Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1891, Page 1

N\ TWEN’ ~ PART 1. | k- Y-FIRS CHANCE FOR A LIFE, Active Efforts to Save Mrs Maybrick, the Alleged Poisoner, STORY OF THE SENSATIONAL AFFAIR, Emphatic Demands Will Be Made for the Woman's Release. WILL QUESTION THE QUEEN'S DECISION. Proceedings in the Case Rot Warranted by English Law, SYMPATHETIC STRANGERS' KIND WORK. New Evidence Daeveloped to In- nnocent Being is My dicate That an Buffering i Her Imprisonment —Walting for Death. |Copyright 1891 by James Gordon Bennett.) Loxnox, Aug. [New York Herald Cablo—Special to Tne Bre.|-Mrs, May- brink is to be saved from lifelong imprison- ment unless the plans of hor friends mis- carry. It is likely that withina few days an application *vill bo made for a writ of habeas corpus, upon which it s proposed to test one of the most extraordinary points ever raised in a British court of justice. The pre- rogative of the queen in commuting the sen- tence of the alleged husband poisoner will be put upon trial in a way which may startletho public. No less a firm than Lumley & Lum- ley, the great Loudon solicitors, have the matter now under consideration. In her dim coll at the Walton prison the frail nttle American awnits death or madnoss. Her mother, Baroness Caroline Deroque, is at Rouen, France. Her cowaraly paramour, Brierly, has abandoned the helpless prisoner and gone to live across the seas, Her chil- Agen are too young to know anything or ABanything. In the eyes of the law Mvs, Magbrick is dead. She has no civil rights and a0 means of communicating with thoso who might help her to freedom. ‘Fhe home scorotary has closed the door and will mot open it. This woman s an American. It is now fu tho power of the American government to help her by giving official countenance to the effort to set her free. Many of those who s engaged in the present work arestrangers 10 Mrs. Maybrick. They are acting out of a pure conviction of her innocence. Surely the American government might show some official in the case of a native born American that has excited so much compassion in the bosoms of strangers. W hat the Secretary Could Do. Instructions from Mr. Blaine to Minister Liucoln would enable the lawyers of the Maybrick committee to see her at loast. The committee being British, scarcelv knows how to approach Mr. Biaine. But the case is famous enough aud the facts well enough known to warrant the initiative step being taken by America, The retirement from the bench of Justice Stephen and the speech in which he virtually acknowledged the pub- lic suspicions of his mentel capacity, is it- self deoply signficant, but during the two years silence that bas followed the trial of Mrs. Maybrick one man has toiled steadily 10 unvavel the mystery surrounding her ter- rivle fate. This man has never seen her. She does not at this moment even know -his name. He is Alex Wiliiam MacDougal, tho barvister of Lincoln's Inn who presided 0 public meeting held to protest against » miscarriage of justice which resulted in the counviction. With the assistance of a few public spivited men and women who have taken interest in Mrs. Maybrick, he had traced out step by step the remarkable series of events that led to her downfall, He has written a large volume on easo whicn has just been published. In 3 book Mr, MacDougall arraigns judge, Jufy and all who were interostea in convic! ing Mrs, Muybrick. Ho wakes publio new ovidence and private lotters throw strong light upon this case, but it is upon A point of cousti: tutional law that the new attempt to pluck tho prisonor from the cell is to be made. It 1s not an appeal for pardon, but a demend for an uncorditional discharge, based upon the law. Basis of the Appeal. The tost is to be made upon tho de- cision of Mr. Matthews, the homo secrotary, in advising the queen “to respite the capital sentence on Florence Muy- brick and to commute tho punishment of penal servitude lor ife, inasmuch as all the evidence leads cloarly to the conclusion that the prisoner administerad and attempted to administer arsenic to her husbund with intent to murder, yet it does uot wholly include & reasonable doubt whether his death was in fact caused by the administration of arsenic. The home sccretary came to this decision, “after taking the best medical aud legal advico that could bo obtained.” Tho counsel have examined the laws of England back o the time of Ed- ward and have found without any exception hay the power of the sovereign to use the supreme prerogative s strictly confined to acts beneficial to & subject and ths sovereign caunot use the royal pre Togative to injure a subject. Mrs, Maybrick was indicted for murder and tried for mur- dor. She was not ealled upon to answer any other charge. The home secrotary has de- clared there is a reusonable doubt that Mr. Maybrick died from arsenic poisoning. He bas declared it offcially in most explicit torms. It is true, ho thinks, thay Mrs. Maybrick ungestionably attempted to poison ber husband, but that is not the question. She was not tried for attomptiug. 