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Ohauncey Depew cays that $100,000,-
000 of English capital has gone into
the Argentine Repabiic within the last
few years. A vast amount has also
been sect into Chili and Honduras.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
!>ath of the Ex-President
the Confederate States.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
The pl, °; pl “. ,c c<,!npa ” J re . cen ' 17 Je Passe. Away at New Orleans
▼anizcd la P.onda propose, to de- After a nln9s3>
organized m iiorma proposer
▼elop no less than thirteen thousand
acres of phosphate lands. This is an
industry which has been productive of
a very large revenue in South Carolina
for a long term of years.
Both in appearance anl in manner
the emperor of Russia bar become a
Muscovite of the old Cossack type.
He is a colossal figure, being a giant
both in height and in girth, quite bald,
with a flat nose, an immense sweeping
moustache, and a stupendous beard,
which Cows over his chest.
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The new annual statistical abstract of
India, which has iurt been issued by the
British India office, gives interesting
tables relating to population. Estimat
ing the yearly inert-meat since the last
censur of 1881 at i per cent., the popu
lation in March, 1888, was 269,477,728
of which 60,684,378 belonged to the
native states.
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JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The American Ana'yst notices a suc
cessful experiment by a Frenchman
named de Carbonnet to make silk with
out the agency of worms. It is sta'ed
that he used a collodion solution,
poured into a copper receiver, which
emptied into a system of small glass
lubes, and these tubes terminaied in
capillaries which carried of! the solu
tion in fine thread-like streams. He
produced several yards of silk in this
way. Frenchmen have made eggs
without the use of hens, and milk
without the agency of cows; but the
^srp^cjal Is not epii-e so. gcoi as the
natural.
Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans a few
nights ago after a brief illness.
He had been ill for several days, old age
being apparently the main cause of his sick
ness. The physicians were hopeful almost to
the last that his life might be prolonged. It
was found, however, that he was unable to
take nourishment, so that all ef
forts in his behalf were unavailing.
At nine o'clock the physicans, Drs. Chailleand
Bickham. held a consultation. Previews to
this Dr. Bickham had called and found Mr.
Davis so much worse that he sent for
Dr. Chaille. At 12:45 a. M. the aged
leader of the “Lost Cause” passed into the
eternal keeping of that history where the
“Lost Cause” itself passed a quarter of a
century ago.
"We may expect to hear another loud |
call from European missionaries in
Cuina for money to aid starving thous
ands in the Yangtese valley, where the
cotton crop is a failure. The calmness
with which the Chinese government al
lows its subjects to starve is appalling
to foreigners, but the help that English
and Americans gave in the famine last
winter and spring in North China was
trifling compared to the grand total of
misery. At the very time thousands c
Chinese were actually starving in the 1
northern provinces, cargoes of wheat
and millet were exported from the
southern part of the same districts.
The Reman empire, observes the San
Francisco Chronicle, in its worst days
never evinced more callous contempt
for human life than China shows to
day.
)n her last , out^rom N<
Efae big <u J 3ffWil^tr.haTgi
her passengers at Milford Haven, on thl
coast of Wales, instead of at Liverpool.
This action has excited much comment
in maritime circles, and shipping men
say that nothing can now prevent Mil
ford Haven from taking the place so
long held by Liverpool as the great
point of landing and departure in travel
between Europe and America. Milford
Haven’s advantages have long been
known, but, previous to the City of
Rome’s action, had never before been
really utilized. The Haven is but 235
miles directly west from London, while
Liverpool, to the northwest of London,
is much further away from England’s
metropolis. It is believed that the Mil
ford route will prove from eighteen to
twenty-four hours less than the trip by
way of Liverpool from York.
Sketch of His Career.
Jefferson Davis was born in Christiana
County, Ky., June 3, 1808. During his
childhood his father removed ' to the
State of Mississippi. He graduated from
the West Point Military Academy in 1828,
and served with distinction against the In
dians until 1835, when he resigned his com
mission. returned to Mississippi and mar
ried the daughter of General Taylor, after
ward President of the United States.
He became a cotton planter and
continued in the business until lf43. when
he interested himself in politics a$ a Demo
crat. and took a prominent part ha the elec
tion of Polk. He was sent to thd House in
1845 and took an important p-jrt in the
debates on the tariff, the Oregon question,
the preparations for the Mexican War, etc.
