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Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

naturally cozss IN contact With IS much
pursts and rehaenleai. and Z his tastes
we're 50 ilelinei. g. much gided vice 2s
% be found M any CRY IA the world.
Nhsu hs became q proper age De was en-
tered "a and graduated fToIc TIE college
of BIZ foTefzthers lcoiumbls'. Szld alter
y 2gds studied law 81 the Columbia Law
sshooL he the.l began the practice of
his profession, and Notwithstanding that
be was rich, having iGhsrited fortune
y hich raads him independent OF has pa
rents, took an excellent stand ~ the Oar.
Hs wAS a member Of several ot the most
Prominsut clubs. including the Union
League. and 50 far as be chose visitor
al Ghe houses u New YORK most afls-
tocFatic people. Ia short. be Was . man
OF tie world With Ais talents, his
wealth and his ancestry especially iden-
tiiled with ths early history OF New
York ani q ths nation. he was one TO
be enyied.
Ia iSS0 Hamilton was nominated 70
tie assembly Of tLe state of New York
on tie Republican ticket. His district
Vas Republican. and he received q large
majority. lie then dropped out, buE
was reelected 20 the Assem- lilies Of 1854,
1851, 1888 and 1889.
What life he led. except SO far as
concerns those connected with the late
tragedy, does not appear. But II is
known that while az Albany he became
involved ia an affair with the wife of a
fellow member which caused a scan
dai. The llaison was IL last broken up
by Hamilton's leaving the hotel where
tAe lady and her husband lived.
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

distinguished in craftsmanship or war
would NJ that time have felt il obligatory
upon them 70 accept a challenge from
an equal It has been charged by Burr's
biocraphcr that at every step OF his po-
liucal career Hamilton. bv open efforts
anil secret intrigue, or by both. had Op-
posed and forbidden his advancement;
that ha had injured him III the estima-
tian Of Washington; that he had pre-
vented ~. Adams from giving him
military appointment; that he had ap-
V',cd offensive epithcts and phrases so
hahro'lv % Burr that they had become
familiar in the mouths Of all the leading
Feder8lists; and, finally, that ne had
succeeded in making it only too evident
e. all the influential politicians that
Burrs political Advancement was an i'm
possibility unless Haunilton's tongue
couid bc silenced or bridled.
I'm 1S13 Burr and Hamilton had a con-
versari1n on the subject with a view TO
becoming friends, but nothing definite
came of it. and matters went on very
much "a the same vein for two years
lon5er. Then certain allegations Of
Hamilton again brought on a special
trouble After many efforts on the part
OF mutual friends it was found that no
solution could be reached other than by
q meeting on the feld. Burr sent Ham
ilton challenge.
ltlwl.rou wcs m principle opposed TO
due.n- anl his son Philip had been
k'e3 in o duel three years before. vet he
fel- that his reputation required him to
me Burr.
rrToRE The MEETING.
a meeting was arranged for the 18th
of July. 1904. no : In the morning; the
place. Weohawken. in New Jersey, op-
po-i.o N.w York the distance. ten
paccs. The seconds were: For Hamil-
ton. his fr.su1, Mr Pendleton; for Burr,
1I- Van Ness. The physician in attend
anco was Or. H0sack. On the evening
before tho duel both the principals were
en-l -ed iu making their final prepara-
tiors and writing ont what each desired
% leave behind IN case he should fall.
Taie chat night Burr lay down on a
ccucl lu DIS library. When John Swart-
won't entered his room in the morning
IT, found bim stiil tranquility slumbering.
IT, avose The sleeper. Van Ness was
som r.a1r. n Nr Davis and ono or two
other friends arrived. and the party pro
ceeleI to the river. where beat had
BEEN uroeil-d for them Then they
roued across from New York TO the
ground. landing about half past 8 O'Clock.
Ttvrsa l.ot July morning. and Burr and
van Nesz t,ok OF their coats before the
arrival oftho Hamilton party and loitered
ab7u- Whiting.
Tha heights Of Weehawksn rise 70 a
hr.eht ot 10 feet above the Hudson.
They are rocky and steep. and were then
covered with tangled bushes. Beneath
them there is. twenty feet above the
water. a ledge about SIX feet vide and
eleven naces bong. This place had been
selected for the meeting.
r-irrI ari second stood looking ont
on tie tranquil river, care iess'y breaking
th, f-i-s t-t- chem New Ycrk-then
au -t,r.d below Canal street.-the
Nrrru= Staten Island n the distance,
tr,a --f.'. a-v ~ New Nork hav. .gith
irs rr formed a pleasant picture
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

