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fllP VOL. XVI. ALTOOJSTA, OCTOBER 1, 1891. NO. 212.

ill AN INSURGENT ARMY BALTZEIXS. DODUWGER mm 1 CHINESE OXFORDS Not winter yet by any means; weeks yet of fine, warm weather; of weather warm enough to make high Shoes unpleasant to wear and the Oxford just the acme of solid comfort. Even did the cold north winds blow, and the snowflakes fly through the air, you could not resist 'buying a pair or two of our Oxfords. You may think we are talking at random, don't condemn us until you are sure NO APOLOGIES YET MADE. The Chilian Affair is Still "Worrying: Government Officials.

Washington, September 30. The Chilian situation is unchanged and it continues to be a subject of solicitude in official circles. No new acts of discourtesy at the hands of the Chilian junta are reported. At the same time, it is not knownSthat the junta has apologized for former insults, or given assurances that unfriendly demonstrations in the future will not be made to American citizens. The interest felt in the situation has not abated and that the government still feels the necessity of having United States men-of-war in Chilian waters, or within easy call, is attested by-the fact that the San Francisco, which touched at Payta, Peru, on her way to San Francisco, has been ordered to remain at Payta and await developments.

The Yorktown, which some weeks ago was ordered to China, has been ordered to stop on her way thence at Valparaiso for orders. She will not be able to leave New York for a week and it will require about forty-five days for her to reach 'Chili, providing she lias good weather. The 'York-town may touch at Rio de Janerio on her way down the Atlantic coast, and also at Montevideo. If it is evident that the Chilian situation does not demand her presence at Valparaiso, orders can then be sent her to proceed direct to China. The Yorktown under her present orders, will sail throgh the Straits of Magellan and up the Pacific coast to Valparaiso.

The San Francisco will remain at Payta for the present, and the Baltimore will remain at Valparaiso. During the afternoon Comodore Ramsay was in consultation with Secretary Tracy, and the result as announced later in the day was an order for the cruiser San Francisco, then at Payta, Peru, to proceed immediately to Calleo and thence to Valpai-riso, if necessary. Further instructions to govern the course of the vessel when she arrives at Valpairiso will be sent to her when she touches at Calleo. Secretary Tracy declined absolutely to give his reason for sending the ship back to Chili, and refused to discuss the case. Acting Secretary Wharton was besought to make a statement of the actual facts in the present complications, or at least to give to the public some assurances that the situation is not as critical as it is represented to be in some publications.

The acting secretary, however, did not feel at liberty to say one word upon the subject. Still there is reason to believe that no further overt acts have been committed by the Chilian junta, and that the return of the San Francisco to Chili is simply in pursuance of the intention formed several days ago to give moral effect to Minister Egan's position by the presence of Admiral Brown and his flagship at Valparaiso. CHANGES. Please do not complain about our changes. We can't help growing.

Every day our business is getting larger. We no sooner get a department located than it gets too large for its quarters and we are compelled to make a change. The present change is a great one. The expense has been enormous. A whole army of mechanics have been kept busy day and night for weeks as many as thirty painters and carpenters working at one time.

Paper hangers, decorators, carpenters, masons and plumbers are still here. Everything is upside down. The departments, many of them, have been located. Later we'll give you our store directory. Domestics and Flannels have, been moved to rear of basement nice, roomy quarters they have, good light and excellent venti- lation.

No where else is there so fine a basement (devoted to business) as ours. In a few days we'll tell you about it, and ask you to come "and see it and the lots of beautiful things we will show in if 1118 Eleventh. Ave. Annamite lance. Returning home he was attached to the Saint-Cyr corps of instructors from 1867 to 1870 and became very popular at the famous academy.

In 1870 he left Saint-Cyr, and in the war of that year was wounded in the shoulder at the hand of his regiment and subsequently received a severe wound during the suppression of the commune. Five years previously, in 1865, Boulanger had married, at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris, a daughter of M. Renouard, who owned a large printing establishment in the Eue Garanciere, near Saint-Sulpice. His friends thought that, from a worldly point of view, he had made an exceptionally good match, but they were soon deceived. So the pleasant days passed until the war of 1870 broke out.

The general and his family he had two daughters by this time returned to Paris, and within a short period the happy family ties were severed, never to be reunited. The rupture came gradually but inevitably. Military affairs occupied the general's entire attention and he spent little time at home. Bickerings were the result and to outward appearances husband and wife were still united, intimate friends knew that the contrary was the case. As the years advanced the daughters learned the truth and clung the more closer to their mother.

At this time the general was undoubtedly the most popular man in France. To the discontented of all classes he was a national hero; to disgruntled politicians of all ways of thinking he was the Moses who was to lead them into the promised land of liberty, equality, fraternity and all other attainable earthly blessings. His portraits were sold by the thousand; his lightest utterances were quoted in the cafes and on the boulevards; his style of dress was copied by ambitious young officers; his favor was sought by high and low; his ante-room was thronged by suitors for his favor. As the savior of France, as the pupil of the great Napoleon, he was honored and applauded to the echo. A march composed in his honor soon became popular in every country in which pianos and barrel organs are played.

A score of ballads with him as their hero soon made their way throughout the length and breadth of France. The Goblet ministry fell and the general was ordered to retire from Paris and take command of the Thirteenth army corps. He sulkily obeyed, but the "attractions of Paris were too potent to be resisted, and he soon left his command and revisited the capital in disguise. This act of insubordination the government refused to overlook, and he was promptly deposed from his command. At this point his military career ceases and politics occupy his attention.

