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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1891)
V ; Pi PACIFIC CUAST. Light Cateh of Salmon in the Columbia. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. EASTERN ITEMS. PERSONAL MENTION. FOREIGN NEWS. Or tie rut Schodelil Well ri-acil With the I'roKrenn .Mntlo In KnlUllni; InillmiR. Mm. Grovrr Cleveland Snlil to bo a Lib eral I'ltrclinMer of ltnre ISuukl. f P 1 10 B. Chancey, Publisher, Union, Or. T WHAT WAS BISHOP'S POWER? Claims Thnt It Wiih Mnrlpii IniU-ml f MlmM Tlmt II ) Until. "Was Washington Irving Bishop really mind render, us he claimed to be. or was ho n mere trickster' Hero is n ques tion that is being asked and asked again without receiving u satisfactory answer. Drs. Janeway and Kpitzka were confront ed with it by a Prev reporter yesterday. This is how tin former replied: "Thcro is no such owcr as mind read ing jiossessed by any man The success ful performance of Bishop's tricks was due to his extraordinary will power, which, when exercised over a man of weaker nnnd. caused his subject to do almost anything that Hishop wished. "Ilis bank note trick was undoubtedly muscle reading, or. rather, muscle fol lowing, pure and simple When ho took hia subject's hand in his to write down the number of a batik note he followed the line of least resistance in a subject who was simply passive, and the lino of greater resistance in one who was on the alert to defeat his plans. This was palpa ble by his method of operation. "After writing the numbers onco ho would go over them again, sometimes backward, and often erase and change the figures until he was convinced by lho involuntary action of the muscles of Lis subject that the ligures. as inscribed on the blackboard, were correct." Dr. Spitzktt met the reporter's question in this way "There Is nothing Hishop ever did in public which had not been dono before, and a great deal better, by Stuart Cumberland, the Knglish mind reader so called The apparently inex plicable phenomena of mind reading has been written about and explained ti mo and time again It is nothing moro nor less than following the unconscious vi brations of the nerves, and I know of no better way to illustrate what 1 mean than to (piote the old lecture room explana tion. "To explain this subject to medical stu dents a drum head, made to revolve on wheels by turning a crank, was used. Over the surface of tin-drum head lamp black was lightly sprinkled, and u needle was arranged above the drum head just high enough so that its point camo in contact wiili the lampblack. The person eclected for a subject was required to turn the crank and at the same time pe ruse a book. "The person so engaged was supposed to concentrate his entire attention on the book, the act of turning the crank being purely automatic. This was necessary to insure the success of the experiment. "As the person turned the crank it was possible to ascertain by the little concentric curves described by the needle on the lampblack whether he was inter ested in what he was rending or whether lie was bored, and to just what degree lie was interested or bored. I he involun tary tremors of the nerves acting upon the muscles left their tell tide marks on the lampblack'. "This Is the foundation of what is popularly kno.vn as mind reading, but which is nothing more nor less than the following of the involuntary movements of the muscles by an extremely sensitive person. Bishop was above all things a close observer and a superlatively bousi tivo man." New York Press. Civil Sei'xlcn IiiiiIiiuI ioiiK. Different is this from all other school rooms in the intensity of application displayed by the pupils. There Is not a whisper, nor a shulllo of a foot, not a cough or any other sound. Heads are bent over desks in a most studious way Tlio yearning, anxious expression every where seen is almost painful to behold, The near sighted girl in her earnestness fairly blots her paper with her nose, while the colored man who sits next to her wrestles with an arithmetic problem till the perspiration (tours oil' his face und ho mops himself in obvious distress A largo majority of the candidates are of tho shabby genteel order. On every hide (toverty and pride may bo seen hand in hand. These pupils are struggling for prizes which mean more to them than diploma, medal or scholarship to the-conventional student prizes which mean bread and butter, life itself. And how hard some of them tlo world Over there in the corner sits a little woman who, the chief examiner says, married a worthless fellow who ran away and left her to support herself and three llttlo children It is now nearly 0 o'clock , in tho evening, and from 0 in the morn ing the little woman lias bat in her chair, almost motionless, eyes riveted uion her juttier, thinking of nothing in the world, perhaps, but her children and tho work before