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Patrons and friends are ; irdially invited to visit and avail themselves if the facilities of our Eastern Office while n New York. TO-DAY'S WEATHER. Washington. April s.— Forecast till 8 p. m. Monday: For Wisconsin: Light rain; southerly winds: warmer Tuesday. For Iowa: Light rain Monday; southerly winds: svarmer. For Minnesota and Dakota: rt'anuer; fair; southerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. — -r — ; y> — 2 - '* "~ "-'—** = E'li ?€ 1 o Place of 2-= '- Place or §~ I g OUervation =-. -i - ObservaUou j s£, - a i ' ~-z s - g •n I ? • 5 i."7 1 * ' 7 M. Paul 120.90 4* Ft. dialer... 29.78 M Duluth 29.8 C [f> Helena 29.70 5} La(;ros.<-e,...i29.0*>! 40 Ft. 5u11y.... ' .. Huron 29.80 56 Minnedoßa.. 29.80 58 Jloorhcnd... '2ll.9o 52 Calgary j .. St. Vincent..! ' 50 U'Appelle... 29.76 46 8iamarck.... (29.84 fif Med'e ..129.561 OS Kt.8uf0rd...129.78| Winnipeg .. 29.881 50 Local Forecast— St. Paul, Minneapo fid vicinity: Fair; warmer. P. F. i.vun.-. Observer. THE STORY <>«' A DAY. It is quiet in the coke region. Lowell, Muss., is badly scorched. Minneapolis beats Kansas city at baseball A terrific pale is blowing along the coast of Scotland. Excitement over the Italian war cloud is lying out. Mr. Parncll makes a speech toadying to the Conservatives. A Jersey City negro hacks his wif; to death with a hatchet. Charles Yort dangerously stabs Oscar C. Berg in Minneapolis. A Baltimore girl throws vitriol In the face of a man who betrayed her. Policeman Unrig, of Chicago, shoots one man dead and seriously wounds another. Gen. linger will succeed Gen. Gibbon as ;omniandcr of the division of the Pacific. Jobanu Most makes an appeal for anarchy it in ■ funeral of Joseph Frick at Pittsburgr. " m — IT TAKES THE PRIZE. The New York Tribune In its issue if March :;i says: To morrow the heaviest burden the Ameri can people have been bearing for many years past will be rolled off by the much maligned Mi Kirn iv bill. A duty averaging two ceuts a pound will be taken from sugar. To which the Now York World re- | plies: Then .i tariff duty is •■a burden," is it? And it is not the foreigner, but the Ameri can consumer, who pays it? All this reminds the (Ji.ojji: of Sena tor Davis- remarkable wrestles with the laws of logic on the slump last fall. Among the many virtues of [republican tariff legislation which he extolled in his effective fashion was its treatment of binding twine. Here the duty had not been raised. Our senior senator de clared that this was a good thing. But lie must have been mistaken. if low tariff on binding twine were to be commended, what good could be said of a high duly on other commodities? The whole founda tion of the McKiki.ey bill was the political dogma that the higher the prices one had to pay for the necessaries of life, the bettei it was for the country. If binding twine should have been taxed until it cost a thousand dollars a pound, it would, according to Republican logic make everybody who had to use it so much the richer. Senator Davis be lieved that this would be true of every thing but binding twine, But he drew - the line there. The Tribune draws the line at sugar. It thinks it a good thing that the tariff on it has been removed. But the tariff on sugar has not been removed. Its form has been changed. Instead of protecting the sugar growers by a tariff, they are now aided by a bounty. The tax on people who do not grow sugar for the ben t-tit of those who do is still maintained. The insane idea that it helps the state to take from one class and give to another nourishes luxuri antly in this, as in every other feature of this iniquitous measure. When poor men try to take from rich men, they are railed foul names and shot down in their tracks. But Tom Ri:i:i» is a czar, and 811.1. Kim.i;\ a Napoleon ot li nance when they engineer through a (scheme by which everybody in the country is forced to contribute some thing to give a present to the gentlemen who are engaged in the cultivation of I sugar cane and beets and sorghum. | This MfKiNLEY bill is a fraud here, us well as everywhere else. II takes the duty oil of unrefined sugar, but im poses a duty of half a cent a pound on ! the refined product. That is. it gives the sugar trust its raw material free from the tariff, but protects it against foreign competition in its output. This is a magnificent achievement, is it not? It helps the Havemeveks and the Sim:;:< kki.s, but how does it take any "bin den"' off of the shoulders of the people? The trust can snap its fin gers at competition unless the people resolve to use none but unrefined sugar. This would not be very palatable. For pure, unadulterated hum buggery the Me Kixi.kv bill takes the first prize. STRUCK JURIES. The trouble with our struck jury law has been that it lias been too easily available. Under the New York sys tem struck juries may be demanded, but only in "difficult and important" :ases. Application has to be made to the court for permission to empanel me, and whether a case 13 "difficult and important" enough to warrant the step is addressed to the court's sound discretion. The occasions when they ire used are very rare. They had a -.truck jury in the Tweed trial, when popular feeling ran high, and now they ire'trjing to gel one in the aqueduct suits, which involve so much thai there s fear of corru ption. But in Minnesota, and particularly in Ramsey county, struck juries have got ,en to be a nuisance. Anybody can it-cure one if he puts up the money, :ven if his case involves no important principles or amount. They interrupt he calendar, annoy the judges; and lince they are