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Harrisburg ONE CENT A Independent. XV. NO. 98. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1884.

6 CTS. A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES, 2 CTS. daily Thursday, March 27, 1884. ALL parts of New Jersey are now agitated by movements favoring antilicense to sell liquor.

MR. TILDEN ought to write a letter or make a speech. Too many men assume to talk and write for him. VERY many Republican leaders are preparing to make trips to Europe after the Chicago Convention has been held. IT Is a peculiarty of society in the United States that the most successful ventures in politics and finances are made by bald headed men.

HIGHWAY robberies and bank burglaries are becoming common in Texas and are the acts of men ready to risk life and limb in their achievements. THE defeat of the liquor bill in Congress to-day will elicit, as it deserves, general approval. The measure was preposterous as a proposition, unjust as a claim and monstrous as a demand on the Government. THE Thetis and the Bear, two of the steamers to be used in the Greely relief expedition, are now in the port of Baltimore to be put in readiness for their early departure to the Arctics. The Alert will sail for America today.

THE Senate Committee on Rules does not believe in the automatic vote indicator. There are some objections to it. For instance, it would probably be found difficult to supply it with a convenient device for "paring off." THE new Chief Engineer of Bradford, is a native Japanese, Mr. T. A.

Matsdaira. He has been in America fourteen years, spent seven years in college and speaks eleven different languages. Had he come from Ireland he would not require all these qualifications. PERU is in a wretched condition, and after its ruinous war with Chili, the Government is compelled to ask the Chilians not to withdraw their troops, fearing such a withdrawal would instantly lead to civil war. It will be many years before Puru recovers its ancient prosperity.

KENTUCKY is entitled to the palm for the fierceness and frantic terror of its tornadoes. The wind that blows a church organ from its loft and carries it a distance of five miles, tears babes from mothers' arms and dips water from flowing streams in huge quantities, must have been sharp enough to split a saw-log had it hit it fairly on the grain. YESTERDAY it was reported at New York, that a sale of 5,000 tons of steel rails had been made at thirtyfour dollars per ton. This, be it remembered, is the result of active competition among home producers. When Great Britain controlled the market, we were charged anywhere from fifty dollars upward for steel rails.

THE death of Augustus Schell, one New York's most prominent business men and respectable citizens, removes a gentleman from active life whose loss will be national. Mr. Schell was a man of commanding ability and judgment, who dealt with men and affairs in an honorable and far-sighted manner, preserving his integrity at all times and under all circumstances. DORSEY, of Star route notoriety, is represented as swollen to a degree whien renders bursting imminent, with "secrets" concerning coadjutors and sharers in his crimes which he yearns to let out. Let him stand up and speak, unbosoming his mind for his conscience sake.

He has not anything to lose in character and might possibly secure a little respect for whatever of truth he can tell to bring the guilty to justice. NEW YORK boasting of having all the heaviest millionaires in the land and doing nearly all its speculative a trade, cannot raise money enough to build a pedestal for a magnificent statue of liberty to adorn its harbor, the gift of a people in a foreign country. The failure excites surprise and merriment everywhere. It will be necessary for James Gordon Bennett to do this work if the people of New York cannot do it, and if the Commodore begins it, it will be done in a creditable manner. PRESIDENT ARTHUR did a courteous act to Prince Bismarck in transferring Minister Sargant from Berlin to that of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, where there is a vacancy by the death of Minister Hunt.

Prince Bismarck simply detested Mr. Sargant and it was therefore diplomatic to remove him from the sight of the German Chancellor. But will this removal be accepted as the proper thing to maintain the American charastes abroad. FLASHED IN MORNING'S LIGHT Daring Attempt to Rob a Bank in the Lone Star State. DEATH OF AUGUSTUS SCHELL.

Assaulted Without Provocation and Brutally Beaten. HELD FOR RANSOM BY THE INDIANS. United Press to INDEPENDENT ever its own private WICHITA FALLS, March A daring attempt was made to rob the James Bank in this place yesterday afternoon. It was frustrated by information given by John Kincaid, a member of the State Rangers, who had joined the robbers and engaged in their plot in order to betray them. Charles Bagley, Frank Parmenter and Willie Hays were the other members of gang.

