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VOL. IT.
ASSASSINATED!
Tragic Death of the Emperor of All
the Russias.
THE BLOODY WORK OF NIHILISM
A Bomb Exploded Under His Carriage
Returning from His Brother's.
DOING NO HARM TO EMPEROR.
But Another Shatters His Legs and In
flicts Other Terrible Injuries.
DEATH AT THE WINTER PALACE
At 3 :25 P. M. Sunday, in the Presence
of the Imperial Family.
THREE OF EMPERORS GUARD
Also Killed and Many Other Persons
Badly Injured.
THE TWO ASSASSINS ARRESTED.
Great Excitement of the Populace and
General Sympathy.
CZAROWITZ HAILED EMPEROR
On Leaving the Death Bed of the Czar
—The Soldiery Furious.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON
And at the Principal European Capi
tals— Messages of Condolence.
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS
Scathing Pastoral Letter of Archbishop
MeCabe in Denunciation of Land
League Leaders.
A Terrible Crime.
St. Petersburg, March 13.— Ab the em
peror was returning from parade in Michael
Manege about 2 o'clock Bunday afternoon, a
bomb was thrown and exploded under the
czar' 6 carriage, doing considerable damage to
the carriage. The czar alighted unhurt, but a
second bomb exploded at his feet, shattering
both legs below the knee and inUictinc other
terrible injuries. The czar was immediately
conveyed in an unconscious state to the Wink 1,
--palace, where he died at 4:30 this afternoon.
Two persons were concerned in the (.Time,
one of whom was seized immediately. The
•xplo6ion also killed an officer and two Cos
sacks, aud many policemen and other persons
were injured.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
St. Petersburg, March 13. — Ihc official
messenger makes the following announce
ment: "God's will has been done. At 3:25
p. M. this, Sunday, the almighty called the
emperor to himself." A few minutes before
his death the emperor received sacrament.
Another Account og the Affair.
London, March li>.— A St. Petersburg cor
respondent says: The imperial carriage was
attacked on East Rinofsky canal,
opposite the imperial stables,
while the emperor was returning with Grand
Duke Michael from Michael palace in a car
iage supported by eight Coßsacks. The first
bomb fell uear the carriage, destroying the
back part. The czar and his brother alighted
nninjured. The abeassin on being seized by
the colonel of police drew a revelver, but was
prevented firing it. A Becond bomb was then
thrown by another person and fell close to
the czar's feet, its explosion shattering both
legs. The
CZAR FELL CRTING FOR HELP.
Col. Dorjlbki, though himself much in
jured, raised the emperor, who was conveyed
to the Winter palace in Col. Dorjibki's sleigh.
Large crowds assembled before the palace but
were kept back by a troop of Cossacks. The
imperial family were all assembled at the death
bed. The council of state immediately con
vened. All places of public resort were
closed.
POPULACE GREATLY EXCITED.
Cologne, March 13.— A St. Petersburg dis
patch says the two assassins of the czar were
immediately arrested. The gas lamps in
Michael garden beside the consul were broken
in pieces oy tue concussion. A cordon of
guards was drawn around the scene of the
murder. The streets were densely thronged
with excited crowds. The utmost" sympathy
for the imperial family is everywhere express
ed. The bells of the principal churches are
tolling.
Terrible Mutilation.
London, March 13. — A St. Petersburg cor
respondent telegraphs: The czar's right leg
was nearly torn from his body, and the left leg
badly shattered. A Cossack and a passerby
were killed on the spot. Grand Duke Michael
was wounded. The officer of the escort aad
a Cossack have since died. The czar lingered
an hour and a half. All efforts to rally him
failed. The only word he uttered after being
struck was the name of czarowitch. The lat
ter on leaving the palace after the death of the
czar was
HAILED AS EMPEROK
by the crowd. He "was surrounded, contrary
to his custom, by a strong mounted escort.
The people are intensely excited and inciguant.
The soldiery, who greatly loved the czar, are
furious. All officials hastened to the palace
to inquire as to tne condition of the czar.
Telegrams announcing his death were sent to
all foreign courts, and to every part of the
empire. It is stated the bombs were made of
thick glass.
3TITRO GLYCERINE.
The assassins stood on the opposite side of
the road. The carriage was moving fast, and
the first shell struck the ground behind it and
the back of the carriage was blown out. The
coachman implored the czar to cnt«r the car
Daily
riage again, but he moved a few paces from
the carriage to see the wounded of his escort.
The assassin who threw the first bomb tried to
FOINT A REVOIaTER AT THE CZAR,
but the pistol was struck from his hand. The
czar seemed to recover consciousness before
death, as he motioned away the doctors, who
wished to ampntate his legs. The czarowitz
and czarnia drove to their palace after the
death amid the sympathizing cries of the
people. A company of guards surround the
palace. The duke and duchess of Edinburgh
and Grand Duke Alexis have left London for
Bt. Petersburg.
Bulletin of the Physicians.
St. Petersburg, March 13.— The doctor's
bulletin published at 3 this afternoon, stated
both legs were broken below the knee, the
lower part of the body severely injured and
the left eye turned from the socket. Grand
Duke Michael was not hurt. The assas
sins were disguised as peasants.
One report states one of them was so roughly
handled he has since died. All army officers
have been ordered to remain in barracks.
COUNCIL OF THE EMPIRE
under the presidency of the czarowitz was still
sitting at midnight. A manifesto will be
published Monday. Service will be held at
the winter palace Monday. Afterward the
new emperor will receive the homage of the
state officers. When Col. Darjibki a6ked the
first assassin what his name was he replied
Ronsskoff.
