The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-23

IA do a.. hut his letter Is chiefly remnTka'
hle for IN. complaint that the President
ma not done justice to the democratic
nartv fnr whose members he did not
|" kick out" all the horde OF oiilce-hoiueis
In Mace In 1885. That Mr.. Cleveland ana
obav the law Ia the spirit Is very evident
from Commissioner Edgerton's letter.
That this obedience 10 the law was no
poli,ical help 10 the President had been
snspscred long before Edger'On's letter
.nnesrad. But the civil service refCrmef
viii find no fault with the president on
that score.
The horror Of the week was the eXplo-
sion Of the boiler. Ia the Park Central no
tel Ua-tiort, Conn, In which cam trophy
RS persons were killed and injured. The
explosion took place NJ O'Clock In the
morning of Monday last through what
cause IL not known The engineer had
not seen the boilers for several hours prior
10 the explosion, when the fires had been
banked up. ab, ~ 40 10 90 lbs. OF steam
indicated The building WIS razed Ms by
AN ear,huuake. the structure falling Ia upon
MS own site and foundation, pile OF rub
bisn As register and clerk were buried
lu the ruins, the latter being Killed, II Is
imonssible tc ascertain the number in the
house, but II Is estimated at l2O.
GA Tuesday the famous Bonauza'
Flood, Of California, died at Heidelberg
His death having been anticipated because
of his very poor health for months pass, II
created no excitement in financial circles
on the coast Floods fortune IS estimNed
at $40 900 600 and his Income at T1OO,OOO a
wear, although before his late etl"rt with
Fair and others 10 corner the wheat mar
ket of the world, IL was double that (and
his income $4,000 day, the corner be
ing unsuccessful the syndicate losing ten
ar fifteen millions Flood was New
Yorker who went 10 California In the DOS,
making the stake" through winch he
acquired AN interest in the famous Com
stock lode" 10y retailing whisky to the
miners. He leaves a widow, on and a
daughter.
Dr. Bliss, Gsrfeld's physician, died on
Thur-dAy Of paralysis and cerebral hem
Crrhage.
The British Parliament resumed Its
work on Thursday last, the session being
opened by the usual Queens speech
A short and seemingly merely pro tojUia
document Nevertheless the session prom
ises 10 be one of the fer@est on record AS
regards Legislative interests, in which the
officers Of ireland were not taking secs
ondary place. =,
Since the advent Of LeCaron, the Parnell
Times enquiry has had some semblance OF
an enquiry, and caused considerable Inter
este LeCaron having concluded, Mr.,
Macdonald, manager Of the Times, has
been heard on the subject of the letters
giving The Times information of the Par.
nelites doings, upon which the Times ar
ticles, Parnellism and Crime" were
based; but, like a good many other Wit,
nesses, in that country as we'll as America,
his memory was defective" and nothing
of importance, 80 far as justifying the
Times, was obtained from him. He was
followed by one Piggott, whose accepted
information WAS the base Of pamphlet on
Parnelism He told how a number OF
letters had been obtained. His testimony,
however, Is not considered as worth much,
being uncertain, shuilling and contra
1iptorV