Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 30, 1896, Page 2

oes . Saree —— Z — Ohe Herald. BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS. - MINNESOTA There will be a total eclipse of Nor- way’s midnight sun on the night oft Aug. 8 The safety bicycle was Sverre twenty years ago by H. J. Lawson, an’ Englishman. A few days ago, from a single steamer, 1,548 Italian emigrants were ‘anded in New York. In a word, the outbreak of cholera over in Egypt is an advance notice to the other countries to clean up. A bicycle path is to be built from Baltimore to Washington, and the Baltimorean, in the near future, will be taking his morning spin to the national capital and back. The Moslem statutes designate Christians as “dogs” and “pigs.” In their burial certificates a deceased Christian is not said to be dead, but “damned.” The very latest thing is a folding bicycle which doubles over on itself and may be carried on the shoulder. This will simplify the operation of the bicycle baggage laws. The term “grand opera” is correct- ly applied to any opera.which is sung throughout with the accompaniment of a full orchestra, and having an entire exclusion of spoken dialogue. The returns issued by the London Board of Trade for April shows an increase in imports of £470,000 and an merease in exports of £1,170,000 dur+ that month as compared with ng April last year. If Emperor William should chat enge for the American cup, and} should then conduct himself on the Dunraven plan, what a lot of lese majeste there would be for American citiens to answer for. fi ‘ s Prsssoplees is TS The sentence of Count von Kotze to two years’ imprisonment for “killing: his man,’ may deter some German would-be duelists; but dueling will not tease until the so-called field of honor igs regarded as murder. The sea serpent season has not opened yet, but a British steamer in the Atlantic ran across a Flying Dutchman not long ago. The crew de- cided to board the ghostly ship, and found her only a derelict loaded with sand ballast. Perhaps the insect pest in Spain and the failure of the wheat crop may re- mind the more thoughtful inhabitants there of certain events that are said to have happened in Egypt a few thousand years back, in connection with an oppressed people. The Illinois supreme court has de- cided that the Sunday law, as applied to barbers, is not constitutional. What is needed, though, is a law making it a penal offense for any barber to talk politics between now and November to a customer who is in a chair and has a lather on his face. Nothing has been heard yet as to the disposition which is to be made of the assassin of the Shah of Persia, but his end will doubtless come soon by means ef “boiling oil or something anpleasant of that sort.” These Ori- entalists have a happy way of making he “punishment fit the crime.” The cyclone season seems to have set in with unusual vigor. The scient- ist who will harness this particular phenomenon to his chariot and drive it off into everlasting oblivion will de- serve more honor from mankind than the inventor of the telephone, the bi- cycle and the flying machine, all put together. . The women of New Orleans have raised $9,600 toward the establishment of an anti-toxin plant in that city. This is merely auxiliary to a main fund, and it is a good showing for the women, and a work worth doing in a city where contagious diseases are as vrevalent as they are in New Orleans The new territorial authorities of Oklahoma have made themselves tre- mendously unpopular among the Indi- ans of that territory by prohibiting po- lygamy. As it is practically impossi ble for one squaw to support a hus- band single-handed, the new rule is destined to work great hardship, not to say heartbreak, among the dusky population of the youngest territory. The new United States battle-ship Oregon was built on the Pacific coast for $3,120,000, 2r only $60,000 more than the cost of the Massachusetts, which was constructed at the Hastern shipyards. The Oregon was started five months later than the Massachu- setts, but was completed almost at the same time. Wherever Uncle Sam hag a port he seems able to build a war- ship equal to the best in the world. THE NEWS RESUME. DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports—The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention, The Na/ion’s Capital. _The senate has confirmed the nom- {nation of John C. Tarsney of Missouri to be associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Oklahoma, In the supreme court of the United States Justice White handed down the opinion of the court in the case of the Singer Sewing