drawn from among our j:*st citizens, they take busy men away from their private duties needlessly and at a material loss ot time and energy. These are the practical objections to them, and the tlieoretical one is that they give rich litigants another sort of tribunal for the trial of their causes from that which is available for the poor. They sometimes serve a useful pur pose, however, and the law ought not to be repealed altogether. It would bo wise to have them limited as they aru under the New York practice. TO EQUALIZE TAXATION*. In a recent debate on tlie lloor of the Minnesota senate this statement was made: "This senate is squarely on record as favoring the equalizing of the burdens of taxation.'' The Globe is of the opinion that tlie statement is cor rect, aud that no action of the senate can be construed to the contrary- In the memorable campaign of last tall the battle cry of both the Democracy and the Alliance, after the tariff reduction, was ''Equalize the taxes!" and on this issup, as much as on any other, the sweeping victory was accomplished. To equaliz • tlie burden of taxation was the object ot more than several of the bills which have been defeated in the senate, but there was always some valid objection, constitutional or practical, which stood between tnose biils and their enactment into laws. However, the good work is still Going on. Senator i. a DtP: has introduced a bill— Senate File 825— which is on gen eral orders, and w ill probably be reached eariy this week, which the Globe be lieves to be a good meas ure, the enact ment and enforcement of which will go far toward equalizing the burden of supporting the state government. Briefly stated, the bill makes it the duty of the assessor, or any taxpayer, when over he shall have cause to believe any person has not made a lull list of his property for taxation, to cite such person to appear in court, where he shall make, statement un der oath of all personal property uu der his control subject to taxation, which .statement shall be transferred to the assessment, rolls. The present law is to be amended by striking out the words "verified by his oath" where the original assessment is made, so that such oath may be no bar to disclosures v> be made subsequently when cited in court. The object of this law is very patent. It is claimed — and is undoubtedly true — that millions of dollars" worth of prop erty in t '•<? shape of mortgages, securi ties and other personal property is con cealed from the assessor. In the cities of St. l'aul and Minneapolis alone it has been stated that twenty-live millions have thus escaped taxation, and in the en tire stale the amount must reach forty or fifty millions. It. is nearly all held by men of wealth, who could readily afford tn pay taxes; ami iis escape adds to the burden of those taxpayers whose prop erty is all visible. The small farmer, the manufacturer and the merchant cannot evade i l-.e assessor, while the wealthy capitalist is enabled to con ceal his wealth and shirk his share of the cost oi government. If li.c $50,000,000 now evading tax ation were paying its fair share, the rate could lie reduced and the burden laid upon the fanner lightened. Any sound and constitutional measure which will tend to change the existing state of affairs, and bring to light and taxation this hidden property, is worthy of sup port. The Globk believes tire La Due bill is a move in this direction. If the contrary can be shown, it will undoubt edly be done; and if it cannot, the sen ate should enact this bill into a law so speedily that the house may have time, in the last-waning session, to complete the good work. THE CHICAGO ELECTION. 'I he municipal election in Chicago to morrow attracts outside attention by reason of some peculiar phases. The Republicans and Democrats have straight party tickets in the field, and one of them will unquestionably be elected, although the side shows are ex ceedingly active and assertive. These are the Citizens" ticket, headed by Ki. mek W \siiiii i:\; the Carter Harri son bolters from the Democrats and MniK.AN. the socialist The Citizens' movement draws largely from both par ties, but apparently most from the Re publicans. It has no newspaper sup porters but the News, which belongs to no party. Hakiuson is supoorted by Ukssing's German paper, and is en couraucd by the Republicans to divide the Democrats. The reliance of the voluble egotist is chiefly on the foreign vote. His blarney takes the shape of a claim to hav ing the blood of all races in his veins that have \<,tes. perhaps the American and African excepted. He has the sup port of the Personal Liberty league, but can have no oilier expectation than to aid to defeat Ckegikk, the Democrat The registered vote is about I<JS,OOO, of which 160,000 are expected to be cast The foreign element predominates; the native Anglo-Americans, not having for eign-born parents, are estimated at 05,000 only. Chicago is cosmopolitan enough for a world's fair. The Democrats have been enthused by the presence of Sena tor Palm kii and other speakers from abroad, but this has tended to drive the UepubHcans to their party candidate. llivmi'stkaii Wasiihi i:m.. The result is in doubt, but the best guess seems to be that the Democrats will pull through bj a s'na!i plurality. THE DIFFICULTY. It is stated that the entire railroad mileage in Kansas is bonded for an av eraze of $31,000 per mile. It is hardly pretended that those are not robust fig ures. The road could all be duplicated at much smaller cost. Some insist that contracts at those rates would make the holders among the richest individuals of the age. Hut the