The News via London
New York, March 10. — A London special
gives the following' story of the assassina
tion of the czar:
The town was startled by the announce
msnt that the Czar Alexander had been mor
tally wounded by the explosion of a bomb
thrown by assassins while he was driving
in the forenoon. At first it was supposed the
report was a canard, for the emperor's assassin
ation has often been announced, and as often
denied, since the nihilists began to compaes
death. Later on, however, came the news of
his death, which was quickly followed by a full
account of the tragedy. Lord Dufferin, British
ambassador at St. Petersburg, had meantime
informed the foreign office of the affair, and
his dispatches were at once forwarded to
the Queen, the Prince of Wales,
Duke of Edinburg, and other members of
the royal family. The Duchess of Edinburg
was at the duke's seat in Kent with her four
children.
PRATERS WERE OFFERED
for the duche6s at the afternoon service in the
churches, and in the evening special reference
made to the murder from the pulpits of the
churches. While there was great excitement
in court and official circles, there was
comparatively little on the streets. The fact
is, the people had long expected as much.
Great sympathy is expressed by all classes for
the Duchess of Edinburg, who is in a delicate
condition.
THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY
at Che6ani Hoii6e, Belgrove square, was kept
busy answering questions of Russian mer
chants and others who flocked there to hear
the news. The embassy has no information
on the subject beyond the notification of the
czar's death and copies of reports which will
be found below. Special services
were held in Green s*icct churchei- to-night.
All agree as to the
FOLLOWING FACTO:
The czar was returning in a covered carriage
from Michael palace at 11 A. v. with his
brother, Grand Duke Michael. His escort
consisted of a quarter of a troop of Cossacks
aud several officers of the house
hold accompanied him in sleighs. As the car
riage was passing along the Ekatebopky
canal, immediately opposite to the imperial
stables, a bomb was thrown by a man who
wus standing behind a knot of pedestrians
who had stopped to see the c mperor go by.
IT EXPLODED WITH A I RASH.
right under the body of the enrriage, the
splinters living across the Btreet, but doing no
injury beyond tearing away the back part of
the carriage. The driver, who had drawn up,
descended from his box and
the Cossack escort which was a few
paces in the rear at once galloped Up. At this
time there were not more than twenty persons
present. The czar, on hearing the crash, at
once raised the window, opened the door and
jumped out, and while he was drawing
his fur cloak about him a second
bomb was thrown from the knot of lookers
on, exloding at his feet. The tsnioke of the
first explosion was still hanging about, and
when the second bomb struck the pavement a
dense cloud envclooed the carriage. There
was a
HOWL OF PAIN AXU ANUGISH
from the Cossacks, some of whom were killed
and more wounded by the flying splinters,
and three or four of the lookers on
fell also. This crash brought a scmad
of police who were just going on duty
at the imperial Btables. As the smoke lifted
the czar was seen lying on his back beside the
wreck of the carriage his leg 6 torn and shat
tered, and
BLOOD POURING FROM OnASTLY WOUNDS
in his thighs. His cloak and wearing ap
parel were literally torn from his back. He
was deathly pale, and his cries to the officers
of the household for help were
scarcely audible. Col. Djoribky, of his
suite, who was badly injured by the second
an explosion which had shattered his sleigh,
raised the emperor from the ground, and with
the aid of the Cossacks and officers lifted him
into a 6leigh and conveyed him to the Winter
palace. All this did not occupy three min
utes, as the prisoner was thrown into
a 6led and driven off, under a strong gaurd.
Col. Djoribky's sleigh bearing the wounded
emperor and two or three attendants drove
rapidly through the streets to
the Winter Palace. Meanwhile
the Cossacks and police had charged upon the
knot of people from which the two bombs
were flung. Several persons pointed to a man
in the rough sheepskin garb of a peasant and
declared he had thrown the first
shell. This was confirmed by the Cossacks
who saw him hurling it. Colonel of Police
Archemoff seized him. The man strug
pled desperately, and as the now dismounted
escort closed in upon him drew a revolver as
though intending to shoot Grand Duke Michae
but his hand was 6truck down and in an in
stant he was thrown to the earth and securely
pinioned, the police putting
irons upon him aud Cossacks binding
him with ropes and carried him away to
prison, while search for the other assassin
was instituted by a strong body of police
and military.
What of the Future?
New York, March 13.— Upon receipt of the
news of the death of the czar the Russian con
sul went to Washington. Rev. Nicklas
Bjewing, head of the Greek church here, 6aid
he had a dispatch from Washington for some
time past. It was claimed they had been
doing things in Russia in a sort of bomb style.
It was hard to tell which way matters would
go. It was generally believed the views of
the czarowitz were in opposition to his fa
ther, and it is a question now whether he
would seek vengeance for his father's death,
instead of carrying out his own views. He said
the general administration of kite was
thought to be acceptable to the nihilists,
but by the death of the czar various reforms
which he had projected were cut off. It was
difficult for anyone to fortell the future. Fa
ther Bjewing greatly deplored the death of the
emperor.
At European Capitals.
Rome, March 13.— 1n consequence of the
death of the czar Premier Cairoli postponed
hl9 reception until Monday.
Vienna, March 13.— The Emperor Francis
Joseph received the first news of the czar's
murder which reached Vienna. He immedi
SAINT PAUL, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1881.
ately sent messages of condolence to the
czarowitz and imperial family.
Berlin, March 13.— The news of the death
of the czar was a fearful shock to Emperor
William.
The Xews in Washington.
Washington, March 13.— The following
telegrams were received here this afternoon:
"St. Petersburg, March 13.— T0 Blame,
Secretary, Washington: Emperor wounded in
* carriage to-day by a bomb. Injury not yet
known." (Signed) Foster.
