Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, March 31, 1891

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Pages 1 - 8 of the Winnipeg Free Press March 31, 1891.

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 31, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vol. Xv11 Winnipeg Manitoba tuesday ma11ch 811 1891. No. 269 Quick results from All advertisements in the free press want columns. 80 words in All Dally 26 cents. Wants. 1tastb0-Shoemakers. A. Gordon 214 wasted Shuk Halter Mott St. -1ttajjtfd-a g by itto Hart a Good servant girl. Apply wanted a first class female Cook Lor the grind Central hotel. Driver wanted apply j. S. Marshall. 333 William s scotch bakery. Anted a Good general servant. Apply Tonc at 325 St. A Machen girl. Mrs. Wood Corner Garry and Ellice streets. Classified advertisements. Classified Dvortly events of thirty Torua or Leas inserted of Tula pane of the dully morning free press nod Avo lung free press and Sun both editions or 35c. Prepaid por Day or si.25 week. Fob Sale or to rent. Rior rent River lot ten acres or More. Frt to Houne four Miles from pos office would make e. First class no rect Garden apply at 870 main Street. For Sale or to Rint Queen s Holtei in Quappelle Possession riven at any House and furniture in Good shape. Apply to g. S Davidson Quappelle station. T7ior Sale of so j boo. 5, to. 12 a r. 21, is in Stubbie Ono half mile fron Gokhool 11 Miles for run Alexander station. Apply to i. A. Patrick souls Man. Farm on Portage avo., with House and stable to rent. 30 acre fenced ready for crop or Market Arden. Apply to Dawaon Graham 1157 main Auer. Tuft i Frk weekly Bencs splendid farm 3pjl. 0 100, 40 cultivated 35 wire fenced in rec Frame House granary stabling 12 head 2 Goot Wells any Timber plentiful. Full particulars fron w. L., Whit Wood ., , Waggon maker first class apply letter to Jas. Sprout Hartney Us. Yit Aneed Agoo Cook kor the grand Vien hotel Brandon apply at once. A. D. F wanted Good general servant. Apply to mrs. Of. T. Rutherford 217 Vaughn 11tanted-at the general Hospital an sym ant laundress apply to the Matron at the wanted two Good Kitchen girls Good wages apply the criterion restaurant Sci i St. Wanted a laundry curl and polisher too to Carman Man., Good in Gas paid. Appl. To John ribs cell Carman. Man to solicit business from merchants. Mercantile Agency a pcs building Chicago Iii. Thoroughly competent neral work in apply to f. Fame Kiev press. Thorough Printer for general work in a Western town. To Ira Ted to rent about the 1st of by Hay a warm Small Houyao for family of three. Address Box 28, Krea press Ollice. Ti7-axted-Hyo rooms and Board by by 1st May by gentleman and wife South end of City pre red. Aik Luciw Box 210, Postoff Ioe win wasted a Good general servant Small family no washing. Apply Between id and 12 o clock in Tho morning to mrs. I. Walter Martin Sis William Street. Young Man who has had fifteen experience in Tho jewelry business writes to finish the Terrule under instructions. Refer sinces if required. Address Box c24, Morden Man. Wanted by oth april two plainly rooms. Suitably Arron cd for Light House keeping separate Entrance if possible. Write at once stating location terms etb., to k. So Tiri Iet Flucht City. Wasted people to Purchase their Homo made bread cakes and pastry at the . Lunch room and woman s Exchange 209 Aleu astr Street. Orders promptly filled. A Nice As Wrt Pentol fancy work for Sale. Ts7anted-at once 450 Railroad labourers 82 Vav to Day teamsters Rocic men Drill leis Cooks cookies carpenters to 83.50 and Oisin Ltha 18 months work. Apply it 560 main Shutel Wilson co., employment agents. W acted fifty recruits of. M. P. Force free transportation Farsi hands Tan ten and general servants. Ocean and rail Way for Sals to All Points at lowest rates. Apply to Alex. Calder c p. A. Employment and ticket agent and recruiting officer n. W. M. Police Street. Wanted housekeeper and married couple for country general servants nurse woks for he Tell Rrt Vata families chambermaid Kitchen and la undresses for City and country men and boys for farms. Allen s employment Wancy 52" Street. A cents wanted in every town and i. City of Manitoba and the Northwest territories k ctnvr.33 Tor the following works in darkest ii. M. Stanley the speeches of lion gilded of curler in search of by Jephson bibles family by big Csatho Tracher 9 Oxford Bible sets of authors. It Guron co. Booksellers and stationers Winnipeg Man. For Sale. B Rick we manufacture the Prew Brick Mauriac. Write for prices e. C g u Roy co. Fri ale Kight heavy draught horses Nintha. Intending