Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — Page 2

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A medical expert announces that the grip is only the winter form o! hay fever. If this is true tie sneeze hereafter will be perennial in Amer, ica. “ ; Germany, it is said, has sent in. structions to its minister at Washington to find out what protection is accorded to its subjects in the United States. This does not indicate that the Kaiser is dissatisfied with the way Germans arc treated here.— lt merely shows that he wants to create the impression that they are badly used, and thus to keep more of them at home for service in his army. - L ============ It is now reported from Ottawa that the Canadian Government is Willing to co-operate with the American authorities in preventing Chinamen from violating the exclusion act in coming here by way of British Columbia. At one time the Canadian Government made an attempt to exclude Chinamen from its territory; but when a remonstrance was sent to Ottawa from London, declaring that such action would he detrimental to Brstish interests, the Dominion Parliament limited its legis' lation to a measure which requires every incoming Chinaman to pay a poll tax of SSO and procure a registration certificate. Under this act Chinamen enter British Columbia, from which a good many of them come to this country. The New Dominion, however, may yet adopt an exclusion policy like that of the United States. Its Parliament cannot hereafter be subjected to re* straints that are not to be maintained in the Australian colonies, which, by a decision of the Bi itish Privy Council, are now empowered to exclude Chinamen from their territory. The most feasible way of preventing the further growth of the Chinese element in this country is through the co-operation of the Ottawa and Washington Governments in the enforcement of an exclusion policy.—New York Sun. -

AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.

One of the Speeches in the ‘‘Commercial Congress.” In the commercial congress at Kansas City recently Mr. Wickliffe said that he would treat his subject. “Immigration and Settlement of Vacant Lands,” from the text. “America for Americans.”! We have been told.” he said, ••that-this land is broad enough for all. but I submit that the countries of the old world have made it a dumping-ground for their paupers and criminal classes, and I believe that I speak for the whole American people when I say that the time has come when that must stop. There is enough room for all who want to come here to be one of us. but not a foot of ground for one of those criminals or paupers of the old world. I mav feel deeply upon the subject, but I have lately come fresh from a imost terrible object lesson, which too clearly indicates the need of a change in our immigration laws. “I believe that the congress ought •to declare that the National Congress ■should prohibit the landing of immigrants who are not willing to become good citizens. I think this law ought to be put into such shape that no •man who has not within a given time filed his intention for citizenship which is now altogether too short, and who has not within another given time taken out what is’known as his second papers, ought to be shipped back to the country from which he came. Gentlemen, it'took twenty-one years to make a voter out of each one of you: it does not take twenty-one seconds, to make a voter out of a oreigner. “Let no man step foot upon the soil of Columbia who can not bring a true bill of moral cleanliness. “I am. as some, of you know, a State’s rights Democrat, but I believe that the power to make American citizens ought to be taken from the State courts and given to the general government. Perhaps you do not realize the need of all this, but in looking up the nationally of those criminals whom the citizens of New Orleans executed not long since we found that the naturalization •papers of one of these —his certificate of good moral character —was certified to by two of his fellow-criminals. I believe that the scenes which we have witnessedjduring the past weeks ought to be impossible. The raising of the glorious stars and stripes under that of a foreign nation, as was done in my own State, and the riddling of our flags by bullets, as in Pennsylvania, very clearly indicates the need of, a change of policy as regards our immigration laws." The resolutions were then discussed, os noted above. When they had been disposed of the usual complimentary taken, and the congress, at 9:15 p. jn., adjourned to meet at the call of the executive j committee J

