Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 21 February 1895 — Page 3
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FRED DOUGLASS DEAD
The Noted Ex-Slave,Orator and Diplomat.
HIS DEATH WAS VERY SUDDEN.
Strickon Down While Talking to His Wife
and Within Twenty .Minutes He Was Dead lie Never liegniued Consciousness.
Heart Failure Was the Cause of Death.
Jiiographical Sketch of His Life.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Frederick Douglass, the noted l'reednuui, orator ill id diplomat, died a. few miiiutes before 7 o'clock lust night at his residence in Anacostia, a suburb of this ciry, of heart failure. His death was entirely unexpected, as he has bcuii enjoying the best uf health.
During rhe afternoon he afrend'd the uonveiition oi the women of tlie niic-.l States now iii prigvess in t'h.is city raid chatt -rl with Susan 1i.
Antiiony a d. others of li leading members, witli whom he has been on intimate terms for many years. \Y he returned honn1 lasaid nothing of any feeling of illness, though he i*e ed himself as being
t"k
Fl!KIl T'OTGLASS.
little exhausti'd from the climb, up t'io stairs leading from tlie street to his lixise. which is on a high terrace, lbsat down and chatted witli his wife about the women at the convention, telling of various things that had been said and done. Suddenly he gasped, clapped his hand to his heart and fell back unconscious.
A doctor was hastily summoned, and arrived within a very few moments, but his efforts to revive Mr. Douglass were hopeless from tlie first. Within 20 minutes after the attack the faint motion of the heart ceased entirely, and the great ex-slave statesman was dead.
Mr. Douglass leaves two sons and a daughter, the children of his first wife. His second wife, who is a white woman, survives him. The story of the second marriage was a romantic one. Miss Helen Pitts, whom he married, was a New England woman of middle age, a clerk in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, when Mr. Douglass was appointed to that office. Slu as a member of a literary society to which he belonged. They were thrown much together and finally became engaged. .Her relatives opposed the union bitterly on account of his color, but finally yielded to force of circumstances. Some of them have for some time been living near the Douglass home on Anacostia Heights.
Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahooe, Talhott county, Md., in February. 3S17. His mother was a negro slave and his father was a white man. At the age of 10 years he was sent !o Baltimore, where he ley-rned to read and write. His owner later allowed liiin to hire his ov. time for s:i per week, and he was employed in a shipyard.
In September, ls:5rs, he fled from Baltimore and made his way to New York. Hence he went to New Bedford. "Mass., where he married and lived for two or three years, supporting himself by day labor on the harves and iu various workshops. While there he changed his name to Douglass. He had previously been called Lloyds, from the name of his old master, lie was aided in his efforts i'or self-education by William Lloyd (iarrison. 1 the summer of lsll he attended an anti-slavery convention at Nantucket- and made a speech, which was so well received that lie was offered the agency of the AntiSlavery society. In this capacity lie traveled and lectured through the New England states for four years. Large audiences were attracted by liis graphic descriptions of slavery and his eloquent speeches. At this time he published his lirst hook cut if led: ••Narrative of My Experience in Slavery."
In lS4f he went to Europe and lect ured on slavery to enthusiastic audiences in nearly all of the large towns of Great: Britai n.
Iu liS-Hi his friends in England raised a purse of $750 to purchase his freedom in duo form of law. He remained two years in Great Britain and in 1847 began at. Rochester the publication of ''Frederick Douglass' paper," whose title was afterWard changed to "The North Star."
In IN:").") he published "My Bondage and My Freedom." In lfvYJ, the John Brown riots took place in Virginia. He was supposed to be implicated in these and Governor Wise made requisition for his arrest upon the governor of Michigan, in which state he then was. To avoid difficulty Mr. Douglass went to Kngland, where he remained'for six or eight months. He then returned to Rochester and continued the publication of his paper.
When the civil war began in 18(51 he urged upon President Lincoln the employment of colored troofjs and the issuance of proclamation of emancipation. Iu 1803, when it was at liist decided to employ such troops, he gave his assistance in enlisting men for such regiments, and especially the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-lil'th Massachusetts.