purchasers would do to inspect this Stock before buy Nir elsewhere. Apply to Chamai Tobt cartage warehousing go. Sale a team of four Huskey dogs .1 Wilh Eimess Complete. Also a Strong Pony jul Light milk Wagon Rover. Apply to Purcea office. Of Sale a Bank of cattle consisting of upwards of Ido Hend of Elmosi entirely Rel Well Bod chiefly Durhams ranch i Jet cd tie South in Kitchawan 30 Miles Curry one of the finest locations in territory Well sheltered watered and wooded Jav a Ali Indence in dirt St spoons. Good ranch Iki ures. For further particulars Al to Curry Brns s Ift Cir Cit Assa. For rent or hire. St. K. Rear 467 main let a single room with Board. Law. Mamood o Riner Garry and Ellice streets. T 10 let comfortable furnished room with Board at 170 James Street. First Glass a Kment to let j. Floor with hot water Well Van acted. K. Kerr 467 main St. Rest a Virv desirable suite of Ironia in Tho Dundee Block also Jine Loroni. B Ock heated by hot water and has All modern 1x01 apply to in Inmond Bros. Moffat. R rent there Are still three rooms Tho Imperial bark Block. Hot water water no Rico a building and Halls lit by Light apply to Carruthers Brock 453 hotel and l1vkry stable to rent m and Luery stable in the town can be run in connection with each r apply to j. 0. Coition Moose t. Fp0 or kor Sale of favourable j. At Armstrong s Point hot system of with Good stable Neil Apa pounds. Apply Ulovle i co., 1s3 notre St. East. To Aud and rooms. And lodgings at 4m Logan St. Nicely furnished rooms with Board in private family by and nip preferred. Address p. De Coa Onman who understand toil May apply this week ii Lotter no Sil v at this office giving age farm of former service when recommendations. _ photographer. Is. R. E. Caril american Art gallery j main Street. A line line farm to Sunnyside 18 Miles from Winnipeg. The West halt 32-11-5, Docx House two Largo stables and other build bugs goo Pitog of water 60 acres broken and fenced. Appl 160 Stephen Street Winnipeg. For Sale or to of the finest locations in Manitoba three Miles and a half from the City being that portion of Lota 12 and 13 Kli Donan Between the Niin Highway and the River and contains 20 acres in one piece and ton in the other will be sold or let together or separately. Upon the tots Art two very Superior dwelling houses in Goot repair with Fine tube Wells enables coach and impute mint houses Windmill ice i be Root houses Aleo implements potato planter potato Digger horses now i a Largo Quantity of manure has been hauled upon the land during the Winter the land is also in splendid shape for Root crops. 350 bushels 01 potatoes to Tho acre was taken off lost fall Etc. Also about 2000 bushels of first class potatoes for Sale apply to mrs. 223 Gurry Street any Day be fora 2 . Properties for Sale. For Saiie-9150 will buy two lots on Al Fred Street numbers and 1.1s7. Apply to Geo Hague grocer Fon Roca Street. And wild lands for per acre and upwards on easy Tor a. Write for descriptive catalogue and Price list with maps tree. Osier Hammond Wanton land office 381 main St. Winnipeg. Is Fika w1u buy a very Cho be Cor tip i net lot on the Hudson s by. Good in this Section Are scarce and the above is one of Tho beat Barp tins available. Apply to s. A. Row both Ara co., 450 main struck. Farm for acres near Strath Clair on the Manitoba Northwestern railway with Frame House and 40 acres cultivated Worth per acre but can be bought for per acre two thirds Cash. Address ilium a Blain Reaburn Man. For St. Charles to acre farm about 6 Miles from City on Portage Avenue Road Good House barn and or binary Spring and Lota of Wood. Eighty acres under cultivation. Well fenced. Apply on premises or by letter tag. Kerr St. Charles p. O. Very desirable improved farm Absolm 12 Miles from Winnipeg Sej East and 20 acres Wood lot and Jolaine Frame dwelling House stables Etc. Of Good water about 80 acres under cultivation. Apply to s. A. Rowbotham co., 460 to treat Winnipeg. Meeting St. John s Lodge no. 4, a. F. A. Regular communication wednesday april 1st, in the masonic Hull Winnipeg at 8 o clock p. Ixi., Sharp. Visiting Bre Thren cordially invited. J. H Braden w. M. W. Bra Den Secretary. . Box Coo business shanties. Prenant wanted for general store x in the thriving1 Village of Mcgregor in order to is publish business. Rent n ill be very nominal. First class opening or general store or furniture store. Apply to Box 39, Mcgregor. Hotel business for Sale furniture bar fittings Stock of liquors and License of a Well furnished and Well situated hotel in the City o Winnipeg doing a Good Buburu is. Satisfactory reasons or