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A FAVOR FROM THE ADMINISTRATION.
The Chicago News' Washington corres
pondent tells the following;
Senator Logan received one favor from
the administration for which he was very
grateful. His only daughter ; s the wife
of Maj. Tucker, a paymaster in the army.
The major hr. ■ !/•• u statior ej at Manta
Fe, K. M.. for thi• - year.-. Mr-. Logan
was very auxio-..- to have he daughter
with her. hot was no more anxious than
was the general. Bat he would not ask
Mr. Endicott to give Maj. Tucker a Wash
ington i:--ignmcnt. He made it a rule to
ask nothing of the administration. But
Mrs. Logan was not to he halked in her
p!an. Bhe went direct to Secretary Kndi
cott and asked this favor, saying that she
thought Gen. Logan had done enough for
his country to be entitled to this sinail ]
favor. It was cheerfully granted, and
undoubtedly contributed more to Gen.
Logan’s plea-un- and contentment than 1
anything that could have been done for
him.
Mrs, Logan said then; “Now let ut be |
as happy as we cat. We h ive our family
together and there Is no knowing when
we will In- a.! together again."
The Tael er family went directly to 1
their father's house when they came hero I
last Hummer. Little Logan Tucker on i
hi ; Mexican pony dashing about the I
place v. , one of the constant sources of |
enjoyment to tie general, who. in com
pany with a perfect array of dogs, was
always walking about his place hunting
some new spot where he could make an
improvement. Here he had worked like
a day lnboo ron hi- house. The sodding
of the lawn was done with his own hands.
The <: irpei ter work ail over the place was
his. Both he and his wife worked on this
place as if their very live* depended on
their hurrying. Not having the means to
1 111 ploy help and make 1 heir payrn* uts on
their h' i; e ihey were obliged to do tasks
very few people woo'd believe they could
do when thinking of the prominence of
the two 01 political and social lito.
Huhuih I’ahciikn. of Milwaukeo lifts
publish'i it long story in th<> Milwaukee
Jou* ual giving hi* version of the May
riots, li is hard to tell what, (he Milwau
kee !i i iff vv.! troubled about when lie
wrote the 1 Her. I! ■ don’t tell anything
new. lie j.rob Oily (ells n .straight st ry as
it conespoml- with nil that was published
at the tune except, that the Milwaukee
sheriff has given himself a little more
prominence than he had been given i*
prev ions acconnta. titill nobodjjcan take
eieeplion to th at, (ho only query is, what
is the story written for anyway.'
Inis nation ii likely to he shaken to
the very foundation stone in determining
nt Washington whether the wives of cabi
net oflieer. are of more coliseum nee than
the wives of enators, or firx re/uo. The
wiles of (lie ten million kings, who by
Iheir sntTi ay . placed ail these senators
and cabinet ollico-s m positions, don't,
nrnouiil to inneb of anything now. but it
is ol vital ea. .|in urn to the life of the
republic li.i.t (he wives of these public
servants and ‘eiinine just blew important
they are. if if rleniM ever occur to titty
of tie - V ii-.hu. in people that it is not
etiquette o inii'h a-it is public duty that
is uiiimd pet imps lie great problem over
which Washington society is now strug
gling would not b o difficult of solution
It would have been a good deal wiser
in the Illinois dele/. -i;iou at Washington
to have permitted Mrs. Logan to have
blood lo.r die ~and husband in the Na
tional -eiuetery at Washington, where she
llrst expand a wish to bury h in. It
was ami dal,th , (1-n. (Irani, was not
bulled lloae. Both men were soldiers
and should hi. s'opt. with soldiers, be
sides Mr-. I, • n wants to live at Wash
ing* in v ii -lo- v, in a be contented to
do with In la’.' bn .band buried in Chi
cago.
Tin-; di inom - have called a convuil
t'”s for *l'. < ■' ■■■ I ..ml rt* t.irt,
to meet ,lan. 7ln I -87, the day following
the republican convention. A candidate
will p obably be nominated, but it is not
expected I hat he will be elected no mat
ter how well qn.-iLli.il nor how poorly
qualified the iepublican candidate may
be. Ihi i endilable to (he American
people who live i i the district and think
they select ito u no mber of congress.
Tin Murium i, \s emblyof Philadel
phia Knight ot Labor have surrendered
their charter mi l withdrawn from the
miwivorj orde, and nil the other assem
blies ot ih city of Brotherly Love and
protect ii u n t the t xpi use of the rest of
the count ili ll ntii to follow the ma
chinists. Organic and labor will have to
g’-t out from under the name of Knights
of Labor. T it na ae liar become iufa
mim n i! and treason and had
bet ii !, dt tipped.
In ilir-e times, when so many public
olUcial* so-.non In-eome millionaires on
small salarit ■ it is more honorable than
ot.hetw.-i-. that Gen. Logan after a long
public caret r has died poor. After eight
years in congre s ami twelve in the U. S.
senate, ho lev s the country that he has
served so well without the stain of a job
upon his garments.
The boom that had run ;> per cents, up
to 2 percent, premium, will drop a little
on the iimiminTfiiii ul of a call for ten
millions more of them. This call will
only leave (tfiy three millions uncalled,
sud (here is no snllloient reason why all
the rest should not be called at once and
that much interest paying stopped.
U Gen. Logan hsd had any idea of the
number of hideous daubs called cuts of
him were going to appear in the news
papers he would have resisted death long
enough to have lulled a few newspaper
men anyway.
l'oMm:ssvix SnaxiiEU hopes to pass a
bill yet this ,-ession to admit to the Union
Dakota. Montana. New Mexico and Wash
ington territories. He thinks as two are
of each j 'Htical faith, all fonr will go
through together w ithout a political tight.
Tin- Mississippi Valley transportation
steamer, K. B. Hayes, and the Anchor line
steamer, v'ity of Natch-. . together with
four barges were burned while lying at
the banks at Cairo, lit.. Tuesday morn
ing. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000.
Tut president u reported a little better
of has rheumatism and slowly gaining,
i Milwaukee Man'.- Hard Luck.
Rxcine, ii is.. Dee. 28. V deranged man
named Otto Ropier, was found wandering
about North Point, 'his morning, and
was brought to the city. His hands and
feet are badly flaw, nand amputation may
be m ee>-ary. He slept in a hay stack
last night. Ropier came from Milwaukee
two hi eks ago ami lelt the place where he
had been working last night to return to
Milwaukee. He got left, however, and
took refuge in a hay-stack.
V Now Steamer to he Built.
Oshkosh. Dec. 2S. A new steamer is to !
be built here this winter, to take the place
of the Sam Niff, sold to Qmn Bay par j
ties. The timber has already been re- I
ceived. The new boat will be 142 feet
long, and w.ll be used on the route between
Chicago and Green Bay.bu: will be light
enough to run on the riv< r if deemed
desirable. The cost will be about sls
000.
Vekv much of Gen. Logan's success in
life is due his wife, especially is this true
of his political life. Mrs. Logan was al
ways with her husband and whenever the
storms of polificsl life seemed about to
snow him in she was on hand to lead the
way out.
Money Bags Far well, of Chicago, has
popped up already for Senator Logan’s
•eat in the senate 110 will probably get
there as his bank account is the largest.
VOL. XXL
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
A fibu at Oskaloosa, lowa, destroyed
the opera-house, postoflic.*. and three
stores, the loss being S6O,(XX).
The City Hall at Cheboygan, Mich.,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday night.
The jail was located In the basement,
and two prisoners confined there were
burned to death.
l ift budding at Philadelphia occupied
by John M. Maris it C 0.,, and Kneedler.
Patterson <fc Cos., was destroyed by fire on
Tin -dnv night, entailing a loss of $190,-
000.
The engine-house adjoining the Cath
olic protectory in Westchester, near New
Vork, was burned early Tuesday eve
ning.
Bi an explosion of gas in the coal
bunkers of the British ship Suez, lying
at, the levee at Now Orleans, the second
engineer and four Chinamen were fatally
burned.
Twelve persons were injured in a rail
way acoid ut near Pietchers, N. C.,
Wednesday, caused by the spreading of
the rails. A woman was fatally hurt.
