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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1889.
Mistery of a Wonderful Newspaper
Career.
On the 10th inst. a very extraordinary
event took place in the city of New York,
being no less than the laying of the cor
ner stone of the World's new sixteen
story building, which will stand on the
site of the old and famous French's
hotel. Few events have ever called to
gether a more distinguished audience,
ex-President Cleveland, Governor Hill,
Chauncey M. Depew, and a multitude of
the most famous men of the day, from
all lines of life, being pre-ent. And it
was certainly a thing worthy of the
attendance of the wisest and the wittiest,
the gravest and the gayest—this
laying of the corner stone of a building
from which will be issued a journal
which embodies in its history the great
est success in the whole history of jour
nalism. Many bright and brilliant
things were said by Hill, Depew and
others, and the ceremonial went off with
all proper eclat.
The success of the World is utterly
without precedent. Beginning with a
trifling circulation, under the consum
mate newspaper genius of Pulitzer it has
been run up, since ISB3, to a circulation
which averaged 342,200 copies daily dur
ing the past six months.
This is said to be one-seventeenth part
of all the daily issues of all tbe news
paper presses in the country. This
triumph, utterly without a parallel in the
annals of the journalism of the world, was
achieved by s man who went to New
York from St. Louis a perfect stranger,
and was not afraid to challenge victory
in an arena in which so many had failed.
We believe Mr. Pulitzer began bis
journalistic career in St. Louis by acting
as the private Secretary of Mr. Carl
Schurz, when that gentleman was editor
of the Wettliche Pott. Like that famous
man himself, be was a foreigner, and he
quite rivaled his patron in the ease with
which he acquired a masterly acquaint
ance witb the English language. He
quickly drifted away from Schurz, and,
indeed became quite antagonistic
to that gentleman. His first
journalistic exploit was the purchase of a
defunct German newspaper at a Sheriff's
sale in St. Louis. He had no competitors
for a thing which was regarded as dear at
nothing, but his keen intelligence had
taken note of the fact that the dead Ger
man daily possessed an asset which might
be made of value some day, viz.,a franchise
of the Associated Press. Pulitzer locked
this np and bided his time.
Shortly after this a clique, at the head
of whom was McCullagh, started the
Glut* in opposition to the Demo-
eral, which represented a certain wing of
the Republican party that had powerful
enemies in that organization. Notwith
standing the vigor and ability of the new
journal, it was powerfully handicapped
because it could not get into the Associ
ated Press. No matter how much money
was offered, and the offers ran up to an
enormous sum, the Associated Press
journals held the fort, and the Globe was
obliged to stay outside of the charmed
circle.
It was just here that Mr. Joseph
Pulitzer's thoughtful little purchase came
in. He had bought with far more than
the wisdom of Toodles, and when the
auspicious time arrived he was ready to
produce his doorplate, with Thompson
spelled with a P on it in fine relief; and
he sold the little German plant, which
he had bought for a few hundreds of
dollars, to the Globe, and is said to have
pocketed thereby a sum variously stated
at from $60,000 to $100,000.
It is impossible to hold down a man
like that. With the money obtained by
the sale of the press franchise, Pulitzer
started an evening newspaper, the Post-
Dispatch, which he placed under the
supervision of Col. Cockerill, and which
gradually made its footing good, and be
came a journal of note and value.
Having perfectly established the Post-
Dispatch —we have not attempted to al
lude to the circumstances attending the
amalgamation of those two journals—
Mr. Pulitzer looked around for new
fields to conquer, and he went on to New
York. A man of his calibre is always
sure to be backed by friends, and he
risked the purchase of the World, which
Mr. Manton Marble, who had married a
rich widow, was allowing to run down at
the heels. The change of ownership was
signalized by newspaper tactics as bril
liant as those employed by the first Na
poleon on the ensanguined fields of Ma
rengo and Austerlitz.
When Mr. Pulitzer acquired the World
he took on with him to New York, Col.
