; THE WORLD AT LARGE. A REVIEW OP THE WEEK'S DOINOS. Fivn men made an unsuccessful at tSUipt to bunco Farmer Tyndall near ^■npfleld. Acyclone swept over Titusville, Pa., wrecking houses and doing other dam No lives were lost, but several lire”'reported injured. Spain has made trade concessions to Blngluud. Gladstone has neatly recovered from his injuries. * A cyclone' at Fort Yates, S. D., killed four Indians. Convention of lumber dealers has be gun in Cincinnaft. A leather trust with a capital of 91,000,000 has been formed in New Jersey. Creede, CoL, has a big silver strike in the E4nt mine, ore running 9800 to the ton. . nimmmreo s gas plant Has been sold to New York capitalists for nearly $3,000,000. Crop reports of wheat are favorable ancl receipts large. Tlio visible supply of wheat surprised speculators by decreasing 1,445,000 bushels, while corn increased 1,017,000 bushels. Prominent free silver men will meet in Helena, Mont, July IS, at the min ing congress. O. I,. Wabber laid down on the Illi nois Central track at Chicago Heights and was killed by a train. Salisbury has made a plea to the British electors not to place Ulster at the mercy of Irish Home Ruler^h. Miss A. Hancox shot and HHtally ujpunded \V. N. Houston at Onrdonia, Indy the culmination of a family feud. . August Grutcli escaped from the guards at the city hospital in Burling Iowa, and made a second attempt to kill his wife. Schwabaclier Bros.’ wholesale hard ware and grocery store at Seattle, Wash., was destroyed by Are; loss, half a million. The Hon. John Fitzgerald of Lincoln, Neb., has gone to Ireland as one of a committee to conciliate the factions for lioiue rule. Will McDonough, aged 85, son of a prominent farmer of Mashaska, Iowa, suicided by shooting himself. Un*e quitted love was the cause. Editor King of the Litchfield (Neb.) Monitor, was found in Grand Island a raving maniac. No cause is known for his loss of reason. The 0-year-old son of Chief of Police Byon of Dubuque fell over a cliff a dis tance of 150 feet, and crushed his skull. He may recover. The Republican State convention to nominate a State ticket in Kansas meets in Topeka to-morrow. There are three prominent candidates for Governor. Mahitoba’s Legislature has been dis solved and writs issued for new elec tions. Nominations will be made on July 16, and polling held on July 23. Whittier, the poet, will write the opening ode for the world’s fair. D. D. Bell, the well-known breeder ot race horses, died at Lexington, Ky. Father Ostrap, for fourteen years „ located at Alton, died at Carlinville, UL Miss Lulu Travage was fatally hurt in a runaway accident at Lima, Ohio. Mabel Waldron, 13 years old, of Fhir bury, 111., has mysteriously disap peared. James Muller of Louisville, Ky., bled to death from a slight cut in his tongue. August Harding of St. Louis in a fit of jealousy shot his wife and then shot himself. Marquis c>De Mores “winged” two mountain cowboys who took him for a “tenderfoot.” Terrible ravages of cholera have been reported from Bakur. Street fights between Irish factions have occurred in Co*k and Limerick. Bismarck was refused an audience * by Francis Joseph, Emperor ot Aus tria, owing to pressure from Berlin. Funeral services were held over the remains of Captain Mayer, who was killed by the Marquis De Mores in a duel. Delegates are straggling into Cin cinnati fqr the coming National Pro hibition convention. Omaha has made great preparations lor entertaining delegates to the Na tional People’s party convention. Treasurer Dann’s stealings of the ''NatTohal Saviuga bank funds of Buf falo, N. Y., will exceed $200,000. By the falling of a mass of, rock from the roof of a mine at Bonne Terre, Mo., John Link was killed and John Bakhaw fatally injured. It has been ascertained that the two Anavchi&ts who were responsible for the explosion of Very's restaurant in Paris have fled to London. C. J. Riegers became involved in a fight with three negresses in St Louis, and one of them literally cut him to pieces with a razor. He is fatallv wounded, and his assailants are under arrest ” President Stampers of the American Federation of labor, has seut out cir culars for obtaining the opinions of the various assemblies question of Sunday closing of tlsU JP^ld’s fair. Ed Pole was arrested at Dennison, Vtexits’, on suspicion of^belng the mur derer of Maude Cramer, one of the vic tims of the recent tragedy. The officers assert they have strong proof against him. A census bulletin issued gives the number of industrial establishments In CanadaAt 75,763, an increase of 51 ip ten yean; capital invested, .000, an increase of 114 per PITH AND POINT. i A professional thief has hanged him* self in a cell in a Boston prison with a piece of blue ribbon. v Repenting of a sin is a great deal like pulling a heavy sled up hill after you have had a good time sliding down. First Ward Heeler—“Who is this Jones that’s thryin’ to get th’ nomina tion in your ward?” Second Ditto— “Jones? Jones? Some dom’d American upstart, I’m thinkin.’ ’’ Caller—“Tommy,how is your brother Alfred getting along in his piano practice?” Tommy—“He ain’t gettin’ along as well as he used to. He spends too much time tryln’ to make his hair look like Paderooski's. ” “This new soap," said the barber, “is very nice. It is made largely of iream, with just a dash of alcohol in t.” “Well, remember I'm a temper ance man,” returned Bobbers, “and don’t put any more of it in my mouth thaiyrou cnn help.” - iuu Know, Marie, no said, i think every child shows in some way in what calling it is most likely to succeed in after years.” “Do you think so? Then wefd better make a real estate man out of our Willie. I can’t keep him out of the dirt.” Citizen — “Patrick, where is your master? He was to have met me here at 9 o’clock, and it is now a half hour after that.” Pat.—"You don’t know him, sir.” Citizen—“Why, is he apt to be late in his appointments?” Pat. —Late, is it? Bedad, in bein’ behoind hand he lades the wurruld.” “You can’t believe everything the newspapers say,” said Mrs. Wayback on her return from the city. “How is that?” asked a neighbor. “I’ll tell you; I read in a society paper in the morning that everybody was out of town, and I was nearly jammed to death in the crowd in a bargain store the same day.” POPULAR SUPERSTITION. When a cat washes itself and puts its hind leg straight up behind its ears there will be rain. The alleged connection between gypsies and the nails used in the cru cifixion has frequently been referred to. It is said that the tinkers are de scendants of the one who mhde the nails for the cross, and -are compelled to wander continually without rest The blackbird and thrush are “wan dering souls” whose sins must be ex piated on earth, hence they are forced to endure the rigors of winter. Rooks, jackdaws, bats, hawks and owls are animated by lost souls. The wagtail is called the "devil’s bird” for no other reason than that it cleverly evades the missiles thrown at it. It is evident that superstition has not yet entirely disappeared from Rhode Island. A few days ago, in order to balk an alleged vampire which was supposed to have been prey ing on a family of that state with fatal effect, the body of a deceased member was exhumed, the heart and liver taken therefrom and cremated, and the body reinterred. Horse chestnuts and potatoes carried in the pocket to keep off rheumatism or for other superstitious purposes are amulets. The virtues supposed to be possessed by amber beads are variously familiar. Belief in the supernatural qualities of amber is very old indeed. It arose originally from its peculiar electric quality from which was de rived the word “eletricity,” electron being the Greek name for amber. TEA TABLE TOPICS. The smallest quadruped in the world is the pigmy mouse of Siberia. There is a chicken living at Seymour, Ind., which is said to have four wings and four legs. An absent-minded Philadelphia barber tucked a newspaper under his patron’s chin and gave him a towel to read. Appliances connected with a marine railroad in Elizabethport, N. J., render it possible to hall a 3,500-ton vessel out of water in nine minutes. A monument has been erected at the county seat of the duke of Wellington to the memory of Copenhagen, the horse that carried the duke for four teen hours at a stretch at Waterloo. An ingenious woman has hit upon the idea of a “dress album” in which tiny cuttings of every gown belonging to its owner are to bo chronologically arranged, under the dates on which they were purdhased. Judge Bradley of the superior court of Lowell, Mass., has established Hie principle that women obtaining decrees of divorce shall not be pe*> mitted to resume their maiden names. He thinks the records would becon*? quite too complicated. YOUNG AMERICA. A New York messenger boy is suing for $10,000 damages for injuries re ceived while running. There will be a building at the world’s fair where a woman can leave her baby and get a check for it while she sees the show. Blanche King, aged fifteen, was married in St. Louis recently for the second time, having been married and divorced when she was but thirteen yeara old. Salem, Ind., is enforcing an ordi nance prohibiting boys and girls from wandering about the streets after night-fall unless accompanied by par ents or guardians. There is a law which, if enforced, compels the delivery of all letters for girls under eighteen and boys under twenty-one years of age to their par ents or guardians.