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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Correspondents Prophesy That Mr..
Blaine VIII Not Die for Some
Time Yet,
Though He liz Failing ALI the Time.
From Inquiry at His House lie Es
slightly Better"
Senator Gibson Passes Away at Hot
Springs, Ark, After Lingering
-... Illness.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-So far as can
be learned there has been no material
change in the condition of Mr.. Blaine
during the past twenty-four hours. In
quiry at his house at noon ELECTED the
usual response that "Mr. Blaine seems
TO be little better" While the men,
bers of the family are undoubtedly very
much concerned at the situation, there
are no outward conditions to that effect,
and to all appearances affairs OF the
household are moving along as though
nothing unusual was the matter. Now
that Mr.. Blaine's really precarious state
OF health is known to the public the
manifestations of sympathy for the
family have become quite general, and
the attendant at the door is kept
busy responding to the kindly inquiries
Of the many friends and admirers of the
distinguished invalid. No information
can be obtained as to the immediate
pl ns Of the family beyond the fact that
Mr.. Blaine will be moved to milder
climate in Southern state rs soon as he
RECEIVERS sufficiently from his bronchial
troubles to justify his removal. AS has
already been stated it is believed that
while Mr.. Blaine is slowly losing his
strength the process is so slow and
gentle as to practically preclude the
possibility of an immediate collapse.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Assn med the Ela mo.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-General Agent
Stedman, of the Wells, Fargo Express
company, says that his company has
assumed the blame for the loss of two
packages of money which were shipped
from this city few weeks ago to Gal.
weston. As soon as the necessary papers
are made out the company will REIN.
burse the banks to which the money
was consigned. The packages, one con.
tanning $4,000 and the other $25, 900
were despoiled while in the hands of the
company, Mr.. Stedman says. The
thieves have not been caught.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Crseker Factorx Burnsd.

KANSAS City. Dec. 17.-The factory
of the Haggins Cracker company was
destroyed by fire during the night. The
factory was being run overtime and the
fire caught between the ovens on the
second floor and spread with alarming
rapidity. Over two hundred employees
were at work at the time, sixty.five of
them being girls who were employed on
the fifth story. They narrowly escaped,
the fire spreading SO rapidly as to nearly
cut off means of exit. 1T was thought
at one time that some had perished in
the flames, hut at midnight all had been
accounted for. The factory WAS totally
destroyed, causing q loss Of $l75, 900,
which was insured.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
A Mysfarr Cleared up.

New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE mystery
surrounding the disappearance Of Bank.
er Linus E. Post, of Tacoma, WASH,
has been cleared up. Ho has not been
murdered, nor has he committed sui.
eide as generally supposed, and it ID
learned that the present is not the first
occasion on which ne has mysteriously
disappeared. Mr.. Post was seen alive
in Hoboken, where, it now turns out,
he took steamer for Europe. 1t is be
lieved that his departure was to escape
censure for carelessness in business. II
is stated that his accounts were per.
fectly straight. He was elected mem.
Der of the national Democratic commit
tee for Washington but was not active.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17

Armltage avenue and Humooit oouie-
ward, tainted. The seventy children in
her room We're terror stricken when
their teacher sank TO the floor. and in
an instant shrieks from alarmed chill
dren echoed throughout the big build
ing. Pupils in adjoining rooms heard
the alarm and the cry of "Firer was
raised. A panic ensued among the 7OU
children in the building and in their at.
tempts to escape down the marrow stair
way more than seventy-five were more
or less bruised, and one, Mable Freed
lund, will probably die.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
The Wheat Blockade I'm the Northwest
Threatens to Become Con-
plete.
Wheat Coming Into Duluth at thu
Rate of Two Million Bushels q
Week.
Elevators There and at Superior viii
Only Hold About Eight Million
Bushels More.

