The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

Goodwin, $4,000; Chas. P. Sykes, $13-
200 Mrs. Anna A. Reed. $4,000: Chat.
Ter OaR NE me insurance company. Of Hart
1ord, dO,Oo0. The debts aggregate to over
$l4O,OOO, and there are no assets. EXCEPT
his wearing apparel, which is exempt un-
DER the lsw. Among the claims is one of
$4,000 for diamonds which he purchased.
The Remarkable Career Of Raruch
- Hirsch Serou.berg.
The Freie Presse Of Vienna gives de.
tails regarding DR.. Strousberg, who was
arrested at st. Petersburg after failing
Tor nearly flOO,OO0. Strousburg is Of
Jewish origin, his full name being Baruch
Hirsch Strousberg. Born in 1928. in
humble. circumstances, at Neidenburg, in
East Prussia, he went to London in 1885
after the death of his father, Here he
was received by his uncles, who were
commission agents, and was shortly
afterward baptized member
Of the Church of England.
Gifted with great intelligence and energy,
he more or less educated himself and en-
tered Journalism. In lS4S he went to
America, where he gave lessons in Ger
man. but finally realized some money by
buying cargo Of damaged goods and
selling them at heavy profit With
this capital he returned to London in
1858 and founded several newspapers,
but six years afterward he went to Ber-
=lin,~@as=wl4 was for seven
years the agent of an English insurance
company. In 1864, however, Strous-
berg began to think Of improving his for
tunes, and having made acqua1ntances at
the British Embassy, by this means came
to know some English capitalists with
whom he contracted for the construction
of the Tilsit-Inster burg railway. With
in six years Strousberg was making q
dozen lines, among others those of Rou-
mania. He had over 100000 workmen in
his pay, and had launched out into
other vast enterprises. At Hanover he
established a gigantic machine factory; at
Dortmund and Neustadt he had smelling
works and iron factories; at Antwerp and
Berlin he built entire new quarters; in
Prussia he bought ten estates; in Poland
an entire county; in Bohemia he paid
100000 for the splendid domain
of Zbirow. where he establish
ed railway carriage works which
employed 5000 work1hen. Meantime he
built palace for himself in the Will
helmstrasse at Berlin, which in decora-
ton, luxury and accommodation, sur.
passed that Of the Emperor himself. In
it were to be found works by the first
German and French artists--Delacroix,
Meissonneir, Gerome, and Others Nor
was his charity on a less splen-
did scale. In winter he caused
10000 portions Of soup 20 be given daily
to the poor, in addition to the 1000
pounds worth Of wood. Vixen the fam
inc broke out in East Prussia, he sent
whole trains laden with corn and pota-
toes to his suffering fellow.countrymen.
or course, such man had his own Or
gans in the press, and was chosen
to represent the nation. Yet he
took from the Moscow Bank, which he
founded, 4,308,00O roubles, and it is limited
that his future is not altogether unpro-
vided for. No greater collapse than that
of strousberg has probably occurred in
the financial history CT the country.
Save, perhaps, that of Law.
Winning Izoraes i'm 1875.
Wilkes Spirit of the Times.l
The list of winning horses during the
racing season Of 1876, is headed by Ii. P.
McGraths Aristides, who won $4,000;
Tom Ochiltrec ranks next with $ll 900;
and Mr.. Belmonts Olitipa stands third
on the roll with total Of sl0,550; CAL
vim is fourth with $9,l50; Aaron PEN
nington fifth with 1880; and Ozark
sixth with So, $50; Balankecl ranks sew
enth with $500; Wild Idle comes next