Upon the breaking out of this contest, he was
elected Colonel of the Mississippi Regiment
of Volunteers, when he resigned^ his seat in
Congress, and joined the army-of General
Taylor on the Rio Grande. He Was engaged
in" the storming of Monterey and the
battle of Buena Vista. Atj the close
of the war he was offered by President
Polk the rank of Brigadier-Gerjeral of Vol
unteers. but declined it. In 1847 he was
elected Senator for Mississippi: in 1850 he be
came Chairman of the Committee on
Military Affairs., and was! noted for
which he defended
his zealous advocacy
1851 he I resigned his
enter upon a canvass
who, ori being elected
Secretary of
a Senator in
iColn> in 1860
movement
the move-
was chosen
Confederate
he was
After the
ichmond, President Davis, while en
deavoring to make his escape, was
captured at Irwinsville, Ga., May 10,
1865, and remained a prisoner at
Fortress Monroe for two vears awaiting
trial. He was released on bail in the summer
of 1867, and all proceedings against him dis
continued. He visited Europe, became Presi
dent of a life insurance company, and in
1881 wrote “The Rise and Fall of
the Confederacy.” After a lapse of almost
a quarter of a century of retirement
Mr. Davis consented, upon the earnest so
licitation of his friends, to take part at the
unveiling of the monument to the late Sen
ator B. H. Hill, of Georgia, on May 1, 1886.
On his way to Atlanta he was given an
ovation at Montgomery, Alabama, which
entirely eclipsed anything like it in the
South. In October, 1887, Mr. Davis visited
Macon, Ga.. and received another tremendous
ovation, many ex-Confederate soldiers from
various parts of the South coming forward
to look once more upon the features of their
former chieftain.
Eastern and Middle States.
i The new steam ferryboat Gratin of the
(Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, while
I being taken to New York from Baltimore,
burned at sea. She cost 860,000. All the
crew were rescued.
An explosion from the bursting of an am
monia pipe connecting with a patent ice
machine, blew the inside out of Charles
Trefz's three story brick brewery in Newark,
N. J., wrecking fifty huge vats, flooding the
neighborhood with beer and causing a loss of
$175,000.
Earthquake shocks which occurred at
Alton Bay. N. H., and vicinity caused stop
page of clocks and breakage of glassware.
A fishing boat, in which were Charles
Hoyt, John Batchelder and Robert Bridges,
was capsized off Norman's Woe, Mass., and
Hoyt and Batchelder, who lived in New
Hampshire, were drowned.
A dozen Connecticut Postmasters have
been fined $50 and costs for selling stamps on
credit.
Twelve persons were hurt, some it was
thought fatally, by a collision between an
express and a freight train near Greensboro,
Penn.
Three Italian women were shot in a
tenement-house fight in New York city and
one died.
The text of the bill to be presented in
Congress for locating the International Ex
position of 1892 in New York city was agreed
upon.
Henry Carlton was hanged in New York
for the murder of Policeman Brennan.
The workingmen of New York city held a
meeting at Cooper Union to indorse the
World’s Fair project. The demonstration
was arranged by the Central and Independ
ent labor bodies of the city.
A terrific mill explosion occurred at
Marion, Del. Three men were killed and
seven injured.
The Monongahela House, the largest hotel
in Pittsburg, and one of the best known
hotels in the country, has been damaged by
fire to the extent of about $100,000.
The New York Chamber of Commerce at
its monthly meeting pronounced the Chi
nese Exclusion act ill-considered legislation,
and passed a resolution asking the President
to resume the interrupted negotiations with
China.
A terrible disaster has occurred at Wein-
hein City, in the province of Shantung,
China, where a platform which had been
erected to accommodate spectators at a
theatrical display siyidenly collapsed killing
two hundred persons.
A special dispatch from Zanzibar states
that Henry M. Stanley has arrived at Bag-
amoyo, on" the east coast of Africa. He is
accompanied by Emin Pacha and two hun
dred other persons.
Skirmishes have taken place between the
Turkish troops and the people of Crete, in
which three gendarmes and five soldiers were
killed.
The Turkish Government has instructed its
delegates to the Anti-Slavery Conference at
Brussels to oppose auy intervention in the
trade in Circassian women.
