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fiF EDMUNDS ANDEYARTS
Two Very Notable Charaptets Gone
From the Council of. the
Nation.
They Towered Above Moet of the
Men Who Bat Around
Them.
An Bra Marked by Their Retlremeat
Personal Traits of Both Ren
Witticisms of Evarts.
I8peoial currespondene of Tam INDEPENDNT.]
WAeSrOTOox, Dee. 22.-Your average poli
tician worships the rising, not the setting,
sun. It is the fellow coming down the
road, not the fellow who just went past,
that stirs his pulses. A last year's states
man is worth in practical politics hardly
more than a bird's nest of the same vint
age. For that reason it is that we are hear..
ing so much nowadays of the new men in
congress and nothing at all of the veterans
*hose retirement is an event of quite as
much importance.
With the entree of the Fifty-second son
gress there is a good deal of ability con
spicuously absent-a good deal of gray
matter gone home for a rest. This is
especially so in the senate, where men stay
great a long while. A six year tenure lends
the force of reiter-tion to whatever a man
may do. One senator, they say, has never
failed for twelve years to set his name on
the record at least once every day in every
session. By simple repetition he has gained
a national reputation. He is not much of
a senator-the colored men who sweep the
chamber drive everybody out with their
dust; he, with his speeches. Yet in his own
state and section his name is a house
hold word and his people hold him
in Websterian awe. I suppose that even
this man, if by any chance he should some
time fail of re-election, would make the
senate chamber seem lonesome for a time
after his disappearance.
The old habitue of the senate galleries
and there are scores in Washington, who
seem to live only for the pleasure of looking
down day after day upon their favorite
statesmen in the arena of legislation below
-the old habitue of galleries must suffer
long and acute heartaches in these oaesing
days. The great men who sat in that
chamber in the afternoon of the century
are gone. Of those in the last congress
who connected the passing age with that
which included the war and reconstruction
period but one is now left. Evarts and
Edmunde are out; John Sherman remains.
Mr. Edmunds has by his.own wish con
cluded his public career and now lingers to
see himself go into history. He is the beet
of greet men who, like Webster, Clay and
Sumner tower above the age in which they
lived. He entered the senate in April, 1866,
GEO. F. EDMUNDS.
having been appointed the successor of
Solomon Foote, who had for several con
gresses been president of the senate. The
first speech Mr. Edmunds made was in en
logy of his honored predecessor. He en
tered freely into the debates that occupied
the attention of his fellow senators and
was at once recognized as a strong mind,
though new to public life. The leaders on
the republican side of the senate were Sum
ner, Fessenden, Trumbull and Wade. On
the demoolatic side were Iteverdy John-'
son, Hendricks. Bnokalew and Saulsbury.
Among the influential republicans were
also Each Chandler, John Sherman, Henry
Wilson, Pomeroy, Ramsey and Doolittle,
who were chairmen of the important
committees. To Mr. Edmunds was as
signed the chairmanship of the joint com
mittee on retrenchment, and from that
committee during the first year of his sena
torial career he reported the tenure of the
office act and secured its pasesage. To few
men in public life is it permitted to ac
complish such a great achiovement on the
very threshold of their career, He was
then 38 years old. From that time to the
close of the Fifty-first congress, Senator
Edmunds has stood in the front rank of
American statesmen. His lawyer-like
mastery of details and worship of precision
earned him the name of a stickler and at
the same time awed his collegues into sub
mission to his will. His leadership has
,been irksome and even despotic, but he has
always led, and in leading has sought the
welfare of the country.
It was during the Impeachment trial of
President Johnson, the soubriquet of St.
Jerome was first fastened on the Vermont
senator. The likeness was discovered by a
newspaper correspondent and soon gained
wide currency. 'People who never saw
picture or plaster of St. Jerome have heard
Edmunds called by that name and had
their interest in the man somewhat quick
ened and vitalized by it. It ian t a common
thing to compare a senator or member of
congress to a saint. Mr. Edmunds looked
nearly as old when he entered the senate as
he does to-day. His beard was then a rich
brown already beginning to turn gray. The
vast bald dome was then as polished as
now.
The story is told of one of the German
diplomats that as he sat in the gallery one t
day while Edmunds was addressing the a
senate, the German suddenly turned to the i
American friend who was with him and t
said immplsively: t
"I vish I could hat his skool."
"Whatl" said the horrified Yankee, "You n
don't mean that you want Edmunds' skulll"
"Dat is egzactly vat I mean. I tood like
to hat Meester Edmunds' ekool yen he is B
done mit it. I vood like to hat it on my
shoulders in do place of die von," and the e
Teuton rapped his noddle' with his t
knuckles. C
Stern and unbending as Mr. Edmunds a
weas as a senator, in his home he is a differ- I
out man. Among friends he is wholly an
other man. Take him on a huting or
fishing trip and his companionship Is ideal.
He can cook his own meal or brew some
thing good to drink as well as the oldest of
woodsmen. In his tastes he Is as simple b
and democratic as you please. It has been I
said he Is unalsproachable., 'He may be to
yolitiolans and newspaper men, but to peo
pie who do, ot seek lm for favors o
reiiohod iany man in ablia life. Ita
not lely that. frdmonds will again
enter public life, $. is now i8 '£5 only
mptation possible to him now i a seat on
thn sapreme benohl ad it is doubtful if he
ld aorept tda. He would hate been
glad to have rounded out his career as chief
l~utie, but that wars not hi allotted honor.
