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w w Llil- 5' E'T3! T CSeR mmV'WK tl i 32 M3 Sffl m cSivl RED CLOUD CHIEI A. O. HOSMER, Proprietor. RED CLOUD. - NEBRASKA CURRENT COMMENT. Hcsdkeds of lives have been lost through Hoods in Algeria. The total salmon pack of Alaska this season is seven thousand cases. The bullion in the Imperial Bank of St. Petersburg amounts to 211,472,495 roubles. The next meeting of tho sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows will be held in Columbus, O. Rev. Dr. Travkili, of Sewickly, Pa., father of the kindergarten system of America, died recently. All ports in Portuguese India have been declared infected with cholera by the British Foreign Office. Large free gold deposits are re ported in the Silver Bow basin, Alaska, but cold has caused tho suspension of mining operations for the season. King Milan has formally complained to King Charles, of Roumania, of his having received Queen Natalie at Bucharest, declaring tho act to have been insulting to him. In French official circles no credit was given to tho report via San Fran cisco that two hundred French marines und thousands of natives had been killed in the Marquesa islands. The owners of the German news paper, the Hocitil Dcmokrut, which had been published at Zurich, Switzerland, have moved its office to London to to avoid threatened suppression. Edward Corrigax, of the West Side Driving Park, Chicago, has pre sented Mayor Roche with a check for $1.0G3 to go to tho yellow fever suffer ers. It consisted of the money from tho recent benefit given at the track. Tli money included all the gate re ceipts, the jockeys' mounts and a part of the purses won on that day. A iozex cities in Wisconsin voted on the 18th whether to fix the saloon license fee at 500 or retain it at $i00. There was a small vote, the saloon Keepers being the most active. High license was carried in Dodgcville, Unrinette, Depere, West Depere and w license prevailed in Oshkosh, anesvillc, Manston, Waupaca, Bara lioe and West Superior. The Republican State convention c-il!cd at Fort Worth, Tex., to nomi r.nte a State ticket, adjourned after adopting a resolution declaring it in expedient to put up a State ticket, ow ing to the fact that there was no rea bonablc probability of election. A res olution was adopted indorsing the Na tional ticket and deploring the troubles in Fort Bend and Washington Coun ties Mrs. Macka. has decided to sell her house in the Rue de Tilsit and leave Paris. It is said that she feels piqued at the want of attention on the part of the French and, although her enter tainments are always crowded and costly, yet she has never succeeded in getting into the cream of French society.- Her dispute with Meissonier, the painter, did her much harm among the more conservative circles. The Commissioners of Immigration of Philadelphia have been authorized by the Secretary of tho Treasury to expend money from the immigration fund for the purpose of returning John McDonald to England and Catherine Fleming and Thomas Ragan to Ire land. They arrived at Philadelphia about four months ago in good health, but have since become ill and are now represented as likely to become public charges. A Boston paper points out the fact that Prof. Lowell, in reviewing his political essays, as he has in his latest published volume, subjects himself to scrutiny as a prophet. It seems that lie declared in writing, in tho year i860, on the eve of the rebellion, that there was no occasion to apprehend serious efforts toward disunion on the part of the South. The professor, however, owns up honestly to his mis calculation. In China the girls are not obliged to jo to school at all. Their position in the Empire is so insignificant that no provision is made for their education. Boys, on the other hand, begin their studies at the age of six and continue, many of them, until they are of age. Their course is particularly hard, be ginning at daylight and ending at dusk. JJb honors are granted to tho few women, who bursting their bonds, somehow obtain access to an occasion al school. The cruise of the ill-starred Arctic exploring vessel, the Jeannette, has been recalled by the passage of a bill 4n the House granting relief in the sum of 4,000 to William Nindemann. It was developed that Nindemann, al .. i. onitetod seaman, by his kill in ship carpenter work saved the fUves of the entire crew when the ves sel was first wedged in the ice and f!that he performed such continual and ' .. .. ! oa in iustlfV hid jneritonous Mr -- . - Jaim for compensauuu - . enter in ncuiuion w i- ," , .. - m as a seaman. At wa m. 11 would pass the Senate without op- NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gleaned by Telegraph and Mafl. CONGRESSIONAL. After unimportant business in the Sen ate ou tbe nth a vote was taken upon Senator Hoar's motion to reconsider the