Cockerill, who had been editor of the
Pott Vitpatch, and who had been so un
fortunate as, in resisting a murderous as
sault made upon him in his own office,
to kill his assailant. The World is run
on the principle of giving all the news in
crisp and readable shape, is strongly
Democratic in the tenor of its editorial
articles, which are never of nndue
length; and, if it is not free trade in prin
ciple, it is so strongly devoted to a reduc
tion of the onerous Republican war tariff
as to seem to many persons to be so. It
has of course made its owner a colossal
fortune.
Snowing the Silver Lining.
There has been, on all hands, a re
markable growth of faith in silver lately.
People begin to see and admit that it haa
not been fairly treated by the advocates
of the National Banks. These latter
nave said—mainly in the East—that ail
THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: FRIDAY MOHHIKG, OCTOBER 18, 1889.
ver coinage would debase the money of
the country, and many there are who
honestly feared it.
What are the facts? The bank circu
lation has constantly shrunk, and the
circulation of silver has constantly in
creased, until only about five millions of
dollars in silver coin are in the Treasury
vaults today. Indeed, but for this repre
sentation the business of the country
could not be done. The Boston Herald
chides its New England contemporaries
for still advising against the authorized
monthly coinage, and says there can be
nothing to fear from it. It is absorbed,
readily and gladly taken everywhere.
And now comes a still newer and more
noteworthy conversion. Mr. Wm. P.
St. John, President of one of the largest
New York banks, is out in behalf of a
proposition for the Government to invest
no less than $2,000,000 monthly in silver
bullion, so long as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall not pay over 99.H
--cents for every dollar's worth of coined
money, and to cancel legal tender notes
as fast as the silver coinage can take
their place. He says that if the country
can maintain $300,000,000 of paper
that has no intrinsic value, and
keep it on a par with gold, it oould easily
maintain a much larger amount of nil ver,
and his conviction is that such a substi
tution would have the effect of bo in
creasing the price of silver that it would
be brought practically to the old ratie
with gold all over the world.
This is a noteworthy sign of the times,
tbat such a financier from the old hard
money centre should take so pronounced
and advanced ground. He recognizes
not only tho political power of the silver
men tbat must be recognized in Con
gress, but he admits the substantial jus
tice of their cause.
What gives money its value ? Surely
it is the Government that is behind it—
tbe authority of powerful laws. The
"Trade" dollar is only worth seventy
two cents, and yet it contains 420 grains
of silver, while the"Bland" dollar is worth
a hundred cents though it contains only
412 U grains. What makes the difference ?
One has a Government behind it, and
the other had not. The truth is there
has been an artificial and groundless ac
cusation against silver and its advocates
who are not less sound and sensible
men than the bankers who have
had very nearly a monopoly of what
has always been considered the
safest business in the world —being
done at low rates and yet paying
them the highest profits known to
modern business,
And not only are the advocates of
liberal coinage of silver sound and safe
men as individuals, but the communities
they represent are sturdy and conserva
tive. In the great money centre of New
York the bank reserves average 27 per
cent., only 2 per cent above the legal re
quirement. In San Francisco the reserve
is 38 per cent.—thirteen per cent, above
the requirement. There is as much sound
ness in banking and currency in this
new West as in the old East, and there
have been fewer bank failures here than
tii re, despite the many booms that have
speut themselves lately this side the
mountains. Tbe American people love
fair play for their products, and they are
soon to have it for their silver, which has
been grossly disparaged for so many
years.
In the death of Gen. John P. llart
ranft at Norristown, yesterday, there
passed away a man who came very near
being in Hayes's shoes in 1876. He had
a strong hold ou the soldier vote
throughout the United Sates, and a con
siderable membership of the National
Republican Convention desired to nomi
nate him for President, and would have
done so if Simon Cameron had not
blocked tha way. Unable to be Presi
dent himself, that powerful politician was
determined that no other Pennsylvanian
should attain the coveted prize, and he
caused the Pennsylvania delegation to
be so manipulated as to nominate Hayes.
The deceased thus happily escaped being
a fraudulent President. He was twice
elected Governor of Pennsylvania, had
been Adjutant-General of the State, had
carried himself gallantly during the war,
and was a sort of Foraker, with the let
ter's brag and bluster left out.
