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Show I IVO NEW Ilea t h of Ooa of t ba Moot N ut ed of Mia Tins. EXECUTIVES ELECT OF COLORADO AND CONNECTICUT, mb Beat Walla la Bald to Ba CotMa Model labile Servant W lio Surprised tbe Klretor lu tbo Nutmeg Mato, The Man a ( f '' HERE WILL RE plenty of Afresh timber among the new gnieruors to l"n a w g n'SrSTetPYn -January. 1 he state of Colorado, one of those in whit lithe were populists beaten, will place Albert V'. Mcln-tlr- e the to succeed in chair tidtional too iias .Ian n guber-o- 15 Waite.' The governor-elec- t record bea good working His hind Inin say ll is partisans. puldn record is one term as county judge of (onejos county, ml one term is as disti ict judge, lire private said to ie one long cliaiu of public rec-or- Mr. Mdntire wasbcuuin ycurs ago. I'lMsburg Fa., forty-onand is of scotch and Irish parentage lie gnu!, id ted from Yale in 175. and e GEN. NELSON A. MILES. GEORGE W. REA. GOVERNORS. Trap-pe- n Mm PUO-inotio- g Republican t ongreiuiiiian ess. Itrr It often tu 1 George II Noonan who Ins just leen elected to congress from the Twelfth Congressional disti ict of I UMtT W VI INTlHr. itted to the bar in the east, ic to Denver next t ear and in Is in in nt southwest, and helped to build i p the San Luis valley, lie there made i.i li a study of water lights nipiing Nan Luis farmers tliat when in was nominated for the l.itei car-h- e position of county judge, no one was i uiined to run against him It 8tH ttov. Routt appointed hint judge of the Twelfth judicial district. Mr. Mein tire lias a home ranch which isa model as ui lit c.t c ii 1 Texas, is the first republican elected to congress from the Imne Star state since the days of reconstruct ion. Judge Noonan is a notable man in many respects. lie was born in the town of and went to Caldwell, X J., in 18-Texas iu 1811 and settled at (astro-villa town west of San Antouiu. lie was a I n ion ist during the war. and had many exciting experiences with his (on federate neighbors. He lias served continuously for thirty years as 8. e, etett particular. Feihaps r.o more surprising victories were attained in any state than in that of (onnccticut, where, with only one or two exceptions, the entire republican tic he I was elected. It will be that the election laws of tic ut are unique, in that it a majority of the entire votes to lc c't its governor This pecul- onnei iar method has frequently necessitated an election by the legislature. Vin cent D. oflin, who will take the gubernatorial chair, Jan. 9, is the first re' publican governor elected by the peot fifteen years. Mr. Cofltn, ple in w lio Miutedx Gov. Lu.on I. Morris, demount is a native of New York state, aud was born at Mansfield Dutchess county, June 30, 181(1. It was Ins mil mage to Miss Coe of Middle-ton in IS.VJ that caused his removal to i onnecticuL Mr. Coffin has twice ab-m- OF.ORG E H SOON AX. been mayor of Middletown, and twice state senator for Twenty-secondis district judge, and is regarded as a very able jurist He is a brother of Noonan of St. Louis. d Emperor Electric Carriage. Electricity is being curiously applied to a new carriage just built for the German emperor. It is provided with electric lamps. Which contain small One is placed on the accumulators. breast of each horse, also on the point of the pole of the carriage, at the sides and at the rear of the vehicle. Thus distributed they w ill make the route at night as bright as at noonday for a distance of about fifty paces from the equipage, while the vehicle itself, with its occupants, will remain in perfect darkness Daughter of a Bishop, Bishop Potter's right hand man. his reliable secretary and often sage counselor, is bis daughter Sarah. Like the energetic children of an energetic father, the daughters of the bishop of New. York have all adopted matrimony spected member of society and is president of the Middlesex assurance company. I ed tb BIbln for a Weapon. illiain Cantwell of Springfield, Ohio, formerly an inmate of an asylum. went crazyst-- a prayer meeting the other evening at Daleville, Ohio, In giving his experience he became excited, and, rushing to the pulpit, jumped upon the stand where the Bible lay, aud, gesticulating wildly, began yelling at the top of his voice, finally, while the people were hurrying from the church, he picked up the Bible and hit the sexton, w ho was tryMISS 8ARAI1 roTTl.R. ing to extinguish the lights. Someone some threw a piece of coatr hitting him on or special line of