Youngstown News, 1895-04-19

              The Youngstown News. VOL. XV. YOUNGSTOWN, N. APRIL 19, 1895. NO. 10. INCOME TAX DECISION. New Law Declared Constitutional on All Points Excepting Two. THE COURT IS EQUALLY DIVIDED. Tax on Beal Estate and Municipal and State Bond* Exempted---No Opinion Given on Main Point* and Cat* Remanded to the tower Court*—Effect of the Decision on the It even ue—Revised Estimates. Intense interest was displayed In the result of the Income tax suits before the United States Supreme Court at Washington. Chief Justice Fuller read the decision and announced that the Court was evenly divided on the main question, and had no opinion on the law. Therefore the case was remanded to the lower courts. The Chief Justice, however, announced that the Court decided that a tax on rents and also on State and municipal bonds is unconstitutional. The division of the Court was not publicly announced by Chief Justice Fuller, but It was asfollows: Against the law—Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices Field, Oray and Brewer. For the law—Justices Harlan, Shlras Brown and White. Against taxing incomes from rente, six to two. Against taxing State and municipal bonds, seven to one. Chief Justice Fuller said that the Court could find no difference between a tax on land itself and a tax on rents or income derived from land. The Court, therefore, was of opinion that a tax on rents or landed investments was a direct tax and unconstitutional.The Court next decided that the tax was unconstitutional so far as it related to lnoomes from State, county or municipal bonds. It was next ruled that the fact that the law was pronounced unconstitutional in these two particulars did not invalidate the law as a whole. It was announced that in this latter conclusion the Court was equally divided and therefore rendered no opinion. The lower Court having ruled in favor of the law by a divided Court, the law would stand except as to rent and State, county and municipal bonds, and on these two points it was directed that the judgment below be reversed. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER. DISSENTINC OPINIONS. Synopses of the Conclusions Beached by Justices Field, White and Harlan. Justice Field had a dissenting opinion which was largely devoted to a review of the provision rega iing'rents, And was a vigorous denunciation of the principle sought to be established by the Income Tax law, his conclusions being in conformity with those an* nounced by the Chief Justice. He also attacked the law on aocount of the lack of uniformity, and dwelt upon its exemptions and discriminations, which were, he said, class legislation. He devoted especial attention to the exemptions of savings banks, mutual insurance companies, and building and loan associations. Hβ quoted census figures to show the extent of the operations of these companies, and said that If those facts were not convincing Congress could not be convinced, "though one rise from the dead." Ho took issue with those who contended that there could be no legitimate limitation upon the power of Congress to impose taxes. Hβ finished by saying: "I em of the opinion that the whole law of 1891 Is null and void." Justice White followed in a second dissenting opinion. He laid stress on the fact that the law does not exempt Judges of United States Courts from the payment of the tax. It was not light, he said, that the Supreme Court should remain silent and make no protest when many United States Judges drawing small salaries would be affeeted because of the law, and he called attention to the letter once written by Chief Justice Chase to the Treasury officials, protesting against the deduction of an income tax from the salaries of United States Judges. Justice Harlan read the next and last dissenting opinion. He Iβ of the opinion that ''upon principle, as well as under the former decisions of this Court, a tax on gains, profits, and income derived from rente of land, is not a direct tax on land and that the Interest on income from bonds is the subject of National taxation. Upon the two questions referred to, and to which alone, eo far as the merits are concerned, the opinion of the Chief Justice Is directed, I am in entire accord with Mr. Justice White. I Bay nothing about the questions upon which the Court is equally divided, because in respect to those questions the opinion of the Chief Justice is silent." Instantly the opinion