S-nator Evanrt had but one term in the
senate, but hissohievements in polities and
the high honors he received as the member
of two cabinets and the great party lawyer
and advocate of his half century make him
a type of the statesmanship of the deendes
now gono into history. Unlike Senaor Ed
munds he was a college man and enjoyed
the best schoola of his time--the liosto
Latin school, Yale college and Harvard
law school. Mr. Edmunds' father was a
small farmer in NewHampshire, a man who
eame of good old Puritan atook and bore
the Biblical nameof Ebenernar on his moth
er's side Quaker blood entered the family.
To her doubtless the ex-senator owes hid
heritageiot intellectl from his father, who
was a good deal of a Barebunes and argued
strenuously, it is said, against tea as a
harmful beverage, came his keen insight
into human nature and his punctiliousness,
Mr. Evarts came also of devout parents;
his father, Jeremiah Evarts, was a gradu.
ate of Yale and for twenty years secretary
of the American board. He was eminent in
his time for his interest and knowledge in
misslon work in all parts of the world. He
was especially sealbus in urging the con
version of the various tribes of Amerioan
Indians. His wife, Mehitabel, was a grand.
WILLIAM M. EVART3.
daughter of Roger Sherman, who not only
o signed the Declaration of Independence,but
was a member of the committee with Jef
R ferson and Franklin to draft that precious
s document. Mrs. Evarts was a devout wo
o man, whose clear intellect was a tower of
,r strength to her hard worked husband. It
was notstrange that such a father and
g mother should desire to bend the growing
t minds of their son towards the life work
y to which they had devoted themselves.
* One night, a few winters ago when I
t had occasion to interview Mr. Evarts, he
reverted apparently with a good deal of
pleasure to this circomstance. He sat
alone in his library, his slippered feet on
the fender before a glowing fire. All the
o jokes about his weight seemed justifieod at
it that moment. He sat in a low rocking
d chair that made him even less than he Was.
F His rusty broadcloth coat, the careless cra
o, vat ends, the old-fashioned turn over shirt
- collar, the absence of the ordinary orna
ments of dress that the average man
wears, were in vigorous strokes in the pic
ture he made as he sat there, but they were
thrown in the shade entirely by the 4lag
nifloent head that rose above them. In
his old age-he will soon be 74-Mr. Evarts
is a wonderfully handsome man. His pro
file is severely classic in the mobile lips, the
firm projecting chin, the smooth shaven
though wrinkled cheeks, and the keen pene
trating eye, taken with the grahd contour
of the head, form a splendid subject for
painter or sculptor. It is not strange that
men compare him to Cicero, especially when
the likeness extends beyond physical char
acteristics.
Mr. Evarta' political career always sug
gests a comparison with that of the orator
of Arpinnu, Cicero, vibrating from faction
to faction, his splendid intellect givihg him
a hireling importance in every situation,
he was like the first lawyer of America
whenever he entered politics. His legal
career, one of the most brilliant in history,
earned for him thirty years ago, full recog
nition of the republican party. Thurlow
Weed used him as a foil in 1861 to thwart
Horace Greely's ambition to enter the sen
ate. The old firm of reward, Weed r&
Greeley, had dissolved and Greeley's seces
sion editorials had girded Weed to a deter
mined hostility to the editor's political de
sires. Evarts barely led on the first ballot
in the senatorial contests, then Greeley
steadily gathered headwayand Weed had to
surrender to the suggestion of Henry J.
Raymond and turn his forces over to elect
Ira Hrrris. What Mr. Evarts' career might
have been if he had been successful in this
contest can only be conjectured. But it is
reasonable to make the retrooative prophecy
that he would have been less a lawyer and
advocate and more a statesman. His
splendid talent as a lawyer would
not have been in the open market
to be employed now on one side, now on
the other of the great questions that divided
the nation. In 1850 he was forced by the
influence of rich clients into making the
famous Castle Garden speech defending the
fugitive slave law. 'ITe years later, in the
Lemmon case, lawyer-like, he denounced
what he had said in 1850. It was a retainer
and his three days speech in the impeach
ment trial of Andrew Johnson that carried
Mr. Evarts into the cabinet of that scotched
chief magistrate. In 1872 he was a liberal
and would have been outspoken for any
other candidate of the new party other
than Mr. Greeley, but the persuasions of
good clients again prevailed and ihe took
the. stump for Gen. Grant. In 1876 he
eardned another cabinet portfolio by making
the legal argument which seated President
Hayes. His position was that the country
was not ready for a democratic restoration
and that there would be a renewal of "er
ganized revolution." Yet when firmly
seated in the cabinet he advised President
Hayes in his southern policy, himself urged
Gov. Chamberlain to yield his rights
in South Carolina in the interest of
peace and a common welfare, and after
overthrowing the republican administra
tion in Louisiana, consoled Gov. Packard
with the liverpool caneulate. In 1871 Mr.