o BE RI RA y
HAMILp TON. IN
1885 or there
abouts, called Il
a house la Forty
tlliro street. New
>lork. where he
was destined 10
IA eet one v lao
was To ruin him.
A recent descrp-
ton of lleT. from
Tie New York
ENeuinr Icie-
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

on Washington's
staff he served on the staff of Gen.
w. H. Harrison. Both were aids-de-
camp 70 n general who was afterwards
a president. John Church's military
career however. was OF short duration,
for, having been commissioned in March,
1914. he resigned in June of the same
year.
It may be expected that the family
falling would sleep through one or more
generations. 1t was not destined to lie
dormant in John c. Hamilton. A ter
rible scandal-fOr that day scarcely less
widespread than his grandson's today
was brought about by certain demonstra-
tions he made 20 ladies on the street
The papers Of that time were full Of it.,
and 50 mortified were his children that
one of his sons left New Yorl and went
70 Milwaukee 20 live.
John =. Hamilton spent a large por-
ton OF his life IN ejiting his fathers
papers He died in 1882 at the ago Of
90.
Johns son. Schuyler, was educated AZ
West Point, served on Gen. Scots staff
IN Mexico. went 70 tho front IN 1861 as a
private IN the New York Seventh, and
was transferred to the staff of Gen. But
Ter and afterwards 10 that Of Gen. Scott
Later he distinguished himself in the
army Of the west. and now lives in
honored retirement as Gen. Schuyler
Hamilton. lie wrote an interesting his
tory Of the American flag
ROBERT RAY.
When Schuyler Hamilton entered the
service in 1861. his son. Robert Raw. was
a child Of 10 years The boy grew up
to the knowledgs that he was born in
al aristocratic circle. and that he came
Of distinguished ancestry. His home
was ia New York city, where he would
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

T THE beginning
Of tho present
century Alexan-
der Hamilton and
Aaron Burr were
both cry con-
spicuous figures
before the Amer
ican people. At
that time observ-
ance of the code
ducuO was the
rule rather than
the exception, es-
pecially among
prominent men.
Most OF the men
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

NE of the sons of
1 Alexander Ham
Filton was J o h n
Church. lie was
educated at the
college where his
father at II had
h arangued d a
crowd of revolu-
tionists, and stud
led law. Then he
obtained a COM
mission in the
army, and as his
father had served
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

y a little town
called Colley,Pa.,
lived a country
girl of the name
of Eva Steele.
The characterize
les of her family
are worth noting.
She is the daugh-
ter OF William
Steele, bett T
known as "Oid
Bill Steele" a
wanderer from
place to place, at
all times living in
poverty, working
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20

UST at this point
II becomes Deces-
sary that the
reader S h ould
form the ac-
quaintance Of one
Joshua Nan II ,
W h o figures
prominently Ia
this narrative, as
well as a number
of other minor
characters. Some
g,+- -a.ru e1n
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2 Is tle drama
tlst rather than
The novelist 81
perhaps both
who should tll
the story from
tllls POINT hot
one who wrfn s
comedy ~ Ue'o
dFaula alone bat
tragcd 3
great hem e.
Is planned d
scheme involving
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20
u-neeTiNo = cvpRiAN.

The TascissiiaR 81 = Scion ss . Famoos
House by the Wicked Why Woman of
the STORY.
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20
VA WHY, WICKED WOMAN.

Eva's Career Before She Succeeded In En-
snaring Her NictiEn-Her AnteSedsnts
MOI Angelic.
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20
v-"DoTTY" AND HIS FRIENDS.

The Pusiilanimous Josh" Mann and his
Connection with Iva. the Wicked. WHY
Woman.
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20
u-THE BUaa-HAMILToN DUEL.

nurr Cool AID Collected and First on the
Crourd-Hamiiton shot Wide OF the
n-.r.-EIs Lrlth.
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-20
Ill-THREE GENERATIONS.