1+ was gaiust the law to try her on such a g The grand jury indicted ber for ¥r ma M Jusd Stephen fn charging the jury said: Mt s essentiul to this charge that the man died of ofson and the poison sugwested is arsenic. *his question you will have to consider and t must be the fouudation of judgment un- favorable to the prisoner that he died of arsenie.” [f Mrs. Maybriok was not guilty ot murder, then the roysl prerogative is being unlawfully exercised in keeping her in prison for an offense of which she was not accused — npting to comnitt murder. wiechuical Explanations. -« s the way Mr. MacDougall puts it: “1f Mrs. Maybrick is gullty of the crime lai to her oharge Mr. Matthews commwitted a s breach of contract Dbetween the and the people by advising R n mlfl?en. at his mere will and caprice, toin- tewfere with the course of justice, and Mrs. Maybrick ought to bave beou hanged August ™ ho day appoluted for the execution, sud | YEAR. THE OMAHA SuUNDAY BEE. her body ought now to be within the precincts of the Walton jail if Mrs, Maybrick s, as the jury found its verdict, guilty of the murder. As thers were no ox- tenuating circumstances which could justify the exerciso by the queen of the prerogutive of mercy, any interference with the sentence of law by Mr. Matthews was a gross and glaring attack upon the law. But if the lying buried ause of death was not arsenlc, James May- brick was not murdered, and neither Mrs, Maybrick nor anybody else could have been the murdercr. ‘Lhe verdict of the jury which found he had been murdered by Mrr. Maybrick is, by the very fact that he verdict was not murdered, & quashed Any sentence pronounced on that verdict 18 an invalid sentence and the crown cannot lawfully carry out an invalid sentence. “Mrs, Maybrick may lave comumitted every other crime in the decaloguo but if she did not commit the specitic crime of murder, for which she was indicted and tried and on which ste was found guilty, aod senten to death, she is, under the magna chatta, entitled to her freedom, and the queen, by the coronation oath entered into by contract with the people, must observe the gna charta, the thirty-ninth article of which 1s that no freeman sball be seizod or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or bauished or in any other way destroyed, nor will we sit in judgment upon him nor will we pronounce sentence upon him except by the legal judg- ment of his peers and by the law of the land.” Theory of Her Attorneys. That is the case that is to be presented and Mr. Matthews says thero is a rosponsible doubt that Mr. Maybrick died of arsenic, and Jus- tice Stephen declared from the bench that unless Mr. Maybrick died from arsenic there WS 10 case against the prisoner. It is a olear point. The arrangements are now being made by Messrs Lumiey & Lumley. The strongest available logal minds in England nave been brought to benr on the case. Already one of the most eminent men of the government has privately given outa favorable opinion in the matter. Still an- other gateway to freedom is provided in the suit brought by Mr. Cleaver, Mrs. May- brick’s solicitor, against the New York Mutual Life Insurance company for £2,300 insurance on the life of Mr. Maybrick. The policy is for £2,500, but £200 was paid without protest, but the insurance company 2laimed 1t was not bound to pdy in case the nrder was committed by a beneficiary. The courts have decided if it was murder the company is not obliged to pay, but Mr. Cleaver challenges the insuranco com- pany to prove the murder. Tho verdict of the Livernool jury will not do it. It is notevidence in acivil action to avoid paying the sum claimed on the policy and the company will be forced to prove the crime by witnesses in court. That will give the de- fense a chance to iutroduce a mass of newly discovered evidenco, the most important thing of which is that Mrs, Maybrick can be called and sworn as & wit- ness. She was not allowed to testify in ber own bebalf in the Liverpool trial. The court simply permitted her to make & brief statemeut and refused to allow proof of the same statement. Kears of the Compuny. The insurance company fears to fight the case and may succeed in backing out by effecting & compromise with Mr. Cleaver. The frieuds of Mrs. May- brick feol confident thoy can establish her innocence. The troublo is, Mrs, Muy- brick is not assigned her rights in the insur- ance policy by Mr. Cleaver and should the company make an ofler to compromise the case, it would be in s power to deprive the helpless woman of her opportunity by set- tling the matter outside the court. It is a question whether with Mr. Cleaver on one side and the New York Mutual on the other, either could afford to have the compromise. If the compauy declines to fighf in the court on the ground that it might lose £1,000 or £15,000 in costs, the daugerous precedent will be established. The chances are, though, that the question of murder will be tried again and the whole Maybrick case re- opened. Oue of the most important things dis- covered since tho trial is the prescription for face wash contain- ing Fowler's solution of arsénic show- ing that when Mrs. Maybrick declared in court that she nsed arsenic iv & face wash, even beforo her marriage, she told the truth, The very chemist who disposed of this ar- senic uas been found. Mrs. Maybrick claimed that such a prescription existed and wroto to her mother from prison saying as much. Tho New York prescription was made out on a blank from Wenck's pharmacy, 1200 Broadway, and it gives the following: Solution arsenic, chlorate potash, aqua roseere, aud adds, “apply with a sponge twice a day.” The vrescription is signed “Bay 09, W. 23 st.” MacDougals’ story of the finding of the prescription explains why it could not be produced at the trial, 5 He says: “Among the very few things which Mavbrick brothers, the legatees, al- lowed Mr. Cleaver to have out of the house was a bible which had belonged to Mrs May- brick’s father. After the trial Mr, Cleaver gave this book, together witha few other little articles which had belonged to Mrs, Maybrick, to her mother, the Baroness Roque, who months afterwards happened to turn over a leaf in the bible and came across a small plecs of printed paper with a New York chemist's label on the back of it, which was the New York doctor's written preseription for an avsenical face wash," In dealing with the events of the night be- fore Mr. Maybrick aled, when Mrs. May- brick claims to bave confessed her mis- conduct with Brierly to her husband and obtained his full forgiveness, MacDoug- all throws out many dark nints as to the mo- tive for fastening the crime upon Mus, May- brick. He says “on that Friday evening at about 7 o'clock, just before dinner was served, & rather remarkable thing occurred, which was kept back at the trial, but which must not be kept back now and must be thoroughly investigated as also the reasons for keeping it back. 1 shall give a description of that occurrence as has been supplied we vy two servauts, Elizabeth Humphries, cook, and Mary Cadwallades, the parlor maid. The afice clerks, Thomas Lowrey and George Smith came up to the house to' get some papers. Michael and Edwin May- brick were th and took them up to James Maybrick. After some time James Maybrick began shouting at Lis brothers in & loud voico whigh could be heard all over the nouse. He cried, 'O, Lovd, if I'm to die why am I to be worried like thist Let me aie properly.’ He was very violent aud shouted out very loud. Contesting His Will, “Both Humpbrey and Cadwallader saw Edwin Maybrick come out of the bedroom with the paper in bis band and say that Alice Yupp, whom they describo as kuowing and (CONTINUED ON SIXTH PAGE.) [ OUR WHEAT. WA ernment Shall Suspend Grain Duties, MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS CIRCULATING. Emperor William, as a Temperance Re- former, Awakeps Much Discussion, AN EX-UNITED STATES CONSUL DISGRACED Becoming Short of Funds He Raises the Wind on a Bogus Draft, WORLD'S FAIR ENVOYS SUCCESSFUL WORK Russia, Austria, Switzerland and the Other Buropean Governments Will be Represented at Chicago— O1d World Gossip. [Copyrighted 1891, New York Assoclated Press.) Benviy, Avg. 20.—Orders have been issued by the government calling upon the agricul- tural district officials to report as to the con- dition and probable yield of wheat and rye. These roports are to be made beforo Septem ber 8. Further reports concerning the po- tato crop ave called for and these must be in the hands of the goverument before Septem- ber 20. The governments of the other German states have also been directed by theimperial authorities to expediate reports as to the con- dition and probable yield of the crops in their respective statos, Numerous roturns have alroady reached Herr von Berlepsch, minis- ter of commerce, and the data erived from them have been submitted to the emperor. Suspension Grain Duties a Necessity. Judging from the altered tone of members of the ofticlal circles, a suspension of the im port duties on grain is becoming a recognized necessity. The ministers will not wait until November to submit che question to the roickstag, but immediately upon the conclu- siop of the digestion of the state statisti will declare the duties suspended. The North German Gazette published an article on the subject in which it avowed that the main reason for the zovernment in hitherto refusing to lessen or suspend the duties was tne fear that the reichstag would, once they were abolished or reduced, never allow them to be restored or raised again. The statement raised a storm of protests, in which the agrarian journals ail joined. The notion that a suspension of the duues weant their permanent abolition is denounced as absura, in view of the fact that the reichstag, which has yet three years to live, has a clear protectionist ma- jority, ready to impose the duty when the government desires, In the meanwhilo what measures are possible will bo taken tolighten the hardships resulting from the deafness of rye. Market speculations are sternly dis- couraged, The prices of rye show a frac- tional diminution; on Monday, when the quotation for September delivery was 240 murks per 1,000 kilos, today the price was 230 marks. The Reich bank has been authorized to make advances up to two-thirds of the value of grain placed in depots. Importers have made every exertion to supply the depots. Until yesterday, when the Russian prohibition came into force, the frontier railways did a great carrying trade. The mixing of rye with wheat has already been largely resorted to. and nothiug but this mixture is now wused for making bread for the army. No precautions are now taken to arrest the popular agitation for the suspeusion of the grain duties, Tomor- row public meetings will be held here, in Hamburg, and in other populous centers. At these meetings the progressionists and social- 1sts will unite in preparing memorials to the government expressing the great uecessity of taking immediate action looking to a reduc- tion or suspension of the duties, The Berlin Grain exchange is awaiting cagerly the pro- ceedings of the international grain market which opens in Vienna on Monday. For the Repression of Drunkenness. The Freissinnige Zeitung has decided to oppose the main clauses of the government's bill for the repression of drunkenness. The ultimate fute of the measure may be pre- dicted, as it is modeled after a bill of similar import, which was introduced in thé reichs- tag in 1881, and which was dropped in com- mittee. The leading ministerialists are the only Aualporlors of the present bill and their support is due simply to the fact that the emperor who is the father of the bill, is in earnest In his efforts to sup- pross tho growlng evils of intemper- ance, Yot the roposals contained in this bill cannot ‘strike foreigners, who are accustomed to liquor legislation as being sovera, The measure provides tha’ retail liguor dealers must supply food besides spirits and are_forbidden to sell liquor to persons under 16 years of age. They must not serve a visibly drunken person or one who is known to be a confirmed drunkard. They must see that drunken persons are guarded to thelr homes or protacted by the police, and thoy must not supply liquor on crodit, The most drastio clauses of the bill provide for the forcible committal of con- firmed inebriates to an asylum, for the keep- g of public houses closed until 8 o'clook in the morning and fixing the minimum quantity of spirits to be sold at half a litre. It is not expected that the govern- ment will persist in passing the bill in its entirety. If the government can get a measure of