AUG. 25 
5§6 THE BUBAL MEW-YOBKIR. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 18, 1888. 
In the dark-gray of last Tuesday morn¬ 
ing, after a rainy, windy night, the steamer 
Geiser, which left New York for Copenhagen 
last Saturday with 148 souls on board, and 
the steamer Thingvalla, of the same Danish 
line, which was bound from Copenhagen to 
New York with 455 passengers, sighted each 
other off Sable Island, about 200 miles from 
the coast of Nova Scotia. In trying to avoid 
each other the Thingvalla ran into the Geiser 
in less than two minutes after they had 
sighted each other. Nearly all the passengers 
were in bed, and many of them were crushed 
to a pulp by the bows of the Thingvalla. The 
Geiser went down in seven minutes, and with 
her went 117 of those on board, 31 only escap 
ing to the Thingvalla. The bows of the latter 
were badly smashed in, and a shaken bulkhead 
alone prevented her from following her consort 
to the bottom. Her passengers and those 
rescued from the Geiser were soon transferred 
to the Hamburg steamer Wieland, which was 
passing, and arrived here and were landed 
on Thursday. The fault appears to rest with 
the captain of the Thingvalla, which steamed 
to Halifax after the departure of the Wieland. 
_The Augusta, Ga. National Exposition will 
be opened on October 10 and close on November 
17,1888. It “will be the only national ex¬ 
position of produce, machinery and manu¬ 
factures to be held in the Southern States 
this year.” Ninety-three acres of land and 
$150,000 in money have been appropriated 
to the use of the exposition. The showing made 
by Southern industries in all lines is expected 
to be particularly fine. Cheap railroad fares 
and numerous special attractions will be se¬ 
cured.The total loss by fire in the 
* United States since Jan. 1,is $65,699,050. 
A fire at Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 10, did 
damage to the amount of $500,000. 
Mr. Blaine’s reception here was en¬ 
thusiastic, and all along the road to his home 
in Augusta, Me., he was loudly cheered. 
Blaine and his followers are running the 
present Republican campaign, and there is a 
good deal of talk of nominating the Plumed 
Knight as the Republican candidate in 
1892! ! ! There’s a vast number of poli i- 
cians who are trying to convert themselves 
from “small potatoes” into “big pumpkins” 
by professing to be converted from one politi¬ 
cal party to another.Major-General 
Middleton has received advices that the 
Skeene River troubles, in British Columbia, 
will not amount to anything.One hun¬ 
dred and thirty factories controlled by the 
American Flint Glass Workers’ Union, re¬ 
resumed operations Monday morning, and 
6,000 men. who had been idle since June 
30, returned to work. 
The Supreme Court of Washington Territory 
has decided that the law giving suffrage to 
women is unconstitutional on the ground that 
the Legislature exceeded its powers in grant¬ 
ing woman suffrage. It maintains that the 
word “ citizen ” in the organic law can mean 
nothing else than male citizens. This is the sec¬ 
ond woman suffrage law passed in that Terri¬ 
tory and the second time it has been declared 
unconstitutional. The case is to be taken to 
the U. S. Supreme Court.The N. Y. 
Democratic State Convention is to meet in 
Buffalo on Sept. 12 .St. Julien, 2:11^, 
who has celebrated his nineteenth birth-day 
has been turned out for good, and will be per¬ 
mitted to spend the balance of his days in 
idleness.Bush fires are raging fiercely in 
the townships of Clarendon, Lavail, Canonti 
and Oso, Ontario, Canada, and have already 
done damage to the extent of nearly $500,000. 
The whole section has been devastated and 
many settlers have lost everything they pos¬ 
sessed. The Ontario Government will be ap¬ 
pealed to for aid .The American 
Party Convention at Washington, Wed¬ 
nesday, split into two factions ; one nomi¬ 
nated for President James Langdon Curtis, 
of New-York ; for the Vice-President, 
James M. Grier, of Tennessee; the other 
faction made no nominations. 
The Minnesota Democratic State ticket has 
been completed as follows: For Governor, 
Hon. Eugene Wilson; Lieutenant-Governor, 
Daniel Buck; Secretary of State, W. C. 
Brandeuhager; Attorney-General, Charles 
D'Autrement; Judges of the Supreme Court, 
C. Craus Smith, George Batcheler; Electors- 
at-Large, J. S. O’Brien, W. F. Kelsoe . 
