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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
RUSSIAN FINANCES.

lfrom the Nineteenth Century
1t is rather difficult to form a correct
opinion on the financial condition of an
cratically-governed empire like
that of Russia. where little reliance
can be placed in the official publica-
tons. 1t must be acknowledged that
the government hitherto has rigidly
observed its obligations toward it's
foreign creditors, yet English capital
lists have sold nearly all their property
invested in Russian securities, and this
for the simple reason that the finances
of country which goes on borrowing
annually. even in times of profound
peace. deserve no confidence. The
Germans have followed and France,
having bought most of these bonds,
is now the foremost creditor of Rus
STA. the sum total of her securities in
French hands being estimated at no
less than five milliards of francs.
The deficit Of the famine year 1892
81. cannot have been less than 200, 000,-
900 rubles. The Russian budgets, as
they are published show always the
most beautiful equipoise, if not a sur
plus; but in that of 1894, the. surplus
given at 61,S70,0 900 rubles is in truth a
deficit of S7,474, 900 rubles, for the So
called surplus is obtained by treating
freshly-borrowed money as clear eX-
trdOrQlnary income, without reckoning
it as a debt on the opposite side
amounting to an increase of 162, SOC, 900
rubles from last years internal loan at
Az and the remaining bonds of the
unsuccessful 8 per cent. loan in Paris.
Deducting the profit of the conversion
of the per cent loan, the debt in
creased last year by 113,000,000 rubles.
In curious contrast to these facts the
Russians boast of the gold boarded by
the finance minister, at home and
abroad, the former alone amounting to
620. 500, 900 rubles. The alleged reason
that this gold is to cover the newly
issued notes, is evidently pretext, as
these notes are as little convertible
into cash as the old ones. The cause
of this extraordinary policy can only
be that the government wishes to have
a war chest for sudden emergencies.
The cost of the army and navy is stat
ed in the budget for 1898 at 2S2, 700,0 900
rubles. but it is evidently larger al
ready. because Russia has to furnish
her army with rifles of small calibre,
of which about one-third may have
been delivered. while the rest will not
be ready before the end of 1896.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

FRANK BUCKLAND'S BEAR.
MRS. Cross in Temple Bari


The greatest animal lover in White
Cooper's circle of intimate friends was
Frank auckland. Cooper had been his
fathers guest during the meeting of
the British association in 1884, and
there saw the young naturalist for the
first time. On one occasion, walking
with some ladies in the garden, to their
dismay they came upon a snake, which
no sooner scuttled away than a second,
a third, with more to follow, made their
appearance. Frank had some thirty
harmless snakes in a box, and it seems
they had escaped at an inopportune
moment. Young Buckland's chief pet
at the time was a young bear, whose
birthplace was Mount Lebanon, but
whose educa ton was to be at Oxford,
where he is additionally remembered to
this day. At the association meeting
he figured amusingly at breakfasts and
luncheons, and the learned DR.. Dau-
beny, always the kindest of men, in
vited him to assist at an evening party
Bruin had nothing of the shyness of
an undergraduate, and thoroughly en-
joyed his social advantages, even pre-
Stunning to put his paws on the knees
Of the ladies. He was then about the
size of a setter dog. Gas time went on, -
said Mr.. White Cooper, "Tiglath Pile
sogh, as he was called, increased in
stature, but not in wisdom, and Frank
auckland received formal intimation
that if the bear did not leave the uni
verSity, he must" Poor Bruin was
rusticated, and he died of broken
heart at the Zoo. He could no more do
without society than could Sydney
Smith or any other diner outi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
Thursday evening, Mr.. and Mrs,
orR NoRTHERN NEIGHRoRs.

