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BURNED IN BED.

Twenty-SIx Boys, Inmates Of Pau
per's School In London, Suffer a
Horrible Death.
LONDON, Special.-The boys section
of the paupers' school, in the district of
Forest Gate, in connection with the White
chapel and Poplar unions, took fire last
night while the inmates were asleep and
was burned, with terrible results, twenty
six of the boys who were in the upper
stories being suffocated before they could
be rescued. Fifty-eight ether boys were
safely taken from the burning building
amid terrible excitement. Two of the
matrons of the institution escaped in safety
by sliding down the water pipes. Several
of the boys escaped in the same way. The
superintendent of the school repeatedly
rushed through the flames and brought out
number of inmates. There were 600 per-
sons in the institution. The bodies of those
who were suffocated were carried to the
main hall of the building which was still
profusely decorated with Christmas gifts.
The fire was caused by an overheated stove.
The female department, in which were $50
girls, was not touched. The boys retired
last evening in the highest of spirits, having
been promised presents and New Years
fete to-day.
HERoIsM DISPLAYED.
Thousands of persons, impelled by curl
osity, have visited the scene of the fire to-
day, and the police and attendants were
kept busy in their endeavors to retain sufa-
cient clear space wherein necessary work
might be done. The school was filled with
boys who had been committed to its care
because of their incorrigible habits, and
altogeter the inmates were of a char
acter from which little discipline or
obedience might be expected in moments
when both were imperiously demanded.
AS rule, however, the boys yielded readily
to the directions of their superiors, and to
this fact is due the safety of scores who
otherwise would have perished. OF the
twenty-six who lost their lives only two
were burned to death, the others having
been suffocated in their beds. Many of the
latter were aroused with the rest, but be-
came stupeied and crawled back to their
cots to die. The hero of the occasion was
boy who acted in the capacity of monitor
in the fatal ward, himself boy whose
vicious habits had made him an inmate of
the institution. Through his efforts many
boys were literally driven from the build
ing, and he ceased his work of rescuing his
fellows only when he was himself driven
out by the flames. Several of his compan-
ions he dragged, unconscious, out of the
windows, while others he carried into the
air in his arms.
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the objection to the admission of Idaho
which has been put forward, that the con-
stitution was not strong enough to crush
out Mormonism. Bishop Bulge is con-
fessed four-ply polygamist, and has long
been under indictment. His action to-day
will only delay the report of the bill for
week, think" The house committee on
territories has not yet taken up the Idaho
and Wyoming bills. Delegate Dubois
thinks the committee will be divided on
party lines when the report is finally made
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LOOKS THREATENING.
Salisbury Demands Prompt Salts
faction OF Portugal.

SALISBURY demands Prompt Salts
faction OF Portugal.
LONDON, Specialize Times Lisbon cor
respondent says another note from the mar
quis of Salisbury was delivered to-day. 1t
is believed that this note threatens that un-
less prompt satisfaction is given for
Serpa Pinto's action there will be
an immediate rupture of diplomatic
relations. The senate was Immediately
convened and Senior Comes was charged
to answer at once. The Portuguese claims
and pretenses were ignored somewhat cav
alierly in the marquis of Salisbury's former
note. A dispatch from Kiei to the Standard
says that the Portuguese government has
employed German engineers to lay tor
pedo mine in the Tagus in view of possible
action by the British feet.
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ANXIOUS TO DIE.
Successful Second Attempt Of IA
MilWaukeean at Ashland,

ASHLAND, Wis, Special Telegram,
Charles A. Schwamb, well known
real estate dealer of Milwaukee. who at
tempted suicide here Sunday night by cut
ting the arteries of his wrist made a second
and successful attempt at self-destruction at
an early hour this morning. He has been
at st. Josephs hospital since he was found
on the street Sunday night in half-dead
condition. At the coroner's inquest to-day
the hospital was exonerated from all blame,
and the fact was established that the de-
ceased came to his death through poison ad-
ministerd by his own hands while tenn
porarily insane. Schwamb wasrecently ar
rested in Milwaukee on civil suit for the
alleged missappropriation of money given
to him by an old couple to pay up o
mortgage on some property. He gave
bonds and was released, and it is thought
the matter so preyed upon his mind that
he became insane. Schwamb's relatives in
Milwaukee have been notified and the re-
mains will probably be taken tb~
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IN NGENERAI.

