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C. IV. SIIKIt.viAX, Publltlter.
TLATTSilOUTU, : ; NEBRASKA.
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.
MrsconA, a town in Wisconsin which
was nearly destroyed by forest fires a
week ago, was still further devastated
by a cyclone.
A severe electric storm swept north
era Illinois and many buildings were
blown' down and horses and cattle
were killed.
While he was sleeping1 in a hotel
chair in Chicago thieves robbed Iugi
list Peter Jackson of his watch and
chain.
Link Waggoner, a noted outlaw and
murderer, was shot to death in the jail
at Minden. La,, by a mob.
In an interview at Buffalo, N. Y.,
General Master Workmen Sovereign,
of the Knights .of Labor, said that
strikes were illegal and that strikers
were criminals.
Richaki Smith, the well-known type
founder of Philadelphia, died in Paris,
aged 73 years.
Twenty acres in the heart of the
Tillage of Dalton, O., were devastated
by an incendiary fire. Over fifty house s
were destroyed, the loss being S-00.0O).
One-half of the town of Oakview,
Tex., the county seat of Live Oak
county, was wiped out by fire.
J. A. Rawlins and wife, of Ravens
wood. 111., failed to shut off the gas
completely when they retired, and
were asphyxiated.
While fixing the electric lights in
the tower of the city hall at Detroit,
Mich., F. J. French was made a raving
maniac by a shock
The September government crop re
port places the coudition of corn at
63.4. Twenty per cent, of the area
planted has been cut up for fodder or
abandoned.
During a thunderstorm lightning
struck the porch of a house at Jean
Jiette, Pa., fatally injuring Mrs. Ma
honey, her daughter Maggie and Mrs.
Krept, a visitor.
Mississippi's governor, auditor and
treasurer were arrested on the charge
of issuing warrants in imitation of
United States currency.
On his fifth trial William G. French
was convicted of murder at Ashland,
Wis., and sentenced to sixteen years'
imprisonment.
The New York constitutional con
vention adopted a resolution changing
the term of governor and lieutenant
governor from three years, as at pres
ent, to two years.
W. F. Collner & Co.. general store
keepers at St- Petersburg, Pa., were
robbed of $70,000 in bonds, notes and
cash.
The forty-fonrth anniversary of the
admission of California to statehood
was celebrated at San Jose.
The twenty-eighth national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public and its different organizations
was inaugurated at Pittsburgh by a
parade of naval veterans.
A German lodge of Indianapolis has
withdrawn from the Knights of Pythias
because of the action on the ritual
question. ,-'
A REctrvER was appointed for the
Citizens' bank of Flattsmouth, Neb.
Mart Fishes, '13 years old, of New
York, who had been deaf and dumb
for eight years, recovered speech and
hearing after having been stunned by
lightning.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men met in biennial convention at
Harrisburg, Ta.
The annual report of the comptrol
ler of the currency at Washington
shows that the total number of ac
counts, claims and cases settled dur
ing the fiscal year ended June SO last
was 83.165, involving S2S0. 602,002.
Dr. Swatze B. L. Merrill dropped
dead in the Illinois Central depot in
Chicago from heart disease.
Heavy frost were reported in sev
eral of the western states.
The crowning event at Pittsburgh
of the twenty-eighth national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public was the parade of the old sol
diers and sailors. Thirty five thou
sand veterans marched over a route 3
miles long and 500,000 people cheered
the marchers.
Thomas Osborn and Marcus Murphy
quarreled over hogs at Polkville, Ky.,
and killed each other.
Mr. and Mrs. Orson Higgins were
killed and a little girl fatally injured
by a train at Putnam, N. Y.
By a large majority the New York
constitutional convention struck out
the S5.000 limitation which may be re
covered in case of death by accident.
W. F. Breckman. a farmer, killed his
wife and Robert King, his stepson, at
Rosebury, Ore. Family quarrels led
to the crime.
At Cedar Rapids, la., Judge Shiras
decided contracts exempting railroad
corporations from liability for fires are
not against public policy.
Heavy rains have benefited corn
and vegetation generally according to
United States weather bureau reports.
