Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — Page 2

THE MISER'S DAUGHTER

CHAPTER Xlll.—(Continued.) “Go on with your dinner. Gran Jot," aaid the hanker. "We can have a little chat. Have you heard what gold is fetching in Angers, and that people irom Nantes are buying it there? lam going to send some over.” • “You need not trouble yourself," answered his worthy client; "they have quite enough there by this time. * I don’t like to lose your labor when I can prevent it; we are too good friends for that.” "Bat gold is nt thirteen francs fifty centimes premium.” “Say was at a premium. I went over to Angers myself last night,” Grandet told him in a low voice. TTie banker started, and a whispered conversation followed; both des Grassins and Grandet looked at Charles from time to time, and once more a gesture of •tnprise escaped the banker, doubtless at the point when the old cooper commissioned him’ to purchase rentes to bring in « hundred thousand livres. “if. Grandet,” said des Grassins, addressing Charles, “I am going to Paris, land if there is anything I can do for Ijrou——” “Thank you, sir, there is nothing,” ICharles replied. “You jnust thank him more heartily than that, nephew. This gentleman is [going to wind up your father’s business and settle with his creditors.” “Then Is there any hope of coming to an arrangement?” asked Charles. “Why, are you not my nephew?” cried the cooper, with a fine assumption of pride. “Our honor is involved; is not four name Grandet?” Charles rose from his chair, impulsively flung his arms about his uncle, turned pale and left the room. Eugenie looked at her father with affection and pride in her eyes. “Well, let us say good by, my good friend,” said Grandet. “I am very much at your service. Try to get round those fellows over yonder." The two diplomatists shook hands, and the cooper went to the door with his neighbor; he came back to the room again when he had closed the door on des Grassins, flung himself down in his easy chair. The next morning, at the 8 o’clock breakfast, the party seemed for the.first time almost like one family. Mine; Grandet, Eugenie and Charles had been drawn together by these troubles, and Nanon herself unconsciously felt with them. As for the old vine grower, he scarcely noticed his nephew’s presence in the house, his greed of gold had been satisfied, and he was very shortly to be quit of this young sprig by the cheap and easy expedient of paying his nephew’s traveling expenses as far as Jsantes. Charles and Eugenie meanwhile were free to do what seemed to them good. They were under Mme. Grandet’s eyes, and Grandet reposed complete faith in his wife in all matters of conduct and religion. Moreover, he had other things to think of; his meadows were to be drained and a row of poplars was to be planted along the Loire, and there was all the ordinary winter work at Froidfond and elsewhere; in fact, he was exceedingly busy. CHAPTER XIV. And now began the springtime of love •for Eugenie. Since that hour in the night when she had given her gold to her cousin her heart had followed the gift. They shared a secret between thjpm; they were conscious of this understanding whenever they looked at each, other; and this knowledge, that brought them more and more closely together, drew them in a manner out of the current of everyday life. And did not relationship justify a certain tenderness in the voice and kindness in the eyes. Eugenie, therefore, set herself to make her cousin forget his grief in the childish Joys of growing love. She snatched at every happiness as some swimmer might catch at an overhanging willow branch, that so lie might reach the bank arid rest there for a little while. Was not the time of parting very pear now? The shadow of that parting seemed to fall across the brightest hours of those days that' fled so fast; and not one of them went by but something happened to remind her how soon it would be upon them. For instance, three days after des Grassins had started for Paris, Grandet had taken Charles before a magistrate with the funereal solemnity with which such acts are performed by provincials, *ud In the presence of that functionary the young man had had to sign a declaration that he renounced all claim to his father’s property. He went to M. Cruchot to procure two powers of attorney, one for des Grassins, the other for the friend who was commissioned to sell his own personal effects. There were also some necessary formalities in connection with his passport; and, finally, on the arrival of the plain suit of mourning; he sent for a clothier in Saumur and disposed of his now useless wardrobe. ' For several days Charles looked, spoke and behaved like a man who is in deep trouble, but who feels the weight of such heavy obligations that his misfortunes only brace him for greater effort. He had ceased to pity himself; ho had become a man. Never had Eugenie augured better of her cousin's character than ahe did on the day when she watched him come down stairs in his plain, black mourning suit, which set off his pole, sad face to such advantage. The too women had also gone Into mourning. Charles received letters from Puris as they took the midday "meal; he opened •nd read them. “Well, cousin,” aaid Eugeuie, in a low voice, “are your affairs going on satisfactorily?” “Never put question* of that sort, my «frb” remarked Grandet “I never talk to yon sbont my affaire, and why should rpa meddle tn your cousin's? Just let fee alone." “Oh! I have no secrets of any sort” •aid Charles. “Tut, tut, tut Yon will find out that yn mnst bridle your tongue In buaiueee, Whan the two lovers were alone In At cardan, Charlea drew Eugenie to

