THE WEEKLY HEFPNER GAZETTE", JUNE 4, 139i
WANT TWELVE HOURS.
Omnibus Drivers of
Paris Strike.
PREVENT VEHICLES RUNNING.
The Police Reserves Called Out and
Blot Narrowly Averted Many
Arreata Made.
Paris, May 25 The omnibus drivers
of this city have struck for work day of
12 hours. They also demand that dis
missed unionist drivers shall be rein
stated as soon as the strike is declared
off. The men at once surrounded the
stables and offices of the omnibus com
panies with the avowed purpose of pre
venting passage to or fro of any blacklegs
w ho might attempt to take their places.
So threatening was the attitude of
strikers that the companies deemed it
advisable to abandon the attempt to run
vehicles. Later, however, the officials
succeeded in running omnibusses out of
the stables and past groups of angry
men who swarmed about the building.
An attempt was then made to send
stages over their routes, whereupon the
strikers at once rushed forward to the
attack, cutting the traces and compelling
the drivers to dismount, leaving the
abandoned conveyancss in the middle of
the street. I'olice reserves were called
out and succeeded in clearing the streets,
after having arrested several rioters, in
cluded the president of the union.
Twenty Portuguese Wounded and Seven
Killed In an Engagement.
London, May 25 Dispatches received
hero this morning from Tournenzo Mar
quis, a Portuguese town of Africa on
the north side of Delngoa bay, confirm
the report of an engagement having
taken place between the Portuguese and
the ISritish. At the time of the engage
ment the Portuguese were marching on
Fort Salisbury and had arrived within
20 yards of the fort when the British
opened lire, killing seven and wounding
2J Portuguese.
lireat romp in the Celebration of the
Kvont Ht Buchareat, Kolimanla.
London, May 25 Advices from Bu
charest state that the 25th anniversary
of the crowning of King Charles of Rou
mania was celebrated with great pomp
in that city. The German Emperor was
represented by llerr Von Bulow, min
ister at the Roumanian capital, and the
hereditary prince of Honlienzollorn was
thero to represent the family of which
King Charles is a member.
As the German Emperor himself has
been hunting during the week in the
cast of Prussia on the estates of Count
Pohna, some surprise is felt that he did
not go to ltoum-inia and lend honor to
the occasion by his presence, King
Charles being the only sovereign prince
of tho llonhonzollern family besides the
Kaiser.
The festivities lasted through a day
and night and Bucharest was gay with
decorations. The best troops of the
Roumanian army took part in the
parade and the spectators today cheored
attaches of the Russian legation.
The Gorman ICmperor Wanta to Have
Imperial Control of'iheiu.
Bhui.in, May 25 The Kaiser is said to
be bent upon tho complete nationaliza
tion of the Gorman railways, aud that
this was his chief reason for retiring
llerr Maybock, who had failed in at
tempting to carry out that change. The
Kaiser is thoroughly imbued with Bis
marck's idea of a grand network of rail
ways controlled by- the Reichstag and
as completely at tho imperial command
as is the artillery ami cavalry of the
army. This plan he means to carry out,
it is said, in time for use in a general
European war.
A Miiaicluu Killed Near llucodu Thla
M orlilng.
BccoiiA, Wash., May 25 A man, sup
posed to bo named llanco, who has been
playing tho violin and cornot at the
Club theater in t'entralia, was struck by
the freight train at 8 o'clock this morn
ing, I hreo miles south of liueoda. His
right leg was broken near tho ankle and
his skull injured. He was tended by
Dr. Mead, but died in a few minutes.
The body was turned over to County
Commissioner Smith. Nothing was
found on his person. Tho engineer says
the man tried to cross the track several
times ahead of tho engine and acted in
u crazy manner.
i o a 1 1 1 o n l o li i G rad u ii lud Ta on
Income In l'ruaala.
llKinis, May 25 Tho graduated tax
on incomes adopted by the Prussian par
liament, much against the will of the
I lemulituir, wh'u'ii yielded only under
the personal influence of the Kaiser, is
already causing much discontent, the
wealthier class claiming, at the prevail
ing rates of intorest on tho best securi
ties, the tax will take a large part of
their incomo especially as the officials
bIkiw a disposition to entorco the law
with severity. On the other hand the
Socialists are delighted, and aver that
the measure is a distinct step in the di
rection of tho accomplishment of their
ideas.
lie la Kipected to Give llimaelf I'p to
Juatlce In Pew Daya.
I'hu.adki.i'iiia, May 25 Gideon W
Marsh, the fugitive president of the
Keystone bank, has not yot been ar
rested, but it is exectod that in a very
short time ho w ill be again in custody
by voluntarily deliverance ou his part.
Mrs. Marsh, who is staying at the High
land house, at Thurlow, savs that her
husband is near at hand, and that real
izing the difficulty of getting out of the
country lie will probably surrender
within a few days.