Two masked highwaymen held up a
stage coach near Phcenix, Ari.. and re
lieved the passengers of their valua
bles and S500 in money.
Peteb Jackson refused to sign arti
cles for a fight with Corbett before the
Sioux City (la.) club, and has drawn
down his stake money.
W. D. Pinkston, secretary-treasurer
of the Western Iron Works company
of Butte, Mont., is 812,000 short.
War between the cattle and sheep
men has again broken out in Colorado.
Three thousand sheep were driven
over a cliff near Grand Junction and a
herder was fatally injured.
Algernon II. Wilcox, who was said
to have made fl, 400,000 by fraudulent
land schemes, was arrested in New
York.
Five valuable imported stallions
owned by M. W. Dunham were killed
by lightning at Wayne, I1L
feed lOis. uul"0 , . .
ianacity of 4.500 bushels, good bear
?ttPacAv...t -i.o K00 vounir apple trees,
Rev. Dr. Charles S. Pomeroy, for
twenty-one years pastor of the Second
I'resbt-terian church in Cleveland,
dropped dead in his home. lie was 60
years old.
At the third annual meeting in Kan
sas City of the Concatenated Order of
Hoo-lloo William E. Barnes, of St.
Louis, was elected grand snark.
The Citizens' bank at Rossville, 111.,
was robbed of S10.000 bv a man who
secured an entrance during the noon
hour.
The Mehrkof Trick Manufacturing
companv of Little Ferry, N. J., went
into the hands of a receiver with lia
bilities of $127,500.
Isaac N. Wolcott, a wealthy farmer
livinc near Chestnut. 111., killed his
wife, who had begun suit for divorce,
and then blew off his own head with
a shotgun.
The Post Office Clerks' National
association in session at Boston elected
Benjamin l'arkhurst, of Washington,
as president.
Marshall II. Abbott, an extensive
real estate operator at Salem, Mass.,
failed, with liabilities estimated at
S500.000.
Near Charleston. Mo., a train was
hurled from the track by a cyclone
and two passengers were killed and a
score injured, a number fatally.
G. C. 1)e It kon k art, the Belgian con
sul at Denver, died suddenly while vis
iting in Chicago.
North Memphis. Tenn., was swept by
a tornado in which one man was killed
and two others injured and a property
loss of &50.000 inflicted.
Masked men tarred and feathered
Rev. Charles Clancey, of Frontier,
Mich., and then rolled him down a
steep hilL
JosErn Bechtelheimer and his wife
received probably fatal injuries in a
rnnaway accident near Young Amer
ica, lnd.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph company have declared the
regular quarterly dividend of
per
cent, payable October 1
Ox the Terre Haute (tad.) track Alix
trotted a mile in 2:04, equaling the
world's record of Nanc3' Hanks. Car
bonate lowered the 3-year-old record
to 2:10.
The drought has left an epidemic of
typhoid fever through all the Upper
Miami valley in Ohio. At Piqua in
one day eleven corpses were awaiting
burial.
Bcck Harlan, a notorious counter
feiter, was captured by secret service
men near Shelb3"ville, lnd.
The Norwegian steamship Forbuna,
from Java, landed in Philapelphia
Arthur Vincent, a New York boy, who
had circled the globe without a cent of
money. He left New York two years
ago at the age of 14.
At Terre Haute, lnd., Fantasy low
ered the record for 4-year-old mares,
trotting the mile in 2:06, beating her
own time one second.'- ' '. v- .
William Enochs, of Martinsville,
lnd., was driven from his -home by
white caps for alleged cruelty to his
wife.
Kansas farmers were selling their
hogs for transportation charges to
market, having nothing to feed them.
The taking of testimony was com
pleted in the trial at Chicago of Presi
dent Debs and other officers of the
American Railway union. The argu
ments will be made on September 25.
United States engineers were con
sidering the plan of connecting Lake
Superior with the Mississippi river by
a canal.
Six bicycle records were broken at
Springfield, Mass. Titus rode 2) miles
against time, making twenty new
marks.