her. It does not look like a trag edy, but it may be one to her. This is the climax, for if at the stroke of 0 she thall not successfully havo completed her task, she alone will know how to measure tho disappointment. Washing- 'ton letter. ICfU't't nf Cn oKitc Upon Clilmuryi. Attention has lately been called to tho peculiarly corrosive and consequently destructive oiled of thoereonotoof wood boot ujtou chimneys, owing to tho fact that creosote thus formed from tho slow combustion of wood contains w large a projtortiou of pyrollgneous vinegar or crude acetic acid; this acid being formed in large quantities when the oumbubtlou of wood is slow, many quarts, iu fact, being condenbed iu cold weather where a largo wood lire is very much checked, only a few hours being required for such condensation. The acid in question dis solved lime readily, carrying it away in solution, and fn this manner tho mortar U frequently entirely removed from tho tops of chimneys in tho country, new ones suffering the saiue way as tho old, Instance Iwiug mutter .i ous where the top courses of brick lit t chimneys only two yours old have lt " oomo entirely without supjiori other tlwn that afforded by tho sand with which the lime was mixed, Chicago Times. MARIN GETS THE COLLEGE. Tho Umatilla Indians Want the Pay for tho Improvements on Their Lands Without Delay. There are-now 07.1 patients in the Ore gon insane asylum. Crop reports from Oregon and Wash ington are very favorable. A rate war on tho Sound between rival steamboat companies is about to be iu augurated. . It is rumored at Butte, Mo"t.,thatthe Anaconda mines have been sold to tin Rothschilds of Europe. Fishermen in the Columbia river coin plain that instruments are pl.ict.tl in the water to destroy their nets. K. S. Gardner, United States Inspector of Indian Agencies', lias arrived ui. Col ton, (Jul., itom -tnu hast, and wii givt 'he Mission Indians a thorough invest! iitiop. , The Tucson Citi:cu savs : Panics are niteinplating the erection of a first ! ss restaurant at the top of i-anta Cat- mas, one ot the loveliest spots in all rizona. Sacramento is endeavoring to get tho oiithcrn Pacific Company to llil tip lima slough, and Mr. 1 1 mi 1 1 titon lias i veil promise favorably to cuitrider the roj)OHition. The altnon catch in the Columbia cou nties light, the average per Unit being ilv live. I lie dealers in Port land an it. obtain enough to supply the market, id are paying b cents per pound. I'he pomological division of the Agri iltural Department in distributing ex naively throughout Southern California aided citron trees, Iroin winch pit rved citron is being imported to 1'lorida nd the .Mediterranean region of I'.urope. The Spokane Citv Council has decided o submit a Ponding proposition, it is iroposed to issue $ 1,200,000 in blocks iccording to me pressing needs oi tne it y. Of this sum half a million will be tor the extension and improvement of he water system. A steuinltoat mail service has been or leted established from Tacoma by Me idian, Img Branch, Vaui:hn anil De mit to Allyn, a.-li., six times a week iv a schedule hatisfuotorv to the Postof- leu Department, not to exceed live hours mining tune each dev. The Umatilla Indians want the pav r the improvements on tlieir lands ithotit tleluy. iliev are vetv uiucli an ,ited over the matter and some of their ders insist that unless they get their v before giving up their lands they ill never hear of their money. The Madera Flume and Trndinir Com uuy ofl'eted the government M. 147.05 u settlement of claims against it for the llegal cutting of timber. The govern nent declined the oiler, and a jtirv at l.os Angeles awards the plaiulill' .$1 ,2 K). vhieh is practically a defeat of the pios eution. He(ortH to the Spokane Chmuber of 'oniinereo from all parts of the grain ielt of Washington indicate the greatest train crop in the history of the country, n some places the seeding is already uislicd, and everywhere it iH well along. loportH agree tfiat the condition of heat is more favorable than a month go. Nothing but the most unusual con litiona can prevent u great crop this eason. Severe storms are reported to havo oc curred recently in northern ports, espe cially at Motlakutla, Fort Simpson and Charlotte Islands. Small bouts were lifted oil' the leach, carried inland for joino distance and broken up. At Met iakatla live houses were totally destroyed by the force of the wind. Several houses Aero demolished on Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Luudberg llshing sta ion was totally wrecked. At. tho California Board of Agriculture neeting at Sacramento W. II. Murray vas elected superintendent of ramie culture and directed to fill at once all utmlicatiuns for ramie roots to the extent. of if 1,1)00, the amount allowed to Ih ex pended in tins inanner in anv one year. The board favored tho idea of es tablishing the proposed ramie