Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1885, Page 1

THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1885, NO. 212 EUROPEAN ECHOES. Seitlemeat of the Bosphore-Egypticn Dispate by Praoce and England. The Coast of Denmark to be Fortified, Seven Deaths From Cholera Have Ocourred at Oairo, Employes Thought to have Cansed the Dynamite Explosion, Russia Does Not Like the English Vote of Oredit. Propositton to Submit the Russo- Afghan Fromtier Question for Arbitration to Prest, Oleveland. FOREIGN NEWS, OLADSTONR'S STATLMENT, Lowpox, April 28.—- The European Press gonerally comments favorably upon Glad- stone’s speech ia \he house of commons Tu es- day afternoon on the occasion of asking for a voto of credit. His statement is oharacter- ized as dignified and resolute, There is a general revulmon of feeling towards the be. lief that war is now inevitable. THR CZAR'S ORGANS, Sr. Prrenssurc, April 23.—The Jonrnal of St Petersburg, ina review of Lumsden’s roport upon the Penjdeh incident; says the report is based upon statements from the Afghans, sud it it contradicts the precise complete report of General Komaroff then Gladstone need not be surprised if R ussia ro- fers to rely upon the testimony of her generals, The {Journal adds, itis useless to pursue these polemics of subsidiary points, when the main question to be settled 1 the delimitation of the boundary between Russia and Afghanistan, As to her war credits Eogland is free to bestir herself, Rusaia remains calm, conecious of the gravity of the situation, and confident of her ability to cope with the emergency. Russia will be happy to see realized Earl Granville's wish that all existing differences will be settled peacefully. FIGHTING PROVENDRR. LoNDoN, April 28.—Ths government eati- mates require 35,000 men shall be added to the present force of the army. Russia has contracted with dealers at Now- oastle for 100,000 tons of steamer coal to be delivered at Cronstadt, The contract price is nine pence above the retail price. WAR INEVITABLE, LoNDoX, April 23, 8:30 p. m. —The_Conti nental press sppear to think war between Rusaia and Eogland inevitable, SCARING ITALY, A Paris dispatch to the Exchange telegraph company states it is rumor:d there tnut a powerful Russian tquairon has been or dered to cruise off the coast of Italy for the purpose of overawing the Italian government in the suspected work of secretly preparing to aasist Kogland in eyent of the Auglo-Russian war, HOUSE O¥ COMMONS, LoxDON, April 23.—1In the house of com. mons to-day, replying to an inquiry by North- oote, Gladstone eaid there was no intention of laying further papers touching the Afghan queation on the table, before ‘asking for the vote upon the war credits already submitted to the house. *‘The government,” Gladstone continued, ‘wero engaged in corrospondence of extreme gravity with Russia, and 1t was impossible now togive a complete statement of the nature of that correspondence, while no partial statements could be given without the greatest risk of creating misapprehen- sion. VORTIFYING THE DANISH COAST. CorPrNHAGEN, April 23,—The Danish minis: try of war placed at their disposal $250,000 for the purpose of fortifying the coast of Denmark. CHOLERA RE-APPEARS IN CAIRO, LoNDON, April 23.—It is stated that cholera has re-appeared at Cairo and that seven deaths from the disease have occurred ere, COMPROMISES NEGOTIATIONS, pril 2%.—Potts, correspondent burg, telegrapha that Russia has ed that Mr. Gladstone's statement to the houso of commons in asking for a vote of credit has compromised negotiations between Kngland and R “ssin and imperilled their suc- coes. THE BOSPHORE EGYPTIEN DISPUTE RKPORTED SETTLED, LoNDo, April 23.—It is reported ia the lobbies of the house of lords that the English and French governments had effected a set- tlement of the Bosphore Egyptien dispute. PROPOSITION TO BUBMIT THE RUSSO-AFGHAN QUESTION TO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Loxpon, April 25.—I'he Daily News says that negotiations with Russia are not yet hopeless, though every chance of eettlement lies in Russia’s acceptance of a frontier, \ap- parently inconsistent with her recont ag, r. Fdward Temperly Gourley, ad- vanced liberal member for Sunderland, will ask Mr, Gladstone in the houes of commons poxt Monday, whether he is willing to suhwit the Russo-Afghan fiontier question to Presi- dent Cleveland for arbitration. THE BOSPHORE EGYPTIEN, THE SUPPRESSED FRENCH NEWSPAPER SKEMS LIKELY TO KICK UP ANOTHER WAR, Panis, Apnil 23, —The cabinet in session to-day decided Egypt's reply to the French demands for rebabilitation of the newspaper Bospore Egyptien evasive and nneatistactory, and resolved to dispatch amother note to ypt, which, it Is uncerstocd, threatens that unless Egypt gives eatisfaction France will adopt active measures to secure it, ORJHOTS TO ENGLAND BHIELDING KGYPT, Pauts, April 23, —The Republique Francaise anios that Eogland has any right to shicld Kgypt in a dispute over the Bosphore Fgyp tien affair, THR KHEDIVE JUSTIFIES HIS ACTION, Oamio, April 23,—Tho khedive's govern- ment replied to France's demand concerning {he Bosphore Egyptien