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rLATTSMOUTII, t i NEBRASKA.
Tho News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From Ail Parts.
DOMESTIC
Creamehv men of Minnesota have
organized and will constitute a board
of trade for the sale of their products.
Five tramps were killed and two in
jured by a wreck on the Chicago fc
Northwestern road near Woodstock. 111.
IIeavt rains in California damaged
the x aisin crop ( 100,000.
Four miners who were entombed
fifty-five hours without food by a cave
in at Carbondale, Fa., were rescued.
Ajt English syndicate has been given
options on all the paper a nd pulp mills
in the Fox river valley in 'Wisconsin.
They are valued at 510,000,000.
TiiKoron the careless driving of
Louis Scharf while drunk his wife and
five children and Mary Roskus, his
sister-in-law, were drowned ia the
Minnesota river at Chaska.
Apoi.fh Bursa and John Barrett,
inmates of the Ohio soldiers' home,
were killed by highwaymen near Day
ton for their, money.
At Chillicothe, O., Flying Jib low
ered the world's mile pacing record
from i!:01?4 to 1:59, witli a running
mate.
U.vksows miscreants wrecked a Wa
bash train at Maumee, O.. and En
gineer F. N. Smith was killed and
Fireman A. II. Day fatally hurt.
Mill. ownersand operatives at Fall
River, Mass., held a conference, but
failed to settle the strike involving
40,000 persons.
Sxow fell in thirty counties of north
ern Minnesota, amounting in some
places to a depth of three inches.
By the collision of a Washington
express train with a runaway engine
in Philadelphia many passengers were
injured.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
58,052,701 during the month of Septem
ber. The cash balance in the treasury
wasS119,919,719. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to SS7,640,C17.
W. M. Breckexkidge and Frank A.
Fadgett left Chicago on a two years'
bicycle trip around the world.
Durixq September the coinage of
gold at the various mints amounted to
S50.033.602, and of silver $8,705,370, of
which 672,200 were standard dollars.
It Berry Rich, a farmer in Marion
county, Ky., was taken from his home
by white caps and hanged because
barns and houses had been fined in the
vicinity.
For two years C M. Fletcher was
said to have been selling to Chi
cagoans Missouri property to which
he had no title.
Tee Mirror Lake house, a summer
hotel atSaranac, N. Y., was destroyed
by fire, the loss being S150.000.
Three men held up a Southern Pa
cific train in Arizona and robbed the
express car of $503. One was after
ward captured.
Near Perry, O. T., nine members of
a hunting party were injured by the
explosion of a package of powder and
would die.
The United States circuit court of
appeals in Chicago overruled the por
tion of Judge JenkinB' injunctional
order prohibiting Northern Pacific em
ployes from strlkicg.
Withe? three months thirty-seven
stills have been destroyed and 125
moonshiners captured by United States
officers iD the Big Sandy valley in Ken
tucky. Fearixs burglars Wesley Ad am son,
a Brazil (lad.) farmer, secreted S2O0
in a stove. II is wife started a fire and
the money was burned.
Four of the six men under arrest
for wrecking a train at Fontanet, Ind.,
during the strike have confessed.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 1st was: Wheat,
71,421,000 bushels; corn, 4,805,000 bush
els; oats, 8,234,000 bushels; rye, 830,000
bushels; barley, 2,265,000 bushels.
The government receipts during the
first three months of the current fiscal
year were 97,848,174, and the expendi
tures were $98,628,237.
The house of B. B. Pierce at Wilmot,
"Wis., was burned, and his three sons
and a daughter of John Frank per
ished in the flames.
The First national bank of Fayette
ville, N. Y., closed its doors.
At Dorchester, Neb.. Joseph Krob
shot and killed Lizzie Brabeck and
then killed himself. lie asked her to
marry him and she refused.
Two passenger trains collided at a
crossing at Sunbury, Fa., and all the
passengers were shaken up and ten
severely injured.
Some thirty substantial buildings af
"Wichita, Kan., besides innumerable
barns and outhouses, were demolished
or injured in a greater or less degree
by a tornado and two men were killed.
IL O. Havemeyer and J. E. Searles,
of the sugar trust, were indict d for
refusing to answer questions put by
the senate investigating committee.
