St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 December 1895 — Page 2

HEARS history. Chronological Record of Twelve Months. FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of All Events of Importance. The Usual Admixture of Disaster, Crime, Political Changes, Commercial Achievements, and International Complications—Atrocities of Turks in Armenia the Most Shocking Page in Modern History—Powers of Europe Unite in Demanding Reform Cuban Revolution Next in V fnv <sv cwt. J With but two exceptions, the nature of ,'the events which go to make up the hisitory of the past year is not startling. .The butchery of thousands of Armenians jby Turks lias aroused the European ‘powers, and at the close of the year active

preparations were in progress which suggested the probable dismemberment of the Ottoman empire. The revolt of Cubans against Spanish rule was the (next most important affair, and that, too, Iwas in full sway at the close of the year. {Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every energy toward its suppression. Popular [sympathy is largely with the Cubans, and jtheir success seems not improbable. In i American politics the year has been ex[citing, and one of tiie great parties has isuffered such reverses as to leave the [chief executive unsupported in political 'faith by a majority in either house of i Congress. A chronological record of events follows: January. | 1. Michigan's first public Installation of litate officers. .. .Gov. Morton, of New York, sworn m. . .Belgium bars American beef. .. iTom Blait lynched at Mount Sterling. Ky. .. Five perish in an incendiary tire at Lancaster, Ky. > 2. Death of Col. Edwmd M. Heyl, Inspector general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago... .Carnegie’s Homestead men strike against reduction of wages. 3. Fires: $75,000 at Springlield. Ohio; $105,000 at Coffeyville, Kan.; SIOO,OOO at Cleveland; $300;09V at the Southern Illinois Insane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland entertains Hill at a Cabinet dinner. | 4. Scores of villages ami cities unite in sending aid to destitute people in Nebraska ;.....sloo,ooo tire In Milwaukee. | 5. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, publicly degraded for selling war secret.-. f 6. $1,009,090 tire at Toronto; two live:; lost. 7. Explosion on steamer in Rio harbor kills 120. .. .High water in Ohio River towns. 8. Starving men pillage stores at St. John’s, N. F. 9. W. W. Taylor. ex-Treasurer of South ,Dakota, embezzles $350,000; his bank at Redfield closes. 10. Two lives lost in a Toronto fire; property loss. st>W.o.}o. 11. Coldest day of the season in Chicago; 12 below. .. .Storms in the East. . 12. Train held up near Ottumwa. lowa. I 13. One hundred firemen frost-bitten at {Bradford, Pa.; $130,000 damages. .. .Several vessels lost on England’s coast; fifteen sailors drown. 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising water in North Staffordshire. Eng.: 20 drowned. 15. Giant powder horror at Butte. Mont.; 60 people killed, 100 hurt. .. .French President resigns: Royalists awake. 17. M. Felix Faure elected President of Era nee. ! 18. News of rebellion In Hawaii. .. .Death of Mary. Mice President Stevenson’s ilaugh,ter. .. . Militia ordered out to protect BrookJjru trolleys. 1!/. Uody of Uhrrett Ht ott. th* 1 Web., defaulter, found in the river, with rope wound In's neck.... Sinking of steamer ; State of Missouri in the Ohio; forty lives ; ; 21. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm 1 Iwtth temperattire of 54 degrees and a spring ; breeze, followed by a hurricane blowing 04 i mules an hour, temperature falling to id de- I gives above zero; many people hurt bv fall- : ! lng timbers, blown from new buildin'’* 23 Steamer Chicora and 25 people lost off booth Haven, Mich.; financial loss. sJSs.oihi ' ....Death of Lord Randolph Churchill' at 'London. 25. S'wen killed by Men.lota. I!!., boiler explosion. .. .Guatemala concedes Mexico's boundary claim. .. .Fearful wind and snow storm in the West. 23. Thirteen sailors drowned off Point Ju- ‘ dith, Conn. • 27. M' -.-nry below zero all day in Chicago .. .Snow bio kades many W, stern roads. -S. One killed. 43 hurt, ii Vandalia wreck , al Coatsvllie, Im!. .. . President Cleveland’s I currency message sent to Congress. 29. Receivers named for the whiskv trust. 3(i. Steamer Elbe sunk in collision with tiie Crathie, in North Sea; 311 lives lost 31. Death of Watd McAllister, leader of hew York s society. February. 3. News of kidnaping of officers from United States gunboat Concord, by Chinese for accidental shooting of a native... .Chi'-ago temperature 13 below. ' “ 4. i hice dron ned by Milwaukee street car running into an open draw. .. .Thirty French miners killed by explosion. .. .Chicago tem?it be10w.... Queen Lil abdicates I Hawaii s throne. ■ 6. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest... . Alarm for tae overdue French liner 1 i Gmeogne. , L- " bole country suffers extreme cold; 20 below at Chicago... .Nine men lost in open of amilbilation of < htnese fleet at Wei-Hai-Wei VInnnisHation’s currency measure aud Tieed and (ox substitutes defeated in Hie House. o- ■ resident announces the sale of <l:° - 409.000 in bonds. .. .Coldest day of the vear in ( hicago. 1 i 10; Schooner Clara and 15 men lost off Liv- ' erpool. N. S. il. La Gascogne, eight days overdue, -

