Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - - Ptmjmreit

NEWS BUDGET.

Fresh Intelligence from Every Part of the Civilized ' World. Foreign and domestic News, Pol it leal Events, Personal Points, Labor Notes, Etc, , - ■ . • ♦» .ATEST BINPATCHES. ATTEMPT TO_KILL O BRIEN. Hi. Would-Be Assassins Waylay Him a* He Leaven the Hall at Hamilton anil Fire Several Shot, at His Carriage TinDriver Hit in the Wrist. ■Another attempt was made on O'Brien’s life at the close of his meeting in Hamilton, Canada, says a telegram from that city: After the speecbmaking was over a man camo to Mr. O'Brien while sitting an the platform and - hurriedly whispered something in nis ear. The first sign of commotion wns w hen Mr. O'Brien got up apo left the platform. This was in response to the request several times wade to him which he had already refused It was the idea As some officious and meddlesome man—a plan which he had to save Mr. O'Brien s Me. The plan was to leave tlie rink by a narrow alley, then reach McNabb street and jiinni into a carriage in waiting and drive to the hotel. In the carriage, which was a covered one, besides Mr.,O'Brien, were Messrs. McMahon and Roche, of the local branch of the National League, and Dennis Kilbride, On the driver's seat wire John Nelson, who held the reins, and T. P. O'Brien. As they w hipped up the horses and faced for the hotel, a crow d suddenly appeared and set up the usual hissing and graining, w hich afterward proved to be a concerted signal to a group of five men who lurked around the market building in Marant Square. The men, who hissed and groaned, followed the carriage, and, as it wheeled intoMarket Square, there whs a sudden click, the horses pranced, and a flash of light suddenly overspread a group of buildings where the men lurked. The reins dropped out of John Nelsons hands, and. with the exclamation, "0, my God. I'm shot !’ he fell forward on the sent Crash! crash! crash! quick as lightning, and through bright flashes of flame sped the bullets from two revolvers until eight shots had been fired. Mr. O'Brien stretched forward to look out, and as lie did so a bull whistled by his face and passed through the opposite window, without harming anybodv. T. P. O'Brien, Nelson's companion, w ho had been amazed and dazed, now grusped the reins and lashed the horses through the square into James street and down to the hotel, corner of James and Merrick streets Here there was a hostile crowd, who again hooted as th.e party within tried to open the door, but could not. Mr. McMahon jumped over the door, and drawing a revolver, held the crowd at bay while Mr. O'Brien and his friend were making their exit from the carriage, also by the same uncomfortable way. As the party stepjied into the corridor of the hotel a volley of rotten eggs was hurled at them, but no one was hit. Chief McKinnon and his men now rushed up. but all was over. Nelson was taken to the citv hospital. Dr. James White extracted the bullet. He says the wound is net dangerous. It is on the left wrist. No arrests were made .When O Brien reached his room he was smiling a-id cheerful, and nobody to look at him would have supiosed that he had just escaped from the last of a aeries of attempts to take his life.

The President (oiiiing West. A delegation of twenty-five gentlemen representing the business interests of St. Louis, headed by Mayor Francis and including representatives of all branches of the municipal government, waited upon the President Monday and extended to him and Mrs. Cleveland a cordial invitation to visit St. Louis durins’ the Grand Army encampment in September. The President said that while it was absolutely impossible to anticipate the exigencies of the public service so far ahead as September he could not now see why he should not visit St. Louis at the time indicated, about the last of September. He said, therefore, that he would take pleasure in accepting their kind invitation. The Schwarts-Watts Case. he motion for a new trial for Schwartz and Watts, convicted bf killing Express Messenger Nichols, was overruled at Morris, 111., and the Judge sentenced the men to life imprisonment. -Notice of an appeal, to the Supreme Court was given. Commerce. Cattle are still declining at the Chicago stock-yards, under liberal receipts, and prices are remarkably low, the best beeves selling for $4.50(0 4.05 per 100 pounds. Over 0,000 head were received Monday. Twenty-three thousand hogs were received at Chicago. Prices were off 5 cents per ,100 pounds, the best selling for $5.15. Butter ruled active at Elgin. 111.. Monday, at 17 cents. The stock of wheat at the present time amounts to 43,01 b.4t>7 bushels, against 37,814,315 bushels a" year ago. Following are the latest market quotations:

NEW YORK. Cattle .$4.50 .a 5.50 Hogs 525 (ju 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 White. .'97s.iS .9S'-j No. 2 Red...... 96 il .97 Corn—No. 2.....48 <4 ,49 Oats—White 38 ti .41 Pork—New Mess.. 16.05 <916.50., CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prinie Steers 4.75 @ 5.05 Medium,.-..... 4.00 <a 4.50 Common. 3.75 <<l 4.00 Hogs—Shipping Grade 577.777... 4.73 .a 5.25 ILOVB—Winter Wheat...;. 4.25 <9 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 87 c .83 Cor.,:—No. 2 .388. ><. ,39 Oats—No. 2.'............... .25:7 i. .2614 Bvttbr—Choice Creamery .17 <;4 .18 Fine Dairy..ls '.16 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddars. .104* <1 .11!* Full-Cream, flats .....' ,12- 4 .i .12 s * Eggs—Fresh ... .T*“~T7-Tm;. .* .10 .j 3 .11 Potatoes—Choice, new......... .75'3 .85 ... Pork —Mess, ..... -.——7.-,722.25-7 22.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat-Css!:. 7.. 7. ,B'2 « .83 Corn No. 3 7... .37-, <• .38>J Oats—No. 2 While *3.: Rv>s—No. 1 56 3 .58 Pork—Mess ..... ST. LOVIS. Wheat—No. 2 85\3 .87 Corn—Mixed ,i. .38*3 .38 j Oats—Mixed . ,7.7; r.:„. . .7.. .27 .28 Pork—New Mess 11.25 All. 75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2...4... 89 a, -■Corn— No, 9, . .41* ,41’.j~ Oats.... .... .30 .a .3 >7, _7.7, —Detroit. — —. Beef Cattle 4.25 <5. 5.00 .4 Jd.'— Sheep..... 4.50 Wheat—Michigan 1 ed....,..,.. 7W— e* .99Corn —No; 2.. . .7. 7 42 tl 7.42“* Oats—White ....■ *1 rt !3 — — Cincinnati. Wheat—No. 2. Red.,,. ............ —.NTA,® Corn—No. 2..41' 2 - ,4a u Oats—N<X-2.„„,.„,,™..,31- *<a- .32 Pure— Mess... . . 15.25 <915.75 Live Hogs ... 4.50 & 5.2 j BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White 93 @> .94 Cobn-Na 2 Yellow .44 .45 Cattle..... 4.25$ ij* 5.00 INDI AN A PULIS. Beef Cattle. .L. 3.75 S 5.00 Hoag.... 4.50 « 5.25 SHEEP 2.25 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.B4\>s 85 Cobh—No. 2. .38 s, <4 .39 Oats—Na 2 Mixed.. 28 *®. ,281* r EAST LIBERTY. ~ Fair 4.5) & 4.75 C0mm0n..4.25 42.4.50 Hogs 4..5 g 5.25 Sheep...... ...... 3.75 g 4.25

CURRENT EVENTS.

EAST. **■ ' 1 Mme. LrniiYDF, a well-known soprano, aommited suicide at Pittsburg by hanging. Spituahsm bad unsettled her mind.... General James L. Selfridge, a daubing Inian soldier, shot and killed himself nt 1 hiladelphia. Despondency orising from illness is the only reason assigned for the act. Governor Hill, of New York, has appointed Colonel Fred D„ Grant, Quarantine Commissioner. Ch arles B. Reynolds was found guilty of blasphemy at Morristown, N. J., and lined $25. He was defended by Robert G. Ingersoll.

WEST.

What was believed to-be an earthquake shook the window s and rattled crockery in Duluth. Minn., on Thursday last, says a •elegram from the “Zenith City.” “It was found to have been caused by an explosion of nitro-glycerine at Spirit Lake, eight miles irom 1 mlnth. Eight thousand three hundred pounds of the explosive was Tn a wooden building 50 by 50 feet. Where this stood there is now a hole IIHI by 60 feet and 15 to 40 feet deep. The largest piece of the building fonnd is ten inches deep. A 3-ineh cast iron pipe was found twisted round a tree. Jagged bits of iron and tin were driven into the wood so as to be inextricable. Bits of iron and wood, were found a full mile from the spot. There were eight houses within half a mile, and every window - pane in them was broken. One house was completely wrecked 1,000 feet from the explosion. Trees were mowed down like grass. It is not known whether any lives were lost, but none of tbe workmen were in the building, Two tramps were seen near the building just before the explosion, and have not been seen since. If they were in the building not a speck of them will be found.”

