The Syracuse Register, Volume 6, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 January 1895 — Page 2

Syracuse flcgistcr. SYRACUSE. : : INDIANAMil. Gladstone has gone into refo-er ment, but he is not out of touch with the great humanitarian movements with which his long public life has been identitieiL / Mackenzie Bowell, "ho is to bo prime minister of < an ad a, is seventyone years of age. He is a native of England, but has been in C anada since he was ten years, old. He is an extreme Protestant. With her prospect park of 526 acres and 137-acres in small parks, Brooklyn is now casting about for more park area, She wants to buy in territory before the streets and blocks are built up to it. thus enhancing the value several I undrcd fold. ARBORICULTURISTS are now complaining that electric light is playing havoc with’trees in cities and towns. They keep the trees awake o’ nights so that their leaves appear blighted. The claim is .that the trees need sleep just as all animal nature needs it. The lady teachers in the public schools of Philadelphia petitioned to have their salaries made equal to those of tpale teachers. grOjfle for griuic. and the school hoard promptly complied by proposing to reduce the salaries .of all male, teachers to. those of‘tifo corresponding female teachers. ? Some of the Pacific coast states have been profiting fo.a notable extent from the Chinese-Japanese war. The shipments of meaj and grain from Portland and Tacoma to botjh countries have been enormous,, and hopes are entertained that it will,provethe begin* ning of a permanent trade. In answer to a request which came from'sew-rsl patriotic American, citizens for i erm ." n to rect.a monument on the sp«>t where Gen. Montgomery fell in his unsuccessful effort to capture Quebec in 1775, a committee of the Quelec 'city council have just filed a recommendation • that the" request be granted. . Tin New York philanthropists who started a plan last; win,terlof lending mono . to deserving poor people on the. security of household gjxxis have met with -Success .enough to lead them to double the capital employed- They loaned last winter and found repayments sat factory 11 pug-h to make the plan self-supporting. A (enti’.al Pacific railway* land agent *a.- ‘ ere are head 'd w ild gorses in Nevada. They are a source of much trouble and loss to. st.ykmen, lu’cau-e they eat off the best grass on the ranges and leave little for cattle and si cep. The last legislature passed a'law' permitting unv one to s.hqot stallions found running wild. 'J. ■ An exp' Ting party is shortly to make. out just w hat has been happening on the suthm J lately, to give basis for the Various r. p r't- of volcanic etjup'.: ha,’ avalaneb'•■*; glacial advances, and the . like. The latest dbservatfona with telescope* -• • ' -how that sompchange in the f, rtn of the summit has realty ...taken place An old nsan of seventv-eight was pent to jail for three Cays by t e Mary iel'ot'r Eng J pqlice magistrate recently, as he was unable to pay a fine of si sty cents for not seeing that his tweljcy-Vcar-<.yl grandchild Went to ■ sctiool. lie was a js'rfcctiy respec able workincman, h.»wife was bed-ridden, the child's parpsts were dead, and he could go a iter the truaut himself. ' Tiirm is n town fn Arizona which'offers exceptional ch. nccs for won > n ' anxious, to get married. It is a mm.ng camp called '‘l'achi-lor** Rest,” about sixty mile's north of Tucson. Although the population numlsTs -iv, t;><-re is not a woman or a cat in the camp, and ?*' men have advertised for wives n a Tu p::j.lt.ey must be- ? d character and understand the (lute- of a household.. The i -t miner offer*- * dowry of s’.o ■ d Aftkii many wanderings, Robert u 'amoa. ling has . Uren, it great globe-trotter. Bret Har'e. • rawford and Henry James are practically denationalised. Julian Hawthorne, after much travel, has settled, down in Jama ca. Stanley J. tVey man has Wandered over Europe afoot Conan Doyle has t areled much, and is planning fust her globe-trotting, wh.-e ■ Lafcadio Hearn has been “ijoing" Japan. Electricity has now, it seems, beaten the record of the gold beater and can produce a foil of the metal from five to ten times thinner than-ordinary gold leaf, .Mg Joseph* Wilson Swan, the well Uhbwn chemist of electric lighting.'fame, has presented to the Royal society -specimens of this wonderfully thin-foil made by depositing gold on copper with the electric current and then dissolving away the copper from it with perchloride of iron. Women in the Glasgow shops, according to a recent report, receive from $1 or 51.23 to S3a week; hairdressers, milliners and tobacconists may get S 3-75; overseerk begin with S 3 a week and may rise .»to S6OO a year. One young woman in sole charge of a shop received $2 a week; her hours were 12’-£ four days of the week. 7. , on one. and HS on oneiher meals were brought in to her; there were no sanitary conveniences, these being rare in Glasgow shops. Another worked from 9:30 a. m. till 10 p. m.. and on Saturdays till 11, for $1 75 a week, and was not allowed' to go out for her meats. Ix the extreme west horses now cost less than cattle. A lady who spent. Mitne time in south California last summer saw 4 beautiful pair of black horses, matched like twins, and in the prime of their horsehood, offered for sale at forty - dollars—twenty dollars each—with no takers. ATiundred head of unbroken bronco® from Wyoming were sold in Denventa few days ago for ninety dollars and their freight, less than a dollar a head. The information is current that an Idaho stock form hat- turned 230 ponies adrift to foraga for themselves through the winter, ' ffcMt there was no aalo for them.

