Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1887, Page 2

T YHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 91, 1887, e T et R RERREREEERRRERDEIEwE™ ; A GOOD SHOWING BY BANES. The Clearances Continue toIndicate Large Business Transactions. OMAHA LEADS IN INCREASE' Rapid Growth of Sentiment in Wall Street During the Week in Favor of a HMigher Range of Values, The Clearance Record. Bosrtox, Mass,, Nov. 20.—(Special Tele- gram to the Bee]—The following table compiled from dispatches to the Post from the managers of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, shows the gross ex- changes for the week ended November 19, 1857, with the rate per cent of increase or de- d with the amouuts for the vorvesponding week lust year: CITIES, CLEARINGS, esvanou; || | oswa1Ia(, Kew York. .. Boston . Philudelphia. .. Chicy Kan 8t Titicisco Baltimore Pittshure koo Detroit. . Bt Paul, i .00 il napolis | Cohmbins Denver B Total T $100,300.205) 147, L) Outside Now York. | * Not iucluded n totals. WEEK IN WALL STREET. n Favor of a Higher Range For Stocks and B New Youx, —The w THE Sentin ul Telog remarkable one tk was a for the rapid growth of sentiment in favor of a higher of values for both stocks und bonds, particularly for the former. This was nowhere more plainly illustrated than in the large increase of orders to buy received by commission houses, who, from having been adle for months, suddenly became positively active. The market broadened so quickly and to such an extent as to be nothing short of a surprise to operators on both sides of ace count. The fuvorable features of the outside situation, which have been ignored while the bear were in control, assumed their natural factors inhelping along he change was ahnost it auorts avtempted to cover he first time that invest- ment purchases, made quietly but steadity on te depressionund foreign absorptions of stock, had greatly reduced the floating sup ply. Local bulls, not anticipating any such market as 1, sold out at different stages of the upward movement, only to buy back again at higher figures, and thus the ball Kept rolling on througn the week. London baught heavily, realized, and later on purchased again. The t of the expert inguirer appointed by K h holders to in- vebtizate Reading property was so flattering that the priceof shures was carried up to a point higher than previously attained this ear, and the cable rumor” that Western Jnion was to be listed at the London exchange did something for that stock. The advance ranged up to 6 point: and nearly everything, including low price shares, participated in'the activity and rise. The reactions, gencrally speaking, were ulli(m much | t, than many of the bulls expec An enlarged de- mand like - railroad bonds of all classes, aud h iderable im- Jrovemont was establishd, the advance by, ng been Jadls points in a large number of ixsues. Wabash, Texas Pacific and Kansus & Texus bouds were also prominent near the close, announced that the Wa- bush ganization had been prac- tically completed.” The inquiry was not con- fined to home speeulation and investment, but the share list maintained its strength from day to day forcignes took hold and bought more freely than for some time, nents are woeaker and closed slightly off, Foreign exc 0s were in the main firm, with a more active demand from remitters generally. The inquiry was sufficient to clear off the bills to such an extent that drawers were enabled to obtain rather bet tor figures for to- mail. Govern- Wyoming Notes. Cuevesxg, Wyo.. Nov, 20.—]Correspond- ence of the B —During the fall of {837 an authentic account, taken from the railroad company’s books, shows 15,000 head of cattle to have been shipped from Lusk, besides a great number of horses, and the season is not yet closed. Lusk has excellent water and feed-—-the two requisites absolutely necessary for stock shipping point. The wool clip of Carbon and Fremont counties for the present year is estimated to Dbe 1,600,000 pounds. The Laramie glass works have closed down, It is given out that operations will be re- sumed as s00n as new furnaces of a proper character can be constructed. The old fur- naces have proven a failure, E ated to nightly serenades stes who gather in from the foot the town The settlers on the Fontanelle are com- plaiging that the Indians are ullowed to roam over the country at will. They scatter the game and are careless about fires ‘The great Fairbanks smelter, on the Chey- enne & Northern road, is to be' put in opera- tion again in the spri having been leased by a wealthy English syndicate. A large number of men will be employod. A military telegraph line was completed this week between Rawlins and Lander, Lieutenant J. B. Taylor with a force of twenty-five soldiers performing the work. The new line will be of great benefit to Lan- der, which has uutil the present time been without telegraphic communication with the outside world, A Colorado syndicate is having a prelimin- ary survey made of u manmmoth canal in tho Big Horn basin. The canal is to be forty foet wide on the bottom and twenty-five miles loug. It will irrigate 40,000 acres of land and Wwill cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. The land will be occupied by Colorado settiers, and they are u*xlpmh-d 10 be in their new homes by next fall. Buffulo, the county scat of Johuson county, and Rock Springs, Sweetwater county, are buunkhuvmg electric light plants put in' this woek. e Didn't Pay | or Ris Drinks, MILWAUKEE, Nov Robert Schneider, who claims to be u newspaper correspondent, living in Madison, Wis., was held for trial to to-day on the churge of swindiing Joln Quandts, a saloon keeper, out of a sum of money in December 1883, e e For fear of losing day's work, many persons put off taking physic until Sq urday. !i'he better plan 1s not to delay but take it as soon as needed, it moy save you a hard spell of sickness. 