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'he progress.
T. H. BEAUL1EU, Editor.
WHITE EARTH.
MINN.
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN the Senate on the 17th bills were passed
for public building in Lansing, Mich. (iHO .0(W)
Burlington, la. (275,000) Stillwater. Minn. (ff5V
000) appropriating 540,000 for the relief of the
Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, and thirty
five private pension bills....In the House lis
were reported for the erection of public build
ings at Sioux City, la., and Racine, Wis., and
for the location of a branch Soldiers^ Home in
Grant County, Ind. The debate on the Mills
Tariff bill was commenced, Mr. Mills (Tex.)
speaking in favor of the measure and. Mr.
Kelley (Pa.) against.
IN the Senate on tho ISth the bill for the ad
mission of South Dakota as a State and the
organization of the Territory of North Dakota
was further considered. A bill was introduced
by Mr. Belmont to prohibit the coming of
Chinese laborers into'the United States. A
message vetoing the bill for the relief of Major
Daniel N. Bash, Paymaster United States
army, was received from the President. Eulo
gies upon Roscoe ConUling were delivered....
In the House bills were passed to create a De
partment of Labor, and to create boards of ar
bitration for tho settlement of controversies
and differences between inter-State- common
carriers and their employes.
A BILL was placed on the calendar in the
Senate on the 19th authorizing the President to
appoint and retire John C. Fremont as Major
General United States Army. The-bill for the
admission of South Dakota as a State was
passed by a vote of 25 to 23.... In th House
further consideration of the Tariff bill was
postponed untill the 31th, and the session was
occupied in discussing the Indian Appropria
tion bill, but no action was taken.
THE Senate was not in session, on the 20th.
In the House the Pension Appropriation
bill ($80,380,00: and. the Indian Appropriation
bill (*5,192,3"3 wore passed. A bill was intro
duced to protect the public from interruption
of traffic by.-railway strikes and other causes.
At the evening session twenty-two pension
bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
W. H. HAWLEY, a Danbury (Conn.) drng
gist, on the 17ih fatally sho Virgil Bar
num, his brother-in-law, during a family
quarrel.
JAMES AEBAN and daughter, living near
tit. Louis, were killed by a Missouri Pacific
engine while driving acrcsa the track on
the 17th.
M. WALTER, sheriff of Spink County, D.
T., was killed by lightning at Watertown
on the 17th.
TEE druggists in Iowa cities on the 17th
resolved not to take out liquor permits un
der the now law, and the drug-stores will
hereafter be "dry."
THE New York Assembly on the 17th
passeJ, by a vote of 80 to 8, the bill which
substitutes electricity for banging.
THE Detroit Butchers' Protective Associa
tion on the 17th declared war ou Chicago
dressed beef.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed on the 17bh
in Northern Michigan, and the straits were
solidly blocked with ice.
TWENTY families at Alma, "Wis., were on
the 17th driven from their homes by high
water. The loss to property was estimated
at $50,000.
A SYNDICATE of a dozen Chicago capital
ists on the 17th purchased the street rail
way at Indianapolis, Ind., for #1,000,000.
IN the Chippewa (Wis.) valley the snow
was three feet deep on the 17ih.
THE barn of M. J. Cole, near Hebron, V7is.,
was burned on the 17th, and fifty-two head
of cattle perished in the flames.
ALL the Burlington switchmen in the
yards at Kansas City quit work on the 17th
because the company would not reinstate a
discharged employe.
OHIO removed the quarantine restrictions
on Cook Countv (TIL) cattle on the 17th.
MOSES PRALEY, the "bear" grain operator
at St Louis, closed his deals on the 18th,
losing about $GUO, 000.
AT a sale in Mew York on the 18 th of
Amarican silks, manufactured by the
Phcenix Manufacturing Company o Pater
son, N. J., over three thousand pieces were
disposed of.
THE village of Fremont, Wis., was under
water on the 18tb, all the stores were
closed, the goods having been removed out
of danger, and many familes were residing
inthe upper story of their dwellings.
*TVE intoxicated Indians were drowned
on the 18th at Trempealeau, Wis, while
[attempting to drag their canoes across a
raft of logs.
TWELVE stores and buildings were burned
at Braddock, Pa., on the 18th, and fifty
people were rendered homeless.
THE losses to lumbermen by the floods in
Wisconsin and Minnesota were on the 18th
estimated at $250,000.
AT Nebraska City, Neb., Joseph M. Brown,
an engineer who had taken the place of
'one of the strikers, was attacked and fatally
dubbed by three unknown men on the 18th.
AN incendiary fire on the 18fch partly de
stroyed the stables of Senator Stanford at
Pale Alto, Cal., and several valuable racing
ihorses were burned to death or permanent
ay injured. Loss, $200,000.
IT was announced on the 18 th that an
organized gang of counterfeiters was flood
ting Eastern Tennessee with bogus gold and
silver pieces.