Col. Thomas O. Lawler, of Rock
ford. 111., was elected commander in
chief of the G. A. R. at the Pittsburgh
encampment. The Daughters of Vet
erans elected Mrs. Ellen M. Walker,
of Worcester, Mass., as president, and
the Woman's Relief Corps selected as
president Mrs. Emma R. Wallace, of
Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C Fetters were
killed at Edon, O., by a Wabash train
an hour after their wedding.
Over thirty buildings were con
sumed by fire in San Francisco, the
loss being 1 100,000.
The custom of publishing in news
papers the list of unclaimed letters at
postoffices has been aoandoned, con
gress having failed to make a sufficient
appropriation for the purpose.
Ln a suit at Bloomington, 111., Judge
Tipton ruled that druggists, dry goods
and grocery dealers were not com
pelled to sell to colored people.
H. B. Morgan, postmaster at Peoria,
111., refused to deliver out-of-town
newspapers not bearing postage of a
cent a copy.
Bernard Toker was shot and killed
at Connellsvville, Pa., and his wife
Mary fatally wounded by Franz Mor
ris, a 13-year-old boy that they had
befriended. The lad stole S13 and es
caped. Official returns of the Arkansas
state election held September S show
that over one-half of the counties in
the state voted against liquor license.
Statistics compiled by the bureau of
statistics show that during August the
exports of breadstuff amounted to
$10,851,336, against 822,630,348 a year
ago. and for the eight months ending
August last to $85,848,714, against
8129,361,102 for the corresponding peri
od of 1803.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Nominations for congress were made
im follows: Illinois, Eighth district,
Lew Steward (dem.). Michigan, Sec
ond district, J. S. Gorman (dem.); Sev
enth, C E. Carleton (dem.). Wiscon
sin, Sixth district, O. A. Wells (dem.)
renominated; Eighth, L. E. Barnes
(dem.) renominated; Tenth, E. C. Ken
nedy (dem.). Indiana, Twelfth dis
trict, W. F. McNagny (dem.) renomi
nated; Thirteenth, Lew Warner(dem-).
Minnesota, Sixth district, M. R. Bald
win (dem.) renominated. Ohio, Thir
teenth district, A. IL King, (rep.).
Missouri, Seve'nth district, J. P. Tracey
(rep.). Mississippi, First district, J.
M. Allen (dem.) renominated. Penn
sylvania, Eighteenth district, D. G.
Smith (dem.); at large, Thomas Col
lins (dem.), Henry Myer (dem.)
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iTbeaotmy.Cfapsiilesarcsnpertor;
At the Maine election n. B. Cleaves
was reelected governor by a majority of
87,000, the largest in the history of the
state. The four republican congress
men Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Ding
ley, S. L. Milliken and C. A. Boutelle
were reelected by increased majorities.
The legislature will have a working
republican majority of 125, which in
sures the reelection of Senator Wil
liam P. Frye.
William II. Hatch was renominated
for congre ss by the democrats of the
First district of Missouri.
Bridget Gorman, known as the
queen of gypsies in America, died at
her camp near Cincinnati, aged S3
years.
Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican gov
ernor of California, died at Los An
geles, aged 94 years.
The populists of New York met at
Saratoga and nominated Charles It.
Matthews, of Buffalo, for governor.
Congressional, nominations were
reported as follows: Michigan, Eighth
district, Rowl and Conner (dem.).
Wisconsin, First district, James II.
Doolittle (dem.). Ohio, Sixteenth dis
trict, O. O. Barnes (dem.). Maryland,
Sixth district, F. Williams (dem. j. Ala
bama, Ninth district, T. II. Aldrich
(rep.). Minnesota, Second district,
John Moonan (dem.); Sixth, Kittle
Halvorsen (pop.).
Colorado republicans met at Denver
and nominated a ticket headed by A.
W. Mclntyre, of Alamosa, for gov
ernor. At a convention of the American
Protective association held in Chicago
O. H. Mann was nominated for state
treasurer, S. D. Snow for school super
intendent, and W. S. McComas, J. W.
Pickens and J. B. Strubel for congress.
R. P. Keating was nominated for
governor and G. E. Gignoux for con
gressman by the Nevada democratic
convention in session at Carson.
