Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1889, Page 1

SOMBRE CHISELHURST | Louls Napoleon's Home Under tho Auctioneor's Hammor, UNCERTAIN PRIDE AND WEALTH. The Orohards and HMop Gardens of Donutiful Kont, FRANCE'S PRINCE IMPERIAL. Denled tho Opportunity of Making n Kingly Record. EMPRESS EUGENIE'S SORROW. General Roulanger Visle Camdon H ~The Pecull- arition of Fronch Politios-—-The Whirl of London Life A Very Mistoric 8pot. [Oomrght 180 by James Gordon Rennett.) Lownox, June B.—|New York Herald Cable—Hpnoinl to Tie Hee|—The ourious ohaptor? which connects the Napoleonie fam- fly with the "Garden of Engiand,” as some pnonta nall fhe cottity of Kent, is about to close next woe The furniture and other contonts of Camden Nouse, at Chisclhurat, wharo Napoleon 111, hroathed his last, and whore Kmpress Buponie endured so many afifletions, will be disposed of under the v of Christlo & Manson. the auc- % who have assisted at the disposal or wilo of the effects of o many families, and B oken up wo many homes, 1f uny man is puffed up with a sense of his 'own importanes or family pride, or with de- th, a visit to Christie & Man- son's ought bring him to his level. The wrontost und proudest of the present day are Not more oxalted In their own esteemn than woro the olionts, lving or dend, whose affairs have, from time to time, been placed in the hands of the auctioneors of King street, St. Jamos, Whon Napoleon 111, took up his abode in Chiselhurst o belleyad that it was only for of wenson, and that the d wia, At rate, perfectly secure. win in 1871, just after the war with Ger- many, which torminuted so disastrovsly for Franee, Camdon house I8 a vory pretty place, standing I beautiful grounds; even an omperor might himaelf be contented if his neart woro not fixed too exclusively upon a throno, Louis Napoleon enred little for the orchards or hopgardons of Kent. A man frosh from Sedan coula scarcely bo ex- pectod to lose himself in admiration of car- nations and roses, ‘Tho exile's world was I rulns around himg but his own words, which bucatne the jest of Europe, may still LI [T A i dhat wt wo rotabilio ' DI 1o not seknowledge in his lotter to the national assembly from Chisolhurst, that his henrt was brokon when he surrenderod at Kedunt Home faint remnants of hope sur- vive, even in a broken heert. Perhaps tho aror (id not see that all was over until Mir Honey Thompeon whispered in his car the words which bado him prepare for the Jong Jonrnoy. Ho died in 1875, and still the ompross could console herself with the thotitht that her son would restore his dy- nasty and bring some comnpensation to her, for the suffering she had passed through. Who could have supposed, at that time Ahat this idolized son, the prince imperial, would perish misorably at tho hands of sav- agees i one of England's little wars! What can foresce his fate, or woman either? “Ihe prince, 1 his twenty-third year only, wis weary of inaction and pining for some opportunity of showlng that some of the aualities which the world ean not help asso- Clating with the name of Napoleon, had been teanamitted to him. There were no events in conneetion with his own country which conld give him any such opportunity, #nd, na be bad to take whatever came to hand, ho placed himself at the disposal of the country which had afforded shelter to his futher and mother, 1+ Fhe great Napoleon, in talking one day to Las Cusen, apgke of “lo hazard qui governe te monde’ There is nothing more than ehanes In it all, consequently it must be only ehance which sent the pri imperial to Afries in 1870 1o fght in aquarrel which had ho interest for him, and there to fall beneath Ahe nescgnis of some naked Zulus, ‘Ten yoarsa have passed and the world knows something of the sorrows which have descendod upon the hoad of the lad's mother, They say she wus the instigator of the war between @ermany and France. It is o questionable story, for have not later events made it clear that Hismarck laid the Arain to the mine and exploded it, at the mo ment which seemed to him the most con wenient! In any case, it Empress Eugenie &1 any wrong, bitterly, indeed, has she been enlled upon to expiate it, for her Napoleonic ' has censed to exist. Althovgh the prinee imperial acknowlodged Prince Victor, the son of Privee Napoleon, as the head of the family, in the event of his own death, the Smpress b never done so. She allowad Prines Napoleon to leave Chiselhurst, after the emperor's funeral, without even seeing Bim; wnd now the house, in which she wit nessed the closiag aets of the tragedy, is for #ale, and M, Rochefort has been to see it, and 1 hear that General Houlunger went down, yonterday, and manifested the greatest in ferest in the varlous objects which were shown to him, Nayoleon, Nochefort and Louis Phillippe, Rochefort, Bonlanger, all eame to England in their turs. Here they may not find what they most to obtain, but they secure an ssvium. No man who is very prominent in Freneh y u ever be Auite sure that ¢ will not suddenly discover the expediency of pusing an invontary visit to Eneland. Ule haeara cas brought General Hou fanger here at rather an early stage of h public car Some eurious reflections Wust have passed through his mind as he #ood over the relics of Napoleon 1 at the museum, and most Interesting relics they are, by the way, although very few London- e condescond to go and see them. They are imspected chiefly by country cousins und jghers, in which category, bien entendu, @0 not incluae Americans. As for the bouse at, Uhiselhurst, there is B0 neosssity for a Napoleonie devotee to SUIMOn b any plous ewotions over it It Was taken a8 o furnished house and all the Whings iIn it belonged to the owner, Mr. Swrode, and not to the Napoleons. It is the #ocent dosth of the owner which renders Beceasary the approsching sale. The em Bhus ceased to reside at Chiselhu ut remain of her busband and son still pesh there, in the sarcophugus which WA presenied by the quess. It s ties o UNTER OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 9, 18%.