affair and quotes fifty precedents to justify its conduct in seiz ing and sappressing the paper, FRANCE HAS NO RIGHT TO INTERFRRE, BeruiN, April ~Advices roceived here yeaterday from Constantinople are to the effect that the Porte informed the Khedive that France had no right to interfore with gypt in the Bosphore Ezyptian sffair ——e—— MORE DYNAMITE, THE ADMIRALTY SHOCKRD), LoxDON, 11:00 A, 3. April 23, —At 10:30 o'clock this morning an explosion oceurred In the basement of the admiralty building, The building was badly damaged and maoy per- sons injured, among whom were heads of de- partments, The explosion was undoubtedly caused by gun cotton or dynamite. Great excitement was caused in the ad- miralty office by the explosion. Firemen and policemen were promptly summoned and all gates to the building closed. A special guard was at once posted and no person sllowed to enter or depart from the premises until a thorough examination could be made, It is supposed the explosion was caused by the premature discharge of projectle which had been sent to the admiralty for examination, 12:30 p. m —Tho cabinetministers were im- mediately informed by telegraph of the ex- plosion and the facts in connected _therewith ascertainable ot the time. At first it was supposed the explosion was caused by dyna- mite and that it waa the outcome of a plot hatched by either dynamiters or wihilists for the purpoee of hampering war proparations by the government. _An inspector, after a curso- ry examination, has expressed doubt as to whother the explosion was caused by gas, powderjor dynamite. The explosion occurred in the secretary's deportment. Edwin Swainson, assistant sec- retary and principal clerk, received a severe scalp wound, and_he is suffering from con- cussion of tho brain. Tt in now regarded as certain that gun cot- ton or dypamito were the cause of the ex- plosion, Mr. Swainson's room wes com. pletely wrocked The adjacent corridors wore badly damaged. A critical examination into the cause is now in progress. Noone has been arrested, nor any one detained on sus- picion. Noclue of avy kind has been ob- tained yet. 2:30 p, M. —Swainson, restored | t0 consciousners, gave as his opinion that the explosive was thrown into the room through the window of his room, It was on the ground floor and immediately back of the admiralty office. Tho oxplosion took place at 10:40, not as was at firat supposed in Swainson's toom, but closs to it. 1t is supposed that the explosive was thrown over the wall in the rear of the admiralty building. The stair casoleading to the board room in the routhwest corner of the building was demolished. Tha iron railing of the staircase was wrenched feom its fastening and the windows within fifty rods of the place whero the explosion ocourred hroken, Another roport says two men were noticed yostorday reconnoitering, and ware seen this morning to enter the garden 1n front of Swan- son's office. One of them carried a tin can which he placed in a recess in the paswage-way leading to the office. The men attracted little attention, as eurveyors and a number of workmen have been at work on the ground for some timo, Two officials, however, took particular notice to these mon and claim they can identify them in & crowd. Datectives aro working up their cases. Swanson, who ia known to be the only person injured, was taken to the hospital. No fears are entertained of his death. THOUGHT TO BE THE WORK OF EMPLOYES, LoNDON, April 23 —The police now think that the explosion, at the admiralty office was the result of private malico as Swainson was generally dishked by several employesin the office, and it is thought that tho outrage was the work of employes, for no stranger could pass the janitor without documents showing ne had business with some heads of the de- partment, who has been —— The Illinols Legisiature. SeniNoviELD, TL, April 23.—In the joint assembly 45 senators and 135 representatives were present. The first ballot resulted in casting one hundred votes for Logan; en the second call the voto was the same ms the first. Adjourned. In tho house this morning a bill to limit compeneation of officers, etc., of towns, was defeated by a vote of 73 to 29, party vote. Dill's bill for coneolidation of railroad corporations in the state was before the house. The mover of the bill asked for a postpone- ment, A vote was taken, &hic{x stood 83 naye, 47 ayes, and the discussion of the bill proceeded with. The senate refused to con- firm O. H, Wright as penitentiary commis- sloner, no quorum_voting. The Citizen's as- sociation election bill was passed. The bill regulatiog the price. for the wse of the tele- phones was intreduced,“providing the price shall be §3 per month " for one inttrument; more than one, $2 50; for sending messages, 15 cents for the first five minutes, and five conts thoreafter. Dills bill for consolidation of railroad cor porations passed by u vote of 82 to 47, The bill provides that all railroad companies the state ave empowered to consolidate their property, franchises, and capital stock with that of any companies with whose lines they connect at the state boundary upon such terms as may be agreed upou, provided that no such railroad shall consolidate with any compauy owning parallel or peting lines, The Fiske-Cornell University Will Contest. Iruaca, N. Y., April 28.