He Had Iteen a Leader In Church, Grand
Army and Odd Kellowa' Clrclea.
St. Lot iH, May 26 Treasurer Peter
Greenwood, of Wood Rivor township,
near Upper Alton, HI., has disappeared.
He is said to be short in his accounts
with the township to the extent of be
tween $5000 and $10,000; He left home
a week ago, saying that he Was going to
purchase bridge material. Nothing has
since been heard from him. An exam
ination of his books revealed the deficit
as stated above. The overhauling of the
accounts shows that Greenwood has
been running behind for years. He has
been a leader in church, Grand Army and
Odd Fellows' circles.
A Paaaenger on the Golden Gate Special
Train I.oeea 10,000 Worth.
Alliance, Ohio, May 25 Mrs. Lewis
J. Jones, wife of a prominent manufac
turer of Boston, who, with her husband
was a passenger on the Pennsylvania
Railroad company's Golden Gate special
which passed through here today, was
robbed of $10,000 worth of diamonds on
the train between Fargo, N. 1)., and St.
Paul Wednesday night.
On that evening a concert was being
given in the observation car. Mrs.
Jones occupied a section in the rear
sleeper, and the other passengers were
obliged to pass through their car to at
tend the concert. Mrs. Jones was not
feeling well and retired early. She
placed her diamonds in her reticule and
the next morning they were missing.
She suspects one of her fellow passen
gers rather than any of the train hands.
It Lodged In a L.ad'8 Bronchial Tube
and Cauaed an Agonizing Death.
Pittsburg, May 25 Davy Williams, a
four-year-old lad from Petrolia, Pa., died
at the Western Pennsylvania hospital
last night from exhaustion. A week ago
while playing with a clay pipe in his
mouth, he fell and broke it. Before he
knew it, he had swallowed about an inch
of the stem. He Buffered intense agony
for five days, all the time becoming
weaker.
In desperation - the paronts brought
him to the hospital here. They had
heard of the efforts to save the life of the
Rev. Dr. Bothwell, whose misfortune
was somewhat the same. The hospital
physicians pronounced the case hopeless
and refused to attempt an operation, but
the parents insisted. It was found that
the pipestem had lodged in the left
bronchial tube. The surgeons refused
absolutely to extract the obstruction by
opening the lad's breast, but consented
reluctantly to probe. ,
Dr. James McCan reached for the
pipe Btetn last evening with a variety of
probes. He found a stony obstruction,
but could not grasp it. He sounded it
repeatedly but inflammation of the tube
so (irmly held it that the probe could
not move it. All ellorts to save the lad's
life were then abandoned and two hours
later he died. The same operation had
been attempted three times yesterday,
but unsuccessfully.
Among the Nntlvea of South Africa
Hlavea linked Alive.
London, May 25 The latest news from
Africa has caused much excitement both
here and in Lislxm. A dispatch from
the latter city states that the war feeling
ia again uppermost and that the people
are clamoring for revenge upon th
British South Africa company. This for
the moment has diverted attention from
the financial crisis which makes it im
possible for Portugal to make any for
midable warlike demonstration.
The English authorities are preparing
to give a stunning reception to the two
emissaries Irom the powerlul Alncan
king, Gungunhema, whose territories
are chiefly within the bounds claimed
by Portugal. Gungunhema asks for
British protection and declares that he
wantBtohave nothing to do with the
Portuguese.
Ho is a brother-in-law to Lobengulu,
king of the Matabcles, who sent a simi
lar embassy to England some time ago
and was so astonished at the report
tliey brought back of the glories of
Windsor castle and London that he did
not believe them and ordered them to
be baked alive, from which fate they
were saved by an English missionary,
who convinced the king that they told
the truth.
The missionary was horrified to learn
later that the king had caused two of his
slaves to be subjected to tho fate in
tended for his emissaries on the ground
that, having given his word, Boniebody
must perish.
Because She Waa Not Allowed to Walk
AVIth a Young Man.
Atlanta, Gb., May 25 James Jar
rett, one of the most prominent farmers
in Northeast Georgia, is in a dying con
dition, lie was poisoned bv his orettv
lu-year-old daughter. Rosa, yesterday
because he whipped her for stealing
away to a neighboring meadow and
going to walk with Robert McRae, a
suitor whom her father opposed. The
next day the girl put rat poison in her
father's soup plate.
Ho lllla a Muu Who la Tightly Held by
Olhera.
Riiui.iN, May 25 A medal has been
struck at St. Petersburg in honor of the
courage displayed bv young Prince
George of Greece in defending the Czar
ovitch from the Japanese fanatic who
wounded him. The latest information
from Kioto is that after several other
Japanese had run up and Boized the
would-be murderer and were holding
him powerless in their grasp, Prince
George hit tho man on the head with a
stick, nearly Btunning him.
Drunken Men Kacape Drowning Only to
lie Terribly Beaten hy lloatmen.