Evairtesupported Cornell for governor of
New York, and denounced bholters; in 1882
Gov. Cornell said Mr. Evarts bolted Folger
and refused him any possible aid. In 1880
he was regarded as so uncertain in his faith
in Garfield, because of the understanding
between the latter and Mr. Blaine, that
Steve Dorsey would not let him make a
speeclrin Indiana. In 1884 Mr., Evrts was
on the stump for Blaine. His election to
the senate in 1884 was the result of combi
nations originating entirely outside of Mr.
Everts' desires or power in Noew York poll
tics. To Warner Miller and (Chester A. Ar- 1
thur he owes that honorable passage in his
life. And this is still another queer polit
ical contradiction in Evarts' career, Ar.
thur, years before, had done his share of
ridiculing Evarts, and never dreamed he
should ever be in the same camp with him.
"Do you know," said a senator recently
who served during Mr. Evarts' six years in 1
the senate, "that Garfield's quarrel with
Conkling began with William M. Evarts,
and that if lvarts had not been called
into Hlaves' cabinet Garfield would in all
probability have escaped assassination and
served out his termw
"That is the fact,.I think, as it appears in I
the history of New York politics. It began I
bIiruk in Andy Johnson's time when 'little I
Evarts,' as they derisively called him, puen
ished the managersof the impeachment and
(Continued on leuend Page,)
LYNCED HETHE SIMS GANG
The Outlaws Who Claimed Divine
Authority to Run an Illicit
Still.
They Surrendered When a Cannon
Was Trained on Their
Stronghold.
Bob's Pulse Was, Normal to the Last
Graves Not a Star Witness in
His Own Behalf,
SMomsx, Ala., Deo. 26,.-An artillery de
taohment of the First regiment, state
troops left here early this morning, en
route for the house where the Sims party
rwas fortified, in Choctaw county. Sheriff
I Gavin, on Christmas morning, sent to
Bladon Pprings for a cannon. When Sims
heard of this preparation to blow his strong
1 hold to splinters he looked at his women
folk, and his heart misgave him. He began
to parley with the sheriff. At two o'clock
he said be would surrender if the posse
would do him no injury, and if the posse
would protect him from mob vio
lence. A meeting of the posse
was held, which lasted more than
two hours. There was great excitement
and much diversity of opinion. At first
the proposals of Sims were flatly refused,
but the fact that there were women in the
house was a strong point in favor of
mercy to the inmates. It was thought that
shooting with a cannon into a house har
boring a woman was so repugnant that it
overcame the almost wild longing for the
blood of the men outlaws. So, at last, the
terms of Sims were accepted. At 4:80 the
Sims party laid down their arms and came
out of the house. The posse was astonished
to see that instead of seven out
laws there were only two men and
a boy. Bop Sims, Thomas Savage and
young Savage, a nephew of Sims, and four
women, Bob's wife and three daughters,
came out. The sheriff promised the best
protection he could give under the circum
stances. Sims selected twenty-five men
and the sheriff twenty-five, and started to
Butler. About a mile from Sims' house a
body of'men from 100 to 200 strong took
them from the guard and. hanged
them all to one tree.
Sims expressed fears that he would never
reach the jail dead or alive. When he was
placed in the buggy for the fatal ride he
refused to be blindfolded. He held out his
hand and asked them to feel his pulse to
see if he was frightened, and said he was
going to heaven. Young Savage said: "If
you think enough of me to bury me, put me
by the side of Sims. We are fighting for
the same cause."
They died cursing. The women were;
turned loose. The names of the Simsites
hung are: Bob Sims, Tom Savage, Con
Sdvage and his two grown sons. Thus
ends the defiance of the United States, the
stateof Alabama, and, in fact, all laws, by
the notorious Bob Sims and followers.
GRAVES ON THE RACK.
He Denies a Good Many Things and Has
Forgotten Others.
DENVER, Dec. 26.-In the Graves trial
this morning Stevens announced that after
examination of the letter the prosecution
withdrew all objections to its being ad
mitted in evidence. This is the letter
which it is claimed the doctor wrote to Mrs.
Barnaby in San Francisco. at the time she
was on her way to Denver, and about the
time the fatal bottle was mailed. The Inten
tion is to prove that the doctor thought Mrs.
Barnaby was in San Francisco, and there
fore he could not have mailed the bottle to
her in Denver if he thought she was else
where. Judge Furman read the letter,
which explained to Mrs. Barnaby how to
get the doctor's checks cashed, and told of
the death of his brother. It was dated
March 27, and was posted at Providence,
March 30. Stevens then said he wished the
letter to go into evidence. Under instructions
of the court, the letter was passed from
juror to juror and finally handed back to
Judge Furman, who resumed the doctor's
direct examination. Graves denied that he
told Mrs. Hickey that he engaged Sallie
Hanley to spy on Mrs. Barnaby. He was
in Denver in March last with his brother's
remains. This conol uded his direct ex
amination and Mr. Stevens began his cross
examination, which was lengthy. The
doctor denied nearly everything sworn
to by the other witness, or
if he did not deny the tes
timony he would say he could not
remember. He did not attempt to find out
about the autopsy or analysis of Mrs.
