Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1886 — Page 2

tLljcjPcmocrflltcSentiufl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN, - - - Publisher ——————^——— — —

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. A man giving the name of James Hull was arrested at Philadelphia while attempting to pawn gome articles of underclothing. He proves to be Janies J. Mason, who is wanted in New Orleans to answer the charge of embezzling over $30,000, and he will bo held for extradition. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has finally obtained an entrance into New York City. Edward C. Z. Judson, better known as “Ned Buntlino,” died of heart disease at Stamford, New York, last week, aged 04. Ho was born in Philadelphia. His father, who was a lawyer, tried to make a lawyer of the son, hut at 11 years of age ho ran away after receiving a flogging and shipped as cabin-boy in a vessel that sailed around the Horn. The next yoar he entered the navy as an apprentice on hoard a man-of-war, and a yoar later, when 13 years old, was cimniissioned a midshipman by President Van Buren for meritorious conduct in rescuing the crew of a boat run down by a Fulton ferryboat on East Itiver. Young Judson was assigned to the Levant Other midshipmen refused to moss with liim hecauso lie had been a common sailor before the mast, and • while on the way to join the gulf squadron he fought four of them, one after another, in Florida, New Orleans, and Havana, escaping without a scratch himself, hut marking four of his antagonists for life. From that time on he had the reputation of being one of the best shots in the United States. During the relie lion he served as a chief of scouts, and lias since then borne the title of Colonel. Judson was widely known as a writer of wild tales of adventure.' HD first story, “The Captain’s Pig’” was published in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the pßeudonvm of “Ned Buntline” in 1838, when he was in his 15th year. This sketch brought notoriety to the young writer and fighter, who subsequently received as high as $150,000 a year for the product of his brain and pen. For many years liis annual income from storywriting was $20,000. Ho once earned $12,000 in six weeks, and at another time, uuder pressure, wrote a book of CIO pages in sixty-two hours, scarcely sleeping or eating during that time. He did not know exactly liow; many stories he had written, but estimated them at between 300 and 400, each long enough for a book. Samuel K. Gay, chief clerk of the Pittsburgh Pension Office, lias probably gone to Canada, taking $15,000 or $20,000 with him. The loss by fire in the terra-cotta works at Ravenswood, L. L, amounts to SOO,000, and nearly two hundred men will be thrown out of employment.

WESTERN.

At St. Louis, Brooks, alias Maxwell, convicted of the murder of C. A. Preller, was sentenced to be hanged August 27. An appeal was granted and a stay of execution ordered until October 2. The report of the Illinois Board of Agriculture shows the corn crop to be nearly an average in area and condition. “The anarchists’ trial is now fairly under wav, the jury having been completed,” says a Chicago special “During the forenoon session tho defense exhausted its remaining eighteen peremptory challenges, and eighteen men were challenged for cause. Tho 982 d man examined was accepted by the State as the twelfth juror. His name is Howard Taylor Sanford. Mr. Sanford was challenged by Mr. Foster for cause, but the Court overruled the challenge, and tho defendants noted an exception. Captain Black said the defendants’ attorneys wanted tho record to show that they did not accept tho juror. Just before Capt Black Baid this ho whispered in Mr. Foster’s ear: ‘Challenge for cause any good man the State accepts. We want that for a point when we take the case to the Supremo Court, for we can’t Bhow error in the record unless we show also that we were run out of peremptories.’ Tho opening argument by State’s Attorney Grinuell was received with sneers by Spies, Parsons, andLingg, especially when he stigmatized all the defendants save Fielden as rank cowards.” Five business blocks at Bloomer, Chippewa County, Wis., were burned, causing a - loss of between $60,000 and $75,000. A proclamation has been issued by Governor West of Utah, warning immigrants or others from coming to the Territory to maintain any marriage relation other than that sanctioned by law, and setting forth that violators of the statute will be subjected to condign punishment The Grand Jury at St. Louis indicted six members of the City Council for drunkenness and bribery. Two of the number were arrested and held in $1,5 0 each. A boiler explosion at Wellsville, 0., scalded one child very badly and killed another. They were playing in an adjoining yard. The large lumber yard of Knapp, Stout k Co., at Bt. Louis, was totally destroyed by fire, and 25,000,(L0 feet of lumber consumed. The loss on lumber alone reaches $400,000. The total insurance is estimated at $375,000. Advices from the Southwest are to the effect that “the drought still continues over nearly the whole of Indian Territory. The range is rapidly being ruined, and prairie fires are already burning in every direction. Murrain has broken out among the cattle in several localities and many are dying. A regular epidemic among the stock is feared A dispatch from Topeka says the present drought in Kansas is the severest the State has known since 1873. Unless rain falls very soon the ■com prospect will be rained, as the corn is

