Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 10, 1887, Page 1

R L THE OMAHA DALY BEE SEVENTEENTH: YEAR. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10. 1887. THE CHURCH AND KNIGHT Mr. Powderly Prepares a Statement of the Order's Ecclesiastical Troubles. HIS INTERVIEW WITH GIBBONS. Facts Presented to the Cardinal Which Cansed Him to Inter cede With the Pope Por American Labor. V. Puwderly and Gibbons, MiINNEATPOLIS, Oct. 9.—A letter prepared by General Master Workman Powderly upon the attitude of the Catholic church toward the Knight: of Labor, which has been awaited with a great deal of interest by mewbers of the order throuzhout the country, was completed to-night and will be preseuted to the general assembly to-mor- row, Referring© | to the meeting of the Catholic archbishops a ¥ ago the present month Powderly said: *'It had been ropresented to the ecclesiastical authorities that the knights were seeking to revolutionize the generally accepied funda- mental principles by claiming for labor the right to dictate to capital, and in this manner were secking to bring into fui! force popular soverelgnty in opposition to private richts: that they re following the example of French socialists and arro- gating to themselves the right of ordering strikes whenever it suited their purposes and by these strikes cause loss of life and destrue- tion of property, and that should the order prosper with its pernicious principles it would lead its wembers and the woiking classes generally from insubordination to anarchy and socialism; that if the principles of the Knights of Labor were ever to prevatl among the people, faith and religion would be for- ever destroyed in our country. Thus spoke the enemies of organized labor.” Mr. Powderly then refers to an interview had by himselt and Messrs. Hayes and Qreilly with Carainal (ibbons, at the latter’s request, in Which they submitted to bis eminence that | the “Unitying consisted in ity of the force of order the breadth and pur- principles inculeated and the cultivation of intellectual, moral and social happines: We are like unto a band of brothers engaged in the holy cause, which, far from absorbing, would strengtlien our love of coontry and would intensity, elevate and enooble our patriotism. In onr order, composed as it is of various European nationalites, one of the most gratt li'lllu features is the rapidity with which these become assimilated and welded to- ether, forming a united whole, strong and ndissoluble, Believing tirmly in the righte- ousness of our cause, we ask your eminence to examine the records of our oraer and of our prominent members, who bave for pears uplield our prineiples, 1t is our hope s it Is our desire to purge the order of the violent element —the element of radi- cal men—who want to found a society of atheistic anarchy.” During the interview, which was of long duration, Cardinal Gibbons in sub- stance: “After what we have just learned the present condition of the order is to us an unmistakable indication that the control of your organization still rests with the con- servative element and is a guarrantee that there will be no rash and dangerous depart- ures from those features of its policy which command the forbearance and respect if not the approval of the entire country, \We now infer that the objects of the Koights of abor are praiseworthy and in no way opposed the views of the Catholic church. ~Catholic prelates will declare in tavor of labor. The Catholic church in America will take the side of the weaker against the stronger. We readily believe that to rescue the toller from ihe Krasp of the selifh 15 a work worthy of the noblest and the best of our race. We recognize that this is the erand object to which the Knights of Labor are bending every energy. The church is justly watchful against ail secret organizations, There is no need secrecy where the ends and thods — of the erganization are Justifiable and secrecy raises the [l)n:fil nption tha vhich will not bear the ndemn the work of the anarch- Like Samson of old, they would pull the editice of the constitu- which them, though they should rish the ruing The man that would endeayor to uudermine the laws and institutions of this great and glorious country deserves the fate of those who laid profané han 8¢ the of the living God. & defiant position boyon pale 6f the churcn and announces such an extreme policy that one does mnot neea to hesitate to ranch the conclusion as to its merits and influence. It boldly abolishes all religious restraint as fatuous, denounces all extant forms of worship and goes back to s “nature” and wiat the world atheism. We express fuil faith the maintenanca of the friena- liness between the church and the order sc long as you keep free from aflilia- tions with dangerous associatioue and de- Yoto yourselves to the fullillment of your legitimate mission,” His eminence intimated to your committea his Intended journey to Rome, promised to explain the purposes of the organization at the Vatican and requested po slon to pledge the order to majntenance of lawful and orderly behavior. How this prince ot the church fultilled his covenant made with us and_how he championed our cause in the Eternal City, we know full well, and the expression of ' the pontificial good will for the order of the Knichts of La- bor, wiich came to us last March, was due solely to the earnest and intellizent advocacy of our eause by Cardinal Gibbons, Mr. Powderly suggests that sincere than are due the cardinal for the extraordin: fayors he has bestowed upon the order. _Mr. Powderly quotes largely from Cardinal Gibbons' report to the propaganda, i course of which the cardinal say 1o order Is not hostile to religion. We have not found in the constitation, by-laws and ofticial declarations the elements which the loly see so clearly indicates as condemna- tory, and the formuia of the organization contains neither oath or oblieation which pre- cludes those who do not beiong to it rom becoming acquainted with their affairs. ‘This lias been specially explained to us by the principal oflicers. No promise of blini obedience is requested. Not only their objects and their iules are not hostile to ro- higion ar the churen, but tho very contrary;, 1t secms to me plain that the holy sea ca not entertain a vroposal to eondemn the Knights of Labor. ‘The eardinal then proceeded to give many points