After the abolition of slavery he discontinued the publication of his paper and applied himself to the preparation and delivery of lyceuni lectures.
In September, 1S70, lie became editor of the new National Era iu Washington. This was afterward continued by his sous, Lewis and Frederick. 111 ls7l he was appointed assistant secretary to the commission to San Domingo. On his return, President Grant appointed liiin one of the territorial counsel for the District of Columbia.
In 1872 hi? wits elected presidential elector at large for the state of New York and wa. appointed to carry the electoral void of the state to Washington. In 1H76 h« was ap| i:ifed United States marshal for the District of Columbia.
After this he became recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, from which office he was removed by President Cleveland iu 18«(i. In the autumn of that year he revisited England to inform the friends •whom lie had made while a fugitive slave of the progress of the African race in the United States.
After his return to tho United States, he was appointed minister to Hayt.i by President Harrison in 188». He was sent to Havti iu a United States man-of-war.
He arrived in Hayti on the Stli of October, lss9. .just as the country was emerging from one of the most exciting revolutions that that country had witnessed for years. The government existing upon his arrival was simply provisional, and even after the new president took ollice. there was some delay in the arrival and presentation of his credentials. These circumstances gave rise in the United States to persistent rumors that tlie Haytian government had refused to receive Mr. Douglass on account of his color. They were denied, however, and Mr. Douglass was finally warmly received.
The Haytian ministry was the last position in the gift of the United Mates held by Mr. Douglass.
In 1S!i,0 Ilayti made an appropriation of money for the Columbian exposition at Chicago, and appointed Mr. Douglass the senior of her two commissioners to the exposition. Since the elose of ihe exposition Mr. Douglass has lived quietly in Washington, without engaging in any .-p.-cial business. II is wealth is variously estimated at from ?li O.ooii i,, .-^MU,UUU.
MRS. BOURKE
COCKRAN DEAD. tir
The Wife of a C'.vi
viigrt'ssm::ii and
Soeieiy I^r^der.
INKW YOKK. Feb. 21.—Mrs. Bonrko Cochran, the wife of Congressman \V. IJourke C'ockra died ut r:Jo o'clock last night at the Hoiiand House from hemorrhage, vrith which she was attacked on Tuesday.
Mrs. C'oekv.m w.is 31 years old. Site had be-,.-ji married 10 years, a.id up to two years ago was the leader of society in Washing on. bat ai that- time her lieallii interfere:! with her social duties and. she was taken by her husband to the Adirondacks and also to Europe. Four ee'ks ago (.' ug! essnian 'ockrau brought his wiie to Muw York i'ov special treatment under Dr. .[aiH-way. Mrs. Cockran was the daughter of John I'-i-tek ot' 'Hi Park avenue, tins city. At the time of Airs. Cochran's death, her husband was present- at her bedside.
LABOR TROUBL
A
General Strike
IN NEW YORK.
Will He Declared in tlie
Jitiilding Trades.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—The labor situation involved in the strike of the electrical workers declared oil Monday has assumed a grave aspect. The threat of calling a general strike in the building trades was in part carried out, when 750 men employed, on one of the biggest enterprises in the city threw down thc-ir tools.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon at a conference of the stiite committee and the board of walking delegates, a general strike of the general building trades in this city and Brooklyn will be declared, stopping the construction of 37 large buildings and innumerable small ones, and throwing out of work, at a very conservative estimate, JO,000 men.
The loss involved in such a strike as this, the very height of the building season, can aoarcely bo estimated. The threat had brought rhe master builders almost to their knees to the electrical eont factors, whom they employed not to bring down such a calamity. The walking delegates threaten to extend the srrike stiil further if tho eight hour demand is not conceded.