culture experimental station in Capital park, -.!,.., .1 1- 1 , I .1 proviueu uio wont snail oe none oy mo State Gardener's workmen. Archbishop Uiordan has selected the site iu Marin county for tho erection of the now college for tho education of voting men who desire to take the vows of priesthood. It is on a high bin II' that overlooks a wide and deep creek, known tia flrtrt,. Miiil.irti .....ml 'Pit.. 1,1,, O' ...i..,. nuuiila a beautiful view of Larkspur. . U VW V. .1.,,...... V I V. V. I. . , ,U 1.1. nestling at tho foot of Mount TatmUpaia to the west, and the northern part of San Francisco Bay (with Oakland and Berke ley on its further shore) to tho east. The most completo collection of desert-inhabiting mammals ever secured has Ih'oii obtained by the members of tho Death Valley expedition, covering over l!,00t) specimens, among which uro many new species. In the collection of birds the range has been extended so far its some of them are concerned. In the Itotunical work a most complete collec tion of desert Horn has been obtained, and the limits of vegetation have been determined. The entomologist reports the valleys barren of insects, but plenty iu the mountains and canyons. The most remarkable case in tho an nals of San Qitontin history is tho case of one Slocum. John Slocuui was on February 1!, 18S7, convicted of burglary iu the first degree and sentenced to San Quontin for fifteen years, and on July 10, 1888, he made his escnpo from prison. In February of this year ho wiih arrested and returned to tho prison. When land ed iu Han Quontin ho denied thnt ho was Slocum, claiming that his namely Will lain Allen, despito tho fact that ho has beon identified by many of the prison olllclala as Slocum. Tho other day, whon ho mub brought lwforo tho Justice, ho Haiti that ho was not Slocum. but will Uun Allen, and that at tho time of the jscape of Slocum lie was doing time In the State prison in Kanuna. In peeking full and trustworthy infor mation of the seal-fisheries controversy Secretary Foster has selected J. S. Brown of the geological bureau as special agent to proceed to the Pribilov Islands and make an examination of the condition of affairs. The Secretary of Agriculture is send ing out quantities of Gprtnan and French beet-sugar seed to various portions in Oregon as requested by Representative Hermann to supply persons having so licited seeds for experimental purposes in Oregon. Assistant-Secretary Chandler directed tho Commissioner of the general land office to make a thorough examination of the lists of land withdrawn for irriga tion reservoirs in California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, with a view of making thee withdraw als absolute. The Department of '.he Interior de cides in the wise of the Agricultural Col lege of Oregon that, while music and calisthenics form a proper part of the curriculum of an agricultural cojlege, tne expenditure for them cannot he ob tained from the appropriation provided by the act of Congress approved August 80, 18110. There is good authority for saying the United States has not had nnynegotia tions with France respecting the .Mole St. Nicholas. The squadron of evolution was not sent to Port-au-Prince with the intention of ci eating a naval demonstra tion. An efTort was made by represent atives of the government to 'secure Mole St. Nicholas by purchase or otherwise, but these efforts, it is learned, resulted unsuccessfully. It is said that the Secretary of the Navy contemplates seriously making a trip to the Coast this summer, and that he will do so aliout the time lie directs his attention to applying civil service to Mare Island yard, lie has spent the last two summers inspecting the interests of the department on the Atlai.tic, and it is thought he will set apart a few weeks this year for an inspection of naval af fairs on the Pacific. The Secretary of the Navv has an ex tensive mail from the Pacific Coast from those who desire to le entered for exam ination for work in the Mare Island navy yards. All such letters are sent to Com mandant Renhuni at Mare Island. He is instructed bv the Secretary to keep a list of all applications in the' various de partments, and when the civil service is organized for the .Mare Island yards all applicants will bo given. due notice. General Schofleld is well pleased with the progress made in enlisting Indians in the army. He says: " If we can get two well drilled and contented troops of Indians, we shall be doing all expected at this time. These wih 1k the cause of many more Indians enlisting, and 1 think I can see the day ahead when there will be no more tfifliculty in get ting good soldiers from the Indian reser vations than there is to-day in enlisting white men. The superintendent of the Porter cen sus bureau has issued a bulletin on the subject of floriculture in the United States. There is a total of 4,4(( estab lishments! and 1112 commercial floricult ure establishments owned and managed by women. The 4, Hi!) establishments had iu the census year 118, 82:$, '247 square feet of glass, covering a space of more than 8!)1 acres of ground. The establish ments, including fixtures and heating apparatus, are valued at !:8..'