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MAD RUSH FOR HOMES.
* Excitin? Scenes at the Opening
of Eastern Oklahoma.
Boomers Pour Over the Line and
Pick Out Their Farms.
. Adis at.?h from G:it'arie, Oklahoma siys;
At noon Eastern Oklahoma was thrown
open and fully 00,000 persons entered the
reservation from the west and south. The
wildest of scenes were enacted and several
persons were shot.
f Two colore 1 men killed in a Sght at Langston,
th? s.o-jtlnT of a woman who attempted
to cro-s Tlir> liorder before the ailoted time
and tho dro wning of two men in fhs Cimarron
River were the principal events reported
in the screat rush for the Oklahoma lands.
Th? population of Oklahoma increased
' 20,COO in one day No oouutrj- iu the world
has a rev or i of any such sudden grovvts.
That morninr: the settled area of the Territory
nutnb -r'd 3,000,000 acres and the population
whs <'.0,000. Between noon and sunset
1,500,00) a'-res were added to the area, and
the oopuliTion is now W),000.
All aloji^ the line during the morninsj the
scene was one of great excitement. People
on foot, p onle on horseback, neople in bug
gies. in wagons, men, women and children,
were gath r?d in groups a sbort distance
apart. Tbe scene at 12 o'clock, when the signals
werj fired, was one never to be
forgotten. Out from the line and across ?the
rolling prairie borsem^n shot like missiles
from a catapult. Covered wagons filled
with people rushed up hill and down dale,
' / and hundreds of home-stakers on foot started
valiantly forth in search of the coveted
claim.
Th?p?nt up excitement found vent In the
firing of revolvers and rifles, shouting and
aingin,- and cracking of whips and furious
driving and running. The horsemen, of
F course, had the advantage over every other
Tn?n in the race and most of the racers were
horsemen. The man who had pro4
ceeded to the border on a prairie schooner
5 with his family left the schooner, family
and one horse on the border and mounted
the other and became a horseman. After loj
eating his claim he will return and direct his
possessions to his new home. Men
g who came with nothing but
r money purchased saddle horses,
ponies, rcuies or any kind of an animal that
would carry a man, while others rented
them. Some of the more desperate cowboys
moante 1 steers, and the latter, joining in
the stumped a, carrie I their riiers to the interior.
while others were unceremoniously
TinhI or Tint, fnr frnm t,h?
horde.-.
A p:siol shot fired by an army Lieutenant
was tile signal for the waiting crowd at
Choctaw City to start in the big race for
the new country.
When the sisjual shot was fired it was exactly
o'clock, according to central
itacdard time. Tne crowd had ranged
up as closely as possible to the line
until they looked right into the eyes of
the soldiers who were there to see
j&'p: that oo one got in ahead of time.
?; The tall young lieutenant galloped along
:>' the line of waiting settlers and told them
i, that the signal for starting would soon be
;; given. V\Then he arrived at a point near the
v centre ho drew his revolver and rapidly disoliargo't
its sir leads into the air.
r The first report had no longer rung out
when the great crowd commenced to move.
V- It was a Derby that is simply beyond dey<*riptlon.
There were blooded Kentucky
ru,jers, Texas bronchos, mules and ox teams.
5 Everybody applied the whip and spur,
aud many were the catastrophes, although
none of them was serious. It was a race that
few men want to undergo more thau once.
and the man who reached a claim and found
v it unoccupied was lucky indeed,
v. Every man going into the country carries
a gun and a whisky bottle, and many ara
going to their death.
A crowd of nearly 3000 that was in camp
in Topee started in a body for the new
"') oounty seat of Chandler. They declared
that taey would not wait for the surrey to
be completed, but will take the town by
force, and if they fail in this they will
found a town in the adjoining section. The
eompany of soldiers at the town have orders
to shoot, and blood will flow if the attempt
is made
At Langston the colored people were very
excited. Tno signals of a gang of cowboys
camped near by inflamed their anger, aud
mntterings were heard on every side. From
Cimaron City five hundred Presbyterians
ledby a tall,"raw-boned preacher, started
for the land of promise led by their modern
jp > Messiah.
At the Sac and Fox Agency on t.be east
ride the crowd was very turbulent, and sevKV
oral men were killed during the morning.
Alc<jg the line whisky jugs and bottles were
piracy and many men were intoxicated. The
one hundred deputy marshals and handful
of soldiers were unable to do anything with
the crowd. The number of women on horse*
back was remarkably large, and fully twenty
per cent, of the claims will be secured by
the fair sex.
In Guthrie everything was deserted. Stores
are closed and doctors, lawyers, preachers
and everybody has gone to the new Eldorado.
The boomers bought so many supplies
that a provision famine now exists.
Hundreds of men who arrived on th9 midnight
train could not get conveyances and
:are walking to the line, while scores slept in
the street?.
One girl of twenty-one from Winfleld,
Kan., walked ten mile3 on foot to establish a
|J>i* . claim. A colored woman with a baby in
aiifl loa^ino- A HlT-Vftftr-ald bov.
walked fifteen miles and secured a claim.
f/l. On* woman of sixty-five went on
horseback, and two women role on
?*ith little children on horses behind them.
There are HOOO people in town, and the worst
kind of a scramble for the 2000 lots is going
pa. At the northern county seat, the survey
is not completed, and 10,000 people are being
held at bay by soldiers. The crowd wiii attempt
to capture the town site.
The reservations of Pottawatomie, Shawnee,
Iowa. Sac and Fox Indians amount to
r-. 1,287,000 acres. Part of the land is prairie,
part in timber and much broken, and not
y over half of it is suited for farming. The
reservations lie directlv east of
the settlement part of Ok a ioma, and
are divided into two counties, with
1 -* rt* aa..K frtl*
330 acres reserve at mo tcuu= m -.?
!?> -.. the county seats. The location of
f,\ the county spats is on poor broken
groum., timber underbrush and
rocks. with absolutely no water.
Both towns have been name J. The one that
&;V t ig to be the county seat of the northern
county is Chandl-r," named for the Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, and the southern
town is Teeumseh. H. D. Baker, of Oklahoma
City, has already been appointed
Postmaster of the coming town of Tecuusch.
