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SATURDAY.
Five law; carjuit niiinufacturrrs of
I'hiladcliilila, rcpnsintini,'4,(MMUiK)iiis,
made a irott yesterday In-fore the
ways and means committee against
tlit- increased duty on carpet wools in
Hit; McKinley bill, which they said
would make the raw material for in
grain carpets cost more than thelln
i.shed carpets now hold for in the open
market!
Tiie senate committee has at last
seen lit to report the Worlds 1-air
bill, but with amendments, one of
a fldiibt as to tin- "sub
stantial character" of the sulserir-
tions to Chicago ruiid, wnue uie
other provides for a naval display in
New York (no date fixed) and a cele
bration at Washington, also without
a date. ,
The house committee on agriculture
has under consideration a bill to pro
hibit deals in options and futures on
boards of trad o. Arguments against
the bill were made yesterday by board
of trade men from various parts of
the country.
Ferdinand Ward again feels the
penalty of his crimes. I lis w ife is
dead and the prison rules forbid his
attending the funeral of a wife who
has been devoted to him and to whom
lie has been deeply attached.
'President Harrison comes to the
rescue of 'the victims of Nilcott'8 de
falcation by signing the bill making
an appropriation to supply the diti
ciency due them,
SUNDAY.
The Hoard-of Trade at Chicago was
a veritable pandemonium yesterday in
both the grain and provision pits, all
cereals and hog products advancing
rapidly and largely. A corner in Mrk
appears to have developed. May and
July options sold at an advance of
$4 a barrel and then eased up a little,
look a new start and closed at R40
May and i:.4." July, an advance over
Friday or 2 a barrel. Wheat opened
at K4J' Mav, sold up to !, closing at
XKjMHi. l'e.ter Hutchinson's (sr.) order
to buy 10,000,000 bushels causing the
bulge' of both May and July. The lat
ter opened at H.I! ard just before the
4-1 se sold at Mh. lier-eipts of cattle,
,oo: slow and lower. Receipts of
hog", 7,MK; active ind .r cents higher;
packers paid $4.2.-. to t.lO and ship
pers !t4.:ir. to 4.4:; light sorts, 4.20 to
!4..'l.r. Receipts of sheep, 4,000; only
about to 700 on sale, remainder
largely billed through to Kastern mar
kets. Prices steady and all sold. Re
ceipts for the week consist of W,tM.ii
cuttle, U4,ttt:i hogs and 4t,!.'Hi sheep.
The we kly New York bank state
ment shows a decrease of reserves, of
loans and of specie, and an Increase of
legal tenders, depositsand circulation.
'The banks hold $.V2,4i0 above the 2."
per cent. rule.
At the White House yesterday Mr.
Joseph Francis was presented with a
magnillcent gold medal In recognition
of his services in the construction and
jierfectioii of life-saving appliances,
the presentation being made by l'rcsi
lent Harrison.
The st rike of conductors and brake
men tin- St. Louis Division of the
f,, i.,i.. x oiiln l!:iilritiid coinoaiiv con
tinues. Only one freight train lias
passed over t lie road since last Mon
day and that was operated by Superin
tendent Hamilton and Trainmaster
Jirown.
TUESDAY.
Senator Farwell lias prepared and
will Introduce in the senate a bill re
lieatlng the present law, which re
quires the treasury department
deposit its surplus fund with the sub
treasuries, and will provide that the
surplus tie deposit il with national
banks uix'ii approved securities. Won't
Mr. I'.laine howl if this legalizing of
"H-t bank" schemes pass through and
become a law! Whew!
Samuel J. Randall die I Sunday at
o'clock in morning. In the house yes
terday his seat was draped in mourn
ing, and Mr. O'Neil.of I'a., paid a
touching tribute to Ids dead colleague.
Resolutions, were adopted by the house,
alter which that body adjourned. The
senate also adjourned.
The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday
affirmed the judgment of the Cali
fornia Circuit Court exonerating Mar
shal Neagle for the shooting of Judge
Terry, at Lathrop. Cal., last August,
when Terry assaulted Justice Field.
The elections for the fifty elective
rnenilicrs of the house of (vers of Por
tugal have been held and have re
sulted In tho return of the Conserva
tive and l'rogressist candidates. Not
a Republican was elected.
The Iowa senate yesterday passed
the house schnol-liook bill. The plan
outlined lrf the bill is the district pur
chase of text lKKks, with optional
county uniformity.
The threatened building and iron
trades' strike in New York has Wen
arbited and the men are at work.
Five thousand duckmen at Liver
ixkjI, F.ng., have again gone on strike.
