Evening Gazette

              A - ,v * • : r Y .V r r  ▼ -W - . - • -- i ?J vD r :,fWI Www, i ~ • Wash • THE TARIFF REDUCTIONS that the roiling mJHa'oeuld stand some redudtfam, and M the avarage ad valorem doty collected in 1887 waa about 84 par cent, it waa ilimffd that tba atael industry oould not claim thatao great a degree of production wai ia—ntlal. When It came to aogara, and the opmmittee ware confronted with the demanda of the Louisiana man tar a retention of ail the duty on sugar, it waa necnaary to take a decisive step. Bo the grade ft)at named, according to the Dutch standard, waa fixed at No. 18, instead of No. 13, and the loweat rate of duty was made 1 lft-100 cents a pound, instead of 140-100 cents. For the higher grades of sugar a sufficient margin was allowed for conversion, but not so much aa to encourage the "trusts." Having put cotton threads and yams valued at 40 cents a pound' or under at an ad valorem duty of 85 per cent, instead of at 10 and 15 cent* a pound, aa now, and fixing the duty on audi threads and yarns valued at more than 40 cents a pound at 40 per cent, ad valorem, the committee proceeded in arranging the schedules following and affecting cotton cloths, upon the assumption that it was not proper to make the duties upon the articles of which cotton yarns or thread were the chief materials higher than that upon the material unmanufactured or in the first stage of manufacture, except in certain lines specified.A MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE. SHE I AN ALLIANCE OF FORCES. I'WO POLITICAL PRI8QNER6. Blunt'* Incarceration Defeat* Him ud Wilson's Defeat Incarcerates Blm. Losdow, March «.—'The defeat which the Liberal party ha* sustained at Deptford is a matter of deep chagrin to them, and the leaders are bnsy trying to find * reason for the set back. It was not beoanss ever; effort was not made to secure thaseat for Mr. Blunt, certainly, for never was an election more thoroughly canvassed or resourcM more coinpletely exhausted. One undoubted drawback was the enforced abeenoe of the candidate, though soma of the Liberals consult- 1 that hit present incarceration inanlrfchjnil for the cause of home rule would be a string point in his favor. English voters, however, want to see the man who Is to receive their votes, and although Mr. Blunt was given u much larger vote than the Liberal contestant at the last election received, yet, could L« have been on the ground himself, the Deptford election might not have resulted in tt defeat to his party. ANOTHER GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN NEW YORK. Aon Manioe, i, shot herself THE BROTHERHOOD AND KNIGHTS Proposed by the Ways and Means , March FORM A "COMBINE." through the heart early yesterday morning in the Leland hotel The watchman beard the ■hot, and, forcing open the doer, found her reclining on the bed, with blood trickling from the wound. She died a few minutes after the disoovsry. Her atege name was Hay Carroll. Mr* Manioe was married a year ago to Baton Manice, a wealthy Mew Yorker. Her husband had charged his wife with adultery, and a divorce suit was pending. Lawyer David Sullivan, who had been retained by the unhappy woman to defend her against the attacks of her husband, said: "Mrs. Manioe was hounded by private detectives, who were seeking her ruin. If she only opened the door of her room the eye of a hidden watcher was bent on her; if she essayed to walk the street one of the human bloodhounds waa at her heels. Morbid fear took possession of her whole being, and to escape this she ended her life with a bullet Committee, Nnarly a Whole Block in the Business Center Reduced to Ash«#—Heroic Rescue by Two Policemen—A Number of The Former to Desert Their Kngtaes on the Reading Road and the Latter to be Called from the Chicago, Bur- DETAILS OF THE MEASURE. Families Made Homeless. Ungtoa aad Qulncy. New York, March 2.—The biggest fire that this city has wan for a long time happened up In Forty-second street yesterday. The block bounded by Lexington avenue, Forty-first and Forty-secood streets looks now as If it had been shelled and bombarded with heavy solid shot for days. A few small buildings are left on the Third avenue end of the block, but of all the great warehouses and factories that occupied most of the area nothing is left but a gaunt, tottering wall and a mass of blackened bricks, smoking and shapeless. How the fire started is not known yet The fire was first discovered on the second floor of the building occupied by Powell, Wenningman & Smith, at 12:20 o'clock, and quickly spread to the big furniture factory of Pottier Sc Stymus, on Lexington avenue, from Forty-first to Forty-second streets. Thence it spread to adjoining buildings, until more than half the block was in flames, and it jumped across the street to the Vanderbilt hotel, on the corner of Forty-second street and Lexing ton avenue, and from there to* tenements adjoining.Chicago, March 2.