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JUNE 28 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 15, 1889. 
A yellow fever scare in Brooklyn! Dr. Dun¬ 
can, surgeon of the Pacific Mail Steamer Col¬ 
on, was sick on her arrival here a week ago. 
He was taken to his home in tlie City of 
Churches where his disease was diagnosed as 
yellow jack. He has just been transported to 
quarantine station, and there the doctors are 
disputing as to whether the trouble is yellow 
or bilious remittent fever. The people in the 
neighborhood of his place in Brooklyn are 
still anxious.Thursday the venerable 
Simon Cameron was stricken with paralysis 
at his home at Donegal Springs, Pa., and his 
condition is critical. This is the second 
stroke.Jay Gould is soon going to the 
Paris Exposition,.Bonham, Texas, has 
struck oil .The Kearsage is on her way 
to Porte au Prrnce, Hayti, where Legitime is 
besieged by Hippolyte. Just 25 years ago she 
sent the Alabama to Davy Jones’s locker. 
Tuesday last Pennsylvania voted on a Prohib¬ 
itory amendment to the State Constitution, 
and returns, nearly complete, from all parts of 
the State, give the majority against it at 185,- 
173. This overwhelming defeat is a sad set¬ 
back to the Prohibitory movement. Both the 
great parties will pay little attention to it in 
the next Presidential campaign. A suffrage 
amendment repealing the poll tax of 25 cents 
per head for those who paid no other State 
tax, before they could vote, was defeated by 
225,729. The farmers, as a body, voted 
against the repeal of the law . . Three 
years ago Rhode Island’s vote for a Prohibi¬ 
tory amendment to the constitution stood 
15,113 in favor and 9,230 against. Last Tues¬ 
day Little Rhody, by a vote of 28,449 to 9,853, 
decided to repeal this amendment. Three- 
fifths of the votes cast were necessary to se¬ 
cure the repeal of the law—but there were 
5,469 in excess of that majority. All along 
there has been an utter disregard of the law, 
which so disgusted the people that they have 
wiped it out by 14,000 more votes than 
tho number that enacted it. 
It has just been discovered that the omission 
of one word in engrossing the Weldon Ex¬ 
tradition Bill lately passed by the Canadian 
Parliament has made it retroactive, contrary 
to the intention of the legislature. The bill or¬ 
iginally stood: “This act shall only apply to 
any crime mentioned in the schedule,commit¬ 
ted after the coming into force of the act.” In 
copying it, the word “only” was intentionally 
or unintentionally omitted, and the Minister of 
Justice says this makes it apply to all boodlers, 
embezzlers, and other criminals who have 
hitherto found a comfortable and safe refuge 
in the Dominion.The trustees of 
Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, Thursday 
conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Presi¬ 
dent Harrison, Secretary of the Interior 
Noble, and John W. Herron, all alumni 
of the college. 
Prof. E Benjamin Andrews of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity formerly of Brown University and a 
Brown’ alumnus, was unauimously elected 
President of Brown University, Thursday, 
vice Dr. E. G. Robinson, resigned . 
Great destitution amounting in some instances 
to starvation, exists among the locked-out 
miners in Illinoisand Indiana.Ex-Gov¬ 
ernor Hartranft of Pennsylvania has been ap¬ 
pointed a member of the Cherokee Commis¬ 
sion . Gen. A. C. Meyers, who was 
Quartermaster General of the Confederate 
Army, died at Washington, D. C., Thursday. 
Indiana’s Supreme Court has decided 
that shaving is not a necessity.Indi¬ 
cations point to the nomination by the Ohio 
Republicans of Governor Eoraker for another 
term. Having concluded that the 
Valkyrie will have at least a fighting chance, 
her owner. Lord Duuraven, has finally con¬ 
cluded to sail her against the fleetest Ameri¬ 
can yacht for the America Cup. fine \ ol- 
unteer, last year’s victor, will probably be 
chosen as their champion by ” our side. . 
