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gaining their ends. Mike got out of the scrape, | but pending the issue his Democratic heart had been filled with bitterness, and therefore he announced himself as a flopper from Cleveland to Harrison. Now, under ordinary circumstances, the name and fame of Mike McDonald would

votes this time. To be sure, Bidwell ought to
have four million votes, but no matter whether
few or many, he intends to cast a vote which
nobody misunderstands, a vote for Prohibition.
Chicago Lever (Proh.), Oct. 27.-Excluding
made cider, and wines, the amount spent for
"moonshine" whisky, smuggled liquors, home-
intoxicating liquor in the year 1891
$1,223,704,371. If we had 60,000,000 of
population that year, then we spent an average

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ment and efficiency o. arill. There are multiplied inducements to vigilance and promptitude on the part of property-owners and of the vast and well-organized insurance interest. It might could scarcely start before their spread would be supposed that in the circumstances flames if, relatively and positively, we were almost as be arrested. Instead, it sometimes seems as much at the mercy of conflagration as ever. This assertion was redemonstrated last night

not be sufficient to entitle him to the honor of mention in the same column with the exAttorney-General of the United States, the Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, or with Judge John P. Rea, ex-Commander-in-Chief of a noble of about $20 for each man, woman, and child by the sudden calamity in Milwaukee.

army of several hundred thousand veterans who will vote the Republican ticket. But in the cause of contrasting the influence of flop: pers the liberty may be taken this time. And therefore we assert that in spite of the eminence of Messrs. MacVeagh and Rea, the power of the McDonald will be felt in a stronger degree when election day comes. The ward politician is the only effective flopper as far as votes are concerned. Mike McDonald in his limited bailiwick will prove that old rule again. We have little love for votes so gained for any cause, and we have less for the people who arrange the transfer.

These are Government statistics and cannot be

Be

fire worked its way, as if unobstructed, until

ginning at 5:30 o'clock in the evening a

a tract a mile long by half a mile wide had should be remembered that this town was been swept and buildings and their contents. destroyed, to the value of $8,000,000. It not architecturally in the condition of ChiIt rather resembled Chicago as rebuilt after cago, say, before her memorable burning.

in the United States for intoxicating liquor. disputed. How long can we stand such an duction made in our national debt for the past enormous waste? It amounts to the total re$200,000,000 the aggregate interest-bearing and twenty-five years. It exceeds by more than non-interest-bearing debt of the United States Dec. 1, 1891. United States Government last year were The total expenses of the $437,436,368, but we spent nearly three times as much for liquor. The net earnings of all We do not institute an in. our railroads in 1890 were $343.921,318, or the frame cottages which they attacked further

"with a

THE DRINK QUESTION.

THE PROHIBITION PARTY.

THE CASE FOR IT STATED.

about one-fourth our annual drink bill. The

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that terrible lesson. When we read that
'through immense factories from four to
seven stories high, supposed to be fireproof,
the flames spread with as much ease as through

fire cannot be estimated by ordinary methods
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east we see that such a tempest and fury of
and probabilities. Many wooden houses, of
seem to have made almost equally short work
course, supplied food for the flames, but they
with tall structures reputedly fireproof. To
make the more important parts of the city
actually so, of course, would involve enor-
mous cost, but in view of the loss of last night
the outlay would appear to be cheaper in the
end.
with all the means and opportunities for extrav-
It remains as true as it always was that,
agance and reckless lavishness, nothing is so
wasteful as fire.