Epitome of the Week. INrERESTINO NEWS COMPILATION. FROM WASHINGTON. Is the supreme court of the District of Columbia the first of a Series of attacks on the income tax was begun byJohn G. Moore. The income tax law will again be fought in the senate on the ground that the act is illegal. Ist the United States the visible supply of grain on the 26th was: Wheat, 89,071,000 bushels; corn, 8,838.000 bushels; oats, 9,000,000 bushels; rye, 452,000 bushels; barley. 3,306,000 bushels THE EAST. In Pittsburgh E. D Witt & Co., proprietors of the East End theater, assigned with liabilitiesof SIOO.OOO. Flames destroyed nearly 2.000,000 feet of lumber and twenty loaded pailway cars at Burlington. VL, the loss being $150,000. Miss Miller, of Johnstown, Pa., wearied of waiting for a lover who had deserted her years ago on Christmas day. ended her life. A fast express train at Vineland, N. J., collided with a carriage and killed three of the occupants. , • .. In New York Sa in tiel C. Seely, who stole SJM.QOO from the Shoe and Leather bank, was sentenced to a term of eight years. <i - ' The first of the police officials convicted as a result of the Lexow inves tigation. Ex*CapL Stephenson, of New York, was sentenced to three years and nine/'months imprisonment and fined SI,OOO. Becaise of domestic troubles William S. Wh,i|man. of Winooski. Vt, shot and killed his wife and two boys and then committed suicide. J.n New York Edwanl IL Carter for twenty-nine years a clerk in the Na-z. , tional bank of commerce, confessed to embezzling $30,000. •A Fot cit destined for Hartford and containing 600 letters was stolen from the depot platform at New Haven;* Conn. The steamer Majestic -arrived in New York with the largest single mail ever brought across the Atlantic. It " as in 1,672 bags. Thk most severe blizzard in years swept over thy eastjern states. Along Ahe’ Massachusetts coast many ships were wrecked, causing great loss of life, and in the' cities ot Boston and New York much damage was done by the storm At New Castle. I’a,. August I’brinontir shot and fatally wounded Miss Meister, the daughter of his landlady, and Robert Charb-s, another boarder, and then blew out his own brains. He was insane. • In New York the dry go'als and mil’.liuery firm ■< f J Lichte’nstein A Sons failed for s4s<J;o<X>. WEST AND SOUTH. The state relief commission says > there are e»ver. ‘js.OoJ families in Nebraska needing aid because of crop failure. i»i BING the sinking of a well on a farm near Brownville', Neb.., rieh gold- ! .bearing ore w as discovered. The death of ex-Congressman Mar- .; quette, of Lincoln, Neb., occurred at Tampa. Fla . from rheumatism of the ■ heart, aged 63 years. In a race war. caused by the killing l.of Joseph H. Isom, a white man, near Quitman. Ga.. seven negroes were shot and more shooting was exju-cted. At Junction City, Ky , Micajaa Rowj sey; a desperado, was killed by Town ! Marshal EH'.s. whom he.resisted. Row-, sey was the las’.of a father and seven sons, all of whom died with their boots ' .on. . .: ■' , 11V th#failure of the Citizens'stock bank and Slater savings bank at Slater. Mo . many farmers and mer- | chants w ere financially ruined. Ex-Sf.naioh Ai corn s funeral at i J Eagle's Nest Miss., was attended by SOO negroes the majority of whom I were his formed slaves. In St Louis sneak thieves entered ‘ a barber shop and stole a pocketbqok ! belonging to Michael Dorab coatainmg S.'.tW. { , Charged With being the leaders of a band of counterfeiters John E. Bittcll ! and his wife were arrested at St Joe. IMa ” . > ■ ■ Mr*. Ida Rons was given a verdict at I Huntsville, Ala., of $16,000 against the | WesternUnion Telegraph company few ' failure to deliver a message to her bus I band. By the tin box scltgme Henry Kinnett. a farmer, living near Preble, 0., was . bunkoed out of $3,000. Is burning some, old letters Mrs. j Kelher. oU ‘English. 