Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1889 — Page 6

%he llepitbliran. Gao. E. Marshall, Publisher. INDIANA

Andrew D. White’s “Warfare of Science,” which has been so long furnished by installments to Popu’ar Science Monthly, estimates the number burned as witches in Europe from 1550 to 1650 as not less than 100,000. The witch was forced to confess, then to confess to and name aecomnlicea, and each of these implicated others under compulsion till towns were riddled with peraecvtiop. The effect, however, was not wholly in the way of burning victims,, but thousands were rendered insane, and lunacy under the doctrine of everbesetting devils seeking to “possess” mortals became a mental cyclone. No wonder that enlightened men dread every tendency toward reaction from civil liberty. ■ It is somewhat surprising that there were but two ex-Pretidents —Hayes and Cleveland—living at the time of the hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of the first President. That was just the number, however, who were alive when the semi-centennial of that event took place in 1839. The New York Historical Society got up a celebration that year, and John Quincy Adams delivered the oration. Seven men, up to that time, had sat in the Presidential chair, exclusive of the existing occupant—Van Buren; but all were dead except John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The chances are that we will not be much better fixed in the matter of ex-Presidents at the bicentennial. The growth of electric lighting is something wonderful. At the Convention of the Natural Association, President Duncan said that one ago there were 4 100 plants in the United States; these now number nearly 6000. One year ago there were 175,000 arc lamps in use; ther are now 219,924. One year ago there were 1,750,000 incadescent lamps in use: at the present time there are over 2,500,000—49 per cent increase. The growth in el ectric railways is quite as startling. The country is committed to an electric age. St-am and gas,which have headed civilization, are being displaced. One more quarter of a century and every township, as well as city, will be illuminated by electricity. The American Public Health Association demands that the immediate attention of State Boards of Health be given to those relations which exist between men and animals in the way of communicating dangerous disease. It is now well known that glanders, trichinosis and tuberculosis may be communicated from horses or cattle to man; and it is highly probable that diphtheria and scarlatina are also diseases of animals as well as men. The diteases of the cow, especially, demands thorough consideration, from the fact that her milk constitutes so universal a factor in diet At present milk consumers are living and buying in a state of terror. It is absolutely demanded by public health that the milk product of the country be under rigid sanitary control. Why is it thatold-fasLioneddrinks which put our forefathers and mothers to sleep should now be received in fashionable circles, as afternoon beverages, is net easy to explain. In Revolutionary days egg nog was common 1 mixture after a sleigh ride to go to bed on. It would probably raise the mischief with meet of the present generation, and instead of sleep secured a bewildering wakefulness or a positive drunk. But to serve it to waitzers is simply comical. At a recent fashionable party in New York, it is said that only four young ladies were able to waltz after drinking the third mug of this rum and egg mixtue. The lesson is not easy to learn, but nevertheless has to be learned, that stimulants do not remove nervousness or brace up people nowaday, as they did, possibly, in the cooler, quieter days of our fathers. The .only course for a beautiful women is to prat'ce rigid temperenoe and moderation in all things or she is a wreck before she is married, and then wrecks her family in the bargain. ___________ It appears that wood pavements have met with greater success in some of the countries of Europe than in our own.the reason assigned for this being the fact of their having a foundation of concrete to rest upon in the former, at the same time receiving more attention there, in the way of maintenance, than here. Owing to its hardness and resinous quality, American yellow pine, it is stated, ha? become the favorite wood for this purpose in Berlin and Hamburg, and off cial report says that Frederick’s Bridge, Berlin, which was paved in the spring of 1879 with the wood in question, is still in good co . dition, while the approaches, paved with granite blocks, have twice since required repaving. The Opera plafz also, in front of the Emperor’s palace, was paved seven years ago partly with yellow pine and cypresi, at a point where the traffic iAgreatee\ while at other points stone blocks were used, the laying of the different hut faces with these several materials be’i g it the same time. According to the repor' the i rea covered with the wood pavement is at present the one which is best preserved.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ft, Wayne sighs for a free library. Lebanon charges $250 for liquor license. Snowed at Crawfordsville on the 22d. Heavy frost a£ Jeffersonville Thursday. ' o' - ...