Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-07-27
BREvITIEs.

der artlcle =, SectlOn y, OF the cOnStltu-
| ton, providing in case of disagreement
| between the two houses the president
may adjourn them to such time as he
| thinks proper.
| a. ID. White, minister to Russia, has
resigned on account of i'll health, and
! Representative G. r. Breckenridge, of
| Arkansas, has been selected by the
president as his successor. Represen-
| tative Breckenridge is cousin of Con-
| gresham Breckenridge of Kentucky,
! and failed of denomination at the re-
! cent convention
Ina terrible cyclone, the first in the
! history of the state, swept over Elk
| county. lido. a few days ago, uprooting
| trees and killing thousands of cattle
/ and sheep. Hail stones to the depth
I of five inches fell in some places. Some
| large trees We're uprooted and blown
| hundreds of yards The territory was
| sparsely settled or many persons would
! doubtless have been killed. Several
! persons were injured and two pros
| pectors are missing.
| Washington dispatch: After consul
| tation with the secretary of war and
attorney general, the president has
decided that the local authorities of
| Chicago are capable of preserving
order there. and the decision to with
draw the federal troops will not be re-
| scinded This action is in response to
the request of bankers and other in
| huential citizens that the United States
| troops be retained there. A sufficient
force will continue to be maintained at
| Fort Sheridan to meet any possible
emergency.
An explosion of 400 pounds of
loose powder at Fort Pulaski, near Sa-
vannah, Ga. fatally wounded Ordnance
Sergt. William Chinn, seriously in
jured Mary Washington. his mother-in-
law, and set fire to the fort, causing
intermittant explosions of fixed am
| munition and doing much damage.
Just after breakfast Sergeant Chinn
went into the store room and
took a handful Of powder from one of
the open casks, wet it at the pump and
placed, 1T in the middle of the room to
drive out the mosquitoes. He had left
a trail of dry powder from the middle
of the floor right up to it. As soon as
he had ignited the powder it burned
along the train and four hundred
pounds exploded. There were three
large explosions each within few
minutes of each other.
New York dispatch: Mgr. Satolli,
papal ablegate, has just rendered de-
cision condeming the liquor traffic. He
approves of the expulsion of liquor
dealers from Catholic societies. This
decision was called forth by an appeal
from the decision Of Bishop Watterson,
of Columbus, Ohio, who said in letter
to the clergy and laity of his diocese:
Il hereby withdraw my appreciation
from any and every Catholic society in
the diocese that has a liquor dealer or
saloonkeeper at its head. or anywhere
among its officers: and ! suspend every
such society itself from the rank and
privileges as a Catholic society until it
ceases to be SO Differed One of the
societies laid the matter formally be-
fore Satolli. TO this appeal the apos-
tolic delegate has just responded, sus
tanning the position of Bishop Waiter
son.
Gov. Hogg of Texas was few days
ago presented with a gold watch by
the officers of the state militia, and in
response took a gloomy view of the
future. He predicted that within six
months martial law will be declared in
California, Kansas. Colorado and II
linois, and the anarchists of Chicago
would use dynamite and 'bespatter
the lofty buildings of that city with the
hearts, lungs and livers of the citizens
He alluded to President Cleveland
having ordered the troops there and
Judge Cooley's letter coInmendatory of
the acts, and said he felt Inundated
over it, as it was a dangerous invasion
of state rights and not done before
since 1860" The governor predicted
great revolution soon and possible dis
mcrnberment of the great republic,
unless foreign war diverts attention
from the internal dissatisfaction.
While there have been no open de-
velopments in the negotiations be-
tween the state department at Wash
ington and the Japanese government
respecting the withdrawal of the Japa-
nese troops from Corea, there is ground
for the belief that everything is pro-
crossing towards a satisfactory termi-
nation, and the happy result will be
in a large measure attributable to the
beneficcnt exercises of the good offices
Of the United States. Without refer
ence to publications that purported to
give the language Of Secretary
Gresham's dispatch, it can be stated
now that it contained nothing that
could be construed into an affront.
even in a diplomatic sense. The quo
tations given We're erroneous, and es-
pecially in sentence that placed the
president in the position of asserting
that Japan was waging unjust war
upon Corea.
St Paul dispatch: Central Min
nesota counties report that the harvest
has just begun and is two weeks
earlier than for the past ten years.
Farmers in that section say that the