makes New York harbor with disabled machinery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,090 street car barn fire at Chicago i 13. live firemen killed, 16 hurt, at Lynn’ I Ai ass. ! 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray. Minister to [Mexico... .New Orleans has ten inches of W. ; 20. Death of Fred Douglass, the colored Bond Issue Wllshin » ton - •• sale of late ■ 2G. Riot at Savannah, Ga., because of evTriest Slattery’s lecture; troops called. ■ S4OO,tW fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at Halifax.... Scores of miners killed j n y PW Mexi.-0,... Postmaster General Bissell resigns. Marell. 11. Mexican train wreck costs mi lives Ki' c killed. TJ hurt, by falling; walls al N>w I York . . Rebellion gains -round in Cuba. • sijhmuckiu lire in Toronto; $350,000 at |Kaliua. Kam • <bkngu Times Issues its last number 'before eonsolidntion with the Herald. .. .TerIrific snowstorm in Northwest. i 4. Fifty third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs. \V. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New lYork. t (5. Ono robber killed, one captured, and .four citizens wo.inded during raid on the lowa. bank. S Hany Hayward convicted of murdering I', Gl “, g . at .. .Steamer frowned S S Lineinnati; twelve i 10. Spanish war vessel Reina Regente I founders; 400 lost. j 11. Six men killed in New Orß ans riots. Seven Italians lynched by miners for murder in Colorado. I 13 Western Newspaper Union plant burns at Kansas ( ity. .. .Two more Italians Ivmhed hi Colorado. 16 Five killed in round-house fire at Toledo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland Burns; $200,000 fire at St. Louis. .. .Report of Binkiug of American schooner and crew of ■Ki by Spanish gunboat. 20; Mine explosion in Wyoming kills 60 miutmsv., .$100,090 fire in Peoria, ill.

21. $400,000 fire at Sioux City; $300,000 at New Orleans. 24. Li Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japanese; not fatally.. ~.51.000,000 fire at Kansas City, Kan., packing-house. 25. Furious dust storm over Central and Western States. 26. $1,000,000 fire in Milwaukee. 27. Three train robbers killed on Queen and Crescent route. 29. Japan declares armistice. .. .Hottest March day ever known in Chicago; temperature 78 degrees. 30. Deafli of A. C. Heslng, editor of Illinois Siaats-Zeilung. April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Mass. .. .Five die in Kentucky forest fires. 2. Republicans successful lu Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago. 3. Death of Mrs. Paran Stevens, society queen of New York... .Grand Pacific Hotel of Chicago closed .. .Fifteen killed by explosion In New Orleans. 5. Supreme Court makes changes in income tax law ...Train wrecks in Ohio and Illinois kill eight. 8. Discovery of counterfeiting of postage stamps. .. .21 miners killed at New Whatcom, Wash. .. .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W. Va; (I killed: loss $200,000.... Blizzard of sand and snow in the West. 13. Crude ci! sells at $2 in Pittsburg... .Cuban rebels whip Spanish troops. 14. Death by apoplexy of James W. Scott, of Chicago Times-Herald, In New York.... $1,000,000 hotel lire at Pasadena, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace in the Orient.... Cuban rebellion crushed... .Cattle admitted free from Mexico. 19. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago shipyards. .H. H. Koblsnat buys Chicago Times--00 cents.... ÜbßLr. A Jr. .. .15 inches of snßfw 723. Supreme Court decides I nrSWr of Di' > s In the famous contempt of court Cas'S""" May. 1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone ....Bandits kill an Alton engineer.... Big Ohio coal strike on. 3. Awful death roll in lowa and Wisconsin storms. .. .Five killed by powder mill explosion at South Acton, Mass. ... Hottest 3d of May on lecord in Chicago; temperature 88 degrees; one man sunstrnck. 8. South Chicago and Joliet steel workers strike. .. .Oriental peace assured. 10. Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off