—A new phase was put on tlje strike after 10 o'clock last night by the decision of Chief Arthur to yield to the demands of the Reading Kni~hV. of Labor a«d call all the Brotherhood men off the Reading engines. Orders to that affect were sent out to tie officers In charge of the Brotherhood men in Pennsylvania. The agreement is that all the Reading men now employed by the Burlington are to return home and no more are to be sent out here In return for Chief Arthur's action. This takes away 173 of the engineers already employed by the Burlington, the 200 expected to go to work today and the 200 more who were supposed to be on the way west Practically it leaves the road without an experienced engineer, undoes nearly everything that has been done, and puts the management about where it was Monday morning. It completely reverses the situation, and puts again on top. The only question about the matter is whether the Brotherhood men on the Reading will agree to leave their work. As they are to be guaranteed full pay while they are idle it Is not expected that they will object Chief Arthur's action is a great surprise to the strikers and the company, for he declared Tuesday that he would not call off the Fifty Million Dollars to be Cut Off by the New BilL Tba Internal Re vena* Reduction Will be •30,000,000 More—Some Grade* of Wool to be Pat on the Free List After July 1—Present Duties on the Luxuries of Life Will Not be Disturbed—A Sorlous Blow at tba Great Sugar Trust—Esti- Estimated Effect of the Chances. Some solaoe is gained however, in the reflection of past suooeaes, and In a general comparison which the Liberal papers are making between the position of the Liberals in 1885 and the present time. "The persecution was carried on to advance the interests of Heaton Manice in the divoroe proceedings be had instituted against his wife. He had brought the suit on the ground of. adultery, and he had to prove adultery to win it That is why, gentlemen, that poor girl lies dead in yonder room." Washington, March 8.—At last the tariff bill is out, and the Democratic members of the ways and means committee who have been at wort on it for weeks are for a time relieved of the necessity for giving evasive answers and of protecting from the curiosity of business men and correspondents the one prominently interesting measure of the session. The tariff bill is out, and now the inquiry will be made o! the gentlemen of the minority— already they have been nsked. before the bill has been iu their possession half a day—what they think of it. As a mitter of course, they don't kuotv. That is, most of them say that, although a few,are ready to declare at once that it is "too sweeping," that it "hits too many things," and that it is a bill to which the house will never give its approval. Looking at things in this view, the cause of home rule has now undoubtedly become u chief factor in English politics, and the party that espouses it, a position which is gradually encroaching upon Toryism. It has become a decided policy with the Liberals to fight ail future elections on the lines that the Deptford contest was waged. Paris is in a great state of enthusiasm over the result of the trial of Daniel Wilson, who was yesterday convicted on the charge of selling decorations of the Legion of Honor, and sentenced to two years imprisonment and to pay a fine of WOO, and Parisian journals, one and all, rejoice that the long drawn out affair has reached a final settlement, and one that is so immensely satisfactory. A long breath has been drawn, and a feeling |s entertained that honor of some sort has been vindicated, and that a subject which had become on» of ridicule to France had received a just censure and a richly deserved punish* punishment. The onoe powerful. Daniel will probably appeal from the sentence imposed upon him,- but he can find little of a reversal of result of his trial. Having put wool on the free list, the committee cut down the duties on blanketa and dress goods considerably, and while they have admitted some woolen goods lower, they have advanced worsted cloths to 40 per cent, ad valorem to meet the suggestions of the treasury department Keady made clothing, which stands in the present tariff at 35 per cent ad valorem, is advanced to 45 per cent, and the manufacturers of cloaks and dolmans have an item fixing the duty on such articles at 15 per cent Miss Manice's maiden name was May Hays, and she was a daughter of CoL Hays, an officer of the British army, and was born in England. It is said that MisB Hays was wealthy, but took to the stage purely from her love for the {Tafession. She was at one time engaged to marry Thomas Power O'Connor, the well-known member of parliament, but the match was broken off. The buildings on the north side of Fortyeoond street, occupied by the Wescott's exiress stables, and dwelling bouses Noe. 139, 141 and 143, were partly destroyed. On the xxith side of Forty-first street A. R Briggs' hay, straw and feed establishment, the livery stable? at No. 148 and the dwelling house on Brotherhood men. It ia supposed that he h* that tome big stroke wa« necessary to avoid defeat. The effect