vote by which the Chinese Exclusion bill was passed and tbe Senate refused to reconsider by SO yeas to 21 uays. So the bill remains passed. Pending debate on the bill creating a Department of Agriculture the Senate adjourned ...In the House no business was transacted except adopting several resolutions. Much time was consumed in a fruitless attempt to secure a quorum. In the Senate on the 18th tbe resolution offered by Senator Sherman instructing the Foreign Relations Committee to inquire into the relations between the United States and Great Britain and Canada was taken up. and Mr. Sherman addressed the Senate, at the con clusion of which the Senate adjourned Intbe House a communication was received from the Postmaster-General in response to Mr. Grosve nor's resolution of inquiry relative to the distri bution of certain matter through tbe mails, and the conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was called up and led to a political debate, but finally went over, and the House adjourned. In tbe Senate on the 19th Senator Ed munds offered a resolution requiring the Pre siding Officer not to transmit to tho House the Chinese Exclusion bill until so directed. Laid oven. A joint resolution was passed appropriat ing fion.ou) for relief of yellow fever sufferers. After passing a number of bills or no general interest the Senate adjourned Aft er the read ing of the journal the House proceeded to the consideration of the conference report on the Sundry Civil bill, and when a vote was reached no quorum was present and the House ad journed. In tho Senate on the 20th the order of fered by Senator Edmunds to withhold the Chinese bill was on his motion laid on the table as tbe bill had passed beyond the jurisdiction of the Senate. Senator Mitchell spoke for over two hours on the subject of the President's message, and pending consideration of the Agricultural Department bill the Senate ad journed In the House the conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was disagreed to. and a further conference was asked on the Senate amendment to the Library bill. A little breeze was raised by a resolution offered by Mr. Mor row, of California, inquiring why the Chinese bill had not been presente.i to the President, but the resolution was finally declared out of order and the House adjourned. In the Senate on tho 2lst Mr. Stewart offered two resolutions having reference to the presenting of bills passed to the President. The House Department of Agriculture bill was then taken up and the fifth section, transferring the eather bureau to the Department of Agriculture, was stricken out and the bill passed. A conference was asked on the bill. The conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was then taken up. tho disputed points dis cussed and the conferees furthet instructed, when the Senate adjourned until Monday In the House Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, asked unanimous consent tor the pas ape of the Senate joint resolution appropriat ing iVi M for the yellow fever sufferers, but Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, objected. The Senate bill forfeiting land grants to a railroad from Ontonagon to Marquette. Mich , passed. The bill to suspend tho operation of the Pre-emption. Timber Culture and Desert Land laws was reported with amendments and passed. As passed tho act affects railroad grants only. Private bills occupied the remainder of the ses sion. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The State Labor conference at Troy, N. Y., resolved not to support any candidate unless he favors the repeal of tbe indus trial conspiracy laws. An amendment to tbe penal code was agreed upon. The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fel lows in session in San Francisco recently elected otlicers for the ensuing term. The only changes were the election of General Underwood, of Kentucky, present deputy grand sire, to tbe position of grand sire, and Charles M. Dushee, of Raleigh, N. C, to the position of deputy grand sire. At New York on tho l!th General Su perintendent R. C. Jackson, of tho New York division of the railway mail service, and Chief Clerk . L. Chapman were re moved by the Postmaster-General. Both are Republicans. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, was believed to bo on bis death bed at Boston on the 20th. The silver jubilee of Archbishop Cor rigan's ordination to the priesthood was celebrated with much pomp at New York on the 20th. General Boclaxger paid a flying visit to tbe Pasha's palace in Tangiers, Morocco, tbe other day. It was recently rumored but not believed that the Ameer of Afghanistan had died suddenly. Hox. John G. Carlisle and Senator Blackburn were speakers at a Democratic barbecue at Erlanger, Ky., on the 10th. The engagement of Miss Dottie Zeraga, of New York, to tbe Duke of Newcastle is announced. William "Warren, the actor, died at Boston on the 21st. He was born Novem ber 17, 1812, in Philadelphia. Official information was received by the President on the 21st of the rejection of the amended treaty by the Chinese Government. Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom left Washington on the 21st for a short stay in the Adirondacks. They were accompanied by Dr. Ward, of Albany, who had been a guest for some days at Oakviow. William H. Jackson, one of the Illinois Republican Electors, died at Fairfield, 111., rcently. The vacancy will be filled by tbe State Central Committee. The President has withdrawn from the Senate the nomination of John Fitzpatrick as United States Marshal for tbe Eastern District of Lousiana. John G. Parkhurst, of Michigan, has been nominated Minister to Belgium. MISCELLANEOUS. An outbreak of yellow fever was re ported at Jackson, Miss., on the 20th. At Decatur, Ala., ten cases were reported. One hundred and thirty-one new cases were reported at Jacksonville with fifteen deaths. The striking cotton operators at Bolton, England, have resumed work on the mas ters' terms. The Inter-State Commerce Commission has filed its opinion in the case of the Chi cago, St- Paul & Kansas City, which road charged more for a shorter than for a longei haul, in competition with the Burlington & Northwestern. The Chicago road claimed that the Burlington was carrying freight from terminals at ruinous rates and want ed the Commission to order it to charge higher rates or to allow the Chicago roadj the benefit ox "dissimilar conditions" in the fourth clause of the Inter-State act, The opinion was that the Commission could not take cognizance of any rates made by competing roads and could not give the Chicago road the benefit of dis similar conditions which did not exist. News received from the South Seas Is that there was savage fighting on the Marquesa group before the natives allowed tbe French to hoist their flag and take possession. Two hundred French marines and several thousand natives were killed. The natives retreated imo the mountains, where it was difficult to dislodge them. The epidemic of diphtheria which recent ly broke out in Madrid, Spain, has assumed eerious proportions. The Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railway Company has formally given notice to the General Land-otlice of its withdrawal of all claim to the land grant opposite the uuconstructed pare of its road. The freight conductors and brakemen of the Chicago division of the Illinois Cen tral struck on the 19th for increased pay. Much indignation is expressed in Tahiti over tho seizure of Easter island by Chili, which proposes to establish there a penal colony. This is the island famous for its grand stone statues standing on huge pedestals. The seizure was made by Cap tain Toro, of the Chilian cruiser Angamos. Suits have been begun in Bostou against Bowker, Toorley & Co., marble workers of Boston, for importing contract labor from Italy. Smith, Fissell & Co., cigar manufac turers, of Montreal, Can., have assigned with $03,000 liabilities. The rains in Mexico have ceased. Eight thousand soldiers were at work building trenches and dykes about the City of Mexico. W. A. Hatfield, of Yarmouth, N. S., formerly a shipbuilder, has made an as sigment A few years ago he was worth $1,000,000, but some four or five years ago be went into the West India trade with others, tho firm being known as Hatfield, King & Co., and bo is said to have lost about all his nionej in this venture. Several Greek war ships have been or dered to be made ready to put to sea. The recent seizure of a Greek vessel at Chios has been the subject of a protest by the Greek Government, but tho Porte has re fused to give a satisfactory reply. The carrier on the mail route between Viroqua and Prairie du Chien, Wis., made his last run last week, and the routb has been discontinued. In the early days of Wisconsin Governor Rusk used to drive a stage on this route. English missionary societies are clam oring for an inquiry to ho made into the charges against the late Major Bartelott and Honry M. Stanlej'. The charges are of cruel ty towards the natives and readi ness to shoot them for disobedience. . The Uzanibura chiefs, beaded bySim bojn, have revolted against the Germans ami dispersed Meyers' caravan. Meyers' porters have deserted him and he lias re turned to the coast. The other evening some natives of Zanzibar, mistaking tbe secretary of the British Admiral for a German oflicial, assaulted him and then made their escape in the darkness. The secretary's injuries were not serious. Prof. Jamison, who was organizing an expedition for the relief of Henry M.Stan ley, died of African fever on the Congo, August 17. A small cyclone passed over Mammoth Springs, Fulton County, Ark., on the 21st. Houses were wrecked, trees blown down and corn and