A large sugarmUl at Swolenlowes, Bo
hemia, collapsed from the weight of the
sugar, of which there were 1500 tons stored
therein. Eight persons were killed and many
injured.
The Austrian M-Aster of Commerce has
written a letter strongly favoring an ade
quate show of Austrian products at the pro
posed World’s Fair in America.
LATEE NEWS.
STATE OF WASHINGTON^
'1
Its Two First Members of the United.
States Senate. — “
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Its First Delegation in the Upper
House of Congress.
the energy with
slavery, and by
of State rights. In
seat in the Senate to
for Franklin Pierce,
President, appointed Mr. Davis
War. He was again elected]
1858; but the election of Lit
and the consequent sec
caused him to withdraw,
ment received shape and fori]
)visional President of
18611
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fall of 1
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South and West.
The jury in the trial at Baltimore of the
Navassa Island rioters found George S. Key
guilty of murder in the first degree, Moses
Williarns not guilty, and failed to agree in
the cases of the other sixteen prisoners.
Two witnesses in the Cronin murder trial
at Chicago swore that they had seen the
two knives taken from Dan Coughlin, one of
the prisoners, and identified by T. T. Conklin
as belonging to Dr. Cronin, in Coughlin's
possession prior to May 4, the date of the
murder.
John Stapleton and his wife, aged about
sixty years, and their grandson, aged ten,
were found dead at their house at Elgin, 111.
They had been suffocated by coal gas.
The Washington Hotel, of St. Paul, Minn.,
has been burned. Two men, one a Swede
an<j Ihe other an Italian, perished from suf
focation.
A colored man and his wife, living near
Franklin, Ky., went to visit a neighbor,
leaving their three small children in the
house. In their absence the house caught fire
end burned to the ground. All three of the
children perished in the flames.
Cyrus Fillmore, a brother of ex-President
Fillmore, died at Lagrange, Ind., aged eigh
ty-seven.
In a riot among colored men at Robeson
County, N. C., three men were killed and
several others injured.
In a fight with four drunken Indians at
Melrose, Kan., City Marshal Snyder was in
stantly killed and one Indian fatally
wounded.
Miner’s Hotel at East Tawas, Mich., has
been partially destroyed by fire. Two charred
bodies were found in the ruins. Five men
were seriously injured.
The Senate of South Carolina unanimously
adopted a resolution expressing the sense of
the General Assemblythat the city of New
York is the most suitable place in which to
hold the World’s Fair 1892. _ /
A couple of St. Louis lawyers recent
ly went into one of the subterranean
vaults of the court house in that city to
look over some old court records. One
of them was compelled to leave before
the paper desired was found, and going j
out slammed the door without thinking <
° I
of the consequences. The automatic
lock performed its duty, and his friend
was a prisoner. The friend discovered
this disagreeable fact only when he
had unearthed the paper he desired and
turned to go. The lock could not be
worked, and he could not attract at’en-
tion by calling. F.nally, under the
Lirt and cobwebs that had been gatner-
,for years, he found a narrow grat-
Wfe, through which he could just peep
out on the street. Calling through tais
he attracted the attention of a passer
by, who rushed into the sheriff's offiee
and announced that a prisoner was try
ing to escape. Investigation disclosed
the pent-up attorney.
Commissioner Raum of the Pension
Bureau has announced that hereafter,
in all cases where a medical, examina
tion is desired or required under any of
the several pension laws, such examina
tion must be made by the local Board
of examining Surgeons in the district
in which the claimant resides. General
Raum says that in many instances claim
ants come to "Washington from a great
distance and at considerable expense in
the erroneous belief that on examina
tion by the Washington Board and per
sonal solicitation their cases will be
more promptly acte l upon, and possi
bly with a greater degree of liberality.
Some of these are poor and cannot afford
the expense, and it is more to save
these people from needless expense thsc
it is to give the several examining
Boards their proper share of the work
of making examinations that this policy
has been adopted. The Washington
f^doard will not hereafter be allowed to
^x&nine claimants for pensions whose
tftflideDC« is not within its jurisdiction.
Official Action.
