, 1889-11-20

Jury has at last been empanelled at Chi
cago to try the alleged murderers OF DR..
Cr0uin. The INSCRIPTIONS use of the rightOf
challenge has not helped the accused, and
though upwards of eleven hundred jury
men were summoned, all selected are
Professionals, and eleven are born Amerl-
cans, the twelfth man being a Britlsher.
There is, of course, no certainty that none
of the jury are prejudiced, but the States
Attorney is evidently not intending to
shirk his duty. In his opening speech,
he charges the supreme "Triangle" of the
Clan. .Gael-Sulivan, Feeley, and Boland
with embezzling the funds of the Clan,
the method being to send dynamiters to
England, draw large sums for their ex-
penses, and then betray them to the Brit
ish Government. AS they were imprisoned
for life, they could not expose the frauds.
His theory is that DR.. Cr0nin knew these
facts, aud was killed lest he should make
them public. The Judge warned the
States Attorney that he made such state
mentS at his peril; but he promised to
prove them, mentioning that he had III his
hands the evidence taken by a secret COM
mittee of The Clan.na-Gael when "trying'
the .sTriangle" on DR.. CrOnin's accusation.
The trial, it is said, attracts intense interest
in Chicago, as, indeed, it does also
throughou the English speaking world.
It is very rare for a distinctive personality
to emerge from among the lower ranks OF
the European reigning caste, for, as a rule,
individuaIism is crushed out there 10y the
terrible weight of Court etiquette, and OF
those strange and half secret family codes
which govern the sovereign houses. A
curious piece of news from Vienna, publish
ed in the Standard of Tuesday, would seem,
however. to indicate that the Archduke
John, the youngest son OF tie late Grand
Duke of Tuscany, is inclined to take a
course of his own. The Archduke intends,
it is said, subject to the Emper0r,S not
refusing his request, to resign all his titles,
dignities, and appointments, ana 10 Oe-
come a captain in the English merchant
service. He has already passed at Flume
the examination necessary to qualify hlm
for a command, II is now contemplating
a voyage in his yacht i'll order TO show ms
powers of practical seamanshlp. The
strangest part of the story is that the
Archduke is in no sense what the Amerl-
cans call a "crank," but one of the @bleSt
soldiers in the Austrian Army, both as
regards the theory and practice of the art
of war. Owing to q quarrel with the high
est military authorities over the introduce
ton of the new rep~eating-ri1e, and to-
belief that he was meddling with politics,
the Archduke was a short time ago put on
theR Retired List. 1t was, however, expect
ed that he would be soon employed again,
as he is universally recognised as one or
those officers whom no Army can afford %
lose. Probably his present demand is due
to some fresh quarrel. In any case, his
action, which is primarily intended 10 pro
duce d recognition of his claims to a high
military command, marks out the Arch
duke John as u man who differs widely
from the ordinary princeling.
There is reason to believe that Emln
PAsha and Stanley are at last Safe. Cap
tain WisSmann, the German Commissioner
in east Africa, has informed his Govern
ment of their approaching arrival at
Mpwapwa, which lies within the German
protectorate. They had Oeen compelled
from dread of the Nasal to take a circuitous
route, but at Mpwapwa they will be safe,
and can easily be forwarded to the coast,
where both will, we hope, be utilised for
the government of large tracts of African
territory. Blythe. way, may not our ex-
pIOrers rename African places, as they 90
in other savage regionsf Half the difficulty
of recollecting African facts would diSap-
pear if If the places had European names
such as we have given to the large lakes.
N11t,oAI ,,ot ovon a WalShman Cnuld nos