Plvmoitii, Pa., May 25 A terrible
fight occurred last evening on tho river
bank opposite this town. Six Hun
garians from Ashley visited hero in the
afternoon and drank vory freely. Short
ly after tl o'clock they hired two lost
men to row them across the river toward
their homes. On the way over the in
toxicated occupants of ono of the boats
became restless and upset it. All were
precipitated into the river. They were
rescued by the occupants of the other
boat.
When the boatmen demanded their
pay the Huns set upon them. Their
cries attracted the attention of a crowd
of young men on the Plymouth side,
who rowed to their rescue. They
threshed the Hungarians, four of whorii
fled to the woods, but the other two
made a stubborn tight and were serious
lp hurt.
One of them is Buttering from a severe
ly frac tured skull aud has not recovered
consciousness-. It is feared that ho will
die. The other man sustained several
knife wounds. No arrests have been
made.
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
ftotea and Information Kegardlng the
Par North.
SWEDEN.
A Frenchman, A. Robin, has be
queathed 10,000 francs to daughters
whose fathers have perished in the ser
vice of the lifeboat coast guard.
Swedenborgians in America and Ena-
land have subscribed $3000 toward a
Swedenborgian memorial in Ackholm.
The money will probably be used to aid
the recently established Swedenborgian
church and provide a library of the
numerous writings of the great seer.
One hundred and fifty emigrants from
Stockholm left April 19 for the Brazils.
A great concourse ot people had assem
bled on the quay to bid them a godsoeed
to the distant land.
The Democratic leaders are agitatinz
for a general strike of agricultural labor
ers during harvest time, as being the
most efficacious means of bringing the
landowners to terms.
Eleven bakery firms of Srnekhnlm
have suspended business during the last
twelve months in consequence of the
bakers' strike.
The export of cereals has considerably
increased of late, while imports have
materially oecreaseu.
A wite killer named August Johanson.
who on tho 11th of March last fatally
stabbed his wife, has been sentenced
only to seven years in the penitentiary.
A stone-blaater has calculated that he
has to strike with his mallet 18,000
times to earn a pittance of 36 cents a
dav.
The strike of 4000 miners in the dis
trict of Norberg has been amicably set
tled. The Salvation Army had sent del
egates to advocate the accepted compro
mise, out uiey arrtveu loo late.
On unpacking a barrel of American
corned beef the body of a child was dis
covered inside. Ihe ghastly consign
ment was returned to the agent.
A fire that occurred at Soderhamn,
April 23d, consumed a large building
containing eight stores and a warehouse,
belonging to iNoach Jansson.
Desbo, Parish of Helsingland. main
tains its ill-gotten fame for brawls and
fights. At a recent meeting of the sal
vation army a tipsy peasant persisted in
lriving into the hall with his sledge, as
he insisted that his horse "also stood in
need of salvation."
In choosing teachers for the parochial
schools ladies of a prepossessing appear
ance are given the preference the pret
tier too better, even n tney are not can
didates it is reported from West Ilets-
ingland.
Ten spurious notes of 1000 crowns
each have been seized at Forsa, near
Hudiksvail, and the possessor." Alle
Sjodin, imprisoned. The notes had
been made m America and mailed to
Sweden. The accomplice, being his
brother, Otte Sjodin, is on his return to
Sweden, and is expected to be captured
in nmgiano.
Seventeen hundred emigrants are ex
pected to leave Sundsvan in June for the
Brazils to become agricultural laborers.
Colonel P. Melin has sent lf2000 to the
Museum of Gothenburg to procure plas
ter copies of antique statues.
A farmer, John Alfred Karlson, from
Skaraborg, was captured on board a
steamship for Hull, on his way to Amer
ica, making his escape after committing
a forgery on the bank of Marvestad for
$700.
A unique collection of 942 square
Swedish coins has been made by Mr. G.
Cavalli, a druggist in Skofde.
Another scandalous auction of paupers
has recently taken place in the parish ot
Frendefors, near Aimtl. No less than 07
persons, mostly old and decripit, were
knocked down by the hammer to be
maintained each for less than $20 a piece
a year I Svc !
Seventy per cent, of the youths of
Western Ostergotland have emigrated
within the last few years, and yet that
province is one of the very'best agricul
tural districts in Sweden. There must
be something radiaolly wrong in the so
cial condition of a people that causes
them to depopulate the land. The upper
classes in Sweden are generally cruelly
snobbish to their working people.
An emigrant who has been nine years
in America aud is at present paying a
visit to his native home near Vudstena,
was recently seized by the military au
thorities, and compelled to serve as a
conscript. The clergyman of his own
parish kindly volunteered the informa
tion to the authorities. Church and
State. See!
The Dowager Countess von Koch, of
Gotland, presented 30 of her dependants
with savings bank accounts, each rang
ing from $20 to $120, according to the
length of time thoy have been in her
service. This venerable lady is long ac
knowledged as the most lovable dame of
tho Swedish aristocracy. Noblesse
oblige.