—This was the third day of the adjourmed hearing of the Fiske-Cornell university will controvers und was productive of a sensation, The late Mrs. Jennie McGraw-Fiske left certain be- quests to the university, and her husband, Willard Fiske, seoks to have a portion set aside on the ground that they put the uni versity in posses:ion of more property than 1t is permit'ed to hold under its charter. After six prominent citizens of Ithaca had testified that the market value of the university was really loes than five bundred thousand dol- lare, the witness for the contestant, the Hon, Mzr, Halliday, introduced as evidence for the university a document dated October, 1852, This instrament is post-nuptial, having been executed two years subsequent to the mar- riago and one year after Mrs, Fiske's death, It 18 & quit claim deed from Willard, releasing and conveying to Executor Boardman his right, title and interest In the real estate proverty of his late wife which may come to 1m by reason of his being her husband, The hearicg was then adjourned until May 12, —e—— The Billiard gfournament, Nrw Youk, April 23,—Maurice Daly bes Joteph Dion in the billiard tournament tos night; score 500 to 435, sealof North Carolina UNCERTAIN MARKET 0ld Ave Echold’s Ciever Mauipnlation of the British Stock Markets. British Congols Play Fast and Loose With Wheat. The Corn Pit Presented a De- moralized Condition, A Dull Market for Both Beef and Live Cattle. Hog Reosipts Decrease 14,000 and Prioes Shade Lower. 80 Little was Done In Provisions that they Attracted no Atten- tion—June Pork $11 771 2, OBICAGO MARKETS. Special telegram to the B, Oricaco, April 23.—This was the dullest day on ’change experiencad for months, Thero do trading and the conscquence was that the market dragged along in the most listless manner, None of the big traders, wh) gen- erally make thicgs lively in the wheat pit, would touch the stuff. The truth secma to bo that they are afraid to. If there 18 war the price will certainly advance, and if not down it will go, and in the pressnt state of nnuon-mni they prefer to await develop- ments rather than run the risk of getting caught, The June option opened at 913c, ex- actly about as it closed last night, and dropped to 90c and closed weak at 90jc, The COBN pit presented the same demoralization, there reemed to be a general desire to realize during the morning. The May option, which opened at 48c, which was }c over the clo:e of last night, Jrufip«d to 47}o. After 12 o'clock there was heavier buying and the price ad- vanced to 478c, where it closed; July so'd 4@ fic pr emium over June. It i3 expected that a good deal of corn will come in for May de- livery next week, PROVISIONS, So little was donein provisions that they attracted no attention, June pork opened at 11 873, a point lower than the close, sold down to 1175 and closed at 11774, CATILE, As compared with a wook ago, tho recaipts show an increase of about 40,000, which in itsolf would be n_prime cause for the slight down turn. To this must be added a dull market for both boof and live cattle, in all our surrounding makets and consuming cen- tors. Fat cattle, such ns are utilized in shipping and dressed bect trade, wero strong 10@15¢ lower, and buyers did not _seem to be in a hurry to ‘get in at the decline. Light Jittle cattle we e selling much better than big heavy sorts, yet they shared in the general down turn, *Butchers’ stock, especially fine, fat cows and heifers are making equally as vood prices s at any time but low grade cows were more plentiful, and wero generally quoted easier; stockers and foeders are scarce and command as high prices as at any time this year, 1,050 to 1,200 pounds, $4 43@5 (0; 1,200 to 1,800 pounds, 35 (0@ 25; 1,400 to 1,660 pounds, $530@5 60; butchers steady, £250@4 50; bulk, $375@425; stockers and feeders active, 33 40@4 80. HOGS, Receipts so far for the week show a decresse of about 14,000, yet to-day the market opened weak and dull at a decline of 5@10c. ater trade became more active and the market closing » shade stronger than at the opening, but none of the dectine of the morning was regained, Rough and common packers dur- ing the dull prices of this morning sold down to 34 25@4 40, fair to good mixed $4 50@4 55, and best assorted heayy at $4 60, light sold principally at $1 50@4 60, Board of trade men and rich fellows gener ally about town remember MR, ABBAHAM ECHOLD gometimes familiarly known as Abe Ichold, but very much better known as ‘‘old” Echold. He was when he was here acknowledged to be & very rich man, a tremendous dealer and a schemer. He has not been here in Chicago for a good many moaths. There has been all sorts of guessing over the erratic and inexpli cable course u% British consols, They move wheat up when they go down and move wheat down when they go up, The most re markable feature about them is that they have gone up aud down with a sort of regular irregularity. For a fortnight' they have opened very low down, then