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| J. H.E3TlLL,Presldsiit. J
SHERMAN’S LAST SLEEP.
the general finally surren
ders TO DEATH.
The End Came at 1:53 O’clock Yester
day Afternoon—The Story of His Last
Hours— The Interment to Ba Made at
St. Louis Next Thursday.
New York, Feb. 14.—Gen. Will 1 am
l'ecumseh Sherman died at 1:50 o’olock this
afternoon.
All night long Gen. Sherman wavered
between life and death, and continued to
fight bravely the hopeless battle. Early In
the evening the physicians knew that the
end was approaching slowly but surely.
The swelling of the face and neck had dis
appeared, but with the subsidence of the
gymptomi of erysipelas came the develop
ment of bis lung trouble, complicated
with a return of the long standing asthma.
Mucus began once moro to accumulate in
bis lungs, and the first signs of passive pneu
monia became apparent. At 1:30 o’olock
last night Lieuta. Thackara and Fits left
Gen. Sherman’s residence for the purpose of
getting much needed rest. At that time
the dying soldier was awake, but breathing
required ail his efforts. Mucus bad filled
his throat, and the glands evidently still
caused much pam.
ASLEEP AT MIDNIGHT.
At midnight sleep had come to the relief
of the sufferer. At 1 o’clock this morning
the general was slumbaring, and there was
evidently no change in his oond.tiou as far
as could be determined by the doctors; the
house was closed for the night, und quiet
tiess reigned. At 3:50 o’clock this morning
there was no apparent change in the
patient’s condition. Gen. Ewing’s son, who
had been at the bedside of the sufferer all
night, said at 4:35 o’clock that he could de
tect no change, excepting that the general’s
respiration had considerably Increased,
which oaused anxiety. With the exception
of heavy breathing at 5:30 o’clock no change
could be discerned.
A CHANGE FOB THE WORSE.
An hour later a decided change for the
worse set in and Lieut. Thackara and Dr.
Green were summoned from the latter’s
residence. Another hour and all the mem
bers of Geu. Sherpian’s family woro sum
moned to the sicif room. Death seemed
near, and the paled watchers showed evi
dence iu their faces of great suffering. The
unconquered soldier was still conquerer; be
lay suffering, but refused to
succumb, aud thus was passed
tbe next few hours. At 8:25 o’clock
Senator Sherman telegraphed to his family
at Washington that his brother was still
alive, but only family conscious. He was
apparently without pain, but his breathing
was labored, aud his strength diminishing.
At this time the physicians wero holding a
consultation.
HIS CONDITION HOPELESS.
When it was over it was given out that
Gen. Sherman’s condition was hopeless, that
the end was rapidly approaching, and that
the bronchial trouble was making marked
progress. When asked if there was the
slightest ray of hope, one of the doctor* re
plied, ‘‘Not the least hope remains, The geo. ,
•rai
after the substance of this qiiswer was offi
cially announced as a result of the consulta
tion, being signed by Dr. A b lander. At the
time this bulletin was issued there were by
the dying man’s bedside and In the adjoin
ing rooms Geu. Sherman's unmarried
daughters, Rachael and Lizzie, Mrs. Fitch,
Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, Mrs. Tnackara, Lieut.
Thackara, Senator John Sherman, P. TANARUS,
Sherman, and Drs. Jane way aud Alexan
der, besdes tbe latter’s assistant, Dr. Green.
After consultation Dr. Jaueway went away
for a short time.
A SURPRISE TO THE PEOPLE.
To the scores of anxious people awaiting
new information this bulletin was a pro
f und surprise. While it was known that
the general was lowly yet somehow it had
gotten abroad that he w:is going to pull
through. The announcement that all hope
was abandoned fell like a cloud on the
spirits of the hundreds of inquirers. It was
officially stated this morning that the gen
eral’s condition had all along been more
critical than outsiders had been led to sup
pose. Ouly at one time since Tuesday have
tbe doctors entertained hopes
of ultimate recovery, and that
hope was not one of strong
confidence. This was when the erysipelas
was gotten the upper hand of. The i for a
little timtj it was hoped that the general’s
vitality would enable him to rally, but
symptoms of pneumonia appeared, and
subsequently thest were augmented by the
bronenial troubles. All of the bulletins is
sued have been very carefully worded, and
the doctors have guarded their every utter
anpe. When Dr. Janeway said this morning.
There is not any hope,’’ it is believed that
he finally uttered what had long been in his
mind.
A PEACEFUL END.
’ The end came peacefully and quietly at 1:50
wclock, while the general lay unconscious,
surrounded by all of the members of his
family except Rev. Thomas Ewiug Sher
man, who is now on the ocean on his way to
this country. There was just s slight quiver
of tbe muscies of the face, and the old sol
teased to bi-eathe and all was over.
Although all hope had been abandoned
fqr hours the shock was great to the mourn
ing friends who were at the bedside, and
for many minutes no one left the room.
Lhy huug over the deathbed weeping and
gazing on the stilled faoe bo dear to them,
tnen young Thomas Ewing left
house, and his appearance, even
, e ke spoke a won'? was
“he signal to thoso who waited wi. out that
„<i was over - He hastened to the telegraph
orace around the oorner, but the reporters
before him, and before be had reached
t the news of the general’s death was
“Pressing far and wide over the wires
throughout the country.
Hts secretary greatly affected.
Shortly after Secretary Barrett reacbed
•he telegraph office and sent messages an
nouncing the general’s death to President
ttarrison. Secretaries Blaine, Proctor,
ttuak and many others. He oould not re
strain his tears. “He died like a babe
failing asleep,” he said. “There wannosuf
i*ring, no pain. After 10 o’clock he lay
“Otiouless. Only the very slightest respira
tion showed that life still existed. Before
noon time all had agreed that death was
merely a question of minutes.
for the funeral.