Barnaby's remains when he arrived here,
notwithstanding that he heard she was
poisoned. Instead of this, lie and a friend
visited a ball game the day of his arrival. I
Dr. Graves said he did not tell Worrell that I
he thoueht the Bennett family I
sent the bottle of whisky. He
acknowledged being interviewed by
Reporter Lincoln in the Providence
telegraph office and said he might have told
Lincoln that Mrs. Barnaby had many lov- 1
ers and that some of them were vile, but he l
denied having said he saw Mrs. Barnaby I
and Edward Bennett in a comrpromising
position. He ackuowledged that the letter
he wrrtr to Mrs. Barnaby in regard to I
r ..ug a guardian over her was I
his own invention and that the
executors of the Bnrnaby estate knew
nothing of it. The prosecution inquired as
to where $10,000 of Mrs. Uarnabv's money,
supposed to have been deposited by Graves,
was. He said his aooount book had been
lhst, but there was no such balance due
Mrs. BSrnaby, and that he had accounted I
for every cent of her money. lie denied
having told John H. Conrad that he sent a
bottle of whisky to Mrs. Barnaby.
Assassinated Through a TWindow.
CAraO..LTNo. Miss., Dee, 26.-A terrible
tragedy was enacted in this county last
night, in the section locally known as
"Little Texas." Someone fired into the re
sidence of Lawson Lott, fatally wounding
him and also seriously wounding Mrs. W.
E. Meitrs. A man named George Taylor,
who was also in the room, and tor whom it
is supposed the shot was intended, was not
hit. It seems that Pierce Meiers had a dif
ficulty a few days ago with Taylor. Sue
p'oion rested on Meiers as being the one
who attempted the assassination. This
morning a posse wont to Moeere house to ar
rest him, Taylor being one of the number.
Melers refused to he arrested and drew a
knife, whereupon Taylor began firing, and
killed Malers, putting six bullets in his
body. Taylor was taken in charge, by the
posse.
The Flratrhlede.
CoouonD, N. H., Doo. 2G.-slaac Sawtelle.
who nmutered his brother Hiramn, died
of apoplexy this morning at the state
prison. In response to a sentiment that
rapidly became a fixed conviction in the
minds of many citizens of Conourd, that
the death resulted from taking poison,
Mayor Clapp this afternoon advised Prison
Physician Olark to make a careful investi.
ONE DREAUDUL CHRISTMAS.
It Is Brought Aboet by the Dlsappeqrance
of e Washl.iton OEolal.
FATrtraAvin, Wasit., De. 26.--fSpecial.]-
What is known baong the disappearanoe of
W. S. Parker tbhe city marshal of Fair.
haven, Wash., embodies one of the most
curious stories of emystery of modern times.
Mr. Parker disappeared on about Thanks.
giving day. Everybody knew him and his
personality was so peculiar that the sim
plest deseritioln of him would mark
him anywhere. Yet nothing has been
learned about him from that day
to this. He was of the build of George
Washington, several inches above sir feet
in height, a yard in width at the shoulders,
and altogether a musoular, fdroeful, vigor
ous man who would'be marked among ten
thousand. He was eollecting the yearly
taxes and be turned in the bulk of them,
somewhere between' $24,000 and $40,000.
Then he received...atilegram and at once
sought his supefiorj in the town govern
ment, and still holding the telegram in his
r hand, said that hi had "a chance to make
a stake" and wanted di few days of absence.
His wife and childirneweri' then away visit.
Sing her people in the Palouse country near
Spokane. He had dlosed his house and
taken a room in the city.
After several days passed and no word
had been heard of him, a cursory glance at
" the books served to spread alarm lest he
had run off with some- $8,000 of collected
taxes. The books seemed to show that
nearly everybody had paid their taxes and
that some of the aecounts marked "paid"
were several hundred dollars more than the
amount turned in. To those who jump at
conclusions the case instantly turned from
one of mysterious disappearance to one of
flight and theft. Mrs.. Parker was tele-.
graphed for and came, leaving her children
behind.her. She laughed at the idea that
her husband had run away. She knew how
he loved her and his children, and, for that
matter, so did everybody else in Fairhaven,
for he had been the most domestic man
there, and it was a very rare night that
found him anywhere else except at his fire
side. But a veryshort talk with her showed
that like too many husbands he made the
mistake of not confiding in his wife about
his business affairs. Where other men
took their wives about 'airhaven saving,
"I own this lot, or that building, or these
blocks, and I have to much money in the
bank," he told her nothing, and she knew
but little more. Inquiry soon turned aside
from her and left her in her desolate home,
where for four weeks she has remained,
refusing solace and seated by the telephone
waiting from dreary morning until laggard
night for her husband's expected call upon
the instrument. And every day she got
letters from her little ones telling what
they wanted their papa to buy them for
Christmas. If any woman in America
spent a more wretched Christmas, God pity
her.
One town official, utterly devoid of
hunmanuty, inflicted uUps that woman an
interview in whioh he ohaaed her husband
with being a thief. But' there are few who
think so now. Man after man has turned
up and acknowledged that he did not pay
his taxes though they were marked "paid"
in Parker's books; that Parker marked
them paid to save the creditors from being
fined. The landlord who boarded Parker
in town says that one night the city marshal
took out of his pocket a clump of papers
and said: "There's a poor day's business.
