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sd institutions known as college
Wv- university.
United States engineers are consul
the plan of connecting Lake Su
perinr with the Mississippi Biver by a
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Anent the war between China . and
the Hau Francisco OSfonicle
■auRef-’ Hot wars are not always won
by the numerically strong. On the
ejontfary. history presents an almost
mubroken record of small and auda
■ions peoples w hipping top heavy and
lumbering nations.
The Russian courts have reversed
S" assumption of the American
Fibunale that, when a husband
rife are drowned in the same disaster,
4 be wife dies first. The Russian doc
tors have testified unanimously that
the man wouhhbe the first to die, be
cause the woman is more agile and
keeps herself long -1 above water.
The great wealth, either of the Mor
tnoa Church or of the individuals at
Its bead, has been again demonstrated
by the recent investment of $10,000,
000 by the “first presidency”in anew
corporation called the Utah Company.
This now company is to operate coal
nines, a railroad, a bathing beach
attd pleasure resort at the great Salt
■Mm ke, and build, equip and operate
telegraph and telephone lines. This
is purely a church scheme, in which
(gentiles have no part, and is like the
Zion oo-operative company, to bo
managed to add to the wealth of the
Church.
la a recent article on “Playgrounds
wakes the suggestion that everj
debool house in a big city should bt
*»—oanilo<l by a park, not for show,
lMttfor the recreation of the pupils.
He .. also „„, suggests . „ that , a portion .. of .
TV IC °°° building should bo util
feed in the evening as a boys’ club, &i
With proper management snch clnbi
would draw from the streets the bright
feds who arc now converted into irre
«feimable hoodlums nooumms. . ‘'Both uotn meat these
Wommou fUgnstions _ claims , the “ the 0 1 Mt Q San 0f 8 Fran- * r ° n8
sense,
#■*> Chronicle, “and they could be
Realized very easily in almost day
Americas city."
The London correspondent of the
Manchester (England) Courier stater
Mat a small number of export
j officers have been appointed
teat tho capabilities of some
rl. •o-called r ullet-proof material that .
has recently been brought before the
«Wtice of the war office. It has been
•Oggosted that the material might be
for covering valises of soldiers
imi for other purposes on the field,
for instance, as strengthening
^■rthworke, forming a strong protec
tion around the hospital tents, or a
*- w- - -
RMUitioii boxes and wagons. The ob
of the experts will be to endeavor
lift determine whether this material
eu be utilised in this way. The re
dRftwill bs awaited with some interest,
fear already similar inquiries are being
* behalf of the German
os army.
,
Answering the question of an e«
correspondent, the Chicago
Mseord says that the total railway
of the world was, st the end
1872, 406,616. This mileage
ii divided among the several conti -
•Mis as follows; Europe, 144,380
America, 218,910;. Asia, 23,
Africa, 7213; Australis, 12,686;
Mbs amount of railway mileage in the
Ifeare important nati on* is officially
given as follows:
...”!»835 ■j- ii6
ffinst Britain and Ireland j/ou
...
State*. ... . . . \U,4M
P*1*t ......* • e a • • # ns 6,839
...... 3,444
*oth Wales ..... 3 , 1 m
•- L- ..... 17,630
...... 19.666
9,161
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3,om
3,863
w 496
(tnetaiiog Lance
j....... I.W8
7.818
6,830
1.876
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haring fee least rail
follow* :
; Hawaii, 56; Persia,
Domingo,
87; British Guiana,
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alexandeb hi, autocrat of Russia, whose death occurred Thursday.
THE CZAR DEAD.
rASSES away at livadia sur¬
rounded BY Ills FAMILY.
Czarowitch Nicholas II Now Succeeds
to the Throne.
A ^„ aJILb. a*
the czar died at 3 o’clock Thursday
afternoon. The death of the czar was
Jurtherjconfirmed ft 1 ™ 1 1 * to the J Veatmineter by dispatches GOtcite, from
(London) . which appeared
paper on
the streets with turned column rules.
flot to kill the czarowitch.
