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I THE MORNING NEWS. 1
J ESTABLISHED 18.-O.I.VCOBPORATEDI3BB. r
] J. H. KSTILL, President. j
SENATOR PLUMB IS DEAD.
A SUDDEN ATTACK OP APOPLEXY
CUTS OFF HIS LIFE.
He Had Been a Quest at a Banquet
Given By Ex-Senator Mahone and
Returned Home Late—An Hour or
Two Later He Was Stricken Down.
Overwork Brought on the Attack.
A Horrible Suspicion That He May
Have Been Embalmel Before Life
Was Extinct.
Washington, Dec. 20.—"0, my Qod,
my head, my head,” said Senator Preston
B. Plumb who, as representative of the
state of Kansas in the United States 8-nato
continuously since 187(5, has occupied a
prominent place in the oouneils of the
Republican party, and a few minutes
later fell back unoonsoious, never to
regain knowledge of what was going
on about him. It was 6:45 o’olock this
morning when he uttered thia exolama
tion. A little more than Sve hours
later tho broad-framed, powerful-looking
Kansas senator was stretched out dead iu
his modest apartments on Fourteenth street.
Ilis physician, Dr. Philip S. Wales, his
clerk, it. W. Flenniken, and his landlord,
Air. Jennings, were with him at the end.
His wife and two children are in Kansas.
APOPLEXY FROM OVERWORK.
Death came from apoplexy, the result of
exhaustion of the brain. It was a clear
case of overwork aud inattention to the
laws of nature. The senator had been
known for years as a most pushing, ener
getic and hard working member of the
(Senate, A year ago he began to fail, his
brain became affected, and throbbing head
aches became more and more frequent.
His physicians warned him that a contin
uance of his labors meant death, but he re
fused to heed their warning, lie continued
to work with the energy of a steam engine
and to-day. when still apparently iu full
vigor and with many years of life before
him, he died.
WIDESPREAD REGRET.
The news of his sudden doath shocked
and startled his friends and acquaintances,
of whom he had a great number in and out
of publio life. It being Sunday, many
persons were at church at the time of his
death, and note save tiioso at his bedside
know that he had been taken ill. Many per
sons who heard It wore almost Incredulous
of the accuracy of the report. But all ac
quainted with the senator, as with intuitive
knowledge, asked the question whether or
not apoplexy was toe causa of death. A
fow of Mr. Plumb’s most intimate friends
knew that he had been ailing for some
time, but none were prepared for the worst.
IN THE SENATE LAST WEEK.
He had been in the Senate last week and
appeared to be as well as ever. He attended
to his duties with his usual briskness and
vigor. A few days ago be said to a Senate
employe who congratulated him on his ap
pearance that he was younger than the em
ploye, who was his junior by twenty
years. As evidence of his vitality he doubled
up his forearm and his biceps muscles were
hard aud compact. lie actively looked
after the interests of his constituents iast
week and probably leads any other senator
in the number of bills introduced at this
session.
COMPLAINING RECENTLY.
Notwithstanding this activity and his
own assertion of his vigorous health, lat
terly he had been complaining of sleepless
ness, vertigo and symptoms which in medi
cine are embraced in the term aphasia. He
complained of persistent pains in bis head,
impairment of memory and growing ina
bility to clothe bis ideas in proper aud ap
propriate words. The senator had previ
ously been remarkably fluent of speech, and
his words cauie so freely, copiously
and rapidly that he was a terror of steno
graphers. It was not until two weeks
ago, however, that ;Dii Philip Wales was
called in and asked for advice as to the
trouble. The doctor after careful study of
his case informed the senator that his syrnp
tams indicated apoplexy, aud that he must
quit worK and take a rest. But Senator
Plumb was incredulous, aud thought the
doctor had become uuduly alarmed. He
kept uu bis labors,except when severe head
aches forced him to temporarily abandon bis
work.
AN INCESSANT WORKER.
He had a desk in the front room of his
apartments and another in his committee
room at the capital. He worked on his im
mense personal business morning and
nights after doing a hard day’s work on
t'U lie affairs at the capital. His eyes
troubled him and a skillful oculist
examined them. His kidneys were also ex
amined by a specialist. Each of these per
sons reported that the trouble lay not in the
eyes or the kidneys, and by their report
that there was some other organic trouble
confirmed the diagnosis of Dr. Wales. A
few days ago Senator Plumb went to Phila
delphia with Senator Quay for the purpose
of consulting Dr. Pepper. He returned ti
Washington last night at 7 o’clock com
plaining of a most violent headache, but
went to a dinner at Chamberlin's given by
ex-Senator Mabone to a few friends. It
must have been 1 o’clook or later this morn
ing when ho returned to his quarters at
No. 612 Fourteenth street, for his landlord,
Linson D. Jennings, said to-day that he did
not retire until nearly 1 o’clook and the
senator had not yet returned.
A CALL FOR HELP.
Shortly before 2 o’olook Mr. Jennings
was awakened by a knock at his bedroom
door. Senator Plumb told Mr. Jennings he
was very sick and requested him to oome
down-stairs and set up with ‘him. Mr.