There's over a thousand dollars in taxes
that I have marked paid to oblige men who
cannot pay." A young expert accountant
who has been set to work upon the books
now declares it to be his conviction that if
there is any money owing it will be to
Parker instead of to the town. Of'course,
there are demoralized and corrupt men who
will try and hide behind Parker's kindness
and say that they have onid their taxes, but
they are pretty well known.
The theory that parker was a thief is
abandoned. Two theories remain. He
was constantly in receipt of telegrams from
all over this country and Canada telling
him of rewards offered for fugitive crimin
als. A theory is that he had located a
criminal, had attempted to capture him and
had been killed. The second supposition
is far less creditable to hint. It is that the
contagion of smuggling, which runs riot
over the Puget sound country and has de
moralized some of the leading citizens, had
made him its victim. The theory is that,
acting as an agent for many of his town
folk, he collected a large sum of money and
made a journey to the watery frontier of
that country to exchange his money for
smuggled opium, and that when the desper
ate and reckless smugglers know that he
had this large sum of money they knocked
him on the head or shot him and kept both
his money and their opium. Since it is
known to be true that when they are
smuggling Chinamen they do not hesitat ae
to kill and throw them overboard when
pursued by United States vessels it is fair
to presume that any other sort of a murder
could easily commend itself to them. At
all events, there is only one opinion about
Parker, and that is that he was murdered.
iHe left $800 c ash in the bank and the city
has seized it, but his frieods hope that tile
ofiloinls will give all or a half of it to his
wife. They are now trying to mnake her be
lieve that Parker is dead and that she had
better go to her people in East Washington.
IN THE STOR.1'S EMBRACE.
States East and South of Montana Expert
ence Bad Weather.
OMAnA, Dec. 2.--All day yesterday a
blizzard prevailed throughout Nebraska.
The western parL of the state was in the
storm's embrace several hours earlier than
in the eastern part. The weather turned
intensely cold, the wind blew at a terrific
rate and the snow fell in great quantitine.
Tratlic on all the railroads in the state was
seriously retarded and in many cases along
the western division of the Union Paoitlo
trains were blockaded. The snow drifted
furiously and the stock suffered intensely.
The farmers feel partially compensated for
the loss of stock in the fact of having their
winter wheat well protected. In the ilnter.
lor of the state a heavy fall of snow oc
curred before it turned so cold, conse
I ,uently the winter grain is well protected.
he storm extended throughout Kansas.
Colorado, Wyoming and the Dakotas. In
Wyoming the 16as of stook is reported as
being unusually large, with a complete
train blockade.
A tesneroun Act.
Two of the big-heartced men of the Sixth
ward, learning how destitute of clothing
the Lowe family were, started out with a
list for contributions, taking care to head
the same with $5 apiece. This money was
turned over to a white ribboner in the Sixth
ward, who bought twelve suits of under
wear, stockings, shoes, one suit of clothes
and cloth for the mother and children.
io the two leading men and the others who
so kindly assisted may rest assured that the
family are comfortable for this winter and
the mother is very gratsfal to them for
their kindness.
BANISHED HIS BROTHER,
Grand Duke Sergius Acoused of
Tampering With the Loyalty
of Russians.
The Czar Gives Him a Peremptory
,Leave of Absence, Extended
Indefinitely.
Prof. Nothnagel's Address on the Influensza
-Measures to lIl Consldered In the
Blelchstag-The Socialists.
LCopyright, 1891, New York Associated Prosn.'i
BEULIrn, Dec. 26.-The emperor and
empress on Christmas eve presided
at the distribution of presents at the
the new palace at Potsdam. Each of the
little princes had his own table and tree
loaded with a variety of gifts. Yesterday
Emperor William sent to his own company
of guards a large pfefferkuchen made by
the court confectioner. This pepper-cake,
disuse of which has long been desired by
many, continues to be one of the solid in
stitutions of the season.
A report of startling nature is in circula.
tion and obtains credence in diplomatic
circles. It is to the effect that Count von
Schouvaloff, Russian ambassador to Ger
many, is to be transferred to Moscow as
the" successor to Grand Duke Sergius,
brother of the czar, as governor general.
The czar has given the Grand Duke Surgius
peremptory leave of absence for a year,
and it is looked upon as cer
tain that the grand duke
will not return to his post at
the expiration of that period. It is more
likely that he will be sent out of Russia or
be placed under police surveillance at some
post in central Asia. The grand duke, it is
alleged, has been tampering with the al
legiance of officers high in command at
Moscow, Warsaw, Wilna, and other mili
tary centres. The count has been ordered
to proceed to Gatschira to confer with the
czar.
The wife of the grand duke is a daughter
of Grand Duke Louis, of Hesse, and a
granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She re
cently abandoned the religious faith in
which she was trained and in April last
formally joined the Greek church. It is
charged in some quarters that the conver
sion of the grand duchess was not the result
of a free change in her religious belief, but
was due to moral suasion of a very brutal
kind. This statement was semi-officially
denied at the time, but the fact remains
that she at one time was so disgusted with
her husband that she was with difficulty
restrained from leaving him. It is said the
czar interposed his good offices to prevent
the scandal that would have followed the
separation.
Galician'parers are filled with articles
advocating renewed enforcement of repres
sive measures against Jews in Russin Po
land. A large number of persons have
been arrested in Warsaw and the imme
diate vicinity.
