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GERMANY'S CROWN PRINCE. Xexr and Interesting Statements Kclatire to His Sickness. "Why His Wife, the Crown Princess, Boxed a Doctor's Ears. The Berlin correspondent of the New York .5un cables the following interesting and hitherto unpublished facts concerning the German Crown Prince's disease and the .commotion it has caused in the royal suf ferer's family: The Crown Prince has been suffering for veir- from occasional hoarseness before it was deemed necessary to have his throat ex--iniiiie I by a specialist. In February last year, however, there was an ex ceptionally severe attack, and Professor Bcrgmann was requested by the Em peror to examine the Prince s throat and 51V in confidence what was really the matter. Itergmann had no difficulty whatever in pronouncing that the Prince was suffering from a malignant cancerous disease, and that to insure the patient temporary relief from pain and postpone for a few years the inevitable catastrophe, it would be necessary to extirpate the larynx. On hearing of the nature of Prof. Von Pergmann's report, the Crown Princess sum moned him to her presence and questioned him in an excited and insulting manner. The professor calmly repeated what he had told the Emperor. The Crown Princess vehe mently denied that her husband could possibly have an incurable disease, and the professor courteously and sorrowfully contradicted her, and the audience ended abruptly by the Crown Princess, forgetful of dignity, boxing the learned professors ears. Not unnaturally. Bergmann refused to have anything more to do with the Crown Prince's case. It was only at the last moment, and at tha earnest and related requests of the Emperor, finally turning into orders, that he altered his de ci.ii n. It is pretty generally known that the Crown Princess detests Prince Bismarck more than anybody or anything in the whole world. She knows that Bismarck reciprocates her feel ings, and she erroneously believes him quite capable of intriguing against her husband's rights to the throne. The Crown Princess ex erts great influence over her husband, and Bismarck has not infrequently had reason to know it. He consoled himself, however, with the fact that, although the Crown Prince and Princess were opposed to him. their son was one of his most devoted admirers. Prince William is not popular with the mass of the German people, but his Bismarck worship is the redeeming feature in their eyes and saves him from being positively disliked. He is in truth a most unlovable young man. He slights his Sehleswig-Holstein wife and in sults his mother at times by parading his ad miration for Bismarck and in other ways. Such are his unfilial sentiments in regard to his English mother that he rarely visits the parental palace, anil then only when directly commanded to do so by his grandfather. During the past few months the Crown Princess's great dread has been that she may live to see Prince William on the throne which it has been her ambition to share with her husband. As far as the public have hitherto understood. Prince Will iam could become Emperor only by the death of his grandfather and father, but it seems the latter event is not necessary, because there is a law on the statue book which provides that no Prince suffering from incurable disease can succeed to the imperial throne. Upon this la"v hangs the explanation of most of the curious happen ings at San Remo, which have been puzzling all Europe. The thought that it gave Bismarck a weajon by which he could strike a mortal blow at her ambition terrified the Princess. She saw that her only chance was to obtain an authoritative expression of opinion that the disease was not incura ble. In her sore distress she appealed to her mother, Queen Victoria, with the result that Dr. Morell Mackenzie was summoned to the royal presence and taken into the ro3ral confidence. He went to Berlin, examined the Crown Prince's throat, and, as arranged, pronounced tho disease non-malignant and curable. One portion of the growth in the throat which he extracted was very carefully selected so as to enable Professor Virchow, to whom it was submitted for microscopical examination, to declare, with a clear con science, that it contained nothing to justify the supposition that the throat was the seat of a malignant disease. Thenceforward Mackenzie became solely re ' sponsible for the conduct of the case. The royal patient's condition seemed to improve. Mackenzie was knighted, and his English prac tice increased enormously. Acting on Mac kenzie's advice the Crown Prince went to Toblach in the Tyrol, and there