Candidates for congress were se
lected as follows: Wisconsin, Fifth
district. Henry Blank (dem.). Ala
bama, Ninth elistrict. T. II. Aldrich
(rep.). California. Fourth district, T.
B. Shannon (rep.); Fifth, E. V. Loud
(rep.) renominated. Virginia, Gardi
ner Tyler (dem.) renominated.
The official result of the election in
Maine gives Cleaves (rep.) for governor
a plurality over Johnson (dem.) of CS,
424. FOREIGN.
Ten persons were killed and twenty
injured by a railway collision on the
Paris and Cologne road at Apilly,
France.
Twenty-one laborers were killed in
Samara, Russia, by eight farmers in
order to secure the wasres that had
been paid them.
It was reported that the Chinese
forces were cornered in northern Corea
without supplies and were
their ponies for food.
killing
Th. governor general of Cuba ha
been ordered by the Spanish author
ities to restore the import duties on
American products.
The sultan of Turkev has contribu
ted 300 Turkish pounds to the fund for
the relief of the Wisconsin and Min
nesota forest fire sufferers.
Capt. Adolph FRiETScn. who sailed
from New York August 5 in a schooner-rigged
skiff 47 feet long, reached
Queenstown in safety.
Fifty-five Brazilians were exe
cuted at Montevideo by order of Presi
dent Peixoto. Military and naval offi
cers were among the unfortunates.
At the Rosedale track, Toronto, F.
F. Radway, of London, lowered the
100-mile bicycle record to 5:01:10 1-5.
A fire in the leather market in Lon
don caused a loss of SI, 000, 000.
LATER.
Haute, lnd.,
At Terre Haute, lnd., Robert J.
paced a mile in 2:01a, breaking all
records. Carbonate put the 2-3ear-old
mark at 2:09, and John R. Gentry cut
the stallion record to 2:o:i?i in a race.
James Barrett was hanged at Eddy,
N. M.. for the murder of John Holihan
at Seven Rivers.
There were 207 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 14th, against 215 the week
previous and 314 in the correspond
ing time in 1S93.
Sam Johnson, a 21-year-old negro,
sold himself to Col. Stark Oliver at
Selma, Ala., for S60.
Enoch Davis, who killed his wife,
was shot at Lehi, Utah, he having
chosen that mode of execution in
preference to hanging.
The American liner New York made
the S,403-mile run from Southampton
to Sandy Hook in 6 daj-s 7 hours and
20 minutes, breaking all records.
A bottle of pop exploded at St.
Joseph, Mo., and put out the e3es of
William Gardner, aged ',3 years.
Bolters from the democratic party
met at Carson, Nev., and nominated a
state ticket headed by Theodore Win
ters for governor.
At Neligh, Neb., Barrett Scott was
convicted of embezzling 502,000 while
treasurer of Holt county.
Fred Miller, 70 years old, while
drunk fatally stabbed his wife at Ken
ton, O., and then drowned himself in
a well.
Thirty persons lost their lives and
2,000 buildings were destroyed by a fire
in Chung-King, China.
Ex-Senator Doolittle declined the
nomination for congress tendered him
by the tlemocrats of the First Wiscon
sin district.
Adam Forepacgh's circus stranded
at Bluffton, O., on account of no funds
to pay employes.
While planting flowers in a ceme
tery at Homeworth, O., a tombstone
fell on Susan Johnson, an aged woman,
inflicting fatal injuries.
An increase of from 60 to 65 per cent,
in prices has been made by the tack
trust since January 1, and small
dealers were being forced to the walL
The forest fires in Wisconsin were
extinguished by the first heavy rain
that has fallen since June.
The following cogressional nomina
tions were made: Wisconsin, Seven th
district, G. W. Levis (dem.). Colorado,
Second district, T. M. Bowen (rep.).
Virginia, Tenth district, Thomas
Goode (rep.). New Mexico, T. Ii. Mill
(pop.).
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THE DEBS TRIAL.
Witnesses Tell Stories of Violence of the
Mobs.
Chicago, Sept. 13. Tuesday morn
ing the United States circuit court.
Judge Woods presiding, took up again
the contempt cases against the officers
of the American Railway union.
