The. Frontier.
rUBUSUKD EVKUT THITKSDAY DT
JAB. H. RIUUH.
I’NEILL,
NKUHA8KA.
Only ono man in 203 Is over six feel
In height.
A peach grown nt Sylvnnin, Va ,
weighed eighteen ounces and measured
thirteen indies in circumference.
Africa is now completely encircled
by submarine cables, which make up
altogether a length of 17,000 miles.
In forty years the run across the At
lantic has been reduced one-half. What
will the next forty years bring forth?
Tlio man who invented metal plates
for the heels and soles of rough shoes
is said to have realized $230,000 in ten
years.
The tobacco crop In California prom
ises to be a great success and the in
dustry will probably become a profita
ble one.
Dr. I.uderltz says that coiTeo acts us
a germicide and destroys the bacilli of
cholera, nuthrux and typhus in a few
hours.
The 1241^ miles between Newcastle
and Edinburgh, which is done without
a stop, is at present the longest run in
llriluin.
It is reported that within the last six
months ir.o young women luive taken
up timber claims in the state of Wash
ington.
A farmer out wost the other day at
tacked a column of grasshoppers with
seventy turkeys and soon was master
of the situation.
The nationul debt of Uermany, which
is muuli smaller than that of any other
great country in tho world, is, in round
figures, £31),000,ooo.
A leading hotel at Asbury l’arlc,
J., has been fined 8100 for serving oh
margarine to its guests, who did i
detect the imposition.
In the city of Mt. Petersburg it be
gins to freeze at the end of October,
and a general thaw rarely takes place
before the beginning of April.
Trains on the Hrooklyn bridge make
fastern time (by two miles uu hour!
than did the first railway fraiu that
fan between New York and Albuny.
There are sixty Chinese women in
Los Angeles, Cal., who are practically
slaves, for they are bought and sola
like cuttle. Their value ranges from
8800 to 83,000 according to their youth
and attractiveness.
Martinique, which has boon devas
tated by a hurricane, is by all odds the
most beautiful island in the West In
dict. The chief towns are St. l’ierre
and Fort do Franco. It was in the
latter that the Empress .Josephine was
born.
A now lake lias been discovered in
Cameron, Africa, by U. ltolduu, a
Swede. The discoverer, thinking to
honor the German government, named
tho water Soden lake. It is 700 meters
above the level of the sea and is about
two miles wide.
California's variety of tempcratuic
Was illustrated recently by tho fact
that while the bout in tho valleys
reached ilk) degrees in the shade, a
party in the mountains were exploring
- a minature glacier and camping be
side a lake on which traces of ieo
could be found in the morning.
The 'Statistics of the average size of
families in tho various countries of
Europe are as follows: France, 3.03
members; Denmark, 3.01; Hungary,
3.70; Switzerland, 3.04; Austria and
Belgium, 4,(it); England, 4.OS; Ger
many, 4.10; Sweden, 5.13; Holland,
4.32; Scotland,. 4.40; Italy, 4.50; Spain,
4.65; liussia, 4.83; Ireland, 5.20.
Stock yards and poultry pens in anil
around Franklin, Conn., are being
raided by wild animals supposed to be
wildcats. In some places torches are
kept burning near the stock pens to
keep off the marauders. Women and
•children are afraid to go out alone in
some sections even in day time, and
even men go armed.
Strictly speaking, the only precious
stones aro the diamond, ruby,
sapphire and emerald, though tho
term is often extended to the
opal, notwithstanding its lack of
hardness, and the pearl, which is not a
mineral, but strictly an animal de
duct. Popularly, a gom is a precious
or semi-precious stone, when out or
polished for ornamental purposes.
One of the commonest forms of su
perstition is that which makes beasts,
birds, reptiles and insects thejmeaus of
communicating information with re
spect to future events or of prognosti
cating by their actions good or had
fortune to the individual thus put in
communication with the outside world,
or which clothe them with peculiar
and supernatural qualities.
Weighing machines and scales of
some kinds were in use 18U0 15. C, for
It is said that Abraham at that time
',!■■■ “weighed out" 400 shekels of silver,
v current money with the merchant, to
Ephron the Hiktite, as payment for a
- piece of laud, including the cave and
all the standing timber "in the lie id
and in the fence.” This is said to lie
| the earliest transfer of land of which
uny record survives and that the pay
ment was made in the presence of wit
nesses.
