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New Ulm review., 1901-05-15
Wall STREET GOES CRAZY |
Contest for Control Of Northern Pa
cifc Results in Most Exciting
Scenes Ever Witnessed.
STOCK OF THAT ROAD GOES TO 81, 900.
DeIuge of other Securities Follows
and Under Heavy Liquidating
Sales Prices Decline in Every Di-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Suffer Great
est-Terms of Settlement

| New York, May 10. The worst
panic-for the short time involved be-
fore it was checked-that Wall street
| to the contest for the control of the
| Northern Pacific railroad and to the
cornering of the common stock of
that road. At the time there was
seemingly no bottom this side of zero
to stock-market prices. Stocks were
| offered for sale at any price they
would bring, and under the immense
mass of forced liquidating sales the
market crumbied away in every di-
| rection.
Touches $1,000 Mark.
Money rates, as is customary in
times of panic, when banks are call
ing loans, rushed upward to 80 per
cent. on call. Sales of stock were
made at such losses compared with
Wednesdays closing prices as 80 to
so points. The frantic shorts in
Northern Pacific were willing to pay
any price at all in order to get the
stock, and in leaps and bounds the
price of Northern Pacific rushed up
from $170 share, at which 500
shares were sold at the opening, to
$1,000 share, at which price 300
shares were sold for 100000 cash.
Face Disaster
Never before in the history of the
exchange has there been such a SEN
sational movement in a stock. It
helped cause the utmost demoraliza-
tion elsewhere in the list, and helped
along the frantic rush to get out of
the market at any price. Disaster
for time stared in the face many
great houses which have been monu-
ments in the financial district for
years.
Danger Line Passed.
The very madness of the panic was
really the protection of a dozen
large firms. So swiftly and tre-
mendously did prices shoot down
| ward that before the banks could get
out their calls for the increased mar
J gins they were entitled to at the low
est levels the market had turned and
the extreme danger line was passed.
Not a single stock exchange house
failed, remarkable fact.
Fearful Crash in Stocks
No sooner had the giants of
| wealth begun once more the assault
| upon Northern Pacific than there
| was a crash in stocks which is un-
equaled in the history of the board.
| All the railroad stocks tumbled with
one accord save Northern Pacific,
| which changed hands in lots of thou
sands at 5000, $500 and s7OO. A few
| years ago this stock went begging at
| SO
New Ulm review., 1901-05-15
SPECTATORS suffer Greatest.

The indications at the close of the
day were strong that the principal
damage had been wrought upon the
speculative class or upon holders of
securities on margin, for whatever
purpose. The banks have been so
well protected by recent extensions
of the margins exacted in the mar
ket value of collateral over the
amount of loans placed that they had
little to fear short of an absolute
wiping out of market values.
New Ulm review., 1901-05-15
Terms of Settlement

This morning Kuhn, Loeb e Co. will
publish notice saying they will let
out their Northern Pacific to shorts at
$3.50. Positive sta atement is made that
to-day j. P. Morgan & Co. will notify
shorts that they will be released of
short obligations to Morgan & Co. on
the basis of $3.50. This will be the
penalization. The shorts will get no
stock from Morgan & Co. They will get
Only freedom
New Ulm review., 1901-05-15
The Panic Over.

New York, May 11.-Wal1 street re-
covered from the panic of Thursday
with a bound yesterday, and while
there were many weak spots among
the big houses in the street early in
the day quick improvement in prices
soon put a dozen or more wabbly
concerns firmly on their feet. The
losses Thursday were stupendous.
One commercial paper places the
losses in the bucket shops through
out the country at s3O,0O0O0O
blessing in Disguise.
Washington, May 11.-Treasury Of
icers view the Wall street reverse as
a blessing in disguise, seeing in the
check to indiscreet speculation a
preventive of serious trouble. The
weathering of the disturbance shows
the substantial nature of the coun-
try's prosperity and strength of
banks.
, 1901-01-23
QUEEN IS DEAD
Continued from page -

