Show telegraphic NEWS NEWIS louisville june 9 at a meeting of the kentucky distillers association today to day a resolution recommending in the cessation of the production of whisky until october 1888 was adopted at least 15 per cent of the producing capacity was represented an officer of the association stated that there was now in bond in kentucky gallons of whisky of which gallons were distilled in the last year there are gallons gallon sin in foreign ports belonging to kentucky men and all this makes the supply great enough to last three years he thought there would not be a drop of whisky distilled in kentucky this year it pay because the sup supply I 1 was so much greater than the demand deman that prices were almost nomi nominal n al the resolution goes in effect on jul july y first BOSTON june 9 the cunard steamer Cephal onica whose manage ment was fined 1000 for landing an insane woman at this port was permitted to clear and sail today to day upon depositing 1600 1000 wiell the surveyor ot of the port tile the cunard canard compani company will appeal to the secretary of the treasury reas of the united states for a remittance of the fine NEW YORK june 9 in the decision of the naval court given today to day in the matter of the inquiry into toe tae cause of the collision of the steamships celtic and britannic the court very severely censured captain pert perty y of the britannic for running at such a speed tor for not giving distinctive whistles to the celtic to show which way she gave and for not sounding the fog whistle in the fog captain irving of the celtic beltt C is simply censured for running at the rate of 8 speed peed he did in such foggy fogg weather NEW YORK june 9 ex judge andrews of this city received by telegraph gr ph one of the most moat important decisions that has been given for many years ears in the matter repudiation ty by the southern states of the int interest erest on state bonds tile the decision involves interests to a vast amount judge bond of the united states circuit court at raleigh Ralaigh iN N C has decided the case of the especial tax bandhold ers in their favor north carolina issued bonds in 1869 and has not paid interest for many years payment of the bonds to the amount of was secured secure ad by a provision in athe the act of issuance which ordered the levy of a special tax on all real and personal property of the state of one eighth of one per cent the object of tile the suit was to COMPEL THE diate STATE to levy this tax to pay the overdue coupons which amount to nearly per cent of the total issue of the special tax bonds the difficulty in all previous suits has been that the state itself has been held as a necessary party and the courts held that a state could not he sued by citizens of other states plaintiff in this case however is a citizen of north Cl carolina arolina now for the first time thel the federal courts hold that a state is amenable to be sued by its own citizens where the question is presented by the clashing of cd laws impairing the obligations ot of contracts the decision holds that the acts passed by north carolina to stop the collection cel lection of the taxes to pay this interest due are null and void arid the agents of the state must proceed to collect the taxes to pay the interest A special session of the legislature will probably be called to consider the situation NEWYORK NEW june 9 johb leader of the henry george party in this city whose position as chairman of the mass meeting in honor of wm obrien on saturday caused the latter gentleman to 10 deny himself to the eyes of the great throng has written an open letter letier on that episode and on the denunciation which obrien hurled at him in his speech at the hoffman house banquet on monday night is very bitter in his denunciation of obrien and those with whom he associated in new york the central idea of the letter is that obrien does not want to free crep the tenants of ireland from by nationalizing but merely wants a change of landlords that after going to canada to denounce lord lansdowne he comes to new york and hobnobs with landlords who are habitually guilty of evictions as cruel as those practiced against the dugga curran tenants of the governor gener al I 1 CHATT chattanooga ANdoGA tenn june 9 A tank of i gasoline exploded this afternoon in the two story brick building building at the corner of fourth and market streets and spread with great to td the grocery store of J maesing and the morgan house h ohve story frame structure the occupants of which barely escaped with their lives henry aler and matt peake firemen were buried inthe in the mass of debris by a falling wall aler was killed and peake so badly burned and bruised that he will die humphrey reeves manager of the standard gas machine and economizer company was blown out of the building across the pavement with his clothes ablaze he threw himself into the gutter and extinguished the lire fire hut but not until he was horribly burned james reynolds and W D miller of washington DC BC and a degro named peter jones were also terribly burned several other firemen were slightly injured and some overcome come by the beat saw SAN FR FRANCISCO cisco june 9 the dome of the great telescope of the lick observatory atory upon mount is pow ow in position tIou the framework