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public debt was reduced §1,514,327 during April. Indications are that the great miners' strike will be averted. Forest fires haVe been devastating porions Of New Jersey. \ ■ ■ Mercier and the othef Canadian delegates have arrived at Now York. Toby Hart, the well-known comedian of New York, ts dying from paresis. Col. Miguel Lopez, Who. it is said, bejtrayed Maximilian to J uarez, is dead.. Al! the miners near Trimble, Ohio, are out. Also all miners in northern lowa. United States officers are evicting 6.000 white settlers from the Choctaw Natipn. William Terry, the fifth victim of the Louisville wedding feast, died Saturday. ’ AXLeycland, O„ syndicate has contrast, ed to establish a tin-plate plant at Amiersi>n. i ■ 5 The Treasury Department proposes, to enforce the Owen law to regulate luimigration. Nearly 50.000 men went out at New York. The demand is for ah eight hour day. The venerable jurist, David Dudley Field, is Ilfat h"is home, No. 22 Gramercy Park. ■ ’ CoL'Robert Ijut'usol 1 isxgiifined to his bed seriously s: el; with the grippe at his ho tn e. - ,72 1 Three young girls lost their lives in a burning fireworks factory at New York on the Ist. ' . . A’tirwen Stoddart. one of Philadelphia's gwsaVnierchants, became suddenly insane at Chicago. Ten diseased and pauper immigrants, from Russia, were refused entry at New York on the 6th. Representatives of Croatia and the United States will have a ,reciprocal trade conference in October. :-r Several patients have been discharged from the hospital at Denver, pronounced cured l?y Koch's lymph. The sugar trust is said to have been a gigantic speculalivuj-ebbnry,.and repressive legislation iif suggested. The celebrated Anaconda mine, in Montana, is said to have beetr sold to She Rothschilds for §25,000,000. - Phil Armour & Co., of Chicago, rrf’,l build a refrigerator at South Bend for the distribution of dressed meats. - The first official act of Mayor Washburne. of Chicago, was to order all the gambling houses in the citv to close. The Attorney General has entirely recovered from his recent illness, and visits the Department of Justice every day. The Waco (Tex.) grand jury indicted thirty-four men for frauds in a local election, many of them prominent men. Two little boys, while playing in the mud at Kansas City, found two gunny sacks, each containing a mutilated human body. The Texas Central railway was sold at Waco, Tex., on the 22d inst., under 'foreclosure,to the committee of reorganization, for $750,000. Lorenzo Cronz. the new Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury, and Treasurer Nebeker, have entered upon the discharge of their duties. "TTarc n eeP. Dresser, the journalist, who securedthe famous "public bed —d” interview with Vanderbilt, died at Chicago and was buried at Lafayettect U. S. Hall, President of the M issouri Farmers’ Alliance, in a published interview says that he is opposed to the third -partyeonvention atCincinnati. The Census Bureau finds 3,035 irrigated farms in New Mexico; average cost of land, including water right, cost of irrigaTiba and purchase price, 512.96 per acre. Governor Campbell has written a public letter in which he says he is a candidate for renomination, and it is likely he wil contest the next election with Major McKinley. A t Tiffin, 0., a heavy storm struck Sells Bros.’circus, blowing down all the tents md creating a panic. Several of the aninals escaped. Mrs. Pauline Hunter was rilled and two others seriously injured. The students of Grant University at Chattanooga, Tenn., invited Henry WaV terson to address them commencement week,hut the faculty has refused to allow (he editor to appear, and the students are ndignant. A strange disease has attacked the horses near Mechanicsburg, 0., which puzzles the veterinarians. It is similar to the epidemic of epizootic which raged over the country a few years ago. A number of fatal cases are reported. ' The British ship Lansdowne, which sailed from Hokodatc, Japan, 199 days igo, for New York, has been given up as tost. She was commanded by Captain Newcomb, and carried a crew of about forty n.en. She was loaded with sulphur. The people of Wheeling, W. Va., have dedicated an abortive gas well to the cause rd science, and will endeavor to make it the deepest well in the world. A government physicist has been detailed to follow the progress of the drill, which is now down 4,100 feet. Ms. S. D. Miller, son of the Attorney General, has been appointed to the posittonlately vacated by Mr, Tollman, chief of the division of requisition and accounts of the War Department, and has been designated as private secretary by Secretary Proctor. A new and fatal disease has made its appearance among tne cattle in various parts Of Kansas, and veterinary surgeons are greatly puzzled by it Cattle apparently healthy are taken suddenly ill and almost invariably die. The’'new malady promises to take the form of an epidemic. That part of the McKinley bill which removes the tax on tobacco went into es feet May 1. All licenses to retail tobacco expired on the 30th, and no more will be ; needed. ..Beginning with May l, any person who desires may si 11 tobacco without let or hindrance. The historic old log cabin in St. Louis county, which the late General and. President U. S. Grant erected with his own hands, and with logs cut and hewn by himself, is about to be removed from its present site and shipped to Chicago, whore it will be re-erected for exhibition at the World’s Fair. nL I United States Senator Reagan has re-