fully. She suffered nc pain. Those
who were now mourning went to their
rooms. A few minutes later the inevi.
table element of materialism stepped
into this pathetic chapter of interna'
tional history, for the court ladies went
busily to work ordering their mourn.
ing from London.
The wheels of the world Jared
when this announcement came,A ut in
this palace at Osborne everything pur.
sued its usual course. Down in the
kitchen they were cooking a huge din.
ner for an assemblage, the like OF
which has seldom been known in Eng.
land, and the dinner preparations pro.
ceeded Just as If nothing had happen.
ed.
The body of Queen Victoria has been
embalmed and will probably be taken
to Windsor on Saturday.
The prince of Wales was very much
affected when the doctor at last in
formed him that his mother had
breathed her last. Emperor William
himself was deeply affected, and did
his best to minister comfort to his sor
row stricken uncle, whose new dignity
he was first to acknowledge.
From all parts Of the world there are
still pouring into Cowes messages OF
coincidence. They come from crowned
heads, millionaires, tradesmen and
paupers, and are v%ariously addressed
to the prince Of Wales and the king Of
England.
Shortly before midnight an official
announcement WAS issued calling par
Lament to meet at 4 O'Clock this
wednesday, afternoon to enable the
members of the house Of lords and the
house of commons to take the oath Of
allegiance to King Edward VII.
In Dublin the expressions of regret
were universal.
The privy council will meet in Lon
don today and the proclamation Of the
king will occur thereafter at all places
required by custom.
The king will come to London to pre-
side over the council.
, 1901-01-23
VICTORIA WHEN A GIRL.

ter, was sentenced to death, but was
transported for life. The day after his
sentence was committed a drug clerk
named Bean tried to shoot her with
pieces of clay pipe in a pistol. BE was
whipped and put in Jail. In 1S49 she
was again shot at by an Irish laboreI
named Hamilton on Constitution hill,
but the pistol contained only powder.
The next year Lieutenant Pate struck
her in the face.
Victoria, visiting Scotland, Hollywood
and the castle, told Alison that she was
glad she was descended from Mary and
had nothing to do with Elizabeth.
April, 1913, was born the Princess
Maud or Alice.
In 1913 Victoria went on her yacht to
zee the king Of the French, whose daugh.
ter was her step aunt, and staid five
days al Chateau d'Eu. She had never
been out Of England before. Thence
they went to Belgium. Nicholas, the
car, paid her q visit. Louis Philippe fol
lowed.
In August, 1874, Prince Alfred was
born.
In 1851 she opened the Crystal palace,
In 1885 she purchased Osborne, isle OF
Wight, and 1890 acres.
In 1949 she visited Germany.
Helena was born May 25, 1s48, and In
1913 the Princess Louise.
Louis Philippe, an exile. died at Clare
mont, England, in ls49.
In 1858 was born Prince Leopold, just
before the Crimean war. Louis Napoleon
and Eugene visited her.
Beatrice was born 1857.
Prince Albert died Saturday night
Dec. IA, 1861, at the age of only ~. Nc
wonder the widow felt the loss Of hel
spouse ct that young, manly age and
was long i~nconsolable. He died Of fevel
from cold and said to his daughter Alice
your mother cannot bear to hear mt
speak Of it yet" Onlya year previously
her mothers death made her say, I'll
wretched child, have lost the mother
30 tenderly loved, from whom for thes,
Il years l had never been partsd s1csp'
for . few weeks"
"'Ts your own little wife" che said h
the dying Albert. he said he heard u
birds singing outside the windows q
Windsor, and with his fevered breath h
Kissed her, thinking Of Germany. II
bad his daughter play him German air
in his last days. Victoria's stepbrother
the Duke Of Leiningen. was With Aber
when be died.
The queen mourned long, and SOM
thought her mind would be affected. tn
tnssnsste. LondoaS tradsmaen ahrieksd
"Bs done with your hiking away -
coms and ct, d tradA" Albsrt, Nh
Handea,tAs masician bsfere hiln, knsy
the difference between German love Q
art and knowledge for their own sah
and English mining for knowlsdeS -
means Of wealth. BE bad written b
fceN HI marriage q EAG2And;
, 1901-01-23
THE DEAD
Sketch Of the Beloved Sovereign by
George Alfred Townsend.

