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The Portland daily press., 1894-07-09
An Peaceful.


Cincinnati, Ohio, July s.-The situa-
ton in this city, Covington, Newport
and Ludlow, KY, today, is as peaceful
as possible Tor a strike situation to be-
No attempt is made to trespass on the
railroad property.
San Francisco, July S.-This morning
everything is quiet here and no distur-
bance is reported from any part of the
coast.
Opposed to the Strike.
Worcester, Mass, July Stafford E.
Brown. of Galesburg, Ills, second vice
grand master; of the Brotherhood of
railroad trainmen, was here today. He
says the brotherhood and all the old or
CARNATIONS are opposed to the boycott.
He does not know that Debs has any
branch organizations in New England.
An Order to Strike.
Toledo, Ohio, July Sat midnight
j L. Demar, the head of the American
Railway Union forces in Toledo, was
ordered by President Debs to tie up the
Pennsylvania road.
Didn't Want Conference.
Chicago, July 8.-Vice President
Wickess in accordance with his promise
to Vice President Lawrence of the Safe
Deposit company, appeared at his Office
in the Pullman building at noon today
ready to talk over the sluation with the
committee of ex-Pullman employees. No
committe called, so after waiting for an
hour and half, he closed the Office and
went home
An impression ar ound Uhlrich's hall
this morning is that neither Debs nor
any of the officers Of the union had any
intention Of going to the conference
First, because Mr. Wickes said he would
Roll
Union, and second because there was an
opinion that the conference was con-
sented to by Mr.. Wickes under misun-
derstanding. Vice. President Howard
said: 1.-THE only reason Wickes consent
ed to treat with the men was because he
had been informed the strikers ere
ready to surrender
Have Been Taught aLesson-
| ing from outlaying districts which wit
messed the turbulent demonstrations
during the past 4s hours. were to the
| effect that everything is quiet. The
| property less yesterday. is Insignificant
| in comparison with Friday. While the
| torch was appliedto box cars whenever
nj wherever incendiaries got chance
| to do the work without interference.
| The presence of troops and doubtless
| the loss of lives at Forty-ninth street act
| ed as deterrepts to "firebugsn
Gov Matthews of Indiana, at two
| this morning decided to call out the
| miltia.and six companies from the north
ern part of the state were sent to Ham
| mond, as the situation there was con-
| sidered serious. On some roads no
| trains have passed for four days.
| Preparing for Trouble.
| Charlottesville. Ind. July 84-Gen.
| Lew Wallace last night organized several
large military companies in view of the
| threatened trouble by strikers. The peo-
pie of Central Indiana, especially in ru-
| raj districts, are bitter against the
strike
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-09
Giving Up the Strike.

Evansville, Ind, July S.-TAe striking
employees of the Louisville and Nash
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-09
WASHINGTON WIRE.
Congressional Forecast for the
Coming Week.
1T is NOT EXPECTED THE TARIFF
BILL WILL BE READY

To go to the President for His Signature
Before the First of the Month-District
of Columbia Bills to be Considered and
Appropriation Bills-The Committee of
Conference Will Discuss the Amended
Tariff Bill This Week-Treaty With
China to be Considered,
The Portland daily press., 1894-07-09
MAINE MATTERS.
A Daring Jail Delivery Yesterday
at ROckIand.
HUNGRY TRAMPS BURGLARIZE A
BIDDEFORD HOUSE.

Other News of General Interest-A Barn
the Contents Destroyed-An Amusing
Report That was Carefully Denied in
Advance-Other Matters.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
A Young Lady Who Had Narrow Es-
cape from Conviction.