THE "White Caps" flogged Bob Broom
field, James Sellers and Mrs. Wilson at En
glish, Ind., on the 18th, the charge againat
them being that they had been guilty of
immoral conduct
THE twenty-firsfc woman who claims to
have been married to Mr. W. J. Brown, of
Detroit, made her complaint against him
on the 18th.
THE switchmen in the Chicago yards of
the Northwestern railway struok on the
18th because the company discharged two
yardmastera
BUSSFLL P. HOYT, for twenty years sec
retary and treasurer of the Mercantile
Benefit Association of New York, disap
peared on the 18th, and his accounts were
Baid to be $30,000 short.
CITIZENS of Lexington, Mass., on the 19th
celebrated the one hundred and thirteenth
anniversary of the first battle of the revo
lutionary war.
FOUR HUNDRED brewers at Cincinnati
struck on tLe 19bh because of the discharge
of several union men.
Miss BERTHA EVARD, a school-teacher near
Fort Wayne. Ind., was burned to death on
the 11Kb by her clothes taking fire from the
stove.
THE entire business portion of Monmouth
Center, Me., was destroyed by fire on the
19th.
ISAAC KIBKPATBICK and his wife, both
colored, living near Gallatin, Tenn., were
taken from their house on the 19th by a
mob, and the woman was hanged and the
man was shot to death. They were sus
pected of arson.
THE jury in the suit of David S. Fother
tnghanx against the Adams Express Com
pany for false imprisonment, on trial at St.
Louis, found a verdict on the 19th for
Focheringham, awarding hira damages of
$20,000.
FROM reports received on tha 19th by the
Northwestern Jlil'er ic estimated that the
shortage in tho winter wheat yield, as com-
pared with last year, would bo from
eighteen to thirty-six million bushels.
A LARGE portion of the town of Caledonia,
Wis., was hooded on the 19th by a break
in the levee on the west bank of the Wis
consin. Farms were also submerged, and
the damage would be great
CARNEGIE. Pmppe & Co., proprietors of
the Edgar Thomson steel-works at Brad
dock, Pa., decided on the 19th to resume
operations with non-union men. The
works, which employ four thousand men,
had been closed for four months on account
of w.ige troubles
SAMUEL COSYERS, atBockmarth, Ga., dried
a can of wet powder on the stove on the 20tb,
and the explosion which foll'owod blew him
to pieces.
DURING the seven days ended on tho 20th
there were 181 business failures in tho
United States, against 102 the previous
seven days The total failures from Jan
uary. 1 to date were 3,543, against 3,649
in the same time last year.
EIGHT men surrounded, the Yesquitas
ranch on the 20th near Brownsville* Tex.,
and binding tho men and women robbel
the hou?e of about $5,000 in money and of
a quant ty ot jewelry.
FIVE eloping couples -were married at
Jeffersonviile, M&, on the 20sh.
N. B. LESTER was hanged on the 20th at
Lebanon, Tenn., for the murder of Lieuten
ant J. T. Lan
ADVICES of the 20th say that eight horse
thieves were caught by an armed posse
thirty miles from Purcell, T.v after a run
ning fight, and strung up.
BALL games played on the 20th at the
opening of the National League champion
ship season of 1888 resulted as follows:.
Chicago, 5 Indianapolis, 4. Pittsburgh,,^
Detroit, 2. New York, 6 Washington, 0.
Boston, 4 Philadelphia, a
THE house of Fred Stover at Portland
Ore., was burned on the 20th, and Mrs
Stover and her baby were burned ta death.
A BLAST exploson on the 20th near
Labadie, Mo., fatally injured five men.
THREE men were burned to death and
several others were injured by the burning
of the Bethel House in St Louis on the
20th.
EMMA ALTHOUSE, of Attica, N. Y., who is
sulject to trances, awoke on the 20th from
a thirty-three days' sleep, and immediately
informed her physician that her grand
father was dead. Singular to relate, the
old man had expired at Mumford while the
young woman was in her trance.
THE 20th w.is ihe one hundredth day of
the present session of Congress The House
had passed 425 bills and the Senate 831.
Altogether 209 bills hsd passed both houses
and gone to the President for his signature,
and 12,508 bills and resolutions had been
introducedthe largest number on record.
AN entire family named Lathrop, father,
mother and three children, occupants of a
farm house near Wolf river, at Embarrass,
Wis, were swept away by the floods on thQ
20th and drownad.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Jr., was on the 17th
renominated for Congress by acclamation
at Cleveland by the Kepublieans of the
Eighteenth district of Ohio. In the Fif
teenth district General Grosveuor was re
nominated.
Itev. DR. M. B. ANDERSON, for thirty-five
years president of the University of Roches
ter, N. Y., placed his resignation in th*
hands of the trustees on the 17th, owing to
ill health.
ROSCOE CONSLINO died at his home in the
Hoffman House, New York, at 1:50 a. rn.
on the 18th. He was born in Albany, N.