philanthropic the head. The insane man jumped work with almost masculine vigor and dow n and was finally caught and taken efficiency Miss --Sarah chose the task of helping i her father, and to be of ti London and placed in jaiL actual assistance she learned both This Cat Bos Thrrft Fje. stenography and typewriting, There A eat with three eyes is owned by are appointed hours for her in her the Jenkins family of Leesrille, Ohio, father's office, where the takes correTwo of the eyes arq in the usual spondence and visitors in hand with all places, but the third is behind the left the capabilities of an expert office ear. The animal is an excellent raouaer woman whose living depends upon the work. and can watch before and behind. W CALL HER DOUSCHKA few months, t,en. Miles w ill succeed to the post of commander-in-ehie- f of SAID THE CZARINA WHEN MISS the arniv of the Fill II ted-Mat- PICKENS WAS NAMED. will have several years to serve before be readies the age limit at which the lavv ix quo, s soldiers to retire. Roman! le It lory at Ihft Daughter I also Atarcient Natal Wedding. English wedding, when Ui biuhgrooin was an admiral In the navy, the bride had her train carried by tdti little brothers nrsinart Fauut-Jerosuits of white satin, and was attended tv a boat- cix-tof pretty bridesmaids vv hose nan Inal costumes were qntrF ungtHfft Ttieywere1 coin 'pouted of vdrUc eWtlu-cMlat bodicija faced w it h unireMlk, and trimmed with uaiul gold lace, aud having heavy gold bullion epauleta. long moire hashes, edgeti with the uuion jacket colors and most fetching white navy regulation eajs. with the rear admiral s flag m front completed wonderfully pretty costumes. The wedding cake was appropriately decorated with a sugar model of the Alert, in which Admit al Markham penetrated the polar regions in 187.5. ALEXANDER M'DOWELL MCOOK y v h of Minlator Pleken Horn tn th perial Fnlnm of th Romanoff, n Court Pat. Im- Was HE RECENT death of th mar of Russia brings to mind the fact thnt he was intjmately ,aPywciaGiw ttfi one of most rcmsi'kable lack, diplomatic dents connected with, any country. It was the part plui ed in great na- tional affairs by an infant can infant and the only bora in the imperial palace an Amerialien ever of Russia. In 1856 Francis IV. Pickens, the brilliant young senator from South CaroHolcomb, lina, married Miss with a most loving letter of congratulation. In 1860, at the same election that made Mr. Linooln president of the United States, Minister Pickens was elected governor of South Carolina. He hastened to resign his diplomatic office and home, with his wife and daughter, to assume the governor's office in the state of his ancestors. And when the message waa sent in reply to an inqniry from Gen. T. G Beauregard to fire on Fort Sumter, it is said that the fingers of Douschka pressed the button that sent the fatal reply. Thus, were her jpfan- tile ears, t list had been first sainted by tlie splendid boom of peaceful can-- " Aionin. lyiuiir of her birth, gtartled In eB oHuitry by the roar pfpanmm that should be the signal' guns fora civil warwhose like had never been In the world, and the echoes of whoe shots would not cease to reverberate in the corridors of time for a thousand -- years. Tbe City ef (Mmmu Odessa, which ia frequently described as the Liverpool of Russia, and which in point of trade and prosperity ranks as the most important city of the emtlie most beautiful and cultivated, then pire, has just been celebrating the cenn graceful and popular woman In W tennial anniversary of its foundation. Appointed to society, hlie was a Texan, Built on territory ceded to Russia by O. (t, HoviHt an old Virginian family of wealth, and in 1793, the foundations of the Turkey Majoisgcuetal Alexander McDowell had received tlie highest culture then present city were laid in 1794, and McCook, who was appointed to that thought necessary for a woman, atrank b Fresideut Cleveland, to suc- tending the leading institutions In thia when, at the beginning of the centnry, the French emigre, the Ducde Rich lieu, ceed t.en O (. Howard, retired Noy. country and Europe, hbe was the arrived upon the aeene to assume his 8, will remuip ii command of the Defavorite of President Buchanan, and duties as governor-genera- l a post to partment of the ( olorado. (Jen. Miles he appointed young Pickens minister which he had been appointed by Emlias been assigned (o Howards departto S8L Petersburg in 1857. Mrs. Ilck-en- a 400 were Alexander there peror only ment at Governor's island. created a sensation immediately on houses and about 6,000 inhabitants in Mi comDowell in lias been Major her arrival at the court of the RomanTo-da-y the population ia mand of the new army department of offs by her grace, brilliancy, easy the place. 