—SIXTEEN PAGES. nearcely likely that they will ever be taken 1o ropose with those of the great Na- poleon st Los Tnvalides, And yet who can sny ! All thingsjare possible. In his island prison, here we have only a few passing thoughts to bestow upon the strango eventful history of Napoleon, for the brief holiday season will soon be over and thon the wild whirt of London season will begzin again; and fun, if there is any fun in it, will wax faster and more furious than ever. Thoro can not well be more people in Lon- don than there are now, or, if more do come, thoy will have to camp out mn Hyde Park. On the 1st of next month the shah 1s coming, and the Prince of Wales is to go to Graves- end to meet him, and, altogether, there is to be great fuss over this not very young and not very reputable potentate. ‘Who cares a straw about the shah? Ho has been hore once, and now heisa played-out, stale, used-up, seedy, old lion,not fit to be hauled around the country and pose as o show, The royal beast should now be permitted to pass his days in retirement. No doubt he will preter the Emnpire theatre, to which, as the Herald in- forms us, he has alrcady arranged a visit. A beautiful place is the Empire theatre, bet- ter than the state of Cashmere. The blase shah will sit up when he sces Cleopatra. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff has been told; off to wait upon the shah during his visit, so that the virtuous Henry will have to go to the KEmpire theatre also. Well, he can stand it, if the shah can not. One-ballet more or less will not shake the nerves of Wolft. A veritable favorite of fortune is Sir Henry. His platter is always found right side uppermost when there is any manna coming down from the officiul sky. He began life in the foreign office, which generally leads a man to all good things. There isno pre- serve in England which is fuller of game. At the age of fifty, Sir Henry got elected a member of parliament for Portsmouth, and became oneof Lord Randolph Churchill’s fourth party. When Lord Randolph came into office he sent Wolff on a special mission to Turkey, with a salary of £5,000, just enough to live on until something better turned up. No special mission can last for- ever, and the house of commons began to complain of Sir Henry's demands for ex- penses, which were both frequent and heavy. Evidently & storm was brewing, but before it burst the special envoy came home and was made ambassador to Persia, at a salary of £5,000 once more, and expenses paid as usual. Success to the diplomatic services and to the whole tribe of Wolffs. For many months Sir Henry en- joyed his salary without being required to do anything for it. He did not even leave the shady side of Pall Mall. Then, . at last, he went to Cashmere, had a pretty good time for a year or 50, saw life and liked it, and now he is here, still receiving his com- fortable £100 a week, and blessing the happy land which gave him birth. They say that in due time he will succeed Sir W. W. White, ambassador at Constanti- nople, when his entirely inadequate salary will be raised to £8,000, with a pension of at least £5,000. Thus does England rogard her heroes and servants, but if you ask me what ir Henry Drummond Wolff's achieve- c line, or even hard work, or what he has done 1n any way, except to pay court i the right auarters, and get him- solf well and judiciously advertised, I am bound to say Ido not know; and I never heard of anybody who did. A MEMDER OF PARLIAMENT. e Nebraska and lowa Pensions. ‘Wasnixaroy, June S.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bgke.]—Pensions granted Nebras- kans: Orginal invalid—Olivatt Reed, Will- jam Erwin, James Dye, John Johnson. In- crease—Ezekicl Rawlets, Horace W. Young, Archibald Miles, Jonas M. Secllars, William H. Moore, Allen Everman, Henjamin A. Dennis. Increase—William M. Mansee. Re- issuo—Henry H. Ross. Original widow— Mary E., widow of Fernando W. Colwell, Pensions allowed Iowans: Original inva- lid—Alfred Cooper, Isaac S. Jones, James McConnell, Theodore S. Waters, Russell Miller, Francis Ober, William H. Hayes, Isaac Jones, William S. Nichols, Eason R. Bagley, Scott Kindred. Increase—Jacob Stevick, John W. Spencer, John W. Elliott, George W. Spencer, Benedict Sherman, Washington Edgington, George Baker, Samuel L. Thompson, Jonathan W. Belding, Benjamin F. Lafter, Albert F. Iverson, Ed- win Brodeway, William Cool, William H. Hrown, James S, Mount. Reissue—Abram . Vonsickle. Reissuo and increase—Cor- nelius Berkshire. Original widows—Esther C., mother of Albert Pearl; John, father of James 5. Grim; Cynthia A., widow of Luke Knapp (reissue); Elzaveth A., widow of Joseph 1. Randolph. s D Stockholders Victorious, Cii0AGo, June 8,—A decision was rendered by dudge Tully, to-day, which vitally inter- eats 2,000 stockholders of the defunct Great Western Telegraph company, who are scat- tered about in nearly all the western states. In effect it gives them an opvortunity to show themselves not liable for a fictitions in- debtedness of the company by enjoining Re- ceiver E. R. Bowen from collecting an as- sessment of 85 per cent on stock subscrip- tionsof #3,000,000, Among the stockbolders winning the victory are United States Sena- tor Farwell. ————e Restraining a Bond Issue, Stovx Fatis, Dak., June 8.