Jennings saw that the senator’s oondttion
was serious and at 2 o’clock Dr. W alos was
summoned. The dootor alleviated the pain
and administered proper remedies. He
stayed with) Senator Plumb from 2 until
0:30 o’clock and then left his patient sleep
ing quietly. At 0:45 o’clock Senator Plumb
awoke and with a spring bounded out of
bed to the slop jar and began to vomit. His
head was aching violently. Vomiting oeaßod
after a time and then the senator tossed his
bands to his head and exclaimed: "O, my
Uod, my head, my head,” the last words he
aver uttered. Mr. Jennings stroked his
head to relieve the pain and a few minutes
later the senator lapsed into slumber and
r nr’ nto unconsciousness. About 40 o’clock
"• Fenniken, clerk to the committee on
public lands, of whloh Senator Plumb was
chairman, and his private secretary for
years, called, as was his custom, to assist
ti>e senator with bis correspondence. Mr.
jam token noticed that he was breathing
heavily and stercorouily.
THE DOCTOR REALIZES THE WORST.
Dr. Wales was again summoned. He saw
at once that his patient had been stricken
jtb apoplexy. The senator was uncon
sclous and his tongue was paralyzed. The
actor, Mr. Flenuikin and Mr. Jennings
it'"? 113 - 6 ? w u th hlra uulil the end oarao at
11:50 o’clook.
The news of tbß sad event spread rapidly.
deirh 1 vi ftn . b ° ur „ att, ' r Senator Plumb's
a ®, nator 1 ofifer was at the side of his
tfne. J Sergsaut-at-Arms Valen
tine and his deputy, Charles B. Reade. were
promptly on hand and assumed direction of
funeral arrangements. An undertaker
a summoned and took charge of the re-
IPje IHoftting
mains. He proceeded at once to prepare
the body for interment, and in a short
rrr? 8 ooul Pl ß * B d the embalming process.
When the remains had been properly pre
pared a guard of honor composed of em
ployes of the United Stela* fxr.ate M
detailed to watch over sham assli te.y t*
j removed to the capitol
TIOB PRESIDENT Itoaros AIM,
I Vloo Pres! lent Morton was iatormod of
Senator Plumb’s death early (n toe after
noou. He called immediately at the resi
dence of the deceased and extended
his good offices. Senators Man
derson, Paddock, Walthall, Cullom,
Hale, Washburn, Teller, Wolcott,
and many other senators called during the
day. They were inexpressibly shocked and
grieved at the sad event, and condoled with
one another upon the lose which the couu
try, the Senate and they themselves had
sustained through the untimely taking
off of their beloved oolleague. The
Vice President at once took steps
toward the appointment of a
committee of seuators to direct the
obsequies, and communicated with Speaker
Crisp in order that a corresponding com
mittee might be appointed in behalf of the
House of Representatives.
The deceased senator leaves a wife and
five children. His two daughers are now at
Emporia with Mrs. Plumb. Two of bis
sons are at school In Pennsylvania, and the
third is confined to a hospital in Philadel
phia by a serious ailment.
THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
The arrangements for the funeral serv
ices, to take place in Washington, were
completed to-night. At 10 o’clock to-mor
row morning the body of the late senator
will be removed fretn the apartments he
lately occupied to the marble room in the
Senate wing of the capitol. It will be es
corted by the capitol police, in charge of
the sergeant-at-arms. At 1:15 o’clock the
body will be removed from the marble
room to the Senate chamber, where a quar
ter of an hour later funeral services will bo
held, conducted by Rev. J. G. Butler,
chaplain of the Senate. The following
named persons have been invited to attend
the services in the Senate chamber : The
President, the members of the cabinet, the
ohief justice and associate justioee of the
supreme court, the members of the House
of Representatives, the diplomatic oorps,
the general commandingjtbe army and the
sonior udmiral of the navy. Other friends
of the late senator in the city have been in
vited to the gallery of the Senate. At 2:30
o’clock the body will be taken to the Penn
sylvania railroad station, escorted
by a committee of the two bouses
and the members of the Senate on foot.
Such of the persons invited to the floor and
gallery of the Senate as desire to do so will
also march to the station. Arriving at the
station, the body will be placed in a special
oar attached to the Columbian express
train, leaving the city at 3:25 o’clock, and
taken to Emporia, Kan., where the inter
ment is to be made. It will probably reach
there Wednesday afternoon. Further ser
vices will be held on tho following day at 2
o’clock. The route to Emporia will be via
tho Pennsylvania, Missouri Pacific and
Atohisou, Topeka and Banta Fe railroads.
The body will be accompanied by commit
tees of the Senate and House, in oharge of
the sergeant-at-arms of tho former body.
A SHOCK TO KANSAS.
Topeka, Kan., Deo. 20.— The news of
the death of Senator Plumb was a great
shock to his friends in Kansas. No one
kuew that he had been ailing, and the vig
orous campaign be made last fall in the in
terests of his party seemed to be con
vincing proof that his robust con
stitution was in the best of
condition. The Kansas law provides that
m the evout of the death of a senator the
vaoaucy shall be filled by the governor’s
appointment until the next meeting of the
legislature. Tho next legislature does not
meet until a year from uow. Gov. Hum
phrey was seen at his home at Independ
ence, Kan., where he is spending the dav.
He had been notified of Senator Plumb’s
death by a private dispatch. He was greatly
shocked at the news, so much so, he said,
that he had given no thought as to the sena
tor’s successor. He would, of course,
make an appointment to fill the va
cancy, but he had not considered
any individual The vacancy might be
Ailed at a special meet'ngof the legislature,
but in view of the fact that the present leg
islature is under the control of the farmers'
alliance and that the exeoutive is a repub
lican, such a course Is out of consideration.
INGALLS MAY BE THE MAN.
