Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-30

Lake Washington, by stump fall
ing on hun. Another boy bad his
leg broken In the same accident.
The boys were playing at recess In
lot that was being cleared for a new
school house, and a half-burned
stump was tipped on them while
they were hiding under it. The
boys head was driven into the
ground, and he was dead before he
could he got out.
BUTLER's BOOK.
Boston, Jan. 80. -" Blu tiers
Book was issued yesterday. Ip
the preface the general gives as one
reason for the publication, "to cor
rect much wrong done myself az
prejudiced representation of facts,
and circumstances as to my own
aims in the service of the country"
Gen. Butler asserts that Salmon
p. Chase sent to him at Fortress
Monroe to solicit him to accept the
vice presidential nomination of the
Republican party in case Chase Sc
cured the first place, and that Simon
Cameron made similar proposition
IN behalf of Lincoln less than three
weeks afterwards. He gives his
reason for the refusal Of both offers
He maintains his position taken In
the controversy over the conduct OF
The late Admiral Porter at New
Orleans, and declares that the latter
acted untruthfully and villainously;
lIso charges that Porter and his sub
ordinales with the failure of the
powder boat plant at Fort Fisher He
brands as utterly false the charge ol
Geo. w. F.Smith was thatGrant was
drunk before Petersburg, and crlti-
cises Smith severely. He closes his
work with a summary of the things
done by him, and says that in al
his military movements he never
met with disaster or uselessly sacri-
feed the lives of his men.
A MURDERER's DEATH.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The Sun
yesterday publishes long article in
which it says that Stanislans Pad'
lowski, who, December Is, 1890
murdered In the Hotel de Rade at
Paris, General Michael Deselivera-
toff, chief Of the Russian secret
police Of that city, lies buried in a
suicides grave in the potter's field
ut san Antonio, Tex. The story
details Pndlowski's act OF nihillsliC
vengeance, the plot that preceded
and provoked it, the escape of the
assassin from Paris by the help OF
two newspaper men, his conceal
ment by students in New York
City and his suicide, as IL Is called
in Texas, the victim of poverty and
of terrors that may or may not
have been terrors Of the imagina-
ton only. The life, work and
death of General Deseliveratoff are
matters of history. The escape
from Paris of Padlowski, through
the aid of DIR. La Brudiere, Nine
Ducqueriery and M. and Nine. Gre
goire, has also been fully detailed.
DR.. La Brudiere accompanied the
assassin to Trieste, where he lefI
him. From there Padlowski made
his way to England, where he took
passage on the steamer Etruria and
arrived in New York on February
Is, 1891. Here Padlowski was
cared for by the socialistic agitators.
He was known as Otto Heller, under
which name he had registered on
the steamer. He was taken TO a
house In Fifteenth street, New York,
where he remained In secluslon fol
some time, and the agents Of the
Russian and French police got close
on his track. When this became
known he was taken from the house
on Fifteenth street TO a small town
In New Jersey, Here he remained
concealed until March 4th, when he
was put aboard steamer for Texas
He carried with him letter Of in
PRODUCTION TO some persons who
lived In San Antonio, Tex. In thi'
letter he was referred 10 as Otto
Hauser, and the San Antonio peo
Pile never knew that he was the noted
and hunted assassin, Padlowski
His San Antonio friends secured fol
Hauser a place AS wOrkhand II
the employ Of man named Schro
deer, near Selma, Bexar County
Tex. He worked here for tive
months, and after that secured EN-
ployment In various places neal
San Antonio, but finally he could
get nothing to do, aud he seemed Il
be at the end Of his resources. He
was expecting u registered letter all
the time towards the close OF hls
life, but Il never came. Ia the
last three days Of his life he seemed
to he In an utterly hopeless con
ditlon. He showed signs Of great
f,ar when on the strest, aud ther,
are Indications that he was losing
hls reason, or had msde n startling
discovery OF some kind which had
lerroIi1ed him. Al dawn ON the
morning of o;ober 30 1891, his body
was found 10 Mavericks Park. A
small pistol lay within the out
stretched hand, and there was 1
bullet hole nearly Ia the ceQter n
his forehead, which had caused his
death. lie Was buried la a paupcr'l
grave Ia San AutoniA and Il wai
not known by those Ia this city wh'