County Attorney Terhune OF Chicago has
begun mandamus proceedings against ex-
County Attorney Bliss for the recovery of
"the office files in the Doodle cases. against
certain contractors.
Quo warranto proceedings have been COM
menced in the state supreme court against
the Nebraska Distilling Company ofNebraska
City to enforce the forfeiture of it's charter
and property for violation of the antitrust
law
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in the practice Of law. In the winter he
moved to Virginia City. Here he prosecuted
and secured the conviction and execution
of the notorious murderer, George Ives. In
1866 he visited Washington City to rep
resent the claims of the miners. In 1866 he
missioner TO take such steps as were neces-
sary towards holding a constitutional con-
vention in 1869. He was elected a member
of the legislature in 1872, 1874, 1879 and 1873,
and was nominated for delegate to congress
in 1864, 1867, 1880 and 1886.
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THE MARKETS.
The Current Prices In the More
Prominent Markets.

NEW YORK.
Wheat-No. 2 red, 65A@S51ac:; elevator
S6A@S7c.; steamer No. 2 red, 53c.; No.
northern, 92A@93c.; No. 1 hard, 961s@96Ac
Corn-No. 2, 421ac.; elevator, 43asc.; ahoat;
No. 2 white, 43s4c.;No 3, 39A@4oc. Oats
do, 30@35c.; No. 2 Chicago 80 @30Ac. Eggs
Western 221a@23G. Butttr-Elgin, 29c;
Western dairy, 9@16c.; do factory, 701Sc.
CHICAGO.
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
77Mc. No. 8 spring wheat. e7@6SIsc; No.
red, 777sc; No. 2 corn, 33c; No. oars, 20Ac;
No. 2 rye, 451ac; No. 2 barley, $4,000; No.
1 fax seed, $1.36@1. .36A; prime timothy
seed, 81 .22; mess pork, per Dbl. $S.7509:25;
lard, per 100 lbs, $5.s71a. Butter-unchanged'
Eggs-2O@21c.
MINNEAPOLIS.
Wheat-No. 1, hard s2c; No. /, Northern
7S@9oc; No. 2, Northern, 72@76c. Flour.
Patents, sacks to local dealers. $475@4.s so;
in barrels, S4.5o@4. 20; delivered at New
England points, IS. .So@5.40; New York
| points, $5. 2o@5 80: delivered at Philadel-
phia and Baltimore, ,$5. 15@5 .25; bakers here,
$3.25@3.6 superfne $1.7o@2 .25; red dog,
sacks, $1.10@1.25; red dog, barrels, 1880
1.5o. Corn-No. 8, 27hc; choice yellow;
HCT2Cs OnlD-'OL EhAAP APiOpJ 1OS@ATzC D0IAoJ
-25@45c. Flax-$1. 30h Chicago $1.86K.
ST. PAUL.
Prices on incoming trains only: Wheat
! No. l hard, 7S@79c.: No. ! Northern, 76@
| TIC; No. 2 Northern, 73@75c. Corp-No. .,
| 25@29c Oats-No. 2 mixed, 1912c. bid;
No white, 2115@2215c; August, 21c bid;
January, 2115c bid No. 3, 19@21c. Barley
No. 2, 45@50c bid; No. B, 3S@42c bid
| Rye-No. 2, 32c bid. Ground feed $10.50Q
| II. so asked. Corn msal-URboltsd, $11 so
asked Shorts-$7@7.75. Bran-hulk, SO
@6.50. Hay-No. upland prairie. %. 250
q; No. /. $5@6. Dressed hogs-$3 1904
%6,60. Flax ssed-No. l, $1.30M. Butter
VI <tFa creamery. 20@22c; extra dairy, 10
01eo. uaedium, 10@15c; roll and print fresh
g21%d1b>% Ole, ,S@12c; packing stock, ,5O6c;
grease, ,3@5C.
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ToIMPRoVE NAVIGATION.
Money asked for the Soo.CanaI ant
the Hay Lake Channel.