The czarina is suffering from influenza.
The Metropolitan Michel is also ill with the
disease. The epidemic of influenza still
prevails in Galicia, eastern Prussia and
Berlin. The address recently delivered by
Prof. Nothnagel, of Vienna, upon the ori
gin and treatment of the disease is the talk
of the hour among medical men. Prof.
Nothnauel in the address declared the mal
ady distinctly miasmatic in character and
certainly infectious and possibly contag
ious. He also stated that persons having
cardiac affections and those suffering from
tuberculosis have most cause to fear a fatal
result. There is no specific means of cure,
the professor says,. Treatment by antipy
rine, antifebrine and phinacetine is inad
visable where the disease is accompanied by
any form of tongession of lunas or weak
ness bf heart. Such a case had better be
treated with stimulants like digitalis or
brandy, or by the sub-cutaneous injection
of .camphor.
When the reichstag resumes its sittings
the bill for the repression of drunkenness,
the bourse regulation measure, and the dis
cussion of commercial treaties with Swit
zerland, Servia., Spain and Roumania, will
be the work. *The landtag has under con
sideration a new educational measure. The
ultra conservatives hope to be revenged for
defeat on the tariff question in the reioh
stag by the rejection of the educational bill
now before the landtag and the thwarting
of the financial reforms of Herr Miguel,
imperial minister of France.
Socialist leaders, being conscious of the
falling off in number of their adherents,
have made arrangements for a series of con
gresses, the first to be held in Bremen at
the end of January, to organize the propa
ganda among the peasants of the north
west provinces. The second of these con
gresses will be held at Coblentz, Jan. 31,
and the third at Neuminster in February.
Successive defeats of strikes which had
been begun under socialist guidance have
strongly prejudiced the position of the
party.
Despite the fact that semi-official denial
has been made of the report that Emperor
William intends to visit Bucharest, the fact
remains that arrangements have been made
for the official reception of his majesty
there in April. The visit of the emperor,
it is hoped, will keep IRoumania closer to
the dreibund.
A lrazillan Maniesato.
RIo JANEIaO, Dec. G.--The fallen dicta
tor has been treated with the utmost cot:
sideration by President Peixotto, who. in a
manifesto just issued, warmly praises Fon
seoa's abnegation and patriotism in spon
taneously resigning the presidency to avoid
strife between brethren, the elhddinil of
Brazilian blood lnd collision between coan
rudes-in-arms. The glorious factrs of the
immortal movement of Nov. 1i are destined
to defend tie united and national honor
and integrity of our country Hgainet for
eign ageressiou, nod to maintain internal
order and republican institutions. The
printing officos of the two journals that
supported General loodoro's administra
tion were destroyed Wednesday by it mob.
This in the only oil cumstance that has tar
nished the victory of the constitutionalists.
This victory seems to gratify everyone ex
cept the adherents of the dietator. Oen.
Peixotto, who, being vioe-pr'esident, has ex
ofllfcio become 1iresident of the republic,
holds the office only until a president can
be elected. It is not known when the elec
tion will be hell. but some time must nec
esaurily elpseo, sinos congress has not yet
passed a law regulating elections.
Chill's New President.
\'AL'PAIAIHO, Dec. HL.-At the inaugurn
tion ceremony of Chili's new president at
Bantiago to-day all the foreign
ministers were present with the ex
ception of Egan. His absence
caused much comment. l'he il
auguratlon took place in the prese
ence of a vast and enthusiastic Ie
semblage. Everything passed quietly,
despite ugly runors prevalent recently.
The president took the oath of ofiloe in the
hall of congress and then proceeded to the
cathedral, where he received the blessings
of the church and the To Deumi was sung
by the great crowd in, attendanooe. Troops
lined the streets through which, he passed
and armed soldiers were stationed at all
r oints. Ietters published to-day in various
Chilian papers from the intendeto of San-r
tingo to Minister Matta, alleging
that the police who had been keeping guar
over the American legation notwithstand
ing the protest of other foreign ministers,
had been insulted by the refunees to whom
Egan is affording protection. The inten
dente also alleges that the police had been
insulted by Egan's younger son. Egan em
phatically denies the story and says it is an
absolute lie. The Boston sailed to-night
ostensibly for Ban Fiancisco,
Will Avenge Ingratitude.
OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 2G.--ton. Thos. Mo
Greevy, formerly member of parliament,
who has been committed for trial on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the gov.
ernment, stated to-day that he intended to
show who the real culprits were when his
case came to trial, intimating that hewould
summon several cabinet ministers and
members of parliament to prove that all
the money he received from publio works
contractors went into the tory campaign
fund, and that some ministers now prose
cuting profited by his relations with the
contractors and handled a portion of the
money which, he claims, was obtained with
their full knowledge that it was to be used
for politioal purposes. "I am," said M.l
Greevy, "the victim of circumstances and
the ingratitude of political friends. The
same may be said of Contractors Michael
and Nicholas Connelly."
Defying the (Governm eut.
PAats, Dec. 26.-News was received from
Rome stating that the pope intends to con
fer the Grand Order of the Cross of Christ
upon the archbishop of Aix. This
will be looked upon here, should
the news prove correct, as defiance
by the pone of the government of this
country, and a reply from the French cov
ernment may not be slow in forthcoming.