The Republican platform is a great
document with nothing in it. And one
would naturally infer that they had
but very little to recommend them
selves. They have nothing to say about
irrigation, or about the road that was
20 lead to the Senate, nor about the eX-
travagance of the present state admin
istration, ard what about the reduction
of taxes on railroads and not on other
property?
Iii may be well to say nothing on live
ISSUES, but the voters will see the dodge
81 trying TO evade responsibilities by
Silence, and it won't work in these
cases.
The comments of their own papers
acknowledge the weakness of their
platform, and we deem it wise to sug-
gest that it is dangerous to put men in
responsible positions without principles
to back them.-Cassia County Times.
A cloudburst came very near wash
ing the Elkhorn reservoir away last
Tuesday. The stockholders were con-
leiderablv alarmed for fear that the
settlers along Little .Malad would suf-
Ger from a deluge. Messrs. Eel and
Thomas were dispatched at once to
fhe eScene. and finally succeeded in
GEARING away the debris that had ac-
STIMULATED about the headgateS, after
two DAYS and nights nard work. ENeiy-
thing is now safe and no further dan
ge- need be feared.-Malad Enterprise.
The splendid endorsement of Hon. T.
w. Beane and the cordial acknowledge
merit of his great service by the DEM
ocratic party of this state by the en-
tire state central committee and by
tie principal candidates upon the state
ticket. though it represented the spon-
taneaIs gratitude of the entire party
for the services Of this energetic young
Democrat vet viii it fall short of the
reward which is Justly his due for the
mS nv :acrifices he has made for those
principles to which he has ever been so
true. Mr.. Beane has been sorely dis
appointed in his political hopes. more
$50 than any Democrat in the state,
but not murmur has escaped his
LBS. MOI one word Of complaint has
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

That was a clever bunco game the
Bear Lake Republican leaders played
upon the young ladies Uptown when
Mrs. Foster was here. The announce
ment was made that the eminent fe-
male orator would confine her address
to woman's suffrage. A number Of
young ladies were asked to form a re-
lception committee and extend to Mrs.
Foster those courtesies and amenities
for which the ladies of Bear Lake are
famous. Being interested in the ques-
ton and DESTROYS of hearing the argu-
ment they knew so brilliant a woman
las Mrs. Foster could make, they COM
piled with the request. Imagine the
surprise of these Democratic daughters
of Democratic fathers, when they heard
Mrs. Fosters terrific arraignment Of
the members of the Democratic party?
These young ladies are not at all in a
good humor over the affair, and it is
safe to predict that the next time a
committee is wanted to receive Mrs.
Foster it will be composed entirely of
lyoung ladies the Repubicanism of
whose fathers and brothers is unques-
toned. 1t is a difficult matter, even
for Mrs. Foster, to convince a young
lady that her father is untruthful, po-
litically or otherwise.-Bear Lake Phoe-
nix
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
Stole His Horse.

Philip Hornberger, of Taylorsville,
attended the stake conference last
evening. and left his horse tied oppo-
site the Deseret News office. When
his business was completed and he was
ready to go home he missed the ami
NAL. An hour and a halls search re-
suited in discovering the rig, occupied
by two men, being driven down Main
street. Hornberger gave chase, but
the borrowers of his buggy were like
the Indians deer-too swift They
drove down Main to Second South
street. thence west to West Temple and
down West Temple to Ninth South,
where they were seen by citizen
driving at rapid pace The case was
reported at police headquarters, but
at an early hour this morning no ar
rests had been made
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

he registered against the national ap-
pointing power. He has not sulked in
| his tent. but has cheerfully striven as
| of wore to aid the great party beloved
so much. He has shown that his re-
gard for his party cannot be shaken
by anv disappointment, however great,
| and that he stands as ready as ever.
| to battle for it's interests.-Idaho Falls
Times
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

The Mountain Home Republican
isays: zone day last week c. c. Taut-
iphaus discovered the skeleton of
man near his camp on Bruneau. There
was a small tuft of hair still clinging
to the skull and several of the teeth
had gold filing. which proves that they
are the bones of some white man."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

John Wood. the Boise valley farmer,
saws he has lust completed threshing
his grain. His oats yielde fifty bushels
to the acre and his wheat twenty-six
bushels to the acre. The crop as
whole has several hundred bushels less
than that of 1893.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
NEWS FROM NEAR -BY
|, CITIES AND TOWNS.
Democratic County Convention
to be Held at Park
City.
CHANGES In COALVILLE
TRAIN SERVICE
BELIEF IN A BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR
LA PLATA

Eeath of Mortimer Wright-Acci-
dental Death by Fall-That Ida
no Republican PIatform-Finding
of SiSeIeton--Endorseme of
Frank Beane-Good Grain Yield
in the Boise Valley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