General Superintendent Charles Dun
lap, of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific railroad, was the first witness
sworn.
Witness was very sure that if there
had been no violence the Rock Island
would have had no trouble in fill
ing the strikers' places. Plenty
of men came voluntarily, want
ing work. Many who were eager
to work were timid, because of
fear of violence. He had had twentj--six
years' experience in the manage
ment of railroads. He had known of
various strikes during that time, but
he never knew of one that was not ac
companied by violence.
Mr. Gregor3 conducted the cross-examination.
After some general ques
tions Mr. Gregory began a series of
interrogatories that seemed to indicate
a purpose on the part of the defense
to bring into court the telegrams and
correspondence of the General Man
agers' association. He asked many
questions as to the General Managers'
association.
Judge Woods said that he did not
see the relevancy of the testimony
which Mr. Gregory was trying to elicit.
Mr. Gregory replied that he consid
ered the matter very important. "If
the court will admit the testimony,
and the witnesses who know most
about the facts will be obliged to tes-
tify, we can show, I think, that this
General Managers' association was j
preparing to reduce the wages of
the employes of these railroads
and to do so by a combina- j
tion, and that this was the real j
cause of the strike. From one end of j
this country to the other we have
heard the 63-mpathetic strike de- j
nounced. It is said that some strikes
mar be all right, but the present j
strike is wicked and criminal. !
Judge Cooley said that no board j
of arbitration and I add that j
no injunction of a court can I
compel men to work if they do not :
want to. Since the adoption of the j
thirteenth amendment to the constitu- !
tion no man can be kept in involun- .
tary servitude unless for a crime of ;
which he has been properl3 convicted, j
Now, these empk3-es on the 1
Rock Island had a right to j
quit work. No injunction could j
prevent them from quitting j
or from advising others to quit. The
government has offered certain tele-
grams sent by these defendants; they !
have proved violence; but there has
been no proof of connection between
the facts. A man has a right to quit
work-whenever he wishes."
In the afternoon Elmer E. Clitheron,
an engineer on the Burlington, gave a
long account of his adventures Jul3 6
with engine 400, which the mob de
railed and ditched at Millard avenue
by laj-ing steel rails across the tracks
when he was going 20 miles an hour.
Chicago, Sept. 14. In the Debs
trial several messenger boys testified
to having deli vered telegraphic mes
sages addressed to E. V. Debs to vari
ous persons, but only a very few to
Debs personally. They liad been in
structed to deliver all messages
marked "personal" to no one but Mr.
Debs. Among others to whom tele
grams had been delivered were Messrs.
Ilogan. Howard, Keliher and Rogers. In
receipting for them the gentlemen
named would sometimes sign their
own names and sometimes that of Mr.
Debs.
Chicago, Sept, 15. All of the testl
mony in the Debs contempt case is in.
Much to the surprise of everyone, the
attorneys for the defense announced
Thursday afternoon when the last wit
ness for the prosecution had been
heard that thej-would stake their case
on the evidence before the court.
This was apparently a great surprise
to Mr. Walker and his associates who
represent the prosecution, Mr. Miller
and Mr. Bancroft, of the Santa Fe
road. However, after some prelim
inary stipulations as to the prepara
tion of papers. Judge Woods adjourned
court to Tuesday. September 25, when
the arguments will be heard.
Wallace Rice, a newspaper reporter,
who said he whs also a member of the
A. R. U., testified to several inter
views with Mr. Debs in which
the latter had used language in
dicating that he had full charge
and control of the strike; that he
had set the date when the boycott
against various roads should take
effect, and that he had personally
ordered the men on several lines to
quit work.
Alfred F. Weinsheimer, secretary of
Pullman's Palace Car company, was
called and identified two contracts
one between his company and the
Eastern Illinois road, and the
other between his company and the
Sauta Fe road. They were the con
tracts abou which there was
so much conjecture during the
strike. Among other points in
the contract it gives the Pullman com
pany the exclusive right of running
cars on the road for the term of the
contract, which is twenty-five years.
