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Captain Ike Selleck having‘ refused
to pay over to the county the sum of
$474.49, the amount due on the assess-
ment of the county, the total of which
is $2,600, Clerk Shelton of the Supe-
rior court issued an execution of a civil
suit against the town and gave the same
to Deputy Sheriff Peter Doolan’s, of .
Bridgeport, to serve. .
Sheriff Doolan came to South Nor-
walk with the execution this morning,
and going to the jewelry store of H. S.
Rood, on South Main street, attached
$375 worth of jewelry and took it away.
The Sherifl was not satisfied with this
amount, however, and coming‘up town
he visited the jewelry store of Spencer -
& Co., on Main street, and attached
$1200 worth of diamonds.
The Sheriff carried away the dia-
monds and jewelry and will sell the
nucleic the highest [bidder at the sign
post in Bridgeport, Messrs. Rood and
Spencer & Co., getting their redress
through a suit against the town.
The assessment against the town is
laid on the grand list of 1895, and was
due the first of last July. The town
p lid to the County treasurer the amount
assessed, $2,600, minus $474.49.
The reason given by the Selectman
for not turning over the $477 is because
it is an over assessment. He does not
deny that the assessment against the
town is legal, but refuses to pay it on
the ground that it is an unfair assess-
ment, because the property in Norwalk
is assessed at its full valuation. Norwalk
thus paying more than its share, or
proportion, as compared with the
other towns of the county.
Section 1,983 of the General Statutes
says it shall be the duty Of the court to
issue an execution against the goods
and real estate of the inhabitants of the
town of,Norwalk, in the name of the
County treasurer, returnable in sixty
days, for the amount of taxes unpaid,
. and under this law the execution was
issued.
figzfienry Coil urr. of Spencer & Co. re
mirked that it was the largest sale of
diamonds since McKinley’s election.
Messrs. Rood and Spencer 6: Co. will
now be obliged to sue the town to re-
cover the value of their diamonds and
jewelry taken away by Sheriff Doolan.
The Selectmen on Monday paid the
County tax with costs and the diamonds
and jewelry were returned.
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NEW§POSTMASTERS.
Recommendation For Noroton, Sharon,
and Sandy Hook.‘
Representative Hill has recommended
Charles E. Schofield for appointment
as postmaster at Noroton. Mr. Scho-
field will doubtless be appointed at an
early date. He is a veteran of the
CiVil war, having served as a private
in the Seventeenth C. V.
Mr. Hill has also recommended Wil-
lard Baker for appointment as post-
master at Sharon.
W. B. Snift‘en has been recommended
to be postmaster at Sandy Hook. This
is to fill the vacancy recently caused by
‘ an embezzling oflicial.
Druggists Amused.
Druggists are making a strong efibrt
to interest all their fellow tradesmen in
4 the bill before the legislature, increas-
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l, druggist on a footing with the regular
ing the druggist’s license fee to $400.
The bill, if put through, will put the
saloon keeper. There is only one drug-
"' gist in the legislature, a Saybrook rep-
' resentative, and he will probably head
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the opposition to the bill. In Hartford
l the druggists are united in opposition
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to the proposed measure and an effort
is being made to rouse the New Haven,
ers to a sense of the danger. The meas-
ure arose from the recent alleged at-
tempt of the Danbury druggists to un-.
dersell the saloons in certain kinds of
' liquors.
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The big woolen mills of Rockville in-
cluding the Hockanum, Springville,
lNew England, Rock and American
l mills, practically resumed running on
full time Monday. The mills have been
unning on two thirds time since Feb-
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ruary,‘1895. These mills employ 2,000
lersons when running at full capacity
: ith a weekly pay roll of $15,000. The
.roducts of the mill is "a fine quality of
oolens. This was the first general
‘hort time' schedule ever adopted by
I hese mills.
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The adjutant-general has issued an
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"girder granting Troop A, First Battal-
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g on of Cavalry, Second Brigade, M. V.