was made known its effect was discussed. It means that new suits will be brought in the Courts below to test the oonstitutionnllty of these points in the law not decided. Income Redueed One-Half. The effect of the Supreme Court decision! In the Income Tax law, so far as the Treasury Department officials can determine, will bo a reduction of about one-half in the revenue originally estimated as obtainable from that, source, thus making the ennual revenue toj be expected about $15,000,000. The original! estimate of 930,000,000 per year was based on the assumption that the law would be heldi to be constitutional h< r>Uits provisions. Collectors of internal revenue will be notl-i fled of the decision and instructed to makei whatever corrections m»y be necessary through the decision in the blank forms fur-j niehed them by the Commissioner of Internal! Bevenue. I No new forms will be ia»e<J, unrt the work of preparation for collection of the tax will! proceed without delay. A CRISIS IN SCANDINAVIA. The Situation Iγ Norway and Sweden Very Serious. An open rupture of the relations between Norway and Sweden is imminent. In connection therewith it is reported in Berlin that should the two kingdoms resort to force, Emperor William would take up arms rather than permit the threatened interference of Russia. Hβ is said to have promised King Oscar as much. Russia's attitude to the conflict is In doubt, but as usual she is suspected of designs upon Norway. The estimates to the Storthing have been published,'and have caused much comment. They gave fresh impetus to the wild rumors of an impending war between Norway and Sweden. The/estimates far exceed any previous Bums required. The sum of $1,000,000 is to be voted to construct ironclads. In addition, large credits were asked for the purchase of munitions of war and for the completion of the forts of Toneberg Harbor. Norway and Sweden are matched, not mated. The union of the kingdoms never was thoropgh, and of late years the tiee which bind them have galled Norway. The apparent cause of the present differences, which threaten to bring on war, is Norway's demand for separate consuls. The real cause is an unconquerable desire for Independence. Under the present system of government the foreign relations are controlled by a Swede. A Norwegian may hold any Cabinet office, except that of Foreign Minister. As Norway has extensive shipping Interests she wants a share in the management of the Foreign Office and 'demands that a Norwegian consul be sent to every consular port. It was reported that King Oscar had virtually proposed to gratify these desires, but he has refused to submit to dictation by the Norwegian Radicals in regard to reorganizing the Council of State. ■■"""■ KINO OSCAB OF SWEDES. TWO BUILDINCS COLLAPSE. Six Persons Killed In an Accident In Wheeling, \V. Va. A few minutes past 8 o'clock a. m. the two live-story buildings, 1220 and 1222 Main street. Wheeling, W. Va., occupied by T. T. Hutchlsson & Co., wholesale hardware and saddlery dealers, and W. H. Chapman & Sone, wholesale painters' and builders' supplies, collapsed, burying ten men beneath the ruins. The debris took lire from a natural gas leak, and, a dense cloud of smoke arising, the efforts of the rescuers woro greatly impeded. The dead are: Father F. H. Parke, Vicar-General of West Virginia Diocese and chaplain of Bit. Dechantel, the Catholic seminary at Wheeling. Benjamin Pritchard, carriage builder, of Buckbannon, W. Va.; Robert Winoher, employe of Hutohisson * Co.; Eugene Birch, employe of Hutchiseon A Co.; Michael Horan, employe of Hutchlsson * Co.; Harry Cowl, Western Union messenger boy. The injured are: T. T. Hutohisson, member of the hardware house of Hutchlsson A Co., two ribs broken and head out; M. J. Ford, employe of Hutohisson & Co., slightly bruised and out; O. E. Williams, carpenter, head cut and severely bruised about body; O. W. Clifton, carpenter. The cause of the collapse was the defective construction of the Hutchlsson building, which was condemned two years ago. At the hour mentioned the employee in HutcbJsson's heard an ominous cracking, and without further warning the alley wall fell, carrying with it the entire structures of both buildings. Only the rear wall remained standing. A general alarm brought the Fire Department to the scene. Blinded and suffocated by the dense smoke, the firemen worked herocially, and in about two hours the first victim wae