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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 25, 1889. 
Two weeks or more ago Dr. P. H. Cronin, 
a reputable Irish-American, who was con¬ 
nected with several Irish pseudo-patriotic 
Irish secret societies, disappeared from Chi¬ 
cago. He had been Outspoken m charging 
that a large proportion of the funds collect¬ 
ed in this country for the benefit of the Na 
tional League and other Irish interests had 
been misappropriated by the officials through 
whose hands they passed here. Hence he had 
incurred the bitter enmity of many of the 
leaders and he had frequently said that be ex¬ 
pected to be assassinated. Shortly after 
wards, a trunk stained with blood and clotted 
hair was found in a remote vacant lot and it 
was asserted that it had contained Cronin’s 
murdered body. Diligent search, howerer, 
failed to find the latter. Rumors were indus¬ 
triously spread that he had fled to escape pun 
isbmentor prosecution for crime; a number 
of anonymous assertions were published 
that he bad been seen in several places in 
Canada and in this country, and even alleged 
interviews with him were' telegraphed to all 
parts of the country and published in the pa¬ 
pers as genuine. Wednesday evening his 
dead body was found in a sewer in one of the 
outlying streets of Chicago, where it had evi¬ 
dently been for a fortnight or so. It was 
identified by upwards of 4U intimate acquain¬ 
tances, and bore numerous cuts in the head 
and other plain indications that the man had 
been murdered. Intense excitment; but no 
arrests yet. 
Last Thursday Mr. August Belmont’s crack 
two-year-old colt St. Carlo in one minute two 
and a half seconds won $20,000 by outrunning 
his 12 competitors over the course of five fur¬ 
longs in the race for the great American Stake 
—the greatest monetary prize of the spring 
meetings—at Gravesend, L. I. near this city.. 
.At a church festival at South Glaston¬ 
bury, Conn., the other day 111 persons who 
partook of vanilla-flavored ice-cream became 
sick, and at last accounts some were still in 
danger of death. Some attribute the mishap 
to poisoning by verdigris from the corrosion 
of the cooper vessel containing the cream; 
others think the vanilla seasoning was poison¬ 
ous.In Philadelphia, Thursday, 
Henry Specbt obtained a verdict of $20,000 in 
a damage suit against the Pennsylvania rail¬ 
road. In October, 1886, a passing train struck 
his wagon, killing hischild and badly injuring 
himselt.The Navy Department calls 
for proposals for the construction of three 
new cruisers of 2,000 tons burthen to cost $750,- 
000 each. With the vessels lately built, those 
on the stocks and those already contracted and 
to be contracted for, we shall soon have at 
least a fine nucleus of a navy.. The 
pension appropriation act for the current fis¬ 
cal year appropriated $80,400,000 for the pay¬ 
ment of pensions, and $8,000,000 were also ap¬ 
propriated for the same purpose to meet a 
threatened deficiency, making a total appro¬ 
priation of $88,400,000. This whole amount will 
be necessary to meet the demands of pension¬ 
ers and it may be that there will be a deficien¬ 
cy, but it is said at the Pension Office that 
there is no truth in the statement that 
$105,000,000 will be expended for pen- 
works this summer, those about Esquimault 
receiving first and most attention. 
Sixteen States already provide for the decent 
burial of indigent and friendless veterans, 
and Massachusetts proroses to join the honor¬ 
able band at cost of $7,000 to $10,000 a year. 
Hitherto the Grand Army posts have done 
this duty. Missouri, the home of the 
Cotton Bagging syndicate, the White Lead 
trust and other monopolistic organizations, 
has just passed an anti trust law of much 
severity. Other States, however, have done 
the same, still trusts flourish rankly, even with¬ 
in their boundaries.Mrs Harrison is pre¬ 
paring to move to the Presidential cottage at 
Deer Park, to which the President will run 
out on Saturday and whenever he can spare 
time on other days.Ex-Secretary 
Bayard is soon to marry Miss Clymer, the 39- 
year-old daughter of the late Dr. George 
Clymer of the navy.Secretary Blaine has 
appointed Louis Dent of Washington to be his 
private secretary in place of Thomas H. Sher¬ 
man, the new consul to Liverpool. Mr. Dent 
is a nephew of Mrs. General Grant, and as¬ 
sisted Mr. Blaine in his preparation of his “20 
Years in Congress.” Mr. Sherman will sail 
for Liverpool with his family June 12. 