why it should not be done, other things he said: It would be d ous to the reputation of the in our democratic country that it would be powerl to compel the obedience of Cath orkingmen, who would rexard it as false and iniquitous; that it would thus be destructive instead of bene- ficial in its effect; that it would turn in doubt and hostility the marked devotion of our people toward the holy see, Mr. Powde:ly says furth 'he Knights of Labor remain untouched and iv will be our particular duty to prevent the order from committing anything against the elvil and ecclesiastical “laws which might condemned by church or state and The pope wisely determined «to provoke an antagonism between the chureh and the mighty industrial power that is now waking ftself “felt throughout this free land, and Leo XIIL has shown he 18 neither rash nor illiberal. Powderly then quotes at length letters from Cardinals May ning and §ibbons, giving their views in re- 1ation to the order. A Death of Maurice Strakoech. LCopyright 1557 by James Gordon Bennett.) PAnis, (via Havre), Oet. 9.—|New York # lerald Cable —Special 10 the Brr.)—Mau- ¥ice Strakosch died to-day at his domicile, 56 % Rue le Bruyere, Paris. Burial at Pere la i Chaise to-morrow at 8 o'clock, He has been “\f Wl vowe time. Yol b n, chureh THE HARANCE RECORD. Monetary Transactions in the Couns try During the Past Week, Bostox, Mass, Oct. 9,—|Special Teles gram to the Bre.|—The following table compiled from disvatehes to the Post, from the managers of the Innmn( clearing houses in the United States, shows the gross ex- changes for the week ending October 8, 1887, together with the rates per cent of in- crease or decrease as compared with thoss of the corresponding week last yes CITIES, CLEARINGS, San Francisco. *Baltimore. Cincinnati. Kanzas Cit; Louisvilie. an Indianap Memph Columbr Hartford Duluth New Haven, . *Peoria.... Portland St. Joseph. 8 Worcester... . ,183,746) Lowell. 634,671 Byracuse. Grand Ra Total...... Outside New *Approximate. e — CHIARA CIGNARALE, The Italian Murderess Given a Bene- fit in New York, NEW Y org, Oct. 9,.—|Special Telegram to ]—Chiara Cignarale, the Italian received a henefit at Turne hall Saturday night. A four-act drama, showing her in the light in which her triends would like the community to see her, was the prin- cipal part of the entertainment. It was in the Italian language and had been written by Rocco Metell, an ltalian newspaper writer, and the performers were all Italians ana friends of the condemned woman. Five hundred ltalians gathered to see the per- formance and applauded the heroine, Chiara, vigorously, while they hissed and scowled at Aniello, the hugband, who in the play, as in fact, falls beneath Chiara’s pistol. The play begins in Italy at the time when Aniello ob- tained Chiara’s hand by threatening to ex- pose her mother’s linison with Pasquale, a wealthy Italian, and continues down to his death a few months ago in this city. When tie murder was reached on_the stage cries of ‘‘bravo” filled the hall. . 'The performance netted about $500, which will be devoted to such further defense of the weman as I8 pos- sible. The performance will soon be re- peated. e Departure of the Peace Delegat'on. | Copyright 1857 by James Gordon Bennett.) LoxvoN, Oct, 9.—[New York Herald Cable—-Special to the BEk.|—Andrew Carne- gie left Southampton this afternoon in the Fulda for America, where he will introduce to the president the aeputation of members of both houses of parliament who have been appointed by the Peace Association of Great Britzin to wait upon the president and ask him to urge upon congress a treaty that dis- putes arising between the two governments which cannot be adjusted by diplomatic agency should be referred to arbitration. The uddress contains the signatures of one Irish M. P.—T. W. Russell—and 230 English, Scotch and Welsh members, is a work of art and has beea illuminated upon vellum, It is six feet in length, with decorated borders, and at the head 18 an allegorical design epresenting the union of the two countries. In addition to the large number of the de- putation who have already gone, Lord Kin- naird and Sir George Campbell yosterday left Liverpool in the Aurania and the remain- der will depart next Saturday, viz: Three trade union declezates, including Messrs. Cremer and Pickard, M. Ps. Mr. Cremer yesterday had an interview with Mr. Carnegie, who stated that he received a communication from Mr. Glad- stone in reference to the deputation and the subject address. Mr. Gladstone wrote that while he makes ita rule not to sign mem- orials upon political matters upon which he has not had sufliclent opportunities of testi- tying his sentiments in oftice and in parlia- ment, yet upon this question his ofticial action in 1873 in connection with the Ala- bama arbitration is much more to the pur- pose than anything which he could now, when in opposition, either say or write. —_—— The Silk Culture Industry. WasmNGTON, Oct. 9.—[Special to the Bre.)—One of the most interesting exhibits of a public character which are to be found in the national capital is that of the silk culture shown in the annex to the agri- cultural department, For several years now a number of ladies, principally residing in Philadelphia, have been attempting to in- crease the production of silk among the women of the United States. A year or so ago the agricultural departwent gave this movement a decided impetus by offering to pu all hhie cocoons which might be offered. Machinery for winding the silk from these cocoous wa; purchased and set up in the annex building and a number of girls who were experts in this line were em pvloyed. Now a visitor may find.on entering the building, any time dur- ing the working hours, six or seven steam kettles, bubbling, filled with water on the top of which float hundreds of yellow and white cocoons. ‘I'he threads are caught up by a brush made of twigs and are carried to a spool in the hands of one of the girls and are then transferred to a winding machine in the rear. The thread of silk which sur- rounds each ehrysalis grows finer as it nears the inner portion of the shell, and so delicate is the winding machine that as soon as the thread becomes finer than the required thickness an electrie circuit is broken which throws the disk holdinz the cocoon around one notch and another thread 13 caught up. ‘The beautiful