ESTABLISHED 1867.
WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1894.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
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T&&G-RAPHIC SUMMARY.
Interstate Commerce Commis-
'decides that the stipulations of the
cutnem ttailwayand. steamship asso
ciation arc in violation of law, and or
ders redaction in the rates from Cincin
nati and Chicago to Southern points. -
Col. Breckinridge's second effort to get
his Pdlard case up on appeal is unsuc
cessfcil. A negro in South Carolina
under sentence of death for "murder is
lynched. The Senate will begin hold
ing night sessions this - week. The
Maryland ovster dredeers convicted in
the Virginia courts, who unsuccessfully
appealed to the Federal court, have been
turned over by that court to the Virginia
authorities. -The Norfolk and Western
railroad shipped 208,000 tons of coal from
Norfolk during May, A dent has been
discovered in the bottom of the cruiser
Columbia ninety feet long, four feet
wide and one foot deep. Some of the
outer plates are broken and fifty-six
rivets shorn apart. The injury is supposed
to have been done in Delaware river.
There is a separation affected between
the 'Industrials" and the "Common
wealers" encamped near Washington.
The university of Pennsylvania boat
crew defeats the naval cadets.- Welsh
wins the pigion shoot at Long Branch.
Only 300 miners struck at Coal Creek,
Tenn. John Lavilich is held in New
York on the charge of stealing the jew
elry and stamp collection in Danville,
- Va., in March last. The Illinois Cen
tral is abandoning a number of trains
for want of coal. Some factories are
using corn with their coal. Ninety-
five miles of the track of the Northern
Pacific railroad is under water.
Hundreds of farms in Montana, never
before flooded, are under from four to
six feet of water. At Golden, Col., a
" man is mutilated, then hanged, for mu
tilating his step-brother. -At Rath
burn, Tenn., the stnJnng miners nre on
workmen as they come from the mines.
None is injured. Much apprehension
is caused in British Ministerial circles
over the avowed hostility of tne new
French Ministry to England. They will
oppose her in every port of the globe
where the two come in contact. France's
refusal to recognize England's right to
lands aaimed in trie Congo region is
liable to cause very serious ocmplica
tions. Sixty-one members of the
House of Commons give adherence to
the anti-Lords, platform of the National
Reform Union. -A row is -caused by
the secret sale, fey the warden, of the
doors of the church at Stratford-upon-
Avon in which Shakespeare is buried.
The Chicago, now in British waters,
successfully tests -a device made to stop
up shot holes in war vessels.- Col.
Breckinridge addresses a large audience
at Midway, Ky.- -Great excitement
prevails at Colorado Springs. Col., over
the presence in that town of John Calder
wood, of Cripple Creek, president of the
Miners' union. Atone time he was in
danger of lynching. AtCannelsburg,
Ind. , the strikers side-traok forty cars
loaded with coal and tear up trestles on
each side. Troops are ordered to the
-scene of trouble. A cloudburst raised
the Arkansas river at Cannon City six
feet. - At other points the rivers have
mot fallen any.
Keduced. Rates by Rail.
The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
way will sell round trip tickets for the
'following occasions: '
To Winston-Salem, on account'of the
session of the Grand Lodge knights of
.Pythias, June 20th to -21st, tiekets to be
; sold June 16th, 19th .and 120th, final limit
, June.23rd, for the continuous passage in
either direction. Hie following
rates
will govern from competitive points:
Wilmington, $8.95; E'ayetterllle, $6.15;
ftGreensboro, f 1.50; M&xton. $7.55; Rural
LrlalL 65 cents; Sanford, $1.75.
To Wake Forest, on account of the
ithe commencement of Wake :Forest col-f
lege, tickets to be sold June ctfc to 12th,
flood' for the return until June 17th. The
rate. from competitive points will be as
follows: ayetteville, $1.00; Greensboro,
$4iQ0; Maxton, $5.00; Winston, :$6; San
ford. $2,40.
ThaSeaboard Air line will sell round
trip tickets to ;Davidson. college, on ac
count of Davidson College contmence
mecd. June 5th to 14th. The rssie from
Wilmington will 6e $7,92. Tickets will
be sale June 8th to 14th, good to return
until June lth.
Well .Said.
A correspondent writing to the MES
SENGER says: .