In vain does the Tirard government try to disgrace him; in vain does the government try to prove him an adventurer. He becomes' a candidate for deputy in two departments, and carries Dordogne by a majority of nearly 20,000 and Nord by a majority of 96,000. In Aisne and Aude Boulangist nominees were also elected. Triumphant and cheered by a host of; followers the new deputy attended a session of the chamber and coolly demanded an unrestricted revision of the constitution. The other deputies laughed at him and rejected his proposal by a vote of 2 to 1.

A week later lie entered the chamber again, and with equal coolness demanded the dis- solution of the national legislature. This proposal the deputies also rejected by a vote of 2 to 1. Angered at such treatment and at the jeers and sneers which had greeted his proposals, Boulanger strove to browbeat his fellow members by telling them that he had a direct mandate from the people, and that the people's wishes ought to be complied with. To this implied threat the chamber paid no atteirtion, and the thwarted gnnornl jjya.s tosee-tfaat his "demonstration against parliamentarism proved a veritable fiasco. Meanwhile the triumphant and idolized general determined on a new move.

Although a member of the chamber from the department of the Nord, he became a candidate for the department of the Seine as soon as a vacancy offered him an opportunity of showing his strength in Paris. A memorable contest was the result. On the day of the election Paris was thronged and the returns from the polls were awaited with unparalleled interest. At the close the result was that the general obtained a plurality 81,000 over M. Jacques, the government candidate.

In order to gain this result the general had thought it expedient to promise that he would not only turn out the ministry and dissolve the legislature, but that he would also summon a constituent assembly to revise the constitution. The government was not asleep all this time. It saw clearly that Boulanger was a standing menace to existing institutions and the peace of the country, and it then determined to silence him, Its first act was to suppress the Patriotic League, of which he was a prominent member, and its next move was to charge him with appropriating of public money for the purpose of his own propaganda. No longer was there any vacillation or timidity. The government, and not the blusteruig general, was now the aggressor.

ArTTaris was electrified, and the question upon everyone's lips was: "What will le brave general do?" The government would not retract the charge anil Boulanger had either to face the music or shake the dust of his native land from his feet. Believing in the old adage that discretion is the better part of valor, he chose the latter alternative doubtles to the unbounded delight of his opponents. He went first to Belgium, then to London and finally to Jersey. In London, where he stayed for some weeks, he was considerably lionized. The nobility invited him to their homes and the members of the Coaching Jclub and other clubs greeted him hospitably.

London, however, is not Paris, and he soon wearied of it and, following the example of Victor Hugo, sought shelter in ersey. Then the government cut him from the army list and decreed his exile. GANSMAN'S. Marching- Afainst the City of Guatemala. City ok Mexico, September 30.

A tlut-patch received in this city from Newton, yesterday afternoon, says that 1,000 men, indifferently armed, are marching from Gnety.silteniingo on the city of ruaU'iimla. The latter city, which if mill under martial law, is infested with government troops, who will march out to give battle to the insurgent armv. The work of executing the men who took part in the recent revolt still continues. The only news of trouble--In Guatemala is either received by special courier to Newton or by lleeing Guatemalans, who are seeking the hospitality of the southern frontier of Mexico. The indciHMideiit papers of the City of Gusitcmala continue their attacks upon the presidential candidates.

They also severe- ly criticize the government in the strongest language. El Duende devotes columns to antagonizing Lorenzo Motituaro, one of the presidential candidates. Owe of the sons of Montuaro has brought a libel suit ugaiiiMt the editor. In the unit the editor ruudo an objection to ono of the jurors, and it in now stated that Montuaro is endeavoring to withdraw the charge preferred ngaiimt hiin.f Owing to the double assassination, in which General Sanchez was killed by Colonel Jobon, and the latter by lUnuula Sanchez, one of the youngest of four brothers, the entire male inirtion of the family, with the exception of Manuel, who was out of town, were cast into prison. Manuel made his escape to Sim Salvador, the capital of Salvador.

There he got into a dispute with some of the residents regarding the late war lietwecn Guatemala and Salvador, and he shot and killed three per- KOllK. It is rumored in Guatemala that Toledo, President Barillas' privite secretary, who left that city a few day ago on a government mission to the department, of the west, has been assassinated while ov route, as nothing has been heatd of him. 1 he proprietors of a vnnting ollio callei La Union were advised by that if Ihey should print any deposition (tapers iu their establishment they wouldoe thrown into prison and their property confiscated. To this Diaro de Cantro America, an opposition journal, after printing Barillas notice, makes the following sarcastic comment: "We will not say that this is not an attack upon the liberty of the press, nor much less on the advancement of industry." Base Ball Yesterday. The following games were played yesterday by the National League and American Association clubs: NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At Cleveland Cleveland 12, Chicago '5. At Pittsburgh Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh 1. At Boston First Game Botdon 10, New York 5. Second Game Boston 5, New York 3. At Brooklyn First Game Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 7.

Second Game Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 9. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Milwaukee Milwaukee 10, Louisville 4. At Philadelphia First Game Boston 6 Athletic 11. Second Game Boston 5, Athletic 0.