'lnd , destroyed $2,400. thy total proceeds of the sale of her home. A No» lynched * negro named Benjamin at Ocala. F.a. v for assaulting a white wamlffii' / In Terre Halite Ind.. George Robert- nee for train wrecking, says he was promised ■ im-, ; munity for aiding the authorities to convict hi* associates. . Henry R. Evans tvas taken ill and died w ithin a few hours while eating Christmas *d;nnef at the home of * friend in-Rockford, HL There is Ino law says Judge Wall of Leadvinc, prohibiting a man from burning his own house. " Society women issued Christmas e htions of the San Francisco Examiner and the Rocky Mountain Nl-ws at Denver. Thrkr students of the St Paul college broke through the ice and were on.wn<-.; wiidfc s iatctig in a pa'vkatSL Paul. Fot it bn -iness firms in MilwauKce failed with liabilities aggregating 81W.000. BecaCse of her husband's fondness for a -6-year-old daughter by a former wife. Mrs. Myrtle Sanpson poisoned herself at Peoria. Ilk In Chicago Eugene V. Debs and other members of the American Railway union were granted a stay of sentence until January 8. In' a collision between passenger trains at Waxahachie. Tex., eighteen persons were seriously injured The stale teachers* associations of Illinois. Wisconsin. lowa, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas held their annual meetings. When arrested in New Orleans upon the charge of insanity. A. W. Alton, of New Jerusalem. Tex., said be was on the way to Washington to kill the president. -» Fire destroyed the state normal college for girls at Livingstone, one of the moat prosperous institutions in Alabama. Will Carter and Dan McDonald -colored} were lynched by a inob near j 1 eridlan, Mias., for killing J»«9b Copp,

From Nebraska to the Atlantic coast a heavy snowstorm raged. Five boys were fatally burned in a suburb of Richmond, Va., by an explosion of gunpowder. After supposing him dead for thirty years William Blakesley, of Sacramento, Cal., gladdened the hearts of his parents at Trenton, N. J., by let- . ting them know he is alive. The attorneys of Madeline Pollard propose.to follow Breckinridge on his lecture tour and attach the receipts. Flames swept over a “large area in the Southern part of “N” county. 0.T., and a number of farmers lost every-’ thing they owned and barely escaped with their families. i - In New Orleans Miss Celeste Stauffer, who was engaged to Samuel J. Tilden at the time of his death, was married to George S. Eastwick. „ Fike destroyed the old capital build--1 ing at Atlanta, Ga., the loss being SIOO,OOO. Will Perry and Alex Williamson, two young men living at Coalburg, Ala., fought for the hand of Nannie > Bell and both were killed. Burglars entered the bank at Somonauk. 111., and robbed the safe of 28,100 ’and a large amount, of valuables. ’ ' The father of the free school system of Wisconsin, Col. Michael Frank, died at Kenosha at the age of 90 years. It was voted by the women's council of the Nineteenth Century club of Memphis, Tenn., to boycott Congress- ■ ,mau Breckinridge's lecture. A TERKWH blizzard swept the western slatesand the mercury fell far below .zero. William Findley and Joseph Bidwell. farmers of I nion county, were killed near Columbus, 0., by a PanHandle train. The college presidents of Indiana ami io’wa .detided to forbid intercom legiate football games. At, the age of 44 years “Sim” Coy, for majuy years a picturesque figure in Indiana polities, died at his home in Indianapolis. Robbers broke into the home of Henri- Fecker, at Piqua. 0., and carried off his savings, amounting to $4,750. Robbers and' farmers engaged in a desperpte fight near . Salem, 0., and two of the latter were shot and one of the fortnejr. Attorneys in lowa met in Des -Moines and state bar association. A. J. .McCreary, of Keokuk, was elected president. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The Hawaiian authorities discovered a royalist conspiracy and ■ five of those implicated were placed under arrest. George 11. Ashford, of Vancouver, IL <’.. kille.l his wife and one child w hile drunk and fatally wounded another. ‘ . Nearly . 