Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — ED PARDRIDGE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

ED PARDRIDGE DEAD.

GREAT SPECULATOR BREATHES , .HIS LAST. _ -'j ; / One of the Most Noted Men in Chicagc—Alwajs on the Bear Side—Chili Refuses Reparation to Sailora ■ Shields and McKinatry, Famous Chicagoan DeadEdwin I’axJridge, prominent for years es a heavy bear trader on ’Change at Chicago, died Friday of Bright’s disease. Dissolution was not unexpected and the dying man was -surrounded by members of his household. For several weeks he had been-suffering from this malady. General complications set in and terminated fatally, Deceased was about G 2 years old and was reputed to possess'a considerable fortune. It has been many times said of Edwih Pardridge-that had he been the only, member of the Board of Trade to remain upon the bear Side, he would have steadfastly refused to join the bulls and .would have gone down in the last ditch before he would admit the possibility of a rise in prices. I’ardridge thirty years ago was one, of the leading dry goods merchants in the city. He was one of the first prominent merchants in that line to see the coming greatness of State street as a thoroughfare, and settled his business at a point now about opposite Marshall Field & Co.’s store.: Thrown Ont of Chilian Courts. After five years the claims, of Patrick Shields and Andrew McKinstry against the Chilian Government for injuries received from assaults of a Chilian mob at Santiago have finally been thrown out of all the courts and commissions. Shields and McKinstry were, sailors on the Keewanah, that entered Santiago harbor a week after the, Baltimore sailors were so roughly handled by the mobs in that city in 1891. They preferred claims against the Government of Chili, Shields for SIOO,OOO and McKinstry for $20,000. President Harrison made these two claims a very important part of one of his messages to Congress in 1892. In this he said that though the men were foreign subjects, they were sailing under the protection of the American flag and should receive the same protection as American citizens. F. Allyn Orr, of Oakland, Cal., attorney for Shields and McKinstry, brought the matter before the British Parliament, and it was finally referred to a British claifn commission. As a result of the investigation of this commission Mr. Orr has received a letter informing him that the Chilian Government has refused to pay the claims. Colonel Lloyd Wine a Victory. A telegram to the British war office in Cairo states that Col. Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Suakiru. The khedive went to the railway station to witness the departure for the front of 150 men of horse artillery, with six guns, and his cousin, Prince Aziz, in charge of seventy ■cavalry remounts. The Egyptian troops displayed unusual enthusiasm. The sirdar’s brother, Major Kitchener, has been ten days waiting for an appointment. It is said that this delay is owing to the sirdar’s unpopularity in high quarters. Lieut. Farquhar, of the Royal Artillery, is thought to be dying from injuriejp received from a fall at polo.