Descendants of Alexander Down to Rob-
ert Ray. the Victim of Willy. Wicked
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PRESIDENT HARRISON on tho Sd apnointed
Charles L. Knapp, OF New York, to be Con-
sul-General OF the United States at Mon
treal, and Alexander Reed, OF Wisconsin, to
be Consul at Dublin.
The marriage of Justice GRAY Of the
United States Supreme Court to Miss Jen-
MIC Matthews, daughter OF the late Justice
Stanley Matthews, took place on the after
noon of the 4th at the residence of tho
bride In Washington.
JOSEPH LABoRD, the oldest man in the
Northwest, died at St Paul on the 4th. aged
one hundred and six years He was born
in Point Lewis, Que
In joint session on the 5th ballot was
taken In the New Hampshire Legislature
for Governor, there having been no choic,
by the people. and David H. Goodell (Rep.)
was declared elected
NEBRASKA Prohibitionists met at Lincoln
on the 5th and organized State league,
and also arranged to establish local leagues
In every county in tho State
SECRETARY NOBLE on the 5th accepted tho
resignation OF John H. Oberly, Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, to take effect Julyl.
The Prohibitlonlsts OF Iowa met In State
convention at Cedar Rapids on the 9th and
made the following nominations: For Gov
ernor Malcolm Smith, Of Cedar Rapids;
Lieutenant-G Governor J. O. Murphy, OF
Jasper County; Supreme Judge-W A.
Mag1nnls OF Jackson County; Superintend-
ont Of Public Instruction-Mrs. G. A. Dun
ham, of Burlington; Railroad Commits
sioner-J. W. Noble, OF Ringgold County.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
WIPED OUT.

Fire Sweeps Away the Entire Business
District of tho City of Seattle. w. T.,
Causing Losses Aggrogatins S5,OO0,OOO.
TACOMA, W. T., June 7.--Dispatches re-
ceived here state that the business portion
of Seattle, the largest city in the Territory,
is in ashes.
Every bank, hotel and place of amuse-
mont all the leading business houses, all
newspaper offices and railroad depots and
miles OF steamboat wharves, coal bunkers,
freight warehouses and telegraph offices
We're burned
The fire began near the corner of Front
and Pearl streets in the Seattle candy
factory building at 3:3O p ~, and before
midnight had consumed the whole OF the
business section of the city northward to
Stetson & Posts mill, along Front and Sec
ond streets to the waterfront, involving q
loss OF over So, G00,000
The city is literally wiped out except the
residence portion on high ground At $50
o'clock p. IN. the flames had reached the
wharves, and the steamboats, and shipping
were compelled to head out into the
stream.
A stiff breeze was blowing from the
northwest when the fire began, and it soon
got the best OF the fire department. Water
supply &aVo ouo "lVlIlA tWO hours alter tno
fire began and then the flames had clean
sweep. Wordwas telegraphed here and a
train started with fire apparatus at 4:35 p.
M, reaching Seattle in sixty-three minutes,
a distance Of forty 1.-TWO miles
The ocean steamers Mexico, for San Tran
cisco, and Ancon, for Alaska, escaped de-
struct1on by pulling out into the harbor A
great deal OF property was saved only to be
burned up again, so quickly did the flames
spread
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
A Prominent Florida Politician Assaults
an Editor and Is Shot.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June IA long
standing feud between Captain J. W. Doug
lass, prominent Democratic politician of
Dayton, and j. II. Benjamin, editor of the
Deland News, had its outcome in the fatal
shooting at New Smyrna Wednesday night
Of Douglass by Benjamin. Angered
by an attack upon MIN which APP
peared recently in Benjamin's paper.
Douglass assaulted him, knocked him off
the pier into the marsh and jumped on
him. While he was holding Benjamin's
head under water Benjamin managed to
draw his revolver and shot his assailant
dead, the ball entering his heart There IS
much excitement
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
Losses by Fire and Flood.

BERLIN, June 1.-THE cotton mills TN
Otfenburg, Baden, were destroyed by fire
Thursday, involving a loss OF 33o, 600 marks.
Several women were killed
Disastrous floods are reported from differ
emit points in Bavaria with considerable de-
structiol4 of property The crops are ruined
In many sections.
LONDON, June "a tremendous thunder
storm passed over London Thursday. The
lightning was intensely vivid. Much prop
erty has been damaged and several cases Of
loss Of life are reported.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
Awful Result of a Fire in a Hotel at Stew.
ems Point. Wis.

