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The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL
Regular Session.
In the senate on 4th t-ills were passed to
amend the quarantine regulations so far as
they apply to vessels plying between United
States ports and foreign ports on or near the
frontier and to subject to state taxation na
tionul bank notes and United States treasury
notes.
On the 6th the bill for restricting Immigra
tion and for the deportation of anarchists was
passed in the senate. A resolution affirming
that taxes can only be rightfully imposed to
raise revenue for support of the government
was offered by Senator Mills In the house
Mr. Richards (O.) Introduced a bill providing
that every session of the legislative body of
the national congress shall be open to the pub
lic. A short session In the United States senate
was held on the 7th, the most important
event being the passage of a resolution direct-
ins the president to take steps for the release
of American citizens confined in the Island of
Cuba for participation In the recent rebellons.
In the house a report was made from the
judiciary committee against the admission of
Japanese to citizenship.
In the senate on the 8th a bill was introduced
to "prevent professional lobbying." Bills were
passed to provide for the opening of certain
abandoned military reservations and to fur
ther encourage the holding of a world's expo
sition at Atlanta. Ga., In 193 In the house a
bill was Introduced to regulate the cutting of
timber on public lands. Most of the session
whs taken up In considering public building
bills. A resolution for an investigation of the
effects of machinery on la tor was adopted.
The senate on the 9th was in session only a
little more than an hour and a half and no
business of any importance was transacted
In the house a favorable report was made on
the bill to Biake oleomargarine and all other
imitation dairy products subject to the laws of
the state or territory into which they are
tiansported. and a bill to prevent the free use
of timber on public lands was introduced.
DOMESTIC
Hexkt E. Smith fc Co., wholesale
dealers in boots and shoes at Worces
ter. Mass., assig-ned, with liabilities of
S-00.000.
Catt. Apolph Freitsh sailed from
ew York in the Nina, a 40-foot boat.
in which he proposed to cross the At
n
lantic.
A sailboat in which were Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Campbell, of Burlington, la.,
capsized in the Mississippi and they
sank clasped in each other's arms.
Actuated by jealousy, Mrs. F. J.
FromaD, at Buffalo, N. Y., threw sul
phuric acid in the face of Miss Louise
Leber, burning- out her ejes.
The Diamond Jo line at Dubuque,
la., announced the withdrawal of all
boats on account of low water. This
is the shortest river season on record.
Of the 9S3 deaths in New York city
in seven days the unprecedented num
ber of fifty-one were due directly to
the heat.
Delegates from twenty-four Ameri
can Railway unions met in Chicago
and declared the strike off on all roads
but the Santa Fe and Eastern Illinois.
Wheelman IIahrt C. Tvlek made a
mile with flying start in 1:53 4-5 on the
Waltham (Mass.) track, lowering the
record a second.
The risible supply of grain in the
United States on the Cth was: Wheat
60,001,000 bushels; corn. S. 737,000 bush
els; oats, 1.597,000 bushels; rye, 214,
000 bushels; barley, 807,000 bushels.
Mrs. George Poole, who as Mme.
Osborne had wojp operatic laurels, died
penniless in Xew York, her wealthy
husband having deserted her.
Mark Richardson, of the town of
New Diggings, Wis., killed his brother
George as the result of a ten years'
quarrel over their father's estate.
Joseph Hunt, of New York, killed
his wife because she refused to permit
him to pawn his clothes to buy liquor
and then shot himself.
Ax address to the voters of the United
States was issued in Chicago by the
A. R. U. It recites the inception and
progress of the strike and appeals for
the election of legislators pledged to
the enactment of arbitration laws.
Peter Williams and wife, of Lin
wood, Ark., went to church, leaving
two children locked up at home. The
little ones burned the house and them
selves. Thieves broke into the post office at
Scranton, Pa., and stole $3,300 worth
of stamps.
Rev. J. II. Pierce died at Trenton,
N. J., after a prolonged attack of hic
coughs aged 56 years.
A freight train on the Oregon Rail
way fc Navigation company's line
went through Alto bridge, falling 96
feet, and three men were fatally hurt.
A great crowd witnessed the start
of the relay bicycle race from Wash
ington to Denver, jnessages are car
ried for Gov. Waite and Gen. McCook.