Selling. Address Box Loii Winnipeg. A Nice snug business for Sale Gen Oral Stock of dry goods boots and shoes Groc erics in toe Village of Arlen Man. A first doer opening Only one other store in Tho place Liberal terms rent only816 per month. Apply Geo. H. Winnipeg por a rapidly increasing country town 120 Mil s West of Winnipeg on the m. N. A. A Good Butcher business with Tho Only four and feed store in Tho town in connection for particulars apply to j. Taylor Market Street Winnipeg. Notice. Scale repairing your Scales to our factory at Winnipeg for repairs we adjust All kinds from a Large Hay scale to a Small letter scale. E. C. Gurney co. Use mrs. Lucier s wonderful cough syrup Lor cold cough whooping cough la Grippe Etc., patented nov. 2, 1s91, Gold at Tryr Orcsi Leuce Winnipeg 181 and 183 Lombard Street opposite Cinadr hotel. Jost or found. Saturday 2sth March on j notre Dame Street Between Smith and main Atn cts a lady s Silver watch and Clain. Finder will Odense leave it at Tho fro press office. Notices of births in or Lorca and deaths fifty of sets each. Biri As. The 29th inat., at 100 Johnr lotto Street the of win. Simpson of n son. March 30, ato1 Adelaide Street the wife of w. A Mcnamara of a son. Bor Rahail on the 27th March Astl Scoate Assa., ., the wife of g. Betts for Rudale of a son. A be lighted Urock Liln Man. Brockville Timeo Ajr. John Stajgr who returned from Manitoba last night speak in glowing terms of the country. Lie went a3 far West As Brandon where he disposed of bid horses in bloc to a dealer there realizing food prices for them. His horses were taken Chron Mph in the famous Palace horse care build specially for carrying that class of Stock and the reached their destination without receiving a blemish. On his Way Back he noticed the Farmers along the line of railway All getting ready for seeding and the prospects appeared to be excellent. To was very much surprised at the Fine App of the ahead of had expected. In Winnipeg to made his Headquarters at the grand Union hotel Oue of the finest Boater Ries in the City and the landlord of which or. A. E. J. Percival went from the Brock Ville District and bos Moy relatives still re siding in Brockville and Vicinity. He Speaks in the highest terms of the Courtesy and kindness shown him by or. Percival during his in the City. Suit to recover no to Yolk March f. Woolston has brought suis against Thoa. 0. Power in the supreme court to recover dam Ages for breach of contract in the nun assignment of one half of thai Stock of the Helena water co., of Montana and one sixth in the West Side or new water company of Udena. Mont. Judge Barrett has allowed Power to inspect Tho option contract which Wool ton wish the stockholders. Van Horne s views on the Entrance of the c p. R. To new York City. It is to deliver local freight Noi to compete for through Tho Canadian Pacific no Dis in Rev of rates. New York March to Tho arrangement by which the Canadian of Towfic trains Are to come to new York Over the now York Central Lirie w. C. Van Home presi. Dent of Tho Canadian Pacific said to a Unith Preia reporter to Day we will continue to use the Home water town Ogdensburg rail Road under its new management get As we have before. We have no intention of buying the Rome Oldenburg Railroad. If Road had not secured the control of the Utica it Black River Railroad some time ago to might have bought the line. The tint Ranee we now have to new York Over the Homo Watertown Ogdoc Isburgh and Ontario Western ii satisfactory and the business we have with new York Over Tho now York Central connection u of such a local character that the new York Central will have no objection in covering it for a. At least 90 per Cento of the Bua Inena coming from a is local business of Canada. If we made an Effort to reach Down to Chicago and get a larger percentage of through bassinets at the expense of the new York Central and other trunk lines there might be object Tiona. The Canadian Pacific w not much of a competitor anyhow for through business. Rates Are now fairly Well maintained Al though the volume of business is not Large. I want it distinctly understood that the Canadian Pacific is not a rate disturber. It is True that i no longer attend Tho meetings of the trunk line presidents the last Oue i attended two years ago when an agree ment was made by All of us to abolish passenger commissions. That agreement Sta never lived up to by some of the line a. I decided that until satisfactory amends were made for the violation of that agr Filemeno i could not have Faith in the performance of any other arrangement and so concluded