OUTCRY AGAINST AMERICAN WOOL DUTIES.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 91, 14 October 1889, Page 2

OU TCRY AGAINST AMERICAN WOOL DUTIES.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD IN PHILADELPHIA. HEROIC ACT AT A COALMINE ACCIDENT. ! MURDER ON THE BASEBALL FIELD. San Francisco, 22nd September. Tho Eastern importers of Frenou prunes have entered into a compact to undersoil tho Californian artiolo, with a view to discourage tho further onltivation of the fruit on the Pacific ooast. The Frenoh prune Bells for 6± conta, the Califomiau of the aaino grade for 7i. Tho elective franohise for women wqb. made part of the Constitution of tho State of Wyoming on 19th boptember. fcomo missionaries recently roturned from China have managed to get up h mild soar* by giving out that China intends to iuvado the United States in force out of icvoni.'C* for tho Exclusion Aot. 'ihe Executive Committee of tho National' Association of Wool Manufaoturora rerproBontinjf tho Uuitod Statos mot some proroinent manufacturers in consultation c&t Boston on the 17th September, to consider what measures oan bo taken towards securing rolief through Congressional notion. The industry is in dire distress owing to fact that the high tariff on raw wool has koptt the domestic clip at such a stiff prico that the mills are run at a dead loss by thoso who buy at Buoh figures and try to compete with foreign manufactured goods. The members read papers on the subjeot. The American Wool Reporter, of 4th September, quotes the Boston market as moat satisfactory ; that the end of the stagnation in wool seems to have been reached ; and that the mills that have boon holding out for lower prices havo given up, and are beginning to buy to fill their aooumulated orders. Sir Edward Arnold arrived in Philadelphia from England on 12th Soptembor. His first visit was to Walt Whitman, the poet, whom he greeted most affectionately and with, great effusiveness. A party of workmen being imprisoned by water in tho Allcghany coal mine, Cumberland, Maryland, on 30th August, one of their number, Michael Brady, volunteered to take the news of his companions' safety to tbo surface. To do this he had to dive down about 20ft and then swim through an incline under water 50 feet long beforo ho could reach tho mouth of the shaft. The men were all saved. At a baseball gamo played in Darlington, New York, on 4th September, tho umpiro, William Marshall, was instantly killed by Louis Dargan, for making what he considered a wrong decision. He knooked tho umpire's brains out by v, blow with a heavy bat. Captain Amesbury, of the American barquo Jennie Harknoss, write* from Manila, acoording to a New York despatoh of 3rd September, that all American ships visiting the Phillipine Islands are in danger of being fired by the crews. Hid vessel was ignitod by means of fish-oil spread over it by his own men, and he had difficulty in persuading them to put the fire out. The BritinhAmerican ship Faverinus was also fired. She was in port, bound to San Francisco. The village of Florence, Wisconsin, was visited by an earthquake on bunday, Bth September, and the earth's crust cracked open three inches wide. The machinery of a great paper-mill was also thrown off tbo linn and the shafts bent. The Boaton paper manufacturers received a ciroular on 16th September from an English syndicate, asking if any paper mills in that place oould be bought which would be likely to prove a safe and profitable investment. The Duke of Sutherland and the English syndicate with which he was connected nave lost 2,000,000 dollars by the abandonment of the Great Bear's Nest gold mine in Alaska.