Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1885 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 8. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubusheb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. In answer to a letter from Mayor Grace, reciting that rumors were current to the effect that the remains of General Grant would in the near future be removed from their present resting-place, Mrs. Grant writes that Riverside was the choice of the General aadthe family; that it is near the dwelling Which she hopes to occupy until called to join her husband, and that the city unreservedly conceded the condition that after death she should have a place by the General’s side. Mrs. Grant’s decision should, therefore, set at rest all reports of intentions to disturb the hero’s tomb.... A Pittsburgh paper reports that the Standard Oil Company practically controls the Chartiers Natural Gas Company, recently formed, and that it means to absorb all the smaller concerns, its aim being to declare war against the Philadelphia Company.... The wife of Frank Gilmore, residing at Providence, gave birth to four children, who, however, died in a few hours. The mother is doing well. Otto Funk, well known in Chicago in connection with the theft of two thousand books from the public library, and who recently escaped from the insane asylum at Elgin, ended his career by poison in the jail at Cambridge, Mass., where he was placed for stealing an overcoat. He recently applied for admission to the divinity school of Harvard University, but was not received... .Six laundry girls were terribly burned by the explosion of a steam-drum in West Twenty-fourth street, New York. At the faith cure convention in session in Buffalo, N. Y., a number of addresses were made, and a feature of the occasion was the anohying with oil of seventy-five persons who came to be cured of various maladies... .The New England Tobacco Growers’ Association met at Hartford and adopted resolutions opposed to the present tariff on tobacco and in favor of amending the same so as to impose a tariff of $1 per 1 pound on all imported wrapper leaf.... Ferdinand Ward, the New York banker, who wrecked the firm of Grant & Ward and absorbed the fortune of Gen. Grant and his sons, was sentenced to the Peniten- . tiary for ten years and at once taken to Sing Sing. ...The budget of New York City for current expenses for 1886 will amount to $36,054,325, a decrease of $6,000,000 from a year ago... .The works of the National Furnace Company, Williamsport, Pa., were burned. Loss, $40,000.

THE WEST.

The meteor which recently fell near Owatonna, Minnesota, has been blasted with dynamite, and half a ton of fragments is being sent to various parts of the country. Oklahoma has agiin been invaded by the “boomers.” A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas, says: “Gen. Miles, commanding the Department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth, received official information thislifternootr that about 4,000 well armed and equipped men are on their way to Oklahoma territory. uuder the leadership of Copt- Couch, 'and announce their determination to stay- , and fight, if necessary, for possession of the land. ‘ Capt. Couch has organized a staff, and the main body of the boomers are marching with military precision and determination. They expect to occupy the lands and hold them until Congress r declares them open for settlement. Some of the invaders have already reached Oklahoma and staked out claims and put up signs, “No trespassing allowed on this farm.” General Miles has ordered Maior Sumner to proceed to Oklahoma and eject those there, and head off and put out aiy on the way. Major Sumner can utilize, if necessary, 1,200 regular troops at Forte Reno and 5i11.”... .Two men stopped a street-car at Omaha, covered the driver with revolvers, seized the cash-box, and walked off. The driver opened fire-on the retreating robbers, killing one of them, the other making his escape. The robber shot dead by a street-car driver in Omaha proved to be Water Ruckle, a cowboy from Montana, and halfbrother of a prominent furniture-dealer named Martin. He was the best shot in the city. The Coroner’s jury exonerated Woodbridge, the driver,-- and the citizens are raising a purse of $1,004) to be presented to him. Ruckle's body has been identified as that of the highwayman who had operated so boldly along the car track for the past month... .George Miller, aged 19, bom in Ohio, was executed at Grand Forks, Dak., for the atrocious murder of Mrs. Abbie Snell, wife bf the Rev. C. Y. Snell, and their ten-year-old son Herbie, the night of Jan. 24 last, while they were asleep in bed at their fann-hpuse at Inkster, forty miles wesfcof Grand Forks. A Detroit dispatch says that “the tug Frank Moffat, bound down with four barges, rounded to because of thick weather at the wharf at Sarnia, opposite Marine City. A line was taken ashore and made fast, but the current was so strong that the Captain thought to ease up a trifle on the hawser, and rang one bell to go ahead. As he did so the boiler of. the tug exploded without a sign of warning and with a terrific report. John Ward, first engineer, of Detroit; William Miller, second engineer, of Port Huron, James Wylie, home unknown, and Walter Fisher, of Port Huron, fireman.-were at their posts, and all were killed. The captain, Thomas Carrey, had a leg broken and was otherwise bruised. Frank Furtah. wheelman, was also badly scalded, and Andrew Reid, a deck-hand, was badly scalded. Maud Bennet, the cook, who was in the after cabin at the time of the explosion, was blown into the river, from which she was rescued, uninjured. Robert Goodwin, the mate, who ,was ashore handling the line, was- blown over a wood-pile and had his side injured.”.... Arthur Doggett, of Minto, D. T., and Henry Burnett-, of Grand Forks, were playing Jesse James with a pistol, when the latter was killed... .The chiefs of the Northern Minnesota Indians have agreed to go on the White Earth Reservation, and allow the* land to be thrown open to settlement.