just beginning to tassel and is in a condition where rain is most needed. The last general rain was in the latter part of June; since then the weather has been intensely hot. There have been local showers, but not enough to be of any service.” Sheriff Parr, of Paulding, Ohio, says a Toleuo d spatch, was aroused at 2 o’clock in the morning by over one hundred masked and armed men, who surrounded the jail and demanded the keys. They said they had sworn to hang Bill Haley, who was inside on a charge of murder, and the jailer would save trouble by giving them peaceable possession. The sheriff tried to parley with them while a deputy was trying to conduct the prisoner out by a side door, but the crowd saw the movement and seized Haley. They took the wretch a mile out of town and hanged him to a tree.

SOUTHERN.

A Chattanooga dispatch says the trouble among the convicts in the Dade coal mines at Coal City, Ga., was ended by the surrender of the mutineers and their return to work. Two days’ thirst and starvation brought them around. This ends one of the most remarkable strikes on record, and what might have been the cause of a serious difficulty and loss of life. Advices from Western Texas represent great losses of cattle. The drought has been unparalleled. A large section of country is like a desert, being without grass or water. Along the Pecos River there are unnumbered carcasses. Herds of cattle driven from the interior upon reaching the river plunge in and drink until death ensues. The loss will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the prospect of stock living through the coming winter in Western Texas is slight. Jake Braswell, colored, was lynched near Fiat Ford, Bullock County, Ga. Braswell had horribly maltreated Dolly Woods, a little ti-year-old girl, while on her way to school. She identified him after his capture, and ho confessed, saying that he would have killed the child, hut thought her do.id when lie left her. A crowd of one hundred whites and blacks held a conference, and gave Braswell the choice of being burned or hanging himself. He chose hanging, climbed up a tree, fastened a rope around his own neck and a limb of the tree, hut then refused to jump off A negro climbed up, tied Braswell’s hands, and the crowd pushed him off with a pole. His body was riddled with bullets. Mattie and Addie Joyner, aged twelve and eighteen, attacked their father with an ax in his sleep, at Southampton, Va., and hacked him to death. The crime was committed out of revenge for a severe whipping.

WASHINGTON.

United States Senator Miller is quoted as saying that iu his opinion the Morrison surplus resolution will not be acted upon by either the Comm ttoe on Finance or the Senate at this session. S. Davis Page has been nominted by the President to be Assistant United States Treasurer at Philadelphia. Louis E. Church, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota, has tendered bis resignation.

POLITICAL.

The Dakota Constitutional Convention at Sioux Falls declined to submit to a vote of the people the question of at once declaring the Territory a State. This is said to be a bitter disappointment to Judge Campbell and his following. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention for the nominat.on of officers has been summoned to meet at Madison Sept. 8. The Mississippi State Prohibition Convention met at Jackson with a large attendance and approved the local-option law. Committees for canvass work were appointed. The Democrats of the First Congressional District of Indiana have nominated John M. McCullough for Congress. The Republicans of the Second Indiana District nominated Rev. M. S. Ragdale for Congress. George T. Barnes was unanimously renominated for Congress by the Democratic Convention of the Tenth Georgia District The Democrats of tlio Fifth lowa District have renominated Hon. Ben T. Frederick for Congress. The Democratic Congressional Convention of the Fourth Mississippi District renominated T. C. Catchings by acclamation. Acting Secretary Fairchild has summarily dismissed a chief of division aud two clerks in his office for discreditable conduct in connection with examinations for promotion, says a Washington dispatch. It seems tho chief of division had been instructed to prepare examination papers for promotion in his office, aud after doing so surreptitiously furnished copies of the questions to two of his clerks under him. This fact wa3 brought to the attention of the head of the office, who made inquiry of the accused parties, and upon their denial of the truth of tho charges reported them to the Acting Secretary as persons unworthy to .hold position under the Government A high official of the Treasury Department states that he is convinced this practice has been long in vogue, and that the authorities are determined to put a stop to it, as far as possible. Gov. Stoneman has called an extra session of the Legislature of California to take action as to irrigation. It is probable that tlie chief political parties in Tennessee will pit the Taylor brothers against each other for the Governorship.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The lock-out in the fifty-four tanneries and currying-shops of Peabody and Salem, Mass., was begun - last week, rendering over 3,000 men idle. • Eighty plantation negroes imported to Grape Creek, 111., to work in the coal mines, have been sent back South by the labor unions at Danville. Under a decision of the Vermilion County Court as to the coel company's leases, all the white strikers and their families have been evicted, and are improvising shanties and sod houses in the woods. T. Y. Powderly addressed the Eastern association of groen bottle-glass blowers