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bew.|—Today Judge Aiken issued an injunction restraining the county commissioners from issuing, or in any way, disposing of #0,000 of court-house bonds. ‘The bonda were sold some time ago, but the large commission paid made the saie 7 per cent below par. The bond for costs is signed by U. G. Wright, W.C. Hodster, W. P Carr, Ira Grifin and N, E. Stringham. Dissatisfaction with the location of the court-house is at the bottom of affairs. b s b ity The Bruno Memorial. Rowe, June S.—An immense number of delegates have arrived in this city to attend the ceremony of the inauguration of the HBruno mewmorial The vatican remains closed two days. The pope will solemnly expose the sucrament in expation of the outrages upon religion perpetrated by the inwuguation of the memorial, Many priests and members of the Catholic church have left the eity. - - L onard Swett Dond. Omicaoo, June § —Leonard Swett, a prom inent lawyer, at one time 4 law partner of Abrsham Lincoln, and who nominated Lin- coln for president in 1800 and Gresham for the same office in 1885, died at his residenee here this afternoon. Aid for Johnstown. Si1ot x Faris, Dak., June 8.—[Special Tel- eeram 10 Tur Bek. | —Four hundred and f(ty doliars was raised bere for the Pennsylvania flood sufferers. A draft for that sum was seut o Governor Beaver to-day, o tons. -Fair, by luht rain i lowa, slightly cooler, north- erly winds IS DR. CRONIN DEAD? A Howling and Startlingly Noew Theory Sprung. NOT HIS CORPSE IN THE SEWER. Overanxious Friends Too Precip- itous in Accusations. SOME STRONG POINTS INDICATED A “Stiff” From Some Medical College Planted For Him. INSURANCE PEOPLE INTERESTED. He Had a Craving For Notoriety and an Intense Hatred For Alex- ander Sullivan—Too Me- thodical Evidence. A Newspaper Sensation. CnrcAGo, June 8.—|Special Telegram to Tur Bep.)—The Times this morning pub- hished a remarkable story, which has set some people to thinking, and has recalled to their. minds some mysterious incidents in connection with the disappearance of Dr. Cronin. It was 7 o’clock that Saturday night when he is said to have been called from his office. At 2the next afternoon his friends were flooding the newspaper offices with Cronin’s printed circular to prove that he had been murdered, ana insisting that he was the victim of foul play, ete. When Long sent the first Toronto spe- cial reporting an interview with the doctor on Monday, the same friends who had dis- tributed the circular on Sunday became fu- rious, nstead of rejoicing at the prospect of finding their friend, as naturally would have been the case under other circum- stances, and immediately denounced the re~ port as a pack of lies and insisted that the doctor had been murdered. In fact, it ap- peared that they would much prefer to have his dead body found than the live doctor in Toronto The man who drove the wagon says the trunk was hurriedly loaded into the wagon and driven straight to the lake. where it was to have been taken in a boat and sunk in the middle of the lake, but when they were dis- covered in the act of unloading they retraced their steps and hurriedly pitched the naked body into a catch basin. It would seem that the body would never have been stripped had they intended to sink 1t m a trunk in the lake, and one of the theories set afloat by this morning’s story is that the doctor first prepared the circular to pave the way, or to explain the cause of his proposed disap- pearance, circulated it where it would reach the public, and give the impression that he had been murdered in Chicago, and thus stop the possibility of search being made else- where for im. The 1dea is further carried out by the supposition that he secured a naked ‘‘stiff’* from one of the many medical colleges in the city, or the grave yards not far distant from the Carlson cottage and the place where the body was found. People who knew Cronin well were not at all certain on seeing the corpse that it was "his until the notables in the Cromn faction took the lead in declaring positively that no doubt was possible. The editor of one of the leading newspapers of the city, who had frequentiy met the doctor, suw the body im- mediately after the discovery, and upon re- turning to the oftice, when asked for an opinion, declared a disbelief that the right body had been found. A Catholic clergy- man had a similar experience, and in private still adheres to that view. Members of in- surance fraternities to which Cronin be- longed were & long time skeptical after the discovery of the body, until silenced by the apparently overwhelming evideuce against their own senses. The mouves advanced for such an extra- ordinary intrigue by Dr. Cronin is that ex- pressed in this circular, namely, that his death “would be extensively inquired into,"” and the affairs of Alexander Sullivan, whom the circular unceasingly refers to, would be exposed with a thoroughness which no other method would accomplish. Cromm is ad- mitted by his friends to have an insatiable craving for notoriety, and such a proceeding would be thoroughly in keeping with the per- sistency and outlandish expedients pre- viously resorted to by him. It has been a frequent comment that if the trace left by the supposed criminals, including the placing of the bloody trunk in the public road, had all been for the purpose of giving the police clues, there could have been no better contrivance. T'he tardily offered reward for the tinding of the doctor's body has neyer been paid. The Times’ story is as follows: New YORg, June 7.