roads, are capital ized for double these large figures, and here is where the great difficulty in the railroad problem comes in. The people must be taxed to make the roads pay dividends upon a fanciful expenditure in their construction. The Kansas roads are an averaire in cost of those in the prairie states, and the methods have been the same in all. The popular dis content will not be appeased while there is so wide a margin between the value and the capitalization of the roads. CORPORATE PERSUASION. A somewhat marked illustration of the persuasive power of railroad cor noratious with leetalatures in the hast —it would be different, oi course, in the West— was afforded in Massachusetts recently. The watering of stocks has not been entirely unknown even in New England, and, in the way of dis couragement for that method of enrich ing the fortunate, a bill was prepared requiring railroads to sell new issues o!' their stock at public auction. 'J'his was firsl detealed in the popular branch. then a little later reconsidered and passed by a big majority. This measure had the special indorsement of the busi ness associations and trade organiza tions of the state, as well as those who have tlieoretical ideas of reform. Active work was done from these quarters in support of tlie bill. But the corporate jjaiL- SAINT PAUL DAILY Gx.<j.Bi!;: MONDAY MORNING. APRIL 6, 189 L. and railroad interests had a week or two to get in their work in opposition. It is not intimated that their persua sives took any form unusual with such institutions when presented to legisla tors, but they were exceedingly effect ive. The evangelist, Moody, was op erating in the city at the time, and doinx successful work in changing the moral moods of people in various de grees, yet, it is believed that his spirit ual renovators were inferior in potency to the arguments of the plethoric cor porations. In the next vote the great majority for the bill was dissipated, and became a minority. There was no ob noxious lobby visible, but the quiet per suasions were like the forces of nature that are unseen, but show results. As wise as the lawmakers in Massachu setts are supposed to be, some of them, at hast, are open to conviction. THE ENTIRE BENEFIT. It is to be hoped that certain conspic uous Republican papers that had the party sasacity to oppose the passage of the Mr Ki.vr.KY bill, on account of the effect seen to be inevitable upon trie party, are now not equally discerning in looking for the substantial failure of the sugar schedule to continue to the peo ple the benefits of the abandoned duty. Their apprehensions are that the situ ation will be found to be largely the work of the plastic hands of the great sugar trusts ana monopolies, and as these institutions get together and ina nipulateathings the reduction will grad ually grow less until it is trifliusr. This result is foreshadowed by the recent co-operation of the trust and the Spbeckel's system in California, which lias not heretofore been working on that line. It is given out that the present re lations are so amicable that a division of territory is to be had. and the mu tuality will be at the expense of the people. The full reduction ot two cents a pound on refined sugar diverted from the national treasury should be retained in the pockets of consumers. The act allows the refiners a half cent a pound advantage, and every half cent means a good million dollars. The only seri ous obstacle likely to be in the way of the entire control of the sugar market by these allied monopolies is tth.c. h .e im portation of sugar from Germany. This amounted to only about 516,000.000 last year: Unless it can be greatly increased it will not interfere materially with the trust. It may be desirable for con gress next winter to remove the half cent duty on refined sugar. The peo ple- should have tho entire benefit of free sugar. AMERICAN TIN PLATE. Dealers and users fit tin plate have been desirous to ah! the American man ufacturers in finding a market for their product, proposing to give it the prefer ence over the imported. The duty on the foreign article will not be in iorce till July, but the price has been ad vancing so that no increase will prob ably be had when the duty becomes op erative. The American manufacturers then have all the advantaee of the pro tective duty, but are not furnishing the trade any of their product. It may be explained, perhaps, that all the home article lias been required to send about as advertisements, adorned with pretty pictures of lanre manufactories and little legends about the beauties of the McKixi.kv tariff. These cans and bits of tin have been given a wide political mission. Vet when the facts are closely interrogated it is found that naturalization papers are needed even lor these specimens of home industry. The ore all comes from abroad, and the dark basis for the tin ware has seen other lands. So far the tin manufacture in this country is a political institution. The great facto ries that are to employ such multitudes ol toilers and solve all trouble about home markets are yet visions of enthusi asm. Hut it is believed that the works abroad are being enlarged to supply the growing demand in this country. It is to be hoped the Philadelphia Kecord understands the tenacious char acter of a great monopoly when it an ticipates that on the expiration of the patents of the Bell Telephone com pany "there will be an expansion and improvement in the telegraph industry that will astonish the people.'' It would be a pleasant sort of astonishment for those now at the mercy of the present controllers. The fact that the Bell company j>aid 