at Atlantic City, and they voted by 42 to 26 to join the Knights of Labor. The International laborers’ Union, at London, Ontario, completed the revision of its constitution, and adjourned to meet in St Louis in 1888. The American flint-glass workers closed their fourth annual session at Hamilton, Ontario. It was resolved not to jom the Knights of Labor.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Grand Master of Masons in Quebec has issued an edict declaring a suspension of Masonic intercourse between the Quebec lodges and the Grand L >dge of England and its dependencies. James Dacey, the murderer of Aiderman Gaynor, of Chicago, was hanged at Woodstock, ILL He regained his composure before his death, and marched to the scaffold with scarcely a tremor. Samson Roland and George Solomon, both colored, were hanged at Donaldsonville, La, The condemned men were baptized into the Baptist Church just before execution, and seemed reconciled to their doom. They joined a minister in repeating the Lord’s prayer with calm, firm voices. They asked their friends to meet them in heaven. George Harrison was hanged at Shreveport, La., for the murder of George Alien. Ha - rison was extraordinarily cool throughout his imprisonment, and did not show the slightest weakness on the scaffold. He refused to mako any statement on the gallows, but announced his faith that he would at once enter heaven. He was baptized just before mounting the gallows. Dick Townsend, a triple murderer, was swung off at Valdosta, Ga. At Frisco, Kan., a murderer was overtaken by a pursuing party and shot to death. The business failures throughout the country during the week, as reported by telegraph, numbered for the United States 1(53, and for Canada 20, a total of 183, as compared with a total of 179 the previous week. Telegrams to liradstreet's, while repeating favorable trade features noted a week ago, report a quits general hardening of domestic money markets and a widespread improvement in mercantile collections. Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, left New York for England with $2J,500. Three years ago ho landed on this side of the Atlantic without a dollar. The Supreme Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythias, at their session just held at Toronto, elected the following officers: Supreme Chancellor, Howard Douglass, Cincinnati; Supreme Yice-Cliancolior, William Ward, New Jersey; Supreme Prelate, Dr. King, Toronto; Supreme Keeper of the Records and Seals, R. E. Cowan, St Louis; Supreme Master of tho Exchequer, J. Willey, Wilmington, Del.; Supreme Secretary of the Endowment Rank, H. Nelson, Washington, D. C.; Supreme Master-at-Arms, Charles F. Bragga, Maine; Supreme Inner-Guard, Robert Newall, Arkansas; Supreme Outer-Guard, John W. Thompson, Washington, D. C. The citizens of London, Ontario, have arranged with the directors of the Canadian I’acitic Road for an extension to that city. A revolution has broken out in the Mexican States of Tamanlipas and Nuevo Leon, and armed supportors are crossing from the Americau side of the Rio Grande to participate in hostilities. The Federal Government of Mex eo has sent Colonel Parras to New Laredo with 250 men.

FOREIGN.

