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TinSW»; have crcr fen; 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 " __ - ----------- 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 U » • * seep* 17,Vn 3,om 3,863 w 496 (tnetaiiog Lance j....... I.W8 7.818 6,830 1.876 13* haring fee least rail follow* : ; Hawaii, 56; Persia, Domingo, 87; British Guiana, mm WS I « a A ' • i\ fe* I A m J ml § <r fy m y w / ■ ^1| §8^ aM ■ 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 I 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, $60,00$, HOLOCAUST nr A fe to .at fe • fcriedmaa. years; George Friedman, ag«dT*L*vi eged 8; Mra KOsUTtgad Margaret Aillia, aged 37; Jacob SSSJSS ■- — - - fife, BRIEF TELEGRAMS. *> 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