St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-14
CLIMAX OF CHEEK.
The Notorious Mrs. Besant Sues a
Preacher for Libel.

The Notorious Mrs. Besant Sues
Preacher for Libel.
LONDON, Nov. 1S.-The evidence in
the case of Mrs. Besant, who is suing
Rev. DR.. Hoskyns for libel, in having
inveighed against her writings from the
pulpit, is extremely racy. The action
involves the fundamental principles OF
morality. and the result hinges upon
the jury's Interpretation of the publica-
tons which the preacher criticised and
the degree of their Limitation of literary
license in the direction of obscenity.
Mrs. Besant was the wife of an English
clergyman, and left her husband be-
cause of their disagreement upon ques-
tiOns as to the relations of the sexes.
She was friendly to questionable eX
tent with Charles Bradlaugh, and the
two collaborated on book called 'Ihe
Fruits of Philosophy" the publication
of which was suppressed. Subsequently
Mr.. Besant procured divorce from his
wife, in the application of which Mr..
Bradlaugh's name appeared. The gem
eral strike of the jOurneymen bakers,
which threatened TO take place next
Saturday in the event of the failure of
the masters to reduce the number Of
working hours to ten per day, is prob
ably averted. Throughout all of the
conferences which have taken place
between the masters and the journey
men and until to-day the masters have
steadfastly
REFUSED TO CONCEDE THE DEMANDS
of their employers. or even to meetthem
in satisfactory compromise; but to-day
one of the largest baking firms in Lon
don Internationally surrendered, and it
in m naaIr M
grounds for the other masters to decline
to follow this example. At the begin
ming of the trouble the masters were
encouraged by the arrival OF BLACK
leg" bakers from Germany in large
numbers, but many of these have been
taken care of by the English union
bakers, and the arrivals from Berlin
and other German towns have been al
most entirely stopped by the action of
John Burns, who telegraphed to his
agents and sympathiZers abroad to
check the emigration Of bakers to Lon
don by all possible means. Yesterdays
BoulangiSt tiZzle in Paris was one of the
last of dying cause, and the final dis
solution is expected to occur on the
island of Jersey very shortly. Boulan-
gers latest manifesto has fallen as fiat
as the bosom of the Dead sea and has
Partisan masses as that body of water
exercises upon the Atlantic ocean.
B0ulangism is moribund. Charley
Mitchell, the prince of
PRIZE FIGHTERS ON PAPER
and in bar room discussions, has again
distinguished himself by smuggling a
bookmaker named Hart, in a brawl
which grew out of the miserable failure
of Jem Smith to prove to the Australian
negro, jackson, that the champion of
England" could fight little bit. For
his latest exhibition of tine cowardly
brutality for which he Is famous,
Mitchell was arrested and fined $25. The
military barracks hitherto maintained
within the limits of the city of Vienna
are being removed to a more COM
mOdlouS site in the suburbs. NJ. Des-
soir. court actor, was seized with in
sanity while performing his part on the
Vienna stage last evening, and became
so violent that he was removed with
great difficulty. Advices from the
Transvaal received to-day, represents
the previous reports of famine and
drought throughout that region, as by
no means exaggerated. Suffering pre-
walls in all directions and the authori-
ties are making every effort to provide
relief.