St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 October 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTCH INDEPENDENT. e”" 1 ,.—- V"" •SSSS.SCJ WALKERTON, . . - INDIANA DEATH GREETS DEATH. SEVERAL KILLED WHILE ATTENDING A FUNERAL. Startling Testimony In the Trial of Actor Curtis—Hurricanes Do Great Damage in Minnesota—Capture of a Female Moonshiner—Died at Sea. Strong Point for Actor Curtis. At San Francisco, there was startling evidence in the case of M. B. Curtis, charged with the murder of Policeman Grant Henry Jeransen, who formerly testified that he knew Curtisfearried a weapon, and that he recognized the pistol in the court as that of the actor, was recalled and three revolvers shown him. He could not identify the one alleged to have belonged to Curtis. Attorney Foote said: “What did you mean by testifying that you had seen Curtis carry a pistol and identify so positively the weapon shown you'.” “1 swore to a lie,” replied Jeransen. He declared in y answer to questions that he had sworn 4 as he did because ho was afraid of the police officers, and testified to please them An anonymous letter signed “Jack the Shooter” was received at a newspaper office in which the writer says he killed Officer Giant. The letter says: “It wasn’t Curtis at all. The ninny was drunk and I was going through him. The cop caught and pulled me, but I pulled him with my little gun. Curtis was a bloody fool to run, but the duffer was drunk ” Fema'e Moonshiner Captured. Lucy McClure, aged 24, known for eight years as one of the most persistent and daring of West Virginia’s moonshiners, has been captured, after a dangerous chase, by a United States marshal, and is now in jail at Charleston. Lucy was captured in the interior of Lincoln County, at a point far remote from any railroad, and has a long list of infractions of the law charged up against her. She has been of late months conducting a most extensive illicit business along the line of the extension of the Norfolk and Western RaMroad, and although a number of attempts were made to capture her they failed, as, in addition to being a young, athletic woman of great nerve and presence of mind, she was a tine shot and i rode a horse which has many times saved her. Hearing that the marshals we ea ter her, she fled to the interior, b it was at last overhauled, and will now get her deserts. Disaster During a Funeral. While a funeral procession was winding down a hill near Altoona, lowa, a team in the rear, frightened by a steam thrashing machine, started to run. and upset a dozen carriages. A panic ensued as the other teams ran away. Men and women jumped out of carriages, only to be trampled on by runaway teams The following is a partial list of the victims: Edwin Dresteld, of Altoona, instantly X killed-, J^^aAFerdue, of □ .. ' L.. .i .17 ivg broken in two places, not expected to live; W. F. Sayers, skull fractured; Mrs. McLane, of Newton, so badly frightened that there is no chance for her recovery. A score of other persons were seriously injured. Ruined by a Hurricane. Reports are coming in of the hurricane in the northern pineries of Minnesota. The best calculations j to be had show twelve to fifteen townships devastated, and the loss of timber is now sure to be into the hundreds of millions of feet. Several surveyors’ crews are sti 1 unheard from. Two crews, however, known to be saved, are headed respectively by Marsh, of Lincoln, Neb , and Arms, of Bay City, Mich. Among the missing is Surveyor E. R. Lewis, who, being overdue from a trip to Rainy River, it is feared is lost. An Indiana Bride in Short Dresses. At a late hour the other night Charles H. Coleman, of Shelbyville, Ind., a young man of 17. showed the Rev. Mr. Filmore, of the Christian Church, a marriage license authorizing him to wed Maggie Egan and demanded that the ceremony be performed. The minister refused on account of the bride’s youthful appearance. Going to the First Bapt st Church, they procured the services of the Rev. W. A. Pavy and were J married. The bride is in her 13th year and is yet in short dresses. Her mother, Mrs Fannie Egan, gave her consent, and Maggie is the youngest American wife on record. Desperate Work of Tramps. Charles Sturgis and Edward O'Hara, । single men, molders by trade, living in I Buffalo, Pa , started for Erie, and when 1 a short distance west of Dunkirk were j attacked by tramps, who demanded their money. They resisted and Sturgis ' was shot through the abdomen, and his c companion, O'Hara, while attempting to 1 rescue him was stabbed in the back by | I one of the highwaymen. Swept OH the Deck. When 225 miles from Sandy Hook, the steamship Lepanto, from New York, I encountered a heavy squall, during I which what seemed to be a tidal wave ; swept the deck, carrying away Chief ; Officer G. AV. Yates and a seamannamed John Radcliffe. Dynamite at Trieste. A bomb with a lighted fuse was found in the Episcopal l'alace at Trieste, Austria. It was discovered by a servant and the fuse removed before it exploded. The motive of those who placed it there is unknown. Anybody May Destroy It. A spec vi. from Guthrie, O. T., says: “Chief Justice Green decided in a damage suit that when a saloon is run contrary to law, any person, either an officer or a private citizen, can destroy the business and no damage can be collected by the saloonkeeper.” Scared of the Banks. The wrecking of the Ulster County Savings Institution, at Kingston, N. Y., has caused a run on all the savings banks in that and surrounding villages.

