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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. June 29, 1889. 
Last Monday William Walter Phelps of 
New Jersey, Chief of the three American 
Commissioners to the Samoan Conference at 
Berlin, returned with the treaty made be¬ 
tween the United States, Germany and Eng¬ 
land for the settlement of the late troubles in 
those Pacific islands, and the future control 
of the scattered kingdom. It is the general 
acknowledgement that the Americans secured 
every substantial point they made—because 
they were just, of course, and also because we 
were or seemed to tn determined to fight for 
our objects and the other parties weren’t will¬ 
ing to get embroiled with us about such a 
comparatively small matter in view of the 
present ticklish position of affairs much near¬ 
er home. The treaty signed guarantees self- 
government in the Samoan Islands under the 
joint control of the United States and Ger¬ 
many, England to act as arbitrator in the 
event of any differences arising. The Sa¬ 
moans are to elect their own king and sub¬ 
king or viceroy and to be represented in a 
senate composed of the principal chiefs and 
an assembly elected by the people. The Ger¬ 
mans are to receive a small indemnity for 
their losses, and a special court is to be ap¬ 
pointed to deal with the complicated land 
question Things will remain as they were 
before the treaty was completed until Decem- 
. o n Wednesdav Commissioner 
Phplps was nominated to be Envoy Extraor¬ 
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of tbe 
United States to Germany as a reward for 
his successful diplomacy in making the trea¬ 
ty. All agree that it is an excellent and well 
deserved appointment. The rtew Minister is 
nearly 50 years old. a New-Yorker by birth 
and a New Jerseyite by residence, rich, gener¬ 
ous thoroughly honorable, naturally clever, 
finely educated, with a knowledge of German 
and French, and four terms’ experience in 
Coneress. He is very popular here and also 
in Berlin, his return to which private business 
will delay for a short time........ 
A company to make lumber out of straw was 
incorporated in this State Monday.. ... 
Editor Noauin, of the Sentinel. New Orleans, 
the other dav accused Editor Flacquet, of the 
Comet, of having been drunk at a picnic. 
Flacquet proved bis band was the steadier 
anyhow, bv killing his traducer in a shooting 
scrape in tbe street.The appropria¬ 
tions for raving pensions are all exhausted. 
Some attrihnte the blame to General Black, 
late Commissioner of Pensions, for not asking 
money enough; others lay it to Corporal 
Tanner, the present Commissioner, for squan¬ 
dering too much. The present fiscal year 
ends June 30, and the appropriations for the 
next vear will be available after Julv 1. 
Already $90,000,000 have gone for pensions 
during this fiscal year, and Tanner wants 
$15,000,000 more. Dunn g the last 
Administration the Lady of the White House 
was the butt of sillv. ill-bred jokes from ope 
set of witlings; during the present Adminis¬ 
tration. another set are busy poking similar 
iokes at the Babv of the White House . -. 
Last Saturday the Montana horse Spokane, 
won the American Derby at Chicago, beating 
six others among them the Kentucky 
Proctor Knott, winner of the great $oU ,UU0 
Futuritv stakes here last year. His owner 
then refused $40,000 for him. expecting large 
winnings this ypar, but Spokane has defeated 
Proctor three times this season. The Derby 
was mile lone; time.2 41Xl stake, $10,000. 
About’$1,000,000 changed hands in bets. 
SDokane was the favorite at six to five on: 
the odds against Knott were two to one, and 
eight to one against tbe California horse 
Sorronto that came in a good second. 
The Sullivan-Kilrain fight “ The greatest of 
the century ” is to take place near New 
Orleans on July 8. for $10,000 a side. Both 
men have been training hard and faithfully, 
and are reported to he in prime condition “fit 
to fight for their lives” They will start 
south in a few days. Betting is about even 
among disinterested outsiders; but tbe par¬ 
tisans of each are giving odds. Nearly 
400 000 acres of land in tbe Adirondacks nave 
been sold to an Albany syndicate.• 
Monday the French-Canadians at home and 
in this country celebrated in style the feast 
of St. Jean Baptist, and the 353 anniversary 
of the landing of Jacques Cartier near Quebec 
—the beginning of the French settlement in 
Canada. At Fall River and Chicago, where 
French-Canadians are numerous, processions 
with allegorical cars and floats marked tbe 
day as joyously as in the Province of Quebec, 
and the fete lasted three days. Crowds of 
visitors flocked from all the surrounding 
country. The holiday originated in 1834 to 
commemorate the rebellion in Quebec when 
the English unsuccessfully attempted to ban¬ 
ish the French language from the public 
schools.Last Tuesday Mrs. White- 
ling, the first woman ever hung in Philadel¬ 
phia, suffered the death-penalty there at 
Moyomensingr prison. She was 41 years old, 
short in stature and weighed 180 pounds. In 
the spring of 1-88 she poisoned successively 
her husband, her nine year-old daughter, aDd 
he r two-year-old son,and afler her arrest con¬ 
fessed the murders. She was to get a total 
of $199 in insurances on the lives All efforts 
to gain a commutation for this Borgia of the 
slums very properly failed. She died rejoic¬ 
ing at the certainty of soon meeting her mur¬ 
dered family in Heaven!.Mrs. Lucy 
Webb Hayes, wife of the ex President, died 
at Fremont. Ohio, at 6.30 Tuesday morning, 
having never spoken a word or recovered 
consciousness sine© stricken with apoplexy 
the previous Friday. Born at Chillicothe, 
Ohio, in 1831, where her father, Dr. James 
Webb, was a prominent physician and active 
anti-slavery leader. Finely educated, re¬ 
fined, thoroughly amiable, sincerely religious, 
judiciously charitable, of medium hight and 
graceful figure, a model wife and mother, she 
was respected, admired and beloved in life, 
and is widely and sincerely mourned 
in death.. .... 