1123,000 in legal expenses last year shows that it has to fight for its monopoly. In leaving the Republican party the other day I'avi. Yam>ki:vooi:t, of Ne braska, the worker with Corporal Ta.v- NKR in the <;. A. U. and pension busi ness, gives tiiis picture of tlie c. o. p. in Nebraska: "1 am going to leave a party which in this state simply represents a streak of rust ex uding from the iron bands of 5,000 miles of railway, sind hits for its foundation the rot ten, ravenous, robbing, blackmailing band o f cormorants and vultures ol the peniten tiary ring. lam going to join a party where pious frauds like John anamakkk cannot buy a cabinet office with the largest contribu tion to the campaign fund." » Sum i: surprising statements as to the revenue of the slot machines are made in connection with a bill in the Ne braska legislature to impose a tax upon them, it was insisted that a small per centage would give the state from 130,000 to $20,000 a year. A company that manufactures the weighing ma chines la said to have paid $50,000 for the right to use a certain lock lor the money pouches. An income tax would seem to lit them. =. Oni: of the schemes of the tax reform ers in the New York legislature is to al low each county a good deal of discre tion in methods, it may tax the bare land alone or the land and its improve ments, or the land, improvements and personal property, as now. The scheme lias attractions, especially in cities. It is another indication that the tax prcb lem is inviting general and earnest in vestigation. There is probably no political signif icance to the practice of Italian orange venders in New York in changing their fruit to blood oranges of late. They merely meet the popular taste in the in fusion of a red aniline dye by a hypo dermic bj rinse". ■ .«JB. Ik THERE wore really two subjects of Italy among those killed at New Or leans, and the home government estab lishes its loss, it should be paid, if it takes a dozen oranges to meet it. Teere is no law to exactly fit the small boys who use a disc to cut out pieces of lead to use for nickels in the slot machines. They may disturb one of the Important industries. -»- It is being noted now by a classjof political economists that the duty on sugar was a tax on the consumer, and not paid by the producer. •«. A Whole Ton of Prevention. Harper's Bazar. Cutnso— Are you cutting the sensa tional articles out of that paper before taking it home to your wife and daugh ters? Banks (fondling the shears) — No; I'm cutting out the millinery advertise ments. STATE SENTIMENT. One of the members of the senate in formed us last week that the new inter est law, as passed by that body the Monday before, would prove disastrous to the farmers of the state. Yet he voted for it. . Can any one account for such imbecility as this.— Lac gui Parle Press. The amount which Minnesota will re ceive under the provisions of the direct; tax bill is $92,845. If the legislature will add $8,000 to that amount and vote the whole sum for a world's lair ex hibit it will perform a wise act.— luth Post. We have heard of a move on the part of certain prominent politicians and officeholders throughout the state to is-' nore Joel Heatwole, of the North field News. A more illustrative case of cold ingratitude has seldom been recorded. — New Ulm JJeview. APHORISMS. hv4 The anticipation of evil is the death' of happiness.— Jane Porter. Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in any thing for their own use, but merely to pass it to another.— Steele. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society, and any eminent departure from it, under any circum stances, lies under the suspicion of be- j in? no policy at all.— Burke. It is a good thing to laugh, at any I rate; and it a straw can tickle a 'nan it j is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh.— Dry den. Energy will do anything that can be dove in this world:" and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man with out Goethe. Good manners are the blossom of good sense and good feeling. If the law j of kindness be written in the heart, it I will lead to that disinterestedness in J both great and little things— that desire j to oblige, and that attention to the grat ification of others, which are the foun dation of good manner.?.— Swift. Mental pleasures never cloy. Unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.—Col ton. WIVES AND HUSBANDS. A shrewd old lady cautioned her mar ried daughter against worrying her hus band too much, and concluded by say- Ing: . ".My child, a man is like an egg. Kept in hot water a little while, he may boil, soft; but keep him there too long, and he hardens.-' A girl forced by her parents into a disagreeable match with an old man whom she detested, when the clergyman came to that part of the service where the bride is asked if she consents to take the bridegroom for her husband, said with great simplicity: "Oh, dear, no, sir; but you are the first person who has asked my opinion about the matter." First Lady — Oh. my husband is so jealous, you can't think. Second Lady j —How horrid. Yes. Actually this morn- I inn he told me not to throw kisses to him, as they might miss him and some one else might gel them. " " — ■■*■ ) FOR GIRLS JUST MARRIED. Housekeeper' Weekly. A little turpentine mixed with starch : gives a fine gloss to linen. j;n «■ • When the rubber rollers of a wringer stick, tub with kerosene and rub dry.' Paper can be rendered fire-proof by dipping it into a strong solution of alum water and drying thoroughly. •if- » Kerosene will clean brass, no matter how dark and stained. Moisten a cloth j well, rub hard and