The cariienters' strike in Chicago is
htillon.
WEDNESDAY.
The new German chancellor, Von
Capri vl, opened the Prussian Diet
yesterday with a pacific speech, in
whiph h (Wlnred the historical ne
cessity of a united German resting on
Prussia. JIo said ho would co-oper-
ni..A urlth all nniinlu nlmlniT Tl fost.CT
tho monarchic feeling In Prussia and
tho national reeling inrougnout me
Kmpire. The German socialists have
Miun.fi M:iv 1st. us a reirular dem
onstration day, provided the workmen
do not come in contact wun un- hi
lice, and they recommend that the
,i.,..,.wi r'it ii.n t:iUe tiie form of a day
of rest. Madrid was without gas last
night, owing to the incxunguisname
tire in tho gas woaks.
iv.w.i..!iiiv nil i.hn union cariienters
in Indianapolis, Ind., went on a strike
yesterday morning, on a demand for
the establishment of a working day of
eight hours, with pay at :ir cents per
hour. JSctween 700 and 8o) men are
out. About PHI non-union carpenieis
are at work.
The situation of the Chicago car
penters' strike is unchanged. Jiie
ruling (if Judge Prendergast in the
McNallv ciisc has had no effect, as the
union declines to allow any man to
go to work even at the wages de
manded, until the demands of the
union as a whole are conceded.
a ttrikiMif the railroad switch men
in Pittsburg may occur to-day. The
demands will be for higher wages,
shorter hours and experienced men.
The grievances have been referred to
the railway managers, wnu win ii
bably make answer to-day.
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Chicago, 200 hands, struck yesterday
for an increase or z, perceiu m wu-n.
COMI'I I.SOKV Kill CATION.
We are in receipt of a pamphlet
of some thirty pages professing to
give the Objections of the German
Lutherans to the present Compulsory
School Law of Illinois. It claims to
proceed from '"the German Luthem
committee," but who tho committee
are or where and by whom appointed,
is not stated. Tho document starts
out with this statement: "We do
not object to all children of suitable
ago being compelled by law to attend
some school. We want no truants.
A izeneral elementary education is one
of the strongest safeguards of our
iioiitical institutions. If parents re
fuse to send their children to school,
let the law compel them to attend to
their duty. What we opjMise is this
law, this kind of compulsion; because
it is unnecessary, unjust, and danger
ous to liberty of conscience and re
ligion." There Is no objection even
made to the requirement that the
English language shall be taught.
The broad principle of compulsory ed
ucation and in the English language
is fully yielded, the objections being
ontlned entirely to minor details ol
the law; such as the requirement that
f children are not sent to parocniai
Instead of public schools, tho former
must be within tho district where tho
larcnts reside, whereas there may be
no such school in that district; the
arbitrary iwwor tho law gives school
boards, the members of which are
often themselves unable to read and
write, to Judge whether a given pri-
ate school is a competent school un
ler the law or not, etc., etc. It even
x presses a willingness to assent to a
st
Late examination of teachers of paro-
liial schools to ascertain their lltness
to teach Fuglish.
Obviously these are all minor mat
rs that can lie easily overcome by
ureful and judicious amendment of
the law, and need not necessarily in-
olve tho danger to which at present
it
exposes our public schools, of be
ing dragged Into politics. So far as
the state is concerned, it can have
but one purpose, and that is, that
very child shall receive a certain
amount of education in the English
language. Certainly It is not neces-
iry that the rights, preferences, no
tions or whims of any religious de
nomination shall be sacrificed to yield
this much.
DOOM.
As no dispatches were received last
night announcing the destruction of
Chicago and Milwaukee, or San Fran
cisco and Oakland, pursuant to the
prophesy of the California "Ioom
Sealers," it Is a reasonable conclusion
that! lie Oakland seer, Mr. Ericksoii,
is not only no prophet, but either an
InilMister or a lunatic. It was hardly
to be expected that as proud, stiff-
necked and uninipressilile a people as
those of Chicago and Milwaukee,
would take much stock in a prophesy
originating in an outside, far off un
important city like Oakland. If the
ancient "doom sealer," Jonah, had to
proceed ill person to Nineveh to be
heard, though the journey involved
such H-rils by the way as being swal
lowed by a whale, was it supposablo
that Chicago would demand any less
of the California doom sealer than
that he uttered his proclamation in
liiritt j(fT.)ii' in her own streets?