Hix wooden buildings were destroyed
et Pittsford, Mich. The losses are: Mr..
P' rrins, bazar; Mrs. Snnnble. milliner; P.
W. Weeden, harness shop; Bates’ hotel,
aud a lurnituro store.
FOREIGN.
EimiiNU JuasE-V, consul general at Vien
na. informs the stale and -partment that a
lucrative business awaits any electric
lighting company prepared to extend the
necessary credit to its customers.
Ahnices from Mandalay say that an
engagement between British troops and
natives has taken place near Pakuka,
and leal 200 insurgents were killed.
The Australian colonies offer the im
perial government JLT.VOOO yearly toward
the expenses of a government adminis
tration in Naw Guinea. The governor of
Queensland urges that the offer he ax-
Cepted.
Tub verdict in the Campbell case that
both pmit ions be dualized is supple
mented by the verdict of public opinion
• lint nil parties to the suits are disgraced,
and that the exposure of the trial have
-liown English society to be more auivor
sidly corrupt, than the severest critics
could have believed possible.
GKNRKAL KOT33.
Tviinoio fever is said to be epidemic
at VV aterford, Wis. Three deaths are
reported.
Ai.den Goldsmith, the famous trotting
horse breeder and trainer, died Sunday
night at Walnut Grove Farm, N. Y„ aged
6(S.
Tin: tomato pack of 188(1 is 45,547,040
cans, but is below the consumption re
quirements of the country, and an ad
vance in prices may be looked for.
As the New York Central Sleeping ear
company runs cars in twenty-six states
and territories, it is proposed to chaage
its name to the Wagner Palace Car Com
pany.
I'm: Knights of Labor assemblies com
prising machinists, boiler-makers, black
smiths, and kindred trades, are reported
to have petitioned the executive board
for a national trade charter, and failing
to .seru-o it, will it is laid, -r. a- from
the oider.
W A-HHiiMUI'ON.
The Secretary of the Navy issued a
general order changing the Boston Navy
Yard into an equipment yard, under Com
modore Schley.
The Court of Claims has not tied counsel
ia the French spoliation claims that it
desires to hear further argument on cer
tain points us important to the decision
of cases now under advisement.
Tub report on the mining industries of
the United Slates, exclusive of the
precious metals, with special investiga
tions into the iron resources of the coun
try. and into the cretaceous coasts of the
northwest, forming the fifteenth volume
of the tenth census reports, has been re
ceived from the public printer and is
now ready for distribution.
Among the estimates of the supervising
architect for repairs of public buildings
are the following; Chicago custom house,
extension of postothoe, ventilation and
repairs, $168,000 Chicago Marine hospi
tal and breakwater, $81,600; Detroit Ma
rino hospital, engine house, $22,000; Bt.
Louis Custom house, repairs, $BO,OOO.
I'm naval board of inspection which
surveyed the United States steamer Ten
m ssi e has rc ported to the navy depart
tm nt that the vessel can not bo repaired
within the statutory limit of 20 per cent.,
and will have to be condemned. The
Tennessee will probably be used as a re
ceiving ship in place of the Minnesota.
CHIME AND CRIMINALS
Lvov Kerry, a courtesan, confessed at
Ma-silion, Ohio. Monday, that she partic
ipated in the murder of Fred Watkins
near Parkosbnig W. Va.. sv veral years
ago.
Fob passing counterfeit money Jacob
Goldman, a Chicago criminal, was sen
tenced at New Orleans. Monday, to ten
years in the Chester (111.) penitentiary.
For. contempt of court, Paul Grottkan.
anarchist, was Tuesday at Milwaukee
sentenced to thirty days with hard labor,
in the House of Correction.
Sneak thieves pnrloned from the First
National Bank of Milwaukee Tuesday s'_’,■
000 in live dollar bills. There is no elue
to (he thieves.
Pai l Gbottkau, the contemptuous an
nrclii.t of Milwaukee, was lodged in tha
house of correction, Thursday, to serve
his term of 30 days.
Obit E, Owens, once a bank teller in
St. Louis, where he embezzled $200,000
has been nardoned from the Chester
penitentiary by President Cleveland, aft
er serving half a five year term.
V railway detective at Mobile arrested
(wo suspicious characters, who offered
considerable tnaney to be released. It
was soon found that they had robbed a
Citizen of New Orleans of $4,000. Both
are Frenchmen and the police of several
cities are telegraphing for descriptions.
Dr. VV. H. Palmer, until recently State
Prison physician was arrested at Jackson.
Mich., Thursday, charged with accepting
a bribe of S.KH) for recommending a cer
tain convict as a tit subject to be par
doned. The doctor was released on SBOO
bail.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Tcxseix, Dec. 21.
Senate Among the papers laid
oefore the senate today were
communications from the supervising
architect of the treasury as to the ueces
'ity of additional vaults for the storage
Of silver and as to the purchase of addi
tional ground for public buildings at St.
Paul. Also a communication from the
assistant -ecretary of the interior with a
report of the government directors of the
Union Pacific railroad company, ask
ing attention to the suggestions con
tained therein concerning legislation
affecting that company. Sen. Blair,
who vras last session the acting
chairman of the committee on
pensions, said the bill had been consid
ered several times: that he was himself
in favor of it. but there was a majority
of the committee against it.
The resolution was laid over. The
resolution for holding a recess from to
morrow to January 4th was presented and
agreed to. The senate bill relative to
the location of the town of Wallace.
Kansas, was passed, and after executive
session the senate adjourned.
House— Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from
the commute on ways and means,
i reported back the concurrent reso-
lowa County Democrat.
lution for a holiday recess from De
! cumber 22nd to January 4th. Agreed tu.
. On motion of Mr. Buchannan, o f Nt-w
i Jersey, the. senate amendment to the bill
i for the relief of the survivors of the
; Arctic exploring steamer, Jeannette, was
concurred in. The house then went
into committee of the whole (Cox in
the chair), on ths army appropna
lion bill. There was no general
debate, and the bill was immediately read
by paragraphs for amendments.
Ou motion of Bragg, of Wisconsin, the
amendment was adopted providing that
when any officer traveling on duty travels
on any railroad on which U. S. troops are
I entitled to be transports free of charge.
| he shall be allowed only four cents a mile
jas a snbsistent fund. The bi’l then pass
ed. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, from the
1 committee on appropriations reported
j the invalid pension bill. Referred to com
mittee of the whole. The ser-ate
! amendments to the urgent deficien
|cy bid were concurred in and the
j house adjourned.
Wednesday, Dec. 22.
Senate —Ben. Cos ger. of the committee
on comraerce. reports the bill to authorize
the construction and maiutainance of a
bridge accross the Wisconsin river by the
Duluth and Black Hills Railway Cos. Plac
ed ou the Calender. The committee on
pensions reported the bill to amend the
law- relating to pen.-ions. Placed on the
Calendar. Ben. Hoar offered a resolution
directing the committee on commerce to
report on the river and harbor bill as to
each public work for which appropria
tion is made theruiu and the facts which
tender such appropriation advisable and
of thenitional importance and the con
dition of the work of the bureau. Adopt
ed. The resolution introduced by Beu.
Daws, on the sacoad day of the session,
instructing the committee ou finance to
inquire into and report what specific re
-1 Ructions can bo made in customs duties
; and internal taxes that will reduce the
I taxes to the necessary and economical
1 expenses of the government without im
pairing the prosperity of home indus
tries or Iho compensation of home labor,
was taken up and adopted, and then at
12;35 the senate odjourned until January
4th.
House —The speak ur announced Messrs
Forney, McAdoo and Hopkins as con
ferres on the bill increasing the annual
appropriation for the militia. On Mo
tion of Mr. Toole, of Montana, the bill
was passed granting to the St. Paul, Min
neapolis <t Manitoba tailway company
the right of way through certain Indian
reservations in northern Montana, and
northwestern Dakota. The committee
on post,offices and post roads reported
the bill requiring all laud grant railroad
companies to construct, maintain and
opeyate telegraph lines, with a few un
important amendments. Referred to
committee of the whole. The house then
in the morning hour resumed considera
tion of Hie Oklohoma bill. Mr. Springer
addressed the house on the bill, and at
the conclusion of his remarks the com
mittee rose and the matter went over,
and the house at 8:30 adjourned until
Jan. 4.