The name of ex-Senator Ingalls Is already
prominently mentioned by politicians, he
having been the nominse of the party cau
cus at the time Senator Peffer woe elected;
in fact no other name has received any men
tion at all. The fact that the term of the
appointee expires when the next legislature
oonvenes will make the next election la Kan
sas particularly interesting, for the legisla
ture elected then will have the naming
of a senator. The farmers’ alliance while
having suffered defeat at the last election,
is in no wise discouraged and they have
maintained their organization and appear
as vigorous as ever, lhey will now doubt
less redouble their energies In an attempt to
give Senator Peffer a colleague of bis own
political faith.
MOURNING AT EMPORIA.
Emporia, Kan., Dec. 20.— This city, the
home of Senator Plumb, deeply mourns
his death. Mrs. Plumb, who has been an
invalid for many years, was to-day able
for the first time in several months to at
tend ohurch, and it was there that the news
of her husband’s illness was communicated
to her. She was prostrated by the
suddenness of the affliction and was
taken home in a carriage. She had scaroely
arrived there when a second dispatch was
brought to the house, announcing Mr.
Plumb’s death. Mrs. Plumb is now com
pletely prostrated aud Is attended by her
younger son.
Preston B. Plumb was not an old man by
any means, and he appeared to be a re
markably healthy and robust man. He
was born in Delaware oounty, Ohio, Oct. 12,
1837. He received only a common school
education aud then went into a printing
office and became a practical printer. In
1856 he went to Kansas. He thought he
could do better than to spend his life at set
ting, type and so ho studied law and was ad
mitted to the bar In 1861. He did not stick
to the law long, however. In ’BO2 he was
a member of the Kansas legislature and
subsequently he became reporter of the
supreme court of that state. ...
In the latter part of 1863, becoming tired
of reporting supreme oourt decisions, he
concluded to take part In more stirring
scenes. Ho enlisted in tbs union army and
was given the position of lieutenant. He
served through the war aud reached the
rank of lieutenant colonel After the war,
instead of devoting his attention to the law,
he gave his time to politics, and m 1867 was
elected to the legislature. He was made
speaker In 1868. In 1876 he was elected
United States senator as a republican, and
was twice re-elected. Had he lived his term
would have expired in 1895. Senator Plumb
was a man of great force of character. He
was neither an orator nor.tatesmanbuthe
was a remarkably successful politician and
business man. He was very popular with
the people of his state, and as a senator
looked very oarefully after their Interests.
He wMvery attentive to his duties in the
Senate, and was an Influential member of
that body.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1891.
A HORRIBLE SUSPICION.
A Possibility That Senator Plumb Was
Embalmed Before He Was Lead.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Senator Plumb
has been in 111-health for six months or
more. His splendid constitution had beeu
gradually undermined by exoessive work,
until within a year he has had repeated
warnings of death if he kept on.
He had begun to recognize the
faot, and was consulting Dr. Pepper
of Philadelphia, whom he visited
last Friday and whom he vae to visit again
this week. Twice he has had attacks such
ns that which carried him off to-day, and
both times seemed dead for hours. This Is
why bis wife, who was at their home in
Kansas not expecting to be here until after
the holiday recess, telegraphed as soon as
she received the news this afternoon that
his body was not to be embalmed until
sufllolent time had elapsed to make it oer
tain that he was dead. In a seoond tele
gram she alluded to the fact that twice be
fore be had been thought to be dead and
asked that the embalming be deferred till
there should be no question of his death.
UNFORTUNATE HASTE.
Unfortunately when these telegrams ar
rived the body of her husband had boon
embalmed by the direotion of Sergeant-at-
Arms Valentine of the Senate, who took
charge of It and of the funeral arrange
ments as soon as Senator Plumb was pro
nounced dead by the physician, who was
hurriedly called in, ex-Surgeon General
Wales of the navy. Not more than
an hour elapsed from the moment
Senator Plumb’s eyes closed till his body
was embalmed. Naturally enough the tel
egrams from his wife have stirred up the
senators and representatives who have
heard of them, and the ugly suspicions
they suggest have produced some vigorous
oritlcism upon the summary haste with
which the embalming was done. Dr.
Wales Insists, however, that
there is no doubt that Senator
Plumb was dead and Coroner Patterson
says that he has no intention of Investiga
ting the matter, beca ise in the first plaoe
he acoepte the statement of Surgeon Wales,
and in the seoond place the process of em
balming has destroyed whatever evidence
to disprovo Dr. Wales’ statement the brain
might, on autopsy, have famished.
DIXIE’S SHAFT TO MR. DAVIS.
The Bouthern Press to Co-operate
With the Monument Association.
Washington, Deo. 20.—A conference
between representatives of the Jefferson
Davis Monument Association and the
Southern Press Associatioa took plaoe here
yesterday for the purpose of perfecting ar
rangements by which the two organiza
tions can work together in raising funds
for the erection of a monument to the
confederate president. The persons present
from Richmond were Mayor Ellison, J. C.
Dickerson aud Gen. Peyton W ise. They
met in tnis city J. L. Weber of the Charles
ton News and Courier and Mr. Cunning
ham, general manager of the press associa
tion. Mr. Weber has been appointed
by tho association to take charge of the
funds. At tho meeting the gentlemen from
Richmond asked the co-operation of the
press association in their work, whiob was
readily promised. It is probable that the
funds already collected by the press asso
ciation will be turned over to the Rich
mond committee. Mr. CuDningham ex
pects to go to Texas soon, where ha will
solicit subscriptions.
CONGRESS TO DO NOTHING.
Senator Plumb’s Death Removes All
Prospect of Buslusss.
