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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22
DERAILED by WRECKERs.
An Engine and Three Cars Leaves
the Track, Hut No One Injured.

Grayiing. Mich, Sept. A.-A south
bound passenger train on the Michigan
Central railroad. was derailed three miles
south OF here. early this morning, by
train wreckers. The engine. mail and
baggage and smoking cars left the track,
but no one was injured. The wreckers
had chopped off the ties and pried In
the rails. 1t is believed they Intended to
wreck the north bound train. Three men
were arrested ON suspicion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22

Harrisburg. Pa. Sept. 21.-The governor
has pardoned John Bardsley, ex-eity
treasurer Of Philadelphia, serving term
in the penitentiary for embezzIement.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22
sInvin Throws Up the Sponge.

Maspeth, L. l., Sept. 21.-O' Donnen won
the fight tonight, Siavin throwing up the
sponge In the NTH round.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22
FUSION IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Democrats Accept the Plan of
the POpuIfsts.

Raleigh, N c., Sept. 2i.-Chairman Aver
OF the populist state committee has sent
the following counter-preposition to the
democratic state COMMITTEES; Il am au-
thorized by my committee to ask your
committee 10 agree to an amendment 10
the proposition Of your state committee
for basis Of cooperation on the state
electoral ticket between the democratic
party and the peoples party. We are sin
cerely DESTROYS of effecting some arrange
ment by which a compact and satisfac-
tory union of all the silver forces in
the state may be consummated.
Among these forces three distinct organi-
cations are represented in this state,
namely, democrats national silver party,
and populists. II Is our opinion that each
organization should be represented on a
cooperative ticket, which has the above
named purpose in vitw, and to that end
we beg TO submit the following PROPOSE
ton, to wit: That the democrats name
one elector-at-iarge and four district cleo
tors; the populists one elector-at-large
and four district electors; that one cleo
tor be given the silver party. We most
earnestly commend this proposition to
your favorable consideration, and sin
cerely hope 1t may meet your approval
and adoption. If il shall we are ready to
confer with you concerning details of the
arrangement"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22

Raleigh, N. c., Sept p, a. m.-The DEM
ocratic state committee has accepted the
populist committees counter proposition
as to a division of electors, 50 that the
democrats take Ave, the populists five and
the free silver party one. Committees
from each party are, at 1 o'clock this
morning. In session, arranging the details
The free silver party elector, it Is agreed
shall be B. f. Keith.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

terested in Washington city and I
wanted the capital kept here. You can
hardly appreciate the condition of this
city at that time. 1t had a bad rep
utation in many parts of the North
The people were disguised with the
dislCyalty that existed here during the
war. After the war ended we had
carpet-bag government, and negroes
were employed in cleaning the cutters
with knives, ten men not doing the
work of one man.. and each getting 81
a day. The streets were mud holes
and all sorts of dirt was thrown into
them. The government was paying no
taxes to speak of, and in seventy years
out of about $4,000. 900 (which was spent
for the improvement Of the capital,
Uncle Sam had paid less than s9OOO,-
OOO This was the case, notwithstand-
Ing that the government had agreed
at the time they made Washington
the capital city toSpay its share of the
taxes II had received the fee simple
title to all the streets for nothing.
and 1t had gotten every alternate lot
receiving all told about Sc per cent of
the property Of Washington. I thought
that the government ought to pay at
least half the taxes, and that it ought
to aid in the improvement of the city.
[ did not think the capital ought to be
moved, and 1 devoted myself to keep
ing it here and to it's Improvement.
In order to do this a resolution for a
new government had to be pushed
through congress. We organized a
committee for the purpose, and we
spent great deal of money We final
ly succeeded. and Washington, for a
time, had a territorial government
with board of public works appointed
by the president. Gen. Grant was
then in the White house. He made me
the chief of this board and we began
our work Of improving the streets. We
kept 1t up several years, spending all
told more than SIS, 600, 900 and making
Washington the beautiful city it is.
THE RUIN soF. SHEPHERD.
I'm the meantime my business went
to pieces, and 1 awoke to find that /
had less than $4,000, 900 of assets and
$1,500,000 of Indebtedness NV credi-
tors allowed me to work my way out,
but | saw that 1t would be an awful
job for me to makeEa second fortune
In Washington.,-I had failed, and a
man who is down cannot easily COM
mand the hearty support of his friends.
l had good friends. but I concluded
that l would go elsewhere and strike
out anew. -
How old We're you then, governor"
l asked.
II was then forty-three. years of
age" was the reply.
Just about this time I was in New
York city, and I heard there of the
Batopilas mines Of Mexico. They be-
longed to Wells. Fargo & Co., and
were offered for SALE was given an
option on them at $1,000,000. L knew
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

