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, 1890-02-23

New YORK. Feb. 22--The latest base
ball story comes tonight in the form of a
report that a syndicate. through the law
firm of Tracy. Twins, Boardman &
Platt. have offered 81. 900. 900 for the
franchise Of the National Baseball league,
which embodies ten clubs. This is rating
the clubs,at 500, 900 each and would
seem to place the league leaders in a pecu-
liar position, in the light of the statement
made frequently concerning their small
profits. The law firm in question refuse
to disclose the names of the syndicate
people, while Mt. Day of the New York
ball club refused to talk on the matter.
, 1890-02-23

PREscoTT. Ariz., Feb, 22.-The fine
large storage dam built across the HASA
yampa river bv the Walnut Grove Water
Storage company two years ago at . cost
of $300. 900 gave way this morning under
the great pressure of a heavy food and
swept everything before it. Forty per
sons are known to have lost their lives.
As the town of Wickenburg, thirty miles
below the dam. was on the same stream,
great fears are entertained for the safety
of that town. but as there is no tele
graphic communication no news can be
obtained of i0 fate until to.morrow at
least. The Service Dam company was
located fifteen miles below the reservoirs
and had fifteen miles Of aume Just ap-
preaching completion. 1t was also swept
away. The company has spent over
$500. 900 on the enterprise of steering
water from the reservoir. Hydraulic min
ing machinery had arrived and they ex-
pected TO commence operations ncxt week.
The dam which held the waters back was
ITO feet long at the base and 400 feet at
the top, was ITO feet thick ut the base
and 10 feet deep. Lieut.. Brodie, in
charge of the work, "a ahsent 1t Phoenix
superintsndinR Tie shipping Of machinery
to the works, I'D ~ saTsd. OF those
known to Be drowned wers ]. Hsines,
wife and four children, H. Boone and
daughter. John Silby, Joseph Reynolds.
Mrs MCCARTHY and D. McMillcn.
, 1890-02-23

Rev. f. NJ. Shrout, pastor United
Brethren church, Blue Mound. Kan,
says: II feel it my duty to tell what won
ders DIR. Kings New Discovery has done
for me. My lungs were badly diseased.
and my pensioners thought l could live
only a few weeks. | took five bottles of
DR.. Kings New Discovery and am sound
and well, gaining 26 lbs. in weight"
Arthur Love. manager Of loves Funny
Folks Combination, writes: After a
thorough trial and convincing evidence, I
am confident DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. beats EN- all and cures
when everything else fails. The greatest
kindness | can do my many Thousand
friends is to urge them to try it." Free
trial bottles at B. B. David's drug store.
Regular sizes SOC. and $1.00.
, 1890-02-23

LONDON, Feb. 22.-Further details Of
the outrage in the political prison at Kara
reached the Russian exiles in London to
day. 1t appears the trouble originated in
a hunger strike in August, when the
women political prisoners tried to starye
themselves to escape the brutalities of
their ~jailors. All the women imprisoned
abstained from food for fourteen hours.
AT first the i~ailers ieered at the women
and tempted them with food, and finding
this Of no avail threatened them. When
several women were at the point of death
from the voluntary abstinence from food
the officers resorted to artificial means to
compel them to take nourishmeut. The
methods adopted. however, were violent
and licentious and the were com.
PEELED to abandon the strike. Abomina
Bile outrages followed.
This state of affairs led Madame Sepida.
whose death by f~1egging has already been
announced, to ask for an interview with
the director Of the prison In the hope of
securing an amelioration of the condition
of the prisoners. The request was granted
but she found him so abusive that in her
evaporation she called him a william and
slapped his face. Madame Segida was
her taken from the directors Office and
conveyed to the prison in which common
offenders are confined. Three of her
companions from among the political pri-
sons were permitted to join her.
Some time later Baron Korof sent a
special order directing that Madame
Segida be punished according to regula-
tions. and the order of the executive was
carried out to the fullest extent. The
punishment was SO severe that death en-
sued from rupture of the heart. Her
three companions committed suicide
within an hour after hearing of Segida's
death. Many others on hearing Of the
hogging and suicides carried out their
threats of suicide. They met together
and thirty Of them shared what poison
they could obtain. That evening two of
them died. Their commissions and the
dead silence which reigned in the other
cells aroused the attention of the guards,
who immediately summoned physicians
who administered cmetics to the survivors
and underworld by every means to coun-
teract the effect OF the poison.
, 1890-02-23

