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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. March 24,1888. 
Sir John Ross, a veteran of the Crimean 
war, the Sepoy insurrection and the Afghan 
expedition.has just been appointed commander 
of the British troops in Canada -Adam 
Errick, a wealthy farmer, was run over and 
killed by a passenger train on the Fort Wayne 
road at Warsaw, Ind., the other day. 
A special from Manitoba says the great bridge 
at Forth Bay has succumbed to the fury of 
a cyclone and gone down with a Canadian 
Pacific passenger train. The dispatch says a 
great loss of life resulted. 
Ignatius Donnelly’s Bacon-Shakespeare “Great 
Cryptogram” will be issued on the 1st of May. 
Wouldn’t April 1 be a more suitable date?.... 
.... The bill to abolish capital punishment 
in New York State has been defeated; that for 
inflicting capital punishment by electricity 
instead of the halter will probably become a 
law. The movement for the admission 
of New Mexico as a State is strongly supported 
by the Mormon lobby at Washington. Mor¬ 
mons are very numerous in the Territory now, 
and once it becomes a State they intend to 
flock into it from Utah in such overwhelming 
numbers as to seize upon the Government and 
make laws to suit themselves; for while Con¬ 
gress and the President have complete con¬ 
trol of the Territories, their power over the 
States is comparatively limited. So long as 
New Mexico remains a Territory, therefore, 
the Nation will have control of that “Twin 
Relic of Barbarism”—Mormonism. 
The House Committee on Territories Wednes¬ 
day authorized a favorable report on the bill 
to appropriate $25,000 for five experimental 
artesian wells for irrigating purposes . 
Chairman Clardy has been directed by the 
House Commerce Committee to report favor¬ 
ably to the House the Senate bill to incor¬ 
porate the Nicaragua Canal Company. 
_... .Uriah H. Bradnor, aged 70, banker of 
Dansville, N. Y., who was sentenced in No¬ 
vember to five years’ imprisonment for grand 
larceny, died the other day from pneumonia 
in the hospital attached to the Auburn State 
Prison. There’s a widespread and growing 
feeling that hundreds of other dishonest pluto¬ 
crats should be in a position to share the same 
fate. About half a dozen years ago 
Cyrus W. Field paid $500,000 for the Mail and 
Express, an evening paper of this city; last 
Tuesday Eliott F. Shepard, son-in-law of the 
late W. H. Vanderbilt, gave him a check for 
$425,000 for it. It has always been asserted 
and generally believed that it has been mak¬ 
ing a better reputation and more money since 
Cyrus has owned it; but he is getting old and 
tired, and Shepherd is rich enough to stand a 
pretty heavy loss in “booming” Chauncey 
Depew.... Henry Bergh’s will leaves a lot 
of city property to the Society F. T. P. O. C. 
T. Animals, and the rest of his property to 
his family. He requests his nephew, Henry 
Bergh, his principal heir, to devote his life to 
the long-named society.Navigation 
on the Ohio river is practically suspended by 
an almost unprecedented collision and wreck 
of loaded coal barges, 18 in number, contain¬ 
ing about 400,000 bushels of coal valued at 
about $40,000, at the head of Brown’s island, 
five miles above Steubenville, O .... 
“Honest Old Dick Tate”—really James W. 
Tate,for 21 years State Treasurer of Kentucky 
has joined the other dishonest American ras¬ 
cals in Canada. So far as known at present 
his stealings amount only to $250,000, and ex¬ 
tend back 11 years. The State is amply able 
to pay its bills, however. As the Democrats 
elected the fugitive to the position for 10 
consecutive terms, the Republicans, of course, 
are making the most of his defalcation. 
... The Ontario, Canada, Legislature passed 
to a second reading the bill to establish man¬ 
hood suffrage for election to the Ontario Par¬ 
liament. This virtually makes it a law. 
.Sylvester S. Hall, a builder, who disap¬ 
peared from Minneapolis more than two 
years ago, turned up last week, having come 
directly from the Rochester Insane Asylum, 
where he has been confined since August, 
1885, three weeks after his marriage, having 
been suddeuly seized by a St. Paul policeman 
in mistake for Henry Jones, an escaped luna¬ 
tic. He was identified as Jones before the St. 