thing. He said it, too, in such a way
that it made me angry, and threw
the Ratchet at him, and told him
would hav' nothing more to do with
his work."
Did you hit him?" I asked.
NO." replied Gov. Shepherd, 'but I
stopped work. The Ratchet came very
near him, and 1 don't think he wanted
to hold me. The result was that 1 left
carpenter work. The next thing
got into was plumbing establishment.
I learned the trade and soon became
a partner in the business. 1 after
ward bought out my other partner
I then turned my attention to build
ing houses and investing in real es-
tate. 1t was not hard to make money
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

Ing to bad administration, my mother
got none of it, and she had to open
boarding house to pay her expenses.
When 1 was twelve 1 began my life
work as carpenters apprentice, and
I learned two trades within the next
six years. I did not like carpenter
work, and gave it UP because one Of
my employers could not appreciate my
ability. At least I thought he did not
You see, got up early every morn
ing to make the fires for mother. One
morning she was not well, and I had
to also get the breakfast The result
was that I did not get started to work
until about 1880 O'Clock. IT was nearly
mile from the lumber yard to the
house which we were building. 1 had
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01
LIKE MONTE CRIST0
ALEXANDER r.. SHEPHERD HAD A
MOST REMARKABLE CA
REER.
MADE AND LOST A FORTUNE.
RECREATED- OUR NATIONAL CAP
ITAL-FOUND MILLIONS IN
MEXICO.
MADE AND LOST A FORTUNE
AND REVOLUTION.
Interesting Views on the Financial
observation-disclosures of
Garfield and Others.

copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The man
who made Washington the most beau
tiful capital of the world is spending
the winter here. He took the city
when it was mud hole. When he
left it it had more than one hundred
miles of beautiful streets, shaded by
more than ten thousand trees, and
over $25,0O00OO had been spent upon
its Improvement 1 refer to Gov. Alex
ander R. Shepherd.
When he first took charge of the
public works here he was worth $780,
600. He had begun life without cent,
but at thirty-five he had made quar-
ter of a million, and he then had an in
come of from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
He remained in public life for seven
years. When he left it he found him
self more than million dollars in debt,
and with assets hardly equal to his
Liabilities. His creditors did not press
him, but he saw that it would be IN
hill work making money in Washing
ton, and he left end went to Mexico to
retrieve his fortunes. For the past
fifteen years he has been living in the
mountains of the northern part of our
sister republic. He has found in the
Chihuahua mines a treasure equal to
that of the famed cave of Monte Cristo,
and he now comes back prospectively
one of the richest men of the world.
READS LIKE FICTION.
The story Of Gov. Shepherds career
is most interesting. chatted with him
about it last night Said he:
IT was born here in Washington. My
father died when I was eleven years
old. He left some property. but, ow-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

then, 1t seemed to me, and the day
was thirty-five I had made about
$250,0O0, and had an income of about
$4,000 a year."
MAKING OF WASHINGTON.
How did you happen to take charge
Of the Improvement of Washington"
I asked.
1T came from the talk of moving the
capital west to st. Louis. I was in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

to carry lot of boards on my back
from the yard to the house. This took
me some time, and it was o'clock
before I got there. 1 went to work at
once mailing on clapboards. 1 remem-
Der / was on the ladder pounding away
when my employer, a squeaky-voiced
Jew, screeched out scolding at me
for being So late. He said that I was
law. and would never amount to any
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