The archbishop of Bordeaux, it will be re
membered, made common cause with Mon
signor Gouth Houn amrn in a diocesan letter,
which he addressed to all Catholics. Int
the letter the archbishop defends the right
of the members of the episcopate to join in
the pilgrimages to Rome. According to
this prelate the archbishop of Aix, when he
wrote ashe did, was not prompted by a
wish to fiAht, but simply overcome by dis
gust.
Probably Bound for Chill.
SAN FUAScrsco, Dec. 26.-The cruiser San
Francisco, flagship of the Pacific squadron,
with Rear Admiral Brown, put to sea this
afternoon. It is stated that the cruiser
might put into Bay Monterey for gun prac
tice, but the fact that the cruiser has un
usually large quantities of guns and am
munition aboard, added to the fact that a
number of sailors and marines left here on
the Pacific mail company's steamer Ban
Jose last Wednesday for Acapulco, where,
it is understood, they will be drafted into
the cruiser Charleston when she arrives
from Honolulu, leads to the belief that the
San Francisco is on the way to join the
Charleston at Acapulco, whence both ves
sels will proceed to Chili.
Blamarck's Narrow Eecape.
BeaLNa, Dec. 26.-Prinoe Bismarckhad 8
narroW escape from a railroad accident
yesterday which might have proved dis
astrous. He was crossing the track in his
carriageimepediately in front of Fredericks.
The station keeper was absent, the barriers
were lowered, and no warning was given of
the approaching train. When half over
the rails the coachman heard a train com
ing. He whipped up his horses and cleared
the track just as the train appeared around
a curve. Half a minute later the carriage
would have been struck. The train dashed
into a wagon which was close to the oar
tiage of the prince, and smashed it to
pieces, killing the driver.
To Reward the Militant.
Roere. Dec. 26.-It is said to be the inten
tion of the pope to confer the Grand Order
of the Cross of Christ upon the archbishop
of Aix as a token of sympathy from his
holiness. Should the information prove
correct it means that this is the pope's de
fiance of the French government and that a
serious outcome may be anticipated in the
near future.
To Exterminate Christians.
TEA.EAN, Dec. 26.-The priests still main
tain the interdiots against the use of to
bacco, and the people obey them implicitly.
A dangerous feature of the matter is the
attitude taken against Christians. The
walls of the city are placarded with appeals
to Moslems, calling upon them to unite
forces and exterminate the Christians.
A RUNAWAY CABLE CAR.
Causes one Death and Injures Several
l'eople.
BUTTE. Dec. 26.-[Special.1-Just before
midnight last night a fatal accident took
place on the Walkerville cable line. Wil
liam Cunningham was killed. Dan McDon
aid critically injured, having his head cut
and arm and leg broken, and T. C. Cameron
and three Italians were more or less
serionaly injured. A runaway car was the
cause of the accident. The car was making
the last run for the night back from Walk
erdille. Those who boarded it at Walker
villa were told that the car would not go to
Batte, but only to the power house, about
half the distance. Fares of five cents only
were accordingly collected. At the power
house the grip was detached and run into
te(, power house, while the car was left on
the track outside. Immediately below is a
very steep descent running down intolButte,
It seems the men did not get off the our.
either supposing that lit was going on
to ultte or bound to run the car down
themselves. At any rate, while the con
doctor and gripman were in the power
house, the car started down the hill. It
went at lightning speed and striking anshort
curve half way down the hill, jumped the
track. It plonhlied through the ground a
distance of seventy-live feet and was
stooped by it pile of timber at the Acquisi
tion mine. The scene inside the car was
one of pandemonium. The coroner's jury
to-day held the comnany guiltless of re
sponsibiltty for the accident. The gripman
says the crowd on board was drunk and
thinks ono of them must have tampered
with the brake after it had been set.
A Left Arm Torn Off,
(GaeAT FALLs, Dec. i6.-[Special.I-Otto
Bartes, chief engineer of the Union Smelt
uig works, had his left arm torn off this
morning about six o'clock. He was work.
ing around the machinery when his fingers
caught in some shafting, tearing the arm
off about six inches from the shoulder. He
was taken to the general hospital and his
wound dressed by Drs, Ladd and Longo.
way.
Shot the Wrong Mlan
IuvTrr, Dec. 26.--[Speoial.--At Walker
villo yesterday Wm. Jenkins, it miner, eap
ployed at the Belle of Butte mine, abshot
James Brown, a miner employed at the
Lexington. Jenkins got into a row with a
man named Johns and tried to find him,
but mistook Brown for him anti blamed
away. Brown was hit in the left breast but
is not seriously injured.
A MAO-HOUSE I E
Five Hundred Demented Woa
Surrounded by Fiam T~; i ',
Spread Rapidly, 5.
One Wing of the Big Insanne OAsy
ulr at Pontiao, Miohigaet,
Burned.