A careful man estimates the number of
actual settlers who went into the Indian
lands o.j the opening day to be close tr> uO,000.
Oi" these it is estimated that 10,000 will
settle in the new cities and towns whic'u
will sprin; up. Thi other 10,000 are men
and wo:n3n wno want farms. The total
number jt .-cres which have been throwr
open *n settlement is 800,005. This, divided
into tracts of ICO acres each, will give farm;
to 5'J0<> people, and the result is tha
not less t'ban 5000 others will b<
(disappointed. When in connection witb
this is taken the fact that of the 8-X),' 00 acre
ready for settlement, at least one-ei ihth is
unfit for eultivatiou, it can readily b
'seen th it there will bo much suffering iv thi
I'.' new lands.
flEOWNED IN THE HUDSON
. \ Three 3Jen, One Woman and a Chik
Go Down Oft' Low Point.
Three men, one woman aud a little gii
were drowned in the Hu ison River, oppositi
Low Point, twelve miles south of Pou^h
keepsie, on a rec?nt af tern odd. They wi-r
all Poles an 1 were strangers in tha locality
They hired a boat at Hampton to rov
across the river at Low Point. When abou
one hundred yards from the east suore th
boat overturned, and all sank immediately
I except one man, who clung to the caosize*
boat, but he let go and sank betore hel]
could reach him. Only one body, that of i
man, has been recovered.
E.\or;40us sacks have been placed la ta
Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Russia
for th? receipt of scraps of food., which wil
be sent tothefamma district* and distrib
uted. Sones pieces of bread not larger thai
a radish, which had been toastad by the con
tribute rs, were found yio donations
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President.
( and her friends from Auburndale witnessed,
with 75,000 others, the Venetian carnival
on the Charies River at Walt ham, Mass.
Jame3 E. Ostrander, of Kingston, N.
Y., was arrested for stealing $75,000 from
the Ulster County Savings Institution, of
which he was treasurer.
Fire at Barton Landing. Vt., damaged
that town to the extent of $275,COO.
Jon.v W. and Fred Walmslet, twins,
aged nine, were drowned at th3 lower end
i of the Passaic Falls, Paterson, N. J. They
j wero in swimming, when one of thorn slipped
off a rock. His brother jumped after nim,
and both sank.
Ax attorney for parties unknown has paid
to the State National Bank at Boston, Mass.,
SIS, ISO as "conscience money." This lawyer
does not himself know from whom this
money comes.
Rev. Father Mclloxet, pastor of the
Roman Catholic Church at Granville, Washington
County, N. Y., drooped dead on the
altar while savin? mass. The congregation
became greatly excited.
Luther O. Greene, Inspector of Finance
of the State of Vermont and for about
thirty-five years editor and proprietor of the
Woodstock Standard, died suddenly at
Montpelier. For two years past he had
been President of the Vermont Press Association.
m -1?' TO .'J 1 .0 IV. 1T-4.
JOSEPH r. r resiueuii ui iuo aieuropolitan
Life Insurance Company of New
York City, died at sea on board the steamship
Champagne.
An unknown disease is attacking the cattle
in Pennsylvania, almost always with fatal
effect. It is believed to be a form of
Texas splenetic fever. "W hen attacked the
animal's head falls helplessly and its legs
seem unable to bear the weight of the body.
A freight wreck occurred two miles east
of Greensourg, Penn., demolishing forty
freight and twenty cattle cars. Engineer
Rogers and Brakeman Wads worth were fatally
injured, a tramp killed and Fireman
R. E. Stanley seriously injured.
The Italian citizens celebrated in New
York City the twenty-first anniversary of
the end of the temporal power of the Poj$?
By the fall of a roof in the Caynga oolliery
at Scranton, Penn., James Horary a
miner, and two Hungarian laborers were
instantly killed.
The Butler County Bank of Millerstown,
Penn., owned by H.J. Hoyt, suspended payI
ment. The embarrassment created a panic
at Millerstown, and judgments were entered
against a number of residents.
F. TV. Duvlap, a deputy delinquent mercantile
tax appraiser of Philadelphia, Penn.,
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the
city and was sentenced to two years in the
Eastern Penitentiary.
The courthouse at South Atkinson, houses,
barns and bridges were blown down by a
storm in Piscataquis County, Me., and Mrs.
Hall, of Orneville, was killed by a falling
chimney.
The contest of tho $30,000,000 will of Mrs.
Hopkins-Searles was commenced in Salem,
Mass. Mr. Searies said the ilrst proposition
of marriage was made by his wife.
Sonth and West.
The United States Savings Bank of
Topeka, Kan., whica failed last March and |
" was reopened July 2, has been again placed j
in the hands of a receiver.
Vnmrif fnrast fires razed in Wisconsin. I
Several villages and much valuable farm
property have been destroyed.
A vote at Chicago, 111, as to whether the
World's Fair should ba kept open on Sundays
showed the citizens overwhelmingly in
favor of its being open.
Albert More a, alias Grant Kitchen, the
colored wife murderer, was hanzed in the
county jail at Savannah, Ga. R. H. Duncan,
the four-times murderer, paid the penalty
of his horrible crime on the gallows at
Eagle Pass, Texas.
The State Constitution of Wisconsin has
been stolen from tne archives.
At Port Neuf, Idaho, passenger trains
Xos. t and 2 collided, killing Ave men and
seriously injuring saveral others. The killed
are L. tVeidemyer, mail clerk, and four
Indians from Fort Hall Reservation.
Workmen* on the railroad saw a woman
walk to the Great Northern bridge, at Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, throw a boy eight
years old into the river, hurl on eighteauI
montLs-old baby after him and plunge into
the water herself. All perished. The woman
is the wife of a contractor named
Neprosich and had become crazed on account
of her husband's business reverses.
Anton Siebolt, who pounded James
Meighan to death, was taken from the Darlington
(Wis.) jail and hanged.
The first foreign flag has been raised on
the World's Fair ground at Chicago. HI. It
is that of Turkey, and was displayed on tha
site appropriated for the Constantinople exhibition.
The Turkish Consul led the caremonies.
