of salt.
District No. 8, Wayne County, has three
salt companies, with two open and two
vacuum blocks, having a manufacturing
capacity of 100000 barrels of salt.
Total number of firms sixty-nine and
seventy three blocks engaged in manufac-
turing salt during the year. Solar salt
covers 1900 Total manufacturing ca
pacity, 0,5OO.OOO barrels of salt.
The quantity inspected was:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Pointed Paraxraphs.

1t is still a most important and NEST
helpful duty Of all the people to pay
off their old year debts.
Scratch an advocate of free trade and
you will find friend of foreign inter-
ests against American.
One of the defects of the Bryan lee
tura tour which caused its failure was
the box-office attachment.
Which shall we OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
for leaving the Populist party, or the
latter, for getting rid Of him?
A protective tariff on every product
which can be successfully grown on
American soil is the only way to make
farming and manufacturing equally re-
munerative.
The coal mined in the United States
last year was worth $25O,OOO,OOO. That
Is about ten times as much as the sill
yer product was worth. What a fuss
about the trifing item Of silver.
Sam Jones, who Is n Southern free
silyerite himself, after hearing the At
lanta effort says that Bryan's lectures
are not worth 10 cents dozen. What
n pity he did not close more contracts
for $1,000 appearances.
The banks which have failed are nine
out Of ten either boom banks or mis-
managed banks, or smaller banks tied
up in business sense with the larger
ones which failed. There has been
nothing in such failures to cause un-
easiness. 49,
The Atlanta papers are now scold-
ing Mr.. Bryan. They say he had no
right to endanger great cause by be-
coming the hireling of theatrical specu-
lators. They say that Mr.. Bryan ought
not to have had an ambition to earn
$500 in fifty nights. And that after
he had earned It, he might have chang
ed his theories on national finances.
Poor Bryantl Poor free silver caussi
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

None but those whom free trade has
left born without sight and the desire
to see can fail to notice, as the tariff
hearings proceed, how far we have got
from the old days when protection was
synonymous In the minds OF Its foes
with the advantage of manufacturers.
With a few exceptions, the insistent
demand for relief, the note of acute dis
tress, have come from the raw mate
riap men-the planter, the forester and
the farmer. We have noted before that
the sugar question was In Its most I'M
portant bearing an agricultural. not an
Industrial one. We have observed since
then that--much to the distress of Cen
eral Wheeler, who fought four years
for slavery and now announces that
free trade, free institutions, free ev-
erything, are the birthright OF the
South"-the Southern cotton grower
is quite as much alive to the competi-
ton Of Egypt as the New England
cotton spinner to that Of Manchester.
We have observed that the loudest com
plant came>from representative of
West Virginia land owners. who point
ed eloquently to the tall pines rotting
on the mountains for lack of market,
which, with the Democratic party's
compliments, had been handed over to
our good Canadian neighbors. We have
observed most lately that the farmers
of Kentucky and Missouri are fairly
clamOrous for duty on hemp-a most
interesting revelation, In view of the
fact that four years ago thousands Of
farmers votes were captured by the
promise Of the fortunes that lay in the
cheap twiLes and bagging of free hemp
and jute. We have observed all these
things, and yet some Of the most Inn
portant agricultural staples the protec-
ton of which was either destroyed or
decreased by the Wilson bill, are yet
to be heard from. Such are wool, bar
ley and potatoes.
Our friends the enemy will do well to
notice these things. The beginnings OF
them were plain enough last spring,
liticar organizations Of the towns the
nomination OF William Mckinley. They
are so plain now that 1t will be bad
politics"-if the free-trade Democracy
still considers itself in politics-to avoid
seeing them. 1t was always criminal
to raise the cry of "robber' against the
one producing class which was suppos-
ed to be chiefly benefited by protection.
Organism was the result of that Grim
inality. Now that so larger portion Of
all producing classes are seeking that
benefit, it will be fatally foolish to raise
the same cry against any ciass.-New
York Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
What Girls Are Doing.