The four men rode up to the bank and while Parmenter and Hays remained outside holding the horses, Bagley and Kincaid went inside and started to go behind the counter where Ashby James, the Cashier, was seated. Bagley covered James with a six shooter and told and him to it in gather satchel up all which his money put a the robbers carried. James, who had been warned of the plot, began to to laugh. Bagley was disconcerted for a moment at this unexpected reception, but quickly recovered his coolness and made a motion to fire upon the Cashier. At this juncture Kincaid and a policeman, who were concealed in a vault, fired upon Bagley, a ball piercing his forehead and causing instant death.

Hays hearing the shots inside, started to run down the street and was fired upon by two Rangers who had been stationed opposite the bank. Hays escaped, but an innocent citizen killed by a shot. Parmenter, a inere youth, refused to run, using his pistol freely. He said he would stick to his companions no matter what happened. He was soon captured and disarmed.

Hays is being pursued by the officers. Captured by the Indians. By United Press over Private Wire. MINNEAPOLIS, March A dispatch received here gives details of the capture of a Dakota prospector near Turtle mountain by a band of Indians two weeks ago. The Indians hold him for a money ransom, but refuse to let him notify any one except his.

wife, who is at Dayton, Ohio, letter from her to a son in Fargo revealed the fact of his capture. It is said a party of pursuers started from Grand Forks, but the Indians fled fifty miles into the mountains and threatened to kill the prisoner if the pursuit was not abandoned. Masked Burglare. By United i Press over Private DENVER, March the house of Mary Root, mother night two masked, burglars entered of a prominent citizen. The lady was dragged out of bed and thrown violently to the floor.

She was then attacked in a most atrocious manner. She was, pulled into an adjoining room ordered to tell where her her money and jewelry were. She refused, whereupon one of the men struck her on the head with a club. The men were finally frightened off. Mrs.

Root is expected to die from her injuries. Freddie Gebhard in a New Role. By United Press over Private Wire. NEW YORK, March fact that James B. Livingston, a promipent member of the Union club, called Freddie Gebhard, who is also a member of the a "coward and a liar" yesterday morning was a common topic of gossip yesterday.

It is said that Gebhard walked away without resenting the remark. His friends say he did so because of Mr. Livingston's irresponsible conduct. $10,000 for a Brakeman's Arm. By United Press over Private Wire.

ATCHISON, March Fox, a Hannibal and St. Joseph brakeman, lost an arm by an accident and obtained a verdict of $10,000 damages against Company, which was confirmed by the Supreme Court. An execution was issued and yesterday the Sheriff seized an express train as it entered the Union depot here. The Sheriff remains in possession and has advertised to sell the road April 7. Highway Robberies in Texas.

By United Press over Private Wire. SAN ANGELIA, Texas, March The stage to Burnett was stopped by road agents on Tuesday, the driver robbed and letters opened. The thieves built a fire and waited on the other stage, but fell asleep and let it pass unmolested. In the evening the stage from Abilene was stopped two miles from here by two horsemen, the mail ransacked and a lady deprived of one dollar and fifty cents. Shot a Constable.

By United Press over Private Wire. GLASGOW, March afternoon David Wells shot and killed James Coats, Constable of this place. Wells was some time ago drunk and Coats placed him in jail. This greatly incensed Wells and while intoxicated and noisy Coats remonstrated with him. Coats drew a revolver and shot the Constable dead.

Death of Augustus Schell. By United Press over Private Wire. NEW YORK, March Schell died at 3.35 a. m. to By his bedside when the end came were his wife, brothers and other members of the household.

Death was caused by Bright's disease complicated by other disorders. Mr. Schell was born in 1812. A FIGHT IN A SCHOOL. A Principal in a Philadelphia School With Pugilistic Propensities.

Philadelphia Press To-day. A serious affray between teacher and pupil occurred last Thursday in the G. W. Nebinger public school, which will result in the arrest of the principal, C. S.

Boyer, and the janitor, Peter Barnes. The pupil is Michael Smith, a boy of about 14, who lives at 702. Medina street. On last, during recess, that he was playThursday, ing in the yard with other boys, one of whom had brought to the school a cow's wind-pipe. Smith inflated this and was playfully striking one of his mates over the head with the air club, when the janitor spied him and ordered him to go up stairs.