1f ou want the most benefit from the east amount of physic without causing you suny inconvenionce, loss of upl;mge or rest, take St. Patrick’s Pills. Their action on the liver and bowels are thorough, they give a freshness, tone and vigor to the whole systam and act An barmony with natuve. A SPIRITUALISTIC FRAUD. Expose at Boston of a Prominent Female Medinum, Bostox, Mas: ov. 20.—One of the most prominent materializing mediums in town for @ long time has been Mrs. Herman B. Fay, who Las given public seances rogularly in a fine house ut 62 West Newton street, Yes- terday afternoon the Record sent a party of ten young men and two young wowen to one of her seances to test the genuineness of her spiritualistic manifestations. The visitors found fifteen others present, most of them men. Daylight was shut out of the room where the geance was given by heavy dra- perics, In one corner was the cabinet, and opposite it were about thirty chairs for visit- ors, arranged in @ semicircle, A pale, dreamy-looking woman played on a cabinet organ Mrs. Fay is of medium height and isa strong, athletic-appearing woman. After an- nouncing her rules und collecting §1 a head from cach person present, the seance was besun, A figure in white emerged from the cabinet at three different times and beckoned 10 persons in the rooin to come into the cab- inet, wh they were grected by alleged spirits of dead relatives or friends. The fi ure appeared a_fourth time, and evide being convinced that it had a sympathetic audience, ventured far down the room. It appeared as a gypsy girl, with long hair flowing down her back. Advancing boldly, it paused in front of one of the investigators and confidingly stretched forth both hands. Like a flash the man clinched them in a strong grasp and ejaculated, “Now!" In- stantly & man ignit & bunch of matches and the chandelier was a blaze of light. Other ready hands stripped away the cur- tains and the sun's ray flooded the room. In the center of the room, dircetly under the blaze of the chandelier, struggling, fighting, biting, scratching like a'tizress in the grasp of four strong men, who had all they could do to hold her, was Mrs. Herman I She had said that the form would not be her's, but she got there just the samc. Her tlowing hair, a switch about two feet long, had been torn from her hewd in the el s was also her robe, a piece of cheap cotton gauze about 4 yards long and 25 yards wide. Captain Dixon, the master of ceremonic who at- temptid to rescue Mrs, Fay, was grabbed around the neck by another atheletic young man. He struggled vigorously, and shouted, - u, letme o, but he was held in_a A pair of shoes found in the cab- omposed of three pieces of cork nailed together, one on top of the other and ! ap to fasten to Mrs, set. When sho represented tall fig- s put these on her feet. Loud de- mands for their money were made by the un- believers, and Captain Dixon was _compelled to shell out $100 to all who acmanded it. The exposure was complete, s - The Argentine Kepublic. Boston Herald: An interesting ar- ticle in the current number of Harper's zine presents extraordinary facts and statistics in relation to the present condition of the most extreme southern country of the American continent. The Argentine republic reaches now to the Struits of Magellan, comprising the whole of what was once designated on the map as Patagonia, except the strip the west coa between the and the mountains, which is a vt of Chili. The eastern region is given over to grazing for the most part. The Indians have been exterminated, and eattle and sheep roam the region as they do our western plains, The ani- mal production here is immens hese proy < witl arford an idea of it: In the United States there 10,000,000 of cattle, 41,000,000 of sheep: in the Argen- tine Republic, 88,000,000 of cattle, 100,- 000,000 of sheep. When it is remem- bered that the population of the United States is 60.000,000, and that of the Ar- gentine Republic 4500000, the great difference will be apparent. The growthof the Argentine Republic is not less astonishing. In the luast twenty-five years our country has in- ereased per cent; that of this south- ern nation 154 per cent, Its immigra- tion is. of course, enormous in propor- tion to its population, and it is made up mostly of Italians and Basques, with Germans, Swiss and Swedes also. Per- haps its remarkable attitude toward the other nations of the earth may be best indicated by some facts relating to its chief city. ~Buenos Ayres is not only very much ahead of any other Spanish- American city in the charac! n}i(.a en- lightened enterprise,butitis well abreast of any North American city,and in some respeets in advance of them all. It has been com :d to Chicago. Five rail roads radiate from Buenos Ay a ferent di ons; L wiles of street car tracks are within its limits; there are more telephones in use in proportion to the population than in any other city on the globe. the electric light is em- ployod more generally for streets, dwellings and business housos than in w York or Boston; nine theatr nstantly openy Italian opera is ven twice a week for six