!r(i,000 ; tools and implements. 1,588,000: ami gave employment to 10,847 men and I, Pun women, wlio earned m tne vein $8,484,000. The products for the year reached a total value of $12,0.'!,000 for plants. Cut flowers brought an addi tional income of $14,175,000. Acting Secretary Chandler has ovei- ruled the Surveyor-General of Washing ton and the Commissioners of the gen eral laud oflice ami also a former decision of the Interior Department iu ordering a survey ot the bed ol the meandered crao lake on sections 7 and 11, township '-2, range ,"0, Olvmpia land district. The decision was rendered upon the petition of .lames Popple, t Imrles A. Desplaine, Andrew .1. Kinney, George W. Hnney, Zacharias FiNtiev, Henry Mitchell and George Popple. These n't en drained the lake, sett led upon the land and asked to have it surveyed, which was refused. Secietarv Chandler savs, the bed of the lake having becomedry, it is government land and the men are t Ml it led to it. There are about 1,000 acres of the land. CABLEGRAMS. I.ti CJrliuu' Prt'ViilU Willi tiri-at Sfverltj lit till' Xlll'U I'KliUI ('liplllll. Queen Victoria is back at Windsor palace. It is not believed that the Hurlbert libel case recently decided in London can lie legally reopened. Advices received from Senegal state that Adrien .Marc, the French painter, died there from yellow fever. It is rumored that llerr von Bulow. the German Minister in Switzerland, will be transferred to London or Paris. Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the Czar, is dead. He bicaine insane last fall, mid his health has since Iteen luiltng. He was 00 years of age. Fritz von Knulbach, the famous por trait painter, has resigned his position as head of the Munich Academv of Art. lWessor Olftv succeeds lum. The exhibition of American nrt, which opens at Paris iu June, promises to be a success, a score oi leading American artists iu Kurope will send exhibits. A German government proivisul has leeu submitted to the Buudesrath au thorizing the acceptance of the invita tion to take part iu the Chicago Fair. The British census shows, as did the last German, an increase of imputation in' the cities and a decrease in nearly all tho rural districts. Some of the cities are growing very rapidly. The ungracious refusal of the Queen to open the forthcoming British naval ex hibition has piqued tho officers of tho navv. ami has revived stories of her Majesty's well-known disinclination to give any encouragement to that branch of tho service. Tjist week several Berlin turners pub lished an advertlboment by the Buda pest!) Chief of Police, in which a fugitive from justice was described as the emct double of tho ex-King of Milan. Tho Kmporor at onco ordered that the disre spectful sentence must disappear from the German prima. Crusade Begun Against Tights at New York. EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE. Tho Havemoyer Sugar Company to be , Prosecuted by Census Bureau for Refusal of Information. New York talks of a thirty-four-story place. Mexico is to have the continent's long est tunnel. The New York State Farmers' Alliance has been organized. A yellow-fever-infected steamer lias arrived at New York from Hio Janeiro. I Sena 'or Brice will lie required to pay ! back taxes and penalty on his Ohio prop j erty valued at .foOO.OOO. I Land Commissioner Carter has ap pointed as Ins private secretary George O. Freeman of Montana. Representatives of Texas cities recent ly met at Waco to discuss ways and means for inducing immigration. The Northern Pacific has ordered $100, 000 worth of new rolling stock to meet the increasing business of that road. The Supreme Court of the United States has postponed the hearing in tho Sit v nanl and lottery cases until October U. It is stated a gigantic financial deal is in progress at Chicago, which involves a I irge expenditure of money near Salt Lake. The Governor of Texas has appointed Mr. Chilton, a brilliant orator, United States Senator in plaeeof Senator Reagan resigned. Week before last more people died in Washington Citv than during anv former week of the capital's history. La i grippe is hlamed The Wisconsin House of Representa tives has indefinitely postponed a bill re ducing passenger rates on railroads to 2 cents per mile. It is announced that the ITaytian gov ernment has refused to grant the United States a lease for the proposed coaling station at the Mole St. Nicholas. Tne Havenieyer Sturar Company of New York will be prosecuted by the Cen sus Bureau for lel'usal of information. Other prosecutions are contemplated. It seems that .lose