THE SOUTH.

At Petersburg. Virginia, Senator Mahoneys son, Butler Mnhone, was fined SSO and put under bonds of S2OO to keep the peace. He had attempted to shoot a police officer, who had arrested him for using profane and indecent language on the street, firings shot which missed its mark .., .Heavy rains have fallen in Tennessee and Northern Georgia, causing serious injury to the cotton crop, and partially suspending railway traffic.... Three hundred miners at Chattanooga, Tenn., struck for

higher wages, and it is thought the trouble will become general in that section. Lucinda Benfield; an aged lady of Louisville, who became noted for appearing in public places in regal robes, has at last been consigned to the insane asylum at Anchorage. Two years ago she was arrested in Washington for annoying President Arthur... .One of the heaviest rainstorms known for years is reported from the Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia. High water prevails throughout the region, and trains are generally delayed. The State Fair held last week by the colored people of Mississippi was a complete success, with the exception of the closing display of fireworks attempted by a white citizen.... A sudden rise in the Kanawha River, near Charlestown, W. Va., did damage to the extent of $150,000.

WASHINGTON.

Commissioner Sparks, of the Land Office, has just made a decision which, if not reversed, will restore to the public domain nearly 7,600 square miles, or 4,864,000 acres, of land, equal to the whole State of Massachusetts, now claimed by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. The act granting land to this railroad companyprovided for a line from Springfield, Mo., to the western boundary of the State, and then to the head waters of the Colorado Chiquito, “and thence along the thirty-fifth parallel of ‘ latitude as near as may be found suitable for a railway route to the Colorado River at such point as may be selected by said comyany for crossing; thence by the most practicable and eligible route to the. Pacific.” The grant was twenty alternate sections per mile on each side of the road in the territories and one-half that in States. The company has earned no land in California, for it has built no road there, but it filed with the Secretary of the Interior in 1872, and with the commissioner of the general land office in 1874 maps of its route showing a line from the Colorado River across California to the Pacific Ocean at San Buena Ventura, and thence along the coast in a northwesterly direction nearly 380 miles to San Francisco. The Utah Commissionershave submitted their report of the operations of the Edmunds law during the past year. No polygamist has been allowed to register or vote, nor has any sueh person been elected or commissioned to any office. It is true, nevertheless, that nearly all the officers chosen at the last and in other preceding elections are Mormons, who, while not actually living in polygamy, subscribe to the doctrine of polygamous marriages as a divine revelation. It is believed that there have been very few polygamous marriages during the year. Within two years eightythree indictments have been found for polygamy and unlawful cohabitation. There have been twenty-three convictions and forty-three cases are now awaiting trial... .The Commissioner of Patents decides that it is the duty of the examiner to make examinations in all cases where application for a patent is made, even though he may have reason to believe it to contain the elements of a mechanical contrivance, because the determination of that very fact is one of the duties of the examiner.... First Controller Durham of the Treasury Department, in the case of an employe in the mint at Helena, Mont., has decided that a person engaged in the Government (service and receiving a stipulated salary is not entitled to payment from the Government for extra services rendered outside of his regular duties,.

POLITICAL.