Paul Probate Court by three men, and was 
given no chance to tell his family about his 
mishap. Of course, he is “mad” now and 
going, to sue the St. Paul authorities for a big 
sum .A terrible railway accident oc¬ 
curred at Blackshear, Georgia, on Saturday, 
caused by a broken rail under the baggage- 
car. The baggage-car got off the track about 
a quarter of a mile before it reached the 
bridge of Hurricane River, the car mounted 
the track and the train passed safely over the 
bridge. Immediately on the other side of the 
bridge is a trestle several hundred feet in 
length, and when the baggage-car struck the 
trestle work it gave way. The entire train, 
with the exception of the engine, dropped 
through, and, with the exception of one car, 
was completely wrecked. Twenty-three per¬ 
sons were killed ai d 35 injured—a. number 
dangerously. Among those only slightly in¬ 
jured were George Gould (son of Jay) with 
wife and baby. By the way, Jay arrived 
from the “Old World” last Monday, at Jack¬ 
sonville, Florida, and all the “Goulds” ar¬ 
rived in this city yesterday. 
... .William Peabody Endicott, father of the 
Secretary of War, died in Salem this week at 
the age of 83.Joseph Pulitzer of the 
N. Y. World has bought the French’s Hotel 
property next to the Sun building, for $650,- 
000, and will build the finest newspaper es¬ 
tablishment in the world. The Lib¬ 
eral Party in Canada—the opposition—comes 
out without reserve in favor of free trade be¬ 
tween Canada and the United States. Sir 
Richard Cartright, the leader of the Liberals, 
says that if it be necessary to accomplish this 
result Canada must adopt the same tariff as 
the United States imposes upon English goods 
or shut out English manufacturers from Cana¬ 
dian markets.The : borax Trust, formed 
a year ago and composed of seven of the 12 
firms which own all the borax land in .Neva¬ 
da and California, has advanced the price of 
borax in the New York market from 4)4 to 
five cents per pound a year ago, to 7)4 cents 
to-day—an advance of full 50 per cent. The 
duty on borax is five cents per pound.. 
.. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy strike 
is petering out. The road has all the hands it 
needs. There is some talk of the switchmen 
and brakemen joining the engineers and fire¬ 
men: but it is' hardly likely as their places 
could soon be filled. The striking engineers 
and firemen still expect or say they expect to 
win. The strike on the Santa Fd road has 
been declared off. Morrison Waite, 
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme 
Court, died yesterday morning (March 23) at 
6.30 at his residence in Washington, of 
acute pneumonia, after an illness of five 
days. He wrote the opinion on the Bell tele¬ 
phone case, and was present on Monday at 
the court in the Capitol when it was read, but 
so unwell that Judge Blatchford had to read 
it. It is thought his imprudent exposure 
caused his death. Born in Lyme, Conn., Nov. 
29, 1816. Graduated at Yale College in 1837. 
Went West in 1838 and practiced law in Mau¬ 
mee City and Toledo, Ohio. Elected member 
of Ohio Senate in 1849. Was one of the U. 
S. councel on the Tribunal of Arbitration in 
Geneva in 1870. Was nominated Chief Jus¬ 
tice of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1874 by 
President Grant, Though hardly known 
when appointed, he has won great reputa¬ 
tion for great executive ability combined with 
high legal learning. He leaves a widow, two 
sons and a daughter. A year ago he could 
have retired on a pension of $10,000 a year; 
but he preferred to serve though his salary 
was only $10,500. 
St. John’s, New Foundland is having a 
glorious time catching seals on Partridge 
Island-60,000 of’em captured by men, women 
and children. An extraordinary abundance. 
... W. D. Washburn of Minneapolis does not 
care to pose as the “favorite son” of Minne¬ 
sota. He thinks it’s a “sure” Republican 
State whoever is nominated .... The United 
States Supreme Court decides that while Iowa 
has undoubtedly the right to regulate or 
forbid the sale of liquor within her borders 
after it has been brought into the State, she 
cannot forbid its introduction from another 
State. The section of the Iowa statute of 
April 5,1886, which prohibits railroad com¬ 
panies from bringing liquor into the State, is, 
therefore, declared to be invalid, and the 
judgment of the United States Circuit Court 
for the Northern District of Illinois is reversed. 
The Chief Justice, Justices Gray and Harlan 
dissented. The Chief of the Bureau of 
Statistics reports that the total number of 
immigrants arrived at the ports of the United 
States from the principal foreign countries, 
except from the Dominion of Canada and 
Mexico, during the month ended February 
29, 1888, is 19,457, against 14,317 for the same 
period last year.The Horace Greeley 
Club, composed of New York editors and 
reporters, has become an assembly of the 
Knights of Labor, and now applies for ad¬ 
mission to the Central Labor Union. They 
complain that they have to work for starva¬ 
tion wages, and want to establish a national 
organization for the improvement socially 
and financially of the craft.Acorn-meal, 
hominy and grits Trust has been formed in St. 