A "saloon brigade" has been organ
ized by the Salvation Army in Ystad, for
the purpose of carrying the war into the
very heart of the enemy in the dens of
iniquity.
Karl llolmquist, a workman, who has
been employed for 55 years at the
old tobacco factory in Ysted, has been
awarded a pension by his employers
for long and faithful service amounting
to $54 a year, w hich does not rise to
quite $1 a year by way of reward. The
Swedish firm has set the world a great
example of meanness.
A donor who modestly desires to re
main unknown has sent $300 to the fund
for aged servants in Mdlino. . The hired
girls in Sweden are so shamofully,
wretchedly paid that they cannot save
anything, but have to depend upon pub
lic charity for their old ago.
The Socialistic newspaper, Arbetet
(work, published in Mdlino, has re
duced the w ages of its employes prac
ticing tho reverse tenets of what it
pieaehes.
Several small farmers have left their
homesteads to desolation, not being able
to find a purchaser or leaseholder, and
emigrated to America.
NORWAY,
La grippe continues to ravage Christi
ana. A new law is impending- furthermore
restricting piscatorial attempts on Sab
bath day.
Dr. Fr. Nansen, the eminent Arctic
explorer, has received the Victoria gold
medal in England, awarded to him on
account of his being the first - man who
crossed the ice plain of the island of
Greenland. Dr. Nansen will be accom
panied on his pending exploration of
the North Pole by his old and valued
comrade Captain Otto Svedrup.
The tailors of Christiania are on a
strike.
The homestead of Amund Amundsen,
in Bugofjord, near liadso, was recently
destroyed by tire. Several cattle and
sheep wore lost.
DENMARK.
The Crown Prince of Denmark with
his family have returned to Copenhagen
after their visit to Stockholm.
The Duke of Ohartres and his daugh
ter are at present oh a visit to the royal
family of Denmark.
The editor of the newepapet Copen
hagen hag been sentenced to two
months's imprisonment in the peniten
tiary for blasphemy.
The new free harbor of Copenhagen is
actively being pushed onward, and a
company has been organized to co-operate
in erecting granges an'd elevators.
FINLAND.
The Russian language is gradually be
ing imposed upon the Finnish people.
AH official appointments will henceforth
be issued only in the Russian tongue
not as heretofore also in Swedish.
Two hundred and sixty-eight tons of
rimush butter in 4000 barrels wereH
shipped by two steamships on April 19.
In several districts half the number
of conscripts for the year are missing,
having emigrated to America.
The notorious Finnish agitator and
atheist, Berghell, is at present doing a
term of imprisonment in a Swedish pen
itentiary, and which term he is peti
tioning the government to have pro
longed, as he is in dread to be delivered
to the Russian government with a pros
pect of Siberia as deportation. lie
would much prefer to emigrate to Amer
ica. See I
They Were Lynched.
Shreveport, La., May 25 The two
negroes, William and John Anderson,
who dragged and held Jane Ware, col
ored, across the track of the Shreveport
& Arkansas railroad, so that she was
run over and killed by a freight train,
have been lynched. The pursuing
party, made up largely of colored men,
surprised the murderers near the Arkan
sas state line and disarmed them before
they could offer effective resistance.
After being given time to pray, ropes
were placed around their necks, and
their bodies were left dangling from the
limb of a tree. The murderers were
sullen and defiant to the last, offering no
word of regret for their crime. The
summary removal of these desperate
characters relieves the community of
tne danger apprehended constantly from
their presence. s
He la Believed to Ue Ueady to Head the
People'a Ticket in 1802.
Washington, D. C, May 25 The
leader of the third party movement here
professes to have direct assurances that
Senator Stanford of California, is ready
to put himself at the head of their move
ment with all that is therein implied
and that he will be the standard bearer
of the Alliance, or People's party in 1802.
Some of the Alliance leaders claim to be
authorized to make public the alleged
fact that Senator Stanford considers he
holds his great fortune Bimply as a
"steward for these peop'e."
An Army Officer' Strange Predic
tion. Sim Francisco Chronicle. 1
Nkw York, May 18 First Lieutenant
C. A. L. Totten, of the Fourth Artillery,
United States army, who is at present
detailed as military instructor in the
Sheffield Scientific school at Yale, be
lieves that the end of the world is at
hand, and that Christ will reappear on
earth before 18811. His version of "A
time and times and the dividing of
time," he laid before the Brooklyn Bap
tist Union tonight.
