Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-01
RISE IN BREAD WORRIES ENGLAND
London Spectators Comment on Existing
Economic Conditions.
INDIA AND IRELAND FACE A FAMINE
Drouth Causes Great Distress In the
Northwestern Provinces and Dude
and Heavy Rains Make Po-
tutocs Scarce.

ana hehNy huins hukc TO-
tntocs Scarce.
Copyright, 1896 by the Associated Prcss)
LONDON, Oct. 31.-Wheat and currency
questions are still attracting general at
tenton here The Spectator this week pub
fishes an interesting article on the rise in
the price of wheat and its bearing upon
protection and bmetallism, in the course
of which 1t says: "The rise in the price
of bread is likely to soon lead to unrest in
the labor market. The present activity in
trade gives labor organizations a favorable
opportunity for pressing demands for higher
wages, but II remains to be seen how Ear
the recent Improvement in trade can be
maintained If a material rise in wages is
insisted on. There are endless possibilities
OF friction II the price of bread becomes
a serious question. We can only hope the
politicians who are coquetting with the
various forms OF protection will learn TO
digest the lessons that will be expounded
by events II the price of bread is materially
affected during the coming winter. How
should we fare now If the establishment of
an imperial zollverein forced us to look to
home production and the Canadian surplus
to fill our own mouths and for the needs
OF India
From a financial point OF view the rise in
cereals shows strong case for further large
movements OF gold to the United States.
Whatever the result of the elections ship
ments OF gold from here are still probable
in the one case because the panic and
scramble for gold will make Americans sell
goods faster and pay a premium for the
metal and in the other because a revival
of industrial activity and a return of con-
fidence will attract British bullion.
Lastly the rise in wheat and the ac-
companying weakness of silver have an
instructive bearing upon economic theory.
Not OILY Bryan, but the English bimetal-
lists also, are deprived OF one of their
most effective arguments"
INDIA'S DRoUTH SERIOUS.
Indian advices show now that whether
rain falls or not there must be keen dis
tress in the northwest provinces and in
Dude, and the Indian government must be
prepared to succor the population by at
least Gao, 900 OF relief operations con-
Quoted according to the so-called famine
code Orders have already been given to
these officials to prepare for an immediate
enforcement of famine measures.
While famine is threatened ia India
through the drouth, the west of ireland is
declared to be face to face with famine.
owing to heavy rains, which have caused
the failure Of the crops, especially potatoes.
Throughout September and during the be-
ginning of October there was an almost
incessant downpour of rain. There have
beer great floods in the northwest of the
island. Many of the peasants must feel
the pangs OF famine before Christmas. The
situation is compared to that of 1879, when
disastrous harvest led to a revival of
political disorders in Ireland. However,
the chief secretary for Ireland, Mr.. Gerald
Balfour, during his recent tour of the af-
fected districts, secured information which
he says will enable him TO cope with the
distress, which he is now ready to meet.
SHE WAS ONLY SPY
James O'Connor, anti-Parnellite member
OF Parliament, who intends to ask Parlia-
ment TO order an inquiry into the lyman
affair, bases his demand on the past his
tory of mysterious Mrs. Tyler, who he
asserts acted as a medium between lyman
ana the British police. 1t appears that
when Sir George Trevelyan was chief sec
retary for Ireland, the Dublin police
learned that Mrs. Tyler offered bank notes
to the amount of f2O to a sporting man
who was supposed to be a Fenian, to buy
dynamite with which to blow up the
houses of Parliament. The sporting man,
1t is added, informed the police of the
offer made TO him, and the detectives after
ward searched Mrs Tyler's room and found
1t is alleged, a telegram addressed to her
from the Home office. The bank notes, 1t is
further stated, were afterwards seLt to the
treasury. Sir William Harcourt who was
then home secretary, is said to have
acknowledged this story would show that
Mrs Tyler was an English police spy.
letter has been received at the London
office Of the Associated press from Mr.. Henry
Windt, dated Fort ST. Michael Bering sea.
August 20, in which he says: II have safely
crossed Alaska and am now only 200 miles
from Bering straits. l have been stuck here
Il month, but shall go on in a few days and
hope to be in Siberia by the end of Septem-
ber. hope. II all goes we'll, to reach va
koutsk by the New Year and Paris early in
the spring."
The Empire ballet, Monte Cristo." on
Monday was the most gorgeous presenta-
tion of the kind seen in London The mu-
sic is charming and there was bewilder-
ing blaze OF 10000 electric lights ia the
cave scene