In an interview on the Depew letter at Washington ex-Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch spoke about the reconstruction policy which had given Mr. Johnson so much concern, since, believing that the Southern States were still jn the Union, he •was naturally anxious they should have representation in Congress as soon as possible. He began to look upon some of the leading members of both houses of Congress as the real disunionists, and criticised their determination to prevent the States having representation on account of attempted secession. Mr. McCulloch continued: That is what we all understood his speech of August, 1866, to mean when he referred to Congress as "just -hanging upon the verge of the Government," said Mr. McCulloch. But Ido not see how I can discuss the question. It is nineteen years and over since the event is alleged to have happened, and I have not the slightest recollection of it in anv form. I never kept any memoranda of what occurred at Cabinet meetings. My time was so much occupied with the duties of Secretary of the Treasury that I did not have much time to devote even to sessions of the Cabinet, but always attended them, and remained only so long as the business of my own department required it- In regard to the allegations made by Mr. Depew, I can only say that they are entirely new to me. My relations with President Johnson were probably as intimate and confidential as those of any member of the Cabinet. I never heard a suggestion from him that could be construed as otherwise than loyal and patriotic. An offer of $55,000 is said to have been made by Carl Schurz for the Boston Post. ....President Cleveland has. appointed Frederick H. Winston, of Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Persia. The President has also appointed Wm. A. Mahoney to be Collector of Customs for the district of Fernandina, Fla.; Geo. A. Hessen to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Memphis; and Walter Goddard to be Collector of Customs for the district of Fairfield, Conn. W. E. Smith, of the firm of Smith & Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the place of Charles E. Coon. This gives New York the whole Treasury Department, including three Secretaries and the Treasurer. The postmaster at Chico, Cal., was short in his accounts, and suspended. His assistant. Bowers, sent on a petition for the position, and an examination showed that the signatures had been gotten for his brother for an entirely different jmsition. Bowers was removed and J.,D. Sproul appointed to the place. D. B. Searl. district. attorney for Minnesota, has tendered his resignation,.

GENERAL.

Seventy -fishing vessels were wrecked off the coast of Labrador in the hurricane which occurred last month, and three hundred lives were lost. A bark has arrived at St. John’s with two hundred persons rescued fiom wrecks, and over two thousand men, women, and children are said to be destitute on the shore... .The annual report of the Grand Trunk Road shows gross earnings of $1,423,857 for the half year, and net revenues which fall $48,307 short of the sum necessary to pay the preference interest charges. At the meeting of stockholders Sir Henry Tyler expressed the belief that -suicidal competition is about to give wdy to higher rates and an amicable division of traffic. C. C. McCabe, a Methodist clergyman, Writes that during .the time that Grant persisted in holding on to the War Office and refused to ]eave it for two or three weeks Bishop Simpson called upon him. The Bishop arose to go. Grant went on before

him and locked the door, saying: “Bishop, I regard the Republic as in more danger now than at any time during the war. I feel the need of divine help. I want yen to pray with me,” and the two pktriots knelt together in prayer to Almighty God for help injthe hour of danger. Lacking a market for its goods in Canada, the Riverside Worsted Factory, near Quebec, has been closed. The loss in capital invested is about $250,000. The eleventh annual convention of the Rational Woman’s Christian Temperance Union convened at Philadelphia. The report of the President shows a large increase in the field of labor in all departments. The suggestion of the Executive Committee to remove the headquarters to Chicago was adopted.. ...The half-breeds imprisoned at Regina for taking part in th,e Northwestern rebellion have forwarded a petition to the Dominion Government beg4png for mercy. They recite their many grievances, and present for consideration the provocation impelling them to the course pursued. ** The number of business failures reported throughout the country for the week was 201, as against 174 for the week preceding and 166 for the week before that. The most conspicuous feature in the general trade situation, says Bradstreet’s, is a pronounced improvement in the iron and steel industries. Pig-iron, even at the East, is in more general and firmer demand, and makers are, as a result, leaving aside all negotiations for deliveries in 1886. Prices for pig-iron are unchanged, although an early advance for best quality Lehigh irons would not be surprising. Stocks are very light. Old rails are scarce, and the nominal quotations of $lB and sl9 do not buy them. The feeling in these trades is buoyant, and considerable confidence is expressed as to the future. Bar iron is in better demand. Steel rails however, have made the greatest advance thus far, touching $32 per ton at the East and $35 at Chicago, a gain of sl. The movementpf general merchandise is no heavier than last week, with the exception that at Chicago it is reported that seasonable lines of goods ..move briskly. On the Atlantic seaboard there are but few new features. There is an increased call for funds, which is hot as yet reflected fully by an advance in interest rates. The drygoods movement is still ahead of that at the like period in 1884, but below, that of one month ago. Prices are steady. Wool sales, too, are checked, with prices film. Wheat has been irregular under speculative influences. Corn has been firmer relatively, with a little better demand for cash and small stocks. Flour is moderately firm and varies in strength with wheat. There were 354 deaths from small-pox at Montreal and vicinity for the week, being an increase of 29 over the former week. All of the children in the Catholic' schools are to be vaccinated.... In the Mexiican Congress articles of.impeachment were presented against ex-President Gonzales, in which he was charged with misusing the public funds. Great excitement followed. ....Apolitical riot which for several days has been in progress at Bustamente, Mexico, between the white and Indian parties, has already caused four deaths. Every man is a walking arsenal. The state officers at Monterey have been called upon to restore order.