of the changes will be illustrated in the course of a day or tiro by a table of estimates now being prepared for the committee. These estimates will be based upon the receipts from imports during the fiscal year 1887. They are not to be relied upon as absolutely correct, for it is supposed that the reduction of duties may in some instances be followed by an increased importation and a corresponding increase of revenue. THE LEHIGH MINERS. As toon us the ways and means committee met yesterilay the bill was presentel to the whole committee. The Republican members then saw it for the first time. Without doing anything more the committee adjourned. The meeting was only held for the purpose of giving tne majority a chance to submit their bill and get it before the public at the same time. As soon as the meeting was over a rush began for copies of the bill by members of the house and the senate, by correspondents and othary, aud in a very short time Clerk Talbot's 300 copies bad disappered like snow before the sun. They May Return to Work on the Oom- Intelllgence of undoubted- reliability was secured at a la)e hour last night to the effect that the chairman of the engineers' and firemens' grievance committees upon all the railroad lines intersecting, parallel to or connected with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy system will medt here to-day or tomorrow. This meeting is preparatory to a general strike upon all these lines. This includes the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, the Chicago and Alton, the Northwestern, the Wisconsin Central, the Rock Island and the Minnesota and Northwestern. pany's Terms. Phix.adkl.phia, March SL—The Lehigh Coal and Navigation company has replied to Its former employes, who requested a statement of the terms upon which work will be resumed. The reply says that the company is willing to get its mines ready to resume work and give employment to men and boys as fast as possible. The company has no feeling against the great majority of men who were formerly in its employ, except sorrow that they were misled and sympathy for them and their wives and children, and will be glad to see them at work again, but it will not promise employment to persons who in the past have abused the positions held by them to create dissension between the company and its workmen. The company promisee as in the past to consider questions of compensation that may be presented by its employee and to make proper allowances when exceptionally difficult work shall oall for temporary special relief in contract ratfta But the experience of-eleven years shows that it cannot possibly give its workmen a larger share of the money realised from sales of coal, and it will not change the bads of wages nor the rules by which the compensation of its inside men is deduoed from the prioe at which Le high ooal may sell from time to time at Port Johnston and Elixabethport Following are the chief items of addition to the free list, so far as value of importations and amounts of duty are concerned Value. $1,363,046 6,405,000 11,880,121 8,280,117 26,727 16,888,813 814,000 845,907 16,851,870 1,605,812 1.070.000 8*6,745 219,887 61,612 290.380 8.636.01 K) 1,062,326 488,632 497,278 100,884 1,925,905 1,101,994 1,156,435 212,500 salt..:...  Lumber  Flax, hemp, jute, etc. Burlaps  Cotton bagging  Tin plate*  Needles  Cotton tie*  Wool  Vegetable*  Opium  Glycerine  Gelatine  Fish glue  Quicksilver  Dutle*. 9676,865 Just how the company looks upon the present situation is indicated by the following dispatch, which was wired to every superintendent and master mechanic upon the system last evening by General Manager Stone: Milwaukee, March a—Six hundred Knights of Labor ship carpenter* (truck at the Milwaukee ihip yard yesterday, the bowses refuting to pay C8.75 for nine hour* work. The company are determined to defeat the men, and have requested all those who do not care to work tan hoars to call at the office and get their pay. Striking Ship Carpenters. Mr. Mills, the chairman of the committee, mid soon after the meeting that he was confident the measure would be regarded as a fair and conservative one, although he did not expect to see it escape criticism or amendment It was still lacomplete, for there yet remained the -internal revenue reduction to be taken care of. This would be added in the oommittee, and it had been omitted for the present because the rest of the bill was ready, and there was so strong a desire to learn its contents that the committee did not feel justified in holding it back. Mr. Mills does not much expect uD secure the support of Mr. Randall for the bill. His speech of Thursday was not an indication that he would join hands with the Democrats. It was so qualified that he could vote with his party or for the Republican party, as be saw fit. 103,»00 1,830,346 978,035 14,466 6,706.438 79,000 "The reports which I understand have been sent to our old engineers and others to the effect that the company is intending to yield the position it has taken is absolutely