Noc to attend any More meetings. Our freight department is represented at the meet age but will not attend. I have said and am willing still to Eay that whatever agreement is made by the other trunk lines for the maintenance of rates i no willing to abide burned to death. John glib a Bachelor of Mcgregor Cre mated with Bis shanty. Man., March Gibb a Farmer living three Miles North of this place was burned to death this morning. The cause of the fire is unknown. Or. Gibb lived alone and was Well up in years. In is supposed that after lighting the Firo in the morning he went Back to bed and fell asleep. His chaired re Rains wore found near the door. It seems in had been making an Effort to escape Whon in became exhausted. Maissoneuv in Bronze. Montreal to have a Sti tue of its found pria the vouch a a army. Montreal March statue of Maisoneuve founder of Montreal arrived from Paris to Day. It is the work of l. P. Herbert and Cost to erected by the City in place d arms Square. It is of Bronze nine feet High and will stand on Granite it represents Maissoneuv in the act of planting the Flag. Fell into the thames. A boy Eddie Pritchell downed it Lon Don London March boy Eddie Patch la of London South fell into the thames while playing and was drowned. The elder brother narrowly escaped a similar Fate in endeavouring to save him no flood for Ottawa. The a Portere in Tho dam tit Batik Linn been stopped up. Ottawa March aperture in the i pm at hop Langer fron an insane Christian scientist her studies and practice too much for her Keason. New Yolk March special Frob St. Louis mrs. A. W. Gifford. Wife of the president of the Tamaulipas land mining and manufacturing company is re to have gone insane on Christian science. The family lived in a Brown Stone front on Olive Street and consisted of or. Gifford his Nieca and wife. The lady an invalid and her husband says he spent in a vain Effort to cure her. About two years she she had a vision in accordance witty which went to a cd Giutian science healer and was cured. This made a convert of her and she began studying. She soon became Heater heis Alf and her husband also espoused Tho Faith. She developed the highest Powers and was considered the very Light of the school Here and she and her husband tried to Mako a dept of the Little Niece but it is said failed in this. Mrs. Gifford s studies and practices then took n wider Range. She wont into hypnotism spiritualism and other Kindred occult mysteries. Recently the family disappeared and her hundreds of followers and friends have been wondering what became of her. To Day it developed that her reason had become dethroned. Many stories Are told of her vagaries and visions. On Oue occasion she took a live pet Parrot and put it in the Furnace and watched it Burn As an offering to Powers that controlled her. Then her Palady took a Peculiar turn and she imagined a1 Bronze cupid on her mantel was Tho source of her Power and inspiration and began a regular system of worship. Inquiries have Boen told that the family have moved away from the City but it ii. Said that mrs Giffard Haa been put in an insane Asylum for treatment. An Appeal to Force strikers in the Coke Region storm the factories. Much to bodies of special police on guard prospects of blood shod. A Back on the Rideau River s 1 red up and the water is falling so that All i serious damage by floods is Over. Kex Koltor West will go free. Ottawa match supreme court to Day reverted the judgment in Tho Case of Jas j. West sex editor of the Chicago who was convicted of embezzlement in connection with the management of the Tif airs of the times company and sentenced 10 the Penitentiary for five years. Or. West i been at Large of bail Siace he appealed rom the decision of the lower court a year Hill respecting the Export of cattle. Ottawa March department of Marine has a Bill regarding the Export cattle Trade now in the of the printers. It will be distributed in a few Days too la meter parties. Father and son lost. Tang cd a noised by a severe Colorado Snow storm. Desver col., March Clark a 107 sixteen years old who carries Tho mail rom Oil City Korongy i3 reported to Obs his Way and has not been from since eat sunday. The route is Over a terrible Inu try. The Snow in that Section is five feet on the level and the boy is supposed to have Obs his Way. His father. W. A. Clark started co Hunt for him Friday in to midst of a driving Snow storm and has not since been Beard rom. Search parties Ore looking for them Kotb. Yesterday a Hurace used by the father was found dead Between Ervay and Oil City. A rave apprehensions Are Hart