months in the year at $6 a ticket, and there are twenty-one daily newrpapers! Thero ave banks which do a larger volume of business on a greater capital than al- most any in the world, and occupy mag- nificent buildings of glass and marble. One has a capital of $37,000,000, a circu- lation of $22,000,000. deposits amounting t0 256,000,000, and - 367,000,000 of loans and deposits. The deposits in all the bunks amount to 364 per capita, against #49 in the United States, UThis city has not a good harbor,and the foreign commerce of which it is the agentis done under difficulties, This pommerce has incrensed in its imports over 100 per cent in ten years, One- third of these imports ave furnished by Eugland, and about one-fifth each by France and Germ while the United States, with its policy of shutting out imports and incrensing the cost of ex- orts, naturally comes in at the tail of the countries that trade with a l\wup\e al who should be fiest of its customers, We buy ('ur})at wool and many hides ol them; they ta from us such goods as they cannot get clsewhere— agricultural implements, railrond cars and engines, a little lumber and petro- leum—amounting to less than half of what we buy of them. During the last ten years our exports to them have i creased about $6,000,000; those of Eng- land in the same time $22,000,000, Of the m'wn'lmpl‘rs above named but two are in English, and it is not alto- gether ugreeable to rend that the most enterprising of these is conducted by Winslow, the forger, who fled Buenos Ayres from this locality. The ppulation of the city is about four hundred thousand, aud twenty-one daily newspapers to it is a very large percent- age. Mr. Edison has again brought to no- tice the subject of distant signaling by means of throwing the rays from the electric light upon the clouds, and by a combination of short and long dashes to communicato from one station to an- other some twenty miles away. To demonstrate its practicability it is pro- posed to try it abourd one of the naval vessels fitted with the electric search light. —— What promised to be an_interesting lawsuit has just been settled in Indiana by compromise. The state sued the Western Union Telegraph. company for 31,000 for In.iliuf to rell)ort its property for taxation in 1857, The company’s de- fense was that the tax levied by the state was a trespass on the province of inter-state eommerce, No taxes have been paid by the company since 1880, aund the terms of the compromise were thut the scven years' arvearages should b paidy HAWKEYE SOLDIERS' HOME. Iowa's Resting Place For Patriots About Completed. THE BIENNIAL DAIRY SHOWING. Governor Larrabee Keeping a Watch- ful Eye Over the Different State Institut ostoflices Without Postmasters—-Towa News. Quarters For Patriots Des Moises, Ia, Nov. 20, — [Special to the em]—The sick and homeless Towa veterans who have anxiously looked for- ward 1o the time when they could enjoy the resting place which the patriotism and._ grati- tude of the state were to furnish, will soon have their wishes gratified. The new sol- diers' home at Marshalltown is to_be dedic cated with appropriate coremonies November 30, or one week from next Wednesday, The lust legislaturc appropriated $100,000 to build and equip the home. It was understood that the city securing the location would donate the grounds and some additional gift. Mar- shalltown, which captured the prize, has acted very generously in the matter and given a very beautiful site about a mile from the center of the city, and made a cash gift of several thousand dollars, which will be ap- plied to ornamenting the grounds. The build- ing occupics s commanding position, and towers up with fine architectural proportions. 1t has long pinzzas surrounding it, on which the veterans can promenada in stormy weather, and a balcony above in which the band will play cach plensant evening. It is nicely furnished throughout, heated by steam, and supplicd with all the modern convenien- ces to muke the old fellows happy énd com- fortable. The dedication of the home will be under the joint direction of the state authori- ties and the Grand Army of the Republic. At 1 0'clock p. m., there will be a parade of ilitary companics, posts of the G. A. R., carriages containing the governor and other distinguished guests. Ex-Governor Sherman is to be master of coremonics und preside at the exercises at the home. General Tuttle, as chairman of the board of trustees, will render his formal report. Governor Lurra- bee will speak for the state, Hon. I, M. Crapo, of Burlington, will speak in behalf of the old soldiers, and ' Hon. Sidney a Foster, Moines, will give the valedictory. In vening a camp fire will be held in the city, at_which there will be addresses by Judize Rea, of Minneapolis, communder-i chief of the G. A. R. by Licutenant Gov- ernor Hill, ex-Speaker Head, and other prom- inent old soldiers. It will béa great occasion and will attract large crowd to Mavshall- town. The following day the home will be ready for business, and will open its doors to ucedy veterans at once. HAWKEVE DAIRIES. The dairy commissioners’ biennial report, which will soon be issued, is going to make u fine showing for Towa dairics. It will give the number of creameries in the state at the present time as 40, and the number of cheese factories as sixty-six. The dairy business, while new, represents one of the largest values of Towa products, and is hardly got past the stage of its infancy. It was but a few years ago, when the Towa farmers