The draft of an extradition treaty sent from London to Washington includes dynamiters, defaulters, and embezzlers among offenders subject to surrender. Much damage to property and crops in the province of Elis, Greece, has been caused by terrific storms, and the people are in great distress. Earl Rosebery, British Foreign Minister, is said to have sent to Russia a precise a’.ul emphatic protest against the closing of Batonm as a free port, characterizing Russia’s action in doing so as a “flagrant violation of the treaty of Berlin. ” The police of Berlin are vigorously oxecut ng the Socialist law. Deputy Vierrek has been summoned for trial as a member of a secret society. London Socialists held a meeting last Sunday, and were requested by the police to disperse. This they refused to do, and one of the leaders announced that if the police persisted in their present policy they would drive the Socialists into secret un ons, to the terror of tho Government classes. No arrests were male. Nineteen men of the British warship Goshawk went ashore at Port Royal, Jamaica, and while there a storm arose. They attempted to return to the ship in the storm, and on nearing the vessel their boat capsized. The next morning three of the sailors were found on the bottom of the boat drifting toward Port Henderson, and two on one of the royal naval buoys iu Port Royal harbor, to which they had swam. The other fourteen were drowned. James Julior, of London, has been placed iu a lunatic asylum for writing an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria and calling at Windsor Castle for an answer. General Boulanger, the French War Minister, and Baron de Lareinty fought a duel near Paris. Tho Baron fired at the General without hitting him. Boulanger then fired into air. Thus wounded honor was avenged. The convention between the steelrail manufacturers of England, Belgium, aud Germany, formed for the purpose of preventing ruinous competition, has expired. It is stated that the convention will not be renewed. A London dispatch of the 19th inst. sums up the result of the Parliamentary elections as follows, with seven constituencies remaining to be board from: Conservatives, 318; unionist liberals, 74; Gladstonians, 187; nationalists, 83, a unionist muster of 392 ranked against 270 home-rulers. Thus far there is a majority of 122 against Mr. Gladstone on his Irish policy. The conservatives have a plurality of 56 over the liberals of all kinds, but they fall 27 below tho united vote of the liberal# and nationalist

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Search and his wife, aged about 76, were found murdered on their farm near Janesville, Wis. The man had been shot in the back and the woman in the head. Search was quite well-to-do, and apparently greed for gain prompted the crime. The bureau drawers of the house were ransacked by the assassin, but little of value was secur- - ed. A farm laborer is suspected. Six men, members of the Executive Board of the local lodge of the Knights of Labor, have been arrested at Wyandotte, Kan., charge! with wrecking a train on the morning of Apr J 26 and causing the death of two persons. The affair has caused great excitement a i ong the Knights at Kansas City. A stage making its way in the Canadian Northwest Territory was attacked by robbers, who secured $20,000. A New York dispatch says that there seems to he little doubt that Maloney, Keenan, and the other “boodle aldermen” have changed their headquarters from Montreal to Paris. The hay crop of the Eastern States is reported to be a very heavy one, aud much in excess of that of last year. That of the West is generally poor, owing to the prolonged drouth. In some States it is very light, especially in lowa, where the upland hay is said to Lc nearly all dried up. The convicted anarchists of Milwaukee—Hirth, Simon, and Palm—have been sentenced to nine months each in the House ofCorrection. The Calispel Indians, in tlie Kootenai county, Washington Territory, threaten to mas-acre the settlers, and a number of frightened farmers, with their families, have arrived at Spokane Falls. It is known that “the Peoria Kid” (Jack Quinn) was at the head of a quintet of robbers who cleaned out (he Minneapolis Postoffieo. Jerry Cook, a famous cracksman, also took a hand. Tho Secretary of the Treasury has called $4,000,040 of 3 percent bonds, on which interest will cease Sept. 1. W. H. Clifford, of Portland, Me., is mentioned as the possible successor of Jolm Goode as Solicitor General. Henry Bicknell, a 15-year-old son of J. A. Bicknell, of Portland, Me., shot his 13-year-old sister Mattie dead, with a gun which he thought was empty. He went insane over tho affair. The oleomargarine bill was the subject of a long and warm discussion in the Senate on July 19, Messrs. Miller, Edmunds, and Van Wyck advocating, and Messrs. Vanes, Vest, and Ingalls opposing the measure. In the course of the debate Mr. Ingalls replied to some remarks by Mr. Miller, saying that his (Miller’s) humor was very much like the attempt of a hippopotamus to dance on a slack rope. [Laugi.tor.J ’ The Senator from New York had seen fit to present him (Ingalls) as a country peddler, dealing in bogus jewelry and “elixirs of life.” Iu reply he wished to say that he had never stood before the Senate advocating a measure in which he had the strongest personal interest—as the Senator from New Yorn had done. That Senator was in the dairy business. He had a dairy farm aud a herd of dairy cattle, putting its produce on the market as the product of Oak Hiil or Oak Leaf creamery. And he used the whole power of his official station as Senator aud as chairman of a committee to get the measure away from the committee to which it belonged and referred to his own committee, and he stood on the floor of the Senate day after day advocating a measure whien was to increase directly the prolils of his own product. A more shameful spectacle had never been presented to the American people than had been presented in rtgaid to this measure. In the other house it had been under the leadership of the chairman of a committee who was himself engaged in the dairy business ; and in this body that gentleman was reinforced by the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Mr. Miller), who was engaged in the same business, and who was to profit by the legislation. Mr. Miller, apparently laboring uuder great excitement, rose to reply. He denied having referred to the Senator's (Ingall’s) calling in early life, and went on to say that whether this bill became a law or not it would not add one farthing to any profit which he could possibly receive. The House of Representatives, after adopting an amendment providing that tho guns, projectiles, etc., purchased shall be of American manufacture, passed the fortifications appropriation bill. Mr. Morrison offered a concurrent resolution for the final adjournment of Congress on July 28, and it was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