rescued. He was M. J. Ford, who was comparatively uninjured. He was lying directly across Benjamin Prltchard, who was dead. A medical examination showed that he had been killed by being crushed about the cheet. No more bodies were found until 6.30 o'clock p. in., when the body of Father Parke was taken out of the debris. The fire gained so that the firemen first had to give their entire attention to subduing It. After twelve hours' hard work they got the flames under control. Both building 3, together with the stocks, area total loss. When the first wall fell it broke off clear down to the foundation, and not one stone was left upon another. Altogether the loss will amount to over 9200,000. Father Parke, who was the oldest Catholic priest in West Virginia, was not in either of the buildings, but was walking up the alley when the crash came. Harry Cowl, the messenger boy, was also killed in the alley while returning from a call. FROM THE REINA REGENTE. A Bottle Containing a Hopeless Message Washed Ashore. A bottle has been washed ashore at Blva Delia, containing the following note written in pencil: "March 10, nino o'clock, evening —No hope of being saved; twelve miles from Eajo Acelteras. (Signed) Segond, cruiser Reina Eegente." The Spanish Government has announced that it will assist the families of the officers and men lost on the Reina Regente. The Official Gazette, Madrid, appeared with a black border, and contained a formal announcement of the loss of the cruiuer Reina Regents, with an expression of the deep sorrow felt by the Queen Regent and the Government over tho disaster. Japan Seizes a British Steamer. it despatch from Shanghai, China,'says that Japan has seized the British steamer Yiksang, with a quarter of a million cartridges, near Taku. The Yiksang's cargo was shipped from there by a respectabl 3 firm as bamboo and steel, and was accept td by the owners of the vessel In good faith. GOVERNOR MARVIL DEAD Delaware's Republican Executive Succeeded bv Watson, a Democrat. A COM PLICATED STATE OF AFFAIRS The Speaker of the Senate Take* the Gubernatorial Chair, There Belng(!No Ueutenant-Governor—Sketch of the Career or the Late Occupant of the Seat —His Successor Inaugurated. After au Illness that had lasted for several months, Governor Joshua Perkins Hopkins Marvil, of Delaware, died at his hbme in Lour«l. Juet before his inauguration a few months before Governor Marvil was stricken with heart trouble, and was too Ul to take any part in the ceremonies of his induction into office. Recently he rallied and there were hopes of his ultimate recovery. When it was thought that he was on the road to re- Kf. h. kabvii. covery erysipelas set in he gradually sank. i .vernor Marvil was born in Sussex County, Delaware, on September 8,1835, and came of an old Delaware family. He was brought up on a farm, and his opportunities to acquire on education were meagre. In early manhood he became a sailor, and later a boatbullder. When he was twenty-eight years old he began the manufacture of agricultural implements. In 1870 he became interested in the manufacture of baskets ana crates for fruit, and built extensive works at Laurel, which have an annual output of two million baskets. Governor Marvil had taken an active interest in Delaware Republican politics for mnny years, but was never a candidate for office until he was nominated for Governor by his party in August last. His term of office would have expired January 1, 189» By the death of the Republican Executive William P. Watson, Speaker of tee Senate, who \a a Democrat, beoomee acting Governor. By the elevation of Mr. Watson to the Gubernatorial chair the Senate of the State becomes a tie, four Republicans and four Democrats. Mr. Watson will not serve out Governor Marvll's unexpired term, but will net aa the Chief Executive of the State until tho next general election in November, 1806. What effect the death of Governor Marvil will have upon the United States Senate cantest being waged in the Legislature beUen Higgins and Addioks is difficult to forecast. If the Legislature of the State falls to elect the acting Governor of the State can nominate a Senator, but the United States Senate has decided against admitting such Senators. One of the last official- acts of Governor Marvil was to appoint James D. Bptcer, a young man in whom he taken a great interest, State Librarian, but when Secretary of State Smithers brought the commission for his signature, the Governor was unable to sitru it. More than a dozen offices were left vacant in tuis way. Watson Becomes Governor. William T. Watson, Speaker of the State Senate, took the oath of office of Governor of Delaware in the Senate at 12.30 o'clock p. m. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Governor Marvil. The oathwwatst administered by Chanoellor Wolcott. Watson will ettll be a Senator, but will not aot. William T. Records was chosen Speaker pro tempore of the Senate. DR. LANSING APOLOGIZES. He Formally Retracts His Charges Against President Cleveland. Tho Bev. Dr. I. J. Lansing, at the Methodist Conference in Salem, Mass., created a sensation by deolaring that President Cleveland was a drunkard and that he could prove it. The speech was published in various newspapers and the President thought it proper to deny, in the most public manner possible, the charge of habitual1 inebriety which was brought against him. The President's statement covers every particular instance of Intoxication alleged by, the Rev. Dr. Lansing. One and all, the charges of the clergyman are denounced by Mr. Cleveland as "wholesale liee and calumnies, not less stupid than they are cruel and wicked." This denial refers not only to the, alleged occurrence at the time of the great naval parade, and to the banquet at which, acccordingto Dr. Lansing, Mr. Cleveland1 was "brilliantly drunk at 10 o'clock, at 12 considerably more so, and at 3 o'clock In the morning very drunk," but also to tho other, occasions mentioned by the clergyman as affording proof of the President's frequent departure from the restraints of perfect selfcontrol and the limits of sobriety. At the Chamber of Commerce dinner on! November 15, 1892, one of the occasions re-j ferred Bev. Dr. Lansing. Dr. Chauncey M. Dopew sat near Mr. Cleveland. "I can say," reports Dr. Depew, "that he was! absolutely sober and in full command of hig faculties.,. At the Reform Club on December 10, 1892, the Hon. Frederic R. Coudert sat next, or almost next to the President. "From ilrst to last." says Mr. Coudert, '"he conducted himself as a gentlemnn, and in ft manner beiitting his high office. To say that he was the worse for drink is to utter a falsehood." Now in corroboration of these gentlemen the Rev. Dr. Lansing has issued a letter o! retraction, in which he says: "To the Press: "My allusion made in a temperance address at Salem on Thursday, April 4, to the drinking habits of the President ot the United States was based partly on common report and partly on the testimony of eyewitnesses. From various and Independent sources, which I believed to be wholly reliable, I have been informed that the President had been seen on different occasions, and in the presence of many persons, in an intoxicated condition. From the circumstantial and detailed character oi these statements I supposed there was no doubt as to the facts alleged. I must, therefore, say that if my statement reproducing such testimony Is not in harmony with facts, I regret having made it I could have neither desire nor motive for saying anything unkind or uncharitable of the President or of any party whatsoever. This, case being one of conflict: of testimony bet wees witnesses of equal credibility I cannot decide, and, slnoe I have no personal knowledge apart from the testimony, I withdraw the statement and tender apologetic and sincere regrets to the President ot the United State and to the public. i. J. Laksiko." Lives on a Letter-Chain. A New York man some time since started I letter-chain to relieve hie financial distress Since then he has invested in some elegant clothes and moved into a handsome JaC PRICE OF BEEF ADVANCED The Ulg Dealers in Chtrnßo S»y the Sup. ply Is Short. Prices of dressed beef have l*>en going up for two weeks. Live beef to the wholesale denier is fifteen per pent, higher in Chicago than it was then. At retail, choice cuts have se" f°nr to five cents a pound, and it is predicted it will require a dollar to buy a Rood steak in h few weeks. The public explanation of the rise offered hy tlie representatives of the Dromd Beef 1 rust is that prime beef cattle are scarce, lne cuange In conditions, tliey say. dates ™OK t(] WJO. when countless herds were destroyed on the ranges by storms. Tlu> destruction of C 00.000.000 bushels of corn Inst year rjy the drought completed what Western storms began. ..If. does not appear by the records, however, mat the receipts