The longest legislative session ever held in 
Connecticut came to an end last week. The 
most important bill it passed was a makeshift 
modification of the Secret Ballot Law vetoed 
some weeks ago by Republican Governor 
Bulkley^who signed the new law last Saturday 
.Senator Manderson of Nebraska, has just 
had his pension raised without soliciting, and 
been gladdened by the receipt of $6,000 for 
back pay at the higher rate.On July 
4, the Tammany Society will celebrate at 
Tammany Hall, this city, the 100 anniversary 
of its foundation and the 113 anniversary of 
the Declaration of Independence.The 
Pennsylvania Prohibitionists are now likely to 
try to elect members of the legislature from 
the 29 counties that favored Prohibition, and 
then by political bargaining they will try to 
secure Local Option.Thomas Nast the 
cartoonist, has just concluded a four-years’ 
engagement with the publishers of the humor¬ 
ous paper, Time, of this city. He has just re¬ 
turned to N. Y. after a long sojourn in Cal¬ 
ifornia.Twenty of the leading na¬ 
tions of the world will be present at the In¬ 
ternational Marine Congress to be held next 
October at Washington. It will prescribe a 
number of maritime rules to be observed by 
ship-masters of all nations, and especially de¬ 
cide upon the limits of “navigation lanes'’ to be 
taken by vessels going east and west between 
this country and Europe, for greater safety 
in avoiding collisions between each other and 
with icebergs.Rev. William Henry 
Beecher, eld st brother of the late Henry 
Ward Beecher, died at Chicago on Sunday, 
aged 87 years. An extra session of 
the Rhode Island Legislature will soon be 
called to revise the statutes regulating the 
liquor traffic. 
Parson W. E. Howard, the convicted “elec¬ 
tric” sugar swindler, has neen sentenced to 
nine years and eight months’ imprisonment at 
Sing Sing at hard labor, as “a swindler, per¬ 
jurer and hypocrite.” .The lately 
organized British-Arrerican Association, at 
its annual session at Boston, tbe ether day, 
“resolved” that Minister Egan 9hould be re¬ 
called from Chili because he isn’t in good 
odor with Englishmen. Among others, a copy 
of the “resolutions” was s°nt to Gov. Thayer 
of Nebraska, where Egan lived, and the Gov¬ 
ernor has bitterly denounced the association 
for unjustly trying to blacken the Minister’s 
character, impertinent intermeddling, and 
impudent bigheadedness generally. 
Ohio has 6 753 Sabbath Schools, but 6,000 
more are needed to take in the half million 
youths still ont of tbe fold.The rail¬ 
roads in tbe Vanderbilt system have discon¬ 
tinued Sunday trains as far as possible. The 
Vanderbilt family, under the leadership of 
Elliot F. Shephard, is becoming quite religi¬ 
ous_ Well clad, well educated, well fed, 
debonnaire Charles T. de Bann, defaulting 
a«sistant-cashier of the Park National Bank of 
this city, who had heen always fully trusted, 
generously paid and well treated and had, in 
return, stolen from the bank $95 000. was sen¬ 
tenced, Monday, to five years and six months 
in Sing Sing. Same day tattered, ill educat¬ 
ed, halt-starved, dirty-looking L. M. Moore, 
who bad never had more than half a chance, 
and didn’t see that till it bad swept by, was 
sentenced to six years in tbe same place for 
failing in an attempt to steal a $15 suit of 
clothes from a Baxter street Hebrew dealer in 
second-hand garments. De Baun stole delib¬ 
erately for five years; Moore tried to steal on 
the impulse of the moment. One had every¬ 
thing; the other, nothing.The Manhattan 
brass works, the largest makers of bra*s in 
this city, were cremated Monday. Loss $300,- 
000.The latest is a Glass Trust now 
being formed, to control all the glas« factor¬ 
ies in the country. It has already gobbled up 
nearly all in New York, many in Ohio and 
several in Pennsylvania. 