THE MARKETS.

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NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.

BriefSouuuryoftke Proceed* Consreu. Three reports from the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections upon the Payne case were submitted to the Senate on the ISth inst. The report signed by Senators Pugh. Saulsbury, Vance, and Eustis, the Democratic members or the committee, sets forth at length the public history of the case, recognizes the transcendent importance of throwing around the Senate of the United States the highest safeguards against seating a member whose title was procured by bribery, fraud, and corruption, and describes the processes by which the signers reach the conclusion that there is no ground for further proceedings against Mr. Payne. The report says the committee’s first act was to comply fairly with the first request of the OhioHouse of Representatives to make an examination of the testimony taken by the select committee at Columbus. Upon this testimony Mr. Hoar made a report to the committee that, after careful reading, no evidence, opinion or statement whatever was found personally inculpating Mr. Payne in any way with the corrupt, use of money in connection with his elec*tion. Neither did such examination show that enough had been found to justify the charge that the election was procured by the corrupt use of money. This report asks that the committee he discharged from further consideration of the subject and that it be indefinitely postponed. Senators Teller, Evarts, and Logan, unite in a report in which, after reciting the circumstances surrounding the Senatorial election in Ohio in 1884, it is said that no action was taken by the State Legislature jWhich elected Senator Payne calling in Question the validity of his election, but. that the new Legislature in January of the present year had adopted tne resolution under which the investigation of Donovan’s charges had been made. The Senate committee had found it proper to accept the presentation of thecase set out" in the majority and minority reports of the select committee of the Ohio House of Representatives. The only constitutional warrant for an investigation in a case like tnat presented is in the clause making each house of Congress the judge of the qualifications of its own members, and the clause conferring the right of expulsion. The signers of the report do not find that a case has been presented that would affect Mr. Payne with such turpitude as would tolerate his expulsion from tho Senate, nor that testimony is accessible thaj touches the subject of the personal inculpation of Mr. Payne. They therefore turn their attention to the question of the validity of his election to the Senate. The report holds that the evidence in such a case must show that thefraud which it alleged was committed embraced enough in number of the voting electors to have changed the result. The testimony presented by the Ohio House of Represent, atives shows the number of members i of tne General Assembly that have been brought into inculpation and the weight of evidence against him. Senators Hoar and Frye in a separate report state that they cannot concu* with the views expressed by tho other members of the committee, and say they think a case is presented in which it is the duty of the Senate to permit the petitioners to present their evidence and to authorize the issue of proper process to aid in procuring the attendance of witnesses. The Senate is the only court whicla can have jurisdiction of the question. The report concludes with a resolution directing an investigation of the charges, and with a recommendation that it be adopted. The amendment to the river and harbor bill increasing the appropriation for improving the harbor at Chicago from $75,003 to $150,000 wa» rejected by the Senate on the 16th inst., as also the amendment increasing tho appropriation for the Missouri River from $375,000 to $500,000. An amendment swelling the appropriation for tho Mississippi River, from the passes to Cairo, from $1,687,500 to $2,250,000 was tabled. Th» amendment reducing all appropriations in the bill 25 per cent, was then agreed to and the measure put on its final passage and adopted. The Senate also passed the naval appropriation bill. In the House ot Representatives