The Bay View Kiot Cases.
Milwaukee, Dec. 27. —The trial of the
Bay View cases was resßtned this morn
ing, Jacob Datka taking the stand in his
own behalf. When asked if he had a
family, witness said he had a wife, seven
brothers, a mother-in-law and two chil
dren. Ho swore that he was at Best's
brewery all day. May 4th, having gone
there early in the morning, and stayed
there until eight o'clock p. m. On May
sth, w 'ness said, he worked on his own
lot Un7 ’ noon, and Hoy.. In Ihe afternoon
ho wj ked to the corner of First
avenue and Mitchell street, to visit hie
brother, staying until evening. He de
nied mingling with the crowd or atfvising
the seizing of guns. The witness was
cross-examined by Mr. Williams and got
somewhat mixed as to his dates, but stren
uously denied having boen seen at the
West Milwaukee shops by the officers on
Monday, May 3. Mr. Austin objected to
the wide range of the cross-examination,
but was overruled. In reply to Mr. Aus
tin, witness said he did not know where
the West Milwaukee shops were, and that
he was not at Bay View during any of the :
troubles.
N. B. Murphy presented a formal affi
davit that Gondek was unable to pay his j
witnesses, and the court said an order ]
woulk be issued for their compensation, j
if the f ees were material.
The defensemen introduced the defend
ant's brothers, to assist in proving an
alibi. ,
IBS.
A Biooklyn house-owner has recently
been compelled by a Baooklyn court to
pay $1,601) damages to a woman who
broke one of her legs in falling down a
flight of stairs in a house owned by him.
On one street in Blnehtll, Mo., less than
half a mile long, live lifteon widows.
There is only one house on the street in
which there is not a widow, and that is
occupied by two maiden ladies.
During the past year twenty-five thou
sand articles have accumulated in the
dead letter oflice. The sale included all
sorts of necessaries and luxuries, from
Easter eggs to seersucker suits.
The early settlers’ association at Cleve
land. (>., is making arrangements to pnt
up n monument in Monumental park in
honor of Gen. Moses Cleveland, the
founder of that city.
An oyster growing oat of the mouth of
a small ink bottle was a curious forma
♦ ioncaught on th Virginia coast. The
oyster had grown to twice (ho size of the
ink bottle.
Miss Mary Johnston, who was recently
appointed clerk of Mr. Singleton’s com
mittee, library, was the first woman ever
appointed to an office under congress.
Two Philadelphia tr>n were recently
arrested and fined for throwing sms balls
at each other on the street. One was 45
years old, the other 32.
Dolores llodrignez. a Mexican maiden,
aged 18 years, is serving a twelve years'
sentence in the jail at Orizaba for the
murder of her father.
A Louisiana judge decides that a man ;
who loses money at poker may recover '
from the man who sells him the chips. I
The water-works now being erected in
Helena. Montana, will cos* the taxpayers
$500,000 before finished.
A New York law forbids anyone to have !
venison in his or her possession after i
Dec. 14.
A detectiv's father was recently swindl
ed out of SBIXI by bunko steerers at
Cleveland. O.
It is estimated that over 500,000 alliga
tors are killed annually for their skins.
In the United States Senate, during a
recent debate. Senator Vest, of Missouri,
paid a high tribute to the merits ot St.
Jacobi Oil. Other prominent men have
also found it prompt in its cure of rheu
mutism and neuralgia. Price, tiffy cents
a bottle. __
Dr. Samuel S. Adams, of Washington,
D. C., is so impressed with the dangers
and evils of promiscuous kissing that
••even columns of a medical journal is
devoted to his exposure of them. He
gives a long list of the possible results of
kissing, vis.: syphilis, tuberculosis, diph
•.hena. infections fevers, herpes, ecxem.v
stomatitis, cancrnm oris, injury of th
eyes, rupture of the ear drum. Of course
the last on the list resulted from a too
loud smack right over the ear. Cautious
parents in sending their babies out in the
care ef nurses might do well to hang a
painted sign on the front of the baby
carriage. “No Kissing Allowed." —From
Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
Throat troubles yield promptly to Red
Star Cough Core, as vouched for by C. S.
Architect Clark. Its ingredients are pure
ly vegetable and free from opiates. 25
cents.
Patrick Devine, of Racine, was engaged
in hoisting ice into an ice-house, when the
hook caught in his right arm. The horse
started and be was palled half way np the
elide, the flesh being torn from hie arm
| for a length of six inches.
MINERAL POINT, WIS., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 188( ! .
| HEATH OF JOHN A. LOGAN.
The Sudtleu Summons of the Noted
Soldier and Statesman.
Consciousness Returning: a Few Min
utes Before the End, He Eocos:-
nizes His Wife.
Sad Scenes at the Dy nsr Man’s Bed
side.
Washington, Dec. 26.— John A. Logan
died three minutes before 3 o'clock this
afternoon. His death, which came with
startling suddenness.. to his family and
fiiends. had not been unexpected by his
physicians for some days. The lurking
tendency to brain complications, which
had been present, in a greater or less, and
constantly increasing in severity during
his entire illness, had prepared them to
expect the worst. The racking which he
had suffered during the early days of his
iilntss. yielded to treatment, but loft him
in a weak and exhausted condition, from
which he never rallied, and upon which
the fever preyed with increasing violence
until the hour of his death. After last
midnight his pulse grow weaker and
weaker, and at 4 o'clock this morning his
condition was such as to cause great fear
of his immediate death. After this he
rallied somewhat, and at the consultation
which was held at 9 o’clock this morning
his pulse was found to be somewhat
stronger, but his general condition was
not such as to give hope of ultimate re
covery.
The physicians again met in consulta
tion at 1:30 p. m., when it was apparent
that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but a few hours. At 2 o'clock
the general revived sufficiently to rsoog
nizo his wife, who has been at his bed
side night and day during his entire ill
ness. As she spoke to him he looked up
into her face, and all who were present
knew that he recognized her. This was
the last manifestation of consciousness.
He then wearily closed his eyes and sank
again into a lethargic sleep from which
he never awoke.
A KUIiIiOWFUI- SHOCK.
While the public has been aware for a
week or more that Gen. Logan was con
fined to his room with rheumatism,
many of his most intimate friends were,
as late as yesterday afternoon, unsuspic
ious of the serious character of the at
tack; and to the masses the announce
ment in this morning's papers that the
statesman lay at death’s door brought a
shook of sorrowful surprise. All day
long the carriages of sympathetic callers
have occupied the space in front of Cal
umet place, while hundreds of pedes
trians have climbed the hill upon which
the Logan mansion stands, to ask if it
were true that all hope was past. Among
those who actively expressed their grief
and sympathy were Secretary and Mrs.
Whitney,Secretary and Mrs. Manning, Sen
ators Hansom and Wathall, Gen. and Mrs.
Cockrell, Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft Davis,
Gen. Mahoue, Senators Platt, Mitchell
and Eustis, Congressmen Hitt andSymes,
of Colorado, Gen. and Col. Sheridan,
Prof, and Mrs. Beil, Senator and Mrs.
Payne, Justice Matthews, Senators Harris
and Whitthorne, Senator and Mrs. Miller,
Senators Voorhees and Blair and Con
gressmen Burrows and Townsend.
Scores of telegrams of condolence have
b;> r. re c> i during low uay from all
parts of the country, including ex-Sen
ator Conkliug, who expressed his inabil
ity to credit the reported imminence of
the danger and asking for information.
Though the doctors have given no word
of hope during the day, yet the atten
dants, as late as this noon, refused to
give full credence to the alarming bul
letins, and whispered to the inquirers
something the chances that the sturdy
frame of of the sufferer, and the consult
ing physicians, would bring a revival of
vitality sufficent to denominate the insid
ious poison in his frame.
But, after noon, no one ventured to
express a hope that the suff.rer would
last during the day. Intimate friends
gathered with the grief-stricken and al
most frantic relatives about the bedside,
while in the spacious hall and parlors be
low a sad faced threng remained in hush
ed expectancy. The stifled sobs of tie
wife and child r en and the inarticulate
utterances ef the dying man were aud
ible at times throughout the mansion.
