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GREAT BRlTAIN's FINANCES.
EXPENDITURES INCREASING AT
AN ALARMING RATE.
Parliament Must Either Increase
Taxation OF Discover New
Sources of Revenue.

LONDON, April 13.-The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, presented the budget in the
House of Commons to-day.
The House was crowded when he rose
to make his speech. He said the try
ing periods of last years Spanish
American war and the difficulties on the
Niger and Nile had no prejudicial effect
upon the country's revenues, the result
for the year being a small surplus.
Continuing, the Chancellor of the Ex-
cheuuer said he confessed to being dis
appointed with the tobacco receipts;
that if they were able to leave tobacco
alone he felt confident of an increase
of revenue from the increased consump-
ton.
He estimated the expenditures for the
coming year at tll2,92i,OO0, an
increase of f6,O9S,O0O over last
year, the total increase of expenditures
during the last four years being no less
than e19076,O00 If this increase was
to continue, the speaker pointed out,
Parliament must agree to large in
crease in taxation. or discover new and
productive sources of revenue, or the
result would be a reaction against great
expenditures. and he feared that such
reaction might impair the efficiency
of the defensive services TO the point
in which they unhappily stood during
the last generation.
The Chancellor continued: 'We
must, however. be hopeful that the APP
preaching conference of the Powers,
who are animated by desire for peace,
may devise a check for this terrible in
crease in armaments, so wasteful of
our ability, energy and money, from
which even the wealthiest nations may
we'll pray to be delivered. (Cheers.)
.'At the same time, if the expenditure
ON the armament is reduced, I am con-
WINGED that we shall have to increase it
in another direction. I fear the expen-
diture of the present year cannot be re-
garded as merely temporary.
1.-The sum of f7, 10000, the largest on
record, will be available for the re-
duction of the debt"
The new sinking fund, the Chancellor
said, will, in consequence of various in
creases. augment until it reached Co.
214. 600 in 1905. 1t was never intend
ed that the fund should increase to such
an extent. He proposed to prolong the
savings bank terminable annuity,
amounting TO I@,zoU,ooo' lroin Marcn,
1902, to 1911.
The market for consols to be pur-
chased by the Government, the speaker
also pointed out, had been dangerously
narrowed, which had the appreciable
effect of raising the price of consols,
and by purchasing the Government was
practically increasing the price against
itself Persistence in the policy, he
added, constituted a real danger
I'm the true interests of the sinking
fund.- the Chancellor then remarked,
"we shall not only prolong the savings
bank annuity and set up ether annui-
ties beside, but we shall reduce the
fixed debt charges from T25,000O00 to
f23, 600 000.'
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servatives and National Liberals. and
asks the Government for information
regarding the events in Samoa which
have injured German interests SO Sc
riously," and also requests information
regarding the measures taken or IN
tended to be taken by the Government
under the circumstances.
The Interpolation on Samoa, to which
the Minister of Foreign Affairs has
consented to reply, will be the first
subject taken up at Fridays session OF
the Reichstag.
TERMS OF INSTRUCTIONS NOT
YET AGREED UPON.
LONDON, April 13.-Answering
question in the House of Commons to-
day, the Hon. ST. John Broderick, Par
liamentary Secretary for the Foreign
Office, said that negotiations were pro-
ceeding between the three Powers, and
therefore papers on the Samoan sub
ject could not be presented to the
House.
1t is asserted that the statement that
the Marquis of Salisbury has unre-
servedly adhered to the principle OF
unanimity of the decisions of the Sa-
moan Commission is incorrect. Theques-
tion as to the extent in which unanim-
ity is necessai-y has still to be settled,
and certain reservations will probably
be made by Great Britain. The exact
terms of the instructions to the Com
missioners have not yet been agreed
upon.
NEW ZEALAND TENDERS ASSIST
ANCE.
LONDON, April 13.-The Premier of
New Zealand, the Right Hon. R. G
Sedden. has cabled to the Agent Cen
eral of New Zealand here, the Hon.
w. P. Reeves, saying:
1--WE deeply regret the adversely
which has overtaken our forces in Sa-
moa Inform the Secretary of State
that New Zealand will do anything to
render assistance in the emergency
which has arisen. Our steamer is
awaiting orders at Auckland. The Dep
uty Governor has communicated to the
Admiralty at Sydney that the Mildora,
a British third-class cruiser detailed
for the protection of floating trade IN
Australasian waters, is on her way TO
Raratonga with the Governor.
The comment of the afternoon news
papers on the Samoan situation is
mostly a repetition of the remarks
made in the editorial columns of the
morning papers.
The "Globe' declares that the main
tenance of the German Consul at his
post is an act of. apparent unfriendli-
ness, which requires to be explained
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SMALLPOX ON THE LAIN.
Ten Gases Reported When Steamer
Reached New York.