signed and accepted the positional Rail D>ad Commissioner of ’Ttxas, at a salary o $6,000 a year for four years. Govurno Hogg has appointed Horaofe Chilton, o Tyler, to fiil out Senator Reagon’s uaex pired term of two years. Mr. Chiltoq i thirty-seven years old, a lawyer of tri; practicsx and is considered one of the mo. accomplished and brilliant orators in th Stab-. • The Supreme Court has decided the lot tery mandamus case in favorof thelotter company. The suit was brought by th lottery people to compel the Secretary> j -StaTeto promulgate an order fur the sub mission to the people of the co-nstitutiona amendment, continuing the lottery's lii for another twenty-five years from 1595 and the court decided that it must be promulgated. It will be n<-:. year, and it will be one of the most excit i ngand sanguinary - po! ii icai con t.-.< t <ir the history of Eonisaute;—Atany of thr parishes have -already-resolved to r<-.-:s the lottery if need be with shot guns.

FOREIGN.

France's embassador to Russiajias r<signed. General Mejia, ex-Minister of War. am a member of -the Pawwina —fungressrh dead, -*• - The naval exhibition was opened oi Chelsr'-.i embankment* in the pr« sene<-. othe Prince and Princess of Wales. - Tlu- British Tories have taken lhe Liberals by surprise in suddenly schangiuf frbirt and coining out in favorof freuiahfe cation. Grand Duke. Nicholas, an Ancle of tin Czar, is dead. He was a field marshal ii the Russian army and inspector general o Cavalry and the corps of j iigiupers, am has been, insane since last fall. lie. was sixty years old. The explosion of 2fis tons of gunpowde* on the 2ilrd in .the powder magazine at Pozze Pantaleo. Rome, which caused serious damage and loss of life, created grew alarm at the Vatican. All the windowso, the Pope's library were broken and a num ber of precious relics were destroyed. Ir glass in the principal windows in St. Pet' er's Basilca were smashed to handsome stained glass window over the chair of St. Peter was broken.

OYCOTTING CARNEGIE.

