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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 23 Sep 1891, p. 2

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I. VAN SLYHE,. Editor Mi PuMltfcac. tfcHKKRT, • ILLINOIS. JOIU? BULL BELLOWS. xl l. lit I, .11 'V. I*. I If •' ' ' ' • THE BBHRINO SEA (HJE8T^ON AGAIN.; fcua Meet Death in a Chlcaf° Flro-- The Trade fteprtrt Is Gr*til^ln{-K)i- rope h AIT« Italy'* Karplui IQMin- Brltola Wants Territory. j Trade Brisk, Money Easy. 3 B; 6. Di's & Ca's weekly review of ' trade says: •' Actual Improvement is seen In nearly all the cities from which reports are received this week. It is especially noteworthy that collections aie improving' at most, points, and that the money markets are on the •5?hoie ^Comparatively easy, although the crops to be removed are enormous and the actual movement unprece­ dented. Wheat receipts at the West ; for three days of this week have aver- . * 1 aped more than 1.500,000 bushels dally. SfiJ, , Business failures dur i>c the past seven days number for the United States 210 and J;-.*-" for Canada 89, or a total of 230. *scom- * -: ; pared with a total Of 214 last week and 317 * ,i the week previous. For the corresponding f week of last year the figures were 190, rep­ resenting 164 failures in the United States and 26 in the Dominion of Canada. Roasts Uncle Sato. CoMMitXTiifo upon two articles on the Behrlng sealing question published" In its columns, the London Times calls the American claims preposterous. It says: "Their action is arbitrary and high- handed. Their arguments, as far as they can be put into Intelligible shape, 'J£-' are worthy of the most rigid school of jR British game preservers./The seal is a R' wild animal, and there will never be K* any danger of its ext rmination by hunt- f\ ing on the high seas. The danger comes from excessive slaughter when the aui- mal# are perfectly helpless. If the Americans choose, by Indiscriminate |?3 . slaughter, to destroy their own industry we are helpless, but they cannot be al- lowed to mohof olize the seals by claim- Sy- r Ing property In the high seas and their s' contents." 3" England Wants Hawaii. Washington, Senor Celso Calsar Ma re no, laid before the President a let­ ter recently received from a correspond­ ent in Honolulu asserting in the most positive terms that England is now plan- • ; ning to take possession of the kingdom. •; The writer said some action on the part of the United States is necessary, that : the Queen is favorable to the British in­ terests, and ready to countenance the j; mo>e when made. The President was > interested by the letter, and asked Senor Mareno to communicate with Secretary J Blaine. Buying Up Italy's Grain. LARGE purchases of wheat and other grains have been lately made by numer- aus French agents directly of farmers in %£ the provinces of Borne and the Puglie at |f^3v whatever prices the farmers have de- t/»; V manded, with the result of rapidly creasing prices. It is thought tha' ... ib purchases were on account of the Frei ;t3f Government. As.the grain crop of I| ' ! Is no more than isniiicient for hom< sumption, exporting grain now the necessity of future imports prices. Ptotfmg a Revision unknown pe the streets of Laredc printed iCO d saiiWMnna, Ilia/,, and all uid join in a Overthrow. The plan we^t on jte oame Catarina Garcia as cJikrf leader or executive of tiie. revo­ lution, and Ruse Sandoval, of border fame, as commander-ln«chief of the mm- . ... , , Seven Burned to Death. AWP.k at mid night, at 519 and 551 Sedg­ wick street, Chicago, caused the death of seven persons, all of whom were smoth­ ered in their beds by the dense smoke „ that filled the burning structure. The fire ran its course In less than an hour, but the fatalities resulting exceeded by far the list of victims by any fire in ; Chicago this year; Those who lost their ' lives were all members of .lohn Schalk's family, except Bobbie Burns, IS years : old, and an unknown woman. Diamond Dust. FOIXOWIXG LS-a showing of the stand­ ing of each of the teams o£ the different associations. NATIONAL LEiOVI. w. L. tfc.| w. Ii. m pt: CMcafos--76 47 ,til8C]*velanda..66 70 Boston I 71 50 .5H7 Broolllyus . .55 68 NewYorka..61 50 .561 lMttsbum.,54 ,r« Pbil'dlphiaBSS 57 .S25jCinci&n&ti8.4tt Ii AMERICAN ASSOCIATION; w. r,. *c. w. u Bostons 84 9! .084 Columbus . .50 70 S t I / o u l s . . . 4 9 .ti32 vJihva,uktea.55 Q 9 Baltimore*.. 67 35 .5 K) LouisvUleg. .45 78 Phlladelp's..G6 5.) .928 WaBhing'nB.40 80 *C. .444 .438 .443 .407 *c. .417 £ .383 ft lffitl! form. on which he resided, dnr laftintey. He finally became so exKlkwst ed that one morning when returning home he sank Into a profound sleep, from which he could not be aroused For several days he lay like a dead man. Doctors watched him until hunger brought him to a partial arousing, but after eating he again do ed away. The 'taaii in alt this time has never uttered an inte'liglblc sentence. Two MORE heirs of Mrs. Hopklr.s- Searles have materialized and through counsel entered notice of their joining with the other claimants to break the will if It can be done. The new claim­ ants arc Lyman Sherwood and Delia Sherwood, of South Fast, Putnam County, N. Y. They are among the first cousins of the testator, and claim that by the first will, which Is m'aslag, they were well remembered. WESTERM HAPPENINGS. A COMPI.AINT has been filed against George Morreilt, a:i Omaha barber, charging him with the abduction of two girls named Marcino and Milly, aged respectively 16 and 15. The girls went to the theater with Jlorrelll and failed to return home. A letter was received from one of them saying they were being held by Morrelli in Chicago. WKATHEK reports from all parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas Indicate that Sept 10 was the hottest September day in the history of the signal service At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the