,"Jbe arrangements for the funeral,” con
“Uasd Secretary Barrett, “are in charge of
“en. Henry W. Slocum. The funeral Ser
ices over the remains of the general will
take place on Thursday from his late resi
r* noe - although it may be deferred if bis
*°u does not arrive that day from Europe
win if Thursday evening the body
be taken to St. Louis in a special
of three cars. It will be
m charge of Gen. Schofield, and will be
accompanied by a delegation from Post
Lafayette G. A. R. No. 140 of this city,
itjen. O. O. Howard wiil have charge of the
remains while being conveyed from the
ths depot. A special boat will be
m waiting at the foot of Twenty-third street
“O convey the remains to the Pennsylvania
railroad depot.
fPje Jflofriing ffetogi.
CONGRESS NOTIFIED.
Washington, Feb. 14.-The President
this afternoon sent the following message
to congress:
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
The death of William Tecumseh Sherman,
which took place to-day at his residence in the
city of New York, at 1 o'clock and SO minute*
p. m., is an event that will bring sorrow to the
heart of every patriotic citizen. No living
American was so loved and venerated as he.
To look upon his faoe, to hear his name, was
to have one’s love of country inh-nsitled. He
served his country, not for fame, not out of a
sense of professional duty, but for love of the
(lag and of tipi beneficent civil Institutions of
w ich it wag the emblem. He was au ideal sol
dier and shared to the fullest tbe esprit du corps
of the army; but he cherished the civil institu
tions organized under the constitution, and was
only a soldier that these might be perpetuated
in undimiuished usefulness and honor.
He was n nothing an imitator. A profound
student of military science and precedent, he
drew from them principles and suggestions, and
so adapted them to novel conditions that
his campaigns will continue to be a profitable
study for the military profession throughout
the world. His genial nature made him a com
rade to every soldier of the great
union army. No presence was so welcome
and so inspiring at the camp fire
or the commandery as his. His career was
complete; his honors were full. He bad re
ceived from tbs covernment the highest rank
known to our mllkary establishment, and from
the people unstinted gratitude and love. No
word of mine can add to his fame. His .death
has followed in startling quickness that of
Admiral of the Navy Porter, and
it U a sad and notable incident that when the
department under which he serve! shall have
put on the usual emblems of mourning. four of
the eight executive departments will be.simul
taneously draped In black, and one other has
but to-day removed the crape from lta walls.
Benjamin Harrison.
Executive Mansion, Feh. 14, 1891.
MILITARY HONORS ORDERED PAID HIM.
The following executive order was also
issued:
It is my painful duty to announce to the
country that (Jen. William Tecumseh Sherman
died this day at 1:60 o'clock p. m., at his resi
dence in the city of New Yof s. The Secretary
of War will cause tbe highest military honors
to be paid to tbe memory of this distinguished
officer. The national Hag will ba floated
at half-mast over all publio buildings until after
the burial, and public business will be sus
pended in the executive departments at the
city of Washington and in the city where the
interment takes place on the day of the fu
neral. and in all places where public expression
is given to national sorrow, during such hourß
as will enable every officer and employe to par
ticipate therein with their fellow citizens.
Benjamin Harrison.
Executive Mansion,! Washington, D. C„ Feb.
14, 1861.
A TELEGRAM OF CONDOLENCE.
The president also sent a telegram of con
dolence to tbe family, In whioh be suggested
that the body be brought to Washington
on its way to St. Louis, and that it lie in
state in the rotunda of the capltol for at
least one day.
The acting Secretary of War this after
noon issued a geueral order to tbe army an
nouncing the death of Gen. Sherman. It
included the President's message to oon
gross and the executive order issued by him
to the executive departments, and closed as
follows;
The major general will issue the necessary
orders to the array. It is ordered that the war
department be draped in mourning for a period
of thirty days, and that all busfness be sus
pended therein on the day of the funeral.
L A. Grant,
Acting Secretary of War,
TBS ADJUTANT GENERAL’S ORDER.
Xhi&.*ae accompanied by Another order
"issued by Adjt. Gen. Kelton, by command
of Maj. Gen. Schofield, os follows:
On the day of the funeral the troops at every
milltarv post will be parade 1 and this order
read to them, after which all labor* for the day
will ceas *. The national flag will be displayed
at half staff from the time of the receipt of this
order until the close of the funeral. On the
day of the funeral a salute of seventeen
gum will be flred, at halt hour intervals, com
mencing at 8 o'clock a. m. The officers of tbe
army will wear the usual badges of mourning,
and the colors of the regiments and battalions
will be drape! in mourning for a period
of nix months. The day and hour
of the funeral will be communicated
to tbe department corn menders by telegraph
and by them to their subordinate commanders.
Other necessary order* will be Issued here
after relative to the appropriate funeral cere
monies.
LIKE BUNYAN’S PILGRIM.
Senator Hawley closed his remark* in the
Senate to-day upon tbo Sherman resolu
tions by reading the following passages
from Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress:" "Af
ter this it was noised abont that Hr.
Valiaut-for-Truth was taken with a sum
mons. When he understood it he called
for his friends and tola them of
it. Then said he, ‘I am going to my
father’s, and though with great difficulty I
got hither; vet now I do not repent me of all
the trouble I have been at to arrive where I
am. My sword I give to him that shall
succor me in my pilgrimage and my
courage and my skill to him that can get
them. My marks and scars I carry with
me, to be witness for me that I have
fought his battles who will now be
rewarded.’ When the day that he must go
hence was come, many accompanied him
to the river side, into which, os he went, he
said: ‘Death, w here ie thy sting?' And as
he went down deeper, he said: ‘Grave,
where is thy victory?’ So be passed over
and all the trumpets sounded for him on the
other side.”
SENATOR MORGAN’S SPEECH.
