The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-10-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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A Achievement circular has again been issued
forbidding press illusions 10 the famine IN con-
sequence OF articles proposing an income tax to
relieve overwhelmed peasants. Private letters
give LGartrcudiug accounts OF the distress
among the people, especially in KAHN Samara
and Mini NOvE0rod. The inability Of 2l,OOo-
600 people TO pay their taxes Is said 20 be the
cause of q deficit Of 100000 Toubles IN the
hudEet-The enormous increase IN the
slaughtered meat trade with London and
Liverpool is causing CONSERVATION among
English farmers. Millions of CaTCasses OF NUT
ton and lamb arc annually thrown on the
London and provincial markets from America
and Australia. The amounts from America
and Australia alc doubling daily and are SOLD
at half the price Of the English meat.-A new
mineral has been discovered near Bucaramanga,
United States of Colombia, which experiments
show Will Dc invaluable in the manufacture oil
bank notes and for other uses. The supply ap-
pears TO be inexhaus;ihle, and ready market
is promiscd.-Chicf Rabbi Hermann Adler
prepared a special prayer which WAS offered M
IN all synagogs in England on the Day oil
AtOucmeat. The prayer was on behalf OF the
Russian Jews who are suffering The Russo
Jewish Committee has made mn appeal for the
collection of a refugee fund, and the Roths-
childs have agreed TO contribute $4,000 there
tea number OF Catholic pilgrims who were
received by the Pope at Rome went TO the
Pantheon, and while there showed great disre-
sPcCt 10 the tomb Of Victor Emmanuel, rs ne
was the King who unified Italy, made Rome
his Capital, and deprived the Pope Of his tenn
poral power. Bystanders resented the insult,
aud a row took place, the police interfering and
arrcstiug three pIlgrims.--Thc rebellion
which threatened MCzicO's peace last week WAS
merely local Outburst. Gen. Ruiz SandOvai,
who is politically opposed 10 President Diaz,
denied having anything 10 do with lt.--In
Chile the partisans OF BalmaCeda who took
refuge under the roof Of the American Lega-
tion in Valparaiso arc still there, the Govern
mcnt still claiming the right 30 arrest them as
soon as they come out. In accordance with in
structions received at the State Department,
Minister Egau has given the Junta To under
stand that If the Chilean authorities continue
10 maintain their present attitude the friendly
relations between the two coLn tries must be
upted.-RumOrs in London say that
Balmaceda did not commit suicide. rs was re-
ported, but that he is at present concealed IN
the American Legation at SautiagO.--lhe
latest in the Guatemala trouble is through n
banker who wrote to Mr.. Remon Yelez, of New
York, under date Of sept. l6, saying: The
18Th Of September, which ought 10 have passed
with pleasant memories. rs il was the auniyeT-
sary OF our Independence. tgruod out very
sadly because OF lighting between the two par
ties. Many were wounded By balls, daggers,
anu Ailt iNltf hllAl bliE VI wv W.
killed outright. Tho disturbance was provoked
because Of the fear of Gen. Barrillas, which led
him 10 order his soldiers TO fire upon the people.
Political and Industrial.
The figures at the end Of the 20 days Of the
wheat crop year Of l-gl in Minnesota, ut Du-
luth, show: Receipts l-2U2. sol bushels; ship
ments, lG.l32,12J. September. ls9l-RecciPts,
:, GIL bushels; shipments. G3OiO,952. The
| last month has been by 100000 bushels tho
| largest ever known there in receipts Of wheat.
/ it has also beaten the record in shipments by
100000 bushels. The records Of former years,
| especially when crops have been good, show
October and November TO have exceeded Sep
TENDER in business.-Thoc conference to be held
in Washington Oh Oct. u with regard 10 reci-
prOcity with Canada has again been postponed.
| The State Department is ready. but owing 10
the great interest Secretary Blaine takes in the
| subject the President has asked for a postpone
mcnt until his return 70 the Capital.-At the
statistical Congress in Vienna, Austria, last
\ week, Prof. Gould, a delegate from Washington,
read paper Ola the progress Of labor statistics
in America. He claimed that the United
States was tie first Nation that officially TecOg-
niZcl the value Of such statistics. The Ameri-
can working classes arc well organized, intelli-
/ gent. aud increasingly disposed 20 get accurate
! information about labor movements. Ameri-
| can employers were much less secretiye than
| were the employers in other cOuntriss.-A
convention Of the National Polish Alliance
! Socialists met at Santicoke, Pa, last week
| The object OF the Alliance is to so elevate and
euliEhten the Polish people OF the United States
| that they may be able ~ stand on AZ equa
! footing socially with al other citizens OF ID,
/ cOuntry.-The Chilean steamer Itata which
1 has been released on bonds furnished by loca
1 capitalists, has left san Diego, Cal, for Yalpa
( raise.