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At New York, Mrs. Grover Cleveland gave birth to a fine, healthy girl baby. It weighed eight pounds, but is said to be bigger than the Presidency to its father. Fitzsimmons, the murderer of Detective Gilkinson, who recently escaped from the Pittsburg jail and is still in hiding, has sent 81,000 to his attorney to secure a new trial for his wife, who was indicted with him and conviated of murder in the second degree. Pleuro-pneumonia is raging among the cattle in the vicinity of New York. James McDermott, of Mont Clair, sold a cow to an East Orange butcher, and while it was on its way to the slaughter house the animal dropped dead. 'The cause of death was found to be pleuropneumonia. Louis Sohneitzer, a Jew about 60 years old, was arrested at Boston, charged with setting fire to the dwelling of Jacob Levine. Schneitzer, who was detected almost in the act of tiring the house, has been under suspicion for some time as an Incendiary and was closely watched. The pelice believe that no less than eighteen fires have been started by him in the last three or four years. A seven-months-old child of Professor Cyril L’Africain, of Hempstead, L. 1., has been asleep for 150 hours continuously. The child was taken sick with whooping cough and bronchitis twelve days ago. At stated intervals nourishment lias been administered to the child, which it retains, anti appears to bo growing stronger. Occasionally a sigh is heard and a slight movement of a foot or arm are the only signs of life. A gangway of the Crosby vein, in the Richardson mines, near Glen Carbon. Pa., closed, and twelve men were entombed. Six bodies were at once recovered, and the others were found a few hours later. The Richardson colliery is situated in the Hecksherviile Valley, and is operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The gangway in which the accident occurred is a new opening, with but twelve breasts in working order at present. At New York, Jane Griffiths died on April 27, and by her will, which has just been offered for probate in Brook- I lyn, she disinherited her husband, Thos. ] Griffiths, and her three sons—Richard A., Thomas W., and Frederick—and left j all her estate, consisting mainly of a ’ fine stock farm of 300 acres at Rowesville, in Virginia, and a handsome ! brown-stone house in Sixth avenue, to her daughters, Mary Jane ami Margaret. ; The Rowesville farm has long been the : home of the Griffithses. It adjoins the estate of Amelie Rives Chattier, the novelist At Bridgeport, Conn, William Wyncoop went rowing with his sweetheart, Maggie Carroll. Some flippant remark of the young lady aroused his jealousy, and so infuriated him that ho threw the girl into the water. In doing so ho was pitched out of the boat himself. A savage fight between the couple followed in the water. Wyncoop trying to push Miss I Carroll under. Just as he was about j succeeding, a yacht, which had been at- । traded by the girl’s cries, swooped down : upon the struggling pair and pulled them both Into their boat. The lady immediately lapsed into unconsciousness and was conveyed to lospital. Wvn^lYmoujs in lai l . ' WEsTask?! happenings. Pbairie fires near Fort Yates, N. D , | swept over an area of 10J miles wide by | 300 mi'es long, destroying farm buildings and herds of cattle and hor es worth §500,060. It is now believed that the liabilities of the wrecked Standiford Bank at Chrisman, 111., will exceed §150,00 . James A. Eads has been appointed receiver of the concern, and the grand jury has been impanel I to begin an investigation. Richard Chute, the San Francisco politician who was fined §SOO and sentenced to five days in the County Jail for attempt in ignoring a subpoena from the grand jury to testify relative to the legislative scandals of last winter, was released on a writ of habeas corpus. At Fremont, Ohio, Joseph Hobo, a German from Toledo, made an attempt to murder his wife, who had left him and was living in the above city. He then shot himself through the head with a revolver, and died almost instantly. Mr. Hobo was not seriously injured. The loss of the schooner Frank j Perew, off Whitefish Point, Lake Su- j perior, with all on board, is conceded