of cattle in Chicago have I" « ° uBO At the stock-yards during March and the first week of April, 1894. they were 225.000. Purine the same period mis year they were 205.000—n0t quite ten per cent, decrease. In >!ew York City, nt Wushinßton Miirket. was observed the unusual spectacle of retail • Butchers closing u . th»lr stalls temporarily, or permanently going out of buJaiem. on account of the high price of meal. Two of the oldest butchers in the market closed up and more decided .to follow their example. The butchora say they are now paying more for meat than t ney have for twenty years. Assistant District Attorney Melntyre, of New York City. said his ofliee would proceed against the Chicago meat combine if evidence were put in his hands showing that it is forcing uu the prioeof meat. THE ST. PAUL AFLOAT. A Xatlve-llullt Stenmer far the American Line l.aumhoil. The American liner Sγ. Paul mado ample apology lit Cramps' shipyard. Philadelphia, Fron., foi- refusing to be launched two weeks before. She was launched apparently with the greatest ease. She broke away as the planks that hold bar fast in the launching cradle were being sawed off. She shook her bow perceptibly as she started down the incline, and then with a steady, even motion, far more deliberate than that of her sister ship, St. Louis, she slid into the Delaware. Tho Cramps never had a more successful launching. Mies Frances C. Orisnom, the sixteen-yearold daughter of President Grlscom, of tho International Navigation Company, owners of the St. Paul, christened the ship. The luncheon in the mould loft followed immediately, and soon the rafters of that place wore ringing with laughter and eloquence. Governor Hastings, Mayor Warwick, President Grisoom and Henry W. Cramp made speeches, as did Mr. J. J. Parker and several others of the St. Paul delegation.The St. Paul is a sister ship to the St. Louis, wlilch is soon to go into commission and take her place in the transatlantic fleet. Her lines have speed in every curve, eo that when she was on the ways one could Dot look up at her without the feeling that she was springing forward. Still, she Is not built espocially for speed. Like her sister ship, she baa seventeen watertight compartments. The bulkheads between these compartments are carried well up, and there ore no doors through them. She might be cut entirely in two and her two halves would float. She will be commissioned this summer on the American Line betweon New York and Southanjpton. SPRING FRESHETS. Tlie Delaware anil Hudson Canal Damaged Almost Its Eutii'e Length. Floods in the Hudson, Mohawk, Delaware and Sehuykill Valleys have done great damage.The indications were that it would be a week before business could be resumed on the Delaware and Hudson Canal in New York. Tho freshet damaged the canal nlmost its entire length from Eddyville to Honesdale. In dozens of places for miles the towpath was washed away, and there were several bud washouts, the one ut Ellenville being 1000 feet In length. A fourteen-foot freshet occurred in the Hudson River, at Albany. Comparatively little damage was done. Navigation was practically suspended on the river. The heavy rains submerged all the low lands along the Mohawk River. The river road in Glenville, N. Y. w»9 submerged to a depth of two feet. In Now Jersey the Delaware Kivor was higher than for forty years. Troy, N. Y., WM threatened with a serious freshet from North Woods. Streams through New York State were swelled by rain ami melted snow. Mills along the New Jersey shore of the Busquehanna were compelled to shut down. PEEL'S SUCCESSOR. William Court Gully Klected Speaker of the ISrliixli House of Commons. The British House of Commoas met at noon and proceeded at once to the election of a Speakor to succeed the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, resigned. Mr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the Opposition, said that the Government's support of Mr. Gully wile without precedent, and, he believed, dangerous to the future efficiency of the House. Mr. Gully, he said, was unknown as regards the work of the House, having neithor taken part in its debates nor served on any of its committees. Mr. Gully was elected by a vote of 285 to 274. The l'arnellite members voted for the Conservative candidate, Sir Matthew W. Ridley. Mr. Gully expressed his thanks to the House for his election, and his appreciation of the honor nnd great responsibility