By HONRE DE BALZAC

the old bench under the wnlnut tree, where they so often sat of late. “I felt sure of Alphonse, anil I was right,” lie said, "he has done wonders, and has settled my affairs prudently and loyally. All niy debts in Paris are paid, lay furniture sold well, and he tells me that he has acted on the advice of an old sea captain Who had made the voyage to the Indies, and hits invested the surplus money in ornaments and odds and ends for which there is a great demand out there. He has sent my packages to Nantes, where an East Indinmon is taking freight for Java, and so, Eugeuie. in fivo days we must bid each other farewell, for a long while at any rate, and perhaps forever. My trading venture and the ten thousand francs which two of my best friends have sent me, are a very poor start; I cannot expect to return for many years. Dear cousin, let us not consider ourselves bound in any way; I may die, and very likely some good opportunity for settling yourself ” “You love me?” sho asked. “Oh, yes, indeed,” he replied with an eagerness of manner that betokened a like earnestness in his feelings. “Then I will wait for you, Charles. My father is looking out of his window*,” she exclaimed, evading her cousin, who had drawn closer to embrace her. She fled to the archway; and seeing that Charles followed her thither, she retreated farther, flung back the folding door at the foot of the staircase, and with no very clear idea, save that of flight, she rushed toward the darkest corner of the passage, outside Nation’s sleeping hole; and there Charles, who' was close beside her, grasped both hands in his and pressed her to his heart; his arms went round her waist, Eugenie resisted no longer, and leaning against her lover she received and gave the purest, sweetest and most perfect of all kisses. “Dear Eugenie, a cousin is better than a brother; he can marry you,” said Charles. ===== - “Amen, so be it!” cried Nanon, opening the door behind them, and emerging from her den. Her voice startled the two lovers, who fled into the dining room, where Eugenie took up her sewing, and Charles seized on a book and began to read industriously. As soon as Charles fixed the day of his departure, Grandet bustled about and affected to take the greatest interest in the whole matter. He was liberal with advice and with anything else that cost him nothing. He was up betimes every morning planning, fitting, nailing deal boards together, squaring and shaping, and, in fact, he made some strong cases, packed all Charles’ property in them, and undertook to send them by steamer down to the merchant Ship, and to insure them during the voyage. Since that kiss given and taken in the passage, the hours sped with terrible rapidity for Eugenie. At times she thought of following her cousin, for of all ties that bind one human being to another, this passion of love is the closest and strongest, and those who know this will know the agony that Eugenie suffered. She shed many tears as she walked up and down the little garden; it had grown so narrow for her now; the court yard, the old house and the town had all grown narrow, and her thoughts w*ent forth nlready across vast spaces of sea. It was a melancholy group round the breakfast table on the morning of the day of departure. Even Nanon herself, in spite of Charles’ gift of a new gown, had a tear in her eye, but she was free to express her feelings, and did so. “Oh! that poor, delicate young gentleman who is going to sea!” was the burden of her discourse. At half past 10 the whole family left the house to see Charles start in thediiigence. Nanon meant to carry Charles* handbag. Every storekeeper in the ancient street was in the doorway to watch the little procession pass. M. Cruchot joined them in the market place. “Eugenie,” whispered her mother, “mind you don’t cry." They reached the gateway of the inn, and there Grandet kissed Charles on both cheeks. “Well, nephew,” he said, “set out poor and come back rich; you leave your father’s honor in safo keeping. I Grandet —will answer to you for that; you will only have to do your part -” “Oh! uncle, tills sweetens the bitterness of parting. Is not this the greatest gift you could possibly give me?” Charles put his arms round his uncle’s neck, and let fall tears of gratitude on the vino grower’s sunburned cheeks; Eugenie clasped her cousin’s hand in one of hers, and her father’s in the other, and held them tightly. Only the notary smiled to himself; he alone understood the worthy man, and he could not kelp admiring his astute cunning. The little group of onlookers hung about the diligence till the last moment; and looked after it until it disappeared. “A good riddance!” said the cooper. Luckily no one but M. Cruchot heard this ejaculation; Eugenie and her mother had walked along the quay to a point of view whence they could still see the diligence, and stood there waving their handkerchiefs and watching Charles’ answering signal till he was out of sight.