The railroad company, agrees to haul
the cars on any road it now owns or
any that it was to acquire possession
of during the life of the contract. Per
mission is given the Pullman company
to form through lines andi run over
other roads. '
Cyclone In Tennessee.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 14. North
Memphis was struck by a tornado at
noon Wednesday and nearly wiped off
the face of the earth. One man was
killed and several others injured, who
may die. It was 12 o'clock when the
barometer of the weather bureau
recorded a local disturbance.' A
dark cloud that resembled in appear
ance and action a big balloon with a
rope tied to it began to tlescend, and
wherever it came close to the earth de
stroyed everything in its path. The
greatest damage was done along Wolf
rivr, which is occupied by box fac
tories, sawmills and veneering factor
ies. Youthful Error, PF "v?t:V' ft I
iiiilS Attorney at Law
THE ELEMENTS.
Wind, Rain, Lightning and flail Cause
Much Damage.
Chicago, Sept. 11. Another heavy
rainfall was experienced in this city
Sunday at 6:30 p. m. During the past
week nearly eight inches of rain has
fallen in this vicinity. The recent
storms have been accompanied by elec
trical disturbances, and considerable
damage has been done to property by
lightning. One man was killed and
several others are reported injured by
lightning Saturday night. Fro mall
parts of Illinois come stories of dam
age by wind and rain.
Elgin, 111., Sept. 12. Five valuable
imported stallions owned by M. W.
Dunham were killed by lightning Sun
day night at Wayne. Farmers in this
part of the state complain that
more damage has been done by
the storms of the last week than
was done by all the drought. Be
tween here and Marengo over 100
barns have been blown down in the
last seven da-s. Corn has been de
stroyed by the acre and much stock
killed. The damage can scarcely be
estimated, but will aggregate hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
Niles, Mich., Sept. 12. The severe
storm of Sunday night blew down
fruit, shade and even mammoth oak
trees. Hardly a field of corn stands.
The lightning was terrific and the
wind swept nearly everything before
it. The city is a field of woodchoppers
clearing the streets. -
Boscobel, Wis., Sept. 12. The dam
age done at Muscoda bv the windstorm
amounts to much more than first re
ported. At Orion, a little town just
across the Wisconsin river from Mus
coda, houses were unroofed, barns
blown down, and acres of timber laid
to the ground. Isaac Thompson,
bridge-tender at Muscoda, was stand
ing on the bridge when it was blown
down. He received fatal injuries. A
number of other serious accidents have
been reported.
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
Sensational Disclosures Kegardtnc; I'lank
intun Itank Failure.
Milwaukee, Sept. 13. There were
more sensational de elopments Tues
day in regard to the manner in which
the Plankinton bank was managed,
and no less a personage than Judge
James G. Jenkins, of the federal bench,
is very much involved. The national
notoriety gained by Judge Jenkins by
reason of the famous Northern
Pacific strike injunction, and his gen
eral attitude in relation to Northern
Pacific and other corporations will
make this disclosure of national im
portance. The minutes of the directors
meetings held just previous to the
failure of the bank were read in court
b3' ex-Congressman La Follette, and
they clearly demonstrated that Judge
Jenkins was not so ignorant of the
way in which affairs were beingman
aged as his friends and attorneys have
maintained.
The bank failed in May, 1S93, and
the records show that April 24 a meet
ing was held and upon motion of
Director (Judge) Jenkins, Lappen was
accorded an overdraft of S3.000 and
given a certificate of deposit for three
months of 815,000. Long before the
failure Lappen fc Co. were under ex
amination, but Director Jenkins was
always found on the side of the big
borrower and his friend. President Da.
Meetings of the directors were held
April S, 7 and 10 and in each Judge
Jenkins took a prominent part. In
stead of being a merely figurehead di
rector, as his friends have claimed, he
was ver3" much interested in the man
agement of the business.
The disclosures cannot fail to cause
a sensation, and Judge Jenkins will
again appear before the public.
FOR FIRE SUFFERERS.
The St. Paul & Duluth Land In Forty and
Klghty Acre Tracts.
St. Pail. Minn., Sept. 12. The St.