which they had conferred upon him. Sir William Harcourt and Mr. Balfour congratulated Mr, Gully on behalf of their respective p»:ties. Train Robber Perry Free. Terry, the noted train robber, whose exploits a few years ago, while trying to rob the car of the Amerioan Express Company on the New York Central Rallrcad, caused great excitement, with four other inmates of the Matteawan (N. Y.) State Asylum, escaped from that institution. They assaulted a keeper and got away through the uruttlo. Tho names of the man were MeGulre, O'Donnell, Qulgloy and Davis. All were dressed alike. A Big Mortgage Recorded. A trust deed lias been recorded in the County Recorder's office ut Bakersfleld, Cal., by the Southern Paolflo Company, transferring all its property, including rolling stock, to the Central Trust Company of New York, the consideration being $58,000,000. Prisoners Are Opium Fiends. " Twenty per cent, of the inmates of the Maslaohusetts State Prison are opium fiends and the warden says it is Impossible to prevent tbe drug being smuggled in to them. JAIL BIRDS GET AWAY. Five Notorious Prisoners Escape From the Matteawan, N. Y., Asylum. A WATCHMAN OVERPOWERED. Bonnil ami (inicKiMl mill UN Key* Taken Away—Escaping: to the I'rleon Hoof nml Thenre to tin- Ground Outnlde—A Noted Train MM Among Thnce Who Took Fronrh Leave—A Capture. Five (if Iho moat dangerous crlmlnnls In New York State, headed by Oliver Curtis Terry, tho famous traiu robber, escaped from tho Matteawan (N. V.> Hospital for Criminal Insane tho other night. The esoaped convicts, besides Perry, were Patrick McGuiro and Michael O'Oonnell, burglars from Now York; John of Astoria, and Frank Davie, of New York. They were confined in the isolation annex, which is reserved for tho most desperate criminals in the asylum. Shortly before midnight Watchman Carmody entered the annex on hie round of inspection. As he passed Perry'e cell the train robbtrthrewopen the door and leaped upon his bnek, while McOuire and Quigley also appeared in the corridor. The watohman wai quickly overpowered and his mouth stuffed full of rags to keep him quiet. Then he was carried into Perry's cell and his keys taken from him. The five prisoners then went into the chapel, where repairs are in progress, and by moans of a scaffolding erected there, got out upon tho roof, which is some twenty feet above the ground. Meanwhile Carmody had Riven the alarm, and the guards were hurried out to head off the men's escape. Four of them had already dropped from the roof and disappeared before the guards appeared, but the lifth man was seen dodging about tho roof. Hβ got over to the other side ot the bnildintc and dropped off before the asylum could be surrounded. Shots were fired after him, but without effect. Keeper Carmody was ' suspended temporarily, pending an investigation by State Superintendent Lathrop. Three Caught. John Qulgley, one of the men who escaped from the Matteawun Asylum with Oliver Curtis Perry, was captured, after being at liberty three days, Iα a ooal oar at New Hamburg, N. V. Hβ confessed, exonerating Institution employee from complicity. Contrary to what everybody supposed, it wos> Patrick Magulre, and not Perry, who was the prime mover in the escape. He was the first one to get out of his cell and it was he who liberated the others. He mndo a skeleton key out of the spoon* furnished him to eat hie meals with. In some unknown manner he got a file, aawed the wire which novCrsd the peep-hole In hit cell door, stuck bin arm through, unlocked the door and was free. Then he unlocked the cells of the others and together they made their escapes. Patrick Magulre and Michael O'Donnoll wero also recaptured forty miles northeast of Mattoawan. and takon back to the prison. One was caught In the woods, tho other in a freight car. Perry's Daring Hold-Ups. Tho exploit for which Perry is most srencrally known was the robbery of the American Express Company's special train between Syracuse and Lyons, on the New York Central Hailroad, on September 30, 1891. This train sometimes carried more than *800,000. Perry effected an entrance into the baggage car by sawing away a bit of the door. He covered Agent Monro with hit gun, and, after taking what he wanted, backed nut of tho car and when on the platform cut the rubber coupling which put on the air brakes. This slackened the speed of the train and Perry jumped off. Perry got $5000 and some jewelry by the robbery. The