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New-York tribune., 1889-12-24

A still greater and far more difficult work is the
great tunnel under the Severn, which first suggested
Itself to the strategic eye of VgnOes forty years be-
fore it was begun in 1873 by the Great Western Rail
way Company. After being several times flooded
once so badly that it in serious danger Of having
to be abandoned and only saved by the greatest
skill and ingenuity on the part of the engineers. backed
bv the indOmtable courage of their employers, the
tnnneI was finally opened in 1886. 1t is four and
third miles in length, and was for nearly US wh9le
length through formations particularly uniavoraDle,
being covered at the thnnest part by only thirty feet
OF triasslc mari.
New-York tribune., 1889-12-24

Nearly fifty years ago, In his exploring expcoi'lon
round the world Commodore Charles Wilkes U. g. N
found eIephantasIs prevailing to frigbtul extent
in Samoa. Leprosy, eh, No Cinnamon there then
The Hawalians are Polynesans and speak the Poiy-
nesan tongue. Why can't they have brought thelr
diseases from the place they got their language
bn describes 10 the persistent use OF ava" ot kava
as a drink but that is an inference or something he
had been told.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
Almost a Riot,

PARIS, Special-There was fierce debate
in the chamber of deputies to-day over the
motion of NJ. De Roulede that the chamber
declare valid the election of Gen. Boulan-
ger. Mn. Brisson, Pelleton and many
Others spoke. Deputy LaiSsant was repeat
edly called to order. The partisans of
Boulanger were more than usually violent,
and his opponents pushed the passion of
his partisans to its limit by their contempt-
uous references, The proposition was re-
iected by $40 to 123. Gen. CluseretS propo-
sition for annual elections was also rejected
by vote of 81 to 243. deputy Joffrin's
election was formally declared valid:
the Boulangists cheering for universal suf-
frage. The storm and hubbub produced in
the chamber by the shouts of the Boulang-
lists ameuntee almost to riot. President
Floquet ordered the galleries to be cleared
and the house dispersed amid tremendous
confusion. Several citizens were arrested
for hooting at the departing deputies. !.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
JEFF DAVIS DEAD.
The Great Confederate Chief
tain Passes Away at New
Orleans.
Sketch of His Life and Some
Striking Incidents in
His Career.

New ORLEANS, Special-At 1915 o'clock
this morning Jefferson Davis, eX-preSident
of the Confederate states, died at the resi-
dence of his lifelong friend. J. L, Payne.
From the beginning of his fatal illness Mr..
Davis had insisted that his case was nearly
or quite hopeless, though the dread o.
pain or fear of death never appeared
to take the slightest hold upon his spirits,
which were brave and even buoyant from
the beginning of his attack. In vain did
the doctors strive to impress upon him that
his health was improving. He steadily in
sisted that there was no Improvement, but
with Christian resignation he was content
to tsacept W whatever providence had in store
for him. Only once did lie waver in his
belief that his case showed no Improvement,
and that was at all early hour yesterday
morning when he playtully remarked to
Mr.. Payne: Il am afraid that l shall be
compelled to agree with the doctors for
once and admit that l am a little better"
MISLEADING SYMPTOMS.
All day long the favorable symptoms
continued, and late in the afternoon, as late
as o'clock Mrs. Davis sent such cheer
ing message to Mrs. Stamps and Mr.. and
Mrs. Farrar that they decided for the
first time since Mr.. Davis has been
taken i'll to attend the French opera
At 6 o'clock last evening, without any as
signabIe cause Mr.. Davis was seized with a
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practically told them to "go in and win"
and in they went with vim and brill
fancy which made the ''Gazeta" as famous
for its literary quality as it was for its pitt
less assaults upon the Imperial Farce" and
its singing reflections upon the supineness
and Grass inditferentism OF his adopted
countrymen.
Jose do Patrocinio, editor and proprietor
ofthe Gazeta da Tarde, is the son of slave
mother by the parish priest of small viii
lage near Rio. At least that is the account
he has published of himself in explanation
of his vehement championship of the col
ored race and his unmeasured abuse of
everything and everybody connected di-
rectly or indirectly with the empire,
the parliament. the church and So
Ciety. A writer of extraordinary flu
ency and an orator of telling force,
he rallied about him an immense fol-
lowing of the lower strata of Brazilans and
posed as the Tribune Ofth People. | have
excellent reasons for doubling tie disinter-
estedneSs of this hammer-and-tongs patriot,
but no one can deny that he was bold mag
netic and terribly noisy. If his leaven cid
lie lowest in the lump it's work was none
the less etlicacious, and the support he and
his paper received from the masses both in
the capital and the provinces must have
satisfied the emperor long ago that it was
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
LIBERATING BRAZIL
Three Editors and a CartOOnist
Caused the Overthrow of
the Empire.
interesting Gossip About Men
Who Have Become Famous
by the Revolution.