DULUTH, Dec. 1.-Two of the three
-four mills of this city, including the big
Inn erial, which. has record of $500
barrels day, are closed down, and
the one at Superior is also idle. They
will probably start up in week on part
time. The idleness is due to the de.
pressed condition of the -four trade
everywhere. At the present rate of
wheat receipts the elevators of
Duluth and Superior will all be
full in January, and will be able to re-
ceive little wheat from then to May,
except what the mills may grind. Re-
ceipts last week were 2,O0O, 900 bushels,
something unprecedented for Decem ber,
and for two days of this week they have
been over 7lo, 900 bushels. There are
IL, ,000, 900 bushels in store in elevators
and 700. 900 bushels in vessels in Duluth
harbor. The Duluth Elevator company,
with capacity Of 4,S0O, 900 bushels,
has only $4,000 bushels of room;
the Lake Superior and Union Improve
ment elevators, with $4,000, 900 bushels
capacity, have 5000, 600 bushels room,
and the Great Northern houses at
Superior, with 1900, 900 capacity, have
1000, 900 bushels room left. The Duluth
Imperial mill has about $4,000 bushels
room in its elevator. making in all q
little over 5000, 900 bushels of unoccu-
pied room in local elevators. With
wheat coming in at the rate of 300, 900
bushels daily this will not last long,
especially If the mills do not grind full
capacity.
The Country Elevators Are Full.
Added to the condition OF the big
terminal elevators here, the lines of
country houses in Minnesota and Da-
kota, with which they are connected,
are full The Lake Superior Elevator
company owns two lines of country
houses, the Northern Pacific and Red
River Valley Elevator companies.
These combined have 300 elevators, with
perhaps 4.0O0,00O, bushels capacity.
They are all full and cannot act as reser-
voirs to hold back the rush to the ter
minal houses here. The Duluth Elevator
company owns 100 country elevators
In the system Of the Northern Dakota
Elevator company. These, with ca
pacity of nearly 5000, ,OOC0 bushels, are
full also. In other words, there will
soon be no place either here or in the
country for the storage of grain bound
for Duluth.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Panic ina school.

CHICAGO. Dec. II. Anna Schwarm, a
school teacher in the Boulevard school.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
SENATOR GIBSON DEAD.

After Long Illness the Louisiana States
man PASSES Quietly Away.
HoT SPRINGS, Ark, Dec. l7.--After a
lingering but apparently painless illness
Senator r. L. Gibson died at $40 D. m.
At the time Of his death he was sur.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Many Buaines. Men WIN BE Lo.ers.

NEWTON, Kan, Dec. 1.-THE Ma
tional Bank Of Newton closed its doors
during the the morning. A notice
posted ON the doors reads that the bank
Is in the hands of the government ex-
aminer. The officers refuse to give any
information. but it is reported that the
Mercantile Bank of New York was in
strumental in closing the bank up.
Many Newton business men will be
heavy losers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17

.a.nvrnia Junctlon some tune ago. ".
w. Pollock, New York diamond sales
man, was shot and pounded almost into
insensibility and robbed of $4,000
worth of diamonds in the presence of a
dozen passengers. Bruce answers per-
fectly the description given of the rob-
Der by Omaha men and the method en-
ployed was exactly what might be ex-
mated Of him. .a...
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
niIixerafi Himself lin.

WINNIPEG, Dec. Thames Rowe,
the man charged with the murder of his
brother-in-law, William Campbell, at
Port Arthur, walked into town during
the night and delivered himself up to
the authorities. He has not yet con-
fessed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Imnlieatas Others.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. IT,
Ex-City Clerk German, who Wednes-
day confessed a shortage of SO, 500, inti-
mates that others are guilty in the
city's robbery besides himself. He
charges that S9,uO0 is missing besides
what he took.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Roolred for Dec. FL.

LONDON, Dec. II. The American del
egates to the international monetary
conference are booked TO sail on the
steamer Lain from Southampton for
New York ON Dec. 2l 1t is not under
stood that there will be any celebra-
tion or dinners in honor OF the occasion.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Iowa Grangers want An,i-option.