FOREIGN.

Austria has prohibited the transit through her territory of several Krupp guns recently purchased by the Bulgarian GovernmentMatic, the Governor of Drusecac, Servia, has been murdered, a crime which arose froth political agitation. 7?. .Hungarian horses to the number of six hundred have been delivered at a Bulgarian p0rt.,... The Russian officers of the Bulgarian flotilla on the Danube have resigned.... .Nine men were killed in an engagement between Albanians and Montenegrins..... General de Courcy, the French commander in Annam, telegraphs to his home Government that after a stubborn three days’ fight he lias defeated the Black Flags with great slaughter, The news causes great enthusiasm in France.... The proposition to make Prince Alexander Governor of Eastern Roumelia meets the approval of the Russian Emperor... ,M. Fremsel, a leading banker in Paris, committed suicide because of financial embarrassments. At Loudon the steamship Great Eastern was sold the other day for £26,200.... .Turkey now has:180,000 troops stationed atvarious points on the frontier for active service in the Balkan peninsula.. , .A society with a capital of 1,000,000 marks is being formed in Berlin to found colonies in Brazil.... The yacht Genesta, which lost the American cup at New York but earned away three first prize flags, received hearty greetings from the Euglish nien-of-war when she sailed into the harbor of Portsmouth. Eng. —— M. de Freycinet, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, while being driven to the door of his office in Paris, was fired upon by a man in the roadway. The assassin failed in his attempt, and was seized before he could take aim a second time. He threw his revolver into the Seine. He is a Corsican, and states that he will explain why he sought revenge upon the minister... A forecast of the general elections has been published at London, which allots 314 seats in Parliament to the Liberals, 178 to the Conservatives, and 79 to the Parnellites, leaving 74 doubtful.... The campaign of the English against Burmah is being pushed with vigor, and it looks as if the country of King Theebaw might soon form a part of the British Empire in India. Bismarck’s son, Count Herbert, has been appointed Secretary of State by the Emperor William.... Sir Henry Drummond Wolffe, the special British envoy, has concluded secret treaties with the* Porte on other questions than those relating to Egypt... .Reports from the Bulgarianfrontier State that hundreds of unarmed Servians have ' been captured by the Bulgarians and placed in prison... 7 The American farm established in 1883 by by the King of Corea is in a flourishing condition. The seed was given to the embassy by the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, and the blooded stock was sent out from California... ~ The Peace Society having applied to Queen Victoria for a commutation of the sentence of Riel, the Northwestern rebel, a .reply was sent to the effect that the pardoning power had been delegated to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, and that the home Government could not interfere. Cardinal Manning and fourteen British Catholic Bishops have issued a manifesto denouncing mixed education, declaring that it is impossible for Catholics to accept education when it is divorced from religion. This in political circles is considered as an appeal to Catholics to vote for the Tory candidates for Parliament. .. Great depression prevails in the flashspinning trade in England, and the great: mill in employing 2,000 operatives threatens to close down.'- A great number of English capitalists engaged in the business have decided to transfer their investments to the United States... .M. de Lesseps has applied to the French Government for permission to issue new Panama Canal bonds

to the amount of $120,000,000 to defray expenses of the original estimates for the completion of the work.... The Irish Nationalists have held one-half of their county conventions, and nominated thirty-eight candidates, twenty of whom have never been members of Parliament. ... .Mr. Gladstone, in a letter on church disestablishment, treats the question as a political dodge, declaring that the public mind is not ready to consider it... .Mattei, who attempted to assassinate M. de Freycinet in Paris, has been declared insane. ....The Duke of Abercorn, twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has just died in London.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