If the question were asked any one
thoroughly conversant with the recent
troubles in Brazil, "Who are the men who
brought about the overthrow of the Brazil
ian Empire?" the answer would undoubted-
y be, Three editors and a CartOOnist." "
QuintinO Bocaynva, of the Paiz, DR..
Arauio, of the Gazeta de NotiCias, and Jose
lie Pratrocinio, of the Gazeta da Tarde, are
The editors, and Angelo Agostini, of the Re
vista Illustrada, is the cartoOnist. Their
work differed as much in quality as the
men themselves in character, and they are
very unlike; but all are entitled, though III
varying proportions, to the credit of having
brought into being the most extensive re-
public the world has seen since the Romans
reversed the Brazilian process and seated
Cesar as emperor on the wreck of their
grand commonwealth.
Never was the influence of free press
more extraordinarily established. All the
talk about Gen. FOnseca being dictator OF
he United States of Brazil, and the army
holding the keys of the future, is sheer
ronsenSe, and no one would be quicker to
admit it than Deodoroda Fonseca himself
To call it a military revolution is to con-
tOuIlNl NIIC tlICI Will
The tail wag the dog. The newspapers did
it-openly, frankly and above board-and
the army took their counsels and followed
their straight lead, as the rest of the popu-
lace did. The empire couldn't face such a
tremendous combine"
l was in PetropOlis when the big row oc,
cured between Gen. Fonseca and the wal
practically it was with the EN-
perors sOn-in-law, Count d'Eu, for he was
in permanent command of all the forces
One of Fonseca's aide-de-Camps told me-
over glass of vermOuth, that the army
would not permit the general to be pun
ished for his alleged insubordination.
But what can you do, major?" | replied
''you can't get your army together, small a
it is, for it's scattered all the way from the
Amazon to the River Platte
NO, l don't mean that he said, "anc
it wouldn't do, anyhow, for the Flum
inenses (citizens of Rio) haven't forgiven u:
for firing at them in 81. But we can senC
that deaf - -- back to France when the
old man dies" and he called his com
mander-in-chief, the prince consort, very
| hard name
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hand, the press needed the army on its side,
so as to reduce the opposition to the repub-
lie to mil" When the time came by
bringing forward Gen. Fonseca, the army
was secured while, by giuing the for
eign relations to BOcayuva, and the ex-
chequer to Ruy Barboza, the more imme-
diately important portfolios are held by
leaders who represent, respectively,
the original "mothers milk" Republicans
and those Liberals who wanted republic
provided the empire could be peacefully
disposed Of do not mean to suggest that
Gen. FOnseca was either dupe or mere
figure head. He is an excellent selection,
since the army was wanted. But it IS as
much q mistake to suppose him to be
Simon Bolivar, putting all on the cast for
libertys sweet sake, as it is to class him
with the Gutierrez of Peru, or the Melgare-
iis of Bolivia, seeking only their own ag-
grandizement through the medium of re-
belliOus and subsidized sOldiery. The re-
public was bound to come, army or no
army, and the press, alone and unaided,
had made this possibility
| give the place of honor in this whole
Brazilian movement to QuintinO BOCa-
yuva, and the more readily that he is not
going to claim it for himself. A republican
and patriot of proven consistency, he has
ever refused to hearken to the blandish-
ments of the imperial governments, which
have so often been fatal to the principles of
the leading republicans of Brazil, and has
passed his life in laying bare the weak
nesses of the monarchy and urging his
countrymen to have done with it. A
journalist by education and profession,
he is a writer of a pure and incisive
style, as free from bombast as from
timidity. Persistently refusing all entan-
clements with either of the great consttu-
tional parties, he has equally set his face
against the sans culottism of the Patrocinio
school of republican agitators while en-
deavoring to infuse vigor into the too Pla-
tonic indifferentism of the merely theoret-
ical wing of the democratic movement.
Possessed of no fortune, he has suffered III
the last ten years several bitter disappoint-
ments, notably in the failure of the Globo,
| which he edited with extreme ability, and
in the collapse of some railroad projects to
which he gave much time and thought.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
Two Tears,
n the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
1t is bright summer day in the
valley. The stream goes dancing
down, and the merry globules hud-
died all together are laughing as
they pass away to the deep sea to
mingle with the millions of others
gathered from all sorts of places.
There are happy drops, escaped from
the caverns and the rocks, from the
depths of the darkness under the
mountains; there are unwilling drops
that in the morning lay on the rose
leaves and took the hues of dainty
beauty from the tints; unhappy
drops that long again to be mist
and hang over the mountain tops
and creep among the fragrant pines;
gay and laughing drops that have
been tumbling over the powders, in
and out ofshadows, looking forward
to the hour when they would rush
out into the valley and be free at
last. And among the joyous group
one little drop goes silently and sad
ly along. jostled by herest, but heed
ing not their merriment.
"Why are you sad?"- asks one who
has but seen the glorious sunlight
for few honrs. Are you not glad
to be out dancing and sparkling like
the rest of us? Did you love your
dark chamber in the rocks as mnch?''
"My chamber was darker than the
rocks" answers the other. II am u
tear from a mothers heart, q mother
who wept for her child"
And alittle way off two other drops
fell together, drawn by mutual sor-
row. They wander down side by side,
neither speaking. The gay food
dashes on the banks, flashes over
rocks, makes feint of climbing up
to seize the flowers that bloom above
it, and rattles laughingly away.
Some OF the drops, too venturesome,
threw themselves up at the bending
sprays of green, and are caught and
lost. But through it all the two Sad
little things, holding on to one an
other, float on toward the sea. -
"And what are your" asks one
at last. 'Did you come from the
mist or from the earth? We're you a
dewdrop this morning, or did you
fall from the clouds?' ..
81 am none of these it answers,
'I am from O woman's bright eye,
am the tear of O woman for her
false lover"
"Grieve not. Be not so sad.
am the tear of the girl who got him,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
Another Horrible Death Of a Line
man in New York