Louis Judge Finletter of Philadelphia 
has decided that John W. Keely must explain 
the working of his motor to a commission of 
experts representing those who have been 
advancing money to perfect the “invention.” 
.. March 17 was the President’s 51st birth¬ 
day.The car-stove will soon be found 
only on third-rate railroads. The Atchison, 
Topeka and Santa Fe company, with its 
7,500 miles of road, adopts Mr. Emerson’s 
system of steam-heating. .... Lightning 
struck the Capitol at Washington Wednes¬ 
day while Congress was in session. The Sena¬ 
tors, Congressmen and Supreme Court Judges 
were a good deal startled; but business kept 
on practically at its former pace.There 
has just been discovered near Newtown, Kan., 
a gypsum deposit, 14 feet below the surface, 
which extends down over 100 feet. I he 
British schooner Sapphire has cleared for the 
Behring’s Sea sealing grounds with a hunting 
crew and sixty Indians. This vessel suffered 
severely last year through seizure by Ameri¬ 
can cutters, aud the officers have vowed 
armed resistance to any further seizure. 
There’s likely to be trouble. 
... .They have just had the worst snow storm 
aud blizzard of the season in the Northwest. 
The East heartily sympathizes with them and 
returns, with thanks, their condolences with 
its plight last week. As the snow clears off a 
large number of dead bodies are found in all 
parts of of the afflicted region; but especially 
m New England. We note six cases in Mas¬ 
sachusetts and 13 in Connecticut. It is yet 
impossible to estimate the full damage of the 
storm upon the Chesapeake. From data at 
hand between 100 and 200 vessels were either 
cast ashore, capsized or sunk. Most of the 
boats were sloops and oyster schooners. Over 
60 lives were lost. The result of the storm at 
the Delaware breakwater is summed up as 
follows: “More.than a dozen lives lost, 26 ves¬ 
sels wholly or partially wrecked, two tugs 
given up for lost and one barque blown out to 
sea and not heard from in four days. ” Out on 
the open ocean the unchecked blizzard 
wrought terrible havoc on the vessels and 
crews it met. New York seems proud of its 
arctic experience, as shown by the exaggera¬ 
tions in the picture papers. T’was bad enough, 
Lord knows; but not as bad as depicted in 
Harper’s or Frank Leslie’s. The new 
Chinese treaty, signed Tuesday, prohibits 
Chinese laborers from entering this country 
for 20 years. Chinese now here and accom¬ 
panied by their families and owning property 
to the amount of at least $1,000, can visit 
China and return to this country. If others 
go home they must stay there .Adam 
Badeau, whom General Grant loaded with fa¬ 
vors, is suing the Grant family for a large 
sum of money for aiding the moribund Gen¬ 
eral to write the “Memoirs,” from which his 
family has derived such a magnificent income. 
The acrimonious dispute with regard to the 
matter fc is absolutely painful—all except the 
fine, forcible letter in which the dying general 
denounces Badeau’s claims and pretensions 
and dismisses him. The general opinion is 
that Adam Badeau is Adam Bad egg. 
.Speaker Carlisle is trying to harmonize 
the Mills and Randall tariff advocates. Free 
wool is said to be conceded by both. The Re¬ 
publicans are thinking of bringing in a party 
tariff bill, too, making some reductions in 
import duties, but of a strongly protective 
character. There will probably be a cutting 
down or removal of internal taxation during 
the present session of Congress, but the tariff 
will hardly be touched, though both parties 
will put themselves on record for the next 
election.Monday the House, by a vote 
of 177 to 67, passed that bill for the issue of 
$30,000,000 in silver certificates for 25, 15 and 
10 cents. Now let all who want handy money 
for mailing purposes write to their Senators 
in favor of the measure—but it’s likely to pass 
anyhow.The Palmer Animal Industry 
Bill is to come up next Monday sure, in 
the Senate, where it is claimed it has a large 
majority.The Bell telephone monopoly 
is sustained by the United States Supreme 
Court in its suit against the opposing compan¬ 
ies, four judges deciding in its favor and three 
against it; Justices, Gray and Lamar not 
sitting in the case, the former, because some 
of his relatives hold stock in the Bell Com¬ 
pany ; the latter, because he is interested in a 
rival company—the Pan-Electric. The Dolbear 
Company of Philadelphia, maintained that 
it used a distinct invention, and the Draw- 
baugh, Clay, Wobenlar, Overland Companies, 
etc., claimed priority, but they were all beaten 
on all points. Justices Field, Bradley and 
Harlan dissented from the decision. The court 
goes so far as to concede to the Bell Company 
the right to control all electric transmission of 
speech.Miguel de Aldama, the Cuban 
patriot, died here Sunday. His death is a 
great blow to the people of Cuba, in whose 
cause he spent over $1,000,000. 