El ., Captain Oscar A. Jones command-
ng,’ permission to enter and pass
hrough the state on route to and from
New York, April 27.
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GAZETTE advertisement gets there
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Orders forAdyertlsing. Papers an d
.Printing Will Receive Prompt
Attention by Addressing
Box 104-. Wilton.
Clinton Hard, of Bridgeport, was in
town on Tuesday.
The veteran whist club met as usual
on Saturday evening. ‘
Wakeman Burr has recovered from
an attack of the grip.
The Waterbury family have removed
from Cranbury to Cannons.
There will be services at St. Matthew’s
on Friday evening at 7:45. ‘
G. W. Ogden is making his springin-
spection of our local schools.
Miss Lizzie Miller, of Norwalk, spent
Sunday at her home in Belden Hill.
A cottage prayer'mceting was held at
the house of Mrs. Brotherton, last eve-
ning.
R. E. Fitch has returned from New
York, where he has been a guest of
Laurence Hulton.
Miss Tucker of New York, was the
guest of Miss Isabel Folsom, ot' Ridgely
Farm on Sunday.
Miss Seymour, of Smi'li Norwalk’
spent Saturday and Saintly with Miss
Miller of Cannons.
It is reported that Silas Olmstead has
“swapped” horses with Charles Knapp,
of Hurlbutt street.
Miss Maud Keeler, of Norwalk, was
the guest of Miss Bessie Kseler, of
North Wilton over Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Hooker, held Lenten ser-
vices at the house of Mrs. J. C. DeWitt
of Bald Hill, last evening.
Mr. Charles Dann is now wearing a
heavy beard, which has so changed his
appearance that many fail to recognize
him.
Robins, peepers and R. C. Han-
ford’s floral catalogue, tells us more
plainly than words that spring is, at
hand.
One of thelatest arrivals in Belden
Hill, is a little eight pound girl at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George Bar-
ringer.
The poultry yards of Orville Brown,
D. B. Ogden and Mrs. Ellen Nolan,
exhibit large numbers of prospective
broilers. .
Howard Bloomer, George Woodward
and Will Post of Norwalk, enjoyed the
entertainmentat the Chapel on Friday
evening.
The Auxiliary of St. Matthew’s
church meets at the rectory this after-
noon, therewill be a service of prayer
at 4 o’clock.
’ Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman, entertained
a n‘iimber of friends very pleasantly on
Monday evening, with a number of
musical selections on the Graphiphone.
Mrs. Caroline Dewess, who will re-
move to Fishkill next week, holds an
auction of her household goods, at her
residence at Joe’s hill, on Monday. A
large amount of handsome furniture
will be disposed of. -
The entertainment given by the so-
cial committee of the Y. P. S. C. E. at
the chapel on Friday evening, was a
great success. Songs were sweetly
rendered by Miss Zelma Thayer and
Miss Ethel Chichester, Miss Susan
Dann recited the ”Ideal Church” in an
animated manner; a bright little farce,
the “Mad Cap,” was charmingly acted;
Miss Annie Winkler. Miss Alice Keeler,
Clarence Jackson, James Comstock and
Ernest Hurd taking the characters.
Several artistic tableaux preceded the
laughable pantomine “Mary Jane,”
that closed the evening’s program, to
the regret of the audience.
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HURLBUTT STREET.
Miss Edna Rider is on the sick list.
The snow is gone and the mud is fast
drying up.
Partrick Bros. are sawing chestnut
shingle at their mill.
George Barnes has bought the Chas.
E. Sturges place for 3800.
John Marbach will remove to ' his
place he bought of George Barnes on
the Mines road. .
If you want to see some novelty pets
call at the “Welcome Farm” and see
the little Angora goat kids. They are
little beauties.
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New Railroad Commission at Work.
_ Albany, March 24.—Colonel George W.
Dunn of Binghamton today..assumed
the place of state railroad commissioner.
.The commission, which is composed of
Frank M. Baker, Colonel Ashley W.
Cole and Colonel Dunn, will reorganize.
Grant’s Birthday 8 Half Holiday.