Chicago Kicking: Ag-ainst Boston. Chicago, September 30. President Hart, of the Chicago base ball club, to-day Tiieifraulii't- league, asking him to am.et tain "whether or not the necessary consent of six of the clubs had been secured for the playing of two games at Boston with Pittsburgh on the 10th and with the New York yesterday and to-day and, if not, demanding that they be thrown out of the championship table. President Young replied as follows: I have no authority to declare any games void. If you file protests the.

Boston club must be notified and given a chance to present evidence and the directors must decide. I there is a necessity for a meeting of directors I will call it not later than Monday if I can secure their attendance. A Purely French Affair. "London, September 30. The Paris correspondent of the Times says: "The withdrawal of the German firms from the IJuh-sian loan agreement is a good thing for the loan, because thin action will make it a purely French affair.

Should there now be an election for a president of France by universal suffrage, the popularity of the czar is so great that ho would get millions of votes, and perhaps a largo majority. France lends to no country but Kussiu, and the latter will be able to borrow again and again. The French investor regards it as a national loan, and as much cheaper than French rentes. At the same time liussia has administered a severe blow to the Kothschilds, who thought they could prevent her obtaining money. Firemen So Quick Work.

Atlantic City, N. September 30. At the firemen's convention tliis afternoon a hose race took place and the Alfred Le-roy hose company, of Cohoes, N. ran 300 yards, pulling their hose wagon and attaching hose, in 44 seconds, winning the first prize There were no other competitors. The second race was the hook and ladder race, and the Leroy boys were again victorious, making a distance of 300 yards, puttting up the ladder and one man ascending to the top rung, time 53 seconds, defeating the "Water Witch hose company, of Annapolis, by lfl seconds.

The first prize was 100; second, Raum Requests Dismissals. "Washington, September .30. Pension Commissioner llaum to-day sent a letter to Secretary Noble demanding the diHmissal. of J. Edward Kngle, of Pennsylvania; M.

Taylor, of Illinois, and Edward Howard, of Connecticut, three clerks in the pension bureau. The letter of Commissioner Itauru is the result of the charges that his son, who was compelled to resign his position in the bureau because of certain alleged irregularities, has since been using his influence to secure the promotion of his friends who would reciprocate by lending him money. In his letter Mr. Kaum states that he believes that persons therein named are trying to injure hi in through his son. Young Mr.

Kaum denies the charge. Minister Hirsch's Vacation. Paris, September 30. After Mr. llirsch, the American minister to Turkey, had left his post on leave of absence, for the purpose of visiting America, he had several conferences with leading Hebrews iu this city in regard to the measures to be adopted to better the condition of the Jews who have been driven from liussia.

Mr. llirsch sailed for New York on the Hamburg American line steamer Fuerst Bismarck, on Saturday last. He is accompanied by his family. Upon his arrival at New York he will start immediately for Washington, Afterwards he will go to his home in Oregon. "Why Russia Holds Aloof.

Visnna, September 30. The St. Peters-burgii correspondent of the Political Correspondence of tliis city telegraphs that the reason for Kussia's declaration to co-operate with the rest of the powers, in calling China to an account for the recent outrages upon foreigners is that Kussia doeH not do-sire to strengthen England's inlluence in Asia, and also because the Russian government is of the opinion that the disturbed condition of China will assist in extending Russian commerce in the direction of the projected Siberian railroads. I. An Express Messenger Relieved of Some Valuable Packages.

,000 WILL COYER THE STEAL The Thief Sawed a Hole in the Express Car, and While the Messenger Was Assorting Packages Covered Him With a Revolver Took the Money. THE PARTICULARS OF THE AFFAIR Utica, N. September 30. Special American express train No. 31, on the Central Hudson road, due here at 3.10 this morning, was robbed between here and Little Falls.

The robbery, which was attended by nearly all the thrilling features that accompany such events in the wild west, took place about 1 o'clock this morning. At the hour named, B. A. Moore, of Buffalo, a trusted messenger of the express company, who had been in its employ fifteen years, suddenly realized the fact that a stranger stood over him with two revolvers pointed at his head, and demanded the surrender of his revolver and the key of the safe. The robber's only words to Moore were: "It's money I'm after, you We're coming into Utica.

Moore was taken wholly by surprise, and, as the robber had taken his revolver, he had to give up the key of the safe. The robber then opened the safe, took out the money packages and jumped off the train, having first given a signal to the engineer to slow down. When he was ready to jump he gave another signal for the train to go ahead and then jumped and started in a northerly direction. The robber was masked and the messenger was unable to give any accurate description of him. As soon as possible Moore made known to the other men on the train what had taken place, and they made a search to see how the robber got in the car.

There was no mystery about it, for a hole large enough to admit a man's body was found cut through the forward end of the car. It was about sixteen inches square, and had been cut with an augur and saw. Once the intruder got inside he was concealed from the messenger by the freight, and could watch the messenger without being seen himself. He waited until Moore was making out certain way bills, and had him covered with the pistols and at his mercy. The car that was robbed was the last one of the six in the train, and it is believed by the express people that the robber had some experience as a railroad employe, from the fact that he was able to give the right signals on the air whistle for slowing and sarting the train.