The Essex club, of which Dr. Loriug is presi¬ 
dent, dined him at Boston Saturday, on the 
eve of his departure for Portugal as U. S. 
Minister.Considerable dissatisfac¬ 
tion is expressed at an alleged tendency to ne¬ 
potism on the part of the President. The 
present list of the appoinments of his own 
people to office includes a brother, a brother- 
in-law, a father-in-law of a son, the brother 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 25, 1889. 
Recently a car-load of cattle was received 
at Buffalo from the West, the most of which 
were suffering from a scrofulous disease 
known as lump-jaw. They were smuggled 
through the stock-yards early in the morning, 
switched upon a private track belonging to a 
large packing firm, and but for their acciden¬ 
tal discovery by a passer-by, would in all 
probability have been slaughtered and packed 
as “ Extra Family Mess.” The animals were 
in a terrible condition. Their heads were 
covered with tumors, one of which after be¬ 
ing cut off weighed 11 pounds. A city phy¬ 
sician declared that there was enough poison 
in the cattle to poison every person in the 
State. In commenting upon this circum¬ 
stance, one journal uses it as an argument 
against State inspection of cattle, claiming 
that the system of inspection in vogue at 
Chicago and other large packing centers pre¬ 
vents the receiving of such cattle, and that 
they are therefore shipped to smaller Eastern 
markets where they are disposed of without 
difficulty. Another journal uses it as an ar¬ 
gument in favor of State, or, still better, 
national inspection, so that all erreat slaugb- 
of a son-in-law and a cousin-in law. I tering points shall be under strict governmen 
.Montana’s convention for framing a consti¬ 
tution for the new State, is Democratic by 
from three to five majority—38 Democrat, 
35 Republican, one Labor and one Independ¬ 
ent members.There will probably be a 
Republican majority of 12 in the Washington 
constitutional convention, though farmers 
and workingmen are generally fusing with the 
Democrats.The new Inman line steamer, 
the City of Baris, arrived at Queenstown at 
2 o’clock Wednesday morning, having made 
the fastest eastward passage on record. Her 
time between Sandy Hook and Fastnet light 
was five days, 22 hours, and 10 minutes, and 
six days, 29 minutes to Roche’s Point—the 
point to be passed in counting time.Cali¬ 
fornia now has an anti-dressed meat law. 
The lower House of the Michigan legislature 
has voted in favor of woman suffrage in school 
elections by a majority of 5S to 34. The Sen¬ 
ate has still to pass on the measure.Judge 
Childs, of Buffalo, New York, has just con¬ 
demned William Zemmler, the crafty murder¬ 
er of Tillie Ziegler, his mistress, to death by 
electricity—the first legal victim of that form 
of execution in any part of the world. 
.Jerry Rusk is looming up pretty 
strongly as a Presidential possibility 
tal control. Meanwhile the dear people will 
take their lives in their hands, and continue 
to eat Western beef. 
There is to be a hay press contest at the Mis¬ 
sissippi Agricultural College June 18 and 19. 
Director Tracy has invited all the hav press 
manufacturers to enter the contest. The hay 
business of Mississippi is getting to be an im¬ 
portant interest. This contest will show all 
the presses working side by side.Sisal 
was introduced into the Bahama Islands 25 
years ago; the inhabitants considered it a 
nuisance, and used every means in their pow¬ 
er to extirpate it. A radical change of opinion 
has been brought about by the present gov¬ 
ernor who is very sanguine of the success of 
its cultivation.The Secretary of 
Agriculture recently made a suggestion to the 
Secretary of the Treasury that imported 
crude potash salts of the higher grades, as, for 
instance, the'almost pure '-alts of potash.which 
is a form particularly valuable for fertilizing 
purposes, be admitted to free entry under the 
provision of the free list for “Guano manures 
and all substances expressly used for manure.” 