register at Redfield, Webster and Aberdeen, S. D., Was 100 degrees in the shade At Lac qui Parle, Shakopee and Cliaska. Minn , it was 98 degrees, and at S:. Paul at 4 o'clock it was »f» degrees. WITHIN the shadows of Indianapolis residences whose own *rs are worth thousands of dollars a policeman dis­ covered a woman alone, sick, and starv­ ing to death. She had been sick for a week and was lying upon the floor, too weak to get hack into the bed Irom which she had fallen. There was not a crust of bread or drop of water in the house, and she was almost famished. A SPANIARD named Nunas wound up a protracted spree at Forest Hill, CaL, by smoking opium In a Chinese den. He was taken dangerously II', and the Chi­ nese, fearing the wrath of the citizens If his body was found In their place, carried the dying man to a pond, rnd were about to throw him in when they were discovered and stopped. The Chi­ nese were placed in the jail. Nunas died shortly after being rescued. THE Chiilocco (Kan.) Indian schools narrowly escaped being burned by a prairie fire. The pass south was set on fire by campers The wind drove the flames toward the school reservations. As soon as the fire reached the school lands about 200 Indian pupils and more than that number of haymakers turned out to fight the fire. They worked all night and all day. The fire burned grass to within a few hundred yards of the school buildings. Over 600 tons of bay in staqks was destroyed. A DISPATCH from Guthrie, O. T.. says: A Government inspector just in from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian rvatlons tells of a large number of deaths among the members of For nearly a week they ho'ding a grand dance on the River. " They dance all night ring the day feast on melpns2 reen'and lipe. thiring two days y one hundred of the Indians have- i unconscious during t^e dance, and . half of them have oled. TTKV. Dn. WALKER and Joseph Walk- ;r, brothers, aged 55 and 60 years, respectively, were arrested near C!e Glum, Wash., on charges of burglary &n'd receiving stolen goods. In the Su­ perior Court the jury in the case of the reverend brother disagreed, standing ten for conviction and two against, but the other brother was found guilty. Rey. Mr. Walker is an educated minis­ ter of the Presbyterian faith, and a member of the Council Bluffs, Iowa, Presbytery. CAPT. SPRING, of the schooner Gen- sral Banning, which arrived at San Francisco from Flent's Island, reports that while loading his cargo the vessel was twice blown out to sea by severe storms. On each occasion about one hundred natives were aboard, and they hastened ashore in canoes. The second time several cances were upset and the occupants thrown Into the water. The water swarmed with sharks, and many of the natives were torn limb from limb before they could be picked up by other sanoes. One young fellow plunged into the water with a long knife to save his father, but both were dragged down fcnd torn to pieces. A young girl had almost reached a canoe when a shark seized her and dragged her down. Shot in the Back by a Desperado. FBED JONES a young business man of Middlesborough, Ky., shet and seriously wounded the notorious Gillts Johnson in self-defense. Jones was later shot down from behind by .Tim Bcnfro, a noted desperado. The wound tttay prove fatal. Renfro is in custody and Judge Rhorer has refused him bail. Killed by California Highwaymen. 8. GAI.AVOTTI, superintendent of the Derbec Drift mine, near Nevada, tyL, was murdered by highwaymen whi'e coming to the city with &>,0J0 of bar just cleaned up at the mine. A Terrible Explosion. A nsroKT has been received of the * killing of three men at Montville, Ohio. The boiler in Vanslse's jelly factory exploded with terrible force, entirely demolishing the building. Removal of Railroad Offices. THE executive committee of the Mis­ souri, Kansas and Texas Railroad order­ ed that the general offices of the road bo removed troni Sedalia, Ma, to Parsons, Kan. Under the laws of Missouri the road wi l have forfeited its charter after tho offices have been located out of the State six months. 80UTHBRN INCIDENTS. . A MAN supposed to be the notorious Millie Tascott, who murdered Million­ aire Amos J. Snell in .Chicago, was ar­ rested at Bamberg, S. C., Dy a private ietective named Stewart, who followed him from Savannah, Ga , disguised as a tramp The man an wers the descip- tion of Tascott exactly. The prisoner ieclines to talk. Detectfve Stewart is confident that he has the right man. AT Somerset, Ky-. * crowd went to the jail where the Gilli and brothers were confined on the charge of assassin­ ating Sheriff McCargue, and after a short time overpowered the guard and forced Jailer Shepard to give up th% keys. The Gilliland boy« were then taken out to a ravine a short distance west of the city and hanged. No con­ fession could be procured. The boys de- lared to the last that they were inno­ cent - i '\ profits of a Bank. i: •' &** profits of tho Bank of England for the six months ending Ang. 91 ware 6703.338. _____ •" *'/ • EASTERN OCCURRENCES. 1 WING LEE, the New York Chinese fittfedryman who eloped with Lizzie Sprawl, of Camden, N. J., some months ago, and who was arrested for abduction, pleaded guilty In the Court of General Sessions and was remanded for sentence. The maximum penalty is five years' im­ prisonment MICHAEL F^ITAN, who lives U»sr Factoryville, Pa, lifts just roused otft of s four years' sleep, broken only by semi Wftking poriods produced by the pangs of hunger. Fernan was for many years v-ttfefc* Wfttehauuifttft tuaiMl, aa* worfcod doubtless be personal attacks made both sides In tUc lesser party organs, but It is thought the campaign will he a clean one. THE President has appointed Fran­ cis •Hendricks Collector of Customs for the Port of New York to succeed J. Sloat Fassett. Mr Hendricks Is a very popular man at his homo in Syraeuse, N. Y. He has always been successful In politics, and when he was Chairmau of the Onondaga County Committee In 1880 the Republican majority jumped from 3,500 to 4,400. He has been in the Leg* islatura since 1884, and each year his nomination h^,s been mado by acclama­ tion His political "kill was especially conspicuous In the last, e'eciion of United States Sei.ator, when he led a small contingent In tho Legislature Which secured the office for his - felfow- townsmfcn, Frank Hiscock, of Syracuse. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. "DURING the first sixteen days of Sep­ tember the United States j aid $5,.*>55,000 to old soldiers for pensions THE Ordnance Bureau of the Navy has secured some remarkable results from a recent trial of the new six-inch rifled gun built at the AA ashlngton Navy Yard. This gun is probably the longest pie.e of United States bore yet under­ taken, being forty calibers in length, or twenty feet internal length, and has just thrown its projectile 2.180 feet in one second, without exceeding fifteen tons pressure to the square inch of the chamber. f FOREIGN GOSSIP. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. THE New York Femocratlc State Con­ vention, which met at Saratoga, placed the following ticket in the field: Gov­ ernor, Roswell P. Flower; Lieutenant Grovernor, William F. Sheehan; Secre­ tary of State, Frank Rice; Treasurer, Elliott F. Dan forth; Attorney General, Simon Bosendale; Comptroller, Frank Campbell COL. POLK, President of the National Alliance, recently talked freely of the political situation. "If the Southern farmers are driven Into the People's party," he said, Mno power on earth can prevent them from carry­ ing every Southern State. But the question is, Will they be driven into the third party? Four months ago I would have «aid that a new political party was not likely to follow. It now seems im­ possible to prevent it. The Alliance with us is in such a condition that it can be changed in one day loto a political party." % Gov. CAMPBELL and Maj- McKlnVey CAWDINAT. BOTKI.LT, Papal Nuncio ftt Paris, is dead. The Pope is deeply af­ fected over the news of the Cardinal's demise. THE news comes from Paris that Henry M. Stanley is preparing for an­ other expedition to the headwaters of the Congo. THE report of the Inspector General on the discipline and management of the military prisons of Great Britain-during the last year has just been submitted to the War Department. On tho last day of the current army year, or Aug. 15, there were under sentence in the mill- tai y prisons at home 1,036 prisoners, as compared with 1,060 in 188t>, 1,295 In 1888, and 1,689 in 1886. The daily aver­ age population of the prisons has fallen from 1,184 in 1886 and 807 in 1888 to 421 last year, and the number of soldiers un­ der sentence of penal servitude by courts-martial has decreased from 110 in 1886 to 43 in 1890, and only one was sentenced to penal servitude in England and Wales during the course of the year. BRITISH forces have occupied an island commanding the Dardanelles, which means that no more Russian warships shall escape from the Black Sea to threaten the Mediterranean under the pretense of shipping troops through the Suez Canal to the eastern coast of Si­ beria. Of course in making this order Sa'isbury has the support of the great European Dreibund, and defies Russia, France and Turkey. It will be recoliecte« that in 1878, after the battle of Plevna, and after the Russian troops had crossed the Balkan passes, Beaconsfield, then Premier, sent a fleet of ironclads up the Dardanelles and occupied the Island of Corfu. This action then prevented the capture of Conetantlnop e by the Rus- plant '• GENERAL NOTES. ANOTHER circular has been issued to Alliance farmers instructing them to hold their wheat for higher prices. They are Informed that quotations are likely to advance to $U 50 or $2 a bushel. AT San Francisco, the United States steamer Albatross arrived and went ul- rect to Mare Island. The Albatross is to proceed at once to make surveys for a cable from San Francisco to Honolulu. M. ROUSTAN, the French Minister, Is endeavoring to secure the loan of American-owned pictures by Mels-i sonier for the exhibition of that artist's; works next spring in Paris He isj stopped, however, by the ruling of tho; Treasury Department that all such, pic-: tures will have to pay duty on being re-; turned to this country. Congress will- be appealed to for special legislation on' the matter. SOUTHAMPTON dlsnatch: The Ham­ burg-American steamer Fuerst Bis­ marck arrived at Southampton, having broken all previous records for the pas­ sage from New York by covering the distance in 6 days 12 hours and 58 min­ utes. The best previous record was 6 days 14 hours and 37 minutes, made by the same vessel when she left New York on June 18 of this year at 4:42 p. m. and arrived at Southampton at 10:45 a. m. on the 25th. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF JOHN PALMER, of the G. A. R., has named Comrade Joseph W. O'Neall, of Lebanon, Ohio, as Judge Advocate General. The stand­ ing committees announced Include the following comrades residing in the West: Executive--Levi B. Baymond, Hampton, Iowa. On Pensions--J. A- Sexton, Chi­ cago; Byron B. Pierce* ;-<irand Rapids, Mich.; R. W. Blue, Pleasanton, Kan. On Systematic Plan of Teaching Les­ sons of Loyalty--Lucius Fairchild, Mad­ ison, Wis; John P. Rea, Minneapolis; William Warner, Kansas City; Paul Vandervoort, Omaha. For the Erection of a Memorial in the Capitol at Wash­ ington to U. S. Grant--Russell A. Alger, Detroit; Horace S. Clark, Mattoon, 111. MARKET KKPOWM. CHICAGO, CAT'ixk--Common to Prim* §3.50 @ 6.23 HOGS--Shipping Grades......... 4.00 #5.50 SHEEP--Fair to Choice 8.00 & 5.25 WHIAT-- NO. 2 Ked COKN--NO. 2 M <3> .61 OATM--No. 3 .87 & .27% B*E--No. 2. 