vidious comparison between the people we total collections of tariff revenue from imports
have named save only in the way of showing in 1891 were $219,522,205, or less than one-
that in practical politics the man
pull," when he turns flopper, has a greater in-net earnings of all our national banks in 1891
fluence than people who have been honored
were $75,763,614, but in the same year we
with high office by one party or by a class
fifteen times
squandered more than
numbered in that party.
that
aunt on liquor. The aggregate capital of all
our national banks in 1891 was $660,108,261,
not much more than one-half our drink bill the
same year. These comparisons enable us to
get some idea of the vastness of the drink
question considered from a financial
standpoint. No one will deny that this vast
amount of money is wasted. If the men who
consume this liquor would pour it into the gut-
ters instead of down their throats they would
surely be better off. This immense waste is
due to the licensed liquor traffic. Its prohibi-
tion, then, is the greatest financial question of
the age.
a most touching composition.
The tariff is a mere baby beside it.
It overshadows all other political issues, even
though we leave out of consideration the great
moral uplift which the triumph of Prohibition
must bring. Prohibitionists have no reason to
be ashamed of their cause or apoligize for its
presence in politics. It is a political question,
much more so than the tariff issue or the Force
Bill. It can be settled only at the ballot-box,
and until it is settled it will remain in politics
and compel the attention of American citizens.

tences.

The letter hurriedly dictated by President
PRESIDENT HARRISON'S BEREAVEMENT.
Harrison to his townspeople of Indianapolis is
One can hardly

read it with dry eyes:

My Dear Old Friends and Neighbors;

We

I cannot leave you without saying that the tender for me and for my children, and much more, the touchand gracious sympathy which you have to-day shown ing evidences you have given of your love for the dear wife and mother, have deeply moved our hearts. yearn to tarry with you and to rest near the hallowed spot where your loving hands have laid our dead; but the little grandchildren watch in wondering silence for our return and need our care, and some public business God keep and bless you all. Most gratefully yours, will no longer wait upon my sorrow. May a gracious

BENJAMIN HARRISON. The spectacle of the Chief Magistrate of the nation, traveling from Washington to Indianopen grave where he was depositing the reapolis on such a sad errand, looking into the mains of her who had been his faithful companion for so many years, and then returning to the responsible duties of his great office, with the crushing sorrow of bereavement upon him, is calculated to excite the profoundest sympathy and touch the most callous breast.— Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.

Chicago Union Signal (W. C. T. U.), Oct. 27.-The Prohibition party is not a political parrot pronouncing evermore the same senIt has opinions on the living questions before the people, and does not hesitate to express them, but its main contention is the issue which all other parties profess to admire, but diligently avoid; an issue which immensely more than all other affects the health, morals, and happiness of the people-the suppression of the licensed liquor traffic. The monstrous anomaly which this traffic presents bewilders us by its enormity. That at least 300,000 men are engaged in making and vending under all sorts of seductive combinations a poison which destroys tens of thousands of our fellow-citizens in the most horrible and revolting way, and that these men are licensed, THE BIG BREWER OF MILWAUKEE.-What taken into partnership by the Government for A. T. Stewart purposes of revenue, permitted to erect and Rothschilds are in finance, that is what Capt. was in dry goods, what the maintain inviting places of resort where vice Fred. Pabst is in beer. He is the Napoleon of is propagated and crime finds a hiding-place, brewers, and has made Milwaukee the site of is a condition so appalling that a stranger incomparably the largest brewery in the might be excused for refusing to believe it. But world. He does not stop at being a brewthis is only a partial presentation of the enor- er. He has within recent years become a mity. These 300,000 are the most active and John Jacob Astor in respect of his holdpotent factors in municipal, State, and na-ings of city real estate. No man has tional affairs, doing more to shape legislation done more than he to lift Milwaukee and practical government than any other equal architecture to a plane of metropolitan grannumber of citizens. This syndicate, for such it deur. practically is, knows but one thing of which to the value of real estate, and to enlarge the His rapid transit line tends to enhance DRAINING THE ZUYDER ZEE. be afraid. It cares little what the Republican or Democratic parties may say; it has been accus-fortable homes. opportunities of workingmen to secure commercial and technical societies of Holland have He is concerned in innumer- petitioned the Government to advance the tomed to handle them. It took good care to able enterprises for the development of the work upon the draining of the Zuyder Zee as prevent any hostile declaration by the People's city and the benefit of the community. He is fast as possible. The estimated cost of the party, and that organization it does not fear. to the fore not only as a brewer bui as an en- work is $76,000,000. It requires the erection But the Prohibition party is a pronounced and terprising, public-spirited citizen.-Milwaukee of a dyke 26 feet high and 25 miles long, and deadly enemy. Although small, it is more Evening Wisconsin, Oct. 27. formidable and dreaded than all other parties together. All it needs is to get big enough and alcoholism is doomed. And it persists in living and growing. In spite of abuse and violence it increases its vote. resorts to no secret expedients, enters into no fusions or trades. It thunders the truth into the ears of the American people, "whether they will hear or forbear." It expects them to wake up, dismiss their dreams and delusions, and suppress the liquor traffic. Calm in this faith, the Prohibitionist can afford to wait. "He that believeth shall not make haste." He has washed his hands from blood. He has done what he can. He hopes for half a million

