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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCTOBER 26 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, October 19,1889. 
Since September 1, there have been six 
deaths in this city alone from alternating 
electric currents used in lightingthestreets, 
and 15 deaths from contact with electric 
wires in other places. Nine of these were 
also caused by alternating electric cur¬ 
rents. This system belongs to the West- 
inghouse Company ; the Edison system does 
not concern itself with alternating electric 
currents, and the electric currents used by 
it are comparatively safe, as owing to their 
nature and strength they will seldom or 
never kill. Mayor Grant of this city is 
waging a vigorous war against the street¬ 
lighting electric companies for not insulat¬ 
ing their wires properly and neglecting to 
put them under ground where conduits for 
that purpose have been provided. Those 
parts of the city lighted by the companies 
have been left in black darkness during the 
last three nights as a consequence of an ef¬ 
fort on the part of the companies to force 
public opinion to put a check on the mayor; 
but public opinion applauds his action. 
A short time ago the National Burial Case 
Association—the great Coffin Trust, which 
controls the coffin product of the country— 
advanced the price of caskets 40 to 55 per 
cent, and sent out notices to undertakers 
everywhere, warning them that if they did¬ 
n’t. join the association before October 16, 
they couldn’t purchase any more of the as¬ 
sociation’s goods—they’d be boycotted. This 
has roused much indigation everywhere 
.and a coffin-makers’ organization just 
formed at St. Louis, threatens to undersell 
the Trust 60 per cent. A Cradle Trust is 
next in order, so that everything may be 
“ cornered ” from the cradle to the coffin... 
.There are 500 cases of typhoid fever 
in Johnstown, Pa., owing to the very un¬ 
sanitary condition of the place after the 
flood. Bodies of the victims are still being 
found at an average rate of two a day. The 
cheap, ready-made houses purchased at 
wholesale by the Flood Commissioners are 
hardly fit for affording winter shelter ! 
Many are suffering from want of fire, and 
clothing, and winter is rapidly approach¬ 
ing. That do-nothing Commission, how¬ 
ever, still clings to over $1,600,000 of the 
money contributed by charity for the relief 
of the sufferers. A large staff of well paid 
cerks draw regular salaries, however. 
Many of the contributions have never been 
collected it is said, many have been misap¬ 
propriated or “ gone astray.” It is estima¬ 
ted that fully 25 per cent, of the contribu¬ 
tions have been “lost” in this and other 
ways. TMs would make a loss of over $750, 
(XX) in cas to say nothing of the losses in 
other supplies. Never was charity more 
generous ; never were charitable contribu¬ 
tions more disgracefully mismanaged. 
A good deal ol' fuss is just now being made 
about the recent discovery of tin in the 
Black Hills. Our annual importations of 
tin plate amount to $35,000,000, and if we 
could supply our wants at home, there 
would be a big saving. The Engineer and 
Mining Journal, a pretty good authority, 
says that only two pounds of tin have been 
discovered in Dakota, and that by means 
of these two pounds, millions of capital 
have been raised in the United States, Eng¬ 
land and France, for the purpose of w ork¬ 
ing the “mines.” There’s a good deal of 
talk, too, about putting a “protective” tar¬ 
iff on foreign tin for the benefit of the pros¬ 
pective native industry. A good deal of 
fuss certainly about two pounds of tin, 
which may be the result or “ salting” the 
“mines” but the weight of authority is 
still in favor of the genuine nature of 
the discovery.. 
C. P. Huntington and Jay Gould are re¬ 
ported to have pooled their railroad inter¬ 
ests. This would make a gigantic consol¬ 
idation, but the report is probably false or 
at any rate “premature.”.Ar¬ 
rangements have been completed for hold¬ 
ing, at Montgomery, Ala., in the early part 
of November, one of the most complete ex¬ 
positions ever held in the State. It is to be 
known as the Southern Exposition; but 
products and visitors are cordially invited 
from all parts of the country. Low rates 
have been secured on all the railroads for 
freight and passengers, and liberal stop¬ 
over privileges will be given. For full in¬ 
formation apply to Mr. W. C. Bibb, Secre¬ 
tary, Montgomery, Ala.The great 
Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., illus¬ 
trating the products of the extensive Pied¬ 
mont section of the South, promises to be a 
brilliant success. A great deal of hubbub 
has been made there during the past week 
about the visit of Governor Hill of New 
York State, who is making a Southern trip 
to start his Presidential boom for 1892, out¬ 
side his own State. It looks now as if he 
would be ex-President Cleveland’s most 
formidable rival; but 1892 is half a century 
off yet, so far as political prophecies are 
concerned.. 