88 «» .39 Bcttkb--Choice Creamery...... .U & .83 CsiKUt--Full Cream, flatc .90 0 .10 Boos--Frenh 17 0 .18 POTATO ITS--New, per bu M .40 INDIANAPOLIS. CATIXK--Shipping 8.53 # G.75 Hoo«---Choice Light 8.SO »<jt 5.21 BHK*P--CouuDon to Priu» 8.80 ® 4.2S WHKAT--No. % Bed M («; .0431 COKN--NO. 1 Whit* 64 «9 .65 OAT»--No. 8 White 4 .S3 ST. LOUIS. Cims SJtO 0 5.50 HOBS 4.60 ® 5.25 WHSAT--NO. 8 KID .M & .94 COKN--NO. 8 ,«l § .62 OATS--No. 8 .88 @ .29 Kik--No. 8 .60 @ .31. CINCINNATI. CATTLK. «J0 M &.«> Hooa 4.00 «*.S0 SBXBP &QO <g 5.00 WHKAT--No. 2 Ked. .9* 0 .95 COBN--No. 2.. OATH--No. 8 Mixsd DETROIT, Ci'LTLE,. Hoas CORN--No. A Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TOLEDO. WHKAT--New CORN--Ciih .83 0 .67M .89 are now both hard at work, an4 the OA-M-NO. 8 Wliite Ohio campaign begins to grow interest­ ing. One feature of the compafgn that promises to be particularly gratifying te all lovers of decency in polities Is the friendliness that exists between the two candidates. Each has referred in very kindly terms to the other and declared that no personalities would be in­ dulged in, but that it was to be strict­ ly a campaign of measures and not men. When Major McKinley was nominated at Columbus, Governor and Mrs. Campbell called on him at his hotel, and Mrs. Campbell, who Is a very at­ tractive and brilliant woman* tepk Major McKinley out driving. »Ttere will Rrx BUFFALO. BEST CATTLM Lrv* Ho<fc. WHIAIWNO. 1 Hard Co*M--No. 2..... MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 3 Spring CORN--NO. 8,., OATH--No. 3 White. lira--No. 1 ... Bjuu,ky--No. 8. fOU-MlM NEW YORK. CATTLE •••••• (<•••# WHKAT--No. 2 BU Comir--No. a . OATS--Mia ed W«4tea $uTrKR~~Cre*m«ry. ••••*•» »Mt Mm ii S.S0 4.00 4.86 0.Q8 6.00 'fcOO •MS 0 *.» A 4.M ii THAT'S WHAT THE FARMERS ARB COMMANDED TQ DO. ATTEMPT by the AUIMO. •» Map tho Treraeiuioua Flow of Grain to the Markets--At ieut St.50 and Probably •t Per Bushel Is Promised Later la the 8.00 @ S.2S 84J m 5.00 I.U0 IS 4.50. .88 <& .M & .«• .«*• .M .86 m .97 JA & .64 S.03 ® 7.00 4.0 (9 5.50 4.01 @ 1.02 .84 M .91 .S» .88 .80 Vi'® .raid 38.78 @ib.25 .81 .18 _ 12.8ft #18̂ 78 /.]' , i Mj -t*-1' . «»7 Twill B« . The Farmers' Alliance lea'tferl in Ttfth- nesota and North and »outh Dakota have resolved up n another attempt to stop the tremendous flow of wheat to the markets. The receipts In Minneap­ olis and Duluth for the last week have run from 84jKJ to 1,500 cars every day, and the price of December wheat has dropped to 90M cents In Minneapolis. At this rate of sale and delivery tho Alliance people a-sert that the 150,000,- 000 bushels of wheat in the >'o. 1 hard belt will be out of the farmers' hands before Jan. 1. and their haste will drive the price back to 80 cents. The Alli­ ance therefore began tho mailing from its St Paul headquarters of a million of letters to the farmers calling a halt aU along the Hue The letter states the new Wheat Growers' Association and the Alliance secretaries all over the country are unanimous tnat wheat is bound to sell as hig i as $1.50 and possi­ bly 92 per bushel, and they are unani­ mous In this warning to tho farmers not to sacrifice their wheat and give the speculators all the profit there is in It The letter says the crop is being greatly overestimated by the newspapers and grain dealers, and continues: "We do not b 'lieve a ina ority of the farmers are foolish enough to co-operate with the speculators to depress prices further. There is no question but prices will take a turn upward. The shortage In Gut-0[0 can now bo figured with accuracy. About a week ago a congress of grain-dealers Irom all parts of Europe met at Vienna, Austria, and computed figures about the crops in Europe. The*) figures are the highest which well-informed reputable men could fur­ nish, for, If in a famine year like this they should gWe for the crop of any one country lower figures than circum­ stances justified, the government of that country would certainly remonstrate. It is surely the policy of Europeans not to exaggerate their d'sas er. The figures of the Vienna Congress show that Europe raised 258,000,000 bushels of wheat and 490,000,000 bushels of rye less than last year. Last yeaf* it consumed all of its own wheat crop and At least 50,0( 0,< 00 of reserves, 1- 0,00 ,- 000 bushels imported from America, all that other countries could supply, and all its rye crop. This year It wM have from America 12 ,i 0J,t 00 bushels more than last, if we take the extreme figures which any reputable authority has made for our really splendid c:op. "It will have as usual what other countries supply, wh!ch is insignificant, but it will have 748,000,000 bushels less of its own crop and 5",00 >,000 bushels less to draw from reserve#. In short, it will have 120.000,<>0 > bushels extra jEep America to make up a defie'eney 708,€y),00., and must consequently eat 678,0(J©iWK) bushels less grain. "Rye bein&K dearer in Europe than wheat, the latt&r^becomes a substitute, and is equally afrlk'ted by deficiency in rye or wheat supplt. When it is entirely certain that Europeans will have to economize in bread V» the4xtent of 678,- 000,000 bushels, and When the situation is aggravated by the partial failure of tlie potato cjop, It Is jto be ,consjder$d what prlbds they would pay* for Ameri­ can wheat The shortage In Europe be- ing four times as large as the American surplus, there is no doubt that the price of wheat will reach the highest figure ever known before this year Is up and will exceed it by far before the new crops come in. „ •Wheat'wlll soon be over 91.50, no mat­ ter how much farmers and speculators work together to keep prices down, and we would advise those who can compre­ hend the situation to hold their wheat for 91.50 and add for every month they keep It say five cents to the price. Hold your wheat You cannot get left" INDICATIONS OF A BIO WAB. Russia Slay Cause a Struggle In Which All Europe Will Participate. The Foreign Office