- The following Presidential Postmasters have been appointed by the President: Janies W. Locke at Greensboro, Ala., vice W. Wiyte Jones, suspended ; John B. Christian at Uniontown, Ala., vice J. H. Houston, suspended ; Thomas W. Carroll at Bunker Hill, 111., vice T. Y.’ Hedley, suspended ;W. S. Armstrong at Kokomo, Ind., vice O. H. Sonjers, suspended ; A. A. Sparks at Mount Vernon, Ind.,vice J. C. Hovey, suspended ; Joshua Ernest at Sullivan, Ind., vice Uriah Coulson, suspended ; Patrick Gibbons at Keokuk, la.,vice S. M. Clark, suspended; G. R. Rodman at Frankfort, Ky.,vice J. C. Hatchett, suspended; R. E. Cook at Henderson, Ky., vice H. S. Park, suspended ; R. C. Speck at Madisonville, Ky., vice E B. Frost, suspended ; W. S. Lawson at Greenville, Mich., vice E. S. Grabill, suspended; Charles Halliday at St. Louis, Mich., vice J. M. Church suspended; D. C. Stearns at Berea, Ohio, vice William H. James, suspended; William Clevenger at Wilmington, Ohio, vice C. N. Browning, suspended ; Frank Harvey at Renovo, Pa., vice Newton Wells, suspended ; Elijah H. Parsons at Towanda, Pa.,vice J. P. Keeney suspended ; J. Q. Tabor at Bryan, Tex., vice J. A. Meyers, suspended; M. H. Mould at Barabob.nWis., vice D E. Welch, suspended; O. F. Blakeley at Darlington, Wis., vice S. W. Osborne, suspended; Joseph Taylor, at Dubois, J. E. Dale resigned; Alvin S. Marsh at Red Cloud, Neb.,’ vice M. B. McNitt, resigned; H. Clay McClaurine at Pulaski, Tenn., vice J. D. Lewis, commission expired; J. E. Evans at St. Joseph, Mo., vice Frank M. ' Tracy, commission expired; T. S. Brokau at Mount Vernon, la., vice H. Bowman, commission expired. President Cleveland went to his home in Buffalo and voted the straight Democratic ticket in the Ninth Ward. A dispatch from Buffalo says: “The President arrived by special train on the Lehigh Valley Railway. He was accompanied by Wilson S. Bissell, his late law partner, A. W. Stedman, chief engineer of the road, and John M. Jeter, doorkeeper of the Capitol. The President is looking, finely, and the party played a pleasant ganje of. ‘Sixty-six’ from Hornellsville to Buffalo. All along the line of travel large crowds gathered, and at Darien fireworks were shot off, but the train did not stop. Only moderate time was made on the last part of the route. At the Buffalo depot the President was met by a crowd, but no demonstration was made.” Fifteen years ago the city of Evansville, Ind., gave bonds amounting to $1,500,000 to aid the Evansville, Henderson and Nashville and Evansville and Paducah Railways. The interest was paid regularly for ten years, at the expiration of which time Evansville repudiated the bonds. At Indianapolis Judge Ayers rendered a decision that the bonds—amounting now with interest to sl,Boo,ooo—are valid and legal obligations. The case will be taken, to the United States Supreme Court.... Reports from Indian Territory say that Sam Newton was shot to death, according to Choctaw law, for the murder of his wife in 1884. Newton was a Choctaw Indian, he killed his wife on the public highway, having persuaded her to accompany him on a journey. .. .The wife of a St. Louis police officer was last week made the astonished mother of four girl babies. The official vote on the constitutional at the election held in Ohio Oct. 13 was canvassed at Columbus last week. The total vote was 743,453. The amendment to abolish October elections was carried by an average of 537,000, and the amendment to change the terms of township officers from one to three years received 409,000 votes. Governor Hoadly has issued a proclamation declaring the amendments carried. \ Gen. George B. McClellan’s funeral was a quiet but impressive one. The body was taken to the Madison Avenue (NewYork) Presbyterian Church, the Loyal League acting as escort. In the church the services were of the. simplest description, and no emblems of mourning were visible. Outside the church the streets were thronged with citizens, and hundreds accompanied the funeral proto the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot. There was .no semblance of a parade, however, but the people evinced their respect for the dead by lifting their Liats as the hearse went past. The final interment took place at Trenton. The ball-bearers were Gen. W. S. Hancock, Gen. Fitz John Porter, Gen. W. B. Franklin, Gen. J. E. Johnston, Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. Martin T. McMahon, S. L. M. Barlow, the Hon. W. 0. Kelsey, Col. Edward H. Wright, Thatcher Wadhams, Wm. C. Prime, the Hon. A. S. Hewitt, John T. Agnew, and W. C. Alsop.