The Governors of the Southern States sent
messages of sympathy to Mrs. Davis, and
Southern State Legislatures passed resolu
tions of condolence. Throughout the South
the expressions of sorrow came from every
quarter. Mayor Shakespeare, of New Or
leans, sent the following telegram to the
Secretary of War:
“I have officially to inform you that the
Hon. Jefferson Davis, at one time Secretary
of War of the United States, died in this
city yesterday. His funeral will take place
here on December 11, at 12 o’clock, noon.”
Secretary Proctor replied to this communi
cation as follows:
“Your telegram informing me of the death
of Mr. Davis is received. lu refraining from
any official action thereon, I would not, and
hope I do not, add to the great sorrow of his
family and friends. It seems to me the right
course and the bast one for all. You will. I
am sure, understand that its adoption is
prompted also by a sincere wish and purpose
toactinthe spirit of peace and good will,
which should fill the hearts of all our peo
ple.”
The Death Bed Scene.
Four weeks ago while traveling on a river
steamer he caught cold, and his condition be
came so serious that his physicians refused
to allow him to return to his nome in Mis
sissippi. He was taken to the house of his
friend. J. U. Payne, in New Orleans. Mrs.
Davis was sent for and immediately joined
her husband and remained with him con
stantly until the end.
From the beginning of his fatal illness Mr.
Davis insisted that his case was nearly or
quite hopeless, though the dread of pain or
fear of death never appeared to take the
slightest hold upon his spirits, which were
buoyant from the beginning of his attack.
At 6 o’clock in the evening previous to his
death, without any assignable cause, Mr.
Davis was seized with a congestive chill,
which seemed to crush the vitality out of his
already enfeebled body. From that moment
until his death the history of his case was
that of a gradual sinking." At 7 o’clock Mrs.
Davis administered some medicine, but he
declined to receive the whole dose. She urged
upon him the necessity of taking the rc-
maindet, but putting it aside, he whispered:
“Pray, excuse me.”
These were his last words. Gradually he
grew weaker and weaker, but never for an
instant seemed to lose consciousness. Lying
peacefully upon his bed, and without a trace
of pain in his look, he remained for horn's.
Silently clasping and tenderly caressing his
wife’s hand, he awaited the end. By 11:30
o'clock there were assembled in the death
chamber Mrs. Davis. Drs. Chaille and Bick-
*ham. Associate Justice and Mrs. Fenner,
Miss Nannie Smith, grand-niece of the dying
ex-President. and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. "Far
rar.
Finding that Mr. Davis was breathing
somewhat heavily as he lay upon his back, the
doctors assisted him to turn upon his right
side. With his cheek resting upon his right
hand, and with his left hand drooping across
his chest, he lay for fifteen minutes, breath
ing softly but faintly. More and more feeble
became ins respirations, till they ceased for
ever.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs di
rected the Indian Agent at the Kiowa and
Comanche Agency in the Indian Territory
to promptly remove cattle found grazing on
the reservation without the consent of the
Indians. It is learned that herds, aggrega
ting about 3000 head, have been trespassing
on the reservation. .
Washington.
A committee of the International Marine
Conference reported that the establishment
of a permanent International Marine Com
mission was not feasible.
Just before the opening of Congress the
Democratic members of the House held a
caucus and adopted resolutions in favor of
tariff reform as outlined by Cleveland’s last
message.
Frank McArthur, son of an ex-Judge of
the Supreme Court of the District of
Coiumbia, jumped from an express train near
Washington and was instantly killed. He
was insane at the time.
The public debt statement shows that the
reduction of the public debt during Novem
ber amounted to $4,869,672.52. The total
cash in the Treasury is $617,224,505.22.
The United States steamer Enterprise,
in English waters and under orders to come
home, has been ordered by the Navy Depart
ment to proceed to Antwerp to receive the
remains of ex-Minister Pendleton, and to
convey them to the United States for burial.
Government receipts in November were
$30,716,967, and expenditures aggregated
$25,334,758.
The Civil Service Commission in its an
nual report says that about 28,000 Govern
ment employes now come under its jurisdic
tion.
David J. Brewer, of Kansas, nominated
by the President to be Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court, was born
at Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1837, his parents
being missionaries at that place. He
graduated from Yale College in 1856, and
in 1859 settled down as a lawyer in Leaven
worth, Kansas. After holding several
judicial positions President Arthur appointed
him United States Circuit Judge.