they have strengthened and finally have closed ~stesdy and composed, Perhvps more remarkablo than anything else however, has been this other fact that certain Chicago and New York traders have known In advance of everybody else just what consols were doing if they have not, e s claimed I som quaiters, known what cousols were going to be, Said one of the best of authority too: ““That old Echold is in Europe the ent of a very rich Chicago and Gotham clique, That it is part of his duty to keep his principals posted but the most important part of his mission is to manipulate the market for consols, Knglish securities which just now are selling the price for every other kind of propert, sun, Norman B, Ream, T Schwarts and Dupee, Woerlshoffer and Henr; large operatars at New st Jones, st Chicago, Clows and other ork are known to be . “0ld Abe" is, of i, He naturally, , has all the money that he needs, Ho makes the markets In Lo don, His principals milk the inarkets at Chi- cago and New York, Echo!d's schemo is to make a fictitious price either fictititously high or fictitiously low, He does It at sac. ritioe, of course, but the sacritice is small com. ared with profits taken in on Obloago and New York scalping operators. *“The scheme i feasiblo enough and that it is being esrried on there s no doubt,” said & Cuicago man, ‘The process iy 'like this: Fchold’s sells enough to make low (uotations, Of course the market staya there but an instant and Abe sufers a lows, but that quotation is sure to go over the cable, Abe's prinoipals koow what is coming and operate upon it. For instanoe, the other day, (ieorge Eldridge & Co., operated on a drop in consols to 90, an hour before anybody not in the clique knew that it had occurred, The market shows itself how the scheme is worked, was no disposition on the part of anybody to | M: under the | ¢ Consols are Invariably opened excited, This sends wheat up and when an_sdvance has been secured the olique sells, Then con- wols are steady, wheat goes down and the clique buys, Outsiders and countrymen and innocents of all sorts are whipsawed, 1f there is anybody else who has any money left who proposes to dabble in produce they want to watch out for this clique and '‘old” Ech. olds clever racket. e ——— OAPITAu NOTES, WASRINGTON, April 23, —The president to- day signed commissions for the following postmasters: Geo, W. Statler, Mansfield, idward I, Debray. Clyde, Kansas; McCall, Moorkead, Minnesots. APPOINTMRNTS, lont appointed the following post- master: (+, B. Falconer, Minneapolis, Kan- as he secretary of the treasury is now con. sidering various plans for the transportation of $35,000,000 gold coin from_the vaults in San Frauclsco to those in New York, Mr. James K. MoOammon, assistant attor- ney general for the interior department, has resigned, to take effect on the 2ith prox, Mr. Bayliss W. Hanoa, of Indiana, re- contly appointed United States minister to Persin, qualified to-day at the department of state, TRANSFRR OF THE OFFICE OF TRREASURER, A committea of throe will be appointed by the secretary of the treasury in a fow days to supervise the count of all the cash and other securitios in the treasury of the United States, incident to the transfer of the offico ' of treasurer from Mr, Wyman to Mr. Jordon, The committee ~wiil be composed of & repr:sentative of the secretary who will bs selected from the public money’s division, a representative of r. Wyman, who will be eelected from the treasurers office, and a representative of Mr- Jordon who will be selected from outside. The count will commence at the close of busi- ness on April 30th and probably take about three waeks, The comptrolier of the cur- y authorized the First National Emmettsburg, Tows, to begin busi- ness with a capital of $50,000, IMPROVING THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, The president to-day appomted Samuel B, Cooper to be collector of internal revenue for the fieat district of Texas, This appointment ismade to fill vacancy caused by the re- moval of the present incumbent, Sinclair, who has held the office since 1873, 'The com- migsioner of internal revenus aays of this ap- pointment that it was made in the interests of reform and with a view of improving the service, ey The Presbyterian Women's Board of Foreign Missions, Special telegram to the Bex, CHicaGO, April 93.—At to-dny’s session of the Presbyterian board cf foreign missions, Mrs. A. Hardy reportod that Nebraska City Presbyterian contained thirty-one societies and bands which had contributed $135.45. Omaha Presbytery, seventeen societies and bands which had contributed $397.96; Meames Presbytery, eight societies and bands, which had contributed $108 47; Hastinga Presbytery had six societies and bamds and had con- tributed $88,67, there has also been realized from the aalo of a little pamphlet, 886, Mak- 1ng the total receipts $1147.54. Total mem- bership was 803. The man fest and growing interest among the childrea was a pecullar featuro of the work. Artista of the state had been invited to contribute, each ona of them, pictures to the art gallery and these would be s0ld next October and the proceeds devoted to missions, —— Steamer Mexico and her Captain Ar- rested for Violating Peacetul Neu- trality, NEw York, April 23.