Machine trademark. The judgment of the court below, the circuit court of Northern district, Illi- nois, which was against Singer, was reversed. The secretary of the interior has for- yarded to Chairman Sherman of the house committee on Indian affairs a favorable report on the Teller bill, pro- viding for the abolition of the offices of commissioner of Indian affairs and the assistant commissioner, and the substitution therefor of three Indian commissioners. The war department hos ordered four troops of cavalry and a band from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., six com- anies of infantry and a band from + McPherson, Ga., and four com- ies of infantry from Fort Thomas, ‘y., to proceed to Nashville, Tenn., to {sented in the approaching cen- mnial celebration at that place. People Talked About. Judge W. A. Lofton, at one time attorney general of Georgia, died at Macon, Ga., of paralysis. Robinson Soutlar M. P., says total abstinence is growing fashionable in London. Dr, and Mrs. Philip Ballard celebrate their fifty{fifth wedding anniversary at Napoleon, Ohio. Paul Loyson, son of Charles Loyson, known as “Pere Hyacinthe,” and Lura Birckwell of Philadelphia, were mar- ried in Paris. The Arctic explorer, Lieut. Peary, is going north again this summer, and a steamer is now being engaged at St. Johns, N. F., for that purpose. The late Robert Louis Stevenson made $150,000 in twelve yéars, and there aré many other modern writers whose incomes are as large. In 1887 Gen. Sherman predicted that “the most terrible war ever known will take place in America before the end of the century.” Mrs. Robertson, wife of ex-Lieut. Gor. R. S. Robertson, formerly one of the members of the Utah commission, died in Fort Wayne, Ind. after a long illness, from cancer. Seth Hill, the oldest person in Lake county, Ill., is dead, aged ninety-seven years. He came of good old stock, his father, Reuben Hill, having been a Revolutionary hero. Miss Mary Isabel Stewart the young¢ est daughter of Senator Stewart, was married to Francis Lithgow Payson, son of Francis Payson of New York, at Senator Stewart's residence in ‘Washington. Mavroyeni Bey, the smooth-tongued little Greek who has so long repre- sented the porte as its minister at Washington, is to be superseded by Mustafa Tachsin Bey, whose name in- dicates that he is a full-blooded Turk. Joseph Mahn of Elk county, Pa., once famous as a mighty hunter, died a few days ago, aged ninety years. It was leSs than th yeat$ ago that failing eyesight compelled him to give up his life in the woods, Ex-Senator Temple Hcuston, son of the first president of the Texas re- public, was acquitted yesterday in the murder of John Jennings, in a terrible duel in a saloon at Woodward, Okla., last fall, and the wounding of Ed Jennings,s John’s brother. Mr. Hous- ton is the best revolver shot in the West. He is a brilliant orator and literary man, and public sentiment was with him. Accidental Happenings. The number of people killed by the Texas cyclone is expected to reach 120, A Buffalo building collapsed, killing two persons and injuring others. A. H. Hoteling of Whittemore, Iowa, has died from injuries received in a runaway, accident. A schooner sunk, on Lake Michigan near Chicago and five men were drowned. People were fatally injured and con- siderable property destroyed by Kan- sas cyclones. Henry Stefka, aged forty years, was found dead in Bloomington, Ind., the presumption being that he met death in a runaway. A business block at Burket, Ind., col- lapsed. One man, Joseph Condor, was killed and four others were injured, one fatally. Irving Jones and Edward Westfall of St. Joseph, Mich., aged 19 and 21, are believed to have drowned in Lake Michigan during a heavy gale. While standing in the door of a school house near Effingham, IIll., Hen- ry McCash, a pupil, was killed by lightning. No trace of tne lightning could be found on the building. Reports from the town of Rock in Cowley county, Kan. where five houses were demolished by a cyclone, are to the effect that no one was kill- ed. William W. Snyder, a prominent at- torney of Fremont, Ind., who was a somnambulist, leaped from a second- story window and received injuries that caused his death. Mrs. Anna Devaney, sixty-three years old, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Elmer Atherton, nine years old, were found dead in bed, suffocated by gas in the house of the boy’s father in Omaha. Mrs. Devaney had blown out the gas. Crimes and Criminals. A Nebraska bank president has been arrested for receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent. James Conroy of Ogdensburg, N. Y., murdered