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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1900)
* * & Current Topics * »*r kl *♦# %♦# >♦/ %♦# %V %♦# ^1/ %♦# *♦» m v;.' v;- y v,c w > A footed Chinese Stalesman. A noted Chinese tc-sma n recently beheaded by order of the dowager em press because of his too liberal views was well known In diplomatic circles at Washington, as he had served as minister from his country to the United States from 18S6 to the latter part of 1889. He was Chang Yen Hoon. Hfs death occurred last July, but the outside world became aware of the fact only a few days since. Chang was an able diplomat and well thought of in official circles. He was a pronounced antiquarian, and while In this country made many vis its to the Metropolitan Museum of A,rt in Now York, where he could study its rare collection of priceless antiqui ties. Especially on the specimens from his native land was he an au thority. and his Information In con nection with them was of great aid to the antiquarians of the United Statos. A memento of his visit to this country Is to be found at the f CHANG YEN HOON. Metropolitan Museum of Art. It con sists of a hammered bronze vase of the Han dynasty, and Is over 2.000 years old. This was presented In 1897 while he was returning home from Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.' Opera ~/'mtfer Arrested. Another American woman has been subjected to the ignominy of arrest and detention by the infamous Brigade May Garlick. particular division of the Parisian po lice are designated, whloh Is intrusted with the duty of putting Into exe cution the laws dealing with the women of the half world. The most recent victim of the Brigade des Moeurs Is May Gftrllck of Balti more, wife of the Marquis de Feo. She Is now serious ly 111 from the ef fects of the brutal ana vile treatment to which she was subjected by the police, who, Insist ing that she was a notorious charac ter, arrested her and kept her for sev eral hours In prison until she was Identified. Then she was released with the usual apologies. May Oarllck. prior to her unfortunate marriage, •was one of the leading singers of the Castle Square Opera company at the American theater In New York. Her husband, who is an Italian, deserted tier after shamefully maltreating her, leaving her without means, whereupon she returned to the operatic stage, making her European debut at Monte Carlo. Dr. Edward A. Ross, who lias been at the head of the department of oconoinlcs and sociology In Stanford -university since 1893, has just been ■elected an associate member of the In stitute International de Sociologle at Paris. There are only five other mem bers of this society In the United States. JMi-tj Hobby Jones. t -s. - * Daughter of Gov. Dan W. Jones. Who Will Christen the Monitor Arkansas at Newport News. Va., Nov. 10. A Spanish paper asserts that two descendants of Columbus, Manuel and Maria Columbo. brother and sister, are at present inmates of the asylum for the homeless in the city of Cadiz. It is said that documents in their pos session incontestably prove their de scent. % r ,} ^ PiK *♦% /J\ Ccn. Frost Fosses A.tvay. General D. M Frost. one at the most distinguished citizens of St. Louis, died suddenly at his home in that city last week. Hla death was very sudden. far, al though the general was 77 years old. ho had been re markably healthy and had not com plained of any ill ness. Gan. Frost was a native of New York and a gradu ron. D. M. Frost. t/A »»CDl I UUJl 111 lUtJ tlil&B 1011. He had fought with distinction in the Mexican war, and the outbreak of the civil war Pound him in St. Louis a prosperous lumber merchant. He took sides with the confederacy and for two years served In that cause. The principal incident in his civil war ca reer was his defense of Camp Jackson in this city and his surrender in May, I86f; to the federal troops under Gen eral Lyon. The state militia had been | called together for their annual drill j and wore encamped under Frost on the outskirts of the town. Before , they could find an opportunity active ly to express their sympathies with the south they were captured by the home guards and the Missouri volun teers. After the close of the war General Frost returned to St. Louis and settled on his farm near the city. Ono of his sons, R. Graham Frost, who died several months ago, repre sented a Missouri district in congress. K.neto Lincoln or a Hoy. There was held near Galesburg, 111., recently, a celebration in honor of the ninety-first anniversary of the birth of John T. Barnett, or Squire Barnett, as he is generally known. It took place at the log home west of Gales burg, and many descendants from Knox and Warren counties were pres ent, A peculiar Interest attaches to the life of Mr. Barnett, for he was one of the young men friends of Abraham Lincoln, who was a few months his senior. The squire says that Lincoln and he were often together, and that, although tie thought much of Lincoln, he never voted for him but once, and that was when he ran for the legislature against Peter Cartwright. He recalls many pleasant incidents. When he first be came acquainted with Lincoln the lat JOHN L. BARNETT, ter was engaged with William Berry, son of John Berry, in running a gro cery. Pctorrj Afiree on China. The agreement between Great Brit ain and Germany on a common Chi nese policy is accepted by the United States and Russia as a pledge rather than as a guide to their own action. In responding our government simply assents to principles which it was the first to formulate, namely, the prin ciple of the open door and the prin ciple of the