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- '! *• rs^ s -* *'• * - ":v <* -, :%,^ *, ; *v PLAINDEALER IX SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ILLINOI:-. if SHOT 18 FATAL. SENSATIONAL KILLING ON A r CHICAGO STAGE. khm ft Co. Bee Reason for Rejoicing- Bold Robbery of a Womut-Bnrglan Busy in a Connecticut Bank--Puss u a Globe Trotter. Killed His Assistant. i While performing the "human target" |lct Sunday night at Engel's Pavilion on North Clark/Street, Chicago, William Haderle, aged 17, was shot and fatally injured by "Prof." Alfred Rieckhoff, "champion rifle shot of the world." Ha- derle was Rieckhoff's assistant. Strap- ped across his breast was a steel plate twelve inches square, in the centers! which was a bell, ltieckhoff, at a dis­ tance of twenty paces, was supposed to fire at the target twenty times in rapid •accession, hitting the bell each time. All went well to the twentieth shot, when Haderle threw up his hands and fell to the floor, crying: "Mj God, I am shot." In an instant the crowded house was in confusion. Women screamed and men Jimped on the tables and attempted to f&f., nHH^he stage. The curtain was hastily * lowerecKand the police summoned. A young physician made his way to the \ p stage and a moment's examination p? though to show that Haderle was fat: Iff" ' hurt, the ball having entered his stoj g£ He was removed to the Alex inn |Ly* ' Hospital. Rieckhoff was - taken to the Larrabee a flood, but if rain sets in there it grave fear of a breaking up in the rivers, which would result in great loss to the boats which are frozen in along the shores. At New York, August Belmont & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co., managers of the bond syndicate, closed the list for the new 4 per cent, bouds at 10:20 o'clock Wednes­ day, the amount having been subscribed for many times over. A private dispatch from London says the new American loan is quoted at 4 per cent, premium in London. This is reckoned on the syndi­ cate's price of 113%. N. M. Rothschild & Son say at London that the new American loan has proved a colossal success. Though the opening of subscriptions only began Wednesday morning, the amount of the loan allotted to Europe had been covered very many times over by noon, both with them and with Messrs. J. B. Morgan & Co. It is impossible as yet to give the exact amounfcof the bids, as ap­ plications are still coming in from Lon-j don, and the country is yet to bj from. The Pall Mali Gazette the success of the loan is a power of Messrs. Rothschild^ of confidence in the grea financial ability of the to be attributable to the suffering he had endured. Mr. Bogdanoff left behind him two letters explanatory of his act. One was addressed simply, "To tie open­ ed," and the other "For relatives. * m latter was not opened. Mr. Bokine, second secretary of the Russian tion, opened the former. It contained long gilded card on which was written Russian: "For a long time, jfead soul, t body is all too heavy a ried. For this reason ' The notes were wi suicide went out reserved in been in Wi comparai him. to be cai ~ *e the rathe* lie had 'ew months nown about [• Russian diplo- a for eight years, two years, and then ,7 4' " ^ ft®* THE COUNTS h / < William Scott birthday at Disobedienci collision train and Guthrie, peka, passengi The 100th suited Fe passenger car near Upleby, of To- score of other Mills of Stockton, Confidence G. Dun & trade says: the new loa has given water of of SBdence it sides of the men here en- it may be the •"recovery. In twenty- ECew York subscriptions have been at least five timeS^Ktfitmount of bonds offered, and in two hOTTs at London they were twenty % 4; ? times the amount there offered. Consid- v. X' ering $he power which control of these -bonds gfrves to regulate foreign exchanges vmad to prevent exports of gold, the trans* action has indeed greatly changed the , ;.1 financial situation in spite of the fact that government revenues are still defi­ es £ cient and that domestic trade shows $ scarcely any gain as yet. The industries are not enlarging production, nor have f •"» prices of farm products improved. But a ti rfery important source of apprehension and hindrance has, for the time at least, |v": been removed." fe. ;: Loses All 8he Saved* f!* . Driven half crazy by the loss-of $880 which had been stolen from her, Mrs. Annie Miller, of Chicago, rushed fran- p tically about a witness cell at the Harri­ er-1' son street station, striking her head against the stone walls and tearing at her hair and clothing. It was nil because ; Mrs. Miller and her husband do not be* j lieve in banks. Miller and his wife have £;\: j been married twenty years. They had •, succeeded in saving a good sum of money, f which until recently was deposited in a $;"V bank. A few weeks ago they became Tfrv, worried as to the safety of their money • and determined to take it out of the ^ bank and keep it where they could per- sonally watch it. Mrs. Miller went shop- ; ping, and in a restaurant was robbed of ^ her cash, which she carried tied up in a handkerchief. Four years ago Mrs. Mil- •Sn ler was robbed of $(500 which she had |,i, concealed in her dress. This sum had also been taken from a bank because the woman and her husband feared the insti- V tution was not safe. % ; , • Kitty Going Around the World. *; *' A little Maltese cat is beating its way . around the world without the expendi- f, ture of a cent. A tag attached to a cord | around its neck tells the story thus: "Came on board at Minneapolis on my • ^ trip around the world. Please take the best of care of your passenger \Ta~Ftef- sf, 5 ton, thence to New York steamer.