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22.-The Western
Wdtchman, a prominent Catholic weekly
journal of this city, prints to day a letter
from its Rome correspondent in which he
says the congregation of the universal in
QUESTION has issued a decree signed by
Cardinal Monaco and published in the
official organ of the vatican abolishing the
Lenten last aud abstinence this year.
This is extended to the whole world, the
letter says. wherever the %ordinaries shall
Judge the di~spensation necessary. The
reason for setting aside the Lenten obi
cation, it is claimed, is the prevailing in
huenza. which is making such ravages in
all parts Of Europe and is thought to be
prevalent in the United States. This de-
cree, it is said. will be quite a surprise to
Roman Catholics. as it is stated to be the
first one of the kind ever issued in the
history Of the church.
, 1890-02-23

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Senator Stan
ford this morning received the following
from the general manager of the Central
Pacific railroad:
SAN Francisco. Feb. 22.-Tho last
passenger train but one that went up the
mountain on the Central Pacific required
eighteen Of our most powerful locomotives
and a push pillow to get them over, and
ever with this power it got stalled near
Emigrant Gap. This is the last trip
possible to make with the push pillow.
After that they had to depend on power
plows to throw the snow out of the deep
cuts. If the storm continues twenty
four hours longer it will be impossible to
keep the lins open with any power"
, 1890-02-23

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.-The initial
steps towards the erection Of = memorial
to perpetuate the memory Of the events
leading to the formation of the United
States government were taken in this
city to day with the corporation of .
large representative gathering OF con-
gressmen and state authorities The
gathering vas : notable one, including
nearly . full representation from the thir-
teen original strtes and scattering repre-
sentatives from others. The meeting va
held under the auspices of the executive
committee OF governors appointed BY the
thirteen original states. The gathering
assembled in the Continental hotel this
morning and vas presided over by Gov
ernor Green of New jersey.
After an address of welcome and re-
plies the patty visited Carpenters hall.
whore the first continental congress sat
aud where the early framework of the
constitution was adopted. They next
visited Independence hall. the old cradle
of liberty. Tho visitors then proceeded
up stairs to the common council chamber,
where Governor Green called for order
and named Gen. Banks for chairman.
Addresses we're made by Governor Briggs
Of Delaware. Congressman Carter of
Montana. Congressman C,unie of Cali
fornia, and Others in-support Of the pro-
looted memorial. Upon the conclusion
of Clunie's address the meeting adjourned
and the visitors returned to the hotel for
luncheon At 2 O'Clock carriages were
taken At the hotel and the visitors driven
through Fairmount park to examine sites
for the proposed memorial.
, 1890-02-23

CHICAGO, Feb. %. -Advices to the
Associated Press show that Washing
tons birthday was very generally ccle
brated in Now York and Brooklyn. Bust
ness was suspended and parades occurred.
In PittsburR 5000 men participated in
the parade of the Order Of American
Mechsnica in commermoation of Wash.
ington's birthday.
In Chicago, patriotic exercises, at
tended by thousands Of school children,
were held in Central Music Hall and She
great auditorium building. and the militia
regiments paraded.
, 1890-02-23
A SOCIAL CINcH.
The Popular Movement in
Germany Gaining Ground.
Men From the People Defeat
Capitalists and Scientists.
The Story Of Russian Out
RACES Still Unfolding.
The German Election.


Copyrighted 1890 by the N. Y. Ass'd Press
BERLIN, Feb. 22.-Last night an in
dependent and entirely reliable authority
gave figures showing that the Socialists
had actually twenty members and good
prospects to capture thirty more seats on
the second ballot. The opposition in the
reichstag will involve almost revolution
airy notifications. The most sanguine
cartellers do not expect that the second
ballots will make such a change in the re-
suit as will seriously modify their defeat.
The supreme question is, how far will the
Socialist success ultimately go
Thursday their total record Of votes
reached nearly l.500,0 600 against 77i,000
in 1887. No combination OF their OPP
ponents seems likely to head them off on
the second ballot, and there is a prospect
of seeing t~hirty-6ve to forty Socialists
seated on the next reichstag against
eleven in the last.
Another result suggestive of the growth
OF the popular movement is the reap
pearance Of the Volks Porter or Demo
held eleven seats. Taking the whole re-
ceAe eokcehSA - ~ bSeuuo IL &Stusi Icoult6s
and as it is likely to stand after the de-
cision of the second ballot, the prospect il
the opposition will have 224 in the house
against 173 for the government groups.
This opposition will be made up as fol-
lows: Centrists or ultra Monies, 10;
German Liberals, OF Liberals. properly
speaking. As; Socialists, 81; Volks Por-
ter or Democrats, 7; Poles, IL; Alsatians,
II; Guelphs, IL. This is a very hetero.
geneous opposition, held together by no
devotion to a common purpose. but by
the negative tie of objection. Yet it is
bound to give the government some
lively tidings.
One of the incidents of the contest is
the defeat of Prof. Virchow, the famous
and popular man OF science and a distin-
guished Liberal. by Jannescwski. a poor
journeyman bookbinder and Pole. Herr
Wortann, Bismarck's friend. the great
Hamburg ship owRer and candidate Of
the National Liberals, is defeated by
Dietx, . Socialist. This astonished the
Socialists themselves. Hamburg is now
entirely in their hands.
Tha oppsnitisa- PREF comments freely
upon the fact that after twelve years
operation of the law tor the suppression
of the Socialists. the great populous cen
tiers of the country have become hot beds
OF Socialism. 1t is argued that since the
law expires In September next the govern.
ment must abandon the attempt to re-
press this movement by legislation or dis.
solve the reichstag and appeal to the ma
ton on this special issue.
, 1890-02-23