thought it was throwing away time and moncy to be running u duiry with the idea of business. But now the roducts are amonge the first the st Is in the vast revenne they § ort will sliow also that the dairy business has greatly im- proved in the past two years, orsince the pussage of the olcomargarine bill, A , who keeps a kind of a watch o ver the different state written to the officers o to guard agal 1 of disease, and the danger of fire. s that special atten- tion be paid to the sanitary condition of the premises. All rubbish, he says, should be removed, cellers, closets and dark corners should be carefully cleaned, and wells and cisterns should be” secured against suria e drainage, He recommends that special p cautions be taken uagainst fire, suggesting that smoking be prohibited on the premises, that chimneys and flues be kept carcfully cleaned, that lights and explosive oils be trusted’ only to cautious and responsiblo parties, and every carc be takon for prevent- ing and extinguishing fire. Probably tio re- cent burning of the orphans’ home at Dav- enport suggested to the governor the appro- priateness of his remarks. It seoms u ifttle singular, but as a rule the property of the te, in these mag: ent buildings which 15, 18 not ins , hence the greater that those in charge of it excrcise the greatest care in protecting it from fire, PHIL OUR'S POMPETITION, Some lIowa cities are getting excited at the announcement that Phil Armour is going to invade their local murkets with dressed beef, When he does he undersells the local butchers 80 much as to give him nearly a monopoly of the business. At Davenport it is even proposed to Lave the city council take ahand in the fight by passing an ordinance compelling inspection by the city authorities of all beet exposed for sale in the city, on the ground that bad beef might be shipped in Kansas City or Chic: and no one of nsumers would know the provious con- Qition of sex, color or servitude of the meat they purchased. Sucha regulation would ctically rule out Armour. But in other cities there is a feeling that if Armour will break up the local pool and give the people good meat at fair prices he ought to be wel- comed. In this city, for instance, there great complaint of the kind of meat put upon the mar! by local butchers. They scem to have conspired to purchase the mean serubby stock and dispose of it to their customers at the price which ought to get good beof. At the sta rds here the other day a butcher bought five head of cattle, worn out, thin, tough creatures, giving #60 for the whole outfit, or 812 apiece. Those five cattle will undoubtedly soon appear upon the block as “choice cuts” at the highest market price. Is it any wonder that,people look longingly to Armour or anybody else who will send relief? i pater familia institutions, BEAUTIFYING TIHE CAPITOL. There is a prospect that the coming legis- lature will do something toward adorning the new capitol with appropriate statuary, and beautifying the grounds, which so far huve been entively neglected. The temporary fioating indebtedness of the state incurred by unususl appropriations for state institutions, has barred the way heretofore. But that is passing rapidly away and the ueed for ex- penditure ‘in ‘the matter of fixing up the grounds is becoming imperative. There is some talk of engaging Mrs. Harriet Ketchum, the famous lowa sculptress, to make an equestrian statue of some one of Iowa's dis- tinguished soldiers, General Curtis, one of the most gallant and mcst worthy of union soldiers, 18 suggested as a very appropriate subject for this honor. Mrs. Ketchum has done some excellent work in marble, having had at one time a studio in Washington. She spent last year in Rome studying with Ttalian masters, and comes back thoroughly equipped for successful we-k. The last legislature very heartily commended her talent and would probably have ordered some work from her chisel if there had been any funds available. This coming winter there will not be the need for such strict economy, and the necessity of making the grounds and approaches to the capitol worthy of the magnificent structure, grows daily more pressing. POSTOFFICES WITHOUT OCCUPANTS, ‘With all the democratic clamor for more spoils there are about forty postoffices in Towa which republicans can't get rid of and democrats don’t seem to want. These offices are scattered all over the state, and the re- publicans who formerly managed them re- signed & good while ago. But their resigna- tions are not acceptod, for no successors secin 10 be in sight. A dispairing appeal has there- fore been sent out to the managers of the democratic party in Iowa to help the admin- istration out by finding somebody to take these offices. it need not be said that the salarics they pay are not counted with fonr gers. i An electric railway is to be built at Chattanooga. An American arc lifihl plant is_to be orected at Sydney, New South Wales, aad 100 tons of :[zphanou were shipped last week by steamer from New York. Alf Peters' Courtship. Arkansaw Traveler: Old Alf Peters had for some time been a weokly visitor to the Mosehy plantation. The old man, usually negligentin dress, became al- most dandified in appearance, and one Saturday evening it was noticed that he ssn- t much time in “slicking” an old u ug hat that had doubtless been worn v his master forty years ago, and the next duy he wended his way as usual to the same plantation. When he reached the Moseby plade he went to a cabin, stunding a few moments lis- 