Eau Claire Leader (Newspaper) - May 20, 1896, Eau Claire, Wisconsin v EAU WIS WEDNESDAY E Glear Sal Custom made grain shoe Machine Custom calfskin shoe Machine u Dongola FORMER 150 250 200 150 NOW 115 150 100 FORriER PRICE NOW All wool suits Boys suits a e 500 age to 19 Come early the stock is 202204 North Barstow Street A It Will Be Extended to Large Numbers of Russians It Is Stated Sentences of Siberian Exiles to Be Either Greatly Commuted Revoked Taxes of Peasants to Be Remitted and Religious Liberty Enlarged LONDON Chronicles Berlin correspondent reports that the claims that rhe czars manifesto will pive amnesties partial or compete to Russian prison ers in Siberia Those sentenced to a life servitude will receive miti gation of tho and offenders domiciled in Siberia will be permitted to return to any part of European Russia Petersburg Mos cow The sentences of those in jail in European Russia for offenses will be reduced by one third A large number of minor offenders will be com pardoned Numbers of those left the country for rea sons will be pardoned on condition of their taking of allegiance Peasantry Will Get a Benefit The peasantry in certain poor be excused from arrears of crown dues Even the Jews says the Berliner will not be forgotten and and the illstarred Hebrew agricultural colonies at will also be excused from arrears The Borne correspondent of The Chronicle also hears that the Vatican has received information that the czar will pardon all Catholic priests who have been imprisoned or sent to Siberia for breach of the public worship laws and that he also promises to prant gradually a large measure of religious liberty to all the subjects including the Catholics Cardinal Agliardi the Vaticans repre at the coronation at Moscow will hand to the czar an autograph letter from the pope urging an extension of religious liberty a Game CHICAGO May defeated Ives last night at balkline bil liards by a score of 300 to 297 Neither man played high grade billiards Gar niere highest run being which he made twice The highest una that Ives was able to turn out were 41 and 51 Handed Over to May remainder of the Italians held in the Tigre terri tory rave been nanded over to General force by the Abyssinians and are retiring towards Dongola Bara chit Ryan Dunfee BUFFALO N Y May 19 took six rounds for Tommy Ryan tc take the measure of Joe Dun fee at the Buffalo driving park The fight wae witnessed by ever 2000 people and was one tided from to finish THE DEADLOCK BROKEN Two Methodist Bishops Elected by the General Conference CLEVELAND May general Methodist Episcopal conference has elected 0 C McCabe bishop on the 15th ballot with a plurality of 5 votes Cranston was elected on the ballot with a plurality of 30 Chaplain McCabe Charles 0 McCabe D D was sorn Oct 11 n Athens O He entered Ohio u and was it Putnam In he became chaplain n the One Hundred ana Ohio volunteer infantry At battle Winchester Va in June 863 while on rhe riela he was captured and taken fc Libby prison where he remained i captive for over four months After release he joined his ac Brandy station bur with broken health was sent back re rhe hospital at Wash Ington He was invited after partial recovery tc speak an anniversary D KCT C C MCABE D D the Christian Commission and George H Stuart president of that organiza tion asked Secretary Stanton to grant him permission to make the tour of the great cities of the Union in the interests of the cause After the war he reentered the regu lar work of the ministry and was sta at Portsmouth O In 1666 the Ohio conference called him into the service of the Ohio Wesleyan university In 1868 the board of church extension asked that he might be appointed to aid Dr Kynett in building up that cause For 16 years he traveled through the length and breadth of the land and saw the work advance with unexampled prosperity upon every Bide In he was reelected missionary Through his matchless inspiration and efforts a cry A million for missions once a prophesy is now one of the in the history of the Methodist Episcopal church Indian Applies a Pension PIERRE S D May Buf falo captain of Indian police at the Cheyenne reservation has applied for a pension on account of injuries SUK while a member of the Third United States Charged With Train Wrecking Wis May Greer and Joseph Wildman were ar at Waldo by the en the having the wreck of the freight train on Friday in mon woro killed and rwo will follow Thi is ird train that has boon rl At IK MISERY AND WOE Kansas Towns Which the Cyclone Passed Weighed Down Total Death Roll Has Reached Nearly a Million Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest U S Report Orders Prohibiting Export of Tobacco TAMPA Fla May