for both. The storm is raging in thab Vicinity Aud it is Tho orb in the i Eticy of the country. Or. Kohs for minister. The Brandon saturday night commenting on the editorial in the free press urging Tho appoint intend of or. Roe As minister of Agri culture says there is not a newspaper or politician we Tuko it in this Northwest but will heartily agree with the foregoing senti ments of the free press. There is no question about it but a. W Ross will fill the Bill to a Dotin the department of agriculture. He is be Man for the position and a Hundred Good reasons might be adduced did time and space permit to Back up that opinion. As a matter if fact we Don t see How Tho government will to about in to get Over the claims of the Northwest in this matter if or. Carling re Iros. We Don t believe the government will by it. They must see the eternal fitness of appointing Ross As Well As the people of the Northwest do and that should Settle the Natter. If Carling retires then All Means Ross will be new York of la Grippe. New Yolk March Ungto of the Board of fro Day and 18 yesterday from Grippe. This make 130 in All since the Scourge made its last appear Ance. The american civil service. A. New of lands appoint vacant . Washington March Active Carter of Montana the newly appoint it commissioner of the general Laud office had an extended interview with Secretary Noble the result of which is he will accept the position and immediately qualify and Enber upon the duties of the office. Washington March Julius a. Lemickel of Indiana who has been under consideration by the president for Tho Posi Tion of United states treasurer in Case oho resignation of treasurer Huston was accepted 1ms informed the president through a Friend that he does not desire to have his name considered in connection with the place As his health is such that he could not possibly accept id if it a j tendered him. Or. Lem Wicko sails for Europe in a few Days. This loaves the question of the treasurer ship in the same position it has been for Soma tit no. The impression prevails that efforts Are being made to adjust the differences Between the president and or. Huston and that Thoy Are Likely to be successful and that or. Hus ton will serve his term of four years. A wayward woman. Poverty mid sin preferred to virtue and Prosperity. New Yolk March special to the Herald from Chicago says pretty Laura in Sumer would rather to bad and take Tho be Kooc and receive s. For tune of Laura is Tho heiress of her building contractor Worth also of her is Worth Sho on january 4th and was found last night in a poorly furnished room on state where she has been living with a Man whose name she refused to give. In spite of Ler parents entreaties Laura refused to Reform and said she would go Back to her Lover at Tho first Opportunity. She was sent to the Honeo of Tho Good Shepherd by Justice Prindiville on a heavy Fine. Recalling Baltimore riots. Tho Massachusetts veterans to revisit tie Sceno of their baptism of fire. New York March special from Baltimore to the Tribune says arrange ments have been completed Here to give the old 6th Manchu sorts regiment Fuh Earty Wel come on to their visit to Baltimore on april 19, to thirtieth anniversary of that memorable Day when they Wera attacked by a mob in missing through this City. The old Atli is now Cnown As the Worcester Light infantry Hough in retains a number of veterans in its ranks. The Massachusetts boys propose to leave Boston and take the same route Over which they came in 1861 to Washington and mount Vornon. They Mil March up Pratt Street Over the same route taken in that bloody ranch of 30 years ago. A mine on fire. Another Pennsylvania Coal mine going up in flames. Ashland pa., March Lawrence Brown mine at Taboney gives employment to Coo hands is on fire and the Audi Nationn Are that this Industry will be Des troyed. L or some Days Pash flames have been raging in Ono of the shafts which was not discovered till to Jay. In 13 now feared that the flames will spread to Stanton gang Way in which event the mine would have to be hooded. A Large Force of men Are fighting to flames and every Effo Bia being made. The pit of Coal on lira is beneath Mahoney plane endangering the props and Caus ing a have in. 3, pa., March pre vails throughout the Coke Region to Day. The Jun Toiven works were raided by 1.5co strikers Aud workmen Thero driven from Tho a dynamite bomb was exploded it Leiz enering no. 3 Plant and Tore six feet in the ground. No one was seriously injured. Great disorder prevails a Leith Anil Leisering and other places. Eight of the rioters at Leith were