St. Petersburg, March 13.— T0 Blame,
Secretary, Washington: Dead (Signed)
Foster.
Berlin, March IS.— To Blame, Secretary of
State, Washington: The emperor of Russia
was assassinated this afternoon. (Signed)
White, Minister.
AMERICAN STMFATHY.
Upon receipt of the second dispatch from
Foster that the emperor was dead, Secretary
Blame cabled the following:
Foster, American Minister, St. Petersburg:
Express to the minister of foreign affairs the
sentiments of sorrow with which the Presi
dent and people of the United States have
heard of the terrible crime of which the em
peror has been the victim, and their profound
sympathy with the imperial family and Rus
sian people in their present affliction.
(Signed) Blame, Secretary.
A Remarkable Coincidence.
New York, March 18.— The Tribune's
Washington dispatch says the news of the
death of the czar of Russia by the explosion
of an incendiary bomb reached there early in
the afternoon and created some excitement in
the hotel lobbies and among office seekers.
The information came in a special cable dis
patch from Minister Foster, at St. Petersburg,
to Secretary Blame and -was by him sub
mitted to the President. The records
of the state department contain some very
earnest expressions of sympathy on the part
of the Russian government upon the assasin
ation of Abraham Lincoln, and it is a remark
able coincidence that a similar dispatch was
to-day sent, tendering the sympathies of our
government to the Russian Imperial family,
because the chief of the nation had fallen by
the assassin's hand. The Russian minister
called at the residence of Secretary Blame and
received from the secretary his fir6t informa
tion of the tragedy.
Sketch of His Life.
Alexander 11. , present emperor of Russia,
surnamed Nicholaewitch.as the eldest son of the
late Emperor Nicholas, was born in 1818. His
mother wa3 a 6ister of Frederick William IV. ,
king of Prussia. He succeeded his father in
March, 1855, and immediately issued a procla
mation intimating a resolution to pursue the
plans of Nicholas, and, if possible, bring the
war, which wa3 then raging in the Crimea,
between the united forces of Turkey, France,
England, and Sardinia, and that of his own
dominion, to a successful termination. In
this, however, he was doomed to disappoint
ment, for on September 8, 1855, the allies
obtained possession of Sebastopol, and peace
was concluded th« same year.
'The later years of the regln of Alexa nder
11. have been disturbed by the war with Tur
key, which was limited in its accomplisments
by the interference of the European powers,
and by the plot 6of disaffected subjects who
are known as Nihilists. The Nihilists have
responded to the arbitrary measures of re
pression employed against them by threats
and assaults directed first at the persons of the
executive officers of the government. A few
years ago it was widely annnonced that the
revolutionary organization vrr uld thenceforth
hold the czar himself responsible for oppres
sions by the government. Warnings to
that effect reached the czar
at sundry times, on occasion of arrest and
punishment of propagandists of nihiiist or
revolutionary doctrines. The whole energies
of the police administration of Russia has for
several years been directed to the discovery
and suppression of the secretly working rev
olutionists, but without success, although
many persons lisve been arrested and sentenced
to imprisonment or Siberian banishment.
Less than two years ago, on occasion of a visit
by the czar to Moscow, an attempt was made
to blow up hi« car by a mine which had been
ingeniously constructed under the railway
line near the entrance to that city. A baggage
van was destroyed, but the emperor's car
escaped. A few months ago a
portiou of the winter palace was blown up
and a number of officers and guards killed
and wounded, but again the czar escaped.
The third attempt by hand grenades or
bombs, has succeeded, aud the fanatic revo
lutionists of Russia may rejoice over their
accomplished revenge. But whatever of
good there may be in it their cause will suffer
by.it and whatever of evil remained to the per
sonal and arbitrary government of their coun
try will be strengthened by it. From the
day of Caesar's deatht to this, no good has
come to the world by assassination
Alexander 11. will be succeeded by. Alexander
111., his son, who will be seventh "czar of the
line which began with Peter 111., in 1762.
EUROPEAN NEWS.
Scathing Pastoral Letter Against Land
League Leaders.
Dublix, March 13.— The following is the
reference to the land league in Archbishop
McCabe's lenten pastoral: Let nobody accuse
us of a want of sympathy[with the great ques
tion of justice which now appeals to parlia
ment for settlement. The cause is just and
holy and carries with it the bless
ings of religion. Amongst the ter
rible mistakes made formerly by the
rulers of this unhappy land there is
none perhaps which will exceed in folly that
which will now be committed if the vital
question of the tenure of land holdings is not
settled now and forever on just principles to
all. So convinced are we that a full and
honest settlement of this angry contest is es
sential to the temporal happiness and moral
and religious interests, of our countrymen,
that if a sacrifice of our blood could lead to
the consummation of this grand-act of justice
we would make that sacrifice.
While we bless the end now aimed at, we
must again proclaim that some of the means
employed in the struggle cannot receive the
sanction of religion. The modesty of her
daughters was the ancient glory of Ireland,
but all this is now to be abandoned and her
daughters are summoned, under the flimsy
pretext of charity, to take their stand in the
noisy aiena of public life. The
pretext of charity is merely as
sumed, for already we have holy
associations of men and women who do works
of mercy for the poor and afflicted, and even
the harsh laws now coming in force have
mercifully provided for the families of those
falling under their power. Irish women are
asked to forget the modesty of their sex by
leaders who 6eem utterly reckless of conse
quences, and who by their recklessness have
brought misery on many families.
Reverend fathers, set your faces against this
dishonorable attempt. Do not tolerate in your
localities a woman who so far disavows her
modesty as to parade herself publicly in a
character so uuworthy of a child of Mary.
