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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1884-12-01
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FORETGNNEH RnHsIP.

The emperor of Japan has conferred upon
Gen. Horace Capron OF Washington the
second order of the Rising Sun as a marx
of appreciation for valuable services rem
dered by the latter to Japan, especially for
the development of the resources OF this
island of Yesso, the most notherly of the
japanese group. This is the irst time tbs
| order has been conferred on foreigner.
The king of Sweden and Norway has re-
ceived an order from Drammen threatening
death If he went to Norway to attend the
conclusion OF the trial of the Norwegian
ministers. The writer, a shoemaker from
America, was arrested.
The Emperor William is suffering from a
cold in the head. The opera ball to the
emperor in Berlin, was postponed. Except
ing some hoarse and slight cold, how
ever, the emperoI's health is quite salts
factory.
All female medical students in Russia
OF the class from which many nihilists have
enlisted, are now compelled to reside in q
house provided by the authorities, and be
home before 8 in the evening.
Sir John Macdonald is charged with al
lowing Lieut.. Gov. Robstaille of Quebec to
buy 1000 acres ofgovernment land near Cal
gray for So an scre when it was worth $40.
The revenue of the Dominion from July
/, 1888, to Jan. 20, 1884 was ST. 1863, 1873, q
decrease of 81, 112, 231; the expenditures
were SIC, 406, 500, an increase OF 1886, 2l5.
Twenty prisoners of the River Head riot
ing party have arrived at the penitentiary al
st. Johns, N. F., to await their trial for will
full murder.
The en- press of Germany held brilliant
reception on the oath. The emperor's
health isreestablished.
Hsworth & Co, commission merchants o.
Liverpo oil, have failed for 100000.
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John w. Bookwalter o. hio starts in q
fortnight TO visit the antilles and cross
Panama and 90 down to the South Ameri.
can coast cross the Andes to the La Plata
country and go thence TO Glbralter and on
to India.
/ Miss Quincy Shaw of Boston spends $780,
600 annually cut of her private income, ia
support of thirty kindergartens and twenty
nurseries in the rough parts OF the city.
She also gives away $500, GOO in other char
lilies.
A variety actress, Nellie Palmer, was ar
rested at Nashville, and sent home to De.
troit, Mich. She proves to be nun es-
capped from an Ontario convent.
A Norwich, Conn.,, publishing house of
fers Sunset Cox $50, 900 to write popular
volume of his legislative "reminiscences.
Commodore Francis Blocker Ellison,
one of the oldest officer of the United States
navy died recently in Boston, of cancer.
Simon Cameron has mended wonderfully
in his three weeks at the Hot Springs, and
will soon resume his way to Mexico.
Holloway, the pill maker, who died re-
Gently, used to pay his employees every
night.
Sergeant Mason is in New York muse
um now. He is going to travel through the
country.
Frederick Billings declines to be the re,
publican candidate for the governor of Yer
mont.
Or. Hammond says Mr.. Willard is a very
sick man, whom only prolonged rest will
cure.
t2Thsddeus Davis, an old Buffalo oliticiar
and once canal auditor, is dead.
Dr. Tobd, librarian of the Dominion par
lament, is dead.
Sid Walker, one OF the Ellsworth Zouave'
is dead.
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GRIMES AVID oRIM1NA rs.