kindred naturo to those accepted by the countries where thero are temperance reforms it is known that there will bo satis- faction. The revival of the Servia-Bulgarian war re is not echoed in official quartors here, The war office is ready to face surprises from any side. Acting in the interssts of peace, Chaucellor Von Caprivi and Count Kalnoky, the Austro-Hungarian primo min- ister, hive joined in asking the Turkish gov- ernment to intervene between these two states, Advices received from Constanti- nople tonight are to the effect that the porte has sout & note to Servia in regard to the massing by that country of troops on tne Bulgarian frontler, ostensivly for manoouy- res, Thenote calls upon the Servian gov- ernment to hold the manoeuvres in the inter- for and not on the border liuo of Bulgaria. The intervention of Turkey 1n this matter is based upon her rights as suzerain to protect Bulgaria, Princess Bismarck made her first appear- ance in society since her illnoss at a dinner givon by Mr. William Walter Phelps, the United States mivister at Hamburg, last night. World's Fair Missionaries, Messrs, Handy, Peck and Butler, thros of the foreign mombers of the Chicago Coluwm- viau exhibition, who have been visiting vari- ous Russian cities, will shortly arrive in Brussels, They have described their recep- tion by M. De Gier, the Russian prime min- ister, as being of the most cordial nature, M. De Giers stated that he regretied that the ozar had just loft the capital prior to the ar- rival of the commissioners. Fis majesty, the prime minister said, would have been pleased to meet them. ) ischlogradsky, the min- ister of finance, promised that he would at an early date appoint au imperial commissioner to attend to all matters pertaining to a roper representation of Russian art, in- ustey and manufacture. It 18 probable that a war-ship will be detailed to convey the Russian exhibit to a point in the United States. Mr. Handy, in referring to the ex- perience of the commissioners in Austria, said that whatever opposition th in Vienna to sending exhibits to Co fast disappearing. g0 Wis had beeu | Increasing Demands That the German Gov- | | 4 ceeded 1n disabusing the minds of the manu- facturers, who were prejudiced on account of the McKinley bill, e The eleven days’ tout of Grosvenor and Lindsay in Switzerlandl govered every industrial center in the 'y. The last place they visited was St. Qall, the chief seat of tho great embroidery industry. Bvery- where they were told that they could rely upon an ample representation of Swiss products. . Percy Tightman, who &t one time was United States consul in this eity, but who subsequently became notorious for his swin- dling operation, has been at his old tricks again. He called upon the Landres bankers atthe Hague and stated that he was thejAmer- fran vice consul at Shefiold,“ Eogland, He negotiated a draft for §£200, drawn on a house in Washington, The Landres knew Tight- man when he was in the consular service at Rotterdam, and they therefors cashed his draft, which subsequently \groved to be spurious. The police ave lookingsfor him. It is supposed that he has gofie on a trip up the Rhine. W. E. Hoyt of New York, who was ar- rested at Cixhaven at the requestof tho American authorities on the charge ot em- bezzlement. has been released from custody after baving been ten weeks in prison. It has been decided that the offense with which he is charged is non-extraditional Mr. Mosler, the Americau artist, has again addressed & remonstrence W* Director Von Werner against granting his pictures at the international art exhibition only honorable mention, Mr. Mosler has many sympathiz- ers here on account of the injudicious distri- bution of medais to exhibitors on that oc- casion. The fall f President Balmaceda of Chili is received with general satisfaction here. The sition of the new Balmacedan war ship Presidente Pinto, which is now at Kiel, is a matter of discussion among uaval offfcers, owing to the different circumstances which now attaches to her. Her eommander ex- pects to remain at Kiel until he can obtain orders from the constitutional government at Santiago De Chili. e BROM PILLAR TO POST. Sad Fate of a Party of Emigrants ‘Who Sought Homes in America. New York, Aug. 29,—~The Russian immi- grants who have not been allowed toland,not- withstauding the efforts made in their behalf by Coroner Levy, will toddy start on their dreaded homeward voyage 'on the Hamburg steamer Morsala, Writs of habeas corpus have been 1ssucd in some cases and ten of the band will remain prisoners at tho bargo office until their cases aré decided by the courts, As for the less fortunate ones, they were yesterpay huddlod together in the steerago of the steamer, despair plainly pictured on their faces. Ong woman pro- testod 1o a reporter that she had eighteen roubles left and if permiti to land would take care of herself and little ones. A young mother of 21, who {s_sccompanied by her husband and two babies, said in a calm, hopeless way: ““We might as well walk off that plank into the water; that’s all that is left for us.” 5 The most touching case is that of the young woman who lies in heg narrow wooden buok with her new vborn infdut. This child is ouly four days old, having/been born since the steamer reached this pork.. It is, there- foro, an American citizen, The " mother grn s that he may die rathier than be seat ack to Russia. ¥ *This child,” said the purser of the Mar- sala, *is an American, and :u.p right to re- main in this country, It i§ & shame to send this family back.’ ¥ {‘What will be the fate o#hshese peopie whker:ithey land in Hamburg{/; the reporter “They will not_be sl wedi*0 stay in Ham- burg. Theywill be sent by railat once to the place from whence they came.’ ‘‘And then what?” “‘Ah,” said the official, with a shrug of his shoulders, *‘who knowsi They wiil simply be prisoners, They will not be allowed to remain in their native towns, but be driven from one place to another as {hey havo boon.” “Will the Russian government allow them no home in their country 1 *Noj; except in Polish Russia, They may be atlowed to stay there.” There are amoag the party a number of children of all ages, The laws demaund $1,000 vonds iu the case of each immigrant before they will be allowed to land. These bonds might have lfiau obtained had not most of the wealthy Hebrews been out of the city at this time, General Overne of the barge office is re- ported to have had a conference vesterday with the acting secretary of the treasury and a reprosentative of the Baron Hirsch fund. This was construed to mean thiat an applica- tion for permission for the immigrants to land would be made to the authorities at Washington. =y THIN SKINNED. Exceptions Taken by a Wilkesbarre, Pa., Capitalist to a Minstrel's Joke. WiLKESBARRE, Pa., Aug. 20.—Billy West of Primrose & West's minstrels was arrested during the performance at the Music hall last night by Sheriff ‘Robinson, charged with slander by Arthur Frothingham, a capitalist of Scranton. Mr. Frothingham undertook to build & mammoth arcade business block in that city, but the building was nover finished and it hasbeen an eve sore and a by-word. Last night Frank Cushman, comedian, sald to the middleman that he had sold 850,000 bottles of eye wash at §1 a bottle, and when asked what he was going to do with the mony replied that he would give it to Frothingham to fin- ish the arcade. ‘T'he joke made the crowded house roar and Krothingham, who was in the audience, claims that West added *But you will never get it back.” He had a w. rant issued for Wost's arrest and a wealthy citizen became bondsman for West. Ho wiil have Frothingham arrested for false arrest. West says he never mado the romark charged. The sheriff is searching for Cush- man, and Frothirgham s sworn out a warrant for his arrest. — FOUR KILLED, Freight Trains Collide with Fatal Results, SrriNoriELD, Mo, Aug. 20.—Near Brush Creok, on the St. Louis & San Francisco road this morning two freight trains going at full speed collided, kiliing four men and demolishing both trains. Those killed were: GBI‘A)KUE HUSTON, engineef of train 266, zod 3. C. 0. BRIDEWELL, euglnobr, of train 183, aged 7 1ARRY M. JOHNSON, firemun of train 206, aged 12, ABRAM NOBLE, fireman of traln 183, aged 2. Two brakemen whose names eould not be learned were also injured, but it is thought not fatally. The men killed were all resi- dents of Spriugfield and leave families, Passenger trains were delayed until late tounight on account of the wregk. The cause of the accident is not known, WEATHEK FOKECAST. For Omaha and vicinity—Fair, stationary temperature, For North and South Dakota—Slightly wurmer, variable winds and generally fair Sunday 'and Monday. For lowa and Nebraska—Generally fair and stationary temperature Sunday; warmer and fair Monday. For Kansas—Continued warm weather; fair Sunday and Monday. For Missouri— Slightly warmer; generally fair Sunduy and Monday. For Colorado—Slightly warmer; fair Sun- day snd Monday. e Steamship Arrivals At Queenstown—Alaska, from New York. At London—Sightea: Europe, from Balti- more; Bourgoguey from New York At Philadelphia—Montans, from London At New York—Etruria and Bothnia, from Liverpool; Wieland and Columb's, from ‘The cowmission had suc- * Hamburg, OMAHA. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1801-TWENTY PAGES DEFEATED BY DEATH. Efforts to Hold England's Ministry To- gether of No Avail. DEMISE OF POSTMASTER GENERAL RAIKES. Lord Salishury Much Disturbed Over the Unexpected Vacancy. STORY OF THE PREMIER'S LONG FIGHT. Oherished Hopes of Lord Randolph Churchill Suddenly Orushed. PRESENT ~ POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS. Active Preparations for a Campaign Against Parnell Giving Rise to Va- rious Kumors—Ambitious to Succeed Balfour, |Copuright 1591 by James Gordon Bennett.| Aug. 20.—[New York Herald Special to Tue Bee.]—For upwards of four years and a half Lord Salisbury has contrived to hold the government together without a single change or break. Just before Christmos in 1886, Lord Randolph Churciill thought to capsize the entire government coach by resigning his office as cnancellor of the exchequer but this grand coup did not have the effect unticipatea. His post was speedily filied up and he has been wandering some what mournfully outside of the camp ever since. Lord Salisbury has been left ab- solute master of the situation, One of the premier’s chief aims has been to avoid any shifting of offices until the last year or two. A cortain number of the conservatives wero ready to press Lord Randolph’s return to the ministry whenever an opening occurred. Lord Salisbury bas always tried to pre- vent any such chance happening, hence Mr. Smith has been almost forced to retain his position as leader of the house long after ho wished to rotive. Frequently clamors for the home and sec- retary’s resignation have also been quietly ignored, but death is a messenger who will take no denial, and he has now created a gap in the ministry which must be filled up. Late Postmaster General Mr. Raikes worked himsclf to death, He was an excel- lent man aud a good deal abused by the press because he could not carry out impossibili- ties. 1 have often conversed with him on the subjects of these attacks and though he boro himself bravely under them it was evident that they told upon his spirits, It is never easy to submit to injustice and Mr. Raikes smarted soverely under it. Responsibilities of the Oflice. The work of his department is exceedingly heavy, for virtually the postmaster geueral here is responsible for the good management of every postoftice in the country, and almost for the good conduct of every postman. He way be frequently subjected to severe ques- tioning and criticism 1n pariament for some delay in delivering a letter