100 persons were said to : have perished in a storm which swept Great Britain. Great damage to property was done, . China decided to send a new mission to Japan to sue for terms of peace direct. ’. Mohammedan inhabitantsof Turfan, Kashgar, were in open rebellion, desiring to shake off the yoke of China and found an independent government under Russiasi suzeraintv. (Iff Port Erin the Biritish steamer .Abydos in a gale and twentytwo persons w ere tlrowned. The. Braziiian-troops burned a house at San Gabriel used as a hospital and 120 rebels perished. The death of Francis 11.. ex-king of Naples, occurred at Area so the Aus- . trian Tyrol, at the age of 59. It was said that Austria proposed to join Germany in retaliating on the United States if the sugar duties were not modified. MaitAt-ding Yaqui Indians in the western part of Guaymas. Mexico, visited the ranch sos Julio Cardenas and , massacred the latter and his entire family, consistingof wife and tw#chilJfren. ■■ / • ' Ln Brazil another rebellion was threatened. The army, which is devoted to Peixoto, refused to obey President Moraes’ orders, and 200 officers were imprisoned. Jose Eli.atrl twice president of Uruguay, died at Montevideo. LATER NEWS. There were ;30 business failures in the [United States in the seven days ended, on the 28th. against 349 the week [-revious and 511 in the corresponding time in 1893. 0 - The pres dent has approved the act to establish a national military park at tl e battlefield of Shiloh. Fi’vi :i.< -. acre k:.led and a rfumbef of others badly scalded by the sonof 8 sawm.ll boiler at Bonayr, Kv Offl eks searcbitig for a stolen body in twenty bodies of various ages u>.an.empty house. Peter Murdock, a New Orleans Uj-t -r.i.:iu. sin>t his wife and then , blew out his own brains with * revolver. . The county treasury at Santa Rosa, Cal ..was robbed by a burglar of .-Michigan teachers in session at Lansing declared in favor of free text books and against teachers using to- ■■ bacco. ==■■- ■ AT Wellington, Mich., Matthew Palmer cut his wife's throat and then etit his owQ. Both were dead. TwENTY-FiVEf bakers in Cincinnati reiluced the price of bread from five to three cents.' At Silver Lake. Ore., during a Christmas celebration a lamp exploded and forty-one persons were burned >to death and fifteen injured. Lekler's hotel and other buildings in WaterbuTy. Conn., were destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Outlaws, supposed to belong* to th® Dalton gang,, burned the courthouse at Stillwater, O. T-, with all its records. ‘ • Doss Hatts murdered his fiancee. Lizzie Smith, at Hunter Hill. Ala., and then killed himse.lf. 5 Ex-Senator J Lmks G. Fair, thb bonanza millionaire, died at the Lick bouse in San Francisco of asthma, aged 63 years. Flames swept away a btisiness bloek in Buffalo. N. Y., the loss - | 000. Two Sticks; the Sioux Indian who murdered four cowboys February 2, 1893, was hanged nt Deadwood, & D, | protesting his innocence. The Spokane (Wash.) Commercial savings bank, with a capital of $50,000, | suspended payment. Exchanges at the leading clearing j houses in the United States during the week ended on the 28th aggre- i gated $836,401,764. against $1,020.040,- < 544 the ptigvious w*ek. The increase, compared with she cprrenjqnd we*l| U)p«9,WM».L I

PERISHED BY FIRE. Awful Finding of Christmas Festlvities In Oregon. I • t Ths Han in Whleh They Held Takes Fire from an Exploding Lamp— Forty-One of Thoee Present r I Burn to Death. Klamath Falls, Ore., fDec. 29.— ’ News has just reached here that a horrible holocaust occurred at Silver Lake, Lake county. Ore., on Christmas eve, in which forty-one persons were burned to death and sixteen badly injured. five of whom wiU die. A large crowd had assembled in Christman ( Bros.’ hall to attend a Christmas tree festival. While the festivities were at their height some one climbed on a bench, from which point he expected to get a better view of what was going on. In doing so his head struck a lamp hanging from the ceiling. overturning it. The oil immediately caught fire and, everything in the room being dry and of an inflammable nature, the room was soon a mass of flames. , . } By this time the confusion was of great that people began scrambling in a wild endeavor to reach the door. Women and children were trampled, under foot, and, as there was only one exit to the hall, and the fire being between the majority of the crowd and the door, many rushed headlong s into th« flames. The «lead are: Mrs. John Buick and two children. Mrs. Owsley and two children. J. J. Buick and daughter. Mrs. Snelling. Mrs. Howard aqd two children. W. , O Heart and wife. Mrs. Coshow. Frank West, wife and two children. Ed Bowen, Miss .McCauley, T. J. Laurie and child. Mrs. Ward. Mrs. Abshir. Frank