Ontario, Canada, boasts of a surplus of 
$1,927,514 for the last fiscal year. 
Illinois is the only State where a complete 
record of farm mortgages is available, and 
it is found that, outside of Chicago, all the 
town and farm mortgages amount only to 
$123,733,098, instead of over $500,000,000 for 
farm mortgages alone as politicians claimed 
during the last campaign.The Cana¬ 
dian Chinese Restriction Law imposes a 
tax of $50 on Chinese immigrants, and is 
emharassing to the British Government, 
which is held responsible for its dependency’s 
act by the Chinese Government, which 
threatens to retaliate against British trade 
in the Flowery-Kingdom. It is likely that, 
to please England, the Dominion Parlia¬ 
ment will risk giving offence to the people 
of British Columbia, by repealing the law. 
This twould; remove the last restraint to 
Mongolian immigration to this country 
through Canada, tor it has been found im¬ 
possible to prevent Ah Sin from smuggling 
himself across the border... 
The original Tabernacle of the Rev. T. De 
Witt Talmage. the famous Brooklyn 
B reacher, was 01 iron, and was burned in 
ecember 1872. A brick building with stone 
facings, having a frontage of 150 feet and a 
depth of 113 feet, was opened as its success¬ 
or in February, 1874. It cost $118,000 and 
since then it has been enlarged and improv¬ 
ed at an additional cost of $85,0(X). Its seat¬ 
ing capacity was 2,800 and it was generally 
crowded when Talmage preached. Early 
last Sunday morning it caught fire from 
some unknown cause and was entirely cre¬ 
mated. Insurance $129,450. Talmage ap¬ 
peals eloquently to the general public for 
$100,000 more to build a larger and finer 
structure.While little is being said 
of late about doing away with the danger¬ 
ous stove in railroad cars, many of the com¬ 
panies have been honestly working to sub¬ 
stitute steam-heating. 1 lie occurrence of 
another appalling holocaust in a railroad 
“smasli-up” will, however, be probably 
needed to push the alteration vigorously 
ahead. Another reformation urgently need¬ 
ed is the introduction of an improved 
method of coupling cars on all the roads. 
Statistics prepared by the Railroad Com¬ 
missioners of Iowa show that in that State 
alone, with 8,000 miles of railroad, 352 
brakemen w'ere killed or injured in 1888 be¬ 
cause of the use of the common link-and- 
pin coupling and the hand-brake on freight 
cars. 
Out of 142,000 Federal oflices only 27,000 are 
covered by the civil service law; but the 
aggregate salaries of these 27,000 places is 
between $30,0(K),000 and $40,000,000, or nearly 
one-half of the annual aggregate salaries of 
the appointive places in the United States 
civil service.Secretary Noble has de¬ 
cided that Senator Manderson’s re-rating 
was illegal, and under that decision the 
Nebraska Senator has returned to the 
Treasury the special certificate sent him by 
Commissioner Tanner for$4,0(X) in payment 
of arrearages under the new rating. Man- 
derson declares emphatically that he had 
never solicited a re-rating. Secretary 
Noble maintains all unsolicited re-ratings 
were illegal, and money paid on them will 
be recovered wherever possible, future pen¬ 
sions being retained in part-payment 
where it it impossible to recover the 
money paid.An agitation for eight 
hours’ work per day has already started 
among labor organizations. Of these the 
Federation of Labor, which claims 600,(XX) 
members, is now by far the largest. 11 
has just decided to start a striking fund 
of two cents a w T eek for each member. 