--Kit­ ty-" From Jiineeapjolis th^ ki^en went over tne 'Soo" line to Montreal, via tl»5 Concord and Montreal and Boptrfn and Maine Jto Boston. Friddy nighr it left Boston for New York in care of the bag­ gage men, who will see that it gets to New York via the Fall River line. When it arrives in New York it will be trans- to some ocean steamer. Cal., purchased last year by the Sperry combine for $204,000, have closed down, the thirteen mills owned by this syn- e in various parts of the State only are now in operation. trial of Crawford Goldsby, alias >kee Bill," for the murder of Er- Mellon, at Lenapah, I. T., has be­ at Fort Smith, Ark. "Cherokee Bill" has also been indicted for killing his brother-in-law, Mose Brown. President McBride of the American Federation of Labor is again home at Massillon, O., preparatory to taking a long leave of absence. He will go to Hot Springs or some similar resort. He has heen^ advised that he must do this or die within three months. McBride absorbed nicotine into his system last year by smoking while he had a bad cold sore. He has been taking treatment ever sindfe, but has not succeeded in throwing off the poi­ son. James W. Scott on Tuesday gained con­ trol of the Chicago-Herald and the Even­ ing Post. John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago National Bank, who, since 1883, has held a two-thirds interest in the Herald and who has held a like in­ terest in the Evening Post ever since it was founded, has transferred his entire holdings to Mr. Scott. The deal was made on the basis of approximately $2,- 000,000 for the two newspapers and the .property of all sorts belonging to them, Mr. Walsh receiving in the neighborhood of ,$1,330,000 for his interests. At the same time comes the news of a probable consolidation of the Chicago Times and the Herald. , Mr. Scott and the owners of the Times, it is understood, have agreed upon terms, and in all likelihood the plan of consolidation will be perfected very soon. Three women took a tumble down a stairway at the Boston Store in Chicago Tuesday, landing in a heap at the bot­ tom chagrined and mortified, but not in­ jured. A large woman with her arms full of bundles was at the head of the stairs leading from the second story. She caught sight of some bargain sign on the floor below and tried to crowd her way through the throng. In her effort she tripped on the front edge of her dress skirt and started on a headlong plunge down the stairs. Most of the people got out of her way in time, but about half way down the steps she caught two women almost as large as she and rolled straight on to them. The force of the contact upset the two women and they accompanied the first one in her original method of getting to a bargain counter, all three going down the stairs in a heap which to the spec­ tators seemed to be made up mainly of wildly waving arms, hats, and draperies. At the end of the stairs the women were picked up by the store employes and sort­ ed out. " ,• ttn<*er which it would have bee^^Hnle for Congress to substitute a 3 p^r Cent, "gold" bond for the 4 per cent, "coin" bond, which the Secretary of the Treasury has agreed to sell the Bel­ mont-Morgan syndicate expired at noon Monday, and now Secretary Carlisle must deliver the bonds to the purchasers as fast as they are called for and as gold is deposited to meet them. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been engaged fo1* several days in printing new bonds from the old plates that were used when Senator Sherman was at the head of the treasury during the Hayes administra­ tion. There will be nothing to distinguish the new bonds from the old 4 per cents, except the dates and the signatures of the officials. Between $8,000,000 and $9,000,- 000 of gold has already been deposited in anticipation of the first payment, and every steamer sailing from, Europe in this direction for some weeks hence will bring yellow coin, which the syndicate will draw from the Bank of England and oth­ er sources. POLITICAL. Woman suffrage wae^ defeated in the North Dakota House, the vote being 31 to 25. The new divorce bill was also beaten. The Chicago Republican city conven­ tion nominated George B. Swift for May­ or. The choice was made unanimously and by acclamatioh. Mr. Swift was put in nomination by Judge Kohlsaat in an eloquent speech and his name was receiv­ ed toy • whirlwind of applause. FOREIGN. SOUTHERN. Used Dynamite on Bank Vault* Three men, of whom no description can be obtained, used dynamite to blow off the doors of the Thomnston, Conn., 8av» lugs Bank vault at 1 o'clock Friday morn­ ing, securing all the cash in the vault. Citizens who were aroused by the explo­ sion were driven back at the muzzle of revolvers in the hands of the men. The j|V lwnk refuses to give any stateuieut f the loss, except that it was small, but it is known that $200 in gold was taken, be- aides other cash. The men are supposed to have driven towards Waterbury, but no trace of rtiem has been found. The #„!°Wnhas a reward of $200. 