This attempt at degrading Irish women comes
very appropriately from men who have
drawn their country into its present
terrible deplorable condition. Deprived of the
safeguards of the constitution the people muy
become a prey of perjured informers, men who
have sent their ag^ent to fawn on notorious
infidels and revolutionists, and who, to escape
the odium of their act, abuse the Christian
politeness of the most venerable prelate and
illustrious soldier of France, Cardinal Guibert,
archbishop of Paris, and Marshal McMahon.
These men and their agents, to forward their
views, were not ashamed to caluminate the
diocese whose prelates were formerly the
glory of the Irish church, and who
were not afraid to warn their people when
misled by false friends and dangerous advsiers.
These are the sources whence come great
dangers to our faith. Let us pray the al
mignty he may scatter the enemies of his
holy cause, that his wisdom may direct the
counsels of our rulers and that he may bind
together for ever the priests and people.
THE LAND LEAGUE.
Zt* Practical Workings— What Has Already
Been Accomplished.
[New York Sun. ]
The advocates of coercion have predicted
that the land league will be broken up under
the pressure brought to bear on its members
by the Forster act. Its friends retort that if it
were dissolved to-morrow it could point to
larger benefits accrued to the Irish people than
have been conferred by any analogous associa
tion. This is a good time to sum up what
may fairly enough be credited to the con
federacy of which Mr. Daviit has been the
organizer and Mr. Parnell the chief spokes
man.
Let us first inquire upon what evidence the
perpetration of agrarian outrages on a vast
6cale has been imputed to the land league. If
under the somewhat vague charges that "the
law is constantly and everywhere violated,"
and that "the queen's writs do not run in
three-fourths of Ireland," we are simply to
understand that landlords have of late been
unable to evict for non-payment of rent, and
that a writ of ejectment, even when served,
has proved useless, because nobody would
take the farm of an evicted tenant, there is no
doubt whatever the accusations are well found
ed. If however, the term agrarian outrages is
meant to comprehend offenses against the
person— and it is just this implication which
gives the term its sting— then is must be
owned that Mr. Forster has not produced the
facts and figures requisite to demonstrate the
state of anarchy and violence which at previ
ous epochs has been held to justify coercion.
It is said, indeed, that the cases of criminal
assault reported represent but a small propor
tion of those committed; but in 1838, 1846 and
1870, the same assertion was made to justify the
extraordinary powers demanded by the gov
ernment. We may compare, therefore, the
criminal statistics of such years with those
forthcoming in relation to the present crisis.
As to one crime, moreover, that of homicide,
It cannot be denied that every case of man
slaughter at all events has been reported, and
the reader will be aitonishedto find how rela
tively clean in this reipect has been the crimi
nal record of Ireland during the ascendency of
the land league.
In 1883 there were reported in Ireland up
ward of 8,300 crimes against the person, in
cluding 173 homicides. In 1846 the total
number of offenses against the person was
1,933, and there were 176 murders. In 1859
there were 147 homicides, and in 1870 al
though we do not find the number of mur
ders 6tated, the total of crimes classed as
"agrarian outrages" was 1,329. On the other
hand, in 1879, the year of the famine, when
parts of Ireland were almost destitnte of food,
and the year when the land league's opera
tions became widespread and active, just 977
agrarian crimes were reported by the Irish
constabulary. The returns for 1880 are not
yet accessible , but during five months of the
year only 187 offenses were registered in the
fourmost distressed counties. Whatis most sur
prising, in view of the current notion touching
;he Imminent peril in which the lives of land
lords are placed, not ten homicides have been
committed in all Ireland within the past
twelvemonth which can in any way be con
nected with agrarian troubles. In a word, if
we compare the average yearly number of
murders growing out of the relation's between
landlord and tenant during the last thirty
years, we find that it exceeds many times the
quota of 6uch offenses perpetrated in 1880,
when the land league seems to have given the
law to the greater part of Ireland.
The comparative infrequency of violent
crimes during the last two years is directly
attributable to the infrequency of evictions,
the two phenomena being inseparably related
as cause and effect, as was pointed out by
Lord John Russell in 1846, and attain by Mr.
Gladstone in 1870. This brings us to the
great achievement of the land league, to ap
preciate we must recall the problem
which it had to solve at the beginning of
1879. In that year the potato crop, which in
1876 had exceeded 4,150,000 tons, fell short of
1,115,000 tons. These figures threatened
a famine more appalling than any
thing experienced in Ireland since
the starvation epoch of 1840-49. They signi
fied not only great misery in many counties,
but that in certain districts the tenants would
be absolutely deprived of food. The first step
of the land league was to raise a fund for the
immediate relief of the famished -peasantry,
their movement in this direction being long
anterior to the subscriptions started by the
Duchess of Malborough and others. Their
next proceeding was an organized attempt to
avert the ruthless evictions by
which, at the date of the last
famine, the Irish landlords had im
mensely aggravated the sufferings of their
sick and starving tenants. It should, indeed,
never be forgotten that in the year 1846 not
less than 300,000 persons, who, having noth
ing to eat, were of course uuable to pay rent,
were thrust out into the ditch to die. Will
it be said that the present generation af laud
lords is more merciful? It was Mr. Glad
stone himself who pointed out during the
last session of parliament, while advocating
his compensation for disturbance bill, that
the bad harvests had been followed by a
deplorable increase in the number of eject
ments. He*apprebended that as many as
15,000 evictions might take place in 1880; and
who doubts that but for the Land league
this quota would have been vastly exceeded?
As it was, the process of ejectment was al
most everywhere arrested by the irnpossibil- ■
ity of obtaining a new tenant. And where
we hear of few ejectments, there, as we are
told by Whig and Liberal statesmen will
find but few temptations to agrarian crime.