hanks of silk which are pro- duced from this process in the winding roow are carried toa loft avove, where they are packed in boxes for shipment. The silk brings about $5 a pound and isreadily salable 1o the silk mills. l’eu‘-ln who desire to try their luck In ralsing silk worms will be supplied with egzs and a book ot instruetious upon application to the agri- cultural department. = Wherever the mul- berry tree thrives silkworms can be protita- bly raised there are pumerous vegetable substances uf which the worm will thrive. It is said that $he osage orange is particu- Iarly rel these wonderful insects and they are known to enjoy a diet of lettuce leaves. The industsy is a srowing one and it will not be surprising if, within a few years, the production of American sitk in- creases to such un extent as to warrant the belief that silks of pumg Awerican manu- ively facture will be extens! liwrges, sold in dry goods ALL WORRIMENT IN ENGLAND. Many Oauses Which Are Oreating Dise turbances Among the Johnny Bulls. . THE IRISH CRISIS THE BIGGEST. Tories Blame Each Other, the Con- stabulary Weakens and the Police Lose Confldence—Poking Fun at Dr. Parker. The Irish Problem. [Copyright 1587 by James Gordon Bennett.) LoNDoN, Oct. 9.—| New York Herald Cable- Special to the Bre.|—The law ofticers of the crown are confident that the decision of the magistrate in the case of the lord mayor of Dublin will be reversed. The ministerial authorities deny that any mistake has been made, throw ing all the blame upon the mag- istrate. Thelr opinion is that Sullivan will be convicted, but many of them complain of Balfour leaving everything to underlings. In [reland the crisis is evidently draw- ing nearer every day, magistrates and volice alike ‘beginning to eside with the league. The coroner’s jury at Mitchellstown wiil doubtless bringina verdict of willtul murder against the volice who fired. In that case the attorney-general will enter a nolle prosequi. The constabulary is mow being subjected to an unprecedented strain. ‘Their belief in the power of the government to help them out of difficulties is manifestly declining. 1f the constabulary generally weakens, while Gladstone and the liberal party is backing up the league, the final struggle will beclose and hence the Irish problem was never so serious in this gener- ration as to-day. Redvers Buller—said to be impressea with the imminence of the danger, in common with many other close observers—anticipates 8 popular rising during the winter. The Irish leaders would avoid this if possible, but can they control the agitation they have success- fully excited? The waters are out, and it may be beyond any man’s power to turn them back into former channels. People begin to believe the government is already beaten This assurance may any day lead to extreme measures, As usual in revolutionary times the assail- ants are united and confident and the de- fenders are tied and bound by necessary adherence to constitutional forms which no coercion bill can altogether override. This tension is much too great to last. . Alesbury’s exploits have given rise to renewed agitation for a reform in the house of lords, which Is likely to increasa before the next session. Resistance will be very faint. The lords themselves are strongly in favor of great changes, Many wish the exclusion of notoriously incompetent or unworthy members. Others desire to see a section of the house made elective. Others wish to be tree to contest seats in the lower house, I believe a vote in the house itself by ballot would give a large mujority for sweeping re- forms, therefore I do not anticipate great popular excitemant over the question. ‘The disestablishment of the church, so adroitly pushed forward by Gladstone will cause much more sttr and shake the country from one end to the other. The attacks on the police are giving seri- ous anxiety to the authorities and render the police distrusttul of themselves. The result is that the outcasts of London daily assume # bolder aud wmore detiant tone. They have practically taken possession of certain parts of the parks and public squares, driving out respectable veople. All the loafers of London are hov- ering like a dark cloud over the west end. 1t is absqlutely dangerous to go along certain thoroughfares after dark. A menancing Spirit is in the alr. ‘I'he Cass case and Glad- stones recent raids on the police demoralize the force, 1 hear talk among tradesmen and others of a combined movement to protect their property It the symptoms assume a much more threatening character. Lyons, the socialist hero of the hour, was one of the orzanizers of the meeting last year which resulted in whole thoroughfares being sacked. Tradesmen remember this. ‘They will defend themselves if the authorities cannot do it. The law will be vindicated thourh we may pass through bad times first, 1 understand that great distontent exists in the civil service owine tothe dis- charge of a larze number of em- ployes in the lower grades. This is & characteristic of our official reforms. A number of poorly paid clerks are singled out and sacriticed on s littla econ- omy, while the highly-paid sinecurists are left undisturbed. The time has gone by for this game. You will see some very surpris- ing events before lung, ‘There is great perturbation among theater managers at the extreme dullness of the evening autumn season. The houses are generally wretched. Actors anxiously ask why. * The truth 1s that parents will not take children for fear of scarlet fever and do not care to go themselves for fear of fire, The Exeter will cost London managers a pretty penny this winter. Regarding music halls the magistrates mean to look sharply after licens but people crowd these places in defiance of danger. ‘The legitimate drama is dying out here, All hopes of its revival center in Irving. People are getting afraid that Awmer- ican attractions will lure him away alto- gether. Terry’s new theatre has been ob- jected to by the board ot works, but the alterations can be carried out by Monday week, In making up the drains the reform club discovered that the seweraze was almost entirely Intercepted for a long period. The wonder is that fever had not broken ofit. Several servants had typhoid. Memoers of the troupe com- plained of sore throats, These costly build- Ings are mostly drained anyhow and any- where. The Carlton Is obliged