-li—- - Valparaiso has secured a violin factory. ■ .... '. : _ - is enforcing the cow ordiance.- • Thieves are following the Forepaugh circus. Winchester is building a soldier’s monument. Wabash farmers are complaining of ravages by cut worms. Albert Pulley, living near Marion, was killed by a falling limb. David 8. Watson of Rockville has received a life sentence for murder. Capil alists are talking of erecting a large cement-mi] 1 at Lexington, Scott county. Jeffersonville physicians are blacklisting people failing to pay for medical services. ■ I —-- Terre Haute’s oil craze continues. They are puncturing the ground in every direction. , Wife-shooter John F. Fossett, of Hilisbdro', has been sentenced to seven years’ imoritwiment. Crawfordsville and inany other cities and towns have taken advantage of the increased liquor license. Frosted clover is credited with killing several cattle belonging to S. H. Logan, who lives near Greensburg. There are 7,927 school children in Lawrence county, of which number Bedford has 265 and Mitchell 250. The seven year old son of L. Martin, near Hartford City, was crushed to death by falling under a field roller. A slight trace of natural gas has been discovered in the Crawfordsville boring, and the drill will be seat still deeper. A proposition to increase Ifquor licenses under the new law to $250 was defeated by the Logansport City Council. Seymour parties have a contract to furnish 1,009,000 feet of clear sycamore lumber for Louisville tobacco-box manufacturers. Lightning struck the barn of Calvin Barnes, near Seymour, last Thursday, and killed two horses owned by Gordon Hartwell, and valued at $350. The manager of the Music Hall at Crawfordsville refuses to rent to Uncle Tom’s Cabin troupes, and the people there have voted him a medal. The physicians of Jeffersonville have settled on a scale of charges, and staited a black list of persons who do not pay for medical services rendered them. The trotting colt,-“Sequajah,” belonging to Captain Fugit, of New Albany, died this week of an unknown malady. Probably the name killed him. The animal was valued $2,000. William White, aged eighteen, colored, of Evansville, who fatally crushed the skull of Alexander McFarland with a boulder, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. While assisting in sawing lumber in Douglass’ mill five miles east of Angola, Wednesday, David Ruth fell on the saw and was nearly cut in two lengthwise. He died in fifteen minutes. Alexander Spereisen and wife celebrated their silver wedding at Fort Wayne last Thursday, in the same clothes, and with the same attendants as on the occasion of their first marriage. Rochester is said to contain a greater variety of churches than any other town of its size in the State. All the denominations are represented, and the New Lights and Soul-Sleepers have thrifty congregations. The Goshen Times says that a prominent business man of that place induced his mother to sell her property for $1,900, after which he appropriated the proceeds and caused her removal to the Caunty Asylum. Absconding cashier Will Schrieber, of Columbus, is reported as living at Windsor, Canada, and cultivating his taste for fine horses. It is stated that his stealings will aggregate $50,000 instead of SB,OOO, as was first reported. Thirteen tramps indulged in a riot near the depot at Crawfordsville, Saturday night, and six were captured by Marshal Esminger and posse, in which one of the prisoners was shot in the leg by an associate, who was trying to kill an officer. School teachers should know that for each teachers’ institute held after March 2,1889, they are entitled to full pay—a regular day’s wages—provided they attended such institute during the entire time it was in session and did the work assigned them by the township principal. Joshua Mullen, an inmate of the Charlestown poor asylum, built a wagon and ran away with Lucinda True, another inmate, taking with him her baby and trunk, When last seen, Mullen was in the wagon with the baby and trunk, smoking a pipe, and Lucinda was pulling the equipage. The last gas well at Jonesboro is putting out eighteen million cubic. feet per day, and the flow will be increased by going deeper into Trenton rock. The cas was first struck at the depth of 450 feet, and it reclamed that the well demonstrates that Jonesboro lies in the greatest gas belt in America. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: John Hiroriimus, Mt. Vernon, carriage-spring; George W. Kelly, Goshen, carpet--Bweeper; Joseph A. Minnis, Evansville, safo-aiar n; Marshall T. Reeves and M. O. Reeves. Columbus, spilt pulley; Sigourney Wales, TerA Haute, pencilho der. The dormitory attached to the OiE bans’ Home at Wabash was destroyed y fire, Friday night, but none of the children were in the building at the time. The Commissioners have alreedy appropriated money for the erection of a more substantial structure, : and the loss is not material in conseI quence. : The new city marshal of Shelbyville has notified saloon-keepers that herei after the liquor law will be enforced m that city on Sunday, and there is great surprise, in ccnrtnquer.ee, i s Shelbyville i has always been u “iireial” place. The' palo n men are threatening to retaliate by .irose uti >g every other kind" of bur’noM < iak.rg sales on Sunday. ' Wancounty lias an oath-bound

