The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
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RANDALL IS NJ MORE.

| RANDALL Is NJ MOht.
= WASHINGTON, April 13.--Hop. Samuel
J. Randall died at o'clock this morning.
He had been unconscious all night. At
7:30 last evening sinking spell occurred,
and the watchers thought that death had
J come, but he fingered, with wonderful
- vitality, until the dawn of new day.
Samuel jackson Randall YVES bora IN
Philadelphia, Pa, October 10, 1928. He
Is was the son of a well known lawyer and |
Democratic politician in Philadelphia, was
educated as merchant, and after being |
four times elected to the city council and |
once TO the state senate, Was sent to con- |
gress, taking his seat December Z, 1868.
1 He has since represented, without inter
mission, the only Democratic district in
Philadelphia. He served on the COM
: | mittees on banking, rules and elections,
distinguished himself by his speeches
against the force bill In 1875, was can
dldate for speaker in the next year, and
was appointed chairman of the committee
on appropriations. He gained credit by
his success in curtaIliDg expenditures by
|. enforcing system of proportional reduct-
ion in the appropriations, and, on the
death of Michael G. Kerr, was elected
speaker. December 4, 1876. He was re-
elected speaker in the two following
congresses, serving in that capacity till
March 8, 1881. MIR. Randall has borne a
conspicuous part in the debates on the
tariff as the leader of the protcctonist
wing of the democratic party. His widow
Is daughter OF General Aaron Ward of
New York.
! At the beginning of the civil war, Mr. {
Randall entered the military service IN p
the Light Horse of Philadelphia. In 1868
he was among the troops advanced to
Harrisburg as the result of General Lees ,
invasion of northern territory. His rank {
was that of fcornet. When General Couch l
announced to Cornet Randall, command I
ing, that Governor Curtin would accept
the active services of his troop without
swearing its members, he said: 81 know
we can trust to the honor of the corps
without All OATH" In the summer of the q
same year Randall made brilliant recon. e
noissance, in which he captured several r
prisoners and established the presence of t
| the Confederates IN force between Cham t
bersburg and Williamsport. During the L
battle OF Gettysburg his rank was that of t
provost marshall of Columbia. v
| Randall's mother was a daughter of tt
James Worrel, Democratic leader in the II
| days of Jefferson, So that the ex-speaker Il
| may be said to have been traditionally as "
we'll as by conviction Democrat. He II
was ready, concise speaker, without
rhetorical affectations, ever an outspoken n
| advocate of judiciously adjusted pro-
| tectlve tariff, and never wavered from his
position except when monopoly and not >,
protection was the object sought to be :. :.
attained. The "free trade" papers were L
unanimous in their antagonsm to his can q e.
didacy for speaker of the Forty eighth T.
| congress and Carlisle was chosen. In the Il Il
carly part of 1885 Mr.. Randall made a y, VI
tour South and was received with much o
enthusiasm.l ~ ~
PHILADELPHIA IN MOURNING. h,
PHILADELPHIA, April 13.-News ofthe Is
death of Randall was received with sor- al
row by many friends in this city, although W
not at all unexpected. Flags were half c.
masted on many prominent buildings. er
Political gossip is already rife, that OF
there is likely to. be bitter struggle te
among the Democratic leaders of this CITY TO
for control of the convention which will
name RardalPs successor. The district
is Democratic, but the fight now in pros
pect may result in the election of Re- WI
publican. The only avowed candidate oV
yet is State Senator William McAley, who ro
has been fighting Randall's friends all his In
life. Half dozen candidates may be in TO
the field against him, however, as soon as co
the funeral is over, if not before. WI
HEno's DEATH. fo
SEATTLE, Wash, April 13-Mart Man
son and Sig johnson, two Swedes, while
unloading a barge of lumber on the ac
bank of the Duwamlsh river eight miles 10
from Seattle, this afternoon, were drowned, ca
and their bodies have not yet been re. ar,
covered. Manson fell into the water &C. sir
cidentally ,and johnson heroically plunged Sb
in to save him. The swift current car M
ricd both away from the barge, and they we
sank in full sight of dozen workmen. ho
Neither of the drowned men had been IN
this country very long, and were un- Mt
married. he
MRS. GRANTS MEMOIRS, by
NEW York, April 13.-Mrs. General Lo
Grant is at work upon volume of SIN
of her husband, which is prom Mi
ised for near publication, possibly in the mes
fall. Mrs. Grant has for some time had TIN
IN mind such work. Recently she be- wa
gun systematic overhauling of her apl
papers for the book. The work will not
contain, General Grants love letters, if 6
such are in existence. Mrs. Grant will "a.
not expose them to the public eye. .,S .,.,
There will be, of course, large number W., Mn
,onor.I 20 he ,,,f. .nd H. 80. E are
.es1;s.;o of ,ho,a III ~ - Il..".s 49, It'd
ou the battlefield, giving his impressions 1 Ii'
Of battles as they proceeded from day to oes nss
Jay. During the war General Grant WI WI
wrote almost daily to his wife. W.; WI
SAVE THEIR OWN BUILDING. ihi
RED BLUFF, CAL, April l3-The en- "o
CINE house of the fire department caught /
FIRE early this morning and was destroyed. Ian
1t was a small frame building. The FIRE wit
team was hitched to the engine and drawn IN
Dut while the flames were burning over wa
head. Sar
At 7:30 tonight fire took place again, nov
burning the residence of /. V. While, Gov
caused by tie explosion of gasoline pla
lamp, badly burning Wlbles 8 year old lar!
boy. 1t is thought he will recover. The las
mothers hands were badly burned trying Wei
to tear his clothes off. The loss to the thi:
building is $500; partly insured. to
ere
A"oiD''' A1 A'D iiiNA slo'
PASADENA, CAL, April 13-The body pro
Of Ernest Grim, contractor, was found a5c
this morning In Rubio canyon, northwest ma
Of tewr. Grim left here Friday, April 4, Y
10 hunt, aud as be did not return his friends oul
organized search for him for week fruit of
essly till this morning, when they found bay
.he BODY lying on its back with outstretch- rea
ID arms, gunshot wound in the neck. the
[t is believed the shooting was accidental, ven
IS he had two dead rabbits, the remains as
If which laid under him. The gun lay cat,
,ear at hand. The body was much de- the
and the face bIoated beyond the
DOE
GENERAL. MIL Es's SUCCESSOR. mel
SAN FRANCISCO, April "a General siLe
Miles will arrive heie about the 23d inst, III
rom Washington. Should General Miles the
,e transferred either TO New York or wh'
Chicago, the choice of his successor as out
of this division will inquest. nat
onably rest between General Stanley, now Inc
It San Antonio. Tex, and General Glbbon, ma
low at Vancouver barracks, Wash. pos
tioI
f'oND ten
SAN FRANCISCO, April ia. Victors, and