"Stories of convic zion on circumstan-
tial evidence are rife in the law books,
and have afforded the plot of many a
novel;" said a New York man, accord
ing to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
"A very sad case, not of conviction, but
almost as bad in its way, occurred in
New York recently. A young lady Of
refinement, stranger in the city, OBJ
tanned employment as governess in a
gentleman's family. One of her pupils,
a girl fifteen years old, lost a diamond
ring. 1t was found in the desk of the
governess. She declared she had not
seen it since it was last on the girls
hand, but she was hustled off to the
Tombs, and, unable to give bonds, was
kept there several days, exposed to the
companionship of the most depraved of
her sex. She was taken to court in the
Black Maria with negress and white
woman, both convicted felons, going to
be sentenced. She was kept in the pen
waiting for her case to be called, eX-
posed to the imprudent gaze of the
horde of courtroom loafers.
when the case was called the court
appointed lawyer to defend her, as
she was penniless. The prosecuting
witness and her father told the story
of the finding of the missing ring. The
presumption that the accused had
placed it there was more or less strong
until the lawyer began to cross-eXamine
the owner of the ring. Guessing at the
truth, by adroit questioning he drew
from the unwilling witness the fact
that she had often pried into the desk
and dressing-case drawers of the gov
erness, and that she had been so en-
gagged an hour or so before she missed
the ring, and the further fact that the
ring fitted loosely. The Judge dis
missed the case promptly and the ac-
cuser's father apologized, but the
young woman being of a highly-strung
temperament, was completely pros
trated by her terrible experiences in
the Tombs, and the i'll effects will, it is
feared, be permanent"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06

operative ana eXertS slngularIy
modifying influence on this procedure.
This is the earth's diurnal motion. its
daily turning on its axis, whereby this
very limped ocean is also turned and is
alternately heated and cooled as it is
presented to the sunward side or the
side away from the sun. This action
relieves the currents of the greater
part of the labor, and were it possible
for the earth to turn with pole to the
sun and the one side constantly to the
solar heat, while the other side was
constantly away from it, we can not
conceive of the incessant hurricanes
that would then prevail as the tiercely
heated side of its frigid antipode ex-
changed atmospheric compliments.
We are not to suppose that this at
mospheric sea is heated even over the
equator from the bottom to the top,
which is theoretically about forty-tive
miles, and here is another popularity:
At a height of only from four to six
miles it is necessarily cold, and higher
up the air has more than a polar tenn
perature. But we get no correct i'm
preston OF the upper air phenomena
while we are down at the bottom of
this sea. There are thousands of inn
pediments that temporarily retard and
stop the currents, and which must
consequently go in fits and spurts
regardless of the more even and
regular flow above. If we could
be at the bottom, among the
rocks and holes of a deep, swift-fow-
ing river, we should get no correct
idea from the surrounding swirls of the
smooth and uniform flow on its surface.
Into the ocean of our atmosphere rise
vapors and form clouds which under
certain conditions, intercept and retard
the electric currents, which then &C.
cumulate and again seek equilibrium
in explosive action. causing the phe-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
Dig ray Tor Literary WORK.

Previous to the advent of Mcleod
the Reading company used an old sight
Beware of the Engine and Cars" fol-
lowed by a series of injunctions that no
man walking over the road would have
patience to read. There were several
actions which brought the company
into the supreme court and the sharp
lawyers opposed to the company
claimed that those signs were not clear
warning. Mcleod went to Judge Pax
ton, who wrote this admirable signi
Railroad Crossing-Stop, Look and
Listen" Mr.. Paxton received for this
modest composition the sum Of s4,7sO,
a trife over s796.66 a word, higher
rate than any author has received in
the past. 1t can fairly lay claim to be-
ing the most expensive composition on
record, and shows the value Of brevity
as nothing else could do 1t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
KFsveIers Renarkable In
jury In the Eye.