He was entrusted, in his military
capacity, with carrying out the immedi
ate arrangements relating to the execu
tion of Mrs. Surratt, Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock being in chief command in
Washington City at the time. If there
was little of tha demagogue there was
nothing of the statesman about Hartranf t,
and he was the central figure of a very
corrupt crowd, although personally he
was not generally looked upon as venal
or corrupt. Hia death leaves no void, in
Pennsylvania political circles, the whole
power of the Republican party in the
Keystone State having passed absolutely
into the hands of Matthew Stanley Quay
and his vote-buying Wanamakers.
We were shown a package of white
Smyrna figs yesterday, from the Mjnte
Vista ranch of Mr. Barclay, that showed
that the fruit grown in Los Angeles
county will compare quite favorably
with anything ever imported into this
country from Smyrna. As figs are ex
ceedingly profitable and prolific, yielding
freely the third year, why do not some of
the lazy fellows who lie croaking around
the country start in to raising them, and
assuring tremselves a competency in the
near future? If raising barley alone
won't pay, it will pay well in combination
with hogs, poultry, figs, oranges, and a
hundred other of the choice products of
this section.
In a communication addressed to
Major E. W. Jones, Fresident of the L? 3
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Abbott
Kinney, Esq., has some sensible sug
gestions concerning a deep water harbor
and the way our people can bring it
about. San Pedro has undoubtedly been
greatly neglected of late, and there is
danger that this neglect may be continued
Fortunately natnre has been at work
for ns, and the original calculations of
the engineers have been confirmed, the
action of the tides in deepening and
widening the channel and bar having kept
up while the Government slept. The
telegram saying that San Pedro has been
left ont of the estimates may be in error,
and we are inclined to think it is,
bnt it will not hurt the enterprise to
show that we take some interest
in its progress. Our principal
reliance for Congressional aid must be
on Senators Stanford and Hearst, who
have repeatedly expressed themselves
favorable to handsome appropriations for
San Pedro, and upon ourselves. Cer
tainly no one has ever heard that Gen.
Vandever has ever shown any real in
terest in our harbor, and to trust to him
would be to lean upon a breken reed. By
all means let us be up and doing.
Press Dispatches to the Herald.
Yesterday's Races.
Lexington. Ky., October 17. —Attend-
ance large, track fast.
Two-twenty-eeven class —Cad Wade
first, Bracelet second, Marquis third,
Jennie K. fourth; best time, 2:22J£.
Match between yearlings. Stamia won,
Administer second; time, 2M l ' 4 .
Free for all—Jack first, Harry Wilkes
second, Jnnement third; best time. 2:15.
Two-twenty-one class—Gold Leaf first,
Bermuda second, Lottie W. third, Al
mont fourth ; best time, 2:19.
Elizabeth, N. J., October 17. —Condi-
tions favorable.
Sweepstakes, eleven-sixteenths of a
mile—Longstreet won. Cracksman sec
ond, Reporter third; time, 1:523 a.
Sweepstakes, three-fourths of a mile—
Gregory won, Hop filly second, Mamie
B. third; time, 1:18.
Sweepstakes, three-fourths of a mile —
Oregon won, Arab second, Eleve third;
time, 1:18H-
Handicap sweepstakes, mile and three
sixteenths —Barrister won, Burnside see
on 1, Theodosius third; time, 2:07)6.
Sweepstakes, five and a half furlongs -
Meriden won, Swift second, Egmont
third ; time, 1:10.
Cincinnati, October 17. —Attendance
large, track good.
Maiden three-year-olds and upwards,
three-fourths of a mile—Chandler won,
Governor Ross second, Maud H. third;
time, 1:18.
Three-year-olds and upwards, seven
furlongs—Amos A. won, Pritchett sec
ond, Meckie third; time, 1:30)4.
Three-year-olds and upwards, seven
furlongs—Lucy P. won, Renounce sec
ond, Littroll third; time, 1:30.
Two-year-olds, five furlongs—Chant
ress won, Sena second, Jaja third; time,
1:04.
Three-year-olds and upwards, nine fur
longs—Pamine woo, Brand olette second,
Prince Fortunatas third; time, 1:56>2.
Kdgewater handicap, 2-year-olds,
three-quarters of a mile —Experience
won, Dollikins second, Mt. Lebanon
third; time, 1:16)^.
