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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV 16 
Wfws of tije Wak. 
HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, November 9,1889. 
Tuesday’s elections were pretty bad for 
the Republicans. The Democrats carried 
New York State by over 20,000, though the 
Republicans have the Senate by 19 to 13 
and the Assembly by 68 to 60—a decreased 
majority in both houses. Iowa, always a 
Republican State, went Democratic by at 
least 7,000, but there too the Republicans 
have the legislature on joint ballot, secur¬ 
ing a Republican U. S. Senator. Camp¬ 
bell has beaten Foraker in Ohio by about 
12,000, and the legislature, too, is Democra¬ 
tic by a majority of 10, blasting the Sena¬ 
torial hopes of the fiery Halstead and 
bringing Rice forward as a Senatorial pos¬ 
sibility. Abbett has won the governorship 
of New Jersey by 12,000 majority over his 
Republican rival, Grubb. The Senate is 
Republican by one majority, but the House 
is strongly Democratic. The Republican 
plurality in Massachusetts is only 6,000. 
Russell, the Democratic candidate for Gov¬ 
ernor, and a “farmers’ friend,” made a 
splendid fight. Mahone has been “ snowed 
under” by a majority of 35,000 in Virginia, 
but he is probably too lively a little man to 
stay down. Nebraska has given a solid 
Republican majority of 25,000. It was, of 
course, a Democratic “walk-over” in Mis¬ 
sissippi. The Republicans attribute their 
reverses to neglect and lack of interest in 
their masses in an “off” year ; also to fail¬ 
ure of the government to “turn the rascals 
out” fast enough to make room for greedy 
office-seekers, and to a smaller extent to 
the Tanner embroglio. The Democrats 
say the people are getting educated, especi¬ 
ally on the tariff question. Both parties 
express unbounded confidence in future 
triumphs. 
The Pan-Americans have swung round the 
circle back to Philadelphia. They’ve been 
having a happy and instructive time of it.. 
Thursday last Miss Kate Drexel, the second 
daughter of the late F. A. Drexel, the well- 
known Philadelphia banker, who left her 
$6,000,000, took the white veil of the noviti¬ 
ate at the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, 
at Pittsburg, Pa. She can “go into the 
world” anytime for the next two years, 
and with $6,000,000 she could easily buy an 
impecunious duke or even prince in Europe. 
.Philip Armour. Jr. and Miss 
Mae Lester, daughter of a millionaire Board 
of Trade operator, were “mysteriously” 
married in Chicago, Thursday. Both 
families aregladlv reconciled to the happy 
union.When “ Old Hutch ” made 
that corner in wheat, Buffalo IN. Y.) bakers 
raised the price of bread and have since re¬ 
fused to lower it. The “boss” combine 
has just been broken, one of the largest oper¬ 
ators having kicked over the traces. .. .The 
Standard Oil Trust is asking New York 
State for 300,000 feet of land under the East 
River adjoining its Long Island City prop¬ 
erty. It wants to erect on it mammoth 
docks for its own private use. Its business 
now is declared to be a nuisance to public 
health and a menace to adjacent property 
owing to danger of explosion and confla¬ 
gration . 
Pension Commissioner Raum has decided 
that all intricate questions must hereafter 
be referred to him, and he has assumed per¬ 
sonal supervision over the boards of review 
and re-review as well as over the medical 
and other divisions of the bureau. He in¬ 
sists that all clerks and other employees 
must perform their full duty. He is him¬ 
self the hardest sort of a worker. 
Vice-President Morton has determined, it 
is said, to locate permanently in Washing¬ 
ton, where he is investing large fractions of 
his fort une in real estate, although he may 
retain a legal residence in New York for 
political uses.. .Secretary Proctor wants an 
Assistant Secretary of War. The Depart¬ 
ment is one of the largest of the govern¬ 
ment, there being over 1,500 employees in 
Washington and over 11,000 throughout 
the country. 