Accordiug to a special dispatch re
ceived from St. Petersburg a conspir
aey rgainst the life of the czarowitch
Lftfl be ‘ >n Covered there. It is added
th<lt ’ for 8everftl da J 8 P° 8t . tLe P olice
have , been actively engaged jn arrest
io « Dihili f ts - Among those arrested
are several students. The police have
also obtaiued possession of incriminat
documen **'
the story of his life,
Alexander III, the dead Czar of
Russia, was the son of the assassinated
Alexander II, who wasthe son of Nico¬
las I, who was tho brother of his pre¬
decessor Alexander I and son of Crazy
Paul, who was tho son of licentious
Catharine whose husband was the
stupid and brutal Peter III. Bevond
ima tne genemogy is sunjoct to ques
tion, but of the seven imperial person
*£«■ ho™ noted Peter III was de¬
throned and imprisoned and finally
murdered by order of his wife. Cath¬
arine died in a fit brought on by exces¬
ses, Crazy Paul was murdered by a
cable of his nobles, Nioholas died of
chagrin, and Alexander II was blown
into eternity by a nihilist bomb. The
with Michael Feodorovitch Romanoff,
whom the Russian nobles made czar in
1613 in sheer desperation over the pro¬
longed civil wars.
Alexander III. was a man of remark¬
able physical force. He stood 6 feet
4 inches in his stockings, and it is told
of him that he could take a silver coin
of the size of a dollar and double it
between his thnmbs and forefingers,
When, in 1888, his train was wrecked
and a number of persons were killed,
it is said he saved those who wero in
the same compartment with him from
injury and perhaps death by support
ing a portion of the fallen root with
his shoulders till assistance came.
A MODEL FAMILY MAN.
Of his children the czar, as a model
family man, was very fond, and many
stories ara told of the methods he used
to adopt to give them pleasure. He
was very fond ot amateur theatricals,
and was never happier than when get
ting up plays in which his children
were to figure as actors. Like Chut lea
Dickens, he got an amazing amount
of employment out of the details of
improvising pl»y, wardrobe, curtain
and every aooeeeory out of ordinary
materials and in the feoe of serious
dfMeuHiee. In religion he was a thor
ough bigot. He never ones doubted
that he was the Lord’s eaototsd, rial
ing all Russia and hear subject Jswt, prov
inoea by divine right, and that
Sfeudista, Mennonifes and others who
Mi not implicitly obey his directions
in rebellion against God and de
E5 The
devotion, Wb-e-a and fee net
a sort of brutal
oral bent of Alexander’s mind was in¬
tensified by fee teachings ot his fetor,
M. Pobiedonotsoff, in Inter yean fee
mneh feared chief of fee holy synod of
uatiring %orftecv got
as a rule by 8 s. sa..
5 STh till 1p.m. he n
to
gknad on to
royal nrab
wan
m-
dered he never hesitated to show him¬
self to his people when he thought the
occasion demanded it, and he often¬
times was accounted even rash in his
manner of doing this. For instance,
on several occasions when members of
his household died and notably when
his English nurse passed away, he at¬
tended the funeral services like any
common person, following the hearse
on foot.
chapel the for a day or two. According
to tentative arrangements made the
body will be conveyed aboard the im
poria l y tt0 ht, Polar Btar, to Odessa. It
wi n be escorted by tho whole Black
fleet, which has orders to assemble
at once off Yalta. From Odessa the
bod J wil1 bo taken on a special train
?° fet - Petersburg, and will be placed
*he cathedral of Sts. Peter and
^ ceremonies will be
held probably m about two wefiks -
the new czar, Nicholas u.
Now ftU Europe is asking about Al
exahder’s successor. There is even
more contradiction in the reports about
him than in those about his fathoV. It
is alloged that he is open-hearted, lib
y
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eral and progressive, and with.equ .1
force that he is too stupid to have ar.y
marked characteristics and will be
ruled by his couusellors and priests.
It is agreed, however, that he is very
devoted to his mother, temperate and
chaste and studious, and so it is taken
for granted that, so far as he is influ
enced at all, it will be chiefly by his
mother and wife,
It is understood that Czar Nicholas
II will be proclaimed at once; that the
Grand Duke George, Alexander Ill’s
second son, now ill in the Caucasus,
will be declared the heir, and that the
troops and slate officials will take the
oath of loyalty and allegianoe on Sat
orday. ■
A MEDICAL COLLEGE BURNS.
Eighteen Cadaxers Consumed la the
Flames-Heavy Losses, i
A fire at Indianapolis early Safer
morning destroyed the Indiana
Medical college and quickly spread to
the Scottish Bite building adjoining,
where the finest Masonio parapher
nalia in the west was reduced to aahea.
This outfit had but reoently lose been par- fee
chased, and the estimated to
Masons by reason of its destruction,
together with the five-story building
and all the other oonteats, will reach
$100,000. of the disaster
A ghastly that featurs bodies .stored was in
the feet eighteen
cats for dimeeting purposes of were fee
burned to a crisp. Tho bones
eandavert dropped into the cellar and
presented a sickening spe ct a cl e. The
total leas is about $175,000, t and the
insurance, exclusive o that of the
tenta, $60,00$,
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Aillia, aged 37; Jacob
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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A CONDENSATION OF OUE MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers.