"The Board of Magwtrates meets Kon
day to elect County Commissioners &nd
1 believe the average citizen in Wil
mington thinks it would be a . public ca
lamity if Horace A: Eagg is not re
elected as a commissioner and then re
elected by the Board of Commissioner
as ehairmtn of that board. You well
know that he has done more for' the
county of Isew Hanover than any other
citizen in "Wilmington and our people
certainly owe him a debt of gratitude on
account of Lis splendid work for our
public schools. His eminent public ser
vices deserve recognition at the hands of
our peopte and they now have a fine
opportunity to demonstrate their appre
ciation of this valuable public servant."
m Don't be talked into having an opera
tion performed or injections ofcarbolic
acid used as it may cost you your life
Try Japanese Pile Cure.
ft PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
AN EXPLOSION IN AN EMPTY
WHISKEY BARREL.
The Jamesville Fire Incendiary
Only Two Stores Left--No Elec
tion to be Held on Bond Issue ,
Efforts to Purchase a Gift
For the Raleigh Uni
versity Commence
ment Exercises.
- Messenger Bureau, )
Raleigh, June 2. J
Governor Carr returned from Augusta,
Ga., this morning. His visit to that city
was most delightful. He attended a big
barbecue yesterdav and made a brief
speech.
The Governor to-day appointed Dr. W.
R. Word a director of the insane asylum,
vice Dr. Kirby, who has now taken
charge as superintendent. Dr. Wood
left this morning for his ' home in Hali
fax county, where he will resume the
practice of medicine. During his five
years' residence here Dr. Wood greatly
endeared himself to the people.
Late news from the fire at Jamesyille
is that it was of incendiary origin and
that eleven stores were burned, leaving
only two in the town. The fire began in J
rear of S. L. Wallace's store. The post
office was burned. The fire broke out at
midnight.
The military company at Warrenton,
formerly a fine one, will be reorganized
next Monday.
Last night the board of aldermen of
this city rescinded the order for a popu
lar election in July on the issue of $50,
000 in city improvement bonds. Consid-
eraDie opposition to tne measure was al
ready developing and a newspaper con
troversy had begun. The people would
certainly had voted down the proposi
tion, as they did last year.
Mr. M. J. Hawkins of Ridge way has
purchased and will operate the Green
Hill woollen mills at Mt. Airy.
Renewed efforts are now bemg made
to raise funds with which to purchase a
gift for the cruiser Raleigh. The fact is,
the city itself ought to present a be)l or a
service of plate, or something of that
sort.
Dr. Hubert A. Royster, of this city,
(son of Dr. W. I. Royster) won the hon
ors at the recent State medical exami
nation. He has also won the highest
honors at the medical department of the
university of Pennsylvania and is the
president of the class of '94, which grad
uates next Thursday.
Mr. Samuel Berwanger left to-day for
Europe to be absent two months.
The weather here is much warmer to
day, to the great satisfaction of the
farmers, many of whom were becoming
very blue by reason of the continued
cold weather.
The dockets at the Federal court, which
begins here, next Monday, are a little
heavier than usual.
The institution for deaf-mutes and
blind has closed its term. Some of the
pupils left for home yesterday evening.
Next term only the blind will be here.
There are said to be 750 blind children
in the State.
, A queer addition was made to-day to
the collection of the antiquarian society,
in the shape of a hat made of straw,
which was owned by Wesley Moss, of
Raleigh, for seventy-one years.
There wa3 an alarm of fire this morn
ing, the first in almost a month. The
damage was to the roof of a house, and
$1 will cover it.
The'block system has been put in
operation by the Seaboard Air Line in
this city between the Union passenger
station and its Johnston street station.
The announcement of the marriage of
Professor . Gerald McCarthy, State bot
anist and entomologist, was a little pre
mature. He was married here this after
noon, at Christ church, the bride being
MissJLdelaide Dixon, of Virginia. She
is said to be an accomplished young
woman.
On the 26th instant Miss Lizzie Jack
son,' only daughter of Mrs. C. S. Jackasn,
of this city, and granddaughter of the
late Governor Jonathan Worth, will be
married to Mi . Haywood White, formerly
i. of ihis -citv bu now connected with
the
Southern-Associated Press at Washing
ton. The marriage will be private and
at Mrs. Jacksohs house here.