Mmrafavturers Trying to Cut Him Ont of His Supplies of Cast Iron for Building, It is staffed in New York that there is war in the iron trade, and the story fun® thus;- “The fight is to be made against Andrew Carnegie and his associates, and the opposition to him will be directed through the. house of J. B. &J. M. Cornell and other New York iron manufacturers allied with them. The Carnegie association do not make cast iron, and as the girders in buildings are usYtstlV of cast iron, Mr. Carnegie has to give out contracts for all the girders lie requires. Instead. however, of contracting with persons building, Mr. Carnegie’s agents make what is known as direct contracts. The result is thai such cast-iron linns as A. R Whitney, the agent of Andrew Carnegie, considers ill a position io do thexvdrk satisfactorily, get the preference of all others. Last week, a meeting attended by the representatives of the firm of J. B. A J. Nl. Cornell and others was held to fqrmulata aboycottwgainst Mr. Carnegie,- and yesterday the matter was freely discussed by prom inent jfon men. Air. A.’ R. Whitifey said he had just spoken with Messrs. Carnegie and Phipps, of Pittsburg, in relation to the matter, assuring them that they had nothing-to fear from the combine whatever. “We have made, it a rule to contract directly with the proprietors, instead of taking their orders for iron indirectly through contractors. We can get as much cast iron as we require, and no such boycott as this can injure us in the least.” Mr. W. S. Baldwin, of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, said he could not see how such a boycott could succeed. President Harrison has ordered an investigation into the. lynching of Hunt at Walla Wa la. bv United States soldiers.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOWS, May"i 1891. GRIAXi . . ——. _ - Wheat. Corn. , Oats. Rye. __ _ Indianapolis.. 2rdlOS 1w < 4 1 w i>S 3 r’d 105 lye 73 51 Chicago. 2 r’d 109 68)4 Cincinnati.... 2 r’d 1 13 73); 57 86 St. L0ui5...... 2 r’d 10) 71 55>4 89 New York.... 3 r’d 123 84 59q 95 Baltimore.... 1 IS 74 57 96 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 121 S 3 68)i;Clover Seed. Toledo 115 76 58 4 15 « Detroit.l wh 113 73 J • Minneapolis.. 1 1O‘» CATTLE. Fancy export steers.§s-4065 85 Good to euoice slii[)peis. 4 75 «5 25 Fair to medium shippers 4 Common shippers 3 4tt«3 85 F»‘eders.9oo toT^OOibS7.v;—...3 oqtrf in Stockers. 500 to 800 lbs Heavy export heifers 4 on Good terchoice butcher heifers. 3 50/c 10 - Fair to medium heifers 3 (K) u 335 Light, thin heifers 2 25qi3 75 Heavv exportbows 4 Good to choice butcher cows... 3 375 Fair to medium butcher cows.. 2 Common old cows 1 53®’2 50 Veals, common to choice 3 OA<t4 50 Bulls, common to medium..... 2 25(<£2 50 Bulls,good to Choice 2 Milkers, good to choicel2 00 tr 22 00 Milkers, common to medium... 27 00jz'37 00 HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. . .$5 M i xed.. 4! o. 15 <*s Lights 4 40t<: 5 (K) Heavy roughs 3 75(ffi4 25 Figs 3 (ZXb4 25 SHEEP. Good id clidfce sbeepi and yearl- , ings §5 50@6 25 Fair to medium sheep and yearl-*> ings..4 25 Common sheep and yearlings... 3 Bucks, V head 3 00&5 00 miscellaneous. Eggs, 12 i; butter, creamery, 24\®26c; dairy. 20c; country, De; feathers,3sc; beeswax, 18(g!20c; wool. 3O(af3sc, unwashed, 20e; hens, 8c; turkeys, 10c,toms, 8c; clover Sfied.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Greenfield is on a boom. Noblesville claims a boom-. Kokomo is to have a distillery. Jeffersonville claims 17,000 population. There is not a vacant house in Scottsburg. There are 781 convicts in the Northeim Prison. a Columbus has secured a wood-handle factory. S ' Indiana has 113 students in the University of M ich i gan . “==== Three hundred carpenters are locked out at Terre Haute. The Jay County Agricultural Society is building an art hall. The Greencastle 'Breeders’ Association will build a mile track. Another good oil-producing well has been struck near Portland. “Hog in,” or “Hog out” was the issue at the recent election at Petersburg. Gen. Lew Wallace has applied for a patent on a fishing rod he has designed. Indiana has 6,000 miners, the majority employed in the Clay county mines. Archibald Martin, near Crawfordsville, was damaged §2,000 by incendiarism. From 300 to 500 miners and collar and harness makers are on'a strike at Eyansville. _ : N_ ■■■ The Jeffersonville whet-stone worksTias started up after an enforced idleness of months. A. A red-oak log was split in saw-mill near Edinburg and 127 blacksuakes were found therein. Miners to the number of 2,600 struck at Brazil, Ind. A reduction of wages is said to be the. cause. The 'Wilkinson cheese and butter factory Js receiving 3.000 pounds of milk per day, and is proving a financial success. Flower thieves are so bold in Crawfordsville that they eij ter the front yards at night and dig up plants by the roots. John Johnson, of Peru, got a year in the penitentiory for stealing a bushel of potatoes, for which he received 95 cents. New Albany en joys the credit of the first Odd Fellows’ lodge chartered in the State, 7 uhdertdate of October 14,1835. Aaron Stewart, found bodly wounded in the streets of Madison several weeks ago, died of his wounds without giving his assailant's name. The Kokomo plate-glass works is turning out 6,000 feet of glass per day. Orders for mirror glass arc pouri n g i n at an as - tonishing rate. Business men o’ lluncie, angered over certain rules adopted by the clearing-house association, are taking steps to establish another bank. After three months disappearance, the remains of Warren Niblack were found in the river near Grand View. Supposed to have been mui'dered. '? The new projected industrial establishments at Anderson. Elwood and Alexandria will add $1.500,(XX) to the taxable values of Madison county. A poor and needy scissors grinder died at Goshen, aged seventy-two. In his belt were found papers proving him to be worth $21,000 in land and good securities. John K. Gowdy, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, has renewed his 'membership With the G. A. R Several years ago he withdrew in a pet. Dr. S. V. Wright, of Greensburg, whoestablishrd the Prohibocrat as the organ of the Prohibition party of Decatur- county, has discontinued publication aud sold the plant to Thomas ■H. Greenfield, who will isstre'a'Dfemocratic weekly. - Mrs. Ellen Denny, of Vincennes, gave a temperance lecture at Mitchell on Friday and Saturday .evenings, and lectured again Sunday and Sunday night. The toxyn is worked up’to a high pitch of enthusiasm for the movement and many have reformed. Almost every third man one meets on the street is wearing the blue ribbon. Never, since the days of the crusade, has such a wave of temperance .re form swept over that city. ’ Mitchell has a youthful band of White Caps, whose members seem to be doing their work thoroughly. John Grubb, a lad about twelve years old, who is the sojg nf a hard-working widow, has .been in the habit of loafing about the streets all day and until late at night. He continually disobeyed his mother, who needed his