he had a re lapse, which, in absence of official bulletins and other athoritati ve information, caused a storm of indignation throughout Germany. The Ger mans could not understand why the beloved 'Unser Fritz" should bo allowed to re main in a foreign land under charge of a foreign physician and nursed by a foreign wife. The people clamored that the Prince hould be handed over to the care of Ger nian experts, for of course Dr. Krause, phy sician in ordinary to the Crown Prince's hous ehold, could not be considered authority in such an important case. It was at this time that the German news pa per crusade against Mackenzie commenced, and it is still going on. Then, too, the aged Kaiser intervened, and in spite of the protests of the Crown Princess, commanded that Ger man and Austrian experts should investigate ue matter, 'ine result or that memorable November consultation is still fresh in the public mind. The experts declared that the Crown Prince was suffering from cancerous disease. Dr. Mackenzie signed the report, but with very important reservations. Ho again carefully removed particles from the throat, and Professor Virchow again failed to find in them distinct signs of earn er. Then Virchow relieved himself of further worries and responsibilities by going to Egypt, where he now is away out of reach of the telegraph. When the operation of tracheotomy be came necessary, the Crown Princess would only consent to it after having been warned that her husband's life depended upon it. Tht Emperor again commanded Professor Bergmann to proceed to San Remo, but not until tracheotomy had been aetually performed. When he arrived he received no facilities for seeing and examining the Prince's throat, and his visit cannot have been a pleasant one. He is still ,3t San Remo by the Emperor's commands. The experts now in attendance are divided n opinion on various points, and are jealous t one another, although the Germans are united in distrust of Mackenzie. Ever since tracheotomy was performed Emperor William has desired to have his son removed to Berlin. The German ex perts unanimously declared thtt the disease incurable, and that the patient may as well at Berlin as at San Remo, but the Crown l n'neess resolutely opposed removal, and so far she has had her way The excitement J over Germany, and especially for some reason or other in Bavaria, is so intense that Mackenzie's life would not be safe should he feature to show himself in the Fatherland. BUTCHERED AND BURNED. Eight Colored Men Meet a. Horrible Death. One of the bloodiest crimes that ever dark ened the pages of the history of Texas has been enacted at Spanish Camp, a small settle ment on the Colorado River, in Wharton coun ty, about sixty-five miles southeast of Houston. The Spanish Camp neighborhood is rich in farming lands, but inhabited mostly by negroes and Mexicans, the proportion of whites being very small The rich and pro ductive land occupied by seven or eight male negroes was in litigation. The other parties to the suit were white men, who wished to oast the colored people and gain possession of the best portion of Spanish Camp. The suit was gained by the colored defendants, and they were told that they might go and enjoy their possessions. Their counsel imformed them that no f urth?r bar rier existed to prevent them from going to their homes and remaining there. Accord ingly they mounted their horses and started for the Spanish Camp. That evening the majority of the little cavalcade saw the sun set for the last time. A dozen lor more unknown men crept quietly up to the double cabin about mid night and surrounded the rude dwelling with piles of wood, over which kerosene oiliad been liberally poured, The inmates of the cabin were sleeping soundly when they were aroused by the roar of flames and found themselves surrounded by a circle of fire. Dazed and hardly knowing what they were do ing, they broke through the doorway and win dows when the crack of Winchesters and the heavy reports of shotguns mingled with the noise of the. flames. Five of the terrcr stricken negroes fell dead, riddled with bul lets. A sixth escaped in the bush'sorely wounded and two boys, too frightened to do anything, remained in the cabin and were roasted to death. The wounded man managed to get a horse and was making off' toward Wharton when he was fired upon. He reached Whar ton on foot, his horse having fallen from bul let wounds. He informed Sheriff Jones of the tragedy. The Sheriff and a posse at once started out. Another colored man was found hanging to a tree near the burned cabin. RAGING- FLAMES. A. Disastrous Pire in the Heart ol New