The President sent to Congress a communica¬ 
tion from the Secretary of the Interior, with 
a great mass of testimony, relating to a grant 
of public land to the State of Oregon for the 
construction of wagon roads. The President 
says an examination has developed the most 
unblushing frauds upon the Government, 
which, if remaining unchallenged, will divert 
several hundred thousand acres of land from 
the public domain and from the reach of hon¬ 
est settlers to those who have attempted to 
prevent and prostitute the beneficent designs 
of the Government. The G overnment sought, 
by the promise of generous donations of land 
to promote the building of wagon roads 
for public convenience and for the purpose of 
encouraging settlement upon the public lands. 
The roads have not yet been built and yet an 
attempt is made to claim the lands under a 
title which depends for its validity entirely 
upon the construction of these roads. 
The House Committee on Agriculture has au¬ 
thorized an adverse report on the Turner bill 
to provide for a payment by the Secretary of 
the Treasury of an export bounty of 7 cents 
per bushel on wheat and corn and 50 cents per 
barrel on flour produced in the United States 
and exported for sale in foreign markets. The 
bill also provided for the payment of an addi¬ 
tional bounty of. 2)4 cents per ton for every 
100 miles to the owners of United States ves¬ 
sels transporting such products.... 
Mr. Greenway, Premier of Manitoba, has for 
some time been at Ottawa to try to induce 
the Dominion Government to relieve his peo¬ 
ple from the oppression of the Canadian Paci¬ 
fic monopoly. Finding his efforts vain, he 
started home in a huff—a very judicious one 
it turned out—but while en route he was has¬ 
tily recalled to resume negotiations. It is said 
that the Cabinet has decided to pay the Cana¬ 
dian Pacific $10,000,060 cash* and surrender 
5,000,000 acres of laud to quash their mono¬ 
poly. Five of the ten millions cash are to be 
in the shape of a subsidy for the fast Atlantic 
line of Canadian mail steamers. It is esti¬ 
mated that before the deal is completed it will 
cost at least another $10,000,000 in subsidies 
to different Provinces to buy off opposition... 
_Henry Bergh, nephew of the late philan¬ 
thropist, was yesterday elected„ president of 
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals . The Secretary of State 
has licensed the Dunger Long Distance Tele¬ 
phone Company of Chicago, capital stock 
$18,000,000, to conduct a general telephone 
business throughout the United States; incor¬ 
porators: K. E. Keefe, T. A. Broadbent and 
W. L Copeland. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, March 24, 1888. 
In the United Kingdom while the coercion 
law is being enforced with the customary rig¬ 
or in Ireland, Parnell’s bill for the relief of 
the tenants who owe arrears of rent has been 
defeated by a majority of 82 in the House of 
Commons. This shows that while Scotch 
members are allowed to control Scotch legis¬ 
lation, Irish members are denied the same 
privilege with regard to legislation for their 
country. It is expected, however, that the 
Government will soon introduce a bill giving 
nearly all the relief sought. Meanwhile, it 
has introduced a bill providing a greater de¬ 
gree of local self-government in England and 
Wales. It proposes to establish county coun¬ 
cils, to be elected directly by rate-payers. 
These councils are to have control of the county 
police, and to exercise the powers at present 
exercised by local authorities over gas and 
water-works, and artisans’ dwellings, the 
sale of food and drugs, and sanitary condi¬ 
tions. They are also to be empowered to make 
advances in aid of emigration, under certain 
conditions, and are to have the oversight of 
lunatic asylums, workhouses, reformatories 
and industrial schools, and to have the power 
to grant licences to sell intoxicating liquors. 