The train arrived in this city only a few minutes behind its regular time, and Messenger Moore gave the above particulars. He had suffered no violence but was badly frightened, and proceeded on his way to Buffalo. The exact amount of money taken by the robber is not known, but from the nature of the packages the express company soys it is leaa. th- uger Moore tlnvt whenr -the robber secured his revolver he fired three times, none of the bullets hitting Moore, however. The robber ransacked the safe, taking those packages he thought contained valuables.

The messenger managed to thrust a $5,000 money package behind the safe, which the robber did not find. Packages containing jewelry and other valuables were taken. The libber waa short and slim and he wore dark clothes. A slight dark mustache showed through the mask. Moore was formerly night agent at Syracuse.

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. New York and Philadelphia Stocks The Chicago Markets. Chicago, September 30. There was plenty of bull enthusiasm left over from last night in the trading this, morning. This was strengthened by the early news, and the market had quite a boom at the start.

The bull features were the "Hold Your Wheat" circular at the Farmers' Alliance, the heavy export movement from Duluth, the contipued receipts of gold from Great Britain, the Comparatively light receipts of wheat in the northwest, continued fair weather in the winter wheat belt, delaying fall seeding; firm cables, and buying, presumably for Hutchinson, who is supposed, to be covering shorts. The last bit of news of course begot a desire to "run the old man in," and prices were advanced accordingly. Ream and Mitchell were about the only prominent LOllers. These are the closing prices with range of markets "Wheat Opened. Highest.

Lowest. Close. 9S 07U 71 May 104 103 Corn-September 53 October 53'4 63T 61x December 44V 44)4 43-2 May 422 4Z 4l Oats-September 27 21 2 October 2l 27 26 26 May 31'i 8114 30 80 Pork October 10 10 10 10 9 85 9 85 December 10 40 10 40 10 12 10 12 January 12 67 12 67 12 42 12 42 Lard October 6 72 6 72 6 65 6 65 January 6 97 6 97 6 87 6 90 Short Ribs-October 6 90 6 90 6 75 6 77 6 62 6 62 6 62 January 6 60 6 60 6 47 47 Car receipts for to-day Wheat, 265; corn, 123; oats, 138. Estimates for to-morrow Wheat 265; corn, 150; oats, 180. STEW YORK STOCK MARKETS.

New York, September 30. Following are the closing quotations: Clos. ClOB. Atchison 43 N. Facino 75T C.

C. 1 724 do. common 22 Canada Southern Mt'J North ls'Z C. B. 98 Pacific Mail 87 C.

G. Trust 6152 Fhila. Keadinir 4oK Lack. W. 140 Richmond Teruil 13JS Del.

134 Kock Island 82 Erie 2 St. Paul 74 Jersey 117 Sugar Trust 8852 Lake Shore 124 Texas 14 Lead Trust 16 T. C. 1 36 Louis. 79 Union raciflc 41 Missouri Pacific.

60 Western 82'4 New England SsiJ-i Wabash pref 3( N. Y. Cen. U.K. ill W.

L. Ere pref 78 Northwest 115 do. 38 PHILADELPHIA QUOTATIONS. Philadelphia, September 30. The following are the closing prices of stocks Clos.

Clou. Northern Pacific. 2H Reading 20 3-16 do. preferred. 76 Lehigh Valley.

50 Pennsylvania 64 Bad For Savannah. Savannah, September 30. The strike of the wharf hands here has demoralized the commerce of the port. The strikers are receiving large accessions to their ranks, and they say that unless their demands are acceded to to-day all the men at the cotton presses, and hundreds of other negro workmen along the wharves, who are in sympathy, will go out to support them. The loss inflicted on the cotton, naval stores and shipping interests here threatens to be enormous.

The various railway and steamship companies affected were in conference with a committee of the strikers all of yesterday and last night, but no settlement has been reached. Public sympathy is with the strikers. -A refusal of a demand for increased pay caused the strike. He is in a Bad Scrape Now. Chicago, September 30.

One of the men under arrest on suspicion of causing the death of E. F. Gates, of Marietta, Ohio, in this city, a couple of days ago was identified this morning as Joseph Dallus, of St. Louis. He is said to be a son of a Huperin-tendent of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company of that city.

His parents stand high in St. Louis society, but the young man was wayward, and it is said that his father, after helping him out ofa number of scrapes and despairing of his reformation, disowned him. I ROBBER He Used the Contents of a Revolver to End His Life. PARISIANS ARE GREATLY EXCITED He Chose the Tomb of His Mistress, in the City of Brussels, as the Fitting Place For the Final Act -of a Most Remarkable Career. A RESUME OE THE DEAD MAN'S LIFE Bkussels, September 30.

Boulanger, the exile and former hero of the French people, is dead. The general committed suicide to-day on the tomb of Madame de Bonnemain, who died recently in this city. Madame de Bonnemain has been knowjj as the mistress of the general. She accompanied him to England, after his flight from France, and early in July last she was dangerously ill in Brussels, suffering from consumption. A Paris physician went expressly in order to treat Madame de Bonnemain by a new system, consisting in inoculating the person affected with the germ of phthisis with gayacol, which is obtained from creosote.

However, in spite of the efforts made save her, Madame de Bonnemain died during the evening of July 17. Madame de Bonnemain, at the height of General Boulanger's career, two or three years ago, lived in the Rue de Berri, Paris, where she was continually visited by the general. Spies kept track of their movements and soon discovered that the two persons referred to were very intimate. Madame Boulanger was informed of these facts, but refused to apply for a divorce, although she had left him. She did this for her daughters' sake.