P. Macheca, the leading spirit of the Italians who were lynched at Now Orleans, was the Consul for Bolivia at the time of his death. To reduce expenses the Pennsylvania Company is doing awas with all 'unnec essary telephones. In this direction a saving of $15,000 per annum is expected. The International Convention of the Young Woman's Christian Association in session at Scranton. Pa., has elected Mrs. I. V, Farwell of Chicago President. A track of 1,000 acres of land on the road leading from Millville to Dividing creek. Cumberland i-ountv, Pa., has b'-en purchased for another Hebrew settle ment. The mysterious disappearance of Miss Lena Owen, a beautiful sixteen-year-old orphan girl from the home of her aunt at Dos Are, Ark., ha- caused a sensation in that section. Anthony Comstock has begun a eru i.le tit New York against tights. Ilis nut is to prohibit the sale of pictures of -cattily attired actresses. (Ie is seeking legislative action. Fourteen thousand dollars have been contributed and pledged toward the Sal vation Army memorial building to be erected in New York city iu honor of the late Mrs. General Booth. A mammoth building, probably the largest piece of warehouse property in the country, is being erected by the Ter minal Improvement Company in New Yotk. Twenty-six elevators will be used. The Treasury Department has awarded the contract for the, public cartage of du tiable merchandise at the port of San Fi.tncisco to Max Popper, the lowest bid- tier, .nr. topper is tne present con trat tor. The health-department oflicials of New York appear to be perfectly satis lied with the sanitary condition of the city tlospite the fact that the newspapers there print from three to five columns of death notices daily. The decoration of an officer of the Or der of Bolivar has just been conferred upon Frank Vincent, traveler and inves tigator, by the Repunlie of Venezuela in recognition of his " varied and valuable services to the literature of travel." The Ohio Farmers' Alliance declares for a uniform system of school books, tho Australian system of ballot, reduc tion of railroad rates to 2 cents a mile and the taxation of real estate at its as sessed value, less mortgage indebtedness. Mrs. .1. G. Blaine, Jr., is at Sioux Falls. She has gone to South Dakota to secure a divorce from her husband, J. Q, Blaine, Jr., who is at present in Spain. Seventy days' residence and sixty-eight days of publication are required in South Da kota. Tho exports of merchandise from the United States for tho twelve months ended March SI were $872,010,377; im ports. $S2:i,0:il,120. During March the gold ex(orts exceeded the iinjwrts by $4,511.51)0, ami the silver exports ex ceeded the imports by $1,021,572. The Michigan Senate iu committeo of tho whole has agreed to tho bill provid ing for the election of Presidential Elect ors by Congressional districts. Under this bill it will bo jtossiblo for the Pa trons of Industry to havo two or three representatives iu tho next Klectoral Col-1 lego. Tho reports to tho Treasury Depart ment bIiow that the number of immi grants arriving at the port of San Fran cisco is steadily on the increase. During tho month of March there were 52,172, against 115,750 during the corresponding month of last year; 80.0MS during the first three mouths of tho prosont calendar year, against 01,021 during tho corro eponding quarter of 1800, and 801,347 during tho nine months ending March 31, against 961.408 during the correspond ing period ending March, 1690. The Archbishop of Erlau in Hungary has a yearly revenue which amounts to $276,000. The most beautiful unmarried royal girl in all Europe is the Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt. Major McKinley has received a bar of American tin smelted at the San Jacinto mine in California. Anna Di -kins .ti'. declared purpose ( is to lei t .ti i' through the country on the in l piities of State insane asylums. Jean Paul Laurens was elected to the vacancy in the French Academy of 1 ine Arts caused by the death of Meissonier. Zola requires nine months to write a novel. He handles a pen us a laliorer might a spade, and is a slow and painful toiler. Fred Remington, the artist of the Sioux campaign, is going to Mexico for a season of rest and to get the frostbite out f his pencil. The wife of Senator Stanford receives a large begging mail, among which the Dther day was a letter from a Texan gen tleman who wanted $30 to get a new set of teeth. Mr. Nebeker, the new Treasurer of the United States, is a short, stout man, with a round and rather florid face, marked by a black mustache. He is about 40 years old. lxitta has been on the stage since 18T0, when she appeared before a San Fran cisco audience at the American theater. Her fortune is estimated at between $1, UOO.OOO and $2,000,000. The questionable honor of having his bust displayed over the entrance to "The Jolly 'Bacillus