NEW YORK, April 13.-When the
North German Lloyd steamer Lain ar
rived to-day from Bremen and South
ampton with 81 cabin and 2S3 steerage
passengers, the ships surgeon reported
ten cases of smallpox on board, three
of the cases being infants in arms. The
disease broke out in the steerage two
days after the Lahn left port. NO
deaths have been reported.
The patients and the mothers of the
three infants were transferred from the
ships hospital to the Riverside Hospi-
tal on North Brother Island. The re-
naming 270 steerage passengers were
transferred to Hoffman, Island, where
they viii be detained until all danger
from Infection is passed, that is, four
teen days from their last exposure.
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eomrade, received the following dis
patch from Secretary Long Of the Navy
Department to-day in answer to an in
quiry for information as to the details
of his sons death:
Washington Cd. CD, April 13.-
James Monaghan, San Diego, CAL:
Have no information except such as
appears in the published dispatch of
Admiral Kautz and the press dis
patches Let me express my profound
sympathy with you. i trust it is some
consolation that your gallant son died
in the discharge of his duty, and that
the world recognizes his crowning hero
ism. JOHN D. LONG,
Secretary of the Navy
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Repudiates the Story.

ST. LOUIS. April 13.-Ever since the
purported decision of Judge Thomas H.
Peabody of the Court of Criminal Con-
viction, justifying wife beating by a
husband of wife under certain circum-
stances. gained publicity, the Judge has
received hundreds of condemnatory let
ters from persons in various parts of
the country. To-day Judge Peabody
came out in card, utterly repudiating
the whole report as false, and adds that
he always severely punished wife beat
ers and the abusers of children ar
raigned before him.
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COLLIER BRUTUs.
Her Destination Not Yet Known
TO the Public.

some misunderstanding in the Eastern
cities concerning the mission of the col
lier Brutus, which sailed from this port
some days ago under sealed orders.
Dispatches to local papers have, it that
the Brutus is bound for Apia, and that
she took a company of marines for SER
vice at Samoa. Although there is no
certainty about the destination of the
vessel, she certainly did not take more
men than were necessary to act as her
crew. She shipped eight officers and
fifty sailors, engineers, etc, and no
marines We're assigned to her The
opinion here is that the vessel is bound
for Guam, and not, for Samoa.
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Death of a Baseball Player.

GRASS VALLEY, April 13ACharles
Dial, one of the best-known baseball
players in California, died here to-day
of brain fever. Last Sunday he was
struck just above the right ear by
pitched ball, which knocked him sense
less. His condition was not regarded
as serious at the time, but Tuesday
night the attending physicians decided
that the trephaning operation was nee
essary. They found the skull badly
indented and the brain badly bruised.
blood clots being present. Dial failed
to rally from the operation.
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WOMAN AND CHILD DROWNED
A Sad Accident Occurs at a Water
Company's Reservoir.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13. = At
Lake Merced, one of the reservoirs Of
the Spring Valley Water Company, to-
day, two lives, that of a little girl and
her aunt, were lost The little girl was
playing on the edge of the lake, and in
an attempt to secure some object float
ing near the shore, lost her balance
and fell into the water. A party Of
picnickers, one of whom was the little
girls aunt heard her screams and
rushed to the lake. The aunt, Mrs.
Williams, plunged into. the water to
save her niece, but got beyond her
depth, and both We're drowned before
aid could be procured The child's
name was Wood
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Fatal Runaway Accident.

SAN DIEGO, April 13.-In a RUNAWAY
accident this afternoon, caused by the
driver of a vehicle with six men in it
dropping one of the lines, all were
thrown violently to the street. and
Judge p. c. Shannon of Pittsburg, Pa,
formerly United States District Judge
of Dakota, received injuries which it is
feared will result fatally.
Judge P. c. Shannon, the victim Of
to-day's runaway accident, died at 10
o'clock tonight
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A Wealthy Woman in Jail.