Washington, Deo. 20.—The death of
Senator Plumb has negatived any disposi
tion on the part of oongress to engage iu
legislative business during the few days
that remain before the beginning of the
holiday recess, for the Senate will doubtless
acquiesce to the action of the House
and adjourn on Wednesday next over
the holidays. The obsequies of the late
Senator Plumb, with a few remarks of
sympathetic regret usual on such occasions,
will probably fully oooupy the time of the
Senate up to the beginning of the recess
and the only matter of business that can
oome before the House in the moantime is
the appointment of the committees, if the
speaker is able to complete bis list by
Wednesday morning.
ELKINS’ APPOINTMENT.
Star Router Brady Gleefully Says “The
World Do Move."
Washington, Dec. 20. Thomas J.
Brady, the indicted star route Second As
sistant Postmaster General of ten yean ago,
who, with Dorsey, was an honored guest
with Elklnß at the soap banquet of 1880, has
emerged from his obscurity to say of Mr.
Elkins’ appointment: “It is very gratifying.
It shows that the reign of terror of the Gar
field and Arthur days is over. But who
would have thought then that the king of
the star routers would bo appointed to tho
cabinet of the first republican suncessor of
Garfield and Arthur! The world do move.”
QUICK TIME TO THE SLOPE.
The Canadian Pacific as a War Route
for British bailors.
Vancouver, B. C., Deo. 20. —Aspodal
naval train on the Canadian Paciflo railway
from Halifax arrived to-day, making the
entire journey in six days aDd twenty
bourt. It brought 301 sailors and 26 offi
cers, forming part of the orew of her
majesty’s ships Champion and Pleasant,
now here. These min take tho places of
those whose time of service had
expired and who left here over
land two weeks ago. Tho journey
was accomplished in the samo time as that
westward. The commissiariat arrange
ments on the train were perfect and meals
for the whole number of men were served in
thirty-six minutes. A report to be made to
the. British government will be that the
Canadian route is proferrable to the Panama
route for reliefs for Pacific stations and
there Is no question that the road In an
emergency could satisfactorily and speedily
transport a large number of troops.
ARRESTED FOR SWINDLING.
The Metropolitan Company Follows
MacCormaok Back to Scotland.
New York, Deo. 20.—John Mac Cormack,
who is alleged to have swiodled the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company out of
thousands of dollars some four months
ago in this olty, is In custody
at polioe headquarters. Detective Phil
Reilly arrested ;llacCormack In Edinburgh,
Scotland, Oct. 21, and to-day he reached
New York per steamer Britannia. The
delay was occasioned through getting the
necessary extradition papers.
SUMMERS' RETURN' HOME.
HE SAYS HE WAB ABQUOTED BY
A GANG OF BANDITS.
A Blanket Saturated With Chloroform
Thrown Over Hia Head aa He Left the
Depot—Bundled Into a Wagon and
Taken to a Cabin iu the Woods In
Gwinnett County—Robbed of S2OO.
The Escape.
Atlanta, Ga., Deo. 2QL- Bud Summers,
the Georgia railroad agent at Lithonla, who
disappeared so mysteriously from his home
Saturday night, over a weak ago, bos
turned up all serene, still in the ring, bat
slightly disfigured. Summers' disappear
ance was a several day* wonder and all
kinds of theories were advanced in ex
planation of his unaccountable absence.
However, all proved fallacious. The one
generally believed, though, after the mur
der theory had been exploded, was that he
had eloped with a woman. In fact it was
reported that Summers had bean seen at
Birmingham and Cincinnati with tho
charmer who had led him away from
his happy home. To-day the surprising
news reached Atlanta that Summers was
again domiciled at his cosjr little house in
Lithonia. Ho reached there this morning
and ho and his wife feel |nto i &oh others
arms, kissed, and made up again, Summers
promising hereafter to be 4 good little boy.
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
In explanation of his abseuoe of over a
week from the family roof tree, Summers
offers a most extraordinary story. It sounds
indeed like the days when tho bandits
hold full sway in modern Greece.
It will be remembered that the last time
time Summers was seen at Lithonia he was
in company with a conductor of a freight
train. The two walked along the track
until opposite the entrance of bis residence.
There they separated, and from that time
until this morning bis whereabouts have
been a mystery too deep for the best de
teotives to unravel. When Summers
parted with bis friend; tho oonduotor, so his
tale goes, he hod only proe oiled a fow
yards when a gang of .ijien attaoked bird,
throwing a blauket saturated with chloro
form over his head.
TAKEN TO A HUT IN THE WOODS.
Ho was rendered utterly powerless,
although a man of powerful physique,
standing 6 feet high. A wagon wan pro
cured by his abductors and Bummers was
bundled in it like a lamb going to the
shambles. He wets then driven miles
through tho county, where he was im
prisoned in a log cabin in a dense bodv of
woods. In describing the appearance and
situation of the old oabin, Summers grows
eloquent and conjures the scene up before
his listeners’ eyes in a truly realistic manner.
He was unconscions for several days.
When he finally regained his seuses he dis
covered his condition. Bound and help
less, gagged and blindfolded, he was at the
meroy of his captors.
robbed OF S2OO.
Searching his pockets lie found that S2OO
of the SBOO he had on his person when ah
duoted was missing. The other S6OO was
secreted in his boots and the bandits failed
to get that. After several Ineffectual at
tempts to escape he finally succeeded in
getting away and, as stated above, arrived
at home this morning in a forlorn and piti
able condition. As an evidence of his es
capo from his abductors Summers cites his
appearance as an argument. Truly If ap
pearances were good coin then his story is
undoubtedly true, although there are people
uncharitable enough to hdat that he has
been on a prolonged spree, .bo ,
WATTERSON LECTURES,'CRISP.