to close three months, the seweraze being found bottled up near the Arne cellars. At another large club the stgward was recently found out embezzling money, as well as carrying on pranks in the servants’ quarters. Thus even club-land is not without its troubies, Publie feeling is greatly softening about Hughes Hallett, chiefly owing to the exces- sive virulence of Stead’s attacks, his unctious boastings of superior morality and his politi- cal bias. Stead is too pure and good to live loug. Hallett's, conduct is not defended, but who is Stead that bhe should make himself a censor of mor- als? His defense of Lipski, the murderer, is not forgotten. His very dev- 10us tracks in the maiden tribute business hasnot put him on the same pedestal as Joseph Howard or any other Joseph, Stead overshot the mark. The result is a reaction in favor of Hallett. As his local committee decline to press for his resignation, he will probably hold on, though his position is by Do means enviable. If a determined party attack is made on Hallett the glass houses on the other side will soon show a great many broken windows. A MEMDER OF PARLIAMENT. ‘What O'Brien’s Diet Wiil Be, | Copyright 1857, by James Gordon Benne't,] DusLIy, Oct. §.—|New York Herald Cable- Special to the Brk.|—The Issue of the last official report on the Ifish prisoners and their management gives oeeasion for a brilliant review of its statistles by the Freeman’s Journal. Collating these it is enabled to give the following description of what William O'Brien’s menu will be during his three months of sentence it the appeal court has not the courage and decency to reverse his conviction, The prison diet for convicted prisoners is arranged Into three classes and varies according to the length of imprison- ment. Asevidence of how the thing works, take the case of Mr. O'Brien. If he goes into jail his diet for the first month would be as follows: His breakfast will consist of five ounces of bread, one pint of cocoa, a three- quarter pint of new milk, His dinner on Sunday and Thursday would be five ounces of bread, six ounces of composition called suet pudding and a three-quarter pint of new milk. On Wednesday and Friday his dinner would consist of tive ounces of bread, eight ounces of potatoes and a three-quarter pintof new milk. On the remaining three days of the week he will get for dinner thirteen ounces of bread and half a pint of soup. For supper during the first month would be: Bread, five ounces: cocoa, one pint; new milk, half pint. During the last two months O'Brien would get for breakfast a pint and a half of stirabout made out of Indian meal and oatmeal mixed In equal proportion and a three- quarter pint of new milk. For supper eizht ounces of bread and a pint of cocoa. The dinner varies according to the day of the week. On Sundays one pint of meal soup and a pound of potatoes, on Wednesday aud Friday eight ounces of bread and fourteen ounces of potatoes and on the remaining days of the week fourteen ounces of bread and one pint of vegetable soup. What Mr. O'Brien would look like and how long it would take to re-establish his health after that kind of thing, we leave our readers to Judge.” A few here believe that his conviction will be reversed, inasmuch as after the lord mayor fiasco the government dare not let its appeal judges add to their misfortunes. —— BEECHER'S EUhUGj;T ATTACKED A Tirade Against [Dr. Parker in the Saturday Review, [Copyright 1887 by Janes Gordon Bennett] LONDON, Oct. 9.—4New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bek.|—Doubtless Rey. Dr. Parker preached pomewhere near New York to-day. Though absent and lost to London sight, he scemB dear to the memory of many of its newspapers. Among these the Saturday Review @ffice, which abuts that now occupied by the Herald, especially re- miembers him, In 5 last evening’s issue it pays attention to the Herald report of Dr. Parker's address onj Beecher in a long ar- ticle entitled, S(lzgl& on Chadband,” and it thus commence: The late Henry Ward Beecher was not an jordinary man and Dr. Joseph Parker, who beats the drum ecclosi- astic in the City Temple, is a very extraor- dinary man, When Dr. Pusey published his book on the Prophet Daniel a flippant eritic irreverently observed that he would much rather have had Daniel's opinion of Dr. Pusey, but Mr. Beecher on Dr. Parker would have been rather more or less interesting than Dr, Parker on M§ Beechier. They were born to eulogize each dther. It was a mere accident of mortelity which allowed Dr. Parker to do for his friend what his friend would no doubt much;rather have done for him. There is indeeqfa breezy cheerfulness in the good doctor’s fexuberant determina- tion to dispense with jthe trappings of woe which irresistibly syggests the meck resig- nation of the survivigg wife in Mr. Swin- burne’s parody on ford Tennyson’s ‘De- spair.’ ‘L'l allow,” sqys that good woman, when the poison has pgroved too strong tor the stomach pump, ‘I'll fallow as things might have been worse, for Be might have been the survivor and a followng my hearse, But if Dr. Parker is jocular Be is also pugnacious. He admits for’ the skke of argument that there may be men of puperior genius to him- self,if such imaginarf beings really existed, and the speculative pBssibility of their exis- tence, Dr. Parker rjodestly refrains from denying they woul necessarily be bet- ter qualitied for the at task of burning in- cense on the shrine of Mr. Beecher. Warm- ing t his subject, the worthy doctor congrat- ulates himselt on she special advantaze possessed in knowing very littla about Mr. Beecher, ‘Criticism that is attempted by admiring memory,; not bound by the vulgarity of the naked eye,” is a phrase on which Dr. Parker m well be content to rest his oratorical reputation for the remain- der of his life. He will never beat it, and Mr. Micawber himself might have been proud of it. But Dr, Parker at last grows distrustful even of tHe Infinito caress ot his own eloquence and galls upon the painter for ald to paint him§in conversation, catch above all things thd smile of the painter. Let me charge thee seize that spirit smile? Dr. Parker is not troubled by the difficulty of Alies in wonderland who could not imagine the grin without the/ eat. T'ruly there was but one Beecher and Dr. Parker is s prophet.” i . The article thus eoncludes: “Dr. Parker proves his own qualltication for