In 1888 the government’s revenue amounted 
to $6.32 per head of 60.000 000 population, 
and its expenditures, not including payment 
of the national debt, to $4 47 per head. Tbe 
national debt amounted to $17 71 per head, 
and the interest thereon to 65 cents. Tbe 
duties collected on imports were $3.47 per 
head, and the internal revenue $2 07. 
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, was unamiously 
renominated, on the third ballot, by the Re¬ 
publicans at Columbus, on Wednesday, in the 
largest convention ever held in the State. 
ADer two ballots, all the delegates stampeded 
to Foraker amid the wildest enthusiasm. Born 
July 5, 1846 in Highland county; worked on a 
farm when a boy. Entered the army when 
16 as a private, and came out at the end of the 
war a captain; graduated at Cornell in 1869, 
and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati 
shortly afterwards Elected Judge of the Su¬ 
perior Court in 1870; defeated for Governor 
in 1883 by Judge Hoadly, but defeated the 
latter in 1885, and was re elected in 1887. 
Democrats say he can’t carry the State this 
time; Republicans say he can with a whoop. 
.Wednesday the Rev. Dr. Bradford 
B. Raymond was installed as President of 
Wesleyan University, at Middleton, Conn.... 
General Simon Cameron died at his farm 
at Donegal Springs, Pa., at 8 o’clock Wednes¬ 
day evening, June 26, having been prostrated 
with paralysis six days before. Born March 8, 
1799; had a terribly hard struggle to get an 
education; but got it. Apprenticed in a 
printing office at 17; became owner and editor 
of the Harrisburg Republican in 1820. Elect¬ 
ed State Printer next year and for the seven 
following. Entered politics iD 1823 and soon 
afterwards became Adjutant-General, hence 
his title of General. Later became banking 
mogul, railroad magnate, insurance president, 
Indian agent, and United States Senator 
twice, Secretary of War, Minister to Rus¬ 
sia, and again United States Senator twice, 
resigning at the age of 78, in 1877, to 
make place for his son J. Donald Cameron. 
Since then he has lived in comparative quiet. 
Always energetic, hard-working, shrewd, sav¬ 
ing, a steadfast friend and a bitter enemy, 
and for a life-time a politician of politicians, 
he rose from poverty and ooscurity to great 
wealth and political influence. Having out¬ 
lived a multitude of enmities, full of years and 
honors the old man has joined the majority, 
leaving regret alone among the living. 
Wednesday morning in a collision of three 
freight trains on the Pennsylvania railroad, 
40 miles east of Pittsburg, 30 persons were 
killed and many mjured. One locomotive 
and 30 cars plunged over an embankment into 
a creek 50 feet below. A car-load of lime set 
fire to the debris that remained on tbe track. 
None of the crew remained to tell the tale ... 
.Secretary Tracy says he will neither 
make nor permit to be made, in his Depart¬ 
ment, any appointment or removal on party 
grounds. Merit will be the only consider¬ 
ation in the Navy.An association 
of colored farmers in South Carolina is said 
already to number 40,000 members. It is 
about to establish an exchange to promote 
business intercourse.. For the pur¬ 
pose of taking up all other indebtedness of the 
road, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 
Railroad Company has made to the United 
States Trust Company of this City a mortgage 
for $150,000,000—the largest ever made...... 
A penniless young surgeon of the United 
States Army is going to marry $4,000 000 and 
a daughter of James G. Fair, the California 
bonanza king, and Nevada United States ex- 
Senator . Owing to the opposition to 
the execution of murderer Kemmler by elec¬ 
tricity at Auburn, N. Y., about this time, a 
referee has been appointed to take testimony 
in regard to the effect of an electric current 
on the human bodv. The report is to be made 
on July 30, and Kemmler is, therefore, sure 
of at least a month’s respite. Should the 
Courts decide the new law unconstitutional 
there will be some doubt whether any legal 
punishment for murder exists in this State 
since the law went into force, for, as it ex¬ 
pressly repealed all previous laws on the sub¬ 
ject, if it is itself unconstitutional, by wbat 
law will those who may commit murder until 
tbe enactment of another law, be punished ?.. 