arrested. All Tho friction works Are heavily guarded. Further trouble is expected before the Day is Over. Coke work1, at morn Rood were raided by about men this morning. Thoy destroyed 500 feb o Railroad track twelve or Moro Coke ovens Anc burned soveral houses and Barne. Six men were arrested. Mount pleasant pa., March night mount pleasant in trembling with excitement. The people fear an explosion. Nobody is willing to go to bed. There is More confusion than there has been since the bloody riots of 1887. At Midnight fully Ono thousand men Are gathered on the Hill sur rounding the Coke works. Sheriff Olleson has increased his Force to 200 men. All Are a rated with Winchester rifles and another attack of strikers Means n bloody fund Desper ate fight. Scox tar a March leaders Are late to night considering Tho advisability of offering the two big Coke companies a thousand citizens and strikers to protect their proper by. About fifty armed deputies were stationed on the Coal Brook Plant of the Melure company to night. It a said they have orders to shoot any strikers found on the premises. A riot occurred at Everdon to night in which a striking foreigner was badly beaten. The fight was not caused by the strike. Uniontown pa., March have been issued for eleven of Tho Loith and Twenty Haven of the Jim own i voters. An id Junction was granted this evening restrain ing Milf Ltd r Workman Wise and other labor leaders from congregating about the Coke works or in any Way interfering with those who desired to work. Sheriff Mcconiff with a number of deputies left by special train to Day to serve the injunction and arrest those charged with rioting. Hannis Boho March sheriff of Westmoreland county telegraphed to gov. Patterson to Day about the riotous m in Ere and risked the consent of the governor to use tie arms of two of the companies of the National guard. The governor replied the civil Power must be exhausted before Tho state would interfere. A fashionable Washington wedding. Washington March marriage of Mia Grace Fuller the eldest daughter of chief Justice Fuller to Archibald Lapham Brown of Chicago took place to night a John s episcopal Church. Justices Bradley Harlan langur Brewer and. Browner of to e supreme court senators Willon and Cook Rill representatives Gibson and Milliken sir Julian Paim refute British minister Thi corf an ministers representatives of the chinese legation the in Carangan minister postmaster general Wanamaker and others prominent in social circles were present. The say Witrod Case. Washington March return of the Alaska District court to crib of the us Niemei court of Tho United states asking that cause be shown Why a writ of prohibition should not i Bubo in the skyward Behring sea care has been received by the attorney general and will be filed in the supremo court within a week or two and argument will take place on Tho second monday in april. Shoe by a deeper do. ky., March 30. Robert Bartlett town Marshall of Presville being infatuated with the Young wife of or. Coutris a prominent physician there shot her through the breast last night because she would not Elope with him. Mrs. Courti will die. Bart Lett then fired two shots at or. C. Hunt and wife and escaped. Bartlett is a genuine desperado. An express wrecked. Sawokin pa., March Fain no. G on the Philadelphia and beading Road was wrecked at Yastine this morning a number of passengers were badly shaken no. Tho Simms House the oldest Totel in pied Mont w. V., was totally destroyed by tre i saturday. Bismarck s court. He will maintain an elaborate personal embassy in Berlin that tv111 rival the Kaiser. Behlin March Bismarck is fit Ting up m an elaborate manner Tho two houses he has purchased on Tho Konior Arntzer Strasse and thirty of the rooms Are being furnished in a style befitting it wealthy potentate or the ambassador of some leading Power. The maintain a sort of personal Cov Irb in Berlin to which his followers and admirers German and foreign Cin resort and from All appearances it will be a Center of considerable influence and authority. The War talk which usually makes a Sovereign popular has had a contrary effect in the Cage of the Kaiser and there is hardly concealed an apprehension of his inability to direct Germany in a crisis while there is also a feeling that his overtures to France have bad something to do towards Bri Ucma a crisis on. Bismarck grows in popularity As Faith in the Kaiser cools and Confidence a the Kaiser just now is at a very Low ebb. Money lenders angry. A Bui Lic Foro Tho Imperial parliament to deprive them of n lucrative part of their Trade. London