W. E. Howard, one of the “electric” sugar 
swindlers, has been promptly found guilty by 
a jury in this city, and awaits sentence, lhe 
rest of the gang now in the Tombs will be 
promptly brought to trial ........ A Local 
Option bill has passed the Michigan Legisla¬ 
ture. The desire for Local Option and High 
License laws is being greatly strengthened 
everywhere by the current setting in strong¬ 
ly against Prohibition. The straight-out Pro¬ 
hibitionists, however, will carry on the fight 
all the harder.There sailed from New 
York for Liverpool on board the Bothnia, 
Thursday, 300 delegates to the World’s Sun¬ 
day school Convention, which meets in Lon¬ 
don on July 2.• • • • • y,. 
Contributions to the Conemaugh Valley re¬ 
lief fund continue at the rate of about $25,- 
000 a day from all sources. Remittances from 
foreign countries as far off as China and Aus¬ 
tralia, and also from theatrical benefits given 
especially for the purpose, are included. 
Work would be vigorously prosecuted at 
Johnstown and the other devastated places 
were it not that a strike among the workmen 
hampers operations. They want more pay 
and better rations. The banks have advanc¬ 
ed the $1,000,000 to Gov. Beaver without a 
guarantee for its return by the legislature, and 
from 75 to 80 per cent, of the amount will t>e 
used in clearing up the valley, and the rest at 
Lockhaven, Williamsport and other places 
ravaged by floods. Those in a position to 
judge, say the public funds are being wisely 
expended, and tnat all that may De given will 
be needed. The disaster instead of diminish¬ 
ing business in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and 
other markets, has made it specially lively, 
as heavy orders for all sorts of goods have 
been pouring in from local merchants, the 
Charity Committee and the State authorities.. 
....Three hundred and forty-five Mormon 
proselytes landed at Castle Garden r l hursday. 
.The University Board of Madison 
University, Hamilton, N. Y., have unanim¬ 
ously voted to change the name of the insti¬ 
tution to Colgate University in honor of the 
Colgate.family, and especially of JetmesjB. and 
Samuel Colgate, who have been great bene¬ 
factors of the institution. From the first the 
family has given it over $500,000. Banker 
James B. lately built an extension at a cost of 
$150,000, and merchant Samuel is now build¬ 
ing another to cost $100,000, This Baptist 
University, now over 65 years old, will begin 
its new career with an endowment of $1,200, 
000 in addition to its educational plant, 
grounds and buildings. 
The Cronin murder case in Chicago, from a 
tragedy has almost become a farce. The two 
men arrested here for complicity in the crime 
have been released, as all formalities for ex¬ 
tradition had been neglected, and three per¬ 
sons sent on from the Windy City to identify 
them as persons connected with the horror, 
failed to do so. It has been found advisable 
to keep all Irish policemen off the case, and 
it is said all who are members of the Clan-na- 
Gael in Chicago will be dismissed from the 
force. Dan Coughlin, a detective, now in 
jail, is one of the men chiefly implicated. 
Martin Burke, a fugitive from Chicago, has 
been arrested, as one of the chief actors, at 
Winnipeg, Canada, and identified by a Chi¬ 
cago police officer. Chief of Police Hubbard 
is “ exultant over this fact” and says he ex¬ 
pects to have the whole mystery cleared up 
soon. The Canadians will be only too glad to 
surrender Burke as the Clan-na-Gael Is de¬ 
tested by all loyal people across the border. 
Alexander Sullivan, ex-president of the Land 
League, has been released on $20,000 bail, 
and the general opinion is that his shrewdness, 
if not his conscience, kept him free from any 
provable complicity in the crime. Many 
other arrests are expected. 
John W. Bardsley, who brought the first 
English sparrows to America, died at his 
home in Germantown, Pa., on June 17.—No 
talk of a public monument to his memory.... 
_A Chippewa Indian war scare in Minne¬ 
sota drew several companies of United States 
troops on a wild goose chase to the Mille 
Lacs reservation where 70 Scandinavian 
squatters were badly frightened. A drunken 
Indian had wounded one of them—hence 
all the hubbub. 