The total money circulation of the
country was placed at 31,655,038,983
a per capita of $24.07, against $1,596,
049.983 October 1, 1893.
Post office department officials in
"Washington forbid a contemplated
Sunday parade of letter carriers in
Chicago.
Six persons were badly injured in a
freight train wreck at Mansfield, O.,
and twenty cars were demolished.
Nixe persons were killed and prop
erty werth 81,000,000 des'royed by a
cyclone at Little Rock, Ark. The main
portion of the business center of the
city was practically in ruins.
Mrs. M. C. Giles, of Belvidere, 111.,
went to bed with good e3'es and woke
tip in the morning totally blind. The
physicians were baffled.
A monument to MaJ. B. F. Stephen
son, founder of the Grand Army of
the Republic, was dedicated at Peters
burg. IlL i
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iniDGDS i anu
William Puon, of Ohio, has been ap
pointed superintendent of income tax
collections by Secretary Carlisle.
A stage running between Yrekaand
Fort Jones, Cal., was held up by a
lone highwayman, who stole the treas
ure box.
Solly Smith and Frank Erne fought
a terrific ten-round battle, ending in
a draw, at Buffalo, N. Y.
Martix Irons, once a famous labor
leader, was in jail at Fort Worth, Tex.,
charged with assaulting a little girl
CuAiinoN Corbett issued a challenge
in which he agreed to meet all comers
in the prize ring next July, one each
nipht until all were disposed of.
Trotting queen Alix, 2:03J, and
trotting king Directum, 2:05, have
been matched to race for $2,500 a side.
Near Pawnee, Neb., a cyclone killed
John Nelson's 9-year-old girl and seri
ously injured five other members of
the family.
In a fight between "Denver Ed" and
"Larry" Farrell for $5,500 at Denver
the former won on a foul.
Goapeij bv intimations of cowardice
Corbett has decided to accept the chal
lenge issued by Fitzsimmons.
The twenty-ninth annual reunion of
the Army of the Tennessee convened
at Council Bluffs, Ia.
The fire losses for the week ended
on September 30 entailed a loss of
$5,010,000. of which fires doing damage
of $10,000 or more contributed $4,670,
000. At Portland, Me., Directum trotted
a mile in 2:0S.V defeating Nelson and
lowering the record for New England.
At the Farmers national congress
at Parkersburg, W. Va., resolutions
were adopted favoring protection to
wool and cotton.
Frairie fires devastated alarge tract
of land in the Black Brook country
near Grantsburg, Wis.
Before the Lexow committee Mrs.
Urchittei testified that police of New
York put her children in an asyluru in
order to extort money from her.
G. Herman Sc Co., fruit dealers at
Tehichipi, Cal., failed for $250,000.
It was reported that the steamship
Chattahoochie, overdue at Savannah
from New York, had been lost with all
on board.
A. J. Liem, a wealthy resident of
Liemville, Fa., and his wife were
killed by an explosion of nitroglycer
ine in their home. The perpetrators
of the deed were unknown.
Jim and Marion Crutchfield (broth
ers) and Will Mitchell, all negroes,
fought near Denton, Tex., and all were
killed.
Before the Lexow committee a
woman testified that the New York
police had forced her to buy diamonds
for them and furnish their houses to
secure their protection.
A sew counterfeit five-dollar na
tional bank note was discovered on
the Citizens' national bank of Niles,
Mich., check letter B, series of 1SS2.
The entire face of the note is brown,
instead of black.
At the annual meeting in Council
Bluffs, la., of the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee, Gen. Grenville M.
Dodge, of Iowa, was elected president.
An entire business block was de
stroyed by fire in the village of Buck
hannon, W. Va.
At Bloomfield, Ind., the safe of the
bank was blown to pieces by robbers
and $5,500 carried away.
Joseph Matchet, a farmer at Bulger,
Pa., was robbed of $5,000 by a plck
pock. He had taken the money with
him to a fair expecting to purchase
some of the exhibition cattle.
The bodies of fifty persons, victims
of the recent tropical storms, were
washed ashore near Key West.
Gen. F. M. Clark and CoL Fred
Grant are about to sell the secret of a
torpedo explosive to the Chinese gov
ernment for $1,000,000.