his business in many a sentence which Mr. Beecher him- self could not have surpassed and from which the combined wit of all the candidates in the civil service examination could not extract the Smallest particle of meaning. We can assure the reverend eulozist that we shall not attempt to dispute the vroud wvosition which he claims of chief trumpeter to the de- parted charlatan. We had something tosay about Mr, Beecher last spring and need not repeat it now, but Dr. Parker has uncon- sciously portrayed himself 1n this singular lecture and the resuft combines amusement with instruction,"” Now it mizht be amusing to know what view Dr. Parker has of the Saturday Review to learn why it is so'bitter not only upon the living but the dead, - The Mormoa Conference, SALT LAKE, Oct. L —In the Mormoa con- ference yesterday Wilford Woodrufl, presi- dent of the apostles, read a long epistie re- ferring to the state of the church and the Mormon people, asd to the death of John ‘Taylor, saying the ehurch was now in the hands of the twelye, which is supposed to mean will not elect a president ut this con- fereace. ‘The epistle is very long and tame, aud devoted mainky to church affairs, He bears personal tegimony to Joseph Smith transmitting to th tles the keys of the riesthood and rs and ceremonies of atter Day authorBy. Thie conference pro- ceedings are thus far of little interest. 'The Mormon constitutibnal convention reassem- bled yesterday and shaped a memorial to congress praying fér the admission of Utah into the union anddeclaring their good fuith and purpose o carsy out the provisions of the constitution as mm?u-m Protectiag a Pathway. LoNG IsLAND CrTy, Oet. 9.—Mrs. Charles Schaeffer, of Breslau, while walking on a path across the garden of George Gaeblein, of the sae place, yesterday afternoon, was shot and instantly killed by blein, who was lying in wait for the purpose. lie im- mediately buried the woman’s body, having had the grave in rendiness. ‘L'he husband of Mrs. Schaeffer came the sam ay later on and was also shot by Gaeblein, but recelved only slight wounds in tie nands. Gaeblein was arrested. The troule Las been of long standing. It was caused by Sehaelfer's using J the path through Gacblein's property, IIOWAS LOAN TO UNCLE SAM Arrangements Being Made For the Retarn of the War Tax Levy. A NICE LITTLE NEST EGG. Investigation of the lowa Evictions Shows Then Not to Have Been Exaggerated—Other Hawk- eye State News. A Windfall For low Treasury. DES MoiNEs, Ia., Oct. 9.—[Special to the Bk, | —General W. W. Belknap, who still claims lowa as his home, was in this city yesterday, looking as hale and hearty as when he held the portfolio of the war depart- ment in Grant's cabinet. He is now, as he says, entirely out of polities, and devoting his whole time to business. His robust, hearty way, makes him a prinee of good fel- lows among the old soldiers, who are greatly attached to him. e is now the president of the Crocker brigade association, and takes probably as much pride and satisfaction in presiding over this body of gallant men as he ever took in any political preferment and honor that ever came to him. The immedi- ate purpose of his last visit here, was to con- fer with the adjutant general and state audi- tor in regard to the direct tax which lowa raised and pald to the general government during the war. lowa's share of the general tax leyy was about §1,000,000 and the state raised every cent of it. Now that it is proposed to return to the states a pro rata share of thelr contributions, lowa will have a very comfortable littlesum to put in its vocketbool. Governor Larrabea has ap- pointed General Belknap as state agent to look after this particular fund at Washing- ton,and represent [owa’s interests, The gen- eral was also, by appolntment of Governor Sherman, made agent for the state to look after old war clains against the state which have never beenZentirely cleared up. So that he has considerable business in looking after lowa’s financial interests at Washington. If the legislature should provide for a state agent to look after the routine business of Lowa people before the different departments at Washington, General Belknap would seem bf general accord to be the man for the place. THE 10WA EVICTIONS, ‘The sensation of the past week was the re- port of cruel eyictions of settlers in north- western lowa by an English syndicate. ‘The story as sent out by the Associated press from Washington was somewhat vague, and left the impression that it might more sensational than real. At once steps were taken to hunt down the particulars and it was found that the evictions and the lands referred to were chietly in O'Brien and Osce- ola counties. One of the settlers who had *It been served with notice of ejectment foun d he declared that thére were cases of greai brutality, even more startling than had been reported. Helpless women and children had been driven from their homes out into the storm with no shelter for their heads. The sheriff and his pos according ~ to report, seemed to be as heartless as the agents of the British government who are turning Irish tenants out of doors. Governor Larra- bee happened to be in that part of the state at the l.'hne. and as soon as he heard ot the trouble he telegraphed the attorney-general at Des Moines to take steps at once to ascer- tain the rightsof the settlers and protect them to the full extent of the law. Theat- torney-general, in pursuance of these in- structions, has commenced an investigation, and if there is anything that t tate can do to perfect the titles of these settlers it will be done, Governor Larrabee is wreatly com- mended for the promptness with which he has acted in this matter and Le has shown himselt still more the friend of the people and the watehful guardian of their interests, It has been an occasiou of some surprise that 1f these evictions have been going on for a year or two there has not been more known about them through the state at larce. But two things seem to explain this state of com- parative ignorance about these cases. The counties where the evictions have been made are sparsely settled and are parts readily accessible. for instance, has neither railroad or te graph to The nearest point where these conveniences ean be found is some eight or ten miles away. So news, under ordinary conditions, doesn’t travel so mnull(y up there as it