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The morning call., 1890-06-25
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.
Encouraging Address of President Rsynol

Encouraging Address of President Reynolds
at the International Convention.
PITTsBURG, June 24.-The International
Sunday-school Annual Convention met this
morning. Twelve hundred delegates are
present from all the States and Territories
and the Provinces of Canada, including all
the evangelical denominations.
At the afternoon session. President Rey-
nolds spoke at length of the work in the
field: New England now, instead of be-
ing the fold at which the great West draws
its missionary supplies, is missionary
field itself. The vast number of foreigners
coming in has created demand that never
existed before for missionaries, right in the
heart of New England. In the South both
the white and colored people are inter
ested, and great work is being done. In
the West and Northwest. so far as Sunday
schools are concerned, no States in the
Union are better supplied. Although the
organizations are weak, they are improy-
ing, and the outlook in the West is glori-
ous," Summing up he said: "And SO all
over this great country the Sunday-school
work is in more prosperous condition
than ever. People are dropping denomina-
tiOn9l prejudices, and realizing more and
more that if this country is ever to be
saved, the Sunday-schools must be the
means. And not only Christians, but think
ing men of all classes are looking to this
institution the mainstay of our nation"
Major Jarris of Alabama was elected
President, and after the other officers were
chosen the convention adjourned till to-
morrow.
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ARTESIAN WELLS.
Colonel Nettleton Says ths Appropriations
Have Been Wisely Expended.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-The Senate Com
mittee on Irrigation and Arid Lands this
morning heard Colonel E. S. Netteton,
Chief Engineer and agent in charge
OF the artesan well investigation.
Nettleton has travelled 1900 miles
during the past twelve weeks
and to-day filed report covering his iuves-
tigation on the subject of artesian wells.
His researches were mostly:carried on in
the two Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Colo
rado, Texas and New Mexico. Colonel
Nettleton declared that the small appru-
priation of $4,000 was wisely expended.
= and had already produced good results.
X. j. Hinton, who has general charge of
the artesian wells investigation, gave a
brief summary of the work and its results.
He enumerated the artesian wells of vari-
Gus sections of the arid country east of the
Rocky Mountains. The Irrigation Com
mittee will continue its investigation TO-
morrow.
The Senate Public Lands Committee has
reported adversely ana indefinitely post
poned the bills providing for the survey of
public lands in Washington and Mon tana,
and Senator Allen from the same committee
has provided for survey of these lands by
introducing proposed amendments to the
Civil Sundry Yill, appropriating S500,000
for the survey of the States
of Montana, Washington and North
and South Dakota, provided the Land
Commissioners may allow for q survey of
the heavily timbered lands, mountains or
lands with dense, growth Of underbrush
in Oregon and Washington the sum of SIS
per lineal mile for STANDARD" and 'me-
ander" lines, and SIS for township and S12
for section lines.
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ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS.
Platform Adopted by the State Convention at
Sprinofeld

Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD (Ill), June q. - The Re-
publican State Convention met, effected a
temporary organization aud took recess.
After recess the convention nominated
the following ticket Treasurer, Franz
Amberg of Chicago; Superintendent of
Public Instruction, DR.. Richard A. Ed
wards, incumbent. Trustees of the State
University were also nominated.
The platform renews the declaration in
favor of free and honest ballot and count,
and recommends the enactment of the Aus
tralian ballot system by The next General
Assembly; also favorlng the bill now before
Congress. National and State action is
urged on trusts and combines whereby the
prices of the necessaries of life are unjustly
enhanced; also on combinations of COM
mon carriers, whereby the expenses of car
rying products of the farm are placed at
such eXt0rtlonate figures as to amount to
confiscation both OF farm and labor The
platform maintains that no cOrpor-
alton or company should be permitted
to get more than reasonable per
cent on the actual capital involved and
reasonable wages for its officers and
employees; that dividends on watered stock
are robbery. The platform indorseS the
Republican platform of 1888 and favors the
use OF both gold and silver as money. Lib
eral pensions are favored; the Importance
of the temperance question is recognized,
and ''All proper and practical methods for
abating the evils of the liquor traffic IA
yored. Tho administration of President
Harrison is cordially indorsed, as are also
the rules OF the House of Representatives,
"by which the rule of the majority in Con-
gresS is made effective, Notwithstanding
tilbustering tactics of the Democratic mi
nority, whose only purpose seems to be TO
prevent and obstruct wise legislation"
On the school question the platform says:
1--WE recognize the American public-school
system as the chief agency in secur-
ing an intelligent citizenship and the
chief bulwark of popular liberties, and
we declare in favor Of compulsory educa-
tion, q law which Will guarantee To all
children of the State ample opportunity of
acquiring such elementary education as will
fit them for intelligent duties when they
reach the age Of manhood. But we are at
the same time opposed to any arbitrary in-
reference with the right of parents or
guardians TO educate their children at pri-
vate schools, no matter where located, and
we favor an amendment to the existing
compulsory education law so as to conform
with the declaration herein set ferth, and
also the repeal Of SO much of said law as
provides for public supervision over private
SphnO1S -
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SHILOH'S TRICKS.
He Is Horse, But He Loves to
Rats Like n Terrier,