- The directors declared of the semi-annual Pennsylvania divi¬
railroad a
dend of 2 \ per cent.
Mrs. Thomas H. Wicks, wife of the
second vice president of the Pullman
Palace Car company, has filed a bill
of divorce at Chicago, alleging cruelty.
She says Wicks has repeatedly beaten,
struck and kicked her. Vr
A cabinet council was held at the
palace of the Elysee in Paris Saturday
at which it was decided to submit to
the chamber of deputies resolutions
declaring war against Madagascar and
demanding credits to carry it on.
A terrific storm raged on Lake Erie
Saturday. The high winds began ear¬
ly in the morning and reached a max¬
imum velocity of sixty miles an hour.
The storm came up so suddenly that
many vessels were caught in it and had
a hard time.
Meager particulars have been re¬
ceived at Guthrie, O. T., of a desper¬
ate running fight between the Cook
outlaws and United States deputy mar¬
shals near Sasabaska. Two officers
and one- bandit were killed and two
bandits wounded.
The judges of the Seine assizes at
Paris without a jury pronounced con¬
demnation in default upon Henri
Rocbeforte, sentencing him to three
months’ imprisonment for having pub
lished an article in The Intiansigeant
insulting the j udiciary. .
The statement is made at police
headquarters at New York that the
grand jury had found indictments
against Police Captain Stephenson and
Wardmen Glennon, Burns and Smith,
upon evidence brought out before the
Lexow committee. The specific
charge, it is said, is blackmail.
An announcement is made of the
failure of the Louis Schwarz Machiu
ery Supply Company, limited, of New
Orleans, which has been in business
•for the last twenty-five years. The
assets are $250,341; liabilities, $30,
000 less than the assets. The firm ex¬
pects to gain a respite and tide over
the difficulties.
The auditor has concluded the ex¬
amination of the aflairs of the Normal
Park Loan Association at Sprinfield,
Ill., of which the’late F. W. Porter
was secretary, Porter also having been
the auditor of the Rock Island rail¬
road. The examination developed the
fact that Porter was a defaulter to the
sum of $23,000.
Charles Morganfield, the alleged
train robber, is making a fight at Cin¬
cinnati against the Adams Express
Company to recover the money taken
from him at the time be was arrested.
It is claimed that the express company
cannot belonged identify the them. money Morgan- as ever
having to
field’s attorneys say they are armed
with abundant proof that their client
was not engaged in the robbery.
* The boltingNebraska 'Omaha democrats won
a great victory at Thursday,
and as a result the nominees of the
convention known as the “rump” will
appear on the official ballot as straight
democrats. This was the determina¬
tion of the connty clerk and a suit in
the district court to compel the doing
of this was decided in his favor. Since
the battle ground is Omaha this is re¬
garded as a great victory for that ele¬
ment.
The Bissell accommodation train
leaving Pittsburg, Pa., on the Balti¬
more and Ohio at 9:25 o’clock p. m.,
collided with the rear of the Baltimore
express train No. 10, standing on the
main track near Rankin station,
twelve miles ont, Thursday night.
Engineer P. C. Brainard, of the accom¬
modation, was instantly killed and his
fireman, Frank Cnnningham was, per¬
haps, fatally injured. None of the pas¬
sengers on either train were injured.
At New York, Sunday, Dr. Charles
H. Parkhurst departed from his late
custom of refraining from political dis¬
cussion in his Sunday sermons and
launched into a denunciatory speech
against Tammany hall. Madison
Square Presbyterian church was filled.
The doctor said that unless the trend
of affairs in New York was speedily
checked God would speedily wreak His
vengeance on the city, as Ho did on
Sodom and Gomorrah.
The chargee publicly made by De¬
partment Commander Watrous, of the
Grand Armyi of fee Republic of Mil¬
waukee, with reference to the conduct
of Phil Kearney post, of Richmond,
Va., in misdirecting fee funds contri¬
buted by fee veterans to defray the
expenses soldiers in of fee decorating sooth, have grazes resulted of Union in
an investigation being institued by
Commander in Chief Lawler, as direct¬
ed by fee na tiona l . patent.
The unusual sight of voting Chinese
will be presented at fee polls in San
daring the congressional
The fact has been kept rery
quiet, bat it is knows feat fifty-seven
Chiwsee have registered and intend to
nefeb.
to * The
at on fee register is
* arssligi
It is mid at least
PiSsThiusday council
L.J~. < at to
in fee miU
:sw«
tions to agents of Italian government,
and having also divulged the plans for
mobilizing the French army in the
event of war. It is the general opin¬
ion that Captain Dreyfus will be shot
after the formality of a courtmartial
has been gone through with.