At five minutes before 3 Dr. Baxter came
out of the sick room, and said to one
who was waiting for intelligence: ‘‘Simp
ly say he is dying.” Then the voice of
prayer at the bedside rose above the
sobs of the stricken mourners, and with
ibs end ended the life of the warrior
statesman.
AX TItE DTINO HAN'S BEDSIDE.
Among those at the bedside of the dy
ing max were Senator and Mrs. Cullom
and daughter; Gen. Sheridan, Senator
and Mrs. Cockrell, Gen. Raum, Congress
man Henderson and Thomas, of Illinois,
and Mrs. Thomas; Senator Miller and
wife; Congressman Symes, of Colorado;
Dr. Baiter, Gen. Henry Strong, and
Daniel Shephard and wife, of Chicago,
and the general's private secretaries, W.
B. Taylor and Albert Hall.
At the head of the bed knelt Mrs. .Lo
gan, on 6 arm encircling her dying hus
band's neck, the hand of the other strok
ing his forehead. At her side were
A. Logan Jr., and the Rev. Dr. Newman.
Opposite these were the daughter, Mrs.
Tucker, and her husband, and George Lo
gan. the general's nephew.
"The scene,” said Dr. Baiter, “was one
of the saddest I have ever witnessed. All
present ware deeply affected. The grief
of Mrs. Logan and her children was piti
ful in the extreme.”
It is said that the general's body will, no
doubt, be taken to Illinois for burial, but
no definite arrangements for the funeral
will be made until Mrs. Logan can be con
sulted.
Senator Cullom, who was at the dying
man's side continuously from last eve
ning, was requested to temporarily take
charge of matters. He sent at once fo T
the deputy sergeant-at arms of the sen
ate. who, upon his arrival, half an hour
later, entered upon the usual preliminary
arrangements for the funeral, by sum
moning an undertaker and telegraphing
to the sergeant-at-arms and to others at a
distance.
Gen. Logan's system was very sensi
tive to weather changes of a particular
kind and he has often been heard to say
in a half jocnlous way that he believed
he could accurately forstell the coming
of a snowstorm The seeds of his dis
order were sown during the war; uis first
attack of rheumatism having immediate
ly followed the end of a twenty-four
hours' march through a blinding snow
storm. His last attack, too. resulted
from a brief eiposure to the snowstorm
of a fortnight ago, and his death preced
ed by but a few minutes the beginning
of a heavy Surry, which though brief,
covered the earth with a thick carpet of
white.
WISCONSIN GENERAL NEWS.
The Giand Army post and the military
company at Wanpun are preparing to
erect an armory.
The electric light plant at Marinette is
now run by steam power, water having
proved unsatisfactory.
Henry Uleh. of Merrill, was sentenced
to imprisonment for two years and six
months at Weapon, for breaking into a
saloon.
A team attached to a load of logging
supplies, broke through the ice in deep
water on the upper Chippewa and was
drowned. The driver escaped.
A young man named Milke. while re
turning to Wautoma, Waushara county,
from Princeton, froze his feet so badly
that he had to have a portion of both
amputated.
A man named Grover was curbing a
well at Marshfield, when the rope broke,
letting the backet fail upon him. His
body and limbs have become paralyzed,
and it is not expected that he will re
cover.
SECRETARY > MSF.S REPORT.
| The biennial report of Hon. E. G. Tim
me, secretary of Hate, for the fiscal term
from Oct. Ist, 18i,. to Sept. 30th, 1886. is
just out. This is a comprehensive docn
! meat of 360 page* as compared with 280
pages two yeais ago. The report con
tains an abstract the census taken dur
ing the fiscal term under the direction of
the secretary of s . re. also the report of
the priming coo. mission eis and the re
port of the superintendent of public
property —W. H. B.unett—for the fiscal
term. As the sec-etary of Mat* is the
auditing officer -! the stale, his report
nece-sarily deals a considerable extent
with the finances of the state, and in this
particular the report is replete with in
formation. The receipts and disburse
meets for the two ;. ears are given as fol
lows:
(.i ex r.AL Fran.
R-eeipU 963.5X9 09
Oisburw-meut* $3,4:6,415 39
Bs. l nice September i
1981 US. 557 15
Bsln ce Sep ember Si.
1886 - _ 4-95,089 85
T-iUI *S 105 S3 $S 904,105 t'B
This fund embi. es all the revenue of
the state appliable to the payment of the
ordinary expenies of the state irovern
meut.*
The source from which it is derived are
tax on civil actions, license of railreid
companies, plank-road companies, tele
graph companies, insurance companies,
hawkers and peddlers, notary public fees,
office fees and sales of laws and reports.
The expeaditures therefrom are author
ized by permanent and temporary appro
prialions, and by the several laws requir
ing the secretary of state to audit ac
counts. A detailed statement of these
receipts and expenditures is given in the
report, also a summarized statement as
follows:
RE- RIFTS.
1. Fro > Counties.
1885 1886
luerest ou certificate.- of
(mlebt duiss 8157,500 00 $157,500 CO
Interest duo scbool mud
iacums ; 7,088 3 1 7,088 36
One mi l lax for common
schools 488,189 61
Ami uni levy tor Sta c* *Tui
vt-rnit 59,549 54 61,017 45
r r*- H gh Bchmls 50, 00 00
Fifth Normal uchool 10,000 0u
Supp rt of charitable iu
solutions 109,085 45 111,778 60
Tax on civil acti .ns 4,70S 00 S, 449 00
Burm-tt coun’y impair tax
’<”■ >BBI |716 00 $893,473 02
Le-s Marneite com t; ua
pa and tax for 1;56.. ' 459 01
$338,117 35 $893,391 0!
7. FROM ’ORPO RATIONS.
Rdiboad companies,
license $733, 195 57 $:47,870 99
Pluk road companies,
license 34 31 28 41
Telegraph eompfiules,
I'cmse 5,451 28 3,618 53
T- lepi.oue companies,
license 1,585 98 3,37163
Railway car companies,
licea-e 370 1 7 1,039 31
Fire insurance compau
ies, 11 erase 57,608 48 56,463 61
L i-* in-maiice cotnpai its,
license 11,772 65 HI 291 73
Hail insurance c mpt uiea,
‘ cense 11#88 83 07
At cident insurance com
panies, licence 773 S2 778 92
„ V : - j-: i . .
3. FROM ktUVDRY SOURCES.
Hawkers and peddlers.... $15,041 45 $15,867 70
Misct bane, us 81.(9' 29.6 453
Total receipts fo • . >vo
years $7,908,588 08
1)1 EVENTS.
1. Salaries
w* t *BS. 18*6
Governor’s office $6.7)0 00 $6,6-0 00
Sec-rear) 's office T.Okp 00 7.900 01
State t.eu.urer s office ... 7.0 000 7.000 00
A" "in ( g.- ei els office.. 5.000.00 6,090 ID
S ate -u-e urn.cent's of
fie 5,650 00 5,6 000
R-broad commissioner's
•tb‘ - 6,00 15 5,511 95
lu.-u ui.ee lOiijif issi. .(.ers
■ffie 4.500 CO 4,'00 00
PubLc tin p-ity ofßc e ... 7,iooit) 2,(00 00
Supr m ( oun 80,886 0 3!,8 675
Circuit com ts 42.200 00 48, "50 00
Mate blsioric 1 soc et> .. 9.57 10 s sod 9"
* ate i iar> 4,541 03 4. 789 , j
S at- board of darbies
.-u i leioim 5,788 89 6,374 07
Bureau of labor statistics, 4.7 740 7.j6J it
La-.O Protection 4.531 76 5,433 91
Stale board of health 5.8-1 49 4.9. 548
Fish cm lure 11,600 00 1,, 000 00
lulereit ou state mdebled
u s- 157.690 00 1-7,550 00
Sciioo fui and income 7,6-8 86 405,777 97
L'uivei* ty fund Inc !U ,e.. 51,549 54 61,0X7 45
$583,709 67 SBM 389 88
7. Legislative Expenses.
Lt Governor. SI,OOO 00 SI,OCO 00
Senate-Salari-s $16,500 03
Mileage 913 20
Empl y
es t 0,107 CO
Assembly—
S a lares ; $51,000 00
Milage. ... 7,786 40
Employes .. 25,477 00
l-euislitive employes 909 50
1' iming 7.681 TJ 1,C7 C 6 1
Blue Book 15,418 80
Has 1,577 32
\ .siring committee 3000.)