The Board of Survey on the United States
steamship Brooklyn, now at Norfolk, Va.,
has reported to the Navy Department that
she cannot be repaired within the twenty per
cent, limit and she will therefore be "con
demned and appraised for sale.
The National Wool Growers’ Convention
which met in Washington called in a body
and paid their respects to President Har
rison.
The aggregate total collections of Internal
Revenue for the first four months of the cur
rent fiscal year amounts to $46,783,350, as
against $42,743,985 for the corresponding
months of last year.
John Greenwall, convicted of the mur
der of Lyman S. Weeks, whose house he had
entered for the purpose of robbery, has been
hung at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Two children, who were locked up in a
room in New York city by their mother
while she went marketing, set fire to the fur
niture and were smothered.
Charles Frohock, aged 12 years, of
Zineolnville, Me., was shot dead by the
accidental discharge of a gun by a companion
of his own age.
John Ross was on a ladder painting a
school building at Paterson, N. J.,when Maria
Norman, aged twelve years, thoughtlessly
caught hold of a guide rope and began tug
ging at it. The ladder and Ross fell on the
child and killed her.
Iowa’s official count shows that Boies
(Democrat) had for Governor 180,111 votes
to 173,538 for Hutchinson (Republican). All
the other Republcan candidates on the State
ticket were elected. The Prohibition vote
was about 1000, and the Union Labor vote
about 5500.
Three Apache Indians, who were to have
been hanged at Florence, Arizona, tied strips
of cloth tightly about their necks and straii* *
gled themselves.
W. H. Fursman, a missing loan broker of
Pontiac, 111., is charged with forgeries
amounting to $200,000, and covering a period
of ten years.
By the upsetting of a buggy in Portland,
Oregon, one lady was killed and another fa
tally injured.
The Pacific Mail steamship China reached
San Francisco from Yokohama, Japan, hav.
Ing beaten the record by ^seventeen hours,
ten minutes.
Congressman Tom Ree^^i «^[ame, the
new Speaker of the House, has appointed
Amos L. Allen, of Alfred, Me., as his^Private
Secretary.
At a meeting of American missionaries in
Constantinople it was resolved thaj those
present should insist on the American ^Minis
ter aiding them to prosecute Moussa, Bey,
whose trial there on charges of incehdiar-
ism, pillage, murder and robbery, comrqitted
in Armenia, had ended in acquittal. '
Shortly after Stanley’s arrival on^ the
east coast of Africa Emin Pasha fell frcpi a
balcony, sustaining a fracture of the jdaill
and severe internal injuries. Mr. Stssiley
was compelled to leave him at BagamVyo,
and proceeded with the most of his follonjers
to Zanzibar. EmpejA William, of
many, ordered that da]
Enim s conVGtion ‘i
JOHN B. ALLEN.
John B. Allen was born at CrawfordsviUe,
nd.. May 18,1843. He lived at or near hk
native town until 1864, when, although not
yet nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the
138th Indiana Infantry, and served m Tea-
nessee and Alabama until mustered out. In
1865, with his parents, h' .eeame a resident
of Rochester, Minn., whms for a year he
served as agent for a firm of grain men.
Next Le read law in the office of Judge
Wilson, of Rochester, and soon entered the
law school at Ann Arbor, Mich. In 186v
he was admitted to the bar, and m
1870 became a resident of Olympia,
the present Capital of the new State, where
he opened a law office. He soon became
popular and obtained a lucrative practice.
In 1875 he was appointed U'wted States
Attorney for Washington Territory.' In
1881 he made the city of Walia Walla his
abiding place, where he has built up'What is
probably the most lucrative as well *3th e
most successful practice of any atiurnery in
Eastern Washington. In 1887 he was chosen
to represent Washington in Congress by a
majority of 7371 ever his Democratic op
ponent, Charles S. Voorhees, who for two
terms had been the Territorial Delegate.
When Washington Territory became a State
he was elected to the United States Senate.
GIDEON C. MOODY.