Chahles E. Day, a lamp trimmer,
was killed by an electric light wire in
Boston and a man who attempted to
rescue Day was also killed.
Six persons were injured, throe of
them fatally, by the collision of a lo
comotive and streetcar in St. Louis.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
in his annual report says special ad
vancement has been made in Indian
education. The aggregate enrollment
for the year was 21.451, with an aver
age attendance of 17,096, against 21,117
enrollment and 16,303 attendance for
the previous year.
The ship City of Athens sailed for
the United Kingdom with the first
cargo of wheat shipped from Tacoma,
Wash., amounting to 1,800 tons.
The axle works of J. R. Johnson &
Co. were destroyed by fire at Rich
mond, Va., the loss being $100,000.
The first of the 6even baseball games
of the Temple cup series between the
New York and Baltimore clubs was
won by New York by a score of 4 to 1.
Flying Jib paced a mile at Chilli
cothe, O., with a running mate in
1:5S3. The previous best record at
this style of going was 2:015.4.
Engineer Michael Ketchum, Fire
man Thomas Warren and Brakeman
M. E. Hummel were killed in a freight
wreck at Southfield, Mo.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. Catherine Clvkich died at Mus
catine, la., aged 108 years.
Gen. A. M. West, candidate for vice
.president of the United States in 1884
on the greenback-labor ticket with
Gen. B. F. Butler, died at Holly
Springs, Miss., aged 70 years.
Thomas O. Rogers, a brother-in-law
of Kit Carson, died at Clayton, N. M.
He was a former guide for Gen. Fre
mont. Gov. McKinley opened the repub
lican and Senator Vest the democratie
campaign in Missouri, the former
speaking at St. Louis, the latter at
Kansas City.
Mrs. Katherine Medill, wife of
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago
Tribune, died at Elmhurst from con
sumption, aged 63 years.
The republicans of the Thirteenth
Ohio district nominated S. R. Harris
for congress and in the Fourteenth
district the democrats nominated
Thomas Y. McCray.
The republicans made great gains in
the municipal elections throughout
Connecticut
of Copaiba,
Tr. Miles Nervine
guarantee that the
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ft willbe aent, prepaid, on receipt
The republicans of South Carolina
will not nominate a state ticket, but
candidates will run in each congres
sional district.
The following .congressional nomi
nations were made: Michigan, Fifth
district, L.G.Rutherford (deni.); Elev
enth, Maj-or Anderson (pop.); Twelfth,
Rush Culver (dem.). Ohio, First dis
trict, II. D. Peck (dem.); Second, M. O.
Oliver (dem.); Third, A. L. Harris
(rep.); Seventh, M. K. Gantz (dem.).
Illinois, Twenty-second district, F. M.
Youngblood (dem.). Maryland, Sec
ond district, J. F. C. Talbot (dem.);
Third, 11. W. Rusk (dem.); Fourth,
John Covven (dem.). Massachusetts,
Third dibtrict, J. A. Walker (rep.);
Fourth, J. S Desmond (dem.); Twelfth,
Elijah Morse (rep.). Connecticut,
Fourth district, F. J. Hill (rep.). Penn
sylvania, Sixteenth district, Fred
Leonurd (rep.).
The following nominations for con
gress were made: Illinois, Twelfth
district, T. S. Donovan (dem.). Wis
consin, Seventli district, Michael Grif
fin (repc) Nebraska, Fifth district, W.
A. McKeighan (dem.-pop.). Massachu
setts, Sfcond district, F. R. Gillette
(rep.). New Jersey, Fifth district,
Preston Stevenson (dem.).
Returns from all except two out of
164 towns that held elections in Con
necticut show a republican gain of
twenty-three towns.
Prof. David Swing, the eminent
preacher and theologian, died of chol
emia at his home in Chicago, aged 64
years.
At the state election in Florida IL
G. Lyddon (dem.) was elected justice
of the supreme court without opposi
tion. Mrs. Mary Sheehan died at the
almshouse in Pottsville, Pa., aged 10 J
years.
William Y. Atkinson (dem.) was
elected governor of Georgia by a great
ly reduced majority, owing to his un
popularity. Can didates for congress were chosen
as follows: Ohio, Tenth district, J. O.