0 over 500,000, of whom no less than the Coloiado, with headquarters at and amiable manners, and her artles,, are Hebrews, and there is no city Denver, for the past year. During the democratic lack of conventionality. It in the empire more bountifully enriots in that city last March, he had Was a surprise to the assembled courtdowed with magnificent public buildthe fuinoiiB altercation with Gov. ier of Europe to see u woman threw ings, or where the inhabitant are posAVaite, in which lie demonstrated to aside that social caste which binds a sessed of greater wealth, "ni.tiy the governor that the laws of the Russian in social bonds closer than amassed by commerce. those that hold a Hindoo, and yet be About Mrs rrsdn Tsa!rtIIU petted and encouraged in this by tlie Mrs. Frederick VanderbHt,o Mrs empress aud emperor, Mic completely' won the hearts and close friendship of FrciP as she Is endearingly by . Empress Maria jind Alexander II.-- In her intimates, is the prettiest of lha Vanderbilt women. She bt also the 1868, just before the birth of the daughter of Minister and Mrs. PUkena,tho youngest. She is tall ami tJendor, 1th empress and emperor insisted that the pretty blonde hair and blue eyes. She American minister make his home in has beautiful hands, of which she tlje imperial palace w itli the f rarow it takes very great care, wearing glove Nicholas. And the empress exacted upon all possible occasions. Although a promise tliat she should lie god- she entertains elegantly, it 1 not fremother to tlie child and should have quently that the gives dinners, tea or the privilege of giving it one of ita receptions. There U one entertainnames, and that it should be called and ment which ahe instituted a few years known by the name she gavo Ik AN hen ago at Newport which always takes a beautiful, golden haired, hazel eyed place w hen August comes round, IV ' little girl opened her eye for the first iX. time in this world they were dazzled by all the splendor that gleam and glares in an eastern palace, and her ears were first saluted by a salve of artillery and the distant boom of cannons and by the blare of trumpets, for a national salute had been ordered fired and (he imperial band ordered to Never play in honor of the occasion. before nor aloce had such honor been paid to an alien child. And when the day for the christening came there was anxiety in the hearts of mother and father, for, in addition to the names they were to bestow on their little girl, was to be one yet unknown to them and by w hich they had agreed to call the child. The ceremony took place in the Imperial chapel and waa peformed by the Metropolitan of the Greek church the first ceremony of the kind in that cbapel fora foreigner. At the Impressive moment when the bishop took the dinrM pnd smiling young southerner fn his Arms and MR. rRF." .VAXDKRim T. NELSON APPLETON MILES, asked Please name this child Mr. is the reception to Mrs. Bottom and Pickens gave the names by which she the King's Daughters. 'Most of Mrs. was to be christened and then turned Vanderbilt's charities are done so tbe rebellion until its close in the vo- United Mates'' and hit own duty as AH was hushed and quietly and unostentatiously that the lunteer service, rising from the rank of commander were paramount to any to the empress. solemn amid silence the empress outside world knows little about them. the a subaltern to that of major-generaauthority that could be claimed by the said in a clear and distinct voice: He received four brevets for gallantry state's executive. Flew late tbe Pmm. Ilcr name shall be 'Douscliks. and distinguished service and took part Tlie new major-generis the oldest There was a murmur of admiration and A gobbler escaped from big turkey in many hard fought battles of tbe of ten brothers, alF in the national town groceries in Anwar. He commanded the largest divis- army. lie was, before bis new ap- pleasure from all present, and. the one of the down young mother turned with tearful derson, Ind., the other night, and ion of the Army of the Potomac, and at pointment, the fourth brigadier-generresidence. The and tlie latter roosted on a two-stor- y one time, at the age of 2(i, was in comin the army. He graduated from eyes toward