5t|? The grand jury at Brooklyn has indict- IV' «d Motonnan Orlando Worthington for , manslaughter in the second degree. Wor- y.y}/ thington's car ran over and killed a [V school boy. k,> Mrs. G. M. Fowler, of Millport, twelve I "1'. miles south of Alliance, has just secured appointment as overland mail carrier between that village and Uavers Post fe| Office, a distance'bf eight miles. When m • thi" route was advertised for sale recent- » ly Mrs. Fowler put in a bid with a large number of competitors, and her proposi­ tion being the lowest she was awarded the |st contract. She will be obliged to make the round trip daily, Sundays excepted. • New York gang of incendiaries, with branches in Brooklyn, Jersev Citv, New­ ark, Boston, Lynn and Worcester, is now being investigated before Judge Martine t>ennis Dunn, a Bull Hill man, who was engaged in the Cripple Creek war, lias been found guilty of assault with in-' tent to kill CaptainpDefenbaugh, df the' Colorado National Guard, last July. In returning from a dance at Waite Park early Friday morning a St. Cloud, llinn., omnibus containing twenty-five men and women was overturned one mile from the city and a stove ignited the curtains and straw. » Phil Dawson killed his father at Bir­ mingham, Ala., when the latter repri­ manded his daughter. Will Swearingen and Walter Gardner were killed by machinery in McElme's mill near Gloster, Miss. It ia announced that Congressman W. L. Wilson has been tendered the position of president of the University of Texas. The schooners Ida C. Schoolcraft and William C. Wickam, bound for Rich- mend, Va., are believed to have founder­ ed. R. L. Hawkins, of Van Buren, Ark., was shot and killed by a negro named Turner for putting him out of a railway depot. * Five hundred Galveston (Tex.) cotton mill operatives ure out on a strike because the; were asked to work twelve instead of eleven hours a day for one week only. Deputy United States Marshal G. W. Drake, with two assistants, captured seven desperate moonshiners on Outon Creek, in Knott County, Ky., after a hard battle. Among them was Isaac Sloan, one of the five men who murdered United States Marshal Erastus Wierman at the same place six years ago. Prince Bismarck is suffering from an attack of neuralgia and a severe cold. He will be 80 years old April 1. G. R. Morrison, an American, residing in Detroit, Mich., was killed by Mexican bandits about sixty miles south of Cor­ doba. Two thous&nd Chinese soldiers are re­ ported to have been killed by the explosion of a magazine in the forts of Takao, a treaty port on the southwest coadt of For­ mosa. Many others are reported to have been injured. A deputation representing the farmers 4n-the departments of Pas de Calais and Nord, France, visited M. Gadaud, Minis­ ter of Agriculture, Monday, and pointed out to him the grave danger of infection to French cattle arising from the importa­ tion of American cattle suffering from contagious diseases. M. Gadaud informed the delegation that the matter to which they referred had been submitted to a committee of experts on cattle diseases. Lord Rosebery's administration has passed successfully through a storm which its opponents hoped would over­ whelm it, and which many of its friends believed would require the most skillful statesmanship to weather. Despite the predictions of the conservative papers and the more or less badly disguised fears the liberal organs, the Government came out of the contest with flying colors and a majority that surprised even those who would at no time admit that there was a chance of defeat. The question that precipitated the dangerous situation was a motion made by Sir Henry James to adjourn in order to call attention to the import duties on cotton recently decided ijppn by the Government of India. The cotton interest is strongly represented in the House, and \vhen the notice of the motion was given it was conjectured by not only many conservative papers but by some of the stanch liberal organs that the Government, which was bound to op­ pose the desired change, would be over- hrown by the Lancashire party in com­ bination with conservatives and liberals interested in the cotton trade. The Par- nellites, too, were expected to cast their votes against the Government. But the result did not bear out the hopes or fears of the political parties, for, by a majority of 195, the Rosebery ministry triumphant­ ly repehed the attacks of its assailants. WASHINGTON. EASTERN. 4'-. Tbt Balbach Smelting and Refining ^ "iGbtflpany of Newark, N. J., the largest concern of the kind in the country, has been robbed Of ttt least $10,000 worth of geld and silver cmk and bullion during the p&mt year, ^ ('former employe and two supposed accomplices have been arrested. warm weather of the past few days Aim hn.il its effect upon the ice in the riv- 4gS at Pittsburg. The ice in the Monon- gfflfirf- w'as fourteen inches thick and in fim' YtfMghio^ht'uy it reached a thickness 40 IIP--l<y-three inches. If the warm ..HUgjiSNr fwatinues it will «eause the ice to 00- g3fim4*k*Oy and preclude the danger of The full Senate Committee on Appro­ priations Monday decided to report an amendment to the sundry civil appropria tion bill for the sum of $100,000,000 of certificutesjjf indebtedness of the denom­ ination of $20, to run for two years and draw 3 per cent, interest, and to be good •nly for the purpose of supplying the treasury deficiency. The strength of the free silver men in the Senate was shown Monday by a vote of 30 to 27 to take up the Jones bill for, the unlimited coinage of silver, the Gov ernment to retain the seigniorage as profit. With only a dozen working days in which to dispose of the great appropriation bills, the silver men, conscious of their strength but carek-ss of consequences, decided to take up .t&jeir favorite scheme and keep it on the boards, either forcing a vote or compelling the calling of an extra session to pass the appropriation bills. Frederick Douglass, the noted freed man, orator and diplomat, died a few mln utes before 7 o'clock Wednesday nlgnt at his residence in Anacostia, a suburb of Washington, D. C., of heart failure. His death was entirely unexpected, as he hSd been enjoying the best of health. During the afternoon he attended the convention of the Women's Council and chatted with Susan B. Anthony and others with whom he has been on intimate terms for many years. When he returned Louie he sat down and chatted with iiis wife about the women at the convention. Suddenly he gasped and fell back