Smith obeyed, and the janitor following, told him to show now empty wind-pipe to Mr. Boyer. Smith did so. "Sit down on the platform," said the principal. The boy turned to obey, when the principal caught him by the collar and began shaking him.

The boy, to free himself from the teacher's grasp, which tore the collar from the shirt, seized Boyer's janitor and came together to they the forced the boy prostrate upon the "I'll floor. beat Smith says brains that Barnes and cried: your out," gan pounding his head upon the floor. The boy shouted "Murder!" when he was released and sent to a bench. After the other pupils had come up from recess, Smith was sent home. After washing the blood from his nose and neck, where the janitor's finger-nails had cut into the flesh, Smith saw his brother, who is a law student.

The brother sent to the school house, but could not get any satisfaction, and was Ordered to leave 'the building. Ink had been spilt upon the floor where it was blood On last Saturday the Directors' of the school gave a hearing upon the case, and decided that the teacher was right. A warrant, however, i has been sworn out for the arrest of the principal and janitor on a charge of assault and battery, and a hearing will be given them before a magistrate on next Saturday at 12 o'clock. Mr. Boyer's statement is that the boy was guilty of improper conduct and that when he was placed upon the platform and taken by the collar he "flew" at Mr.

Boyer's throat. No more force used, the principal claims, than was necessary to subdue him. STATE ITEMS. DAVID TRAVIS, aged 17 years, was run over by cars at Girardville OR Tuesday night and had both legs and an arm cut off. THREE of the children of Herman Haverstumpf, living at Emaus, were buried on Wednesday, all having died of diphtheria.

THE delegates from Lancaster county to the Democratic State Convention are uninstructed, but are understood to be for Randall. ISAAC RICE, a prominent merchant of Kingston, Luzerne county, died suddenly yesterday, aged 75 years. He leaves an estate valued at $25,000. THE Clinton Democrat estimates that the number of logs taken from mountains of the West Branch of the Susquehanna this year will be 75,000,000 short of last year. FREDERICK COOPER, the son of a wealthy citizen of Union City, Erie county, has eloped with a woman of Jamestown, N.

taking a lot of funds belonging to his father and leaving a young wife. JOSEPH D. LUCKENBACH, of Bethlehem, and a student of Lehigh University, while attempting yesterday to jump over a horizontal bar fell upon one of the uprights, which penetrated his bowels. His condition is precarious. WHILE workmen were removing earth from under the house of George Hacks, at Mount Carmel, yesterday, the building fell, upsetting the stove, setting the house on fire and burning the chiid of Mr.

L. Weaver almost to a crisp. S. R. BUSHBY's variety store at Reading was entered early yesterday morning and robbed of $1,500 worth of jewelry.

There is no clew to the thieves. This robbery followed close upon another, when watches to the value of $4,000 were stolen. THE stubbornly contested legal fight among the natural gas companies at Pittsburg was settled definitely yesterday by Judge Stowe, who decided that Gas Company of Allegheny County" has the exclusive right to supply the public of the city of Pittsburg with heat, either from natural or artificial gas, until the Company has paid five eight per cent. dividends. SENATOR COOPER, the hopeful and Stalwart Chairman of the Republican State Committee, in an able and elaborate editorial in his paper, the Delaware County American, has committed himself and paper for Blaine for President in the most emphatic terms.

He pronounces Mr. Blaine the Henry Clay of the present age and predicts his election if nominated beyond question. Tom, however, is a candidate for re-election to the Senate, being a shrewd politician and a close observer of events he recognizes the tide of public sentiment in his party as being at flood and has concluded to take that tide while it serves and save his ventures. Death of Mary Penn Connelly. Miss Mary Penn Connelly, a descendent on her mother's side of William Penn, died at her residence on Market street, Bethlehem, yesterday morning, aged 92 years.

Miss Connelly was born in Philadelphia and resided with her uncle, John Connelly, and intimate business and personal friend of Stephen Girard, until 1813, her parents having died while she was quite young. In 1813 she went to Bethlehem and resided there continually in the little old fashioned house in which she died. She retained all her faculties up to the hour of her death. Miss the Moravian on" church the oldest Connelly was an active, member of member that denomination in Bethlehem. FROM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

General Graham Drives the Rebels from Their Entrenchments. AN UNEXPECTED EASY VICTORY. Destruction of a Village and Its Works of Defense. GENERAL OLD WORLD TRANSACTIONS. United Press to INDEPENDENT over its own private SUAKIN, March forces under General Graham commenced the advance on the rebel position at Tamaneib at 5 o'clock this morning, but met with no serious opposition until 7.30 o'clock, when a brisk fire was opened upon the British by the rebels, who were strongly entrenched behind newly erected stone works.