tbe empress, flew he down and hit all of next assembled the astonished morning royalty mand of 2.7, 000 men. He waa engaged the military academy in 1853 and was the head of the minister's tha big foot plate glass in in the battles of tbe Peninsula, assigned to the Third infantry. He by palling an arm around tier the Hotel Anderson front, center. lie before Richmond and at Antietam and commanded a regiment In the battle of wife down, placing Donschka, went through, like a flash, leaving a in every battle of the Potomac, with Bull Run amt was breveted there for neck aud kissing her. means Sweet Little Darling. It was hole which, by after measurement, One exception, until the surrender of showed that it w as not large enough influence and the personal friendship Lee at Appomattox conrt house. He Pickens and his wife for his body to paw through. It waa Minister of was distinguished in the battlesof Fair (mostly the latter) that brought about a clean cut as though a bullet had Oaks, Malvern Ilill, Fredericksburg, close and amicable relations be- passed through and the glass was not those a Chanccllorsville. Old Wilderness, the United States and Russia, crocked In any other place. Strange tween court house. Ream's station, of which astonished all to say that hlle the glass was a third the liberality 1 Richmond campaigns of 864 and many tlie world, and which hare been raain- - of an inch thick, the gobbler was. not other important battles of the war. in the least injured. Local scieatist He was thrice wounded and at the batare unable to solve the mystery. " tle of Oiancellorsville w as borne from the field with wbat was supposed to be A Ballet la HI Hrsd Thirty Tnrs a mortal wound through the body. The ease of George Backctt, of Adair At the close of the war he was a connty, Iowa, a veteran in the civil commissioned colonel of the Fortieth war, from whose head Dr, Sampson, United States infantry and was shortly removed a mlnie bait Thursday, is afterw srd transferred to the Fifth inan exceptional one. For thirty years fantry.. Ills service since the war has he carried in hi head a minie ball been searcclylessdtstingnished. He weighing nearly an ounce. The exact -was promoted brigadier general-i- n location of the ball wa never known December, 1889, and major general in until the day of the removal. It never bothered Sackett until recently, when April 1890. His services ip the Indian country have- - been of inestimable an abees formed In the nasal passage value to the country, and the remarkand the discharge from the nose beable success of his campaigns has probcame Irritating. Thia enabled the ably been unequalled in the history of doctor to locate the ball in the fleshy Indian warfare: He defeated- - the Al.KXAXT.FR M'COoR. part of the head back of the eye near, Cheyennes, Kiowes and Commanches gallant services. He received succesthe nasal passage. The operation in the staked ITafbs country, and in sive brevets in the wa successful and Sackett " performed services and regular 1875 and 1876 he subjugated the hostile in 1865 received that of major-generexperienced no serious results Sioux and other Indians in Montana, for services in the field during the war. A bo at iftattortag. driving Sitting Bnll across the frontier. IKII SCIIKA PICKEXI AT 22. He captured Chief Joseph and his band C It is safe to say thot out of every The ftrft For aft r Govern. of Nez Ierces. after a hard fought batTwo Weeks before tbe sickness of talned to ' this day. And little 1,000 children in the Boston schools, tle of our day in Montana. In 1878 the czar of Russia took a turn for the Douschka" was in no small way re- seven stutter or stammer. Of all boy he Intercepted and captured Elk Horn worse Miss Ntrutton, bis former gov- sponsible for a large part of this in schools, 1. 13 per cent are stutterers, and his band on the edge of the Yel- erness, died in the winter palace at friendly influence. Around her in- while only .43 per cent of all girls lowstone Park. Ia 1880 he accom- fit Petersburg. Miss Htrutton, who fantile n ?rtrav-4rg-rie- b ly be stutter. This is in accord with obserplished what seemed a well nigh im- was an Englishwoman, loved Alexanjeweled miniature of the czar pnd vation of European experts, wbo say possible task of running down and der Romanoff as dearly as though he czarina, phirh she sacredly kept uptil that three or four times as many boys bringing in (Jeronimo and Natehcx and had been her son. The emperor and her death. ' The czar at he time of a