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involves the removal and reconstruction of the

coast defenses. The plan to drain the Zuyder Zee is not new. It was proposed by Engineer Van Diggelen in 1849, before the great work of draining the Haarlem Zee was completed. It was then rejected as impracticable, but it was again proposed in 1865 and plans for the work made. The result was satisfactory and the plans seemed practicable. In 1873, the Minister of the Interior appointed a committee of experts to examine into the feasibility of the plan. This committee declared it not only possible but desirable. In 1875, the Dutch Chamber voted the equivalent of $47.000,000 for the work.-New York Ledger.

Index to Periodical Literature.

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Gladstone (Mr.), A Recent Visit to, at Hawarden. W. H. Rideing. Cosmop..
Nov., 6 pp. Illus.

My Father as I Recall Him. First Paper. Mamie Dickens. Ladies' Home Jour.,
Nov. Illus. Reminiscent of Charles Dickens.
Renan (Ernest). Col. R. G. Ingersoll. N. A. Rev., Nov., 15 pp. Eulogistic of
Renan.

Walton (Isaak)-1593-1683. Prof. W. F. Stockley. Chautauquan, Nov., 4 pp.
Whittier (John Greenleaf). George E. Woodberry. Atlantic, Nov., 6 pp.

EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART. Art-Schools of Paris. Lucy H. Hooper. Cosmop., Nov., 4 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Breton Folk-Songs. Theodore Bacon. Atlantic, Nov., 11 pp.

College Settlements, The Place of. Vida D. Scudder. Andover Rev., Oct., 11 pp. Columbus Monuments (The). William Eleroy Curtis. Chautauquan, Nov., 9 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Donne, The Poetry of. Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. Andover Rev., Oct., 18 pp. Education for the Common People in the South. George W. Cable. Cosmop Nov., 6 pp.

Education, The Natural or Scientific Method in. Prof. W. Mills, M.A., M.D. Pop. Sc., Nov., 16 pp. Illus.

Educational Alliance (Contemplated) Between Church and State. The Hon. Z. Montgomery. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Nov., 13 pp.

Fair (the), The Designers of. F. D. Millet. Harper's, Nov., 12 pp. With Portraits. The Architects of the World's Fair Buildings.

Folk-Lore of Straw. Charles Godfrey Leland. Jour. Amer. Folk-Lore, JulySept., 3 pp.

Folk-Lore (Pennsylvania), Reminiscences of. D. G. Brinton. Jour. Amer. FolkLore, July-Sept., 9 pp.

George Eliot's Theory of Realism. L. T. Damon. Harvard Monthly, Oct., 6% PP.

Greek Architecture, Influence of, in the United States. II. Prof. W. H. Goodyear. Chautauquan, Nov., 7 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Iroquois Notes. W. M. Beauchamp. Jour. Amer. Folk-Lore, July-Sept., 7 pp. Language (A Cosmopolitan). M. Q. Holyoake. Cosmop., Nov., 10 pp. Illus. Library (The) of the United States. Ainsworth R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress. Forum, Nov., 12 pp. A National Library, etc.