HUOITl9F R1OTTIDIe OedIn OF a LlnG-
man in New York.
New YORK, Special-Peter Clausen, a
young Dane, employed as a lineman by the
Northern New York Electric Lighting COM
pany, met horrible death to-day.
1t was in every way similar
to that of Feeks, who was killed
by an electric wire a few weeks ago. Clau-
sen met his death on the pole at the corner
of Third avenue and 156th street. This
pole was close to the station of the SUBJ
urban elevated railroad and in front of a
four-story fiat house. 1t is about thirty
feet high, and has two cross-heams, the
upper one supporting telegraph wires,
and the lower beam carrying two
electric light wires. Shortly after
Clausen assembled the pole some children
playing about its base heard kissing noise.
Looking up they saw the lineman lying
across the two electric light wires, while q
blush light shot from his right hand anu
head. The children's cries of terror at
tracted the attention of their parents in the
fiat Two women at a front window here
tainted at the sight. Clausen's body was
QUIvERING AND BTRNING.
His right hand was tightly clutched around
one wire while his chin hung over the
other. The wires were insulated with the
poorest and cheapest white rubber insula-
ton. The police were summoned and
Thomas Smith, the driver of an express
wagon, volunteered his assistance in getting
the lineman off the pole. Three police Off
GERS and Smith mounted to the roof of the
elevated station and used rope to lassoe
the body, The rope was old and it broke. A
second rope was got round the body, but all
efforts failed to break Clausen's hold of the
When pulling on the rope Smith touched
Clausen's body and received O shock
that knocked him senseless, He was
was taken to liquor store and revived
by stimulants. Finally hatchet was Sc
cured and one of the eleotiic wires severed,
thus breaking the connection. Clausen's
body was then lowered to the street. He
vas dead, and his body smelled of burning
flesh. The palm of his right hand was
burned to the bone, and the forearm from
the wrist to the elbow was a mass of charrc3
flesh,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
THE AUDITORIUM.
Formal Dedication of the
Building, the Pride of
Chicago.
President Harrison and Other
Notable People of the
Country Present.

