Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-20

Inc report circulated In London that Edward
Gripper & Sons. corn factors and wharfngers
of that city, had failed has been confirmed.
Their liabilities are estimated at s25O,OOO A
receiver has been appointed to wind up the
business of the firm.
The rural assembly of the province of Kazan.
Russia, where the distress is most acute has
decided to apply to the government for loan
OF 8 1000 600 roubles. The rural assembly will
also ask for delay in the collection OF the
peasant taxes, and will request that the manu-
facture of brandy from corn be prohibited and
that the brandy shops be closed for a year A
general appeal for funds to assist the suffering
people has also been issued.
The French chamber Of deputies has an
proved the remaining clauses of the tariff re-
lating to the temporary free admission Of GER
tain imports. The entire new tariff measure
was then passed by vote of 1857 to Ito.
McMecking, Canadian. won the Prince Of
Wales prize at the meeting of the National
Rifle Association at Bislev with a score of 81.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and their
daughters and Mrs. Arthur Wilson and host Of
fashionable people were present Saturday at the
wedding of the Hon Julia Stonor to the Marquis
d Hautpoul, which took place in st. James
Catholic Church. After the wedding ceremony
the marquis and marquise d Hautpoul left Lon
don for Sandringham. which has been placed
at their disposal by the Prince of Wales.
Mrs. Sarah Newell Atkins who has been en-
gagged in literary work upon American news
papers and who has also acted in several
theaters, has obtained adivorce on the grounds
of cruelty and adultery. Mrs. Atkins is the
daughter of a lawyer of San Francisco.
At a recent meeting of the council of the
Irish Tenants Association Mr.. Mccarthy re-
newed his offer to resign, pleading ill health
and inability to attend the sittings in the house.
l.,.S L. q al
until the opening of the next session of Parla-
mcnt.
A dispatch from Paris says an immense meet
ing Of railway employees, comprising those
already on strike and a large number who will
go out today, was held there yesterday with the
usual infiammatory speeches denouncing the
railway officials and declaring that the strike
would last until the smallest detail of the de-
Elands made by the men shall be conceded by
the companies. The issue in the contest is
sharply drawn and admits of no compromise
1t is purely fight for the life of labor union
ism on the part of the men. and fight for its
death on the part of the companies. The trouble
grew out of the frequent and wholesale dismiss
sails by the companies of employees invariably
members of the various unions. Whether the
selection of men for dismissal was made de-
signedly from the ranks of the unionists the
officials would not say, though they were re-
peatedly pressed to do SO. This action, with its
accompanying reticence on the part of the en-
ployers was construed rs q deliberate attack
upon the unions because Of former demands
for better pay, shorter hours and other bene-
fits which the companies had declined to grant
1t was declared at the meeting that a sufficient
number of men would join the strikers in Paris
and along the lines of the five roads involved to
bring the already badly crippled traffic to a
complete standstill. 1t is significant that the
boasts made by the officers of the companies
to fill the strikers places within three hours
were not made good, a large number Of men at
various places upon whom the companies re-
lied to help them out having at the critical mo-
ment declined to work. The meeting was a very
orderly one, and the men looked and expressed
themselves as confident of success