d in the thickly settled portions of the state. Again, the ence of these wealthy English syndicate very great through all that part of the state, It 1s said that they control the local news- papers, and suceeed in keeping out of print allreports of their brutal treatment ot set- tlers. They ara about the only wealthy peo- ple in that “vicinity and they have a great deal of power, so that many poor people are afraid to anfazonize them or get their dis- favor. Bosides, many of the persons evicted are foreigners, hardly able to speak enough English'to tell of their wrong if they dared to, while they are ofte to believe that the cruel proceedings were in accordance with the laws of the land, and no redress was onen to them. So it 1s not so strange that the state at large has known little about these cases of outrage. But it 18 fast hearing of them, and betore v the foreign syndicates who would i troduce into Towa the serfdom of Irish ten- antry will find their plans very sharply posed. 1t is not unlikely that the next legi ature will take some action to prevent any more foreign syndicates from getting lowa land for contract lease purposes, which they donot_intend to use themselves, or permit others to own at reasonable ra SW SUFFERING SISTER The *'swi uffering sisters,” as they are sometimes called, came up smiling the past week tor their sixteenth annual state con- veniion of the Woman Suifraze society, convention contained about the usual num- ber of old ladies of both sexes who mourned for hours o the wrongs of down-trodden women, and predicted that nothing but the ballot would Set the universe rizht. Their platform, which is long enough ana prosy enough to put the liveliest crowd to sleep in five minutes, demands that the next legisla- ture shail give to women municipal suffrage, and take measures to enable them to vote on all questions as soon as possible. The suf- fering sisters insist that prohibition can never be enforced until women are given the ballot, though the fact stares them in the face that in nine-tenths of the counties of the state the votes of the men, without any as- sistance from the women, have enforeed the prohibition law just as faitifully as any other eriminal laws are enforced. ~ But that plea is oaly & pretense which the wood women employ to make their case supposa- bly stronger. SENATOR ALLISON TO STUMP NEW YORK, Senator Allison, who had started out to fill a List of appointments in the lowa cam- palgn, has been so s uly urged t New York, that the republican state central here Las reluctaatly consented to give him up. He starts at onceand will make Six or eight speeches in that state. ‘I'he re- quest for him to come to New Yotk was very strong, for his great ability as a statesman, uss the fnancial interests L 18 nowhere erstood an in New York, He does not deal clittering rhetorie, but gets right down to olid facts, and on the great business issues of the day he has no superior in the breadtn of his knowledge, and in his ability to dis- cuss in & clear and tangible way these subjeets, He will wake a great impression upon the business en of New York, and incidentally it nay be remarked will not suffer any by the comparison whieh is sure to be instituted be- tween him and other statesmen who talked of to head a ticket next year. Colonel D. B, Henderson, of Dubuque, the gallan: congressman from the Third distriet, has also been called out of the campaign, but tor another reason—the old wound on his leg— the main part of it was taken off at Shiloh- has broken out again, and he is sick abed. This is as g a disappointment to the colonel as to the thousands who had expected to hear him, He is the favorite political ora- tor of lowa, and his powerful speech at De- troit recently at the reunion of the Army of the ‘'ennessee showed that he was a popular orator abroad. e will be greatly wissed in ;m:‘«:nmmlgn it prevented from taking any al AN EXODUS TO CALIFORNIA. The exodus to California from all parts of lowa, as well as many other,states, is one of the strange thines of the times, Hundreds of tickets for California were sold in this city alone the past week. Many of those koing are farmers in Central and Northern Iowa, who have become discouraged with repeated droughts and poor crops, and have bad their heads turned with the 'real estate eraze in Southern California. At the same tune there is a returning procession of dis- g(uslml lowans, who are working back from ansas and other western states quite ready to be contented once more in lowa, Itis stated that in the vicinity of Stuart, Guthrie county, seven farms lave recently been boughit "by disenchanted travelers of this kind. Nevertheless the exodus to the far west goes on unabated, people wanting to see for themselves, and get burned them- selves before they will dread the fire. Ignorant of the Evictions, WaAsniNatoy, Oct. 9.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.)—The general land office knows nothing of the alleged barbarities committed in evicting settlers from lands included in the grant of the McGrezor & Western roud, which passed to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. A paragraph about the matter sent from here a few days ego was the result or'a private letter from a land agent or land attorney in Llowa to a friend in the general land oftice. A dispateh about the matter ap- peared in a New York paper this morning whi heds some light on the position of the evicted settlers. Unless the doctrine of community of lands be adopted and every man be allowed permanent possession of any land he settles on, then the settlers have no claim to consideration. Last summer when Secretary Lamar was disposing of the in- demnity land cases, Judge Lawrence Fisk, comptroller of the treasury, filed a briet in behalf of these settlers in which he saia: “The Western Land company, a great land corporation, as purchaser trom a railway company, commenced about 116 suits in the loeal court in O'Brien county, lowa, azainst as many settlers who were by the state "and United States Invited to go upon the lands, and in some, it not most or all of the suits, the land com- pany has succeeded in obtaining judgment of eviction against the settlers.” "Chere is not one word in the brief of the attorney of the settlers to indicate that unnecessary cruelty has been resorted to in evicting trespa A Of course this omission is not conclusive an the brief may have been filed before the evis tions, but a dispateh from Des Molnes yes- terday gave what purports to be an interview with one of the most “intelligzent residents of O’Brien county, who tirmed and added to the original story of cruelty, but gave this account of the origin of the difticuly: “The correSpondence between Governor Sherman and Secri y Teller led the publie to believe that the lands were open to settlement and 140 families, ehefly Seand:navians, squatted thereon.” This is probably true, and the moral of itis that settlers ought to wet ofli- cial information or legal advice before im- proving land that they have no title to, sibent Kl THE WEEK IN WALL STREET. The B & O. Telegraph Deal the Chief Factor in the Market NEW York, Oct. 0.