the Hay Lake Channel.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram,
Senator Davis to-day introduced bill for
the improvement of the locks at Sault Ste.
Marie and the Hay lake channel. He pro-
poses to make a showing of the needs of the
proposed improvement which is bound to
be heard in the legislature this season. For
this purpose he asked that the bill lie on
the table until Thursday at the close of bus
iness, at which time he gave notice that he
desired to be heard on the subject matter OF
the bill. He asks in the bill an appropria-
ton of $3,73s, 1866 for the locks al the 500
and $1,6S4, Lis for the Hay lake channel.
These amounts are the, estimates by the
government engineers of what will be nee
essary to complete the work. Senator Davis
has devoted good deal of time to the study
of the situation at the 500, and bis speech
on Thursday next is expected to bring the
matter to the attention of the senate in an
exhaustive manner.
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NEWS BREVII'IES.
The Latest Telegraphic News
Culled from Associated
Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

1t is said that the president has finally de-
cided to adopt Secretary Windom's recon-
mendation that the government shall accept
silver bullion and issue certificates therefor at
the market rate the certificates to serve as
currency; and that the president will soon
send a message to congress on the subject.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-16
WHAT is A GENTLEMAN

What is a gentleman: Is it thing
Decked with a scarf-pin. chain and ring
Dressed in a suit Of Immaculate style,
Sporting an eye-glass, lisp and a smile;
Talking OF races. OF concerts and balls,
Evening assemblies. and afternoon calls,
Summing himself at Eat homes and bazars,
Whistling mazurkas, and smoking cigars?
What is a gentleman? Say, is il one
Boosting Of conquests and deeds he has dOnef
One who unblushingly glories 20 speak
Things which should call up flush 10 his cheek
One, who, while railing at actions unjust,
Robs some young heart Of its pureness and
trust
Scorns TO steal money, or jewels or wealth,
Thinks it no wrong TO take honor by STEALTH
What IS q gentleman: + il not one
Knowing instinctiyely what he should shun,
Speaking no word that could iniure or pain,
Spreading no scandal, and deep'ning no stain
One who knows how TO put eacn at his ease,
Striving successfully always 10 please
One who can tell by a glance II your cheek
When TO be silent and when he should speak?
What is a gentleman? Is ii not one
Honestly eating the bread he has won,
Walking in tprightness, fearing his God,
Leaving no stain on the path he has trod;
Caring not whether his coat may be old,
Prizing atrSerity far above gold,
Rocking not whether his hand may be hard
Stretching il boldly to grasp its reward:
What Is a gentleman! Say, IS it birth
Makes a man noble or adds TO his worth!
Is there a family tree to be had
Shady enough TO conceal what Is badE
Seek out the man who has God for his guide,
Nothing TO tremble at, nothing TO hide,
BE ne 4 noble, or be he in trade,
He Is the gentleman Nature has made.
The Pilot.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-16
LESuP,S RACE RIOT.
AtroeIous Crimes That Should be In
vestigated by the Government.