York Citj For the third time within a month the ominous signal known as the "Three Sixes" has been sounded in New York City, bring ing into service nearly one-half of the com panies composing the fighting force ol the department. This has never before i ecu r red in the twenty-three years of the department's existence. The fire which called for this remarkable massing of forces broke out about 12:0 o'clock in the immense structure at Lexington avenue and Forty-second street, known as the Pottier & Stymus Building. This was a sub stantial structure of brick, six stories high. This is now a mass of ruins. From there the flames spread to the adjoin ing property, and before the firemen could arrest their progress six tenement houses, an acre of small buildings and a factory em ploying 1,400 hands were completely de stroyed. The Vanderbilt Hotel and nine other buildings were greatly injured. Measured by cold figures twenty-five fam ilies, embracing 115 souls, were turned out.in the world without any of their effects left, the furniture of eight others was damaged and broken by water and removal, and ovei $1,500,000 worth of buildings and stock wer destroyed before the flames would acknowl edge the supremacy of the firemen. FATAL DISASTERS. Avalanches of Snow in Italy Destroy ing Villages anil People. Snow storms of exceptional severity hav been prevailing in Northern Italy. The mu nicipal authorities at Turin have ordered the theatres, schools and markets to be closed in order to prevent accidents through the falling of masses of snow. Several roofs have already collapsed, including that of the railway freight depot. Several vil lages in the Alps have been destroyed by avalanches and many lives have been lost. Troops have been dispatched to aid the suf ferers. Many villages near Genoa and Lake Como are suffering for the lack of food, and soldiers are cutting their way through the snow to re lieve them. A custom house near Revere was destroyed by an avalanche, and three guards and four other persons were killed. An ava lanche covered the village of Sterpone, near Irerea, and thirty lives were lost. Several avalanches haveo"ccurred in the Province of Oviedo, Spain, destroying a railway bridge and a number of houses. Eleven persons were killed at Pajares. WAR IN THE SOUDAN. in Several Hundred Rebels Killed an Attack on the British. Notwithstanding the comparative quiet that has prevailed in the Soudan of late, the situation has been strained and numerous in flicts have occurred between the Eritish and their swarthy foes, culminating Sunday in a desperate and well planned effort by a large force of Egyptian rebels under com mand of Osman Digma, to capture Suakim. After four hours' hard fighting the rebel? retired, leaving several hundred killed and wounded on the field. On the British side Colcnel Tap and rive Egyptians were killed and fourteen wounded. The British gun boats Dolphin and Albacore assisted the garrison, and poured a deadly fire on the re treating rebels. THE LABOR WORLD. Chicago is to have an elevated railroad. There are 12,408 ovens in the Connellsville (Penn. ) coke region. Bessemer's steel patents have brought him $35,385,000 in royalties. The eight hour movement is asserting it 6elf strongly on the Pacific coast. It is reported that Lynn, Mass., has up ward of forty Chinese laundries. Carnegie's steel works, in Fittsburg,have Shut down, and the men are discharged. Coal forty-three inches thick has been dis covered at Le Rov, Kansas, at a depth of 250 feet. It has been stated on good authority that it will require upward of -OO0 cars to trans port the orange crop of California. At Irwin, Penn., a company has been Organized to manufacture hardware novel iies, lawn mowers and other machinery. The Etna Iron Works at Pittsburg have ;losed down indefinitely, the puddlers and a borers, 300 in number, refusing to go to aork. The sewer pipe manufacturers of the United States met in New York and stated :hat owing to a fall in prices a trust will be formed. Sixclairville, Chautauqua County, N. V., has a gas well 1,000 feet deep flowing 1,000,000 feet of natural gas every twenty four hours. A DARING BANK BOBBER. He Fatally Wounds the Cashier and Another Han. Then Commits Suicide to Escape the Fury of Pursuing Citizens. At 1 1 o'clock the other morning the clerks In the Bradford (Penn.) National Bank were all busily engaged at their desks. A stranger entered the building and .advanced to the cashier's window. For a moment no atten tion was paid to him. After waiting a short time the man said loudly: "Let me come in." The tone attracted the attention of everv body in the bank, and