Horning. Mrs. Payne, Mrs Williams and child. C. W. Martin and wife. Robert small. Mrs. Ella Ward and child. Frank Ko&s. mother and sister, a child of Roy .Ward. Ira Hamilton. Mrs. Gus Schroeder and child. The building, a two-story frame structure, contained Christman Bros, store, in the first floor was the hall, which was rented for gatherings of all kinds. Silver Lake is a small village in Lake count}-. Ore., of about 100 inhabitants, and it-islso miles from the nearest telegraph office. B R UT ALINTdIANH ANG E D. With Four Other In<ilan*-l£e Killed Four Men in Coid Blood. Deadwood, S. D.. Dec. 29. —Two Sticks, the noted Sioux Indian murderer. for whose reprieve many efforts have been made in vain, was hanged here Friday. 'The crime for which Two Sticks was hanged was' the murder of Emanuel Benedict. Rodney Royce.- James 'Bacon and William. Kelley at’iiumphrey and Stringer s cattie ranch on the Sidux reservation February : 4. Racon and Kelly were boys of IS and IS j. respectively and the other two were employes on the • ranch Four other Indians w ere engaged in the massacre. Os these First Eagle was killed by a pursuing posse, and Fights With. Two-Two and White Faced Horse are now serving sentences in the penitentiary, The murder ,was brutal and unprovoked. The victims were sitting about the fire talking to the Indians when the latter, without warning, opened fire on them and . killed three instantly, the other dying soon afterward. 1 , ' A GHASTLY FIND. A. Non Discovers the Dead Bodies of His Parent* at Vassar, Mich. Vassar, Mich., . Dec. 29 —George Palmer and wife were found Friday morning/ with their throats cut lying dead on the floor. Their son went to the~barn to do the work about 8:30 o’clock and when he returned he found his parents dead. The couple had not lived Jhappily and it is believed that PalmCr killed - the woman and then cut his own throat. From the position of the bodies Mrs. Palmer had■ evidently been taken unawares by her husband. After killfog Kis wife, Palmer laid down by her side and drew the butcher-knife which he had used on his wife, across his own throat. The murder theory has no foundation in fact. PRINTERS TO COMBINE. Larger Concerns of the Country Said to Be About to Unite. Akron. 0., Dec. 29.—1 t is stated here that there is a project on foot to eombine all of the larger printing houses of the country. If the deal is consummate?. many of dollars will be involved, the money eoming not only from this country but from Europe. The information comes from one of the direetdrsof the mammoth Werner print-, ing edneern of this city. He sfiid that the matter, would be fully discussed at the annual meeting, of the Werner company to be held at Chicago during the early part of January. DISASTROUS FIRE. Buffalo (H. T.) Block Destroyed with ■ Loss of *300.000. New York. Dec. 28.—A special from Buffalo, N. Y.. says fire destroyed the three-story bihek block at the northeast corner of Broadway and Fillmore avenue. The building was owned by John. Kennedy, of Binghamton, and occupied by Eckhardt & Cat Oswald Tinkler and Charles Weisman as stores. : The fire spread over the whole block and across Broadway to the threeatory brick block extending from Fill?, more avenue to Gibson street The loss will reach $30U.000- < heap Bread at ClncmnatL Cincinnati. Dec. 29.— The. crusade for cheap bread’ here has resulted in twenty-five bakers of this city to date reducing the price from five to three cents a loaf. Some reduced to four cents, and few now are able to maintain the five-rent rate. Praatdent Approves ot the Park. Washington, Dec. 29. —The president has approved an act to establish a national military park' at the battlefield of Shiloh, similar to those at Gettys- >' burg and Chickamauga, carrying an appropriation of $75,000 for the purpose of securing the necessary land and for making improvements. Potato Famine Threatened. London, Dee. 29.—With a view to averting a potato famine in Ireland the government has decided to advance money without interest to the poor law guardians for the purchase of seed potatoes. ■'■ ____ Girt Burned to Death. Hot Springs, Ark., Dec- 28.—Miss j Ura Hattie Clay. 14 years old, while 1 sitting near a fire in a reading room • suddenly found her dress on fire and was quickly enveloped in flames She rushed out of doors, and before the fire could be extinguished she was fatally burned. Blown Into the River. I Huron, a, Dec. 38.—While crossing the Lake Shore bridge here durfog the - big storm Friday, Gilbert Jamison, an 1 old citizen of Norwalk. 0., was blown i from th® bridge into th* rim- TM i tody v»*a

