The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-17
Current Events.

"Whitechapel Fiend," Ii was Lord May
or's Day. but the mummery OF the pagean
became senseless, uninteresting show a
the newspaper boys with their paper
startled the crowd with cries Of "Anothe
Nhitechapel Murderi" The murder tool
place In court of Dorset street, In one Of
the most miserable Of all the miserabl,
quarters of LOndOn-the home of degre
dalton almost inconceivable to Americans
The victim was Mary j. Mccarthy, {
drunken prostitute, of the class of womer
who have been the special victims Of th'
Whitechapel fiend. She was seen or
Thursday night TO enter her miserable room
in company with man, after both haC
stopped at a lamp post 10 read the bill offer
Ing fl00 reward tor the murderer. In the
morning three police who looked into hel
place found her remains literally scattered
all over the room. Almost every conceiv
able m utilstiOn had been practiCed on the
CORDS, so that IL took the physicians almost
an hour 10 reconstruct the body from the
pieces of IL scattered about the room. The
murderer Is still Ms much unknown MS ever
The man who was seen with the wemen at
night can not be dentliied-nOt even dis.
cribed by those who saw him.
The New York Herdd, however on
Monday, printed couple of letters from
Paris and an article from the Paris Icmps,
which may throw Hight on the subject. The
facts which appear In these documents
point TO the possibility that Il Russian exile
named Nicholas Wassili, a fanatic of Cher
son, is the man. This man WIS boru Of
well-to-dO parents and became n religious
ascetic and fanatic and was cXilpd for his
connection with religious sect known rs
the ShOrn" lie Went to Paris and hav,
Ing sufficient means, he began preaching
from the curb stone to dissolute women,
until he met Il c0cOHe named Madeline with
whom he fell desperately In love, As she
refused % marry him, he stabbed her and
then disappeared from the streets Within
II days after his attempt to murder Made
line, he killed five women of the dissOlute
class, the last OF whom was Madeline hers
self, whose first wound had not proved
fatal, who died In his arms In the street
He was seized, tried, and on plea of in,
sanity got only l5.year sentence. He
confessed the murders, which he said he
had committed 10 save the souls of the
women. This man was released from an
asylum at Tiraspool, Jan. |, 1888. The
Whitechapel murders began in April fol-
lows; and when last seen, Wssslli was on
his way 10 London.
In this connection II may not be uninter
esting to know that the force of public
criticism has caused Sir Chas Warren,
chief of the London metropolitan police 10
resign, which he did on Monday last
The Bell Telephone Company had set
o. N pifaH Gfu,ac
on Tuesday last VIXEN decision was hand
ed down In the case against the company
coming on appeal from the United States
Circuit Court Of Mass, which Hon A. G
Thurman argued on behalf of the govern.
ment shortly before election. The decis>
Ion against the company was somewhat Of
q surprise, seeing that a former decision
had been in irs favor Therefore, accord
Ing 10 this decision If, a. is alleged. Bell
stole Gray's idea on the day he in,rusted il
90 the patent oilice. he has IA right to prove
IL before jury. But that means mere lit
igation, which may not end before the ey-
piratiOn of the years still remaining 10 the
Bell monopoly under their patents,
A frightful coal mine explosion took !
place at Pittsburgh. Kansas, on Saturday |
last. There were 100 miners below when |
the explosion took place, Of whom large |
number perished. On Sunday the wife of |
one OF the dead men swOOned as his body |
came TO the surface, and when she recoy
cred from the swoOn her reason was gone,
but rs she remained quiet no attention YVES
paid To her Later In the evening, after
again viewing the body Of her husband |
At the mOrgue, she went home With her
five little ones, and after saturating her
clothes and the bedding Of herself and
children with kerosene oil she set fire TO
them and all were burned 10 death with
the house, except nine year old daughter
who succeeded Ia escaping from the
house. though frightfully burned
In 1884 President Arthur negotiated
commercial treaty with Spain, with the
view of extending American commerce I'm
that country, and In It's possessions in the
West Indies. That treaty proposed to
admit 10 the United States free of duty
horses, fruits, coffee, cocoa, hemp, fax,
palm oils, certain low standard sugars and |
molasses, wood, &c, In exchange for which |
all grains, meats, fish, flour, and raw mate
rails which constitute the bulk of Ameri- |
can exports, rs well as iron, steel, nails &c,
we're to be admitted free into the Spanish |
Isles and Spain. That treaty was rejected
by a republican senate, though what
reasonable objection 70 II could have been
offered II Is hard TO see. Ii would have
made additional markets for American
farm products, the products of American
mines and oil wells and manufactures
and gave very much In return for those
benefits The action OF the senate, how
ever, was entirely consistent with the
republican policy at all times 10 restrict
American commerce, especially that part
of 1t furnished by the farming community.
Now. however, the Canadians are trying to
negotiate treaty to the same effect with
the same countries, with the view 70 shut
ting the United States out of those cuun-
tries entirely, and If the present CONNER.
cial system of this country Is continued In
the future 1t will be very easy to do II.
The 22d annual session of the National
Grange has been held at Topeka, Kansas,
this week. Acting Master Jas. Draper de.
llvered the annual address. The order, he
said, IL In a flourishing condition, and 1893
subordinate oranges were organized last
year. He said past experience showed a
need of greater attention to the legislative
interests of the farmer, and he recommend.