At 12:30 o'clock in the morning three
strangers, who wora silk handkerchiefs over
their faces, walked into the office of the Pacific
House, the leading hotel of St. Joseph,
Mo., situated in the very heart of the city,
and deliberately robbed the clerk of over
tsrm in mgh onrl vnliiahla^ Tha men drew
large revolvers and ordered the clerk to
thro w up his hands.
The Cleveland Hotel an-t ten business
houses were burned at Sheffield, Ala. The
buildings are a total wreck, and the loss is
about $110,000.
The extra session of the Tennessee General
Assembly citue to an end at Nashville
without any action having been taken upon
the convict lease system. More trouble was
feared among the miners at Briceville in
consequence.
The St. Paul (Minn.) public schools closed
during the latter days of September on ac
4. t>
A convict in the San Quentin (Cal.) State
Prisou, name<l Henry Baser, killed a fellowconvict
namod Jatnes Bailey by plunging a
knife into his neck, whil9 eating nis supper.
England and Germany have practically
chosen sites for their buildings at the
World's Fair, Chicago, III. England is to
erect a splendid structure on the Take shore,
where the stona pavilion in Jacksoa Park
now stands. Germany's building will be located
either oa the lake shore, near the Mexican
quarters, or just south of the west annex
to the Fine Art Palace, near the Micbgan
and Ohio buildings.
"Washington.
Secretary Tract awarded the contract
for building torpedo boat No. 2 to the Iowa
Iron Works of Dubuque at 6113,500.
' Tns President issued his proclamation
opening the new lands in Oklahoma tor settlement
on Tuesday, September 22.
I, Sir Julian Paunceforte, the Eritish
^ Minister, has complained to the State DcL
partmeut of an allege 1 violation of the modus
vivendi in relation to the seal fisheries.
Plans have just been approved by the
War Department for additional buildings at
| Plattsburz Barracks, N. Y., which will give
' accommodations for a regiment and a half
^ of troops.
3 Collector Hendricks, of New Yltrk,
! called at tha White House and speut an
i hour !n consultation with the President.
J The Attorney General has given direc9
; tions to dismiss the second libel against the
i Chilean ves-el Itata, and she will ba immediately
released and free to resume traffic.
Senor Don Benjamin Molina Guip^>l^
the Minister from Salvador, presented his
! letters of recall to the President. The usual
courtesies were exchanged.
1 '
The larger postcfTives are soon to be furnished
by the Postoffice Department with
i i stamp canceling macaino?; these can cancel
j the stamps on 1500 letters every six min1
utes.
j The American Pomolorical Society held
3 j jts annual biennial s?ss:on in Washington.
j TriE eleven Division Superintendents of
' , the Railway Mad Service heid a mating in
. Washington to discu-ss matters o! detail in
0 i the improvement of the service.
j j United States Minister Egan notified
the Stati Department of Batmaeeda's sui
^ cide. It was a short dispatch and merely
stated the fact and that ;ha deed was done
i at toe Argentine .Legation. Tranquility
prevails in Chili.
j Foreign.
i. The damage done by the flools in Spain 13
1 , estimated at $4,000,000; the bodies of 1205
ip ' victims at Cocsuegra have been buried.
b
Therb was a heavy storm in Labrador.
Two fishing vessels, the Parsee and the Amazon.
returning: loaded with fl3b. were
wrecked, and seven men were drowned. In
the same gale tne schooner Blossom struck
Gull Island, Notre Dame Bay, and went to
pieces; five men and one woman were
drowned.
Spain has officially recognized the provisional
government of Chili.
A great coal vein has been discovered in
Spitz bergen, and it is probable thac Russia
will enforce her claim to the island, which
heretofore has be9n regarded as valueless.
The Holland budget shows a deficit of
$1,000,000.
The overturning of a mail coach near
Geneva, Switzerland, resulted in the death
of two women and the injury of three others,
j The Pope received 2000 French workmen
who visited Home as pilgrims.
Agob Pasha, Kazazian Minister of the
[ Civil List and formerly Minister of Finance,
was thrown from bis horse in Constantinople
and so seriously injured that he died in an
| hour.
Dr. Charles Pelliqrixi, President of
I the Argentine Republic, has signed a bill
providing for a representation at the
World's Fair and appropriating $100,000
or that object.
An explosion took place at the FarchiesLa-ilancnecolliery,near
Charleroi, Province
of Hainaut, Belgium. The number of dead
is twenty-nine. 4
Extraordinary high tides have done
| groat damage to the marshes of Westmoreland
County, New Brunswick.
Seven miners were killed and many seriously
injured by an explosion of fire damp
| in Silesia.
A serious riot occurred daring a bull fight
at Marseilles, France. Displeased citizens
drove bulls and toreadors out of the arena,
heaped and burned the seats, and were only
quieted when repeatedly charged by a force
gendarmes. The building was finally cleared
and the flames extinguished. Many arrests
were made.
Sib James Ferguson, Bart., Political
Secretary of the Foreign Office, has been
appointed to the office of Postmaster General
of Great Britain, vacant through the death
of Henry Cecil Raikes.
Chilian soldiers in Santiago are in revolt
at the bad food they receive. The British
Government has Recognized the Provisional
Government o? Ubui.
Two passenger trains collided between Go
laczowry and Wolbrom, Prussian Silesia.
The cars were shattered to splinters, and ten
persons were killed and many injured.
In the Hcuse of Commons, Ottawa,
Canada, the opposition impeached another
member of the Government, the Postmaster
General, Hon. John Ha^gart, who is accused
of participating in the profits of a
Government railway contract and agreeing
to the Arm's subscribing to Government election
funds, charged to the firm's profit.
LATER SEWS,
PtKTTRO-pxEUMONiA has again appeared
among cattle in New Jersey. Government
inspectors have been sent there to stamp it
out.
In the Hopkins-Searles will contest at
Salem, Mass., Mr. Searles testified that the
annua! income of the Hopkins estate was
about $600,000. He and his wife received
forty-five per cent, each, which was deposited
1U UiO UOillC.
Tme President on June 3 granted a pardon
to Robert Sigel, son of General Sigel,
of New York, convicted of forgery and sentenced
to six years' imprisonment at hard
labor, the pardon to take effect at the expiration
of two years and nine months of
actual imprisonment. A few days ago the
President granted a full pardon "in view of
the extreme illness of the prisoner, and
the fact that the term will expire in December."