The merchants of Clinton, Iowa, under the in¬ 
fluence of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 
Railroad strikers, have been boycotting that 
road by refusing to ship goods over it, and to 
receive goods shipped over it. Officials of the 
road have decided to retaliate, and the boy¬ 
cotting merchants have been notified that un- 
less~the boycott is raised, the road will stop 
running trains into the city.The 
Chicago, Burlington and Northern road has 
decreased its rate on live stock from $12 to $5 
per car-load from Chicago to St. Paul. This is 
because the competing lines did not make the 
25 per cent, increase when the length of 
cars was made thirty six feet. This move is 
not a cut, but is sanctioned by Chairman 
Abbot’s agreement.Arrangements are 
actively progressing for the great food dis¬ 
play to be held at Albany, N. Y., in September. 
The management has been arranging for the 
co-operation of the railroads, and everything 
points to a success which shall rival the 
bicentennial.Sioux City, Iowa, is to 
have another great Corn Palace, which will 
open Sept. 24, and close Oct. 6.A horse 
premium of $500 is offered at the Trenton, N. 
J., fair in October.... N. Y. Fish Com¬ 
missioner Green is seriously ill at Lis home in 
Rochester.Yellow fever prevails at 
Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida. At the 
former place there has been a regular scare 
and 3,000 residents have left the place. 
Several Southern cities have established 
quarantines against it.Austin Corbin 
recently purchased 65 acres of ground 
in Newport, N. H., his native town. He now 
has a farm there of over 700 acres. 
Edward Hanlan, jr., the young son of 
Hanlan, the oarsman, while playing with 
matches Thursday night, at Toronto, set fire to 
his clothing and was burned to death. 
Andrew Garrett, who was the only survivor 
of the original manufacturers of reapers and 
mowers, died at his home in Shelby, Ohio, 
Thursday, at the age of 76.Two men 
named Van Oberkampf and Mack have been 
arrested at Chicago for robbing letter boxes. 
In Van Oberkampt’s room checks, drafts, 
money-orders and other negotiable papers 
were found amounting to $250,000, and 
the authorities estimate that considerably 
over $1,000,000, has been stolen. It is the 
largest post-office robbery on record any¬ 
where. It is thought that an international 
confederacy may be engaged in the business. 
Van Oberkampf has alleged this is the case. 
Nobody knows yet whether the robbery is con¬ 
fined to Chicago .Prof. Edward L. 
French, registrar, and instructor in natural 
science at Wells College, at Aurora, N. Y., is 
a defaulter in $20,000. He handled all money 
received from pupils. He will not be prose¬ 
cuted, as his wife is the only representative of 
the Wells family living .Ex-Governor 
Charles Foster has consented to be a candi¬ 
date for Congress from the Findlay, Ohio, 
district. Congressman Seney (Dem.) had a 
plurality of over 5,000, and is a candidate for 
re-election.The creditors of John Tay¬ 
lor & Co., the pork and wool dealers of Jer¬ 
sey City, who failed recently, have accepted 
25 cents on the dollar.Gen. Sheridan’s 
will, dated May 23, 1888 f has oeen probated. 
His personal estate is put at $2,721 in money; 
$8,000 in stocks; $5,000; in personal effects; 
$3,000 in household furniture; $600 in horse 
and carriage; $500 in house at Nonquitt; 
with an indebtedness of $1,500. There are 
also a house in Washington and another in 
Chicago, and a farm in Ohio. 
.Robert Garrett is getting better. In his 
insane ravings the specter that haunts him is 
Jay Gould seizing his telegraph and grabbing 
his railroad. Some method in his madness!.. 
.... Henry George has won a decided victory 
in Michigan, where the State Assembly of 
Knights of Labor has instructed its delegates 
to the National Convention to urge upon the 
whole body the indorsement of the land-tax 
theories.Americans own more than 
one-tenth of the British Canadian Pacific 
Road. They own pretty much the whole of 
the Canada Southern and have large interests 
in other Dominion roads. The Republi¬ 
can State Convention, at Detroit, Mich., 
unanimously renominated Cyrus W. Luce 
for Governor. James S. McDonald was 
named for Lieutenant-Governor. 
Justice Harlan made rather an important 
liquor decision last week. The captain of a 
steamer allowed the unlicensed sale of liquor 
on board while within the State of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. He was convicted of violating the 
Brooks license law, and straightway applied 
for a writ of certiorari. Judge Harlan, in 
refusing the application, declared that vessels 
passing from one State to another are subject, 
while within the jurisdiction of any State, to 
its police regulations.Further progress 
is reported in the formation of a huge lumber 
and timber Trust in the Northwest, the mis¬ 
sion of which is substantially to put up the 
price of its wares.In a railroad acci¬ 
dent on the Erie Road, Monday, near Shoho- 
la, Pa., the engine and four cars were 
wrecked. Several train hands were injured. 
An express train then crashed into the wreck 
and 30 more passengers and train men were 
more or less severely injured. The cars 
caught fire. Attached to the train was & car 
containing 14 running horses belonging to 
Fred ^Gebhard and actress Langtry, valued 
at $100,000. Only two escaped the flames...... 