then use a dry flan- i nel dipped in whiting. «• »? Corn starch makes the best paste for scrap books. Dissolve a small quantity in cold water, then cook it thoroughly.' When cold It should be thin enough to apply with a brush. It will neither i stain nor mold. EXTREME NOVELTIES. Birds' head brooches, having jewel eyes. Garlands of clematis on silver gauze evening toilets. Chenille and tinsel passementerie j beautifully mingled. Slides for watch chains holding sov eral pendant charms. Golden daggers for brooches, having the hill set with stones. Ruches of black lace, chiffon or tulle, worn with light-colored gowns. Knots of cold ribbon, having the cen ter set with diamonds, for brooches. Ruches of silk, fringed, with tiny tufts here and there of contrasting silk. Gray cloth gowns, having a vest of old rose velvet worked with steel beads. Black velvet ribbons, for short bows or knots on light cotton dresses for the house. Tulle ruches thickly plaited, in place j of galloon tor trimming evening cos tumes. BIG BL.AZK AT LOWELL. The Public Library and Masonic Temple Burned. Lowkll, Mass., April The Edson block, owned -by the Wiman heirs of Baltimore, was burned this afternoon. C. J. Mavnard & Co. lose $30,000; 11. ('. Church & Son. &;,000. Other losses will aggregate about .*SO.OOO. The fire spread to the Masonic Temple adjoining, and this, with its contents, was badly damaged. C. A. Mitcheli & Co.. who were located on the first floor, lost their entire stock of shoes, valued at S-20,0u0. The public library, with 41,000 volumes, located on the second floor, was badly damaged. There is an insurance on the library of $20,000. In the Masons' quarters, fitted up at an expense of $20,000, the damage was principally by water. About POO Knights Templar regalias, worth about $22,000, were greatly damaged by water j and smoke. The Goodyear Rubber com pany suffered a small loss by water. The building was damaged about $7,000. -^»— Four Lost Their Lives. V Rochester, Pa., April 5. — In a fire here to-night a large frame structure on New York street belonging to John F. Smith, in which was located the tea and coffee store of George Edwards; milli nery store of Mrs. A. Hall; shoe shop and residence of E. J. Keane, an Italian family lived over the millinery store. Four of them lost their lives. One body has been recovered. The daughter, seventeen yens old, saved her life by jumping out of the second story window. Six persons are missing. Mullnne Tunnel Cave-In. Special to the Globe. ■? ■ Hki.i.xa. Mont., April 5.— A portion of the Mullane tunnel, on the Northern Pacific, caved in about 5 o'clock this afternoon. The exact amount of the damage lias not been learned, but it is known no lives were lost and no trains were in it at the time. This Is its second cave-in. The tunnel is twenty miles west of here. _ Minnesota Rice. Northwest Magazine. Judgo Flandrau, of St. Paul, says that Minnesota has an undeveloped source of wealth in the wild rice which grows in great profusion in the shallow lakes' in the northern part of the state. More of this native grain could be harvested every year, accord ing to the judge, than South Carolina or Georgia arrows of the cultivated rice. : He always keeps wild rice in his house for his table and say 3it is much more palatable than the best white rice of the South. In color the grains are blu ish brown. They are more glutinous and consequently more nutritious than those of the cultivated rice plant. | JACOBS A CHUMP. He Doesn't Know Enough to Ap preciate Kindness. GLOUCESTER, Mass., April s.— An ar ticle contained id a local paper yester ay giving an interview with Capt.Solo mon Jacobs, of the fishing schooner Brunhilda, has brought out a great deal of adverse comment upon his reported action. The story in brief was that Capt. Jacobs had visited Fortune ' Bay, N. F., and taken some herring, but was stopped from taking more by Com mander Sullivan, of the British cutter Fiona, who told him^he -would have to give ?200 bonds as a guaran tee that he would land - the herring already taken in the United States. ' According to the story, Capt. Jacobs informed the commander that he would have to go to St. Jacques in order to se cure bonds, and a British officer was put on his schooner to accompany him to 1 1 that port. Instead of going to St. Jacques, however, the schooner at ; : once proceeded to St. Pierre, where there is no English con sul, and where the British officer was landed. Prominent skippers and vessel owners look upon Capt. Jacobs' action as a violation of the law and a breach of good faith, and greatly to be regretted, especially at this time. Newfoundland ha* granted Amer ican fishermen special privileges over French and Canadian vessels I in the matter of procuring bait, and a j complication may be the cause of a withdrawal of the privileges already possessed by us, and may lead to more serious trouble. -«»- DISTINGUISHED CANADIANS In Washington to Discuss Several Important Propositions. Washington, April s.