girl stutter habitually. the band of Apaches that bad made his two brothers attended the funeral, her birth occupied the imperial palace Want th Whipping Pest. the entire southwest tiu inhabitable. follow ing the hearse on foot from the with his brother, and was a careless, Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry adFor his services be received the thanks palace to the English cemetery, almost free hearted.trnthful youth, who never of the legislatures of Kansas, Montana, two miles apart. His majesty and the dreamed of becoming the czar. dressed the final session of the convenNew Mexico and Arizona, and was pre- grand dukes had carried the coffin Many was the romp he had with tion of the humane societies In favor sented with a sword of honoc at Tuc- from the death room to the hearse. Douschka. And when she married Dr. of introducing the whipping post into son in 1887. Gen. Miles Is now the sec- " hen the body was lowered Intel the Dugas of Augusta, (is., some years the State of New York, to be used esond general officer in rank in the reg- grave the czar, it Is said, wept like a ago he sent here massive, richly carved pecially in the punishment of those ular army, is still a young man, and in child. silver set and a portrait of his father. who are cruel to children. MAJOR-GENERA- n vixcest o. orri.v. t net. liaving been elected in a strong democratic district He is a highly re- srengtli and vigor of man Whentirn Schoflield retire in Xlajor-I.rner- ash-Ingto- 8ufd al 150,-0O- -- in ast PROVED HIMSELF REAL SOLDIER. tleorge V. ilea, who died recently at Klackfoot, Idaho, aged 85 j ears, was onee the greatest hunter and trapper that ever lived in Pennst ltania iorty He Followed the Ileal Inin of tbo Ana? of lb Polomwa from Hull Boa to .tears ago game got too scarce for him in the 1ennst Hama woods, and he Hu Against Appoa'ato ampolcu w cut to t he Rocky Mountains, where the Indians slur 1 It dll. long ago Luivgot lu Vue mu; cttUefa nit.us 'hunters on the w ide and wild range-o- f n HE K he EXT the great west, lie turned his hand of .ell Neltolndian bunting as well Hivtmrgp son Appleton Miles bravery and skill in woodcraft at- to succeed teu O. O "Howard. ictimT." Roberts, chief engineeV " of " ' tlie as ' commander Northern 1acific railway when tlie hrst surier for that roud Alt Depot iuicnt of was made through the East, meets the track less regions of tihttnorthwest and Rea with approval in was made the guide for the engmeei-inarmv circles as well as in New York party. W lien he wauted to go out and stock up tie camps with game, society. Cien. Miles is as big a favoiite in society us he is Capt. Ball, who hud charge of the soldiers guarding the woikmen against among the iiattle scarreti veterans who the Indians, provided him with mili- have followed him ever since the tary escort While the soldiers watched mobilization of the volunteer Army of for Indians, Ilea got the elk antelope, the Iotomae iu 1801 Nelson A. Miles licur, or w huttever game he was after, was born of Irish parentage at Westas fast.as the Soldiers could skin them. minister. Mass.. Aug 8 18.11. His father was a soldier before bun. havand it in ing served in the LEPROSY IN DAKOTA. quite natural that tiie sou should inlb llreadrd lUaease Hrraka Out In a herit soldierly traits. 'I hesc traits became manifest vv lieu the puns of the fcwedifth i omniunity. trained upon Fort (m of Ab.alir leprow has )Krn confederacy Attfeie the Hist tap of the dtitm discovered iu the western part of (.rand Kumpter of volun-teci- s l'oi ks county. North Dakota The vic- he raised a company ids own at tim is Jens Olsen a Swedish boy 17 xpense and years old. an orphan, wild hasbccii ofieied his Mrv ices to the state. For cared for by an unde. When the doc- some reason or other his services were tor discovered the disease the uncle declined; but true patriotism knows no He made a similar turned the lmy out of doors The discouragement county commissioner took him to the offer to New Noth and was accepted. hospital, lint the waiters cooks and Then began the military career of one employes refused to remain although greatest soldiers that America lias yet assured that the disease was tint con- prod m ed He entered the serviie at the age of tagious or infectious. The commissioners finally hud a small cabin built for 21, and seivedfiom the beginning of him on a farm, and lit will be kept there alone Unt full B HE HAS CEORCE H. NOONAN. the hood L L al ten-by-t- Spott-sylvani- 1 MAJOR-OKXKR- al -- |