REPUBLICAN RAIN IN TEXAS
Tmm lining MnUtunwcl by a Republican
Admiilutrifttloii,
Exchange: Our latent dlspatehos
from the rain ranking district confirm
nil we have written on this subject,
and now the skeptical Texans freely
admit that the experiments have been
u perfect success, and pathetic appeals
are reaching the rain makers in the
language of the men of old, who plead'
lngly implore of General Dyrenfortb
to “come and rain over us.” The re;
puli! lean rain makers have worked
under many disadvantages, especially
in the mutter of the proper plant with
which to carry on their work; hut in
tlio future they will have a better op
portunity to show the power which
they now control to bring forth rain
at will, Rain making is destined to
become a very important business, and
very soon we may expect to see a large
army equipped with balloons gather
ing the clouds, rending the skies, and
bursting them upon the just republi
cans, as well as the unjust democrats.
General Dyrcnforth, the republican
rninmaker, has about concluded his
series of very successful experiments
on tlio Chicago ranch, near Midland,
Tex., und his services are in great de
mand. Large delegations of prominent
citizens from San Antonio, El Paso and
many other points are urging the gen
eral to visit their localities und call
down upon their grounds and crops the
fructifying republican showers. We
trust these good people will remember
that to our party belongs the credit of
discovering and applying the natural
laws for producing rain at will; and
the democratic party ouuuot point in
its history to a single net of so great
importance to tlio country at largo, and
to the farmer especially, as this dis
covery of rain-making power.
Aside from the refreshing rain which
follows these rain-making demonstra
tions, there aro pyrotechnic displays
which are gorgeously grand. The ex
plosions of tho oxyhydrogen balloons
during tho moonlight evenings of the
past week have formed spectacles ol
rare beauty, whieli would have been
measurably intensified had tho nigliti
been dark. The balloon having
reached tho elevation of 1,000 to 8,000
feet, the electrical button is touched,
and it is instantly transformed into u
brilliant globe of lire, which swells
io monstrous proportions, casting a
wavy flash of light over every object
within a radius of several miles, and
then after a few moments of darlcnoss,
intensified by contrast with the sudden
light, tho treraenduous crash of tho ex
plosion comes rolling on, and makes
tho ground tremble by its concussion.
These are arlel republican fireworks,
to be closely followed by tho generous
life-giving republican rain.
RECIPROCITY AND SHIPPING.
Some Truthful Observations of the Presi
dent at Hollows Palls.
New York Mail and Ev press: The
president yesterday at Hollows Falls,
Vermont, made a short speech full of
matter in which ho happily touched
upon reciprocity and our shipping’.
Referring to the former, he said:
VI mentioned the other day at St.
Albans that this was the era of the
battle for a market. Tho whole world
is engaged in it. It has nover been
our policy to push our trade forward at
the point of the bayonet. Wo have
always bolieved that it should be urged
upon the grounds of mutual advantage
and upon this j round alone
we nro new endeavor nby every
means in our power, to open the
markets of our sister republics in Cen
tral and South America by the
products of American shops and farms.
[Applause. | We have found that we
ure receiving from some of these coun
tries enormous annual imports of
sugar, coffee and hides, and we have
now placed these articles on tho free
list upon the conditions that they give
some products of the United States fair
reciprocity. [Applause.] If our own
laws or any aggressive movement we
are making for a larger share in tho
commerce of the world should excite
commercial jealousy and rivalry of
other countries, we shall not complain
if those rivalries find only proper ex
pressions.”
Next referring to our shipping, he
said: "We have come to a time in our
development as a nation when I be
lieve that interest on money is low
enough for us to turn some of our ac
cumulated capital from the railways
into steam transportation on the sea:
that the time has come when we shall
recover a full participation in the car
rying trade of the world, when, under
the American flag, steamships shall
carry our products to neighboring mar
kets and bring buck their exchange to
our harbors.”
And finally, to sum up the situation,
he said:
“Larger foreign markets for the pro
ducts of onr farms and of our factories,
and a larger share In the carrying
trade of the world, peaceful relations
with all mankind, with naval and coast
defenses that will silently ma'ke an
effective argument on the side of peace,
arc the policies that I would pursue.”
[Applause. ]
And we are sure that these remarks
of the president express the thoughts
and desires of every man who has our
national prosperity and pre-eminence
nt liea-rt.
Capital Si-artMl off by Polities.