farmers alliance which transacta all business of the organization through a committee, the same making purchases for the members. This committee waits upon merchants and receives bids for supplies needed, and care is taken that the seller is not permitted to realize more than 15 per cent, profit. Knightsville, Clay City, Saline City, Ash boro, and perhaps , other points in Clay county, have the oil fever and are busy with preparations for drilling. At' Saline City it is claimed that some years ago gas was struck on the McKeen farm by drillers in a well, Near the same place evidences of oil have been apparent. The well was abandoned through fear, and the oil was not appreciated till the discovery at Terre Haute. —lndianapolis News. The economical European excursions, which are conducted in alternate years by the Librarian of the State University, have enabled scores of persons in moderate circumstances to visit the most interesting countries across the water. The one this summer is the sixth, and its itinerary includes Bngland, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. The party will sail from New York June 15, and be absent three months.

THE STATE CAPITAL.

The Attorney General, in an opinion delivered to the State Auditor, holos that the act of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly authoriieing the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer of State to negotiate a loan of $3,905,000 for the purpose of paying off school fund bonds Nos. 1, 2,3, 4 and 5, and providing the distribution of the funds to the various counties of the State to be constitutional. This question was raised that the matter might be put to the financiers and the funds secured. The Daughters’of Rebekah,l. O. O. F., met in annual convention here, Tuesday, with an attendance of between 300 and 400. No special legislation was undertaken. The new officers selected are: Miss Alice McQuiddy, President; Mrs. Nannie Henderson, Vice President; Mrs. - Treasurer. Delegates to the National convention: Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Coates, Mrs. Crews, Mrs. Hanna. I. O. O- FThe Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., es Indiana met here, Wednesday and Thursday, with an attendance of 700 delegates and members. The officers’ reports showed increased interest and membership. The Grand Secretary’s report shows a total membership in the State of 29,853, a net gain of near ly 400 for the term. The number of lodges in the State is 544. The resources of the various lodges are $1,753,354.85. The receipts for the term, $142,241.40. The number of brothers relieved were 1,836, and the total amount of money expended for relief and charity was $53,065.41. A proposition to erect a home tor old and indigent membeys of the order received considerable attention. Help to the amount of $20,000 has been proffered, and aid will be welcomed. About $50,000 for a home is needed. The officers of the Home organization are as follows: President, J, B. Kenner, Huntington, Vice President, J. B. Kimball, Kendallville; Secretary, A. D. Mohler, Huntington; Treasurer, Theo. P. Haughey, Indianapolis. Directors—William B. Myers, Anderson; C. C. Binckley, Richmond; A. 8. Millice, Warsaw; John W. McQuiddy, Indianapolis; L. T. Mitchener, Shelbyville. The officers nomenated to be voted for at the annual meeting in November are: u_r For Grand Master—C. C. Binkley, Richmond. For Deputy Grand Master—W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis. For Grand Warden—U. Z. Wiley, Fowler; Jas. D Reynolds, Yorktown; John B. Cockrum,Boonville, and J. O. Pedigo, Lebanon. For Grand 8ec r etaw— B. F. Foster, Madison. Grand Treasurer—", P. Haughey, [lndianapolis. Rep. to Bov. Gr. Lodge—J. E. C. F. Harper, Madison. Truste s—William Wallace, J. W. McQuiddy A Ferguson. -

Pulling Teeth by Electricity.