Si Chicago treated the doom prti-
nouneod against her with indifference
and contempt, not a man, so far as
heard from, providing himself with a
skiff or even a plank to float away on
when the great tidal wave rushed In
At Oakland, the home of the
prophet, incredulity and contempt
were not quite so universal, and as
many as ,r00 ieople are represented as
having taken to the hills, where huge
tents had been erected for their ac
commodation. Their time was spent
in prayer, and there were many man!
testations of what Is called 'the
power" among them, thu subjets go
ing into a rigid cataleptic state ami
describing their visions when they
emerged. Physicians arc quite confl
dent that the day having passed and
tho reaction having cotuo from tho
terrible nervous strain of the victims
of the delusion, there cannot fail to
bo a largo crop of cases of insanity.
TIIK WOKI.II'M KA I It.
The Chicago Fair Uill, as finally
agreed upon by the senate committee,
and as it will be reported favorably to
tho senate on Monday, and, it is lie
lie v.id, passed without further delay,
Is in a shape that must to Chicago lie
eminently satisfactory. Thosldo shows
of a grand naval review in New York
harbor and Hampton Hoards, and tho
unveiling of a statue to Columbus at
Washington, to take place in October,
1H!2, which New York and Washing
ton had succeeded in getting the sen
ate committee at first to engraft in
tho hill, were schemes as ingenious as
malicious to injure tho fair at Chi
cago, for its coneoctors knew very well
that foreigners coming over to w itness
a seacoast and unveiling celebration
six months in advance of the fair
would go home and not return again
to see the fair. Chicago therefore did
well to have that scheme so modi tied
that tho proposed naval review and
statue unveiling shall take place in
April, 1S93, so that these side-shows
will no more than fairly bo over when
tho grand exposition will be
opened in Chicago, and Instead of a
detriment they are thus more likely to
nrove a big advertisement and intro
duction to the grander pageant on May
1st. New York Jealousy had its last
inning in tho requirement Mr. Daniel
had inserted in tho bill, that before
giving their sanction to the fair the
national board or commissioners shall
satisfy themselves that the Chicago
subscriptions to tho fair fund are valid
in law and collectable, an amendment
which lost its edge when Mr. Farwell
promptly accepted it.
As to the projMised grand naval re
view, that is an affair upon which Sec
retary Tracy appears to have set his
heart, and it was his influence, rather
than New York jealousy, that got it
engrafted on the world's fair bill. His
main purpose in the matter was set
forth by him in an elaborate newspa
per review a few days ago, and is in
substance to enable our people, by such
a gathering of the ships of war of all
nations, to realize tho easy vulner
ability of our great ports and the need
of a powerful fleet of our own for pro
tective purposes. Of course it is in
different to Secretary Tracy whether
this review takes place in October.
1H02, or April, 18!)3. The unveiling of
a Columbus statue at vvasningiou
would necessarily bo a secondary affair
compared to the other, but if its pur
pose is to replace mockery of a statue
at present in the eastern portico of the
capitol. that looks like an athlete
posing to hurl a ten-pin ball at the
statue of Washington in tho park be
yond, by a respectable statue of the
great discoverer, the enterprise is one
in the highest degree to be com
mended.
The iMisition of decided opposition
to tho re-election of Senator lngalls to
tho United States Senate by the Far
mers' Alliance of Kansas has brought
that centleman down from his high
horse to an attitude of humble suppli-
iince. Whv bless you, gentlemen, ho
cries, when you say I have done noth
ing in my long career to favor your in
terests, you are altogether mistaken.
"I am cordially in sympathy with the
demands for such legislation as will
relievo tho agricultural and laboring
classes from their burdens. The sen
ate has actively engaged in the consid
eration of measures for tho suppres
sion of trusts, monopolies and combi
nations, and I offered an amendment
to prevent gambling in agricultural
nroducts. which will undoubtedly be
come a law during the present session.
I am in favor of tho free coinage of
silver, cheaper transportation and the
revision of tho tariff."
The conversion of lngalls from an
opiHinent of the free coinage of silver
to its advocate, and from an extreme
nrotectionist to a tariff reformer Is as
sudden as t hat of Senator Allison was,
and proceeds no doubt from the same
loftv impulse the desire to secure his
re-election to the United States Sen
ate. Hut sudden conversions are pro
verbially liable to as sudden relapses
and the Kansas farmers no doubt
would be wise to follow the example
of the Methodist brethren and put
such acquisitions, before admission
to full communion, on a long proba
Hon.