—James G. Rogers, of Brooklyn, named as one of the Buffalo com- mitteemen who signed the report exonerating Alexander Sullivan, and who gives as his belief that Dr, Cronin is not dead, made the following statement to-day : “I refuse to acknowledge ' that I am the Rogers referred to in the dispatch. I refuse to acknowledge that I have had anything o with the Clan-na-Gael, or with any report concerning the charges of Dr. Cronin agamnst Alexander Sullivan, If Iam referred to as not believing that Dr. Cronin is dead, that is true. Idonov believe that he is dead, and would not be surprised to meet him on the street or to see him come into my office this moment." “‘What about the alleged identification of the body found in Chicago 1" “There was no genuine identification,” said Mr. Rogers, *“In the first place, the pody was not that of a man who had died by violence. There was no fracture of the skull, werely a few scratehes and abrasions, such as might have been made on any<body thrown into any such place. The key to the whole matter lies in the finding ot a finger in the catoh-basin, The finger, 1 believe, was procured from gwme medical college. Cronin's brother prétends to identify the body as that of his brother by the scar of a complaint from which 25 per ceot of men suffer a ong time or another. If a man has suffered from such a complaint, so that a scar wourd have been left by which his body could have been identified, he would not have survive i bis illness. Agan, Dr. Cronin’s sister is said to have identified the body when she was taken to the Cavalry armory 10 look at the body. She was not permitted 10 see it for half an hour. They kept her waiting until she was so excited that when she viewed the body it was impossible for ber to identify the bloated face, “I do not believe Dr. Cronin 1s dead, There was no reason for his death. The fact that he was engaged in an_investigation, no matter what it might have been, Wi no reason for the existence of 8 vendetta asainst | him. The body might have . been placed in the catch-busin by men intérested in helping the enemies of the Irish peeple. There are evidently some men degply bent on bringing out to the public, thepheposes for which these moneys wero expended. If yon have noticed the reports of the alleged Cronin ‘murder in all the newspapers, the first three days wore remarkably alike, as if {nspired by the same set of men. To me the whole thing looks moré and more every day as the clever work of some smar’ men interested in making it appear that Cronin was killed. The doctor, I feel convinced, is living, and has been sent out of she way to help the scheme of un alleged murder. He may not be cognisant of the scheme, but he is all the samo being used skillfylly to help it.” Gave Up the Name. Cmicaco, June 8,—Johu Moss, a membor of camnp No. 21 of the Clan-na-Gael, was put upon the witness stand in the coroner's in- vestigation into the maaner of Dr. Cronin's death this morning. At a meeting sub- sequent to the murder a resolution was presented in this camp denouncing the deed. Moss moved that it be tabled, remarking that “perhaps Dr. Cronin’s removal was ordered by the executive committee.” When called to the witness stand this morning and asked to give the name of the presiding officer of the camp, he refused to do so, and by order of the coroner was ordered into custody. Pending the, arrival of a sheriff’s deputy the witness gave evidence of great mental distress, and. finally signified his willingness to testify. He then said the name of the presiding ofiebrof his camp was William H. Joyce. “When you made your motion on the Cro- nin resolution, did you believe that the exec- utive had the power to order the removal of anyone?” queried the corner. ““I had not the faintest idea of the powers of the executive.” “If you had been ordered to remove any- one, would you have done it1” *No, sir,” answered the witness after a long pause. Peter McGeehan was the next witness, He testificd that he came to Chicago last February, from Philadelphia; that he did not say before leaving that he was going on dangerous business for the executive. He came because he had had a row with a young fellow about a girl. Dr. Cronin came up to the witness on the street and accused him of being in the city to marder him (Cronin.) Subsequently Cronin wrote to the witness a note telling him to get out of the state or he would have him arrested., Witness declared he wasiin Pullman on the night Cronin ‘was murdered. Near the close of his testimony McGeehan admitted that in his eamp at Philadelphia he was known as No. 1, and John O'Neill as No. 2. McGeshan was taken to the chief’s private office, where the Carlsons, Dinan and Mrs. Conklin were allowed to take a look-at him. None of them, however, dentified him and he was allowed to go. Atthe conclusion of ‘the testimony, the coroner announced the nguest would stand adjournea until Monday morning, and Mec- Geehan was taken into custody. — e THE NORTH AMARIC N REVIEW. A Kumor That '8, _Bryoe Will Be Its Nextc Baftor. - 4 [Copyright 1859 by Jam= Gardon Bennstt,] Panis, June 8,—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Te Bee.]