by « her owners. The Perew carried nine, men and was commanded by Captain J. Marquey, of Bay City. Whitefish Point, where she met her fate, has been the scene of many disasters. The Perew was considered a stanch, seaworthy I craft. The Leland Stanford (Jr.) University ■ at Palo Alto was opened with imposing i ceremonies. For some days past examinations have been in progress, and several hundred students have been in attendance. The first class that matriculates wi.J be much larger than is usual with new institutions, students having con from all parts of the State and the Union. All the students and the faculty participated in the oponinr. A c.kavel train on the Cincinnati Division of tho “Big Four” backed into i a hand-car near Carrollton, Ohio. The I caboose became detached and rolled down an embankment, while thirteen | ’ loaded gravel ears piled on top of each j . other. Conductor Samuel Morris, who I । was on top of the caboose when it went I over, was instantly killed, his body be- | ing horribly crushed. Seven workmen j inside the caboose were seriously but j j not fatally injured. A freight train on the Erie Railroad | I collided with a passenger train near j Kent, Ohio. Four persons were killed, । | including the engineer and fireman of ■ the passenger train, and thirty persons injured. The train was occupied almost wholly by members of the Olin family, going to their reunion at Bennington, Vt. The freight crew claim that they . I saw no flag op the engine of the preced- . ! ing section to indicate that another train L j was soon to follow. . ’ Farmers in the vicinity of Jacobs- ■ . burg, Ohio, have for weeks suffered from । the invasions of a very energetic th of. I Mary Beech, a widow, was one of the | victims and she, determined upon revenge r ' by strategy. So she ran a twine from , I the granary door to her bedroom. To 5 1 the end of the string she affixed an old j coffee pot and under that a dishpan, so

that if the granary door was dls^ Ml there was sure to be a racket.^. other night the widow was arousegjfjg lively tattoo upon tlie dishpan. her two stalwaat sons, she sent U mgu eu J investigate. They were astoun^^J coinc upon L R. Sammons, a neighbor, in the grain bin. ■Al£| The greatest excitement prev Northeast Nebraska as a result pursuit of Arthur Shqin, who kil stepfather and brother and setups eui n wcundcd his mother, near »qujauj qrj The assassin was thought f'AemjP located in the barn on the ises of the murdered .Arsons. A large po'so with Winches®" B surrounded the building and Htem'ly riddled it with bullets. It was a d^igerons undertaking to approach that structure because it was believed the murderer was armed and could easily observe any advance and pick off the leaders, but ' there was uq rep'y to the shGts. T| 10 murderer had either fled or else was saving his ammunition. Eight persons were almost instantly killed by the explosion of the tug Charles Parker in the South branch of the river near the Archer avenue bridge, Chicj^^’ The Parker, together with the tugs Van Schaick, E. P. Perry and M. Shields, had been working all day endeavoring to free the propeller 11. S. Pickands, which had grounded in the south thaw of the bridge, when, with ^comparatively little noise, the boiler W the Parker exploded A moment lat'’’ l th> : debris showered upon the greju®^ ow 1 either side of the river. the* spectators partially rocovej^jg*’, senses it was discovered thatN^ff .k* sons were dead, u hile ma n ^m"e, injured, some of them, feared, fatally. ' Ax explosion occurred in the southeastern part of Butte, Mont., in the hoisting house of the Ground Squirrel mine. The hoisting engine and boiler near the shaft were covered by a smill frame house. A good deal of giant powder is used in sinking, and since cold weather set in the boxes containing it have been kept behind the boiler to prevent freezing. There were several boxes of caps on hand and six boxes of giant powder. The roof of the hoisting-works caught fire, and in spite of the engineers’ efforts the flames got beyond con r il. They soon burned d wn to the caps, which exploded, and the loncussion exploded the giant p. wder in the boxes The result was the most complete wreck of the houses In i the neighborhood, about fifty being more or less damaged Though many i I were more or less hurt, no lives have । been lost. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. White men visited the house of John Brown, a well-to-do negro farmer, near Childersburg, Ala . and lynched him. No cause for the deed is known, excepting that Brown was a witness against two white men charged with burning a barn. Ar Helena, Ark, Deputies Frank Mills and Jesse Hodges report, that Sheriff Derrick's ] osse located thirteen, । of the worst rioting negroes in a cane- I i brake near Cat’s Island. The Sheriff ’ I called upon them to surrender. The ne- j gioes answered by a volley of shots, and made a dash to es a[>e. Two were ■ ki led, two escaped, ami nine were cap- j fund These were given In charge of Deputies Mills and Hodges, who started . with them to Marianna. A roundoff ny a crnwi^^^nask<G qnn, |»» who took charge of the prisoners, marched them into a thi ket, and hanged ’ them The strike of the wharf hands at i Savannah, Ga , has demoralized the I commerce of the port The strikers arc j re eiving large accessions to their ranks | and unless their demands are acceded to. I all the men at the cotton presses, all tin* draymen, and hundreds of other negro I workmen along the wharves, who art 1 in sympathy with the strikers, will go out to support them. The loss inflicted on | the cotton, naval stores, and shipping I interests threatens to be enormous. The I various railway and steamship com- I panics affected were in conference with a committee of the strikers all one day and night, but no sett lenient lias yet been reached. Public sympathy Is with the strike!s. A refusal of a demand of increased pay caused the strike. T. E. Hamilton and S F. Vaughan, were lodged in jail at Fort Smith, Ark., for t'ne murder of D. R Gage near Huntsville. Hamilton says he washired to do the killing by Vaughn, who was involved in a lawsuit with Gage, the amount in litigation being about §3OO. Vaughn claimed he con d get the money if Gage was out of the way and was to give half of it for committing the ' murder. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. At Huron, S. D., W. H Smith, of Minnehaha County, was nominated for Congress by the Independents. The i platform pledges allegiance to the prin- ] ciples of the National People’s party, ! and urges the appointment of a non- i partisan commission to adjust the details of the tariff. FOREIGN GOSSIP. A Berlin dispatch says that the Austrian Government has notified the Ger- i man Kaiser's Government that Austria, whether invaded or not by Russia, will ■ resist any attempt on the part of Russia to advance upon Constantinople. This is significant, as the arrangement between the members of the triple al iance does not require actual invasion of territory to make it necessary for all the members of the alliance to join against the common enemy, and should Austria I attack a Russian force advancing upon the Turkish capi ' the attack would probably be folio oy a general Euro- | pc an war. Tin: Island of Tanna, New Hebrides, has been visited by a hurricane and devastated by a civil war. Fierce fighting t is going on and two villages have been wiped out of existence, in the midst of the fighting came a fearful hurricane The German ship J. W. Gildemernsten was wrecked in Dianirua Bay. The cutter Hilda was driven ashore and a canoe containing nineteen natives lost. The refusal of Russia to take a hand in coercing China is attributed in England to the dread with which the Russians regar.l China's capacity for injuring Russia s interests in the interior of Asia. Russia has always feared a sudden and overwhe ming movement of the Chinese that would sweep back the Rus sian Empire perhaps to the Ural Mountains. This fear seems to be traditional and is as strong to day as when Russia

