The Bessemer indicator., 1893-07-01

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Sian commercial treaty just concluded, on the
ground that it is purely a commercial com
pact aud without -ignihcance,
At lerco, Maine, Wednesday morning,
robben woke up the cashier ot the bsns and
compelled him TO get up aud go to the bank
and open the safe. The thieves made COM
plcte haul, taxing all the money aud securl-
ties.
Three desperadocs tried to rob an express
train in Texas in broad daylight wednesday
The fireman resisted and WIS killed. His
murderer was chased into the brush and cap
tared by the conductor, but the Others os-
capped.
The Santa Fe road now demands that n
lower raie be made between Trans-Missouu
points and Chicago, Traffic Manager White
says that the Western roads are not getting
much extra business, because the rates are
too high.
Through It's official representatives the
Methodist Episcopal Church has decided that
the e1igcncies OF the situation do not demand
boycott or total abandonment OF the fair.
The Methodist exhibit will remain part OF
the fair, but 1t will be closed on Sunday.
The Broadway bank al Los Angeles, Calf
fornia, opened its doors on tho eth, The
bank commissioners say the bank never ought
to have been closed. The First and Southern
national VIII be opened ia few days. Con.
bdence seems restored and the business Out
look improving,
AT meeting OF WurtcmburG peasants
petition to the king was framed asking him 70
convoSe the LandtuI and ask a grant for tile
purchased Of fodder abroad and its distribu-
lion among the peasants on credit. Along
the Rhine and the Sesse-Nassau the greatest
scarcity prevails.
There seems no prospec, Of settlement Of
the Kansas coal miners strife, yet. 1t Is
believed the employers arc arranging TO I'M
port negroes from the South 10 take strikcrs'
places. In that event trouble IS sure to lol-
low, for the white miners will never allow
negroes to take ther.paces.
The pope hes given bis consent to the pro-
posal that Maestro Mustaf, director Of the
choir Of slstinc chapel, and the members OF
the choir, should visit Chicago and sin..
there during tie progress of the exposition
This viii be the iirst time that the choir as a
choir, will have sung outside the holy city.
The Eastern coal sales agents have al-
vanced prices for july delivery as follows.
Fifteen cents on egg and 20 cents on stove
and nut. No decision WAS reached on he
price for broken coal. The Western agents
advanced eoal - cents ton on all sizes
The estimated output for July l. 3.p00.0lO
tons.
The Chicago R4eori of last Monday give,
list Of exhibits at the Worlds Fair which
were covered from view the previous day.
The list occupies nearly fun page OF noapa-
y
display in the list. \ very large number OF
the buildings OF foreign counties Scri also
closed.
Though no official announcement ha- been
made on the subject, it 1, found 20 be lie al
most universal opinion u members OF on
gress now in Washington, many Of whom
have conversed with the President. that Con-
gress viii be called 10 ncet ia extra Session
on the first Monday in September. which Will
be September !.
Berne, Switzerland, has been placed TEN.
porarily In state OF petty siege IN or,!cF
that a repetition Of recent socialist and sn-
archIst disturbances may he prevented. All
parades and public meetings have been fpe-
bidden. The workingmen'- masa-mcstlng,
which was to be he'd on the .5ih, has been
postponed lndeiin!tcly, as the ausbcrities pro
hibitcd IT,
The recent drought has caused much suffer
ing in various parts of the empire, pariicu-
lnrly TO the peasautry. The Grand Duke Of
Uesse and the AgratiIu coacrpss convened
by King William OF Wurtcmburg, lave taken
steps 10 relieve the most distressed distriets.
The Prussian Agricultural Corporation ~ill
petition for the repeal OF The sliding scale
tariff on cereals.
An epidemic Of suicides has broken out In
Buda-Pesth and other Hungarian towns.
Seven cases Of suicide were reported IN Buda-
Pesth on the 22nd; cases OF insanity are in
creasing In number and the lunatlc a-ylums
are full. This Is attributed to the drinking
OF poisonous coueoctons substituted for wine
which has hecoms scarce through the rayages
of the phyloxera.
Great excitement has been causcd at An
drycho a town OF abolt I Dj0 inhnbitauts, in
Austrian Galic!a, by the r'otng Of number
of socialist, who live in and about the town.
The mob had full possession Of the place for
n time and took advantage Of the opportunity
to loot n number Of shops. The military iG-
all, tot. nf
killed and number wounded, Troops ara
now stationed in various parts OF the town.
About O'Clock on the 2Gth an uuknow
man entered the Merchants National Bank
at Moorchcad, Minnesota, and pre- re,cutlng n
revolver al the hools-kccpcr, Wan NiissiDgcu,
demanded money. After receiving 81 0OJ Ia
gold and currency he got buggy and drove
OF He dfovc 10 the Rcd river. where he
lcft the buggy aud swan the river Posscs
have gone up he river on each side and II Is
thought the thief Will be caught, In his
buggy was found Il box OF iS-ealiber car
tridgcs and $40
Al the state department tho significant
statement attr butcd TO the Chinese vceroy,
to the effect that a new treaty must be negO-
tlaied between China and The United States
TO regulate the immigration question, caused
Tie suggestion to be made by = state depart
ment official that The President could thus,
with the aid OF the Senate. absolutely nulltfy
the Geary law. There would be no neces-
sity TO secure the consent of the House of
Representatives. a treaty has the full
power Of statute In the United States, and
If of later date, can replace IL the law Of
the land. The Supreme Court has SO ruled
in a number of cases.
1t has been definitely decided that Rear
Admiral Albert H. Markbam, who was sec
ond in c0mmand 10 Vice Admiral Sir George
1yron. at the time Of the accident oil TrlpolI
that caused the loss of the Victoria, the flag
ship of the British Mediterranean squadron.
will be tried by court martial that will sit
at Portsmouth. This court will be presided
over by Admiral the Earl of Clan William,
the couimander-in-chief of Portsmouth,
whose son, Lord Clifford, was flag lieutenant
of the Victoria. Rear Admiral Markham's
flagship is the Trafalgar, but advices received
show that his flag had hetn transferred TO
the Camperdown and that he was in charge
of the maneuvers Of the fleet at the time the
collision occurred.
Appeals for aid from the people OF Western
Kansas are being received by Governor Lew
cling. In thirty counties in the western part
of the state the wheat crop is a total failure,
and the farmers will not raise anything The
demand for aid 10 the beginning of move
mcnt for an extra session of the legislature TO
appropriate Sl5O,0OO with which to buy seed
wfieat for fall sowing. State Bank CoInnnls-
siener Breidenthal, who has just returned
from Western Kansas, eoys the people arc In
many Localities in destitute condition and
arc leaving the state IN great numbers. Rep
rcsentative J.obdsll Of Lane county says the
present dfputh ID the worst tke state has. ex-
perenced for twenty years and that the bils-
nad Kill corn even II there wAs enough moIs-
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