an effort to pas# the pension bill of Elizabeth Luce over the Presidential veto was lost by a vote of 116 yea# to L 4 nays. Similar action was taken on th® measurj pensioning Catherine McCarthy, the vote being yeas 122, nays 97, but in the case of Joseph Romiser the bill was passed over tlie veto—yeas 175, nays 38. Quite a sensation was created in the House by a personal encounter between Messrs. Cobb (Dem.) of Indiana, and Laird (Rep.) of Nebraska, growing out oi the charges mode by the former on the floor of the House, to the effect that the Nebraska member hud been concerned in a land ring. Mr. Laird made tin attack upon the Public Lands Committee, of which Mr, Cobb is chairman. The latter undertook to defend the committee, and in the course of hk! remarks charged the Nebraska member with having been a memuer of a land ring, who retorted by calling the gentleman from Indiana a liar. Mr. Cobb declared that. Mr. Laird did not dare to come outside and repeat his language. Mr. Laird is said to have replied that the gentleman could not get out soon enough for him. With this the pair started through the lobby into tho basement. Some on® called Mr. Payson’s attention to their exit, with the statement that they were going outside to fight it out. Thereupon Mr. Payson hurried through the doorway, and coming up with the would-be combatants on the stairway caught Mr. Cobb by the collar and remonstrated with him, for pursuing so boyish and foolish a course. He succeeded in getting Mr. Cobb to retrace his steps so far as the west door of the lobby, Mr. Laird following, when the controversy broke out afresh. Recurring to the charges Mr. Cobb had made against him in a speech several woeks ago, Mr. Laird angrily declared that he (Mr. Cobb) was a “ liar. 1 ' Mr. Cobb rejoined that Mr. Laird was “a 1 perjurer,” but the words had hardly passed his lips before Mr. Laird struck him a heavy blow on the mouth aud nose. A stream of blood trickled down_Mr. Cobb’s face, and he was thrown backward against the doorway. A crowd which had collected interposed at this juncture aud the combatants separated, Mr. Laird taking his seat in the House and Mr. Cobb reclining in an easy chair in the lobby, where he was surrounded by friends. There was every reason to believe that, if interference had not come in the shape of Mr. Payson, who sought to pour oil on the troubled waters, a sanguinary personal combat would have resulted. Both of the members concerned are of powerful physique, and bear the reputation of men ready at all times to defend themselves in a fitting manner. Mr. Cobb stands six feet and over in his shoes aud is of proportionate breadth, hut is somewhat at a disadvantage on the score of age, being in thfr neighborhood of fifty-eight or sixty years old. Mr. Laird is but thirty-seven years of age, with a girth of chest that would ornament an athlete, and a fiery, impetuous temper. The Committee on Indian Affairs made a report to the Senate, on the 17th inst., recommending tho passage over the President's veto of the bill granting railroads right-of-way through the Indian reservation in Northern Montana. Mr. Blair, from'-tho Committee on Pensions, submitted a report adopting as the report of the majority of the committee the report before submitted on the message of the President, vetoing the bill granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage, and which was recommitted by the Senate. The report was adopted by a strictly party vote. Senators Whitthorne, Camden, ana Wilson of Maryland, submitted a minority report, defending tho President’s action in the matter. Tne Senate decided to consider the oleomargavine bill, and then refused to refer it to the Finance Committee. The House of Representatives, in considering the fortification appropriation bill, rejected an amendment to increase the item for sea-coast armament to $3,500,000. The Prince of Monaco and the French Admiralty are perfecting ascheme for determining the direction and force of the Gulf stream by means of numbered floats, which will be launched at intervals with a request that finders report the time and position of picking them up. In Germany there are now eight schools of forestry, where a training of five years is necessary for students seeking government positions. France supports a s'.peJ* school at Narcv.