unconscious. With­ in twenty minutes after the attack the faint motion of the heart ceased entirely and the great ex-slave statesman was dead. P. Bogdanoff, first secretary of the Rus­ sian Legation at Washington, D. C., killed himself Wednesday morning by shooting. He had been sick for two or three' weeks, and his suicide is supposed IN GENERAL The long overdue steamship City of S» Augustine, for the safety of which some anxiety had been expressed, has put into Bermuda, having run short of coil. , Rich furnishings imported from France for John Jacob Astor's new house have been seized by New York customs officials, who claim that they were undervalued. An action for damages against the North German Lloyd Steamship Company will be brought by Sieginund Frank, the brother of Jacob Frank, the Buffalo ticket broker who was lost in the wreck of the steamship Elbe. The damages spe­ cified will be $50,000. The first steps in the proceedings were taken Monday in an application to the surrogate at Buffa­ lo for limited letters of administration. Siegmund Frank gave bonds and qualified as administrator. Affidavits have been obtained from two of the survivors, Carl Hoffman and John Vevern. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime,! $3.75@6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 @4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00>@4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 60@f»l<«; corn. No. 2. 42@43c; oats, No. 2, 28@29c; rye, No. 2, 53(§;54c; butter, choice creamery, 23@ 24c; eggs, fresh, 25@26c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 65®75c. ^ I ndianapolis--Cattle, fe^ping, $3® 5.50; hogs, choice iight, $3@4.75t sheep, common to prime, $2@4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 52<g;53c; corn, No. 1 white, 41@ 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 33rg34c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3©5.75; hogs, $3@ 4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 50®51c; cdin, No. 2, 40@41c; oats, No. 2, 29@80c; corn, No. 2, 5<3@58c. ( Cincinnati--Cattle. $3.60(g5.50; bogs, $.'{@4.75; sheep, $2.50@4.75; wheat, No. 2, 54{gr>4%c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42@43c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31<g!32c; rye, No. 2, 50fa!59c. iietrolt--"Cattle, |2.Q0@5.80; hogs. $4& 4.50;\*hj|ep,""f2@4.50; wheat. No. 1^ white, 55^55'/^; com, No. 2 yellow, 41^42c; oats, No. 2 white, 33@34c; rye, No. 2, 54<j£5ttc, Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red, 64@54V&oi corn. No. 2 mixed, 42&12%c; eats, No. 2 white, 33<a33»^c; rye, No. 2, 53®55c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50@6.00; hogs, $3® 4.50; sheep, $il(&4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 57(gj57^c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 46@47c; oats, No. 2 white, 35<g3Gc. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62@ 63c; corn, No. 2, 43@44c; oats, No. 2 white, 31@31V&c; barley, No. 2, 53@5&c rye, No. 1, 5tf@54c; pork, mess, $9.50@ 10.00. New York--Cattle, $3@6.00; hogs, $3.50 @4.75; sheep, $3@4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 58@59c; corn, No. 2, 48@49c; oats, white Western, 38@42c: butter, creamer?, 16® 24c; <eggs, Western, 2G@27c. . Kcle Sam Gained $20,000,- Orer 1883 on Cattle and Pro­ visions, and Lost $81,000,000 on Breadstuffs. Farmers Suffer Nfoet. How much has the country lost by the low prices of farm products? In speak­ ing of prices, a gentleman remarked a few days since: "I pay now just the same for a five-rib roast of beef that I do for a barrel of flour." His statement was substantially correct, as twenty pounds of choice beef are selling for about the same price as a barrel of the best family flour. The incident is only impor­ tant as serving to point out and accentu­ ate the fact that provisions have held their prices fairly well, while many pro­ ducts of the farm, such as wheat, cotton and wool, have declined very heavily. It is partly owing to this condition of af­ fairs, too, that on the exports of 1894 the United States gained $20,000,000 over 1893 on cattle and provisions, and lost $16,000,000 on breadstuffs. If we take the same authority which has been accepted in previous yearly tho United States Agricultural Bureau, for the crop estimates of 1894, we find that if the three great crops of wheat, corn and cotton could have been laid down in New York on the 1st of January, 1S95, their aggregate value would have been $1,178.- 250,938, against a valuation of $1,253,- 187,710 for the crops of 1893, and $1,- 544,749,724 for the crops of 1892. This is, of course, a# arbitrary standard, but it is probable that the New York price is, upon the whole, as good a standard by which to judge of the relative value of tho year's crops as any other that can be adopted. First, as to prices: The following table, compiled from the reports of the statisti­ cal bureau of the Department of Agricul­ ture, will give a record of the average prices for various staples received on farms and plantations since 1888, compil­ ed from the rates ruliW on or about Dec. 1 of the respective yeafe: "Prices of Products on Farms Dec. 1. 188a 1890. 1892. 1894. Cts. €ts. Cts. Cts. Wheat, bu 92.6 83.8 62.4 49.8 Rye, bu 59.1 62.9 54.8 50.5 Oats, bu 27.8 42.4 31.7 32.9 Barley, bu... .59.6 64.8 47.2 44.3 Corn, bu 34.1 50.6 39.4 45.0 Cotton, lt>. 