Gideon C. Moody, United States Senator
from South Dakota, was born in Cortland,
New York, in 1832. He attended the public
schools aud studied law in Syracuse. Ee re
moved to Indiana early in the fifties, and as
sisted in organizing the Republican party in
that State. In 1860 he was elected to the
Legislature. His career there was cut short
by the war. He served in the army until
1865, attaining the rank of Colonel. After
the war he went to Dakota, and began farm
ing. He soon resumed the practice of the
law, first at Yanton, then the Territorial capi
tal, and later at Deadwood, where he has
lived since 1877. He was several times a
member of the Territorial Legislature, and in
1877 was appointed Judge of the First (Dead-
wood) Judicial District by Hayes. A short
time ago, when South Dakota became a State,
Mr. Moody was elected to the United States
Senate by the Republican majority in the
Legislatup*. He was a member of the Chicago
Convention last year, and is reputed to be the
author of its “plank” on the Territories.
Senator Moody is attorney for the Homestake
Mining Company, the largest-^goW-qnnrtz
mining company in the woyl$. He has ai
rways advocated the divisjotiof Dakota. In
jK'rson he is rather stour He is considered a
;ouRd lawyer and politician.
been dis
and the Sul-
jrison.
Boulanger has
ie United States,
i lecture in the
Foreign.
Moussa Bey, the Turkish official accused
of murder, arson and pillage in Armenia,
has been acquitted.
Spectators at a bull fight in the City of
Mexico grew angry because the bulls refused
to fight and demolished the plaza.
Chicago gentlemen resident in London
had a big banquet to boom the Lake City for
the World’s Fair.
Three persons were instantly killed and
many others injured by the fall of a railroad
train down an embankment in Brandenburg,
Prussia.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the California bo
nanza king, has won her libel suit against the
leading paper of Manchester, England,
which had charged that prior to her mar
riage to Mr. Mackay she was a washerwoman
in Nevada. The paper has apologized.
Five persons perished in the snow during
the storm which prevailed at Waag, Hun
gary.
A famine is threatened in eight southern
districts of India, owing to a total failure of
the crops.
A large number of officials of strategic
railways in Russia have been dismissed and
their places filled with army officers.
The publisher of the Munster Express, an
Irish paper, has been sentenced to two
months’ imprisonment for reporting a meet
ing at which boycotting was advocated.
The editor of the Lidrpendcnte, an Italian
paper printed in Trieste, has been expelled
from Austria by the Vienna Government,
for publishing seditious and insulting arti
cles.
John MADDLERand his wife and child were
burned to death as Kingston, Ontario.
Their home took fire, and while they were
trying to extinguish the flames their means
of "escape were cut off.
The Rothschilds have consented to con
tinue their financial support of the Brazilian
Government, provided the^ anion is main
tained and order is preserved.
A palace conspiracy
covered at Tangier, Mon
tan’s brother has been put
It is reported that Gem
been engaged to lecture'in
and that he will deliver
New York Academy of
Methodist Episcopal ' missions in China
have been wrecked by natives.
The United States squadron of evolution,
comprising the four new (vessels, left Boston
for Lisbon.
A big blaze at Union Square and Univer
sity Place, New York city, destroyed property
valued at about $200,000. Four firemen were
injured.
The extensive flourmills of Lindsay &
Robson, of Humboldt, Kan., have been de
stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000; insured $45,.
000.
Caspar F. CLisBY,of St- Louis,committed
suicide after shooting foiir other persons, two
of whom were fatally wounded.
The Pan-Amercian Congress adopted the
report of the Committee bn Committees, and
elected two Vice-Presidents.
The United States steamer Pensacola,
with the Eclipse Expedition on board, have
arrived at St. Paul de Loanda, Africa.
Nine persons lost their lives in a blizzard
at Presburg, Hungary.
Earthquake shocks have been felt in the
central portion of Italy, but they caused no
loss or damage to property. Mount Vesu
vius is in a state of erupti' ’D.
The new Government of Brazil has issued
a decree proclaiming a Provisional Federal
Republic.
Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, and
his family, have arrived at Lisbon, Portugal.
WATSON C. SQUIRE.
Watson C. Squire was bora at Cape Vin
cent, N. Y., on May 18, 1838, graduated from
the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.,
in 1859. He studied law at Herkimer, N. Y.,
but was afterward elected principal of the
Moravia Institute. At the breaking out of
the war he enlisted as a private and went to
the front. He was promoted to First Lieu
tenant of Company F, Nineteenth New York
Infantry, in which regiment he served on the
Upper Potomac until 1802, when ho was
honorably discharged. In the fall
of that year he raised a crack corps of
sharp-shooters in Cleveland, where he
then lived. He participated dn all
the battles of the Arpi«jujhfijr 11« rland.