FEWER FAILURES. A Decrease In Business Disasters During the Year. New York, Dec. 2ft—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "Commerclaf failures for 1894 already reported number 14.£92. against 15.242 last year, With liabilities of *163.238.404. against 1345,779,889 last year. Next week the final report for 1894 will probably include about 400 more failures, with liabilities of about f 4.000.000. From these accounts. banks and bankers, financial and transporting companies are excluded. Manufacturing failures already number 2,7567 against 3.422 last year, but liabilities are only *64,491,287 against *176.962,091 last year. The trading failures already number 11,310. against 11.513 last year, but liabilities are only f 87.899.057, against *130.062.333 last year. The statement by sec lions shows a decrease of about twothirds in defaulted liabilities tn the middle and central northern states, one-half in the ’ west and southwest and a third in other sections <, "Wages actually paid in November are compared to-day with working hours in establishments throughout the country, and in about fifty branches of industry, the average being 236.4 hours per hand this year. 218 4 last year, and 243.2 in 1892. The wages paid per hour were 12 per cent, less than last year, and 8.59 per cent, less than in 1892. As the hands employed in establishments reporting were 8.53 per cent, more than last year, but 1202 per cent less than in 1892, the total ; wages paid in these establishments in November was 16.33 per cent. more than in November. 1883, but 21 77 per cent less than tn November, 1892. Thus the decrease in pur- ’ chasing power - of the workfcg force ts found to be due mainly to decrease in number of hands and hours o’ work, rather than to reduction of wages paid per hour. ’ "Holiday trade has scarcely met expectations. Purchases have been numerous, but, smaller than usual in amount And more confined to needful articles, thus anticipating ordinary trade. The, volume of business represented By clearing house exchanges is 7.7 per cent larger than last year, but 21.8 per cent, less than the year before, and the daily average for December has been 7.1. per cent more than last year, but 25 2 less than the year before. In spite of" some sensational losses on western roads, the . earnings of all railroads reporting tor December are 2.9 per cent greater than last year and but 11.6 per cent less than in 1892. . "Wheat has declined one-half.cent during I the week. Exports th December from both ! coasts have been a‘little larger than last year, i but for the crop year about 2.000.000 bushels smaller. The'western estimate? usually regarded with most confidence. is. that the crop will reach 515 OJO.OOO bushels, which Will leave for export, with stocks brought over, more than 290.0c0.000 bushels, of which frnly 75.00d.QJ0 bushels have gone abroad. Corn has declined of a cent, with-good receipts. The price of cotton has not changed, but the fact that receipts from plantations this month have been greater than in 1891, while stocks In sight here and abroad are lhrger than at the same date that year, is an obstacle to any rise. c “Money is still conjing to this city in a:steady stream, and exports of gold for the week are expected to be about 82 500.000. The dissolution of the bond syndicate, on the ground that the pending currency bill destroyed the market for bonds, is the most important event in financial circles, and is liable to have re- . suits of some consequence. For commercial loans the demand has slightly increased, though only as might be expected at this sea- ! son. ’ " Bradstreet’s says: * “£eneral trade presents the usual holiday characteristics. A majority of wholesale dealers and manufacturers are beginning or have finished taking account of stock or arranging settlements for the new year Main activity has been for Christmas specialties in retail lines. The practical conclusion of holiday trade has brought about a moderate reaction, and this emphasizes the dullness noted in preceding weeks. Jobbers claim the outlook for tradq during the late winter and early spring is for very conservative buying. But in some lines; notably heavytextiles. recent cold weather has stimulated sales, and reports from retailers west and south indicate low stocks, almost beyond precedent. This is taken as indicative of a better merchandise trade in the n.