The Cherokee Indians are getting obsti¬ 
nate. They say they are being bulldozed 
and that they will not yield an inch of the 
Cherokee Strip.The Government 
of the Province of Quebec, Canada, has 
just paid over to Father Turgeon of the 
Society of Jesus, the $400,000 voted to the 
order in settlement in full of the property 
taken from them by the English Govern¬ 
ment “ages ago.” The Protestants in the 
Dominion are indignantly angry and the 
Catholics jubilant.An additional 
defalcation of between $350,000 and $400,000 
on the part of ex-Treasurer Burke, has 
been discovered by the Louisiana author¬ 
ities. The absconder is said to have sought 
refuge in Spain, with which country we 
have no extradition treaty. 
President Flagler and Treasurer Maas of 
the Cotton-Seed Oil Trust, acknowledge 
that they have lost $527,000 of the Trust 
funds by speculating for the Trust’s bene¬ 
fit with its money without the knowledge 
of the trustees. Flagler has contributed 
$150,000 and Maas $100,000 out of their own 
pockets to meet the deficiency, leaving a 
loss of $277,511 for the Trust to bear. Both 
have resigned, and the Trust is to be 
changed into a corporation under the name 
of the American Oil Company. The nevr 
company will issue $21,000,000 common 
stock and $15,000,000 preferred stock to be 
secured by the shares of all the companies 
merged into the new corporation. Each 
share of the trust will be entitled to 50 per 
cent, of its face in new common stock and 
25 per cent, in new preferred stock. It is 
estimated that the Standard Oil Trust and 
several other trusts may follow this exam¬ 
ple and become companies. Trusts are 
amenable to no State or National law; 
companies are. 
The New York State Supreme Court has 
just decided that the clause in the will of 
the late Samuel J. Tilden, giving about 
$5,000,000 for the establishment of public 
libraries in New York City, is void by rea¬ 
son of legal technicalities. Tilden was con¬ 
sidered one of the smartest lawyers in 
America, yet it seems he couldn’t draw or 
get others to draw a valid will. The case 
now goes to the Court of Appeals.A 
disastrous fire destroyed naif a million 
dollars’ worth of property in Petersburg, 
Va., Thursday morning. 
The double-headed volcano of Colima, 
Mexico, which has a devastating record, is 
again, in active eruption, and has done much 
mischief and is threatening a world more.. 
-Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland visit¬ 
ed the White House Thursday, and had a 
S leasant time with President Harrison.... 
ew York has contributed over $3,000,000 
of the $5,000,000 Guarantee Fund of the 
World’s Fair. Interest here is lagging, and 
not a few .say the thing would Be a nui¬ 
sance and expense to them, though, no 
doubt, profitable to business men. Chicago 
has lost none of its vigor and is now work¬ 
ing on New York Congressmen to support 
its cause. No news from St. Louis or 
Washington.The Labrador fisher¬ 
men bitterly complain that their business 
is a failure and that they themselves are 
destitute because American and French 
fishermen use trap nets and other devices 
for the wholesale destruction of fish, and 
that both nationalities treat the three-mile 
limit with contempt. The Canadian Gov¬ 
ernment is going to “inquire about the 
matter.” What else can it do ?. 
.The “ Cronin trial ” at Chi¬ 
cago grows worse and worse for the pris¬ 
oners. Their Clan-na-Gael friends had the 
supreme impudence the other day to hold a 
public meeting in their behalf and to issue 
an appeal to their “ kinsmen and friends ” 
in Ireland for moral support during the 
trial.The board of trustees of the 
University of Pennsylvania this week ad¬ 
opted the co-educational system in a modi¬ 
fied form. 
Ex-Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard, 
of Delaware, was married at Washington, 
last Thursday, to Miss May Clymer—“one 
of the most interesting society events of 
the season.”.There was a widely 
circulated rumor that George W. Childs of 
Philadelphia, had said that Gen. Grant’s 
body would soon be removed from New 
York either to West Point, the National 
Cemetery at Arlington opposite Washing¬ 
ton, or to the Soldiers’ Home at the latter 
place. Childs emphatically denies that he 
ever said anything of the kind, and none of 
the Grant family knows anything about 
the matter.Mrs. “Stonewall” 
Jackson, who is now childless, is writing a 
biography of her husband.There’s 
talk of “bursting” the Barbed-wire Trust 
by repealing the $12-per-ton import duty 
on iron wire. 