Senator Morgan said: “On this occasion
of national solemnity I would lead the
thoughts and sympathies of the American
Senate back to those days in our history when
Gea. Sherman was by choice, greatly honor
able to his nature, a citizen of the state of
Louisiana, and presided over a college for
tbe instruction of southern youths in the
arts of war and the arts of peace. Those
were not worse days than some we hare
Been during the last half of this cen
tury. In those days, notwithstanding
the “conditions of the south, in view
of its institutions inherited from the older
states of the east, every American was as
welcome in Louisiana and the south as he
was elsewhere in the union. W e ore gradu
ally and surely returning to that cordial
state of feeling which was unhappily inter
rupted by the civil war. Our fathers taught
us that it was the highest patrio.istn
to defend the constitution of
the country, But they had left
within its body guarantees of an institution
that the will or the majority finally deter
mined should no longer exist, and which put
the conscience of the people to the s .vereet
test. Looking back now t) the beginning
of this century and to tbe conflict of
opinion aud of material interests en
gendered by those guarantees, we can
see that they never could have been
stricken out of the organic law except by
conflict of arms. The conflict came, as it
was bound to come, and Americans became
enemies, as they were bound to be, la the
settlement of the issues that involved so
much of money, such radical political re
sults and the pride of a great and illustrious
race of people.
HONORS NOT ALL ON ONE SIDE.
“The power reeted with the victors at the
close of the conflict, but not all the honors
of a desperate warfare. Indeed, the sur
vivors are now winning honors, enriched
with justice and magnanimity not the less
worthy than those won on the battle
fields on their labors to re
store the county to its former
feeling of fraternal regard and
to a unity of sentiment and action,and to pro
mote its welfare. The fidelity of the great
general who has just departed, in the ripe
ness of age, and with a history marked by
devotion to his flag, was the true and simple
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1891 —'TWELVE PAGES.
faith of an American to his eonviotions of
duty. We differed with him and contested
tbe campaigns and battlefields with him,
but w* welcome the hi,tory of the great
soldier as a proud inheritance of our
country. We do this as cordially and as sin
cerely as we gave him we.com* in the
south, as one of our people, when our sons
were confided to his care, in a relation that
(next to paternity) had its lnflueuoe upon
the young men of the country.
MARCHING ACROSS THE BORDER.
“The great military leaders on both sides
of our civil war are rapidly marching
across the border to tbe land where history
and truth and justice must decide upon
every uian’s career. When they meet there,
they will be happy to find that tbe honor of
human actions is not always meas
ured by their wisdom, but by the
motives in whioh they had their origin.*
1 cherish tbe proud belief that tbe heroes of
the civil war will find that, measured by
this standard, none of them on either side
were delinquent, and they will be happy in
Hu association that will never end—and
will never be disturbed by any
evil thought, jealousy or distrust. When
a line so narrow divides us from those high
courts in which our aotions are to be judged
by their motives, and whoa so many mill
ions now living, and increasing millions to
follow, are to be affected by tbe wisdom of
our enactments, we will do well to give up
this day to reflection upon our duties, and
(in sympathy with this great country)
to dedicate the day to his memory.
In such • a retrospect we shall
find an admonition that an American Senate
should meet, on this side of the fatal line of
death, as American generals meet on the
other side, to render justice to each other
and to make our beloved country as happy,
comparatively, as we should wish the great
beyond to be to those great spirits,”
Willlam Tecumseh Sherman was born in
Lancaster, 0., Feb. 8, 1820. He was the
sixth child, and was adopted by Thomas
Ewing, and attended school in Lancaster
until 1836, when he entered the military
academy at West Point, graduating from
that institution In 1840, standing sixth ia a
class of forty-two members. He received
hi* first commission as a aeoond lieutenant
in the Third artillery July 1,1840, and was
sent with that command to Florida. On Nov.
30, IS4I, he was promoted to a first lieuten
ancy. In 1843, on his return from a short
leave, he began the study of law, not
to make it a profession, but to render him
self a more' intelligent soldier. In 1840,
when the Mexican war broke out, be was
sent with troops to California, where he
acted as adjutant general to Gen. Stephen
W. Kearney. On his return, in 1860, he was
married to Ellen Boyle Ewiug, at Washing
ton, her father, his old friend, then being
Secretary of the Interior. He was appointed
a captain in the commissary department
Sept. 21, 1850, but resigned in 1853, and was
appointed manager of a bank in San Fran
cisco, but subsequently took up bis residence
in New York as agent for a St,
Louis firm. In 1858-59 he praoticed law in
Leavenworth, Kan., and the following year
became superintendent of the Louisiana
state military academy. It was while he
was acting in this connection that Louisiana
seceded from the union, aud Gen. Sherman
resigned his office. On May 13. 1861, be
was commissioned colonel of the Thirteenth
infantry with ittstructimu-to sapor tto Gen.
-fteOWSt W aahington. Sherman was put in
command of a brigade in Tyler’s division.
On Aug. 3, 1861, he was made a brigadieg
general of volunteers, and was seut to be
second in oommand to Gen. Anderson in
Kentucky. On account of broken health,
Gen. Anderson was relieved from the
command, and Gen. Sherman succeeded
him on Oct, 17. Just after the capture of
Forts Henry and Donelson, in 1862, Gen.
Sherman was assigned to the Army of the
Tennessee. In tbe great battle of Shiloh,
Snerman’s division served as a sort of pivot.
He was wounded in the hand during the
fight, but refused to leave the field. Gen.
Snerman was always conspicuous for dash.
He was a major general next, and on July
15 he was ordered to Memphis. On account
of brilliant services in the Vicksburg cam
paign he was appointed a brigadier general.
On Oar. 14, 1863, Gen. Sherman was ordered
to take his oorps to tbe relief of Gen. Kose
crans, who had been forced back into Chat
tanooga after the battle of Chiokamauga.