frame work is 2 being covered with metal the sheathing consisting of copper and nickel I 1 me the gome dome a hemisphere about seventy feet in diameter looms into prominence on the horizon eastward from sun san jose the tubing of the great telescope and the other parts have not yet arrived from the manufacturers in cleveland ohio but bat some sections are now on the way the calculation now is that by tile the middle of Seo september next the largest telescope in thu the world will be ready for use FINDLAY ohio june 9 the events of the second day of the natural gas celebration were of widespread interest and importance and were witnessed by upwards of seventy thousand people this evening a grand gradd banquet was given at the wigwam 11 many distinguished persons were wee present the after dinner speakers algers were hon john sherman governor foraker and others senator sherman and mr halstead discussed between them the salient points of industrial progress and the timely question of capital and labor governor Fora Fo kerla speech was in effect a resume of one hundred years of political anil FINANCIAL PROGRESS A paper read by professor vail expounds a new theory upon the permanency manenty of natural gas and one that promises promise s to excite widespread wide spread discussion in tic circles professor vail argued that oil and gas are primitive distillations the earth net rethinks ne thinks hints was a molten body and in that state was a distilling centre in which carbon was necessarily involved he thinks all forms of carbon are now locked up in the earths crust save what animal and vegetable life produce his conclusion is that chat a great source of supply of natural gas will last for many centuries r en SCRANTON 1 june 9 A conflict occurred thi this s morning between the strikers au and miners deiners employed at the grassy island mine and three delkers were shot NEW YORK june 9 in IH the trial after the examination of tal esmen had progressed at some length counsel for the people and the defense expressed dissatisfaction with the character of the jury judge barrett was qually equally dissatisfied and directed that four or FIVE THOUSAND NAMES be placed in the general panel to be drawn from TORONTO june jane 8 at osgood hall today to day in the hagamann extradition case an application for ball bail was made and allowed the prisoner in the prisoner was arrested in ia san fran cie cabico co on the charge of forging to the extent of about from howland co and is now flow in welland jail UTICA N Y june 9 clarence arthur aged 25 years a lock tender on no 66 lock near boonville blonville Bo onville stabbed a young woman named name I 1 josephine rosa with whom he was living threw her into the canal took her out stabbed her e r again and then HID HER HEK PODY ODY in the bushes the crime was discovered this afternoon and he was arrested CHICAGO june 9 the defense opened theft case in the boodle trial to dav warden mcgarigle will be placed on OH the stand tomorrow to morrow to testify in his own behalf ALBANY june 10 president cleveland and party reached here this morning drove to the new executive mansion and breakfasted with governor hill after spending a few hours at the executive mansion the president and party j except mrs cleveland left by special train A crowd of t about persons were assembled to see him on off mrs cleveland will go to oswego this afternoon to visit her friend miss kingsford Kings ferd NEW 10 the entire first page of henry georges paper the standard is taken up with georges opinion of et the union square incident nt of saturday night bight after asserting that the men who side with john McMack ia did right in not yielding to the demands of obrien lie he says the real truth of the matter is evident obrien did not want to identify himself or the parliamentary party with the principle of land for the people which does represent he was willing to accept an ovation from the workingmen of new york provided it should appear to fee be merely a tribute to himself to what he calls his mission and to the picayune land policy of the parliamentary party but te he was not willing to accept any demonstration mou which would displease the saviors of society who have clustered round him la in the ithe united states or would give any color to the assumption that the irish cause does involve a universal principle EUFAULA 1 I bjune 10 yesterday the international indian council concluded its sessions after selecting fort gibson as the place iaea for the next meeting A resolution was unanimously adopted in the matter of railroad improvements in the territory calling the attention of congress to the treaty of 1866 whereby but two railroads were to be allowed to be constructed through the territory they protested against such legislation as appropriates indian lands for the use of private corporations whose employed emp loyes are amenable to no local laws the council entreat the government to respect its own guaran guarantee to protect the indian people they request congress to pass an enabling act whereby all quest questions ionis affecting the tae rights og 0 indi f ans under treaty stipulations may be referred to the courts of the united states and receive judicial settlement PITTSBURG june jane 10 the main office of the western union telegraph company