Public-School System (Our): Schools in Buffalo and Cincinnati. Dr. J. M. Rice. Forum, Nov., 17 pp.

School Question (the), How to Solve. Mgr. O'Reilly. N. A. Rev., Nov., 6 pp. Suggests an educational congress, representing every religious denomination, to discuss the question.

Sociology in the Higher Education of Women. Samuel W. Dike. Atlantic, Nov., 9 pp.

South (the), Two Studies of. Brander Matthews. Cosmop., Nov., 5 pp. Student (The) as a Child. H. Hapgood. Harvard Monthly, Oct., 3 pp. Points out the influence of college education in strengthening the child-element in a

man.

Theatres (Endowed) and the American Stage. Madame Modjeska. Forum, Nov., 8 pp.

Theatrical Life, Objections to. Jennie A. Eustace. N. A. Rev., Nov., 3 pp. University Settlement Idea (The). Robert A. Woods. Andover Rev., Oct., 22 pp. Whittier, The Poetry of. The Late Dr. Nelles. Meth. Mag., Toronto, Nov., 6 pp. POLITICAL.

College Man (The) in Politics. F. B. Deberville. Amer. Jour. Politics, Oct., 5 PP.

Democratic Outlook (The). The Hon. W. F. Harrity. N. A. Rev., Nov., 9 PP. Foreign Relations (Our), An Inquiry Concerning. Theodore S. Woolsey. Amer. Jour, Politics, Oct., 13 pp.

Free Trade, Has England Profited By? Lord Masham, Pres. of the Fair-Trade Club. Forum, Nov., 13 pp.

Garfield (James A.), The Administration of. No. III. Ex-Gov. Lionel A. Sheldon. Californian, Nov., 5 pp. Historical.

Greek and American Democracies. Second Article. The Constitutions. David H. Wheeler, D.D., LL.D. Chautauquan, Nov., 5 pp.

International Quarrels and Their Settlement. Leonard H. West, LL.D. International Jour. Ethics, Oct., 11 pp.

Issue (The Great). Ex-Gov. John P. St. John. Amer. Jour. Politics, Oct., 11 pp. Argues that the Liquor Question is the Great Issue.

McKinley Tariff (the), English Views of. Sir Thomas H. Farrer, Formerly Sec'y English Board of Trade. Forum, Nov., 14 PP.

Municipal Government: Lessons from the Experience of Quincy, Mass. Charles Francis Adams. Forum, Nov., 11 pp.

Municipal Institutions in America and England. The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. Forum, Nov., 141⁄2 pp. Differences in the two countries.

Non-Protectionist Idea (The). W. T. Galbraith, M.D. Amer. Jour. Politics. Oct., 8 pp. Answers the Article of the Hon. D. A. Wells.

Party-Rule in the United States. Albert Stickney, Amer. Jour. Politics, Oct.,

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Politics and the Pulpit. The Rev. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss. N. A. Rev., Nov., 9 pp. Politics, The Religious Issue in. Arthur Reed Kimball. N. A. Rev., Nov., 2 pp. Presidential Campaign of 1892. The Hon. James G. Blaine. N. A. Rev., Nov., 13 PP.

Presidential Election: For Whom Shall I Vote and Why? James Schouler, J. H. Schiff, Franklin MacVeagh, John Claflin, Gen. A. C. McClurg, The Rev. David Swing, H. W. Cannon, The Hon. David Dudley Field. Forum, Nov.,

19 pp.

Programmes (The Two) of 1892. Atlantic, Nov., 10% pp. Questions presented by the Republican and Democratic platforms.

Swiss and French Election-Methods. Karl Blind. N. A. Rev., Nov., 10 pp. Tariff (the), Our Commercial Growth and. From a Republican Point of View, Richard H. McDonald, Jr. From a Democratic Point of View, The Hon. Stephen D. White. Californian, Nov., 16 pp.

Tariff (the), Trade and. S Gross Horwitz. Amer. Jour. Politics, Oct., 13 pp. Tariff Question (the), A British View of. Lawrence Irwell. Amer. Jour. Politics, Oct.. 7 PP.