The funeral services at Berlin over the re-
mains of DR.. Lasker at the new synagogue.
were participated in by 5000 persons.
Among those present were Levetzow and
Alderman, president and vice president of
the reichstag; former ministers Bermuth
Calnnhausen and Delbrueek, municipal
councillors and town councillors of Berlin,
leading representatives of the Conservatives
and clerical parties, including Windthorst
and representatives of the University OF Ber-
lin. AT IL the relatives OF the deceased took
places in front of the catafalque. Students
Officiated as guard of honor. Alter the
services DIR. FRANKIE, chief rabbi delivered
an oration, drawing picture of Lasker's
life.
At Auburn, KY, Henry Bronson and
George Harrison were killed by each other
in streat fight. The killing had its origin
in whisky-family feud dating back six
teen years, when James Harrison, father of
George, killed Bronson's father with q
broad axe. The intestines of both the men
were cut out. Both belonged to wealthy
families. More trouble is expecte /.
Henrietta T. Chadwick, a beautiful
young woman of thirty, wife of a travelling
man named Frank Chadwick, committed
suicide on the night of the oath inst, in her
room on State street, Chicago, where she
had been living with a man whom the
police presume to be Eyre T. Randall. The
parents of the deceased live in New YorK
and the parties all moved in good circles.
Hiram H. Post superintendent and ex.
treasurer of the Fourth Baptist church Sun
day school and confidential clerk and book
keeper for d. w. Pratt, agent of the McCor-
mick Harvesting and Reaping Machine
company OF Chicago, made an unsuccessful
attempt at suicide. Defsulter for $1,000.
Frank Williams and John Gray, who
shot and killed Orion Kurtz, in saloon
row at Rosita, Col, were taken from Jail
by masked men and hanged to the rafIers
ola log shanty near by. Gray died game,
but Williams pleaded for mercy, claiming
he shot in selfdefense.
Astorms, Spain, was the scene on the
20sh inst, of religious commotion. A party
of students, under the leadership of priests,
made an attack upon an Englishman and
native hawking BIBLES. The victims una
vailingly appealed to the police for protec-
ton.
John Spaulding of Bangor, Me-, shot his
wife and then killed himself. The wife will
recover.
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means of support, Mrs. Matthews soon
had to earn her living as a seamstress.
About year ago young mechanic,
Philip Laiferty. of Philadelphia, an old
schooimate of David Matthews, met the
widow of his old companion. A warm
attachment sprang up between the pair.
Mrs, Matthews agreed TO marry him.
LatferIy tken purchased back the home
of Mrs. Matthews, and with the young
widow, now his wife, and her two chill
dren, had just begun to keep house
when David Matthews, the long absent
and supposed dead husband, returned.
lie said he had made a handsome for
tune in the mines of Brazil, in which
country he has peen for over four years.
When Matthews limited that he would
demand his wife and children, the
neighbors, who were disguised with
the modern Enoc Il Arden's desertion
of his wife, said that there would be a
lot of cold lead, tar, feathers, etc, used
up if Lafferty and che whom he believed
to be his lawful wife were molested.
Finally Matthews consented to permit
his wife to obtain a legal separation, the
mother surrendering the eldest child, al
boy, to the father, while the younger
one, a little girl, whom the father never
saw, was permitted TO remain with her
mother. Mrs. Matthews then deter
mined to live apart from Laiferty until
she could obtain a legal separation from
her husband.
The marriage notice shows that such
legal decree was obtained. Matthews
deposited 5000 in trust for the baby,
subject TO the use OF the mother ii ever
In abjeet poverty.
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1t appears from Bradstreets summary
of failures for 1868. that the commercial
integrity and business capacity of South.
ern States compares favorably with 9th.
er sections. The whole number of fail.
ures in fourteen Southern states and the
District of Columbia, emitting Missouri
in the past year was 1, $50 out of 1856, 9l9
traders. The general liabilities of those
who failed was 81, Oi4, 497 and their ac-
tual assets were 1921 $50. The total pop
ulation Of these states in 1880 was IS
Is5,CO0. The whole number of failures
in the six New England states was ,597
out of 92,7 traders. The general liza.
bilities of those who failed were $50, 1855, )
762 and the actual assets were $l4,02s,.
Sos. The population of these states in
1880 was 8, GS2, 900. In the South II per
cent. of the traders failed, entailins
losses amounting to S11 900, 600. In New
England Is per cent. of the traders
failed, entailing losses amounting to SO, ].
DOC. 600. The failures in the whole coun-
try number 1872 8 out of SIS, S23 traders.
The general liabilities were SI75. 99S. 0s5,
the actual assets of those who failed
were 500. 500, 75S. The average loss en-
tailed was near so per cent. of the habil-
flies. The loss in the Southern states
was 50 per cent. of the liabilities. The
loss in New England was 81 per cent. Of
the liabilities.
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= = :. .l.e :. s...a .. 1870 -