rtar province. The Chine e 1 ! [W large force stationed nc ai J J,loor ian boundary and coul 1 •rmy into Siberia superior to ( WK si mat Russia could readily place m H Ighborhood. ENERAL NOTES. I I Xtsand railroad coal minors ir district struck for ina^es. A1 z » Consul General at New dirz~~ 1 Guatemala, has received the eni fg cable from Guatema'a undet Gn^e 001 “-Absolute peace reigns in 'tiatemala. Deny all rumors of revoluion, which arc false and malicious. “Barillas. ” .The most disastrous conflagration that over visited Halifax broke out in -the Merlin Planing Mill on Taylor's wharf, near the Cunard wharves, and raged twelve hours. The total loss is estimated at between §200,000 and §400,000 Insurance about §150,000. Two vessels, the Parze and the Amazon, returning to St Johns, N. F , from Labrador laden with fish, were overtaken by the recent violent storm, driver ashore, and tota ly wrecked. The captains and cr ws, numbering ten or eleven men, were all drowned. In the same -"pale the Blossom, another Labradoi vessel, struck on Gull Island, Notre Dame Bay, and went to pieces Four ot men 1 -At Ayres, is quoted al cent premium. The Govern--I^.^-^,.,^,,^,) a f orce( j currency, fixing the gold premium at 150 per centum, and has suspended gold payments for two years. A new monetary unit has been adopted and a fixed amount of silver and nickel money is b ing coined. The Legislative Committee has reported favorably on the propositions to issue 4,500,000 paper piastres and to establish a National Argentine Bank. Congress ! will remain in prolonged session in ordei to settle [ending important affairs. The Balmacedist- who took refuge at the American Legation, still remain under the protection of the American flag. The Junta refuses to grant them “safe conducts,” and spies arc continually watening the legat'on in the hope of being able to capture the refugees The orders which were issued to arrest all persons entering or leaving the lega- ' tion have been revoked on the protect of Minist r Egan. Several ] orsons were arrested, including Mr Egan's son. The Chilian Government will shortly be notified that the United States will not be trifled with. The season for the National League is finally closed, and, contrary to the expectation which was xery general up to the last three days, Chicago did not win the pennant. That emblem will float proudly from the flagstaff on Boston s grounds. There was much the appearance of purposely losing on the part of New York, when j it became evident that Chicago would otherwise inevitably win: and that question and several others will doubtless .be subjects of investigation. President I Hart, of the Chicago club, has started ' the ball rolling. Unusual activity is being displayed at the Brooklyn navy yard. Conferences; were held between the commandant of । the yard and officers of the various de^S^rtments and of the xcssels at the ni * ■.'j S' > ' arv :he Xavy "H”) S !’U ) oa Jt 'auuas i|x4uj t u learned that the Yorktown has been 1 ordered to immediate y ) roceed to those . waters It was also stated that the ' Boston and the At anta would follow the Yorktown as soon as they could be got ready. Thebe is every indication that the revolutionary movement which lecently assumed considerable prominence in Northern Mexico is soon to be brought out afresh, and that this time Catarina Garza and Gen. Sando.al, with the intropid leaders of the proposed uprising, will use < very effort to accomnl.sh their purpose* The following dispat n reached Gen. Stanley at San An <>nio, Texas, from John B. Lichardson, United States Consul at Matamoras. Mexico: “I have been informed by Gen. Lajero that 18J men have crossed fiou Mexico into Texas for the purpo-e of meeting Sandoval, who 1- supposed to be bringing supplies, arms, ammunition, and I money. He also informs me that the ' chief of police either at Laredo or Nueva > Laredo has traced sandox a to New Orleans, where he is -upposed to be in the interest of Gar a s movement Geneial Lajero wished me to communicat ■ these facts to the United States authori- i ties, with the request that they endeavor to apprehend Sandoval before he reaches the border. ” MARKET REPORTS. CHI AGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... S3.AO @ 6.50 Hi os—Shipping Grades 4. 0 @ 5.5) ■ SHEET—Fair to C hoice 3.00 5.25 I Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 cf ,97*Z Corn —No. 2 54 .55 I Oats—No. 2 26ti(gi .27^ i Rx’E—No. 2 S 4 Hi s 5 i Bvtter—Choice Creamery 21 ct .2 > Cheese—Full Cream, flat's .l‘> Eggs—Fresh L-’ .23 Potatoes —New, per bu 32 nJ .38 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle -Shipping S-f 1 A5 7a Hocs-Chciee 350 <“-5.25 fjxr.i* —' ommon to Prime .... 