Tho Tender to Mills of Second Place
Considered an Affront.
Louisville, Ky., Deo. 20.—0f the
Crisp-Mills correspondence the Courier
Journal of to-morrow morning will say:
“The letter of Mr. Mills to the speaker of
the House is dignified, manly and direct.
Under tho circumstance the proposal of the
speaker was a species of affront which a
man of less spirit than (Mr. Mills
might have justly resented. It was at the
same time a mistake whioh democrats ev
erywhere will regret. B.eaker Crisp may
be assured that the appointment of his late
competitor to the chalrma:iship.of the ways
and means oommittee Is required alike by
good party policy and the equities
of the caso. His ability Is undenia
ble and his claim Is commanding.
We shall hope that the speaker will seethe
matter as It truly Is, for he is the official
head of the party and must have the party
support, which will dope,id largely on this
particular issne In the event that he
should not, we fear the conse
quences, particularly if the connection
of the name of Mr. Springer with this im
portant fact should have any foundation to
it. For Mr. Springer as a damoorat aud as
a man we entertain very great re
spect. and all possible good will,
but his selection would be little short
of a blunder which might bring upofi
both very serious discredit. As we have
elsewhere observed, it Is our purpose to
give the new speaker the frankest confi
dence and most loyal support. It is because
of this that we venture to make three sug
gestions and to sound this uote of warning.
Iu this matter more than any other it is to
be decided whether Speaker Crisp is a large
or small man.”
BLAIN BY HIS SON.
Hon. Samuel Paul Shot Dead as Ho
Was Eating His Supper.
New Orleans, Doc. 20.—A special to the
Picayune from Paul’s Valley says: “The
bard feelings for so long existing between
Hon. Samuel Paul and his son, Joe, have at
last been wiped out in blood. About 7:15
o’clock to-night, as Samuel Paul was
taking his supper in Kiraul’s restau
rant, someone jumped in tho door
and raising a double-barreled shotgun
fired, taking the whole top of Paul’s bead
off. The other barrel was thi emptied
into the prostrate form. The murderer
then walked away. Parties who witnessed
the act say it was his son, Joe Paul.”
WALT WHITMAN’S ILLNESS.
Physicians Doubt His Ability to Re
cover From His Ailment.
Philadelphia, Deo. 20.—The oondition
of Walt Whitman, wno lies seriously ill in
his little oottage In Camden, is said by bis
physicians to-night to tie unchanged,
although a report from his sick
room is to the effect that
he grows steadily weak. H 6 is suffering
from bronchial pneumonia. As he is past
72 years of age the physicians do not think
he will be able to withstand tho ravages of
the disease, and they have about given up
hopes of his recovery.
A Hotel Burned.
Quincy, Fla., Dec. 20.—The Exchange
hotel was burned last night between 8 aud
9 o’clock. Thu fire originated In the second
story from a stove. The building was
owned by R. C. Stearns, and was Insured in
the JE: ua Insurance Company for $1,500.
Most of the furniture was saved.
FRANCE'S ROW WITH BULGARIA.
Germany Holds That the Correspond
ent's Expulsion Was Just.
Paris, Deo. Ba— M. Hoibette, the Frenoh
minister at Berlin, has advised Foreign
Minister Rlbot that the German government
supports Bulgaria in her attitude in the i
Chodouine affair, and holds that
M. Stambuloff had no option
but to act as he did, and
that France is not justified in her rapture
of relations with Bulgaria. The attitude
of Germany as regards the nffair. however,
will not alter M. Ribot’s policy, whioh is
approved by the whole cabinet. A com
munication to the press gives a fore
cast of*M. Ribot’s to be made
in tho Chamber of t Deputies in; reply to
M. Millevois’ Interpellation. In this state
ment the minister will maintain the
illegality of the arrest and expulsion of M.
Chadouine aud will assert that the general
Inliospitallty of the Bulgarian government
was shown in the watching of the residence
of M. Lanel, the French oharge d’atfairs.
At the same time he will announoe the de
termination of France not to submit to
violation of treaty right*. In regard to
the note sent to M. Cambon, the Frenoh
ambassador to Turkey, Instructing him to
present formulated demands to the porto
for an apology from Bulgaria,
and that sho be made to
rescind the order of expulsion against M.
Chadouine, It Is now stated hero that semi
official advices from Constantinople are
that the porto will reply that the matter Is
an internal affair of Bulgaria whioh does
not oome under the jurisdiction of the suze
rain, and that as France only applied to the
porte after the rupture It is tmposilble now
to interfere. The report that M. Rlbot has
recalled all the Frenoh cousuls In Bulgaria
is premature. The government does not de
sire to precipitate even this.
btambuloff’s explanation.
Bofia, Deo. 20.—Premier Stambuloff in
explaining the Chadouine affair in the gen
eral committoe of the HobranJ" to-day de
clared that there was neither mo
tive nor desire to cause a
breach with France, but Bulgaria
oouid not recede from tho position she had
adopted. He hope 1 the Sobraje would sup
port the cabinet in this conclusion. This
was received with loud applause.
A DUEL AT BUDA-PESTH.
Pistols Proving Ineffective the Prin
cipals Resort to Swords.