Albany, March 24.——Governor Black
has signed the bill making the after-
noon of April 27, Grant’s birthday, a.
legal holiday in New York, Kings and
Westchester counties. , .
The Lincolnsliire Handicap.
London, March z4.—The Lincolnshire
handicap of 2,000 sovereigns, in which
18 horses started, was won by J. C. Sul-
livan’s Winkfleld’s Pride, at the second
day’s racing of the Lincoln spring
meeting, today. The Lincolnshire han-
dicap is for 3-year-olds and upward.
Greater New York Charter Passed.‘
Albany, 'March 24.—At 2:53 p. m. the
Greater New York charter bill was
passed in the assembly.
4..
—Live Merchants keep their names
before the Public. An Advertisement
in..THE GAZETTE will. be read.
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,at the time to amount to $13,000.
. also stole $1,000 from a building asso-
Twoniis’iis one: x sergm'”
Had Given Her Up.
Eastport, Me., March 24.—A success-
ful X ray experiment has been per-
formed on Mrs. George Fountain, who
beldngs in New Brunswick, but has
lived here several months. 'She had
been a. sufferer from‘an internal dis-
order which the local physicians could
not diagnose. She was treated by
them for various complaints, but to“ no
avail, and her case had been practicé
ally given up, when she determined to
go to the Maine General hospital at
Portland. Mrs. Fountain thought she
had ’a. cancer, and her friends little ex-
pected her to réturn. ,
The hospital surgeons to whom she
went decided to use the X ray to locate
the seat of trouble, and in this they
were entirely successful. They found
imbedded in one of the nerves leading
to the heart a. small fishbone which had
been swallowed a year ago, and upon
removing this the patient’s pain ceas-
ed, and she began to regain her health.
Mrs. Fountain has come home, having
been absent less than a week. She is
seemingly entirely cured.
BREDBR IS DEPIANT.
He Now Threatens to Involve Other Peo-
ple In His Thefts.
.Bethlehem, Pa.., March 24.——Discov-
eries just. made add $16,000 to the em-
bezzlement of Cyrus E. Breder, the de-
faulting cashier of the First National
bank of this city who disappeared a few
weeks ago, leaving a. shortage estimated
He
ciation.-
Breder’s bondsmen died, and his bond
was not renewed, so the bank had to
make good the shortage of $30,000. Bre-
der is said to be in Denver, and it is
likely that steps will be taken to have
hirri brought here on charges of forgery.
A sensation has been created here ‘by
the receipt of a letter from Breder in
which he threatens to expose certain
unnamed citizens of Bethlehem who as-
sisted him in his peculations.
The Georgia Cyclone.
Louisville, March 24.——A special from
Atlanta, Ga., gives the following cor-
rect list of nine dead as the result of
the cyclone at Arlington. Geo: Professor
W. A. Covington. Ollie Parramore, Alice
'Putnam, Claude Roberts, Willie Mc-
Murray, Albert Butler, Kenneth..Boyn-
ton, Maude Johnson and Mary Welions.
Four others are reported killed at
Blakeley, Ga.
Last Slave In Sullivan County Dead.
Monticellm N. Y., March 2!l.—‘Jennic
Thompson, 95, the last slave in Sullivan
county, died today at the county aims-
house. She was brought to these parts
years ago by William Thompson, the
first judge of Sullivan county, and for
over 50 years she worked for him. Long
after she was freed she staid at the
Thompson homestead. »
Hoos Demands an Election.
Trenton, March 24.—Edward Hoos,
the Democratic candidate for mayor of
Jersey City, today applied to Justice
Lipplncott for a writ of mandamus to
compel the city clerk to distribute bal-
lots and hold the city election as usual
on the second Tuesday in April. The
city clerk, he alleges, had refused to
take the usual steps for the April elec-
tion, owing to the recent enactment of
a. law abolishing the April elections in
that city and Newark.
Four Murderers Respited.