0 some one singing a plaintive ked at tha door. “Come in. e entered, and bowing profoundly to a fat woman, who with some difficulty arose and placed a chair for him, he put his hickery stick in a corner, placed fis hat on the bed and sat dow “Yer didn' go ter meetin’ ter-d sees,” the woman remarked. No, I couldn’t go ter meetin’ w'en mer mine wuz drawin’ me ober dis way 80 straung.” “Drawin® yver dis way?" PRD 1 “Dat’s whut T sai “Whut's it dr yer dis way fur?” “Lady, is it possible dat yer's bline?” “You know I ain't bline.” “Wall, kain’t yor see dat some pusson is mightily in lub wid yer?” A small dog came in and began to about the bed. “No, I kain’t.” ““It’s er fack, do. son.” "W}- man, yer's ole ernuff fur me fader.” **Ain’t no older den you is.” “Go "long wid yer, no “It's er fuck. Lady, I'se been maird er good many times, but I ain’t nebber seed nobody dat I lubs like I does you.' The dog placed his paws on _the bed. “G'way frum yere, man. Who tole yer ter come ‘round talkin’ *bout mairn? Pears tome like de man folks in dis yere ‘'munity dun gone rabin’ 'stracted.” *Yas, lady,” old Alf replied, ‘‘some o’ ‘em hab gone ’stracted—gone ’stracted 'bout dese yere sweet-mouf women “Giway, | te ick, I 'clar”yer is.” ju't in a mairin humor den, is Lady, I'se de pus- Mussyful hebens, man, Iain’t said nothin 'bout mairn, What sorter pass is dis yere country comin’ter, nohow? Body Kain't turn ‘roun but dar’s a man talkin’ ’bout mairn. Whut's dat dog got out yander in de yard t'arin ter pieces *Lain’t talkin’ 'bout no dog,” old Alf replied. *I'se sinywatin’ *hout de fes- tiberties o’ de human family.” He leaned back,and glancing through the doorway into the yard saw some- thing that brought him to his feet with ayell. He ran out, and after throwing a’'small stump at the dog returned, bringing the tattered fragment of his hat I axed yer what wuz dat dog doin’, * suid the woman. Old Alf, without replying, seated himself at'the door and sadly contem- plated the ruin which the dog had wrought. “Wall,” he said, after a time, “T must begwine. Kain’ stay 'roun’ er lady dat laughs at er "lamity like dis.” “My greshus erlive, man, lauglied at yer.” “Doan 1 feel d no fool. I Johnson | “Whut fur “Ter see er monstrous fine lady.” “Like ter know whut bizness yer got wid her, “Maprermony, honey; maprermony,” the old man replied. “*Huh, recon I'se mony ez she is.” Look yere, yer's gittin off de sy log on ter de flat rocks now. v’ 7 gree ter maire me when I axdd yer jis now?” *You ain't ax me.” “Wall, I axes yer now.” “An’Lain't 'fused yer nuther, but whar de license, man?” **You jis stay stay yere till I come back, an’ I'll fetch ‘em ’long wid er preacher. An ’ef emny young niggers come er puttin’ up ermouf at me some- body gwine git hurt.” A Human Gas Detector. Oil City Derrvick: Among tl ders of natural gas~ development accounts are true, must be cl John Bugher, a wealthy quar ylorsville, O. The power expert “oil smellers™ pale into insigni cance in the pre e extraordi- nary physical traits of this natural gas locato It is suid that he recently lo- cated a natural gas well at Wapakoneto, 0., and that he claims to be able to tell 1o a certainty the exact loeation of any natural gas deposit if he is unywhere in the neighborhood of where thut deposit is. A private exhibition of his gift is reported from Miamisburg, before the divectors of the gas comyy there which eclipses spiritunlism., ¢l voyance or uny of the mysteries of ond sight. 1t appears that when he nr- rives in the vicinity of a natural gns deposit that he stops, scems to suffer puln and acts just a3 4T hie were fastened to a powerful “electric battery. Sweat rolls down his face, the muscles und cords of his nec 11 and twitch convulsively. He ms to have found peculiar characteristics on the 28th of August last at the Findley gas wells, when he was taken with what he thought a stroke of paralysis, but from which he covered on leaving the place. It ms as if the presence of natural gas him like a strong current of tricity, and that he can only find “by lifting one foot from the ground, thus breaking the current.” Inasmuch as the feet touch the ground alternately while walking, it would seem as though the current would be broken at ry step and no necessity vise for giving himself such shocks as the Miamisbury correspondent witnessed. The break- ing of the current hy lifting one foot is also a new feature in_ animal electical phenomena and should be studied as elosely as other features of this extraordinary manifes- tation. What security there may be that this ‘‘current” always acts perpen- dicularly from the gas deposit is not stated. ~Practically it is somewhat diffi- cult to drill obliquely, and it is to be feared that should attempts be made to find gas in this physical appearance the drill may not be so sensitive and hable to point_in the same direction. The yarn adds something*to the literature of natural gas, and as the gentleman charges nothing for his exhibitions robably it is as w not to look a gift lmrm in the mout! Electricity #hd Crime. Philadelphia North American: The use of eleotric signals is proving more and more dangerous to criminals. system of signals is on experimental trial in New @ork. in which different colored lights are flashed on the lamp- posts. Such signals will no doubt in the future be fixed 80 as to enable policemen on their beats to communi- cate quickly with each other, At pres- ent v%neu a patrolman gives chase toa robber at night the chances are always in favor of the