his wife, cutting her head nearly off with a knife. Charles Conrad, a farmer Hving near Cookesville, Ill, murdered William VJ Cope, a neighbor, during a quarrel. James Dewitt was hanged at Gray- son, Ky., in the presence of 5,000 peo- ple, for the murder of his wife on Nov. 14, 1895. : John Carberry, aged 64, Neb., under bonds on a charge of steal- ing cattle, committed suicide by shoot- ing. Bolin, the ex-city treasurer of Oma- ha, convicted of embezzlement, has been sentenced to nineteen years in prison and fined $211,000. a Irving T. Ford, the negro whose bru- tal murder of young Elsie Kreglo, a white girl of 16 years of age, near the zoological park, Washington, less than three weeks ago, was found guilty. Frederick Owen, aged 22, stole a team of horses from a farmer two miles west of Logansport, Ind., in the morning. He was captured at noon and sentenced in the afternoon. The mysterious disappearance of Mrs. John Saltzer of Garrett, Ill, is creating grave apprehension in that locality. She was the plaintiff in a di- vorce suit and it is believed that she has been spirited away. Jack Campbell a barber, E. M. Pritchard a laborer, Fred Parks a painter, Isaac Close, Daniel Neil, Ernest Norton and Clara Smith a do-, mestic, are under arrest charged with murdering Harry Oswald, who was found dead at South Omaha. The Osage Carbon company had closed all but one of its coal shafts at Osage City, Kan., throwing about 500 men out of work. Some one dis- abled the remaining shaft by exploding a charge of dynamite in tne main entry and 100 more men are out of work. T. A. Fawcett, a well known busi- ness man of Wichita, Kan., caused the arrest of Miss Etta Oshkraft, an_18- year-old girl, and her mother, Mrs Mary Ashkraft, a widow. His griev- ance was that, they had disturbed his peace by throwing kisses at him and calling him sweet names. Foreign Gossip. American property was destroyed by rioters in China. John S. Johnson was defeated in a picycle race in Paris by Morin. The Emperor of Germany catches it all around for saying the clergy must not meddle with politics. The American consul at Havre, France, prevented the shipment of cat- tle to the United States. Turkey pays indemnities to England, France and Russia for an attack upon | consuls at Jiddah. The sultan’s presents to the czar on the occasion of the latter’s corona- tion consists of a number of rich car- pets and other costly articles includ- Ing a diamond pin valued at £2,000 ($10,000) intended for the ezarina. The trial in London of Henry Fow- Jer and Albert Milson, laborers charg- ed with the murder of Henry Smith at Muswell Lodge, Muswell Hill, on the night of Feb. 23, a case which has attracted much attention, resulted to-day in sentence of death being pro- nounced upon both men. The scheme of coast defense which is being prepared for submission to the Canadian government estimates that three cruisers would be necessary on the Atlantic to cover the Gulf of St. Lawrence and coast waters of Nova Scotia and Bay of Fundy. At last some definite news has been received as to the fate of the British bark Cadzow Forest, which has 80 long been missing and which has been given up as lost. From news just re- ceived it appears that the fears that the vessel was wrecked were only too well founded. Otherwise. Yale won from Princeton in the track and field contest. ‘The Armour strike at Kansas City is arbitrated. An Aglo-American-Canadian com- mission is to study the fur sealing in- dustry. _ The Cincinnati Tunnel railway was sold under foeclosure to Ira W. Fel- lows for $50,000. Fellows is represent: ing Brice’s new line to Chicago. At a meeting held at Hiawatha, Kan., relief was provided for the cyclone sufferers at Reserve. A car load of provisions, clothing, etc., will be sent to Reserve. Mrs. Nicol, Hastings and Gilpa of Pittsburg have just completed the pur- chase near Tuscaloosa, Ala., of 30,000 acres of valuable timber land which they say they will at once develop. The twelfth annual reunion of the alumni of the American college at Rome, Italy, was held in Washington. The association is purely social, and is composed of priests all over the country. ‘The Charlton and Salt rivers and several smaller streams in Missouri have overflowed their banks as a re- sult of heavy rains and all crops on bottom lands are greatly damaged or wholly destroyed. W. O. Joseph, who is head clerk for the Patton Manufacturing company, in the state prison at New Albany, Ind., and of the plant at Muncie, Ind., |has been appointed receiver of the company at both places. For five days scores have been searching the Michigan woods and Lit- tle