Santa Fe, March 24.—A telegram was
received today from Washington say-
ing that President McKinley had res-
pited for ten days the four members
of the Button gang who were to have
been hanged today for the murder of
ex~Sheriff Frank Chaves May 29, 1892.
Asphyxiated by Gas.
Yonkers, March 24.—Charles Black-
burn, 45, was found dead in his bed tb-
day. Blackburn drank heavily. This
morning Mrs. Finlay, his landlady,
failed to arouse him. She forced the
door and found Blackburn lying dead
on_the bed. The room was full of gas.
Err-Supervisor Compton Missing.
SARATOGA, March 32.——Ex—Supervisor
Hiram A. Cainpion of Clifton Park, Sara~
toga county, is reported to be missing. He
was last seen in Albany on Thursday. It;
is alleged that recently he obtained over
$15,000 by mortgaging real and personal
[Lil
. property.
Life of a Woman Savgd After the Doctors,
" " ”"RVIIISEKS ' 'sUitR'ENDEBS'." " ”f” ‘
He Is Supposed to Know Something of
the Death of Aimee Smith.
New York, ’March 24.-—Nelson M.
Weeks, the man who, it is -alleged,
knows more than any other person
about the circumstances of the recent
death of Aimee Smith at the Victor ho-
tel, in this city, surrendered himself to-
day. 5"
‘Weeks and Miss Smith, it has been
said, registered at the Victor hotel on
March 8 as "J. Everett and wife, Chi-
cago.” The woman a. little later was
found dying. It was supposed the girl
died of poison, and an analysis is being
made of the stomach. She died without
making any disclosures.
At the time of the woman's death the
man who had been with her disappear-
ed. Weeks, who had been friendly
with Miss Smith, disappeared from his
Hackensack home at the same time. and
this fact cast suspicion upon 'him. De-
tectives have since been looking for
him, it is said.
Yesterday Theodore S. Weeks of 261
Mott avenue, Long Island City, a. broth-
er of Nelson M. Weeks, called upon Cor-
oner Dobbs’ clerk and said that his
brother was near at hand and ready
to answer any charge made against
him. ‘
Today Nelson ‘M. Weeks, accompanied
by his brother and Central Office De—
tective Flay, entered the criminal court
building and took the elevator to Cor-
oner Dobbs’ office.
The fugitive was met in the corridor
by his 17-year-old son. Without utter-
ing a. word they embraced each other
and kissed, tears streaming down the
faces of both. -
The scene seemed to indicate that
Weeks had not seen any member of his
family at Hackensack since he disap-
peared after Aimee Smith's death.
The party were ushered into Coroner
Dobbs’ office, and admission to every
one else was denied. .
Coroner Dobbs afterward said the.
Weeks had made a full gonfession. He
said that the girl died of heart trouble,
and he, fearing publicity, had left the
state, but he suffered so much that he
decided to return and give himself up.
Spanish Battalion Captured.
Havana, March 24.—Fighting'has been .
reported near Santa. Clara. It is said
that Garcia has captured a. Spanish
battalion of 300.men. The report can-
not be confirmed, though the excitement
among the Spanish officers would indi-
cate that some disaster has befallen
their army. Several trains were wreck-
ed in this province on Saturday and
Sunday. The town‘of Lacon, 20 miles
southeast: of this city, was raided on
Sunday by Colonel Hernandez. The
garrison was forced to retreaft. The in-
surgents looted stores and secured $2,000
in silver that had been hidden by a
Spanish merchant.
Pliiladr .‘plfiizi Brewers Combine.
._ Marc-h 24.—Six large
breweries. with a total annual output
of 290,000 barrels of beer. have agreed
upon a ersiisulidetion of their business.
in a week or two the Consumers’ Brew~
ing COT.’.}?£.11}', with :3 capital of more
than $5.C’C"C.’lf‘: will own and operate
the now run by John Roehm,
the Excelsior, the Vv'elde & Thomas,
Spaeth. Kramer & Hess, John C. Miller
& Sons and the Mutual. Henry Hess is
president of'i‘ne company.