New York l*ress: The constant reit
eration in the democratic anil mug
wump press of assertions and predic
tions that the McKinley bill will l>e re
pealed have their natural sequence in
reports that come from abroad about
the frame of mind of manufacturers
and capitalists who under ordinary
circumstances would have been over
here immediately after its passage to
cruet factories and invest money. An
Associated press cable dispatch tells us
that capitalists “are shy of laying out
Jnoney to erect works in America which
* popular vote might at any time ren
der useless.” This announcement is
highly significant. It affords good rea
son for sustaining the republican party
this fall and thereby making it defi
nitely known that we are not to have
any tariff tinkering in the direction of
free trade.
—The valuable contents of Harvard col
lege library include a small collection of
rare Spanish works, the gift of James
Russell Lowell. The books have manv
marginal notes in the handwriting of the
NEBRASKA.
| Labor day wai observed at Blair Tues
' day.
Sutton republicans have organized a
club.
| The Catholic fair waft held at Crawford
Wednesday.
| Sneak thieves are operating extensively
at Emerson.
I Boyd county officers have not yet been
commissioned.
Lincoln has been entertained by fake
wrestling matches.
Professor C. E. Bennett, of Beatrice,
died at Oakland, Cal.
A boating park and fair grounds are to
be located at Elmwood.
Lushton, a village of 800 people, has a
1 band of twenty-two pieces.
| Fofly-nine carloads of meat were shipped
j from Nebraska City Monday.
I Fred Gray, of Emerson, has gone on a
i trip to Wisconsin on a bicycle,
i Clearwater Methodists are soliciting
subscriptions to build a church.
I Wheat will average twenty-five bushels
per acre all over western Nebraska.
The Nebraska City exposition was
thrown open to the public Monday.
Whooping cough is raging in Nemaha
City, and a few cases have been fatal.
F. B. parley, postmaster at Chadron,
will soon be succeeded by George A. Bird
sail.
A young man named Watesman was
killed by the cars at Omaha Monday
night.
A new daily mall route has been estab
lished between Nemaha City and Lang
don, Mo.
With an assessed valuation of $3,444,
453.07 Saunders county stands seventh in
the state.
The West Point school board has
adopted an entire new series of school
books.
iwic man*
lug preparations to advertise their part of
the state.
William Glover was killed nearChadron
by being thrown from his horse, breaking
bis neek.
An average of about thirty pensions per
day are being granted old soldiers in Ne
braska.
Jay Reynolds, who has been agent of
the Union Pacific at Fremont for ten years,
has resigned.
A Rebekah degree lodge, I. O. O. F., has
been Instituted at Chappell trith twenty
eight members.
James Day, 12 years old, was frightfully
crushed by a cave-in at a sand bank near
Beatrice. He cannot live.
Dr. Benjamin hoot, a prominent Mason,
died in Crete Tuesday after a lingering
sickness, of consumption.
Owing to the wet weather the crop of
wild hay in many parts of the state has
been considerably damaged.
The first meeting of the Randolph Driv
ing Park and Fa$r association will be held
at Rundolph September 4 to 7.
J. P. Farr, the farmer whs was shot near
Hastings by C. Shultz, is considerably im
proved and may yet recover.
The first annual meeting of the Tecum
seh Turf club will be held October 7, 8 and
9, at the fair gronnds in Tccumseh.
On the irrigated lands in the vicinity of
North Platte wheat is yielding from thirty
to forty bushels per acre.
Mrs. Hiram Walker, of Friend, had an
ovarian tumor weighing thirty-five pounds
removed and is in a fair wvay to recover.
During the month of August mortgages
were released in Adams county to the
amount of $13,609 more than mortgages
filed.
An agricultural display has been ar
raned at the depot in Tilden to attract
the attention ot excursionists passing
through.
W. A Dewcese, F. A. Mockett and M.
W. Wood# of Lincoln, went chicken hunt
ing too soon and were arrested at Wal
lace.
Ground has been broken for the girls*
cottage at the feeble-minded institute in
Beatrice.
The school department at the feeble
minded institute at Beatrice begins its
term Wednesday.
The old soldiers of Salem county will
hold their annual reunion in Applegate’s
grove, seven miles south of Friend, Sep
tember 15 to 17.
Cora Parks, the Crawford girl who was
shot through the Head by a drunken sol
dier, has recovered.
A republican league was organized at
North Platte Saturday. Others will be
formed in the county.