crops riAned. Several peo ple were injured but no ono was killed. Z. Brown, an old resident of Godfrey, HI., was induced to put $2,500 into the hands of a swindler recently to bind tho sale of bis farm. The latter disappeared. George Sackett's warehouse and 2,000 barrels of cranberries at Berlin, Wis., wero destroyed by fire the other day. Loss, $30,000. Charles F. Peck was found suffering with yellow fever while riding In a street car at New York on the 21st and taken to Bellevue Hospital. Orders have been issued to have the United States steamship Boston, now at the New York navy yard, made ready for sea service. The vessel is under secret orders to proceed to tho West Indies, sup posed with reference to the troubles in Hayti. The Marquis de Mores, who made a fail ure of tho cattle and beef canning business in Dakota, is now figuring on building railroads ia China. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended September 20 numbered 22$, compared with 217 the previous week and 1S3 the corresponding week of last year. Judge Fairall, of Iowa City, Iowa, has sentenced AVilliam Orcutt to ten years in the penitentiary for attempting to wreck a train for the purpose of robbery on the Rock Island & Pacific railway a year ago. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. Prixce Bismarck questions the authen ticity of the diary of tbe late Emperor Frederick recently published. John TnoRxrox Wood, a distinguished scientist of Boston, is reported missing since ho left Washington. September 12. In the Senate on the 24th two bills were introduced having reference to the yellow fever outbreak. Mr. Plumb spoke on the Land laws when the bill forfeiting North ern Pacific lands was taken up. The General Deficiency bill was considered and after amendment was passed. The House ex tended until October 15 tbe existing appro priations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government. Mr. Holman reported the Senate bill to extend the laws of tbe United States over the Public Land Strip. JosEPn Barberie. son of Hon. J. H. Bar ber ie; George Edwin, son of Louis Edwin, and Lawrence McHugh, an orphan lad. were drowned off Dalhousie, N. B., the other night by the overturning of their boat. The boiler In J. H. Freeny's shingle mill at East Saginaw, Mich., exploded the other morning, killing Noah Smith, fireman, and seriouslv injuring M. Jones, William Wooley and Fred Hartford. In the Court of Queen's Bench at Mont real, on tho 24th, Chief Justice Dorain decided that the monev found on Pitcher, the defaulting teller of the Union National Bank, of Providence, when he was ar rested must be restored to the bank. The President bas vetoed House bill 8,310, providing for the disposal of the Fort Wallace, Kan., military reservation. Also tho bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to certify lands to the 'State of Kansas for tbe benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. A banquet was tendered to Chief Jus tice Fuller at Chicago on his departure for Washington on the night of the 24th. The banquet took place at tbe Palmer House, Judge Drummond presiding. Mr. Carnegie, in a speech at Glasgow recently, said that American land was be coming yearly more sub-divided. He con demned socialist and communist national ization ideas regarding land. There were frequent cries of dissent in the audience. A eunuch in the Sultan's palace at Con stantinople was hanged recently for kill ing a comrade. The chief eunuch and eight other eunuchs have been exiled for having neglected their duties. The famous lone highwayman of Texas Is said to have been killed by a Mrs. Lizzie Hay in Bandera County. He attempted to rob the house during the absence of her husband and attacked her with knife, when she shot him and be fled, dying in the brush a couple of miles off. The north bound passenger train on the Aransas Pass road was wrecked near Berne, Tex., recently. Tho engine ran over a cow on an embankment and on f passenger coach was derailed. Mrs. Mary C. Long was killed outright. Her son was seriously injured, as were other passengers whose names wero not learned. .- NEBRASKA STATE NEWS. In a crazy fit John Spilinei, a Bohemian, shot his wife threo times at Omaha the other day and then killed himself. The woman could not live. He was fifty-three years of age and well to do but his mind had become disordered and he stood con tinually in fear of burglars and of being poisoned. The other day a four-year-old son of Frank Petelock. of Arlington, swallowed one of the tin whistles so commonly used by boys, and was not expected to live. Oxe of the fenturesf the State fair at Lincoln was the baby show. There wero thirteen of the little candidates for honors, all under two years of age. The judges, Mesdamcs Drake, of Columbus; Lang worth, of Seward, and Dinsiuore, of Sut ton, awarded first prize for girls to