SANTA BARBARA, April 13.-Mrs
Frances Broome, a wealthy but eccen-
trio English woman residing in this
city, resisted the City Marshars efforts
to carry out the orders of the Council
in removing an obstructing fence and
hedge in the street fronting her prop
erty. She was armed with a pickax
She attacked the MarshaPs forces when
they began work this morning. Mar
shall Martin received an ugly scratch
on the hand She is now in Jail She
refuses to accept bail, and threatens a
damage suit.
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San Francisco data: Maximum tenn
perature 62, minimum 4S, mean 55
The weather is partly cloudy over the
Pacific slope this evening. Light rain
has fallen along Puget Sound and over
the Rocky Mountain region
The pressure has risen over the west
ern portion of the country during the
day. An area of high pressure is cen
trail off the Oregon coast, while the
lowest pressure IS reported from South
ern Nevada
The temperature has risen along the
coast. and fallen over the plateau and
Rocky Mountain regions
Conditions are favorable for fair
weather in California Friday.
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LoUBET TO M'KINLEY.
The French Presidents Reply t.
Americas Chief Executive.

WASHINGTON, April 13.--The State
Department to-day made public the fol-
lowing message from President Loubet
of France, in reply to that sent yester-
day by President Mckinley:
Paris, April 12.-To His Excellency,
William Mckinley. President of the
United States, Washington: / am
deeply touched by the sentiments which
your excellency was pleased to express
to me on the occasion of the signing
of the ratification of the treaty of peace
by the United States and Spain, and I
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Admiral Kautz's Wife.

Los ANGELES, April 13. = Mrs.
Kautz, the wife of Admiral Kautz of
the Philadelphia now at Samoa. and
Mrs. Miller, wife of Flag Lieutenant
Miller on the Philadelphia, were in
the city to-day, having come up from
Coronado. where they have been since
the Philadelphia sailed from that port.
They left tonight for San Francisco.
where they will remain, to be in closer
touch with Samoan news.
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Death of a Young Englishman.

PRESCOTT (Ariz.), April 13. = T. G.
Barlow Massicks, a wealthy young
Englishman, died here this morning at
the Sisters Hospital from the effect of
a wound received last May by the az
cidental discharge of his pistol. He
was Superintendent of the Catoctin
mine. He was the owner of the Lynx
Creek Hydraulic Works, the most val
liable mining property in the Terri
tory.
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Smallpox Stamped Ont.

of smallpox have been found in the
city since April 7th, and there have
been no suspects since Sunday last.
The health authorities state that the
disease has been stamped out here, and
they look for no more cases.
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Suit for Purchase Price of Land.

Los ANGELES, April 13-The Gov
ernment. through its special attorney
here, brought a suit this afternoon in
the United States Circuit Cuort to re-
cover the purchase price of about &C.
900 acres of land sold by the Southern
Pacific Company to settlers, and ac-
cording to a recent decision belonging
to the public domain and not to the
railroad company at the time of sale.
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DRUGGIST GATES DEATH.
The Coroner's Jury Returns Ver-
dict That It Was Accidental.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-Coroner
Hill and a jury to-day investigated the
death of Druggist A.. L. Gates of Fol-
som Prison, who was found dead in
bed yesterday at the Lick House, hav-
ing been asphyxiated by gas.
The inquest was held at the under
taking parlor to which the body was
removed yesterday by permission of the
Coroner
Very little light was thrown upon the
affair by the testimony presented, and
Miss Ida Kleinhans, to, whom Gates
was engaged, stated that she had not
quarreled with him on Tuesday even
ing, when he spent some hours with
her.
The jury, after a short deliberation,
returned a verdict of accidental death.
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heartily thank you therefor. desire to
assure your excellency of the sincere
desire of the Government of this re-
public and it's President constantly to
draw closer the bonds of traditional
friendship which have SO long united
the two great republics.
EMILE LOUBET."
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Two Men Seriously Burned.

b ST. LOUIS, April l3.--A shack in
which ten young people We're sleeping
over the effects of debauch was
burned. Basil Carroll is dying of his
burns James Kennerfick was seri-
ously burned. The remaining escaped
with slight burns and blisters.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The Temperature Has Risen All
Along the Coast

SAN FRANCISCO. April 13.-5 p. M
Weather conditions and general fore
cast. The following are the seasonal
rainfalls to date as compared with
those of same date last season and rain
fall in last twenty-four hours:
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ENSIGN MoNAGHAN's DEATH.
Dispatch From Secretary Long t.
the Naval Officers Father.