In the pleasant month of May, its cath
day. 1919. Victoria WAS born and chris.
tened Alexandria Victoria. After the
fashion of princes, she was born almost
In the presence of the Dukes of Yelling
ton and Sussex. the archbishop of Can
terbury and the bishop Of London, the
Marquis of L%ansdowne. Mr.. Canning,
Earl Bathurst and another.
Her father, the Duke of Kent, wcpt for
joy. because the line of his father, George
III, had been running out, and 10 months
previously the only child of George "
died in childbirth, her infant neverliving.
Other brothers of that proiliyate king
were incapable of producing royal Off
spring. having wasted their youth with
mistresses. For the purpose of begetting
an heir Kent selected a bride already a
widow and easily a mother of children
by her old first husband, the Prince of
Leiningen, % years her senior.
She was 81. and in o months and II
days after the second marriage ceremony
Kent espoused her also in Germany
this sister of Leopold, tho widowed
prince consort, bore u third child. Vic
toria.
Two other brothers of Kent married
the same summer merely to have heirs
and keep tho crown Clarence's wife
had two children who took precedence
Of Victoria. but they soon died. There
was said to be a faint in the Georgian
family.
But the Coburgers. raised poor and
plain, worked steadily for the thrones
else vacated by the families of wild, rich
princes. Leopold Of S~axe-CobTrg thus,
losing his heir. gave his sister to Kent
and married his child Victoria to his
nephew Albert, and himself received the
throne of the Belgians. Persons curious
to know the private life of Leopold, the
William the Norman Of the present
princely racoof England, can read the life
Of his mistress-wife, Katharine Bauer.
Victoria was thus the grandchild OF
George III, who was the son of the
Prince of Wales, hui not of any king.
George Ill died Jan. 90. 1890. when Vic
toria was y months old, and before that
date Victoria's father died, SO that she
had no memory of Kent. She had been
previously christened in Kensington pal
ace, London. where she was born, and
her German mothers name was also Vic
toria.
Kent had married bonded for his
debts. and the widow was dependent on
her brother Leopold and her brothers-in-
law George and Clarence, two unprin-
cipled men In 1880 George ~ died
after having e~ndeavored to worry VIC
toria's respectable mother and force the
royal child into the corrupt precincts OF
bis court, where he had at the same time
three wives.
About three months after the birth OF
Victoria her future husband was born.
ALBERT is teething like his little cousin"
, 1901-01-23

to the Elector of Saxony, who protected
Martin Luther; through her father ,tc
the Countess Palatinate at Heidelberg
William the Silent, the sister Of Henry
VIII, the queen of Scots, Owen Tudol
and S~hakespeare's Princess Katharine Of
France.
Victoria's train was held by eight
young peeresses, and she wore a crimson
velvet robe trimmed with ermine and
gold lace. She was anointed.
After five days of wooing at Windsor
the queen told Lord Melbourne she should
marry Albert. She had al queen to dc
the proposing, and she wrote to Leopold
HE seems perfection, and think have
the prospect of great happiness before
me. love him more than l can say
They rode horseback much together
About a month after this the queen an
nounced her engagement to her privy
council. Her whole courtship had beer
only five weeks long. Her consort was
to be allowed ESQ, 900 a year. They were
married the third day after he returned
to England, Feb. 10, 1910, at St. James
palace. They spent the honeymoon al
Windsor castle. They were first cousins.
Victoria the year before had made a
rash political mistake in refusing to
change two Wing noble ladies, as was
the custom at a change of ministry. The
rabble called her ''the queen who would
not let her bellies be Peeled" in allusion
to Sir Robert Peel, who succeeded Lord
Melbourne.
Prince Albert took charge of his wife's
political temperament from the outset.
In April, after the marriage, her mother
was moved to q private house. In June
the queens life was attempted in Hyde
park by a waiter named Oxford, who
was ever afterward confined in an asy-
lum. Two shots were fired. and her life
was attempted several other times. By
July Albert was made contingent regent
of the realm. Her uncle, Sussex. voted
against it from jealousy.
Nov. 81, 1910, 8 months II days after
the marriage, the princess royal was
born at Windsor, long since the wild
owed Empress Victoria of Germany.
81 should certainly have liked it bet
ter if she had been a son." wrote Albert.
But this girl shut the posterity Of the
king of Hanover from the throne-Han'
over that was to be absorbed in Prussia
by Victoria's son-in-law.
Dearest Vickel safe in bed with a Lit.
tie one" wrote the queens mother, who
lived till 1861, the time of the American
civil war, or after her daughter had been
81 years a wife.
A boy named Jones vas found behind
a sofa who had been watching the queen
for weeks at a time with that passion fol
royal secrets the palmer order of English
reveal. The little cad had even lain be.
meath the sofa where the queen and her
spouse talked politics and spooned.
Prince Albert petitioned in vain to the
Prime Minister Peel to beg him tc
change the system of the royal funkies
and let him enjoy some privacy in hi:
family.
Nov. Q, 1871, the Prince of Wales was
| born, the first prince of Wales in 70
years. One John Francis 500 after at.
tempted to shoot the queen on two sue
cessive days He was a theater carpen.
, 1901-01-23
BALMORAL CASTLE.
So, to the sober and often hard aspect

ness, to the sober and often hard aspect
of the realm.
That she possessed any exceptional
mentality was never probable. She took
rather than gave advice and illustrated
the wife's vow, wherein lies the secret of
q wife's happiness, to ''love, honor and
obey" II am glad am not descended
from Elizabeth. but from the queen of
Scots" shows her respect for the abused
wife wei the abusing virago. She was
not a descendant of Henry VIII, who ex-
ecuted his wives, but of Henry VII and
of Edward w. Far back in her origin
was the bastard sonship of Duke William
Of Normandy, and before him of Rollo
and nameless Norman pirates.
The extracts | have given from the
queens book are such as any young miss
might have entered or any plain wife
expressed. She did not challenge liter
ary criticism o pose for a member Of
Sorosis. In that case she would have
challenged comparison with Catharine
of Russia, Margaret of Valois and the
other man-women Of history. Her king
dom and reign had plenty of literary
ornaments = George Eliot, Charlotte
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"a UasEIy Eterdetttta. % !