Mackinaw, Mich., by colliding; one man lost; pecuniary loss, $400.900... .Temperature at Chicago drops from 8G to 43. .. .Twelve people hurt by gas explosion at Chicago; four die. 13. Killing frosts from Nebraska to tiie Atlantic. .. .Snow stops the Chi< ngo-New York ball game at Chicago.... Eighteen lives and twelve vessels lost in storms on Lake Michigan. 18. Great flurrv In corn and wheat. 19. $1,000,000 fire at St. Albans. Vt... .Terrible earthquakes in Italy... .Killing frost in fifteen States. 20. Income tax declared invalid. .. .Wheat sells at 74% cents. 21. Jose Marte, President Cuban Insurgents, ki11ed....14 killed in San Francisco powder house explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Danville, lll....Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Debs. 28. Death of Greshnm, Secretary of State. 29. Remarkable military reunion at Chi30. Funeral of Gresham at ( hicago. .. .Dedication at Chicago of Confederate monument. 31. Cloudbursts in Texas, parching droughts in middle Western States, 99 degrees In the shade in Dakota, six inches of snow in Colorado. balmy weather on the Pacific coast,

and DO degrees in New York City. June. 1.2, 3. Unprecedented heat In Chicago, New York. Detroit, Philadelphia and Indianapolis; many dent its from heat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 40 degrees temperature. 5. .Silver convention at Springfield. 111. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. 8. S2oo.(>oo tire at Kalamazoo. 9. $750,000 lire at Milwaukee. 13. Whisky trust declared Illegal. IC. Greenville. Ohio, has a $225.0n0 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrich fails for $1,000,000 nt Denver. ... Deadly storms sweep the Missouri Valley... .Opening of Harlem ship canal. 20. opening of Kiel ship canal. 21. Rosebery's ministry defeated... .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Coltiml.us at Chicago. 2C>. Six firemen killed nt Minneapolis; SIOO.OQO loss. .. .S2.(HX».i;OO tire at San Francisco. .20. Death of Pref. Tuos. Huxley at Loudon. July. 3. Daughter born to the Clevelands 7 Terrific storm nt Cble«ip» ■ ■ -Six aroon* 0.l nr Conoco. wi« . . . Miemgnn swept ’■/ roresi Ures. ( to. Christian Endeavor assembles at Boston. 14. Destructive storm in North Dakota.. Three drown at South Haven, Mich. .. Seven I accidental fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine I killed by storm in New York and New Jersey. I I*l. Beginning of Horr-Harvey debate at I Chicago. 17. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, :In Chicago. .. .Three Cincinnati firemen I killed. 1 is. Nine miners imprisoned bv cave-In at | Iron Mountain, Mich. ... British'ship Prince ' Oscar ami unknown vessel sink In collisionI 40 perish. 1!>. Rescue of Iron Mountain miners.... i Cleveland baby named Marion. 21. Drowning of Ils Italians, bv sinking i in collision of steamer Maria P.... Four 1 killed at grade crossing at Williamston. Mass. .. .S4PO,(MN) tire in National I.inseed Oil Company’s Chicago warehouse. —Report of killing of seventeen Indians near ,la. kson’s Hole, Wyoming; grave trouble imminent. 23. Furious storm in Pennsylvania coke region. .. .L. S. & M. S. train held up in Ohio; $,.000 stolen. | 25 Thirty-two miners killed by explosion in M i stphalla. 31. Sixteen perish In a cloudburst In Colorado and Wyoming. ... Menominee, Mich has a $500,000 tire. August. 4. False report of race war at Spring Valley, II!., between Italian ami negro miners,' Murder of British missionaries m China? I $1,000,000 Ure at Sprague, Wash. : 7. D-ath of George' F. Root, the famous i composer. j 8. Thirteen killed and many injured bv faq. I Ing building in New York. .Death of Supreme Judge Mowed E. Jackson, of Tennessee 10. $200,000 tire at Lockport. 111. 11. $500,000 tire at Newark. N. j Four killed in a wreck at Bainbridge. Ohio. ’ 13. $300,000 liie at Philadelphia. IS. Holocaust in Denver hotel; 25 killed Seven drown at Ocean City, Md. 20. Trains held up on the C. & W. M.. near Fennville. Mich., and on the Union I’aciflc near North Platte, Neb.... Eight killed and eight injured by explosion at Braddock. Pa. 22. Milwaukee loses $352.000 bv Pre Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patcben. ‘