Yates (dem.). Michigan, Eleventh dis
trict, W. E. Hudson (dem.). Minne
sota, Second district, II. S. Kellogg
(pro.); Fifth, T. Reinstadt (pro.).
Maryland, Fourth district, IL II. Smith
(rep.). Arkansas, Third district, W.
R. Hull (rep.). North Carolina. Fifth
district, W. Merritt (pop.). New Jer
sey, Third district, B. F. Howell (rep.).
Later reports from the Georgia elec
tion show that the populists mada
gains in almost every county in the
state and that the democratie majority
would probably not be more than
15,000, against nearly 70,000 at the last
general election.
FOREIGN.
TnE Crown Point color printing
works at Leeds. England, were de
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $5,
C00.O00. A waterspout near Valencia, in
Venezuela, killed more than 150 per
sons and caused a loss in crops of $400,
000. By the overflowing of rivers in Cuba
200 persons lost their lives, and prop
erty was damaged to the extent of
$4,000,000.
Shanghai dispatches intimate that
the emperor of China may be deposed
infavor of Prince Kung's son.
Advices from Cuba state that the
little town of Dagua was destroyed by
fire and 300 lives were lost.
The Italian government gave to
Krupp, of Berlin, an order for tho
coinage of 10,000.000 nickel lire.
Frank Ditpre, a commercial trav
eler from Rochester, N. Y., was sand
bagged and robbed of over $1,200 at
Toronto, OnL He may die.
LATER.
Tiieke were 219 business'failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 5th, against 235 the week
previous and S20 in the correspond
ing time in 1893.
Skavett's stave factory at Vernon.
O., was burned and five horses per
ished in an adjoining barn.
Five men were indicted for wreck
ing a Big Four passenger train at
Fontanet, Ind., during the great rail
road strike.
At Nathville, Tenn.. the Young
Men's Christian association building
was totally destroyed by fire.
The northeast end of Cuba was vis
ited by a terrific hurricane which de
stroyed or badly damaged all the
banana plantations and many houses
were blown down.
George Neokr, aged CO, a saloon
keeper at Indianapolis, Ind., fatally
shot his wife and then killed himself.
A quarrel was the cause.
The second of the seven baseball
games of the Temple cup series be
tween the New York and Baltimore
clubs was won by New York by a score
of 9 to 0.
Coffin & Stanton, a stock brokerage
firm in New York, failed with liabili
ties of $3,000,000.
Judge Gaynor, nominated for judge
of the court of appeals of New York
by the democrats, has declined to
make the race.
Six persons were killed and a num
ber injured by falling walls during a
fire in a furniture store in Detroit,
Mich.
Mill operatives numbering 20,000 in
New Bedford, Mass., were advised by
their leaders to accept a reduction and
end the strike.
The boiler in Schultz's sawmill near
Parkersburg, W. Va., exploded, killing
three men and fatally injuring two
others.
Col. Wr. L. Strong, president of the
Central national bank, was selected
for mayor of New York by the repub
licans and the committee of seventy.
Near Knoxville, Tenn., two farm
ers. Charles Perky and Jones Overton,
fought over the line of a fence and
killed each other.
Several towns were wrecked along
the Russian coast by a hurricane and
many lives were lost.
The following congressional nomi
nations were made: Illinois, Third dis
trict, II. R. Belknap (rep.). Ohio,
Eighth district, E. T. Dunn (dem.).
New York, Thirty-first district, II. 0.
Brewster, (rep.). Massachusetts, Fifth
district, H. A. Little (dem.).
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SIX SLAIN.
Five Firemen and a Spectator
Killed at a Detroit Fire.
Nine Olher Firemen Are Badly Injured
Caught Under the Falling Wall of a
llurnlnc llulldlns Lotta of
880,000 Incurred.
killed at duty's post.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. C. Six dead
and nine injured is the record of the
fire which destroyed the furniture
store of Keenan & Jahn at 7:30 a. m.
Friday. The dead are:
Lieut. Michael II. Donoxbuo. chemical No.