Lake Linden, in Houghton County, Michigan, a thriving mining town of 2,-500 inhabitants, was totally destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. Only one saloon and one meat market remains of the entire business portion. Nearly three hundred families lost everything except what they had on their backs. The fire originated in the second story of Neuman A- 'release's general store, and under a stiff wind swept everything before it. In two hours from the discovery of the fire the whole town was in ruins. The town was composed of frame buildings, end, everything being sb dry, .they burned like tinder. Tbe people were panicstricken, and, there being no adequate means of fighting the fire, were utterly helpless. The Houghton and Hancock fire departments arrived as soon as possible, and through their efforts the property or the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company was saved. About two hundred and seventy buildings in all are totally destroyed, the loss will reach $3,0(10,000, with insurance of $500,(100 to $700,000. —•Ar-dispatch from Mackinaw, Mich., says: A sailboat containing ten men was struck by a squall and capsized on Little Traverse Bay Sunday afternoon. L. W. Cole and his son Fred, Marion Tripp, Den-’ nis Stark, and George Wise of Petoskey were drowned.

About two thousand people are sufferers Irom the fire that destroyed the town of Lake Linden, Michigan. One person was burned to death. Appeals for aid are made on behalf of the victims. A Detroit dispatch says “the town of Ironwood, Michigan, is threatened with destruction, and many villages and towns on the Gogebic range are also in danger. Forest tires are still prevailing in various parts of the Northern Peninsula, and the aggregate losses will reach high into the millions.” A syndicate of Pittsburgh capitalists has leased four thousand acres of land in Adams County, Indiana, and will bore for natural gas. The lands lie in a direct line between Marion, Ind., and Findlay, Ohio, where rich strikes have been made. If gas is found in sufficient volume it will be piped to Fort Wayne, a distance of about twenty-five miles. "-, ' ■

SOUTH.

In a room over the court house at Glasgow, Ky., William Stolts was snot and killed by Ray Rutledge, the body rolling down stairs and into the court room, where Judge Carr Aras on the bench at the time. The victim was to be tried for shooting an eye out of Bill Slinker a year ago. The latter and Rutledge were aiTested. The recent train robbery on the International and Great Northern Railroad, near Austin, Texas, was committed by twelve men, well mounted and armed. The robbers fired about one hundred shots to “keep the passengers quiet,” and they had the desired effect. The amount taken from the express-car is variously estimated at from $21,000 to $55,000. ‘ _

WASHINGTON.

Another call for 3 per cents has been made by the Secretary of the Treasury. .. The Secretary of the Navy has appointed a court of inquiry to investigate the charges against Capt. Selfridge, of the Omaha, in regard to the accident on the coast of Japan, in which several persons were killed by the explosion of a shell fired from the Omaha. ' Ex-Senator Van WviKlias written the Secretary of the Interior urging him not to sell the abandoned military* reservations until the Fiftieth Congress has had an opportunity to bring them u-ithin the provisions of the homestead act. The reservations embrace about 700.(TOO acres, and i it is understood that certain cattle com- ! pan es and other corporations are scheminu j to get j ossession of them. Under the act ; of July 5. 18*4, the Secretary of the In- . tenor is authorized to appraise-and sell these lands. -~AMerNwr-tlre“intermffrevenue districts abolished by an order issued by the President are: The Second Illinois, which is consolidated “with” the First District;'jhe Fourth Illinois, divided between the Fi.th and Eighth; the Eleventh Indiana, added To the Sixth; the Sixth Ohio, consolidated with the First: the Fourth Missouri, consolidated with the First; the Third Wisconsin, added to the First; and the Sixth Wisconsin. consolidated with the Second. Commissioner Miller thinks the Government will save more than SIOO,OOO annually by these changes and the tax-payers will not be inconvenienced.

POLITICS.

A New York special says: The fact that the New York ■ Tribunt, Blaine’s special orgr,n, should print the following| interview, has attracted much attention here: “General J, B. Henderson, of St. Louis. Chairman of the last Republican National

Convention, speaking of Republican prospects for 1888, said: ‘lp order to win next I year we must nominate a man who is able to ; carry the State of New York. I don't think that Mr. Blaine is able to carry New York. 1 said to him some time befoie the last National Convention: “Blaine. I don't think you can carry New York. With the influences at work against yon there nmOng so- , called Republicans combined with the natural Democratic strength, I feel that your chances of kuccess aie small.” I think that Mr. Rla'ine was not so deeply interested in his candidacy, and would willingly have given place to some other Republican had it not been for lhe influences that operated upon him and upon tbe convention'.” Pennsylvania's Legislature has adjourned sine die... Samuel Pasco has been elected United States Senator by the Florida Legislature'Henry George’s New York Labor party is actively preparing for the fall campaign. Mr. George denies that there is or will be any deal with Mr.. Blaine, who, he says, represents all that be “has been fighting against for years.” Mr. George thinks there will be a labor candidate,for the Presidency in 18S8-.

LABOR.