On the morning of tbe 25th Sherman pur
sued the enemy by the roads north of
Chlckainauga aud destroyed the confederate
communications. During these operations
Gen. Burnside was besieged at Knoxville.
Sherman made forced inarches to his relief,
aud, after supplving him, marched back to
Chattanooga. After Gen. Grant had been
made lieutenant general he assigned Gen.
Sbennan to the command of the military
division of the Mississippi. On Feb. 19,
1864, Gea. .Sherman received the thanks of
congress for his services in the Chattanooga
campaign. On April 10 he received bis
orders to move against Atlanta. On July
17 he began tbe direct attack on Atlanta.
In a number of severe sorties the union
forces were victorious, and on Sept. 1 the
confederates evacuated the place. Sherman
then began his famous march to the sea.
He reached Savannah in less than six
months and captured the city. He was
made a major general and received tbe
thanks of congress for his march. He left
Savannah in February, and soon flanked
Charleston, compelled its evacuation, and
entered Columbia on the 17th. He thence
moved on Goldsboro, opening a communi
cation by tbe Cape Fear river with Scho
field. Johnston, at Greensboro, re
ceived news of Lae’s surrender,
and sent word to Sherman asking on what
terms he would receive his surrender.
Sherman made a basis of agreement which
was was repudiated by the government as
being too lenient. The general determined
not to revisit Washington, but finally did
so at the spocial request of the President.
Gen. Sherman took leave of his army on
May 80. From June 27, 18(54, to March 3,
1809, he was in command of the military
division of the Mississippi. Upon the ap
§ ointment of Grant as general of the army
herman was promoted to be lieutenant
general, and when Grant became President
of tbe United States, March 4, 1869, Sher
man succeeded him as general, with bead
quarters at Washington. At his own re
quest, and in order to make Sheridan
general in chief, he was nlaced on the re
tired list, with full pay and emoluments, on
Feb. 8, 1884. For awhile after that the
general resided in St. Louis, but some years
ago c-.oved to New York. He lived very
quietly with his family at his house iu
Seventy-first street, near Central Park. His
wife died a few years ago, and two of his
daughters are married. One of his sons is a
Jesuit'priest, and is at present studying in
the Island of Jersey, in the English chan
nel. Two uumarried daughters and a son, a
lawyer, comprised his household in New
York.
Return of Richmond's Howitzers-
Richmond, Va., Feb. 14.—The Rich
mond Howitzers battery of Artillery and
Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans, re
turned to-night from the Mardi Grai at
Now Orleans. The trip going and return
ing was a perfect ovation. The militia,
veterans and citizens welcomed them home.
A National Real Estate Exchange.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb, 14.—Tbe real
estate exshange of this city to-day issued
an invitation to all the real estate exchanges
throughout the union to meet in Birming
ham March 3J for the purpose of organ
sing anew national exchange.
A MUZZLE FOR BISMARCK.
THE KAISER BOUND TO STOP THE
ATTACKS OF THE PRINCE.
Mild Means to be Given a Trial—lf
. They Are Nos Effective Sterner Ones
Will Be Resorted to-Tbe Emperor's
Faith in couns Von voitke.
(Copyrighted, 1991, by the Sew York Associated
Press.'
Berlin, Fen. 14.—The crisis in the feud
existing between the emperor and Prince
Bismarck has become acute. In conversa
tion last night, at an official dinner given by
Chancellor von Caprivi. the emperor re
marked that attacks inspired by Prince Bis
marck, while nominally directed against.
Chancellor von Capriti, were in reality
aimed at hims'lf. Be was deprived, he
said, by his position from pnblloly rsspoud
ing to three attacks. He feared that he
would soon be obliged to take severe
measures to suppress these attacks, as they
were dangerous to the government and the
the empire. A report whicu has gained
general credence is to the effect tbat Chan
cellor von Caprivi hae b<ym instructed to
publish in the lieichsnnseiger a warning to
Prince Bismarck's paper, the Hamburger
Naehrich'en, to cea-e publishing iu pre
tended revelations of government affairs on
pain of prosecution.
a sensational article.
Tbe Hamburger Nachrichten published
yesterday an article which caused a sensa
tion in political and military circles. It
deolored that tbe recent changes in the
highest army personnel was duo to the fact
that Count von Waldersee and other
officers connected with the general staff
were working together to bring on a war
with Russia. Chancellor von Caprivi, who
disapproved of the plans of these officers,
induced the emperor to dismiss Count von
Waldersee and to reform the general staff.
The accusation made by the Nachrichten
re-eohoes tbe ohargee that Count von Wal
dersoe has already denied, but whioh have
acquired fresh significance from the removal
of his intimates, Majs. Zanu and Biabort,
from the staff and their being ordered to
the provinces.
THE BMPBROR IN CONSULTATION.
The emperor had a prolonged conference
yesterday morning with Chancellor von
Caprivi and Herr Oenlscblager, minister
of justice. Tbe latter afterward consulted
with Judges Feasendorf and Relchsanwalt
of the Leipsio tribunal on the meas
ures to lie adopted to stop the
attnoks. It is difficult to believe
that the emperor means to go to the length
of prosecuting the ex-chancellor, yet his un
controlled intensity of irritation supports
the rumors that he will do so. The govern
ment of Bavaria has already warned t e
Munich Allicemine tbat it will not bo
allowed to publish articles discrediting the
European policy of the imperial govern
ment.
MILD MEANS TO BE TRIED.
The tone of an inspired note in to-night’s
North German Gazette, indicates that a
milder form of repression will be tried be
fore Prime Bismarck is personally chal
lenged. The North Germm i Gazette, re
plying to the criticisms published
}n the Cologne Gazette says
that its insinuations concerning
the policy of the government, backed by no
proof, cannot continue. Every government
must be judged by its acts. What tbe gov
ernment wants, and on whom it relies, are
not uuestlons to be settled by ill-humored
articles published by opposition journals.