—Postal llecord. A bright New York boy has set him self up in the business of exercising fine bred dogs for rich men, whose time is too much'taken up with money making to properly look after their canine property. TOO COOL FOR CORN. WMUnt Bulletin* Indicate General Oran limine. Washington, July 7.—The weather crop bulletin for the last week, sent out by the Agricultural department, says that the week has been cooler than usual throughout the districts east of the Kooky mountains. The seasonal conditions of moisture remain substantially the same as reported last week, except in the Lower lake region and on the Atlantic coast, where there has been a marked increase. The fol lowing report shows the condition of crops in the States named: Iowa—Haying end winter grain har vests have begun. Corn is two weeks late but generally clean, and needs warmer weather to mature. Michigan—The weather continues too wet for crops und farming oper ations. Corn is suffering for want of cultivation. Wheat is improving. Oats and,barley are in good condition on weil-drained lands. Wisconsin—Corn is being cultivated first time and is backward. Wheat and rye have headed and oats are begin ning to head. Tobacco planting is un finished. Illinois—Harvesting is completed in the southern portion and is progress ing rapidly in the central. Home wheat was damaged by high wind and rain. Indiana—The weather was favorahlv to harvesting, but too cool for corn. Wheat is in shock in the southern por tion. Harvest continues in the cen tral and has commenced in the north ern portions ONE KILLED, A DOZEN HURT. Disastrous Wreck of a Picnic Train Near' Louisville. Louisville, Ky., July 7.—A wreck, causing the loss of one life, serious In jury of three passengers and the wound ing of eight others, occurred on the Louisville Southern railroad, twenty two miles out of Louisville, at 7 o'clock last evening. Besides the loss of life and injuries to passengers, #20,000 damage was done to the coaches which Were wrecked and burned. The dead and injured are as follows: GEORGE NELSON, section boss. JeBerson town, killed. H. H. Bukuahk, engineer, fracture of left hip. J. A. Kobkhts, fireman, badly scalded on left shoulder and on the side of the waist and on the back of left arm to the wrist. Jbskk Killy, compound fracture of the right forearm; will require amputation. The train was returning from a pic nic at Louisville Southern Parle and hud on board 250 people, who had gone out in the morning with the Louisville Bookbinders’ and Paper Cutters’ union. The wreck is thought to have been caused by the spreading of the truck. IS CHOSEN CHAIRMAN. Tanbeneck to Direct the People’s Party Campaign. Omaha, Neb., July 7.—The National committee of the People's party met. yesterday afternoon and organized by electing the following executive com mittee: H. E. Taubeneck of Illinois, chairman; J. H. Turner of Georgia, secretary; J. H. Davis of Texas, George Washburne of Massachusetts, V. O. Strickler of Nebraska, Ignatius Don nelly of Minnesota, G. F. Gaither of Alabama, Lawrence McFarland of New York andM. C. Rankin of Indiana, sec retaries. The committee has under consideration a proposition to make its headquarters at Omaha. Cat Down mid Trampled the Flag. Philadelphia, Pa., July 7.—Great indignation is expressed in the north western section of the city, where a large American flag raised the Fourth of July morning was cut down, torn up, and pieces found in tbe street. Greble Council of the Order of Junior American Mechanics presented the flag, and during the exercises the preacher who spoke referred to the anarchists and socialists. There were some hisses and groans. Last night the flag was cut down and disgraced. The pole was located at the entrance to Fairmont Park at Columbia avenue. The resident? will hold a mass-meeting and denounce the authorities for their negligence. EMIL SNIGGS, Gensral Blacksmith, O'NEILL, NEB Wagon and Carriage Repair ing Done to Perfection. Plow Work and Horse Shoe ing a Specialty. 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