Buda-Pksth, Dec. 10.—Baron Fejorvary,
until recently minister of the uatlunal de
fense In the Hungarian oablnet, was one of
the principals In a duel fought to-day, tho
news of which caused much oxoitemout
here. The baron’s opponent was
Harr Ugron, a member of the
Diet. Each gentleman fired two shots
without effeot. They then dropped their
flroarms in disgust, and continued to duel
with swords. After this chauge of weapons
both were wounded in the arms, and the
baron bad one oar out ns well. Baron
Fejervary had resigned hie portfolio In
order to be able to obtain satisfaction from
Herr Ugron for a speech whioh the latter
mado attacking him.
A NBW IRBATY WITH FRANCS.
Minister Reid Delays Hla Return Home
to Hasten the Negotiations.
Paris, Deo. 20.— The foreign office is
drafting a treaty of cotnraeroe betwoen the
United States and France. Mr. Reid, the
American miufster, who intended to leave
Paris yesterday for an extended
leave of absence, postponed bis de
parture with a view of expediting
the treaty negotiations. Tho French
minister, who sailed for Now York yester
day, was hastened by the same cause. In
tbe best informed circles It is expected that
an important announcement on the subjeot
will soou be published. The matter has
been carried on very quickly.
Fighting In Rio Grande Do Sul.
London, Deo. 20.—A dispatch from
Buenoe Ayres says: “A skirmish has oc
curred in Rio Grande do Sul between fed
eral troops and a battalion of the national
guard. The telegraph line has been out to
prevent the sending of details of tbe en*
gagement.”
Another dispatch from Buenos Ayres
says:
“The insurgents, headed by Gen. Saraiva,
have surrounded Santa Victoria, the capi
tal of the province of Espirlto Santo. Fed
eral rainforoeraents aro marching to tho
scene from Yagueron.”
Italy Better Natured.
Rome, Deo. 20.—Baron Fava, late Italian
minister to tho United States, was sum
moned to this city recently and had long
conferences with the presldeut of tbe coun
cil on President Harrison’s message. He
has now returned to Naples. It is asserted
on good authority that diplomatic relations
will Shortly be re-established with America.
Baron Kara will not return to Washing
ton, but will !>e transferred to some other
diplomatic post aud some other diplomat
wul be sent to Washington.
A Reform In Ohlle.
London. Dec. 20.— The Santiago corres
pondent of the Times says : “In conse
queDoe of the delay in the trial of persons
concerned in the Baltimore sailors’ riot tho
Chilian oongress proposes to abolish the
antiquated secret .Spanish procedure for a
system of open trials The delay causes
irritation hero.”
A Member of Parliament Arrested.
London, Deo. 20. —Mr. Hastings, mem
ber sf parliament for East Worooterst.ire,
was arrested to-day on arriving at Folke
stone from the continent He is charged
with defrauding Malvern College of £15,000
under his trusteeship.
Arrested for Embezzlement.l
London, Deo. 20.— Conrad Zorn, of the
firm of Zorn & Kobell of Munich, was ar
rcited on board the Cunarder Aursnia,
which sailed Saturday for New York,
charged with embezzlement.
Two Burned to Death.
London, Dec. 20.—1n a fire in Mlrrls’
drapery store at Lavender Hill, Battersea,
London, yesterday Ada Dodd and Louisa
Modlaui were burned to death. Two others
were badly burned.
Bank Directors Arrested.
Brussels, Deo. 20.—Directors Wurot and
Kleing of tho General Credit Bank of
Basel, Switzerland, were arrested to-day at
Ostend.
COTTON IN A BLAZE.
It Was from Savannah and Being
Transferred at New York.
New York, Deo. 20.—A cargo of 600
bales of ootton on hoard a lighter belonging
to the Ooean Steamship Company of Sa
vannah, Ua., was destroyed by fire this
evening in Brooklyn. The cotton arrived
from Savannah yesterday. The cargo was
to have been transferred to the steamship
Hlerus for shipment to Liverpool The dam
age is about $25,000.
bankjr clews* vißwa
What He Has to Say About the Fin an
oial Outlook From Wall Streak
New York, Deo. 10.—The stook market
Is following the course which our late aJ
vloes have foreihadowod as likely to be ex
perienced duriug the olosiag weeks of the
year. Although almost every oonditloa
and influence favors the value of securities,
tho speculative business Is very moderate,
and on the surface affairs have the appear
ance of a holiday. This Is easily enough ex
plained whin It 1s rem-inhered that oper
ators are always disposed to post
pone transactions iu the near pros
pect of Christmas festivities. Under
the surface, however, the feel
ing does not at all correspond to this out
ward expression. Under a quiet exterior
there is the throbbing of great expectations
and liupatienoe for the beginning of the
promised aotivo campaign. The exceptions
to ibis rule are au unhappy minority
among the room-traders, who have put
themselves in a oondition to be very uu
oomfortably squeezed on “short” oontraoti
and are eagerly watching for au opportunity
to esoape from their dilemma. Should they
much longer defer covering their tales It Is
not unlikely they may enjoy the honor of
being conspicuous contributors to the open
ing of a campaign that will afford them
mournful evidence of their late pessimistic
blunders.
It is eaid that the unexpected always
happens; it would be disappointing if the
ooaverse were equally true, that the ex
pected never happens; for there has rarely
been a more gouei al agreement of opinion
as to the probable course of the market
The oommisiiou houses are unanimous in
in their expectation of a general rise in
prices; and it would be dlffioult to find any
reasous worth considering for anticipating
anything different One of the best features
of the market is the self-re itraiul of the
larger oporat rs. Although having quietly
laid-up stocks, yet tbev hold back from
aotivo operations until the offeots of the
large oropa become more general and more
conspicuous, and until the setting-in of
the influences that usually attend
tho large January disbursements of interest
and dividends. Among the current good
symptoms are the moreaslug demand for
railroad bonds and tho consequent rise iu
their value; the good buying of the gran
gers and the dividend-payers generally; the
continued rise in the Vanderbfite under ru
mors of extra dividends; the renewal of
confidence in Root Island, and the more
active buying of Northern Paciflo which
has so long been a weak spot In the market.