MUST PRODUCE PROOFS.
In noticing the Hamburger Nachricht
en’s repeated assertions that the relations
between Germany und Russia have beau
imperiled since the retirement of Prince
Bismarck, the North German Gazette de
clares that the accusation leveled against
the foreign policy of the government is so
gravely opposed to the truth that the papers
making the charges most be obliged to pro
duoe proofs of or stand discredited as resort
ing to any lie in order to assail the govern
ment. The developments of the feud are
watched with the keenest interest. The
opponents of Prince Bismarck say that be
does not fear prosecution, and that he is
ready to meet and, perhaps, wants to pro
voke it.
A TALK WITH THE LEADERS.
Chancellor von Caprivi assembled last
night in the grand hall of the chancellor’s
palace representatives from every political
section in the Reichstag, excepting the
socialist section. Tbe emperor sat between
Herr LevetzoW and Herr Buetticher. The
scene reminded many of those present
of a similar gathering in the same hall, when
Prince Bismarck, presided hardly a year
ago. After dinner the guests adjourned to
cigars and beer. Those preseut grouped
themselves around the emperor and re
ceived an almost unbroken flood of
opinions regarding social topics,
Prime Bismarck, the prow, the
campaign, the recent snowstorms,
tbe success of tbe civil authorities
in coping with the inundations and the
workmen’s protection bill, on whioh there
was an animated oonvers ition, Herr
Rickert, Dr. Windthorst and others finish
ing bv expressing their appreciation of tbe
results of the assiduous work of the bill’s
committee.
the emperor’s endurance.
Although the emperor had passed an ardu
ous official (lay, beginning early in the morn
ing with a drill at Potsdam,he looked bright
and unwearied. A chance reference to
Count Von Moltke eiicted the remark
from the emperor that he could stlil
rely on tbe active assis'ance of
the great tactician. It transpired that
in the interval while the emperor wns de
ciding upon tbe successor to Count von
Waldersee the emperor telegraphed to
Count von Moltke asking him to place bis
experience at his disposal iu selecting Count
von Waldersee’s successor. The count re
sponded that whatever force remained in
him belonged to his emperor. Thereupon
Gen. von Hchlieflfeu, before assuming the
position of chief of staff, went to Sileeia
to receive Count von Moltke's advice. Gen.
Schlieffen Is an ardent worker, and has for
a loug time proved an excellent head of a
bureau. He is not credited with muoh skill
as a tactician. He is noted chiefly among
hit intimates for his capacity for silence.
He is even m.ter than Count von Moltke.
THE WORKMAN’S PROTECTION BILL.
The Reichstag has commenced a debate
on the w rkmen’s protection bill The
house adopted an article according twenty
four hours’ rest on Sunday. The socialists
wanted thirty-six hours. Herr Bebel, the
socialist leader, in a general criticism of the
bill, declared thit tbe workmen’* party
thoroughly distrust the bill and would un
ceasingly oppose it uuleas essential changes
were made in it. In its present form, be
declared, it protected the employer* and not
the workmen.
FOREIGNERS IN ALSACE.
The government of Alsace-Lorraine has
issued new regulations regarding foreign
ers. If they intend to stay in the provinces
longer than eight weeks they must report
witnina fortnight of their arrival in Alsace
at the nearest police station, and establish
their identity before they will receive a
permit to stay. Otherwise) they will be ar
rested and expelled.
The Reichzanzeiger gives notice that the
subscription lists of tbe imperial loau of
200,000,000 marks, and the Prussian loan of
250,000,000 msalu, will be opened Feb. 20.
The Luxemberg government has decided
to replaoe the Dutch officials in the diplo
matic service with Germans.
Prof. Libbertz affixes the official name
“Yubercqllne'’ to all phials oi tbe Koch
lymph given cut at his lalioratory.
FRANCE FAIR.
President Carnot Accepts the Invita
tion—The Solicitor Generalship.
Paris, Feb. 14.—Tbe invitation of the
United Status to France to be represented
at the world’s fair at Chicago has been for
mally accepted by President Carnot.
GERMANY WILL RE THERE.
(Copyright, 1991, by the New York Associated
Press.)
Berlin, Feb. 14.—The foreign office has
received through Mr. Phelps, the United
States minuter, an official invitation from
the government of the United Ststss asking
Germany to take pert lu the world's fair to
be held in Chicago in 1898. The invitation
has tven sent by tbe foreign office to tbe
e- th irilies of the different states of the
empire, in order that the German manu
facturers may be consulted and commercial
bodies report before sending an answer to
Washington. It is expected in official cir
cles tbat there wilt be a rush of Qermaa ex
hibitors, for whom it will be necessary to
secure tho largest obtains tile spaue.
the solicitor general.
Chicago, Feb. 14.—The world’s fair
direotnry have created tbe office of solicitor
genera'. Congressman Butterwortb, who
is now secretary of the looal board, will
also assume the duties of solicitor general,
to attend to ths legal and legislative affairs
of tbe beard until ins services are other
wise ordered.
ITALY'S NBW PRBMIDR
Tho War and Naval Bstimates to be
be Cut Down.
Rome, Feb. 14.—Upon the assembling of
the Chamber of Deputies to-day Marquis
dl Kudini, the new Italian premier, mode his
promised statement of the policy of the
cabinet, which has already been outlined
and commented upon in advance by a num
ber of newspapers. The marquis declared
that the cabinet will fight tinder tbe standard
of economy, and it proposed to equalize the
budget by a reduction of the estimates, in
cluding tbe war and naval estimates. No
far as tha cabinet’s foreign policy is con
cerned, the marquis said that it would fol
low the verdict of the elections aud would
be simple and frank as befittiug a country
really desirous of the peace programme
whioh was common to thu principal powers.