—|Special Telegram to the BrEe.|—The telegraph deal, the rate war among western roads and varying reports about the chances of a reorganization of Reading with or without foreclosure, w the principal factors at work in the stock market during the week., The first named was the most powerful for a time and caused Western Union to move up 43 points, the stock rising at frequent intervals when a weak tone prevailed in the rest of the list. The highest point was obtatned just before the announcement was made that the com- pany had at last bought tho Baltimore & Onto plant. After that speculation first halted and then gave way under pressure of sales by operators who had bought in antiel- pation of a great rise to follow the consumma- tion of the deal. It wasan illustration of the well known adage as applied to Wall street—that the unexpected always hnrm-us. Operators had discounted at least the imm diate effect of the transaction and stock lost a part of the improvement, altho ugh it did not back to where it ~ started With the ex On of Western Union, y Ce and Reading, the ghest fieures as a rule were on Monday and the lowest late k. Thegranger war was a disturb- with considerable fect, especially against St. Paul, which was vily sold for short account. Reading was pression by the action of n of opposing holders of the first serics of 5's in depositing their bonds under the syndicate plan, but it tinally dropped off. A large percentage of the business was in Reading, Western Union and St. Paul, the conrse of these stocks exercising a marked influence pro and con on speculation. The bears covered lively when Western Union advanced, but they subsequently returned to the attack and bhad in their favor the narrow- ness of the market, which has been tor some time and still is an obstacle in fthe way of sustaining an improvement for any length of time. In short, want of an outside public is the great difficulty with Wall street. During the greater rmz of the week railway mort &ages were firin and prices were generally well maintained, but near the close the improvement was lost in some instances. Fluctuations weret far less im- portant than usual and the market presented no special feature. Governments were dull and practically unchanged until near the close, when_ prices ruled a fraction higher. Foreig changes on the whole were firmer, and some of the drawers advanced their postal rates 35 per ceut. The rise was not fully maintained at the close, inquiry being comparatively light. The nionetary situa- tion worked” smoothly and rates for call loans ranzed all the way from 6 to 3 per cent. ‘The bulk of business was at about 5 per cent. ‘Time money is less plentiful than funds on eall, and transactions at less than 6 per cent are rare and can be eficeted only on the hest dividend payers, - A Church Sengation. NASHVILLE, Tenn,, Oct, 9.—The leading Methodist Episcopal ehurch of this city was ene of quite a sensation to-day. pastor, Rev. W. A. Candler, delivere severe and bitter sermon on the subject of theaters, Miss Emma Abbott, who occupied aseatin the r of the chureh, rose and en- protest, 1n a short speech, against the al charaeter of the preachar’s denuncia Her appearance showed mueh sup- ed indignation, but ber words were v clear and distinet. ‘I'he matter has ted a great seusation and foris the sole topic of conversation this evening. Many of the parishoners and others coummend the course of Miss Abbott. —— Tried to Steal the Vir S1. Louts, Oct. 9.—|Special Telegram to the Biek|-—A special from the City of Mexico says thera were very exciting times in the suburban village of Guadalupe Hi- dalzo vesterday over the report that an archi- tect had arrived at Coileziate ehurch with the object of removing the tmaze of the vir- gin_of Guadalupe, concerning which there is much superstition. The native population became alarmed, groups of Indiang armed themselves with knives, clubs, eic., and when the architect entered the church the multi- tude followed him, threatening his lite, and could only be paci by his withdrawing without the coveted image. - Weather Indications. For Nebraska: Warmer, followed by cooler, fair weathier, light to fresh northwesteriy winds, For lowa: Slightly wa followed by fair weatl northwesterly winds. : For Dukota: Colder, light rains, followed by fair weather, light to iresh northerly winds. wer, light rains, y light 10 fresh ATEAL. TN Steamship Arrivals. EW Yonx, Oet, 9—|Special Telezram to the Beke.|—Arrived—The [llinols, from Liverpool; the Furnesia, from Glasgow; the | Gilbe rom Hawburg, QUEENSTOWN, Oet. @ Briush King, from Peunsylvi Arrived - Diae NUMBER 114 BAYARD'S FISH COMMISSION, Tho Secretary of State’s Seleot Body Al~ ready at Work, ITS SCOPE TO BE ENLARGED Commissioner Colman's Scalp Badly Wanted Iy Several Democratio Congressmen—Clerk Higging After Another Oflice, The Fish Commi n at Work, Oct. Special Telegram ecretary Bayard’s fish com= rs. Angell and Putnam, are already at work. Their twst meeting wag held yesterday. 