8.5 8.6 8.4 4^9 The corn price, 45.6 rents per bushel, is 6.3 cents higher than the average price for the decade 1880-89, and is 4 cents higher than the average of the last four years. The wheat price, 4§.8 cents, is the low­ est for twenty-five years, and is 33.9 cents lower than the average for the decade 1880-89, and 22.1 cents less than the av­ erage for the last four years. The price of cotton, it will be noticed, is at its very minimum. Discarding for the moment all other elements which en­ ter into the problem--such as the total yield of the crop or the comparative cost of production, and comparing the prices for 1894 with those for 1892 (inasmuch as 1893 was also a year of unusual depres-, sion), it appears that, with the exception of corn and oats, prices have declined 20, 30, and even 40 per cent. That startling variations exist in vari- -ous estimates of th<i wheat crop of 1894 we are well aware. The United States Government's last estimate is 460,000,000 bushels, but, in view of the fact that this is 30,000,000 in excess of the Govern­ ment's preliminary estimate, and that the United States official estimate for last year's crop is believed to have been wide­ ly erroneous, wo may discard these fig­ ures in favor of some of the trade esti­ mates, which run as follows: W. M. Grosvenor, 530,000,000; Liverpool Corn Trade. News, 520,000,000; Cincinnati Price Current, 515,000,000; Statistician Thoman, 503,000,000. Assuming tlie estimates of the Corn Trade News for 1892 and 1893, and the conservative figures of Mr. Thoman for 1894, further assuming^ all wheat of a uniform grade, and all\sold on farms about Dec. 1 at the pricesYquoted in the Government's farm price lisVi we have the following: Aggregate Year. Crop (bu.Vvalue on farm. 1892 580,000,000' $361,920,000 1893 475,000,000 247,475,000 1894 503,000,000 250,494,000 This would indicate that, while the ag­ gregate money yield from wheat for 1894 is approximately equal to that for 1893, the loss in money/ compared with 1892, is over $100,000,000; or, more exactly, the loss on the 1894 crop, as compared with that Of 1892, is $111,426,000. Assuming the United States official statement of the 1894 wheat crop--namely, $225,900,000, the loss, as reckoned on this comparative basis, would be $136,020,000. ^ Gain in the Price of Corn. As a partial offset to this loss there ap­ pears to be a gain in the item of Corn, where the high price per bushel would seem to net an aggregate sum in excess of that obtained for the crop of 1893. The following table is made on the basis of Mr. Thoman's estimate of the 1894 corn crop and the United States official esti­ mates for 1892 and 1893, and combines with them the Government's farm prices: Total value Year. Crop in bu. on farm. 189 2 1,628,464,000 $641,614,816 189 3 1,619,490,131 591,116,087 189 4 1,496,943,000 682,606,008 If the Government's doubtful figures for the crop of 1894 be taken (viz., 1,212,770,- 000 bushels), the farm value is only $554' 719,000. The excess in the total market value of last year's crop over that of the previous year appears, according to Mr, Thoman's figures, to amount to over $80,000,000; or, compared with the yield of two years ago, to over $40,000,000. The Government's figures would turn these estimated gains into losses of $45,000,000 and $87,000,000, respectively. It is worthy of remark, how­ ever, that the probable total gain on this Item has been very unevenly distributed among the various agricultural sections. In the South jthe corn crop has been heavier than in 1893, and has partially off­ set the loss on tcotton, while in some sec­ tions of the West, especially Nebraska and Kansas, the corn crop has been an almost total failure, - with little compen­ sation from other crops. the safety valves of the boOwt to prevent an explosion. There was apparently but few life-saving appliances On board. The fire burned with mich rapidity that the passengers were driven overboard and many were drowned. The ferryboat Quinta had just left the Nictheroy slip when the fire broke out, and the master promptly hurried to the scene. On ap- preaching the burning vessel he was sud­ denly surrounded by an excited crowd of passengers, some with revolvers in their hands, who threatened his life if he ven tured near the burning boat. He was therefore compelled to turn away and leave the passengers of the Terceira to their fate. Before doing so, however, he had all the benches and other means of saving life thrown overboard for those struggling in the water." BORN IN SLAVERY. Career of Frederick Douglass, tfi« Noted Frecdman Orator. Frederick Douglass, the noted freed- Man, orator and diplomat, who died Wednesday night at his residence, in An­ acostia, a suburb of Washington, D. C., of heart failure, was born a slave at Ttickahoe, Md„ in February, 1817. His mother was a full-blooded African wom­ an; his father a white man, presumably the owner of his mother. He learned to read and write through the favor of a rel­ ative of his master-father, ahd atjlie age of 15 was permitted to hire his own time, paying $3 a week, retaining and savm* the balance of his earnings with the in­ tention of ultimately purchasing his free­ dom. HiB progress was slow, however, and in 1838 he ran away, reaching New Bedford, Mass, in September of that year. He married and lived there for two or three yeqxs, supporting himself by day labor on the wharves and hi various work shops. While there he changed his name to Douglass. He had previously FREDERICK DOUGLASS. been called Lloyds, the name of his old master. William Lloyd Garrison took an interest in the young fugitive, and assist­ ed him in procuring a higher education. He soon developed great talent as an ora­ tor, and attracted the attention of leading members of the American Anti-Slavery Society. They employed him as one of their lecturers, and he delivered a course throughout the Northern States, portray­ ing in vivid and forceful language the in­ justice of American slavery and the Af­ rican slave trade. In 1845 he went to England, where his eloquence attracted large audiences and brought him to the notice of many of the prominent anti-slavery agitators of that country. His friends in England raised a purse of £150, which was sent to his former owner, and he received in return his manumission papers, which on more .than one occasion in after life served him in good stead when threatened with ar~ rest as a fugitive slave. During the civil war Douglass was one of President Lincoln's advisers relative to the status belli of the slaves, and early advised that they be invited to join the Union army against the slave power. Mr. Douglass was twice married, his first wife being colored. His second marriage was to Miss Helen Pitts, a white woman clerk in one of the departments at Wash­ ington. He accumulated a competency from the proceeds of his lectures and from the fees of the several offices he held. RUSH FOR NEW BONDS. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Rio Janeiro Ferryboat Catches Fire Costing Orefn Hundred Lives. The Rio News of J.^n. 8, received in the latest mail, gives the particulars of a terrible calamity in the Bay of Rio Ja­ neiro. R says: "About 7 :i3 Sunday evening, the 6th inst., a fire broke out on the ferryboat Terceira. The boat left Rio de Janeiro with from eighty to 300 passengers, the greater part of whom disembarked at Sfcji Domingas. It is generally estimated that there were from 100 to 150 persons on board at the time of the .disaster. Al­ though the Terceira was barely 300 me- tew from land when the fire appeared, nothing effective appears to have been done to save the passengers except the foretho dght <sf the engineers ki opening Sale Closed in 20 Minutes in New York and Two Hours in London. J. Pierpont Morgan, acting for himself and August Belmont, managers of the new government loan syndicate, took just twenty minutes Wednesday to receive and close the bids for the $62,500,000 new 4 per cent, bonds, says a New York dis­ patch. The amount allotted to American investors will not be made known for sev­ eral days. There is, however, good au­ thority for the statement that, in view of the heavy oversubscription in London, a comparatively Bmall portion of the issue will be allotted in this country, as it will suit the purposes of the syndicate to dis­ pose of the bulk of the loan abroad in thtf interest of the agreement with the gov­ ernment to maintain the cash gold re­ serve. A premium? of 16% was bid for the new bonds in this market. Under the terms of the agreement between the bond syndicate and the government, some $32,- 500,000 was to have been deposited with the treasury for the home Account, the rest of the gold required to pay for the bonds having to come from abroad. That amount onfeold had been deposited with the treasury Wednesday morning. In the afternoon Mr. Morgan made a deposit of $1,123,000 gold at the sub-treasury, tak­ ing in exchange therefor legal tenders. This action was probably taken to fur­ ther instill confidence in the financial sta­ bility of the treasury, and is in line with the policy of the syndicate to hold the gold reserve at the full limit. Reports received at the Treasury De­ partment show that $23,062,370 in gold coin has already been turned into the sub- treasuries on account of the recent gold purchase. Gold coins to the amount of $1,123,000 were Wednesday deposited in the sub-treasury at New York in exchange for United States notes, and $500,000 a* Cincinnati. Of the deposits received on account of the-golfi purchases $15,637,747 was at New York, $100,000 at Philadel­ phia and $7,314,622 at depository banks. The treasury officials are especially pleas­ ed with t|ie favor with which the loan was received in London, as it shows most conclusively faith abroad in our financial strength and purpose to pay all obliga* tions in gold. The good effect of the re­ cent gold purchase is already shown, it is asserted, in the upward tendency of American securities in London. In London, N. M. Rothschild & Son said that the new American loan had proved a colossal success. The amount of the loaff allotted to Europe was covered many times over $n tw#» hours, both with .,thsm and with J. P. Mtorgan & Co- ^ \ 1 As to Figures. The Journey was long and the old lady with the plaid shawl thought to begnile the time by conversation with the tailor-made girl who sat with her. ,lve in the city?1' asked the old fork .there," answered tte id nothing more. ask what yoi) work at?" :• .. X../"" mod discouraging, but the plucked up her nerve and >x: t&klMtsi 3 AK M.'SL * V .wvV LtL* - iiiSfdi.®*-. 1 \ w 'it plcters or Journal. ckeephi'9"--l»- OUERENT COMMENT. TK« R1H« ni«Mt The loss of the Elbe is one ox^trose things that unfortunately wi(l hpppen events unpreventable by'human ingenuity in its present stage of development--Chi­ cago Post. Such a tragedy brings home the uncer­ tainty of life to the most heedless. May we all comprehend it better, and live more in accordance with our knowledge.--Cou­ rier-Journal. | ^ Out of all that company these fifteen seamen who saved themselves managed to rescue only one girl. All the other women and children were left to perish.-" New York World. The collision at sea has come to be rec­ ognized as the one accident against which neither seamanship nor water-tight com­ partments nor any other marine equip­ ment can afford entire protection.--Chi­ cago Record. The statements of the rescued passen­ gers of the Elbe leave no room for doubt that the officers of the vessel--at least the surviving ones--acted in a cowardly, brutal and selfish manner.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is not strange that Emperor William should be indignant and chagrined that a German crew should have saved only on* woman in a shipwreck when they man­ aged to save so many of th^mselv^. A court mucrt deal unflinchingly with\the Elbe crew.