he is n Horse, But He Loves to Kill
Rats Like Terrier.
Roscoe Franklin of Brockton, Mass, owns
bay horse, known by the name of Shiloh,
that is possessed of a peculiar accomplish
ment Mr.. Franklin'S stable, rather old
building, is infested with rats that give the
horses much trouble, stealing their food
and making themselves pests generally. 1t
began to be observed short time since that
In Shiloh's stall there was to be found every
morning one or more of the rodents dead,
the crushed bodies of which indicated that
they had died violent deaths, but what that
death was remained mystery until one Of
the stablemen discovered that the big bay
was himself their eXecutioner.
lie was then watched at the work, and
the strategy and cunning of the animal is
said to be remarkable. He will stand over
a rat-hole for any length of time without
stirring, his ears alert and his eyes fixed on
the hole. Then as the rat breaks cover ab-
ruptly and hurriedly. as they always do,
Shiloh brings down the sharp hoof of his
uplifted foot on his little but harassing foe,
crushing the life out of him, and il he fails
to strike. the willy creature will oyertake
him with outstretched neck and seizing him
in his powerful teeth throw him against the
side OF tie stall, thus breaking his back.
1t is but seldom that this curious ratter
fails to kill his prey The horse actually
seems to enjoy the sport, for he will repeat
the trick again and again, and if any one
stands and watches him at it he will, with
out ceasing to be on the qu vive for the
rat for an instant, occasionally turn his in
telligent eye on the spectator as if to say,
" III get him vet"
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LOWER CALIFORNIA.
An English Company Held Responsible f0f
he FilibuSteTin6 FlOt.