O1tAln and mate .hsdi 0f tie aiisiI.gsSI
sGithe esnGi they aluss enIc
stcls - ed Sh4s OK and
IL lgsul o0ea via Aa he
Sesgt cos nee n che promises made.
Il EaA4 seell that SIC had and ihaa her
4ads9sS4 Ia t1sleE .tt6e1n Was, followed by
al c9 %. We could moi h0ve Kept them
nHom coming aboard Win ouR feeble
crew. and 10 have shown our dlgtxiugt
afte1ward would have angefed them.
They took hold with us at once after
being given food, and before night We
had cause TO rejoice that they were
with us. We got dirty weather, which
lasted three days, and but for Their old
the NOnesuch would have become q
helpless wreck or gone 60 the bottom.
We had TO run on to the east during
this spell, and It was only when the
weRther cleared that the leader Of the
cOuvicts had conference with thSeap-.
tain and his wife and asked that his
gang be set ashore In Brazilian terrific
~. This was promised him, and T.
must say that I never worked with q
more cheerful and willing crew aboard
of any craft. Seven OF the IL had been
convicted Of murder, and ali were des-,
perate men, but they were as obedient
as children and as good natured as you
please. They were careful Of their Ian
guage, respectful in their demeanor,
and not once did hear one Of them
grumble or complain. We ran into the
Amazon and up that river for 40 miles
to set them ashore. In his gratitude to
them the captain gave them sailcloth
for two tents, musket, lot of clothes
from the slop chest and all the provi-
sions we could spare. With cooking
fishhooks and a few earpen-
ters' tools they were fairly well rugged
out for a life on the banks Of the stream
for half year to come, and at parting
there were as much handshakings and
as many farewells as if band Of old
friends was breaking up. Their escape
from the colony was a desperate one
and the authorities made an exhaustive
search; but, so far as I have been able
to learn, not one of the dozen has ever
been retaken.
Morris tribune., 1901-03-23
Not Above His Business.

Young Brodhead, scion of a wealthy
family, cherished journalistic ambi-
tons and, l:.:-e sensible youth. had re-
solved to begin at the beginning.
He had applied for and obtained a
position as a reporter on daily paper
at a moderate salary, where he was
treated precisely like any other report
er, Sinking no assignment that came
in his way and putting on no airs on
account of his wealth or social stand
ing.
He had not thought it worth while
however, to acquaint the family serv
ants with theAnature of his daily occu.
pations. and when a fellow reporter
came to the house one day with mes.
sage from the city editor the hunky in
attendance at the front door took him
around the house and brought him up
to the young mans room by a back
stairway. Il. .,,.E.ls..lzss
III: :'Why didn't you show Mfr. Craig up
sby sMay&of the trent hail r. demanded,
young Brodhesd. .s., ...ss.95l;
,s,, Hes only q reporter, whispered the,
butler. .~....z...-.-...
Imagine the dignihed funky's horror
when his master responded 10 IN SuEli.
DIE POlcS:fe 4slss & ii=3..#tss #sEs 4E! #as'
:, I'm only . reporter myself yau Dor
key !s-Y opth's CounpanIOns ii %5#'z= n
Morris tribune., 1901-03-23
CoPYRlaHT, 1900, BY c. 3. LEWIS.

It was queer chapter Of accidents
that overlook the bark Nonesuch on the
South American coast in the year 1870.
We were bound from Philadelphia to
Pernambuco, being well found craft
and a willing crew, and we lost a man
overheard before we had been out "a
hours. OFF the Bahamas the second
mate and two men pulled away in the
dingey to inspect some wreckage which
seemed to prove the loss Of a steamer,
and as they were returning a small
whale rose under the boat and smashed
her to match wood, and then two sail
ors were drowned. This left us three
men short, and we put in at the Wind
ward islands to replace them. After
much trouble we got two men. but as
we were leaving port the captain was
bitten on the cheek and the first mate
on the hand by flying insect some
what resembling the so called "darning