The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-08
The Irish Leaders Fighting
Like Devils for Cancellation"
DISGUST EVEN IN IRELAND.
DlsSension of the Home Rulers Has
strengthened the Conservatives.
Lady somerset. the Great Temperance
Reformer. Condemned for Renting
Houses nfit for Human Habitation
-NaZrulla Khan Leaves England.

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
London, Sept The defeat of the
Healyite candidate a the parliamentary
election in the South division uf Kerry
yesterday has embltfered the strife in
side the home rule party. Had the Healy-
ties been victorious in this contest. Ii is
stated that Justin Mccarthy would have
resigned the leadership ~ the party.
Now. however. both sides are in a temper
20 fight TO the death. The iubilation Of
the McCarthyites OF their victory IS tenn
pered by the evident apathy OF the Irish
people as shown by the smailnsss OF the
poll in Kerry. The government Is highly
pleased 10 observe the weakening of the
party which has SO greatly ohstructed
legislation ny internal disssnsions. The
Liberals themselves admit that the rev
rarliament has opened susp!ciously fer
the Conservatives
Bernard Shaw, the weil-known socialist
and novelist. who has been reporting the
Cardiff trades union conference for the
Star. writes OF the manner in which the
American delegates were ignored by the
leaders Of the congress. upon whose in
Vitation the Americans had come. Their
reception, Mr.. Shaw says, compares very
unfavorably with the reception given
Holmes and Burns in America. In fact
says Mr.. Shaw. We do not do these things
well in England And even when Thurs
days formal reception came the congress
sat up solemnly with the air of being in
church. while the guests carried OFF the
occasion much better than the hosts. The
visitors must be consummate actors. for
] do not believe that the human breast
could be so deeply moved by any moral
event as they were by the medals and
demonstration"
While Lady Henry Somerset has been
engaged in looking after A druakard
ffs sFrar Iavs, alxa aassra hA has hn@
rested for drunkenness more than 500
times, the ST. Pancras vestry has been
discussing Lady Henry Somersets prop
erty- The health commission has recon-
mended the immediate closing of certain
of her houses on Charlton street. Somers-
town, which were unfit for human habi-
tation. One member OF the board assert
ed that the lady was content 20 do moth
ing for the betterment OF the property as
long as she received rent, but that now
she was willing TO cooperate with the
veStry because the expense would devoive
upon the vestry. Another member assert
ed that Lady Henry Somerset was sin
cerely anxious 10 improve the condition
of the poor. After considering the ques-
ton the commissions recommendation was
unanimously adopted
A spirited correspondence has appeared
in the Times during the week on the sub
1ect Of the alleged disastrous effects Of
gambling in wheat. Several letters charge
that the bulls make fictitious contracts
in Liverpool and telegraph their prices
10 Chicago, and that Chicago in turn tele-
graphs for the Liverpool market. and the
fictitious prices appear In the newspapers
of the next morning.
The attention Of the London Lancet hav-
ing been directed 70 a report circulated
by the American press that Prince Ed
ward. the little son Of the Duke Of York
is a deaf mute, that journal has been
moved 10 enter a denial. The Lancet says
that IL Is able 10 state author.tatively il
is absolutely false. The prince, Ii is
added. Is in every respect a fine child.
and can already speak a few words.
Bret Harte istaking novacation this year
He says that he has never worked so
hard in his life as he is now doing