Wey lers proclamation forbidding the ex of tobacco from Cuba after 10 days has caused great consternation among the large manufacturers of Tampa Many of them have large quan tities of tobacco already purchased iu Cuba and they fear they get it out in the time prescribed Some have enough of the new crop in Cuba to last a year and it is in io condition to be moved and not be for months Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Another Cyclone Said to Caused Great Loss of Life on a Reserve KANSAS CITY May 19 eight killed outright fifty or more injured some of then fatally and a property aggregating about 000000 is now given the estimated damage none by cyclone in Marshall Nemaha and Brown counties Kansas Further reports increase these figures as telegraph communication with the stricken points is still imperfect and consternation prevails The dead are distributed as follows Ac Seneca and neighborhood 8 Oneida 6 Reserve Sabetha 5 Merrill 4 Seneca suffered property loss of about Frankfort Reserve 460000 Sabetha Merrill 120000 Weighted Uith and damage was done tn the towns Although the pecuniary Joss at Frankfort was great not a life was lost there Destitution and destruction meet the eye at every turn and the stricken country is bowed down with misery and woe Many are rendered penniless But few of the victims carried cyclone Insurance and many escaped with only the they wore At where was heaviest the havoc wrought was most complete Everywhere the citizens have organized and are doing everything possible for the sufferers Appeals for outside aid have been issued To Relieve Reserve HIAWATHA Kan May At a meeting held here relief was provided for the cyclone sufferers at Reserve A carload of provisions clothing etc will be sent to Reserve at once CROOKED BACKING THE CZARS CORONATION NEBRASKA GOT THIS ONE Pawnee Cyclone Forty Persons Killed HUMBOLDT Neb May arriving here bring reports of frightful results of the cyclone on the tion adjoining this They u 40 persons were killed by the cyclone on tho reservation No ulars are obtainable as all tion by wire is down Those an supposed to be Indians as there are f whites en the reservation At Falls City four persons were d and many injured KILLED KY FALLING WALLS Three Firemen Demi am ul WASHINGTON Mar A non which resulted in the loss of and in which three firemen killed and four seriously ly falling walls occurred in this oclock Twentyone with their contents were totally destroyed in the space of about two hours Th turned district consists almost of commission and wholesale jobbing houses The fire started in a branch station of the Postal Telegraph com pany located on B street and is sup posed to have been caused by lightning a severe thunder storm having just passed over the city The three dead firemen went into the ruins voluntarily to assist in rescuing their imprisoned comrades all of whom were rescued though badly Injured while those who attempted o rescue them perished scarcity of room here to be stored in Havana and a fleet of schooners wilt be necessary to take it away ths regular steamers being entirely Inade quate Almost the entire Spanish pop of Tampa has forwarded a vig protest to Madrid against the en forcement of the proclamation The move is regarded here as one intended i to throw the out of work thereby cutting off revenue from the Cuban cause as the have been contributing largely to fehe fund AN ATTACK ON THE Insurgent Leaders Are Preparing to Make a Break HAVANA May is reported that all day numerous bands of insurgents were passing by and over the river San Cristobal in the Finar del Rio Their object is believed to be an attempt to concentrate in obedience to a plan of Maceo and Gomez so as to have their forces cooperate when they attack the trocha At 2 oclock in the morning the insurgents attacked the military line near the station of Artemisa and two hours afterwards at with ar Minister Taylor Not Leaving Spain MADRID May fact that the United States minister Mr Hannis Taylor had arranged with a transport agency to convey his personal furniture upon the steamer Conde bound for New Orleans led to the report that the minister was to leave Madrid This stated is not the family is returning to the United States but their departure has nothing to do with politics and the minister will re side at the legation Dead wood Passed WASHINGTON May Petti grew called up and secured the passage of his appropriating for a public building at Deadwood BRIEF BITS OF NEWS The Illinois crop bulletin gays last week was favorable for crops Archduke Charles Louis of Austria eldest brother of Emperor Francis Joseph is Federal Grand Jury at Denver Indicts Several of Finance E 0 Miller Among Those Who Are