CHAPTER XV. To save further interruption to the course of the story, it is necessary to. glance a little ahead, and give a brief account of the course of events in the matter of Guillaume Grandet's affairs. A month after des Grassins had gone, Grandet received a certificate for a hundred thousand livres per annum of rentes, purchased at eighty francs. As for Guillaume Grandet’s creditors, everything had happened as the cooper had intended and foreseen. At the Bank of France they keep accurate lists of all great fortunes. The names of des Grassins and of Felix Grandet of Saumur were duly to be found inscribed therein; indeed, they shone conspicuous there as well-known name* in tho business world, as men who were not only financially sound, but owners of broad acres. And now it was said that des Grassins of Saumur had com# to Paris with intent to call a meeting of the creditors of the firm of Guillaume Grandet; tlie shade of the wine merchant was to be spared the disgrace of protested bills. The seals were broken

in the presence of the creditors, and the , family notary proceeded to make out an inventory .in due form. Before very long, in fact, des Crassins called a meeting of the creditors, i who, with one voice, appointed the hunk- : c-r of Rauitiiir as trustee conjointly with | Francois Keeler, the head of a large business house, empowering them to take j such measures as they thought fit, in j order to save the family name. The fart j that des Grassins wnst. acting as his agent produced a hopeful tone in the meeting, find things went smoothly from the first; the banker (lid not find a single dissentient voice. Each one said to himself: “Grandet of Saumur is going to pay!” Six months went by. The Parisian merchants had withdrawn the bills from circulation, and had consigned them to tlie depths of their portfolios. The cooper had gained his first point. Niue months after the first meeting the two trustees paid tlie creditors a dividend of forty--B<oen per cent.- This stun had been raised by the sale of the late Guillaume Grandet’s property, goods, chattels and general effects; the most scrupulous integrity characterized theso proceedings; indeed, the whole affair was conducted with the most conscientious honesty, and the delighted creditors fell to admiring Grandet’s high-minded probity. Twenty-three months after Guillaume Grnndet’s death, many of the merchants had forgotten all about their claims in the course of events in a business life, or they only thought of them to say to themselves: . ■ “It begins to look as though the fortyseven per cent is about all I shall get out of that business.” *-■* The cooper had reckoned on the aid of Time, who, so he was wont to say, is a good fellow. By the end of the third year des Grassins wrote to Grandet, saying that he had induced most of the creditors to give up their bills, and that the amount now* owing was only about ten per cent of the outstanding two millions four hundred thousand francs'. Grandet replied that there yet remained the notary and the stock broker, whoso failures had been the death of his brother; they were still alive. They might be solvent again by this time, and proceedings ought to be taken against them; something might be recovered in this way which would still further reduce the sum total of the deficit. When the fourth year drew to a close the deficit had been duly brought down to the sum of 1,200,000 francs; the limit appeared to have been reached. Six months were further spent in parleyings between the trustees and the creditors, and between Grandet and the trustees. In short, strong pressure being brought to bear upon Grandet of Saumur, he announced, somewhere about the ninth mouth of the same year, that his nephew, who had made a fortune in the East Indies, had signified his intention of settling in full all claims on his father’s estate, and that meantime he could not take it upon himself to act nor to defraud the creditors by winding up the affair before he had consulted his nephew; lie added that he had written to him, and was now awaiting an answer. The middle of the fifth year had been reached, and still the creditors were held in Check by the magic words "in full,” let fall judiciously from time to time by the sublime cooper, who was laughing at them in his sleeve. “Those Parisians,” he would say to himself, and a cunning smile would steal across his features. In fact, a mqrtyrdom unknown to the calendars of commerce was in store for the creditors. When next they appear in the course of this story they will be found in exactly the same position that they were in when Grandet had done with them. Consols went up to 115, old Grandet sold out, and received from Paris about 2,400,000 francs in gold, which went into his wooden kegs to keep company with the 000,000 francs of interest which his investment had brought in. Des Grassins stayed on in Paris. It was very lucky for hi 3 wife that she had brains enough to carry on the concern at Saumur in her own name, and could' extricate the remains of her fortune, which had suffered not a little from M. des Grassins’ extravagance. But tlie quasiwidow was in a false position, and the Crnchotins did all that in them lay to make matters worse; she had to give up all hope of a match between her son and Eugenie Grandet, and married her daughter very badly, Adolphe des Grassins went to join his father in Paris, and there acquired, so it was said, an unenviable reputation. The triumph of the Cruchotius wns complete. (To be continued.)