. Charles Crocker, vice-president of the 
Southern Pacific Railroad, has just died at 
Monterey, Cal., from the effects of a fall from 
a carriage at Mew York some two years ago. 
His reputed fortune runs up to $40,000,000. 
His system now embraces 10 roads with a 
consolidated capital stock of over $117,000,000 
and 5,110 miles of track. Taking San Fran¬ 
cisco as a center, the veins of this vast com¬ 
pany stretch north to Portland, Or., east to 
Ogden, Utah, and southeast to New Orleans 
and Torreon, Mex. . 
The wholesale agricultural implement houses 
of Martin & Co and Kingman & Co were 
burned at Peoria Ill., Tuesday; loss, about 
$200,000. insured .Lawrence R. Jerome 
of this city, the typical club man, and practi¬ 
cal joker is dead.—a thoroughly good fellow, 
originally a farmer’s boy born, in 1820, in 
Onondaga Co. N. Y. The American 
linseed oil company, a Trust comprising about 
half the total producing capacity of the 
United States, has at Philadelphia declared a 
dividend of $4 per share for the past year. 
The consumption of linseed oil in this country 
is 300,000 gallons per year.Nearly 
100,000 tons of wheat were dumped into the 
water at Tacoma, W. T., Friday, by the giv¬ 
ing way of Northern Pacific railroad ware¬ 
house floors which were eaten by worms. 
Instead of letting themselves out to summer 
hotels, as is the custom of New England col¬ 
lege students, a number of tha students of 
the California University are combining pleas¬ 
ure and profit by camping out in Vaca Valley, 
and helping to handle the fruit crop .At 
an examination for admission to the Free 
college, New York, 78 per cent of the girls 
seeking admission passed a creditable exam- 
nation, while only 48 per cent of the boy appli¬ 
cants were able to enter. The teacher ascrib¬ 
ed this remarkable difference to the fact that 
the^boys r used tobacco—the girls did not. 
A brother of one of the lady teachers who 
perished during the blizzard in Dakota recent¬ 
ly visited that section for the purpose of remov¬ 
ing the remains to the old home in the East. 
In settling up with the school directors where 
she had been teaching, they made him dis¬ 
count 12 per cent on the amofint due her, 
because she had not finished the term. 
The dory, Dark Secret, was passed by 
the steamer India, on the morning 
of August 1. All O.K. 
Senators Reagan and Sherman have each 
introduced a bill to prohibit the formation of 
Trusts and to destroy those already existing. 
What constitutes a Trust is very thoroughly 
defined by Mr. Reagan, and adequate punish¬ 
ment is provided for violation of the proposed 
law. Either bill, should it become a law, 
would break up these nefarious combinations, 
and one or the other is likely to go through. 
As a penalty for joining such combinations a 
fine ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 and im¬ 
prisonment, in the discretion of the court, 
from one to five years, are imposed .The 
Senate without any opposition has passed a 
bill to regulate companies owning an inter¬ 
state telegraph business, thus applying the 
principles of the inter-State Commerce Law to 
inter-State telegraphy.The Congres¬ 
sional investigation of immigration has con¬ 
tinued here during the week, and showed how 
employes, male and female, in a large number 
of important industries, are forced to accept 
“starvation wages,” owing to the fierce com¬ 
petition of the imported pauper labor of other 
countries. The committee will stay here an¬ 
other week, and then the investigation will be 
continued at Boston and Philadelphia, and, 
during recess, on the Pacific coast.It 
is now said that the Republicans will intro¬ 
duce no tariff bill at this session of Congress, 
preferring to fight an offensive battle against 
the Mills Bill, rather than run the risk of hav¬ 
ing to defend a bill of their own. Wide differ¬ 
ences of opinion are said to exist on various 
points in any proposed bill.A special 
appropriation of $25,000 has been made by the 
United States Senate to enable the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture to make improvements 
in the cultivation and manufacture of flax 
and hemp..The President has allowed 
the big River and Harbor Bill to become a 
law without his signature, by permitting ten 
days after the receipt of it to elapse without 
vetoing it during the session of Congress. The 
good and bad were mixed up, and as it covered 
two years, it would hardly be well to veto it, 
and it must be taken as a whole or not at all. 
.The Dakotans called upon President 
Cleveland to send a special message to Con¬ 
gress in behalf of the admission to the Union 
of the two States of North Dakota and South 
Dakota. . .The Senate, by a strict party 
vote—24 to 22—has decided not to defer 
action on the Fishery Treaty till December, as 
advocated by the Democrats. It will soon be 
defeated unless the President withdraws it. 
