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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 24, 1889. 
There is extreme distress among tbe coal¬ 
miners in Spring Valley, Northern Illinois. 
For refusing to accept the starvation wages 
offered by t he “bosses.” they were locked out 
on April 30, and have been compulsorily idle 
ever since. Several deaths of women and 
cnildren have occurred from sheer starvation, 
while the miserable fare which all have had 
has been a prolific cause of disease and death. 
Several times large numbers have been saved 
from absolute starvation by the charity of 
neighboring towns, and notably of Chicago. 
Women are now scattered in bands seeking 
help through the surrounding country.. 
Mahone has been nominated by acclamation 
as the Republican candidate for Governor of 
Virginia. There appears to be much less dis¬ 
cord than usual among Virginia Republicans, 
and from this and the character of the man 
in the saddle a very lively campaign is a fore¬ 
gone conclusion.After much both¬ 
er, the U nited States Commissioners to the 
Chippewa Indians have succeeded in their ne¬ 
gotiations for the purchase of 3,000,000 acres 
of good farming land in Minnesota. This, too, 
S ill soon be thrown open to settlement... The 
klahomites, in Territorial Convention assem¬ 
bled at Guthrie last Wednesday, earnestly 
memorialized Congress for speedy legislation 
for the protection of the people. No laws 
now exist for making or probating wills; for 
caring for sick, insane or blind; for construct¬ 
ing or maintaining public works; for levying 
any taxes whatever; or for punishing any 
crimes except those against the United 
States. . . 
That perennial pest, L. Gardner of Chicago, 
who lately swindled the public out of $30,000 
by a bogus lottery scheme, has just been ar¬ 
rested at Dixon, Wy. T.. for fraudulent use 
of the mails.A professor in the Cali¬ 
fornia University, claims to have discovered a 
method of tanning leather that makes it im¬ 
pervious to water and so pliable as to be al¬ 
most indestructible.President Harri¬ 
son has been enthusiastically received on his 
Western trip. He is now safe at his old home 
in Indianapolis.It is getting to be a 
pretty general opinion that one of the best 
selections the President made for his Cabinet 
was “Uncle Jerry Rusk.” Besides manag¬ 
ing his Department in first-rate style, he has 
been popular with all his colleagues and the 
general public from the first, and his popu¬ 
larity has been steadily increasing without 
a break. 
The latest reports from Hayti indicate that 
Legitime has almost reached the end of his 
rope, and must soon surrender to Hippolyte 
or “go.” News from the Black Bepublic is 
so contradictory, however, that one has to 
guess at the truth. The French and English 
are contending for paramount influence; 
what are the United States doing?.Be¬ 
fore 7:30 o’clock yesterday morning four mur¬ 
derers were hanged together in the Tombs 
Prison in this city—a pretty good showing 
for a place in which criminals openly boasted, 
a few years ago, that hanging for murder was 
played out. There would have been a fifth 
were it not that Governor Hill respited him 
for 60 days at the last moment, although one 
of our best judges, on the same day, decided 
that there were no grounds for a new trial.... 
The location for the World’s Great Fair in 
1892, is still an exciting question. New York, 
Washington and Chicago are still the most 
prominent claimants in about this order, with 
St. Louis a good fourth. Committees to 
carry on the agitation and raise the necessary 
funds have been appointed in all four places, 
that of New York, of course, transcending 
all the others combined in the prominence and 
wealth of its members. To make the show 
what it ought to be will cost from $10,000,000 
to $15,000,000. Washington will want the 
whole amount or thereabouts out of the Na¬ 
tional Treasury, Chicago and the other claim¬ 
ants would want at least half of tbe sum from 
the same source, New York proposes to con¬ 
tribute the whole herself. Congressional 
sanction is indispensable to an International 
Exposition, inasmuch as notification must be 
sent to foreign nations through the General 
Government, whose duty it will be to solicit 
foreign co-operation. The South strongly 
favors Washington; the West is divided be- f 
tween Chicago, St. Louis and New York, 
with New York as the second choice of the 
sticklers for the two other places; the Middle 
and Eastern States support New York. On 
the whole, New York is likely to get the 
show if sufficient money shall be promptly 
raised to distance all competitors. .... 
Tbe Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis¬ 
ville Railroad is a new road. Last Thursday 
the first train to go over it started from ^ 
Knoxville with a select excursion party con¬ 
sisting of the City Council, Board of Public 
Works, representatives of the Chamber of 
Commerce, and the flower of tbe business and 
professional men of Knoxville, in two passen¬ 
ger cars At Flat Gap, 22 miles from Knox¬ 
ville, at 10:30 a. m., the train went through a 
defective trestle and of 65 persons on board 
41 were injured. Three are dead and others 
are likely to die. Help didn’t come till 4:30 
p. M., and the sufferings of the exposed and 
helpless wounded were heart-rending. 