Immune to Pie.

A tried and toughened old person whose vital tenacity has defied the laws of hygiene for the greater part of a long life can scarcely be expected to comprehend tlieir Importance in general, and still less to appreciate some of their manifestations in particular. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, who is one of the “saints with a sense of humor,” delights In telling the experience of the Hull House workers with a poor and aged woman to whom they found It necessary to supply nourishing food. It was food of the best, as appetizing as nutritious, —or so it seemed to them, —provided at their order from a hygienic kitchen which they frequently and appreciatively patronized themselves. It Included, naturally, however, a generous proportion of "health foods;” and "health foods” are an innovation to which elderly palates cannot always accustom themselves. Miss Addums asked the old lady one day how she liked her meals. She was a grateful and polite old lady, and worded her answer as delicately as sh® knew how; but she was truthful. “Well, I suppose It’s good," she said, hesitatingly, “but —I’d rother eat the tilings I’d rother.” After that, by Miss Addams’ order, she was allowed to livo on pie and baker’s bread and fried things, according to her taste. She had done so for so long that her hygienic but sympathizing friends resigned themselves to the belief that she had become Immune to the effects of such food. It Isn’t always safe to judge a woman's complexion by the label on ths box. Even a brave sea • captain dreads squalls after his first baby Is bora

JURY FIXES BLAME,

BLOCUM OFFICERS AND DIRECTOIfs HELD. Those Criminally Responsible Have Been Placed Under Arrest —Action ot Mate Flanagan Styled Cowardly and Inspector Cited for Federal Inquiry. After a full Investigation the New York coroner's jury found a verdict holding every person directly concerned in the Gen. Slocum disaster criminally responsible for tlie loss of the lives of the excursionists who perished on Juno 15. Those directly blamed by the jury were Frank A. Barnaby, president of the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company; J. K. Atkinson, secretary of the company; nil of the directors, Capt. William 11. Van Sclmick, Mate Edward Flanagan, and Henry Lundberg, assistant United States steamboat inspector, who approved the fire fighting apparatus of tlie bout before it was placed in commission in May. Flanagan was denounced for cowardice and for failure to perform his duty. Lundberg was held to have been Incompetent, careless and Indifferent. The jury found that the existing system of steamboat inspection is inefficient and recommended a radical change by the Department of Commerce and Labor. Coroner Berry Issued warrants for the arrest of the directors and officials o* the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company. Inspector Lundberg mid Mate Flanagan have been held in $3,000 bail each.

The charge in each case was manslaughter in the second degree. Bail was fixed by the coroner in amounts varying from SI,OOO to $5,000. Bail was fixed at $5,000 each for President Barnaby and Secretary Atkinson and bonds were furnished at once. Capt. Van Schaick is a prisoner In the Lebanon hospital. over 1,000 persons perished In tlie burning of the excursion steamer General Slocum is now certain. According to an exhaustive report made by Police Inspector Sclimittberger, on the number of dead, missing, injured and uninjured in the disaster, it appears that 938 bodies have been recovered and that 93 persons absolutely known to have been aboard tiie vessel are still unaccounted for, bringing the total mortality of the disaster up to 1,631. Those injured numbering 179 and of the throng of fully 1,500 who embarked on the excursion of St. Mark’s Church, but 236 escaped without, injury. The report is the result of a minute inquiry made by a corps of 300 patrolmen under the direction of tlie inspector. In the course of the inquiry much valuable information was secured from survivors which will be used in the investigation by the District Attorney to fix the responsibility for the disaster. A’ thorough examination of the hull by Coroners O’Gorman and Berry and Inspector Albertson resulted in the discovery in the locker in which the fire started of a number of barrels which , had contained kerosene and lubricating oil. The investigation prosecuted by the coroner seems to make it clear that the Slocum had been nothing better than a death trap for years. The steamboat company admitted that since 1895 not a single new life preserver had been purchased for the Sloeum. Gen. Dumont, head of the United States steamboat inspection service for the harbor of New York, asserts that the life of the average good life preserver is six years. President Barnaby was accused of bad faith and of trying to deceive the coroner’s jury as to the life preservers by his testimony on the first day of the inquest. Capt. John A. Pease, supervising captain of the company, who put the boat into commission, bluntly admitted that it was impossible to purchase a proper fire hose for 16 cents a foot. That was the price of the cottoh fire hose that was in use ou the Slocum. All testimony went to show clearly that none of the officers or members of the crew of the Slocum had made the least effort to save lives on the day of the disaster. It was shown also that the only member of the crew (to drown, Michael McGann, the steward, had put on one of the worthless lifepreservers.