The OrdnanceBureau of the Navy has succeeded
in procuring the most rapid of rapidfiring
guns in the worid. The Dashiel fourinch
gun was recently tested at the Indian
Head proving grounds with the servicecharge
of Brown powder, firing in salvos of
five rounds. The first five were fired in
twenty-six seconds, the second in twenty-two
seconds, and the third in seventeen seconds.
Commodore Ramsey, Acting Secretary
of the Navy, received a request that the
Cushin; and Stiletto be allowed to take
part in a race with the fleet steam yachts
Vamoose, Norwood and Javelin. Although
the naval officers feel confident of the ability I
of the Cushing to hold her own in such a
contest, the request was not granted, as
naval vessels are not permitted to engage in
racing.
According to a census bulletin the real
estate mortgage debt of Kansas, January 1,
1890, aside from State and railroad land contracts,
was ?.435,485,108. Of this amount
1167,145,039 is almost exclusively on farms.
'pr.nnrbnvnil al.rkrt p. morehouse
committed suicide at his residence in Marysville,
Mo. Several weeks before the Governor
was much overheated while driving cattle,
and had been in a nervous condition ever
since. He was born in Delaware Conntv.
Ohio, July 10, 1835, and came to Missouri in
1356. He was a lawyer by profession.
The whole of the business portion of
Bradley, South Dakota, is in ashes. Nine
stores, the M. E. Church, a hotel and one
house were burned.
Major McKinley spoke at the Coal
Palace at Ottumwa, Iowa.
W. H. Davis, who murdered his mother
and her alleged lover, James Arnold, at
Pueblo, Col., because they refused to give
him money with which to continue hi3
drunken spree, was executed in the prison
rnrrf at Canon Citv. Co).
Thk Western and Brazilian Cable Company
has just laid a new cable between Santos
and Pernambtco. The cable steamer Silvertown
is about to lay a cable from Pernambuco
to the Island Fernando do Noronha
and thence to St. Louis, Senegal, Africa.
Russian troops are being steadily raovt l
westward: Russia is said to be meditating an
entrance into Rumanian territory.
The festivities in celebration of the restoration
of peace in Chili passed without political
disturbance.
In Oito Prefecture. Japan, 2000 cases of
i dysentery are reported, with 700 deaths.
Thf. Kins of Belgium has received Henry
M. Stanley's resignation as Governor of the
Congo States. The pctet has bean refused by
a German officer of colonial experience, now
in Africa.
GALES IN ENGLAND.
Several Vessels Wrecked and Great
Injury to Crops.
A dispatch from Berwick-on-Tweed,
Northumberland, England, announced that
a furious gale has been ragin^there and that
several vessels have been wrecked. Only
one life is reported lost. Much damage has
be?n done to the harbor, which has recently
been so much improved. The crops throughout
the borough have suffered severely.
Several yachts have been sunk at Llnnfairfecian.
Heavy floods prevail in the E I- !
inburgh distr.ee. A number of pleasure
boats have been destroyed at Porto Bello
and the pier has boen damaged. Railway
bridges a: Peuicuick and in the Esk district
have collapsed, and traffic is interrupted
and in many cases suspended.
In the River Mersey much u a mage has b_>ea
done to shipping. At Blackpool, Lancashire,
houses have been inundated and a
great amount of damage has been done to
the crops. Reports from several sections of
North Wales show that the storm has flooded
the valleys in that section of the country
and that the farmers have suffered severely.
SUICIDE OF BALMACID1
Chili's Ex-President Blows Out
His Brains at Santiago.
A Short Sketch of His Eventful
and Turbulent Career.
Vftlnarafsn. Chill, was thrown into wild
excitement by the story that ex-President
Balmaceda had shot himself through the
temple in his room at the Argentine Legation,
in Santiago, at 8:30 oa a recent morning.
There was great rejoicing at the capital,
and the streets were illuminated that
night.
Balmaceda attempted to escape from the
country in disguise* after the surrender of
Santiago. The police were soon on his track.
He found every avenue of retreat cut off
and was obliged to return to the capital.
He arrived at the Argentine
Legation and no one was
permitted to see him except the Argentine
Minister and Senor Urriburia. Many
plans ot escape were suggested, but
Balmaceda hesitated about essaying
any of them. He continued in
la extremely nervous condition, fearing the
vengeance of the Junta. Senor Urriburia
finally advised Balmaceda to give himself
up to the Junta. Balmaceda retired at
midnight apparently undecided as to what
he should do.
A pistol shot was heard in his room the
next morning by Sonora Urriburia, who
notified ner husband. Urriburia went after
Carlos Walker Martinez before he entered
Balmaceda's room. The door was broKen
open. The body was lying on the bed, undressed,
and a gaping wound was in the ternEle.
The corpse was still warm. Balmaceda
eld the revolver tightly in his right hand.
As soon as the news spread through the
city great crowds of people gathered about
the legation._ Their excitement amounted
to frenzy. Domingo lorro, caimaceaaa
brother-in-law, and Arrieta Melchor Corleta,
the* Uruguay Minister, hastened to the legation
The Junta, upon receiving the news, immediately
issued a commission, whi^h comprised
Carlo Walker Martinez, Senor Melchor,
Senor Concho and Judge Agusrro of
\he Supreme Court. They viewed the body
jt the legation, and then drew up a procas
verbal certifying to the mode of Balmaceda's
death. Tho German Minister, Gutschmidt,
an old friend of Balmaceda, also
viewed the fallen leader's body as it lay at
the legation.
Balmaceda left a letter to his mother and
a statement Intended for publication. He
declares in the latter that during the past
eight months he had acted with the
firm conviction that he was right, and that
he had no one in the army whom
he could trust. He believed that his
generals were false to him, that they
continually deceived him, and that had they
obeyed his orders tbe battle o? Concon
would have been won by them. He declared
that his heart had been with Chili;
that he sought to rescue his country
from foreign domination and to maka
her the first republic in America.
He expressed regret that he did not take
Minister Egan's advice, conclude peace, and
retire from the country. His wife, he says,
gave him $2500?all the money he had in hi3
possession. Balmaceda also wrote Senor
Urriburia, saving that himself alone was responsible
for his death.