Henry George threatens to conduct a single¬ 
tax campaign all over the country. 
There’s a strong movement on foot in the 
South to make January 19, the birthday of 
Gen. Robert E. Lee, a public holiday. The 
lower house of the Georgia legislature has 
passed a bill to that effect without a dissent¬ 
ing vote, and the Senate will undoubtedly 
take similar action. Some of the papers pro¬ 
pose that Congress should make it a National 
holiday. While Northern papers are gener¬ 
ous in their acknowledgments of the many 
personal virtues of Gen. Lee, they scout the 
idea of a National holiday in commemora¬ 
tion of him, and find numerous objections 
to a sectional one. Such a celebrationof.the 
birthday of Lee, say they, would inevitably 
be a celebration of the Lost Cause. 
The Fourth Annual Minneapolis Exposition 
was formally opened Monday, and promises 
to be a Western—that is—a great success. 
.Monday a ramshackle, flimsy, tenement 
house on Seventh Avenue in this city, in 
which 75 persons were kenneled, proved a 
death-trap for 10 of them. It “mysteriously” 
caught fire in the kitchen of a fellow who was 
on the eve of bankruptcy, and had a big in¬ 
surance on his place.The debts of 
Sherman Brothers, grain thieves of Buffalo, 
amount to $355,000; their assests to possibly 
$7,000.A Chicago organ of the Knights 
of Labor gives the membership now at 600,- 
000 against 300,000 a year ago and 600,000 
three years ago. The “ deserters ” have most¬ 
ly joined other labor organizations, chiefly 
the Federation of Labor.New York 
City has just placed a heavy loan, to run from 
18 to 30 years, at three per cent., and so lively 
was the bidding that premiums ranging up to 
2% per cent, were obtained. Plenty of capi¬ 
tal must be waiting for an assured invest¬ 
ment even at a low rate of interest.At 
Rockland, Ill., there’s a flourishing white 
community under the complete control of 
George Schweinforth, who is proclaiming 
himself not only Christ but God. Religious 
fanaticism in this country is not a monopoly 
of the Southern blacks . 
Two more Canadian sealers have been seized 
by the Rush in BehriDg Sea and sent to Sitka 
with a comical prize crew of one man on 
board of each. They’ll no doubt follow the 
Black Diamond to British Columbia instead. 
Two others wer« boarded, searched and per¬ 
mitted to go. This whole business, as at 
present conducted, appears provokingly far¬ 
cical. The lease of the Alaska Commercial 
Company giving it a monopoly of seal fishing 
in Alaskan waters expires next year. Most 
of the stock is said to be held in Germany.. . 
.Wednesday the largest tobacco auc¬ 
tion sale ever made in this country or the 
world ,‘was made at Louisville, Ky. Amount 
1,002 hogsheads, lor 1,500,000 pounds, worth 
over $10u,000_*..There’s a growing agi¬ 
tation for a great State Park in the Adiron¬ 
dack wilderness. This it is said is the only 
means of preventing the speed}’ destruction 
of the great forests that cover the sources of 
the Hudson River, by the insatiable greed of 
corporations. Under a late ruling of 
the Interior Department dishonorably dis¬ 
charged soldiers in the late war may secure 
pensions. Many old pensioners object to being 
thus placed on the same footing as thieves, 
cowards, cut-throats, deserters and bounty- 
jumpers. The new rule, however, will great¬ 
ly help to reduce that bothersome surplus.... 
Tne Dominion Government is urged to do 
something to prevent the large exodus of Ca¬ 
nadian female help to this country. Besides 
the large number of Canadian women and 
girls in New England factories, it is said 4 7, 
957 are in domestic service in Massachusetts 
alone.It is estimated that ihe capital nom¬ 
inally invested in the various concerns in this 
country dependent on electricity lor their 
business, from the Western Union Teiegiaph 
Company down to the humblest maker of 
electric appliances, amounts to over $600,000, 
000. This means that we now pay an annual 
tax of between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000 
for a convenience which was not in existence 
half a century ago.Miss Hunting- 
ton, the pretty and ambitious adopted daugh¬ 
ter of CoJiis P., the great Pacific Railroad $75, 
000,000 mogul, is reported to be engaged to 
Prince Francis of Hartzfeldt Weldenberg, an 
impecunious German noble of a tine old 
spendthrift family. It is said that he ex¬ 
pects 4,000,000 francs from Huntington's 
hoards to pay off his debts; besides enough to 
live on generously for the rest of his life.. The 
Agricultural Department. Washington, D. C., 
was closed Monday out of respect for the 
memory of Ex-Commissioner Watts who died 
the other day at Carlisle, Pa. He was one of 
the best abused men in the country during his 
term in office; still he had lived an honorable, 
useful and respected life ever since, just as he 
had done before his appointment . 