preservation of Chinese territorial and administrative entity. Under the circumstances an assump tion of leadership on the part of the j two contracting powers would be absurd, and we have only to reaffirm our own views without giving prom ises. Received £25.000 P#r S~cntf. Two years ago Mme. Alva, a singer xamous in Austra Ha, volunteered to sing one evening at Bendigo before some nuns who were about to go Into retreat. She is now informed that a wealthy Au stralian, in recog nition of her kind ness, “as well as of her magnificent Mine. Alva. cuuuwmum its a vocalist, nits iuii uer $175,000, which is at the rate of $25, 000 for each of the seven songs she rendered. Mme. Alva is a Protestant. Illinois and Texas. The state of Illinois has 995,199 more Inhabitants than it had in 1890. Its numerical gain is exceeded by New York and Pennsylvania alone, and is barely exceeded by the latter state. The percentage of gain, being 26 per cent, is equaled by that of no other large state, with the exception of Tex as. The increase in population in Illi nois between 1S80 and 1890 was 748, 480, being a little less than 25 per cent. r i| Uhe T&JeeKJy ij ; "Panorama. -A Woman Major. The only woman major In the i United Slates army Is Mrs. Belle L Reynolds, of Santa Barbara. Cal. Mrs. Reynolds Is a native of Massachusetts. When 14 years old the removed to tho west and at the opening of the clTll war, when her husband enlisted In the Seventeenth Illinois, she joined him at Bird’s Point, Mo., commencing a life of three years in the camp and on the field, helping the wounded and sick. After the battle of Pittsburg Landing she received her comission as major from Gov. Yates of Illinois She was at Vicksburg, Miss., when Gen. Grant dared the experiment of running the batteries, and she en tered that city with the triumphant army. After the war she studied medicine In Chicago and became a practitioner Later she removed to Santa Barbara. MRS. BELLE L. REYNOLDS. When trouble arose in the Philippines she went there as a Red Cross nurse. She has since returned home. ficgro "Registrar of the treasury A colored man Is the watchdog of the nation's wealth and, with Secre tary Gage and Treasurer Roberts, rorins a triumvi rate that controls the money stock of the republic. Not a dollar can he paid from the federal treasury without the assent of these two and the negro, Judson W. Lyons, regis trar of the treas ury. Furthermore Judson Lyons. inc name ui lii« lauu uiusi ayytai uii every bill and bond Issued by the gov ernment. Of course, he cannot per sonally sign every note Issued from the bureau of printing and engraving, so his name is cut Into the steel dies from which the bills are struck. But his personal signature is required on the registered bonds and he is often compelled tq handle 5,000 of these in a day, the average value of regis tered bonds issued per day being $5, 000.000. Mr. Lyons is the successor of B. K. Bruce, also a negro, who died in 1898. He Is a Georgian and Is 42 years of age. He has taught school, studied law at Howard university, and prac ticed his profession at Augusta, Ga. Like Li Hang Chang. The accompanying picture is not one or riung Chang, the able Chinese states man, although It bears a striking r esemblan ce to him. It is that of an Eski mo, discovered by the Arctic explor er, A. J. Stone, and Is reproduced from The World’s Work. One can see In the face of the picture many oriental characteristics. The head is Mongolian In its cast and Chinese gullelesnness and cunning are expressed in every feature. Heroine of "PcKin. Miss Cecile Payen, the Chicago por trait painter who shared with Mrs. and Miss Woodward of Evanston the long siege of Pekin, reached Chicago last week. Miss Payen gives an inter esting description of the siege, which, she says was not so black as it was I MISS CECILE PAYEN. | painted, one of the chief troubles of j those within the walls being the j thought of the anxious ones at home, j She was just completing a portrait ’ when the first scare came to the lega- j tion, and after the momentary excite- I ment had died away she persuaded ( her sitter to give her another hour, in which she completed the picture. GAS MOW "DE LI VEHED IN CANS. Undoubtedly Me of the most re markable features of the Paris exhibi tion Just closed has been the multi plicity of curious and novel systems for producing light. In electricity the extraordinary electric lamp that must be lighted with a match proved one of the triumphs of the German section. In gas lighting the portable boxes of a Paris company have already found their way into general use. Acetylene, that, peculiar French discovery and invention, astonished the visitor by its white effulgence all along the Seine, between the new bridge and the Street i whispering together over something in | the municipal and house-lighting line that is absolutely sensational. The discovery or invention contemplates the disintegration at the burner of common air, pumped through the mains —air that costs nothing but the pump ing. The great question is which is to be the cheapest and the best. Gas and electric lighting companies may or may not have to go into liquida tion—in any case, the honest citizen may hope at last to come into his own at no distant day. I first noticed the “fountains" of which the suburbanite and the farmer equally with the dweller In cities may enjoy gas lighting all over his house. These gas fountains—using the word in the French sense—are long, narrow metal boxes, standing upright, of solid construction, to hold compressed il luminating gas, that by means of rub* ber tubes is led to incandescent burn