without foundation. * 121,008 6,1)00,000 834,631 468,158 Killed by Falling from a Scaffold. ~* 304 90T 66 807 15,408 SM.038 »tS,872 Mr. Stone said that the conference of Wednesday night was not sought by him, and that no terms of compromise were offered or suggested. He did not think there would be any more conferences yet awhile. He had received no protests from any of the bondholders or stockholders of the road concerning its present policy, bat, on the contrary, his oourse thus far had met the entire approval of the board of directors. He thought that by a week from Monday next, at the latest, every passenger and freight train on the road would be running as though no strike had occurred. Scranton, Pa., March &—Edward Heinwachs, aged 38 years, superintendent of tit* erection o£ the new German Presbyterian church in this city, fell from a scaffold twentyfour feet high in tile church yesterday and struck on his head, fracturing his skull and breaking his neck. He was instantly killed. Datea, plums anil prunes Currants.....  Figs...  «S) l,%8 BCENB OF THE FIRE. Paper pulp 175,067 48,737 10,988 677,771 i«0,886 174,428 106,900 the corner of Lexington avenue and Fartyflrst street were almost wholly destroyed. The buildings on the east side of Third avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second street, were also badly scorched. Altogether some thirty buildings were either pertly or wholly consumed. The ties of the elevated road in Forty-second street burned fiercely, and the branch running from Third avenue to the Forty-second street depot if totally ruined. The iron girders were twisted into all shapes by the intense heat. Burning embers from the fire were carried by the high wind to the roofs of houses over 1,000 feet away. One of the steeples of St Agnes' church, on East Forty-third street, was ignited by the sparks, and partly destroyed. Meats, game, poultry, etc Paintings and statuary Omenta  Bristle*  Copper.  Suspending Production. Allextowh, Pa., March 2.—Three of the Carbon Iron company's furnaces at Parry ville are now out of blast These works are the principal support of that town. The puddling department of the new Plate mill at Fernandas, near this city, will resume work on Monday next The plan of the bill is simple, and is based upon the recommendations of the president's message. The majority of the committee could not make a bill that was exactly up to the president's standard, for such a bill, in the present condition of things in the house, would not hare the slightest chance of pads ing. Beginning with tlje free list, the committee added to it a large number of articta which were strictly revenue articles, making a list of a hundred subjects containing one oi more items. Making an estimate upon the basis of the duties upon these articles as collected during the fiscal year ending June SO, 1887, the free list cuts off about. 922,000,000. The second section of the bill changes the duties upon chemicals, paints and drugs, and upon the same basis strikes off about 9750,000 annual receipts. Then the china and glass schedule is taken up, and reductions are made to the estimated amount of 91,600,000 ■annually. OPINIONS OF STATESMEN, Washington, March 2.—The reduction of the public debt during February amounted to 17,756,866, and since June 80, or the first seven months of the current fiscal year, aggregates 976,974,083. The net cash in the treasury today is 102,987,796, or $7,600,000 more than a month ago. The gold fund balance is $212,869,913, or about (10,000,000 more than on Feb. 1. The silver fund balance, exclusive of (6,000,000 in trade dollars, is $47,- 160,000, a decrease of about $1,000,000 during the past month. National. bank depositories hold $61,546,000 of government money, or $2,000,000 more than on Feb L Government receipts during February aggregated $81,- 161,981, or $1,500,000 more than in February, 1887, while expenditures were but $19,808,468, or $5,500,000 less than in February, 1887. Receipts from all sources for the first seven months of the current fiscal year reach $288,- 905,889, and expenditures during the same period aggregate $188,446,939. Governmental Flnanoes. Interview* with Gentlemen Whou Poli- ties Are at Variance. The reports received by General Passenger Agent Morton indicate that the company is making substantial progress. The suburban trains are running on time, and so are the most important of the through mails. A few freight trains were running yesterday, and more are running to-day. The railroad officials declare that the freight blockade ia broken. Washington, March 2.—In an interview with a representative of The United Press on the tariff bill Mr. Mills said: To begin with, let us glance at the free list. There are BOO or 300 articles on which the duty is to be removed. A large number of these'articles thus placed on the free list are of minor importance, and the change can In no wise affect our industries; and where a country charges an import duty upon any of the dHlcles named, the present duty will remain. The principal items are lumber, and as to some of the articles placed on the free list the result will be to break up a few of the numerous trusts now forming in the country. Copper is an instance: The total amount of reduction that will arise from the extension of the free list will be something like 922,000,000. To rut for Thirty Days. Flounce, March 2.