—A report was circu- lated in Paris, yesterday, that General Lioyd S. Bryce, of Now York, was to succeed the late Allen Thorndyke Rice as editor of tbs North American Review. General Bryce, who is now_at the Hotel Durhin, recsived the Herald correspondent yesterday, and when asked if he were to fill the vacancy left by the death of Rics, said: “Iam not prepared ta make any positive statements in regard to the matter. I have heard that it has been published in New Yo@k that I am to assume the editorship of the North American Review, but I can not say whether [ shall or shall not. Rice made a will in London in 1881, which was in possession of his sister here in Paris at the time of his death. I believe that it contains something about my taking charge of the Review, but the will i3 not yet probated, and there may be codicils, of which we are not yet advised. Rice frequently said to me that of all his other friends he would like me i take charge of the Review in the case anything should happen to him. Should I assume the editorship of the magazine, I will endeavor to carry out Rice's method as nearly as pos sible. If there is no will or codicil later than the one of 1881, it is probable that I shall be Rice's successor, but he may have made more recent testamentary arrangemcuts. Therefore, I am unable to give any definite information.” = TALKING TO THE SIOUX. Some Progress Being Made By the Treating Commission. Rosenup, Dak., June 8,—The commission- ers have been talking with Hollow Horn Bear, the recoznized leader of the opposition, and strenuous efforts were made to satis! him that the result of favorable action will be beneficial to the future interests of the Indians, Signatures are being taken, but not as rapidly as yesterday, as the Indians seem to be awaiting the action of.Hollow Horn Bear. The commissioners held another coun- cil this afternoon. Hollow Horn Bear, Two Strike and High Hawk made speeches in opposition basing their objections on the ground that the treaty of 1308 not yet expired, Nearly all the Indiansiare in favor, but the promirent chiefs have beem unquestionably influenced by some parsops to oppose it. If the source of this imflugnce can be found there can be no quesfion that the Indians will sign. The com rs appreciate the importance of a suecess * as influencing the result elsewhere. Wihule the indications are favorable it is imposaible to predict the the result. At 5 o'glock 600 Indians had signed. | ———— . A BANK BOBBERY. Particulars of .m. Just Come to Light Arcinsoy, Kan,, Juse 8.—A $23,000 bank robbery occurred in this eity 1 September last, which has just gegeto light. During that month two men drgve np in a buggy to the First National bank, about noon, and one man alighted ang, eptering, told the cashier, who ~was ! alone, that a man wanted to sse. “him outside. While the casbier wais gone the, strauger went be- hind the counter ang picked up bonds and woney valued at #23,00), The bank kept the matter quist with a view of recovering the securities, which it is learned they did last Mareh. The bonds were banded over in Deuver by @ go-be- tween. It is not kilown the price the bank pad. The cash gecured by the robbers was small. S Ehipping Busings Faralyz d. GLasaow, June s.—firuo thousand deck laborers bave struck for adviuced wages, as have also the slevedores, . press WAITING FOR A SIGN. When Washington Gives it the Conference Will End. BLAINE COOL AND CAUTIOUS. Scrutinizing All the Amendments to the Protoocols. HE WANTS NO PIG IN A POKE, And Asks For Information on All the Verbal Changes. THE CZAR NOT OVER SOCIABLE. He Refases to Make a Date For a Meeting With the German Em- peror—The Strikes Still Unsettled. Gossip From Berlin. (Copyright 1859 by New York Assoclated Press.| Beruiy, June 8,.—The delay in the trans- mission from Washington of assent to the Samoan $reaty, originated rumors that Blaine desired o revision of several points. In- quiries at the foreign office and the English embassy elicit the information that nothing octurred that Is likely to retard the oxchange of signatures. Blaine has been in communication with Phelps regarding verbal amendments to the protocols, which were submitted to Count Herbert and Sir Mallet, and accepted without comment. The oficial irritation over Blaine's scrutiny of the protocols 18 abating, with the growing recognition of the justice and the value the United States places upon the final settlement of the Samoan question. The impatience of the foreign office to close the matter has not hastened Lord Salisbury’s action any more than it has Blaine. The Englich commis- sioners do not attach the slightest import- ance to the dilatory proceedure of thair own foreign office. As soon as the Washington government cables “sign,” Lord Salisbury’s assent will beready. From the nature of the latest communica- tionsto the American commissions, it is ex- pected the commission will meet Wednesday for the last time. Blaine has asked for arrangements for the return of Malietoa. It 18 settled that the electoral decision of the natives will be taken some time after Malitoa is reinstaled. Bismarck’s period of repose at Schon- hausen was probably cut short by advices from St. Petersburg, showing the renewal of the openly hostile policy of the czar. The emperor’s programme for his visit to England, and for his reception to Emperor Francis Joseph and other plans, remain un- certain through the czar's tacit refusal to settle the preliminaries for the profected in- terview with Emperor William: - Bismarck | sent to&t. Petersburg asking for