Y., October 30, 1S29. In 1840 he entered
the 1 office of Spencer & Kernan in Uiica,
in 1858 was mayor of that city, and in the
same year he w: selected a Representative
in the Thirty-sixth Congress, was re-elected
in 1800, 18G4 and 1806. He took his seat
in ihe United States Senate March 4, 1867,
and was re-elected twice. In 1S81 he re
signed bis seat, retired from politics and
resumed the active practice of the law. He
leaves a wife and one daughter.
MRS. MANGEL TALCOTT, of Chicago, who
in the past ten years gave to charitable ob
jects $500,000, died on the 17th, aged six
ty-eight years.
THE Maryland Democrats will meet in
Baltimore May 10 to elect delegates to the
National convention.
IN the Louisiana election on the 17th
Nichoils (Dem.) was elected Governor by a
large majority, and the Legislature is Dem
ocratic in both branches.
IN Washington on the 17th Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood gave notice that she was in the
field again as a candidate for the Presi
dency.
THE Democrats of Washington Territory
met at North Takoma on the 18th and
elected delegates to the St. Louis conven
tion. Cleveland's tariff message was in
dorsed.
DB. AGNEW. the celebrated New York
physician who was the first to be called to
attend Roscoe Conkling when the latter en
tered upon his final illnes3, died on the 18th
from an abcess in the peritoneal cavity. He
was in his fifty-eighth year.
EX-SHERIFF B. F. MILLER, of South Bend,
Ind., died on the 18ch, aged seventy-seven
years. He was one of the oldest journalists
in the country, and founder of the first anti
slavery paper, the Philanthropist, which he
started in Western Pennsylvania in 1835.
THE Republicans of South Carolina met
at Charleston on the 18th and elected dele
gates to the Chicago convention who favor
Senator Sherman for President
THE Alabama Prohibitionists met at De
catur on the 18th and nominated a State
ticket, with J. C. Orr for Governor. The
platform denounces the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors and all forms of
license demands the repeal of the inter
nal-revenue and license laws requires that
saloon-keepers and others respect the Sab
bath, and favors residence of twenty-one
years for foreigners before voting.
REV. DB. ISRAEL W. ANDREWS, ex-presi
dent of the Marietta College at Marietta, O.,
and a teacher there since 1839, died on the
18th at Hartford, Conn,
HON. E. S. WILLIAMS was on the 18 bh re
nominated for Congress by acclamation by
the Republicans of the Third Ohio district
THE Georgia Republican convention met
on the 18th at Atlanta and elected dele
gates to the National convention who were
regarded as supporters of Sherman.
THE Ohio Republicans at their State con
vention in Dayton on the 19 th nominated
Joseph P. Bradoury for Supreme Court
Judge and Daniel J. Ryan for Secretary of
State. Governor Foraker, ex- Governor Fos
ter and Congressmen McKinley and Butter
worth were chosen as delegatjs-at-large to
the Chicago convention. Instructions for
Sherman were adopted. The platform de
nounces Democratic election frauds de
mands protection for American industries
censures Cleveland's free-trade message
commends the administration of Governor
Foraker demands a just and comprehen
sive pension bill, and pledges support to the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
FOB the seventh time the Republicans of
the Sixth Indiana district on the 19th nom
inated General Tom Brown for Congress by
acclamation.
THE Republicans of the Fifth Illinois dis
trict met at Geneva on the 19th and re
nominated Congressman Hopkins by accla
mation.
THE Eighth Indiana district Rspublicans
on the 19th nominated James T. Johnston
for Congress.
CONVENTIONS were held in each Con
gressional district in Indiana on the JQfch
&^-^V/v. {4^^^ ie^^
for the selection of delegates to the Nation
al Republican convention,, and the sesult
was a victory for General Harrison for
President.
THOMAS C. HANCE a native of Maryland,
died on the 19th at Macedon, N. Y., aged
one hundred and six years.
MB. A. & ABELL, founder and proprietor
of the Baltimore Hun, died on the 19th,
aged eighty-two years.. He leaves an estate
valued at nearly $20,000,000.
H. DEWABT, a prominent Democratic
politician and a member ot the Thirty-fifth
Congress, died on the 19th at Sunbury,
Pa., aged sixty-eight years.
THE Democrats in the F.f th Indiana dis
trict on the 19Ji nominated George W.
Cooper for Congress.
AT a meeting on the 20th of the Ohio Re
publican Le.igue in Dayton Judge John A.
Cdd*vell, of Cincinnati was elected presi
dent
V. HICKS, a ve'eran of the war of 1813
the Black Hawk w. r, died at Rood
house, III., on the 20tb, aged ono hundred
years He never rode on a railroad train,
and though he could not read or write he
amassed quite a fortune.
THE Greenback-L-ibor party of West Vir
ginia will meet at Charleston on tho 3d of
May to nominate a State t'ckefc
Miss MABT COLLINS died at Darlington,
Wis, on the 20th, aged one hundred and
ten j'ears.