he was immediately given to understand that he would not be admitted beyond the rail. He hesitated a moment and then, stepping closer to the window, he drew a pistol and pushed it into Mr. Tomlinson's face, at the same time saying: 44 1 must come in." The cashier looked at him calmly and replied in a slightly sarcastic tone: "Put that pistol away; you cannot frighten any one here." 44 You don't scare worth a cent,' acquies ced the man, as he turned slowly from the window. When he reached a point about midway between the desks of the exchange and discount clerks he suddenly turned, and, making a spring, pistol in hand, he cleared the railing with an agile bound and stood among eight astonishei and frightened clerks, who, after a second's deliberation, ma le a simultaneous bolt for the rear of the bank. Looking coolly about him the bold robber espied a pile of $'.)2$, a cash deposit which had been recently made. This he had stowed away in his pocket, when Cashier Tomlinson, who had not joined the stampede of his clerks, grappled with him. Desjerately they struggled, the one for his freedom and tho other for the safety'of his trust Suddenly there was a sharp report and a little puff of smoke circled up about the swaying figures. With a groan Mr. Tomlin son released his hold upon the robber and sunk to the floor, the blood pouring from a wound just above the left hip. The ball en tered here and passed clear through, coming out above the right hip. The assail ant, without a glance at his victim, turned to the money drawer, seized a roll of money amounting to s45 and a twenty-dollar check and rushed out by way of the cashier's door into the street. There were four person? in the bank at the time besides the employes of the bank, and when the cashier fell they made their way hastily into the street. One of them had the presence of mind, however, to give the alarm, and hundreds of citi zens gave chase to the assassin. Hearing the cries of his pursuers the man suddenly turnel, and leveling his pistol tired .into the crowd. A butcher by the name of Lewis Bilch fell, probably mortally wounded. At what is known as the Elm street cross ing, about a quarter of a mile from the bank, the desperado, seeing that his capture was certain, put the revolver to his head and fired. He died in ten minutes. He was identified as George A. Kimball. Kimball was well known in the oil regions and was the patentee of the Kimball pump. In the accident on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, Feb ruary 5 last, at Steamburg, N. Y., he was injured about the head and it is claimed he has been deranged since that time. lie was twenty -seven years of age and up to this af fair had borne a good reputation. DEPENDENT SOLDIERS. Interesting Figures Furnished By the Pension Bureau. Pension Commissioner Black has sent to Chairman Matson of the House Invalid Pen sion Committee a report furnished to the Pension Office t by its agents concerning the number of the disabled and dependent Union soldiers in the different States. He has in this way learned, as nearly perhaps as possible, exactly the .number of such soldiers and their dependent relatives . The report is so complete as to cover all but 83 counties in all the Staies. The grand totals of Union soldiers supported in Government and private charitable institutions was in October, 1S87, 36, 953. Of this number 15,153 were in soldiers' homes, while 21,801 were in State and county institutions or supported by charitable aid in towns. The report by States is interesting as showing in which States the number of veterans dependent upon alms is largest. Massachusetts leads the list, which is as follows : Mississippi 7 ML-soun 2,000 Nebraska 17 NevacLi 1 New Hampshire... 361 New Jersey 361 New Mexico...... 6 New York 1,9S3 North Carolina.... 14 Ohio 1,212 Arkansas ... California.... Colorado .... 6 275 15 Connecticut 365 Dakota Delaware Dist. of Columbia. Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois.'. Indiana 17 13 72 4 20 2 994 340 Iowa, 343 Kansas 75 Kentucky 150 Louisiana 14 Maine 1,110 Maryland 36 Massachusetts S.910 Michigan 509 Minnteota Ml Oregon 10 Pennsylvania 3,679 Uhode Island 19 Tennessee 47 Texas 17 Vermont 74 Virginia 14 Wasninston Ter.. 12 West Virginia.... 53 Wisconsin. 170 Wyoming 1 Total ; 21, SOI Those in soldiers' homes are as follows: Ea?tern branch.. 1,933 Central branch... 5,-216 Western branch. 1,611 Northwestern.... 2,006 Sailors' Home, Mass. 51 Southern branch.... 2,697 Disr. of Columbia... 