26-7-8. Heavy rains In corn belt; severe storms accompanied by fatalities in Illinois and Ohio. 29. Fifteen miners drown at Central Cltv Col. Feptem her.

2. One hundred people hurt on the Sea Beach road. Long Island. 3. Furious storm in central Northern States. 4. $300,000 fire at Boston. 6. Triple murder in Sullivan County. Ind. 7. Forty-two miner.-- perish in a burning mine at Calumet. Mich... .Defender defeats Valkyrie in first cup contest by nine minutes. S. I ive killed by dynamite near Dubuque, I own. j •,». opening of G A. It. encampment at in. \ alkyrle fouls Defender at the start and wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Mefender on protest . . . 1 < mperutuie 97 degrees at Chicago. , Seven killed by exploding caisson at Louisville. .. .Six killed in collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender. Valkyrie refusing to sail. .. .Seventv-five hurt bv tali ot a grand stand at Louisville, Kv News of death of 300 by earthquake inHonduras. .. .Ex-Queen Liiitiokalani pardoned by Hawaiian Government. 16. Six killed in a wreck at Lynchburg. Va 1 I. Allanta Exposition opened. .. .Phenomenal heat in Kansas; 107 degrees. IK Dedication of (Ihmkamanga-Chatta-imoga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser mid 46 men lost In eo!lismn oil. t üba.. Steamship Edam sunk In collision, all cd. .. . Six die of heat in Chicago. ™ los ® e , s on upper bikes by storm. 28. Death of Pasteur at Paris. -A 1 uenty-iom lake vessels meet disaster tn a storm. .. .Retirement of Gen. Schofield "A Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Lima an<l eight people lost on Pictured Rocks. ... Mammoth mass meeting at Chicago declares sympathy for Cuba. ~ National League season closed, Baltimore winning.

Ocfr^er. 1. Destructive gales on British coast.... Cuba declares her independence. 2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pugilism. 3. Million dollar fire at Warren, R. I. 1 7. Seven killed by explosion In a Wiikesbarre. Pa., mine... .Masked bandits successfully hojd up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago tire.... Five die by fire in Cincinnati.... Steamer Africa and crew of eleven lost in Owen Sound.... Geoigia father kills his nine children... .Six children burned to death at Snider, Ont. 12. $100,090 tire loss at Duluth. 13. Four killed, twelve hurt, on a Pittsburg trolley ear. .. .Five burn to death in a Manitoba prairie fire; Immense property loss. 19. $130,000 saw-mill fire at Minneapolis. 20. Half-million dollar fire at New Orleans; 1,000 people homeless. .. .First snowstorm of season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., has a fail of ten indies. 22. President Cleveland welcomed to Atlanta. .. .$175,000 Husted oil mill fire at Chi cago. 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago t . Buffalo, 510 miles, in 7 hours 50 minutes i 1 seconds, running time, beating world's re I ord. . i 26. Three killed by explosion of tug boibß at Chicago. .. .Sheriff and posse at Tiffi ■ Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob... .Burnli I of Virginia’s State University. S 29. Negro criminal burned at the stake ■ Texas. .. .$200,000 tire in Springfield, O)B ....Two killed, three fatally hurt, in a c fl lislon In St. Louis. ? 31. Earthquake throughout the central bt®j of the United States; no fatalities, little daw| age.