the ap pointment of a date and place for the meet- ing of the emperors, The czar declined to appoint a date further than that on returning from* Copenhagen he might meet Bmperor William at Kiel. The tame response from Russia renders the sending of a formal invitation from Berlin doubtful. Semi-official news- papers say the cordial personal relations be- tween the czar and the emperor are un- changed. but they ignore the fact of the re- newal of the strained relations of the Berlin and Vienna governments towards Russia. There is no abatement in the general strike movement. The masons and carpenters of Berlin are steadfast in their demands and confident of final victory. The Volksblatt announces combined action among workmen on the royal estates for increased pay. The emperor has ‘already ordered the wages of married meo to be raised. The police are more offensively active to sup- workmen’'s meetings every- where. The conservative journals bitterly comment upon the imperial pro- tection to workmen. They declare it is mis- placed and that the workmen are becoming corrupted by socialism and friends of France, The Kreuz Zeitung announces that the sociatist members of the reichstag favor organiziag visits of workmen's delegates to Paris, and urges the government to suppress their arrangements, The dispute of the German socidlists with France is settled, The Paris congress is likely to have & large German representation, Apart from the czar's ominous trust to Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, and his sending of Prince Nicholas on a special mis- sion to Puris, followed by the grand duke George, who will sail on a war-ship from Cronstadt for Havre and thence proceed to Paris, there are signs of activity rising in response to the activities on the part of the triple alhance. Prince George, the czar's favorite son, and probably his- successor, in view of the weak brain and general debility of the czarowitch, begins a tour of the world, starting from Paris, where his pres- sence is intended o mark the czar's ad- herence to the French alhance. It is denied that the prince of Montenegro is intrusted with a mission, but it s admitted that he will attend the conference of Pun- Slavists and Servians, at which his son-n- law, Prince Peter Karagesrgevies, will be declared the legalized claimant to the Ser- vian throne with the re-establishwent of the old Servian empire, including Bosnia and Herzegorinia. The Cologne Gazette declares the czar is definitely committed to the Pan-Slavist policy involving critical developments which are bound to have a violent end. Prince Bismarck next rests at Vurzin, He leaves Count Herbert to receive the shah. He will remain at Varzin until the advent of Emperor Francis Joseph anda Count Kalnoky at the end of the month. Until the inter- view between Prince Bismarck and Count Kalnoky, Austrig’s attitude toward the German-Italian convention s undetermined. Signor Crispi appears to have obtained defi- nite pledge of German aid in the event of hostilities with France arrising from a colonial or any other dispute. Meanwhile Austria is only committed to the first treaty and is not bound to make common cause with Italy in every quarrel with France. Count Frankenberg, & member of the Abrchus, who is ambitious 10 create a party of state Catholics, in letters to the German ultro- montanists ds that the truo German Catholie policy is to co-operate with Prince Bismarck. He severely criticises the reso- lution of the Adistriun Catholic congress and the antitude cf the Centrists toward the Italian government. His declarations begin to revive importauce tirough the growing adhesions of the Catholics who are deserting Dr. Windthorst. Dr. Peters’ expedition bas collapsed owing 0 an epidemio ‘nearly twice her age. The whole affair MRS, MAYBRIOK'S CASE. Charged With Following Her Poison- ing Mother's Example. [Copyright 1859 by James Gordon Bennett.1 Loxvoy, June 8.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Bre.|—There isnow n the county gaol of Liverpool, Mrs. Flor- enco Maybrick, aged 206, the widow of a wealthy Liverpool cotton broker, who was in. cludes poison, romance und mystery. The husband s said jto have been an ar- senic cater. Her friends say he died from natural causes; his friends say she killed him with arsenic. They met about seven years ago on a steamer from America. She fell down the saloon stairs and he caught her. The ac- quaintance thus begun, ripened into love, and they were married in a few weeks, He died two months ago and the doctors who attended would not give a certificate. At tha inquest which was held an open vordict was returned and the body was buried. The current rumors induced the police to reopen the case. Another inquest was held, at which the evidence showed that Mrs. Maybrick had purchased arsenic at a chemist's; that the medicine, a part ot which she had given her husband, contained arsenic; that arsenic fly-paper was found in her room soaking in water; that a letter to her lover, named Brierly, in very endearing terms, was intercopted, telling him all was safe, and that he need not leave the country. She attended her husband up to his death, though the last two days of his 1llness he was in charge of hired nurses, and that she had told the doctor that she disliked her husband, with whom she often quarreled. She was finally committed for trial at the assizes on a charge of willful murder, on the theory that if she did not poison him, her homicidal tendency may be hereditary. Her mother was Miss