Prussian artillery did nos burst" until
"the whole French artillery was soon
reduced to silence, except on their left,
where one battery still maintained
| itself in a very favorable position.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
SHEETS IN sCoTLAND.
[From the scottish Antionar,

lFrom the Scottish Antiquary,1
The custom of sleeping in one large
sheet doubled at the foot, seems to have
been peculiar to Scotland, and to have
made special impression on more than one
English traveller. F'ynes MORRISON. writ
ing in 1898, says: .'They used but one
sheet, open at the sides and top. but close
at the feet and so doubled:' and John
Ray, the naturalist, who visited Scotland
about 1862, remarked that ut is the man
ner in some places there to Law on but ona
sheet as large as two turned up from
the feet upward
The practice, I imagine, was continued
until recent times. and have when q
boy slept in sheet of the kind. Sl,ch
pieces of linen Were termed Sheets par
excellence, the single coverings which arr
now used being called half Sheets
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

Men of genius are often dull and inert
in society; as the blazing meteor, when
it descends to earth, is only stone
Longfellow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
LAUGH AND GROW FAT.

LAUGH AND GROW FAT.
A Collection of the best writings Of this gress
luthor. most profuSely illustrated, with oven
100 pages. 1t is the funniest book ever pub
hshsd Bill Nye needs no introduction. The
mention III the book is enough.
BILL NYES REMARKS:
az have passed through an earthquake and
ID Indian outbreak but would rather ride an
earthquake without saddle or bride, than to
bestride a successful broncho eruption. -
cage brings caution and lot Of shop-worR
experience, purchased at the highest market
price. Time brings vain regrets and wisdom
night"
''Too much OF our hotel food tastes like the
second day OF January, or the fifth day Of July.
That's the whole thing in q few words, and I'M.
less the good hotels are nearer together, we
Ehall have to multiply our Gem etsYy facilities"
PRESS NOTICES:
when Bill Nye turns himself loose for fun
the laughing belts Of readers should be tight
ened TO prevent accidents. ''-Inter-Ooean
Chicago.
"Bill Nye always interests. and his geniat
sig-hearted. sunny nature shines through every
Tine in his book."-Pittsburg Press,
''We believe that Bill Nye Is the brightest
Lumori5t Of the day. No change IN the English
language can ever do away with his fun. He 10
q public benefactor; one Of the greatest men Of
his age. We shudder 10 think what will be-
some OF US when he Is gone. May fate stay thu
day.-Philadelphia Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

A passion for flowers is, / think. the
only one which long sickness leaves I'M
touched with its chilling infiuence.-Mrs.
Hemans.
An inquisitive man is a creature natur-
tally very vacant of thought itself. and.
therefore, forced to apply to foreign as
sistance.-SteeIe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03
OUR EASTERN NEIGBBoRs

Last Sunday, Al Bacon, of Company
E, Fort Mckinney, was drowned in Lake
.DeSmit. Lieutenant LATTE and he
were at the lake shooting ducks, to-
Igether with Drum Major Lutz. Bacon
was out on the lake soaring up ducks
and the other two were on shore. Lieu
tenant LATTE heard Bacon shoot and
Hooking out saw the boat bottom side
Iup. He saw Bacon struggling in the
water with his gun and called to him
to drop it, and at the same time jumped
in the water and started to swim out to
help him, but with a loud cry for help
Bacon disappeared from sight.-Buffalo
Voice
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

A county convention of the Demo-
cratic party of Summit county will be
held at Park City on Saturday, Septem-
her s, for the purpose of electing nine
teen delegates to attend the territorial
Democratic convention in Salt Lake
city on September Is. The convention
will consist of f1fty-two delegates The
primaries in the various precincts will
be held at the usual places on Wednes-
daY. September 8. for the purpose of
electing delegates to the above con-
yention
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

You can get this book by sending Us Is oents
;s n sss r; 80 ai S''f zss Not Otherwise
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