AN ENGINEER OF NERVE.
Hi* Remarkable Adventure and
v hat It Brought Htm.
In the smoking-car, along with half a
dozen others of us, was an engineer who
was going down to Peoria, and after a
time the Judge started to draw him on:
by saying:
"I presume you have bad your share
of close shaves, along with other engin
eers?"
"I have Bir," was the reply.
"Been in many smash-ups?"
"A dozen, I guess."
"Any particular adventure that might
be called wonderful?"
"Why, yes; I did have one," replied
the man, after relighting his old cigar
stump. "I didn't think it any great
sbave myself, but the l>oys cracked it up
as something extra."
"Let us hear about it," said the Judge,
as be passed him a Havana.
"Well, one day about three years ago
I was coming West with the lightning
expross aud was running to make up lost
time. Dov n here about twenty miles
two roads cross, .is you will see, and
thsre are a lot of switches and side
tracks. I had just whistled for the
crossing and put on the brakes, whon
the coupling between the tender and
baggage car broke."
"I see, 1 see," murmured the Judge.
"At the sarno moment something went
wrong with old No. 40, and I could not
shut off (steam. She sprang away like a
flash, and as she struck the crossing she
left the trees and entered a rnuadow
filled with stumps."
"Good heavens I"
"She kept a straight course for about
forty rods, smashing the stumps every
second, and then leaped a ditch, struck
the rails of the I), and R. road, and after
a wobble or] two settled down and ran
for two miles."
"Amazing! Amazing 1"
"Then, at a crossing, she left the
metals, entered a cornfield, and bearing
to the right, plowed her way across the
country until she came to our own
again. She had a long jump to makt.
over a marsh, but she made it, struck the
rails, and then away she wer.t."
"You—don't—=ay—so!"
"I was now behind my train, and aftei
a run of two miles, I got control of tbe
engine, ran up and coupled to the palace
car, and went into Ashton pushing the
train ahead of me."
"Griat Scott! And was no one hurt?"
"Not a soul, and not a thing broken.
The Superintendent played a mean trick
on me, though?"
"How?"
"Why, the farmer who owned the
meadow paid the company $18 for the
stumps I had knocked out for him, while
the cornfield man charged $9 for damages'.
The Suoerintendent pockated the bal
ance of the money-"
"The scoundrel! And how much are
you paid a month?"
"Ninety dollars."
"That's for running on the'road?"
"Yes."
"And nothing for lying?"
"Not a red."
'That|s an outraga. The Superin
tendent is an old friend cf mine, aid I'll
see that you get the $9 on the stumpage
and a salary of $203 a month as long as
you live. It is Buch men as you who
make a line popular."—[St. Louis Star-
Sayings.
A New Way of Procedure.
Mr. Trenbrock—Eileen, do you think
that is—ahem—er—do you suppose you
c-could be happy for life with (swallow
ing a gulp)— Mr. ahem—Mr. Archer?
Miss Trenbrock—Papa—this is so sud
den !
Mr. Trenbrock—Well, he was afraid
to ask you himself, and I'vo been try
ing to think what I said to your mother
on a similar occasion so as to heln him
out.—[Judge.
«et Her to Help You sit Still.
Beware of the "booby-trap." In other
wordj, if you are asked to be eeated in a
rocker when making a social call, don't
rock. For if you do your entertainers
will set you down as a social chump and
drop you from their list if they happen
to know about this test. The booby
trap is doing a deadly work in Phila
delphia.—[New York Tribune.
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Henry Watterson's Stand on
the Race Problem.
AN AFRO-AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Amos Cumming's Nominated to Suc
ceed Congressman Cox—Wash
ington Notes.
Associated Press Dlspatohos to the Herald.|
Louisville, Ky., October 17. —In con
cluding his address tonight at the
National Board of Trade, Henry
Watterson referred to "that Eldorado,
the New South," at length. Speaking
of the richness of the fields to be opened
up there, he added: "But what is the
value of all this if we have not order and
law, regulated by an intelligent and re
sponsible Government? How shall it
profit you, or us or anybody if it be not
brought under the spell of that wizard's
wand which we call civilization ? And
to whom shall this wand be committed ?