November. nt Rome. .. .Durrant—- —J VUQ ANVer at San Francisco. J WAOO n, Msiuij q ."■ lA5. H ath of IflUfl^wiKt in New Y'ork. gc ] 6. Forty killed by boj,lcr explosion in^ ; troit, Mich., Journal building...-Rvan. _ t ilv of six die in their burning houjf Brooklyn. ■“ 11. Chicago dailies reduce to 1 cent. , 16. Twenty killed in a street ear agj. . at Cleveland, Ohio. .. .Death of Def.. Smith, author of ••America.'’ at BosW • News of another massacre by TnrksT^ r , menia; 800 slain. .. .Consolidation of f jg l} Journal and Press. FT 19. Furious snow and wind storm i'D-th. । west. .. .Lowell. Mass.; Dallas, Tex| ail( j Purcell. I. T.. have big fires. ’ ; 21. $009,000 tire in Springer Bulldl ^|. cago. .. .Eugene V. Debs releasy^.^ — Woodstock. 111., jail... .Sultan forced to a peace policy by the powi Wy | he had countenanced many ArmeiHiMfWr , cres. «ssa22. Five firemen lose life in a SSOO. cago blaze. .. .Release from j^d ”1' astic reception of E. V. il s, ‘ at < ’hicago. ... Foreign fleettndff - Hie Dardanelles. i jilt® '™

25. Tremendous damage Cblra^ - storm of snow, sleet and rahll caJR ~, y blocked, wires down. . . . FirorhiCMK, 1 ! I *^ $200,000 damage. .. . Seventy Id I# 1 . ’ sion in < artridge factory at Ba, l® au J j Majorca. f"' 20. Three vessels go ashorelloo®^ j,] . crews of 20 men saved. .. .I«u ® nc ^ Sol ]' Mich., prison. ■ 27. Death of Alexandre Its, Wj- at Paris. । 28. Day of doom for the ball games: Michigan beats 1 hM.ji OR!on am! Chicago. tie; Penr.sylvmii:®..!^ c or . noil; Purdue defeats Illinois: Lr p- le w | ui from De l'auw; Columbia Athle owns c\. lumbia University; Brown dy, Dartluauth. ® ■ December, II 2. Assembling of Fifty-four] '® sress: Reed elided Speaker of the IdW”zoro weather in Norths est. .. . Furtl M,aeveg in Armenia. 7. $:;,">o,ooo fire In San Francis. -Knmpe storm-swupt; Kritisli Inuit on sailors lost off Scot hi nd. S. Suoo.ooofires in Cid ago. ..MH o fGo.o A. Sila. London journalist... and seven men lost in I.ake S t iofn !). Chilton. Wis.. razed by I O io. St. Louis gets next Natiul®® bllcnn Convention. .. .Sultan pcrmitM^B . B hip ß to pass Dardanelles. .. .HaV ward hanged at Minneapolis. ^<l 11. Burning of Catholic ( trpban R - Milwaukee; 200 children reseuW.s ?r Germanic sinks the Cambrao, at.’^uTgllF' lives lost.. ...Mob threatens Kanw’g^y i College at'Topeka, because of gr»WJ”. 12. Death of Allen G. ThiymafUty^® bus, Ohio. - 15. German ship Atlqrt»a-**. R '&W , nunli f n,i — v।.i• .o■ . off i',o»o sin . ■ TNa? it. Cleveland’s Vcneaueqf t p ,gp arouses great enthusiasm at, atfl astounds Great Britain.... I , h;»t‘'n" ' the hands of a mob during a -eiKl- ' 18. Explosion on liner St. : men and injured live. .. . Hous J*,* ■ u >.• 000 appropriation for VenezmTi clniission . .. . Riming in Philadelphia; eats street railway s. nice suspended... • DeatM Cant. Isaac "a -etr. doorkeeper of the mate. 1>». Thirty-six lives lost in Newmndland fishing fleet by storm. ...Fqrty-thJ- killed in a North • iroHnu mine’.. .Tmendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Bauie on Wali street. ./.Sena» unanb mousfy passes H‘*i;se bill op Yeezue^n commissioi’.. .. .< leveland ^nds • nancial message to t'ougress. . .Twj• y foji miners .it D e n. Tenn., killed. .lUnprljdentei' flood at Chicago. ' | PUFFING THE PAY. “A New York Success’ Abuse of Press Courtesy The United States is a bro.l anil busy country, and It is well supped with excellent journals, says rue Feuni. As is natural ami unavoidable, tese generally take their tone in treting dramat.c affairs iroin th os * of tV metropolis. hat is said and d >p in New York about plays and actor^s published all over the union as qiijkly as the wires and press can spreatlthe news. Consequently the theatricalßisiness ofthe entire country is mated from New York. That is why aCors, managers and the minor personages of stage life Hoek to New Yorii That is why for many years past it has been possible for the wily speeula- o r in rotten dramatic lumber to set ir; a flimsy stage structure, held together only by the adhesive qualities of paint and printers' ink. and—by keeping a New York theater open and empty fur ♦y. exhibition for a stated term weeks at the expense of $3,000 or 54,000 a week, and by a continual pes&ring-^j the good-natured journalist—tg obtain a sufficient amount of noticJo^m.s ‘■great New York success!”