help. One night recently, while returning home at the usual hour, he xvas met at a dark corner by several masked boyslaying in wait. They seized him, and, taking him off the street, administered a .severe whipping and admonished him to mend his ways. He has profited by the discipline and is not seen on the streets after dark. The Patriotic Sons of America organized a State Camp at Indianapolis on the Ist, and elected the following officers: Past President—H. T. Ellis, Connersville. President—-E. T. Comstock, Marion. Vice President—E. W. Wickey, Eas Chicago. Master of Finance —Parker Willis,Crawfordsville. Secretary—W. A. Eshback,lndianapolis. Treasurer—J. W. Firestinejhdianapolis. Conductor—James Naden, Rushville. Inspector—F. M. Smith,New Richmond. Guard—C. L. B. Ellis, Indiaiiapolis;, Delegates to National Convention—ET.'Comstock, E. W. Wickey and C. L. B. Ellis. THREE MURDERERS RUN DOWN. At 1 o’clock on the Ist there was a general stir upon the Streets of Columbus, occasioned by the arrest, of three toughlooking characters. It xvas soon learned that the three men who were handcuffed were murderers, William Pucket and his sons, Ambrose and Pleasant Puckett. The story of their crime dates back to the last presidential election, having been committed near Irving, Estill county, Ky. The cause of the killing grew out of a pocket knife, which the Puckets claimed they had loaned to Henry Hall, a neighbor. They all started home about noon, and when one mile from the voting place Wm. Puckett, the father, picked up a club and struck Hall a deadly blow, felling him to the ground. Then the boys fell upon him, beating his head into a jelly. The father and sons fled the country and evaded the officers for three years, till Friday night last, when they were ar-

rested. Some time ago xyere located in the wild lands of Brown county, near the postoffice called Peter Cooper. On Thursday, morning two officers from Kentucky arrived in this city and wdht to Nashville, where they secured the assists aneeof thesheriff of Brown county, and stated to make the arrest. Peter Cooper is about twelve miles south of Nashville; in the roughest part of Brown coahty, and furthest from any railroad. In a deep hollow was the home of the Kentucky mountaineers. Each was married and had a home in which he kept his family. The father resided a mile from the sons. T£e Buckets were known to be game when aroused, and their premiseswereapproachedwith great care by the officers, who xvaited for darkness. The huts in which the murderers lived Were some two miles from the postoffice and were approached with considerable caution. None but politicians had ever venturedin where they lived. Their houses had butane room each, without a window or a floor, a chimney or a stove. The beds were straw, placed upon rails that were stuck into the cracks of the building, and they cooked by a fire in the center of the building upon the ground. The two sons were ar re.sledfirst and showed fight before giving up. They were handcuffed togethei and left in charge of two officere, while the others went to the residence of the father and placed him urider_arrest. Tin entire party was much surprised. The wife oi one of the young men was but little taller than a yard-stick, and weighed sixty pounds, but the officers declared that she was a terror. The charge of murder was preferred against William Puckett, while the sons were charged as accessories. There never was a more wretched looking set of individuals seen in this city than these three murderers. The father is about fifty-five /years of age, and in rags. The sons were bare-footed and in the same condition.