THE MARKETS.

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IN COLD BLOOD.

Two Young Women Brutally Shot Down in the Streets of Chicago. No Adequate ..Cause for the . Desperate Act—The Murderer Under Arrest. , At half-past 5 yesterday afternoon the employes of R. G. Dun <t Co.’s mercantile agency at Nos. 140 to 144 Monroe street were leaving the building for their homes. At the entrance a young man, neatly dressed, was talking quietly with a woman companion, his right hand resting lightly on his hip and an overcoat thrown carelessly over his arm. As the people walked past him out of the building he glanced quickly from one face to another as if looking for a friend. His actions betrayed no excitement; his conversation ran on smoothly. Presently two girls joined the crowd coming down the stairway, leading to the door. The younger and more attractive of the two, leaning on the arm of her sister, was talking of the day’s work and the Expected pleasures of the evening. As they approached the entrance an expression of fear crossed the face of the talker, and shrinking still closer to the side of her companion, she whispered “There’s Burrus. ” Almost beforb the words were spoken the young fellow drew from his pocket a revolver and with steady aim fired nt the neatest of the two—the eldest sister. The girl ran forward to the sidewalk and dropped at the edge of the curbstone. Her sister jumped forward to catch her, but as she did so the fellow again fired with as deadly an aim as before and the girl fell into the arms of a bystander. Quickly shoving the revolver into his pocket, the murderer glanced at his victims and ran across the street through the crowd which came together from all sides. A boy attempted to trip up the fleeing man, but he pushed through the crowd and ran down LaSalle street to Madison and along that street to Fifth avenue, followed by the men who had seen him shoot the girls. On Fifth avenue his pursuers gained on the man, and, seeing his chances of escape very few, he again drew the weapon and pointing it at his pursuers said he would shoot if they did not let him alone. While the man was brandishing the revolver in the faces of the crowd Officer 0. Crowley came up behind him, and knocking the weapon from his hand with a club, arrested him. A patrol wagon was sent for, but before it arrived the number of excited people increased around the officer and his prisoner. Jeers and hoots were followed by loud cries of “Hang him! lynch him!” The patrol wagon arrived opportunely, for only a leader was wanting to have changed the howling crowd into a revengeful mob. The man was hustled into the wagon and” driven to the Armory, where he was lacked in the murderer's cell. At the time the shots -were fired the street was full of people. The unusual noise attracted a large crowd, who quickly gathered around the prostrate forms of the two girls. Medical attendance was sent for and ambulance wagons were dispatched to the place. Mrs. Key Good, who was the first one shot, and who had fallen to the sidewalk near the gutter, was believed to be dying, and was conveyed to the County Hospital. Lillian Walter was carried to L. C. Boysen’s drug-store, No. 210 Clark street, where she was attended by Dr. Brydon, who probed for the bullet with no success. The girl, who was conscious, put her hand now to her ear and now to the top of her head, crying: “Itjs here!” She was asked where she wished to be taken, and said: “Take me to the house of Mr. T. S. Gillette, corner of Courtland and Heine streets, Humboldt Park. That is where we live, and I want to be taken there. My uncle, F. B. Hewon, lives at No. 25 Ransburg avenue. ’’ In a broken, despairing sort of way the girl related to those present the story of ‘he shooting, and the reasons leading to it. “I saw Burrus standing at the door, and said to Rey: ‘There's Burrus.’ Before I knew what to do I heard the first shot, and felt sister fall. I heard the second shot, and knew that I was struck. That is the last I remember until I found myself here. ” ■ Two years ago Asba J. Burrus was a stenographer in the office of the R. G. Dun & Co. agency, in St Paul. In the same office were two girls, who had positions as typewriters, who in early life had been adopted into the family of a Mr. Walter. The eldest was twentv-four years of age and had been married to a man named Good, but was separated from her husband. Her sister Li liau was twentytwo years old and very attractive. The duties of the shorthand man and the typewriters threw the young people much together, and an intimacy sprang up between Burrus and Lillian Walter, in which the elder sister shared. Various exchanges of friendship were made, and the good-will between them was such that they were in the habit of lending articles of office furniture to one another. Just before the building in which the office was situated was burned Burrus borrowed from one of the girls a pearl-han died gold pen. After the fire, upon being asked to return it, he insisted that the pen had been burned. The girls did not believe this, and a coolness arose between them. The sisters came to Chicago and obtained situations in the city agency of the R. G. Dun Company. Burrus married a St. Paul girl, and a year and a half ago moved to this city. He also obtained a place in the same office. The old dispute again arose. The girls refused to associate with Burrus, which led him to make slighting remarks about them to his associates in the office. This aggravated the quarrel. Tuesday morning a St, Paul friend of Burrus went into the office to see him. The friend had seen the girls in St Paul, and had known of the intimacy between the young' people. Turning to Burrus the fellow said: “I see your girl is here.” “What, that old ——? I wouldn’t have anything to do with her, you ean bet your life!” replied Burrus. The words reached the ear of Mrs. Good, who was sitting at a desk near by. The ‘ insult was too much for her to bear without resenting it, and she went immediately to Stanley Pruden, manager of the agency, and reported the speech to him. At the close of the day’s Work Pruden cal’ed Burrus to the office and gave him the choice between apologizing for the insult or of being discharged. Burrus took the latter alternative. The next seen of him was when he stood at the door deliberately awaiting his victims.