Dies MONIES, Dec. II. The Iowa state
grange held its annual meeting here.
The old officers were reelected. The
resolutions adopted denounce gambling
TO agricultural products and demand
the enactment of the Washburn- Hatch
bill, oppose opening the worlds fair
Sunday and demand that all prison
labor be employed on roads.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
away as though

SENATOR GIBSON. z = a e 70 sftep.
There was no struggle, no suffering. He
had been confined to his bed since the
18th of November, since which time his
death has been expected daily. In ac-
cordance with his wishes his remains
will be buried in Lexington, KY, by
the side Of his wife, who died some
years ago,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Believed TO BE a Diamond Robber.

OMAHA, Dec. 17.--It is believed that
among the crimes for which Frank
Bruce, the well known thief rnder
arrest at Milwaukee, win be compelled
10 answer, is the daring diamond rob-
berry which was perpetrated on the
Sioux City and Pacific express near
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17
Burned the Engine House,

DEPERE, Wis. Dec. 1.-THE fire
engine house at this place, together with
1000 feet of lose, the engine and all the
contents Of the building, burned Thurs
day. Loss, $4,000. partly insured.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-12-17

rounded by the
members of his
family and sew
eral close friends,
who wept bitterly
when it was seen
that the noble
hearted man was
d e a d. Senator
c< j ssee.l
away as though
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09
FUN In WYOMING.


The Republican bosses over in Wyoming
are threatened with a family quarrel which
promises to make matters much easier for
the Democracy next November. The party
is already badly rent, the dissension ex-
tending from one end Of the state to the
other. Only in the single county of Lara
ME, in which Cheyenne is located, do the
Republicans appear TO be united, and there
the seeming harmony may be traced di-
rectly to the fact that Cheyenne is the
headquarters of the ring which assumes to
direct and dictate to the party. Within
the past year dissatisfaction with the
Cheyenne ring has been growing, and
matters have been made worse by the
shameful incompetency of the state ad-
ministration which has been all the time
manipulated and controlled by the ring in
the supposed interest os the bosses. Many
Republicans in the northern and western
parts of the state have openly repudiated the
Cheyenne crowd and declared themselves
in favor Of the Democracy for this election
at least.
And now arises further trouble for the
manipulators. Senator WARREN's term
will expire next March and as he is one OF
the bosses he and associates, without con-
sulting the rank and file, have assumed
that he should be his own successor. It
was never dreamed that anybody else
would have the impudence or hardihood to
aspire to the place or oppose the arrange
ment; but it has transpired within the
past few days that Representative CLARK,
who retires from the lower house in
March, would not be averse to taking the
oath as United States Senator the day he
surrendered his seat in the other end of the
capitol. Indeed, it is said that Mr.. CLARK
has for some time been quietly laying the
wires to supplant WARREN, and his cause
receives the support Of some influential
members of the party in the west, as well
as some others in the north and others
nearer Cheyenne who have grown weary
Of the ring rule. If knowledge of what is
going on has not yet reached the bosses, it
soon will do so, and there is likely to follow
some stormy scenes, the outcome being a
wider opening III the Republican ranks
Mr.. CLARK has made fairly good repre-
sentative, from the Republican standpoint,
whilst Senator WARREE has covered
neither himself nor his state with glory.
The coming contest will be decidedly inter
esting and to some more so than to the
Democrats, who are losing no points this
year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09
An nRlEnr LESsnN.