TIlo Inmates All Resoned by the M.990
Ieroae Efforts of the Attenadante
Wierd scenee,
POSTIAu, Mich., Dec. *0--rFie, waS
covered in the north wing of t a]e t
Michigan insane asylum t it 1 O ie .
morning. The 'flames spread wi.h.*$
rapidity, and with the limdted ti ,
hand the firemen were powerlett
minutes after the first alarm wa#.Soui ;
the occupants of the wing, 800 woutsl, WtS,
turned loose. Screaming trantlfolly With
terror the maniacs surged through tlh4 u4*
ridors, where the air was alirady flist tli
smoke. Flames were visibl throuw**tltl /
and the sight filled the demented ot.la -t..
with terror. Some ran like wild .ael
trampling their slower eompginpr ini
mad efforts to escape. Otherw paralj
with fear, stood rooted to the spot,
eyes staring horribly into the roaring *tes
The attendants performed deeds of heroltet
in their endeavors to rescue the hellb.1 -
Rushing hither and thither, draggting helei
tating ones from the rooms, they'diove
the insane women into the ope!ai;r .
When some were once upo theo.te
they would break and rush for. Cle b
again. Superintendent Burr and a
tants on the medical staff gave dire
for the removal of the inmateaRsldby1
excellent and valiant labors all, it "1
lieved, were rescued alive. Nev.rt0i
some say several women were seen at
dows after the patients were supposed toW,
all out. They had torn every vestige;
clothing from their personsa ndwerezleugi
ing in hideous glee at the dpproaot of ,t
fames. By 11:30 the entire north wiltig
wrapped in flames, attendants had don
in their power, and nothing was left but ti
t*y to save the rest of the asylum from $th
flames.
Spectators declare they heard shrieks et
anguish from the awful pyre. s of de
mented victims yielding their live th
flames, but in the confusion it waS
sible to distinguish the screams of
ened maniacs without from the
ontory of victims within, if any.
were strenuous efforts made to 0
patients to cottages for safe kg
was accomplished with the
nulty. Great fear was felt lest
should cross to the south wi
pearly 700 men were confisd.,
tons wers.<immediate*otlade tor
men if it became necessary. - 4
south wing, from the moment the fia,
camein sight, the wildest excitement prt
vailed. The 700 crazy sen to
about their rooms yelling .
very demons. Hundreds a 0 a
from Pontiac and vicinity joined in
fight with the flames at this juncture t
by the most stubborn resistance the w
was saved. Aside from this everythilg
save the chapel, hospital and engine heait
was destroyed. A number of women who
were in the section of building flrt. d
stroyed were severely burned on being tS
moved, but prompt attention, averted
serious consequences. James Lyon, V
erick Linton and another attendant wo
name could not be learned, had a pee
escape. While fighting the flames on
fourth floor, unknown to them, the
surrounded the spot at which the; :
working, and only when tthey,
every avenue of escape eeot
one small window closed, did
think of their safety. When the
were nearing them a long ladder wasti
cured and the men reseued just as e
were on the point of falling bak int te
raging furnace. A numberof other narwc
escapes occurred, and but few of the.a '
tendants escaped without severe burnito
other injuries,
It is dillicult to obtain accurate ges:
on the loss. One of the board of trt Aii
of the asylum estimated it at not le$I.-kt
$500,000. Patients must for several dayi at,
least suffer great hardship. The kiteobelI:;
among the destroyed buildings and. f:ii
time must elapse before the culinary,
partment can be re-established and th
lunatics properly fed.
UP IN THE AIR.
Half a Million In Property Goes Up $iI
Smoke.
CRHTTANOGA, Tenn., Dec. 26.--Chbat
nooga's most disastrous fire occurroed te';
day, originating in D. H. Levemanro Co.',
great dry goods house, Market street, o}
nor of Eighth street. It spread with:"1
tonish'ng rapidity, burning throuq;th
elevator shaft and stairways, cutting .hm.
escape of about thirty female e-absioye,:
who were resoned from windows wrih 1
ders by firemen. Two of the wo f
from windows and were somewhat inj.
and a third was rescued in an alno. s :
sated condition. The adoitning but
were soon aflame, the fire conslei ,'
half a million dollars worth of pro ti "'
less than two hours. Armonog h.
losers were T, C. Ervin & Co. %
Christie & Co., dry goods; the b amb.r
Commerce; Schwartz & Bros., oo
shoes; Nilva & Abbott, chinaware W '
& Manning. insurance; W. I. Atlez I
broker: Great Southern Tea companyi' a
tin F Henry, real estate; Mrs. Weaves. uni
liner. Southern Bank and s Trust oaxl
T. A. Roberts, Jewelry; A. W. Van WitIn e
drugs; Fourth National bank and a num j:
of oiice tenants.
Froled by a Woqmen.
Or~ATr, Kan., Dec. 2(1.-The prisons i
the county jail in this city, made
tempt to kill Sheriff Easidale and
but were pr6vented by the timely se04
of Mrs. Eastdale, who looked the
door, and by the pluck of the sherif
inside, looked up and flhtiun for 1I
six prisoners. When asisan
him it was found that the sherif ha e
long gashes in his head,
Fired Into ia Own r i
CINrINNaATI, Dec. 2,- -A lgul
took place this morning 14 4'
hardware store. A young Ph w
casre in and bought a revolwe '
have it loaded, He thit
to his temple and red,
He wits afterwards fl .
Moore, aged 14, the son
treator of this oIty.
Left Twe
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