Rev. J. Underwood, pastor of the Oak
land Congregational church, preached his
farewell Bermon Sunday night. He will j
engage in mission work.
vuj an vilUll vu uiivu U
daily muil established between that place
and Atkinson. The new town only re
ceives mail once a week now.
Government work on the river at Ne
braska City has been stopped on account
of a sand bar, and the engineers have been
ordered to report to St. Joseph.
Camp Sherman, at Grand Island, was
struck by lightning Tuesday night and
nine old veterans were injured, but not so
seriously but that they will recover.
It is thought the Western Nebraska G.
A. R. reunion, which takes place at North
Platte September 15 to 18, will be the lar
gest gathering of old soldiers ever held in |
that part of the state. j
Mary Vesey and Mary Mieris have been '
bound over in the district court at Fuller- J
ton, without bail, for murder in the first
degree. They are charged with poisoning
Frank Vesey, the husband of Mary Vesey,
August 14.
Thomas Pinson, deputy postmaster at
Platte Center, has been bound over to the
district court on the charge of raping Julia
Quinn, a 15-year-old girl, who is the mother
of a child about a month old, of which she
says Pinson is the father
While Widow Trazter was in attend
ance at the salvation army tent at Ash
land, which has been there about three
weeks, some kleptomaniac took her horse
and drove it towards Greenwood, where it
was killed on a railroad crossing.
While digging around the old wreck
near York Friday the section hands dug
up the lost foot of the late Fireman Beans.
It was imbedded in the ground a little
south from where the engine went down.
The foot was sound and still wore the shoe
as when crushed off.
Jacob M. Shurtz asks a divorce from his
wife at Nebraska City. He states in his
petition that he left home for a few weeks
on business and left his brother to look
after the family, which he did so well as tc
supplant him in the affections and good
graces of his wife. The brother admits
the charge.
AN INSANE ASYLUM HORRCB
Brutal Treatment of West Virginia
Insane by the Guards.
The Unfortunate Inmates Seok Death by
Suicide and the Facts Have Been Sup
pressed—An English View of the
Vexed Chinese Question.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 5.—A
detailed account of the horrors at the
Weston insane asylum in this state
hare been made public. Suicide has
followed suicide, it is charged, for somo
time among the inmates, and
they have all been attended
by the most horrid circumstances.
Men have killed themselves by boiling
to death and suspension by ropes from
the windows. All this has been done
in the sight of guards, and no investi
gation has been made. It seems there
have been no inquests on the dead.
General inefficiency is manifested in
the management.
England and the Chinese.
London, Sept. 5.—Commenting on
the statement cabled from Shanghai
purporting to give the views of the
Chinese educated classes in regard to
foreign missionaries and demanding
the withdrawal of the missions from
the Chinese territory, the Times says:
“The . lesson to be drawn is
that liberal treatment of China is
useless. Europe should inflexibly and
sternly insist on observance of the
treaty rights and thus avoid irritating
and naval display. lVe are glad to be
lieve that this view is new being
held by foreign officials. The Post
says: “It is evident, equally from
inherent strength of the Chinese as
from their manifest weakness that
trifling policy is the worst that cafl be
adopted. Europe must prepare either
to enforce or renounce her treaty
rights. ”
Thu New Government -Recognized.
New York, Sept. 5.—The Herald’s
Washington special says the president
has instructed Minister Egan to recog
nize the new government in Chile.
A NEW GOLD FIELD.
Interne Excitement In a New Colorado
Mining: ('amp.
Oubat, Colo., Sept. 5.—Geld Hill is
in a state of excitement over some of
the indications of that camp. Ameri
can Nettie is still sending down her
usual quota of gold ore and opening up
fresh ledges. Bright Diamond, of the
Milwaukee company, has encountered
a flat or bedded deposit of iron ore
eight feet thick, which yields $41) per
ton in gold. It has been opened up for
eighty feet in width and eighty feet
into the mountain and there is now es
timated to be over 51100,900 in sight.
They are sending down ten tons a day
to their mill by bucket tramways.
This enormous ore body is lf,o l'eet
from and probably extends into the
Ironclad company, which'is preparing
to re-open its mine. This property has
been closed some time, but is now ne
gotiating for the sale of 100,000 shares
of treasury stoek at ten cents per
share, to raise working capital. These
wonderful ore bodies cause mind's to
believe Gold Hill to he on the eve of a
discovery that will astonish the world.
TWO GIRLS MURDERED.
A Terrible Tale of Crime From an Interior
District of Tennessee.