In the 2-year-old pace at Buffalo, N.
Y.. Carbonate forced Directly to pace
a mile in 2:12, a new world's record.
Extra meetings were necessary to
accommodate the crowds of visitors to
the Moody conference at East North
field, Mass.
The farmh ouse of C. O. Ostenson
near Willmar, Minn., was burne'd and
he and his four children were cre
mated. A tractiox engine on which Charles
Hudson and Will Dandelien were rid
ing broke through a bridge near
Spring-field, I1L, and the men were
killed.
Capt. Richard D. Blinn, one of the
country's most noted race-track build
ers died in Chicago.
The Gossard Investment company at
Kansas City, Mo., failed for 8-00.000.
Michigan's total tax levy for 1S94 is
81,889.135, or 5242,073 less than last
year's levy.
(iov. Ckocnse, of Nebraska, was pe
titioned to convene the legislature that
measures may be taken to relieve the
people in the drought-stricken sections
of the state.
A receiver was appointed for the
Warren Live Stock company of Chey
enne. Wyo, The liabilities were stated
at 5200,000.
Fire destroyed 5180,000 worth of
property in St. Paul, the North western
Fuel company being the heaviest loser.
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ed for';
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the largest wuitv," i Mrs. lienry
Government reports sbwed that
most northwestern states were still
suffering from drought. All unhar
vested crops had been injuriously af
fected. Forest fires were still raging in
northern Wisconsin, and great dam
age was being done to hay and cran
berry marshes.
Twenty business buildings and three
residences in the center of Adair, la.,
were burned, causing a loss of $152,000.
Henry F. Johnson, was hanged at
Allentown, Pa., for the murder of his
daughter, and Ilarry Manfredt was
hanged at Pottsville, Pa., for the mur
der of Georpre Ochs.
The governors of three states took
part in the celebration of the 100th an
niversary of the building of the fort at
Defiance, O.
The business portion of Franklin,
111., was destroyed by fire.
An attempt to hold up a Lake Shore
express train at Kessler, Ind., was
foiled by the engineer, who ran his
train through the obstruction at full
speed.
Henrt Russell (colored) nearly de
capitated his wife with a razor in Chi
cago and hurled her body from a win
dow and then cut his own throat.
The Citizens' savings bank at Ports
mouth, O., passed into the hands of a
receiver.
The total of immigration from the
port of New York during the month of
July was 19,968.
The ninth anniversary of the death
of Gen. U. S. Grant was observed at
Mount McGregor, N. Y.
William Beam, a farmer near Bow
ling Green, O., was instantly killed by
a bumble bee sting on the temple.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada during July aggregated
the enormous sum of $16,307,000. For
the fire seven months of 1894 the total
was 577,920,200.
II. II. W'arxer, the patent-medicine
man, returned to Rochester, N. Y.,
from Europe penniless, having lost the
remains of his fortune at Monte Carlo.
The Hawkeye Commission company
of Omaha. Neb., failed for $200,000.
Eight of the men who resorted to
unlawful tactics in the labor troubles
at Paterson, N. J., were given sen
tences ranging from three months to
six years.
Wixneconxe. Wis., a town of 1,000
inhabitants, was practically wiped
from the map by a conflagration caused
by burning forests.
The republic of Ilawaii has been
formally recognized by the United
States, through the president and sec
retary of state.
The Stringer Sons Pottery company.
one of the largest establishments or
the kind in the west, was destroyed by
fire at San Jose. Cal. Loss, 5100,000.
Harry A. Gardner, cashier of an Al-
toona (Pa.) national bank, disappeared
with $20,000 of the institution's funds.
The Concord and Petrel were ordered
to Corea to reenforce the United States
fleet.
The constitutional convention at Al
bany. N. Y., refused to substitute life
m prison ment for capital punishment.
Insanely jealous, W. D. Jenkins, of
Chariton, la-., killed Julia Murphy, his
sweetheart, and her 6ister Josie, fatal
ly wounded Mrs. Murphy and then
took his own iife.
At his home in Hope, Tnd., James
Hardy (colored) died at the age of 100
years. liaray was Jenerson Davis
valet during the war. He was married
six times and the father of forty-six
children.
