The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-04
ALLEGED DYNAMITE DISCOVERIES
HAVE RESULTED ONLY IN A
FINE FIASCO.
LONG REIGN OF THE QUEEN.
QUESTION OF AN ELABORATE
CELEBRATION is ONCE MORE
UNDER DISCUSSION.
PoKING Fun AT WALDORF AsToR.
Press Accuses Him of Selling His
Hotel 10 Help on His Royal
Suit.

London, Oct 3.-The great dynamite
sensation is dwindling almost to the
vanishing point in public interest. The
government naturally is chagrined at
the failure to secure the leading Sus,
poets and thus work up a sensational
conspiracy trial. Consequently 1t is be-
lieved that Scotland Yard will abandon
the, proposed arrests of minor char
acters said to have been concerned in
the plot" Those under arrest here,
it is thought. will be given short SEN
fences.
The newspapers continue to publish
numbers of suggestions for celebrating
in June next the completion of sixty
years of the queens reign The latest
urges a special review of the colonial
and other forces in Hyde park. The
scheme will be presented to the secre-
tary Of state for the colonies Mr. Jo-
seph Chamberlain, as soon as he ar
rives, and it is stated the prince Of
Wales is keen supporter Of the idea.
1t Is thought that review of the
forces, including representatives Of
every colony and dependency of the
empire, would afford an impressive
tribute to the imperial greatness char
acterizing her majesty's reign. The
memorate a triple event, the compile
ton Of sixty years of Queen Victoria's
reign, the thirteen hundredth anniyer-
sary Of the founding of the see of Lon
don, and the fourth meeting of the
pan-Anglican synod of bishops, by
making London an archbishopric. The
archbfshops of Canterbury and YORK
are said to be in favor of the project.
The diversity of opinion among
chIrnhn1pT m he state
church was evidenced at an inf1uen-
tfal meeting here on Thursday Of the
Churchman'S Liberation league,
formed with the object Of bringing
about disestablishment and disendow-
ment. The Rev. DR.. Simonde, the sec
drance to religion, and added that
nothing could be more harmful to the
church than the fact that LOO Of the
clergy are subsisting on an income of
only f150 ($750) yearly, while 81 bish-
ops receive an average of $4,000 per
year. There Is considerable ill-feeling
among the clergy, it may be added, at
the fact that Prof. Walpole, of New
York, has been appointed principal of
the Bede Training College for School
masters at Durham.
The fact that the dreaded dubonic
disease has obtained strong footing
In Bombay Is established beyond ques-
ton, and the situation is regarded as
most serious Other towns have taken
quarantine measures, and the City OF
Bombay has been placed out of bounds
for troops. The outbreak is attributed
to mats which were known to have
been infected with baciIli from Hong
Kong.
The board Of trade. report of railroad
accidents during 1895 was issued ON
Thursday. It shows that ;04 persons
were killed, of which number SO were
passengers, though only persons were
killed through train smashes. The num-
Der of persons injured during the same
year was 4,C21, of which number LOO
were passengers. The total number of
passengers carried outside Of season
ticket holders was 929, TO 909.
The newspapers are poking fun at the
report that William Waldorf Aston has
sold his hotel in order to silence the
criticism to the effect that a boniface
is not a suitable husband for a prin-
cess. It is pointed out that many peers
are proprietors of hotels. including
Lord Walsingham, Lord NOrreys,
Viscount Hardinge, etc. The Norwegian
newspapers announce the engagement
of Mr.. Aston to Princess Victoria of
Wales as a settled fact.
The greatest interest Is manifested
in the experiment undertaken by the
government of New South Wales,
ny into England, in order to relieve the
over-supply Of Australia and supply
England when the market here is bare
of other oranges. A consignment of
1,740 boxes was sold this week, and ex-
perts declare that the fruit was of ex-
cellent quality and in fine condition.
There was a very large attendance
at the annual Catholic con-
ference, which closed it's three
days session at Henley on
Wednesday last, and the earnest views
of the speakers met with unstinted ap-
plause. The bishop Of Birmingham,
DR.. Isley; Cardinal Vaughn, the Rev
A. +. Villiers, W z Craig. J. p: Mr.
j. H. Matthews, Mrs. Crawford, Sir
Charles Dilkie's neice; the Rev. Duke
Rivington, the well-known convert from
the Church of England, participated.
The closing paper was by Mr.. B.
F. G. Costello, on THE Mischief of
Misunderstanding" Mr. Costello is the
late radical socialist member of the
rich American wife.
By winning the Jockey Club stakes of
$4,000 at Newmarket on Thursday
last, the prince of Wales colt Persim-
mon, has brought its total winning I'D
to $114.3S0, apart from the considerable
amounts which his royal highness il
understood to have won in bets.
The filibustering days of Walker
found an echo at Liverpool on Thursday
during the hearing Of the bankruptcy
proceedings taken against Mr.. Joseph
O'Kell. During the course Of his exam
ination, Mr.. O'Kell said he went to
America in 1853, at the invitation OF
Commodore Vanderbilt, and that when
Walker seized the commodore's prop
erty In Nicaragua, he, O'Kell, under
the name Of Spencer, got a band OF
men together, attacked Walker and re-
covered the property, for which, he
acded, the commodore presented him
with 100000. Continuing, Mr. O'Kell
said that he then went West under the
name of Edward Evers, started a bar
rel stave mandatory and eventually
became known as the "stave king
Later, he said, he went to Chicago. en-
gagged In the commission business and
was ruined by the great fire. In 1880.
he returned to London, but 1t appears
returned to the United States in 1885
and speculated in pine lands in Mis-
sissippf, where he obtained a grant he
stated, of 7,000,O00 acres on the surren-
der Of state bonds, issued before the
war for Delta work. Messrs Watson
and Baldwin, Of Chicago, O'Kell as
serted, We're his partners in this deal,
and have since been suing him in con-
nection with It,
The theaters have been doing an ex-
cellent business during the past week.
The biggest success of the moment is
Two Little Vagabonds" at the Prin-
cess and M. de CourceIIe, the French
author of the piece has been commits
stoned to write a play for the Aldel-
phi.
My Artful Valet at Terry's theater.
was Withdrawn on Saturday, owing to
the necessity of James WEIGH resuming
his part in Rosemary
The prince of Monaco is nepotia tino
with Mr.. Joseph Frederick Tavcocls