Miss Ruff, aged nine months, and a special prize to Miss Heunessy, aged three months, as "she was a twin," and for boys, Master Rushmere, aged twenty-three months, took first premium, and Master Baldwin, aged eleven months, second. Box Butte Ci-uxty, one of the youngest counties of the State, took the second pre mium at the Lincoln fair on the general county exhibit. Box Butte was organized March 10, 1887, aud is barely a year and a half old. It is stated that a Minden man traded off a glandered horse the other day, but tbe party who took the animal soon dis covered the disease. He immediately de manded a retrade, and upon it-; being re fused drew a rifle. This had the desired effect, after which the glandered horse was disposed of by the sheriSF. Miss Ida Cox, of Weeping Water, has decided to go as a missionary to India. She will first takea special course of train ing at Chicago. A Lixcolx Couxty farmer is trying the experiment of raising cotton and has a large number of thrifty plants iu his or chard which promise to mature. The York canning company put up 223, 090 caus of corn during tho season of twenty-seven days, and expected to fill 110,000 cans with tomatoes. A AViLBEit woman named Greer recently saw a lirutul fight between two men and " became insane. She went home, was dis covered choking one or her children, and will be sent to the insane asylum. The Catholic convent at O'Connor, Greeley County, will be completed imme diately, the citizens having pledged $1,500 towards the cost of the building. A Schuyler titni recently shipped a car load of live chickens to New York 2,r00 in all. The caboose and ono car of a Fremont, Elk horn & Missouri Valley stock train, running twenty miles per hour, left the track near Crawford the other day, de molishing the two cars, mangling several cattlo and quite seriously injuring T. F. Humphrey, a South Omaha stockman. About two o'clock the other afternoon the boiler at Hamilton's saw mill on the Missouri, about two miles east of Blair, exploded. Henry Alexander, fireman, and Henry Morrill, engineer, were in stantly killed and several others, who were in the mill at the time, were slightly scalded. John Noll was badly hurt about the bead. Morrill leaves a wife and several children. At York the other day Karl Krispel, a hodcarrier, fell a distance of about eighteen feet, with a hod of moitar, striking on his head and shoulders and sustaining in juries which it was thought would prove fatal. A barx belonging to D. Qunckenbush, of Hastings, was burned the other afternoon. Three horses perished in the flames. Another was injured so badly that he was killed. Los1;, $3,000; no insurance. Frank Musua, a section baud on the Elkhorn at David City, accidentally shot himself the other day while cleaning an old revolver. Tho ball took effect just above the knee, passing clear through the fleshy part of the thigh and making a painful though not dangerous wound. Stephen Leetch, a noted desperado was fatally shot, while resisting arrest the other day, by Deputy Sheriff Rob3, of Keya Paha County. Roby had a warrant charg ing Leetch with stealing some horses. He took Everett with him to assist in making the capture, as Leetch always went well armed. He was found driving along the road in a wagon with his wife. Roby read the warrant and asked him to law down bis revolver. He refused to do so. and drawing it, was about to shoot, when Roby fired three times. Leetch dropped back in his wagon and Roby started for the coroner. As he did so Leetch struggled to a sitting position aud tired at him several times, but it was growing dark, his arm was unsteady and none of the shots took effect. AVhen Roby returned with the Coroner Leetch was out of sight. It was subsequently learned that his wife drove to the house of a farmer where he died. Araiahoe farmers have formed an ele vator company with a capital stock of $2,000. Fritz Piper, a West Point young man, has become insane from injuries received by being thrown from a colt which he was riding. J. H. Burrowes, a Burwell man, was struck by lightning recently while riding across a bridge. He was slightly stunned and the team of mules he was driving were knocked senseless. Pensions granted Nebraskans on the 19th: Original invalid, Edmund Stoney, Omaha; Samuel Quincy, Ashland; James A. Palmer, Vesta; Francis H. Forbes, Vin ton; William R. Shreve, Gibbon; John Es kerson, McCoofc; Orin O. Acfcley, Chester. Superintendent James, of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad Company, has written Mr. Waring, clerk cf the Board of Transportation, that the telegram recently received from the Farm ers' Union, of Oakland, alleging that stock shipment facilities at that place had been denied them and granted to others was a canard. ' Ed. Culver, a well-known horseman, while driving a fine pair of trottiug horses between South Omaha and Papillion