Paul & Duluth Railway company has
made an offer to any of the fire suffer
ers who may desire to locate on the
railroad. Monday President Hayes,
General Manager Plough, Land Com
missioner Clark and Attorney Dunn
called on the governor and formal l3r
offered to sell land to actual settlers in
forty to eighty acre tracts, the first
payment coming after two years. But
if a,t the end of that time the purchaser
has forty acres under cultivation
and a dwelling-house actually oc
cupied, the full first payment, be
ing one-third of the whole, will be
canceled. Any money given the
purchaser by the relief commission
and Applied on improvements will
also be accredited as payment. The
same terms will also apply to those
fire sufferers who have already pur
chased St. Paul & Duluth lands. The
effect of this is to give these lands to
actual settlers and hold up an induce
ment for their cultivation, but to dis
courage any possible speculation in
the free lands.
TRAGEDY AT CHESTNUT. ILL.
Isaac T. Wolcott Kills Ills 'Wife and Com
mits Suicide.
Lincoln, I1L, Sept. 14. Eva Wolcott.
the wife of a wealthy Logan county
farmer, was murdered at noon Wednes
day near Chestnut by her husband,
who then shot himself. Isaac Wolcott
was a son of Nelson Wolcott, one of
the oldest and most respected citizens
of this county, and lived on his
farm of over 400 acres near
Chestnut and 15 miles southeast
of this city. He is reputed to be
worth 535,000, and was a stout, robust
man 40 years of age. His wife was
Narcissa Eva, the only daughter of the
late John Michener, formerly a grain
dealer at Chestnut and a highly re
spected citizen. The couple had three
children two boys, Roscoe and Oscar,
and a girl, Ruby, whose ages are from
2 to 9 3-ears.
Official Result of 31 aloe Klcctlon.
Boston, Mass., Sept. 15. In a mes
sage to Gov. Cleaves. Manley, chair
man of the republican state committea
in Maine, gives the official result of
the election in Maine: Votes cast and
counted, 107,249; plurality for Cleavea
(rep.) over Johnson (dem.), S8.424.
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IN TRADE CIRCLES.
Review for
the Week of
L'oconr.
King Nature.
New York, Sept. 15. R. G. Dun &'
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
"Business hop met no setback this week,
and continues larger than earlier in August,
and larger than a year ago. dlrecly after the
panic. The country has now passed nearly
three weeks under the new tariff, and all
admit that changes have been of less
Importance as yet than was expected.
If in some branches business has ma
terially Increased, it has gained a little or
has fallen off in others. Loss ln some direc
tions is explained by crop reports, for the
most favorable estimates of experts put the
loss of corn as about 40U.OJO.oaj bush
els, whereas the government report is by
some interpreted as meaning a loss of
l.OUO.OOO.OUO bushels. The opinion of
the trade does not favor the olT.cial
estimate, and the price has not risen at ail
during the week; though receipts have been
very small, exports have practically ceased,
and all realize that the shrinkage of -Kiu.ojo.000
bushels is serious, if it proves to be no great
er, since it must affect prices of meats for
a year or more. Pork is unchanged, but lard
Cos risen 30 cents per 10J pounds. Nor
sre official reports encouraging as to
wheat. Western receipts ln two weeks have
been 1I.IH4.CB7 bushels, against 10.674,761 last
year, and Atlantic exports only 2.074. 7W),
against 5.IU6.5&: ast year, und the price is one
half cent lower, considerable injury is officially
reported to cotton, but few expect less than
fOW.OW bales, which is more thun enough,
and the price is a sixteenth lower. The great
increase ln iron production, which was noted
us following the removal of coke difficulties, is
measured by the capacity of furnaces in
blast September 1 namely: IM 113 tons,
against 115,3)6 August I, and the unsold stocks
also decreased 35,384 tons during the month.
Less uctlvity is seen ln dry goods, the rush
of postponed business having abated, and there
Is more disposition to defer purchases le
cause of somewhat general ad vames in cotton
goods and because London wool sales are .ex
pected to make the outlook clearer. Strikes ln
cotton mills have not ceased and stocks of
print cloths shrink rapidly, but some question
whether recent advances in price can be main
tained with important additions to the present
force. v ,
Failures in the first week of September as
yet reported show liabilities of only tl.4M.0f70,
of which Ml 5. 1-0 was of manufacturing and
t&t7.450 of trading concerns. The aggregate of
liabilities reported for August is fio.ey7.5l3.