William N. Evais, of Philadelphia,
fatally wounded his wife, killed Louis
Hecht, her uncle, with whom she was
living, and sent a bullet through his
own heart. He was jealous.
At Scranton, Ta., a deserted mine
C8ved in for a distance of three blocks.
wrecking twenty-three houses and
causing a loss of $250,000.
An express train on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific plunged through
a trestle 50 feet high into a creek near
Lincoln, Neb., killing eight persons
and wounding many othres.
Over one-third of the village of Daw
son. .Minn., was destroyed by hre.
Thousands of acres of valuable tim
ber were destroyed by a forest fire 50
miles in length in Wisconsin.
Twenty-one stores, two grain eleva
tors and lumber sheds were destroj-ed
by fire at Gifford, 111., the loss being
$100,000.
During a temperance camp meeting
at Purcellville, Vs., a tent was blown
down, killing one man and fatally in
juring five women.
Twexty-five persons were injured,
some of them seriously, in an electric
car collision near Oakdale, Pa.
Miss Vernie Mayer and Miss Barn
hart, young ladies about 16 years old,
were .drowned in the lake at Benton
Harbor, Mich.
Sevkn members of the family of J.
Walker at Oelwein, la., were poisoned
by a summer drink. Three were dead
and the others were dangerously ill.
Rev. Charlks England, a Swedish
minister at Michigan City, Ind., was
drowned in the lake while bathing- in
the surf.
Charles Hexdrickson and Charles
Heg-lan, young men of Batavia, 111.,
were drowned in Fox river while
rowing.
Work was resumed in all but two of
the departments of the Pullman car
works at Pullman. IlL, virtually end
ing the long strike.
Fantasy trotted a mile at Buffalo,
N. Y., in 2:08?, beating all 4-year-old
marks save that of Directum.
The Second national bank of Altoo
na, Pa., closed its doors.
A mom r m ent to the memory of Fred
erick J. Frelinghuj-sen was unveiled
at Newark, N. J.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
CANDIDATES for congress were named
as follows: Iowa, Sixth district. Rev.
Allen Clark (pop.). Michigan, Fourth
district, Henry F. Thomas (rep.). Mis
souri. Sixth district. Robert E. Lewis
(rep.). North Carolina, Fifth district,
A. W. Graham (dem.). Wisconsin,
First district, Hamilton Utley (pop.);
Tenth, J. J. Jenkins (rep.
The "Lily White" republicans of
Texas nominated a state ticket, headed
by G. D. Smith for governor.
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children ' . ..o.in
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The following congressional nomi
nations were made: Illinois, Second
district, William Lorimer (rep.). Iowa,
Eighth district, F. O. Stuart (dem.);
Ninth, J. B. Weaver (dem. -pop.). Mis
souri, Fourth, district, E. G. Crowther
(rep.). Virginia, Third district, Taze
well Ellett (dem.). Nebraska, Fourth
district, W. L. Stark (pop.). Texas,
Tenth district. Miles Crowley (dem.).
In convention at Kalamazoo tha
Michigan prohibitionists nominated a
full state ticket, headed by Albert M.
Todd, of Kalamazoo, for governor.
The platform declares against any
party that does not openly oppose the
liquor traffic; demands the issue of
money by government only; the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and sil
ver; female suffrage and the election
of president, vice president and United
States senator by direct vote of the
people.
Ex-Gov. Austin Blair was buried at
Jackson, Mich., the funeral services
being attended by many men promi
nent in politics.
Congressional nominations were
made as follows: Iowa, Sixth dis
trict, ex-Senator Taylor (dem.). In
diana, Eighth district, G. W. Faris
(rep.). Texas, Seventh district, G. C.
Pendleton (dem.) renominated. Vir
ginia, Fifth district, G. W. Cornell
(rep); Ninth, Judge Morrison (dem.).
Idaho, Edgar Wilson (rep.). Wyoming,
S. E. Seeley (pop.). Georgia, Fourth
district, C. L. Moses (dem.) renom
inated; Ninth, Carter Tate (dem.) re
nominated. Maryland, Second dis
trict, J. D. Parker (pro.); Fifth, W. II.
Silk (pro.); Sixth, A. O. Shoemaker
(pro.); Sixth, Horace Risley (pop.).