sNay - eAe - 10
Mr.. Selous, author of "Travel and
Adventure in Southeast Africa" was
on horseback in pursuit of an Gland.
He turned to look behind him, and as
he brought his head round again re-
ceived a fearful blow in the right eye
from the tip of dead branch. He bled
freely, and as he says, felt pretty
sick" but he could still see the splen-
did bull trotting before him, some two
hundred yards in advance on the other
side of the river. The sight kept up his
spirits. He got his horse across the
river, and kept on after the bull
81 felt very sick, he repeats, but as
our camp was only two miles off, and
the Gland was going straight to it, /
determined to try to get him"
The Gland kept on steadily till he
was within five hundred yards of the
camp. Then apparently he winded
something, and stopped Mr.. Selous
felt that he should SOON faint, and so,
looking at the Gland with his left eye,
he raised his rifle and sent bullet
through its lungs. Then he remounted
and galloped into camp.
Some of the men went out after the
Gland, and the others attended to Mr..
Selous. He soon became half uncon-
sciOus, and withal his symptoms were
so alarming that boys were sent after
a doctor who was known to be shoot
ing rhinoceros a days journey away.
He left his sport, and under his skill
full ministrations Mr.. Selous' wound
healed, though it was more than
month before he could see well with
his right eye. Even then the wosnd
opened again from time to time.
The next year Mr.. Selous returned to
England, and one morning while walk
ing down Bond street, London, was
seized with fit of sneezing.
! you have taken cold" said the
friend who was with him.
Mr.. Sclous said no, and presently he
felt something come down one of the
ducts into the back of his mouth. He
spat it out into his hand, and it proved
to be a piece of hard African wood. the
end of the dry branch which. eight
months before. had struck him in the
eye on the bank of the Luz. liza river,
in MashonaIand. It was not a splinter,
but a solid bit of hard wood, three
quarters Of an inch long and of consid-
cradle thickness.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
Tramps on the Ocean Blue.

The land tramp is not the only one of
his class. a sea captain tells the Wash
ington Star that in the last two sea-
sons more tramps have taken to the
salt water route than ever before.
"COasting vessels are the favorite craft
for the tramps. They manage to get
aboard just as the boat is about to sail
and hide themselves in the hold, where
they stay until the tug that pulls the
vessel out casts off and leaves her, when
they make their presence known.
Sometimes there will be five or six of
'em aboard, and such a crowd is liable
to make provisions run low before port
Is reached. OF course they are put to
some kind of work, but there's mighty
little to do aboard a coaster that land
lubber understands. These tramps are
just like their land brothers. They are
merely DESTROYS Of going from one
place to another and keeping on the
move all the time, although they some
times tell mighty pitiful stories l I'M
derstand the evil is good deal worse
on the Pacific than it is on the Allan
tic coast, but it's bad enough on this
side. ! assure You"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOSIVE.
The Extreme Liability of IOdide of Nitro
gen to IxpIOde.

gen 10 INplOue.
Among the most wonderful and dan
gerous of all explosives is iodide of
nitrogen. For many years chemists
have been trying to determine its pre-
else composition, and in doing so have
sometimes fairly taken their lives in
their hands, for the substance eXplodes
on the slightest provocation. A mere
draught of air passing over it will
cause an explosion. The least shock
or friction is equally disastrous.
But DIR. Szuhay, of Buda Pesth, says
Youths Companion, has not been de-
tered by any danger from trying
once more to ascertain what the iodide
of nitrogen contains, although he has
had some of his apparatus pulverized
in the wiplling of an eye. And he has
succeeded, too, in his attempt, having
recently established the fact that the
extraordinary explosive, which he pro-
duced in the form of a fine powder,
contains hydrogen as well as iodide
and nitrogen. This fact had been sus-
pected, but never proved.
To the general reader it might seem
hardly worth while to risk ones life in
order to find out thing like that, but
to the man of science, devoting all his
energies to inve. igations that the
busy world never dreams of noticing,
the discovery Of such fact is as
thrilling as the finding of gold mug
get would be to a half-starved miner.
And his reward is greater than that
of the fortunate gold seeker, for his
name goes upon the honor roll of
science, to be read, perhaps, hundreds
of years in the future
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06