; -w euauie him to travel throughout the*. ouni ;y with his "show,” and gather a 1^ harvest from those who are cages to see what sort of plays please the ifeonle of the great city. • > Os course the "show" sooii^ .. t pieces from the weight or s worthlessness, ami the seeds contempt I’m- Ne York’s goor*™ y 1 in theatrical matters are s<>wn^‘ List© cast. But no matter. The en:ert>-?M’F speculator, now well in funds] ^rising to New York and is soon u;>oiS®jturin tide of another like venture. YEic full ter year this sort of thing goesßar «f---the people of the East, South a®i. B»t are becoming wise and warya West ‘‘business” is not so good nou» The once was in those often-deludM as it Hons. One of the roots of our tW seccal troubles upon which the ax ■eatrifall quickly ami sharply is this I' 10111 ' 1 of the press courtesy—first ex tens’ bnse good nature toward the struggli*e d in •.Ist, but now demanded as a^rigll" nr ” the brass-band ‘‘show boomer.” ”r c b Y Onr hardest battles are those we 1 with ourselves. li» bt

jjSIS ONE WON. 0 ; Joie’s Screams Arouss Amerh i J can Patriots. : / — •' W9WUST KEEP OUT. t _ ‘ JO I J, ingress Votes to Sustain the President.

■ Bill Passed Giving Him Money and ■ e Commission-American People, I /^sardless of Party, Uphold Grover thC Kuforcemci >t of the Monroe j Doctrine — Nothing Since ♦>»-» War I m * rrcd Thia Nation-jg^^gF-tish Press Is Insolent and \ ' W il!' •*'’* (pt Washington coriespondence: Congress is with the President in the i support of the Monroe doctrine, an 3 ti e American people an- with Congress The i Hmme of K.-presentati,es wFthou dt Renting voice Uuo • - , ~ * printing for an American jmli- < cial commission to ascertain the true 1 boundary betwe-'n British Guiana and s Venezuela. This is tiie beginning of the | i

A SURPRISE FOR THE LION-DIDN'T TH'.Nl^ THE ELEPHANT AND TIGER WERE BROTHERS. j/ zso V&-. 7^ /- yN' —■-..TSWp’-..g0 ■ gj|ife< ■ V ' _ £~- ~ ,—; —-* It is impo-sible to disguise the gravity of the difficulties that have arisen between Great Britain and the United Sta'es. President t Cleveland message and its reception on both sides of Cui g ess give additional importance to the dispatches between Washington and London.—From the London Times. 1

first step in carrying out the assertion of I the Mtmr '•• doctrine as a principle of the | international code. Leaders of ail shades j of domestii' difference in Congress agreed ; as one man in supporting the President. ■ It has been the taunt of the British press i and the belief of the anti American public । abroad, that in the assertion of tho Monroe ■ doctrine at this time the President was I “playing polities.” It will shortly be । apparent abroad that in support of the right of Americans to rnk America ther. are no parties in the United > at This i is a nation. The action of the House, fresh from the '