Nasiivii.i.e, Tcnn., Sept. 5.—A horri
ble story of a double murder reached
here late last night fvom Livingston,
Overton county, fifty miles from the
railroau. Sunday night the family of
Win. Smith went to church, leaving
two girls, 17 and 19 years of age, in the
house alone. About 9 o’clock a neigh
bor noticed r;n unusual light in the
direction of Smith's house. He ran
over and found the house rapidly burn
ing. Ho arrived just in time to see the
bodies of the two girls, both dead,
lying on the floor in the center of the
downstairs rooms. Their faces were
covered with blood and clothing disor
dered. So fierce were the flames that the
bodies could not be rescued. The girls
had undoubtedly been assaulted and
murdered, after which the house
was set on fire. The family wa s a
respectable one. One of the girls
had been married six weeks.
A DIPLOMATIC ERROR.
The KiiRlIsh Press View tlie Dardanelles
Matter in that Licht.
London, Sept. 5.—A Vienna di-patch
to the Standard says: “The Dardanelles
agreement which Was concluded be
hind Kiamil Pasha’s back by the palace
officials, compelled Kiamil to resign.
It is expected also that a secret treaty
has been concluded with the approval
of France to come into operation two
years hence, when the Pluck sea ship
building and doc": plans have been
executed.”
Tho Standard’s correspondent in
Constantinople attributes tlic change
In the ministry to the su'tnn’s sus
picion of a plot to take his life, caused
by the sudden extinguishing of gas in
the palace during a recent storm and
an explosion of fireworks, on which
occasion the sultan dismissed and
arrested several officials.
AN ELOPEMENT.
A Pennsylvanian lltopex With a Yount;
Lady, Hut Leaves Ilia Wife a lUiei-k.
WlI.KESBAItr.K, I’a., Kept. 3.-1. P.
Shearn, a coal operator of this place,
and Miss Mary J. Williams, a youngj
Boeiety lady, have eloped. Shearn is j
40 years old. has a wife and two chil
dren who are now at Asbury Park.
Miss Williams is only 19 years old. ller
father is dead and her mother is in
Europe. Shearn left a check for $1,000
to be given his wife when she returned.
Germnn .Succession.
Berlin, Sept. 5.—Field Marshal
Count Von Blumenthal has resigned
his office ns inspector general of the
Fourth military district. He will be
succeeded by Prince Leopold, of Ba
varia.
WORTHY OF THOUGHT.
I -
Tit* European Situation May Mean More
i Than Appear* on the Surface.
London, Sept. 4.—In financial circles
in this city marked attention is paid to
the suggestion of the Berliner Borsen
i Courier that more importance should
be attached to the meeting of the em
perors of Germany and Austri-Ilun
gary than to any other signs which at
present appear on the European politi
cal horizon. ComiDg from the source
it does, and taking into consideration
Thursday’s conference between Ger
many’s chancellor, Von Caprivi, the
Austri-IIungarian premier, Count Kal
noky, and his minister of finance, Mr.
Kallay, the Courier's suggestion under
the circumstances and with friends of
the dreibund, carries with it the weight
of inspired utterance. There are croak
ers, however, who insist that the re
cently consummated Kntcne between
Kussia and France, followed as it
promptly has been by the haunting
Dardanelles incident, and the maneu
vreing of a tremendous military force
in eastern France, are formidable facts
which make it more than doubtful
whether oracular utterances can longer
proceed from any German, Austrian or
Italian source whatsoever. The dual,
rather than the triple alliance, is, in
their opinion, the arbiter of war or
peace.
SEATTLE'S NEW CITIZEN.
Bank Wrecker Drlumnter Will. Try a New
Field of Operations.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 5.—Seattle is
to have a now, and In some respects a
distinguished, resident. His name is
George W. Delamater, and he will be
recollected as Quay’s candidate an the
republican ticket in Pennsylvania last
year, and subsequently as the bank
wrecker who brought poverty and de
struction to thousands of honest farm
ers and lumbermen in the Keystone
state. Delamater has definitely deci
ded to take up his residence here and
it is given out that his friends here
made financial arrangements as a re
sult of which the criminal prosecutions
against him will not be pressed and he
will be saved the disgraee of impris
onment. Only a few of his creditors
are completely satisfied but these are
the ones who were in a position to
push the criminal charges against him.