Boston people nowadays have their superfluous teeth drawn by electricity. The process is very simple, scarce any apparatus being required beyond an ordinary two cell battery with vibrator attachment. This attachment is a thin strip of metal fastened at the ends, which is made to vibrate a thousand or more times a second by the electric cur rent. At each vibration the circuit is cut off and renewed again, the effect being to give a perfectly steady flow of the mysterious fluid. In order to make sure that the flow is quite satisfactory, the operator tunes the machine— assisted by a little reed tuning pipe—until the strip of metal sings “A.” Now, to the battery are attached three wires. Two of them have handles at the ends, and the third is attached to a forceps. The patient in the chair is given a handle to hold in each hand, and the current is turned on gradually until it becomes painful. Then he is told to grasp the handles as strong as possible, the electricity—having been switched off for a moment—is turned on again suddenly, and the dental surgeon applies his forceps simultaneously to the tooth. The instant the molar is touched, it, as well as the parts surrounding, becomes electiified, and absolutely insensible to pain. When it is withdrawn from the socket the subject of the operation feels not the slightest disagreeable sensation. A jerk, and the tooth is out, the patient drops the electric handles, and the painless affair is over. , Now that the French have popularized horse meat and frogs, they have gone heavily into snail culture. Small farmers are said to make from SI,OOO. to $2,C00 a year fattening these tender esculents. They are bought up readily by the wealthy, and are a generally favorite food. Mushroom culture and snail cul-, ture utilize the dark places, cellars and tunnels. So it is that the possibilities of food > supply increase. Much of the best that the earth supplies has so far been neglected. Our locusts, that the Western farmers will not eat, is the chief article of diet in Oriental countries.

CRONIN’S CORPSE FOUND.

The Distinguished Irish-American M«rdered and Thrown Into a Sewer. The disappearance about three weeks ago of Dr. Cronin, the well-known Irish agitator, of Chicago, created a wide sensation, and various reasons were given for bis disappearance. One report claimed he went away with a woman not his wife. Another that he was seen in Canada several times, and eVen alleged interviews were given. The mystery of his disappearance was cleared up the latter part of last week by the finding of his body, stark naked, in one of the sewer traps in a suburb of Chicago, where it had been thrown many days previous. There were marks of violence upon his head and face, but a post mortend examination showed that neither the skull, nor none of the bones were fraukured, and the means employed in his murder is almost as much of a, mystery as was his strange disappearance. All of the physicians who examined him, however, were of opinion that he might have been killed by the blow at the outer corner of his left' eye. The entire Chicago detective force are working on the case, trying to trace the murderers. It is known that the body of Dr. Cronin was conveyed to the sewer trap in a trunk,and thibrnhy lead to the capture of the murderers. Although hope of an early solving of the mystery is expressed it may be said that nothing is known to the press or public further dhan the fact of the trunk being found upon which the hope can be founded. Later particulars are to the effect that the police are jealously guarding a vacant house in Lakeview, which was vacated previous to Dr. (. ronins’ murder and has been vacant since. The house contains many evidences of a crime having been committed within its walls. Blood stains were discovered in almost every part of the house. There are other evidences of the murder, including, it is said, bloody clothing, but the police are silent on this point. A key was found in the house that fitted the blood-stained trunk.