1; Kit-hard Dely. pipeuiaa No. 0: John Patrel.
pipeman No. ; Frederick A. Kussey. specta
tor, died at Grace hospital; Mike Hall, pipe
mac No. 0; Julius CumminKS, of No. 2.
The injured are:
Mike Gray, probably futally: Lieut. O
Kourke. of engine No 8: 1'lpeinan SlocV,
No. 8: Pipeman C Cronln, No. 8; John B. New
ell, truck No. '-. injured about the head: Thom
as Grry, substitute, badly bruised: Leslie Mc
Namara. No. 2. Henry Kiniberly. No. 2; Henry
Herljr. leg broken.
The fire was discovered in the ship
ping room in the basement at the
back of the store. An alarm was
promptly turned in, but by the
time the engines arrived the
fire had gained considerable head
way, having run up the ele
vator shaft, and the entire upper floo"r
was a mass of flame ami smoke when
the first stream was thrown. There
were sixty employes in the building
and most of them had great dillieulty
in escaping. The building, an old
five-story structure, was soon gutted
and the stock ruined. At 9 o'clock the
front wall of the building tumbled
into Woodward avenue. It came
in the shape of a collapse, and the
mass of debris did not spread beyond
the curb. The firemen working in
front of the building were warred
and retreated as rapidly a possible.
Some got out from uuder, but a dozen
or more were unable to do so on ac
count of the piles of brick, glass and
burnt timbers.
A 3-ell of horror went up from the
throats of the thousands who were in
the street, and then there was a crash
like an earthquake. The air was filled
with dust and sheets of flame and
smoke. Some of the falling wall
broke the heavy electric wires
and the trolley wire. A flash of
sputtering electric fluid lighted up
the scene, and people crowded and
surged to get into the stores and
down the side streets to escape being
shocked. A number of men, women
and children were trampled under the
feet of the frightened spectators, but
none was seriously hurL
Rescuers were immediately at work.
The first man taken out from under
the debris was Lieut. Michael II. Don
oghue, of chemical No. 1. He was
dead. The next body found was
that of Richard Del3 pipemau of
engine No. 9. It was lying under
two iron columns, and the head
and back were frightfully crushed.
The next body to be taken out was
Pipeman John Tagel, of No. 9. He
was crushed by the crumbling walls.
Frederick A. Bussey, a spectator,
was taken to Grace hospital, where
he died. Mike Gray was also taken
to Grace hospital. The last named
was found to be so badly injured
about the head that he may die. .Mike
Boyle, pipeman of No. 2, and Julius
Cummings, of company No. 2, are still
in the ruins and are certainly dead.
The aggregate loss on building and
stock is estimated at $80,000; fully in
sured. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST.
Cyclone in Japan Blots Out Whole
vu-
lag Many Yscl t'oundrred.
San Francisco, Oct. 6. Japanese ad
vices bring news of a terrible cyclone
on September 11 by which villages in
the neighborhood of Kobi were swept
away and people killed. .Many ves
sels are supposed to have beeu lost.
The cyclone swept on to the north
east, afterward wrecking Lotraisk. Its
path seems to have been unusually
wide, for at Marinopal it devastated the '
country to a point 11 miles inland and
had its outer edge far upon the
sea. Marinopal was practically blotted
out of existence. Not three houses
out of 100 are
It is estimated
left standing.
that over 200
this town alone,
the storm seems
people perished in
North of Marinopal
to have made
eastward over
a sudden turn to the
Delaa point, its left
edge inflicting slight damage on the
town of Berdionski. Houses were
wrecked and a dozen persons were
killed by falling timbers.
HELD FOR CHAUVIN'S MURDER.
Nephew of the Detroit Kerluse Comes
from New l'ork anil Is Arrested.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 0. William D.
Trombley, nephew of the murdered
miser, Chauvin, came here from New
York Thursday night and was ar
rested Friday morning charged
with complicity in the murder of his
eccentric uncle. The police expect to
prove by four witnesses that Trombley
was seen around Chauvin's house the
night of the crime. When located by
J. II. Seitz, a wealthy Detroiter, who
has an interest in the case, Trombley
was a waiter in the Sinclair hotel
at New York, where he had bctn
employed for eight months. Trom
bley says that he had not heard of his
uncle's death until informed by Seitz.
