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to one month's imprisonment, for insulting
the ministry of state. Thirty peasants who
were implicated with them have been acquitted.

A Bad Fire in Poland.

LONDON, July 13.-One Hundred houses have
been destroyed by fire in the town of Koden,
province of Siedlic, Poland. Three hundred
families out of the total population of 2,500
have been rendered homeless by the conflagration.

Henry M. Stanley in Berlin.

BERLIN, July 13. -Mr. Henry M. Stanley
has arrived here. France and the Congo Free
State will submit the disputes concerning the
Congo frontier surveys to the arbitration of Switzerland.

Yesterday's Cholera Returns.

ROME, July 13.-The cholera returns for
to-day are: Brindisi, 147 new cases, 48 deaths;
Fontana, 73 cases, 26 deaths; Latiano, 33 cases,
12 deaths; San Vito, 17 cases, 4 daths.
Jumping for Life.

CHICAGO, July 13.-At one o'clock this

morning fire broke out in T.E. Morris' livery
stable, on Thirtieth street, between Indiana
and Michigan avenues. The cause of the fire
is unknown. Peter Smith and his wife,

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St. Mirin took the lead, followed by Coracle,
Exmoor, Ormonde and the others. The positions
of the four leaders were continually
changing until the end of the half mile
was reached, when Coracle retired. Ormonde then
drew to the front, followed by Exmoor and
St. Mirin, and coming on won in a canter by
four length. Exmoor was a bad third. Time
3:21 2-5. The weather was splendid and the
attendance unusually large.

French Action in the New Hebrides.

[By Cable to The American.]

MELBOURNE, September 15.-Exciting Reports
have been received here of arbitrary
French action in the New Hebriedes. Rev.
Mr. Macdonald, a Presbyterian missionary at
Havannah Harbor, in a letter to Lieutenant
Marx, of the British gunboat Swinger, says
that the French Hebrides Company have
seized the lands of the native Christian mission,
alleging prior title, and that the French
commandant threatened the natives with
armed force if they resisted. The company
also claims lands of other British subjects.
Mr. Macdonald asserts that the French practically
exercise sovereignty over the island.
A collision between the natives and the
French is imminent. Threats have been made
against Mr. Macdonald and native Christians,
and he demands assistance from the English
squadron. The premiers of the Australian
colonies are about to hold a conference to
consider the situation.

French and Spanish Rivalry in Africa.

[By Cable to The American.]

MADRID, September 15.-A telegram from
Elobey, on the west coast of Africa, reports
conflicts between Spaniards and Frenchmen,
owing to the hoisting of the French flag alonside
of the Spanish flag on some west coast
territory. According to the latest advices,
the natives on the left bank of Muni river,
opposite Fernando Po, hoisted a Spanish flag,
and a Spanish gunboat was sent to protect it.
The authorities of the French colony of
Gaboon thereupon also despatched a gunboat
to the spot, the captain having instructions
to claim the Muni country as French territory.
The two gunboats met. The Frenchmen
wanted to hoist the French flag, but the
Spaniards announced that they would fight
before they would allow the French colors to
be raised. The Frenchmen then made a for-

caining the bombs. Witness said [?]
were round, and some of them were pipe [?]
They weighed about fifty pounds. They were
all loaded with dynamite , and had caps fixed
in them. While they were carrving them
they got Mitzenberg, and the three of them
carried the trunk to Neff's Hall, No. 58 Clyborne
avenue. They took them in through
a side door and into the hallway. There the
trunk was opened, and several people came
to look at the contents. Saw two or three
men take bombs. I took two, and put them
in my pockets. Then went away, leaving the
bombs in the passage-way. The hall back of
Neff's saloon, witness said, was called the
"shanty of the Communists." Anarchists
and Socialists all used to meet there. When
he left Neff's saloon, Lingg, Thielen and Gustav
Lehman were with him, and they were
afterwards joined by two men of the Lehr
and Wher Verein. All had bombs.

"Tell what you were going to do that night."

"A disturbance was to be made on the
North Side. That was arranged previously.
Other disturbances were to be made on the
West Side, to prevent the police from massing
at any one point."

Lingg said disturbances should be made all
over the North Side to prevent the police
from going to the West Side. As they passed
the Larrabee Street POlice Station, Lingg said
it would be a beautiful thing to throw in a
couple of bombs. From Larrabee street he
and Lingg went up to the Webster Avenue
Station. A patrol wagon came up. Lingg
said we was going to throw in the bomb; that
it was the best time to do it. I said it was not
a good time, that it would be useless. Lingg
became excited and wanted me to give him
some fire from my cigar. I went into a hall
and struck a match-as if I was going to give
it to him. The patrol wagon passed before
the match lighted. Lingg wanted to follow
the wagon. He thought there was trouble in
the West Side, and wanted to know what it
was. I persuaded him to go home a little before
eleven o'clock. Lingg asked me if I had
seen a notice in the paper that the armed
men were to hold a meeting on the West Side.
He showed me a copy of the Arbeiter Zeitung,
and pointed to the word "Ruhe," which, he
said, meant that there was to be a meeting,
and that everything was to be turned upside
down. The word "Ruhe" was a signal for all
of the armed men to assemble on the West
Side. The word was selected to give the men
notice that there was to be trouble. Lingg
and I went to Neff's Hall again, where a number
of others were. Herman said to Lingg, in
a very angry voice: "You are the cause of it
all." There some one told of the Haymarket
affair, and said that a bomb had killed a great
many. Lingg said nothing. On their way
home Lingg said that even now he was
scolded and jibed at for the work he had done;
that his borthers in the cause did not appreciate
him. We hid our bombs under the
sidewalk. It was about midnight when he reached home.