1t is rumored that the railroad shops
here will be started up with a much
larger force during September. Superin-
tendent Mcconnell, of motive power,
has Just been over the road looking at
the shops and learning of the condition
OF the machinery and engines, and
General Manager Dickinson is expected
soon 1t is believed they will soon agree
to start up the shops with forces some
where near those previous to closing
them at the time Of the strike.-Lara-
mic Boomerang.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

In all probability a signal service sta.
ton will be located at Rawlins in fine
near future. A petition for that, pur-
pose was circulated on Tuesday. and
the names OF fifty or sixty citizens were
secured on it in a short space of time
1t viii probably be located at the post
office and will be Of great benefit. es-
pecially to sheep men and freighters in
the winter.-Rawlins Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-03

Potatoes are offered in American
Fork at 25c. per bushel, and but little
demand at that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Two Brakemen on the New E:n IanC
 Road Killed Last Night.

Two Brakemen on the New Fin land
 Road Killed Last Night.
 James Cannell, aged 21 years, brake man onFa freight train on the Meriden road, was killed about 9:3O last night at the New England depot. The cars were being switched of and Carnell was on the tender coupling the engine to the cars. He lost his balance and fell under the wheels. All but two of the cars had been switched off, one of which passed over the unfortunate mans body, throwing the car off the track and killing Cannell almost h. stantly. Medical Examiner Axtelle viewed the remains and found his spine broken, the left side of the face bruised, the left hip smashed and the ribs on both sides broken. He had been in the employ of the road but two days. Undertaken Moriarty took charge of the remains.
 The remains will be taken to Buffalo on the midnight train for burial
 William J. McMahon, aged 27 years, brakeman on the New England road, was killed at Wheaton's station at about the same time. The train waited short time at Wheatons for another train to pass. When it started it is thought that Mo Mahon who, with the rest of the trainmen was standing on the platform, started to climb onto the car when he slipped and fell under the wheels. Medical Examiner Axtelle was taken to the scene on a special train. The man was almost cut in two at the waist and other parts of his body were frightfully mangled. The remains were put together as well as possible and brought to Undertaken Moriarty's morgue. McMahon belonged in Winsted. A brother of the dead man came to town this morning, and the remains will be taken to Winsted for burial on the 7 o'clock train this evening.
 Medical Examiner Axtelle notified Coro- her Mix of the fatalities and the latter came here, but found that both cases were purely accidental.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
DOWN THE VALLEY NOTES
Doings of 8 Day in NaugatuOk and Unis

Doings of 8 Day in NaugatuOk and Uni o@ | 9H : City. s NAUGAUcK, March 1T.-A case of scar let ne waS reported yesterday at MeCabe's large boakding@ house on Rubber avenue. The patti Sat, j, boy of ten years. with a nurse has been isolatedon the top floor and completely shut off from other parts of the house, the physician and food going up by | rear outside entrance. Consequently there is no danger to boarders of tenants. Rosa Carr on Ward street, also has an at | tack of the fever.
 The members and congregation of the Congregational church have been request ed to set apart next week as one for divine and sacred use. The desire is to employ passion week in prayer and devotion and strengthening of spiritual life. | Sealed proposals for gathering and carry ing away garbage will be received by borough clerk until Tuesday, March P at 12 o'clock, noon.
 | Quite number of tickets for the fire coat concert have already been sold They may be obtained of Chief Fuller, Assistant Squires. Foreman Jackman, As sistant Noble at Union City, Peter Baxter and George Butz. The prices are 25, 35 and 50 cents.
 There will be large attendance at the lecture under the auspices of Young Men s c. L, in the basement of St Francis church on March 28.
 The alarm of fire this morning about 2:30 o'clock was caused by a fire in the rear of Shea's saloon in the cluster. It was apparently caused by a defect in the chimney. The apartment was unoccupred and can be soon repaired.
 There has been very fair sale of tickets for the "Spy of Gettysbtrgh" tonight.
 Miss May Vredenburgh of this place and Eugene Lake, an engineer on the railroad, were married in New York on Thursday of l this week.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
The Antomatic Cycle Hirer.