WASHINGTON, June "a. The Cabinet
meeting took no action to-day respecting
the complications in Lower California
caused by the reported attempt to seize that
country, owing to the absence Of the AttOr-
ney-General, who has gone to attend the
graduation Of his son from college He
will be gone week or ten days. Diplo-
matte circles are engaged in discussing this
complication. and especially the part taken
in it by English subjects and American cit
liens.
1t is understood that the Mexican Minis
ter, on the advice of his counsel, ex-Min-
lister John w. Foster, has notified his Gov
ernment that an English company is re-
sponsible for the whole scheme and that its
officials should be severely punished. The
Minister recommends that all the conspira-
tors be banlshed on pain of death if they
return, and that their entire property be
c0niscated. 1t is believed his recommends
tions will be carried out unless the English
Government should interpose strenuous OBJ
jections.
Advices received here in diplomatic cir
cles from Mexico indicate that President
Diaz' enemies are making it quite warm for
him and are determined to secure his down.
fall. They are making great capital out of
this Lower California seizure scheme, and
throw the entire blame on President Diaz-
They charge that the English company
would never have secured foothold in
Lower California had not Diaz granted
them these concessions, and that he received
large sum of money for so doing. Should
England send two or three men-of-war
there to protect the English cUmPany, it is
believed DiaZ would show the white feather.
Special Agent Fosters attention was
called to-day to the report that Claus
Spreckels was implicated in the plot. This
Mr.. Foster emphatically denied He said
is M avid ch xuin hot H.
Spreckels was connected, directly or indi-
rectly, with the scheme, or that he even
knew of it before the exposure.
There has been received at the Depart
ment Of Justice further evidence confirming
the active agency of the English company
with the scheme through Mr.. Scott, their
General Manager. This evidence CONES
from excellent authority.
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satisfied that the business of the Office is
we'll performed; whether the Postmaster
employs members OF his own family !;
whether intoxicating liquors are sold in
postoffice buildings and other matters. He
objected to the proposition of the Postmas-
ter-General to enter upon system such as
he suggested In his statement before the
House Commttee-dividing the country int o
twenty-six districts, with chief detectives
for each district and with corps of de-
tectives to be used for visiting localities and
getting sin touch with the people," He,
German, did not want any Postmaster-G
eral to have force under him whose avowed
duty it might be to go around among the
people and be ''in touch with them"
Plumb also spoke against the amendment,
but it was agreed to. as were the other COM
mlttee amendments, and the bill passed.
The Senate then proceeded to the co nsld-
Grafton Of the Diplomatic and Con sular
Appropriation Bill. The principal amend
ments recommended by the committee have
already been given in these dispatches.
Sherman. from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, offered an amendmenttoi increase
the compensation of the Minister to Turkey
from $500 to $4,000. Agreed to-.
Edmunds moved to amend the amendment
in relation to the work of the International
American Conference by inserting the
words Information in respect to, SO as to
make it read: For the payment of the
survey with respect to an intercontinental
railway, So, ,OO0"; and said he made the
motion so as to guard against any moral or
implied engagements to 90 on with the in
tercontinental railway. Agreed to.
All the amendments having been agreed
to, the bill passed.
Senate bills to adopt regulations prevent
ing. and in relation to, collisions at sea.
were passed. These bills embcdy the rules
agreed to by the International Maritime
Conference.
The following petitions were introduced:
By Senator Allen Washington from
Spokane Falls citizens, praying for an
"eight-hour Government-contract law"
Also petitions from various Washington
farmers alliances praying for the passage
of the ButterwOrth option and Conger land
bills.
Also the petition of the Christian En-
deavor Society by Pomeroy Washington,
asking for the passage of the bill prohibit
ing the importation of liquors into States
and Territories contrary to the laws thereof.
The conference report on the Pensions
Appropriation Bill was presented. The
Senate receded from the only amendment
not arranged in the conference-th for the
appointment of two additional pension
agents, and the Pension Appropriation Bill
now goes to the President. The Senate
then adjourned
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NO FREE COINAGE.
Action Of the Committee on
the Silver Bill.
4 Recommendation Not TO Concur in the
Senate Amendments.
The House 10 Take Final Vote on tht
Question This Afternoon -ApprO-
priatiOnS Agreed To.


WASHINGTON, June 24.-The House COM
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measu res
held meeting to-day and took up the Sem
ate amendments to the Silver Bill. The
committee decided by vote of 6 to ) to rec
ommend non-concurrence in the Senate
amendments and to ask the House to order
a conference. Walker of Massachusetts, and
Mutchler of Pennsylvania were absent from
the meeting.
New YORK, June 24.-The Press (Repub
lican) says: Free coinage, with eonse-
quent reduced purchasing power of money
which it involves, would mean vir-
tual and actual reduction of the wages
OF workingmeu as certainly as the reduction
would be brought about by competition
with cheap labor under free trade. When
that fact is thorougly understood
by the great industrial masses in the New
England and Middle States, woe betide the
Congressman who casts his vote for
it, AS for the Republican party, it
can very well afford to meet the Democracy
this fall on the free-t trade free-c coinage plat
form created by the Democratic leaders and
abide with the result in confidence.
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The LICENSING BILL.
A Sensation Created in the
House Of Commons.
The Speaker Rules There Is No PFeGe-
dent for Such Fund.
Mysterious Warlike Preparations at Halifax,
Lives Lost in Collision at Sea.
German Army Bill.
Special Dispatches to THE MonSrNo CALL

LONDON, June 24.-In the Commons to-
night Healy asked the Speaker to
rule on the question whether there
was any precedent for the Licensing
Fund The Speakers reply created
a sensation. He made long speech, CIV
ing as his opinion that there was
no precedent for such fund. To
allow the License Fund to ac-
cumulate as the Government pro-
posed, he thought, was a grave innovation
which the House itself ought to decide
upon. The ruling was received with en-
thusiastic cheers.
After further debate the Ministers re-
tired to discuss the Speakers opinion.
Lord Harrington and Chamberlain ad-
vised the Cabinet to drop the
clause. No definite conclusion was
arrived at, but it is understood Richie
and GOscheE have recognized the impossi-
bility of retaining the clauses. and viii al
low them to be dropped while retaining
their portfolios.
On returning to the House Smith moved
that further consideration of the Licensing
Bill be postponed to give the Government
time to consider the Speakers rulings. He
promised TO announce a decision next TharS-
dav
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THE MAHDPs FOLLOWERS.
They Believe Him to Be a False Prophet and
Are Ready 10 Desert