Charged With Em Some of the Officials Charged With Falsifying Reports to the Comptroller Arrival of the Imperial Party Inaugurate Festivities Moscow May arrival of the czar and czarina may be said to rate the festival season in celebration of the coronation and for which the city and the whole empire lias made months of preparation Their majesties arrived in their special train at the Smolensk station at p m The station is about half way between the Kremlin and the Petrovski palace which is to be the abiding place of the DENVER May federal grand now in session has found several indictment against bank officials and others accused of having conspired to defraud depositors in banks In this city which have closed their doors during the past four years John J president and John J Jr CZAR AKD CZARINA czar until the triumphal entry into the city on Thursday The rain was president Charles M Clinton Paring down in torrents as the train cashier and Charles seemed to have no of ant cashier of the German American foct on the ardor of the People charged with having fal Their majesties at onco entered a car comptroller in their and were driven to the report of the condition escorted by cavalry officers of tion on May 4 1893 It is said that The passage of tho Charges of a more Serious the streets was greeted oM j j with great enthusiasm the route being are being considered by the grand t j XL fe J with great crowds of cheering It is also announced that E O of Chicago has been indicted on a charge of embezzling from the merciai National bank and Charles M Dow who was president of the Com is charged with having con spired with Miller to defraud Commer cial depositors and with having vio lated the national banking law by loan ing to Miller whereas under the law the bank could not loan to one spectators Nation Nearly every nation on the earth has here a special or repre and every province in the vast Russian empire has sent n deputa tion making an assemblage which in itself forms an interesting ethnological congress Tho tribes of Siberia and the Steppes the Finland During 24 hours there wore 24 deaths from cholera at Cairo and 1 at The annual inert ing of tho Congregational is in at Park Minn The bank lias opened for busings at Shll Lake hausor Lamb and Dimmo are the di rectors Fred Weisle our r tho oldest ard wealthiest of sui by llf was on account nf sickness At Mason City I stole a horse and from S kelson left town Sheriff Snydor overtook the boy in possession of the property INDIANA Some of Them Favor or for individual or company more than 10 per Laplanders Cossacks Tartars Ar Circassians Cai mucks Kurds Chinese Mongols and a dozen others in strange outland ish costumes and unknown tongues have come to Moscow from ail the ends of the empire to renew their homage to the great white cnr the ail the Russia They streets of the capits office in Chi thc tion of other strange peonies even from the westernmost part of America who have mine this long journey for the cent of its capital stock which O E Miller figured prominently in Denver prior to the panic os 1803 Wan Ver Heavy Borrower He was and still is the head of the Miller Hernia company which handles f rupture arid ongo and other Investigation of Millers financial affairs since the crash of has the that liis entire to the national banks of Driver i Of this from the and German Naj tional remaining 000 was borrowd of banks vived the Tho American Na tional recently is said to have a loser Receiver ey are wandering rha in spectacle Kill a Thief WICHITA Kan May a dozen farmers of Beaver township Cowley county went gunning for a thief who had come into their neighbor hood in the guise of a man looking for work and riddled him with bullets Hh had stolen several articles from then and they took the law into their owi hands Arrested For Throwing a Kiss WICHITA Kan Mary Ash kraft a widow has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by T A Fawcett i tailor who charges that she threw a k at him while he was with his wife and that It was done with malicious intent Mrs Ashkraft says the kiss was meant for Mrs Fawcett Forest Still Raging W Va May est fires broke out near the mouth of tho Hughea river in Wirt county on Saturday and are still burning having destroyed hundreds of acres of timber and is now sweeping over the farms consuming fences and outbuildings Given to McCoy on n Foul BOSTON May 19 Newton armory wan crowded with sporting men to witness the fight between Kid McCoy and Mysterious Billy Smith The tefet wsw stopped by Daly in the sixth round on a foul break by Smith McCoy weighed in 147 Smith at 163 iVi INDIANAPOLIS May hag been talk among a few of the well known gold standard Democrats in In