—Captain John O'Brien, of the stcamer Mexico, was arrested by the U, 8. deputy marshal thisafternoon on a charae of violating section 5283 of the stat- utesby supplying arms and munitions of war to the insurgents of a country at peace with this government, The vessel was also seized, She was chartered in March last to convey lumber to Boci di Torro, in the United States of Columbisa, and her manifest called for lum- ber butshe carried asit is charged firearms, At Saborialls, A})orl held by the rebels, she took aboard 250 insurgents aud proceeded to Rio Hotohos, The captain of the port tak. iog the City of Mexico to be an American versel, put out to her and was captured with the crew, At Sants Marta it is said s por- tion of the cargo was diecharged. The first mate of the steamer was Oaptain McCarthy, who figured on Mary N. Hogan in her filibus- teriog trip during the Cuban insurrection, O'Brien will b arraigned to-morrow. Shot and Killed three Men in Ark- ansas in One Day, Meyrars, April 23, —Martin Mitchell, who keeps the fishing grounds west of Memphis, reports that he rhot and killed three men yes- terday in St. Francis county, Ark, About two weeks ago, Mitchell says, he was shot and slightly wounded Ly two men named Cummins_aud Barton, ~Yesterdy he met them in St. Francis county, and a regular battle ensued. Cummins, Barton and another man who was with them opened a fusilade upon him, which he returned with a Win- chester repeater. Cammius was shot three times in th abdomen, Barton was shot through the body, and the third man had a bullet sent through his brain. Mitchell received one shot 10 the arm. He came here to deliver himeelf up to the shenff of St, Francis county who was in Memphis attending the races, —— Fleuro Pneumonia in Illtnois, Caicago, April 23,—A special telegram was recefved this morning by the Breeders Gazette from Dr. N, H. Paaren, state veteri- nariaa of Illinofs, announces pleurs pneu- monia again broke out in & herd of Jorscy cattle belonging to Mr. Bailey of Peoria, 1il This is one of the herds in which the dissase played such havo last autnmn and it was hoped it had run Its course there, but the fresh outbreak confirms all Drevlonaly said about the insidious natureof the malady, and Dr. Paaren determined at once to have the entire herd condemned and slaughtered as tho ouly effectual method of stamping out the dusease, It is revorted ho decided to recom: mend a similar course with all herds in quar- antine in the state, e — The Weather. WASHINGTON, April 24,—Indications for the upper Massissippl: er, northerly winds becoming variable, ris- ing, followed fn northern portion by falling barometer; nearly stationary temperature ex- cept in extreme southern™ portions; colder weather, Missouri - Valley:—Fair fweather, north- aasterly winds, becoming varinble; slowly ris- ing temperature, Smoking Tobacco. ALEXANDER 111, The Czat Will Soon be Crowned in Tarkestan, He Expects to Oaptivate all the Asiatio Kkans By a Coronation Ceremony of Magnificence and Splendor. His New Title will be Emperor of Central Asia. Tnrkey Suspeoted of Playing on English Oredulity, The Attitude of Other European Powers on the Much Vexed Atghan Question, THE OZAR'S NEW TITLE, LoNDON, April 22,—[Via, Mackay-Bennett Cable to the Tribune.]—The Daily News has favored the Tribune with advance proofs of an lmportant letter frcm a special correspond. ent who was Iately with Gen. Sir Peter Lums. den and who is now at Baku, the principal port of Transeaucasia on the Caspinn sea. “The correspondent ridicules the idea that the Atghans were the aggressors in the battle of March 30 on the Kooshk river, and circum. stantially confirms the report received from Gen, Lumsden yesterday, although, of course, the correspondent has not meen that report. Ho has learned at Baku that 40,0 were ready & month ago in_Tra cross the Caspian sea into Turkestan, and he has seen troops paseing through Baku for the front vin Kizil Aroat and Askabad as recently a8 the 12th inst, ‘The correspondent also mentions an inter- esting rumor which he eays he has heard from various sources, and which he believes to be true. It is to the effect that the czar, Alex- ander IIL., bas determined to proceed to Sa markand, in Tarkestan, there to be crowned as ‘'Emperor of Central Asia.” The coro- nation ceremony and the incidental festivi will last for many days, and will be on of magnificence calculated to dazzle and cap tivate the Asiatic khans and chieftains. The formal coronation will take place in the an- cient palace of Tamerlane, the famous con. queror who raised Turkestan to the dignity of a tirat-class Asiatic power in the beginning of the fifteenth century. The date of the im. perial progress and pageant is not yet fixed, but is not expected to occur during the pres- ent year, A TURKISH FINE-WORKER, A Qispatch just received from the Tribune correspondent at Constantinople puts & new licht on the diplomatic mission to Eogland of | M; Hassan Fehmi Pasha the special Turkish envoy. and Hobart Pasha, marshal of the Turkish