The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-02-03


with a great deal of pleasure by the
various trades and business concerns
interested in pushing American com"
merce into hitherto untried fields. But
this extension Of the publication Of con-
sular reports calls renewed attention to
the difference in the method prevailing
in the United States and in Foreign
countries. The English Consular SER
vice, like that of America Is expected
to gather all sorts of information which
might be valuable in the promotion of
trade, but the reports when they reach
the secretary of state for foreign affairs
are regarded as confidential communi-
cations. Copies are circulated, it is
true, to heads Of firms interested in the
peculiar line of industry upon which
the report is made, but they are not
distributed in pamphlet form as in the
country. Each report Is sent out read
and returned and the fact of its receipt
by the firm which may be interested is
noted on the document. Reports made
by our counsuls, which are sent as
matter Of courtesy to the English au-
thorities, are treated in the same man.
ner, and whenever they show that an
cAlStS lOE TIE OAleUS OH OIL
trade the Englishmen attemps to jump
in first and to wrest the opportunity
away from the United States Because
of the fact that the English merchant
gives three or four times as long
period of credit as Americans he is OF
ten successful in his effort.
What Is alleged to be another, and
this the fourth attempt at suicide, that
has taken place within a very short
time, is the shooting whether accident
al or otherwise, of Mrs Lucille Lane,
daughter of former Senator Blackburn,
Of Kentucky. The statement has been
made that the shooting was entirely ac-
cldental, but there are many facts con-
nected with it which indicate that it
was not. Mr.. Lane, husband of the
lady, was formerly an employee of the
treasury department. having been ap-
pointed to position from which an old
soldier was removed to give him a
place. The old soldier soon after COM
mltted suicide, and when the trouble
came between Blackburn and Carlisle,
over the currency question, Lane lost
MS place, and has since been agent OF
gun mandatory.
At the sad death Of Miss Leila Her.
bert, daughter Of the former Secretary
of the Navy, people shook their heads
and remarked, There will be three
more"
This was on the 21st of December
Five days later her intimate friend,
Miss Annie Virginia Wells, a social
favorite, the daughter Of one of Wash
ngton"s best known attorneys, was
dead. She was i'll and respondent, as
MISS Herbert had been, and the latter's
death so preyed upon her that she
found a revolver in the dead of night
and took her life. The self-innicted
wound was IN the same region and
quite similar to that suffered by Mrs.
Lane. Both deeds were committed
after the hour of u.
January Z, but seven days after the
first of the series, Miss Mary Waite,
daughter of the eX-Govern3r of Color
ado, sought to end her melancholy ex-
1stence by drinking poinon, but she was
found in time ind prompt medical at
tendance saved her life.
Mrs. Lanes attempted suicide recalls
the fact that this pretty young matron
during the Cleveland administration
was one of the most prominent figures
IN the younger set of Washington So
ciety. She was, perhaps, even better
known here than in her native State,
Kentucky, where her childhood was
passed. Her debut was made in this
city during the height of her fathers
popularity as Senator, and was one of
the notable social events of that season.
She was feted, wined and dined suffic-
iently to have turned the head of any
girl.