Rose, as was to be expected, on Sun
day rushed to the defense of the gam
bler, Kiordan, who committed tho as
sault on a Fukk Thadkk reporter on
Saturday night. The offense of the
renorter as to Kiordan, was In report
ing the fact that Kiordan had been in
dieted as a gambler; in refusing to per
mit Kionlan's drunken intorferauee
with a conversation between tho re-
portvr and another man; In refusing
to submit without a word to Kiord
an's insulting remarks; and also in
refusing to encourage a fight with a
man of Kiordan's strijR' and a gang of
his associates. Of course, Rose de
fends Kionlan's attack, characteriz
it as "merited." Of course, in Hose's
view it was "merited;' Just as an at
tack on the reporter by any gambler,
bum, Jollet silk thief, or any other
species of preycrs on the community,
would be, if, as might frequently hap
pen, they should prove to be Hose's
friends. Iloso is welcome to any pros
tige he may get by defending gam
biers who revenge comments on their
misdeeds in the Fukk Tkadkk by
assault, but tho respectable people of
Ottawa can draw their own inference
as to the character and associates of
the defender. He is getting back to
first principle to tho slums from
which he emerged and to which by ed
ucation, natural instincts and long
association ho naturally belongs, and
which he cannot, by the very nature
of things, withdraw himself.
The death of Samuel J. Randall,
which had so long been looked for,
was known to be iminent all last
week and occurred Sunday morning,
is announced with full details in our
telegraphic columns, and needs little
further reference here. Mr. Randall
was a man of great ability and for
years the acknowledged Democratic
leader of the house, the party electing
him twice to the speakership; but of
late years his party leadership was
measurably lost by his course on the
tariff question. Living as he did in
a state where the iron and coal indus
tries were strongly intrenched, and
when great fortunes had been built up
at tho expense of the workingnien by
the prohibitory duties, Mr. Randall
became imbued with state prejudices
and was unable to follow tho broad
policy of his party. In his course he
was undoubtedly sincere, and his
views were not the fault of his heart,
but of his surroundings. A congres
sional district that gave a republican
majority of many thousands on state
issues regularly returned Mr. Randall
to congress because he was of as much
service to republican high tariffas a
republican would have been.
The United States secret service de
tectives, who had been working on
the Jessie White case ever since the
suicide of that unfortunate young
woman at Joliet, have ended their
labors, comicg to the conclusion that
Jessie was her own persecutor, all the
letters except two being, according to
their judgment, In Miss White's own
handwriting. The two exceptions are
the letters sent from Kansas, which
are in a man's handwriting, and which,
their theory is, weie written by some
waggish drummer for his own amuse
ment about the time Jessie's cousin
was being tried on suspicion of writ-
ng the letters. They say she was the
victim of a form of mania known as
sategriasis (whatever that may mean),
a not uncommon case. On the other
hand the citizens of Joliet are indig
nant at this decision of the govern
ment officials. They say the latter
had prejudiced the case before they
commenced its investigation, and
worked only to confirm their own un
founded theory. The family are almost
heart-broken over this cruel finding
aud declare it simply absurd and im
possible, and a more vigorous investi
gation under home auspices is to be
instituted.
The following curious story is told
in connection with the break last
week in the Hudson river tunnel
under construction at New York, and
in reference to which the highest engi
neering skill of the city seemed to be
completely non-plussed. When the
divers were unable to find tho leak
through which came tho air pressure
that paralyzed tho pumps and threat
ened disaster to one end of the big
tunnel, in this exigency a novel expe
dient was used for solving the diffi
culty. The engineer secured a num
ber of water rats, tied long pieces of
oakum to their tails, caught in the
middle by a pieco of wire. The rats
were then forced into the caisson
through tho air pumps. The rats, fol
lowing the current of the air, round
the leaks, and, passing through the
crevasses, left the oakum behind. This
stormed the ingress of air sufficiently
to enable tho pumping to proceed with
success.
The new White Star Line screw
steamer Majestic, which arrived at
New York on Thursday, gained the
glory of having made the fastest
maiden voyage across tho ocean on
record, having made the run from
Queenstown to the Hook in 6 days,
10i hours, beating the ramous maiaen
vovairo by the Tentonic by 8 hours and
20 minutes. The beauty of it was
that, the caDtain of the Majestic had
no thought of making a race, and hav
ing encountered head seas and strong
gales during part of tho voyage, real
ised ho was making no such speed as
the vessel was capable of in more
favorable weather. The result is re
garded as a demonstration of the
superiority of the three over tne rour
bladed screw, the Majestic being the
tlrst of the ocean flyers equipped with
the former
Lieutenant John P. Finley, of the
signal service, has compiled a state
ment of the number of tornadoes In
this country for the last seventeen
years. While in 1S70 there were only
nine, the number has increased annu
ally, the year having been cred
ited with 280. Hut since that there
has been a gradual decrease in the
number, only forty-two having been
recorded In 1S39.
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