4,‘ti Whkat - No. 2 K.hl 94 .9 > No. 1 White 54 («; .55 PATS—No. 2 White 30 @ .31 ’ ST. L UIS. Jatile 3.5) @ 6.00 I Soos 3.50 nF 5.0) Wheat—No. 2 Red 95'«nJ 1 Coin—No. 2 53 nJ .55 | Oats- No. 2 27 & .28 ; Rye-No. 2 80 .81 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 (<i- 5.25 i Sheep 3.(0 @ 5.00 | Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 & .«8 I Corn —No. 2 .50 .58 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 nJ .32 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.C5 Hogs 30) nJ 4.75 Sheep 3.00 nJ 5.(0 Wheat—No. 2 Reul 96 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 Yellow .'8 & .6) Oats—No. 2 WLite Si nJ .31'2 TOLEDO. Wheat —New..... 99 @ 1.00 Corn—No. 2 Yello'w 55 nJ .57 Oats—No. 2 White 28 & .: 0 Rye 83 & .88 BUFFALO. . Beef Cattle 5.0) @ 7.C0 Live Hogs 425 u 5.50 j Wheat—No. I Hard 1.0» nJ 101 Corn—No. 2 9 & .61 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 f pring 91 @ .92 j CoBN—No. 3 3a nJ .ob O .th—No. 2 White. • >3O nt .31 Rye—No. 1 85 ® - 88 Barley—No. 3 Pork—Mess r-i-XL;-'" 12 '*° NE.V YORK. Cattt f 8 - 5( - ® Hogs 6 -°« Wheat—No. 2 Red LO4 © 1.06 Cohn-No 82 ® 88 I Oats—Mixed Western Bvttijs Creamery 1° ® : P.BK-New Mess H-.o i

DIED ON HEK GRAVE. [ GEN. BOULANGER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. The Notorious French Impostor Ends His Stormy Career Beside the Grave of His Late Mistress—He Had Reached the End of His Financial Tether. He Was Once Great. The “brav’ General,” Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger, ex-Minister of War of France, shot himself through the head at Bru seis while standing by tho grave of Mme. Bonnemain, the woman who had been known as his mistress since the stirring days of 1888. He fell forward on the grave, and was found by an attendant, who rushed instantly to the spot, quite deal. Th) ball had been fired into the suicide's left ear, and the revolver xvas still clinched in his right hand. Mme. Bonnemain was the mistress of the hot se in the Rue de Berri, Paris, whither Boulanger resorted so frequently when he was at the top of his power. Though tho place was constantly watched by spies it was from this house that Boulanger fled to England and with him went Mme. Bonnemain. She was his constant companion in London, in Brussels and in Jersey, following bis broken fortunes with the same fatuous devotion which she paid to him in the days of his apnarent prosperity. Her fortune of 1,500,000 francs was freely ui« Mme, Bonnemain died July 17 last of consumption, and since then Boulanger has been in a stata of unbroken melancholy. He frequently visited her grave, over which he caused to be erected an elaborate tomb. On the morning of \ GENERAL BOULANGER his death the General went as usual to the grave, accompanied at a respectful distance by one of the attendants still attached to his person. The attendant from his retreat heard tho General giving way as usual to lamentations, but suddenly these were interrupted by the report of a revolver, and when he rushed forward he discovered his masWs body bathed In blood The suicide was evidently premeditated upon a tru y theatrical scale. The dead man was in full military dress, and on his heart xvere pinned all the medals he had received from France for bravery in the field. There was a letter also, but this was seized by the authorities, xvho declared it was ot too serious polit- , leal import to Ue m.«<u. nuhljc. except. Btusmls lit * state of ex itemCnt, and dispatches received from that city indicate that tho sane feeling prevails in Paris as well. In the absence of any interference (which is most unlikely), Boulanger xvill be buried where he fell—by the side of the woman who devoted her life and her fortunes to him. Since the third Napoleon took possession of Paris upon that Decen ber night , in 1851 no such attempt has been made, even in the South American republics, to establi h the rule of the adventurer as that which was put forth by Boulanger in 1-88. His efforts to overthrow the French republic by means of a coalition of tho Orleanist pretenders and the army seemed at ono time upon the very threshold