A Chicago paper publishes a story which implicates a member of the Chicago police force, Detective Daniel Coughlin, in the murder of Dr. Cronin. The story that on the morning of the day on which Cronin disappeared Coughlin engaged ata livery stable not far from where Dr. Cronin lived a horse and buggy, which, he said, a friend of his would call for that evening; that the man did call and was given a white horse, similar to the one attached to the buggy in which Cronin was decoyed away; that the time of going, and the description of the man corresponded minutely both with the time when the man came for Dr. Cronin and with the appearance of the man himself; that Coughlin subsequently cautioned the livery-stable keeper to say nothing about the matter. Coughlin was a member of one or more societies of which Cronin was a member, and they are said to have been enemies. Dr. Cronin’s funeral wks held Sunday and was attended by 7,000 persons. The Mayor and Chief Hubbard, accompanied by Attorney Hynes, who is assisting in the pursuit of the assassins of Dr. Cronin, went to the Chicago avenue station, Saturday night, and held a long conference with Captain Schaack regarding Dan Coughlin’s connection with the case. In discussing the ease, the point was made in favor of Coughlin that had he wanted this rig for any improper purpose he would not have said “any rig will do,” but would have been very particular as to the kind to be used for such purpose. On the other hand the point was made against Coughlin that his story given in explanation was ridiculous. The Mayor and the Chief held that he might a B well have given the name of “John Doe,” or any one else, as “Thomas Smith.” In summing it all up they decided to hold Coughlin as a witness. After the consultation it is understood that detective Whelan was promptly suspended to await further investigation. Whelen eaid, Monday, that aiter Coughlin and himself were detailed on the Cronin case, to fathom the “whitehorse” episode, they wandered about the streets for two without meeting the man from Michigan, and were about to report their failure, when Schaack told them of his interview with Mrs. Conklin. Whelan and Goughian were then ordered to drop the C.onin case altogether, and to report for general , work. A day or two after that while they were strolling down Clark street in the vicinity of Illinois, Cougnlin met a man who appeared to know him. “I didn’t pay any attention to the fellow,” said Whelan, “because he appeared to be a friend of Dan’s. Dan didn’t offer to introduce me, so I strolled along a little way north and waited for Dan to getthrough. When he got through he came over to where I was standing and we walked north about a block. Then he told me that the man he met was his friend from Michigan who had driven Dinan’s horse. I turned around to see if I could see the fellow, but he was too faraway. If I had known at the time who he was I would have taken him to the station to see the Captain. But as we were not on the case then I soon forgot the incident.” The following sensational story was published at Chicago Monday: The police have been put in possession of facts which, if true, are far more startling than was ever expected concerning Dr. Cronin’s murdet—_lL. has been clearly shown by the dead man’s friends that his removal was ordered by a committee in some way representing the Clan-Na-Gael Society. Charges of traitorous conduct were preferred against him ata meeting of a Claa-Na-Gael camp, he was found guilty and his removal was ordered. The charge was based in the statement of the British spy Le Caron, that there were four more spies in America. When Le Caron made that statement on the stand before the Parnell Commission he was ordered to state the name of the spies. He said he dared not do it, because if they were known they would be murdered. Presiding Justice Hannen then took him into a closed anteroom, and in the presence of Mr. Richard Webster, the Attorney General, who is conducting the pros ecution, and Sir Charles Russell, ParDell’s attorney, Le Caron stated their names Within forty-eight hours after; this news was cabled across from Europe nearly every Clan-NaGael camp in America had met and passed resolutions declaring in favor of a rigid hunt for the four spies. The finger of suspicion, justly,or unjustly, was pointed, among others, at Cronin. A committee was appointed ts try aim. z He was convicted without being given a chance to

brought here from outside point# to carry but the mandate of the Committee The latter was chosen by secret billot It is claimedLthat the murder conspiracy would not have ended with Dr. Cronin had not his body been found so opportunely in the Evanston avenue manhole. There were other Irishmen on the executioner’s list, and they would have all shared Cronin’s fate had the chance to dispose of them safely offered. It is known that an attempt to decoy Dr. Cronin to a very lonely spot was made a short time before the doctor’s mrn-der. The story of the attempted but unsuccessful effort to get Dr. Cronin to a lonely neighborhood to see an imaginary sick man is interwoven with other incidents that lead back to the Carlson cottage. Oae night about 11:30 o’clock, shortly after the cottage was leased to two strange men, a telephone message was sent to the doctor, asking him to call at Butterfield and Fortieth streets, on the South Side, where it was said a man was badly hurt. The person who telephoned gave explicit instructions as to the locality and urged the doctor to make all possible haste. Dr. Cronin was absent from his home at the time, and did not return till nearly morning. After it was light he went to the place where ir was said he was wanted in such haste. The spot was a vaunt lot. He made careful and exhaustive inquiries in the neighborhood, going from house to house. After spending several hours in the search he found that no one had been injured in that vicinity. The message was a decoy. There is little doubt that bad he gone there during the night he would have been assassinated.