Tlie rank and file of the depositors in
his bank will probably whistle for a
dividend until Dooms-Day. People who
ought to know say that the Delamaters
are not yet. broke but that on the other
hand they have salted away goodly
sums that will stand in good stead in
commencing life in this, to them, new
world.
A DEMOCRATIC EVENT.
A Great Demonstration at Willow Springs,
at Which Thera are Many Notables.
Chicago, Sept. 5.—A great demon
stration of tlie local democracy in cek
ebration of the establishment of peace
between the two sections and for the
purpose of discussing national issues,
is being held today at Willow Springs.
Senator and Governor David B. Hill, of
New York, was amongst those an
nounced as orators, but the rival of
Grover Cleveland failed to put in an
appearance. Wisconsin democracy was
represented by Governor George Peck,
of Wisconsin; Indiana by Governor
Gray: Kentucky by Congressman
Breckenridge, and the national house
of representatives by Congressman
Springer. A large number of Wiscon
sin democrats arrived this morning tq
join in the jubilee and the fast that
ex-Governor Gray was among the ora
tors drew a large contingent from
across the Indiana line. Specch-mak.
ing will take up the whole of the after
noon and evening. W’hen the sun is
going down Congressman Springer ex
pects to be getting off one of the great
ist efforts of his life.
NEW YORK SWISS.
roday Is Being Fitly Calebrated aad Com
memorated.
New York, Sept. 5.—The flag of
Switzerland floats in the breeze over
the city hall today by the unanimous
lireetion of tlie board of aldermen. It
lias been hoisted in honor of the na
tional celebration of the OCOth birthday
jf the republic, which informally com
nences today and will continue for one
iveek. Swiss delegates from all parts
if the country are arriving here to join
hands with the thirty-eight societies
that have charge of the celebration,
t here will be an immense parade to
morrow of the various societies and
their friends, the principals being
tressed in costumes representing those
in vogue at. various iSmes in the history
if Switzerland. The guests from
ibroad will be received ofliciallv in
Washington Park by the New York
iommitlee and banqueted in the
.'veiling. The day will be devoted to
jymnast-ie productions and festival
for children and the production of an
illcgorical historical play.
r»io PecifUnr Fat« of an Kloplng Couple at
tVaftliingtoii.
^ Washington, Sept. 5.—The wife of
I hoinas A. Mitchell, a real estate
iealor of this city, eloped in July with
Lewis K. Hall, a printer. Mrs. Mitch
.'11 is of Italian birth, and Mitchell
look a fancy to her while she was sell
'bf matches. The eloping couple went
:o Haltimore, where Hull was taken
■eriously ill, and he was brought to
ins city by his mother while Mrs.
Mitchell left for parts unknown. Yes
erdaj she was arrested in llagers
.own. .-Id., at about the same liour
Hell died in Washington.
Only a llrendi of Trust.
Loinsvir.r.t:, Ky., Sept. 5.—The di
•eetors of the Falls City hank, at a
neeting yesterday, decided not to pros
;eute Major William Tillman, cashier,
a ho ik'd to Canada. This was done on
die recommendation of counsel, who
idvised that tollman's offense wasoulv
i breach of trust and that there was
io hope of conviction.
Kxperlrnreil a Rough Voyage.
London, Sept. 5.—The steamer James
lurpie, from New York, has arrived
it I almouth. It reports heavy gales
mil seas. The mate and steward were
it different times washed overboard,
doth were drowned. Several of the
•rew were injured, being thrown to
;he deck by the seas.
RUSSIA AND FRANCE.
IhMe T«t„ Countries Are Amlcab -Ad
Jutting Their DLflUultle*. 7 Ad'
Paris, Sept. 7.—Recent correspond
ence between the czar and liaron p'
Morenheim, the Russian ambassador at
Paris, makes it appear quite certain
that immediately after the Copenh
gen visit is concluded the czarina and
the czarowitz, escorted by an imposing
Russian squadron, will proceed in th?.
imperial yacht to Cherbourg st i»
tersburg advices speak of tlie French
litH 1 aS,*v“ th.inS “bsolutelv
settled and the news is received in thi«
city with enthusiasm which indicate’
the intention of the French to eclipse
even the recent extraordinary Cron
stadt demonstration.
