The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-05
LOYAL TO THE THRONE
PARNELLITES ASTONISHED AT AC-
TION OF THE IRISH MASSES.
Did Not Expect to See a Triumphal
of YOrk-StriI<e of Engineers.
lsnecial Cable Letter.l

LONDON, Sept. 4.-The bad weather and
the cyclonic disturbances show no signs of
abating. The rainfall of the month of Au-
gust was largely in excess of the average
and in some places the excess was greater
than in the case of any August of the
past twenty-eight years.
The Duke and Duchess of York continue
their triumphal visit to Ireland. They have
spent the last two days at Baronscourt
the Duke of Abercorn's place Their spon-
taneous popularity among the Irish is in
sharp contrast with the servile adulation
of the English. The Irish peasantry have
shown themselves especially anxious to see
the duke and duchess The correspondent
of the Daily Graphic. who. his paper says,
is a prominent Parnelite, who has suffered
for the Nationalist cause, sent the follow
ing private telegram to the editor: The
tour has become a triumphal procession.
AT Castle Town and Dunraven l was simply
astonished. You cannot magnify it's mag
nificence.'
The Castle clique at Dublin is so de-
termined to make political capital out of
the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York
to Ireland that the lord lieutenant, Earl
Cadogan has been obliged to set his foot
down firmly in order to prevent it from
being turned into a Protestant ascendency
demonstration, and he has ordered ex
plunged several sentences, in this sense
from addresses sent to their royal high
nesses by Orange societies.
The failure of the potato, hay and corn
crops in most of the districts of Ireland
has resulted in the gloomiest outlook for
the winter. The chairman of the Michaiels
Town Board of Guardians, at meeting
held by that body on Thursday last, de-
clared Ireland is on the verge of a great
agricu ural crisis, and that numbers of
ratepayers will be compelled to go to the
Workhouse
The price of bread is rising slowly in
London, and the outlook for winter is of
the gloomiest kind. This city requires
10000 quarters of foreign wheat weekly, in
dependent of flour. and during August less
than $4,000 quarters were used per week
Not one-tenth of Londons bread is made
from English flour, and the bakers assert
that with flour at the present figure, loaf
of bread at 512d I'll cents will send them
into bankruptcy
The hop crop is below the average The
picking, which is in full swing has pro-
duced the usual pauper invasion of Kent
and has been marked by greater distress
than usual. The warehouses and police
stations of that county are filled, and there
have been several deaths from exposure
in the fields and hedges during the recent
storms.
Court circles are enjoying a sixteen-page
booklet written entirely in cipher, by a
minor royal parsonage, in which amusing
stories and facts connected with the inner
life of members of the royal circle are set
out in the most unvarnished manner. Most
of the matter in this publication concerns
Emperor William of Germany, and the
writer asserts that 5000 people are Ian
gushing in German state prisons on
charges of iese-majesty. The booklet is in
great demand. 1t is said to be like pages
from THE Pickwick Papers.
The Pope's attending physician declares
that Leo XIII will see the twentieth CEN
fury. The announcement has been decid-
eddy unpleasant to the papal initiators of
changes in Rome, who are in a complete
state of stagnation. One cardinal said this
week: IF you want to be correct in state
ments about the Vatican you must say and
impress on the people that the present
complete stagnation in everything initiative
does not permit of am change. No one,
high or low, wishes to undertake anything
now, for if DR.. Taper is wrons in his pre-
dictiOn, real great and radical change
may arrive at any moment and all fear to
find themselves the mainsprings of some
enterprise which might be displeasing to
The strike in the engineering trades has
grown more serious within the past week
It has now extended to various trades con-
nected with engineering. over SIX thousand
molders, boiler-makers, linishers, etc, at
New Castle. Sheffield and other centers
have received notices that their services
will not be required after this week. Many
of the firms affected declare they are pre-
pairing to move their establishments to the
continent, and they add that the question
of eight hours work per day is by no
means the most important thing involved
in the dispute. The strikers are opposed to
the introduction of new machinery and are
trying artificially to check production. In
connection with the engineering strike, the
Employers Federation has issued state
ment regarding the hours of work in the
case of engineers in America, based ON the
official statistics of the United States gov
eminent Labor Bur au, showing that wagr
are not higher in America relatively to the
work done at mucn higher pressure and
with fewer holidays.
Naval circles continue to make much of
the docking of the United States battle
ship Indiana, at Halifax. ana it is re-
marked that the predicament of the United
States must be taken into account in esti-
mating her fighting power.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie. the American iron
master, has purchased Skibo Castle, an es-
tate which comprises twenty-eight thou
sand acres of the best shooting and fishing
district of Sutherlandshire Mr. and Mrs
Andrew Carnegie, with a party of friends.
including Ian MacLaren CDR. John Watt
SOM. have just completed long cruise