Holbrook of New York city, who went to Mobile, Ala., before the war ona visit to her uncle, Rev. J. In- graham, autnor of the book, “A Prince of the House of David.” She married there William G. Chandler, a wealthy merchant. ‘They lived happily together until Frank Dubassy, a captain on the confederate side, turned up, Chandler fell ill: no one at- tended him but herself, and it is said she killed him, She - moved tc Macon, Ga., and married Dubussy. He was sent to Burope as a rep- resentative of the confederate government. Two days after sailing he died, and at her request the body was thrown overboard. In two years she returned to New York and made a great scandal with an actor, returned to Europe, and married Baron Von Rogue, and led anadventurous life. After having separated from Von Rogue, she lived as the wife of an attache of the British legation at ‘Peheran, Persia. Mrs. Maybrick is the daughter of Chand- ler, and has a fortune in ber own right. Her mother had a mania for collecting poisons und gathered specimens from all parts of the world. She had an intimate knowledge of the nature and effect of each of the deadly agents. Mrs. Maybrick 1s well known in New Orleans and her brother is the popular song writer, Stephen Adams, Er i T SEATTLE'S FIRE. The Reported Losses of Life Not Con- firmed. 4 PortrAND, Ore., June 8.—Tho latest dis- patches from Seattle fail to confirm the re- ports of tho loss of life during the fire, While the flames were raginga man was seen carrying a fire brand across an alley to a house that had escaped the flames. When a special policeman commenced shooting at him, to avoid the shots he darted into the house he had fired and never came out alive. While the Occidental was burning Officer Campbell saw a man trying to get mto the Puget Sound National bank by a back en- trance. He ordered him to stop and the man Urew a revolver. The officer took it away and led him toward the county jail. The man struck the policeman in the face and ran. The officer fired three shots at him and brought him to a standstill. Among the heaviest losers are: Occidental hotel, $150,- 000; San Francisco stove, $100,000; coal bunkers, $150,000; Toklas, Singerman & Co., £550,000; Chester Cleary, $200,000; G. H. Frye, §75,000; Seattle Hardware company, §75,000; Frankenthal Bros., $80,000; W. P, Boyd, 875,000; W. C. Squire, $03,000; Me- Donald & Co., £75.000; Seattle Improvement company’s bunkers and oftice, §150,000; opera house. §75,000. A spectator looking south from Union street can see for the distance of a mile noth- ing but charred and bent rails, blackened telegraph and telephone poles, twisted wires and uniformed guards. As far as it is possi- ble to estimate, not less than two hundred and eighty firms and persons doing business have suffered loss, Relief in the way of money, provisions, bedding, tents, etc., are pouring in from all directions, To Ask Aid for Seattle HARRISBURG, Pa,, June 8,—Governor Bea- ver has invited Governor Hill, of New York, to join him in a proclamation to the people of New York and Pennsylvania, inviting “them to make special contributions through their churchos to-morrow for the relief of the sufferers by the disastrous fire of Seattle —— Firing av Boulanger. (Copuright 1589 by New York Associated Press.) Pamis,June 8.—|New York Herald Cable— [Special to Tie BEE. | —Apropos of the senate commission, Mr. Reichart, an official at- tached to the ministry of war, who owed his nomination to General Boulanger, was ar- rested yesterday at midnight, under instruc- tions from M. Merlin, and conveyed to prison. The fresh evidence collected is, it is rumored, of anature to conclusively prove General Boulanger a participant in a plot against the state, i3 At the house of M. Becker one trunk con- tamning some thirty thousand letters, re- ceived by the brave general, were scized, among them being offers of service from government officers, both civil and military, pussiccli Al The Crop Heport, WasHINGTON, June 8—The weather crop bulletin for the week ended June 5, says the weather was gencrally favorable for al f crops in the upper Missouri valleys and corn 15 rapidly recovering from the effects of the recent frosts, considerable being replanted, More rain is needed in northern Minnesots and Dakota. ——— The Weather in Paris. [Copyright 1889 by James Gordon Bennett.| Pawrs, June 8.--| New York Herald Cable —Special to Tng Bee. ) —Yesterday was St. Medard dey, and, as sunshine predominated, it is fair to suppose that we shall have fine weather during the next forty days. The temperature at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon was 80= Fahrenbeit There was a light breeze from the southeast, and the sun blazed away with almost tropic intensity. At mid- night the Herald's thermometer registered 83% Fahrenbeit. i Al Break Feared. Pirtsuine, June 8.—It 18 reportea from Oleuan, N, Y., that the Cuba dam is giving away aud the people of Olean and Cuba are woving out of tueir houses, PEDAGOGUE'S AHEAD. Influence Exerted by the Schools masters in French Politios, LEGISLATING ABOUT SALARIES. An Increase in Pay Mounting Up Into the Millions. EDUCATION DEEPLY CONSIDERED The Roliocy of Barring Hoclesiastios from Educational Authorities. SISTERS IN GIRL'S SCHOOLS. A Motion to Defer to the Councils of the Commune Where Changes Are to Be Made—Jules Ferry Appears Again, Religion and Instruction, [Copyright 1889 by James Gordon Bennstt.] Panis, June 8.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tur Bree.