MANY TEACHERS MEET.

National Association Opens FortyThird Convention at St. Louis. Tho forty-third annual convention of the National Educational Association formally convened Tuesday at the world’3 fair grounds in St. Louis when the first of the general sessions was called to order in Festival Hall. Later the sessions of the different educational departments were convened in various halls throughout the grounds, the whole constituting the general convention of the association. As the majority of the educators failed to register upon arrival, but went directly from the trains to their various stopping places, it is not definitely known how large was the attendance, but it is known that many thousands of persons came to St. Louis for the express purpose of attending the convention. •* * Festival Hall has a seating capacity of about 2,500, but had tlie hall been several times as large it would not have accommodated the crowd. Educators from every portion of the United States and many from abroad constituted the vast throng that endeavored to find entrance to the hall, and the musical program that wns arranged ns preliminary to the convention was continued for some time after the hour set in order to permit the delegates to arrange themselves comfortably. The convention was called to order by Fresident John W, Cook, who is president of tlie Northern Illinois State Normal School, DeKalb, IIL He introduced the first speaker, W. T. Carrington, superintendent of public instruction of Missouri, who welcomed the educators to St Louis and to the exposition. A second address of welcome was made by C. M. Woodward, president of the St Louis Board of Education.

The next speaker was F. Louis Soldan, superintendent of public instruction of 6t Louis.

LOOTS AURORA BANK.

CABHIER JACOB H. PLAIN AD. MITS TAKING $90,000. Gersaan- American National loatitu* tlon of Aurora, 111., Victimized by Embezzlement of Trnsted EmployeMoney Lost in Speculations. Ninety thousand dollars has been embezzled from the German-Amerlcan National Bank, Aurora, 111., and Jacob H. Plain, cashier, has been arrested, charged on his own confession with having taken the money. Three years’ reckless speculation carried on with the bank’s funds while he was known In Aurora society and business circles as “Honest Jacob” is given as the cause »of Plain’s downfall. Confronted with the facts of his defalcation, the cashier admitted it promptly, turning over what property he had and telling In detail in what deals he had lost _s ' Notice of the embezzlement posted on the bank door at first was not believed. Plain’s reputation induced bank patrons to consider the notice a joke. When crowds later surrounded the bank, the officials prepared to meet a “run.” After announcing the embezzlement the notice read: “Thirty thousand dollars of the total embezzlement by Plain has been made up by John Plain, his father, and M, E. Plain, his brother. Eight thousand dollars has been turned over by the .defaulter himself. The balance of the $90,025 loss has been charged off from the surplus and undivided profits, leaving the entire SIOO,OOO capital stock of the bank unimpaired.” “Yes, I took the money. If I were to live my life over again I would shun speculation as I would Are. I was ruined as thousands of others have been ruined, without an evil thought in the world.” This is part of Plain’s confession after he had been arrested. First suspicion of the embezzlement was aroused five weeks ago, although for three years Plain by a system of recording fictitious notes, or notes that had been paid but not destroyed; by including in the bank’s assets bonds owned by depositors and by manipulating the adding machine at the biennial examination of his accounts had been systematically robbing the bank.

He was under SIO,OOO bond and is the son of ths bank’s president. Since May 24, when the defalcation was discovered, bank officials have been busy straightening out the accounts. That day Examiner C. H. Bosworth visited the bank. After footing up a column of figures Mr. Bosworth turned to Plain and said: “Jacob, there’s something wrong here.” Plain, pretending first not to understand, finally admitted the crookedness.

“There’s $40,000 short here, and maybe more,” said Plain. Then he showed where $22,025 more was missing. Finally by bis own directions it was figured out that he was $90,025 short Directors held a hurried meeting, at which the father of the cashier begged that his son be spared disgrace. M. E. Plain, another son, was made cashier. Later It was found that it would be impossible to avoid publicity. President Plain said he was willing that a public statement should be made.