The late forest fires in Montana, extinguishe i 
by heavy rains during the week, are reported 
to have swept over from 8,000 to 10,000 square 
miles. The September fires in the Michigan 
pineries in 1881, ravaged only 2,000 square 
miles; but 15,000 people were rendered home¬ 
less and 200 lost their lives. The human suf¬ 
fering in Montana must have been much less, 
as the region was very sparsely inhabited; but 
the national loss of timber must have been 
greater.Besides the large number of 
Chinese who illegally make their way into 
this country from Canada and Mexico every 
year, many come in by means of fraudu¬ 
lent habeas corpus writs at various pons. 
Records show that 168 entered Han Francisco 
alone in this way since J anuary 1, in spite of 
the Scott Chinese Exclusion Law.John 
L. having been taken down to Mississippi, 
tried there, convicted and sentenced to one 
year’s imprisonment, was released on $1,000 
bail on appeal to the Supreme Court, wmch 
doesn’t sit till next February, ihe Big Slug¬ 
ger at once returned to New York and Bos¬ 
ton, and with a lot of other athletic notabili¬ 
ties will soon start “on the road” to “coin 
money.” Kilrain was arrested in Baltimore, 
released on bail, and has started South for 
trial... 
Tne Morris Park, the finest race-course in the 
world, was opened in Westchester County just 
on the north of New York City limits, last 
Tuesday. It belongs to John A. Morris, the 
chief owner of the great New Orleans lottery 
swindle, and cost $1,500,000, and $250,000 more 
are to be spent in perfecting all the arrange¬ 
ments. The land aloue.cost $300,000, ana there’s 
a dispute with this city as to the owner;hip ot a 
small strip of it. The New York Jockey-Club 
has leased it at a rental based on five per cent, 
on the capital invested. For the the opening 
meeting, which began Tuesday, $86,000 were 
put up in purses. The grand stand, stables 
and other structures are the finest connected 
with any such an institution in any part of 
the wond.The Terry-Nagle-Field 
tragedy still agitates California and interests 
the rest ot the country. 1 he killing occurred 
in Ban Joaquin County of which Btockton is 
the county-seat, and Nagle was locked up 
there after the trouble. Terry has more 
friends in that section than anywhere else, 
and, like himself, most of them are of a reck¬ 
less class. It was feared that some of the tur¬ 
bulent element might attack the jail, so the 
imprisoned deputy-marshal was spirited away, 
in the gray of the morning, to San 
Francisco, on a writ of habeas corpus 
issued by Judge Sawyer of the United 
States Circuit Court, holding United States 
Court there, together with Justices Field aDd 
Swain. The case was thus taken from the 
jurisdiction of the State to that of the United 
States Courts on the ground that Nagle was a 
United States officer who merely did the duty 
officially confided to him in protecting Justice 
Field, member of the United States Supreme 
Court, the highest Judicial Court in the 
world. Whether the case will come before 
the State or the United States Court will not 
be decided for some time, as the matter will 
doubtless be taken for final settlement to the 
Supreme Court at Washington. In any case 
Nagle is certain to get off scott-free accord¬ 
ing to the demands of public opinion every¬ 
where. in her frenzy for revenge Sarah 
Althea Hill-Terry obtained from a partisan 
addlepate judge a warrant for the arrest of 
Justice Field on the ridiculous ground that 
he was a member of a conspiracy to kill her 
husband. He was at once released on bail by 
Judge Sawyer. Terry appears to have had 
property worth about $100,000, which, it is 
thought, he left to his wife. If so, his son 
will contest the will on the ground of undue 
influence. He attributes his father’s death to 
thb constant goading of Sarah Althea. 