They Believe Him to Be False Prophet and
Are Ready 10 Desert
CAIRO Egypt, June 24-COrrespondence
from the Soudan tells the following: An
Arab merchant, Ally Efendi Marseur, who
has just arrived here from 0mdurman, the
headquarters of the Mahdi, says that every
tribe is anxious to throw off the yoke that
binds them to the Mahdi, and in fact many
of them have done so already. They have
two very powerful reasons Tor disoelieyng
that he is prophet at all. One is the eX-
isting famine and the other is the cruel
atrocities perpetrated by the Mahdi upon
people who have either committed trivial
offenses or who have not, to his mind, been
sufficiently attached to his cause. The Mahdi
has become absolutely unpopular. Most of
the members of his military force, about
1900 men all told, are ready 10 desert at any
moment. The guns that were captured at
Khartoum are useless for want Of cannon
halls
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THREE SCREWS.
A Novel Feature of the Proposed New
Cruiser

A Novel Feature of the Proposed New
Cruiser
WASHINGTON, June 24.-Secretary Tracy
has decided to adopt the recommendation
of Engineer in Chief Melville to have the
cruiser provided for in the pending Naval
Appropriation Bill, with three screws in
stead of the ordinary two. She is to be
about 400 feet long, 5S feet beam, 1900 tons
displacement and will develop about 20, 500
horsepower and make an average speed of
y knots an hour, maintained for four hours,
or % knots over measured mile. If this
is acquired the cruiser will be the fastest
ever produced and added to the other quail
tiles will make her most formidable war
craft. She is to have no armor, but to be
provided with protective deck. Three
screws will be a most decided novelty in
this country, nothing Of the kind ever hav-
inc hpan huiIt hera
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West Lake-street Elevated Railroad ordi-
nance. They only got $500 each, and made.
an affidavit to that effect in the Office OF
Joseph c. Mackin. recently released from
the penitentiary. where he had been incar-
cerated for election frauds. These things
were sworn to by Mackin and his clerk.
This afternoon attachments were issued
for the two Aldermen, Monear and Wall
per, and they were brought in, and gave
bonds for their appearance tomorrow.
Monear says the affidavit bearing his name
is a forgery and the whole business is a
conspiracy. 1t is through man named
Peter Gabel that the charges of bribery are
expected to be proven. Gabel is a gambler
and is said to have an unsavory reputation.
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BLOODY WORK.
Sansuinary and Awful End Of
a Family Feud.
A. E. COe Kills Two BfotheFS-in-LaV, His
Wife and Himself.
Celebration In Boston Over the Release Of
SlOsser SullYan-lllinOiS Repub-
lCan Platform.


KANSAS CITY, June PA Times special
from Yates Center, Kans.. says: A family
feud ended to-day in bloody tragedy.
For several years A. E. Coe and two
brothers-in-law named Nathaniel and
Adrian Anglin, who had farms adjoining
his, kept up family feud, the origin of
which is unknown. This morning Coe
went into the field where Nathaniel was
working and shot him dead. He then
opened fire on Adrian and shat
tered his arm, leaving him for dead. He
returned home and shot his wife dead, then
sent bullet through his own head, dying
instantly. The Coroner is investigating
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CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.

PostOfiice and Consular Appropriation Bills
Passed.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-This morning
the conference report on the International
Appropriation Bill was presented and
agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to the consd-
GRAFTON of the Postoffice Appropriation bill.
In relation to the first amendment of the
committee increasing the item for mail dep
relations, postofiice inspectors fees and ex-
penses from $250,000 to 100000, German
spoke in condemnation of the Postmaster
Generals plan for having additional de-
tectives to inquire into such small matters
as whether the patrons of the postofficss are
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Cured by Cuticura