crime was traced to him by detectives, but he could not be found. ■ Tho second robbery occurred on February 21, 1892, and was a desperate piece of work. After shooting the messenger Perry escaped, but was recognized in the crowd at the station at Lyons. When the train bands attempted to arrest him he pulled out two revolvers, and. covering the mon, retreated to an engine which stood coupled to a train of cars. He uncoupled tho engine, nnd, throwing open tho lever, was soon rapidly disappearing down tho track. Pursuit was made in another engine, and when Perry saw that he was being caught he reversed his lever nnd pHHsed his pursuers at full speed. The occupants of the engines exchanged shots as they passed. This sort of thing was kept up for an hour or moro, and then Perry stole a march on his pursuers and steamed to Blue Cut, where he deserted his engine, ordering the switchman at the point of the pistol to take the engine back to Lyons. A posse was organized at Lyons and Perry whs pursued across country. He WM finally captured and taken to Rochester, where he was tried nnd convicted and on May IU, 1802, was sentenced to Auburn Prison for forty-nine years and three months. He was afterward removed to tho Mutteawau Asylum for tho Criminal Insane. rm „. FOUR SLAIN IN A RIOT. *len of Mixed Nationality Fight With llevolvem and Kiilvcm. As the rosult of a riot In a railroad camp near Niloam Springs, Ark., four men were Blain and Officer Proctor, one of the bravest deputies In Indian Territory, was seriously, if not mortally, wounded, being shot In two placos. Work on the railway near the town named has been In progress sin'-e early in February, a big force being employed. Almost from the beginning ill fettling hoe exietud among the men, who are of mixed nationality, and several brawls have occurred, narrowly escaping fatul termination. Two of the men, named Clendenning and Flommlug, became engaged goon after nightfall in a dispute, which ended in both drawing pistols pnd blazing away at each othqr. Two or threo shots were exchanged, when both men fell on the ground mortally wounded. Th« shooting aroused tremendous excitement in tbo camp and started a riot, in which all the men took part and in which pistole ami knlviM were used freely. At this juncture Deputy United Stares Marshal Zoko l'roctor arrived on the scene and made a determined effort to preserve the peace and prevent further bloodshed. The officer was «urrounded by a score of men, who a-iniiult:-.i him with knives and clubs. Finding all other means unavailing th« Marshal opened lire on hie assailants, killing two of them in quick succession. The others quit lighting ami bid themselves In the bush. Although b'.tlly wounded Proctor went from point to point and succeeded in quelling the riot. KILLED AT A BANK'S DOOR.  Canhirr Sittifonl Shot «t Covlnetmi, Ky., !>y Slate Srtintnr Clotibel. Stale Senator \V. J,. Ooetwl shot and kiliiil CusMer John Sanford of the Farmer-' .1:1.1 Tra.lers" l»:ink In front ot the First National liank, rovim*ton, Ky. Senator ttoehel. accompanied byAttorneyu< nil Hendrioke, of Kentucky, aud Fraiik ll"lni. PrMtdeDt of the First Xatiounl Bank. WM c>im; into tin- hunk. When tlu>y twwhiM the door Kwnfoni stood thunv Ho shook hands wtth HiMidrloks. utlui; hix left hand. Tln'ti ho uskwl Oo«lx>l if h<> «-roti> a nt'ws|>ap«T artii-ltt atta.'kiuiT l>im. CNM aa•weradi"I did." Immeiltatfly SanTord pulled out A pistol and <ln»il, the'hall patfiaq throufth Ooelwl'e troustirs. Qniek as n flush Goe>>el pulK'd his revolver and also tired. T<r do so hn had to thrust tho pistol beneath Mr. Ht>lm's «'hin. The hall crashed through Sanford's forohtvui ami ho fell in thedoorway of the Imnk futiilly wounded. Mr. Hel-u's ehin wae badly burned with powder. Great confusion followed. Senator Qoebel walked to the station house and !iddrwu>.ln£ the Lieutenant in charge, said: "Iwishtosurremler nivself. 