The New York democrats will hold
their state convention at Saratoga
Springs on September 25.
Judge Caswell Bennett, chief jus
tice of the Kentucky court of appeals,
died suddenly of rheumatism at
Hopkinsville.
PoruLiSTS in Wyoming declined a
proposition to fuse with the democrats
and nominated a complete state ticket
headed by L. C. Tidball for governor.
David Haiin, who drove coaches
across the Alleghenies before the ad
vent of the railroads, died at Ports
mouth, O., aged 94 years.
In convention at Boise City the
Idaho republicans nominated a full
state ticket headed by Edgar Wilson
for governor.
FOREIGN.
A London paper claims withdrawal
of British capital from the United
States is due to distrust of the coun
try's financial future.
Shinichiro Kurixo, chief of the
diplomatic bureau of the department
for foreign affairs of Japan, has been
appointed minister to the United
States. He studied at Harvard.
A mob of French-Canadian Catholics
wrecked the mission houses of the
Baptist and Anglican churches and
the Salvation Army barracks in
Quebec.
Francis H. Underwood, United
States consul at Leith, Scotland, and
a noted literary man, died at Edin
burg of blood poisoning.
Great Britain, in an extraordinary
gazette, assumes a neutral position in
the war between China and Japan.
Felix Geoffrion. who had been a
member of the Canadian parliament
for thirty-one years, died at Montreal.
Earthquakes in Sicily destroyed
many houses at Aci Reale and at Zaf
farano and killed ten persons.
Saxdow, the "strong man," was
married at Manchester, England, to
Miss Blanche Brooks, the daughter of
a local photographer.
LATER.
A resolution- was offered in the
United States senate on the 10th di
recting the committee on privileges and
elections to investigate the recent elec
tion in Alabama and aseertainif frauds
were committed. Senator Hill offered
a resolution for information as to the
work of the conferrees on the tariff
bill, which went over for the day. The
remainder of the session was devoted
to the consideration of the Chinese
treaty. In the house the time was oc
cupied in discussinir projects for a
government exhibit to cost $200,000 at
the Atlanta exposition and to give
each of the arid land states 1,000,000
acres of arid lands to encourage the
reclamation of these deserts.
Almost the entire business portion
cf Fithian, 111., a town of 600 inhab
itants, was destroyed by fire.
Four children of William Watts,
from 6 months to years of age,
were burned to death near Williston,
S. D., on a ranch.
The town of Yerinton, Nev., on the
Carson & Colorado railroad, was com
pletely destroyed by fire.
The removal of the battle flags of
Iowa from the arsenal to the state
capitol in Des Moines was made the
occasion for a great demonstration.
J. W. Reixhart, president and one
of the receivers of the Atchison road,
resigned to promote harmony.
There were 251 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 219 the week
previous and 394 in the corresponding
time in 1893.
Titus and Cabanne broke the world's
mile tandem bicj-cle record at Minne
apolis, covering the distance in 1:524-5.
Investigation shows that twenty
four persons were killed and eleven
injured in the Rock Island railway
wreck at Lincoln, Neb.
Miss Lulu Randall, an aeronaut of
Detroit, Mich., was thrown from her
parachute by a tree and killed at Nash
ville, Tenn.
Eight thousand persons witnessed
the hanging of Madkins, a negro exe
cuted for criminal assault at Ilaleisrh,
N. C.
Seven men and boys seeking shelter
under a, tree during a storm at Du
Kalb, Tex., were killed by lightning.
The following " congressional nom
inations were made: Illinois, Fourth
district, J. Simmington (pro.); Sev
enth, H. A. Lloyd (pop.). Iowa, Tenth
district, E. F. Baker (pop. -dem.). Ne
braska. Fifth district, W. E. Andrews
(rep.). Virginia, Ninth district, H. S.
K. Morrison (dem.).
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WORK OF FIENDS.
The Recent Rock Island Disaster
Due to Train-Wreckers.
The Coroner Reports the Death-List
Twenty-Four Eleven Persons In
juredScenes of Horror at
the Wreck.