The cavalry and mounted infantry were ordered to charge on the rebels and with the aid of a few shells sent into the rebel camp, the mounted force succeeded in dispersing the rebels who quickly fled, much to the surprise of the British troops who expected a stubborn resistance. The British troops burned the village and destroyed the surrounding works. General Graham will probably return to Suakin tonight, as it is thought this latest rout of the forces under Osman Digna will dispel the delusion of the Sheikhs as to Osman Digna receiving divine aid and virtually ends the campaign in this section of the Soudan. No casualties are reported among the British troops. THE FRENCH CABINET.

PARIS, March members of the new Committee of Ways and Means in the Chamber of Deputies are opposed to the Cabinet, seven in favor of it and other eleven undecided. The Government will find it very difficult to procure the necessary funds to continue the war in Tonquin and Madagascar. RUMORS OF GEN. GORDON'S SURRENDER CAIRO, March rumor prevails that El Mahdi has been urging General Gordon to give up Khartoum and the control of the Soudan to him, on conditions that he shall guarantee to hereafter protect Christian Missionaries and merchants and all traders throughout the country. It is further reported that General Gordon has practically consented to such a plan though the British Government officials deny any knowledge of the matter.

THE PEERAGE FOR GLADSTONE. LONDON, March Standard, Conservative, urges that Mr. Gladstone be offered a peerage. Appropriations for Public Buildings. By United Press over Private Wire.

WASHINGTON, March House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds agreed to-day to report favorably bills making appropriations for public buildings as follows: Fort Wayne, Key West, Manchester, N. San Antonio, Wilmington, N. Charlotte, N. 0., Clarksburg, St. Joseph, Detroit, $300,000.

Nobody to Blame. By United Press over Private Wire. PHILADELPHIA, March Powers this morning inquired into the death of Henry Gooderson, aged 30 years, a bridge builder employed on the new Chestnut Hill branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, who was killed yesterday by the fall of a derrick. Gooderson was a resident of Bath. N.

where he left a young wife and child, and had been at work at the derrick but a few hours. A verdict of accidental death was rendered. Ran Into a Land Slide. By United Press over Private Wire. PORTLAND, March Pullman train on the Main Central from Bangor, due here at 2 o'clock this morning, encountered a slide on the track in Sodom cut near Garmouth while running nearly full speed.

The engine, tender, baggage, mail and express cars were thrown from the track and badly wrecked. All the passenger cars and sleeper remained on the track. No one was hurt. Finding a Dead Body in a Creek. By United Press over Private Wire.

PHILADELPHIA, March excitement was caused among the residents of Wissahickon this morning by the discovery of the remains of a man in Wissahickon creek, near the Houbell mills. The body was sewed up in a bag, and the supposition is that it is the corpse of a victim of murder. The Coroner's officials and the police are busily at work endeavoring to unravel the mystery. Fate of a Bridge Watchman. By United Press over Private Wire.

BALTIMORE, March Bowman, the bridge watchman at Bush river at the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad, was this morning struck by the fast mail train coming south, running at the rate of forty miles an hour. The unfortunate man was thrown fifty feet the river, his head being driven into his body. Provision House Failure. By United Press over Private Wire. Chicago, March is just announced on 'Change that Shepard Peacock, an extensive provision house, have failed.

The firm refuses to state their liabilities, but they are supposed to be heavy. To Command at a Navy Yard. By United Press over Private Wire. WASHINGTON, March W. A.

Kirkland has been ordered as Captain of the Brooklyn navy yard after the 31st inst. Officers and Operations of Roads Within and Without the State. ELECTRIC headlights for locomotives have been in use for a month the Pan Handle road. THE Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company manufactures of its own scales at Pottstown, where it has works. THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has two corps of surveyors engaged on the Route between Reading and Pottsville.