"Believers in the Bible, who are also
students of prophecy," said he, are
unanimous that it is now the time of the
end, that the current decade will see all
things fulfilled. There are dozens of
time prophecies in the Bible, and upon
all ot them the same momentous date
comes out. The one I shall give you this
evening I consider to be the most re
markable Messianic prophecy in exist
ence. It is startling in every aspect,
ft is an entirely new and original dis
covery. "On the 25th of March I w-as engaged
in revising the matter having reference
to the Jewish feast of Purim, its abso
lute date and its actual bearing upon
certain ominious chronological events in
our own near future. That same day a
stranger wrote me from Chicago calling
my attention to the odd chronological
riddle contained in the book of Esdras,
which we have been taught to consider
apocryphal, but which has been regarded
as canonical by many Jews and which
many of tho early watchers recognized
as inspired.
"The riddle he referred to will be
found in the 14th chapter of the fourth
book of Esdras, verses 10-12. It is as
follows: 'The world has lost its youth
and the times begin to wax old. For
the world is divided into 12 parts, and
ten parts of it are gone already and half
oi a tenth part, and there remaineth
that which is after the tenth part.'
Seven-sixtieths remain. The world was
in its eleventh hour.
"Here, then, was a plain chronologi
cal nut, and a nut worth cracking. My
correspondent was C. G. Dixon, of 152
La Salle street, Chicago, and his let
ter to me was actually written
to me on the Jewish feast of Purim it
self, for the 25th day of last March was
the first day of this feast in the current
year, and a solution of the riddle is New
Year's day of the 13th year of Ahasueras
(4titi n. c. ), the very year in which the
events commemorated by tho feast of
l'urim actually took place."
Lieutenant Totten then proceeded to
do some elaborate figuring before his
audience, aud showed mathematically
that the end of the world was near. He
concluded: "The chronology involved
in this prophecy is of the most astound--ng
character. It strikes the 'ends' of
both 'worlds," so to speak, or to use an
artillery expression, it is ricochet. From
the momentous New Year's day upon
which Esdras received it, it moves
straight to the mark December 25, 3906,
a. m., then, hounding forward, it buries
itself in another year just ahead of us,
"To continue our aitillery illustration
the trajectory of this awful cycle is so
close above our heads at this very min
ute that we are almost in its dangerous
space, and I believe will be there in an
other year. But let it be clearly under
stood that this calculation will afford no
man any legitimate clew for predicting
the day or hour or yearof the impending
second advent. Biit I also lielieve that
it is much nearer than lStHI."
r'OK THE Wllill WEATIIKR.
The office clock with acathedral chime
must sometimes fell strikingly out of
place. Puck.
Overheard at cash store on Fourteenth
street "1 say, Bill" (shouting to an
other salesman), "got any iore of those
diamond necklaces for $1.49?" -Life.
Tenderfoot (who has just purchased a
horse) "Is it the custom here in the
West to throw in a halter when a man
takes a horse ?" Old Resident "Well,
it depends on how he takes him." Life.
At the New Comic Opera. Bush
"That's a very good chorus; they are
remarkably well drilled." le Billboard
"They ought to be; they've had time
enough." There isn't a girl in it under
forty."
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
By Congreaaman William L. WIUoi
Prealdent U. S Deulncrntic League.
(San Francisco Examiner.
The Examiner has kindly invited me
to give its readers a short article on the
tariff. In the brief time at my com
mand, snatched from the abounding
hospitalities of the people of San Fran
cisco, I can only suggest an idea or two,
without attempting a discussion.
Having just returned from a ride
around the bay, an inspection of the
shipyards and a visit to the Golden
Gate, I am led to choose that which is
at once the most important phase pf the
great controversy and locally the most
appropriate, mis great city has advant
ages of situation for foreign trade which
not even the skill of engineers, backed
by the treasury of the United States,
could secure to more than one or two
other cities in the country, if indeed for
any. Its deep and extensive harbor, its
easy and safe outlet to the ocean, the
large and productive area of country
tributary to it, its railroad connections
and its shipbuilding plant all tend to
make it one of the great commercial
emporiums of the world, and the im
agination can scarcely compass the
wealth and prosperity which the abund
ance of the seas would pour into its lap
under any enlightened system of foreign
commerce.