THE NICARAGUA CANAL

A Shipload* ot Supplies and Fifty Men Leave for Graytown Friday. The Nicaragua Canal Company announces that the steamship Alveno, which sailed for Grey town, Nicaragua, May 25, carried about fifty men and a quantity of implements and stores for the Nicaragua Canal Contruction Company, being the pioneer expedition for the commencement of the work of building the Nicaragua interoceanic canal. Similar consignments of men and materials for the prosecution of the work will follow one another at short intervals. Ten engineers of the surveying expedition of 1887 and 1888 have remained in Nicaragua in the service of the company, and will meet the construction party at Greytown. They have collected about 500 native laborers there, in readiness to begin operations at once, and in the meantime have constructed temporary quarters for themselves and those who are shortly to arrive. The first work to be done, and which will begin immediately.is railroad building, building a pier at Greytown, erecting permanent quarters, hospitals, warehouses and shops, running telegraph wires along the line of the projected canal, dredging in Greytown harbor, ani clearing and dredging the first twelve miles of the canal, from Greytown to the “divide.” Preparations will be made for the heavy work on the rock cut, embankments, etc. The company will send down with the expedition a locomotive, ten large steel canoes, a steam launch for the chief engineer, two diamond drills, fifty tons of previsions, clothing for 500 laborers, six large pile drivers, two large portable houses, four large rock drills, 150,000 feet of lumber foi houses, 1,000,000 feet of piles and timbers, 200 ham mocks, 200 cots, a large stock of engineers’ instruments. 20,000,000 feet of galvanized iron roofing, tools (railroad, carpenters’, blacksmiths’, engineers’, etc.), about sixty tons of iron, nails, steel, etc., telegraph and telephone materials, crockery, hardware, gunpowder, dynamite, oils, rope, 400 rubber blankets, furniture, drugs, etc.

A SMASH AT PANAMA.

The unfortunate consequences of the Panama canal smash are becoming more marked every day, says a dispatch, and the deplorable condition of affairs has but one outlet, and that by emigration. The commissioner sent by the Jamaican government has already sent away 4,000 people, and he has issued 3,000 tickets more, and these will leave by earliest steamers. The people are congregated at the different depots with their tickets in their hands, but without food, and almost without shelter, and a tropical wet season is in its full energy. After all the distressed foreigners shall have been removed, there will still be much suffering and want here—suffering and want of a character which cannot be even ameliorated until the resumption of work in January next shall have put money in circulation and inspired confidence. In Colon prices havs fallen lower than anywhere else on the Isthmus. Many houses are without tenants. A store for which S2OO per month could readily have been obtained h few months ago is offered at S3O and "no takers.” To illustrate the awful poverty reigning here, a clergyman of Colon says that on Sunday last the collection of a congregation of 300 persons was less than $3. The canal company sold in this city on May 13 a cable transfer on Paris for $20,000 at the rate of 53i per cent, premium. This fact furnishes at least a quotation for exchange. When the City of Para leaves Colon there will be no steamer in that port, a circumstance almost unparalleled in the history of the port since it was first visited by steamers and became known by the name of Aspinwall. Samuel W. Pearce, a member of the Board of Trade, died in Providence, R. ! 1., recently. At the time President Lincoln was assassinated Mr. Pearce and his sister were en route from Providence to Newbern, N. C. The news of the tragedy was fl islited along the wires.and a full description of J. Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Surratt sent out. All of the trains running south were carefully inspected, and the officers boarded Mr. Pekrce’s train. As chance would have it, the two travelers boro a striking reserfiblance to Booth and Mrs. Surratt, and despite their protests they weie placed under arrest. That night an attempt was was made to shoot the supposed assassins, and the plan of taking them out and shooting them was disenssed by the officers. Good counsel prevailed, and the protests of the alleged Booth were listened to, and fce two travelers were released.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington special to the Herald says. The sending es the English flag ship Bwifture and the Amphion to Sitka, with orders to cruise in Behring tea, has caused quite a stir in official circles here. The Treasury Department has time and again called the attention of the Government to the fact that wbipn flying she English flag are engaged in illicit sealing in Behring Sea. in most cases these vessels are well armed, and our revenue cutters, which carry only howitzers, are no match for them. The Government has decided that its interests in. Alaska shall be protected. The United States steamer Adams, which was under sailing orders for Honolulu, expected to leave on Tuesday, but a telegram has been sent to the commandant of the Mare Island Naw Yard to detain her. She will go north in company with the Iroquois, and both vessels will leave early in the week for Sitka. The State Department has decided that Behring Sea is a Mare Clausum, and intends tor assert dominion over the whole North Pacific within the limit defined by our treaty with Russia. What constitutes the waters of Alaska has long been a complicated question, and if, as appears, the English Government is sending war ships to protect Canadian vessels engaged in taking seal north of the Aleutian Jslands, our Government will be confronted with an international question of the gravest importance. The revenue cutters Rush ana Bear and the war ships Thetis, Adams and Iroquois will be at hand to enforce the law of the country as defined by the Treasury Department, so far as depredation of the seal fishing is concerned. Our Government takes the ground that when we acquired Alaska by purchase in 1867 we also acquired all of its vested rights, one of which was Behring Sea. This question was settled jn 1829, when England attempted the same tactics she is now engaged in. Russia showed fight and sent a large fleet to these waters to uphold her position. The question was finally settled by arbitration against England. Secretary Blaine is determined in this matter. He maintains that we have exclusive dominion over all that portion of the Pacific Ocean known as Behring Sea, excepting such as lies east of the treaty line, bordering on the Siberian cqast. The matter has been discussed in Cabinet, and the determination of the administration is to enforce all our rights in the matter. If England persists in sending ships of war to protect the Canadian vessels in taking these young seal, this government will take vigorous measures to, stop it, The firstTonflict of authority within this immense area of water, claimed and owned by the United States, may mean war. It is believed that England, seeing that this government is determined to enforce its rights, even if recourse to force is necessary, will withdraw and submit the question to arbitration, as was done with Russia in 1829.