ITALY IN UPROAR.

Parliamentary Scenes a Matter • of Frequent Occurrence. Signor Imbriani Breaks Ont in a New Spot and Rides a High-Horse Grave Charges Against the Army. Signor Imbriani. in the Chamber oi Deputies on the 29th, speaking on the African question, charged the Italian government with permitting the slave trade to be carried on Openly. Signor Imbriani also made the assertion that thirty-five young girls who had been taken from their former owners under the pretext of rescuing them from slavery, had been distributed among a number of Italian officers serving with the Italian army in Africa. The Marquis Di Rudini, replying for the Italian government, protested against such accusations being made without absolute proof of their truth having been first obtained. Amidst cries of “It’s a lie!” “Withdraw!” the Minister of War declared that he would not remain in the House unless the charge was withdrawn. A prolonged uproar, during wtjich several violent scenes were witnessed, followed the announcementof the determination of the Minister of War. The President of the .Chamber was utterly unable to_ control the excited Deputies, and consequently he xvas compelled to suspend the sitting. . &gnorj&lmiaau.is.tluLsauie Deputy on March 3, in the House, while tlie electoral mandates were being verified, said that he regretted that some members had accepted money to defend certain candidates before the committee intrusted with the work of verification. A most exciting -scene and* uproar but Signor Imbriani refused to retract his remarks On March 12, following,' Signor Imbrian caused another and more serious disturbance. .

FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Wild, Weird Scenes Along the Philadelphia & Erie in Elasteru Pennsylvania. Forest firesrate raging with, greatsevem ty,along the line of the Philadelphia. <k. Erie railroad, near Erie, Pa,, and it is almost impossible for the trainmen to endure the suffocating smoke in some parts of thy mountain passes. In tlfe vicinity of Clarendon great „ trouble is experienced in keeping the fire away from the town. Aj Sheffield the owfiers of oil derricks art fighting the fires and so far have managed to save everythihg ejicept one or two rigs, At Ludlow the mountains are full of fire. At Wilcox the fires are running up one side of the mountain and down the other. At Johnsonburg and Ridgeway the fires are raging furiously, but the timber aud low mountain growth does not come in close to the towns and there is no immi nent danger. Down on the middle divivision of the Philadelphia & Erie railroad the mountains 3*9. full of fire, and, whilq it is very disagreeable traveling, the mountains-make a weird and grand scene at night.

THIS DOES SETTLE IT.

The World is Coming to an End with Dreadful Happenings. The world is coming to an end April 17. 1901, at least so says a German doctor ol Northfield, Minn. The inhabitants arc advised to make immediate preparations for the event. He is very emphatic in his statements. He also says earthquakes will prevail until that time. He furthermore adds that in three years the greatest and most bloody war in the world’s history will begin, and entire nations will be destroyed or overthrown. Millions of people will perish from the bullet, and years will go by before the bloodshed is stopped. All the European nations will be involved in this crisis, knd he says that the Teutonic element will assert its supremacy over the less solid and more savage and unlearned nations of Europe. An oleomargarine trust has been formed at St. Louis and prices have advanced.

EIGHT HOURS A DAY.

Is the Demand of S,OCX) Pitts- > burg Carpenters.