Chaplains 180 00
$143 796 94 $2,03 76*
3. CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.
State hospital for the in-
Blue $97,157 06 $88.068 28
Nurti era hospital for the
insane 189,795 50 93,771 38
Wisconsin school for the
Blind 19,813 50 17,360 77
Wisconsin school f r the
Deaf 48,966 SI *8.776 44
Industrial school for boys 41.717 67 38.589 73
S'ate prison 9,788 47 13,097 Cl
SoMers O'phs os’ home 301 73 82 25
Milwaukee school for deaf
mutes 1.875 56
State public school 8,000 00 17,276 66
$151,617 19 $319,096 63
4. CLERK hire.
Governor's office $1.61100 $2.468 72
Secretary s < ffice 15,9,0 00 i5.195 00
Treasurer'soffice 7 8 0 00 7.310 00
La O'i office 13 970 00 14.012 00
Pu-.1l property office 1.500 00 1.500 00
Slate supeiiblend t soffice l,siK'oo 1,500 00;
sll 76 00 $42,785 77
5. LABOR ABOUT CAPITOL.
Engineers and firemen $1,819 00 $3,9 050
Crp-nte'S 1,980 00 2,267 50
Watchmen 1.4*0 00 2.567 50
Pol ‘C— . 3,245 00 3,51 00
Jai lo rs and messenger.- 14.137 20 14,748 65
laborers 6.763 48 8,20. 96
Paisters 3.0 00 1.500 00
State armorer 720 70 .
Shipping c erk 73i 00 791 00
Ga-and steam 411 00 Bi 9 00
An gallery attendant :.0 00
$3!,585 68 $37,69 .61 |
6, FOR SUNDBT PURPOSES.
Incidental > xpen-es $:8,675 59 $72.18 7 02
Re.-nn-tMiciiiig od su
preme court and histori
cal rooms r. 611 22 j
Fit li e and furni-h’neneir
wngs o <aii*4 50.6 975
Wals-a and drive-rays 8,983 16
Pending 26. -47 41 37. 0 II
Pntsge 4.6*7 8 4.9: 31
Paper' 71.36# .6 1.6 635 ■
ttk narv -.6 7 51 B.** 59
Gas 4.6-9 '3 S,f JO 37
Fuel 10,103 76 8,810 80 '
S'iop ; -m*m to revised
►UmtHi J.OtO 00
H>*i*>ry of the Ter itory
of Wi-ocnsio 3.000 00
Compiling own .art . 1.2:0 no
Trea-ury agent 4, St? 5- 5. 482 St
Compiling war records . 2 139 8! 16,761 59
M Us 86.7** 06 37. -83 91
M *sakeerio: 16,6 o 8.
Hi; r seage ’.7- v
■ e board of supe viai. n 13. -96 f-6 18. *8 61
Immigration *on>missi< n 3 061 SO 2.752 40
Examiners of stale teach
ers 19. 70 276 60
Examiners for adm ssioo
to bur ... . .. 64! 43 1,155 16
Prtno agent 1.7"5 73 S.OSO 00
G .verp. tie n’lcgentfand 1.500 00 3C ‘X>
V,i rn art -urgrry 1.407 71 3.6 9
Glance-ed horses s’mgh
tered 1 020 (2
Pubit-htng lattices and
proc amai’oss 612 36 961 01
Putl.sh og laws la state
papers 4.341 30
Pu* ashing gene-al laws. 3 .6010 100(45
Pubiodii. g private and
•ocal laws 1 977 20 .
Adr-rt*sin lands 6 6 6! 685 65
Free High scho-ds .... 55.000 00 55.0 t 00
1 O unty agnea Itural woe’s
ties 5.400 00 10,400 00
New Orleans Exposition $11,615 00
St utamii-g insane in
coun y hospital* 9*.537 08 $81,675 00
Pr-wales Hal elect g 356 50
Fieh wardens 7.175 (
Real estate returns 57 65 1.909 46
Apportionment of railroad
license to camties SO. 504 OS 31.738 79
! S a Mo of crime 4040
j Captioi eeiarxment 47.787 78
i OiiH ■■ I risriwie SAKS 16 438 76
Count? clerks making du
p icatse of ceutas 9.611 91 . ..
Clems compiling census 628 j 7 5.119 ii
| Printing census reports 7,514 68
1 F-eu-hie ou census reports 54 39
j 8 .unty on wild a imals 7.300 00 6.73,00
Specuu appr pnations 145,188 92 iTo. 1-O S
Miseel aueous 777 3s 73 (K
$6.3.478 37 H'J 9 <2 58
Toial disbursements
for two yearn $!,41.'-,413 3
Total receipts for two
T'-r |},958,558 OS
B. >anc? rjO.
IS'* 938,567 15
Be* ■ tftOv.tr SepLeQibr-r 3U,
I*6 48 ,CB3 (f,
$3,902 It). ,3 $3.90,105 2i
THE SCHOOL FUND.
The common school fund amounts to
$2,978,118.41 of which $1,5G3.7(X).00 is
state certificates of indebtedness and the
1 remainder is loan; to counties, towns,
cities and villages. There was apportion
ed to the schools, from the income of
this fund in 1885 the sum of $2lO 915.20.
In 1886 it was apportioned with the mill
tux, which aioue amounted to $488,139.61
and the whole apportionment to the
schools was S6GO,i G3 99.
The total receipts of the university for
the two years— exclusivaof the apportion
ment for new buildings —were $214,020,81,
and the expenditures the same. The re
ceipts and expenditures of the agricul
tural college fund income for the two
years, were $32 990.91. The receipts to
the Normal school fund for
the two years were $200,174.44
and the expenditures—including our
payment of ss77.s7—were $200,752.01.
The receipts and disbursements to the
drainage and other special funds are
given in the report but are of little pub
lic interest. Ou the subject of state tax
for general purposes the secretary says;
“No state tax for general jiurposes has
been levied since the year 1883. The
condition of the general fund, derive'd
from licenses received from various cor
porations, especially increased amounts
paid by railroad companies, has render
ed levying a state tax unneessary during
the last three years, and as the receipts
to the general fund during the ensuing
biennial term are not liable to decrease, I
do not deem it advisable for tue legisla
ture to authorize any state tax at its com
ing session, unless unusual and extra
ordinary appropriations are made by said
body.”
STATE DEBT.
The bonded debt of the state, created
in 1861-63, for the purpose of carrying
on the war for the maintenance of the
Union, has now all been paid or convert
ed into certificates of indebtedness to
the trust funds, except SI,OOO, which falls
.due July 1, 1888.
The distribution of the debt on tha
30th ultimo, was as follows:
War bunds outstanding $1,060 Of
Ctniilcates indebtedness, school
fund 1,'63.700 00
Ci-niH.-atesof imel.t-dness. normal
school fund 515,700 00
Certificates of iudebceduess, Uuiver
wV un.( 111.000 00
Certificates of indebtedness agri
cultural college fund 60,600 00
000 00
ASSESSMENT VALUATION.
An abstract of property valuation, as
shown by the state board of assessmant
for 1886. appears by counties in the re
port. The total value of property for all
the counties foots up as follows:
Neat catde $19,359,433
Horses 18.174,070
Mules and a-se* 5i,500
Sheep an lamb; 1,005 787
S'iue 1,578,154
Watnos, car,laces and sleighs... ... 7,•■•■13.93.1
'Vauhrs 680,78
l J iaii‘s. or ausiin tuelodeons . 2,705 6)
■heuK elo. k 7, 17c,0
M 1 clients’ an 1 1 lamifuc urvre'stock 76.031,589
Ml other personal property . . ‘19.853.99J
T. t 1 of persona! piop-rty sll4 9.’ ,900
C tv and village Ids 110, 01 675
I-Hude 771.019.17
Grand total $496 607.153
There are in the state. 388.945 horses,
1.256.259 head of. cattle. 6,709 mules and
asses. 916 903 sheep and lambs. 776,852
swine, 233.855 wagons, sleighs and car
riages, 30,539 watches, 31,367 pianos, me
lodeons and organs. These are the fig
ures returned to the secretary of state by
the several counties as required by law.