in the remoto parts of Ireland or Scotiand. Mr. Raikes looked carefully into every de- tail of his business and neglected nothing. Au the close of the last heavy session he folt that his end was not far off and propared himself for death, and after a brief interval was carried to his grave. The queen, who knew what a faithful servant he had been, for nothing escaped her attention, sent a kind message to his widow and a wreath lay upon his coffin which was sent by her mujesty. Lord Salisbury must choose his successor, and that soon, and he will be drawn from the ranks of the ministry. Probably the new postmaster general will be Sir John Gorst, now under secretary for India. His place in tuen will be filled up by George Cur- zon, who was for a short time the private secretary of Lord Salisbury. Curzon attends but little in the house of commons, but he is the son of Lord Scarsdale, consequently his requisite family intluence will thereforo get him on. Maybe Sir John Gorst has higher aims. 1 hear Le 1s expecting to succeed Balfour when that gentleman gives up the Irish secretary- ship and takes Smuth's position. Sir John has been rather snubbed and kept back in the past, and now that he is wanted he may considerably raise his terms. Whatever may happen, no door will be opened for Lord Churchill. That is one thing certain. In personal politics Lora Salisbury is strong, and while he does not covet power, will do hus best to hold che fort, Irish Discord Increasing. ‘'he increasing dissensions in the Irish ranks give him an enormous advantage. Parnell has lost the Freeman’s Journ al and announees his intention of providing himself with & new organ in the Press, But where is the money to come from{ There's the rub, Timothy Healy has been making both Mr. and Mrs, Parnell the subjects of some very coarse remurks. Timothy Harrington attacks Dwyer Gray with great severity, William O'Brien and Joha Dillon are preparing for a vigorous anti-Parnellite campaigu, and alto- gether the once compact Irish party is torn with strife, anger and fierce divisions. Scarcely anybody in it now bhas the least hope of reconciliation. The war must bo fought out to the bitter end. The longer it lasts the more will the tories gain. Mr. Gladstoue sees the dauger, but he is powerless to avert it. Many of his follow- ers bold thathe did wrong in writiug his famous letter calling upon Parnell to resign. But for that the Irish party would never have thrown Parnell over. As matters stand, the whole Gladstoman army is in a state of chaos, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. EUROPEAN CKOP QUTLOOK. Now Assured that America Must Sup- ply a g Deficien [Copyright 1491 ny James Gordm Bennett.) Loxboy, Aug. 20.—[New York Herald Cablo—Special to Tue Bee.|—The leading grain men of London say that this week has been disappointing. With the sort of weather we have had wheat should bave gone up a shilling &t least iustead of which the dealers got & bare three pence. It is the uncertaiuty about IRussia that is keeping things so dead. According to the best infor- mation the quantity of breadstuff brought into Eogland during the past week bhas been only moderate. A little has come from Iudia, Persia and New Zoaland and the rest from America. Oue dealer sald to me today that America has practically to supply the world. He was surprised that Americans did not take advantage of the opportunity of putting up prices. ‘‘They are in a-very sorry plight in German,” said he, “for not ouly are they un abletoget thewr usual supply of rye from bad. Potatoes are greatly us food, ang the result is that Germany had % uy more breadstuffs to make up the defi % - in the potato crops. Reports receivi % m Ger. many speak equally as bad of thi Wough the man government tries to al it The outlook is dark.'* The Herald's Liverpool corrd wnt says that the quantitios of whoat \ ur now afloat destined for Great Britain i- ed at 2,161,000 qu tors, which, corpared with this time lust year, shows an immense falling oft, The diminuition 18 priv 1n the California and Russian wheat in the closed warchouses in Liverpool com- pare unfavorably with the same period last year, the totul in crain storage being now 116,084 quarters against 200,652 quarters in 1800, Imports into Livervcol for four days of this week are 43,787 quarters of wheat, 18,430 sacks of flour, and the total since PAGESTto NUMBER 3. STORIES FROM CHILL Some Reasons Why the War Broke Out—A Balmacedan Version, AN EXPERT OPINION BY A NAVAL OFFICER He States That Fealty Among the Chilians is a Marketable Commodity, BALMACEDA SURELY LONE FOR THIS TIME, Deserted By His Troops, His Geuerals August 18 307,117 quarters of wheat and 03,217 sacks of flour, which will not cover the estimatea weekly requirements which are 80,- 000 quarters of wheat and 20,500 sacks of flour. Good judgos considor that the wheat must 0 up higher still. They base their ovinion on the deploted state of the stocks and the fact that of the 5,000,000 quarters afloat only two-fifths belong to England. HIS MAJEST WHISK RS, Royal Sensation in Germany's Capital the Subje [Copuright 1891 by Jam=s Gordon Benne't. ] Loxnoy, Aug. 20.—(New York Herald Cable—Special to Tur Bee.)