Holders of large tracts of Florida land have 
just formed a big syndicate owning 6,000, 
000 acres. All the business connected with 
the improvement, sale and lease of the vari¬ 
ous tracts will be conducted under one head 
at Sanford.It is reported that owing 
to official mismanagement there are not 
funds enough in the Ohio State Treasury 
to meet current expenditures, so that many 
State creditors are in distress. 
The American Bar Association composed 
of the best lawyers in the country, has 
written to the President a strong letter 
showing the necessity for legislation for 
the relief of the over-crowded condition of 
the docket of the Supreme Court. A case 
put on the docket now can’t be reached for 
three years and the business is fast accum¬ 
ulating, much to the loss of litigants in the 
most important cases. 
A company has just been formed in London 
with a capital of $2,500,000, capable of un¬ 
limited expansion, for the purchase of the 
Chicago grain elevators. Some of the 
Windy City’s elevators are said toliave been 
sold already to the English syndicate that 
has purchased the flouring mills at Minne¬ 
apolis and most of the elevators through¬ 
out the Northwest. For eight years the 
annual income has averaged eight per cent, 
and the price is reported to be made on this 
basis. The Pillsbury and Washburn mills 
at Minneapolis together with the Star ele¬ 
vators and 75 of the Van Dusen & Co.’s 
elevators have already passed into English 
hands. The Van Dusen elevatorscornpri.se 
a long line extending along the Chicago 
and Northwestern railway and across Da¬ 
kota.Monday the President issued a 
? reclamation admitting North and South 
)akota into the sisterhood of States. The 
papers for his signature were shuffled be¬ 
fore him so that neither he nor anybody 
else could tell which was admitted first.... 
.Two of the eight steamers heretofore 
running between San Francisco and Chi¬ 
nese ports have been withdrawn owing to a 
falling off in trade due to anti-Chinese 
American legislation. 
Governor Knapp of Alaska, complains that 
there is no law in the Territory providing 
for the transfer of land, and, exceut mineral 
lands, there is no process by which land 
can be acquired. It is impossible to own 
even a house there.Fortunate Com¬ 
modore F. A. Ramsey has for 10 years had 
some of the fattest and most comfortable 
berths in the Navy, and he has just been 
appointed head of the Bureau of Naviga¬ 
tion, in Washington, the most important 
Bureau in the Navy Department. 
Testimony from all sections of Massachu¬ 
setts is emphatic in praise of the Austra¬ 
lian ballot system tried in the whole of the 
Old Bay State for the first time at last 
Tuesday’s elections. There’s little doubt 
that this system will be in force in all the 
States before many years are passed. 
......A division nine miles from Duluth, 
Minn., where land was worth $16 per acre, 
was platted some time ago and given a 
name like that of the most valuable divis¬ 
ion of the city. Then the swindlers sold 
the plots to greenhorns and over $337,000 
worth of them had been recorded when the 
fraud was discovered last Tuesday. 
The 2,000 Indians occupying the Wind 
River Reservation, just south of the Yel¬ 
lowstone National Park in Wyoming Ter¬ 
ritory, are said to be actually dying of star¬ 
vation owing to the fact that the rations is¬ 
sued to them are shamefully insufficient 
compared with those issued to other 
Indians. 
not owned by Chili, a concession of 4,000,000 
acres of land and an annual payment of 
$400,000 from the customs revenue. Chili as 
a result of the late disastrous war, seized 
upon nearly all Peru’s rich nitrate beds and 
some of her most valuable guano deposits, 
and she has just made the best terms possi¬ 
ble with her creditors to get means to start 
national life again.The 
wife of bonanza millionaire Mackay. who 
has of late years been toadying and hob¬ 
nobbing with all the accessible princes, 
princelings and social notabilities of Europe 
is suing an English newspaper for lit el, 
for having said she was formerly a washer¬ 
woman . 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
SATURDAY, November 9, 1889. 