A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday says: “The lockout of workmen engaged in the building trades continues unabated, and competent authorities estimate that the army of idle men numbers 25.000. The employers seem to be rock-rooted in tbe Btadd which they have taken, and, while they regret tbe untoward condition of affairs at the most favorable portion of the building season, insist that until the mechanics recede from their unwarrantable demands in relation to the hiring of non-union labor and the employment of apprentices it would be useless to attempt a patebed-up peace. The German contingent of the Bricklayers’ Union does not seem to be satisfied with the situation of affairs.” The Knights of Labor have in a measure taken up the cause of the locked-out bricklayers in Chicago, and are discussing the propriety of retaining counsel to prosecute for conspiracy the material dealers who refuse to sell brick, lime, rand, etc., unless they be granted n permit to do so by the Builders and Traders’ Exchange. The Knights claim to have funds enough to pay tbe expenses of the prosecution, and it is rumored that they intend retaining “Bob” Ingersoll or “Ben” Butler.... A mob of negro and Hungarian strikers attacked coke-workers at Jimtownaud Dawson, Pa., using clubs and p'stols. A number of persons were wounded and a large amount of property destroyed.

RAILWAYS.

The commission now engaged in investigating the books, accounts, and methods of the railroads which have received aid from the United States has sent out a circular containing fifty-eight questions. These questions cover all those matters into which Congress directed inquiry. The circulars have been sent to the leading business men along the lines of the landurant railroads and the leading shippers of the country. It requests that all persons in possession of information which might aid the commission in its work will communicate with it. The suspension order issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the case qf the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads has been enlarged so as to embrace the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

The Interstate Commerce Commission has resumedits regular sittings at Washington. Wednesday they devoted some time to hearing John C. Gault, General Manager of the Queen & Crescent system, in favor of an application for the permanent suspension of section 4 of the law. He recited the effect of river competition upon the lines comprising the system in reducing cotton rates. Mr. Gault said that he believed in fixing rates that would be just to all, and that he would rather have a dozen thriving towns on his road than a large city. Gen. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, representing the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers’ Homes, asked that some arrangement be made by which the inmates of the homes might be permitted to continue the enjoyment of the half-fare rates on railroads. Commissioner Morrison intimated that the law d d not prohibit such a concession, but Gen. Black thought a statement by the commission would be necessary to secure the privilege. No final action was taken. Congressman Cabell, representing the Danville (Ya.) Board of Trade, presented a complaint of unjust discrimination against that town by the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Judge Cooley, Chairman of the Interstate Commission, has addressed a letter to J. H. Hanley, traffic manager of the Minneapolis and Northwestern Railway, defining the powers of the commission in certain cases. The letter is in reply to a telegram . urging that ass order be speedily issued relieving the road named from the provisions of the long and short htftil clause. Chairman; Cooley says the Commissioners feel compelled to withhold the order requested so that the matter may be more fully investigated than has yet been possible. He points out that previous to the passage Of the act many railroad including that represented by Mr. Hanley, had been m the habit of cbarging more for a short than for a long haul oyer the same line, in the same direction .and under conditions substantially similar, judging for themselves whether the circumstances and conditions justified such action. Congress, in passing the act, decided th it the rule should then after preclude this greater charge, !i nd in so doing it must be understood to have determined i that, in its judgment, any incidental in- | juries that might flow from the infprce- ■ meat of the general rule would be more I than counterbalanced by resulting benefits.

GENERAL.

Editor O’Brien again narrowly escaped death at the hands of a mob in Kingston. "Cnnadai’U'B'rien delivereTTEis address in a large ska irg rink, and what followed is thus described in a special dispatch from — For about half an hour before the meeting in the skating-rink was concluded a crowd begun to gwfrhfyy ttiMj. croftus foi* O brien, mingled with "To with the Pope!" "Hang the traitor!" etc , begun t v intrude them-' selves t»i on the meeting. Toe meeting was brought to a conclusion about 10 o'clock. Down through the hall-and out in the middle of the stream of peonle that poured into Johnson street walked Mr. O’Brien. The night was pitch dark, but the flash of the revolvers of nine policemen could be seen reflected from she l ights inside the hall The big hostile crowd stood directly opposite the entrance on the other side of the street, and the .moment Mr. O'Brien appeared at the door the yells of - rhge and exectaticn became terrific.' A group ct fifty men rushed forward, crying : out: "There he is! That's his tali hat!" 'lhey ! were a picked gi6up of the most rabid Crange’I men, and the cry was "to strangle him." The i policemen tried to interpose, and Mr. O Brien '■ and his friends walked rapidly sooth and turned I the corner of Wellington str. et They did not . proceed far along that street, but went south on Johnson as far as Ontario street. The entire mob now rushed after them, and its intent was