|—The senato is dis- cussing the law, alrcady passed by the chamber of deputies, relative to the salary of toachers. Many grave questions are ine volved in the debate from an electoral point of view. The government majority in the chamber attach great importance to the pas- sage of the law, as the teachers play an im- portant political role, now-a-days, esvecially in the rural communities, where they form a sort of lay clergy. The village schoolmaster is almost always the declared enemy of the cure, occasionally also of the moire, especially when that official is elected as a conservative, and is an avowed opponent to the government. The rural teachers are very active election agents and wield a power that prospective candi- dates for re-election are anxious to conciliate. Thus 18 the first principle aud raison d’ etre of the law increasing their salaries. It is also the reason why the passage of the bill is so strongly urged by the government and 80 fought over by the larger portion of the republican party. But these purely electoral considerationg do not close the eyes of overybody to the serious objection put forward agamnst the law in many respects, notably from the financial point of view. These objections have been strangely stated in the report of the finance committee of the senate. They were dwelt on at length at the Palais du Luxembourg by M. Leon Say, and othe¥ senators. Theso adversaries of the law point out that it will almost immediately give rise to an increase in the annual expenses of the government of from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 francs, as the cost of primary education is heavy burden for the budget, and -will be still heavier one when the laws of 1881, 1883 and 1886 are in comnlete operation. The budget of vrimary instruction wil} soon, even withouv the proposed law, oxcend 70,000,000 francs annually, The erection of monumental school houses costs a great deal, while liacisations are a luxury not secured ad a small expense. The financial situation of the country is not sufficiently brilliant for it to persevere in such a policy with impunity, As far as the laicisation of schools are con- cerned the opinion is very generally entera tained by moderate republicans is that the time has arrived, if not to siop, at least, to move more slowly, and it is not only econo~ mic motives which justify this conclusion, It can not be deued that laicisation has aroused violent discontent in the country, When the municipal council of a communi desires sisters or nuns to be left at the hena of a girl's school, is it equitable or reasonable for the state to interfere on behalf of a dol’ matic principle in order to expel the sisvers from the schools and forcibly establish lay' institutions? Is there a free country in the world where, the commune, municipality, or any assembl« age, can override the heads of the faumilies who are not allowed & voice in the choice of the masters entrusted with the intellectual and moral education of their children? The present cabinet kuows very well that the government has gone too far und too fast in the matter of laicisation. Assurances have been given that the minister of public in- struction had declared to do nothing more in that direction, at least in connection with girls’ schools, witnout the consent of the municipal council of the commune in which the changes are made, but this concession depends on the will of the minister who may change his opinion or lose his oMce at any time. It would be well for the moderates to in- sist upon other guarantees aguinst furthew abuses in the matter of laicisation, The left center of the scnate have abou$ made up their minds that if the iaw for in- creasing the salaries of school teachers is passed, in spite of the serious objections that have been made to it, they will introduce an amendment to the bill, by which the govern- ment will be required, before it proceeds to laicisation of a school, to ask the opinion of the municipal council of the commuue in which 1t is located and to conform to that opinion, On the same day that these questions were under discussion in the senate, M. Jules Ferry was breaking the long silence he had imposed upon himself, and reappeared in the tribune of the chamber. In a long speech, he undertook the defense of the school laws, - and the general laicisation, which those lawa, established. He declared that the men who were in power when these laws were passed, who proposed and defended them in purlia~ wment, have nothing to retract und nothing to regret. In concluding, however, he made & strong plea for the re-establishment of re- ligious places, something not compatible with the maintenance and application of the laws which have contributed most toward’ fermenting religious discord 1o every village and hamlet in France, —— The Czar Threatens the Shah, LCopuright 1659 by James Gordon Bennett,) Bex June 8.—|New York Eerald Cable—Special to Tue Bee.|—A dispateh from St. Petersburg to the Cologne Gazette suys that the czar told the shab, and hotly, too, that if, while in England, he should, make any concens| unfavorable to Ruse sia, 100,000 Russian soldiers, now on the’ frontier, would be wmade tw march intq Persia, R Crops in Dakota. Sroux Favrs, Dak,, June 8.—[Special Tele: gram to Tug Bee.|—A light rain fell to-day, aud gave a much-needed relief to the crops. Almost everything nos been suffering fom, moisture, though the dumage thus far done varies in different localities. More rain within & few duye will bo absolufely necesy’ sary 10 suve the crops.