The commencement exercises of Mor
rson .& Densohte Raleigh male academy
will be held next Friday, and Mr. John
C. Scarborough will deliver the address.
There was a itrange accident here this
jnorning. On the side walk at the side
of a drug store was an empty whiskey
ibarrel. A little negro struck a match
and dropped it in the bunghole. Charles
sHackney!, a 12 year old negro, was lean
ing over the barrel. There was a loud
explosion and Charles wac thrown into
the gutter, the blood pouring from a
cut in his forehead, while his hair was
scorched. The fellow who dropped the
match ran off and s not known. Hun
dreds of people quickly gatfcered at the
scene of the explosion.
The invitations to he State university
commencement are handsome. The
marshals are Edwin Warren Myers, of;
Washington, N, C, cfcief ; Herbert Bing
ham. J. L. Patterson, v R. E. Zachary,
Murray Borden A. B. Kimball .and F. B.
jucjinne. xoe graduates are rx. n. At
kinson, L. E. Barnes. E. W. Brawley,
W. P. M. Currie. A. C. Ellis, E. E. Gil
lispie, W. F. Harding, J. R. Harris, L.
N. Hickerson, S. ! A. Hod gin, W. R.
Kenan, Jr. , T. B. Lee, G. R. Little, J .
M. Oldham, G. E. Petty, Chas. Robert
son, Thomas Rollins, James Sawyer, T.
C. Smith, Jr., E. H. Snipes, L. M. Swmk,
Nathan Jones, C. L. VanNoppen, C. H.
White, T. J. Wilson, J. W. fiates. The
graduates in law are Victor H. Boydea,
Claudius Dockery and O, H. Smith,
Long Branch, N, J.t June 2. Welch
won the pigeon shooting match by kill
inn eighty-four birds out of 100. Work
killed eighty-three.
NOTIFIED OF HIS DANGER.
The Citizens of Ijaurmburg Notify J
James H. Barefoot, the Supposed
Incendiary; That to Save His
Life He had Better Leave
the Town. r
Correspondence of the Messsrener.
Laurinburo, June 2.
The numerous burnings in this town
during the last year have been a source
of much anxiety to the citizens. After
along, patient, diligent effortonthe part
of five detectives, at an expense of some
thing less than $1,000 to the citizens' com
mittee, sufficient evidence was procured,'
it was thought, to convict James H.
Barefoot and Joe Jordan. Both were
confined to jail. Jordan having confessed
and implicated Barefoot. At the trial
it transpired that certain influences had
been brought to bear on Jordan and he
denied having anything to do with the
burnings, and, in so far as his testimony
could, exonorated Barefoot.
Jordan was sentenced to twenty
years in the,, penitentiary. He is now
dying with consumption, and in the face
of impending dissolution, makes a reit
eration of all of his confession and ex
plains matters not heretofore explained.
Very few have doubted but that Bare
foot was the more guilty of the two, and
many wished to see him suffer, the
extreme punishment for arson; but
being a law abiding community,
tne hand of violence was staved.
Recently, however, feeling has grown,
and to prevent what has been feared, on
yesterday afternoon forty of the best
citizens of Laurinburg, comprising men
of every profession and avocation, from
banker to journeyman the doctor, the
lawyer, the dentist, the merchant and
his accountant, all classes except the
preacher met in the Methodist church
yard (where is being built a
handsome new church upon the
spot of the one burned by in
cendiary torch last July) aDd thence,
proceeding quietly and calmly in a
double column, they marched to where
Barefoot was at work and told him that
the people of the town looked upon his
presence as a menace to its interests and
that sone of its helpless and defencelesr
were terrorized thereby; that they ad
vised him that his safety required
that he leave the town and take
iled b?m and him to serious
5nT1typr. tiW aaH tllJls ns a warn.
nis raraiiy witn mm: mat nis stay , lm-
ing and not as a threat: that it was the
opinion that the going down of the sun
on the third day thereafter would better
see him gone; that no man of all that
party could promise him any safety
after that time and even at that time it
could not be guaranteed. Having
said this, through their spokesman, the
crowd quietly dispersed.
This may seem a hard and harsh pro
ceeding; but it is the cool and deliberate
judgment of cool and determined men,
all of mature years, most of them mid
dle aged, some with heads white with
the snows of many winters, who planned
the meeting twenty-four hours ahead of
time, and quietly, cooly and deliberately
warned the man of his danger. Not one
in the crowd but believes Barefoot fired
two widows' houses and one church.