The Knights of Labor is still powerful 
though its membership is steadily dimin¬ 
ishing. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood 
of Locomotive Engineers, says that if the 
organization shall decide to associate with 
any other, it must find a new chief. lie 
firmly believes it should remain inde- 
dependeut. 
President Elliot, of Harvard College, who 
has long been eminent as a Mugwump, 
lias gone completely over to the Democrats. 
Of course both the great parties speak in 
very different terms indeed of this step on 
the Professor’s part.Five cotton 
warehouses, two cotton-presses, and 4,500 
bales of cotton were burned at Savannah, 
Ga., theother day, loss estimated at $4,0(X), 
(Kill.Axtell in his mile against 
time on the Terre Haute track a week ago. 
not only broke his own record of 2:11 but 
broke trie world’s stallion record, mane by 
Maxey Cobb, 2:13R, by making the mile in 
2:12. Colonel Conley of Chicago, who, it is 
thought, represents a syndicate, has bought 
the young wonder for $105,000—the high¬ 
est price ever paid for ahorse.The 
Carnival Association of St. Paul have decid¬ 
ed to build another ice palace this winter. 
The City Council will be asked to appropri¬ 
ate $20,000 for the building and the remain¬ 
ing $30,000 will be raised by subscription_ 
A request has been sent to the committees 
in charge of the arrangements for entertain¬ 
ing the Pan-American Congress in the dif¬ 
ferent cities, begging them to omit tin- pro¬ 
jected banquets as they would really prove 
too much for the visitors’ health. 
A British syndicate has just purchased 
three big breweries capable of an annual 
output of 125,000 barrels, at Indianapolis, 
for $2,000,000. 
After five weeks’ hard work, only eight 
jurors have been secured in the Cronin 
murder case in Chicago, and some of these 
may yet be rejected as disqualified for one 
cause or another by the prosecution or the 
defence. The whole country has been 
shocked during the past week by a vile at¬ 
tempt to “ fix ” one or more of the jury so 
as to “hang” it in favor of the accused. 
Bribes for such action, some as high as 
$5,000, were offered to several men likely to 
be placed on the jury. Already 11 of the 
subordinate conspirators have been ar¬ 
rested, among them the private secretary 
of Alexander Sullivan, the notorious law¬ 
yer and ex-chief of the Clau-na-gael. Cir¬ 
cumstances point strongly to him as being 
the head-center of this disgraceful conspir¬ 
acy. More infamous even than the An 
archist outrages has been this whole foul 
Cronin business, showing such widespread 
corruption among people hitherto deemed 
honest if not honorable.In the 
matter of the World’s Fair New York is 
moving tortoise-like. Books for subscrip¬ 
tions to a guarantee fund of $5 ! <KX).(XX) are 
to be opened at once, and, it is thought, 
there will be no difficulty in securing that 
amount. There is less snarling at the site 
selected by the Site Committee, as the dis¬ 
gruntled editors have begun to see the 
mischief they have been doing. Chicago 
has continued to work steadily, energeti¬ 
cally, and skillfully. St. Louis is working 
slowly, but persistently. Washington is 
waiting for Congress. 
Gen. .John F. Hartranft, ex-Governor of 
Pennsylvania, died at his home at Norris¬ 
town Thursday noon. Born in Mont¬ 
gomery County, Pa. in 1830; graduated at 
Union College, Schenectady, New York in 
1853, and was admitted to the Montgomery 
bar in 1860. Entered the war as colonel of 
volunteers at Lincoln's first call for troops, 
and served brilliantly to the end. Com¬ 
manded the Third Division of the North 
Corps in the assault of Fort Steadman in 
March 1865 and was brevetted Major-Gen¬ 
eral for the gallant capture of the works 
which had been captured by Confederate 
General Gordon a short time before. The 
title of “The Hero of Fort Steadman,” 
commemorated 11 art ranft’s bravery. 
..Thomas W. Giblin, examiner and general 
agent of the Lockwood Mortgage Com¬ 
pany", of Wellington, Kansas, has disap¬ 
peared and is said to be a defaulter to the 
amount of $4,000. 