empire. In order to avoid the cen- sorship of press dispatches at Constantinople this message was eent by mail to Athens and transmutted thonce by telegraph _to Londo 1t says that the aole mission of Fehmi Pas who haa been here constantly since January Inat, was to fool the British government into & beliof that Turkey was disposed to be on friendly terms with Eogland and to eeck and follow her sdvice in all international complications. Hobart Pasha, whote for- mer reputation as » gallant admiral of |T the British navy made him an_admirable tool for this purpose, was sent with Fehmi Pasha to strengthen the blind, Hobart Pasha was intrusted only with the delivery ot certain_presents to the queen and the Prince of Wales, nccompaniod by the cus- tomary assurances of distinguished considera- tion, otc., which may mean a_great deal or nothing. Al the fine work of the diplomtic ienerally fair weath- | 3 intriguo was to bo done and bas been done from first to last by Fehmi Pasha, It is not belioved that Hobart Pasha has had the slightest suscpicion of the real object of the mission, but his presence in London as the colloague and presumably the confidant of Fehmi Pasha has had_precisely tto moral effoct which was intended. Tho correspond- ent affirms positively that Sultan Abdul Hamed nourishes an intense hatred toward England, and that despite the entreaties of his Prenier, Said Pashs, and & majority of his other miniaters, he is quite ready to form an alliance with Russia, The sultan, it s sa1d, clearly foresaw thepresent complications regarding Afghanistan as loog ago an last winter, and sent Fehmi Pasha to London to lull the British government in a false sense of security in reliance upon Turkey's help in cise of war, A protracted sossion of the Tarkish council of ministers has recently been held 10 consider the proposals of Eogland for the scttloment of the Egyptian question. The question of the passage of the Dardancles, in tho event of war, wus alio_considered.” No decision was arrived at in either case, GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS, It 18 rumored in Berlin and Paris that two Austrian army ocorps have been ordered to concentrate on the Russian frontier in view of the act of Russia in momilizing the reserves in Poland avd the southwestern provinces, The rumor is considered doubtful, although it is an open seoret that there is mutual distrust between the two powers which all the nose: rubbing between the czar and the emperor at Skierniwics last September was powerless to dis spel. The Moniteur di Rome says that the Ital ian Navigation company has stopped the fur- ther salo of their steamors to Eogland until onference with the government au- gblad of Finland states that Swe. den has determined to remain neutral in the event of a war between Eongland and Russi: and will’prevent En{{]nnd establishing a cos i, tion on the Island of Gottland, inland bas protested against the issue of letters of marque should war take place bs- tween England and Russi Fiolana is ap- rehensive of serious damage along her coasts B3 tho flecta of England should theso. letters of marque be issue The Grand Duke Sergius, the brother of the emperor of Ruasia, and his spouse, the grand-danghter of Qusen Victaris, are ex: Pectsd in Darmstadt to-d : and the Princes utchess only left Russia last Saturday. There was much asl lnv’ questions at the Berlin Boerse to-day, ould they, if war was expected betwsen thelr own ooqntry aud the quesn’s country, bave come? and. do they briog reassuring messages from the Czar! WAB PBEPARATIONS, While the British government is awaiting & roply from Rusela to the dispatohes telegraph- gyeen trverflwfiere, where recoanizefl asd igdiérem@ifi?e fo @eafer a\og Gonsumer “—‘ ed to the Dritish minister at St. Potersburg yosterday for delivery to M. de Giers the preprrations for war are being pushed for ward with an_acoession of energy which in crenses the general aoxiety, Troops are awarming to all the barracks throughout the United Kingdom in response to the govern ment’s call for the reserves, The war office in London is besieged by military officers ask ing for employment. It has been decided to divide the Portsmouth fleet up into_channel flying and reserve squadrons, Fresh orders bave been roceived to increase the number of workmen at Portsmouth, The British war office has ~fssued a notice calling out the the first class of army reserves, comprising fifteen regimente, for immediate and permanent service. The other classes of reserves bave been notified that they will probably be called out at an early date, There is great activity at the Ruesian army and navy depots. A new iron. clad will soon be launched at Abo, The Brit ish government cabled to Sir John Macdonald at Ottawa_ Ont., to-day that they had de- cided to offer twanty-four commissions in the imperial army to such Cavadian officera as had passed the Royal Military college of Canadn " This offer, it 1s understood, has been made with & view to enlisting the sym- pathies of Canadians in the British army that they may feel more disposed to volun- teer should England become involved in war with Russi hen it might