The latter purchased some time ago
for 82.000 all of Trombley's interest in
the Chauvin estate and the nephew
says he is to receive S-5,000 more from
Seitz.
White l'lsh Supply Decreasing;.
Washington, Oct. 0. The fish com
mission reports a noticeable falling off
in the white fish in the great lakes, de
spite the fact that some 200,000,000 are
hatched by the United States and state
hatcheries annually. Were it not for
the artificial hatching, the commission
ers believe, white fish in the lakes
would disappear. This falling oif ia
attributed to the increase in the effec
tiveness of the fish as a food fish. The
fry loosed are pounced upon by the
pike and pickerel, and it is probable
that rearing places will be established
on the lakes to minimize this eviL
Thro Plent to
to take. I ' "
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TRADE REVIEW.
Extremely Low Price of Wheat and Cot
tonImprovement in Industries.
New York, Oct 6. Dun's weekly re
view of trade says:
"With tho chief money crops of the -west
and south sinking In value It is not strange
that purchases of manufactured products are
smaller than was expected. Wheat has touched
the lowest point ever known for options
and cotton tho lowest ever known In any form
with the present rlassinchtion. and the
accumulation of stocks in both products Is
discouraging to purchasers for an advance.
Producers aro compelled to sell at prices be
low the ordinary cost of raising crops, and ia
tome western stales there is also a lamenta
ble failure of the corn crop, f nder the cir
eumt'tanccslt would be very strange if the de
mand for manufactured products should be
quite as large as in other years.
"Wheat suffers most from the accumulation
of stocks in sight, which are far beyond what
Is usually expected for the season, and the cx-
rjrts for September were unusually small,
he price for cash wheat is a (-.mall fraction
higher for the week. Corn receipts at
the west have been only a third as
large as they were last year, with exports
amounting to nothing, but the price has not
further declined after the heavy fall during
the previous fortnight. 1'ork products are
weak in tone, though only lard is quotably
lower. Cotton is oue-eitrhth lower, the case
price being the lowest known for forty-live
years, and considering the difference in clas
sification it is perhaps lower than at any time
In lM'J, an 1 estimates thut the crop is more
than IO.CWO.OOj bales ure more commonly cred
itel now than estimates of 8.5O0.0UU were two
months ago. With favorable weather the
yield seems likely to be the largest ever known.
"The condition of the lndustrl s is in some
respects more satisfactory. Evidently there
is a larger demand for iron products than
there was a month ago, though the increase in
output has been son. e what greater than the
increase in the demand, so that prices steadily
tend downward. The structural market is
fairly active in the west, without change at
the cast, and while the coke output has become
the heaviest ever known. Htf.775 tons for the
week, the price is declining, und steps are be
ing t iken to limit the supply.
"The boot and shoe trado continues to de
liver more roods than in any previous year, as
it did in September, and most of the works
still have orders for one or two months ahead,
although mainly for low and medium-priced
goods. There is a littlo better demand this
week for goods of higher quality, however, and
the demand for leather is still reducing the re
serve. "The failures for the last week have been 219
In the United States, against 'AM last year, and
3S) in Canada, against 4.) last year."
Bradstreefs says:
"While no radical change has appeared this
week there are features of the situation
pointing to continued progress in the direc
tion of improvement. This is true of the
country at larpe. Thus in c.istern and mid
dle states, while the larrrcr cities do not re
port noteworthy changes. Providence an
nounces that all industrial lines, notably
manufacturing jewelers, have received liberal
orders, with the exception of manufacturers of
machinery. Hallimore. too. reports larger
sales ia a few directions. In the west corre
sponding reports come from Omaha, where a
better feeling is reported throughout the trib
utary region, and there is more buying of dry
goods, clothing. sh es and groceries. Duluth
also finds business improved and jobbers in
6everal lines have been encouraged. St. Louis
and Kansas City report stimulation In
wholesale as well as retail lines, due in part
to an influx of visitors to the carnivals. From
tho south the most favorble reports come from
Jacksonville whore wholesale trade is good and
retail trade improving. Merchandise is moving
satisfactorily from Savannah, and from
Charleston and Chattanooga. The previously
reported large volume of business of Chicago
jobbers is maintained. At a number of points
east and west demand for money has increased
and changes in the character of mercantile
collections as a rule are in the direction of im
provement. "The price movement has improved little.