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Busic May Rejoin the Giants.
Indianapolis, March 24.—Indications
point to an early settlement of Amos
Rusie’s differences with President
Freedman of the New York Baseball
club, and it is believed here that the
crack pitcher will soon join the New
York nine. It is said that the league
magnates are using their influence to
bring about a compromise. 'Rusie is
putting himself in condition, and his
confidants insist that he expects to re-
turn to the diamond.
“Pemisy’s” Directors Re-electen.
Philadelphia, March 24.—~In recogni-
tion of the unanimous approval of the
administration and policy of the present
board of directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad all the members were re-elected
at the annual meczing of the stockhold-
ers today.
Texas Bank Fails.
.Paris, Tex, March 24-.—The Farmers
and Merchants’ bank of this city sus-
pended today. The failure was caused
by the suspension yesterday of Martin.
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Widely Divergent Views Advanced by
. Members of Congress.
REPARTBE OF ME. DOCKERY.
Newlands. Speaks For the Out and Out
Silver Men—McLaurin of South Caro-
lina. Says That He Is In Favor
of a. Duty For Cotton. '
Washington, March 24.—There were
less than 50 members on the floor when
the house entered upon the second day
of the tariff debate. There were only a
few stragglers in the galleries. As the
day advanced the members poured in
and the galleries became crowded. Be-
fore' the debate was resumed today
Mr. lVilson (Dem., S. 0.), who was ob-
sent on the opening day of the session,
was sworn in.
Mr. Gibson (Rep., Tenn.) was the
first speaker. He devoted himself to a.
general argument in favor of protec-
tion.
Mr. Dockery (Dem., M0,), .who follow-
ed, said it was not a matter. of surprise
to him that the discussion of the bill
thus far had been tame and uninter-
esting. “The truth is,” said he, “the
people of this country want more mon-
py and less taxes. This bill does not
represent the issue of the late cam-
paign. The people would prefer to see
$113,000,000 more money put in circula-
tion than to see that amount absorbed
by the treasury.”
Mr. Dockery said it did not lie in the
mouths of the Republicans to criticise
the bond issues of the last administra-
tion. “Mr. Cleveland was criticised on
this side of the house,” said he, “while
you indorsed his policy in the last con-
gress. Your committee on ways and
means refused to give the house an op-
portunity to vote on the senate reso-
lution prohibiting bond issues because
your leaders had been notified by 50
Republicans from the west that they
would be compelled to vote for it.
The Laugh on Mr. Ray.
"Do you suppose we would have in-
dorsed the bond issues if the tariff law
had been raising sufl’icicnt revenue?”
asked Mr. Ray (Rep, N. Y.).
,“Then you admit you indorsed the
bond issues?” At this there was Dem-
ocratic laughter. Mr. Ray attempted
to pursue the subject, but Mr. Dockery
declined to yield further. Continuing,
Mr. Dockery ridiculed the idea that the
present tariff law was the monster
which had destroyed our industries. If
it had done so, why, he asked, had the
Republican members of the ways and
means committee lifted the metal and
cotton schedules almost bodily from
this monstrous law? He denied that
there was an era of prosperity for labor
during the existence of the McKinley
law and instanced the Carnegie strike.
“That catastrophe,” interrupted Mr.
Dalzell, “was the result of a. contest be-
tween organized labor and «the oppo-
nents of organized labor. The McKin-
ley law had nothing to do with'it.”
“Yes, and the protected employer
hired Pinkerton detectives to shoot
down organized labor,” returned Mr.
Dockery. “A distinguished Republican
senator, then a member of this house,
told me at the time that that was the
worst disaster the Republican party
had experienced in 20 years.” '
Mr. Dockery was especially sarcastic
in his remarks on the absurdity of giv-
ing alleged protection to agricultural
products. Of the $569,000,000 of products
exported by the United States last
year, $504,000 were agricultural prod-
ucts.
In conclusion he said that the policy
of protection had driven our flag from
'the high seas, impoverished the labor-
ing man 'and multiplied farm mort-
gages. .