here, says a Lon­ don cablegram, is kept in a state of un­ easiness over the projects ascribed to Russia involving the opening of the Dai* dandles and the s izure of Constantino­ ple. These intentions may exist only in the imagination of certain correspond­ ents, but there Is information in the Foreign Office sufficient to justify the belief that Russia is about to start on a new and important line of policy. Tb.e contingencies in question have not been sprung upon unawares. They were foreseen when the German Emperor was here. Beyond doubt they entered Into subjects d;scus<ed during his visit to the Queen a*. Windsor and to Lord Salisbury at Hatfield House. They were consid­ ered on all sides, and the tone of the German press at this moment shows the Impression Which was made. The most important journals point out that an attack by Russia upon Constanti­ nople, or a hostile movement against England in Egypt, would cot affect Eng­ land alone, but would concern all Eu­ rope. England could not be left to deal with tho difficulty single-handed. That is surely important notification to all whom it may concern. Russia is rapid­ ly Increasing its fleet and Is trying to get its finances straight, and It means to have gentral mobilisation of all its for«es. 4 Tho ltlack Sea clause of the treaty of Paris will have to be abrogated. There need be no war about that Russia by a little tact might easily accomplish this ob ect, even before the meeting of Parliament, but if It means to pounce down upon Constantinople it would be a different' affair. Then a great war would bo inevitable, and breadstuffs, which you have to sell in the United States, would be worth anything you chose to a>k for them. That is ono reason why accumulating complications in European politics are of great Im­ portance to thd American people. THINKS THE END IS AT HAND. Dr. Jenckes Warns People to Prepare for the Millennium. The Rev. Dr. Jenckes, rector of St. Paul's Cathedral, one of the most dis­ tinguished, conservative, and level­ headed divines in Indianapolis. Ind., has created a sensation by announcing that the end of the world is closo at hand. Dr. Jenckes gave up ,a lucrative law practice in 1S61 at Louisville and en­ tered the Christian ministry, under a very strong conviction that the end of this age and the inauguration of the reign for a thousand years of the Savior would occur within about 135 years. For several years jhls was the central fact of his preaching. But circum­ stances teu led some years since to check his ardor of convlctiou, and he found himself drifting toward a loose- •ess of views re. pectlng this important subject He has reeently had a thorough awak- •cming through the influence of a discov- ••ry and a publication. The discovery was that an error in the accepted system of chronol-ogv has been lately found which bad made the time-of the Judges •s governors of Israel, 350 instead of 450 years This correction, together with the twenty-seven years that have «)apsed since 1864, brings this uupoi •astounding crisis wtttrln lees than tea MMtrs-eflfce present The Performance of««Lohengrin" at Paris Accompanied by KxctUng Scenes. The house was crowded, there being no special difficulty in obta ning admis­ sion. The overture was listened to In profound silence, the audience breaking into rapturous applause at the conclu­ sion. The opera Was admirably mounted and finely rendered. Van Dyck and other artists were recalled several times and applauded to the echo. There was a noisy demonstration outside the opera house during the performance. A band of students sang the "Marseil­ laise," the crowd responding with cries of "Vive la France;* "A bas Wagner." Portions of the mob continually made rushes against the police cordon, and the police, whenever these incursions became formidable, assumed the offens­ ive and charged the mob, which would take flight in hot haste. « In some cases the zeal of the police seemed to outruft their discretion. In several instances respectab e onlookers were roughiv handled and arrested on tho slightest provocation, and then cuffed if they ventured to make the mildest protest At 10 o'clock a force of cavalry and mounted police patraled the scene of tho disturbance and a most determined effort to c ear the streets was make -meeting with considerab e success. The crowd was apparently mainly eo uposed of peo­ ple curious o fitness any demonstration that might be made. The performance was concluded with­ out trouble, and the work was pro­ nounced a great artistic success. Many of the audience went out on the stips between the acts to witness thu scene outside and were received with rounds of hisses. At the conclusion of the per­ formances '00 policemen were still occu­ pied in clearing the streets. Altogether about 1,000 persons Were arrested. 'The German Embassy was strongly guarded throughout the night A party of 200 roughs smashed th3 windows of the German Cafe Hanovre. A curious Incident occurred In the course of the evening. One of the men arrested, on being taken to the police station, announced himself as a Russian. He was forthwith liberated, with a bow and a polite "Passez, Monsieur." : Russia Astonishes the Powers. 