Wanted-A New Party. T. V. Powderly. N. A. Rev., Nov., 4 pp. Favors the People's Party,

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Aerial Navigation. John P. Holland. Cosmop., Nov., 8 pp. Illus.
Alcohol, The Chemical Action of. N. S. Davis, M.D., LL.D., and Others. Quar.
Jour. Inebriety, Oct. Addresses at the second annual meeting of the American
Medical Temperance Association.

America, Did the Phoenicians Discover? No. 1. T. C. Johnston. Californian,
Nov., 11 pp. Illus.

Animals (Reasoning). Allen Pringle. Pop. Sc., Nov., 5 pp. The author believes that animals reason.

Are There Too Many of Us? E. B. Andrews, Pres. Brown University. N. A. Rev., Nov., 12 pp. Discusses Malthusianism from the present population of the

earth.

Cat (a), the Cerebellum in, Atrophy of. W. O. Krohn, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease. Oct., 11 pp.

Cholera (Hereditary), A New Consideration of. R. M. Phelps, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Oct., 12 pp.

Color in Flowering Plants. Alice Carter. Pop. Sc., Nov., 14% pp. The uses of color in plants, etc.

Inebriety in Its Several Aspects. T. L. Wright, M.D. Quar. Jour. Inebriety. Oct.. 7 PP.

Insanity, The Toxic Origin of. T. H. Kellogg, M.D. tal Disease, Oct., 9 pp.

Italy, The Scientific Societies of. Dr. W. C, Cahall. scriptive.

Jour. Nervous and Men

Pop. Sc., Nov., 11 pp.

De

Mars, What We Really Know About. Prof. E. S. Holden, Director of Lick Observatory. Forum, Nov., 10 pp.

Physician (The)-Real and Ideal. J. L. Richards, M.D. Lehigh Valley Med. Mag., Oct., 5 PP.

Psychology (Comparative), The Problems of. Prof. Joseph Jastrow, Ph.D. Pop. Sc., Nov., 14 pp.

Pyelo-Nephrosis, with Report of a Case. C. H. Ott, M.D. Lehigh Valley Med.
Mag., Oct., 4 PP.

River Valleys, Lakes, and Waterfalls.-Glacial Accidents. Ralph S. Tarr.
Goldthwaite's Geograph. Mag., Oct., 4% PP.
Sensory and Sensory-Motor Disturbances Associated with Insanity, A Study of.
H. A. Tomlinson, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Oct., 14 pp.
Synovitis. W. T. Williams, M.D. Lehigh Valley Med. Mag., Oct., 4 pp.
Waste-Products Made Useful. The Rt. Hon. Lord Playfair. N. A. Rev., Nov.,
9 pp.

Wind (The) as an Erosive Agency. N. P. Nelson. Goldthwaite's Geograph. Mag..
Oct., 3% PP.
SOCIOLOGICAL.
Business Profits, Are They Too Large? J. B. Mann. Pop. Sc., Nov., 7 pp.
Cholera, What It Costs Commerce. Erastus Wiman. N. A. Rev., Nov., 6 pp.
Cities (Great), Growth of. Lewis M. Haupt. Cosmop., Nov., 6 pp. With Map.
Constantinople, The Street Arabs of. W. C. Monkhouse. Chaperone, Oct., 8 pp.
Illus. Descriptive.

Eurasia. Sara J. Duncan. Pop. Sc., Nov., 9 pp. Descriptive of the Eurasians of
India.

Fo-Kien, the Province of, the Laboring Classes in, Social Life Among. Edward Bedloe, U. S. Consul. Goldthwaite's Geograph. Mag., Oct., 13 pp.

Gospel (An Old), A New Impulse to. Jane Addams, One of the Founders of Hull House. Forum, Nov., 14 pp. Treats of the necessity for such a Social Settlement as Hull House, Chicago.

Immigration. Noble Canby. Chautauquan, Nov., 41⁄2 pp.