robber. If by some sys- tem of signals, suggested by the hotel room call-boards, for instance, the pur- suer could notify all the patrolmen in the district wh he was, and by touching buttons on lamp-posts give them the direction of the chase, the escape of miluizht thieves would be impossible I ain’t s house shake? Tain't yere ter de much er maper- SWEN BRITZ'S MISFORTUNES Story of His Maltreatment by Rus- sian Officials. HE RECEIVES $2,000 DAMAGES. An American Citizen Seized as a Mur- dei Robbed and lmprise oned—He is Finally Told It Was a Mistake. After being accused of murder, ar vested and maltreated, thrown into filthy dungeons, tortured by brutal Cos- sacks, and refusee protection by his own government, Swen Britz, a uralized citizen of the United States, has just been paid the sum of £400 sterling on $2,000 by the Russian governmout as a recomvense for a sories of extraordin- ary indignities heaped upon him. Britz was born in Russia, and came to this country in 1874, He became n citizen of the state of New York in 1870 and returned to Russia the following year to settlo up some family affairs. Wijhout a warrant, he was seized as a murderer, locked up, and after undsr- going terrible hardships, was turned almost naked into the streets, and the only satisfuc- tion he could get was that “‘a mistake had been made.” His case attracted the attention of Dr. James I, Love, the American dentist in Alexandria,Egypt, who wrote to Dr. Edward Bedloe ot this city, nsking him to make an_effort to have the government of the United States take cognizance of the matter, Dr. Bedloe went to Washington and had several interviews with the sccre- tary of state, but got little or no satis- faction, This was after Mr. Britz had employed counsel in Odessa,and through him had opened correspondence with the state department. The Russian government offered to pay $1,000 in- demnity for the ‘“‘mistake,” but this Britz vefused to accept, claiming that he was entitled to an annuity through his life, which he believed had been shortened by the barbarous treatment he had received. The story of the outrage,told in Bri own words, is as follows ““Having left my native country, Rus- sla, in 1847, I emigrated to the United States of America, where 1 setted in New York city and-became anaturalized citizen. In 1880 Prof. Herzog and Dr. Iridenberg, two doctors of Mount Sinai bospital, advised me” to try change of air, and as [ had some family affairs to regulate at home, I returned to Yalta in Crimea. Here my health was pe fectly restored, and I went to live Odessa, where Tspentiwo years earning my living partly by trading and partly in the employ of the tramway. After the revolution of Alexandrin had been suppressed, T thought that T might find a better place in vpt, whither I re- paired. Unfortunatély my hopes were not realized. and I to accept a posi- tion on the police force, with a month salavy of £6. Having hurt my feet while on duty I was sent to the hospital, and the consul of Russia, accompanied by the secretary of the governor of Alexandria, made theiv appearance in the hospital and arvested me without, giving me an opportunity to speak a word. Oune day L was seut for by the wovernor of Alexandrin, who showed me a photograph, declaving the sam. be my likeness, and that [ had 3 murdered two women at Nicolaiefl, in Russin. Tdenied baving committed the crime imputed to me or being the man represented by the photograph, and requested that a competent person might be sent for in order to prove my identity with the photograph. The ‘government photog- rapher was at onee sent for and declarcd that [ was not the man represented by the photograph, but in spite of this offi- cinl declaration the Russian consul's influence was great enough to induce the governor to grant my extradition to Russia, and I was ordered to be sent to Constantinople, and to be placed on my arrival there at the dispesitfon of the Russian legations On my arrvival at Constuitinople, however, I was refused permission to o ashove, and 1 was car- ried on to Odessa in at distress and suffering. “When, in 1883, T arrived at Odeg I of course expected to be gent to N aiefl for my trial, hut it came otherwise 1 was first sent to Elizabethgrad, then to Balta, Kremenczuk, Kominiska, thenee back to Elizabethg 1 hna to stay in prison in each of these places from five to eight days, in irons, with the exception of Balta, where they kep me fop two w n. During the whole time the authorities gave mo but seven copeks, or three and a half cents for bread and water and I had to pay about twenty times this amount for obtaining this scant allow: Huaving been aceustomed to tea e 2 d to pay s much as ten roubles, or in wold for each vation of tea, and for al- lowing me a trifle of sugar to my tea, the juiler at Balta took away from me a gold wateh valued at about $30. More- over, from the railway station at Balta to the city {ni]. a distance of about two miles, I had to walk in the summer shoes that I had brought from Egypt, 1d it being in spring,and consequently very cold and dirty, I fell into the frozen dirt up to my thighs. This gav me a sovere cold and I began to cough violently When at last I arrived at Nicolaieff I had no trial, but was trans- ported to Cherson under an escort of ten armed guaras, whose living I had to pay for the whole distance, about fifty miles, in or that they might not treat me with such cruelty as those eople are accustomed to do. In each jail where they put me the authorities at the same time put several