March 30. Money lenders of London Are stirred up Over a Bill in Parlia ment to Cut off a lucrative part of their Trade that of advancing Money to minor children of wealthy and Noble houses with the express we retarding thab several times the sum is to to paid to the Lendor when Tho minor to comes of age. Then Whan he Cornea into an estate they threaten proceedings for perjury unless to pays. The Bill not Only makes it a crime for Money lenders to procure one of these affidavits but Aho provides that even after Tho person had come of age promissory note exe Atod which w Holly or partly for Money borrowed under age shall be void Asta Suc u Money. This leaves the Money lenders with no other Protection than the Honor of the Borrower. The Bill has Tho support of lord Salisbury and will pass. The Irish National league to moot in Cincinnati april 10th to Dock o whether Chicago March it is said on Good authority that the result of o Kelly a visit to Lincoln is that a conference will be held at Cincinnati of april 10th Between the National executive Council of the league Aad Tho four Parnell envoys. President Fitzgerald it is said expressed himself personally As being in favor of Parnell but refused to take any action in the name of the league without instructions from the governing Council. The interval Between now and april look will be spent by o Kelly and Redmond in privately bringing pressure to Bear on irishmen in thu principal cities throughout the United states with a View to securing a favourable decision from Bic Council at Cincinnati. British civil service. Examination for foreign and diplomatic service abroad. London March the British foreign office has Token n depart Are in Tho matter of examinations for the Public service and in future there will be an examination ing for Bot i the foreign of co and Tho diplomatic a Rico abroad. There is no likelihood however that there will be a change in the custom of filling the vacancies with Young and penniless scions of aristocracy who cannot make a lining in private life. Army promotion is nominally open to a meritorious private Soldier but the sons of the noblemen and gentlemen enlist with the express understanding that they will be found meritorious and promptly promoted. Germany and world s fair. London Marcu the Berlin Mittee of the Chicago world s fair held its first meeting to Day. Many of the most prominent merchants and officials of the City were present and much interest was shown in having Germany and particularly Berlin Wall represented at the great exposition. Sufficient financial support was pledged to assure the efficient assistance of the people in Berlin in having German ind str is Well represented. An incendiary fire. White Hoys set fire to an Asylum for orphan coloured a Annieh extinguished. March a special to the Sun from Cincinnati Ohio says an attempt to Burn the coloured orphan Asylum at Aron Ole and its thirty five inmates very nearly succeeded. Last Uigh j shortly before 8 o clock when the children Wero undressing for bed a Strong odor of smoke and Oil was detected. One of Tho girls discovered smoke Curling from a crack near the window on the North Side. The Matron quickly got the children in line and marched them out. The smoke grew denser and the fire depart ment of the Village and City were called upon. The flames which Wero Between the Wall and the plastering were finally extinguished after doing several Hundred dollars of damage. Investigation revealed a starlling fact. The Structure is of Frame resting on Stone Pill Are and leaving n space Between Tho and the floor. In this space wan found the charted remains of n Large pile of kindling Over which kerosene had been poured. There is no clue to the person who started the first but the coloured people say the Asylum has Long been an eyesore to the Whites some of whom would not scruple at any Means to secure its removal. The White boys in the neighbourhood also a source of annoy Ance to the institution. The most probable theory is that to fire wan due to the plotting of these youths. During the excitement Matron Dunlop and a two year old child Wero Over can a by smoke and were restored to conscious Neji with great difficulty. The coloured people Are greatly excited Over the outrage terrible tragedies. An englishman kills his wife and horrible Slaugh Ter in Alsace. London March returning to her Homo at great Marlow from a visit to n neighbor hot night Mary Cooper found her Rifted father and Mother lying Side by Side upon a bed with their throats Cut. The was dead bub the Man was alive. Tho room presented a dreadful the Walls were