1t is splendid object lesson which ap-
pears on Stale street, and one which will
certainly have its effect on property own
ers on business streets. year ago or
more the people on State street set out to
have that thoroughfare paved. They did
their part promptly, and the Improvement
should have been completed six months
ago. Red tape. bad weather, dilatory con-
tractors and perhaps Bome politics con-
ssired to delay the work and worry the en-
terprising lot-owners The annoyance of
street torn up and left impossible for
weeks was endured, and the air has been
Laden with ugly rumors Of bad workman
ship, inferior material and so on. But all
this aside, three blocks of the pavement
are now open TO the public, and the public
and the property owners are pleased and
proud. The traffic on the street has rap
idly increased, the smooth pavement in
wiling legmsters and pleasure drivers to
seek that bit of good road. Frontage is be-
irg improved and business is seeking State
street solely because of The pavement.
The results of the improvement are 80 sat
isfactory and the prospect so encouraging
that the property owners along that thor
oughfare would probably be willing to pay
the owners of land in the business center
bonus to delay the laying of psvementsl
until State had captured the cream of the
business and that street had become the
main traffic thoroughfare of the town.
The object lesson there presented cannot
fail to impress itself upon the minds of
keensighted and enterprising landowners
in the central part of the city They
will certainly see, we take it,
that pavements in front of business pro-
perty are worth good deal more than they
cost. The State street owners OF frontage,
since the completion of the pavement, I'M
derstand that their property has increased
in value much more than the cost of the i'm
provement.
1t seems to US that in the light OF the
transformation which has taken place in
what year or so ago was merely country
road, there should be laid good deal of
pavement within the next two or three
years. This will certainly be the case if
enterprising. progressive men own the front
age on streets in the business section of the
city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09
THE DEMOCRATS IN coxaRx ;.

Among the bills passed by the House and
which lodged in the Senate, we're the bills
admitting New Mexico and Arizona terri
tories to the Union; providing for tenn
porary Home Rule for Utah; the anti
option bill; the bill for the forfeiture of
certain lands granted to aid in construct
ing railroads; bills reducing duties on tin
plate, putting binding Irvine, cotton ties.
oagging and wool on the free list and re-
d1cing the duties on wooden goods more
than one-hslf The majority in the
House tried to pass the bill for the election
OF senators by the people and the bill to re-
peal steamship subsidies. 1t was not able
20 reduce the appropriations Of the last
Congress as much as it expected because
those appropriations were in large meas
ure made permanent. 1t has, on this &C
count, indeed, been obliged to increase the
pensions, postofaice and permanent yearly
appropriations from S272, 312 602 to s34S, :
y33s LOS, comparing the first sess ions Of the
Fifty first and Fifty second Congresses.
Il has been put in the position of admin
istering upon an estate robbed by pre-
vious administration. 1t passed no new
public building bills. however, aud fewer
private appropriations than any recent
Congress. Hon. WILLIAM L. WILSON, in a
dispatch to the San Francisco Examiner,
summing up the acts of Congress, says, in
relation to what the last House did not do:
It did rot increase taxes; it passed no sub
sidy bills it voted no bounties; it passed no
bills to overthrow elections In the states: il va
Gated no Republican seats for Democratic con-
testants except in one case. and that upon a
practically unanimous committee report; it did
not rob the minority Of their rights, nor ser
Wiley surrender its own rights into the hands
OF the speaker and its Committee on Rules.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09

Mr.. Z. F. DUER, VINO was appointed by
HARRISON to be postmaster at Princess
Anne, Md. about three years ago, before it
became q presidential office, was recently
succeeded by another man. the postofice
having largely, through DuER's labors,
been raised 10 the first class. The success
sor got in on the recommendation of one
HoDsoN, who was delegate to the Mime
apolis convention. Postmaster General
WANAMAKER wrote DUER letter saying
such appointments are mainly made on the
of 1.-The senators. mem
bers or referees resident in the districts" to
which the deposed official replied:
am glad to have It over your hand that in
the postoflce department at least the spoils
system prevails TO such an extent that the
referee cannot only bestow the Offices but can
even transfer his power Of bestowing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09
In A MERRY MOOD.