spies, in order to find out if I wasa nihilist or not, and in the same way they kept me for a whole week in prison at Cherson. All my cloth washing, ete., that I wanted for myself, were stolen from me orI had to give them up, so that I remained with one solitary shirt the whole time. Aftera week's sojourn _in the Cherson jail, 1 was transported back on foot to Nico- laieff, My feet were swollen and cov- ered with blisters, but still I hoped to be at last at an end of my sufferings, and indeod after another six days the judge of instruction sent for me and called ten or fifteen witnesses to iden- tify me with the accused murderer, but all testified testified that I was not like the murderer at all, who had lived about twenty years in the place, and was a head shorter than I. ‘‘After a few days more the authori- ities liberated me, and I was sent out of prizon as poor and naked us a church mouse. 1 then applied to the gov nor-general of Rn-oh\iufl, requesting him to grant me the means necessary to return to Alexandria, and there re- sume my former ition. His excel- lency replied that for such an object he had no funds on hand, I ought to add here that after my liberation, the pro- curator of the State delivered me a cer- tificate stating I had been arrested b, mistake, and this was aboutthe only sa isfaction I obtained. After my request had been refused by the government- -smseral, [ wrote to some merchants in Odossn, with whom I had been in busi- noss formerly, add they sont me 200 roubles, with which I could effect my roturn to Alexandria, T caused my law- yer to submit the whole proceeding o the consideration of the secretal of state at Washing- ton, in consequence of which the Rus- sian - government offered me th months” wages —about $1,000 indem- nity for age from Nicolaiefl to Alexandria, which of course I rofused to m't‘(‘f". All certificates concerning my health wore sent by me to the secre- tary of state for foroignaftairs at Wash- ington; together with my cortificate of naturalization. My brother, S. Brita, isalso a citizen of the United Statos, and can vouch for my citizenship. He i a confectioner in Boston, Mas: wen Britz is to-day a physical wreck, due to the privations and hardships he suffered in Russian dungeons, and his inability to secure proper medical at- tenden after his release. It is now nearly five years sinco he was subjected to the outrage. Nearly throe "years we wasted in endeavoring to get the government of the Uni- ted States to take official actio In 1884 N. D. Comanos, a Greek, acting a8 consul general for the United States — at Cairo, made an investigation of the case, and forwarded an exhaustive report to Washington, but received no reply. A year aftewards—January, 1885—hoe wrote again, and Frederick T, Frelinghuysen, then secretary of state, auswered that it was deemed advisable that an “itemized account of Mr. Britz's losses should be made before presenting the easo through our Amecrican minister in This “itemized account” was forwarded, together with a certificate of Dr. M. Lendynski, who testified that the un- fortunate victim of Russian despotism had contracted a disease of the lungs, and that his permanent recovery was hopeless. A letter received from Britzon Thurs- day last, and dated Alexandria, an- nounced that he had received (and his exigencies compelled him to aceept) th sum of £400 instead of the annui which he asked his government to de mand for him as a right. -~ Napoleon's Fortune. ‘Washington Horald: One of the most remarkable historical incidents of this century was the disappearance of the First Napoleon’s enormous fortune. In 1810 he was far and away the richest individual in the world. He came out of the Italian campaign ending in 1500 with $4,000,000, according to his own account. This he maintained was his private property. Tuking the state ments he made to his friends and others at St. Helena, he must have hidden away when he left France the last time the enormous sum of $40,000.000 or 200,000,000 francs | This would make him much the wealthiest man in the world, for that sum then was equal in_ influence to $200,000,000 now. No sovereign of his time could begin to approach him in personal fortune, Ma oult. the last of the Tmperial Marshals (who died in November, 1851, just about o year before his great antagonist, the duke of Wel- lington,) told a venerable French gen- al officer, who repeated it to the writer, that’ when the emperor went to lba he had 60,000,000 francs covered ud in Paris alone. Of the )00,000 hard cash paid over at one time by United States to No- poleon as fivst consul in 1803, it was com- mon rumor—not very genceal, you may be sure, however—that 7.500,000 francs of the swin was never accounted for in vouchers., This might casily have been, Napoleon was then first eonsul for life. He could do just what he chose, and no- body dared call him to account. 