PERTINENT Personal

J. P. Morgan is constantly adding ta his large London gallery of paintings. Hugh McLaughlin, Brooklyn’s veteran politician, has collected 1,024,000 stamps President Woodrow Wilson has written the introduction to the “Handbook of Princeton.” President Roosevelt Is credited with having shaken hands with 1,200 peoplt in twenty minutes. Joseph Jefferson says.he was hissed oil fho stage once. He was 4 years old and tried to sing “The Star-Spangled Bait ner.” Frank Eddy, first native born Congressman from Minnesota, would like to be the first native Governor of thal State. J. T. Rider, a blind piano tuner ol Humphreyville, N. Y., can take a plans or organ apart and replace every piecs correctly. Dr. Edward Everett Hule, chaplain ol the United States Senate, thinks members of Congress are public spirited fni work hard. James W. Eldridge of Hartford own* the favorite saddle of JcffeTson Davis Tho latter used it during the greater pari of the Civil War. Henry C. Moore of Corinth, Miss., ha* shot more than 1,000 elephants, and hai the finest privnte collection of zoological specimens in tlie world. President Eliot of Hnrvard, for tin first time in thirty-five years, delivered a lecture in the regular college cours* the other dny in the absence of a pro fessor of philosophy. Bishop Daniel Goodsell, the new Metli odist head for New England, bears i close resemblance to the late Phillipi Brooks. He liaa officially visited manj foreign countries and is well known ai tn author. The Rev. Dr. John Wright of St Paul, Minn., has recently given the Union Got leg# library a copy of the thin! edltioi of the Saur Bible, published in German town in 1776. It woa the first Blblt printed in America in a European lan gunge. Nearly all the copies of tills ed) tlon were destroyed t by the British troop* When they occupied Germantown in 1770

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. The Governor of New Hampshire refused to sign the bill the Legislature had passed agreeing to the amendment to the constitution, adopted by twothirds of the States. At a meeting of the chiefs of the Seneca Indians at Buffalo, N. Y., one of the tribe was accused of the practice of witchcraft and executed. The Legislature of Massachusetts offered a bounty for the encouragement of the cultivation of hemp in that State. Seventy-five Years Ago. The Board of Aldermen of Boston refused to allow the Tremont Theater to be open on the Fourth of July, that day being Saturday. Commercial affairs In Turkey were in a distressed state owing to the seizure by the Sultan’s order of all camels bringing produce to market and oonveyliig supplies to the people of Constantinople. The courts of Georgia, in order to prevent gambling in the State, ordered that heavy fines should be imposed for such offence.

Fifty Years Ago. The law forbidding the intermarriage of blacks and whites was abrogated. The Sioux war began. The American Geographical Society, founded in 1852, was chartered. A military insurrection broke out in Spain. Madrid Was declared in a state of siege. Eight Russian ships sailed out of Sevastopol and attacked the allied naval forces. The estimated distance of the sun was reduced by Hansen.

Forty Years Ago. The arrest of two mall drivers at Mankato, Minn., disclosed that extensive pilfering from the mails had been carried on for a long time in that State. On the Chicago Board 370,000 bushels of wheat sold for prices ranging from $1.83 to $1.93 per bushel. The constitutional convention of Maryland passed a measure freeing all slaves and prohibiting slavery in the future. - Kentucky, along the Ohio River In the vicinity of Lexington, was overrun with Confederate guerrillas. Major General W. S. Rosecrans directed the people of Missouri to organize home guards for protection against Confederate guerrilla raida

Thirty Years Ago. The corner stone of the Chicago postoffice and custom house was laid. Fourteen persons were killed and 100 injured when the floor of-the Central Baptist Church of Syracuse, N. Y., In which a strawberry festival was in progress, gave way. The postal convention bet wee a France and tbe United States was promulgated. A two days’ battle at Cheloa, Spain, resulted in the defeat of 10,000 Carllsts by ,• Republican force half as large. General Concha, Republican, killed. Contracts were closed at Milan Cor equipping the railways of upper Italy with American made palace cars. A jury of prominent physicians la New York was gotten together to determine how far blood poison contributed to death from hydrophobia. Twenty Years Ago. The Builders and Traders’ Exchange of Chicago opened, with headquarters at 159 La Salle street. The heirs of Richard Wagner refused an offer of $250,000 from au American for the exclusive rights to “Parsifal.” A bill to incorporate the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was introduced In the National Senate. The grounds of the Washington Park Driving Club were opened to the public for the first time. The third general council of the reformed churches (pan-Presbyterian) opened in Belfast, Ireland.

Ten Years Ago. Francois Sadl-Carnot, President of tbe French Republic, was assassinated in Lyons by Cesare Giovanni Sunto. The strike ordered by the American Railway Union against the Illinois Central spread to other roads running into Chicago, and the greatest railway tleup In American history was oil M. Caslmlr-Perler was elected President of the Republic of France to sacteed the murdered Carnot