The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

| Corn dull and easy, selling off nearly
nc; May sold early at 2514c, but eased
off to 25c; December at 2O56c to 20Bc.
Oats steady as to price, but the under
tone is weak; May 19c to 1870 and Sep
TENDER 1534c@157sc split to 155sc.
Hog products quiet, but shade firm
er; January pork. s6s5@6S71a; January
lard, S3.7215@3.75, and January ribs,
S345@3.471s
Local receipts BOG cars of wheat. 752
cars of corn, 466 cars of oats and 10000
hogs. Northwest receipts of wheat to.
day 1896 cars, against 2.l6l cars year
ago.
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the British
Secretary of State for the colonies, who
married an American lady, is to arrive
in this country this week with his wife
on a visit to her parents, in Salem,
Mass. 1t is stated in a Washington dis.
patch that there will be prearranged
meeting, between Secretary Olney and
Mr.. Chamberlain, in the course of Mr..
Chamberlain forthcoming visit to New
England. State department officials who
are aware of the few comparatively in
significant differences remaining be-
tween Lord Salisbury and this Govern
ment on the proposition to submit the
entire Venezuelan boundary dispute to
arbitration do not doubt the report.
The vexed question of the settled dis
tricts is a matter wholly within Mr..
Chamberlain's Department, and it is
we'll known that Secretary Olney's
modified proposition Of June II would
have been accepted by Lord Salisbury
had not Mr.. Chamberlain strenuously
objected to complete surrender of the
British proviso that the suggested tribu-
nal should not pass upon territory &C.
cupied by British subjects or Venezue-
Ian citizens on January l, 1887.
THE recent death of the Sultan of
Zanzibar, aamid Ben Thwain. led to an
attempt at revolution by Said Khalid, a
claimant to the throne, who undertook
to take possession by force. This usur-
patton led in turn to the bombardment
of the palace at Zanzibar by the British
warships last week Thursday. The Brit
Zanzibar since 1898. When Sultan Ali
Ben Said died, in 1893, there were var
ious claimants for the succession, and
the British picked out and put upon the
throne Hamid Ben Thwain. Said Khalid
whose seizure of the Office has brought
about the bombardment, was in 1893 one
of the claimants. He is distant cousin
of the dead Sultan, and is about 25 years
old.
Said Khalid, since his youth, when he
headed rebellion against British rule.
has been the leader of the dissatisfied
Arabs. who resent the usurpation of
their authority by the English. He
might, if he had been complacent, have
been allowed to succeed Ben Thwain as
Sultan, but he refused to recognize Brit.
ish authority and was subdued by force of
arms. Three British warships bombaId-
ed the palace of the Sultan. destroying
it and the Custom House, and at latest
advices British blue jackets held posses
sion of the city. Another Sultan (Hamed)
has been chosen. and the British will
continue to rule Zanzibar under the pro-
tectorate. Zanzibar is an island off the
southeast coast of Africa, and the city is
a great trading port for that part of the
world. 1t is an important possession on
that account and Great Britain will no
doubt proceed to strengthen her hold
upon it. 1t is quite natural. however,
that the Arabs who formerly ruled there
should object to British interference and
seek to drive the foreigners from power.
for English adventures have taken pos
session of the business of the place, and,
though few in numbers, are the control
ling element in very much mixed popu-
lation.
THE London Daily News. in its edi-
torial columns Monday morning says:
Europe is face to face with the despo.
sition of the Sultan and the partition of
Turkey"
A DISPATCH to the Daily News from
Constantinople gives an interview with
Frank Barker, who was left in the place
OF Sir Edgar Vincent as hostage dur
ing the negotiations between the Arme.
MAN leaders in the Ottoman Bank raid
and the Turkish officials. The dispatch
says:
"Mr. Frank Barker stated that the in
vaders told him that they intended to
seize the Credit Lyonnaise Office and ex.
plode bomb there. 1t was part of
their plan to raid the Voivoida police
station at the same time. The bombs
were to be exploded at the police station
simultaneously with the attack upon the
Credit Lyonnaise.'
"NEITHER the members of the diplo