The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-10

from the grain dlstrlcts are TeaSsurlnR. me-
ports made to the government represent
the present imitation in prices as largely
due to speculation.
Gladstone's Letter to the Liberals.
LONDON, July 9.-Mr. Gladstone. in q
letter intimating that he will be unable to
attend a Liberal meeting. says: w in
our afiiction. are deeply sensible of the
mercies of God. He gave us for fifty years
o most precious son. He has now only hid
den him for e very brief space from the
sight OF our eyes. 1t seems a violent trans
ition from such thoughts to the arena of
political contention. but the transition may
be softened by the conviction we profound
ly hold that In the first and greatest of our
present controversies We work for the
honor. well-belng and future peace of our
opponents not less than for our own"
Contests Won by American Athletes.
LONDON, July 9.-The Manhattan ath-
letic representatives gained further dis
tinction in the contests of the Turnell Park
Athletic Association to-day. Remington
ran s%plendidly in the 200 yards handicap.
winning from the scratch IN very
fast time. In the hammer-thro wing
contest Queckberner gave six exhibition
10l2 inches and 1872 feet 7os inches, respect
lively, beating the best English record. $50
feet, made by Barry. Queckberner will re-
ceive a gold medal. Two Manhattan ath-
1etes, Dadmun and ROddy. entered the
handicap, and Dadmun finished third.
Rodney was in bad form.
Talked of Visiting the United States.
HAMBURG. July a.-An officer of the new
neutrality-suspicious. steamship Fuerst Bis
msrck. on board of which vessel the En-
peror and Empress of Germany went to
HeligOland, passing the night on board of
her, while anchored off that island. has
made q somewhat curious statement In re-
gard to an alleged possibility of the impe-
rial couple visiting the United States. This
officer says that he heard the Empress ask
her husband whether he would go to the
United States in the Fuerst Bismarck and
with Captain Albers. To this question the
Emperor is said to have replied, smiling:
do you really think We should 60 to the
United StatesP'
Curing '.Black Jack" bv Freezing.
HAVANA, July 9.-The Santiago De Cuba
contains some interesting comments on the
wonderful results which have been at
tanned there in combating yellow fever by
means of the "camara polar" (pOlar cham
ber.l This method of fighting the disease
was invented by a physician OF that To-
cality. in which such successful expert
meDts have been Ia Up to date, the
Santiago papers say. all persons who have
been treated by this method have recovered,
even those who had reached an advanced
stage of the disease.
Malietoa and Mataafa Now Good Friends.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9.-The steamer
Monowai arrived from Sydney via Samoa
and Honolulu this afternoon. All is quiet
at Samoa. King Malietoa and Chief
Mataafa are the best of friends and there Ia
no likelihood of any disturbance. There
u-a. m lstf1a rDnhl oov1 INIT ~ uaa
altogether of a religious nature and was
soon settled.
A fire at Sura. Fiji. May IS destroyed
property valued at 100000. many of the
principal buildings IN the town being
burned down.
MIR Spurgeon Becomes Delirious.
LONDON. July 9.-7:S0 P. M.-Rev. Charles
Spurgeon's condition Is weaker and he has
become delirious. The promise of a change
for the better early in the day did not hold
out.
Cable Notes.
A report from Buenos Ayres says there
have been fresh revolutionary disturbances
In several parts of that country.
Count Michael Platter, a Polish noble
man aud a wealthy landowner. was muir
dered and robbed while travelling on the
train between Warsaw and ST Petersburg.
A statue of Robert Burns was unveiled at
| AYR under the auspices of the Freemasons.
The American consul at Leith reclted q
dedicatory poem, composed by himself.
Thirty thousand persons were present.
The great strike of Belgian miners which
has been in progress for the last twenty
days was brought to IN end yesterday.
The council Of the knights of Labor de-
cided III favor of q general resumption of
business.
During the session Of the lower house of
the Reichsrath at Vienna yesterday q man
committed suicide with a revolver at the
entrance to the strangers gallery. He was
identified as A. Huntley. He came to de-
! mand justice in an imaginary lawsuit with
the Rothschilds.
The German government has informed Nj.
Ribot. Minister of Foreign Affairs. that the
relaxation of the Alsace-Lorraine passport
regulations. which was ordered at the time
of the recent Swiss railroad disaster. In
order to enable friends and relatives of the
dead, wounded or missing to seek for and
attend the victims, has been made perma-
-a