The Marquis di Rudtui finally adjourned
the Chamber of Deputies until March 2, in
order to allow the government time to pre
pare a number of bills, tho object of which
can be judged by the statements made to
day by tbe new premier.
Vice Admiral Hanbon has been appointed
minister of marine.
At a meeting to-day of eighty-five of
the opposition members of the Cham
ber of Deputies, including sx-Prsmisr
Critpi, au executive committee was ap-
Siinted under the presidency of Signor
arzario to organize an attack upon tbe
government.
The press of all shade* of political opinion
have given a cool reception to tbe pro
gramme announced by the new cabinet.
Enow and Ice in Austria.
Vienna, Feb. 14.—A heavy snow fall has
blocked railways in the mountain districts
of Moravia, Silesia and East Caricia. The
weather ii very cold and the Danube is
frezon from Frsth down the river for a dis
tance of 180 miles. Navigation has conse
quently been brought to a standstill.
Chilean Forces Defeated.
London, Feb. 15.—Dispatches received
here from Buenos Ayres, in regard to the
revolution in Chile, announoe that an im
portant engagement has taken place in
Tarapaoa between tho rebels and govern
ment forces, aud that the latter were com
pletely defeated.
Iron Works Clcse Down.
London, Feb. 14. —The West Cumberland
Iron Works have been compelled to shut
down, owing to a lack of orders for eteel
rails. About 1,400 men are thus thrown
out of work. Other iron works are reduc
ing the number of men in their employ.
KYLE 70 UB SB N A TOR.
The Democrats Will Join tha Inde
pendents to Defeat Moody.
Fikrue, S. D., Feb. 14.—Ths thirty-eighth
joint ballot, 138 voting, gave Stirling 68,
Kyle 58, Tripp 14, Campbell 1, Crons 1.
Bheafe voted for Kyle. Converse for Stirling
and Rowoil for Cross. Necessary to elect,
70 votes.
It caine to light to-night tbat an under
standing has virtually been reached be
tween the democrats aud independent*
whereby they expect to unite and elect
State Senator Kyle as Judge Moody’s
successor in the United States
Senate, not later probably than
Wednesday. Tripp has released
the democratic caucus, aud some of his
strongest workers voted for Kyle to-day.
Kyle,though au independent,!* understood to
be in accord with the Democratic party on
the tariff and other national limes.
A OOPYRIOHT VICIOiiY.
Friends of the Bill Now Bxpect It to
Become a Law.
Washington, Feb. 14.—The International
oopyrigbe bill has been snatched from tbe
Jaws of death. The despondency whioh
oppressed its friends last night has given
way to buoyant confidence to-night that on
Monday it will pass the Senate in just the
same shape as it passed the House, and
so will go directly to the President,
who is waiting to sign it. This confidence
is based on the vote of 29 to 31, by which
the Ferrate to-day took out of tho bill all
the amendments whioh bad been put iu it
in committee of the whole. The fight has
been unusually and unexpectedly desperate,
but it seems now about to be won Dy tbe
copyright meu, although by a very small
majority.
Quay'* Plane.
Washington, Feb. 14.—Senator Quay
was so much better to-day that he spent
several hours at the capital, most of tho
time in his committee room. He is ex
pected to make his statement in the Senate
on Monday and to leave for Florida ou
Wednesday. Some of the republican Sena
tors are opposed to his making lus stpto -
merit now tbat nothing is being fra;d about
the chargee against him, but he will not
heed thoir protests.
Subsidy Bill Prospects.
Washington, Feb. 14.—The subsidy bill
will have one more chance before the final
adjournment of the Fifty-first congress.
.Speaker Reed has promised to give a day to
its consideration tbe letter part of next
week. If a vote is taken it is quite certain
that the bill will be defeated, a* several
members wbo promised to vote for it have
changed front. This is because they have
heard from their coustupeats.
A NSW RAILROAD DSSAI.
The Terminal Leases the Msoon and
Covington.
Baltimore, Md., Feb. lA A meeting of
the bondholders of the Covington and
Macon Railroad Company of Georgia, who
have deposited their bonds for the reorgan
ization of the company, was held here to
day. Benjamin F. Newcomer presided and
Checkley disaw was secretary. The Sea
board and Roanoke Railroad Company
mads a proposition to lease the Covington
and Maoon railroad on behalf of
the Heaboard and Roanoke, h sleigh and
Gaston and Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad companies, at a rental to yield 4%
per cent, to the bondholders on the face
value of the Ceviagtoa and Maoon bonds
and past-due oonpons, the lenses to take all
tbs rest of the bonds to be Issued
by the reorganized Covington and Macon
Railroad Company, the issue not
to exceed $2,200,000, and to undertake
to rettle all claims against the road and
receivers and pay all the expenses on the
bouds to ba issued in gold, principal and
interset to be guaranteed by the Seaboard
sod Roanoke, Raleigh and Gaston and
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad
companies. This proposition was sub
mitted by Judges Watts end Onstin.
THE RIOHMOED AND DANVILLE GETS IV.
Mr. Onkman, vice-president of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company,
mads a precisely similar offer, with the ex
ceptions that the bonds are to be guaran
teed by the Richmond and Danville and
Georgia Central Railroad and Ranking
Company. The two otters were submitted
to a vote and carried in favor
of the Richmond and Danville, HIM
bonds being voted for its, and fill
for tho Seaboard and Roanoke’s
otter. Alexander Brown, who controlled
tho largest number of bontls, voted in favor
and the lease to the Richmond and Danville.
The bouds are to ran as long as tbs now
ohartor under the reorganization of the
railroad oompauy. The lease is to bs per
petual, and the bondholders are to receive
thoir bonds free of all expense,
EFFECT or THE DEAL.