Tite German Emperor has had a magnifi¬ 
cent reception in Constantinople. In costly 
presents, street decorations, etc., etc., the 
visit must have cost the impecunious Sul¬ 
tan considerably over $1,000 000. It is be¬ 
lieved that though no actual treaty was ne¬ 
gotiated or formal bargain made, a very 
cordial understanding has been arrived at 
on political matters. Russians are mad 
that a German Emperor should visit their 
immemorial foe. Some say, however, that 
Bismarck is sacrificing Austrian interests 
diplomatically to Russian. Anyhow, an 
agreement between the Triple Alliance, 
England and Turkey would make a war on 
the part of Russia and France combined 
“ midsummer madness.” Little Montene¬ 
gro appears to be Russia’s only staunch 
friend in Southeastern Europe. 
The Boulangerists have held a well attend¬ 
ed conference at the General’s residence in 
the Island of Jersey, but nothing serious is 
likely to come of it. 
Last Wednesday, the great Paris Interna¬ 
tional Exposition, after a brilliant and 
financially successful career of six months, 
came to an end. Over 400,000 persons were 
present at the closing fete. In spite of the 
opposition of all the world’s royalties, it 
was the finest and most profitable show ever 
seen. It brought enormous sums of money 
to Paris and other parts of France. Ameri¬ 
can visitors alone left there, it is estimated, 
about $100,000,000. Then it has greatly 
educated the French people. It was one of 
the best supports of the Republic during 
the recent elections. The great majority 
insisted that nothing should be done to 
imperil its success; hence the collapse of 
Boulangerism. 
Dr. Peters, the German African explorer, 
and would-be rescuer of Emin Pasha, (Dr. 
Schnitzer, a Silesian) has been massacred 
by the Massai with his band of Somali at¬ 
tendants. Stanley and Emin with 800 
followers are pressing on towards the coast 
opposite Zanzibar. Emin was taken pris¬ 
oner by his own 200 Egyptian soldiers who, 
after years of faithful service, had revolted. 
The Malidists had captured his Province in 
Equatorial Africa, and so, after all, in spite 
of his enormous hardships and terrible 
losses, Stanley, who started out to relieve 
Emin, has actually done so. Another ex¬ 
pedition is about to start inward from the 
coast with supplies for Stanley’s men. 
Spain is to have an International World’s 
Fair at Madrid, to open on August 3, 1892, 
in commemoration of Columbus’s dis¬ 
covery.That wide-awake young 
Conservative Mugwump, Lord Randolph 
Churchill, as usual after a Tory reverse, 
startles old-fogy Bourbons by urging the 
Conservatives to consider “reform in the 
land laws, the sweating system as well as 
laws affecting the workingmen ” of Eng¬ 
land. 
.A scheme for the federal union of the 
Australian colonies, modeled on that of 
Canada, is being vigorously pushed by Sir 
Henry Parkes, Premier of New South 
Wales.The overflow of the Po and 
other rivers in Italy has caused great losses 
of life and property.Rev. Dr. O’Reilly, 
treasurer of the Irish National League of 
America, has handed to the National League 
authorities in Ireland $40,000 collected in 
America. 
In the Solomon Islands an Englishman and 
three native boys were murdered and eaten 
by cannibals a few weeks ago, and an Eng¬ 
lish war-ship has bombarded the coast 
villages in retaliation. 
Prince Alexander of Battenberg, ex-Prince 
of Bulgaria, was a little over a year ago en¬ 
gaged to be married to a grand-daughter 
of Queen Victoria and sister of the present 
Emperor of Germany. Much to the indig¬ 
nation of all Royalties, he jilted her and 
married Mile Marie Loisinger, a well- 
known opera singer. The new Princess has 
iust died in childbirth at Gratz.The 
Bghter-men of the London docks are again 
on strike to force their employers to eom- 
r ill their regular employees to join the 
n ion. 
The Government of Ecuador is the last to 
forbid Chinese immigration.The 
Argentine Republic proclaims that it will 
sell 15,300,000 acres of good farm and graz¬ 
ing laud at 80 cents per acre, the proceeds 
to contribute to the redemption of some of 
the Republic’s depreciated currency. 
Peru owes English bondholders $280,000,000 
and $150,000,000 more will be needed to put 
her railroads in good condition. She has 
just made a settlement with the bondhold¬ 
ers by which she virtually gives the latter 
for 60 years, control of her railroads and 
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