Backing water-The temperance crank
S.fti"gs: To be happy eat plenty of careaway
seeds.
Philadelphia Times: The tariff question
Where's all them there raisings of wages?"
Atchison Globe: The man who never attempts
to sing at any other time will break out in a
picnic wagon.
Birmingham Republican: Sober reflections are
liable to be accompanied by great thirst and a
hat two sizes too small.
Life: He-sShow Shame her own image
Why does he make Shame feminine: She
Because men haven't any.
Elmira Gazette: Il hate tc give these clothes
away" remarked Jagso1 as he opened the mil
dewed chest "but il is a case of must. "
7id6Rs: Patient-Doctor, what do you do
when you have cold in the head: Doctor
Well, madam, sneeze most of the time.
Galveston Neps: The old time parent did not
wear out the breaches of his little son. They
were carefully removed before the wear and
tear began.
Pick Ne Up. Fred-There seems to be lot
more fuss made oyer Miss A. s singing than
Miss K s. and 1 am sure Miss K. has by far the
richer voice. Jack-Ah, yes. But Miss A. has
by far the richer father
miss BlimlIins says she doesn't Dance said
one young man 10 another at picnic. Does
she. thought was the reply. We'll, you
should have seen her a few minutes ago when a
bug went down her back.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09

AMONG THE items of unfinished business
left over. by Secretary BLAINE VIXEN he
resigned. was an effort to use the influence
Of the state department and the American
administration for the appointment by the
Pope of Rome of Archbishop IRELAND to be
a cardinal The story is that in May last,
before the meeting of the Minneapolis con
vention, pressure was brought to bear on
the president to have another cardinal ap-
pointed. Mr.. HARRISON at first fatty de-
clined, but Mr.. BLAINE finally wrote q
letter of the kind desired TO the papal sec
rotary of state, and this has lately been
divulged by some one il the Office OF his
private printer. There is great deal of
mystery about the whole business as yet,
but the true inwardness will probably
leak out in the course of events.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09

PRIVATE DALzELL has written note to
the New York sun, asking that the pre-
fix in his name be permanently changed to
''Mr." He says he would rather go into q
convention with fat pocket book than
war record. The fact is that DALzELL was
a candidate for re- nomination on the Repub
lican district in PennsylvaEis, and got done
up"-as we infer, by some rich aspirant.
ut is all vanity"' he says, 'this love Of the
old soldier" Doubtless he feels like one
OF FALsrAFF's recruits, good enough to
i'll ditch with; food for powder" The
privates should keep to the rear, and con-
tinue to vote as they shot.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09

last creating IN arisfocracy III America
far more arrogant, naughty and assuming
than the aristocracy of England, and much
more uncomfortable, for the reason that the
titled nobility Of England, whatever may
be otherwise said Of them, are at least to
their manners born. and they set upon
them with some grace; but our American
aristocracy, based mainly upon wealth, and
with the smell of the shop and the mill
upon il, may well be styled cod
fish aristocracy" The nobility OF
England, if you will not go too far back,
form an order of men born to vast
possessions, and thereby come to ease and
leisure. and freedom from anxiety. land
are therefore encouraged to the humaniz-
ing pursuits says the late Lord BEAcoNs-
FIELD, 'of learning and the liberal love of
arts; an order of men who are born
honored, and taught to respect Themselves
by the good fame and glory Of their an
cestors, who, from birth to the grave, are
trained to loath and recoil from everything
that is mean and sordid, and whose honor
is more precious possession than their
parks and palaces. Men who are refined,
e0ASuo anu cur leouSs iodEneu, DtANo,
Travelled, charitable and magnificentw
These, at least, are the advantages Of the
English aristocracy, though experience
proves that very few of the British lord
lings live in harmony with the advantages
and theory upon which their order is
based. But American aristocracy have
not even this theory behind them; but on
the contrary, they trust wholly TO that
prestige which wealth has brought them,
and add to their insuferabIe arrogance
their boorish manners. If an aristocracy
we must have In this country let US have
1t based upon such sentiments that, at
least, will give to it an air of refinement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-09
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