I evidently the destruction cf Messrs. Q'Bncn ' and Kilbride, the latter Ravine by this time joined the party. A huge paviag-stme flew ' i close by O'Brien's hat, Scratch Ina the brim. A scene cf trie utmost confusiott ensued. Friends and foes seemed to be alike at fault as i to the whereabouts of Mr. O’Brien, a|nd Anally i a rusb-wus made for his hotel. Mowt of the Nationalists succeed in getting inside when the ' mob collected in front of the building and t comrnr-need to break the windows Two hours elapsed since the first attack was ' made, and nobody knew where O'Brien was. ' But he was soon discovered. Peter Devlin, who ! lives on tbe comer of Wellington and William streets, stole down to the Chief of Police Horsey and Said : -“O’Brien is safe with me." God," exclaimed the crowd. Chief Horsey I with Mayor ( arson and six policemen 1 then went to llevliu's house ana brought back O'Brien to the Burnett House. The i latter reached Devlin's house this way: I Maurice H-igan changed hats with O'Brien just 1 as a stone struck O'Brien on the bock of the neck and just as a big, powerful Orangeman with a club was going to cleave open his skull. The house of on Orangemari named Donnelly adioiiied the alley on the other side, and O'Brien got in there and was filially smuggled backward to Devlin e house while the Orange mob outside yelled for his blood. "I will protect you to the hotel," said Mayor Carson. "I will call out the artillery." “You will?" exclaimed O Brien, sarcastically. “I don’t want your protection now. You saw a mob of demons, 50 i strong, outside that hill, thirsting for my blood while I was addressing a peaceable meeting, and yo’.t didn’t disperse them. Where was your artillery then, sir? Lansdowne and Howland winked at the efforts to murder me in Toronto, and now I.ansdoyvne and you w ink at the efforts to murder me here. I am not going to give you the credit of the pretense o£ having protected my lite when you conld have if you wishid, but didn’t."

The League of American Wheelmen, at its meeting at St." Louis, elected T. J. Kirkpatrick, of Ohio. President; H. B. Hayes, of Massachusetts, Vice President; and NV. M. Brewster, of Missouri, Treasurer. William O'Brien and Dennis Kilbride, the Irish Nationalists who have been making matters so warm in the Dominion for a week past, reached Niagara Falls Saturday night, says a dispatch from that point. They received a warm welcome when they landed on American soil, and it continued all the way to Niagara. Mr. O’Brien is considerably injured by the attacks on him, and may be compelled to quit speaking for several'days. A reporter whoaisited him at his hotel says: ”

It was with apparent difficulty that Mr. O’Brien spoke. “The whole of my leftside," he .paid, speaking at times almost in S whisper, “is suffering considerably from a contusion in the left rib received from the mob in Toronto. It gave me no trouble for a day or two, but has been gradually developing into pleurisy. Dr. Doyle, of Syracuse, who examined it last night, says that the lower portion of the lung is seriously affected by contusion For a couple of days I have scarcely been able to move with ease or use my voice. My other injuries have mostly disappeared. One was from a stone with which I was struck on the shoulder-blade in Toronto and another from a blow behind the ear sustained in Kingston.” Land Commissioner Sparks says that 25,000,000 acres of land will be thrown open to settlement by reason of the withdrawal of railroad land-grants... .Mrs. Mary Hay Brockes, wife of a judge of the Supreme Court of New York, died while kneeling at the grave of her daughter in a Saratoga cemetery.... At the annual parade of the League of American Wheelmen at St. Louis there were 600 riders in line.... The President has been asked to appoint ex-Congressman Hammond, of Georgia, to the vacant seat on the Supreme bench... .William Perry, of Davenport, lowa, has been convicted of setting fire to the immense barns of John Killen’s noted stock farm, whereby $75,000 damage was done.... Fourteen Irish families from County Mayo, who have been detained at Castle Garden as paupers, are to be sent to friends iu Cleveland, Ohio, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and other places. These friends have promised that the unfortunates shall not become a charge on the public... .The steamships Celtic and Britannic, of the White Star Line, collided in midocean. The latter was badly damaged, and several of her steerage passengers were killed or injured. The Britannic returned to New York in company with the Celtic.