Muskegon river day and night for the body of Isaac Hornby, a young man who disappeared on May 14 and is believed to be demented. A powerful combination to wage war on the ice trust, which was formed in Chicago this spring, was perfected re- cently. Nearly 400 business men, cus- tomers of the different ice companies, attended. At a secret meeting of the Tri-State Butter, Egg and Poultry association of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, held at Hudson, Mich., the association voted to build an anti-trust strawboard and filler factory to manufacture its own cases. The Citizens’ bank of Edwardsburg, Mich., has closed. At a meeting of the stockholders the cashier, J. L. Kieck- ner, acknowledged he had spent over $6,000 of the bank’s money on the Chicago board of trade, as well as $16,000 of his own money. Hollow glass bricks are now in use in Paris buildings. They are said to j be both light and strong and to be | excellent non-conductors of heat, ow- ing to the air contained in them. They have been used for arches cf ten-foot 4 BETO DEATH IN A STORM CYCLONE AND CLOUDBURST IN EASTERN IOWA. Two Score People Are Killed and a Large Number of Others Are In- jured—Twenty-Five or Thirty People Are Supposed to Have Been Drowned at McGregor. Des Moines, May 27.—Forty-three Killed, a score fatally injured and about fifty people less seriously hurt is, as near as can be estimated now, the result of the destructive tornado which swept portions of Iowa, Illinois and Kansas last night. The property loss is heavy, but accurate estimates are, thus far, an impossibility. The list of killed stands as follows: Jasper county, Iowa, 10; Polk county, Iowa, 9; Rockford, Ill., 4; Elgin, DL, 1; North McGregor, Iowa, 12; Durango, Iowa, 5; Fort Scott, Kan:, 2 The storm wrought its greatest havoc in Iowa, where the counties of Polk and Jasper were devastated by two tornadoes. The loss of life was heaviest there, the list of dead being as follows: In Polk county, near Bondurant and Santiago stations, on the Chicago Great Western: Egbert Bailie, Jr.; Mrs. Robert Bailie, Miss Lizzie Bailie, John Bailie, Peter Bolenbaugh, Mrs. Peter Boelenbaugh, two grandchildren of the Bolenbaughs, John Maxwell (killed by lightning.) Following is a list of killed in Jas- per county: Charles Phalen, Jr.; Charles Phalen, Sr.; Dannie Phalen, Susie Phalen, Mike Phalen, Mollie Phalen, Clarisa Dickie, Martha Dickie, Charles Eakins, Mrs. Shell. The following are among the serious- ly injured, half of whom, it is esti- mated, may die: In Polk county—W. T. Scott, Mrs. A. L. Edwards, Oliver Yates, two children of Mrs. Edwards, Robert Bailie. In Jasper County—Mrs. Charles and Willie Phalen, Mr. Dugeakins, Mrs. Dugeakins, Solomon Dickie, Mrs. Sol- omon Dickie, Nellie Dickie, Harvey Pitcock, Mrs. Harvey Pitcock, Monroe Osborne, Mrs. Monroe Osborne and child. Details of the Storm, Des Moires, May 27. — Jasper and Polk counties were swept by a very disastrous cyclone last night, and to- day’s developments showed the ter- rible extent of the disaster. The storm, which at first gave promise of getting more serious that a heavy rain, soon developed into a tornado, rivalling in force and destruction the recent tor- nado which devastated Texas and Kansas. As near as can be ascer- tained at present, six towns were par- tially destroyed. They were Bondur- ant, Valeria and Mingo, on the line of the Chicago Great Western from Des Moines, and Ankeny, Polk City and Slater, on another branch of the same road running north from Des Moines. Bondurant, Ankeny and Polk City are in Polk county, Valeria is on the line between Polk and Jasper counties, Mingo is in Jasper county and Slater is in the southwestern corner of Story county. All telegraph and telephone wires are down in the districts swept by the storm, and communication is difficult. The first news of the storm reached this city from Berwick, a small sta- tion nine miles east of this city. ‘The railroad telegraph operatcr’s first bul- letin stated that Valeria and Bondur- ant had been completely destroyed; that the Chicago Great Western de- pot had been wrecked and that at Valeria 300 feet of the track had been picked up bodily and hurled into a mass of tangled and twisted iron, effectually stopping traffic from the north. Trainmaster Sheehan at once sent out word to have the track re- paired as quickly as possible. The rs fatality occurred two miles east of Bondurant. Th? house of Robert Baily, occupied by himself, wife and seven children, was demol- ished. Mrs. Baily, Joe, aged 18, and John, aged 15, were killed outright. Mr. Baily sustained injuries that will probably result