The pension appropriation act for the current fiscal year appropriated $80,460,0(10 for the payment of pensions, and $8,000,000 was alsc appropriatedjor the same purpose to meet a threatened deficiency, making the total appropriations $88,400,000. This whole amount will be necessary to meet the demands of pensioners, and it may be that there will be a deficiency. Hon. Samuel J. Randall, in a conversation, Wednesday, expressed the opinion that the outlook for the Democracy in ’92 is the brightest, and he feels sure of the next House and President. “We fellows,” he declares, “have all got to get together, and lam certain we will, and we will whip them out of their boots,” Commissioner of Pensions Tanner, while alighting from a carriage in front of the pension office Thursday morning, slipped and fell, severely injuring himself. Having lost both of his legs, he is almost helpless when he loses his balance. It is not thought that his injuries will prove serious. The marriage of ex-Secretary Bayard to Miss Mary Walling Clymer is announced to take place June 12, in St. John’s Episcopal Church, at Washington. There will be no more changes in the office of the Altorney General for some months. The President will not talk politics on Sunday. .. -

A MOB IN GUTHRIE,

The Metropolis of Oklahoma in a State of Turmoil—Militia Galled Out. For several nights about twelve hundred men, who have lost their lots in Guthrie, I. T., through contests, have been holding revolutionary meetings, but nothing has resulted, except to declare the citv officers usurpers. Thursday the marshals undertook to enforce au ordinance which provides for the ejectment of persons who have lost their lots through the decision of the arbitration boards. Adjoining the postoffice a lot had been awarded to the occupant of the rear end, who had a building erected. An old man Jived in a tent on the front end, and when the marshals tore his tent down and carried him oft, a mob of 1,500 men, came to his rescue. They drove the marshals away and leleased a man from prison who bad been arrested for inciting the mob. For several hours the mob had possession of the city, and it was not until a company of soldiers arrived that order was restored. The marshal, under the protection of the military, dragged the old man from the lot where he had slept sfhee the 22d of April. Had not the soldiers arrived in time the mob would have demolished the city hall and caused bloodshed. The soldiers ere parading the city and the business men are organizing for protection. Many of us can remember when women had not a college of their own, and only Oberlin opened her doors to equal and co-education. And that opening raised a tempestuous opposition and war of indignation. Now, says Kate Htevens, women have more than 200 colleges wheie they can matriculate and carry off honorsjand there are 4,000 women in attendance. Among theee institutions are several State Universities besides Cornell, and Howard, and Columbia and a half a doaen owned and occupied by the woman alone. N’ eanwhile, women iui teachers are rece vin[, in place of a mere pittance, a sum almost equivalent to that paid to men.