WITH BLAST OF TRUMPET
A New Emperor of Russia is An¬
nounced.
A cable dispatch from St. Peters¬
burg, Russia, says : Emperor Nicholas
II has issued a proclamation announ¬
cing the death of his father, Emperor
Alexander III, and concluding as fol¬
lows:
“May we be consoled by the con¬
sciousness that our sorrow is the sor¬
row of the whole beloved people, and
may the people not forget that the
strength and stability of holy Russia
lies in her unity to ns and her un¬
bounded devotion to us. We, how¬
ever, in this sad and solemn hour,
when ascending the ancestral throne
of the Russian empire, and the czai;
dom of Poland and grand duchy of
Finland indissolubly connected there¬
with, we, in the presence of the Most
High,, record our solemn sole vow aim that the we
will always make our
peaceful development of the power
and glory of beloved Russia and the
happiness of our faithful subjects. ”
The proclamation concludes by di¬
recting that the oath of allegiance be
taken to him, Emperor Nicholas II,
and also to the Grand Duke George,
his lineal successor until God shall
vouchsafe to bless .with a son the union
into which the emperor is about to
enter with the Princes Alix of Hesse
Darmstadt.
BODY OF THE CZAB EMBALMED.
The body of Czar Alexander III was
embalmed Thursday night. It will lie
in ptate at Livadia before it is removed
to Odessa. The arrangements for the,
conveyance of the remains to Odessa
have been completed,
date of the^unebal.
It,is given out that the funeral of
tlie Czar Alexander III will take place
between the Ifith and 20th of Novem
ber an( j that the marriage of Nicholas
II and Princess Alix will take place a
few days after the funeral. It is ex
pected that amnesty will be granted to
many political offenders in commem
oration of the accession of Nicholas II.
FRESIDENT CLEVELAND NOTIFIED.
The following is the official corres
pondence in connection with the death
of the Russian emperor; translation
from the French, from Livadia, re
ceived November 2, 1894:
“To the President of the United
States of America—I have the sorrow
to impart to you the cruel loss that I
and Russia have just sustained in the
person of my beloved father, Emperor
Alexander, deceased thiB day.
Nicholas.”
THE PRESIDENT’S REPLY.
To this the president replied as fol¬
lows :
“Washington, November 2, 1894.—
His Majesty Nicholas II, Emperor of
Russia, Livadia: I hasten to express
my heartfelt sympathy and the sym
pathy of my countrymen with the roy¬
al family and the Rushan people in
lheir affliction by reason of the death
of your honored father.
Grover Cleveland.”
FIVE CENT COTTON
Discussed by Georgia Farmers at a
Convention.
An enthusiastic meeting of repre¬
sentative farmers from every section
of Georgia was held on the fair grounds
at Macon Wednesday morning to discuss
the ruinous price of cotton. Colonel
Waddell was in the chair and Mr. J.
McBryan was made W. secretary. F. Alexander,
A letter from of
Augusta, was read, giving his views on
the question.
The following paper, offered by Col¬
onel Tom Lyon, of Bartow, was unani¬
mously adopted.
COLONEL LYON’S BESbLUTlON.
The present ruinous price of cotton
affects injuriously not only the farmers
who produce it but stagnates business
of every kind and paralyses efforts in
all legitimate industries. Hence the
duty is imperative upon us to use all
honorable means to avert impending
disasters. Without attempting to dis¬
cuss the various political reasons as¬
signed as the source for the present
fearful depression, we desire to resist
the results as we find them.
In the multitude of remedies sug¬
gested, we have seen none that so
Btrongly recommends itself m the pa¬
per submitted by the president of the
Georgia John State Agricultural society,
Colonel O. Waddell, in his call
for the meeting. We adopt the sali¬
ent points in that call and commend
them to the farmers of the cotton
growing states, and request the dele¬
gates appointed from Georgia to at¬
tend the cotton growers convention at
Montgomery, Ala., on November 13,
to urge the suggestion as the proper
and just solution of this vital question.
president hunniCUTt’^ resolution.
The following resol was offered
by Dr. J. B. Hnnnicntt, of fee state
agricultural college:
“That the delegates to Montgomery
be requested to do all that they can to
stop fee shipments of eotton from the
farms, fens reducing fee heavy re¬
ceipts which have a tendency i to create
a wrong impression about the amount
of the present crop.”