Wails, groans and execrations still come from 
the afflicted Conemaugh sufferers. The $300,- 
000 with which Governor Beaver was to clear 
up the valley are expended, and the cellars of 
over 100 houses in Johnstown are not cleared 
out, and it is expected that nearly 100 corpses 
tegether with other disease-engendering 
matter are buried there. Several dead bodies 
are still found every day or two. Over 
$1,500,000 still remain to be distributed. The 
interest on the contributions would average 
over $25,000 a week; who gets it? Houses 
have been built from the charitable funds by 
contract labor at Pittsburg and Chicago and 
put up by imported labor in Jobnstown, 
while resident workmen have been undergoing 
pauperization from lack of work and conse¬ 
quent necessity of depending on public 
charity. Even the clearing up of the valley 
and several other public works have been done 
principally by imported labor. Pittsburg 
and Philadelphia merchants have been en¬ 
riched by the wholesale purchase of goods, 
while local dealers have been starving be¬ 
cause the Commissioners would buy nothing 
of them, nor would they distribute any of the 
hoarded charity of the world among those 
for whom it was intended, so as to enable the 
latter to patronize local dealers and help to 
revive trade. A trifling saving was doubtless 
made by this course, but the best way of dis¬ 
posing of the charity would have been to help 
the people to help themselves. A large staff 
of clerks, etc., has been kept at big salaries, 
and any amount of figuring and tabulating 
has been done, but little real work. The 
official nincompoops have mistaken book¬ 
keeping for benevolence. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 24, 1889. 
In the British Isles during the last month, 
the greatest public interest has been centered 
in the fate of a worthless woman—a Mrs. 
Maybrick. She is an American, who mar¬ 
ried a Liverpool business-man, proved grossly 
unfaithful to her marriage vows and poisoned 
her husband to be able all the better to enjoy 
her paramour. She was tried for murder the 
other day, and was defended by Sir Charles 
RuBsell, the best pleader in the United King¬ 
dom. With no hesitation the jury found her 
guilty, and the Judge—one of the ablest in 
England—fullv agreeing in the justice of the 
verdict, sentenced her to be hanged on Au¬ 
gust 29. While the vast majority of the peo¬ 
ple fully agreed with the judge and jury as to 
her criminality, a very respectable minori¬ 
ty believed, not that she was innocent, but 
that her guilt had not been proved beyond 
doubt. It was shown by a number of re¬ 
spectable professional men on the witness 
stand that her dead husband used to take ar¬ 
senic as a medicine, that the amount found in 
his stomach would not necessarily have caus¬ 
ed death, and that the symptoms during his 
sickness might be those of an ordinary dis¬ 
ease. The case was exhaustively and ex¬ 
citedly tried in the newspapers and debated 
everywhere; reams upon reams of petitions 
poured in upon the Home Secretary asking 
for a commutation of sentence or a full par¬ 
don. The long-haired men and the short- 
haired women and all sorts of enthusiasts 
and cranks, together with a large assortment 
of professional and business men and others, 
joined in the clamor against the verdict. Ex¬ 
citement grew to white heat across the Atlan¬ 
tic and the submarine cables became hot with 
the electric transmission of every phase of 
the case to this country. Home Secretary 
Mathews, himself a distinguished lawyer, 
after careful consultation with trial Judge 
Stephens and other eminent lawyers, as well 
as with notable doctors, finally decided, last 
Wednesday, to recommend Her Majesty, the 
Queen, to commute the death penalty to im¬ 
prisonment for life, not because there was 
any moral doubt of the woman’s guilt, but 
because there was some doubt that it had 
been legally proved. The public received the 
announcement of this issue to one of the most 
notable criminal cases of modern times, with 
general satisfaction. 
Other transactions in the United Kingdom of 
late have not much interest for Americans. 
In Parliament the Irish question, in one or 
other of its multitudinous phases, has occupied 
more time than any other—nearly as much as 
all others combined, indeed; so that the sittings 
must be extended beyond the usual date to 
complete the votes on indispensable appropri¬ 
ations; while much needed legislation for the 
rest of the country has to go to the wall. 
Agitation has suffered no diminution in Ire- 
laud. William O’Brien, the chronic prisoner 
for patriotism, is again on trial for Holding, 
in County Cork, a Nationalist meeting which 
had been “proclaimed” under the Crimes 
Act, and with him is James Gilbooly, his fel¬ 
low member in Parliament from the County. 
.Strikes are of course, still perennial 
in the coal districts in the north and in the 
iron districts in the center of England, and 
there’s a strike of 10,000 dock laborers in Lon¬ 
don, besides many minor ones in different 
parts of the country . 
The Government, although now in possession 
of the most powerful flpet the world has ever 
seen, is pushing on the construction of now 
war vessels as fast as possible. Fifty were 
added to the fleet last year; and the national 
dockyards are alive day and night with the 
work of repairs and construction. Moreover, 
all the new steamers that carry the Brit¬ 
ish flag to all maritime parts of the globe 
are liable to pass into the government’s 
control, when needed, to be used either as fast 
cruisers or for transport service. New coast 
defences are being constructed and old ones 
strengthened. Although conscription has few 
or no advocates, still much care is taken to 
keep the army in effective condition both as 
to numbers and discipline, arms and other 
equipments. Though Englishmen are chronic 
grumblers, still, on the whole, they see no rea¬ 
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