The valuation of the property of the
slate as fixed by the county assessment
boards of the several counties, foots up
$498,725,854, er $2,218,691 more than that
fixed by the state board of assessment.
The town, city and village taxes of all
the towns, cities and villages in the state
show the following totals:
For current expenses $7,175,514 58
For school purp.aes 3,655,050 86
support of poor 81.931 9J
Roads and bridges (including poll
iax| 1,704,671 47
All other local purposes 1,316,263 TV
Total town, city and village taxes $7,835,385 17
For the year ending with Dec, 31, 1884,
there were reported and recorded in the
office of the secretary of the state 14.067
marriages, 19.405 births and 6.055 deaths.
For the year ending Dec. 31st, 1885, there
w°re 13,436 marriages, 21,327 biths and
8,876 deaths.
The report contains abstracts of the
crop reports of the state and other con
densed census statistics from the late
census of the state, also election statistics
of the late election; all of which will be
found of interest. The report like that
of the state treasury shows everything in
detail for two years.
FIRE
Estimates of the Losses Caused by the Temple
Theatre blaze
Philadelphia, Dec. 27. —The fire was j
gotten under control at about 8 o’clock |
to-night the flames having been kept I
within the walls of the theater building. I
The building and its contents, however, |
are completely destroyed. Mr. Singerly 1
paid for the ground and building $225,- 1
000, and e x pended $175,000 on the struc
ture, and $50,000 for fixtures, “tc., in the
Mnsee. On these losses there are !
insurance amounting to nearly $127,000. j
He claims his insurance will be less than
SIOO,OOO. George C. Brotherton. the les- 1
see of the theatre, loses about $25,000 on I
scenery, stage settings, etc., on which ;
there is an insurance of $8,250. The loss \
on the Washington hotel, owned by John
Tracy, is $75,000; fully insured. The j
sales of Niles 4; Hubbard Bros.’ publish {
ere. on the second floor. No. 732. place
their loss at $55,000: partly insured. The !
bodies of the two unfortunate firemen j
were buried under twenty feet of brick j
and stone.
Philadelphia. Dec. 27.—Fire broke ;
out in the basement of the new Temple i
theatre about eleven o'clock this morn
ing. At 1:30 o'clock it was believed the
flames could be confined to the theater,
but the fire is burning in the center of the
large building out of reach of the fire
men and will probably get beyond their
control. The theatre belongs to William
M. Singerly. proprietor of the Philadel
phia, and his loss is four hundred
thousand dollars. The insurance on the
property amounts to $127,000. The
roof fell in at 2:30 burying three firemen
with it. One of the men was dug out
alive and two others named John John- !
son and John Gibson are still buried un
der the debris and cannot be reached. :
The fire is still burning fiercely and
trunks and furniture are being removed
from the Washington hotel opposite.
Street Car Collision
Chicago. Dec. 27—A few minutes be- j
fore sever this morning th stock yards
car left O'Neill street for the yards with
about fifteen men and boys aboard. Three
minutes later it crossed the bridge over
the river and went down grade towards
the tracks of the Chicago 4 Alton rail
road. As the conductor went forward to
see if all was clear, he saw the St. Louis
express dashidg down towards the cross
ing. He signalled the driver to stop the
car. which he attempted to do by setting '
the brake. The brake would not hold and
the car slid down on to the crossing in
front of the express, which dashed into it
and smashed it into splinters. Four men
lay upon the ground in pain, but were on
ly slightly hurt.
Although a large tree can he trans
planted to anew location, yet it will not
grow as rapidly or as large as -one that
has occupied the tame place since it
•prang from Urn scad.
burial arrangements
Chicago Tenders the Choice of Four
Different Sites for a Burial PI tee.
Ihe Pall Bearers Selected—Fv-Con
lodorate Soldiers to be Represented.
!. 7 ~
ia!k of a Pension for the Widnv,
Where She Will Live—An Aid Find,
THE LATE JOHN \. LOGAN'.
i The Burial Sltc-Mrs. Logan's WLiu sin Kc
.gaiti to It.
Washington. Dec. 28.—The formal an
noun cement ot arrangements and detai.s
awaits and <it pends upon a definite seiec
lion by the Chicago people of a suitable
spot for the tomb of the patriot. Mrs.
Logan has expressed a wish that the place
shall be one which will never suffer from
the encroachments of commerce and pop
ulation. She refers to the site of the
Douglas monument, which when selected,
was remote from population, but is now
surrounded by steam railroads and
dwellings, as an example of what she
wishes to avoid. A suitable place, she
thinks, will bo found near the entrance to
South park.
Tin Choice of Four Different Locations Sub
mitted.
Chicago, Dec. 28.--The choice of four
different local ions for the burial place of
Gen. Logan was this evening submitted
to the.dead general’s friends by citizens
of Chicago Lake Dark. South Uark.
Oak wood cemetery and a tract between
Jackson and Washington parks are the
places tendered. The city council's
special committee makes an offer of Lake
Dark. At a meeting of the committee
this afternoon it was decided to recom
mend that the city council to morrow set
aside for that purpose a plat 08 the
south end of the park to include all the
land south of thu south line of Harmon
Court and extending eastward to the Illi
nois Central tracks. Tne frontage on
Michigan Boulevard is about 320 feet
and the lot is 400 feet. deep.
The title to this tract is absolute in the
city authorities. The location is on the
shore of Lake Michigan, just outside of
the business centre, equally accessible
from all parts of t city, and is on one
of the principal boulevards. A definite
place of burial in one of the south parks
has not been selected, but the park com
missioners have practically given a carte
blanche in the matter to the family sub
ject to approval by the state legislature,
which, unfortunately for this plan will
not convene for over a fortnight. To
offset the disadvantage of waiting
upon the action of the legisla
ture, the officers of Oakwood cemetery
adjoining South park have formally ten
dered any place in their grounds. In ad
dition to the action of the South park
commissioners and Oakwood cemetery
officials n number of gentlemen have
pledged themselves to purchase, if de
sired. a tract midway between South park
and in close proximity to some property
owned by Gen. Logan. All the places
mentioned, exc-ipt the one tendered by
the city council, are in the extreme
southern portion of the city, none
far from the lake and all in sight
of the drive-ways which have made that
section somewhat farm ns . In c 'Olll r
tion with the tlnee propositions from the
south end of the city, there are various
plans in regard to a monument and
changing the name of Grand boulevard
to Logan boulevard. The general com
mittee of citizens has arranged for a pub
lic memorial meeting to-morrow night in
Central Music hall. The chairman is to
lee ex-Secretary of War Robert T. Lin
coln and First Vise President Stephen A.
Douglass.
Selecting a linrial Site
Chicago, Dec. 28.- -The several commit
tees appointed by the various grand army
posts and veteran clubs throughout the
city, to make arrangements regarding the
funeral of General Logan, met to day, to
confer wiih the sub committee appointed
at the citizens meeting yesterday, and to
prepare a programme to present to the
general committee of the latter meeting.
Collector Stone read a message from
Sen. Cullom stating that the site at the
entrance of South Park would bo p.ccept
able if Mrs. Logan would bo permitted
to be buried by his side.
The committee on the South park site
through Mr. Stone, reported that after a
conference with the South park commis
sioners it was deemed expedient to tender
a burial place in Oakwood cemetery, and
that a site for a monument be offered in
South park and that the name of Grand ;
Boulevard be changed to Logan Boule
vard. The report was adopred.
On motion of Aid. Manierre, a commit
tee was appointed to urge the city council
to make a tender of a site for a monu
ment to Gen. Logan on the lake front.
Involved in Doubt.
Washington, Dec. 28.—Daring the
afternoon telegrams were received from
Chicago throwing a measure of doubt
upon the arrangements supposed to have
been already practically concluded for
the funeral. The park commissioners
telegraphed that after consultation with
their attorney they were reluctantly led
to the conclusion that they lack authority
to set apart a place for burie! in a pub
lic park, but that the authority they say
will doubtless be granted at once by the
legislature which convenes next week.