--Chicago Herald. Voyages by sea have been rendered re­ markably safe within recent years. Scores, upon scores of steamships cross the At« lantic weekly, yet there is seldom an acci­ dent or loss of life. The loss of life is made impressive chiefly because it was concentrated.--Philadelphia Ledger. Below Zero* Not a case of sunstroke was reported yesterday.--Toledo Blade. The mean temperature just now is ex­ ceedingly mean.--Burlington Hawkeye. For this weathe^ we. have nothing but words of censure.--New York Advertiser. The coal man is .having a long inning and is running up a big score.--Milwaukee Wisconsin. The man who thought the backbone of winter .was broken was a little off. It was only the wishbone.--Madison Journal.. The man who is not already frozen will Slease stand up and be told that another lizzard is coming.--Cleveland Plaindeal er. In our mild and genial winter climate the temperature of the last few weeks has been Bomewhat trying.--Minneapolis Journal. The "oldest inhabitant" is somewhat undecided about the time-"#hen he expert* enced a cold wave as severe as the pres­ ent one.--Buffalo News. The ice men are congratulating them­ selves that they got in their crop before the ice froze to the bottom of the river.-- Keokuk Gate City. Explorers failed to get nearer the North Pole last year, and all but one are back home, realizing that everything comes to him who waits.--St. Louis Globe. There is hardly a thermometer in the city which has not been prostrated by the weather. As soon as the frostris out of the ground digging for the mercury will be resumed.--Buffalo Express. Exit Queen I«il. The recent emeute near Honolulu was probably the last kick of the irreconcila­ ble royalists^ Of Hawaii.--Philadelphia Record. As a woman she has been no credit to her sex, and it would be better for the world if she were soon forgotten.--St. Paul Call. The ex-queen of Ha'waii is to be exiled. She might come to America and engage as a dime museum exhibit.--Wheeling In- telligencer. If Liliuokalani had been astute she would have lain low for a chance to be lifted on the crest of a Hawaiian woman's suffrag£swave.--Washington Star. Her proclamation is one of the gro­ tesque features of the Hawaiian incident and should be put in a glass case in a freak musei a.--Minneapolis Journal. It is not to be wondered at that Mrs. Dominis was ready to give up her shad­ owy claims to the sovereignty in order to save her very material neck.--Cleveland Plaindealer. If the new government is afraid that she will make mischief in the future, the best thing it can do is to banish her from the islands and allow her a small pension. --Minneapolis Tribune. The ex-queen of Hawaii has made a virtue of necessity, it seems, by formally abdicating what she did not have and could not hope to regain. But the act will simplify the situation.--Milwaukee Journal. Tlie Passing of McAllister. Mr. McAllister was a symposiarch of the most accomplished kind.--Minneapolis Journal. He made and embellished the paths of the "400." His word was authority from the simplest question of table manners to the most complex problem of court eti­ quette.--Detroit Free Press. %^o man could be the cause or occasion Of so much action and comment, of so much chronicle and caricature, of so much talk and cartooning without having a good deal in him.--Brooklyn Eagle. Pity that he should have been content to rule in so paltry an empire and to wear so tinseled a crown. There was that in Ward McAllister which, if wisely used, would have led to honor.--Chicago Inter Ocean. . y How soon will it be, now the/mentor has gone where there are no "400" and all are on the same level, before hli~4ate subjects will be eating with knives, sitting on front stoops and committing all those offenses of gaucherie and gluttony that are so delightful to the natural un-McAl- listered man and woman?--Chicago Trib- I ̂ Fall of Wei-Hoi-Wei. The verities of history now require that the Chinese^avy be spoken of in the past tense.--Detroit Free Prew. Wei-Hai-Wei has again fallen, this time, it is to be presumed, finally and permanently.--Baltimore Herald. On the principle that he \gho fights apd runs away will live to fight another day, the Chinese soldiers ought to be immor­ tal.--New York Press. Thesurrender of Wei-Hai-*Wei has been officially confirmed. Before it is re­ stored to a peace footing it should be compelled to change its name.--Omaha Bee. If Wei-Hai-Wei has fallen, and the Chinese fleet has surrendered, there is nothing left for Japan to do but to reap as much of the harvest of her victories as the great powers will permit her to take. --Boston Transcript. to® SENATE AND HOUSE. Mdtoacre./^ The Port Arthur Japan admits that she is gT^U^^jSioux City Tribune. We are glad that the mikado's govern­ ment appears to realize the shame its sol­ diers have put upon it and to desire to make promptly .all possible amends.--Phil­ adelphia Call. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW* -• makers; 4 w\ . W* , . * - ' A Week's Proceedings In the Halls of 5 Congress--Important Measures Dis- ' , ' ensaed and Acted Upon--Aa T--gfif , • tlal Sesame of the Business. * The National Solons. The Administration's bond contract Was Sharply criticised Monday in the Sen­ ate. Senator Gray vigorously defended the President. By a vote of 30 to 27 the Senate decided to take up the Jones free silver, bill. The agricultural appropria­ tion bill was passed by the Senate, an at­ tempt to eliminate the irrigation clause being defeated. A provision for the issu­ ance of $100,000,000 in debt certificates was inserted in the sundry civil bill by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The House passed the bill to make the pensions of all veterans of the Mexican war $12 per month. A bill for an inter­ national commission to investigate the condition of the seals was favorably re­ ported to the House. House conferees refuse to agree to the Senate's Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Mr. Vilas defended the bond i&ntract In a four-hour speech in the Senate Tues­ day. Silverites were unable to force a vote dn the Jones bill, but will pass a resolution declaring in favor of free coin­ age. In reply to a Senate resolution Sec­ retary Carlisle says no necessity exists- for providing for a deficit in the^revenues. Despite the entreaties of the Illinois mem­ bers of the House, the Senate Judiciary Committee refuses to report the bill cre­ ating an additional district judge. Con­ sideration of the naval appropriation bill was continued in the Hou&e. A number of measures were passed. A favorable report has been ordered by the House committee on the bill to pension survivors of the Indian wars. Representatives of the Pacific roads helda a conference with the House committee regarding a settle­ ment of the debt to the Government. Free silver advocates were routed Wed­ nesday in the Senate, the Jones bill be­ ing displaced and *Wolcott's resolution going to/the calendar. During debate od tho Indian appropriation bill in the Sen­ ate Jar. Chandler said the next Congress would investigate the bond deal. In the naval appropriation bill as adopted by the House was a provision for transfer of the caravels to the Columbian Museum. The naval appropriation bill was passed by the House. Attempts to strike out the provision for three new battle «hipf failed. The House Thursday refused to eoffe cur in the Senate appropriation for con­ struction of a cable to Hawaii. Consid­ eration of the general deficiency bill was begun, and eulogies on the late Senatoi Stockbridge were delivered. Congress­ man Durborow secured adoption of an amendment to the general deficiency bill donating to the Columbian Museum the State Department exhibit at the fair. An acrimonious discussion of the sectarian school question occurred in the Senate during consideration of the Indian appro­ priation bill. Appropriations for the maintenance of Indian schools was reduced Friday by the Senate 20 per cent. The bill is still under discussion.. Senator Mills has given notice of an amendment to the sundry civil bill to prohibit the furthec sale of Government bonds. Senatoi Blackburn has introduced a bill providing for the payment of the full sugar hot;ii« ty for the crop of 1893. The House con­ sidered the proposition to appropriate money to pay marshals for services dur­ ing the Chicago railroad strike. An attempt to take up the railroad pooling bill was defeated in the Senate Saturday and the measure is dead for this session. An amendment was offered to the sundry civil {rill in the Senate au­ thorizing the President to appoint com­ missioners to attend an international mon< etary conference, should one be called In the House the general deficiency bill was further considered, and eulogies wer« delivered on the la^e Senator Vance; A resolution was introduced in the House looking to reversal of its approval of the President's course during the strike. Chairman Reilly reported the bill agreed on by the House committee for settle* ment of the debt of the Pacific roads. ' >iL5. *. " The 'Leven-Fifteen." The following incident is said to have happened on a Southern railroad, and is reported in Harper's Magazine. The conductor must have been a humorist A traveler had come to the station to board the 11:15 train, and much to his surprise, promptly at 11:15 the train started. "Well," he said to the conductor, as hat worthy passed through the car, tWy libel you up North when they say your trains never start on time." "I guess not," said the conductor. "They tell the Whole truth. We never got a train off on time yet." 'Why, this train got off onjtime. It's the 11:15, isn't it?" "Yes, it's the 11:15, my friend, but it's last Tuesday's 11:15. We're three days late. To-day's 11:15 won't get off much befoh Monday, I reckon." Dors the Boj s Good. One interesting result of the military instruction at seventy-five or eighty colleges in this country 'has been the noticeable improvement in the Carriage of lads that enter college without pre­ vious military training. It is noticea­ ble, too, that the youth at those agri­ cultural colleges that have but recently had enough students to entitle the in­ stitutions to have an army oflicer de­ tailed as military instructor show vast­ ly better discipline under such instruc­ tion than when the department of mili­ tary tactics was in charge of civilians. This and That. The Spanish sculptor, Alvarez, drift­ ed naturally from stone cutting and polishing into executing works of art. Curtains were employed" for bed­ steads in the eleventh century; they were afterward transferred to win­ dows. Dishes of gold and silver used in table service in 900 B. C. were found at Troy by Dr. Schliemann/ One of these was about the size i now em­ ployed. Beethoven's Prometheus Is probably the only ballet which has been trans­ ferred bodily from the stage to the concert room solely on account of tho music. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, had once a price--It was a low one, $25-- put upon his head. It was In war times, uud a Confederate paper made the offer for his capture. When Louis XIV. was married to Marie Tlierese the Ballet Comique de la Royne was presented. Half of the performers were dressed in French and half in Spanish costumes. ... iSsS mailto:3.75@6.00 mailto:2@4.75 mailto:2.50@4.75 mailto:2.Q0@5.80 mailto:f2@4.50 mailto:2.50@6.00 mailto:3@6.00 mailto:3@4.75