Bank of England day reflected au Improv
ing condition of affairs at London, the
bank reserve showing a gain and suggesting
an early roduotion of the rate of interest;
all of which implies some degree of recov
ery at the continental centers.
There has been a lack of disturbing po
litical news from Europe during the week,
with the small exception of the llttln affair
between Franoe and Bulgaria, which will
probably prove to be a harmless ripple.
Whatever ditferenoes may lie beneath the
surface of European politics, It seems to
suit the purpose of all parties to conoaal
tliolr belligerently so long as they can
not afford to Indulge It, and e-pe
| daily the two powers supposed to be
most disposed to make trouble. For the
moment anew and interesting experiment
ooouples continental statesmen -an attempt
to bind oertaln nations to peace through
bonds of commercial interest, and to ooeroe
others into order through punitive trade
discriminations. There It somo reason to
hope that Germany’s uow game of trade
treaties may at least temporarily put a
oheok upon hostile tendencies; and this hope
is worth something as a means of restoring
financial confidence on the oonttnent. Nev
ertheless, for the time being, there is no ma
terial chauge In the tone of the foreign mar.
keta in respeot to American investments.
We ara now verging on the beginning of
the forwarding of the large corn crop, whioh
will bring to au important group of rail
roads the benefits of our abundant harvests
and increase the list of lines showing large
1 nor eases of earnings. The prspocts of new
legislation rooeive little attention from Wall
street. It is taken for granted that. In view
of the party oomploxlon of oongress, it will
be found virtually impossible to enact any
new measures of spscial publio interest. In
respeot to the silver question, the opinion
seems to prevail that publio,and it is hoped
also congressional, opinion lias come to tho
conclusion that there should be no
further legislation on this lisue
until an international union has been
created, establishing tho free coinage of
both gold and silver among all the leadiog
nations; when there could lie no objection
to the unrestricted coinage of stiver In the
United State*. If this be a correct inter
pretation of current opinion, the silver
question is deprlvod of all Immediate
danger. It is an important contribution to
tho hopeful prospeots of the coming year
that, according to a report just issued by
the department of egrioulturs, the market
value of this year’s orops of whest, corn and
oats exceed that of lait year’s by $310,000,-
000. A good portion of this may bo ex
pected to be devoted to the liquidation of
farm mortgages, which will correspondingly
Increase the demand for other securities and
put our great farming Interest upon a more
prosperous footing.
SLUGGERS BE I KING A FIGHT.
Slavln and Mitchell Ocme Over on
a Hunt for Sullivan.
Nf.w York, Deo. 20. The pugilists,
Slavic and Mitchell, landed from the
steamer Brltannto to-day. Slavln, in an
interview, said his object in oomlng to this
oountry was to fight. “I am not on a
pleasure trip by any means,” be continued.
“I am a ferret after a rabbit, and
have come to this bole to find him.”
In answer to other quories ha said: “My
first purpose is to arrange a fight with Sulli
van. I put him first because he is, in my
opinion, the best man on thia side. I will
fight under any rules, In uny place, in any
state where a guarantee will be given that
Mitcboll will not be molested. I won’t
go where ho Is in danger of arrest. That’s
my only objection to New Orleans. I will
fight for a stake of, from £3UO upward and
bsforo the club offering the largest purse. I
will give Sullivan three months, sufficient
time, any one will tell you, for a man to fit
himself. If I can’t arrange ago with Sulli
van then I will fight auybudy else who
thinks he is a good one. If I did not think
I could whip Sullivan I would not bother
him."
Mitcboll said: “I am not here to fight,
but will meet Corbett In a 10 round |glove
contest at any place in New York city for
a purse. I will do this just to give Jim a
chance to exhibit some of those neatly de
veloped powers of hlsi Slavln will meet
him In a glove contest, or with knuckles to
a finish, and In oase of our failure to ar
range with Sullivan wa would like to hear
from him."
Lumpkin Locals.
Lumpkin, Ga., Deo. 20.— Aaron Gawlev,
a young farmer living about five miles
north of Lumpkin, died Friday, having
taken an overdose of morphine. He had
been in the habit of taking morphine at
times.;
County court has bad a protracted session
this week, and many important Civil cases
were tried.
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TALMAGE TALKS ON LIFE
HUMAN EXPERIENCE ONLY A
SCHOOL.
No War Between Religion end BusV
nesa, Between Ledger* and Elbles.
The Three Groups Into Which the
Industrial Claeses Are Divided and
the Lessons to Be Learned From
Them.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dea 20.—Any person
seeking the secret of Dr. Talmsge’s marvel*
ous popularity with the millions of sermon*
hearers and sermon-readers may find a dew
to it in the sermon he preaohed at the
Tabernacle this morning. It has nothing
to do with abstruse doctrines, but gives a
clear view of what may be termed applied
Christianity. His text was Pror. lit, 0:
“In all thy ways acknowledge him and he
shall direct thy paths.”
‘'A promise good enough for many kinds
of life, but not for my kind of life." says
some businessman, “the law of supply a. and
demand controls the business world.” But
I have reason to say that it is a promise to
all persona in any kind of honest business.