In the meantime the citizens’ committee
of Chicago suggested other arrangements
which could be perfected without delay.
Upoa the receipt of the above mentioned
telegrams it was decided that the funeral
of Gen. Logan will take place in the sen
ate chamber next Friday and that the re
mains will be placed in a vault at Oak
Hill cemetery here until the place of fin
al burial is determined.
The Tall Bears.
Wassiscton. Dec. 28.—The following
have been selected as pall bearers: Gen
Simon Cameron, Hon. Roscoe Conkling.
Hon. Robert Lincoln. C. H. Anderson, of
Youngstown, 0., Col. Fred Grant, Gen.
Lucius Fairchild, M. U. Leggett, of j
Cleveland. Gov. Jeremiah Rusk, of Wis
consin. Gen. W. T. Sherman. Gen. W. F. i
Vila 1 -. Gen. John C. Black and Charles
McMillan, of the Loyal Legion.
Geneial Fairchild will arrive in Wash- |
ington on Thursday evening.
The Offieia'isg ITergymeu.
Washington. Dec. 28. Rev. Dr. New
man is to be the officiating clergy man,
assisted by Dr. Butler, chaplain of the
•em-te. Bi-hop Fowler and Rev. Dr. (J. H.
Tiffany. The family of General Logan
extend invitations to the various socie
ties. military. =-ocial and Masonic, of
wbieh General Logan was a member, to
attend the funeral or to send delegations
from their bodies for that purpose.
Confederate Soldier? to be Represented at the
Funeral. (
Washington. Dec. 28. —There is a move
ment on foot to have ex-confederate sol
diers represented in the funeral proces
sion that will follow the remains of Sea.
Logan. Many of the ex-confederates
have expressed a desire to participate. ;
ad it is probable that a place will be
provided for them in the procession.
A Pension for Mrs. Logan
Washington. Dec. 28. —This evening the
Star says: Among the members of the ,
house who visited the capitol yesterday
and to-day. the suggestion was passed
around that a liberal pension should be .
granted to the widow of General Logan. ;
and it met with a hearty approval on
every hand. The democrats manifested
as much eagerness as the republicans to ;
join in providing for the widow. The ;
hearty manner in which the suggest ion |
has been taken hold of renders it quite j
certain that among the Mist acts of eon- J
NO. 22.
.gressupon reassembling will be to pass
| * pension bill for Mrs. Logan. It is agreed
that t here would be eminent propriety in
granting her a 1 beral pension, based upon
; General Logan's military services,
: Some members are of the opinion that
the pension should be $5,000 a year. It
is claimed that no violence will ‘be done
the letter or spirit of the law granting a
pension, a- Gen. Logan was a sufferer up
:> his death from the effects of his army
; experience. In fact,*it is thought that
: the rheumatism which caused his death
was contracted by exposure while iu the
I army.
Mrs. Logan's Future residence.
Washington, Dec, 28. Mrs. Logan has
not fully decided the question of her fu
ture residence, but her wish is to sell the
Chicago place and save the honse in
" rt-h-.ngtou, where her husband won his
civil fame. The fact that the Chicago
h ’me is not entirely paid for also in
line does her in choosing a residence.
V 81'BSCKtlTION FI ND.
Why Mrs. Logan Needs It.
n ! v.'iiu. Deo, 23.- iho publishers of
(• .moral Logan s hook. “The Great Con
spiracy.'’ have received a letter from W.
!!. Taylor, private secretary of General
Logan, in which he says that the receipts
from the sale of that book will be about
the only legacy left to Mrs. Logan, and
suggesting that if this fact should be
made known to the public the patriotic
impulses of a grateful people might,
through this channel, place her.beyond
want. "Knowing Mrs. Logan's circum
stances as well as I do, adds the general's
secretary, "I heg of you to take immedi
ate, steps to place this matter before the
public.”
Ihe Fund started and Meets With a Hourly
Kespou.se.
A ashington. Deo. 28,—Capt. George K,
Lemon, of The National Tribune, this
morning started a subscription fund for
the benefit of Mrs, Logan, with a sub
script,ion of SI,OOO, and sent hundreds of
invitations to General Logan's friends
throughout the country, asking them to
contribute. The Western Union Tele
graph company tendered the free use of
its wires for transmitting subscriptions.
Responses are now coming iu rapidly and
SI,OOO subsertptiona have been received
from Senator Sawyer, William Walter
Phelps, John B. Drake, of Chicago, Gov
ernor Alger, of Michigan, Geo. M. Pull
man and others. The receipts in five
hours from the time the subscription
started amounted to $ 10,000. All persons
desiring to contribute should telegraph
George E. Lemon, Citizens' National
Bank, Washington. D. C., stating the
amount of their subscriptions and send
checks or drafts at once to the order of
J. A. J. Creswell, president of the Citi
zens’ National Bank.
Senator Sawyer's Gift.
Oshkosh, Dec. 28.—The sum of SI,OOO
was subscribed by Senator Sawyer to day
to the fund of $ UK),000 being raised for
Mrs. Gen. Logan.
Subscriptions Coming in Steadily.
\\ ashington, Dec. 28.—Subscriptions
to the Mrs. Logan fund are coming in
steadily, and now amount to over sls,
000.
UKNEB \ L NEWS NOT ES.
Ohio is said to be the best state for lec
turers iu the Union.
T'bo latest HUttiorrty claims mat ?>ama
Fo is the oldest city iu America.
Counterfeit dollars are being widely
circulated in the mining camps of Mon
tana and Idaho.
Houston, (Tex.) has a Limbnrger club.
It is said to boa strong and popular or
ganization.
There are 14,170 newspapers and
periodicals published regularly in the
United Slates.
The new chamber of commerce build
ing in Cincinnati, 0., will bo erected by
contractors from Worcester, Mass., and
will cost about SOOO,OOO.
Officers of the Pittsburg natural gas
companies, in published interviews, admit
the truth of the current statement that
the supply of natural gas is likely to fail
within a tew years.
THE STATE AT LARGE.
A gay ‘‘social whirl” has been inaugur
ated rt Waukesha. There are parties and
parties.
Pupils of the West Side high school at
Eau Claire presented the Mikado opera a
few nights since.
The M ;, waukee Sentinel company dis
tributed a'a-ge number of turkeys among
its employes for Christmas.
The democrats of the Blb Wisconsin
congressional district will hold a nomi
nating convention at Eau Claire Jan. 7.
Carroll college students had a prize
declamation contest in the Presbyterian
church at Waukesha Thursday evening.
Quicksand is retarding the work at the
new water works well iu Appleton. A
depth of over 600 feet lias been reached.
The Chicago Rubber company has
awarded contracts for the erection of a
two-story brick building at Racine at a
cost of $3,000.
About twelve parsons have died of ,
diphther-a ai, Chilton. Several families
now afflicted are quarantined and tha
contagion is not spreading.
Daring the year 188 C the products of
the Milwaukee breweries is estimated at
1,207,713 barrels, which is an increase
over last year of 88,713 barrels. The Best
Brewing company made over 440,000 bar
rels of the beverage.
The Cholera Plague
Bueno* Aihfs, via Galveston, Dec. 28. —
Telegrams from Mendoza say it is ex
pected that the cholera epidemic will
yield to the stringent measure* adopted
by the doctors. The municipality of
Buenos A} res has voted $5,000 for the re
lief of sufferer* at Mendoza. Many fam
ilies have arrived here from that place.
The Illinois State Teachers' Convention.
Springfield. 111., Dec. 28. The thirty
third annual meeting of the Illinois State
Teachers’ association began this morning
at the state house. The address of wel
come was made by Atty.-Gen. Hunt and
the opening address by Charles I. Parker,
superintendent of school* of South
Chicago. About four hundred teachers
are present and interesting discussions
are now in progress.
Eighth lliilricl Prohibitionist Nomination-.
Milwaukee. Dec 28.- At Eau Claire to
day the prohibitionists* of the eighth
congre--ional district nominated Hugh
Price for the short congressional term
and Peter Truat of Eau Claire for the
long term to succeed Wm. T. Price de
cs rsed.