SAN DIEGO. April 13.-James Mon
Afghan, father of Ensign Monaghan of
the Philadelphia, who was killed at
Apia while attempting to aid wounded
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Police Commission Bill Defeated.

ALBANY On. ", April 13.-The bill
to create the single headed Police Com
mission in New York has been defeated
in the Senate Committee of the Whole
% TO o5
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ADVICES FROM HONOLULU.
THE sCRYMsER CABLE co. CON-
TRACT CANCELLED.
The Action Taken on a Letter From
Secretary of State Hay Declin-
ing to Consider the Matter.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 13.-The
steamer City of Rio de Janeiro arrived
to-day from Hongkong and Yokohama
via Honolulu. The Associated Press
representative at Honolulu sends the
following news under date of April
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Continued on Eighth Page.)
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
Humorous.

The vane on the church
steeple SAYS the wind is east. >
We'll, that is pretty high au-
thority. Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Trainer-"Hit him like a
nail" Pugilist-'IIilsc Il nail?"
Trainer-"Yes, on the head, /"
Herald.
We are worried about Julia !;
she got out of a sick bed to go
to the Matinee" How could
she?' She had to go; she had
a ticket. N. O. Times Demo-
Crat.
A West Union woman called
in the doctor to see her hus,
band, not because he seemed
sick, but because he didn't want
to go to the circus. West I'm
ion Gazette.
Il have never met" he said,
''more than two really lovely
women" "Ahw she said, look
ing up innocently into his face,
who was the other ?"-Chicago
Journal.
The Day After.-Grogan-
I'm feeling terrible to-day
Horgan-"Congratulate you,
old boy. You must have had a
mighty good dinner yesterday"
Boston Transcript.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
Miscellaneous Items.

There are Il Chinese temples
in the United States.
During the siege Of Paris but
ter was sold at so a pound.
Three thousand marriages
are performed every day all
over the world.
There are 672 known volca-
noes in the world, of which go
are active.
a speck of gold weighing
less than one-millionth part of
Il grain can be seen with the
naked eye.
The heart beats ten strokes a
minute less when one is lying
down then when one in an up
right posture.
Emperor Charles V. carried
a watch in 1880 that weighed q
pounds. In such a case it is
proper to say only carried,
such L watch is never worn.
Most Chinese mandarins pass
the whole OF their lives with
out taking a single yard of eX,
erCiSe. Under no circumstances
whatever is mandarin
ever seen on foot in his, own
jurisdiction.
A woman without arms has
been married at Christ Church,
New Zealand. The ring was
placed upon the forth toe of
her left foot. A similar mar.
riage' to this was performed at
st. James church, Bury st.
Edmun'sin 1882. The ring was
placed on one of the BRIDES toes
between which she grasped a
pen and signed the marriage
register.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
Carnegie Steel.

Carnegie has secured an or
der for 40, 900 tons of steel rails
for the Cape at IL shillings per
ton, under the English tenders.
And yet this same Carnegie
through bis Republican party
enjoys IL protective or prohlbi-
ton tariff in this country. If
Carnegie or anyone else can
manufacture steel in any of it's
forms, ship it to the Cape and
sell it at a profit to the English
and at the sLu7e time cheaper
than the English can make and
ship it, then it necessarily fol
lows that the buggaboo English
and tariff as presented the peo.
pie is both a bowling farce and
Il fraud.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19

ever made. He didn't have
anything to shoot with, but he
had something else that beat Il
cannon all hollow. / didn't
know then what he did, but l
know now that he made the dis
tress signal Of Il master mason
You could have knocked me
down with a feather when saw
those men begin climbing into
their saddles and saw them ride
ont into the road and fix up The
old mans fence.
Then several officers came
galloping up the drive and stop
ped at the gate. The old man
clambered down from his perch
on the post and then there was
a most fraternal hand shake all
around.
The old fellow invited all of
them into the house, and | tell
you | felt mighty squeamish
when they came onto the porch
where [ WIS. One of them said
something about my being lucky
enough not to have been born in
time to have 4 share in all he
trouble, and then they all went
into the hOuse and had a drink
of old apple brandy. When
they came out the old colonel
told his entertainer that guard
would be placed at the gate
down at the road and that his
property should not be disturb
ed. They gall0pcd away and l
went III and packed away under
my belt as much cornbread and
tat meat as | could hold. J
then struck out and caught up
with our army. The next day
we surrendered at Appomattox.
The really remarkable fact
about all this, it seems to me
now, is that when I took the
degree in masonry and
learned what it was that the
old did to hold Sheridan's
troops In check. he himself
helped to confer the degree. -
Richmond Dispatch.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
Profit In Sheep.