-ar ■future'than fb’r_» .. several years past. Traveling salesmen, with ‘ few exceptions, are oft the road. Merchants generally incline to the view that ISIS promises a favorable business, although, as indicated; opinion is divided as to whether renewed activity will mark the early months of the coming year or not." DEATH OF EX-SENATOR FAIR. One of, the Bonanza Kings Passes Away at San Francisco San Francisco, Dec. 29. —Ex-United States Senator James G. Fair, one of the bonanza kings, died at midnight. [James G. Fair was born in Clougher county. Tyrone. in 1831. fits, parents emigrated to America in 1843. and 1 -settled in Illinois. Yqyng Fair was* attracted to California in 1849. where be engaged in quartz mining. His mastery of the business procured for him the superintendency of various properties in different parts of the state. In 1860 Mr. Fair went to Nevada. where ’ his remarkable talent for engineering and mining proved the basis of his fortune. He is , said to have had no equal as an architect and builder of quartz mills and chlorinizing furnaces.: In 1865 he became superintendent >of the Ophir, and in 1867 of the Hale A Norcross. It was at this time that, in conjunction with; J. W. Mackay. J. C. Flood and W. S. O’Brien. he formed the famous Bonanza firm. Mr Flood was relied . upon to Secure the properties from which such enormous wealth was to be drawn. Various mines were acquired, which afterwards constituted the Virginia Consolidated and California mines. Millions and millions flowed into the coffers of the firm, but Mr. Fair continued his minute supervision of the work, going down to the lowest levels cf the mines. So much exposure seriously Impaired his health, and in 1879 he was obliged to take a sea voyage. He sailed around the .world, and returned to Nevada when the canvass of 1880 was at its height. He became the democratic candidate for United States senator and was elected. His wealth was recently estimated at 850.000,000: May 2. 1883. Mrs. Fair, whom he married In 18®. brought an fiction for divorce. Mrs. Fair was awarded 84.250.1M0 in cash and bonds, the family residence in San Francisco and the custody of the three younger children. The senator was given the custody cf the eldest son, James G. Fair, JrJ / loggers Desert the Campt. Menominee, Mich.,’ Dec. 2ft—The weather has been very cold, the temperature changing from zero to 10 below, but no snow has fallen here since early in November, and that quickly disappeared. Ice formed in th® bay for,the first time this season Thursday night, but all is .broken up by the northwest winds. Men in large numbers have come out of the logging camps. In most of the Menominee camps operations 'lire said to be at a Standstill and a log famine is apFate of a Hermit. Kan., Dec. 2ft — Jeane Emil Lane, an old Frenchman who for a long time had lived in a tumbledown shanty in the western part of Beaver county. No Man’s Land, was found dead in his hut Thursday. He had been frozen to death. The old i man was a kind of a hermit. He was reported to be the illegitimate son of Bonaparte's famous marshal of the same name. His neighbors say be was 90 years old. He had been hidden away in Beaver county for about ten years and the people giving near him supptied his few wants. Coarthouse Burned. Perry. O. T.. Dec. 2ft— The county courthouse of Payne county, at Stillwater, was burned together with all the connty records, late Thursday j evening. The fire was of incendiary origin. It is believed that the old Dalton gang burned the house to save Arkansas Tom, a member of the gang, who is under indictment for crime in Payne county. ' Cholera in South America. Buenos Ayres, Dec. 29. —The government has published by decree that the ports Santa Fe, Rosario and Col**|ipe »re effected with cholera.