— Sir Charles j Tupper, Canadian minister of marine ■ and fisheries; lion. George E. Foster, j minister of finance; lion. John S.I). Thompson, minister of justice, and C. C. Cbipman reached Washington at a late hour to-night. The visiting ministers will call by appointment upon Secretary Blame to-morrow and informally dis cuss with him their propositions— the renewal of the reciprocity of 1854. with such modifications as will suit the altered circumstances of both coun tries; second, the reconsideration Of the treaty of 1888, with respect to the Atlantic fisheries' with the aim of securing free admission into the United States markets of Canadian fishery products in return for facilities to be granted to the United States fish ermen to buy bait and supplies and 1 to trans-ship cargoes in Canada, all such privileges to be mu tual: third, protection of mackerel and other fisheries of the Atlantic ocean and inland waters also; fourth, the re laxation of the seaboard inland coasting laws of the two countries; fifth, mutual salvage and saving of wrecked vessels. and. i«u. an arrangement for settling the boumXry between Canada and this country. -=O Pounded to Death. Bradford, Pa., April 5. — A special to the Era from East Brady says the town is greatly excited over the death of Mrs. John Meibin Wednesday last. At .12:45 Wednesday John Meibin called in a neighbor and doctor to attend his wife. who was bleeding profusely from a wound in the groin. Mrs. Meibin was i too weak to talk and died without being able to tell how she came by the wound. ■i Meibin claims that he came home at 12:29 and found his wife in that condi tion. The husband is a barnessmaker by trade, and bears the reputation of a wife beater. A thorough investigation .will be made into the affair. At Pere La Chase. Paris, April The German dele gates to the miuers'consress marched in i procession to-day to the cemetery of j Pere La Chase and placed upon the i graves of communists wreaths inscribed, "To our brethren who fell in 1871." Several addresses we re made, in which the speakers declared that on returning home they would do their best to abolish the chauvinist spirit in Germany, which they said did not exist among the organized workinginen of lhat country. Many Schooners Ashore. DicxxisroitT, Mass., April s.— The storm of last Thursday and Friday played havoc with the shipping in this vicinity. Seafaring men say it was the worst storm that has occurred in twenty years. The schooners Addie. Little Fred and Henry Monterl and a number of small craft are ashore, it is thought, that they will be gotten oil without serious damage. The schooner Lydia, which also went ashore, will prove a total loss. Numerous dwellings were damaged, and the wires were so badly affected that communication was interrupted for many hours. «&| Bitten by a Lioness. Paris, April '>.— A menagerie pro prietor's daughter at Grenoble, nine teen years of age, who has been train ing to become a tamer of wild animals, was fatally injured by a lioness yester day. The girl had entered a lion's cage for the first time, and was immediately attacked by a lioness, which sprang at her oat and inflicted terrible injuries before the girl could escape. Money Not Forthcoming. London*, April s.— Gen. yon Caprivi, the German chancellor, has notified Lord Salisbury, the British prime minis ter, that Germany will abandon South west Africa unless the Anglo-German syndicate succeeds in taising the pro posed capital. It is doubtful whether the sum required can be secured. «^ Movements of Steamships. Qceex stows — Arrived: Aurania. from New York. II ambi'bg— Arrived: Europa, from New York. Havre — Arrived: Hretague, from New j York. New York— Arrived: Gaseogne, from j Havre: Dauia, from Hainburp. Hart Wallace Transferred. Louisville. Ky., April Thomas j Wallace, of Shelbyville, Ky., has sold to George Long & Co., of the Bashford Manor stable, the running qualities for IS9I of Hart Wallace, the Derby candi date. Terms private. A Thief at Ten. : Atlanta, Ga., April s.— Andrew i Nolan, a ten-year-old boy, has been ar rested for stealing $11,000 in bank checks from the postoffice. lie had a , knack of opening the bank's postoffice drawer and collecting the mail. — — Tack; Factory Burned. Tainton. Mass.. April s.— The Dia mond Tack factory at Ransom was burned on Friday night. Loss, ?\!5,000. Partially insured. A DREAM OF THK SKA. A farmer lad in his prairie homo Lay dreaming or the sea: He ne'er had Been it, but well tie knew Its pictured iinasie and heavenly line; And he dreamed be ewept o'er its waters blue, With the winds n-blowing free. ■With the winds so fresh and free. He woke: and he said, '-The day will come When iliat shall be truth to me;" But as years swept by him he always found That his feet were clogged and his hands were bound. Till at last he lay in a narrow mound. Afar from the throbbing sea, The sorrowing, Bobbing sea. Oh, many the,re are on the plains to-night That dream of a voyage to be. And have said in their souls: "The day will come "When my bark shall sweep through the drifts of foam." But their eyes grow dim and their lips grow nib. ;. ■:■'- Afar from the tossing sea. ; ■•" .The turbulent, tossing sea. ' ■—Albert Bigelow Paine in the Kansas City -; .Star. : - . - TOADYING TO TORIES. Mr. Parnell Has No Further Use for the Party of Glad stone. Liberals, Ke Asserts, Never Put Forth Efforts to Re lease Prisoners. Conservatives, on the Other Hand, Liberated the Op pressed. The English Refusal to Accept Commissioner Davitt Approved. IHt.i.ix. April s.— Notwithstanding a steady downpour of rain, fully 2,000 per sons assembled in Phoenix park to-day to assist in the demonstrations of the Amnesty association and protest against the continued imprisonment and alleged inhuman treatment of Irish and Irish- American political prisoners by the British government. After speeches had been made by Mr. Kenny, Mr. Par nell and others, resolutions were passed t-alling upon Irishmen at home and abroad to put forth every effort ti» se cure the release of their friends, and demanding that the government hasten the unconditional surrender ot the pris oners. Mr. ParnelFs speech was a tirade against the Liberals, whom he accused of always making po litical prisoners, while the Conserv atives released them. The same thing might occur again, and John Daly and others, convicted of perjury during the Liberal.