The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-22
NEWS In SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume of important Events at Home and
Abroad ChrOnicled in the Issue OF Nay 81



A receiver has been named for the North
western Guarantee Loan Company of Min
neepolis
Miss Rose Cleveland returned to this
country yesterday after two years spent in
travelling in foreign lands.
The Cumberland Presby terians at the
Little Rock conference voted In favor of
the elig ibity Of women as members.
The indications throughout Germany
point To q governments majority In the
Reichstag to be elected next month.
Governor Tillman. of South Carolina. ex-
poets half million dollar profits tho first
year under the new State saloon law.
Tory obstruction tactics are just now the
most serious problem confronting Mr..
Gladstone In his efforts to pass homo rule.
The administration policy in favor of an
income tax meets with the approval of all
Western and southwestern Democrats at
Washington.
About q dozen women were severely in
jured by the collapsing OF floor during o
session of the Woman's CONGRESS at the
worlds fair.
There is universal indignation through
out England over the gratuitous insult
put upon Gladstone by snobdom at the re-
cent Imperial Institute.
The internal revenue for the first ten
months of the fiscal year is over 81, 600, 600
in excess of the amount collected during
the same time last year.
At Danville. Ind. Coley Brown. presi-
dent of the Lebanon Natural-gas Com
psny, shot and killed Samuel Wesner q
lawyer. in the court room.
Winners at Gravesend: ST. Domingo,
Harlem, Halton. Lamplighter Russell.
Lesben. At LatonIa: Bellevue. Flower
Dellls. Pittsburg, Buck McCann. La Belle.
Clifford.
National League: Pittsburg 5. st. Louis
Q; Cleveland . Cincinnati ); Boston 5.
Ill o.. -
Chicago II. Louisville 5; Philadelphia IL.
BaltimOreS
The matter of worlds fair rates is still
unsettled. but the prospects are Tor q gen.
eral generalization west as both the Atch-
ison and the Albert Leo routes have with
drawn from the Western Passenger Assoc
cistion.
Two interesting points are involved in
the recent promotion OF Colonel Carlin
to be g brigadier general, the principal
one being that lt disDroves the story that
the President would make no promotions
where an officer was about to be retired for
age.
The Chinese minister and Secretary of
State Gresham had another conference. No
retaliatory demonstrations against Ameri-
cans in China are expected as On outcome
of the exclusion act. Secretary Carlisle
says he IS going TO enforce the law as far as
he can.
IFron, the Second Edition orthe Sunday Jourmal.l
GIadstone's Home-Ruie Bill.
LONDON. May 20-The question still con-
fronting the governments How can the
berlain and Churchill be reduced to MINI
| mumW
Another week has been passed in factious
| fruitless, platitudinous discussion, and the
| hOme-rule bill has been moved hardly o
hairs breadth nearer the Liberal goal.
Neither the application of the
oloture nor the self-enforced reti-
cence of the Irish and Liberal MEM
bers has sufficed 10 expedite the work
| in committee C. even the partial satisfac-
zion Of Dir. Gladstone. The MINISTERS have
been forced to their wits ends to devise
some heroic means to stop the Interim bile
| flow of talk in which the opposition
pose, of q. their the psn
now Is to accelerate the committee
| progress from clause to clause by suspend
ing the l2-o'clock rule immediately after
the Whitsnntide recess. The hOme-rnle
| bill would then be debated day after day
| and night after night TO the exclusion of
everything else. Mr. Gladstone Is
understood TO approve of this plan.
| Having been driven to corner
| by his antagonists. he has developed there
all the puGnaclty of his younger days. and
| has now rallied himself TO find his way ont.
distinctions have not discouraged him asst
| has some of his followers. but has
served merely to siren gthen his energy and
determination to force victory quickly
| from the minority. He has made it known
| privately in ministerial circles that the
bill must be brought through the House of
| Commons by the middle of July. Without
fixing the exact date for reaching the bill
the final day of the commit.
tee stage. At the beginning of every
week he will arrange with the Cabinet
Il fDr 4 h>o tr,fx -lr txh A don in, ho
succeeding days. and will specify the
clauses which must be passed before the
next weeks work shall be begun. No pro-
test nor plea for fair play from the obstruc-
programme thus Laid out. If necessary for
the fulhllment of his plan some clauses
| will be forced to a vote without any pre-
| liminary debate whatever.
Prospects of all.night sittings is exasper'
ating to the Unionists Their whips are
experiencing difficulty In holding TO their
places the young Tory bloods. who fee
that constant attendance IN the House il
an intOlerable bore. The whips protest
however, that they find 1t impossible tt
chronic absentees. The Unionist leader.
propose TO remedy the trouble as soon al
Parliament reassemb les. by publishing 9
daily blacklist of those unfaithful to the
cause OF obstruction. The blacklist, how
ever. is likely to prove two-ed ged weapon
as, while Tightening few back into line
il will drive out absentees to disregard alb
solutely party summons no matter how
important the divisions may be.
Destructive Hailstorm.
PITTsBURG, Pa, May 20.-A terrific hal
and rain storm. accompanied by high wind
and vivid lightning passed over q portion
of western PennsyIvania and eastern OH,
this afternoon. doing great damage. In,
storm broke over Pittsburg few minutes
after o'clock. and ragged for over an hOnr
striking terror to the hearts OF timld PEG
pie and running 3. 600 900 worth of proper
~. The bailstones were the largest eve
seen in this section. and varied in size from
q hickory nut to goose egg. Window
were broken all over the city, and ever,
greenhouse suffered losses ranging from
$500 to go 000 Valuable plants were de
stroyed. and gardeners say crops and rruI
trees have been ruined. Through Oaklan,
and the East End and in Allegheny thou