To the Anglo-Saxon, with centuries of
enlightened freedom behind him, or to
the African just emerged from slavery ?
"No one can comprehend the meaning
of this great menace to the prosperity of
the South who has not been there—who
does not live there. Nor is it possible
for it to be treated with wis
dom by any other than local
agencies. Cannot the thinking people cf
the North imagine, if they are unable to
see this —can they not feel that they may
trust the intelligence, humanity, Christi
anity of the South, and the testimony of
truly responsible Northern men who have
gone South to deal with the disease
which outside pressure has always ag
gravated and will always aggravate?
"I struggled earnestly and long to es
tablish the black man and his rights
under the Constitution and its amend
ments. But I am filled with no vain
illusions, born of sympathy and igno
rance. I am blind to none of the
dangers that lurk amid tbe shadows
of this great cross which for some mys
terious purpose—l know not what—has
been put upon the Icuth, but which I do
know the South alone can break, as the
South alone has borne it."
WASHI.MiION NOTES.
Tbe Course ot Event* at the Na
tional Capital.
Washington, October 17 —Secretary
Windom has not yet rendeied a decision
on the lead ore question. Ho still has
the matter under consideration.
The President this afternoon appointed
Richard E. Sloan, of Arizona, to be As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Arizona.
The District Commissioners have ap
pointed George Hazslton, formerly Rs
publican Congressman from Wisconsin,
to be attorney for the District of Colum
bia, to succeed Mr. Kiddle.
It is reported that President Hanisou
has decided to appoint ex-Pension Agent
Poole, of Syracuse, N. V., Pension Com
missioner, to succeed Tanner.
General A. B. Campbell, of Kansas,
contradicts emphatically the dispatch
from Topeka to the effect that he has
been offered the position cf Consul-Gen
eral at Melbourne. He says the Presi
dent has_ tendered him no ofßce, and the
publication of the report was without
his knowledge or sanction.
Iv an address before the Boys' and
Girls' National Home Association today,
Alexander Hogelaud, President of the
association, made the startling state
ment that there are 60,000 boy tramps in
the United Slates. He advocated the
establishment of a registration system
by which boy tramps might be found
and sent to farmers who were willing to
employ them.
Assistant Secretary Buesey, in an in
terview today regarding Commissioner
Tanner's assertions that a member of the
Board of Pensions Appeals wrote Bus
sey's decisions, said while it is true that
bis decisions are written by others, they
are prepared in accordance with his in
structions. He could not pretend to do
the work of writing out these decisionfi,
but docs examine cases and reaches the
conclusions set forth.
The Interior Department haa been
reliably informed taat the Southern Ute
Indianß are far from their reservation in
Southwestern Colorado, and are wantonly
killing vast numbers of deer for their
hides only, contrary to the Jaws of the
Stat', and Eerious trouble is feared.
Indian Agent Bartholomew heß been
instructed to see that depredations are
immediately stopped, that the Indians
confine their hunting to the territory
where they have a right to go for that
purpose, and kill co game not necessary
to support their needs.
Land Commissioner Groff lias received
a letter from the general counsel for the
Northern Pacific, asking that the com
pany's lists of indemnity selections along
that part of the line of the road which
was not completed within the time re
quired by the granting act, be certified to
and submitted to the Secretary ol the
fnterior for approval. The Commissioner
has informed counsel of the policy of his
office in the matter, and that pending
r.ction by Congress lockirjg to the for
feiture of the grant and the restoration of
the lands embraced thereby to disposal
under the general land laws, no ac'ion
will be taken in cases where the same
would be adverse to the settlers.
Th 6 International Marine Conference
convened this morning. After prelimi
naries tbe conference began the consider
ation of the rules to be followed in the
navigation of all public aud private ves
sels of the United States upon the high
seas a:id in all coast waters of the United
States, except within harbors, lakes and
inland waters of the United States,
as a basis for the proposed inter
national rules. The discu.eion today
was based upon the revised international
rues and regulations for preventing col
lisions at sea, contained in a circular is
sued by iho United States Treasury De
partment in September, 1887. This was
adopted at the suggestion of the
American delegates as a basis
for action, because it was in
convenient shape and afforded
a good starting point. Votes upon sug
gestions or propositions of changes are
seldom taken, for the reason that after
the regulations shall have been thor
oughly discussed, they will be put into
chape for final acceptance by a commit
tee appointed for that purpose, and who
will be guided in their work by the ex
preseions of the conference.