Yesterday the -100 men employed on the new Presbyterian mission, and the 4o0 men at work on the 22-story building of tiie American Tract- society, at I Spruce and Nassau streets, put on their hats and coals and walked quietly away, Contractors stormed and pleaded in vain. In the meantime the electrical contractors, in their rooms in the building trades club, passed resolutions that "the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers be officially not tied that on and after Monday, Feb. 2a, the members of this association will begin to till the places of the electrical workers now on a strike, who fail to report for duty on their respective jobs."
The walking delegates did not wait for tin official no! ilication of a lockout. They promptly resolved to declare sympathetic strikes oil the American Surety bniluing and the new St. Luke's hospital, lit One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Western boulevard. More than 700 men are employed on these buildingc. They also agreed that at the joint meeting of the walking delegates and the electrical workers at 4 p. in. today a general sympathetic strike would be ordered on all buildings in this city and Brooklyn. Masons, plasterers, plumbers, iron workers, carpenters, wood carvers, marble cutters, housesmiths, bricklayers and painters to the number of thousands will be called out, and practically building operations will cease.
The contractors claim that their profits on $ J50,000 worth of contracts that expire within !)0 days would be seriously affected by granting the demands of the strikers, and that if the wire men had kept to their agreement, by which 90 days' notice was to be given to the employers, of changes in the working rules of the union, contracts could be readjusted to meet the new scale of hours and wages. The demands of tlie wire men for a reduction of working hours from nine to eight, and for an increase of wiiges from .$2 to $2.25 a day, were made on Feb. 17, and the contractors are willing to consider this demand, providing it is not to take effect before May 15.
The strikers declare that the old agreement, containing the 90-day clause, terminated on Feb. 17, and that they have not- broken faith.
Gasoline Stove Kx pi odes. I
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 21.—Mrs. Martha Carlisle and her daughters Mae, aged 19 years, and Lulu, aged 12 years, were seriously burned yesterday evening as the result of an explosion of a gasoline stove. Mrs. Carlisle had tried to light tlie stove when it exploded, setting lire to her clothes. Her breast, neck, hands and face were badly burned, and she may not live. Her daughters, in trying to put out the flames, had their faces and hands also badly burned.
Claimed to Ito a Detective.
WHKKMNU, Feb. 21.—F. W. McMillan of Maynard. O., was arrested hero for threatening to shoot a saloonist unless he gave him (McMillan) money which was alleged to be due him for securing an indictment against the saloonist. McMilhin flashed a cheap badge, and claimed to be a detective.
Coltl Weather in Central Europe.
LONDON, Fob. 2i.—A dispatch to The Chronicle from Vienna says that ^0 persons were frozen to death in Galicia in two days. The severe, weather continues throughout, central Europe. Tlie Lake of Zurich and tho southern ban of the Lake of Lucerne are entirely frozen over.
SILVER LAID ASIDE.
Senator Jones Withdraws His Free Coinage Bill.
SENT BACK TO THE CALENDAR.
The Semite Takes tTp the Indian Appro
priation ISill and Discusses That Measure
but Takes No Action—The House l'asses
the Naval Appropriation Uitl .Providing
For t-lie New War Vessels.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.—Mr. Chandler created something of a sensation in the. Semite late yesterday by outlining son in important steps to be taken by the next cougress, including a congressional investigation of the recent purchase of gold by the president of I he I'niled States. The speech came unexpectedly. as an incident to the debate on the ludian appropriation bill.
During the early hours of the day the silver bill made its exit from iiiy senate. Mr. Jones of Arkansas, in charge of the measure, announcing that its friends would make no further effort to pass it it- the present session. The disposal of the measure was emphasized by the decisive vote of ."i.'i to i2 on Mr. (ionium's motion to take up the Indian appropriation bill, the effect of vdrich was to displace the silver bill and send it back to the calendar.
Mr. Walcott's resolution, declaratory for silver, but postponing act ion, also went to the calendar without final action. It was discussed briefly. Air. Higgins (Rep., Del.) opposed it as meaningless. Air. Mandersoii proposed an amendment, urging an international bimetallic agreement.
The speech of Air. Chandler significantly urged that the time was near at hand when the Republican party must take affirmative action on bimefalism. Most of the day was given to the Indian appropriation bill, final action not being taken.
House Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The opponents of the new battleships for the navy suffered a crushing defeat yesterday when Air. Savers' motion to strike out the authorization for the war vessels was lost, first in the committee of the whole on a vote of 4iJ to 121, and later in the house by a vote of 07 to !!)!(. After Air. Sayers' motion had been defeated, Air. Cannon of Illinois attempted to have an appropriation, first of $'22,000,000 and then of $5,000,000, inserted in the bill for building the ships authorized, but both propositions failed.
Air. Dolliver of Iowa succeeded in having an amendment adopted providing for the building of two torpedo boats on the Alississippi river, and Air. Sayers added a proviso to the item for armor appropriation to the effect that no higher sums should be paid by this government for armor or steel gun than was paid the contracting firm for similar ma'erial furnished other governments
Ihe naval bill, aS passed, authorizes the construction of three battleships to cost, exclusive of armor, $4,000,00'.) each, and 12 torpedo boats to cost §170,000 each.
After the bill was passed SOUK* time was spent in the discussion of the senate amendment to the diplomatic and consular bill appropriating $500,000 for laying a submarine cable between the United States and Hawaii, but no action was taken upon it.
Suspicions of an Jhlxtra Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Among the president's callers yesterday were Messrs. Towne, Smith and Corliss, rep-resentatives-elect from the northwestern states. They said they called to pay their respects before returning home. During a conversation the president asked them how they would like to be called on to return to Washington March 15. The newly elected congressmen said they would not like it. It is not believed the president had any intention of intimating that an extra session was ii probability.
MINISTER GRAY'S REMAINS.
J'or the
Great 1'reparatious lieing Made Funeral at Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 21.—The remains of Alinister Gray will lie in state here until 7 a. m. Friday in the rotunda of the capital. The military will have charge of the obsequies here, and unusual honor will be paid to the dead. Iu addition to the military many civic bodies will participate.
The honorary pallbearers are: Claude Matthews, governor of Indiana James Murdock, Lafayette Harry B. Smith, Hartford City Eli Brown, Frankfort Charles L. Jewett, New Albany Mayor C. S. Denny, Indianapolis W. A. Ketcham, attorney general of Indiana L. J. Hackney, Shelbyville, judge supreme court L. J. Monks, Winchester, judge of the supreme court, and R. E. Purcell, Vinconnes.
The funeral tram will leave the city for Union City, where the remains wiil be interred, at 8 a. m. Friday. Great preparations have been made there for the funeral. The legislature will adjourn.
A YOUNG MAN'S CRIME.
lie Shoots His Sister and Her Husband and
a lloy,
PEKIN, Ills., Feb. 21.—Albert Wallace, ii dissipated, reckless young man, living with his sister and her husband, Q. B. Bolby, 12 miles southeast, shot his sister, her husband and a boy living with tlie family. The shooting was done with a double-barreled shotgun, and the wounds inflicted are thought to be fatal in the case of tlie husband, who is shot through the head.
The trouble leading up to the tragedy is of long duration, growing out of the disinheriting of Wallace by his father, who was killed in 1890, in favor of Airs. Bolby. The murderer came to Pekin after the shooting and surre udereil t'i the sheriff, who placed him iu jail. y^
Killed With a Club.
CftOKGF/rowN, Ky., Feb. 21.—Doro Witliert killed Gilbert Gray on tho farm of Ambrose Wilson, a few miles from Georgetown. Old man Witliert and his son Dere got into a difficulty with Gray and his son knocked Gray on the head with a club.
llelirlng Sea Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The president has issued tie usual proclamation reciting the laws prohibiting sealing stud other hunting in Behring sea, and warning all persons to observe them.
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THE ILLINOIS RIVER.
Scenes That Ntver Varied, Yet Were Always iiepirte With Excitement.