nothing about mining, but I took a
mining engineer and others and went
to Mexico. The engineer reported the
mines very valuable, and the result
was that l organized company and
bought them for $1,000000. 1 then took
$4,000 and went to Mexico to work
them. 1 thought that the remainder
mines. 1 had not been at work very
long before I found that 1 had been
deceived by the engineer. The mines
had been only partially opened He
had estimated that there was at least
$780, 900 worth of silver in the pillars
of the mine. I expected this to supply
the funds for carrying on the work.
l took out the pillars. They netted
just 100000.
SHEPHERDS MEXICAN MINES.
Il then had to go on with my mining
as best l could the governor contin-
ued. II had to use all sorts of shifts,
getting the money out of the mine as
went along. I kept this up for years,
greatly improving the property, until
have now taken out about $40, 500,0 900
worth of silver, almost all of which has
gene back into the mines. We have
bought more territory, and we have now
siXty-one square miles of land sur
the best silver-bearing leads of the
world. We have built aqueducts and
tunnels, and within short time we
expect to be taking out between two
and three million dollars. We are now
working down the veins from the top
of the mountain toward the tunnel
which we have run into the sides of the
mountain. At present We have to carry
the ore up to. the top, lifting it hundreds
of feet, and then cart it down to the
smelters ON muleback. 1t costs us about
SO ton to get the ore to the mills.
When We get the veins cut through to
the tunnel we can run it out for about
ten cents a ton, so you see that our
profits will soon rapidly increase"
GOLD IN MEXICO.
How about the silver mines of Mex
leo; are they not almost exhausted?"
mo, indeed was the reply. II be-
lieve Mexico to be one of the richest
mineral territories of the world The
country has not yet been prospected.
The people do not know what they
have The mines which they have al
ready opened are of vast extent, and
you can get some idea of the produc-
ton when I tell you that Mexico has
been coming for years silver at the
rate of S22,000,0O0 annually. There are
enormous amounts of gold in Mexico.
Take the country along the Pacific
coast down as far Mazatlan There
are half dozen CALIFORNIA; in this
strip of country, with more than Cali
fornia's riches. Why, if we could have
a railroad built from the Pacific to the
Batopilas mines, 1 believe inside Of q
year there would be fifty Thousand
miners in that territory alone. There
are good gold mines near US, and In
all of my prospecting in Mexico I have
yet to find a place where there were
not traces OF gold"
How about the old gold mines Of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

Close Quarters in London.
There are said to be 10000 familiet
In London living in single rooms.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01
THE ABANDONED MINES.

Mexico, governor? Are any Of them
good p
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

Artists rIaterials.
A large line of all the newest stud
les in Roses, Water Color Mar
ines and Pastel will be placed on
table in center aisle and sold at
half-price on Monday.
Extra Heavy Water Color Board, for score
cards. f5c and 25G per sheet
Fine Sable Water Color Brushes usu- Jrc
ally sold from zoe to 7Jc, for ....... AOS
Cancels Hair Water Color Brushes, all eC
oiZSS. ~
100 boxes of Marshing's Roman Sold eOC
will be sold at. Observation-Disclosures. CSS
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

tening a hook or two inside the leg,
you see l am dressed in boomers.
'Bloomers should, think, be popular
in London this year, for Maud Of Wales,
who married Carl of Denmark, has sew
eral sets in her trousseau. Both cycle
a great deal.
For Paris" said Lila, 81 shall be
more conservative. Lam going to wear
boomers there. But short boomers
are the special property of bohemian
Paris only, and l must taboo them.
These are my Partisan boomers"
FOR PARIS.
The Partisan boomers" were to the
shoe tops and were abundantly trim
med in a way that made them look like
the skirt of a dress. The separation
between the feet was only as far up as
the knees and was actually invisible TO
the passer-by. They give me freedom
with the feet in outdoor exercise" said
Lila, and in Paris shall have to con-
tent myself with them, as French ETH
quette is so strict.
THE ones for indoor wear or garden
use are boomers that are near kin 10
knickerbockers. They are close fitting
and differ from the knickerbockers in
coming over the knee. They are IN
trimmed, are of a pale shade OF pink
and are very full where the knee bends.
This fullness is introduced by the cum
ming of the bloOmer art.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