of su< cess By marvelous intrigues with all parties ex- : cept the representatives of Napoleon he managed to obtain money and [ influence enough to establish himself not only with the Paris rabble but with tho clericals and peasants throughout the provinces At the elections of 1888 he seemed be fully justified in issuing tho famo :s manifesto in which he declared that France could now “congratulate herse f upon having reached the hour of her deliverance.” And indeed there wero ho ts of intelligent people throughout the world who had come to believe that parliamentary government was impossible for France. Boulanger was born at Rennes In 1837. His descent on the maternal side is Welsh. In 1855 he entered the military college of St Cyr and was made ‘ sub-lieutenant in 1857. He served under Marshal Ranolon in the Kabyle campaign. He also tooK part in the Fran oItalian war, and was wounded at the battle of Turbigo. In I'6o he obtained his full lieutenancy and two years later xvas promoted to a captaincy, having in the interim seen service in Cochin China. ■ Just before the xvar of 1870 he became i major. He was with Bazaino at Metz, i but by some means escaped the I I fate of Marshal L'azaine’s army, I and made his way back to Paris. ।He was then promoted to a | lieutenant colonelcy by the governi ment of national defense and fought at Champigny (Nov- 30 to Dec 2). After I the suppression of the commune Bou'i langer’s newly attained promotion was quashed by the grade revision commitj tee., but xvas restored to him in 1874. In , 1880 he became brigadier general. Bei ing appointed to the command of the l army of occupation of Tunis, Gen. Eoui langer had a disagreement with M. । Camleon, the resident general, and was recalled. He then held the War Office appointment of director of the infantry division and became Minister of Mar I in 1886. When M. de Freycinet resigned and I was succeeded by M. Goblet (December, i 1886,) Boulanger retained his portfolio; I but on the fall of IM. Goblet his name i did not appear in tho cabinet of M. j Rouvier. Soon after this the General i xvas dispatched to Clermont-Ferrend to take command of an army corps, re- I ceiving a great ovation at Faris on his ; departure. W hen the Limousin scandal j broke upon Paris like a thunder c ap General Boulanger commented very freely upon tho xvar minister's conduct, ! and xvas immediately ordered under close arrest for thirty days at his own headquarters.

■ CURRENT COMMENT. Heresy. M hen opinions are again challenged, as they were in Dr. Briggs’ case, the fact is revealed that scores of the leading teachers in the church have been thinking for years in ways forbidden by the church’s law, if the law be rigidly construed. It has teen made plain by this controversy and by that over “re-vi-ion” that a very large proportion ot Presbyterians are not Presbyterians at all if their soundness be measured by the test of exact conformity to belief. — New York World. The issue is squarely joined. The position of the seminary is unmistakable, and it now remains to be seen what the Presbyterians xvill do in the premises. They are challenged to battle, and they must fight or allow Dr. Briggs toTio their leader. The controversy will be long continued, for he xvill have his appeal to the synod and the general asscmblj’, and he has back of him the richest of the Presbyterian seminaries and many ot the most powerful of the clergy. It seems probable t-at the result will be a split in the Presbytezian ranks, if itdoe^ not lead to actual and complete disintegration. —New York Sun. A m nlster who does not bel'eve the doctr.nes of the church w.th which he is connected ought not to rema n in it, and he ought not to be perm tt?d to do so. He is not sincere, and not being sincere, ho can do those he undertakes to teacAi uo good. Ho s forced o ther to repress his convictions and teach what ho does not bel.eve, or cause trouble in the church by condemning the doctrines of church. Hazing so'emniy asserted that he believes the doctrines of the church, he is expected to teach them, and if at । any time he fee s that he has made a ' mistake, he ought to say so frankly, and a ly himself with a cliurch in which | his views are acceptable.