.The President has issued an order 
placing Maj-Gen. Schofield in command of 
the army, with headquarters at Washington. 
Gen. Schofield will also continue in oom 
mand of the Division of the Atlantic. No 
other changes have yet been made. 
The success of some of the agents employed by 
B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va.. is truly 
marvelous. It is not an unusual thing for their 
agents to make as high as $20 and $30 a day, and 
sometimes their profits run up as high as $40 
and $50—even more. But we hesitate to tell 
you the whole truth, or you will scarcely be¬ 
lieve we are in earnest. Write them and see for 
yourself what they will do for you.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 18, 1888. 
Little of general interest has occurred in 
Europe during the week. Parnell is bringing 
a libel suit for $250,000 against the London 
Times in the Scotch Courts, where a verdict 
is certain, as a case is decided by a majority 
of the jurors. The Times is trying various 
expedients to avoid the suit, which seems to 
show that it is not so certain of its case as it 
formerly was. It is likely that the Special 
Court of three judges to investigate the whole 
trouble will begin business in October; where¬ 
as the Scotch case can be deferred till 
February. Much industrial stagnation 
and agricultural distress still pre¬ 
vail in the United Kingdom. .. 
The Sulgrave estate in Northamptonshire, 
the original home of the family of George 
Washington, is offered for sale, and Ameri¬ 
cans are talking of buying it. “ Our ” branch 
of the family emigrated to America as long 
ago as 1657.There is a strong impres¬ 
sion that while the recent interview of the 
Kaiser and Czar has helped to make them 
personally more friendly, it will have little 
political effect. Van Molke has resigned his 
position as Chief of the Emperor’s Staff, or 
virtually Commander-in-Chief of the German 
Army. He lacks little more than two 
months of being 88, and has been a soldier 66 
years, Lieutenant-general since 1850, and 
was made a Count and Chief Marshal of the 
German Empire in 1870 for his conduct of the 
Franco-German war. His successor is Count 
Von Waldersee, an able disciple of his, whose 
accession to command is considered a victory 
for the “ war party” in Germany. His wife 
is an American lady, very clever, and a great 
friend of the present Emperor and Empress. 
Von Moltke has been nominated President of 
the Country Defence Division. Emperor Wil¬ 
liam indignantly denies that his father, the 
late Emperor Frederick, ever dreamed of 
surrendering any part of Alsace or Lorraine 
as lately intimated, and be declares Germans 
will die rather than yield an inch of 
their hard-won conquests.Italy lately 
claimed a long stretch of Africa, be¬ 
longing to Zanzibar, and now the Zanzibar 
Sultan has transferred the administration of 
that country to a German company, and the 
German and Zanzibar flags now float jointly 
over 14ports....Great pressure is still being 
exercised on Prince Ferdinand to leave Bul¬ 
garia quietly, but he again reiterates that he 
never will...Russia, Turkey and Egypt have 
joined France in protesting against Italy’s 
seizure of Massowah and the adjacent coast 
of Africa. A detachment of 500 Italian troops 
and 250 native allies, sent against an Alyssi- 
rean force stationed some miles in the interior, 
has been surprised by the latter and more 
than half of the force has been massacred. 
Intense indignation prevails in Italy. 
The latest British annexation of territory in 
South Africa embraces a dozen degrees of 
latitude and extends the sovereignty of the 
Crown from the Transvaal frontier to the 
Zambesi. To the north, among the tropical 
lakes, lie the scenes of David Livingstone’s 
discoveries and labors and the sites of many 
English and Scotch missions. The valley of 
the Shire and the great lakes, Nyassa and Tan¬ 
ganyika, may properly be regarded as British 
possessions, since Englishmen discovered them 
and are the only Europeans who have at¬ 
tempted to occupy them. The Portugese 
Government has laid claim to them, as it has 
to nearly everything else in Central Af¬ 
rica, but that vast equatorial tract belongs 
naturally to Great Britain, and one of 
these days will be formally annexed to 
the Crown. The absorption of the vast re¬ 
gion south of the Zambesi points unerringly 
to a future extention of sovereignty to the 
north as far as the Victoria Nyanza. As 
England, through its Egyptian dependency, 
is supposed to control the Nile from the 
Delta to the equatorial lakes, these lines of 
nominal sovereignty will ultimately pass up 
and down the Dark Continent from the Cape 
of Good Hope to the Mediterranean. 
An Austrian engineer has, it is said, de¬ 
signed a truck to be run before every railway 
train, being maintained always at a fixed (but 
adjustable) distance in front by the force of 
an eleetria current transmitted along the 
metals from a dynamo on the engine. The 
‘Herbrand ” Fifth Wheel for Buggies .—Adv 