1t is not very difficult to hide money in large sums, too, so it cannot be found, be the search ever so careful. Ferdi- nand Ward has some millions thus cov- ered up, and no human being hus ever yet found a clue to the stolen treasure. v id and believed by many people, tephen Girard, of ’hiludel- phia, had a large sum in his hands be- longing to Napoleon L., which he would have handed over to him Liad he suc- cecdad in getting away to the United States after Waterloo, as he tried to do. Louis XVIIL, through his minister of finance, did all in his power to discover this hidden treasure, but those who knew would never tell. The, took it themselves when the died in 1821, But it isa ver ing and ro ic story, the disappe ance absolutely of the greatest fortune in the world’s history up to that time, Jeaving not o trace behind, y probably ‘mperor A curious freak of electricity is ro- ported from Cundinamares, in Panama. A farmer had been superintending some work in the fields and had left his men to return home,.when he was surrounded by an electric flame, which disappearcd ickly as it eame, The vietim’s left 1, und the eyebrow was completely off. The hair sup- vounding his ears, a part of his beard, and all the hair on his breast were burned off, all the brass buttons di peared from his elothing, his wi chain was cut in two. a small hole was bored through his watch ease, und the wateh glass was shattered and h side wus burned. He suffered se but is recovering rapidly. Russia.” | INDIAN PRISONERS. Visit to Geroni Other Indian Captives in Florida, Woe stopped first at the navy yard to put off a passenger and adgmired the solid looking brick buildings, beaetifnl avenues of trees and fine sea wall. The shops are closed. Thero is o rumor of the government's intention to reopen them, which will be of benefit to this rapidly growing ecity. But- we soon neared the principal point of interost, Fort Pickens and its Indian prisoners of war. Fort Pickens is situated on Santa Rosa island, one side of which is washed by the deep blue waters of the bay, while on the “other shore breaks irf of the Gulf of Mexico, clear and green. As we newred the landing wo observed several groups of Indiads and one officer in their midst. They gath- erod about the hoat, showing the curi- osity of well bred and diguitied chil- dron, the principal man wmong them being Mangas, one of the chiefs, As we stodped on the wharf he pnlled up his fishing line_ with a littlo pom- pano on the hook. T took tho (ls[h off or him and he smiled at me wwi, bly. It seemed impossiblo that this smiling fellow, calmly fishing in his imprison- ment, could be the fierce and desperate man who had jumped through the car [ window with "the car at full speed, courting any mode of death rather than the mortitication of surrender. We passed on within the fort. Attho door of the firit room were two Indian | women seated on the floor playing cards. 1 Our civilization taught them this. They consed their game as we camo up and smiled at the partp. The soldior | with us could not interpret, so our cone versation was limited 1o a fow signs. Next we met a woman with a baby swinging on hier back. She stoppod to let us examine the little ow. They have w most remarkable “instrument oj torture,” us we dubbod it, for carry- ing the “puppooses” until they can k. It is of wood, shuped somethin 1 coftin, with tho sides r, though. In that the child is d and strapped, from its neck down to its heels, its hands straight down by its sides, 8o that the little one can move its head only. This arrange- mont has a band of leather which the mother passes around her forehend. When busy at anything she stands it up against the wall or a post. Of all the bubies we saw th we did not hear ohe whimper. The women are very friendly and secmed pleased at the at- tention paid them and thewr children by visitors, laughing a great deal and showing invariably fine rows of teeth. Wo suw great quantities of bead work, baskeis,”ete.,” which they are busy prepuring to sell winter tourists, but we did not purchase, as Indian work is 50 much better done by Amerieuns now! We soon reached Geronimo's quartors. He sut on a chair near his door and one of his squaws was on the ground noar him, while a huby just walking played about his feet. Within the room on a bed were sont little boy and girl, Jabbering sway for all they were worth, who quite scorned all our ‘efforts to ate tract them to us. Geronimo was more sunve than v Indian man I have ever seen. He smiled and shook hands, and his iner was almost affable. 1 was much amused to see the murderous old fellow play with Lis child. One of his squaws died last week, but he didn't mourn very lon We had been told that Natchez was more haughty than all the others, but I think we canght him on his red-letter dayf he was so polite. Ho is the finest looking of any of the chiefs and hi is more honest. Geronimo has a bl smile, but would never inspire denc Nuatchez® very sn much confl- hands and feet are He stood up for us to look at. Heis long and lithe of limb and looks as if his strength were quick and nervous her than of the enduring kind. His hatred of Geronimo does not soem Lo abate, In fact, the old diplomat, as he is called he s in bad odor with the othor chiefs, They hold him ac- countable for their surrender and have forgiven him. They are very about associating with him. A great pity came over me as we turned to,go. I thought of their free life in the great far reaching wost, their hatred of the .pale faces of the east. Here they were. shut within four nar- row wulls, subject to their despised con- querops end their equally hated modes ol life. I wondered they did not rise in their wreath and slanghter the handful of men who have them in chargo. But life 15 sweet 1o all human beings and we soon learn prudence if the pen- alty of recklessness be death. The storms of a few weeks co tor- rifiee them. The *'big water” inspires them with an awe awe and dread that nothing else does, and it was an infinite relief to them when the heavens cleared and tho waters were again calm. 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