While the rainfall in the East in May was 
the greatest in the records of the Signal Ser¬ 
vice, the rainfall hitherto in June has been 
the heaviest all over the country since 1880. 
Last Sunday was the wettest kind of a day 
nearly all over the country. Uniontown, 
Kansas, a place of 600 inhabitants, was swept 
away by a flood caused by heavy rain and the 
bursting of a dam; Augusta suffered also 
from a cloud burst, and Fort Scott “ had the 
heaviest rain in 30 years.” All that section of 
the country suffered severely. “ The heaviest 
rain for years,” did a world of mischief in the 
country about Abington, Illinois. “The 
most terrible rain storm of recent years” 
caused much loss and more dismay in West 
Virginia; and the Shenandoah Valley about 
Martinsburg, Va., was swept by a downpour. 
Western New York, especially Chemung 
county had a pluvial visitation almost as dis¬ 
astrous as that of a fortnight ago. 
The price of castor oil has been enormously 
increased by the “trust” controlling its pro¬ 
duction and sale.The ice trust in this 
city has doubled Lhe price of ice. 
New Hampshire has elected W. E. Chandler to 
enliven the United States Senate for a term 
of six years .Last year 45,000,000 
pounds of oleomargarine were made in the 
United States against 30,000,000 in the previ¬ 
ous year. The sales kept pace with the man¬ 
ufacture.A handsome granite monu¬ 
ment has been placed on the grave of Edward 
Payson Roe, the novelist, clergyman and 
horticulturist, in the village cemetery at 
Cornwall on-the-Hudson, New York. 
Last Saturday night Governor Hill, of this 
State, completed his labors on the 451 bills 
left on his hands at the adjournment of the 
legislature. He witheld his approval from 
166, This year he approved, in all, 570 bills 
against 586 last year.General Miles 
telegraphs that the reports of Indian massa¬ 
cres in Sonora, Mexico, are unfounded. 
Canadian authorities are urging upon the 
British Government the necessity of an early 
settlement of the Behring Sea trouble . 
John Gilbert, the veteran actor and “born” 
gentleman, is dead. . .Ex-Commander- 
in-Chief Fairchild, of the G. A. R., has been 
appointed a member of the Cherokee Commis¬ 
sion, which is persuading the Indians to cede 
some of their lands to the United States, for 
the formation of the proposed Oklahoma Ter¬ 
ritory .The Sioux Commissioners 
at the North are having a hard time in trying 
to induce the Indians to sign the treaty ced¬ 
ing 11,000,000 acres. His bitter opposition to 
the measure has restored Sitting Bull to 
health enough to fight against it. 
Tuesday Mr. Belmont’s four-year-old gelding, 
Raceland, won the Sutiurban Handicap, at 
Sheepshead Bay, near this city, the greatest 
racing event of the season. Purse $10,000; 
jockey “Snapper” Garrison; distance, 
mile; time, 2.09 4-5. He was the general fav¬ 
orite .Wednesday four persons were 
killed and several others injured because an 
engineer had orders to make up for lost Lime, 
and ran his engine at the rate of 60 miles an 
hour round a sharp, sloping curve oti the 
Panhandle railroad, three miles east of Steu¬ 
benville, Ohio. The rear cars were whipped 
off the track and utterly wrecked on a 25- 
foot embankment .At Columbia Col¬ 
lege, in this city, 170 doctors were graduated 
the other day. The German government is 
contemplating strong measures to prevent so 
many young men from studying to be doc¬ 
tors, by withdrawing public aid to tuition, 
because the great surplus of the profession be¬ 
gets much shiftlessness, idleness, trickery and 
scandal.Nebraska has 5,031 mdes of 
railroad the assessed valuation of which is 
$29,584,325.Tne Fair bank Canning 
Company, of Chicago, has purchased the en¬ 
tire plant of ihe East Be. Louis Dressed Beef 
Company for $500,000. It is expected that 
from 1,000 to 1,500 beeves per day will be 
killed by the new owners. 