CHICAGO. Specal.-An audience of 5000
people and all outside assemblage of 10000
enthusiastic spectators tonight witnessed
the dedication of the largest and grandest
operate structure in the would-the Chi
Cago Auditorium. Five thousand electric
lights illuminated the interior of the colos-
sal structure to the brightness of noon
day; and the thousand incan-
descent border lights of varied
colors that hung over the stage the
magnificent proscenium arch and mammoth
organ, the grand foyer and carved mohog-
any pillars, the handsomest gilded rows ol
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selves audacious airs, and even tried to
rival their more popular colleagues of the
navy on the Rua Ouvidor and at the Poly
theania For the first time in many year
the army was being talked about.
This is the way, in few words, in which
the republican press of Brazil captured the
army, and prettier piece of political man
agement has never been seen. The army OF
itself could never have sustained a success
full revolt in favor of its own candidate un-
supported by the people; but, on the other
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
Hotel Burned at PIttshure.

P1TTsBURG, Special.-Thes Monongahela
house, one of the oldest and best known
hotels in the country burned to-day. There
were number of narrow escapes, but the
guests and employees all got out safely
Among the miraculous escapes was
that Of n. Underwood of Milwaukee.
Underwood has his face scorched and beard
singed. The building destroyed covered an
entire block and was seven stories in height.
1t was owned by Charles J. Charge, Florence
G. Miller and the Crossan heirs and was
valued by them, with the lot, at $500 600.
The loss will be less than 100000. The in
surance is $197, 800, of which $3.50, 600 is on
the building and $37, 500 on the stock. Most
of the guests lost all their personal prop
erty
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Saved a Life,