The meeting of the Czar and the Kaiser Franz Josef at Kremsier lasted only thirty hours, but it cost the Austrian Court Treasury $225,000. Ultra fashionable young ladies in New York are learning to knit stockings, using gold needles tipped with pearls. • “Father’s Teeth Are Stopped with Zinc,” is the title of a popular song now sung in London. * « President Cleveland is able to repeat from memory the entire Shorter Presbyterian Catechism.

ON ETERNITY'S SHORE.

Sudden Death of Gen. George B. McClellan at His Residence, Near Orange. He Is Called in the Silent Hours, Dissolution Being Preceded by Acute Agony. George Brinton McClellan, formerly Major General of the United States armies and commander of the Army of the Potomac, and more lately Governor of New Jersey, died early on the morning of the 29th ult., at his home in St Cloud, on Orange Mountain, near Orange, N. J. THE DEATH-BED SCENE. Gen. McClellan returned home from an extended trip through the West on Sept 17, apparently in the best of health. On Oct, 17. while he was passing through the Hoboken ferry-house, be felt a severe pain near his heart. The pain was temporary, but the General consulted Dr. Seward, his physician. Dr. Seward concluded that he had neuralgia of the heart, and by his a dvice the General gave up an extended trip with his wife to Old Point Comfort, Va., to attend a meeting of the Governors of the soldiers’ home at that place. During the past week he walked and drove about Orange as usual, but about 11 o’clock on Wednesday evening, an hour after he* had retired to his bedroom, he was seized with another and very severe attack of pain in th% region of the heart. Mrs. McClellan sent for Dr. Seward, and under his treatment the pain became less severe. At 2 o'clock in the morning, however, the pain returned with increased severity. Dr. Seward administered morphine, hypodermically, but without avail. The General became unconscious, and remained so until he died at 2:45 o’clock in the morning. Mrs. McClellan, Miss May McClellan, and Dr. Seward were in the room. The only other member of the General’s family, George Brinton McClellan, Jr., is a senior in Princeton College, and could not be reached in time. Gen. McClellan’s mother is still alive, in her 85th year. She is an invalid, and in the beginning of the summer she was not expected to live until autumn. During the summer she has been at Diifton, Pa. The General returned from visiting her there just two weeks before his death. PUBLIC SYMPATHY. The following executive order was issued at Washington by order of the President: As a mark of public rtspect to the memory of tins distinguished soldier and citizen, whose military ability and civic virtues have shed luster upon the history of his country, it is ordered by the Presidenfrlhat the national flag be displayed at halt-mast, upon all the buildings of the executive departments in this city until after his funeral t-hall have taken place. Secretary of War Endicott issued the following general order: With profound regret the Secretary of War announces to the army the death of Gen. George B McClellan, formerly major-general commanding the armies of the United States. The name and fame of this distinguished soldier and citizen are known and honored, throughout the republic. As the organizer of the Army of the Potomac he made it capable of accomplishing great deeds. The lessons hegave it were never forgotten, and the spirit with which he animated it continued through all its eventfurl history. Subsequently as its leader he rendered great services to his country. His pure and noble character, his unselfish devotion, and the duty he performed in the hour of peril w.ll cause his memory ever to be cherished with pride by the people of theUnited States. _ * A special from Washington to the Chicago Tribune says: The death of McClellan was a great surprise here. It was not known that be had been, ill, and the President had directed that a letter be written to-day tendering him the position, on the Civil-Service Commission to be madevacant by the retirement of Mr. Eaton. Gen. McClellan had already refused the Russian mission, and it hardly was expected