THE first construction train has been put on the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley railroad between Conshohocken and Spring Mill. THE station to be erected at Phonixville by the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley railread will cost $30,000. The preparations for its erection have begun. THE Norfolk, New York and Philadelphia Railroad Company will use the terminal facilities of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company Norfolk. ALBERT FOSTER, Secretary of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, who has been indisposed for some time, is at Old Point Comfort, Virginia.

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has placed a handsome writing desk with equipments and a copy of the city directory in its Powelton avenue station. E. T. POSTLETHWAITE, assistant to Vice President Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has returned from Old Point Comfort, where he has been for his health. ON Saturday last President Roberts and Vice President Du Barry, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, made an official tour of inspection over the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley railroad.

OWING to the illness of Examiner Oliphant the hearing in the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company against the New Jersey Central Railroad Company has been postponed until Saturday next. THE Lehigh Valley Railroad Company proposes, when its connection to Pottsville has been completed, to make the distance from Ashland to that place in forty minutes. It now takes two hours. OLIVER H. PAXSON, an engineer of the Frazier branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, is 67 years of age.

He has been in the employ Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as a locomotive engineer THE new railroad up the Perkiomen Valley, to connect the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley line and the Lehigh Valley, is now being surveyed. The connection with the Lehigh Valley will be made just east of South Bethlehem. THE North Pennsylvania Railroad Company recently changed name of Sandy Run Station to Cathy Hill, and Lukens to West Point. The name of Camp Hill was chosen because it was there the American army camped during the revolution. THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company is engaged in putting water troughs between the tracks on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad, and when these are finished the express train time between Philadelphia and Baltimore will be reduced to two hours.

Tablets on the Gettysburg Field. A meeting of the managers of the Gettysburg Battlefleld Memorial Association was held Tuesday and yesterday. General Louis Wagner, of Philadelphia, presided. D. A.

Buehler, of Gettysburg, was elected Vice President of the Association. A resolution was passed that hearafter before memorial tablets are erected on the field they shall be submitted to the Superintendent of Tablets, Colonel Batcheldor, with an appeal to the Association. The Board visited different points on the battlefield to inspect the locations propored tablets. The managers of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg railroad were also in town yesterday, and definite action was taken in regard to the new line from town to Round Top. This road is expected to be in operation during the encampment of the National Guard, in August.

Driven to Death by Her Sons. RAILROAD NOTES. Mrs. Lucy M. Hart, living near Union City, Erie county, made a determined and finally successful attempt at suicide Tuesday night.

In the morning she. was found with her head in a rain barrel, but was saved from drowning by her little girl. Late at night she fired two shots into her abdomen with fatal results. Mrs. Hart, who was a woman of refinement, was driven to insanity by the career of her sons, William and James, who were sent to the Allegheny penitentiary a few days ago for engaging in a riot in which one man was shot and others injured.

They were notorious desperadoes and foot-pads, and were concerned in a number of robberies on the highway. The Abrogation of a Lease. By United Press over Private Wire. WASHINGTON, March the House Committee on Ways and Means will begin the consideration of the proposition to abrogate the lease the Government gave the Seal Fur Company of the seal fisheries of Alaska. Reducing Railroaders' Wages.

By United Press over Private Wire. PORTLAND, March general reduction of from six to ten per cent. in the wages of the Grand Trunk employees was announced today. The men say they will strike on both divisions. Destruction of a Railroad Paint Shop.

By United Press over Private Wire. MUSKEGON, March paint and repair shops of the Chicago and Western Michigan railroad was burned this morning. Loss $15,000. Several men were badly burnt while trying to extinguish the flames. Mysterious Drowning, By United Press over Wire.

BALTIMORE, March body of John Hough, a wealthy contractor ot this city, was found floating in Spring Gardens at 1 o'clock this afternoon. How he met with his death is a mystery. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. The Bonded Whisky Bill in Committee of the Whole. AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.

The Measure Defeated by the Decisive Vote of 83 to 184. POPULAR APPROVAL OF THE RESULT. United. Press to INDEPENDENT over own private WASHINGTON, March the Senate Mr. Vest presented a memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Utah, protesting against the passage of any measure inimical to the rights of citizens of that Territory, until after full investigation by the' Congressional Committee.