Thero is no war between religion and
businass, betwoou ledgers and Bibles, be*
tween churches and counting houses. Oh
the contrary, roliglon accelerates business,
sharpens man’s wits, sweetens aoerbtly of
disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmatloa,
and throws mure velocity into the wheels ol
hard work. It glvos better balancing to
the Judgment, more streugth to the will,
more muscle to Industry, and throws into
enthusiasm a more consecrated (Ira. You
cannot in all the round of the world show
me a man whose boneit business has been
despoiled by religion.
1 lie industrial classes are divided into
three groups: producers, mauufaoturers,
traders. Producers, such as farmers and
miners. Manufacturers, such as those who
turn corn into food, and wool aud flax into
apparel. Traders, such ns maxe profit
out of Ibe transfer and exchange of all that
which is preduued nud manufactured. A
business man may belong to any one or all
rf these classes and not one is independent
of any other. When the prince Imperial
of France fell on the Zulu battle-field
heouuse the strap fastening the stirrup
to the saddle broke as he clung to it, hie
comrades all escaping, but ho falling under
the luuocs of the savages, a great many
peoplo blamed the empress for allowing hei
son to go forth luto that battle- fleid, and
others blamed the Eugll-b government foi
aouopting the sacrifice and others blamed
the Zulus for their barbarism. Tho one
most to blame was the barnessmaker who
fashioned that strap of tbo stirrup out ot
shoddy and lmperfoot material as it was
found to have ueeu afterward, if the strap
had held the price Imperial would
probably have been alive to-day. But tbt
strap broke. No prince Independent of •
hsmessiuakerl High, low, ‘wise, ignorant,
you in one ocoupation, 1 in another, all
bound togetlier. bo that there must be one
continuous line of sympathy with eaob
other’s work. But whatever your vocation,
if you bare a multiplicity of engagements,
if Into your life there come losses and an
noyances and perturbations as well as per
centages and dividends, if you are pursued
from Monday morning until Haturday
night, and from January to January by in
exorable obligation and duty, then you arc
a business mau, or a business woman, aud
mv subjeot is appropriate to your case.
We are under the impression that the
moll and tug of business life are a prison
into which a man is thrust, or that it is an
unequal strife whore unarmed a man goes
forth to contend. 1 shall show you tbal
business life was Intended of God for grand
and glorious education aud discipline, and
it I shall be helped to say what I want to
say 1 shall rub some of the wrinkles of cars
out of your brow and unstrap some of tbs
burdens from your back. I am uot talk
ing to an abstraction. Though neves
having been m business life,
I know all about business men.
in my first parish at Belleville;
New Jersey, ten miles from New York, a
larre portion of my audience was made u|
of New York raeiubants. Then I went U
Syracuse, a place of Intense commercial
adtlvitv, aud then I went to Philadelphia,
and lived long amoug the merchants of that
oitv, than whom there are no better men on
•wrth, and for more than twenty-two years
I have stood in this presence, Sabbath by
Sabbath, preaching to audiences, the
majority of whom are business men and
business women. It is not an abstraction
to which I speak, but a reality with which
I am well acquainted.
In the first place, I remark that business
life was intended as a school of energy.
God gives us a certain amount of raw
material out of which we aro to hew out
character. Our faoultiee are to be reset,
round aud sharpened up. Our young folks
having graduated from sohool or college
need a higher education, that which ths
rasping and collision ef every-day lit*
alone can effect. Energy is wrought out
only in a fire. After a man has he >n it
business activity ten, twenty, thirty yean
his energy is not to be measured by weights
or plummets or ladders. There is no highl
it cannot scale, and there is no depth It can
not fathom, and there is no obstacle it can*
not thrash.
Now, ray brother, why did God put you
In that school of energy! Was it merely
that you might be a yardstick to measure
cloth, or a steelyard to weigh flour? Was
it merely that you might be better qualified
to ohaffer and higgle I No. God placed you
in that school of energy that you might he
doveloped for Christian work. If the unde
veloped talents in the Chris'ian churches of
to-day were brought out and thoroughly
harnessed, I believe the whole world would
be converted to God In a short time. Then
ore so many deep streams that are turning
no mill-wheels and that are harnessed
to no factory hands. Now. God de
mands tho best lamb out of every
flock. He demands the richest sheaf ol
every harvest. He demands the best men
of every generation. A cause in which
Newton and Lcoke and Mansfield toiled
you and I can afford to toil in.
O, for fewer idlers in the cause ot Christ,
and for more Christian workers, men who
shall take the same energy that from Mon
day morning to Saturday night they pul
forth for the achievement of a livelihood or
the gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath
days put it forth to the advantage
of Christ’s kingdom and the bring
ing of men to the Lord. Dr. Duff,
in South Wales, saw a man who
had inherited a groat fortune. The mao
Slid to him: “I had to be very busy for
many jears of my life getting my liveli
hood. After awhile |this fortune came to
me, and there has been no necessity that ]
toil since. There came a time whet I said
to myself, ‘Shall 1 now retire from business,
or shall Igo on and serve the Lord In my
worldly occupationT ” He said: “I re*
solved on the latter, and I have been mors
industrious in commercial circles than I
ever was Jbefore, and since that
hour I have never kept a farthing
for myself. I have thought It to bes
greet shame if I couldn’t toil as hard foi
the Lord as I had tolled for myßelf, and all
the products of my factories and my com
mercial establishments to ths last farthing
have gone for the building of Christian In
stitutions and supporting the church ol
God.” O, if the same energy put forth foi
the world could bo put forth for God I Q
