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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1895, Page 2

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Refused to cheer, how an anarchist met DEATH. . CLEVELAND'S WEALTH. A TYRANNICAL DUKE. A disturbance occurred, December 6tb, in the Reichstag Palace, upon the occasion of the first sitting of that body. The President, Von Levetzow, called for cheers for the Emperor, which the Socialists refused to give. This led to cries of " Shame ! " and a great uproar followed. The Socialists remained seated. Singer, one of the Socialist leaders, arose when a measure of quiet was restored, and explained : "We will never be compelled," he said, " to cheer for one who recently told the recruits who were taking the service oath, that, should circumstances arise, they would be ordered, against the will of the people, to shoot their own fathers, brothers, and mothers ; for the one who is now introducing an anti-reyolutioflary Bill which is directed against us, to cheer him would be irreconcilable with our honor and dignity. The rest of -jgk Singer's words were drowned in a storm - of vehement protests, which only sub; sided when the speaker was called to order. Joseph Salvador Franch, probably the most desperate Anarchist now living, the man who, on November the 7th, 1893, threw a dynamite bomb into the Liceo Theatre/Barcelona, killing twenty people and wounding fifty others, was executed in the city where his crime - was committed on November 21, between 7.30 and 8 o'clock. On the morning preceding, Franch was taken' to the chapel, there to pass the last twentyfour hours of his life. He refused .to sign his death warrant, as the law- requires, exclaiming " Long live Anarchy 1" On entering the chapel he refused to receive the priests, and to a father who wished to administer religious consolation, exclaimed fiercely. "Get out; I was only acting, only pretending to be religious, in order to live well, andm>ping to get a pardon. The crime Lflpnmitted was an expiation -dtfe-^rojgwtie bourgeoisc." He displayed the r^frflgfc _ bravado all the way through, shouting " Down with religion," scoffing at the priests, driving his wife, and little daughter from him, and dying almost with an Anarchist song on his lips. He died instantaneously only one minute and a half elapsed from the time he mounted the platform Hntil he was pronounced, dead. '-• A proposition is before the Methodist Church in America and England that ' each member should subscribe 25 cents a week in the cause of foreign missions, which will net in one year to the pretty sum of 32,000,000 dollars. Then a large steamship is to be chartered, loaded with 2000 missionaries, and started on a tour of the world, dropping off a missionary wherever one is needed, and where they want a church money will be left to build one. As soon as one load of missionaries is disposed of the steamer will return for another cargo. Robert Fitzsimmons, a New Zealand pugilist, knocked out Con Riordan, bis sparring partner, at Syracuse, New York, on November 16th, in the first .round of his usual exhibition, and a few hours later Riordan was dead. Mr Matthew Jephson O'Rourke, who was a clerk in the' New York Comptroller's office during the Tweed days, states that 15,000,000 dollars worth; of city bonds have been duplicated, iand that the Comptroller has kept the matter covered up for the last twentyfive years. Mr Andrew Carnegie, the rich ScotchAmerican iron steel manufacturer, who%c -<■ ruling against his employes at Home? ■£. stead, Pa., made so much trouble a few "'-■•»*. months ago, made a few remarks at Pittsburgh, Pa., on November 21st, on the accumulation of wealth, which, in the light ot the man's previous history, it may be well to repeat. " Some sought fortune," he said, " for the gratification of having it, others wanted it for the good they could do other people. My creed is that a man who dies rich dies ' , disgraced." Regarding the distribution of his own money Mr Cartfegie said, " I expect to leave nothing when I die but my interesting the iron business. I, want to do all the good I can." According to Mr Labouchere, in Truth. I the Duke of Beaufort, said to be one of the most tyrannous landlords in England, assumes to'dictate all the afiairs of the town of Stoke Gifford. His Grace took objections to the election recently of Admiral Close as a churchwarden, and served notices to quit on the tenant farmers who voted for him, The Dnke afterwards announced, that he would withdraw the notices only on condition that the Admiral resigned. Congressman-elect Howard, of ' Alabama, author of the famous tale, "If Christ came to Congress," declares that Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, is worth 4,000,000 dollars. This declaration is undoubtedly correct as far as it goes. It is believed in Washington by people closely connected' with Wall street (New York) affairs that 6,000,000 dollars would be nearer the exact figure. . He has not speculated in his own name as far as is known/but, according to report, has permitted bis friends to do so for him. No public man ever entered into public life so poor as Grover Cleveland and acquired a fortune of such great proportions as is now said to be bis, in so short a time.