STEVENS POINT, Wis, June G-The St
James HOTEL located near tho Wisconsin
Central depot, caught fire shortly after $
o'clock Wednesday evening and is total
loss, together with the entire contents, those
within having scarcely time to escepe with
their lives At this r,ting the
night clerk, Charles Oathall, and two
OF the girls, Maggie Reilly and Norwegian
girl known as Nettie, are missing, and
there is but little doubt that all three lost
their lives in the flames The two first
named were up ON the second floor when
the fire broke out, and came down, but
went back to secure their wearing Up,
parel
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
LATEST News

| ADF1CES o. the 1th say that the recent
| fire in Seattle, W. r.. caused loss OF STA
ooO,Co0, with not more than one-third cov-
erod by insurance. The entire business
portion of the city and part of the resi-
densc neighhorhood was destroyed, and
hundreds of people were homeless. \ NUM-
Der Of lives were reported lost The burned
district comprised sixty-four acres
! THERE were 235 business failures in tho
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 2l5 the previous seven
days.
TIE weather at Johnstown, Pa, on the
TIN was warm, and fears existed that out
breaks of disease would follow tho flood
Five cases Of dphtheria were reported, and
dysentery had made it's appearance in
some places. The work of recovering the
bodies was going on steadily.
| \ FIRE OH the TIN at Livingston, Ala de-
stroyod half Of the town.
| TIE western part Of Sedgwick County
and tho eastern part OF King:nan County,
in Kansas, were swept over by u cyclone on
the 18th and all the buildings in a space
| twenty miles long by five miles wide were
wrecked and the crops destroyed.
farmer named Rogers and all the members
| of his family were killed
A DISTINCT shock of earthquake was felt
in New Bedford, Muss., on the morning Of
the It'll.
JOHN FEAsrEn and Charles r. Calston
were hanged on the 18th at Charlotte, S. G.,
for the murder OF w. c. Abcrnethy, mer-
chant, in january last
The total appropriations Of the Illinois
Legislature for the next two years amount
to $780,, HS1.7S
THHEE men, G. L. Woods, George B. Lewis
and Fl. N. Gavin, were killed on the It'll ut
Hutchinson, Kan, by a boiler explosion
THE Herlich piano works at Paterson, N.
j., we're burned on the eth,
WHEN the will Of Mary J. Kennedy was
probated on tho 7th at Indiana POLLS, Ind,
it was found that the only ho;rs to hcr es-
tate were two sons who are both serving
life sentences in prison for murder.
ELEVEN business houses and offices in
Syracuse, Kan, were destroyed by fire on
the 7th
A SEARCH of the houses of two leading
Boulangists by the Paris police was said on
the 7th to have resulted In the discovery OF
papers which implicated Boulanger in all
international plot
COLONEL JOHN g. KELToN was on the 9TH
appointed Adjutant- General Of the Army to
succeed General Drum, retired.
THERE were some sensational episodes in
the DIR. Cronin inquest in Chicago on the
7th Three important witnesses were miss
ing, and could not be found by the COL
oners agents. Daniel Brown, a police
man, admitted that he was the man who
cited DIX. Cronin to trial for treason. Brown
was placed under restraint by the coroner,
who intimated that he was the man who
drove DR.. Cronin to his death on the night
Of May 4. Luke Dillon denounced Alex
ander Sullivan as the instigator of the
crime. .... ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12

There arc more than eighty National Gem
eteries In America, containing in all 3l5,-
SIS graves. OF these 133, 148 are The graves
Of unknown soldiers @A:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
FOREIGN.