Sketch of His Life.
Tnm XTanniil RnlmwAq horn in
Santiago fifty-one years ago. He was carefully
educated for a priest at Santiago. As
soon as his academic studies ware completed
his turbulent and active nature drove him
into politics. He joined the Club de la Reforma,
in Santiago, an organization composed
of hot-headed young men who wanted
to overthrow the Chilian Constitution of
1830. He was a fine orator and became the
club's foremost leaaer.
At twenty-eight Baimaceda, who was already
distinguished throughout Chili, was
elected a deputy to the Congress. He served
five terms with credit and was the
champion and idol of the great
Liberal party. President Santa Maria
made him Minister of Foreign Affairs in
1883. The next year Balmacaaa was elected
President of the republic by an overwhelming
majority. For three years the country
enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and he
was the most popular man in Chili.
His policy cnanged, and as the lime drew
near for his re-election, Balmaceda determine!
upon a coup d'etat to make
himself master of Chili. He dismissed .
his able ministers and formed a cabinet
with the unpopular Sanfuentes
at the head. Baimaceda next announced
Sanfuentes as a candidate for the
Presidency Quarrels with the deputies
followed. Ministers were removed, restored
again, and the civil war tnac nas joss eaanu
was filially brought about.
PBOMINENT PEOPLE,
Servians boy King writes verses.
The Russian Czar is at work at 7 a. sc
Tub: new Queen of Hawaii is unpopular.
Rudyard Kipling is writing a drama.
W. W. Astor's daily income has been estimated
at $23,000.
Spctrokon was only nineteen when he
preached bis first sormon.
The Prince of Wales desires to try his new
yacht in American waters.
Thk Er-Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, is
a sufferer from melancholia.
M. Rouvier, the French Minister of
Finance, was a traveling salesman.
It seems to be an accepted fact in Germany
that the Kaiser will visit us in 1893,
Mrs. Langtry's 5000-acre propertv on
the Pacific slope has increased five-fold in
value.
Justice Field, of tho Supreme Court,
sneaks Greek, Latin, Turkish, French and
Italian.
Ex-President Grevy, of France, left a
fortune of $2,000,000. He has but one heir?
his daughter.
hie late rroressor npencer was at mo
of twelve thought the finest penman in the
United States.
General Whichcots, th3 last surviving
officer of the battle of Waterloo, died recently
in London.
Bishop Talbot, of "Wyoming, has peremptorily
declined his recent election to the
diocese of Georgia.
James Russell Lowell, C. A. Dana. Dr.
Holland, -Walt Whitman, Julia Ward
Howe, and Queen Victoria were all born
in 1819.
Dn. Zeyner, of Philadelphia, who has
just returned from Chile, says that Balmaceda
was overthrown because he tried to
elevate the lower classes. He wanted to
break down an oligarchy and establish a
real republic, and he has paid the penalty.
k Fkank Stockton, the novelest, claims to
work with a deliberation which would hard- |
ly prove financially profitable to writers les9 i
known. He dictates to a stenographer, and J
sometimes, be says, he waits an hour for the i
right word. In this way he turns out about j
a thousand words per day.
James Lane Allen, the Kentucky author,
lives in a little frame house on the
Tate's Creek pike, just out of Loxington.
Here he passes nearly all his time in literary
work, coming into town only when desirous
of meeting his frieuds. He is now at work on
a new story, the scene of which will be laid
in Kentucky.
M. H. De Younq, the California editor,
started his first newspaper in San Francisco
in 1685 on a capital of $20?and that loaned
him by a more prosperous acquaintance.
Bret Harte was at that time a clerk in the
mint and did his first writing for Mr. De
Youug's paper, never asking for pay for his
contributions. Within a few weeks after
the pap^r was started its advertising receipts
\ver-? ijlOM mozich.
7ns Junta of Chili published a decre?
recognizing the papar issue by Balmaceda.
The amount is $27,000,000, aud it is almost
the only money In circulation. General sat>
isfaction is expressed with the decree. Th?
first result was the opening of all the banks.
All natives of Italy who failed to perform
military duty from the class of 1848 to that
of 1SF2 have been granted amnesty and may
now visit their native land without fear of
molestation. _ i i
WORLD'S FAIB NOTES.
The World'n Fair power plant will be of
24,000 horse power, and will require tha
services of 250 engineers, firemen and at?
tendant-% '
Mes. Susan Gale Cook, of Tennessee, Is
now Permanent Secretary of the Board of
Lady Managers, having been elected at the
September meeting.
The London Chronicle says that the Prince
of Wales has all but decided to go to Chi
cago to accent! ldu r^xpusibiuu, auui/uav
likely to bo accompanied by Emperor William
of Germany.
It is now estimated that nearly $18,000,000
will be spent upon the World's Fair by the
Exposition Company alone. This sum does
not include what will be expended by the
United States and other nations, the States
of the Union, cities, industries, and private
enterprises.
The National Association or Canned Food
Packers has applied for space to exhibit its
products at the Fair. The association in its
jurisdiction covers the packing interests of
twenty States. There are in the country
about 2000 canning concerns, consuming the
product of 2,000,000 acres of land and giving
direct employment to a million people.
A committee of live stock experts has
apportioned the cash premiums to be
awarded in the Exposition Live Stock D>
partment, amounting to $150,000, as follows:
For horses, $52,000; cattle, $30,000; swine,
$15,000; poultry and pet stock, $10,000;
dogs, $4000. This leaves a contingent fund
of $19,000, which Chief Buchanan says should
be held for special breed of animate that may
have been overlooked.
The Exoosition Directors have appropriated
$50,0ft0 for the expense of reproducing
at the Exposition the Convent of La Ribada,
Palos, Spain, where Columbus lived
while perfecting his plans for his voyage of
discovery. The building will be used for
housing an extensive collection of Columbus
relics, and its ancient appearance, it is believed,
will afford a pleasing contrastto that
of the magnificient palaces by which it will
be surrounded.
Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru,
Chile, and Brazil will erect special buildings.