Mr. Miller (Cal.) reported favorably, with an amendment from the Naval Committee, the bill offering a reward of $25,000 for rescuing or ascertaining she fate of the Greely expedition. Mr. Mitchell introduced for the special and uniform instruction of State militia. On motion of Mr.

Mitchell, the Committee on Library was directed to inquire into the expediency of printing the official letters and papers of President Monroe. The bill providing for the payment of then claims of the Meeker family and others, for depredations committed by the Utes at the time of the massacre at the White River agency, was passed. The bill to repay the State of Georgia $27.175, advanced for the defense her frontiers against the Indians from 1795 to 1818, was passed. BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE. WASHINGTON, March House after some unimportant business, by unanimous consent at 12.15 went into Committee of the Whole on the bonded whisky -general debate to close at 1.45 by the House.

Mr. Randall said this was a of more importance than anything that had been brought before the present Congress, and that there were others watching the action of the House than those directly affected by its action. He said the course of legislation had been to crowd out men of small capital. He opposed the bill because its tendency was to perpetuate the system of internal taxation, which he abhorred and with Thomas Jefferson, regretted that it had not been prohibited by the Constitution. Mr.

MeAdoo (N. opposed the bill and favored a wiping out of entire internal revenue system. The defeat of the bill he believed would result in the abolition of the internal tax system. Referring to the caucus resolation of tobacco and fruit spirits, he said Morrison men proposed to the tobacco men a feast at which they could have quail on toast, but before they came to the quail they must fill themselves with crow. He wanted no feast of crow.

Mr. Storm (Pa.) stood pledged to a repeal of the whole internal revenue tax system, a war measure denounced at its origin as inquisitorial, which oppressive and unjust, and one has been so shown by over twenty years experience. It was literally a statute of pains and penalties, starting out on the idea that every man is a thief and surrounding him with spies and informers. The whisky ring, he said, was strong enough to send men to the United States Senate and to boast of their power in the House. Why had they not made an effort to repeal this law? The answer was plain.

Distasteful as it is, it is agreeable to them, because it gave them a monopoly of production by crowding out the men with small capital. Mr. Blackburn took the floor for the closing hour of debate. He said this was a business proposition, admitting neither sentiment nor sympathy, and as such should be considered by the House. He regretted that this idea had not more fully prevailed during the discussion of the bill.

In reply to Mr. Dunn's remarks of yesterday that but three members of the Ways and Means Committee favored the bill, he said the Chairman, Mr. Morrison, reported it by direction of the Committee with a statement that it was not a unanimous report. Mr. Blackburn passed rapidly in review of the arguments made by the opponents of the bill, insisting that the bill was just and proper, that it took no money from the Treasury and was approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

He further contended that it was not clear that the tax upon production of whisky was constitutional. It was only upon consumption that Congress had the power to levy a tax. The manufacturer of whisky, he said, could export his whisky and store it abroad for a charge varying but a trifle from the proposed four and one-half per cent. for two years to that it was merely a business question whether the money shall go into the Treasury or into the foreign warehouse. The dealers backed by banking capital and unlimited credit could export and store their whisky, while the poorer man for whom so much sympathy had been expressed would be subject to forced sales and extortionate taxation.

He said he was glad to find with a search warrant that there was one monopoly of which Mr. Randall was not a champion. The explanation probably was that it was not located in his section and that he wanted a monopoly of monopoly. In reply to the argument that money to pay the tax and carry the whisky could be had from the banks, he said no banker would loan the money while there was a standing threat to repeal the tax and take away, his security. In the course remarks Mr.

Blackburn incidentally referred to the fact that to-day, March 29, was the anniversary of the passage by the House of the original extension resolution of 1878. He declared this bill did not meet his views. He would have it as originally passed without limitation and the tax only paid when withdrawn for consumption. He stated his willingness to accept an amendment requiring the interest of four and a-half per either semi-annually or quarterly in advance. Although he denounced when the internal revenue systems it WAS adopted, here, to he have wanted, it stand a8 long as revenue was needed by the Government.

Mr. Brumm (Pa.) said if the professions that the whisky would be taken out in two years, were sincere, why not amend 80 as to require one-eighth to be taken out each quarter. Mr. Blackburn- Will you vote for the bill if so amended Mr. don't think I will." The bill was then read for amendment.