WILLIAM B. DINSMOBE, president of tho
American Express Company, died at New
York on the 20th, aged seventy-eight years.
FUNERAL services were .held at ten o'clock
on the morning of the 20th in Trinity
Chspe), New York, over the remains of Ros
coe Conkling. At twelve o'clock the casket
was placed on a special train and taken to
Utica, where the interment would take
place.
FOREIGN.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, the celebrated poet,
critic nd scholar, died on the evening of
the 15th in Liverpool of heart diseasf. He
had been feeling in excellent health and
spirits, and was out tor a walk with Mrs
Arnold when death came upon hin. He
Wi.'S x?y-seven j'ears of age.
SIB DONALD SMITH, president of tlie Bank
of Montreal, on 16th gave $1,(00,000
for the endowment of the Royal Victoria
College for Women at Montreal. i
THE chief clerk of the treasury/was ar
rested at Athens, Greece, on the 1.7th for
embezzling $1,000,000 of the publ/c funds.
MARTIAL law was declared on tie 17th in
three of ihe provinces of Cuba-4-Havana,
Pinar del Rio and Matanzasas a means of
dealing with the crime and disorder that
hnd ran riot for several months./
THE Russian Government on the 17th
ordered the immediate expulsion from Rus
sian territory of the foreign-born. Jews in
babitating the province of Ihcrson, of
whom there are fortv thousand
A FIBE on the 17th on two plantations
near Matanzas, Cuba, destroyed 170,000
bales of sugar cane.
IN Salinas, Mex., six thousand eheep were
kille I in a wind-storm on the 17th.
THE British Hous3 of Commons on. the
18th passed the bill to legalize marriage
with a deceased wife's sister.
ADVICES of the ISth say that the riots in
Roumania ware spreading, and soldiers had
been sent to thir'.y villages to restore
order. Robbery, murdsr auti other out
rages were baing committed.
L'EBUS dispatches of the .18SVi say that
the condition of Emperor Frederick hod
change! for the worse, and his life was
considered in great danger.
FIFTY meters of railway between Gosseu
sass and Schelleburg, in Germany, were de
stroyed by an avalanche on the 19lh.
M. POLI.IKOFI', the Russian railway king,
died in London on the I9th. His fortune
wes estimated at $30,000,000.
AN explosion on the 10uh in the' 56.
Helena colliery at Workington, Eng., killed
seventeen parsons, and several others were
injured.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt in Cm
ada on the 19th at Riviere du Loup and St.
Paul's Bay.
ADVICES of the 20th from the Philippine
Islands say ih-it the town of San Fernandi,
in the Province of Pampmga, had Le^n
partlv burned, causing a loss of $1,000,-
000.
WHILE on a train near Wiesbaden, Ger
many, on the 20th Mr. Pendie.oii, the
American Minister, was stricken with
apoplexy, but he was nob dangerously ill.
LATER NEWS.
Gov. CHURCH, of Dakota, on the 21st,
instructed his attorneys to bring action
against the Sioux City Journal for pub
lishing an interview in which he w~s
charged with securing his dwelling in Bis
marck through fraud.
Two prominent hotel keepers of Spring
field, Ohio, have be3n fined 50 fnd costs
each and sentenced to tsn days in jail for
using oleomargar.ne on the tables, with
out posting notici in taeir dining rooms.
RIOTS occurred in Paris on the 21st cmsed
by students and adherents of Gen. Boulang
er, and a number of persons were injured
by the police. Forty thousand friends of
Bonlonger paraded the Latin quarter on
tae 22d.
Gov. LAKKABEE, of Iowa, on the 21st
issued a proclamation raising the quaran
tine on Illinois cattle.
JOHN A. RICE, a well known Chicago ha
tel man, proprietor of the Tramont house,
ed in that city on the 21st.
AN incendiary fire at W.noaa, Miss., on
the 2lst caused a loss of $253,000.
Hox. CAKL SCHURZ and family arrived at
Bremen from New York on the 21st.
THE new stata fcausa at Austin, Texas,
was op3ned to the legislature and tha pub
lic on the Slat. It is the largest state capi
tal. buUdinj? in the United Ststas.
EMPEROR FREDERICK'S condition 3howei
a slight improvement on the 22d.
A DISPATCH from Louisville, Ky., on the
E2d placed the amount of ex-Treasurer'
Iat?s defalcat on at $155,000.
A CALL ha? been issued for a division and
statehood convention, to meet at Huron
Dak., July 4.
FUNLRAL servlc:s over the remains of
Roscoe Conkling were hell at Utica, N.
on the 21st, after which the body was
placed in the rjceiving vault of the cetn
Btery. The floral tributes were very nu
merous and of unusual magnificence.
MINISTER PENDLETON was improving on
on the 22d,and no danger wa3 apprehended.
THE international copyright bill and the
bill for the admission of lor eign-built slrps
to American register were reported to the
House on the 21st. The bill as it passed the
Senate admitting South Dakota to the
Union was ^ead twice and referred to the
committee:on territories.