Mexico will produce at Jackson Park one of
the ancient Aztec templed. Guatemala will
erect at a cost of ?12,000 a building on the
model of one of the palaces of the ruined city
Antigua. The building of Colombia will be
the capitol of that republic in miniature.
Ecuador has already given orders for the
removal to Chicago of the reproduction of
thelncas'a "Temple of the Sun" that ornamented
the grounds of the Paris Exposition.
Plans have been completed for the Live
Stock Assembly Hall at the Exposition.
This building will stand just south of the
colopnade connecting Agricultural and
Machinery Buildings. It will in form resemble
the letter T, one portion being 500
feet long and the other 200 feet. On the first
floor will be office room for cattle and horaa
associations, dog and pet stock associations,
and all remaining live-stock organizations.
On the second floor will be an assembly hall
1TZ feet long and seventy-four feet wide.
Here the farmers will be given a chance to
hold their assemblies. Special rooms are
provided for the Farmers' Alliance, the
National Grange, and other similar associations.
The entire structure has been so
planned as to give the farmers and live-stock
men generally all they could ask in the way
of accommodations. Chief oI Construction
Burn ham has been instructed by the Committee
on Grounds and Buildings to perfect
working drawinzs and ask for contracts.
A WALL STREET SENSATION
"Deacon" White Tries to Corner the
Corn Crop and Becomes Bankrupt.
8. V. White & Co., regarded as one of the
strongest firms on the New York Stock Exchange^
made an assignment to Charles W.
Gould, of No. 2 Wall street. Mr. White has
been recognized as a power in the financial
world for the past twenty years, and his assignment
created a genuine sensation on the
street.
The cause of the firm's embarrassment
was a gigantic speculation in corn engineered
by the head of the house. He tried
to corner the country's supply of the grain
for September and October delivery and
failed.
The enormous crop interfered. His liabilities
are estimated at from a million and
a half to two millions.
He began his purchases when the price of
September corn was fifty cents. He continued
buying until he owned 10,000,000
bushels. The average price paid for tae
corn was sixty cents, and at one time Mr.
White had a paper profit of 11,000.000 on
his deal. Two weeks before he failed the
price for September was seventy cents. But
it was a great load to carry, especially as
there were Indications that the Chicago
gamblers would break their necks or prevent
Mr. White from unload in a;. A clique met
daily in Chicago at the Calumet Club to devise
means of downing Mr. White.
The continued heavy receipts of corn at
Chicago from all centres materially assisted
them. Even the most secret steps on his
part toward unloading some of his
corn were detected and the clique.
Air) nd bv the big receipts, smashed
down the market. The receipts continued,
and the attitude of the Chicago clique b?
came so pronounced that it was apparent
that Mr. White could not withstand the
forces against him. The September option
had declined to 52%. Of the 10,000,000
bushels h6 still held 8,U00,000 bushels, and on
most of this heavy advances had been mode
by the New York banks. With the declining
market the banks refused further loans,
and there was nothing to do but for Mr.
White to make an assignment. He tersely
put the situation thus.
"I have been largely long of corn, and in
closing it out the depreciation, with the
calls for margins, which were unusually
heavy, exhausted my resources, and
there was nothing left but to stop and as*
sign."
Mr. White's chief trouble seemed to be
that he based his operations on the visible
supply and did not sufficiently regard
the supplies that were kept back by the
furmnru.
AGED TEIPLETS H0N0BED,
William, Matthew and David Grant
*-.-.-1 r>;?, Hrl., w
Torrington, Conn., has had the distinction
of honoring William Allen Grant, Mathew
Anderson Grant and David Augustus
Grant, in all probability the oldest triplets
in tho world.
The oid gentlemen are remarkably well
preserved for persons of the advanced age
of seventy. They appeared at the reception
tendered them by the business men of the
place, sang some old hymus with wonderful
fervor and seemed to enjoy the occasion
very much.
The Grant brothers were born in Torrington,
Conn., September 23. 1821, and have
always lived there. They are steady, sober,
industrious men. They are the offspring of
Augustus and Amelia Cone Grant.
General U. S. Grant was a direct descendant
or the same stock, being a cousin of the
now famous triplets. The Adventist preacher,
Miles Grant, is also a cousin. The family
descended from the original English settlers,
coming to Dorchester in 1630 ami then settling
in Windsor, the parent of this colony
coming to Torrington.
The triplets have all raised families. Daniel
lives with his second and had two
children?a son and a daughter. The son
was killed in a railroad accident; the daughter
is still living. William likewise lives
with his second wife and has two children.
Matthew is still living with his first wife and
has one daughter. All the children live in
that vicinity.
A peculiar circumstance is that three of
tho cousins, children of the triplets, were
bora within a period of six weeks.
The exercises in honor of the Grants
birthday were formally opene 1 with a musical
programme and the sinking by the
triplets of the olden time stouts as suag WalJ
a csntury ago, after which ther-j Wc>r<
speeches. Alter the completion of the exer
cises, which took place at the Opera House
a reception was given at a neighboring
hotel.
William and Daniel look much alike, ant
are often mistaken, one for the other. Thej
all have light gray eyes, white hair an<
bronzed ami weatherbeaten countenances
and look uncommonly well for men seventj
years old.
A bscint estimate places the number of
cans of tomatoes consumed annually in th<
United States at 84,000,000, of which'Mary
land produce# one^third. j
j
WOBLD'S FOOD SUPPLY.
An Exhaustire Study of Eu* '
rope's Breadstuff Shortage. h
Deficit of 200,000,000 Bushels
of Wheat and Bye, ;
n
An exhaustive study of the world's food
supply in the forthcoming number of the ^
American Agriculturist emphasizes facts g
of r.Tflro imrvirfonnQ +a ViAfVi A
v* 6* * ?v tv uutu ftiuerimi CLUU ^
Europe. It declares that the half 1ms not '
been told about the European shortage in
breadstuffs, which not even a bountiful crop
this year would have relieved. Continental P
powers, especially Russia, suppress the facts L
as far as possible. In many Russian provinces
the scarcity of food became pronounced
as far back as February lasc. In the Kon- tl
etantinovka district many families have not ft
cooked a meal since Easter, but subsist on
bread, soake rye, grain, etc., bestowed in
charity. The prohibition of rye exports
is followed by a ukase forbiding the shipment t
of bran and other cereal cattle foods. The as- ,,
founding shortage in Russia's yield of rye, u
announced a month ago by the Ministry of ?