'Hie Russian Government has quested the Europeau Danube Commis­ sion to permit Russian naval cadets to take passage on board the vessels be­ longing to the commission, in order that these young officers may be instructed in the pilotage of the Danube and become familiar wjth the navigation of that river. This strange request, following close upon the Dardanelles Incident lit which Russia insisted that Turkey should allow vessels belonging to her volunteer fleet to pass the Dardanelles, claiming that they were not men-of-war in ttie actual tense of the word, has caused considerable astonishment in official circles. The Danube Is the chief natural high­ way for the commerce of a large portion of Europe. The request just made to the European Danube Commission would seem to indicate that Russia would like her naval cadets to be instructed in the navigation of tho Danube above and below the Iron Gate. It would also seem that this is a hint that she may not now consider binding, for her volun­ teer ships at least, the clause of the treaty of 1878 stipu ating that "ships of war" should not navigate the Danube below the Iron Gate. CLAY KING MUST EXPIATB POSTON S MURDER. CM#* Must Make Reparation to Porelcr> Victims of itlots--Revolutionist* Bnsy In Mexico -Printers Burned Out at Clil- cajo In a Mtdnlglit Ulaee. * . * For and AgainstV » qnestlon as'to the holiday efllW " Ing < f thti Fair were put to popular vote^ undoubtedly it would be decided in thft affirmative.--New York Sun. More Imrm would be done by clcslnji It than by keeping it open. If it is opeil7> there wJ!U be a place for the crowds tQk will keep them out of mischief Kan- a' City Journal. '\sJJelrth Sentence Pronounce*!. . Unless the Supreme Court shall inter­ fere iii his behalf, Colonel H. i lay King will be hanged in Memphis, Teun , Nov. 0 next lor the murder of David H. Postoq, March 10 last. The chapter in the life of Colonel King, so far as the Criminal Court of Shelby Coun'y is con­ cerned, was coed when Judge J. Dn Rose, of the i rimlnal Co:<rt, after a lengthy opinion, said: "Let the moti n be overru od." # The crima fo- whl h H- Clay King stands convicted I* too fresh in the minds of the people to need rehear Ing in detail, lietweeu 10 and 11 o'clock on the morning of the 10th of March CoL King stepped from a doorway <,n Main str et> oppo Ite Couit S ,ua e, and shot down Lawyer David H. I oston, who was hurrying to the Court Hou e on import­ ant busine s He died a few hoisrs later. King at once gave him elf up and was committed to jail without ball and trial. A few months thereafter came the tria', lasting thirty-two days. The jury after near.y two days' deliber­ ation brought In a verdict .of guilty of murder. A n< w trial was applied for, and Judge Du Bo e has delivered his opin'on, overruling the motion Every exception on the prisoner's be­ half was overruled. There was a brief pause, a death-like silence for more than a minute after ihe Judge had finished. King sat perfectly stolid, with a oroad fan pressed tight to his lips. Judge Greer j * arose, and In a few words said that the ~^Pr,n«field Journal, prisoner excepted to the judgment of the court in overruling the motion. There was another pause of a min­ ute, when Judge Du Bose, looking up from the manuscript he had been ar* ranging, said: tfLet the prisoner come forward." Instantly Colonel King rose from his chair, and, with nervous step, but fixed and immovable countenance, stepped a few paces toward the bench and looked steadfastly in the eyes of the Court. In a distinct voice, the Judge in effect said: MIt Is the judgment of this Court that you, H. Clay King, shall be committed to the county jail, and there safely be kept by the Sheriff until the tith day of November, 1891, when, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 1 p. m., the Sheriff shall, wlihln the jail or an inclosure ad­ jacent to the jail, take you to a gallows therein constructed and hang you by the neck until you are dead." The prisoner stood as a statue, and when the Court had finished he turned on his heels and walked firmly back to his chair. Major Weatherford then arose and said an appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court Colonel King, between two deputies, was taken back to jail, and the crowd which had thronged the court-room passed out Into the sunshine. Cardinals to Be Created. It is probable that the next consistory will be held at Rome within a few weeks; Cardinal Rotelli will receive the cardi­ nal's hat, and new cardinals will be created as follows: Mgr. Septacci and Mgr. llufio Scillo, for Italy, and Mgr. Thomas, for France. The date of the consistory depends upon the conclusion of the negotiations with Hunzary in re­ gard to the occupation of the See of Prague left vacant by the death of Car­ dinal SImor. Investigations recently undertaken by direction of the Pope are said at the Vatican to show that mixed marriages between Catholics and Protestants usually have a bad effect on both faiths. Several bishops have expressed the opin­ ion to the Holy See that such mixed marriages should be made more difficult. It is not yet known what decision the holy office will take on the subject In any case, the question has been opened, and will probabiy soon be determined one way or the other. Saussler Was Surprised. Le Temps, Paris, says that General Saussier, the Commander-in-chief of the French army of maneuvers, and the general who was looked upon as the man to take supreme command of the French forces In case of a war with Ger­ many, allowed himself to be surprised and hemmed in by the enemy's cavalry In the military maneuvers on a recent drill. The Temps adds that General Bolsdeffre, who was in command of the force representing the enemy, not being de6rous of capturing General Saussier, allowed his cavalry to be put to flight by General Saussior's escort A Talks Only of War. The Berlin Post says that, in congrat­ ulate g the Eriurt troops, Emperor William said: "Erfurt formed a serious point in our history. Here the Corsican parvenu most deeply humbled us and most horribly treated us. From here also In 1813 proceeded a stream of ven­ geance. I remember that for eight years my gracious grandfather's sharp glance rested with satisfaction upon the corps then commanded by General Plumenthal. Erfurt is. In fact, con­ nected with great mo nents. 