Mr. Newlands (Sil., Neb.) then took
the floor as the spokesman of his party.
which numbers three members in the
house. '
Mr. Newlarids’ Speech.
Mr. Newlands discussed the tariff bill
from the standpoint of the silver men
who united with the Democrats and
Populists during the last campaign in
opposition to the Republicans. Their
alliance, he said, still continued, and
was likely to amalgamate the allied
forces into one strong party with silver
as the supreme and dominant issue, all
other questions being subordinate to it,
and the largest tolerance being exer-
cised as to the difference of opinion on
other questions which had hitherto di-
vided the various elements constituting
the silver forces. Much depended in the
future upon the tolerance, the wisdom
and the conservatism of action of the
allied parties, and he proposed to ad-
dress himself to the question as to what
line of party action would best promote
the cause of bimetallism, which he said
all regarded as the only radical cure for
existing conditions. ‘
Though, he continued, it is some-
times diflicult to determine the exact
Issues settled by a. campaign, there can
be no question that, as to the tariff, the
popular verdict at the last election was
in favor of protection. The Democratic
party declared silver to be the domi-
nant issue, and nearly snatched vic-
tory from the most desperate condi-'
tions. The Repi'Jblican victory would
have been complete had not the Dem-
ocratic victory presented other unnec-
essary issues which handicapped Bry-
an’s candidacy, furnished pretext for
misrepresentation and abuse and real-
ly divided the friends of silver.
As it was, however, he said, the peo-
ple had declared in favor of protection
and had given the Republican party a
contract for prosperity, and that party
should, in his judgment, be allowed to
carry out any reasonable tariff policy
without obstruction and with expedi-
tion. ,
Mr. Newlands went on to discuss th
policy which he {thought would best
protect American industry. He de-
clared that both industrial and mone-
tary legislation were necessary and
that of the two the latter was the most
necessary. ' ’ .
McLaurin Takes the Floor. .
Representative McLaurin (Dem., S.
C.) next spoke. His demand for a. duty
on cotton created a. mild sensation, but
It was heartily applauded by several of
the Democratic members from the cot-
ton belt. While Mr. McLaurin was con-
trasting the vast wealth of. the manu-
facturing states of the east with the
poverty of the farming states of the.
south, 'Mr. Linney (Rep., N. C.) asked
him what was to hinder, the people of----_,
the 'Carolinas from building factories ‘
and sharing in the spoils instead. of
“cus'Sing” their 'more enterprising rt- ,
vals. ' V i.-
“The state of affairs produced by the ,
existence of the Republicans and Popu-
lists in the Carolinas,” replied Mr. Mc—
Laurin,
capital.”
“Is not free raw material the pet
doctrine of the Democracy?” asked'Mr. ..
Linney. ' . g
“It is the pet doctrine,” responded...
Mr. licLaurin, with emphasis, “of the
Democracy represented .by Cleveland‘
and Carlisle and those who have prosti-
tuted the name of Democracy and who
were your aids and allies in the last
campaign.” 5'
- A large proportion of the Democrats
on the floor applauded this statement. it
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Dingley and McKinley Tariffs. ”
Washington, March 24.—There is still
wide room for discussion and calcula—
tion as to just how much protection the
Dingley bill carries with it. It is not a.
simple matter to compare it fairly with
other tariffs. But in all such efforts it
should be remembered that it has still
to pass the challenge of critics in the.
reuse and especially in the senate- In
its present shape the measure is in its.
extreme protection phase. and modifica-
tions may be expected before it takes
the form of law.
Among those who have been figuring
on a comparison of tariff rates be»
tween the McKinley law of 1890, the‘
Wilson law and the Dingley bill the
treasury experts have made a. compara-
tive statement under the general direc-
tion of the majority members of the
Ways and means committee. The value
of importations is given for 1893 under-
the McKinley act, for 1896 under the
existing law, and the estimated values
under the proposed law, together with
the amount of duties collected and esti-
mated by schedules, and the ad valo-
rem equivalents. From this comparison
it appears that in every schedule, ex—
cept metals and cotton manufactures,
the ad valorem equivalent is higher un—
der the proposed law than under that
of 1890. The following table ShOWS the
ad valorem equivalent under the Me—
Kinley act and the proposed bill in the
several schedules:
McKinley. Din grey.