THE VICTIMS.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11. Twenty
four dead and eleven inlured is the re
sult of Thursday night's frightful dis
aster on the Kojk Island railroad near
here as reported by the coroner. The
names of the known killed follow:
Dr. C. H. Pinney. Council Bluffs: J. D. Mat
thews, commercial man, Omnha; Harry Mon
roe. Kansas City; Isaac Pepew. engineer.
Council Bluffs: W. O. Hambell, lawyer. Fair
bury, Neb.; C. D. Stannard, conductor, St,
Joseph; John Munger, grain dealer, Omaha:
H.R.Peters, merchant. Council Bluffs: K. H.
Zernlke, lawyer, Lincoln, Neb.: two unknown
farmers; five unknown men; Charles Unruh,
mother and son, Janscn. Neb.; A. B. Edde,
merchant. Pawnee. Neb.; M. Beaver, mer
chant. Pawnee. Neb.; two unknown farmers
from Jansen, Neb.
Those marked as unknown are those
passengers known to have been on the
train by the brakeman and unac
counted for.
Late Friday night the remains of
Andrew Hensen, a farmer of McPher-
son county, Neb., were identified by
a watch found lying in the midst of
human bones. All of the bodies, or
parts of those mentioned by name in
the list of killed, have been recovered.
The injured are:
Col. C J. Bliss, Second reiriment, Nebraska
national guards. Falrbury, deep fiesu wounds
in left leg; Henry C. Foot, brakeman. Council
Bluffs, leg broken: Jay McLowell. Falrbury.
legs cut and face bruised: C. H. Cherry, mall
clerk, Kearney, badly bruised and cut;
F. F. Scott, express messenger, injurod in
ternally. Mrs. Fish, wife of a Burlington St
Missouri engineer, badly bruised; O. S. Bell,
traveling man. Lincoln, internal Injuries; J. E.
Puetz, traveling man, Lincoln, internal injur
ies; Somret. passenger, hurt about the
head; Mrs. Fritz and sister-in-law, Lincoln,
bruised.
The police have arrested a colored
man named George Davis, who is sus
pected of wrecking the train. Shortly
after the wreck he applied to a hack
man and asked to be driven up-town,
saying he had been on the train and
lost his coat. He was seen with a
crowbar near the place where the
wreck occurred, it is asserted. The
police say they have evidence sufficient
to convict. His motive is not known.
One victim, whose name will never
be known, lay under the tender, the
upper edge of which rested across his
thighs, crushing them into the hard
gravel. As Col. Bills approached he
begged piteously toNbe released and
saved from the flames. Col. Bills is a
man of nerve and decision, but he was
confronted by a terrible alternative.
To move the tender was an utter
impossibility, and the long tongues of
hungry flames were reaching out
greedily for their victim. For an in
stant he thought that only one of
the man's legs was pinned down
and he thought about amputat
ing it. Then he saw both were
fast, and while he hesitated help
lessly for a : moment a gust of wind
drove the names and smoke upon him,
blistering his face and scorching his
clothes. Before he could recover him
self the long fiery tongues had wrapped
themselves about the body and head of
their intended victim and stilled his
screams.
There are two theories as to the
wrecking of the train, it being con
ceded that the train was derailed by
the removal of the rails for a part of
the way across the trestle. One the
ory is that strikers from South Omaha
did the work believing that a
company of state troops, who
were to have boarded the
train at Fairbury, were aboard.
The company missed connection,
however. This is not as generally i
credited as the other that the ele
ment that has been causing so much
trouble in Oklahoma, who are bitter
against the Rock Island, did the job,
though why they should have come
this distance to wreck a train that
might have been wrecked nearer
home is not explained. The Rock
Island officials offer $1,000 reward for
the capture of the train wreckers.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Beven Hall IUajera Meet Frightful Death
at Ie Kalb, Tex.
De Kalb, Tex., Aug. 11. About S
o'clock Friday afternoon a crowd of
boys and men met in a small prairie 9
miles south of town and begau to play
baseball. A shower came up and they
all ran to a large oak. Lightning
struck the tree and the following were
killed outright: John Jacobs, Walter
Atchley, Thomas Blanchard, William
Hentley, John Jackson. Chris Fetty
and William Walse. About a dozen
others were hurt and it is thought some
of them will die.
UNDER THE LASH.