923 Ind. Hospital 665 Total 15.152 Grand Total 36,953 A large proportion of the inmates of soldiers' homes are pensioners, so that they would not have to be provided for under a dependent pension bill, i Very few of the in mates of alms-houses are pensioners. Chair man Matson will probably give study to the elaborate reports sent to him by Commis sioner Black, and give an estimate of the cost of the Dependent Pension bill, if it is passed. TOBACCO AND WHISKY. The Ways and. Means Committee Internal Revenue Reductions. A Washington dispatch says that the in ternal revenue reduction have been agreed on by the Democrats of the Ways and Means Committee and are to be considered with the Tariff bilL They effect a total reduction of about $24,000,000 or $25,000.0; X). The tobacco tax, except on cigars and cigarettes, is repealed, reducing revenue about $ H,000,000. Licenses abol ished will make a further reduction of be tween $4,000,000 and $3,000,000. There is no reduction on spirits of any kind. The manufacturers of fruit brandies are al lowed to place their product in bonded ware houses and take warehouse receipts for the same time as the whisky distillers now have. Some extreme penalties have been Iesseaad, NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tcrkkt refuses to occupy Bulgaria. Socialists rioted in the streets of .Ant werp. There are not more than 100,000 Quakers in America. Twenty-eight counties of Michigan have Toted for Prohibition. Warlike activity is noticed in the British Admiralty Department. Italy is talking of bringing home her soldiers from Abyssinia. Russia has had bad luck with her best ironclad. It must be rebuilt. There are thirty-seven Japanese student in the University of Michigan. Kaxsa? Citv bids fair to lecome the rac ing centre of the boundless West. The Israel Putnam monument at Brook lyn, Conn., is to be dedicated oa June 14. Ninety thousand Italian emigrants have gone to Brazil during the past twelvemonths. TnERE are seven American defaulters, bank-wreckers and murderers in Buenos Ayres. The Government of Santo Domingo has granted concessions to American railroad contractors. The sarcophagus containing the body of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Saida, Turkey. Fifty thousand bags of beans have arrived at New York Irora Mediterranean ports dur ing the hist two months. Over $50,000 worth of potatoes were shipped from Halifax to the United States during the last quarter of 1SS7. Spain is to have an International Exhibition in 1$J3. It is to be held in Barcelona, and is to be open from April to September. Johnny Beall, the thirteen-year-old mur derer of his mother, of Columbus, Ohio, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Altogether, !,0-J2 novels, of which 025 were reprints of English works, were pub lished in the United States last year. ' Charles Pomeroy, who started from New York to Havana in an open loat last fall, has been- washed up on the Florida coast, a corpse. The Grant Monument Committee of New York has on deposit $120,lo2.3J. The con tributions of the last year aggregated about $10,000. Tolbert Rollins, a crazy citizen of Perry County, Ark., filled his mouth with powder and placed a lighted match to it. lie was fatally injured. A syndicate of French engineers has con tracted to stop the breach in the Hoang-IIo River, whose overflow caused the great disas ter a short time ago. There are now stored along the Hudson River about 3,750,000 tons of ice, while from the lakes of the vicinity nearly 500,000 tons more have been cut. Collector Magone's investigation of opium frauds at the Port of New York has so far revealed fraudulent exportation amounting to $1,300,000. John F. Chase, a Maine war veteran who received forty-eight wounds and wears a glass eye, has invented an aerial war ship foi I dropping dynamite on the heads of the enemy. A van containing oil paintings valued at $150,000, was lately burned on the Edgeware Road in London. One of the pictures, owned by a nobleman, was worth $50,000. How the fire occurred is a mystery. A whale sixty feet long was captured just off the coast near Morehead City, N. C, a few days ago. It struggled desperately, and a crew of a dozen men had all they could do to take it. It is expected to yield its captors The Chamber of Commerce of St. Paul, Minn., has passed a resolution for a commit tee of twenty to confer with a similiar com mittee from the Minneapolis Chamber ol Commerce respecting the proposed union oi the two cities. The committee was ap pointed attonce. MUSICAL AND DEAMATIO. Patti's receipts for six nights of song in Madrid reached $150,000. The Boston critics consider Boucicault'i new play, "Cushla Machree," a disappoint ment. Manager McCall, of the McCall Opera Troupe, was a Colonel in the Confederate Army. The Comedie Francaise refused Coquelin an annual vacation of four months, and h will soon retire from the stage. Frederick Warde. the tragedian, con tinues his successful tour in the South, where he is appearing to large audiences. Loudon McCormack, who married Joa quin Miller's daughter, and was once a lead ing man, is teaching elocution in St. Louis. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's story, "Little Lord Fauntlerov," has been made into a comedy by an English dra matist. T. S. Arthur's great temperance drama, "Ten Nights in a Bar-room," has been played over 5,000 times, and over 1,000 times in Europe. Mary Anderson, M. Coquelin and Mrs. James Brown Potter will fill the entire fall and winter season of Wallack's, New York, for 1SS8-U. Willie Edouin has purchased an adapta tion of Archibald Gunters novel, "Mr. Barnes of New York," and will shortly pro duce it in London. Pattl's new tenor for her projected tour is M. Guille, He has just been condemned to pay $3,000 for breaking a former contract in order to accompany PattL W. J. Scanlan, the young Irish comedian and vocalist, owns more real estate in New York city than any other actor, and 'is con stantly adding to his holdings. Denver's Mayor ordered the arrest of ex Senator Tabor, owner of the Grand Opera House, and W. T. Carleton, the singer, for giving a sacred concert on Sunday. The production at the Madison Square Theatre next week will be Mr. Joseph C. Clarke's, "A Women's Duel." Mr. Clarke is editor of the New York Morning Journal. Manager Harry Mann has decided not to take Evan3 and Hoey to Australia this spring, owing to the roller skating craze which has taken possession of that country. "The Corsair" has reached its "last nights " at the Bijou, New York, and Mr. Rice i3 now preparing to outdo its solen lors in his new Chinese piece, The Pearl of Pekin." Louis Frechette, the Canadian poet, has been com missioned by the managers of the Theatre Francais to translate "King Lear" i'or performance in Paris during the exhibi tion of 1SSU. A cable from Pari3 says Victor Maurel will sail for New York soon for a tour of Verdi'j new opera "Othello," in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. M. Maurel is to receive a salary of f2O,0J0 a month during the tour. Maude Banks, the ambitious daughter of General N. P. Banks, proposes to produce her own play, "Joan of Arc" in French during her Montreal and Quebec engagements. Miss Banks has been starring in tnis piece all the season. . . TEXAS IN7ADED. ilexicau Troops Attempt to Kid nap a Deserter. The Texan Sheriff Kills Two and Disperses the Band, f. The city of Eagle Pass, Texas baa been the scene of as gross an outrage as has ever len committed upon Xhi citizens of the United States by the sol hers of a forvign country with which this country is at peace. Alut 11 o'e'ock in the morning Captain Munrw comimnder of the oi iiers stationed in Vi dras Negro, just across th Kio Grande River; came to the American m le and akl permission of the custom inspotor to allow four of hi men to come oxer on horh.ick and look at some hores they wanted to buy. Receiving permi.4n to cros provided thev returned in a short t'me, a Lieutenant and three soldiers cam'? over in a f-rry tuvit. and after talking with Caj tain Munosthey started toward the milro id dejot at a gallop. A man whose desertion from the Mexican army and cros.ng to this Sid took place the other day was working at Frnk i'oxes's brick-yard, n ar the depot. Tha Lieutenant and his men evidently knw ex actly where to lind the drs rter. He raw them coming at a full ga'.lop and knew what was up. He crept under on of th krlnc, to hide, but was seen. The Mexican Lieu tenant drew bis men up and ordered two of them to dismount and draw the man out, which thev did, drawing th"ir t.istolsand hit ting the dtSTter over the h.nd several time as they were doing it, Tte Lieutenant th n unroled a roM from his saddle and roped the fugitive and dragged him some distance, the three soMiers Ndultoring him unmerci fully with their six-shooters, endeavoring to get him to cross back to Mexico with them. About this tim iVputy SherilT Hhad White, of Maverick County, came up and told them to ouit or hi would arrest them, they in reply drew their pistols on him, tell ing him to get out of the r way or they would kill him. White, i-eing unarmed, ran down to get SheritT Cowk, and in the mean time the Mexicans, leaving the deserter ap parently dead and covered with wounds from knife stabs, got on their Imr-s and started through the tow n for th river a hard as they could go. When they Rot n ar the ford