Ariiyaat Eau Claire, Wis, on the 21st
damaged the Eau Claire Sash and Door
company's factory to the extent of 550,000.
WHILE croising the Crow river near
Delano, Minn., on the 21st, Mary Henn and
Andrew Biebel were drowned.
DE\TEK, th9 famous trotting 101*33, died
Dnthe 21st., He w-as thirty yearg old.
5&4fi*
ROSCOE CONKLING DEAD.
After Many Days of Intense Suffering the
Great Statesman fa-sses Away in New
lu rk CityUnconscious for BDonrs Be
fore His Death-Sketch of Bis lU-mark
ab'e Career.
NEW YOBK. April lft Ex-Senator Conk
ling died at 1:50 a in. Ac bis bedside when
death came were Mrs. Conkling,, Judge
Coxe, Dr. Anderton and Mrs Oakmaa
and her daughter and the nurse Mr.
Conkling passed away without moving a
limb. He looked as though peacefully
sleeping. Mra Conkling and her daughter
both bore up bravely, but the elder lady
was the most prostrated. Mrs. Oakman
supported her mother. The ashen pallor
deepened upon the emaciated^ face.
Mr. Conkling gasped three or four times
and passed away. In death the lines about
hid mouth and on his fi.ee were slightly
dr?,wn. He was emaciated, but still in
daiith his face seemed natural.
BOSCOE eOXKLIXOi.
The sad news t-pread rapidly im the HofiV
man House and was ticked oft! by the wire'
to a sorrowing country. There was a hush
in the corridors of the hotels near by and
a pervading oppressive quiet and solemn
ity. All voices were subdued The friends
who- came- to make a last call went away
with sorrowful faces.
All the afternoon the sick statesman lay
motionless in his bed in the Hoffman. House
annex He occasionally moved his arms,
which were under the bed covering. He
lay on his right side in order that the
wound on the left side of his head mighi.
not get irritated
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Roscoe ConUling was born in Albany, N. Y.,
October 80, 1S29. His father, Albert Conkling,
was a Representative in the Seventeenth Con
gress, and afterward tilled the position of
United States Judge for the Northern dis
trict of New York and Minister to Mex
ico. Roscoe received a common school
and academic education. Removing to
Auburn and Geneva with his father, he studied
law three years under tuition. In 1840 he
entered the law office ot Spencer & Kernan
Utica, and in 1.8-19 was appointed by Hamilton
Fish district attorney of Oneida County, sev
eral months befora be attained his majority.
On the day be was 21 be was admitted to
the bar. During the next decade he dis
closed rare qualities of management, and
became a leader in local politics. In law he
ranked with the first ot the profession as an
advocate. The triumphs he achieved at the
bar. and which were his passports to public
preference, were gained before he reached the
age of 29. After that he accapted but few cases,
but in these liis success was marked. He mar
ried Julia Seymour, sister of ex-Governoi- Hora-
tio Seymour. In 1858 he was elected mayor
of Utica, and in November of the same
year he was elected a Representative in the
Thirty-sixth Congjess and took his seat in that
body at the beginning of its first session, in
December. 18:0, a session noted for its long and
bitter contest over the Speakership. He was
ic-olected in 1S6J, his brother. Frederick A.
ConUlipg, being elected ivt the same t'.me
for a New York district. The two
brothers entered the Thirty-seventh Con
gress at the opening of the special session
convened by President Lincoln, July 4, 18G1.
In this Congress Roscoe Conkling was chair
man of the Ccmmittee on the District of Co
lumbia, and also of a special committee ap
pointed to frame a bankrupt law. A
candidate for re-election to the Thirty
eighth Congress, ho was defeated by his old
law rartner, Francis Kernan. In 18G4
Conl:iing defeated him, serving on the Com-,
mitfeeson Ways and Means and on Recon-.
strustion. He startled the Nation by an attack
on the tactics of General McCJellan, and gave
the/keynote for earnestness in all future war
legislation at a time when hesitancy and vacit-
li.t-.on prevailed. Tn February, 1862, he op
posed Mr. Spaulding's Logal-Tender act by
speech and vote, sustaining, contrary to the
pre/ailing party policy, Mr. Horton's.amende
meit providing for the issue of an intsrosu
bearing note, and against the final passage of
the 11 as amended by Thaddeus Stevens. In,
the* same session he voted for the payment
of interest on the "debt ia coin.. Mr.