the other night was stopped by highwaymen, who dragged him from his buggy, beat him into insensibility and took the team and buggy. One of the men was captured the next day with one of the horses in his possession. Several of Culver's bones were broken and his skull fractured. It was thought he would die. Frost at Norfolk on the 18th. Sheriff Taylor, of Dawson, had an ex citing experience with a crazy woman the other night. He was taking a Mrs. Howe, of Plum Creek, to the Lincoln insane asy lum, when she jumped from tbe platform of the moving train, dragging the officer with her. She was not hurt, but Taylor had his collar bone and one rib broken, be sides receiving minor injuries. Tbe train was stopped and tbe two picked up, but Taylor was obliged to stop and send Mrs Howe to Lincoln in charge of an attendant. The thirteen-year-old daughter of Frank Bistic, living in Southern Dodge County, was struck by lightning the other evening and instantly killed. Will Seward, a Holt County young man, hat been arrested on the charge f larceny. THE YELLOW SCOURGE. Tbe Rapid Spread of Yellow Fever Canning; Great Alarm in the South People Desert ing Their Home for Places of Safety. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 21. The xecutive committee of the sanitary com mission hold a joint meeting with the re lief committee yesterday to discuss com plaints of abuse. Numerous cases of fraud have been discovered aud it is believed that hundreds of able-bodied negroes have obtained relief through the different mem bers so as to attempt to lay up supplies for winter. These will be cut off as rapidly as discovered and sent to the refuge camp or put to work. The branch commissaries, which have been unduly multiplied, will be abolished and a more rigid system adopted to prevent imiosition on tbe part of irresponsible parties. Chairman Stan sell's young men have fonnd over a hun dred destitute white families who have not applied for relief. The total cases reported todate are 1,878; the total deaths 212. A strong east wind prevailed all day and a more hopeful feel fng exists among the people, many intelli gent observers of former epidemics believ ing that the worst is over. A special from McCIenny says for the twentv-four hours ended at p. m. there have been two new cases of fever and one death. A special train was sent to Mc CIenny bj- the Jacksonville Relief Asso ciation with supplies. There is a much ill-feeling against a cer tain marine hospital surgeon and it is probable that the Surgeon-General will bo asked to recall him. The sick were re ported as doing very well this morning. The inventor of a healing process called the electro-libation cure (of which noliody seems to know the nature), claims to have cured J. J. Dawson, a printer, who was attacked by the fever Friday night, and after treatment went to sleep and awoke free from fever. There are scores of al leged preventives, but this is the onlr known eae of mi apparent cure so far. j The elevator companv is said to have dis Tho regular physicians condemn such ex- covered that about 30,000 bushels of penments and deny that any good can come or unscientihc treatment. i Dr. Porter received a letter from Miss J rM.,-A TJ....- ..: .4- i....i i ! Clara Barton saying: ''Your orderobeyed. j 1 Colonel boathinavd will bo withdrawn." t Colonel Soutinnnyd was seen last evening, ' but was verv reticeut about the matter. ' He claimed that his nurses (those seat from New Orleans were treated unjustly j in being sciiHiack without due trial. He added that he had sent a complaint to Washington in regard to the mat- ter. He seemed surprised to leant that he was to bo removed, ami at first '' said that he did not understand it. Later he said he had received a telegram , from Miss Barton stating that perhaps he , would be needed in Washington and tell- ing him to prepare to move at any time, i He is rather bitter regarding the Iward of health here and accuses the members of treating him very badly. j The reports to the board of health yes- i terday aggregated l.'Kl new cases of yellow fever in the city and suburbs, ninety of which were colored people. Among the J new cases were Captain illiam bomer ville and Dr. Eddy, of the visiting physi cians, and Rev, Dr. William H. Dodge, of the Southern Presbyterian Church, one of tho most devoted heroes of the epidemic. There were ten deaths reported. PANIC-STRICKEN MEMPHIS. Memphis, Tenn.. Sept. 21. The fears of the people of this city over yellow fever j are so aroused that a barrel of celery I packed in ice, sent trom Michigan ly ex press, was not allowed to bo put off at Woodstock, Tnn., a small station north of here on tho Chesapeake. Ohio & South western railroad. This incident will serve to show the panicky situation of affairs in this vicinity. Several packages sent by express from Memphis to LaGrange, Tenn., yesterday were