Chemicals. .......... 31.07 31.33
Pottery ..... ................... 5120 52.62
Metals . .................... 57.21 46.54
00d ..... .. .................... 14.53 71.10
Sugar ........ .. ................ 14 55 71.10
Tobacco ........................ 117.82 164.05
Agricultural . . . . . ............. 33.17 39.94.
Spirits ......................... 69.78 77.911
Cotton ........................... 55.25 54.14.
Flax and manufactures ....... 80.50 81.5?
Wool and manufactures . . . . . . 53.56 new
Paper and books.............. 23.85 29.82'
Sundries ....................... 26.03 30.57
The estimated value of importatious
under the proposed law is placed at
$479,540,406, and the estimated duties to
be collected at $273,501,599. The ad ya;-
lorem equivalents of the grand totals of
importations under the McKinley act,
the Wilson act and the proposed law
are given as follows:
McKinley .................................... 49%
Wilson ........................................ 39.94
Dingley ................... . .................. 57.68.
Dingley and the Lewiston Factory. 7
Washington, March 24.—Cha.irman
Dingley of the ways and means com-
mittee, when asked whether the wool
manufacturing concern in which he is
interested had not laid in large stocks;
of wool while the duty was off for the
purpose of profiting by the rise in
prices which would follow the imposi—
tion of the wool and woolen schedule
in the new bill, answered that, so far as
he had any knowledge, the factory in
question had not bought a. dollar’s
worth. “The fact is,” said he, “I bought
a few shares of stock some time ago for
the purpose of helping to establish a.
mill in our city. It was not a profitable
investment, and I should be better off
today if I had not made it. There is no
other foundation for any report which:
represents me as. a manufacturer. As
for the idea. that I am preparing to
profit by a. rise in the price of wool un—
der a protective tariff, I am not aware,
as I have said, that the managers of.
the concern have laid in any supply-”
Princesses Start For Denmark.
London, March 24.—The Princess of
Wales and her daughter, Princess _Vio—
toria, started for Copenhagen today.
ONE OF THE FACTS.
“We Have a Good Thing Here.”
He Said.
HIS is an age of facts.
Nothing else will be ac-
cepted by the people. That
is one reason why Puritana,
the prize formula. of Prof.
Dixi Crosby of Dartmouth
College has met with such_
great success. Everything
claimed for it is backed
“bi-sail":
up by facts.
Mr. F.‘ c. Platt of 43 Austin street has
been a. resident of Worcester for 40 years.
He served in the U. S. navy, and has also
been a. boss painter in the Bradley ca:-
shops. He recently made the following
statement: .
“For nine months past I have suffered
with what doctors call a. low grade of in-
flammr tion of the bowels. It commenced
in my stomach, and for more than six
i weeks I, passed quantities of blood. If I,
caught cold or ate anything that did not
agree with me, I was forced to leave my
’ work, completely knocked out. I would
go home and to bed and could not get
warm, no matter how many clothes Were
piled on me. I ran down from 175 to_153:
pounds. Doctors afforded me no relief
whatever. At last, my wife, noticing the
Puritana advertisements in the papers,
consulted friends and was advised to try
it. I began using it and can truthfully
say it is the only thing that ever touched
my case. From the start, almost, I be—
gan to feel relief, and sdid to my wife:
"We have a good thing here!" I cheer-
fully give my testimony in the hope that
others may benefit from the use of this.
woude-rful discovery." '
(Signed)
Worcester, Mass.
Puritann. makes the health right tier—,-
cause it makes the‘stomach right.
It cures 1mm head to foot.
F. C. PLAT.
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“prevents the investment of. l.
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