they encountered Shad White again, followed by Eil and Will Van it iir and SherilT Cooic, and a furious fusillade took took place. Shad White was shot through the right hand and fell from his hor se, and the horse ridden by one of the Mcvcan soldiers fell dead from a ball from White's Winchester. The Mexicans made every efTort to reach the other side of the river before the Van Ripens and Cook could catch them, and tbr Lieutenant, who was riding ahead on a line sorrel horse, succeeded in reaching the Mexi can bank, and immediately turned and began firing with hLs pitol into the crowd, which had by this timo assembled on the American bank. The (dismounted soldier plunged into the river on foot, and was shot through tho head and kilhil by Kd Van Riper. When about half way across the other two, one a Corporal, was wounded by a rifle shot in the side, and the Lieutenant had a flesh wound in the face. The ieople of both l'iedras Negnv and Eagle Pass are indignant nt this outrago upon international friendship and demand of the Government protection an 1 retaliation. The civil authorities claim to le entirely in nocent of this matter and most probably knew nothing of it. It was a scheme gotten up entirely by Captain Munos and his Lieu tenant. The Mexican Corpora1 mentioned as being wounded by Deputy Shid White died soon after reaching the other side. White was shot through tho right ban 1 and left wrist, and only by a miracle cscajed with his life. The Mexican who the soldiers tried to kidnaw was seriously injured, but will probubly recover. United States Consul Allen has telegraphed an account of the afTair to the Secretary of State at Washing ton. THE NEW TAEIFF BILL. A Proposed ltcdtietioii in Duties Amounting to .S-".",0(),000. The tariff bill favored by Chairman Mills and his Democratic associates of the House Ways and Means Committee has at last Ixvn made public. Estimates of several reduc tions in revenue affected by the bill have not been completed in detail, but tho aggregate according to tho best information in the hands of the Ways and Means Committer is fixed nt V.0 0,0oo. This total includes about $VJ."W,0U0 on account of the free list, $17,'J50,00) on account of woolen goods, $1,000,000 for china and glassware, $750,000 in the chemical schedule, something less than ?"00,(;0) on cotton, $,&),()'() on flax, hemp and jute, and sugar about $11,000,000. There is no internal revenue change pro posed by the bill, this subject being pur- . posely left for lack of time to the considera tion of the full committee. Tho bill makes the follow ing additions to the list of articles which may be imj orted free of duty: Wool, woolen rags and shoddy; timber, boards, sawed lumber, hubs, blocks, staves, pickets, laths, shingles, clapboards and logs; fcalt when imported from any country which does not charge an iniort duty moii salt ex ported from the United States; Hax, hemp, jute and vegetable fibrs; burlap, bagging for cotton, artificial mineral w a tern ; t,n plates, iron or steel sheets, copper ore. nickel ore, quicksilver, antimony, marble cement; all essential oils, petroleum, cotton.s-d oil, glycerine, gelatine, spirits of turpentine, soap and soap stocks, coal tar products, barka for dyeing, indigo, Iogwol. Chemicals, crude and manufactured, in cluding potash, sulphur, lorax, blu vitrol; bne black, kaolin, ochre, umber, and sienna; rags, rattans, bristles, feathers, curled hair, needles, pulp for paper makers, books printed in foreign languages; cocoa; dates, figs, prunes, currants; meats, game and poultry; chicory, acorns and other uub stitutes for coffee; crude opium for medicinal purposes. The bill proposes besides putting many ad ditional items on the free lit, to fix the duty on pig iron atf o a ton, on ironorsb-el rail way bars weighing more than twenty-Hve pounds to the yard and slabs or billet of steel, $ 11 a ton; on iron or steel T rails weigh ing not over twenty-five pound to th yard, 114 a ton. and on iron or stel flat rails, punched, a ton. The bill a's provides for admitting free r,l duty after July 1 "all wools, hair of the Alpaca goat and other dike animals, woo!s on the skin, woolen rags, shoddy. me.Mgo. waste and flo?ks;' and after October 1, it provide among other things, for a forty jer c-nt. duty on woolen worsted cloths, nhawjg and all manufactures of wool not esycially enu merated; and on flannels, blankets, knit goods, women's and children dress goods compose! in part of wool. Charles Fowziw, tlie wriTTamstmrg (N. Y.) schoolboy who, it is said, went creuy from being beaten by bis teacher, has died oZ.
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