VICTOR MACH1N, a notorious bandit was
hanged ON the LIST at Havana, Cuba
ONE OF the most furious rain-storlns ever
known deluged Cobourg and the town.
ships of Hamilton, Haldimand and Alnwick.
in Canada, on the I'd, destroying property
valued at over $500, OoO
AT a meeting of four hundred Panama
canal shareholders in Paris on the Sd it was
decided to send a commission to Panama
immediately to inspect the canal works.
The Ural silver miners in Russia who
were on strike set fire to the houses Of the
managers and to number OF factories at
Ekaterinburg on the Sd and seven persons
were burned to death. =.
J.. & II. TAYLOR, railway supply mer-
chants of Montreal, Can, failed on the 4th
for 100000.
HURRICANE and water-spout on the 4th
at Reichenbach, Germany, caused great
loss Of life and property.
The Derby-the greatest of all English
turf events-was run at EPSON Downs on
the 5th, and was won by tho Duke of Port
lands famous colt Donovan.
LETTERS received In London on the 9Th
from missionaries reported that the Nlahdst
fanatics had slaughtered thousands of ma
tive Christians in Western Abyssinia and
oOA~
CR1sToDAL FERNANDO, kidnaper, was
executed on the 5th at Joyellanos, Cuba.
Hon. j. HAMILTON GRAY, Justice of the
Supreme Court of British Columbia, died ut
his home in Victoria on the 5th.
WHILE nineteen men were crossing tho
river at Granville, Que, on the 9th the
boat capsized and five of them were
drowned
The town of Mons, Belgium, was ex-
cited on the 9th over the murder of the
Marchioness de Chasteler, an aged lady of
noble family, who was found slain in her
bed
WH1TELAw REID, the United States MIN
lister to France, announced on the 9th that
the fund being raised at the legation in
Paris for the relief OF the sufferers by tho
flood at Johnstown, Pa, amounted to
$10,C0o.
A FIRE on the 9th in tho village of Lii
bionsch, in Prussian Silesia, destroyed one
hundred and ninety-tive houses, including
the village church and vicarage
THE cotton mills in OHenburg, Baden,
were destroyed by fire on the 9Th, involving
a loss of 100000 marks. Several women
were ed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12

ADv1cEs of the 9th say that In steuben
County, N. Y, and adjacent to it between
twenty and twenty-five lives were lost and
about 81, 0O0, 900 worth ofproperty destroyed
In the recent flood, and in Eastern PENN
sylvania nearly 700 lives were known to
have been lost, and property to the amount
of SIC, COG, 900 was swept away.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-07
Dillon Is a Dandy.

Speaking of the young and ardent democrat who so gracefully trundled T. l.. Sanford around the green in payment of an election bet. and who is now an alderman, the New Haven News says: John H. Dillon of the Third has pair of flashing eyes, quick, snappy way of speaking and acting wears pretty black moustache, and will be the best looking man in the board. He comes to the City hall as a novice i'll municipal legislation. He was the hero of the Third ward at the city election. He headed band of democrats who were dissatisfied with the rule of Alderman McGann and Road Commissioner Sullivan, and was nomin- ated for alderman to run against Robert A. Hollinger. Everybody thought he was leading forlorn hope, but he spent $3o0 or $400, hired every hack and cab about the polls, twenty-two in all, en- gagged every man who would peddle his tickets and was elected before noon. The opposition gave up early in the fight, but he kept right on and was elected by 400 majority.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-07
LAST NIGHTS FIRE.

The Handsome Greenhouse of Charles
 Miller Reduced to Ashes-Another
 Strong Argument In Favor ofa Good
 Water supply.
 A singular feature of the fire which destroyed the greenhouse upon the pro perty recently purchased by Charles Miller from Mrs Charles Benedict, on Hillside avenue, which occurred at l0:3o o'clock last, night was that from the south and east sections of the city the | blaze appeared to be in the center and was so high that many thought the up per story of Browns block was on fire. The fire had gained considerable head, way before 1t was discovered and several minutes had elapsed before an alarm was rung from box 26 at the corner of Prospect and Grove streets. The diff ferent companies of the depart ment responded as promptly as the very unfavorable condition of the street would allow. A line of hose was quickly laid, but the water pressure was so light as to be practically useless until the steamer which was slow in ascending the steep hill. arrived The fire was quickly eX- tinguished after the arrival of the steamer. but not until the handsome conservatory and its contents were al most entirely destroyed. Mir Miller carried no insuranceiupon the green. house and his loss will not fall short ot S1 .OOO. The plants belonged to Mrs Benedict and are entirely ruined, the few that escaped the fire being killed by the smoke and water. Her loss will probably be $500. The origin of the fire is unknown but it probably started from the furnace with which the building | was heated