Corkliug was a firm upholder of all
legislation tending to uphold the hands, of the
Administration in prosecuting the war for the
suppression of the rebellion In th,& falil ot
18(ii he was elected to the Fortieth Congress,
but before that Congress met he was. elected
to succeed Judge Ira Harris as. United
Stites Senator from the State Newno
Yoyk. He took his seat in the
Serate March 4, 1867, and was re-elected
twfce, his second term beginning March 4 1873,
ani his third term March, 4,1879. He was a
zealpus supporter of General Grant's Adminis
tration. The general policy of that Adminis
tration toward the South wa* largely directed
by Senator Conkling, who advocated it with all
thepowers of his eloquence, and all the potency
*f his personal and political influence. He
was also largely instrumental in the incen
tion and passage of the Civil Rights bill. In
1870 he took a prominent part in forming the
act fir the Electoral Commission, and in carry
ing it through. In 1830 Senator Conkling led
the ^Irant forces at tlie Republican nominating
contention in Chicago, and made ths speech
putting him In nomination. Soon after tho
election ot President Garfield he differed
from him on questions or public policy, and
in.1881 he resigned his seat in the Senate
afid applied to the Legislature of New York
for indorsement and re-election. He failed in
this, and retired from politics, resuming the
active practice of the law to redeem his fort
unes, which were sadly shattered. He speed
ily assumed the foremost position at the New
lYork bar, and was engaged in a number
iof prominent and remunerative cases.
His last visit to Chicago was ia
July, 1887, when he argued a patent case
|in the United States Court, and received much
attention, being tendered a reception by the
Grant Club. Of late years he bad been repeat
edly solicited to re-enter politics, and his re
cent replies had indicated that he might
reconsider the resolution he made
in 1881. Mr. Conkling had a narrow escape,
fr)i death in tho recent blizzard in New
Ytjrk, being almost overcome one night in. the
dr}fts and the blinding snow, and only luis
mignificent physique carried him through.
Aljthough his hair and heard had whitened
of|late years, Mr. Conkling still retained his
fine physical proportions, which wou^d have
made him a marked man in any assemblage.
4-7A St. Louis hotel-kee-per has a cat
that has developed an uncontrollable
appetite for strong drink, his favorite
tipple being rum and milk.. Ho goes
on regular sprees if he can get enough
of the beverage that he likes, and
"cut-sup" somewhat strangely while
drunk.
The sign, "Marc Anthonv & Co,,"
on Pcachtvco street, is ono which al
ways cat.oh.es the eye of visitor?, $0 the
city,. The fact that Marc Aphony is
\B th.e grocery business in Atlanta, has
I been going the rounds '^f the press.
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A LAST TRIBUTE.
Thousands Gather in Trinity Chape r, ISevr
ITor" to Witness, the Brief but Impres
sive Services Over the Remains of th
JLate Koscoe Conkling..
KEW YOEK, April 21.-Funeral services
were held in Trinity Chapel over the re
mains ot lloscoe Conkling. From
early morning dropping rain, sodden
flings, hanging- at half-mast, on the
cixy hall and numerous public bulidinga
as- well as private, reminded the citizens
of the metropolis thax New York was to bid
farewell to. all that remained of the c.13-
tinguishe:l statesman and jurist whose
presence here had been so welcome
to the citizens. The hour fixed for
the1
funeral services was 10 o'clock.
Long before that hour people be
gan to gacher in West Twenty
fourth street,, and, standing on the side
walk opposite the hous3 in which Mr.
Conkling'* body lay in its coffin, silently
gazed at the windows of the room in which
he died. A detail of police formed a line
on. either side of the stoop leading to the
house, and through the iine there were
permitted to paas only relatives and
friends of Mr. Conkling. Shortly after 8
o'clock a plain hearso and eleven carriages
drove up to the door, and from that time
police stationed at either end of the
block prevented business wagons and
other vehicles from driving through.
From the carriages descended the pall
bearers and friends of Mr. Conkl.ng's
family, who entered the house and as
cended to the room in which the body lay.
The lid which closed the face of the dead
statesman from view, had been fastened
in its place soon after the body was re
ceived in the casket and w..s not removed.
On the coffin rested a large bunch of white
roses, lilies and immortelles whosa fra
grance scented the air within the death
chamber. Below them was a large green
wreath, knotted with purple ribbon?.
At D:45 o'clock the coffin was lifted from
the stands on which ic rested and was
borne lrom the room to the waiting hearse
by the undertaker's assistants. Walking
on either side were the pall-bear
era, drsssed in black, and. with
broad, white rcarfs draping their
bodies from the shoulder to the waist
They were Judge Shipman, Mayor Abram
S. Hewitt S. L. M. Barlow, Clarence A.
Seward, Manton Marble,. Senator John P.
Jones, Senator J. Don Cameron, Judge
William A. Wallace, Walter S.. Church
and Isaac H. Bailey. They entered
the three carriages. preceding the
hearse and carriages,, and the hearse
slowly moved up ithe street, while
all other carriages as slowly drew
up one by one in front of tho
house. Into one of them entered. Mrs. Conk
ling, supported by the arm. of Colonel
Fred A. Conkling, the brother of the de
ceased statesman,, his- daughter, Mrs.
Oakman. an dher husband, Walter G. O^k-
inan his niece and nephew,. Miss Laura
Conkling, and AULernnm Conkling his
nephews, Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe and
Mr. Howard Conkling Colonel 1-red D.