Beautiful and varied is tho country through which tho Illinois river croeps in its winding channel to join the Fatlier of Waters. From its junction with the Illinois and Aliehigan canal to tho Alississippi IS counties contribute to its boundaries. All of tlieso counties are rich in fertile lands, heavy timbers or mineral deposits. Time was, and not so long ago, when each of these counties boasted a flourishing villago on the banks of the Illinois river. Steamers, "•packets" as they we re called in those flourishing days, moved up stream and down,
one.
sometimes two, each way
daily. From Peoria, to St. Louis, including stops for freight and passengers at in termed ate stations, was a journey of two or three days. Each boat made a round trip in a week. Everybody traveled by boat. Mails and freight for inland points in central and southern Illinois weiv ilumpid at "landings" nearest to their point of destination at ail hours of day or night, liiver men were princes of fctim", who drew enormous salaries and were looked up to and revert is superior creatures who lived in the big world outside the river villages.
Every town along the river boomed, saloons
were
numerous, and house and
stores were built on piles if the villago happened to bo located in a spot subject to overflow. There was no limit to the enterprise of the landowner nor tho height of
the
pjl,-s. Everybody scram
bled to locate nearest tlie steamboat landing. The woodman, with a score of wagons laden with fuel the farmer and huckster with a cartful of vegetables, eggs and dairy products tho merchant and idler, tho maid and youth and school children were always at the landing when the big steamer with a final chaw-chaw of tho exhaust pipes and last revolution of the paddlo blades swung easily against the piling at tho big warohouse dock.
The noisy and profane mate, the I scores of colored deckhands, the vocifcrous cries of hucksters, tho murmurs of admiration for tho captain, who always stood on tho texas clad in gold braided uniform, with his hand on the rope attached to tho clapper of tho big bell— all these were a part of tho scene at the arrival of every steamer. Then the captain would becomo impatient and pull tho clapper of tho big bell viciously against its brazen sides. Tho mate indulged in more profanity pitched in louder tone, while the shuffling negroes would forget their droning for a brief time and hasten their laggard steps,
The pilot, autocrat of the steamer, peered lazily from the windows of his little cabin, shifted his wheel, touched a little cord above his head, and from tho engine room came the sound of two shrill whistles, warning to the cngilieer, who perhaps had clambered into his hammock for a short nap, that in a few minutes linos would be cast off and the boat would ho ready to proceed to the next landing.
Day and night this scene never varied, 1 save that at night- thero were fewer females and children at tho landing, but the pictuivsqueness of the scene was heightened by tho braziers, big as a barrel, filled with pitch, pine, and other inflammables, blazing fiercely and furnisbing light for fliu work of lading. Those were tho days when the Di Yernon, George B. AlcClelJan, Ruby, City of Pekin and other magnificent sidewheel steamers were in the river trade when the Ebauglis and tho Ryders and tho Farwells owned and piloted these floating palaces, made fortunes and were the big men of tho valley. In those days, too, tho river was a navigable stream for nino months of the year. Mighty floods changed the channel every spring, wliilo the early June rise made the stream incognito to tho shrewd-
The Platform Cigar.
Georgo Capel, well known as manager, actor and writer, was telling of his early experiences, and his tale of the platform cigar is too good to escape publication. "When I used to travel round the provinces in the old days," he said, "there used to bo somo funny sights. You know that nearly all tho traveling companies pass through tho big junction at Derby. In fact, one Sunday there were more than 12,000 actors and actresses to be seen. "Now, on tho train you might have seen the 'pros,' with clay pipes in their mouths and shabby caps on their heads, playing with greasy packs of cards, but as soon as they were near tho junction there would bo a transformation. "Off would go tho smoking cap, and the pipo would bo carefully hidden, while from tho rack would come a top-
coat, with a wisp of astrakhan, and a rakish looking hat. Then tho crowning glory of the getup—tho platform cigar —would bo lighted, and tho 'pros' would step out at Derby as though tho railway company belonged to him. "His acquaintances woro all 'Deah boy,' business was always magnificent, I oven though in point of fact tho ghost had not walked on tho previous day. I Nature smiled upon tho mummer, and his swagger would nearly raise tho station roof. "But when tho change was over and tho mummer continuod his journey the coat and hat were taken off and put upon the rack, tho old cap and greasy cards were once moro takon out, tho platform cigar was put down and tho plebeian clay pipo taken up in its stead. "And when another big junction was reached the whole business was repeated. ''—London Sketch.