M<O WM ’■■ifi-ypgß BRITISH BOUNDARY UNE CLAIMS IN VENEZUELA.

people and expressing their sentiments, ' raises a crucial issue tor the British Gov- : eminent and brings up the Question sharply whether it will fight or back down. The Anglomaniacs in the United Stab's are neither numerous nor formidable enough to cans.' this country to back down. Congress has indorsed the Presi-. dent and the people will indorse ( ongres>. The Monroe doctrine will be asserted both In letter and in spirit. It will be declared ; for this time ami for all time that it means America tor the American republics and no monarchy in America. The ’ European powers must content themselves with partitioning and dominating Europe. Asia and Africa, this M e^tein Hemisphere is the home of the republican form of self-government; and if war breaks out the British monarchical tlag will have to depart from Canada and th" West Indies and South American Guiana. Great Britain having refused to submit her claims to disinterested arbitration, t the United States proposes to go a step j

farther in the controversy and inquire for her own future guidance as to the justice of those claims. Nor is this unprecedented. W e have a right to know the facts De do not attempt to decide, but it is our privilege to ascertain the truth, and thus we shall be able to judge whether ueat Britain s refusal to submit her t : tle to investigation is well founded. All n t tions exercise the right of intervention m matters that are likelv to affect thenown interests or interfere with th? cl.-ailv defined policy they may have pursued toward their neighbors. Leaving the Monwo a^T’n Cntiro, - T out of (Bicstiou, in-Xf qU US llu,ch m pursui L e course . lo vommcnd<d by the I’resient as Russia is to interfere with the P ans of the English in Turkey, or EnFn China^ Sa fw tO ,hecond ^‘ t of Knssia >n una aim Korea, or Russia, Frame and S:n. ny ^-a Euro,,- Is Breathlees. 1-ie contents of the messa-m have ar . od the people of continental Europe'••l--nothing in the second half of this centurv has done. Great Britain is astounded I according to her own papers. Main- of ■ them are -insolent and truculent in their I comments, and it is evident that the R^s nlen s utterances fill them with 'mX SSh o7g % e th ° ni that i - f 1 ^ooroe doctrine has been y-'tten in the Venezuelan corresnomi.

once.” Another sneermgly savs that ’’ ’ evan?” 1 ?" ? f J he M ° nr ° e is irreL • - , and that it is "not a principle of noTreeognS-d' E^and has U-rmuional law which dm Kland s assent and sanction. Tiie London limes declares that England will not ad nut the pretensions put forward by President Cleveland. The Times then proceeds to argue that the Monroe doctrine has never been recognized as international law and quotes Lord Salislmrv’s admission that any disturbance of the oxistin" territorial distribution in the Western Lennsphere by any European State would be highly inexpedient. Other or gans of British opinion take the ground clare that tne Luiieu ... force tiie decision of the special commission, mid such ti preposterous contention J was sustained by Ahe American Congress

' and people, there would seem nothing left I ' to Great Britain but to teach the United : States a needed lesson.” And more bluff i j to the same effect. There was a time early in this century ! when English statesmen and English pa- . । pers scoffed at the protest of the United I J States, then a feeble nation, against the I searching of American ships by English । i war vessels and the removal of seamen on I the pretext that they were King George’s ibjects. This protest was denounced ' [ a “impertinent.” “The right of search” ; ! was claimed to be a part of “international ; [ law” as defined by Great Britain. But ‘