Grant and his mother, Mrs. U. S. Grant
Mrs. Jesse Grant and Mrs.. U. S. Grant, Jr!
and their husband^,, ami a few other imme
diate friends.
Immediately after the- last carriage
door had closed on UA occupants, ihe
funeral procession, simple and unostenta
tious as that of the humblest citizen, be
gan its short progress to the church on
the adjoin4ng block. Led by the carriages
containing, the pall-te ners, it passed to
Trinity Chapel on Twenty-fifth Btrest,
near Broadway. One side ot Twenty-fifth
street was already lined with carriages that
had conveyed to the church numerous
friends of Mr. Conkling, who were already
seated in the church awailing tho begin
ning of the funeral ceremonies. Here, as
in Twenty-fourth street, the sidewalks were
crowded with people.
The coffin was taken from tho hears?
and Lome into the church by the uudor
taksr's assistants. It was followed by the
nail-bearers, and in tht:ir turn slowly
walked the wife, the brother and other
relatives and friends of tho dead Ssn
ator.
Slowly the solemn procession walked
through the center aisle of the chapel. The
huge organ pealed out its soft notes and
the choir boys chanted *'0 Paradise,
O Paradise." Every seat in the chapel
was filled and the aisles were
crowded. On the steps leading up to
the altar magnificent floral offerings were
laid. The cashes with its 6impie black cov
ering was placed on the li-.-r in front of
the altrr. Upon it were placed wreaths
of immortelles and lilie3, together with
bunches of white and purple lilies.
Every one in the vast edifice remained
standing till the chant of the choir bovs
was finished, and then bowed their heads
in prayer with liev. Morgan Dix, who was
the officiating clergyman. The services
were simple, and, contrary to expectation^
sermon was preached.
The entire assemblage arose after prayea
and joined in singing "Bock of Age*.."
This finished, the choir boys rose "and
walked slowly down through the
aisle to the music of Fenton's c-hanfc,
followed by the undertaker's as
sistants, the pall-bearers and the
mourners. The friends followed, and the
chants of the choir boys whp returned
through the side aisles grew fainter and
fainter, until it seemed to die away in a
soft whispering "Amen," and the services
in New York over the remains of the great
statesman were brought to a olosa
The hearse, followed by the carriages
bearing the mourning relatives, was driven
direct to the Grand. Central depot, where a
special train was waiting to convey the re
mains to Utica, where the final services
will be held.
The casket was placed in the buffet car,
which was almost filled with choice floral
offerings. Secretary Fairchild was the
bearer of warm verbal messages of sympa
thy and condolence to Mrs. Conkling from
President and Mrs. Clevelan 1.
SAN DIEGO'S BIG DAM COMr*LETED.
It Is the Largest in This Country ami Cast
Nearly a Million.
SASDIEGO, Cal., April 21The comple
tica of the great Sweetwater dam and Na
tional City water-works was formerly ob
served Thursday. The dam is solid ma
sonry built across Sweetwater valley in
order to. form a large reservoir for the pur
pose of storing water for the dry season.
The dam is ninety feet high from the base
of the gorge, and is claimed to be by
twenty feet the highest dam in the Un&ed
Statea The area of the reservoir is 750
acres. The cost of the dr.m is $800,000,
_..
Five Men Fatally Hurt.
ST. LOUIS, April 21.As. five section mea
were passing the Geyling3 White-Sand
Company's works, in a band-oar on the St
Louis, Kansas, City &, Colorado road near
Labadie, Mo., yesterday, a blast exploded,
blowing an immense rock upon the hand
gar. All of the m,en were fatally hurt A
later report says, three have died.
A tyis^wism Man in His Luck.
OSHKosBi ITis., April Ul.James LowelL
of this city, has inherited a fortune o"
$300,00ft by the death of his father
Dr. Richmond Snppert ''""""^l
A cruel trick was played upon time
well*kijo\vn diner-out, Dr. C. M. Rich
mond, on Saturday night at the Lyceum
theater, says The New York Sun. The
doctor, with a party of lady friends, sat
in a whiskers of the distinguishen bon
vivant were glossy with brilliant ine, and
his shirt bosom and white waistcoat
were made radiant by largo gold buttons*
tho same having no relation whatever
to the doctor's profession of dentistry
and tooth filling, as was suggested re
cently by a New York paper. Imr
mediately after the first act the docto,
leaned affably over the edge of the box
fixed an usher with one of his glitter
ing eyes, and said:
"Hist!"
The usher rushed forward.
"If," said the doctor, -'a latter comes
here addressed to C. M. Richmond,
please bring it down to me."