Atrocious Crimes That Should be In
vestigated by the Government.
The accounts of the so-called race
riot" at Jesup, Ga, do not read very
differently from other affairs of the kind
that have happened in the South in re-
cent years. All the leading features
are the same. The creation of trouble"
by some unfortunate black, who was
probably the last citizen in town to wish
to give trouble; the gathering and
arming of the whites to resist an sat
tack' that is not even contemplated;
then the movement and assault upon
the negroes, who are chased with bull
lets and blows to the swamps, there to
be shot down as fast as they can be
found, or if they attempt to emerge
from their hiding-places; few stray
Cling shots from the hunted quarry,
which haply strike down a couple OF
the pursuers; then wholesale ven
geance, slaughter and punishment
these are the points of the race riot
that continues to remain an institution
existing only in the Southern States.
The question naturally arises: II the
DISPATCHES sent to Northern newspapers,
one-sided as they are, convey the slight
est idea of the atrocities visited on the
negroes, what sort of sentiment would
those atrocities arouse if they were de-
scribed in all their actual enormity?
According to the latest kilograms from
Jesup, three white men have fallen in
the present disturbance. while nearly
a score of blacks have been killed or
wounded. This is rather in excess OF
the usual average. As general thing
the casualties in trace riot" are at the
rate of about 40 to 1, with the odds, OF
course, in favor Of the whites
From whatever cause the fighting on
Christmas Day may have originated, the
acts of the vengeance-seeking whites on
the following day wore cruel, devilish and
detestable Seyond power of description
The most atrocious act of all was the
deliberate murder of two defenseless
negroes who had been captured and
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locked up in Jail At two o'clock in the
morning a mob of whites surrounded
the building, battered down the doors
and entered the cell where the wounded
captives lay. 1t was in pitchy dark
ness. One of the newcomers lit ..
match, and by its Pickering light one Of
the prisoners, Peter jackson, was shot
to death. This performance was re-
peated in the case of Bill Hops, the
other prisoner. and, leaving the corpses
where they lay, the murderers left A
coroner's jury subsequently decided that
the killing was the work Of parties IN
known
For the next twelve hours the whites
engaged in flogging crusade. All the
buggy whips in the town were bought
up, and detachments of torturers half-a-
dozen strong visited houses inhabited
by negroes and mercilessly whipped the
inmates. The large majority of those
thus punished were females, and the
condition of many of them, when their
tormentors had finished with them, is
described as pitiable in the extreme.
Bullets for the men, whips for the WON.
en-, seemed to be the motto of the
avengers, and they lived up to it.
1t is no wonder that the negroes 81
the South leap with delight at emigrt-
ton schemes. One trace riot" such as
this is sufficient to inculcate desire in
the most lethargic of ''niggers' 20
change his quarters. Not until he does
so is he safe, apparently. His white
masters are determined to rule him with
terrorism and blood. He must submit
to seeing his friends ill-treated, for if he
lifts hand in their defense he will pre-
cipitate race riot" and than woe be
unto him and his fellows!
The Southern trace riot" is one Of the
horrors of the age. This last one should
be investigated by the Government
Chicago Journal
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RumoREo OF ROYALTY.

The Sultan Of Morocco reads the
newspapers and subscribes to several
published in Turkey, Egypt and Tunis.
PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales, is the only
member OF the English royal family
who speaks the language of his country
without foreign accent
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, who
is fond of hunting, is obliged to use
short gun made especially for him, as
he has the use of only one hand. He
uses his rife as he would pistol.
THE King of Italy has given up smok-
ing. he used to smoke all day long
and got disorder of the bronchial
tubes in consequence. He now sucks
toothpicks filed with camphor and is
said to enjoy them.
THE Queen Regent of Spain has
caused advertisements to be published
in all the leading newspapers of he's
dominions, offering two prizes, $500
and s., s95, for the two best essays on
the life of Christopher Columbus.
KING Orro, of Bavaria, receives 4, 2S1,-
OH marks, or a little over million dol
lars, a year, from which $3.50, 900 is de-
Quoted to pay of the debts of his pred
ecessor, King Ludwig. How large those
debts are may be inferred from the fact
that it will take fifteen years to wipe
them out entirely.
IT is made known that the Queen Of
England wears ~ gloves; always black;
with only four buttons She uses
about two dozen pairs year, and they
cost eight shillings and sixpence per
pair. All of which Is respectfully sub
mitted to the consideration of an inter
ested world.
THE Prince of Wales, who used to be a
constant shopper, has had to give il
up. All his purchases now are sent to
Marlborough House or to Sandring-
ham. He is very popular with the shop
keepers, never leaving shop without
raising his hat and thanking them verJ
much -
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themselves, and to search for other

themselves, and to search for other
food
When Tony reached daylight again,
he was dreadful looking object. His
face was covered with a compound Of
coal-dust. tears and blood: his clothes
were tattered and soaking wet, and the
hand which clenched the ring was
nearly skinned.
He looked about dazed by the light,
and with the strange bewildering sensa-
ton of being in a new world which al
WAYS comes TO one at the first instant
after emerging from dark, underground
places. Soon. however, he got his bear
ings. and saw TO his delight the carriage
standing by the breaker, and the party
lust alighting and preparing to descend
the shaft.
They had driven slowly, stopping
often to admire the views, and so had
taken twenty-five minutes TO accom-
plish a distance of a mile and half;
twenty-five minutes that had been as
twenty-five hours TO Tony in his under
ground passage!
When he reached home. taking the
ravine this time, he looked TO see his
mother watching for him with stick,
but she only ran and fell on his neck
and kissed him, weeping as If he had
been the prodigal son returning.
Ap asked Immediately what the pr city
lady said when he gave back the rir.s.
she asked me what for I'd scratched
it, and got it so dirty"
And didn't she give you nothin'?'
Zone of the gentlemen he give me
this, " and Tony showed silver coin;
The looked kinder cross-like at the lady
when she said that to me, and don't
think she's so very pretty after ALL
And if pretty is that pretty does,
don't think so either.-Edith Brown, IN
| Youths Companion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-16
SHOOTING STARS.
How They Travel Toward the Earth and
Perish in Streaks of Splendor.