spattered with blood and great pools of blood Wero on the floor. The frightfully wounded Man was re moved to the Hospital where it was found that he bad also been stabbed in Tho Abdomen. After his wound had been dressed to Man aged co confess that he had killed his wife after a desperate struggle and then attempted to kill himself. Alter cutting his Throat he e lunged the knife into his Abdomen and would sve inflicted other wounds upon himself but for weakness from loss of blood. He will dig Berlin March Mulhausen in Alsace last night a Drunken Cooper attacked his wife with a knife and killed her. He then turned upon his Mother in Law who had tried to save her daughter and killed her after which to Cut his own Throat and fell dead on the floor. The horrible scene was enacted in the presence of the Man s fit e Little children and one of them frantic with terror jumped out of a window to Tho pavement and was killed. Uneasy Germany. Tho a ii with soc Gillum of Franco Kumlin. , March evening s from Berlin state that unusual activity has prevailed for Tho past three Days in the War office and that anus usual number of employees Mere Busy at the office to Day. Tho emperor bad a Long audience with Chancellor Caprivi and the High officials generally look in if something important was on the tapis. There is no Doi ibs that the movements of russian troops near Tho German Frontier and the evidence of cordial intimacy be tween Russia and prance have caused much anxiety in Berlin and it is possible that the alarm caused by the apprehension of War May Lead to military changes. Besides the thought that Russia and Franco May be preparing for War the German government is said to be very much stirred up Over facts that have been disclosed in regard to the socialistic propaganda in the army. The military authorities have Homo into Possession through recent arrests of evidence showing that social demo Cracy Hap been spreading its doctrines through the ranks both of Tho army and the Navy and has made proselytes and that the propagation of socialism among the troops is not confined to Germany but is systematically carried on throughout Europe with the exception of Russia Aud that All the armies of Western eur no Are honeycombed with Tho subversive ideas of Tho pledged in Caius of established institutions. Tho Kaiser it is stated bos Given directions that the evil shall to dealt with most radically so far As Germany is concerned and any officer or Soldier detected in promo Sandim the prohibited opinion shall be punished with the utmost severity. Switzerland and the states. An arbitration Trent to be a Lotwood Thorn. La 1883 the Siv ibb Federal ordered the Swiss minister at Ashing negotiate with Tho United states i drum entail arbitration treaty. Or. Froling Yuan who Wajih at that time Secre tary of approved the project and admit Ted that the Swiss Aud american republics were the Best fitted to show the world to 9xamp to of Ottlig dispute1 by arbitration Bui somehow Tho matter was dropped. Gently or. Blaine returned the orig Inal in of the convention to Tho Switi government together with a suggestion that an arbitration conference meet in Washington in april. In his accompanying Lett for or. Blaine Drew particular attention to an expression of Hope by presi Dent Harrison tent Switzerland would join in the conference. The Swiss government has decided to adhere to the terms of the original convention which Tho Federal Council will ratify. Trio Henrietta in London March Bronson Howard s Henrietta Hod its opening performance to Avenue theatre to night Aud was Wall received. Tha author Wah called before the curtain. Tho piece will undoubtedly have a Good run but its Lack of adaption to the traditions of the English stage will to somewhat As a permanent attraction. Pc Thor Tloyd Fath March 30. The Pesther Lloyd says we stand at Tho beginning of another great movement on the part of Russia which will probably open Nithe protect against the re appointment of Ferdinand an governor of of Camelia it is time Tho should consider How Long it will continue to allow Elus sin to make military Italy at Tho fair. Rome March the italian minister of on merc Dignor Rimini to Day said the delay in the acceptance by Italy of Tho invitation to be represented As the world s fair was attributable to Tho fact that his Deputy rent had not yet received the necessary papers from the foreign office. And dynamite. The police at sprang Belgium have arrested three anarchists who were conveying Doo pounds of dynamite in a cart. Precautions have been redoubled in the mining districts. New spa Peri saws papyri ;