Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-11-06
NEWS FROM b.
WHEAT AND CURRENCY QUESTIONS
UPPERMosT
Hfndoos VIII Have Famine From
Drought, while Ireland May
Nave II From Rain.

London. Oct a.-The wheat and cur
rency questions are still attracting great
attention here. The Spectator this week
publishes an Interesting article on the
rise in wheat and its bearing upon protec-
ton and bimetallism, in the course Of
| which it says:
/ The rise in the price of bread is likely
! soon to lead to unrest in the labor mar
ket. The present activity in trade gives
labor organizations a favorable opportu-
nifty for pressing demands for higher
wages, but it remains to be seen how far
the recent Improvement in trade can be
maintained, if a material rise in wages is
insisted on. There are endless POSSIBLE
ties of friction If the price of bread be-
| comes serious question. We can only
| hope the politicians who are coouetting
with the various forms of protection will
learn to digest the lessons that will be ex-
| pounded by events if the price of bread is
materially affected during the coming
| winter.
How should we fare now If the estab-
lishment 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 finan-
| cial point of view the rise in cereals
shows strong case for further large
movements of gold to the United States.
while, regarding politics, whatever the re-
suit shipments of gold from here are
sun 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 bother, be-
| cause a revival of Industrial activity and
a return of confidence will attract British
| bullion.
| Lastly the rise In wheat and the ac-
companying weakness of silver have an
instructive bearing upon economic theory.
Not only Bryan, but the English bimetal-
lists also, are deprived of one of their
most effective arguments"
| Keen Distress in India.
indian advices show that now 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
| large sums or relief operations conducted
according to the so-called famine code
Orders have already been given to these
| officials to prepare for an immediate en-
forcement of famine measures. While
famine is threatened in India through the
drouth, the west of Ireland is declared to
be face to face to famine, owing to heavy
rains which have caused a failure of the
crop of potatoes. Throughout September
and during the beginning of October there
was an almost incessant downpour of
rain. There have been great floods in the
northwest of the island. Many of them
must feel the pangs of famine before
Christmas. The situation is compared to
that of 1879, when disastrous harvest
led to revival of political disorders in
Ireland. However, the chief secretary of
Ireland, Gerald Balfour, during his recent
tour of the affected DISTRICTS, secured in
formation which he says will enable him
to cope with the distress which he Is now
ready to meet.
Inquiry Into lyman Affair.
James OConnor, anti-Parnelhte mem
Der of parliament for the west division of
WICKLOW, who intends to ask parliament
to order an inquiry into the lyman affair."
bases his demand ON the past history of
a mysterious Mrs Tyler, who he asserts
acted as a medium between lyman and
the British police. II appears that when
Sir George Trevelyan was chief secretary
for Ireland the Dublin police learned that
Mrs. Tyler offered bank notes to the
amount of $50 to a sporting man, who
was supposed to be a Fenian, to buy dy-
Mantle with which to blow up the house
OF parliament. The sporting man, it is
added informed the police of the offer
made to him, and the detectives after
wards searched Mrs. Tyler's room and
found, 1t is alleged, telegram addressed
to her from the home office. Bank notes,
it is further stated, were afterward sent
to the treasury.
William Harcourt, who was then nome
| secretary, is said to have acknowledged
| that this story would show that Mrs. Ty-
| Ter was an English spy.
A letter has been received at the Lon
don office Of the Associated Press from
| Harry Windt, dated Fort st. Michael.
Bering sea, August 20, in which he says:
Crossed Alaska.
Il have safely crossed Alaska and am
| now only 200 miles from Boring straits. l
| have been stuck here month, but shall
| go on in few days and hope to be in
| Siberia by the end of September. 1 hope,
| If all goes well, to reach Yakoutsk by the
new year, and Paris early in the spring"
| Joseph Chamberlain, secretary for the
| colonies, was today elected lord rector OF
| Glasgow university.
The English newspapers have been COM
menting most cheerfully upon the Bis
| marck revelations in the Hamburger
Nachrichten, everything detrimental to
| Germany being hailed with the liveliest
| satisfaction at the present moment and
| Prince Bismarck is abused all around.
The biggest boom if shipping since 1888
i is now reported. Freight rates have ev
erywhere risen abnormally, and old ves-
sells are changing hands at large prices.
One ship-building firm has received or
ders for IA steamers, aggregating 10000
tons. The seamen, however, seem deter
mined to seize upon the opportunity to de-
| mand an increase in wages.