OMAHA, Feb. 22.-There was an
explosion in the Armour Cudahy
Packing company at South Omaha
this morning in the boiler room, the out
side boiler Of a battery of nine, burs ting
from a cause unknown. 1t tore a great
hole in the walls of the machinery depart
ment adjoining. About twenty-five men
were buried in the debris. The city fire
department was summoned and together
with the employees Of the establishment
soon quelled the flames and rescued the
unfortunates. Three men were killed and
seven badly injured, some of whom will
probably die. The killed are: John
Tiqhe, Hans Olson and John Linahan,
all firemen. The seriously injured are:
Edward Maskell. James Mcclure.
Michael Haylehan. James Black. Al
Hardy. Samuel Gibson and j. Il. Sheri-
dan. All these men suffered badly from
cuts. bruises and fractured bones and were
scalded by escaping steam. 1t is likely
three and perhaps four Of them will die.
All the other men caught in the debris
were taken out practically unhurt.
, 1890-02-23
MILLIONAIRE AsIoR.
Heart Failure Causes Him to
Climb the Golden Stairs.
Negotiating for the Sale of the
Chicago Stock Yards.
Fasting Abolished
Throughout the World.

New York. Feb. 22,-John Jacob
Astor died this morning OF heart failure.
Astor complained yesterday morning OF
feeling unwell, but in the evening he
went out to dinner. Soon after his re-
turn he became SO i'll the family sent for
DR.. Fordyce Barker. When b, reached
Astor's residence he found his patient
already dying. with hardly any pulse per-
ceptible. Astor continued to sink slowly
until 4 O'Clock this morning. when he
died. There were present at the death
bed William Waldorf Astor and a couple
of other relatives.
John Jacob Astor was the eldest son OF
the late William Astor and a grandson of
the original John Jacob Astor, who
founded the fortunes OF the family. He
was the head Of the third generation of
the Astor family. He was born sixty
i've years ago.. In 1875 his father died,
leaving John Jacob a two-thirds' share
Of his estate, valued at $500. 900. 900.
During the civil war Astor went to the
front and served with credit as aide-de-
camp to Gen. Mcclellan. He is sue
ceeded by an only son, William Waldorf
Aston, who was minister to Italy some
years ago.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
Trinity chapel. Thus passes away per-
haps the richest man Of America-cer-
tainly the head of the wealthiest family
in this country. The benefactions Of
Aston and his wife. who died two years
ago, were many and great.
, 1890-02-23

PENDLEroN. Oxn., Feb 22.-The two
Montspa senators. Paberry and Redd,
who have been here for some time. left
this afternoon for WaIlula Junction,
where they expect tu JOIN the other four,
who have been in Portland. The sena-
tors expect to return at once to Mon
tana-
Advices from Wood River state that
cattle and horse are dying in large num-
bers in that section. Many bands will be
wiped out entirely unless a thaw comes
, 1890-02-23