The "warning" he gave was but a mo
ment before the startled and helpless
children had to be snatched by frantic
mothers and in their night garments
hurried to some place of safety. The
citizens tacitly promise him their pro
tection for three days, and then they
fear for him if he does not nee. They
say all: "Let mm be warned.
The Colored Churches.
There will be preaching to-day at the
First Baptist church, corner Fifth and
Campbell streets, at 11 a. m. Sabbath
school at 1 p. m. The Lord's Supper will
be given at 3 p. m. Freachmg b p. m.
Strangers and friends welcome. Joseph
Spells, pastor.
Mt. Calvary Baptist church, corner
Bladen and Ninth streets: Sunrise prayer
meeting, -services 11 a. m., 3 p.m. and
8 n. m. The Lord's Sunner at 4:30 d. m..
conducted by Rev. B. J. Brown. Every
body welcome. ev. C. B. Waters, pas
tor.
There will be services at Mt. Zion A.
M. E. -church to-day at 10:30 .a. m.,
p. m. and 8 p. m. All are invited to at
tend. L&rma B. Sims, P. C.
Regular services at St. Luke's A. M. E.
Zion chureh to-day, at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m. Services also at 3 p. m. Sunday
school at 12:30 p. m. All invited. A.
McL. Moore, pastor,
Services at the Chestnut Street Presby
terian church to-day at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. Young
People's Society of Christian Endeavor
at 6 p. m. Visitors welcome. D. Brown,
paster.
Atithe Central Baptist church, corner
Seventh and Red Cross streets, Rev. L. T.
Christmas, pastor, there will be services
to-day at 11 o'clock a. m., 3 o'clock p. m.
and 8 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 4
o'clock p. m. Visitors, friends and
strangers welcome.
Services at Trinity M. E. chureh, cor
ner Brunswirk and Seventh streets, to
day at 11 o'clock a. m., 3 o'clock p. m,.
8:39 o'elock p. m. The Rev. Robert An
derson of Georgia, will preach for us at
3 o'clock. All are invited to come and
hear him. S. P. West, pastor.
Shiloh Baptist church, corner Walnut
and McEae streets, P. V. Maloy, pastor,
I preaching to-day at 11 o'clock a. m. and
o ciocK p. m.
Sunday-school at 12:30
o'clock p. m.
p. m. Society
o'clock p. m.
welcome.
Lord's Supper, 3 o'clock
Christian Endeavor 4:30
Visitors and strangers
' The Holiday Movement.
Due to the refusal of some of the
goods merchants to co-operate in
Friday half holiday movement it
dry
the
has
proven a failure. We take this method
of thanking our employers for their
willingness to aid the movement and
their promptness in formulating a plan
(to provide a holiday for us during the
summer months.
Employees of Katz & Polvogt. f
AT FEVER HEAT.
GREAT BXCITEMENT AT COL
ORADO SPRIN&S.
The Presence of President Calder-
wood, of the Miners Union, With
Governor Watte Angers the
..- Populace Threats to Lynch
Him Made The Au
thorities Uneasy
and Watchful..
Colorado Springs, CoL, June 2. Gov
ernor Waite, accompanied by Private
Secretary Lorens and John Calderwood,
President of the Miners union at Crip
ple Creek, arrived in town this evening
from Victor. The party went into con
ference with the principle owners. - Pres
ident Calderwood was not present at the
conference, being excluded because he
would in no wise bs recognized as a part
of the conference. While the confer
ence' was in session a large crowd
gathered outside. Many threats were
made, somc) favoring the arrest of Cald
erwood, and others lynching. The
sheriff and a large number of deputies
were on hand to protect - both Governor
Waite and President Calderwood.
At 7:30 o'clock p. m. the conference
adjourned for suppar and then, if . never
before, did Calderwood learn the feel-
ing of the people in the vicinity. Gov-;
ernor Waite stepped to the door and ad ,
dressed the crowd as follows:
"Gentlemen I understand there is a
great deal of excitement out here andJ
down in your city over the presence of
man named Calderwood. He is here
and came with me. But he has nothing
to do with the conference. He came
with me in my private car and at my
invitation, and he is my guest. ' He is
going out of this hall with me and you
may do with him as you want, but: I
hope he will not be disturbed."
"Arrest him, cried several voices, and
the crowd surged after the Governor and
Calderwood."
