The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-09

ing miners. They marched in Tuesday
morning. All are armed with stout
sticks and have tramped miles to pre-.
vent thirty.two men from going to work
at the Madison Coal Company's mine.
They have camp cook and commissary
wagon, but no tents, and will be com
PEELED to sleep in the open air. as they
say they have come to stay until the
Madison Coal Company abandons its
attempt to reopen it's mines.
MINISTER ANGEL scored his first sue
cess at Constantinople by inducing the
authorities to order a new trial for the
murderers of the American bicycler,
Lenz. They were acquitted on the
ground that. having escaped from Gus.
tody, they could not be punished. The
administration OF justice in Turkey ap-
pears to be based on the simple prin-
cipe as in the lynching sections of the
United States
WINNIPEG, MAN, Oct. 3.-The prairie
fire which ragged all over the country
yesterday, being famed and driven by
gale of wind. died out during the night
and this morning dawned upon a scene
of death and devastation. Farmhousee,
implements, crops, and live stock were
everywhere consumed and many farm
ers lost their all.
A SPECIAL cablegram from London
to the Evening Post says: There is in
cressing interest in the city and some
concern as to the probable nature of Sir
Michael Hicks Beach's coming reply to
the United States bimetallic commission
go 30 far as to assert that, subject to
certain conditions, three points may be
conceded, namely. reopening Of the
Indian mints, the holding of one-ffth
silver in the Bank of England reserve
and the raising of legal tender silver
from G2 to 95. Such assertions may be
premature and even incorrect, but they
came from too good a quarter to be
wholly ignored.
A SEVERE storm prevailed over Japan
last month. At Tokyo 376 houses were
totally demolished, 1925 partly dam.
aged, and 14,043 houses submerged. In
Shiydoka LOGO houses were demolished
and 1900 rendered practically worth
less. In this district 81 persons were
killed. In the Gifu providence bridges
we're washed away. the rice crop injured
and other damage done. In the Seituma
prefecture an embankment broke, and
fifteen villages were flooded. Yejer is
practically in ruins. In Koiishikawa l.
500 houses we're submerged, and in Ushi.
gone 156 collapsed. Hardly house in
the European concession escaped; the
Presbyterian mission and Baptist
schools suffered the worst.
In speech before the legislature
of the South African Beer Republic last
week, President Kruger said that the
relations between Great Britain and tn,
South African Republic we're regulated
by the convention of 1884. He added
that in the convention OF November,
1881, reference to the suzsrainty of
Great Britain did appear, but that in
the next convention, that of 1884, not a
single word bearing precisely upon that
point appeared, and since then the SUI
zerainty has ceased to exist. This, he
continued, did not do away with the
fact that the South African Republic
and the whole nation recognized the
convention and would endeavor to main
tain its entirety; but, they could not
recognize the suzsrainty Of Great Brit.
ain, because it was entirely opposed to
that convention. They wished to main
tain friendly relations with the whole
world and in this way race hatred would
gradually disappear. Wherever love
dwelt, said the president in conclusion.
the blessing of God would follow.
DECEMBER wheat at the close of
change Tuesday. was cents higher
than it was at the close of Mondays
market. May "a c.higher, the long option
going to a premium over the shorter
one. There was not a large business
done, not as large as on the day before,
when it was only fair. but instead of it
being weak market, as it was most of
the day Monday. it was decidedly
strong all day. last figures being about
the best ones. So far as the general
situation was concerned there was no
change in the two days, 30 that either
the slump OF Monday was not warranted
or else the advance Of yesterday was
not. If wheat was worth above 81
cents yesterday, it was intrinsically
worth just as much the day before.
And a pood MANY people bought wheat