-—-The news from Berlin is that the German emperor has created a sensation by growing a futl board It bas changed the whole look of his face. Ho begins now to resemble his illustrious father, the Emperor Frederick. The haughti noss that characterized the young sovereign's sharp cut countenance is softened by the light brown beard with which his majesty is delighting the court and people. Ever sir.ce the accession of William II. to the throne, every young German who could grow a blonde moustache, has tried tolook as much like the emperor as possible. Now all is changed. The barbers have received hints that “the Kaiser beard is to be fashionable, but what will the kaiser beard be!” ‘The emperor’s new enterprise has not yet developed so much that its ultimate charac- ter cau be determined. Ho may divide his beard and brush it apart, or he may let it erow naturally. He may crop it closely or may wear it parted. The general opinion 1s that a pointed beard would be too Freuch for his majesty, Among serious people the new beard is taken asasivn that William II. is weary of being referred to as the “young emperor” and is anxious to do every- thing likely to add to his dignity as a man and monarch, *“Tne czar hos a beard,” snys the German of philosophic mind, “and why should not the kaiser have a beard " A ROYAL MURD ERER. HE W Rudolph, the Dead Austrian Crown Prince, a Murderer. New York, Aug. 29,—The Worid will pub- lish tomorrow, exclusively in America, but in conjunction with the London Times,which holds the original manuseript of the hitherto suppressed pamphlet prepared by the family of the late Baronne Marievetzeera, who was found shot.tu death, with herlover, Raaolph, crown prince of Austria, at Mayorhng on the 80th of January, I The pampnlet was to have been published to the extent of fifty copies to be circulated among a few friends 1n order to vindicate the memory of the unfortunate young lady. But the Aus- trian court, to whom it was distasteful to have the crown princo go down to posterity as & murderer or as & suicide, eaused the printed sheets of the pamphlet to be seized in the publishers hands but the origina) manuscript was secured from the family by the London Times and is now made public by the World by special arrangement and sim- ultaneously with the London T'imes, The pamphlev tells the whole story in so circumstantial a manner, backed by auto- wraph letters, as to leave no doubt as to its value as an historic document. It gives a concise narrative of the affairin so detailod «a way that its accuracy apparently cannot be called into auestion, An important feature, according to the mother’s story. is the infamous part piayed in the tragedy by no less a personage than the niece of the empress of Austria. This distinguished lady’s actions are given with the fullest of detail, and the pamphiet necuses her of being not only tho inter- mediary, but a blackmailer as well. Baroness Marie's last letters to her family are likewise made public, and tne story is told how a for- tune teller was made to play & mysterious part in the tragedy which deprived the Aus- trian emperor of his divect heir and tho Vel family of a favorite daughter. Briefly summarized, and as told In the young eirl's letters, the story is that Baron- Mario Votzera, then | vears old, fell in love at first sight with the crown prine thatshe frequently mot him in the ord social way. Finally she entrusted ber to Countess Larisch, the ompress of Aus tria’s neice, and this lady at once undertook to act us & go-between, while taking advan- tago of ner knowledge of tho state of affuirs to levy vlackmail from the priuce, At oue time the mother of the girl sus- pected that something was amiss, but Count- I risch was ready with some plausible tale. The facts of all'this are given in great detail in the pamphlet. At last the giri fled to Mayorling, by ar- rangemont with the prince and a few honrs lator her death was known by the emperor, but not by the distracted mother, who in vaiu implored tho chicf of police and Count Taafe, the Austrian premier, to cause a searchi 1o be instituted for her dauehter. Tho trutn of the double suicide, or murder and sucide s at last definitely established by this publication, Tho news of the death to the mother by the Austria. The pamphlet sh the prince’s mind had long before beon given to thoughts of suicide, but that Mario did her best to dissuade him from this fatal step. 1t was not until bope for both of thow hud fled that she resolved to share his death. Kor the first timo is revealed the in- dignities offered to her dead body. How she wus carted away in a sitting posture botween her two uncles, even a coftin being denied her by her relatives wuen moying her, bow her mother was persceuted and villifiod, how everything wus done tolay the blame on the girl, forms a harrowing story, ns told by the mother. ‘The alleged falsehoods circulated about her are oxposed and the daugnter's dying messages are given. - STRICKEN WITH AVOPLE was broken empress of s that n A Senator of Kentucky ously 111, LovisviLie, Ky., Aug. 20.—It is reported here that Senator Blackburn was yesterday stricken with apoplexy at New Castle, about sixty wiles from Loulsville. [lis friends bave kept the matter sécret to save him an- noyauce. He rallied raplaly and is thought now to have quite recovered. posiend il After South n Outlaws. Monie, Ala, Aug 20.~Unjted States Marsbal Walker, with a possé of forty sclected detectives from Alabams, Missis- sippl and Louisiana leave at 2 o'ciock this aftornoon via speclal train for Buckalema, on the Mobile & Ohio road, taklug horses, am- | munition, campiug outtils, ete. They o for the purpose of raiding stills aud breaking up | Russis, but tho potato crop is turnlug out | the Sims gang efiectually, Killed, His Cours: is Run, FIERCE FIGHTING AND HEAVY LOSSES, Troops on Both Sides Fight Bravely— Herole Conduct of Balw OMcers—An Inciaent of the War. coda's Wasmiaroy, D. C., Aug. 20.