A Shepherd can make from
% per cent. to so per cent. on
his investment in mutton sheep,
according to his skill. A good
breeding eve can produce
enough wool to pay for keeping
her. a eve can be kept IN
thrifty condition, being fed suclf
coarse folders as straw, clover
hay and corn fodder, with one
half pound Of grain daily when
she requires it, at a cost Of one
cent per dag, during the period
of most expensive feeding. To
pay for her keep size needs 10
produce no more than ten
pounds of good wool, and that
a mutton eve can do. In a1di.
ton to the wool the returns
from a eve will be at least one
lamb-the average of the NUT
ron breeds is nearer one and
one half. From The facts de-
rived from our experimental
work it is safe to say that,
charging foods at market prices,
mutton can be put on the market
on foot for at least three cents
per pound. Such mutton as
can be furnished at that cost
will sell for six cents, and the
sheep should weigh $50 pounds.
Here is profit Of $3.50 from a
sheep under the most moderate
circumstances. | have known
ewes of mutton breeding to pro-
duce each year Il clear profit Of
ten to fifteen dollars.-Western
PloWman.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
1908 Exposition.

The Post-Dispatch was the
first to propose such (World's
Fair in 1903 Il celebration and
the first to point out that a
great Worlds Fair would be
the most suitable and compre-
hensive means of celebrating
p. d., 1-12, 1899. Wrong you
are brother for the Monroe City
DEMOCRAT sprung the question
more than twelve months
ahead of you as its file will
show. But it is a good thing
and the NJ. G. D. will help you
push it to a successful termina.
ton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
Hints For Stockmen.

Feed some choppe@ feed, with
meal, to the hogs.
The work horse should have
plenty Of good grooming.
1t seems that green Kaffir
corn is a dangerous thing for
cattle to eat.
The Morgan horse, we think,
is, taking it all around, the best
farm horse.
The whole science of butter
making seems to reyOlve around
the question of cleanliness.
Very much is said about feed
ing warm water TO cows. The
same principle applies to swine.
Cooked or steamed food does
the COW an immense amount of
good.
AS pigs increase in age it may
be well to increase slightly the
roportion of corn in order to
make the ration Il little more
carbonaceous toward the finish
ing period.
With good dry bed and a
good dry feeding-ror IN that is
warm and light and kept clean,
the pigs will do well to be con
fined to these two compartments
until they are six months old,
when they should weigh not
less than $50 pounds each
Western PloWman.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19

A bell which was used on
the Merrimac before it was sunk
has been presented to William
Jewell College, by Captain Mil
Ter, former student Of that in
stitution. Of learning,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19
8r1gadier Gen. Egan.

Gen. Egan is being severely
criticised for the severe
Language used before the Alger
War Commission. And the
Alger Commission is being just
as roundly condemned by public
men for allowing Egan to with.
draw his statement. 1t is re-
garded as an effort to let the
War Department escape from
demanding 4 court-martial on
the ground that it has not
official information of Egan's
Offense. In TACT the War
Department dares not demand
the courtmartial for fear Of
further exposure.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-01-19

Witnesses before the Investi-
eating Committee were prom
ised protection by President
Mckinley. Because Gen. Egan
said: Gen. Miles lies in his
throat, lies in his heart, lies in
every hair of his head and every
pore of his body, He lies will
fully. deliberately and ma.
liCiously." The evidence is to
be suppressed and Egan either
court martialed or dishonora.
bly, discharged. Slppressing
evidence will never throw light
on the subject, bring the guilty
to- the bar of justice, nor wash
the filth from the skirts of the
Secretary of War. II is being
conceded by the best and high
est men in Washington, that
Alger iG largely to blame for
both cause and effect. Let no
guilty man escape. Grant.