Last Saturday night the grave of Ralph 
Waldo Emerson, at Concord, Mass., was 
opened by ghouls and the coffin was left 
exposed when they were frightened away. 
It is believed that they wanted the skull. 
The coffin wasn’t opened though somewhat 
decayed, it having been eight years since 
the burial. Much indignation in the town 
finds vent in an offer of $500 for the arrest 
of the miscreants. Where would the ras¬ 
cals find the brains to fit that skull ?. 
.Senator* V est is very ill at his sister’s 
house in Sedalia, Mo.The total 
product of minerals of all kinds mined in 
Canada the past year was $16,500,(XX). The 
more valuable was coal, the output of 
which amounted to 2,658,134 tons. The 
gold product of the year was 61,310 ounces, 
and the iron product 78,587 tons. 
It is reported that the entire plant of the 
Brush Electric Light Company has been 
sold to the Thomson-Houston Electric I fight 
Company on a cash basis, for $3,250,000. 
.Edward A. Perry, ex-Governor of 
Florida, died at Kerrville, Texas, the other 
day at the age of 56. 
It ix Worth Heading. 
We understand a busy man’s views in re¬ 
gard to prolixity. In these days, affairs 
proceed at a railroad rate, and there is no 
time for unnecessary halt, so we fall in with 
this idea momentum, and briefly call atten¬ 
tion to the essential points of a vital matter, 
or rather, we let others do it for us. Here 
are ext racts from two letters which need no 
further comment: 
Rkistektown, Md., Feb. 15,1888. 
“I would like to see you and tell you 
what Compound oxygen has done for me. 
It was slow but sure. Now almost after 
two years, after using only one treatment, 
I think I can say truthfully my health is 
as perfect as it can be on earth. Two doc¬ 
tors of Baltimore examined me and said 
mine was a hopeless case of asthma, and I 
will not tell you how much I have suffered 
with my lungs.” 
Mrs. Mary R. Ireland. 
A concluding extract from another letter 
will furnish most satisfactory reading: 
Mykrsville, Md., Aug. 6, 1888. 
“I believe the Compound Oxygen Treat¬ 
ment to be an invaluable remedy, because 
of the incalculable benefit I received from 
its use.” Rev. A. M. Smith, 
Pastor of Ev. Lutheran Church. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages 
regarding the effect of Compound Oxy¬ 
gen on invalids suffering from consump¬ 
tion, asthma, bronchitis, dyspepsia, ca¬ 
tarrh, hay fever, headache, debility, rheu¬ 
matism, neuralgia; all chronic and nervous 
disorders. It will be sent free of charge 
to any one addressing Drs. Starkey & 
PALEN, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.; 
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
of tasks at home, shorter school hours and 
more time for play. In all respects the 
youngsters’ strike is modeled on those of 
workingmen. 
The Czar’s visit to the Kaiser appears to 
have been quite cordial and his interviews 
with Bismarck very friendly. At the final 
separation at the railroad depot there was 
of course the usual amount of hugging and 
kissing—or perhaps a little more than 
usual. It is thought that the prospects of 
peace have been strengthened. Bismarck 
showed the Russian that with a firm 
alliance between Germany, Austria and 
Italy, and the assured support of Great 
Britain and Turkey, together with a strong 
desire on the part of other countries to pre¬ 
vent or shorten a war, there would be little 
hope for a triumph even for the combined 
forces of Russia and France. Another re¬ 
sult of the visit appears to be a confirma¬ 
tion of Prince Ferdinand’s position as ruler 
of Bulgaria. Immediately after the Czar’s 
departure German bankers and capitalists 
made a large loan to the Principality, which 
they would not have done without as¬ 
surances from high quarters that no dis¬ 
turbance of the present order of things 
would take place there in the near future. 
Moreover, the Prince is now in Paris on a 
visiting trip through Europe, and if he 
were not certain of liis position at home he 
would not have dared to go abroad. What 
concessions the Czar has obtained for his 
complaisance in this and other matters, 
time will show. 