It was greatly through Madame de Bonnemain's favor that General Boulanger was able to carrry on his political intrigues, for niadanie had inherited a fortune of 1, 500,000, all of which sum she devoted to the cause of the then popular leader. To such an extent did General Boulauger carry his infatuation for Madame de Bonnemain that when the French government determined to arrest him he could not be persuaded to pose as a martyr before theFrench people by going to jail, preferring to flee with his mistress from France to England, and eventually to Brussels, where they have both met their death. General Boulanger committed suicide at about noon. He stood alone by the grave of his late mistress for some time, appearing to be deeply affected by sorrowful recollections. An attendant of the general, who had respectfully remained at some distance from Mme.

de Bonnemain's tomb, suddenly heard a sharp report in that direction. Running to the spot, the attendant found General Boulanger lying dead upon the ground, with a revolver clenched in his right hand. A hasty examination of the body showed that the general had placed the weapon to his right ear and fired the fatal shot. The affair has caused great excitement in this city and some commotion among the general's followers inParis. The police-wlW-dadrTii5imisTrieh(Ia hereTiavo taken, possession of his lodgings, and they have not yet announced if he left any statement.

The general's position, financially and politically, has, it is generally admitted, been getting blacker and blacker of recent months. He had no hopes for the future, and liis remaining friends were few and becoming colder as the once famous general dropped more and more out of public notice. There is no doubt that the general was conscious of these facts, and that they preyed upon his mind, coupled to this was the morbid love which he had for his dead mistress, to whom he was undoubtedly greatly attached, as evidenced by his' renouncing what might have been an important political career in order to fly with her from France. General Boulanger, according to the stories told this evening, made no secret of his. weariness of life since the collapse of his party and particularly so since the death of Madame Bonnemain.

The general, accompanied by his valet, and not by his secretary, as at first announced, left the Rue Montoyer in a landau drawan by two horses. He left the landau at the gate of the cemetery and walked slowly and calmly to the tomb of Madame Bonnemain. He remained 1here for some time in the deepest thought and was afterwards seen to be slowly walking around the cemetery still thinking deeply. Contrary to the first reports received of the affair, the general must have walked about the cemetery nearly an hour and a half before he returned to Madame Bonnemain's tomb. All reports agree in the statement that as soon as the general reached the tomb the second-time he immediately placed his pistol to his head and shot himself.

The report of the revolver was heard by the coachman, who was driving the general's landau, and by the valet who had accompanied the suicide to the cemetery. They both rushed to Mme. Bonnemain's tomb and they fonnd the general quite dead, lying across the grave, The death must have been instantaneous. The general's body has been prepared for burial, but it is only being viewed by the immediate friends of the family. The latter, it should be said, unanimously desire that the funeral should be of the most simple order.

Some of the general's political friends are in favor of a public demonstration. The funeral will take place on Sunday. AN ERRATIC CAREER. The Salient Points in the History of the Dead Han. The course of General Boulanger seems to have been settled by inheritance.

His most notable ancestor was S. R. Boulanger, described in the records as "aged 37, journeyman jeweler, general of brigade," who was guillotinedi Paris in 1791. In May, 1793, the commune, by its council general, placed Citizen Boulanger at the head of the army in Paris. Three days later he resigned, making the manly declaration that he found himself unable to discharge a function which the desire to be useful had at first made him accept.

On the 9th Ther-midor he fell into the hands of his enemies, led by Billaud-Varenues, and was executed. Ninety-four years later his descendant was not decapitated but banished in disgrace. George-Ernest-Jean-Marie Boulanger was born at Rennes in Brittany on April 29, 1837. His father was a native of Rennes and his mother was a Miss Griffith, a native of Wales, whose family had settled at Rennes after the peace of 1815. M.

Boulanger was a nervous man and very reserved in his manner. He always wore a moustache and goatee, which gave him a military air. In politics he was an ardent Bonapartist, and this is one of the reasons why his son has been so often charged with being in the pay of Bonapartists and with trying to pay the role of a Napoleon Caesar, M. Boulanger left three children, a son named Ernest, Georges, the general, and a daughter, who married M. Le Predour, naval commissary at Lorient, and a nephew of Admiral Le Predour.

Mme. Le Predour by the way quarreled with the general several years ago and has never since been on good terms with him. The future general was educated at the College of Na-nte, and on January 19, 1865, before he was 18, he entered Saint-Cyr, the French West Point. There he studied hard and in due time joined the Algerian tirailleurs, wheuce he was transferred to the army in Italy, one result being that he was severely wounded at the battle of Tur-bigo. He was in command, of a platoon of Turcos, or native Algerians, and was, fighting hand to hand with the Austrians.

Sud-. denly a ball from a Tyrolese musket struck him and he fell and lay all day bleeding in a ditch, his only consolation being that the Tyrolese who had wounded him had been promptly despatched by a Turco. He next saw service in Cochin China, where he was wounded in the arm by an The Government Now Has Its Vtry Full. Hands THE REYOLT AMONG THE TROOPS A Fleet May Have to be Sent to the Scene of the Troubje A Rice Blockade Might Bring That Country to a Sense of Its Present Duty. PIRATES ARE MAKING MANY RAIDS London, Sptember 30.