fatally. From tbis point the storm followed the Great Western road to a point above Ira, in Marshall county. where the last traces of it are found. Santiago Was Wrecked and a family named Bolenbaugh, con- sisting of father, mother and one child, were killed. A number were in- jured, but it is not thought any o€ the injuries are serious. The next town in the course of the storm was Valeria. It was swept almost from the face of the earth. Here a man named Phelan and his four children were killed. A large number were injured, but as it it a point ten miles from telegraph communication and all news comes by carriers, it is hard to get definite in- formation. A dispatch from Altoona, east of here, says a courier reports that be- tween Valeria and Ira, the loss of life and property is great, and that at least nine persons were killed in the country and their bodies brought into Ira. It is impossible as yet to get de- tails from there. The best informa- tion is, though, that the above death list is complete, and that the killed number just twenty, although this may be slightly increased by deaths among the injured in the course of the day. At the citizens meeting called here, a relief committee was appointed. A train with physicians left this city over the Great Western, following a con- struction train, this morning, but on account of track damage, has not yet reached Bondurant. A severe storm struck west of Polk City, in the southern part of this coun- ty, on the Des Moines river, but at a point eighteen miles north of Des Moines, met a counter current and was directed to a northeast course. Polk City was the first town in its course. There only slight damage was done to property, and no one was injured. Six miles east, at Ankeny, on the Northwestern, the storm ficst took the form of a cyclone, and there trees were torn from the ground. buildings demolished and everything swept level with the ground. Slight damage was done in the town. In Bondurant the storm passed through the north half of the town and laid it waste, but by a miracle no one was killed in the town. W. P, Scott was severely but not dangerous- ly injured. East of Bondurant, the storm was much more pronounced in force, and buildings were swept hun- dreds of yards off their foundations and totally wrecked. Cars were blown from the railroad tracks and at one point a bridge several hundred feet long was wrenched from the ground and scattered along the prairie. Great Damage in Illinois. Rockford, Ill., May 27.—Four killeé and many injured, a number of them fatally, is the result of the cyclone which swept through this section last night at midnight, besides great loss to property and the complete ruin of crops in the path of the storm. Mrs. Godfrey Hildebrand, living near Mon- roe, was beheaded while going down cerrar to escape the storm. Her daugh- ter Elsie was also instantly killed and her husband, who is a prominent G. A. R. man, is dead from injuries re- ceived. Six others asleep in the house were blown across the street and in- jured. The house was completely de- molished. Near Egan City Mrs. Izora Bird was instantly killed and her tive children badly injured, two probably fatally. Near Leaf River Mr. and Mrs. George Garner were both serious- ly injured. At Forreston the steeple of the M. E. church was blown down. Great damage to buildings was done at Egan City, Davis Junction, Bryon, Leaf River, Mount Morris, Steward, Beloit, Rockton, Forreston and other places in this section. The rain which accompanied the wind was the heavi- est in years, and all creeks are far out of their banks. Hail as large as hickory nuts also fell in great quanti- ty, stripping trees of foliage and ley- eling crops. Every building in the path of the cyclone was demolished and much livestock killed. The loss cannot be estimated, but it will be very large in Winnebago, Ogle, Lee and Boone counties, which seemed to suf- fer most severely. Lost in the Flood. McGregor, Iowa, May 27.—As a re- sult of a cloudburst last night Bloody Run, by the valley of which the Iowa & Minnesota and Iowa & Dakota di- visions of the St. Paul road leaves the Mississippi at North McGregor, be- came an irresistible river, sweeping buildings, bridges, men, women and children and stock to death and de- struction. The storm wiped out miles of railroad track. The families of Lawrence Meyers and Section Fore- men Maloney and Buck, living in the valley west of North McGregor, num- bering eighteen persons, were all swept away and drowned, it is feared. Many other lives were lost. Great quantities of lumber and many box cars were swept out into the Missis- sippi river and carried away. The Milwaukee road’s loss will exceed $100,000. Dubuque, May 27.