ers by way of movable lamps like those that stand on center tables in America. This is the story of the “fountains”; but simple as it is, how is it that no one thought of it before? The gas boxes, sold to the consumer of Nations. The powerful new Ameri can petroleum lamps on the Qual des Tuillerles show that old-fashioned ‘‘coal oil” is still to be heard from. In the exhibition grounds and on the Paris boulevard the alcohol lamps with incandescent gas burners compete with the electric light. More curious still and full of a vague promise are the mysterious psychological and lu minous metallic lamps. Finally, the scientists and capitalists of Paris are this canned-gas company at the ex hibition, but they are now doing busi ness on the Rue Auber, beside the Grand Opera, and are beginning to ex tend their business all over Europe, Asia and America, writes our corre spondent. It is in the full tourist quarter, and I fancy there have been few Americans in Paris this summer who have not stood in admiration be fore the simple-looking device dis played in those show windows by I at $5 each, require only to be taken home and set up on shelves. Three form the regulation “battery” for a moderate-sized house, lighting the three rooms which the French light brilliantly, the dining room, the ante chamber and the kitchen. You will not often find gas-burners in French bedrooms, candles being considered the correct thing. The company as serts there is no other installation of gas that can be made so cheaply. Uhe Earthquake at n ... i ■ i ■ iHi'■ THE CITY OF CARACAS. Caracas, Venezuela, was again visit ed by a severe earthquake last week. Fifteen persons were killed and many others injured. Great damage was done to buildings, including the Pan theon and the churches. The United States legation was badly damaged, but all the occupants escaped unhurt. President Castro, who leaped from a balcony on the second floor of the government house, had one leg brok en. Mr. William Henry Doveton Hag gard had a narrow escape, the second floor of the British legation having fallen upon him and buried him in the debris. Reports from the interior show that the effects of the earthquake were widespread. The disturbances were felt as far as the region of the Andes. There were many wonderful escapes. Caracas has twice been shaken by earthquakes in recent years. In the middle of November. 1896, a severe disturbance occurred at midnight. There were two distinct shocks. There was a panic in the city and most of the inhabitants fled to the open places. There was little damage done, how ever, and no loss of life. The city of Caracas, which has fre quently suffered from earthquakes, waa visited last July by a series of seismic disturbances, which did great damage to property. There were seven terrific shocks in succession, and the residents of the city were terror stricken. President Castro and his family slept for several nights under tents in the Plaza Bolivar, and all the churches and theaters were kept closed for a week. London’s alum alt a. The scenes enacted in London’s streets upon the occasion of the arrival of the ! City Imperial Volunteers “home from J the wars" were a disgrace to the larg ' est city in the world and the one ] which has claimed to be best protect 1 ed, says the Chicago Tribune. Many j social reformers have pointed to the j l^ondon police as an organization which can maintain order without the ! use of physical force, and have hold j it up as an example to American po licemen who are in the habit of using their clubs as persuaders. Perhaps the shameful and disgusting scenes on Monday night would have been prevented had the London police used their clubs and used them vigorously. So far as the reception of the return ing troops was of a patriotic charac ter it assumed extraordinary dimen sions only because they were London soldiers. They had not particularly Caracas. distinguished themselves as the Irish, Scotch and English Tommy Atkins did, nor had they made a record com parable with the Canadian or Austra lian contingents. 76.29S.220. The people of the United States have stood up and been counted, and there are just 76,295,220 of the sover eigns. With the possible exception of the Bryanites and anti-imperialists, who are opposed to expansion of any kind, Americans will plume them selves upon their substantial increase, and will be justified in doing so, for in ten years they have gained 13,225, 464, or nearly 21 per cent. During the century now closing they have in creased from 5,308,483 to 76,295,220. and the gain in the last decade is larg4 er than that of any previous decade. To the total the forty-five states con tribute 74,627,907 and the seven terri tories, etc., 1,667,313. Vrince Christian \7tctor. A dispatch from Pretoria announces the death from enteric fever of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Hol i stein, eldest son or the Princess Hel ene of England and a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was born in 1867, and was a major in the King’s Roy al rifles. He joined the King’s Royal rifles twelve years ago, and saw a great deal of war service. He took part in the Ashanti expedition, which brought heavy sor row to the queen Prince Christian through the death Victor, of her son-in-law, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and was | promoted brevet-major in recognition of his services. He was at Omdur man with the sirdar. Latterly he [ served with his regiment in Ireland. ( He was 35 years of age. The emperor of Austria always used to send the late king of Italy annual ly a present of 10,000 picked Havana cigars.