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Show TIN PLATE DUTY. It Went Into Effect at Twelve O'clock Last Night. The Uneasy Condition of Shippers in New York "Who Fear Their Consignments Consign-ments Will not Arrive in Time. New York, June 30. The clause in the McKinley tariff bill w hich affects tin plate goes into effect at 12 o'clock to-night, and to-day, there is a rush by importers to get all the plate now on the wharves and in hand on which duty has not been paid through the custom house beforo the close of business, busi-ness, in order to escape the additional tax imposed on that article under the new law. New York, June 30 There are a good uany anxious men in this city to-, day. They are consignees of big shipments ship-ments of tin-plate, several vessels loaded load-ed with which are still upon the raging deep. Unless they arrive by three o'clock this afternoon, or rather unless their manifest? are produced at the custom-house by that time they will be subject to the increased duty imposed by the McKinley bill. Efforts have been made to induce Collector Eh rard t to keej) the custom house open till mid-night.just mid-night.just as w as done some months ago when various other clauses of the McKinley bill went into effect,but without with-out result. He saya he can see no reason rea-son why extension of time should be granted. On the other occasion there was a general duty and the extension on that day was of universal moment This, however, is a special thing and he can see no more reason for the eAtension than if an advanced duty was to come into effect ou olives. Beyond this the Secretary Sec-retary ot the Treasury directed the previous pre-vious extension and no instructions have b -en received from Secretary Foster Fos-ter authorizing the Collector to follow the same course at tins lime. As a result re-sult entries presented up to 3 o'clock this afternoon will be properly acted upon. After that hour the prohibitory tariff will go into effect, and the unlucky un-lucky consignees whose cargoes have been delayed will be compelled to stand the heavy burden. London, June 30. The stopping of tin-plate works in Wales w ill keep 750,-000 750,-000 boxes off the market, the average consumption being one million boxes (per month. I ' Terrtbte Treatment. 1Ew York, June 30. A coiTtFpond-ent coiTtFpond-ent at Santiago, writing May 30, says ! in that city the shooting of officers and sailors of the torpedo launch "Gualda" was a special feature of the wholesale execution. Men were marched to the plaza, where they were shot down bv a company of sharpshooters. The butchery not onlv caused indignation among the lrienls of the dead, but also among Balmaceda's ardent defenders. de-fenders. The dead sailors and officers who! were in charge of the steam torpedo launch "Gualda" in Yalpariso bay, and one cotum inder, propose d to the crew to desert and go over to the Constitutional party. All acquiesced except one, and he notified the authorities au-thorities at once and the men were captured and taken to Yalpariso and thrown into prison. One by one they were tortured and literally made to go without food and water for two and three days at a time. The cells in which tiie men were thrown were reeking with tilth and vermin. On the day on which they met their doom, they were so weak that they had to be assisted to w alk. The "twrtures to j which these poor prisoners were sub-1 jected by Baltnaceda's agents is almost al-most past belief. The correspondent relates other horrible atrocities committed com-mitted by the adherents of Balmaceda. ; The information readies there that the insurgents have about 10.000 men in Iquique and that they are waiting for word to march to Coquimbo in the pouth. Balmaceda fears this and extraordinary ex-traordinary activity reigns here. Everything Every-thing possible is being done to receive the enemy. . It is stated all negotiations negotia-tions for this place have ended. A Sword Swnllower TOeet Ieath. Columbus Ohio, June 29. Patrick Mulrony, a juggler and sword swallow-er, swallow-er, who has been tilling an engagement at an amusement hall here, injured himself fatally during his performance yesterday. Instead of using the long slender sword he was accustomed to, Mulroney used during his swallowing act one of the musician's violin bows. Twice he failed, each time because of intense pain caused by inserting the bow in his throat, and presently he be-Kan be-Kan vomiting blood. This continued for several hours, when he died. Fa oil Boiler KxploHlun. White Havek, Pa., June 30 The 1 oiler of a locomotive on the Central railroad, of New Jersey, exploded last night near Xequehoning Junction, instantly in-stantly killing the engineer, firemen and two brakemen. The men were hurled for a distance of one hundred yards and the bodies horribly mangled. Itatlticd the Anti-Slaverv Act. London', June 30. Dispatches received re-ceived here from Constantinople state that the Sultan of Turkey has ratified the Brussels Anii-s'averv Convention act. A Double Tragedy. Mobile, Ala., June 30. From the back woods of Baldwin county comes the report that Lester Cartwright shot and killed his brother John and atter-wards atter-wards cut his own wife's throat. Jealousy Jeal-ousy was the cause. Ousting the 'Weather Clerks. Washington, June 30. Acting Secretary Sec-retary Grant to-day tigned an order discharging 162 employes of the signal service now engaged in weather bureau work. Under the law the secretary of Agriculture is bound to give preference to these men irT'making appointments to the force of the new weather bureau and with the exception of a few men who elected to remain in what will f hereafter 1 e purely a military branch of the signal service, all the employees are likely to be reappointed. Mark" W. Harrington, editor of tiie American Meteorological Journal, and professor at Ann Arbor, Mich., has been appointed appoint-ed chief of the weather bureau. Among the many publications issued by the several departments of the government gov-ernment the forthcoming report of the bureau of statistics on the international commerce w ill be of unusual interest to the public. It is devoted to the interests inter-ests of the Pacific coast and including Alaska and the states and territories lying west of the Rocky mountains and sets forth the wonderful "natural resources, re-sources, including ' forests, fisheries, mining interests and agricultural, manufacturing, man-ufacturing, commercial and transporta tion interests in that region. Orders have been sent to the Pensa-cola, Pensa-cola, now at Caliao, to return to the Umted States and be repaired at the Mare Island navy yard. Admiral Mc-Cann Mc-Cann who is commander-in-chief of the South Atlantic squadron, will also come to the United Slates by steamer, leaving Admiral Brown in command of the United States war vessels now in the neighlwjrhood of Chili. Secretary Foster this morning announced an-nounced to the Knights of Labor representative repre-sentative in regard to the labor troubles at the bureau of engraving and printing, print-ing, that Superintendent Meredith would not be dismissed. |