Macon, Oa., Feb. 14.—The lease to the
Richmond and Danville is virtually to tile
Terminal Company. Its otter wae accepted
In preference to the other, presumably on
the grouud that it provided the best secur
ity-
Tbs result of this deal is already appar
ent. It will give Maoon anew railroad
and the Georgia Southern an outlet to the
northeast. Failing to net the Covington
and Macon, whlob It intended to use as an
outlet to tbe Soutli Atlantic coast, the Sea
board Air Line will build a lin of lth own
to connect the Georgia, CaiOiina and
Northern with the Georgia Southern and
Florida.
President W. B. Sparks of the Georgia
Southern system and President John It
Robinson of the Seaboard Air Una svstern
have formed a combination, and will jointly
build a road from E'berton to Maoon. in
response to a telegram received from Mr.
Sparks this afto noon, Messrs. Gnstin,
Guerry anil Hell, the Georgia Southern
svsttm attorneys, drew up and filed a
charter for anew road.
name of mm Mvr road.
The name of the new railroad is to be tbe
Maoon and Northeastern, aud is to run
through the couotlqe of Bibb, Jones, Put
nam, Greene, Oglethorpe and Elbert. It*
length will bo about 100 itiiles, and it will
run through one of the richest agricultural
sections of Georgia. At Klberton it will
connect with the Heaboard system,
through tbe Georgia,Carolina awl Northern,
and at Macon with the Georgia Southern.
This will give a through line from Palatke.
Fia., to Norfolk, Va. The Inoorporatore Of
the Mnoon aud Northeastern Railroad Com
pany arc John M. Robinson, R.C. Hoffman,
W. B. Sparks, George W. Austin and W.
W. Collins. Work on Ita construction Is to
bn commenced immediately after the char
ter is obtained.
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO.
Baltimore, Md., Feb, 14. Charles F.
Mayer, president of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, returned to Baltimore
from bit western trip to-day. In answer to
a written query whether Messrs. Gould,
Inman, Bacoa or someone else had secured
or is trying to secure an ‘'option" upon
tho controlling Interest of the Balti
more and Uhlo company, Mr. Mayer
wrote back: "I have not seen
tbe reports of an option on the Baltimore
aud Ohio having been secured by certain
parties, but I have heard of these reports.
There is not the slightest foundation, in
fact, for any such statements sit to the
parties named or any one else, nor is any
one else attempting to cat control of an
option for the control of the Baltimore and
Ohio.
brick’s deal
Chicago, Feb. 14.—A rumor is published
that, as a result of Calvin 8. Brice’s trip
over the Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago railroad, a close trafflo alllanos has
been formed between it and the Rich
mond Terminal iinet In connection
with this, it is stated that Mr. Brice has
bought the unsold mortgage bond* of the
road, amounting to $1,856,000, for which he
paid $1,500,0:0; that this sum is to be used
in improving tho physical condition of the
road, aud that it is to be used as the Chi
engo line for tho Hast Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road via New Albany, aud of
the Queen and Crescent via Cincinnati and
Indianapolis.
ARKANSAS ALLIANJBMEN.
The Two Organizations of the Farm
ers Merged.
St. Louis, Mo., Fob. 14. — A. dispatch
from Little Rock, Ark., nay*: “The two
farmers’ organization* of the state have re
organized under one head. The order will
hereafter be known as the Fanners’ Alli
ance and Industrial Union of Arkan
sas Its objects are defined as substantially
those of the national alliance. The officers
elected are: Paul G. Davidson, president;
Georgo Murtin, vice president: J. W. Dal
lison, secretary; W. M. Dowell, treasurer;
J. E. Bryan, slate leoturer. Executive
committee —E. C. Htftnphrey, S. 11. King,
I. C. McCracken, L. H. Moore and J. W.
Wibbrant.
TAXATION OF BANE BIOOK.
Carolina’s Controller Orders It As
sessed at Ita Market Value.
Charleston, 8. C., Feb. 14.—The letter
from the controller general published this
morning instructing county auditors to as
sess the capital stock of banks at the mar
kot value of the capital stock ha* created a
sensation here. There are a dozen or more
savings banks doing business here, the
stock of which is quoted all the
way from par to (1,300 per share. There
have been no sales of the faucy stoojs for
years, and tbe figures are merely quotations.
The enforcement of any such regulation
would eat up all the profits of tbe lesser
banks and play havoc with about (1,000,000
capital invested in this business, largely by
small shareholders. If the attempt is made
to enforce the policy outlined by the con
troller’s clerk it will be strenuously resisted
by the banks, which will combine for the
purpose
DAlhTjift A YIAH. \
6 QJOfro A OOP¥. (,
WEEKLY. sl*s A YBAJk f
A BIG SCARE IS GOTHAM;
FIBB BRBAKB OUT IN TBE BASES
MENT OF THE PCBTOFFICH.
Three Hundred Employes Make* Wild
Rush for Lite—One News Boy Fatally
and Another Badly Turned —Hun
dreds of Bage of Newspapers Burned
—Thousands of Letters Delayed.
New Yoke, Feb. 14. Tbe general poet*
oflloe building oaught lira at 10:S0 o’clock
to-night, and hundreds of bags of newspa
pers were burnt and thousands of lettere
will be delayed in reaching their destina
tion.
A few minutes after 10 o’olook every
electric light la the building was suddenly
extinguished, leaving evtry floor in dark*
nets.
▲ SHELL Or SMOKE.
Following this came a smell of
and SO* employee, who were at work <iis-*
trlbuting the malls, were stampeded oat ofl
tbe building. Scarcely bad the last mag
reached the rear entrance on Maia
•treat when a puff of smoke
came up from the engine room
and enveloped the rear of thk
lullding. Firemen pulled a little newsboy
from one of the ventilators, who bad evq>
deatly crept in there to get oat of the onliL
He was terribly burned, and waa takes
away in an ambulanoe.