But unfortunately for San Francisco
her unrivaled advantages and the enter
prise of her people are largely neutral
by a system of 'axation that makes war
upon commerce and earnestly tries to
fine it out of existence. This system is
based on the false and antiquated idea
that trade is not a mutually beneficial
transaction, but a gambling for a stake,
and that we, who claim to be the most
enlightened people and the sharpest
traders in the world, will always be the
losers if we attempt to trade with any
other nation. It declares, therefore, that
it would be better for us in every respect
if the seas which encompass us were
turned into oceans of fire, so that we
might be effectually saved from
the contact and terrible dangers
of foreign trade. Should the
people of San Francisco awake
tomorrow morning and find that a ereat
earthquake had tilted the waterout of the
bay and permanently closed the channel
at the Golden Gate, there is scarcely one
who would not feel that a great and irre
parable calamity had befallen the city,
and yet the MeKinlev Tariff bill is seek
ing to accomplish for San Francisco this
thorough isolation from the trade of the
world. Hamilton said that a prosperous
commerce is perceived and acknowledged
by all enlightened statesmen to be the
most useful, as well as the most pro
ductive, source of national wealth. The
high-tariff men of today teach that foreign
commerce is a great menace to our na
tional welfare and must therefore be
kept in the rigorous fetters of our
own laws. Hamilton said that com
merce vivifies and invigorates all chan
nels of industry and makes them How
with greater activity and .copiousness,
and as commerce flourishes land rises in
value. Our high-tariff' men say, not in
words, to be Bure, but in deeds, that it
is better to have the currents of indus
try settle into those stagnant pools
called trusts than to have them vivified
and invigorated by foreign trade. As a
people who produce, and will be capable
of producing for indefinite ages, a great
surplus ot agricultural and manulai
tured products, we must find profitable
foreign markets for that surplus, or we
must invent some, device whereby we
can throttle production and bring it
down to the demand of the home mar
ket. In such lines of manufacture as
are protected by the tariff and can
be centralized into a few great
corporations this device has been
found in the trust. In agriculture and
in some lines of manufacture the trust
cannot be made effective. We have
reached the point as producers where
we must have commerce or we will have
trusts. Tariff reform aims to give us a
profitable outlet for surplus products
through loceign trade, while protection,
especially in its latest and most extreme
manifestation, the McKinley bill, com
pels and encourages the resort to trusts
whereby labor is made dependent upon
capital and narrowed in its opportuni
ties ot employment, and profits are
sought through monopoly prices in the
home market rather than through in
creasing sales in the world's marketB.
1 knwewo are always met with a very
vigorous denial when we assert that our
high tariff is the nursing mother oi trusts
and that we were told in the last presi
dential campaign that free-trade England
was plastered over with trusts, but there
is no fact better established in modern
economic history than that trusts arise
everywhere under the shelterof a protec
tive tarilt. It is not true that England
was plastered over with trusts in 1888, or
has been at an v other time. I made a care
ful personal investigation of thequestion
myself in 1889, and speak from the results
of that inquiry, Oi course, where there
is or can be a natural monopoly, trusts
might exist anywhere, but they owe
their existence, as a rule, to artificial
monopolies made possible or created
through tariff laws. Thev appeared in
Germany almost Immediately atter the
passage of the high tariff law of 18.73,
aud they have sprung up in this coun
try as a direct result, in most cases, of
that opportunity for the control of the
home market by great combinations,
protected through our tariff laws from
the interference of foreign competition.
William L. Wilson.
Exploalon on Board a Schooner Which
Disablea Her Entire Crew.
Victoria, B. C. May 23 A dreadful
disaster occurred on the sealing schooner
Juanita three days ago, while the vessel
was sealing off Vancouver island shore.
One of the crew was engaged in loading
cartridge shells in the cabin when one
of them went off and ignited a cask of
powder.
In the explosion that followed the
captain was terribly injured and will
probably die. The cabin was w recked.
Seven of the crew, all but one aboard,
were badly hurt, and all were blinded bv
the explosion. The schooner entered
port today in charge of two men from
another schooner, with her injured crew
lying in the hold.
The cabin w as completely destroyed.
The great wonder is that any were left
to tell the tale. The quantity of powder
exploded was over 25 pounds. Medical
men say that some of the injured men
may recover.
A Member or the City Council aud
Tax Collector Among the Miaaing.
BEi.vniKRE, N. J., May 23 Edward
Hocking, one of the most prominent cit
izens of Pen Argyle, Pa., and a member
of the borough council, has absconded,
taking with him, it is alleged, some
$S000 or $10,000, the proceeds of sales of
land, hotel property, etc. He was an
extensive dealer in slate and stood high
in the community. His wife is in desti
tute circumstances. The citizens are at
a loss to account for his strange conduct.
Wilmington, Del., May 23 John J.
Dougherty, collector of taxes for the
Northern" City District, is short in his
accounts about $10,000. He was elected by
the Democratic city committee two years
ago. He is charged with issuing fraudu
lent receipts to the Republicans, but the
assertion is disproved by the fact that if
he had done so, he would be amply re
imbursed to meet the shortage. He has
lied from the city and is supposed to be
in New York.
WOMEN IN A M ROLL
fN'uw York Commercial Advertiser.
It has been whispered to us that, in
our recent tribute to Sorosis, while we
gave due prominence to the higher
plane that this club occupies, when com
pared with assemblages of males, in en
tertaining one another with their origi
nal poems, their recitations, their ele
vating discussions on art, literature and
the like, we failed to emphasize the fact
that Sorosis may be jolly, too, when she
chooses. It is alleged that the high in
tellectual tension was, at one period of
their performance, relieved by a fetching
song and dance. We can only
say that the omission was entirely
unintentional and due solely to
defective information. And should it
turn out that the whisper in question
was itself based on defective informa
tion, it yet conveys a useful hint.