Mr. Blount (Ga.) moved te strike out the enacting clause. Mr. Blount's motion was agreed to, 131 to 87, when the Committee rose and reported its action to the House. On concurring in the report of the Committee the yeas and nays were ordered and the bill was defeated 83 to FINANCE AND COMMERCE.

Government Securities and Railroad Stocks. CLEARINGS yesterday, balances, $887,514. THERE are already rumered cuts upon spring prices for anthracite coal. THE bullish feeling in the Northern Pacific continues general and higher prices are generally expected. ADDISON CAMMACK is reported to own half a million West Shore bonds bought about for which he expects to get par." GENERAL PALMER is reported to have withdrawn from the contest for the presidency of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company.

AT the demand of the Pennsylvania, Commissioner Fink yesterday reduced the rate on pig lead and bullion to twenty cents per 100 pounds. ExcHANGEs for last week at twenty-seven cities show a gain at sixteen and a loss at eleven. heavy decline is at Lowell, forty per cent. Nearly all the leading, cities begin to show improvement, prominent among them being Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans and San Francisco, though they are still behind the corresponding week of last year. THE Frankford and Southwark railway offers to stockholders, of record March 24, the privilege of subscribing to 3,000 shares of the new stock at par, in the proportion of one share for every four of the old.

This is an inerease of twenty-five per cent. in the capital stock, and the privilege is worth $37.50 a share, or 75 per good privilege. So FAR only in three railroads report an increase earnings for the third week in March. The Northern Pacific gains $54,000, the Louisville and Nashville $10,744 and the Omaha $10,300. It is understood that Mr.

C. J. Osborn will shortly retire from the street, and the same report credits him with fortune of $3,000,000. Union Pacific's loss and earnings for February is put down at $360,000. L.

H. TAYLOR Co. say: Impressions differ as to the probable outcome of the present weakness, some believe that a short interest is being encouraged in order to facilitate an advance upon Mr. Gould's return, while others insist that situation shows so many disturbing and discouraging elements that the cliques are endeavoring to market their stock daily. We have more confidence in the former theory, and think that a sharp upward turn is probable at any moment.

Granted a Further Hearing. By United Press over Private Wire. WASHINGTON, March Geo. D. Roberts was granted a further hearing by the Senate Committee on Post offices and Post roads today in advocacy of the plan proposed by the Postal Telegraph Company for handling postal businest.

Mr. Roberts said the Company was disposed to make any alterations in its original proposition in order to make it conform with the Committee, the object of the Company being principally to arrangement with the Government. Sale of Jersey Cattle. By United Press over Private Wire. NEW YORK, March S.

Cooper's triennial sale of Jersey cattle was begun to-day at the American Horse Exchange. The attendance of ladies and gentlemen was something unusual. The prices obtained this morning ranged from $250 to $6,200, the former for a heifer, and the latter for "Moth of St. Lambert" a cow. Ex-Mayor Peirce of Boston purchased "Moth of St.

Lambert" and also purchased "Nina of St. Lambert," born in 1880, for $3,200. Sudden Death of a Broker. By United Press over Private Wire. NEW YORK, March E.

Frost, a broker, died suddenly last night, without medical attendance, in his room at the Putnam house. Mr. Frost was 55 years of age. The Mother of Tom Thumb Dead. NEW YORK, March Mrs.

Sherwood E. Stratton, mother of the late Tom Thumb, is dead. PERSONAL. LADY COLIN CAMPBELL's suit for divorce is being heard privately in court in London. Miss ELLEN TERRY refuses to put up at a leading hotel in Brooklyn? because her little dog is welcome there.

ALBERT FOSTER, Secretary of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, has gone to Fort Monroe for his health. ANTON RUBINSTEIN made a clear profit of £5,000 on the five concerts which he gave during his recent stay in Vienna. He is now in Paris. MISS WOOLSEY, better known as Coolidge," has rented her cottage on Rhode Island avenue, Newport, to Mrs. Delancy Kane, of New York.

KENTUCKY STRUCK BY A GALE Frightful Loss of Life and Great Damage to Property, BABES TORN FROM MOTHERS. An Organ Blown from a Church a Distance of Five Miles. WATER DIPPED FROM STREAMS. United, Press to INDEPENDENT over own private BOYD, March will be days before the extent of the desolation caused by the cyclone can be ascertained. The loss of life as well as the damage to property is great.