A 'Woman Whipped by Masked Men In
Writ Virginia.
Grantville, W. Va., Aug. 11. At a
lonely place near Minnor, in the Wash
ington district, forty masked men
raided the cabinof a lone woman named
"Sis" King, of doubtful reputation, and
dragged the terrified woman from her
bed in her night-clothes. The raiders
stripped her, and while one man held
her hands the other thirty-nine took
turns at giving her two blows each
with hickory switches over her bare
back. After she had been given seventy-eight
cuts she was left senseless on
the ground.
A Servant tilrl Perishes In m Fire Near
Elkhorn, Wis.
Elkiiorn, Wis., Aug. 11. By the
burning of the summer cottage of Mr.
Charles E. Ilollenbeck. of Rockford, at
Lauderdale lakes, 6 miles north
of here, a servant girl named
Sadie Fallon, of Rockford, was
burned to death. Mrs. Ilollenbeck
was severely burned and her spine in
jured. Her mother, Mrs. Browu, had
her hip and ankle broken and may die
from her injuries. The fire was caused
by the falling of a hanging lamp, the
flames spreading so quickly the in
mates only escaped by jumping from
the windows.
TRADE REVIEW.
Condition of Affairs In tha Business World
Effect of the Loss of Corn.
New York, Aug. 11. R. G. Dun fc
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
The advance in corn discloses a general be
lief that the injury to this most important
crop has been so great as to affect materially
the traffic of railroads, the demand for manu
factured products, and the cost of meats for
the coming years. Unless the markets de
ceive and are entirely deceived our
country will have to face a real calamity in the
loss of something like 600.000,000 bushels of corn
and this loss consumers have to share through
the advance of 14 cents in two weeks and 9 cents
since Friday of last week. Neither official nor
unofficial statements as yet preclude the hope
that the loss may prove less serious, but at
current prices l.SOO.Ouo.000 bushels would contjas
much as S.OOO.OOO.Ouo bushels would have cost a
fortnight ago. Wheat has risen 8V4 cents in
the fortnight and 2!4 during the week, although
western receipts have been 5,228,128 bushels,
against 8,1C2,CM last year. Atlantic exports
fere still about half as large as a year ago,
I,3VQ,4S5 bushels, against 2.734.7M last year.
Pork products are a little stronger, as Is
natural. Cotton has twice risen and again de
clined a sixteenth, with increasing prospects
Of a very large yield, closing without change
for the week.
The Iron and Steel Manufacturer records a
great Increase of nearly 30,000 tons in weekly
output In July and the production is 115,366
tons weekly, about 11.000 tons less than In
April, but 8.0(0 tons more than a year ago,
when the prostration had nearly reached
Its worst. The decrease in unsold stocks
8 only 6.137 tons for the month,
showing a consumption in manufacture not
quite equal to the present output. Prices sus
tain this view, having changed only in the di
rection of weakness; the disappointing de
mand for finished products is still the main
factor.
The failures for the five weeks ended August
1 showed liabilities or $11,144,713. of which fo.
626.594 were of manufacturing and $5,220,247 of
trading concerns. The failures during the last
week have been 251 In the United States,
against 3S4 last year, and 54 in Canada, against
5 lust year.
Bradstreet's sa3-s:
Evidence continues to accumulate that the
earlier portion of July witnesbed the lowest
point in the ebb of the commercial tide in the
reaction after the moderate revival In the
spring. The practical cessation of industrial
disturbances of the year has emphasized
the tendency to improvement reported
by telegraph from leading manufactur
ing and commercial centers this week.
A further indication of the tendency to im
provement is seen in the week's advance of 50
cents per ton for steel billets and in the fact
that domestic wool markets to-day are more
in favor of the seller than they have been for a
year, and that wool Is Arm at the 2
cent advance scored in the last few
weeks. Ketlned sugar is 4 cent higher,
possibly for reasons not directly con
nected with questions of demand and
supply, but prices or pig iron at St. Louis are
higher, and for cotton are 1 l-6c up on reports
or damage to the crop and the Improved feel
ing in commercial circles south. Panic and
unreasoning speculative Interest in Indian
corn has put up the price nearly 8 cents a
bushel this week, about 25 cents above low
water mark for this year.