This, then, is what the land league may
claim to have accomplished. Thanks to its
efforts, the worst harvest known in Irelaud
for more than thirty years brought with it no
widespread and incurable disasters. Instead
of the 300,000 deaths which were credited to
starvation and pestilence in the single year of
1847, not one case of death has
been traced directly and indubitably to
eieher cause since January 1, 1879. Instead of
300,000 evictions in a single twelvemonth, the
ejectment of tenants had come to be very sel
dom attempted for some months before the
recent passage of the coercion bill. Instead
of the 176 homicides committed in 1846, less
than ten cases of manslaughter in the year
1880 were in any wise associated with agra
rian disorders. This would seem to be a
record^n which the land league need not fear
the judgment of the future. It must also be
acknowledge 1 to have forced the land question
on the anxious attention of Great Britain, and
to have extorted from the present ministry a
pledge of trenchant and permanent reform in
the relations heretofore existing between
landowner and tenant.
Sample Letter— One Among the Many.
Point Douglas, Minn., Jan. 31, 1881.— Mr.
S. Blackford: Dear Sir.— l received your medi
cines, Dr. Halliday's Blood Purifier and Throat
Gargle, which gave me relief. My throat was
ulcerated very bad, and the Throat Gargle re
lieved it, so I shall continue taking your med
icine till lam cured. I send you a dollar for
the Blood Purifier and Gargle. I don't know
how much your Gargle is, but you send me
word and I shall 6end you the money, and I
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down here. From one who has suffered gTeat
ly and you have relieved. Katie Donahue, box
65, Point Douglas, Washington county, Minn.
Shrewdness and Ability.
Hop Bitters so freely, advertised in all the
papers, secular and religious, are having a
large sale, and are supplanting all other medi
cines. There is no denying the virtues of the
Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters
have shown great shrewdness and ability in
compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are 6o
palpable to every one's observation.—Exam
tner and Chronicle.
Geo. W. Harper, of Strait Creek, Va., says
he has been afflicted with nervous debility for
ten years, and that Dats Kidnet Pad has en
tirely cured him.
(Kiohe.
,
OUR WILLIAM.
How He was Taken as a Last Resort-
Irreverently Called a Western Back
woodsman.
[Corrrespondence New York Sun.]
Washington, March 7.-But for the self
ish and narrow opposition of a part of the
Indiana delegation in Congress, Judge Walter
B. Gresham would now be secretary of the
treasury. After Mr. Windom had been beaten
on Thursday, and Mr. Allison had accepted
that place, the question was considered
as settled. Before the fourth of
March was many hours old Mr. Alli
son changed his mind, and threw the
whole programee into confusion. In tnis
dilemma the name of Judge Gresham was
suggested as one that would give general satis
faction. He had been distinguished as a
gallant soldier, had been a firm and upright
judge for eleven years, and was known to
possess a clear head and a prompt judgment.
The suggestion was made to the Indiana
members of Congress by Gen. Garfleld, at the
White House, after the inaugural ceremonies.
Senator Harrison was not present Some of the
delegation expressed satisfaction with the pro
posed appointment. But others, when they
saw the door opene jI for Indiana, thought there
was a fine chance to get a next friend into a de
partment. Consequently, jealousy offered ob
jections, and the next day Mr. Calkins, a
statesman of the tertiary formation, was rec
ommended for a seat in the cabinet. When
the self-satisfied committee who had created a
scretary out of their own clay reached the
white House and laid their case before the
President with eloquent eulograms on Mr.
Calkins, Garfield painfully informed them
that they were too late. He had just sent the
nominations to the Senate. Indiana was,
therefore, left by the wayside, and Mr. Calkins
will continue to figure in the House of Repre
sentatives.
Thus driven into a corner by the timidity of
Allison and by the small jealousy of Indiana
politicians, Garfield was compelled to decide
the treasury quickly, for every hour of delay
only increased his complications, and he was
anxious to be rid of the whole business. He
had refused absolutely to appoint an Eastern
man, and it was difficult to find the right one
in the West after what had occurred.
In this way the rejected Windom was taken
as a last resort, and as lowa had to be propi
tiated, the interior was given to Mr. Kirk
wood.
A Western Backwoodsman.
[Editorial in New Tork Sun.]
Mr. Garfleld's notion that it would not do
to appoint a secretary of the treasurry from
New York, because Wall street is in this
State, may at first blush strike country peo
ple as evidence of the honesty of the President.
On the contrary, it is only evidence of igno
rance. Here, on the great financial stage of
the country, is the 6pot where finances are
best understood.
And what is the effect of appointing a west
ern backwoodsman, like Mr. WindomV
Why, from the very start such a man in
evitably drops right into the hands of some
Wall 6treet parties, who thenceforth make the
policy of the treasury department. Mr. Win
dom cannot go on fourteen days without
forming relations to some Wall street men
who will profit to the amount of a fortune by
means of that relation.
Or, on the other hand, John Sherman will
continue to be virtually secretary of the treas
ury, retaining the power of the office, but rid
of Its responsibilities, and no longer scrupu
lous about making profits which even he
would , not like to touch while nominally
secretary.
The theory that a Western man, like Mr.
Windom, is necessarily more honest and safer
than any New Yorker is fallacious.
Give Mr. Windom a fair chance, but we ap
prehend that his qualifications for secretary
of the treasury are yet to be acquired.
SECRETARY WINDOM A SILVER MAN.
Ilia Speech and Vole in this Senate vn the
Bland-Allison Bill.
[From the Congressional Record, Feb. 15,1878.)