Finance, proves even greater than the most
extravagant estimates, and effectually obliterates
all possibility of Russia exporting (
any of her scant wheat crops. That eastern t
Germany is in practically the same plight ?
admits of no doubt. The European reserves j .
that have heretofore eked oat insufficient
harvests are everywhere exhausted. The
parade made by Russia of the existence of e
such stores in the Baltic provinces is done
for effect, to convey the impression that *
military stores are abundant. Such reserves e
are of small importance. Indeed, the danger c
of famine is destined to spare Europe the
horrors of war for fully a twelvemonth
hence. b
Accepting the largest estimates of produo a
tion, both at home and abroad, and even as- r
sutmng that the United States and Canada
can export 235,000,000 bushels, the Agrieul' 0
turi.it still finds a deficit in the world's food
supply of at least 200,000,0(30 bushels of
wheat and rye, with a possibility of the c
shortage being twice as great. Added to this a
is the almost total failure of the potato crop t
in Ireland, and a serious curtailment in the
yield of potatoes on the Continent. Even
with the utmost economy of distribution and
an unheard of consumption of American. s
maize, grave distress is before the masses of ~
Europe. J
The Agriculturist says the enormous ex- I
ports of wheat and flour from the United t
States in August proves that Europe regards
the situation as worse than it has yetbeen
painted. Otherwise, why should she c
buy in a single month close upon the harvest j
nearly half as much wheat as she took trora
the United States during the entire fl?jt 5
eight months of the year following one of t
our largest wheat crops and a period of bedrock
prices? Indeed, August wheat exports
were almost treble those of the same month
last year and over four times as much as the ]
average exports at this season of late years. ?
for the first time in years wheat bran and
middlings are being exported to Europe 8
thus eariy in the s?ason. The Agriculturist
accepts these circumstances as the strongest 1
possible reason for believing that prices of
wheat are to-day unnaturally low. It looks '
for a sharp advance in all cereals as soon as i
the demand realizes the 1/mited extent of j
the world's actual supply. Although noted .
for its conservatism, the Agriculturist re- '
news its judgment that every bushel of highf
grade wheat is to-day worth fully one dollar
on the farm where it erew.
r
THE LABOR WORLD.
Bismarck runs a brickyard.
New Yobs teamsters have a union.
Cleveland, Ohio, will build a labor halL
Canadian unions want Chinese excluded.
Illinois has a State Typographical
Union.
Chiet Aethdb, of the B. L. K, was an
engineer.
Unemployed workmen paraded at Kansas
City, Mo.
New York has an American-Italian stonemasons'
union.
There are now 775 labor and farmers'
papers in the United States.
London omnibus drivers gained $90,000
a year by winning their strike.
The Boston Cigar-Makers' Union have
over $30,000 in their treasury.
The British Trades Union Congressof 1892
is to sit at Glasgow, Scotland.
The State Labor Commission will investigate
the "sweaters" of Chicago.
The average salaries of the mistresses in
the London fcoard-schools is $950.
Girls who work in eleciric lamp factories |
average $25 a month and telephone operators < i
are paid ?30. j ]
A Labor Day parade of cowboys on their j ,
bronchos took place in Canon City, Fremont i
County, Col.
There are now abont eight thousand ! j
onion brass moulders in this country. Their i '
wages a re from $2 to $4 per day. | ]
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- j <
neers held their annual session at Mont- ,
real, Canada. Chief Engineer Arthur presided.
1
The German Government has decided to 1
establish a factory at Spandau for making
cloth uniforms, and to employ soldiers ia the j
work. (
Watchmaking in Switzerland is now ,
carried on in large manufactories, instead
of at the homes of the watchmakers, as here- '
tofore. 1
The Paris waiters not only insist upon <
their right to wear beards and no uni- <
forms, bnt also to smoke when not actually ,
serving.
The Central Labor Union of New York i
resolved to request the President to recom- i
mend to Congress a National Labor Day j
holiday.
Tasmania, it seems, is in sore straits for a .
supply of lacor. From all the country dis- 1 1
tricts farmers clamor for help. Some of > I
them have actually abandoned their farms . j
owing to this scarcity of labor.
Owing to the complete lack of farm laborers
in West Prussia, the German Government
has' permitted the importation of 1
Russians and Poles from the Warsaw dis- |
trict into Prussia for the purpose of agricul- I ,
tural labor. i ^
Although not quite three years old the | .
' International brotnerhood of Railway Con- i
; j ductors has at present eighty-eight divisions | <
I with about 3000 members and 322,000 in the j (
j treasury. They pay $1000 for total disabilI
ity or death.
I The fair wages for skilled female tailors in !
! Eerlin are 31.42 n week, though they run I
| down to 31.10, and the working season is a (
short one. Good cloakmakers get 31.66 per .
week. Young girl workers get from fifty
cents to 31 a week. The price paid for mak- 1
ing a dozen button-holes by hand is two and I
a half cents. ,
A LONDON BANE ROBBED. '
i1
From $730,000 to $1,250,000 Sail I i
to Have Been Taker.. i <
An important bank robbery has taken j 5
j place in LonJon, England. The institution '
I that has suffered is the London and West- ?
| minster Bank, Limited, 41 Lithbury, E. C., '
| an important establishment having over '
j fifteen branch houses in that city. <
I The money stolen consisted of a large par- ,
I eel of bills remitted from the country hanks. *
J The thief or thieves gained access to aa '
! apartment near the main entrance to the
i ' bank. This apartment was easy of accass
j from the street.
It is currently reported that tha amount
i ! stolen is not iess than 3730,000, and it may J
j amount to as much as $1,230,0'JO. j
, ; Notice of the robbery has bean sant to the .