The Times publishes a dispatch from Shanghai saying that advices have been received there, that the Chinese government rtvilr not be able to control the Hunanese troops unless a fleet is dispatched to the scene of the trouble. It is stated that the Chinese ironclads unable to ascend the Yang-tse-Kiang will be detailed to protect Shanghai and coast towns. A British customs officer named Mason has been arrested by the Chinese goverment It is alleged that he wanted first to gain the confidence of the government, learn what action it was proposed to take, and then betray the secret to the rioters. It is believed that Mason is slightly insane. The Shanghai papers urge that the British minister ought to live part of the time at Shanghai, where information of events taking place in China can be promptly obtained.

An identical note has been issued by Fngland and Germany in response to the note issued by the Chinese government in which the Peking authorities promised to protect the lives and property of foreigners in China. In this note Fngland and Germany state that they accept the assurances of China's good intentions, but TTeelare that they will be compelled to consult their ambassadors at Peking in regard to the ability of the Chinese government to carry out its intentions. In conclusion the note says that only the evidence pi accomplished facts wi i satisfy the powers. The News correspondent of Paris suggests the expedient of a rice blockade to bring China to book, and says that if all Europe joined, such a measure might insure the safety of the Christians in China. San Fkancisco, September 30.

Chinese advices say that pirates have burned the village of Trung-Ba, on the Black river. One hundred pirates attacked the village of Luong, but were repulsed, one villager being killed. -At Haidu pirates had two engagements with the civil guards, in which forty-seven of them were killed and the remainder driven back to the mountains, where they are hemmed in. Pirates attacked a boat near Swatow and robbed the passengers of In the riot at Ichang the premises of the Catholic and American missions and Messrs. Cain's, Aldridge's, and Dean's houses were burned while Mr.

Cockburn's house was looted. All foreigners are on board the steamer Inoha and the customs officers are under arms. The men-of-war Swift, Aspic, Archer and Inconstant have been dispatched to the scene of the trouble. Terrible hail stnnns ar" i of Sons-Cliow, doing great damage. The village had every house leveled to the ground.

Heavy rains and a cyclone at Shanghai early in September unroofed the houses and blew down trees, and five lives were lost. A terrible fire has occurred at Chung-King and another at Nanking. Over a hundred of the best shops in Nanking are entirely destroyed. CLOSED ITS DOORS. The National Bank of Clearfield Suspends Payments.

Special to the Tribune. September 30. The First National bank closed its doors this morning, the notice tacked on the door stating that payment had been suspended on account of the continued run that had been going on since last December, caused by groundless rumors. The depositors are protected by the stockholders who are responsible. Excitement in Houtzdale.

Special to the Tribune. Osceola Mills, September 30. The closing of. the First National bank of Clearfield this morning followed shortly after the closing of the Houtzdale bank has caused the most intense excitement to prevail all day in Houtzdale and has shaken confidence throughout this section. The Houtzdale bank is the bank with which William B.

Hamilton was connected, and for embezzling its funds was sent to the penitentiary. William H. Dill, of Clearfield, is the president, and John B. Mc-Grath, of Houtzdale, is cashier. The failure of the Clearfield bank is here alleged to be on account of a family disagreement.

The money of the Houtzdale bank depositors is in the Clearfield bank. The deposit liabilities are upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. The assets depend altogether upon the value of the securities held in lieu of the depositors' money. McGrath has assigned in favor of John Beyer, and if the president does not concur in his act he will ask the court to appoint a receiver. Among the depositors are the Miners' and Cbjeck Weighmen's association, with two thousand dollars to its credit, the borough treasurer, several township treasurers and the treasurers of all the many secret orders in this place.

The Hungarian depositors are said to amount to seventy thousand dollars, and several tin; to-day it was thought these would ra the bank. William E. Wallace, son of ator Wallace, who is a depositor in th. Clearfield bank, says the depositors will hx'e nothing, which will be cheerir. news to the depositors in the Houtzdale uanlc.

Slay Pay Dollar for Dollar. By Associated Preta. Clearfield, Pa. September 30. The First National bank of Clearfield closed this morning.

President Dill authorized the following: "The unprecedented run on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, amounting to nearly made it impossible to continue business and therefore the bank suspends payment." It is believed the depositors will get dollar for dollar. Improvement in Passenger Coaches. To what extent luxuriousness in the equipment of passenger coaches will go is an interisting subject for speculation in railroad circles at present. Dhere has been a most noticeable improvement in the direction of better accommodations within the last decade, and esyecially has' this been apparent within the past year or two. This does not apply to the great through lines only, but is noticeable on the smaller roads.

On the trunk lines the competition is keen and the traveling public so discriminating as to necessitate the catering to a marked degree to its unexpressed, yet none the less plain desire for fine accommodations. As a result many of the best coaches in use now are miniature drawing rooms in point of upholstery and general furnishing, and the more ordinary coaches and cars are finely equipped and are a vast improvement on those in use a decade ago. Where this adornment will stop is not now apparent, as railroad companies are still vieing with each other in a desire to excel. The traveling public is being benefited thereby. Death of Cyrus J.

Buch. At 9 o'clock yesterdayevening Mr. Cyrus J. Buch died at his home, 1317 Seventh avenue. He had been in failing health for several years and critically ill for the past week.

He was born in 1837 and was therefore 54 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife and three children these latter being Mrs. J. R. Kearney and Mrs.

George Thane, of St. Paul, and Mr. C. A. Buch, of Altoona.

