St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-22
To-Day's Elections in France
Mean Life or Death for
Boulanger.
Nothing Can Save the Repub-
lieans From Losing Ground
in the Contest.
Extraordinary Precautions
Taken to Head off the Re-
viSionist Candidates.
"A Duplicate Of the Maybriek
Case in London--Fopeign
Gossip.

Special Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Sept. 31.-The Paris and
London newspapers devote great
quantity of space to speculation and
prediction as to the outcome of to-mor-
rows elections in France. The various
parties and factions which compose the
voting strength of the republic have for
the moment thrust behind them all
their differences and grouped them
selves as revisionists or aDti-revisiou-
lists. in readiness to contest the only
issue involved in the balloting.
The government and its supporters
have all along secuted the idea of
Boulangist success, but the precautions
which the ministry have taken against
possible violence, and the strenuous eff
forts made to prevent the election
agents of the BOulangiSts from thor
oughly canvassing the country, betray
the fact that they are more anxious
than they are willing to admit. Troops
have been concentrated at all points
where the contest is expected to be
close OF exciting, and every possible
precaution against fraud has been
taken. The belief most generally ex-
pressed by the press and by expe-
rienced politicians is that the struggle
will be one OF
LIFE OR DEATH FOR BOULANGER,
and in MANY places where the BOulang-
lists are hopeleSsly in the minority their
candidates have been withdrawn. Not
withstanding these Withdrawals, how
ever, there are 1929 candidates for the
SIC seats to be filled. Paris and its
suburbs have 40 seats. and these are
contested by 317 candidates, not count
ing Gen. BOulanger himself and Count
Dillon. There is sure to be very heavy
voting everywhere, and the opinion
seems to be most general that tO-mOr-
rows election will not be decisive, but
that a second ballot will have to be
taken in October in more than half
of the divisions. The Pail Mall Ga
zette, in long article on the sub
ject. this afternoon. expresses the
opinion that nothing short of miracle
can save the republic from losing
ground in the contest. Last Wednes-
day the body of wealthy resident OF
the West end, named Weldon, was
buried by his family, who were of the
belief that his death was due to natural
causes. After the interment two
brothers of the deceased became sus-
picious that the dead mans wife had
followed he example of Mrs. Maybrick,
ahd to-day the body was exhumed and
placed in the hands of chemical experts
for examination. The suspicious of the
brothers are based, in part, on the fact
that Mrs. Weldon's first husband died
under circumstances similar to those
attending the death of the second, the
death in each case occurring very soon
after the husband had
MADE WILL IN HER FAVOR.
Scarlet fever has become epidemic in
Birmingham. The situation is very
serious. Most of the schools are closed
and the hospitals are so crowded with
patients that auxiliary wards must be
opened The results of the recent trials
of the smokeless powder have been so
satisfactory that the German govern,
ment is pushing to completion with all
possible speed an immense factory for
it's manufacture at Spandau. In the
construction of the building, machinery,
etc.. employment is found for many of
the reserves called out for the military
review on the occasion of the visit of
Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria who are consequently un-
able to return to their homes.
The foreman of one of the departments
in the navy yard at Kiel, with four of
his colleagues, has been arrested for
stealing copper intended for the bot
toms of ships. 1t is charged that the
culprits have removed and sold many
tons of the metal, and have also dis
posed of large quantities OF iron and
steel. In accordance with a resolution
passed by the recent socialist congress,
socialist newspaper called the Eight
Hour Day will be published in Zurich,
editions being printed in three Ian
guageS, The Russian government has
issued a ukase prohibiting the importa-
ton of plants without certificate that
they are free from phylloXera. This
action is taken in consequence OF the
recent
RAvAGES OF THE PEST,
and the penalty for violation OF the
edict is very severe. A rich vein OF
coal has been discovered in the Russian
province of VladivostOck, where COM
pany has been formed to mine and mar
ket the product. Simon Baruch, mer-
chant of Serajovo, Bosnia. has abscOnd-
ed with 100000 forms belonging to his
creditors. The money was obtained by
fraud, and search for Baruch has re-
vealed succinct data of his movements
since his departure to warrant the be-
lief that he has gone to America. A
disastrous fire has occurred in the vii
lage of Werbach, Baden, destroying
MANY dwellings and rendering
homeless a large number of fam
lilies, A boat race has been arranged
between Bubear of England, and
Matterson, of Australia, to take place
on the Thames course Oct. 10. Thomas
A. Edison is expected 20 arrive in Lon
don tonight. He will be the guest of
Sir John Pender, the cable magnate,
and will sail from Hayre for New York
next Saturday. The dowager Empress
Frederick will not, after all, visit Queen
Victoria this year, as she is obliged to
go to Athens to be present at the mar
rage of her daughter, the Princess
Sophie, to the Crown Prince of Greece.
1t is possible that in the early part of
the winter Queen Victoria will go to
Berlin, and on her way spend a week
with her daughter. This will be a full
fillment of the queens
PROMISE To THE EMPEROR.
who. however, prefers that the queen
should make her visit in the spring. A
Russian general officer who has been on
a tour of observation in England during
the last three weeks, said in an inter-
view respecting Bulgarian independ-
ence to-day: aYou may rest assured
that war will break out between Russia
and Austria much sooner than is eX-
pected by the most pronounced pessi-
mist. / believe that Bismarck will
shuttle out of the triple alliance
on this occasion, and that Italy
will come to grief. do not
think that England will be
dragged into the conflict unless for the
protection of her indian dominions, but
these will stand III little, if any, dam