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Scotch and English capitalists with $50,000 
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Southern Pacific Railroad. The work is to be 
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extend to the Atlantic coast. Great things 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday. June 22, 1889. 
In England the Parnellite-Times case is still 
dragging its slow length along.The 
Cronin murder is the very sweetest sort of 
“nuts” to the Times and all the Anti-Home- 
Rulers. They chuckle over the Kilkenny cat 
fight between the rival factions of the Clan-na- 
Gael and over the “imperium in imperio ” 
which the disclosures reveal as existing in this 
country. Since the Phoenix Park assassinat¬ 
ion of Lord Cavendish and Secretary Burke, 
nothing has so injured tho cause of Irish 
Home Rule as the brutal Chicago murder. 
Every revelation of the deeds, methods and 
motives of this dark lantern organization is 
eagerly recorded for subsequent use aerainst the 
cause advocated by the Parnellites. There’s no 
doubt that British antagonistic influences of 
all kinds are busily at work in stimulating, 
suppressing or diverting the investigation .. 
A strike among sailors, firemen, oilers and 
coal-passers in Liverpool, London, Glasgow, 
Belfast and the other chief ports in the Unit¬ 
ed Kingdom, has greatly hampered the 
“ stevedoring” and departure of ocean steam¬ 
ers and other vessels for the last fortnight. 
No other class, even among the “ pauper lab¬ 
or” of the Old World, receive such small 
wages and such bad fare and usage for such 
hard work, and the wonder is that they 
didn’t strike sooner. A ship-owners’ com¬ 
bination has been formed to resist their 
demands, but now that they are massed 
in an association, they must at once get a 
good deal of what they ask, and at intervals 
afterwards get even more than they have the 
face to ask for now. The same classes of sea¬ 
going men have also struck in several conti¬ 
nental ports in the North, where wages are 
lower than even in the British Isles. Once in¬ 
augurated, the movement is certain to spread 
and grow stronger.. . 
A new war scare is just subsiding in Europe. 
The Regents who rule little Servia during 
the minority of King Alexander, ore strongly 
in favor of Russia, while the late King Milan 
was equally strongly in favor of Austria. 
The other day Russia proposed to form a mil¬ 
itary convention with the Regents giving the 
Czar control of the Servian army, and they 
would doubtless have agreed were it not that 
Austria threatened to march an army at once 
into the country. Baffled for the moment, 
Russia is sure to persist in her designs, and is 
now trying to secure the deposition of the 
present boyish Servian King, and to put in 
his place the Prince of Montenegro or the 
subservient heir of the late Kanageorgevic 
dynasty. If Austria became embroiled with 
Russia, Germany and Italy must come to her 
aid, and then France, to avenge 1870, would 
have joined Russia; Greece and the Balkan 
States must have promptly taken sides, and 
Denmark as well as Norway and Sweeden 
couldn’t well keep out, and it is probable that 
all Europe would have become embroiled un¬ 
less victory inclined decidedly to one side or 
the other early in the struggle. 
It is also charged that Russia is massing 
troops heavily on the Austrian frontier, and 
that Montenegro, her inalienable ally, is readv 
at any moment to offer a casus belli by au 
outbreak against Albania, Turkey, or Seivia. 
Russia, however, insists that her inten¬ 
tions and movements are peaceful, and the 
scare is subsiding, while, of course, all parties 
are distrustfully watching each other. 
There’s an awful famine in some of the Chin¬ 
ese provinces. China is opposed to railroad 
construction mainly because such rapid and 
easy transportation would throw hundreds of 
thousands of porters and boatmen out of em¬ 
ployment on the roads, rivers and canals; 
but it would prevent these constantly recurr¬ 
ing famines in densely populated districts. 