And a Strike Is in Progress That Prom laet to Spread to All Branches or Building Trades, Five thousand Pittsburg carpenter* struck, on the first, on the refusal by th< master builders to concede them an 8-hou» day and an advance of 5 cents per hour, of 2.80 per a day’s work. Ten thousand members of other building organizations will soon follow. The master builders are united and it is probable the struggle will be a severe one. The operators are slowly winning the fight at Scottdale. Sixteen families were evicted on the Ist. New men are said to have been secured and work will be renewed. Five thousand caipenters went out on a strike at St. Louis for an 8-hour day. Is is the beginning of one of the most sellout strikes for years.' The strike by journeymen, painters at St. Paul has been settled. / Two thousand miners were locked out at LaSalle, 111. • —TROUBLES IX EUROPE. The Ist of May was celebrated by labor in Europe by several severe riots. The outrages, however, were due to the efforts of the anarchists who had seized the occasion to ferment trouble. Many demonstrations of a peaceful nature were made at Brussels, Paris and elsewhere. At Lyons, the iiien refused to disperse when ordered and were .charged by the police. The men made a desperate resistance and a general melee followed. The noise of the conflict attracted a great crowd aud the workmen were soon reinforced by sympathizing companions. The authorities, finding the police were unable to cope unaided with the increased force of the workmen, called upon the military for assistance, and a body of cavalry was dispatched to the place. The horsemen charged upon the excited and deter mined xvdrkmen, who assailed them with volleys of stones. The workmen were unable to withstand the combined attack of the cavalry and police and were finally compelled to retreat sullenly and with defiant shouts. A number of arrests were made, and several of the prisoners were found to be heavily armed. These scenes were repeated several times duriug the day. At night the rioters cut telegraph wires and heldlah anarchist meeting. Later another collision took place between them and the police in which several persons were killed and twelve wounded. A collision occured at Marseilles between the police and a crowd of roughs. In a battle in Paris , seven policemen were probably fatally injured. The minister of the interior was hooted and pursued by a mob but was finally rescued by the police. An explosion of a dynamite bomb in the Town of Euc d’Trevise startled the whole city—the work of anarchists. A riot of considerable magnitude occurred in Rome. The riot was quelled by the authorities, but not until, several persons were wounded and one killed. Slight troubles occurred at Florence. In every instance these troubles xvere provoked by anarchists.

WAS SIMPLY A MASSACRE.

France Aroused Over the Terrible Slaughter of a Mob by Troops at Fourmies. .1 The details of the labor troubles at Fourmies, France, immensely heighten the political importance of the incident. Thb fact that six women, several children and sight men were killed on the spot, while twenty more were seriously wounded, Several fatally, gives the affair the character of a massacre. The soldiers were merely exposed to stone throwing, but they replied with successive volleys-Yrem their new rifles, inflicting frightful wounds on their victims. The houses exposed to thq fire were riddled, and there is every sign that reckless and wanton inhumanity was shown [by the troops. The local popular zommotiou is intense, and it finds a re--sponse in the growing excitement in every working 7 center! Fourmies is practically :n a state of siege. Cavalry patrol the streets, and are every where greeted with yells of reprobation from excited groups of men and women.* The tension of feeling may be judged from the fact that the military are hailed with cries of/‘Vive Prussir.” The funeral of the victims xvas fixed for the 4th, but the enormous number of workmen arriving from other industrial centers caused the government to send for reinforcements and to order the postponement of the funeral until the sth. The Prefect Sunday refused to receive a deputation asking for the removal of the regiment that fired on the crowd.

Hasn’t Taken It Off Yet.

When a man gets the best of a bargain it is only natural that he should wish to remain in that happy frame of mind occasioned by the transaction. And it requires strategy—cool, subtle cunning—to wrest his gains, ill-gotton or otherwise, from his grasp or make him square the account. Honest, upright dealing hoodoos the under man as the following incident will show. Two old men have lived in the same neighborhood on the South side for fifteen years. One of the old men has been in the grocery business all that time and the other was his constant customer for years. But one day, how* ever, the customer, who is living on the interest of his money, came in and| ordered two pounds of cheese, which the grocer cut off. The lump weighed’ a trifle over two pounds and, as the grocer wrapped it up, he jokingly re» marked: 1 “Oh, ril just take that off the next 1 time.” This happened eight yean and; the customer hasn’t bdfen back since.— Chicago Times. The Queen loves dogs, and lots of) them. Recently about thirty of the, royal canines bi the royal kennels atl Windsor Castle were photographed. The animals are Pomeranians, collies, fox-terriers, and dachshunds.