-' tenure of office, be liberated by the Conservative government. Why, he asked, did not Mr. Gladstone release these prisoner.-; in 1886? He (Gladstone) did not hesitate to stoop to ascertain the opinions of the dynamiters in America as to whether they would accept his home rule bill of that year, and even went so far as to receive some of these people at 'Hawarden. Why did not he release the prisoners at that time? Here a voice exclaimed: "Why didn't you make conditions?"' while cms of "Kill him," "Lynch him," were raised. Jn reply to his questioner Mr. Parnell de clared that the Irish party never made conditions with the government. The prisoners, he said, wonld rather rot in jail than accept anything but their un conditional release. . THE PKOPLiE APPROVE. Protests Against Davitt's Appoint- incut From All Classes. London, April s.— The refusal of the government to accept Michael Davitt as Irish representative on the labor com mission is generally approved by both parties in England. The London trades unionists do not conceal their satisfac tion, ami their leader. Tim .Mann, who proposes himself to issue a labor paper, is said to l»e gratified at the repudiation of Davit;, whom Mann and his fellow unionists claim to regard as a foreigner, with no right to interfere in the labor interests of Greot Britain. It is stated that no sooner was Davitt's name men tioned than urgent protests poured in on Hon. \V. 11. Smith, not from Con servatives alone, but from Liberals from every rank, claiming that a man convicted of connection with dynamiters was not a proper person to sit in a royal commission dealing with the most important interests of the em pire. Jt is also staled that Smith-Barry lias notified liis Tipperary agent, Mr. Townsend, to make liberal terms with the tenants returning to their farms. The tenants have been generally com ing back for the past four months, but the large body have held out until now. when they make a complete surrender, and practically throw themselves on the generosity of the landlord. Tlii> is the end of New Tipperary, which lias cost many thousands of pounds to the Irish National leaeue and its supporters in America and Australia. The reason for the surrender of the tenants at this time is their anxiety to take advantage of the Irish land purchase bill, which comes up this week, and will become a law. virtually without opposition, ex cept on the pint of Labouchere and a few other English Radicals. Should the tenants not be in possession of their farms, they could not. of course, take advantage" of the bill. It is said that both Irish factions in parliament favor the measure. TO PHEVENT EMIGRATION. The German Press Paints a Dark Picture of America. Lohdox, April .").— lt is stated that the German government has sent in structions to its minister to ascertain what, it any. guarantee of protection the American government gives to Ger man subjects residing in the United States. The present controversy be tween America and Italy is viewed with no iittle satisfaction at Berlin I and the worst possible form given toitl by the German press generally. The motive is not as much unfriendliness to the United States as to put a stop lo German emigration, which is already making itself severely felt in the lack of laborers for agriculture. The Con servative party and the large landhold ers generally are in favor of prohibit ing emigration for all except Jews, as is done in Russia. The government is not prepared to go this far, but none the less appreciates the drain upon the in dustries oi Germany. The impression is therefore sought to be created that America is a lawless country and that scenes like the New Orleans massacre are of ordinary occurrence. THE FAILURE A BIG OXE, But the French Houses Are Xot Seriously Affected. Pabis, April s.— The failure of Corra dini, of Leghorn, the Ancona Suear Re- Gnery company and the Laverello Steamship company, of Genoa, has not affected French houses. The deficit of Corradini and the Ancona sugar refin ers represents a total of £1,000,000, a part of which consists of coverea bal ances amounting to £200.000 due to Lon don firms. Some of the Leghorn firms involved, those of Mavrocordato and Kodocanachi, will obtain a private set tlement. The Laverellos have obtained an extension of time of six months in which to recover. The Panic of Leghorn has been shaken and its position is doubtful. A general acute linancial crisis in Italy can only be averted by economy and prosperity, within and without, for a prolonged period to come. GENERAL FOREIGN* GOSSIP. World's Fair Art Inducements Not Great Enough. Paris, April s.— lf Chicago expects to get tiie best work of the leading French arlists for the world's fair bet ter guarantees than any yet given at American exhibitions must be assured. Benjamin Constant says he is not in clined to send other pictures than those already in the United Stales. Jtouger eau, whose opinion is very weighty, he being president of the Society of Arts, says that wnile he is most kindly dis posed toward art movements in Amer ica. It Is too great a risk to expose val uable works to rucli a long absence, when It is difficult to get redress in the event of irregularities. President Caruot will not visit the Moscow exhibition, although he has re ceived a cordial invitation to be present. A high personage in the Russian im perial council is opposed to the taking of any step that might appear to confirm the current alarmist rumors, and it is for this reason that the president has decided not to attend the