1 have shot and killed Joltu Sanford." The homlelilo erows out of a business and political feud of several years' ataudliiß, and wag not a surprise. Uuth men ware from among Kentucky's foremost oitliens, being leaders in polities, luisiues* and society. Not sinoo the famous Goodloe-Swope affair «t Lexington, in which lx>th of those distinguished men diod, has 80 deplorable a tragedy occurred. Goebel is unmarried and Sanford leave* a widow, a sistiT of the famous Tom Mamhall, of Kentucky, and several ohlldren, one a grown »ou, fri>m whom more trouble wan feared. A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. Annnunreinent from flennnnjr of n OI»- rovttry by a New York l'liv«lrl»n. From Oormany eomes the flret official news of an American discovery said to eure the most (trended ol dleoasesi, consumption and oanoer. Cousul-fleneral Dβ Kay, at Berlin, in a roport to the State Department at Washington. hiij-h tbe discovery, which was announced late in March In a trustworthy medical J weekly in Germany, is likely to receive con- f siderable attention at the coming medtoal J oongresH In Munich. The discovery m m made by Dr. Louis Waldstein, ol N«w York, j n brother of the famous arehrooloulat., M Dr. Charles Waldeteln. The new treat-] ment, the report saye, "oonsfstM ol injeettiiK minute doeee ot pilocarpine uqv the lymphatic syntem U ■ttmeiWM and the white corpuscles ot the  overoome the noiHonouM partMM wla duoe disease." Dr. WaKUtaWLjM ha"o none to the  health'ul white curpusaieaiS livening tholr action and pj restores ot )■ stroys polgonom goinlj JM Dr. Louis Waldstein. WhorwM i the above despatch, Iβ a weli-kH York phvdcian. Dr. wH New York City, tbe ton ot an opHoB ho took his medical degree at B«d*lS! 1879.  10,000 SPURIOUS STAMPS. Secret-Service Men Iα Chicago Unearth a Big Postal Swindle. United States Secret Service operatives In Chicago and Washington have unearthed probably the most unique and at the eame tlmo important swindle ever perpetrated upon uny Government. It Iβ believed thousands of dollars have been secured by a gang of skilled counterfeiters, who have reproduced with wonderful skill and accuracy the pink two-cent stamp of commerce. Whether the counterfeiters have aocomplicae In dishonest postmasters Is not known. It U thought the country is flooded from New Vork to Ban Fraimlsno with these spurious stamps, and the United Htatos has been carrying millions of lettets from which not on * oent of revenue wns received, i Chicago apparently has been the headquarters of the KttiiK. and its product has been shipped to distributing agents through the express companies. I Captain Stuart, of the Postal Inspectors' Department, and Captain Porter, of the United States Secret Service Bureau, called at the Wells, Fargo office, Chicago. They were taken to the store room, and there found an oblong package looking like a big roll of music. It contained 10,000 of the counterfeit stamps. BOTH EYES POP OUT. A Strange Calamity Overtakes m California Iliiiliieu Man. H. O. Miller, the Secretary of the Los Angeles (Cal.) Board of Fire Un ierwritere, felt a sudden pain back of Ulh eyes the other day. He pushed with both hands on his eyeballs to ease the frightful pain, and blood began to ooze from his eyelids and then the eyeballs were suddenly protruded to the furthest limits of the muscles and nerves holding When found he was parfictly rigid, the eyes stloklng out of their sockets an inch or more, and he was uttering the moat hoartronding cries. The case has putaslod the doctors greatly, a number of theories being ailvuu/jv'.'p but none so far has bean accepted as proved; •* b A fracture of snrnn blood reuet back of the eyes Is probnbly the cause, but why this 4 wiih liroiiKht iihiiut or why It should havaoc- * mriwl Hlmultaneously in eaclu eye ajnHJHI unexplained. / V ' * J The eyes themselves ovlilffatlN AjflfJ IKb*"- (it once, for not only wuh tie sight MM(  lost, but the eyeballs ni|/,lly ehowed  degeneration, itud it bmurne neuoMuß,  move thuip.  Held Up a UNKNOWN Wages. A despatch from CripUe Creek, Cat*. «iy<fl that the overland Wella-Vvrgo treamiry wagoiß from Orasey atatlon wa» held up Vr  miiskeii men and robbed. The r«botr» took 9 all the valunbiee. together with tbe. t|r«Mur/  box, bills of lading and «y Ulb. -They theu fatally shot and beat tie guard, Robert M Hmitb. The treasury bos i« b»I<1 to nave '?'■ contained »16,000. The rob Wit made off on  two of thii treasurv wagon hotgw.  The Labor Weric. Philadelphia motormea wail- %slij  windy day*.  Throughout Finland women are Mra&iy H euKagud in agricultural labor. fW - \M There Iβ a balance of #1313.45 iaH Htaae- M ury of the Amoricaa Federation ofS ■ More than 200,000 men are «w] IWte 1 making nhoeM (or lirltaunla't/f 1 daughten, I The broommakera of Illinois oopi * the cheap broom* made at the «■ tentlary are ruining their j^^r-- The aiobe Iron Works at ritTWriii) ■>] haa reatontd wages to the rate of »T« before a too per cent, out wee madM