Funeral on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. OUR NEW FALL STOCK NOW READY. We are showing the greatest line of Fall Suits and Overcoats ever shown in this city. These Goods have been expressly made for us by the best Wholesale Tailors in this country and outshine all our former successful efforts in Style, Fit and Workmanship, and our Prices defy all Competition. 500 X1SCH00L SUITSt 500 From S1.25 to BS.OO.

These Goods, are 'Worth Double the Money. Rare Bargains. THE LATEST FALL STYLES IN SILK, STIFF AND SOFT HATS, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Neckwear, arfd all the Lstest Novelties of the Season. D. GANSMAN, LARGEST CLOTHIER, HATTER AND FURNISHER, 1118 ELEVENTH AVE.

SHOES! SHOES! we are wrong. Here are a lot of Oxfords that in the beginning of the season were marked and sold well at $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00. They sold so well that when placing our fourth order we overdid the matter and bought double the quantity we should; Now they must go at $1.00 a pair. Another lot of much higher grade goods go at $1.75, they were marked $2.50 and $2.75. We bought too many of them late in August.

The Misses' Children's Oxfords that were $1.00 and $1.50 go at 75c. and $1.00. This is our last cut price sale in Oxfords. $1.75 and $2.00 for $1 00 2.50 and for 1 75 fcl.50 for 1 00 $1.00 75 1118 Eleventh Ave. Street, Altoona, Pa Democratic Clubs Meet.

Pittsburgh, September 30. When Vice President William J. Brennan, of this city, called the state convention of democratic clubs to order in old City Hall, at 11 o'clock this morning, there were over fourteen hundred delegates in the seats, representing one hundred and fifty clubs. The old historic hall was in gala attire, and looked beautiful with the tasteful decorations of flags, bunting and the many handsome banners of the visiting delegations. On the stage were many prominent democrats of Pennsylvania, including Kerr, Tilden, candidate for state treasurer; Wright, candidate for auditor general; Secretary Harrity and Attorney General Hensel.

Hon. C. F. Black, of the state league, was not present, bf.ing detained in California. Mr.

Frennan opened tu "nentia jyitli ii injur ii iM -re-arter which he intro. duced J. J. Miller, of Pittsburgh, who welcomed tne delegates a hearty manner, In the course of his remarks he referred to ex-President Cleveland, Governor Pattison, Governor Campbell and Governor Boies as good men from which, to select a presidential candidate next year. The naming of Cleveland created intense enthusiasm and it was some time before the speaker could continue his address.

Governor Pattison's name also caused wild cheering, while the others were applauded greatly. When Miller had concluded A. V. of Altoona, was elected temporary chairman. Committees on permanent organization were then appointed and, pending their reports, a recess was taken for dinner.

When the convention was called to order for the afternoon session the number of delegates had increased to 1,635, representing 230 clubs. The committee on permanent organization reported that John J. Philadelphia, had been chosen permanence ehairman, and John D. Wor-man, '-Ifarrisburg, and George Hoffman, (f Philadelphia, secretaries. The platform was then presented and unanimously adopted.

It endorses R. E. Wright and A. L. Tilden as democratic candidates for auditor general and state treasurer respectively; commends the action of Governor Pattison in calling an extra session of the state senate to investigate the charges against Auditor General Mc-Camant and State Treasurer Boyer, and deplores the death of William L.

Scott. The following officers were then chosen for the ensuing year: President, Hon. C. F. Black; secretary, J.

D. Forman; treasurer, Elliott P. Kisnor. A contest over the place for the next meeting followed, resulting in the selection of Scranton. No other business being before the meeting the convention adjourned sine die after listening to addresses by candidates Wright and Tilden, Secretary of State Harrity, John Fow and Edward Zeigler.

To-night a monster mass meeting, formally opening the state campaign, was held in old city hall. To-morrow the delegates will participate in a river excursion, tendered by the democratic clubs of Allegheny county. Met in Mifflntown. Special to the Tribune. Mifflistown, September 30.

The eighth annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the presbytery of Huntingdon convened in the Westminster Presbyterian church at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, with a goodly number of delegates in attendance. On their arrival a lunch was served the delegates in the lecture room of the church by the ladies of the congregation. The afternoon was taken up with routine affairs, preparatory to the morrow's work, when officers will be elected and the committees appointed for the ensuing year. This evening Rev. J.

T. Gibson, of Pittsburgh, will address the meeting in place of Rev. It. H. Allen, D.

secretary of the board of Freednien who could not be present. The (County Commissioners. Lancaster, September 30. At this morning's session of the county commissioners' convention the committee on resolutions reported in favor of abolishing the custom of working out road taxes and the repealing of the new registry laws. Pittsburgh was selected as the nfcfi place of meeting.

At the afternoon session an executive committee was appointed, and elected R. E. Mercee, of Allegheny, president; W. W. Greist, of Lancaster, secretary, and S.

W. Shaw, of Westmoreland, treasurer. Hon. Giles D. Price, of Erie, and Ho.

Jerome B. Niles, of Tioga, addressed the convention on "Equalization of Taxes. Express Messenger and Money Gone. Waco, September 30. P.

W. Hot-tel, a messenger of the Pacific express company, on the Waco to Gatesville run, is missing, and two money packages are also gone. Hottel took out his run on Saturday, returning that evening. He carried a package containing $5,000, bills from the First National bank of AVaco to the Pirst National bank of Gatesville. At McGregor he received a package containing $307 billed to the First National bank of Waco.