parader who expects to stop upon a
bench in Central Park for > o'clock
luncheon before returning over the
charmed thOroughfare at ( is as pleas
ant sight as the one whose elaborate
dinner, waiting at home, brings a shade
Of anxiety 10 the one who knows THAT
the duties of hostess at grand Easter
dinner await her.
LINE OF CARRIAGES.
Moving slowly up Fifth avenue the
while are long lines of carriages. Their
mission is 10 follow the owner, who, on
foot, is enjoying the greetaings OF the
season. and TO be on hand when fatigue
succeeds pleasure. a. thousand you
may count travelling up the avenue Ike
great slowly moving animate objects,
guided by coachmen and horses as i'm
penetrable and unmOved in their mis-
sion as the centaur.
Soon the carriages stop and begin to
pick up their burdens. Good-byes are
exchanged upon street corners. Hands
are waved from hanson and victoria.
Robes are tucked in against the chilli
ness of the coming dusk. The pedestrl-
ans move off towards the side sire IS
that brought them 10 Fifth avenue.
Whips crack over the heads of the glls-
tering horses whose lives are spent
moving up and down Fifth avenue. and
away the wheels roll to the mansions
that could scarcely be more beautifully
located were they removed to the skies
above. whence comes the JOY of Easter.
Later in the day at o'clock the ave-
nue. fills again in a oesultory way.
Afternoons out" make a goOdly show
ing. and the luncheOns eaten upon tue
mark benches nerve the tired feet OF
those who must take the city ferry to
travel down the same thOroughfare
again i'm vain effort to revive TO the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05
TED FOUND THE WINTER.

Ted stood on the veranda and watch
ed the gay party drive away. He an
swered his mammals last wave of the
handkerchief with a grave military sa-
lutte.
Catch the senior captain unbending
enough to wave a handkerchief, Mrs.
Tanner said the young lieutenant
who sat on the ambulance steps with
a basket on each arm-"never'
Ted's mamma smiled and leaned out
for a last look at the little figure on the
veranda across the parade grounds.
She was very proud of the handsome
little sonrwhOse grave dignity of speech
and bearing had won him the nickname
of The Senior Captain
The Tanners had been at Fort Sam
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

smooth roads Of the Park.
Now" chatted Lila, "since YOU have
come to see boomers, l am going TO
show them to you. You are not to be
shocked, for forewarned is farearmed,
and l shall expect you to think as much
of me after you find that | am young
woman with six new pairs Of spring
boomers as YOU did when You knew I
had six new spring gowns from Worth.
And, to be strictly true, one OF my
bloomer sets did come from Paris.
This set of boomers call jackets
and trousers a SETS to take with me
to London to ride upon the Row and
when I wheel out past Sandringham.
You must know l am very particular
when | take that road. for | am TO be
presented at court this year, and those
Wales girls have the most remarkable
memory for faces.
LONDON BLOOMERS.
''The boomers that l shall wear in
London are of a new kind sent to me
from Paris. may appear in them here
during Easter week when all the world
is out TO admire They are made upon
the most original plan.
"The front Of these bloomers," said
the merry bloomerite, bringing out a
conventional serge suit. does not look
like a bloomer, does it? No. it doesn't
In reality it is a skirt. It comes to my
shoe tops, and is very full and COM
Portable. But see.
While Lila was talking she had slip
ped on the skirt and fastened it. StOOp-
ing down she took hold of the front Of
the skirt near the hem and gave it an
awful "yank." In a trice the skirt I'M
buttoned to the waist A similar yank
with the left hand pulled the skirt open
in the back. With the nimblest fin
gers Lila caught a cord near the hem
OF the skirt and pulled it. The cord
lay inside the hem Of the skirt and by
pulling it the leg of a bloOmer was
made. Another cord transformed the
other leg into a blOomer leg.
Now" said Lila, complacently, fas-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05
ICE CAVES OF JAPAN.
A Great Depression in a Lava Bed
Near Shoji.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
Some eight or ten miles from ShoJi'
in the woods, is the entrance to the
great ice cave we had come so far TO
see. a natural circular depression or
basin in the ground in the middle of the
forest. some thirty yards across and
about forty deep. AT the foot OF one
of the sides is a dark opening in the
lava. a few feet down which may be
seen the top of a wooden ladder. This
is about twelve feet long, and at the
foot of it is a heap of blocks of lava,
down which we scrambled for some
thirty or forty feet more, till floor OF
solid ice, more or less fiat. was reached.
Very careful progress along this had
to be made to avoid slipping down and
extinguishing the torches. For the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