[ Cnmmlnfi Nominated.
j New Yobk, October 17.—Amos J.
Cummings was nominated tonigh' by the
Tammany Democrats to succeed 8. 8.
Cox in Congress.
Afro-American League.
Detroit, Mich., October 17. — The
Plaindealer, of thia city, the leading
organ of the colored race, says a move
ment is on foot looking toward the estab
lishment of a National Afro-American
league, non-partisan in politics. The
paper prints contributions from several
leading colored men approving the
scheme. John R. Lynch thinks the
present status of the race makes the
formation of tbe league a public neces
sity. There is also an opinion from Al
bion W. Tourgee, who thinks the time
has come for the colored race to show
itself worthy of liberty, and that earnest
and intelligent action will do much to
cure the evils which now affect the race.
THE CRONIN JUKI FIXERS.
To be Made Acceimorle* to tbe ftl-ir
der After tne fact.
Chicago, October 17. — According to
the Daily News, the omnibus indictment
returned this afternoon by the Grand
Jury in the jury-fixing case was a use
less proceeding, except on the theory that
the persons against whom it was brought,
all of whom were already under indict
ment, have been made subject to some
new charge. The State's Attorney is
reported as declining to allow the new in
dictment to be seen, and this is taken by
tbe News as an indication that a new
charge has been made against the alleged
jury fixers. It is suggested tbat the ac
cused are to be put in the same boat with
the Cronin suopecta as accessories after
the fact.
All the persons reindicted were again
arrested, except Bailiff Salomon, who is
supposed to have confessed. Graham
secured bail, but the others were kept in
confinement. The .V<••••• explains the
proceedings regarding Stoltenberg by
stating that O.to Ericcson aud William
Maul had informed the State's Attorney
oi a mysterious correspondence whioh
S oltenberg had conducted in July
through Dahl. Letters had been received
for S oitenberg from Toronto, enclosed
in envelopes mailed for Dahl. Efforts
last night in the S ate's Attorney's olfioe
to make Stoltenberg disclose what be
knew about the letters proved fruitless.
HARTKANr'r DEAD.
Dca.Ui of I'eiiKKjivaitla'N liallant
cttleen soidtcr.
Norristown, Pa., October 17. —General
JohnF. Hartranft died this morning.
General Hartranft'e illnese was the
culmination of the result of a diseased
condition of thn kidneys, from which he
suffered several months.
Board of Foreign Missions.
New York, October 17. —The Ameri
can Board of Commissioners of Foreign
Missionß this morning passed a resolu
tion calling on the President of the
United States to get Congresa to take
such action that the United States should
co-operate witb German" aad Great
Britaiu in trying to abolish slavery in
Eastern Africa.
The election of officers resulted in the
election of R. S. Storrs, D.D., President;
Eliphalet W. Blatchford, Vice-President;
Nathaniel G. Clark, Edwin K. Alden
and Judson Smith, Corresponding Secre
taries ; Henry A. Stim-on, Recording
Secretary; Langdon P. Ward, Treasurer.
Subscription* Returned.
Nkw York, October 17. —Tonight's
session of the Episcopal B jard of Mis
sions was occupied in a discussion of the
$1,000,000 enrollment fund subject.' It
was finally resolved that subscribers to
the fund may, upou demand, receive
their money back, if the demand is
made within a year. At the expiration
of that period the remainder of the
fund, which amounts to $85,000 may be
expended for missionary work.
Fire lm Wotnam.
New Yobk, October 18. —At about 1
o'clock this morning considerable excite
ment was created by fire in an apartment
building af the corner of Seventh avenue
and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street. A large force of firemen were
summoned and the Hunt* were extin
guished after Blight damage was done.
One young woman, overcome by smoke,
was rescued by the firemen in au un
conscious condition. No lives were lost.
Stumbling- at Silver Coinage.