of forming an organization which shall advocate the nomination of William E Russell of Massachusetts for president A well known Democrat says he believes that if such a club were organized it would be able tc gather a good many members There are alac influential members of the party who are in favor of the nomination of Secre tary of State Olney It is believed that there are a few Democrats advocates of the gold standard who will go to Chi cago and oppose the nomination of Governor Matthews if he decides to rely upon the free silver people for his sup port in the convention FREE SILVER AND BOIES That Will Be the Platform of the Iowa DUBUQUE la May men claim TOO out of 94 delegates to the Democratic state convention and unless their programme is changed will begin the fight on the opposition at the very opening E M Carr of Manchester is likely to be selected for temporary chairman ana he may also be made permanent chair man The resolutions will be promisingly for free silver at for Boies for president TO BE DISMISSED EnI of the New York NEW YORK May Final tion is to be made on Thursday of a number of against police officials the outgrowth of the senate in of District Attorney Fellows MI id that it probable that all of the untried cafes will be except the former Building Superintendent J who to rd with a piano in Wa tft by him Y rnr v Coronation Services at WASHINGTON May Russian minister has sent to the president and of ths cabinet and a number of public invita tions tc attend the ceremonies to be heid at Beauvoir in the suburbs of Washing Frank Adams of the ton on May 26 hi honor of the corona tional and Zeph T Hili of tho tion of the czar German National have neon press ing Miller for a settlement but the who moved his resi dence to Chicago soon after his financial backers went to tho wall has been standing them off with promises to bond his square up his indebt edness Miller floated bonds in Chicago for bat not one cant of this money ever reverted to the banking in to largely indebted It was upon receipt of the news that he had received the money from his bonding operation that the receivers withdrew all objections to criminal prosecution as they were now assured he did not intend to pay In the Longfellow Cottage Mass May in blaze from a lamp at the summer once occupied by the poet Longfellow on Willow road was the beginning of a tire which fanned by a southwest gale de five handsome summer resi dences entailing a loss of cottage was owned by Alice Longfellow daughter of the poet Private to May Leopold Bowk at onetime pri secretary to General Louis Kossuth and u an intimate friend of Victor Hugo and Victor Cousins and known a the Father of the Poles In America U cead H was vears old Cleveland Touch tho May 9 Clove land has written to the invitation com of National which begins in June 8 that he will be unable to attend bus that he will be with the German singers and the monster audience in spirit at the re concert and will open the by the touching ot un electric button at the White House Judge Lochren Confirmed WASHINGTON May senate has confirmed William as dis judge of Minnesota vice R R Kelson resigned ON THE WAY TO Lumber O May 9 Kel ton Co lumber dealers have an assignment to George L Converse Jr The estimated at divided about equally in real and per sonal property Liabilities will nor exceed Cincinnati Shooting CINCINNATI May 19 four days shooting contest has begun here Is will be exclusively at targets A half hundred crack are here so participate at S 13 Miy faff in the wax Mown open by buri tho powder and and iu money i d and Czarina Start for the Their Cr ST PETERSBURG May czar and czarina with their infant daughter accompanied by a numerous suite and by the whole of the imperial household have taken their departure for Moscow The august ceremony of the coronation of the czar and czarina and the fetes which precede and follow that event will fill up the time constantly from now until June 7 which is the date fixed upon for the return of the im party to St Petersburg The 400 miles of line are guarded by a double guard of soldiers Their ties will remain in palace until Thursday May 21 the date for the triumphal entry of the czar into Moscow which is to be one of the most imposing spectacles in all the cere monies attendant upon the coronation THE VICTIM CREMATED Searchers in the Wilds of Find Wis May of this place were notified Tuesday Jacob a resident of the north of here had disappeared and neighbors feared he had been murdered A subsequent search his buckles and bones in and it is the general belief that he plain and burned in the tree j who is said to i knowing something of the crime escaped from the officers twice ot way to