Witness identified a number of implements
used by them in the manufacture of their
bombs, and described how the dynamite and
other stuff were brought into the house. Witness
knew Engel, and they belonged to the
same Socialistic group. He had often heard
Engel make speeches, saying that every
workingman should make bombs.

Mr. Ingham here holds up a piece of gas
pipe and asks: "Is this the way a bomb looks
when it is ready to go off?"

The court asks: "Is that loaded?"

"Yes, your honor."

"This is no place for it," said Judge Gary.
The spectators are evidently very nervous
at the production of the implmenets of Socialistic
warfare, and the women present looked
very much alarmed.

The prosecution assured the court that
they were not dangerous, and Inspector Bonfield
offered to take them into the next room
and take off the caps, but the court said the
next room was no place for such work, and
the bombs were taken to the lake front for the operation.

The witness resumed his story. During the
car drivers' strike last year the delegates from
the different groups used to meet every week
at the Arbeiter Zeitung office-Neebe, Schwab,
Lingg were members of the groups. The
North Side group had rifles and drilled with
them. Witness identified a copy of Herr
Most's book.

The defence moved to have the testimony
all stricken out on the ground of "irrelevancy."

This was overruled, and the cross-examination
was begun. Witness said he had been
made no promises by the state's attorney or
officers, who simply told him he had better
tell the truth. He did not know that his
testimony or statements would prevent his
being tried for murder. The cross-examination
was severe and searching, but the witness'
testimony remained unshaken, and at
one o'clock recess was taken.

AFTER THE RECESS.

Not a dull moment elapsed during the afternoon.
Jury, lawyers, judge and spectators
were kept fixedly, without the slightest
relaxation, at the same high tension to which
[?] when the day's exciting de-

Mr. John Curlett.-The committees of the
Northern and the Southern Presbyterian
Churches completed their work, and will report
to their respective assemblies in May.-
The benefit to Jack Kilrain, given at the New
Assembly Rooms, was a great success in
every way, and there was some fine sparring.
-A number of the schools had interesting
exercises to close the sessions for the holidays.
-Washington Irving Bishop, the mindreader,
failed to put in an appearance at the
Concordia, on account of illness.-Mayor
Hodges gave a dinner party to three debutantes.

In the United States Senate yesterday, bills
were reported for the execution of the opium
treaty with China and to amend the Pension
laws. Mr. Dawes' resolution instructing the
Committee on Finance to report how the
taxes can be reduced to the necessary expenses
of the government was passed.-In
the House of Representatives, a bill was reported
requiring all land gran railroad companies
to maintain telegraph lines. Lewes,
Del., was made a port of entry, and the Oklahoma
bill was further discussed.-Both
branches of congress adjourned until January
4, 1887.

The board of visitors to the Military Academy
recommend that the President be allowed
to appoint ten cadets-at-large every
year, instead of once every four years.-The
House Foreign Committee has restored the
provision of the Diplomatic and Consular
bill making the Chinese mission first-class.
-Secretary Lamar has gone to Mississippi.
-The United States steamer Kearsarge is
to be repaired.-The President has approved
the bill for the relief of the graduates of
West Point, to fix their pay.-The court dismissed
the Pan-Electric suit of J. Harris
Rogers against Attorney General Garland.-
Wm. H. Welch, deputy third auditor, who
has been confined to his room with a cold, is
better.-The joint commission charged with

vigilant is when the pavements are next
covered with sleet.

If Mr. Cleveland keeps on sending in the
name of Mr. Matthews to the Senate, it will
not be long before "noxious obstinacy" will
become a popular phras

When Senator Blair carries his point, and
the woman suffragists are triumphant, we
may expect Foremothers' Day to be celebrated
annually with intense enthusiasm.

Under ths "sign ordinance" the barbers'
poles will have to be moved back from the
curb-stones, but the towering telegraph
poles, it may be noted, are permitted to remain
in all their unsightliness.

Germany's supremacy as a beer-drinking
country is threatened. New York's beer bill
annually foots up about seventy-six million
eight hundred thousand dollars, and Chicaog,
Milwaukee and Cincinnati are yet to
be heard from.

The cowardly surrender of a squad of
United States soldiers out West a few days
ago to two train robbers is not without its
lesson. The next time we have a war it
would be well to hire the train robbers to do
some of the fighting.

Weather like that of yesterday afternoon
is commonly regarded as neuralgic, but the
first two days of the business week, bright
and beautiful as they were, will make the
pocket nerves of many a man jump when
settlement day comes with the first of
January.

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