At the close of this long and weary session,
1 can presume to say but a few words in ex
planation of the vote lam about to give. I
have voted for various amendments which I
thought would greatly improve the pending
bill. Some of them have beeu agreed to, but in
the main they have been defeated. We are now
brought face to face with the question whether
we shall have the double or the single stand
ard. I favor the former. I believe in the
remonetization of silver, but most deeply re
gret that the Senate is unwilling to make a
dollar of 420 grains, or at least to give the
country some assurance that if 412)$ grains
will not make a dollar worth 100 cents, it shall
be made so by future legislation. On this
point, however, 1 think we may trust our suc
cessors or ourselves when it shall be demon
strated that H2'A grains is not enough to con
stitute a full equivalent to the gold dollar of
the commercial world.
Mr. President, lam thoroughly convinced
that this measure, as we are about to pass it,
will prove a disappointment to both friend
and foe. It is not freighted with a tithe of the
blessings anticipated by its advocates nor of
the evils propesied by its enemies. It is in
my judgment neither the panacea for all our
financial troubles, nor a Pandora's box from
which 6hould spring unnumbered and un
measurable ills. I fear it will not give life and
vigor to our prostrate industries, nor employ
ment and food to the unemployed and hungry.
But I am hopeful it will neither tarnish our
national honor nor further paralyze our na
tional energies.
In my judgment the most important ques
tion is how we can most speedily dispose of
the question in such way as will give the
country financial rest and quiet. I firmly be
lieve that had this silver agitation never oc
curred our greenback and bank note currency
would have been at par with gold to-day, and
that the hoarded gold in the country would
by this time have been unlocked and flowing
freely into the channels of business. But this
could not be. The question has assumed
such importance before the Amer
ican people that,, in my judg
ment, there can be but one result. The meas
ure must and will be tried. The people are
suffering from an almost unprecedented pros
tration of business. The unemployed and
suffering poor are counted by hundreds of
thousands, if not millions. To millions more
the past is full of sorrow, and the future
well-nigh hopeless. They have been told that
by the demonetization of silver one-half of
the metallic money of the country was stricken
down, and hence ail their vfoes; that this act
was done in the interest of capital for the pur
po6e of enchancing its power and value by de
pressing labor and all other prorjerty; that it
was accomplished by a conspiracy of capital
ists, and clandestinely' carried through Con
gress. All of these charges have been most
Triumphantly refuted, but they continue to be
repeated all the same.
From the causes just mentioned, and many
others, a public sentiment has been created,
which will only be satisfied with the trial of
the thing it demands. It will continue to de
mand this measure or something like it until
it has been fairly tested, and, as I fear, K found
wanting."
If this bill be defeated now, the question
will be carried into the fall elections, and for
another year more doubt and uncertainty will
hang over our financial affairs, causing even
wider distress and ruin than we have already
experienced. I can see no evils, even in the
House bill, at all comparable to those which
would follow from another year of agitation.
For myself, Ido not intend that any act of
mine shall contribute to such deplorable
results. It is evident that the bill
will pass the Senate by an over
whelming majority. If it shall have a two
thirds vote, the whole country will regard
the question as settled for the present at
least, and will at once begin to adjust its busi
ness to the new order of things.
With no very sanguine expections as to the
measure itself in its present form, but hop
ing that I may contribute something towards
the settlement of the questien, I shall vote
for the bill.
RAILROAD RACKET.
Return of Supt. Stickney from Manitoba—
Rumors of Important Changes In the
Management of the St. P. & M.— Gossip
as to the Possible Successor of Manager
Sargent — Condition of the Blockaded
Roads.
Superintendent A. B. Stickney, of the Ca
nadian Pacific, having completed the prelimi
nary arrangements for construction work to
be begun as soon as the working sea
son opens, has returned to St. Paul for a
short stay at home.
The pending, and about completed arrange
ments for transferring the St. Paul & Duluth
railroad to the St. Paul <fc Manitoba interest,
are reported to involve a purchase outright on
behalf of the St. Paul <fe Manitoba company of
one-third of the St. P. & D. stock, with the ob
ligation to bear a proportionate share of the
cost of placing the road in first-class condi
tion, by replacing the present track with new
steel rails, by perfecting the road bed,a»d by re
building bridges and trestle work with iron and
store. The purpose of the St. Paul & Mani
toba company in acquiring an interest in this
Minnesota line to the great lakes is obvious*
It makes the company, for the season of navi
gation at least, independent of the 'eastern
railway lines, and to a certain extent gives it;a
line of competition with the proposed eastward
extension and eastward connections (via the
south shore of Lake Superior) of the Northern
Pacific.
Rumor is unusually busy just now with
prominent railway officials. With the rest it
proposes to relieve General Manager Hill, of
the St. Paul & Manitoba railway company, of
some of the onerous duties of detail at
taching to his position as general manager
and chief executive officer of the company,
by the appointment of an assistant general
manager to aid him in charge of the opera
tion of the St. P. &M. railway lines, while
Mr. Hill is to occupy the position of chief
executive officer of both the St. P. & M. and
the Canadian Pacific. The rumor is passed
for what It is worth, with the adderlde that
gossip says that a large salary will attach to
the position of assistant general manager of
the St. Paul <fe Manitoba and that the man to
have the place will be one of the best of
rising railroad men of the country.
In one thing the invention of gossips is at
fault. They are not yet prepared to name or
even hint at the successor to General Man
ager Sargent of the Northern Pacific, without
a qualifying clause. The impression seems to
be general, perhaps derived from news
paper statements, that the company
will 6end an officer to St. Paul who will
have full authority as to all affairs of
the company, with details of daily manage
ment left to a general manager. The execu
tive officer is not named, but among those
suggested for the second place is Hon. F. R.