—Sued, the famous Italian fatter, began yesterday a thirty days' fast, under the scrutiny of the Medico-Physk-al society of Florence. Professor Luciani will supervise the wonderful feat, and see that the faster performs all that he claitos. When the fire spread to the dwelling houses on the north aide of Forty-second street the police were ordered to drive out the tenants. When Officers Hewitt and Hlrtt reached the rear of the fourth story of the tenement 481 East Forty-second street they found Bridget Clarkson, a bed ridden woman, 70 years of age, who had evidently been deserted. She was fully conscious of her perilous position, but was wholly unable to move. The front of the building was on fire at this time, and the two officers caught the old lady In their arms, and started to carry her to the roof, where they hoped to reach a place of safety. They found the scuttle nailed down, however, and, after a.vain attempt to burst it open, they had to make their way down stairs again to the street, through the blinding smoke and the threatening flames, which had spread considerably by this time. The firemen played a stream of water on them when they appeared at the street door, and the two gallant officers, with their now unconscious burden, succeeded in reaching the street When asked what would be the attitude ot the company toward their new men in the event of an amicable termination of the strike, Mr. Morton, who spoke in behalf of Mr. Stone, said that all who were competent would be retained, no matter what new phase the contest might assume. Sarah Althea'a Victory. San Francisco, March 2.—In the case of Sharon vs. Sharon, the great divorce case, in the superior court yesterday afternoon, tlw judge denied the petition of the defendant for a reheating. This means that the defend' ant must pay $8,000 alimony. N*W York, If arch B.—In the Squire-Flynn case yesterday Judge Lawrence read a decision handed down by the United States supreme court in 1882, to the effect that evidence could not be introduced to sustain an indictment for conspiracy of admissions made after the crime had been effected. In accordance, the evidence offered by the prosecution was refused. The Jury then, by instruction of Judge Lawrence, rendered a verdict of "not guilty," on the ground of insufficiency of evidence.  Squire and Fljraa Escape. Beginning with pig iron, upon which a cat ■at only 73 cents a ton U made, the reductions effected are (mall, and the effect of the 'Changes has not yet been estimated. In the sugar schedule the Dutch standard is raised from 13 to lfl, a reclassification of the other grades is made, and the duties are so reduced -as to effect an apparent reduction of the revenue of about $12,000,0001 A large number of articles generally described as "sundries" are reduced so as to cut off revenue to the amount of $1,000,000. The changes in the cotton schedule will effect a reduction of revenue, it is estimated, of about {760,000, on the basis ol the imports of 1887, and by the changes in the items touching jute, bemp and flax II,- 800,000 more will be kept out of the hands ol the customs officers. By the putting of wool on the free list and the revision of the schedules affecting woolen goods a reduction of the revenue of about $12,000,000 is believed to have been secured. The lightening of duties on provisions will cause a reduction of .revenue of about $790,000. The total apparent reduction is about $52,u 10,000. To this remains to be added the amount of reduction to be effected by changes in the internal revenue laws. The changes proposed will make a total probably of $20,000,000 to $10,000,000, making a grand total to be cut off by the committee's completed list about $70,000,000 to $80,000,000. The reduction on wool and woolen goods wilt amount in round numbers to $12,000,000. Where a specific duty was charged before we have changed it on a number of manufactured articles to an ad valorem standard. On sugar a reduction of $15,000,000. One result of this will be to break up tlie Infamous trusts that have been formed for the purpose of increasing the price of that article. The reductions on iron and steel rails are gnall, and I think the importation of such articles will not be materially increased. Iron in pig is put at $6 per ton. The reduction made is only 72 cents. On imported tobacco, iu leaf, manufactured and not stemmod, we have fixed the duty at 35 cents per pound, Sumatra is included. When the duty on Sumatra was $1 per pound a good deal of it was smuggled, and the revenue was thereby lost to the government. On some of the articles on which we have reduced the duty the revenue will be increased, while on others it will be reduced. Fish we have noUtouched. That question has always caused trouble between this country and Canada, aud involves dispute that we don't care to encourage. We have purposely left the internal revenue question outside, and will bring in a separate measure for that. We intend to have a bill on that subject It may be appended In the house to the general bill, but that 1 am unable to say just now. The customt duties will be reduced about $65,000,000, and in such a way that the manufacturing industries of the oountry will have no cause for needless alarm. Probably Beaten to Death. Providence, March 2.