CREPT INTO TH DISTRIBUTING ROOM.
The Are made tie way to the distributing
room, where 800,000 letters were being
made ready to be sent west Tbe mall froiS
tbe European Steamship Celtic had just beta
brought iu and was being distributed wbeg
tbe lights went out. Tho western mat!
had nsarly all been sont out befora
0 o’clock, aud the southern mail followed 10
shortly afterward. Tbe employee wer*
nearly all busy iu getting ready Mr the UgJ
Sent western mall that goes out during thw
ay. It usually compri-os from 800 to 1,500
sacks, and is in shape to be sent out at from
1 to 4 o'olook In the morning. As soon,
as the Bremen arrived Assistant Buperin-s
tendeut Hall had regained his presence ofl
mind, and with tbe aid of a number of volJ
unteers entered tbe building in the face of
volumes of smoke aud shifted the bulk of that
mail from the rear of the building to th*
southwest corner.
THE DAMAGED SECTION.
The fire was confined to the rear an 4
lower portion of the building, in the englna
room beneath Mail street, in the newspepa#
department In the cellar and jus*
beneath what Is known aa the
second division. The northern mail, it we*
said, had |just boon carried away
before tho Are started. The firemen kepfl
the fire conflned to (lie oellar floor. Two
newsboys named Gueesippe Mtehaeli and
John Goruson wore taken out from the ele
vators. They were badly burned. The
former cannot live. The loss will amount
to $85,000.
HONORS T 6 STOaRT.
The Department or tbe Interior Acta
on Hie Death.
Btaunton, Va., Feb. 14.—The following
dispatch from the Boorstary of tbe Interior
was received by Mayor Fultz of Staunton
last evening:
Ixtkrior Dzpartmsxt, I
WASinNOTOM, D. C., Feb. 18. f
Hon. Alexander U. Fultz, mayor, Staunton,
Va,:
I loarn with deep regret to-day of the death
of my distinguished predecessor, Hon. Alex*
ander H. H Stuart, la consideration of hi
eminent public ssrvioe appropriate honors wlU>
be paid hie memory by this department.
Jo*n W. Noria,
Secretary of the Interior.
To this Mayor Fultz replied:
Hon. John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior^
WYssAtni/fen, D. C.:
Your kind telegram has been communicate*
to the family of the late ex Secretary Stuart,
aud it i deeply appreciated by them. 1 bar*
the honor to inform you that tbe funeral will
take plaee on Monday neat, at noon.
SXURETAKY NOBLE'S ORDER.
Washington, Feb. 14,—Secretary Noble
this afternoon issued the following order:
Department or the Interior, I
WarhinoTon, Krb. W, I**l 1
It is my painful duty to suuouUfcatUct death
of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuartof Staunton,
Va., on the 13th last., la his 34th year. Harins
served with dlst iuotlou as a representative U
the Virginia House of Delegates, and afSerwart
a* a member of congress, be. by appoint men
of President Fillmore, became Secretary o
the Interior on Sept. It. IMO, and served until
March 1, 1*53. By his eminent ability and In
dustry he greatly advanced the oiyaikfoiiUoa
and eflkioucy of this department. He bad tbr
support cf President Grant in hts earnest advo
cacy, sfi-r the war against the union, of the
restoration of his stats to Its legitimate r-iu-J
tloim to the national government. Him
subsequent years were devotee!
to the cause of education.)
as rsetor of the University of Virginia, a mem-1
ber of the board of trustees of the George Pea*
body educational fund and preeldent of the Vlr*
glide Hietorloal Society. In respect for hia
memory the department will be draped In
mourning for thirty days, and will be closed ah
noon on tbe day of bis funeral, Monday wiL
Until after the funeral the nag will be place*
at half-mast.
John W. Nobi.b, Secretary.
Beale of tbe Mine Workers.
Columbus, 0., Fob. 14,—The Unite*
Mine Workers' convention committee on a
scale of prices have presented their report,
from whloh tbe following is an extract:
District 17, West Virginia—Kanawha
river, 75 cents; Pomeroy, 57 cents; Mounds*
villa, 00 cents; Flat Top, 40 oents (run of
mine): Fairmount and Coal Valley. 50 cent*
(run of mine); Coal Valley,o2 cents (screened
coal).
Distrlot 18, Kentucky 65 oents, ran of
the mine.
District 20, Alabama—Pratt and Wheel
ing mines, 70 cents; Bine Creek, 45 cents)
Coalburg, 65 to 70 cents.
Tardy Legislation.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 14.— The House,
without an opposing vote, to-day passed the
bill removing tbe political disability front
all persons who volunteered their service*
against tbe government in the civil war.
The constitution debars confederate soldiers
from the right to vote or hold office, and
this bill is expected to.remove these constitu
tional bars.
Arkansas' Loss.
Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 14. Investiga
tion shows that about $40,000 belonging to
the national improvement fund accumu
lated from the sale of land* granted Arkan
sas bv the United Mtates government forty
years ago Is misting from the state treasury
although reported oa hand in ex-Trea#urer
Woodruff’s report for the fiscal year of 1890,
No Result at Springfield.
Springfield, 111, Feb. 14.—Nearly all
of the members of the legislature wore ab
sent from the city to-day. In the join*
assembly oue perfunctory ballot was taken,
resulting: Palmer 11, Lindley 3, Steele L
Pensacola Indorses Reciprocity.
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 14.—The cham
ber of commerce to-day adopted resolutions
indorsing tho reciprocity arrangements
completed with Brazil, and recommending
that the Florida representatives vote in aid
of tbe shipping iu order that direct mail
facilities with Brazil may ho increased.