Delano, who, under the present arrangement
is superintendent of construction
of branch lines in progress and contemplated.
The situation is full of possibilities of gos
sipy speculation, but those who demand facts
and will be content with nothing else must
wait for the results of the meeting of direc
tors, to be held in New York next Thursday.
West of St. Paul the weather was favorable
for the work to be done on the blockaded
roads, and on the Sioux City division of the
St. Paul and Omaha line the work was prose
cuted with the utmost diligence from every
point where a crew of shovelers could be en
listed. But it will take several days of hard
work, with most favorable weather, to open
the line. On the St. Panl division the line
was partly opened beyond Mankato, bnt the
train from St. Paul this morning will probably
turn back from Mankato. The afternoon
train may go through to St. Jame6.
The eastern roads arc all right
to Chicago, the last Chicago 6torm
having made only temporary blockades
this side of that city. Yesterday morning
trains from Chicago came ia a little late, but
the noon trains came in on time.
Considerable progress was made yesterday
in opening the temporary blockade on the
Breckeiirldge division of the St. Paul & Mani
toba railway. The road was cleared from
Willmar to Morris, and the passenger train
which was stalled west of Morris wa6 brought
into that station. The obstructions beyond
Morris are light aud will be removed before
noon to-day.
The Platte river rise has come down five
feet, carrying ice three feet thick. The cur
rent ran on top of the ice. The lower river
did not raise. It is the worst time for a
break up and the highest water in the history
of the river. Some scores of bridges are gone
along its course for two hundred miles.
General Foreign Netcs.
CARVER WINS.
London, March 13.— Total scores iv the
8,000 glass ball shooting match, Carver 3,865;
Scott 3,857.
SECESSION FROM PARNELL.
Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbct, home rule mem
ber from Limerick City, has seceded from th e
Parnellites.
Dillon addressed the land meeting at Clon
mcl Sunday. Two more land leaguers in
Kilmarhom jail.
DICTATORIAL BOERS.
London, March 13.— 1t is reported the
Boer terms are so dictatorial peace is impossi
ble- Many Boers from the Orange free state
are seen going to Laingsneck.
Government Official Robbed.
Chattanooga, March 13.— A. G. Smith, re
ceiver of materials for the government works
at Muscle Shoals canal, was robbed by three
men of $3,500 Friday while going from the
boat at Florence to the chief camp on the
canal. After taking the money the robbers
forced Smith to accompany them through a
dense wood for twenty miles, when he made
his way back to camp Saturday. It is said
they had been lurking in the neighborhood
since Christmas to commit the robbery.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Office Observation, Signal Cobps.U.S. A. )
Ingersoll Block, Third Street, >
St. Paul, Minn. )
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations.
Meteorological Record, March. 13, 1881,
9:56 p.m.
Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather.
Fort Garry.. 80. 16 24 SE Cloudy.
St. Vincent. 30.09 22 Cloudy.
Duluth 80.12 30 Cloudy.
M00rhead... 30.14 14 SW Clear.
St. Pau1.... 30.14 25 SW Clear.
DAILT LOCAL MEANS.
Bar. Ther. Rel.Hum. Wind. Weather.
30.024 26.5 73.7 NW Fair.
Amount of melted snow, .04 inches; max
imum thermometer, 41; mininum thermome
ter, 18.
O. S. M. Cone,
Sergeant Signal Corps, TJ. S. A.
WEATHER TO-DAT
Washington, March 14.— For the upper
Mississippi valley, fair weather, variable shift
ing easterly winds, higher temperature, sta
tionary or lower barometer. Lower Missouri
valley clear or partly cloudy weather.occasion
al snow, northwesterly winds, stationary or
higher temperature and lower barometer.
One dollar expended now in purchasing a
bottle *of Jayne's Expectorant, by those
troubled with a slight cough or hoarseness, or
sore throat, may save the expense of a doctor's
bill. A neglected cough often ends in con
sumption. A slight inflammation of the lin
ing of the wind tubes, the usual symptoms of
which are sore throat and a pain in the breast,
frequently leads to bronchitis. A day's delay
may entail months of suffering. Better try at
once Jayne's Expectorant, a standard remedy,
whose curative properties have been tested and
approved by thousands.
Buffalo, March 13.— Carl Otto Valtz and
George Ballue, wounded at Friday's boiler ex
plosion, died to-day. Total deaths, eight.
NO. 73
DISASTERSANDDEVILTRIES
LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAM
ER BURNED.
The Passengers all Escape, but Lose Muit
of their Effects-- A Yard Train in Pitts
burgh Backed from the Track, and a
Conductor and Brakeman Killed—Ran
Into and Sank at Sea—George Moßrlde
Deliberately Shot Dead by a Well Known
Chicago Thief-Mlseellaaeotu.
LOWER MISSISSIPPI EIVEE STEAMBOAT-BURKED.
St. Lotus, March 13.— The steamer Jas.
Howard, belonging to the New Orleans An
chor line, took fire at a quarter past ten to
night, while lying at th« wharfboat, foot of
Market street, and was reduced to a wreck in
about half an hour.the entire upper works be
ing burned off and her guards aft the wheel
house broken down and destroyed. She had
arrived from New Orleans only about an hour
before with a fine freight list and a number
of passengers and was apparently in a safe
condition. The fire seems to have caught in
a pile of junk forward of the furnaces, and
the flames spread through the upper works
with great rapidity and fierceness, defying the
efforts of the fire department until nearly every
particle of wood work was burned even with
her deck. From present appearances her hull
will be saved, but the machinery will be badly
damaged. The Howard was purchased by the
New Orleans Anchor line about two years ago
for $40,000. Since then various improvements
have been added, and she was probably worth
from $60,000 to $75,000; no insurance, tha
Anchor line taking its own risks. So far as
known at this writing all passengers were
safely landed, but several of them lost their
baggage. The boat's cargo consists of sugar,
jute and general merchandise, amounting to
about forty tons. A barge with a lot offish
bars and salt on board was taken in tow at
Cairo. This barge also took fire and floated
down stseam several blocks, but was towed
ashore and the flames extinguished without
much damage.