The French Government is about to send a 
commission to Panama to inspect tliecanal 
works. No report of experts not employed 
by the company has yet been made in spite 
of the unprecedented amount of money laid 
out in the work. French public opinion 
now demands a thorough investigation by 
impartial experts.King Malietoa 
of Samoa, has advised the people to elect 
Mataafa as their principal king. He will 
be satisfied himself with position of vice- 
king. It is understood, however, that the 
Germans will not recognize .Mataafa, so 
that there may be more trouble in Samoa.. 
.King Louis of Portugal, aged 51, who 
has reigned for 28 years, is at the point of 
death from total paralysis of the whole 
body. 
An explosion at Bentelee Colliery, atLang- 
ton. Staffordshire, England, last Wednes¬ 
day, completely wrecked the mine, and 
killed 59 of the 70 men who were working 
below at the time.In Servia, M. 
Paschies, leader of the Radicals, has been 
elected to the Presidency of the Parliament, 
and this is held to indicate the complete 
ascendancy of Russian influence in Servian 
affairs. It is said that with a Radical Con¬ 
gress behind him, he will be able to expel 
the present young king and restore the old 
Slav dynasty, which was expelled before 
the present upstart German set of princ- 
lings were put on the Servian throne. 
Milan and Natalie, with all their disgrace¬ 
ful matrimonial quarrels, would in this 
way be got rid of. Austria, however, is 
likely to veto such policy, if she can, as a 
Russified Servia would be a perpetual 
menace on her southern frontier.Italy 
has made a treaty with Menelek II, the 
new King of Abyssinia, by which she as¬ 
sumes a protectorate over the whole of that 
country. This has an area of about 300,000 
square miles and a population of about 5,- 
000,000, mostly Christians. It is mostly an 
elevated table-land with an alt itude vary¬ 
ing from 5,000 to 7,000 feet in different dis¬ 
tricts. Except in the rainy season, the cli¬ 
mate is strictly temperate. The country 
is capable of enormous development, and 
Italy, the last comer among the nations in 
Africa, is likely to secure one of the best of 
the recent prizes. 
$U.orcnancou,o' Advertising. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, October 19,1889. 
THE most remarkable thing in England of 
late is the nearly unbroken list of successes 
of the Gladstonian candidates in the 
bye-elections for Parliament. In the Elgin 
aiid Nairn district in Scotland, at the gen¬ 
eral elections in 1886, the Liberal candidate 
was successful by 119 votes; whereas two 
weeks ago he had a majority of 532 ; while 
the Conservative majority of 71 in North 
Bucks, England, was turned into a Liberal 
majority of 208 the other day. In 1886 Pe- 
tersborough was carried by the Tories by 
a majority of 289, while last week the Lib¬ 
erals secured the seat by a majority of 251. 
The very decided increase in the Liberal 
vote everywhere is dismaying the Conserva¬ 
tives. Landlord and tenant and capital and 
labor are, however, taking the place of 
Home Rule as “ war cries,” in the Liberal 
canvass. It isn’t so much that the English 
ami Scotch people are losing interest in 
Home Rule for Ireland as that they are 
realizing more strongly the nature and im¬ 
portance of questions more intimately af¬ 
fecting t heir own interests. 'I'lie laborers 
are setting themselves more resolutely 
against starvation wages from employers ; 
and tenants are more rebellious than ever 
against the exactions of landlords, and the 
recent enlargement of the franchise gives 
both classes much more influence in elec¬ 
tions. Extremists believe that before long 
there will be a concurrent triumph of 
Home Rule and land nationalization. 
For the nine months ending September 30. 
French imports increased 40,810,000 francs 
and the exports 245,534,0IX) francs over those 
for the corresponding period last year- 
A school children strike has broken out in 
London, Manchester, Glasgow and Dundee 
and is spreading rapidly all over England 
and Scotland. The strikers are regularly 
organized, appoint patrols to prevent 
other children from attending school and 
often use violence in doing so. They fre¬ 
quently stone the windows of school-houses 
and mob obnoxious teachers. They de¬ 
mand the abolition of caning, of the study 
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