EL G. Lunt, president of the Chamber
of Commerece, immediately addressed
the crowd, urging the people to do
nothing rash. He was greeted with
cne of "Shame," and "Where is jus
tices and many oaths, and it was with
the greatest difficulty the surging crowd
was restrained. Meanwhile Governor
Waite and Calderwood had disappeared.
The city remains in a most excited con
dition to-night and requires the utmost
watchfulness on the part of the authori
ties to maintain order.
Base Ball.
Brooklyn, June 2. Brooklyn, 1; Chi
cago, U. ualied on account or rain in
sixth innings. Batteries Stein and Dai
ley; Abbey and Kittredge.
New York, June 2. New York, 2;
St. Louis, 2. Called on account of rain.
Batteres Meekin and Farreil; Hawley
and Peitz.
BosTON,June 2. Boston, ll;Cleveland,
10. Batteries Nichols and Ryan; Clark
son and Zimmer.
Philadelphia, June 2. Philadelphia,
11; Louisville, 0. Batteries Weyhing
and Grady; Hemming and Earl.
Washington, June 2 Washington,
11; Pittsburg, 6. Batteries Maul and
McGuire; Ehret, Colcolough and Mack.
Baltimore, June 2. Baltimore, 13;
Cincinnati, 6. Batteries McMahon and
Robinson; Parrott and Murphy.
Memphis, June 2. Memphis, 5; At
lanta, 0. Batteries Wadsworth and
Bolan; Chard and Boyle.
Serious Effects of the Coal Famine.
Sioux City, la., June 2. The first
effect of the coal famine is being felt
here. The Illinois Central issued an
order " yesterday abandoning the local
passenger on its main line, a way
f reight.a meat train and passenger trains
on its Sioux Falls, Onawa and Cedar.
Rapids divisions. The fast express is re
duced to a local passenger. Factories
here have commenced mixing corn with
coal for fuel.
Strikers Firing on Workingmen.
Washington, June 2. A special from
Chattanooga, says: The striking miners
at Rathburn, this county, are becoming
restive. For a week past about a dozen
men have been at work - in the coal
banks, but yesterday afternoon several
hundred strikers gathered opposite the
entrance, and when the men came out
of the mines the strikers opened fire on
them. Thirty or forty shots were fired,
but no one was hurt. The men will go
to work Monday.
Strikers Supplied. With Bombs.
Burlington, Ia., June 2. The police
at midnight captured a lot of dynamite
bombs and fuses in the hands of strikers
or tramps in a box car near the railroad
bridge. All the men save one escaped.
Knoxville, Tenn. , June 2. There is
no truth in the sensational dispatch sent
out from JNasnviue tnat 4,U00 miners
had gone out at Coal Creek. There
were only 300 and it is believed they will
resume work Monday.
Highest of all in Leavening
i
Col. Breckinridge on the Stnnip.
Lexington, Ky., June 2. Col. Breck
inridge had an interview witlv. about 600
persons, of whom twenty were ladies, at
Midway, to-day. He spoke for an hour
and twenty minutes, and severely scored
his opponents. If referring to his chief
opponent, Wm. C. Owens, he said that
Mr. Owens could o back to his
gambling in Louisville and Chi
cago after the primaries; ' that
Mr. Owens was never in the race,
and that if he (Breckinridge) were dead
or removed from the district it would be
just the same to Mr. Owens, since he was
never, at any time, between him (Owens)
and Congress. He poked considerable
fun at Judge George Kinkaid who made
such a strong speech against him at the
mass meeting at Versailles yesterday,
but when referring to the address of Rev.
John R. Deering, who was his old war
comrade, he admitted that his words had
hurt him worse than anything that had
been said against him. If their places
could be changed," the colonel declared
he would not speak of Mr. Deering as
Mr. Deering had about him. He said
that the sufferings his old comrade's
words had caused him could not be paid
for by a lifetime in Congress. f'He ex
coriated 'Professor McGarveyV the
Ereacher, who has been so bitter against
im. ! ' ;i ' 4. . "' '
' After Col. Breckinridge finished, Evan
Settle, his other opponent, took the stand,
when; nearly fifty ladies marched into
the hall and were given seats by the men
who had occupied them lip to that time.
Then CoL Breckinridge and nearly , all
his followers left the house, and Mr. Set
tle finished his speech to the ladies and
Owens men, who. came in after CoL
Breckinridge had finished. ' -
Col. Breckinridge will speak at Frank
fort Monday and Settle at New Castle.