Shakespeare was not above relieving the
sombre hues of tragedy by a Utile "inno
lent merriment." Though a mere man,
cet Sorosis in future profit by his exam
ple.
But it is not of woman as a weaver of
original poems or as an intermingler of
the witcheries ot tne voice with the
twinklings of the toe that we care to
Bpeak. Today she is far more striking
in her new phase as a downer of bur
glars. The news column of the day
bristle with her as an avenger of in
vaded privacy. We have not in mind
that woman who, on hearing strange
noiscB in the house at dead of night.
awoke her husband anil induced him to
investigate. That kind of thing used to
happen in the old days belore woman
shook off the shackles of dependence.
Rather more to our purpose is the case
of a woman of this city, who on being
aroused by tne striking ot a match in
her room sprang out of bed and oeized
the fleeing intruder, screaming as she
clutched and clutching as she screamed
a course of proceeding half masculine
and half feminine. But it lacked little
of being heroic when she sent her son
William for an officer, she detained the
burglar, meanwhile, by sitting on him.
but the case ot a brave woman of
Paterson, N. J., is a kind of milestone
marking the gradual evolution of woman
into the protector of the home. A crash
of glass was heard. A burly man walked
into her bedroom. Our heroine did not
think of getting frightened. On the con
trary she coollv demanded what his busi
ness was. Of course, as she very well
knew, he could have no business at that
time of the night. The ruffian found
himself utterly unable to explain his
presence. The astute question floored
him. So did his questioner. Holding
him down, she called her husband, who
soon appeared with a revolver, when she
sallied forth in quest of a policeman.
These are but few samples of what
woman is doing in a line that we have
been in the habit of holding to be as
alien to her nature as wearing side
whiskers or singing bass. The question
is, what will she do next ? Is she to sue
for admission to West Point and Anna
polis? Is she soon to claim the privilege
of protecting us from foreign foes, as she
has already shown herself so formidable
to the midnight disturbers of domestic
tranquility ? It were best to keep an
eye on her, at any rate. She haa long
had tier's, on us ; and some of our ways
are far from pleasing in her sight. Al
ready has she formed in Bluirstown an
"Indignation Club," the object of which
is to put down, for once and all, "the
gambling and unseasonable hours of
husbands." Indignation is a catching
thing. Let husbands everywhere take a
note of this Blairstown movement. It
looks very much as though they have
had their day. Woman's innings is at
hand.
Hu I Yet to Be Tried For Canning the
Death of Ilia Opponent.
Athens, Ohio, May 23 Dave Seville,
aged 21, of Columbus, who killed Arthur
Majesty, the champion light weight of
Ohio, in a 25-round fight at Nelsonville
on the night of February 24, was con
victed in court here today under an
indictment for prize fighting. This was
his second trial, the jury having dis
agreed on the first.
He is yet to be tried for manslaughter
for killing Majesty. Frank McIIugh,
who refereed the fight, together with
Torn Mackeye and Red Hennessey,
Seville's seconds, are to be tried under
indictments for participating in a prize
fight, the penalty for which is in this
State from one to 10 years in the peni
tentiary. The Steering Gear of an Ocean Steamer
Breaka Down at Sea
New York, May 23 The pilot of pilot
boat No. 4, that brought the steamship
Werra into port this morning, reported
at the office of the Netherlands Steam
ship Company that on Thursday last the
Werra sighted a steamer of the Hill line
supposed to be the Lugatehill, bound for
New York.
The Lugatehill signalled the Werra
that she had sighted the Veendam,
which is overdue at this port. On the
Monday before the steering apparatus of
the Veendam got out of order and the
Hill steamer towed her while the latter
was making repairs for several hours.
The Veendam had been laying to for
four hours when sighted by the Hill
steamer. The arrival of the Veendam
in port is expected in the course of the
day.
Mlatake of Medicine."
Washington, D. C, May 25 It is
learned through a private telegram re
ceived here that Congressman Leonidas
C. Hock died today at his home in Ten
nessee. The cause of death is given as
a "mistake in medicine.
Cincinnati, May 25 The particulars
of the death of Congressman L. C. Houk
reached here today. It seems Houk
went into a drug store in Knox
ville, Tenn., last evening and
asked the clerk for a glass of
ice water. It was placed on the
counter next to a glass of dissolved i
seme and Houk picked up the latter
and drank it. The clerk discovered the
mistake and at once gave him an emetic
and summoned a physician who worked
with the patient ail night, but Houk
grew worse and died at tl o'clock this
morning,
THE FAVA INCIDENT.
The Official Diplomatic
Controversy.
OVER THE ITALIAN LYNCHING.
Blaine Would Not Be Hurried and Told
the Foreign Repreaentatlve He
Could Do aa He Fleaaed.
