Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-13
The Wealthiest Man in Mexico.

The Wealthiest Man in Mexico.
From Nuevo Laredo, on the Rio
Grande, to the Solado River the ride is
devoid Cf interest. and during it the
| best thing to do is to recline comfort
ably in one of the airy coaches and
sleep. Southwest of the Solado table,
! land some $500 #. high may be seen,
, The sides are rocky and almost perpen-
! dicular, the top level and covered here
and there with forests and timber. The
/ table-land, or mesa as it is styled by the
Mexicans, has surface area of 4, 000, 900
acres. It is owned by Patricio Milmo,
an hishman married In Mexican family,
the weaithiest man in Mexico, worth, T
am informed, something more than
/ $4,000, 900: Milmos mesa has rep
utation all over the country. A part Of
! it is cultivated in corn, grapes, sugar.
| cane and maguey. Milmo's residence
| is on the summit handsome stone
structure, very large and ornamented
! by cornices and pillars imported from
F.! France and the United States. The in
| terror is like a palace, and so rich with
! gold and silver and precious stones that
| the eye is dazzied with their splendor.
/ Milmo is President of the bank of Mex
ico, an institution with power and priv
/ lleges IN this country as great as are the
Bank OF England's in Britain. His
father-in-law, Santiago Vidarri, was ex-
ecuted for supplying money to revolu-
tionists, and he himself narrowly escap-
ed similar death, although he was con-
nected in monetary sense with the op-
posing forces. Since then brigands
! have captured him several times and
| compelled him to pay from $4,000. to
: s25, 900. ransom. These adventures
taught him precaution, and he has turn
ed the mesa into aort of citadel, Access
! sible by only a narrow path, INSTRUCTED
by all iron gate of enormous proportions
He has distilleries and several factories,
In which goods are manufactured for
his own use On the mesa, and intends to
retire to his mansion whenever another
instruction is imminent. It is said
not have a dollar, and got his start in
business from his father-in-law.
A Horrible Death.
No novelist ever devised more in.
| tensely dramatic and pitiful situation
than was witnessed last week beside the
, track of the Southern Pacific Coast rail-
road near Alameda, Cal. There was an
accident on the road. owing to the sink
ing Of part of the track. The engine
was overturned, and the fireman, Dan
Driscoll, was caught by two iron bars,
one Of which crossed his breast and the
other one Of his feet. He was not sew
erely Injured by this, but the bars held
him inextricably fast, and meantime, on
both sides of the track, which at this
point lies on low trestle bridge built
across long stretch of marsh land, the
salt tide pouring in from the Bay of
San Francisco was rapidly rising. It
was evident that unless speedy removed
he would be drowned. Sis men labored
with desperate energy to save him.
They wrapped sheets about his body,
and exerted their combined strength to
pull him from beneath the bars that
pinned him to the track. He cried pit
eously that they were killing him. They
tried again and again, but without avail.
A levee was built around his head to
keep the warer from reaching him.
Buckets were brought, and as the water
oozed in it was bailed out Then they
raised his head and held it as high as
possible above the water. For two hours
these labors were ceaselessly continued,
but at the end of that time the levee
broke, and the friends OF the doomed
man found that they could do no more
for him. The water rose rapidly about
his body and reached his chin. Then
all caught hold Of him and stugged des-
o%o1r hut A l. IL L.
hand over the unfortunate mans mouth,
but the water rose to his nostrils, and
he was drowned in the presence of the
helpless crowd.
According to the Journal Of Science
all animal life is not of necessity subject
to death: Says the Journal:
Let us suppose that we are watching
| mute single-cell creatures known as q
| protozoan. We see It expanding into
au ellipsoidal figure, which becomes for
time longer and longer. It then be-
gins to contract about what we may, for
the sake of popular intelligibility, call
its equator.
It assumes the form of two nearly
globular bodies, connected, dumb-beu
like, by narrow neck. This neck be-
comes narrower, and at last the two
globes are set free, and appear as two
individuals in place of one! What are
the relations of these two new beings to
the antecedent form and to each other?
We examine them with care; they are
equal in size, alike in completely, or
rather in simplicity, of structure. We
cannot say that either of them is more
mature or more rudimentary than the
other. We can find in their separation
from each other no analogy to the sep
aration Of the young animal Or egg from
its mother, or to the Liberation from a.
seed from plant. Neither Of them is
parent, and neither offspring. Neither
of them is younger or older than the
other. The process Of reproduction, or
rather of multiplication, must so far as
we can see, be repeated in the same
manner forever. Accidents excepted,
they are immortal; and frequent as such
accidents must be, the individuals whom
they strike might, or rather would, like