Sunday morning Hottel did not appear to take out his run, and Agent Hoffman began' to search for him but he could not be found. Rain Makers Not Needed. Corpus Christi, September 30. Heavy rains have been falling in this region since last Friday and the rain makers find themselves without a job. If th'e weather does not clear up in a few days Mr.

Ellis will take his party to some other region where the drought has not been broken. SHOES 1.20 A Lady's Fine Dongola Button Shoe, common sense or opera toe last SHOES $2.00 A Lady's Fine French Dongola Kid Shoe, flexible sole common sense or opera toe. SHOES $2.50 A Lady's French Dongola Kid Hand-turned common sense or opera toe. SHOES $1.98 A Lady's High Cut, Spring Toe, Spring Heel, Dongola Kid, the best Shoe for the price in the city. SHOES 98c Misses' School Shoes, heel or spring heel, Nos.

11 to 2. SHOES fl.20 Misses' Fine Dongola Spring Heel, Nos. 11 to 2. SHOES fl.50 Misses High Cut, Spring Toe, Spring Heel, Fina. Dongola, Nos.

11 to 2, Best Shoe in the United States for the money. SHOES 45c Child's Shoes, plain or tip, Nos. 5 to 8. SHOES 98c Men's Good Heavy Shoes, all solid. SHOES 1.23 Men's Good Dress Shoes, lace or congress.

SHOES $1.20 Men's All Solid Leather Bleachers. SHOES Fine Buff Shoes, all solid, lace or congress. SHOES $2.00 Men's Fine Calf Shoes, plain toe or lace or congress. SHOES $2.50 Men's Fine Calf or Kangaroo, plain or cap toe, lace or congress. SHOES $3.50 Men's Fine French Calf or Kangaroo, hand or machine sewed, plain or tip, lace or congress.

JJHOES 985 Boys Good School Shoes, lace or congress. SHOES $1.23 Boys Fine Buff Dress Shoes, lace or congress. SHOES $1.50 Boys Fine Calf Shoes, lace or congress. D. E.

PALACE SHOE COR. ELEVENTH AVE. SIXTEENTH ST. NEW CARPETS. A Fatal Collision.

Akron, O. September 30. A' disastrious head-end collision occured this morning near Kent. Freight train No. 85 on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad crashed into the sixth section of passenger train No.

2 Four persons were killed including an engineer and fireman and thirty persons were injured. The passenger train was occupied almost wholly by members of the Olin family, who were going to their reunion at Bennington, Yt, The collision occurred at 3 o'clock, and seems to have been the result of carelessness. The freight crew claim that they saw no flag on the engine of the fifth section to intimate that another train was to follow, and when they saw the headlight of the passenger train it was too late to stop the freight. Immediately after the collision the trainmen and unjured passengers began the work of rescue. Three bodies- were taken oitl of the wrecked cars, and it is said that a fourth is under the debris.

About thirty persons were injured, some of them, it is feared, fatally. The dead are: W. H. Maxwell, traveling engineer of the second division; Clayton Glass, fireman of the freight train; an aged woman, name not given. Freight Trains Collide.

New York, September 30. Early this morning, at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street, on the New York Central railroad, a fast stock train ran into a local freight train, causing a bad wreck. Fireman John Leonard, of the stock train, was killed, and a man named Patrick- Morrisey was injured. The stock train was coming down the road at a speed of about 35 miles an hour and crashed into the stationary train, telescoping half a dozen cattle-laden cars, knocking them into kindling wood, piling many of them into the river, mangling and slaying the animals and wrecking the engine. Morrisey, who was in charge of a car of horses, was badly bruised.

Altogether nine cars were wrecked. Many of the horses in Morrisey's car were killed. It is rumored that several other farm hands and stock men have been injured, but the railroad officials are reticent. Pardoned by the President. Thomaston, September 30.

Wm. F. Gould, who was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for embezzling the funds of the First National bank of Portland, was released this morning, having been pardoned by President Harrison. He had been in prison exactly five years. We do not offer as a leader to-day any particular grade of Carpets tut if you think of buying a Rag Carpet, or Ingrain Carpet or a Brussels Carpet you want to see our Special Low Prices on Carpets before you buy.

Good Rag Carpets at 25, 30, and 35 cents Best Country Made Rag Carpets at 45, 50, and 60 cents Ingrain Carpets at 20, 25, 30, 45 and 50 cents Best Quality All Wool Extra Super Ingrain Carpets at 65 and 70 cents Best Quality All Wool Three Ply Carpets at 95 cents Brussels Carpet at. 50, 60, 65, 75 and 95 cents You will want New Carpets, why not buy them now, our prices are way down. JOHN 1. SPRMLE I I A Chance for French Explorers. 1'Aitis, September 30.

An eccentric Sout of France lady, named Cubourct, has left to any Frenchman who penetrates further than any one has lfore into the wilds of -Africa with WM) or more compatriots, on the condition that one-half of the caravan returns safely. The lady was a fervent admirer of Cardinal Luvigorio and was anxious to suppress the slave trade. Her relatives dispute the will. The Oil Market. PlTTSMJKOH, September 30.

OH closed at Corner of Eleventh Avenue and Ninth.