KILLED BT A THIEF.
Chicago, March 13. ~ George Mcßride, a
hostler in the employ of William B. Simpson,
was shot and killed hy a well-known thief
named Barry Gilmore, in front of the Wabaeh
avenue pavilion, to-day. Simpson had
been on a spree last night and
Mcßride was sent irom his home
to hunt him up, and found him in the pavil
ion in the company of Gilmore. Mcßride
tried to get his employer away, bnt Gilmore
interfered and called Mcßride names,, where
upon Mcßride invited him outside to settle
the matter with fists. When they started out
Gilmore was handed a pistol by the bartender.
When Simpson saw the pistol in Gil
more's hand he tried to stop the
fight, and Mcßride said he had
no intention to fight an armed agent. Gil
more later said he would not let his adversary
off so, and leveling the pistol over Simpson's
shoulders sent a ball through Mcßride 's temple
killing him instantly. Simpson, the owner of
the saloon, and bartender were arrested, but
Gilmore escaped to-day.
BUCKED FROM THE TRACK.
Pittsburgh, March 13.— This morning at 3
o'clock a wild freight train ran into a yard
train on the Pan Handle bridge, in South
Pittsburgh, throwing three gondolas and a
tender of the yard train off the bridge J to the
street, fifty feet below. The conductor of the
yard train, Charles Curney, was in
stantly killed; Patrick Cullen, brakeman,
had his skull . fractured, legs broken
and was otherwise injured so that his recovery
is doubtful; R. Harrison, another brakeman,
had his legs broken and fingers cut off. Hi?
injuries, however, are not considered danger
ous. Tue accident was caused by both trains
fetting into the same blocks at once, Opeiator
oster having white signal up. He says he
knew nothing of the yam train coming, as the
fog was too dense to see. Coroner Hope had
him placed under arrest, but the jury exon
erated him and he was released.
RUN DOWN AT SEA.
Plymouth, March 13. — The steamer Bcuin,
in collision with the steamer Duke Buecleach,
yesterday foundered twenty-five miles south
east of Start Point. The Beuin was from
Moravia via Havre, where she landed the
mails, passengers and cargo. The collision
occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The
weather is clear and the wind high. No loss
of life.
A CONTRACTOR'S PATMABTER ROBBED.
Memphis, Term., March 12.— The paymastor
at Muscle Shoals Improvements, Alabama,
was robbed yesterday afternoon of $5,000, by
three men. A telegram to the police officials
gives a description of the men,who are mount
ed, but no particulars of the robbery.
A BAD FAILURE.
New York, March 13.-^The Tribune 6ay6:
The assignee of Fowler, Crampton & Co., im
porters of chemicals and crushed linseed oil,
No. 142 Front street, has prepared schedules
which show the liabilities of the firm much
greater than first reported. Total liabilities,
$1,688,160; total nominal assets, $1,018,247;
total actual assets, $990,046. Deducting
pledged merchandise and securities and the net
actual assets are $278,533.
TAKING ALARM.
London, March 13. — Stafford Northcote, in
regard to the urgency for the committee of
supply, points out that Gladstone's proposal
threatens to subject the rights and liberties of
the house of commons in regard to controlling
the estimates
Bradlaugh has resigned his scat in parlia
ment in order to be re-elected.
LTNCHED.
Houndsbobo, Miss., March 13.— Edward
Turner, colored, who grossly assaulted Mrs.
Michael Mclntosh, March 6th, was taken
from the Mississippi City jail last night by a
mob and lynched.
LETTER THIEF.
Chicago, March 13.— Lysander Tiffany, who
at one time was a well-to-do citizen, worth
over $50,000, and who for the last thirteen
years has been a letter carrier in this city, was
to-day arrested for rifling a letter given him to
deliver. Many complaints have recently been
made of the systematic robbery of letters, and
it is thought Tiffany is the guilty party, he
having been caught in the act of putting let
ters aside for examination instead of delivering
them immediately. He claims he is innocent.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Boston, March 13. — The Tileston paper
mills, Hyde Park, burned. " Considerable pa
per pulp, etc . , also destroyed. Loss estimated
at $75,000; insurance $45,000.
St. Louis, March IS.— John C. Dies6cl,
lumber handler, was found dead this morning
at his residence in the northern part of the
city. He severed his wrists with a pair of
scissors and bled to death. The only cause
known for the act l» the* losing of a small
amount of money gambling.
Death of "The Poor Student."
[New York Sun, 10th.] '
Seth Wilbur Payne, who had a varied exper- '
ience in connection with many newspapers,
died on the 3d inst. of pneumonia, at Lead
ville,Col. As editor of the Daily Bee, in
Utica, in 1872, he was imprisoned for libelling
Judge Chas. Doolittle. Previously he had
edited the Duluth Morning Call, the first
daily paper there; and still earlier in life he
went on foot from this city to San Francisco,
writing letters to theUtica Herald under the
name of "The Poor Btudent." In the latter
nart of 1872 he was connected with the
Evening Journal of Jersey City, and in 1874
began publishing the Jersey City Press. At
the time of his death he was employed on the
Rocky Mountain News, gatheringnews from
the Colorado mining camps. He was 43
years old. His widow and one child are in
Red Bank, N. J.