Bradstreet's telegrams from those In a posi
tion to know as much as can be learned in the
great corn growing states are at variance with
more sensatlonul dispatches bearing on dam
age to the corn crop and Indicate that most of
the bull views as to that staple are ex
aggerated, the Increased corn acreage
south and west pointing to a prob
able crop as large as either or the
two preceding years. In each of which the out
turn was not more than 6 per cent, below the
average for nine years past. Wheat has jumped
2S cents this week in sympathy with corn, and
oats cents. While hay Is no higher at New
York, it and other breadstuffs have advanced
briskly at the west because of alleged scarcity
of corn
Exports of wheat. United States and Canada.
both coasts, this week aggregate 3.417.000 bush
els, against 2.677,000 bushels last week. 5.O08.0UO
bushels in the week a year ago. 4.14H.00O bush
els in the week two years ago, 5. 147. OHO bushels
in the week three years ago, and 1.9&3.000 in the
week four years ago.
- The underlying facts in the speculative situ
ation are that stocks are firmly held and there
Is a general belief that the settlement of the
tariff controversy will be followed by a
speculative movement of considerable
force. While the extent of the damage
to crops from the drought is appreciated
there is at present a disposition to
minimize the effects on the railroads, particu
larly as current earnings exhibit comparative
ly small decreases while the actual movement
or traffic Is described as quite brisk.
TO EVICT AT PULLMAN.
The Company Decides to Turn
Tenants
Out of Their Homes.
Chicago, Aug. 11. Pullman's ten
ants will be evicted. ice President
Wickes says so. The company claims
that it must find houses for its new
employes to live in, and as the strikers
have been camping1 in the Pullman
flats without paying a cent of rent for
the last three months they must get
out. This move is the very last in
the big strike, and it will forever dis
comfit the employes. The company's
bouses cover about 3,000 people at
present. These 3,000 consist of the
striking workmen and their families.
There are about 1,000 new men in the
shop that h&ve families, and that
desire to live near their work. The
old emploj-es must make way for the
new.
This will be a death blow to the
tenants who are strikers. They
have no money and very little food.
When their scant supplies of house
hold furniture are set out on the
broad streets by the constables
it will be impossible for them to
move it away. Even now the' cannot
afford to buy a pound of coal to
cook the raw potatoes they get
from the relief committee. The
prospects are gloomy indeed for
the poverty stricken occupants
of the company's barracks-like
rows of houses. But Mr. Wickes as
sertion as to the company's intention
of beginning the work of eviction was
very positive and unmistakable. It
meant volumes to anyone who under
stands the condition of the Pullman
strikers at this time.
Took a Long Time to Choose.
Springfield, IlL, Aug. 11. After
taking more than 3,000 ballots demo
crats of the Thirty-fifth Illinois dis
trict nominated L. H. DeForest for rep
resentative. Cured by a Flash of Lightning.
Denison, Tex., Aug. 10. L. Zimmer
man, who is in the city en route to
Montague county, relates a singular
occurrence which happened in Lamar
county. Five years ago a married
woman named Griggs was stricken
with paralysis and has been con
fined to the house ever since. Last
week the house was strucic by light
ning and Mrs. Griggs received a shock
which, 6he says, passed through her
body. Since then her malady has dis
appeared and she is pert as ever, being
able to get in and out of a wagon. She
went to church last Sunday.
A NEW NAUTICAL VOCABULARY.
Additions Made by Young Women From
Fresh Water" Regions.
The yachtsman's vocabulary is a lan
guage in itself, and the landsman often
runs tfoul of it. He doesn't see why
one rope should be called a sheet, an
other a halyard, a third a downhaul
and a forth a clewline. One boat
owner, whose hospitable deck is trod
den by many of his friends, has modi
fled his terms to confirm with the sug
gestions or mistakes of his guests who
are not expert sailors.
For instance, one landlubber who
had gone below for a drink of water
was asked what he had done with the
cup.
"I hung It on the post," he said in
nocently. Everyone roared at the idea that he
could be so "green" as not to know
what the mast was called, but on that
yacht the mast is now known as "the
post."
A pretty girl from a "fresh water"
district was responsible for another
nautical word. The strips of canvas
used in tying up the sails are called
stops. Some one wanted the stops and
could not find them for the instant.