Ninety-fiye Miles cf Railroad Track
- Under Water.
Tacoma, Wash., June 2. Ninety-five
miles of Northern Pacific railroad track
between Horse Plains, Mont , and Hope,
Idaho, are under water. Definite flood
news was received late last night on the
the arrival of three detained Northern
Pacific overlands. Col. F. D. Huestis,
the railroad builder, was a passenger. He
says the water was still rising when the
train lef t Hope. Hundreds of - farms
along Clark's Fork, never flooded before,
are under irom four to six feet of water.
Settlers rushed to the highlands, but
hundreds of cattle and horses were
drowned. Several bridges have been
washed out. Overland traffic on the
Great Northern road is suspended on ac
count of a great washout west of Great
Falls, Mont. The Canadian Pacific road
yesterday began transferring by steamer
on the Frazer river from Ruby to Mission,
a distance of thirty-five miles. Between
these two points there are washouts.
The San's Cotton Review.
New York, June 2. The Sun's cotton
review says: Cotton advanced 1 to 2
points, but lost this and closed weak at a
decline for the day. of 3 to 5 points, with
sales of 48,600 bales. Port receipts were
3,422 bales against 1,276 this day last
week and 3,087 last year. Liverpool
advanced 1 to 1 J points, closing steady
with sales of 10,000 bales at firm and un
changed prices. To-day's features were:
There was a slight adyance at the open
ing in response to an active and higher
market in Liverpool, but selling later on,
both for long and short account, turned
prices downward and at the close they
showed a market decline for the day.
The crop advices state that some injury
has heen done by cold weather and in
some sections rain is needed, and yet
that on the whole the prospects are
fairly satisfactory.
Col. Breckinridge AgalnTJnsuccesral.
Washington, June 2. Counsel for
Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge to-day were
again unsuccessful in their attempt to
file a bill of exceptions to the decision
rendered by Judge Bradley recently ln.the
.rouara vs xsrecKiariuKw urcatu ji
1 - Tfc T r J . . .AT
promise suit. The previous effort, which
was maae on iast juuuusj, iuir wo pui-
for the
pose of securing Judge Bradley s ap
proval of the bill of exceptions 60 that it
could eo to tne court oi .appeals ianeu,
because sufficient " notice Had not oeen
given the plaintiffs lawyers. To-day's
proceedings were held before Judge
Bradley for the purpose of saving the
point, but the motion was overruled.
What the next step will be to comply
with the requirements in
appealing the
case is uncertain.
The Middies Defeated
Annapolis, Md. , June 2. The univer
sitv of Pennsvlvania eight-oared crew
defeated the United States naval cadets
in a three mile straight away race on the
Severn river to-aay. me starting point,
was just beyond Greenbury's point in the
u Phariatft lmv and the' finish on-
posite the Santee , wharf in- Annapolis
harbor. Pennsylvana won by seven
lenaths. Time. 19 minutes 33 seconds.
Mutilated. Then Hanged.
Golden. Col.. June 2. Alexander
MrChiTdv. who horriblv mutilated his
step-brother, Charles Berry, whonv he
suspected of intimacy with his wife, last
winter, was taken from jail this morn
ing and lynched, after being subjected
to the same treatment he gave Berry.
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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ANOTHER WAR GL0UD.
FRANCE'S HOSTIL B ATT1T UDJZ
TOWARD ENGLAND.
The French Ministry Determined to
Oppose EnglandC Wherever the
Nations Come in Contact A.
Legislative Fiasco Pend
ing Sale of Historic
Church Doors Falu
', able Invention.
London, June 2. The formation of &.
French Cabinet with three Ministers
MM. Poincare, Delcasse and Hanotanx.
avowedly hostile to Great Britain, excites
grave apprehensions in English Minis
terial circles, The record of M. Hano
taux, the new French Minister of For
eign Affairs, places him in the front
rank as a combatant of English occupa
tion of Egypt and a militant advocate of
French rights in New Foundland , in the
protectorate over Siain, in French ex
pansion in Africa and generally an enemy
of England wherever the latter comes
into competing contact with France.