New York, October 17.—The Exec
utive Council of the American Bankers'
Association, after considering the propo
sition submitted to the recent convention
of the association by President St. John,
of the Mercantile National Bank of New
York, for an increase of silver coinage
and a corresponding decrease of green
backs, adopted a resolution that the
preposition could not be recommended
to Congress.
A Railroad Appointment.
Chicago, Ociober 17.—1t is semi
officially announced that W. H. New
man, late Vicß-Piuaident of the Missouri
Pacific, has been appointed Second Vice-
Piesident of tho Chicago and North
western, taking effect November Ist. As
the office of Traffic Manager will be
abolished with the retirement of Mr.
Wicker. Newman will have charge of the
traffic of the system.
Rome Ruler* Reorganizing.
St. Louiß; October 17.—1t is stated on
the authority of a prominent Irish Na
tionalist that the sudden visit to England
of Dr. Charles O'Reilly and Col. Atkin
son, of Detroit, is in the interest of the
re-organization and strengthening of the
Irish National League. Charles O Brien,
of this city left tonight to consult with
John Fitzgerald.
Hill and Collins.
Atlanta, Ga., October 17.—The Irish-
Americans of Atlanta gave General Pat
Collins, of Boston, a banquet this after
noon. Governors Hill and Gordon were
among the guests. A feature of the ban
quet was the frequent allusion to Gov
ernor Hill as the right roan for the Dem
ocratic nomination for President in 1892.
Fell Forty Feet.
Bethlehem, Pa.. October 17.—8y the
breaking of a scaffold on a new stand
pipe in the course of erection for tho
water department today, eight men were
precipitated forty feet. Foreman Mur
phy was killed; John Kiernan was fa
tally, and three others severely injured.
Callfornlane uonilng Home.
Chicago, October 17.— R. H. Lloyd
and Robert Ewing, of San Francisco, ar
rived in the city today on their way
home from the East, where they had
been in attendance on the Knights
Templar conclave and on private busi
ness. They leave for the Coast to
morrow.
IMed at 114.
Milwaukee, Wis., October 17.—Wil
liam Waterman died today at Grand
Rapids, Wis., aged 114 years. His first
wife died at the age of 75. He mar
ried his second wife when he was in his
hundredth year. She died a few years
ago.
Madame JTanauecnelt Injured.
Jamestown, N. V., October 17.—
Madame Janauschek was thrown from a
carriage tonight, while being driven to
the theatre and badly bruised.
Trpnold I'eTcr.
Grand Forks, N. D., October 17.—An
epidemic of typhoid fever prevails at
Grandin and great alarm is felt.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Bulgaria Procures Its Long
Solicited Loan.
WHAT THIS TRANSACTION MEANS.
Ferdinand's Regency Recognized.—
Result of the Czar's Visit
to Berlin.
lAasociateuPress Disoatches to the Hkrald.l
London, October 17. —The announce
ment that German and Austrian bankers
have finally made a loan to Bulgaria,
which that government has been vainly
seeking to negotiate for over a year, is a
piece of information the political im
psrtance of which can scarcely be over
estimated, when it is known that these
baukers had repeatedly refused to make
the loan on the advice of Prince Bis
marck himself, who pointed out as the
sole objection that no European power
had as yet recognized the existing govern
ment in Bulgaria. The fact that the money
is ready to be drawn upon within twenty
four hours after Bismarck's conference
on the subject of Bulgaria with the Czar,
is accepted in Berlin, as well as here, as
a proof that a distinct understanding was
reached which assured the permanency
of Prince Ferdinand's rule over his little
principality.
FERDINAND AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE.
Paris, October 17.—Prince Ferdinand,
of Bulgaria, now in Pariß, fearing that
attempts would be made on his life, is
guarded by French and Bulgarian de
tectives.
I'OUUIUN niSCBIiIiAMIC.
flic Czar i\ curing; Home—The Kaiser
Starts lor Italy.
Dahtzic, October 17.—Tbo Cz*r in his
special train started at noon for St.
Petersburg.
Berlin, October 17.—The Emperor
and Empress started for Italy this even
ing, traveling incog.