I. P.’s I s di ets A
Tbs grand jury, of Trenton, H. J.,
has indicted four justices ot tike nr
Near, Leri E. namely, Abram
Harvey Ayres, Cornelias &
l extracting Hsvidge. illegal They
fees
I ignorant people. Ayres
pleaded guilty fee not
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president, Monday, appointed
Frederick Fitzgerald, of Connecticut,
to be consul of the United States at
Cognac, France.
The postmaster general issued a gen¬
eral order Monday allowing postal em¬
ployes in all states where elections
were held to observe holiday hours, so
as to give them time to vote.
On account of lack of mucilage on
them the third assistant postmaster
general has ordered the destruction of
thousands of the first issue of postage
stamps turned out by the bureau of
engraving and printing.
B. F. Remingtonn, inspector of pub¬
lic buildings has the j'ust completed an
examination of Chattanooga cus
tom house, and in his report to the
treasury department he will condemn
the work of the contractors, being a
New Orleans firm, in unmeasured
terms.
The president has pardoned James
A. Jassul, sentenced in Mississippi to
four years imprisonment for pension
frauds. Application for pardon was
denied in the case of John H. Sloan,
sentenced in South Carolina to three
and a half years imprisonment for
counterfeiting.
I view of the enormous amount of
campaign matter that is going through
the mails, a number of postmasters
have asked authority of the postoffice
department to appoint additional car¬
riers until after the elections. The
department lias complied with all such
requests received. The number of ex¬
tra carriers thus authorized being quite
large. *
The presidential family has moved
out to Woodley, Mr. Cleveland’s conn
try residence. They will remain there
until jvinter weather sets in. Mr.
Cleveland will drive into town fre¬
quently to atteud to public business at
the White House, but the preparation
of his annual message to congress will
bo done in the country, where there is
110 dan 8 er interruption,
Mrs. Cleveland has accepted the in
vitation to Christen the American line
steamer St. Louis, which will be
launched at Philadelphia in the 12th
inst. The president will not attend
the ceremony, but Mrs. Cleveland will
leave Washington on a special train
accompanied by a party of her own
se'ection, including the wives and
daughters of the cabinet officers and a
number of personal friends.
The contract for dredging and im¬
proving the Harlem river, New York,
will be awarded to Rittenhouse B.
Moore, of Mobile, Ala., by the war de
payment. When proposals for doing
the work u ere opened, fee bid of Mr,
Moore ™ t ° nnd *° be considerably
lower , than those of his competitors,
the next lowest being that of a New
York firm. This is probably the first
time that a firm so far south has suc¬
ceeded in securing such a large con¬
tract in New York.
T(m president has decided that Chap¬
lain Henry B. Plummer, a colored
Maryland preacher, who was appointed
July 1, 1894, be dismissed in disgrace
from the army. Plummer vas tried
by court martial recently for getting
drunk with enlisted men, to the scan¬
dal of the service, and with disreputa¬
ble conduct in the house of a non-com¬
missioned officer of the Ninth cavalry,
at Fort Robinson, Neb. The court
recommended his dismissal, the presi¬
dent approved the finding after careful
consideration, and official orders were
issued from the war department carry¬
ing out the sentence. Plummer had
hitherto held a good reputation in the
service, was well educated at Howard
university, Washington, and his ap¬
pointment was the result of strong
recommendations from many promi¬
nent statesmen.
Will Release Them.
The Nicaraguan government has ac
ceeded to the request of the United
States and has permitted the two exiled
Americans, Willbank and Lampton,
who were given asylum on board the
Marblehead, at Bluefields, to land at
that port to close their personal affairs.
Nicaragua has also guaranteed to grant
them fall jmnesty upon their agreeing
to respect the authority of Nicaragua
over the Mosquito coast This action
is entirely satisfactory to the United
States, as both of these men were ex¬
ceedingly active in the last revolution¬
ary council and the other acting ae a
judge under Chief Clarence. This ac¬
tion of Nicaragua ends the Mosquito
incident and permits the last remaining
American cruiser, Marblehead, to leave
Bluefields.
The CtvU ftervtee.
The president has signed several or¬
ders of great importance in connection
with the civil service reform move¬
ment, making extensions of the classi¬
fied service to officers not hereto¬
fore classified and revising the ex¬
isting classifications in branches of
service already classified as te
bring within fee classification many
places heretofore excluded. Among
the changes are fee following: The
custom classification is revised so ss to
bring within fee aerrioe all employes
not serving merely as workmen or
laborers without regard to
tion and extending the classification
to include all mas districts in
which there ara m
pfoyet. The is fifty
of
is so