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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
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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.
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Dr. Porter received a letter from Miss J
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Clara Barton saying: ''Your orderobeyed. j
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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."
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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.
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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-
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vators
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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.
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