Quebec, October 17. —A messenger
from Bishop Bosae, of the Labrador
coast, ha- arrived here with tbe news
that the fisheries have altogether failed
at Esquimaux Point, and over one hun
dred families are starving.
REVOLT OF TROOPS IN CRETE.
Athens, October 17.. —Four battalions
of infantry in Crete have revolted.
Obakir Paßba is concentrating troops to
suppress tbe revolt.
London, October 17.—The report of
the mutiny of three companies of Turk
ish soldiers at Ganea, Crete, is con
tinued. The officers were beaten and
wounded. Chaki r Pasba is helpless.
boulanger's plans.
Paris, October 17 —An address of the
National Committee was taken to Boulan
ger by Naquet, assuring the General of
tbe "fidelity of the party to his cause, and
their confidence in his ultimate success.
It is stated that Buulanger will go from
Jersey to Bru«sels, thence to Geneva,
and suddenly enter France and demand
a new trial.
MATAAFA NOT TO BE RECOGNIZED.
Berlin, October 17.—The North Ger
man Gazette says it ia not unlikely that
Germany will refuse to recognize Mataafa
as the King of Samoa; that it must be
assumed that other powers, parties to the
Samoan treaty, have similarly expressed
themselves because at the conference
recently held at Berlin all the represent
atives agreed that M;dietoa should be
King.
THE WEST INDIES.
Htppollte Elected President of
Hayti—Douglass' mission.
New York, October 17 —The steamer
Atlas arrived here today from Hayti
ports. The Atlas was at Port-au-Prince
September 21st, and brings intelligence
that Hyppolite at tbat time was engaged
in arranging for a Presidential election.
Hyppolite expects to bo the unanimous
choice of the people. The election takes
place this month.
A cablegram to the Maritime Exchange
announces that Hyppolite has been
unanimously eieded President of Hayti.
onb op blame's schemes.
Washington, October 17 —It is re
ported that the Minister to Hayti, Fred
Douglass, is commissioned by Blame to
try and convince the powers in Hayti and
San Domingo, while maintaining their
autonomy, to put themselves under the
protectorate of the United States. Fur
thermore, Minister Palmer is to see
what he can do at Madrid in a quiet way
to secure a severance of Spain'B relations
with Cuba.
An Exciting; Trial.
Dublin, October 17.—The trial of
Father McFadden and others for partici
pation in tbe murder of Police Inspector
Martin at Gweedore, began today at
Maryborough. If the Crown attorney
succeods in his evident purpose of ob
taining a jury of twelve Protestants, it
will not be without macy unseemly dis
turbances. So violent were the protests
today at the action of the Cowu
in dismissing every Catholic venire
man, tbat the proceedings bad
to be suspended pending the arrival
of a lar«:e fores of police. Two juryman,
wore accepted by both sides and told Jo.
stand down, when tho prosecution wag
Informed that they were Catholics. They
became enraged tbat they refused to
leave, and had to be ■ jucted by force.
In the struggle that ensued, several hot
headed members of McFadden's flock
took part, and for a time it looked as
though a riot would result. A large force
of police is on the way to Maryborough
from Dublin.
A Itlorsci for the Uothaiultes.
Paris, October 17.—The Temps, in a
resume of the financial results of the Ex
j position, says: Before the close the num
ber of people who will have visited the
show will reach 26,000,000 or more.
Referring to the proposed World's
Fair in America in 1892, the Temps saye
it is by no means as certain as it seemed
a month ago that the Americans will
select New York for the location of their
Exposition, as Chicago is making strenu
ous efforts to secure it.
Commenting on the availability of
Chicago as compared with New York,
the Temps says: We wonder how many
Chicagoans who crossed the ocean to
visit the Exposition in the first city of
France would have taken the same
trouble if the show had been held in
Lyons, our second city of importance.
Boiler Explosion.
Lima, Ohio, October 17,—8y the ex
plosion of a threshing machine boiler on
Hanson's farm, Perro Si gier was in
stantly killed, Joseph Silvers fatally in
jured and two others badly scalded.
Wilkbsbarbjj, Pa., October 17.—A
boiler in a packing house of H. Rein
berg, at Carbondale,exploded this morn
ing, probably fatally injuring four
men.