How They Travel Toward the Earth and
Perish in Streaks of Splendor.
A small body, perhaps as large as
paving stone or larger, more often per-
haps not so large as marble, is moving
round the sun. Just as mighty planet
revolves in an ellipse, so this small OBJ
iect will move round and round in an
ellipse, with the sun in the focus. There
are at the present moment inconceivable
myriads of such meteors moving in this
manner. They are too small and too
distant for our telescopes, and we can
never see them except under extraor-
binary circumstances. At the time We
see the meteor it is usually moving with
enormous velocity, so that it often trav-
erses a distance of more than twenty
miles in second of time. Such We
locity is almost impossible near the
earth's surface; the resistance OF the air
would prevent it.
Aloft, in the emptiness of space, there
is no air to resist the meteor. 1t may
have been moving round and round the
sun for thousands, perhaps Tor millions
of years, without let or hindrance; but
the supreme moment arrives and the
meteor perishes in streak of splendor.
In the course of its wanderings the body
comes near the earth, and within few
| hundred miles of its surface, of course,
begins to encounter the upper surface
/ of the atmosphere with which the earth
| is inclosed. To body moving with the
| appalling velocity of meteor plunge
into the atmosphere is usually fatal
As the meteor rushes through the at
mosphere the friction of the air warns
it's surface; it becomes red hot, then
white hot, and is finally driven off into
yapor with brilliant light, while we
+ on earth, me hundred or two hundred
/ m:.Ss below, exclaim, 20, look, there IS
a shooting star."-Albany Journal
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AMONG OUR EXCHANGES

C%NO tariff, whether protective Or
for revenue only, can be a permanent
settlement. The conditions of trade
continually change. Any tariff whi1h
the ingenuity of man can devise must
be reformed at frequent intervals
Sioux City Qa.) Journal.
EB-It was the late Henry w. Grady
who characterized Abraham Lincoln al
''the first typical American, the first
who comprehended within himself all
the strength and gentleness, all the
majesty and grace of this republic. st
Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
There is a growing sentiment in
the North that the time has arrived
when the arm of Federal power should
be extended to the colored people to
protect them from the fraud and in
Justice to which they have been sub
jected ever since the passage OF the six
teenth amendment. - Dubuque Ia }
Times.
EEThe country demands tariff re-
vision. 1t has preferred to intrust the
work to the hands of the Republican
party, and for that reason has taken it
from the Democrats, who we're making
such ruinous botch of it. And the
work must be done if the country is not
to be disappointed in its trust-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
w"Ceveland and Campbell, "
Cleveland and Carlisle" always Cleve-
land, with divisions as to the second
name, are signs of the times of the next
National Democratic ticket 1t is the
general belief of Republicans as well as
of Democrats that Cleveland will be the
next defeated Democratic Presidential
candidate.-N. Y. Press
Rice is protected by tariff Of 11s
per cent, little higher protection thar
is given to the festive peanut, that 9TH
er staple product of the South. Yet the
Democratic tariff reformers" who
framed the Mills bill did not propose to
remove the duty on either rice or pea
nuts, which are crops of Democratic
States--Chicago Journal
EIt is said that Millionaire Brice
has secured fifty members of tina Ohio
Legislature, and that his nomination
and election to the United States Sem
ate is assured. Mr.. Brice's eligibility
rests upon the fact that he is worth
s.. COO, 900. He will be a fine ornament
to the Millionaire Senatorial Club, but
what sort of apology will the Democratic
party make for HMM. Y. World
Dem.).