New York, May 22 The Herald
makes public today the inside history of
the diplomatic controversy between
Italy and the United States, growing out
of the lynching at New Orleans. It is
official, having been taken from a copy
of the Italian green book containing the
documents submitted by Marquis Ru
dini to the Italian parliament on April
30th.
The copy of the green book reached
this country yesterday, having been
sent by Baron Fava from Rome to his
friend, Professor Alessandre Oldrini,
secretary of the Italian home. The doc
uments cover the period from the lynch
ing in the parish prison up to March
28th, when Baron Fava left Washington
lor Koine.
Consul Cortes' dispatch from New Or
leans to Rudini informing him of the
lynching appears at the opening of the
oook. JNext comes a dispatch Irom
Fava to the Italian government confirm
ing the facts and asking that a protest
be sent to the United States government.
Then follows Rudini's replies, one to
vjuitco, auvia'iig mill vu apply to UIU
local authorities for redress and pro
tection, and the other to F'ava, instruct
ing him to enter a formal protest.
In an interview with i'ava, which is
also spread upon the pages of the book,
Secretary Blaine says the United States
will not receive orders from any foreign
government and that he will stand by
the constitution. Baron Fava replied
that neither his government nor any
other country would be convinced that
the international laws of the United
States were an obstacle in the way of
justice.
Mr. Blaine replied that he could not
change the constitution and the Baron
said such being the case he was sorry to
be obliged to tell him that the moment
had come for Italy to affirm the inutility
of its representative in Washington.
He then produced the dispatch from
Rudini recalling him, which Mr. Blaine
read and then said, eagerly : "All right,
and we will recall our representatives
from Rome." Baron Fava expressed
the hope that this would not be done
and Mr. Blaine said he would Bpeak to
the President and reply to the Baron be
fore dinner.
This interview occurred on March 20.
On the 27th i'ava cabled his government
that tsiaine not having replied as prom
ised he called on him again on the 2lith,
and Mr. Blaine complained that he was
being hurried, contrary to diplomatic
usage.
"I do not recognize the right of any
government," he continued, "to tell the
United States what it should do. We
have never received orders from any
foreign power and we wil not begin
now. Please inform Marquis De Rudini
that the federal government cannot give
the assurance which he requires, and
that it is a matter of total indifference
to me what persons in Italy may think
of our institutions.
"I can't change them, still less violate
them. You assure me that four Italian
subjects have been massacred, but I
have my doubts upon that point. Still,
I don't contest their nationality, but
while I ask for time you want an official
declaration on the spot. Well, I will not
do anything of the kind and you may do
as you please."
In a dispatch March 31st Baron I'ava
says that, after further negotiation,
President Harrison refused to make any
declaration, although he admitted that
the guilty parties Bhould be punished,
lie then concluded by saying that he
informed the federal government of his
departure and that the current affairs of
the Italian legation would be attended to
by Marquis Imperiali.
Hall's Havoo In Indiana.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 23 Crops in
Randolph, Madison, Delaware and Ver
million counties have been badly dam
aged by a hail storm which just passed
through these counties. At Munie, In
diana, the hail played havoc with win
dow panes and a high wind which
accompanied the hail also did consider
able damage to property. Timber
through the country is badly damaged.
European Marketa Steady.
London, May 23 The market is
steady, but the tone is dull, owing to
the lack of business. American rail
roads have not fully responded to Wall
street's advance. . No difficulties are
apprehended at settlements in either
London or Paris.
Cropa Helped by Ralna.
Omaha, May 23 Rain has fallen in
cessantly throughout the State and
South Dakota all day. The crop pros
pects are very fine.
Milwaukee, Wis., May 23 There is
great rejoicing all through the State
over the heavy rain which set in last
night.
Bennett Wanta to Sell Hla Villa.
Newport, R. I., May 23 Newport
people received a genuine surprise yes
terday in the announcement that James
Gordon Bennett'B palatial atone villa
was on the market for sale at $120,000.
For the last two seasons the Bennett
cottage has been occupied by Calvin S.
Bryce, chairman of the Democratic
National committee.
Empreaa of Japau on Time.
Hong Kono, May 23 The new Cana
dian Pacific steamship Empress of Japan
arrived at Hong Kong today, sharp on
time. She will remain here until Tues
day, June 2, before starting for Shanghai
and Japanese ports, thence to Vancou
ver, B. C.
Blgeeat Sailing Veaael Afloat.
San Fbakcisco1 May 25 The ship
Shenandoah, 5000 tons, the largest sail
ing vessel afloat, arrived in port this
morning, 12b' days from Boston, on her
maiden voyage.
Heary Sulta Agalnat New York City.
New York, May 25 The suit of
O'Brien and Clark against the citv for
upwards of $800,000 for work on section
six of the new aqueduct began before
Judge Ingraham in the superior court
today. It is expected that suite aggre
gating over $8,000,000 of a similar nature
against the city may be affected bv the
judgment. They have a "struck jury"
in the case.