One of the shining lights of astronom-
ical science has this to say in regard to
the color of the sun:
1t may be asked: "What suggests the
idea that the SUI is blue?' My own at
tention was directed this way many
years ago., when measuring the heat and
light from different parts of the suns
disk. 1t is known hat the sun has an
atmosphere of its own, which tempers
its heat, and, by cutting off certain radi-
atoms and not others, produces the spec
trail lines with which we are SO familiar.
These lines we usually study in connec
ton with the absorbing vapors of sodi-
um, iron, etc., which produce them; but
my own attention was particularly given
to the regions of absorption, or to the
color it caused.
In these investigations l found that the
SUMS body must be of a deep blush
color, and that it would shed deep blue
light, except for the solar atmosphere,
which is usually spoken of as being color
less, but which really plays the part of a
reddish veil, letting a little of the blue
appear on the center of the suns disk,
where it is the thinnest, and staining the
eeso Aeu' 81 10 W appear 70 u ueIicate
test as being a pale aqua marine in the
center and a deep garnet around the edge.
The effect l found to be SO important
that, were this all but invisible solar at
mosphere diminished only by a third
part, the temperature of all temperate
zones would rise higher than any torrid
zone and make the greater part of the
world uninhabitable.
These studies directed my attention to
the great practical Importance of study
ing the action Of our own terrestrial at
mosphere on the sun, and the antecedent
probability that our own air was also,
n independently having the effect of
making a really blue sunshine and sun
appear as white when it should be of a
cerulean hue.-St. Louis Republic.
, 1890-02-23

CHICAGO. Feb. % "A morning paper
says the Union stock yards of Chicago is
under negotiation to be sold to an Eng
lish syndicate. The price for the en-
ormous plant Is $50. 900. 900.
Treasurer Williams OF the company
says there is no truth in the report.
Mr.. McMullin, of the Alton road and
one of the stockholders of the Union
Yards company. said this evening he be-
lieved the statement that negotiations
for the purchase of the yards by an Eng
liah syndicate are pending is correct. He
understands the price is 800, 900. 600, in
stead of $50, 900. 900.
President Sherman of the stock yards
company admitted Il night that the deal
might be negotiated BY the Eastern stock
holders without his knowledge. but had
no definite information.
, 1890-02-23
Dried the Dynamite.

PI1TsBURG, Feb. CIV. M. Crock of
A~damsburg, . village six miles west Of
here, took home this afternoon a stick of
and placed it in the stove to
occurred, wrecking the house. A piece
W. Stemely, killing him instantly.
Flying missiles struck Crock and his wife
and child, who we're in the room and they
were fatally hurt
, 1890-02-23
The Hawaiian Election.

SAN Francisco, Feb. 22.-The steamer
Australia. which arrived from Honolulu
this morning. brings almost complete re-
turns Of the election Of mobiles and repre-
sentatives held in the Hawaiian kingdom
Feb. 5. The returns Indicate that the
reform party will have a small majority in
the next Legislature.
, 1890-02-23
New Cola Discovery in Montana.

ST. PAUL, Feb. pa letter received
here from Montana says the north half Of
that state is excited over the unexpected
discoveries Of placer gold mines. quartz
and silver and lead galena in the mountain
spurs and bills OF the great reservation
IS well As in the belt mountain. One mill
near Maiden is Gushing enough rock
with . twenty stamp mill TO turn out
every month 800. 900 in bullion. A
projected railway extension from Great
Falls will. it 10 believed. hasten develop
ment in that section into o Of the
richest mineral belts in America The
state mining inspector says that over IL,
600 mining claims have been located IN
Montana under the mining laws.
, 1890-02-23

ELLSWORTH, Me-. Feb. 22.-The rev
cutter Dallas yesterday took q life
saving crew to the wreck of the British
schooner Glenn. on Little Duck island,
and took Of some of the crew of the
schooner. who had suffered terribly from
exposure. Four men left the schooner
before the cutter arrived and it is feared
they have been lost.
, 1890-02-23
The southern s~ociety,s Dinner.


NEW York. Feb. 22.-The fourth an.
nual dinner of the New York Southern
Society to night was largely attended.
President Calhoun in his address referred
to the loss the South had sustained in the
death of Davis and Grady snd concluded:
Let rs seek to win the adAiration OF the
people of the North By our devotion 10
the Union and intense love Of every Sec
ton of our common country"
was ( President Cleveland, who re-
sponded to the toast, THE Birthday Of
George Washington" In introducing
him Mr.. Calhoun spoke briefly of Mr..
C~leveland's political career, saying in con
c~lusion: Since the expiration of his
term he has lived among us the most I'M
assuming of citizens, but bearing with
him constantly in the incoming and out
going of his daily life the respect and con-
tidence and love OF the people over whom
he presided in a manner and to an OK tent
never equalled since the days of Wash
ington."
When Mr.. Cleveland rose he was
greeted with great applause.
John Temple Gravis OF Rome, Ca,
made an eloquent address in which he
said the problems of our government will
be solved when the people learn to throb
with fervor at the sight of the flag and to
shout with patriotism at the sound of the
D itionsl air. The war, he said, was in
evitable, but both the South and the
North are better for it. and the Union is
mightier in every way.
, 1890-02-23
The Billiard Tournament.