nomenon known as lightning ana fol-
lowed by peals of thunder. But we are
far from being fully conversant with
the varied phenomena on and
near the surface of this atmo-
spheric sea. We do not under
stand the situation where the illimit-
able ether stops to give way to a COM
mencing but as yet exceedingly rare
atmosphere, if indeed the atmosphere
is not the ether condensed as it inn
pinges on the globe.
Whatever the solar emanations that
come to us, whatever they are as they
leave the solar surface, it is evident
that they undergo transpositinn of COR
relation as they enter and pierce the
ethereal space, and another transfer
nation takes place when they penetrate
our atmosphere and develop into what
we call heat and light as they impinge
on the earth.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06

young king has overcome his infantile
ailments, and has become a sturdy boy.
The "Health of the King of Spain" has
ceased for some time to be a standing
headline in the newspapers; and now
that the youthful monarch has entered
upon his ninth year, it may be expect
ed to drop into desuetude. Under the
careful regimen imposed by Gen. San
CHS, who has great faith in outdoor
exercise, walking and driving are jul
diciously intermixed with the hours of
study necessary to fit the king for the
duties of his high position.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
rhe situation IN corsa .. viewed BY tn.

The emperor of China has recently
issued the following edict in reference
to the war with Japan:
Corea has been our tributary for the
last 200 obi years. 1t has given us
tribute all this time, which is a matter
known to the world. For the last
dozen years or so Corea has been
troubled by repeated instructions,
and we, in sympathy with our small
tributary, have as repeatedly sent sue
cor to her aid, eventually placing res
ident minister in her capital to protect
Corea's interests. In May of this year
another rebellion was begun in Corea,
and the king repeatedly asked for aid
from us to put down the rebellion. We
then ordered Ii Hung Chang to send
troops to Corea, and they having bare
ly reached Yashan the rebels scattered.
But the Wojen IA name for the Japan
csc, expressive of the greatest con-
tempt, without any cause whatever,
suddenly sent their troops to Corea, and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06

entered Seoul, the capital of Corea, re-
inforcing them constantly, until they
have exceeded 10000 men. In the
meantime the japanese forced the
Corean king to change his form of gov
eminent, showing a disposition every
way of bullying the COreans.
1t was found a difficult matter to
reason with the Wojen. Although we
have been in the habit of assisting our
tributaries we have never interfered
with their international government.
The japanese treaty with Corea was as
one country with another. There is
no law for sending large armies to a
country and bullying it in this way
and compelling it to change it's sys-
tenn Of government.
As Japan has violated the treaties
and not observed international laws,
and is now running rampant with her
false and treacherous acts, commencing
hostilities herself and laying herself
open to condemnation by the various
powers at large, we therefore desire to
make it known to the world that we
have always followed the paths of
philanthropy and perfect justice
throughout the whole complications,
while the Wojen, on the other hand,
have broken all the laws of nations
and treaties, which it passes our pa
thence to bear with.
Hence we command Ii Hung Chang
to give strict orders to our various
armies to hasten with all speed to root
the WOjen out of their lairs. He is to
send successive armies of valiant men
to COrea in order to save the Coreans
from the dust of bondage. We also
command the Manchu generals,
vicerOys and governors of the maritime
provinces, as well as the commander in
chief of the various armies, to prepare
for war and to make every effort to
fire on the Wojen ships if they come
into our ports and to utterly destroy
! them. We expect our generals to re-
frain from the least laxity in obeying
| our commands in order to avoid severe
! punishment at our hands. Let all know
this edict as if addressed to themselves
! i~IividupllV Pasnao+ Tho
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
EYESIGHT IN SCHOOLS.
According to This Report 1t Is Growing
Poorer All Over the World.