1 am con­ fident that the corps will retain its smartness under jour excellency's leadership." Discipline In Germany. The Bqrliner Taeeblatt says: Tw> months ago the Captain of the Fi st Company of the Thirty-seventh Fu- sileers, stationed at Kotoschin, found a sentinel asleep.. On the /ollowing Sun­ day the Captain paraded them four times in succession. Twenty-one men were absent from the fourth parade and were afterward found walking abotft the streets. They were arrested, tried by court-martial, and sentenced to Im­ prisonment in a fortress for terms vary­ ing from eighteen to twenty months. The leaking out of the news has caused a sensation. • To Take Action In China. The Volks Zeitnng, a Berlin Catholic organ, learns on the best authority that the recent interview between Chancellor Von Caprlvi and the 1 apal Nuncio at Munich referred to the German Catholic mission at South Shan tunc, (iiina. Dig quieting news has been received from BUlicp Anzer, and energetic diplomatic action at Pekln on the part of Germany Is expected. AT a barbecue in Arkansas many people were seriously poisoned by cooked chicken which had been per­ mitted to lie in a tin vessel all night If the Southern farmer can get his neighbors of the colored persuasion to believe that tinned chicken is poison he can preserve his feathered prop­ erty by putting them in tin coops. EDWAHI) LYTOX Brr.WKR * DICKENS, the youngest son of the groat novelist, has been e lee ted taFariiamea t to Saw South Wales. ! ' It is only proper that the World's Falfr- .}]'* managers should irive respectful at ten- v tion to the appeals of the many excellent* people who have asked them to close til* Fair Sundays.--San Francisco Exam- Iner. If tho Fair is too wicked t> bo open * Sundays it Is too wicked to be open o» Saturdays and if the Puritans are to be* consulted the Hebrew? and Adventista will want to be heard next--St Joseph. ^ Herald. V;' ,5'| Th»- people who do not live In Chicago^ J and on whom the success of the ExpasJ- , tion mainly depends, have also soma- ^ rights in the matter, and it would ba-: -• well for them to speak out on the suf* ject--New Orleans Times-Democrat * ; The worklngmen of Chicago and nea& ^ by cities can tee the great exhibit oik;" ^ Sunday without entailing the doublet ! co-it of the admission and loss of wages that would be tho case on a week day,: Surely no harm could come to thtlri ' spiritual we fare by so doing.--Terr# Haute Express. It Is a <tueer fact that the Chicago sa» & A loon keepers oln hands with the Sahbatjk ? Union people in desirlna that the World's * Fair shall be closed Sunday. The Cht* cago sa oons are open Sunday as well H0 * the churches, and the saloonkeepers re* alize that the man who is attending th. Fair will not toss any coin on their barib -s CHINA WIL.I. CATCH IT. Murderous Mongolians to Be Punished by the Powers. A dispatch from Shanghai says: China Is preparing a protocol to the powers on the recent riots. It is believed the for­ eign ministers will not wait for this doc­ ument the preparation of which is like­ ly to occupy several weeks. At Paris, the Chinese Charge d'Af- faires has visited Foreign Minister Ribot and af er informing him that *China recognized that the measures hith­ erto taken to protect Europeans in China were insufficient, assured him that the' negligent mandarins would be dismissed and the rioters punished. He added that six of the latter have already been hanged. It Is feared, however, that these promises will remain a dead letter. The Berlin correspondent of the Lon­ don Standard telegraphs that the Ger­ man Foreign Office has been receiving disquieting news from China within the last day or so. China, according to these advices, is unable to fulfill her promises made to the representatives of the Powers that she would punish those who were implicated In the recent out­ rages upon foreigners and their prop­ erty, and that she would In future pro­ tect foreign residents from Injury. It is added that the rumors circulated in several quarters to the effect that France and Russia would not take part in wny joint action on the part of the combined fleets should it be decided that such a step is necessary, is pronounced to be untrue. It is also asserted that there is no doubt that Germany will in­ crease the number of her warships now in Chinese waters and that she will be prepared to take strong measures should they be needed to protect German sub­ jects or their property, or should she be called upon to take an active part in a naval demonstration against China- DEVOURING I'LAMES. Several Chicago Printers and 8tereotypers Are Badly Scorched. Shortly after 1 o'c'ock in the morning a fire, which had e\ldently been smolder­ ing for some time, burst o;it of each of the six floors of the building at No. 175 Monroe street Chicago, and the half- dozen firms doing business were cleaned out The gro ind floor was occupied by Wyckoff, Soamans & Benedict type­ writing machines; the second by the Jameson & Mor e Company, printers; th > third by the W. J. Jeff. rson Print­ ing Company; and the upper floors by Blomgren Bros. &Co , electrotypes and stereotypers. All of these firms suffer abso'ute loss on stock, though most of them are fully Insured. The building, comparatively a new' one, was owned by the Packing House Insurance Company, and sustained an Insured loss of about S~0,00'i. The damage to the stocks of the tenants Is variously estimated at from $30,000 to $50,000, so that at the most the loss In the aggregate will not exceed $70,000. Mexican Mevolutlonlsts. A dispatch from Laredo, Texas, says: While the plazas in this city and In Nue- va Laredo were crowded with peop'.e some parties unknown distributed a dodger printed in Spanish called "APian of Revo ution." It set forth that Mexi­ co was in the toils of a second t-anta Ana, referring to President Diaz, and all lib­ erty-loving people should jo!n in a revo­ lution to Secure Ills overthrow. The plan went on to name Catarina Garcia as chief leader or executive of tho revolu­ tion and Ruse Sandova', of border fame, as commander-in chief of the army. San­ doval is the man who crossed