| Show AN unfortunate COINCIDE INCE bankruptcy of tho the principal lineal de iCci celida KlaU it of bya by a strange and unfortunate coincidence ap the an adri anniversary of f tle the discovery jig covery of amerla a by columbus was signalized signalizes by the de declaration claral 1 ns as bankrupt of his principal linval lineal descendant I 1 plant ant don Christov Chris nn colombo ColomboO daie mice of ia and according to the new york cordery Ilc IZe corder a couple of day after the ceremonies at chica chicago 0 o in connection avith the cedil dedil dedication aaion of the worlds fair tho the furni furniture turc the ancestral portraits L andall and nil the valuable contained in in the dukes palace rt at madrid al w ere soli sold by order of the therial in behalf of the dukes creditors at public auction the dukes ruin is due nt so much mu ah to personal persona anceal as to arif rt specula speculation timi and i investment with very pronounced tastes for farlini farming 1 1 lie lic has devoted I 0 enormous sums to ti the 0 d development of aaril agriculture culture in spain up ain however hove vcr reaping rca pins any financial fin ancia t results ro aults some three or four months ago Z at the time of the financial crisis in ins reached a clima cl itna and lie he was compelled to announce to ins creditors liis his insolvent insolvency y hoping that lie would be able to effect so me arrangement n they deft deferred pr a time the ivi winding riding ulof up of his affairs but as lie hns been unable to do anything aneti ir in i i ii the direction of 0 a compromise they lost patience and proceeded to estr extremities matics the duke who is isa a man of fifty years year of ape age and who held tho the rank of minister of the navy in the liberal cabinet of senor sagasta has now retired to a little village some f fifty f ty miles distant from madrid where lie he is living in the very humblest circumstances in view of all this I 1 venture to doubt as to the likelihood of his availing himself of the invitation tendered hirn him by the united states government g to talce take part in the great columbian ceremonies lt ct chicago next year possibly it may inay occur to somo patriotic readers of this column that the achievements of the great ecat discoverer of this country might inight most appropriately be commemorated by setting his descendant ant once more upon his les legs financially speaking cing |