Wheat, corn and oats have advanced from
previous lowest levels. Some varieties of lum
ber, naval stores, tin plate and a fow other
staples have remained steady in price, but re
fined sugar is lower for reasons which may or
may not be similar to those governing prices
in other lines. Concessions in prices have also
been made for pig iron, steel billets, lumber,
lard, coffee, cotton print cloths and livo hogs."
RELIEVE FIRE SUFFERERS.
Commissioner of the Land Office Makes a
Recommendation.
Washington, Oct 0. S. W. Lamo
reaux, commissioner of the general
land office, in his annual report shows
there has not been as much activity
in public land matters this year as
previously, due to the hard times in
the west and the consequent decrease
in imraigra'tion. The most important
recommendations relate to the forest
fires in Michigan, Minnesota and Wis
consin and what shall be done with
the timber on public lands. On this
subject the report says:
"A great part of the land burned over Is
now held by settlers who are in process of per
fecting title to the premises occupied by them.
Applications have been made by the sufferers
from these fires for permission to ctit the tim
ber from their land and sell it at once before it
becomes worm-eaten, decayed and worthless.
This omce has not felt warranted by law to
grant the permission asked for, inasmuch aa
standiug timber, whether green and growing
or burned and dead, is a p:rt of the realty,
and cannot be disposed of separate from the
land in the absence of special provision of law.
"Fr iiu the facts stated It is clear, however,
that unless some authority is given by which
the settlers may utilize the limber on their re
spective claims, much additional loss and suf
fering must ensue to them and millions of feet
of now valuable timber must go to destruc
tion. I therefore urgently recommend that
promptly upon tho reassembling of congress a
law be enacted by whiih the settlers shall be
allowed to perfect their claims by commuta
tion thereof to cash purchase at the legal price
per acre."
The disposal of land for the year
ending June J!0 was as follows:
"Sold for cash. CIS.tttt acres: miscellaneous
entries, 9.Tw 33 acres; Indian lands. 2S.HV6
acres; total decrease compared with last year.
l.-lho.C43 ucres. The total cash receipts of the
offlee were J2.767.8.M. a decreae of $1.711.Mjy;
total agricultural patents issued, 35,&o. a de
crease of 8.J9."
For Mayor of New York.
New York, Oct. 6. Col. W. L.
Strong, president of the Central na
tional bank, formerly a country mer
chant at Piqua, O., and John W. Goff.
who lias acquired national fame as
chief counsel of the Lexow investigat
ing committee, have been selected by
the committee Tf seventy and also by
the regular republican organization to
head the municipal ticket this fall.
Col. Strong being nominated for mayor
and Mr. Goff for recorder.
Outlaws Rob a Farmer.
Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 0. A. Brown, a
Kansas farmer, now in the Cherokee
strip, was called upon Thursday night
by strangers, who fired a volley
through the door and attacked Brown
and his wife with axes. The couple
fought pluckily. Mrs. Brown was
badly hurt Her husband was bound
and gagged and the house robbed of
8300. .
Gaynor Will Not Itun.
New York, Oct. 6. Judge Gaynor,
nominated for judge of the court of
appeals of New York by the , demo
crats, has declined to make the race.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Twenty years ago Protestantism
was practically dead in France. Now
there are 8S7 preachers in the Reformed
church, 90 Lutheran, 31 Methodist and
23 Baptist.
The Massachusetts Sunday Protec
tive league has issued an appeal to
members of bicycling, boating and ath
letic clubs to avoid all "meets" and
games on the Lord's Day.
M. Jean Fletiry, the father of
"Henry Greville," the novelist, died re
cently. He was professor of French in
the University of St. Petersburg, and
author of a book on llabelais.
At Moscow a new conservatory of
music is now being erected by order of
the czar. The building will cost 100,
000, and will accommodate about 1,000
pupils. Statues of N. Kubinstein, a
former director, and of Tschaikowsky,
who long taught there, will be placed
in the square around the new building.