Strong Probabilities of an Arrest.
Milwaukee. Dec. 28.—The police claim
to have learned the identity of the two
men who robbed the First National bank
weeks ago, and to have located them.
The parties are expert eastern thieves,
:jO had been on a tour through the west
and stopped in Milwaukee on their way
home. There are strong probabilities
that they will be arrested.
Mr. C- B. Pride, of Kaukauna. .Narrowly Es
eapes Death.
Kaukauna, Dec. 28. — Mr. C. B. Pride, of
this ciy was returning home on Friday
evening with bis arms foil of packages,
and jot a* be reached the stapa and his
wife opened the door a pistol shot was
heard and a ballet whistled past him, go
ing through the side of the bouse, and
falling upon the floor within, where it
wns afterwards picked up. Mr. Pride
went back to look for the would-be aseas
sin. bat found no one. No sufficient mo
tive can be assigned for the deed, bat it
is sapponed it was the work of tome dis
charged employe.
CALLING IN THE BONDS.
Sec. of the Treasury Issues & Call for
$10,000,000 ot 3 Per Cent. Bonds.
Sec. Lamar and Mrs. Holt Expected
to be Married To-day at Macon, Ga.
The Philadelphia Machine Construct
ors Withdraw from the Knights.
THE BONDER I)£BT.
Another Healthy Reduction Matte.
Washington, Pec. 28. —The secretary of
the treasury this afternoon issued the
IToth call for the redemption of bonds.
The call is for $10,000,000 of the 3 per
per cent, loan of 18>-. The principal
aad accrued interest of the bonds below
designated will be paid on February 1.
1887. and the interest will cease on that
day. Ihe 3 per cent, bonds are numbered
as follows:
$ -3- Original No. 17 to original No, 48.
both inclusive.
SIOO -Original No. 583 to original No.
i-'.m, both iadtniva and original No. 9940
to original No. 33(3. both incln-ivo.
o Original No. 840 to original Ho.
2iUl and No. 4230 to No. 4234. both inclu
sive.
' -. >Ol7 to nd
No. 23.43 to No. 23777. both inclusive,
$10,00.' Original No 5313 to No. 0323.
both inclusive.
Total, $10,000,000.
The three months’interest due t bru
ary I, 1887, on above described E .ids
will he paid with principal lo the holders
at the time of presentation.
The Lamar-Hell Nuptials,
Macon, (.}., Dec. 28. ais tho general
impression her* that Secretary Lamar
aiui Mrs. Holt wilt be married to-morrow
or Thursday.
Carried Their Threat into KflVet.
PHiL.Aiiai.rHi*, Dee. 28. At a meeting
of (he Machine-Constructors' assemblies
of this city, held last night, it was re
solved to surrender to the general officers
of the Knights of Labor their charter,
seals, rituals and all other effects of the
order, and to withdraw from the Knights
in a body. This action is the result of a
determination expressed some time ago
that if their demands for a national trades
charter were not granted they would
withdraw from tho ordei.
J. Lnud Resigns
Washington, Dec. 28. G. J. Lund, as
sistant superintendent of the railway
mail service has resigned.
Kxpircd Tost Office Commissions
W ashinuton, Deo. 28. The commissions
of sixty presidential postmasters will ex
pire in January, 1887. Among the more
prominent offices are Monmouth. 111.,
and Prairie duOhien, Win.
Appointed to Poslliens in the Tension Otlito-
Washington. Doc. 28. Lemuel S. Stauu
ton. of lowa, has been appointed special
examiner in the pension office. James A.
Lydstew. of Illinois, has been appointed
medical examiner in the same office.
Pences Removed
Washington, Dec. 28. The general
land office has received reports during
the past week showing the removal of
fences from twenty enclosures, embracing
over 274,000 acres of land, principally in
the Denver land district.
The President's Condition Steadiy Improving
Washington. Dec. 28.—President and
Mrs. Cleveland rode out to Oak View this
afternoon and after a stay of a few min
utes returned to the white house The
ride proved beneficial to the president
aod to-night ho is feeling well and his
condition is steadily improving.
THE OLD POLITICIANS.
Tim Way (lea. Dodge and Jonah Noonan One#
Run Uadser Polities
Sunday Telegraph.
Generations pass away like thw waves
that break upon the shores and disappear
forevt r. Some names may linger for a
time like foot prints in the sand, but few
become immortal. In tho last generation
Henry Dodge and Josiaii A. Noonan were
among the more prominent and well
known men of the slate. They were like
Jonathan and David in their friendship,
but here : e resemblance ceased. Dodga
was tall, of commanding presence,majes
tically silent, and he strode along like tho
shadow of a Koman senator. Noonan was
short, chubby, of a tlorid complexion,
and in his movements ho rolled like a
sailor on shore willi his sen leg*; but he
surpassed his digniliud companion in
learning and ability. Dodge was success
ful in reaching the highest office of the
state; but lie owed his elevation to the
untiring zeal and strategy of Noonan.
He was a man of general integrity and
ponderous words, but he seldom said any
thing that outlived the breath by which
it was uttered. Ho performed some ser
vice in pursuiag tho remnant of Indians
then in the territory. These acts greatly
magnified, furnished rare materials for
tho wi‘s of (hat period, but they also pro
vided a ladder upon which ho mounted
into (he executive office of the territory;
and the poor Indian who contributed so
largely to his success was annually
warmed over in his message. Ho nover
originated, carried through or proposed
any important measure, either in con
gress or the state. But his vote and
opinions were regulated by tho most
skillful care to maintain his personal pop
ularity. The question with him was not,
should it be done, but will it be popular?
In tho mutter of the commutation of tho
sentence of David Bouhaur, he did not
withstand the argument of his friends in
favor of tin) commutation but lie replied:
“I don’t know about this matter, sir; I
fear yon will get me into a position that
my enemies will rake me like hell, sir?”
Noonan was tho power behind him dur
ing his political life his bitter and caus
tic pen fought his battles against all
comers. There was a time when no man
in the state wielded more influence in
the elections of the people than Joeiah A.
Noonan. He furnished paper and print
ing materials to almost every prtss, and
under the cover of this indebtedness his
prolific pen found an easy access to their
columns as editorials. Asa trenchant,
scathing pritcr he found no equal except
Beriah Brown, but he could write ten ar
ticles while Brown was writing one.
When he resolved to crush an opponent
he pursued him with the keen scent of a
blood-hound. Hia favorite strategy was
to make his attacks simultaneously in dif
ferent parts of the state, and then quote
his own correspondence a* tho verdict of
popular sentiment. No man in the
northwest ever ruined the ambition of
more men. A distinguished senator once
remarked, that he wrote twenty thousand
dollars' worth of libels a month. Yet he
possessed many noble qualities of head
and heart. No one, according to his
mean*, gave more liberally to the poor,
and his band was ever cordially extended
to help and cheer young men seeking em
ployment. In the battle between labor
and capital,on the ide of labor he always
! carried a quiver full of his sharpest ar
-1 rows. But few men in the country were
l better posted in the current history of the
times. Upon the downfall of Dodge and
his men. he broke from his political
mornings and clo-ed his career as a poli
tician in wrecking the democratic party.
This he accomplished by promising cer
tain republican leaders, if they would
nominate Alexander Randall. his bosom
friend and disciple, for governor, he
would carry over to them at least three
thousand democratic votes. He was nom
inated and elected, and from that time
the democratic party lost its ascendency
in this state, and the Dodge party forever
ceased to be a factor in the politics of
Wisconsin.
What About the Boodle ?
Oshkosh. Was.. Dec. 28. — Senator Saw
yer says be is making no effort for re
election this winter, and will return to
Washington, on Monday, to remain un
til March. He has, however, letters from
fully one-half the republican members ef
the legislature assuring him of their aup
port.
Harshaw' Bond Prepared fur Filing.
Oshkosh. Dec. 28.—The bond of State
Treasurer elect EL. B. Harshaw was pre
pared for filing to-day. It is for ffiOf
000, and is signed by Senator Sawye-
M. Hay, i. H. Porte, and S. W. He—
of Oshkosh; R. B. Kellogg, of
and C. B. Clark, of Nee hah.