"What are you looking for?"' asked
the young woman.
"I am looking for the stops. They
were here a little while ago."
"The stops? Oh, you mean the tapes.
They're under this rug."
And now the sails are bound with
"tapes."
Another young woman from an in
terior state had read enough nautical
stories to have caught a few phrases
here and there. For one thing, she
knew that "hard tack" was a staple
article of diet at sea. On a visit to the
east Ihis damsel went sailing. She was
anxious to learn, and when she heard
the man at the wheel say "hard a lee,"
6he asked some questions, and found
out what it meant.
A little later the steersman said the
yacht was going about. Some of the
guests were payingf no attention, and
seemed in danger of being struck by
the boom as it swept over to the other
c'.iie of the yacht.
"Hard tack! hard tack!" cried out the
young woman, exeitedlj-.
All managed to duck their heads in
time to escape the spar, if they didn't
know what the maiden meant by '"hard
tack," and another joke was added to
the yacht's store of them." N. Y. Trib
une. SOULS OF SECLUDED SPOTS.
Dim Temples Haunted by the Mystio
Spirit Which Outlasts All Age.
The genius loci of the ancients is not
altogether a myth. A truer mysticism
than their mythology teaches us that
places retain for ages something of the
lives that have been lived in them, an
echo of the voices that have made them
musical, a fleeting shadow of the men
and women who found in them their
happiness or their sorrow. Those who
have spent much time in secluded spots
learn to feel that lonely places have
souls; and the soul of a place is indeed
its genius loci, its familiar spirit,
its peculiar essence, as real a
thing as the scent of a rose or
the smell of the sea. There are rose
gardens in the east that are fair with
the accumulated happiness of past gen
erations. There are shady ilex groves
in Italy wherein still dwells the silent
spirit of contemplation; perhaps the
phantasms of tragic loves sigh out their
little day beneath the ancient trees. In
Italy, in Greece, in Asia, in distant In
dian glens, dim temples stand to this
day, haunted or blessed, perhaps by the
presence of that mj-stic spirit which
outlasts all ages. And the market
place has its familiar genius also, the
busy center of the crowded city, the
broad thoroughfare of the great me
tropolis, silent for a few hours under
the summer moonlight or the winter
rain. Old castles, too, deserted villages,
uninhabited homes of dead populations
all have wraiths, the ghosts of what
they have been, silent to the many, but
more eloquent to the few than any hu
man speech can ever be. And besides all
these, there are spots where nature has
never been molded by man, where she
is sovereign and he is subject lonely
places by the sea, great sunlit silences
where man has not dared to dwell be
cause nature there would give him
nothing, nor was he able to take any
thing from her. And the spirit of
those places is more lonely, and grander,
and mightier, than the genius loci of
the market-place, or of the deserted
Italian villa, "where the red-star cracks
the speechless statues," or even of the
shady cloister or of the wind-swept
temples of banished gods. The song
of songs is still unwritten, thoug-h na
ture's music makes man's grandest
symphonies ridiculous, and sounds
night and morning in the ears of him
who has ears to hear. Marion Craw
ford, in Century.
The Cat's Breath.
A recent publication criticises the
notion that "a cat sucks away a child's
breath." This is merely an expression
erroneous in its form of a physiological
fact. All the felidae possess poisonous
breaths, intended by nature to act as
an anaesthetic on their prey. If a per
son cares to experiment by inhaling,
for instance, a cat's breath, they can
easily realize the truth of this state
ment. Carefully watch a cat playing
with a captured mouse. You will dis
cover that the mouse does not suffer,
but is sort of stupefied, as if by chloro
form. In the "Life of Livingstone,"
written bv himself, ho states that once
when he was seized by a lion and his
arm broken, the crunching of the
broken arm gave him no pain, so be
numbered were his senses by the ani
mal's breath. A cat seeks the child,
its soft bed and the warmth of its
body, and lies down on the chest of the
infant. Us weight impedes respira
tion, its breath anaesthetizes the child,
and death follows. This circumstance
has actually occurred and medical rec
ords conclusively prove it -ooklyD
Standard-Union.
The amplest knowledge has th
largest faith. Wilmott.
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