Latest Central African advices indicate that 
Emin Pasha will accompany Stanley to Zan¬ 
zibar or some other point on the eastern coast 
of the Dark Continent. Emin’s abandonment 
of the region which he has been trying to de¬ 
fend and civilize for so long a time, and prob¬ 
ably of a large number of his faithful follow¬ 
ers who couldn’t accompany him, is generally 
looked upon as a severe though only tempor¬ 
ary check to the civilization of that region. 
There’s a good deal of talk already of build¬ 
ing a railroad from the east coast to Lake 
Victoria Nyanza which would soon lead to 
the opening up of Eastern Central Africa. On 
the western coast a company has already been 
organized for the construction of a lailroad 
260 miles long from Congo Falls to Stauley 
Pool on the Congo river. This will afford 
transportation around the rapids of the river 
which stretches its devious course across two- 
thirds of the continent, making a mighty de¬ 
tour to the north and south and affording a 
longer stretch of navigable waters than does 
the Mississippi to Alton, lengthened by Die 
Missouri to the head of navigation, lhe 
King of the Belgians, the founder «ud sup¬ 
porter of the Congo Free State, has contrib¬ 
uted.^,000,000.. to ;tb© .stock of the.company, 
Saturday, June 22, 1889. 
From nearly every part of the Northwest, 
We t, and Southwest, comes the complaint of 
too much rain, in many places accompanied 
by high winds, and, in some cases, by hail. 
The wheat is about all in shock in Tennessee 
and Kentucky, but rain has greatly retarded 
work, and seriously injured the crop. Har¬ 
vesting is also well under way in Missouri and 
Kansas, but heavy rains have interfered with 
the work. Through other sections, wheat 
and other grains are lodging badly on ac¬ 
count of the heavy rains. In the corn belt, 
the wet weather has prevented the proper 
working of the corn, and the fields are con¬ 
sequently getting very weedy and grassy. 
There has been damage by lightning 
in many places, and high winds have 
created great havoc in others. In the 
Chemung valley in Southern New York, 
heavy rains caused a flood nearly equal to the 
one of May 31, and which submerged all the 
lowlands along the river. The crops on these 
lauds were all destroyed by the previous flood, 
and now all the labor that had beeu expended 
on replanting has come to naught. Parts of 
West Virginia have been visited by terrific 
storms. Berkley county was visited by a ter¬ 
rific gale of wind followed by a thunder 
storm, and this in turn was followed by hail. 
The hailstones were said to be three or four 
inches deep in some places, and crops were 
ruined. In some instances live stock was 
killed. Still in spite of these discouragements, 
the wet weather has been very favorable for 
the growth of most crops on uplands, and we 
shall hope for abundant harvests.. 
A large area was sown to wheat in Manitoba 
this year, and although growth has been 
rather slow, the prospect is good for a large 
crop.The Jute Bagging Trust is trying 
to circumvent the anti-trust law of Missouri; 
where its headquarters are, by having its prod¬ 
ucts sold before the law goes into effect. 
... .California beeswax is expected to arrive 
in commercial quantities this season. Samples 
shown are very handsome, and prices would 
fully equal rates for State.....There are 
inquiries for Pacific honey, new crop, at 8J^ 
cents.California Lima beans have 
been advanced to $3.40. Stocks are small 
and in few bands. 
A new pest has made its appearance in Grant 
County, Indiana, which threatens to destroy 
the wheat, oats and rye crops. It is a small 
green bug or parasite that attaches itself to 
the base of the gram, and sucks the life out 
of it. It is believed that the backward crops 
will be utterly destroyed. Reports from ad¬ 
jacent counties indicate that the parasite 
is widespread. 
A Frenchman has invented a textile tabric 
which he calls artificial silk.Hon. 
William W. Wright, of Geneva, N. Y , Presi¬ 
dent of the Board of Control of the New York 
Experiment Station, is dead at the age of 76.. 
.The first meeting of the commission 
created by the last legislature to establish a 
Meteorological Bureau and Weather Service 
in the State of New York, was held in Ithaca, 
June 19 The board organized by the election of 
Hon. A. S. Draper as President, Hon. Simeon 
Smith as treasurer, and Professor E. A. 
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