that he would accept a Civil-Service Commissionership, the duties of which are so onerous and the salary of which is so small. But the President, in his endeavor to induce prominent Democrats to accept this place, had determined to- offer it toGen. McClellan. • A New York dispatch says: As soon as the news of Gem McClellan’s death, spread throughout the city great sorrow was expressed at the sad event The flags on public buildings were placed at half-mast. The Grand Army Post called a meet, ng to express their sorrow and offer a body-guard for the remains. CONDOLENCE FROM THE PRESIDENT. To Mrs. George B. McClellan, Orange, N. J.; I am shocked by the news of your husband's death, and, while I know how futile are all human efforts to console, I assure you of my deep sympathy in your great grief and express to you my own sense of affliction at the loss of so good a friend. Gboveb Cleveland. CONDOLENCE FROM OOV. ABBET. To Mrs. George B. McClellan, West Orange. N. J.: Mv Dear Madam: I have just learned with, profound sorrow of the death of your distinguished husband. I speak not only for myself but for all the people of New Jersey, who will join in the universal mourning for the loss of a pure and upright citizen and a great soldier. I wish most earnestly to take such proper official action as will do honor th his memory. I have directed Adjutant General William 8. Stryker to ascertain your wishes, so that the action of the Executive may be in full sympathy with your own feelings. I have the honor to be, very respectfully yours, Leon Abbett. BIOGRAPHICAL. = George Brinton McClellan was bora at Philadelphia in 182.6. His father was a distinguished physician, a graduate of Yale College, and founder of Jefferson College. At West Point McClellan had the reputation of 1 eing an industrious but not brilliant student; but he graduated second in general rank in the largest class that had ever left the academy, and first in the class on engineering. His military rank when he left West Point In 1846 was second lieutenant of engineers. He served as such in the Mexican w'fc! In the spring of 1855 he was appointed to a captaincy in the First Cavalry Regiment. The same year he was one of a commission com posed of three officers sent by the United States Government to make observations in the Crimean war. He resigned his commission in the army in 1857 and became Chief Engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1861 he re-entered the army. As commander of the Federal forces in West Virginia he gained the victories of Rich Mountain and Cheat River. A few days after the battle of Bull Run he was appointed commander of the army at Washing on. In November, 1861, he assumed command of the armies of the United States. Bis victory at - Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862, was so lowed by actions at Mechanicsville, Savage’s Station, White Oak Swamp, Gaines' Mill, and Malvern Hili. The result of the campaign was the retreat of his forces and the abandonment of his plan to takj Richmond. Gen. Pope was appointed to .supersede Gen. McClellan, who was, however* recalled to the command of the army September 2,1862. His victory at Anti -tum was gained about a fortnight after this date. In the following November he was relieved of command: In 1864 he was nominated for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket, and received a popular vote of J.SOO.uuo. In 1877 McClellan was elected Governor of the State of New Jeisey, a position which he tilled until. 188'1. Since that time he had lived in New York City. His learn-» lug and abilities as an engineer gave him lead-, Ing and remunerative business in his profession. :

A woman was discharged from the County Hospital at Milwaukee because she laughed. The authorities are afraid cheerfulness might cure some of the patients. Senator Stanford is a leader in a. movement in California to raise $250,000 for a Grant monument in Golden Gate Park. Mrs. Langtry is reported to have painted her hair a kind es reddish color, which is becoming the fashio 1 in Paris. Lord Tennyson has been elected. President of the London Library, in succession to the late Lord Houghton.