On Saturday evening they are to have
fagot party. This form Of amuse-
ment has not been heard of for many
years, and may be very old idea re-
vived. Immediately after dinner-that
Is to say. after the men have finished
their cigars and cigarettes-the guests
all assemble in the wingroom and
are seated in a semicircle around a
blazing open wood fire. A small bunch
of fagots Is given to each one, and in
turn they put them into the fire to burn.
While they are burning they must EN-
terrain the party in some way or an
other, either by singing song, reciting
something. telling good story, exc
cutting a dance-in tact, anything which
will be amusing. The time allotted to
each one is only while the fagots are
burning. When the light goes out he
or she must stop and make way for the
next. Some very amusing surprises
have been prepared, and there is no
doubt that much latent talent, which
has never been suspected, will come to
the fore.-Harper's Bazaar.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

4mvcIeottnX AeCOTus
Secretary of State Gardner has issued
an interesting census bulletin concerning
the Michigan-born population of the
State.
| The total population of the State on
June 1, 1895, was 2,241, 641. OF this total
1,253, 496 were born in Michigan. The
Michigan-born were $500 per cent of the
total, and 1902 per cent of the native
population of the State. The Michigan
born population of Incorporated cities was
416,S47. This is SOFT per cent of the
total and 1888 per cent of the native pop
ulation of the cities.
OF the total Michigan-born population,
4.36 per cent were under year old; 1890
per cent were under years old; 37.43
per cent under 10 years old, and $3.50
per cent under Is years old. More than
one-half of the Michigan-born population
was under Is years old, nearly two-thirds
under 20, and three-fourths under %
years old. The average age of the Michi-
gan-born males was II 10 years and of the
Michigan-born females 1928 years. The
number of Michigan-born males was $685.
071, or 5O.74 per cent, and of females 617, :
525, or 1926 per cent of the total Michi-
gan-born. The number of school age was
561, 423-2S4, GAO males and 276,774 fe-
males; the number of males of voting age
was POS, TIA, and of military age 3O3,373,
and the number of females of child-bear-
ing age, 252,55O.
The civil condition of the Michigan-born
population is reported as follows: Single,
92S. 244 married, 2S4,556; widowed, 49,
933; divorced, 1852. The civil condition
of IL persons is not reported. The single
are 1897 per cent; the married, 22.IO per
cent; the widowed, LII per cent, and the
divorced % per cent of the Michigan
born.
The number of Michigan-bo inhabit-
ants old enough to legally marry is $780,
1873, Of whom 253, sos are males and 281,-
535 females. Of the males 126,913, or
5O.O7 per cent, and of the females 151 800,
or $3.50 per cent, are married.
Of the total native population old
enough to legally marry $3.50 per cent
of the males and 61.29 per cent of the fe-
males are married. The proportion, then,
of the Michigan-born males who are mar
ried is 9.73 per cent less than the proper
ton of all native males, and the proper
ton of Michigan-born females who are
married is $50 per cent less than the pro-
portion of all native females.
The proportion of the Michigan-born
females returned as married is $50 per
cent greater than of the Michigan-born
males, while of all native females return
ed as married the proportion is only 1.49
per cent greater than of all native males.
Of persons old enough to legally marry,
in 1000 native males sos are married; in
1000 native females 613 are married; in
1000 foreign-born males CSC are married;
in 1000 foreign-born females 71S are mar
ried; in LOO. Michigan-born males sol
are married, and in 1000 Michigan-born
females 500 are married
In 1000 Michigan-born males old
enough to legally marry there are 81 less
married than in all native males, and 1S5
less than in all foreign-born males. In
1000 Michigan-born females old enough
to legally marry there are "a less married
than in all native females, and $50 less
than in all foreign-born females.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21

hay rake for. The cow tore the
clothes almost off the mayor of the
town, who rushed Into the Office so mad
that he forgot to stop the paper, but he
scared the devil so bad that he stopped
his growth. Sometimes there would
be an auction at the Office, and Squires
would stand on the bed of the Fair
haven press and sell n lot of truck so
there would be room in the Office to get
out the paper, but he never got stuck
on anything and finally sold out for
big figure on the strength of his
profits, which quit with him.-Grafton
Record.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Growers Charges False.

President Cleveland, in the part of
his message relating to pensions, said
that "the abuses which have been al
lowed to creep into our pension system
have done incalculable harm In demon
alizing our people and undermining
good citizenship." That there should not
be cases Of fraud in a pension roll con-
tanning 970,67S names would be impos-
sible; but Mr.. Cleveland's insinuatiOn
finds no support in the figures relative
to prosecutions for frauds in getting
pensions which are also found In his
message. During the fiscal year only
$50 indictments were reported for vio-
lation Of the pension laws, and under
these indictments only 167 were con-
vlcted. Either the Presidents prescott
ing officers and pension inspectors are
not faithful in the discharge of their
duties or the President Is making false
charges.