—Thomas Robinson, the well known artist, died at his residence in this city last night of heart trouble end apoplexy. He was 58 years of age. A Well Known Artist Dead. Chicago, March 2.—The police arrested William F. Scott yesterday on a charge of having beaten to death a woman named Kate Lawler, with whom he has been living at No. 62 North Peoria street Soott is a man who has no regular means of support, and the police give him a had name. The Lawler woman had repeatedly complained of his having brutally beaten her. Yesterday morning her dead body was found by some of her friends, covered with bruises. Scott was at once taken into custody, though he vigorously denied his guilt, and said that he had not beaten the woman lately. The skull of the victim looks as though it hnd been crushed in with some blunt instrumen* There are two formp of chrooio rheumatism: one In which the joints are swollen and red without fever, and the appetite and digestion good, in the other the joints are neither red nor swollen, but only stiff and painful. In either form Salvation Oil may be relied on to effect a cure. It kills pain. Prios 25 cents a bottle. Home's Idle Workmen on tbe Bampage. The losses, as far as at present ascertalne d are as follows: Rome, March 2.—A number of unemployed workmen banded together yesterday, and pillaged various shops in the city. When the police attempted to arrest them and drive them away the crowd stoned them. The troop* were finally called- out and managed to disperse the rioters without bloodshed, and succeeded in arresting a large number of them. Pottier & Stypous, $200,000; W. H. Entell, furniture and decorative manufacturer, $30,- JOO; Powell, Wenningman & Smith, cigar factory, $200,000; the building in which the above firms were located was damaged to the extent of $350,000; William Armstrong, carpenter, $3,000; John Lockner, designer, *5,000; No*. 150 and 158 East Forty-seconil street (owned by the estate of William Lainoeor), $10,000; Nos. 148, 150, 152 and 194 (owned by James Ken wick), $35,000; J. Corcoran, artists' materials, $10,000; M Schwarz, tailor, $1,500; the Vanderbilt hotel, $15,000; Theiss & Truey, marble cutters, $26,000. Tou W ho Lead Sedentary l ira will find great relief from constipation, headache and nervousness, by taking Simmons Liver Regulator. It is a simple, harmless, vegetable compound, sura to relieve you. Persons of sedentary habits often suffer with kidney sffections. If they would maintain the strength of the digestive organs and improve the quality of the blood by taking the Regulator it would restore the kidneys to health and vigor. Palo Alto, March 2.—The report that some Philadelphia and Reading engineers whp failed to get back their lobs will be reemployed by the company proves correct These men's cases have been carefully inquired into, and it has been learned thdt they were not wholly to blame for their failure to report for duty on Dec. 27 last, and they have been quietly informed that they can have their engines again. This action has not been, strictly speaking, authorized by Manager Mo- Leod, but as very skillful engineers are required on the Frack villa grade it is supposed that the officials in Philadelphia will not object to their re-employment Going Back to Their Old Englaes. Ottawa, Ont, March 2.—Hon. Sir Charles Tup per intimated yesterday, in reply to a question, that overtures had been made to the American commissioners at Washington by the British representative* for extended trade relations, and he let the inference be drawn that the overture* had been rejected. Were the Overture* Rejected ? The four story brick building on East Forty-second street, including No*. 148 and 150, was totally destroyed. Saved His Ufa. The committee have added to the bill the administrative provisions of what was known in the last congress as the Hewitt bill, adopted with immaterial changes recommended by the treasury department To these provisions there h».s never been much objection offered, hut they have always been neglected because of the hostility to the revenue bill with which ithey have been connected. No. 148 East Forty-second street was occupied by Qeorge Fester as a cigar store. Loss unknown. Chicago, March 3.