Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-06
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LONDON, July 6-The Duke of MARI
borough died Of cardiac syncops today
He was sixty three years old. His death
Was very sudden. He WAS slightly IN
disposed yesterday but dinsd With the
family at the usual hour, and retired to
his room apparently we'll. He was
found dead on the door of the room.
A Paid Blowhard-Deais Kearney On
Monopoly.
CHICAGO, June ga Times editorial
says: Perhaps the most original Of the
anti-monopolists now assembled in Chi.
cago Is Mr.. Denis Kearney, the great
He proposes to do il in way that would
hardly have occurred to a less active
and original mind. He proposes to
compel railroads to charge high freiehts
and fares. Who but he would hive
thought Of that way Of vanquishing
railroad monopoly? But he does not
propose to stop Just there, having CON-
PEELED roads to charge high prices for
transportation, he would 90 step far
Their, and compel them to pay high
wages. His theory is that the matter
of wages is largely controlled by what
great corporations pay; if they are CON-
PEELED to pay high wages, who would
have tn nay high prices for transporta-
ton? Not the workin9men. This gen
ius of the sand lots assumed but the
middle men, that is to say, ner.
chants and dealers, but what is to
hinder them from putting the extra cost
of transportation on to the prices of
their goods, and 80 taking it ont of cas-
TONERS, the most OF whom are working
men. Kearnsy doss not shed any light
on that question. Probably he would
solve the difficulty by simple compul.
sion. II he can force railroad companies
TO pay high wages he can rs easily force
merchants to sell at low prices. and even
sell at loss, bat probably Mr.. Kearney
knows that the force plan will not
work. In either case it looks as though
he Was in the pay Of the railroad bosses
OF the Pacific slope.
Restricted.
LONDON, July 5.-Ths American rife
men will he allowed to use the rev
wind gage only in the internati onal
match at Wimbledon.
A Rrlsbtened Sovereign.
DRESDEN. July 5.-The King of Sax
ony, who is making tour, was yester-
day about to ascend in an elevator Of a
factory, which he WAS inspecting at Mi
Ian, when the weight attached to the car
fell, killing the governor of the district,
who was accompanying his majesty.
and injuring the manager OF the fac
tory. The King, who had entered the
elevator before the accident, WAS much
overcome, and abandoned his tour.
speech OF Parnell.
CoRK. July 5.-The speech of Paruell
at the banquet here last evening in con-
nection with the Industrial Exhibition
Wa non-political. He said he believed
that in this exhibition was seen a hope
fui sign, . hopeful revival of Irish in
dustries.
Iron strikers.
LONDON, July 5.-Ten thousand iron
workers in Staffordshire, Who are on a
strike with banners, marched to Dudley
port. Upton and Maxley entered the
iron works at these places, and qusnched
the fires in tho furnaces, thus stopping
work.
The Cholera.
ALEXANDRIA, July 5.-The number of
deaths from cholera at Damietta during
the twenty-fOur hours ending At eight
o'clock this morning was Ill. There
we're fOrty-three deaths at Mansurak.
Later reports from Samanond say
that six deaths occurred At that place
from cholera during the twenty-four
hours ending at 8 am. today. Two Ca
ses occurred among soldiers forming a
Gordon around the place.