Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — MAY NOT BE HELD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAY NOT BE HELD.

Poor PrOßpect for the International Silver Conference. According to a Washington correspondent, the preponderance of opinion among public men who have given attention to the progress of the German movement for an international conference looking to

the rehabilitation of silver is that the chances for such a conference in the near future are very slim. There are few left who bclievo that such a conference will be held this year, and many express the opinion that it will be postponed Indefinitely. The action of the majority of the German Federal Governments, which is reported to have been adverse to the bimetallic movement, is the principal basis for this opinion, but some profess to see back of this action on the part of those governments a still more significant circumstance. Chancellor Hohenlohe is known to bo opposed to the silver movement, and the most that he ever promised Count Mirbach and others, who have been pressing upon the German Government the propriety of Germany taking the initiative in calling the conference, was that he would consider the question in connection with the different State governments of the empire; and now that these appear to have spoken against silver.it is intimated that the chancellor probably had a shrewd idea of the probable result and adopted it ns a political device to avoid assuming direct responsibility sn a question on which he could count upon the support of only n portion of his cabinet, upon which the country at large is not united, and upon which also the emperor has ma'de no declaration. It is alleged at Snn Francisco that exSenator Fair had another millionaire Senator as a partner in his disastrous wheat deal, and that wholesale bribery has been resorted to by the partner to escape paying his share of the loss. Suit has been filed at Franklin, Ind., to contest the will of Mrs. Malinda Needham, involving SIOO,OOO. It is alleged she was of unsound mind.

MISSIONARY WORK AT CLEVELAND.