T)tirin% t,ue Sutter porfridtTOT uls term Eft ,
vice he was Judge Advocaxe of the District
of Tennessee. At the close of the war
he was appointed managing agent of the
Remington rifle makers, and in that capacity
visited the capitals of Russia, Spain, Turkey,
Mexico and other countries. Later he was
made business manager for the Remingtons,
and during 1871 and 1872 he negotiated with
the French Government, selling that nation
over $15,000,000 worth of arms. In 1879 he
removed to Washington Territory, and in
1884 he was appointed Governor of the Ter
ritory by President Arthur. With Mr. Allen
he was elected by the Republican majority in
the Legislature of Washington to represent
the new State in the United States Senate.
RICHARD F. PETTIGREW.
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, the other new
Senator from South Dakota, is a Vermonter
by birth. His father was a merchant at
Ludlow in that State, where he was bora
July 26, 1848. In 1854 the family moved to
Wisconsin. Young Richard entered Boloit
College, intending to work his way through,
but his father died, and he had to leave col
lege and help support the family. He stud
ied hard, however, and in 1869 he entered the
law college, and in 1870 was admitted to the
bar in Janesville. The same year he moved
to Sioux Falls, tof which he had been at
tracted as a good place fora rising young man
during a trip through Dakota as surveyor’s
assistant. He reached the town with only
twenty-five cents in ho^poeket, it is said; but
he scon made his wi^^H|g has served three
terms as in Congre^^^^l
person he his col
CONGRESS ROBBED.
The Cashier of the House’s Sergeant-
at—Arms a Defaulter.
Edward Silcott, cashier of the Sergeant-
at-Arms of tbe House of Representatives has
fled, carrying off about $72,000 of the funds
entrusted to his care.
Silcott was a trusted employe, who came
to Washington from Ohio,and was appointed
by Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom when that
gentleman assumed office, six years ago. He
bad good business qualifications and soon
possessed himself of the unlimited confidence
of his superior. One day. recently he notified
Mr. Leedom that he was going to New York
and would be back the following night. As
he did not appear on thej day after Congress
opened Mr. Leedom beg^n an investigation.
The information that Sijeott had drawn his
bank balance deepened tpese suspicions.
The enormous safe iri the Sergeant-at-
Arms’ office could not be (opened at the mo
ment, as Silcott had the' combination; but
when an entrance was finally effected, it was
found that some $30,000 sft apart for the use
of the paving teller was intact. The next in
quiry was made at the | Treasury Depart
ment, and Mr. Leedom was informed that
Silcott had called there arid had drawn about
$72.000. It was possible for him to draw this
large sum without exeitiig comment, as he
hail for a long time been] charged with the
duty of collecting the moi
salaries of the Congressm^
The announcement of
was made in the House,
at Mr. Leedom’s request,
mittee to investigate the
geant-at-Arms.
Silcott is under bonds
his sureties numbering al
This is, however, an indei
the Sergeant-at-Arms, anl
is himself bonded in the si m of $50,000,
rectly responsible for the ihortage.
Some Congressmen maj lose from one to
six months’ salary, and otihers the deposits—
their private funds—which they had made
with me cashier.
Silcott is supposed to have fled to Canada
with a woman with whom he bad become
infatuated. He left a family in Washing-
i
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ,
The advance sale of seats for Madame
Patti's season in Chicago exceeded $100,000.
Marie Van Zandt, the American singer,
will receive $800 for each of twelve perform
ances at Barcelona and Lisbon.
Samuel Bradshaw, one of the oldest
American actors, died recently at St. John-
land, L. I. He was ninety-six years old.
As many as 238 female candidates applied
for admission to the piano classes of the Paris
; Conservatoire at the recent examinations.
W. G. Wills’s version of “Clarissa Har-
lowe” will soon be produced at Coventry,
England, with Isabel Bateman as the heroine.
I Stories of Christine Nilsson’s hopeless ill
i health have been current of late, but they
are vigorously denied by her nephew, Mr.
Bjorksten.
A Berlin publisher announces as one of
the items in a forthcoming sale of autographs
the MS. of a piano piece by Wagner, entitled
“Polonia.”