eye the brilliancy of the morning scene
But Easter Day is over. Next year ii
will come again. Now it is Easter
night.
FOREIGN CASTERS.
I'm Berlin the same scene is being
enacted i'm a different way upon the
famous "Unter den Linden" Under
the lime trees promenade the Berlin
good folk on their way TO the Bran
denburger Thor" which is to them
more than Central Park is 10 Fifth ave-
nue. pr0meDaderS. for it holds Sunday
refreshment for the weary walker.
In Vienna the "RingstraSse' at Eas-
ter is something TO be remembered.
It's opera. its theatres. its Royal or
Berg Z heatre. and its other places of
amusement all wide open. SO splen-
didly do the Niennese amuse them
selves.
In Paris or Easter day the Boulevard
des Italians is the gayest sight of the
city. Good Parisians i'm good clothes
throng Fl going to the Champs ElySees,
where all day long there is a crowd as
mixed and AS brilliant as Paris alone
can produce. Paris becomes merriment
itself on Easier Day.
AusCGla'S Easter is finest in Collins
street leading to Victoria Gardens,
Melbourne. The hot waves of March
have passed away and a serenity. trop-
zeal but grateful, lies over the broad,
clean stree IS.
In summer garb g8v as Paris. s..
Petersburg. London and India can send
forth. the Australians enjoy the prov
inc which. under the grace of Victoria.
IS theirs, for their own ruling and God
worship.
Rome sends out its colony on Easter
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

Day to promenade along Piazza Colon
ma TO the Piazza de Monte Citorio, ana
many American faces there be in the
sun-warmed procession that enjoys
ROme's marvellous Easter bells.
And in cold St. Petersburg, never TOO
troDic under the hottest sun. there is a
bright array of good gowns and smiling
faces upon the Fifth avenue Of the Rus
sian capital the Nevski Prospect.
Easter bells ring over the snow, most
likely. for St. Petersburg's winter does
not respect Easter as ours does.
Throughout Christendom there is a
thankfulness running through Easter
Day, and to bring all glory inUo the Cd
servance of Easter, earth and sky, and
creatures unite in grandest effort.
JAMES BARTON.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

Houston but three weeks. The promo
ton which brought them there Captain
Tanner had received while stationed at
Fort Omaha. and the change from the
snow and ice of the Omaha January to
the sunshine and flowers at San An
tonia had been a delightful one to him
and to his delicate young wife.
But Ted was only five years old, and
this was the first winter he had been
allowed to play in the snow. The Tan
ners had not lived at the post ct OEEha
but had a house in the city. Here
clad in a great Overcoat, leather leg
gins and red mittens, Ted had built
snow houses and made snow men with
the boys next door and had thought
winter a glorious thing. For a little
while after he came to San Anfonia Ted
had been so occupied with the novelty
of the new home that he had not MSS
ed his playmates or his winter sports.
But the sudden change from winter TO
summer had puzzled him greatly.
Where was the winter? Where was
the snow?
Ted was not a boy who asked many
questions. Indeed, his father vas wont
to say. laughingly, that there was the
making CT a good general in Ted-he
talked so little and thought so much.
But this morning, while the ambulance
waited in front Of the house for his
mamma. ne had put to the question
about the winter to Williams, the driv-
er. and Williams had pointed to the
north. and said:"Off there and then,
with a thought of the sudden north
ers" that sweep over Texas in winter,
he had added. and not so far of either,
sometimes. I've seen snow on the chap
arral wonder" Ted's heart had given a
great bound. Snow on the chapawal!
That wasn't far. Surely he could go
there. He had meant 10 ask mamma
when she came out, but the young lieu
tenant who carried her wraps had sung
out: well, isn't the senior captain