—Passengers on a train from the north say that from twenty-five to thirty persons were drowned at North McGregor. Among the dead are a man named Maloney, his wife, child and grandchild and families named Burke and Meyers. “THE NEW LADY.” | Women Whitecaps Destroy a Moon- shine Still. Hindman, Ky.. May 27.—The first band of women White Caps in the his- tory of this county made itself felt here last night. Moses Maggord, a once respectable and well-to-do farm- er, had set up a moonshine still or blind tiger. He was doing a thriving business with the young men of this and Floyd counties. The women of the neighborhood had frequently sent in petitions requesting Old Man Root to close up the place, but he laughed at them. They finally de- cided to destroy the still, and gathered together fifty women armed with Winchesters. At the place had as- sembled a number of young men who had heard of the matter, but who had not told the proprietor the plans of the women, as they desired to see the fun. The women advanced upon the place firing, and the young men took to their heels, as did the proprietor. All the whisky and beer was spilled, the barrels being chopped with axes. The still was also mutilated so as to ane it useless. They left unidentl- ANOTHER MASSACRE. An Outbreak of Turks in the Island of Crete. London, May 27.—The Times has a dispatch from Athens which says: “The long expected disaster in the island of Crete seems suddenly to have been precipitated, and since Sunday anarchy has reigned at Canea. The Turkish soldiery, breaking all re- straints, poured through the streets, shooting, massacreing and pillaging Christians. The consuls have all tele- graphed for warships. The British fleet at Malta sailed to-day for Crete. Her majesty’s ship Hood, anchored at Phalarun, starts thither to-night. The Greek ironclads will probably start to- morrow. The cavasses of the greek and Russian consulates at Canea have been killed. Turkhan Pasha is utterly powerless to restrain the soldiery, as he is on bad terms with the military government, Izzed-In, who is suspected of being at the bottom of the whole trouble. The immediate cause of the outbreak, however, is inexplicable, as the Christians there have never given provocation. The situation at Retimo is equally serious Heraklion is quiet, but sharp fighting is reported between the Turks and the Cretans in the vi- cinity of Vamos.” BRITISH SNEERS. They Are Directed at America Over the Stern Incident London, May 27. — Commenting to- day on the published correspondence between Marshal von Bieberstein, the German foreign minister for foreign affairs, and Baron von Thielmann, the German ambassador to the United States, regarding the case of Mr. Louis Stern of New York, the Courier says: “Secretary Olney has made himself so notorious throughout the world by the vigor, not to say rudeness of his style, in diplomatic correspondence, that Baron Marshal von Bieberstein seems to have thought it time to give him a severe snubbing.” The Globe says on the subject: “The Stern in- cident is a most useful and instructive lesson which will do the Americans a great deal of good if only they are not too vain to profit by it.” Killed by a Train, Gladstone, Mich., May 27. — Sofie Pahl.,a domestic employed in the fam- ily of Senator Mason, was killed in the Soo yards to-day by being run over by atrain. She had no relatives here. FAIRCHILD IS DEAD WISCONSIN'S EX-GOVERNOR AND FAMOUS SOLDIER NO MORE. A Complication of Diseases Causes His Death—Gen. Fairchild’s Life Replete With Military and Civic Howors—He Was Once Command- er-in-Chief of the Grand Army. Madison, Wis., May 24.—Gen. Lucius: Fairchild died here very suddenly. The announcement of his death came like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, so unexpected was it. Mrs. Fairchild: is prostrated, and the daughters, Mrs. Sheldon Bacon of New York and Mrs. ©. M. Morris and Miss Caryl of Madi- son, are inconsolable in their grief. Gen. Fairchild was sick about three weeks with a complication of diseases, kidney disturbances and hemorrhages. of the stomach being the most promi- nent of his troubles. He began fail- ing about noon, and a 4 o’clock felk into a comatose sleep from which he failed to recover, passing peacefully away surrounded by his wife and daughters. About a year ago he suf- fered a severe attack of grippe. This- left him very weak and an easy mark for the disorders from which he died. Gen. Fairchild was born in Portage eounty, Ohio, Dec. 27, 1831. He re- moved with his parents to Wisconsin in his