Jewish Law (Ancient), Cases from. II. Causes for Divorce. D. W. Amram. Green Bag., Oct., 3 pp.

Labor-Reform (Practical). G. W. Weippiert. Amer. Jour. Politics., Oct., 4 pp. Miller (The) and His Mill. W. C. Edgar. Chautauquan, Nov., 4% pp. Flourmaking in the United States.

Mortality in the United States. John S. Billings, M.D. Chautauquan, Nov., 4

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Cricket in the United States.

George Stuart Patterson. Lippincott's, Nov.

II pp. Illus, Descriptive. Death-Masks, A Collection of. Nov., 13 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Driving, Form in. C. D. English. Lippincott's. Nov., 11 pp. Illus. Epping Forest. Edward P. Hale. Cosmop., Nov., 5 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Hamburg, The City of. Murat Halstead. Cosmop., Nov., 10 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Third Paper. Laurence Hutton. Harper's

Ibraim Pasha, The Marriage of. An Episode in the Court of Sultan Murad III., 1586. Horatio F. Brown. Atlantic, Nov., 6 pp.

Islam, The Holy Places of. Charles Dudley Warner. Harper's, Nov., 14 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Japan (Old), The Legal System of. II. Prof. J. H. Wigmore.
6 pp.

Japan Revisited. Sir Edwin Arnold. Cosmop., Nov., 9 pp.
Merchant-Marine (Our), How to Rebuild. Theodore Cox.
Oct., 6 pp.

Green Bag, Oct.,

Illus. Descriptive. Amer. Jour. Politics,

Millionaires. Lyman Allen, M.D. Californian, Nov., 5 pp. The millionaires of America.

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Beauty of Form and Grace of Vesture. Frances Mary Steele and Elizabeth Livingston Steele Adams. Dodd, Mead, & Co. Cloth, Illus., $1.75.

Cæsar. A History of the Art of War Among the Romans from the Era of Marius to the Fall of the Roman Empire, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of Caius Julius Cæsar. Theodore A. Dodge, Col. U. S. Army. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Cloth, Illus., $5.

Children of the Poor. Jacob A. Riis. Charles Scribner's Sons. Cloth, Illus., :$2.50.

Dante's New Life (Vita Nuova). Translated by Charles Eliot Norton, Prof. of Art in Harvard University. With Notes and Essays. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Cloth, $1.25.

Don Orsino. F. Marion Crawford. Macmillan & Co. Cloth, $1.
France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890.

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer,

A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Cloth, Illus., $2.50.

Good Character, and How to Form It. A Word to Young Men. W. M. Taylor, D.D. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. Leatherette, 35C.

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Current Events.

Wednesday, October 26.

A grain blockade and car famine embarrasses many western railroads...... Lawless strikers continue to commit acts of violence at Homestead......A. A. McLeod, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, is elected to the presidency of the Boston and Maine railroad......Chauncey M. Depew addresses the Union League Club of Philadelphia......In New York City, the County Democracy withdraw their ticket.

The trial of Mercier and Pacaud is begun in Quebec...... M. Loubet, President of the French Chamber of Deputies, announces his decision as arbitrator of the Carmaux labor troubles......It is announced that Mr. Morley will submit to the Cabinet Council proposals for the release of Irish political prisoners. ......Lady Randolph Churchhill is seriously ill......Cholera record: Hamburg, 6 new cases, i death; Buda-Pesth, 16 new cases, 8 deaths. Thursday, October 27.

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The funeral of Mrs. Harrison takes place in the East Room of the White House, after which the funeral train starts for Indianapolis......A Treasury report is issued, showing a large increase in the domestic tin-plate industry during the last quarter......Newport, R. I., elects Republican municipal offiThe trial of Colonel Hawkins, Lieutenant-Colonel Streator, and Surgeon Grim, charged with assaulting Private lams, is begun in Pittsburgh. News is received that the Mexican village of Tomocnic has been destroyed by the Government for rebellion...... The French Chamber of Deputies rejects a motion to grant amnesty to the Carmaux rioters......A heavy gale prevails in the British Isles; many vessels are driven ashore and lives lost; the steamer City of New York, from Liverpool, is unable to call at Queenstown......It is announced that Mr. Gladstone will attend the House of Commons only when important measures are under consideration......The King and Queen of Greece celebrate their silver wedding. Friday, October 28.