The new opera of Gilbert and Sullivan has
been withdrawn after four weeks’ rehearsal.
The authors themselves became convinced
that it wouldn't do.
Mme. Modjeska takes a cold bath in the
morning a^d a hot one before going to bed—
one to make hei bright, the other to make
her sleep, and both for health.
Adelaide Detchon, the young American
j actress, has been presented with a gold
medal, set with diamonds by the faculty and
students of Glasgow University.
Mrs. James S. Nickerson, the wife of an
i ex-Assistant United States District Attor
ney, of Philadelphia, is the latest applicant
far stage honors ffom the ranks of society.
The revival of “The Silver King” proved
popular at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New
I York. A feature of this performance was
; the really admirable acting of little Olive
! Homans.
The Vice-President and Mrs. Morton, ac-
, companied by Secretary and Mrs. Blaine,
' occupied a box at the opening of Richard
i Manffield’s season at the new National
i Theatre in Washington.
The copy of Beethoven’s cantata in cele
bration of the congress of Vienna, which he
presented to King Frederick William III., of
Prussia, has just been placed in the Beet
hoven Museum, at Bonn.
! Miss Kate Chard is the heroine of the
hour in London. During a performance of
! “Tbe New Corsican Brothers,” tbe flies
X
A TERRIBLE ACCUSATION.
Suspected of Causing the Fire in
Minneapolis.
Charles Ostrom, cashier and bookkeeper
of the Minneapolis department of the Pioneer
Press, is in jail charged with having em
bezzled $2200 of the funds intrusted to his
charge and suspected, furthermore, of hav
ing fired the Tribune building, in which seven
persons lost their lives.
When confronted with the charge of steal
ing he confessed a shortage and offered to
assist in hunting the matter up. He was
forced to admit that $2200 was the correct
amount. At once the rumor spread abroad
that he had deliberately fired the Tribune
Building to destroy the evidence of his
peculations, and the Grand Jury will make a
searching investigation.
He said: “I expected this charge would
be made. I certainly had every incentive
to destroy those books. If they had been
burned up there would have been no proof
agaiust me. It is natural that 1 should be
suspected. As additional proof against
me, I left the books out of the
safe on the night of the fire. I
had often done this before and nothing
was thought of it. I think I eau prove, how
ever, that I was not at. the building that
night. I left at 5 o'clock, intending to
leave the country. 1 went to the Summit
House for my wife, and visited several other
places, going home abdut 9 o’clock.”
A detective had been shadowing Ostrom
for a week before the fire. Ostrom stated
that the money had been lost gambling.
HE Egyptian obelisk in Central Park,
v York, is rapidly going to decay, not-
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New _
withstanding the" efforts made to preserve it.
The climate is too severe.
The first hippopotamus ever bora in this
country saw the light a few days since at the
Centra! Park (New York city) menagerie. It
weighed at birth forty pounds.
THE MARKETS.
ley with which the
fn are paid.
(Icott's defalcation
ad Speaker R*
j appointed a coin-
accounts of tte Ser-
the sum of $50,000,
>ut fifteen persons,
ity bond given to
Mr. Leedom, who
is di-
caught fire and she prevented a panic by
calmly going on with her song.
Anew Italian opera, the “Vassal ofSzi-
geth,” by A. Smaraglia. was recently pro
duced in Vienna. The music is said to evince
real theatrical talent on the composer's
part. There are not a few reminiscences of
Verdi. Boito and Wagner.
Augustus Karris, a well-known London
manager, is said to be considering a proposi
tion to transfer^the Christmas pantomime at
Her Majesty's Theatre to this country bodily
—scenes, principals, chorus, supers and all.
The total nunitir of persons employed in the
representation is 400.
A very painful scene was witnessed the
other night at the performance of a play
called “The Hypochondriac” at the
Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna. The actor
who played the title part went mad in the
first act, and, after various futile efforts had
been to conceal his true condition from the
audience, the curtain was lowered and the
play abruptly ended.
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There is great enthusiasm in Hayti
over the installation of Gen. Hippolyt©
as President of the black republic.
The 7,000 soldiers of the Presiaont
stationed in Port an Prince gave til iir
successful leader a grand ovation. A
fountain with three jets, each supply
ing a favorite drink, was erected, that
all might rejoice over the ^selection of
th« President.