My disease tpSorlasiSl first broke ont on my left
cheek, spreading across my nose, and almost Gov
ering my face. II ran into my eyes, and the ply
sican was afraid would lose my eyesight alto
gether. Ii spread all over my head, and my hair
all tell ont, until entirely baldheaded It then
broke out on my arms and shoulders. until my arms
were Just one sore. 1t covered my entire body my
face, head and shoulders being the worst The
white scabs fell constantly from my head. shoulders
and arms the skin would thcken and be red and
very Itchy, and would crack and bleed II scratched
After spending many hundreds of dollars I was
pronounced ineura6ie. 1 heard of the CuTIcURA
REMEDIES and after using two bottles CUrIcURA
REsoIvENr, could see change; and after had
taken four bottles, was almost cured and when
had used six bottles OF CUTIcURA REsoLvENr and
one box of CUrIcuRA, and one cake OF CurIcURA
SOAR was cured of the dreadful disease from which
had suffered for five years. L thought the disease
would leave very deep scar, but the CuTIcuRA
REMEDIES cured 1t without any sears 1 cannot ex-
press with pen what suffered before using the
CuTIcuRA REMEDIES. They saved my life, and
feel IL my duty to recommend them. My hair Is
restored as good as ever, and so is my eyesight 1
know OF Others who have received great benefit
from their use.
MRS. ROSA KELLY, Rockwell City Iowa
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SULLIVAN AT LIBERTY.
The Result Of His Trial Celebrated by the
Boston Sporting Fraternity


Boston Sporting Fraternity.
BosToN, June 24.-Not since the memor-
able night of July Sth, last year, has the
local sporting fraternity been in such a
jubilant mood as tonight. They mustered
at the various sporting resorts, and celebrd-
ted with wine and song the deliverance of the
only John l.. from the tolls of Mississippi
law. The happiest man in the city was the
father of the big champion, Michael Sulli-
van. He held a reception at his home until
a late hour and received the congratulations
of his neighbors and friends. Sullivan
wired his father that lie would come North
Immediately.
New YORK, June 24-John L. Sullivan's
manager said tonight that he did not ex-
pect John home until Friday. Il don't
know what he will decide to do
about the Jackson affair, but it looks
as though fighting was done with in Cali
fornia. jackson says he wont fight
anywhere but in the California Ath-
letic Club rooms. If fights are stopped there
that let's him out. | don't know if Sulli-
van will make arrangements to fight at
present. He will make preparations TO
start on the road early in September"
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The World,s Comments.

New YORK, June 24.-The World, in an
editorial on court appeals, fully affirms
Judge Bar rett's decision in the Sugar
Trust cases. "The effect Of this action is"
it says, ''far-reachlng; it dissolves the
trust, brands it as a conspiracy whose
formation was a criminal act at common
law, and renders all parties to it liable to
criminal prosecution for illegally conspir-
ing to advance the price of a commodity.
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ST. LOUIS POPULATION.
Delegation Protests to Secretary Noble
Against the Census Returns,

hgdIHsC hGLUfNg,
WASHINGTON, June a. = A delegation
from st. Louis, consisting of S. II. Samp-
son, b. p. Greene, j. b. Gorbolfo, City
Councilman l.. Everett Bell and Harbor
Commissioner NJ. K. Murphy, arrived in
Washington this morning and waited on
Secretary Noble and Superintendent Porter,
to protest against the unofficial returns Of
the Supervisor at st. Louis, which places
the population of the city approximately at
100000. The committee REINFORCED its ar
guments by producing annual statistics of
various industries, etc, since 1880, showing
treble increase, and made claim that St.
Louis present population was more than
half million. The Secretary assured the
committee that he would fully investigate
the official returns when received by the de-
partment, and if they were defective new
canvass would be ordered.
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The Hill Farm nisastar.

DUNBAR Q'a.), June "a. = The relief
miners broke into the Hill Farm Mine at
$3.50 o'clock this morning. They hope to
hear from the imprisoned men this after
noon.
DUNBAR. June 24.-The report that the
rescuers had broken into the Hill Farm
Mine this morning was false. The report
arose from the fact that the rescuing party
broke through heavy "gob" into small
opening a woman, under whose direction
the coal in this mine was mined, says the
working party will probably get into the
mine during the early morning hours. All
hopes of finding the men alive have been
abandoned
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Public Land SURVEYS.

WASHINGTON, June "a Senator Allen,
from the Committee on Public Lands, has
reported an amendment, intended to be pro-
posed to the Sundry Civil Bill, increasing
to 100000 the appropriation for making
surveys of public lands in the States of
Washington, Montana and North and South
Dakota,