' after the war of 1812 England silently j revised her ideas of international law and I dropped out “the right of search" of American vessels on the high seas. She will revise them again in regard to the Monroe doctrine before this controversy is ended, and will admit that the Monroe doctrim' does form a most important part ! of international law as far as matters regarding the American Hemisphere are ! concerned. Across the channel the sentiment is : scarcely less serious. France and Ger- i many, both having interests on this con-| tinent. view the message with undisguised . :Uarm, as encroaching on their rights, i They even go so far as to suggest that - England alone is in poor shape to handle the husky young republic, but that if i there were concert of action by the inter- ; ested powers in denying the Monroe doctrine there would be no difficulty in ex ! ploding the bubble, which, however, has ' 1 caused many a continental statesman

r considerable loss if sleep ft was so J vigorously promulgated. The situation is briefly that the atti- • tude of the President is approved bv thu < lieople of the United States, that the memI bers of both houses of Congress realize tais and that there is a manifest intention on all hands to pronounce to tho world that this country is dominant on tais continent and that her word ‘’goes.’’ BASSETT PASSES AWAY, V euerablc Assistant Doorkeeper of the National Senate Is Dead. ( apt. Isaac Bassett, the venerable assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, died in \\ ashington Wednesday afternoon. Cant, & - -.-Wi

CAPTAIN" HASSETT. snent “fatheT^f the Senate,' spent his entire career as a Senate em- | in'" 5 'the seeofr t! ’° <>f be- | tne second page appointed in th.chamber and the last oflieer of that bodv S . ail Subs *<iuent oflk-Js be.ng filled by appointment. < a Pt. Bassett was born in Washington seventy-six years ago. Uis father was oimcon Bassett, who came from Milford. Conn., and his mother was of Irish birth. Ho was a protege of Daniel Webster ° f • ant doorkeeper, or assistant sergoant arms, the latter two offices being identi-

: cal. Ills duties practically embraced I overseeing the housekeeping of the Senate, the seating of the members, and, in i eases of emergency, the actual work of ‘ the sergeant-at-arms. Early in his career > as assistant doorkeep t he calmly faced . a drawn revolver held by the elder Saulsbury, Senator from Delaware, who ha 1 been ordered arrested for disturbing th<« • Senate. Senator Saulsbury, however, was coaxed out by colleagues and avoided being taken into custody. He usually introduced those who bore messages from the President or the House of Representatives, and participated in other like formalities. It was also his custom to sign ‘ all caucus calls for the party in power. The Comic Side of the News. An Oswego girl has been arrested for I embezzling §II,OOO. The new woman ; seems to be a few laps ahead of the old i man. A New York paper has an editorial on "How to Humanely Kill Kittens.” Why not kill them just as you murder the English language? The Sultan's curiosity is getting the better of his judgment. When the allied navies begin to play the shell game he'd better keep out of it. Mrs. Margaret Mather-Pabst probably will return to the stage; let us hope that Mr. Margaret Mather-Pabst will re ire I from it now forever. Camphor has been cufheied and prices have more than doubled lately. Somebody is laying up treasures where moth and rust dot^ corrupt. — > A 70-year-old Kentuckian blew out liU ! brains because a 14-ycar-old girl wouldn t marry him. The young woman's judg- ! meat was triumphantly vindicated. ; An Oklahoma husband has applio.J for I a divorce and the restoration of his bachelor name. He shows a lovely disposition in refusing to ask for alimony. The New York Sun suggests that •‘toothbrush” ought to be “teethbrush.” perhaps. Perhaps so; but how about eyesglasses, fingersbowl, football and hairscut? . The Boston Herald prints an able artiI cle on "How Prunes Are Cured’" What this country really’ needs, however, is . * directions for curing the terrible board- . ing house prune habit. A Minneapolis man who was arrested the other day for violating the interna! revenue laws explains to the Journal of that town that he has merely been selling a "receipt for making insanity water out of molasses, yeast and old umbrella ribs with a dash of keiosene for the bouquet.” It seems a mistake to repress such I genius. Sorry He Spoke. Mr. Saur (to his wife)—How horrid of you to be always looking as sour as a j crab apple. Just look at Mrs. X. over I yonder—the very picture of cheerfulness. Mrs. Saur—You seem to forget, my dear, that Mrs. X. is a widow.—Neua Welt