At Colemansville, two miles distant, not one of the 200 inhabitants escaped injury and seventy-five buildings were demolished. The little towns of Mt. Nebo, Conroy and Antioch were swept away. Throughout the country nothing was left standing in the track of the tornado. Stock, barns, dwellings, fences and forests were carried off.

Babes were blown from their mothers' arms and killed. Bodies of dead persons were found strewn along the roads. Immense numbers of cattle were also slaughtered. A church was lifted from sight and has not yet been heard of. The organ was found about five miles distant.

Rocks weighing three tons were born quite a distance and the ground was much torn up. Vast quantities of water were blown from the river. The roads were so blocked that it is impossible to get any further details. When the cyclone first appeared it looke I like an immense circus tent filled with air and carried by the wind. After the tornado a heavy hail storm prevailed.

Ten minutes later the sun shown brilliantly on a scene of devastation which scores of people visited to-day. The villages destroyed are in the middle of the blue grass regions, and the community is made of well-to-do people. Assaulted in His Bed Room. By United Press over Private Wire. CHICAGO, March LeClare and his wife lodged with M.rs.

Tishler, at 1219 State street. At an early hour this morning while LeClare sat in his room he was assaulted by William Barnett, who lives with Mrs. Tishler and was intoxicated. Barnett felled him to the floor and kicked him to unconsciousness. When Mrs.

Lewho was in bed, went to husband's rescue Barnett struck her down. LeClare is dying at the County hospital and Barnett is under arrest. Will Report a New Pension Bill. By United Press over Private Wire. WASHINGTON, March House Committe on Invalid Pensions had under consideration to-day the bill granting a pension to all Union soldiers confined in rebel prisons during the late war.

A bill for this purpose will be reported favorably by the Committee. OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS, New York and Philadelphia Stock Ex- New York and Philadelphia Stock Exchange quotations reported by Shoemaker Holbert, stock, grain and petroleum, brokers, 25 North Third street. (Direct private wires.1 HARRISBURG, March 27. Open'g. Clor'g.

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 125 Canada Southern. 53 6417 Central Canadian Denver and Rio Grande 1812 Delaware, Lack. and Erie, (N. L. E.

and 203 Jersey Kan. and Texas K. and 205 Lake Shore and Mich. South'n. 10132 Louisville and 48 Missouri Michigan Northern 2137 Northern Pacific, preferred.

473 N. Y. Cent'l and Huds'n River. Northwest (C. and N.

Ontario and 10 Oregon Transcontinental. Oregon Rail'y and Nav'n 86 Philadelphia and Texas 1953 Union Pacific. 76 Western 73 Philadelphia Quotations. PHILADELPHIA. March 27.

Closing Lehigh Pacific 2112 Pacific preferred. 4777 B. P. and Pennsylvania 591 Lehigh Navigation New Jersey Oregan Transcontinental ture. New York Produce Market.

New York Money Market. By United Press over Private Wire. NEW YORK, March 2 per exchange dull but steady; government strong, currency, 69, 129 bid; 48, coupons, bid; bid. The stock market during the first half hour was strong and there was quite a brisk buying of some of the list, on which prices had advanced to per cent. by the first call.

This was followed by an attempt to unload on the part of the larger speculators end under the out-flow of stock the whole list became weak and declined to per cent. About midday the market strengthened somewhat and is now steady, but dealings are without fea- By United Press over Private Wire. NEW YORK, March dull; superfine State and Western, Minnesota extra, Wheat -No. winter, June, for April; No. 1.04⅜ 2, mixed March, do.

April, for May; Corndo. May, Oats -No. 2 mixed, bid for March; for April. Rye weaker; No. 2, 70c.

Barley firm and ungraded; Canada, Pork-Old mess, Lard -April, May, Butter steady; Elgin creamery, 34c. Cheese quiet and unchanged. Eggs steady; State and Pennsylvania, Western, Sugar quiet; refined cut loaf, granulated, confection Tallow ane rice nominal. Molasses dull, Chicago Grain Market. By United Press over Private Wire.

CHICAGO, March grain marker opened active; May wheat selling at Corn; May Pork; May, $17:70, Wheat shortly advanced and corn under enormous volume of tradIng, but later corn reacted to No features have been reported..