Secretary Windomhas informed him in reply 
that his suggestion cannot be carried into ef¬ 
fect under the existing statutes in view of the 
Much excitement among the 2,000 English 
speaking fishermen of St. George’s Bay, New¬ 
foundland, at the action of the captain of the 
English man-of-war Lilly, who has issued a 
proclamation that Frenchmen alone have a 
right to fish there. The fishermen insist that 
they have a concurrent right to do so, and 
make fearful threats if an attempt is made 
to prevent them.It Is announced 
that an English war vessel will protect Can¬ 
adian craft catching seals in Behring Sea 
which this countiy claims as its exclusive 
property, forbidding the catching of seals 
there by any vessels except those licensed to 
do so, and then only at a certain season. 
Hail storms have visited Iowa and Ill¬ 
inois and a snow storm has surprised a large 
part of Virginia during the week, while many 
parts of W isconsin have suffered from severe 
__ ^ ^ wind and ram storms.It is reported 
sions during the fiscal 'year7!. /.T.. I that an English syndicate want to secure con 
—soon it may be a probability . express provision of the tariff act prescribing 
V ( , J . _ J _ la linftr Af Oil C _5 _ 
....Twenty-two S’ate legislatures have 
discussed, and 10 States have adopted, the 
Australian ballot system. The 10 are ‘Massa¬ 
chusetts, Indiana, Rhode Island, Missouri, 
Tennessee, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, 
Connecticut and Illinois.For want of a 
market farmers iu Oregon are literally throw¬ 
ing potatoes away. For example, Mr. Tvsz- 
kiewicz. of Bachelor Island, lately dumped 
350 casks of fine Burbanks into the Columbia 
river.Postmaster-General Wanarn- 
akeraud Attorney-General Miller are consid¬ 
ering the question of excluding from the 
mails advertising matter of the Louisiana lot¬ 
tery swindle.... The trial of the electric sugar 
frauds has just begun in this city. It 
has been estimated by the Railroad Commis¬ 
sioners of Connecticut that over 20millions of 
dollars would be required to remove the 1,200 
grade crossings in that State. Nevertheless, 
the grade crossings ought to go. 
Monday afternoon a fierce hurricane ravaged 
a swath half a mile broad through one of the 
richest farming sections of Pennsylvania, 
north of Scranton,sweeping away or injuring 
dwelling-houses, farms, orchard and ‘ other 
trees, crops, etc., and hurting several people, 
but none fatally.The new steamer of the 
Hamburg packet line, the Augusta Victoria, ’ 
made the trip from Hamburg to New York, 
3,048 miles, in eight days one hour, thus beat¬ 
ing the record.The sheri ilf ot St. 
Francis county, the city marshall of Bo 
City and another citizen were killed 
Arkansas election riot the other day. 
Allen Thorndike Rice left over $5,000,000 and 
do will..A second autopsy held on 
the body of mind-reader Bishop failed to de¬ 
termine whether the surgeons in holding a 
post-mortem were operating on a dead or liv¬ 
ing body. They broke the law, however, in 
either ca°e by carving the poor fellow up 
without the consent of the coroner or rela¬ 
tives, and will be prosecuted. 
Mrs. Folsom, the mother of Mrs. Grover 
Cleveland, was married, Monday, at Jackson, 
Michigan, to Henry E. Perriue, a merchant of 
Buffalo, N. Y.The steanjer Rock- 
ton, with 20 officers and 450 men from the 
shipwrecked crews of the Trenton and Van- 
dalia, has reached San Francisco from Samoa 
....Wednesday in the Sc. Lawrence, near 
Montreal, the ocean steamer Polynesian ran 
into and sank the Cynthia, another ocean 
steamer. Eight on the latter were drowned. 