be necessary to recruit in Ci a. ok T, THE QUEEN OF THE TURF, MAUD 8, IN TRAINING—FREPARING TO SHOW HER SPERD SOME TIME IN AUGUST, PROBA BLY. Philadelphia Special, “What does Mr. Bonner ixtond that Maud S, shall do this summer?” was asked of W, W, Bair, her trainer, at Belmont patk yestorday. *“That is more than T know,” was the reply. “‘All that I can ssy is that T am getting her in condition, and when she is just as she should be, which will not be until August, T prosume he will let me know ” The conversation took place in the box of the little mare, and, as her groom rubbed her down, she pricked up her ears and looked around at the questioner as though as an xious a8 ho about her future. She is a httle ‘high” in flesh just mow, her weight being about 1,050 pounds, When “fit” for fast time she will be at least ninety pounds lighter, *I am jogging her now six_or séven milos a day,” Bair continued, * and giving her a slow mile two or three tlmes a week. I gave her her first mile this season Friday, and she made it in 3.7, Last year 1 gave her her first mi Chester Park, near Cincinuati, April 5, she made it in 8.08; but then that was on a half-mile track. Few people seem to know that Belmont is a fast track, but It ia, Eye-Seo mado the fastest second record on it, his time being Maude heas trotted on it in There is one thing about her that ou can depend on-she never loses er apeed. I feel sure that when fit she can beat and to-day I can take her out and show that gait for a short distance, Of course, she can’t maintain it; that is tbe ob ject of training her, to give strergth and wind enough to do 80. There 18 another re markable thing about her, and that is, when you get her just right she stays so. Some horses are like men, they tire after u while, d does not, When you get her fit she o until the snow flies, She Is & great eater, too, and not a bit dainty, either, You often sce men who complain that they can't get their food cooked properly, and they are perpetually changing their hotels or their cooks wfau. sowe horses are just the same, You have to be tempting them, or they are off their feed before you know it. Maud can eat all the time, and she has to be watched to keep her from eatiug too much,” ‘Do you have many vieitors to see her?” wde no, not yet. The weather has been #o bad that people don’t care to come out, but think we will have steady weather now, and then we will have plenty, ~If I could exhibit her Sundays crowds would come, but Mr. Bonner will not allow her to be mggnd or ex- hibited that day. He says the public are wel- come to visit her week days, but he does not want her shown or jogged Sundays, and so T keep her fastened securely in her box, merely walking her a little in ths morning and even- ing. Next Tuesday I will have her full sister Rosells, bere, She is byears old, but has no record. She is not a chestnut, buta (ullgnl{. She takes after her dam in color, while Maud resembles her great-dam. A son of Robert Bonner has a colt at Belmont, Almont Dualey, by Mambrino Dudley, out of an Al- mont mare, that last year, a8 a 2-year-old, made a mile in 2:333,” Do you believe in letting 2-year-olds trot a mile?” ““Qertainly, provided they ase not forced beyond their strength, I believe in breaking and trotting horses at as early an age as pos- sible, When you begin early they are more tractable and are not so set” in their ways They take their education more quickly and kindlier. The great secret is in not over- working or overtesting them. ~Yon must study their strepgth and dispositions just as you would a child’s, and work and teach them accordingly.” ———— Destructive Storms in Texas. GALVESTON, Tex., April 23,—The Dennison special says that in consequence of the heavy rains and wind storms, causing washouts, endangering bridges, railroad traffic on the Missourl Pacific, north and west of Dennison, is impeded. The Red river is risiog four feet per hour, A freight train_of sighteen cara is reported wrecked near Cary Station, Indisn Territory, The Newa' Mexia (Texas) special 8 the Prairie Grove neigbborhood, eight miles south of Mexia, was visited about 2 yesterday afternoon by a severe cyclone, causing serious 2:114, dren was blown down and torn to pieces, kil- ling one and wounding several. Several resi dences and stores were demolisl Lar! Gentry's house, somo distance frqm tho lage, was wrecked, and himeelf, wife and child killed. Other serious results are prob ablo, as the country is thickly settled in the direction which the storm took, e — More Trouble at Panama, Cey1o¥, April 28,—Trouble is imminent in Panama, Aizpuru lssued pronuncismento against the Americans, Their pickets haye been fired upon, One hundred marines have been ordered to reinforcs Heyward, Refu Roes are leaving the city, Aizpuru has BU0 men. He will probably remain quiet until the arrival of government troops, which are embarking at Buens Ventura, e The Prohibitionists Reorganizing in Maryland. BALTIMORE, April 23.