in this city was partially destroyed by fire this morning all communication muni cation with the outside world by the companas comp anys wires was entirely out cut off and all their fine machinery destroyed ST petersburg june 10 severe shocks of earth earthquake quale have oce occurred burred at verdome Ver nome in turkestan Turk estan the town was almost entirely destroyed one hundred and twenty persons were killed and one hundred and injured among the latter is gen adiede governor of the province of the shocks still cou continue to be felt at intervals the inhabitants of the town are panic stricken and have fled for safety to the open country washington june 10 june returns to the department of af agriculture indicate a reduction of nearly two per cent in the area of winter wheat the spring wheat area has been enlarged S six 1 per er cent most of the iner increase ae is 1 in n lYa dakota kota which reports an increase increase of 21 24 per cent the total area of wheat is about thirty seven million acres in the condition of winter wheat there is no marked change the average being the condition of spring s wheat is good in dakota and the e territories westward but bat below the average the records in wisconsin t minnesota iowa and nebraska show a general average of the central belt ve westward stward from pennsylvania and virginia has suffered local damage and the hessian fly and the chintz bug has wrought injury in illinois missouri avld and kansas an apparent enlargement of the barley acreage of 3 8 per cent is indicated the increase is in dakota california Calit ernia oregon and the territories the condition averages 87 there is a continuance of the extension of oats culture the increase is 4 per cent benso A T bjune june 10 last night at dark teut johnson iT was only half an hour behind the indians but during the evening the indians threw him off the track the renegades rene gades appear to have experienced leaders probably some of crooks scouts LONDON june 10 S X famine is im eminent in the city of meshed and through the whole province of the russians are trying to prevent the people from emigrating to trans caspian territory LONDON june 10 in the lords today marquis salisbury presented the egyptian convention england is to vacate in three years vears the right to appoint english officers to command the navy and army ceases at the end of five years england retains the right to 10 send troops to egypt in the event of ef external disorder the convention will not be valid unless ratified by the powers in the commons this evening smith moved the resolution previously announced requesting that at 10 pm on the dinst hii t the chairman forthwith put the question on any motion amendment or proposal touching a clause in the CRIMES BILL BILI then under discussion then on the clause itself and finally on each remaining clause he urged that the step was forced on the government hy by the me continued obstruction it was absolutely sol necessary for dignity and efficiency that the attempt to prevent the progress of business be defeated it is now the fourth month of the session and practically nothing has been done the whole course of legislation has been stopped the government desired that due consideration be given the rights of the minority and that respect be shown tor for the and freedom attached to the institutions of the country laughter J but it was undoubtedly the duty 01 01 the government in circumstances without parallel in the history of Parliament to call upon the house bouse to take measures to prevent the minority from SETTING AT DEFIANCE the controlling power of tae the majority it is impossible for the government representing the majority to yield to the obstructions of the minority the government must be displaced by an all adverse vote and then it will be bound to appeal to the country ent but while sustained by the majority of the house they must carry on the business of the country the debates over the crimes bill became a travesty bringing ridicule disgrace and contempt upon upa a parliament li he appealed to the house to support the government in trying to restore order la in the proceedings cheers gladstone said longer notice should have been given of this important motion the entire paralysis bof parliament caused INTENSE dissatisfaction throughout the country but a portion had been brought about by the government themselves rear hear I 1 bear chev had bad been pursuing the filse false ani and futile policy of coe coercion relon with the justification pleaded on a former occasion abey they disregarded all the usages and traditions of parliament in the conduct of a measure which ahey had under the name of the crimes b dill I 1 introduced trod the measure was directed against a combination amparp apar from crime rear hear hear he would suggest to tb tae government that a rational mode to expedite the bill would be to make it temporary instead of permanent and to strike out ut all the athe provisions touching apart from crime assur assuring lug the irish tenants the same protection in respect to their LAND its as striker hs in labor strikes cheers and cries of no HO if the government rejected that remedy and had no other to propose the offensive character berof of the bill would 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