A western genius has invented a com bined clock and automatic cycle hirer. The clock is so arranged that the rider who has hired the machine can at all times tell just how much of his allotted time has elapsed Before leaving the hiring establishment the clock is set for the length of time the wheel has been paid for. When half that time has elapsed, the clock rings bell, and a plate on it's face is exposed stating that the rider has the wheel so much longer at his disposal. At the end of the time paid for the clock, after giving five minutes warn ing by ringing d bell, locks the wheel so it cannot be ridden and exposes upon it's face the name and address of the wheels owner accompanied by a notice that reward will be paid by him for it's return. Should the rider desire to continue his journey he can do so by dropping the amount due for an other hours use of the wheel into a slot provided for that purpose, whereup"n the obl1ging clock unlockS thr wheel, and the transaction starts all over again.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
TIMELY TOPICS.

Sum of money found last May awaits an owner.
 The latest thing at Kelly's is goose. Don't fail to see it.
 E. T. Turner & Go quote few prices on dress goods. The assortment this spring is twice as large as ever.
 Reliable man can secute permanent position.
 Reid < Hughes will celebrate three im- portant events next week, and special bar gains will be the rule. Read there an- nouncement.
 Opening of spring millinery March 20 at Coquet's. 123 South Main street
 I. Chase's millinery opening will take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. It win bs gorgeous dis. play,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
WORLD OF SPORTS.
Specimen l. tiers From Harry Durand's
 Mail.

Specimen l. tiers From Harry Durand's
 Mail.
 President H. R. Durant of the Con- necticut state league, in one day this week received 46 letters from ball players from New York and vicinity who are anxious to obtain positions in the Connecticut league Some of them are very amusing. Here is a part of one from an applicant: II don't say that am equal to any man in the National league, but there wouldn't be any one in the Connecticut league who will be too fast for me. I don't want tc brag, but if 1 can u run any of them a dusty mile I don't want a cent Another says: II am p years old and weigh 149 pounds with nothing on but my hide, and it all as hard as nails, because am one of the few who work in the winter"
 Still another said: II played with the young tii-a-ways last seeson and troWed my arm out on July fourth, but got it back again and will have it forever. am not very large but ken Play Ball"
 President Durant was notified to-day that Meriden and New Britain would not join the state base ball league and the meeting 10 have been held next Tuesday in New Britain will be held in Hartford on the same date at 80 in the afternoon. An effort will be made to have Rockville, Danbury and South Norwalk join the league. Meriden will place team in the field, but prefers to go it alone.
 Anson has been in Baltimore and the re- porters made him tired by asking if he in tended to play ball this year. He told them that if the work of his team could be improved by his sitting on the bench, he would not play.
 Manager Sharsig is seriously i'll with ty- phoid fever in Indianapolis.
 Before "Gen" Dixwell left New York he recorded his second wager, viz, that Chica- go would beat Louisville out in the race. Manager Barney was the taker. His third wager was that Boston would win two out of the three games in the first series in New York.
 Charley Farrells most worth to the New Works will be as catcher for Rusie. Last year Jack Milligan was the only catcher who could handle little Amie's delivery, and he couldn't throw.
 Jimmy Peoples, manager of the Water burys, is expected here this afternoon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
Would Not Ride With Irving.

NEW HAVEN, March 17.-Henry Irving, with his troop, and the Lillian Russell com pany will leave here for Boston on the same day. Irving sent his manager to pro- pose that they travel on the same train for economy's sake Miss Russell replied: No, I do not care to travel with Henry Irving I am an American and prefer to go on a train with my own company"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
COURT NOTES.
Decisions It ndered by Judge Root of the
 Distri,t Court.

Decisions N ndered by Judge Root of the
 Distri, t Court.
 The following decisions were rendered by Judge Root to-day. In the case of Nathaniel R. Bronson vs Alexander Mil lette, judgment for foreclosure was given and damages allowed amounting to $261.25 and $45 03 costs.
 In the case of Michael Kane vs Julius Czamanski ct ux, judgment for foreclosure was allowed and damages and costs amount ing to S747.5O and S52.69. Both were actions on promissory notes. Law day for the first case was made the first Tuesday in September, and for the second case, April IT.
 At bar meeting this morning the fol lowing cases were assigned for trial: Mon- day, Michael Shea, administrator, Joseph Crossan and James Rename, all vs N. Y. N. H. tS H. R. R.