—Since the receipt of Consul McCreery's cablegram last night aunouncing the capture of Valparaiso, no furthor official news has come from the seat of war, NEw York, Aug 20 —Willlam Bvans, counsel for the Chilian logation, makes an autborized statoment concerning the Chilian rebellion of which the following is a syn- opsis President Balmaceda was clected five years ago by the lLiberal party, consisting of A number of factions. In forming the cabi- et all tho faction could not be pleased. uo different cabinets were formed but still the party was dissatistied. “They regarded Balmacedn as their creature, but the president retused to be dictated to, He acquiesced, however, in the domands of cougress 80 long as it was possivle to do o conformably with the provisions of the con- stitution. The president has the power under the constitution to remove and appoint his ministers at will. Still 1t has been the custom of the president to romove his mi ters only on a Vote of censure or want of confi- dence. “Cougress cavtiously and ‘from im- proper motives determinod to avail itself of this extra coustitutional custom for the pur- nose of compelling the president to submit to its dictation, Cougress had the power to impench the ministers, but proferred to bulidoze the president. The president submitted, until Turther submission mean al abdic tion of oftice. Then ¢ d to pass any of the appropriations. They thon de- termined to remove Balmacodn, notwith- standing the constitutional provisions that a ent cannot be impeachiod until the ex- piration of bis term of office. Congross, how- over, declared tho oftice vacant. ‘I'hen came the open rebellion. The opposition majority in congress declared itself 1o be the govern- ment and went on board # man-of-war with mutinous oficers. Ouce the navy mutined it became imperatively necessary to muintain in- ternal ovder at_any price. Bulwaceda made a declaration of martial law and the suspen- sion of ordinary judicial writs in certain classes of cases. The rest of the history of volution is of recent occurrence and ar to all. Cutcaco, 11, Aug. 29, —Lieutenant Com- mander C, ‘Todd, execntive officer of the United States gun-boat Charles- ton, arrived today At the Audi- tovium diveet from San I'rancisco. ‘The news of Balmaceaa's dofeat published in todays papers he read with some incredulity. “I know the exact condition of affairs so well,” he said, “that T am inclined to wait longer betore fully believing that Halwaceda was actually overthrown. I know that his forees outnumbered those of the congress- ional party two to one. At the same time I know that there is not n wan in Chili that could not bo bought, and a change in the relative strongth of the armies nced not cause surprise.’ SaN FiaNcisco, Cal, Aug. 20.—A corre- spondent from Santingo, under dato of the 2ith, says: “The American minister here received much favorable mention for visiting pohitical prisoners and in many instances alleviating distress. Ihrough his - encrey the life of the former president’s son, Pinto, was saved and pormission accordod him to leavo the country with Captain Frederick and Pudre Domso. The wife of Austin Iid- wards and his mother, with several other ladies connected with heads of the congressional part have been or- dered to leave Chili by the mext stoamer. When askod what would be done if they refused to go, Balmaceda sent word that a file of soldicrs ' will be sent to enforco the order. So large a number of arrests have been made since the departuro of the last steumer for Callos, that in Santiago and Valparaiso the streets seem deserted of citizens, and the place is like a foreign place, Congress had beon discussing the national bunk question, With sixty miliion dollars capital guaranteed by the nitre beds of Tara- paca, the correspondent says the bill will probubly become an act. WasiiNgoy, D C., Aug, 20.—Senor Montt tonight recoived the following cablogram : 1QUIQUE, Aug. 20, —Dom Pedro Montt, Wash- ington: The triumph in Placidin has been complete. Commendante Montt communis the troops of Balmn odn numbered Throe thousand prisoners and all tillory bus been tuken The torpedo ats Ly i Alden and all the rest in our power. Valparafso wis aceupicd withou re- wistance. Vieuna. Goldoy, Bananos ninister ot the fnterior) and Viel, in te of Valpa- ralso, have fled to forelgn vessels in the har- not boon heavy. Aug. 20, —At alate fonal euvoys fu this this dispateh from Iquique, and signod Brrazues cinl dis| ¢l from Com= of 1l nival bor. Our losses hav Wasuixaros, D, € bour tomght the cong city received dated August 2t According to Montt, for the battls of ¢ enemy lost 1,501 and an equal number of prisono were captured. Two thousaud ri were taken and a number of fied plece Our loss was 508, and among the killed were five ofticors, the battle of Placiila, the dofent of Buls sdic wits complot 1i8 two generals, Josn and A wore killed wid many - . the prestdent 1, o bourd' a foreizn wir bouts of Balmacedi uro unknown, dopartment also is without any word from Admiral Brown today, though for the absence of any news from Lim, the Navy department ofticiul thinks there ure good rea- sons. Ho has evidently, they say, been in communication with the United States consul at Valparaiso end must huve known that the latter has t raphied to Washington the res sultof yesterduy's battle Senor Lascano, the Chilian ministor, de- nied himself to ull newspaper peportors today. It is not believed, however, that he received any dispatches boaring on the war. Tue battie of Concon, the euvoys say, was fought on the first day the insurgent army landed in the vicinity of Valparwiso, The battle of Placella was fought yesterday. ‘The State department has not received any information today relative to the war in Chili from its representative in that country. The nou-receipt of news from Minister Egan at Santiago is believed to be due 1o the fact that either that city is still cut off from com- munication with Valparaiso, or else thero is @ cousorship over the dispatches sent from there, Pawis, Aug. 20. -The French oconsul at Valparaiso, in a cablegram to M. Ribot, the minister of foreign affairs, suys that after two sanguinary battles the conguering forces of the cougressiouulists have entered Val- paraiso in good o ry The dispatch states that communi cation between Santiago and Valparaiso hus uot yeu been restored, ke All Previous Records, Vascouver, B, €., Aug. 20.—The Csnmse dlan Pacifio steamer Empress of Japan ar- rived today from China and Japan, making the run from Yokohama in ten days, break- 10g all previous records, =