New YORK, Feb. 22.-The fourth
game OF the billiard tournament WINS
played to night between Jacob Schaefer
and Frank G. Ives. Schaefer was handi-
capped with a fourteen inch balk line
against the eight inch of his opponent.
The former won by a score of 500 to 200.
Averages-Sohaefer &c 3 10. Ives
IL OH
, 1890-02-23
Myers & Foster, 3O7 Sixteenth strecI

Myers 4 Foster, 3O7 Sixteenth street,
successors to John Myers, proprietors of
the Wyoming shoe store and shoe shop,
have put on two more GOOD men and are
nov able to turn out any number of boots
and shoes to order. Repairing OF all
kinds. good leather and good work at
moderate prices.
, 1890-02-23
SHARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Gilbert Lowe, colored. was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala. yesterday for the
murder of j. W. Meadows, white.
A Trenton. Mo-. Jury yesterday ad-
Judged the SpikardsviIle crusaders guilty
and fixed a fine of IS. 90 and costs In each
case.
Gen. Caste will be tried BY court mar
tlal for attacking FreYcinet, minister Of
France.
Rev. Henry Duncan, a white minister
OF the Free Will Baptist denomination.
was hanged at Ozark, Ala yesterday for
poisoning his wife.
The Congo Free State has empowered
the Brussels Anti. Slavery society to send
an expedition to Africa to aid in sup
pressing the slave trade.
A boiler exploded yesterday in the saw
mill OF James Hunter at Ruther Glenn.
Va, thirty miles from Richmond, killing
three people and wounding six.
The French cabinet has decided to Sc.
aside the sentence of two years imprison-
ment imposed on the Duo d'Orleans and
have him escorted to.the frontier.
In the Ontario legislature yesterday
~ RuoWot iutiOuucCQ u jill t4ltuQ-
ing to the Jews in the province all the
rights and privileges enjoyed by other re-
ligious organizations
The jury in the Cronin jury bribing
case has brought in a verdict finding the
only remaining defendant on trial, Jere-
miah O'Donnell, guilty and fixing his
punishment at three years in the peniten
tiary.
A team drawing a carriage at Elizabeth,
N. j., containing three ladies', ran away
last evening. and the ladies becoming
frightened jumped out. Miss Mary 4.
Tyler was killed, Miss Carrie K. Tyler so
badly hurt she died soon after, and Ella
Tyler horribly injured.
Three lady students at the state normal
school at Oshkosh, Wis, Mary Carney,
Sarah Carney and Miss Burns. started
for church Sunday morning and have not
been seen since. 1t is feared they at
tempted to cross Lake W~innebago ia
their homes, broke through the ice and
persisted.
The returns thus far from the elections
for the German reichstag shows the cleo
ton Of twenty-seven Conservatives. thir-
teen National Liberals, sixty-six Ultra
m%ontanes, twelve Liberals. three Poles.
one Independent Liberal, ten Alsatians.
three Democrats. one Dane. In the 104
other districts second ballots will be nee
essary.
, 1890-02-23

Wehare The prettesf ard
BEST yfMe of cWS,p(fs ~ the
city. .aleH TSss-sbssll y Co.
, 1890-02-23

The Judiciary committee in the senate
has decided not to report the bill giving
Wyoming an additional associate justice
on The ground that the territory will BOOT
become = state. This bill had already re-
csived . favorable report from the house
committee. JAS. G. Moody.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-10-31
To the Editor ofthe Herald:

One year ago the teachers of the
State of Vermont supposed that the
old school law had died q natural
death and that the last dirge had
been sung. But there seem to be
some of the chosen fe,o who cherish
such kindly feeling towards the
deceased that they, instead of al.
lowing the remains to rest in peace
and erect over them a tablet COM
memorating their virtues, have seen
fit to disinter the dry bones, throw
around them a loose wrapper for
looks, displaying conspicuously a
placard with the word "retrench-
pent" placed thereon and are now
trying to palm this ungainly mons
frosty upon the public as a. new
and genuine article. But the mask
Is too transparent. have not been
able 10 learn the entire scope OF
House Bill SO relative to schools,
but from newspaper clippings, l un
derstand that county supervisors