A. S. Reyes of the Tenth cavalry, charged
with Implications Of his.pay account
Within the last few days. in accordance
with instructions, there has been general
rsduc ion of expsns es IN sll the departments
of the Western Union Telegraph.
The failure of Edward Bean, the largest
shoe dealer of Providence, is announced.
Most of the Indebtedness is to New York
manufacturers.
The Washington. Pa, crematory fred up
again on the 23d to burn TIE body of AL
bert Rups of New York, who died OF con-
sumption.
J. jerks, an Apex, N. c., merchant,
eloped with a thirteen year old girl. He
left a sick wife and three children.
Boston papers say the Capei Cod canal
will do away with navigation around Devils
Bri2gs,
The Iowa legislature is asked to create an
insurance and bank commission.
Much needed rains have fallen in Cali.
fornia and crops are looking well.
Rabbits feet sell for charms in Tuscaloo-
sa, Ga, at So each.
John L. Sullivan lost I$S, 600 at poker at
Butte City recently.
Worcester, Mass, has Itarif club with
2. 800 members.
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nIsCB1IANEoUs NEWS NOTES

DIR. Temple S. Hoyne of Chicago found
tie body of friend on the dissecting table
in Hahnemann college six years ago and
although he has continued to atteua the
family ever since, he never disclosed the
facts. In the meantime the family of the
deceased have continued to pay insurance
premiums on a policy of $4,000 on the
supposition that he may be still alive. He
did not interfere, because 'the boys" wanted
a subject, and he thought it might have
been a case OF mistaken identity.
Reports contiAue of disasters by gales in
the channel and North sea. The meterolc-
gical office finds it impossible to prepare
forecasts for the north. The ship Juno,
from Liverpool for Calcutta, foUndered in
the Merssy, and al hands, twenty five in
number, were lost. Many barges were sunk
in the Mersey during the storm. In Ire
land Kerry railroad train was overturned
Near Londonderry sixty yards of the en-
bsnkment OF the Northern railway was swept
away. A mail train had narrow escape.
At San Francisco, fifty policeman were
appointed to preserve order on Sulliyan's
arrival. His reception was great ovation.
Over 6,000 admirers greeted the great slug
ger, and fully 200 men and boys followed
the carriage up the street, trying to keep
pace with the horses, cheering all the way
The hotel was besieged ny crowd DESTROYS
OF paying their respects to the muscular
BostoniaR.
The insolvency of William Bard, g well
known lawyer OF Reading, Pa, is an
nounced. He transferred $4,000 worth
of property to secure certain parties for
endorsements. The sheriff levied upon
the remainder. A year ago Bard was
worth 100000. He has been specuIa.
lag.
The schedules of assignment of Stephen
K. Lane, grain merchant, New York, show
liabilities $2s9,O79; actual assets were $780,
COS. The schedules of Wolf & Kahn, hat
and cap dealers show liabilities $3.50, 900:
actual assets, $4,000.
A telegram 70 Bradstreet's, ST. Paul, states
that the property Of the Daluth Times Pub
fishing company is in the han9s Of the
sheriff, owing to the foreclosure sf chattel
mortgage held BY A. J. Sawyer.
Van sickles' cotton mill at Potssfeld,
Mass, has stopped work, being financially
embarrassed. The indebtedness Is SD. 600
aid the assets. mill property, valued at
$50. 600. Eighty hands we're discharged.
A court martial has been ordered to meet
at San Antonio Feb. 1, for the trial ofC1pt.
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Gave His wife To a Friend.