fifteenth year. Two years later, when the gold fever broke out, he started with an ox team for California. For six years he worked in mines and returned to Wisconsin in 185: much richer than when he left. 1858 he was chosen clerk of the Dane county circuit court, and in 1860 he was admitted to the bar. When the war broke out he was one of the first men to enlist from the old “Govern- or’s Guards” of Madison and went to the front as captain of a three-month regiment. In August, 1861, President Lincoln made him a captain, and a lit- tle later he took leave of absence to accept a commission as major of the Second Wisconsin. At Bull Run he commanded the consolidated Second and Seventh of Wisconsin, forming part of the famous “Iron Brigade.” When the battle of Antietam broke out he was sick in an ambulance in the rear, but he went into action, where his regiment lost more than half its men. Promoted to be colonel, he went into the battle of Gettysburg at the head of his regiment, leading the charge at Seminary Hill, where a rebel shot cut off his left arm. While he was recovering from his wound, Oct. 19, 1863, he was commissioned brigadier general, and in November following. he was elected secretary of state of Wisconsin. In 1865, at the age of thirty-three, he was nominated and elected gover- nor, and for six years he discharged the duties of that high position with great honor to himself and satisfaction to the people. In 1872 he was appoint- ed United States consul at Liverpool. where he served six years, and in 1878 he was made consul general to Paris, and two years later he was made United States minister to Spain. After two years in that position he resigned and returned to Madison. In 1886 he was elected commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Re- public. He had also served as com- mander-in-chief of the Loyal Legion. The last honor thrust upon him was that of chairman of the committee of 100, recently appointed for the semi- centennial celebration of Wisconsin’s: statehood. Gen. Fairchild will be buried with all of the military ceremony which his rank as brigadier general entitle him to. Goy. Upham has charge of the ar- rangements and he has selected Adjt. Gen. Charles King to look after the details. Gen. King will have personar charge of the military escort. The Rey. Fayette Durlin, of Grace Episco- pal church, will conduct the services. No sermon will be preached, nor wilF the remains lie in state. COMING TO AMERICA. i Hung Chang Will Study Our Sys— tem of Government. Moscow, May 26.—Li Hung Chang, special envoy of the emperor of China. to the coronation of the czar, has sub- mitted to an interview on the subject of his mission in Russia ard in other Western countries which he will visit when he leaves Russia. He said that he intended to go to America, France and England. Tbe mission entrusted to him, aside from the coronation, was to study the Eurcpean and Ameri~ can systems of government with 2 view of introducing fcreign customs into China. He formally denied that any treaty had yet been concluded with Russia, as had been so often as- serted within the last few months. He also said that he had no projects “or the conclusion of treaties with any power. Hussia and China, he averved, were in accord on all points, and it was China’s wish to maintain the same excellent relations wit France. Questioned as to the relations of China to Great Britain Li said that it was difficult to make himself acquainted with this point until he had visite@ England. Nemanded by Reds. Washington. May 26. — 'The ‘Turtle mountain Indians called at the In- dian bureau and demanded that the government bring action against the Great Northern Railway company and force it to pay for its right of way through their reservation, under act of 1891. The chiefs also ask for the ratification of the agreement entered into between the commissioners of the United States and the Indians in Oc- tober, 1892, whereby it was stipulated that $1,000,000 should be paid in twenty annual installments. ‘They want it made in three irstallments so they can get some iminediate benetit. Debs Not in Politics. _Birmingham, Ala., May 26.—Kugene ¥. Debs, president of the American Railway union, said to-day: “1 wilt state for the public print that I will not serve in any public office. 1 have a fixed opinion of a public office and do not care to hold one. Politics and labor are two different institutions, and I will not give up labor for poli- tics. The two don’t go well together, and I believe I aa: of more use i ta- bor. No, I will not go into politics and will not aécept the nomination for president. se