—The soanery and costumes at McVicker* tiiaatre, belonging to Mrs. Langtry, were seized yesterday on the suit of Mile. Doree for $420 salary alleged to be due, and her car was seised on the suit of Jamea Creighton, an Edinburgh jeweler, for $C81. "  Seining Mrs. Laagtry's Property. Mr. D. L. Wilcoxson, of Hone Cave, Ky. says be was, for man; years, badly aJUicted with Phthisic, also Diabetes; the pain* aere almost unendurable and would sometimes almost throw him into convulsions, He tried Klectric Bitters and got relief from first bottle and after taking aix bottles, was entirely cured, and had gained in fleab eighteen pounds. Bays be poaitively. believes ha would have died, had it not been for the relief afforded by Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a bottle try A.. B. Woodward. The bill reduc »the revenue, by the closest estimate which con now be made, by about $53,000,000, of which $22,250,000 come from extension of the free list, $12,000,000 from woolens, $11,000,000 from sugar, $1,500,000 from earthen and glass ware, nearly $3,000,- 000 from metals, $600,000 from chemicals, $500,000 from provisions, $850,000 from cottons, nearW $2,000,000 from hemp, jute, etc., and about $10,000,000 from sundries. Mr. Reed (of Maine)—It is absolutely impossible in one day or in ten to examine a bili containing 500 or 1,000 items; nor can any one man do it any time. All anybody can say about it must be in the most general way. Speaking in that way the very first thine which strikes any intelligent man is that it Is absolutely a political bill. Tfcere is not the i» in test trace of economic principle running through it; hardly even a pretense of that £ left, It ia also by necessity sectional in the extreme. A few pet manufacturers have been consulted, a few Democratic members have been seen; but the great industrial interests of the country have been left in tin dark. Coal and Iron ore, for example, are kept off the free list because West Virginia and Old Virginia rose en masse and the Democrats were afraid. Maine they have no hope of, and she is struck from boundary to boundary. The groat northern timber l«lt and the Pacific coast also are under the ban. Nos. 153 and 154 East Forty-second street were occupied by Bernard Schwartz, liquor dealer. Lisa unknown. The second, third and fourth floors of these buildings were oocupied by families, who lost all their housebold goods. Philadelphia, March a—Ex-Governor Pollock presided yesterday at a meeting of citizens in Carpenters' hall, called far the purpose of adopting revolutions of sympathy and to arrange to co-operate with the citizens of New York in their preparations to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of Qsorge Washington at first president. Resolutions were adopted and forwarded to New York favoring co-operation with ths executive committee having the matter in charge in that city, and a committee of thirteen was appointed to perfect arrangements for a union of forces. To Celebrate Washington's Inauguration. Ska Wu Tempted by the Devil. The general purpose of the committee has "bee* to change the tariff law, beginning with the putting of many raw materials on thu tree list la making Sax, hemp and jute free, however, they have also included as free the burlaps manufactured from jute, which are used by furniture manufacturers as packing. The duties on burlaps for the fiscal year 1887 were $978,035, and the average ad valorem was 80 per cent The committee have made tin plates free. This strike/ off about $6,000,000 of duties. Iron and steel cotton ties used for balling purposes, which have been paying an average ad valorem duty of 35 per cent, and for which $131,008 was collected in 1887, are made free, much to the gratification of the cotton growers of the south. Decorated china is reduced from 00 par cent to 45 per cent, while brown earthenware is reduced from 25 to 20 per cent ad valorem. All other earthenware, except the sorts enumerated in the bill, are reduced from 55 par cent to 35 per. cent The duty on green and colored glass bottles is reduced Onefourth of a cent per pound, the present duty being 1 cent A light cut is made on cylinder glass in large sheets, but upon the common aorta of window glass, which have been paying an average ad valorem duty of nearly 100 per cent, tbe reduction is greater. The reduction of the duty on pig iron from 4&78per too to $6 was not considered a heavy cut There was imported in 1887 about ft,500,- 000 tons of pig iron, yielding duties of nearly $3,000,000, at an average ad valorem of more than 48 per cant Iron railway -bars which bar* been dutiable at from $15 to $20 per ton cm reduced to ML The committee war* ♦war» that Mr.RfaWw»»pr»par«d to admit William Eagan, steam printer, at No. 158 East Forty-second street, lost all his stock. Ket Wen, Fla., March 2.—A dispatch from Havana says that at Baracoa a mother murdered her four young children, drowning two in a tub and afterward cutting them up, and chopping off the heads of the other two. She said she was tempted by the devil. Sargent & Co., manufacturer of folding chairs, occupying second floor on the south side of building. Buokien's Arnloa Salve. There are many small losses that will probably be reported to-day. The total loss, it is thought, will aggregate over (1,000,000. Tbb Bat Salti the world for Cnta Bruises, Bona, Dicers, 3alt Rhsum, fever Bona, Tetter, Chapped Hand*, Chilblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It Is guar an teed to give perfect satisfaction, or aiooey refunded. Price 36 oents Mr box. Po» sals by A. B. Woodward. Weekly FaymeaU Defeated. Providence, March 2.