How is it that the Democratic papers which 
for four years kept up the cry “Turn the ras¬ 
cals out,” are all now either mum or grumbling 
that the “rascals” are not kept in?.The 
engineers of the Union Pacific, instead of strik¬ 
ing to obtain their “just rights,” submitted 
their demands to arbitration, and now they’ve 
got all they wanted. Chief Arthur declares 
he will never again sanction a strike. 
Just after President Harrison’s inauguration 
Major Armes, a persistent crank, grossly in¬ 
sulted Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania at 
Washington by pulling his nose for a 
fancied insult. He was tried by court- 
martial and instead of being dismissed from 
the army, was mercifully allowed to remain 
on half pay for five years, on condition that 
he wouldn’t go beyond 50 miles from Wash¬ 
ington. A number of Pittsburg blackguards, 
who are disgruntled with the Governor, have 
just advertised their vulgarity by presenting 
the disgraced officer with a $100 gold medal 
as a token of their high appreciation of bis 
cowardy affront in attacking an old maimed 
soldier. The fellow’s friends say he will glad¬ 
ly accept and wear the badge of disgrace, 
though at the trial he swore that he had not 
even attempted the outrage. 
Captain Winfield S. Schley who has been 
Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Re¬ 
cruiting In the Navy Department with the 
rank of Commodore, has voluntarily resigned 
to take command of the new steel cruiser 
Baltimore, the largest of the new fleet, thus 
giving a practical illustration of his opinion 
that one man shouldn't monopolize a good 
thing too long. Now ’tis the De¬ 
troit aldermen who are charged with boodler- 
ism. John Crouse of Syracuse. New 
York, has just left $10,000,000 behind him on 
this side of the Styx.Vancouver, 
Washington, has, in great part, followed Seat¬ 
tle up in flames and smoke .The em¬ 
bezzling bank officer this time is John Me 
Master, teller of the Farmers and Mechanics’ 
South-side Bank of Pittsburg, who has mis¬ 
appropriated only $150,000 .The Treas¬ 
ury Department has spoilt the plans of a ring 
which had been formed to get millions from the 
Treasury through jute-bagging drawbacks.... 
In Harmony with Nature. 
When we adjust effort to capability we usual¬ 
ly succeed, for the highest good comes from 
acting in harmony with nature. How is this 
priniciple embodied in Compound Oxygen? 
1st. It is composed of nature’s simples in 
salutary adjustment Oxygen with Nitrogen, 
to which the vitality of positive magnet zation 
is added. 
2d. It is administered, not for the purpose 
of usurping natures’ prerogatives, but, to en¬ 
courage and then preserve her kindly moods. 
Here are cases in point. 
Still w ater, N. Y., May 31, 1887. 
“ I feel very thankful that my attention 
was ever called to Compound Oxygen.” 
E. H. Smith. 
ATTLEBORO.MASS.,May 28, 1887. 
“Those suffering from catarrh will find 
Compound Oxygen the most wonderful 
remedy of the age. That’s a fact for we are 
using it!”— Attleboro Advertiser. 
Plumville, Pa., April 25, 1887. 
“ 1 am an earnest advocate of Compound 
Oxygen treatment and have recommended 
it to my afflicted friends.” Emma L. Davis. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages, regard¬ 
ing the effect of Compound Oxygen on inva¬ 
lids suffering from consumption, asthma, bron¬ 
chitis, dyspepsia, catarrh, hay fever, headache, 
debility, rheumatism, neuralgia; all cnronic 
and nervous disorders. It will be sent, free of 
charge, to any one addressing DRS. Starkey 
& Paler, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., or 
312 Sutter Street, Ban Francisco, Cal— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday. June 29, 1889. 
Among the general European belli¬ 
cose talk and belligerent preparations, a 
Peace Congress is sitting tranquilly in Paris. 
Some look on its members as sage messengers 
of “peace on earth and good will to men;” 
others as silly disciples of the immortal Three 
Tailors of Tooley Street. 
Our old visitor, the Russian Grand Duke Alex¬ 
is, has incurred the furious anger of his elder 
brother, the Czar, by his scandalous intrigue 
with the beautiful sister of the late General 
Skobeloff who is morganatic wife of Duke 
Eueene of Leuchtenberg, “the handsomest fool 
in Europe.” Alexis has been deprived of his 
office of Lord High Admiral of the Fleet, and 
most of his other honors and banished to Si¬ 
beria. Duke Eugene, who^was an accommodat¬ 
ing husband, has been sent from the Russian 
court and capital, and his wife has been 
granted “permission” to reside indefinitely a- 
broad. Imperial morality is badly shocked 
by a blot on imperial dignity.After 
heavy losses on both sides, the sea-going strik¬ 
ers at Liverpool, having been starved out have 
had to “cave in”—for the present at any rate. 
Pi.ocrUuucogulmtio'ing. 
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