est pilot. Tho rushing waters ate into solid banks of enormous trees and tons Some sort of drink from barley lias of earth. These would finally strand been made in Germany ever since the with tho subsidence of tho waters, form- countrv was known. ing dangerous obstructions and innumerable sand bars. Tho channel of today would next week present an impenetrable barrier to tho river steamer.— Beardstown (Ills.) Letter in Chicago Herald. 1 2*
DINNER A LA RUSSE.
Food Served From a Side Table—Flowers and Conversation.
Din ..:r a la Russe—although for tho matter of that it lnhihr he dinner a 1'Anglais, a ritalien. reason—in spite able name, is tea1' form an eo. It lr.erei of having the vari
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-.villi just as good its rather fashionvery simple perir.eaus that, instead dishes composing
tho repast all put upon tho tablo at once, they are placed on a a side table and served from there by the servant, who passes each in turn. This affords a chance for some di coration upon the tablo. There is usually some sort of embroidered centerpiece. Tho chances are that it was achieved by one of the lovely daughters or even by the lady of the house lierstIf, and it is ahvays wise to remark r.pon the elaborateness of the stitch or the beauty of the der-ign if you are a gae--t en famille. That not only c:\lls out the history of the centerpiece !-:es conversation, but lays up for you i.i heaven and cstabinr reputation for good taste and lion of ihe truly beautiful. io t-jt: a bowl of flowers placed. In establishments is no object orchids, ala•'ferns and th" newest, eostpear a?!d are changed from
Ihit daisies and clover can
be arranged just .as-effectively and cost lmthiug but. the trouble of gathering them,whiie in dinieros of piert filled with maidenhair or some other delicate fern, and with a little care kept green and thrifty fur weeks. Tho old fashioned coasters used as stands for decanters are often utilized in this way, for any tinsmith can niako a lining for them iti which plants will grow like a green bay tree. The effect of flowers ou the table can hardly be calculated. Thev have more charms than music to soothe the savage breast, and any sentimentalist of your acquaintance can tell of instances wliem a glass bowd uf nasturtiums tastefully arranged before him has so wrought, on the feelings of paterfamilias that he has said not a word about the overdone mutton or tho soggy under crust of his apple pie.
winter there are jarsilver, which can be
If your tablo be a dream of beauty, you will not require half such a hearty meal. Tho entire company will be so wrapped up in admiring the scheme of color and the originality of your combinations that no one will be aware of the smallness of the portions you serve. Fully half the expense of your posies 'l thus be saved at the outset, so that they commend themselves to economists as well as to (esthetes.—Boston Herald.
Time and Speed.
Infinite time is difficult to grasp. Distance is more casiiy understood, and some things which Sir Robert Ball iu.i to say about the distance of the stars from us "will assist us in comparing them to the sun. Of these the most striking is Arcturus, and Dr. Elkin has put this star at such a distance from the solar system that tho orbit of the earth round tlie sun must seem from Areturas as large as would a penny jiiece seen at 100 miles. Arcturus, in other words, is perhaps a dozen times as far off from us as Procyon is, and Proeyon, one of the nearest bright stars, is 1,000,000 times the distance of the sun from us. .-e-s
But the marvelous thing about Arcturus is iis movement. It has, comparatively speaking, si very distinct "proper motion" across tlie sky, though not as largo as some stars. Lately, however, the spectroscope has ascertained for us the pacts oi' stars along the lino of sight, and Arcturus travels, it is now believed, at the rate of iJSO miles a second. Stu speed as this is truly terrific, and we may well ask where this furious star is hurrying to. As Arcturus, ten generations hence!, will not have moved to the eye by as much as the diameter of the moon, we shall have plenty of opportunity of discussing the question.—Loudon Spectator.
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