This week the failures have been ZV7 iu the
United States, against 314 last year, and 44 ln
Canada, against 27 last year."
Bradstreet's says:
All the features of improvement in general
trade reported u week ago are retained, and
from a number of the more important business
centers still further gains are reported. Com
mercial travelers from Baltimore are making
their second trip to the south and regard the
business prospects as exceptionally bright.
At various northwestern centers colder
weather has stimulated the sales in dry
goods, clothing und shoes. Woolen dress
goods are not sold as actively as in pre
vious weeks, Jobbers not carrying supplies be
yond what the public are likely to take before
January 1. Kncouragement is gained from im
proved demand for money at Savannah. Au
gusta and New Orleans, due to increasing re
ceipts of cotton and demands for advances on
the crops. At Chicago moi.ey is also more
active und some bunkers have withdrawn from
the agreement to pay only lHi per cent, on bal
ances of country banks und w ill pay ' per cent.
Live stock at Kansas City and at Omaha has
weakened on heavy receipts of commoner
grades, all of which comprise the chief de
crease in price of staples. They are offset by
firmer markets and advances for leather,
petroleum and sugar, for print cloths due to
decreasing stocks, and cotton goods owiDg to
the strike of operatives. Wheat is up He,
corn lc. oats lc. pork He, lard He cof
fee He
A PERILOUS TRIP.
Toyace of a Steamer Between
Walls
of Fire.
Mi.nneai'OLIS, Minn., Sept. 15. Kirby
Itarnutn, who owns a farm near the
western border of the great Red Lake
Indian reservation, in the northern
part of the state, has just re
turned from a perilous trip down
the Thief river, which skirts that
reservation on the west. The trip
was made in a small passeng-er
steamer that plies between the Indian
agency and Thief River Falls, a dis
tance of 120 miles. Fully half of the
trip was made between walls of fire.
Mr. Barnnrn says that the flames have
jumped the Thief river and cut a swath
throujf h the dense forest fully 60 miles
wide. The whole country is aflame,
but owing to the fact that communica
tion is slow little has been heard from
it farther south.
The steamer was forced to go 3 and 4
miles at a time, and then everybody
would get out and stand in the water
on the sandbar until the fire and heat
had abated somewhat. Several times
the boat was afire, and it was only with
the utmost difficulty that it was saved.
If it had burned the whole party must
have perished. The water in the river
had been raised to such a temperature
by the fire that its surface was cov
ered with millions of dead fish.)
Many small canoe parties of Indians
were encountered making their way
down stream as best they could. There
has probably been loss of life among
them. Mr. Barnum says that the fire
originated in a blaze set by
a man who had tried to get
control of some hay land from the
government. It was piven to another
man, and out of spite he hired two
men to 6et fire to it. The flames soon
spread to the forest, which has been
burning ever since. The peoule in
Thief River Falls and vicinity were so
indignant over this act that they
threatened to lynch the man if he
could be found. He has disappeared
with the two men he hired to do the
deed.
CONVICTED OF CONTEMPT.
Two 'Amerlean Railway Union Leader
Found Guilty at Indianapolis.
Isihajjai'OHs, lnd.. Sept- 15. George
Schlotz, president of the Terre Haute
branch of the American Railway union,
and A. II. Daniels, who was chairman
of the grievance committee of the
Terre Haute union during the recent
strike, were found guilty of con
tempt of court by Judge Baker, of the
United States court. The court re
leased the men on their rood behavior.
Paying for Uamage by Klotera-
Teeix, 11L, Sept. 15. The board of
supervisors of Tazewell county voted
to settle with Little Brothers S7.700
for the destruction of their mines at
Hilliard by a mob of rioting miners on
June '). The owners refused the offer,
demanding 510,000. The work of the
rioters has already cost the Tazewell
county treasury more than S5.000.
Liquor Banished from Arkansas.
LiTTi.K Rock, Ark., SepL 15. Of
ficial returns of the Arkansas state
election held September S show that
over one-half of the counties in the
state voted against liquor license.
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