BuRLINaTeN, Iowa, Special Telegram,
An unknown but handsome young
lady was saved from instant and horrible
death at Fort Madison, Iowa. this evening
by an act of bravery seldom witnessed. The
young lady was about to cross the track at
the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
depot when q freight engine came backing
swiftly upon her. Dazed with fright she
stopped on the track and gazed ut her on
coming doom, Charles Walker billing
clerk, saw the young lady's danger and
the waist he lifted her in his arms and
sprang to ono side just as the locomotive
rushed by. So close was the call that the
tender grazed the young man, throwing
him and his fair burden down safely out of
harms way,
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useless to dream of "plebiscite." Pat
rocinio is a dark mulattO, short and
rather burly Of frame, possessed of high
spirits and a monumental selfassurance.
He has told me more than once that the
United States was behind the times"
politically, and that the poor and ignorant
with us were practically the slaves of the
rich and educated, and l have little doubt
that the cause of his arrest, reported by
cable as one of the first acts of the repub-
lican government, was that he insisted on
carrying on the revolution to lengths which
BocayuVa and his associates saw would be
suicidal. PatrOcinio is likely to be a per-
manent thorn in the side, of the new re-
public, but he deserves full recognition as
one of the forces contributing to the down.
fall of Dom Pedro.
The cartOonist [ mentioned, Angelo
Agostini, is Of Italian birth, but BOhe-
mian of the BOhemians in everything that
relates to social relations. An artist of no
mean order in the higher branches of paint
ing and design, he has dedicated himself
for many years to editing and illustrating
the Weekly Revista Ilustrada, and has un-
CeaSingly made war upon the weaknesses OF
the imperial government, the fOibles OF the
emperor himself and the horrors Ofslavery.
The best Of his cartoons are as remarkable
for their telling effectiveness as for their
admirable draughtsmanship, and they have
Punch has intermittently done in London
in times offs great public excitement.
These are the men who carried forward
and perfected the editice of the republic
which was laid so long ago by that Nestor
of the republican press, Joaquin Saldanha
Marinha, the Ganganelli of the anti-clerical
demonstrations of other days. These men
bore the brunt, sustained the conflict when
Republican" was term of ridicule among
all educated Brazilians, and displayed in
season and out of season the courage o.
| their convictions.
There is but one soldier, and not even g
single statesman in the new government
Brought about by the direct influence of the
press, governed by provisional govern
ment, drawing its majority from the press
and dependent for the time being wholly
press it is a perversion of history to cal
the establishment of the Brazilian republic
a military revolution.
The press did it, and to it belongs the
credit; not to the bayonet
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
Recognizing the New State.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram
Mr.. Hansbrough of North Dakota was rec
ognized to-day by the speaker by being
named as a member of the committee on
accounts. This standing committee is ap-
pointed at every session before the rules are
adopted. The new states are being recog
nized. Representative Baker of New York
will no doubt be made chairman of tlfe
committee on territories. This is at the
earnest request of Delegates Dubois and
Cary, who are aware that Bakeris favorable
to the admission of these territories. Mr..
Dubois in the house and Senator Platt,
chairman of the committee on territories in
the senate, will introduce bills simultane
ously for the admission of Idaho, .@
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12
Returned Too Soon.

MITCHELL, s. D., Special Telegram,
Fred and Anton :Espenbach, two farm
ers living eighteen miles south of here,
were blasting a large boulder. They lighted
the fuse and ran off little way and waited
for the explosion. There being none, they
concluded the fuse had gone out and re-
turned to the boulder, got on it and were
on the point of digging out the charge
when it exploded, blowing hole in An
toms skull from which he died and putting
out one of Fred's eyes and so badly iniur-
ing the other that if he RECEIVERS he will be
blind.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-12

WALLA WALLA has printer who
would do well to emigrate. A few
days ago heeditor of the Statesman
was made to publish this startling
statement: "W. o. Bush, member OF
the legislature from Thurston Coun-
ty, has been forty-fve years in the
penitentiary." Mr.. Bush has been
in the territory forty-five years and
was never in urison ut all,
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1889-07-09

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@eiet mad 3wsi Sabren wisbsr abssf@aftt
wurbe. ~
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beren Seite teine @epinnite ja psrtei@nen.
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ben Sabren 1866. Settles Sabr betam
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los.
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bas llsbel senau teuneu selerut, uns waren
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feIbs uieber a~ufsubaIfen, erfoIsIos.
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ssnbeit bss Siaatss Soma tn bic 5dnbe
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f4Iasen.
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bibition.
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subalieH, an ben Sttmmfdfen 3uridsss
f9Iusen.
grobibitton nust In Soma nrr eintset,
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taten, wsI9e f@ bur9 ipftematii9e auss
beutuns Der 0trtbe beret@ern.
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Der 1888.
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r,sbreren Sabren auf ibr laffenbe unsere9te
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8snnipIpanisu CAB an, IS. Stunt 1897
600 Waiorttdt sesen grobibition.
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