Bradstreet's review of the wheat market for the last week notes favorable rainfalls in the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys. Millers complain of difficulty in obtaining winter wheat, and hence cannot fill orders for winter wheat Hour. During the week there was an active export movement of wheat and flour to Europe from the Atlantic seaports, and according to careful calculations a reserve of only 35,000,000 bushels of wheat will be carried over to the next crop season. Every housekeeper in the land is deeply interested just now in the unprecedented rise in the price of coffee, says a Philadelphia dispatch. In the wholesale market this berry is double the price per pound it was a year ago—a fact of moment when it is considered that even at the old price our national coffee.bill was something like $05,000,000 a year. The reason for this rise in the price of coffee is the prospective short crop that is to come on July 1 next. It will not exceed 3,250,000 bags, while a full crop would be double that. The crops for two years past have been below the average. Our coffee supply comes from Brazil, the little that we get from Java, Maracaibo, and the East Indies not being sufficient to affect the market in the least. Rio rules the coffee world, as China does that of its companion, tea.

FOREIGN.

Rodman- ortifying rapidly under the superb ce of German officers.. The owner ol the English race-horse Bendigo has refused an offer of £20,000 for him,.. .Fiveof the Nihilists who attempted to assassinate the Czar of Russia In March were executed Tuesday... .A prominent Italian statesman, Signor Fuzzari, expresses the opinion that an entente between Italy and the Vatican could easily be attained if the Pope would adopt the same course as to Italian politics that he has recently pursued in Germany. King Humbert, he says, is powerless to act unless public opinion points the way. • Vienna dispatch says a , more hopefnl view prevai s among Austrian—statesmen of the European situation. The Emperor, in closing the Hungarian Diet next week, is expected to emphasize his confidence in the preservation of peace... .Ths London 7’i»;es prints a story of extensive frauds on the agents of* an American bank —name not given —by f means of forged letters of credit presented simultaneously at The perpetra ors have not been arrested, ... A cablegram says that Mr. Parnell’s weak and emaciated appearance is the subject of much comment in the. British Commons lobby, and that Lis friends are alarmed at his condition, and Lis pblitisni enemies' : "pnivieid of -the latter faave heen heard to express the opinion that he would not again take his seat in the House. A cablegram from Paris says that M. Bouvier. a lawyer, and former member of the Chamber, of Deputies, will form a new Cabinet for France. The people are said to beiyteatly excited over the resignations of the Ministry, and the provinces are sending requests that Gen. Boulanger be continued as Minister of IVar. .. .Bismarck is Germanizing Alsace-Lorraine, and expulsions of Frenchmen and others who make his work difficult are constant... .The striker<in. the Borinage Belgium, a*e visiting factories and stopping work. ’• The houses of many workmen who would 1 not stop work have been blown up with I dynamite.

GOLD AND SILVER.

Report of the Director of the Mint on the Production of the Precious Metals. ... , [Washington special.j The report of the Director ®f the Mint or the production qf the precious metals in the I nited States for the calendar year 18SG is in press, and will soon be ready for distribution. The Director estimates the production of the United States to have been in 1886: Gold, $35,000,000; silver, $51,000,000, The value of the silver in the above estimate is calculated at the coinage rale of silver in United States silver dollars—namely, $1,202!) per ounce fine.- The .production of silver was | 39,445,31*2 fine ounces of the commercial Value, at the average price of silver during the year (namely, about $1 per fine ounce), of $39,445,312. The production of gold shows an increase over the prior year of $3,200,000. The protection of silver is slightly less than in 1885. A tabular statement shows that the production of silver iu the United States has largely increased from 1880, when it was $39,200,000, to $51,000,000 in 1886. The year’s production of gold has approximated th# maximum of tee last seven .years, the product of 1880, which reached $36,000,000, against $35,000,(100 in 1886. Colorado maintains first rank as the largest producer of the precious metals in the United States, the value of its production of gold and silver having been over $20,000,600 during the last year. California yields second place to Montana with a production of nearly $17,000,000, against $16,000,000 by the former. The production of Nevada and New Mexico has decreased, while that of the other States has remained almost constant. Texas, for the first time* is added to the list of producing States, with a production of $200,000 in silver. The annual supply of silver from the mines of the world has largely increased in the last fourteen years, the period covered by the marked decline in the market price of silver, and has doubled since 1872; that is, from $62,000,000 in that year to $124,000,000 in 1886. During the calendar year 1886 the changes in the price of silver were very marked. Opening Jan. 2, 1886, at 46 15-16 pence per ounce, British standard, the fluctuations were slight until April, when commenced a rapid decline, which continued until July 31, when the price of silver reached 42 pence, remaining at that price until Aug. 10, when an advance took place which continued until Nov. 20, when the price reached 47 pence, but remained at that point only a short time. The closing quotation Dec. 31 was 46] pence. The average price for the year was 45.374 pence, equivalent to 99.465 cents per ounce fine. The price of silver at the present time is 43§ pence per ounce, British standard, equivalent to 95.6 cents per ounce fine. The value of the gold deposited at the mints of the United States during the calendar year 1886 was $79,057,818, of which over $21,000,000 consisted of foreign bullion and over $9,000,000 foreign coin.