New YORK WOFld.
PLEAsANrvILLE, n. j., January "a
few months ago the World published a
story of strange romance, upon which
the curtain drops with the publication Of
the following notice, which appeared in
locs, paperto-day:
MARRIED. --Lsf fsrty-- MISUNDERSTANDING
Z 1884 Ms. David Matthews to Philip
Lafferty.
Five years ago there lived in Centre
vile, near this place, a well-to-do car
penter, David Matthews, with his wife
and a baby boy. Matthews had been in
i'll health and left his wife and child,
presumably for voyage on a coaster to
the Bcrmudas and back. For siy
months, the wife heard no word FROM
her husband, when intelligence came
from the American consul that David
Matthews had died of yellow fever in the
West Indies two months after he left
home. Another child was born shortly
after Matthews departure. With no
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Sights in Java.
Times-Democrat.

| Times-Democrat.
| Probably the most interesting thing /
saw in Java was an American circus,
and it was curious to see the crowds
of Malays and Chinese as eager to
catch a glimpse of the lion or to get
seat next the ring as the average
American small boy. 1t was American
| in every respect, and believe they are
getting to be an institution of our coun-
try. To get warm reception anywhere
all the manager has to do is TO advertise
it as such; draw attention to the bare
back riders all as Miss Emma, or some
such good English name, instead OF
Mile. Lucie de la We're, as is the custom
with us, and that Sam Johnson, the
great American negro lion tanner, win
give an entertainment with his five tame
lions captured in the .wilds of Missouri.
Yes, the American cfcus is gaining
world wide reputation, and even here
in Batavia was the excitement Of
the week
Java is the home of the upas trees,
and as it is only recently that true scien.
tific explanations have been given of
l.
teresting. Wonderful stories were told
about the valleys where they grew. No
living creature was able 10 live an in
slant exposed TO its effects, and even
birds flying over would drop dead, so
that the whole valleys were covered
with their skeletons. When scientific
men first began to inquire into it. they
could only with the greatest difficulty
induce the natives to accompany them
4 -. a
stition were they hell. A peculiar fea-
ture in the earthquakes in this part of
the world soon solved the problem and
exploded the theory as TO the trees
themselves. 1t was found that at certain
times the sulphuTous yapors and nox-
ious gases escaping through the cracks
in the earth in these valleys were SO
dense and poisonous as to be destructive
to animal life, and at such times had go
affected the natives that they had re-
tanned the memory OF such places ana
avoided them forever afterward.
No evil effects we're experienced by
those who traversed the valleys, though
there was unmistakable evidence thatat
periodic intervals they were deserving
10 be avoided.
can not close without last word
about the earthquakes l was IN Ba-
tavia only q week from the time they
happened, and from what saw must
say that the newspaper accounts at nome
were very much exaggerated The de-
struction was great enough where IT nap
pened, but why extend 1t to Batavia 1T
self, when, save for few ashes that Tell
harmlessly around, and for tidal wave
that threw down a few hundred yards
of breakwater, they we're perfectly Sc
cure. According to some of the papers
at home it was totally destroyed, where
az think the city was never in more
healthy or enterprising condition. and
heard less of the earthquake than the
people at home.
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cAsUA1rrEs or THE VEEK.

At Conyers, Ca, John Sontin, eight
eight, was driving Widow Wilkinson, sixty
to bis house, where the minister YVES wait
ing TO marry them, when she was fatally
stricken with paralysis in his buggy, as the
horse stopped at creek TO drink.
The ships City of Lucknow and Simls
engaged in the Australian trade, were in
collision recently in the English channel
The Simla was sunk and seventeen persons
saved. Twenty men are missing.
frankie Hughes of Brooklyn ate some
candy Monday and died Tuesday. Poi
son.
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The Boston Transcript says that some-
BODY who knows western city life well,
remarked at a dinner, apropos of the
failure of ''The Bread Winner" as a
true picture, that there is larger and
more varied facial view of life il the
west than elsewhere in the country.
Nowhere else do people of different
race and nation meet and amalgamate
and get accepted for what they are inal-
vidually worth; and that the raciness
and variety of ''views" that might thus
be introduced into colloquial converse
ton might of itself be made invaluable
in a novel This is true Of the west as it
was. and is, to a less extent than formal.
w. But the distinctive westerner is
fast disappearing-has gone west-and
in his place is the modified dude of the
east-the servile imitator, and not the
originator. especially in the cities is this
the case.
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Jews oF1HE RAInRoA DIS.