exhibition. At the foreign office here no credit is given to fhe" reports circulated in Lon don and Berlin regarding the czars al leged intention to precipitate a war. On the contrary, the fact is recognized in official circles both here and at St. Petersburg that the Russian army is not yet in a position to begin an aggressive war. It is understood that ah entente with France has been arranged for de fense purposes at the present and for offensive operations in the more remote future. In the meantime the czar de votes his energies to the remodeling of the internal administration of the empire. Much must be done internally before Russia will be prepared to lace a great European conflict The first result of th« v miners' con gress has been a declaration by Belgian miners to-day in favor of a general staike if the government refuses to as sent to the revision of the constitution. The temper of the speakers at the work men's congress in Brussels point to wholesale Belgian strikes, whether there be a revision of the constitution or not. The miners, relying upon the pledges of the English delegates to grant the strikers funds and to stop the exportation of coal to Belgium, have become eager for the battle. Everything indicates that the first great tight for eight hours a day will begin in May, the English. French and German unions selecting Belgium as the field upon which to de- I cide the conflict against the capitalists. The congress resolved to leave the duty of fixing the date ot the strike to the general council, and to delay the strike pending the settling of the suffrage question in parliament. The discussion as to the authenticity of the Talleyrand memoirs continues. \Y hitelaw Reid, the American minister, said to-day: "Here is the whole matter in a nutshell. M. Baccourt ana the Duchess Dinot, the literary executors of Talleyrand, copied the originals for reasons having no material bearing on the matter, and declared the copy ex act. The originals will probably never be found, so if we are going to have any Talleyrand memoirs we must taice those published. The statement | of the Due de Brogliethat he has per fect faith in the genuineness of the me moirs ought to have great weight. I have been brought into relation with the Due de Broglie in preparing the Century articles, and his honesty is be yond question." A conclave or Chilians and supporters of the Chilian insurgents meets in se crecy at the Grand hotel. The meetings are presided over by a Chilian banker. Frequent cable dispatches are received, announcing. that the cause of the in surgents is succeeding. To purchase and dispatch arms and munitions through the most secret English chan nels is the chief work of the group. A number of French capitalists have made an offer to the Russian government to build the Siberian railway iron) Tchelcabnisk to Vladivostock," a dis tance of 7,108 versts, receiving payment either in railway bonds or by a loan of three hundred million credit roubles. Gen. Boulanger has taken the palatial residence recently vacated by the Aus trian ambassador in the Quartier Leo pold in Brussels. He appears to be plentifully supplied with money. The government has deiuled-to allow Prince Louis Bonaparte to visit Paris. The Bonaparte family coun cil at San Kemo resulted in Prince ! Louis retaining the property left ;by his lather, ex-Empress Eugenic granting Prince Victor a sum sufficient to raise his annual income to $22,500. Ex-Empress Eugenic is still wealthy, though part of her fortune was i involved in the recent troubles of Bar ing Bros. Wants Revenge. Bucharest, April s.— The king of Roumauia has refused to accept the res ignation of M. Vacaresco as minister at Vienna. M. Yacaresco offered his res ignation in order to challenge the Prince ill Reuss, German ambassador to Aus tria, for the affront which the laser's wife recently offered to the son of the Roumanian minister at a ball given at the German embassy at the Austrian capital. Depopulating Ireland. Di.tri.ix, April s.— The tide of Irish emigration is unabated. Six liners, during the past week, took 1,240 emi grants, mostly of the fanning class, but iii eluding a few mechanics and trades men, from Minister and Connaught. The passages of these people were fully two-thirds paid by relatives in America. All the White Star and luman line steamers announced to sail have already full lists of passengers. Big Colliery Trust. London*. April 5.— A movement has been started to create a gigantic trust to control the output of the collieries in Yorkshire. Lancashire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The avowed objects of the new trust are to bring the consumer in direct contact with the producer, and to place the profits on a less fluctuating basis. Russian Maueuvers. St. Petersburg, April The gov ernment censor has ordered the Russian press not to refer to the movements of the troops who are to take Dart in the maneuvers on the Polish and German frontiers. The maneuvers are of un usual magnitude. Gale oft* Scotland. A terrible gale is sweeping over Scot land, and numerous wrecks are report ed along the northern coast. At Peter head, Aberdeen, the whole population is on the shore watching the struggles of the fishing vessels to make safely to land. Waiting for Parnell. Dublin, April 5. — The Cork leader ship committee have not met for a week to judge on Mr. Parnell's shirking a contest with Mr. Heal}. The commit tee refuse to meet until they receive specific assurances as to Mr. Parneil'a intentions. Only One Escaped. Calcutta, April 5. — dispatch has' been received from Lieut. 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