A great fire, causing loss of lives and many millions of dollars, occurs in Milwaukee; hundreds of people are made homeless......The burial of Mrs. Harrison takes place at Indianapolis; the President starts on his return to Washington......The National Convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union meets in Denver...... An explosion of nitro-glycerine_near Lima, Ohio, kills three men......A new tin-plate factory is opened at Elizabeth, N. J.

News is received of the wreck of two ocean steamers, as follows: The Anchor Line steamer Roumania, from Liverpool for Bombay, off the Portuguese coast, in which 113 out of the 122 persons on board were lost; the steamer Louvre, at Penmarch, Finisterre, in which seventeen persons were drowned...... The gale on the Irish coast abates......Cholera record: Hamburg, 7 new cases, two deaths; Vienna, 1 death, 9 suspicious cases reported. Saturday, October 29.

The President and family arrive in Washington......The loss by the Milwaukee fire is estimated at $6,000,000; four lives were st; the homeless people are receiving relief......Registration figures in New York State above the Harlem River show a considerable increase over 1888...... Much damage to shipping on the Great Lakes is reported...... Many arrests for illegal registration are made in New York City.

Incoming vessels at Queenstown report terrible weather at sea; several Montreal steamers are overdue......The Irish Parliamentary Committee accepts Archbishop Croke's proposals in regard to the Paris fund...... ExUnited States Consul Ryder is sentenced at Copenhagen to eighteen months' imprisonment at hard labor for fraud, perjury, and theft......It is said that negotiations for a commercial treaty between Germany and Russia are to be resumed.

Sunday, October 30.

The work of rebuilding the burned district of Milwaukee is begun...... Chairman Murphy of the Democratic State Committee is thrown from a carriage in Troy and his shoulder dislocated......The letter of Adlai E. Stevenson, accepting the nomination of the Democratic National Convention for Vice-President, is made public......It is announced that the tax rate in Illinois is 31 cents on $100, the lowest rate in thirteen years......In New York City, the Reverend Dr. R. S. MacArthur preaches an earnest sermon on the political duty of citizens.

It is announced that Great Britain will not retire from Uganda......News is received that fifty persons have been drowned, and great damage done to property by floods in Mexico...... Lord Dunraven states his position in regard to his challenge for a race for the America's cup. Monday, October 31.

The President issues a proclamation extending to Italy the privileges of the Copyright Act......At Pittsburgh, ex-Private Iams testifies in the case agains: Lieutenant-Colonel Streator, et al; General Snowden is present, for the first time during the trial......Baron Fava, as Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, testifies in a letter to the Secretary of State to the great pleasure given to the Corps by their reception in Chicago, at the World's Fair ceremonies. Charlestown, S. C., begins the celebration of its "Gala Week," in commemoration of the city's gratitude for assistance afforded after the earthquakes...... The Nicaragua-Canal Convention is called to reassemble at New Orleans, November 30......In New York City, the Board of Estimate fixes the amount to be raised by taxation at $33,771,008.32...... Edwin Einstein and other Republican Municipal candidates write letters of acceptance of their nominations......H. Ratkousky & Brother, wholesale dry-goods merchants, fail; liabilities, $65,000.

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Tuesday, November 、.

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Mr. Gladstone and other members of the English Ministry decline to attend the inaugural banquet of Lord Mayor Knill......In London, the editor and proprietor of The Morning are fined for publishing an illustrated report of the Leader-Smyth libel-case......Robert Grant, professor [of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow, dies......A cons,able in Ireland murders an entire family and then commits suicide.

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