Cafe" in Berlin has been paid to Dr. Koch. This is having greatness thrust upon him. W. Burke Cochran, the great orator of TainnitiHy Hall, now abroad, is a largo and stout man, with a massive head and and commanding manner. He was onco a clerk in A. T. Stewart's store. George Francis Train is as agile and muscular as he was twenty years ago, and the recent Italian complications show rhat he can go through his mental acrobatics with as much eclat as ever. President Bahnaceda of Chili is a stern and arbitrary man, with cold gray eyes, thin lips ami an angular chin, lie pos sesses more education and ability than are usually found in a South American dictator. William II. Crane i said to have laid away (500,000. Neil Burgees is credited witli $150,000, and Francis Wilson's check would be good for $75,000 over and above his liabilities if he were foolish enough to draw it. Grant Allen, the Fnglish novelist and essayist, is a thin and inteDectu.il-look-ing inan of 45. Ilis eyes are light blue and his hair gray. He was born in Can ada, but has passed the greater part of his life iu Kugland. Htnpernr William is paid to be fond of playing Caliph Haroun al Raschid by go ing about diFguNed at night to certain liquor shops and music halls where his soldiers and sailois are to be found in order to pick up criticisms on his army and navy. Prince Dolgorouki, the perennial ad mirer of Mrs. .1 C. Aver and her mill ions, is now at Monte'Carlo, dividinghis time between the widow and the board of green cloth, upon which, it is said, the croiiniers are raking in big piles of his napoleons. Charles Stewart Parnell has a brother, John II., living in West Point, Ga. It is surmised that his brother will be wanted by the warlike leader to stand for election to Parliament from one of tho Irish constituencies before the next general election. Stanley took with him $110,000 as his compensation for tho 100 lectures deliv ered by him under the direction of Major Pond Vietweon November 11 and April 4. The receipts for the lectures. Major Pond said, averaged $2,7S0, so that an aggre gate of $.'105,800 was taken in. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is said to bo a liberal purchaser of rare books. She has a passion, for unique bindings, and knows a genuine, article from an imitation. She has a very finely bound and complete se lection of" Spanish authors, and a Barce lona edition (liKil!) of Cervantes is in eluded among it. It is the only one of this edition in the United States. Sir Provo Wallis, English Admiral, has completed the 100th year of his age and the eighty-seventh iii the British, naval service 'Americans feel a special inter est in him, because in 181S lie was a Sec ond Lieutenant on Itoard the Shannon, which captured the Chesapeake oil" Bos ton harlior ; and. his two superior officers having been killed in that action, ir de volved on Wallis to take his prize to Halifax. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. An Kiii1m'X7.1Iiik Kx-SmTi'tnrj- of State Ki'turns unit Surrt'iiilxrM lllinx'IC There are at present four persons in the Sacramento county jail accused of mur der, a limit probably never reached be fore. .1. W.Snialling, who killed his brother-in-law near Bitrsin, Calaveras county, Cal., has been sentenced to State's prison for life. A report is current in London that the unknown man who committed suicide at Wimbledon thr.ee weeks ago has been identified as "Jack the Ripper." Lizzie Bogard, an unmarried woman of Milan, Teiin., has been placed in jail at Maylleld for burying her child while it was' yet alive. Sho acknowledged her crime." Kugeno Piquet, who fled to Switzer land from New Y"rk in October lust with $18,000 belonging to the Lancaster In surance Company, hits pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the first degree, Ex-Secretary of State Strong, who walked out of the court room and disap peared many yoars ago while on trial for embezzlement", returned to Baton Rouge, lu., the other day and surrendered. He said he had been in Mexico and had had u hard time. A torriblo tragedy occurred at Roan oke, Va. Nick Flood, a son of Major Flood, a prominet citizen, and Charles L. Rose, who recently went there from Washington, oneaged in a duel. Roie wins killed and Hood shot in the mouth and breast, but will probably recover. The shooting was the result of a quarrel at gambling a short time ago. Buffalo Bill Exhibiting' al Strasburg. ITALY OPPOSES EMIGRATION. Prince Bismarck's Speech to a Deputa tion of Kiel Conservatives Shows Indomitable Opposition Italy seeks to check emigration. London has :0,000 theatrical people. England is transplanting our oysters. Influenza has been very deadly in Ja pan. Portugal i in a fever of excitement against I'ngland. Sweden and Norway sent to the United States 4-3,000 people in ISiH. Children under !) have been piohib ited from working in India factories. The