POEMS OF THE DAY. * My Little Maid. Looking into her clear gray eyes, ’■ My little maid. I watch their changeful lights arise. Not undismayed: For should I wrong her gentle trust. Serene, complete. What keenest loss forever must My future meet We walk through ways with danger fraught. Os naught afraid. In sweet exchange of inmost thought— My little maid. —Cora S. Wheeler. In S. S. Time* Unnecessary Sympathy. I always felt sorry when I met Jim— Poor fellow, he's married now; And life is a serious thing to hljp. For he lives by the sweat of his brow. And the cares of a family weigh him down. And he slaves to run the house: Why. Jim was the gayest boy in town. And I U bet he’s as poor as a mouse! And because he looked so worn and sad. I tried whenever we met To talk of the good times we’d had. In hopes that he might forget. Till I said I was living at the club; * Then I felt a deep chagrin; Lest he should think I was trying to rub Hlsmtsery further in. But he exclaimed: “That’s a horrible life! No child to climb on your knee: No quiet home and the loving wife”— , By Jove! He was pitylng’me/” —Harry Romaine, in Life. Uncertainty. Sometimes I dream, with quiet thought tn my own heart. If in her thoughts but one of* me e’er taketh part* It may not be form» to know. And yet I pray it may be so For in my heart she always is; each thought and every prayer That surely she must know how she is enshrined there. It may not be that she does know; O that I could but tell her so! I. The Cheerful Man's Sermon. | It’s easy to smile and be cheerful When everything’s pleasant and fair; We complain of life’s hardships j When there are no burdens to bear. ■ But as soon as the blue skies cloud over. ; And the way that was smooth has grown ; rough. " ‘ We forget the blithe songs we were singing. And our faces are doleful enough. But some can be cheerful when shadows Are thick round the pathways they tread; They sing in their happiest measures With a faith in blue skies overhead. They face with a smile that’s like sunshine The trials that come in their way And they always find much to be glad for In the lonesomest. dreariest day. Thank God for the man who is cheerful In spite of life’s troubles, I say— Who singsofa brighter to-morrow, .7 Because of the clouds or to-day. His life Isa beautiful sermon And this is its'lesson to me: Meet trials with smiles, and they vanish. Face care, with a song, and they flee—Eben E, Rexford, tn Chicago Tr'.bun*. “Se® First Page." Is the heart a wayward one’ Have the feet gone far astray’ “Read the preface." “see first page." Records of an early day. Oh. how fair that life began On the rosy natal morn— Oh. what budding hopes were rife When the little child was born. Was the sapling trained aright?Did it have the sun and air? Were its wiihered.boughs removed And the dead leaves clipped with caret Were the best impressions made On the young and plastic mtnd? Know ye, “as.the twig is bent " So the tree shall be inclined?” ‘ Mind. then, what the preface tells. Doting mother, fond and fair; Let the first pure, spotless page Show a record bright and rare. —N- Y. Weekly. Two Boys. Between two bonny boys I stand. On each fair head I rest a hand. Two faces bright are raised to mine. <■ * And both with boyish mischief shine; Two eyes of. gray, two eyes of blue. Where childhood s happy heart looks through. On each dear head a hand I lay. “God keep my bonny boys,” I pray. Dream children: Visions of the night. You vanish with the morning light. Between two baby graves I kneel, . Too tired for tears—l only feet Babes ever' Never older grown. So young they could not walk alone. On each short mound a hand I lay: “God keep my bonny boys. ” I pray. —Floretta N. Crawford, tn Youth’s Companion. When Betty Smile-. Tis always summer in my heart When Betty smiles at me: • I feel the stab of Cupid's dart When Betty smiles at me. A sweet confusion she displays 1 At speechless. quite. I stand and gaze— Distraught I am. in many ways— When Betty smiles at me. f• • ■ White, pretty teeth .gleam through red lips. When Betty smiles at me. In each soft cheek a dimple dips. When Betty smiles at me. I see the gladness in her eyes— The first faint rays of love’s sunrise— And guess the truth that in them lies — When Betty smiles at me —Detroit Free Press. While Baby’s Sleeping. The restless bands so keen for play. Lie Clenched and do not stir; Her breath so light it scarce would sway •• A web of gossamer. Her baby voice that coos and crows, In sweetest cadence keeping. Is hushed, the house no music knows W hile baby’s sleeping. Her sunny eyes that when they rise. Dawn daytimes of delight. Behind the r fringing canopies e set. and it is night. - Five little toes the cover shows Beyond its edge just peeping. Fair os a pink five-petaled rose — While baby s sleeping. Seo! on the pillow here I’ve found Golconda’s treasure now— The golden curls that cluster round My darling’s neck and brow. Her sips just parted in a smile. Some pretty secret keeping; An angel whispers to her, while My. baby’s sleeping. —N. Y Recorder. It is the nudity of the live wire that makes it shocking —Pittsburgh Post.

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