I police cen:res throughout the British Isles
, and on tho Continent, and the saiiing of '
. ' every passeuner vessel is being <
i watched. Notice of the robbery
f j has also been sent to all the banks upon J
' I which the bills were drawn, but the police ; '
I | theory is that no attempt will be made to I '
r ; change the bills in that country, but that the |
j j thieves will have recourse to the Continent, 1
j whore the presence of so many wealthy
r ! travelers from England and the United ,
j States makes such transactions easier than
I in that country.
i I Two hundred convicts In the jute mill at
I San Francisco, Cal., went on an unsucceto* :
* ' ful strike for better food and mors tobacco, '
* ' ' '
POPULAR
SCIENCE.
Habitual divers in salt water often have
inflammation of the eyes.
A Japanese recommends cleansing the
ands with tartrate of ammonium to
void poisoning from white lead.
Four different mountain peaks in
daho are from thirteen to twenty-three
eet lower than they were fifteen yean
go.
A meteorological station is to be es<
ablished at Tiberia, Palestine, a place
82 feet below the level of the Mediteranean
Sea.
Electric heating is promised as one of
be new uses of electricity, and a com<
>any has been organized in Chicago U
atroduce the system.
Recent researches in medicine shoif
sat persons having a tendency to gouty roubles
generally improve more rapidly
rhpn thftw nn fruit.
French scientists assert that the Eiffel
'ower causes electrical disturbances and
tint the climate in Pans has been much
rorse since the tower was juilt.
M. Olszewski has found that liquid
>xygen, instead of being colorless, has a
right blue color. He concludes that
tie blue of the sky may be due to the
ir'? oxygen. '
It is now too intention of European' -
ngineers to store the waters of the Kile
o such an extent as to enable a greater
xtension of the cotton and sugar cane
rops in that region.
Dr. Pinel, of Pari?, has .found that
typnotic patients obey the phonograph
a readily as they do a living speaker. <
le, therefore, discards the whole theory
if animal magnetism.
A strong wind prevents the formation
rf dewr by keeping tho air* well mixed,
ad leaving no part of it in contact with
he- ground long enough to become cool
j>d deposit moisture.
To determine whether the joint of s
ewer pipe leaks or not, wrap it with a
>iece of white eloth saturated with a sotxtion
of acetate of lead. If it leaks,
be cloth will become black.
Humboldt
calculated the mean level
if North America to be 748 feet above
he sea, and he found that in 4,500,000
rears the whole of North America might
>e worn down to the sea level. / ''..-J
Goal equaling that of the finest Lebigb
TaIIavv koa Kaon in
?*? *? J MVWU
Brazil, the veins being from four to
wenty-five feet in thickness. The mines
ire situated at and near Sonora.
The survey for an observatory upoo
Host Blanc, Switzerland, is now being
nade> and as soon as it is shown that
ron columns can be sunk through the .
ce cap forming the summit, plans for
he observatory "will be prepared.
The pongee silks, both plain and fig-, ired,
will be worn during the fall, the
latural shade predominating. Combina;ion
suits in two shades of pongee will
>e favored. The two shades of brown
rod black, with delicate combinations,
will be noticeable for reception gowns.
The cultivation of the Indian-rob*
jer tree on the island of Trinidad is reviving
much attention. A few trees of
lifferent varieties were imported some
pears ago and were placed in the botani;al
gardens. The results have shown
;hat the soil and climate are remarkably
favorable to their cultivation.
Accordion plaiting, after its brief re- .
ia a rrtin f/\ tho frtF
UlCUjgUbf W O^iiiu wv wmw *vaw ?v* w?
nomen,t at least. A costume of fla6
woolen is made entirely of accordion
plaits. The corsage is ornamented with
square figaro jacket fronts and backs of
5ae guipure lace. The upper part ol
:he sleeve is of fullwccordion plaits, the
lower part tight-fitting and covered with
guipure lace. The collar and bands are
it guipure.
In a paper lately read before the Scientific
Section of the Manchester (England) <
Literary and Philosophical Society, Mtc
John Watson maintains that the rede*
/elopement of lost limbs is not unusual
unong insects. He himself has had
three cases in which limbs have been
redeveloped and one case of complete
cicatrization. Redevelopemcnt, he says,
an take place either at the larval or (he
papal stages of an insect's metamorphosis.
The bosk of Indian corn is being used
in the manufacture of paper. In some
jxperiments to test this use the huskt
were thrown into a rotary boiler, and
ifter being mixed with caustic soda and
thoroughly boiled, they formed a kind
)f spongy paste, full of a glutinous substance.
This paste was then placed in a
Hydraulic press, so as to separate the
gluten from the fibre; a compact mass ol
Sbre was then obtained, which is worked ;
in various ways. '
The ichthyosaurus which was found
by diggers who were making excavations
it Saintc-Colombe in trencn ourgunuy
is one o* the largest ever found, and can
be considered one of the finest specimens.
jf paleontological wonders. Its body,
ibout nine yards in length, and its head,
3ve feet in length, were found in a good
state of preservation, the anterior and
:he posterior fins adhering to the vertebral
columns. Scientists gave this ante*
liluvian monster the name of Ichthyojaurus
Burgundianus.
C. V. Boughton, Secretary and Manager
of the Buffalo, (N. Y.) Seal and
Press "Works, i: working on an electrical
machine for conversation at long disanccs.
Jfr. Boughton is an inventor
who has come into prominence lately
}y his machines for making seals,
icid has two big contratcts with the j
jovernment for furnishing them. He is
lot yet prepared to give out details of
lis plan, as the foreign patents have not
ret been obtained. He has been at work
>n tbe scheme for a year and has spent
H600. The medium used is electricity,
[t is not a system of signals, he says, nor
inything of tbe kind. Tbe President's
nessage or the contents of a newspaper
nay be transmitted to a vessel ten miles
listant with ease. He will bo ready very
soon to show its operations to the
ivorld.
yueer jmroses.
Every nation has its own familiar
phrases, which sound very queer to a
foreigner. We have a great many that
seem very natural to us, because we have
known them since childhood, and other
countries similarly have expressions that
we would think funny, but which are
not in the least to them. The French,
for instance, say, "One of these four
mornings," when we would say, "One
of tbese days." Where we say, "One
can't do a thousand things at once," the
French say, "One can't accomplish
thirty-six things in a breath." In China
a blustering coward is said to be as
"harmless as a paper tiger."?New Tcril
Telegram* .. -?? ~ v. .
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