grip is spreading in the wv.iMi of Russia, and ninny deaths are reported. A scheme for a Sunday theater is being promoted in London, and is expected to succeed. A Salvation Army refuge in the Belle ville quarter of Paris has been closed by the police. Russia has ordered the closer protec tion of the seal rookeries on Coppnr and Rabbin Islands. Bremen is thronged with Russian em igrants, who expected to be earu'l te Brazil gratuitously. The Chilian envoy to Kurope h:is not yei. found anv one who is willing to lend money to Balmaceda. The Spanish gunboat Can'o haj been lost on a rock off Porto Plata, a neaport on the north of San Domingo. Prince Bismarck's speech to the lepu tation of Kiel Conservatives 'u consid ered to presage his indomitable opposi tion to the government. The longest bridge in the world :sto be built on the estate of Prince R.uhiwill in Kast Prussia. It will be of wood and four and three-fifths miles long. The ex-Kinperor of Brazil is going to reside with the Duka of Nemours at Bushev Park in England this summer. He is In good health and spirits. All along the coast of the African po tessions of Germany gibbets are erected,, and it is a common 'sight to see an Arab strung up as a warning to others. Russia is reaching out by way of Abys sinia for her slice of African territorial cake. Russia is apt to get territorial cake sooner or later everywhere she tries Bulgaria has in curt language re quested the Turkish government t" rec ognize Prince Ferdinand and warned the Sultan that in the event of refusal Bul gaiia would proclaim her independence. The Berlin Xavhriclilen says the re moval of the prohibitory restrictions on American ork has been arranged for as. soon as the United States government issues regulations for cairying out the inspection law. It is said that Lord Randolph Church ill carries to Africa an ore-crushing ma chine, and that the milling engineer who accompanies him represents the Roths childs, und that a search for gold i- t he real purpose of the trip. The officers and crews of the revolu tionary Chilian squadron are paid to Lave signed a ' round robin " binding them selves not to lay (low n their arms until they hang President Bahnaceda iu the principal square of Sautjiigo. A dispatch from Rome says: Baron Fa vain' his report on t lie New Orleans aflair expressed the belief that there is no way out of the situation, as the Fed eral government has no power to ive Italy the satisfaction demanded. The condition of inanv of the refugees at Iqiiiqui, Chili, is declared to be iioi rible. Provisions were so recently scarce in Iquique, owing to the blockade, that $20 were paid for a can of condensed milk, and beef sold at $10 a pound. Bufl'ulo Bill is at Strasburg exhibiting twenty-six bucks and two squaws, just inriveil via Antwerp, as his personal cap tures in the recent Indian war. llo claims to have saved several of them from the gallows by his intercession. French naval officers are in a turmoil over the supposititious worthlessne-is of their torpedo boats. That some of the lioats are quite usoless was shown re cently by the experience of two of them built after the plans of Admiral Aulte. Triple screws on war ships are being introduced by all the principal naval powers exempt England, the experience of engineers showing that 15,0.)0-horso power is the maximum that can be ef fectively transmitted through one screw. A vear ago the fastest train between Iiomlon and Alierdeen, 542 miles, ran in. in fourteen hours. Last fall it wan re duced to twelve hours and fifty minutes This year it will cover the 542 miles in twelve hours, or a little oyer forty-five miles an horr. The British troops have burned twelve villages occupied by the rebellious Mani puris. The latter retreated to the hills. Tho Rritish then shelled tho hills, killing anil wounding a largo number of the en emy. Tho latter is now believed to be completely subjugated. Tho Cardiff Mail says editorially that Mr. Stanley's contemptuous treatment of the later proposals made to honor him suggests the thought that tho easiest way of showing admiration for him is tb leave him to tho undisturbed enjoyment of tho comparative solitude which he seems to prefer. Gladstone has decided to support the divorce reform bill introduced by Hun ter. This amazed tho Liberals, w'lio bo I'.Bved ho would oppose any extension of divorce na a matter of religious principle. The bill entitles a wife to the dissolution of the niarriago tie in tho event of adul tery or four years' desortiou on the part of the husband. The Vienna Fremdenblatt and Neue Fttie rretn in commenting upon Presi dent Harrison's speech at Galvostd'n agree that a European aollvoroln is tho only answor to American protection. The Fremdenblatt Btiggosta that European nations look to Africa anil Asiatic colo nies for goods which they have hitherto bought from America, t i ' 1 "t n'ilti jjfcMW