MM. Poincare and Delcasse have delib
erately expressed their determination ta
oppose the Anglo Belgian agreement, in
regard to the Congo frontiers, hot alone
by protest, but by active measures and
to vindicate the claims of France in the
territory of the Upper Nile. Other mem
bers of M. Dupuy's Cabinet ' are also
known to entertain strong anti-Engliab
views and it is consequently held as
certain that a diplomatic situation with
a severe tendon between the two Gov
ernments is about to set in, embracing;
the whole field of international disputes
If the colleafiues of M. Hanotaux give'
him full support, aggressive movements
in Newfoundland, Siam and the region
of the Upper Nile may be expected.
Regarding the immediate subject of
difficulty, the agreement between Great
Brit in and Belgium , Lord Rosebery's
declaration last evening flatly denying;
the right of France to interfere, will hp
no means meet the difficulty. Tbcr
French expedition, which is now march
ing from the French Congo territory
toward Bahrel Ghazel, will not ba de
terred, under instructions from Minister
Hanotaux from - occupying territory
which England holds only upon paper
rightst Tne Earl of Kiuiberly, Secre
tary of State for Foreign Affairs,
to-day .received a communication
from M. Da Crais.French Ambassador to
England, explicitly declaring that.
i ranee holds the Analo Bdtdan agree
ment as invalid, and it is absurd to as
sume in the face of this notirication.thatr
the commander of the French expedi
tion has uot received instructions to oc
cupy the disputed territory. It is the
opinion of officials of the foreign office
here that everything poiuts to the ulti-r
mate reference of the matter to an inter
national conference or a board of arbi
tration, but it is a question whether the
bellicose Dupuy will assent to either.
Anyhow thre are lively times ahead for
England. .
A legis'ativt: fiasco appears to be Im--
pending in the present session of Parlia--
ment. h.ven with the most rigorous ap
plication of the closure rule, tha budget
clauses will occupy the attention of the
Mouse of Commons until the middle of
July. The Ministerialists admit that the
Welsh Church Disestablishment and
Local Option bills must be dropped 'and
the Registration bill limited to a brief
and non-contentious .measure, simply
shortening the period of the residence
qualification. This will so thoroughly
emasculate the bill as to deprive it of
any benefit to any one in particular
and make it not worth while for tha
opposition to resist its passage. Tfco-
McCarthyites have been given tne assart
ance that whatever bills mav be- Deces
I sacrified, the Evicted Tenants' bill
I will be passed before Parliament is pro
I rogued, but as the measure is certain csf
I prompt rejection by the House of Lords
m 1 AX. V X a.
uw uuverxuaeni piease to pusn xiib-
I measure through does not fill the hearts-
ui uio waucia ux uie xrisu party wxtn aire
great degree of joy.
Sixty -one members of the House oi"
Commons have now given assurance o'
their adherence to ; the anti-Lords? plafc-'
form of the National Reform union. The
progress of this movement will force thev
conference of the National Liberal f edsr-
auon. to do neia at leeas, to pass reso-
I lutions advocating more extreme meaa-
1 ores. The Speaker says the unity of the
Liberals and their political future de
pend upon the result of the anti-Lords
campaign.
A row has occurred in the to wn of
Stratf ord-Upon-Avon over the d oors of
the church wherein : the immortal bard
was wont to worship and where lie hi
remains. The warden of the church sokL
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tensibly to be repaired. They were-
the doors and they were taken d own, os
traced to the yard of a lumbe r dealer
who will be made to restore them and
the warden will be disciplined.
A device for stopping up shot holes inr
war. vessels, invented by a marine engi
neer named Douglas, and accepted by
the British Government, has been tested,
by the United States cruiser Chicago. It'
resembles a parachute with a rubber
cover, supported by steel rib s. It is
pushed through the hole made by the
shot when it expands and clings close to
me outside of the vessel, preventing any
rush of water. Capt Mahan and LientL
Commander Glover, of the Chicago, are
much pleased with the device, and
Lieut. Cowles, naval attachee at the
United States Embassy, has sent a speci
men of it to the Navy Department zX
Washington. J - '
The Danville iSramp TbiefCaxurbX.
New York. .Tnne 2. John Ija.vilir.r
21 years old, a view photographer of C3
Forsyth street, was held for trial in ths
Tombs Police court this morning on a
charge of grand larceny. On Marc&.
27th it is charged that he while in the
Hotel Carolina at Danville, Va., stole a.
lot of jewelry and rare stamps, wortl
$750, from Edgar Nelton a stamp cc&
lector.
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