—At & meeting of the Maryland Temperance State alllance to-day it was determined to sgain start the prohibi- #ion party 1o Maryland, and committees o organization sud platform were appointed DELUGED KANSAS. The Sonthcas'ern Part of the State Sabmerged by Water, Traffic on Kailroads for Many Miles Suspended. Hundreds of Animals Drowned in the Surrounding Country. Fields Devastated in all Direotions and Orops Destroyed. Whole Villages Completely Inun= dated and Many Lives Lost, ‘Women and Children Clung to the Branches of Trees for Hours Be- furo They Were Rescaed, THE FLOOD, SOUTHRASTRRN KANSAS FLOODED —MILES OF RAILROAD WASHED OUT ~ HUNDREDS OF ANT« MALS DROWNED AND VILLAGRS BUBMKRGRD, 8. Louts, April 23.— Dispatches from southeastern Kansas report the heaviest r fall since Tuesday which has been known in that part of the state, over twelvo inches of water aro sald to have fallen, all the level country is submerged aud is a level sheet of water. Traflic on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad for many miles each way from Parsons is suspended, and a passenger tralm which loft Paraons yesterday on the Ft. Scott & Gulf road was wrecked not far from town, A largo number of hoga and _cattle in the stock yards on the Labette river, one mils from Parsons, were drowned, and it is eaid hundreds, perhaps thousands, of animals have been drowned in the surrounding country; the streams rosa so rapidly, and the water poured down in such torreats that I'ttle could be done in the way of rescuing live stock or eaving other property. Fields were devastedin all_direc- tions and great deatruction of crops and move- able property occurred. A negro wettloment " | near Parsons in inundated snd many people were rescued after great difficulty. 71he Mamitol river which runs near Fort Scott oveiflowed the bauks with a rush and sub- merged a settlement « f from 600 to 800 per- sous known as Noith Fort Scott, the water is standing in many houses from two to five foot deep. All the people were rescued, The Missouri Pa oad track i bodily washed out both ways from Fort Scott and no trains moved sinca Yuesday, The Wichata road isbadly washed. A freight train on the latter rond went through abridge at Clear Water, and Frank Mc- Daniels, engineer, was drowned, the fireman and a brakeman also went down with the train but they caught in a tree and were rescued, At the Iatest accounts the water was subsiding but it was still very hieh, and it will take several days for it to ran off. Ad- vices from Kingman confirm the previous ro- ports of the flood there, GREAT DAMAGE WAS DONE TO PROPERTY in the town, and ten lives were roported lost, Traftic cn the Wichita & Western railroad between Wichita and Kiogman is suspended, and the bridges on this road and the A, T, & S, F. at Clmnef', Belle Plaine and Clear Water are washed away. Other dis patches atate that the storm extended into western Missouri, and that many streams there overflowed their banks and that much property bas been destroyed, and that rail- ronds traversiog that section of the country have been washed away in places and_ th traffic has been greatly interrupted. ~Advices also come from northern) Texas noting a very heavy ranfall extending over a section of the country embracin Dennison, Abilene, Fort Worth, Dallas an other places. At Gainesville,the Pecan and Elm creeks overflowed their banks and besides washing much_property, several lives are re- ported lost, omen and children clung to the branches of trees for houra before they were rescued, and in eome instances whole families were swept awsy, but in most in- stances were rescued. Several streets in Dal- las were deluged with water, and high winds damaged a number of houses. Red river is very high and at last accounts was rising very rapidly and fears of great damage along it banks was apprehended. ——— The Woman’s Board of Foreign Mis- sions, CH10AG0, April 23,—The annual session of the Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions of the northwest is in session herp, Repoits show one hundred and fifty six societies now in existence, Your new missionaries have been sent to Persia, Siam, Indian Territo riesand the Chippewas in Wisconsin, Fast sailing schooners also are beiog constructed for work on the comst of Africa. Reports were read glving the progress made by societien in the synods of Colorado, Towa, 11- i Vi Wisconsin, Minnesota, 'In- gan, all of which indicate re increasing in. numbers nounts of their contributions, e —— Jowa State Kncampment, G, A, R. Davenrorr, Tows, April 23,—At a session of the state encampment of the (irand Army of the Republic the #'ate legislatnre was recommended to appropriate £100,000 for the establishment of & soldiers’ home] Sherman was thanked for his correspondence on the Jeff Davis matter, and the activn of the in- terior bepartment in placing a flag at half mast in honor of Jacob Thompson was con- demned. The encampment adjourned this afternoon, IUSINESS and in the ——— J, B. Hagan Instantly Killed by & Wabash Trai Cuicco, April 28.—J, B. Hagan, a promi- neut stock raiser aud shipper of Sonthern Illi- nols, fell under a Wabash railway train near the stock yards here, to-day, and was instant- 17 killed, ———— Base Ball Nt ws, PHILADLIHIA, April 25, —Athletic 3, Brook- Iyn 9, Bauiuonk, April 23.—Baltimore 6, Metro politan 4. Wy b NR,