The details of the imperial iternarv
have not yet been divulged but it ^
settled that the president of the re
public, attended by the members of
the ministry and the high officers of
the army, will receive the illustrious
visitors at Cherbourg and act as
their escort to Paris. It is asserted
here that the imperial progress from
Cherbourg to the capital and their re
ception at the latter place will present
a scene of imposing grandeur such as
has not been witnessed in France since
the days of the first Napoleon. The
vigorous action of Russia in the Dar
danelles affair has fanned into a con
suming flame the spirits of the war
party and there is now a tremendous
revival of Russomania which had be
gun to subside somewhat when that in
cident came to again lash it into fury.
So intense is the feeling that it is de
clared at the railway offices here that
should the contemplated program of
the visit of the czarina and czarowitz
be carried out it will be a difficult
problem to move the vast crowds who
will hasten from all parts of France to
greet the nation's guests.
MlKt MJK KL VOLUTION.
The Conditions Farornble for Trouble in
Mexico.
Galveston, Tat., Sept. 7.—A gentle
man interested in railroad building in
Mexico and connected with the jetty
works at Tampico, very recently ar
rived at Galveston from that country
and in the course of an interview yes
terday made some startling statements.
“Mexico,” said he, “is now on the
verge of a revolution. During my
stay in the republic I had a
splendid chance to study its people and
a large number of the peons, the lower
class of Mexicans employed. Many
Mexicans expressed themselves greatly
dissatisfied with the government and
would willingly rebel were there any
one to lead. The people are ten to
one against the military and an out
break might occur at any time
A large number of the better class of
Mexicans who are opposed to Diaz’s
administration are circulating among
the ignorant class and leading them to
believe that Diaz is working in the in
terest of the United States government
in granting railroad franchises to cor
porations whose stockholders are cit
izens of the states. Just be
fore leaving Tampico I visited an old
French doctor who has been an inhabi
tant of Mexico for the past forty years
and. he informed me that in case of an
uprising I had better leave as the feel
ing against Americans and especially
citizens of Texas was very bitter.
In talking over the situation with
me he said that the prospects
for a revolution had not looked so ripe
for many years. The success of the
Chilean insurgent over Ilalmaceda has
given the Mexicans great hope and
many believe that the Diaz government
cai{ be overthown in the same manner.
This is the true situation without any
prejudice tp either party.”
A Starj of SuflForinjj.
San Francisco, Sept. 7.—He bark
Royal Tar, which arrived from Austra
lia yesterday, is detained at quaran
tine. fever and scurvy having- been re
ported on board and the captain and
mate both dead. The Royal Tar
left Sydney last March with Captain
T. A. Franklin, two mates, eleven
seamen and a boy, bound for
Frederic ^Vilhelms Haven in Herman
New Guinea. Shortly after arriving
there the captain and four seamen were
stricken with fever. The medicine
gave out and the captain soon died.
First Mate Rogers took command and
the vessel sailed for Humboldt, Cal.
Shortly after Rogers died of fever and
the second mate, John McColl, took
charge and sailed the bark into San
Francisco. All the crew were ill at
one time or other, and during the voy
age for several days only three of the
men were able to work. In July
all the stores gave out except
tea and flour. No antiscorbutic were
on board and the men suffered
fearfully. Ten days ago the German
bark Hydra gave them a little meat
and quinine. The appearance of the
men is frightful. Some are toothless,
others pitted and scarred with gan
grene, but it is believed the lives of all
will be saved with care and rest.
NOTABLES PRESENT.
Labor Day Fitly Celebrated at Ohio*.*
Lending City.
Cincinnati, O., Sept. 7.—Lubov day
dawned clear and pleasant. The street
parade of the various labor unions be
gan this morning headed by the police
and bands of music. The proves-ion
traversed the principal streets and
halted at the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton depot where trains
were waiting to carry them to
Woodsdale Island park. bully
15,000 wen were in line. Major Mc
Kinley, the republican candidate for
governor, and Major Mosby occupied
one of the carriages. John Seils. the
people’s party candidate for governor,
Congressman Caldwell, ex-Congre-s
lnan Outhwaite and other notables
were also in the procession. Tlio day
wi'l be celebrated at the park in speech
making and athletic sports.
LABOR DAY AT CHICAGO.
An Immense Parailo ami Large labor
Meetings.
Chicaoo, Sept. 7.—lie tween 30.000
and 40,000 workmen marched in toe
Labor day parade to the music of
thirty or forty bands. The crowd w as
too big to be accommodated at one
park and as a result there were various
meetings, the one at Sharpshooters
park being addressed by Perry Simpson
and the others by lesser labor lights.
All manufacturing establishments were
closed.