According to This Report 1t Is Growing
Poorer All Over the World.
Shortsightedness among scholars in
public schools in this country and Eu-
rope has increased alarmingly in late
years, and in the majority of cases it
shows no signs of abatement. 1t is,
however, satisfactory to know that a
clew has been obtained to account for
it's frequent occurrence, and the sup
posed remedy is easy of application. In
the French public schools24.2 per cent.
of the scholars are shortsighted; in the
German, 25 per cent; in the English,
only 20 per cent. From investigations
by NJ. Martin into the annals of the
French schools it appears that the per-
centage is highest in the rhetoric and
philosophy classes. The hygienic con-
ditiOn of the school does not seem to
affect the percentage, and NJ. Martin
thinks that want of physical exercise
is the cause of the trouble. BY modi
fving the work of the classes the pro-
portion of shOrtsighted scholars at the
college Of Giesscn has fallen from 2G.6
to u per cent in five years. NJ. Mar
tin recommends reasonable PERIODS of
physical exercise between the hours of
study. Where these periods of recre-
alton have been allowed, while short
siuhtedness has decreased, there has
been no diminution Of general prof.
cheney on the part of the scholars.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
OCEAN OF THE ATMOSPHERE.
Its Variations and Tides as 1t Rotates With
the Forth.


the Forth.
We are jewellers at the bottom of a
sort of sea This sea bottom, which is
the surface of the earth, may vary as
to altitude, being diversified with
plains, valleys, plateaus and noun
tains, but IN this only slightly varying
range of d few miles is all human life
restricted, while the wonderful and
mighty atmospheric ocean rolls over
all. AS our globe is swung in space in
its Relationship to the sun, it is impos-
sible that IA equal diffusion of solar
heat should strike and penetrate this
atmospheric envelope, as the equa-
torial zone GETS the vertical rays,
the temperate zone receives rays
that are more slanting and consequent
ly less heat, while the frigid zones,
made such by reason of the polar points
or regions most remote from the direct
rays of the sun, receive the minimum
of light and heat.
Now, what is the consequence? Ger.
tain areas or belts are intensely heated
and expanded. Other belts are only
partially heated, and still other regions
are almost bereft of heat, and this very
mobile ocean by a law of nature seeks
to equalize itself, and a system of cur
rents interchanging and intercom'
mingling is set in motion that are in
action seemingly ever and forever. But
in the meantime peculiar factor Is
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
American Wood PUN,

English paper manufacturers now
acknowledge the superiority of Amer
lean ground wood pulp over that pro-
duced in Scandinavia. One prominent
manufacturer is quoted by an English
exchange as saying that the American
article is the better because the wood
is ground longitudinally, instead Of
across the log, as is the case with most
Swedish pulps, and because nothing
but spruce wood is used in the manu-
facture,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT.
The Women of To-day Are Growing
Taller and Stronger.

Taller and Stronger.
Gloomy prophecies of the future of
the human race, owing to tight lacing,
are being circulated here, says the
British Medical Journal. They are
evidently being repeated by popular
writers, inspired from non-medical
sources across the channel. We read
of 1.-The disappearance Of the roots of
the dorsal nerves in eighty per cent. of
DIR. Charpy's patients, and about wom-
en- possessing the extra rib We also
read that wasp waists will make men
and women assume the form and char
acter of wasps. These absurdities need
no refutation. Tight lacing no doubt
exists to some extent in this country
and produces bad results. 1t existed
just as much, or more, thirty, sixty
and one hundred years ago. Never
theless our eyes may convince us that
the race has not degenerated. Indeed,
English women seem to be growing
finer and taller than ever, though their
mothers were widely addicted to tight
lacing. In the richer classes golf, lawn
tennis and the abandonment of Zine
ladyism" Of the bad old type account
for the superior development of con-
temporaneous womanhood. The ex-
perience of hospital doctors also tends
TO show that the women of the poor
are bigger and healthier than their
mothers. AS for the male youth Of
Great Britain, their mothers vanity
has done them little, If any, harm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-06
The Education of a Boy King.

The dominant note in connection
with the rejoicing over the birthday of
Alnhnnso. XII. had reference . -