The usher nodded. When the cur
tain fell on the succeeding act the doctor
glared up the aisle and asked the usher,
in aloud tone of voice, if that letter had
arrived yet for C. M. Richmond. The
usher said it had not. The doctor
looked annoyed, and fully, half the
people in the audience shook their heads
dismally and wondered what had be
come of the letter. Again the curtain
rose and feu\ and once more the doctor
wheeled around and stared at the door,
as did most of the people in the
audience. To the intense relief of every
body the usher ran beaming down the
aisle with a large white envelope in his
hand.
"The fact is," said the doctor in an
explanatory and affable manner to his
friends, "I found myself without change
when we arrived here, and, as I thought
we would like to take a little bit of
supper after the play, I sent a check
for $50 that I had in my poekes up to
my friend Pond, with a note asking him
to cash it so that we could buy some
supper. This is the answer."
DThe doctor took the envelope, tore in
open in full view of the audience s,nd
his friends, and drew out one large and
smoking clam fritter, and a card which
read:
"DEAK DOCKEY! Have supperw this
me. I keep the chek. Yours,
POND.
SIBERIA.
Its Secrets KevealctlGeorgo Konnan'g
Wonderful Journey.
MOST interesting contri
bution to secret history
will be the illustrated pa
pers on Siberia and the
Exile System," by George
Ken nan. which are to begin
in the May Century maga
zine. They will embody the
results of what is be
lieved to be the first suc
cessful attempt by a com-,
petent investigator to make
a thorough study of tho.
Russian exile system. Be--
fore undertaking his ardu
ous journey of 15,000 miles,
in the interest of The Cc7iiu
ry, Mr. Kennan, author of'
Tent Life in Liberia, etc., had spent four
vears in Russia and Siberia, Avas thorough
ly conversant with the people and the lan
guage, and had reached the conclusion that
the Russian Government had been misrep
resented, and that the exile system of Sibe
ria was not so terrible as was supposed.
Knowing that Mr. Kennan held these
views, the Russian Government gave him
every facility for a thorough
INSPECTION OF MINES AND PRISONS
of Siberiathe most thorough that had
ever been made by a traveler. Armed with
letters from the" Russian Minister of the
Interior and other high officials, Mr. Ken
nan went everywherej inspecting mines and
prisons, convict barges and hospitals, and
traveling with chained exiles along the
great Siberian road. He made the intimate
personal acquaintance of more than three,
hundred exiled '*liberals" and Nihilists,
many of whom wrote out their histories for
his use. The actual facts, as revealed by
this searching investigation, were far re
moved from Mr. Kennan's preconceived
ideas, as this thrilling narrative of fifteen
months' privation and adventure will show.
As is already known, the publication, of
Mr. Kennan's. preliminary papers has. re
sultedjia his being placed
ON THE BLACK LIST
by he.Russia Government, and copies of
Tlpi Qeiktury containing them have the ob-^
jectittabl article torn out by the custom,
offlchps before being allowed to enter tho
Ozar-Vdominion s.
"Xexpected, of course," says Mr.. Ken
nari,in a recent interview, "t be put on
the Russian black list. The stable-door is
locked, but the horse haa, been stolen.and
I've got him."
BOARBINX* A CONVICT BARGE.
Mr. G.. A.. Frost, artist and photographer,
accompanied Mr.. Kennan, and the l'esults or
his work will fOroi a wonderfully interesting
series, of pictures, of Russian and Siberian
lifei and: scenery.
The articles, begin in the May Century,
Which ia a great issue in many other re
spects* containing also an interesting illus
trated article on ranch life first chapters
of "The Liar," a novelette by Henry James
the exciting narrative, "A Locomotive Chase
in Georgiai" a suggestive paper on "The
Chances of Being Hit in Battle an essay
on Milton by Matthew Arnold A Lovo
Story Reversed," by Edward Bellamy, etc.,
etc. Our local bookseller will have the num
ber after the iirst of May.
Yonngphysician (diagnosing a case*.
The trouble with you, sir, is you-^^
too HHich.
PutientDoctor, what I eat wc
keep a bird alive.
Young physicianHump-.
don't eat enough.
PatientHow much
J\eada
a
Niagara Falla Mr. Lowell has been "nere
fox. several years, employed as clerk
er.al retail stores. He will soon rer~
Bev_
QVQ V'ith
his wi&j to Niagara Falls. -i..9V4.S
see
your system needs nom-u^^nf..
Wf,
"V*
volJ.
it aoctor
Young physicia- 4==Tw
plcaso,Epoch..
doll
Oh, dear," sighed a farmear'a
Wife, w^ar}iy, as she dropped into a
chair p^ter a hard day's work, "-I feej
just
if 1 were going
tokbe sick.dreadyMs throbs, and my bac ache
-v *t &K**fc iS&a^-v.v. 'i*ftVi-XJJL* $2JM^'1 -S"j*&5* :i. i^Kl "aSS&w
fully, and" I declare," inter
rupted the farmer, starting up and
seizing his hat, "that reminds me 1
forgot to give the two-year-old colt hi$
condition powders, to-night, and he'a
been wheezin1
aU day," and he huri
ried to the barn,,*National Stockman^
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