—In the house of Fatal Duel Between Editors. representatives yesterday a bill prescribing weekly payments to employes of manufacturing corporations and others was defeated by a vote A 38 to 80. Culpepper, Va., March a—Edwin Barbour, editor of The Piedmont Advance, and Ellis B. Williams, son of George Williams, editor of The Culpepper Exponent, engaged in a shooting affray yesterday, as the result of caustic editorial exchanges, and young Williams was killed and Barbour very seri ously wounded.- Deceased was a nephew of Gen. Robert Williams, United States army, who marrisd.the widow of Stephen A Douglass. Barbour is a son of Hon. James A Barbour, member of the legislature, and nephew of Senator-elect -Barbour. ' Rochester, N. Y., March a—Both the Republican and the Democratic city conventions for nominating municipal'Officers war* held last evening. Mayor Parsons was nominated by the Republicans for * seventh term of tw j years for mayor. Alderman George W. Elliott, a Republican, brought out by a citizens' movement in a reform issue, received the indorsement of the DenoeraOo convention for the mayoralty, after x straggle. The election will take place on tet Tuesday. Tar Mayor of Rochester. CONDENSED NEWS. Soa't Experiment. The national boose has passed bills tor public buildings at Bridgeport, Conn., and Hotjoken, N. J., ataoost of *10,000 and 986,000, Ton cannot afford to waste time In esptrimentfng when your lungs are In danger. Consumption always seems at first, only a cold. Do not permit any dealer to impote upon you with some cheap imitation of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Coughs and Coidn, but be sum the genuine. Because he can make more profit he may tell you he ha* something Just aa good, or just the seme. Don't be deceived, but insist upon getting Dr. •King's New Disoovery, which la guranteed to give relief in all throat, Lung and Qbes* affections. Trial bottles free at A. B. Woodward's Drug Store. Large Bottiea |1. respectively. Four widows mourn the death of ex-Fire Commissioner Philip Brennan, of New York. At Las Animas, Colo., Frederick A Hale, a Denver architect, shot and killed H. F. O'Reilly, a contractor, who attacked him. Colored people of Georgia are preparing to give Mr. Frederick Douglass an ovation on the occasion of his visit to Atlanta next week. Mr. Joseph Phillips, a well known citizen of Hastings on Hudson, banged himself while temporarily insane. - Typhoid fever at St. Stephen's college, Annandalw, N. Y., has caused the temporary dosing of the institution. W. L. Beeson, charged with the murder «C Miss Jennie Watkius, at Gaimaville, Tex., Jumped from a train near Sealy, Tex. Be took* a leg udwas nattered. The treatment which the minority has received is utterly unprecedented in th6 history of the country. Why should Republicans, the protectionists on the committee, be utterly ignored! Why have they been refused presence at the hearings given tbe pet manufacturers? What were they put on the committee for? You tell me the majority have resolved to refuse to give hearings. But they are mistaken. They cannot maintain that attitude. It has no sense and no prece dent Gradually Ramming Operations. have Cli »a ticket In the Tamaqua, Pa., March a—One colliery in the Lehigh region has responded favorably to the proposition made to the operators by District Assembly No. 87, and it is believed that a speedy resumption"'throughput the en ire region will soon follow. The Lehigh Ctoal and Navigation company still claims that it will not rssume unless the man go to work at the same wages paid when they quit on Sept. 10, and that they go-to work unconditionally. The company will make an effort to start its No. 11 oolltery, near this place, MXt week. 1 Polly Sticks to Har bustle. Little Falls, N. Y., Marat a—The fair and bux im Salvationist, Pol\y Bryan, who was mar rteu *iere last wintsc at a grand hallelujah wedo iug and who was subsequently expelled from the Army because she wore a bustle, has just returned to this village, and is now holding apposition meetings at Zion's Colored churcb. Polly is assisted by bar husband, and as .ihe is advertised to, appear wsarin* htf famous bustle the meetings are largely attended, alone om account of Dyspepsia. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets will cor* Dyspepsia, Indigestion %nd Constipation; sold on ft positive guarantee at 83 and 60 eents, by D. Williamson, Apothecary HaH, The following additional expressions wore gathered from members of tlie ways and means committee: Mr. Breckinridge (of Arkansas)—It is a bill which will oert&inly nu, Mr. luoMiQan—Tbebill is subject to nC, reasonable objection. It does not injurs • single industry. I ■ ±*9-*i f.fXi