—Savannah । News. The movement in the Presbyterian, j Church s of vast interest to the world in general, be ng as it is one of tke most important bodies of the Protestant commun on. It is, there ore, certa nlytobe deplored that a question primarily a I matter of scho arship, of histori al and j crlt cal research, should, by the overzealous acts < f individuals, assume the aspect of a bull-baiting spectacle, with I Dr. Briggs as the bull and the lower । criticism advo ates—such as the New York Mail and Express and some fexv ‘ presbyteries—as the bandilleros, picadors and chulos, xvho only irr tate the animals, while Piincetoe Seminary and Nexv York Presbytery, as the ri\al ma adors, stand ready for a conflict .o the death.—Philadelphia Press. Providence and the Rainmakers. The rainmakers should make sure it Is going to rain before entering upon their experiments —Boston Traveller. “Can We Make It Rain?” Is the title of the leading article In the North American. “Can we raise the wind?” is “the” question.—Louisville Commercial. Melbourne, the rainmaker. Is getting up so cloudy a reputation that, like Crockett’s coon, the rain comes down before he has time to load or point his weapon. At any rate, as he approached Topeka to put an end to the drought, tho rain fell before he reached the station.— I Detroit Journal. General Dyrenforth has written an can no more make it rain by shooting oft the surplus than you can condense t'ne steam from a tiakett e spout by clapping your hands over it. —St Louis Republic. Rainmaker Melbourne arrived at Goodland, Kan., in a heavy drizzle. It was the first rain in six weeks, but fell before the rainmaker had a chance to ■ display his powers. Somebody must have been monkeying with the xveather, or else Jupiter Pluvius was too previous. Rain should fall after, not before, the rainmaker’s adjuration of the heavens. —Detroit Tribune. The Loan for the Fair. The World's Fair asks for a loan of §5,(J00,000. People thought the fair was to be built of wood and iron, but apparently it is to be constructed of steal.— Minneapolis Times. Chicago wants Congress to appropriate 55,000,000 to help the fair“a’ong. It’s all right. We don’t object; bu°t didn’t we hear something about Chicago footing the xvhole bill?—Br oklyn Times. The World’s Fair managers are figur Ing on borrowiag §5,<)0J,000 from the United States Government. It is the only thing in Chicago not mortgaged, and it begins to feel it.—Louisville Commercial. Os course the Chicago World’s Fair j managers are ready to ask the Government for a loan or a gift of a fexv millions. The citizen xvho did not expect this did not know Chicago. Its hogs are : not all four-legged. Most likely the Government will respond liberally.,. If it be proper for Government to pay for raising sugar, it ought to be equally proper for it to help Chicago to a big shoxv. —Cleveland Press. Wall Street Wolves. Pity for the losses that have befallen the Gmilds has not yet found popular expression.—New York World. 1 Every lailroad property in which Jay I Gould is prominent, either as an owner 1 or a manager, seems to be a dead weight jin the stock market. As a wrecker Jay is a shining success. —Denver Republij can. Poor Mr. Gould! So he has been de- ; ceived by the wicked directory of the Union Pacific. It is a sad sight to see an innocent and trusting man like • Gould made the prey of designing | sharpers.—Kansas City Journal. Deacon V. S. White of New York ' earned his first dollar cutting cord-xvood, and by patience, industry, and attention to business lived to fail lor over a million in trying to put up the price of corn against a warm September. —St. Louis Republic. It is gratifying to note that the attempt to corner corn, and thus'hamper the efforts being made to extend its use in i Europe, meets xvith universal condemnation. “Dea on” S. V. White gets very : little sympathy in his failure. He de- : served none.—l hiladelphia Press. It is to be hoped that some time in tho : next century people xvill learn that xvhen a great capitalist tombines the business j of railway management and 'Wall street i operations, the only xvay to best hinUis to put their money into good real estate or sound savings banks.—Pittsburg Dispat h.