The deposits and purchases of silver amounted to $39,086,070. The coinage executed at the mints during the calendar year consisted of 63,739,966 pieces, of the face value of $61,375,438. The number of silver dollars coined was 31,423,886, on which the seigniorage was $7,095,361.34. The Director estimates the stock of coin in the Dieted States Jan. 2, 1887, to have been, in round figures, gold, $560,000,000; silver, $324,000,000; total, $884,000,000. In addition to the stock of coin, the Government owned gold and silver bullion in the mint awaiting coinage of the value of gold, $81,400,000; silver, $7,000,000; total. $88,400,000; a total of metallic stock on Jan. 1, 1887, of gold, $641,400,000; silver, $331,800,000; total, $973,200,000. The Director presents official figures to show that of the stock of gold coin estimated to have been in the United States the first of the present year, there was in the Treasury of the United States and in the national and State banks and in circulation on the Pacific slope $360,000,000, leaving $200,000,000 in the hands of the people and in the banks and savings institutions of the United States east of the Sierra Nevadas (other than national banks and the 849 State banks which reported to the Controller of the Currency). The stock and ownership of gold and silver coins in the. United States, Jan. 1. 1887, are given as follows: United States Treasury, $186,901,494; national banks, $166,093,556; State and other banks and private individuals, $531,156,804; total, $885,051,854. The total stock of paper and metallic money in the United States—the paper all either redeemable in coin or secured by bonds redeemable in coin—amounted, Jan. 1, 1887, to $1,879,919,935.

THE CROPS.

Rain in Some Localities, but Badly Needed as a Rule—lnjury from Chinch-Bugs. [Chicugo special.) The following crop summary was compiled by the Fanners’. Rerieic: Gur reports again show that some localities have been favored with beneficialrains, but, as was the case at the date of our former report, the majority of the counties in all of the Western States, except perhaps Missouri and Kentucky, need rain. Dakota is apparently in better condition as regards the crops than any State reporting. Thirteen counties in Illinois report an average condition in winter wheat of 90 per cent. Damage by chinch-bugs is reported in some counties, while ram is needed in others. Ten counties in Indiana report'the condition of winter wheat at an average of 85 per cent. The reports from the State are on the whole "gOOd'C—-- 1 ' y The weather in Michigan still continues very dry. Pastures are short from lack of of raifi. Twelve counties in Ohio report the average condition of winter wheat as low as 66 per cent. . . Eight counties in Wisconsin reprot an average condition of 85 per cent. Rain is badly needed. In lowa the average condition of winter and spring wheat is 100 per cent, and . prospects are good. Chinchb °R 6 are injuring the winter wheat in many, Kansas counties, while others are from the insect. Wheat is in good condition in Kentucky and rain plentiful. Spring wheat is in very fine condition in Minnesota. In Missouri eleven” counties report the . average condition of winter wheat at 91 per cent. Local rains have fallen in Nebraska. ’ during the pastweek, andwheat is in a fair condition. .. The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust more to him, armed with his than I do the soldier in full military array, for .upholding and extending the liberties of his country.— Lord Lrougham. The mob : s a monster with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus, strong to execute, but blind to jierce.ve.— Colton. . -Eleas, King of Scythia, used to say that while he was doing nothing he differed in nothing from his groom.

BASE-BALL

News, Notes, and Gossip Anent the Great National Game. Detroit Ahead in the Race for the Champion Pennant of the League. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] The last game of the first home season took place between the Western clubs at Chicago and Pittsburgh Saturday, and upon the same evening they departed for their first tour of the year among the Eastern cities of the League. On Satuiday the first fifteen days of the season had passed, and at the close of that day’s games we find just as might be expected under the new rules —the heaviest batting club of the organization a good four lengths in the lead of its nearest competitor in the race. Detroit has been playing magnificent ball ever since the season opened. Not only is it batting powerfully, but its fielding strength is greater and its team works better in every particular than that of last year. In Getzein and Ganzel it has a battery that is working with much effect under the revised rules, and it is needless to say that the old out and infield is as strong as money aid enterprise could get together. Those who feel interest enough in the race to exercise their judgment in picking f. winner will probably not fall far short in selecting Captain Hanlon’s team as that which will carry off the League pennant of 1887. Boston is playing strong ball—stronger a good deal than it was anticipated it would play. Mike Kelly’s presence in lhe team seems to have had just the effect generally anticipated, viz: that of imbuing it with the winning spirit which so long characterized the Chicago team while Mike was with it. Philadelphia and Pittsburg, too, are each playing a rattling, determined game, while New York and Chicago, from both of which was expected so much, are a good deal further down in the list than they should be. Particularly is this true of New York, which in many quarters was looked upon as the fancied candidate in the League race. Their record will show such confidence to have been the result of misjudgment, however, for New York is playing at present a much poorer game even than it played last year. It v ould seem that it needs a general weeding out, from manager down to mascot, and tbe sooner it comes the better. The following table will show the record of the clubs up to Sunday, May 15:

- | . -o •2 a .2 • ? Clubs. « c Itc .2 j fl “ m po d ij? «> j3La 2 2 IS -g = * I .2 g a ® OX3 o S !jq 5 a O 3 R K fL fc lps lu ? 5 a o Detroit... 5 2.. 6 13 15 Boston. 3 1.. . 5 ..| 913 Philadelphia 3.. 3.. .. 2.. 814 New York .. 1 3 4~| 815 Pittsburgh. 1 .. t. 1.. .. 3 .. 2| 6,12 Chicag0........ 1 4 5 12 Wiiehmgtou. 3 .1 3 14 1ndianap01i5............ .. 1 2 .. .J 315 Games lost 2 4 6 7| 6| 7 11112].. i..

President Spalding has signed: a new player, Emile Geiss, who, it will be remembered, was blacklisted by St. Paul last year for failing to report. Through the efforts of Sam Morton he was reinstated, and signed with the Whites. He is said to be an excellent fielder and a good, strong batter. Should he prove the correctness of these reports he will probably be put upon third base, while Tommy Burns will be sent out to infuse a little of the old warhorse spirit into the infield. But it is pitching strength the club wants most, and pitching strength it must have, or gpod-by to all hopes of a creditable showing in this year’s race. One of the fairest among the many fair faces that may be seen in the grand stand at the Chicago Ball Park during a gome is that of Mrs. Ned Williamson, the young wife of the Chicago Club’s big short stop. Ned won his pretty wife in New Orleans while playing ball there, and both seem to have little cause to regret the meeting. Mrs. Williamson and several lady friends sat behind your correspondent in the grand stand atlast Saturday’s Detroit game, and, judging from the young lady’s modestly but earnestly uttered comments upon the play of both teams, I should say she might give even her clever and good-natured husband a few points on the came. A certain 'young fellow who drops into Spalding’s store occasionally saw Mrs. Williamson some time ago in company with Edon Madison street. - Rushing into the store he greeted your correspondent with the announcement: “Say, come out here, quick. I want to show you how Ed 'Williamson puts in his time when he’s in town.” We went out, but Ed had disappeared among the crowd, and the young fellow referred to was in despair. “Say,” said he, “I would give a hundred to get an introduction to the lady Williamson was with. She is the prettiest girl I ever saw in Chicago.” Several days later, while standing in the store, the same young fellow came up to me and as we were chatting together Mrs. Williamson, handsomely dressed and her big blue eyes shaded by the brim of a becoming Gainsborough hat, entered the door and passed up to President Spalding’s office to make some inquiry as to the time of the team’s return. - The young man referred to seized me by the arm and, with parted lips and distended eyes, gazed up the stair-case.

“That is the girl I saw with Williamson,” he whispered. “Do you know her?” “Yes,” said I quietly. “That is Mrs. Ned Williamson.” I never saw a man’s face change color more quickly or assume a deeper shade of <-hngrin as he heard my reply. “I should have known as much after all I have read of Mrs. Williamson and Mrs. Williamson’s beauty. Please don’t tell this on me.” was all he said as he left the store. HERE AND THERE. Hornung’s hopeful, the same youngster who used to sit upon the grand stand and shout to his father, “Go it, Joe,” wants to . sign a contract as mascot for the Bostons. Tom Deasley makes the best third baseman the New-Yorkers have yet tried in that position. The nine would be greatly strengthened by keeping him there. Glasscock told the Detroits: “Yog people up here are mistaken about your team. You are not playing fast enough ball to win the pennant. Wait till you strike the Eastern clubs, and you’ll see.” The New York W’orZd in speaking of the New York Club and its poor work says: The fact is that they are giants no longer. They are very small potatoes, and in an advanced state of decomposition, too. They have been treated too well, and are spoiled. What is now needed is a general toning up all around. Gerhardt, of the New York Club, is loud in his denunciation of Ewing, who practically froze him out of the team by signing a contract to play second and not nt all behind the bat. Ward, the Captain of the Giants, also receives a send-off, as he would not permit Joe to practice with the regular team. Gerhardt says he will be glad when he gets away from the crowd.