burned by tho alleged quarantine ofiiuers of that town. Hun dreds of incidents could be related of a similar nature, where the judgment and common sense of the intelligent people nre so carried away with fear that apparently they have lost their reasoning powers, and have only one desire now. and that is non intercourse with the world. Theeffective ness of the quarantine is ridiculed, as par ties from the infected districts do pass through Memphis. On Saturday night three ladies aud a gentleman from one of tbe stalled trains bribed a negro to drive them in on his wagon. REPORT FROM DECATUR. NAsnviLLE, Tenn., Sept. 24. A special to the Iniericaa from Decatur, Ala., says: "Yesterday was the gloomiest Sunday in Decatur's history, the sun even refusing its eheerful light to the small crowds at the street corners or on the depot platform watching the trains fly by them. There are hardly more than 130 people in town and two-thirds of these are colored. The special trains with about fifty refu gees left about midnight Saturday night. It is scarcely probable that any more will bo permitted to leave. There were but two cases and no deaths yester daycheering news, were it not that so little remains for tbe scourge to fasten it self on. One of the cases is Dr. W. C. Buckly, one of the best physicians in De catur. The total ca-es to date are 17; total deaths, 4. as follows: A.D.Spencer, Dr. Bowman, W. L. Piince and O. S. Kib bey. The cases now under treatment are: Fred Fralkenburg, Mr. Weakley and sen. Mrs. Jones, son aud daughter, W. R. Francis, Joseph Graham, Dr. Buckley ami three others, names unknown. The Bismarck Hotel is still open and feeding all that apply, whether they have money or not. Two restaurants here are doing the same. The Western Union manager. S. D. Armstrong, has never left his post except for sleep. Joseph T. Dixon, city editor of the Free Lance, is still here. Only two physicians have left Dr. Taylor and Dr. S. E. Cross. Both of them left on account of sickness." i m So-JIan'n-Uml. St. Louis Sept. 23. A special from Beaver, No-Man's-Land, gives proceed ings of the Oklahoma Territorial conven tion. O. G. Chase was nominated fordele gate to the Fifty-first Congress, and the whole ticket for the Territorial Council placed in tbe field. The platform asks that No-Man's-Land be placed under the con trol of the State of Colorado until it per fects laws of its own, and calls upon Con gress to drop political strife and legislate in the interest of No-Man's-Land, where it is badly needed. m Rebellions Natives. Zanzibar, Sept. 24. A contest arose be tween German residents and coast tribes at Bagalova to-day and tbe German Ad miral landed with a force from the Leipsic to assist the Germans and killed 150 men without suffering a single casualty. Gen eral Mathews, who for fifteen years has been trusted by the natives, has fled from Pangani, having been nearly murdered. Tho rebels are declaring against all Eu ropeans, and a general rising is feared. The Sultan has temporarily resumed the administration of Tangani until tbe anti German feeling has subsided. Gustave R. C. Boulanger, the c?lebiated French painter, is dead. BOLD BANK ROBBERY. A Thiel" ISntdljr Knl w York !: mk In liroad Il'.iyliht. but ia Kuu liowu and Captured. New York, Sept. 21. Henry V Hard ing, alias R. F. Seymour, who recently came here from Chicago, jumped ou the wire screen of the Fifth National Bank about noon yesterday and snatching three packages of monej, each containing $I.0H), while the paying teller's back was turned, started to run away. The cashier hail no ticed the thief and gave the alarm, and Harding was pursued but escaped. ItAi v flight he dropped one of the packages. A couple of hours later Harding walked into the Commercial National Bank on Wall street and pursuing the. same tactics while the teller's atten tion was called elsewhere abstracted two packages containing $8,700. The theft was noticed by the cashier, who gave the alarm and started in pursuit. The bag caught in a railing outside and was wrenched from Harding's hands. With out waiting to recover it he started on a run down Pearl street followed by a large crowd. Finally Harding drew a revolver and fired two shots at his pursuers with out injuring any one. He ran as far as Maiden lane before being caught and tired two more shots at policemen before he was arrested. He was identified at the police station later by the clerk and porter of the Fifth National Bank as the .arao person who bad robbed that institution earlier in the day. WHEAT STOLEN. Hold Thefts of a Commission Man In Min BrapoH.s. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 21. W. G. Han ley, a well known commission dealer and a member of the firm of Peterson & Hanley, was arrested about midnight on a warrant charging him with stealing 15.000 bushels of wheat from the Minneapolis Union elevator in Southeast Minneapolis. wneat have been stolen by overload- ;-. enr. The cars leavintr tho ele- nil, vators . . . were to have contained ;VX) bushels each. It is now positively known that they were overloaded ami that to the extent of 50, 100 and sometimes 13!) bushels. Hanley bad been D. C. Moafces & Co.'s cashier and bookkeeper. A rather singular coincidence in connection with this affair is the unexpected suspension of D. C. Moakes & Co.. grain dealers, which firm made an assignment yesterday when a large amount of its paper went to pro test. Others suspected of complicity are well known wheat men anil the announce ment of their names would cause a pro found sensation. By advico of his attor ney Hanley refused to talk. IMPENDING STRIKE. A Reduction of Wage on the C. It. & Q. to lie Followed Ry a TU-I'p. Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 20. The mad dest men that have been seen in this city for a long time are tho engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway to-day. A few months ago the employes asked foran. advance and they expected that their de mauds would be granted, but to-day they were amazed when they received the new schedule to find that instead of an advance they are reduced in their wages, ranging from $3 to $13 a month. A brakeman told a reporter that they were upon the eve of one of the worst strikes in the historv of the road; that it would be an equal to the strike of lb77. He said that not a man on the entire line would accept a reduction in wages and that when the first of tho month conies all bands are expected to qcit work and tie the road up. The reason for the re duction in wages is not known to the men, but a number of them attribute it to the fact tiiat tho company has lost so much over their last strike that they are not abls to pay present wages. THE WABASH WRECK. Suspicion That tbe Late Wreck Wa the Work of Kneniles of the Burlington. St. Louis, Sept. 21. It is now believed that the wreck on the Wabash Western Wednesday night was the work of parties who bad some grudge against the road, and that it was intended for a Burlington train. The special train of Superintend ent Magee, of the Wabash Western, re turning from the wreck yoster day came near sharing a like fate. It was being backed in, running about fifteen miles an hour, when, at Huntley's crossing, near this city, it struck an obstruction and the occupants of the car received a severe shaking up. The train was stopped and run back and an investigation showed that a heavy beam 12 inches square and 10 feet long had been pried into a cattle guard and braced against the ground. ! pointing west. The timber had struck the j brake beam between the forward truck and caboose and then the axle of the trucks, and would have derailed and wrecked the train but for the fact that the trestle work of the cattle guard gave way. A searching investigation will be made. Scottioh Right )1aDin OflU-erx. Boston, Mass., Sept. 20. The Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Masons yes terday elected these officers Henry L. Palmer, M. P. sovereign grand command er; Charles L. Woodbury, Boston, past grand lieutenant-commander; General Samuel C. Lawrence, Boston, grand min ister of State; and deputies for each State in the jurisdiction; Herman Ely, of Illyr ia, O.. grand treasurer; Clinton E. Paige, Cambridge, Mass, grand keeper of the ar chives; Robert E. Batterson, Philadelphia, grand marshal; General Charles T. Mc Clenashan, New York, grand master of ceremonies; George O. Tyler, Burlington, Vt., grand captain of the guard; Albert B. Moriarity, New York, assistant grand secretary. An Emeute. London, Sept, 21. An emeute occurred among the men in the transport commis sariat, located at the Portobello barracks, on Sunday last. The men had become irritated at tbe harshness shown them by their officers and after drill they made a rush upon the quarters occupied by Major Whiteley and smashed the furniture and made a bonfire of a portrait of the Major. They then marched in a body to the guard house and yielded to arrest without resist ance. The leaders will be court-mar tialed. . Collision In Wisconsin. La Crosse, Wis., Sept, 21. As the pas senger train on the Chicago, Burlington & Northern railroad was making the cross ing at tbe junction at East Winona, Wis., Wednesday, it was run into by a gravel train of the Chicago & Northwesterm-ail-road. Two cceches were thrown from the track and a number of passengers injured. One of them, Mrs. Louis Ewe, of this city, was taken to Winona, Minn., and is said can not recover. Two of the injured were placed in the hospital here. The others continued ou the train. The most seriously injured are: Rev. N. L. Hesselguist, D.D., president of Augusta College, RocS island, bruises and contusions; Rev. L. E. Johnson, Rockford, bruises on hip. b (. 3 4V i. i sition. ;x