1t was not advertised, but it can be stated on high administration ag thority that the scope of the commission will gobeyond the New Englana fisherles and take up the dispute over the Alaskan seal tisheries and Behring tsea. Mr. Bayard has been often warned against trying to cope with British diplomacy on wmore than one subject at a time and curious denlals have been made of the reports that the negotia= tors were to meddla with anything but the New England muddle. But the understand- ing now seems to be quite clear that Presie dent Angell and Mr. Putnam will help the secretary define the rights of the United States In the Puacifie. The position to be taken in this controversy can also be out lined better than the New Enclana fisheries. The administration this year has foliowed the straight line of its duty in Alaskan waters, whereas last year its course was shifting and uncertain. One reason for this was the discovery by Mr. Cleveland that the English were not repaying the concessions made to them. Another was the certainty that congress would insist on the enforces ment ot its laws. If these were, us England claims, contrary to international usage, that was a matter for the legisiative and not for the executive branch of the government ta rifit. Now the adwministration Is enforelng the law and is prepared to maintain the jurisdiction of the United States ovex the waters (rwvwnled by seals, whether three miles or 300 miles from the coast line. ‘T'his does not involve any streteh of head- land theory. It is, of course, assumed that the United States, by the purchase of Alnsk acquired all the rights which Russia had, butit will not be necessary to enter Into the question whether Behring sea is a closed sea, Instead the broad ground will be taken that as the seal tisheri the possession of th country has a right to protect them from ex- tinetion. It tollows from the nature of the seal that it cannot be classed with the mackerel and cod of the Atluntic coast. A strong precedent will be furnished in the jurisdiction exercised by England over the tl tisheries of the Indian ocean and Australia. This is not an extract from the Rovernment's brief, but it would be safe guessing that the new commissioners understand that it will be the positicm taken by the United States and which the, may be called on to arcue with their Britis| colleagues, ‘The fish commission have been gathering data, which is also at the disposal of Mess) Angell and Putnam, to study upon before the Britishers arrive, Commige sioner Putnam, at the outset of his work, is met with savago criticlsm from Gloucester fishermen, He has been one of the counsel for the United States government in looking after the interests of the fishermen in the case of the seized schooner Adams. It is charged that he has been a party to _holding back a decision in this ¢, and all to further Secretary Bayard’s diplomacy. President Angell has no sich embarrass- ment. Though everybody thinks the joint ission 18 doomed to failure, it isthought . tary Bayard may profit by his diplo- matic experience, Colman’s ¥ d in Danger. iTON, Oct. 4.—[Special Telegram to the Beg.|—It is developed that concerted effort has been determined upon by a large number of democratic congressmen to secur if possible, the displacement of Mr. Colman, the present comuwissioner of agriculture, upon charges of inefliciency in the manage~ ment of his department, srowing out ot mis- representations of the tobacco crop, and the opposition on the part of I'rof. Wiley, chief chemist, to the experiments now being made at Kort Scott, Kan., in the manufacture of sorghum and cane sugar. It 18 alleged that Commissioner Colman maintained the cor- rectness ot the overestimate of the tobacco crob by his department, until forced to re- tract by the action of the Louisville tobacco dealers, and that he sustained Prof. Wiley in his damaging report asainst the KFort Scott sugar enterprise, which has since been made a suceess. Also that he persistently retains holdover republican ofticials in charge of the various bureaus who are not protecied in their positions by the civil service law. Higgins For House Doorkeeper. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—([Special Telegra to the B ‘I'he report that Eugene Hig- eins is a candidade for the doorkeepership of the house is again received, 1t 1s sald to- night that Mr. Higgins is making a still hung he hopes his devotion to his party for him the support of a great many democratic members of congress, At pres- ent his canvass is active but quiet. If ho Linds that the chances for his election are in any way favorable he will allow his name to be brought before the caucus, If, however, he sees that the ch®uces are hopeless Le will not appear in the tight at all. In the me; time the other candidates are actively at work among the members of the house. Major Hurt, of Mississipl, claims to have pledged to him wot less shan sixty-seven votes, Donelson, the present ineum has opened headquarters in W illard’s and protesses to lr( ntident of hi3 re-clec. linlnl. ‘There are four otlier candidates in the field. missioners, Me: Railroad Magnates Visit Dulu Dururh, Minun., Oct. 9.—[Special Tele~ gram to the Bre).—Cornelins Vanderbilt, Chauney Depew, Marvin Hughitt, Wa Webb and other railway magnates ar this morning by a special train of three pri- vate cars. ‘They spent the morning at church and the afternoon in a tour of the bay and harbor, going a short distance out on the lake. visited the clevators and looked over the terminal facilif of the dilferent roads centering here. ‘The party leaves at 12 o'clock to-night for St. Paul and will eall on President Cleveland while there, Arrival of Mrs, WASHINGTO Oct, 9.—[Special to the B Mis. Cleveland’s cow has ar- rived. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia seems to have taken as much interest in presenting the animal to Mrs, Cleveland us that lady did in receiving it at his hands. ‘The Jersey beauty was accompanied to Washe ington by a delegation of Mr. Childs' men from his stock farm and was taken to Oak View by a delecation of the Im-xhlt-n('n ser- yants in company with the Philadelphians, ‘The president himself takes great intercst in this addition io his farm. He was br ought up as a boy ainong Live stock and has a very zood knowledge of cattle in general, but iy * particular fort Is the Durbaut breed'in whicl s wwele, Hon, Lewis I, Allen, ot Buf- falo, is one of the best posted in the country. The young bovine will receive as muen care and attention 1 her new home as few child in the coun- try o, Mrs, Cleveland is de- lhted with her present and it will not be sururising if, before the close of another year, the Cleveluud strain of Jerseys is rated in the herd books as among the best in the country. y d’s Cow. - Killed Ity Coal Dust Explosion, Disoxnviieg, Ky, Oct. .~ By an explosion acenwulation of bituminons cosl dust night in the Roanoake mines one man killed, three fatally hurt sud twelve seriously injureds