Sixty years ago the incumbent of a
church in Hull used to be called Vicar
Bromby. Just after the passage of the
first reform bill, in 1S32, he preached a
sermon in which he uttered this whole
some Socratic passage: "In these days
we hear a great deal about reform.
Let me give you a piece of advice: The
best reform is to make one person bet
ter. I need not say who that person
should be."
Pennsylvania is contributing its
share of distiguished educators to New
England. Prof. Balliet, who won his
distinction as a teacher first in Penn
sjlvania normal schools and afterward
as superintendent of the city schools of
Reading, removed to Springfield Mass.,
to take charge of the public schools of
that city. The nominating committee
of the Boston school board has recently
invited Supt. Balliet to become a can
didate for the position of superintend
ent of-the Boston schools, but he de
clined to become a candidate against
the present incumbent.
New rules have lately been issued
for the Paris conservatoire of music,
according to which professors must re
tire at the age of seventy, and must
cive at least three lessons a month.
Classes are to be limited to ten pupils,
except those of harmony, piano and or
gan, which may have twelve. Pupila
in singing must complete their course
in four years, those in harmony and
piano in five. The minimum age for
admission is fixed at IS for men and 17
for women; the maximum age for sing
ers is 20 for men and 23 for women; for
harmony 22, and for piano 13.
The oldest active professor in Ger
many is said to be Privy Councilor
Stickel, professor of oriental languages
at Jena, who recently celebrated tho
nineteenth anniversary of his birth
Prof. Stickel answered Prince Bis
marck's question as to his age in the,
following manner: "I have seen Na
poleon the First; Germany in its condi
tion of deepest disgrace. I have known
Goethe, and in him seen Germany at
the pinnacle of its literary develop
ment; and now I see in your highness
him who brought our Fatherland to the
pinnacle of political development."
Roman Catholics in London will
soon have a cathedral of an architec
ture unique in that city. It will be a
basilica, buiit on the model of Constan
tine's original church of St. Peter at
Rome, 350 feet long by 170 wide and 100
high, and will hold 10,000 people. At
tached to it is to be a monastery for
thirty monks and forty-five lay breth
ren, to which the Benedictines who
for centuries served Westminister Ab
bey, are to be invited. The land was
bought by Cardinal Manning nearly
thirty years ago for 55,000, and is
now worth 300,000. The buildings
will cost 250,000, toward which one
contributor has already given 20,000.
CRUSHING A LADY KILLER.
The AVicked Girl Fooled Him Into Hiding
liehind a Sofa When Mamma Came.
George N. B is well known in
club circles. And he has a great opin
ion of his ability to "kill" debutantes.
He brags a good deal about his power,
too, and somehow or other a certain
young lady who lives in the vicinity ol
the university heard that George had
said that he would make any girl fall
in love with him. She made up her
mind to get even with him. He called
several times upon her and she made
him believe that she took in all he said:
He got to saying that she was nice,
but anybody could guy her, to
use George's expressive phraseology.
This made the young lady mad.
She concocted a very nice plan
to encompass his defeat. They sat on
the sofa together, and George betjan
telling her wonderful things about
what he had done, and the look in her
vacant eyes made George think that
she was believing all he said. By and
by they heard the mother coming down
stairs. The young lady said:
"Oh, George, get behind the sofa and
frighten mamma!"
George did as he was bidden.
When the mother entered the parlor
she remarked:
"Didn't I hear Mr. B 's voice just
now?"
The bright daughter said:
"Oh, yes! but George is so timid that
the hid behind the sofa when he heard
you coming downstairs!"
George is no fool and he tumbled,
ne era wled out from behind the sofa,
looked for his hat and made his depar
ture without a word. Svracuse Post.
A Strange Spell.
Frances Have you heard from that
young man who was so devoted to you
a month ago?
Kitty Yes, I received a letter from
him yesterday, and he seems to be under
some strange spell; a weird spell, I
might say.
"Perhaps it is your fascination that
has done it."
"I ahould hope not. He puts two l'a
in 'until' and no k in 'know.'" Detroit
Free Press.
What He Slight Kxpect.
He When I succeed in getting on
the right side of you I'm going to pro
pose. Sho Well, if you do, you'll find your
self on the left side almost iouuediata
ly. Truth.
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