John Muir has resigned the superintend-
ency of traffic in the Northern Pacific, his
resignation is to take effect March 1, in or
der that he may accept the general mana
gership of the Oregon improvement ON
panv, having made contract with the com
pany for term of years. He will have en-
tire charge on the Pacific coast of the rail-
read, steamships, coal and other interests
OF the company, whose transportation lines
cover cosstwise business between San Diego
and Alaska. Mr. Murr's resignation will
cause the following changes. ]. NJ. Han
naford will be general freight agent of the
entire Northern Pacific railroad and
branches. G. S. Lee will be general pas
s4nger agent, his title covering both
the passenger and ticket departments.
G. Davis will be assistant general passenger
agent. s. f. Boyd will be general ticket
agent. A. S. Stokes. who has been assist
ant superintendent of traffic on the west
end of the Northern Pacific lines will be
assistant gel eral freight agent Northern
Pacific railroad.
a charter incorporating the Northern
Railway company, with capital stock oil
| S., 600, 600, has been received at Red6eld.
OAK, from Yankton. The intention is to
build road from Redfeld to Bismarck
during the coming summer. Grading will
| be commenced as soon as the ground is in
/ condition. In the meantime the right OF
way will be secured as soon as possible.
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1t is pretty early in the season for
political assessments, but an attempt to
make levy in the post Office depart
ment by W. S. Odell, citizen of Indiana
was detected and frustrated. Circulars
addressed to Indiana clerks were taken
into the Post Office Department and
handed to messengers to distribute, the
messengers not knowing their contents
The act of carrying circulars soliciting
contributions into any Government
building is, under the civil service act, q
misdemeanor punishable with fine and
imprisonment or both. Postmaster
General Gresham expressed much in
dignation and avowed his intention tC
protect his clerks against similar at
empts to blackmail them.
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Terrible Calamity in Colorado Coal
Mine

Denver Coli Special:-A terrible explo-
sion occurred at O'Clock Thursday the oath
at Crested Butte, Gunnison county, in
the Crested Butte coal mine. From forty to
fifty miners, it is believed, lost their lives by
the awful affair. The explosion blockaded
were at work, so that the exact extent ofthe
disaster is, at present, unknown.
The mine was owned and operated by the
Colorado Coal & Iron compsDy. Ninety
men are emf loved by the concern and at
least fifty OF hem were in the shaft at the
time of the explosion. The explosion was
CINE house, which stood 100 feet from the
entrance. IL is supposed thst the
explosion was caused By q
leak in the air compressor.
The explosion occurred either in chamber
No. or 2, Just half an hour after the day
force of seventy-seveR men had gone to
work. There were ten men at work in one
chamber Four of these escaped unhurt,
except one man, John Angus, who was in
the passage Just outside the chamber. He
is badly burned, but will recover
Fifty-seven men were at work
in chambers No. / and No. q
These ares ali thought to have Berished. The
explosion was of such force as to complete
ly barricade the main entrance, aud appli-
ance for supplying air, located near, was
badly wrecked. aud the 70 Of of the tramway
blown of. The town OF Crested Butte is
IN mourning. Crowds OF women cluster
about the entrance to tho N inc, praying,
ringing their hands and crying piteously
presenting scene most he ding.
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In the current numbers the Magazine
of American History is a letter written
by George Washington concerning Har-
riet Washington, young girl who has
been living in his family and whom be
is sending to his sister. Harriet has
sense enough, he says "but no dis
position TO industry, nor to be careful
Of her clothes" and special stress is laid
upon the necessity of directing her SIN
the use and application" OF things to wear
for he adds. they viii be dabbed
about in every hole and corner, and her
best things always in use" The average
girl of Washington's day seems to have
been moro or less human, after the
manner of girls in all ages.