•;.The Imperial government will be- 
gin_work op_the Cttnadiaa Pacific fiefeosivo 
trol of the large flouring industries of the 
United States just as another is now buying 
up the breweries. It is now negotiating for 
the great Pillsbury Mills at Minneapolis. It 
also proposes to purchase a number of eleva¬ 
tors.A new scheme of transport¬ 
ing packages is coming into favor. The in¬ 
ventor, John G. Williams, is a resident of 
this city. His machine consists of a magnetic 
car, hanging from a single rail, where it fol¬ 
lows a streak of electricity. With one horse 
power it is said that one ton can be thus 
transported 1,440 miles a day at a cost of 30 
cents. This, in mail matter, would represent 
some 2,880,000 letters and by this system 
packages of mail could be sent off every five 
minutes if necessary, thus preventing large 
accumulations. The single track is to be 
carried on tripods some distance above the 
ground and the car will pass through coils of 
insulated wire at intervals. Four miles 
a duty of 20 per cent, ad valorem for crude 
potash and sulphate of potash without re¬ 
gard to the uses for which they are intended.. 
Prof. Wm. Brown, late of the Ontario Agri¬ 
cultural College, has gone to Australia to 
take charge of the experiment farm at 
Doven, Victoria.The dairy works 
of Cornish, Curtis & Green, of Fort Atkinson, 
Wis.. were recently' destroyed by fire. 
... .The New York State Weather Bureau is 
heing organized with headquarters at Cornell 
University. ...The lake rate on corn 
from Chicago to Buffalo dropped from two 
cents to 1% cents. Latest reports from 
Chicago say that the receipts of old corn from 
the interior are very' heavy.Texas 
reports the cotton prospect better than ever 
nefore at this time of the vear.In sev¬ 
eral Iowa counties a bounty of five cents each 
is paid for the scalps of gophers, and in one 
county alone, over 18,000 have oeen presented 
this spring. The melon growing dis¬ 
tricts of tbe State of Missouri, are endeavor¬ 
ing to form an association for the purpose of 
facilitating the shipping and marketing of 
their watermelon crop, which aggregates an¬ 
nually about three thousand car-loads. 
The Michigan State Agricultural Society will 
hold its fairs permanently at Lansing, here¬ 
after. An effort was made to have it located 
at Grand Rapids, $50,000, and 80 acres of 
land being offered upon certain conditions, 
but the executive committee voted unani¬ 
mously to locate at Lansing. Tbe grounds of 
the Central Michigan Society having a half- 
mile frontage on the Grand Trunk Railroad, 
are to be conveyed to the State Society free 
of all encumbrances, the citizens of Lansing 
binding themselves to pay $11,000 incum¬ 
brance now on the grounds. The 
stock stables of William Hamilton near Flint, 
Michigan, containing about 50 blooded 
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The American Horse Show Association, of 
Chicago, is pushing affairs for its first annual 
exhibition, which will begin October 30. The 
two big prizes are tbe American Trotting 
Stallion Herd premium of $3 000, for stallion 
with best herd of five colts, and the American 
Trotting Stallion Prize of $1,000 for best 
stallion of any age.. 
The California orange crop for ’88 and ’89 is 
estimated to be between 750,000 aud 765,000 
boxes of 300 pounds each.The orange 
crop of Florida is estimated at upwards of 3, 
000,000 bushels for the last year.A 
corrugated steel hoop has been invented, 
which is said to be elastic and firm, bugging a 
package tightly. Four steel hoops will take 
the place of 10 wooden hoops on a flour barrel. 
They are cheaply produced by the aid of elec¬ 
tricity, a hoop being welded in two seconds. 
.Articles of incorporation were 
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for tbe American Meat Company, Chicago, 
for the packing, canning and preservation of 
meat; capital, $25,000,000; incorporators, 
John C. Richberg, C. E. Randall and G. F. 
Norden..Press dispatches received 
by way of the City of Mexico report a boom 
prevailing in Yucatan, owing to the profit¬ 
able results of hemp-raising in that peninsula. 
The high price of hemp is said to have proved 
immensely profitable to the local raisers. It 
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