The Local Government Board is to retain its 
present power to control the borrowing of 
money by counties, and to audit their ac¬ 
counts. Ireland and Scotland are to lie ex¬ 
cluded from the operation of the bill. Should 
the bill pass it would form the most impor¬ 
tant measure dealing with the question of lo- 
“Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv, 
LINENS AND QUILTS. 
JAMES McCREERY & CO. 
Continue the sale of Table 
Damasks, 2 yards wide, at 
75 cents to $1.25, and 2 1-2 
yards wide, at $1.25 to 
$2.00 per yard, being a re¬ 
duction of50 cents to $1.00 
per yard from former re¬ 
tail prices; also a Job Lot 
of Table Clotlis, a little un¬ 
der standard sizes, are 
being closed out at extrem¬ 
ely low figures. Three 
numbers of Linen Sheet¬ 
ings, 90 inches wide, at 85 
cents, 95 cents and $1.10. 
5,000 extra sized import¬ 
ed Marseilles Quilts, in 
three handsome patterns, 
at $2.90 each, never before 
retailed at less than $4 50; 
and several cases extra fine 
Jacquard Quilts at $1.35 
each; former price $2.00. 
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from any part of the coun¬ 
try will receive careful 
and prompt attention. 
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Slew York. 
cal government since the legislation of 1834. 
.There is no doubt that Lord Salisbury, 
Prime Minister, has hitherto been very suc¬ 
cessful and adroit in his manoeuvres. He has 
amended the rules of procedure in the Com¬ 
mons and effectually prevented obstruction, 
has carried the Consols Conversion bill, a 
most important and comprehensive measure 
for the reduction of interest on the entire 
National debt, through the committee stage 
before the Easter recess. He has introduced 
a. Local Government bill dealing with both 
London and the English counties in the bold¬ 
est and most progressive spirit. It is one of 
the most democratic schemes of legislation 
ever proposed in the Commons, and its enact¬ 
ment will establish a new landmark in Eng¬ 
lish history. 
_On the Continent the chief interest cen¬ 
ters at Berlin. Frederick III. has been ex¬ 
tremely busy for a sick man who is in constant 
pain, and whose voice is so thick as to be un¬ 
intelligible when he tries to speak. To do so 
he must withdraw the tube inserted in the 
neck through which he has breathed since the 
last Operation at St. Remo. As his former 
career indicated, his character turns out 
heroic. He has been issuing proclamations, 
etc., and attending steadily to business in 
spite of doctors’ protests. Reports of his con¬ 
dition still continne conflicting, but this 
morning’s are less unfavorable. There are 
some hopes he may yet be cured. A 
decree authorizing Crown Prince William to 
represent the Emperor in the transaction of 
official business in the event of the Emperor 
being unable to act for himself will shortly be 
issued and proclaimed throughout the empire. 
It expresses the wish of the Emperor that the 
Crown Prince make himself conversant with 
affairs of state by immediately taking part 
therein. In accordance with the decree, the 
Crown Prince is permitted to prepare and dis¬ 
charge all state business intrusted to him by 
the Emperor, aud is empowered to affix all 
necessary signatures as the representative of 
the Emperor without obtaining special autho¬ 
rity upon each occasion. .... 
Should the Emperor live, peace is probable 
for some time all over Europe; should he 
die_. A loan of $52,000,000 has just been 
made by Germans to Mexico, and Germany 
now expects to obtain a preponderating share 
of the Mexican trade, which we ought to 
monopolize .'.In France the “Boulan¬ 
ger incident” still holds the field. A military 
court of inquiry begins to sit to-day, to try 
him on the charge of insubordination. If 
found guilty he will be expelled from the 
army. The whole influence of the Govern¬ 
ment is against him, but he still remains ex¬ 
tremely popular with the masses, though not 
with the Radicals, who are now going against 
him. If his connection with the army ceases, 
he will “enter politics” openly, get a seat in 
the Assembly-and be a thorn in the side of 
the Government. In case of war at any time, 
he is sure to come prominently to the front. 
The funeral of the late Senator Carnot, father 
of the President, was largely attended last 
Tuesday. The French Government is likely 
to allow De Lesseps to start a lottery loan of 
350,000,000 francs. Of course, this would be 
only a part of the sum needed to complete the 
Panama Canal; but if this is granted the Gov¬ 
ernment will stand committed to see to the 
completion of the work. 
_Russia says the accession of the new Ger¬ 
man Emperor tends to peace, as Germany 
isn’t so likely to support Austria’s views with 
regard to the Balkan States. The Czar evi- 