the river near here some months ago with seven men and was arrested by the civil au­ thorities, assisted by th" United States troops. After the clrcu ar referred to a man named 1 enzonia, foreman of Gar- cia's pape-% was arrested on the p'aza here. He is in jail, unab e to give bail. The general opinion he.e Is that the whole thing Is a hoax. A Brownvllle correspondent says: The best Information here shows that 1(0 men crossed tho river Omier near Camargo. They cut the telegraph wires, but communicat on was restored. The revolutionists have had a fight with a squad of armed customs guards rear San Mlgnel and lost some of their horses. No one was hurt as far as known. General Cortina, the erstwhile terror of this n Ighborhood, .wa» ar­ rested at Matamora* $ From the recent action of the World** t; Fair Commissioners on lertain phases the Sunday question it Is quite certaia that ihe ultimate decision will be thafr the Exposition shall bo opened on Sua- > « day, but that the machinery will be stopped--the idea being to a low the peo- ,l pie the opportunity of sight-seeing and. at the same t me to got rid of actual T - work on that day as much as possibly --Baltimore American. t\ ̂ " '» Mitylpne. • Is John Bu'l going to become a Turkey | gobbler?--BaltimoreAmerican. ./i Was the Mityieneoccupation, after al|» J j only a picnic party?--Pittsburg Coal* ^ ^ mercial Gazette. When the Sick Man of Europe Is at his worst a dose of English war ship# proves an effective remedy. -- Boston ' ' Traveller. . •; The Island of Mityiene Is elevated t& r . the rank of a very large-sized and en* tirely visible chip on the British shoul* 1 der.--Pittsburg Dispatch. , , j Things have come to a pretty pass If a party of British officers can't pop » ' • few corks on a desert island without v spteading a war-cloud over the whole firmament.--Minneapolis Journal. " If the 'British marines were landed at Sigri by due authority they can never b® made to leave until the Pritish view of the case has been conceded or a great • war has taken place. Now, indeed, the foreign situation is becoming interest- ing.--Richmond Dispatch. ' vV That Occupation" of Mityiene Is now 4k reported to have been "nothing more than ™ an oflicers' picnic. The "ordnance* • taken atfhore consisted probably of, • champagne bottles--loaded--and the "fortifications" erected were doubtiea# :- the Oriental equivalents of clambakefl• --New York World. H i;\ •- If the British lion had squatted on an . American island instead of a Turkish possession, howqaickly Mr. Blaine would have seized his tail. Those good people who expected to see some twisting done as soon as Mr Harrison should get into the White House have no one to but the Czar.--Courier JournaL . ^ Way-Up Buildings. A building which has b en planned te Chicago Is to bo thirty-fou;- stories higp --as high as the Washington Monument. What does Chicago want with an Eiffel tower?--Buffalo Express. Chicago is to have a building as hlfrh as the Washington Monument It will be used to illustrate tho ascent of the Western mortgage as a sort of intro* • ductory for it In high life.--Llncolla . Call. 3; If the Chicago Odd Fellows put up theur v thirty-foilr-story building there may be expected to be a surplusage of goats tik the lake city. Climbing up and down the thir.ty-three flights of stairs will undoubt­ edly replace the ancient favorite of the loige-room In initiations.--Kansas City Times. " • Chicago plans a building to be as hlgb as the Washington Monument A. scheme like this was tried on the plain* of Shlnar, but it didn't work. Chicago won't get to heaven that way. but good peop'.e will rejoice % see t)er displayinf^ ^ an interest in that direction at alL-^~ New Yvk Evening Sun. The craze for erecting high buildinga In Chicago has reached such a point aft to make the people of that city pause and consider whither they are drifting. In a limited city like New York there li ­ no room to spread except upward, but Chicago is different Her building - ground is unlimited.--Bismarck Tribune. The announcement that Chicago la . about to erect a thirty-four story build" Ing would seem to indicate that the cltmav of her crazy buildtag boom had been pretty ncarl y reached, Chicago la a great city and will a ways be such, but she is clearly overdoing the build­ ing business, and will as tertain as fate pay the penalty for so doing.--Kansas City Journal. • 3,- Dress Reform. v? The dreg* reformers of Boston hav9 . decided to appear on the streets In *ho&. kilt skirts.--Duluth News. Miss Kate Field's suggestion about knee breeches for women will not bear 1 thinking about How are the sidewalks to be kept clean if there are no long1 dresses to sweep them?--Philadelphia^ Times. A Chautauqua dress reformer assert** that "corsets have filled more gravslk ' than whisky." This is probably ane*~ aggeration; for corset* have staying p o w e r s w h e r e w h i s k y h a s n o t -- ? delphia Press. , 33 ~ About Wen-Known People. ' 1 Mrs. LANGTBr's 5,000 acre property on the Pacific Slope has increased ten­ fold In value. ' SKNATOK GOKMAX is building a nejfr:'!i house near Laurel, Md . to replace th* - on J burned down last winter. SIR WII-MAM GOKOOX-CUMMING'S re?*» tives and friends are being socially ogt»3 tracized for their loyalty to him. TKNNYSOS celebrated his 82d birthday anniversary by publishing an appeal f^f X 8200,000 to build a home tor boys la» memory of "Chinese Gordon." 3 ̂ THK little King of Spain' does not know his letters yet and a 1 %nental edu­ cation has beeu forbiddou him. He is so fragile and puny physically that the slightest exertion of the mind fatigues* him- * • / SARDOU'S first comedy m as a faliura; He was a yonth of twenty-three when . made his first venture into a field to* which he afterward became famous, and " .Ic#\ i , l; !; 3 :t ? ! i j-,t~ \ • • ..<^AA3

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